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SAT SATURDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b013r36x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b013xn65 (Listen) SAT All Made Up, Episode 5 SAT SAT Award-winning author Janice Galloway reads an extract from SAT her new memoir. Teenaged Janice is about to leave the SAT security of Ardrossan Academy for university, a SAT long-cherished dream of her downtrodden mother. SAT SAT Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. SAT Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013r36z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013r371 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013r373 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b013r375 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013r377 (Listen) SAT With the Rev. Nicholas Buxton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b013r379 (Listen) SAT "It was a piece of post-modern neo-dada performance art SAT subverting the entire genre of Radio 4". iPM revisits the SAT infamous 1986 broadcast of Midweek, which installed comic SAT actor Arthur Mullard as presenter. A 'designed shambles' SAT which a listener sent to the programme as her favourite SAT piece of radio. Guests include Barry Cryer - who featured on SAT the episode - and Libby Purves, who was the regular Midweek SAT presenter at the time. Ed Stourton reads Your News. With SAT Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b013xn7m (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b013xn7p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0144pv6 (Listen) SAT Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners SAT SAT The 'Big Society' is alive and well in Pembrokeshire SAT conservation. As grants are cut more organisations rely on SAT volunteers to help keep our rarest habitats thriving and SAT Skomer Island is no exception. Neptunes Army of Rubbish SAT Cleaners are a group of divers who give up their time to SAT keep the Pembrokeshire coastline clean. Manmade debris at SAT the bottom of the sea can affect marine life and their work SAT removing fishing tackle and other litter helps to keep the SAT sea healthy. SAT SAT This is vital work when you have such rare habitat as Skomer SAT Island to protect. Here there are guillemots, razorbills and SAT puffins who rely on the sea for food. Skomer also uses SAT volunteers. Assistant wardens spend a week at the time SAT helping with the running of the island and conservation work SAT such as surveying. In the future many more volunteers may be SAT needed to help preserve wildlife and ecosystems. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0144pv8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the SAT countryside.Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b013xn7r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0144pvb (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0144pvd (Listen) SAT Susan Bullock, Mr Gee, HIV+ John Percy, air-guitarist Guy SAT Thompson, Jenni Murray's Daytrip, Adam Ant's Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT Richard Coles with Last Night of the Proms soprano Susan SAT Bullock, poet Mr Gee, a man who who's been living with HIV SAT for 30 years, and the UK's air-guitar champion. JP Devlin SAT takes a Daytrip to Buxton with Dame Jenni Murray and Adam SAT Ant shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0144pvg (Listen) SAT Bus trip from Brighton to Eastbourne SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig takes a bus trip along the south coast of SAT England from Brighton to Eastbourne in the company of the SAT listener who suggested it, Veronica Groocock. Together they SAT discover the delights to be had on an ordinary scheduled bus SAT route. These include Kipling's garden, a 1930s lido, the SAT Greenwich meridian, a lamb called Hardy and the lighthouse SAT at Beachy Head. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b0144pvl (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt returns for a fourth series as Radio 4's very own SAT gumshoe, re-opening a case of murder by poisoned partridge SAT in 1931. SAT SAT Steve embarks on a historical whodunnit, examining the SAT bizarre death in Deepcut, Surrey of an army lieutenant, SAT Hubert Chevis, who died after eating a partridge laced with SAT strychnine. 80 years on, the Chevis case remains unsolved SAT and nobody was ever been charged with his murder. SAT SAT To add to the mystery, Chevis' father received a sinister SAT telegram which read "Hooray, hooray, hooray" and a follow-up SAT postcard from the same unknown sender which stated "it is a SAT mystery they will never solve". SAT SAT Steve marshals the facts, reopens the coroner's file and SAT locates a relative with important evidence to share. Was it SAT the wife, her ex-husband, the batman or the cook? SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b0144pvn (Listen) SAT The Data Tsunami SAT SAT From councils releasing all spending over £500, to crime SAT maps which show what crimes were committed where and SAT possibly by whom, to prescribing date by GP surgery, the SAT public are to be given more access to information about SAT public services than ever before. The government hopes to SAT create an army of armchair auditors to oversee whether SAT public money is well spent and hopes that the release of SAT huge amounts of data will empower citizens to drive down SAT costs and drive up quality of public services. Mary Ann SAT Sieghart investigates what use this data will be to SAT individuals and asks how they will make sense of it. Will it SAT put citizens in the driving seat as never before? Will a SAT host of public service comparison websites spring up, SAT similar to those used for private goods and services? Or SAT might it distort service public service provision in SAT undesirable ways? What do the providers make of it all? What SAT will it cost? And will it leave the public indifferent or SAT baffled? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0144pvv (Listen) SAT The day after history was made in Libya Kevin Connolly was SAT out shopping -- and tells a story of a capital city trying SAT to return to normal. Few parts of the United States have SAT escaped the economic downturn -- as Jonny Dymond's been SAT finding out on a Main Street in North Carolina; Fiona SAT Lloyd-Davies has been meeting a woman in the Democratic SAT Republic of Congo who's been helping thousands of victims of SAT rape. Summer may have been something of a damp squib in the SAT UK but Huw Cordey's been to Death Valley in California where SAT it's been scorchingly hot. And back to Tripoli in Libya SAT Andrew Hosken's been learning about the dangers of what SAT they're calling 'celebratory gunfire.' What goes up, he's SAT told, must always come down! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0144pvz (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b013r2hm (Listen) SAT Series 7, Mark Steel interviews Barry Davies SAT SAT Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each SAT week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses SAT another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns SAT interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone SAT else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. SAT SAT Mark Steel has presented a range of his own programmes on SAT Radio 4, from The Mark Steel Solution, The Mark Steel SAT Revolution, The Mark Steel Lectures to, most recently, the SAT Sony Silver Award and Writers Guild Award-winning Mark SAT Steel's In Town. He also occasionally appears in programmes SAT that don't have his name in the title, such as The News SAT Quiz. SAT SAT Barry Davies is a commentator perhaps best-known for his SAT football coverage, covering ten World Cups, seven European SAT Championships, and two FA Cup finals. He's also commentated SAT on the Olympics, the Commonwealth games and Wimbledon, as SAT well as the World Stare-Out Championships in 1998. SAT SAT In this interview, obsessive sports fan Mark asks Barry SAT about being present at some of the most important sporting SAT moments of the last forty years; about remaining impartial SAT ("Where were the Germans? Frankly, who cares?"); and about SAT the changing face of sports and sports broadcasting. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b013xn7t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b013xn7w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b013r2ht (Listen) SAT Somerton SAT SAT Martha Kearney presents the topical discussion of news and SAT politics from the Somerton Edgar Community Hall in Somerset. SAT This week's panel includes the journalist and broadcaster SAT Joan Bakewell (Baroness Bakewell of Stockport); former SAT Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont (Baron Lamont of SAT Lerwick); political commentator and blogger Iain Dale; and SAT John Kampfner, Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. SAT SAT Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0144pw2 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0144pw7 (Listen) SAT September in the Rain SAT SAT Jack and Liz are in Blackpool for one last time. John SAT Godber's classic stage play tells the touching and funny SAT story of a marriage through a lifetime of holidays together. SAT SAT Liz ..... Jane Godber SAT Jack ..... John Godber SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b013q20t (Listen) SAT Series 12, Spiegel im Spiegel SAT SAT Exploring the impact that Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's SAT piece for piano and violin Spiegel im Spiegel has had on SAT people's lives. SAT SAT Written in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia, SAT Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel is musically minimal, yet SAT produces a serene tranquillity. SAT SAT It's in F major in 6/4 time, with the piano playing rising SAT crotchet triads and the violin playing slow scales, SAT alternately rising and falling, of increasing length, which SAT all end on the note A. The score of the piece looks SAT deceptively simple, but as violinist, Tasmin Little SAT explains, it's one of the most difficult pieces to perform SAT because the playing has to simply be perfect, or the mood is SAT lost. SAT SAT "Spiegel im Spiegel" in German literally can mean both SAT "mirror in the mirror" as well as "mirrors in the mirror", SAT referring to the infinity of images produced by parallel SAT plane mirrors. SAT SAT The programme contains an interview with visual artist Mary SAT Husted who heard this work and was inspired to produce a set SAT of collages called "Spiegel im Spiegel" which in a round SAT about way, led to her long lost son tracing her for the SAT first time in his life. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0144pw9 (Listen) SAT Eliza Manningham Buller, Sue Johnston, Stay at home dads SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Former Head of MI5 Eliza SAT Manningham-Buller, Actor Sue Johnston, cuts to budgets for SAT gifted and talented children, history of aviation, Byronic SAT heroes: whats the appeal of a Rochester or Heathcliffe? Stay SAT at home dads: what're the challenges they face and how do SAT they differ to those faced by women?. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0144pwf (Listen) SAT With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b013r379 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b013xn7y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b013xn80 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013xn82 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0144pwk (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Terry O'Neill has been photographing the famous for 50 SAT years. Documenting the fashion and style of the 1960's until SAT the present day has lead him, lens in hand, to the likes of SAT The Rolling Stones, Twiggy and Frank Sinatra. These 'It SAT Girls & Boys' form the basis for his latest exhibition just SAT opened in London. SAT SAT UNBELIEVABLE! The original Radio 1 DJ and winner of I'm A SAT Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Tony Blackburn will be in SAT talking to Clive. Tony's the latest presenter of 'Pick of SAT the Pops' on Radio 2 which will be celebrating it's 50th SAT anniversary soon. In recognition of this achievement Radio 2 SAT have commissioned a documentary soon to air. SAT SAT King George VI has been propelled into popular culture SAT recently following the success of the film 'The Kings SAT Speech'. What is less well known, until now, is that Geordie SAT Greig's father, Louis Greig was the first doctor to play a SAT key role in the development of the soon to be king. Geordie, SAT the editor of the Evening Standard chat's to Clive about his SAT new book 'The King Maker'. SAT SAT Jo Bunting will be talking to Sharon Horgan, the lady who SAT brought us the cynical and acerbic BBC sitcom 'Pulling' that SAT gave the women the funny lines. Sharon is now to star in a SAT new play in London and will be telling Jo all about SAT 'Terrible Advice'. SAT SAT Award winning folk music supremo Martin Simpson will be SAT playing 'Little Liza Jane' from his latest album in the SAT Loose Ends Studio. And there's more music from Po' Girl, the SAT Canadian urban roots band bringing their own blend of folk SAT with track 'She Slips Through'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0144pwp (Listen) SAT Vanessa Redgrave SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles Vanessa Redgrave, the multi-award SAT and Oscar-winning actress and political activist. A leading SAT member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the SAT daughter, wife, mother and aunt of some of Britain's best SAT known actors and directors. She has hit the headlines just SAT as often for her political and human rights activities, as SAT for her stage, film and theatre work. This week, she is in SAT the news for supporting the travellers currently facing SAT eviction from a site in Basildon. SAT SAT Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Harbinder Minhas. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0144pwt (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0144pwy (Listen) SAT JFK, Bobby and Dad SAT SAT In 1965, two years after the assassination of John F SAT Kennedy, and three years before the murder of Senator Bobby SAT Kennedy, a man named Kenneth O'Donnell taped around 200 SAT hours of audio interviews at various locations with a SAT journalist named Sander Vanocur. SAT SAT Vanocur was White House correspondent for NBC News in the SAT 1960s, and O'Donnell was no ordinary raconteur. He spent SAT years at the heart of the Kennedy administration as JFK's SAT Special Assistant and was best friend to Bobby Kennedy from SAT Harvard until Bobby's tragic death. SAT SAT He was also the father of Helen O'Donnell, who in this SAT Archive on Four takes the listener on a journey through SAT these tapes, which have never before been broadcast. They SAT are full of insight into the Kennedy story, and for Helen, SAT full of insight into the father she lost when just a SAT teenager. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Williams SAT A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b013rj8z (Listen) SAT Classic Serial: The American Senator, Episode 2 SAT SAT The American Senator SAT By Anthony Trollope SAT Dramatised by Martyn Wade SAT Part Two SAT Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that SAT much more needs to be done to win him and his estate. It is SAT now time to tell John Morton she no longer wants to marry SAT him? SAT SAT Anthony Trollope..........Robert Glenister SAT Arabella Trefoil.............Anna Maxwell Martin SAT Lady Augustus.............Barbara Flynn SAT John Morton.................Blake Ritson SAT Senator Gotobed..........Stuart Milligan SAT Lady Ushant................Joanna David SAT Reginald Morton...........Daniel Rabin SAT Mary Masters...............Penelope Rawlins SAT Lawrence Twentyman...Carl Prekopp SAT Lord Rufford.................Henry Devas SAT Duchess of Mayfair.......Elaine Claxton SAT Mounser Green............Joanathan Forbes SAT Mrs. Masters...............Jane Whittenshaw SAT Mr Bearside.................Sean Baker SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b013xn84 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b013q3nm (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 3 SAT SAT Charlie Wolf argues that the Geneva Convention should not SAT apply to the war against terrorism. His views will be SAT challenged by Richard Norton-Taylor (Security Editor of The SAT Guardian), Dapo Akande (Co-Director of the Oxford Institute SAT for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict) and Dr Robert Barnidge SAT (School of Law, University of Reading). SAT SAT The live studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. SAT You can join in by e-mailing: iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk or text SAT 84844. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Everett. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b013ptfl (Listen) SAT (3/12) SAT Can you explain how Superman's father, plus 'The Body', plus SAT Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, could equal 150? SAT SAT The answer to this and other cryptic questions will be SAT revealed in this week's Round Britain Quiz, with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. The North of England team, wood scientist Jim SAT Coulson and literary critic Diana Collecott, take on the SAT Welsh pairing of David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander, who SAT are beginning the defence of their Round Britain Quiz SAT champions' title. SAT SAT As always, the questions range across high and low culture, SAT science, sport and history - and include a number of devious SAT suggestions from Round Britain Quiz listeners. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b013rj93 (Listen) SAT Throughout Autumn, Roger will be guiding us through a rich SAT mixture of listeners' requests for poetry both old and new. SAT He will also be featuring poets reading their own work; SAT Michael Longley, Jean Sprackland, Robin Robertson and Clare SAT Pollard. SAT SAT The first programme will include work by Thomas Hardy, SAT Carole Satyamurti and Karl Shapiro. The readers today are SAT Mark Meadows, Jennifer Jellicorse and Catherine Cusack. SAT There are poems about car crashes, the weather, Beethoven's SAT lost love and one about bad behaviour in public libraries. SAT There's escapist verse by WW Gibson and the American Shel SAT Silverstein. There's also a sad poem about a man's fancy SAT handwriting by a poet new to the programme, Marianne Burton. SAT Making her debut appearance is the prize winning poet Jean SAT Sprackland, reading 'Hard Water'. And with readings by SAT Michael Longley too, it makes for a typically rich half an SAT hour of poetry. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0144n9l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00qplk8 (Listen) SUN The Writing Life, The Author Away SUN SUN 2/3 The Author Away. SUN Stuck in the Northern Lodge Motel, Tasmania, with only foot SUN long woodlice for compnay, maybe life on the road during the SUN book tour isn't everything it's cracked up to be. SUN SUN Producer Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0144n9n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0144n9q (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0144n9s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0144n9v (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0144rq7 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0144pwp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0144n9x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0144rq9 (Listen) SUN A Spirit of Adventure SUN SUN When we are children we love adventure stories. As we get SUN older some of us worry about doing anything risky. Others SUN crave taking bigger risks - explorers, climbers, war SUN correspondents, sportsmen and women - many get addicted to SUN the heightened reality of the adrenaline rush. Is there a SUN mean line to be struck? What motivates adventurers? SUN SUN Mark Tully asks what the spiritual benefits of adventuring SUN might be with the help of Ranulph Fiennes, Thor Heyerdahl SUN and Lewis Carroll. Music is provided by Danny Elfman, John SUN Adams, Elgar and Sibelius. SUN SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Alistair McGowan. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0144rqc (Listen) SUN Moira Hickey visits Dumnaglass Estate in the Scottish SUN Highlands, where headkeeper Iain Hepburn and underkeeper SUN Andrew Reid work to ensure a successful shooting season for SUN grouse, pheasant and red deer. While the Scottish sporting SUN estate might be seen to be the preserve of a tiny and very SUN wealthy minority, the keepers make the case for its wider SUN importance, believing that estates such as Dumnaglass bring SUN much-needed income to the area, preserve the countryside and SUN help to conserve wildlife. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0144n9z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0144nb1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0144rqf (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and SUN perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0144rqh (Listen) SUN Chance UK SUN SUN Christopher Eccleston presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf SUN of the charity Chance UK. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1046947 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Chance UK SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Chance UK SUN SUN Chance UK is an early intervention organisation that SUN prevents crime and anti social behaviour by providing SUN mentors to children with behavioural difficulties. Our SUN mentors meet with a child for 2-4 hours, once a week, for a SUN year. SUN SUN They do activities together such as sports, visiting SUN museums, exploring new interests, art projects, anything SUN that will enthuse and engage the child. The mentor will use SUN solution focused techniques to build the child’s self SUN esteem, so that their confidence, education and family life SUN all change for the better. SUN SUN Not only does this change the child’s life and their SUN prospects, but their parent / carer, teacher, siblings and SUN classmates also benefit from the positive changes the child SUN makes. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0144nb3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0144nb5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0144rqk (Listen) SUN "The more lively the eucharistic faith of the people of God, SUN the deeper is its sharing" Pope Benedict XVI. A mass from SUN the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge SUN marking the introduction this year of the new English SUN translation of the Roman Missal. With hymns including SUN Alleluia! Sing to Jesus, and Sweet Sacrament Divine. SUN Celebrant: Mgr Peter Leeming. Preacher: Fr Alexander Master. SUN Music director: Nigel Kerry. Organist: James Devor. SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b013r2ld (Listen) SUN The revolution of capitalism SUN SUN The author and philosopher John Gray presents a hard-hitting SUN talk about capitalism. SUN SUN He argues that one side-effect of the financial crisis is an SUN increasing number of people who believe that Karl Marx was SUN right. SUN SUN He outlines why Marx's belief that capitalism would lead to SUN revolution - and end bourgeois life - has come true. But not SUN in the way Marx imagined. For increasing numbers of people, SUN he says, a middle class existence is no longer even an SUN aspiration. "More and more people live from day to day with SUN little idea of what the future will bring". SUN SUN "It's wasn't communism that did the deed" he says. "It's SUN capitalism that has killed off the bourgeoisie". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0144rqm (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0144rqp (Listen) SUN Written by ... Keri Davies SUN Directed by ... Jenny Stephens SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Johnny Venkman. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0144rqr (Listen) SUN The Hunting Ban SUN SUN In 1997 Labour came to power with a promise to ban hunting SUN with dogs, and thousands of rural people rose up to oppose SUN them. Sue MacGregor reunites five people from both sides of SUN the campaign. SUN SUN Within weeks of entering parliament, the new Labour SUN government had locked horns with the countryside. The party SUN that had come to power promising to govern for the whole SUN nation, had managed to alienate great swathes of the rural SUN population who demanded recognition. SUN SUN At the heart of it all was a battle over hunting with SUN hounds. For many in rural Britain this represented a way of SUN life they'd known for centuries, and for others, their SUN livelihood. SUN SUN For many in the urban population, Labour's victory was a SUN chance to finally kill off what they saw as an arcane and SUN cruel pastime. They had the backing of a vocal animal rights SUN lobby and a Labour manifesto pledge to give MPs a free vote SUN on the issue. SUN SUN The result was a battle that took the government by SUN surprise. The countryside rose up and demonstrated like SUN never before. Not since the Tolpuddle Martyrs in the 1830s SUN had an issue brought so many on to the streets of London to SUN protest. As parliament witnessed heated debates, angry SUN demonstrations outside turned bloody. Thousands of SUN previously law-abiding people threatened civil disobedience, SUN as MPs and anti-hunt campaigners received death threats and SUN dead foxes on their doorsteps. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b013ptfx (Listen) SUN Series 61, With guests Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi SUN Khorsandi and Russell Kane SUN SUN The popular panel game from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SUN hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles SUN Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi and first timer Russell Kane. SUN Subjects include My Tartan Underwear and Call Centres. SUN Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0144tkf (Listen) SUN Food Icons: George Perry-Smith SUN SUN Simon Parkes tells the story and legacy of the legendary and SUN maverick chef George Perry-Smith. SUN SUN In 1952 he opened The Hole in the Wall restaurant in Bath. SUN He had no formal training, took inspiration from domestic SUN cook books and changed the British restaurant scene forever. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0144nb7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0144tkh (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Fighting the Power of Pink b010y39d (Listen) SUN Any parents of a little girl will tell you that they are SUN strangely drawn to the colour pink. But is it in their genes SUN or is it all down to culture? Kat Arney investigates, SUN talking to parents, scientists, and the toy industry. She SUN discovers that while women are more drawn than men to SUN reddish shades of blue, boys and girls don't seem to develop SUN different preferences until they are over the age of two. SUN But long before then, they have very different preferences SUN for toys. So maybe we all just like different colours SUN because we like the things that come in those colours. Or SUN maybe women really do prefer pink because in the distant SUN past they needed to be able to see red berries against green SUN leaves, while men needed to see brown bison against a blue SUN sky? SUN Producer Jolyon Jenkins. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b013r2h8 (Listen) SUN Suffolk SUN SUN Peter Gibbs leads Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Chris SUN Beardshaw in a horticultural discussion: How to 'dangle the SUN carrot' keeping the wireworm from your potatoes; how sulphur SUN can keep mildew off a grapevine and how to make a decent SUN ericaceous compost. SUN SUN In addition, Bob Flowerdew uncovers the medicinal properties SUN of common garden plants. And Dawn Isaacs visits a new RSPB SUN garden to discuss how to create a bird-friendly garden. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b013q20c (Listen) SUN More Tribes of Science, Volcanologists SUN SUN A lad's mag claimed that being a volcanologist was the SUN second coolest job in the world after being an astronaut. SUN This scientific tribe also loses one member each year, on SUN average, in a fatal accident on a volcano. Peter Curran puts SUN on his anthropological hard hat and asks what makes these SUN researchers risk life and limb, clambering around active SUN volcanoes? Are they driven by a desire to protect local SUN people by understanding the timing of eruptions. Or are they SUN drawn like moths to the sulphurous flames in a purely SUN scientific quest. SUN SUN Peter talks to volcanologists based at the University of SUN Bristol, some of whom worked on Montserrat during the SUN heights of the Caribbean island's volcanic crisis in 1997. SUN He hears stories of crater-based craziness inside Mount Etna SUN and a slide down a flow of volcanic glass. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0144ybg (Listen) SUN Classic Serial: The American Senator, Episode 3 SUN SUN The American Senator SUN By Anthony Trollope SUN Dramatised by Martyn Wade SUN Part Three SUN Lord Rufford has run away from Arabella but she hasn't given SUN up hope. She is determined that he will marry her but then SUN she receives some distressing news .. SUN SUN Anthony Trollope...........Robert Glenister SUN Arabella Trefoil..............Anna Maxwell Martin SUN Lady Augustus..............Barbara Flynn SUN Lord Augustus...............Gerard McDermott SUN Lord Rufford...................Henry Devas SUN Lady Ushant..................Joanna David SUN John Morton..................Blake Ritson SUN Reginald Morton............Daniel Rabin SUN Mary Masters................Penelope Rawlins SUN Mrs Morton...................Richenda Carey SUN Senator Gotobed...........Stuart Milligan SUN Mounser Green............Joanathan Forbes SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b0144ybj (Listen) SUN Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist SUN SUN Mohsin Hamid talks to James Naughtie and readers about his SUN bestselling book The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This edition SUN of Bookclub will be broadcast just two days after the novel SUN has been featured as Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, and it's a SUN timely choice as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11. SUN SUN Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 The Reluctant SUN Fundamentalist is a sparse, gripping, short novel that SUN tackles the complex issues of Islamic fundamentalism and SUN America's 'war on terror' with sympathy and balance. SUN SUN It's the story of Changez, a high-flying young Pakistani man SUN living in New York at the time of the attacks, whose life is SUN turned around on that day, and who in the aftermath returns SUN to his native Pakistan. SUN SUN Changez tells his life story to an unnamed stranger, an SUN American man, at a tea house in Lahore. Readers may SUN recognise the same device was used by Albert Camus in his SUN novel The Fall - and Mohsin Hamid acknowledges the debt to SUN the French novel. SUN SUN As night falls, the tension grows between the Changez and SUN the American and a sense of mystery and suspense grows page SUN by page. Who is this American? Is he a spy? Does he have a SUN gun in his pocket, and what exactly has the 'reluctant SUN fundamentalist' come to believe? This novel has one of the SUN most ambiguous endings in contemporary fiction and readers SUN will be telling Mohsin Hamid how they think it finishes. SUN SUN October's Bookclub choice : 'The God of Small Things' by SUN Arundhati Roy. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0144ybl (Listen) SUN Scary horses, embittered husbands and prayers for birds SUN feature in this edition of your poetry requests, presented SUN by Roger McGough. There's A Display of Mackerel by Mark SUN Doty, admiring the iridescence and selflessness of those SUN 'flashing participants.' Sylvia Plath is mussel hunting, and SUN there's another powerful poem from across the pond; SUN Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Fish'. The abandoned merman calls SUN out longingly for his deserting wife 'Margaret, Margaret', SUN in Matthew Arnold's famous poem, and RS Thomas warns 'You SUN must wear your eyes out' in a meditation on bird watching. SUN Clare Pollard also makes her debut on the programme with a SUN poem inspired by a sinister folkloric tale involving horses, SUN Pollock scales and spuming ale. SUN SUN The other readers are Jennifer Jellicorse, Catherine Cusack SUN and Mark Meadows. SUN Produced by Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The Kill Factor b013q28m (Listen) SUN "The hardest time is doing it the first time. After I pulled SUN the trigger for the very first time in Basra when I was 19 SUN years old, it got a lot easier after that". SUN SUN Ben Close, a former member of the Coldstream Guards, talks SUN about the first time he killed in battle. It's an experience SUN that transformed him. "I was like a time bomb ticking SUN waiting to go off. I was ready to kill in an instant". SUN SUN Stephen Evans examines how soldiers are taught to kill and SUN the psychological effects of becoming a killer. SUN SUN At Sandhurst, the elite military establishment where the SUN British Army has trained officers since 1812, the recruits SUN are put through their paces. In a simulator - reminiscent of SUN a very big, realistic video game - Stephen sees how life and SUN death decisions about taking human life are made - the moral SUN dilemmas that have to be juggled in the heat of tense, SUN frightening and chaotic battle. SUN SUN Stephen explores why talking about killing is the great SUN taboo in armies across the world. Lieutenant Col Pete SUN Kilner, an officer in the United States Army, says "As a SUN profession of arms, we recruit people to kill, we train SUN people to kill, we make the orders for people to kill, yet SUN after the fact we don't talk about killing. SUN SUN Stephen asks if this is partly to blame for the long-term SUN effects killing has on many soldiers. SUN SUN Andy Wilson, an ex-SAS soldier, was commended for bravery in SUN Afghanistan. But he was unable to cope with the experience SUN of taking another man's life. "I'd killed him. Whenever I SUN closed my eyes, it kept flashing back to me. I basically SUN stayed awake for four days. On the fifth day I collapsed SUN because I'd had no sleep. And then I'd be awake for another SUN four days. It is torture at night, pure torture" Andy's SUN nightmares and flashbacks led to him being diagnosed with SUN Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. SUN SUN The programme combines gripping first-hand testimony from SUN those who have been on the front line, with powerful archive SUN and contributions from the experts who are wrestling with SUN the theory and practice of killing in warfare. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0144pwp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0144nb9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0144nbc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0144nbf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0144ybn (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN Pick of the Week this week is chock full of fascinating SUN listens. There's a quirky play about Communism in Romania SUN that has the word "banana" in the title. A gorgeous book of SUN the week read by the author, Janice Galloway, set in the SUN seaside town of Saltcoats in Ayrshire. And a genuinely SUN frightening drama about a man who slips on a bar of soap in SUN a haunted lighthouse 20 miles off the Welsh coast. All that SUN and something bountifully beautiful about bees... SUN SUN My Teenage Diary - Radio 4 SUN Witness: Freedom Riders - World Service SUN Generation E - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play: Do You Like Banana, Comrades - Radio 4 SUN The Peace Corps Writers - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: All Made Up - Radio 4 SUN Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills - Radio 4 SUN Soundscapes of the South - Radio Solent SUN Spirit of the Beehive - Radio 4 SUN The Pat Hobby Stories - Radio 4 SUN A Case For Paul Temple - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play: The Lighthouse - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0144ybq (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0144ybs (Listen) SUN An insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Vasily Grossman from the Frontline b0144ybv (Listen) SUN Through Chekhov's Eyes SUN SUN Elliot Levey reads Vasily Grossman's front line despatches SUN from the battle of Stalingrad 1:Through Chekhov's Eyes. In SUN the war of the rats snipers like Anatoly Chekhov reigned. SUN Translated by Jim Riordan. SUN SUN Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by SUN his experiences as a front line war correspondent. Following SUN the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, SUN Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for SUN active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a SUN special correspondent. His editor David Ortenberg noted that SUN Grossman, despite no combat experience, knew about 'people's SUN souls' . SUN SUN 1: Through Chekhov's Eyes. Red Star 20th November 1942. SUN 'I wanted to become the sort of man who destroys the enemy SUN with his own hands'. The cult of the sniper emerged SUN spontaneously during the Stalingrad conflict. The SUN 'Stalingrad Academy of street fighting' became a new kind of SUN war where every floor, every building, every block became SUN its own front line. Here a sniper could extract a terrible SUN and personal vengeance upon the German invaders who had SUN forced the Soviets to the very banks of the river Volga. SUN Encouraged by their commanders, lionized by journalists like SUN Grossman, the sniper became a heroic symbol of steely SUN determination. Here Grossman delivers a portrait both SUN intimate and heroic of a young man transformed by war amidst SUN the ruined city. SUN SUN Chekhov, along with Vasili Zaitsev, was already a star with SUN 35 kills in the heaviest fighting of October. According to SUN Grossman's editor, General Ortenberg, the writer spent many SUN hours with Chekov in his firing post by a wrecked wall. SUN Chekhov would later be credited with 256 'sticks' or enemy SUN soldiers. SUN SUN Reader Elliot Levey SUN Translator Jim Riordan SUN Producer Mark Burman. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b013r2h4 (Listen) SUN In More or Less this week: SUN SUN Debt: A European Odyssey SUN SUN On More or Less we're always looking for the perfect analogy SUN to help clarify complicated things. And the European debt SUN crisis is pretty complicated. The good news is that we think SUN we've come up with exactly the right way to describe the SUN whole sorry business - as Homer's Odyssey. SUN SUN Alternative medicine and the placebo effect SUN SUN Earlier in the summer a study was published which seemed to SUN suggest that acupuncture might help some patients with SUN unexplained symptoms. Interesting. We asked Margaret SUN McCartney, a Glasgow GP and a blogger on medical evidence, SUN to investigate. But Dr McCartney thinks the study tells us SUN about more than just acupuncture - it tells us something SUN about the whole way in which treatments are administered on SUN the NHS. SUN SUN Asking the right questions SUN SUN This summer, the Office for National Statistics celebrates SUN seventy years of its social surveys. We've been looking back SUN at their work, some of which is a little surprising. In SUN November 1941 the Wartime Social Survey Unit undertook a SUN major study of women's undergarments. The reason? Steel. SUN Britain needed to know how much metal was being used to SUN support the country's women, rather than the war effort. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b013r2hb (Listen) SUN John McAleese, NF Simpson, Stetson Kennedy and David SUN Honeyboy Edwards SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN SAS soldier John McAleese who led one of the teams that SUN stormed the Iranian Embassy in 1980. SUN SUN The surreal playwright NF Simpson who influenced a SUN generation of British comedy talent. SUN SUN Stetson Kennedy, who went undercover to expose the SUN activities of the Ku Klux Klan. SUN SUN George Band, one of two pioneering climbers who first SUN conquered the world's third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga. SUN SUN And David Honeyboy Edwards, last surviving link to the SUN original blues players of the Mississippi Delta. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0144pvz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0144rqh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b013qzxy (Listen) SUN Prize Performers SUN SUN At a time of grave crisis, some of the world's top Nobel SUN Prize winning economists have been meeting for a conference SUN on an idyllic Bavarian island. Peter Day was there to find SUN out if they had any ideas about how to get out of the mess SUN we're in and what their predictions are for the future. SUN Producer : Neil Keonig. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0144ybx (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 b0144ybz (Listen) SUN Episode 68 SUN SUN Hugo Rifkind of The Times analyses how the broadsheets and SUN redtops are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b013r2hf (Listen) SUN Pack your bags..Francine Stock is wearing her travelling SUN shoes. First stop is the North of England to meet Moira SUN Buffini's new Jane Eyre. Then its off to the Continent with SUN Martin Scorsese for a guided tour of the commanding heights SUN of Italian cinema - among them Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini SUN and Antonioni. On the way back we'll be stopping off in the SUN Greece of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg -- a brilliant, SUN playful feature about sex, grief and the passing of the old SUN order inspired by the wild life documentaries of Sir David SUN Attenborough. To finish we're back in Blighty with artist SUN Gillian Wearing's powerful and disturbing film, Self Made - SUN an exploration of identity as well as a kind of SUN exorcism.That's all in this week's Film Programme with SUN Francine Stock. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0144rq9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0144nc4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b013q3g3 (Listen) MON Home Life 2: Single Person Household MON MON Thinking Allowed explores the changing nature of home in a 3 MON part summer series recorded in the homes of our listeners. MON Who do we live with, how do our homes operate and what do MON they say about us and about the dramatic social MON transformations of the last century and the century to come? MON By invitation, in each edition a new type of home is MON invaded, analysed and explained by Laurie Taylor and a panel MON of two sociologists round the kitchen table. MON MON Much political debate still revolves around the assumption MON that most of us live in conventional family homes. However MON research suggests that in 20 years time only 2 out of 5 MON people will be in marriages and married couples will be MON outnumbered by other types of household. Behind closed MON doors, Britain is changing: Single living has increased by MON 30% in 10 years but at the same time financial pressures are MON fuelling a growth in extended families - people sharing MON bills, childcare and mucking-in in a way which makes private MON life far less private. MON MON After invitations from a host of Thinking Allowed listeners, MON Laurie Taylor visits three. In this edition he travels to MON Cove in Argyll and Bute to meet someone who lives alone and MON works from home. He is accompanied by the sociologists Roona MON Simpson and Bren Neale in order to help divine the future MON for Britain's private life. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0144rq7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0144nc8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0144ncb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0144ncd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0144ncg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b014543g (Listen) MON With the Rev Nicholas Buxton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b014543j (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0144ncj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b014543l (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b014543n (Listen) MON Dr Lin Berwick was born with cerebral palsy and lost her MON sight as a teenager. She tells Peter White about the way her MON mother dealt with being told her baby was a waste of MON everybody's time and that she should 'go home and forget MON about her'. MON MON Lin has inherited her mother's determination that she should MON live a fulfilling and adventurous life and when she met her MON husband Ralph, she says her life 'really took off'. MON MON Together, Lin and Ralph set up the Lin Berwick Trust, which MON provides accessible holiday accommodation for severely MON disabled people and their carers. MON MON As well as being her husband, Ralph willingly acted as Lin's MON carer and they enjoyed a long and happy marriage until Ralph MON was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Lin describes her MON devastation at being told this news and, as a Methodist MON preacher, how she felt the need to cry out to God and demand MON why they had been dealt this cruel blow. MON MON Deeply distressed by his condition, Ralph finally refused MON his medication and died shortly before this interview was MON recorded. MON MON Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b014543q (Listen) MON Series 3, Northern Ireland MON MON Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast MON debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great MON minds behind them and echoes of the arguments today. MON MON In the fifth episode, the issue of a united Ireland is up MON for question. In December 1980, John Hume was one of the MON most powerful voices of Irish nationalism. He met Michael MON Mates, a Tory MP with a military background in Northern MON Ireland, on a BBC Panorama programme recorded at the MON Cambridge Union. MON MON Northern Ireland was far from the power-sharing agreement MON struck some 20 years later that assured Hume a Nobel Peace MON Prize. Direct rule from Westminster and British army MON presence kept a deeply divided province, Mates believed, MON from all out civil war. Hume wanted the British out and a MON lasting solution for the Catholics who for decades had MON disengaged themselves politically from the Unionist majority MON of Protestants. MON MON This period was a turning point in the Troubles. Belfast was MON a war zone and terrorism was a fact of life in England as MON well as the Six Counties. Heightening the emotional MON intensity was a group of Republican prisoners on the first MON wave of hunger strikes in the Maze prison. Margaret Thatcher MON stepped up and did what previous British Prime Ministers had MON tried to ignore, albeit with a hard line. And Hume was on MON the verge of the controversial secret talks with the MON political wing of the IRA, Sinn Fein. MON MON On to Ireland today - is Irish unity still conceivable? Has MON the power-sharing been a success and can other nations learn MON from bringing dissident groups to the debating table? The MON story of politics in Northern Ireland continues. MON MON In the studio are Dr Michael Kerr from King's College London MON and Dr Paul Mitchell of the London School of Economics. MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b014555x (Listen) MON The 9/11 Letters, Caryl Phillips MON MON Five internationally acclaimed writers consider the impact MON of the momentous events of September 11th 2001. Ten years MON on, these authors use imaginative letters to reflect on the MON consequences for Britain, America and the world. MON MON The first letter is from novelist and essayist Caryl MON Phillips, who was born in St Kitts, grew up in Leeds and is MON now Professor of English at Yale University. In his letter, MON Phillips imagines that his young nephew might have to answer MON a history exam question about how the crisis of September MON 11th, 2001 determined American foreign and domestic policy. MON He gives an eye-witness account of the day and those MON following, reflecting how the events changed him, and his MON identity as a Resident Alien, someone who can live and work MON in the United States, but is not an American citizen. MON MON Producer: Julian May. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b014555z (Listen) MON Over 45s dating, Cook the Perfect..Tarte Tatin, Role of MON schools post-riots MON MON Cook the Perfect...Tarte Tatin. The story behind the MON upside-down apple tart and how to make this classic French MON dish using the best of British apples. A month on from the MON riots, what's the role of schools in dealing with the MON aftermath and helping prevent them happening again? Jenni MON talks to headteachers in Manchester and London about MON schools' response and the work they'll be doing with pupils. MON The dating game: what are the rules if you're in your MON forties or beyond, and is the option of online dating to be MON welcomed or avoided? How a historic Surrey house was MON transformed at vast expense by the seventeenth century MON countess who lived there. Presented by Jenni Murray. MON MON What’s the role of schools in the aftermath of the riots? MON MON One of the striking things about the people who took to the MON streets at the beginning of August, as riots spread MON throughout the country, was their age. The youngest person MON convicted for being involved so far is only 11 years old. MON We’ve heard a lot from politicians and pundits about what MON caused the riots and where we should go from here. But we MON haven’t heard much from the people who actually work with MON youths day in and day out - teachers. As term begins today, MON what will schools be doing to help deal with the aftermath MON of the riots, and help make sure nothing like them happens MON again? Joan McVittie is President of the Association of MON School & College Leaders, and head of Woodside High School MON in Wood Green in London – one of the areas affected by the MON riots – and Patsy Kane is head of Whalley Range High School MON in Manchester. They join Jenni to discuss the issues. MON MON Dating In Your 40’s and Beyond MON MON How hard is dating for women in their 40’s and beyond? Is it MON true that most men want to meet someone much younger than MON them? And does that mean you need to lie about your age? Is MON internet dating the answer or should you leave things to MON fate? On Monday’s programme, these questions and more as MON Jenni is joined by the author of MON Maudie Bickram’s Dating Diary from ‘The Lady’ magazine and MON dating guru, Mary Balfour, whose online agency ‘Grown Up MON Dating’ caters for the slightly older would-be dater. MON MON Cook the Perfect ... Tarte Tatin MON MON It’s a good year for British apples and the right variety MON can be transformed into a particularly delicious upside down MON apple tart, more commonly known as tarte tatin. Legend has MON it that it was born out of a misadventure. One of the famous MON French Tatin sisters tripped taking an apple pie out of the MON oven and the pie fell face down on the floor. Unwilling to MON waste it, she put it back on the plate and served it upside MON down. Food writer Trish Deseine joins Jenni in the studio to MON demonstrate how to make this classic French dish. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145561 (Listen) MON The Core, Episode 1 MON MON By Mike Bartlett. Carly is a bright thirteen year old who MON goes to the Coalforth School in Berkshire. The school has MON not being doing well, but it has just recruited Sarah MON Parkinson, a new head with energy and vision. Exploring the MON hot topic of education The Core is about the impact of MON current policies on those going through the system. We MON follow Carly and Sarah into the future and it's not what we, MON or they, expect. MON MON Sarah...Juliet Stevenson MON Carly... Alex Tregear MON MON Director Claire Grove MON MON 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b0145563 (Listen) MON Episode 8 MON MON Each year, the Royal Geographical Society in association MON with BBC Radio 4 organises a competition to choose the top MON dream travel assignment. This year's winner is Jane Labous, MON whose destination of choice is the west African nation of MON Mali. Her goal: to meet the men and women who face hardship MON every day as they eke out a living digging and diving for MON sand and gravel from the bed of the River Niger. MON MON Tradition in Mali has meant that houses are made from mud, MON which bakes hard in the searing African sun. But today the MON available solidity of concrete means that mud homes are less MON desirable and there is an ever-growing demand for sand to MON help fashion the concrete structures sprouting all over the MON capital Bamako. MON MON Jane travels to the little town of Koulikoro 50 km north of MON the capital to talk to the sand-diggers who spend MON back-breaking hours in 40-degree heat dredging tons of sand MON and gravel from the riverbed to satisfy the relentless MON hunger for aggregates of Bamako's builders. MON MON But at what cost? The fishermen are outraged by the way the MON river waters are disturbed and their livelihood threatened; MON as for the sand-diggers themselves, the natural perils of MON the Niger - crocodiles, hippopotamus, not to mention the MON river-genies who must be appeased - are now compounded by MON the dangerous deep trenches in the riverbed that make diving MON ever more dangerous. Now the locals have taken out an order MON to ban the diggers from the shallow waters close to MON Koulikoro's centre where the town's children love to play. MON MON But with bandits threatening the north of the country, the MON other big question on Jane's mind today is whether she'll MON make it to the regional capital of Djenné safely for the MON traditional annual renewal of mud-coating on the city's MON grand mosque.... MON MON Producer: Simon Elmes. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b012r7k7 (Listen) MON Series 2, Catchment if You Can MON MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom MON Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sorry ran for seven MON series on BBC 1 and was number one in the UK ratings. MON MON In the second series of their Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays MON Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along with his dog MON Henry. His grown up children - both married to people Sandy MON doesn't approve of at all - would like him to move out of MON the family home so they can get their hands on their money MON earlier. MON MON But Sandy's not having this. He's not moving until the dog MON dies. And not just that, how can he move if he's got a MON lodger? His daughter is convinced that his too attractive MON lodger Dolores (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a MON friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help MON a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together MON face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make MON it more so. MON MON Sandy's quiet life is shattered by the need to make himself MON scarce while his daughter Ellie and his son-in-law Blake MON pretend, for reasons of social mobility and educational MON opportunity, that his address is their address. Hiding in MON the shed doesn't seem right for someone who dreams of being MON a hero. Not in the world's eye, perhaps - but certainly in MON his grandson Tyson's. MON MON Ronnie Corbett ..... Sandy MON Liza Tarbuck ...... Dolores MON Sally Grace ..... Mrs Pompom MON Tilly Vosburgh ..... Ellie MON Jonathan Aris ...... Blake MON Daniel Bridle .....Tyson MON Stephen Critchlow ...... Mr Mountjoy MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0145565 (Listen) MON On You and Yours with Julian Worricker today we take a MON thorough look at the housing market: renting, buying and MON housing stock. We also find out where families affected by MON the closure of Southern Cross, the UK's biggest care home MON chain, can get the latest information. And our reporter sees MON new evidence which states that a third of our hospitals in MON England are not meeting targets when it comes to assessing MON DVT risks in their patients. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0144ncl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0145567 (Listen) MON With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners MON can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on MON twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b0145569 (Listen) MON (4/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe welcomes the teams from the South of England MON and Northern Ireland to the fiendish contest of lateral MON thinking. In the latest heat Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego MON play for the South of England, while the Northern Ireland MON regulars are the novelist Polly Devlin and historian Brian MON Feeney. MON MON As always, the questions draw on the deepest recesses of the MON contestants' memory stores in science, history, sport, and MON high and popular culture. Tom will also have the answer to MON last week's teaser question which was: MON MON Why might a hawk have its eye on a play by Goldsmith, the MON home of Harlequins, and the entrance to a New York tenement? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0144ybq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jz0xj (Listen) MON Places Where They Sing MON MON Written and directed by Ellen Dryden. MON MON Thomas has composed his first work for the amateur choir he MON founded. The performance is imminent. Thomas' unpredictable MON behaviour is upsetting the choir - and his wife Joanna. MON MON Thomas ...... Anton Lesser MON Joanna ...... Phoebe Nicholls MON Vicky ...... Claire Rushbrook MON Angela ...... Abigail Thaw MON Matthew ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor MON MON Music composed by Derek Bourgeois. MON MON A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0144pwy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Twin Nation b01457pz (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Edi Stark asks if the bond between twins ever be rivalled by MON another relationship? MON MON Helen and Morna Mulgray now in their early 70s have never MON spent more than a fortnight apart. Having retired from MON teaching they've turned their uniquely close relationship MON into a successful recipe for writing crime fiction. But MON they've never married or even had a serious relationship MON outside of their twin. Edi asks if their relationship is too MON close or have these sisters found in each other the meeting MON of minds that the rest of us can only dream of in our life MON long companions. MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0144tkf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01457q1 (Listen) MON A controversial High Court ruling on the admission policy of MON the Jewish Free School in London two years ago has led to MON heated and ongoing discussion among Jews in this country MON about what constitutes Jewishness. With the number of Jews MON in Britain declining, the question of how to preserve and MON pass on Judaism is a major preoccupation of members the MON community, be they Orthodox, Reform or secular. So what MON should be the test for determining who is and isnt Jewish? MON How important is religious practice, observing a kosher MON table or male circumcision? And how important is it for the MON preservation of Jewishness that a Jew should marry another MON Jew? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss Jewish identity are Laura Janner MON Klausner, Rabbi of the Alyth Reform Synagogue in London; MON Natan Levy, the Orthodox Rabbi of Shenley United Jewish MON Congregation; and Dr Brian Klug Senior Research Fellow in MON Philosophy at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, and MON author of "Being Jewish and Doing Justice.". MON MON 17:00 PM b01457q3 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0144ncq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01457q5 (Listen) MON Series 61, With Guests Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks, Miles MON Jupp and Pam Ayres MON MON The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, with MON panellists Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres and MON newcomer Miles Jupp. Recorded at the Lichfield Festival MON Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01457q7 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01457q9 (Listen) MON John Wilson reviews a new film adaptation of Jane Eyre MON starring Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska and Jamie Bell. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145561 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 God in China b01457qc (Listen) MON Buddhism and Islam MON MON 35 years after the Cultural Revolution, another revolution MON is sweeping across China. As the Communist Party seeks to MON address the effects on Chinese society in becoming MON manufacturer to the world, combined with rampant consumerism MON and its own one child policy, it is turning to religion to MON fill the void. MON MON In this 3 part series, Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne's MON College, Oxford, travels through this vast nation of 1.4 MON billion people, to explore the role of "God in China". MON MON Buddhism & Islam are two of China's five official religions. MON They are both very integrated into Chinese society but for MON different reasons. In this programme Tim Gardam considers MON the role these two religions play in the Communist Party's MON appropriation of religion to support the drive towards MON President Hu Jintao's "harmonious society". He meets female MON imams and visits Longquan Monastery whose Abbot's "tweets" MON are translated daily into 8 different languages. MON MON Producer: Liz Leonard. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b013qz7c (Listen) MON 9/11 - Toxic Ash MON MON David Shukman reports on the thousands who have become ill MON from the toxic dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the MON Twin Towers collapsed on Sept 11th. The buildings released a MON cocktail of deadly carcinogens including, asbestos, lead, MON mercury and PCBs. MON MON Frontline responders such as fire-fighters, police and MON emergency medical workers breathed in the contamination for MON several weeks as they toiled at Ground Zero. The fires MON burned for a hundred days and many of the emergency workers MON toiled without respirators or proper protection amid the MON dust and debris. MON MON Now officials say more than 18,000 people have received MON medical treatment in the last 12 months for World Trade MON Center related conditions - many of them serious. The head MON of the federal programme overseeing victims compensation MON says he expects more people to die because of their MON exposure. MON MON Nearly three thousand people perished on the day, but the MON suffering resulting from the attack is far from over. MON Producer: Linda Sills. MON MON 21:00 Material World b013qzps (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper hears about some of the first MON skilled toolmakers, a new design of battery that won't set MON your laptop ablaze, cloning wildcats to keep their pedigree MON pure, and, as the Hollywood horror Apollo 18 is released, MON why should we go back to the Moon? MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON The Swiss Army Knife of the Stone Age MON MON 1,760,000 years ago, human ancestors in what is now North MON West Kenya were banging the rocks together. Big rocks. In MON the latest edition of the journal Nature, Chris Lepre of MON Columbia University reports the oldest accurately dated hand MON axes. Professor John Gowlett of Liverpool University puts MON the finds into context as early hominins spread out of MON Africa. MON MON Better Batteries that won’t catch fire MON MON A new polymer jelly could be the next big step forward for MON lithium batteries. This should mean smaller, lighter, MON cheaper and, crucially, safer gadgets from mobile phones to MON electric cars. The jelly replaces the volatile and hazardous MON liquid electrolyte used in most lithium batteries today and MON should prevent “thermal runaway” in an overheated or damaged MON battery. MON MON Cloning Wildcats MON MON An embryologist who cloned Dolly the sheep is now working on MON cloning the iconic but critically endangered Scottish MON wildcat. With only around 400 true wildcats left, they need MON all the help they can get before their genes become MON irretrievably mixed with those of the domestic cat. MON MON Apollo 18: Why we Should go back to the Moon MON MON The latest Hollywood blockbuster, Apollo 18, released in the MON UK this week, suggests that a secret final Apollo Moon MON mission never returned and the reason is why no one has been MON back since. Quentin hears from Apollo 17 geologist Harrison MON Schmitt and British space scientist Alan Smith on the MON scientific and perhaps economic reasons why we should go MON back to the Moon. MON MON 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b014543n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0144ncs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01457qh (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01457qk (Listen) MON On Canaan's Side, Episode 1 MON MON In Sebastian Barry's latest novel, a secret life is revealed MON in the memoir of Lilly Dunne, 89 who is nearing the end of MON her days. Born in Ireland, Lilly has lived for 75 years in MON that place of safety known in the ancient hymn as "On MON Canaan's Side" - America. MON MON Forced to flee Ireland after a warning that the IRA were MON about to shoot her and her Black and Tan lover, Lilly has MON spent her entire life in fear that an old vengeance will MON catch up with her. And as this painful but exquisitely told MON history reveals, her fears are well founded. MON MON Using false names Lilly and Tadg jumped a boat to Ellis MON Island and thence to a suburb of Chicago. The Depression MON looms but they eek out a living in mixed communities, taking MON care to avoid the Irish ghettoes, but always waiting for MON that knock on the door. And when it comes it is of course MON when they least expect it. On a visit to the Museum of Art, MON Lilly and her now husband, stand amazed before Van Gogh's MON self portrait - when an IRA assassin appears and shoots Tadg MON right there on the gallery floor. MON MON In the uproar Lilly escapes, pursued by the killer. She MON escapes with her life, just, and flees to Cleveland where MON she meets a Cop, Joe whom she marries and rediscovers a kind MON of happiness. But unalloyed happiness seems not to be MON Lilly's lot in life. She bears Joe's child but Joe MON disappears, presumed dead in a gas explosion - leaving Lilly MON to work as a domestic servant and rear her son, Ed alone. MON MON A true friend comes into her life - a man called Nolan, from MON Tennessee. He lives and works nearby and assumes the role of MON father to Ed and support to Lilly. It is profound but MON platonic alliance. He is Lilly's rock and Ed's moral MON compass. And when Ed, the talented and handsome son comes MON back from Vietnam, mentally broken, it is Nolan who seeks MON him out from an obscure commune in the hills and brings home MON not Lilly's son but her grandson, William; a child the MON fragile Ed is no longer able to manage. MON MON And so Lilly begins once more to raise a child - this time a MON child who is the distillation of the entire journey of her MON life. She loves this child more than life itself. So when MON William hangs himself from the washroom door in his old high MON school she feels there is no worst can befall her. But there MON is a final twist to her life's story. MON MON Nolan falls ill, and on his deathbed, reveals to her that is MON was he who was sent all those years earlier to Chicago to MON assassinate Lilly and her husband. But he was unable at the MON last to kill her in that gallery. And since then he has MON lived only to atone for his sin and to help make her life MON bearable. But Lilly is by now resolved that she cannot MON forgive Nolan, and that she can no longer linger on Canaan's MON side. Her life is at an end. MON MON Reader - Claire Bloom MON Abridger - Neville Teller MON Producer - Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b013q210 (Listen) MON English As a Lingua Franca MON MON Most conversations in English are among people who aren't MON native speakers of the language. In universities around the MON world, vast voice banks are being compiled by researchers MON who are examining the use of English as a contact language MON in a globalized world. They believe their work has MON implications for the way in which English is taught: for too MON long, they say, students have been given native speaker MON standards of correctness as their model. But is there really MON such a thing as English as a Lingua Franca? Chris Ledgard MON investigates. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01457qm (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0144ndc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b014555x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0144ndf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0144ndh (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0144ndk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0144ndm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0145x71 (Listen) TUE With the Rev. Nicholas Buxton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0145x73 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the TUE countryside.Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah TUE Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0145x75 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b0145x77 (Listen) TUE Securing Freedom: 2011, Terror TUE TUE The former Director-General of the Security Service (MI5), TUE Eliza Manningham-Buller gives the first of her BBC Reith TUE Lectures 2011 called " Terror." On the tenth anniversary of TUE the attacks on the United States on September 11th she TUE reflects on the lasting significance of that day. Was it a TUE "terrorist" crime, an act of war or something different? TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0145x79 (Listen) TUE The 9/11 Letters, Naomi Alderman TUE TUE Five internationally acclaimed writers consider the impact TUE of the momentous events of September 11th, 2001. Ten years TUE on, these authors use imaginative letters to reflect on the TUE consequences for Britain, America and the world. TUE TUE Today's letter is from Naomi Alderman who was working for a TUE Manhattan law firm in an office overlooking the World Trade TUE Centre when the planes struck the twin towers. Her TUE experience that day led her to give up her career and become TUE a writer. But the character she imagines in her letter TUE reflects an even more profound change. TUE TUE Producer: Julian May. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0145x7c (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0148z6z (Listen) TUE The Core, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Mike Bartlett. Carly is eighteen and she has won a place TUE at Oxford University. She gets called to her headmistress's TUE office to discuss her future, and it's not what she expects. TUE TUE Sarah...Juliet Stevenson TUE Carly... Alex Tregear TUE TUE Director Claire Grove. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b0145x7f (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 16 TUE TUE 16/30 The Horrid Ground Weaver is a spider that was TUE discovered in 1989 in two quarries near Plymouth. It was TUE last seen in 1997 since which one quarry has been developed, TUE so it now survives in just one place on the earth. TUE Buglife are working with Plymouth University and the TUE People's Trust for Endangered Species to try to re-find this TUE extraordinary creature and then assess what conservation TUE measures need to be put in place. It's very small though...a TUE money spider - and bristly (horrid) so not easy to find. TUE Brett Weswood met with Andrew Whitehouse and Duncan Allen TUE from Buglife at the quarry and tried various field TUE techniques to find the Horrid Ground Weaver including: bendy TUE drinking straws, pitfall traps and the "BugVac" - an insect TUE hoover! But did we find it? Samples have to go back to lab TUE for microscopic analysis - we'll let you know. TUE TUE Also in the programme: The latest news on Indian Vulture TUE conservation - and the release of the European Cranes on the TUE Somerset Levels. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Cat Women of the Moon b0145x7h (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Cat Women of the Moon was a 1950s film that followed a TUE popular motif in science fiction; an all women society TUE surviving without men. One of its biggest challenges? How to TUE reproduce. In the final part of a two part programme we look TUE at how science fiction has been used to examine the myriad TUE ways we might continue the human race. From test tube babies TUE to parthenogenesis. From cloning to male pregnancy. From TUE artificial wombs to a collective consciousness or hive mind. TUE The programme includes contributions from some of Britain's TUE leading science fiction writers including Iain Banks, China TUE Mieville, Nicola Griffith and Geoff Ryman. The programme is TUE presented by the writer Sarah Hall, author of 'The Carhullan TUE Army' and 'The Electric Michelangelo' which was short listed TUE for the Booker Prize. The programme is produced in TUE Manchester by Nicola Swords. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0145x7k (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0144ndp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0146m3m (Listen) TUE With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners TUE can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on TUE twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b0145x7m (Listen) TUE Series 12, Dear Lord and Father of Mankind TUE TUE The words of one of our most loved hymns, Dear Lord and TUE Father of Mankind, were taken from the last six verses of TUE John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, The Brewing of Soma, an TUE attack on ostentatious and overt religious practise. But it TUE wasn't until over fifty years later, that a school master at TUE Repton in Derbyshire had the inspiration to pair it with a TUE tune by Sir Hubert Parry, thus confirming it as a favourite TUE for school assemblies, funerals and weddings. The current TUE Director of Music at Repton, John Bowley, explains how this TUE happened, while composer and conductor Bob Chilcott explains TUE why this was a musical marriage made in heaven. TUE We hear from those for who whom the hymn has special TUE significance, including the MP from Gloucester, Richard TUE Graham; when briefly imprisoned in a Libyan goal in 1978 he TUE found enormous comfort in the words and tune. Pipe Major TUE Ross Munro remembers recording the piece in the sweltering TUE heat of Basra with members if the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards TUE and film director Joe Wright recalls how the inclusion of TUE this hymn was central to the power of his famous scene TUE depicting the evacuation of Dunkirk in his film Atonement. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01457q7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0145x7p (Listen) TUE Occupation TUE TUE by Andy Macdonald. TUE TUE A tense and powerful drama exploring the timely issues of TUE unemployment, ethics and international conflict. A fifty TUE year old factory employee finds his own way to make a stand. TUE With orders still on the books, Kenny Gall refuses to leave TUE the factory he has worked in for more than thirty years. TUE This will have serious implications for the company, his TUE daughter, Ashley, and for a local ex-serviceman. TUE TUE Kenny ..... Alexander Morton TUE Ashley ..... Sally Reid TUE Guy ..... Brian Ferguson TUE Jade/Clare ..... Tracy Wiles TUE TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0145x7r (Listen) TUE A new series of 'Making History'. Tom Holland, Helen Castor TUE and Fiona Watson share the workload as we sift through TUE listener's questions and research and turn to some of our TUE leading historians for some answers. TUE TUE Each week, the Making History team: tackles listeners TUE questions; hears about the latest research and puts the TUE Radio 4 audience at the heart of historical debate. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0145x7t (Listen) TUE Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Dead Harlequin TUE TUE Written by Agatha Christie. Adapted by Archie Scottney. TUE TUE Martin Jarvis returns with a new series of these strangely TUE compelling 1920s stories by the Queen of Crime. TUE TUE Mr Satterthwaite buys a painting. It intrigues him because TUE the face of the man in the picture bears a distinct TUE resemblance to a certain Mr Quin. One Harlequin lies dead on TUE the floor, another Harlequin is looking through the window. TUE What does it mean? 'I took a special interest in your TUE picture,' says Mr Satterthwaite to the artist, 'I recognised TUE it as the Terrace Room at Charnley.' He knows that a suicide TUE was committed there fourteen years ago. But is the picture TUE telling us something else? Was it, in fact, murder? TUE TUE There are guests that night for dinner at Satterthwaite's TUE home. An extra place is laid. Will Mr Harley Quin arrive to TUE assist their thinking - perhaps even solve the mystery? TUE Christie considered this character to be her personal TUE favourite. TUE TUE Producer/Director: Rosalind Ayres TUE A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Twin Nation b0145x7w (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Edi Stark finds out how twins survive when they lose the TUE other half of this unique relationship. Whether at birth, in TUE the prime of life, or towards its end Edi finds out what TUE surviving twins have in common and how its not always losing TUE your lifelong companion that's the worst. TUE TUE Producer: Peter McManus. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b0145x7y (Listen) TUE Being overheard TUE TUE From Manchester Piccadilly station to a supermarket checkout TUE via an Irish bar in New York, modern writers discuss how TUE they are inspired by the overheard. TUE We're surrounded by other people's conversations, and many TUE of us try to block them out. But for Lavinia Greenlaw, David TUE Calcutt and Craig Taylor, fragments of overheard talk have TUE been a valuable source of material. In New York, Marilyn TUE Horowitz recalls how a conversation at a neighbouring pub TUE table helped her get over a case of writer's block. TUE Chris Ledgard presents. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b014fkwv (Listen) TUE Series 25, Hans Fallada TUE TUE The Fast Show comedian Simon Day tells Matthew Parris why TUE he's fascinated by the life and work of German author Hans TUE Fallada. Matthew is also joined by Fallada's biographer TUE Jenny Williams. TUE TUE Hans Fallada (real name Rudolf Ditzen) was an alcoholic, a TUE thief, a morphine addict and, prone to depression, attempted TUE suicide twice. He lived and worked in the Germany of the TUE 1930's and, although declared an "undesirable author," TUE stayed in his beloved country for the duration of the Second TUE World War. In and out of prison, sanatoriums and TUE relationships, his volatile personal life often informed his TUE writing (The Drinker, 1950.) TUE TUE Simon Day achieved fame as "Competitive Dad" and "Dave TUE Angel, Eco-Warrior" in The Fast Show of the 1990's. More TUE recently he has written of his battles with various TUE addictions, and finds parallels between his own experience TUE of addiction, and that of Hans Fallada. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b014b760 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0144ndr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00qpmlk (Listen) TUE Series 3, Mr Majhu Goes To Lenzie TUE TUE Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald TUE McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. TUE TUE Ramesh inadvertently enters the murky world of Lenzie TUE politics. TUE TUE Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kolhi TUE Dave ...... Donald McLeary TUE Sanjay ...... Omar Raza TUE Alok ...... Susheel Kumar TUE Father Henderson ...... Gerard Kelly TUE Bob Shandy MP ...... Ron Donachie TUE Guthrie ...... Tom Urie TUE Mrs Gibb ...... Marjory Hogarth TUE Mutton Jeff ...... Sean Scanlan TUE Jeff ...... Steven McNicol TUE Hilly ...... Kate Brailsford TUE TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0145x82 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0145x84 (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson discusses the Booker Prize shortlist and reviews TUE Debbie Tucker Green's new play Truth and Reconciliation, TUE which opens at the Royal Court Theatre in London. TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0148z6z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 British Muslims - In the Shadow of 9/11 b0145x86 (Listen) TUE BBC reporter Navid Aktar meets fellow British Muslims from TUE across the country to gauge how the events of 11th September TUE 2001 changed their lives, loyalties and beliefs. TUE TUE The events of that autumn morning in New York ten years ago TUE have cast a long shadow on the world but the impact on TUE Muslim communities in Britain was felt particularly keenly. TUE To see how the lives and perceptions of Muslims in this TUE country have changed, Navid sets out to meet members from TUE across the community. TUE TUE Beginning at a Muslim youth centre where, despite promising TUE to speak openly to him, Navid finds a wall of silence for TUE the young men there. Suspicion of the media and general TUE wariness about the way Muslims are portrayed is evident in TUE Navid first encounter. But then he travels north to TUE Blackburn, to meet an Asian football team and finds a dark TUE humour, stoicism and a wish for more integration. TUE TUE As he travels the country, Navid meets two Muslim soldiers TUE for whom 9/11 had enormous implications. They both went off TUE to war as direct consequence - but on opposing sides. TUE Travelling further, peace activists, mothers, and young TUE Muslim shoppers all describe the ongoing ramifications of TUE the events of 9/11 on their attitudes to their own faith, TUE their loyalties to community and country and to the future. TUE TUE Producer: Neil George. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0145x88 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 The Philosopher's Arms b0145x8b (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Welcome to the Philosopher's Arms - a place where moral TUE dilemmas, philosophical ideas and the real world meet for a TUE chat and a drink. TUE TUE Each week Matthew Sweet takes a dilemma with real TUE philosophical pedigree and sees how it matters in the TUE everyday world. He'll be joined by a cast of philosophers TUE and attendant experts to show how the dilemmas we face in TUE real life connect us to some of the trickiest philosophical TUE problems ever thought up. En route we'll learn about the TUE thinking of such luminaries as Kant, Hume, Aristotle and TUE Wittgenstein. All recorded in a pub in front of a live TUE audience ready to tap their glasses and demand clarity and TUE ask - what's this all got to do with me? TUE TUE So questions such as should the government put prozac in the TUE water supply? And my daughter is a robot, how should I treat TUE her? Lead us into dilemmas, problems and issues from the TUE treatment of mental illness to the structure of financial TUE markets, from animal rights to homosexuality. And they will TUE challenge a few of the assumptions and intuitions about life TUE that we carry round with us. TUE TUE Guests in the series include: David Willets, Universities TUE Minister; Val Curtis, Hygiene Expert; Peter Tatchell, rights TUE activist; Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of TUE Philosophy; Robyn Steward, mentor people on the Autism TUE spectrum and their families; Murray Shanahan, creator of TUE intelligent machines; Anders Sandberg from the Future of TUE Humanity Institute, Oxford University. TUE TUE Producer David Edmonds. TUE TUE 21:30 Bosphorus b00y8tzv (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Flowing through the heart of Istanbul, in Turkey, the TUE Bosphorus has been a flash point between cultures, religions TUE and imperial powers for thousands of years; from the Roman TUE and Byzantine Empires, to the clash between Islam and TUE Christianity and the Cold War between the super powers of TUE the East and West. The Bosphorus has a rich and bloody TUE history that's inspired poets, writers and artists from TUE around the world. TUE TUE Edward Stourton looks at that rich history and how the TUE Bosphorus works today. 50,000 vessels make their way through TUE the narrow straits every year - everything from small TUE fishing boats to giant oil and gas tankers battles through TUE the treacherous currents making it one of the busiest and TUE most dangerous international waterways in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Pegum. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0144ndt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0146m3p (Listen) TUE With Robin Lustig. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0145x8d (Listen) TUE On Canaan's Side, Episode 2 TUE TUE Reader - Claire Bloom TUE Abridger - Neville Teller TUE Producer - Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00hr4lp (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 2 TUE TUE Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. TUE TUE Satan needs to sort stuff out with God, but God has gone off TUE to have some 'me-time'. Then Hell receives its strangest TUE visitor yet. TUE TUE Satan ...... Andy Hamilton TUE Edith ...... Annette Crosbie TUE Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan TUE Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville TUE TUE With Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0145x8g (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the latest news from Westminster and TUE beyond. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0144nfg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0145x79 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0144nfj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0144nfl (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0144nfn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0144nfq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0145yw6 (Listen) WED With the Rev. Nicholas Buxton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0145yw8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the WED countryside.Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin WED Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b0145ywb (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports WED Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0145ywd (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Nigel Havers. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0145ywg (Listen) WED The 9/11 Letters, Joseph O'Neill WED WED Five internationally acclaimed authors write letters to WED consider the consequences of the events of September 11th, WED 2001 for Britain, America and the world. Today's 9/11 Letter WED is by the Irish-Turkish writer Joseph O'Neill, who lives in WED Manhattan and whose award-winning novel, "Netherland", has WED been described as the "angriest, most exacting and most WED desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New WED York and London after the World Trade Center fell". WED WED Rather than creating a character writing to an imagined WED recipient, as the other authors of The 9/11 Letters have, WED O'Neill remains steadfastly himself, and addresses his WED letter directly to Radio 4 listeners. He reflects on the way WED that, because of the mass coverage of the attack on the WED World Trade Centre, the distance between those who were WED there as eye witnesses and the rest of us collapsed with the WED Twin Towers. We were all 'there'. And so America's response WED to the attacks had profound implications for us all. WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0145ywj (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01490qx (Listen) WED The Core, Episode 3 WED WED By Mike Bartlett. Carly is 23. She has come back home to WED live in Berkshire. She goes to her old school to visit her WED ex-headmistress, Sarah. WED WED Sarah...Juliet Stevenson WED Carly... Alex Tregear WED WED Director Claire Grove. WED WED 11:00 New Conversation b01460dl (Listen) WED Olivia O'Leary follows historian and philosopher Theodore WED Zeldin as he tries to change the way people talk to each WED other. He wants to make the world a better place - starting WED with the London Borough of Lewisham. WED WED Prof Zeldin believes there are substantial social benefits WED to be gained from encouraging people to strip away social WED conventions and talk about things which go beyond gossip, WED argument and chit chat. He wants people to talk about who WED they really are, and what they want from life. He calls it WED 'new conversation.' WED WED Guests at his 'conversation dinners' spend several hours WED talking to just one other person. They are required to WED follow a menu of conversational gambits such as : When have WED you felt isolated and what do you do about it? What would WED make the world a better place and how could you make that WED happen? WED WED Olivia follows Prof Zeldin as he introduces his 'new WED conversation' to a wide range of people including former WED MPs, Pilates teachers, furniture store staff and unemployed WED teenagers. She asks why such people would want to be told WED how to talk to each other by an elderly Oxford academic. WED WED Prof Zeldin's ambitious plan is to turn the borough of WED Lewisham into a place where the entire quarter of a million WED inhabitants can get to know each other. He argues that his WED approach will break down isolation and alienation, and even WED create more satisfying jobs. WED WED But Prof Zeldin's efforts to sweep all along with him on his WED adventure hit a barrier when conversation dinner guests WED accuse him of staging a glorified version of Blind Date. And WED he meets resistance elsewhere from community groups who WED refuse to talk to people from other parts of the borough. WED WED But with the support of the local council, Prof Zeldin WED pushes on; staging a mass conversation dinner in a park, and WED even hatching a scheme to enable local GPs to get to know WED their patients better. WED WED It's an uphill struggle, but Prof Zeldin is not a man to WED give up easily. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 A Case for Paul Temple b01460dn (Listen) WED In Which Steve Meets Captain O'Hara WED WED Episode 3 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of 'Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery' aimed WED to sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might WED have done if its recording had survived. The serial proved WED so popular that it was soon followed with equal success by WED two more revivals, 'Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery' and WED 'Paul Temple and Steve'. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of 'A Case for Paul Temple', WED in which Paul and Steve brave great danger to reveal the WED identity of the mysterious West End drug dealer known only WED as 'Valentine'. WED WED Episode 3: In Which Sir Gilbert Explains WED WED Steve has ulterior motives when she makes an appointment WED with Madame de Briac, one of Mayfair's most fashionable WED hairdressers. WED WED Paul Temple CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Steve GERDA STEVENSON WED Sir Graham GARETH THOMAS WED Major Peters GREG POWRIE WED Supt. Wetherby RICHARD GREENWOOD WED Mary ELIZA LANGLAND WED Charles Kelvin NICK UNDERWOOD WED Sheila Baxter MELODY GROVE WED Captain O'Hara ROBIN LAING WED Sir Gilbert Dryden MICHAEL MACKENZIE WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01460dq (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Salford City Council WED has taken the unprecedented step of refusing to renew the WED licence of a firm which extracts peat on peat bogs in the WED borough. What are the wider implications of this? WED WED A European directive came into force last September stating WED that a diabetic who has two hypoglycaemic episodes a year WED will be banned from driving. Diabetes UK say that cases are WED beginning to come to light where drivers in the UK are WED losing their licence unnecessarily. WED WED The Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast WED has attracted pilgrims since the 7th century. In the 21st WED century most visitors arrive by car crossing at low tide WED every day. But tourists still get caught out, necessitating WED expensive rescues. This year has already seen the most WED call-outs for a decade. Now islanders, emergency services WED and Northumberland County Council have been meeting to WED discuss controversial plans to install barriers which would WED be lowered as high tide approaches. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0144nfs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b014b53w (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b01460ds (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0145x82 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b01460dv (Listen) WED The Marches, Man in a Wheelbarrow WED WED by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED WED Trudy's arrival in Kington has caused quite a stir. The WED young American, with her dyed neon hair, looks more like a WED visiting rock star than an inhabitant of the Herefordshire WED market town. Trudy claims that she's researching local WED history, but her story doesn't add up. When she starts WED surreptitiously following the town's street cleaner, WED questions are asked about the real reason for her visit. WED WED Man in a Wheelbarrow is the first of two plays that form the WED community project The Marches (continuing with Fearless WED Librarian Saves the Day tomorrow). The community of Kington WED was involved with the creative process behind this original WED Afternoon Play. A film accompanying the radio play can be WED watched via the Radio 4 website or red button. WED WED Trudy . . . Sasha Pick WED Duggie . . . Richard Elfyn WED Leon . . . Stuart McLoughlin WED Molly . . . Jane Whittenshaw WED Mal . . . Sam Jones WED Director/Producer Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01460dx (Listen) WED Pensions and annuities WED WED Do you know how much to invest in your pension and what to WED do with your fund when you retire? WED WED If you need advice about planning for or claiming your WED pension, finding an annuity, or working out what the latest WED pension change mean to you, call Vincent Duggleby and guests WED on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm and the number to call is 03700 WED 100 444. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from WED mobiles may be higher. The programme starts after the three WED o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01460dz (Listen) WED Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Man from the Sea WED WED Written by Agatha Christie. Adapted by Archie Scottney. WED WED Martin Jarvis reads this intriguing 1920s story by the WED undisputed queen of Crime. Mr Satterthwaite is holidaying on WED a Spanish Island. One day he proceeds from the hotel to the WED small harbour. He passes the black lava beach where the surf WED thunders and where, long ago, an English swimmer was carried WED out to sea and drowned. WED WED High up, on the edge of the cliff, is a white villa with WED faded green shutters, and a tangled beautiful garden. Today WED Mr Satterthwaite's peace is going to be oddly shattered. WED Something strange and frightening once occurred in this WED house. But will it take Mr Harley Quin's influence over WED Satterthwaite to discover the truth? Christie considered WED this character to be her personal favourite. WED WED Producer/Director: Rosalind Ayres WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Twin Nation b01460f1 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Nicholas and Michael Rotgans are identical twins, in fact WED their genes are so similar its beyond science to tell them WED apart. Yet Nicholas is gay and Michael isn't. WED WED Edi stark asks the twins what its like to have such a major WED difference between and finds out what it can tell the rest WED of us about how sexual identity is determined. WED WED Producer: Peter McManus. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01460f3 (Listen) WED Home Life 3: Nuclear Household WED WED Thinking Allowed explores the changing nature of home in a 3 WED part summer series recorded in the homes of our listeners. WED Who do we live with, how do our homes operate and what do WED they say about us and about the dramatic social WED transformations of the last century and the century to come? WED By invitation, in each edition a new type of home is WED invaded, analysed and explained by Laurie Taylor and a panel WED of two sociologists round the kitchen table. WED WED Much political debate still revolves around the assumption WED that most of us live in conventional family homes. However WED research suggests that in 20 years time only 2 out of 5 WED people will be in marriages and married couples will be WED outnumbered by other types of household. Behind closed WED doors, Britain is changing: single living has increased by WED 30% in 10 years but at the same time financial pressures are WED fuelling a growth in extended families - people sharing WED bills, childcare and mucking-in in a way which makes private WED life far less private. WED WED After invitations from a host of Thinking Allowed listeners, WED Laurie Taylor visits three different homes. In the last of WED the series he travels to a village near Preston in WED Lancashire to meet what is sometimes called a classic WED 'nuclear' family. He and his accompanying sociologists, WED Jacqui Gabb from the Open University and Professor Peter WED Bramham from Leeds Metropolitan University, attempt to WED divine the future for Britain's private life. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Philosopher's Arms b0145x8b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b0147mf4 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0144nfv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00gdz3r (Listen) WED Series 2, Nice To Gavotte You, To Gavotte You Nice WED WED Hie ye to "The Castle", a rollicking sitcom set way back WED then, starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four WED Weddings & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode, the arrival of a new handyman, a mysterious WED Frenchwoman and a celebrity dance competition puts everyone WED in a whirl. WED WED Sir John Woodstock ..... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ...... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ..... Montserrat Lombard WED Cardinal Duncan ..... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ..... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ..... Steven Kynman WED Merlin ...... Lewis Macleod WED WED and special guest WED Comtesse Totti ..... Katy Brand WED WED Written by Kim Fuller with additional material by Paul WED Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01460l6 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01460l8 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson. WED WED Film critic Mark Kermode discusses what is wrong with the WED movie business as he publishes a book called The Good, the WED Bad and the Multiplex. WED WED As the Trafalgar Studios in London prepares to revive WED Christopher Hampton's first play When Did You Last See My WED Mother, he looks back at its production in 1966. Having WED earned him third prize in a writing competition, it led to WED him being the youngest playwright to have work put on in WED London's West End. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01490qx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01460lb (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01460lg (Listen) WED Series 2, Jim Crumley WED WED Jim Crumley has been described as 'the best nature writer WED working in Britain today'. He was born and grew up in WED Dundee, and has written over twenty books about natural WED history. You don't need to read the folk tales of the WED Brother's Grimm or go to Werewolf movies to realise that WED humankind has always had a fear of wolves. But is all this WED just anti-wolf propaganda? Historians believe the last wolf WED in Britain was dispatched near Findhorn, Moray, in 1743 amid WED an outcry that it had killed two children. Now, more than WED 250 years later, could we finally learn to coexist WED peacefully with wolves? Indeed could we even learn something WED from them? Jim Crumley's talk today is called "A new dance WED with wolves." WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience during the Festival in Edinburgh WED speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED Producer: David Stenhouse. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0146104 (Listen) WED Bug Mac and Flies WED WED In tonight's Costing The Earth Tom Heap tucks into a portion WED of locusts and asks if eating insects is good for his diet WED and better for the planet than a piece of steak. WED WED Bugs such as crickets and caterpillars can convert food into WED protein at a more efficient rate than livestock, and with WED valuable agricultural land being overgrazed around the WED world, we could soon be looking for an alternative food WED supply. One suggestion is that insects have a role to play WED in feeding the world. They are easy to raise since farming WED insects has a low impact on the environment, and once over WED any cultural taboos we may have as diners, they are WED nutritionally valuable. WED WED Tom Heap gets stuck in to a locust stir-fry in Bristol WED before heading off to the Netherlands to witness the latest WED cutting-edge research into raising insects where he also WED tries a mealworm cookie: a biscuit that could potentially WED deliver a day's protein ration in one hit to famine stricken WED areas of the world. WED WED He then visits a farm of the future where row upon row of WED crickets and various pupae are being raised. They are WED currently destined for pet shops to be used as animal food, WED but could soon be turning up on a supermarket shelf near WED you. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0145ywd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0144nfx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0146106 (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0146108 (Listen) WED On Canaan's Side, Episode 3 WED WED Reader - Claire Bloom WED Abridger - Neville Teller WED Producer - Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 23:00 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b014610b (Listen) WED Series 2, Special Occasions WED WED An episode exploring the peculiar ways in which we choose to WED celebrate special occasions like weddings, birthdays, WED anniversaries, and Christmas. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00yqvkb (Listen) WED Series 2, Team Building WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED This week Mordrin is convinced by Councillor Campbell to WED take part in a team building exercise. WED WED Featuring and co-written by Scottish stand up David Kay, and WED starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty with this week's WED guest star Brian Pettifer. Mordrin McDonald mixes the WED magical with the mundane and offers a hilarious take on the WED life of a modern day Wizard. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy WED Councillor Campbell ..... Callum Cuthbertson WED Pete The Pict ..... Brian Pettifer WED Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b014610d (Listen) WED David Cornock with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0144ngk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0145ywg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0144ngm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0144ngp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0144ngr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0144ngt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b014629f (Listen) THU With the Rev. Nicholas Buxton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b014629h (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b014629k (Listen) THU With John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The Class Ceiling b014629m (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU In a major new two-part documentary series for BBC Radio 4, THU the journalist and author Polly Toynbee explores the THU ever-more-pressing question of how possible it is to move up THU through British society. Who gets to break the 'class THU ceiling'? THU THU Polly argues that, while deference is long gone, and some THU politicians have swapped ties and titles for first names and THU informality, Britain's class system is still going strong. THU THU In the first programme in the series, Polly examined how a THU child's family life and education can block or boost their THU social progress. In this second programme, Polly asks what THU happens when young people enter the workplace and in the THU housing market. Do these rites of passage help break the THU class ceiling, or do they reinforce it? THU THU Polly visits Stoke on Trent - a city which traditionally was THU able to provide jobs in the potteries for anyone who left THU school at 16. Today, whilst some potteries are still THU operating, the industry is a shadow of its former self and THU for those who leave school at 16 with few qualifications, THU getting a job which pays a good hourly rate of pay can be a THU challenge. THU THU The city is slowly adapting to the shift in the UK economy THU from manufacturing to service industries, as we hear from THU former potters who now work in a call centre. Polly also THU visits a pottery which has taken on an apprentice. THU THU When it comes to entering the professions like the law, the THU chances of getting there from a working class background are THU slim. But we hear from some teenagers with working class THU backgrounds who are being encouraged and supported by THU outreach schemes by the legal profession. Will these social THU mobility initiatives be enough to help them break into the THU competitive world of the Bar which has been dominated by the THU middle classes for years? THU THU Polly talks to a successful international City banker who THU entered the profession via his local branch as a clerk with THU just two A levels - and asks whether he would be as THU successful if he were starting out now. THU THU And she considers the value and use of apprenticeships in THU opening up opportunity through the workplace, even for those THU who did not thrive at school. Polly explores the argument THU that for those without a degree, working life offered more THU opportunities some decades ago, when it was arguably a lot THU easier to join a company at 16 and rise to the top. THU THU She explores the degree to which being a homeowner is as a THU badge of being middle class, and asks how crucial it is to THU have parents who own a home if you have any hope of getting THU on the property ladder yourself. THU THU Polly talks to an array of academics and politicians from THU across the political spectrum, including Universities THU Minister David Willetts, Shadow Education Secretary Andy THU Burnham and former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis. THU THU Producer: Sarah Taylor. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b014629p (Listen) THU The 9/11 Letters, Lionel Shriver THU THU Five internationally acclaimed writers consider the impact THU of the momentous events of September 11th, 2001. Ten years THU on, these authors use imaginative letters to reflect on the THU consequences for Britain, America and the world. THU THU Today's 9/11 Letter is by the American novelist Lionel THU Shriver whose book 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' is now a THU modern classic. Shriver has given her letter the title THU 'Prepositions' and it delineates precisely the meanings of THU little words such as 'in', 'on','at' and 'near'. Her letter THU is to a woman whose husband died in 9/11, from a woman whose THU husband died on 9/11. Ten years on the consequences of those THU little differences on the lives of these friends are huge, THU and vastly different. THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b014629r (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01490q6 (Listen) THU The Core, Episode 4 THU THU By Mike Bartlett. Five years later and headmistress Sarah THU and ex-pupil Carly bump into each other in the street. Carly THU is angry and Sarah isn't sure why. THU THU Sarah...Juliet Stevenson THU Carly... Alex Tregear THU THU Director Claire Grove. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b014629t (Listen) THU Zimbabwe's child migrants THU THU Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children THU travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and THU hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South THU Africa. THU Producer: Judy Fladmark. THU THU 11:30 Comp Lit b014629w (Listen) THU A children's book using the word 'Paki'. An angry Daily THU Telegraph editorial about teen fiction. A new group of THU writers and teachers grappling with the difficult lives of THU young readers. 