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SAT SATURDAY 30 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06y8zk4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06yfqqm (Listen) SAT Summer Before the Dark, Episode 5 SAT SAT Volker Weidermann's account of the charming resort of SAT Ostend, and in 1936 it's a haven for Middle-Europe emigres. SAT Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams: SAT SAT Swimming, promenading, drinking.The pleasures of Ostend SAT linger in the face of storm clouds gathering over Europe, SAT but even seasoned vacationers know they have to move on.. SAT SAT Reader Peter Firth SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Peter Firth SAT Author: Volker Weisemann SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06y8zk6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06y8zk8 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06y8zkb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06y8zkd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06yfzjk (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Edwin Counsell, Director of Education for the Church in SAT Wales. SAT SAT Script: SAT SAT Good morning. Very few people are able to transcend the SAT boundaries of faiths and cultures with a consistent message SAT of peace. So when Mahatma Gandhi was killed by an assassin’s SAT bullet on this day in 1948, his loss was felt deeply across SAT the world. SAT SAT It was as a lawyer in South Africa that he first sought to SAT champion the cause of civil rights, before returning to his SAT native India in 1915. He believed, “My life is my message”, SAT as he challenged injustice with non-violent disobedience, SAT campaigning against unjust laws, upholding the cause of SAT women’s rights and denouncing the conditions that the SAT poorest people of the lowest social caste had to endure. SAT SAT In 1930, British laws forced Indians to buy salt from SAT approved suppliers, rather than simply gathering it from SAT natural the salt-beds at the coast; Gandhi’s response was to SAT lead a 200 mile walk of protest to the sea, with an initial SAT handful of followers swelling to tens of thousands, as he SAT defied threats of violence and eventual imprisonment. SAT SAT But there was a further, almost spiritual dimension to SAT Gandhi’s protests, when he took prayer and fasting, the SAT traditional weapons of the soul, and used them to make his SAT case for change; the iron fist of unjust law and SAT discrimination seemed powerless when it was challenged by a SAT softly spoken man with horn rimmed spectacles, with a dhoti, SAT the traditional Hindu garment, knotted at his waist. SAT SAT Gandhi was wise enough to say, “You must be the change you SAT wish to see in the world”, challenging us that simply SAT wanting things to be different isn’t enough; it requires the SAT best intentions to be turned into action…and his example has SAT inspired people of all faiths and none, in countless parts SAT of the world, to use peaceful protest to make changes for SAT the better in their society; SAT SAT So Lord of all love, lead us on the path of peace and help SAT us to do all we can to be the change we wish to see in our SAT world. Amen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06yfzk3 (Listen) SAT 'I'm in love aged 64... and it's wonderful!' SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06y8zkk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06y8zkm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06yfhr9 (Listen) SAT Scowles in the Forest of Dean SAT SAT Helen Mark is in the Forest of Dean in search of mysterious SAT geological formations known as 'scowles'. SAT SAT These semi-natural features in the landscape are thought to SAT be unique to the Forest of Dean but are plentiful in this SAT area. They are crater-like features in the woodland that SAT have been eroded over time by water-action and exploited by SAT miners through the centuries for their bounty: iron-ore, SAT coal, and ochre have all been found in abundance in the SAT Forest of Dean. SAT SAT Helen descends into the mysterious, mossy world of the SAT scowles and comes face to face with one of it's inhabitants: SAT a large cave spider and looks for the greater and lesser SAT horseshoe bats. These two species thrive in the craters and SAT caverns of the the Forest. SAT SAT Tales of mining and the blast furnaces that smelted the SAT iron-ore lead Helen across the Forest before she finds SAT herself on a film set. SAT SAT The visually stunning nature of the scowles have led to SAT television and movie crews visiting the area to film in this SAT mysterious, other-worldly landscape. They have become the SAT backdrop to some memorable moments in the TV series Merlin SAT and Dr Who and most famously in the recent Star Wars film, SAT The Force Awakens that was filmed in a part of the Forest SAT called Puzzlewood. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06z0tq8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Organic SAT SAT Charlotte Smith takes a look at organic farming, visiting a SAT Shropshire farm that has operated in an organic way since SAT 1949. SAT SAT Pimhill farm is a mixed farm, with a small dairy herd and an SAT arable operation that grows oats and wheat - and has its own SAT mill. Charlotte meets Ian Anderson and Ginny Mayall, whose SAT grandfather Sam Mayall started farming the site in the SAT 1920s, and who was heavily involved with The Soil SAT Association soon after its foundation. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06y8zkp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06z0tqb (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT SAT 0710 SAT SAT A team of negotiators representing the major groups of the SAT Syrian Opposition is expected in Geneva later today after SAT boycotting yesterday's launch of UN mediated peace talks. SAT Our correspondent Imogen Foulkes is in Geneva. SAT 0715 SAT SAT Labour MP Jess Philips has prompted a row by comparing the SAT Cologne sex attacks to a night out in Birmingham. We are SAT joined by Catarina Sjolin, Co-author of the Sexual Offences SAT Handbook, criminal barrister and senior lecturer at SAT Nottingham Law School. SAT 0720 SAT SAT Have public attitudes towards companies like Google changed SAT as a result of the row over its tax arrangements? Fred SAT Turner is SAT Professor of Communication at Stanford University. SAT 0730 SAT SAT Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who sits in the Senate as an SAT independent could win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday and the SAT New Hampshire primary a week later. Our special SAT correspondent Jim Naughtie, who's in Iowa, has more. SAT 0740 SAT SAT Fire-crews are still at the scene of a fire which destroyed SAT a former mill in Manningham in Bradford. Dr George Sheeran SAT is an architectural historian at the University of Bradford. SAT 0750 SAT SAT The main Syrian opposition group is expected in Geneva later SAT today after boycotting yesterday's launch of UN mediated SAT peace talks. Our chief correspondent Lyse Doucet is in Aman, SAT and Rana Kabbani, Syria-born writer and broadcaster also SAT joins us on the programme. SAT 0810 SAT SAT Companies and scientists are racing to create a Zika vaccine SAT as concern grows over the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has SAT been linked to severe birth defects and is spreading quickly SAT through the Americas. Wyre Davies reports. Also joining us SAT on the programme is Professor Sarah Gilbert, Professor of SAT Vaccinology from the Jenner Institute at the University of SAT Oxford. SAT 0820 SAT SAT The Oscar nominated film 'Spotlight', based on the story of SAT the Boston Globe investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic SAT priests has just opened in the UK. Mishal Husain has been SAT speaking to one of the journalists, Michael Rezendes, played SAT in the film by Mark Ruffalo. SAT 0825 SAT SAT The Labour MP Jess Philips is facing calls to resign after SAT comparing the Cologne sex attacks on New Year's Eve to what SAT women can experience when out in her city. Superintendent SAT Andy Parsons, Police Commander for Central Birmingham and SAT Salma Yaqoob, former elected councillor for Birmingham are SAT on the programme. SAT 0830 SAT SAT The daughter of a Maoist cult leader jailed for 23 years has SAT spoken publicly about her life within the cult and her SAT thoughts on the sentencing. Katy Morgan-Davies says she is SAT waiving anonymity to retrieve identity stolen from her by SAT ‘narcissist’ Aravindan Balakrishnan. Yvonne Hall was the SAT first person Katy Morgan-Davies met when she left the cult’s SAT house. SAT 0840 SAT SAT David Cameron has dismissed a proposed "emergency brake" on SAT in-work benefits for EU migrants as "not good enough" after SAT talks in Brussels. Our Europe editor Katya Adler is in SAT Brussels. SAT 0850 SAT SAT RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch, the world's largest wildlife SAT survey, with over half a million UK householders expected to SAT record the number of each species of wildlife they see in SAT their gardens over the weekend. Martin Fowlie is SAT from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT *All subject to change.* SAT SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06z0tqd (Listen) SAT Hairdresser Nicky Clarke, 1966 World Cup winner George SAT Cohen, Tessa Niles, Ben Bailey Smith, Buffy Sainte-Marie SAT SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06z0tqg (Listen) SAT Series 12, Billingsgate Market SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from London's SAT Billingsgate Market. SAT SAT Answering the audience's questions this week are the food SAT historian Dr Annie Gray, the Japanese-influenced Masterchef SAT winner Tim Anderson, and the Middle Eastern chef Itamar SAT Srulovich. SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06z0tqj (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT As David Cameron spends the weekend finalising a deal with SAT the EU, we look at how the various campaigns for Brexit are SAT shaping up to fight their corner, and the Irish ambassador SAT to the UK recounts the process by which Ireland negotiated a SAT second referendum on EU membership,after the Lisbon Treaty SAT in 2008. SAT Following the outcry over Google's tax bill, Andrew Tyrie SAT MP, chair of the Treasury Select Committee outlines the SAT terms of an inquiry into the need to reform the UK tax base, SAT and 35 years after the SDP was founded, Liberal Democrat Sir SAT Vince Cable and Labour MP Emma Reynolds, discuss the SAT parallels for the Labour party between then and now . SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06y8zkr (Listen) SAT The Colonel's Cameraman SAT SAT Correspondents around the world tell their stories. In this SAT edition Gabriel Gatehouse is back in Tripoli as speculation SAT grows about a new military intervention in Libya; Mark Lowen SAT is in Diyarbakir where there's been intense fighting between SAT Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants; Miles Warde SAT is in a dusty town on the edge of Kenya where there are SAT plans for pipelines, resort cities and Chinese-built SAT railways but the locals wonder if any of them will ever SAT materialise; Claudia Hammond visits what they call a SAT 'geriatric rehabilitation centre' in Cuba where, apparently, SAT there's never a dull moment and Victoria Gill is in SAT Antarctica meeting the rather amusing residents of a place SAT called Moot Point. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06y8zkt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06z0tzn (Listen) SAT Card Fee Cut SAT SAT Money Box has discovered that a reduction in credit card SAT fees that was brought in last December is not being passed SAT on to consumers. Bob Howard investigates and James Daley SAT from Fairer Finance who led a supercomplaint against high SAT fees gives us his response. SAT The government has postponed a planned sell-off of Lloyds SAT bank shares, blaming the delay on market volatility. Helal SAT Miah from the Share Centre explains what it means for SAT consumers. SAT And there's news of arrests in India following a cyber SAT attack on Talk Talk's website last October. SAT Nuisance calls are a perennial problem for householders but SAT are devices that promise to stop them any use? Mark Carter SAT reports. SAT And as the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says he will SAT publish his tax return in the name of transparency, we ask SAT Jason Piper from ACCA and tax justice campaigner George SAT Turner if anything would be achieved by MPs disclosing their SAT tax affairs. SAT Presenter: Ruth Alexander SAT Producer: Sonia Rothwell SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT Related links SAT BBC News: Ban on ‘excessive’ card fees announced SAT Money Saving Expert: EU agrees card charges shake-up, but SAT will shoppers pay less and could it limit future credit card SAT deals? SAT BBC SAT News: Sale of Lloyds shares to public delayed by George SAT Osborne SAT Gov.UK: Lloyds Banking Group share offer SAT BBC News: TalkTalk call centre workers arrested in India SAT Ofcom: How can I stop getting sales calls? SAT Which? Call blocking devices – everything you need to know SAT Telephone Preference Service SAT SAT SAT HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06yfypv (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 4 SAT SAT Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the SAT chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests SAT take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. SAT Jeremy Hardy, Camilla Long, Terry Christian and Rich Hall SAT are this week's panellists. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Camilla Long SAT Panellist: Terry Christian SAT Panellist: Rich Hall SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06y8zkw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06y8zky (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06yfyq9 (Listen) SAT Lord Hennessy, Caroline Lucas MP, John Redwood MP, Gisela SAT Stuart MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Purbeck School in Wareham , Dorset, with the cross SAT bench peer Lord Hennessy, the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas SAT MP, the Conservative backbencher John Redwood MP and Labour SAT MP Gisela Stuart. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06z0tzq (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 The Forsytes b06z0ybl (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT from the novels of John Galsworthy SAT Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna SAT SAT Of all his beautiful possessions, wealthy solicitor Soames SAT Forsyte considers his wife, Irene, the most beautiful. SAT Why then does she want separate bedrooms? SAT SAT Original music composed by Neil Brand SAT SAT Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SAT dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The SAT Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the SAT lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 SAT years from 1886 to 1936. SAT SAT We begin today with a 90 minute drama which introduces us to SAT the family in 1886 and in particular to the cautious, SAT meticulous Soames Forsyte, of whom Galsworthy says "he would SAT not have gone without a bath for worlds". As the family SAT gathers in their huge London houses around the Green Park SAT and at what's known as "Forsyte Exchange", they can SAT establish the precise stock of any family member, "who's up, SAT who's down and who might be heading for a fall". But little SAT do they realise in their comfortable, complacent lives how SAT the old world order is changing. Young June Forsyte has SAT fallen in love with the dashing and unorthodox architect, SAT Philip Bosinney. But when she introduces him to her SAT sister-in-law - Soames's wife Irene - scandal is waiting SAT just around the corner. SAT SAT The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute SAT Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. SAT SAT Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are SAT dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have SAT taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind SAT the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful SAT insight, wit and observation from the page. Although SAT focussed on the period in which they were written - in the SAT first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel SAT remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own SAT world and inner lives. SAT SAT Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central SAT role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and SAT Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined SAT by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert. SAT SAT This first 90' drama comprises most of the first novel "The SAT Man of Property". SAT SAT The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT And you can hear the next 2 novels in the Saga - "The SAT Forsytes Continue" - in April. SAT SAT Credits SAT Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson SAT Irene Forsyte: Juliet Aubrey SAT Narrator: Jessica Raine SAT Philip Bosinney: Harry Hadden-Paton SAT Old Jolyon: Brian Protheroe SAT June Forsyte: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey SAT Aunt Juley: Jessica Turner SAT James Forsyte: Gerard McDermott SAT Cab driver: Gerard McDermott SAT Emily Forsyte: Susan Jameson SAT Swithin Forsyte: Sean Baker SAT Bilson: Debra Baker SAT Author: John Galsworthy SAT Adaptor: Shaun McKenna SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06z0ybr (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: The Wainwright Sisters; Anne-Marie SAT Slaughter: Grieving for an Ex SAT SAT Anne-Marie Slaughter caused an internet furore in 2012 with SAT her essay "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" which SAT described her experience of holding down a demanding job SAT whilst parenting demanding teenage sons. In her new book SAT Unfinished Business, Anne-Marie explains why the problem of SAT the work/life balance lies not with women but with the SAT workplace. SAT SAT Martha Wainwright and her half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche SAT talk about growing up as part of a musical dynasty and how SAT the death of Martha's mother Kate McGarrigle at the same SAT time as the birth of her son brought them closer together SAT and inspired the creation of an album of dark lullabies. SAT SAT According to a new study, one in forty teenage girls has ME, SAT or myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue SAT syndrome. Dr Esther Crawley explains the condition, and a SAT sufferer shares her experiences. SAT SAT Why can it be so difficult to accept and move on when a SAT former lover dies? Laura Marcus talks about the impact of SAT losing her ex. SAT SAT The language of genetics is one that has filtered into SAT public consciousness. But how much do we understand how our SAT genes shape us? 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SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Anne-Marie Slaughter SAT Interviewed Guest: Esther Crawley SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Marcus SAT Interviewed Guest: Kat Arney SAT Interviewed Guest: Shirley Yanez SAT Interviewed Guest: Laverne Antrobus SAT Interviewed Guest: Hazel Davis SAT Interviewed Guest: Martha Wainwright SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Wainwright Roche SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06z0ybt (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06yfm8d (Listen) SAT Managing the Boardroom SAT SAT After recent corporate scandals like VW's emissions' SAT cheating, Tesco's accounting irregularities, Barclays SAT interest-rate rigging, many asked why company board members SAT failed to act. What happened to the checks and balances SAT designed to curb management excesses? Evan Davis and guests SAT look at how company boards operate and how to make them work SAT effectively. 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With music from This SAT Is The Kit and Rachel Sermanni. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Phil Collins SAT ‘Face Value’ and ‘Both Sides’ are available now on Atlantic. SAT SAT Kika Markham SAT ‘Escaped Alone’ is at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs until SAT Saturday 12th March. It opens the Royal Court Theatre’s 60th SAT year. SAT SAT Adrian Lester SAT 'Red Velvet' is at London's Garrick Theatre until 27th SAT February. And six-part thriller 'Undercover' will transmit SAT this Spring on BBC One. SAT SAT Jon Ronson SAT 'The Jon Ronson Mysteries' are at London's Leicester Square SAT Theatre from 26th to 30th January. 'So You’ve Been Publicly SAT Shamed' is out now in Picador Paperbacks. SAT SAT This Is The Kit SAT SAT 'Bashed Out' is available now on Brassland. SAT SAT This is The Kit are playing the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival SAT in Bristol on Friday 12th February, Wales Goes Pop at on SAT Friday 25th and The Musician Pub, Leicester on Monday 28th SAT March. Check their website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT Rachel Sermanni SAT 'Tied To The Moon' is available now on Middle Of Nowhere. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Phil Collins SAT Interviewed Guest: Adrian Lester SAT Interviewed Guest: Jon Ronson SAT Interviewed Guest: Kika Markham SAT Performer: This Is the Kit SAT Performer: Rachel Sermanni SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b06z0yc0 (Listen) SAT Series 19, Over Here, Over There SAT SAT From Fact to Fiction is an award-winning series in which SAT writers create a fictional response to the week's news. SAT SAT In a week that saw politicians debate the conditions in SAT migrant camps and the treatment of Asylum Seekers in UK , SAT Shami Chakrabarti takes us to an imagined future. SAT SAT It is 2041. A mother and son argue about his plan to leave SAT the country without permission. She is a settled refugee in SAT her adopted state; the place of his birth. He is a radical; SAT angry at his life of injustice and caught up in his plans to SAT flee, yet he knows very little about his mother's own tale SAT of escape. SAT SAT Mother.....Julie Hesmondhalgh SAT Son.....Nico Mirallegro SAT SAT Director.....Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mother: Julie Hesmondhalgh SAT Actor: Nico Mirallegro SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06z0yc2 (Listen) SAT Spotlight, Youth, My Name is Shylock, Wit and Electronic SAT Superhighway SAT SAT Spotlight starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel SAT McAdams and directed by Tom McCarthy tells the true story of SAT the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize winning "Spotlight" team SAT of investigative journalists, who in 2002 shocked the world SAT by exposing the Catholic Church's systematic cover-up of SAT widespread paedophilia perpetrated by more than 70 local SAT priests. It has six Oscar nominations, including for Best SAT Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. SAT SAT Booker prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson's new novel, SAT My Name is Shylock, is a retelling of Shakespeare's Merchant SAT of Venice - part of a series of Shakespeare-inspired novels SAT by well known writers to mark the 400th anniversary of SAT Shakespeare's death. Jacobson challenges the traditional SAT anti-Semitic interpretations of Shakespeare's most performed SAT play. SAT SAT Academy Award winning director of The Great Beauty Paolo SAT Sorrentino's new film Youth stars Harvey Keitel and Michael SAT Caine, and is set in an elegant hotel in the Swiss Alps. SAT Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film SAT director, is still working. They look with curiosity and SAT tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's SAT enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests, all SAT of whom, it seems, have all the time that they lack. SAT SAT Wit is a Pulitzer Prize winning play by American playwright SAT Margaret Edson which opens at Manchester's Royal Exchange SAT with former Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh. It SAT portrays the final hours of Dr Vivian Bearing, a renowned SAT expert on the work of 17th-century poet John Donne, and who SAT is in hospital dying of ovarian cancer. Edson's first, and SAT only, play, it was inspired by her experience of working on SAT a cancer ward. SAT SAT And Electronic Superhighway, a landmark exhibition at the SAT Whitechapel Gallery in London that brings together over 100 SAT artworks to show the impact of computer and internet SAT technologies on artists from the mid-1960s to the present SAT day. SAT SAT Spotlight SAT Spotlight SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Howard Jacobson SAT SAT Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson is available in SAT hard-back and ebook from Thursday 4 February. SAT SAT Youth SAT Youth SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Wit SAT Wit SAT is at the Royal Exchange heatre in Manchester until 13 SAT February 2016. SAT SAT Image: Esh Alladi and Julie Hesmondhalgh in Wit. Photo by SAT Jonathan Keenan SAT SAT SAT Electronic Superhighway SAT Electronic Superhighway SAT (2016 – 1966 ) is at the Whitechapel Gallery in London until SAT 15 March 2016. SAT SAT Image: Addie Wagenknecht - Asymmetric Love, 2013. Courtesy SAT bitforms gallery, New York. Photograph by David Payr. © SAT Addie Wagenknech SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Philip Sellars SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06z5pts (Listen) SAT David Bowie: Verbatim SAT SAT With previously unheard interviews, studio out takes and a SAT collection of musings from throughout the years, the story SAT of David Bowie's extraordinary life and career told in his SAT own words. SAT SAT By his own count, David Bowie inhabited seven different SAT personas throughout his career and, while each one of those SAT creations channelled wildly different musical influences SAT that were often difficult to identify, Bowie was always able SAT to articulate with great conviction which musical universe SAT he was inhabiting at each turn - even if he often SAT contradicted himself. SAT SAT "I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an SAT awful liar", he claimed in 2002, while summarizing his many SAT changes in style. SAT SAT Producer: Des Shaw SAT A Ten Alps production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06y9b6t (Listen) SAT Utopia SAT SAT 2016 is the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's classic work SAT of speculative fiction, which has entered the culture so SAT deeply that the name of his fictional island is the accepted SAT term for our hopes and dreams of a better society. SAT Poet Michael Symmons Roberts dramatisation brings More's SAT strange and enchanting island to life, told through the SAT memoirs of Raphael Hythloday. SAT More goes on a diplomatic trip to Antwerp, to sort out a SAT dispute in the commercial wool trade between Britain and the SAT Netherlands. While he is there he meets an old man who is SAT clearly widely travelled. SAT SAT More complains about the petty politics of the trade SAT dispute, and the old stranger bemoans the state of SAT contemporary society. There is a better way, he says, and I SAT have seen it. The stranger introduces himself as the SAT explorer and adventurer Raphael Hythloday, who at the height SAT of his career of was sent out from Antwerp to explore an SAT unmapped and remote part of the ocean. After months of SAT sailing, he chanced upon an island society unlike any he had SAT seen before. The island was called 'Utopia'. SAT SAT Utopia fleshes out the story of Raphael's visit to the SAT island, giving us vivid descriptions of the place and its SAT society, its laws and social patterns and customs. SAT All the bearings for this new drama are be taken from the SAT rules and descriptions of the island in More's book, and the SAT clues he gives about Raphael's visit. SAT SAT Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT Credits SAT Raphael Hythloday: Raad Rawi SAT Young Raphael: Nacho Aldeguer SAT Thomas More: Michael Peavoy SAT Achorian: Michael Peavoy SAT Peter Giles: Cameron Blakeley SAT Abraxa: Emily Pithon SAT Barzanes: Jonathan Keeble SAT Macaria: Fiona Clarke SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT Author: Thomas More SAT Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06y8zl6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b06zdk7x (Listen) SAT Best of Four Thought: Hinge Moments in History SAT SAT Another chance to hear three of the best recent episodes of SAT Four Thought, each addressing hinge moments in the history SAT of war and terror, and re-assessing the response of the SAT West. SAT SAT Hashi Mohamed re-interprets a recent British response to an SAT act of terror on our own streets, arguing that the episode SAT tells us a great deal about our nation that we take for SAT granted. SAT SAT Benedict Wilkinson challenges how we think about terrorism SAT more generally, asking us to seriously reconsider how we SAT confront terrorists on a global scale. SAT SAT And drawing on his personal experience of advising Poland SAT and Russia at the end of the Cold War, world-renowned SAT economist Jeffrey Sachs urges us to remember lessons of the SAT past when taking action in the present. SAT SAT Producer: Katie Langton. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b06ybg80 (Listen) SAT Heat 3, 2016 SAT SAT (3/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes four more competitors to the Radio SAT Theatre in London for Heat Three of the 2016 series. This SAT week two of them are from Scotland and two from the South SAT East of England. At least one will be going through to the SAT semi-finals in the spring, and perhaps all the way to taking SAT the coveted title of Brain of Britain. Will they know which SAT of Shakespeare's plays used Geoffrey of Monmouth's History SAT of the Kings of Britain as a major source? Which US SAT President was the first to officially give the White House SAT its name? Or precisely what the word 'cuneiform' means? SAT SAT The Brains will also have to face the challenge of two SAT questions from a listener, which they have to combine their SAT knowledge to tackle, with the setter winning a prize if SAT they're not up to it. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT MIKE CLARK, a voluntary worker from Montrose SAT SAT JANE COOPER, a teacher and writer from Edinburgh SAT SAT COLIN DENSON, a retired civil servant from Croydon SAT SAT JACK WHEELER, a technical architect from London. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06y9b70 (Listen) SAT Robert Burns and More SAT SAT Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including poetry by SAT Robert Burns, Ben Okri and Gerard Manley Hopkins. with SAT readings by Sir Ian McKellan and Liz Lochhead as well as SAT Ariyon Bakare, Jasmine Hyde and Patrick Romer. Producer SAT Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT The Blackbird SAT SAT by W E Henley SAT SAT SAT Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SAT SAT SAT SAT Stormcock in Elder by Ruth Pitter SAT SAT From: Ruth Pitter Collected Poems SAT SAT Pub: Enitharmon 1996 SAT SAT SAT SAT Flowers and Men SAT SAT by DH Lawrence SAT SAT From: DH Lawrence the Complete Poems SAT SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Field SAT SAT by Rose Flint SAT SAT Sourced from: Literaturewales.org SAT SAT SAT SAT Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock SAT SAT by Wallace Stevens SAT SAT Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SAT SAT SAT SAT Elegy SAT SAT by Edna St Vincent Millay SAT SAT From: Collected Poems SAT SAT Pub: Harper & Row SAT SAT SAT SAT I Have Been Through the Gates SAT SAT by Charlotte Mew SAT SAT Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SAT SAT SAT SAT More Fishes than Stars SAT SAT by Ben Okri SAT SAT From: Wild by Ben Okri SAT SAT Pub: Rider, 2012 (Ebury imprint) SAT SAT SAT SAT The Explanation SAT SAT by Kipling SAT SAT From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse SAT SAT Pub: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1989 SAT SAT SAT SAT Song of the Reed SAT SAT by Rumi SAT SAT Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi SAT SAT From: Rumi The Masnavi Book One SAT SAT Pub: Oxford World’s Classics 2004. SAT SAT SAT SAT Bagpipe Music SAT SAT by Louis MacNeice SAT SAT From: Collected Poems SAT SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Inversnaid SAT SAT by G M Hopkins SAT SAT From: the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT SAT Pub: OUP SAT SAT SAT SAT Now Westlin Winds SAT SAT by Robert Burns SAT SAT From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns SAT SAT Pub: Bracken Books SAT SAT SAT SAT The Laws of God The Laws of Man SAT SAT by A. E. Housman SAT SAT From the Collected Poems of A.E.Housman SAT SAT Pub: Jonathan Cape SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Ian McKellan SAT Reader: Liz Lochhead SAT Reader: Ariyon Bakare SAT Reader: Jasmine Hyde SAT Reader: Patrick Romer SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06z178n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Stories b06z1zd9 (Listen) SUN The Tribute SUN SUN Miriam Margolyes reads Jane Gardam's classic short story in SUN which three former colonial ladies gather to pay tribute to SUN their dutiful old nanny, who did so much for them during the SUN halcyon days overseas. When it transpires that she has left SUN something for all of them, they are not at all surprised - SUN until the gift arrives... SUN SUN Reader: Miriam Margolyes is a is a veteran of stage and SUN screen, a BAFTA Award-winning actor, whose roles have SUN included: Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, Scorsese's The Age SUN of Innocence, Cold Comfort Farm and the Harry Potter film SUN series. SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SUN Writer: Born in 1928, Jane Gardam she did not publish her SUN first book until she was in her 40s, but has become one of SUN the most prolific novelists of her generation, with 25 books SUN published over the past 30 years and a number of prestigious SUN prizes to her name (she's twice winner of the Whitbread, and SUN has been shortlisted for both the Booker and Orange prizes). SUN Her novels include Old Filth, Last Friends, God on the Rocks SUN and The Hollow Land. She's been called 'the laureate of the SUN demise of the British Empire', for her poignant and witty SUN portrayals of the end of the era of British imperial SUN adventures. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Miriam Margolyes SUN Author: Jane Gardam SUN Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z178q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z178s (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z178v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06z178x (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06z1zdc (Listen) SUN Bells from St Helen's Church, Lundy Island. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b06yfcpb (Listen) SUN The Meaning of North SUN SUN Alex Beaumont questions the meaning of 'The North'. SUN SUN Growing up in the North of England, in his youth Alex wanted SUN nothing more than to leave for the South. Now he lives in SUN one part of the North, and works in another, but he SUN questions whether 'The North' is a meaningful concept at SUN all. How does it relate to the North of Scotland, or SUN Ireland, and what might the UK government's plan for a SUN 'Northern Powerhouse' mean in practice? SUN SUN Producer: Katie Langton. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06z178z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06z1zdf (Listen) SUN Pricking Pomposity SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the social role of mockery, the art of SUN parody, lampoon and satire and what society gains from SUN having its pomposity pricked. SUN SUN He talks to cartoonist Steve Bell about the purpose of SUN caricature, the hurt it may cause and the good it can do. SUN With readings from poets Edward Bulwer Lytton and Carol Ann SUN Duffy, and journalist Joe Queenan, along with music ranging SUN from Beethoven to Jean Knight, this is a study in having our SUN pomposity pricked. SUN SUN The readers are Polly Frame, Francis Cadder and Jasper SUN Britton. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Portrait Of The Duke of Wellington SUN Author: Lord Lytton SUN Published by: Penguin in the ‘Penguin Book of Satirical SUN Verse’ SUN Title: Julius SUN Author: William Shakespeare SUN Published by: Wordsworth Edition SUN Title: Mr. Big Stuff SUN Label: Jean Knight SUN Album: Mr. Big Stuff SUN Title: Base Details SUN Author: Siegfried Sassoon SUN Published by: Penguin in the Penguin Book of Satirical Verse SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06z1zdh (Listen) SUN Phil Drabble SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN Many a naturalist today grew up to the well-known voice of SUN Phil Drabble as the founding father of backdoor wildlife on SUN TV in the 1970's and 80's. In this programme recorded in SUN 1991, Peter France is joined by Phil Drabble at his home, SUN which is surrounded by a nature reserve Phil has managed SUN since buying the land in the 1960's. At the time of this SUN recording it was 21 years after Living World's first visit SUN here in 1970. Much had changed in that time so Phil takes SUN Peter on a tour to explain his life's work. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06z1793 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06z1795 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06z1zdk (Listen) SUN Cathedral costs, 4th-century Bible, Is it human nature to SUN believe in God? SUN SUN Edward Stourton asks: is it human nature to believe in God? SUN He is joined by Dominic Johnson and Conor Cunningham to SUN discuss. SUN SUN Bob Walker reports on a BBC English Regions poll that SUN reveals that almost three quarters of England's Anglican SUN cathedrals say they're 'worried' or 'very worried' that SUN they're not going to be able to fund cathedral costs in two SUN years' time. SUN SUN The suicide of Rohith Chakravarti Vemula , at Hyderabad SUN University has re-ignited caste controversies in India. SUN Rahul Tandon reports from Dehli. SUN SUN On Monday all eyes in America will be on Iowa, it's the 1st SUN leg of the caucus's that will decide on the presidential SUN candidates for the election in November. Alexander Smith SUN talks to Edward about what role religion plays in the SUN presidential race. SUN SUN Catholic clergy are expected to join a demonstration in Rome SUN this weekend to promote traditional family life. Christopher SUN Lamb is in Rome and explains the significance of this as it SUN comes at the same time as politician's debate a gay union's SUN bill. Meanwhile in the UK Professor David Voas looks at the SUN findings of a YouGov Poll that sates for the first time, SUN more Church of England members support same sex marriage SUN than oppose it.. SUN SUN Created in the middle of the fourth century, the Codex SUN Sinaiticus is one of the earliest Christian Bibles. The SUN Codex forms one of the most important landmarks in the SUN history of the book. Trevor Barnes went along to the British SUN Library to see why. SUN SUN Edward talks to Fr Jeffery Whorton, the last priest to SUN celebrate mass at altar in the Saint Elijah monastery in SUN Iraq before it was destroyed by Isis, talks to Sunday about SUN the significance of the site. SUN SUN Photo Credit: New lady Chapel Lichfield Cathedral - Paul SUN Horton SUN SUN Producers SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06z1zdm (Listen) SUN Childreach International SUN SUN Actress Gillian Anderson presents The Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of Childreach International. SUN Registered Charity No 1132203 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Childreach International'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Childreach SUN International'. SUN SUN Childreach International SUN SUN Childreach International’s Taught , Not Trafficked campaign SUN works in Nepal to ensure that children, who have lost their SUN homes, families and schools after the earthquakes last year, SUN remain safe and in education. Our approach begins with SUN rebuilding classrooms in Sindhupalchowk, one of the worst SUN affected districts. But we also collaborate with the SUN government, local community members, parents and teachers to SUN ensure that the realities of trafficking are not only SUN understood, but acted on. SUN Every penny of your donation to the Taught, Not Trafficked SUN campaign will go to ensuring that children in Nepal can SUN return to education and do not fall into the preying hands SUN of traffickers. Children like… SUN SUN Ashish SUN *“After all the schools were destroyed, I spent most of my SUN time roaming around the village with my friends. It wasn’t SUN particularly safe, but there was nothing else to do. Then SUN we heard about Childreach’s temporary learning centres and SUN started going. We cannot wait for our new classrooms to be SUN constructed!”* SUN SUN And Maya SUN SUN When Maya grows up, she dreams of being a policewoman. She SUN loves to help people, and wants to make a difference in the SUN world. But to do this, she needs to finish school. Maya’s SUN family benefited from our temporary shelters after the SUN earthquake, as their home was destroyed. Now, she looks SUN forward to completing her education in a safe, new classroom SUN with her friends. SUN SUN Our first classrooms SUN SUN In November 2015, we opened our first fourteen classrooms in SUN Banksharka, Sindhupalchowk. 490 children in that community SUN can now continue their education in a safe and warm space. SUN With your help, even more children will soon be able to get SUN back to school. SUN All children should be free to live, learn and play. 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Producer: Philip Billson SUN SUN "A light for those who dwell in darkness" SUN SUN How can Christian faith transform the lives of those doing SUN time in prison for some of the most serious offences? On SUN Sunday 31st January at 0810, Radio 4's Sunday Worship comes SUN from St Leonard's Chapel in the heart of Long Lartin High SUN Security Prison, Worcestershire. With rare access, the SUN recorded service - BBC Radio 4's Sunday church strand - SUN gives the radio audience a window into this cloistered high SUN security world. Part of the special access afforded Radio 4 SUN by the Chaplaincy and the MOJ includes direct testimony from SUN three prisoners, recorded by Quaker Chaplain (and former BBC SUN Radio 3 producer) Judith Roles: One prisoner said: SUN SUN I'm on my 6th year into a 24 year sentence for murder. I SUN found my faith again from finding myself at the end of the SUN line, having crossed the line of no return and realising SUN that enough's enough and that there's only one way forward SUN from where I found myself and that's to try to become more SUN involved in my faith, which I've always had but I've never SUN followed. I believe that having faith in my life now anyway, SUN makes me a lot calmer in the dreaded situation that I'm in. SUN Perhaps my hopes for my future is to become a good Christian SUN person that can live in this society where society doesn't SUN fear me for what I've done and hopefully one day will SUN understand that I can be a good person and that I am truly SUN sorry for what I did and I'd do anything to change it. SUN SUN As well as covering the experience of prisoners living SUN 'inside' Long Lartin the audience hear of the remorse and SUN sorrow some prisoners feel for their crimes, and prayers are SUN said for victims and the bereaved by prisoners, prison SUN visitors and the Chaplains. The service is led by Managing SUN Chaplain Kevin Downham alongside Judith Roles and the SUN preacher is another Anglican Chaplain the Reverend Doctor SUN Stephen Blake. Producer Philip Billson said that the prison SUN community wanted to keep the music as realistic to what SUN might be heard 'inside' as possible, with a prisoner's SUN choir, directed by Free Church Chaplain Lesley Nicholson SUN accompanied by a Salvation Army Band. The prisoners were SUN assisted by a vocal octet from 'outside' Octavo who also SUN sing part of James MacMillan's anthem: O Radiant Dawn. SUN SUN Philip Billson explained, "The names of those prisoners SUN taking part are anonymised to try to protect the victims and SUN their families affected by serious crime". So just how SUN effective is prison ministry in reforming some of the most SUN hardened criminals? If one prisoners' testimony is anything SUN to go by, Quaker spirituality has completely turned his life SUN around: SUN SUN A little over 20 years ago I took a man's life, causing SUN tremendous hurt to his family, as well as destroying my own. SUN This was devastating for everyone. I did not want to think SUN about it - to face the enormity of what I had done. So I SUN spent the first 15 years of my sentence getting out of my SUN head on smack. I was certain that I would die in prison so SUN nothing mattered anymore. SUN SUN About 18 months ago I had a series of heart attacks - it SUN terrified me that the lights can go out so quickly. I spoke SUN to a priest I saw by chance on the wing, I wanted to know SUN why God had let me live. I found myself thinking of God for SUN the first time in years. SUN SUN A few months later I was segregated in healthcare again. SUN Each day a chaplain visited. I would always have a chat with SUN them and it was then that I met the 2 Quaker chaplains. The SUN more I spoke to them, the more comfortable I became with SUN Quakerism. I felt it was like putting on an old comfortable SUN jumper. I still had the hump with God but this just felt SUN right. Almost immediately my life began to improve, I knew SUN instinctively that a divine presence was with me. SUN SUN I now attend our Meeting for Worship every Friday - it is SUN now the highlight of my week - it fills me up - I can't SUN explain it any better than that. Nearly a year on, my anger SUN at everything is dissipating and most importantly I now feel SUN hope for my future. I have a burning need to do things for SUN people. I feel that I have the strength of spirit and the SUN enthusiasm to change the world. I'm at the beginning of a SUN journey I don't want to end. Never thought that would happen SUN - but God, as they say, moves in mysterious ways. I can live SUN with that! SUN SUN This is not the first time Sunday Worship has come from a SUN prison - the programme was recorded in Gartree Prison in SUN November 2002. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06yfyqf (Listen) SUN Expert by Experience SUN SUN After hearing a former political prisoner in South Africa SUN and a holocaust survivor tell their stories, Tom Shakespeare SUN concludes that personal experience is the most powerful form SUN of expertise. SUN SUN "Hearing their testimonies affected me more deeply than any SUN lecture, book or film. They were unforgettable authentic SUN encounters." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0pm9 (Listen) SUN Black-Footed Albatross 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 black-footed albatross of Midway SUN Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Two dusky-brown birds point SUN their bills skywards to cement their lifelong relationship, SUN these are black-footed albatrosses are plighting their troth SUN in a former theatre of war. At only a few square kilometres SUN in size, the island of Midway is roughly half way between SUN North America and Japan. Once it was at the heart of the SUN Battle of Midway during World War Two, but today it forms SUN part of a Wildlife Refuge run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife SUN Service and is home to white laysan albatross and the darker SUN Black footed Albatross. Around 25,000 pairs of Black-foots SUN breed here. Each pair's single chick is fed on regurgitated SUN offal for six months, after which it learns to fly and then SUN can be vulnerable to human activity on the airbase. But SUN careful management of both species of albatrosses near the SUN airstrip has reduced the number of casualties to a minimum. SUN SUN Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Michael Pitts / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01114875 SUN © Michael Pitts / naturepl.com. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06z179c (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 b06z1zdr (Listen) SUN Adam seems to have forgotten something. And what would SUN David's ancestors have thought? SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Matthew Holman: Michael Winder SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06z1zdt (Listen) SUN Bill Gates SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Bill Gates. SUN SUN He sat at his first computer while still at school in SUN Seattle, wrote his first computer programme aged just 13 and SUN went on to co-found the company Microsoft, becoming one of SUN the key figures of the technological revolution. In 2000, he SUN and his wife, Melinda, launched the Bill and Melinda Gates SUN Foundation which has given to date over $34 billion to SUN projects aimed at reducing health inequality around the SUN world. SUN SUN Born into a professional family - his father was a lawyer, SUN his mother a former teacher who later became involved with SUN volunteer work - he was introduced to the idea of 'giving SUN back' at an early age. An avid reader as a child, he SUN attended Harvard where in his sophomore year he and Paul SUN Allen developed software for the first micro-computers. The SUN company would go on to achieve huge success with its Windows SUN operating system. SUN SUN By 1987, Gates had become the world's youngest self-made SUN billionaire, then worth $1.25 billion. Consistently listed SUN as the Richest Man in the World, he stepped down as CEO of SUN the company in 2000 although he remained as Chairman until SUN 2014. SUN SUN These days his primary focus is his philanthropy. In 2010, SUN Gates and his friend Warren Buffett announced the Giving SUN Pledge which aims to inspire the wealthy people of the world SUN to give away the majority of their net worth to worthy SUN causes. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Bill Gates SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06z179f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b06ybgxr (Listen) SUN Series 8, Ward, Sharman, Blofeld SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Sarah Millican welcome an award-winning Australian SUN comedian who is so much more than a mere joker, Felicity SUN Ward; the cricket commentator whose association with James SUN Bond villainy is more than a mere coincidence, Henry SUN Blofeld; and a former chemist from Mars who is more than a SUN Mir astronaut, Dr Helen Sharman OBE. SUN SUN This week, the Museum's guests discuss the cultural SUN significance of Australians using watermelons as hats; how SUN you can increase your stature in more ways than one by going SUN into space; how it took an author as inventive as P.G. SUN Wodehouse to coin the word 'gruntled' decades after the word SUN 'disgruntled'; the vital importance of toilets; and the SUN coolest possible way of telling mountain trekkers where you SUN were when you first saw the Himalayas. SUN SUN The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of SUN QI. SUN SUN The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. SUN SUN It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Sarah Millican SUN Interviewed Guest: Felicity Ward SUN Interviewed Guest: Henry Blofeld SUN Interviewed Guest: Helen Sharman SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06z1zdw (Listen) SUN Newcastle: The Story of a City through Its Food SUN SUN Dan Saladino meets the people working to improve the food SUN future of Newcastle. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06z179h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06z1zdy (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Can We Trust the Opinion Polls? b06z1zf0 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Last year's general election should have been an easy result SUN to predict. There was a constant stream of opinion polls, SUN many more than in previous campaigns. But they turned out to SUN be highly misleading, suggesting a hung parliament. The SUN actual result was a huge shock to the polling industry. So SUN went wrong with the polls, and why? And how easy will it be SUN to put it right? SUN SUN In the final part of a series examining the role of opinion SUN polling in British politics, David Cowling asks if polling SUN will be more reliable in future and if the industry can SUN restore its reputation in the wake of its errors at the last SUN general election. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06yfyp7 (Listen) SUN Barnard Castle SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel are in Barnard Castle, County SUN Durham. Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and Matt Biggs SUN answer this week's questions from the audience. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – My siblings and I challenge each other to grow unusual SUN plants. This year we all received coffee seeds – does the SUN panel have any hints that could give me an advantage? SUN SUN Christine – Try and find the warmest, brightest indoor SUN position. Bright light, minimum temperature of at least SUN 55-60F (12.5-15.5C) if you can, syringe the plant regularly, SUN don’t overdo nitrogenous fertilizer, use a John Innes Number SUN 2 soil based compost. SUN SUN Matt – If your bathroom is bright I’d start it in there so SUN it gets the moisture when you’re showering. Quarter-turn SUN the plant daily so the whole thing gets plenty of light. SUN Q – Given that our gardens spend much of the year underwater SUN – what plants can help dry out the soil? SUN SUN Matt – You could go for bog garden plants like the SUN Ligularias, there’s one called przewalskii which has large SUN heart-shaped leaves. Also the Ligularia dentate SUN ‘Britt-Marie Crawford’ – dark purple leaves. A lot of the SUN Salix (Willows) would grow well, too. SUN SUN Christine – Alnus incana ‘Aurea’ – beautiful orange-stemmed SUN Alder. Also, the Trolliuses, the Astilbes, the Filipendulas, SUN the Mimuluses, the Myosotises… SUN SUN So go down the bog garden route. SUN Q – My beautiful bay tree is being ravaged by some sort of SUN beastie which is laying eggs in it. I now have lots of SUN larvae coming out of the leaves. What is it? SUN SUN Pippa – You’ve got bay sucker here. They’re not aphids but SUN look similar – they suck the sap and then the produce a SUN toxin and that’s what is dis-colouring the plant. Not a lot SUN you can do I’m afraid. But you can prune out the SUN worst-affected areas. SUN Q – Should I split a large number of Dahlia tubers? If so, SUN how and when? SUN SUN Christine – I’d split for sure! I would set it in a tray of SUN compost to get it to start shooting or at least allow the SUN buds to become obvious on the individual tubers. Then you SUN can just slice it off. SUN Q – About four years ago I planted a Damson tree in very SUN good soil. It thrived and looks healthy but so far I have SUN no blossom and no damsons. I believe it’s self-fertile. SUN It’s now about 10ft (3m) tall. SUN SUN Matt – I imagine the soil is too rich and it is growing SUN rather than flowering. Try to adjust the soil away from SUN being to rich in nitrogen. Hopefully then the stems will SUN mature and bear blossom/fruit. SUN Q – We have a ‘Rambling Rector’ which hasn’t been pruned SUN since it was planted six years ago. It’s taken over, grown SUN very tall, and not grown over the pergola it was supposed SUN to. What do I need to do? SUN SUN Christine – I would hammer it! It is a vast rose. I SUN suspect it’s not the right rose for that position. If you SUN do prune it you will need to do so every few years. I’d SUN tackle it between now and March. Take it down to about 6ft SUN (1.8m). Be warned, the harder you prune, the more vigorous SUN it will grow back! SUN Q – I have an area of land that’s about 8ft x 6ft. (2.5m x SUN 1.8m) It has a steep slope and is under trees. My pet SUN peacock is buried here. Underneath the soil is coal. I SUN would like all-year colour and to cover the whole area on a SUN tight budget. What could you recommend? SUN SUN Christine - I would go for Cyclamen hederifolium. All of SUN the spring bulbs would be good and some of the autumn bulbs SUN like Sternburgia might be ok. SUN SUN Matt – Snowdrops. Geranium macrorrhizum. Geranium phaeum SUN ‘Lily Lovell’. The herbaceous hardy Geraniums, not the SUN tender Pelargoniums. SUN SUN Pippa – Wood anemones. Native bluebells. Waldsteinia SUN ternata. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06z1zf2 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about various ways of living SUN family life - married or not, in one home or two, and how SUN not to introduce a step parent, in the Omnibus edition of SUN the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN 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 b06z1zf4 (Listen) SUN Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul, Episode 1 SUN SUN by Graham Greene SUN SUN The first of two episodes dramatised for radio by Nick SUN Warburton. SUN SUN In a conversation with Nicholas Shakespeare, Graham Greene SUN once named 'The Honorary Consul' as his favourite among all SUN his novels, "..because the characters change and that is SUN very difficult to do." SUN SUN In this superbly tense story of political kidnap and sexual SUN betrayal set at the beginning of Argentina's Dirty War in SUN early 1970s, Greene's characters find themselves on a SUN switchback ride of love, sacrifice and violence. SUN SUN Isolated Dr Eduardo Plarr, son of a missing political SUN prisoner, is lured into collaborating with a defrocked SUN priest in a kidnap plot, only to find the lives of two SUN people he doesn't care for, suddenly in his hands. SUN SUN Meanwhile Charles Fortnum, the elderly and drunken Honorary SUN Consul in a one-horse town near the Paraguayan border, faces SUN his own terrors, and the loss of the young prostitute he has SUN fallen in love with. SUN SUN Greene added: "For me the sinner and the saint can meet; SUN there is no discontinuity, no rupture... The basic element I SUN admire in Christianity is its sense of moral failure. That SUN is its very foundation. For once you're conscious of SUN personal failure, then perhaps in future you become a little SUN less fallible. In 'The Honorary Consul' I did suggest this SUN idea, through the guerrilla priest, that God and the devil SUN were actually one and the same person - God had a day-time SUN and a night-time face, but that He evolved, as Christ tended SUN to prove, towards His day-time face - absolute goodness - SUN thanks to each positive act of men." SUN SUN Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dr Eduardo Plarr: Geoffrey Streatfeild SUN Charley Fortnum: Matthew Marsh SUN Leon Rivas: Stefano Braschi SUN Aquino: Martin Marquez SUN Clara: Beatriz Romilly SUN Dr Humphries: Ewan Bailey SUN Colonel Perez: Chris Pavlo SUN Gruber: Sean Baker SUN Father: Brian Protheroe SUN Teresa: Rebecca Hamilton SUN Author: Graham Greene SUN Adaptor: Nick Warburton SUN Director: Jonquil Panting SUN Producer: Jonquil Panting SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06z1zf6 (Listen) SUN Patrick Flanery SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Patrick Flanery about his new SUN novel I Am No One, a disturbing tale of transatlantic SUN surveillance, as a university professor comes to realise he SUN is being watched. And she discusses the joys of writing SUN about the 1976 heatwave with two writers, Joanna Cannon and SUN Isabel Ashdown, who are bringing some summer sun to these SUN winter months. Acclaimed novelist Han Kang sends a literary SUN postcard from South Korea and Mariella explores the literary SUN past of one of this year's Oscar contenders, The Martian. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of I Am No One by Patrick Flanery SUN I Am No One: Chapter 1 SUN by Patrick Flanery SUN SUN Lab Lit SUN LabLit SUN - the culture of science in fiction and fact SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Patrick Flanery SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Cannon SUN Interviewed Guest: Isabel Ashdown SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06z1zf8 (Listen) SUN Gothic Poetry SUN SUN Roger McGough gets eerie with selection of gothic poetry SUN from Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti and SUN Percy Shelley. With archive recordings from Sir John Gielgud SUN and Robert Donat, as well as readings by Ariyon Bakare, SUN Jasmine Hyde and Shirley Henderson. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN The Raven SUN by Edgar Allan Poe SUN SUN From: Bartleby.com SUN SUN Ode To The West Wind SUN by Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN SUN From: Shelley’s Poetry and Prose SUN SUN Pub: A Norton Critical Edition 2002 SUN SUN SUN The Sick Rose SUN by William Blake SUN From: SUN From Blake's Poetical Works SUN SUN Pub: OUP 1934 SUN SUN La Belle Dame Sans Merci SUN by John Keats SUN SUN From: Keats’s Poetry and Prose SUN SUN Pub: A Norton Critical Edition, 2009 SUN SUN SUN Annabel Lee SUN by Edgar Allan Poe SUN SUN From: Bartleby.com SUN SUN The Moon and The Yew Tree SUN by Sylvia Plath SUN SUN From: Sylvia Plath Collected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Faber SUN SUN SUN Beach Burial SUN by Kenneth Slessor SUN SUN From: Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SUN SUN SUN Extract from Goblin Market SUN by Christina Rossetti SUN SUN From: Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: John Gielgud SUN Reader: Robert Donat SUN Reader: Ariyon Bakare SUN Reader: Jasmine Hyde SUN Reader: Shirley Henderson SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06ycr55 (Listen) SUN NHS Contracts: Tender Issues SUN SUN File on 4 uncovers the story behind the collapse of one of SUN the biggest health contracts ever put out to tender. Last SUN April an NHS consortium of Cambridge University Hospitals SUN and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust SUN successfully bid to run older peoples' health services. But SUN in December the £800m, five year contract ended without SUN warning, with local commissioners saying only that it was SUN "no longer financially sustainable." Jane Deith asks what SUN the failure of the Cambridgeshire contract means for the SUN broader policy of trying to improve NHS services by opening SUN massive contracts to competition between Trusts and the SUN private sector. SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b06z0yc0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06z179k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06z179m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z179p (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06z1zfb (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea SUN SUN The best of BBC Radio this week on Pick of the Week with SUN Ernie Rae which includes the story of a member of the SUN Goering Family who used his own money to save Jews from the SUN Gas Chambers; then the woman who pleaded with the American SUN courts not to execute the man who murdered her daughter: and SUN the Gospel Singer who toted a pistol which she called Little SUN Ethel to make sure she got paid. We hear from the man who SUN climbed a mountain just ten months after he lost both legs SUN in a mountaineering accident. And for light relief, Nigel SUN Kennedy plays Jimi Hendrix. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06z1zfd (Listen) SUN Jim is making a big effort for the bird watch. And Roy has a SUN spare ticket for a grand day out. SUN SUN 19:15 So Wrong It's Right b01jhdh7 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN SUN Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show devoted to the SUN art of being wrong, with leading comics and entertainers SUN competing to give the best in wrong answers. SUN SUN So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie challenge the panel's SUN creativity and asks them to reveal their finest embarrassing SUN stories from their lives. This week the worst experiences at SUN a party and terrible ideas for a series of children's books SUN are just two of the challenges faced by the panel. Will SUN anyone beat Isy Suttie's suggestion for a 'wrong' children's SUN book - the paperwork-themed 'Morris The Admin Mouse'? SUN SUN The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SUN writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series SUN Newswipe and Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been SUN Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards SUN 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press SUN Awards for his newspaper columns. SUN SUN Produced by Aled Evans SUN A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b06z1zfg (Listen) SUN Scottish Shorts, The Mary Tree SUN SUN By Linda Cracknell SUN A boy visiting his mother in hospital meets a strange SUN character with intriguing tales of a lost landmark. SUN Read by Robert Jack SUN Producer Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Author Linda Cracknell has been inspired by her work as SUN writer-in-residence at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children SUN in Edinburgh. The hospital moves to a new location in 2017. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06yfypf (Listen) SUN How Harmful Is Alcohol? SUN SUN New alcohol guidelines were issued recently which lowered SUN the number of units recommended for safe drinking. But are SUN the benefits and harms of alcohol being judged correctly? We SUN speak to Professor David Speigelhalter and SUN SUN Sepsis - do 44,000 people die of it a year? Is it the SUN country's second biggest killer? We speak to Dr Marissa SUN Mason about the difficulties of knowing the numbers. SUN SUN Dan Bouk tells the story of a statistician who crept around SUN graveyards in South Carolina at the turn of the century SUN recording how long people lived - all to help out an SUN insurance firm. SUN It's from his book 'How our days became numbered' - looking SUN at how data from insurance company has shaped knowledge SUN about our lives. SUN SUN Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden or is SUN there something funny going on? It has been reported that SUN there are 123 boys for every 100 girls aged between 16 and SUN 17 in Sweden. In China, the ratio is 117 boys to 100 girls. SUN We explore if the numbers add up and why this might be. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06yfypc (Listen) SUN Lord Parksinson, Bill Mitchell, Paddy Doherty, Lt Col Henry SUN Worsley, Gladys-Marie Fry SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Conservative politician Lord Parkinson. He masterminded SUN the 1983 election victory but was forced to resign when his SUN affair with his secretary was revealed. SUN SUN Bill Mitchell, who lived and breathed the Yorkshire Dales, SUN editing the Dalesman magazine and writing hundreds of books. SUN SUN Paddy Doherty, the Irish Republican activist who played a SUN leading role in Derry's 1969 Battle of the Bogside. SUN SUN Henry Worsley, the former SAS soldier and explorer who died SUN whilst attempting the first solo unaided crossing of SUN Antarctica. SUN SUN And Dr Gladys-Marie Fry, the folklorist who chronicled the SUN African American experience. SUN SUN Lord Parkinson (Pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to British broadcaster and journalist; Michael SUN Cockerell. SUN SUN Born 1 September 1931; died 22 January 2016 aged 84 SUN SUN Bill Mitchell MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Editor the Dalesman, Adrian Bradley. SUN SUN Born 15 January 1928; died 7 October 2015 aged 87 SUN SUN Paddy Doherty SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Journalist and Commentator, Eamon McCann. SUN SUN Born March 1926; died 7 January 2016 aged 89 SUN SUN Lt Col Henry Worsley MBE SUN SUN Last Word spoke to friend Rear Admiral, Nick Lambert. SUN SUN Born 4 October 1960; died 24 January 2016 aged 55 SUN SUN Gladys-Marie Fry SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former student, Cheryl LaRoche. SUN SUN Born 6 April 1931; died 7 November 2015 aged 84 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06z0tzn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06z1zdm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06ybnh1 (Listen) SUN Tomas Sedlacek: The Economics of Good and Evil SUN SUN What have the Book of Genesis and the movie Fight Club got SUN to do with GDP? According to the radical Czech economist, SUN Tomas Sedlacek, quite a lot. He believes notions of sin and SUN belief recorded in ancient texts should influence our SUN thinking about the contemporary economy - and he describes SUN the biblical story of the 7 fat cows and 7 lean cows as "the SUN first macro-economic forecast". He argues passionately that SUN we need to make the economy work for us, rather than us SUN working for the state of the economy. And he condemns the SUN way most nations have got themselves hooked on debt, in a SUN never-ending cycle. SUN SUN Evan Davis interviewed Sedlacek,at University College London SUN as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations for the School SUN of Slavonic and East European Studies. SUN SUN Producer: Hugh Levinson. SUN SUN Czech economist, Tomas Sedlacek, in discussion with Evan SUN Davis SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06z179r (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06z1zfj (Listen) SUN Zoe Williams of The Guardian looks at how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06yfjdm (Listen) SUN Anna Karina on her life and work with Godard SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Anna Karina talks about her life and work with Jean-Luc SUN Godard - why he asked her to take her clothes off in their SUN first meeting and how he would disappear for weeks after SUN apparently popping out to the shop around the corner. SUN SUN Stanley Tucci discusses his role in Spotlight, an Oscar SUN nominated drama about the expose of a cover-up by the SUN Catholic Church in Boston, and why he decided not to meet SUN the man he was playing. SUN SUN Sound designer Eugene Gearty explains how he got inside the SUN head of Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys bio-pic Love & SUN Mercy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Anna Karina SUN Interviewed Guest: Stanley Tucci SUN Interviewed Guest: Eugene Gearty SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06z1zdf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06z17cd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06ycz4l (Listen) MON The Creative Economy, 'Grudge' Spending MON MON The Creative Economy: Angela McRobbie, Professor of MON Communications at the Goldsmiths, questions what's at stake MON in the new politics of culture and creativity. Talking to a MON range of artists, stylists, fashion designers and policy MON makers, she considers if the new 'creative economy' is a MON form of labour reform which accustoms the young, urban MON middle classes to a world of work which lacks the security MON of previous generations. She's joined by Christopher MON Frayling, Chancellor of the Arts University, Bournemouth and MON former Chair of the Arts Council England. MON Grudge spending: Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology at the MON University of Oxford, explores how we feel about buying MON security, compared to more enjoyable forms of spending. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Angela McRobbie at Goldsmiths, University of London MON Sir Christopher Frayling, educationalist, writer and MON Chancellor at the Arts University Bournemouth MON Ian Loader at the University of Oxford MON MON Angela McRobbie, *Be Creative: Making a Living in the New MON Culture Industries*, (Polity Press, 2015) MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06z1zdc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z17cg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z17cj (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z17cl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06z17cn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06z9g0r (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Edwin Counsell, Director of Education for the Church in MON Wales. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06z255q (Listen) MON Subsidy Payments and Disease on Farms MON MON Farmers still waiting for their subsidy payments are MON becoming increasingly frustrated but the Rural Payment MON Agency says that 70 per cent of payments have been made as MON of the end of January. MON MON Andrew Dawes visits a farmer trying to keep a rare-breed of MON sheep alive. Paula Wolton keeps Whiteface Dartmoors and MON promotes the breed by taking her shepherds hut on the road MON with her project 'One Hut Full'. MON MON Also, later this week the National Office for Animal Health MON will publish an update to its report on antibiotic MON resistance in animals, and so all this week we'll be looking MON at on-farm disease control: how to stop infections getting MON onto the farm, and what to do if they do arrive. We kick off MON the week with Nigel Gibbens, chief vet for England. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06z17cq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v6r (Listen) MON American Bald Eagle MON MON Michael Palin presents the iconic bald eagle from Alaska. In MON days of yore, when bald meant "white" rather than hairless, MON these magnificent birds with a two metre wingspans were MON common over the whole of North America. They were revered in MON native American cultures. The Sioux wore eagle feathers in MON their head-dresses to protect them in battle and the MON Comanche celebrated the birds with an eagle dance. MON MON The bird became a national symbol for the United States of MON America and on the Great Seal is pictured grasping a bunch MON of arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other. MON MON But pomp and reverence don't always guarantee protection. In MON 1962 in her classic book "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson MON warned that bald eagle populations had dwindled alarmingly MON and that the birds were failing to reproduce successfully. MON Rightly, she suspected that pesticides were responsible. MON Bald eagle populations crashed across the USA from the MON middle of the twentieth century, but fortunately are now MON recovering following a ban on the use of the offending MON pesticides. MON MON Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Matthew Maran / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01348129 MON © Matthew Maran / naturepl.com. MON MON 06:00 Today b06z9g0t (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06z255s (Listen) MON Language and Reinvention MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to the violinist MON Edward Dusinberre about interpreting Beethoven's string MON quartets. The sixteen quartets are challenging to play and MON appreciate alike, and have been subject to endless MON reinterpretation. The director, Mariame Clément, puts her MON own spin on the rarely performed comic opera L'Etoile, MON introducing two actors - one English, one French - to MON comment on the action. A missing interpreter is at the heart MON of Diego Marani's new novel, which combines the author's MON promotion of multilingualism with an interest in the MON relationship between language and identity. While the poet MON Vahni Capildeo, who moved from her native Trinidad to MON Britain, explores the complexity of identity and exile and MON finds herself drawn to words: "Language is my home, I say; MON not one particular language." MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Edward Dusinberre MON Interviewed Guest: Mariame Clement MON Interviewed Guest: Vahni Capildeo MON Interviewed Guest: Diego Marani MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06z255v (Listen) MON Stop the Clocks, Episode 1 MON MON Since she reached the age of 80, Dame Joan Bakewell has been MON working harder than ever - campaigning, writing and sitting MON in the Lords. Now the former journalist takes a moment to MON reflect on the passage of time, and the changes she has MON witnessed in her lifetime. Her theme is 'thoughts on what I MON leave behind'. MON MON Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what MON Joan Bakewell was given by her family, at the times in which MON she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life, such as the MON knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with MON hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of MON lovers, of betrayal. MON MON At times joyful, at times pensive, she contemplates the past MON without regret, and looks to the future without fear, but MON with firm resolve. Once the 'thinking man's crumpet', Joan MON remains outspoken and outrageous. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON Author/Reader: Joan Bakewell MON Abridgers: David Roper and Joan Bakewell MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Joan Bakewell MON Author: Joan Bakewell MON Abridger: Joan Bakewell MON Abridger: David Roper MON Producer: David Roper MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06z255x (Listen) MON Helen Dunmore, How women in Brazil are coping with the Zika MON virus, Long-distance relationships MON MON Award-winning author Helen Dunmore joins Jane to discuss her MON new novel Exposure. Set in 1960's London during the Cold MON War, they'll be talking all things, spies, secrets and MON double lives. MON MON The Zika virus is being linked to thousands of babies being MON born with birth defects. We hear from Brazil about how women MON in the affected countries who are pregnant or planning to MON have children are coping with the challenges of the disease. MON MON Making friends with other mothers can be one of the most MON important, and daunting, aspects of becoming a parent but MON are these friendships based on support and camaraderie or is MON about creating careful networks for ourselves and our MON children? Dr Jennie Bristow and Anne-Marie O'Leary, MON Editor-in-Chief of Netmums discuss. MON MON What are the challenges when it comes to being in a long MON distance relationship? And how is the digital age making an MON impact? Three young women share their experiences. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Anne Peacock. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Dunmore MON Interviewed Guest: Jennie Bristow MON Interviewed Guest: Anne-Marie O'Leary MON Producer: Anne Peacock MON MON 10:45 The Forsytes b06z255z (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON John Galsworthy's epic novels of sex, money and power in an MON upper class family. MON Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna MON MON As Soames Forsyte prepares to face his wife's lover in MON court, an unidentified body lies in the city morgue. MON MON Original music composed by Neil Brand MON MON Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins MON MON Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new MON dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The MON Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the MON lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 MON years from 1886 to 1936. MON MON Today's play concludes the first novel "The Man of MON Property". It's the day after Irene Forsyte's lover, the MON architect, Philip Bosinney, was struck down in the fog by a MON hansom cab. Irene waits in his lodgings for his return. MON MON The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute MON Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. MON MON Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are MON dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have MON taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind MON the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful MON insight, wit and observation from the page. Although MON focussed on the period in which they were written - in the MON first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel MON remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own MON world and inner lives. MON MON Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central MON role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and MON Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined MON by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert. MON MON The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins. MON MON Credits MON Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson MON Irene Forsyte: Juliet Aubrey MON Narrator: Jessica Raine MON Old Jolyon: Brian Protheroe MON June Forsyte: Rebecca Hamilton MON Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey MON James Forsyte: Gerard McDermott MON Emily Forsyte: Susan Jameson MON Inspector: Sean Baker MON Author: John Galsworthy MON Adaptor: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr5yr (Listen) MON In July last year, veteran Bristol DJ, Derek Serpell-Morris, MON known as "DJ Derek", went missing. He was last seen on CCTV MON camera leaving a pub, but after that, nothing. He might as MON well have vanished into thin air. His great niece, Jennifer MON Griffiths, used to be his PR manager, and for the last six MON months she has been the public face of the campaign to find MON Derek. Over those months, we follow Jennifer as she goes MON through the cycles of hope and despair, following leads that MON go nowhere and clues that seem to mean either everything or MON nothing. It's a detective story, but one where the final MON chapter is still unwritten. What does it do to a family to MON live with such uncertainty? MON MON Presenter: Grace Dent MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01phj47 (Listen) MON Series 4, Corby MON MON Comedian Mark Steel returns with a new series, looking under MON the surface of some of the UK's more distinctive towns to MON shed some light on the people, history, rivalries, slang, MON traditions, and eccentricities that makes them unique. MON MON Creating a bespoke stand-up set for each town, Mark performs MON the show in front of a local audience. MON MON As well as examining the less visited areas of Britain, Mark MON uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all MON as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life MON and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who MON have shaped where we live. MON MON During this 4th series of 'Mark Steel's In Town', Mark will MON visit Tobermory, Whitehaven, Handsworth, Ottery St Mary, MON Corby, and Chipping Norton. MON MON This week, Mark visits Corby to uncover an unlikely town MON rivalry, the extraordinary story behind a baffling accent, MON and the truth behind the trouser press rumours... MON MON Additional material by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06z17cs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06l3l0m (Listen) MON 1 February 1916 - Nell Kingsley MON MON On this day, Britain woke up to news of a terrible series of MON zeppelin attacks on the East coast, leaving 59 dead, and MON Nell Kingsley looks set to lose the job she loved. MON MON Written by Shaun McKenna MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair MON Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone MON Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner MON Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo MON Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Smith: David Hounslow MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06z2561 (Listen) MON Butter sales, Living wage, Leasehold disaster MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06z17cv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06z2563 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh4d1 (Listen) MON Anthropology Goes to War MON MON Farrah Jarral looks at the complex and controversial MON relationship between anthropologists and war. MON MON Starting with Ursula Graham-Bower, who lead Naga tribesmen MON against the Japanese in the Second World War, Farrah MON examines how anthropologists have been involved with armed MON conflict. She shows how US government funding allowed MON anthropology to expand rapidly during the Cold War, with MON controversial results. And she tells the story of the Human MON Terrain System: a programme embedding anthropologists and MON other social scientists with US Army combat units in Iraq MON and Afghanistan. To its critics, it flouted ethics rules; MON while its creator argues that it saved many lives. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06z1zfd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03q9q2j (Listen) MON Demon Brother, Episode 1 MON MON By Matthew Broughton MON MON When Jasper finds his father dead, a dark mystery begins to MON unfold. His dad kept a secret - Jasper has a twin brother, MON Eddie, whom he's never met. After the funeral the two MON brothers decide to swap lives. As Jasper escapes the MON confines of his faltering marriage and attempts to track MON down his father's killer, he soon discovers that with his MON new found freedom comes the threat of extreme danger. MON MON A dark thriller in two parts that reflect each other: The MON first tells Jasper's story. The second tells Eddie's. MON MON Demon Brother is a story about identity, sex and death. MON Shaun Dingwall (New Tricks, Young Victoria, Doctor Who) MON stars opposite himself as the two brothers, Jasper and Eddie MON - one good and one very bad. Valene Kane (The Fall) makes MON her radio debut as Jasper's wife Caitlin. With supporting MON performances from Vera Filatova (Peep Show) and Kenneth MON Cranham (Made in Dagenham, Layer Cake, Shine on Harvey MON Moon). MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Jasper: Shaun Dingwall MON Eddie: Shaun Dingwall MON Ricky Paggett: Kenneth Cranham MON Nancy: Vera Filatova MON Terry: Simon Ludders MON Doctor: John Norton MON Policeman: John Norton MON Director: James Robinson MON Writer: Matthew Broughton MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b06z2565 (Listen) MON Heat 4, 2016 MON MON (4/17) MON The Queen overtook Queen Victoria as the longest-reigning MON monarch last year - but who is the longest-reigning King in MON British history? And when Mandy Rice Davies said 'He would, MON wouldn't he?' - who was she referring to? MON MON These are just two of the questions Russell Davies puts to MON the contenders in this week's edition of Brain of Britain, MON the fourth heat of the 2016 series. At stake is a place in MON the semi-finals in the spring. MON MON The Brains will also be challenged by a listener on whose MON questions they have to collaborate - and who'll win a prize MON if they can't agree on the right answers. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06z1zdw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Dotun and Dean b06c0cgx (Listen) MON Hollywood actor James Dean died in a crash sixty years ago, MON age 24. His early death immortalised him as the first MON American teenager - appealing to young people in the late MON 1950s. Fast forward to the 1970s and a young black boy in MON North London hears the term Rebel without a Cause and the MON love affair begins. MON MON Broadcaster Dotun Adebayo was that boy. He tells of the MON lengths to which he went to adapt everything he could to MON become like James Dean both physically and in attitude. He MON reveals how this led him to become London's first black MON Teddy Boy, one of the Southgate Teds, and how his MON determination to rebel got him into trouble. MON MON Following his hero's footsteps, Dotun joined the National MON Youth Theatre where he met the playwright Barrie Keeffe, MON famed for the Long Good Friday screenplay. They got talking MON and it turned out Barrie had shared the Dean obsession in MON his youth. This resulted in writing the play Killing Time MON about a young black boy's obsession with James Dean - MON incorporating some of Dotun's own feelings. MON MON We also hear from James Dean's family, still living in the MON small town where he grew up as a quiet farm boy and where MON he's buried - Fairmount Indiana. To them he was likeable MON Jimmy Dean and not the moody, rebellious Hollywood actor. MON MON Since his death, Dean has become big business - there's the MON Gallery, the Museum, and the family farm's door is always MON open to fans. Visitors from all over the world make MON pilgrimages, so it seems Dotun wasn't alone in his MON obsession. There is also a corporation that takes care of MON the Dean image for the family, and their involvement in MON various projects brings earnings estimated at $7 million a MON year. The brand continues to get stronger across the world. MON MON Producer: Sue Clark MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06z2851 (Listen) MON Series 13, Invisible Universe MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport the cage of infinite MON proportions to the Manchester Museum of Science and MON Industry. They are joined on stage by impressionist Jon MON Culshaw and astrophysicists Sarah Bridle and Tim O'Brien as MON they look up at the sky to discover that everything we see MON only accounts for 5% of the entire universe. So what is the MON rest of the universe made of? What are these mysterious MON elements known as Dark Matter and Dark Energy and would MON their discovery mean a complete re-writing of the laws of MON physics as we know them? MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b06z9dwy (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z17cx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06z2853 (Listen) MON Series 8, Hound, Vickers, Smit MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome Rufus Hound, the comedian, MON actor, politician and Strictly Come Dancing winner; Sir Tim MON Smit, who gave up being a music producer and took up MON gardening when he found the Lost Gardens of Heligan and MON founded the Eden Project; and Doris Vickers, a woman from MON Vienna who studied astronomy but woke up one morning with an MON overwhelming desire to learn Latin, and who now combines the MON two disciplines as an archaeoastronomer. MON MON This week, the Museum's guests discuss how people could tell MON the time at night before the invention of clocks; how MON politics could be transformed with obligatory wearing of MON lie-detecting suits; and why going ape in the mirror could MON help us see what makes us human. MON MON The show was researched by Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan of MON QI. MON MON The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. MON MON It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Rufus Hound MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Smit MON Interviewed Guest: Doris Vickers MON Interviewed Guest: Kees Moeliker MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06z2857 (Listen) MON Is Lilian getting her 'mojo' back? Toby has some advice for MON Pip. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06z2bqy (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 The Forsytes b06z255z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Gay Bombay b06z2br0 (Listen) MON Why is homosexuality still illegal in the world's so-called MON largest democracy? In his celebrated family memoir 'And All MON is Said', historian Dr Zareer Masani made no bones about his MON own homosexuality and the problems it posed growing up in MON the India of the 1950s and '60s. Much seemed to have changed MON in the intervening half century. But with a renewed Hindu MON nationalism dominant in both political and cultural life, MON Zareer returns to Mumbai (formerly Bombay) to find out MON whether growing acceptance of gay rights is being put in MON reverse. MON MON Attempts were made in the recent past to overthrow an old MON colonial law making homosexuality a crime punishable by life MON imprisonment. The Delhi High Court held that this section of MON India's criminal law was unconstitutional; but that decision MON was overturned by India's Supreme Court two years ago. MON Zareer asks Justice Shah, who gave the earlier, landmark MON judgement decriminalising homosexuality, whether its liberal MON impact can really be reversed. He talks to the various gay MON and lesbian groups who are active in Mumbai, and to MON prominent, openly gay individuals like Mr Gay India 2014. MON Zareer returns to Bombay's elite Anglican school where he MON once suffered homophobic bullying. And he spends a day with MON the amazing Humsafar Trust, that provides everything from MON HIV treatment to counselling and legal advocacy for LGBT men MON and women outside Bombay's affluent, liberal middle class MON bubble. MON MON In his youth, Zareer found it impossible to live an openly MON gay life in the country of his birth. This programme is his MON journey back home to find out whether the liberalisation MON he's observed during his lifetime has now been halted by the MON moral policing of governments and religious extremists. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON Dr Zareer Masani outside his old school in Bombay MON MON Vivek Anand of The Humsafar Trust MON MON Parmesh Shahani and Zareer Masani MON MON Sushant Digvikar, Mr Gay India 2014 and his father Pradeep MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06z2br2 (Listen) MON Space Wars, Space Peace MON MON Chris Bowlby explores the shifting balance between two MON visions of outer space - as a place of harmony and as a zone MON of growing international tension. We may think war in space MON is a scenario dreamed up by Hollywood. But the world's top MON military minds now believe future wars will be fought both MON on Earth - and above it. Chris visits an arms sales fair, MON and hears how space now affects everything from how armies MON move, to how nuclear deterrence works. Could crucial MON satellites he hacked in an act of aggression, might space MON debris trigger a war? Why is China taking space security so MON seriously? And can the international cooperation which put MON astronaut Tim Peake into space survive? MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby MON Editor: Hugh Levinson. MON MON 21:00 Crafty Orchids b06yclg6 (Listen) MON Anyone with a few pounds to spare can buy a tropical orchid MON these days. Growers have perfected the process of MON germinating the thousands of tiny seeds produced by each MON seed pod, enabling them to grow the plants in their MON millions. We are now able to pop into our local garden MON centre or supermarket and pick up a piece of tropical MON paradise whenever we want. MON MON How has their appearance, scent and biology manipulated us MON into spreading them? The historian Jim Endersby examines how MON a potent mixture of imperial conquest, mysterious glamour MON and scientific study has helped one of the world's most MON beguiling plants to fascinate everyone from houseplant MON owners to generations of scientists. MON MON Orchids have been associated with sex since ancient time MON (their name comes from the Greek orkhis, meaning testicle), MON but it was during the 19th century that the mysterious MON glamour of orchids really began to take hold. They turned on MON their keepers and started trying to kill those who grew MON them. The first victim was a Mr Winter-Wedderburn, who MON almost died when a vampiric orchid tried to drain every drop MON of blood from his body. Luckily attacks only occurred in MON fiction. But why did deadly sexy mobile killer orchids start MON to stalk the suburban greenhouses and the imaginations of MON their cultivators , in turn spawning what's now a MON multi-billion worldwide orchid industry? MON MON Historian of science, Jim Endersby of the University of MON Sussex, shows us that the killer orchids are rooted in the MON sober, scientific work of Charles Darwin who devoted many MON years to working out why they have such fantastic shapes. He MON realised that orchids are fertilised by insects and their MON shapes, colours and scents all serve to lure their hapless MON pollinators to them often with extraordinary tricks of MON mimicry. They proved a tool for Darwin to demonstrate MON natural selection in action and he'd go on to change the MON ways people imagined plants, transforming them from dull, MON unresponsive vegetables into active creatures, who might MON prove to be crafty, lethal, sexy or even moral. MON MON Today, botanists estimate there to be some 30,000 orchid MON species. with blooms ranging from the showy Cattleya to the MON spider-shaped Brassia. They know that the highly specific MON relationships that orchids have with just one insect MON pollinator have played a major role in the success of the MON family. But paradoxically their success is also their MON weakness. Adaptations to very particular local conditions MON can make species vulnerable to sudden changes in their MON environment. MON MON As Jim Endersby reveals, this process has been tracked in MON detail on the Sussex downs, through a 3 decades-long study MON of one species of native British orchid, the Early-Spider MON orchid. These tiny plants have chocolate-brown flowers, MON covered in what look like hairs, that look a little like MON bees. The orchids use them to trick insects into what MON scientists call "pseudocopulation"; the bees try to mate MON with the flowers, and end up transferring their pollen to MON another plant. But warmer British spring temperatures are MON threatening the delicate relationship between the orchid and MON its pollinator. Could the key to saving these orchids lie MON with us? They've seduced us with their shapes, colonised our MON imaginations and modified our tastes so that we are now the MON next victim lured into assisting them with their efforts to MON reproduce. MON MON Producer Adrian Washbourne MON MON Main Picture : Probably the first specimen of Angraecum MON sesquipedale to bloom in Britain, drawn by Walter Hood MON Fitch. From William Jackson Hooker, A century of MON orchidaceous plants selected from Curtis's botanical MON magazine (1849). Reproduced by kind permission of the Board MON of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06z255s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06z17cz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06z2br4 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06z2flh (Listen) MON Orlando, Boyhood MON MON In Virginia Woolf's boisterous adventure her hero, Orlando, MON embarks on a tumultuous journey spanning five centuries. MON MON Orlando, "the longest and most charming love letter in MON literature" was intended for and inspired by Vita MON Sackville-West and her noble roots. Along with the eponymous MON hero's adventuring through the ages, Woolf explores what it MON means to write and the all important question of gender - as MON relevant and resonant today as it was in the 1920s when she MON wrote this high spirited novel. MON MON Orlando, is a young nobleman in Tudor England when we first MON encounter him and he writes the first lines of his poem, The MON Oak Tree, a poem that he keeps about him as he travels MON through time. Swept along by his adventures we next find him MON as he falls in love for the first time with a beautiful MON Russian princess on the frozen Thames at the court of James MON I. A desire to write leads to a disastrous meeting with a MON much admired poet before, under Charles 1, he becomes the MON king's charismatic ambassador in Constantinople. A dramatic MON transformation takes place in this opulent city and Orlando MON continues his adventures as a woman. Returning to eighteenth MON century London, the life of the poet continues to call, but MON later the restrictions placed upon Orlando by the Victorian MON era are impossible to bear. Glimmers of new possibilities MON arrive with the twentieth century and the promise of MON fulfilment through love and writing. MON MON Reader: Amanda Hale MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Amanda Hale MON Author: Virginia Woolf MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06ycr4v (Listen) MON How Shakespeare Spoke MON MON Forget Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft, Al Pacino and MON Judi Dench. To take us back to Shakespeare's own time MON Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright hear Shakespeare as he MON himself would have spoken. The original, unvarnished version MON from linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal. They look MON at the fashion for Original Pronunciation and ask what it MON can tell us about how we speak now. MON MON Michael and Laura perform some of Shakespeare's best known MON work in the original accent and attempt to bring new meaning MON and wit to language coated by centuries of veneer. MON MON Producer: Mair Bosworth. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06z2flk (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06z17f0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06z255v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z17f2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z17f6 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z17f8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06z17fb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zhj61 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Edwin Counsell, Director of Education for the Church in TUE Wales. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06z2fyd (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v8k (Listen) TUE Budgerigar TUE TUE Michael Palin presents the wild budgerigar from Australia. TUE Budgerigars are small Australian parrots whose common name TUE may derive from the aboriginal "Betcherrygah' which, roughly TUE speaking, means "good to eat" though it could mean " good TUE food" as budgerigars follow the rains and so their flocks TUE would indicate where there might be seeds and fruits for TUE people. TUE TUE Where food and water are available together; huge flocks TUE gather, sometimes a hundred thousand strong, queuing in TUE thirsty ranks to take their turn at waterholes. Should a TUE falcon appear, they explode into the air with a roar of TUE wingbeats and perform astonishing aerobatics similar to the TUE murmurations of starlings in the UK. TUE TUE Although many colour varieties have been bred in captivity, TUE wild budgerigars are bright green below, beautifully TUE enhanced with dark scalloped barring above, with yellow TUE throats and foreheads. With a good view, you can tell the TUE male by the small knob of blue flesh, known as a cere, above TUE his beak. TUE TUE Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Jouan and Rius / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01218825 TUE © Jouan and Rius / naturepl.com. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b070drln (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b06qjzv8 (Listen) TUE Professor Stephen Hawking: Black Holes, Black holes ain't as TUE black as they are painted TUE TUE The Cambridge cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking delivers TUE the second of his BBC Reith Lectures on black holes. TUE TUE Professor Hawking examines scientific thinking about black TUE holes and challenges the idea that all matter and TUE information is destroyed irretrievably within them. He TUE explains his own hypothesis that black holes may emit a form TUE of radiation, now known as Hawking Radiation. He discusses TUE the search for mini black holes, noting that so far "no-one TUE has found any, which is a pity because if they had, I would TUE have got a Nobel Prize." And he advances a theory that TUE information may remain stored within black holes in a TUE scrambled form. TUE TUE The programmes are recorded in front of an audience of Radio TUE 4 listeners and some of the country's leading scientists at TUE the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. TUE TUE Sue Lawley introduces the evening and chairs a TUE question-and-answer session with Professor Hawking. Radio 4 TUE listeners submitted questions in their hundreds, of which a TUE selection were invited to attend the event to put their TUE questions in person to Professor Hawking. TUE TUE Producer: Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06z5lvq (Listen) TUE Steve Backshall TUE TUE Steve Backshall is one of our leading natural history TUE broadcasters; he's also an extreme sportsman who has TUE conquered some of the world's most dangerous mountains. TUE Despite suffering a severe rock-climbing injury in 2008 he TUE continues to set himself extraordinary challenges. TUE TUE For this edition of One to One, Steve meets explorer Ann TUE Daniels to discover what drives her need for adventure: Ann TUE is the record breaking polar explorer who, in 2002, became TUE the first woman in history (along with a teammate) to have TUE reached both the North and South poles as part of an TUE all-woman team. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06zhjck (Listen) TUE Stop the Clocks, Episode 2 TUE TUE Since she reached the age of 80, Dame Joan Bakewell has been TUE working harder than ever - campaigning, writing and sitting TUE in the Lords. Now the former journalist takes a moment to TUE reflect on the passage of time, and the changes she has TUE witnessed in her lifetime. Her theme is 'thoughts on what I TUE leave behind'. TUE TUE Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what TUE Joan Bakewell was given by her family, at the times in which TUE she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life, such as the TUE knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with TUE hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of TUE lovers, of betrayal. TUE TUE At times joyful, at times pensive, she contemplates the past TUE without regret, and looks to the future without fear, but TUE with firm resolve. Once the 'thinking man's crumpet', Joan TUE remains outspoken and outrageous. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE Author/Reader: Joan Bakewell TUE Abridgers: David Roper and Joan Bakewell TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Joan Bakewell TUE Author: Joan Bakewell TUE Abridger: Joan Bakewell TUE Abridger: David Roper TUE Producer: David Roper TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06z2h3l (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 The Forsytes b06z2h3n (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE John Galsworthy's epic novels of sex, money and power in an TUE upper class family. TUE Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna TUE TUE An idyllic summer in 1892 and an unexpected encounter TUE reawakens long-forgotten emotions in Old Jolyon TUE TUE Original music composed by Neil Brand TUE TUE Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins TUE TUE Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new TUE dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The TUE Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the TUE lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 TUE years from 1886 to 1936. TUE TUE Today's play is from the interlude "Indian Summer of a TUE Forsyte". Five years have passed since the scandal of Irene TUE and Soames split the Forstye family apart. Old Jolyon has TUE turned his back on Soames's side of the family and TUE contemplates a move to the country. TUE TUE The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute TUE Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. TUE TUE Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are TUE dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have TUE taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind TUE the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful TUE insight, wit and observation from the page. Although TUE focussed on the period in which they were written - in the TUE first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel TUE remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own TUE world and inner lives. TUE TUE Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central TUE role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and TUE Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined TUE by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert. TUE TUE The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Old Jolyon: Brian Protheroe TUE Irene: Juliet Aubrey TUE Narrator: Jessica Raine TUE Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey TUE Author: John Galsworthy TUE Adaptor: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Gemma Jenkins TUE Producer: Gemma Jenkins TUE TUE 11:00 Unnatural Selection b06ztq58 (Listen) TUE Humans have been altering animals for millennia. We select TUE the most docile livestock, the most loyal dogs, to breed the TUE animals we need. This "artificial selection" is intentional. TUE But as Adam Hart discovers, our hunting, fishing and TUE harvesting are having unintended effects on wild animals. TUE Welcome to the age of "unnatural selection". TUE TUE This accidental, inadvertent or unintentional selection TUE pressure comes form almost everything we do - from hunting, TUE fishing, harvesting and collecting to using chemicals like TUE pesticides and herbicides; then pollution; urbanisation and TUE habitat change as well as using medicines. All these TUE activities are putting evolutionary pressures on the TUE creatures we share our planet with. TUE TUE Commercial fishing selects the biggest fish in the oceans, TUE the biggest fish in a population, like Atlantic cod, are TUE also the slowest to reach breeding maturity. When these are TUE caught and taken out of the equation, the genes for slow TUE maturity and 'bigness' are taken out of the gene pool. Over TUE decades, this relentless predation has led to the Atlantic TUE cod evolving to be vastly smaller and faster to mature. TUE TUE Trophy hunting is another example of unnatural selection. TUE Predators in the wild tend to pick off the easiest to catch, TUE smallest, youngest or oldest, ailing prey. But human hunters TUE want the biggest animals with the biggest antlers or horns. TUE Big Horn Sheep in Canada have evolved to have 25% smaller TUE horns due to hunting pressures. TUE TUE Probably the best understood examples of unnatural selection TUE are the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. By TUE using antibiotics we're inadvertently selecting the bacteria TUE that have resistance to the drugs. The same goes for TUE agricultural pesticides and herbicides. TUE TUE Even pollution in Victorian times led to the Peppered moth TUE to change its colour. TUE TUE Adam discovers that our influence is universal; often TUE counter to natural selective pressures and is rarely easy to TUE reverse. He explores the impact on entire environments and TUE asks whether we could or should be doing something to TUE mitigate our evolutionary effects. TUE TUE Producers: Fiona Roberts and Marnie Chesterton. TUE TUE 11:30 The Gospel Truth b06z2kyc (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Gospel's uplifting and rejoicing sound is world famous, a TUE multi million-dollar music genre that in many ways has ended TUE up the beating heart of American popular music. But can TUE gospel be gospel if it entertains, makes money and praises TUE the Lord at the same time? Financial educator Alvin Hall TUE explores how this American religious music genre has been TUE affected by both commercialisation and secularisation. TUE TUE In this second part, Alvin explains how gospel became a TUE global force in popular music. He reveals how Aretha TUE Franklin's marriage of pop to gospel sold millions of TUE records, introducing gospel to a world audience in the TUE process. He looks at the rise of the gospel choir in the TUE 1970s and 80s and discovers how it increasingly became a TUE money-making industry. He also meets leading gospel stars TUE Kirk Franklin and Donnie McClurkin to ask whether they think TUE today's gospel stars have been affected by money and TUE celebrity. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06z17fd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06l3l15 (Listen) TUE 2 February 1916 - Isabel Graham TUE TUE On this day, the Board of Agriculture issued a notice TUE advising that convalescent soldiers could be used for farm TUE work, and Isabel tries hard to find something for Cristine TUE to do. TUE TUE Written by Shaun McKenna TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Sylvia Graham: Joanna David TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper TUE Queenie Penfold: Lorna Nickson Brown TUE Councillor Pepper: Ewan Bailey TUE Town Clerk: Leo Wan TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06z8gjs (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06z17fg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06z8gjv (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh4g6 (Listen) TUE Anthropology in Crisis TUE TUE Farrah Jarral examines how the end of empire brought a TUE dramatic change of mindset. TUE TUE Farrah hears how anthropology was forced to reckon with its TUE colonial heritage, raising questions about how knowledge was TUE produced - and by whom. She speaks to Professor Talal Asad, TUE an academic who wrote a seminal book on the subject, and to TUE an activist still fighting the same battles he first fought TUE almost forty years ago. TUE TUE But anthropology's existential crisis posed other questions TUE about what it can really know, too, and about how research TUE should be conducted; and Farrah meets up with an old TUE colleague to see the results. TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06z2857 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03qflhh (Listen) TUE Demon Brother, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Matthew Broughton TUE TUE When Eddie finds out he has an identical twin brother, TUE Jasper, he sees an opportunity to escape his seedy life of TUE petty crime. He decides to steal Jasper's life. But as Eddie TUE begins to fall in love with Jasper's wife, Caitlin, he TUE discovers a side of himself he never knew existed. TUE TUE A dark thriller in two parts that reflect each other: The TUE first tells Jasper's story. The second tells Eddie's. TUE TUE Demon Brother is a story about identity, sex and death. TUE Shaun Dingwall (New Tricks, Young Victoria, Doctor Who) TUE stars opposite himself as the two brothers, Jasper and Eddie TUE - one good and one very bad. Valene Kane (The Fall) makes TUE her radio debut as Jasper's wife Caitlin. With supporting TUE performances from Vera Filatova (Peep Show) and Kenneth TUE Cranham (Made in Dagenham, Layer Cake, Shine on Harvey TUE Moon). TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jasper: Shaun Dingwall TUE Eddie: Shaun Dingwall TUE Caitlin: Valene Kane TUE Ricky Paggett: Kenneth Cranham TUE Nancy: Vera Filatova TUE Terry: Simon Ludders TUE Prison Warder: John Norton TUE Waiter: John Norton TUE Director: James Robinson TUE Writer: Matthew Broughton TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06z0tqg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 The Problem of Pain - A Slow Motion Catastrophe TUE b061t68w (Listen) TUE We are all living longer, but for many that means suffering TUE chronic pain for longer too. Dr Sarah Goldingay explores new TUE and groundbreaking research into relieving chronic pain. TUE TUE Unlike acute pain - when we stub our toe or stand too close TUE to a fire - chronic pain doesn't go away. Conventional TUE medicine cannot cure chronic pain but can only give limited TUE relief to the situation. TUE TUE With longer life expectancies, it's estimated the NHS will TUE need an additional £5 billion by 2018 to deal with chronic TUE conditions. So a new approach is needed. TUE TUE Dr Sarah Goldingay from the University of Exeter TUE investigates these new approaches to dealing with chronic TUE pain, which go well beyond traditional medicine. She TUE explores how some researchers are considering the problem in TUE a more holistic and radical way by looking at mind, body and TUE spirit combined. She also investigates how our social TUE interactions can dictate the ways we live with chronic pain. TUE TUE Dr Goldingay speaks to world experts like Dr Miguel Farias, TUE a neuro-psychologist who's innovative work has shown a link TUE between belief and pain, and Dr Jen Tarr who offers insights TUE into the importance of community on pain management. She TUE also visits Lourdes to discover if the spiritual can offer TUE relief from chronic pain. TUE TUE Produced by Mark Sharman TUE A TBI production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06z2pmp (Listen) TUE The Top 20 Words in English TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright guide us through the top TUE 20 words in English. Not the best or most popular (that TUE would include tentacular, ping-pong and sesquipedalian (look TUE it up - it's a cracker). Plus a lot of swearing. No this is TUE the 20 most commonly used. It's actually quite a boring list TUE - full of 'And', 'I', 'of' etc - but look a little closer TUE and it tells you all about the structure of language. The TUE little words you really can't do without that glue all the TUE other ones together. TUE TUE This kind of list comes from a branch of linguistics called TUE Corpus Linguistics. It looks at the frequency and TUE distribution of words in large bodies of text or speech. You TUE can apply it to anything - political debates, lonely hearts TUE columns or pop songs. Which is exactly what our guest Prof TUE Jonathan Culpeper has done. That's high end linguistics and TUE Phil Collins. Only on Word of Mouth. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06z2pmt (Listen) TUE Vanessa Feltz and David Hepworth TUE TUE Broadcaster Vanessa Feltz and David Hepworth, the man behind TUE magazines including Smash Hits, Q and Heat debate their TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Vanessa champions an TUE unusual tale from Dodie Smith, A Tale of Two Families. The TUE book David loves is a novel of scheming and ambition from TUE Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country. Harriett has TUE chosen Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black, which is perhaps the TUE least prized of her novels, but, Harriett insists, the best. TUE Not everybody agrees. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Feltz TUE Interviewed Guest: David Hepworth TUE Producer: Giles Edwards TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06z8gjx (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z17fj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06z2pmy (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Bodyguard TUE TUE Milton offers his services as a bodyguard and discovers that TUE a South American diva and a tent full of home-made jam don't TUE mix - as well as he'd imagined. TUE TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners." The TUE Guardian. TUE TUE "King of the surreal one-liners." The Times TUE TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" The Daily TUE Mail TUE TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda) TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill (Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Dan Tetsell. TUE TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Actor: Josie Lawrence TUE Actor: Dan Tetsell TUE Writer: Milton Jones TUE Writer: James Cary TUE Writer: Dan Evans TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE Director: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06z2pn4 (Listen) TUE Henry is going on a little trip, and is it curtains for the TUE village hall? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06z8gjz (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 The Forsytes b06z2h3n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06z2pn8 (Listen) TUE Vaccination has long been one of the greatest weapons in the TUE battle against a range of potentially fatal diseases. TUE Millions of lives have been saved worldwide, and Britain has TUE played a major role in helping to combat new pandemics. But, TUE rarely, things do go wrong and people develop serious TUE side-effects. In the UK, the Government's Vaccine Damage TUE Payment Scheme is supposed to help those left severely TUE disabled as a result. Among those currently arguing their TUE case are the families of children who developed an incurable TUE and devastating sleep disorder after being immunised against TUE swine flu. But, to date, most have received nothing and TUE Ministers have now gone to the Court of Appeal to try and TUE establish a less generous interpretation of the pay-out TUE rules. Lawyers for the families say the whole scheme is TUE outdated and unfit for purpose. Are they right? Jenny Chryss TUE investigates. TUE TUE Reporter: Jenny Chryss Producer: Ruth Evans. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06z17fl (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06z2pnd (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Reith Lectures b06qjzv8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06z17fn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06z2pnl (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06z98rc (Listen) TUE Orlando, The Muscovite Princess TUE TUE In Virginia Woolf's boisterous novel Orlando's adventures TUE continue when a beguiling Muscovite princess skates into TUE view on the frozen Thames at the court of James I. The TUE reader is Amanda Hale TUE TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Amanda Hale TUE Author: Virginia Woolf TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06z2851 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06z2pnn (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06z17gk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06zhjck (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z17gm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z17gp (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z17gt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06z17gy (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zhhzn (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Edwin Counsell, Director of Education for the Church in WED Wales. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06z2qn1 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0v9m (Listen) WED Magnificent Frigatebird WED WED Michael Palin presents the magnificent frigatebird a true WED oceanic bird, and resembling a hook-billed, pterodactyl of a WED seabird. WED WED Magnificent frigatebirds are some of the most accomplished WED aeronauts of the tropical oceans. Their huge wingspans of WED over two metres and long forked tails allow them to soar WED effortlessly and pluck flying fish from the air, and also WED harass seabirds. These acts of piracy earned them the name WED Man-o' War birds and attracted the attention of Christopher WED Columbus. WED Magnificent Frigatebirds breed on islands in the Caribbean, WED and along the tropical Pacific and Atlantic coasts of WED central and South America as well as on the Galapagos WED Islands. Frigatebird courtship is an extravagant affair. The WED males gather in "clubs" , perching on low trees or bushes. WED WED Here they inflate their red throat-pouches into huge scarlet WED balloons, calling and clattering their bills together as WED they try to lure down a female flying overhead. If they're WED successful, they will sire a single chick which is looked WED after by both parents for three months and by its mother WED only for up to 14 months, the longest period of parental WED care by any bird. WED WED Magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Mark Carwardine / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01368132 WED © Mark Carwardine / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b06z2qn3 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06z2qv1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06zhhzs (Listen) WED Stop the Clocks, Episode 3 WED WED Since she reached the age of 80, Dame Joan Bakewell has been WED working harder than ever - campaigning, writing and sitting WED in the Lords. Now the former journalist takes a moment to WED reflect on the passage of time, and the changes she has WED witnessed in her lifetime. Her theme is 'thoughts on what I WED leave behind'. WED WED Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what WED Joan Bakewell was given by her family, at the times in which WED she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life, such as the WED knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with WED hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of WED lovers, of betrayal. WED WED At times joyful, at times pensive, she contemplates the past WED without regret, and looks to the future without fear, but WED with firm resolve. Once the 'thinking man's crumpet', Joan WED remains outspoken and outrageous. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED Author/Reader: Joan Bakewell WED Abridgers: David Roper and Joan Bakewell WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Joan Bakewell WED Author: Joan Bakewell WED Abridger: Joan Bakewell WED Abridger: David Roper WED Producer: David Roper WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06z2tj1 (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 The Forsytes b06z2tj3 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED John Galsworthy's epic novels of sex, money and power in an WED upper class family. WED Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna WED WED Past scandals come back to haunt the present. It's been 12 WED years since the breakdown of his marriage and Soames Forsyte WED wants a son. WED WED Original music composed by Neil Brand WED WED Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins WED WED Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new WED dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The WED Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the WED lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 WED years from 1886 to 1936. WED WED Today's play marks the start of the second novel, "In WED Chancery". WED WED The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute WED Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. WED WED Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are WED dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have WED taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind WED the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful WED insight, wit and observation from the page. Although WED focussed on the period in which they were written - in the WED first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel WED remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own WED world and inner lives. WED WED Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central WED role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and WED Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined WED by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert. WED WED The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson WED Irene: Juliet Aubrey WED Narrator: Jessica Raine WED Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey WED Annette: Aurelie Amblard WED Winifred Dartie: Debra Baker WED Montague Dartie: Chris Pavlo WED Val Dartie: George Watkins WED Holly Forsyte: Katie Redford WED Author: John Galsworthy WED Adaptor: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06z2tj5 (Listen) WED Catherine and Nina - Anyone Who's Different Is a Target WED WED Fi Glover with a mother hearing for the first time about the WED shame her daughter felt when diagnosed with Asperger's WED Syndrome, and how she now recognises strengths in the WED condition - another conversation 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 Living with Water b06z5py5 (Listen) WED Amphibious houses? Water resilient houses? Stilted and WED raised houses? Architects have plenty of ideas for how, with WED smart engineering, we could build in watery areas in future. WED They also have a number of suggestions for home owners who WED endure the misery of flooding in their current homes. WED WED Susan Marling meets the designer of the UK's first WED amphibious house and takes a trip to Holland, where half the WED land mass is below sea level, to hear how communities there WED live alongside vast amounts of water - and what Dutch WED architects have done to make this not only possible, but WED enjoyable. WED WED We attend the 'flood fair' in Leeds and look in at the WED Building Research Establishment where building to mitigate WED flooding has become a high priority. WED WED But are some of these new ideas being blocked by the WED conservatism of insurance and investment companies? WED WED Producer: Paul Smith WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Bad Salsa b06z2tj7 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Cycle of Life WED WED A second series of the sitcom about three women who meet WED during cancer treatment and start going to salsa class WED together to maintain their friendship. As they adjust to WED life after cancer they realise that they've all changed. WED This second series begins as Jill has left her husband and WED son to live at her new boyfriends' parent's house, Camille WED is planning a huge life change and Chippy has a new live-in WED wannabe step-father in the shape of Gordon from their salsa WED class. WED WED Each of the women get to grips with their own particular WED cancer after-shocks. In this last episode each of them must WED face their fears. WED WED The series is not about cancer, but about life after cancer, WED how you cope the changes in your outlook, your desires and WED your expectations. It's also about how other people cope WED with the change in you. WED WED Written by Kay Stonham WED WED Produced and directed by Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED Credits WED Chippy: Sharon Rooney WED Jill: Natasha Little WED Terri: Camille Coduri WED Marco: Derek Elroy WED Gordon: Andrew Obeney WED Tim: Matt Houlihan WED Georgie: Emily Chase WED Joel: Joe Johnsey WED Colin: Chris Pavlo WED Dancer: Jessica Turner WED Barman: Leo Wan WED Writer: Kay Stonham WED Director: Alison Vernon-Smith WED Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06z17h0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06l3l2t (Listen) WED 3 February 1916 - Hilary Pearce WED WED On this day, a wrecked zeppelin was spotted in the North Sea WED by a British trawler, and Hilary Pearce sets out to catch a WED very particular fish. WED WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Hilary Pearce: Craige Els WED Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon WED Norman Harris: Sean Baker WED Anna White: Amelia Lowdell WED Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe WED Elsie Buss: Tracy Wiles WED Fred Apps: Ewan Bailey WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06z2tj9 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06z17h2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06z2tjc (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh55v (Listen) WED Anthropology Gets Practical WED WED Farrah Jarral explores the impact of anthropologists, and WED their research, on policy. WED WED She explores how a turn towards the very practical - from WED lobbying on the behalf of native peoples to research into WED infectious tropical diseases - proved one part of the WED solution to anthropology's existential crisis. WED WED She speaks to some of those involved, including Marcus WED Colchester, founder of the Forest People's Programme and WED Melissa Parker, creator of the Ebola Response Anthropology WED Platform. And she discusses the benefits of an WED anthropological approach with the world's highest-profile WED anthropologist: Jim Kim, President of the World Bank. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06z2pn4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06z2tjf (Listen) WED Sword of Faith WED WED The tenth and final episode of this epic saga of revenge, WED betrayal and deception, inspired by the Mamluk WED slave-dynasty. As the people of Tumanbay await news of the WED Sultan's (Raad Rawi) great victory, Gregor (Rufus Wright) WED the heartless player discovers he has a heart and that he WED has been played. WED WED Tumanbay, the beating heart of a vast empire, is threatened WED by a rebellion in a far-off province and a mysterious force WED devouring the city from within. Gregor, Master of the Palace WED Guard, is charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri with the task of WED rooting out this insurgence and crushing it. WED WED Music - Sacha Puttnam WED Sound Design - Steve Bond, Jon Ouin WED Editors - Ania Przygoda, James Morgan WED Producers - Emma Hearn, Nadir Khan, John Dryden WED WED Written and Directed by John Dryden WED WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gregor: Rufus Wright WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Wolf: Alexander Siddig WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Maya's Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED Heaven: Olivia Popica WED Slave: Akin Gazi WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Hodah: Nathalie Armin WED Pesha: Sky Yang WED Manel: Aiysha Hart WED The Hafiz: Antony Bunsee WED Bello: Albert Welling WED Shamsi: Laure Stockley WED Don Diego: John Sessions WED Dona Ana: Annabelle Dowler WED Frog: Deeivya Meir WED Boy: Darwin Brokenbro WED Officer: Akbar Kurtha WED Writer: John Dryden WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06z2tjh (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06z2pnd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06z2v5l (Listen) WED Consumerism, Work-life balance WED WED Consumerism: a history of our modern, material world and the WED endless quest for more 'things'. Laurie Taylor talks to WED Frank Trentmann, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, WED University of London and author of a study which examines WED how the purchase of goods became the defining feature of WED contemporary life. Also, the middle class bias in work/life WED balance research. Tracy Warren, Professor of Sociology at WED the University of Nottingham, suggests that working class WED experience of precarity complicates the debate. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06z2v5p (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06z2v5r (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z17h6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05pnw2q (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 19th century WED bet; can his pig (Gwladys) cross a bridge quicker than a WED waterman can row the width of the river beneath? WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06z2v5w (Listen) WED Josh flexes his business muscles, and Helen needs a friend. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06z2v5z (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 The Forsytes b06z2tj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Splitting the Assets b06z2v62 (Listen) WED A glimpse behind closed doors of the Family Courts to hear WED from divorcing couples forced to struggle - without the help WED of lawyers - through the complex and emotionally fraught WED court process of dividing their financial assets. WED WED These financial settlement hearings are the battlefield on WED which couples fight over their share of property, pension WED rights and other assets. Cases involving unrepresented WED "litigants in person" often culminate in the divorcing WED couple having to cross examine each other under oath before WED a judge. It is a process which rarely brings out the best WED instincts in people, with allegations of dishonesty and WED concealment of wealth highly common. WED WED Cutbacks in legal aid have resulted in growing numbers of WED people electing to go through these often baffling WED proceedings without lawyers. It's a situation which judges, WED put under enormous pressure to try to guide the litigants WED through the process while presiding over the hearings, have WED publically condemned. WED WED Critics of the system claim it is unnecessarily difficult WED and stressful for litigants in person, and can often result WED in injustices. They claim the process is impenetrably WED complicated, and that litigants are often given inadequate WED support by the courts. WED WED The head of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has called WED for increased transparency in the Family Courts, but the WED problems faced by litigants in person in financial remedy WED cases continue to go almost entirely unreported by the WED media. WED WED Judges, lawyers, former litigants and others with concerns WED about the system, come together to shed light on an WED important and little understood area of law. WED WED Producers: Josie LeGrice and Matt Willis WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Information and Support WED Ministry of Justice WED WED Advice on getting a divorve WED Visit the Ministry of Justice website WED Personal Support Unit (PSU) WED WED A charity which has offices in the bigger city family courts WED and is run by trained volunteers. They do not give legal WED advice, but can help to navigate the system. WED Visit the PSU website WED Wikivorce WED WED Wikivorce is a fast growing and active web community WED providing free access to information, support and advice for WED people following the breakdown of a serious relationship. WED Visit the Wikivorce website WED LawWorks WED WED A website listing numerous pro bono legal clinics. WED Visit the LawWorks website WED The Bar Pro Bono Unit WED WED A charity which helps to find pro bono (free) legal WED assistance from volunteer barristers. WED Visit The Bar Pro Bono Unit website WED McKenzie Friends WED WED Litigants who do not have the help of a lawyer can take a WED friend into the court with them to help with paperwork and WED give moral support. They are not allowed to address the WED Judge or any other parties unless given ‘leave to speak’ by WED the Judge. WED WED It is possible to buy the services of a McKenzie Friend. WED They are currently unregulated, so have no obligation to act WED in your best interests, so beware. However, many are trained WED paralegals or have extensive experience. WED WED You must complete a McKenzie Friend form and present it to WED the Court Clerk before you go into your hearing. WED More information on McKenzie Friend's from the Judiciary WED Meetup Groups WED WED There are many online groups that help people to make WED contact with and meet others going through similar WED experiences. WED WED WED Visit the Divorce Support website WED Advice Now WED WED Advice on getting a divorce or ending a civil partnership WED without the help of a lawyer. WED Visit the Advice Now website WED WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b06z2x0j (Listen) WED Series 2, Einstein's Fridge WED WED What do you do when you've described the nature of the WED universe? WED WED In the late 1920s Einstein was working on a grand unified WED theory of the universe, having given us E=mc2, space-time WED and the fourth dimension. He was also working on a fridge. WED WED Perhaps motivated by a story in the Berlin newspapers about WED a family who died when toxic fumes leaked from their WED state-of the-art refrigerator, Einstein teamed up with WED another physicist Leo Szilard and designed a new, safer WED refrigerating technology. And so it was that in 1930, the WED man who had once famously worked in the patent office in WED Bern was granted a patent of his own. Number: 1, 781, 541. WED Title: refrigeration. WED WED Phillip Ball explores this little known period of Einstein's WED life to try and find out why he turned his extraordinary WED mind to making fridges safer. WED WED Despite considerable commercial interest in the patent, WED Einstein's fridge didn't get built in his lifetime.The Great WED Depression forced AEG and others to close down their WED refrigeration research. But in 2008 a team of British WED scientists decided to give it a go.Their verdict : WED Einstein's fridge doesn't work. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06z2qv1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06z2x0l (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06z9bg8 (Listen) WED Orlando, A Lampooning WED WED In Virginia Woolf's spirited novel Orlando aspires to the WED life of a poet and is compelled to extend an invitation to WED an admired writer. Read by Amanda Hale. WED WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 23:00 The Future of Radio b06z2x0n (Listen) WED Series 2, Mashup Heaven WED WED These programmes reveal the secret work of the Institute of WED Radiophonic Evolution in South Mimms - drawing on conference WED calls, voice notes and life-logs, to tell a compelling and WED strange story of the technological lengths to which the WED researchers will go to push forward the boundaries of the WED emerging digital technologies. WED WED Each week a jiffy bag of sound files arrives at BBC Radio 4. WED We listen to the contents to discover what backroom boffins WED Luke Mourne and Professor Trish Baldock (ably assisted by WED Shelley - on work experience) have been up to. WED WED In this week's episode, they help audio graffiti artist WED Skanksy to mashup Radio 4 - and try to unmask his secret WED identity at the same time. WED WED Written by Jerome Vincent & Stephen Dinsdale WED WED Producer David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Luke: William Beck WED Trish: Emma Kilbey WED Shelley: Lizzy Watts WED Felix: David Brett WED Prunella: Sarah Badel WED Pontius: Chris Stanton WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03wq2j7 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED A brand new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther WED Coles, with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and WED Marcia Warren. WED WED The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse WED in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service WED Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad WED and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, WED whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their WED medication and offer comfort and support. WED WED Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot WED cure her patients, only help them manage their various WED conditions. She visits the following characters throughout WED the series: WED WED Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean WED descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made WED tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, WED who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. WED So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. WED WED Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of WED affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by WED the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. WED WED Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating WED disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to WED sugary and fatty snacks at all times. WED WED Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the WED Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a WED product of his imagination. WED WED Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, WED charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if WED he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more WED time he will explode. WED WED Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. WED Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures WED unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. WED WED Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who WED have collaborated many time in the past, including on The WED Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. WED WED Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with WED additional material from Esther Coles WED Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani WED A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Graham Downes: Paul Whitehouse WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Gary: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Graham's Mum: Rosie Cavaliero WED Winnie: Rosie Cavaliero WED Phyllis: Marcia Warren WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06z2x0q (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06z17jc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06zhhzs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z17jk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z17jn (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z17js (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06z17jv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zhhwb (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Edwin Counsell, Director of Education for the Church in THU Wales. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06z4w6y (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0t2k (Listen) THU Black-Nest Swiftlet THU THU Michael Palin presents the black-nest swiftlet deep inside THU an Indonesian cavern. The Black-nest swiftlet landing on the THU cave wall, begins work on one of the most expensive and THU sought- after items connected with any bird; its nest. THU THU The swiftlet's tiny bowl -shaped nest is highly-prized as THU the main ingredient for bird's nest soup and is built by the THU male from strands of his saliva which harden into a clear THU substance which also anchors the nest to the vertiginous THU walls. Black-nest swiftlets are so-called because they add THU dark-coloured feathers to their saliva which are then THU incorporated into their nests. THU THU The nests fuel expensive appetites. A kilo of nests can THU fetch 2500 US dollars and worldwide the industry is worth THU some 5 billion US dollars a year. Today in many places in THU South-east Asia artificial concrete "apartment blocks" act THU as surrogate homes for the Black-nest swiftlets. The birds THU are lured in by recordings of their calls, and once they've THU begun nesting, the buildings are guarded as if they THU contained gold bullion. THU THU Black-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of D. Wechsler-Vireo / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01477365 THU © D. Wechsler-Vireo / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b06z4w76 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06z4w7p (Listen) THU Chromatography THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and THU uses of chromatography. Chemists in the 19th Century started THU to find new ways to separate mixtures and their work was THU taken further by Mikhail Tsvet, a Russian-Italian scientist THU who is often credited with inventing chromatography in 1900. THU The technique has become so widely used, it is now an THU integral part of testing the quality of air and water, the THU levels of drugs in athletes and in forensics. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06zhhx7 (Listen) THU Stop the Clocks, Episode 4 THU THU Since she reached the age of 80, Dame Joan Bakewell has been THU working harder than ever - campaigning, writing and sitting THU in the Lords. Now the former journalist takes a moment to THU reflect on the passage of time, and the changes she has THU witnessed in her lifetime. Her theme is 'thoughts on what I THU leave behind'. THU THU Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what THU Joan Bakewell was given by her family, at the times in which THU she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life, such as the THU knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with THU hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of THU lovers, of betrayal. THU THU At times joyful, at times pensive, she contemplates the past THU without regret, and looks to the future without fear, but THU with firm resolve. Once the 'thinking man's crumpet', Joan THU remains outspoken and outrageous. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU Author/Reader: Joan Bakewell THU Abridgers: David Roper and Joan Bakewell THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Joan Bakewell THU Author: Joan Bakewell THU Abridger: Joan Bakewell THU Abridger: David Roper THU Producer: David Roper THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06z4w7r (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 The Forsytes b06z4w7z (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU John Galsworthy's epic novels of sex, money and power in an THU upper class family. THU Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna THU THU With divorce on his mind, Soames Forsyte prepares to meet THU his estranged wife Irene for the first time in 12 years. THU THU Original music composed by Neil Brand THU THU Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins THU THU Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new THU dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The THU Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the THU lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 THU years from 1886 to 1936. THU THU Today's play is from the second novel, "In Chancery". THU THU The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute THU Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. THU THU Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are THU dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have THU taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind THU the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful THU insight, wit and observation from the page. Although THU focussed on the period in which they were written - in the THU first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel THU remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own THU world and inner lives. THU THU Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central THU role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and THU Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined THU by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert. THU THU The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson THU Irene: Juliet Aubrey THU Narrator: Jessica Raine THU Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey THU Author: John Galsworthy THU Adaptor: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Gemma Jenkins THU Producer: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06z17k9 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Invisible Belfast b06z4w86 (Listen) THU We all like to get lost in a book - but when Danielle, an THU American visitor to Belfast, stumbles upon a mysterious THU handwritten note in a 2nd hand copy of Ciaran Carson's novel THU The Star Factory - she finds herself on a labyrinthine THU journey through his prose and through the hidden side-roads THU and alleyways of the city. THU THU As she searches for the elusive Irish author and poet, it THU soon becomes clear that there's much more to Belfast than THU meets the eye. This is a city that regenerates itself THU through layers of history and memory where the main THU protagonists are want to disappear at any time. THU THU Between the adjuncts and intervening avenues of Belfast and THU Carson's narrative, Danielle realises she can't read the THU city like a book as it will always exceed the confines of THU the pages... THU THU Producer: Conor Garrett. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06z17kh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06l3l5x (Listen) THU 4 February 1916 - Olive Hargreaves THU THU On this day, Harrods Stores was fined £5 for selling THU morphine without keeping a register, and Sister Hargreaves THU has a particularly bad day. THU THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads THU Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner THU Henry Streatfield: Chris Pavlo THU Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley THU Alec Poole: Tom Stuart THU Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack THU Billy Barstow: David Hounslow THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06z4w8c (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06z17km (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06z4w8r (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh6n8 (Listen) THU We Are All Anthropologists Now THU THU Farrah Jarral shows how anthropology has seeped out of THU academia to infiltrate everyday life. THU THU Farrah discovers how anthropologists helped direct early THU research into office automation. She speaks to an THU anthropologist working with drivers in Birmingham to THU understand how they use their time in the car, and gets THU dating advice from Helen Fisher, an anthropologist who has THU worked for a decade as Chief Scientific Adviser to THU match.com. And she reveals which British TV show she THU considers a "modern ethnographic masterpiece". THU THU Producer: Giles Edwards. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06z2v5w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06z4w9c (Listen) THU The Ferryhill Philosophers, Filial Duties and Special Goods THU THU Joe's aged mother's a strong character - but now frail, THU going blind, and incapable of looking after herself THU properly. The solution is for her to leave her home of 50 THU years and move into care, but in truth she wants to die now, THU with dignity - and she wants Joe to help her do this. THU THU Joe is wracked by indecision. What's more important - THU Bella's security and happiness, or doing what is the morally THU right thing? Meanwhile Hermione faces a challenge in the THU care of her elderly demanding Dad. THU THU The Ferryhill Philosophers is about how we live our lives. A THU rather unlikely duo, Joe Snowball and the Hon. Hermione Pink THU inhabit two very different worlds, albeit only seven miles THU apart. He's an unemployed ex-miner living in Ferryhill, a THU small town forgotten by the world, and she's a slightly THU disenchanted philosophy lecturer at Durham University. THU Between them they wrestle with the collision between moral THU philosophy and the vexing dilemmas encountered by the THU not-always-good people of Ferryhill, deprived of jobs, THU opportunities and the kind of ethical guidance once offered THU by the Church and the Miners Unions. THU THU The series stars Alun Armstrong (of TV's popular series New THU Tricks) and Deborah Findlay, currently starring in Caryl THU Churchill's new play at The Royal Court. Award winning THU writer Michael Chaplin works in consultation with THU philosopher and presenter of R4's The Philosopher's Arms, THU David Edmonds. THU THU Written by Michael Chaplin THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Joe Snowball: Alun Armstrong THU Hermione Pink: Deborah Findlay THU George: Geoffrey Palmer THU Bella: Anne Reid THU Dr Dainty: Jonathan Keeble THU Mrs Cornish: Tracy Gillman THU Writer: Michael Chaplin THU Director: Marilyn Imrie THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06z4w9p (Listen) THU Snowsports at Glenshee, Cairngorms THU THU Helen Mark gets on her skis at the Glenshee Snowsports THU Centre in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park as it opens THU for the first snow of the winter season. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06z1zdm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06z1zf6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06z4yn9 (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06z4ync (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06z4ynf (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z17l1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06z5240 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 5 THU THU John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John THU Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and THU The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his THU multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie THU Quinlan. THU THU This week finds John making a heartfelt serving suggestion THU and Lawry trying to keep himself busy. And, well, since you THU ask him for a curious tale of murder... THU THU "One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" - The Guardian THU "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - THU The Radio Times THU "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the THU goods" - The Daily Mail THU "Superior comedy" - The Observer THU THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Ensemble ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble ... Simon Kane THU Ensemble ... Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble ... Carrie Quinlan THU THU Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Jason Hazeley THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a BBC Radio Comedy THU production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06z5245 (Listen) THU What a lovely surprise for Brian. Kate feels under pressure. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06z56m5 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 The Forsytes b06z4w7z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06z56m7 (Listen) THU A Seven-Day NHS THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06z56m9 (Listen) THU Renewable Energy THU THU After the Paris summit on climate change and the global THU commitment to cut carbon emissions, The Bottom Line is going THU green - with businesses that generate energy from the sun, THU the wind - and from cheese. And, whilst the government is THU committed to getting more of its energy from renewables, THU Evan Davis and guests discuss why green firms are seeing red THU over cuts to subsidies they say are vital to update ageing THU infrastructure. THU THU Guests: THU THU Juliet Davenport, CEO, Good Energy THU THU Jeremy Leggett, Founder, Solarcentury THU THU Paul Cowling, MD, RWE Innogy UK THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06z4ync (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06z4w7p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06z56mc (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06z9kdv (Listen) THU Orlando, An Admirer THU THU In Virginia Woolf's celebrated novel Orlando turns his mind THU to his noble ancestry and an archduchess demands his THU attention. Read by Amanda Hale. THU THU 23:00 Talking to Strangers b06z5d2v (Listen) THU Comic monologues in which a range of characters find THU themselves engaging in that most un-British of activities: THU talking to a stranger. THU THU Each piece is a character study: funny, frank, absurd, THU moving... Characters include a sex councillor who loves to THU draw, a spy who loves to share, a woman who likes to help THU too much ('I'm a serial helpist...'), a frustrated falconer, THU and a cheater who has to call her cheatee the morning after. THU And in this show, the listener themselves 'plays' the silent THU stranger in the piece... THU THU Written and performed by Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan, with THU guest stars including Emma Thompson, Olivia Coleman, Jessica THU Hynes, Steve Evets, Sinead Matthews and Joel Fry. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. A BBC Comedy Production. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06z5d64 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06z17p1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06zhhx7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06z17p3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06z17p5 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06z17p7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06z17p9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06zhhhx (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Edwin Counsell, Director of Education for the Church in FRI Wales. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06z5g7d (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 b04t0v50 (Listen) FRI Scarlet Macaw FRI FRI Michael Palin presents the scarlet macaw from Costa Rica. FRI The Scarlet Macaw is a carnival of a bird, eye-catching, FRI noisy and vibrant, with a colour-scheme verging on bad FRI taste. Its brilliant red feathers clash magnificently with FRI the bright yellow patches on its wings, and contrast with FRI its brilliant blue back and very long red tail. It has a FRI white face and a massive hooked bill and it produces FRI ear-splitting squawks. Subtlety is not in its vocabulary. FRI FRI Scarlet macaws breed in forests from Mexico south through FRI Central America to Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. They use their FRI formidable beaks not only to break into nuts and fruit, but FRI also as pick-axes. FRI Colourful and charismatic birds usually attract attention FRI and in some areas where the Scarlet Macaws have been FRI collected for the bird trade, numbers have declined. In FRI south-east Mexico where they are very rare, a reintroduction FRI programme is underway to restore these gaudy giants to their FRI ancestral forests. FRI FRI Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01386845 FRI © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com. FRI FRI Recording of scarlet macaw by Theodore A Parker, III / Ref: FRI ML 13663 FRI FRI This programme contains a FRI wildtrack recording of the scarlet macaw FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Theodore A Park, III on 24 Jul FRI 1979; in Tambopata Reserve, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, FRI Peru. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06z9krr (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 b06z1zdt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06zhhj0 (Listen) FRI Stop the Clocks, Episode 5 FRI FRI Since she reached the age of 80, Dame Joan Bakewell has been FRI working harder than ever - campaigning, writing and sitting FRI in the Lords. Now the former journalist takes a moment to FRI reflect on the passage of time, and the changes she has FRI witnessed in her lifetime. Her theme is 'thoughts on what I FRI leave behind'. FRI FRI Stop the Clocks is a book of musings, a look back at what FRI Joan Bakewell was given by her family, at the times in which FRI she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life, such as the FRI knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with FRI hospital corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of FRI lovers, of betrayal. FRI FRI At times joyful, at times pensive, she contemplates the past FRI without regret, and looks to the future without fear, but FRI with firm resolve. Once the 'thinking man's crumpet', Joan FRI remains outspoken and outrageous. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI Author/Reader: Joan Bakewell FRI Abridgers: David Roper and Joan Bakewell FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Joan Bakewell FRI Author: Joan Bakewell FRI Abridger: Joan Bakewell FRI Abridger: David Roper FRI Producer: David Roper FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06z9krt (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 The Forsytes b06z5g7g (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI FRI John Galsworthy's epic novels of sex, money and power in an FRI upper class family. FRI Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna FRI FRI Soames is determined to win back his estranged wife Irene. FRI His relentless pursuit of her brings him into conflict with FRI his cousin Jo, threatening a new family rift. FRI FRI Original music composed by Neil Brand FRI FRI Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new FRI dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The FRI Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the FRI lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 FRI years from 1886 to 1936. FRI FRI Today's play is from the second novel, "In Chancery". FRI FRI The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute FRI Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430. FRI FRI Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are FRI dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have FRI taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind FRI the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful FRI insight, wit and observation from the page. Although FRI focussed on the period in which they were written - in the FRI first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel FRI remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own FRI world and inner lives. FRI FRI Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central FRI role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and FRI Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined FRI by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert. FRI FRI The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson FRI Irene: Juliet Aubrey FRI Narrator: Jessica Raine FRI Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey FRI Emily Forsyte: Susan Jameson FRI James Forsyte: Gerard McDermott FRI Aunt Juley: Jessica Turner FRI June Forsyte: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Polteed: Sean Baker FRI Author: John Galsworthy FRI Adaptor: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Gemma Jenkins FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 11:00 Mao's Little Red Book Goes West b06z5g7j (Listen) FRI To mark the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, FRI David Aaronovitch tells the extraordinary story of how FRI Chairman Mao's Little Red Book captured the imagination of FRI the West. FRI FRI A collection of Mao's quotations, packaged with a red vinyl FRI cover, the book is an iconic piece of design and one of the FRI world's most widely distributed texts. In Britain, it was a FRI massive hit. David hears from comedian and former Maoist FRI Alexei Sayle who sold the book in Liverpool. Activist and FRI former Labour councillor Linda Bellos admits that, while she FRI carried the Little Red Book as a teenager, she didn't really FRI read it and was more interested in being trendy. FRI FRI The Little Red Book was hugely fashionable in late 1960s and FRI 70s Europe. The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard popularised FRI it with his 1967 film La Chinoise, in which five pretty FRI students plot revolutionary actions from their Paris flat FRI before taking part in a bungled assassination attempt. FRI FRI Bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang, argues that FRI Little Red Book wavers in the West were completely ignorant FRI when it came to the realities of life during the Cultural FRI Revolution. She explains that in China the book was a weapon FRI in a literal sense, used to beat those who were deemed to be FRI "class enemies". FRI FRI Meanwhile, in America, the book found an unlikely audience FRI among the Black Panther Party. Elaine Browne, a former FRI Panther who lead the party in the early 70s, explains that FRI the Panthers saw the Little Red Book as a blueprint for FRI enacting the revolution they were hoping to bring about in FRI the United States. FRI FRI Presenter: David Aaronovitch FRI Producer: Max O'Brien FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Ordeal by Innocence b03yqn0n (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI by Agatha Christie FRI dramatised by Joy Wilkinson FRI FRI Episode 2. Dr. Calgary joins forces with Inspector Huish to FRI try to find out the truth about Rachel Argyle's murder. But FRI the family is still resisting his investigation. FRI FRI directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI Credits FRI Calgary: Mark Umbers FRI Gwenda: Jacqueline Defferary FRI Kirsten: Wanda Opalinska FRI Hester: Phoebe Waller-Bridge FRI Leo: Sean Murray FRI Mickey: Joel MacCormack FRI Tina: Carys Eleri FRI Philip: John Norton FRI Mary: Priyanga Burford FRI Huish: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Maureen: Georgie Fuller FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson FRI Author: Agatha Christie FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06z17pc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06l3l6l (Listen) FRI 5 February 1916 - Florrie Wilson FRI FRI On this day, it was proposed that munitions workers be FRI exempted from the conscription bill, and tiredness and grief FRI give Florrie Wilson a very short fuse. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack FRI Alec Poole: Tom Stuart FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06z9krw (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06z17pf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06z9kry (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 From Savage to Self b06zh7ch (Listen) FRI Anthropology Faces the Future FRI FRI Farrah Jarral concludes her series on anthropology by FRI looking to the future, including the anthropology of outer FRI space. FRI FRI Farrah speaks to the thinker whose writing caused the FRI biggest argument amongst her fellow anthropology students - FRI Donna Haraway. She ponders the anthropology of artisanal FRI cheesemakers, and their cheese, and learns what studying FRI cheese has in common with studying outer space (it has FRI nothing to do with the moon). FRI FRI Producer: Giles Edwards. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06z5245 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06z5jm7 (Listen) FRI The Ferryhill Philosophers, Lies, Damn Lies and FRI Conversational Implicature FRI FRI Joe and Hermione see the wife of Joe's friend with another FRI man. What should Joe do? Tell his friend or keep quiet? FRI Should we always tell the truth, especially when it almost FRI certainly will have bad consequences? A moral dilemma in FRI which Hermione's philosophical expertise is pitted against FRI Joe's kindly humanity and knowledge of life. And when the FRI dilemma's resolved, their friendship is strengthened too. FRI FRI The Ferryhill Philosophers is about how we live our lives. A FRI rather unlikely duo, Joe Snowball and the Hon. Hermione Pink FRI inhabit two very different worlds, albeit only seven miles FRI apart. He's an unemployed ex-miner living in Ferryhill, a FRI small town forgotten by the world, and she's a slightly FRI disenchanted philosophy lecturer at Durham University. FRI Between them they wrestle with the collision between moral FRI philosophy and the vexing dilemmas encountered by the FRI not-always-good people of Ferryhill, deprived of jobs, FRI opportunities and the kind of ethical guidance once offered FRI by the Church and the Miners Unions. FRI FRI The series stars Alun Armstrong (of TV's popular series New FRI Tricks) and Deborah Findlay, currently starring in Caryl FRI Churchill's new play at The Royal Court. Award winning FRI writer Michael Chaplin works in consultation with FRI philosopher and presenter of R4's The Philosopher's Arms, FRI David Edmonds. FRI FRI Written by Michael Chaplin FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Joe Snowball: Alun Armstrong FRI Hermione Pink: Deborah Findlay FRI Polly: Gina McKee FRI Andy: Christopher Connel FRI Sadie: Jackie Lye FRI Writer: Michael Chaplin FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06z5jmc (Listen) FRI Boddington FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Boddington, Northamptonshire. Matthew Wilson, Chris FRI Beardshaw and Anne Swithinbank answer this week's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Special Deliveries b06z5jmf (Listen) FRI Zarafa FRI FRI A series of stories about some rather Special Deliveries, FRI commissioned to mark the anniversary of the Royal Mail 500 FRI years after Cardinal Wolsey appointed the first Master of FRI the Posts in 1516. FRI FRI In Lucy Gannon's story a curiously behaving dog leads a FRI postman to make a rather unexpected delivery, while Kate FRI Woodward takes us to the French court, and the tradition of FRI royal gift exchange. In our final episode Colin Carberry's FRI story is about Laura, a young wife and mother who is making FRI some tough decisions by way of the Royal Mail. FRI FRI Reader ..... Adrian Lukis FRI Writer ..... Kate Woodward FRI Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Adrian Lukis FRI Writer: Kate Woodward FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06z5jmh (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06zcg4v (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06z5jmk (Listen) FRI Olly and Katy - A Love of Biking FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces female friends who enjoy taking the FRI open road at full throttle and delight in overturning FRI stereotypical expectations regarding bikers and gender - FRI another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06zcg4x (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06z17ph (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06z5jmm (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the FRI chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests FRI take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. FRI This week Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons, Andrew FRI Maxwell and Michael Deacon. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Zoe Lyons FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI Panellist: Michael Deacon FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06z5jmp (Listen) FRI Is Helen overdoing things? Ruth has lots to share. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Andrew Eagleton: Andrew Frame FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06zhhj5 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 The Forsytes b06z5g7g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06z5jmr (Listen) FRI Lord Campbell, Ruth Davidson, Kezia Dugdale, Patrick Harvie, FRI Humza Yousaf FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Sherbrooke St Gilbert's Church in FRI Pollokshields,Glasgow, with the former Leader of the Liberal FRI Democrats Lord Campbell, the Leader of the Scottish FRI Conservatives Ruth Davidson, the Leader of the Scottish FRI Labour Party Kezia Dugdale, the leader of the Green Party in FRI Scotland Patrick Harvie, and Humza Yousaf the Minister for FRI Europe and International Development in the Scottish FRI Government. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06z5jmt (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3lgf (Listen) FRI 1-5 February 1916 FRI FRI In the week when Britain suffered the worst zeppelin raid FRI thus far in the war, all of Folkestone is jumpy. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman FRI Alec Poole: Tom Stuart FRI Anna White: Amelia Lowdell FRI Billy Barstow: David Hounslow FRI Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Elsie Buss: Tracy Wiles FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Fred Apps: Ewan Bailey FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner FRI Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads FRI Queenie Penfold: Lorna Nickson Brown FRI Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon FRI Smith: David Hounslow FRI Sylvia Graham: Joanna David FRI Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack FRI Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe FRI Town Clerk: Leo Wan FRI Councillor Pepper: Ewan Bailey FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06z17pm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06z5jmw (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06zcmjq (Listen) FRI Orlando, A Transformation FRI FRI In Virginia Woolf's sumptuous novel her eponymous hero has FRI been sent to opulent Constantinople by King Charles I to FRI serve as Ambassador Extraordinary. Whilst there he undergoes FRI a miraculous transformation. The reader is Amanda Hale. FRI FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06z2pmt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06z5k43 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06z5k45 (Listen) FRI Iain and Claire - No Job Like It FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation about the move to reactive FRI policing and how cyber crime and better car security has FRI changed things since the Bobby on the Beat - another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
30 January, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 30/01/2016 - 05/02/2016
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