06 January, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 07/01/2012 - 13/01/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 07 JANUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b018xtx6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b018xy24 (Listen) SAT Looking for Transwonderland, Episode 5 SAT SAT Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer SAT she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an SAT annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all SAT her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her SAT father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the SAT military government causing international outrage, and she SAT didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to SAT rediscover and come to terms with the country her father SAT loved. The emotional conclusion to her journey takes her to SAT her father's house in Port Harcourt and then on to her SAT ancestral village, where she is reunited with members of her SAT extended family. SAT SAT Read by Janice Acquah SAT Abridged by Laurence Wareing SAT Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018xtx8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018xtxb (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018xtxd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b018xtxg (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018xymt (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Nicholas Papadopulos. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b018xymw (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b018xtxj (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b018xtxl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b018xwcv (Listen) SAT Knockando woolmill, near Aberlour on Speyside, has produced SAT fabric since 1784. Its original machinery has supported SAT families down the centuries and the mill has retained a SAT place at the heart of the local community, working with wool SAT from local sheep and weaving tweed and blankets for the SAT flocks' owners. A break had to come, though, for renovation SAT and renewal work which, it is hoped, will allow it to SAT continue its work into the next century and beyond. The SAT trust which runs the mill is determined that it should SAT continue to be far more than a living museum, so Helen Mark SAT visits Knockando just as the restoration work comes to an SAT end to ask where it might market its products, whether SAT anyone nowadays has the skills to keep it alive, and how the SAT Knockando community can be involved in its survival. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark. SAT Producer : Moira Hickey. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0194490 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b018xtxn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0194492 (Listen) SAT Presented by Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0194494 (Listen) SAT Twiggy, Luke Wright, Arlene Phillips, Body Double, Boy Bus SAT Driver, Born in a Cab SAT SAT Richard Coles with fashion icon Twiggy, poet Luke Wright, a SAT woman whose baby was born in the back of a cab, a boy who SAT drives his own school bus, a 70 year old Hollywood body SAT double, and the man who recovered the wreck of Donald SAT Campbell's Bluebird. Plus choreographer Arlene Phillips' SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Anna Bailey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0194496 (Listen) SAT Hitchhiking veteran - Butterflies - Burma SAT SAT John McCarthy meets three intrepid women travellers who SAT cross the generations as well as the continents. Naomi SAT Molten is a veteran of many adventures through south-east SAT Asia, India and Afghanistan as well as Europe and the Far SAT East, travelling mostly alone during the 1950s. Isobel Talks SAT is a young student who has just returned from Ecuador where SAT she lived and worked in different local communities as well SAT as tracking down the rare butterfly that was named after SAT her. She also visited Bolivia and the Galapagos Islands. SAT Felicity Goodall is a writer who has retraced the steps SAT taken by evacuees escaping the Japanese Army in 1942. She SAT recounts the horrific experiences of half a million people SAT who fled for their lives on the remarkable trek from Burma SAT to India. SAT Felicity's own father served in the British army then and SAT had a lucky escape when his wristwatch deflected a Japanese SAT bullet. SAT SAT Producer: Margaret Collins. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b019dtgp (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT SAT Meera Syal reveals her love of the boxing ring in the first SAT of a new series of "Reasons To Be Cheerful". The SAT multi-talented writer, actress and comedian exercises by SAT getting into the ring and taking slugs at her trainer Paul SAT Webb. Meera, who describes herself as a "pacifist boxer", SAT says the fact that women can now enjoy this male dominated SAT sport is one of her big Reasons To Be Cheerful. SAT SAT This is the third series of the programme which takes a SAT light hearted swipe at the Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old SAT Women who usually control the airwaves. Meera, star of The SAT Kumars at No. 40 and Goodness Gracious Me, praises karaoke SAT as a wonderful piece of modern living, which allows even the SAT shyest person in the room to get up and shine. The mother of SAT two also looks at modern motherhood and the improved way SAT that parents are communicating with their children. SAT SAT She is joined by experts Rosalind Edwards, Professor in SAT Social Policy at the University of Southampton, Professor SAT Kath Woodward from the Open University and Ethnomusicologist SAT Rachel Harris from the School of Oriental and African SAT Studies. Meera visits the Centre for Well-Being and quizzes SAT founder Nic Marks for tips on how to live a well balanced SAT life. SAT SAT Meanwhile she does her best to convince fellow actress and SAT comedian Helen Lederer to renounce her grumpy ways. SAT SAT Producers: Jo Coombs and Martin McNamara. SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b0194498 (Listen) SAT The Men's Vote SAT SAT There's been much political talk recently about attracting SAT the women's vote. The Tories are said to be losing their SAT traditional strength among women. Labour have been trying to SAT exploit this. It's the latest episode in a contest for SAT women's votes visible in the last election, as leaders SAT courted the so-called Mumsnet vote and addressed issues said SAT to concern women in particular. SAT But what about the male vote? Why is that never talked about SAT in the same way? Do men vote differently to women? Can they SAT be won over by particular language, certain policies and so SAT on? Why don't parties spend their energy trying to appeal to SAT men? Or do they privately plan how to improve their appeal SAT to male voters, but avoid trumpeting it for fear of SAT alienating women? SAT In this programme Anita Anand investigates how a party might SAT go about trying to attract more of the male vote. She visits SAT a group in Brighton trying to put men's issues on the policy SAT agenda, and explores how political advertising, which has SAT always treated men and women differently, might be used. And SAT she discusses with pollsters and political experts why there SAT is still such a difference in the way the different genders SAT are approached by the parties and their campaigners. SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b019449b (Listen) SAT Can international pressure on the military-backed government SAT in Burma be relaxed now a series of reforms is underway? SAT Fergal Keane has been accompanying the British foreign SAT secretary on his visit there and offers an assessment of SAT latest developments there. A year after the assassination of SAT the Governor of Punjab Owen Bennett-Jones has been to SAT Pakistan to examine the impact that killing's had there. SAT John Sweeney talks of how it may be eighty years since SAT millions of Ukrainians died in a famine but the tragedy SAT remains deeply controversial today, the reasons behind it SAT still the subject of heated debate. Libby Spurrier's just SAT been for a cruise down the River Nile and says it's clear SAT that ten months of instability in Egypt has proved SAT devastating for that country's tourist industry. Stephen SAT Sackur's been getting tips on gastronomy from the man behind SAT what some say is the world's best restaurant and he's SAT emerged with controversial suggestions about what you might SAT want on your Christmas table next December! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b019449d (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b018xy2x (Listen) SAT Series 76, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b018xtxq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b018xtxs (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b018xy33 (Listen) SAT Preston, Hertfordshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Preston, Hertfordshire, with Stephen Twigg, SAT Shadow Secretary of State for Education; Lionel Barber, SAT Editor of the Financial Times; Jesse Norman, Conservative MP SAT and author of The Big Society; and Constance Briscoe, SAT barrister and author of memoirs Ugly and Beyond Ugly. SAT SAT Producer: Kirsten Lass. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b019449g (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b019449j (Listen) SAT The Quest of Donal Q SAT By David Ashton SAT SAT Based on the template of Don Quixote, The Quest of Donal Q, SAT is the story of two rival brothers who journey through SAT Scotland in search of a childhood sweetheart. Specially SAT written for and starring Brian Cox and Billy Connolly. SAT SAT DONAL (Billy Connolly) and SANDY (Brian Cox) have been SAT separated as kids in an orphanage. Donal adopted by a rich SAT couple and taken off to grow up in sunny California, Sandy SAT never chosen and left to live all his life in not quite so SAT sunny Dundee. SAT SAT It's ten years since the brothers last met and at that time SAT they had a fierce falling out. Now Donal is back - turning SAT up out of the blue at Sandy's tobacconist shop, "Paterson's SAT Inferno", to demand that his brother drop everything and SAT travel on an urgent mission. SAT SAT The Quest is to find a girl they were both in love with at SAT the Orphanage; Jeanette, red haired, fair skinned and SAT beautiful. An ideal princess. Donal claims she has written SAT to say that she's in dire straits and needs a knight in SAT shining armour to come to her rescue. SAT SAT And so begins a journey - a journey that will make or break SAT both brothers as conflict breaks out between past, present SAT and future. SAT SAT Donal ....................... BILLY CONNOLLY SAT Sandy ...................... BRIAN COX SAT Hamish/Mr Quigley.... JOHN KIELTY SAT Jeanette/Leonora ...... SANDY McDADE SAT Fergus/Mungo .......... FORBES MASSON SAT Mother/Maybelle ....... LINDY WHITEFORD SAT Mary ........................ HELEN MACKAY SAT Margo/Mrs Quigley.... TRACY WILES SAT Gilchrist.................... CARL PREKOPP SAT Prester John/Ernie .... DAVID ASHTON SAT Candy ...................... VICTORIA INEZ HARDY SAT SAT Producer/Director.......David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 15:30 How Folk Songs Should Be Sung b018wy4j (Listen) SAT Immediately after the success of the BBC Radio Ballads, Ewan SAT MacColl set about the Herculean task of trying to drag SAT British folk music into mainstream culture. Frustrated by SAT the dreary amateurishness of folk song performance, he SAT decided to establish his own centre of excellence to SAT professionalise the art. He called it "The Critics Group". SAT SAT MacColl tutored select artists "to sing folk songs the way SAT they should be sung" and to think about the origins of what SAT they were singing. He introduced Stanislavski technique and SAT Laban theory into folk performance and explored style, SAT content and delivery. SAT SAT BBC producer Charles Parker recorded these sessions to aid SAT group analysis. 40 years on, the tapes have come to light. SAT For the first time, a clear sound picture can be constructed SAT of this influential group in action. Former group members SAT Peggy Seeger, Sandra Kerr, Frankie Armstrong, Richard Snell, SAT Brian Pearson and Phil Colclough recount six frantic years SAT of rehearsing, performing and criticising each other. They SAT recall the powerful hold that Ewan MacColl exerted which was SAT eventually to lead to the collapse of the group in acrimony SAT and blame. SAT SAT Presenter Martin Carthy MBE, now an elder statesman of the SAT British folk music scene, shared many of McColl's ambitions SAT but didn't join the group himself. He listens to the SAT recordings and assesses the legacy of MacColl's SAT controversial experiment. SAT SAT Producers: Genevieve Tudor and Chris Eldon Lee SAT A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01944jz (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01944k1 (Listen) SAT Carolyn Quinn presents a fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b018xymw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b018xtxx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b018xtxz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018xty1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01944k3 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT BBC political editor Nick Robinson talks to Clive about the SAT new series of 'Decision Time' on Radio 4. Nick will be SAT opening up the doors of Whitehall and Westminster to ask how SAT controversial decisions are reached. The series starts SAT Wednesday 11th January at 20.00. SAT SAT Morwenna Banks drops in from the Chatsworth Estate to talk SAT about playing ruthless project consultant Carmen in the new SAT series of 'Shameless'. The Gallaghers and half the estate SAT are being evicted, as part of a crackdown on the benefits SAT culture in social housing. Will Chatsworth take it lying SAT down, or will the underbelly strike back? 'Shameless' SAT returns to Channel 4 on Tuesday 10th January at 22.00. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi will be co-habiting with comedian Milton Jones, SAT whose Channel 4 comedy showcase 'House Of Rooms' sees Milton SAT and his mother trying to manage a house of uncontrollable SAT tenants. 'House of Rooms' is on Friday 13th January at SAT 22.30. SAT SAT Award winning actor Rory Kinnear discusses his role as SAT Reverend Septimus Crisparkle in the BBC's new two-part SAT adaptation of Dickens' 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. Rory SAT plays a provincial choirmaster in a disturbing and strangely SAT modern tale of drugs, stalking and darkness visible. Episode SAT one is on Tuesday 10th January on BBC Two at 21.00. SAT SAT Brooklyn quintet Milagres perform 'Here To Stay' from their SAT debut album 'Glowing Mouth'. They won't be staying long as SAT they're currently on a UK tour. SAT SAT Spaghetti Western Orchestra saddle up and gallop in to bring SAT the Wild Wild West to the Loose Ends studio. They perform SAT 'Unplugged Medley' with various unconventional instruments, SAT including playing cards, coat hangers and cornflake packets. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01944k5 (Listen) SAT Imran Khan SAT SAT As two men begin life sentences for the murder of Stephen SAT Lawrence, Andy Denwood profiles Imran Khan the lawyer who SAT helped the teenager's family in their tireless fight for SAT justice. When he was first contacted about the murder of a SAT young black man in south London, Khan was a little SAT known-solicitor who had qualified only 18 months earlier. SAT He's since acted in some of the most high profile cases in SAT recent British legal history. He represented the family of SAT Victoria Climbie at the public inquiry into her death and SAT has also been involved in major terrorist trials, including SAT the 21st July London bombings. SAT SAT Born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1964, his family emigrated to SAT England four years later. But life in 70's and 80's east SAT London was tough. They were the only Asian family on their SAT street and Khan would often get into fights at school. These SAT early experiences are thought to have motivated him to fight SAT against racism and injustice. They also shaped his political SAT views and he stood in the 1997 general election for East SAT Ham, representing Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party. SAT SAT Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01944k7 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT The Iron Lady SAT SAT The Iron Lady is on general release, certificate 12A. SAT SAT Jack Holmes and His Friend SAT SAT Jack Holmes and His Friend, by Edmund White, is published by SAT Bloomsbury. SAT SAT Mother and Child SAT SAT Mother and Child is at selected cinemas, certificate 15. SAT SAT Fog SAT SAT Fog continues at the Finborough Theatre in London until 28 SAT January. SAT SAT The Mystery of Edwin Drood SAT SAT The Mystery of Edwin Drood is in two parts which go out on SAT BBC2 on Tuesday and Wednesday next week at 9pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01944rf (Listen) SAT John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice SAT SAT This is a programme to mark the twentieth anniversary of the SAT death of John Arlott. SAT SAT It is not an exercise in nostalgia about a man universally SAT considered to be the greatest cricket commentator and 'the SAT voice of an English summer' it is an exploration of Arlott SAT as a political figure both inside and outside the world of SAT cricket. SAT SAT John Arlott's politics can best be summed up as those of a SAT radical liberal, and he twice stood unsuccessfully as a SAT parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party. But he would SAT have found obedience to the party whip difficult, and he SAT rarely adopted a party political stance during the many SAT years that he appeared on the panel of the BBC Home SAT Service's Any Questions. He appeared with such people as SAT Richard Man, Michael Foot and a young Margaret Thatcher; and SAT he attacked the political orthodoxies of both left and SAT right. He always championed the 'common man' against the SAT power or money or privilege. SAT SAT His political bravery was most obvious within the deeply SAT conservative world of English cricket. He challenged its SAT leaders prejudices on both race and class. He was SAT responsible for bringing Basil D'Oliveira to England, and we SAT broadcast - for the first time - the correspondence between SAT the two men in 1960. He refused to commentate when white SAT South African teams came, and he was centrally involved in SAT the Stop The Tour campaign in 1970. We interview Peter Hain SAT about Arlott's influence. He also supported the Professional SAT Cricketers Association - the players' trade union - and said SAT that being elected its first President was the greatest SAT honour ever shown him. SAT SAT The programme uses archive from the BBC and beyond. Written SAT and presented by Mark Whitaker. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Whitaker SAT A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b018w867 (Listen) SAT The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Ayeesha Menon SAT SAT Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles SAT Dickens 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and sets it amongst the Catholic SAT community in modern-day Mumbai, India. SAT SAT Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old SAT recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, SAT Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit SAT nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost SAT to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey SAT (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans SAT are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers SAT a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the SAT extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his SAT fortune. SAT SAT Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), SAT an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a SAT fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and SAT murder... SAT SAT Thomas, an orphan, is apprentice to the scheming architect SAT Pinto, a cousin to miserly old Martin Chuzzlewit, the SAT richest landlord in Bandra. Drawn into the world of the SAT Chuzzlewits, he forms a close friendship with the spirited SAT Mickey, grandson of Martin and heir to the family fortune. SAT When old Martin gets ill, Thomas witnesses attempts by SAT family members to worm their way into his life and secure SAT his fortune, while Mickey gives up everything in pursuit of SAT love... SAT SAT Martin ..... Roshan Seth SAT Thomas ..... Karan Pandit SAT Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala SAT Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur SAT Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla SAT Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon SAT Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir SAT Joseph ..... Nadir Khan SAT Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur SAT Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital SAT Louis ..... Rohit Malkani SAT Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel SAT Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri SAT Manek ..... Vivek Madan SAT Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon SAT Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg SAT SAT Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja SAT Sound Design: David Chilton SAT Music: Sacha Puttnam SAT Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan SAT SAT Producer: John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b018xty3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b018xtry (Listen) SAT Series 4, Butting Out and Letting Go SAT SAT In the early years parents control their children's lives, SAT but a failure to foster independence even in young children SAT is key to debates being had now about whether young people SAT are coping at university and work and with life in general. SAT SAT Are we raising a generation unable to deal practically and SAT emotionally with adult life after years of parental SAT indulgence and funding? The recession and rising house SAT prices might mean that adult children increasingly come back SAT home or never leave, so - once they're over 18 is your SAT opinion relevant? Should you expect an input about big SAT decisions and is seeking parental approval good for adults? SAT Research about the impact of the situation in Italy where 8 SAT out of 10 men between 18 and 30 live with their parents SAT suggests that parents 'bribe' their children by offering SAT home comforts and security in return for compliance. SAT SAT So are we risking young people less inclined to seek work SAT and control their own lives? And when do you need to start SAT letting them go? How do you help your child become SAT themselves - do we know what's hard-wired and what are the SAT key developmental moments? SAT SAT With Dr Terri Apter, author of 'The Myth of Maturity', the SAT journalist Deborah Orr, Dr Helene Guldberg, author of SAT 'Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear' SAT and Matt Whyman, who offers advice to young people about how SAT to manage their parents via the advice web-site TheSite.org. SAT SAT Producer: Erin Riley. SAT SAT Reading Suggestions SAT SAT The recommended reading mentioned in the programme were: SAT SAT 'Is It Legal? A families' guide to the law' 4th edition SAT which is available from the Family and Parenting Institute SAT http://www.familyandparenting.org/ SAT SAT And, the NSPCC brochures about keeping children safe are SAT available from SAT www.nspcc.org.uk SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b018wh33 (Listen) SAT (8/17) SAT Russell Davies hosts the eighth heat of the current series SAT of the evergreen general knowledge quiz, featuring SAT competitors from East Lothian, West Yorkshire, Merseyside SAT and Nottinghamshire. This week the programme comes from the SAT BBC studios in Salford. SAT SAT The winner will go through to the semi-finals and will be SAT one step closer to the coveted title of 'Brain of Britain SAT 2012'. SAT SAT As ever, a Brain of Britain listener gets the chance to SAT outwit the contestants with devious questions of his or her SAT own, in 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b018wb0j (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT The third in Ruth Padel's landmark series exploring the SAT pleasures of writing and reading poems comes from Newcastle, SAT where Ruth leads a workshop for group of poets working on SAT their own poems on the theme of The City. SAT SAT Poetry and poetry fans are everywhere - on the underground, SAT buses and the internet; in schools, colleges and SAT universities; on the stage at slams and festivals; in pubs, SAT theatres and concert halls; in reading groups and writing SAT workshops. All over the country groups of aspiring poets SAT meet regularly to work together on their craft, and in this SAT series Ruth taps into the energy of these poetry workshops SAT to explore how poems work for both writers and readers. In SAT Newcastle, she joins seven poets at the beginning of their SAT writing careers, who have all won recent awards for their SAT poetry, to work on some of their poems on the theme of The SAT City The text of all the poems featured will be available on SAT the Radio 4 website a few days before the broadcast. SAT SAT Ruth and the group listen to the poems and offer practical SAT and inspirational pointers to each other. As they go behind SAT the scenes of the poems, testing and pruning, exploring SAT technical points like structure, rhyme and line endings, SAT they reveal the imagination and the skill that makes poetry SAT so rewarding for both writers and readers of poetry. SAT SAT The group also share and appreciate a poem by the award SAT winning poet Sean O'Brien called Essay on Snow. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Davies. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 JANUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01940dl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brief Sparks b01946nz (Listen) SUN The Snobs SUN SUN Muriel Spark had one of the most distinctive voices in SUN twentieth-century writing, was capable of incisive and SUN darkly-comic observation, and won prizes for her writing SUN across the World. SUN SUN Spark worked as a novelist, dramatist and children's author, SUN but it is perhaps her short stories that best exemplify her SUN sharp eye and beautifully-crafted work, where she coolly SUN probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath veneer of human SUN respectability. The three stories in this series include the SUN darkly funny 'Ladies and Gentlemen', which contrasts well SUN with the wry humour of social comedy 'Snobs' and the sharp SUN satire of class, aspiration and phobia in 'You Should Have SUN Seen the Mess'. SUN SUN The series begins with Patricia Hodge reading 'The Snobs', a SUN deliciously acerbic and witty dissection of snobbery, SUN insensitivity and social climbing. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01940dn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01940dq (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01940ds (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01940dv (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01946p1 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Lawrence Jewry in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01944k5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01940dx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01946p3 (Listen) SUN Touch Me, Touch Me Not SUN SUN Mark Tully considers our sense of touch and how we take it SUN for granted. Somehow our other senses seem more active, even SUN more important to us. We might fear the loss of our sight, SUN or our hearing, but seldom do we worry about losing the SUN ability to touch. But how would we cope without being able SUN to feel anything through our skin? Or, indeed, how would we SUN function if we could not feel our limbs? Tully relates the SUN case of Ian Waterman who had to face life without the sense SUN of touch when he lost all sensation below the neck at the SUN age of nineteen. SUN SUN He also looks at different cultural attitudes to touch, from SUN the reserved Anglo-Saxon handshake to the more SUN "touchy-feely" ways of greeting in Latin countries. What do SUN our ways of touching, or not touching, say about us? SUN SUN The programme also considers the notion of inappropriate SUN touch, but at the same time explores the dangers of avoiding SUN touch for fear of being accused of wrong-doing. Tully quotes SUN from author, Judy Rigby, who maintains: "All too often, when SUN we hear about touch, it's in the context of pornography, SUN abuse and violence ... we are afraid of touching because our SUN actions might be misinterpreted. Hence children are deprived SUN of appropriate touch at a very early age. Our response has SUN been analogous to that of a person, who having eaten some SUN bad food, decides that the best course of action in the SUN future is not to eat at all, rather than ensuring what is SUN eaten is healthy." SUN SUN With poetry from John Betjemen and Michael Ondaatje; and SUN music from Irving Berlin, John Dowland and Rachmaninov, Mark SUN Tully wonders at the seeming simplicity of touch, but its SUN power to transmit and transform. And he celebrates the fact SUN that we need to go on touching if we are to go on caring. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler. SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01946p5 (Listen) SUN Mackerel, once considered one of the lowliest fish and SUN derided as a scavenger of the seas, is now Scotland's most SUN valuable catch. It's also its most contentious, lying at the SUN heart of a long-running international dispute. In 2008 when SUN Iceland and the Faroe Islands declared their own quotas for SUN mackerel, allowing themselves far more than had ever SUN previously been agreed, a war of words - and sometimes even SUN of direct action - broke out. SUN Scotland is the heartland of Britain's mackerel fleet, with SUN twenty five trawlers, based mainly in Fraserburgh, Peterhead SUN and Shetland. Fishing has long been crucial to the survival SUN of towns like Fraserburgh, so to what extent could this SUN dispute threaten the future of an already fragile economy? SUN And do local sympathies lie with the mackerel fishermen, or SUN has the decline of fishing and the rise of the oil industry SUN destroyed the traditional allegiances? SUN Presented and produced by Moira Hickey. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01940dz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01940f1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01946p7 (Listen) SUN Samira Ahmed with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01946p9 (Listen) SUN Motor Neurone Disease SUN SUN Joss Ackland presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Motor Neurone Disease Association. SUN Reg Charity: 294354 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Motor Neurone Disease Association SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN The Motor Neurone Disease Association SUN SUN The MND Association provides care and support to people SUN living with this devastating disease and those who care for SUN them. It campaigns on their behalf and promotes and funds SUN scientific research into causes, treatments and potential SUN cures. Our vision is a world free of MND. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01940f3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01940f5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01946pc (Listen) SUN "We saw his star in the east". On the feast of Epiphany, Fr SUN James Hanvey SJ travels to the Pope's summer palace outside SUN Rome, home to the Vatican Space Observatory, to explore how SUN God can speak through space and science. Preacher: Dr Guy SUN Consolmagno SJ, Chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences SUN of the American Astronomical Society and planetary scientist SUN at the Vatican Observatory. SUN SUN First heard in 2008 SUN SUN Producer Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b018xy35 (Listen) SUN Information Overload SUN SUN The historian Lisa Jardine reflects that information SUN overload is not a new problem. "By the seventeenth-century SUN there was widespread anxiety that the sheer volume of SUN available knowledge was getting out of hand." There were SUN also fears that wars and unrest could obliterate knowledge SUN through the destruction of archives. Nowadays, losing SUN knowledge completely is harder thanks to the internet, but SUN the need to sift it is as great as ever. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b01940f7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01946pf (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01946ph (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Andrew Eagleton ..... John Flitcroft SUN Bert Horrobin ..... Martyn Read SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Registrar ..... Marian Kemmer. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01946pk (Listen) SUN Dame Monica Mason SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the director of the Royal Ballet, SUN Dame Monica Mason. SUN SUN Her working life has been dedicated to dance. When she SUN joined the Royal Ballet at fifteen she was the youngest SUN dancer to be admitted to the company and, during her career, SUN its legendary choreographer Kenneth MacMillan created five SUN roles for her. She became director ten years ago and is due SUN to step down this summer. She says: "I couldn't bear it if I SUN thought that, behind closed doors, somebody was saying SUN 'she's here again, you know', so I shall keep my distance SUN and only go in when asked." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b018wvmx (Listen) SUN Series 8, Episode 2 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Mark Watson, Phill Jupitus, Ed Byrne and SUN Henning Wehn are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: The SUN Olympics, Butter, Bees and Blood. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01946pm (Listen) SUN Food Stories: What Happened Next? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon reports on the major developments in the big SUN food stories of 2011. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01940f9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01946pp (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 David Cameron's Big Idea b01946pr (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN When David Cameron became the Conservative leader in 2005, SUN he memorably declared "There is such a thing as society; SUN it's just not the same as the state." SUN SUN Steve Richards presents a three-part series telling the SUN story behind that famous phrase, tracing David Cameron's SUN vision of a reformed state and a "Big Society" from the SUN early days of opposition to the reality of government. SUN SUN The first programme explores the period from the beginning SUN of Cameron's leadership in 2005 to the decision to place the SUN Big Society at the heart of the 2010 general election SUN campaign. SUN SUN Through interviews with Cameron's friends and advisers, such SUN as Danny Kruger, Ian Birrell and David Willetts, and with SUN critics such as Polly Toynbee and Maurice Glasman, the SUN programme shows how the idea was formed and how it was SUN tested, even in the early days. SUN SUN We go back to the discussions among excited young politicos SUN at Policy Exchange and the dinner tables of Notting Hill. We SUN recall key moments such as the presentation of the Big SUN Society idea in 2009 and the decision to place that theme at SUN the heart of the Conservative general election campaign the SUN following year, a plan which was later heavily criticised. SUN SUN We show how the idea was difficult to pin down and explore SUN the different versions of the "Big Society" which emerged. SUN SUN And we examine the impact of the financial crash, revealing SUN the tensions which surfaced between David Cameron and George SUN Osborne. SUN SUN Producer: Leala Padmanabhan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b018xy2n (Listen) SUN North Somerset SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A with panellists Chris SUN Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny Guinness. SUN Matt Biggs revisits St Anns allotments in Nottingham to make SUN plans for the coming year. Part of the Listeners' Gardens SUN series. SUN SUN Guest presenter Toby Buckland visits a commercial cider SUN apple grower. SUN SUN In addition: can you add chicken feathers to the compost SUN heap? And the pruning principle for evergreens. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Welsh's Scottish Journey b01946wb (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In 1934 the Orcadian poet Edwin Muir embarked on his iconic SUN 'Scottish Journey' a set of travels round depression-era SUN Scotland where he tried to get to grips with Scottish SUN identity and to consider what the future held for a country SUN whose industries were being devastated by a recession SUN SUN '. . . a silent clearance is going on in industrial SUN Scotland, a clearance not of human beings, but of what they SUN depend upon for life' SUN SUN As a man very much of his time, of the 1930s, he wavered SUN between socialism and nationalism as cures for Scotland's SUN ills, but in-between reflected on the nature of work, SUN poverty, Scottishness, tourism, the ideal way of living, the SUN highland and the lowland character and the possible SUN existence of a best of all possible worlds on his native SUN Orkney. In the summer of 2011, crime writer Louise Welsh SUN decided to embark on a mini whistle-stop version of Muir's SUN journey, taking to the roads in an open-top car, just as he SUN did, and trying to get a flavour now of a country also in SUN the grip of austerity and flirting with nationalism. How are SUN people reacting in the wake of the bank crash today? SUN Appropriately enough, we start in Edinburgh with funds SUN manager Douglas Watt contrasting it with Muir's idyllic SUN Orkney. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01946wd (Listen) SUN The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Ayeesha Menon SUN SUN Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles SUN Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and sets it amongst the Catholic SUN community in modern-day Mumbai, India. SUN SUN Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old SUN recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, SUN Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit SUN nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost SUN to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey SUN (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans SUN are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers SUN a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the SUN extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his SUN fortune. SUN SUN Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), SUN an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a SUN fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and SUN murder... SUN SUN Disinherited by his grandfather, Mickey Chuzzlewit escapes SUN India and tries to make his fortune in Dubai. In his SUN absence, the scheming Pinto and murderous Joseph join forces SUN in an attempt to get hold of the old man's fortune. And SUN while Thomas's feelings grow for Mickey's fiancé, Mary, a SUN mysterious lodger with a terrible secret moves in next door SUN ... SUN SUN Martin ..... Roshan Seth SUN Thomas ..... Karan Pandit SUN Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala SUN Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur SUN Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla SUN Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon SUN Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir SUN Joseph ..... Nadir Khan SUN Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur SUN Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital SUN Louis ..... Rohit Malkani SUN Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel SUN Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri SUN Manek ..... Vivek Madan SUN Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon SUN Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg SUN SUN Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja SUN Sound Design: David Chilton SUN Music: Sacha Puttnam SUN Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan SUN SUN Producer: John Dryden SUN A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01946wg (Listen) SUN To brighten up the dark days of January, Mariella Frostrup SUN with Prof John Mullan, celebrate Open Book's listeners' SUN nominations for their funniest book. From The Hitchhiker's SUN Guide to the Galaxy, Three Men in a Boat to Cold Comfort SUN Farm, they discuss the enduring pleasure of classic comic SUN writing. SUN SUN Sue Townsend explains how it feels that her novel The Secret SUN Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 was the winner of the Open SUN Book Funniest Book Balloon debate and her thoughts on the SUN book thirty years on from its first publication. SUN SUN Amanda Hocking had never sold a single book before 15th SUN April 2010. She has now sold over one million. Having had SUN all 17 of her novels rejected by publishing houses, she SUN began publishing them herself as e-books and has now been SUN described as her generation's first literary phenomenon. SUN With her books finally being published in paperback form, SUN Amanda explains her drive to write and find the audience she SUN knew was out there. SUN SUN Samantha Harvey explains how her latest novel All Is Song SUN has been inspired by her degree in philosophy and her great SUN interest in the life and work of the Greek philosopher SUN Socrates. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN All is Song by Samantha Harvey SUN Published by Jonathan Cape SUN SUN Switched by Amanda Hocking SUN Published by MacMillan SUN SUN The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 and ¾ SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01946wj (Listen) SUN Winter, star-gazing and time SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry about Winter, SUN star-gazing and time, read by Pippa Haywood, Peter Marinker, SUN Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams. SUN SUN There are well-known works by Sheenagh Pugh and Alfred SUN Tennyson contemplating the new year. Roger marks Stephen SUN Hawking's 70th birthday with a poem by Robert Frost about SUN the importance of telescopes. SUN SUN Winter looms large, with poems by Longfellow, Edna St. SUN Vincent Millay and Dana Gioia, but in contrast there are SUN rays of sunshine from John Lyons. SUN SUN Producer: Toby Field. SUN SUN 17:00 Inside Fortress Bill b018xs8p (Listen) SUN Katie Derham takes a 'warts and all' look at the Bill and SUN Melinda Gates Foundation and examines the immense political SUN power and global influence that it now wields. SUN SUN In June 2008 Bill Gates retired from the day to day running SUN of Microsoft and began to devote his time to distributing SUN his fortune. Now the Foundation's fund, swelled by a $31 SUN billion pledge over ten years from Warren Buffett in 2006, SUN is estimated at $33.5 Billion making it the world's largest SUN grant-giving organisation giving away up to $4billion a SUN year. Gates' views are now welcomed by world leaders, he SUN addressed the G20 in November of 2010, and the man credited SUN with putting computers into every household, is now fighting SUN a battle to save American Education, beat malaria, TB and SUN polio. His status as a great philanthropist is not up for SUN debate. SUN SUN However, this is a sharp contrast with his former persona of SUN ruthless businessman flaunting competition law, buying off SUN rivals and pursuing his goals with a vengeance. Critics SUN believe his market-led philosophies can distort the picture, SUN allowing Governments to be let off the hook, causing a brain SUN drain in countries where they are backing aid, and the way SUN that funds are distributed seems to be at the whim of the SUN co-chairs who are beyond any form of accountability. SUN SUN In this programme, Katie Derham has been given unique access SUN to key decision makers at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, SUN follows Bill Gates as he lobbies European opinion formers in SUN Paris, and hears how some of the grantees view their SUN relationship with the richest man in the world. SUN SUN Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01944k5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01940fc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01940ff (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01940fh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01946wl (Listen) SUN Ian McMillan 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: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01946wn (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 It's Your Round b01946wq (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN Another panel of comedians endeavour to beat each other at SUN their own games, watched over by Angus Deayton. SUN SUN The rounds this episode include: SUN SUN Will Self's "What's In My Hand?"...further explanation SUN unnecessary. SUN SUN Glyes Brandreth's "It's My Party", in which panellists must SUN all pitch their own, new political party. SUN SUN Sara Pascoe's "Tax Loss Entertainment", in which panellists SUN must improvise the worst play in history. SUN SUN Arthur Smith's "How Much Would It Cost For You To?", a SUN refinement of a game he's played before in which panellists SUN must guess the money they'd require in order to complete SUN various unpleasant tasks. SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 A Dalmatian Trilogy b01946ws (Listen) SUN Dalmatian Muse SUN SUN By James Hopkin. SUN SUN The reader is Raquel Cassidy. SUN SUN Danko lives in a secluded bay on the island. There is a SUN strip of coast-line which he claims represents the whole of SUN life: the island's illegal dumping site, then, further SUN along, an eco-village of simple living and great food and SUN wine, then, on the sea itself, the rusting guns of the old SUN military occupation. At night he takes Polyanna out on his SUN boat in search of phosphorescence. SUN SUN James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, SUN including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast SUN of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories SUN explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as SUN providing a colourful journey for the senses. SUN SUN James Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English SUN and Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA SUN on modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for a SUN PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story SUN competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. His novel SUN Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and SUN critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major SUN new writer. His short stories have been anthologised, SUN broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including 'The SUN Mural At Frau Krauser's': commissioned by Sweet Talk and SUN produced as part of a week of readings called Berlin. He SUN published a small collection of stories in 2008, along with SUN the paperback of Winter Under Water. A Georgian Trilogy, SUN also produced by Sweet Talk, was broadcast in 2010. He is SUN currently working on his second novel, Say Goodbye to SUN Breakfast. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b018xy2v (Listen) SUN Using statistics in court SUN SUN Tim Harford tackles the use of statistics in court, the SUN average rise in rail fares, infinity and resolves another SUN marital dispute about probability. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b018xy2s (Listen) SUN Eve Arnold, Ronald Searle, Sir Michael Dummett and Bob SUN Anderson SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The photographer Eve Arnold - who produced revealing images SUN of all her subjects - from film stars like Marilyn Monroe to SUN some of the world's poorest people. SUN SUN The cartoonist Ronald Searle, so much more than the creator SUN of St Trinians and Nigel Molesworth. Martin Rowson, Mike SUN Leigh and Russell Davies pay tribute. SUN SUN The philosopher Sir Michael Dummett, who had radical ideas SUN about meaning and language and also campaigned against SUN racism SUN SUN And the Hollywood fight director Bob Anderson, who wielded SUN Darth Vader's light sabre and accidentally stabbed Errol SUN Flynn. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b019449d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01946p9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b018xwtc (Listen) SUN Class Struggle SUN SUN In nearly every country in the world, there's one sector SUN that everyone seems to think is in crisis: education. SUN America produces legions of Nobel laureates and has the best SUN universities in the world - and yet faces an epidemic of SUN failing state-run schools. India churns out vast numbers of SUN engineers ready for the modern economy, and yet its business SUN leaders yearn for the kind of creative thought that is SUN taught in the Anglo-Saxon system. In the UK we worry about SUN discipline and standards, while at the same time welcoming SUN thousands of foreigners anxious to get qualifications and SUN training that are non-existent in their home counties. SUN Peter Day asks why everyone thinks education is so bad and SUN what schools and businesses are doing to try to improve it. SUN Producer: Mike Wendling. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01948x8 (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 b01948xb (Listen) SUN Episode 85 SUN SUN Andrew Grice of The Independent analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b018xwt1 (Listen) SUN The Film Programme strays into the territory of Greek SUN tragedy this week embracing the family, family politics and SUN politics itself. Francine Stock talks to Olivia Colman about SUN playing opposite Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, Phyllida SUN Lloyd's film about Margaret Thatcher; she discusses teenage SUN pregnancy,lost daughters and redemption with Rodrigo Garcia SUN the director of Mother and Child which stars Annette Bening SUN and Naomi Watts; and she joins the critic Jonathan Romney to SUN assess the celebrated Chilean film, Post Mortem which is SUN released this month on DVD. Then, in a final flourish she SUN invites the historian Jeffrey Richards, to reflect on the SUN strange impact which an Atlantic crossing can have on a SUN film''s title. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01946p3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 JANUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01940g2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b018xtrk (Listen) MON Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege MON MON How important is the way we dress for work? Laurie speaks to MON Stephen Timmons who has studied the impact on a hospital of MON removing professional markers and having almost all staff MON dress the same. MON Also how cities are the new battleground of our increasingly MON urban world: Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege, MON tells Laurie that from the slums of the global South to the MON financial districts of the developed world political MON violence is policed with increasingly military tactics. He MON claims that the all over the world the city shows more and MON more features of a war zone. They discuss what he calls the MON 'new military urbanism' with Melissa Butcher. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01946p1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01940g4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01940g6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01940g8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01940gb (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0194dhz (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Nicholas Papadopulos. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0194dj3 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01940gd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0194dj5 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0194dj7 (Listen) MON Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote MON MON On Start the Week, Andrew Marr begins the new year with a MON look at austerity. Anna Coote argues that it's time to MON embrace a new set of values that are not dependent on high MON rolling consumerism and, as unemployment rises, to share out MON the working hours more evenly. The great chronicler of MON Austerity Britain of the fifties, David Kynaston, explores MON whether there are any lessons to be learnt from earlier MON decades of thrift and dissent. The artist Antony Gormley MON discusses a new collaboration in which he explores the idea MON of survival in a world in which we are bombarded with MON information but have very little direct control. And Fintan MON O'Toole, Irish Times columnist, looks at at how Ireland is MON dealing with its 5th austerity budget and asks if there are MON lessons we can learn from the fate of the Celtic Tiger. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0194l3b (Listen) MON Stop What You're Doing and Read This, Memories and MON Expectations MON MON Passionate, funny, revelatory and inspiring, this series is MON a mission statement about the transformative power of MON reading; about the way it inspires us, the tangible impact MON it can have on our well-being and the importance it holds MON for us now and will continue to hold in the future. MON MON Stop What You're Doing And Read This! features five of our MON finest authors and advocates from the world of publishing. MON Michael Rosen, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Carmen Callil MON and Mark Haddon, are all united here in a passionate belief MON in the distinctive and irreplaceable pleasures and powers of MON reading. Their essays argue that reading literature is, and MON must continue to be, a fundamental part of our daily life, MON as it directly improves our mental health and well-being, MON enriches our experience and broadens our imaginations. MON MON As the ways people read, what they read, where they buy MON their books and in what format are all changing rapidly, MON this series argues unapologetically for the paramount MON importance of books and reading in a fast-moving, MON dislocated, technology-obsessed world. MON MON Today; Michael Rosen reads Memories and Expectations, in MON which he describes his childhood, family and books and the MON blurring of the lines in his remembrance of each. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0194dj9 (Listen) MON How can women backbenchers get a government job? Is the MON concept of a work-life balance redundant? Sibling rivalry MON and parental preference. Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Work Life Balance MON MON For the last decade we’ve heard parents, businesses and MON policy makers discuss the need to help people find a better MON work life balance. But how helpful is this for the working MON mothers at whom the phrase is most often directed? Does this MON talk of balance fudge the necessary choice that has to be MON made between meaningful paid work and the time spent with at MON home with a family? Is it time to think afresh about how MON women can manage these competing demands, and where does it MON leave men? Gaby Hinsliff, journalist and former political MON editor of the Observer, and Heather McGregor, journalist at MON the Financial Times, join Jane to discuss. MON MON Half a Wife: The Working Family’s Guide to Getting a Life MON Back by Gaby Hinsliff is published by Chatto & Windus MON MON Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women by Mrs MON Moneypenny with Heather McGregor is published by Viking MON MON Female backbenchers and promotion MON MON Louise Mensch has expressed her frustration that the brakes MON have been applied to her political career. She’s part of a MON larger group of female MPs from the 2010 intake who are keen MON to get ahead. Many are regarded as talented, but some are MON also seen as troublesome – rebelling against the government MON over Europe last year. We hear about this new ‘awkward MON squad’ and ask what these women can do to up their chances MON of getting that longed for government job in the much MON anticipated reshuffle. Gaby Hinsliff, journalist and former MON political editor of the Observer, and Anushka Asthana, Chief MON Political Correspondent at The Times, join Jane to discuss. MON MON Favouritism MON MON According to science editor Jeffrey Kluger it is not only MON natural for a parent to have a favourite child, but it is MON also inevitable. He suggests in his book The Sibling Effect MON that breaking through the taboo of favouritism and MON acknowledging child preference is essential in actively MON balancing the attention parents give to siblings. Jeffrey MON joins Jane and Senior Family Therapist Minna Daum to discuss MON the impact of favouritism on both children and parents. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0194djc (Listen) MON Ruthless, Episode 1 MON MON A light-hearted look at the world of Personal Assistants and MON office intrigue from the creator of Channel 4's Teachers, MON Tim Loane. MON MON Ruth Brown arrives for her first day at a busy management MON consultancy and is thrown into a world of corporate jargon MON and menial and mind numbing tasks, all topped off with an MON unhealthy dollop of executive stress and a smidgen of MON scandal! MON MON Hired to urgently plug a gap, Ruth is thrust into the life MON of a corporate PA alongside co-workers Tanya, Michelle and MON Beatrice. The real beating heart of the company, the PAs MON attend to the whims of the company CEO Oliver Carlton and MON keep the corporate plates spinning. However, with the MON consultancy undergoing an 'efficiency' assessment due to its MON record levels of stress-related illness, the atmosphere is MON anything but relaxed. Trying to settle in to her first week MON as a PA on the 'top floor', Ruth's interest is also piqued MON by the conflicting stories surrounding the fate of her MON predecessor Ingrid. What is the secret her colleagues are so MON keen to keep hidden? MON MON As she begins uncovers a web of secrets, and scandal and as MON the stress levels rise, can Ruth learn to play her MON co-workers at their own game, and win? MON MON With Olivia Hallinan as Ruth, the cast includes Joe MON Armstrong, Charles Edwards, Claire Rushbrook, Olivia Poulet, MON Gillian Kearney, Miche Doherty and Seainin Breannan. MON MON A writer, director and actor, Tim Loane's screenwriting MON credits include the comedy films Out of The Deep Pan (BBC), MON Reversals (ITV) and he was creator and lead writer of the MON Bafta-nominated Teachers for Channel 4. He wrote the MON four-part conspiracy thriller Proof 2 (RTE), the three-part MON family drama serial Little Devil (ITV) and the 2009 updating MON of 80's television classic Minder (Channel 5). A co-founder MON of Northern Ireland's Tinderbox Theatre Company, his stage MON plays include Caught Red Handed and To Be Sure while he also MON directed the 1997 Oscar nominated short film Dance Lexie MON Dance. For radio he was written the inner-city thriller The MON Tunnel and the post-ceasefire ensemble comedy I can see MON clearly. MON MON 11:00 Don't Log Off b0194djf (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Alan Dein attempts to cross the world on a series of late MON night excursions via Facebook and Skype - discovering the MON real life dramas behind the online profiles. MON MON It's a hesitant start as Alan starts from a "Friend" count MON of zero, struggling to lure users away from the anonymity of MON the keyboard to the glare of the webcam - and engage in real MON verbal communication. Yet over five long late nights, he MON gradually builds up a circle of friends, crossing the time MON zones and discovering some startling stories. MON MON In this second programme, he's among those dreaming of MON freedom, talking to a man car-jacked in Caracas, and an MON Iranian evading the electronic eavesdropping of the MON authorities who's determined to flee the country. MON MON Five years ago, Alan Dein brought us the acclaimed Don't MON Hang Up, in which he set himself the task of calling phone MON boxes around the world to see who picked up. This time, the MON project reaches a whole new scale. MON MON Producers: Laurence Grissell and Sarah Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Party b011pkqg (Listen) MON Series 2, It's technology, stupid MON MON The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party MON get to grips with technology and whether it is making people MON stupid. Meanwhile, they launch a recruiting campaign on the MON internet. Second series of a satirical comedy written by Tom MON Basden. MON MON Simon ..... Tom Basden MON Duncan ..... Tim Key MON Jared ..... Jonny Sweet MON Mel ..... Ann Crilly MON Phoebe ..... Katy Wix MON Jared's Mum ..... Jane Whittenshaw MON MON Produced by Julia McKenzie. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0194djh (Listen) MON Private investigators, online piracy and North South divide. MON MON Radio 4's Consumer Affairs Programme with Julian Worricker. MON MON A Government committee examines why statutory regulation of MON private investigators still hasn't happened ten years after MON it was first called for. MON MON Some parts of the music industry in the UK say its urgent MON that we enforce legislation to police online piracy. Other MON countries are bringing in strict new laws: we'll be finding MON out why we're lagging behind. MON MON The Coalition Government pledged to narrow the North South MON divide but instead the gap is widening. Will this get worse MON as the recession bites deep into 2012? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01940gg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0194djk (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 To Strive and Seek b0194kkt (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Focusing on the often forgotten, but revealing stories of MON the individuals involved, this highly textured series, MON authoritatively presented by Sara Wheeler marks the MON centenary of Scott's ill fated polar expedition. MON MON Scott's Terra Nova Expedition famously reached the South MON Pole on 17th January 1912. When they arrived they discovered MON that Amundsen had got there 33 days before them. They all MON perished on the return trip. The stated aim of the endeavour MON had been "to reach the South Pole and to secure for the MON British Empire the honour of this achievement". MON MON This series of five programmes will focus on the individuals MON involved, drilling down into the minutiae of their lives and MON thoughts, analysing what they reveal. The expedition was so MON much more than simply Scott. The others - whose lives were MON lost or changed forever by the unfolding drama - reveal much MON about this ultimate moment of human endeavour, this key MON moment at the end of empire, this tragic catalogue of MON misjudgement. MON MON In all there were sixty-five men involved in the ship and MON shore parties, This is the story of five of them. Key MON individuals, each with their own reasons for being there, MON their own fascinations and interests, their own Terra Nova MON Expedition. MON MON These highly textured programmes weave together the MON thoughtful and informed script of Sara Wheeler, diary MON entries, and a specially commissioned sound design. There MON are also descriptions of Herbert Ponting's photographs MON courtesy of the Royal Collection. MON MON Episode One focuses on Herbert Ponting. MON MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01946wn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0194kkw (Listen) MON Network MON MON Discovering a stash of mobile phones belonging to his MON out-of-work step-daughter Charlie, Darren Collins stumbles MON across an ominous voicemail message. Curious as to how MON Charlie can afford so many phones and what the message might MON mean, Darren decides to investigate and calls the number on MON the phone. Unwittingly, Darren uncovers a network of MON individuals apparently using mobile technology to arrange MON various protests and demonstrations. As he starts to get MON drawn into the world of the network Darren begins to wonder MON is there something more sinister at work at its core? But MON what exactly? And how is Charlie involved? MON MON Determined to discover the truth, Darren infiltrates the MON network further, but at what cost to both himself, and to MON Charlie? MON MON Darren..........Shaun Dingwall MON Natasha.........Sara Griffiths MON Charlie..........Ciara Janson MON Lennox..........Karl Collins MON Jango............Iain Robertson MON The Network...Christopher Webster, Victoria Inez Hardy, MON Jonathan Forbes, Michael Shannon, John Anthony and Laura MON Conway. MON MON Other parts played by members of the cast. MON MON Producer/Director: Heather Larmour. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0194kky (Listen) MON (9/17) MON Which major battle took place at Drumossie Moor near MON Inverness? And if Shakespeare was known as the 'Swan of MON Avon', which writer was the 'Swan of Usk'? MON MON Russell Davies puts these and many other questions to the MON competitors in today's ninth heat of the general knowledge MON quiz, each of them aiming for a place in the semi-finals and MON a further step towards the coveted title 'Brain of Britain MON 2012'. Today's contestants come from London, Stevenage and MON Edinburgh. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01946pm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Merzman: The Art of Kurt Schwitters b0194kl0 (Listen) MON It took a long time for the British artworld to recognise MON the influence of Kurt Schwitters, a German artist who died MON in Cumbria just after the end of World War Two. But in 2011, MON the Lake District barn he worked in during his last days was MON rebuilt stone for stone in the West End of London, and in MON 2013 a major retrospective of Schwitters' work will open at MON Tate Britain. In this programme, Bob Dickinson explains why MON Schwitters has become so highly regarded, and traces MON Schwitters' journey from Hannover to Cumbria, where he MON visits the original barn in Elterwater where Schwitters' MON final, most ambitious work began to be constructed - and MON Newcastle on Tyne, where that sculpture, built on to one MON complete wall of the barn, was transported during the 1960s. MON MON Kurt Schwitters was one of the great European modern artists MON - a founder of the Dada movement in Germany, and an inventor MON of the technique we now call collage - piecing artworks MON together from fragments of found images, print, text, or MON discarded objects which even included rubbish. Eventually he MON developed a style he called Merz, and started making MON elaborate sculptures you could walk inside, called Merzbau - MON the forerunners of today's installation art. But the rise of MON the Nazis forced Schwitters to flee, leaving his wife and MON family in Hannover, and moving to Norway and then Britain. MON MON Almost immediately arrested as an enemy alien, Schwitters MON was incarcerated in the Hutchinson Square camp on the Isle MON of Man, but on release made his way to London and then the MON Lake District, where he decided to settle. But he couldn't MON get art dealers to take his work seriously, and he had to MON survive by painting pictures and trying to sell them on the MON streets of Ambleside, where he lived with an English MON girlfriend he called Wantee - because every time she entered MON the room she asked him "Want tea?" By the end of the war, MON Schwitters health was in decline. His German wife had died. MON His home in Hannover, containing his first and biggest MON Merzbau construction, had been destroyed by Allied bombing. MON But in a stone-built barn barn in Elterwater, not far from MON Ambleside, Schwitters started work on his final, most MON ambitious project which he called the Merzbarn, encouraged MON by a grant - and recognition - he had received from the MON Museum of Modern Art in New York. One wall of the Merzbarn MON was complete by 1947 when Schwitters died. MON MON The programme includes interviews with experts on Schwitters MON including the British painter and critic, Bill Feaver, and MON the curator of Schwitters' archive in Hannover, Dr Isabel MON Schulz. The Littoral Trust, which administers the Elterwater MON barn in Cumbria, regularly organises events dedicated to MON Schwitters, and actuality from several recent events is also MON included in the programme, including performances of MON Schwitters' amazing sound poetry that took place in 2011 in MON the basement of a mill in Bury, Lancs, which once held enemy MON aliens, including Schwitters. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0194kl2 (Listen) MON Mystical Experiences MON MON Shamanic cultures have been using substances for thousands MON of years to induce altered states of consciousness. X ray MON vision is said to be a key feature of the shamanic MON experience. This has been observed in Aboriginal rock art MON where the skeletons of animals are depicted. Cannabis is MON sacred to the Hindu God Shiva and even ancient Buddhists MON were known to use drugs. In India there was a substance MON called Soma, which is mentioned in the ancient Hindu MON scriptures, the Vedas, which probably used hallucinogenic MON mushrooms. MON There's now a strong working hypothesis amongst academics MON that traditional religious practices such as meditation can MON activate chemicals in the brain which produce the same MON effects as LSD. But Robert Zaehner, an early 20th century MON British academic argued that only theistic mysticism was MON sacred and that all other mystical states were profane or MON immoral. MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss mystical experiences are Dr MON David Luke, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University MON of Greenwich and President of the Parapsychological MON Association, Shamanic Practitioner, Dr Zoe Bran and Shaunaka MON Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. MON MON 17:00 PM b0194kl4 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01940gj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0194kl6 (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 3 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Tony Hawks, Alan Davies, Tom Wrigglesworth MON and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Hamburgers, MON Pens, Snoring and Crocodiles. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0194kl8 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0194klb (Listen) MON Mark Lawson talks to film-maker Steven Spielberg, as he MON releases his version of Michael Morpurgo's book War Horse. MON MON Producer Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0194djc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bishop and the Prisoner b0194kz2 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In this three part series the BBC is given a rare degree of MON access to prisons as it accompanies the Rt Rev James Jones, MON the Church of England's "Bishop for prisons," into the MON country's jails. Conversations with prisoners - voices MON rarely heard on radio - are the centrepieces of these MON programmes, but the Bishop also talks to prison staff, MON politicians and opinion-formers about what prison should be MON for, how prisoners can be helped to become useful citizens MON and whether community sentences can ever win the public's MON confidence as a viable alternative to prison. MON MON Prisoners who are released from prison without a job to go MON to are far more likely to re-offend than those who have. In MON this second programme, the Bishop visits training schemes MON which offer inmates a chance to gain new skills and may even MON guarantee them a job. The shoe manufacturer Timpsons has MON training workshops in Liverpool and Forest Bank; High Down MON is home to the infamous Clink restaurant where prisoners MON cook and serve Michelin-style food to members of the public. MON MON But rehabilitation may depend more on a change of heart than MON a change in circumstance. The Government says all the MON evidence points to the effectiveness of Restorative Justice MON schemes in cutting re-offending - whether through Victim MON awareness schemes, encounters between victims and MON perpetrators, Community Payback or the offender making MON financial reparations. MON MON James Jones hears from prisoners who say that encountering a MON victim has changed their lives. Some victims tell him that MON Restorative Justice has positively transformed their own MON lives; others feel that the Government's emphasis on it MON sidelines victims yet further within the Criminal Justice MON system. Prisons minister Crispin Blunt responds. MON MON In his encounters with prisoners and ex-offenders, the MON Bishop challenges those who seek to evade responsibility for MON their crimes, and those who think that, while they are worth MON rehabilitating, others are not. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b018xw68 (Listen) MON Saving the Brazilian Amazon MON MON The Amazon rainforest is perhaps the world's greatest single MON environmental asset. For years the accepted wisdom has been MON that the remorseless tide of destruction there is MON unstoppable. Justin Rowlatt travels to Brazil to question MON this conventional account and finds that over the last five MON years rates of deforestation have plummeted by more than MON half. There is now serious and credible discussion about MON stopping deforestation completely and even replanting MON rainforest in deforested areas. MON MON He joins raids deep in the jungle with a team of armed MON Brazilian environment agents - and watches as a gang of MON loggers are caught in the act. He meets the farmers and MON ranchers who are now conserving rather than cutting the MON forest, including one of the world's biggest farmers, the MON man they call the King of Soya, Blairo Maggi. He meets an MON Indian tribe who have been enlisted as "smoke jumpers" - MON frontier firefighters protecting the forest from wild fires. MON MON He travels to the most remote state in Brazil to see a MON project which has created a viable market for the MON traditional industry of wild rubber tapping by building a MON condom factory in the middle of the jungle. MON MON Of course there is still enormous pressure on the forest. MON 2011 saw a spike in deforestation and a big debate about the MON management of the forest which has shown the continued power MON of the rural lobby. While Brazil's success in taming MON deforestation remains fragile Justin asks if there is cause MON for hope that the greatest ecosystem on the planet can be MON preserved. MON MON Producer: Keith Morris. MON MON 21:00 Material World b018xwt3 (Listen) MON The ancient Mayans had two calendars; the solar calendar of MON the agricultural year and a lunar calendar on which they MON based their religious festivals. The two don't coincide very MON often. The longest cycle they considered lasts 5 125 years MON and completes a cycle on 21st December 2012 at the midwinter MON solstice. That has given rise to predictions that this is MON when the world will end - something not stated in the Mayan MON texts. It was also the basis for the Hollywood epic "2012" MON with earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and all the MON special effects of modern film making. MON MON So how might the world actually end? Could geological or MON cosmic catastrophe take place this year, and if not, how do MON we know? But this is not just about geology and astronomy. MON It's also about human psychology. Why do predictions of an MON apocalypse continue? What drives those who invent them, and MON their followers who sometimes have such strong beliefs that MON they commit mass suicide? MON MON And will the world end eventually, and if so, how and when? MON Quentin Cooper investigates the end of the world with the MON help of astronomers, psychologists and anthropologists. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0194dj7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01982kv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0194kz6 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0194kz8 (Listen) MON Cousin Bette, Episode 6 MON MON Cousin Bette is one of the best loved and most admired of MON Honore de Balzac's novels, written when his powers were at MON their height and marking the culmination of his MON extraordinary chronicle, La Comedie Humaine. MON MON A tale of seductive women and philandering men, of MON passionate affairs and spiralling debts, Cousin Bette paints MON a vivid portrait of Paris in the 1830s and '40s. In a city MON full of temptations, money is king, morals are loose and the MON appeals of the virtuous are usually in vain. In the midst of MON it all sits a poor relation, Cousin Bette, like a spider in MON her web. Fuelled by bitterness and jealousy, she is MON determined to weave destruction into the lives of her MON extended family, the socially superior Hulots. MON MON With her friend and accomplice, the beautiful Madame MON Marneffe, Bette sets out to manipulate events so that men MON are brought to their knees and their wives to despair, and MON she attains the power and prestige she seeks. MON MON In today's episode, Hortense discovers Wenceslas's interest MON in Valerie and Valerie drops a bombshell on all four of her MON lovers at once. MON MON Cousin Bette was written in less than a year, in serial MON instalments, often only completed just before the deadline. MON Within its pages, Balzac conjures a kaleidoscope of MON characters from all walks of life, chronicles the rise of a MON grasping bourgeoisie and tells a gripping tale of jealousy, MON passion and treachery. MON MON The reader is Alex Jennings. MON MON The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger MON was Sally Marmion. MON MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b018xs89 (Listen) MON Comparing the way we bring up children and train dogs MON MON Do dog training techniques work just as well on children? MON Michael Rosen investigates, comparing the way we bring up MON our children and train our dogs. Taking part are Victoria MON Stilwell of TV's It's Me or the Dog, John Bradshaw, Jez MON Rose, Steven Rose and parents who have strong views on the MON subject.. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Ten Rare Men b00sds35 (Listen) MON Anybody who sees a rare bird has a dilemma. How does you MON confirm that it's correctly identified and, most MON importantly, how can you be sure that someone will believe MON you? In the latter case, the ultimate arbiters are the Ten MON Rare Men, more properly known as the British Birds Rarities MON Committee. MON MON Howard Stableford, a keen but by no means expert naturalist, MON celebrates 50 years of the Ten Rare Men by setting out to MON find his own rarity with the help of writer and birder MON Stephen Moss. On the way he meets the experts whose job it MON is to review and ratify records of rare birds they've MON received from all over the UK. As he discovers this isn't MON just about birds, but concerns hard-won reputations and MON diplomacy: a rejection is in the public eye and has to be MON handled carefully. MON MON After 50 years the list of nearly 600 species seen in the UK MON is still growing. Some birds still pose knotty problems MON beyond their identification involving international MON research, questions about provenance, and even whether the MON bird was ship-assisted or not. Talking to past and present MON "rare men" Howard reviews some tricky cases from the MON archives including the never-to-be-repeated Slender-billed MON Curlew of 1998, which may now be extinct, and the fraudulent MON case of the Chipping Ongar hermit thrush. He also explores MON the future for the Ten Rare Men. As molecular analysis MON reveals more hidden species, and digital photography and the MON internet allow instant identification, is there a continuing MON role for the Ten Rare Men? Most important of all, will there MON ever be a Rare Woman? MON MON Presented by Howard Stableford MON Produced by Brett Westwood. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01940h3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0194l3b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01940h5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01940h7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01940h9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01940hc (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019dhvq (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Nicholas Papadopulos. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0194l3d (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0194l3g (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b0194l3j (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland compares Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee TUE with that of Queen Victoria. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b015yt4c (Listen) TUE Series 3, Nashville TUE TUE Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE TUE The man now known as Jesse Lee Jones went by a different TUE name when he was living in Brazil. His decision to change TUE his name was an expression of his desire to reinvent himself TUE following his move to the USA. TUE TUE Throughout a difficult upbringing, Jesse Lee always found TUE solace in American music and dreamed of being there, but as TUE a young man, he "was going nowhere fast". Then, out of the TUE blue, the members of his church, in an effort to help him, TUE clubbed together and bought him a plane ticket. Shortly TUE afterwards, Jesse Lee arrived in Miami, Florida with a 12 TUE string guitar but no English and no plan. On his first day, TUE while travelling on a Greyhound Bus, he was robbed of the TUE few possessions he had - including his money and that TUE guitar. TUE TUE He got off the bus in Peoria, Illinois. Out of pity, some TUE people from a local church took him in. They became his TUE "American family" and Peoria was his home for the next TUE decade. Jesse Lee took a series of jobs (including training TUE as a law enforcement officer) but he kept up with the music TUE on the side - playing all kinds of American music in local TUE bars. Then a friend gave him a CD by the country and western TUE legend Marty Robbins. After that, Jesse Lee realised that TUE his true passion was traditional country music. He headed to TUE Nashville and got a job scrubbing the decks of the General TUE Jackson Showboat for $3.25 an hour. However, within a few TUE years, a series of serendipitous encounters led to his TUE becoming first leader of the house band, then owner, of the TUE "best honkytonk in Nashville" right in the heart of Lower TUE Broadway. TUE TUE Producer: Rachel Hopkin TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b019lvg7 (Listen) TUE Stop What You're Doing and Read This, A Bed. A Book. A TUE Mountain TUE TUE From reading about the Cairngorms in bed Jeanette Winterson TUE reveals how books open doors to new worlds for readers and TUE passionately the power of words to transport us in TUE A Bed. A Book. A Mountain. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0194mvn (Listen) TUE How to tackle hidden domestic violence among older people. TUE Women who launch their business with a market stall. TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wt3 (Listen) TUE Ruthless, Episode 2 TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b0194mvq (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 2 - The Water Boatman's Song TUE TUE For over a year, sound recordist Tom Lawrence has been TUE capturing the sounds of Pollardstown Fen in Ireland. These TUE are no ordinary sounds, but the sounds of a hidden world; an TUE underwater world, where an orchestra of creatures create an TUE extraordinary and vibrant music. Above the water's surface, TUE grasshoppers and crickets stridulate; that is, they rub one TUE part of their body across another to produce 'those fiddling TUE tunes so evocative of summer'. Below the surface, something TUE similar happens as water beetles, water scorpions, great TUE diving beetles, water boatmen and lesser water boatmen and TUE hundreds of other species produce sounds day and night at TUE over 2Khz, reaching 99 decibels in some cases - the TUE equivalent of sitting in the front row of an orchestra TUE "Tapping, knocking, hammering, drumming, clicking, creaking, TUE cracking, croaking, buzzing, fuzzing, bleeping, winding, TUE reeling, revving, puttering, pattering, humming, pulsing, TUE squealing, shrieking.... the insects reveal themselves". TUE Writer and narrator Paul Evans meets Tom Lawrence and takes TUE a journey into the Fen to hear these sounds for himself. Tom TUE leads the way. His friend, Jim Schofield joins them, TUE bringing with him a boat (an inflatable boat that they first TUE have to pump up), and then the three men 'wobble' along TUE reed-lined drains into the Fen. It's a journey of TUE revelations; not only does Paul encounter the underwater TUE orchestra, but also Old Ireland and with it a magical TUE adventure; They find a snake, haul up a bag of treasure, TUE climb the steps of a Famine Tower, experience vertigo as TUE they stand with their heads in the clouds high above the TUE quarried land, watch Peregrines swipe through the air like TUE sharp knives, and learn the story of a hanged man, his lost TUE love and a vixen who wanders amongst the reeds, her piercing TUE cry echoing through the darkness. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Songs for Madame Vasnier b0194mvs (Listen) TUE On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy, TUE Richard Langham Smith relishes the lyrical riches of TUE Théodore de Banville, Alfred de Musset, Paul Bourget, TUE Théophile Gautier and Paul Verlaine, the poets Debussy chose TUE to express his love for an older, married woman, Marie TUE Blanche Vasnier. TUE Hearing her sing moved Debussy, then an impressionable young TUE student, to create a treasury of songs specially with her TUE voice in mind. Among the many songs he wrote for Madame TUE Vasnier, is the unpublished "La fille aux cheveux de lin". TUE It was the starting point of Debussy's fascination with TUE setting words to music, an obsession that reached a high TUE point in "Pélleas et Mélisande" some twenty years later. But TUE it's Madame Vasnier Debussy acknowledges as "the only muse TUE to ever inspire musical feelings", and that's he confesses, TUE "only to talk of the musical ones!". TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0194mvv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. With Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01940hf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0194mvx (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 To Strive and Seek b019dhvs (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Focusing on the often forgotten, but revealing stories of TUE the individuals involved, this highly textured series, TUE authoritatively presented by Sara Wheeler marks the TUE centenary of Scott's ill fated polar expedition. TUE TUE Scott's Terra Nova Expedition famously reached the South TUE Pole on 17th January 1912. When they arrived they discovered TUE that Amundsen had got there 33 days before them. They all TUE perished on the return trip. The stated aim of the endeavour TUE had been "to reach the South Pole and to secure for the TUE British Empire the honour of this achievement". TUE TUE In all there were sixty-five men involved in the ship and TUE shore parties, this is the story of five of them. Key TUE individuals, each with their own reasons for being there, TUE their own fascinations and interests, their own Terra Nova TUE Expedition. TUE TUE Today's episode focuses on Tom Crean. TUE TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0194kl8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b019c8kr (Listen) TUE Birkett, Birkett and the Green Bicycle TUE TUE By Caroline and David Stafford. TUE 2/ 4 TUE A story of murder, pacifism and chocolate taken from the TUE casebook of Norman Birkett, the most celebrated advocate of TUE the inter-war years. TUE TUE Norman Birkett...Neil Dudgeon TUE Billie...Bonnie Engstrom TUE Edgar...Alun Raglan TUE Sir Edward...Nicholas Jones TUE Cadbury...James Lailey TUE Cox/Enoch...Adam Billington TUE Judge...Gerard McDermott TUE Lily/Muriel...Francine Chamberlain TUE Ronald...Christopher Webster TUE Graham...Simon Bubb. TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b0194mvz (Listen) TUE Misadventures TUE TUE A selection of brief encounters, true stories and found TUE sound find a home in this new series for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Nina Garthwaite, the founder of the public listening TUE phenomenon 'In the Dark', presents a showcase for delightful TUE and adventurous short documentaries. TUE TUE In the first edition of Short Cuts, she delves into tales of TUE misadventure - starting with a chance encounter on a train TUE where a couple's absorption in the crossword disguises a TUE possible hidden romance. And encompassing the writer Joe TUE Dunthorne's reminiscences of his misspent gap year selling TUE door to door in Australia. TUE TUE From the charged atmosphere on the London underground to TUE distorted visions on the top of a mountain - Nina navigates TUE tales of love, loss and wild abandonment. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Questions, Questions b0132p83 (Listen) TUE Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of TUE Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to TUE those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by TUE current events and popular culture. TUE TUE Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed TUE and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled TUE collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. TUE TUE In this week's programme Stewart ventures into the mystery TUE of the maze to find out what exactly these landscaped TUE convolutions were for. And from mazes to webs - the TUE worldwide one to be precise, he finds out just how much TUE power it takes to keep such technological wizardry going. TUE And finally, armed with a trowel he drops into the city of TUE Verulamium below St. Albans to find out why ancient TUE settlements end up underneath us. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Taylor TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b0194mw1 (Listen) TUE Stories from other cultures TUE TUE Michael Rosen listens to traditional folk stories from other TUE countries, including Uganda, Trinidad, Turkey, India, Poland TUE and Pakistan, told by people from those cultures who are TUE carrying them on for the next generation. TUE TUE He finds out how a pioneering translation project in primary TUE schools is getting children interested in stories from all TUE around the world. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b0194mxs (Listen) TUE Series 26, Joseph Rotblat TUE TUE Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees tells Matthew Parris why TUE his hero, physicist Joseph Rotblat, lived a "great life". TUE TUE Rotblat was a brilliant physicist who was the only scientist TUE to resign from the Manhattan Project once it became clear TUE that Germany would not make an atomic bomb. Rotblat believed TUE that all scientists have a moral obligation to work for the TUE benefit of mankind, and spent his life campaigning against TUE the proliferation of nuclear weapons. TUE TUE Joining Lord Rees and Matthew Parris in the studio is TUE Rotblat's friend and colleague Kit Hill. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0194mxv (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01940hh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b0194mxx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 6 TUE TUE In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK TUE towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants TUE distinctive. TUE TUE He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and TUE performs the show in front of a local audience. TUE TUE As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of TUE Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate TUE with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British TUE way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and TUE people who have shaped where we live. TUE TUE During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit TUE Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of TUE Man), Bungay and Wigan. TUE TUE Episode 6 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the TUE residents of Wigan, where he talks about entering pie eating TUE competitions, living under floorboards, and the radicalism TUE of George Formby. TUE TUE Written and performed by Mark Steel with additional material TUE by Pete Sinclair. TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0194n0l (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0194n0n (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wt3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Dying Inside b0194n0q (Listen) TUE The film-maker Rex Bloomstein has pioneered the prison TUE television documentary from the award-winning series TUE "Strangeways" in 1980, to the ground breaking programme TUE "Lifer - Living with Murder" in 2003. He presents his first TUE radio documentary on the growing phenomenon of older TUE prisoners in our prisons and hears from those who face the TUE prospect of dying inside. TUE TUE This country has the largest prison population in Europe TUE with around 88,000 inmates costing the tax payer on average TUE £45000 per year per Prisoner. The fastest growing group TUE within it are older prisoners, who number over 8000. This is TUE largely due to sentences becoming harsher and longer. At TUE present there is no national strategy to deal with this TUE issue. Prisons cope as best they can. Inmates are classed as TUE older prisoners from the age of 50 when they are more likely TUE to suffer with diabetes or coronary heart disease or have TUE problems with their mobility. TUE TUE For the first ever broadcast programme on this subject on TUE British radio or television, Bloomstein visited three TUE prisons: HMP Maidstone, HMP Whatton and he was given TUE exclusive access to the Elderly Lifer Unit at HMP Norwich, TUE the first time in its history that anyone from media has TUE been allowed in. TUE TUE He discovered that one of the most extraordinary aspects of TUE this story is that over 40% of older prisoners are men TUE convicted of sexual offences. An increasing number of them TUE committed their crimes many years ago but have been caught TUE by advances in DNA techniques. At the heart of this TUE documentary is the testimony of the prisoners themselves, TUE some of whom have been in jail for many years, while others TUE have been sentenced late in life after their pasts have TUE caught up with them. TUE TUE Bloomstein also spoke to prisoners with very serious health TUE problems and who are facing the possibility of dying in TUE prison. TUE TUE The programme is presented by Rex Bloomstein TUE TUE Producers: Rex Bloomstein & Simon Jacobs TUE A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0194n0s (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b019c8kt (Listen) TUE New Series: Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues TUE that perplex us and separates the facts from the fiction. He TUE brings clarity to conflicting health advice, explores new TUE medical research and tackles the big health issue of the TUE moment revealing the inner workings of the medical TUE profession and the daily dilemmas doctors face. TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Mark Porter TUE Producer: Erika Wright/Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b0194l3j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01940hk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0194n2z (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0194n31 (Listen) TUE Cousin Bette, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode, Baron Hulot faces the humiliation of TUE being caught inflagrante with dignity and his loyal Adeline TUE prepares to lose everything for his sake. TUE TUE The reader is Alex Jennings. TUE TUE The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger TUE was Sally Marmion. TUE TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 I, Regress b0194n33 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an TUE unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees TUE Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff TUE Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking TUE unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through TUE their subconscious. TUE TUE Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client TUE who has come to him for a different problem (quitting TUE smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under TUE hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various TUE situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played TUE out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) TUE like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is TUE disturbing. TUE TUE Episode 2: Robin Hood - no relation - comes to Dr Matt Berry TUE with a fear of spiders. The diagnosis seems to be that this TUE may all be down to an unusually potent encounter between an TUE arachnid and a South African grandmother.. Featuring Simon TUE Greenall (I'm Alan Partridge) and Jack Klaff (For Your Eyes TUE Only, Star Wars). TUE TUE The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT TUE Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall TUE (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes TUE Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's TUE Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter TUE Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, TUE and The Royal Exchange). TUE TUE A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone TUE else's head! TUE TUE 23:15 Continuity b00tgf1c (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Alistair McGowan stars in this subversive sitcom about a TUE continuity announcer, brooding on the escalating disasters TUE of his private and professional life at the same time as TUE attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer TUE in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a TUE parallel universe. TUE TUE This week we welcome the return of 'Musical Notebook', cast TUE our minds back to the controversial career of that terror of TUE the music halls, the irrepressible comic Lennie Bloom, and TUE we discuss the revamp of Desert Island Discs. It's all good. TUE TUE Written by Hugh Rycroft. Also starring Lewis Macleod, Sally TUE Grace, Charlotte Page and David Holt. TUE TUE Producers: David Spicer and Frank Stirling TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0194n35 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01940j5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b019lvg7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01940j8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01940jb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01940jd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01940jg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019djqn (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Nicholas Papadopulos. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0196qc6 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b0196qc8 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; WED Thought for the Day. Presented by Sarah Montague and Justin WED Webb. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0196qcb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b019lzgl (Listen) WED Stop What You're Doing and Read This, Mindful Reading WED WED In 'Mindful Reading' Tim Parks revels in the very WED particular impact of letters and words on a page, on how WED they impact our senses and transport us and on what reading WED really means in the fullest sense - from the functional to WED the evocative and enriching. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0196qcd (Listen) WED Carey Mulligan on her latest film, Shame. New magazine, WED Critical Muslim - how will it address women's issues? Is the WED human brain naturally optimistic? Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wtr (Listen) WED Ruthless, Episode 3 WED WED 11:00 Among the Managers b0196rn8 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED What can football managers learn from their counterparts in WED the boardrooom? The BBC's business editor Robert Peston WED finds out. WED WED 11:30 A Short Gentleman b0196rnd (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED by Jon Canter, adapted by Robin Brooks WED WED Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect WED specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless WED legal logic to his disastrous personal life. WED WED 2/4 WED Robert woos Elizabeth, by means of a putty-coloured carpet. WED WED Elizabeth ..... Lyndsey Marshal WED Guy ..... Adam Billington WED Sophie ..... Francine Chamberlain WED Anthony ..... Carl Prekopp WED with Gerard McDermott, Lauren Mote and Tracy Wiles. WED WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0196rng (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b0196rnl (Listen) WED Fitness to Practise WED WED The organisation we count on to protect us from dangerous or WED incompetent dentists is having its own abilities called into WED question. There have been a series of critical reports into WED the way the General Dental Council deals with complaints. WED There's a backlog of work, it has had 4 chief executives in WED a little over a year and the resignation of a chair prompted WED the government to demand an investigation. So is our dental WED watchdog fit to practise? WED WED Presented by John Waite WED Produced by Matthew Barlow. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01940jj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0196rnn (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 To Strive and Seek b019djqq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Focusing on the often forgotten, but revealing stories of WED the individuals involved, this highly textured series, WED authoritatively presented by Sara Wheeler marks the WED centenary of Scott's ill fated polar expedition. WED WED Scott's Terra Nova Expedition famously reached the South WED Pole on 17th January 1912. When they arrived they discovered WED that Amundsen had got there 33 days before them. They all WED perished on the return trip. The stated aim of the endeavour WED had been "to reach the South Pole and to secure for the WED British Empire the honour of this achievement". WED WED In all there were sixty-five men involved in the ship and WED shore parties, this is the story of five of them. Key WED individuals, each with their own reasons for being there, WED their own fascinations and interests, their own Terra Nova WED Expedition. WED WED Today's episode focuses on Raymond Priestley. WED WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0194n0l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0196rns (Listen) WED Blurred WED WED by Frazer Flintham. WED WED When old University friends Nikki and Hannah meet up more WED than ten years after they lost touch, Nikki makes a shocking WED revelation. WED WED Hannah ..... Naomi Frederick WED Nikki ..... Rosie Cavaleiro WED Ben ..... Simon Bubb WED Caroline ..... Adjoa Andoh WED Pam ..... Tracy Wiles WED Jerry ..... Christopher Webster WED WED directed by Mary Peate. WED WED This is Frazer Flintham's first play for radio. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0196rnx (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests take your calls on wills and WED inheritance tax. WED WED There's always uncertainty when it comes to personal WED finance, but the one thing you can control is what happens WED to your assets after you die. But to make sure your money WED goes to your nearest and dearest, and not to undeserving WED relations or the taxman, you need to do advance planning. WED If you have a partner but you're not married or in a civil WED partnership, it's even more important to detail who you want WED your assets to go to, otherwise you can cause your partner WED serious financial difficulties after your death. WED You can leave up to £325,000 tax-free to anyone, not just WED your spouse or civil partner, and estates are liable to a 40 WED per cent tax above this ceiling. But it may be more WED efficient in terms of tax to give gifts before your death, WED provided they meet certain conditions. WED So, where should you start in making a will - do you have to WED go to a solicitor or are the services provided by some high WED street banks and shops good enough? WED What happens to estates that are intestate - that is, the WED person has died without a valid will? WED How can you manage some of your assets with a trust? It can WED be complicated but it can also give you more control over WED who gets your assets and when. WED How often should you update your will? And how should you WED choose your executors, the people charged with carrying out WED the instructions in your will? WED And what if you live in Scotland, where the rules are WED different? WED This week the panel will be answering your questions about WED wills and inheritance tax. WED WED Expert panel: WED Nicola Plant, Pemberton Greenish WED Mike Warburton, Grant Thornton WED Alan Barr, Brodies and Director of Legal Practice at WED University of Edinburgh WED WED Lines open at 13:00. The number to ring - 03 700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b019c8kt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0196rp1 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0196rp3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b0196rp7 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01940jl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave b0196rpc (Listen) WED Isy Suttie ('Dobby' from Channel 4's 'Peep Show' & double WED British Comedy Award nominee.) recounts a moving love story WED involving a socially awkward childhood neighbour (her first WED pen pal) and a 'well-bred' girl from Surrey - the titular WED Pearl and Dave. She interweaves the narrative with her own WED tales of failed relationships, internet dating and eventual WED happiness, much of which is told through song. Adapted from WED her sell out Edinburgh 2011 Edinburgh show of the same name. WED From BBC Radio Comedy. WED WED "I'm overjoyed to be doing my Edinburgh show on Radio 4. WED Having spent a month playing to audiences who'd been rained WED on all day, some of them dashing in late, I advise listeners WED to wrap up warm, eat a hearty meal and leave enough time for WED the journey from the sofa to the radio." Isy Suttie Nov WED 2011. WED WED The Producer is John Pocock. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0196rpf (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0196rph (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including a report on Damien Hirst's spot WED paintings, created over the past 25 years, and about to go WED on show in 11 galleries around the world. WED WED Producer Timothy Prosser. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wtr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b0196rpp (Listen) WED Nick Robinson returns with a new series of the programme WED that goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and inside WED Westminster to explore how controversial decisions are WED reached. Each week, he asks people with senior experience of WED government and politics how a government, of whatever WED political colour, would approach a looming decision. WED Producer, Rob Shepherd. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0196rpr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 38 WED WED Judith Clegg argues that the special culture of technology WED start-ups could make the world a dramatically better place, WED if adopted more widely. WED WED Even after a year of dramatic change, she believes we could WED do with some more - in sectors as varied as banking, WED government and energy companies. The start-up culture of WED pay-it-forward, decent treatment of staff, enthusiasm and WED hard work is just what we need in every sector in these hard WED economic times, she says. WED WED With a family background steeped in entrepreneurial spirit, WED and a career spent breathing life into start-ups, she now WED runs the Takeout consultancy, which helps big organisations WED innovate and learn lessons from the start-up community, and WED the Glasshouse, a network for entrepreneurs, and is WED co-founder of a startup investment fund. She lives in the UK WED and America. 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 Big Game, Little Game b00v1rh8 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In the second of two programmes, Mark Stephen charts a WED unique swap involving two gamekeepers - one from the WED Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. WED WED Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of heather WED moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the edge WED of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from there WED will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for BBC WED Radio 4. WED WED The programmes offer the very different perspectives of WED Scottish gamekeeper Andy Malcolm and his South African WED counterpart Dylan Smith. Both men track their experiences in WED the form of audio diaries and in reflections to presenter WED Mark Stephen who is alongside them in this job exchange. How WED they deal with issues ranging from land conservation to WED animal welfare and how far experiences in their own WED landscapes can translate into ideas for their new ones, is WED at the heart of the recordings. WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0196qcb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01940jn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0196rpw (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Carolyn WED Quinn. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0196rpy (Listen) WED Cousin Bette, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode, Hulot's wicked plan to pay off his debts WED by sending his uncle to speculate in Algeria are discovered WED and his disgrace has disastrous consequences. WED WED The reader is Alex Jennings. WED WED The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger WED was Sally Marmion. WED WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Global Depression Tour b0196rq2 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US WED Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former WED CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can WED come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets WED off on a six country tour to prove it. With guest WED appearances from economists and financial journalists, WED including Will Hutton, Paul Mason and Gillian Tett. WED 1/6 The United States. WED Tina C ...Christopher Green WED With Gillian Tett, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey WED Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher WED Green WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer WED WED "Christopher Green's Tina C is one of the great comic WED creations of the age. A genuinely fine country singer, but WED with a twist of satire and insight which is rare and highly WED to be prized." Stephen Fry. WED WED 23:15 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b00tjqzx (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED WED What lengths do we need to go to "look good"? Do we really WED need to communicate with our fellow men? How important is it WED to work? Or to have a relationship? WED WED What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else is a four part WED mini-series of short comedic monologues on BBC Radio 4 WED written and performed by the stand-up comedian Andrew WED Lawrence, taking a light-hearted look at various aspects of WED conventional living and the pressure we feel to conform to WED social norms and ideals. WED WED Each episode is fifteen minutes long and was recorded in WED front of an audience, the first two episodes at South London WED comedy club 'Up The Creek', the final two recorded at the WED Edinburgh Comedy Festival. WED WED This first episode examines the effort we all put into our WED personal appearance and the pressure we feel to look good. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0196rq6 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 JANUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01940k7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b019lzgl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01940k9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01940kc (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01940kf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01940kh (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019djsb (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Nicholas Papadopulos. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0196tcm (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b0196tcp (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; THU Thought for the Day. Presented by Sarah Montague and James THU Naughtie. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0196tcr (Listen) THU The Safavid Dynasty THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty, the THU powerful rulers of early modern Iran who had a profound THU impact on the country's cultural and religious identity. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b019lzlz (Listen) THU Stop What You're Doing and Read This, True Daemons THU THU From a childhood on Melbourne's beaches to a publishing THU career in London, Carmen Callil has been surrounded by and THU immersed in books. In 'True Daemons' she describes the THU guiding powers of books and the enrichment she has enjoyed THU from reading. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0196tct (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wvk (Listen) THU Ruthless, Episode 4 THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0196tcw (Listen) THU What happened to the Kurdish spring? THU THU Twenty years ago, the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq THU achieved effective autonomy after the first Gulf War, THU establishing a liberal constitution and a democratic THU assembly. The region is booming economically, thanks to its THU huge oil reserves. THU But things are not that simple on the ground. In February, THU there were protests in the city of Sulaimaniya against THU corruption and the dominance of the two parties which govern THU the region. The demonstration was violently suppressed, THU resulting in the deaths of several activists. Some Kurds THU believe that the generation of peshmerga guerillas who THU fought for autonomy in the 1980s and 1990s are now blocking THU more openness and democracy. Yet even critics concede that THU the Kurds have achieved far greater stability and security THU than the rest of Iraq. THU Gabriel Gatehouse asks if the Kurdish region should be a THU model for the rest of the Middle East to follow or avoid? THU Producer: Natalie Morton. THU THU 11:30 Black Is a Country b0196tcy (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two part series THU exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by THU the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early THU Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare. THU THU Black Power - with its symbol of a fist clenched in anger THU and defiance - politicised African American music in ways THU the Civil Rights movement had not. The desire for THU integration gave way to a new, fighting impulse of cultural THU separatism and self-determination. Politics and music became THU explosively attuned. From 1968 The Black Arts Movement - THU 'the cultural and spiritual sister of the Black Power THU concept' - flourished, dedicated to the foundation of an THU authentic Black aesthetic in literature, poetry and music. THU 'The Black Power and Black Arts concept both relate to the THU Afro-American's desire for self-determination and THU nationhood' wrote the African American philosopher Larry THU Neale in 1968,'...a main tenet of Black Power is the THU necessity for Black people to define the world in their own THU terms. The Black artist will make the same point in the THU context of aesthetics.' THU THU The quest for freedom had both a musical and political THU resonance. Musicians opened up new and unexplored worlds of THU musical possibility. Players like Ornette Coleman and Archie THU Shepp pioneered the 'New Thing' - an avant-garde in jazz, THU pushing the limits of harmony and rhythm. Music was THU explicitly pressed into political service: The Black Panther THU Party even produced its own album of underground anthems THU 'Seize the Time' and Black music as a whole became far more THU vocal in its opposition to white mainstream society. THU Poet-musicians like Gill Scott Heron and the Last Poets THU delivered stinging attacks on the political failure of Civil THU Rights and the reality of the black experience in cities THU across America. Meanwhile Africa became as a powerful symbol THU for a younger generation of black American artists, a source THU of political identification, spiritual sustenance and often THU exotic, musical inspiration. THU THU Black Power transformed the way musicians negotiated control THU and ownership of their own music. The club and bar circuit THU gave way to performances in galleries, lofts, community THU halls and public spaces. The Association for the Advancement THU of Creative Musicians was inaugurated in Chicago (and still THU thrives today) and other collectives followed. Radical THU independent labels flourished with very limited vinyl THU release. Many of these records, infused with the Black Power THU ethos, are extremely rare, and are featured throughout the THU series. THU THU Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder THU of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet THU Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole THU of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian THU Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther THU leader and songwriter Elaine Brown. THU THU Presenter: Erykah Badu THU THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0196td0 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01940kk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0196td2 (Listen) THU National and international news with Edward Stourton. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 To Strive and Seek b019djsd (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Focusing on the often forgotten, but revealing stories of THU the individuals involved, this highly textured series, THU authoritatively presented by Sara Wheeler marks the THU centenary of Scott's ill fated polar expedition. THU THU Scott's Terra Nova Expedition famously reached the South THU Pole on 17th January 1912. When they arrived they discovered THU that Amundsen had got there 33 days before them. They all THU perished on the return trip. The stated aim of the endeavour THU had been "to reach the South Pole and to secure for the THU British Empire the honour of this achievement". THU THU In all there were sixty-five men involved in the ship and THU shore parties, this is the story of five of them. Key THU individuals, each with their own reasons for being there, THU their own fascinations and interests, their own Terra Nova THU Expedition. THU THU Today's episode focuses on Lawrence Oates. THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0196rpf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b0196td4 (Listen) THU Erebus THU THU A poetic drama by Jo Shapcott about the search for the THU North-West Passage. The 1845 expedition led by John Franklin THU was lost in the ice and never returned. The mysteries THU remain. In the intervening time rescue and, subsequently, THU archaeological expeditions have gone in search of clues as THU to what went wrong. Fragments of evidence have been found in THU the ice and latterly frozen bodies too. Why did the mission THU fail, did the sailors resort to eating their colleagues, THU were there encounters with Inuit and if so what did the THU local ice-experts make of the men who carried an organ and a THU library of books with them as they struggled from their THU ice-bound ships looking for help? THU THU With Russell Boulter, David Birrell, Peter Marinker, John THU Mackay and Jasmine Hyde. Music by Jon Nicholls. Produced by THU Tim Dee. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0196td6 (Listen) THU This is the year of the London 2012 Olympic Games. In just 6 THU months time, 60,000 people are expected to flood into THU Weymouth and Portland every day for 2 weeks to watch the THU sailing events. GB has topped the Sailing medals table at THU the last three Olympic Games. British sailors will be hoping THU to repeat the feat at London 2012, battling their rivals in THU Weymouth Bay. Weymouth and Portland have been preparing for THU this moment since the location of the sailing events was THU announced over five years ago. The area has seen major THU developments in terms of the roads, the marina and the THU esplanade. For this week's Open Country, Helen Mark visits THU the area to find out how it has prepared to host such a THU major event and what impact these changes are having on THU local residents. THU THU Presenter : Helen Mark THU Producer : Anna Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01946p9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01946wg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0196td8 (Listen) THU Francine Stock weighs up the week's two big releases -- THU Steven Spielberg's War Horse and Steve McQueen's Shame. THU Spielberg is already being tipped for an Oscar and McQueen THU has been gathering plaudits from all over the world for his THU film which features Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender in THU a study of sex addiction. THU THU Producer: Zahid Warley. THU THU 16:30 Material World b0194kz4 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b0196tn1 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01940km (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b014qxbj (Listen) THU Series 7, The Prisoner THU THU Clare in the Community returns with Sally Phillips as Clare THU Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but THU never a practical solution. THU THU In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out THU there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. THU THU Episode One 'The Prisoner' Cast: THU THU Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS THU Brian: ALEX LOWE THU Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI THU Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN THU Helen: LIZA TARBUCK THU Simon: ANDREW WINCOTT THU Libby: SARAH KENDALL THU WPC Petherington: SOPHIE THOMPSON THU Mr. Chisholm: GERARD MCDERMOTT THU Mr Barton: SIMON BUBB THU Shuliman Olibaju/Annabel: VICTORIA INEZ HARDY THU School Girl: GEORGIA LOWE THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Produced by Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0196tn3 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0196tn5 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reassesses the work of composer Sergei THU Prokofiev, in the light of a new festival which argues that THU he is frequently misunderstood. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wvk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0196tn7 (Listen) THU Adrian Goldberg investigates alleged malpractice in the UK's THU multi-billion pound leasing industry, in both the private THU and the public sector. He hears from people who signed up to THU leasing contracts and have lost six figure sums, seen their THU businesses close, and been forced into bankruptcy. And THU beyond the stories of personal anguish, he looks into the THU role of some of Britain's major banks and finance houses THU involved in leasing and asks if it's time for a radical THU overhaul in the way the leasing industry is regulated. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0196tn9 (Listen) THU All Together Now THU THU In these tough times, are there better ways of doing THU business: worker cooperatives, for example? THU In crisis-battered Spain, Peter Day visits the world's THU biggest worker coop in Mondragon, to find out what makes it THU different. And, in the UK where the cooperative movement THU began, will 2012, designated the year of the cooperative see THU the rise of the mutual business model? THU Producer : Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Nature b0194mvq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0196tcr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01940kp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0196tnc (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Carolyn THU Quinn. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0196tnf (Listen) THU Cousin Bette, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode, as Hulot's debts spiral further out of THU control, Bette seizes on a new plan to destroy her detested THU family. THU THU The reader is Alex Jennings. THU THU The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger THU was Sally Marmion. THU THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Meanwhile, It's Will & Greg b0196tnh (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Comedy performers William Andrews and Greg McHugh explore THU the surreal and the absurd through characters and everyday THU situations in their first sketch show for BBC Radio 4. Along THU with live sketches recorded in front of an appreciative THU Glasgow audience, the show also features studio based THU sketches with Will & Greg as "themselves" exploring a THU particular scenario and utilizing their hilarious THU relationship with each other and their trademark skew-whiff THU logic. The studio based sketches allows them to play with THU sound and atmosphere of the radio sketch form and blend them THU with the live audience material. THU THU Together with brand new regulars and one-off sketches, the THU series explores the bizarrely familiar, the recognisably odd THU and the upbeat offbeat way of life that only exists when the THU planet is touched by Will and Greg. THU THU Stars William Andrews and Greg McHugh with Gavin Mitchell THU and Kirsten Mclean. THU THU Director: Iain Davidson THU Script Editor: Chris Grady THU Original music by Alex Attwood. THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0196tpj (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 JANUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01940l6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b019lzlz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01940l8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01940lb (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01940ld (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01940lg (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019dkhv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Nicholas Papadopulos. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0196tr3 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0196tr5 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; FRI Thought for the Day. Presented by James Naughtie and Evan FRI Davis. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01946pk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b019lzsy (Listen) FRI Stop What You're Doing and Read This, The Right Words in the FRI Right Order FRI FRI From the moment he won six Penguin Classics in a school FRI competition Mark Haddon has been an avid reader. But it's FRI not the plots of books he focuses on but the words FRI themselves, the images they conjure up, the world's they FRI introduce him to. In 'The Right Words In the Right Order' he FRI explains how reading, and reading the right books at the FRI right time is a life-enhancing experience. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0196tyc (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wxp (Listen) FRI Ruthless, Episode 5 FRI FRI A light-hearted look at the world of Personal Assistants and FRI office intrigue from the creator of Channel 4's Teachers, FRI Tim Loane. FRI FRI Ruth Brown arrives for her first day at a busy management FRI consultancy and is thrown into a world of corporate jargon FRI and menial and mind numbing tasks, all topped off with an FRI unhealthy dollop of executive stress and a smidgen of FRI scandal! FRI FRI Hired to urgently plug a gap, Ruth is thrust into the life FRI of a corporate PA alongside co-workers Tanya, Michelle and FRI Beatrice. The real beating heart of the company, the PAs FRI attend to the whims of the company CEO Oliver Carlton and FRI keep the corporate plates spinning. However, with the FRI consultancy undergoing an 'efficiency' assessment due to its FRI record levels of stress-related illness, the atmosphere is FRI anything but relaxed. Trying to settle in to her first week FRI as a PA on the 'top floor', Ruth's interest is also piqued FRI by the conflicting stories surrounding the fate of her FRI predecessor Ingrid. What is the secret her colleagues are so FRI keen to keep hidden? FRI FRI As she begins uncovers a web of secrets, and scandal and as FRI the stress levels rise, can Ruth learn to play her FRI co-workers at their own game, and win? FRI FRI With Olivia Hallinan as Ruth, the cast includes Joe FRI Armstrong, Charles Edwards, Claire Rushbrook, Olivia Poulet, FRI Gillian Kearney, Miche Doherty and Seainin Breannan. FRI FRI A writer, director and actor, Tim Loane's screenwriting FRI credits include the comedy films Out of The Deep Pan (BBC), FRI Reversals (ITV) and he was creator and lead writer of the FRI Bafta-nominated Teachers for Channel 4. He wrote the FRI four-part conspiracy thriller Proof 2 (RTE), the three-part FRI family drama serial Little Devil (ITV) and the 2009 updating FRI of 80's television classic Minder (Channel 5). A co-founder FRI of Northern Ireland's Tinderbox Theatre Company, his stage FRI plays include Caught Red Handed and To Be Sure while he also FRI directed the 1997 Oscar nominated short film Dance Lexie FRI Dance. For radio he was written the inner-city thriller The FRI Tunnel and the post-ceasefire ensemble comedy I can see FRI clearly. FRI FRI 11:00 But They Are Only Russians b0196tyf (Listen) FRI Truth-tellers and cover-up artists: John Sweeney takes a FRI classic example from Stalin's great famine of the 1930s FRI which killed up to 10 million peasants, with a famous and FRI feted journalist Walter Duranty reporting in the New York FRI Times that there was no famine and very few deaths, and FRI ridiculing another journalist, Gareth Jones (once David FRI Lloyd George's private secretary), who had defied a state FRI ban to go and see the suffering for himself, and reported FRI the horrible truth. Duranty later won a Pulitzer; Jones was FRI killed in China in mysterious circumstances. FRI FRI In 'But They Are Only Russians' - a dismissive phrase used FRI by Duranty when admitting privately to western officials FRI that thousands were dying - John Sweeney investigates the FRI truth-tellers and the cover-up artists, their motivation, FRI their fate, and why it is that the public always finds it FRI easier to believe in a fantasy rather than a reality. FRI FRI Sweeney has been to Ukraine, following in the footsteps of FRI Jones, and meeting a few aged famine survivors, who tell him FRI of desperate hunger driving many to cannibalism. He visits FRI and reports from Stalin's villa and one of his gulags, and FRI observes that in Vladimir Putin's Russia, where only FRI 'positive history' is promoted, Stalin is being FRI rehabilitated and school-books reducing the history of the FRI famine to half a page. FRI FRI He talks to Doris Lessing, who confesses to having been FRI duped into promoting Stalin's vision of society, and he FRI hears how politically naive many celebrities of the time FRI proved to be. As were intellectuals. Or useful idiots, as FRI Lenin called them - who ignored or accepted, sometimes FRI promoted, tyrannies and tyrants. He meets Gareth Jones' FRI niece and Walter Duranty's biographer. FRI FRI Sweeney brings the story up to date, by noting that some FRI current world leaders act abominably or dubiously, even if FRI not on Stalin's scale, and what they do is reported by the FRI Durantys and the Jones - cover-up artists and truth-tellers. FRI FRI Producer: David Coomes. FRI FRI 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b0196tyh (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI FRI Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the FRI residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Norman may FRI have stopped the parade, but the festival must go on. FRI Meanwhile Helen has news for Jan and Frank, and love FRI blossoms for a most unlikely couple. FRI FRI written by Katherine Jakeways FRI produced by Victoria Lloyd FRI FRI John Biggins................................Keith FRI Mackenzie Crook...........................Rod FRI Kevin Eldon...................Jonathan / Ken FRI Shelia Hancock....................... Narrator FRI Jessica Henwick...........................Helen FRI Katherine Jakeways........ Esther / Jacqui FRI Felicity Montagu..............................Jan FRI Geoffrey Palmer........................Norman FRI Lizzie Roper..............................Angela FRI Penelope Wilton............................Mary FRI Rufus Wright................................Frank. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0196tyk (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01940lj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0196tym (Listen) FRI National and international news with James Robbins. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 To Strive and Seek b019dqw0 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Focusing on the often forgotten, but revealing stories of FRI the individuals involved, this highly textured series, FRI authoritatively presented by Sara Wheeler marks the FRI centenary of Scott's ill fated polar expedition. FRI FRI Scott's Terra Nova Expedition famously reached the South FRI Pole on 17th January 1912. When they arrived they discovered FRI that Amundsen had got there 33 days before them. They all FRI perished on the return trip. The stated aim of the endeavour FRI had been "to reach the South Pole and to secure for the FRI British Empire the honour of this achievement". FRI FRI In all there were sixty-five men involved in the ship and FRI shore parties, this is the story of five of them. Key FRI individuals, each with their own reasons for being there, FRI their own fascinations and interests, their own Terra Nova FRI Expedition. FRI FRI Today's episode focuses on Cherry Apsley-Garrard. FRI FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0196tn3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0196v3q (Listen) FRI You Drive Me Crazy FRI FRI Once he loved powering down the motorway; now the very FRI thought brings on a cold sweat. Paul Dodgson's play reflects FRI on living with his newly-acquired fear of driving. Looking FRI back on the cars in his life to try and trace the source of FRI his anxiety, he remembers being 'Prince of the back seat' at FRI six years old in his parents' half timbered Morris FRI Traveller. Then, as a teenager, he couldn't wait for his FRI 17th birthday and the chance to get behind the wheel of the FRI family's Austin Princess himself. Later, as a young man in FRI his thirties, he fell in love with his red MG Midget - FRI enjoying nothing more than belting down country lanes FRI blasting music way too loud. Then, something changed, and a FRI fear began to take hold, a fear that would suddenly skew his FRI vision, make the road seem to slide away, and his heart beat FRI violently in his chest - a fear that quickly turned into a FRI debilitating terror. Paul Dodgson writes and narrates his FRI own story of living with driving anxiety disorder. FRI FRI Paul . . . . Paul Dodgson FRI Dad . . . . Ewan Bailey FRI Mum . . . Sally Orrock FRI FRI A BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0196v3s (Listen) FRI Birmingham FRI FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Wilson join FRI gardeners in Birmingham for a horticultural Q&A. Eric Robson FRI is the chair. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 New Year, New Writers b0196v3v (Listen) FRI Departures FRI FRI Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. FRI 'Departures' by Katy McAulay. FRI A woman yearns for some January sun until an encounter at FRI the airport changes everything. Read by Julie Duncanson. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0196v3x (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b0196v3z (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0196v41 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01940ll (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0196vgp (Listen) FRI Series 76, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0196vgr (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0196vgt (Listen) FRI John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0196wxp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0196vgw (Listen) FRI Wimborne, Dorset FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Canford School in Wimborne, Dorset, with Iain FRI Duncan-Smith and Jackie Ashley. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0196vgy (Listen) FRI The historian Lisa Jardine reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b011290q (Listen) FRI Deep Down and Dirty Rock 'n' Roll FRI FRI By Mark Davies Markham. Suggs stars in a drama set in the FRI music industry. Once Carl was the tragic suicidal poet of FRI the band Lost Youth. Fourteen years earlier Carl feigned a FRI mysterious disappearance. If he comes out of hiding now Lost FRI Youth are history. FRI FRI Ed...Suggs FRI Carl...Burn Gorman FRI Tanya...Philippa Stanton FRI Sophie...Alex Tregear FRI Doreen...Joanna Monro FRI Olly...Stuart McLoughlin FRI Miss Brookes...Jane Whittenshaw FRI Phil...Brian Bowles FRI FRI Music composed by Dave Gale FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01982kz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0196vh0 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0196vh2 (Listen) FRI Cousin Bette, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's final episode, the Brazilian discovers that his FRI love has been betrayed and wrecks vengeance that quite FRI outdoes all Bette's most wicked plans. And the incorrigible FRI Baron is returned to his family, for now.. FRI FRI The reader is Alex Jennings. FRI FRI The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger FRI was Sally Marmion. FRI FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b0194mxs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0196vh4 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI