30 October, 2015

Radio 4 Listings for 31/10/2015 - 06/11/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06kgwyx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06l1c8t (Listen) SAT In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, SAT A Place of Safety SAT SAT Human rights advocate Oona Chaplin reads North Korean SAT defector, Yeonmi Park's account of escape and survival. SAT Today, Yeonmi and her mother struggle to come to terms with SAT their past, and their harrowing experiences in China. SAT Meanwhile, the search for Yeonmi's sister gathers pace. SAT SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Oona Chaplin SAT Author: Yeonmi Park SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06kgwyz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06kgwz1 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06kgwz3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06kgwz5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06kh6jk (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father SAT Tim Byron. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06kh70b (Listen) SAT 'It's a conversation stopper'. A childfree woman talks about SAT her feelings of isolation and a New Zealander, who emigrated SAT here 50 years ago, looks back with only one regret. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06kgwz7 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06kgwz9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06kgvc6 (Listen) SAT Big Chill in Llanthony SAT SAT Twenty years ago The Big Chill festival pioneered the SAT concept of the boutique festival. Helen Mark meets founder SAT Pete Lawrence as he returns to the magical Llanthony Valley SAT where the first festival was staged. Together they explore SAT the history of this unique landscape which has attracted SAT artists and seekers of solitude since the 13th Century. SAT SAT The imposing ruins of Llanthony Priory have been painted by SAT Turner and it is here where Pete first decided to hold an SAT event characterised by music in keeping with the SAT surroundings. Just down the road is the Maes-Y-Beran camping SAT ground where the event took place, 500 music lovers SAT congregated on Wyndham Morgan's farm in 1995 and Ariane SAT Morgan has fond memories of that time. Helen takes Pete to SAT remember that day along with some of the musicians and SAT festival goers who were there. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06l1ynz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Genetic Modification 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 b06kgwzc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06l1yp3 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06l1yp5 (Listen) SAT Adil Ray SAT SAT Adil Ray, star of Citizen Khan, joins Aasmah Mir and Richard SAT Coles. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Adil Ray SAT SAT 10:30 Spanish Steps b06l1yp7 (Listen) SAT In the 1970s the Spanish tourist board was happy to use SAT flamenco, the traditional dance of the south, as a way to SAT tempt chilly northerners on to the beaches on the Costa del SAT Sol. And it worked - giving a much needed economic boost to SAT an ailing economy. Back home, in Brighton and Bremen alike, SAT crumpled posters featuring swirling skirts were rescued from SAT luggage and left in upstairs bedrooms along with a raffia SAT donkey stuffed with dates. SAT SAT Behind the swirl of skirts, however, was a dictatorship SAT which despised the gitanos, or gypsies, who refused to give SAT up republican beliefs, leading many into exile. A tame SAT version of flamenco was the one delivered to foreigners - SAT joining the clichéd image of Spain on the shelf next to the SAT castanets. SAT SAT So did real flamenco survive Franco's dictatorship? It's a SAT puzzle Chris Stewart, author of the best-selling series of SAT books about his life as a sheep-shearer in Spain, and SAT ex-member of Genesis, sets out to unravel on the streets of SAT Granada. SAT SAT As a young man Chris left the UK to join a flamenco guitar SAT class in Seville. He quickly realised his skills as a SAT guitarist were lacking, but fell under the spell of Spain, SAT and flamenco for ever, returning to live there as a farmer SAT 27 years ago. SAT SAT Now he takes Radio 4 listeners on a trail through the SAT scorching white alleyways of the Albaicin, into back room SAT bars and caves, to find out how the music most powerfully SAT identified with the gitanos, is now exported throughout the SAT world. There are now more flamenco classes in Japan than in SAT Spain. The music has made a come back, although gitano life SAT is still often one of the outsider. Local prisons contain SAT significantly high proportions of the gitanos, although the SAT authorities allow flamenco workshops for those in jail as a SAT basic human right, whilst families still pass down their SAT skills from generation to generation. SAT SAT Chris meets the youngest in a long line of gypsy guitarists SAT - Juan Habichuela Nieto performing in the open air courtyard SAT of the Alhambra; the much lauded singer Juan Pinilla; the SAT dancer Chua Alba, who also teaches his own daughter Chloe; SAT the grand old man of Sacramonte, Curro Albaicin; and learns SAT the poetry of flamenco from Steven Nightingale. Drinking SAT more red wine than a wise man should n a hot night, he SAT listens to the wavering song of a 99 year old Juan Mesa, SAT accompanied by Alvaro, his 19 year old accompanist, in the SAT dust riddled guitar shop of Rafa Moreno; before bumping into SAT the proud bohemian, the gypsy singer, Cristobal Osorio, SAT under the stars, concluding that flamenco is indeed the SAT 'Blues of Europe'. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06l1yp9 (Listen) SAT Helen Lewis of The New Statesman looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06kgwzf (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06kgwzh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06l1zxh (Listen) SAT Pay day loan redress, Insurance premium tax SAT SAT Payday lender Dollar Financial UK - which operates under SAT four brands: The Money Shop, Payday Express, Payday UK and SAT Ladder Loans - has been ordered by The Financial Conduct SAT Authority to repay customers £15.4m after lending money it SAT knew they couldn't repay. Some customers were also double SAT charged an administration fee - and then charged interest on SAT the extra fee. We'll talk to Paul Blomfield MP who launched SAT a 'charter to stop the payday loan rip off' in 2013 and SAT Russell Hamblin-Boone, Chief Executive of Consumer Finance SAT Association who represents 10 different payday businesses SAT who make up 60-70% of the market. SAT SAT From 1 November the Insurance Premium Tax will increase from SAT 6% to 9.5% for everyone with car insurance, pet insurance, SAT home insurance and health insurance. This is a 58% increase SAT expected to cost customers an extra £1.5 billion a year. SAT What can people do to keep their premiums down? Louise SAT Hanson, Director of Advocacy at the Association of British SAT Insurers talks us through the issues. SAT SAT Figures from the RBS Group seen by BBC Radio 5 live show the SAT extent to which victims are losing out to scammers. From SAT January to September this year almost 5,000 of the bank's SAT customers fell victim to various scams - at a total cost of SAT more than £25m. 70% of its customers who fall victim to a SAT scam do not get a single penny back. So what can they do to SAT provide better protection to their customers? SAT SAT Low income people are losing out on getting the Warm Home SAT Discount worth £140 when they swap to a smaller energy SAT provider which doesn't offer the rebate. People are being SAT encouraged to switch by the Government's current campaign SAT called 'The Power to Switch' which has been running SAT throughout October. But the Government's website only has a SAT list of the suppliers that DO participate in the scheme - SAT rather than those who don't. Ann Robinson, Director of SAT Consumer Policy at uSwitch will in live in the studio to SAT provide some clarity. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Ben Carter SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT Related links SAT Financial Conduct Authority (FCA): Payday lender Dollar to SAT provide £15.4 million redress to over 147,000 customers SAT StepChange Debt Charity: Compensation from Dollar Financial SAT UK - are you affected? SAT Govan Law Centre: Payday Loan Survival Guide SAT SAT SAT Association of British Insurers (ABI): Insurance Premium Tax SAT increase on 1st November – ABI sets out the facts SAT BBC News: Car insurance premiums on the rise, says AA SAT Which? 5 ways to beat the insurance premium tax hikes SAT SAT SAT National Trading Standards eCrime Team: Latest scams SAT RBS: Let's talk about scams SAT RBS: Can you spot the scams? SAT SAT Action Fraud SAT Financial Ombudsman Service: wise up to scams, and call time SAT on phone fraud SAT Information Commissioner's Office: ICO issues £200,000 fine SAT for unsolicited text SAT SAT SAT Paul Lewis Money: Get £140 off your winter electricity bill SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06kh66q (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles SAT Jupp. Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Zoe Lyons and Elis James SAT join Miles to take a look at the headlines of the moment. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Francis Wheen SAT Panellist: Zoe Lyons SAT Panellist: Elis James SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06kgwzk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06kgwzp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06kh673 (Listen) SAT Suzanne Evans, Lord Heseltine, Tristram Hunt MP, Zoe SAT Williams SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Townsend Hall in Shipston on Stour in the Cotswolds SAT with a panel including UKIP Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans, SAT former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, Labour MP SAT Tristram Hunt and the columnist Zoe Williams. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06l219j (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06l22pr (Listen) SAT Unmade Movies, Hitchcock's The Blind Man SAT SAT The world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman's SAT unfinished screenplay, the follow-up to North by Northwest - SAT now completed by Mark Gatiss. SAT SAT Adapted for radio by Laurence Bowen. SAT SAT Set in 1961, a famous blind jazz pianist, Larry Keating, SAT agrees to a radical new medical procedure - an eye SAT transplant. The operation is a success but his new eyes are SAT those of a murdered man, and captured on their retina is the SAT image of his murderer. Larry and his new nurse, Jenny, begin SAT a quest to track him down - before someone else dies. SAT SAT The Blind Man is part of Unmade Movies, a season of radio SAT adaptations of unproduced screenplays by the major authors SAT of the 20th century - including Harold Pinter, Arthur SAT Miller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman. SAT SAT Cast: SAT LARRY KEATING ............ Hugh Laurie SAT SYLVIA WHITEHEAD ............ Rebecca Front SAT VICTOR FARMER ............ Nicholas Woodeson SAT JENNY STILES ............ Kelly Burke SAT MORTIE LEVITT / CAPTAIN BARZONI ............ Andy Nyman SAT LINDA WHITEHEAD ............ Hilary Connell SAT HERMAN GRAUBNER ............ John Guerrasio SAT DR. MCGRAW ............ John Light SAT AUTOGRAPH GIRL ............ Hollie Burgess SAT NARRATOR, ALFRED HITCHCOCK ............ Peter Serafinowicz SAT SAT Music by Blair Mowat SAT Sound Design by Wilfredo Acosta SAT SAT Produced by Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui SAT Co-Producer Laurent Bouzereau.Directed by Mark Gatiss SAT SAT A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Larry Keating: Hugh Laurie SAT Sylvia Whitehead: Rebecca Front SAT Victor Farmer: Nicholas Woodeson SAT Jenny Stiles: Kelly Burke SAT Mortie Levitt: Andy Nyman SAT Captain Barzoni: Andy Nyman SAT Linda Whitehead: Hilary Connell SAT Herman Graubner: John Guerrasio SAT Dr McGraw: John Light SAT Autograph Girl: Hollie Burgess SAT Narrator: Peter Serafinowicz SAT Alfred Hitchcock: Peter Serafinowicz SAT Writer: Alfred Hitchcock SAT Writer: Ernest Lehman SAT Writer: Mark Gatiss SAT Adaptor: Laurence Bowen SAT Director: Mark Gatiss SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06l2458 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer Dianne McGregor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Dianne McGregor SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06l2f4p (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06kgvcn (Listen) SAT Financial Engineering SAT SAT What does a financial engineer do? A mechanical engineer may SAT design a machine, one that does a task or overcomes an SAT obstacle, but what problems does modern finance solve? Can SAT the clever manipulation of debt, equity or derivatives, SAT really make human beings better off? Some think finance is a SAT bit of a racket, designed to extract money from the SAT enterprise of others; others think modern finance is a SAT miracle that can create value from nothing. Evan Davis and SAT guests try to get to the bottom of this argument on this SAT week's The Bottom Line. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT John Kay - Economist and writer SAT Jessica James - Head of the FX Quantative Solutions Group, SAT Commerzbank SAT Jon Moulton - Founder, Better Capital. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06kgx06 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06kgx08 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06kgx0b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06l2vvd (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Richard Eyre, Andy Hamilton, SAT Penny Arcade, Stephen Tompkinson, Khruangbin, Father John SAT Misty SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Richard Eyre, SAT Andy Hamilton, Penny Arcade and Stephen Tompkinson for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation and comedy. With music from SAT Father John Misty and Khruangbin. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Richard Eyre SAT 'Mr Foote's Other Leg' is at London's Theatre Royal SAT Haymarket until Saturday 23rd January. SAT SAT Penny Arcade SAT 'Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer' is at London's Soho SAT Theatre until 21st November. SAT SAT Stephen Tompkinson SAT 'Pig Farm' is at St. James Theatre, London until Saturday SAT 21st November. SAT SAT Andy Hamilton SAT SAT ‘Change Management’ is on tour until the end of November – SAT see website for dates. SAT http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/a/34202/andy_hamilton SAT SAT Father John Misty SAT Father John Misty who performs ‘Chateaux #4' from his album SAT ‘I Love You Honeybear' out now on Bella Union. SAT SAT Khruangbin SAT Khruangbin, who perform ‘White Gloves' from their album 'The SAT Universe Smiles Upon You' on Night Time Stories. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Eyre SAT Interviewed Guest: Andy Hamilton SAT Interviewed Guest: Penny Arcade SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephen Tompkinson SAT Performer: Father John Misty SAT Performer: Khruangbin SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06l2vvt (Listen) SAT Baroness Tina Stowell SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06kgx0d (Listen) SAT Taxi Tehran, The Dresser, Cumberland Gallery, Slade House, SAT Moderate Soprano SAT SAT Even though he's banned from making films in his home SAT country, Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film Taxi Tehran SAT won this year's Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Was SAT this a largely political or aesthetic award? SAT Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser became an award-winning SAT film in 1983. A new version for BBC TV stars Anthony Hopkins SAT and Ian McKellen SAT Hampton Court houses just a few paintings from The Royal SAT Collection in The Cumberland Gallery. It's a small sample of SAT the glorious riches The Queen holds in trust for the nation. SAT David Mitchell's new novel Slade House tells a spooky tale SAT of mindbending, timeslips and soul-stripping. SAT David Hare's play The Moderate Soprano is about the SAT beginnings of Glyndebourne Opera in the 1930s and its SAT eccentric founder Capt John Christie. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06l2vw7 (Listen) SAT The Time Machine SAT SAT Take a trip on a time machine, as comedian and rapper Doc SAT Brown activates the flux capacitor and pilots his DeLorean SAT car back to where it all began on 21 January 1981, when the SAT first DeLorean inched its way off the assembly line at SAT Dunmurry in Belfast. SAT SAT Doc Brown immerses himself in that day as it unfolded and in SAT the process learns about a time he is too young to remember. SAT SAT Ronald Reagan had just become president, and Iran released SAT 52 American hostages who had been held for 14 months. Back SAT in the UK, there were concerns that some Labour MPs were SAT going to split off to form a new political party, and fears SAT that a fire at a party in New Cross which had killed 13 SAT black teenagers had been racially motivated. SAT SAT In an immersive experience, with the memories of Radio 4 SAT listeners, music, advertisements, newspaper, TV and radio SAT archive, Doc Brown relives that day and asks what effect SAT decisions made then had on our long term future. He is SAT joined on the journey by guests including Joan Bakewell, SAT Gavin Esler, former Radio 1 DJ Andy Peebles - and from SAT Belfast, the man who drove that first DeLorean off the SAT production line. SAT SAT Producer Clare Walker. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06kb0g6 (Listen) SAT The Penny Dreadfuls Present: The Odyssey SAT SAT Comedy trio Penny Dreadfuls take on Homer's tale of SAT Odyseuss's epic journey home from the Trojan Wars and the SAT incredible monsters and enchantress he encounters en route. SAT Starring Peep Show's Robert Webb as Odysseus with Humphrey SAT Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck and guests Lolly Adefope and SAT Margaret Cabourn-Smith. SAT SAT Written by David Reed with additional material by Humphrey SAT Ker SAT Producer.. Julia McKenzie SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Odysseus: Robert Webb SAT Actor: Humphrey Ker SAT Actor: David Reed SAT Actor: Thom Tuck SAT Actor: Lolly Adefope SAT Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Producer: Julia McKenzie SAT Writer: David Reed SAT Writer: Humphrey Ker SAT SAT 22:00 Drama b06g63fh (Listen) SAT The acclaimed British filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian SAT Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy) re-imagines a classic SAT seventies horror for Radio 4's Fright Night. SAT SAT In 1979, a team of scientists moves into a new laboratory in SAT a Victorian mansion. When Jill Greely hears a strange SAT disembodied scream, the team decides to analyse the SAT phenomenon, which appears to be a psychic impression trapped SAT in the wall. The scientists begin to realise that their work SAT has disturbed something hidden beneath the stone, something SAT ancient and malevolent. SAT SAT The original 1972 TV movie is now a cult favourite. Written SAT by the creator of the Quatermass series Nigel Kneale, it is SAT known for its cutting edge sound effects from the BBC SAT Radiophonic Workshop. SAT SAT This remake has been conceived by Peter Strickland in SAT collaboration with writer Matthew Graham (Life On Mars). It SAT features new music from James Cargill (of the band SAT Broadcast) and sound design from Andrew Liles (Current 93, SAT Nurse With Wound). A stellar cast includes Romola Garai (The SAT Hour, Atonement), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing), and Julian SAT Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), with a special cameo by the star SAT of the original version, Jane Asher. SAT SAT A special enhanced version of The Stone Tape is also SAT available online and for download from BBC iPlayer Radio. SAT Pioneering sound technology from BBC Research and SAT Development has been used to create a 3D binaural mix SAT designed for headphones. Binaural sound gives a unique SAT immersive listening experience, perfect for a horror drama - SAT but only for those who dare. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Jill Greely.............Romola Garai SAT Dr Leo Cripps......Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Marvy Wade........Dean Andrews SAT Terry Briscoe.......Julian Barratt SAT Cleft....................Tom Bennett SAT Jill's mother.........Jane Asher SAT The scream.........Eugenia Caruso SAT SAT Music and electronics: James Cargill SAT Vocal effects: Andrew Liles SAT Analogue effects: Steve Haywood and Raoul Brand SAT Sound mix: Eloise Whitmore SAT SAT Written by Matthew Graham and Peter Strickland SAT Based on the original TV play by Nigel Kneale SAT SAT Director: Peter Strickland SAT Producer: Russell Finch SAT Executive Producer: Polly Thomas SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Romola Garai SAT Actor: Julian Barratt SAT Actor: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Actor: Dean Andrews SAT Actor: Tom Bennett SAT Writer: Nigel Kneale SAT Adaptor: Matthew Graham SAT Adaptor: Peter Strickland SAT Director: Peter Strickland SAT SAT 23:00 Drama b06g63fk (Listen) SAT By Koji Suzuki. Adapted by Anita Sullivan. SAT SAT 'Listen. Watch. Until the end. You will be consumed by the SAT lost.' SAT SAT British journalist Mitchell Hooper lives in Tokyo with his SAT wife Toni. When he begins investigating the mysterious SAT deaths of four teenagers, he discovers a nightmarish secret. SAT They all died after watching the same video tape. SAT SAT When Mitchell watches the tape himself, he is cursed to die SAT in seven days. And so as the countdown to death begins, he SAT must solve the riddle of the curse. SAT SAT Ring is Japanese horror at its best - a radio adaptation of SAT the classic novel by Koji Suzuki, which inspired the SAT infamous 1998 film. It stars Matthew Gravelle (Broadchurch), SAT Eve Myles (Torchwood), Akira Koieyama (Rush) and Naoko Mori SAT (Torchwood). SAT SAT To turn up the horror put on your headphones and listen to SAT the immersive 'binaural' mix of the programme for a unique SAT 3D listening experience. SAT SAT Fright Night: pure horror from BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT Directed by James Robinson SAT A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mitchell: Matthew Gravelle SAT Ryugi: Akira Koieyama SAT Toni: Eve Myles SAT Narrator: Naoko Mori SAT Sadako: Naoko Mori SAT Doctor Nagao: Masashi Fujimoto SAT Tomoko: Yuriri Naka SAT Mai: Yuriri Naka SAT Yuna: Heather Emmanuel SAT Author: Koji Suzuki SAT Adaptor: Anita Sullivan SAT Director: James Robinson SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06lsxc5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Feminine Mystiques b037v9jl (Listen) SUN What to Expect SUN SUN By Aminatta Forna SUN Read by Doon MacKichan SUN SUN Fifty years since the first publication of Betty Friedan's SUN seminal feminist work The Feminine Mystique, three leading SUN writers to celebrate her influence in new short stories SUN exploring the contemporary feminist landscape. SUN SUN Doon MacKichan reads Aminatta Forna's surreal and wryly SUN funny contemporary story. A young woman rebels against the SUN weight of expectation and the minute daily constraints of SUN appropriate behaviour. A story with an unexpected and SUN humourous twist. SUN SUN Aminatta Forna is winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize SUN and judge of the Man Booker International Prize. She is the SUN autor of Ancestor Stones and The Hired Man SUN SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Doon Mackichan SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy SUN Writer: Aminatta Forna SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06lsxcc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06lsxcm (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06lsxcp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06lsxcr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06lt13c (Listen) SUN Church bells from St Michael's, Angersleigh, in Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06l2vvt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06lsxct (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06lt13f (Listen) SUN Embarrassment SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the extraordinary contradictions of SUN embarrassment. SUN SUN It's an emotion that is an invaluable teaching aid, a source SUN of the purest and funniest entertainment, an experience SUN capable of creating powerful bonds and of causing deep SUN estrangement. It's also a psychological state that SUN frequently kills us - 'dying of embarrassment' is all too SUN common. SUN SUN In a programme devoted to embarrassment in all its many SUN guises, Mark investigates the emotion that makes us blush SUN with readings from Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot and Wendell Berry SUN and music by Puccini, Ella Fitzgerald and the French revue SUN star Mistinguett. SUN SUN The readers are Samantha Bond, Francis Cadder and Matt SUN Addis. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Broadcasting Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: All Things Wise and Wonderful SUN SUN Author: James Herriot SUN SUN Published by Macmillan SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Pride and Prejudice SUN SUN Author: Jane Austin SUN SUN Published by Wordsworth Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock SUN SUN Author: T.S. Eliot SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Sharing Eve’s Apple SUN SUN Author: John Keats SUN SUN Published by Wordsworth Editions Limited SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Dying of Embarrassment SUN SUN Author: Grace Williams SUN SUN Published by medicineunboxed.com SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: An Embarrassment SUN SUN Author: Wendell Berry SUN SUN Pubslished by Counterpoint SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06lt13h (Listen) SUN Liverpool Brownfield SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In this programme recorded in 1993, Lionel Kelleway is SUN joined by Gary Clennan and pioneer of restoration ecology SUN the late Tony Bradshaw, at a rubble strewn wasteland in SUN Liverpool. As Shakespeare said "all the World is a stage, SUN all the men and women merely players" which sets the scene SUN for Lionel to discover the process of habitat restoration in SUN an urban landscape. Along the way Lionel, Gary and Tony are SUN in search of nature's actors, performing in a wildlife play SUN about scavengers, opportunists and colonisers. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06lsxcw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06lsxcy (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06lt13k (Listen) SUN Religious art, Freedom of speech, Charlie Brown religion SUN SUN Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday. It's the second SUN parliamentary election in four months. What role has SUN religion played in the election campaign? Mark Lowen reports SUN from Ankara. SUN SUN On Sunday the first memorial in Britain dedicated to Sikhs SUN who fought during WW1 will be unveiled at the National SUN Arboretum. Bob Walker meets Jay Singh-Sohal whose idea it SUN was to have the memorial. SUN SUN In an increasingly secular world what images and SUN representations do contemporary artists draw upon when they SUN create 'religious' works of art? Edward Stourton meets Aaron SUN Rosen at the Jewish museum and they discuss what SUN contemporary artists want to say about religion. SUN SUN It's 65 years since the first Charlie Brown comic strip SUN appeared. We hear from Professor Stephen Lind, the author of SUN A Charlie Brown Religion about his new spiritual biography SUN of the life and work of the great comic strip artist Charles SUN Schultz. SUN SUN Defend Free Speech campaign, spearheaded by the Christian SUN Institute and the National Secular Society, opposes the SUN government's plans to introduce Extremism Disruption Orders SUN , which would allow police to apply to the High Court to SUN restrict the movement and activities of people they deem to SUN be "extremists". Trevor Barnes reports. SUN SUN A major study into British faith-based charities has found SUN little evidence to suggest that agencies are using their SUN work among the worst off to try to convert them. By contrast SUN many are reluctant to mention their faith. Paul Bickley SUN author of the report from Theos and Pavan Dhaliwal from the SUN British Humanist Association debate. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06lt1ml (Listen) SUN YoungMinds SUN SUN Matt Lucas presents The Radio 4 Appeal for YoungMinds SUN Registered Charity No 1016968 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'YoungMinds'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'YoungMinds'. SUN SUN YoungMinds SUN SUN YoungMinds is committed to improving the mental health of SUN children and young people across the UK. On average three SUN children in every classroom will suffer from a mental health SUN disorder. SUN We influence policy and practice, give a voice to hundreds SUN of young people, and provide information and advice to young SUN people, parents and professionals. SUN SUN The Parents Helpline SUN SUN We provide a free and confidential service for any adult SUN worried about the mental health of a child or young person SUN under the age of 25. Our team of advisors and mental health SUN specialists advise over 10,000 adults a year helping them to SUN improve the mental health of their child. SUN *“I used the SUN YoungMinds Helpline SUN over nine years ago and have never forgotten the kind voice SUN during my darkest time.** **My daughter is now happily SUN married with a career and children due in no small part to SUN the help and support I received on that night.” * Jan. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06lsxd0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06lsxd2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06lt3xl (Listen) SUN Called to Be Saints SUN SUN A service for All Saints' Day, celebrating the great heroes SUN of the Christian Faith but also exploring the New Testament SUN insight that all believers in Christ are saints and SUN discovering what this means for the People of God today. SUN SUN From First Derry Presbyterian Church, Londonderry. SUN Led by Susan Thomas SUN Preacher: The Rev Dr David Latimer SUN With Codetta, directed by Donal Doherty SUN SUN Producer: Bert Tosh. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b00qx5rh (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine: The Power of Memory SUN SUN The late historian Lisa Jardine presented many editions of A SUN Point of View. As a tribute, this is another chance to hear SUN her reflections on the importance for history of the SUN recording of personal memories and her regrets that her SUN mother could no longer recall her own fascinating life. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04sym21 (Listen) SUN Black-Chinned Hummingbird SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Liz Bonnin presents the North American black chinned SUN hummingbird. What seems to be a large green beetle is flying SUN erratically across a Los Angeles garden: suddenly, it hovers SUN in mid-air to probe a flower bloom; this is a black-chinned SUN hummingbird. Although often thought of as exclusively SUN tropical, a few species of hummingbirds occur widely in SUN North America and in the west; the Black-chinned hummingbird SUN is the most widespread of all. Both sexes are glittering SUN emerald above: the male's black throat is bordered with a SUN flash of metallic purple, which catches the sun. SUN Black-chinned "hummers" are minute, weighing in at just over SUN 3 grams. But they are pugnacious featherweights seeing off SUN rival males during intimidation flights with shrill squeals, SUN whilst remarkably beating their wings around 80 times a SUN second. They'll also readily come to artificial SUN sugar-feeders put out by householders to attract these SUN flying jewels to their gardens. SUN SUN Black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) SUN SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Dave Watts / naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01137583 SUN © Dave Watts / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06lsxd4 (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 b06ltb3y (Listen) SUN Ed considers his future as a farmer, and will they be SUN queuing up to audition for Lynda? SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Naylah Ahmed SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress 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 Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06ltb4g (Listen) SUN Marjorie Wallace SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the mental health campaigner and SUN Chief Executive of SANE, Marjorie Wallace. SUN SUN After leaving University College London with a psychology SUN and philosophy degree, her first job in the media was SUN working on The Frost Programme with David Frost. She went on SUN to produce religious programmes and became a current affairs SUN reporter and director for the BBC. She joined the Sunday SUN Times Insight team as an investigative journalist and wrote SUN a series of articles highlighting the financial and SUN emotional plight of young Thalidomide victims. Her articles SUN on mental illness - The Forgotten Illness - elicited a huge SUN public response and in 1986 she founded the mental health SUN charity SANE. She has received numerous awards for her SUN journalism and books and has twice won the Campaigning SUN Journalist of the Year award. SUN SUN In December 2008 she was awarded the CBE for services to SUN mental health. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Marjorie Wallace SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06lsxd6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b06kbjf2 (Listen) SUN Series 73, Episode 4 SUN SUN Agincourt, Kipling and Caravanning are among the topics on SUN the cards as Josh Widdicombe, Jenny Eclair, Sheila Hancock SUN and Paul Merton join host Nicholas Parsons as they try to SUN avoid hesitation, deviation and repetition. Hayley Sterling SUN blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN 25th October 2015 is the 500th anniversary of the Battle of SUN Agincourt. Nicholas remembers it well, of course. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SUN Panellist: Jenny Eclair SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06ltb5d (Listen) SUN A Fat Lot of Good SUN SUN The range of fats and oils available to us is growing but SUN the advice has changed dramatically. Sheila Dillon looks to SUN cut through the latest thinking to help gain clarity of SUN which we should be using when. SUN SUN She's joined in the studio by Dr Michael Mosley whose recent SUN investigation looked into how the composition of saturated SUN and polyunsaturated fats changed when heated with food and SUN resulted in the the production of dangerous aldehydes. SUN Sheila finds out what response there has been since the SUN programme and how he's changed his own cooking and buying SUN habits but what questions should we be asking when we eat SUN out? SUN SUN Over the past decades animal fats have lost out in SUN popularity and newer products like coconut oil have risen in SUN prominence. Yet a butcher from Clonmel in Tipperary has seen SUN his dripping crowned 'supreme champion' in the Great Taste SUN awards - could this signify a change of thinking on what was SUN once classed 'unhealthy fats'. Meanwhile in parts of Italy a SUN new disease is threatening olive trees. SUN SUN Find out more SUN SUN Trust Me I’m A Doctor – experiment with cooking oils SUN here SUN Hear SUN the full Costing the Earth olive oil report, SUN SUN ...and Tim Hayward’s SUN guide SUN to making lard at home. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Mosley SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06lsxd8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06ltb5g (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 10 Days That Toppled Thatcher b06mv5hm (Listen) SUN James Landale examines the dramatic fall of Margaret SUN Thatcher, Britain's longest serving prime minister in the SUN twentieth century. Why was she ousted from Number 10 after SUN eleven years in power, when she had not been defeated at a SUN general election or in the House of Commons? SUN In this programme, James Landale talks with key insiders and SUN witnesses of the Tory leadership crisis during ten days of SUN November 1990 - from Geoffrey Howe's electrifying personal SUN statement in the Commons on Tuesday 13th November explaining SUN why he had resigned from the Cabinet, to Number 10's SUN announcement on Thursday 22nd of Thatcher's decision to SUN resign as prime minister. SUN Why couldn't Margaret Thatcher, who had led her party to SUN three successive general election victories, survive SUN Heseltine's challenge, especially after more Tory MPs backed SUN her in the first round of the contest than voted for him? SUN How and why did Margaret Thatcher finally accept that she SUN should resign? Was she the victim of a coup in her Cabinet? SUN James Landale establishes what happened behind the scenes SUN during the ten days that toppled Thatcher. SUN SUN Producer: Rob Shepherd. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06kh281 (Listen) SUN Liverpool SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Liverpool. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden, and Pippa Greenwood are SUN the panellists answering questions from the audience. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – In 2013 I moved house, mid-summer, and took about ten SUN roses with me. The colours were a beautiful peach colour SUN and upon replanting they turned red! Will they stay this SUN way? SUN SUN Christine SUN – You might just have the rootstock and you’ve lost the SUN stock on the top. I think that by moving them and pruning SUN them you’ve actually just got the rootstock SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – If they’re coming from the rootstock then they will stay SUN that way – they won’t revert to peach. SUN SUN SUN Q – For two years we’ve had no success growing carrots, SUN salads, and nasturtiums on our allotment. They seem to grow SUN rapidly but then just die. Any suggestions? They are in a SUN raised plastic bath, in there with commercial compost. SUN SUN Christine SUN – If you are just using the bath’s plughole for drainage I SUN suspect they’ve got soggy bottoms! SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – It would be an idea to put a layer of grit or shingle at SUN the bottom of the tub to aid drainage. SUN SUN SUN Eric SUN – You could try growing blueberry bushes in it SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – Rhubarb or runner beans would also do well SUN SUN SUN Q – Which shrubs would you recommend for a newly dug border? SUN It is approx. 18 inches wide and 10ft long. It faces west SUN and has a 5ft fence at the bag. Previously, there has been SUN a mock orange, lilac, and camellia for 35 years which are in SUN the process of being removed. SUN SUN Pippa SUN – If it’s free-draining I’d go for trained wall shrubs. SUN Something cytisis batanderii (Pineapple Broom) could do SUN well. Has a pineapple aroma and is gorgeous. SUN SUN SUN Christine SUN – Fiburnum opulus compactum – it’s a small shrub that will SUN only get up to about 4ft high and spread to around 5ft. SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – I agree with the wall-trained shrub idea too. One of my SUN favourites is Itea elisofolia. It looks like it’s SUN casacading down the wall; very graceful. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’m about to move into a house with a tiny garden but a SUN big (20ft) sandstone wall that faces south west. Do you SUN think I could grow apricots? SUN SUN Christine SUN – Yes! You need to take out a decent hole, fork it over, and SUN then leave it for two weeks to make sure it doesn’t fill up SUN with water – because you need to ensure good drainage. Then SUN make sure you’ve got a good covering of soil – about SUN 18inches – and compost. New varieties like Tom Cott will do SUN very well there. SUN SUN SUN Pippa SUN – I’ve had flavour cott and it’s delicious and fruits quite SUN young too SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – If it’s 20ft high I’d get a fig in there and maybe a kiwi SUN too. You’ll get so much radiated heat from that – try and SUN see what you can get away with! SUN SUN Q – How do I improve the condition of our lawns where turf SUN has been laid onto rotavated ground which has not been SUN smoothed and rollered? It’s a new house on previous SUN farmland – weed and feed only provides patchy results. SUN SUN Matthew SUN – Have you tried digging at all? You might have builders’ SUN rubble under there. The turf that’s in contact with rubble SUN will get less nutrition and will drain differently to the SUN rest. The only way to tackle it is to dig it up, remove a SUN layer of 200-300ml, and then put lots of fresh soil back on SUN top. SUN SUN SUN Q – Liverpool soil is very sandy – what do you think about SUN the ‘no dig’ method of gardening? SUN SUN Christine SUN – the most difficult thing is getting enough organic matter SUN down. You really need a good 3inch layer (8-10cm) and that SUN can be very expensive. SUN SUN SUN Q – In an area 6m x 2m, heavily populated by bluebells, am I SUN trying to achieve the impossible by encouraging other plants SUN to grow? English bluebells that are about 18inches deep. A SUN pine tree shelters the plot. SUN SUN Pippa SUN – I doubt it’s the bluebells – more likely the pine’s roots SUN and dropped needles that are hindering other plants. SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – I agree. The pine will also be drying the soil out a SUN lot. SUN SUN SUN Eric SUN – I’d suggest White Foxglove SUN SUN SUN Matthew SUN – That’d be fine because they’re shade tolerant and will SUN withstand dry soils. But I would improve the soil and the SUN watering. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a medium-sized front garden – about 30ft x 40ft – SUN and I would love to plant a beautiful Ghost Silver Birch. SUN Would I need to worry about the height of it? SUN SUN Matthew SUN – Best not to pollard them because you immediately spoil the SUN form of them. I wouldn’t worry about birches because they SUN have open canopies and small leaves so you don’t get too SUN much shade from them, even at full height. Go for a SUN multi-stem – Jack Monteii is the most common but you could SUN try Betula nigra, or Albo sinensis fascination, but I SUN wouldn’t worry about pollarding them. SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06lth6m (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations between friends whose SUN supportive relationship is built on listening and a couple SUN who are adapting to life minus the wife's former severe SUN social anxiety, in the Omnibus edition of the series that SUN proves 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 b06lth6p (Listen) SUN I Capture the Castle, Episode 1 SUN SUN Jane Rogers dramatises Dodie Smith's rags-to-riches tale and SUN moving coming-of-age novel with a cast of eccentrics. SUN SUN In the ruins of medieval castle, deep in rural 1930's SUN Suffolk, funny, intelligent seventeen year old Cassandra SUN Mortmain attempts to capture her family's life in a journal. SUN Their isolation is disrupted by the arrival of rich American SUN brothers Simon and Neil and desperate to escape the family's SUN grinding poverty Cassandra's beautiful older sister Rose SUN determines to marry Simon. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN Credits SUN Cassandra: Holliday Grainger SUN Rose: Scarlett Alice Johnson SUN Mortmain: Toby Jones SUN Topaz: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Thomas: Sam Hattersley SUN Stephen: Harry McEntire SUN Simon: John MacMillan SUN Neil: Henry Devas SUN Shop Assistant: Martha Loader SUN Author: Dodie Smith SUN Adaptor: Jane Rogers SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b06mblgl (Listen) SUN China Mieville - The City & the City SUN SUN Fantasy writer China Miéville talks about his novel The City SUN & The City, a crime thriller set in a parallel world. With SUN James Naughtie and a group of readers. SUN SUN The story follows Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme SUN Crime Squad, resident of the crumbling city of Beszel. The SUN mutilated body of a foreign student is found dumped on some SUN wasteland and Borlú is assigned to the case. SUN SUN Borlú is unfazed until he uncovers evidence that the dead SUN girl had been involved in the political turmoil between SUN Beszel and its prosperous twin city of Ul Qoma, which SUN occupies the same physical space. SUN SUN Citizens of each city are forbidden from seeing each other, SUN and the frontier between the cities is policed by 'Breach' SUN which punishes all transgressions. SUN SUN Despite the violent deaths of those around him, and a SUN growing realisation that he is personally implicated in the SUN crimes, Borlú doggedly chases the truth and has to journey SUN across the border from one reality to another. SUN SUN China discusses how this imaginative work is really about SUN how we perceive the world and how we interact with each SUN other. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : China Miéville SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN December's Bookclub Choice : Transatlantic by Colum McCann SUN (2013). SUN SUN 16:30 New Lyrical Ballads b06mblgr (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN First of two programmes that will see Britain's current SUN poets reading their own work inspired by Wordsworth and SUN Coleridge's original Lyrical Ballads. That slim volume of SUN poetry, published in Wine Street in Bristol, is renowned for SUN its radical preface and considered to have marked the SUN beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. SUN Featuring Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, John Burnside, SUN Gillian Clarke, Paul Farley, David Harsent, Kathleen Jamie, SUN Liz Lochhead, Ian McMillan, Andrew Motion, Sean O'Brien, SUN Alice Oswald, Ruth Padel, Don Paterson, Jean Sprackland and SUN Michael Symmons Roberts. The programme was recorded at the SUN Bristol Festival of Ideas which commissioned the work and SUN gathered all the poets together to read their work to an SUN expectant audience. The poets will be introduced by festival SUN director, Andrew Kelly. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06kch0m (Listen) SUN The Billion-Dollar Aid Question SUN SUN As the crisis in Syria deepens and refugees flock westwards, SUN the UK government insists it is helping with a £1.1bn aid SUN package to neighbouring countries - but is it being spent SUN wisely? SUN SUN Simon Cox tracks money going from the UK to projects on the SUN ground in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, trying to find SUN out how much eventually gets to refugees. It's easy to see SUN how funding an NGO to build new homes for Syrians is money SUN well spent. But can the same be said for the hundreds of SUN millions of pounds that go through the United Nations? SUN SUN The programme hears from aid workers, UN officials, refugees SUN and UN investigators about cuts to food rations against a SUN backdrop of high salaries and overheads. SUN SUN So is the UN up to the job of managing a modern-day refugee SUN crisis? SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06l2vvt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06lsxdb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06lsxdd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06lsxdg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06mblgz (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Liz Barclay chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06mblh1 (Listen) SUN Helen is in a world of her own, and Kenton is wearing SUN special cotton. SUN SUN 19:15 Shedtown b01q977h (Listen) SUN Series 2, Death in the Afternoon SUN SUN In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of SUN escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol SUN of possibility and change. SUN SUN Episode 4: Death in the Afternoon SUN SUN Shedtown Mark II rings its own death knell to the tune of SUN Deborah Dearden's meticulously planned merry-go-round and SUN Jimmy asks where hearts lie. SUN SUN Barry............................Tony Pitts SUN Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan SUN Eleanor..............Ronni Ancona SUN Colin...............Johnny Vegas SUN Deborah........................Emma Fryer SUN William..............Adrian Manfredi SUN Diane..............Rosina Carbone SUN Dave...............Shaun Dooley SUN Father Michael.........James Quinn SUN Wes.............Warren Brown SUN Protestor...........Sian Breckin SUN Nell..............................Eleanor Samson SUN The Wesleyans............Isabelle Sykes & Dorothy Collins SUN Narrator............Maxine Peake SUN SUN Music........Paul Heaton & Jonny Lexus SUN Written and Directed by Tony Pitts SUN Produced by Sally Harrison SUN A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Nights of the Hunter b06mbns1 (Listen) SUN Crow Road SUN SUN Stories that dwell in the shadows. A set of SUN specially-commissioned tales about pursuers and the pursued. SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 3): Crow Road by Rebecca F. John. SUN 'They warned me nothing could survive on Crow Road.' A woman SUN flees from daily life and takes a house on the dark and SUN strange Crow Road. SUN SUN Rebecca F. John is from Pwll, a village on the South Wales SUN coast, and works as a Ski Instructor. Her short story, The SUN Dog Track was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of The Time SUN Being series in 2013. The Glove Maker's Numbers was SUN shortlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award in SUN 2015. Rebecca won the PEN International New Voices Award for SUN her story Moon Dog in October 2015. SUN SUN Writer: Rebecca F. John SUN Reader: Laura Rees SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Rebecca F John SUN Reader: Laura Rees SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06kh66k (Listen) SUN With violence escalating in recent weeks between Israelis SUN and Palestinians, the conflict is once again high on the SUN news agenda. Coverage of the story is always scrutinised SUN strongly and this week we'll hear from listeners who allege SUN biased reporting about both sides. But can such a SUN long-running and complex conflict be fairly covered in a SUN forty second news bulletin? Roger Bolton speaks to Kevin SUN Connolly, the BBC's Middle East Correspondent. SUN SUN When The Daily Mail's cartoonist Stanley "Mac" McMurtry SUN appeared on Midweek, he discussed the nature of modern SUN satire with Libby Purvis. But during a discussion about SUN political correctness, he used an outdated term to describe SUN ethnic minorities that some consider offensive. Should Libby SUN Purves have stepped in and corrected him on air? SUN SUN When Erica Jong was invited on to Woman's Hour, many SUN listeners expected a steamy listen. And the author did not SUN disappoint. Presenter Jane Garvey's attempt's to reel it in SUN were in vain, so was it a little too much for a morning SUN during half term? Listeners didn't seem to think so. Roger SUN speaks to Jane Garvey about a truly memorable interview and SUN how you know when you've stepped over the line. SUN SUN And last week Radio Solent broadcast an item about love in SUN later life, and a lonely 95 year old local man, Bill Palmer, SUN was one of those to call in. Within an hour of the call, SUN Bill was in the studio, speaking directly to Solent's SUN listeners. His story of elderly isolation touched many - it SUN spread online and quickly went global. Roger speaks to Chris SUN Harris, the executive producer on the day, and Chris Osborn, SUN one of those who called in. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06kh66d (Listen) SUN Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, SUN Maureen O'Hara SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN Lisa Jardine CBE SUN SUN Born 12 April 1944; died 25 October 2015 aged 71 SUN SUN Ronnie Massarella SUN Born 23 July 1923; died 18 October 2015 aged 92 SUN SUN Philip French SUN SUN Born 28 August 1933; died 27 October 2015 aged 82 SUN SUN Maureen O’Hara SUN Born 17 August 1920; died 24 October 2015 aged 95 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06l1zxh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06lt1ml (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06kbm04 (Listen) SUN Killing Cows SUN SUN Carnivore and steak-lover Jo Fidgen attempts to work out SUN whether killing cows for food can be morally justified SUN SUN Many meat eaters believe animal suffering should be avoided. SUN They buy higher welfare products or free range eggs and hope SUN the animal they plan to eat has had a good life and a SUN painless death. But if animal suffering matters, surely SUN animal death does too? SUN SUN Omnivorous Jo Fidgen explores the ethics of killing cows for SUN food. She discusses cow psychology, fart spray and SUN cannibalism with leading philosophers like Peter Singer and SUN Jeff MacMahan. And she tests her own intuitions about meat SUN eating as she looks a bullock in the eye before picking up SUN some of his his minced and butchered body a few weeks later. SUN And eating it. SUN SUN While on this ethical journey Jo confronts big questions SUN about where morals come from, what is bad about killing SUN humans and how we decide what beings are worthy of our moral SUN attention. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06lsxdj (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06mbqcg (Listen) SUN Andrew Gimson looks at how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06kgvc8 (Listen) SUN Brief Encounter SUN SUN To mark the 70th anniversary of Brief Encounter, Francine SUN Stock asks why it still makes grown men and women weep SUN despite the restrained passions, clipped accents and various SUN parodies. She enlists the help of fans Moira Buffini, SUN Matthew Sweet, Thomas Dixon, Neil Brand and Antonia Quirke. SUN SUN Be transported back to the time of Brief Encounter with BFI SUN LOVE SUN Dates and locations of The Big LOVE Tea Dances SUN here SUN SUN Ronald Neame at his Hollywood house in 2006 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Moira Buffini SUN Interviewed Guest: Matthew Sweet SUN Interviewed Guest: Thomas Dixon SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06lt13f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06mbsb5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06kdyw3 (Listen) MON Ambivalent atheism; Neoliberalism and old age MON MON Ambivalent atheism: Laurie Taylor talks to Lois Lee, MON Research Associate with the Institute of Advanced Studies at MON University College, London, and author of a study of non MON religious people. 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MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06lt13c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06mbsc6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06mbscd (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06mbscj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06mbscn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06nwwrl (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father MON Tim Byron. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06mbymw (Listen) MON Food waste, Turkeys, Rural help MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06mbscv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkym5 (Listen) MON Blue-Footed Booby MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Galapagos Islands MON blue-footed booby. Far off the Ecuador coastline the MON Galapagos Archipelago is home to a strange courtship dance MON and display of the male blue-footed booby and his large MON bright blue webbed feet. The intensity of the male's blue MON feet is viewed by the female as a sign of fitness and so he MON holds them up for inspection as he struts in front of her. MON She joins in, shadowing his actions. As the pair raise and MON lower their feet with exaggerated slow movements, they point MON their bills sky-wards while spreading their wings, raising MON their tails and calling. MON MON Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Christophe Courteau / MON naturepl.com. MON N MON PL Ref 01126446 MON © Christophe Courteau / naturepl.com. MON MON 06:00 Today b06mc8j7 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06mc8j9 (Listen) MON Embracing Failure and Uncertainty MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses the importance of MON uncertainty and failure. The former head of the European MON Research Council Helga Nowotny argues research is fed by MON uncertainty and that any form of scientific inquiry may MON produce results that are ambiguous. She criticises policy MON makers for focusing on easy short-term solutions, but the MON former conservative MP and Minister for Universities and MON Science, David Willetts, understands the difficulty for MON governments in dealing with uncertainty. In his role at the MON think tank Resolution Foundation he's attempting to use MON analytical research to improve policy on living standards. MON Matthew Syed examines how a positive attitude to failure can MON lead to success in areas as diverse as sport, business, MON politics and healthcare. The failure of governments to come MON to an agreement on climate change will be discussed next MON month at a UN conference in Paris and Oliver Morton looks at MON whether the radical, yet uncertain, strategies of MON geo-engineering are the answer. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Helga Nowotny MON Interviewed Guest: David Willetts MON Interviewed Guest: Matthew Syed MON Interviewed Guest: Oliver Morton MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06mc8jf (Listen) MON Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Childhood MON MON Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate MON biography of Charlotte Bronte, one of the nation's greatest MON novelists. This vivid and complex portrait is published MON ahead of the two hundredth anniversary of the writer's birth MON in April 2016. MON MON The events of Charlotte Bronte's life - her motherless MON childhood on the Yorkshire moors, the early and tragic MON deaths of her beloved siblings and a great and unrequited MON love - all found their way into her novels. Claire Harman MON unravels the complexities of Bronte's life to reveal a MON fiercely passionate and determined woman who gave us some of MON our best loved novels and heroines, most famously Jane Eyre. MON MON Claire Harman is an acclaimed and award winning biographer. MON Her books include Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney, MON Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane's Fame which tells the story MON of Jane Austen's renown. MON MON Hattie Morahan is an award winning actress of the stage and MON screen and has appeared in television dramas including, MON Sense and Sensibility, Lark Rise to Candleford and The MON Outcast. She won Best Actress at the 2012 Evening Standard MON Awards and the 2012 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for her MON performance as Nora in The Doll's House. MON MON Abridged by Julian Wilkinson MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hattie Morahan MON Author: Claire Harman MON Abridger: Julian Wilkinson MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06mc8jp (Listen) MON Winner of the Best of the Best of the Baileys Women's Prize MON for Fiction MON 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 b06mc8jr (Listen) MON Writing the Century: The View from the Windows, An Enlarged MON Heart MON MON The View from the Windows MON dramatized by Bethan Roberts. MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people. MON MON It's 1954 and the avant-garde commercial artist Monica MON Rawlins finds herself alone, in the middle-of-nowhere rural MON Cardiganshire, breeding geese. How has her life come to MON this? MON MON A heart-warming drama about unrequited love, unfulfilled MON dreams, art and poultry keeping. MON MON Directed by Helen Perry MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production MON MON Monica Dolan is best known for her BAFTA award winning MON portrayal of Rosemary West in ITV's Appropriate Adult, MON alongside her roles in the BBC comedy W1A, and TV dramas The MON Casual Vacancy and Tipping the Velvet. MON MON Credits MON Monica Rawlins: Monica Dolan MON Stuart Rawlins: Robert Blythe MON Tom Evans: Julian Lewis Jones MON Writer: Bethan Roberts MON Director: Helen Perry MON MON 11:00 The Invention of... b06kndlx (Listen) MON France, Joan of Arc MON MON On a bridge at Montereau in northern France, two warring MON groups met to resolve their differences. Then in a moment MON straight out of Game of Thrones, supporters of one group MON struck the leader of the other full in the face with an axe. MON The kingdom was convulsed by civil war, its very existence MON under threat. Just four years earlier, at Agincourt, the MON English had won a famous victory - now the way lay open for MON the English king, Henry