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SAT SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b019h3s2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01b3hgn (Listen) SAT El Narco, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Ioan Grillo. SAT SAT Crime and punishment. Politics and the law. Is El Narco a SAT criminal movement or is it an insurgency that threatens the SAT very state itself ? SAT SAT As a teenager in Brighton the author witnessed the rise of SAT drug use in 1980s Britain. He also knew four young men who SAT died of heroin overdoses. Twelve years ago he arrived in SAT Mexico with ambitions to be 'a foreign correspondent in SAT exotic climes'. But the most compelling story that demanded SAT attention was the extraordinary and terrifying power of the SAT drug cartels and the violent world of 'El Narco'. SAT SAT Read by Rupert Degas SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019h3s4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019h3s6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019h3s8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b019h3sb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019h3tr (Listen) SAT Prayer and reflection. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b019h3tt (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b019h3sd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b019h3sg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b019gz0m (Listen) SAT It's been seven years since hunting with hounds was SAT abolished. But it's claimed the country's hunts, which no SAT longer chase a live animal but a trail of artificial scent SAT instead, are in the best shape anyone can remember. So is SAT the ban working? On Boxing Day, three hundred hunts took SAT place across the country and Agricultural Minister, Jim SAT Paice announced there'd be a vote on whether to repeal the SAT act when there's time in the parliamentary calendar. So on SAT today's Open Country, Helen Mark investigates what the SAT latest is on both sides of the debate. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b019q9bv (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b019h3sj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b019q9f9 (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b019q9jx (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with TV personality Ulrika Jonsson, poet Elvis SAT McGonagall, a sword swallower who tore his own oesophagus, a SAT woman who became best friends with her husband's mistress, a SAT man who hitched a ride with a coffin, and a Crowdscape from SAT Sleaford. Plus the Inheritance Tracks of comedian Ruby Wax. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b019q9jz (Listen) SAT John McCarthy looks at the delights and difficulties of SAT visiting the occupied territories of East Jerusalem and the SAT West Bank with writer Sarah Irving who has published the SAT first new guide to Palestine for many years, circus SAT performer China Fish who recently returned from entertaining SAT children there and traveller Gail Simmons who sampled the SAT alternatives to the mass tourism. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b019q9k1 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Robin Ince SAT SAT Comedian Robin Ince shares his wonder at gene research and SAT love of festivals in Reasons To Be Cheerful. SAT SAT At least twelve times a year comedian Robin Ince finds SAT himself at a festival somewhere in the UK and he loves it. SAT The modern explosion in the festival scene "from Glastonbury SAT to Hay" is one of Robin's big reasons for celebrating modern SAT life. The comic explores his obsession in the third series SAT of Reasons To Be Cheerful, Radio 4's retort to the grumpy SAT voices that usually fill the airwaves. SAT SAT Robin also celebrates how research into our genes has led to SAT a shift in our understanding of who we are. He meets up with SAT leading scientist Michael Dunn at the Wellcome Institute in SAT London to look at the impact of gene research. SAT SAT According to cynics, today's young people are more SAT interested in Katie Price and X-factor than scientific SAT advancements. Not true says Robin and he sets out to show SAT how today's kids are hungry to learn, with the help of SAT leading psychologist Tanya Byron. SAT SAT Robin looks for inspiration on how to live a good life from SAT the great French thinker Montaigne. He enlists the help of SAT author Sarah Bakewell to find out what a 16th century SAT philosopher can teach us about modern life. SAT SAT Comedian and broadcaster Michael Legge provides a grumpy SAT foil to Robin and proves difficult to cheer up. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Coombs. SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b019q9k3 (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b019q9kt (Listen) SAT BBC correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps SAT that's because it gives them a guilty conscience! At least SAT it does Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem. He's been losing sleep SAT over his lemon tree. Humphrey Hawksley's been meeting SAT children in India who work, sometimes in poor conditions, to SAT produce goods sold in shops on Western high streets. Owen SAT Bennett Jones is in Pakistan where the agenda of the news SAT anchors ranges from assassination and political venality to SAT gossip and who's had a hair transplant. Jeremy Bowen, SAT heavily shadowed by government minders, tries to find out SAT the degree of support for the campaign to oust the president SAT Bashar al-Assad and Stephen Sackur has been to report in SAT Yemen where a political vacuum seems to suit an SAT al-Qaeda-backed insurgency. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b019q9kw (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b019h3pw (Listen) SAT Series 76, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b019h3sl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b019h3sn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b019h3q2 (Listen) SAT Ingatestone, Essex SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from the Anglo-European School, Ingatestone, Essex, SAT with Shadow Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell; Chief Secretary SAT to the Treasury and Liberal Democrat MP, Danny Alexander; SAT Chief Political Commentator of The Daily Telegraph, Peter SAT Oborne; and general secretary of the PCS civil service SAT union, Mark Serwotka. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b019qblk (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b019qblm (Listen) SAT The Jinx Element SAT SAT by Stephen Wakelam SAT SAT Edith Wharton's private life was as dramatic as many of her SAT novels. SAT An encounter with a journalist was to have a seismic SAT effect on her marriage and her work. SAT SAT Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Henry James ..... Allan Corduner SAT Morton ..... Patrick Baladi SAT Teddy Wharton ..... Nathan Osgood SAT Cook/Manservant ..... James Lailey SAT Mrs Gross/French Admirer ..... Rachel Atkins SAT English Waiter/French Waiter ..... Simon Bubb SAT SAT Directed by Sally Avens SAT SAT 15:30 The Print Master b019fwvx (Listen) SAT What do Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, SAT Paula Rego, David Hockney and Man Ray have in common? They SAT have all worked with legendary print maker, Stanley Jones. SAT Susan Aldworth takes the chance to be his apprentice, to SAT hear his tales, and learn his skills. SAT In the 1950's the printmaking skill-base in the UK had SAT almost completely disappeared until W S Hayter - founder of SAT the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris - persuaded a SAT talented young artist from Wigan to study the art of SAT lithography, a skill which had been lost in the UK since the SAT time of Whistler. SAT On his return to Britain, Stanley Jones spearheaded a rapid SAT expansion in British Printmaking - today he is revered in SAT artistic circles as one of the greatest print makers alive. SAT Now in his 70s Stanley Jones's clients read like a roll-call SAT of the 20th century's great British artists. SAT SAT Artist Susan Aldworth was invited to be Artist in Residence SAT at the Curwen Studio, which Stanley was involved in setting SAT up in the 1950's - the Tate Gallery has a special archive SAT devoted to the studio's work. In 'The Print Master', we join SAT them amongst the thundering and clanking machinery of the SAT print works, now near Cambridge, as Stanley initiates Susan SAT in the art of lithography, hearing tales of artists he has SAT worked with over the past 50 years. And what artists! SAT SAT Today lithography is under threat as increasing numbers of SAT Art Schools have disposed of their lithography presses and SAT there are few technicians who fully understand the process. SAT This is a unique chance to work with the world expert in SAT this discipline, and for the listener to discover more about SAT this art. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b019qbn3 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Why does a seemingly devoted parent kill their children and SAT what can be done to prevent it? The growing number of female SAT politicians happy to adopt the feminist label. Why questions SAT are being asked about the safety of an implant designed to SAT help stress incontinence, with some suggestion this could be SAT another major implants scandal. And would you rather receive SAT an orchid or a rose this Valentine's Day. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b019qbn5 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b019h3tt (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b019h3sq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b019h3ss (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019h3sv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b019qbwj (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joned by Ardal O'Hanlon, Mark Thomas, Gus SAT Casely-Hayford and Paul Gambaccini. With music from Ruth SAT Moody and Field Music. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b019qbwl (Listen) SAT Series 11, Pandamonium SAT SAT The return of the award-winning series in which writers SAT create a fictional response to the week's news. This week SAT it's Peter Souter's turn to write a topical drama inspired SAT by a story making the headlines. SAT Produced by Helen Perry. SAT SAT To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, SAT our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major SAT story from the week's news. The form and content are SAT entirely lead by the news topic - so drama can come in many SAT guises, as well as poetry and prose. SAT SAT It's uniquely radio - an instant reaction to the mood of the SAT moment - a concept impossible to imagine in any other SAT medium. SAT SAT This is the 12th series and the sheer breadth of approach is SAT reflected in the range of writers who have participated so SAT far. They include: Lionel Shriver, David Baddiel, David SAT Edgar, Amelia Bulmore, Mark Lawson, Bonnie Greer, Laura SAT Solon, Will Self, Alistair Beaton, Lemn Sissay, April de SAT Angelis, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Adrian Mitchell, Stewart Lee, SAT John Sergeant, Jo Shapcott, Ian McMillan, Kwame Kwei-Armah, SAT Kate Mosse, Marina Warner, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, A.L.Kennedy SAT and Lyn Coghlan. SAT SAT From Fact to Fiction presents writers with the creative SAT opportunity to work in a bold and instinctive way as they SAT respond to events in the news, beginning on a Monday when an SAT idea is selected through to Friday when the programme is SAT recorded and edited. SAT SAT The high-profile series also attracts big names from the SAT acting profession. Philip Glenister, Tracy-Ann Oberman, SAT Samuel West, David Soul, Henry Goodman, Anne-Marie Duff, SAT Alistair McGowan, Robert Bathurst, Stephen Mangan, Ken SAT Cranham, Brendan Coyle, Haydn Gwynne and Sally Hawkins are SAT just some of the names who have featured so far. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b019qbwn (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT Coriolanus SAT SAT Coriolanus is at selected cinemas, certificate 15. SAT SAT The Buddha in the Attic SAT SAT The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka is published by Fig SAT Tree. SAT SAT Travelling Light SAT SAT Travelling Light continues at the National Theatre. SAT SAT Birdsong SAT SAT Birdsong begins on BBC One on Sunday 21 January at 9pm. SAT SAT David Hockney: A Bigger Picture SAT SAT David Hockney: A Bigger Picture continues at the Royal SAT Academy in London until the 9 April. SAT SAT 20:00 Freud vs Jung b019qj15 (Listen) SAT Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung's names may be linked in the SAT public imagination but the two men were friends and SAT collaborators for only a few short years. In 1912 they had a SAT final, catastrophic split and never worked together again. SAT Lisa Appignanesi tells the story of the titanic struggle SAT which shaped our map of the unconscious. Did the bisected SAT science fail to fulfil its promise and how much can be laid SAT at the door of the primal argument between its dominant SAT father and rebellious son? SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) SAT The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 3 SAT SAT By Ayeesha Menon 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 (Karqn 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 Mickey returns to India determined to show his grandfather SAT he is a changed man and to marry Mary, the love of his life. SAT But, in his absence, things have changed; the old man now SAT appears to be under the control of the scheming Pinto who SAT will not let Mickey near him. And Thomas has fallen in love SAT with Mary... Meanwhile the hapless Joseph loses all his SAT money in a Ponzi scheme. With his debtors closing in, murder SAT seems to be the only way out... 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 b019h3sx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b019fyqm (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and SAT inside Westminster to explore how controversial decisions SAT are reached. Each week, he asks people with senior SAT experience of government and politics how a government, of SAT whatever political colour, would approach a looming SAT decision. Producer, Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b019f8bp (Listen) SAT (10/17) SAT SAT The canvas entitled 'Nude Descending A Staircase', first SAT exhibited in 1912, was the first major success of which SAT artist? SAT SAT Russell Davies puts this and many other questions to the SAT competitors in the tenth heat of the 2012 contest. This SAT week's programme comes from the BBC's new Salford studios, SAT with quiz enthusiasts from Cheshire, the West Midlands and SAT Edinburgh bidding for a semi-final place. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b019f6k6 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with poetry requests read by Catherine Cusack SAT and Patrick Romer.The stillness of winter is set ablaze with SAT poems by Tomas Tranströmer, W.B. Yeats and Moniza Alvi. SAT SAT The hush of winter lingers for miles in Robert Frost's SAT famous poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. Robin SAT Robertson reads his poem about the rumbling power of a SAT frozen lake, and there's another poem about the sounds of SAT weather by Janet Frame. There are also plenty of colourful SAT poetic interventions, with a poem of adolescent love in Gary SAT Soto's 'Oranges', cockerels 'cleaving the darkness' in a SAT poem by Edward Thomas, and a man wearing red shoes like SAT volcanoes dances his way through the weekend. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b019q8sd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brief Sparks b019qm1n (Listen) SUN Ladies and Gentlemen 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 wry humour of social comedy 'The Snobs' and the sharp satire SUN of class, aspiration and phobia in 'You Should Have Seen the SUN Mess'. SUN SUN Here, Muriel Spark enjoys a timely satire on the perils SUN awaiting those who attempt to commit adultery, when a SUN married man runs the terrible risk of taking a walk in the SUN park with his young mistress. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019q8sg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019q8sj (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019q8sl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b019q8sn (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b019rd2q (Listen) SUN The bells of York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b019fyqp (Listen) SUN Series 2, Clare Allan SUN SUN Clare Allan asks why lying gets such a bad press. The truth, SUN she argues, can be far more dangerous. SUN SUN Can lies both liberate and illuminate? As a novelist she SUN discusses how she takes full advantage of her position to SUN tell stories, to invent the facts. But in so doing so, she SUN says, fiction can lead us closer to the truth. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SUN of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the SUN stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, SUN interests and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b019q8sq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b019rd6n (Listen) SUN Living and Learning SUN SUN Mark Tully meets adult learners with no previous academic SUN qualifications. He discovers the benefits of education later SUN in life, not just for the students but for society too. SUN SUN Much of the programme is recorded in Oxford as Tully follows SUN a rather unusual group of students as they enrol at the SUN University's Bodleian Library. The "Ransackers" all missed SUN out on education when they were younger, but they all have a SUN passion for a research project of their own choosing. Now, SUN they have been given the chance to pursue their interests by SUN Ruskin College who pay all their costs for an intensive SUN ten-week course of study. SUN SUN In an interview with the Principal of Ruskin College, Audrey SUN Mullender, Tully encounters the ideals of John Ruskin, the SUN 19th century art critic, painter and educationalist. In SUN those days when the class system was almost set in stone SUN Ruskin believed that, through education, workers could SUN achieve a vital sense of self-fulfilment. SUN SUN And it's the 21st century passion for the benefits of SUN self-fulfilment that Tully encounters when he meets the SUN founder of the Ransackers, Vi Hughes. She speaks of the fear SUN many older people have: fear of education, and fear that SUN they are not capable of learning or contributing. Over SUN nearly thirty years of tutoring at Ruskin, Vi Hughes has SUN seen hundreds of lives transformed when those fears are SUN overcome. Hughes is a champion of the idea that access to SUN education for all, benefits the whole of society. SUN SUN Tully also looks at other institutions such as the Open SUN University and ponders if the ideal of education for SUN education's sake can survive the modern emphasis on SUN education to meet the needs of industry. SUN SUN But the last word is left to the Ransackers, who describe SUN the freedom they have found amongst the dreaming spires of SUN Oxford. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b019rd6q (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith looks at the battle to build a farm housing SUN 25,000 pigs, 33 times the size of an average pig farm. SUN Foston in Derbyshire has seen protests from animal rights SUN groups and local residents who believe the plans are SUN damaging for animal welfare, for the environment, and for SUN human health. SUN SUN On Your Farm visits one of Midland Pigs' pilot farms, along SUN with one of the most vociferous campaigners - Lord Peter SUN Melchett from the Soil Association. He debates the ethics SUN and practicality of the plans with managing director of SUN Midland Pigs Martin Barker, who believes the new farm poses SUN no risk to health, and represents a step forward in animal SUN welfare. SUN SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b019q8ss (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b019q8sv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b019rd6s (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b019rd6v (Listen) SUN National Nightline SUN SUN Stephen Fry presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity National Nightline. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1112793 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN National Nightline SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN National Nightline SUN SUN National Nightline provides a confidential listening and SUN information service offering emotional support run by SUN students for students at their university. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b019q8sx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b019q8sz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b019rd6x (Listen) SUN A service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity SUN Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ joins the Dean, The Revd Dr Greg Seach SUN to reflect on the idea that Mary, mother of God, challenges SUN Christians of all traditions to question their understanding SUN of the universal church. SUN The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge is directed by Graham SUN Ross. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b019h3q4 (Listen) SUN Volume Control SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on her aversion to today's new sources SUN of noise and traces the history of some attempts at noise SUN abatement. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b019q8t1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b019rd7k (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b019rd7m (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp 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 Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rufus ..... David Seddon SUN Reporter ..... Alex Rivers. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b019rd99 (Listen) SUN Vikram Seth SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Vikram Seth. SUN SUN His novel An Unsuitable Boy was nearly a decade in the SUN writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the SUN Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a SUN follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish SUN work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was SUN published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound SUN of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors SUN are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational SUN period." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b019f8by (Listen) SUN Series 8, Episode 4 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. Lee Mack, Jack Dee, Rufus Hound and Graeme SUN Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Nuts, Boy Scouts, The SUN Circus and Florence Nightingale. 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 b019rd9c (Listen) SUN Generation Food SUN SUN Generation food. The Food Programme hears from the people SUN coming up with new ideas and fresh thinking about how and SUN where we produce food for the UK's future. SUN SUN From computer programmers creating networks for people SUN trading food locally through to community supported market SUN gardens, Sheila Dillon finds out how a new generation is SUN coming up with radical models for growing, buying and SUN selling food. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b019q8t3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b019rf5k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world, with Edward SUN Stourton. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 David Cameron's Big Idea b019rf5m (Listen) SUN Episode 3 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, of "The Independent", presents a three-part SUN series telling the story behind that famous phrase, tracing SUN David Cameron's vision of a reformed state and a Big Society SUN from the early days of opposition to the reality of SUN government. SUN SUN From the early days of his leadership campaign, David SUN Cameron and his advisers were working on bold ideas which SUN they said would reshape the state, decentralise power and SUN strengthen society. From 2009 onwards the phrase "The Big SUN Society" was used to describe these ideas. SUN SUN The Big Society became the basis of an ambitious programme SUN for government which the Conservatives were able to present SUN with the help of the Lib Dems, who shared some of the same SUN ideas. SUN SUN In episode 3, we trace what has happened to this programme SUN of policies since, exploring the political and practical SUN difficulties which have occurred along the way. SUN SUN And we ask what the future holds for David Cameron's "big SUN idea". Will it continue to be his self-proclaimed driving SUN mission? SUN SUN And what lasting impact will his ideas have on the state and SUN society in Britain? SUN SUN Interviewees include the former no 10 Director of Policy, SUN James O'Shaughnessy, and the Chief Secretary to the SUN Treasury, Danny Alexander. SUN SUN Producers: Martin Rosenbaum and Leala Padmanbhan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b019h3pk (Listen) SUN Spalding SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A with Springfields SUN Horticultural Society. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and SUN Christine Walkden join him on the panel. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness looks into some different peas and beans to SUN try next season, making some encouraging revelations about SUN growing Edamame beans. How to deal with blown sprouts and is SUN it worth trying to grow a banana plant? SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Welsh's Scottish Journey b019rfq6 (Listen) SUN Glasgow 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. SUN SUN In the summer of 2011, crime writer Louise Welsh decided to SUN embark on a mini whistle-stop version of Muir's journey, SUN taking to the roads in an open-top car, just as he did, and SUN trying to get a flavour now of a country also in the grip of SUN austerity and flirting with nationalism. In this programme SUN though, we ditch the car to go visit the space industry on SUN the Clyde in the shape of Craig Clark, whose firm makes cube SUN satellites, and we take the brand new Govan ferry to SUN consider with Professor Willy Maley the changing nature of SUN the city. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b019rgnv (Listen) SUN The Spy, Episode 1 SUN SUN By James Fenimore Cooper, dramatised by DJ Britton. SUN SUN New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the SUN British in the American War of Independence, creeps into SUN no-man's land to spend an evening with his family. But the SUN happy reunion is cut short when American troops surround the SUN house. Can the mysterious peddler Harvey Birch provide Henry SUN with a means of escape? SUN SUN Harvey Birch . . . . . Burn Gorman SUN Frances . . . . . Rose Leslie SUN Henry . . . . . Alex Waldmann SUN Mr Wharton . . . . . James Lailey SUN Sarah . . . . . Francine Chamberlain SUN Mr Harper . . . . . Timothy Watson SUN Caesar . . . . . Richard Pepple SUN Peyton Dunwoodie . . . . . Simon Bubb SUN Captain Lawton . . . . . Gerard McDermott SUN Colonel Wellmere . . . . . Adam Billington SUN Isabella Singleton . . . . . Victoria Inez Hardy SUN SUN Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Studio managers: Anne Bunting, Jenni Burnett, Alison Craig. SUN Editor: Anne Bunting SUN Production Co-ordinator: Beverly Tagg SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b019rgt3 (Listen) SUN Kate Williams on Victoriana and Susan Hill revisits The SUN Woman in Black SUN SUN News and features from the world of books with Mariella SUN Frostrup. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b019rgt5 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with poetry requests read by Catherine Cusack SUN and Patrick Romer. Kathryn Simmonds also reads her own work. SUN Conformity and subversion are among the themes that pop up SUN today with Edna St Vincent Millay being merry on a ferry and SUN William Carlos Williams prancing around naked, singing to SUN himself. Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin's poem Fireman's Lift SUN recalls the experience of seeing Coreggio's frescoes in the SUN dome of Parma Cathedral, and the vagabond poet W.H. Davies SUN also makes the case for staring in his famous poem SUN 'Leisure'. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Three Generations of Incarceration b019fxb1 (Listen) SUN Gary Younge travels to Los Angeles to hear the story of one SUN family who has had three generations pass through America's SUN criminal justice system. The United States is the world's SUN leader in incarceration with 2.3 million people currently in SUN the nation's prisons or jails, and the Gamble family is just SUN one family in that story. Jeffrey Gamble's father spent time SUN in jail, his brother's Ricky and Mike are set to be in SUN prison for the rest of their lives whilst his son Khalif has SUN spent time inside too. But why has this cyclical quality of SUN family history stretched back three generations. What has SUN caused it, what could have been done to stop it, and will it SUN continue? SUN SUN If it was not for one decisive moment in Jeffrey Gamble's SUN life he believes he would either be dead or in prison for SUN the rest of his life. In their own words the family reflect SUN on what might have gone wrong since they moved to Los SUN Angeles from Hope, Arkansas in the late 1960s. They all have SUN differing versions but what becomes clear is that once you SUN become a felon your chances of finding employment, housing SUN and a new life are drastically diminished. What should be SUN done to improve their chances? Is rehabilitation rather than SUN punitive justice the answer and what will stop the same SUN family members passing through the same prison doors? SUN SUN Producer: Barney Rowntree SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b019qbwl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b019q8t5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b019q8t7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019q8t9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b019rgt7 (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Geoff Bird. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b019rgt9 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 It's Your Round b019rgtc (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 SUN SUN Angus Deayton hosts the show which is totally different SUN every time, as it's the panellists themselves that devise SUN the format. Each of the contestants has brought their own SUN round for the other panellists to play. But will they be SUN beaten at their own games? SUN SUN The rounds featured this episode are: SUN SUN Lucy Porter's "Who's the Daddy?" in which the other three, SUN childless, male panellists must complete the quote from a SUN 70's parenting bible. SUN SUN Tom Wrigglesworth's "Dodo's Den" in which each contestant SUN must pitch their idea for a new invention that they think SUN will make them their millions. Examples include the "Herring SUN Aid" and the intriguingly titled "Bam". SUN SUN Robert Popper's brilliant parlour game, "ORAG" aka "The SUN Opposite Rhyming Animal Game", which is pretty much, er, SUN self-explanatory... SUN SUN And Lloyd Langford devises a quiz based on Welsh talisman SUN and eccentric, Dr William Price, in his round "The Price Is SUN Right". SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b1lv6 (Listen) SUN Eel Pie Island SUN SUN Written by Mark Burgess. SUN SUN Today's story - Eel Pie Island by Mark Burgess - is set in SUN the Summer of 1964 and recalls the heady days when Eel Pie SUN Island, in the middle of the Thames near Richmond, was a SUN favoured venue for rhythm & blues and rock bands. The Who, SUN Rod Stewart, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones all played SUN there. SUN SUN It's a monologue - and a love story - in which a man in his SUN 60's, embracing retirement, remembers his teenage years as a SUN resident of Eel Pie Island and a particular, magical summer, SUN in which everything fell into place. SUN SUN A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers SUN and boats. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b019h3pr (Listen) SUN The Radio 2 breakfast show is normally captained by Chris SUN Evans. But, during a recent absence, Richard Madeley filled SUN the presenter chair instead - and many listeners wish he SUN hadn't. In the first programme of the new series, Roger SUN Bolton talks to Lewis Carnie, head of programmes at Radio 2, SUN about the delicate business of finding suitable stand-in SUN presenters. SUN SUN After countless tales of woe from listeners trying to SUN contact programmes, Roger issues a challenge to Radio 4's SUN network manager Denis Nowlan. Can he negotiate the website SUN and deliver a listener's message? And will it be read? SUN Feedback, of course, faithfully reads every message, so do SUN send in your experiences, whether of triumph or disaster, of SUN contacting any programme on any BBC station. SUN SUN And what are your hopes and fears for radio in 2012? SUN Listeners share their aspirations, and presenter Jane Garvey SUN provides a sneak peak of what 2012 will hold for Woman's SUN Hour listeners. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b019h3pp (Listen) SUN Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord and SUN Reginald Hill SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The unconventional wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, SUN Lady Runcie SUN SUN The endocrinologist Wylie Vale who discovered the hormone SUN that governs our response to stress, SUN SUN The violinist Israel Baker who played the searing music for SUN the shower scene in Psycho SUN SUN The pioneering black playwright Barry Reckord SUN SUN And the crime novelist Reginald Hill, best known for SUN creating Dalziel and Pascoe. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b019q9kw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b019rd6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b019gzqt (Listen) SUN Do It Yourself Jobs SUN SUN If times are hard, why not set up your own business rather SUN than try to find a job somewhere else? Peter Day hears from SUN young entrepreneurs who think that one way of beating SUN recession is to start from scratch. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b019rgwz (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 b019rgx1 (Listen) SUN Episode 87 SUN SUN Sarah Sands of the London Evening Standard analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b019gzqf (Listen) SUN In this week's Film Programme Francine Stock talks to Ralph SUN Fiennes about his directorial debut, Coriolanus, and the SUN juggling needed to act and direct in the same picture. She SUN also examines the lure of the short film with Terry Gilliam SUN and Ewan Bailey. Ewan is taking his beautiful and harrowing SUN film, DeafBlind to the Slamdance festival this week --it was SUN selected from thousands of entries for the prestigious SUN showcase -- and Terry's stylish and sinister account of a SUN foreign holiday -- The Wholly Family -- premieres on line SUN next week...a first for him and an adventure which he's SUN embraced with open arms. To bring the programme to a SUN resounding close the critic Maria Delgado explains why the SUN Spanish prison drama, Cell 211, which is released this week SUN on DVD, deserves to cement the reputations of its leading SUN actor, Luis Tosar and its director, Daniel Monzon. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b019rd6n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 JANUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b019q8ty (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b019fyq7 (Listen) MON Stag tourism - Men and childbirth MON MON Vomiting, urinating openly, dressing up as women and public MON nudity - some of the features of the Stag Tour which show a MON new kind of masculinity, claims new research from Thomas MON Thurnell-Read. He tells Laurie that far from the controlled, MON contained and emotionally repressed image of traditional MON men, these young men are letting it all hang out - at least MON for one weekend. Also on the programme how men experience MON the process of childbirth. Are they sidelined by the medical MON process? Alan Dolan talks about his latest research. MON The social commentator Owen Jones also joins the discussion MON of modern young men and how masculinity is changing. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b019rd2q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019q8v0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019q8v2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019q8v4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b019q8v6 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019rhz8 (Listen) MON with Leon Litvack. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b019rhzb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b019q8v8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b019rhzd (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b019rhzg (Listen) MON Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami MON Chakrabarti and Mike Hough MON MON Andrew Marr explores the idea of Justice on Start the Week. MON In a satire on the International Criminal Tribunal, the MON playwright Simon Stephens, asks how far such a court can MON deal with perpetrators of terrible crimes, when the accused MON neither recognises its authority, or shares its morality. MON Closer to home John Podmore looks back at 25 years as a MON prison governor and inspector, in a damning indictment on MON Britain's prison service. The criminologist Mike Hough asks MON why people obey the law, and questions whether the threat of MON punishment is ever a deterrent. And the director of Liberty MON Shami Chakrabarti defends the right to civil liberties and MON freedom of speech, even of those many may consider to be MON unpalatable. MON MON Producer: Natalia Fernandez. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b019rhzj (Listen) MON A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis, Episode 1 MON MON For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due MON warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next MON you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair MON growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age MON should come dignity and respect, but instead everyone makes MON tired jokes about buying a motorbike. MON Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth MON birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is MON determined to find some light in the all-consuming darkness. MON MON 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way MON completely. But we have also gained a certain amount of MON guile and what some might call "gravitas" (and others would MON call "weight").' MON MON Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, MON he concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror MON today, it will be much worse in ten years' time. His MON brutally candid dispatch from the front line is essential MON listening for anyone over thirty-five - as well as all those MON who want to prepare for what lies ahead... MON MON Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in MON front of various television screens swearing at incompetent MON England batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns MON on sport for Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily MON Express. He is a regular contributor to Private Eye and has MON been the Spectator's pop music critic for over twenty years. MON His books include Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer MON Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, MON Fatherhood: The Truth and A Matter of Facts: The Insider's MON Guide to Quizzing MON MON Read by Toby Longworth MON MON Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b019rhzl (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Sex Contracts MON MON How would you feel if your partner asked you commit to a MON schedule which stipulated when and how often you had sex? MON This was the dilemma faced by a woman who wrote to MON relationship columnist Rowan Pelling for advice. Perhaps MON surprisingly, Rowan suggested that this sort of contract was MON not a bad idea. Jane is joined in the studio by Rowan, MON author John O'Farrell and columnist Suzi Godson who MON instilled a sexual regime to spice up her marriage. MON MON Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone Part 1 MON MON It’s ten years ago this month that the Civil War in Sierra MON Leone officially ended. The impact on women’s health of this MON devastating conflict had been considerable, giving Sierra MON Leone the dubious label of having the worst rate of maternal MON mortality in the world. Stung by this unacceptable MON accolade, 18 months ago the government introduced a policy MON of free health care for pregnant and lactating mothers, and MON under 5s. It also banned so-called Traditional birth MON attendants or TBAs from delivering babies, encouraging women MON to seek maternal care in clinics and hospitals. Kati MON Whitaker went to Sierra Leone to find out how workable this MON policy can be in a mostly rural country, whose MON infrastructure was destroyed by civil war. MON MON Martha Reeves MON MON Martha Reeves was the lead singer of Martha Reeves and the MON Vandellas from 1962 onwards. She started out answering MON telephones for the Motown label, but went on to have a MON string of hits, including 'Dancing In The Street', 'Nowhere MON To Run', MON ‘Heatwave’, and ‘Jimmy Mac’. Martha still performs regularly MON and only recently stepped down as an elected member of the MON City Council in Detroit. She is about to begin a nationwide MON tour of the UK and joins Jane to perform live and talk about MON a life making music. MON MON Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone Part 2 MON MON Sierra Leone had one of the worst rates of maternal MON mortality in the world, but since the government introduced MON free health care for pregnant and lactating mothers 18 MON months ago, the number of women attending antenatal clinics MON has rocketed, and the number of maternal deaths has reduced. MON Reporter Kati Whitaker talked to Sister Cecilia, a midwife MON at the Koribundo clinic in Sierra Leone's southern province. MON MON Child Benefit and the Universal Credit Cap MON MON The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds says that child benefit should MON not be included in the £26,000 benefits cap proposed in the MON Welfare Reform Bill. The Government says work should always MON pay. But the Bishop and others remain concerned that MON including child benefit in the cap could disadvantage MON families and push more children into poverty. So should MON child benefit be exempt from the cap or do parents need the MON same incentives to work? Jane discusses with Karen Lumley, MON MP for Redditch and Jenny Willott, MP for Cardiff Central. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019rhzn (Listen) MON The Painted Veil, Episode 1 MON MON by Somerset Maugham MON dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery MON MON First published in 1925 to a storm of protest this is a MON haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual MON awakening. MON Kitty marries for the wrong reasons and is living with her MON husband, Walter, in Hong Kong. She's in love with another MON man and when her husband discovers her infidelity he, in an MON act of vengeance, poses a terrible ultimatum. MON MON Kitty ....... Sarah Smart MON Walter ..... Nicholas Farrell MON Charles ....... James Nickerson MON Shop worker ....... Chris Li MON MON Directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON 11:00 What's the Benefit? b019rhzq (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON The new benefits system aims to shame the 'Shameless' MON generation into work. But can it be a success at a time of MON rapidly rising unemployment? A battery of new eligibility MON rules and tests may separate the workshy from the MON unemployable but is there any point when there are no jobs MON for the willing and able? MON MON In the second of a two-part documentary Tom Heap meets those MON who find it difficult to seek regular employment and hears MON how the new system is affecting their outlook on the world MON of work. MON MON Producer: Alasdair Cross. MON MON 11:30 Party b011znh7 (Listen) MON Series 2, Is the Party Over? MON MON The aspiring politicians of the new political party move on MON to tackle drugs and housing and come up with a convenient MON catch-all solution. But is there any point if Jared's all MON set to move to the Isle of Wight? Last in this second series MON of a satirical comedy written by Tom Basden. MON MON Simon ..... Tom Basden MON Duncan ..... Tim Key MON Jared ..... Jonny Sweet MON Mel ..... Anna Crilly MON Phoebe ..... Katy Wix MON MON Produced by Julia McKenzie. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b019rjnb (Listen) MON Ratings system for care homes & does it matter who sells the MON Big Issue? MON MON Care minister Paul Burstow has called for a MON TripAdvisor-style ratings system to be brought in for care MON homes. Does he have a point? After all, we can read reviews MON of hotels and restaurants online. Should we have the same MON opportunity with something so important? MON MON After a Roma Big Issue vendor in Bristol won her legal right MON to be recognised as self-employed and therefore entitled to MON benefits, we're looking at the changing profile of Big Issue MON sellers across the UK. In some places 80% of vendors are MON Roma. Does it matter who sells the magazine? Does it change MON the mission of the Big Issue, which was founded to give a MON hand up to homeless people? MON MON And is it safe to put your cv online? The LinkedIn website MON offers the chance to make new professional connections. But MON could it jeopardise the job you already have? MON MON Presenter Peter White. MON MON 12:57 Weather b019q8vb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b019rjnd (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Picturing Britain b014f5tg (Listen) MON Series 2, The Fabulous World of Tim Walker MON MON In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray looks at British life through MON the lens of contemporary photographers. MON MON In the first in this series Adil talks to Tim Walker, among MON the country's most influential photographers, as he creates MON one of his dramatic and epic sets. On a windy hill in MON Northumberland, models mount seahorses and dining room MON tables laden with crystal and china are hauled high into the MON canopy of a beech forest. MON MON For more than a decade, Tim's exuberant pictures have helped MON to define style in the world's fashion magazines. And even MON in a bleak economic environment, his imagination and MON fairytale extravagance remain much in demand - whether it is MON Lily Cole eating from a giant indoor cake tree, Erin MON O'Connor dressed as a swan amongst geese or Otis Ferry MON posing indoors in pinks with beagles at his ankles. MON MON Adil enters Tim's dream world to look at the impact he has MON on British design and beauty. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen MON (Repeat). MON MON 14:00 The Archers b019rgt9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tjf5d (Listen) MON The Great Swim MON MON Adapted by Anita Sullivan from the book by Gavin Mortimer. MON MON In the roaring twenties the world was changing at an MON electric pace. In science, commerce and art, everything MON seemed possible and the challenges were there to be MON confronted. By 1926, only five men had ever conquered the MON English Channel, and the race to become the first woman to MON swim the Channel captivated two continents. Many doubted MON that a woman could do it. MON MON Gertrude Ederle, a brilliant young swimmer, was the MON 19-year-old daughter of a German migrant to the United MON States. Her father Henry Ederle ran a successful butcher's MON business in New York. Ederle's cross-channel swim was MON sponsored by the New York Daily News. MON MON The News sent a crime reporter, Julia Harpman, to accompany MON the swimmer and cover the story and this drama is told MON through Julia's eyes. MON MON Julia Harpman ..... Madeleine Potter MON Trudy Ederle ..... Emily Bruni MON Lillian Cannon ..... Samantha Dakin MON Bill Burgess/Rutherford ..... Philip Jackson MON Arthur Sorensen ..... Nathan Nolan MON Joe Costa/Frank Pegler/Williams ..... Sam Dale MON Henry "Pop" Ederle/Abbot ..... Nathan Osgood MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b019rjng (Listen) MON (11/17) MON The 2012 contest reaches the penultimate heat, from Salford, MON with Russell Davies in the chair. This week's competitors MON come from Hull, Glasgow, Bristol and Leeds. MON MON Among the questions they face will be: What's the usual MON title given to the poem by Robert Browning that begins 'Oh, MON to be in England, now that April's there'? MON MON And: Which physicist gave his name to zones of highly MON energised charged particles trapped at high altitude in the MON earth's magnetic field? MON MON The winner today takes one of the last remaining places in MON the semi-finals, and takes a crucial step closer to the MON coveted title of Brain of Britain 2012. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b019rd9c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b019rjnl (Listen) MON Mark Thomas MON MON The comedian, campaigner and satirist Mark Thomas presents MON his best loved literary extracts - with Orwell and AA Milne MON among them - to an audience at the Red Shed, Wakefield's MON Labour Club. This long, narrow wooden hut was where he MON performed his first satirical sketches during the Miners' MON Strike of the 1980s, when studying drama at nearby Bretton MON Hall. He's warmly greeted by the home crowd. MON MON Mark shares a deep love of poetry and the written word - MON owing, he tellingly reflects - to being descended from a MON long line of Methodist lay preachers for whom the Word was MON key. He's joined in Wakefield by one of his favourite poets, MON John Hegley, who also reads Spike Milligan's brilliant MON account of the declaration of war in 1939. MON MON Mark Thomas also revisits his very first performance piece - MON a poem about a mischievous mouse by AA Milne - which he MON proclaimed aged 4, from the pulpit of a church in Clapham, MON South London. The other extracts reveal Mark Thomas' MON passionately engaged journey through life and literature, MON building towards Brian Clough's tragi-comic epiphany in MON David Peace's 'The Damned United'. MON MON The readers are Jane Godber and Jonathan Keeble MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b019rlng (Listen) MON Same Sex Marriage MON MON This week's Beyond Belief comes from Scotland, where the MON Scottish government is considering legalising same sex MON marriage. A period of public consultation has provoked a MON huge response from many religious groups who are opposed, MON yet the opinion polls are generally in favour. Civil MON partnership ceremonies have been legal in Scotland since MON 2005 and include the possibility of a religious blessing MON afterwards. So why is there a need for this further step? MON What is marriage? Is it a human or a divine institution? And MON would such a law, if passed, lead to moral anarchy, as some MON have claimed? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss same sex marriage are John MON Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St MON Andrew's, the Reverend John Bell, a Church of Scotland MON minister and Bashir Maan, Former Convenor of the Muslim MON Council of Scotland. MON MON 17:00 PM b019rlnj (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019q8vd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b019rlnl (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 5 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. Mark Watson, Henning Wehn, Roisin Conaty MON and Alex Horne are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: MON Competitions, Chickens, Sweets and The Romans. 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 b019rlnn (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b019rlnq (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of George Clooney in MON The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne, who made the MON Oscar-winning film Sideways. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019rhzn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust b019rlns (Listen) MON Jonathan Charles is given unique access to the team of MON British forensic archaeologists carrying out the first MON coordinated scientific attempt to locate the remains of MON Holocaust victims at the site of Treblinka's death camp. MON MON Over 800,000 Jews were murdered at the camp from 1942 to MON 1943 as part of Operation Reinhard, the name given by the MON Nazis for the plan to exterminate the Jews of Poland. After MON an uprising by prisoners, the camp was destroyed by the MON Germans who wanted to erase all evidence of their crimes. MON Unlike Auschwitz where its gas chambers and crematoria have MON survived, the memorial at Treblinka now consists of 17,000 MON stones with the names of places where Jews were transported MON from all around Europe. MON MON Now for the first time, a team led by Caroline Sturdy Colls MON from the University of Birmingham, will use the latest MON imaging techniques to locate Treblink's mass graves and the MON location of its buildings. The project will not break the MON ground, respecting Jewish Halacha law which forbids the MON disturbance of the dead, but instead will use geophysics MON such as ground penetrating radar, aerial and satellite MON imagery in conjunction with witness testimony and archival MON evidence. There are thought to be a number of large grave MON pits around the camp, which at the moment visitors may not MON realise they are walking over. MON MON Along with the Treblinka memorial authorities, the project MON has been approved by the Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael MON Schudrich, who says the work is very important and has MON implications for other Holocaust grave sites around Europe. MON The programme also includes interviews with Kalman Taigman, MON one of the last remaining survivors of Treblinka and MON Holocaust expert Dr Yitzhak Arad. MON MON Presenter: Jonathan Charles MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b019rlnv (Listen) MON Capitalists against the Super Rich MON MON Are the champions of capitalist system now turning against MON the super-rich? And if they are, what will they now do about MON it? In this week's Analysis, we meet leading figures of the MON centre right who suddenly seem to have something in common MON with the political left: a moral aversion to the an era of MON high finance that saw huge payouts to a few, and bailouts MON funded by the rest. Prime Minster David Cameron opened 2011 MON with a speech criticising a system where "a few at the top MON get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks MON they take or the effort they put in." He promises change, MON but how can that be achieved without undermining the logic MON of capitalism? Edward Stourton meets influential defenders MON of market forces who say they can keep the best of free MON trade but exclude the undeserving rich. MON MON Producer: Mukul Devichand. MON MON 21:00 Material World b019gzqh (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper studies the most detailed 3D map MON yet made of the entire land surface of the Earth. He looks MON into a dusty cabinet containing some of Darwin's fossil MON collection and asks if climate change could have been MON responsible for the fall of the Khmer empire in Cambodia. MON MON Adam Rutherford joins another of our amateur finalist in 'So MON You Want to Be a Scientist?'. Val Watham from Berkshire MON wonders if the right stripes really do make you look slimmer MON and embarks on an experiment to prove it. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON A 3-D Digital Map of the World MON MON A pair of German satellites flying in formation has MON completed the most detailed 3-D map of the land surface of MON the Earth ever made. Luis Gomes of Surrey Satellite MON Technology Ltd and Prof Philippa Berry of De Montfort MON University in Leicester discuss the satellite radar MON technology used to create such maps and their applications, MON particularly for predicting the consequences of floods and MON other natural disasters MON MON The Lost Fossils of Darwin's Friends MON MON Thin sections of plant fossils from the newly rediscovered MON collection including the 300 million-year-old cones of giant MON club moss trees from the Midlands and a sample of fossil MON wood collected in Chile by Darwin during the voyage of the MON Beagle. Photos: British Geological Survey. MON MON While searching through the vaults of the British Geological MON Survey, palaeontologist Howard Falcon Lang of Royal Holloway MON University of London came across a cabinet labelled MON unclassified plant fossils. It contained microscope thin MON sections and almost the first he looked at had a name on it: MON Mr C Darwin. It turns out to be a collection of fossils MON brought together by Darwin's friend Joseph Hooker in the mid MON 19th century and subsequently forgotten. MON MON Does My Rump Look Big In This? MON MON In 1867 Hermann von Helmholtz, the Prussian physiologist, MON discovered that stripes create a visual illusion – filling MON an area with horizontal lines make the space look taller and MON narrower than the same space covered in vertical stripes. MON MON However, received wisdom in fashion says that vertical MON stripes are more flattering for our figures, making us MON appear taller and thinner, than horizontal stripes. So where MON does the truth lie? MON MON This is the question that our next amateur finalist Val MON Watham from Berkshire wants to answer in So You Want to Be a MON Scientist. Adam Rutherford meets Val and her new mentor, MON perceptual psychologist Dr Peter Thompson from the MON University of York. Peter explains why rugby players need to MON rethink their dress code and demonstrates a nifty trick that MON could win you a few quid down the pub. MON MON Climate and the end of the Khmer MON MON Water was never far from the temples of Angkor. This is the MON Bayon temple, constructed in the late 12th century. MON Photograph courtesy of Mary Beth Day MON MON Angkor, the ancient seat of the Khmer empire in Cambodia, MON declined and fell in the 15th century. New evidence from MON sediment cores show the part played in the downfall by MON droughts in which their reservoirs dried out. Mary Beth Day MON from the Earth Sciences Dept at Cambridge University has MON studied the reservoir sediments and the story they tell MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b019rhzg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b019q8vg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b019rlnx (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019rlnz (Listen) MON My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Casualty MON MON The First World War brought changes previously unimaginable MON to every aspect of life. Louisa Young's story explores the MON impact on the lives of women, on the challenge to the MON Edwardian class structure and on assumptions about MON patriotism and duty. MON MON Episode 6: Casualty MON MON Following a glorious interlude in London with Nadine, Riley MON is back in Flanders stumbling through the valley of the MON shadow of death. MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b019fx9q (Listen) MON Public speaking, show & tell MON MON Michael Rosen explores the new wave of public-speaking MON events including Ignite and TED, and asks if the culture of MON 'Show & Tell' in American classrooms produces better public MON speakers. MON MON He visits the American Museum in Britain and speaks to their MON Head of Learning, Laura Brown about what's influenced the MON nation's approach to public speaking, and how a sense of MON optimism drives their passion to share ideas. MON MON He also speaks to Chris Anderson about how he attracted such MON big names to speak at the TED events, and how it's grown MON into a global community of public speaking. Plus there's an MON interview with Amanda Timberg from TeachFirst about the way MON 'Show and Tell', 'Hot Seat' and TED talks all feed into MON their working practises. MON MON Ignite has been described as a "gig for speakers" and event MON organiser Andy Kervell describes the challenges of both MON putting together a five minute talk backed by twenty slides, MON and then delivering it to a rowdy and excitable crowd. Some MON of the speakers including Sky at Night presenter Dr. Chris MON Lintott explain why they enjoy taking part in these events. MON MON Producer: Toby Field. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b019rlp3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 JANUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b019q8w1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b019rhzj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019q8w3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019q8w5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019q8w7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b019q8w9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01b66xf (Listen) TUE with Leon Litvack. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b019rlq2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b019rlxz (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; TUE Thought for the Day. Presented by James Naughtie and Justin TUE Webb. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b019rly1 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland explores a moment in history that TUE illuminates a current debate. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b015ztm9 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Cajun TUE TUE Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE TUE We join Ann Savoy cooking up some chicken sauce piquant in TUE the kitchen of her traditional Arcadian home in Eunice, TUE Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun country. TUE TUE Ann was born in Richmond, Virginia and was raised to be a TUE 'southern lady'. But her love for the wild freedom she found TUE in Cajun music drew her to relocate to the Deep South and TUE the prairies of south-western Louisiana - an area which she TUE describes as 'Virginia blown to smithereens'. There, TUE alongside her husband Marc Savoy (who hails from a Cajun TUE family with many generations of musicians), Ann earned her TUE stripes by playing Cajun guitar for hours at all-night TUE parties out on the bayou, while gumbo bubbled away in trash TUE cans. She also began documenting the old-time Cajun TUE musicians and their way of life, interviewing some of the TUE greats like Dennis McGee and Wade Fruge, whilst also raising TUE a family who are now forming the new generation of Cajun TUE musicians. TUE TUE Producer: Rachel Hopkin TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01bbz0q (Listen) TUE A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Toby Longworth TUE Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b019rly3 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1pym (Listen) TUE The Painted Veil, Episode 2 TUE TUE The Painted Veil - ep 2/5 TUE by Somerset Maugham TUE dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery TUE TUE Set in 1920's China. Kitty runs to her lover seeking solace TUE and the promise of marriage. Instead she is faced with the TUE terrible truth and is forced to leave for the cholera TUE infested island of Mei-Fan-Tu with husband, Walter. TUE TUE Kitty ....... Sarah Smart TUE Walter ..... Nicholas Farrell TUE Charles ....... James Nickerson TUE Waddington ..... Conrad Nelson TUE Chinese worker ....... Chris Li TUE TUE Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b019rlz0 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 4 - Emma Turner; a life in the reeds TUE TUE In 1911 a photograph of young Bittern in the nest taken by TUE Emma Turner proved that Bitterns were breeding again in TUE Norfolk having been driven to extinction in Britain in the TUE late 1800s. Using extracts from her book, 'Broadland Birds', TUE this programme tells the remarkable story of Emma Turner a TUE pioneer of bird photography (1866-1940); who spent some 20 TUE years at Hickling Broad in Norfolk, where she lived on a TUE houseboat she designed named 'Water Rail' (after the first TUE photograph she took in the Broadlands) and in a hut on a TUE tiny island amongst the reeds (which became known as TUE Turner's island). After meeting and being inspired by TUE Richard Kearton (who along with his brother Cherry Kearton TUE was one of earliest wildlife photographers) she decided to TUE take up wildlife photography and to document all the TUE Broadland birds. She befriended two marshmen, Alfred Nudd TUE and keeper Jim Vincent, and with their help she learned the TUE ways of the marsh, and how to find, study and photograph the TUE Broadland birds. It was Vincent who helped her find the TUE young Bittern in 1911. She was awarded the Gold Medal of the TUE Royal Photographic Society for her photograph of the bird. TUE Emma Turner was not only a pioneer bird photographer but a TUE hugely respected ornithologist, whose studies of birds TUE contributed enormously to our knowledge today. She died in TUE 1940 with many accolades including having been one of the TUE first ten women to be elected a fellow of the Linnaean TUE Society and the first honorary ladies member of the British TUE Ornithologists' Union. TUE Sound recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 A Last Excuse Me Dance b019rm1j (Listen) TUE The ever-popular children's writer and illustrator Shirley TUE Hughes recently published a magazine article recalling the TUE dances she attended as a teenager growing up in wartime West TUE Kirby. Readers responded with their own memories of similar TUE dances in other parts of the country. Amongst them was the TUE writer and journalist, Philip Purser. But he didn't just TUE remember similar dances: he remembered exactly the same TUE ones. TUE TUE Now, over seventy years after Shirley and Philip danced the TUE foxtrot and joined in a Paul Jones or an Excuse-Me dance TUE together, they are reunited for the very first time, not TUE only in recalling these Saturday night dances but with the TUE promise of taking to the dance-floor one last time. TUE TUE Felicity Finch, herself a keen dancer, hears from Philip and TUE from Shirley about their memories of the dances and the TUE music, the clothes and shoes, and about the heated TUE atmosphere of teenage courtship in West Kirby as nearby TUE Liverpool blazed in the Blitz. She tracks down the girl whom TUE Shirley envied above all others and whom Philip most desired TUE - Joan Brotherton, now also in her late 80s - and hears her TUE side of the story. TUE TUE Finally, she reunites Philip and Shirley for what may be a TUE last Excuse Me Dance. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b019rm1l (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Can Capitalism be caring? TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b019q8wc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b019rpvc (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 Picturing Britain b014m770 (Listen) TUE Series 2, From Pop to Pregnancy TUE TUE In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray examines the country through TUE the lens of it's most distinctive photographers. TUE TUE In this second programme Adil meets Andy Fallon, a music TUE photographer whose gritty, authentic style enlivens TUE Britain's music magazines and newspapers. As he shoots the TUE indie band Wild Beasts, Adil gets a glimpse into the TUE artistry and gaffa tape behind the taking of iconic music TUE photographs. TUE TUE His wife Elle was also a music photographer, but she has TUE left behind the mud of Glastonbury and crush of concerts, to TUE take classic black and white portraits of bumps and babies. TUE Adil hears how women, four weeks before their birth, no TUE longer hide in tent-shaped clothes but celebrate the beauty TUE of their changing bodies. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Bowen TUE (Repeat). TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b019rlnn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b019rpvk (Listen) TUE Birkett, Birkett and the Naked Toreador TUE TUE By Caroline and David Stafford. TUE 4/4 TUE Blackmail, snobbery, scandal and bullfighting. Norman TUE Birkett, the most celebrated advocate of the inter-war TUE years, takes on his most famous case. 4/4 TUE TUE Norman Birkett.....Neil Dudgeon TUE Billie.....Bonnie Engstrom TUE Edgar.....Alun Raglan TUE Lady Caernarvon.....Joanna Monro TUE Sir Edward.....Nicholas Jones TUE Dennistoun.....Carl Prekopp TUE Mlle Cina.....Victoria Inez Hardy TUE Dorothy.....Adjoa Andoh. TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b019rpvp (Listen) TUE The Comfort of Strangers 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 this third edition of the series we seek the 'Comfort of TUE Strangers' as Nina examines the ties which bind us to those TUE we barely know. We hear a heartbreaking tale of TUE companionship between a woman and an injured whale alongside TUE the story of a Danish legionnaire who spent four years TUE entrusting his life to a circle of strangers, thrown TUE together in terrible circumstances. The writer Deborah TUE Moggach relays an act of extraordinary kindness from someone TUE she didn't know and the musician Jack Lewis explores how TUE those closest to you can sometimes seem like strangers as he TUE interviews his brother Jeffrey. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Questions, Questions b013flfr (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 helps a listener who has TUE long been mystified as to why bacon comes in rashers but TUE everything else in slices. He finds out why so many Greek TUE theatres were built close to the coast and about a strange TUE seaside phenomenon, the mechanical elephant. And, with TUE Buster Keaton in mind, he discovers how fast a car would TUE need to go to lift you off your feet and fly you TUE horizontally behind it! TUE TUE Producer: Kate Taylor TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b019rpvw (Listen) TUE Teens and TV TUE TUE Michael Rosen explores the portrayal of teens on TV, and TUE speaks to Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill about how TUE approaches have changed over the years, and the battle TUE Grange Hill faced to stay on the air. TUE TUE He visits Albert Square and speaks to writer/cast-members of TUE E20, Emer Kenny and Arinze Kene. Together with senior writer TUE Jeff Povey they discuss how they developed the character of TUE Fatboy to parody people who over-use slang, and Emer talks TUE collecting words on buses. TUE TUE What programme about young people and TV would be complete TUE without mention of Skins? Writer Laura Hunter and cast talk TUE about how they coined the phrase "Amazeballs." TUE TUE We also hear from Paul Parry, the self-styled "literally TUE tsar" about the way the use of the word has changed. Why is TUE it, like, literally everywhere? TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b019rpw0 (Listen) TUE Series 26, Vera Brittain TUE TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b019rpw4 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019q8wh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b019rpw8 (Listen) TUE Mr and Mrs Smith, The Dinner Party TUE TUE Episode 1 - The Dinner Party TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. TUE Will and Annabelle throw a disastrous dinner party. The TUE quarrelling couple tell their counsellor Guy all about the TUE event, with flashbacks to the dinner party itself. TUE TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy ..... Paterson Joseph TUE Katrina ..... Tracy Wiles TUE Doug ..... Simon Bubb TUE Heather ..... Morwenna Banks TUE TUE Written by ..... Will Smith TUE Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b019rqcg (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b019rqcj (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson reports on this year's Academy Award TUE nominations, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Timothy Prosser. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1pym (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b019rqcl (Listen) TUE Carers in Conflict TUE TUE Jenny Cuffe talks to foster parents who find themselves TUE battling with local authorities over the children in their TUE care. They describe a Kafkaesque nightmare where doors are TUE shut, telephone calls and emails unanswered, even court TUE orders are ignored. Meanwhile, vulnerable children are TUE treated as pawns as social workers move them from one place TUE to another. TUE TUE In one case investigated by File on 4, foster parents who TUE offered to care for four siblings were denied the financial TUE and practical support they needed from the council. Their TUE official complaints were upheld yet key recommendations TUE continued to be ignored and, as a consequence, the children TUE have now been split up. After giving up their jobs to care TUE for the children, the couple are now in debt and have to TUE sell their home. The local MP describes the council's TUE treatment of the family as outrageous. He says the case is TUE extreme but not unusual and he's called for an enquiry. TUE In another case, a teenager with complex mental and physical TUE needs was unlawfully removed from the foster home where he'd TUE grown up. His sister told File on 4: "When he was in his TUE foster mum's care he was always clean, always happy and he TUE looked well but when I saw him he was dishevelled. It was as TUE if someone took him away from himself. I felt his TUE personality had gone." When his foster mother went to court TUE to get him back, she was vilified by the council who used TUE public funds to defend their actions to the bitter end but TUE lost in court. TUE TUE A recent report identified a shortage of foster carers in TUE the UK but are some councils driving away the people who TUE should be their best resource? TUE TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b019rqcn (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b019rqcq (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us TUE and separates the facts from the fiction. He brings clarity TUE to conflicting health advice, explores new medical research TUE and tackles the big health issue of the moment revealing the TUE inner workings of the medical profession and the daily TUE dilemmas doctors face. TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Mark Porter TUE Producer: Erika Wright/Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b019rly1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b019q8wk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b019rqcs (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019rqcv (Listen) TUE My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Is This Cruel Enough? TUE TUE Episode 7 : "Is this cruel enough?" TUE TUE Riley has been seriously and hideously injured at Ypres and TUE is being nursed by Rose Locke. TUE TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 I, Regress b019rqcx (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Surreal dark comedy about a twisted regression therapist. TUE TUE 23:15 Continuity b00tmtwk (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE A seasoned and meticulous continuity announcer presents the TUE very best of next week's radio with aplomb. TUE TUE There's something for everyone here: Radio 4 goes to Preston TUE for the national pie competition, Sarah Topolski gives us a TUE sneak preview of next week's obituaries - exciting for most TUE of us - and there's unbridled hilarity from the United TUE Nations as our Foreign Office sitcom goes Stateside. No TUE Philosophical Logic this week though. You can't have TUE everything. TUE TUE Alistair McGowan stars in this subversive sitcom about a TUE continuity announcer, written by Hugh Rycroft. Also starring TUE Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David Holt. TUE TUE Produced by David Spicer and Frank Stirling TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b019rqdc (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b019q8x6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01bbz0q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019q8x8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019q8xb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019q8xd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b019q8xg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01b66y8 (Listen) WED with Leon Litvack. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b019rqgq (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b019rqgs (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; WED Thought for the Day. Presented by Evan Davis and James WED Naughtie. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b019rqgv (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01bbz0z (Listen) WED A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Toby Longworth WED Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b019rqgx (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1g90 (Listen) WED The Painted Veil, Episode 3 WED WED The Painted Veil - ep 3/5 WED by Somerset Maugham WED dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery WED WED Set in 1920's China. Kitty, after being virtually forced to WED live in the cholera infested island of Mei-Fan-Tu with WED husband, Walter, visits the orphanage where he works as a WED doctor and bacteriologist. She see Walter in a new light WED after she discovers how hard he is working, how the locals WED adore and admire him, and how he is helping to rid the WED island of the epidemic . WED WED Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart WED Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell WED Waddington ... Conrad Nelson WED Souer St Joseph..... Isabelle Defaut WED Mother Superior ..... Caroline Loncq WED Beggar man ....... Chris Lee WED Chinese consultant - Jing Griffin WED Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED 11:00 Friends through Thick and Thin b019rqgz (Listen) WED An exploration of female friendship through the moving WED stories of three sets of friends - when times are tough it's WED often friendships which sustain. This programme tells the WED story of three female friendships which have weathered the WED years. In a tie-in with Woman's Hour, we asked listeners to WED send their stories. WED WED We hear from Jean and June, who first met in the ladies' at WED work 65 years ago; they started a business together, lived WED on a boat, then started a commune with husband and son and WED mother in tow; now, they are living next door to each other WED - widowed, with each other as company. WED WED The second couple, Geraldine and Catherine, also built a WED business - but as it became more and more successful, the WED strains started to show. There was a rift, and then a WED rupture which lasted ten years. They tell the story of how WED and why they came back together. WED WED Finally, we hear the extraordinary story of the most WED precious gift one friend can give another. Sue and Sarah WED were old friends; when Sarah's kidney began to fail, Sue WED decided the obvious thing was to donate one of hers. Sarah WED refused. Sue persisted, for two years. She won, the WED operation was a success, but how did it affect their WED relationship? WED WED Through these stories we explore the complexity of female WED friendship: intimacy vs possessiveness; support vs WED competition. There's lots of affectionate bickering, and WED some music from Judy Garland. WED WED Following on from this programme, a special edition of WED Woman's Hour will explore the psychology of female WED friendship from childhood through to old age. WED WED Producers: Elizabeth Burke and Kim Normanton WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 A Short Gentleman b019rqh1 (Listen) WED Episode 4 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 4/4 WED Robert's nemesis approaches, along with Edward, basset hound WED of doom. WED WED Elizabeth ..... Lyndsey Marshal WED Judy Page ..... Tracy Wiles WED Geoffrey ..... Paul Moriarty WED Pilkington ..... Ewan Bailey WED Alan Temperley ..... Gerard McDermott WED with Ted Allpress, James Hayes, Lauren Mote, and Carl WED Prekopp. WED WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b019rqh3 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b019q8xj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01b1g92 (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 Picturing Britain b0150ghc (Listen) WED Series 2, The Lady Bangers WED WED In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray explores British life through WED the lens of some of the country's photographers. WED WED In this programme, Adil takes to the track - the oval track WED - to discover the wild world of banger racing and meet the WED diehard foot-soldiers and fans of the sport. WED WED He goes to an evening meeting just outside Eastbourne with WED documentary photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as she works on WED her latest project. Their main focus - to follow the lady WED banger drivers as they prepare to for the first of the WED evening's races. WED WED As he wanders around the arena, Adil discovers banger racing WED is very much alive and kicking thanks to a small but devoted WED band of followers who invest all their time and energy, not WED to mention money, in doing up old, useless and scrap cars WED and making them safe to race. WED WED The cars are painstakingly stripped inside and out, all WED glass removed, doors taped and then painted in bright WED colours - only to have them smashed them to pieces on the WED track. WED WED As he discovers, it's very much a family affair - bringing WED together two or three generations with a passion for the WED sport. WED WED And it is a close-knit community and a warm and welcoming WED one - but keen to share the love of this forgotten WED motorsport with all newcomers. WED WED Producer: Mohini Patel WED (Repeat). WED WED 14:00 The Archers b019rqcg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b019xw43 (Listen) WED Burns and the Bankers WED WED Helen Simpson's hilarious and poignant short story, WED dramatised for radio by Liz Lochhead, Scotland's Makar WED (national poet). WED WED Sophie Thompson, Greg Wise, John Sessions and Peter Forbes WED star in this warm-hearted midwinter's-night sex comedy. WED WED When Nicola Beaumont (English, partner in a law firm, mother WED of four) sits down to a long-winded corporate Burns Supper, WED she sweeps us up in her private account of the evening's WED events. At first impatient with all the whisky-fuelled WED pomposity around her, Nicola finds herself surprisingly WED moved as the traditional rituals of a Burns Night unfold. WED What she comes to learn about the eighteenth-century Scots WED poet, Robert Burns, brings new self-knowledge which will WED help her through the night's violent emotions and climactic WED events. WED WED This production brings together acclaimed English short WED story writer, Helen Simpson, and Liz Lochhead, award-winning WED dramatist and Scotland's Makar. WED WED Helen Simpson's story 'Burns and the Bankers' is part of her WED collection 'Hey Yeah Right Get a Life' (Jonathan Cape, WED 2000); her latest book is 'A Bunch of Fives: Selected WED Stories' (Vintage Classics, 2012). WED WED Liz Lochhead was appointed as Scotland's national poet in WED January 2011. WED WED London taxi driver ..... Maynard Eziashi WED Nicola Beaumont ..... Sophie Thompson WED Torquil Cameron ..... John Sessions WED Charlie Beaumont ..... Greg Wise WED Donald Forfar ..... Peter Forbes WED Iain Buchanan ..... David McKay WED Susan Buchanan ..... Angela Darcy WED Professor Sydney Campbell-Douglas ..... Siobhan Redmond WED Gemma Goodman ..... Phoebe Waller-Bridge WED WED Recorded on location at the Caledonian Club, London, with WED violinist Sam McGregor. WED Sound Design: David Chilton WED WED Producer/Director: Amber Barnfather WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01b1g94 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and expert panel take your calls on tax and self WED assessment. WED WED If you are one of the nine million people in the WED self-assessment system and you have not yet filed your WED online return you have until January 31st to do so or face a WED series of new penalties which will reach at least £1600 in WED fines if you delay filing for a year. WED WED Crucially you cannot avoid the fines by arguing that you WED have no tax to pay. HM Revenue & Customs has decided to act WED as it says there is a hard core of taxpayers who WED persistently fail to pay on time. WED WED The 31st January 2012 is also a payment deadline for those WED paying a final amount for the tax year 2010-11 and also to WED make a payment on account for the current tax year 2011-12. WED WED So if you want to make the most of your exemptions or need WED some tax tips, talk to our tax experts on Wednesday. WED WED Are you aware that the fines for late filing have gone up? WED What allowances are you entitled to? WED Can you carry forward any unused reliefs? WED What rate do you pay on capital gains tax? WED Can you offset losses on your investments against gains? WED Should you transfer some of your assets to your spouse? WED If you want to appeal against late filing are you clear how WED to do this? WED If you are running a small business are you clear about your WED tax filing obligations? WED WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Jane Moore, Technical Manager at the Institute of Chartered WED Accountants in England and Wales. WED WED Leonie Kerswill, Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers WED WED Chas Roy-Chowdhury, ACCA, Head of Taxation. WED WED Lines open at 13:00. The number to ring - 03 700 100 444. WED WED Producer: Michael Wendling. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b019rqcq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01b1g96 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01b1g98 (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 b01b1g9b (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019q8xl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01292g0 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser WED WED Sitcom starring Justin, Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A WED Manchester DJ tries to balance love, work and everything WED else without much success. This week, his job seems to be on WED the line. WED WED Anne Reid ..... Gran WED Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa WED Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin WED Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn WED Paul Copley ..... Ray WED Susan Cookson ..... Tanya WED WED Produced by Steven Canny WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01b1g9d (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01b1g9g (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the winner of WED the Costa Book of the Year, selected from the winners of the WED novel, first novel, poetry, biography and children's book WED categories. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1g90 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01b1g9j (Listen) WED Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and WED inside Westminster to explore how controversial decisions WED are reached. Each week, he asks people with 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 b01b1g9l (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 40 WED WED Creativity is just as vital in science and engineering as it WED is in art and drama, argues Gerard Darby. WED WED Yet the present education system is undermining young WED people's natural creativity, he says, and is in urgent need WED of reform. He highlights some novel approaches, and explains WED why this matters both for the individuals, and for our wider WED society and economy. 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 Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed b01b1hzw (Listen) WED As we reach the end of the Domesday Reloaded project, Prof WED Danny Dorling compares the 2011 and 1986 views of the UK to WED give a unique insight into how the country has changed in WED the last 25 years. WED WED Since March 27th 2011, the public have been updating a WED repository of 24,000 photographs, taken for the BBC's WED Domesday project in 1986. Danny picks four areas in which to WED explore the transformations of the UK. He visits these WED places and talks to the individuals who have updated the WED squares about their lives and experience of the way that WED their locality has changed. WED WED One theme Danny explores is the disappearance of an WED industrial landscape since the 1980s. He looks at Sheffield, WED where he is Professor of Human Geography, to explore how WED this once steel town has benefited from the expansion of WED higher education to become a centre of student life. WED WED He also looks at aspects of life that haven't changed in a WED quarter of a century, such as the pantomime in the Scottish WED village of Buchlyvie. The residents were keen contributors WED to the 1986 Domesday project and they have updated their WED square in 2011. WED WED Producer: Alex Mansfield. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b019rqgv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b019q8xn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01b1jwj (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01b1jwq (Listen) WED My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, No Forwarding Address WED WED Episode 8: No forwarding address WED WED November 1917. Riley Purefoy, suffering horrific facial WED injuries, is in hospital undergoing reconstructive surgery WED and refusing to allow anyone from his old life to see him. WED He has told Nadine that his injuries are not serious but WED that he has met someone else and will not be returning to WED Nadine after the war. WED WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Producer Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Global Depression Tour b01b1jwx (Listen) WED Australia 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. WED WED This week she goes down under. WED WED Tina C...Christopher Green WED With Andrew Cornell, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey WED Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher WED Green WED Director Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 23:15 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b00tq0p4 (Listen) WED Series 1, Work 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 stand-up comedian Andrew Lawrence, WED it takes 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 third episode explores the pressure we all face to do a WED full-time job and earn sufficient money to live a WED respectable life. WED WED Andrew Lawrence is a double Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee WED and was a Chortle award nominee for Best UK Headline WED Comedian in 2010. He will be appearing in the forthcoming WED series of BBC 1's 'Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow.' This WED is his first series for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01b1jx3 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b019q8y9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01bbz0z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019q8yc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019q8yf (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019q8yh (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b019q8yk (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01b66z3 (Listen) THU with Leon Litvack. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01b1ljh (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01b1ljk (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; THU Thought for the Day. Presented by Evan Davis and James THU Naughtie. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01b1ljm (Listen) THU The Scientific Method THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the evolution of the THU Scientific Method, the systematic and analytical approach to THU experimentation. In the centuries since the birth of the THU modern sciences, thinkers have recognised that we can only THU construct an accurate picture of the universe if we succeed THU in escaping the influence of our own preconceptions and THU beliefs. Many great philosophers and scientists have THU examined this problem, and proposed methods, such as the THU testing of hypotheses, to eliminate such bias. Today the THU rules and process of the Scientific Method are crucial to THU any meaningful scientific research. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01bbz1c (Listen) THU A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Toby Longworth THU Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01b1ljp (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1ljr (Listen) THU THU The Painted Veil - ep 4/5 THU by Somerset Maugham THU dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery THU THU Set in 1920's China. Kitty has started working in the THU orphanage run by the French nuns. When she collapses one day THU she fears it is cholera but discovers she's pregnant. Her THU husband Walter, who adores children, demands to know if it's THU his child. THU THU Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart THU Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell THU Waddington ... Conrad Nelson THU Souer St Joseph..... Isabelle Defaut THU Mother Superior ..... Caroline Loncq THU Girl in orphanage - Shamae Griffin THU Chinese consultant - Jing Griffin THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01b1ljt (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Vic Oliver: The First Castaway Remembered b01b1ljw (Listen) THU As Desert Island Discs celebrates 70 years this month, David THU Baddiel explores the mercurial life of its very first THU castaway, entertainer Vic Oliver. THU THU In the early forties presenter Roy Plomley devised a series THU which has been a constant presence in the choppy waters of THU radio ever since. The very first broadcast of Desert Island THU Discs was recorded at the bomb-damaged Maida Vale studios, THU London, on 27 January 1942. Plomley's guest was Vic Oliver. THU THU In the forties, as a comedian, musician, host and music hall THU act Oliver was a household name. He'd married Winston THU Churchill's daughter and found fame appearing on the wartime THU radio show "Hi Gang" while forging a successful stage THU career. THU THU During those war years he'd also attracted the attention of THU the Nazi party who'd included his name on a list of people THU to be arrested in the event of a successful invasion of THU Britain, there are also false reports that his mother had THU perished in a concentration camp despite Oliver confirming THU in his 1950's autobiography that his mother was alive and THU well and living in London. THU THU As David Baddiel discovers there's a series of false THU accounts, myths and contradictions concerning Oliver's THU personal life, his relationship with the Churchill family, THU his impact on the world of entertainment along with an THU untold story of how he appeared to keep his Jewish THU background private. THU THU With archive of Oliver in conversation and performance, THU contributors include; Bill Pertwee, Writer Brad Ashton, THU Theatre Historian Chris Woodward and trumpeter Joan Hinde. THU THU The programme is written by Phil Collinge and produced in THU Salford by Stephen Garner. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01b1ljy (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b019q8ym (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01b1lk0 (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Picturing Britain b015bqby (Listen) THU Series 2, The Fisherman's Tale THU THU In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray explores British life through THU the lens of some of the country's photographers. THU THU How locals survive in Cornwall's ever-changing economic THU landscape is the subject of a popular weekly column in the THU Western Morning News. In this programme, Adil gets a chance THU to spend a day with the paper's photographer Emily THU Whitfield-Wicks, as she captures the life of fisherman Nigel THU Legge. THU THU Like so many others, Nigel's economic survival depends on THU mastering the art of diversification, and in Cornwall this THU means embracing tourism. THU THU Nigel, a member of the crab fleet based in Cadgwith, now has THU to supplement his living by giving boat tours of the rugged THU coastline in the summer and spending the winter months THU handcrafting traditional lobster pots of all sizes to sell THU to the general public as indoor and outdoor ornaments. THU THU Producer: Mohini Patel THU (Repeat). THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01b1g9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01b1lk2 (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 3, Crowsfall Wood THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. THU THU 1 of 4 THU THU Pilgrim is called upon to help an old friend who is THU possessed by a deadly forest spirit . The first of four new THU dark fantasy adventures featuring the immortal William THU Palmer. THU THU William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton THU Tadek ..... Karl Johnson THU Cecilia ..... Faye Castelow THU Ewa ..... Susan Engel THU Macadam ..... Dudley Sutton THU Cripps ..... John Rowe THU Henselow ..... Adam Billington THU Grainger ..... Rikki Lawton THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby THU THU This is the third series of enormously popular adventures to THU feature cult hero William Palmer - the Pilgrim of the title. THU THU In 1185, William Palmer was making pilgrimage to Canterbury. THU Unbeknownst to him his fellow pilgrim was the King of the THU Greyfolk. When William claimed that the Church would wipe THU out the belief in the Faerie world, he was cursed by the THU Faerie King and condemned forever to the walk between our THU world and theirs. THU THU The plays in PILGRIM are thrilling, dark and contemporary. THU They're set in a very recognisable, very real present, but a THU present haunted by the folktales of these islands: forest THU spirits, changeling children, Merlin... THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01b1lk4 (Listen) THU Deep in the countryside of eastern England, British troops THU train in a mock Afghan village designed to look, feel, and THU sound like the real thing. The 30,000-acre training complex THU allows soldiers to prepare themselves for the cultural and THU tactical challenges operating in Afghanistan. The facility, THU built in 2008, is meant to replicate a typical village in THU Helmand, with houses, shops and open markets, and the exiles THU playing the role of villagers. THU In July 1942 about a thousand men, women and children were THU compulsorily evacuated from the site north of Thetford. It THU is an area of heath forming a large part of the unique THU Norfolk- Suffolk Breckland landscape which was cleared to THU make way for an army training area where troops could THU manoeuvre using live ammunition. THU On today's Open Country, Jules Hudson visits the site to THU investigate how important the village is in preparing the THU troops for Afghanistan and finds out how those displaced THU from their villages in 1942 feel about the evacuation 70 THU years on. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b019rd6v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b019rgt3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01b1lk6 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film THU THU Producer: Zahid Warley. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01b1lk8 (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 b01b1lnc (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019q8yp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b015ctw6 (Listen) THU Series 7, Rude Girl THU THU In Episode Three 'Rude Girl'; Social Worker, Clare Barker, THU is concerned she may be linguistically out of touch with THU today's youth. Brian fails to impress Clare with numerous THU romantic gestures. A Heating Engineer causes a stir in the THU Family Centre and Megan causes chaos. THU THU SALLY PHILLIPS Clare THU ALEX LOWE Brian THU NINA CONTI Megan / Nali / Beautician THU RICHARD LUMSDEN Ray THU LIZA TARBUCK Helen THU ANDREW WINCOTT Simon / John Harris / Youth Leader THU SARAH KENDALL Libby THU NATHAN CATON Daniel THU GERARD McDERMOT Mr Truscott / Barman / Paramedic THU STEFAN RAMSDEN Thomas THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Producer Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01b1lnf (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01b1lnh (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1ljr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01b1lnk (Listen) THU The Drug Khat THU THU The drug Khat, mainly used by East Africans, is illegal in THU many western countries and has recently been outlawed by the THU Dutch, famed for their liberal approach to drugs. Yet it THU remains legal in the UK. The Report asks why Britain is out THU of step, and what impact this will have. How harmful is the THU drug to users and society? Will the UK become the centre of THU unlawful distribution of the drug throughout Europe? And is THU the Khat trade funding terrorism? Lucy Ash investigates. THU Producer: John Murphy; Presenter: Lucy Ash THU Assistant Editor: Jane Ashley. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01b1lnm (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU Producer: Ben Crighton THU Editor: Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Nature b019rlz0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01b1ljm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b019q8yr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01b1m2r (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01b1m2t (Listen) THU My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Be of Good Cheer THU THU Episode 9: Be of good cheer THU THU November 1918. The Armistice forces Riley to think about his THU future. Though he has so far not left the hospital in Sidcup THU where his jaw has been rebuilt, he travels to Wigan to visit THU the widow of his old comrade Ainsworth. Encouraged by the THU matter-of-fact reactions of Sybil Ainsworth and her children THU to his shattered face, he returns to Sidcup and tells his THU surgeon that he is "of good cheer." THU THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Producer Christine Hall. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00sms54 (Listen) THU The Notorious Dr Belasco THU THU A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple THU and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns THU refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate THU the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind THU in post-war London. THU THU Enlisted by Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard to help track THU down the mysterious Dr. Belasco, Paul and his wife Steve THU find clues in cigarette lighters and bodies in shrubberies, THU dance the night away in louche Latin American night clubs, THU meet sinister menservants and suspicious foreigners, and THU have their lives threatened at every turn. Just as well THU Steve remembered to bring along her revolver as well as her THU ration book... A mid-morning vintage champagne crime THU cocktail. THU THU Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan THU Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson THU Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas THU Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm THU Mary Hamilton ..... Eliza Langland THU Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood THU Charlie/Worth ..... Greg Powrie THU THU Produced by Patrick Rayner THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01b1m2w (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b019q8zb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01bbz1c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019q8zd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019q8zg (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019q8zj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b019q8zl (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01b6724 (Listen) FRI with Leon Litvack. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01b1njz (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01b1nk1 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; FRI Thought for the Day. Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah FRI Montague. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b019rd99 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01bbz1y (Listen) FRI A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Toby Longworth FRI Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01b1nk3 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1nk5 (Listen) FRI The Painted Veil - ep 5/5 FRI by Somerset Maugham FRI dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery FRI FRI Set in 1920's China. Walter has cholera and Kitty is FRI horrified and heartbroken. She leaves Mei-Fan-Tu and back in FRI Hong Kong finds herself in the same house as her ex-lover FRI Charles Townsend. FRI FRI Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart FRI Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell FRI Waddington ... Conrad Nelson FRI Dorothy Townsend ..... Julia Rounthwaite FRI Charles Townsend ..... James Nickerson FRI Officer/Doctor ....... Chris Lee FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 11:00 No Brakes, No Fear b019xrnr (Listen) FRI Hurtling around a tight shale-covered oval track at full FRI throttle takes a certain sort of sporting courage. To do so FRI at speeds of 60mph without brakes would, to most people, FRI appear foolhardy. FRI FRI In No Brakes, No Fear, the young speedway riders of Kings FRI Lynn Stars are captured on the night of a league play-off FRI decider, as a former Kings Lynn Star and former world FRI champion Michael Lee recalls his successes on the track, his FRI fall from grace off it and the continuing appeal and FRI redemptive aspects of British speedway riding. FRI FRI Producer: Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b01b1nk7 (Listen) FRI Daniel Defoe is the Author of the Week this episode - a man FRI who both helped establish modern journalism and modern FRI espionage, as well as being the creator of such literary FRI classics as "Moll Flanders" and "Robinson Crusoe", a book FRI that, the Bible excepted, has been translated into more FRI languages than any other. FRI FRI Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by FRI journalist, Jane Thynne, and creator of the DI Thorne FRI novels, Mark Billingham. FRI FRI For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine FRI Robinson Crusoe's observations were he to be marooned on an FRI island today...the Isle of Dogs or Ibiza, for example. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01b1nk9 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b019q8zn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01b1nkc (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 Picturing Britain b015mvs4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Beyond the Security Fence FRI FRI In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray explores British life through FRI the lens of some of the country's photographers. FRI FRI Urban explorers creep through tunnels and drains, scale FRI cooling towers and climb into abandoned buildings to get FRI into parts of the country that are off-limits. Adil joins Li FRI as he photographs a derelict military site, clambering FRI through nettles and decaying buildings to document a hidden FRI side of Britain. Although unusually Li has permission to FRI photograph, Adil is still on his guard, tiptoeing through FRI the crumbling ruins and jumping at every sound. FRI FRI By day Li works with architects constructing buildings. But FRI at night he dons his black clothes and grabs his camera and FRI torch to record their demise. He sees himself as a modern FRI day historian, safeguarding Britain's heritage by FRI photographing buildings before they are torn down or FRI collapse. FRI FRI Urbexers, as they call themselves, emphasise that they have FRI huge respect for the buildings they enter - and that they FRI frown upon theft and leave nothing but footprints. Adil FRI examines the ethics of trespass with Li as he photographs FRI ivy bursting through a window, showing the beauty of decay FRI and allure of peeling paint. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Bowen FRI (Repeat). FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01b1lnf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00s0wrb (Listen) FRI Nyama FRI FRI David Pownall's cautionary tale about a money-crazed FRI entrepreneur who transports a pickled whale from the Cape of FRI Good Hope round Southern Africa and makes a fortune. FRI FRI HUDSON...............VINCENT EBRAHIM FRI SILAS...................JUDE AKUWUDIKE FRI ARLENE...............JOANNA MONRO FRI BUSH HERMIT......JOSEPH MARCELL FRI DOCTOR CASS....BRUCE ALEXANDER FRI DE SOTO.............NIGEL HASTINGS FRI CULT LEADER......RUFUS WRIGHT FRI WOMAN...............PAMELA NOMVETE FRI Other parts played by Alison Pettitt, John Biggins, David FRI Seddon, Michael Shelford and Keeley Beresford FRI FRI Music composed and performed by Russell Taylor and Steve FRI Cooke. FRI FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01bs90w (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a postbag programme from the GQT potting FRI shed in Sparsholt College. FRI FRI Bunny Guinness, Matthew Biggs and Christine Walkden answer FRI the questions you've sent in by post and email. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 New Year, New Writers b01b1nkh (Listen) FRI Bread FRI FRI Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. FRI 'Bread', by Jane Flett. A remorseful woman clings to the FRI hope that she can mend her broken relationship as she FRI sprinkles flour, kneads dough and coaxes bread to rise. Read FRI by Rosalind Sydney. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01b1nkk (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01b1nkm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01b1nkp (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019q8zq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01b1nkr (Listen) FRI Series 76, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01b1nkt (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01b1nkw (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Timothy Prosser. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b1nk5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01b1nky (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Lichfield Cathedral. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01b1nl0 (Listen) FRI The historian Lisa Jardine with her topical reflections. FRI Producer:Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b00v11t7 (Listen) FRI The Kane Conspiracy FRI FRI In 1941 Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane, now regularly voted FRI top in critics' and audience polls, picked up nine Oscar FRI nominations and was already being spoken of as a work of FRI genius. But there were powerful forces lobbying hard against FRI it, not least among them William Randolph Hearst, the media FRI mogul on whom the story is based, and FBI supremo J Edgar FRI Hoover. FRI FRI As the Oscar nominations are announced, Welles suffers an FRI uncharacteristic attack of anxiety. And not without cause: FRI FBI supremo J.Edgar Hoover has tasked a small-time FBI FRI agent, Special Agent RB Wood, with making sure the film FRI doesn't triumph at the Oscars ceremony. Hearst has banned FRI any mention of the film across his media empire, RKO, the FRI distributor, is looking shaky, and while the movie plays to FRI capacity houses in art-house cinemas, no major theatres or FRI cinema chains will take it. A chance encounter in an FRI elevator leads to a highly charged head-to-head between FRI Hearst and Welles when the two men lay their cards on the FRI table. At the ceremony in February 1941 the film only wins FRI one Oscar, and Welles' reputation in America never recovers. FRI FRI Only the character of Agent Wood is imagined, although he is FRI based on a documented but shadowy figure mentioned in the FRI FBI archives. And it is Wood who finally confronts Welles FRI with the uncomfortable truth about the film: in hijacking FRI Hearst's life for Citizen Kane, Welles has replaced it with FRI his own. FRI FRI Orson Welles.........Jeff Harding FRI J. Edgar Hoover........Toby Jones FRI Herman Mankiewicz.....John Guerrasio FRI William Randolph Hearst...Peter Marinker FRI George Schaefer.......Garrick Hagon FRI Agent Wood..........Val Jobara FRI Radio Interviewer.......Paul Mundell FRI FRI Written by Jonathan Holloway FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b019q8zs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01b1nl2 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01b1nl4 (Listen) FRI My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, The Lucky Ones FRI FRI Episode 10: The lucky ones FRI FRI At Christmas 1918, Riley Purefoy is out scouring the streets FRI of London for his traumatised comrade Peter Locke. He finds FRI him, very drunk, in a bar and takes him back to Locke Hill. FRI By coincidence, Nadine - the girl who has always loved him FRI but whom he has tried to turn away because he doesn't want FRI to ruin her life - is spending Christmas there. Inevitably FRI they are thrown together and after they have allowed FRI themselves to be totally honest with each other, they FRI realise that the one thing they can be sure of is each FRI other, and agree to marry. FRI FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Producer Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b019rpw0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01b1nl6 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
20 January, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 21/01/2012 - 27/01/2012
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