30 September, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 01/10/2011 - 07/10/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 01 OCTOBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0151xvt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b015b44t (Listen) SAT The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of SAT Elizabeth I, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by John Cooper. Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT SAT Through his network of spies, Walsingham prepares the SAT country for the defeat of the Spanish Armada. It would be SAT the last triumph of his career. SAT SAT The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes SAT and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's SAT history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, SAT sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened SAT English state. SAT SAT Reader: Hugh Bonneville SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0151xvw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0151xvy (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0151xw0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0151xw2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0151xxk (Listen) SAT Presented by the Revd Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate SAT Kirk, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0151xyd (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0151xw5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0151xw8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b015b91y (Listen) SAT Series 19, Dales Way SAT SAT In the third programme in a series of walks suggested by SAT listeners, Clare Balding joins Colin Speakman, creator of SAT the Dales Way and campaigner for walkers' rights. The Dales SAT Way is one of Britain's most popular and cherished routes SAT and for over 40 years walkers have followed its route from SAT Ilkley in Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere, passing SAT through the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and SAT the foothills of southern Lakeland. Clare and Colin are SAT joined by Colin's wife, Fleur and listener Chris Grogan who, SAT along with husband Tony, created the Dales Highway, a sister SAT route to the Dales Way which does what it says on the tin SAT and follows a higher level route from Saltaire to SAT Appleby-in-Westmoreland. SAT As they follow the course of the River Wharf, through the SAT dale of the same name, Clare hears from Colin and Chris SAT about their passion for walking in this landscape. Colin SAT explains about the imagination of the Romantic writers who SAT who inspired generations of people to enjoy the countryside, SAT his love of long distance walking, his passionate belief in SAT rights for ramblers and his fight to keep paths open and SAT accessible for all. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b015b920 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Farmers say British pork could become very rare if they SAT continue to lose money. Charlotte Smith asks why, and finds SAT out how some farmers are making pigs pay. SAT SAT The export of live pigs to China is booming business. China SAT has half the breeding sows in the world, and the genetics of SAT British pigs are highly valued there. So Jumbo Jets are SAT being loaded with live British animals to develop their SAT herds. SAT SAT The volatile wheat price has caused pig feed to double, SAT causing huge problems for farmers trying to balance the SAT books. But a visit to one Staffordshire farmer shows how by SAT getting rid of some animals and growing your own feed, some SAT of the losses can be wiped out. SAT SAT Some farmers believe big farms are the best way to make SAT money, and with a large and very controversial pig farm SAT being planned for the village of Foston in Derbyshire, SAT Charlotte Smith talks to the man behind the project and SAT looks at some of the objections to the scheme. SAT SAT And Farming Today This Week takes to the streets to see SAT whether shoppers prefer British or imported ham. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0151xwb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b015b922 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b015b924 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with geneticist Professor Steve Jones, poet SAT Kate Fox, a 14 year old boy with a bionic hand, and a former SAT anarchist who describes what it was like to be part of the SAT 1990 poll tax riots. There's an I Was There feature from the SAT Conservative Party Conference of 1963, and to mark the 50th SAT anniversary of Radio 4's In Touch, presenter Peter White SAT shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b015b926 (Listen) SAT Italy SAT SAT John McCarthy gets a flavour of rural Italy and its food in SAT conversation with writer Tracey Lawson who investigated the SAT surprising longevity of an Italian village's residents by SAT going to live there and learning all about their diet; their SAT great life expectancy is due in no small part to simple food SAT freshly prepared and she shares some of the secrets with SAT John. They are joined by author Julia Blackburn whose own SAT experiences of living in an Italian village led her to SAT collect the memories and stories of the older inhabitants. SAT And the Ukrainian journalist Vitali Vitaliev tells why he SAT loves Italy so much and how he ate a great many good Italian SAT meals in the apparently futile search for a bad one. SAT SAT Producer : Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 From Birmingham to Beijing: The Lure of a Chinese SAT Career b015b92b (Listen) SAT For many graduates in the UK job prospects at home look SAT bleak. It's difficult to find work, paid or even unpaid, SAT regardless of qualifications. Today, more and more students SAT and even graduates are heading abroad to find their work SAT experience, travelling as far as China to work for free. SAT SAT Safraz Manzoor looks at both the challenges and SAT opportunities that they encounter. How, for example, can you SAT possibly deal with the language barrier and cultural SAT differences that working for a Chinese company will entail? SAT SAT He visits students working in law firms, international real SAT estate, finance and advertising to find out if they are SAT getting genuine work experience. In Shanghai he meets Daniel SAT and Natalie, both from Hong Kong Chinese families living in SAT the UK. They have decided that China is offering better SAT opportunities than they would find at home. In Beijing, SAT Sarfraz meets students who have been thrilled by an SAT unexpectedly lively social life, and others who feel they SAT would like to have been more integrated into the Chinese SAT world. He asks them what they make of the political SAT situation in China, so different from what they have left SAT behind in the UK. SAT SAT These young hopefuls are often forking out for the privilege SAT of this work experience. One organisation in the UK is SAT charging students around £1800 for the chance to be placed SAT in Chinese law, finance and marketing companies. Do they get SAT value for money? SAT SAT Sarfraz Manzoor tells the fascinating story of modern day SAT Britons who have had to find their work experience far from SAT home. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b015bgvc (Listen) SAT Anita Anand asks what impact the government's plans for free SAT schools and new academies are having on the ground. Is our SAT education system becoming more divided? She travels to the SAT Bristol Free School, near Westbury-on-Trym, and asks what SAT impact its arrival has had on its neighbours. She also asks SAT what impact the new academy programme has had on those SAT schools which are still in the state-maintained sector. Have SAT academies benefited financially from opting out of the state SAT sector? And how are disadvantaged pupils likely to be SAT affected by coalition education plans? SAT SAT Contributors SAT Blair King, Chair of Governors, Bristol Free School SAT Barbara Janke, Lib Dem leader of Bristol City Council SAT Linda Tanner, Bristol Evening Post SAT Zenna Atkins, MD Wey education SAT Richard Brown, Headteacher, Urswick School SAT SAT Melissa Benn, Local Schools Network SAT James Groves, Policy Exchange SAT Nick Gibb, Schools Minister SAT SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b015bgvf (Listen) SAT An 18-hour train ride to the end of the line brings you to SAT the very edge of Norway. Inside the Arctic Circle. Close to SAT Russia. But why is it that this place has such firm SAT connections with Italy. Christine Finn has the answer. SAT Justin Webb examines a Japanese conundrum: the country SAT benefits hugely from its cultural insularity and yet, if it SAT doesn't open up to outsiders, it faces crippling economic SAT decline.Mark Lowen charts the mood in Athens as SAT international investigators assess the creditworthiness of SAT Greece. He talks of clouds of tear gas and despair slowly SAT closing over a troubled country. In the Pakistani port city SAT of Karachi, the American consulate moved to a new location. SAT Mohammed Hanif says it has meant an historic park opening up SAT once again and armed guards being replaced by youngsters SAT playing cricket. And you used to have to go America's Great SAT Plains for a glimpse of the mighty bison. Not any more. Rob SAT Cameron tells us why it can now be seen wandering around a SAT place that used to be a training ground for the Russian Red SAT Army. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b015bgvh (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT Customers who phone their travel insurer to check if they SAT can make a claim would be forgiven for believing they could SAT act according to what they've been told. But Money Box has SAT been contacted by a listener who's £3000 plus claim SAT following the death of a relative has been refused, despite SAT him having obtained the recording in which a call centre SAT employee clearly says he is covered. Bob Howard SAT investigates. SAT SAT Also the programme hears from Gareth Middleton, a Moneybox SAT listener. He is 23 and has worked at a supermarket part-time SAT for 5 years. He has muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting SAT condition, which weakens with age. His life expectancy is SAT 50. He would like to have joined a company pension scheme SAT but due to his pre existing condition, he would probably not SAT qualify for getting back full contributions from a pension SAT as he would have to stop work before the age of 55. So what SAT are his options? Is there an alternative to a traditional SAT pension which will give Gareth an income once he can no SAT longer continue to work? Malcolm McLean, Pensions SAT consultant, Barnett Waddingham gives his advice. SAT SAT And ABI (Association of British Insurers) launches an SAT initiative for customers. The new code will stop "automatic" SAT annuity rollover and will ensure that customers receive all SAT the information they need to shop around in one easily SAT accessible place. ABI figures show that 70% of people shop SAT around and switch providers but a third don't and may be SAT missing out on an higher income. But does the code go far SAT enough? Maggie Craig from ABI explains how the initiative SAT will work and Pensions expert Billy Burroughs advices what SAT listeners should do if they are in this situation. SAT SAT Next month Junior ISAs replace Child Trust Funds. Unlike SAT Child Trust Funds, there will be no Government contribution SAT to each child's savings pot - instead family members will SAT have the opportunity to invest up to £3600 a year into a tax SAT free ISA. So how can you get the best deal from these SAT products? And what charges are attached? Paul Lewis speaks SAT to one provider, Sheffield Mutual Chief Executive, Tony SAT Burdin. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0151xt2 (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Fred SAT Macaulay and Phill Jupitus. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0151xwd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0151xwg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0151xt8 (Listen) SAT Orrell, Wigan SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Saint Peter's Catholic High School in Orrell, SAT Wigan with panellists Andy Burnham, Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Education; Alan Duncan, Minster of State for SAT International Development; Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee SAT and UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b015bgvk (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b015bgvm (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The Long Goodbye SAT SAT Toby Stephens is back as Raymond Chandler's fast-talking SAT private eye Philip Marlowe.This is California in the 50's, SAT as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, SAT reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the American Dream. SAT Outside a club on Sunset Boulevard Marlowe meets a drunk SAT named Terry Lennox, a man with scars on one side of his SAT face. They forge an uneasy friendship but everything changes SAT when Lennox shows up late one night, asking for a favour. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe...Toby Stephens SAT Terry Lennox.....Trevor White SAT Eileen Wade...Saskia Reeves SAT Roger Wade...Peter Polycarpou SAT Howard Spencer...James Lailey SAT Candy...Simon Bubb SAT Menendez...Alun Raglan SAT SAT Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b015bgvp (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Cook the Perfect SAT choux pastry; celibacy in France; an interview with Mary SAT Soames; women and parking; a family try to achieve zero SAT waste; gastric bands in the under-25s; and live performance SAT from the folk singer Jackie Oates. Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b015bgvr (Listen) SAT With Ritula Shah. A fresh perspective on the day's news with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0151t48 (Listen) SAT McDonald's and New Tech SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan and his guests discuss McDonald's. After a rocky period SAT in the middle of the last decade, how well has the global SAT burger chain managed to revive its famous fast-food formula? SAT They also debate whether the progress of radical new SAT technology has slowed down. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Greg Lucier, chief executive SAT of US biotechnology company Life Technologies; Rita Clifton, SAT chairman of branding consultancy Interbrand; Jill McDonald, SAT chief executive of McDonald's UK. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0151xwj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0151xwl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0151xwn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b015bgvt (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Harry Connick Jr. is a man of many talents having sold over SAT 25 million albums worldwide as a singer, composer, conductor SAT and piano player. Harry talks to Clive about his latest SAT acting role in the film 'Dolphin Tale' inspired by the true SAT story of a group of impassioned strangers who join together SAT to save the life of Winter, the dolphin. SAT SAT The rolfaroo himself, Rolf Harris tells Clive about his SAT latest single 'Do You Still Remember which he's recorded SAT with Australia's Got Talent winner Cam Henderson. Not only SAT has Rolf had a long and successful career in music, he's SAT also earned a special place in Britain's cultural heritage SAT with his multifaceted art work and has an upcoming SAT exhibition of paintings in London. SAT SAT Best known as DCI Gene Hunt in 'Life On Mars' and 'Ashes to SAT Ashes', Philip Glenister is now swapping roles to be a SAT small-time solicitor in BBC One's latest drama serial SAT 'Hidden'. Philip has been a star of the small screen for SAT many years appearing in Mad Dogs and Hornblower to name just SAT two, but has his work cut out now as 'Harry Venn' in this SAT latest taut conspiracy thriller. SAT SAT Jon Holmes talks to Lee Hall, playwright and screenwriter SAT who penned the hugely successful 2000 film, 'Billy Elliot' SAT and adapted the musical version with Elton John which won an SAT Olivier Award for Best Musical. Another one of his SAT award-winning productions 'The Pitmen Painters' returns to SAT the London stage at the Duchess Theatre. SAT SAT Freshly stocked Drugstore perform 'Aquamarine' from their SAT latest album 'Anatomy'. And new girl on the block, Jodie SAT Marie brings her soulful sound to the studio with a sneak SAT rendition of her upcoming single 'On The Road'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b015bgvw (Listen) SAT Stelios Haji-Ioannou SAT SAT Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the easyJet entrepreneur at the heart SAT of the low-budget airline revolution, is the subject of this SAT week's Profile. Stelios - as he is better known - has just SAT set up Fastjet.com in a surprise move that has angered SAT executives at his old company. Presenter Rosie Goldsmith SAT talks to friends, foes and fans of the Greek-Cypriot tycoon. SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Proctor. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b015bgvy (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b015bj1z (Listen) SAT The Oldest Music Hall SAT SAT "A palace of entertainment" - so Paul Merton, Presenter, SAT describes the Leeds City Varieties music hall . SAT He delves into the BBC archives to examine the life and SAT death of Britain's music hall tradition in a funny and SAT affectionate look at the City Varieties - once one of the SAT most famous theatres in the world - as a result of 30 years SAT transmission of The Good Old Days TV show. SAT SAT With fresh interviews with former Good Old Days stars Ken SAT Dodd, Barry Cryer and Roy Hudd, plus original archive clips SAT of music hall stars and Good Old Days celebrities - this SAT Archive on 4 documentary examines how the City Varieties SAT mirrored the rise and fall of variety - and with a new multi SAT million pound facelift - discovers whether such Yorkshire SAT optimism in the future of this particular variety theatre is SAT well founded. SAT SAT Paul Merton is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide to SAT the subject - not only has he performed at the theatre - he SAT also is a fan of variety and its more rumbustious, red SAT blooded predecessor, music hall. He discovers how the City SAT Varieties launched the careers of international stars such SAT as Frankie Vaughan and Ken Dodd - and also what made the SAT iconic "Good Old Days" a staple of BBC tv schedules for SAT three decades. He hears showbiz anecdotes, scandals and SAT finds out just why twenty first century theatre-goers are SAT enjoying a new appetite for variety as a result of the SAT current TV talent shows. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0150ghf (Listen) SAT Life and Fate, Viktor and the Academy SAT SAT By Vasily Grossman SAT In the final episode of Life and Fate, Viktor's scientific SAT breakthrough has not brought him the success he expected. SAT Instead he is gradually ostracised for his 'anti-Soviet' SAT science. He starts to dread the knock at the door. Zhenya's SAT visit to Moscow brings some distraction but it is Marya in SAT whom he longs to confide. Dramatised for radio by Mike SAT Walker SAT SAT Viktor Shtrum ..... Kenneth Branagh SAT Lyuda ..... Greta Scacchi SAT Marya Sokolova ..... Harriet Walter SAT Zhenya ..... Raquel Cassidy SAT Nadya ..... Ellie Kendrick SAT Shishakov ..... Jack Shepherd SAT Boris Badin ..... Carl Prekopp SAT Anna Stepanovna ..... Alex Tregear SAT Markov ..... Simon Bubb SAT Chepyzhin ..... James Greene SAT Vanya ..... Gerard McDermott SAT Stalin........ Philip Madoc SAT With Elaine Claxton, Jonathan Forbes and James Lailey SAT SAT Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead SAT Performed by Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey SAT Blythe and Max Pownall SAT Translated by Robert Chandler SAT Directed and Produced by Alison Hindell SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0151xwq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0151pyq (Listen) SAT Euro Crisis SAT SAT The moral hazard at the root of the Euro crisis is plain to SAT see - especially if you're a German tax payer. The SAT temptation to see the world being made up of morally upright SAT savers and morally deficient debtors must be overwhelming SAT when it's you that's going to have to foot the bill, SAT possibly for generations to come. The view from that moral SAT high ground may be clear and its certainty comforting, but SAT this crisis has grown to such a scale that the moral limits SAT of autonomy and sovereignty are being tested more than at SAT any time in the history of the European project. Should we SAT recognise that we do have a duty to those countries in SAT trouble and that duty goes beyond any self-interest? Will SAT Europe be stronger and everyone better off if we promote SAT solidarity and set aside sectional national interests? Are SAT those politicians, and they're not just German, who are SAT dragging their feet over stumping up extra funds for a bail SAT out, behaving badly? Or do we have to recognise that moral SAT responsibility follows the contours of our emotions and SAT there's no reason why the Germans, or any anyone else in SAT Europe, should feel any moral solidarity or duty to the SAT Greeks and the other countries on the edge of the financial SAT abyss? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Michael Portillo SAT and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b0150m8t (Listen) SAT (7/12) SAT The South of England are preparing to avenge their recent SAT defeat by the North of England as they clash again in Round SAT Britain Quiz. SAT SAT Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego, the regular South of SAT England team, are hoping to get their own back on Jim SAT Coulson and Diana Collecott of the North. Tom Sutcliffe SAT chairs the good-natured contest of intellectual convolutions SAT and cryptic connections. SAT SAT There'll be the usual fiendish questions devised by Round SAT Britain Quiz listeners, as well as musical connections to SAT unravel. Tom will also have the answer to last week's SAT cliff-hanger question, which was: what is common to SAT Tchaikovsky, Lenin, and the protagonist of a Tolstoy short SAT story? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0150grj (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of favourite poetry SAT requests, read by Paul Mundell and Mark Meadows. SAT Today's programme includes two tense cradle songs by Louis SAT MacNeice, poems about significant pauses by Paul Muldoon and SAT Jean Sprackland, and two wonderful pieces of distinctly SAT Welsh verse. Singer, 6 music presenter, and poetry lover SAT Cerys Matthews reads a poem by the miner turned poet Idris SAT Davies that's a clever take on the Welsh National Anthem. SAT 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves captures a fantastically SAT odd conversation, and there are other surreal offerings from SAT Jules Renard and Günter Grass. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 OCTOBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0153ymv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kbj2r (Listen) SUN I Was There Too!, Permanent Wave SUN SUN Series of stories about great historical moments, told from SUN the perspective of unexpected and overlooked witnesses. SUN SUN By Ian Sansom. Imagining what it might have been like to SUN dress the hair of one of the country's most influential SUN women. SUN SUN Read by Maggie Steed. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0153ymy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0153yn1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0153yn5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0153yn7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b015bj98 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Andrews in Rugby, Warwickshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b015bgvw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0153yn9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b015bqb5 (Listen) SUN Jump! SUN SUN Cathy Fitzgerald explores the terror, bliss and sheer SUN delight of taking a leap. SUN SUN With readings from Jeanette Winterson, Maud Parrish and SUN Hermann Hesse and music from Rodrigo y Gabriela, Harry SUN Belafonte and Bernard Hermann, Cathy reflects on our fear of SUN jumping into the unknown - and examines the strange and SUN wonderful places we can land when we do decide to take the SUN plunge. SUN SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Producer: Meagan Perry SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b015bqb7 (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0153ynd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0153yng (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b015bqb9 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Metal theft has been halting trains and disconnecting SUN telephones across the country. Churches have been suffering SUN from this kind of stealing for years but it has got so bad SUN that some have been forced to close. Edward speaks to SUN Monsignor John Nelson from the Catholic Diocese of SUN Portsmouth. SUN SUN The Turkish government have announced it will be returning SUN hundreds of properties seized from its non-Muslim SUN minorities. The seizures, some of which date back decades, SUN have been a point of tension in the country and a poignant SUN symbol of the difficulties faced by the country's religious SUN minorities. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul. SUN SUN Church leaders in earthquake-hit Christchurch are planning SUN to build a cardboard cathedral to replace the original SUN 150-year old building that was badly damaged earlier this SUN year in one of New Zealand's worst natural disasters. The SUN structure would be temporary but senior Anglicans believe it SUN would provide an important psychological boost to a city SUN still mourning the loss of 181 lives. Edward speaks to SUN correspondent Phil Mercer. SUN SUN In the third of our think pieces looking at the underlying SUN cause behind last months riots we hear from Muslim thinker SUN Fiyaz Mughal. SUN SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury visits Zimbabwe next week and SUN he may meet up with President Robert Mugabe. Trevor Barnes SUN looks at the complex situation facing Anglicans in Zimbabwe SUN and the diplomatic tightrope the Archbishop will have to SUN walk. SUN SUN Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the invasion of SUN Afghanistan. We hear from women MP's in Afghanistan who are SUN worried that they will be marginalised by efforts to placate SUN the Taliban. Edward discusses the prospects for peace with SUN Serena de Matteo from Christian Aid and author and SUN broadcaster Zari Kargar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b015bqbc (Listen) SUN The Spinal Injuries Association SUN SUN Melanie Reid presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN Spinal Injuries Association. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1054097 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the SUN envelope: Spinal Injuries Association SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Spinal Injuries Association SUN SUN Every eight hours someone in the UK becomes spinal cord SUN injured. Spinal Cord Injury is a physically and SUN psychologically devastating experience that can last a SUN lifetime. Spinal cord injury can happen to anyone - the SUN major causes are road traffic accidents, falls and sporting SUN injuries. SUN SUN The Spinal Injuries Association runs vital services to SUN ensure that people affected by spinal cord injury can live SUN as confidently and independently as possible after this SUN traumatic experience. Peer support is one of their vital SUN services offered in the early days after injury, helping SUN people to adjust to life after paralysis and demonstrating SUN how people can rebuild their lives after this devastating SUN change. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0153ynl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0153ynn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b015bqbf (Listen) SUN "Called to worship" - St Andrew's Church, Rugby uniquely SUN possesses two sets of bells in two towers. This year the SUN church has been celebrating the 300th anniversary of the SUN original set, cast in 1711 by Joseph Smith of Edgbaston. SUN SUN In this live service for Harvest, the Rector of Rugby, The SUN Revd Dr Mark Beach, will explore the duty of Christians to SUN make that same call to worship in all sorts of ways - be it SUN proclaiming the message of the Bible, singing wonderful SUN music - or ringing the good news from the church's two SUN towers, all to bring about God's harvest of the world. SUN Organist: Charles Matthews. Music Director: Nicholas SUN Scott-Burt. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b0151xtb (Listen) SUN Political party membership SUN SUN Will Self attacks the people who join political parties as SUN "donkeys led by donkeys". He criticises the spectacle of the SUN party conferences, a parade of "endlessly biddable Dobbins" SUN displaying "a mental passivity that makes the average SUN X-factor audience look like the participants in one of SUN Plato's symposia." He argues that members repeatedly see SUN their principles betrayed by the actions of the leaders of SUN their parties who are continually fighting over the same SUN patch of turf, "butting and biting the other herds". SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b015bqbh (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b015bqbk (Listen) SUN Written by: Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b015bqbm (Listen) SUN Anne Wood SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's TV producer Anne SUN Wood. SUN SUN Her creations - which include Teletubbies, Rosie and Jim and SUN In the Night Garden - have delighted millions of children SUN around the world. She says she is driven by her fascination SUN with children's creative development - and was horrified by SUN the critical response when Teletubbies was first screened. SUN "I wanted to make a programme that had love in it," she SUN says, "You'd have thought I'd started World War Three the SUN response that happened - it's innocent fun, that's all it SUN is." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b0150mln (Listen) SUN Series 61, Episode 8 SUN SUN The ever popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Last SUN in series. With Guests Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres, Tony SUN Hawks and Miles Jupp, doing his second ever show. SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b015bqbp (Listen) SUN Beer - Trouble Brewing? SUN SUN Britain is a brewing nation, with a long tradition of SUN creating incredible beers to be enjoyed in any number of SUN taverns, inns and pubs. In this programme Sheila Dillon asks SUN if this very tradition is on a collision course with SUN politics and science? SUN SUN On October the 1st new taxes come into effect that lower the SUN tax on beer with less than 2.8 percent alcohol by volume SUN (abv), and raise it on brews with more than 7.5 percent abv. SUN SUN The big players in global brewing are looking hard at ways SUN to produce great tasting beer with low alcohol content. Dan SUN Saladino visits the second biggest brewing company in the SUN world - SABMiller - at their new research laboratories in SUN Nottingham to see how their research is going and to find SUN out how important these new beers are for their future SUN plans. SUN SUN Pete Brown - beer blogger and author - believes that Britain SUN should be truly proud of its remarkable brewing heritage and SUN shows how we have ended up sipping our beers from not just SUN any glass - a pint glass. SUN SUN Scotland's Government are poised to try and introduce SUN minimum unit pricing - an approach likely to be challenged SUN by some in the drinks industry. We hear the very latest SUN research about how different ways of setting prices can SUN directly impact levels of alcohol-related harm. SUN SUN Mark Hunter, CEO of Molson Coors UK & Ireland (the UK's SUN biggest brewers), believes that the Government is dragging SUN its feet on minimum pricing. SUN SUN Dr Vivienne Nathanson from the British Medical Association SUN reflects on the alcohol responsibility deal and what we SUN could learn from France. SUN SUN With the brewing industry signed up to the Responsibility SUN Deal, and now these new taxes along with the possibility of SUN minimum pricing, Sheila asks if this the end of 'business as SUN usual' for the drinks industry? SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0153ynr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b015bqbr (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 A Student Voice b015bqbt (Listen) SUN As an estimated 50,000 students took to the streets to SUN protest at planned changes to University funding John Waite SUN recorded with thirty 17 year olds chosen at random. He SUN follows what happens to them as the changes take effect. SUN SUN The youngsters came from schools across the UK, both SUN grammars, independent and state 6th forms. They all planned SUN to start their studies at 2012 but marched because of SUN concerns that government decisions could heavily affect the SUN choices they and others made. SUN SUN The demonstrations against higher tuition fees galvanized SUN many youngsters into action - a lot of them protesting for SUN the very first time. John Waite recorded with them on the SUN day of the demonstration but also took contact details to SUN make it possible to track what happens and the factors which SUN influence where and what they study. This documentary tracks SUN their decisions since the protests as they reach the point SUN where they must finally decide whether the fears, doubts and SUN anger they expressed earlier in the year will actually stop SUN them from applying for university at all: in some cases the SUN effect is already filtering through as a few from his chosen SUN group opt for apprenticeships and work placements instead of SUN the courses they had planned to take. SUN SUN The recordings provide an insight into the options facing 17 SUN year olds as they wrestle with the reality of the SUN Government's funding changes: from the young girl hoping to SUN be the first in her family to get a degree, to those from SUN middle class homes who fear they will be hardest hit and the SUN private school pupils - alongside them in Whitehall, but SUN facing very different financial realities as parents step in SUN the fill the funding void. They were united as they SUN protested but what will happen and how far will national SUN policy decision affect them? SUN SUN Producer: Sue Mitchell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0151xsr (Listen) SUN Colne SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A with Christine Walkden, SUN Bunny Guinness and Chris Beardshaw. SUN How to grow and process natural plant dyes at home: Anne SUN Swithinbank reports. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw debunks a longstanding myth about SUN nitrogen-fixing pea shoots. How to encourage fruiting on SUN your grape vines. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b015bqby (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Fisherman's Tale SUN SUN In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray explores British life through SUN the lens of some of the country's photographers. SUN SUN How locals survive in Cornwall's ever-changing economic SUN landscape is the subject of a popular weekly column in the SUN Western Morning News. In this programme, Adil gets a chance SUN to spend a day with the paper's photographer Emily SUN Whitfield-Wicks, as she captures the life of fisherman Nigel SUN Legge. SUN SUN Like so many others, Nigel's economic survival depends on SUN mastering the art of diversification, and in Cornwall this SUN means embracing tourism. SUN SUN Nigel, a member of the crab fleet based in Cadgwith, now has SUN to supplement his living by giving boat tours of the rugged SUN coastline in the summer and the spending the winter months SUN handcrafting traditional lobster pots of all sizes to sell SUN to the general public as indoor and outdoor ornaments. SUN SUN Producer: Mohini Patel. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b015brn6 (Listen) SUN Neglected Classics - Nightingale Wood, Episode 1 SUN SUN by Stella Gibbons. Dramatised for radio by Christopher SUN William Hill SUN 1/2 SUN On either side of Nightingale Wood through one idyllic year SUN in the late 1930s, hearts beat and minds scheme, as the SUN dowdy Wither family tries to compete with the glittering SUN Springs. Bookish Tina Wither is in love with Saxon, her SUN father's handsome and aloof chauffeur. Her shopgirl SUN sister-in-law, Viola, has fallen for Victor Spring, the lord SUN of the manor. And Madge is in love with a dog. With Stella SUN Gibbons as an artful fairy godmother, might things just turn SUN out for the best? SUN SUN Tina ..... Victoria Hamilton SUN Mother/Nellie ..... Dinah Stabb SUN Father/Falger ..... Paul Moriarty SUN Viola ..... Francine Chamberlain SUN Victor ..... Simon Bubb SUN Saxon ..... Adam Billington SUN Edna/Fawcuss ..... Adjoa Andoh SUN Hetty ..... Alex Rivers SUN Phyllis ..... Joan Walker SUN Spurrey/Phillips ..... Ian Masters SUN Madge ..... Victoria Inez Hardy SUN Miss Cattyman ..... Judith Coke SUN SUN Directed by Marion Nancarrow. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b015brn8 (Listen) SUN Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things SUN SUN Arundhati Roy talks to James Naughtie and readers about her SUN Booker prize winning novel The God of Small Things. SUN SUN It's Arundhati Roy's first and so far only book of fiction SUN and it took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker SUN Prize in 1997. SUN SUN It's a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal SUN twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay SUN down "who must be loved, and how, and how much". The book is SUN a description of how the small things in life affect SUN people's behaviour and their lives, and with a love affair SUN between characters of different backgrounds, shows how cruel SUN the caste system could be. SUN SUN Arundhati Roy talks about why she's never written fiction SUN since, and how she's not ruling out a return to the genre. SUN She describes how her training as an architect was useful in SUN the planning of this multi-layered story, with its complex SUN time frames which owe a debt to James Joyce's Ulysses. SUN SUN November's Bookclub choice : The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b015brnb (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces a varied selection of poetry SUN requests read by Paul Mundell and Alison Reid. Michael SUN Longley reads a beautiful poem marking his grandson's first SUN visit to his beloved Carrigskeewaun in County Mayo. Roger SUN considers the pros and cons of having an active social life SUN with help from Philip Larkin, Wendy Cope and Owen Sheers. SUN Clare Pollard also recalls the haze of overindulgence at a SUN thirtieth birthday party. Poems from one end of the cynical SUN spectrum to the other, with work by Gerard Manley Hopkins, SUN and a vitriolic piece by Baudelaire. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b0150phx (Listen) SUN NHS Procurement SUN SUN The Department of Health wants to slash £1.2 billion off the SUN bill for hospital supplies -- everything from bandages and SUN rubber gloves to operating tables and medical equipment. SUN SUN The planned savings form part of the £20 billion in NHS SUN efficiency savings the Government has pledged to make by SUN 2014. SUN SUN There's plenty of scope for savings. A recent survey found SUN one Hospital Trust bought 177 different types of surgical SUN gloves. Across the NHS, hospitals buy more than 1,700 SUN different kinds of canula. Rationalising this medical SUN shopping list could free-up £500 million a year for SUN investment in patient care, the National Audit Office SUN estimates. SUN SUN But can the increasingly complex NHS procurement system in SUN England deliver the major savings the Government wants to SUN see? SUN SUN Critics say Foundation Hospital Trusts increasingly make SUN their own buying decisions, with little or no national SUN co-ordination. Inside hospitals, managers tasked with SUN purchasing millions of pounds worth of equipment often lack SUN the authority or the support of their superiors to drive SUN through savings. Meanwhile new private sector companies are SUN moving in to take over the purchase and supply of NHS SUN equipment. SUN SUN Will the Government's plans for a more devolved health SUN service help or hinder the drive to save taxpayers' money. SUN Jenny Cuffe investigates. SUN SUN Producer: Andy Denwood. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b015bgvw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0153ynw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0153yny (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0153yp0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b015brnd (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b015brng (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b015brnj (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular SUN guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda SUN and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of SUN his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang SUN on, that system means starting the whole series with the SUN least funny sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a SUN new show filled with sketches written and performed by John SUN Finnemore, but now no longer arranged in strict order of SUN funniness. Also, he's cut the sketch that would have gone SUN first. SUN SUN In this third edition, the show visits some SUN documentary-makers, has a big debate, and then treats itself SUN to a little trophy. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News SUN Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of SUN Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six SUN Impossible Things). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 The Time Being b015brnl (Listen) SUN Series 5, The Family Snaps SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. SUN Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience SUN and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since SUN gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, SUN such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and SUN Submarine author and National Short Story judge Joe SUN Dunthorne. SUN SUN The Family Snaps by Jarred McGinnis SUN SUN Morna had her son Colin professionally photographed. When SUN she goes to collect the prints she find she doesn't have SUN enough money for them. But it's Colin's 'last day' and she SUN can't wait until another time. SUN SUN Jarred McGinnis, an American living in London, is the SUN co-founder of the literary variety night, The Special SUN Relationship. In addition to writing fiction, he holds a PhD SUN in Artificial Intelligence. He too is writing a novel. SUN SUN Reader: Tracy Wiles SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0151xsm (Listen) SUN Is it possible to give listeners access to the riches of the SUN BBC archive - without releasing material that was deemed SUN acceptable when it was made but is offensive now? As you SUN voice concerns about Orwellian attitudes, Roger ask David SUN Jordon, director of Editorial Policy and standards what the SUN rules are. SUN SUN And following a furore in the press Roger finds out if it's SUN really no longer acceptable to use the terms AD and BC, SUN instead of CE and BCE, on the airwaves? SUN SUN We celebrate the 50th birthday of In Touch, BBC Radio 4's SUN programme for blind and partially-sighted people, and ask SUN whether the BBC is doing enough for listeners with SUN disabilities. Liz Carr, presenter of the irreverent podcast SUN Ouch!, drops in on the different networks to find out what's SUN on offer. SUN SUN And a listener has sent in a play-let. It's set in a dark SUN basement, features fingernail extraction, and stars a SUN character called Roger Wright, apparently the controller of SUN Radio 3... SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b015brnn (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Kenyan human rights and environmental campaigner Wangari SUN Maathai who became the first African woman to win the Nobel SUN Peace prize in 2004 SUN SUN The writer and producer David Croft, who brought us some of SUN TV's best loved comedies, including Dad's Army, Are You SUN Being Served and Hi De Hi. SUN SUN The former leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Gusty SUN Spence, who turned his back on violence while serving an SUN eighteen year prison sentence for murder SUN SUN And the Australian pioneer of in vitro fertilisation, SUN Professor Carl Wood. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b015bgvh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b015bqbc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0150mtb (Listen) SUN Libya's Islamic Capitalists SUN SUN Under Colonel Gaddafi, Libya was subject to the dictator's SUN so-called Third Universal Theory. Hugh Miles asks what sort SUN of ideology is likely to dominate in post-Gaddafi Libya. SUN SUN Western media have been keeping a close eye on Libya's SUN governing National Transitional Council, and there have been SUN warnings about splits between Islamists and secularists, and SUN about Libya's tribal society. But, as Hugh Miles discovers, SUN amongst Libya's new ruling class there is broad consensus SUN about support for one ideology: capitalism. SUN SUN Gaddafi's idiosyncratic economic and political philosophy SUN fused elements of socialism and Islam. The suppression of SUN free markets was at times taken to bizarre extremes with, at SUN one point, the banning of the entire retail sector. Support SUN for capitalism is perhaps a reaction to the years in which SUN entrepreneurship was suppressed. SUN SUN Hugh Miles looks at the background of the new rulers and SUN asks how Libyan Islamic capitalism might work. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b015brnq (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 b015brns (Listen) SUN Episode 72 SUN SUN Anne McElvoy of The Economist analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0151xsy (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Lars von Trier about his new film SUN Melancholia starring Kirsten Dunst as depressed bride SUN Justine and Charlotte Gainsbourg as her sister Claire, SUN responding in their different ways to their imminent SUN annihilation - a rogue planet is hurtling towards earth and SUN there is nothing they can do to stop it. SUN SUN John Madden reveals the details of his new spy thriller The SUN Debt starring Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds. SUN The film is set in Israel in the 1990s with extensive SUN flashback to Berlin in the 60s when the protagonists, a trio SUN of Mossad agents, were tasked with finding an influential SUN Nazi doctor who had slipped back into civilian life after SUN the war. It's a fictional film but its plot is no more SUN fantastic than some of the real life scenarios which it SUN resembles. SUN SUN Ali Samadi Ahadi discusses his film documenting the protests SUN in Iran in 2009, The Green Wave. Against expectations SUN elections held in that year reinforced the power of the SUN ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Protestors SUN under the banner 'Where is my Vote?' gathered in the SUN streets, wearing green to signify Islam but also hope and SUN the campaign of the opposition candidate Mir SUN Housain-Mousavi. The response of the authorities to the SUN demonstrations was violent and whilst the full extent of SUN injury and death among the protestors is not known SUN fragmented accounts made their way out via the internet - SUN blogs, social media and amateur video posts. The Green Wave SUN shapes some of this material into a polemical account of the SUN backlash to the Green movement and its ambitions: SUN SUN And Francine also looks at digital projection and why it's SUN leaving some cinema goers in the dark. Regular contributor, SUN cinema owner Kevin Marwick of the Picture House in Uckfield, SUN explains why some cinemas appear to be delivering a SUN projection murky beyond any moody intention of the art SUN director. SUN SUN Producer - Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b015bqb5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 OCTOBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0153ypt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0151pyg (Listen) MON Tour guide - Changing incomes MON MON New research compares income distribution in the UK with a MON multi storey apartment building in which the poorest dwell MON in the basement, the richest occupy the penthouse and most MON of us still live on the floors in between the two extremes. MON The economist, Professor Stephen Jenkins discusses income MON mobility and the dynamics of poverty with Laurie Taylor. MON They're also joined by the sociologist, Professor John MON Holmwood. Also, the raucous sidewalk culture of New York MON Tour Guides. The sociologist Jonathan R. Wynn introduces us MON to the eccentrics, educators and radicals who provide MON introductions to New York's dizzying array of attractions. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b015bj98 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0153ypy (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0153yq0 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0153yq2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0153yq4 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015bt0p (Listen) MON Presented by the Revd Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate MON Kirk, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b015bt0r (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Anna Hill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0153yq6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b015bt0t (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b015bt0w (Listen) MON Afghanistan and the British Secret Service with Rory MON Stewart, Frank Ledwidge and Gordon Corera MON MON In the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the war in MON Afghanistan, Andrew Marr discusses foreign intervention with MON the Conservative MP Rory Stewart and the former intelligence MON officer, Frank Ledwidge. Stewart looks back at the conflict MON to ask whether simple notions of winning foreign wars is MON counterproductive, while Ledwidge turns a critical eye on MON the army's lack of strategic thinking which he argues led to MON catastrophic failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The MON BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera discusses the MON role of the British secret service, from the Cold War days MON of spies lurking in the shadows, to the disaster of the MON 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq. And Dr Rosemary Hollis, Professor MON of Middle East Policy Studies, considers the impact of MON recent revelations of complicity with Gaddafi's regime, and MON how 9/11 has skewed international relations. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b015bt0y (Listen) MON The Castrato and His Wife, Episode 1 MON MON Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando MON Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love MON affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell. MON MON In today's episode, a baby boy is born to a humble family in MON a remote Tuscan hilltown. As he grows up, his evident talent MON for music and the purity of his unbroken voice offer him an MON opportunity for social mobility. But it's an opportunity MON that will require a very brutal kind of sacrifice. MON MON Read by Greta Scacchi MON Abridged by Viv Beeby MON Produced by Emma Harding MON MON 'The Castrato and His Wife' is published by Oxford MON University Press. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b015bt10 (Listen) MON Cook the Perfect, Mary Portas, Women in Afghanistan MON MON The classic fish pie and how to make it as we add this MON latest recipe in our Cook the Perfect series. Sue Lawrence MON tells us why this mix of white fish and a creamy sauce is MON the ultimate comfort food. Ten years after military MON intervention in Afghanistan, two new reports released today MON highlight concerns about how women's rights will be MON safeguarded in a new era once international community troops MON are withdrawn. We talk to those involved. Mary Portas, MON one-time Queen of Shops, discusses her mission to become MON Queen of Frocks and why she's heralding a high street style MON that works for women, rather than girls. Author Laini Taylor MON on why she has an enduring fascination with angels and their MON role in the opening volume in her epic fantasy trilogy, MON Daughter of Smoke and Bone. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Mary Portas MON MON Mary Portas, the former Queen of Shops, is now on a mission MON to become a successful Queen of Frocks. Her career has taken MON her from the shop floor of John Lewis, via Harvey Nichols, MON and she has now become one of the UK’s foremost authorities MON on retail and brand communication. She made her name MON overhauling the retail industry and creating survival plans MON for small high street businesses. Now, Mary has spotted a MON gap in the market for high street style that works for MON women, not girls. She joins Jane to discuss why she has MON staked her professional reputation on designing, launching MON and selling her own fashion range aimed exclusively aimed at MON this market. MON MON Mary Queen of Frocks, on Tuesday 4 October, 9pm on Channel MON 4. MON MON Women in Afghanistan MON MON It is ten years this week since military intervention in MON Afghanistan. Women are said to have achieved real progress MON in areas such as education but two new reports released MON today reveal a real concern about safeguarding women’s MON rights as the international community begins withdrawing MON troops and entering in to peace talks with the Taliban and MON other insurgent groups. To discuss the progress of women’s MON rights Jane is joined by Anjali Kwatra from ActionAid, MON author of ‘A Just Peace? The legacy of war for the women of MON Afghanistan’, and Orzala Ashraf Nemat, co-author of Oxfam’s MON report ‘A place at the table: Safeguarding women’s rights in MON Afghanistan’. MON MON Sheila Roderick, Weaver MON MON Every now and then we hear about listeners who have heard MON something on Woman’s Hour which has changed their lives. MON Sheila Roderick is a weaver who lives on the Isle of Scalpay MON in the outer Hebrides. She weaves her own creations in MON various kinds of wool and linen as well as weaving the MON famous Harris Tweed but unlike many of the weavers on the MON islands she wasn’t born there. It was listening to an item MON about weaving on Woman’s Hour that first got her interested MON and now one of her designs has just been worn by the singer MON KT Tunstall on stage at the Celtic Hebridean festival. MON MON Laini Taylor MON MON Blue-haired Karou is an art student who lives in Prague. She MON leads a double life; by day she paints at college, at night MON she runs errands for a monstrous sorcerer who gets her to MON collect human and animal teeth for a mysterious purpose. He MON pays her in magic wishes. And then one day, Karou meets an MON angel… MON Author Laini Taylor joins Jane to talk about the opening MON volume of her epic trilogy, how she progressed from a job MON selling paintings under a bridge, to being a mother with MON pink hair, an enduring fascination with angels, and an urge MON to write. MON MON Book: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, ISBN: 978-1-444-72262-8 MON MON Cook the Perfect... Fish Pie MON MON Fish pie is the ultimate comfort food. In her new book, MON Eating In, Sue Lawrence has come up with a classic fish pie MON recipe. Capers, lemon zest, parsley, eggs and a white sauce MON are perfect accompaniments to white fish. Sue Lawrence MON joins Jane to demonstate how to make this satisfying dish in MON the latest Cook the Perfect series. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015bt12 (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 1 MON MON Kris Marshall returns as the famous diarist. As many of us MON do, Pepys begins the year - 1661 - with a resolution: to MON restrain himself in the expensive pleasures of theatre-going MON and drinking. He fails spectacularly on both counts. Free, MON for once, from builders, Samuel and Elizabeth are living MON happily in Seething Lane with their servants Jane and Will. MON All is well, until Sam's sister, Paulina, moves in with them MON - not as a family member and equal but as a third servant. MON Preparations are in hand for the Coronation of King Charles MON but the city is on alert for the nonconformist Fifth MON Monarchists who believe that Jesus is about to return as MON 'King of Kings'. Their leader, Thomas Venner, is caught, MON hanged, drawn and quartered. In the unseasonably warm winter MON weather, the bodies of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw are MON exhumed and hanged. Elizabeth goes to see the spectacle but MON Samuel stays home. MON MON Dramatised by Hattie Naylor. MON MON Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways MON Pauline . . . Rebecca Scott MON Mr Pierce . . . Andrew Wincott MON Mrs Pierce . . . Siriol Jenkins MON Sir William . . . Richard Mitchley MON Man in street . . . Stephen Marzella MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales Production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Robots that Care b015bxq4 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In the second of a two-part series, Robots that Care, Jon MON Stewart visits research institutes in the USA and UK to MON explore the brave new ideas about how robots may be able to MON help humans on a one-to-one basis. He talks to key MON roboticists, their collaborators and volunteers about the MON practicalities and ethics of using robots to help people. MON MON A number of studies have been done and more are underway in MON the use of robots for people wanting to lose weight and for MON children who are autistic. Robotocists are also conducting MON long-term projects with people who have suffered strokes. MON The robots are designed as personal instructors to help MON motivate and restore motor function. But they must be MON emotionally smart and coax rather than order about like a MON sergeant major. The roboticists are also examining how they MON might customise their robots to fit the personalities of the MON people whom they will serve. MON MON We have put robots on the moon but it seems that it is more MON difficult to put them in homes. A visit to a robot house in MON the UK shows that there are many pitfalls still to overcome MON before robots will be useful in our living rooms and MON kitchens. MON MON Finally, Robots that Care asks: what are the dangers of MON making the robots too human? Are there problems of MON dependency? What ethical and moral questions arise when MON robots socialise human beings? MON MON Producer: Colin Grant. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b013n0q2 (Listen) MON Series 2, Tangled Web 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. But Sandy's not having this. MON MON He's not moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how MON can he move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced MON that his too attractive lodger Dolores (Liza Tarbuck) is MON 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 Whenever people tell porkies, they seem to come to Sandy for MON help. Being a spare man and his own master - he can provide MON the alibi or hide the goods. However, multi-tasking was MON never even his strongpoint when he was Manager (Acting) of MON the Five Feathers, Frinton. Deceiving needs practice and not MON on the job, either. MON MON Ronnie Corbett ..... Sandy MON Liza Tarbuck ...... Dolores MON Tilly Vosburgh ...... Ellie MON Jonathan Aris ...... Blake MON Amelia Clarkson ..... Calais MON Stephen Critchlow ...... PC MON Polly Frame ...... Megan MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b015bxq6 (Listen) MON Citizenship Tests MON MON Why knowing the correct answers may not help you pass the MON UK's citizenship test - but the wrong answers might. We MON explore how this affects people hoping to stay in the UK. MON MON A plan to cut legal aid for patients left physically or MON mentally damaged by NHS care is being legally challenged by MON a medical safety charity. We talk to 'Action against Medical MON Accidents', legal experts and the government. MON MON And the launch of the real bread loaf mark hopes to get us MON eating more 'real bread'. But what exactly is REAL bread? MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker. Produced by Alex Lewis. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0153yq8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b015jj00 (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b015bxq8 (Listen) MON (8 of 12) MON What should you change in order to make an Italian MON broadcaster tell you about the state of the economy - and MON why could a further change be painful? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe posed this teaser at the end of the previous MON edition of Round Britain Quiz, and he returns today with the MON answer - along with many more convoluted puzzles to test the MON ingenuity of the panel. This week the Scots, Alan Taylor and MON Michael Alexander, take on the Midlands team of Rosalind MON Miles and Stephen Maddock. MON MON As always, the questions require the teams to dredge their MON memory banks for everything from Classical mythology to MON popular music, and from literature to sport. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b015brng (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b015bxqb (Listen) MON Dragonfly MON MON Dragonfly by Katie Hims, specially written for David Bower MON and Sophie Woolley . MON MON Cal is expecting a baby with his girlfriend Sophie. As deaf MON parents, in amongst the excitement, they have a few concerns MON . But every time Sophie has a scan at the hospital Cal is MON sick. His behaviour becomes more and more uncharacteristic . MON Sophie begins to worry when Cal finds letters from an old MON girlfriend and decides he has to go and see her . MON MON Cal has to resolve the past before he can move forward as a MON Father and fully enjoy Sophie's pregnancy. In order to get MON there he has to return to the place he grew up in - Rochdale MON - and re-examine his past. MON MON CAL...David Bower MON SOPHIE Sophie Woolley MON TARA. ..Sarah McDonald Hughes MON HABERJAN Amerjit Deu MON BRIAN Eric Potts MON NURSE Zoe Iqbal MON MON A signed film of the production can be accessed via the MON Radio 4 website. MON MON Developed in partnership with Signdance Collective. MON Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b015pxb1 (Listen) MON The Oldest Music Hall MON MON "A palace of entertainment" - so Paul Merton, Presenter, MON describes the Leeds City Varieties music hall . MON He delves into the BBC archives to examine the life and MON death of Britain's music hall tradition in a funny and MON affectionate look at the City Varieties - once one of the MON most famous theatres in the world - as a result of 30 years MON transmission of The Good Old Days TV show. MON MON With fresh interviews with former Good Old Days stars Ken MON Dodd, Barry Cryer and Roy Hudd, plus original archive clips MON of music hall stars and Good Old Days celebrities - this MON Archive on 4 documentary examines how the City Varieties MON mirrored the rise and fall of variety - and with a new multi MON million pound facelift - discovers whether such Yorkshire MON optimism in the future of this particular variety theatre is MON well founded. MON MON Paul Merton is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide to MON the subject - not only has he performed at the theatre - he MON also is a fan of variety and its more rumbustious, red MON blooded predecessor, music hall. He discovers how the City MON Varieties launched the careers of international stars such MON as Frankie Vaughan and Ken Dodd - and also what made the MON iconic "Good Old Days" a staple of BBC tv schedules for MON three decades. He hears showbiz anecdotes, scandals and MON finds out just why twenty first century theatre-goers are MON enjoying a new appetite for variety as a result of the MON current TV talent shows. MON MON 15:45 The Call b00y2d7j (Listen) MON Series 2, Concorde MON MON Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made life-changing MON phone calls. MON MON In the first programme in the series he meets Alice MON Brooking, who was on the phone to her sister Nathalie in MON London when an Air France Concorde crashed into her Paris MON hotel. MON MON It was the 25th July 2000 and Alice Brooking was in the MON Hotelissimo in Gonesse, near Paris Charles de Gaulle MON airport. A language student working through her holidays as MON a tour guide, Alice was waiting for a party of young MON musicians to arrive from England. Torn between having a nap, MON having a shower and calling her sister for a chat, she MON picked up the phone to London. Half way through the MON conversation there was loud bang and the phone went dead. MON She went to the door of her room, to be met by searing heat MON and a wall of flame. MON MON "I ran barefoot across the fields, because I'd left my shoes MON in my room, then tried calling the attention of the car MON drivers........ If I'd chosen to take a shower or a nap I'd MON be dead."". MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b015bqbp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b015bxqg (Listen) MON Earlier this year the Irish Prime Minister launched an MON unprecedented attack on the Vatican, after an inquiry into MON the handling of allegations of child abuse found that the MON church had ignored its own child protection guidelines. MON Enda Kenny said a culture of "dysfunction, disconnection, MON elitism and narcissism" dominated the Vatican, criticisms MON which were rejected by the Vatican as "unfounded". MON Kenny's speech signalled beyond doubt an end to the MON symbiotic relationship between church and state which many MON say has dominated the Republic ever since it was founded. MON So what is the future for Catholicism in Ireland? Joining MON Ernie Rea for the discussion is Dublin priest Father Joe MON Murphy, David Quinn, a columnist for the Irish Catholic and MON Irish Times, and the theologian and lecturer in medical MON ethics, Gina Menzies. MON MON 17:00 PM b015bxqj (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0153yqb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b015bxql (Listen) MON Series 4, Carr, Bellos, Stavrakopoulou MON MON The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor MON of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd MON (now with added C.B.E). For this, the fourth series, he is MON joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his MON Curator. Dave is the latest in a line of illustrious Museum MON curators: Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson. MON MON The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting MON exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from MON widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring MON with them their most treasured items to donate. MON MON The Museum's collection already boasts The Big Bang When It MON Was The Size Of A Grapefruit; A Pineapple; A Yard Of MON Silence; Nothing; A British Railways Bridge Plate; A MON Telepathic Sheep; A Chimpanzee Rain Dance; An Impossible MON Rabbit; A Gay Bomb; A Choir Of Singing Sand Dunes; National MON Ignorance Day (of which we know nothing); and An Icelandic MON Volcano (long before they were fashionable). MON MON In the first of the new series, John and Dave are joined by MON comedian Jimmy Carr; documetary maker, theologian (and MON atheist) Francesca Stavrakapoulou; and the mathematician, MON Guardian South America correspondent and football author MON Alex Bellos. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b015bxqn (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b015bxqq (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Claire MON Tomalin, as she publishes a biography of Charles Dickens. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015bt12 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 In Defence of Politics b015bxqs (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In this three-part series Matthew Flinders challenges MON political cynicism. He investigates its causes, explores why MON it is now so fashionable, questions whether it is a MON simplistic and glib response to a complex and difficult MON world, and asks what should be done about it. MON MON Interviewees include Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, John Bercow MON and Ian Hislop. MON MON Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at Sheffield MON University. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b015bxqv (Listen) MON Aid or Immigration? MON MON The government is committed to protecting the aid budget. MON Frances Cairncross asks whether a more relaxed policy on MON economic migration might help the developing world more. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0151t3y (Listen) MON So You Want to Be a Scientist launch MON MON Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to Be a MON Scientist?' - the search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of MON the Year. MON MON Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to Be a MON Scientist?' - the search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of MON the Year. MON MON Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to Be a MON Scientist?' - the search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of MON the Year. MON MON Last year 69 year old gardener Ruth Brooks from Devon was MON crowned the winner for her research into the homing distance MON of snails. With the help of ecologist Dr Dave Hodgson from MON the University of Exeter, she created an experiment in her MON back garden to measure how far she should move her snails MON away to stop them coming back to eat her petunias. MON MON "The whole year was filled with fun," said Ms Brooks. "For a MON non-scientist like me, it was great to have my research idea MON taken seriously. If I can do it, anyone can - just have a MON go!" MON MON Now you can put your ideas, hunches and theories to the MON test. If you're chosen as one of Material World's four MON finalists, your entry will be turned into a real experiment MON which you'll carry out with the help of a professional MON scientist. MON MON A panel of judges, chaired by Nobel prize winning scientist MON Sir Paul Nurse, will select four finalists in December. The MON amateur scientists start their research in January and will MON present their results at the Cheltenham Science Festival in MON June 2012, where the judges will choose a winner. MON MON Entries are open online from 26 Sept until 31 Oct: MON www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/scientist MON MON Neutrino faster than the speed of light? MON MON Last week, if you believed some of the press, our notion of MON life the Universe and everything we thought we knew was MON shaken by the news that Einstein’s Special Theory of MON Relativity could be wrong and that the speed of light was MON not the fastest thing in the Universe. The discovery was MON tested and retested by a team at the Gran Sasso National MON Laboratory in Italy. Their detector instrument called OPERA MON measures the neutrinos which have been fired 730km away at MON CERN in Switzerland. Each time they found the neutrinos MON arrived 60 nanoseconds before the photons (units of light). MON The results have now been published and offered up to other MON particle physics groups to try and see if there is an MON experimental mistake or explanation for the findings, other MON than Einstein got it wrong. Physicist Professor Jonathan MON Butterworth from UCL and member of the High Energy Physics MON Group at CERN explains the experiment and speculates on some MON of the more reasonable possibilities for the anomaly. MON MON Catalytic clothing MON MON Chemist, Professor Tony Ryan at Sheffield University, has MON been working with Professor Helen Storey at the London MON College of Fashion to develop the idea of pollution-reducing MON clothes. MON Catalytic clothing harnesses the power of a titanium MON photocatalyst to breakdown harmful airborne pollutants, from MON industry and vehicles in city streets which are a risk to MON our health. It’s a wash-in or spray on treatment that can MON be applied to your existing wardrobe and allows you to MON remove pollution from the air as you walk. MON Material World Producer: Fiona Roberts MON So You Want to Be a Scientist? Producer: Michelle Martin MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b015bt0w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0153yqd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b015jj02 (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015bxr3 (Listen) MON Catch 22, Episode 6 MON MON by Joseph Heller MON MON In Heller's iconoclastic comic masterpiece, bombardier MON Yossarian's attempts to stop flying combat missions are met MON by the unassailable circular logic of Catch 22. MON MON Milo Minderbender's capitalist enterprise looks set for MON world domination and Yossarian decides against clothes. MON Including his uniform. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Read by Stuart Milligan MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 23:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00smngp (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's first radio series is MON about his progression from working-class Herbert to MON middle-class intellectual and being caught awkwardly between MON the two. His story is told through reflective interviews, MON but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand up comedy. Micky's MON transition from the mean streets of the East End to the MON leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, with each MON episode focusing on a different decade of Micky's life. MON MON In this episode Micky tells us about his 1990's, when he MON made up for his misspent youth by returning to education MON late in life, attending university and then becoming a MON teacher to a new generation of unruly pupils. MON MON He talks to Millionaire plumber Charlie Mullins who has a MON different take on the value of a University education and MON entertains us with tales of his time as a teacher, when he MON became so despondent that not even he would take his coat MON off in class. MON MON The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. MON The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b015bxr5 (Listen) MON Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 OCTOBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0153yqz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b015bt0y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0153yr1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0153yr3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0153yr5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0153yr7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015ck8r (Listen) TUE Presented by the Revd Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate TUE Kirk, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b015ck8t (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b015ck8w (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Capitalism on Trial b015ck8y (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Capitalism dominates the globe as never before, but after TUE years of bailouts, downgrades, stagnating growth and market TUE instability, Michael Portillo asks if free-market capitalism TUE is a broken system. In the second of two programmes, Amartya TUE Sen, Will Hutton, Ha-Joon Chang, Gillian Tett and Hernando TUE De Soto are among the critics and defenders of the TUE free-market as Michael weighs up the costs and benefits of TUE the economic idea that governs our lives. TUE TUE Producer: Julia Johnson. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b015j70j (Listen) TUE The Castrato and His Wife, Episode 2 TUE TUE Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando TUE Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love TUE affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell. TUE TUE In today's episode, Tenducci embarks on his operatic career TUE and after his first London season, has acquired a massive TUE and enthusiastic following. But he is soon embroiled in a TUE public scandal with an English society lady. TUE TUE Read by Greta Scacchi TUE Abridged by Viv Beeby TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b015ck90 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. George Aligiah on mixed Britain. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015ck92 (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 2 TUE TUE In this episode of Hattie Naylor's lively adaptation, Pepys TUE throws a party to celebrate the third anniversary of his TUE bladder operation. He regales his assembled guests with the TUE gruesome story, telling them how he was bound to his TUE cousin's dining room table so that he could not move, and TUE how a gag was put in his mouth to stop him screaming as he TUE was cut open by the surgeon, Mr Hollier. The stone that was TUE removed from Pepys' bladder was the size of a tennis ball. TUE TUE Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall TUE Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways TUE Edward Montague, Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson TUE Captain Ferrers . . . Ewan Bailey TUE Sir William . . . Richard Mitchley TUE Lady Batten . . . Marilyn le Conte TUE Mingo . . . Clifford Lyonette TUE Alsemero . . . Lee Mengo TUE Woman in tavern . . . Rebecca Scott TUE Woman in tavern . . . Siriol Jenkins TUE TUE Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by TUE Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany TUE Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David TUE Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by TUE Alice Baxter. TUE Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE Sound by Nigel Lewis TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales Production directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b015ck94 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 20 TUE TUE 20/30 The Pika is a small mammal that lives in the high TUE altitude grasslands in mountain ranges from Japan, through TUE central Asia and North America. Andrew Smith and his team of TUE field biologists from Arizona State University has studied TUE the Pika for many years on the Tibetan Plateau. It's in TUE Tibet, he claims, they are wrongly blamed for the degrading TUE of the grasslands by the Chinese. We have been to see Andrew TUE Smith and have a reply from the Chinese Academy of Science. TUE TUE Also in the programme: Kelvin Boot reports the status of TUE polar plankton from a meeting (about plankton) in Plymouth TUE and Michael Scott is in Sterlingshire on the largest raised TUE bog in the Country, Flanders Moss. This lovely quote from TUE the Scottish National Parks website "Flanders Moss is a vast TUE expanse of all things damp and wonderful." TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Man with Many Names b015ck96 (Listen) TUE Brian O'Nolan he was born - or perhaps Brian O Nuallain if TUE you want to be strictly accurate. He spoke Irish at home and TUE learned English second (and German too); yet arguably his TUE greatest work - the Third Policeman - is a tour de force of TUE English linguistical pyrotechnics and Lewis Carroll-like TUE absurdist exoticism - people turning into bicycles is par TUE for the course. TUE TUE He published his books as Flann O'Brien; he penned a TUE must-read daily column in the Irish Times as Myles na TUE gCopaleen and at various times in his short life wrote as TUE George Knowall, John James Doe, Matt Duffy, Count O'Blather, TUE Brother Barnabas and Sean O'Longain... But as Brian O'Nolan TUE he was also a senior civil servant and adviser to government TUE ministers, and his habit of retiring early to The Scotch TUE House to consume many, many pints of plain, while tolerated TUE for years ended up finishing his career. In fact 'the little TUE weakness' as one contributor calls it finally cost O'Nolan TUE his life. TUE TUE To mark the centenary of O'Nolan's birth, Peter Day - a TUE longtime Flann fan - travels to Dublin in search of the TUE reality behind the multiple personas, and meets those who TUE drank with him, supped with him at the family dinner table TUE and have made careers out of studying him... TUE TUE Producer: Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b015ck98 (Listen) TUE Who deserves a council house more - those with a job or the TUE unemployed? London's Westminster Council says adults who've TUE been working for two years - or are actively looking for a TUE job - will get priority over people on the dole. The TUE government's praised the scheme which could be copied across TUE the UK. And it echoes the Labour leader Ed Miliband's speech TUE last week promising to end the "something for nothing" TUE culture. But is this the best way to distribute limited TUE council homes? And what about the most vulnerable? Is it TUE fair that those who are unemployed through no fault of their TUE own should slide down the council house list? Or is this the TUE incentive that many jobless might need to get them working? TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Your chance to TUE share your views on the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 and we may call you back TUE or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0153yrb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b015jj0k (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 The World in His Ear b015ck9b (Listen) TUE When composer, David Fanshawe died last year he left behind TUE a myriad of field recordings and a rich portfolio of TUE composition, including his magnum opus, African Sanctus. TUE TUE In 'The World In His Ear' music writer, Philip Sweeney TUE explores the famed Fanshawe archive and finds out about a TUE pioneering, if controversial musical figure. Speaking to TUE composers, admirers and family members, Philip discovers a TUE larger than life character who collected thousands of field TUE recordings from across the globe. He recorded tribes in TUE Africa that no longer exist and visited Pacific Islands TUE where few, if any other travellers have trod; he even moved TUE his family out to Fiji to be near him. TUE TUE When it came to his own compositional work Fanshawe was TUE shunned by both the classical music establishment and by the TUE world music aficionados who were embarrassed by this TUE eccentric figure: "Sadly people look down on him. He had a TUE manner which seemed rather white man goes abroad and loves TUE the African music which can seem a little bit TUE neocolonialist" says the editor of Songlines, Simon TUE Broughton. TUE TUE Some claim he was a forefather of world music, others that TUE he mined cultures and music that were not his to take. But TUE the result of his lifetime's passion was to bring together TUE the spheres of classical and traditional, western and TUE non-western, pre-recorded and live music, long before it TUE became popular to do so. Step in to his converted garage in TUE Wiltshire and you are transported not only to different TUE continents, but also to lost eras recorded and catalogued TUE for all to hear. David Fanshawe epitomized the spirit of TUE freedom and adventure, capturing his experiences in music TUE and in doing so brought the whole world to the place where TUE his music was being performed. TUE TUE Producer: Gemma Newby TUE A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b015bxqn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b015ck9d (Listen) TUE Dinner in the Village TUE TUE Tensions between two famous bi-racial couples are made worse TUE when the women challenge their men, immigration officials TUE come knocking and husbands show that they are not to be TUE trusted. TUE TUE In 1940's Greenwich Village, Trinidadian activist and TUE author, CLR James, introduces his friend the African TUE American novelist, Richard Wright, to a young white TUE Californian girl called Constance whom he met at a political TUE lecture. TUE TUE He becomes her mentor and he also asks Richard Wright's wife TUE Ellen, (who is from a Polish background), to teach Constance TUE how to be the kind of woman he needs. TUE TUE Over the course of many dinners at one of the few TUE restaurants that serve mixed race couples in New York's TUE Greenwich Village, the four talk and discuss problems. Would TUE Paris offer more freedom than hostile Manhattan? How should TUE wives of writers better serve their husbands? TUE TUE Is the problem for the women being wives of coloured men or TUE is being the wives of writers? And how to work through rifts TUE that are developing between them as friends. TUE TUE We are left wondering how difficult it is to hold together TUE any marriage - but those between powerful men and women who TUE 'serve' them are particularly difficult, without factoring TUE in the racial element. TUE TUE This is a story about developing friendships and how the TUE dynamics between a foursome can change. How hard it is to TUE trust friends and then to forgive. TUE TUE The play is recorded in New York where Caryl Phillips lives. TUE TUE Caryl Phillips met and corresponded with these literary TUE giants and their wives. It's a play that he has wanted to TUE write for a long time. TUE TUE Richard Wright ...... Neil Dawson TUE CLR James ....... Andre Blake TUE Constance ........ Jennifer Van Dyck TUE Ellen ....... Lauren McCord TUE Gloria ..... Anne Bobby TUE Interviewer ...... Tom Datnow TUE FBI man ...... Moti Margolin TUE Waitress ...... Sydney Beveridge TUE TUE Technical Production: Peregrine Andrews TUE TUE Producer: Judith Kampfner TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b015ck9g (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 b015ck9j (Listen) TUE The Brother, Episode 1 TUE TUE The Brother TUE By Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O'Brien) TUE TUE "Do you know what it is, the brother's an extraordinary TUE genius." TUE TUE Born on the 5th October 1911 in Strabane, Northern Ireland, TUE Brian O'Nolan is perhaps best known as Flann O'Brien, the TUE name under which he published his novels At Swim Two Birds, TUE The Hard Life, The Dalkey Archive and The Third Policeman. TUE Often described as one of the 'holy trinity' of modern Irish TUE writers alongside Joyce and Beckett, he was notorious for TUE writing under a range of pseudonyms and penned the daily TUE 'Cruiskeen Lawn' column in the Irish Times as Myles na TUE Gopaleen (na gCopaleen) from1940 until his death in 1966. TUE Satirising the absurdities and ironies of Dublin life the TUE Cruiskeen Lawn introduced a memorable and hilarious cast of TUE characters; Keats and Chapman, The Plain People of Ireland TUE and the extraordinary, eccentric and preposterous 'brother'. TUE TUE To mark the centenary of his birth, a series of readings TUE selected from O'Brien's 'Brother' articles, introduces us to TUE one of his most peculiar and eccentric literary creations. TUE An 'extraordinary genius' indeed, the brother is apparently TUE an authority on almost every subject imaginable and has his TUE finger in more pies than he has fingers! Living in digs with TUE his long-suffering landlady and her lodgers, the brother TUE believes that he really does know best about everything from TUE medicine, to water purity, politics and policing, and, as we TUE discover, there is no arguing with the brother! TUE TUE Meet the inimitable 'brother' as Myles regales us with that TUE most unusual of individual's latest exploits. TUE TUE Read by Jim Norton with Kevin Moore. TUE Producer Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 15:45 The Call b00y8tzn (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made or received TUE life-changing phone calls. TUE TUE Alex Evans was shopping in an Aberystwyth DIY store with his TUE mum when he took a call from his friend Mark Corbett. Mark TUE said he was on board a ship in the Caribbean and that it was TUE sinking. The radio wasn't working and the only number he TUE could remember was his best friend's. TUE TUE Alex grabbed a till receipt, borrowed a pen from his mum, TUE and started to take down the details. Both are volunteers TUE for the RNLI, but when Alex heard the name of the vessel in TUE distress there was a moment of hesitation. TUE TUE "When he said the yacht was called Titanic, I did have to TUE ask if this was a wind-up. But there was real panic in his TUE voice, so I knew it was the real thing.". TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b015ck9l (Listen) TUE Series 6, What happens next TUE TUE Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt catch up with listeners TUE whose captivating stories left them intrigued to find out TUE what happened next on their genealogical journeys. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b015ck9n (Listen) TUE Michael Morpurgo & Sara Maitland TUE TUE Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo joins short TUE story writer Sara Maitland and presenter Harriett Gilbert to TUE talk about the books they love, and share their enthusiasm TUE for their choices. TUE TUE Their favourite books cover the globe from Venezuela to TUE Edinburgh to Steep in Hampshire, where Michael Morpurgo and TUE the subject of his book both lived. He chooses Under Storm's TUE Wing by Helen Thomas, a collection of her memoirs and TUE letters about life with one of Britain's best-loved poets. TUE TUE Sara Maitland's book, House-Bound by Winifred Peck, is TUE described by all three as a real oddity, a book unlike any TUE other - but a rather good oddity. TUE TUE And Harriett Gilbert picks The Sickness by Alberto Barrera TUE Tyszka, a slender novel about a man with a terminal illness, TUE which turns out to be surprisingly gripping.. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b015jhw8 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0153yrf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00rblt5 (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Fall of Phallon and the Rise of Bugatox TUE TUE The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns to the TUE airwaves of Radio 4 with more shop based shenanigans and TUE over the counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and TUE his trusty sidekick Dave. Originally broadcast in February TUE 2010, this series 3 repeat enjoys a run in the 6.30pm comedy TUE slot. TUE TUE Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli TUE 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 TUE audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and TUE a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This series features guest TUE appearances from Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor Who) and Ron TUE Donachie (Titanic). TUE TUE In this episode: Ramesh takes it upon himself to reunite a TUE local couple who've split up, and he has to get busy after TUE the latest kids toy craze sweeps Lenzie. TUE TUE Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave ..... Donald Mcleary TUE Sanjay ..... Omar Raza TUE Alok ..... Susheel Kumar TUE Father Henderson ..... Gerard Kelly TUE Ted ..... Gavin Mitchell TUE Gay Alan ..... Tom Urie TUE Phil ..... Stewart Cairns TUE Mrs Gibb ..... Marjory Hogarth TUE Keenan ..... Max Merrill TUE TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b015ck9q (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b015ck9s (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who meets musician Peter Gabriel, as he TUE releases a new orchestral album. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015ck92 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b015ck9v (Listen) TUE Household gas and electricity bills are set to soar, leaving TUE millions at risk of 'fuel poverty' and vulnerable to cold as TUE winter approaches. TUE The government's hopes for recovery in UK manufacturing TUE industry are also threatened in key sectors by rocketing TUE energy prices. Some small and medium-sized businesses have TUE already been pushed into liquidation and there are fears TUE that others will follow. TUE Politically, attention is now focusing on the behaviour of TUE the so-called Big Six energy companies which supply 99% of TUE the gas and electricity used in British homes. TUE The regulator OFGEM accuses them of 'complex and unfair TUE pricing policies'. It wants to increase competition by TUE making it simpler for customers to decide to switch TUE suppliers. It finds that prices go up like a rocket but fall TUE like a feather. And it wants greater disclosure of corporate TUE accounting systems, to check for excessive profits. TUE Gerry Northam examines claims from some industry insiders TUE that the Big Six are behaving as the banks did before the TUE credit crunch - threatening economic recovery while TUE believing they are too big to fail. TUE Producer: Samantha Fenwick. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b015ck9x (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b015ck9z (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond talks to Jess Goodell about her role in TUE Mortuary Affairs in the US Marines. Jess's job was to TUE recover the remains of soldiers in Iraq so they could be TUE returned to the US. She talks about the psychological impact TUE of retrieving bodies often in the aftermath of Improvised TUE Explosive Devices. In her training she was told "PTSD is TUE real - like 'flu." In her insightful account of one aspect TUE of the Iraq conflict she explains how she developed PTSD and TUE how she dealt with the nightmares and depression on TUE returning home to civilian life. TUE TUE Also in the programme, there is a higher rate of premature TUE death in people with mental disorders. How much are the TUE drugs for some mental illnesses contributing to their risk TUE of disease? Anti psychotic drugs can increase the risk of TUE developing conditions like heart disease and diabetes in TUE people taking them. Claudia talks to psychiatrist, Dr Alex TUE Mitchell about a new review which looks at the latest TUE evidence on the world wide rates of metabolic abnormalities TUE in people with schizophrenia taking anti-psychotic drugs. TUE And are psychiatrists doing enough to monitor these TUE potentially health threatening side effects? TUE TUE 21:30 Capitalism on Trial b015ck8y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0153yrh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b015ckb1 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015ckb3 (Listen) TUE Catch 22, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Joseph Heller TUE TUE Nately has fallen in love with a whore in Rome and Orr crash TUE lands again and then attempts to persuade Yossarian to fly TUE with him in future. Yossarian refuses. It is a decision that TUE he will come to regret. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Read by Stuart Milligan TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00j7vtm (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 6 TUE TUE Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in hell. TUE TUE Satan has worked out how to return Baby Patrick to Earth TUE behind God's back. But God has eyes in his back and is now TUE feeling pretty wrathful. TUE TUE Satan ...... Andy Hamilton TUE Edith ...... Annette Crosbie TUE Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan TUE Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville TUE God ...... Timothy West TUE TUE With Mike Fenton Stevens, Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b015ckb5 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 OCTOBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0153ys5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b015j70j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0153ys7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0153ys9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0153ysc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0153ysf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015clyp (Listen) WED Presented by the Revd Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate WED Kirk, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b015clyr (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b015clyt (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday WED in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b015clyw (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b015j8fl (Listen) WED The Castrato and His Wife, Episode 3 WED WED Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando WED Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love WED affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell. WED WED In today's episode, Tenducci's growing fame takes him to WED Dublin, to sing in a season of operas in English. It's in WED Dublin that he first encounters a charismatic teenage girl, WED who will bring him adventures in love, but a brush with WED total ruin. WED WED Read by Greta Scacchi WED Abridged by Viv Beeby WED Produced by Emma Harding WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b015clyy (Listen) WED Presented by Jane Garvey, with the actress Kirsten Dunst on WED her new film Melancholia. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015cmrr (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 3 WED WED Pepys goes to Westminster Abbey at four in the morning to WED get his place on the scaffold for the Coronation of Charles WED II. It's a long wait - the King doesn't arrive until eleven. WED Sam and Elizabeth celebrate with friends at their old house WED in Axe Yard. Everyone gets drunk at the party afterwards and WED in traditional British fashion Pepys ends the night vomiting WED but happy. WED WED Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall WED Elizabeth Pepys. . . Katherine Jakeways WED Mr Payne . . . Matthew Gravelle WED Rebecca Allen . . . Rebecca Newman WED Sir William . . . Richard Mitchley WED John Pepys . . . Stephen Marzella WED Mrs Pepys . . . Manon Edwards WED Mrs Pierce . . . Siriol Jenkins WED WED Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by WED Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany WED Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David WED Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by WED Alice Baxter. WED Historical consultant: Liza Picard WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED WED A BBC Cymru/Wales Production directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Who Found Machu Picchu? b015cmrt (Listen) WED The story of Machu Picchu's discovery is one of myth, court WED cases and controversy. The popular account involves the WED central character, the prototype for India Jones, Hiram WED Bingham, who in 1911 stumbled upon the ancient ruins of an WED Inca city lost in the jungle. As Peru celebrates the WED centenary of it being found, explorer Hugh Thomson follows WED in Bingham's footsteps into the Andes to unearth the truth WED and the controversies about its discovery. WED WED So, was Bingham the first person to see Machu Picchu? A WED re-examination of his classic book, Lost City of the Incas, WED which describes the expedition and subsequent archaeological WED studies of the site, says otherwise. Behind the words is a WED determined and ambitious Yale professor who saw Machu Picchu WED as his ticket to world renowned. In his quest, Bingham all WED to often blurred fact with fiction. WED WED As a historian, he was ill-equipped to interpret the WED artefacts he'd brought back to Yale but nevertheless put WED forward suppositions about why the Inca's built Machu Picchu WED and what they used it for. Inflating its importance and WED hence his own, these myths - for example, that it was a WED spiritual retreat for the Virgins of the Sun - perpetuate WED today. So what was its real purpose? WED WED The thousands of Incan artefacts Bingham took out of Peru WED have been cause for controversy as well, culminating in a WED fiercely fought court case. The Peruvian government sued WED Yale university for breaking the contract to return the WED Machu Picchu artefacts. Finally, the case has been settled WED and many of the artefacts have been returned, and just in WED time for Peru's centenary celebrations, which are as much WED about reclaiming national pride and identity as world WED heritage. WED WED Producer: Dom Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 A Case for Paul Temple b015cmrw (Listen) WED In Which the Net Tightens WED WED Episode 7 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 to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed with equal success by two WED more revivals, Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery and Paul WED Temple and Steve. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of A Case for Paul Temple, in WED 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 7: In Which the Net Tightens WED WED Acting on a tip-off, and with the Flying Squad standing by, WED Temple lays a trap in Piccadilly Underground Station. 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 Sheila Baxter MELODY GROVE WED Mary ELIZA LANGLAND WED Charles Kelvin NICK UNDERWOOD WED Sir Gilbert Dryden MICHAEL MACKENZIE WED Jules Condré JOHN PAUL HURLEY WED Supt. Bradley SIMON TAIT WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He one of the most successful WED novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his day. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b015cms0 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0153ysj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b015cnnc (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b015cnnf (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b015ck9q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b015p5ft (Listen) WED In the Family WED WED In the Family by Sean Grundy. After ten years, Peter leaves WED Gillian for Laura. Distraught, Gillian goes round to Peter's WED parents to be consoled. They take her in - then things go a WED little weird. WED WED GILLIAN Tattersall.................... Diane Morgan WED PETER Wells...........................Colin Hoult WED BARBARA Wells......................Janine Duvitski WED COLIN Wells............................John Henshaw WED LAURA....................................Zoe Gardner WED TINA........................................Zah a Barri WED ALAN/Mr. FORESTER..............John Biddle WED HAPPY JONES........................Tony Marshall WED ANN Tattersall..........................Christine Hall WED BARRY Tattersall.....................Sean Grundy WED WED Director: Alison Crawford. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b015cnnm (Listen) WED Money Box Live with Paul Lewis and guests take your calls on WED energy and energy saving. WED WED Many households will be facing higher bills over the next WED few months as the major six energy companies have all raised WED their prices. Is this the time to go for a fixed rate deal? WED Or if you want to change energy supplier what penalties WED might you face? WED WED What are the best deals for people who use oil to heat their WED homes? WED WED Or you might want to know more about how to cut your bills WED by installing a heat pump or solar panels. What are the do's WED and don'ts? WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015cnnp (Listen) WED The Brother, Episode 2 WED WED The Brother WED By Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O'Brien) WED WED "Do you know what it is, the brother's an extraordinary WED genius." WED WED Read by Jim Norton with Kevin Moore. WED Producer Heather Larmour. WED WED 15:45 The Call b00yj5vd (Listen) WED Series 2, Answerphone Messages WED WED Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made or received WED life-changing phone calls. WED WED When he bought a brand new ansaphone machine back in 1985, WED Mark Craig decided not to re-cycle his tapes but to keep WED them all in a box. Twenty years later he opened the box and WED started to listen back to the audio diary of his life that WED he had inadvertently created. WED WED "I went to a remote house in Devon and spent days just WED listening to voices from my past. It was like therapy. It WED was their lives, but it was the story of my life as well." WED WED Carefully selecting messages to create a short film, Mark WED ended up with both a very personal story and a tale of WED "everyman", growing through reckless youth, loss, birth and WED eventually, wisdom. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b015cnnt (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b015ck9z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b015cnny (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0153ysl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00h8ym4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, WED Something Filled With Helium 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, love is in the air as a new suitor for Anne WED puts De Warenne's visor firmly out of joint. Meanwhile, a WED primitive SatNav and some surgically-introduced helium cause WED chaos at the altar... 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 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 b015cnp1 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b015cnp4 (Listen) WED Mark Lawson meets Kenneth Branagh, as he returns to the WED stage in his native Belfast. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015cmrr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b015cnys (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b015cnyv (Listen) WED Cindy Gallop WED WED Advertising guru Cindy Gallop argues that if as businesses WED and individuals we define what we stand for and stay true to WED it, we could embrace a world of zero privacy. WED WED Cindy describes her own embrace of zero privacy as rather WED more extreme than most, after a frank admission two years WED ago which has since gone viral online. She explains why she WED designed her internet startup to require its users to pause WED and reflect on what they stand for, and urges people from WED every walk of life to redesign their lives around what they WED want to do. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b015cnyx (Listen) WED High Speed Hell? WED WED The high speed rail line between London and Birmingham has WED already provoked plenty of anger along the length of its WED proposed route. But what's the truth about the level of WED noise and disruption that a development like this will WED really cause? WED WED In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap enlists a team of experts in WED noise, smell and psychology to test the impact of Britain's WED first high speed line to the Channel Tunnel and to gauge the WED likely impact of High Speed 2. He'll also be talking to WED railway historian Christian Wolmar to find out how rural WED Britain reacted to the sight of steam locomotives powering WED past the hay ricks and pitchfork-wielding peasants. WED WED Producer: Steve Peacock. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b015clyw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0153ysn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b015jj0w (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015cnyz (Listen) WED Catch 22, Episode 8 WED WED by Joseph Heller WED WED Orr is lost and, flying with McWatt, Yossarian is terrified WED by his gung-ho attitude and low-level flying, which is to WED have horrific consequences at the beach. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Read by Stuart Milligan WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b015cnz1 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of WED arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad WED night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim WED battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The WED two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, WED unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop WED up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's WED weaknesses. WED WED Frank says: "I've spent an unhealthy percentage of all my WED relationships in argument mode. Sometimes it's simply WED destructive but, on other occasions, it can be like an WED elaborate verbal dance. One of the characters in Don't Start WED talks about finding 'poetry amidst the bile'. Radio loves WED language and that gives me licence to explore a style of WED comedy that loves language too. I'm a fan of those Spencer WED Tracy/Katherine Hepburn films when their bickering is WED finely-crafted, funny, and yet somehow still very real. WED That's what I've tried to achieve with Don't Start." WED WED In today's episode: A text sparks the first of Neil and WED Kim's arguments. Via a Greek chorus, a not eating celery WED pact and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the couple WED spectacularly fail to agree. WED WED Neil ...... Frank Skinner WED Kim ...... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Producer/Director: Polly Thomas WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b00sdcxq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Another week shut away in a tiny windowless practice room WED for music teacher Nigel Penny in this aural feast of a WED musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild WED Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts WED Centre Manager Belinda. WED WED Episode 3 sees Nigel suffering his usual succession of WED bizarre pupils - an asthmatic flautist and a thrash metal WED guitarist proving particularly trying. And though Belinda is WED demanding to use his tiny room to hide booze from the WED Peruvian Pan Pipe band booked into the Arts Centre that WED evening, it's having to share his tiny room with an unwanted WED boorish guest that threatens to take the gloss off Nigel's WED already rubbish day. WED WED Nigel Penny ...... Richie Webb WED Belinda ...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson WED WED Written by Richie Webb WED Produced by Richie Webb WED Directed by Nick Walker WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b015cnz3 (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 OCTOBER 2011 THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b015j8fl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0153ytd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0153ytg (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0153ytj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0153ytl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015cpfh (Listen) THU Presented by the Revd Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate THU Kirk, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b015cpfk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b015cpfm (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in THU Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b015cpfp (Listen) THU David Hume THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the THU philosopher David Hume. A key figure in the Scottish THU Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, Hume was an THU empiricist who believed that humans can only have knowledge THU of things they have themselves experienced. His works, THU beginning in 1740 with A Treatise of Human Nature, have THU influenced thinkers from Adam Smith to Immanuel Kant and THU Charles Darwin, and today he is regarded by many people as THU the most important philosopher ever to write in English. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b015j8qm (Listen) THU The Castrato and His Wife, Episode 4 THU THU Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando THU Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love THU affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell. THU THU In today's episode, the couple are apprehended by Dorothea's THU parents and separated. But Dorothea proves her tenacity and THU her determination to remain with her husband. THU THU Read by Greta Scacchi THU Abridged by Viv Beeby THU Produced by Emma Harding THU THU 'The Castrato and His Wife' is published by Oxford THU University Press. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b015cpfr (Listen) THU Presented by Jane Garvey. The actress Olivia Colman on her THU new film Tyrannosaur. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015cpft (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 4 THU THU Pepys' friend Captain Ferrers is so excited at the THU possibility of going to sea with Lord Sandwich that he jumps THU straight through a top floor window and survives, much to THU Pepys' amazement. Later in the year, when his Uncle dies, THU Pepys goes to the house to help. He finds his uncle's papers THU in a mess, his aunt deranged, and a rapidly deteriorating THU corpse. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor. THU THU Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall THU Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways THU Captain Ferrers . . . Ewan Bailey THU Edward Montague, Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson THU John Pepys . . . Stephen Marzella THU Aunt . . . Manon Edwards THU Jane . . . Rebecca Newman THU Paulina . . . Rebecca Scott THU Captain Robert Holmes . . . Andrew Wincott THU THU Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by THU Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany THU Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David THU Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by THU Alice Baxter. THU Historical consultant: Liza Picard THU Sound by Nigel Lewis THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b015cpfw (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Lyrical Journey b015cpfy (Listen) THU Raintown THU THU Deacon Blue's 'Raintown' (from the album of the same name) THU has a special place in the hearts of many Glaswegians. THU Released in 1987at the start of a great period of change for THU the city, it has come to symbolise home, and a particular THU attitude. THU THU Ricky Ross is the the band's lyricist and singer - he THU explains to presenter Jonathan Maitland that his association THU of Glasgow with rain was inspired partly by shock - shock at THU how wet the weather was in the city when he moved there from THU Dundee, and that it is something of a surprise that the name THU 'Raintown' has come to mean so much to him and others. To THU find out why this should be the case, Jonathan looks at THU other representations of rain in Glasgow and discovers that THU there have been surprisingly few artists and writers who THU have wanted to dwell on the damp. Many Glaswegians think THU that carrying an umbrella means you are paying the weather THU too much attention. THU THU As a finale - Ricky performs a special acoustic version of THU the song at a piano bar in the city centre; he's joined in THU the audience by a new Glasgow band who have named themselves THU after the song, and a music journalist who feels that the THU song literally changed her life. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b015cpg0 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0153ytn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b015jj18 (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b015cnyx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b015cnp1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b015cpg2 (Listen) THU Hinterland THU THU by Francis Turnly THU THU When Garda officer Detective Sergeant Roisin MacKenna is THU called to the scene of a murder not far from the border THU between the North and South of Ireland she soon finds that THU boundaries, both geographical and moral, become blurred. THU THU A body has been found buried in an Irish peat bog. THU Identified as a farmer from Northern Ireland, Roisin is THU thrust into working with a PSNI counterpart, Darren Quinn, THU as her investigation takes her into the murky hinterland of THU the border area where nothing and no one is quite what they THU seem. THU THU Working together, Roisin and Darren must negotiate the THU limitations of their own jurisdictions and face up to the THU ambiguities of upholding the law in a landscape virtually THU impossible to police. THU THU Writer Francis Turnly's first radio play Pressing the Flesh, THU was short-listed for the Imison Award in 2003. Subsequent THU work for Radio 4 includes Point of Departure, Homestead and THU Shelter, an episode of the detective series Baldi. THU THU Roisin.........Catherine Cusack THU Cullen.........Frank O'Sullivan THU Quinn..........Stuart Graham THU Conor..........Brian Gleeson THU Alaister........Kieran Lagan THU Mrs Duffy.....Julia Dearden THU Rourke........Gerry O'Brien THU Deirdra........Cathy Belton THU Sean...........Frankie McCafferty THU Pathologist....Miche Doherty THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU THU Producer/Director Heather Larmour. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b015b91y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b015bqbc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015cr9h (Listen) THU The Brother, Episode 3 THU THU The Brother THU By Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O'Brien) THU THU THU Read by Jim Norton with Kevin Moore. THU Producer Heather Larmour. THU THU 15:45 The Call b00yqn6s (Listen) THU Series 2, The Samaritans THU THU Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made life-changing THU phone calls. THU THU Following a failed suicide attempt, Duncan Irvine made a THU phone call to the Samaritans that saved his life. THU THU In the 1970's Duncan lived in a small village in the THU Scottish borders with his mother, who was suffering from THU mental health problems. THU THU "She started hearing voices, and told me that the TV was THU talking to her. She would write down strange things like car THU numbers and putting them in my pocket. I got no help from THU our local doctor and I thought not helping her was my THU fault." THU THU Duncan was also struggling with the realisation that he was THU gay. THU THU "I felt guilty and ashamed about it all, and was afraid of THU speaking to anyone. I was depressed but no-one used that THU word then. Depressed was how you felt when Rangers lost at THU Ibrox." THU THU One day at work, the pressure overwhelmed him and he tried THU to cut his wrists. When that didn't work, he thought about THU throwing himself into the sea. As he walked the streets of THU Edinburgh, he saw a poster for the Samaritans and decided to THU give them a call. THU THU "Everything had been going round in my head and it seemed so THU big I couldn't cope with it....Talking through it made me THU realise maybe there are some things I can do about this a THU little bit at a time." THU THU Duncan now runs a pub in London and volunteers for the THU Samaritans. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b015brn8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b015crkj (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: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b015jhx7 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0153ytq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00scw1t (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU THU Charlie Brooker presents the new comedy panel show that THU seeks the best in wrong answers. He plunders his guests' THU pasts and creativity over a series of rounds in which THU panellists have to be wrong to be right. THU THU Comedians Lee Mack, Josie Long and Tom Basden are the guest THU panel for this edition. Their worst experiences on public THU transport and the wrongest ideas for high concept THU restaurants are up for comedy discussion. THU THU Plus Lee Mack takes Charlie to task over his chief modern THU pleasure - the social network Twitter. THU THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b015crkl (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b015crkn (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Frank THU Cottrell Boyce, who has written a sequel to Chitty Chitty THU Bang Bang. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015cpft (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b015crkq (Listen) THU The rate of school exclusions, both permanent and fixed THU term, has fallen over the past decade as successive THU governments have sought to keep children in education. THU Samantha Washington goes behind the figures and finds that THU an apparent success story masks systemic failures. Some THU students are being unofficially and illegally excluded THU without access to education. The Department of Education has THU estimated that thousands of excluded students go missing THU from school rolls. And where alternative provision for THU excluded pupils is provided, it operates in "a largely THU uninspected and unregulated sector." (OFSTED, June 2011) The THU costs are high, not only for the children but for society - THU many of those who are excluded never get an education, never THU work and all too often wind up in jail. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b015crks (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b015ck94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b015cpfp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0153yts (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b015jj1b (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015crrc (Listen) THU Catch 22, Episode 9 THU THU by Joseph Heller THU THU Yossarian begs Nately not to volunteer for any more THU missions. Nately's whore has finally fallen in love with THU Nately, just before he is lost on a bombing raid to La THU Spezia. Nately's whore holds Yossarian responsible for THU Nately's death and comes after him with first a potato THU peeler then a bread knife. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Read by Stuart Milligan THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 23:00 Very Old Pretenders b015crrf (Listen) THU On Television THU THU The last episode in the present series of Carl Gorham's THU culture clash comedy. With his marriage under severe strain, THU Andrew Merron introduces the Jacobites to the world of THU television. He attempts to turn the radio show he is making THU into a TV series and is on the verge of a deal when the THU executive in charge accidentally insults the scots and they THU attack him with his own Bafta. A depressed Merron then finds THU his wife has left him and hits the bottle, introducing the THU men to the ways of modern self -pity. The picture looks THU hopeless till Merron finds help from an unlikely source. THU THU Andrew Merron......................David Haig THU Denise Merron..................Rebecca Front THU Rab ....................................Jack Docherty THU Macdonald........................Gordon Kennedy THU David Roberts ...... Nicholas Burns THU THU Producer: Gordon Kennedy THU An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b015crrh (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 OCTOBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0153yvc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b015j8qm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0153yvf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0153yvh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0153yvk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0153yvm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015csl5 (Listen) FRI Presented by the Revd Neil Gardner, minister of Canongate FRI Kirk, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b015csl7 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b015csl9 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b015bqbm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b015j7l1 (Listen) FRI The Castrato and His Wife, Episode 5 FRI FRI Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando FRI Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love FRI affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell. FRI FRI In today's episode, Giusto and Dorothea Tenducci begin a new FRI life in Italy, but their marriage soon comes under strain. FRI FRI Read by Greta Scacchi FRI Abridged by Viv Beeby FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 'The Castrato and His Wife' is published by Oxford FRI University Press. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b015cslc (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Sheila McClennon. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015cslf (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 5 FRI FRI Pepys plays a trick on Sir William by stealing his silver FRI tankard and sending an anonymous ransom note demanding FRI thirty shillings for its return. The diarist ends 1661 as he FRI began, worrying that he's spending too much money on going FRI to see plays and drinking wine. He makes a resolution to be FRI much more restrained in his pleasures next year. FRI FRI Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall FRI Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways FRI Will . . . John Biddle FRI Captain Ferrers . . . Ewan Bailey FRI Sir William . . . Richard Mitchley FRI FRI Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by FRI Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David FRI Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by FRI Alice Baxter. FRI Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Home from Home b015cslh (Listen) FRI Mumbai FRI FRI As India's economy has boomed, many British Indians - born FRI or brought up in the UK to immigrant Indian parents - have FRI been encouraged to make the reverse journey. FRI FRI In two programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli visits the centres of FRI Bangalore and Mumbai and tracks down some of those who have FRI decided to change their lives and make a go of it in India. FRI But do they see themselves as Indian or British? What do FRI they relish and what do they miss? FRI FRI In the second programme Hardeep is in Mumbai - 20 million FRI people crammed into this coastal centre offering everything FRI from Bollywood to Banking. One of the most successful FRI British entrepreneurs is Nanesh Patel who from his factory FRI in Leicester managed to export samosas to Chennai. So FRI successful and so tasty was their reception that he built a FRI factory in Gujerat and now sends them throughout India and FRI the world. An equally successful export is the rap singer FRI Hard Kaur. Born in India she came with her mother and FRI brother to Birmingham when she was 12 and started singing FRI after leaving school. But, as she tells Hardeep, it was the FRI Indian fans that have made her a huge star, and though she FRI returns to visit her mother in Birmingham, Mumbai is her FRI base. FRI FRI There's also Anita Patel from Leicester who's running her FRI wedding planner service taking couples to glamorous FRI locations, and Yusuf Hatia who's set up a public relations FRI company from scratch and feels the dynamism and energy. FRI FRI Would Hardeep join these and the others who have taken the FRI plunge and sought new opportunities in India? He tests his FRI own talents as a stand-up performer when he does a gig at FRI the Mumbai Comedy Store, an offshoot of the London centre FRI for stand-up comedians and aimed at the young liberal Mumbai FRI middleclass. If they laugh loud and long enough, would he be FRI tempted... FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b015ctw6 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Rude Girl FRI FRI In Episode Three 'Rude Girl'; Social Worker, Clare Barker, FRI is concerned she may be linguistically out of touch with FRI today's youth. Brian fails to impress Clare with numerous FRI romantic gestures. A Heating Engineer causes a stir in the FRI Family Centre and Megan causes chaos. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control FRI both her professional and private life FRI FRI In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out FRI there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. FRI FRI SALLY PHILLIPS Clare FRI ALEX LOWE Brian FRI NINA CONTI Megan / Nali / Beautician FRI RICHARD LUMSDEN Ray FRI LIZA TARBUCK Helen FRI ANDREW WINCOTT Simon / John Harris / Youth Leader FRI SARAH KENDALL Libby FRI NATHAN CATON Daniel FRI GERARD McDERMOT Mr Truscott / Barman / Paramedic FRI STEFAN RAMSDEN Thomas FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI FRI Producer Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b015ctw8 (Listen) FRI A celebration of the achievements of blind people reflected FRI in the 50th Anniversary of In Touch. (First broadcast 8th FRI October 1961) FRI FRI In a special one hour programme recorded in the Radio FRI Theatre with a live audience, Peter White brings together an FRI array of talented blind and visually impaired people from FRI the politics, entertainment and music Joining in the FRI celebration will be David Blunket, Sue Townsend, Ryan Kelly FRI from the Archers, Opera singer Denise Leigh and national FRI treasure Denis Norden. FRI Producer; Cheryl Gabriel. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0153yvp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b015jj1x (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b015ctwb (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b015crkl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b015ctwd (Listen) FRI Bad Faith - Series 2, Insha'Allah FRI FRI by Peter Jukes FRI Insha'Allah FRI FRI Jake is three months into his secondment in West Yorkshire; FRI it's Spring and love is in the air, but during an FRI investigation into a missing Muslim teenager, Jake gives out FRI more information than he should, unleashing violent elements FRI beyond his control. FRI FRI Jake Thorne ..... Lenny Henry FRI Edie Gosling ..... Nadine Marshall FRI Kevin Stanhope ..... Conrad Nelson FRI Alyssa Mayes ..... Seroca Davis FRI Tony Wingard ..... Clive Russell FRI Chief Supt Sufiq Khan ..... Vincent Ebrahim FRI Azad Hasan ..... Pushpinder Chani FRI Marianne Brown ..... Claire Benedict FRI Omar Mohammed ..... Peter Polycarpou FRI Traffic Police Officer ..... Carl Prekopp FRI FRI directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b015ctwg (Listen) FRI Stoke Poges FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this gardening discussion from Berkshire. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden answer FRI the questions. FRI FRI We peek into panellist Matthew Wilson's garden to see how he FRI is transforming his small, urban garden. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Call b00yyg1w (Listen) FRI Series 2, Forensics FRI FRI Dominic Arkwright talks to Professor Peter French of York FRI University about the art and science of forensic acoustics, FRI including speaker profiling, voice line-ups, and sound FRI enhancement. FRI FRI Developments in new technology mean that sound recordings FRI can be examined and prepared for use in extortion, blackmail FRI and murder trials. Also, the proliferation of digital FRI recordings in all walks of life mean that copies of FRI recordings for evidential purposes can now be taken from FRI mobile telephones, voicemail services, digital dictaphones, FRI digital answer phones and other devices. So just how much FRI information can be extracted from a phone call, and how much FRI of ourselves do we reveal in conversation? FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b015ctwj (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 b015ctwl (Listen) FRI Francine Stock travels to Manhattan for an extended FRI interview with the supreme exponent of screen neurosis in FRI the 1970s and beyond, Woody Allen, currently enjoying his FRI biggest box office success in years with Midnight in Paris. FRI FRI Producer: Craig Smith. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b015jhy2 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0153yvr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b015ctwn (Listen) FRI Series 75, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Andy FRI Hamilton and Bob Mills. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b015ctwq (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b015frnk (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015cslf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b015cvcr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and FRI politics from the Cheltenham Literary Festival with FRI Secretary of State for Defence, Liam Fox; and Shadow FRI Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, FRI Caroline Flint. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b015cvct (Listen) FRI Reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00ny6r4 (Listen) FRI Vent FRI FRI Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion, but he won't FRI engage with the world around him, preferring to stay safely FRI in his own fantasy world. A funny and moving drama about not FRI being dead. FRI FRI Ben... Neil Pearson FRI Mary... Fiona Allen FRI Mum... Josie Lawrence FRI Blitz... Leslie Ash FRI Naz... Robert Webb FRI Ellie... Rachel Isaac FRI Bitch nurse... Joanna Brookes FRI Karl / HG Wells... Matthew Kelly FRI Katy... Laura Doddington FRI Mr Arcola... Bruce Alexander FRI Bea... Scarlett Milburn-Smith FRI FRI Directed by Nigel Smith FRI Produced by Gareth Edwards. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0153yvt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b015jj1z (Listen) FRI With Robin Lustig. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015cvcw (Listen) FRI Catch 22, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Joseph Heller FRI FRI In the final episode, Colonel Korn offers Yossarian a deal, FRI there is news of Orr and we discover the truth about what FRI happened with Snowden. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Read by Stuart Milligan FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b015ck9n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Pistols at Dawn b00s6svn (Listen) FRI Between 1613 and 1614 it is claimed that every distinguished FRI family in the UK lost a member to duelling. James I even FRI campaigned against it, but the aristocracy wanted to retain FRI it as a legal way of settling disputes 'honourably'. The FRI practice continued until it was eventually outlawed at the FRI end of the nineteenth century. Until it was, the duel has a FRI fascinating place in British history as a means of 'solving' FRI dispute and novelists and playwrights have been using it as FRI a way of spicing up plots and intrigue along the way. FRI FRI As a youngster, Justin Champion loved adventure novels which FRI were jam-packed with sword play - The Three Musketeers, The FRI Prisoner of Zenda and Scott's Waverley series. He has always FRI been intrigued as to why men felt the urgency to defend FRI their honour in such a dangerous way. In this programme, he FRI tracks the history of the duel, its influence, some FRI particularly pivotal duels, is shown how to sword fight and FRI thinks he's found the reason why duelling eventually ceased FRI as a practice in the UK. FRI FRI Justin talks to experts of Shakespeare to discuss how FRI frequently the Bard picked up on the duelling debate in many FRI of his plays including Romeo and Juliet. He visits the Royal FRI Armouries Collection in Leeds to witness a sword fight. FRI Justin is shown the techniques and is handed a sword for a FRI tutorial. He charts the move from sword to pistol and gets a FRI tour behind the scenes at the Royal Armouries Collection to FRI look at some important swords and pistols involved in FRI duelling. FRI FRI Justin also talks to fellow historians about significant FRI duels and their political and literary impact. The duel has FRI even been used by Cabinet Ministers and Prime Ministers as a FRI way of settling their differences. We hear from the BBC FRI Deputy Political Editor, James Landale (who tells the story FRI of his ancestor's involvement in the last fatal duel in FRI Scotland in 1826) and who also tells listeners about FRI Wellington's engagement in a duel in Battersea. FRI FRI Listeners will also hear from a social historian of the 19th FRI century about how the meaning of "honour" changed for men FRI during this period and how a pension arrangement changed FRI forever as the willingness of men to accept an invitation to FRI "pistols at dawn". FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor. FRI