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SAT SATURDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01m6d4q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01m7p7g (Listen) SAT Leonardo and the Last Supper, Episode 5 SAT SAT An eyewitness records the fitful progress that Leonardo was SAT making on his masterpiece and the frustration of the prior SAT of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the artist's capricious SAT regime. But when his Last Supper was finally finished, the SAT world came to wonder at this new marvel. SAT SAT Nigel Anthony reads from Leonardo and the Last Supper by SAT Ross King. SAT Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions SAT SAT Producer: Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m6d4s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m6d4v (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m6d4x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01m6d4z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m6d6y (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Dr Janet Wootton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01m6d70 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01m6d51 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01m6d53 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01m68vm (Listen) SAT Jules Hudson is in North Yorkshire to find out about the SAT history of the landscape around Richmond Castle and the SAT surrounding Dales. Founded by the Normans around 1070, just SAT a few years after the Battle of Hastings, Richmond Castle SAT was a formidable addition to the landscape and firmly SAT stamped its authority on the people and the surrounding SAT land. The town of Richmond slowly grew up around it and the SAT castle still sits imposingly above the River Swale. During SAT the First World War, the prison cells at Richmond Castle SAT were used to hold the Richmond 16. The graffiti that SAT survives on the walls of these cells includes that written SAT by these conscientious objectors, sixteen men who were among SAT the first in this country to refuse to fight on moral or SAT religious grounds. SAT Jules also hears about the landscape history of the Dales SAT around Richmond and the ways in which people down centuries SAT have used the land, including the rich heritage of the lead SAT mining industry. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01m9c2y (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Clare Freeman. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01m6d55 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01m9c44 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys SAT and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01m9c5y (Listen) SAT Suzy Klein and Richard Coles with studio guest Lynda SAT Bellingham. This weekend in 1939 more than 400,000 pets were SAT killed at the outbreak of World Ward Two. We talk to Dr SAT Hilda Kean who's researched this forgotten piece of history. SAT Fifteen years ago Philippe Kahn invented the camera phone SAT which has revolutionised the way we view the world and SAT communicate. Nicholas McCarthy, who has only one hand, talks SAT about his life as a concert pianist, Sally Pearson shares SAT her experience of waking up on the operating table, Singer SAT Clare Grogan takes a daytrip around North London with JP SAT Devlin, and the Inheritance Tracks of blues guitarist Robert SAT Cray. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 All Lit Up: A Century of Illumination in Blackpool SAT b01m9c6x (Listen) SAT Blackpool's town motto is 'Progress'. And in the past 150 SAT years the combination of brilliant entrepreneurs and a town SAT council keen to promote tourism, turned Blackpool into the SAT country's most popular seaside destination for working SAT people - with annual visits topping 17 million at one time. SAT One example of progress was the town's early adoption of SAT electric street lighting and an electric tramway by the sea. SAT This gave rise to the first Illuminations, 100 year ago. SAT SAT The Illuminations 'the greatest free show on earth' continue SAT to draw large numbers of visitors. Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, SAT who loves Blackpool, is creative curator of the SAT Illuminations designing lights and tableaux, and he presents SAT this programme. SAT SAT All Lit Up begins with Laurence among the crowds and SAT celebrities at the centenary Switch On on Friday night. We SAT then tour Blackpool to hear his tribute to the exceptional SAT architecture which has given the town is magical SAT distinctiveness through the years - the restored Winter SAT Garden and Tower, the elegant 19th century buildings of the SAT piers and the Modernist casino building at the Pleasure SAT Beach. SAT We'll hear from local MP Gordon Marsden , Professor Fred SAT Gray and CEO of the Pleasure Beach Amanda Thompson about SAT what Blackpool can do to build on its seaside heritage and SAT continue its appeal to the next generation. SAT SAT Produced by: Susan Marling SAT A Just Radio Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01m9cm0 (Listen) SAT The Power of Technology SAT SAT As digital technology gets ever more integrated into our SAT lives we present a special edition of The Forum from the SAT Aspen Festival of Ideas in the USA. What effect does digital SAT technology have on how we think, live and learn? Should we SAT worry about creating virtual echo chambers where we only SAT hear what we want? Or should we celebrate the increased SAT interconnectivity the internet brings? Bridget Kendall's SAT guests bring very different perspectives to bear: SAT SAT Joi Ito is the Director of the MIT media lab and a leading SAT writer on innovation, global technology policy, and the role SAT of the internet in transforming society in substantial and SAT positive ways. He believes that the internet enables SAT decentralized innovation, a type of openness which in turn SAT is shaping approaches in science and education. SAT SAT Mike Gallagher is president and CEO of the Entertainment SAT Software Association (ESA), the trade association SAT representing U.S. computer and video game publishers. He SAT argues that we can achieve connectedness and empathy through SAT game play and that playing digital games are another way of SAT forming communities. SAT SAT We also hear from Julie Taymor, a filmmaker and the SAT innovative theatre director who turned the animated film The SAT Lion King into a big theatrical hit. She cautions us about SAT the limiting power of two dimensional screens. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01m9cvq (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01m9cvs (Listen) SAT On Money Box on Saturday with Paul Lewis: SAT The Government is taking action against claims management SAT companies. They are the firms that claim to help people get SAT redress and compensation for mis-sold products. Their top SAT target is, of course, the millions of people mis-sold SAT payment protection insurance. The banks have set aside £10 SAT billion to compensate customers and the claims management SAT companies have been active to get a share of that. Two SAT things are planned by the Ministry of Justice which SAT regulates the sector. First, the claims management companies SAT are going to have to follow strict new rules about such SAT things as explaining their charges clearly. Second, they are SAT going to be covered by the Legal Ombudsman which can SAT investigate claims against them and award compensation. SAT Kevin Rousell, Head of Claims Management Regulation, at the SAT MoJ and Andrew Wigmore from the Claims Standards Council SAT speak to the programme. SAT SAT If you or a relative have been paying for care that should SAT have been free under the NHS, you'll need to act quickly if SAT you want to try and get back that money. The deadline for SAT starting a claim is 30th September 2012. After that date, SAT you won't recover the full amount. You might not even SAT realise that you can get free care - and that includes care SAT in your own home or in a specialist care home. But you can, SAT if the main needs are assessed as medical rather than SAT social. The NHS in England will pay the full amount - SAT nursing and accommodation costs - no matter what your income SAT or assets. Provided it's for a "primary health need". The SAT law is different elsewhere in the UK. The programme hears SAT from Daughne Taylor, who recovered nearly £84,000 costs paid SAT towards her father's care. And talks to Lisa Morgan, a SAT partner at solicitors Hugh James. SAT SAT On the back of your credit or debit card is a three digit SAT number the CVV or Card Verification Value. You should only SAT give it out over the phone or online. But some retailers are SAT asking for it in face to face transactions. Can they do SAT that? Should they do that? And can you refuse? Bob Howard SAT reports. SAT SAT The great points purge. If you are using your MBNA credit SAT card to save up points to buy something special - beware! SAT They run out after three years. We talk to a man who lost SAT 30,000 points which he had been saving up to buy an iPad. So SAT when - and why - do points expire? Rachel Springall from SAT Moneyfacts explains all. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b01m6crv (Listen) SAT Series 8, Caitlin Moran talks to Jennifer Saunders SAT SAT Last week's interviewee, Caitlin Moran returns to interview SAT her comedy hero, Jennifer Saunders. They talk shoes, SAT Bananarama and women in comedy. Last in the series. SAT SAT Producer .... Carl Cooper SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01m6d57 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01m6d59 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01m6d0b (Listen) SAT Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, with the former SAT Conservative MP, author and broadcaster Edwina Currie, the SAT Chief Political Correspondent of The Independent, Steve SAT Richards, the Chief Executive of the gay rights SAT organisation, Stonewall, Ben Summerskill and the Sunday SAT Times Columnist, Minette Marrin. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Eaton. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01m9dym (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01m9dyp (Listen) SAT South Downs SAT SAT The much acclaimed Chichester Festival production of David SAT Hare's play is brought to radio. Set in the 60s in Lancing SAT College, Sussex, where the author went to school. SAT A pin sharp young pupil (an astonishing professional debut SAT from Alex Lawther) is cut off from his fellow boys by virtue SAT of his own intellect, background and questioning spirit. SAT SAT The school, with its unyielding and rigid outlook on life, SAT leaves the boy isolated and confused but an unlikely meeting SAT with the free-spirited mother of another pupil (Anna SAT Chancellor) offers the boy a future with hope. SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Herrin SAT A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01m5hhy (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 1 SAT SAT While for many, it will be always associated with brown SAT bread, the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony is an SAT enduring a piece that never fails to move and inspire. We SAT hear from the anti- apartheid campaigner Albie Sachs, who SAT explains that through whistling the theme while in solitary SAT confinement, he was able to make contact with the wider SAT world and kept his spirit and hope alive. SAT Margaret Caldicott recalls the important role the piece SAT played in her mother's life while in a Japanese prisoner of SAT war camp. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01m9dzh (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Jacqueline Wilson, secrets, intimacy, SAT Imogen Heap SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including the SAT Norwegian lawyer who prosecuted Anders Behring Breivik. SAT Novelist Dame Jacqueline Wilson on the inspiration of writer SAT E Nesbit, a look at support available to parents with SAT learning disabilities, the revelation of family secrets, SAT senior civil servants reaching the glass ceiling, the role SAT of intimacy in relationships, and music from digital diva SAT Imogen Heap. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01m9f01 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01m6d70 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01m6d5c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01m6d5f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m6d5h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01m9f1l (Listen) SAT Phil Cornwell, Alexandra Roach, Alastair Sooke, Charlie SAT Connelly, Red Baraat SAT SAT Clive talks to Dead Ringer Phil Cornwell, who's moved from SAT Stella Street to London's West End to star as Charlie in SAT 'One Man, Two Guvnors'. Set in the criminal underworld of SAT Brighton in 1963, one man must keep his two guvnors apart at SAT all costs. But is it that simple? 'One Man, Two Guvnors' at SAT Theatre Royal Haymarket from Monday 3rd September. SAT SAT Actress and 'Iron Lady', Alexandra Roach talks to Clive SAT about starring alongside Meryl Streep as the young Margaret SAT Thatcher and her current role as shipwreck survivor Helene SAT in 'Hunderby'. Washed ashore in a gothic village, populated SAT by fiends, physicians, hunchbacks and crones, Helene is SAT swept off her feet by a widowed pastor. But can she keep her SAT dark past a secret? 'Hunderby' is on Sky Atlantic HD on SAT Mondays at 22.00. SAT SAT What have the Romans done for us? Left some terrific art SAT according to Alastair Sooke in his new series Treasures of SAT Ancient Rome. From glorious mosaics and masterpieces in SAT marble, bronze and paint, the series follows the art and SAT style of Ancient Rome from its Republican beginnings, the SAT extravagance of the emperors to the decline and fall of an SAT empire. The three part series begins on Monday 3rd September SAT at 21.00 on BBC Four SAT SAT Windswept Jo Bunting has a typically British conversation SAT about the weather with author, broadcaster and all-round ray SAT of sunshine, Charlie Connelly. His new book 'Bring Me SAT Sunshine' breezes through the lives of meteorological SAT eccentrics, rainmakers and cloud-busters to bring us a SAT rain-soaked and sun-kissed guide to our weather. SAT SAT With a double helping of musical spice from Brooklyn based SAT Bhangra Funk and Dhol n' Brass band Red Baraat, who perform SAT 'Shruggy Ji' and 'Chaal Baby'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01m9f1z (Listen) SAT Claire Bolderson profiles a person who is making news SAT headlines. SAT Producers: Chris Bowlby and Anna Meisel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01m9f2l (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Susan Jeffreys, Giles SAT Fraser and Jim White review the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE The Tempest - Theatre Royal, Bath - dir. Adrian SAT Noble - starring Tim Pigott-Smith SAT FILM Berberian Sound Studio - dir. Peter Strickland - SAT starring Toby Jones SAT TV Lilyhammer - BBC4 SAT BOOK Black Box - Jennifer Egan SAT EXHIBITION Tony Cragg at Exhibition Road SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT The Tempest SAT The Tempest is on now at the Theatre Royal, Bath until SAT Saturday 8 September 2012. SAT SAT Berberian Sound Studio SAT Berberian Sound Studio is released in UK cinemas on Friday SAT 31 August 2012, certificate 15. SAT SAT Lilyhammer SAT Lilyhammer starts on Tuesday 11 September at 22:00 on BBC SAT Four, running for eight weeks. SAT SAT Black Box SAT Black Box written by Jennifer Egan is published by Corsair SAT on Saturday 1 September 2012. SAT SAT Tony Cragg SAT Outdoor sculptures by Tony Cragg are on display along SAT Exhibition Road in central London from Saturday 1 September SAT 2012. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01m9f5z (Listen) SAT John Cage - Composing Controversy SAT SAT John Cage was one of the Twentieth Century's most SAT controversial and exciting musicians. On the centenary of SAT his birth, English composer and protégé Gavin Bryars SAT explores Cage's archive appearances to examine what lay SAT behind the American's artistic personality and to consider SAT how the reception of his work and ideas has changed. SAT SAT Throughout his sixty-year career, John Cage was a composer SAT whose radical aesthetic outlook and unashamed iconoclasm SAT challenged audiences, critics and fellow composers alike. SAT Cage's most infamous achievement is undoubtedly 4'33", a SAT piece which calls for its performer to remain silent on SAT stage for the prescribed time, but - as the archive SAT interviews and performances reveal - Cage was continually SAT rethinking what the word "music" could mean and forever SAT defending his work in the face of confused crowds, hostile SAT critics and - amazingly - an angry community of Buddhist SAT monks! SAT SAT Gavin talks to Jean Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, who takes SAT inspiration from Cage's ideas of letting "sounds be SAT themselves", as well as Brian Eno, a composer fascinated by SAT the notions of process-based music that he traces back to SAT Cage. Dancer Carolyn Brown recalls the legendary Happenings SAT of the 1950s, where painting, music and dance collided, and SAT Stewart Lee offers his take on Cage's command of timing, SAT comic or otherwise. SAT SAT For Gavin Bryars, a 1966 performance in London by John Cage SAT and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company was a life-changing SAT moment, inspiring him to pursue a career as a composer. For SAT a new generation who could never have such proximity to the SAT man and his ideas, the archive of interviews and SAT performances that remain offer a window into the world of a SAT true icon. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Smith SAT A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01m4c90 (Listen) SAT Buddenbrooks, Episode 3 SAT SAT The final part of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning story of SAT a 19th Century merchant family struggling to keep pace with SAT changing times. J Thomas and Gerda's son Hanno shows no SAT aptitude for business, but may make a great musician. SAT SAT Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico SAT Muhly. SAT SAT Technical presentation by David Fleming Williams SAT SAT Produced and directed by Chris Wallis SAT An Autolycus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator SAT Pip Carter SAT Elizabet Buddenbrook SAT Barbara Flynn SAT Thomas Buddenbrook SAT Joseph Millson SAT Toni Buddenbrook SAT Clare Corbett SAT Christian Buddenbrook SAT Carl Prekopp SAT Gerda Buddenbrook SAT Colleen Prendergast SAT Hanno Buddenbrook SAT Gene Goodman SAT Hanno Buddenbrook SAT Harry Lawtey SAT Kai, Count Molln SAT Thiago Los SAT Kai, Count Molln SAT Hugo Docking SAT Pfhul SAT David Thorpe SAT Dr Grabow SAT Stephen Critchlow SAT Ida Jungmann SAT Alison Pettit SAT Dr Brecht SAT Gerard McDermott SAT Master 1 SAT Ben Crowe SAT Master 2 SAT Shaun Prendergast SAT Boy 1 SAT Liam Maslov-Boxer SAT Boy 2 SAT Scott Smith SAT Boy 3 SAT George Sanderson SAT Clementine SAT Judith Adams SAT Director SAT Chris Wallis SAT Producer SAT Chris Wallis SAT Writer SAT Thomas Mann SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01m6d5k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Education Debates b01m5nqp (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT How should we teach? Why are we obsessed with testing? Are SAT we really exploiting the benefits of the internet and SAT technology? And to what extent can young people teach SAT themselves? SAT SAT Britain's education system is going through a period of huge SAT upheaval. A new curriculum comes in next year, the way SAT children are tested is being revamped, and academies and SAT free schools now have new freedoms to teach what and how SAT they want. SAT SAT The internet means children can access untold amounts of SAT knowledge and new ways of learning - as well as interact SAT with each other and their teachers in ways that were SAT unimaginable just ten years ago. So how are schools and SAT pupils responding to these dramatic advances? SAT SAT John Humphrys chairs a panel of leading education experts SAT including cognitive scientist Professor Guy Claxton and SAT union leader Mary Bousted to ask how we should teach. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Pirie SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b01m5fnp (Listen) SAT Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the SAT popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel SAT Rees. The guests this week are the broadcaster Samira Ahmed, SAT actor Simon Jones, historian Dominic Sandbrook, and SAT journalist Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT Producer: Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01m5d2r (Listen) SAT Roger McGough challenges the notion that 'Happiness writes SAT white' as he begins a new series with a cheering selection SAT of poetry. SAT There are poems celebrating a sense of freedom in summertime SAT by Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Frost. There's a delicate SAT poem by Norman MacCaig about the beauty of rain and a SAT selection of poems about weddings including a moving and SAT joyful one that Ted Hughes wrote about the day he married SAT Sylvia Plath. With Plath in her pink woollen knitted dress SAT and Hughes beside her in his thrice dyed corduroy jacket, he SAT talks of being subjected to a strange tense: that of the SAT spellbound future. SAT Even poets not known for their cheeriness, Emily Dickinson SAT and Charles Bukowski have happiness pouring out of them. SAT There are also poems about the joys of gardens by Kipling SAT and the ancient Chinese poet Po Chu-i, and a beautiful SAT Ethiopian tribal love poem. SAT The readers are Pippa Haywood, Patrick Romer and Harry SAT Livingstone. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01m84tk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00sm5mc (Listen) SUN If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, The Guide SUN SUN 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This' is the debut SUN collection by US author Robin Black, whose work has drawn SUN comparisons with that of Lorrie Moore and Alice Munroe. SUN SUN A father wrestles with his spirited blind daughter's SUN unexpected independence, and with his own role as her SUN father, as he helps her to prepare for life away at college. SUN SUN Robin Black's stories and essays have appeared in numerous SUN US magazines and newspapers, where she has also won several SUN awards, but this is her first published collection. She is SUN currently teaching creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, SUN Pennsylvania, and lives with her family in Philadelphia. SUN SUN Reader: William Hope SUN Abridger: Richard Hamilton SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m84tm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m84tp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m84tr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01m84tt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01m9gpv (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Mary's Church, Abergavenny. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01m9f1z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01m84tw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01m9mps (Listen) SUN Familiarity Breeds Content SUN SUN Familiarity plays an important part in life. Familiar SUN people, familiar places, familiar objects can provide us SUN with security, strength and comfort. Why is it then that the SUN most common phrase that we associate with the word SUN familiarity is that it breeds contempt? Mark Tully asks SUN whether it is actually more likely to be a source of SUN happiness and investigates the paradox that causes this SUN common source of contentment to be so frequently overlooked. SUN With music by Lyle Lovett and Sir Henry Wood and with SUN readings from Katherine Mansfield and U. A. Fanthorpe, he SUN celebrates the pleasures of the familiar. SUN SUN The readers are Philip Franks and Grainne Keenan. SUN SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01m9mqj (Listen) SUN A peer with a passion for pedigree pigs. Sarah Swadling SUN meets the President of the British Pig Association, the SUN Marquess of Salisbury. He is an enthusiast for traditional SUN breeds and Sarah joins him in the pig tent at the annual SUN show held at his home, Hatfield House. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01m84ty (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01m84v0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01m9mx2 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01m9mx4 (Listen) SUN Railway Children SUN SUN Ian Hislop presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Railway Children. SUN Reg Charity:1058991 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Railway Children. SUN SUN Railway Children SUN Railway Children fight for vulnerable children who live SUN alone at risk on the streets, where they suffer abuse and SUN exploitation. In the UK, society often denies their SUN existence, and in other countries the problem is so SUN prevalent that it has become ‘normal’. SUN They run away or are forced to leave homes where they suffer SUN poverty, violence, abuse and neglect. They find themselves SUN living on the streets because there is nowhere else to go SUN and no one left to turn to. The problems they face on the SUN streets are often even worse than those they endured at SUN home. Every day we fight to change their story. SUN Railway Children race to reach children as soon as they SUN arrive on the streets and intervene before an abuser can. SUN Our pioneering work enables us to get to street children SUN before the streets get to them. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01m84v2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01m84v4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01m9my1 (Listen) SUN Holy Islands: Bishop Stephen Oliver visits Caldey Island in SUN the in the last of the summer services exploring the SUN spirituality of islands on Britain's coastline. As a place SUN of prayer and pilgrimage, the community of Cistercian SUN Brothers live by the old saying: "to work is to pray". SUN Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01m6d0d (Listen) SUN The alchemy of memory SUN SUN John Gray explores the role of memory in giving meaning to SUN our lives. Through the writings of J.G. Ballard, he reflects SUN on how we struggle to preserve our past but at the same time SUN sometimes long to leave it behind. SUN SUN Gray praises the power of Ballard's imagination - and his SUN enchanting fables - to make good all this. SUN SUN His conclusion is upbeat. "Through the alchemy of memory the SUN leaden buildings in which [Ballard] wandered as a boy became SUN the golden vistas of his fiction, and the traumas of his SUN childhood were transmuted into images of fulfilment". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01m9mzz (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01m9n01 (Listen) SUN Writer .....Keri Davies SUN Director .....Rosemary Watts SUN Editor .....John Yorke & Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd .....Judy Bennett SUN David Archer .....Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer .....Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter .....Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter .....Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter .....Georgie Feller SUN Adam Macy .....Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford .....Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy .....Sunny Ormonde SUN Fallon Rogers .....Joanna Van Kampen SUN Jamie Perks .....Dan Ciotkowski SUN Emma Grundy .....Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy .....Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker .....Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker .....Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker .....Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker .....Lorraine Coady SUN Lynda Snell .....Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary .....Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason .....Michael Shelford SUN Elona Makepeace .....Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace .....Dan Hagley SUN Rhys Williams .....Scott Arthur SUN Mr Chalmers .....Anton Lesser SUN Arthur Walters .....David Hargreaves SUN Joyce Walter .....Ann Beach. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01m9n0t (Listen) SUN Poll Tax SUN SUN In this week's Reunion, Sue MacGregor and guests revisit one SUN of the most dramatic battles of Margaret Thatcher's SUN premiership: the poll tax. SUN SUN The Community Charge, or poll tax as it was known, was SUN designed to replace the rates and to make local councils SUN more accountable to their voters by charging every resident SUN for the use of local services. But with a wealthy landowner SUN potentially paying the same as a dustman, it was seen by SUN many as grossly unfair. A massive campaign of civil SUN disobedience followed, that saw even Members of Parliament SUN jailed for refusing to pay their bills. SUN SUN On the eve of its introduction, on 31st March 1990, SUN thousands of people demonstrated in London against the Poll SUN Tax. But as the day wore on, police and demonstrators SUN clashed violently. Buildings were set on fire, cars SUN overturned, windows smashed, and shops looted. There were SUN accusations of police brutality, and agents provocateurs. SUN Dozens of protestors and police were injured. For many SUN looking back, it was the final nail in the coffin of Mrs SUN Thatcher's Britain. SUN SUN By the end of that year Mrs Thatcher was forced to step SUN down. Months later, the poll tax was scrapped. SUN SUN Joining Sue MacGregor to recall the period is: Lord Baker, SUN who as Local Government Minister helped devise the Community SUN Charge, Chris Brearley, one of the civil servants who worked SUN on the legislation, David Magor, Assistant Treasurer of SUN Oxford City Council, Danny Burns, who co-ordinated SUN resistance to the tax in the South West, and Chris Moyers, SUN who started up her own protest group near Edinburgh to SUN oppose the Scottish poll tax. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01m5hk3 (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 4 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all SUN panel games. SUN SUN This week panellists Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Jason SUN Byrne & new boy Tim Vine join Nicholas in Edinburgh. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01m9n2z (Listen) SUN A Guide to Spice, part 3: Mustard SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores a food story of decline and revival, SUN British mustard. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01m84v6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01m9n31 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with James SUN Robbins, including an in-depth look at events around the SUN world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01m9n33 (Listen) SUN When, aged eight, Mark Goffeney strolled into a guitar shop SUN to enrol for lessons, the owner thought he was being kidded. SUN Mark had no arms, the result of an unexplained birth defect. SUN He didn't even have prosthetic limbs, because he had found SUN they were more trouble than they were worth. It's a measure SUN of Mark's persuasiveness, even then, that the shop SUN proprietor took him on as a pupil. He taught him to tune and SUN play the guitar with his feet, laying it in front of him on SUN the floor. He's been a highly respected rock musician for SUN more than twenty years, running his own bands, and touring SUN the world. SUN SUN This was only the start of Mark's career of choices which SUN apparently would make life as difficult for him as possible. SUN In No Triumph, No Tragedy, he talks with humour, warmth, and SUN practical common sense, about the philosophy that there's SUN usually a solution, if you think hard enough about it. Only SUN Mark, for instance, could choose tiling roofs as an early SUN occupation. When asked how he got the tiles up there, he SUN seemed faintly surprised. It involved, logically enough, SUN getting down on the ground, manoeuvring them with his feet SUN into a container that had a strap or a rope, and then a lot SUN of wriggling till he got it on his back. Simple enough! SUN SUN He used similar techniques bringing up his three children. SUN He'd always done his share, but when the marriage broke up, SUN amicably but irrevocably, his former wife asked him if he SUN would take custody of the children while she put herself SUN through college! They preferred to live with him, she said. SUN He did it without a second thought, devising ways of SUN lifting, carrying and feeding them. The only problem, he SUN says, was fighting off the older women who wanted to rescue SUN them from his tender mercies. His life as a touring musician SUN was a bigger handicap to childcare than his so-called SUN "handicap". "It's hard to check kids are doing their SUN homework in the wings, when you're onstage doing a gig," he SUN explained. SUN SUN Recently, Mark has become something of an online sensation, SUN with his act receiving hundreds of thousands of "hits" on SUN YouTube. Is there a danger that people are more concerned SUN with how he plays than what he plays? He says he doesn't SUN care, as long as they end up hearing the music. He drives, SUN as he does most things, with his feet. It works fine, but SUN it's also led to the biggest scare of his life. Late one SUN night he was stopped by a cop. He then heard the dreaded SUN words: "put your hands out of the window; then get out of SUN the car". He tried explaining that he had no hands. The cop SUN said he'd shoot him if he didn't put his hands out of the SUN window. It was only the word "disabled", which Mark doesn't SUN use very often, which finally persuaded the officer to SUN check. "So how was I supposed to know," he said grumpily. SUN Listening to Mark Goffeney on No Triumph, No Tragedy should SUN avoid such mistakes in the future. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01m6crj (Listen) SUN Norfolk SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team join gardeners in Norfolk. Bob SUN Flowerdew, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness are on the SUN panel. In addition, Christine Walkden makes some surprising SUN discoveries about birds' feeding habits. SUN SUN Produced by Amy Racs & Robert Abel SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01m9n83 (Listen) SUN Farzad Bazoft - Observer journalist in Baghdad SUN SUN In September 1989 the Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft was SUN arrested in Baghdad and accused of spying for Britain. Six SUN months later he was executed by the Iraqi authorities. SUN SUN A British nurse called Daphne Parish was also arrested. She SUN was eventually released and returned to the UK. She, and SUN British diplomat Robin Kealy, spoke to Witness about their SUN memories of Farzad Bazoft. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01m9n85 (Listen) SUN The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 1 SUN SUN By John Steinbeck SUN Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SUN SUN A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SUN the endurance of the human spirit. SUN SUN Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and SUN Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in SUN search of work, only to discover thousands like them are SUN also on the move. SUN SUN Credits SUN Tom SUN Robert Sheehan SUN Preacher Casy SUN Zubin Varla SUN Ma SUN Michelle Fairley SUN Pa SUN Steven McNicoll SUN Al SUN Finn den Hertog SUN Rosasharn SUN Melody Grove SUN Ruthie SUN Nicola Jo Cully SUN Connie SUN Nick Underwood SUN Grampa SUN Jim Bryce SUN Wilson SUN Jimmy Chisholm SUN Ragged Man SUN Jimmy Chisholm SUN Sairy SUN Irene MacDougall SUN Scrapyard Man SUN Gavin Mitchell SUN Floyd SUN Gavin Mitchell SUN Director SUN Kirsty Williams SUN Producer SUN Kirsty Williams SUN Writer SUN John Steinbeck SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01m9ntb (Listen) SUN Victoria Hislop - The Island SUN SUN Victoria Hislop talks to James Naughtie and readers about SUN her debut novel The Island, a fictional account of a real SUN life leper colony, the island of Spinalonga, just off the SUN coast of Crete. First published in 2005, The Island has now SUN sold over a million copies. SUN SUN Victoria says that when she first went to Spinalonga, as a SUN curious tourist, she had no idea that leprosy still even SUN existed in the 20th century. She thought it had been wiped SUN out hundreds of years ago. Even today, around 500 new cases SUN are diagnosed every year in India and South America. SUN SUN Before writing novels Victoria was a successful travel SUN journalist. On that first visit, her initial idea had been SUN to write a piece for one of the Sunday newspapers, but after SUN fifteen minutes wandering around the abandoned village on SUN the island, she decided to tell the story in fiction SUN instead. SUN SUN The resulting novel tells the story of a family beset by two SUN cases of leprosy in the 1930s and 50s, before the cure was SUN found. In the 1930s, Eleni, a school teacher in the village SUN opposite the leper colony, catches the disease, probably SUN from a pupil. As the pair are exiled to Spinalonga, we see SUN how her husband and two daughters cope in her absence, one SUN of whom will also succumb to the disease some fifteen years SUN later. SUN SUN Victoria explores the shame and stigma of the disease SUN through these characters and their lives and love affairs in SUN a family saga stretching to present day London. SUN SUN October's Bookclub choice : Gilead by Marilynne Robinson SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01m9p7x (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a varied selection of listeners' SUN poetry requests with work by Frost, Yeats and Julia Copus. SUN The readers are Pippa Haywood, Patrick Romer, Harry SUN Livingstone and Philip Franks. SUN Poems that celebrate the miniscule and the massive, and from SUN all sorts of perspectives and dimensions in between, SUN starting with Robert Frost observing a tiny mite scurrying SUN across his book. Moon poems feature too with work by Carol SUN Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes and Yeats's deceptively simple yet SUN beguiling tale of The Cat and The Moon. There's a famous SUN love poem by ee cummings, and a skilful and moving 'mirror' SUN poem by Julia Copus. There are also a handful of poems on SUN the perspectives of war with work by the late Wislawa SUN Szymborksa. And there's a note of warning about the passing SUN of time, by Derek Mahon, in his poem 'Dog Days'. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The Lifecycle of a Bullet b01m5k37 (Listen) SUN A deadly weapon and an economic cornerstone, the impact of a SUN bullet spreads far and wide. In this documentary BBC Defence SUN Correspondent Caroline Wyatt takes an extraordinary journey SUN through the defence industry as she tracks the fate of a SUN bullet. From manufacture to gun barrel, Caroline tracks her SUN bullet from the docks where the explosive propellant are SUN imported, through the Cheshire factory where it is machined, SUN to testing and out to its final destination - war. SUN With its deep historical roots, its reliance of raw SUN materials from all over the world and its central role in SUN the economy this most basic of military equipment involves a SUN huge cross-section of British society, all working for a war SUN effort that sees millions of rounds produced every week of SUN the year. By the time she sees the shot fired, Caroline will SUN have met the huge variety of people employed in its SUN creation. SUN As she tracks the bullet's journey, Caroline will ask what SUN would happen to our economy if peace bloomed in Iraq and SUN Afghanistan, and how people feel about making products that SUN are designed to kill. SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01m9f1z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01m84vb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01m84vd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m84vg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01m9q7b (Listen) SUN Selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01m9q7d (Listen) SUN Freddie takes on a new challenge. Meanwhile Roy leaps in to SUN help. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01m9qkz (Listen) SUN Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section: Edinburgh 2012 SUN SUN A one-off Edinburgh special of music and comedy from Alex SUN Horne and his 5 piece band. With special guests Al Murray SUN and poet Tim Key. SUN SUN Alex Horne .... Host SUN Joe Auckland .... Trumpet and Banjo SUN Mark Brown .... Saxophone and guitar SUN Will Collier .... Bass SUN Ben Reynolds .... Drums SUN Joe Stilgoe .... Keyboards SUN Al Murray .... Guest SUN Tim Key .... Guest SUN SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b01m9qlw (Listen) SUN 'Club Sandwich' SUN SUN Mark Watson completes the line-up of literary comedians SUN specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write and perform SUN their own short stories in front of an audience, recorded SUN live at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01m6crq (Listen) SUN Is BBC radio suffering from an increase in technical SUN problems? Many listeners think so, and over the last few SUN months have sent in a flood of examples as part of SUN Feedback's Operation Drop Out. Dropped lines, disappearing SUN interviewees and correspondents who sound like Daleks. Roger SUN asks technology controller Peter Coles what is going on. And SUN the Today programme's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Mike SUN Thomson reveals how a dropped line left him AWOL in North SUN Korea. SUN SUN History was made this week when Radio 4's Woman's Hour and SUN 5Live's Men's Hour got together for a joint programme, SUN broadcast simultaneously on both networks. Was it love SUN across a crowded studio? And what did the listeners make of SUN it? Roger gets the gossip from presenters Jane Garvey and SUN Tim Samuels and editors Alice Feinstein and Gloria Abramoff. SUN SUN In the hunt for Feedback's very own jingle, we reveal some SUN lyrical, wry and frankly epic listener compositions. Do keep SUN them coming. SUN SUN And finally, we plan to hand a bound volume of your SUN suggestions to the new Director General George Entwistle on SUN his first day in the job, Monday 17th September. So let us SUN know what you think should be in his in-tray. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton SUN SUN Produced by Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01m6crn (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong. We SUN hear the story of that historic voyage plus his classmates SUN at school, his fellow Korean war pilot and the Professor who SUN taught alongside him after he left NASA. SUN SUN Also: the flamboyant Carlo Curley who made it his mission to SUN bring organ music to the widest possible audience. SUN SUN Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, once a darling of SUN the West, he lost international support after his violent SUN crackdown on the opposition SUN SUN And Phyllis Diller, said to be America's first female stand SUN up comedian. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01m9cvs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01m9mx4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01m68w4 (Listen) SUN Face the Music SUN SUN Public spending cuts are putting a big squeeze on orchestras SUN all over the world. Peter Day hears how musicians are trying SUN to find new ways of ensuring that the bands play on. SUN Producer: Ben Crighton SUN Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme: SUN Wilmar de Visser SUN Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra SUN SUN Mark Pemberton SUN Director, Association of British Orchestras SUN SUN Stephen Maddock SUN Chief Executive, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra SUN SUN Alexandra Tomkinson SUN External Relations, CBSO SUN SUN Prue Hawthorne SUN Head of Music, King Edward the VI Camp Hill School for Girls SUN SUN Charles Barwell SUN Barclays Wealth and Trustee of CBSO SUN SUN Jackie Tyler SUN Cello Musician, CBSO SUN SUN James Ehnes SUN Violin Musician SUN SUN Ronnie Bauch SUN Orpheus Society SUN SUN Professor William Baumol SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01m9s3q (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 b01m9s3v (Listen) SUN Episode 119 SUN SUN Nick Watt of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01m68vp (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet meets with actor Toby Jones to discuss the SUN weird word of the Berberian Sound studio, director Peter SUN Strickland's love letter to Italian horror films of the SUN 1970s. How do you make money from a British film? Producers SUN Lisa Marie Russo and Matthew Justice discuss. Plus, Mark SUN Gatiss rounds off his selection of favourite biopics with SUN Gods and Monsters, starring Ian Mckellan as director James SUN Whale. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01m9mps (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01m84wj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01m5nls (Listen) MON Italian Family 2: Naples MON MON Italy, home to the Pope and the Holy See, perhaps the most MON Catholic of all countries, is undergoing a peculiarly MON un-Catholic crisis; it now has one of the lowest birth rates MON in the world. There are so few children being born that if MON the current trend persists, traditional Italians are at risk MON of dying out in just a handful of generations. How can the MON nation famed for Romanticism, for enormous affectionate MON families, for Mamma Mia and for an enviable certainty that MON all you need is good food, good wine and your family around MON you, be the same nation that no longer gives birth? Laurie MON travels to the South of Italy and visits the sole-remaining MON glove maker in Naples, in an attempt to discover whether the MON Italian family business is heading for extinction. He also MON explores whether organised crime is a distortion of Italian MON family values - or their logical extension. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01m9gpv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m84wl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m84wn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m84wq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01m84ws (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mby20 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Dr Janet Wootton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01mby22 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01m84wv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01mby52 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01mbztm (Listen) MON The Explorer MON MON Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History at Queen MON Mary, University of London, explores the history of MON masculinity through six different archetypes of the ideal MON man. This week: the Explorer. MON MON The rugged explorers of the 19th and early 20th century MON still fascinate us. One in particular is burned, or rather MON frozen, into the national consciousness: Captain Scott. MON Professor Vickery begins the programme on location in a MON recreation of Scott's Antarctic hut (in the Natural History MON Museum). She talks to historian Max Jones about the ideal of MON masculine heroism which Scott personified, and about the MON male camaraderie of his team. Historian John Tosh puts Scott MON in a long tradition of earlier role models for men, and MON explores men's desire to escape the home and domestic MON responsibility. The programme also includes an interview MON with modern-day explorer Wade Davis, author of a book about MON the conquest of Everest, who speaks passionately about the MON continuing appeal of these early explorers for men like him. MON MON Sources include Scott's diary; adventure stories for boys; MON Baden-Powell's scouting manual; and cinematic MON representations of Scott. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b01mbztp (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON MON Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from MON the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind MON them and echoes of the arguments today. MON MON When these two men encountered each other on the BBC MON programme Late-Night Line-up in 1972, the Longford report on MON pornography had recently been published. Malcolm Muggeridge MON had sat on the committee and took a conservative stance, MON served by his Christian beliefs, that pornography was MON corrupting and something had to be done about the laws MON around publishing it. MON MON Bernard Levin was as well-known as Muggeridge as a MON television personality and member of the cultural and MON political commentariat. Levin, though, was a libertarian and MON vehemently against what he saw as potential censorship of MON literature that he thought did not harm people and society MON as much as the Longford report suggested. MON MON Was there a limit to the freedoms that the permissive MON society of the late-60s and early-70s demanded? Or is MON censorship a sacred cow? On to today and in the view of MON relatively recent developments in publishing, such as on the MON internet, how have the arguments around access to MON pornography changed? MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate is Bel Mooney, MON broadcaster and journalist; and Christopher Booker, MON journalist and first editor of Private Eye. MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01mbzrt (Listen) MON Winter Journal, Episode 1 MON MON On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his 64th MON birthday, Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of MON Winter Journal, his unorthodox examination of his own life MON as seen through the history of his body. MON MON Composed in the manner of a musical fugue, the journal MON advances from one autobiographical fragment to the next MON jumping backward and forward in time as the various themes MON intersect, bounce off one another, and ultimately merge in a MON great chorus of multiple voices, of one voice multiplied MON into many. Auster takes us from childhood to the brink of MON old age as he summons forth a universe of physical MON sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening MON sexual desire as an adolescent to the ever deepening bonds MON of married love, from the shocks of violent accidents to an MON account of his mother's sudden death in 2002, from MON meditations on eating and sleeping to the "scalding, MON epiphanic moment of clarity" in 1978 that set him on a new MON course as a writer. Winter Journal is a book that looks MON straight into the heart of what it means to be alive. MON MON Today Paul Auster takes his cue from his imminent 64th MON birthday to examine his life in the present and as a young MON man embarking for life in Paris. Read by Garrick Hagon. MON MON Produced by: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mbztr (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Lydia Cacho MON Lydia Cacho is a Mexican investigative journalist and MON activist whose work has led to her life being under threat. MON Her book, Demons of Eden, published seven years ago, is an MON expose of child abuse in Mexico in which she names powerful MON men at the centre of the abuse as well as the officials and MON governors who, she claims, protected the paedophiles. MON Following its publication she was imprisoned and - she says MON - tortured, and asked to retract her accusations. After a MON year-long battle, she won the case against her for MON defamation but still receives death threats from the MON powerful and dangerous enemies she has made. Lydia Cacho MON continues to campaign. In her latest book, Slavery Inc, she MON examines international sex trafficking. MON MON What is a "normal" birth? MON Last month a document appeared on the Royal College of MON Obsetricians and Gynecologists’ website entitled 'Making MON sense of commissioning maternity services in England'. It MON offered guidance from RCOG, the Royal College of Midwives, MON and the NCT to Clinical Commissioning Groups, and said that MON it was important to increase the “normal” birth rate and to MON decrease the number of caesareans. Last week the document MON was removed from the website. What is a normal birth, and MON what is a desirable birth? What are the best options for MON women, and what is being offered? Joining Jane to discuss MON are Cathy Warwick of the Royal College of Midwives and MON Pauline Hull of electivecesarean.com. MON MON The Other Woman MON It’s a term we recognise. Reports of her alleged exploits MON with celebs pepper the Red Tops and of course, she’s got a MON literary history. But who is the “other woman”? And ought we MON to be intolerant of her? Writer and broadcaster Bibi Lynch MON and psychotherapist Susanna Abse join Jane to unravel some MON of the issues surrounding the third person in the MON relationship. MON MON Debbie Jevans MON Former British junior tennis champion Debbie Jevans has MON risen through the sporting ranks to become Director of Sport MON for LOCOG for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. This MON means she’s responsible for all the sporting arrangements MON and venues during the games. She joins Jane to talk about MON her Olympic challenge, the glass ceiling in sport and why MON more girls should be encouraged to take part in competitive MON sport. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mbztt (Listen) MON Dissolution, Episode 1 MON MON C J Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for MON radio by Colin MacDonald. MON MON London, 1537. As he plots to bring down the Abbeys, Thomas MON Cromwell sends his trusted lawyer-detective, Matthew MON Shardlake, to investigate the murder of a King's MON Commissioner in a monastery on the south coast of Kent. MON Which of the terrified monks is the murderer - and can MON Shardlake catch him before he strikes again? MON MON Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Shardlake MON Jason Watkins MON Cromwell MON Mark Bonnar MON Mark MON Joseph Arkley MON Goodhaps MON Patrick Brennan MON Brother Andrew MON Sam Dale MON Singleton MON Sam Alexander MON MON 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b01mc0m3 (Listen) MON Each year, the Royal Geographical Society organises in MON association with BBC Radio 4 a contest to discover the most MON imaginative and exciting dream travel project. Jaswinder MON Jhalli is this year's winner and her goal was to visit the MON gauchos of Argentina and discover to what extent the reality MON of their lives tallies with the romantic image of prairie MON horsemen that they have always had. MON MON Jaswinder writes: "The wistful gaucho myth of a proud, well MON dressed, virtuous individual, free to roam the Pampas and MON work as he chooses, has little connection with their MON history. It reminds me of how the Indian community is MON portrayed. You get the impression all we do is arrange MON marriages, dance in unison and eat chicken tikka masala. Of MON course every culture throws up it's own clichés. But this MON kind of typecasting always forced me to feel I was an MON outsider. Constantly struggling to escape the elusive MON cultural stereotype that seemed to precede me everywhere I MON went. I want to break down these myths and find how today's MON gauchos view these caricatures." MON MON Producer: Simon Elmes. MON MON 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01mc0mc (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser MON MON Justin's still living with his father-in-law, still working MON with his ex-wife and still calling on his Gran for her words MON of wisdom. This week he also has to cope with not having a MON plus one to bring to his school reunion. MON MON Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse MON Gran ..... Anne Reid MON Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley MON Man ..... Jim Poyser MON Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford MON Ray ..... Paul Copley MON Miles ..... Rob Rouse MON Tanya ..... Victoria Elliott MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01mc0zw (Listen) MON Texting for free, phonies on Twitter and new national parks. MON MON How so-called "Twitter dealers" are helping businesses trick MON customers into thinking they're more popular than they MON really are. And how you can spot phonies on the internet. MON MON Why farmers are fighting plans to establish two new national MON parks in Northern Ireland - and what they and the government MON can learn from land owners in the South Downs. MON MON And how to send text messages for free - and who is trying MON to stop you. MON MON Presenter by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01mc0zy (Listen) MON Tony Blair MON MON The New Elizabethans: Tony Blair MON MON James Naughtie considers the political legacy of Tony Blair, MON the youngest and longest serving Labour Prime Minister. MON MON Sweeping Labour to power in 1997, Blair enjoyed huge MON popularity, and his government, under the banner of "New MON Labour" was credited with policies improving schools and the MON health service, as well as brokering the Good Friday peace MON agreement in Northern Ireland. He was involved on more MON foreign conflicts than any other Prime Minister of the 20th MON Century, and remains controversial with the regards to the MON British military involvement in the war in Iraq. MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse." MON MON Producer: Alison Hughes. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01m84wx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01mc10b (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:45 Coming Out b017c9p9 (Listen) MON Daniel MON MON Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how MON far to be honest about ourselves, and in doing so make MON ourselves vulnerable to the judgements of others. MON MON 1. Daniel MON MON Daniel's political ambitions led him to imprisonment for MON theft in 2009. He's now working hard to rebuild his life in MON the village where everyone knows what he's done, and is MON putting his dreams of serving the public into mentoring MON ex-offenders. Is he able now to be entirely frank about his MON past? MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01m9q7d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mf8ly (Listen) MON Craven: Looking for Mr King MON MON CRAVEN: "There's between 2 and 3 murders a day in this MON country. Most get a mention in the local news and that's it. MON A handful become a hit with the public... Gavin Spinoza's MON murder became a star murder because it involved a rich man, MON a sports car and a well-known beauty spot." MON MON It also has a list of fabulous suspects: wives; lovers; MON business partners - just exactly the types of people that MON can get a case bogged down when the police are under intense MON pressure within the media spotlight. MON And then there's Craven's regular irregular love life. Now MON that Macca has a steady, perfect, fitness instructor MON girlfriend, Craven is less than happy to play the tired role MON of the "affair". She also lacks the strength of character to MON let him go. The two decide it's time to come clean with MON Becky and neither are the least bit prepared for what MON happens next. MON MON Craven is played by Maxine Peake and is written by Amelia MON Bullmore and produced by an all female team from Manchester. MON Craven is a regular returner to Radio 4 so watch out for MON more to come. MON MON Producer: Justine Potter MON A Red Production Company Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON DCI Craven MON Maxine Peake MON Producer MON Justine Potter MON Writer MON Amelia Bullmore MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mc132 (Listen) MON (1/12) MON Where would you be most likely to find a durable MON Welsh-language soap opera, a plant with bell-shaped flowers, MON and a highwayman hanged in 1670? MON MON This question heralds the start of a new series of radio's MON longest-running quiz. Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair to MON welcome the regular panellists from six regions and nations MON of the UK, who'll be trying over the next three months to MON solve the programme's trademark cryptic cultural conundrums. MON MON In the first programme of the series, last year's Round MON Britain Quiz champions - the Midlands pairing of the writer MON Rosalind Miles and the Chief Executive of the City of MON Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Maddock - begin the MON defence of their title. Their opponents are the South of MON England team, this year consisting of the journalist Marcel MON Berlins and the author and columnist Marcus Berkmann. MON MON In the coming weeks the regular teams from Scotland, MON Northern Ireland, Wales and the North of England will join MON the fray. Northern Ireland are on home turf this year, as MON the series is being recorded at a rural hideaway in County MON Antrim. As always, the programme features a generous helping MON of questions suggested by listeners. The eclectic references MON and convoluted connections encompass literature, science, MON music, etymology, the natural world, history and popular MON culture of all kinds. MON MON The questions are on the programme's website each week, as MON is a special 'teaser' question to exercise listeners' MON brain-cells between broadcasts - with Tom revealing the MON solution at the beginning of the next edition. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01m9n2z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Mr Jupitus in the Age of Steampunk b01md9fj (Listen) MON If you've ever encountered a person with flying goggles, MON clad in tweeds and clutching a mahogany laptop or brass MON smartphone on a chain, what's the explanation? Phill Jupitus MON steps into an era where the 19th and 21st centuries MON charmingly collide, to investigate the time travelling cult MON known as Steampunk. MON MON Travelling back to the steam-powered future, Phill discovers MON a cast of modern characters - engineers, scientists, MON writers, artists and inventors - taking their inspiration MON from the Victorian and Edwardian arts and sciences, and from MON the fiction of H.G. Wells. MON MON "It's still the early twenty-first century. The Victorian MON world, the Edwardian world carried on", explains Ian MON Crichton aka Herr Doktor amongst an array of fantastical MON homemade devices: digital camera modified with rivets, MON brass-etched ray gun, steam pistol and a space helmet like MON that worn by Lionel Jeffries in The First Men on The Moon. MON "We've got steam-powered cars on the streets. We've got huge MON dirigibles flying to Japan". MON MON Steampunk speculates on an imaginary overlap between the MON 19th century and the present day. Phill investigates at a MON Steampunk convivial, The Houses of Parliament, on an x-ray MON ward, at a punk gig and in a shed in suburban Surrey. MON MON With Dr Chandrika Nath from the Parliamentary Office of MON Science and Technology ; consultant radiologist Dr Adrian MON Thomas; comedian Andrew O'Neill; science fiction author, MON Adam Roberts and lecturer in 19th Century Literature, Dr MON Christine Ferguson. MON MON Producer: Tamsin Hughes MON A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01md9fl (Listen) MON Egalitarianism MON MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss religious responses to economic MON inequality. MON MON 17:00 PM b01md9fn (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m84wz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01md9v4 (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 5 MON MON Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all MON panel games. MON MON Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and Graham MON Norton join Nicholas this week - but who will prove they MON have the greatest gift of the gab? MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01md9v6 (Listen) MON Mike feels torn and Lily speaks her mind. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01md9v8 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Damian MON Lewis, star of the TV series Homeland, who now takes a MON leading role in a new film version of The Sweeney. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mbztt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Speaker, Behind the Scenes b01jwhzl (Listen) MON The House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has adopted an MON outspoken approach unusual for someone in his role. He has MON been introducing important changes to the way the Commons is MON run - changes which some say are having a significant effect MON on our democracy. The BBC's Parliamentary Correspondent Mark MON D'Arcy goes behind the scenes at Westminster to find out how MON John Bercow does the job and why he inspires admiration in MON some and loathing in others. He speaks to Speaker Bercow MON about his views on the behaviour of MPs, how to tackle MON rowdiness in the chamber, and what he thinks of his critics. MON MON Producer: Chris Bond. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01m68v7 (Listen) MON Gold and Governance in Romania MON MON Tessa Dunlop travels to Romania to investigate why a MON proposed open-cast gold mine has caused the longest-lasting MON political storm in the country since the end of Communism. MON MON The mine, in the rural community of Rosia Montana in the MON Transylvanian mountains in western Romania, would be MON Europe's largest. Its supporters, including most locals, say MON it would bring much-needed jobs to the area, which has MON suffered very high unemployment since the last mine closed MON there a few years ago, after two millennia of gold mining. MON MON But opponents, ranging from local shopkeepers to NGOs in MON Bucharest and abroad, argue that the project would destroy MON what they see as the area's only chance for more sustainable MON development: turning the 2000-year old Roman mines located MON in those same mountains into tourist attractions, perhaps as MON a UNESCO World Heritage site. MON MON The mining company admits that many of the Roman galleries MON would be destroyed by the open-cast mine, but they are MON largely inaccessible anyway. As a quid pro quo, the company MON is already restoring those galleries that will be protected, MON to make them accessible and a tourism destination. MON MON Is the destruction of the majority of the Roman mines a MON price worth paying for the restoration of a few? Or is the MON conflict about something else entirely? MON MON Some campaigners admit that their real fight is not with the MON company, but with the government, because they suspect MON official corruption. Meanwhile politicians say it is easier MON to cut public salaries than to give the go-ahead to a big MON project like this, precisely because of the ensuing MON suspicion of sleaze. MON MON The project is seen as a test case for prosperity, MON transparency and good governance for Romania. MON MON Producer: Arlene Gregorius. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01m68vr (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines... MON MON The Kepler spacecraft has spotted a binary star system with MON more than one planet orbiting. Furthermore, one of the MON planets could have liquid water. MON MON An image of the rocky base of Mount Sharp on Mars shows a MON feature which, to a terrestrial geologist, looks exactly MON like evidence for a river delta. MON MON This week a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience looks at MON the physical structure of piano tuners' brains. An area in MON the hippocampus shows changes in size that relate to the MON amount of time piano tuners have been working, not to their MON age. MON MON And it is suggested by researchers in Proceedings of the MON National Academy of Sciences that chimpanzees won't punish MON thieves unless they are themselves the victim. Could it be MON that "third party punishment" is unique to humans among the MON higher primates? MON MON 21:30 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01mbztm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01m84x1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01mdbrv (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mdbrz (Listen) MON Sweet Tooth, Episode 1 MON MON Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during MON the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore. MON Episode 1 : "My name is Serena. More than forty years ago I MON was sent on a secret mission for the British security MON service. I didn't return safely." MON MON Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01m5jth (Listen) MON Reading aloud MON MON How to stand and hold your head, what to do with your hands MON and how to make appropriate facial expressions - these were MON skills studied by people who read aloud to their friends at MON home in the 18th century. Chris Ledgard discusses domestic MON reading in the great age of elocution with Oxford MON University's Abigail Williams and explores the instruction MON manuals which helped people mimic the great readers of their MON time. Chris meets modern families who read to each other and MON visits a primary school to brush up on his own reading MON skills. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mdbt9 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports as the House of Commons returns from its MON summer break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01m84y6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01mbzrt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m84y8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m84yb (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m84yd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01m84yg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mc117 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Dr Janet Wootton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01mc119 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01mc11c (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01mc11f (Listen) TUE Richard Dawkins TUE TUE Richard Dawkins' first book on evolutionary biology "The TUE Selfish Gene" was published to much acclaim and some TUE controversy in 1976. In this interview with Jim Al-Khalili, TUE Professor Dawkins discusses his enthusiasm for the science TUE that inspired the book and how he popularised the idea of TUE the immortal gene. Using the source material from scientists TUE such as Bill Hamilton, Robert Trivers and John Maynard TUE Smith, he presented a gene's eye view of the world. TUE He's written many other books on evolutionary biology, such TUE as "The Extended Phenotype" "Unweaving the Rainbow" and "The TUE Ancestors Tale". In 2006 he published a polemic which he TUE describes as "a gentlemanly attack on religion", "The God TUE Delusion". Jim asks what he hoped to achieve by writing the TUE book and finds out why he would rather be known for his TUE science than his atheism. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01mc1rj (Listen) TUE Paddy O'Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer's TUE microphone to explore a subject that reflects his own TUE experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family TUE life. TUE TUE When Paddy was 11 his father died, and in this week's TUE programme -- in order to explore what impact this can have TUE -- he meets Sir Al Aynsley-Green who, at the age of 10, lost TUE his own father. Almost immediately he decided that, when he TUE grew up, he would become a doctor so that other children TUE "didn't have to lose their mummies and daddies". TUE TUE This passion for helping children has continued throughout TUE his career: Sir Al was the first Children's Commissioner for TUE England (2005-2010), having been involved in the political TUE arena of Children's Services since 2000. He was appointed TUE Chair of the NHS Taskforce for Children and then the first TUE National Clinical Director for Children in government. TUE TUE He believes strongly that the topic of childhood bereavement TUE should be spoken about more openly. He recalls watching an TUE event on a television programme about Winston's Wish (a TUE bereavement charity) where children were encouraged to write TUE messages to those they had lost, attach them to balloons, TUE and release them. Sir Al describes how he broke down in TUE tears; even at 55 the pain of not having had the chance to TUE say goodbye to his own father still felt fresh. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01mgyx2 (Listen) TUE Winter Journal, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode Paul Auster muses on how he always gets TUE lost and finds that a piano in a newly-rented Paris TUE apartment presents surprising moral dilemmas. Read by TUE Garrick Hagon. TUE TUE Produced by David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mddkc (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk34y (Listen) TUE Dissolution, Episode 2 TUE TUE C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for TUE radio by Colin MacDonald. TUE TUE Winter, 1537, the South Kent Coast. Thomas Cromwell's TUE trusted lawyer-detective, Matthew Shardlake, arrives at TUE Scarnsea monastery with orders to investigate the brutal TUE killing of a King's Commissioner, Robin Singleton. As he TUE begins to meet the prime suspects, it soon becomes clear TUE that the case will not be as simple to solve as he had TUE hoped. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01mddkf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE Saving Species is back for another year of live broadcasting TUE about the world of wildlife conservation, presented by Brett TUE Westwood. We kick off the first programme with look back at TUE the summer of 2012. At the time this programme is broadcast TUE many of our summer migrants will already be heading south to TUE Africa. But how did they fare over the summer? This summer TUE has been one of the wettest on record, has this affected our TUE wildlife? We look at some of the winners and losers in the TUE battle for survival. TUE TUE Also in the programme - Saving Species heads to Dungeness in TUE Kent where a long term project is underway to return the TUE short haired bumblebee to Britain. This formerly widespread TUE bee was last recorded in 1988 and declared extinct in 2000. TUE Queen bees collected from Sweden have been released in TUE specially prepared farmland and Joanna Pinnock was there to TUE witness this memorable day. TUE TUE At the opposite end of the country, Chris Sperring reports TUE from Devon where he joined a public night-time safari to TUE look for one of our most enigmatic and enlightening beetles, TUE the glow-worm. Devon last conducted a country wide survey in TUE 1999. Glow worms have declined across the rest of Britain, TUE but have Devon's glow worms declined since the last survey TUE was completed? TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01mddl6 (Listen) TUE Series 14, Episode 2 TUE TUE Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major Opus 61 was written TUE in 1806, but was not a success at its premiere. 200 years on TUE and this Concerto is regarded as one of the greatest pieces TUE ever written for the violin. This programme explores ways in TUE which the Beethoven Violin Concerto has touched and shaped TUE people's lives. Writer Kelly Cherry describes her father TUE loving this piece and still remembering it even when he had TUE Alzheimers. Violinist Robert Gupta talks about this piece TUE being the music which cemented his friendship with Nathaniel TUE Ayers - a moment which changed Robert's life. Joe Quigley TUE remembers hearing the Concerto at a crucial point in his TUE life whilst living in a monastery. Devorina Gamalova recalls TUE being entranced by this music as a child. And violinist TUE Christian Tetzlaff talks about what it's like to play the TUE Beethoven Violin Concerto. TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Boulton. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01mddl8 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01mddr0 (Listen) TUE Fred Goodwin TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: James Naughtie examines the legacy of TUE the loathed banker Fred Goodwin. Having lost millions of TUE pounds, a knighthood, and any public esteem, just how much TUE did the actions of "Fred the Shred" and other leading TUE bankers jeopardise the global economy? TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01m84yj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01mddr2 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners TUE can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on TUE twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Coming Out b017lbqh (Listen) TUE Cathy, Andrew and Emily TUE TUE Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how TUE far to be honest about ourselves, and in doing so become TUE vulnerable to the judgements of others. TUE TUE 2. Cathy, Andrew and Emily TUE TUE Multiple Sclerosis is most often diagnosed in people aged TUE between 20 and 40, a time when careers and relationships are TUE of primary importance. Two MS patients in their 30s talk TUE about the challenges of coming out with the disease, and how TUE far to be totally open about it. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01md9v6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mddr4 (Listen) TUE Brief Lives, Episode 4 TUE TUE Brief Lives by Elizabeth Heery. Series created by Tom Fry TUE and Sharon Kelly TUE Another case from the files of Frank Twist and his paralegal TUE team in sunny Manchester. A marijuana operation is TUE discovered at Bella Houghton's farm and she swears she knows TUE nothing about it. But she has two grown up sons. Could they TUE be guilty? TUE TUE Director/Producer Gary Brown TUE Original Music by Carl Harms. TUE TUE Credits TUE Frank TUE David Schofield TUE Sarah TUE Kathryn Hunt TUE Declan TUE Kerr Logan TUE Bella TUE Joan Kempson TUE Kieran TUE John Catterall TUE WPC Budden TUE Sue Devaney TUE Stefan TUE Jeff Hordley TUE Director TUE Gary Brown TUE Producer TUE Gary Brown TUE Writer TUE Tom Fry TUE Writer TUE Sharon Kelly TUE Writer TUE Elizabeth Heery TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01mfhr5 (Listen) TUE Edinburgh Festival Fringe TUE TUE Jay Rayner hosts a special edition of the food panel show TUE that travels the country answering questions about cooking TUE and eating. Recorded at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this TUE episode also features food writer and Scottish chef Sue TUE Lawrence as a guest panellist." TUE TUE Also on the team this week are: Rachel McCormack a TUE Glaswegian who spent her formative years in Spain and who is TUE now successfully spreading the word on all things Spanish; TUE Henry Dimbleby the food writer and co-founder of the Leon TUE restaurant chain, and the Scottish-Indian fusion chef and TUE entrepreneur Angela Malik. TUE TUE As well as discussing some of Edinburgh's food specialities TUE the team takes questions on all aspects of food and drink. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras. TUE A Somethin Else Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01mdf08 (Listen) TUE People Power TUE TUE In the UK thousands of people spend many hours - and pounds TUE - looking to burn off energy at gyms and while playing TUE sports. Could that energy be harnessed and used to power TUE some of our gadgets and devices? Tom Heap puts on his TUE trainers and breaks a sweat to find out. TUE TUE Trevor Baylis's wind-up radio revolutionised access to TUE information in Africa by using human power rather than TUE expensive batteries. The inventor also demonstrated his TUE piezoelectric phone-charging shoes by walking across the TUE Namib desert and he says there's far more potential for TUE inventions that use our heat or movement to power the TUE devices we use - saving on the mountain of batteries we TUE throw away and replace each year. It also makes lighting and TUE phone charging easier for countries not on the electric TUE grid. TUE TUE It's possible you've even had some of your energy captured TUE without realising. Tom sees the floor tiles storing energy TUE from commuters', shoppers' and schoolchildren's footsteps to TUE help power lighting. He learns about ink patterns on TUE clothing that use energy from our movement to monitor our TUE health and hears about futuristic implantable devices which TUE could be powered by the body's internal movements. TUE TUE The experts say we won't be going off-grid to power our TUE homes with exercise bikes but even tiny devices could be TUE major players in helping our energy demands. TUE TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01mdf0b (Listen) TUE Conflict Resolution TUE TUE Chris Ledgard examines how language plays a critical role in TUE resolving conflict. From hostage negotiation to bouncers TUE working on the door, to Relate helping families work through TUE problems; the words used are all-important in defusing TUE difficult situations and bringing calm and reconciliation. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01mdf0d (Listen) TUE Series 28, Stan Laurel TUE TUE In London in 1910, Stan Jefferson was understudy to Charlie TUE Chaplin in comedy impresario Fred Karno's latest production TUE Jimmy the Fearless. Chaplin decided it wasn't up-to-scratch TUE and pulled out, on the eve of the opening. Stan stepped into TUE the breach. The show was a tremendous and immediate hit, and TUE Stan Jefferson emerged as one of the great comedy talents of TUE the twentieth century. Or Stan Laurel, as he became known: TUE the Laurel of Laurel and Hardy. TUE TUE Ken Dodd, best-known for his marathon live shows, the Diddy TUE men and the jam-butty mines of Knotty Ash cites Stan Laurel TUE as his inspiration for going into comedy. He says that good TUE comedians are admired, really good comedians are revered, TUE but great comedians like Laurel and Hardy are loved. He TUE praises his brilliance as a clown and a creator of gags, but TUE feels that he was financially exploited and unlucky in love. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01mdf0g (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Includes TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m84yl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01bwp8v (Listen) TUE Thom Tuck recounts heart-rending tales of love and loss, TUE laying bare all the failures he's suffered in his TUE relationships and drawing comparisons with the 54 TUE straight-to-DVD Disney movies he's watched, so we don't have TUE to. These underrated gems - perhaps rightfully ignored and TUE forgotten - mirror his experiences with women he has loved TUE too often and too soon. TUE TUE A show with a huge heart, all about heartbreak in various TUE forms...the perfect antidote for Valentines Day. TUE TUE Thom Tuck's brilliant debut solo show was nominated for Best TUE Newcomer at the Fosters Comedy Awards in Edinburgh 2011. He TUE is also part of acclaimed sketch group "The Penny TUE Dreadfuls". TUE TUE "...a seductive experience" The Guardian TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01mdf5x (Listen) TUE Elizabeth needs to explain and Brenda is feeling optimistic. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01mdf5z (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Booker TUE Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson, whose new book Zoo TUE Time is the tale of an author who fears the novel is dying. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk34y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 And Now an Urgent SOS Message... b01mdf9r (Listen) TUE Radio 4 used to broadcast SOS messages - "could Mr and Mrs TUE Snodgrass, believed to be travelling in the Cotswolds please TUE ring this hospital where their auntie is dangerously ill". TUE TUE Eddie Mair wants to know more about them. He hears from TUE listeners whose lives were dramatically changed through the TUE SOS service. These short messages were transmitted regularly TUE on The Home Service, and later Radio 4, for much of the 20th TUE century. They appealed for relatives of dying people, often TUE on holiday and thus, before mobile phones and internet TUE cafes, uncontactable, to return home before it was too late. TUE TUE Eddie invited readers of his Radio Times column to send in TUE their recollections of the SOS Message Service, and little TUE did the PM Presenter expect such a rich response of vivid TUE memories, first person experiences and in one case, TUE unexpected consequences as a result of the broadcast. TUE TUE Some of these remarkable testimonies are told, in TUE understated, haunting and even cheery ways in this narrative TUE tribute to radio, and a nation, - "as it was". Best summed TUE up by the tale of a six year old girl in the North East who TUE while staying with a relation in 1958, was hospitalised with TUE a very serious illness. She survived and tells Eddie her TUE story. In the days of very few domestic telephones, the TUE BBC's SOS message brought her parents to her bedside from TUE London courtesy of an observant member of the public who TUE heard the message and recognised the car number plate that TUE had been announced. TUE TUE The SOS Service, was the vision of John Reith, the first TUE General Manager, and later Director General of the BBC. But TUE its heart was the listener, as Eddie reveals. TUE TUE Producers: Jo Coombs and Stewart Henderson TUE A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01mdf9t (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01mdfc0 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter and regular contributor GP Dr Margaret TUE McCartney explore the incidence of HIV in the UK today. They TUE find out who is most likely to contract the virus in 2012. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01mc11f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01m84yn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01mdfwq (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mdfwv (Listen) TUE Sweet Tooth, Episode 2 TUE TUE Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during TUE the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore. TUE Episode 2: Serena's affair with Tony is painfully over, but TUE she's determined to pursue her chances with MI5. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 Jack's Return Home b01mdfwx (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE By Ted Lewis. TUE Dramatised for radio by Nick Perry. TUE TUE It's 1970 and Jack Carter, a gangland enforcer, has returned TUE to his hometown of Scunthorpe to investigate the suspicious TUE death of his brother Frank. After unexpectedly running into TUE another gangster, Eric Paice, Jack follows him to a private TUE gambling club, gate-crashing a high stakes poker game in the TUE penthouse suite. TUE TUE Jack Carter . . . . . Hugo Speer TUE Mrs Garfoot . . . . . Tracy Wiles TUE Thorpey . . . . . John Biggins TUE Kinnear . . . . . Robert Blythe TUE Eric . . . . . Ben Crowe TUE Keith . . . . . Joe Sims TUE Glenda . . . . . Charlotte Riley TUE Brumby . . . . . James Weaver TUE Youth . . . . . Sam Alexander TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE Studio Managers: Anne Bunting, Keith Graham, Alison Craig. TUE Editor: Anne Bunting. TUE Production Co-ordinator: Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mdfxt (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01m850b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01mgyx2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m850f (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m850j (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m850n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01m850x (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mdg2z (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Dr Janet Wootton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01mdg31 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Robin Markwell and produced by Rich Ward. WED WED 06:00 Today b01mdg33 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and James WED Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Yesterday in WED Parliament; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01mdg35 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01mgywt (Listen) WED Winter Journal, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Garrick Hagon. WED WED In today's episode Paul Auster charts the course of his life WED through the addresses he's lived at and the lives he has WED lived in each of them. WED WED Produced by David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mdg40 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk35v (Listen) WED Dissolution, Episode 3 WED WED C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for WED radio by Colin MacDonald. WED WED Winter, 1537, the South Kent Coast. Lawyer-detective Matthew WED Shardlake, and his assistant Mark, delve deeper into the WED mysteries of Scarnsea monastery. The list of suspects for WED Commissioner Singleton's murder is getting longer, but a WED frustrating lack of hard evidence is hampering the WED investigation. WED WED Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 11:00 Hy-Brasil b01mdg51 (Listen) WED Hy-Brasil is a phantom island which features in many Irish WED myths. The island is said to be cloaked in mist except for WED one day every seven years, when it becomes visible but still WED cannot be reached. It appears on a map in 1325 off the south WED west coast of Ireland. Despite the failure of so many WED attempts to find it, there exist sketches of this island, WED circular in shape with a river running east to west across WED its diameter. Written and narrated by Paul Evans with sound WED recordings by Chris Watson, Hy-Brasil tells the story of a WED journey across a sea of imagination in search of this WED phantom isle. WED WED Its post World War II and drained and disillusioned by war, WED the narrator goes in search of peace and solitude "Like an WED earwig in a matchbox ... I crawl from the stinking wax WED towards life outside the deaf lug of the Metropolis" His WED destination is Hy-Brasil ; a "place rumoured to be filled WED with strange animals and a lone magician." Finding a sailor WED who will take him part of the way ".. I put all my money and WED my grandfather's watch into his cold squid hands and he says WED we're bound for the Porcupine Bank and the fog of Hy WED Brasil". In the shroud of fog which cloaks the isle " ... WED there are no landmarks to fix my bearings only stones WED crouching like monkish supplicants ...." But there is life WED on the island "I drift to sleep listening to a demented WED choir in the fog; birds or people or some demonic crossbreed WED of both". Later, he encounters "hellish creatures WED screaming". Far from offering him peace and sanctuary the WED island is a place of "sorcery", as the narrator encounters WED The Magician, Black Gliders, Jasconye the Fish, and Far WED Laith. Given such a strange, wild, dark black place, the WED journey's end is unexpected as the magic of Hy-Brasil works WED its spell in an unexpected way. WED WED 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mdg8l (Listen) WED Series 2, Anidara WED WED by Bill Dare WED WED Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel WED documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit WED after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre WED adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in Anidara WED where Brian finds himself put out to stud. WED WED Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson WED Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale WED Computer ..... Duncan Wisby WED Gem ..... Gerard McDermot WED Markl ..... Harry Livingstone WED Dorka ..... Vicki Pepperdine WED Liberator ..... Duncan Wisby WED Master ..... Patrick Brennan WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01mdg9w (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01mdgch (Listen) WED Rupert Murdoch WED WED The New Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch the global media WED magnate whose career began when he inherited newspapers from WED his father, founded Australia's first national daily paper, WED the Australian and then came to the UK to buy The News of WED the World, The Sun and eventually The Times and The Sunday WED Times. WED WED His influence spread to the USA where he acquired other WED papers, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and several WED independent television stations. He formed BSkyB in 1990 WED which has dominated the British pay-TV market ever since. WED WED At the age of 81, despite the damage done to his business WED due to the phone hacking scandal, his political influence WED and business skills elicit both fear and admiration and WED Forbes magazine lists him as the 24th most powerful person WED in the world. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01m8515 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01mdgld (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners WED can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on WED twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Coming Out b017vk95 (Listen) WED Kelly WED WED Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how WED far to be honest about ourselves to the rest of the world, WED and in doing so make ourselves vulnerable to the judgements WED of others. WED WED 3. Kelly WED WED At the age of 17, as a newly-qualified driver, Kelly knocked WED down an elderly woman on a pedestrian crossing. The case WED never came to court but for 40 years Kelly lived with the WED unexplored trauma and guilt of what had happened, until at WED last she was able to share her secret. WED WED Producer Christine Hall. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01mdf5x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012wjcq (Listen) WED The Meaning of Love WED WED by Anna Symon WED WED When Ed finds himself sleeping WED in the spare room he realises he might WED have to rediscover exactly what love is. WED But coming up with the correct definition proves WED harder than he first imagines. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Ed WED Paul Ritter WED Fiona WED Tessa Peake-Jones WED Simone WED Aurelie Amblard WED Captain Cook WED Jonathan Forbes WED Julian WED Peter Polycarpou WED Cath WED Jane Whittenshaw WED Director WED Sally Avens WED Producer WED Sally Avens WED Writer WED Anna Symon WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01mdgph (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and expert guests take calls on saving and WED investing. WED It is a difficult economic climate for savers and investors WED hoping to get a good return and beat inflation. The Bank of WED England Base Rate has been at its record low of 0.5% since WED March 2009, with little indication that it will rise in the WED near future. WED The continuing economic troubles in the Eurozone and stock WED market turbulence have made it a worrying time for people WED who want to invest for the long term. But experts say there WED are opportunities for people to snap up undervalued shares WED and to invest in well capitalised companies that pay good WED dividends. WED Whether you're keen to save, new to investing or experienced WED in the stock market, you may have a question for our panel WED of experts. WED Which savings accounts pay the best rate of interest? WED How are your savings and investments protected? WED What type of equity investments are available? WED Which sectors should you choose? WED How much should you pay in fees and charges? WED How do you assess risk and choose a fund? WED WED Joining Vincent Duggleby will be: WED Christine Ross, Group Head of Financial Planning at SG WED Hambros WED Kevin Mountford, Head of savings & current accounts, Money WED Supermarket. WED and Darius McDermott, managing director, Chelsea Financial WED Services. WED WED Ring 03700 100 444 from 1pm. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01mdfc0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01mdgpk (Listen) WED Italian Family 3: Studio discussion WED WED What has cause the Italian family to decline so fast? What WED are the prospects for encouraging Italians to start having WED more children? Laurie is joined in the studio by three WED experts in order to discuss his explorations of the family WED in Italy. Geoff Andrews, David Gilmour and Annalisa Piras WED give their views on what has caused the Italian crisis and WED what hopes there are for the future. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01mdgpm (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01mdgpp (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m8519 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 When the Dog Dies b013n0q2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Tangled Web WED WED Episode Four- Tangled Web WED Whenever people tell porkies, they seem to come to Sandy for WED help. Being a spare man and his own master - he can provide WED the alibi or hide the goods. However, multi-tasking was WED never his strongpoint even when he was Manager (Acting) of WED the Five Feathers, Frinton. Deceiving needs practice and not WED on the job, either. WED WED Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett WED Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck WED Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh WED Blake ..... Jonathan Aris WED Calais ..... Amelia Clarkson WED PC - Stephen Critchlow WED Megan ..... Polly Frame WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01mdgpf (Listen) WED Brenda offers reassurance. Meanwhile Darrell looks further WED afield. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01mdgrn (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with stand-up WED comedian and actor Greg Davies, as he prepares to set off on WED a national tour. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk35v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 The Education Debates b01mdgrq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED As a host of new players gets involved in the running of WED schools and rules about qualifications for academy school WED teachers are relaxed, John Humphrys asks leading WED educationalists - who should teach? As long as the quality WED is high - does it matter who provides our children's WED education? WED WED More groups of parents are setting up free schools; Disney WED and Fulham Football Club are among businesses backing a new WED generation of "studio schools" in which work experience is WED part of the timetable - and Labour wants the military to be WED involved helping to run so-called "service schools". WED WED Meanwhile academies can now recruit teaching staff who don't WED have Qualified Teacher Status. WED WED John Humphrys also asks - what's the role of the state in WED education? How much freedom have schools really got and how WED much should they have? Can the market drive up standards? WED Why do we have private schools? Can a non-educationalist run WED a school or teach a class? WED WED An invited audience gathers at Bristol University to hear a WED panel of key decision makers and thinkers including shadow WED education secretary Stephen Twigg and pro-private schools WED guru Prof James Tooley - debate the crucial and timely WED question - who should teach? WED WED Producer: Karen Pirie WED Executive Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01mdgrs (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 22 WED WED Gaelic broadcaster Niall Iain MacDonald vanished from his WED Stornoway home on May 17th 2007. In this powerful talk he WED discusses his extraordinary fightback against depression: to WED row 45 miles of grey water in a challenge to himself and his WED illness: Rowing the Minch. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01mdf08 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01mdg35 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01m851c (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01mdgws (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mdgwv (Listen) WED Sweet Tooth, Episode 3 WED WED Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during WED the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore. WED Episode 3 WED WED Still reeling from the news of Tony's death, Serena finds an WED alarming piece of evidence while she's operating under WED cover. WED WED Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 Political Animals b01mdgwx (Listen) WED Larry WED WED by Tony Bagley. WED WED The last of four scurrilous talks given by well-known, if WED unreliable, Downing Street cats, relating their trials and WED tribulations under four different Prime Ministers WED WED Larry, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office since 2011, gives WED a cat's eye view of life in Downing Street under a coalition WED government. WED WED Larry..... Clive Swift WED Aide ..... Tracy Wiles WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b01mdgwz (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Ian Leslie presents a new Radio 4 comedy show which brings WED to light the often surprising first literary attempts of WED some of the world's best known writers. A project of WED literary archaeology, Leslie has found evidence in the most WED unlikely of places - within the archives of newspapers, WED periodicals, corporations and universities-showcasing the WED early writing examples of writers such as Jilly WED Cooper-during her brief and unfortunately unsuccessful foray WED into the world of war reporting, and Hunter S Thompson - in WED his sadly short-lived phase working in the customer WED relations department for a major American Airline. WED WED These are the newspaper articles, advertising copy, company WED correspondence and gardening manuals, that allow us a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best loved literary voices - people whom we know today for WED their novels or poems but who, at the time, were just people WED with a dream...and a rent bill looming at the end of the WED month. WED WED Produced by: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mdgx1 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster, including WED Prime Minister's Questions. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01m852l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01mgywt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m852n (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m852q (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m852s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01m852v (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mdhtg (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Dr Janet Wootton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01mdhtj (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01mdhyn (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Fry's English Delight b01mdj96 (Listen) THU Series 5, The Story of X THU THU Stephen Fry's X rated account of the 24th letter of the THU English alphabet starts in ancient Greece and ends with THU exploitation movies carrying X ratings. On the way we hear THU the truth about how x was used as a signature, its place in THU algebra, marketing and medicine, and with the help of Mr THU Gyles Brandreth why X is a mixed blessing in the English THU version of Scrabble. THU THU We venture into the unknown with the story of physicist THU Willhelm Roentgen who discovered an odd luminescent ray that THU appeared to have immoral properties, and Mark Kermode THU explains to Stephen why marking movies with an X made them THU seem more attractive to the very audience they were designed THU to exclude. THU THU And we end with some affectionate xxxx kisses on the bottom THU with a mathematical explanation as to how and why you gottem THU and what they mean, courtesy of Rene Descartes and Fats THU Waller. THU THU Producer: Nick Baker THU A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Twin Nation b0146420 (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU Ask any twin and the one thing they say they hate is the THU constant comparison to the other. Unchecked this leads to a THU competitiveness that can poison what should be a uniquely THU close relationship. Edi Stark talks to two brothers whose THU relationship has been brought to the brink by competition. THU THU Producer: Peter McManus. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01mgyww (Listen) THU Winter Journal, Episode 4 THU THU Today, a phone call brings surprising news. Paul Auster's THU mother has suddenly died. He considers her life and feelings THU for her, the events he didn't fully understand as a boy and THU his understanding of them with the distance of adulthood. THU THU Read by Garrick Hagon. THU THU Produced by: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mdjfl (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk370 (Listen) THU Dissolution, Episode 4 THU THU C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for THU radio by Colin MacDonald. THU THU Winter, 1537, the South Kent Coast. Lawyer-detective Matthew THU Shardlake, and his assistant Mark, continue their THU investigation into the murder of a King's Commissioner at THU Scarnsea monastery. The case has been further complicated by THU Novice Whelplay's revelation, while delirious with fever, THU that there has been an earlier, undiscovered murder. THU THU Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01mdjh4 (Listen) THU Israel's Ultra-Orthodox THU THU When Israel was established, its tiny community of THU ultra-Orthodox Jews were, uniquely, exempted from the normal THU requirement of service in the Israeli Defence Force. They THU were seen as keepers of the spiritual soul of the nation, THU and their vital duty of studying religion and Jewish law was THU more important than wielding guns. 70 years on, and the THU community's numbers have grown massively - and there are THU increasing demands for the ultra-Orthodox to play their part THU in the defence of the nation. A Supreme Court decision which THU has cleared the way for the drafting of all Jewish citizens THU reaching the age of eighteen has divided the coalition THU government and led to furious rows. THU Linda Pressly investigates how conscription is exposing deep THU faultlines among Israeli Jews. Secular and mainstream THU religious Jews increasingly see the ultra-Orthodox as a THU drain on the Israeli state, and resent this community THU ruthlessly exploiting their political power. Meanwhile the THU ultra-Orthodox see themselves as fulfilling a sacred duty THU which lies above the day-to-day considerations of politics THU or defence. Can the rifts be healed - or will Israeli THU society become irrevocably split? THU Producer: Mark Savage. THU THU 11:30 Dancing with Mountains b01mdjh6 (Listen) THU Andrew Greig; writer, poet and one time mountaineer THU discovers the unexpected connections between the visual arts THU and the act of climbing. THU THU Andrew starts his exploration by visiting his good friend THU the acclaimed Scottish painter Rob Fairley at his home in THU Glen Uig. They discuss how Rob's ability as a climber has THU fuelled not only his depictions of mountains in his THU paintings but the strange otherworldly elements that he THU infuses them with, inspired by being in what Rob describes THU as the world's "thin places." THU THU But there's much more to the connections between climbing THU and art than just the painting of epic landscapes. Some of THU climbing's elite are also very fine artists. World class THU alpinist Andy Parkin makes his living jointly from climbing THU and art made in his studio at the foot of Mont Blanc in the THU French Alps. And it's from here that he describes what these THU two passions have in common for him, a sense of adventure, THU risk and unknown outcome. Here he not only paints and draws THU but also sculpts and makes installations all inspired by a THU lifetime exploring. THU THU This contrasts with Northern Ireland based climber and THU artist Dan Shipsides who has fused the two activities to the THU point where the climbing is the art. His art is of a much THU more human scale reflecting the climbing of short but THU incredibly difficult rock climbs in his native peak district THU or the coastline of his adopted home . He's even recreated THU the physical moves of a climbing route in galleries that act THU both as sculptures and performance pieces. THU THU Reflecting on both the range of climbing and art it inspires THU Andrew will see how what the two activities really have in THU common is a creative engagement with life itself. THU THU Producer: Peter McManus. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01mdjtn (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01mdjw1 (Listen) THU Simon Cowell THU THU Simon Cowell is today's New Elizabethan. Cowell started out THU on Pop Idol in 2001, before devising X-Factor and Britain's THU Got Talent. Franchised around the world, these programmes THU have helped Cowell into the top ten of the Sunday Times THU music rich list, estimated worth £200-million. Known for THU offering his blunt opinions to less than talented wannabes, THU he chose a mirror as his luxury item when he appeared on THU Desert Island Discs in 2006. THU THU Producer, Sukey Firth. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01m852x (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01mdjw3 (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners THU can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on THU twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Coming Out b0183r3n (Listen) THU Rosie THU THU Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how THU far to be honest about ourselves, and in doing so make THU ourselves vulnerable to the judgements of others. THU THU 4. Rosie THU THU Rosie was 20 and at university when her son was born. In THU desperate financial and emotional circumstances, she agreed THU that he should live with his father while she finished her THU PhD, but a temporary solution became permanent and from the THU age of three and a half her son lived apart from her. 38 THU years on, Rosie at last feels able to be open about what THU happened and wants to get away from the shame, the guilt and THU the sorrow that has haunted her for so long. This is her THU story. THU THU Producer Christine Hall. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01mdgpf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012qq85 (Listen) THU A9 THU THU Article 9 of the Tokyo Judgement at the end of WWII withdrew THU from the Japanese constitution the state's right of THU belligerency. Traumatised and guilt ridden for having killed THU enemy soldiers in war, Bernard has to attempt to coerce his THU children to continue his life's work, and makes their THU awaiting inheritance dependent on their abandoning their THU present careers and dedicating their lives to the promotion THU of A9. THU THU Article 9 of the Tokyo judgement. 