'Comp Lit.' may not have been a literary THU genre but it had widespread repercussions THU THU Nick Baker revisits a period in children's literature, the THU 1970s, when stories with gritty true life settings sent the THU boarding school story packing, at least until the arrival of THU Harry Potter. A new era of fiction set in state schools, THU aimed at a diverse new readership, hungry for stories about THU their lives, rather than the idealised lives of middle class THU children. THU THU Nick traces the arrival of stories for and about 'ordinary' THU boys and girls of all ages, talking to writers Robert THU Leeson, Bernard Ashley, Gene Kemp, Farrukh Dhondy and Jan THU Needle about a time when the politics of class and the THU classroom, of race and gender, came together in fiction. By THU the 1970s, books like The Trouble with Donovan Croft by THU Bernard Ashley, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene THU Kemp and Come To Mecca by Farrukh Dhondy were depicting real THU life in Britain. Authors were often teachers, keen to THU capture the imaginations of reluctant readers with stories THU they'd relate to. The stories were instantly popular. They THU inspired the hit TV drama Grange Hill.. THU THU What kids should and did read became a hot topic. The new THU books told stories charged with the language, attitudes and THU behaviour found in schools which the readers went to. THU Fostering, working mums, benefits, multiracial friendships THU and racist bullying were all grist to the mill. Did they THU sacrifice fantasy for social realism? Should the politics of THU class race and gender be kept out of the children's books? THU Nick examines the legacy of Comp Lit. THU THU Producer: Tamsin Hughes THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b014629y (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0144ngw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01462b0 (Listen) THU With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners THU can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on THU twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b0146104 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01460l6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01462b2 (Listen) THU The Marches, Fearless Librarian Saves the Day THU THU by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU This is the story of no ordinary librarian. Sitting behind THU the wheel of a clapped-out mobile library, Harry Hayman is THU the easy rider of Herefordshire's remote country lanes. THU Whether it's as a knight in shining armour, a getaway driver THU or an unlikely Casanova - Harry repeatedly finds himself THU having to save the day. But when his cherished job is THU jeopardised, can he pull out all the stops? A road trip that THU weaves together stories inspired by life in the THU Herefordshire countryside. THU THU Harry Hayman . . . Morgan George THU Lavinia Jackson . . . Fenella Woolgar THU Glyn . . . Stuart McLoughlin THU Vivian . . . Christine Pritchard THU Leslie . . . William Thomas THU Ethel . . . Manon Edwards THU Cavendish . . . Sean Baker THU Cassie . . . Sally Orrock THU Director/Producer - Sasha Yevtushenko THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0144pv6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0144rqh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01462b4 (Listen) THU Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, Harlequin's Lane THU THU Written by Agatha Christie. Adapted by Archie Scottney. THU THU Martin Jarvis performs this riveting 1920s story. Mr THU Satterthwaite is staying at the Denman's country home. THU There's to be a performance in the grounds of a neighbouring THU mansion that evening - a 'masquerade' and a ballet. THU THU But a motor accident means that two new dancers have to be THU found to replace the visiting professionals. There seem to THU be unresolved mysteries here. Does Anna Denman harbour a THU secret? Is there a secret, too, concerning her husband? Why THU is Mr Harley Quin staying in the country house? And then, THU during the performance, Mr Satterthwaite begins to perceive THU the truth of what is happening. But the revelations which THU follow concerning Mr Quin are surprising and frightening. Mr THU Satterthwaite has never had to deal with anything quite like THU this before. THU THU Producer/Director: Rosalind Ayres THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Twin Nation b01462b6 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Edi Stark asks does being a twin help or hinder development? THU We compare the experiences of twins and their parents and THU find out how they ensure they grow up as individuals. THU THU Producer: Peter McManus. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b0144ybj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b01462b8 (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. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b0147mg5 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0144ngy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b01462bb (Listen) THU Series 3, Janet Street-Porter THU THU My Teenage Diary returns with four more brave celebrities THU ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their THU intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for THU the very first time. Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by THU writer and editor Janet Street-Porter who revisits her heady THU teen years at the heart of swinging 60's Soho. THU THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A TalkbackTHAMES production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01462bd (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01462bg (Listen) THU Mark Lawson talks to playwright Arnold Wesker as the THU National Theatre revives his 1959 play The Kitchen, which is THU set in a West End restaurant where many nationalities work THU together. THU THU Crime novelist Val McDermid discusses the twists and turns THU in the relationship between criminal profiler Tony Hill and THU DCI Carol Jordan in her new novel The Retribution. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01490q6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01462bj (Listen) THU This week Bill Law investigates how backbench Conservative THU MP Nadine Dorries has reignited the abortion debate. She THU argues that abortion providers should not be allowed to THU offer pre-abortion counselling because they stand to gain THU financially if the woman goes ahead with a termination. The THU campaign is backed by Christian charities which want to see THU the number of abortions carried out in Britain dramatically THU reduced. The Report looks at how the evangelical Christian THU movement is finding ways to shape public policy in this and THU other areas and asks whether Christianity is becoming an THU increasingly influential force in British politics. THU THU Producer: Lucy Proctor. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01462bl (Listen) THU Silicon Roundabout THU THU Series about the world of work from vast corporations to THU modest volunteers. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b0145x7f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The Class Ceiling b014629m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0144nh0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01462bq (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01462bs (Listen) THU On Canaan's Side, Episode 4 THU THU Reader - Claire Bloom THU Abridger - Neville Teller THU Producer - Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 23:00 House on Fire b01462bv (Listen) THU Series 2, Death THU THU The return of the comedy series written by Dan Hine and THU Chris Sussman. THU THU Times are hard and the mortgage is overdue. Matt and Vicky THU believe the only logical thing to do is to fake Matt's death THU and claim on the insurance. Meanwhile, Colonel Bill receives THU an offer he absolutely cannot refuse -from The Queen. THU THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt .... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ..... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Hans ...... Stephen Mangan THU Insurance/Driving Instructor/ THU Royal Attendant/Priest ..... Colin Hoult THU THU Additional characters will be played by Colin Hoult THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01462bx (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0144nhl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b014629p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0144nhn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0144nhq (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0144nhs (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0144nhv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01463l1 (Listen) FRI With the Rev. Nicholas Buxton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01463l3 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01463l5 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b0144rqr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01463kz (Listen) FRI The 9/11 Letters, Michael Morpurgo FRI FRI Five internationally acclaimed writers consider the impact FRI of the momentous events of September 11th, 2001. Ten years FRI on, these authors use imaginative letters to reflect on the FRI consequences for Britain, America and the world. FRI FRI The final 9/11 Letter is by the former Children's Laureate, FRI Michael Morpurgo. Among the more than one hundred books he FRI has written is 'War Horse', the stage version of which this FRI year won a Tony Award on Broadway, and is being made into a FRI film by Stephen Spielberg. FRI FRI The imagined writer of Michael Morpurgo's letter is Ginny, FRI who, when the first plane smashed into the North tower was FRI waiting on a bench in Central Park for her husband to return FRI from breakfast with their son, their first meeting since a FRI rift seven years previously. What happened on 11th FRI September, 2001 rent many families - including Ginny's - FRI asunder, yet it also brought people together. Michael FRI Morpurgo's letter, which he has titled 'A Proper Family' FRI movingly explores this ambiguity. FRI FRI Producer: Julian May. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b014641k (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01490q8 (Listen) FRI The Core, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Mike Bartlett. Five years later and headmistress Sarah FRI visits ex-pupil Carly who now has a child. Sarah's life has FRI changed forever and she has plans for Carly's future. FRI FRI Sarah...Juliet Stevenson FRI Carly... Alex Tregear FRI FRI Director Claire Grove. FRI FRI 11:00 Am I Tone Deaf? b014641m (Listen) FRI If you are 'tone-deaf' can your brain be 're-tuned' by FRI singing lessons? Author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera has FRI spent his life miming to songs. Like one in 15 of us, he FRI believes he is tone deaf. But is he? In this programme he FRI braves both scientific testing and singing lessons in the FRI hope of finding his voice. Vocal coach Heather Mair Thomas FRI believes that whatever the diagnosis, she has ways of making FRI him sing. But will doctors who argue that congenital tone FRI deafness cannot be cured by training alone eclipse her FRI optimism? As Sathnam navigates his way between science and FRI song, he will meet key experts who are dedicated to FRI exploring the scientific highs and lows of tone deafness. FRI For the past decade, neurologists have developed a number of FRI techniques aimed at identifying the root cause of 'amusia' FRI known more commonly as tone deafness. If they can understand FRI more about this relatively common condition it will help FRI them to understand more complex neurological disorders that FRI can affect speech or sound perception. Sathnam will also FRI take on board the 'sound advice' that fellow sufferers have FRI to offer. Retired Reverend Jim Cross was occupationally FRI obliged to lead his church in song, however his congregation FRI gave him special dispensation to simply say the lines aloud FRI following his diagnosis of 'amusia'. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b00vkxj4 (Listen) FRI Stephanie Meyer FRI FRI Bestselling writer of the "Twilight" series, Stephenie FRI Meyer, is this week's "Author of the Week". FRI FRI The teams set about answering questions about her life and FRI work as well as solving other literary conundrums. They will FRI as ever finish with one of their own pastiches of Meyer's FRI work - this time imaginig what the twilight series might FRI have sounded like had it been set in a typical British comp. FRI FRI Guest panellists are bestselling crime writer and "Tom FRI Thorne" creator, Mark Billingham, and "Horrid Henry" author, FRI Francesca Simon. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b014641p (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0144nhx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b014641r (Listen) FRI With James Robinson. National and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b014641t (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01462bd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b014641w (Listen) FRI Floating FRI FRI On April 2nd 1982, the Isle of Anglesey separated from the FRI mainland of Wales and floated off into the North Atlantic. FRI Emerging artist Hugh Hughes and his friend Sioned, recount FRI the story of this extraordinary geological event, and FRI explain its personal significance. Created and performed by FRI Hugh Hughes and Sioned Rowlands with assistance from Shôn FRI Dale-Jones and Jill Norman. FRI FRI Produced by James Robinson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b014641y (Listen) FRI Fylde Coast FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs this gardening Q&A programme. FRI FRI Out on the Fylde Coast sand dunes, local gardener Paul FRI Peacock advises on cultivating a sandy garden. FRI Anne Swithinbank explains how to create a forest garden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Twin Nation b0146420 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Ask any twin and the one thing they say they hate is the FRI constant comparison to the other. Unchecked this leads to a FRI competitiveness that can poison what should be a uniquely FRI close relationship. Edi Stark talks to two brothers whose FRI relationship has been brought to the brink by competition. FRI FRI Producer: Peter McManus. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0146422 (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b0146424 (Listen) FRI what's going on in the world of film this week FRI FRI producer; Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0147mks (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0144nhz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0146426 (Listen) FRI Series 75, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0146428 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01464cc (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang talks to Sue MacGregor about this year's BBC FRI National Short Story Award and interviews one of the FRI shortlisted writers. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01490q8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01464cf (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and FRI politics from the St Ives Festival in Cornwall with Guardian FRI columnist Simon Jenkins; Director of Liberty Shami FRI Chakrabati; Chairman of the Health Select Committee, FRI Conservative MP Stephen Dorrell; and Labour MP Ben Bradshaw. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01464ch (Listen) FRI The celebrated thinker John Gray gives his reflection on a FRI topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b00hxvm7 (Listen) FRI The Complete Ripley, Ripley Under Ground FRI FRI By Patricia Highsmith . Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured FRI Tom Ripley, in the second of Patricia Highsmith's classic FRI thrillers. With a dead man's money safely stowed in the bank FRI Tom is living in luxury in a chateaux in France with his FRI beautiful French wife. But the clever art forgery which FRI funds Tom's expensive tastes is about to be uncovered. FRI FRI Tom Ripley...Ian Hart FRI Heloise...Helen Longworth FRI Bernard Tufts...Benedict Sandiford FRI Jeff Constant...Stephen Hogan FRI Madame Annette...Caroline Guthrie FRI Murchison...Malcolm Tierney FRI Webster...Stephen Critchlow FRI FRI Dramatist Alan McDonald FRI Director Claire Grove. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0144nj1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01464ck (Listen) FRI With Claire Bolderson and Ritula Shah. National and FRI international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01464cm (Listen) FRI On Canaan's Side, Episode 5 FRI FRI Reader - Claire Bloom FRI Abridger - Neville Teller FRI Producer - Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b014fkwv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01464cp (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
02 September, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 03/09/2011 - 09/09/2011
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