V, to claim all France as his own. MON And it was the murder on the bridge that made this possible. MON In later years, holding up the dead man's skull, a guide MON used to tell his audience, "Through this hole the English MON entered France." MON MON In the first Invention of France, presenter Misha Glenny MON explores a crucial period in history, when France faced MON extinction ... until the arrival of Joan of Arc. With MON compelling contributions from Helen Castor, Anne Curry, the MON French ambassador in London Sylvie Bermann, Desmond Seward MON and Professor Francoise Michaud-Frejaville. MON MON "This is the territory that in all these Invention MON programmes - about Germany, Italy, Spain and Brazil - we MON love to explore. How did these countries attain the shape MON and character they have today. In France they like to talk MON about l'hexagone, the hexagon; and if you look on the map MON that is exactly how modern France appears. But there was MON nothing inevitable about this strong, sturdy shape." Misha MON Glenny MON MON Future programmes focus on Maximilien Robespierre and MON Napoleon III, le petit Napoleon. MON MON The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Dilemma b01r0h4y (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the MON moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of MON finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on MON their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was MON asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi MON Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that MON once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if MON he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, MON Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) MON MON As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also MON features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience MON Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience MON may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates MON a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the MON others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, MON where each panellist is given an indefensible action that MON they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own MON Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, MON each one following on from the last as they burrow their way MON deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of MON grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers MON binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a MON swan?". MON MON This week's show sees comedian Dave Gorman cheating higher, MON faster and stronger; journalist Anita Anand deal with an MON unexpected guest; creator of Bleak Expectations Mark Evans MON getting a hand in the bush (but no birds); and comedian MON Jenny Eclair embrace dating in the digital age. MON MON The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle MON Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06mbsd9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Why Factor b06n6dxf (Listen) MON Series 2, Nostalgia MON MON What is the feeling of nostalgia that so many people MON experience? Where does it come from, what does it mean and MON why are we more nostalgic on cold days? Mike Williams speaks MON to people who know about it and people who've experienced MON nostalgia. MON MON Presenter: Mike Williams MON Producer: Ben Crighton MON Editor: Jeremy Skeet. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06n6wk7 (Listen) MON EON, Disability and Crisps MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06mbsdt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06mcjrr (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Voices of the First World War b06kndm1 (Listen) MON Home MON MON Before the last survivors of the First World War passed MON away, the memories of many of those who fought it were MON captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great MON detail as though it were yesterday the conditions of the MON trenches, the brutality of the battlefield, the experience MON of seeing their first casualty and hearing their first MON shell, their daily and nightly routines, and their MON psychological state in the face of so much trauma. The MON Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major oral history MON resource of remarkable recordings made in the 1980s and MON early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the conflict. MON The interviews were done not for immediate use or broadcast, MON but because it was felt that this diminishing resource, that MON could never be replenished, would be of unique value in the MON future. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive MON featuring first hand recollections of the conflict a century MON ago are the interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The MON Great War', which vividly bring to life the human experience MON of those fighting and living through the war. In a unique MON partnership between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, MON the two sound archive collections are brought together for MON the first time in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First MON World War', a fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, MON broadcasts many of these recordings for the first time, and MON will run in short seasons throughout the commemorative MON period, tracking the course of the war. MON MON Presented by Dan Snow, this second series of programmes to MON be broadcast this year looks at the events of 1915, MON including veterans' memories of their first trips home on MON leave, the rise of U-Boat attacks, the disastrous Battle of MON Loos, and the experiences of those fighting on the Eastern MON Front as the war expanded, in Salonika and Mesopotamia. MON MON The first programme looks at the experiences of soldiers who MON travelled home from the Western Front on leave for an MON all-too-brief few days in 1915. They returned to baths and MON clean bed linen, loved ones unable to comprehend their MON experiences on the battlefield, and communities longing for MON news of their sons. For Kitty Eckersley, whose young husband MON returned home for a few days in early 1915, this would be MON the last time she saw him. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06mblh1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06mc9xc (Listen) MON Louis B Mayer and the Bolshevik Beast MON MON by Stephen Sheridan MON MON Director ..... Sally Avens MON MON A comic re-imagining of the 1934 Gubernatorial campaign in MON California when socialist writer Upton Sinclair stood for MON election under the slogan End Poverty in California. Movie MON Mogul Mayer was determined to stop him and began a battle of MON political mudslinging the like of which had never been seen MON before. MON MON Credits MON Louis B Mayer: Toby Jones MON Upton Sinclair: Colin Stinton MON Glick: Ben Lloyd-Hughes MON Thalberg: Chris Pavlo MON Frank Merriam: Sam Dale MON Craig Sinclair: Jessica Turner MON Franklin D Roosevelt: David Hounslow MON Felix: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Director: Sally Avens MON Writer: Stephen Sheridan MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06mc9xf (Listen) MON Programme 3, 2015 MON MON (3/12) MON If Darlington is worth 550, why would Manchester be worth MON twenty times as much as Liverpool - and why is Motherwell MON worth Manchester and Liverpool added together? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe welcomes teams from the South of England and MON Northern Ireland this week, clashing for the first time in MON the current series. This year the South of England is MON represented by the author and Independent columnist Marcus MON Berkmann and the science writer Simon Singh. Playing for MON Northern Ireland are the writer Polly Devlin and the MON historian and commentator Brian Feeney. MON MON They'll need to muster all of their arcane general knowledge MON and powers of lateral thinking, to tackle RBQ's trademark MON cryptic questions. MON As always the programme includes question ideas suggested by MON listeners - and Tom will be revealing the answer to the MON teaser he set at the end of the previous edition. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06ltb5d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Taking Art to the People b06mccpr (Listen) MON Michael Symmons Roberts on the extraordinary vision of MON Thomas Horsfall, who set out to transform the lives of those MON in the poorest parts of 19th Century Manchester through art. MON MON Manchester in the 19th Century was the archetypal industrial MON city, creating huge amounts of wealth but also containing MON areas where workers and their families faced living MON conditions that would have been unimaginable before the MON Second World War. MON MON Among the very poorest areas was Ancoats and the idea of MON creating an Art Museum there in a bid to transform the lives MON of those living nearby was, for its time, extremely radical. MON But that's what philanthropist Thomas Horsfall did, even MON though his mentor John Ruskin advised him not to bother, MON believing Manchester to be too far gone on its road to an MON industrial dystopia. Horsfall soldiered on regardless and MON not only created the Museum, allowing locals the chance to MON see prints by the likes of J.M.W. Turner, but also MON successfully campaigned to change the law to allow children MON to leave school premises in order to visit galleries, MON museums and places of historical interest as part of their MON education. MON MON As Michael Symmons Roberts discovers, the Museum lasted into MON the middle of the 20th Century, when post-war planners with MON a zeal for modernity razed it to the ground. MON MON Now though, a new arts project based in the same area is MON using the spirit of Horsefall and his vision as the MON inspiration for a scheme aimed at transforming the lives of MON young people with mental health issues through their contact MON and participation in art. Michael meets some of those MON involved and also explores the city's current museums and MON archives to find clues about the life and work of the MON neglected visionary, Thomas Horsfall. MON MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b06mccpw (Listen) MON Series 8, Mind MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b06mccq0 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06mbsfd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b06mccq7 (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 5 MON MON Durdle Dor, Back to the Future, and The First Cheque I Ever MON Wrote are among the topics on the cards as Julian Clary, MON Susan Calman, Josie Lawrence & Paul Merton take on the Just MON a Minute challenge. Just how hard is it to speak for 60 MON seconds on a given topic without deviation, hesitation or MON repetition? Nicholas Parsons adjudicates. Hayley Sterling MON blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Julian Clary MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06mcdtb (Listen) MON Clarrie is taken on a detour, and Helen is put on the spot. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06nnrf3 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06mc8jr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Who Runs Labour? b06nr8vp (Listen) MON The Labour party has suffered a bad general election defeat MON and has swung to the left, leaving many on the right of the MON party in despair. MON MON Sound familiar? In 1981 the Labour Party was at war with MON itself. Defeated two years earlier by Margaret Thatcher, a MON sometimes vicious conflict had broken out between the Left MON and the Right. At stake was who should have the decisive say MON in party policy - constituency parties and the trade unions MON or elected MPs, Labour's National Executive and the Shadow MON Cabinet. MON MON To those opposed to the left, it was about whether Labour MON wished to be a party of protest or of power. To the left it MON was about whether the party was to be a truly socialist one. MON MON The argument came to a head in the battle for the deputy MON leadership of the party between Tony Benn and Denis Healey. MON MON After a bloody campaign, with shouts of betrayal and MON allegations of intimidation in which Healey accused Benn of MON lying, the result could hardly have been closer. Healey won MON by less than one per cent. MON MON Today, Jeremy Corbyn, one of Tony Benn's ardent supporters, MON has succeeded where his mentor failed and become Labour MON leader. Surrounded by some colleagues from that earlier MON campaign, he intends to move the party irreversibly to the MON left. Is another civil war about to begin? MON MON Roger Bolton, who witnessed some of the key events of the MON 1980s as Editor of Panorama, revisits that ferocious battle MON for the deputy leadership with some of those involved, MON including Neil Kinnock, Ken Livingstone and Shirley MON Williams, as well as key aides of Benn and Healey. MON MON Along with some of today's Labour members of Parliament, he MON considers whether the battle for control of the Party could MON descend into another civil war. MON MON Producer: Kate Dixon MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06mcfdp (Listen) MON Currencies and Countries MON MON Looking at the UK, reunified Germany and the European Union, MON the former Conservative Cabinet Minister John Redwood MP MON asks how successful a currency union can be without MON political union behind it. MON After the travails of the eurozone in the wake of Irish, MON Portuguese, Spanish and - above all - Greek woes, John MON Redwood argues that the pressure is growing on the countries MON which use the euro to move closer politically. But not MON everyone in those countries agrees, as he discovers. MON Meanwhile, in the UK, leading Scottish Nationalists continue MON to make the argument for Scotland to become independent MON while retaining the pound. But how sustainable is this MON position? And what are the lessons of the decision by the MON German government to bring together the old East and West MON using a currency union that valued both countries' MON currencies at the same rate despite a huge gap in the MON productivity between the two? MON MON Producer: Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9l9z (Listen) MON Beetles MON MON Beetles, in the group of insects known as Coleoptera or MON 'sheathed wing', make up roughly one quarter of all known MON living species on the planet, that's about 400,000 species. MON It's perhaps not surprising that beetles are at the heart of MON the many ways we take inspiration from nature. MON MON "Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, MON Your house is all burned and your children are gone....." MON MON This nursery rhyme is one of many across Europe that MON demonstrates our close relationship with ladybirds. Peter MON Marren, leading wildlife author, explains the story behind MON the rhyme and why the ladybird in folklore is seen as 'Our MON Lady's Bird'. The beetles collection at the Natural History MON Museum reveals the gold and silver beetles of the Cloud MON Forests of Costa Rica collected by Walter Rothschild in MON 1894. These beetles have evolved to evade predators with MON wing covers that reflect light and mimic drops of rain. MON Scarab beetles found in Ancient Egypt had a huge impact on MON both the ecology and culture of the region and we find out MON why they were revered as sacred. MON MON In many cultures across the world, from Asia and India to MON the Americas, beetle wings have been gathered for centuries MON and crafted into textiles and jewellery. In the Amazon MON region, the Shaur tribe incorporated beetle wings into MON ceremonial dress to enhance their prowess as warriors. MON With poetry by John Clare and a nursery rhyme written by MON A.A. Milne, we celebrate the beetle and the role it plays as MON both an exotic and mundane creature whose biology is so MON extraordinary that some scientists now wish to copy it. The MON new science of Biomimetics is evolving fast and beetles, MON with all their varied forms and irresistible structural MON colours, may yet prove as invaluable in our future as they MON have been in our past. MON MON Max Barclay MON Max Barclay is an entomologist and the Collection Manager MON for beetles at the MON Natural History Museum MON London. He manages the 10 million specimen collection, which MON dates back to the voyages of Charles Darwin, Captain Cook MON and beyond and is visited by hundreds of external scientists MON per year. He has had work published in over 50 scientific MON papers and manages our team of beetle curators. MON A life-long naturalist, he began his career as a volunteer MON at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He believes in MON maintaining the relevance of natural history and in MON enthusing the next generation to understand and engage with MON the natural world. MON MON Andrew Parker MON Dr Andrew Parker is a Research Fellow at the MON Natural History Museum, London MON His main research involves biomimetics - learning from MON nature to improve industrial products and businesses. MON At the Museum he specialises in colour, particularly MON structural colour, and water management surfaces in nature. MON He is also interested in the origin and evolution of vision MON and visual systems, with special reference to the Cambrian MON period. Andrew’s taxonomic interest lies with Myodocopa MON ostracods ("seed-shrimps"). MON Andrew has a PhD from Macquarie University, Australia and is MON an Honorary Research Fellow at the Green Templeton College, MON University of Oxford. MON MON Dr Michael Bartl MON Dr Michael Bartl is an associate professor of materials and MON physical chemistry, and an adjunct professor of physics at MON the University of Utah. He is the scientific co-founder of MON Navillum Nanotechnologies MON and a Deputy Editor for MON Scripta Materialia MON He is beginning a new role as the executive director of the MON Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Sciences at the MON University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bartl was the MON recipient of a “DuPont Young Professorship”, and was named a MON “Brilliant 10” researcher by Popular Science magazine in MON 2010 and a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for MON Science Advancement in 2013. MON MON Joanna Hardy MON Joanna Hardy is an independent fine jewellery consultant, MON conducting masterclasses and lectures worldwide. She is a MON published author with her books ‘Collect Contemporary MON Jewelry‘, and ‘Emerald’ both published by Thames and Hudson MON and is a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph Luxury MON Magazine. MON She curates Contemporary Jewellery selling exhibitions, is MON an accredited MON NADFAS MON lecturer, a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of MON the Goldsmiths Hall, a Fellow of the MON Royal Society of Arts MON and is a regular jewellery specialist on the MON BBC Antiques Roadshow MON MON MON Dr Richard Hofstetter MON Dr Richard Hofstetter is an Associate Professor at Northern MON Arizona University. His research focuses on forest health MON issues related to insects, plant-insect interactions, MON predator-prey dynamics, biological control, bark beetle MON biology, bioacoustics, and mutualistic interactions. MON In North American Forests, bark beetles chew through a MON hundred million acres of forests, eventually killing the MON trees. On hearing a sound recording of bark beetles inside a MON tree, Dr Hofstetter was inspired to see if MON playing the sound recording could stop beetles causing such MON devastation to the trees MON . MON MON Peter Marren MON Peter Marren is a writer, one-time journalist and all-round MON naturalist. His book MON The New Naturalists MON won the silver medal of the MON Society of the History of Natural History MON and he is the author of the New Naturalist conservation MON volume, simply titled MON Nature Conservation MON His latest book, MON Rainbow Dust MON about butterflies, is to be published next spring. MON He also writes obituaries for MON the Independent MON conservation news for MON Whitaker’s Almanack MON formerly has a column in MON The Countryman MON and is regular contributor to MON British Wildlife MON which includes his famous column of biting wit, Twitcher in MON the Swamp. MON MON Professor Victoria Rivers MON Professor Victoria Rivers is Professor Emerita in Design at MON the University of California, Davis. MON She is engaged in textiles research ranging from the MON producing and exhibiting of dyed and embellished textile MON artworks to researching and publishing subjects on South and MON Southeast Asian textiles, to curating exhibitions. MON She has been the recipient of an MON NEA Visual Artist’s Fellowship MON a Council for the International Exchange of Scholars MON Indo-American Fellowship for research in India, and was a MON cultural ambassador through the US.Department of State, MON Artists in the Embassies program in conjunction with her MON work in an exhibition at the US Embassy in Accra, Ghana, MON where she lectured and taught workshops in November 2003. MON MON Dr Tom Turpin MON Dr Tom Turpin is a Professor of Entomology at Purdue MON University, Indiana. He has taught a variety of courses from MON pest management to insects in prose and poetry and theatre. MON He started the MON Bug Bowl at Purdue University MON and an insect knowledge quiz bowl for students called MON the Linnaean Games. He writes a regular popular column on MON insects for newspapers entitled “On 6 Legs”, MON available as a podcast MON and transcription, and is the author of two popular books MON and one textbook on insects. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06mc8j9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06mbshd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06mcjrw (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06mv656 (Listen) MON Trigger Mortis, Episode 6 MON MON It's 1957 and James Bond, agent 007, has only just survived MON his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side MON is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. MON MON Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a MON deadly struggle for technological superiority in the Space MON Race. And SMERSH is back. MON MON The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a MON Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But MON it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events MON take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious MON meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean MON millionaire, Sin Jai-Seong. MON MON Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with MON implications that could change the world. Thrown together MON with American agent Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that MON will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax. MON MON Trigger Mortis is the first James Bond novel to feature MON previously unseen Ian Fleming material. MON MON Read by Rupert Penry-Jones MON Written by Anthony Horowitz, with original material by Ian MON Fleming MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON MON Producer/Director: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Rupert Penry-Jones MON Author: Anthony Horowitz MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Director: Joanna Green MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06kcbw4 (Listen) MON Language Evolution: A Gene for Language? MON MON How come humans learn to speak and use language in MON extraordinarily sophisticated ways, without any conscious MON effort, while other animals do not? Recent research suggests MON that the answer lies, in part, in our genes. And three MON generations of a British family held the key to discovering MON which gene. MON MON Neuroscientist Dr Frederique Liegeois joins Michael Rosen MON and Dr Laura Wright to discuss the genetic basis of MON language. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06mcjs4 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06mbslx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06mc8jf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06mbslz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06mbsm1 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06mbsm3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06mbsm7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06nx0nh (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father TUE Tim Byron. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06md68t (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkyn2 (Listen) TUE Snow Goose TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the snow goose found breeding TUE across Canada and Alaska. Although most snow geese are TUE all-white with black wing-tips, some known as blue geese are TUE blue-ish grey with white heads. Snow geese breed in the TUE tundra region with goslings hatching at a time to make the TUE most of rich supply of insect larvae and berries in the TUE short Arctic summer. As autumn approaches though, the geese TUE depart and head south before temperatures plummet, and the TUE tundra becomes sealed by snow and ice. As they head for TUE areas rich in grain and nutritious roots hundreds of TUE thousands of snow geese fill the sky with their urgent TUE clamour providing one of the greatest wildfowl spectacles in TUE the world. TUE TUE Snow goose (Chen caerulescens / Anser caerulescens) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Christophe Courteau / TUE naturepl.com. TUE N TUE PL Ref 01125123 TUE © Christophe Courteau / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06mdbnm (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b06mdbnq (Listen) TUE Patrick Vallance TUE TUE Patrick Vallance is something of a rare breed: a game-keeper TUE turned poacher; an academic who's moved over into industry. TUE And not just any industry, but the pharmaceutical industry. TUE TUE At the time, Patrick Vallance was Professor of Clinical TUE Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Medicine at TUE University College London. A pioneer of research into some TUE of the body's key regulatory systems, he had also been TUE publicly critical of BIG Pharma for "funding studies more TUE helpful to marketing than to advancing clinical care". So TUE what made him go over to "the other side"? TUE TUE His involvement with the industry was limited until one TUE evening in 2006 when he was asked a question over a dinner, TUE a question that would be pivotal to his life and career. TUE TUE Today, Patrick is head of research and development at TUE GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical TUE companies with annual revenues in excess of 20 billion TUE pounds and nearly a hundred thousand employees worldwide. TUE Whilst GSK is no stranger to scandal, since he joined, TUE Patrick has attempted to tackle the culture of secrecy that TUE pervades the industry. He's since reshaped the way GSK TUE carries out its research and has been behind several radical TUE initiatives in global healthcare, to produce a more TUE collaborative approach to tackling major diseases like TUE malaria. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06mdbnt (Listen) TUE Bel Mooney talks to Penelope Lively TUE TUE Bel Mooney talks to author Penelope Lively about the nature TUE of home. Is it an idea as much as a place? TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06nbylv (Listen) TUE Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Roe Head School TUE TUE Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate TUE portrait of Charlotte Bronte. The biography of one of our TUE greatest novelists looks ahead to the two hundredth TUE anniversary of her birth in April 2016. Today, a decision to TUE write to the poet laureate, Robert Southey, yields a TUE surprising response. Meanwhile, the fourteen year old TUE Charlotte begins life at Roe Head School as a pupil before TUE returning as an intransigent teacher. TUE TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hattie Morahan TUE Author: Claire Harman TUE Abridger: Julian Wilkinson TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06mdbp0 (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 b06mdbp2 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: The View from the Windows, The Lame TUE Gosling TUE TUE The View from the Windows TUE dramatized by Bethan Roberts. TUE TUE The series which explores the 20th century through the TUE diaries and correspondence of real people. TUE TUE It's 1954 and the avant-garde commercial artist Monica TUE Rawlins finds herself alone, in the middle-of-nowhere rural TUE Cardiganshire, breeding geese. How has her life come to TUE this? TUE A heart-warming drama about unrequited love, unfulfilled TUE dreams, art and poultry keeping. TUE TUE Having endured an awful spring Monica hopes a visit from her TUE nephew, the artist Geoffrey Rawlins, will bring some TUE reprieve. Yet memories of the past are never far from her TUE mind. Whilst in the present one very special gosling demands TUE more attention than Monica can afford to give. TUE TUE Directed by Helen Perry TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Monica Rawlins: Monica Dolan TUE Geoffrey Rawlins: Ben Addis TUE Mrs Barry: Eiry Thomas TUE Writer: Bethan Roberts TUE Director: Helen Perry TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9lgh (Listen) TUE Cockroach TUE TUE For as long as humans have been around, we've had the TUE cockroach as an uninvited house guest. No other TUE creepy-crawly has the power to elicit such strong feelings: TUE the horror of uncleanliness and the involuntary shudder that TUE only a scuttling cockroach can bring, as it vanishes behind TUE the bread bin. TUE TUE But they've entered our imaginations as well as our living TUE spaces. We may have given the cockroach its dark reputation, TUE but this insect is a survivor. Disgusting and revolting are TUE some of the more polite descriptions we use for cockroaches. TUE Is that because we associate them with squalor and poor TUE hygiene, or because they hold a mirror up to the less TUE savoury side of human nature? TUE TUE But there is a different side to this great survivor. TUE Probably the most famous cockroach in literature is Franz TUE Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis. Films such as Men in TUE Black use the cockroach as a metaphor for alien arrivals. TUE The cockroach can feed our imagination in other ways too. TUE Its reputation can also be turned inward to explore TUE humanity, satirically described by Archy the cockroach early TUE last Century. It's no wonder then that in Australia, TUE attempts were made to bring the worlds biggest cockroach to TUE the tourism trail. TUE TUE Dr George Beccaloni TUE Dr George Beccaloni is curator of the TUE Natural History Museum TUE London’s collection of cockroaches, termites, praying TUE mantids, earwigs, ice crawlers, stick insects, grasshoppers, TUE crickets and bush crickets. He also curates the historic TUE A. R. Wallace Insect Collection TUE - a grand total of about 790,000 specimens both dry pinned TUE and in spirit. TUE In 1999, he set up the TUE A.R. Wallace Memorial Fund TUE and in 2002 he played a key role in helping the Natural TUE History Museum’s library acquire the world's largest and TUE most important collection of Wallace’s manuscripts, books TUE and insect specimens from his grandsons, made up of more TUE than 6,000 items. He is also the director of the TUE Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project TUE TUE Jilly Goolden TUE Jilly Goolden presented the television series Food & TUE Drink for nearly two decades and became famous as the most TUE widely-known wine expert in the UK. TUE A new generation took to her after her stint in the jungle TUE for ITV’s TUE I’m A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here! TUE She also presented BBC One's TUE The Great Antiques Hunt TUE and Going, Going, Gone, and featured as a regular presenter TUE on the BBC's Holiday programme. TUE TUE Professor Jeff Lockwood TUE Professor Jeff Lockwood began his career as an insect TUE ecologist at the University of Wyoming in 1986. But over TUE the course of 20 years he metamorphosed into a Professor of TUE Natural Sciences & Humanities, working in the Philosophy and TUE Creative Writing departments. TUE He teaches courses in natural resource ethics, environmental TUE justice and the philosophy of ecology, along with creative TUE non-fiction writing workshops. He is the author of TUE award-winning books including TUE The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe and Love Insects TUE TUE Dr Tom Turpin TUE Dr Tom Turpin is a Professor of Entomology at Purdue TUE University, Indiana. He has taught a variety of courses from TUE pest management to insects in prose and poetry and theatre. TUE He started the TUE Bug Bowl at Purdue University TUE and an insect knowledge quiz bowl for students called TUE the Linnaean Games. He writes a regular popular column on TUE insects for newspapers entitled “On 6 Legs”, TUE available as a podcast TUE and transcription, and is the author of two popular books TUE and one textbook on insects. TUE TUE Paul Williams TUE Paul Williams is a producer and director at the BBC Natural TUE History Unit. Some of his most exciting encounters include TUE filming rare 20 inch long leeches on Mount Kinabalu in TUE Borneo, joining conservationists as they rescued orangutan TUE in Sumatra, and exploring the Naica cave, ‘the deadliest TUE place on earth’ - home to the world’s biggest crystals. TUE Before joining the BBC Natural History Unit Paul studied TUE palaeontology at the Natural History Museum in London TUE following his childhood obsession for all things TUE prehistoric. TUE TUE Dr Susan Villarreal TUE Dr Susan Villarreal is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell TUE University, where she earned her doctoral degree in TUE Entomology. At Cornell she teaches a class called “Insects TUE in Science Fiction and Popular Culture.” TUE In her free time, she runs her website TUE Insect Interviews TUE which is focused on educating children about insect biology TUE and behavior through humorous one-on-one interviews with the TUE bugs themselves. TUE TUE TUE 11:30 On the Road b06mfqc8 (Listen) TUE With Maddy Prior and Rose Kemp - Part 1 TUE TUE Maddy Prior has been the lead singer of Steeleye Span since TUE they formed in 1969. Since then the band has had dozens of TUE members, some have left for good, some have left and TUE re-joined, Maddy herself, who is still with Steeleye, TUE describes it as a 'bus' with people jumping on and off. TUE TUE In the first of two programmes Maddy and her daughter Rose TUE Kemp discuss how music has taken them in different TUE directions. TUE TUE Whereas Maddy is at the very heart of the folk and TUE traditional music establishment, Rose is a major artist in TUE the doom and drone metal scene, the slower heavier take on TUE heavy metal. Together Maddy and Rose discuss their music and TUE how it was they have followed such different musical paths. TUE TUE As part of this two part series Rose and Maddy have composed TUE and recorded brand new, original songs alongside artists, TUE especially selected by the other. TUE TUE Rose has linked up with Bellowhead front man Jon Boden to TUE record a song she has written to explore the difficult TUE subject of rape in marriage while Maddy collaborated with TUE Dylan Carlson, part of the Seattle music scene and head of TUE the metal band Earth. TUE TUE Long standing fans of Maddy's and Steeleye will definitely TUE be surprised at the way she uses her famous voice to fit the TUE guitars of Carlson's arrangement. TUE TUE Along the way, Rose and Maddy come together to discuss the TUE world of music, feminism and misogyny in the folk world, TUE spirituality, and how they view the world and their TUE relationship through their different musical styles. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06mbsmm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Why Factor b06n6f6f (Listen) TUE Series 2, Dolls TUE TUE Mike Williams ponders why dolls are so universally popular. TUE He discovers that it's not only girls who like dolls, as is TUE commonly assumed. He speaks to people who've studied why TUE dolls are such common playthings and to people who collect TUE them. TUE TUE Presenter: Mike Williams TUE Producer: Hannah Moore TUE Editor: Andrew Smith. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06mfqcb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06mbsmt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06mysy6 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Voices of the First World War b06knf2z (Listen) TUE U-Boats TUE TUE Before the last survivors of the First World War passed TUE away, the memories of many of those who fought it were TUE captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great TUE detail as though it were yesterday the conditions of the TUE trenches, the brutality of the battlefield, the experience TUE of seeing their first casualty and hearing their first TUE shell, their daily and nightly routines, and their TUE psychological state in the face of so much trauma. The TUE Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major oral history TUE resource of remarkable recordings made in the 1980s and TUE early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the conflict. TUE The interviews were done not for immediate use or broadcast, TUE but because it was felt that this diminishing resource, that TUE could never be replenished, would be of unique value in the TUE future. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive TUE featuring first hand recollections of the conflict a century TUE ago are the interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The TUE Great War', which vividly bring to life the human experience TUE of those fighting and living through the war. In a unique TUE partnership between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, TUE the two sound archive collections are brought together for TUE the first time in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First TUE World War', a fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, TUE broadcasts many of these recordings for the first time, and TUE will run in short seasons throughout the commemorative TUE period, tracking the course of the war. TUE TUE Presented by Dan Snow, the second five programmes to be TUE broadcast this year look at the events of 1915, including TUE veterans' memories of their first trips home on leave, the TUE rise of U-Boat attacks, the disastrous Battle of Loos, and TUE the experiences of those fighting on the Eastern Front as TUE the war expanded, in Salonika and Mesopotamia. TUE TUE In the second programme we hear the recollections of two TUE German Officers who served on U-Boats, one of whom, Martin TUE Niemoller, had become a Lutheran Pastor and leading voice in TUE warning against the dangers of political apathy by the time TUE of his contribution to the BBC Great War Series in 1964. And TUE Alice Drury, a survivor of the Lusitania, vividly recalls TUE its sinking by German torpedo in May 1915. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06mcdtb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03g9wxz (Listen) TUE The Wainwrights TUE TUE By Tom Wainwright. TUE TUE Anarchic comedy-drama. When farmer Barry changes radio TUE station and hears himself as the star of a daily soap drama TUE he fears for his sanity and grapples wildly with questions TUE of free will and identity. As the rest of the village turn TUE against him, he sets off on a quest to track down the TUE broadcaster responsible but finds himself falling further TUE into the wormhole. TUE TUE Sound design by Caleb Knightley TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE Tom Wainwright is a writer, performer and theatre-maker TUE living in Bristol. In 2011, Tom created the solo performance TUE Pedestrian, co-commissioned and produced by Bristol Old Vic TUE and Theatre Bristol. His play Muscle was produced by Bristol TUE Old Vic. Tom also wrote and performed in the sell-out BOV TUE Christmas sketch show Jesus Christ It's Christmas, plus Love TUE in Idleness and The Grill Chef. Nuclear Family has been TUE developed through Royal Court Young Writers Programme which TUE Tom took part in 2010. Banksy: The Room in the Elephant was TUE produced at Edinburgh Fringe 2013. This is Tom's first radio TUE drama. TUE TUE Credits TUE Barry: Joe Hall TUE Jack: Alex Tregear TUE Colin: Adam Gillen TUE Dave: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Sal: Carolyn Pickles TUE Bob: Sean Murray TUE Frank: John Norton TUE Stan: David Seddon TUE Bill: Arthur Hughes TUE Writer: Tom Wainwright TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b06mfs7k (Listen) TUE Series 8, Afterlife TUE TUE How imprisonment revealed an unlikely talent, a musical TUE story of what follows after a dust storm has passed and the TUE unexpected complications of standing still to watch the TUE seasons change. Josie Long hears stories of what follows TUE after the main event. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b06mfs7m (Listen) TUE River Quality TUE TUE Campaigners claim England's river life is under threat from TUE 'insidious' pollution, yet the Environment Agency says TUE rivers are at their healthiest in 20 years. Tom Heap visits TUE the River Itchen, in Hampshire, and the River Thames to TUE discover where the truth might lie. This is an important TUE moment for rivers, the next five year plan for improving TUE them is about to be published. The Government Minister for TUE the Natural Environment, Rory Stewart, tells Tom what his TUE priorities will be. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b06mfs7r (Listen) TUE Legal Aid Cuts: The Solicitors' Verdict TUE TUE Solicitors are in uproar about government changes to the TUE criminal legal aid system. Not only has the budget been TUE slashed by 17.5 per cent, but, in a recent tender process TUE the number of firms eligible to provide duty solicitors to TUE represent clients at police stations was reduced from 1600 TUE to little more than 500. The firms who lost out are bitterly TUE disappointed and there are fears that firms which were TUE successful will be over-stretched, meaning clients will TUE receive a reduced standard of service. TUE TUE In the week the new contracts are due to be signed, Joshua TUE Rozenberg goes to Nottingham to meet two solicitors - one, TUE whose bid for three new contracts was successful, the other TUE who got nothing. What is the future of their firms and how TUE well will clients be represented in the future? Both men TUE express similar reservations about the new pared-down TUE system. TUE TUE Also, Supreme Court judge Lord Carnwath discusses whether TUE the courts should play a role in arguments about climate TUE change. TUE TUE And with the EU referendum on the horizon, Dr Sylvia de Mars TUE of Newcastle University explains whether Britain would TUE simply be able to scrap EU laws should the public decides it TUE wants to leave. TUE TUE Producers: Keith Moore and Tim Mansel. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06mfsj2 (Listen) TUE Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Ann Cleeves TUE TUE Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and crime TUE writer Ann Cleeves, the author of the novels dramatised as TUE the TV detective series Vera, talk books with Harriett TUE Gilbert. Ann Cleeves chooses Alain-Fournier's romantic only TUE novel, The Lost Estate, or Le Grande Meaulnes. Krishnan TUE Guru-Murthy champions George Orwell's combination of TUE reportage and essay, The Road to Wigan Pier, and Harriett TUE talks about Joanna Rakoff's memoir My Salinger Year. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Krishnan Guru-Murthy TUE Interviewed Guest: Ann Cleeves TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06mysy9 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06mbsmy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 There Is No Escape b06mft8b (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, TUE whose feeble attempts to improve his lot invariably end with TUE him defeated. In Episode 4 Andrew's girlfriend announces TUE that she is pregnant and Andrew has to face one of the TUE biggest decisions of his life: should he stay or should he TUE go. Starring Andrew Lawrence and Diane Morgan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Andrew Lawrence TUE Actor: Diane Morgan TUE Writer: Andrew Lawrence TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06mfwcj (Listen) TUE David has a proposition for Ruth, and the Fairbrothers have TUE their work cut out. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06myt8s (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06mdbp2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06mfwcn (Listen) TUE How safe are we in the hands of locum staff at NHS TUE hospitals? The Government's crackdown on big fees charged by TUE agencies that hire them out has been making headlines, but TUE what's being done to ensure they are up to the job? TUE Allan Urry investigates recent cases which raise questions TUE about the quality of care delivered by some temporary staff. TUE Should an agency doctor have better assessed a poorly TUE surgical patient on his ward who died a short time later TUE from a post -operative bleed? The programme also asks how TUE well the agency sector is regulated following the revelation TUE that a partly-qualified doctor was able to treat more than TUE 3000 patients after lying about his qualifications. TUE Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06myt8y (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b06mfwcv (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06mdbnq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06mbsn2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06myt90 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06mfwd0 (Listen) TUE Trigger Mortis, Episode 7 TUE TUE It's 1957 and James Bond, agent 007, has only just survived TUE his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side TUE is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. TUE TUE Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a TUE deadly struggle for technological superiority in the Space TUE Race. And SMERSH is back. TUE TUE The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a TUE Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But TUE it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events TUE take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious TUE meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean TUE millionaire, Sin Jai-Seong. TUE TUE Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with TUE implications that could change the world. Thrown together TUE with American agent Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that TUE will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax. TUE TUE Trigger Mortis is the first James Bond novel to feature TUE previously unseen Ian Fleming material. TUE TUE Read by Rupert Penry-Jones TUE Written by Anthony Horowitz, with original material by Ian TUE Fleming TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE TUE Producer/Director: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Rupert Penry-Jones TUE Author: Anthony Horowitz TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Director: Joanna Green TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE 23:00 Charles Paris Mystery b01pg3qw (Listen) TUE An Amateur Corpse, Episode 4 TUE TUE by Jeremy Front TUE Based on the novel by Simon Brett. TUE TUE Charles closes in on the murderer of his old friend Hugo's TUE wife with help from both his wife and his mother. TUE TUE Charles ..... Bill Nighy TUE Frances ..... Suzanne Burden TUE Joan ..... Geraldine McEwan TUE Maurice ..... Jon Glover TUE Geoff ..... Patrick Brennan TUE Saskia ..... Christine Absalom TUE Hugo ..... Paul Ritter TUE Holly ..... Susie Ridell TUE TUE Director ...... Sally Avens TUE TUE Bill Nighy is back as Charles Paris, actor, alcoholic and TUE amateur sleuth. Charles is once again out of work an event TUE that is made worse by the fact that his mother (played by TUE Geraldine McEwen) has come to stay whilst recovering from an TUE operation;So when he bumps into old friend, Hugo, who offers TUE him the chance of some voiceover work Charles is doubly TUE happy; some money and a chance to get out of the house.But TUE when Charles finds Hugo's wife dead in their swimming pool TUE he becomes determined to prove Hugo innocent of her murder. TUE Maybe some of the members of Ellie's Amateur Dramatic group TUE will be able to help Charles uncover the truth. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06mfwd4 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06mbsqg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06nbylv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06mbsqn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06mbsqs (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06mbsqz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06mbsr1 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06nxx2s (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father WED Tim Byron. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06mfx4v (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkxpc (Listen) WED Resplendent Quetzal WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the resplendent quetzal of WED Guatemala. The image of resplendent quetzals are everywhere WED in Guatemala, but the source of their national emblem is now WED confined to the cloud forests of Central America. Its beauty WED has long entranced people, the male quetzal a shimmering WED emerald-green above and scarlet below. His outstanding WED features are the upper tail feathers which, longer than his WED entire body, extend into a train almost a metre in length, WED twisting like metallic ribbons as he flies through the tree WED canopy. Historically resplendent quetzals were considered WED sacred to the Mayans and Aztecs for their brilliant plumage, WED with the lavish crown of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma the WED Second, containing hundreds of individual quetzal tail - WED plumes. WED WED Resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Konrad Wothe / naturepl.com. WED N WED PL Ref 01390393 WED © Konrad Wothe / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b06mypgz (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06mg2tf (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06nbz4h (Listen) WED Charlotte Bronte: A Life, In a Strange Land WED WED Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate WED biography of Charlotte Bronte which looks ahead to the two WED hundredth anniversary, in April 2016 of one of our greatest WED novelists. Today, Charlotte and Emily Bronte travel to WED Brussels to attend school at the Pensionnat Heger. Here WED Charlotte is powerfully and hauntingly attracted to her WED charismatic tutor. WED WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Hattie Morahan WED Author: Claire Harman WED Abridger: Julian Wilkinson WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06myrjm (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06mg2tr (Listen) WED Writing the Century: The View from the Windows, Emotionally WED Unbuttoned WED WED The View from the Windows WED dramatised by Bethan Roberts. WED WED The series which explores the 20th century through the WED diaries and correspondence of real people. WED WED It's 1955 and the avant-garde commercial artist Monica WED Rawlins finds herself alone, in the middle-of-nowhere rural WED Cardiganshire, breeding geese. How has her life come to WED this? WED WED A heart-warming drama about unrequited love, unfulfilled WED dreams, art and poultry keeping. WED WED A trip to London offers Monica respite from the farm but not WED from memories of her ex-love. Meanwhile Stuart's declining WED health brings about a huge change back at Brynmeheryn. WED WED Directed by Helen Perry WED WED A BBC Cymru Wales production. WED WED Credits WED Monica Rawlins: Monica Dolan WED Marion: Eiry Thomas WED Tom Evans: Julian Lewis Jones WED Stuart Rawlins: Robert Blythe WED Writer: Bethan Roberts WED Director: Helen Perry WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06mg2ty (Listen) WED Kim and Luke - Really Good at Laughing WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and her WED nine year old son, sharing the joys and frustrations of life WED with his disabled twin; Another in the series that proves WED 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 Myanmar's Bright Young Stars b06mg2v6 (Listen) WED 45% of Myanmar's population is 25 or under, giving young WED adults a key role in the country's first open election in 25 WED years, to be held on 8th November. WED WED The BBC's Nomia Iqbal spends time with youth radio show Lin WED Lat Kyair Sin (LLKS or 'Bright Young Stars'). They're WED running an unprecedented young people's 'Question Time' WED event, putting the country's young voters face to face with WED politicians - including a candidate from the military-backed WED USDP government. It would have been unthinkable just a few WED years ago, and it's an important chapter in the country's WED ongoing shift from military rule to full democracy. WED WED 11:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics b06mg2vb (Listen) WED Tell Me a Story WED WED By Richard Katz, John Nicholson and Javier Marzan WED WED In ancient Persia, the new Queen cheats death by captivating WED the King with stories. For almost three years, she's kept WED the executioners waiting and now they're taking matters into WED their own hands by hatching a plot to kidnap her. WED WED In this new series the comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the WED roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and WED derail the plot of the book through their hapless WED buffoonery. WED WED Director . . . . . Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED Richard: Richard Katz WED The King: Javier Marzan WED John: John Nicholson WED Hayley: Hayley Carmichael WED Scheherazade: Sirine Saba WED Grand Vizier: Sam Dale WED Guard: Richard Pepple WED Guard: George Watkins WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: John Nicholson WED Writer: Richard Katz WED Writer: Javier Marzan WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06mbsrd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Why Factor b06n6fj0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Sad Music WED WED Helena Merriman asks why the sad music is often the most WED popular. She speaks to writers and musicians about a WED seemingly irresistible cultural phenomenon. Why do we love WED tales of heartbreak and melancholy set to slow, lilting WED melody? WED WED Presenter:Helena Merriman WED Producer:Helena Merriman WED Editor:Jeremy Skeet. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06myrk5 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06mbsrg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06myrk9 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Voices of the First World War b06kng0x (Listen) WED Battle of Loos WED WED Before the last survivors of the First World War passed WED away, the memories of many of those who fought it were WED captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great WED detail as though it were yesterday the conditions of the WED trenches, the brutality of the battlefield, the experience WED of seeing their first casualty and hearing their first WED shell, their daily and nightly routines, and their WED psychological state in the face of so much trauma. The WED Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major oral history WED resource of remarkable recordings made in the 1980s and WED early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the conflict. WED The interviews were done not for immediate use or broadcast, WED but because it was felt that this diminishing resource, that WED could never be replenished, would be of unique value in the WED future. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive WED featuring first hand recollections of the conflict a century WED ago are the interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The WED Great War', which vividly bring to life the human experience WED of those fighting and living through the war. In a unique WED partnership between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, WED the two sound archive collections are brought together for WED the first time in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First WED World War', a fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, WED broadcasts many of these recordings for the first time, and WED will run in short seasons throughout the commemorative WED period, tracking the course of the war. WED WED Presented by Dan Snow, the second five programmes to be WED broadcast this year look at the events of 1915, including WED veterans' memories of their first trips home on leave, the WED rise of U-Boat attacks, the disastrous Battle of Loos, and WED the experiences of those fighting on the Eastern Front as WED the war expanded, in Salonika and Mesopotamia. WED WED The third programme features first-hand accounts from those WED who fought at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, from an WED officer who provided the wind forecasts before the release WED of chlorine gas by the British, to those who helped burial WED parties clear the battlefields afterwards, collecting and WED identifying the dead by night, work which had to continue WED for several months. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06mfwcj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tommies b06mg2vg (Listen) WED 4 November 1915 WED WED by Jonathan Ruffle WED WED Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. WED WED Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness WED accounts, TOMMIES traces one real day at war exactly 100 WED years ago. WED WED Indira Varma, Danny Rahim and Avin Shah star in this story WED which begins on a gunboat making its way up the river WED Tigris. Signallers Ahmadullah and Zarbab have a perilous WED mission to deliver a wireless set to beleaguered forces in WED Baghdad. It proves a particularly gruelling and testing time WED for Ahmadullah. WED WED Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Ahmadullah: Danny Rahim WED Zarbab: Avin Shah WED Sidney: Nicholas Murchie WED Commentator: Indira Varma WED Jalal: Ronak Patani WED Pillow Wallah: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Mother: Sudha Bhuchar WED Father: Kulvinder Ghir WED Captain: David Hounslow WED Officer: David Acton WED Doctor: Neet Mohan WED Producer: David Hunter WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: David Hunter WED Writer: Jonathan Ruffle WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06mg2vl (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on personal WED finance. WED The Living Wage Foundation WED GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage WED GOV.UK: Employment Status WED GOV.UK: Pay and Work Rights WED GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage offenders named and shamed WED TUC WED ACAS WED Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development WED BBC News: Low-paid Fife Council workers win equal pay WED settlement WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b06mfwcv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06mg9fh (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06mg9fk (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06myrkj (Listen) WED PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06mbss2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 To Hull and Back b06mg9fp (Listen) WED My Casa Is Your Casa WED WED To Hull and Back is the eagerly anticipated sitcom from BBC WED New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont. WED WED Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a WED living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they WED don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get WED rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As WED their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. WED WED "My Casa Is Your Casa" WED WED A call from Auntie Pamela who lives abroad gets Sophie fired WED up about the life she could be living, a life of hot tubs WED and wood fired lobster. Her mother tries go compete with her WED sister, Pamela, but ends up filling the back yard with WED bubbles and sleeping downstairs on a lilo. WED WED Writer ... Lucy Beaumont WED Producer ... Carl Cooper WED WED This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Sophie: Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila: Maureen Lipman WED Jean: Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie: Norman Lovett WED Anika: Jemma Walker WED Seedy Ian: Ewan Bailey WED Susanna: Debra Baker WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06mg9fw (Listen) WED It is time for a public meeting, and Eddie is talking WED turkey. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06mys65 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06mg2tr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06mg9fy (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk, with Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Melanie WED Phillips and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06mg9g2 (Listen) WED Economists' Lost Literary Touch WED WED Adam Kelly discusses the sometimes surprising relationship WED between literature and economics, and argues that economics WED needs to get back in touch with its literary side. WED WED Exploring the literary inclinations of John Maynard Keynes, WED Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Adam explores how a shift in the WED order in which students study the subject can explain a lot WED about modern economics. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06mfs7m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06mg2tf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06mysnp (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06mg9g8 (Listen) WED Trigger Mortis, Episode 8 WED WED It's 1957 and James Bond, agent 007, has only just survived WED his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side WED is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. WED WED Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a WED deadly struggle for technological superiority in the Space WED Race. And SMERSH is back. WED WED The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a WED Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But WED it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events WED take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious WED meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean WED millionaire, Sin Jai-Seong. WED WED Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with WED implications that could change the world. Thrown together WED with American agent Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that WED will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax. WED WED Trigger Mortis is the first James Bond novel to feature WED previously unseen Ian Fleming material. WED WED Read by Rupert Penry-Jones WED Written by Anthony Horowitz, with original material by Ian WED Fleming WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED WED Producer/Director: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Rupert Penry-Jones WED Author: Anthony Horowitz WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Director: Joanna Green WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 23:00 The Pin b06mg9gb (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act WED sketch show. Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of WED oddness performed in front of a live studio audience. WED WED The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of WED Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a WED show that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and WED utterly joyous silliness. WED WED After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious WED performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, and WED Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show for Radio WED 4. Join them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild WED their jokes, each other, and probably the radio too. WED WED For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a WED show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. WED WED 'Reinventing sketch comedy before our very eyes.' WED ***** The List WED 'Eviscerating their chosen form completely.' WED **** The Sunday Times WED 'A very classy, very funny show indeed.' WED **** The Telegraph WED 'Adept at finding laughs in surprising places.' WED **** The Times WED 'A genuine boundary pusher.' WED **** London is Funny. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Alex Owen WED Performer: Ben Ashenden WED WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b03pdhkq (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED First in a new series of the world's best-loved epistolary WED equine comedy-romance, as we reveal more of the WED recently-discovered, passionate letters between the Duke of WED Wellington's horse Copenhagen (played by Daniel Rigby) and WED Napoleon's steed Marengo (played by Stephen Fry), with an WED introduction by Tamsin Greig. WED WED Beginning at the height of the Battle of Waterloo and WED Marengo's close brush with death our heroes deal with the WED aftermath of battle as Marengo becomes part of the spoils of WED war. Will defeat bring him exile to St Helena at his WED master's side, or will be be untied with his true love WED Copenhagen? And if the latter, should they rebrand WED themselves as hot new power-couple Mopenhagen? Or Carengo? WED WED Written by Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED Credits WED Marengo: Stephen Fry WED Copenhagen: Daniel Rigby WED Narrator: Tamsin Greig WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED Writer: Marie Phillips WED Writer: Robbie Hudson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06mgc2m (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06mbsy7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06nbz4h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06mbsy9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06mbsyc (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06mbsyf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06mbsyh (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06pf3pv (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father THU Tim Byron. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06mtms6 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkyr5 (Listen) THU Greater Honeyguide THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the greater honeyguide of THU sub-Saharan Africa. A loud repetitive "it's - here" - "it's THU -here" is a sound the greater honey guide only makes to THU humans in an extraordinary co-operative act between humans THU and bird. Relatives of woodpeckers they are one of the few THU birds which can digest wax and also feed on the eggs, grubs THU and pupae of bees. A greater honeyguide knows the location THU of the bee colonies in its territory and is able to lead THU honey-hunters to them. Once it has successfully guided its THU helpers to a nest, it waits while the honey-hunters remove THU the comb. Then it moves in to snap up the grubs and wax from THU the opened nest. So reliable are honeyguides that the Boran THU people of East Africa save up to two thirds of their THU honey-searching time by using the bird's services and use a THU special loud whistle (called a fuulido) to summon their THU guide before a hunt. THU THU Greater honeyguide (Indicator indicator) THU THU Also known as black-throated honeyguide, this webpage image THU is courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. THU N THU PL Ref 01469763 THU © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b06myp4g (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06mtms8 (Listen) THU P v NP THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the problem of P versus NP, THU a notorious mathematical problem which, if solved, would THU attract $1,000,000 as a prize from the Clay Mathematics THU Institute. It's mainly a concern in computer science as it THU relates to the safety of encryption. The goal is to THU establish whether questions exist for which the answer can THU be quickly checked, but would take an impossibly long time THU to solve by any known means. An example in everyday life THU would be the Travelling Salesman problem: with a list of THU towns and the distances between each pair of towns, what is THU the shortest route possible for the salesman to visit each THU town, only once, and return to the starting place? Problems THU like this appear to be impossible to solve quickly, but so THU far no one has managed to prove there's no feasible way of THU solving them with a computer. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06nbz8q (Listen) THU Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Being Published THU THU Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate THU biography of Charlotte Bronte. This vivid and complex THU portrait of one of our greatest novelists looks ahead to the THU two hundredth anniversary of her birth in April 2016. Today, THU the Bronte sisters set about the business of bringing out THU their best known books. Meanwhile, their brother Branwell is THU the source of strained relations at the parsonage in THU Haworth. THU THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Hattie Morahan THU Author: Claire Harman THU Abridger: Julian Wilkinson THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06mtmsb (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 b06mtmsd (Listen) THU Writing the Century: The View from the Windows, Rigor Mortis THU THU The View from the Windows THU dramatized by Bethan Roberts. THU THU The series which explores the 20th century through the THU diaries and correspondence of real people. THU THU It's 1956 and the avant-garde commercial artist Monica THU Rawlins is alone in the middle-of-nowhere rural THU Cardiganshire, breeding geese. How has her life come to THU this? THU THU A heart-warming drama about unrequited love, unfulfilled THU dreams, art and poultry keeping. THU THU Monica struggles with her true identity when a charming THU journalist interviews her about her geese and then a THU portrait painting session with her neighbour goes horribly THU wrong. THU THU Directed by Helen Perry THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU Monica Rawlins: Monica Dolan THU Geoffrey Rawlins: Ben Addis THU Tom Evans: Julian Lewis Jones THU Writer: Bethan Roberts THU Director: Helen Perry THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06mbsyw (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Alice in Teesside b06mtmsg (Listen) THU Not Oxford, nor Llandudno, but Croft-on-Tees. THU THU This is the 150th year since the publication of one of the THU most famous and internationally popular children's books of THU all time, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. THU THU Since the book first appeared, biographers and amateur THU enthusiasts have pored over the stories hunting for clues THU and trying to find the key to unlock the secret puzzles of THU Wonderland and Lewis Carroll's life. The world of Alice in THU Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have come to be THU almost entirely associated with Oxford - but in this THU programme, Simon Farnaby, the star of Horrible Histories, THU uncovers Lewis Carroll's roots in the North East of England. THU THU Like Lewis Carroll, Simon Farnaby, grew up in Croft-on-Tees THU in North Yorkshire and went to school in nearby Richmond. THU Returning to the North East, he visits the Rectory Gardens THU where, as a boy, he scavenged in the bushes for Lewis THU Carroll memorabilia and meets the people determined to claim THU Carroll for the North-East. THU THU Chris Lloyd introduces him to the Cheshire Cat and tells the THU story of the Jabberwocky's inspiration, The Sockburn Worm. THU Simon finds the grave of brave Sir John Conyers, the THU dragon's slayer on a lonely peninsula in the Tees. Bryan THU Talbot, graphic artist and author of Alice in Sunderland, THU makes the case for the Sunderland connection and Michael THU Wilcox, a relative of Lewis Carroll's Whitburn cousins, sets THU Simon his own puzzle to solve. Could Lewis Carroll have seen THU his first plays at the Georgian Theatre in Richmond? THU THU Producer: Natalie Steed THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06mbsz0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Why Factor b06n6fmk (Listen) THU Series 2, T-shirts THU THU T shirts are everywhere, every day. Plain ones, coloured THU ones, funny ones. Often they're promotional, sometimes THU provocative. They're so common that they're very easy to THU ignore. From the catwalk to the building site and everywhere THU in between, these simple garments can be tools of the rebel, THU the protestor, the campaigner, the corporate marketeer. They THU are strangely powerful things but with humble origins. Mike THU Williams explores the T shirt. With Omar Mansoor, British THU Pakistani fashion designer, Tony Glenville, Creative THU Director, London College of Fashion, designer Milton Glaser, THU Beatrice Behlan, Museum of London, Steve Tropiano, author of THU Rebels and chicks - history of the Hollywood teen movie, THU Maureen Kabrik, campaigner for pressure group "Bring back THU our girls." THU THU Presenter:Mike Williams THU Producer:Bob Howard THU Editor:Andrew Smith. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06mtmsj (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06mbsz2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06myp4j (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Voices of the First World War b06kng9v (Listen) THU Salonika THU THU Before the last survivors of the First World War passed THU away, the memories of many of those who fought it were THU captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great THU detail as though it were yesterday the conditions of the THU trenches, the brutality of the battlefield, the experience THU of seeing their first casualty and hearing their first THU shell, their daily and nightly routines, and their THU psychological state in the face of so much trauma. The THU Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major oral history THU resource of remarkable recordings made in the 1980s and THU early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the conflict. THU The interviews were done not for immediate use or broadcast, THU but because it was felt that this diminishing resource, that THU could never be replenished, would be of unique value in the THU future. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive THU featuring first hand recollections of the conflict a century THU ago are the interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The THU Great War', which vividly bring to life the human experience THU of those fighting and living through the war. In a unique THU partnership between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, THU the two sound archive collections are brought together for THU the first time in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First THU World War', a fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, THU broadcasts many of these recordings for the first time, and THU will run in short seasons throughout the commemorative THU period, tracking the course of the war. THU THU Presented by Dan Snow, the second five programmes to be THU broadcast this year look at the events of 1915, including THU veterans' memories of their first trips home on leave, the THU rise of U-Boat attacks, the disastrous Battle of Loos, and THU the experiences of those fighting on the Eastern Front as THU the war expanded, in Salonika and Mesopotamia. THU THU In this fourth programme of the series, Dan Snow brings THU together recollections by soldiers of the conditions they THU endured in Salonika, where they considered themselves a THU forgotten army, and the main threats were malaria and THU dysentery. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06mg9fw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03cv47h (Listen) THU The Man in the Lift THU THU A man has been contracted to repair the lift in a THU residential tower block. But trapped in a confined space and THU suspended in time, a lift can become a place of THU transformation. THU THU A humorous and unsettling story about social fragmentation THU and the powerful influence of popular culture and new THU technology. THU THU A first play for radio by Tom Connolly. THU THU Tom has shot commercials and corporates across the globe. He THU is also the producer and director of award winning short THU films for the BBC and Channel 4, including the critically THU acclaimed "Dogfight". His debut novel "The Spider Truces" THU was shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain THU Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize - the Financial Times THU called it one of the top five debut novels of the year. THU THU Producer/Director: Karen Rose THU THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU John: John Light THU Melissa: Montanna Thompson THU Angie: Ruth Gemmell THU Steve: Lee Ross THU Maggie: Sheila Reid THU Diana: Phyllida Law THU Les: Richard Hawley THU Sandy: Kerry Ann White THU Sam: Paul Bazely THU Gladys: Jillie Meers THU Oprah: Leila Farzad THU Writer: Tom Connolly THU Director: Karen Rose THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06mtn8g (Listen) THU Tollesbury Wick in Essex THU THU Helen Mark visits Tollesbury Wick on the Essex coast. THU Situated on the mouth of Tollesbury Fleet and the Blackwater THU estuary, a giant sea wall snakes around the coast protecting THU both village and ancient grazing marshland. Helen meets the THU Wildlife Trust warden who cares for 650 hectares of unspoilt THU 'humpy bumpy' marshland and gets a surprise when she finds THU out what those bumps actually are. THU THU She learns about the seafaring history of the place from a THU descendent of boat builders and discovers how it was the THU Dutch who shaped this English Landscape. Meanwhile, 'wild THU writer' James Canton and renowned sculptor, Roland Piche THU describe how Tollesbury Wick comes alive in art and THU literature. Tollesbury native Flavian Capes lives in the THU middle of this vast, salty landscape and discusses being at THU the mercy of the tides. THU THU Producer: Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06lt1ml (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b06mblgl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06mtqsr (Listen) THU Bradley Cooper, Nick Hornby THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Bradley Cooper on Burnt and Nick Hornby on Brooklyn. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Bradley Cooper THU Interviewed Guest: Nick Hornby THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06mtqst (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06mtqsw (Listen) THU News interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06mbszc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01f883m (Listen) THU Series 2, With guest Danny Baker THU THU New series of the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his THU five piece band and specially written, original music. THU Guests across this series include Phill Jupitus, Charlie THU Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. THU THU The first epsiode explores the theme of 'games' and guest THU stars Danny Baker who sings with the band and champions an THU instrument that can't fail to put a smile on your face. Plus THU the funkiest song you're ever likely to hear about Chess; an THU Ode to Chris Hoy and music to exercise to. THU THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake THU Guest performers .... Danny Baker and Ben Jones THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06mtqsy (Listen) THU Whose temperature is set to rise on bonfire night? Lynda has THU a spark of an idea. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06pf4n8 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06mtmsd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b06mfs7r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06mts63 (Listen) THU Fast Fashion THU THU From the design desk to the shop window, how do fast fashion THU brands deliver the latest trends in double-quick time? Evan THU Davis and guests discuss fabric, factories and a nimble THU supply chain. THU THU Guests: THU THU Catarina Midby, Sustainability manager, H & M; THU Carol Kane, Co-founder and Joint CEO, Boohoo; THU Kim Winser, Founder and CEO, Winser London. THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06mtqst (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06mtms8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06mts65 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06mts67 (Listen) THU Trigger Mortis, Episode 9 THU THU It's 1957 and James Bond, agent 007, has only just survived THU his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side THU is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. THU THU Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a THU deadly struggle for technological superiority in the Space THU Race. And SMERSH is back. THU THU The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a THU Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But THU it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events THU take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious THU meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean THU millionaire, Sin Jai-Seong. THU THU Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with THU implications that could change the world. Thrown together THU with American agent Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that THU will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax. THU THU Trigger Mortis is the first James Bond novel to feature THU previously unseen Ian Fleming material. THU THU Read by Rupert Penry-Jones THU Written by Anthony Horowitz, with original material by Ian THU Fleming THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU THU Producer/Director: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Rupert Penry-Jones THU Author: Anthony Horowitz THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Director: Joanna Green THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU 23:00 Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of THU Evolution b06mts69 (Listen) THU One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman returns to THU Radio 4 with a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and THU sketches, challenging notions of Survival of the Fittest and THU The Selfish Gene with a new theory that's equal parts THU enlightening and hilarious. THU THU Rob is our guide on a journey through a unique audio A-Z of THU nature that takes in everything from altruistic amoebae and THU dancing squid to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with a THU postal worker. THU THU Piecing these fragments together allows Rob to correct some THU major distortions of Darwinism, as well as rejig the theory THU of natural selection in the light of what we now know about THU epigenetics, mirror neurons and the Flintstones. THU THU Written by Rob Newman THU Starring Claire Price, with Jenni Murray as the voice of the THU Encyclopaedia. THU THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU Executive Producer: Richard Wilson THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06mts6c (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06mbt21 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06nbz8q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06mbt25 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06mbt29 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06mbt2f (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06mbt2h (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06pf5ry (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father FRI Tim Byron. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06mv0tl (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlpgv (Listen) FRI Vegetarian Tree Finch FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the vegetarian tree finch on the FRI Galapagos Islands. These streaky sparrow-like birds found on FRI the Galapagos Islands may look rather plain, but belong to FRI the evolutionary elite, having attracted the attention of FRI Charles Darwin on his visit there in 1835. Darwin noticed FRI that the fourteen or so species of finches, which he FRI concluded were derived from a common ancestor on this FRI isolate archipelago, had evolved bills adapted to the type FRI of food available. The Vegetarian finch has a bill rather FRI like a parrot's, with thick curved mandibles and a biting FRI tip which also allows it to manipulate seeds, similar to a FRI parrot or budgie. Vegetarian finches are especially fond of FRI the sugar-rich twigs of certain shrubs and are use the FRI biting tip of their bills to strip off the bark to reach the FRI softer sweeter tissues beneath: a niche that other finches FRI on Galapagos haven't exploited yet. FRI FRI Vegetarian finch (Platyspiza crassirostris) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01399163 FRI © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com FRI FRI Recording of vegetarian finch by Robert I Bowman / Ref: FRI ML82511 FRI FRI This programme contains a wildtrack FRI recording of the vegetarian finch FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Robert I Bowman on 29 Jan 1962, FRI in Charles Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06myhmz (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06ltb4g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06nbzds (Listen) FRI Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Affairs of the Heart FRI FRI Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate FRI biography of Charlotte Bronte. This vivid and complex FRI portrait of one of our greatest novelists looks ahead to the FRI two hundredth anniversary of her birth in April 2016. Today, FRI Charlotte grieves for her brother Branwell and her sisters FRI Emily and Anne who died in quick succession. Affairs of the FRI heart are also on her mind. FRI FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hattie Morahan FRI Author: Claire Harman FRI Abridger: Julian Wilkinson FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06myhn1 (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 b06mv187 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: The View from the Windows, Christmas at FRI Brynmeheryn FRI FRI The View from the Windows FRI dramatized by Bethan Roberts. FRI FRI The series which explores the 20th century through the FRI diaries and correspondence of real people. FRI FRI It's 1956 and the avant-garde commercial artist Monica FRI Rawlins is alone in the middle-of-nowhere rural FRI Cardiganshire, breeding geese. How has her life come to FRI this? FRI FRI A heart-warming drama about unrequited love, unfulfilled FRI dreams, art and poultry keeping. FRI FRI It's Christmas time. A time for joy, laughter and being FRI surrounded by loved ones. But Monica can't think of anything FRI worse. Alone, her thoughts once again turn to her ex-love. FRI As the seasons greetings ring out around her, will Monica FRI finally accept her life at Brynmeheryn without him? FRI FRI Directed by Helen Perry FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Monica Rawlins: Monica Dolan FRI Tom Evans: Julian Lewis Jones FRI The Postman: Ben Addis FRI Mrs Barry: Eiry Thomas FRI Mr Barry: Robert Blythe FRI Writer: Bethan Roberts FRI Director: Helen Perry FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b06mv2nb (Listen) FRI Series 21, 06/11/2015 FRI FRI As well as killing his sons and himself, Darren Sykes also FRI destroyed much of the house, lighting 16 different fires FRI throughout the terraced home and luring his boys into the FRI loft with the promise of a new train set. He had cancelled FRI the home insurance before the blaze and Claire faced both FRI the devastating loss of her much loved boys and also the FRI terrible reminder in a home she couldn't sell because of FRI such extensive fire damage. FRI FRI Local people wanted to stand firm against such 'evil,' FRI according to a local singer and archivist, Dave Cherry, who FRI has helped raise money. Teams of volunteers organised by FRI Reverend David Hopkins at St John's Church and both the FRI Rotary and 41 Clubs, have overseen the rebuilding of the FRI home in Tennyson Close and the work has been going on in FRI evenings and at weekends for months now. FRI FRI Whilst nothing will replace her loss, Claire tells Alan Dein FRI that such community support has helped her focus on creating FRI a legacy for them. Jack, who was 12 when he died, was a FRI promising trumpet player and a member of the Penistone FRI Community Wind Band. His younger brother, Paul, was only FRI nine and already showing considerable athletic talent. She FRI has set up awards in their name and wants to ensure that FRI their lives are remembered. Rebuilding the house will FRI eventually help her move on in this work. FRI FRI Retired policeman, Martin Scothern, recalls how the appeal FRI for help galvanised the local community: "We wanted to do FRI what we could and so overseeing the house repairs seemed FRI key. There was no insurance so everything has been done FRI locally and we are proud of how far we've come." FRI FRI The volunteer project manager is Ged Brearley, who has FRI coordinated 480 plus volunteer hours and manages a core team FRI of 40 through house clearance, stripping back the walls to FRI complete rewiring, re-plastering and re-plumbing: "We raised FRI £22,000 for the building work but it wasn't enough so we FRI have had to do it all ourselves. We have only spent £1,800 FRI because of the time people have given and how generous FRI suppliers have been. The rest will eventually help Claire FRI build a new home." FRI FRI Claire tells Alan that the restoration helps her cope: "He FRI wanted to take everything from me but people here haven't FRI let that happen. He lost control - I had gone to a solicitor FRI and filed for divorce. He was so controlling and he set out FRI to destroy my life. People here have stopped that from FRI happening." FRI FRI Dave Cherry was one of the first to offer to help: "That man FRI destroyed everything. Her house, her kids and her life. If FRI we don't do anything then he wins. If we can help this lass FRI then we can stop him from winning.". FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Double Acts b06mv2nd (Listen) FRI The Goliath Window FRI FRI It is the year 1820, and Mark and Luke have agreed to meet FRI in the vestry of St Anne's church in the village of Mayton FRI Chennett. FRI FRI John Finnemore and his "Souvenir Programme" regular Simon FRI Kane star in the fourth of six two-handers written by John FRI Finnemore. FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Luke: John Finnemore FRI Mark: Simon Kane FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06mbt2p (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Why Factor b06n6g64 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Commuting FRI FRI Millions of people across the world get in a car, board a FRI bus or train with monotonous regularity each day. Why do FRI they do it? Can they enjoy it? Can it be good for their FRI health? And what's the connection between the commuter and FRI the hunter-gatherer? Mike Williams aims to find out. FRI Presenter:Mike Williams FRI Producer:Sonia Rothwell FRI Editor:Andrew Smith. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06myhn3 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06mbt2r (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06mv2ng (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun FRI Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Voices of the First World War b06kngpq (Listen) FRI Kut: Sand, Mud, Mirage FRI FRI Before the last survivors of the First World War passed FRI away, the memories of many of those who fought it were FRI captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great FRI detail as though it were yesterday the conditions of the FRI trenches, the brutality of the battlefield, the experience FRI of seeing their first casualty and hearing their first FRI shell, their daily and nightly routines, and their FRI psychological state in the face of so much trauma. The FRI Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major oral history FRI resource of remarkable recordings made in the 1980s and FRI early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the conflict. FRI The interviews were done not for immediate use or broadcast, FRI but because it was felt that this diminishing resource, that FRI could never be replenished, would be of unique value in the FRI future. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive FRI featuring first hand recollections of the conflict a century FRI ago are the interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The FRI Great War', which vividly bring to life the human experience FRI of those fighting and living through the war. In a unique FRI partnership between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, FRI the two sound archive collections are brought together for FRI the first time in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First FRI World War', a fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, FRI broadcasts many of these recordings for the first time, and FRI will run in short seasons throughout the commemorative FRI period, tracking the course of the war. FRI FRI Presented by Dan Snow, the second five programmes to be FRI broadcast this year look at the events of 1915, including FRI veterans' memories of their first trips home on leave, the FRI rise of U-Boat attacks, the disastrous Battle of Loos, and FRI the experiences of those fighting on the Eastern Front as FRI the war expanded, in Salonika and Mesopotamia. FRI FRI In the final programme of the 1915 series, Dan Snow hears FRI the recollections of those who were present during the siege FRI of Kut-Al-Amara, situated on a loop of the River Tigris FRI between Baghdad and Basra, where British troops became FRI trapped by Turkish Ottoman forces for five months from late FRI 1915. Speakers recount their experiences of desert marches, FRI starvation, and eventual surrender in one of the most FRI humiliating defeats for the British Army in its history. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06mtqsy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06mv2zc (Listen) FRI The Lost Sister FRI FRI A family drama and detective story, this is the author's FRI unflinching account of her search for a sister more FRI abandoned than lost - exploring the consequences of our fear FRI of mental illness as she relives a turbulent past. FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the cast FRI FRI Written by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Script Editor: Katri Skala FRI Produced and directed by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Eileen: Penny Downie FRI Mona: Lia Williams FRI Ken: Kerry Shale FRI Mother: Dearbhla Molloy FRI Elsa: Dearbhla Molloy FRI Greg: Patrick Cremin FRI Mr Devlin: Danny Webb FRI German Cop: Danny Webb FRI Deiter: Danny Webb FRI German Cop: Jasmine Hyde FRI Dr Streep: Jasmine Hyde FRI Siri: Jasmine Hyde FRI Leenie: Shea Hall FRI Mona: Eliza Harrison Dine FRI Richard: Michael Carney FRI Charlie (Older): Thomas Cassidy FRI Charlie (Younger): Bertie Cassidy FRI Susan: Jacqueline Hass FRI Writer: Eileen Horne FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06mv2zf (Listen) FRI Cornwall FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Cornwall. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank, and Matthew Wilson answer FRI questions from the audience. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 New Writing from the Arab World b06mv2zh (Listen) FRI A Bedtime Story for Eid FRI FRI A series bringing attention to contemporary short fiction FRI from the Arab World. In A Bedtime Story for Eid by the FRI Syrian writer Zaher Omareen, a mother explains events of the FRI recent past to her son. FRI FRI The story comes from his forthcoming collection, Tales of FRI the Orontes River, which draws on the collective memories of FRI the 1982 Hama massacre when the father of the current FRI President Assad ordered his army to obliterate an entire FRI city. FRI FRI The translator, Alice Guthrie writes, "Zaher Omareen's tale FRI takes us on a journey back to 1980s Hama, zooming in on some FRI of the individual victims of the massacres and FRI disappearances committed by the regime there, as told by a FRI mother to her son. Between 10,000 and 40,000 people perished FRI at the hands of Hafez al-Assad's forces in a 27-day massacre FRI in 1982: such was the climate of fear that it has only ever FRI been referred to - if at all - as The Events. FRI FRI "As this story is told in the imagined voice of a Syrian FRI mother talking to her child, pre-2011, there is much that is FRI not spelled out as it might be if it was directed at the FRI foreign reader: the words 'massacre', 'arbitrary detention', FRI or 'torture' don't appear here, but are signaled by FRI euphemisms such as 'the Events', 'serving a sentence', or FRI 'having medical needs'. FRI FRI "There are several other references that readers unfamiliar FRI with Syria may be confused by: Tadmor and the Palestine FRI Branch are both prisons notorious for extreme torture; the FRI 'Tadmor Events', as they're known in Syria, refers to a FRI massacre of at least a thousand inmates inside the prison in FRI 1980. And al-rush - taking its name from a firing mode on a FRI Kalashnikov - is a vernacular term for a mass execution of FRI residents marched out of their houses and shot as one in the FRI street." FRI FRI Written by Zaher Omareen FRI Translated by Alice Guthrie FRI FRI Reader: Jumaan Short FRI Directed by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Zaher Omareen FRI Reader: Jumaan Short FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06mv2zk (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06mv2zm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06mv2zp (Listen) FRI Laurie and Roland - A Legacy in Lego FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation recorded during a FRI building session, between a father whose own childhood FRI obsession with the Danish toy has been passed on to his FRI small son; another conversation in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06myhn7 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06mbt2t (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06mv2zr (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news. Joining Miles Jupp in FRI this, the final episode of series 88, are Romesh FRI Ranganathan, Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front and Camilla Long. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Rebecca Front FRI Panellist: Camilla Long FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06mv4jn (Listen) FRI Jill is very much missed, and the Grundys try to keep their FRI chins up. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Peter Wild 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 Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06myhng (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06mv187 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06mv4jq (Listen) FRI Max Hastings, Caroline Lucas MP, Stephen Twigg MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Churchill Academy School in Somerset with a panel FRI including the author and commentator Max Hastings, the Green FRI MP Caroline Lucas and the Chair of the International FRI Development Select Committee Stephen Twigg MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06kh677 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Voices of the First World War b06mv4jv (Listen) FRI Omnibus 1915 Part Two FRI FRI Dan Snow presents the story of World War I through the FRI voices of those who were there. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06mbt34 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06myl7b (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06mv4jx (Listen) FRI Trigger Mortis, Episode 10 FRI FRI It's 1957 and James Bond, agent 007, has only just survived FRI his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side FRI is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. FRI FRI Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a FRI deadly struggle for technological superiority in the Space FRI Race. And SMERSH is back. FRI FRI The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a FRI Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But FRI it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events FRI take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious FRI meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean FRI millionaire, Sin Jai-Seong. FRI FRI Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with FRI implications that could change the world. Thrown together FRI with American agent Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that FRI will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax. FRI FRI Trigger Mortis is the first James Bond novel to feature FRI previously unseen Ian Fleming material. FRI FRI Read by Rupert Penry-Jones FRI Written by Anthony Horowitz, with original material by Ian FRI Fleming FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI FRI Producer/Director: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Rupert Penry-Jones FRI Author: Anthony Horowitz FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Director: Joanna Green FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06mfsj2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06mv4jz (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06myl7d (Listen) FRI Gareth and Leon - Not Perfect FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a disabled FRI father and his ten year old son about how they deal with the FRI impact his disability has on their relationship; another FRI conversation 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