1948: THU THU Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on THU justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war THU as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of THU force as means of settling international disputes. The right THU of belligerency of the State will not be recognised. THU THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU Credits THU Bernard Bottomly THU David Warner THU Unity THU Rebecca Saire THU Victor THU Oliver Cotton THU Claire THU Deborah Findlay THU Jools THU Jonathan Tafler THU Roger THU Ewart James Walters THU Ernest THU Malcolm Tierney THU Director THU Eoin O'Callaghan THU Producer THU Eoin OCallaghan THU Writer THU Helen Cooper THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01mdkpl (Listen) THU Anglesey THU THU Jules Hudson visits Anglesey's Penrhos Nature Reserve to THU find out about development plans for the area. The land, THU which is owned by Anglesey Aluminium, has been used by THU locals and visitors alike for many years but is now the THU subject of a planning proposal by tourism and leisure THU company, Land and Lakes who hope to turn it into what they THU say will be a world class holiday resort and eco tourism THU destination. Jules meets the developers and hears about THU their plans for both Penrhos and an area of Cae Glas which THU is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest which THU the public has never previously had access to. Jules hears THU from members of the local community about their concerns at THU the loss of what they see as a very special area which THU should be preserved and protected and others who feel that THU without the development access could be lost completely. And THU where does the island's population of red squirrels fit into THU the plans? THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01m9mx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01m9ntb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01mdkqc (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01mdkrg (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper features some of the highlights of the THU British Science Festival in Aberdeen, including the future THU of oil and gas exploration. THU THU 17:00 PM b01mdkrj (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m852z (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Just a Minute's Indian Adventure b01f5hnq (Listen) THU Just a Minute grew to prominence in India, when it became THU available to Indian audiences via the BBC World Service. THU This exposure gave birth to a number of 'Indianised' THU versions of the game, which continue to be played amongst THU smart, young, Indian college graduates today. Dubbed 'JAM', THU they are a testament to the show's transnational appeal. THU THU As part of the Radio 4 Just a Minute anniversary THU celebration, Nicholas Parsons visits Bangalore and Mumbai to THU take a look at these JAM sessions; modern Indianised and THU radically different take up of the Just a Minute British THU audiences know and love. The documentary follows a group of THU lively young Indian college students as they prepare for a THU competitive JAM tournament against their peers at the Indian THU Institute of Management in Bangalore. THU THU The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01mdks1 (Listen) THU Pawel makes a surprising move. Meanwhile Lynda puts her foot THU in it. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01mdks3 (Listen) THU John Wilson meets the ballerina Darcey Bussell, who looks THU back at her ballet career in the light of a new book, and THU looks ahead to her new role as a Strictly Come Dancing THU judge. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk370 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01mdl65 (Listen) THU Cosmetic Surgery THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01mdl67 (Listen) THU A Great Disruption THU THU Series about the world of work, from vast corporations to THU the modest volunteer. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01mddkf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 Fry's English Delight b01mdj96 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01m8531 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01mdl9m (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mdl9p (Listen) THU Sweet Tooth, Episode 4 THU THU Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during THU the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore. THU THU Episode 4: Serena is given her first real mission for the THU Service; its codename is Sweet Tooth. Just as she's THU promoted, her friend Shirley is sacked - and she tells THU Serena she's being watched too. THU THU Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mdl9r (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU The critically acclaimed comedy sketch show 'Two Episodes of THU Mash' transfers to BBC Radio 4 with a new series packed full THU of silly, surreal sketches and banter. It stars Diane Morgan THU and Joe Wilkinson, who describe their brand of humour as THU "low-key mundane glamour". This four-part series also THU features 2008 If. Award-winner David O'Doherty (in all four THU episodes), Aled Jones (in episodes 3 & 4) and Paul Harry THU Allen as the hard done by BBC Security Guard and others. THU There are also very brief appearances by Radio 4's Peter THU Donaldson (Episode 1) and Radio 2's Ken Bruce (Episode 1). THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mdlbl (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports on the day's events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01m853w (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01mgyww (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m853y (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m8540 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m8542 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01m8544 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mf7j5 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Dr Janet Wootton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01mf7j7 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01mf7n8 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and FRI Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Yesterday in FRI Parliament; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01m9n0t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01mgyx0 (Listen) FRI Winter Journal, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's final episode of Winter Journal Paul Auster FRI examines his 64-year-old self and looks forward rather than FRI back on a life still to be lived. Read by Garrick Hagon. FRI FRI Produced by: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mf7nb (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk37j (Listen) FRI Dissolution, Episode 5 FRI FRI C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for FRI radio by Colin MacDonald. FRI FRI Winter, 1537, the South Kent Coast. Lawyer-detective Matthew FRI Shardlake's investigation into the murder of a King's FRI Commissioner is further complicated by the discovery of FRI another suspicious death at Scarnsea Monastery. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 11:00 Hearing Ragas b01mf7nd (Listen) FRI This is violinist Professor Paul Robertson's remarkable FRI story of the Indian ragas he heard from within a coma, and FRI the healing effect that Sir John Tavener's music had on him FRI in his recovery. FRI FRI When Paul and John met at a conference in 2007 they FRI discovered that they had a shared interest in near death FRI experiences. During the course of their conversation, John FRI stated that he wanted to write a piece for Paul involving FRI four string quartets to be called "Towards Silence". John FRI duly wrote the piece and Paul started to make arrangements FRI for its premiere. At this point, John suffered a heart FRI attack and was taken into intensive care in Switzerland. FRI Within weeks, Paul's aorta gave way and he found himself in FRI a London hospital. During his six week coma, Paul had a FRI series of horrific visions, but was occasionally comforted FRI by the sound of a woman singing Indian ragas. Only when he FRI came out of the coma did he realise for the first time, that FRI the music John had written for him: "Towards Silence", was FRI based on an Indian raga. Paul then used the practising of FRI this piece to rehabilitate himself after the paralysing FRI strokes he'd suffered during his coma. FRI FRI Paul and John are brought together to share their FRI experiences properly for the first time and to talk about FRI what happened to them; how they view their respective FRI illnesses and how these episodes have changed their lives. FRI FRI It includes music by Sir John Tavener, a soundtrack by Simon FRI Hall and Sanchita Pal singing Ragas. FRI FRI There will be a longer version of this programme available FRI on Listen Again at the time of TX which includes more detail FRI about Paul's recovery. There will also be a chance for FRI listeners to hear more of the conversation between Paul and FRI John Tavener on the programme's web page. FRI FRI Producer: Rosie Boulton. FRI FRI 11:30 Beauty of Britain b01mf7ng (Listen) FRI Series 3, The New Best Friend FRI FRI Sitcom by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson about FRI Zimbabwean care worker Beauty Olonga. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01mf7pf (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01mf7ph (Listen) FRI Queen Elizabeth II FRI FRI James Naughtie profiles Queen Elizabeth II, who has FRI celebrated her diamond jubilee and witnessed tremendous FRI social, political and cultural changes in the course of her FRI reign. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01m8546 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01mf7q0 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Coming Out b01888d8 (Listen) FRI Bankruptcy FRI FRI Five programmes exploring the ways in which we reveal our FRI true histories to the world. FRI FRI 5. Bankruptcy FRI FRI Hannah, like many students, left university with a burden of FRI debt in addition to her student loan. Unable to find a job FRI in the field she had trained for, her debts escalated to the FRI point where she had to consider bankruptcy. With her father FRI and a friend who had also had to declare herself bankrupt FRI she looks back over the depression and guilt which FRI accompanied her financial disaster and is now able to draw FRI some positive conclusions from it. FRI FRI Producer Christine Hall. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01mdks1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mkztj (Listen) FRI A Cold Supper behind Harrods FRI FRI 50 years after the end of the war that first brought them FRI together, three Special Operations Executive agents meet FRI once again to record interviews for a TV documentary FRI investigating the murder of their colleague Patricia at the FRI hands of the Gestapo. FRI FRI Whilst waiting to be interviewed Vera Atkins, Leo Marks and FRI John Harrison reminisce but soon move beyond pleasantries to FRI re-examine their conduct during the war. In doing so they FRI gradually reveal a complicated history of lies, FRI self-deception and guilt. In the murky world of sabotage and FRI spying each one was compromised and the lines between right FRI and wrong became blurred. Why did Vera and the London team FRI apparently ignore evidence that the Gestapo had infiltrated FRI Patricia's SOE network in France? And what does her cold FRI exterior hide? Could the genius code maker Leo have done FRI more to persuade his superiors to stop sending young agents FRI to inevitable capture in France? What is the truth about FRI John Harrison's years spent in German captivity? Did he FRI break under interrogation? In this drama, inspired by real FRI characters and events, it is only as the three former agents FRI depart for London in a taxi that the disturbing truth FRI finally emerges. FRI FRI Written by David Morley FRI Directed by Philip Franks FRI FRI Producer: Richard Clemmow FRI A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI John Harrison FRI David Jason FRI Vera Atkins FRI Stephanie Cole FRI Leo Marks FRI Anton Lesser FRI Chloe Wolf FRI Sophie Roberts FRI Director FRI Philip Franks FRI Producer FRI Richard Clemmow FRI Writer FRI David Morley FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01mf7zc (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a postbag edition GQT tackling questions FRI sent in by post and email, with the help of Bunny Guinness, FRI Christine Walkden and Pippa Greenwood. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe b01mf7zf (Listen) FRI On the Road FRI FRI Read by Mark Little. FRI FRI The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe was the book most often FRI stolen from British libraries in the 1970s. Mark Little FRI reads from the young travellers' bible that nestled in every FRI student rucksack forty years ago as they set off to explore FRI Europe on £10 a week. Australian Ken Welsh was the hitcher FRI who inspired thousands to follow "the infinite miles of FRI tarmac and pot-holes which criss-cross the world, the magic FRI ribbon which can lead to a thousand other worlds." FRI FRI With a great deal of humour, some common sense and a spirit FRI of recklessness lost to today's youngsters, Welsh's book FRI covered everything from How To Hitch ("Providing a driver FRI isn't obviously bombed out of his mind, my rule is to take FRI any car that stops which has its bonnet pointed even vaguely FRI in the direction I want to go...") to tips on How To Survive FRI ("If you make the mistake of getting in with a fast driver FRI who won't stop, make sounds which suggest you're about to FRI throw up all over his upholstery...") FRI FRI Re-reading it forty years on it's surprising what a FRI different world it was then for the young traveller. There FRI seemed to be more trust around (hitch-hikers are a rarity FRI nowadays), and no real worries about roughing it far from FRI home without the comfort of a mobile phone and by relying on FRI the black markets, pawn shops or even blood banks when cash FRI machines were simply not an option. FRI FRI Produced by Neil Cargill FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01mf7zh (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 b01mf7zk (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: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01mf7zm (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m8548 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01mf7zp (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Fred Macaulay, Sarah FRI Millican and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01mf7zr (Listen) FRI Writer.....Adrian Flynn FRI Director.....Rosemary Watts FRI Editors.....John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter..... Jack Firth FRI Lily Pargetter..... Georgie Feller FRI Tom Archer..... Tom Graham FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham FRI Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler FRI Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI Pawel Jasinski..... Max Krupski FRI Darrell Makepeace..... Dan Hagley FRI Arthur Walters..... David Hargreaves. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01mf83s (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who meets poet and author Kevin Powers, FRI who has written a novel drawing on his experience as a FRI soldier in the war in Iraq. FRI FRI Producer Erin Riley. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk37j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01mf83v (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics FRI from Lympstone Parish Church, Devon, marking twenty-five FRI years of Jonathan's chairing of the show. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01mf83x (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01b8w6h (Listen) FRI An American Rose FRI FRI by Charlotte Jones FRI FRI The Kennedys were the most famous family in FRI England when Joseph became American Ambassador FRI in London. But daughter Rosemary's behaviour began to FRI cause the family increasing concern. FRI FRI Produced by Claire Grove FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI Credits FRI Rosemary Kennedy FRI Fenella Woolgar FRI Kathleen Kennedy FRI Lydia Wilson FRI Rose Kennedy FRI Lisa Eichhorn FRI Deborah Mitford FRI Tilly Gaunt FRI Billy Hartington FRI Carl Prekopp FRI Dr Freeman FRI Don Gilet FRI Sister Margaret FRI Tracy Wiles FRI John White FRI Harry Livingstone FRI Director FRI Sally Avens FRI Producer FRI Claire Grove FRI Writer FRI Charlotte Jones FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01m854b (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01mf83z (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mf841 (Listen) FRI Sweet Tooth, Episode 5 FRI FRI Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during FRI the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore. FRI FRI Episode 5 FRI Serena's affair with Max Greatorex is not progressing as FRI she'd hoped, but a new love interest emerges as she embarks FRI on her Sweet Tooth mission and meets young writer Tom Haley FRI Then Max tells her the devastating truth about Tony Canning, FRI the lover who recruited her. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01mdf0d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mf843 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. FRI
31 August, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 01/09/2012 - 07/09/2012
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