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SAT SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05053wf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b050bwpf (Listen) SAT Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the early 2000s, Peter Pomerantsev (the son of Russian SAT political exiles) came to Moscow to work in the fast-growing SAT television industry. He was perfectly placed to witness the SAT transformation of the New Russia on its journey from SAT communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship. SAT SAT In this episode, he reflects upon the fractured nature of a SAT country (and its people) that has moved so quickly from SAT communism to capitalism, where the difference between SAT 'public' and 'private' selves can, by necessity, be extreme. SAT Realising that he can't maintain such psychological SAT divisions, he decides to return to London. SAT SAT Written by Peter Pomerantsev SAT SAT Read by Justin Salinger SAT SAT Abridged by Robin Brooks SAT SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Justin Salinger SAT Author: Peter Pomerantsev SAT Abridger: Robin Brooks SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05053wh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05053wk (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05053wm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05053wp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b050c6dt (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Clair Jaquiss. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b050c6dw (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05053wr (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. 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SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b050ryyk (Listen) SAT Dairy Industry SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05053ww (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b050ryym (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b050ryyp (Listen) SAT Omid Djalili SAT SAT Omid Djalili, the British-Iranian stand-up comedian and SAT actor, joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein on being a born SAT entertainer, his delight in courting controversy and his SAT relationship with Iran. SAT SAT Also on the programme, a former international hostage and SAT police negotiator Richard Mullender who now works advising SAT business in 'engagement'. He tells us what makes him the SAT Lewis Hamilton of expert listening. Tanya Mai Johnston came SAT to Northern Ireland as part of Operation Babylift, the mercy SAT mission flying orphans out of Vietnam during the 70's. She SAT talks about the difficulties of growing up in Coleraine - in SAT a place she now calls home. Every Saturday morning listener SAT So-jin Holohan sets out to write a letter to one of her SAT friends around the world. She takes her inspiration from the SAT guests and listeners who appear on Saturday Live and after SAT the show ends, shares her thoughts by putting old fashioned SAT ink pen to paper. Alex Noble's friends accused him of SAT shunning a stable career on a whim when he left his full SAT time job in finance to become a zombie trainer. We find out SAT what that involves. SAT SAT And Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo reveals his Inheritance SAT Tracks. He chooses 'I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe' by SAT Genesis and 'Perfect Skin' by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. SAT SAT Produced by Alex Lewis. SAT Edited by Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Omid Djalili SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Mullender SAT Interviewed Guest: Tanya Mai Johnston SAT Interviewed Guest: So-jin Holohan SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Noble SAT Interviewed Guest: Jo Nesbo SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 JD Salinger's Spiritual Quest b050rz2r (Listen) SAT When the late American author J D Salinger ceased publishing SAT and withdrew from the public gaze, he left many with a SAT fractured understanding of the man behind the writing. SAT SAT His books, including Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories, SAT supported the belief that Salinger flew from one religious SAT conviction to another. However, recently released letters SAT reveal a deep and enduring relationship with both Hindu SAT philosophy and a New York based monk. SAT SAT There's always been a certain mystique to the iconic SAT Salinger. While The Catcher in the Rye has sold over 65 SAT million copies, the author lived much of his life as a SAT recluse. But, even while out of the spotlight, Salinger SAT continued to write letters. He was a keen correspondent with SAT friends and family - including the spiritual leader of the SAT Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York, Swami SAT Nikhilananda. SAT SAT In this programme, Vishva Samani investigates what the SAT letters might tell us about Salinger's relationship with SAT Hindu philosophy and, in turn, his literature. SAT Today, the hidden and pervasive influence of Vedanta and SAT Indian philosophy is interwoven into all our daily lives. We SAT talk of karma, practice yoga, and every politician has a SAT 'mantra'. However in the 1950's and 1960s, few outside of SAT India Salinger had heard these terms. SAT SAT As a journalist and Hindu centred in Vedanta, Vishva Samani SAT seeks to clarify whether Salinger just dabbled or if his SAT faith went deeper. She reveals how Vedanta left India to SAT reach not just the Western World, but other brilliant minds SAT including William James, Leo Tolstoy, Nikola Tesla, Aldous SAT Huxley and, of course, Salinger. SAT SAT Producer: Russell Crewe SAT A Like It Is Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b050rz2t (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05053wy (Listen) SAT Tomorrow You Will Be Heroes SAT SAT The human stories behind the headlines. Like any war, the SAT one against Ebola is leaving scars which will take SAT generations to heal, as Grainne Harrington has been finding SAT out in Guinea. Mark Rickards on how, at last, the outside SAT world has found a way to infiltrate the hidden Himalayan SAT kingdom of Bhutan. The Chinese are calling for the UK to SAT return art looted by the British soldiers who destroyed the SAT Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860 - Chris Bowlby's been SAT investigating. After the Syriza victory in Greece, Podemos SAT in Spain reckons it could be next to win an election on SAT left-wing policies; Tom Burridge has been with party SAT activists in Valencia. And how was the poet W.B.Yeats SAT associated with bizarre goings-on at a cemetery near Paris? SAT Hugh Schofield tells a story of the mysterious forces some SAT believe govern the universe. From Our Own Correspondent is SAT produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05053x0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b050rz2w (Listen) SAT Is That Call From Your 'Bank' a Bit Fishy? SAT SAT "Number spoofing" fraud. That's when your "bank" calls you SAT and tells you that must urgently transfer funds to another SAT account. The caller's number seems genuine on your 'phone SAT display, but it has been "spoofed" or manipulated. Only SAT later do you find out that the man from your "bank" is a con SAT artist and you have lost thousands of pounds. Money Box SAT hears from a victim of this scam, why the bank won't replace SAT the funds and what could be done to avoid or prevent this SAT new kind of fraud. SAT SAT Is the pensions industry ready for the biggest shake up in a SAT generation with the advent of Pension Freedom from April? SAT Money Box talks to some of the people getting ready for the SAT revolution. SAT SAT Have you being paying for a bank or credit card security SAT scheme? If you bought a card security product called Card SAT Protection, Sentinel or Safe and Secure Plus then you could SAT be one of 2 million bank customers eligible for SAT compensation. Money Box looks at how much can be claimed and SAT how. SAT SAT And MPs will next week call energy market comparison SAT websites to account. Money Box finds out what's firing up SAT the energy select committee chairman, Tim Yeo. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b050c4sq (Listen) SAT Series 45, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the SAT week's news. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05053x2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05053x4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b050c5kg (Listen) SAT Tom Crotty, Lord Deben, Margaret Hodge MP and Julian Huppert SAT MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Dereham Memorial Hall in Dereham, Norfolk with Director SAT of the Energy firm INEOS, Tom Crotty, Chairman of the SAT Committee on Climate Change, Lord Deben, Chair of the Public SAT Accounts Committee, the Labour MP Margaret Hodge and the SAT Liberal Democrat backbench MP Julian Huppert. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b050rz32 (Listen) SAT Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk, tweet us: @bbcanyquestions or SAT using #bbcaq SAT SAT With Anita Anand. SAT SAT Produced by Angie Nehring. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01rtc8p (Listen) SAT Present Laughter SAT SAT Often thought of as semi autobiographical, Noël Coward's SAT 'Present Laughter' follows a few days in the life of SAT successful and self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he SAT prepares to go on tour to Africa. SAT SAT Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must deal SAT with interruptions including the numerous women who want to SAT seduce him, a young aspiring actress, Daphne, and Joanna who SAT is the wife of his manager Henry and who is already having SAT an affair with his producer Morris. SAT SAT He must also deal with placating his long suffering SAT secretary Monica, avoiding his estranged wife Liz Essendine, SAT being confronted by the obsessed young playwright Roland SAT Maule and the unbearable inevitability of all that comes SAT with turning forty. SAT SAT "Present Laughter" by Noël Coward SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Garry Essendine: Samuel West SAT Monica: Frances Barber SAT Roland Maule: Freddie Fox SAT Liz Essendine: Janie Dee SAT Fred: Kim Wall SAT Daphne: Lily James SAT Joanna: Susannah Harker SAT Henry: Jonathan Coy SAT Morris: Anthony Calf SAT Miss Erikson: Hazel Ellerby SAT Lady Saltburn: Sarah Badel SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Producer: Celia de Wolff SAT Writer: Noel Coward SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b050rz5g (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The Killing star Sofie Grabol talks about her new TV crime SAT thriller Fortitude. SAT SAT The tennis player Heather Watson recently blamed 'girl SAT things' for her disappointing performance at the Australian SAT Open. So what are the knock on effects of our periods and SAT why is there still so much taboo surrounding openly talking SAT about it? SAT SAT Should juries be briefed on the myths about rape and sexual SAT violence at the beginning of trails for sexual offences? SAT SAT Women have been persistently discriminated against in Saudi SAT Arabia but now King Abdullah has died what is the situation SAT facing women today? SAT SAT A new wave of websites and clubs are springing up to support SAT women trying to cut down or give up the booze, but just how SAT helpful are they? SAT SAT More women in the over 50s age range are being used to SAT advertise big brand cosmetics. So are we seeing a change in SAT attitude towards age and beauty or is this just another SAT cynical marketing ploy? SAT SAT And we have a performance by the award winning poet Sabrina SAT Mahfouz. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Sofie Gråbøl SAT SAT Sofie Gråbøl, star of Danish detective drama The Killing, is SAT back on TV in crime thriller Fortitude, playing the Governor SAT of a small Arctic town. She talks to Jenni about filming in SAT Iceland, taking on a marathon work load after surviving SAT breast cancer, and whether we might see the return of Sarah SAT Lund's and her famous jumper any time soon. SAT SAT Fortitude begins on Sky Atlantic on Thursday 29 January at SAT 9pm. SAT SAT Menstruation SAT Does it damage women if they say that periods are a reason SAT for poor performance? Recently tennis player Heather Watson SAT said that ’girl things’ were a factor in her crashing out of SAT the Australian Open. Former tennis player Annabel Croft SAT called periods 'the last taboo' and current UK Number 5, SAT Tara Moore described having nightmares about getting her SAT period before a major match. Why do many of us still feel so SAT uncomfortable talking about periods that we use euphemisms SAT to describe them? On the other hand if we talk too SAT honestly about the effects our monthly cycle has on our SAT professional and personal performance, are we doing SAT ourselves a disservice? SAT SAT Briefing Juries SAT The persistence of rape myths – such as that "real rape" SAT only involves a stranger violently assaulting a woman, SAT usually in an isolated place – is one reason often given to SAT explain the UK’s low conviction rate in sexual offence SAT cases. Jenni speaks to Jill Saward, co-founder of ‘Jurors SAT Understanding Rape Is Essential Standard’ (JURIES) campaign SAT and Helen Reece, Professor in Law at the LSE, about whether SAT mandatory briefings of juries on myths about rape and sexual SAT violence at the beginning of trials for sexual offences SAT should be introduced. SAT SAT Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia SAT When Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah died on Thursday, human SAT rights campaigners criticised state leaders for paying SAT condolences to a man who persistently discriminated against SAT women. Journalist Mona Eltahawy spent her formative years SAT growing up in Saudi Arabia. As Abdullah’s successor, his SAT half-brother Crown Prince Salman, vows to maintain the same SAT approach in governing the country as his predecessor, she SAT discusses the situation facing women in the country today. SAT Jane is also joined by Abeer Mishkhas, journalist with SAT Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat. SAT SAT Giving Up Drinking SAT Are you among the thousands of women who resolved to cut SAT down or stop drinking for January? Or perhaps you’re among SAT those who’re hoping to give up the booze for good? A new SAT wave of clubs and websites is springing up to support the SAT growing numbers of women who are worried about their alcohol SAT intake, but how do they differ from Alcoholics Anonymous and SAT can they really help? Jenni is joined by Bryony Gordon, a SAT columnist for the Telegraph who wants not just a dry January SAT but a dry life, and Laura Willoughby, co-founder of Club SAT Soda a campaign group for men and women who want to drink SAT less. SAT SAT Grey Pound SAT We’re seeing more over 50s faces in advertising. Joan SAT Didion, Jessica Lange and Yasmina Rossi have all recently SAT signed deals to become the faces of big brands. Is this a SAT cynical marketing ploy or symptomatic of a change in SAT attitude to age and beauty? Jenni is joined by Comedian SAT SAT Tiff Stevenson SAT SAT Tim Pethick SAT Saga Publishing, and former model and writer SAT Sandra Howard SAT SAT Sabrina Mahfouz SAT Award winning poet and playwright SAT Sabrina Mafhouz SAT joins Jenni to perform live and reveal what made her move SAT into the arts, away from the more formal world of the civil SAT service; her expanding repertoire of written work and why SAT inspiring others to write and perform their poetry is so SAT important to her. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Sofie Grabol SAT Performer: Sabrina Mahfouz SAT SAT 17:00 PM b050rzd5 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b050bhvc (Listen) SAT The Price of Time SAT SAT How should we price services? By the hour? By results? Or by SAT the difficulty of the task? And what impact does each model SAT have on how businesses are run? In the first of a new series SAT Evan Davis and guests look at the history of how we've SAT priced our time and expertise and why this may be about to SAT change. SAT SAT Guests : SAT Christopher Saul, senior partner, Slaughter & May SAT Debbie Klein, UK CEO, The Engine Group SAT Russell Quirk, Founder, EMoov. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05053x6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05053x8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05053xb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b050sbzh (Listen) SAT Rory Bremner, Kris Marshall, Pauline Black, Peter Duncan, SAT David McAlmont, Nadine Shah SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Sara Cox, Rory Bremner, Kris SAT Marshall, Pauline Black and Peter Duncan for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from David SAT McAlmont and Nadine Shah. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Kris Marshall SAT ‘Death in Paradise’ is on Thursday 5th February at 21.00 on SAT BBC One. SAT SAT Rory Bremner SAT 'Rory Bremner's Coalition Report: From Here To Austerity' is SAT on Tuesday 3rd February at 22.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Pauline Black SAT The Selecter are touring until 28th March. They’re playing SAT at Guildhall, Gloucester on Thursday 19th, City Hall, SAT Salisbury on Friday 20th and The Brook, Southampton on SAT Saturday 21st February. Check their website for details. SAT Pauline’s last BBC Radio 6 Music show is currently available SAT on BBC iPlayer. SAT SAT Peter Duncan SAT ‘Birdsong’ is at Fairfield Halls, Croydon from Wednesday 4th SAT to Saturday 7th February and then touring until Saturday 4th SAT July. Check the website for further dates. SAT SAT David McAlmont SAT ‘David McAlmont & Guy Davies: Fingersnap Live’ is on SAT Thursday 5th February at Manchester’s Contact Theatre. SAT Fingersnap are playing at The Barn at The Railway Inn, SAT Winchester on Saturday 11th April. SAT SAT Nadine Shah SAT ‘Fast Food’ is available on 6th April on Apollo. SAT Nadine is playing at The Haunt, Brighton on Friday 10th, SAT King Tut's, Glasgow on Monday 13th and The Deaf Institute, SAT Manchester on Tuesday 14th April. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Rory Bremner SAT Interviewed Guest: Kris Marshall SAT Interviewed Guest: Pauline Black SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Duncan SAT Performer: David McAlmont SAT Performer: Nadine Shah SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b050sbzn (Listen) SAT Series 17, The Diary of a Real Wolf SAT SAT Novelist and journalist Peter Bradshaw creates a fictional SAT response to a story in this week's news: SAT SAT King Henry VIII is time-transported to England, arriving in SAT late January 2015. He isn't impressed by our passion for SAT Wolf Hall on the 'tele- vision', but Greece and the new SAT Bishop of Stockport enthrall him.. SAT SAT Produced by Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Peter Bradshaw SAT Actor: Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b050sbzs (Listen) SAT Tom Stoppard, Inherent Vice, Adam Curtis, Joyce Carol Oates, SAT Christian Marclay SAT SAT Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem is his first new work SAT for the National Theatre in 13 years; is it worth the wait? SAT Paul Thomas Anderson has adapted a Thomas Pynchon novel SAT Inherent Vice - the first time a cinema director has SAT wrestled this famously difficult author onto the screen. How SAT well does it work? SAT Documentary maker Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake attempts to SAT explain the complicated political situation in Afghanistan. SAT It's only available on iPlayer; might this be a new way for SAT the BBC to 'broadcast' material? If so, what might the SAT consequences be? SAT Joyce Carol Oates has published more than 40 novels in her SAT five decade long career. Her latest 'Sacrifice' is based SAT around a notorious alleged rape case in the US SAT Christian Marclay's exhibition at White Cube in Bermondsey SAT includes a post-pub-crawl soundscape and paintings of sound SAT effects - turning representations of audio experiences into SAT fine art. SAT SAT The Hard Problem SAT Tom Stoppard's new stage play SAT The Hard Problem SAT is at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre in London, until SAT 27 May 2015. Main Image: Cast L-R, Parth Thakerar (Amal), SAT Vera Chok (Bo), Lucy Robinson (Ursula), Rosie Hilal (Julia), SAT Olivia Vinall (Hilary), Damien Molony (Spike). Photographer: SAT Johan Persson. SAT SAT Inherent Vice SAT Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film SAT Inherent Vice SAT is in cinemas from 30 January 2015, certificate 15. SAT SAT Bitter Lake SAT The documentary film SAT Bitter Lake SAT by Adam Curtis is only available on the BBC iPlayer. SAT SAT The Sacrifice SAT The book SAT The Sacrifice SAT by Joyce Carol Oates is published by Fourth Estate. SAT SAT Christian Marclay SAT The SAT Christian Marclay SAT exhibition is at White Cube in London until 12 April 2015. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b050sbzw (Listen) SAT Alan Lomax - Songs of Freedom SAT SAT To mark the centenary of the birth of folklorist Alan Lomax SAT in 1915, Billy Bragg presents a new and original thesis. SAT Billy argues that the legendary "song hunter" was a vital, SAT but overlooked figure in the Civil Rights Movement, whose SAT recorded archive would become the authoritative repository SAT of black folk culture in America. SAT SAT Alan Lomax is a towering figure in the history of music, SAT afforded a front page obituary by the New York Times SAT following his death in 2002. A pioneering musicologist, SAT folklorist and broadcaster, in the 1930s Lomax extensively SAT recorded American folk and blues musicians. Over the course SAT of his career he collected over 3000 hours of music and SAT in-depth interviews. SAT SAT While Lomax's influence in sparking the folk music revival SAT of the 1960s is well known, in this programme Billy Bragg SAT tells a story of far greater significance. His central SAT thesis is that Lomax's mission was to empower black SAT Americans by awakening them to their folk culture. The SAT politically charged nature of Lomax's work resulted in him SAT being hounded out of the US during the Red scare and the FBI SAT kept a file on him for 30 years. SAT SAT Interviews include Lomax's former assistant the folk singer SAT Shirley Collins, singer and Civil Rights documentarian SAT Candie Carawan, Lomax's biographer John Szwed and Lomax's SAT daughter Anna. SAT SAT This programme was made with the help of Alan Lomax's SAT Association for Cultural Equity and the Library of Congress SAT who have supplied a wealth of stunning archive material - SAT including Lomax's field recordings, oral history interviews SAT and groundbreaking radio broadcasts. SAT SAT Presenter: Billy Bragg SAT SAT Producer: Max O'Brien SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 War and Peace b04w89tp (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT There is much excitement as the Rostov family is invited to SAT the Emperor's New Year's Eve Ball where Andrei meets Natasha SAT Rostov for the first time. The two of them fall deeply in SAT love, but are the rumours of his proposal to her true? And SAT how will Andrei's domineering father, Prince Bolkonsky, SAT react to the news? SAT SAT Pierre, still a freemason, is growing increasingly distant SAT from Helene. Meanwhile the Rostov family is in an SAT increasingly dire financial position and Countess Rostov is SAT desperate for Nikolai to marry Julia Karagin whose wealth SAT could save them. But Nikolai and his penniless cousin Sonya SAT love each other and are determined to marry. SAT SAT A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by SAT Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes SAT of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic SAT War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and SAT Harriet Walter. SAT SAT The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, SAT Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the SAT events that shaped their lives and the lives of every SAT Russian who lived through these troubled times. SAT SAT War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level SAT of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th SAT Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, SAT social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale SAT never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in SAT ten episodes. SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Executive Producer: Peter Hoare SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Lesley Manville SAT Actor: John Hurt SAT Actor: Alun Armstrong SAT Actor: Harriet Walter SAT Author: Leo Tolstoy SAT Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05053xd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b0507pmp (Listen) SAT The Law and Rape SAT SAT Convictions for rape in the UK are described as "shockingly SAT low". Why does the law appear to be failing to protect SAT women? Clive Anderson discusses what needs to be done to SAT improve the situation with the Director of Public SAT Prosecutions Alison Saunders, Assistant Metropolitan Police SAT Commissioner Martin Hewitt and two leading lawyers working SAT in the area. SAT SAT Solicitor Harriet Wistrich, founder of the campaign group SAT Justice For Women, welcomes moves by the Police and the SAT Crown Prosecution Service to improve the way they deal with SAT rape cases. But she says her experience suggests the message SAT is not always reaching individual prosecutors and police SAT officers. SAT SAT Barrister and law lecturer Catarina Sjolin worries that the SAT police and the CPS don't have the resources to deal with a SAT huge increase in rape cases, pointing out that it can take SAT two years between a rape being reported and a verdict. SAT SAT How effective is the new Crown Prosecution Service and SAT Police action plan on rape, which is aimed at increasing SAT convictions? How should the CPS approach 'difficult' cases? SAT And to what extent should the Police and CPS pursue women SAT who falsely claim to have been raped? SAT SAT Producer name: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0505zwq (Listen) SAT Heat 5, 2015 SAT SAT (5/17) SAT Which singer was fatally shot by his father on the first of SAT April 1984? And in the name of the West African terror SAT group, what do the words 'Boko haram' actually mean? SAT SAT Russell Davies puts these and many other questions to the SAT participants in the fifth heat of the 2015 series, which SAT comes from the University of Salford. The winner will go SAT through to the semi-finals in April - and others may too, as SAT there are places for the highest-scoring runners-up across SAT the series. SAT SAT As always there's a chance for a listener to 'Beat the SAT Brains' by suggesting a devious pair of questions with which SAT to try and defeat the combined brainpower of the SAT contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT RODERICK CROMAR, a chartered accountant from Inverurie in SAT Aberdeenshire; SAT SAT PETER HASLAM, a process implementation manager from SAT Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway; SAT SAT MARTIN RILEY, a business analyst from Lytham in Lancashire; SAT SAT KIM SEMMENCE, a retired local government officer from Hull. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0505t2r (Listen) SAT A Burns Supper SAT SAT Roger McGough celebrates the poet Robert Burns by hosting a SAT Poetry Please Burns supper, with favourites including John SAT Anderson my Jo, To a Mouse and A Man's a Man for A' That, SAT read by John MacKay. Producer Sally Heaven. 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SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Are You Inexperienced? b01jhnzq (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Novelist and stand-up performer AL Kennedy relates some of SUN the hapless events that befell her whilst trying to complete SUN her latest book in the USA. Secreted away in a wooden cabin SUN in deepest Connecticut, she finds that she has to contend SUN with noisy woodpeckers that mistake her temporary home for a SUN tasty tree. Later, upon returning to the States from Canada SUN by train, she encounters suspicious US immigration officials SUN who struggle to grasp the fact that she doesn't fly, and SUN arrived in the States by boat. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xgfx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgfz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xgg1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b050xgg3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b050xq1h (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary Magdalene Church in Chewton Mendip, SUN Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b050bk90 (Listen) SUN In the final episode in the series, David Baddiel tries to SUN understand the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam. SUN SUN David speaks to senior theologians from both traditions, but SUN can he navigate his way through the complicated theological, SUN political and social distinctions? SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b050xgg6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b050xwgz (Listen) SUN Private Spaces SUN SUN Has privacy always been an important part of life and have SUN we always had the same need for private havens? SUN SUN Mark Tully searches for new approaches to private space in SUN an increasingly crowded world and considers the need for SUN privacy - with design historian Penny Sparke, author of As SUN Long As It's Pink and The Modern Interior. SUN SUN Examining the research of social scientists and historians, SUN as well as the work of poets as diverse as Ruth Fainlight, SUN W.B. Yeats and Noel Coward, Mark asks whether the need for SUN private space goes hand in hand with the drive for SUN modernity. SUN SUN There's music from Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler and Flanders SUN and Swann. SUN SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Pip Donaghy. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Youth Culture and Private Space SUN Author: Sian Lincoln SUN Published by Palgrave Macmillan SUN SUN Title: Furnishing in the New Towns SUN Author: Dorothy Meade SUN Published by the British Design Council in ‘Design’ SUN magazine. SUN SUN Title: House Guest SUN Author: Ruth Fainlight SUN Published by Bloodaxe in New and Collected Poems SUN SUN Title: The Church Porch SUN Author: George Herbert SUN Published by Penguin Classics in George Herbert - The SUN Complete English Poems SUN SUN Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree SUN Author: WB Yeats SUN Published by BBC Books in The Nations Favourite Poems SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b050xwh1 (Listen) SUN The Spined Loach SUN SUN The Living World is a natural history strand that revels in SUN rich encounter, immersion in the natural world and warm, SUN enthusiastic story telling. SUN SUN The spined loach is a small freshwater fish that spends most SUN of the time buried in the silt of riverbeds. It is believed SUN be in the UK as a result of the melting from the last Ice SUN Age when the UK was connect to Europe. After the Ice Age SUN rescinded, the ocean water levels increased for a time SUN before decreasing enough to essentially separating some of SUN the species from the rest that live in Europe. Brett SUN Westwood joins Environment Agency Fisheries Officer Andy SUN Beal and his team conducting a survey of this secretive and SUN rare animal at Morton's Leam; a 15th Century river SUN artificial course of the River Nene in Cambridgeshire. SUN SUN Andy Beal (Far Right in picture) and team surveying for SUN spined loach SUN SUN I have worked for the Environment Agency (EA) as a Fishery SUN Officer, covering the Rivers Welland & Nene, for thirteen SUN years. My primary role is to manage a field team SUN responsible for monitoring fish populations in the rivers, SUN drains and lakes in those river catchments. I also SUN routinely monitor water quality and aquatic invertebrates. SUN SUN I build specialist equipment which helps oxygenate water and SUN is deployed during pollution incidents or low oxygen level SUN events in rivers and lakes. SUN SUN Before joining the EA, I spent time teaching Fish Farming & SUN Fishery Management at Brooksby College, Melton Mowbray, SUN where I helped establish the college’s fish farm and SUN hatchery. I have also worked on a number of trout and SUN salmon farms throughout the country as well as spending time SUN managing ornamental fish retail outlets. SUN SUN My formal training took place at Sparsholt College, in SUN Hampshire, where I graduated with a HND in Fish Farming and SUN Fishery Management in 1988. SUN SUN Getting a clear look at one SUN A close up of one of the spined loach found amongst the silt SUN while recording the programme. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b050xgg8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b050xggb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b050xwh3 (Listen) SUN Three-Parent Babies; Modern Sermons; Freedom to Offend SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b050y8v2 (Listen) SUN Women's Aid SUN SUN Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women's Aid SUN Registered Charity No 1054154 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Women's Aid'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Women's Aid. SUN SUN Women’s Aid SUN SUN Women’s Aid is the national charity for women and children SUN working to end domestic abuse. We empower survivors by SUN keeping their voices at the heart of our work, listening and SUN responding to their needs. We are a federation of 250 SUN organisations who provide lifesaving services to women and SUN children across the country. Our campaigns achieve change in SUN policy, practice and awareness, encouraging healthy SUN relationships and helping to build a future where domestic SUN abuse is no longer tolerated. Through our services we help SUN hundreds of thousands of women and children every year. SUN SUN Dawn Morville SUN Dawn Morville is a survivor of domestic violence, who has SUN stayed in several refuges within the Women’s Aid national SUN network. SUN SUN *“He used to lock us in the house and say he was going to SUN kill himself and me. He would tie me up and hit me.”* SUN SUN The final attack, after decades of abuse, ended with her SUN husband trying to strangle her on the floor. The assault SUN only stopped when Dawn’s child called the police. Dawn spent SUN three days in hospital with a broken bone in her neck and SUN severe bruising. The incident left Dawn mentally scarred and SUN partially sighted. This time, however, her husband was SUN finally prosecuted. SUN Photo: Tim Jones SUN SUN Save Our Services vigil at 10 Downing Street SUN SUN In November 2014 Women’s Aid delivered a petition with SUN 38,500 signatures to Downing Street and held candle-lit SUN vigils across the country. Days later the Government SUN announced a £10 million fund to protect the national network SUN of specialist domestic violence refuges. Women’s Aid is SUN continuing to work with the Government and all the main SUN political parties to ensure a long term funding solution is SUN found for these vital services. SUN SUN Sadi Khan SUN Sadi Khan is a survivor of domestic violence. She is the SUN winner of the 2011 Women’s Aid & Avon Empowering Women SUN Awards ‘Woman of the Year’. SUN SUN Sadi, a British born Kashmiri woman, suffered psychological SUN and physical abuse for five years following her arranged SUN marriage at the age of 19. She found the courage to divorce SUN her husband and is now a strong, independent, businesswoman SUN with a proud son, who, aged 10, nominated her for the ‘Woman SUN of the Year’ award. Sadi is the founder of Noble Khan, a SUN cultural awareness training centre. SUN Photo: Tim Jones SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b050xggd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b050xggg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b050y8v4 (Listen) SUN What does it mean to "...seek the peace and prosperity of SUN the city..." and what might that look like in practice? The SUN outworking of God's command within a community context is SUN the theme of today's service from Lisburn Cathedral in Co SUN Antrim. Led by the Rev Simon Genoe, the preacher is Canon SUN Sam Wright and the music is led by the Cathedral Choir and SUN Worship Group. SUN SUN Led by: Rev Simon Genoe SUN Preacher: Canon Sam Wright SUN Readings: Psalm 111, Mark 1:21-28 SUN SUN Music: SUN Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart (Trad) SUN This I Believe (Hillsong) SUN Cornerstone - My hope is built on nothing less (Hillsong) SUN 10,000 reasons - Bless the Lord O my soul (Redman) SUN Forever, He is glorified (Bethel) SUN Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Neander) SUN SUN Music Group Leader: Aaron Boyce SUN Organist: Andrew Skelly. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b050c5kj (Listen) SUN Losing Touch SUN SUN Will Self regrets our growing lack of physical contact with SUN one another and with the natural world as a result of the SUN rise of technology. "What the touch screen, the automatic SUN door,online shopping and even the Bagladeshi sweatshop SUN piece-worker who made our trousers are depriving us of is SUN the exercise of our very sense of touch itself, and in SUN particular they are relieving us of the need to touch other SUN people." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0t02 (Listen) SUN Oilbird SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the oilbird, from a Venezuelan SUN cavern. Demonic screeching's and the rush of unseen wings SUN mixed with a volley of strange clicks are the sound backdrop SUN to oilbirds. SUN SUN Oilbirds are known in Spanish as guacharos .."the wailing SUN ones". These bizarre-looking brown birds with huge mouths, SUN long broad wings and long tails were seen in 1799 by the SUN explorer Alexander von Humboldt in 1817 who described their SUN sounds as "ear-splitting". They're similar to nightjars, SUN their closest relatives, but unlike them, oilbirds feed on SUN fruit; ..... they're the world's only nocturnal flying SUN fruit-eating bird. SUN SUN In their dark breeding caves, they navigate using SUN echolocation like bats. Young oilbirds grow fat on a diet of SUN fruit brought in by their parents and can weigh half as much SUN as again as the adults. These plump chicks were once SUN harvested by local people and settlers for oil which was SUN used in cooking and, ironically for a bird which spends its SUN life in darkness, for lighting lamps. SUN SUN Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01402255 SUN © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of oilbird by Scott T Olmstead / Ref: ML 168752 SUN SUN This programme contains a SUN wildtrack recording of the oilbird SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Scott T Olmstead on 22 Mar 2008; SUN in Shaime, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b050y8v6 (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 b050yh91 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b050yh93 (Listen) SUN Professor Angie Hobbs SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Angie Hobbs, Professor of the SUN Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of SUN Sheffield - a role which has brought her to the attention of SUN a large audience. SUN SUN Brought up in Surrey, she was the youngest of three SUN children. Her older sister died when Angie was just 11 years SUN old. To begin with, she did not flourish at school, but went SUN on to earn a place at Cambridge where she gained a first SUN class degree in Classics and subsequently a doctorate. A SUN career in academia has followed - after many years at the SUN University of Warwick, she moved, in 2012, to the University SUN of Sheffield. SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Angie Hobbs SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b050xggj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b04yfssy (Listen) SUN Series 14, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Lloyd Langford, Josh Widdicombe, Susan SUN Calman and David O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to SUN talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as SUN fakes, holes, cats and Marie Antoinette. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: David O'Doherty SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b050yh95 (Listen) SUN The Grain Divide SUN SUN Wheat has, since the dawn of agriculture, been especially SUN treasured amongst all of the food crops, and is now the most SUN widely cultivated food plant on the planet. However, the SUN relationship between humans and wheat has changed a great SUN deal in recent times. SUN SUN With a high-profile documentary film, 'The Grain Divide', SUN about to go on global release, Dan Saladino discovers a SUN worldwide movement of farmers, bakers and breeders SUN rethinking and rediscovering wheat - from long-lost SUN varieties and flavours to re-imagining the future of our SUN relationship with this grain. SUN SUN The film's Director, JD McLelland, explains how his film SUN aims to change perceptions of wheat - and why this matters. SUN Dan also talks to one of the stars of the film, chef Dan SUN Barber - who's breeding a new variety of wheat named Barber SUN Wheat, and is leading the charge to look again at the taste SUN of wheat. SUN SUN On the archipelago of Svalbard, far north of the SUN northernmost point of mainland Norway, is the Svalbard SUN Global Seed Vault. Tunneled into the permafrost there lies a SUN store of seeds like no other - which serves as a 'backup' SUN facility, with samples from every country in the world. SUN SUN It houses the largest collection of wheat varieties on the SUN planet. Dr Cary Fowler, who helped to set up the seed vault SUN - reveals about the role wheat's past has to play in our SUN future. SUN SUN Dan also meets Andy Forbes from Brockwell Bake, sourdough SUN specialist Vanessa Kimbell and author of "Our Daily Bread - SUN A History of the Cereals" - Professor Åsmund Bjørnstad... as SUN well as Gotland farmer Curt Niklasson, whose life has been SUN changed forever by the contents of a wooden treasure chest. SUN SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Heritage Sourdough Recipe SUN The basic guide to baking a sourdough boule, using heritage SUN flour. SUN SUN SUN We have been eating bread for over 10,000 years, and there SUN are 3,000 year old depictions of the royal bakery in the SUN tomb of Rameses III, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. SUN Sourdough is, in fact, the way in which we baked all SUN leavened bread until the 1880s, and the grains that were SUN used are what we now call heritage grains. SUN SUN Typically most ancient grains have a lower gluten structure, SUN which give the bread its lift, so to get the best of both SUN modern crumb and ancient flavour this recipe uses 20% SUN heritage flour blended with today’s strong white. You can SUN use any heritage flour, but my favourites are Rivet, Emmer, SUN Einkorn and Khorasan wheats, and Spelt. SUN SUN Allow yourself about 3 –4 hours for the dough to be mixed, SUN folded and shaped ready to place in the coldest part of the SUN fridge to prove overnight. SUN SUN *(If you are new to bread making, you can, instead of SUN shaping the dough and putting it into a banneton, grease a SUN 2lb bread tin liberally with butter, let the dough rise in SUN it overnight in the fridge and then bake as per the recipe SUN instructions below.) SUN * SUN SUN SUN Equipment: SUN SUN A large mixing bowl SUN SUN A round banneton SUN SUN 2 clean tea towels SUN SUN A baking stone or a Dutch oven SUN SUN A large heatproof pan SUN SUN A sharp knife or ‘lame’ to slash the dough with SUN SUN SUN SUN Ingredients: SUN SUN 300g water SUN SUN 100g sourdough leaven (‘starter’)* SUN SUN 100g of heritage flour SUN SUN 400g organic strong white flour (and some extra for dusting SUN your banneton) SUN SUN 10g fine sea salt SUN SUN semolina, to dust SUN SUN Makes: 1 loaf SUN SUN SUN Early evening SUN SUN Mix ( SUN 6:00pm) SUN SUN In a large bowl whisk your water and starter and mix well. SUN Add all the flour and salt and mix until all the ingredients SUN come together into a large ball. SUN Cover SUN with a damp cloth and let the dough rest in a cool SUN environment for about 2 hours. SUN Fold SUN (8:30pm) SUN SUN Lift and fold your dough over, do a quarter turn of your SUN bowl and repeat three more times. Repeat 3 times at 15 SUN minute intervals with a final 15 minute rest at the end. SUN Shape SUN (9:30pm) SUN SUN Shape the dough lightly into a ball then place into a round SUN banneton dusted with flour (If you don’t have a banneton SUN then use a clean tea towel dusted with flour inside a SUN colander). Dust the top with flour, then cover with a damp SUN tea-towel SUN Prove SUN SUN Leave to one side for an hour then transfer to the fridge SUN (about 10.30 – 11pm), and leave to prove there for 8 – 12 SUN hours. SUN Bake SUN (between 7:00 and 11:00am) SUN SUN The next morning preheat your oven to 220°C for at least 30 SUN minutes before you are ready to bake. Place your baking SUN stone in the oven and a large pan of boiling water SUN underneath (or use a Dutch oven). The hydration helps form a SUN beautiful crust. Dust the baking stone with a fine layer of SUN semolina, which stops the bread sticking. SUN Then put your dough onto the baking stone and slash the top SUN with your blade. This decides where the bread will tear as SUN it rises. Bake for 40 minutes. SUN SUN Turn the heat down to 180°C (and remove the lid if you are SUN using a Dutch oven) and bake for another 15 – 20 minutes. SUN You need to choose just how dark you like your crust but I SUN suggest that you bake until it is a dark brown – it tastes SUN much better. SUN Storage SUN SUN Sourdough is really best left to cool completely before SUN slicing and is even better if left for a day to let the full SUN flavour develop. SUN SUN Once your sourdough has cooled, store in a linen or cotton SUN bread bag, or in a folded tea towel. SUN Note: SUN if you don’t like a crunchy crust on your sourdough bread, SUN simply wrap your bread in a clean tea towel whilst it is SUN still warm. SUN SUN * To make 100g of leaven, use 2 tablespoons of sourdough SUN starter, 50g of filtered water and 50g of strong white SUN flour, mix well and leave, covered on the side in the SUN kitchen. It will be lively and bubbly and ready to bake SUN with after 8 hours. SUN SUN Read more... SUN SUN Read more... SUN Brockwell Bake SUN Brockwell Bake's unique wheat: gateway SUN "The Grain Divide" - Official film website SUN Dr. Steve Jones' Bread Lab SUN Curt Niklasson and Gutekorn SUN Svalbard Global Seed Vault SUN Dan Barber 'The Taste of Wheat' SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: JD McLelland SUN Interviewed Guest: Cary Fowler SUN Interviewed Guest: Andy Forbes SUN Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Kimbell SUN Interviewed Guest: Asmund Bjornstad SUN Interviewed Guest: Curt Niklasson SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b050xggl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b050yh97 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is b050yh99 (Listen) SUN If you believe the world should be a fairer place, does SUN morality demand that you give away your money to those who SUN are poorer than you - even if you don't think of yourself as SUN rich? And if so, should you donate it to charity or pay it SUN in tax? SUN SUN In this personal exploration of the issues, Giles Fraser SUN seeks to work through the tricky moral dilemmas involved in SUN responding to poverty and inequality, both in the UK and SUN internationally. He talks to those who have pledged to give SUN away large portions of their income, and others who think SUN that this is simply an irrelevant gesture. The interviewees SUN include the the prominent moral philosopher Peter Singer, SUN TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady, Matt Wrack from the SUN Fire Brigades Union, the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, the SUN writer George Monbiot, and Will MacAskill of Giving What We SUN Can. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b050c1rt (Listen) SUN Correspondence Edition SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is at The University of Reading for a SUN Correspondence Edition of the programme, where Bunny SUN Guinness, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong SUN answer questions sent in by post, email and via social SUN media. SUN SUN While Pippa and Bunny reminisce about their time studying at SUN the University, James and Peter visit a corner of the campus SUN that plays a vital role in the world's ability to grow SUN cocoa. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. I have a large Privet hedge bordering my garden. It is SUN mature and has a width of about six to seven feet (two SUN meters) and a height of 10 to 12 feet (3 meters). In one SUN section it is blocking light into the house. I don't want to SUN lose the hedge completely but it has become unsightly at low SUN level, as most of the green is higher up. I wondered about SUN coppicing it. Can the panel advise if Privet will respond to SUN coppicing as I would hope the regrowth would enable me to SUN keep a low level thick hedge in future. SUN SUN A. You could try topiary. It’s worth feeding the hedge after SUN cutting it back hard. SUN SUN SUN Q. After I got an allotment I turned my four raised beds in SUN the garden into beds for cut flowers. One is full of SUN glorious Daffodils but of course is 'empty' much of the SUN year. I recently planted chamomile in the bed in the hope SUN that it will stay green all year and that the daffodils will SUN grow up through it. Will this work? Have the panel any other SUN suggestions? SUN SUN A. Yes, Chamomile is a good idea. Try the ‘Treneague’ SUN variety that provides good flowerless ground cover. If you SUN want to plant Chamomile on the cheap, then you could rip SUN open an unused Chamomile tea bag and plant the contents! SUN You could also plant Zinneas that have short roots and will SUN flower when the Daffodils are over. SUN You can also grow Daffodils through dwarf varieties of SUN Lavender, like ‘Hidcote’. Plant other summer bulbs like SUN Lilies or Galtonia (Summer Hyacinths). SUN SUN SUN Q. Do the panel have any suggestions for a brand new garden? SUN We were hoping to grow some ornamental trees or bushes that SUN don’t need too much maintenance. We have a north-facing SUN garden with reasonable drainage and sandy soil. SUN SUN A. Start with a plan. Watch the garden for a year to see SUN what happens. Plant dwarf fruit trees, which can be dug up SUN and moved with you if you move house. A greenhouse that can SUN be moved would also be a great idea. Get an accurate survey SUN and then sketch out what you want on tracing paper and lay SUN out all the pots in the garden before planting them. You can SUN also download computer aided design packages from the SUN Internet. Train fruit against some of the walls and fences. SUN Grow some veg. SUN SUN SUN Q. While enjoying a warm and sunny Christmas in New Zealand, SUN I became enamoured of the beautiful Pōhutukawa, Metrosideros SUN excelsa, and its lovely red blooms in summer. What advice SUN can the panel suggest in terms of location, planting time, SUN shrub size, soil preparation, and care? I’m gardening on a SUN relatively heavy clay soil on the eastern side of a hill in SUN the north of Herefordshire. SUN SUN A. Grow it in a conservatory or against as south-facing wall SUN where it is more protected from the elements. Put it in SUN well-drained soil and wrap it in horticultural fleece in the SUN winter months. SUN SUN SUN Q. My girlfriend is running a competition with her family in SUN that they all have young pineapple plants and they're seeing SUN who can grow the best and biggest fruit. The plants have all SUN rooted, but we are in Durham and she need as much of an SUN advantage as possible to make up for the Northern weather! SUN A. Don’t let them get cold and damp, start folio feeding in SUN the spring (with mist) and make sure they get as much light SUN and warmth as possible at the beginning of the season but a SUN little shade in the peak of the summer. If you pot them up SUN in a bigger container each year with nice well-drained SUN compost you’ll get a big plant with big Pineapples. Remove SUN the side shoots and pot those up separately. Water them with SUN soot water. SUN SUN SUN Q. Like most gardens, we have moss growing in our lawn, SUN particularly in the shady and damper areas. We now have moss SUN growing in some flowerbeds. What can I do to kill the moss SUN but not damage the plants? The soil is heavy and the area SUN does not get the sun until late in the day and all plants SUN thrive there (as well as the moss which I wish would thrive SUN less enthusiastically). SUN SUN A. Try and physically remove as much as possible and try to SUN regularly break up the soil surface to improve air SUN circulation. Mosses like acidic soils, so spread lime on the SUN lawn and over sow with grass seed. Choose varieties like SUN ‘Timothy’ that will be able to compete with the moss. Feed SUN the grass with blood, fish and bone meal. In the borders, SUN put newspaper over the moss and cover with mulch and the SUN other plants will grow over it. SUN Alternatively, embrace the moss and make a moss lawn. Plant SUN through with hardy Orchids and Dicksonia and it could look SUN amazing! SUN SUN SUN Q. I have a metal arch that is quite sturdy, with a SUN top-heavy Akebia quinata on one side. All its lower shoots SUN were eaten when the deer got in a couple of years ago and SUN the growth is now all above my head. The Campsis radicans SUN the other side will probably be high enough to catch the SUN wind this year. Before the leaves fell last year, the wind SUN caught the top growth in a storm and the arch is now leaning SUN at 20-30 degrees, though the Akebia roots are preventing it SUN from falling. What should I do to get it upright again, and SUN when? The Akebia stems are firmly twisted around the metal SUN of the arch. Will it grow again if I cut it hard back? I SUN know it’s not an ideal position as it's fairly exposed and SUN quite windy. It's southwest facing, and we're 100m above sea SUN level with a clay soil. SUN SUN A. Start by trying to get the arch in the upright position SUN as soon as possible and then firm up the ground and provide SUN some support for the arch. Drive some packing down the legs SUN of the arch to get it into place. You can chop Akebia back SUN hard after flowering. SUN Q. We moved a few weeks ago and I've found a rhododendron in SUN a pot in the garden with one foot in the grave, it's mostly SUN crispy brown but there are some green leaves here and there. SUN I believe it's been unattended for nearly 12 months so the SUN reason for its sorry state is probably lack of water. How SUN can I give it the kiss of life and bring it back to its SUN former glory? SUN SUN A. Keep it well watered now and as we get into spring, give SUN it a nitrogen feed and cut it hard back. If you have an acid SUN soil put it into the ground and let it get going and then SUN cut it back hard. Make sure it doesn’t have vine weevils. SUN SUN SUN Q. My friend has a penchant for giving me unusual Christmas SUN presents and this year I received an upside down plant pot SUN for Christmas. I have never heard of these before, so I've SUN sent in diagrams for the team to look at. Can you suggest a SUN quirky plant that would enjoy growing upside down please? SUN SUN A. A trailing plant would work well. Try Ivy or Tomatoes. SUN Or go for architectural plants like Nepenthes or SUN Platycerium. You could try growing cucumbers in a larger SUN pot. SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b050z2v7 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between mothers and SUN daughters in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b050z2v9 (Listen) SUN Cloud Howe, Episode 2 SUN SUN Lewis Grassic Gibbon's powerful sequel to Sunset Song SUN dramatised by Donna Franceschild. SUN SUN Atmospheric drama about Grassic Gibbon's best-loved SUN character, Chris. SUN SUN Now married to Robert, a young and idealistic minister, SUN Chris and her family move from the crofting village of SUN Kinraddie to the mill town of Segget in Aberdeenshire. SUN Living in the wake of the Great War and during the build up SUN to the General Strike, they find themselves instrumental in SUN the small town's epic class struggle. SUN SUN Tensions within the town grow as Chris and Robert help the SUN spinners prepare for strike action. But nothing can prepare SUN the family for the tragic events that are about to unfold. SUN SUN Starring Amy Manson and Robin Laing. SUN SUN Directed by Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Chris: Amy Manson SUN Robert: Robin Laing SUN Else: Pearl Appleby SUN Dalziel: Liam Brennan SUN Alec: Philip Cairns SUN Jock: Stephen Duffy SUN Ewan: Roderick Gilkison SUN Leslie: Ralph Riach SUN Ake: Iain Robertson SUN Miss M'Askill: Wendy Seager SUN Mowat: Nick Underwood SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SUN Actor: Lewis Grassic Gibbon SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b050z2vc (Listen) SUN Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit SUN SUN With James Naughtie. SUN SUN Judith Kerr discusses her novel When Hitler Stole Pink SUN Rabbit. First published in 1971, she wrote it for her son in SUN order to explain the story of her own family's flight from SUN Nazi Germany. Her father was a drama critic and a SUN distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. SUN The family passed through Switzerland and France before SUN arriving finally in England in 1936. SUN SUN Kerr found herself a fairly willing refugee, seeing her long SUN travels as a great adventure. Her parents went to great SUN pains to confirm and support this view, often hiding their SUN own personal and professional privations and struggles from SUN their young children. SUN SUN When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit is now used as a set text SUN in German schools, used as an easy introduction to a SUN difficult period of German history. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : Judith Kerr SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN March's Bookclub choice : When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur SUN Smith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Emma Donoghue SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b051zy5z (Listen) SUN Poems for Winter SUN SUN Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems from Ted SUN Hughes, WH Auden, Gillian Clarke and others. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Snowflakes SUN SUN by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SUN SUN From Poems SUN SUN Published by Everyman’s Library 1909 SUN SUN SUN SUN Great Nights Returning SUN SUN by Vernon Watkins SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins SUN SUN Published by Golgonooza Press 2000 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Snow Man SUN SUN by Wallace Stevens SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber 1953 SUN SUN SUN SUN Snow in Europe SUN SUN by David Gascoyne SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Enitharmon Press 1994 SUN SUN SUN SUN Gare du Midi SUN SUN by WH Auden SUN SUN From W.H. Auden Collected Shorter Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber 1966 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Gods of Winter SUN SUN by Dana Gioia SUN SUN From The Gods Of Winter SUN SUN Published by Gray Wolf Press 1991 SUN SUN SUN SUN Wind SUN SUN by Ted Hughes SUN SUN From New Selected Poems 1957-1994 SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber 1995 SUN SUN SUN SUN Winter Seascape SUN SUN by John Betjeman SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of John Betjeman SUN SUN Published by John Murray 1990 SUN SUN SUN SUN Praise Song for the day SUN SUN by Elizabeth Alexander SUN SUN From Praise Song For The Day SUN SUN Published by Gray Wolf Press 2009 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Warm and the Cold SUN SUN by Ted Hughes SUN SUN From Season Songs SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber 1976 SUN SUN SUN SUN Snow in The Suburbs SUN SUN by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From The Poems of Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Published by Penguin 2006 SUN SUN SUN SUN Snow SUN SUN by Louis MacNeice SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Faber & Faber 1966 SUN SUN SUN SUN Mitte des Winters SUN SUN by Georg Heym SUN SUN Translated from the original German by listener Elizabeth SUN Morris SUN SUN Unpublished SUN SUN SUN SUN The Darkling Thrush SUN SUN by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From The Poems of Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Published by Penguin 2006 SUN SUN SUN SUN Year’s Midnight SUN SUN by Gillian Clarke SUN SUN From Ice SUN SUN Published by Carcanet 2012 SUN SUN SUN SUN February SUN SUN by Joyce Williams SUN SUN From Open Window SUN SUN Published by Silver Wood Books 2010 SUN SUN SUN SUN Spring SUN SUN by Andrew Motion SUN SUN Unpublished SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b05077l5 (Listen) SUN Where Have All the Nurses Gone? SUN SUN Where have all the nurses gone? File on 4 looks at the SUN reasons for the nursing shortage in the NHS in England and SUN the cost of plugging the gaps at a time of peak demand. SUN A decision four years ago to cut training places to save SUN money is still haunting the health service. There's no SUN shortage of people wanting to be nurses but the NHS is badly SUN understaffed. SUN Recruitment in countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy has SUN quadrupled in the last year as NHS trusts fail to find SUN enough domestic nurses. But with thousands of European SUN nurses encouraged to come here with incentives like SUN relocation bonuses and free accommodation, why are hospitals SUN still breaking guidelines on the level of acceptable SUN vacancies? And how much has that contributed to the winter SUN crisis in Accident and Emergency Units across the country? SUN Hospitals aren't the only area of concern. Professional SUN bodies like the RCN say there has been a reduction in the SUN number of experienced senior nurses working in the SUN community. Has the recent focus on increasing nurses on SUN hospital wards meant other areas have suffered? And what SUN impact will that have on the Government's long term plan to SUN solve our hospital crisis by caring for more patients at SUN home? SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Gemma Newby. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b050sbzn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b050xggn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b050xggq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xggv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b050z2vh (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Some unusual sounds on Pick of the Week this week including SUN Japanese men declaring undying love in National Love Your SUN Wife Day. We also stowaway aboard the spacecraft Cassini to SUN hear what it sounds like to pirouette through a hailstorm on SUN Saturn. Almost as unique a sound as Lullaby of Birdland SUN hidden in a human ribcage - the bootleg Bone Music smuggled SUN into the old Soviet Union inside X rays. Ian McDiarmid SUN soothes us towards bedtime with a devilish take on the genie SUN in a bottle story and Sanjeev Bhaskar chooses a reading of SUN Rudyard Kipling's "If" that sounds, well, like never before. SUN SUN Join Sheila McClennon for her Pick of the Week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b050z2vk (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gloomsbury b01n1vlc (Listen) SUN Series 1, Desperately Seeking Peace and Quiet SUN SUN A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel SUN Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions SUN breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of SUN Gloomsbury, a riotous new comedy about the Bloomsbury Group. SUN SUN The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an SUN affectionate send up of the infamous literary group whose SUN arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene SUN in the early 20th century. SUN SUN In Episode Two, the novelist Ginny Fox is visiting her SUN friends Vera Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton, who live in SUN a modest unassuming little castle in Kent. SUN SUN Ginny has writer's block, so Vera tries desperately to SUN provide peace and quiet, gagging the blackbirds and cloaking SUN the gravel paths in velvet. But their tranquil idyll is SUN shattered by the explosive arrival of Venus Traduces, SUN hell-bent on recapturing Vera's heart with a series of SUN appalling musical serenades. SUN SUN Ginny's tiresome husband Lionel has followed her incognito SUN with a portfolio of herbal remedies, but Henry manages to SUN detain him in the pantry whilst Ginny and Vera dive under SUN the covers to devour a steamy new book, Lady Hattersley's SUN Plover by the intriguing proletarian writer D.H. Lollipop. SUN The chums emerge flushed and enthralled, convinced that they SUN must meet D.H. Lollipop and experience his dangerous animal SUN magnetism at first hand. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes SUN Gosling, her Gardener ..... Nigel Planer SUN Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy SUN Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks SUN Mrs Gosling, Housekeeper ..... Alison Steadman SUN Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman SUN Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer SUN SUN Produced by Jamie Rix SUN A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Hibernian Homicide: New Irish Crime Stories b050z2vm (Listen) SUN Archaeology SUN SUN Three new stories of mystery and intrigue from some of SUN Northern Ireland's very best crime writers: Colin Bateman, SUN Claire McGowan and Stuart Neville. SUN SUN Colin Bateman explores how a woman's chance encounter in a SUN supermarket reawakens her painful past and stirs an SUN overwhelming desire for vengeance, while Claire McGowan SUN bring us the story of an archaeological dig which becomes a SUN crime scene upon the discovery of a young woman's body, and SUN Stuart Neville tells of a minister who is asked to commit an SUN unspeakable crime for one of his parishioners. But why? And SUN will he do it? SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Claire McGowan SUN Reader: Conleth Hill SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b050c4sj (Listen) SUN Cameron's 1000 Jobs SUN SUN David Cameron says that the Conservatives have created 1000 SUN jobs for every day they've been in office. Is this true? SUN SUN Do dairy farmers make a loss on each litre of milk that they SUN produce, as is often claimed? Charlotte Smith from Farming SUN Today talks us through the numbers. SUN SUN England cricketer Stuart Broad has prompted anger after SUN tweeting: "I've heard if you earn minimum wage in England SUN you're in the top 10% earners in the world. #stay #humble." SUN More or Less considers whether this is true or not. SUN SUN The UK's unhappiest workers are retail staff and teachers, SUN reported the Guardian this week. Really? SUN SUN How to use maths to find your life partner, with Matt SUN Parker, author of "Things to Make and Do in the Fourth SUN Dimension". SUN SUN And, what are the chances that two friends, given the same SUN due date for their babies' birth, actually do give birth on SUN the same day? Tim discusses the reliability - or otherwise- SUN of pregnancy due dates with Professor Jason Gardosi of the SUN Perinatal Institute. SUN SUN "About one-third of American girls become pregnant as SUN teenagers" a New York Times article claimed. More or Less SUN asks if this is true and looks at the long-term pregnancy SUN trends in developed countries. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b050c4sg (Listen) SUN Sir Jack Hayward, Elena Obraztsova, Robert Stone, Jean SUN Stogdon OBE and Demis Roussos SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The businessman Sir Jack Hayward. He made his fortune in the SUN Bahamas, but was obssesed with all things British and bought SUN Wolverhampton Wanderers football club. SUN SUN The acclaimed Russian mezzo soprano Elena Obraztsova who was SUN a staunch supporter of the Soviet regime. SUN SUN The novelist Robert Stone who emerged from the counter SUN culture of the 1960s to write novels about the American SUN psyche. SUN SUN The social worker Jean Stogdon who founded the charity SUN Grandparents Plus. SUN SUN And the Greek singer Demis Roussos, whose high warbling SUN voice and kaftans made him an unlikely sex symbol. SUN SUN Sir Jack Hayward SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son, Jonathan Hayward and to his friend SUN Baroness Heyhoe Flint, who is Vice President of SUN Wolverhampton Wanderers football club. SUN SUN Born 14 June 1923; died 13 January 2015 aged 91. SUN SUN Elena Obraztsova SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the former general director of the Royal SUN Opera House, Sir John Tooley. SUN SUN Born 7 July 1937; died 12 January 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN Robert Stone SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the journalist and broadcaster, Michael SUN Goldfarb. SUN SUN Born 21 August 1937; died 10 January 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN Jean Stogdon OBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the Chief Executive of Grandparents Plus, SUN Sam Smethers. SUN SUN Born 22 July 1928; died 25 December 2014 aged 86. SUN SUN Demis Roussos (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Alexis Petridis, music journalist at The SUN Guardian and to his tour manager and friend, Denis Vaughan. SUN SUN Born 15 June 1946; died 25 January 2015 aged 68. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b050rz2w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b050y8v2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b050674y (Listen) SUN Maskirovka: Deception Russian-Style SUN SUN 'Maskirovka' is the Russian military strategy of deception, SUN involving techniques to surprise and deceive the enemy. Lucy SUN Ash looks back over its long history from repelling invading SUN Mongols in the 14th Century, to its use to confound the SUN Nazis in World War II, to the current conflict in Ukraine. SUN Translated literally maskirovka means "a little masquerade", SUN but it also points to strategic, operational, physical and SUN tactical duplicity. When heavily-armed, mask-wearing gunmen SUN - labelled the 'little green men' - took over government SUN buildings in Crimea last year, was this a classic example of SUN maskirovka in the 21st century? All nations use deception as SUN a strategy in war, but Analysis asks whether any other SUN nation has pursued guile as an instrument of policy so long SUN and so ardently as Russia. SUN Producer: Katy Hickman. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b050z2vp (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b050z2vr (Listen) SUN John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b050bfvm (Listen) SUN Paul Thomas Anderson on Inherent Vice; Stephen Daldry on SUN Trash; Kids Clubs; Why we cry in films SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses the challenges of SUN writing Inherent Vice, the first ever movie adaptation of a SUN novel by reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon. SUN SUN Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry talks about the dangers SUN of filming in the favelas of Rio for his caper movie Trash. SUN And reveals why he ripped up the script and let his child SUN actors improvise and decide their own ending. SUN SUN Listeners sing word-perfect renditions of the Odeon Film SUN Club song and ABC Minors anthem, five decades since they SUN last sang them. They recall a paradise free from parental SUN control, where you could to go to the toilet as often as you SUN liked. SUN SUN Francine consults neuroscientist professor Jeffrey Zacks SUN about the reasons she cries helplessly when she watches the SUN final moments of Louis Malle's war memoir Au Revoir Les SUN Enfants. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Thomas Anderson SUN Interviewed Guest: Stephen Daldry SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeffrey Zacks SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b050xwgz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b050xgjb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0507lsd (Listen) MON Social Stigma and Negative Labels - Migraine MON MON Migraine: a cultural history. How did a painful and MON disabling disorder come to be seen as a symptom of MON femininity? Laurie Taylor talks to Joanna Kempner, Assistant MON Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, about her MON research into the gendered values which feed into our MON understanding of pain. Also, 'chavs' and 'pramfaces': Anoop MON Nayak, Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at MON Newcastle University, discusses a study into how MON marginalised young men and women resist the social stigma MON attached to negative labels. He's joined by Helen Wood, MON Professor of Media and Communication at the University of MON Leicester. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Joanna Kempner MON MON Assistant professor of sociology in the Department of MON Sociology at Rutgers University MON MON Find out more about MON Joanna Kempner MON MON *Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health MON *Publisher: University of Chicago Press MON ISBN-10: 022617915X MON ISBN-13: 978-0226179155 MON MON Anoop Nayak MON MON Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle MON University MON MON Find out more about MON Anoop Nayak MON MON Abstract: * MON Chavs, chavettes and pramface girls': Teenage mothers, MON marginalised young men and the management of stigma MON *Anoop Nayak & Mary Jane Kehily MON Journal of Youth Studies MON Volume 17, Issue 10, 2014 MON pages 1330-1345 MON DOI:10.1080/13676261.2014.920489 MON MON Helen Wood MON MON Professor of Media and Communication at the University of MON Leicester MON MON Find out more about MON Helen Wood MON MON MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 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 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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The winner should refrain from referring to the award in MON order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be MON compliant with BBC branding policies. MON MON 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the MON purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the MON BBC’s Privacy Policy MON . MON MON 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st January 2015. MON All entries which are received after that will not be MON considered. MON MON 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem MON with the internet or electronic mail system. MON MON 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and MON must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC MON accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and MON entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims MON by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. MON MON 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas MON but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to MON broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, MON as well as use it on any online platforms on standard MON prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, MON Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). MON MON 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they MON have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be MON bound by these terms and conditions. MON MON 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant MON whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made MON public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event MON publicity if required. MON MON 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which MON breaches any of these terms and conditions. MON MON 22. 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 b050xq1h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xgjd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgjg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xgjj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b050xgjl (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051qrg2 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Clair Jaquiss. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b050zkrk (Listen) MON Red Tractor, Nitrogen, Lambing MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b050xgjn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v50 (Listen) MON Scarlet Macaw MON MON Michael Palin presents the scarlet macaw from Costa Rica. MON The Scarlet Macaw is a carnival of a bird, eye-catching, MON noisy and vibrant, with a colour-scheme verging on bad MON taste. Its brilliant red feathers clash magnificently with MON the bright yellow patches on its wings, and contrast with MON its brilliant blue back and very long red tail. It has a MON white face and a massive hooked bill and it produces MON ear-splitting squawks. Subtlety is not in its vocabulary. MON MON Scarlet macaws breed in forests from Mexico south through MON Central America to Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. They use their MON formidable beaks not only to break into nuts and fruit, but MON also as pick-axes. MON Colourful and charismatic birds usually attract attention MON and in some areas where the Scarlet Macaws have been MON collected for the bird trade, numbers have declined. In MON south-east Mexico where they are very rare, a reintroduction MON programme is underway to restore these gaudy giants to their MON ancestral forests. MON MON Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01386845 MON © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. MON MON Recording of scarlet macaw by Theodore A Parker, III / Ref: MON ML 13663 MON MON This programme contains a MON wildtrack recording of the scarlet macaw MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Theodore A Park, III on 24 Jul MON 1979; in Tambopata Reserve, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, MON Peru. MON MON 06:00 Today b050zkrm (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b050zkrq (Listen) MON The Rise of Islamic State MON MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to the journalist Patrick Cockburn about MON the rise of the Islamic State and the failure of the West's MON foreign policy in the Middle East. The academic Katherine MON Brown looks at the long-term strategy of IS by focusing on MON how it has persuaded Muslim women in the West to join its MON cause. While Leena Hoffman turns to the workings of another MON Islamist group - Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria. Gerard MON Russell is a former British diplomat in the Middle East and MON he recounts the demise of religious tolerance and the fate MON of some ancient faiths, now disappearing - from the MON Mandaeans to the Yazidis. MON MON Patrick Cockburn MON Patrick Cockburn MON is currently Middle East correspondent for the Independent. MON MON *'The Jihadis Return: Isis and the New Sunni Uprising'* is MON available now. MON London Review of Books MON : Essays & Articles by Patrick Cockburn MON MON Katherine Brown MON Dr Katherine E. Brown MON is a lecturer for King’s London at the Joint Services MON Command and Staff College and a regular lecturer and tutor MON for the Royal College of Defence Studies. MON MON Her research is focused on counter-radicalization efforts, MON political Islam and gendered human security concerns. MON MON Leena Hoffmann MON Leena Hoffmann MON is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Population, MON Poverty and Public Policy Studies in Luxembourg. MON Research Paper MON : Who speaks for the North? Politics and Influence in MON Northern Nigera. MON MON Gerard Russell MON MON A former United Nations and British diplomat to the Middle MON East, fluent in both Arabic and Farsi, MON Gerard Russell MON now works as a strategic communications consultant. MON MON *Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journey into the Disappearing MON Religions of the Middle East *is out now. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Patrick Cockburn MON Interviewed Guest: Katherine Brown MON Interviewed Guest: Leena Hoffmann MON Interviewed Guest: Gerard Russell MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b050zkrs (Listen) MON Young Eliot, Episode 1 MON MON A new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by MON Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the MON poet's death: MON MON 1. Childhood in St Louis, where Tom's life is cosseted and MON formal at Locust Street, and where the 'hurricane' 1896 will MON have an influence on the future poet's work.. MON MON Readers Tom Mannion and David Acton MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tom Mannion MON Reader: David Acton MON Author: Robert Crawford MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b050zpwp (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 b050zpwr (Listen) MON The Ice Wife, Episode 1 MON MON by Beatrice Colin MON MON Filmmaker Jen travels to the Antarctic to be one of the MON skeleton team that keeps the British base running over MON winter. It would be easier to get off Mars than out of there MON once the ship's sailed and tensions are already running high MON among the over-winterers. Jen has to work out why. MON MON Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Jen: Claire Rushbrook MON Tallis: Steven Cree MON Kate: Pippa Bennett-Warner MON Chris: Ian Conningham MON Bob: Sam Dale MON Writer: Beatrice Colin MON Director: Gaynor Macfarlane MON Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane MON MON 11:00 Out of the Ordinary b050zpwt (Listen) MON Series 3, Brain Hacking MON MON Jolyon Jenkins meets the people zapping their brains with MON DIY electrical devices, lasers and electromagnets. They want MON to learn faster, dream better, and even have spiritual MON experiences. MON MON Some of it might even work. There's evidence that putting a MON weak electric current through your skull can help you learn, MON and induce a "flow" state. The US military is experimenting MON with devices that seem to help snipers improve their MON marksmanship. One woman who tried it says that what she MON found was that "electricity might be the most powerful drug MON I've ever used in my life." MON MON Such talk is just what the garage experimenters want to MON hear. Real drugs are hard to get licensed, but many of the MON experimenters hope that a strap-on electrical head gadget MON will be able to give the same kind of effects, but without MON having to go through the regulatory hoops. There's money to MON be made, they hope, from early adopters who see their brains MON as just another device that can be improved through a bit of MON hacking. MON MON Producer/presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 The Architects b050zpxh (Listen) MON Series 2, Airport MON MON Architects Sarah and Matt journey north in pursuit of an MON airport contract that will put Sir Lucien and Partners back MON on the map. Meanwhile Tim tries to buddy up with a TV chef MON who's fond of the sauce. Comedy by Jim Poyser with Neil MON Griffiths. MON MON Directed by Toby Swift MON MON Arch-Brutalist Sir Lucien founded his architectural practice MON on a commitment to concrete in all its forms. Fashion has MON been a cruel mistress and four decades later things are not MON going well for Sir Lucian and his team of loyal-ish MON employees. MON MON Credits MON Sir Lucian: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Sarah: Anna Crilly MON Matt: Dominic Coleman MON Tim: Alex Carter MON Murray: Peter Forbes MON Noel: David Hounslow MON Ella: Rhiannon Neads MON Writer: Jim Poyser MON Writer: Neil Griffiths MON Director: Toby Swift MON MON 12:00 News Summary b050xgjq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b050zy3g (Listen) MON 2 February 1915 - Albert Wilson MON MON New season of Radio 4's epic drama series set in Great War MON Britain on this day a hundred years ago. The Wilson MON household can only keep baby Peter a secret for so long. MON MON Written by Shaun McKenna MON Directed by Lucy Collingwood. MON MON Credits MON Albert Wilson: Harry Myers MON Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn MON Adam Wilson: Leo Montague MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b050zy3j (Listen) MON Self-Harm; Female Breadwinners; Automatic Subscriptions MON MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b050xgjs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b050zy3l (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:45 Picture Power b050zy3n (Listen) MON Series 2, Kidnap in Syria MON MON The return of Miles Warde's series about press photographers MON at work. In May 2013, photographer Jack Hill of The Times MON was kidnapped in Syria, bundled into a car boot, and beaten MON round the head. He was with the reporter Anthony Loyd who MON was shot. They were within sight of the border when the MON kidnap occurred. MON MON "They get me down, are whacking me round the head with rifle MON butts at this point, and the guy I've been fighting with MON earlier just walks round the front and smacks me straight in MON the face." MON MON Jack Hill's calm account of their escape, helped by their MON fixer Mahmoud, has not been told on radio before. Hill is MON one of two staff photographers at his paper and won the 2013 MON Picture Editors Guild Award for his work in Syria. MON MON Miles Warde's other programmes this week include Dylan MON Martinez of Reuters at the World Cup Final in Brazil; the MON four photographers of Document Scotland in the run up to MON September's referendum on independence; the flooding of the MON Somerset Levels, as experienced by Jon Rowley and Adam Gray MON of the South West News Service; and the final programme MON travels with Nick Danziger to Uganda, where he revisits a MON family of orphaned sisters he first found sheltering from MON the horror of the Lord's Resistance Army in 2005. MON MON Dramatic stories from award winning photographers - the MON producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b050z2vk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04fyz5b (Listen) MON Slipping MON MON Andrew Scott (Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock) and Charlotte MON Riley (Cathy in ITV's Wuthering Heights and Nance in the MON film Edge of Tomorrow) play two expert liars who meet in an MON ocular prosthetics clinic. Elena, a teacher, is about to MON undergo surgery to receive a cosmetic eye to replace one of MON hers which has been disfigured by glaucoma. Sean, her MON prosthetics specialist, is crafting and hand-painting a MON shell to exactly match Elena's good eye. Flattered by her MON interest in him, Sean embarks on a relationship with her, in MON part as a distraction from his own chaotic life, but the MON closer they get, the more he realises that her charismatic MON stories may all be lies. Is Elena ready for surgery and is MON Sean ready for a relationship? MON MON Directed by Liz Webb. MON MON Credits MON Elena: Charlotte Riley MON Sean: Andrew Scott MON Actor: Jane Slavin MON Actor: David Cann MON Director: Liz Webb MON Writer: Claudine Toutoungi MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b050zy3s (Listen) MON Heat 6, 2015 MON MON (6/17) MON Who played Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan? And which MON scientist's four equations form a complete description of MON the production and inter-relation of electric and magnetic MON fields? MON MON Today's competitors face these and many other questions as MON Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the 2015 series, MON from the University of Salford. MON MON As well as competing for a place in the semi-finals in the MON spring, the contenders will also have to collaborate to MON tackle a general knowledge challenge from a listener hoping MON to 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b050yh95 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b050zy3v (Listen) MON Carol Klein MON MON Writer and gardener Carol Klein shares her favourite pieces MON of writing, from Graham Greene's 'Our Man in Havana' to MON Clare Leighton's 'Four Hedges', as well as poetry by Dorothy MON Parker, Roque Dalton and Seamus Heaney. With inspiration MON from environmentalist Wangari Maathai and a taste of Carol's MON beatnik roots from Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'. MON MON Funny, touching, lyrical and down-to-earth readings to MON reflect Carol's taste and personality. MON MON With special guest readers Jo Brand and Phil Davis. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Carol Klein MON Reader: Jo Brand MON Reader: Phil Davis MON Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b050zy3x (Listen) MON Series 11, Solar System MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Jo Brand, MON planetary scientist Professor Monica Grady and NASA MON scientist Dr Carolyn Porco as they discuss some of the most MON exciting and technically ambitious explorations of our solar MON system. They'll be looking at the Rosetta mission that has, MON for the first time, landed a probe on a comet, and the MON Cassini-Huygens mission which is bringing us extraordinary MON information about Saturn and its moons, and what these MON explorations of the far reaches of our solar system might MON tell us about our own planet. MON MON 17:00 PM b050zy3z (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and MON analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xgjz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b050zy41 (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 6 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 Arthur Smith, Sarah Millican, Sandi Toksvig and Graeme MON Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as fat, smells, shopping MON and gardens. 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: Arthur Smith MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Sandi Toksvig MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b050zy43 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b050zy45 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b050zpwr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 A Modern Magna Carta b050zy47 (Listen) MON Lawyer and human rights champion Helena Kennedy QC attempts MON to design a Magna Carta for today's globalised world. MON MON The original charter sought to control the power of the MON King. But, in a fluid world without borders, much power lies MON not with those who govern nation states, but with nomadic MON bankers and vast corporations. MON MON In this interconnected world, whose power should we seek to MON be reigning in? What new charter might protect our rights MON and freedom? What role is there for the nation state? MON MON Helena talks to academics, experts and commentators about MON where power lies and how it might be contained. Are the MON current international institutions created after the Second MON World War fit for purpose? In a world without global MON leadership, how do we address problems that affect us all - MON like climate change? Has the time come to impose rules and MON regulations on the ungoverned space that is the Internet? MON MON Interviewees include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Baroness Martha MON Lane-Fox, Professor Ian Goldin, Professor Conor Gearty, MON Professor Michael Posner, Simon Walker, Peter Oborne, MON Margaret Hodge MP, Gillian Tett, Philippe Selendy. MON MON Producer: Sarah Harrison MON A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b050zy49 (Listen) MON Referendum Conundrums MON MON Scotland last year showed how dramatic referendums can be. MON So what would an in-out vote on the EU be like? What would MON be the crucial strategies for a winning campaign? The stakes MON would be huge for the UK, and if those who want a vote get MON their way, this could happen within the next few years. MON Chris Bowlby talks to key potential players and observers MON about their fears and hopes, lessons drawn from Scotland, MON and campaign plans already being made behind the scenes. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 21:00 Anne Frank's Trees: Keeping the Memory Alive MON b05077kb (Listen) MON To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, Michael Rosen MON examines the ways in which Britain remembers the darkest MON period in modern history. MON MON From Britain's only day-centre catering solely for Holocaust MON survivors to the narrow attic staircase of Anne Frank's MON House in Amsterdam, via an art installation in Huddersfield MON and a primary school in Potters Bar, Michael looks at the MON many different ways in which we've chosen to commemorate the MON unimaginable horror of the Holocaust, aided by MON schoolchildren, campaigners and a 93-year-old survivor of MON Auschwitz. MON MON Produced by Marc Haynes and Nick Minter MON An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b050zkrq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b050zy4c (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b050zy4f (Listen) MON The Illuminations, Episode 1 MON MON by Andrew O'Hagan MON MON Anne is beginning to forget things. But a ceramic rabbit MON stirs long-buried memories. MON MON Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a MON forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in MON sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned MON retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her MON grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has MON defined three generations. MON MON Abridged by Sian Preece MON Reader : Maureen Beattie MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON Credits MON Author: Andrew O'Hagan MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Reader: Maureen Beattie MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b05077ks (Listen) MON Prof Tanya Byron on the language parents use to talk to MON their children MON MON Psychologist Professor Tanya Byron and Michael Rosen discuss MON the language parents use to talk to their children. Do MON parents over-praise, and is it ok to say no? How is the way MON that parents talk to children changing and what effect might MON that have? With linguist Dr Laura Wright. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b050zyss (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b050xglg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b050zkrs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xglm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgls (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xglv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b050xglz (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051qv1v (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Clair Jaquiss. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05102sz (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v6r (Listen) TUE American Bald Eagle TUE TUE Michael Palin presents the iconic bald eagle from Alaska. In TUE days of yore, when bald meant "white" rather than hairless, TUE these magnificent birds with a two metre wingspans were TUE common over the whole of North America. They were revered in TUE native American cultures. The Sioux wore eagle feathers in TUE their head-dresses to protect them in battle and the TUE Comanche celebrated the birds with an eagle dance. TUE TUE The bird became a national symbol for the United States of TUE America and on the Great Seal is pictured grasping a bunch TUE of arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other. TUE TUE But pomp and reverence don't always guarantee protection. In TUE 1962 in her classic book "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson TUE warned that bald eagle populations had dwindled alarmingly TUE and that the birds were failing to reproduce successfully. TUE Rightly, she suspected that pesticides were responsible. TUE Bald eagle populations crashed across the USA from the TUE middle of the twentieth century, but fortunately are now TUE recovering following a ban on the use of the offending TUE pesticides. TUE TUE Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Matthew Maran / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01348129 TUE © Matthew Maran / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05102t1 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Price of Inequality b05102t3 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE If the statistics can be believed, over the last 30 years TUE the gap between rich and poor in the West has grown as TUE cavernous as it was in the Nineteenth Century. TUE Income and wealth inequality - seen as almost a good thing TUE back in the 1980s - now raises alarm across the UK political TUE spectrum. TUE But who are the 1%? How have they made their wealth? And why TUE have the rest of us seemingly been left behind? TUE Robert Peston speaks to leading policymakers and opinion TUE shapers as he charts the new consensus that inequality is TUE the biggest economic challenge we face. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b05102t5 (Listen) TUE Charlotte Smith meets Gill Hollis TUE TUE Charlotte Smith was diagnosed with a rare form of chronic TUE lung disease, lymphangioleiomyomatosis (now known as LAM) TUE three years ago. She immediately went onto the internet and TUE linked up with other sufferers on a dedicated website. Gill TUE Hollis was diagnosed in 1992 before there was a self-help TUE group. Charlotte and Gill discuss the positives and TUE negatives of self help groups for those with chronic TUE illnesses. Does it help or hinder acceptance or simply build TUE up false hope and increase dependency? TUE TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05102t7 (Listen) TUE Young Eliot, Episode 2 TUE TUE A new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, and abridged TUE by Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the TUE poet's death: TUE TUE 2. Harvard means serious study for Tom, some after-hours TUE jollity, and a love of TUE French decadent poetry. Then he heads for Paris.. TUE TUE Readers Tom Mannion and David Acton TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tom Mannion TUE Reader: David Acton TUE Author: Robert Crawford TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05102t9 (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 b05102tc (Listen) TUE The Ice Wife, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Beatrice Colin TUE TUE Filmmaker Jen has arrived in the Antarctic to be part of the TUE skeleton team keeping the British base running over winter. TUE Tensions are running high in camp and Jen has found TUE something half buried in the ice. Winter begins and, as TUE usual, the youngest member of the team lowers the flag. The TUE last sun sets leaving the camp in darkness for three months. TUE TUE Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jen: Claire Rushbrook TUE Tallis: Steven Cree TUE Kate: Pippa Bennett-Warner TUE Chris: Ian Conningham TUE Bob: Sam Dale TUE Writer: Beatrice Colin TUE Director: Gaynor Macfarlane TUE Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane TUE TUE 11:00 Spoilsport: Science Stops Play b05102tf (Listen) TUE A hundred years ago, the term "punch drunk" was used to TUE describe the swaying confusion of boxers who'd taken more TUE than their fair share of head punishment in the ring. TUE Dementia Pugilistica was later identified as a distinct TUE neurodegenerative disease, which doesn't just affect boxers. TUE It's now been discovered in the brains of many different TUE sportsmen and women, from rugby players, to ice hockey TUE players to football players, sending shock waves through TUE international sport. TUE Claudia Hammond investigates how sport needs to change to TUE protect its players as the evidence on the risks of TUE cumulative concussions mounts. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 11:30 Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine b05107zk (Listen) TUE Frank Zappa and Lou Reed TUE TUE The BBC's archive is justifiably and inarguably TUE world-famous, but most of this attention and praise is TUE showered on the riches contained within the Beeb's music TUE archive - the life-changing Peel performances, seminal TUE sessions from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. TUE TUE But these musical marvels risk over-shadowing another TUE archive that's just as diverse, rich and rewarding - the TUE BBC's spoken word, music archive. TUE TUE As long as there have been pop stars, the BBC has spoken to TUE them. Marc Riley and his trusty Time Machine - a rickety TUE rust-bucket, back-firing jalopy - travel back through the TUE years to visit the great and the good, the famous and the TUE infamous, safely ensconced within the treasure trove of the TUE BBC archive. Marc replays candid snapshots at crucial points TUE in the careers of some of the biggest names in music. TUE TUE In each episode, Marc lines up the Time Machine to travel to TUE two different points in time and revisit two interviews with TUE something in common - a person or place, a shared influence TUE or ideology, a discovery, a misunderstanding. TUE TUE In the second programme, interviews share a fierce rivalry. TUE Both artists were intent on creating grown-up rock 'n roll, TUE both pushed the boundaries of rock music. Both were TUE anti-establishment, both were anti-hippy. Both were the TUE kings of their exciting new scenes - one in New York, one in TUE LA. Yet, despite the similarities and the common ground, TUE each loathed the other. First there's Frank Zappa in TUE conversation with Radio 1's Andy Batten-Foster from 1984, TUE while the second interview comes from a 1992 interview by TUE Johnnie Walker with Lou Reed. TUE TUE Produced by Ian Callaghan TUE A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b050xgm3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b05107zm (Listen) TUE 3 February 1915 - Kitty Lumley TUE TUE Kitty discovers that the further she travels, the less she TUE understands. TUE TUE Written by Shaun McKenna TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf TUE Mrs Thorne: Elaine Claxton TUE Ticket Inspector: Leon Scott TUE Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone TUE Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05107zp (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b050xgm5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05107zr (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:45 Picture Power b05107zt (Listen) TUE Series 2, World Cup Final in Brazil TUE TUE Reporter Miles Warde talks to Dylan Martinez of Reuters TUE about the drama of the football world cup final, and how he TUE got the shot of the winning goal. This was a bitter sweet TUE experience, because Dylan is half Argentinian, and Argentina TUE lost. TUE TUE "But in the end there's only one thing you have to do as a TUE photographer at a world cup final, and that is don't screw TUE it up. Relief, pure unadulterated relief pretty much sums up TUE how I felt when I saw these pictures." TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b050zy43 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y0l94 (Listen) TUE A Kidnapping, Episode 1 TUE TUE Daniel Ryan and Jade Matthew (who has been shortlisted for TUE her performance in the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Awards) play two TUE British teachers at an international school in Manila who TUE attempt to kidnap the 10-year-old son of a prominent TUE Filipino politician. It's a simple get-rich quick plan that TUE turns out not to be quite as straightforward as they had TUE hoped. TUE TUE A fast-paced thriller and a grand, comic morality tale set TUE and recorded in the Philippines. TUE TUE Cast includes students of the British School, Manila. TUE TUE Original Music: Sacha Putnam TUE TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Andy Mulligan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mark: Daniel Ryan TUE Rachel: Jade Matthew TUE Rami: Art Acuna TUE Paolo: Nacio Samonte TUE The Headmistress: Madeleine Nicolas TUE Debbie: Jane Fisher TUE Lily: Geraldine Tan TUE Senator Amantez: Bart Guingona TUE Mrs Amantez: Roselyn Perez TUE Colonel Reyas: Leo Rialp TUE Louis: Amiel Mendoza TUE Andreas: Joel Trinidad TUE Jonathan: Andy Mulligan TUE Schoolchild: Seth Argar TUE Schoolchild: Rachel Greenhow TUE Actor: Rona Lou San Pedro TUE Actor: Francis Matheu TUE Actor: Paulo Rodriguez TUE Actor: Max Adarme TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Andy Mulligan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b05107zy (Listen) TUE Tom and Helen Castor are back with the programme which TUE shares listener's passion for the past. TUE TUE This week, Tom is joined by two of our leading TUE historians/biographers - Jenny Uglow and Andrew Roberts. TUE Also, Dr Kate Williams takes a trip to out of season Torquay TUE to re-live the mad summer days when the Emperor Napoleon TUE came to town and Helen Castor assesses a new series of books TUE which deliver a concise and opinionated history of English TUE kings and queens. TUE TUE Over the next eight weeks, the team will be criss-crossing TUE the United Kingdom and going further afield to discover more TUE about the stories that are really making history - including TUE looking out for missing pre-Raphaelite paintings in TUE Birmingham, asking whether local government cut-backs are TUE leaving our historic landscape unprotected, learning how TUE heritage is helping build new futures in Stoke-On-Trent and TUE visiting the scene of an early aviators' tragic TUE crash-landing some 300 years ago. TUE TUE You can contribute news and views by emailing TUE making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b0510800 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Changing One's Mind TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? And how do we TUE perceive the world? TUE There's a curious blend of intriguing experiments to TUE discover our biases and judgements, explorations and TUE examples taken from what's in the news to what we do in the TUE kitchen, and it's all driven by a large slice of curiosity. TUE TUE Michael Blastland presents. Nick Chater, Professor of TUE Behavioural Science at Warwick University, is the TUE experimenter-in-chief, and Timandra Harkness the resident TUE reporter. TUE In the last programme of the current series, the Zoo team TUE look ahead to the general election: how do we change our TUE minds? What does it take for us to jump allegiance? TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b0510802 (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b05108gw (Listen) TUE Frankie Boyle and Maureen Lipman TUE TUE Frankie Boyle and Maureen Lipman talk about their favourite TUE books with Harriett Gilbert. Under discussion: Michael TUE Blakemore's recollections of testing times under Laurence TUE Olivier at the National Theatre in Stage Blood, Barbara TUE Trapido's first novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, and TUE Something Happened, Joseph Heller's follow up to Catch 22. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Frankie Boyle TUE Interviewed Guest: Maureen Lipman TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05108gy (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xgm7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b05108h0 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Dame Kelly Holmes TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new TUE experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. TUE Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show TUE all about embracing the new. TUE TUE Dame Kelly Holmes, a self-confessed chocoholic, tries her TUE first deep fried Mars bar, but will she try the chocolate TUE covered scorpion? And to conquer her fear of drowning, she TUE tries hypnotherapy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Kelly Holmes TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05108h2 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05108h4 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05102tc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes TUE b05108h6 (Listen) TUE Is the middle-class in terminal decline? Writer David Boyle, TUE author of Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?, explores TUE the split between a small rich elite and those who are TUE argued to be clinging on to a deteriorating lifestyle and TUE falling expectations. TUE TUE The salaries of financial service workers based in London TUE are soaring away from those in more traditional professions. TUE At the same time, house prices are rising and so-called TUE 'cling-ons' are being forced out to the peripheries of TUE London and beyond. Many of those who might have aspired to TUE private education for their children find the fees are TUE beyond them. TUE TUE But does it matter? According to the eminent American TUE political scientist Francis Fukuyama, it definitely does - TUE democracy is dependent on a healthy middle class and without TUE it there is a real threat of instability, with demonstrators TUE taking to the streets even in Britain and America. TUE TUE David Boyle also talks to the distinguished Oxford TUE sociologist John Goldthorpe, who worries that there is no TUE room at the top for today's aspiring young. Deputy Editor TUE Gavanndra Hodge explains why even Tatler decided to print a TUE guide to state schools. And the programme visits Liverpool TUE College, the great Victorian public school, which decided to TUE cross the great divide and become an academy within the TUE state system. TUE TUE Middle class professionals describe problems buying a house TUE on two doctors' salaries, finding a job as a solicitor and TUE raising the money to pay school fees, and even how an TUE architect's life can be a tough one. TUE TUE Are the professions themselves under threat from technology TUE undermining traditional ways of working? One GP worries that TUE the discretion he once enjoyed is being destroyed by the TUE computer. TUE TUE Producer: Glynn Jones TUE A Jolt production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05108h8 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b05108hb (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Price of Inequality b05102t3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b050xgm9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05108hd (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05108hg (Listen) TUE The Illuminations, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Andrew O'Hagan. TUE As Anne's memory fragments at home in Scotland, her grandson TUE Luke toils with his platoon in the fierce heat of TUE Afghanistan. TUE TUE Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a TUE forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives TUE quietly in sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. TUE A planned restrospective stirs long-buried memories and TUE leads her grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which TUE has defined three generations. TUE TUE Abridged by Sian Preece TUE Reader: Maureen Beattie TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE Credits TUE Author: Andrew O'Hagan TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Reader: Maureen Beattie TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b050zy3x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b05108hj (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b050xgn6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05102t7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xgn8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgnb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xgnd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b050xgng (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051qvg5 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Clair Jaquiss. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0510b6l (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v8k (Listen) WED Budgerigar WED WED Michael Palin presents the wild budgerigar from Australia. WED Budgerigars are small Australian parrots whose common name WED may derive from the aboriginal "Betcherrygah' which, roughly WED speaking, means "good to eat" though it could mean " good WED food" as budgerigars follow the rains and so their flocks WED would indicate where there might be seeds and fruits for WED people. WED WED Where food and water are available together; huge flocks WED gather, sometimes a hundred thousand strong, queuing in WED thirsty ranks to take their turn at waterholes. Should a WED falcon appear, they explode into the air with a roar of WED wingbeats and perform astonishing aerobatics similar to the WED murmurations of starlings in the UK. WED WED Although many colour varieties have been bred in captivity, WED wild budgerigars are bright green below, beautifully WED enhanced with dark scalloped barring above, with yellow WED throats and foreheads. With a good view, you can tell the WED male by the small knob of blue flesh, known as a cere, above WED his beak. WED WED Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Jouan and Rius / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01218825 WED © Jouan and Rius / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b0510b6n (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0510b6q (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0510b6s (Listen) WED Young Eliot, Episode 3 WED WED new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by WED Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the WED poet's death: WED WED 3. In 1914 Tom leaves Harvard for Merton College Cambridge, WED to further his studies, refine his poetry, and here he meets WED his future wife Vivienne .. WED WED Reader Tom Mannion WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tom Mannion WED Reader: David Acton WED Author: Robert Crawford WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0510b6v (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:40 15 Minute Drama b0510b6x (Listen) WED The Ice Wife, Episode 3 WED WED by Beatrice Colin WED WED Filmmaker Jen is in the Antarctic as part of the skeleton WED team keeping the British base running over winter. It is WED midwinter's day and, as is traditional, the crew give each WED other gifts. Little does Jen know that the object she finds WED to offer as a gift has terrible ramifications both for WED herself and for the pristine continent. WED WED Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED Credits WED Jen: Claire Rushbrook WED Tallis: Steven Cree WED Kate: Pippa Bennett-Warner WED Chris: Ian Conningham WED Bob: Sam Dale WED Writer: Beatrice Colin WED Director: Gaynor Macfarlane WED Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b0510b6z (Listen) WED Pete and Steve - Guitar Guys WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two men who have WED been changed by the guitar-making experience and who now WED want to spend all their time building them, in the series WED that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Tales from the Ring Road b0510d9t (Listen) WED Wolverhampton WED WED Anne-Marie Duff narrates a new documentary series for BBC WED Radio 4, telling stories of survival and resilience on the WED UK's ring roads - in towns & cities often overlooked. WED WED The ring road is the circulatory system of the city - a WED perilous place where life can seem fragile, but one which WED also bears witness to tales of great resilience. WED WED In this episode, Wolverhampton is in the spotlight. Among WED the tales, the huge fire at leading family firm Carvers WED which threatened to wipe out the business and the story of WED Wolverhampton's famous tramp, Fred, who lived on the central WED reservation of the ring road for decades and was rumoured to WED have been in the SS. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rr555 (Listen) WED Living Room WED WED Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25 year mortgage which he can WED only pay off by being funny. In this series he takes us on a WED room by room, stand up tour of his house. WED WED He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn't move WED quickly enough and a fire alarm he can't reach. His WED relationship with his house is a complicated one. WED WED A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday WED life, Alun invites us to help him de-clutter his mind and WED tidy his ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all WED the air out of and keep under your bed. This show will help WED Alun and his house work through their relationship issues WED and prevent a separation that Alun can ill afford; at least WED not until the market picks up anyway. WED WED Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn WED WED Writers: Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton WED WED Producer: Carl Cooper. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Alun Cochrane WED Performer: Gavin Osborn WED Writer: Alun Cochrane WED Writer: Andy Wolton WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 12:00 News Summary b050xgnj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b0510d9w (Listen) WED 4 February 1915 - Geoffrey Marshall WED WED Despite the obvious profits of war, Geoffrey Marshall, WED factory owner, can't rest on his laurels while his workforce WED are heeding the call to enlist. WED WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham WED Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones WED Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom WED Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley WED Alan Lowther: David Seddon WED Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius WED Edgar Bates: Sam Dale WED Malachi Dart: Daniel Weyman WED Travers Fielding: David Acton WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0510d9y (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b050xgnn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0510ftd (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward WED Stourton. WED WED 13:45 Picture Power b0510db0 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Scottish Referendum on Independence WED WED Reporter Miles Warde meets the photographers of Document WED Scotland in the run up to the independence referendum. WED Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Sophie Gerrard, Stephen McLaren and WED Colin McPherson all came together at this historic moment in WED Scotland's history to document what they saw. WED WED One project - Scotland Sweet Sixteen - features first time WED voters. They can be heard in the programme seeing their WED portraits on the walls of a Glasgow gallery for the very WED first time. WED WED The producer is Miles Warde. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05108h2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0510db2 (Listen) WED The Crossing WED WED It's 2019 and following the UK's exit from the EU, the prime WED minister is pressurised to seal the nation's frontiers, WED including the land border shared with the Irish Republic. WED Immigration and customs posts reappear for the first time WED since the Good Friday Agreement. At the point where inland WED waterways north and south meet, security services search WED boats and inspect passports. Cross border cooperation is a WED thing of the past. WED WED Conor Glynn, 22, helps his parents run river cruises along WED the river Shannon and into Lough Erne. But Conor will soon WED be forced to move away for work, because the family business WED has fallen victim to political circumstance. WED WED Conor, realising the financial predicament his parents will WED be in, decides to take one crazy but lucrative risk. He WED agrees to carry an unusual cargo across the river border and WED into the UK. Conor is stopped and searched by border WED security. They find three Eastern European migrants hiding WED on his boat. Conor is arrested. He faces a jail sentence. WED WED The PM arrives in Ulster to inspect new border facilities WED and has a secret meeting with the Irish Taoiseach. The WED Taoiseach is alarmed at how rapidly border security has been WED restored to its Troubles-era level. Even locals have to WED queue up and show their passports. In protest, his coalition WED partners in Dublin, Sinn Féin, are joining their Stormont WED colleagues in boycotting all Anglo-Irish institutions that WED grew out of the Good Friday Agreement. The peace process is WED in danger. WED WED Credits WED Prime Minister: Rebecca Saire WED The Taoiseach: Sean Campion WED James Trevelyan: Nick Dunning WED Avril Murray: Sarah Greene WED Conor Glynn: Gavin Drea WED Marian Glynn: Eleanor Methven WED Border Officer: BJ Hogg WED Writer: Hugh Costello WED Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0510db4 (Listen) WED Power of Attorney WED WED Setting up a Power of Attorney or struggling to use one? WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Who will take care of your finances and welfare when you no WED longer can? Putting in place a Power of Attorney means that WED a trusted relative or friend will be able to make decisions WED for you if the need arises. WED WED There are different types of Power of Attorney and the rules WED vary in England and Wales, Scotland and in Northern Ireland. WED WED If you want to find out about when and how to apply, who to WED appoint, what powers you can give or restrict, our guests WED will be ready to help. WED WED Or perhaps you've filled in the forms, paid the fees and WED have the documents in hand but find you still can't use WED them. How do you sort out the problem? WED WED Joining presenter Ruth Alexander to share their knowledge WED will be: WED WED Alan Eccles, Public Guardian for England and Wales. WED Nicola Smith, Cairn Legal, Scotland. WED Martyn James, Financial Ombudsman Service. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b05108hb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0510db6 (Listen) WED Inside the Muslim Brotherhood WED WED Inside the Muslim Brotherhood - The first in-depth study of WED the relationship between the Egyptiam Muslim Brotherhood and WED its own members. Laurie talks to Hazem Kandil, Lecturer in WED Political Sociology at Cambridge University, about his WED intimate portrayal of the organisation's recruitment, WED socialisation and ideology. They're joined by Omar Ashour, WED Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Security Studies WED at the University of Essex. WED WED Privately educated girls - a 3 year study of 91 young women WED at 4 independent schools. Claire Maxwell, Reader in WED Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, finds WED that an elite education doesn't always guarantee class WED privilege. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0510ftg (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0510ftj (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xgnq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b0510ftl (Listen) WED Series 2, Sister Dearest WED WED Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing WED up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. Produced by WED 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 Princess: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0510ftn (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0510ftq (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0510b6x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0510gvv (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind b0510gvx (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In this series Dominic Lawson interviews people who have WED changed their mind on controversial matters. WED WED This week he asks the environmentalist Mark Lynas, who was WED once a prominent figure in direct actions to destroy WED genetically modified crops, why he now advocates for GM WED technology and what the reaction has been from his former WED allies. WED WED Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. WED WED 21:00 Gone to Earth b0499dl1 (Listen) WED Cover from View WED WED Infantry soldiers are trained, challenged and shaped by the WED Brecon Beacons. Horatio Clare walks with former soldiers to WED see the Welsh mountains through their eyes. WED WED For decades the Brecon Beacons in South Wales have played an WED important part in British Army infantry training. Soldiers WED have walked, crawled, run, taken cover, got cold and wet, WED cursed and been shaped by the terrain of the Brecon Beacons. WED Writer Horatio Clare, who grew up in the Beacons, meets WED ex-infantry soldiers to explore their unique and lasting WED relationship with this landscape. WED WED 2. Cover from View: Horatio spends a night bivouacking in WED the hills with former Parachute Regiment reserve officer Nic WED Shugar and Royal Marine Gary Mapletoft who teach him the WED skills of remaining unseen in the landscape; of using it WED strategically; of dead ground, cover from view and cover WED from fire. And they explore inner landscapes as they WED consider the hills' importance in the healing process for WED both military and civilian mental health casualties. WED WED The landscape of the Brecon Beacons played an important part WED in preparing soldiers for the Falklands War. Horatio talks WED to Col. John Crosland who fought with the Parachute Regiment WED at the Battle of Goose Green. John recalls how British WED infantry soldiers felt on familiar terrain in the Falklands WED because it reminded them of the Beacons where they had WED trained. WED WED Horatio also meets Maj. Gen Tony Jeapes, a former Commanding WED Officer of the SAS who ran selection for the regiment in the WED Brecon Beacons in the early 1960s. WED WED Producer: Jeremy Grange. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0510b6q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0510gvz (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0510gw1 (Listen) WED The Illuminations, Episode 3 WED WED by Andrew O'Hagan. WED WED In Helmand, Luke and his platoon find themeselves in danger. WED Meanwhile back in Ayrshire, Anne remembers her past as a WED photographer. WED WED Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82 year-old Anne Quirk, a WED forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in WED sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned WED retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her WED grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has WED defined three generations. WED WED Abridged by Sian Preece WED Reader: Maureen Beattie WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Author: Andrew O'Hagan WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Reader: Maureen Beattie WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b0511svw (Listen) WED Series 2, St Brigid of the Curragh WED WED Aisling Bea (British Comedy Award Winner 2014) and Yasmine WED Akram (Sherlock) return with a second series, offering their WED unique take on Ireland's ancient stories. WED WED Irish Micks and Legends is comedic, highly irreverent WED storytelling of ancient Irish folklore. Still the very best WED pals, Aisling and Yasmine take their role explaining Irish WED legends to the British nation very seriously indeed. That WED said, it would appear that they haven't had the time to do WED much research, work out who is doing which parts, edit out WED the chat or learn how to work the sound desk. WED WED With a vast vault of fantastical myths, mixed with 21st WED century references to help you along, prepare for some very WED silly lessons in life, love and the crazy shenanigans of old WED Ireland and modern Irish. The first series was a Chortle WED Best Radio Comedy Nominee 2013. WED WED Episode One: Saint Brigid of the Curragh WED Aisling and Yasmine give props to Aisling's place of birth WED with the story of how Brigid became a Saint - and got land WED to build her convent in the Curragh of Kildare. WED WED Producer: Raymond Lau WED A Green Dragon Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Love in Recovery b0511svy (Listen) WED Danno WED WED Comedy drama by Pete Jackson, set in Alcoholics Anonymous WED and inspired by his own road to recovery. Starring Sue WED Johnston, John Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul WED Kaye and Julia Deakin. WED WED The programme follows the lives of five very different WED recovering alcoholics. Set entirely at their weekly WED meetings, we hear them get to know each other, learn to hate WED each other, argue, moan, laugh, fall apart, fall in love WED and, most importantly, tell their stories. WED WED There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small WED victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, WED and stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but still WED do. Along with the storyteller. WED WED In the fifth episode, Danno (Paul Kaye) deals with the death WED of his father after returning from his memorial service - in WED the pub down the road. WED WED Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent WED time with Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found, as WED many people do, support from the unlikeliest group of WED disparate souls, all banded together due to one common bond. WED As well as offering the support he needed throughout a WED difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, sometimes daily, WED dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and friendship. WED WED Written and created by Pete Jackson WED WED Produced and Directed by Ben Worsfield WED A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Marion: Julia Deakin WED Fiona: Rebecca Front WED Simon: John Hannah WED Julie: Sue Johnston WED Danno: Paul Kaye WED Andy: Eddie Marsan WED Writer: Pete Jackson WED Producer: Ben Worsfield WED Director: Ben Worsfield WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0511sw0 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b050xgpj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0510b6s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xgpl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgpn (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xgpq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b050xgps (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051qvl6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0511tlx (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v9m (Listen) THU Magnificent Frigatebird THU THU Michael Palin presents the magnificent frigatebird a true THU oceanic bird, and resembling a hook-billed, pterodactyl of a THU seabird. THU THU Magnificent frigatebirds are some of the most accomplished THU aeronauts of the tropical oceans. Their huge wingspans of THU over two metres and long forked tails allow them to soar THU effortlessly and pluck flying fish from the air, and also THU harass seabirds. These acts of piracy earned them the name THU Man-o' War birds and attracted the attention of Christopher THU Columbus. THU Magnificent Frigatebirds breed on islands in the Caribbean, THU and along the tropical Pacific and Atlantic coasts of THU central and South America as well as on the Galapagos THU Islands. Frigatebird courtship is an extravagant affair. The THU males gather in "clubs" , perching on low trees or bushes. THU THU Here they inflate their red throat-pouches into huge scarlet THU balloons, calling and clattering their bills together as THU they try to lure down a female flying overhead. If they're THU successful, they will sire a single chick which is looked THU after by both parents for three months and by its mother THU only for up to 14 months, the longest period of parental THU care by any bird. THU THU Magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Mark Carwardine / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01368132 THU © Mark Carwardine / naturepl.com. THU THU 06:00 Today b0511tlz (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0511tm1 (Listen) THU Ashoka the Great THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Indian Emperor Ashoka. THU Active in the 3rd century BC, Ashoka conquered almost all of THU the landmass covered by modern-day India, creating the THU largest empire South Asia had ever known. After his campaign THU of conquest he converted to Buddhism, and spread the THU religion throughout his domain. His edicts were inscribed on THU the sides of an extraordinary collection of stone pillars THU spread far and wide across his empire, many of which survive THU today. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0511tm3 (Listen) THU Young Eliot, Episode 4 THU THU A new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by THU Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the THU poet's death: THU THU 4. Time spent in Bosham. Then in London Tom becomes a bank THU employee. Then lines for The Waste Land begin to take THU shape.. THU THU Readers Tom Mannion and David Acton THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tom Mannion THU Reader: David Acton THU Author: Robert Crawford THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0511v9r (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0511v9t (Listen) THU The Ice Wife, Episode 4 THU THU by Beatrice Colin THU THU Filmmaker Jen is in the Antarctic as part of the skeleton THU team keeping the British base running over winter. Winter THU seems to last forever and for days the team is trapped THU inside by a huge storm. And then they make a shocking THU discovery. THU THU Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Jen: Claire Rushbrook THU Tallis: Steven Cree THU Kate: Pippa Bennett-Warner THU Chris: Ian Conningham THU Bob: Sam Dale THU Writer: Beatrice Colin THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane THU Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0511v9w (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Virtual Stars b04vdnc3 (Listen) THU Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers and explores diverse THU characters from the UK who have escaped mainstream THU celebrity, but who connect with millions of people across THU the globe as professional video bloggers and teachers. THU THU YouTube and its associated personalities are a cultural THU phenomenon of growing significance. The 'personalities' are THU the people or groups who have come to prominence through THU their videos on the website. Their associated online pages THU and channels have massive hit rates and subscriptions into THU the millions. The videos range from personal video diaries, THU through entertainment parodies, to tutorials of all types. THU THU The 'virtual stars' reflect a diverse range of online THU consumers - from young teenagers to the older generation. THU THU Hardeep sets out to find out what it is that brings people THU to their sites - content, character or something else? He THU asks what it is that makes these people so successful in THU their domains, the effects of this and the monetary THU implications. THU THU Can Hardeep be convinced that this is a new alternative road THU to celebrity, fame and public exposure? THU THU Produced by Paul Thomas THU A Three Street Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b050xgpy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b05126yz (Listen) THU 5 February 1915 - Cressida Marshall THU THU It's six weeks since the birth of her third baby, and THU Cressida is ready to get back in the saddle. THU THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Directed by Lucy Collingwood. THU THU Credits THU Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Amy Robinson: Jane Slavin THU Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles THU Sgt Ryker: Simon Harrison THU Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b05126z1 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 13:00 World at One b052qtn1 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward THU Stourton. THU THU 13:45 Picture Power b05126z5 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Flooding of the Somerset Levels THU THU Reporter Miles Warde meets two photographers who covered the THU relentless flooding of the Somerset Levels. Adam Gray and THU Jon Rowley describe in detail what was required, and you'll THU hear from a man photographed in his flooded front living THU room. What did he make of the endless media interest in the THU drama of the floods ? THU THU The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0510ftn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0460szp (Listen) THU Men Who Sleep in Cars THU THU Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts THU THU Three man whose lives have been turned upside down by the THU recession sleep in their cars, caught in an economic trap. THU THU On one night in the week preceding England's first World Cup THU fixture , Marley, Antonio and McCulloch spend the night in THU their cars on the streets of Manchester having lost all THU their economic and social power . They hide away in disused THU car parks or in industrial estates, trying to snatch sleep . THU They listen to the radio for company, hearing the build up THU to the World Cup where some of the most powerful men in the THU world of sport compete on the world stage . THU THU As they play develops we gradually learn how these three THU came to sleep in their cars, and how their lives THU interconnect. There's an excitement, a freedom even, to THU living alone out in the world like this, the moments of THU peace - rain on the car's roof. THU THU Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Maxine Peake THU Marley: Nick Haverson THU Antonio: Robert Haythorne THU McCulloch: Rob Edwards THU Sports Reporter: Pat Nevin THU Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts THU Producer: Susan Roberts THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05126z9 (Listen) THU Shetland THU THU Shetland is the most northerly part of the UK. The THU archipelago of islands is home to 23,000 people, who are THU nearer to Norway than they are to Edinburgh. Helen Mark THU travels to Lerwick to visit the annual Up Helly Aa fire THU festival, during which a thousand torches are set alight, THU and which culminates in the burning of a replica Viking THU longboat. She also visits Scalloway and finds out about the THU "Shetland Bus" - a secret WW2 operation which used THU undercover fishing boats to send supplies and munitions to THU the Resistance in Nazi-occupied Norway. THU THU Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b050y8v2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b050z2vc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05126zc (Listen) THU The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05126zf (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU Producer Alex Mansfield. THU THU 17:00 PM b052qtpr (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xgq4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Britain Versus the World b04v992d (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU THU Episode One: THU THU The start of a new comedy panel show - Britain Versus The THU World - that pits two British comedians against a team of THU comics from overseas to find out which side is superior. THU Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is the Scottish THU comedian Susan Calman while the captain of the Rest of the THU World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Malawian stand-up THU Daliso Chaponda. The contest is overseen by Irishman Ed THU Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial. THU THU Host THU Ed Byrne THU THU Guests THU Hal Cruttenden THU Henning Wehn THU Susan Calman THU Daliso Chaponda THU THU Programme Associate Bill Matthews THU THU Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Ed Byrne THU Panellist: Hal Cruttenden THU Panellist: Susan Calman THU Panellist: Henning Wehn THU Panellist: Daliso Chaponda THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05126zm (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b05126zp (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0511v9t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b0510802 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b05126zr (Listen) THU Trading Places THU THU Naked bath bombs, in-store coffee shops and customer THU satisfaction charts: Evan Davis and guests discuss some of THU the secrets to retailing success. Each of them runs of a THU chain of stores but with hundreds, even thousands of outlets THU both here and abroad, how do they maintain their brand THU identity? And what persuades customers to buy their products THU ahead of their rivals'? THU THU Guests: THU Mark Constantine, Founder and Managing Director, Lush THU cosmetics THU THU Debbie Robinson, Managing Director, Spar UK THU THU Robert Forrester, Founder and CEO, Vertu Motors plc. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05126zf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0511tm1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05126zt (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05126zw (Listen) THU The Illuminations, Episode 4 THU THU by Andrew O'Hagan. THU THU Anne's obsession with her ceramic rabbit has been noticed at THU the sheltered housing complex. THU THU Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a THU forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in THU sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned THU retrospective of her work stirs long-buried memories and THU leads her grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which THU has defined three generations. THU THU Abridged by Sian Preece THU Reader: Maureen Beattie THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Author: Andrew O'Hagan THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Reader: Maureen Beattie THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01lz1cj (Listen) THU Series 2, Chamanoa THU THU by Bill Dare THU THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. THU THU This week Brian relives his experiences in Chamanoa, a land THU where naturites battle nurturites, where genetics is pitted THU against education. THU THU Brian Gulliver & Thake ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver..... Mariah Gale THU Kath & Hendl ..... Lisa Dillon THU Bordle ..... Toby Longworth THU Violinist ..... Amy Butterworth THU THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU THU This is the second series of this satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and including, Duncan Wisbey, Vicki THU Pepperdine, Lisa Dillon, Colin Hoult, Toby Longworth, Adrian THU Scarborough, Dan Tetsell, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Debra THU Stephenson, Colin Hoult, Nina Conti, Jo Bobin and Marcus THU Brigstocke. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b05126zy (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b050xgrj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0511tm3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b050xgrl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b050xgrn (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b050xgrq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b050xgrs (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b051qywy (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Clair Jaquiss. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0512h69 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0t2k (Listen) FRI Black-Nest Swiftlet FRI FRI Michael Palin presents the black-nest swiftlet deep inside FRI an Indonesian cavern. The Black-nest swiftlet landing on the FRI cave wall, begins work on one of the most expensive and FRI sought- after items connected with any bird; its nest. FRI FRI The swiftlet's tiny bowl -shaped nest is highly-prized as FRI the main ingredient for bird's nest soup and is built by the FRI male from strands of his saliva which harden into a clear FRI substance which also anchors the nest to the vertiginous FRI walls. Black-nest swiftlets are so-called because they add FRI dark-coloured feathers to their saliva which are then FRI incorporated into their nests. FRI FRI The nests fuel expensive appetites. A kilo of nests can FRI fetch 2500 US dollars and worldwide the industry is worth FRI some 5 billion US dollars a year. Today in many places in FRI South-east Asia artificial concrete "apartment blocks" act FRI as surrogate homes for the Black-nest swiftlets. The birds FRI are lured in by recordings of their calls, and once they've FRI begun nesting, the buildings are guarded as if they FRI contained gold bullion. FRI FRI Black-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of D. Wechsler-Vireo / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01477365 FRI © D. Wechsler-Vireo / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0512h6f (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b050yh93 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0512h6h (Listen) FRI Young Eliot, Episode 5 FRI FRI A new biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by FRI Katrin Williams, is published to mark 50 years since the FRI poet's death: FRI FRI 5. Tom still works in the bank, but his verse is published FRI by Virginia Woolf and he dines with James Joyce in Paris. FRI Then comes The Waste Land.. FRI FRI Readers Tom Mannion and David Acton. FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tom Mannion FRI Reader: David Acton FRI Author: Robert Crawford FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0512h6m (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 b0512h6p (Listen) FRI The Ice Wife, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Beatrice Colin FRI FRI Filmmaker Jen is working in the Antarctic as part of the FRI skeleton team keeping the British base running over winter. FRI Jen comes to understand that what she found could have FRI repercussions both for her and for the pristine environment FRI of the Antarctic. But there is hope too. FRI FRI Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jen: Claire Rushbrook FRI Tallis: Steven Cree FRI Kate: Pippa Bennett-Warner FRI Chris: Ian Conningham FRI Bob: Sam Dale FRI Writer: Beatrice Colin FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane FRI FRI 11:00 Tata: India's Global Giant b0512j9b (Listen) FRI Dr. Zareer Masani tells the story of how the Tata Group, FRI India's largest business concern, became Britain's biggest FRI industrial employer and asks if it can maintain its FRI reputation for ethical capitalism. FRI Originating in the 19th century with a Parsi trading family FRI from Bombay, Tata is now a major force in steelmaking, FRI hotels, aviation and ICT. It has recently acquired FRI well-known British brands like Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley FRI tea. Throughout its history, Tata has taken pride in its FRI social conscience, with generous support for philanthropic FRI causes - although it has also provoked criticism on occasion FRI for its industrial and environmental record. Now, the Tata FRI family no longer controls the companies which bear its name FRI - and which are competing in new and tougher markets. Can FRI Tata hold onto its historic values in a world of ruthless FRI multinationals? FRI Producers: Arlen Harris and Peregrine Andrews. FRI FRI 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03tt50t (Listen) FRI Series 5, Huddersfield 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 uniqueness, and does a FRI bespoke evening of comedy in each 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 final edition of the series comes from Huddersfield in FRI West Yorkshire, the historical home of Luddism, rugby FRI league, and Last Of The Summer Wine. Mark delights the FRI audience at the Lawrence Batley Theatre with his views on FRI local crime, brass bands, and by not spending any money FRI whilst on stage. 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 b050xgrv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b0512j9d (Listen) FRI 6 February 1915 - Robert Lyle FRI FRI Robert Lyle never expected today to bring this many FRI challenges. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Daniel Chadwick: Mark Cameron FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0512j9j (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b050xgrz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b052qtv8 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward FRI Stourton. FRI FRI 13:45 Picture Power b0512j9n (Listen) FRI Series 2, Nick Danziger in Uganda FRI FRI Reporter Miles Warde travels with Nick Danziger to Gulu in FRI northern Uganda to find three orphan sisters Nick first FRI photographed a decade ago. The trip is part of a massive FRI project about how people's lives are changing in eight of FRI the poorest countries in the world. FRI FRI "In 2005 one of my abiding memories of being here in Gulu FRI was looking down this road and seeing a river of children, FRI nothing but children, walking as fast as they could towards FRI the night shelter, so that they would reach safety before FRI nightfall, and not be taken by the Lord's Resistance army, FRI who were abducting children in all of the surrounding FRI villages here." FRI FRI Find out how the sisters' lives have changed since those FRI dramatic days. FRI FRI The producer is Miles Warde. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05126zm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b0512jgm (Listen) FRI Fragments FRI FRI Meteorites are more frequent than we might imagine, but few FRI of them ever make it to Earth. They travel towards us at FRI 40,000 mph and burn up the closer they get. Fragments of FRI matter splinter and explode as they disintegrate. FRI Occasionally these powerful celestial events collide with FRI everyday life. FRI FRI In this original drama, four unconnected people are heading FRI to the North East Yorkshire coast on the day of a forecast FRI meteorite explosion. Katarzyna has just found out her bank FRI account has been emptied, so she cannot bring her younger FRI sister over from Poland. Jamie is just out of prison and FRI paralysed by fear at the thought of clearing out his dead FRI mother's house. Michael is driving back to the spot where he FRI and his now-deceased daughter enjoyed summer holiday. Aaron, FRI 15 years old, believes his absent father will meet him to FRI witness the meteorite. FRI FRI Fragments is a sharp, warm contemporary drama, mixing FRI ordinary struggles with the theatre of interstellar space. FRI Recorded on location in North Yorkshire. FRI FRI Written by Laura Lomas FRI Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI Executive Producer: Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Michael: David Crellin FRI Katarzyna: Hara Yannas FRI Aaron: Ian Weichardt FRI Jamie: Mark Holgate FRI Suzanne: Ursula Holden Gill FRI Becky: Ursula Holden Gill FRI Writer: Laura Lomas FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0512lmt (Listen) FRI West Scotland FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI West Scotland. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew FRI Wilson answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b0512lmw (Listen) FRI Scottish Shorts, Spring FRI FRI SHORTS: Scottish Shorts is one of a returning series of FRI short readings featuring new writing from first time or FRI emerging writers. FRI FRI A family struggle with hardship in Imperial Japan. Claire FRI Knight reads a tale of war seen through the hopeful eyes of FRI a child. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Kirstin Zhang was raised in Papua New Guinea and studied in FRI Glasgow, London and Tokyo, where she worked as an extra in FRI commercials. She is working on a collection of stories set FRI in Japan in the final year of the Pacific War. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Claire Knight FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI Writer: Kirstin Zhang FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0512lmy (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b0512ln0 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0512ln2 (Listen) FRI Paddy and Mick - Swimming and Philosophy FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between men who share an FRI interest in mindfulness and meditation, and who also brave FRI the icy waters of Northern Ireland's lakes, rivers and seas. FRI Another chat in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b052qtvb (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b050xgs9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b0512ln6 (Listen) FRI Series 45, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the FRI week's news. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0512ln8 (Listen) FRI Jennifer and Jill are on the trail, and the pressure is on FRI Ed. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Tina: Bella Hamblin FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0512lnb (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0512h6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0512lnd (Listen) FRI Hazel Blears MP, Scott Fletcher, Alice Nutter, Grant Shapps FRI MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Cheadle Hulme High School in Cheshire with former FRI Labour cabinet minister Hazel Blears MP, Manchester based FRI businessman Scott Fletcher, Chumbawumba singer and writer FRI Alice Nutter and chairman of the Conservative Party, Grant FRI Shapps MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0512lng (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b0512lnj (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 2-6 February 1915 FRI FRI Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years FRI ago this week, where our focus shifts to industrial FRI Tynemouth, experiencing a quite different war from that felt FRI in Folkestone. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Edgar Bates: Sam Dale FRI Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles FRI Daniel Chadwick: Mark Cameron FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Malachi Dart: Daniel Weyman FRI Travers Fielding: David Acton FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Amy Robinson: Jane Slavin FRI Sgt Ryker: Simon Harrison FRI Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Mrs Thorne: Elaine Claxton FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Albert Wilson: Harry Myers FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adam Wilson: Leo Montague FRI Ticket Inspector: Leon Scott FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b050xgsc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0512lnl (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0512lnn (Listen) FRI The Illuminations, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Andrew O'Hagan FRI FRI Luke has a sense of foreboding as the soldiers leave the FRI convoy to go sightseeing in Kandahar, while Anne's artistic FRI achievements are about to be recognised. FRI FRI Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows 82-year old Anne Quirk, a FRI forgotten pioneer of documentary photography who lives in FRI sheltered housing on the west coast of Scotland. A planned FRI retrospective stirs long-buried memories and leads her FRI grandson to uncover the tragedy in her past which has FRI defined three generations. FRI FRI Abridged by Sian Preece FRI Reader: Maureen Beattie FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Author: Andrew O'Hagan FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Reader: Maureen Beattie FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b05108gw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0512lnq (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0512lns (Listen) FRI Charlotte and Lyndie - Puppets and People FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a founder and a former FRI manager of the Little Angel puppet theatre in Islington, FRI about puppetry and how it can influence life and art. FRI Another chat from the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
30 January, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 31/01/2015 - 06/02/2015
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