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SAT SATURDAY 04 DECEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00w7fhl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00wbp3b (Listen) SAT Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, Episode 5 SAT SAT Now a regular on television chat shows and Radio 4's Just a SAT Minute, Kenneth is invited to direct Joe Orton's play, Loot. SAT SAT Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his SAT generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and SAT as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows and radio comedies, SAT he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles. SAT SAT Since the publication of edited extracts from his diaries, SAT much controversy has surrounded Williams's personal and SAT professional lives. But journalist and author Christopher SAT Stevens has been granted access by the estate to Williams's SAT complete archive - the forty-three volumes of diaries and SAT hundreds of unseen letters to and from the star. SAT SAT Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams (the first SAT full-length authorised biography) traces the complex SAT contradictions that characterised an extraordinary life. SAT SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Read by Nicholas Boulton SAT SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w7fhn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w7fhq (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w7fhs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00w7fhv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wcm9z (Listen) SAT With Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Assistant Secretary General of SAT the Muslim Council of Britain. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00wcmsp (Listen) SAT "Can you play George Michael at a wedding?" A listener sets SAT Kathy Clugstone and her ukulele a challenge to find out SAT which songs count as being too religious to feature in a SAT registry office wedding. Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey SAT brave the snow and ice to pay homage to Leslie Nielsen. And SAT Lyse Doucet reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00w7fhx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00w7fhz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00wcmtc (Listen) SAT In this weeks Open Country Richard Uridge visits the Norfolk SAT Coast.Better known as an area of coastal erosion, SAT Happisburgh is proving that community spirit is far from SAT eroded as teams of volunteers work tirelessly to protect the SAT local landscape and those who come to enjoy it. Navigation SAT reform could've seen the Happisburgh lighthouse fall into SAT disrepair but a team of volunteers campaigned to keep it SAT working and 20 years on it's still beaming across the SAT Norfolk high seas. In view of the red and white tower, a SAT small porter cabin is home to 'Coast Watch' and it's SAT revolving volunteers who daily scan the cliff tops and ocean SAT for ramblers or ships in distress. And should the alarm be SAT raised, the lifeboat station is on call 24 hours just as it SAT has been for over 40 years to rescue those in need. SAT SAT Produced by Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00wcq6c (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00w7fj1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00wcs0h (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00wcs0k (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles with studio guest Gloria SAT Hunniford and poet Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00wcs0m (Listen) SAT John McCarthy looks at endangered peoples of the world with SAT broadcaster and traveller Piers Gibbon who has stayed with SAT South American tribes and studied their use of plants. This SAT has lead him to taking part in their rituals involving SAT poisonous frog toxins. SAT SAT Closer to home, hunter-gatherer tribes first inhabited the SAT Hebrides 10,000 years ago but have left little for SAT archaeologists to study. Professor Steven Mithen tells John SAT how years of going there to excavate have brought him a deep SAT appreciation of the islands and their present day people. SAT SAT What kind of appreciation do visitors have of the islands of SAT Great Britain? John talks to Immaculate Mwaungulu from SAT Tanzania about her impressions on her first visit to the UK SAT - including an interesting insight into tapwater. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Samuel Pepys' iPod b00wcs0p (Listen) SAT Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, loved music. It outlasted SAT all his other passions- even his passion for women. He left SAT hundreds of his favourite songs, some covered in wine SAT stains, relics of drunken musical evenings. SAT SAT David Owen Norris explores the songs in the Pepys Library in SAT Cambridge with historians Richard Luckett, Jenny Uglow and SAT Basie Gitlin, and recreates the music he loved best. With SAT singers Gwyneth Herbert, Thomas Guthrie and Laura Crowther. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00wcs0r (Listen) SAT Elinor Goodman looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00wcs0t (Listen) SAT The great silence that is the legacy of genocide in SAT Cambodia. SAT SAT A chance to relax on the beach in war-weary Mogadishu. SAT SAT Living with the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico's oil spill SAT disaster. SAT SAT And how to endure endless thirst in one of the hottest SAT places on the planet. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00wcs46 (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: With the winter freeze SAT continuing: SAT SAT If you miss your flight or train or cannot get to an airport SAT in time, will your insurance cover you? SAT Or can you get your money back if you can't make the concert SAT you have tickets for? SAT SAT Plus: winter snow tyres - can having them fitted invalidate SAT your insurance policy? SAT SAT Contactless cards - they're being rolled out now but how SAT secure are they? SAT SAT And the chairman of an influential parliamentary committee SAT says it's unfair that online customers get the best energy SAT deals at the expense of those who don't use the internet. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00w7f9v (Listen) SAT Series 32, Wiki leaks - nudge nudge, wink, wink SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another episode of SAT the topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches SAT about wiki leak revelations and the culture of the nudging, SAT rather than nannying state. With icy weather all around us SAT Marcus Brigstocke thinks the time is right to talk about SAT global warming; Andi Osho says goodbye to Wagner and Mitch SAT Benn does a music salute to his hero Brian Blessed. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00w7fj3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00w7fj5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00w7fd7 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from SAT Gillotts School in Henley-on-Thames with questions for the SAT panel including Theresa May, Home Secretary and writer Alain SAT De Botton. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00wcs5h (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00wcsb2 (Listen) SAT The Gambler SAT SAT Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1866, in serious debt, addicted to SAT roulette and rejected by several women, spun these sad SAT materials into 'The Gambler', a brilliant tragicomic novella SAT written in a feverish few weeks to stave off ruin. SAT SAT Set in Roulettenburg, a fictional spa town in the Alps, the SAT novel tells how Alexei Ivanovich, servant to a bankrupt SAT family, falls madly in love twice- first with the lovely SAT unobtainable Polina, then with the forbidden thrill of the SAT Casino. As Polina demands ever more slavish and reckless SAT obedience from him, Alexei finds liberation in his SAT enslavement, and their relationship starts to mutate into SAT something altogether richer and stranger. SAT SAT Meanwhile a cast of villains and victims- Polina's weak, SAT infatuated uncle 'the General', the pretty young gold-digger SAT he falls for, and a scheming French aristocrat with designs SAT on Polina - wait to inherit millions from her dying Granny - SAT until the old lady herself bursts in, foul-mouthed, furious, SAT and up for a good time. Fortunes will rise and fall, love be SAT won and lost, hopes and dreams go up in flames, before the SAT roulette-wheel comes to a final stop and the little silver SAT ball makes its choice. SAT SAT Major contemporary poet Glyn Maxwell (The Nerve, The Sugar SAT Mile, Hide Now) recreates the madness and mayhem of a world SAT enthralled by chance, sex and money, a world without values SAT or foundations, spinning out of control. SAT SAT Alexei Ivanovich ..... Sam Crane SAT General Zagorski ..... Nicholas le Prevost SAT Granny ..... Patricia Routledge SAT Polina Alexandrovna ..... Siobhan Hewlett SAT De Grieux ..... David Westhead SAT Astley ..... Robert Portal SAT Blanche de Cominges ..... Charlotte Randle SAT SAT Written by Glyn Maxwell SAT Director: Guy Retallack SAT Producer: Frank Stirling SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00wcsb4 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Why the sherry tipple is making a SAT comeback - and we're not talking about pouring it into the SAT trifle. Pandas, procreation and pregnancy - we hear from one SAT documentary-maker about China's breeding programme. The SAT story of the mother in Pakistan facing a death sentence SAT after conviction under controversial blasphemy laws. The SAT influence of parents in student protests about tuition fees. SAT What blogging can do for women in Iran. Fashion and what it SAT says about our identity. Sex offenders and adoption - why SAT one family law expert argues it's time for a re-think. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00wcsdj (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00wcmsp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00w7fj7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00w7fj9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w7fjc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00wcsdl (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by American filmmaker, actor, visual artist SAT and writer John Waters, once dubbed the 'Prince of Puke'. SAT The Mayor of Baltimore once declared 7th February 1985 John SAT Waters' Day'in honour of the city's most celebrated citizen SAT - all this prior to John's breakout 1988 film Hairspray SAT which has since been turned into a widely successful SAT musical. John's new book, Role Models shares some of his SAT subversive inspirations, published by Beautiful Books. SAT SAT Lisa Jardine, Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at SAT Queen Mary, University of London is the daughter of Jacob SAT Bronowski, who died almost forty years ago and was renowned SAT for his epic BBC TV series The Ascent of Man. Lisa has some SAT surprising discoveries in her BBC Four documentary 'My SAT Father, The Bomb and Me'. SAT SAT Composer and conductor Carl Davis talks about his upcoming SAT role conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra as they provide SAT live accompaniment to a special screening of Charlie SAT Chaplin's silent film The Gold Rush at London's Royal SAT Festival Hall, performing Carl's reconstruction of the SAT original score. SAT SAT And Nikki Bedi talks to award-winning Australian comedian SAT Tim Minchin, noted for his unique brand of musical comedy. SAT Tim begins has a UK Arena tour 'Tim Minchin and his SAT Orchestra' (all 55 of them), a DVD 'Ready For This' and has SAT composed the score to the RSCs Matilda. SAT SAT With music from the flamboyant Gabby Young & Other Animals SAT who play their single Ones That Got Away. SAT SAT And from San Francisco - Stephanie Finch and The Company Men SAT perform their laidback ballad So Do I. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00wct6j (Listen) SAT Series 9, Episode 6 SAT SAT The Galway Ghost SAT In the week of Ireland's bail out writer Lizzie Nunnery SAT takes a look at how the economic dream turned sour. Declan SAT Conway's life was good, spurred on by success he'd bought a SAT stake in his very own horse -the Galway Ghost. Will Declan SAT be a relic from his time or does he have a future? SAT SAT Declan Conway ..... Jonathan Forbes SAT Producer - Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00wct8d (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Deborah Moggach and SAT writers Sarfraz Manzoor and Ekow Eshun review the cultural SAT highlights of the week. SAT SAT Les Parents Terribles was written by Jean Cocteau in 1938 SAT during an eight day opium binge. Chris Rolls directs a new SAT production of Jeremy Sams' translation of the play at SAT Trafalgar Studios in London, starring Frances Barber as a SAT pathologically possessive mother with Anthony Calf as her SAT husband and Tom Byam Shaw as their son. SAT SAT Hammad Khan's film Slackistan portrays a group of aimless, SAT wealthy young graduates trying, without much success, to SAT find some purpose to their lives in Islamabad. Khan says SAT that his film rejects the stereotypical Western view of SAT Pakistan, while also rejecting the prevailing establishment SAT of older cultures and traditions. SAT SAT Rupert Goold's 2007 production of Macbeth, starring Patrick SAT Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, was highly acclaimed and had SAT successful runs both in the West End and in Broadway. Goold SAT has now adapted this production for television and filmed it SAT in the gloomy subterranean spaces of Welbeck Abbey in SAT Nottinghamshire. The result, to be shown on BBC4, is a SAT claustrophobic and visceral modern reimagining of the play. SAT SAT The title of this year's GSK Contemporary exhibition at the SAT Royal Academy is Aware: Art Fashion Identity. It examines SAT how artists and designers use clothing as a mechanism to SAT communicate and reveal elements of our identity and brings SAT together work by 30 different practitioners, including SAT specially commissioned pieces by Yinka Shonibare and Hussein SAT Chalayan. SAT SAT Simon Nye is the latest writer to take on the challenge of SAT adapting Richmal Crompton's much-loved William stories for SAT television. Just William on BBC1 stars Daniel Roche as the SAT subversive schoolboy and also features Martin Jarvis - the SAT voice behind the popular radio adaptations of the stories - SAT as the narrator. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00wct8g (Listen) SAT Political Patriarchs SAT SAT The influence of the political father has long been a SAT defining aspect of politics, but how has this relationship SAT changed actual decisions made and what impact do these SAT ghostly forebears have on the supposedly meritocratic SAT Westminster scene today? SAT SAT David Cameron described his father, after his death this SAT autumn, as one of the biggest influences on his politics. Ed SAT Miliband's victory speech cited his Marxist father's SAT influence on his thinking and determination - and David has SAT quoted him repeatedly. SAT SAT In Political Patriarchs Westminster columnist Anne McElvoy SAT charts some of the most influential relationships of leading SAT politicians and their fathers, from the Chamberlain family SAT business of Joe and Austen, to Winston Churchill shaping his SAT ambitions according to his father Randolph - and the fathers SAT who have shaped politics to the present day. SAT SAT In it, she uses the BBC archive, surprisingly rich in this SAT subject, and does new interviews with people like Margaret SAT Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore about the formative SAT influence of her father Alderman Roberts, cut with her own SAT recollections of her father as the guiding spirit of her SAT beliefs. SAT SAT She also charts the Left's intriguing attachment to its own SAT brand of heredity in dynasties like the Foots, Benns and the SAT Milibands. SAT SAT The programme also explores the culture and psychological SAT roots of the father-child inheritance and asks if political SAT offspring consciously try to redress the failings of their SAT fathers in a different context. SAT SAT Producer: Rebecca Stratford. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00w6q37 (Listen) SAT I, Claudius, Augustus SAT SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' scandalous SAT histories of Roman political vice. SAT SAT Young Claudius grows up in the turbulent household of SAT Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, and Livia, the wife who SAT matched his achievements with her ambition. The Imperial SAT Couple disregard their young grandson as they inch towards SAT absolute power. But that won't save Claudius from heartbreak. SAT SAT Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Augustus ..... Derek Jacobi SAT Livia ..... Harriet Walter SAT Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Julia ..... Alison Pettitt SAT Athenodorus ..... Sam Dale SAT Cato ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Thrasyllus ..... Sean Baker SAT Young Claudius ..... Harvey Allpress SAT Young Herod ..... Felix Zadek-Ewing SAT Young Germanicus ..... Harry Child SAT Camilla ..... Lauren Mote SAT Young Postumus ..... Ryan Watson SAT Young Livilla ..... Holly Gibbs SAT Other parts played by Adeel Akhtar, Tony Bell, Christine SAT Kavanagh, and Sally Orrock. SAT SAT Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00w7fjf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00w7ccn (Listen) SAT It's reported this week that scientists in America, have for SAT the first time, managed to reverse the effects of ageing in SAT animals. The experiment was carried out on mice at Harvard. SAT Before the treatment their skin and other organs were SAT equivalent to those of an 80 year old human. After the SAT injection of a drug that switches on a key enzyme, the mice SAT grew so many new cells that they'd almost completely SAT rejuvenated. The results raise some difficult questions. SAT SAT No one would argue that we should work on drugs that SAT alleviate the problems of old age, but should we actively SAT try to extend life itself? In the UK by 2031, more than a SAT fifth of the population will be over 65 and the fastest SAT growing population will be those aged 85 and over. It's not SAT just a question of the cost, but how we value the old in SAT society. Despite plans for legislation, allegations of SAT ageism are common place. Are we stuck with an out of date SAT attitude to the old that has too often resulted in them SAT being shuffled off in to age reservations as soon as they SAT hit three score years and ten? Has our culture, which so SAT values youthfulness come to terms with the improvements to SAT the physical and mental capabilities of the elderly? Or are SAT the old themselves partly to blame? Desperately clinging on SAT to their youth with pills, potions and plastic surgery. Is SAT the search for eternal youth hubris, or a natural part of SAT the human condition? If we assist in extending life, will SAT that inevitably mean assistance ending? When it comes to SAT age, when is enough enough? SAT SAT The Moral Maze chaired by Michael Buerk with Melanie SAT Phillips, Kenan Malik, Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00w7854 (Listen) SAT (6/17) SAT Four more contestants join Russell Davies in Manchester for SAT the latest heat in the long-established general knowledge SAT contest. This week they are from Swansea, Manchester, SAT Northwich in Cheshire and Middle Rasen in Lincolnshire. The SAT winner goes through to the 2011 semi-finals, with a chance SAT of being named the 58th annual Brain of Britain. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT JOHN BEYNON, a gardener from Northwich in Cheshire; SAT DYLAN CLEMENTS, a freelance translator from Manchester; SAT DAVID DORSETT, a retired teacher from Swansea; SAT IAN WELHAM, also a retired teacher, from Middle Rasen, SAT Lincolnshire. SAT SAT 23:30 David Walliams on Philip Larkin b00w6q44 (Listen) SAT Actor David Walliams is a great admirer of Philip Larkin's SAT poetry, and to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the SAT poet's death he talks to former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, SAT who wrote a widely acclaimed biography of Larkin, about why SAT he finds this poetry so appealing. Walliams chooses a SAT selection of the poems he likes best, some well-known and SAT some far less so, to explore the central themes that recur SAT throughout Larkin's work. It's a fascinating three-way SAT meeting of minds: the actor, the biographer and the poet SAT they both admire. SAT SAT The poems are read by Philip Larkin, Tom Courtenay and SAT Patrick Romer. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 DECEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00wbt8x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00chy5k (Listen) SUN Urban Welsh, Sorry for the Loss SUN SUN Sorry For The Loss by Bridget Keehan. SUN The prison chaplain has some news for one of the inmates. SUN This story was a winner in the Rhys Davies Short Story SUN Competition. Read by Eve Myles. SUN SUN Produced by Kate McAll SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wbt91 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wbt94 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wbt97 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00wbt99 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00wctnf (Listen) SUN The bells of St David's, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 The Joy of Ceps b00wgpyj (Listen) SUN They grow like...mushrooms, so why is there so little known SUN about Britain's fungal world? Expert mycologist Alan Bennell SUN of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh reveals all. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00wbt9d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00wdcmf (Listen) SUN The Poetry of Healing SUN SUN Kenneth Steven selects poems by Edwin Muir, Robert Frost, WB SUN Yeats and others to explore the idea of why people are drawn SUN to poetry at moments of crisis. SUN SUN With readings by Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble and SUN musical extracts from Handel's Saul, Mozart's Piano Sonata SUN in D (K.448) and the African-American spiritual 'There is a SUN balm in Gilead'. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00wdcq1 (Listen) SUN Winter Ravens SUN SUN 13/18. The raven is both agile and majestic in flight but SUN shrouded in mystery, superstition and folk law. How was it SUN that our biggest member of the crow family, a bird once SUN protected as an important scavenger in ancient times, was SUN then persecuted almost to extinction in the British Isles, SUN with less that 1000 pairs clinging onto a precarious future SUN in few remote hills in upland Britain? SUN SUN In this week's Living World, Lionel Kelleway travels to a SUN remote part of Shropshire where thankfully the raven is SUN making a remarkable comeback. Here on the Stiperstones SUN National Nature Reserve he meets up with Leo Smith and Tom SUN Wall from the Shropshire Raven Study Group, a group who have SUN been studying these magnificent birds for nearly 20 years, SUN and who have recorded the changes in the fortunes for these SUN huge members of the crow family. SUN SUN As they walk to an old raven nest in wet woodland, Lionel SUN encounters many ravens on the wing. A raven's nest is easy SUN to spot by its size, similar to that of an eagle, SUN beautifully illustrating how easy it was to persecute these SUN birds in the past. SUN SUN But the tide has turned and now Shropshire is home to a SUN remarkable wildlife spectacle, a raven roost. Travelling to SUN a private mixed woodland Lionel is chorused by over 60 SUN ravens wheeling and displaying in the gathering dusk. SUN Remarkably, even in early November, the spectacular barrel SUN rolls and shadow flight ravens are noted for when pairing SUN up, is taking place. Nature on the wing at its very best. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00wbt9h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00wbt9l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00wdcq3 (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00wdcq5 (Listen) SUN To give to this years appeal call: 0800 082 82 84. Or donate SUN online via the Radio 4 website. Or send cheques payable to SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, Trafalgar Square, SUN London, WC2N 4JJ SUN SUN For over 80 years Radio 4 listeners have supported the work SUN of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, last year SUN this appeal raised a record £900,000. The money helps SUN homeless people who receive shelter, food, help and advice SUN at the Connection at St Martins and it maintains a special SUN Vicar's Relief fund which makes thousands of one off grants SUN to people in need across the UK. Like the family in SUN Manchester who took their child to their GP and later that SUN day found themselves in a hospital 50 miles away, their SUN child having been diagnosed with leukemia. They couldn't SUN afford money for transport so the social worker at SUN Manchester Children's Hospital applied to the Vicar's Relief SUN Fund for help. SUN SUN This year you can get a very personal view of life on the SUN streets thanks to a photography project, which has SUN encouraged homeless clients to take pictures of their world. SUN Ben Richardson who runs the group says: "homelessness is a SUN very lonely situation" looking at the photographs he says "I SUN realised that I work with homeless people but I don't live SUN in their world and that's the gift of these photos for me SUN and others." You can see an audio slideshow of the photos on SUN the Radio 4 website. SUN SUN Donate to the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal SUN SUN Send cheques payable to: SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal SUN Trafalgar Square SUN London WC2N 4JJ SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00wbt9n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00wbt9q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00wdctd (Listen) SUN Justice for City People SUN SUN The Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Steven Croft preaches for the SUN second of our series of services for Advent which visits 4 SUN cities across the nations of the United Kingdom exploring SUN the meaning of the incarnation in daily city life. Live from SUN St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield. Readings: Isaiah SUN 11:1-10; Matthew 3:1-12. Leader: Canon Julian Sullivan; SUN Music Director: Yo Tozerloft. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00w7fd9 (Listen) SUN Living Forever SUN SUN Joan Bakewell reflects on the ageing process and the efforts SUN by scientists to reverse it and she considers the SUN attractions and the drawbacks of adding many more years to SUN the human span. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00wdctg (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 09:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b00wgst4 (Listen) SUN Received with Thanks SUN SUN To give to this year's appeal call: 0800 082 82 84. Or SUN donate online via the Radio 4 website. Or send cheques SUN payable to St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, SUN Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 4JJ SUN SUN "It's very easy to fall into the gutter, very difficult to SUN climb out" Alf Welton has spent many years on the streets, SUN for him St Martin's is a lifeline "without it I'm not sure I SUN would have survived". For over 80 years Radio 4 listeners SUN have supported the work of St Martin-in-the-Fields in SUN Trafalgar Square, last year this appeal raised a record SUN £900,000. The money helps homeless people who receive SUN shelter, food, help and advice at the Connection at St SUN Martins and it maintains a special fund which makes SUN thousands of one off grants to people in need across the UK. SUN One 81 year old listener tells how she first heard the SUN appeal on the radio when she was 16 years old. She gave her SUN pocket money 2/6 and has continued to give ever since: "they SUN spoke about homelessness and it touched a spot". SUN This year you can get a very personal view of life on the SUN streets thanks to a photography project, which has SUN encouraged homeless clients to take pictures of their world. SUN Ben Richardson who runs the group says: "homelessness is a SUN very lonely situation" looking at the photographs that have SUN come he says "I realised that I work with homeless people SUN but I don't live in their world and that's the gift of these SUN photos for me and others." SUN One of the photographers is a young man called Jamie Winter. SUN He has alienated himself from the world for several years, SUN often silent, sleeping rough. His revealing photographs SUN combine words and pictures. You can see an audio slideshow SUN of his work on the Radio 4 website..the last photo reads: SUN 'I'm still here'. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00wdctj (Listen) SUN Written by: Caroline Harrington SUN Driected by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Phoebe Tucker ..... Lucy Morris SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Amy Franks ..... Vinette Robinson SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00wdctl (Listen) SUN Frances Wood SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Frances SUN Wood. SUN SUN As head of the Chinese collection at the British Library she SUN is the gatekeeper to some of the rarest printed texts in the SUN world. Her life has been immersed in the language and SUN culture of the Far East and, along the way, she's spent time SUN learning how to throw hand-grenades, plant rice in the SUN paddy-fields and bundle Chinese cabbages. SUN SUN She was in China in the final months of Mao Zedong's regime SUN and remembers being aware of the sense of national unease: SUN "There were the bodies that floated down the Pearl River to SUN Hong Kong - you did get a real sense of foreboding. You did SUN know that the whole country was on edge." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00w78h2 (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 4 SUN SUN The grandaddy of all panel games with Nicholas Parsons in SUN the chair. This week Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock and Ian SUN MacMillan are panellists. This week the programme is a guest SUN of the British Library as part of its Evolving English SUN Exhibition. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00wdctn (Listen) SUN Streetfood and Takeaways SUN SUN From Caribbean to Thai and Vietnamese - Simon Parkes looks SUN at the latest trends in British street food and takeaway SUN meals. And we hear from some of the finalists in the BBC SUN Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00wbt9t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00wdctq (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 The Long Walk b00wdcts (Listen) SUN Later this year, the celebrated Australian director Peter SUN Weir will release his latest film. Titled "The Way Back" it SUN is based on a book which has puzzled the world for 50 years. SUN In 1956, a Polish officer called Slavomir Rawicz caused a SUN sensation with "The Long Walk," his account of a his SUN dramatic escape from the Soviet Gulag and a 4000-mile trek SUN on foot to India. The book was a bestseller and has remained SUN in print for over half a century. Rawicz describes how he SUN his fellow escapees slogged across the Siberian tundra, SUN traversed the Gobi Desert and scaled the Himalayas. Along SUN the way they faced hunger, exhaustion, disease and even a SUN couple of yetis. A thrilling story: but was it true? Many SUN have doubted whether this extraordinary tale can really have SUN happened. Four years ago, Tim Whewell investigated for a SUN Radio 4 documentary and discovered evidence that decisively SUN proved whether Rawicz really made his amazing journey. Now SUN there's further evidence which adds another twist to the SUN tale - including a meeting with the man who might really SUN have made this epic trek. This updated version of the SUN programme proves once again that truth is truly stranger SUN than fiction. SUN SUN Producer: Hugh Levinson. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00w7f89 (Listen) SUN Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Biggs and Eric Robson pay fellow SUN panellist Anne Swithinbank a visit at her home in Devon. SUN Here they answer some of the questions sent into the programme. SUN SUN Also, part one in a two-part series on growing houseplants, SUN presented by houseplant expert, Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 In The Footsteps of Giants b00rzvfp (Listen) SUN Hugh Pennington on Joseph Lister SUN SUN As part of series of passionate encounters between SUN scientists past and present, bacteriologist Hugh Pennington- SUN an expert on E Coli outbreaks- looks back at his hero and SUN fellow scientist Joseph Lister. SUN SUN Lister has affected Hugh's life, and not just as he has been SUN awarded the Lister Medal of the Society of Chemical SUN Industry. As a pioneer of sterilisation, Lister banished SUN bugs from the operating theatre. As an expert on E Coli SUN outbreaks, Hugh Pennington has spent decades trying to SUN discover where the bugs got back into food that should have SUN been safe. SUN SUN Hugh looks back upon the life of Joseph Lister and explores SUN the connections between the great man and himself. SUN SUN The producer is Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00wdcy0 (Listen) SUN I, Claudius, Tiberius SUN SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' classic SUN Roman histories. SUN SUN Growing up amid the intrigues of the Imperial family, SUN Claudius learns his grandmother Livia's true ambition - and SUN finds himself and his brother Germanicus in danger. SUN SUN Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Augustus ..... Derek Jacobi SUN Livia ..... Harriet Walter SUN Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Pollio ..... Trevor Peacock SUN Germanicus ..... Joseph Kloska SUN Agrippina ..... Hattie Morahan SUN Sejanus ..... Sam Dale SUN Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla SUN Postumus ..... Henry Devas SUN Livilla ..... Leah Brotherhead SUN Cassius Chaerea ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Pomponius ..... Sean Baker SUN Antonia ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN Castor ..... Iain Batchelor SUN Piso ..... Tony Bell SUN Pallas ..... Lloyd Thomas SUN Young Caligula ..... James Warner SUN SUN Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00wdcy2 (Listen) SUN Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Sarah Hall about her SUN novel The Carhullan Army, recorded at the Chapter and Verse SUN Literature Festival in Liverpool. SUN SUN Sarah Hall is being tipped as one of the most interesting up SUN and coming novelists of her generation. By the age of SUN thirty-five she had already been shortlisted for the Man SUN Booker prize. SUN SUN The chosen book in this month's programme is The Carhullan SUN Army, her tale about a flooded post-apocalyptic Britain, and SUN how a group of women are living on the outside of a harsh SUN new regime. SUN SUN Sarah Hall is preoccupied by the recent crises of the SUN damaging floods of Cumbrian towns and she'll be talking SUN about how she's used these events in her writing - and how SUN her native landscape inspires her. SUN SUN January's Bookclub title: SUN The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wdcy4 (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 1 SUN SUN "Adventures in Poetry" returns to unpack a new series of SUN classic poems whose lines or images have entered our SUN national consciousness. SUN SUN This week, presenter Peggy Reynolds asks what it is about SUN Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving but Drowning" which has kept SUN it relevant since 1957. The phrase itself turns up endlessly SUN in newspapers, both red-tops and broadsheets, and is SUN particularly loved by writers on sports pages - not, you SUN might think, the obvious place to look for soul-searching SUN poetry. But underneath the snappy economy of the first line SUN runs a complex and universal emotional truth, examined here SUN by a Samaritan, a sports writer and Stevie Smith's SUN biographer. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00w7bv7 (Listen) SUN Europe's Missing Millions SUN SUN Over the last seven years, the European Union has paid out SUN billions of Euros in grants designed to revitalise Europe's SUN poorest regions. SUN SUN But an investigation for File on 4 has revealed the extent SUN to which these payments are open to widespread fraud, abuse SUN and mismanagement. SUN SUN Angus Stickler tracks how money has gone astray across the SUN 27 member states and asks why funding continues in regions SUN with proven records of corruption and fraud. Throughout the SUN EU there is evidence that money has been wasted or even SUN stolen. In Southern Italy, money has gone to SUN Mafia-controlled construction companies and bogus energy SUN projects. Across the EU expensive projects lie unused and SUN unfit for purpose, despite receiving funding of millions of SUN Euros. SUN SUN The EU has created its own anti-fraud agency, OLAF, to stop SUN these abuses, but are critics right when they claim it's SUN underfunded and ineffective? SUN SUN File on 4/Bureau of Investigative Journalism co-production. SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion SUN Editor: David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b00wgst4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wbt9w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00wbt9y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wbtb1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00wddhc (Listen) SUN Russell Davies makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00wddmm (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00wddng (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c83jm (Listen) SUN SOS: Save Our Souls, The Fishwife's Lament SUN SUN Short stories to mark the 100th anniversary of the SUN international distress call. SUN SUN An elderly fish-gutter spins an unconvincing yarn in Stuart SUN MacBride's darkly humorous tale of murder, deception and ice SUN cream. SUN Read by Lisa Gardner. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00w7f74 (Listen) SUN The BBC is the subject of its own news bulletins yet again. SUN Roger speaks to the BBC's deputy director of news to find SUN out how BBC radio reacts to stories about the Corporation. SUN SUN After a tense week in the Dontenville household, Radio 4 nut SUN Heather and her Radio 1 loving stepdaughter Jenni reveal how SUN they got on after a week of listening to each other's SUN stations. SUN SUN The BBC Trust is looking for new members for its Regional SUN Audience Councils - it could be you! SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00w7f8k (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN The Very Reverend Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark and SUN outspoken supporter of women bishops and gay clergy. SUN We have a tribute from his friend the Archbishop of SUN Canterbury. SUN Also Leslie Nielson, deadpan comic star of Airplane and The SUN Naked Gun, SUN Sir Maurice Wilkes, who built one of the world's first SUN working computers, SUN Peter Christopherson who designed album covers for bands SUN like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and was a member of the SUN performance art group Throbbing Gristle SUN And feminist art critic Rozsika Parker who also trained as a SUN psychotherapist. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00wcs46 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00wdcq5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00w7dyx (Listen) SUN Operation Robot SUN SUN The revolution in the operating theatre is only just SUN beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think SUN about healthcare ... and the way surgeons work. Peter Day SUN looks at what surgeons are able to achieve with robots now SUN and at the proto-types for healthcare in the future. He asks SUN how significant these advances could be for health in SUN Britain and for British business and hears from the robot SUN pioneers: surgeons, engineers and business people. SUN Producer : Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00wbtb3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00wddr5 (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00wddry (Listen) SUN Episode 30 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Sam Leith takes the SUN chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00w7f9j (Listen) SUN Award winning composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett discusses SUN his career in films, from Murder On The Orient Express to SUN Far From The Madding Crowd SUN SUN Francine Stock meets Gareth Edwards, the director of a new SUN science fiction movie called Monsters, who created the SUN special effects on his laptop in his bedroom. SUN SUN Nikki Bedi meets the member of Chorley Community Cinema who SUN dons fancy dress for each screening, a trend that's catching SUN on around the country SUN SUN Chilean drama, The Maid, is reviewed and given marks out of SUN a hundred by some members of The Abergavenny Film Society. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00wdcmf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 DECEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00wbtb6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00w7c91 (Listen) MON Politically connected firms - Gangs and Territory MON MON Professor Laurie Taylor explores the connections between MON politics and business with economist Mara Faccio, who talks MON about her new research into the subject. Laurie also talks MON to criminologist Judith Aldridge and discusses her research MON about how territory influences youth gangs. They are joined MON by Peter Squires from Brighton University. MON MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00wctnf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wbtb8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wbtbc (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wbtbf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00wbtbj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wddv1 (Listen) MON With Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Assistant Secretary General of MON the Muslim Council of Britain. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00wdf3y (Listen) MON Farmers cope with roofs collapsing under the sheer weight of MON snow. Charlotte Smith hears one dairy farmer's narrow escape MON after 40cm of snow fell on his barn roof. MON MON Farming Today visits the frozen Moray Firth where shooters MON are being told to rest their guns to protect birds MON struggling to stay alive in the cold. MON MON And the worlds hottest chilli has been created, not in MON India, or South America, but in a greenhouse in Cumbria. Its MON creator warns that it will be sold with a health disclaimer. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin MON Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00wbtbl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00wdf40 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00wdf42 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the choreographer Matthew Bourne about MON his vision for Cinderella, while the dance critic, Jennifer MON Homans sounds the death knell for ballet in her history of MON the art form. David Aaronovitch also asks whether Freud has MON had his heyday, in his examination of the continuing MON significance of the father of psycho-analysis, while the MON psychotherapist, Jane Haynes, celebrates the enduring appeal MON and relevance of Proust. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00wdf44 (Listen) MON The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for MON the Good Life, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Bettany Hughes. We think the way we do because MON Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The MON unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated MON twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of MON modern life. MON MON Socrates lived in a city that nurtured the key ingredients MON of contemporary civilisation - democracy, liberty, science, MON drama, rational thought- yet, as he wrote nothing in his MON lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure. "The Hemlock MON Cup" tells his story, setting him in the context of the MON Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with MON him as he himself dealt with the world. MON MON Socrates was a soldier, a lover, a man of the people. He MON philosophised neither in grand educational establishments MON nor the courts of kings but in the squares and public arenas MON of Golden Age Athens. He lived through an age of MON extraordinary materialism, in which a democratic culture MON turned to the glorification of its own city; when war was MON declared under the banner of democracy; and, when tolerance MON turned into intimidation on streets once populated by the MON likes of Euripides, Sophocles and Pericles. MON MON For seventy years he was a vigorous citizen of one of the MON greatest capitals on earth, but then his beloved Athens MON turned on him, condemning him to death by poison. Socrates' MON pursuit of personal liberty is a vibrant story that Athens MON did not want us to hear. But Bettany Hughes has MON painstakingly pieced together Socrates' life, following in MON his footsteps across Greece and Asia Minor, and examining MON the new archaeological discoveries that shed light on his MON world. "The Hemlock Cup" relates a story that is as relevant MON now as it has ever been. MON MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Reader: Bettany Hughes MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wdf46 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Burlesque: is it the acceptable MON face of stripping? An art form? Or simply exploitation? MON Pegged to a Time Out Magazine debate we talk to Opehlia BItz MON and the academic Julia Long. Only 16% of UK businesses are MON owned by women so are women-only investment networks the MON answer to releasing funds for female entrepreneurs? Jane MON talks to Sally Goodsell of Finances SouthEast and Julie MON Meyer founder of Ariadne Capital and dragon on BBC's Online MON Dragon's Den. And we have the latest news on Hormone MON Replacement Therapy and hear about the female boxers MON training for the 2012 Olympics. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wdf48 (Listen) MON Wives and Daughters, Episode 6 MON MON It's the day of the Easter Charity Ball and Cynthia receives MON a gift from a mysterious admirer. Hyacinth see the dance as MON an opportunity to introduce her daughter to a number of MON possible suitors. Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel of MON everyday provincial life in the 1820s is dramatised by MON Theresa Heskins. MON MON Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew MON Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall MON Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery MON Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot MON Hyacinth . . . . . Julia Hills MON Lady Harriett . . . . . Cathy Sara MON Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer MON Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey MON Mr Preston . . . . . Timothy Watson MON MON Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild MON MON 11:00 Heel, Toe, Step Together b00wdf4b (Listen) MON Heel, Toe, Step Together tells the story of two people who MON met at an East London market one day and the unlikely MON friendship that blossomed through dance. MON MON Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 MON and won many competitions with his late wife Iris Hill, who MON he lived with in Hackney. Katie Burningham, 28, is a radio MON producer and self-confessed bad dancer. Bob and Katie met by MON chance one day, shortly after Bob's wife Iris had died, and, MON three years later, Katie is still having dance lessons with MON Bob. MON MON This programme brings together recordings of their dancing MON and explores why it is that Bob, and Katie, need to dance. MON Touching on themes of loss, loneliness, love and affection, MON Heel, Toe, Step Together reveals how, through music and MON movement, friendship can bridge generations. MON MON Producer: Katie Burningham MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: MON Murder in the Title b00wdf4d (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON By Jeremy Front MON Based on the novel by Simon Brett MON MON Charles is appearing in 'The Message is MON Murder', a terrible play; so bad MON that someone wants to kill off the cast. MON MON Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy MON Frances ..... Suzanne Burden MON Maurice ..... Jon Glover. MON Fabio ..... Theo Cross MON Tony ..... Sam Dale MON Sean ..... Iain Batchelor MON Ronnie ..... Sean Baker. MON Elaine ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Phoebe ..... Claire Harry MON Chris ..... Henry Devas MON Frank ..... Tony Bell MON Protestor ..... Sally Orrock MON Barmaid ..... Leah Brotherhead. MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00wdf4g (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:53 Moments of Genius b00wlbhy (Listen) MON Series 2, Venki Ramakrishnan MON MON Nobel laureate Venki Ramakarishnan describes how James MON Watson discovered the structure of DNA when playing with MON cardboard cut-outs of the different building blocks. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00wbtbp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00wdf4j (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00wdf4l (Listen) MON (7/17) Russell Davies welcomes four contestants to the BBC MON Radio Theatre in London, for the seventh heat in the current MON series of the evergreen general knowledge quiz. This week's MON competitors come from South Wales and the South East of MON England. As always, there's an opportunity for a listener to MON outwit them, in 'Beat the Brains'. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00wddmm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 On Mardle Fen b00wdf9c (Listen) MON Series 3, Bird in Hand MON MON by Nick Warburton. Warwick is out on the Fen, taking in the MON atmosphere, when he thinks he spots a rare bird. Keen MON bird-watcher Megan tells him she'd pay considerable sums to MON see it. So Warwick offers her bed and breakfast and a MON guaranteed sighting of the bird. MON MON Warwick Hedges...Trevor Peacock MON Jack...Sam Dale MON Marcia...Kate Buffery MON Samuel...John Rowe MON Zofia...Helen Longworth MON Megan...Claire Rushbrook MON MON Directed by Claire Grove MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00wct8g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 More Than A Game b00pktv2 (Listen) MON The Fight MON MON Professor Anthony King reports on one of the most famous MON matches in boxing history, the rematch in 1938 at Yankee MON Stadium in New York, between the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis of MON the United States and Max Schmeling of Germany. Two years MON earlier in 1936, in the same stadium , Schmeling , to MON everyone's astonishment, had knocked out Louis in the 12th MON round. For Adolf Hitler and his propaganda chief, Josef MON Goebbels, it was a triumph of white over black. By 1938, the MON rematch had taken on even greater value, for the Germans, MON for the Jews, and for black and white Americans. On the MON night of the fight, millions of people around the world, MON many with little previous interest in boxing, were glued to MON their radios. In the U.S. , 64 per cent of all Americans who MON owned a radio, tuned in. The match lasted less than a round, MON Schmeling was sensationally knocked out. But after the war, MON it was Schmeling who prospered. He helped Louis financially MON and was a pallbearer at the Brown Bomber's funeral. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00wdctn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00wdfd4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Philosophy MON MON Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are joined by MON special guests Alexei Sayle and philosopher Julian Baggini MON to discuss Stephen Hawking's recent comment that "philosophy MON is dead". Does the progress of science mean the need for MON disciplines such as philosophy and even religion are negated MON as we understand more and more about how the world works. Or MON are there some things, such as human consciousness, that MON science will never be able to fully explain. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 16:55 Moments of Genius b00wq9qn (Listen) MON Series 2, Sir Martin Evans MON MON Nobel laureate Professor Sir Martin Evans describes the MON moment scientists worked out how the DNA code was read, in a MON chaotic lab in the attic of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. MON A moment of genius that launched modern biology. MON MON 17:00 PM b00wdffm (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wbtbr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00wdffp (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 5 MON MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the grandaddy of all panel games MON with Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and Kevin Eldon MON as the panellists. The aim of the game is to speak on a MON subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Much, MON much harder than it sounds... MON MON On today's show Julian Clary talks about Building Bridges, MON Paul Merton reveals all about his Relationship with the MON Chairman, Kevin Eldon reels off Seven Ways to Say Goodbye MON and Sue Perkins dazzles on the subject of Dostoyevsky. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00wdfhr (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00wdfht (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Somewhere, a film MON about a badly-behaved Hollywood actor and his 11 year old MON daughter, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. MON MON Catherine Tate talks about returning to the National Theatre MON where she is starring in Alan Ayckbourn's Seasons' MON Greetings. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wdf48 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00wdfhw (Listen) MON Series 6, The Great Depression MON MON Michael Portillo revisits landmark moments in history, MON asking whether our popular memory of the past conceals MON forgotten truths. In this edition, Michael looks back at the MON Great Depression and compares the myths and reality of 1930s MON America. MON MON Producer: Julia Johnson. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00w7cmh (Listen) MON Georgian fir cones MON MON The Christmas tree industry is worth almost a billion pounds MON a year in Europe alone. Most of the ones around us now, MON covered in baubles and tinsel didn't start life in the UK or MON even Scandinavia, but in one small village, in the mountains MON of Georgia close to the border with Russia. Angus Crawford MON travels to the small town of Ambrolauri in the shadow of the MON Caucasus mountains. There men risk their lives climbing the MON big firs to harvest the seeds of Abies Nordmanniana, the MON Nordman pine. More than forty million are sold in Europe MON every year. The harvesters are paid little and many are MON given no safety equipment. If they fall they may be injured MON or killed. The pine cones they gather are sold abroad and MON it's foreign companies that make profits from growing and MON selling the crop. Meanwhile Georgia's villages are dying. MON Families can't make enough money from farming and move away. MON Most of those who remain have to live on less than three MON pounds a day. But things are changing. One Danish firm is MON working with local people to put more of the profits from MON the business back into their hands. They pay their workers MON above the market rate, process the seed locally and for MON every tree sold abroad money is sent back for development MON projects. There's talk of starting nurseries near Ambrolauri MON to feed growing markets in Eastern Europe and bring more MON foreign capital into the country. Money that Georgia MON desperately needs. Its economy is still only 60% of what it MON was in Soviet times, and it now imports eighty per cent of MON its food. The rusting hulks of abandoned factories litter MON the countryside. But now some Georgians are asking if the MON pine cone trade can provide a model of how to breathe new MON life into their country's crumbling economy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00w7dlf (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Cold weather MON MON The UK has been experiencing the earliest widespread MON snowfall since 1993 with snow and ice causing serious MON disruption across the country. Plummeting temperatures on MON Monday night led to icy roads in many places, while strong MON winds have made it feel even colder than forecast. On MON Saturday night temperatures in Wales and Northern Ireland MON fell to the lowest on record for November: -18C and -9.5C MON respectively. Met Office forecaster John Hammond explains MON what accounts for these unusually cold temperatures. MON MON Self-sufficiency in Africa MON MON A new Harvard study “The New Harvest†finds that Africa can MON feed itself, and make the transition from importer to MON self-sufficiency in a single generation. Ahead of a meeting MON with the Presidents of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda to MON discuss this study, Professor Calestous Juma, Director of MON the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project at Harvard MON speaks to Quentin Cooper about the part science and MON technology has to play in this transformation. MON MON Maple seed flight MON MON A cool new robot – a mechanical maple seed – could help MON collect data from the atmosphere. Understanding the way a MON maple seed flies has given engineers the tools they need to MON build brand new, small scale flying machines. It turns out MON it is easier to keep a huge 747 in the air than a machine MON just a few centimetres in scale. Evan Ulrich from the MON Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of MON Maryland explains how his latest invention works. MON MON Red dwarfs MON MON Red dwarfs– stars which are small and dim compared to our MON sun – are the commonest type of star in the universe, but MON new research suggests they could be 20 times more abundant MON than previously thought. In addition to boosting the total MON number of stars in the universe by a factor of three, the MON discovery also increases the number of planets orbiting MON those stars – planets which might harbour life. Professor MON Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University, who led the research, MON discusses how this affects our ideas about the make up of MON the universe. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00wdf42 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00wbtbv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00wdfj0 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wdflk (Listen) MON The Betrayal, Episode 1 MON MON In her latest novel, The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore returns to MON the Soviet Union, and to the city of Leningrad whose history MON she so powerfully evoked in her best-seller The Siege. MON Now, a decade later, starvation and bitter cold have been MON replaced with fear and suspicion, as the people of Leningrad MON do their best to keep their heads down and their lives MON unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the MON midnight knock at the door. MON MON Anna and Andrei have survived the siege, married and MON together have brought up Anna's brother Kolya. They want MON their lives to be ordinary - but when the son of a senior MON secret police official is admitted to the hospital where MON Andrei is a paediatrican, Andrei finds himself outmanoeuvred MON by the more politically astute and face to face with a man MON who has the power to destroy him and his family. MON MON Helen Dunmore's evocative portrait of one couple living in MON the shadow of Stalin conveys both the sense of all pervading MON menace, from neighbours, from colleagues, from the state, MON and the struggle to remain humane and true in the face of MON it. As the net tightens around Andrei and his life becomes MON the stuff of nightmares, she also tells a compelling and MON page-turning tale. MON MON Helen Dunmore is a novelist and short story writer whose MON many works include 'A Spell of Winter', winner of the Orange MON Prize and 'The Siege' which was shortlisted for the MON Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Orange Prize and has MON sold over 100,000 copies. MON MON The Reader is Sara Kestelman, who also read The Siege in MON 2001 for Book at Bedtime. MON The abridger is Sally Marmion and the producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00w7cww (Listen) MON My Own Private Utopia MON MON How, and where, and with whom, do you want to lead your life MON ? Most of us don't ask ourselves this very often, preferring MON instead to slide along, taking what may be acceptable and MON conventional as enough. But what if you do pursue an answer, MON as one of our guests, Tobias Jones, is trying to do, in a MON ten acre wood ? MON The full title of Thomas More's work Utopia included the MON words, "A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than MON entertaining, of a republic's best state ...." But has MON Utopia ever been achieved ? Rob Penn and Amanda Mitchison MON think definitely not. The problem is the presence of other MON people, and so a private Utopia is the best that can ever be MON achieved. Rob Penn, presenter of a recent tv documentary MON about building the perfect bike, outlines very clearly what MON it means to him. MON But Tobias Jones, author of the Dark Heart of Italy and MON Utopian Dreams, argues very clearly that the woodland life MON he is now establishing with his family and guests should not MON be so easily dismissed. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Human beings MON will be happier not when they cure cancer or get to Mars ... MON but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities MON again." MON Dominic Arkwright presents. The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wdflm (Listen) MON The latest events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 DECEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00wbtbx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00wdf44 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wbtc0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wbtc2 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wbtc5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00wbtc7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wdfrr (Listen) TUE With Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Assistant Secretary General of TUE the Muslim Council of Britain. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00wdfrt (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bulllock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00wdgcs (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00wdgcv (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to Jean-Robert Cadet. Born in Haiti, TUE Jean-Robert became a domestic slave when his mother died. He TUE was four years old. On the island they are called TUE 'Restavecs', children given board and lodging in exchange TUE for unpaid work around the home. There are estimated to be TUE over a quarter of a million Restavecs in Haiti. And the TUE number has almost certainly swelled with the children left TUE orphaned by the earthquake earlier this year. Jean-Robert TUE Cadet tells Fergal Keane about how his early experience as a TUE slave has affected his life and why he is putting pressure TUE on the Haitian government to make the practice unacceptable. TUE TUE 09:30 I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Into Here b00wdgcx (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE When Spitting Image came to an end, Roger Law decided it was TUE time for a fresh start. Having made one attempt to emigrate TUE to Australia in the 1960s, thwarted by the cultural attaché TUE who told him that it was 'a one way ticket to hell' , Ten TUE years ago, Roger decided to give it a second shot. He's now TUE living in Bondi Beach concentrating on in-depth surfing, and TUE he's never looked back. TUE TUE Roger is not the only one and in this series he meets up TUE with other new Australians. This week he continues his down TUE under probe and meets the artists, critics and gallery TUE owners who have found fresh inspiration in a new land. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00wgz8w (Listen) TUE The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the TUE Good Life, Episode 2 TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wlddm (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh00g (Listen) TUE Wives and Daughters, Episode 7 TUE TUE Roger Hamley makes two important decisions, and Molly is TUE obliged to keep yet more secrets. Meanwhile, Hyacinth incurs TUE the wrath of her husband with a breach of professional TUE etiquette. Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel of everyday TUE provincial life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. TUE TUE Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew TUE Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall TUE Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery TUE Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot TUE Hyacinth . . . . . Julia Hills TUE Lady Harriett . . . . . Cathy Sara TUE Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer TUE Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey TUE Mr Preston . . . . . Timothy Watson TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00wdgmn (Listen) TUE Episode 32 TUE TUE 32/40. This is a special programme in front of an audience TUE from the 100 Foot Washes in Norfolk. This wonderland of a TUE wetland is refuge to 3000 Bewick's Swans and 700 Whooper TUE Swans during the winter. The Bewicks have migrated from TUE Arctic Russia and the Whoopers from their Arctic breeding TUE grounds in Iceland. The programme is being recorded at the TUE Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust's bird Observatory at their Welney TUE Centre. We'll guarantee sound, drama and enlightening TUE conversation from our invited panel and an audience all in TUE the company of these birds that have been said to "carry TUE winter on their wings". Many would say they love swans, but TUE are the wetlands on which they reside in winter or nest in TUE summer revered to the same extent? Do wetlands have a bad TUE image of "swamps and smelly mud" rather than places of TUE beauty? Does it help they are branded places "rich in TUE biodiversity" and perform "essential ecological services" - TUE do we need to like wetlands to appreciate their value to TUE wildlife and us - do they need to be re-branded? All TUE questions for the panel and audience. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 3D in Perspective b00wdgmq (Listen) TUE Bringing together the science of 3D television with a TUE wide-ranging history of art and entertainment, Andrew TUE Collins examines our centuries-old fascination with TUE representing the world that exists in three visual TUE dimensions. In modern 3D entertainment, today's TUE technologists are fighting the same battles with geometry, TUE depth of field, light and texture as 15th Century painters. TUE Award-winning visual effects supervisor, Paddy Eason TUE discusses the debt that 3D imaging owes to its painterly TUE predecessors. TUE TUE At The National Gallery, art historian Professor David TUE Ekserdjian explains how, from the changing shape of a canvas TUE to the arrival of oil paint, the architects and artists of TUE the Renaissance, challenged our notions of reality. Andrew TUE enters a world of optical illusion, trawling piles of TUE perspective pictures and stereo photographs at The Bill TUE Douglas Centre for The History of Cinema and Popular TUE Culture. Lecturer in Victorian Studies, John Plunkett TUE explains, the appeal of 18th and 19th century optical or TUE 'philosophical' toys, made possible by good lenses and TUE mirrors. Often dismissed as novelty, they emerged from TUE groundbreaking research on the physiology of vision. TUE TUE The history of 3D is littered with failed technologies, TUE including 3D films that predate cinema sound. Professor Neil TUE Dodgson from The Computer Laboratory in Cambridge is a 3D TUE expert. He outlines the obstacles, in particular the poorly TUE paid projectionist and ultimately the limitations of human TUE vision. Neuroscientist Dr Sue Barry, understands the TUE visceral appeal of 3D. Aged fifty, she experienced her first TUE thrilling sense of 3D immersion after years of being TUE 'stereoblind' and suggests why we are so preoccupied with TUE experiencing virtual 3D space. TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00wdgms (Listen) TUE Consumer news. An opportunity to contribute your views to TUE the programme. TUE TUE 12:53 Moments of Genius b00wq9r7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Barry Marshall TUE TUE Nobel Laureate, Professor Barry Marshall describes the TUE moment Kary Mullis worked out how to make millions of copies TUE of DNA, a technique that launched bio-technology. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00wbtcb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00wdgr3 (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo b00wdgr5 (Listen) TUE As his ship was sinking through the Antarctic pack-ice, TUE Ernest Shackleton allowed each member of his expedition to TUE take 2lbs of possessions with them as they abandoned ship. TUE One exception was made; Shackleton saved Leonard Hussey's TUE banjo saying, "We must have that banjo. It's vital mental TUE medicine." TUE TUE So it proved; when Shackleton set off in a small boat to TUE sail to South Georgia to get help, he left behind on TUE Elephant Island twenty-two men. They lived for months under TUE an upturned boat and some old sails. Every Saturday the TUE banjo-playing meteorologist mounted a concert. He composed TUE songs and whenever they caught a seal to eat brought out his TUE banjo. He played, the men sang - and anger and depression TUE were kept at bay. TUE TUE Leonard Hussey survived, as did his banjo, now in the TUE National Maritime Museum, its skin marked with a dozen TUE signatures of members of the failed expedition to the South Pole. TUE TUE Tim van Eyken is best known as a squeeze-box player and TUE singer - he was the Song Man in 'War Horse' at the National TUE Theatre. But he also plays the banjo. Tim explores the TUE character of Hussey and the role he and his banjo played in TUE saving the sanity of the explorers. He plays some of his TUE songs - sadly not on Hussey's banjo, which is too fragile, TUE but on his own, made by Pete Stanley, who sheds some light TUE on the original instrument. TUE TUE Tim also hears from Pieter van der Merwe of the National TUE Maritime Museum about the importance of music in expeditions TUE and, thanks to some remarkable archive recordings, Hussey TUE himself. He plays the tune Shackleton asked for the night he TUE died. Hussey reveals, too, that his banjo had seen action in TUE warmer climes, "having among other things been played to an TUE audience of cannibals in Africa." TUE TUE Producer: Julian May. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00wdfhr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wgqpk (Listen) TUE Eight Feet High and Rising TUE TUE By Ali Taylor. TUE TUE Giant. Upstairs. Ten quid a look. A touchingly real and TUE comically disingenuous story about the awkwardness of being TUE misshapen, and the misery of not fitting in. TUE TUE Liam ..... James Alexandrou TUE Ethel ..... Candassaie Liburd TUE Pat ..... Marcella Riordan TUE Sarah-Jane ..... Julia Deakin TUE Diane ..... Sophie Pemberton TUE Sandra ..... Manjeet Mann TUE Teacher ..... Inam Mirza TUE Crowd ..... Members of the National Youth Theatre TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00wdgsf (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wdgsh (Listen) TUE Danish Noir, Last Train to Helsingor TUE TUE In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi TUE Amsinck, Denmark is a place of twilight and shadows: a TUE mysterious place where strange and often dark things happen. TUE In 'Last Train to Helsingor' Henrik Borg has done well for TUE himself; he drive a Mercedes to and from work though prefers TUE the train from Copenhagen to Helsingor, because it is TUE predictable. TUE TUE But things start to go wrong when Borg falls asleep, and TUE wakes up in a mysterious, deserted railway siding. TUE TUE Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, TUE has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992. Heidi TUE has written numerous short stories including The TUE Chanterelles of Ostvig (2008), Conning Mrs Vinterberg (2007) TUE and Detained (2005), all of which were produced by Sweet TUE Talk for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Written by Heidi Amsinck TUE Read by Tim McInnerny TUE Producer: Ros Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 More Than A Game b00pr52g (Listen) TUE Revolution, the Melbourne Olympics and Water Polo TUE TUE Professor Anthony King reports on the brutally suppressed TUE revolution against Soviet rule in Hungary; the Melbourne TUE Olympics of 1956 and the most infamous water polo match in TUE history. For a time in '56 it looked as though the popular TUE uprising in Budapest against Soviet rule might succeed, but TUE it wasn't long before the Soviet tanks rolled back in. But TUE at the same time, the Hungarian team had been able to set TUE out for the Olympics in Melbourne. It wasn't until they TUE reached Darwin that they learned that the uprising had been TUE put down. The water polo team were the reigning Olympic TUE champions and determined to defend the title. In the TUE semi-finals, they were drawn against the Soviet Union. The TUE game turned into a bloodbath, it became known as the "blood TUE in the water" match, but the Hungarians won and did TUE eventually retain their Olympic title. TUE TUE 16:00 Anatomy Of... b00s0b3c (Listen) TUE A House Fire TUE TUE From the makers of the Sony award-winning Anatomy of a Car TUE Crash, the last in this new series dissecting often TUE neglected everyday dramas that change ordinary lives forever. TUE TUE When Clive Tempest and his daughter Sarah set off from their TUE Gloucestershire home on Halloween almost eighteen months ago TUE to visit their sister who was in hospital, it seemed TUE perfectly natural to leave Anna Tempest at home with a fire TUE burning in the grate. How could they know that ancient TUE timbers embedded in the chimney fabric would choose that TUE night to ignite? They returned to find flames leaping from TUE their 17th century home. Anna was safe and fire-fighters at TUE work, but the damage, already evident, was only beginning. TUE TUE The family, fire crew and those who assessed the damage talk TUE about that evening and the weeks and months that followed as TUE they tried to move on from the catastrophe that had engulfed TUE them. They recall the slow process leading to the rebuilding TUE of the family home and coming to terms with the losses both TUE real and intangible that the fire caused. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00wdgxd (Listen) TUE Series 23, Malcolm McLaren TUE TUE Matthew Parris presents the life of the great rock and roll TUE swindler, Malcolm McLaren, who died earlier this year. TUE TUE "I've been called many things," McLaren wrote as advance TUE publicity for his one man show, "a charlatan, a con man, or TUE the culprit responsible for turning popular culture into TUE nothing more than a cheap marketing gimmick. This is my TUE chance to prove these accusations are true." TUE TUE The man behind the Sex Pistols and Duck Rock is nominated by TUE public relations expert Mark Borkowski, author of The Fame TUE Formula, and a man who knew him well. What intrigues TUE Borkowski is not just the success, but the myths that have TUE evolved around this highly manipulative man. Matthew Parris TUE is more sceptical, as is Chris Salewicz. As a journalist for TUE NME between 1974-1981, Salewicz watched McLaren rewrite the TUE rules of management. He also introduced the Sex Pistols to TUE the man from EMI who then signed them up. An intriguing TUE programme about fame, the media, and why the truth should TUE not be confused with an easily believable myth. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 16:55 Moments of Genius b00wq9r9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Sir Harry Kroto TUE TUE Nobel laureate Harry Kroto describes his favourite moment in TUE the history of science: the moment Robert Hooke described TUE how springs behave. A moment that, he believes, launched TUE modern science. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00wdh4k (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wbtcf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00wdh4m (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, TUE Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. In this TUE final episode, we sit in on a right-wing intervention, learn TUE about the must-have board game this Christmas and also hear TUE what happens when Songs of Praise visits the Church of TUE Scientology. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00wdh4p (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00wdh4r (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson talks to comedian Harry Hill and TV writer Alan TUE Bleasdale. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh00g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 A Level Playing Field for the Paralympics b00wdh4t (Listen) TUE The Beijing Paralympics in 2008 brought the full glories of TUE disabled sport to a worldwide audience and set up a host of TUE expectations for 2012 . But behind the scenes of triumph, TUE longstanding controversies were raging which have dogged TUE many Paralympic Games over the decades. In this programme, TUE to mark the 50th anniversary of the Paralympics, Peter White TUE explores the issues behind the Games and asks what changes TUE are being made to improve conditions for athletes in time TUE for London 2012. TUE TUE One of these controversies centres on the classification of TUE disabled athletes, a system which uses medical evidence, TUE examination and in-competition appraisals to try to ensure TUE parity of ability. However, over the years, the process, TUE which divides the athletes into many, often confusing TUE sub-groups has become fraught with problems and anomalies. TUE In 2008, the British competitor Rebecca Chinn had a silver TUE medal taken away after being judged to have been put in the TUE wrong category. TUE TUE Another issue which has dogged the Paralympics recently has TUE been whether to include athletes with learning disabilities. TUE Although they had previously taken part in many events, they TUE were ejected from the Paralympics after the Sydney Games in TUE 2000, when fit Spanish athletes pretended to have learning TUE difficulties and won gold. London's bid contained plans to TUE include them again, and in this programme, we follow the new TUE testing methods which have been developed to bring these TUE athletes back in 2012. TUE TUE The programme also explores the deep-rooted tension within TUE the Paralympics - are they the home of quasi-professionalism TUE with big money tie-ins, or should they retain the school TUE sports day tradition from which they emerged, of gentle TUE encouragement and the odd race rerun when something goes wrong? TUE TUE To mark the 50th anniversary of the Paralympics, Peter White TUE explores the preparations for the next games and TUE investigates past and potential inconsistencies underlying TUE them. He hears the athletes' stories and draws on archive TUE from the past to contextualise today's debates and look TUE forward to 2012. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00wdh88 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00wdh8b (Listen) TUE Wiring the Brain TUE TUE Understanding how different parts of the brain interact TUE would help explain human behaviour more clearly. TUE Claudia Hammond reports on a major new project. Plus TUE exclusive information on a new initiative for online TUE counselling support for cancer. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00wdgcv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00wbtch (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00wdh8d (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wgzr2 (Listen) TUE The Betrayal, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode: It is 1952, Leningrad and Andrei and TUE Anna are just trying to live ordinary lives. But when the TUE son of the feared secret police official, Vulkov, is TUE admitted into his hospital, Andrei finds himself, against TUE his better judgement, manoeuvred into seeing him. Now he is TUE faced with a vulnerable patient and a worrying diagnosis. TUE TUE The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion TUE and the producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 The Phone b00wdh8g (Listen) TUE The Patient TUE TUE A series of late night thrillers, each connected by a TUE mysterious mobile phone. In Simon Passmore's drama, a TUE doctor's night-time calls are sent off course when she TUE starts receiving messages from a former patient. TUE TUE Kate . . . . . Lucy Akhurst TUE Craig . . . . . Philip Jackson TUE The Patient . . . . . Sally Orrock TUE The Man . . . . . Sean Baker TUE Radio Control . . . . . Claire Harry TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wdh8j (Listen) TUE The latest reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 DECEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00wbtcl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00wgz8w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wbtcn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wbtcr (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wbtct (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00wbtcx (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wdh9p (Listen) WED With Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Assistant Secretary General of WED the Muslim Council of Britain. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00wdhb0 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00wdhb6 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00wdhbq (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests, including Sir Patrick Stewart. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00wgzdr (Listen) WED The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the WED Good Life, Episode 3 WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wdhd5 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh00v (Listen) WED Wives and Daughters, Episode 8 WED WED With Roger away in Africa, Hyacinth and Cynthia take a trip WED to London for a few days. Molly relishes the time alone with WED her father, but the town gossips are whispering about the WED mysterious Mr Preston and an unidentified young lady. WED Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial WED life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. WED WED Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew WED Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall WED Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery WED Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot WED Hyacinth . . . . . Julia Hills WED Lady Harriett . . . . . Cathy Sara WED Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer WED Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey WED Mr Preston . . . . . Timothy Watson WED WED Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00wdhd7 (Listen) WED Series 6, The Battle of Trevalga WED WED Alan Dein visits the tiny Cornish village of Trevalga, WED recently put up for sale by Marlborough College. WED WED The village of Trevalga sits on the north Cornish coast WED between the tourist magnets of Boscastle and Tintagel. It WED has no pub, no shops and no second homes. Virtually every WED villager pays rent, and homes are permanently occupied. WED WED For the last fifty years, the villagers of Trevalga have WED paid rents to their landlord; a trust set up by the former WED owner of the village, Gerald Curgenven. In his will, WED Curgenven stipulated that the village be preserved and WED maintained by a trust, with any monies from rents left over WED to go to his former school, Marlborough College in Wiltshire. WED WED Earlier this year, the college took legal advice which WED convinced them that the trust was invalid, and that they WED were actually the outright owners of the village and wider WED estate of Trevalga. They decided to sell and, as properties WED were measured and glossy brochures produced, Trevalgans WED reeled as their cosy existence was threatened for the first WED time in living memory. WED WED The villagers organised, and sought their own legal advice, WED which flatly contradicted that given to the College. They WED were told that the trust was indeed valid, and that the WED village was not Marlborough's to sell. WED WED Until the question of ownership is resolved, the future of WED this tiny, fragile community remains unclear. Alan meets the WED tenant farmers, artists, childminders and gravediggers of WED Trevalga, trying to plan for an uncertain future. WED WED Producer : John Byrne. WED WED 11:30 Hazelbeach b00wdhfb (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED In which Ronnie decides to become a psychic vet, while Nick WED explores the joys of the sink plunger. WED WED By Caroline and David Stafford WED WED Ronnie Hazelbeach ..... Jamie Foreman WED Nick ..... Paul Bazely WED Chloe ..... Claire Harry WED Andrea ..... Joanna Monro WED Policeman ..... Lloyd Thomas WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00wdhpv (Listen) WED Poet Benjamin Zephaniah and author of the Maisie Mouse books WED Lucy Cousins investigate the children's book market. We road WED test some of the latest offerings with some school children. WED With rising production costs and one book retailing at an WED eye-watering £24.99, does the market have a future? After WED falling out of favour in the 1990s, why is children's poetry WED now regaining popularity? We hear about the project which WED brings children into hospices to work with people at the end WED of their lives - can it create a healthier attitude to WED dying? And are parking charges contributing to the demise of WED our high street shops? WED WED 12:53 Moments of Genius b00wq9rp (Listen) WED Series 2, Elizabeth Blackburn WED WED Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn describes the moment WED Edward Jenner proved the principle of vaccination, saving WED milions of lives worldwide ever since. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00wbtcz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00wdhpx (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00wdhpz (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00wdh4p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wdhq1 (Listen) WED Selfless WED WED Drew is brought into A&E by a car-driver who saw him come WED off his motorbike. He is concussed and has broken his ankle. WED But that's not all. Drew can't remember who he is or where WED he lives. He isn't carrying a phone and all he has in his WED wallet is a bank-card and a video-shop membership. The WED hospital will only discharge Andrew if he is watched for the WED next 24 hours. Owen, the driver, offers to put him up for WED the night. Owen is the perfect host and the flat is WED beautiful but it is on the third floor and the injured WED Andrew starts to feel trapped. The only thing he can WED remember is a phone number and a name - Elspeth. WED WED Anita Sullivan's play is a psychological thriller locked in WED a claustrophobic space. WED WED Drew .........Adrian Bower WED Owen ......... Mark Meadows WED Elspeth ....... Nisha Nayar WED Nurse ..........Rebecca Harries WED WED Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00wdhq3 (Listen) WED On Money Box Live with Vincent Duggleby - an expert panel WED will take your questions on banking. WED WED Get advice on issues like overdraft charges, choosing an WED ISA, or looking at the safety of your savings in the current WED economic climate. You may want to know more about the WED increased compensation limit for deposits which comes into WED force from 31 December. WED WED Or perhaps you're wondering about online or telephone WED banking, or need some advice about handling a dispute? WED WED Whatever your banking question, phone lines open at 1.30 WED this afternoon and the number to call is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. The programme starts after the three o'clock news. WED That number again 03700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wk7vq (Listen) WED Danish Noir, The Light from Dead Stars WED WED I15:45 More Than A Game b00pxr8k (Listen) WED The Football War WED WED Professor Anthony King tells the story of WED politically-significant sporting events. WED WED In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador played each other in a WED series of qualifying matches for the 1970 World Cup in WED Mexico. Both were absolutely determined to win, so much so WED that shortly after the final whistle of the final match, WED they went to war. It only lasted four days but thousands WED were killed and thousands more displaced. Was it really all WED about football? WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00wdjd2 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00wdh8b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:55 Moments of Genius b00wlbhy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:53 on Monday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00wdjd4 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wbtd2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00wdjff (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack is a multi-paced, one woman WED Fast Show for BBC Radio 4 showcasing the exceptional talent WED of Lucy Montgomery. Featuring Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, WED Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Walter. WED WED Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by WED Steven Burge, Jon Hunter and Joe Wilkinson. WED Music by Philip Pope WED Produced by Katie Tyrrell WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00wdjfh (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00wdjfk (Listen) WED Derek Jacobi stars as King Lear. Mark Lawson reports from WED the opening night; talks to comedian Lenny Henry and WED discusses the singles contending for the number one slot at WED Christmas WED WED Producer: Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wdf48 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00wdjgj (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Melanie WED Philips and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Blond on Britain b00wgqjb (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Some of the ancient institutions of Britain - the monarchy, WED the House of Lords and the Church of England are often WED derided as archaic, outmoded and out of touch with the WED contemporary world. The leading political thinker Phillip WED Blond makes a powerful case for their continuing significance. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00wdjgl (Listen) WED Epigenetics WED WED Adam Rutherford asks how much of our lives' experiences, WED such as diet and pollution, is passed onto our children, as WED well as our genes. These changes are called epigenetic. WED WED Throughout our lives our genes become changed by the WED environment - by things such as our diet, radiation, WED pollution and smoking. These events have consequences for WED our health. The view from classical genetics was that we WED don't pass on any of these defects onto our children. When WED we reproduce, the genes in our eggs and sperm are wiped clean. WED WED In the 1980s there was the realisation that a child's genes WED are not always stripped of the experiences of its parents. WED In other words, what parents do in their lives can be passed WED onto their offspring. In the last few years, there has been WED a massive increase in the amount of research into what's WED called epigenetic inheritance. This year scientists have WED announced that work in rodents has shown that poor diet and WED parental neglect can be seen in the genes of their WED offspring. Another piece of research in rats, published in WED Nature, demonstrated that if fathers had a high fat diet, WED their daughters can develop a form of diabetes, even though WED they themselves weren't overweight or eating a high fat WED diet. This means that the fathers' sperm had been WED irrevocably altered by what they had been eating. WED WED And there are some studies in humans that suggest that WED epigenetic effects are at work. These are retrospective WED studies, as it is impossible to control the lives of people WED in same way as researchers can with laboratory rodents. WED WED Researchers have been following the outcome of the women who WED were pregnant during the prolonged famine in Holland at the WED end of the Second World War. Girls born to these women have WED been found to have twice the usual risk of developing WED schizophrenia. The lack of food produced changes in the WED mothers' DNA which could have caused changes in the brain of WED the daughters. WED WED Producer: Deborah Cohen. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00wdhbq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00wbtd5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00wdjjv (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wgzrr (Listen) WED The Betrayal, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode: As the doctor in charge of Gorya's WED case, it falls to Andrei to tell his father, Vulkov, what WED the boy's best, indeed only, chance of survival is. The WED stakes are raised even higher as the two men meet. WED WED The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion WED and the producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00wdjjx (Listen) WED Bespoken Word, Radio 4's performance poetry series, this WED week comes from the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and WED features a special guest appearance by Fran Landesman, funky WED octogenarian, poet and lyric writer for some of the greats WED of popular music. WED WED Fran Landesman was born in 1927 in New York City. She was WED married to the late Jay Landesman, publisher of the Beat WED Generation poets. They ran the "Crystal Palace" club, a very WED successful St Louis performance venue. WED WED During this time she started writing lyrics. One of her best WED known was "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most". and WED during her career artists for whom she wrote lyrics include WED Alec Wilder, Steve Allen, Tommy Wolf, George Shearing, WED Richard Rodney Bennett, and Dudley Moore. She has published WED several volumes of poetry. In 1996 the BBC received a number WED of complaints when Landesman appeared on Desert Island Discs WED and requested a supply of marijuana as her luxury item. WED WED Also on the bill is performance poet - David J. WED Producer: Graham Frost WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wdjjz (Listen) WED The latest events from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 DECEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00wbtd7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00wgzdr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wbtd9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wbtdd (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wbtdg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00wbtdj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wdjl6 (Listen) THU With Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Assistant Secretary General of THU the Muslim Council of Britain. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00wdjl8 (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00wdjlb (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00wdjr8 (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the innovations and THU influence of Thomas Edison. THU THU Edison is popularly remembered as the man who made cheap THU electric light possible, devising the first commercially THU viable light bulb and power distribution system. He also THU invented the phonograph and massively improved the THU telephone, and played a role in the birth of cinema. When he THU died in 1931 he had patented no fewer than one thousand and THU ninety-three devices - the most prolific inventor in THU history. As the creator of the world's first industrial THU research laboratory he also changed the way in which THU innovation took place, and is now acknowledged as one of the THU architects of the modern age. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00wgzmb (Listen) THU The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the THU Good Life, Episode 4 THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wdjrb (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh01l (Listen) THU Wives and Daughters, Episode 9 THU THU Molly discovers some shocking news when she finds Cynthia THU talking to someone in the woods. Burdened with yet another THU secret, she undertakes to help her step-sister with her THU problem, but she may have bitten off more than she can chew. THU Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial THU life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. THU THU Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew THU Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall THU Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery THU Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot THU Hyacinth . . . . . Julia Hills THU Lady Harriett . . . . . Cathy Sara THU Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer THU Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey THU Mr Preston . . . . . Timothy Watson THU THU Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00wdjrd (Listen) THU Nichi Vendola THU THU Rosie Goldsmith profiles Nichi Vendola, the governor of THU Puglia and the hope for the Italian left. Can this gay, THU Catholic poet and environmentalist challenge Silvio Berlusconi? THU Producer: Helen Grady. THU THU 11:30 The Eskimos and the Mushroom Cloud b00wdjrg (Listen) THU Lesley Riddoch tells the story of the clash between THU Unilateralists and the US Navy at the Holy Loch and the THU music it produced. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00wdjrj (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:53 Moments of Genius b00wq9qn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:55 on Monday] THU THU 12:57 Weather b00wbtdl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00wdjrl (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00wdjrn (Listen) THU Never Trust a Writer, or you'll end up in their book, and THU you might not like what you read. Is everything fair game in THU the artistic process? Three writers who have all either THU dished on their loved ones or been dished on - Antonia THU Quirke, Terence Blacker and Bill Coles, battle it out, THU refereed by presenter Dominic Arkwright. New writing and THU heated debate in Off the Page. THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00wdjfh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ft64r (Listen) THU The People's Princess THU THU By Shelagh Stephenson. THU THU Facing financial ruin, George, Prince of Wales was obliged THU to marry his first cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick. THU But if he had been expecting a docile partner with whom he THU could maintain appearances, George had seriously THU underestimated his wife-to-be. THU THU George IV ...... Alex Jennings THU Caroline of Brunswick ...... Rebecca Saire THU Henry Brougham ...... Julian Rhind Tutt THU Lord Sidmouth ...... Chris McHallem THU Lord Liverpool ...... Richard Howard THU Sir Robert Gifford ...... Mark Lambert THU Lady Jersey ...... Jill Cardo THU Mr Majoucci ...... Nial Cusack THU THU Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00wcmtc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00wdcq5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wk7vx (Listen) THU Danish Noir, The Wailing Girl THU THU 15:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b00wgst4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00wdcy2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00wdjvf (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 16:55 Moments of Genius b00wq9r7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 12:53 on Tuesday] THU THU 17:00 PM b00wdjvh (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at THU 5.57pm Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wbtdp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00wdjvk (Listen) THU Volume Four, Chapter 5: "A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried THU Up" by Mark Evans THU THU Pip and Harry have escaped the exploding desert island, but THU Harry has been transformed into a dinosaur. Now they must THU catch Mister Benevolent and prevent him taking over the THU world, but the trail has lead them to France. Here they must THU face unimaginable horrors including a bacon free breakfast THU and a deadly confrontation in a cheese mine. But there is a THU glimmer of hope in the form of The Scarlet Pimple. THU THU Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman THU Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland THU Pippa ..... Susy Kane THU Reverend Godly Fecund ..... David Mitchell THU Frenchman ..... Mark Evans THU THU Writer ..... Mark Evans THU Producer ..... Gareth Edwards THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00wdjvm (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00wdjvw (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including reports on new shows for THU Christmas at the Bristol Old Vic and the Liverpool Playhouse. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh01l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00wdjyd (Listen) THU Simon Cox assesses the implications of the ruling that THU stripped former Immigration Minister and Labour MP, Phil THU Woolas of his Oldham East and Saddleworth seat. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00wdjyg (Listen) THU Bitter Pills THU THU Britain's pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of THU millions of pounds in a search for new drugs and treatments THU which has not delivered the breakthroughs that were promised THU when the money was spent. It's a problem for the whole THU global industry, too. Peter Day asks if there are better THU ways of undertaking this quest for a cure. THU Producer : Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00wdgmn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00wdjr8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00wbtds (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00wdjz7 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wgztk (Listen) THU The Betrayal, Episode 4 THU THU IIn today's episode: Although Volkov's son has been THU discharged from hospital, Anna and Andrei know they have THU done the unthinkable and come to the notice of someone THU powerful enough to destroy their lives. They must leave THU nothing to chance but how far can they escape? THU THU The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion THU and the producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Elvenquest b00wdjz9 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU The search for the Sword of Asnagar is put on hold when THU Vidar is summoned home by his father. Meanwhile Lord THU Darkness also returns home form his Necromancer's THU convention, proud holder of the "Medal of Chang", the prize THU for being "Necromancer's Necromancer". However, it turns out THU that Lord Darkness may not have won it entirely fairly so he THU sets about trying to cover his tracks. THU THU The fates of Lord Darkness and the Questers are drawn THU together when they both end up having to cross the Gorge of THU Doom. But first they must pass the mysterious Bridge Keeper THU who controls the only passage across. And he charges a heavy THU price... THU THU Stephen Mangan as "Sam", THU Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", THU Gus brown as "The Bridge Keeper" THU Kevin Eldon as "Dean/Kreech", THU Darren Boyd as "Vidar", THU Dave Lamb as "Amis - The Chosen One" THU Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" THU THU Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (Goodness Gracious THU Me, The Kumars At No.42) THU The producer is Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wdjzp (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy and the BBC's parliamentary team bring all THU the news from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00wbtdv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00wdf44 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wbtdy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wbtf0 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wbtf2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00wbtf4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wdk0n (Listen) FRI With Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Assistant Secretary General of FRI the Muslim Council of Britain. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00wdk0q (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00wdk0s (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00wdctl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00wgznx (Listen) FRI The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the FRI Good Life, Episode 5 FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wdk2v (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh02h (Listen) FRI Wives and Daughters, Episode 10 FRI FRI It's the day of the Easter Charity Ball and Cynthia receives FRI a gift from a mysterious admirer. Hyacinth see the dance as FRI an opportunity to introduce her daughter to a number of FRI possible suitors. Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel of FRI everyday provincial life in the 1820s is dramatised by FRI Theresa Heskins. FRI FRI Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew FRI Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall FRI Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery FRI Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot FRI Hyacinth . . . . . Julia Hills FRI Lady Harriett . . . . . Cathy Sara FRI Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer FRI Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey FRI Mr Preston . . . . . Timothy Watson FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Peter Leslie Wild FRI FRI 11:00 A Brave Medical Life: The Founder of FRI Homeopathy b00wdk90 (Listen) FRI This programme marks the two hundredth anniversary of the FRI publication of homeopathy's founding text 'Samuel FRI Hahnemann's Organon of Rational Medicine'. FRI FRI It recognises that homeopathy remains deeply controversial, FRI and that while some in Britain are convinced of its benefits FRI there are many who argue that it is scientifically invalid FRI and should not continue to be recognised by the NHS. This is FRI not intended as an intervention in that debate. It is a FRI historical programme locating the development of Hahnemann's FRI thinking within the context of late eighteenth and early FRI nineteenth century medicine. FRI FRI It's been said that Hahnemann would be more famous than he FRI is if he had not developed homeopathy; that this has meant FRI he's come to be seen either as a saint or a charlatan. He FRI was neither. He was first and foremost a critic of what he FRI saw as the cruel, ineffective and unscientific treatments FRI that he was trained to deliver- bleedings, purges, and huge FRI doses of mercury. FRI FRI He renounced being a doctor for a time because he felt he FRI did more harm than good. What was to become homeopathy FRI developed from his insistence that medicines be tested FRI before they were used, and even its opponents recognise FRI Hahnemann's significance in the history of pharmacology and FRI therapeutics. FRI FRI We examine his arguments and those of his opponents. But the FRI programme also questions how useful the distinction between FRI 'mainstream' and 'alternative' is for understanding the FRI history of western medicine. FRI FRI We interview leading medical historians in both the UK and FRI Germany; and actors bring to life the medical conflicts of FRI Hahnemann's own time. FRI FRI Written and presented by Mark Whitaker FRI Producer: Mark Whitaker. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00wdkf3 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI FRI by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI A comic satire set in the struggling world FRI of newspapers. Maddox refuses to give up FRI a source. Could he really face prison. FRI FRI Maddox ..... John Sessions FRI Oliver ..... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ..... Stephen Wight FRI Carol ..... Polly Frame FRI Masha ..... Debbie Chazen FRI Policeman ..... Henry Devas FRI Warder ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Producer ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00wdkf5 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs. FRI FRI 12:53 Moments of Genius b00wq9r9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:55 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00wbtf7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00wdkf7 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00wdkf9 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the FRI news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00wdjvm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wdkfd (Listen) FRI Sky High FRI FRI The clock is ticking away in this cat and mouse game of FRI twists, turns and subterfuge by Guy Meredith. FRI FRI It is the early hours of a new day and in a tall office FRI block in London there is a woman working. She thinks she is FRI alone but then she hears the lift doors open .... FRI FRI Emma...................Claire Harry FRI Mark.....................Chris Pavlo FRI Charlie...................Lloyd Thomas FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wdkfg (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs a horticultural discussion at the RHS FRI Conference Centre in London. The panel this week are FRI Christine Walkden, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness. FRI FRI This programme replaces the Northumberland show advertised, FRI which had to be cancelled due to severe weather conditions. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Make 'Em Laugh b00rdyg9 (Listen) FRI When was the last time you heard a politician being funny - FRI intentionally, that is? Mandy Baker guides comedian Marcus FRI Brigstocke through some of the best and worst efforts by our FRI elected representatives to deliver a witty speech, who FRI explains how they could have done it so much better. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00wdl79 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00wdl7c (Listen) FRI The Film Programme continues its series on the quiet FRI revolution in community cinemas, talking to local film FRI heroes and taking an audio 'snapshot' of some of the most FRI lively and memorable places to watch film around the country. FRI FRI 16:55 Moments of Genius b00wq9rp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 12:53 on Wednesday] FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00wdl7f (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at FRI 5.57pm Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wbtfc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00wdl7h (Listen) FRI Series 32, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of the FRI topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. FRI Guests include Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00wdl7k (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00wdl7m (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on Matilda, a new FRI Royal Shakespeare Company musical, based on the book by FRI Roald Dahl. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wh02h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00wdl7p (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from The FRI Queen Katherine School in Kendal with questions for the FRI panel including Rory Stewart, Conservative MP, Andy Burnham, FRI Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Laurie Pennie, FRI columnist and writer Harry Mount. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00wdl7r (Listen) FRI Joan Bakewell with her topical reflections FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00wdl7t (Listen) FRI God's President: Mugabe of Zimbabwe FRI FRI In the 30th anniversary year of the Independence of FRI Zimbabwe, Radio 4 has commissioned two Friday Plays from FRI leading writers. FRI FRI Kwame Kwei-Armah's play tells the story of the tense FRI negotiations around the Lancaster House Conference, and the FRI road to Zimbabwe's Independence. FRI FRI On 4th March 1980 the Shona majority in Rhodesia was FRI decisive in electing Robert Mugabe to head the first FRI post-independence government as Prime Minister. Six weeks FRI later, on April 18th, Zimbabwe celebrated its first FRI Independence Day. FRI FRI On the 21st December 1979, following three months of talks, FRI the Lancaster House Agreement finally brought independence FRI to Rhodesia following Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of FRI Independence in 1965. FRI FRI Margaret Thatcher's government had invited Bishop Muzorewa FRI and Ian Smith, and the leaders of the Patriotic Front, led FRI by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe to participate in a FRI Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House in London, to FRI be chaired by the foreign secretary, Lord Carrington. FRI FRI The purpose of the Conference was to discuss and reach FRI agreement on the terms of an Independence Constitution, and FRI to ensure that elections should be supervised under British FRI authority to enable Rhodesia to proceed to legal FRI independence and the parties to settle their differences by FRI political means. FRI FRI Robert Mugabe....Lucian Msamati FRI Edgar Tekere...Danny Sapani FRI Bishop Muzorewa ...Chuk Iwuji FRI Lord Carrington ...Richard Cordery FRI Robin Renwick ...Tony Bell FRI Joshua Nkomo ...Jude Akuwudike FRI Ian Smith ...William Gaminara FRI Sir Shridath Ramphal...Kwame Kwei-Armah FRI Kenneth Kaunda.. .Ben Onwukwe FRI Bob Marley ... Lloyd Thomas FRI With Sean Baker, David Seddon, Alison Pettit FRI Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00wbtff (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00wdl7w (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wgzvb (Listen) FRI The Betrayal, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode: There are rumours about Gorya's health. FRI As Anna and Andrei are given a warning to try to get out FRI of Leningrad, is it already too late to escape the FRI tightening noose? FRI FRI The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion FRI and the producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00wdgxd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00wdl7y (Listen) FRI The latest events at Westminster. FRI
03 December, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 04/12/2010 - 10/12/2010
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