05 October, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 06/10/2012 - 12/10/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 06 OCTOBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01mzshd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01n1vl7 (Listen) SAT Country Girl, Episode 5 SAT SAT The great Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, whose controverstial SAT 1960 novel brought her both literary fame and notoriety, SAT reads her astonishingly honest memoir of a literary life of SAT high drama. SAT SAT In today's episode: Edna rubs shoulders with the great and SAT the good of New York, while back in London, her thoughts SAT return to the past. SAT SAT Author: Since her debut novel The Country Girls, Edna SAT O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction along SAT with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. SAT SAT Abridger: Miranda Davies SAT SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzshg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzshj (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzshl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01mzshn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n1w19 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina SAT Beattie of Roehampton University. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01n1w1c (Listen) SAT "When my home was burgled while I slept, I went to meet the SAT offender in prison." How did it go? A listener puts iPM in SAT touch with a woman who pursued restorative justice. With SAT Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Also, BBC Business Editor, SAT Robert Peston brings you "Your News". iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01mzshq (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01mzshs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01n1rfy (Listen) SAT Series 22, Dublin Bay with Eanna Ni Lamhna SAT SAT Clare Balding continues her series of wildlife walks with a SAT visit to the Irish Coast. SAT SAT Today it's "Ramblings reunited", as she is joined again by SAT Irish naturalist and broadcaster Eanna Ni Lamhna and her SAT husband John Harding. Clare Balding last walked with her on SAT a 'holiday hike' in the Wicklow mountains in September 2002. SAT Today expert naturalist and broadcaster Eanna, takes her on SAT a beautiful tour of the diverse wildlife havens of her home SAT city, Dublin. SAT SAT They dig for lugworms and talk Ulysses in Sandymount strand. SAT They discover the unlikely winter stopover of flocks of SAT thousands of Brent geese - Fontenoy Football Club (the geese SAT have a taste for the well mown turf!) SAT SAT On they walk to Ringsend Nature Reserve. In this a wonderful SAT elevated wooded area, built on reclaimed builders rubble, SAT they find a haven for linnets, goldfinches, blackbirds, SAT wrens, curlews and egrets in the surrounded by wonderful SAT views of the Dublin mountains and city spires. SAT SAT As they walk, they revisit their walk, conversations and SAT friendship built in the rainy Wicklow Mountains ten years SAT ago, and explore how much their lives, and their walks, have SAT changed since Clare's last visit. SAT Listen to Clare Balding's ramble with Eanna Ni Lamhna in the SAT Wicklow Mountains from ten years ago SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01n5z2q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01mzshv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01n5z2s (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and SAT John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01n5z2v (Listen) SAT Jackie Clune, stargazing with Jon Culshaw, John McCarthy in SAT Thorpeness, Ralph McTell's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams with performer Jackie Clune, SAT Rob Manuel who turned carnivore after 15 years of SAT vegetarianism, Courtney Stewart who is turning the New SAT Testament into Jamaican, and Sylvia Hillier and Jenni SAT Evennett who as teenagers hopped on board the Beatles' SAT Magical Mystery Tour bus. JP goes stargazing with comedian SAT and impressionist Jon Culshaw, and plays conkers with poet SAT Luke Wright, John McCarthy explores Thorpeness and Ralph SAT McTell shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 For One Night Only b01n5z2x (Listen) SAT Series 7, Eric Clapton Unplugged SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini returns with the award-winning series to SAT look back at three more occasions on which a classic live SAT album was recorded. He hears from those who were there, SAT on-stage, backstage and in the audience, to re-create the SAT event for all of us who, each time we play the album, think: SAT 'If only I could have been there'. SAT SAT In the series opener, Paul re-visits the 1992 recording of SAT 'Eric Clapton Unplugged', in the company of Eric Clapton SAT himself and others who were there. SAT SAT On 16 January 1992, in front of a small audience at Bray SAT Studios near Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eric Clapton and a small SAT group of musicians made history. For the first time in a SAT public performance, the legendary guitarist 'unplugged' his SAT amp and picked up an acoustic guitar to record a selection SAT of old blues favourites and brand new material, including SAT the poignantly personal 'Tears in Heaven', about the tragic SAT los of his son, Conor, the previous year. And then there was SAT the radically surprising take on the classic 'Layla'. SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini hears the story of the making of this SAT classic album, which went on to sell over 20 million copies SAT worldwide and won 6 Grammies, from Eric Clapton himself. He SAT also hears the memories of members of the band: Andy SAT Fairweather Low, Steve Ferrone, Chuck Leavell and Nathan SAT East; Alex Coletti, who produced the show for MTV; sound SAT recordist Buford Jones, and members of the audience. SAT SAT Additional material from Paul Gambaccini's extensive SAT interview with Eric Clapton will be streamed online. SAT SAT Also in this series of For One Night Only: Pete Seeger and SAT others on The Weavers At Carnegie Hall (1955) and The SAT Rolling Stones 'Get Yer Ya-Yas Out' (1969) SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01n5z2z (Listen) SAT Revenge SAT SAT Conflicts around the world remind us daily of the perils of SAT taking an eye for an eye. How deep does the instinct for SAT revenge lie? Can victims of personal trauma find closure by SAT other means? And how does a society overcome a shared sense SAT of injustice? SAT SAT On the ideas discussion programme, Bridget Kendall is joined SAT by the celebrated novelist Rose Tremain, the Indian essayist SAT Salil Tripathi and the activist Yvette Alberdingk Thijm. SAT SAT Rose Tremain turns her thoughts to the quality of revenge - SAT a trait missing from her creation, the doctor Robert SAT Merivel. He appears in her latest novel, Merivel: A Man of SAT His Time, which is the sequel to the highly-acclaimed SAT Restoration about the doctor's rise and fall in Charles II's SAT England of the late 1600s. SAT SAT The Indian writer Salil Tripathi is currently writing a book SAT about the crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of SAT independence in 1971, and the way in which its survivors SAT dealt with its violent aftermath. SAT SAT And the activist Yvette Alberdingk Thijm talks about her SAT work as executive director of Witness, a human rights SAT organisation which helps victims from all over the world SAT tell their stories by using video technology. SAT SAT Rose Tremain SAT Rose Tremain is an award-winning English novelist. Her SAT accolades include the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction for her SAT novel The Road Home. Merivel is a sequel to her earlier SAT novel, Restoration, and is a tale of a man’s negotiation of SAT the question of revenge set against a backdrop of Charles SAT II’s England. SAT SAT Yvette Alberdingk Thijm SAT Yvette Alberdingk Thijm is the executive director of SAT WITNESS: a human rights organisation which helps victims SAT from all over the world tell their stories by means of video SAT technology. SAT SAT Salil Tripathi SAT Salil Tripathi is an Indian writer and commentator. He is SAT currently writing a book about the war of independence in SAT Bangladesh in 1971, and the way in which its survivors dealt SAT with its violent aftermath. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01n5z31 (Listen) SAT Coming Home Early? SAT SAT Quentin Somerville in Kabul says an early and substantial SAT drawdown of British troops in Afghanistan is being privately SAT considered SAT SAT David Willey wonders who else at the Vatican - besides the SAT butler on trial for stealing Papal documents -- is SAT dissatisfied with the way the church is being run SAT SAT Frances Harrison meets survivors from the civil war in Sri SAT Lanka as officials there hope cricket will help restore the SAT island's image as a holiday paradise SAT SAT Pascale Harter in Barcelona on the Chinese finding business SAT opportunities amidst the recession in Spain SAT SAT Mattia Cabitza charts Peruvians' relationships with their SAT cats: some revere them as furry family pets, while others SAT think they make a tasty meal. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01n5z33 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT This week: SAT SAT Most big banks are exploring new ways for their customers to SAT get easy access to their cash. Natwest has been extolling SAT through TV ads the virtues of its system which allows SAT customers to withdraw money from an ATM by putting in a code SAT without even needing their bank card. But one listener who SAT was defrauded via this new system tells Money Box why he SAT believes Natwest's fraud detection systems need to be much SAT more stringent. SAT SAT Earlier this week the Bank of England confirmed that the SAT base rate would stay at 0.5%, the level it's been at for SAT more than three years. But anyone looking to invest money SAT can't fail to have noticed that savings rates haven't SAT remained unchanged. They've been dropping. Meanwhile SAT mortgage rates have been rising. Santander recently nudged SAT its standard variable rate up to 4.74% from 4.24%. Anna SAT Bowes director of SavingsChampions.co.uk discusses why SAT savings rates have dipped, possibly to an historic low. SAT SAT If you receive Council Tax Benefit, then there are big SAT changes ahead. From April, it won't be the government SAT deciding who can and who can't get help to pay their council SAT tax bills. Instead, each local authority in England will SAT decide who is eligible. Pensioners will be protected but SAT Money Box heards from listeners affected by the changes and SAT Paul Lewis talks to Dr Peter Kenway, Director of New Policy SAT Institute, an independent think-tank SAT SAT And Money Box is 35 years old. How has the world of personal SAT finance changed in that time? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01n1vm0 (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Susan SAT Calman and Francesca Martinez. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01mzshx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01mzshz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01n1vwk (Listen) SAT Clonter Opera Theatre, Goosfest Arts Festival, Cheshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political debate and SAT discussion programme from the Clonter Opera Theatre near SAT Congleton in Cheshire, at Goosfest 2012, the annual arts SAT festival. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01n5z35 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01n5z37 (Listen) SAT The Air Gap SAT SAT By Steve Waters. SAT SAT "Hypothetical question: if you had free rein over classified SAT networks for long periods of time, say 8-9 months, and you SAT saw incredible things, awful things, things that belonged in SAT the public domain, not on some server stored in a dark room SAT in Washington DC, what would you do?" - Bradley Manning, SAT from an unverified chat log with a hacker. SAT SAT "Air gap" is the term for the separation between the SAT civilian internet and the military and diplomatic computer SAT network. In April 2010 this air gap was breached, leading to SAT the biggest information leak in history. SAT SAT One month later Bradley Manning, a soldier in the US Army, SAT was arrested and accused of releasing classified information SAT to WikiLeaks. He was taken to the military prison at SAT Quantico, Virginia, held in solitary confinement for ten SAT months and, his lawyers argue, subjected to cruel and SAT unusual treatment. After two-and-a-half years, a trial date SAT has now been set for February 2013. SAT SAT This factually-based drama combines dramatised accounts of SAT Bradley Manning's experiences with imagined conversations SAT and characters. It takes place in Quantico and the operating SAT base near Baghdad where Manning was stationed leading up to SAT his arrest. It's here he sees the war on terror documented SAT in action reports and in video material, including the now SAT infamous "collateral murder" video. SAT SAT Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. SAT SAT Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris SAT A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Bradley Manning: Greg Wohead SAT Corporal: Michael Walters SAT Brig Guard: Corey Turner SAT Brig Guard: Chris McKinney SAT Intelligence Operative: Serena Bobowski SAT Psychiatrist: Nancy Crane SAT Lawyer: Dominic Hawksley SAT Commanding Watch Officer: Nathan Osgood SAT Director: Boz Temple-Morris SAT Writer: Steve Waters SAT SAT 15:30 The Voices of Robert Wyatt b01n11cz (Listen) SAT Robert Wyatt has been recognised as a prog-rock drummer, SAT jazz composer, avant-garde cornet player, artist and SAT activist in a wheelchair. But, above all else, he has been SAT known by one of the most instantly recognisable and SAT distinctive voices of the last fifty years. SAT SAT Forever associated with Shipbuilding, Elvis Costello's song SAT written in reaction to the Falklands War, Wyatt's voice and SAT the causes he gives voice to are intricately entwined. SAT SAT This intimate radio portrait, in his own words, traces SAT Wyatt's journey from the psychedelic excesses of Soft SAT Machine (appearing both with Jimi Hendrix and at the BBC SAT Proms), through the life-changing accident that has confined SAT him to a wheelchair for almost forty years, to recent SAT celebrated musical projects that are reaching new audiences. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01n5z39 (Listen) SAT Martha Stewart; Lorraine Pascale and tourettes hero Jessica SAT Thom SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01n5z3c (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01n1rq4 (Listen) SAT Boardroom battles SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Stephanie SAT Flanders, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics SAT and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, SAT through discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Stephanie's guests reveal the secrets of the boardroom and SAT offer their tips for mastering boardroom politics - from SAT hidden agendas and clashing egos, to a simple failure to SAT agree. SAT SAT They also swap thoughts on the risks and rewards of running SAT large incumbent companies as opposed to smaller startups. SAT SAT In the studio are Stuart Fletcher, Chief Executive of SAT private healthcare company Bupa; Eileen Gittins, founder and SAT Chief Executive of creative self-publishing platform Blurb; SAT Ken Olisa, chairman of boutique technology merchant bank SAT Restoration Partners. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mzsj1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01mzsj3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mzsj5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01n5z3f (Listen) SAT Meera Syal, Don Warrington, Jesse Armstrong, Felix Dennis, SAT Cowbell and Garland Jeffreys SAT SAT Notorious entrepreneur Felix Dennis swaps publishing for SAT poetry, pounds for prose and tells Clive about his SAT extraordinary life as a multimillionaire magazine magnate SAT and his subsequent literary incarnation. The SAT documentary'Felix Dennis: Millionaire Poet' is on Sky Arts 2 SAT and Sky Go on Wednesday 10th October at 2100. SAT SAT Clive hitches a ride with actor Don Warrington, who rose to SAT fame as smooth-mannered student Philip in hit seventies SAT sitcom 'Rising Damp'. Now he plays Hoke Coleburn in 'Driving SAT Miss Daisy' - the chauffeur of Jewish widow Daisy Werthan. SAT What begins as a hostile pairing soon blossoms into a SAT profound friendship. 'Driving Miss Daisy' tour starts on SAT Wednesday 10th October at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, SAT Guildford. SAT SAT Arthur Smith strips off with 'Peep Show' comedy writer Jesse SAT Armstrong. He and writing partner Sam Bain recently focused SAT on Freshers for 'Fresh Meat', a series about the hilarious, SAT and often painful truths of being a student. Their new book SAT 'Fresh Meat: The Essential Guide for New Undergraduates' SAT records every disgusting, exciting, tragic and triumphant SAT detail of student life. SAT SAT Clive enjoys a Bhaji on the Beach with comedian and actress SAT Meera Syal who is now starring as Beatrice in Royal SAT Shakespeare Company's 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Beatrice and SAT Benedick are locked into a love-hate relationship and SAT tricked into confessing their love for each other. Goodness SAT Gracious Me! 'Much Ado About Nothing' is at London's Noel SAT Coward Theatre until Saturday 27th October. SAT SAT With moosic from rock n roll duo Cowbell, who perform SAT 'Hanging By A Thread' from their album 'Beat Stampede'. SAT SAT And the grand seignior of urban poetry, New York music SAT legend Garland Jeffreys performs one of his classic tracks SAT 'New York Skyline'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01n5z3h (Listen) SAT Psy SAT SAT Chris Bowlby profiles the South Korean pop star Psy, sudden SAT global star whose Gangnam Style has topped the UK singles SAT charts, and whose video is the most popular video ever on SAT Youtube. How has a Korean star swept the world, what lies SAT behind his success, and why is he now selling fridges? And SAT how has the world's most closed society, North Korea, SAT responded to the global Gangnam craze? SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01n5z3k (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Deborah Moggach, James Runcie SAT and Deborah Bull review the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE Scenes From an Execution - Howard Barker - National SAT Theatre SAT SAT FILM The Perks of Being a Wallflower SAT SAT BOOK May We Be Forgiven - AM Homes SAT SAT EXHIBITION Turner Prize - Tate Britain SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01n5z3m (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Episode 1 SAT SAT In the first part of a new series of 'A Life Less Ordinary', SAT Sandra Gregory goes back over the coverage of the dramatic SAT events that saw her placed firmly under the media spotlight. SAT In 1993, she attempted to smuggle heroin out of Thailand in SAT a bid to earn enough money to get home to the UK, was SAT arrested and initially faced the prospect of the death SAT penalty. Instead she spent over seven years in prison - SAT first in Bangkok, then in Britain. Gregory talks candidly SAT about the shame she felt upon seeing the TV cameras through SAT the prison bars for the first time, knowing that the SAT pictures would be relayed back home for her family and SAT friends to see. We hear from journalists who visited her SAT during her years in the so-called Bangkok Hilton prison, and SAT she meets one of those columnists who had condemned her SAT actions and shown little sympathy for her situation, given SAT the severity of the crime she'd committed. Gregory also SAT describes how she contemplated suicide while inside, and the SAT mixed feelings she experienced when her parents finally SAT ended their media silence to begin campaigning on her SAT behalf. SAT At the point when Bosnia and Maastricht were dominating the SAT headlines, the story of one individual's crime and SAT punishment broke through and captured the nation's SAT attention. Now the one person unable at the time to follow SAT the coverage of the story because she was in prison, gets SAT the opportunity to revisit her own story and describe what SAT happens when an ordinary life becomes the subject of massive SAT public and media scrutiny. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01n0vh4 (Listen) SAT Far from the Madding Crowd, Cuts and Points SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 2/3 - Bathsheba SAT discovers that sending William Boldwood a valentine card was SAT a terrible mistake. But Boldwood is not Gabriel's only rival SAT for Bathsheba's heart. SAT SAT Musicians ..... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift SAT SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT This episode will be available to listen to until 14th SAT October 2012. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Thomas Hardy SAT Bathsheba: Alex Tregear SAT Gabriel Oak: Shaun Dooley SAT Boldwood: Toby Jones SAT Troy: Patrick Kennedy SAT Liddy: Lizzy Watts SAT Fanny: Hannah John-Kamen SAT Maltster: Robert Blythe SAT Jan: Joe Sims SAT Joseph: Sam Alexander SAT Henery: Patrick Brennan SAT Billy: Don Gilet SAT Cain: Harry Livingstone SAT Maryann: Amaka Okafor SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Producer: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Writer: Graham White SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01mzsj7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b01n1qyn (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 3 SAT SAT Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss adoption. Both its SAT immediate challenges and wider issues from passing the SAT selection process, nurturing traumatised children and SAT dealing with biological parents to the question of mixed SAT race adoption and the dilemmas of keeping siblings together SAT when they might be better apart. SAT SAT But as well as having specific challenges adoption also SAT presents universal issues of authority, communication SAT transparency and care. And with the government looking to SAT speed up the adoption process we examine what this might SAT mean for children in care and the adults who adopt them. SAT SAT Guests include the Government's adoption adviser, Martin SAT Narey. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01n0xpn (Listen) SAT If an Inn of Court, an anatomy textbook and the Master of SAT Ceremonies in 'Cabaret' are three, how many more are needed SAT to create a publishing sensation? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe puts this and other cryptic questions to the SAT teams in the fifth programme of the current Round Britain SAT Quiz series, who this week represent Wales and Northern SAT Ireland. The regulars for Wales are David Edwards and SAT Myfanwy Alexander, while Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney SAT compete for Northern Ireland. SAT SAT They'll be groping for half-remembered snippets of knowledge SAT drawing on literature, languages, sport, popular culture, SAT and history both ancient and recent, in order to answer the SAT programme's trademark puzzles. SAT SAT As usual the programme includes a smattering of question SAT ideas from listeners, and suggestions are always welcome. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01n0vh8 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with a selection of poems requested by SAT listeners, in performances taken from the BBC archives. SAT These include a stirring version, by Robert Powell, of Lord SAT Macaulay's "Horatius at the Bridge", a waspish recitation of SAT a Betjeman poem by Geraldine McEwan, and a moving reading of SAT John Donne by the young Kenneth Branagh. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT The Good Morrow by John Donne SAT from John Donne: Poems and Prose SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT Disobedience by AA Milne SAT from When We Were Very Young SAT Published by Egmont Books SAT SAT Tichbourne’s Elegy by Chideock Tichbourne SAT from The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. Ricks SAT Published by OUP SAT SAT How to Get On in Society by John Betjeman SAT from John Betjeman, Collected Poems SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT Horatius at the Bridge by Lord Macaulay SAT from The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry ed. Wain SAT Published by OUP SAT SAT The River’s Tale by Kipling SAT from The Definitive Collection of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse SAT Published by Hodder & Stoughton SAT SAT The Tyger by William Blake SAT from The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. Ricks SAT Published by OUP SAT SAT The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT from The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. Ricks SAT Published by OUP SAT SAT Any Woman by Katharine Tynan SAT from Collected Poems, Katharine Tynan SAT Published by Macmillan SAT SAT War Poet by Sidney Keyes SAT from Sidney Keyes, Collected Poems SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 OCTOBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01n4l1r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Georgian Trilogy b01n956s (Listen) SUN A Peacock in Sulphur SUN SUN The first of three specially commissioned stories by James SUN Hopkin. Niko Pirosmani was one of Georgia's greatest SUN artists, but was it his art that killed him? SUN SUN Read by Allan Corduner SUN SUN Producer:Rosalynd Ward SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4l1t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4l1w (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4l1y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01n4l20 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01n605m (Listen) SUN The bells of Church of St David, Moreton in the Marsh, SUN Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01n5z3h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01n4l22 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01n605p (Listen) SUN Cats SUN SUN Our relationship with the cat is a fascinating and SUN contradictory one. Ancient cultures revered and sometimes SUN worshipped them. Cats have at times been companions to holy SUN men in many of the great faiths and exterminated at others. SUN They are loyal friends and implacable enemies. SUN SUN Mark Tully asks what it is that makes our relationship with SUN one of our oldest pets so contradictory. He talks to art SUN historian and journalist Caroline Bugler about the SUN intriguing ways cats have been depicted in sacred art and SUN draws on music by Rossini, Scarlatti and Peggy Lee and the SUN writings of Doris Lessing, P.G. Wodehouse and Diodorus of SUN Sicily. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01n605r (Listen) SUN Dairy farmers across Britain have had a bad year, frustrated SUN at the prices that supermarkets offer them for their milk. SUN In Orkney, though, things are different. On the archipelago SUN just off the north coast of Scotland the dairy farmers SUN supply their milk to a cheese factory that they actually SUN own. The result is a stable price for their milk and some SUN tasty cheddar to export to mainland Britain and to the SUN cheese-loving French. SUN SUN Tom Heap visits Berriedale Farm on the lush island of South SUN Ronaldsay to meet Marcus Wood, his son Erlend and the herd SUN of Holstein-Friesian cattle that supply the milk to the SUN cheesemakers. SUN SUN Producer: Alasdair Cross SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01n4l24 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01n4l26 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01n605t (Listen) SUN On the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, SUN controversial theologian Hans Kung, expert advisor to the SUN Council alongside the then Joseph Ratzinger, tells us why he SUN won't be celebrating the anniversary. SUN SUN John Laurenson reports from the largest illegal settlement SUN in the European Union on the role religion plays in the SUN lives of it's many Moroccan Muslim inhabitants. SUN SUN The Bishop of Chelmsford explores the religious history of SUN the colour purple following the announcement that "purple SUN belongs to Cadbury". SUN SUN David Willey reports from Rome as the twists and turns of SUN the Pope's butler trial conclude. SUN SUN How do you forgive the unforgiveable? Marian Partington's SUN sister Lucy was one of Fred West's victims. On National SUN Quaker Week she talks about her journey to forgiveness SUN guided by her Quaker faith. SUN SUN Former religion editor for the Daily Telegraph George SUN Pitcher gives a satirical take on the process of selecting SUN the next Archbishop of Canterbury. SUN SUN And the Bishop of Bangor talks to Trevor about how people in SUN the Welsh village of Machynlleth have coped with the SUN traumatic events of the past week. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01n605w (Listen) SUN Find Your Feet SUN SUN Jon Snow presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Find Your Feet. SUN Reg Charity:250456 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Find Your Feet. SUN SUN Find Your Feet SUN Find Your Feet is a small organisation that works in some of SUN the most remote areas of India, Nepal, Malawi and Zimbabwe. SUN They enable poor rural families like Nankebe’s to grow SUN enough food so they don't have to go hungry, to strengthen SUN their voice so they can speak out against injustice and to SUN earn enough money so they can find their feet. SUN SUN Join our Facebook Community SUN The place where you can find out more about the charities SUN you support and ask them how they are spending your SUN donations. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01n4l28 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01n4l2b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01n605y (Listen) SUN A service live from St Barnabas' Church, Epsom marking Epsom SUN Mental Health Week and reflecting on how our mental SUN well-being relates to our spiritual health. Led by the SUN Vicar, the Revd Michael Preston and the Revd Sue Bull, a SUN mental health chaplain, with Epsom Chamber Choir directed by SUN Esther Jones. Epsom was one of the first spa towns in SUN England and also was home to a large complex of psychiatric SUN hospitals - a place of both sorrow and healing. Producer: SUN Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01n1vwm (Listen) SUN Presenting the Past SUN SUN Sarah Dunant reflects on the role of history in society - SUN and how it changes over time. Research and archaeology, as SUN well as the views of the times in which historians live, SUN change their perception of the past. Dunant also asks what SUN historical fiction takes from academic study - and what it, SUN in turn, can teach those who study the past. She also asks SUN whether the humanities are as valued as they should be. Do SUN we underrate them at our peril? SUN Producer Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01n6060 (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 b01n6062 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves SUN Eileen ..... Tina Gray. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01n6064 (Listen) SUN Celia Birtwell SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Celia SUN Birtwell. SUN SUN In the ephemeral world of fashion she has endured; Marian SUN Faithfull wore her creations in the 60s, Kate Moss is a fan SUN today. Whimsical prints and flattering forms are her SUN signature style and the vintage creations that she designed SUN with her then husband Ossie Clarke now change hands for a SUN small fortune. Her new ranges are highly collectable and fly SUN off the high street rails too. SUN SUN Never one of the fashion world's flamboyant self promoters SUN she has, none the less, a face known to millions - as a long SUN time friend and muse to David Hockney she is the woman at SUN the centre of his famous painting "Mr and Mrs Clark and SUN Percy". SUN SUN She wants her work to be relevant because and says "there's SUN nothing worse than being out-dated. If that happens and I SUN feel I'm past it, I'll stop". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n0xpx (Listen) SUN Series 5, Murray, Bondeson, McAlister SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor SUN of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John SUN Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, SUN Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined SUN by the comedian Jimmy Carr. SUN SUN Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of SUN entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one SUN item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place SUN in the museum. SUN SUN This week, John and Jimmy have invited along the Natural SUN History Museum's resident dipterologist (fly expert) Erica SUN McAlister; Consultant Rheumatologist at the Cardiff SUN University School of Medicine; and the comedian, historian SUN and fictitious Pub Landlord Al Murray. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01n6066 (Listen) SUN British Blue Cheese SUN SUN British blue cheese is aspiring to move from niche to mass SUN market. Blue cheese has been made on the continent since SUN Roman times. But in the UK, blue in cheese was historically SUN viewed as "white cheese gone wrong". Now, British blue SUN cheese producers are trying to make creamy, sweet, salty SUN cheeses in a European style to compete with the continental SUN imports of Gorgonzola, Cambozola and Danish Blue. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon travels to the British Cheese Award to search SUN for the perfect blue cheese for the mass market's palate. SUN Food historian Ivan Day explains why Stilton was the most SUN expensive cheese in Victorian Britain. And cheese maker John SUN Longman shows Sheila how to turn a cheese blue. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01n4l2d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01n6068 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 A Kiss Is... Never Just a Kiss b01gg8h0 (Listen) SUN The kiss is the most deceptive gesture. Seemingly simple, it SUN is in fact a highly complex action and - depending on the SUN depth of passion used - can ignite a plethora of emotional, SUN sensual and physical reactions including lowering blood SUN pleasure, extending life expectancy and helping to choose a SUN mate. SUN SUN But the kiss we know and practice today, didn't always have SUN emotional and erotic overtones. In Roman times a kiss was SUN used as a symbol of power: the lower the rank the nearer the SUN ground you planted your kiss, only kissing someone on the SUN mouth if you were their equal. The Greeks believed that SUN breath was the life of man, and kissing an adored object SUN represented a sort of sacrifice. And when European explorers SUN introduced the practice of kissing in South Africa, the SUN Tsonga people were horrified exclaiming "Look at these SUN people! They suck each other! They eat each other's saliva SUN and dirt!" So you see, the idea of kissing someone on the SUN lips hasn't always thrilled people. SUN SUN Today, just about every culture on the planet kisses - but SUN some cultures are still reluctant. In Arab countries, public SUN displays of affection can land you in prison - and if you SUN kiss someone in Japan, you can find yourself engaged to be SUN married! SUN SUN In "A Kiss is...Never Just a Kiss", the former Editor of the SUN Erotic Review Rowan Pelling tries to discover how and why SUN our views of kissing have changed and whether it has lost SUN some of its magic with over-use, and takes a lesson in how SUN to do it for stage and screen when you've never met the SUN person you're kissing before. SUN SUN Presenter: Rowan Pelling SUN SUN Producer: Angela Hind SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01n1vlm (Listen) SUN Boroughbridge SUN SUN Eric Robson continues the Gardeners' Question Time Northern SUN Tour in North Yorkshire. Matthew Wilson, Chris Beardshaw and SUN Alison Pringle are on the panel. SUN SUN To mark its 65th anniversary, Eric Robson presents a SUN condensed history of GQT. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01n606b (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN proving it's surprising what you hear when you listen, as SUN she eavesdrops on conversations from around the UK SUN SUN From Cumbria, Kent, Leeds, Ulster, Shropshire, Manchester, SUN Wales and London we hear snippets of conversation about the SUN weather, sex, Romany traditions, coping with children SUN leaving home and then returning, alcoholism, dealing with SUN disability within the family - and there's even a proposal SUN of marriage. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01n606d (Listen) SUN Far from the Madding Crowd, A Successful Rival SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 3/3 - one man SUN proves constant in his love for Bathsheba, while she gives SUN up on all hopes of happiness. SUN SUN Musicians ... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift SUN SUN Directed by Jessica Dromgoole SUN SUN This episode will be available to listen to until 14th SUN October 2012. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: Thomas Hardy SUN Bathsheba: Alex Tregear SUN Gabriel Oak: Shaun Dooley SUN Boldwood: Toby Jones SUN Troy: Patrick Kennedy SUN Liddy: Lizzy Watts SUN Fanny: Hannah John-Kamen SUN Maltster: Robert Blythe SUN Jan: Joe Sims SUN Joseph: Sam Alexander SUN Henery: Patrick Brennan SUN Billy: Don Gilet SUN Cain: Harry Livingstone SUN Maryann: Amaka Okafor SUN Director: Jessica Dromgoole SUN Writer: Graham White SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01n60lt (Listen) SUN Marilynne Robinson - Gilead SUN SUN American writer Marilynne Robinson talks to James Naughtie SUN and readers about her novel Gilead, winner of the 2005 SUN Pulitzer Prize. SUN SUN Marilynne Robinson enjoyed great success with her first SUN novel, Housekeeping, when it was published in 1980. She SUN reveals to Bookclub why there was a gap of twenty-four years SUN before she was able to write Gilead, her second book; and SUN how the voice of the narrator came to her when she found SUN herself alone in a hotel one Christmas. SUN SUN Gilead is the autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an SUN elderly pastor in the small, secluded and fictional town of SUN the same name, who knows he's dying of a heart condition. SUN SUN Writing in the late 1950s, Ames tells his story in the form SUN of a letter to his seven year old son, who will have few SUN memories of him. And as well as revealing his fears about SUN what will happen to his family when he's gone, the account SUN traces the family's history back to the time when the SUN prairies around Kansas and Iowa were being settled, through SUN the Civil War and up to the civil rights movement of the SUN mid-twentieth century. SUN SUN The voice of John Ames captivates the Bookclub audience, and SUN Marilynne discusses his life and work with themes relevant SUN to her own - solitude and religious contemplation. SUN SUN November's Bookclub choice : Skellig by David Almond SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01n60lw (Listen) SUN The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde SUN SUN Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, read by Alex SUN Jennings. Presented by Roger McGough. SUN SUN In May 1897 Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol. That SUN month he began to write The Ballad of Reading Gaol - to SUN express his horror and outrage at what he had witnessed SUN during his years in prison. The poem memorialises a fellow SUN prisoner, who was hanged for murder in 1896. SUN SUN Wilde wrote it in exile in Dieppe, then Naples. He finished SUN it in October that same year, and it was published the SUN following year, 1898. The author's name was given simply as SUN C. 3. 3., Wilde's number in Reading Gaol, his cell being the SUN third on the third floor of Block C. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN The poem featured in this programme: SUN The Ballad of Reading Gaol SUN By Oscar Wilde SUN From Oscar Wilde – Selected Poems SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01n11x6 (Listen) SUN Undercover Cops SUN SUN How far should undercover police officers go to gather SUN intelligence? SUN SUN Jane Deith talks exclusively to women suing the Metropolitan SUN police claiming they were tricked into long standing SUN relationships with undercover officers. SUN SUN The unmasking of undercover cop Mark Kennedy who'd been SUN infiltrating environmental protest groups has led to SUN revelations that other officers had relationships with woman SUN they were spying on. The women argue that the state agents SUN they fell in love with used them physically and emotionally. SUN They say the officers intruded into the most personal SUN aspects of their lives causing them lasting damage. Their SUN lawyer claims the relationships were a breach of the women's SUN right to privacy and their right to form relationships SUN without the interference of the state. SUN SUN Yet there are no hard guidelines on undercover officers SUN sleeping with 'targets'. The rules of engagement are SUN shrouded in secrecy. Police chiefs have said the officers SUN broke the rules, yet former undercover policemen say sex was SUN sanctioned as a means of gathering intelligence. And the SUN Government has told Parliament affairs like this can be a SUN necessary part of undercover work. SUN SUN So is forming intimate relationships a legitimate part of a SUN difficult and vital area of policing, or an abuse of power SUN by the state? SUN SUN And, from environmental protest to serious and organised SUN crime, how much do we really know about the secret methods SUN of undercover policing? SUN SUN Presenter: Jane Deith SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01n5z3h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01n4l2g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01n4l2j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4l2l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01n60ly (Listen) SUN What part of Marlene Dietrich's anatomy did Giles Brandreth SUN find himself holding? Why are pop songs around 3 minutes SUN long? Whatever did happen to the Omani National Anthem? The SUN answers may please, perplex and puzzle you but we promise SUN you 45 minutes of the best of BBC radio from the last 7 days SUN with poetry, drama and music to spice up the mix. Join Liz SUN Barclay for her choice of the best on BBC radio this week. SUN SUN Meet David Sedaris - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week - Radio 4 SUN Breakfast Show - Radio York SUN Archive on Four - Radio 4 SUN Daily Drama - Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature - Radio 3 SUN The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase - Radio 4 SUN Duration, Duration, Duration - Radio 4 SUN Witness - World Service SUN The Voices of Robert Wyatt - Radio 4 SUN Gardener's Question Time - Radio 4 SUN Five More Ages of Brandreth - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Produced by Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01n60m0 (Listen) SUN Jazzer offers an inspired solution and Jim has an SUN educational experience. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01n60m2 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Author, Author; Front Row Centre with Thaddeus SUN Bristol SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist with more of his SUN wit and charm in a series of audience readings. SUN SUN This week includes his observations of life as an author on SUN tour in "Author, Author", a satirical swipe at critics in SUN "Front Row Centre with Thaddeus Bristol" and some extracts SUN from his diaries. SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Where Were You... b01n60m4 (Listen) SUN Solo, A Cappella SUN SUN Read by: Daniel Kaluuya SUN SUN Where were you when Kennedy was shot? That was the starting SUN point for this series in which five writers are asked to SUN build a story around a significant historical event and SUN explore it in fiction. As well as the assassination of JFK, SUN the writers explore the meltdown of Chernobyl, the Tottenham SUN riots, Columbine and the splitting of the lithium atom. SUN SUN People often ask the "Kennedy Question" to highlight the SUN magnitude of the event itself. And occasionally we find SUN ourselves in the thick of the moment. But just as SUN interesting are the polarities, disjunctions and weird SUN connections between the moment that shakes the world and the SUN life of the everyday. SUN SUN Episode Five: Solo, A Cappella by Alison MacLeod SUN SUN Valentine is a sixteen-year-old African girl with a voice SUN like an angel. So what is she doing in the eye of the storm SUN in Tottenham on 7 August 2011? SUN SUN Alison MacLeod's hard-hitting story and fictional characters SUN take their inspiration from the alleged events, theories and SUN rumours that circulated regarding the trigger for the riots SUN in London that summer. SUN SUN Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. Her story "The Heart of SUN Denis Noble" was shortlisted for the BBC National Short SUN Story Award in 2011. Her next novel will be published in the SUN autumn of 2012. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction SUN at the University of Chichester. SUN SUN Produced by: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01n1vlt (Listen) SUN This week saw the end of the Labour Party Conference in SUN Manchester - but not before an interview with Ed Miliband on SUN the Today programme prompted a flurry of angry emails to the SUN Feedback inbox. For many listeners, Evan Davis's technique SUN proved infuriating. Talking over his interviewee, SUN interrupting, grandstanding and answering his own questions, SUN were some of the complaints. SUN SUN We get a response from the Today programme and also glean SUN insight on the art of the political interview from Radio 4's SUN Week in Westminster presenter, Steve Richards. SUN SUN Roger Bolton also takes a trip to the BBC's legendary music SUN studios at Maida Vale and is shown the sights and sounds by SUN BBC 6 Music presenter and musician, Cerys Matthews. Along SUN the way he learns about the art of recording live music for SUN radio and what the listeners at home get out of it. SUN SUN And was it worth flying to New York for an interview? The SUN BBC's disability's affairs correspondent Peter White, SUN presenter of No Triumph, No Tragedy, explains. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01n1vlr (Listen) SUN Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz, Harry SUN Chambers, Eddie Bert SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. We have tributes from SUN Lord Kinnock and Eric's daughter Julia. SUN SUN The TV producer Michael Hurll who was responsible for a SUN string of light entertainment hits - Cilla Black and Ronnie SUN Corbett recall working with him. SUN SUN Dr Jerome Horwitz who developed the drug AZT as a treatment SUN for cancer only to find 20 years later that it worked SUN against HIV. SUN SUN Harry Chambers who founded the respected publishing house: SUN Peterloo Poets. Rosie Bailey pays tribute in verse. SUN SUN And music from the jazz trombonist Eddie Bert who played SUN alongside greats from Benny Goodman to Charles Mingus. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01n5z33 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01n605w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01n0xtj (Listen) SUN Obama: Peacemaker or Vigilante? SUN SUN When Barack Obama stood before a 200,000-strong crowd in SUN Berlin in 2008 his declaration that "now is the time to SUN build new bridges across the globe" was met with jubilation SUN by a crowd which believed the future American president SUN would pursue a gentler foreign policy, completely unlike SUN that of George W Bush. This liberal enthusiasm extended to SUN the Nobel Committee, which awarded Obama its Peace Prize in SUN his first year of office. The man himself accepted the SUN Prize, and the warm feelings, but did he ever intend to SUN pursue the sort of foreign policy which his well-wishers in SUN Europe and on the American left expected of him? And what - SUN when set against their expectations, or indeed his own SUN promises - has President Obama actually achieved on the SUN world stage? SUN SUN Interviewees include: SUN SUN Bruce Riedel, former adviser on foreign policy to Barack SUN Obama SUN Ann Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for SUN the U.S. State Department under Barack Obama SUN Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics at The SUN Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University SUN James Fallows, The Atlantic magazine SUN Gregory Johnsen, Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton SUN University SUN Jameel Jaffer, lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union SUN SUN Presenter: Mukul Devichand SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01n60qt (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 b01n60qw (Listen) SUN Episode 124 SUN SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01n1rpp (Listen) SUN Francine Stock discusses the long-awaited screen adaptation SUN of Jack Kerouac's On the Road with the film's director, SUN Walter Salles. SUN SUN Author and film historian, David Thomson, outlines his fears SUN for the future of cinema. SUN SUN Clare Stewart, new director of the BFI London Film Festival, SUN on her vision for this year's festival. SUN SUN Critic and journalist Karen Krizanovich on Sam Fuller's Park SUN Row from 1952, a feisty flick chronicling the early days of SUN the New York newspaper industry. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01n605p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 OCTOBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01n4l3n (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01n1qy8 (Listen) MON Sickness benefit claimants and their fear of the 'brown MON envelope'. Laurie Taylor hears about a new study into the MON views and experiences of the long term sick and disabled in MON the context of ongoing welfare reforms. The researcher, MON Kayleigh Garthwaite, highlights their ambivalence - whilst MON some have a deep seated anxiety about losing rights and MON income; others hope it will distinguish between the MON genuinely ill, such as themselves, and those that are MON 'faking'. Also, the former social science magazine 'New MON Society' broke new and radical grounds in its creation of a MON space for thoughtful debate about everyday culture and MON social issues; showcasing the ideas of academics and MON intellectuals as diverse as Angela Carter and Richard MON Hoggart. A former editor, Paul Barker, analyses the heyday MON and legacy of 'New Society' 50 years after its launch. He's MON joined by the writer, Lynsey Hanley and the Professor of MON Cultural Studies, Fred Inglis. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01n605m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4l3q (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4l3s (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4l3v (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01n4l3x (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n61rx (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina MON Beattie of Roehampton University. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01n61rz (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01n4l3z (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01n61s1 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01n61s3 (Listen) MON Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of MON handwriting MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the dying art of MON handwriting with the novelist Philip Hensher. As the MON typewriter has taken over from the pen, so email is killing MON off letter-writing, and Diana Athill celebrates the art of MON correspondence. But the poet Wendy Cope, who has just left MON thousands of emails to the British Library, welcomes the MON advent of digital communication, and the philosopher Nigel MON Warburton tweets, blogs and podcasts. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01n61s5 (Listen) MON On the Map, Episode 1 MON MON Simon Garfield starts his journey through the story of maps MON in the Great Library of Alexandria where, for the first MON time, scholars began to plot the wider world. MON MON Ptolemy's atlas of AD 150 was to provide a template of the MON world for more than a thousand years and it was a version of MON this that Columbus took with him when he set sail for Japan MON in 1492. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n61s7 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON What's the appeal of the Conservative party to women? MON In 2010 it seemed David Cameron succeeded in winning back MON the female vote and attracting younger middle class women MON who had previously voted for New Labour under Tony Blair. MON But with the introduction of public sector cuts and a long MON lasting recession has the Conservative Party sustained its MON appeal to women voters and what can the Tories do to ensure MON that female voters will vote for them again? Jane speaks to MON Claire Perry Conservative MP for Devizes and Gaby Hinsliff, MON former political editor for the The Observer. MON MON How Has Life Changed For People With Down’s Syndrome? MON Around one in every 1000 babies born in the UK will have MON Down's syndrome. There are some 60,000 people in the UK with MON the condition. Today a considerable number of people with MON Down's syndrome live into their 60's. So, how has life MON changed for people with Down’s Syndrome in terms of MON expectations? Jane is joined by Carol Boys, Chief Executive MON of the Down’s Syndrome Association, Caroline White whose son MON Seb is four and the face of a Marks & Spencer campaign, and MON Raffaella Newman whose daughter is 22. MON MON Alison Balsom MON Alison Balsom fell in love with the trumpet at 7. By the age MON of 10 knew she wanted to be a soloist. Now she travels the MON globe doing just that. On her new album: ‘Sound the MON Trumpets’, she plays a baroque instrument, which she MON describes as almost vocal in its tone. In making the album, MON Alison has expanded the repertoire of music available to the MON instrument she loves, and described the production of the CD MON as a massive academic as well as musical challenge. MON MON Former Beauty Queens MON In the 1970's beauty competitions were nationwide television MON events. An estimated 20 million people tuned in to watch MON Carolyn Moore win 1971's Miss Great Britain. Simply by MON posing in a swimsuit and answering a few questions, pretty, MON ordinary, young girls could win a crown, make good money and MON gain instant celebrity. Many dated footballers, rock stars MON and even royalty, but how have their lives changed as they MON have aged? A documentary on BBC Two tonight talks to five MON former British beauty queens about their reigns and what MON came afterwards. Jane is joined by two of them, Carolyn MON Moore and Della Draper. MON MON 'Wonderland: I Was Once A Beauty Queen', documentary on BBC2 MON at 9pm, Monday 8th October MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n61s9 (Listen) MON HighLites: Retouched, Episode 1 MON MON by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. MON MON 1/5 Bridgford is blessed with the meanest hairdresser in MON Britain, and the stupidest. Bev and Shirley go mobile when MON the salon is closed down by environmental health. MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON The enduring comedy of Bev, the bitter and vindictive Chief MON Stylist, played by Lorraine Ashbourne, and Shirley, her fond MON and foolish assistant, played by Rosie Cavaliero. MON MON Originally piloted as an Afternoon Play, HighLites is now on MON its second 15 minute series, with another commissioned for MON next year. MON MON Credits MON Bev: Lorraine Ashbourne MON Shirley: Rosie Cavaliero MON Belinda: Stephanie Racine MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Satnav: Sarah Thom MON Writer: Steve Chambers MON Writer: Phil Nodding MON MON 11:00 Cheaper Than Walking b01n61sc (Listen) MON Many of them had three wheels and engines more suited to MON powering lawnmowers. They looked like they'd escaped from a MON funfair ride and had names like the Allard Clipper, the MON Opperman Stirling, the Bond Mark A and the Frisky Family MON Three. In Cheaper Than Walking Andy Kershaw rediscovers a MON brief golden age in British car-making when we excelled in MON producing very, very small cars. MON MON He looks back to a time of post-war austerity, of household MON budgets on a shoestring, a time when political upheaval in MON the Middle East, particularly the Suez Crisis, cast a dark MON shadow over fuel supplies. Across the UK, in workshops from MON Preston to Wolverhampton, from London to the Isle of Man MON engineers came up with the solution as they set to work on MON designing and producing microcars, better known today as MON bubble cars. MON MON Andy climbs into the cramped, underpowered, noisy world of MON British microcars and meets the people who love them. His MON starting point is the Isle of Man and the only car ever to MON be produced there. In the early 1960s, the Peel Engineering MON Company decided to diversify from making fibre-glass boats MON into manufacturing cars. The result was the P50. Its wheels MON were five inches in diameter and equipped with go-kart MON tyres. When you wanted to park or reverse the P50 you simply MON got out, grabbed a chrome handle at the back of the car and MON manhandled it in much the same way as you might manoeuvre a MON shopping basket on wheels. MON MON Andy sets off in the smallest car he - or anybody else - has MON ever driven to explore a social and mechanical phenomenon. MON In Kent Andy visits Jean Hammond, custodian of the largest MON private collection of microcars, the Hammond Collection, MON which was assembled by her late husband Edwin. She has a MON Peel P50 there, of course, but she also has a Bamby, a Bond, MON a Frisky and, rarest of all, one of the only two surviving MON examples of the Allard Clipper. Jean also runs the Register MON of Unusual Microcars, a treasure trove of lovingly crafted MON one-offs, hand-built in the 1950s and 60s by small MON engineering firms in carriage-works and garages. MON MON 'Lovingly-crafted one-offs' is also a good description of MON many of the enthusiasts Andy meets on his travels. He visits MON the annual get-together of bubble-car fans, the National MON Microcar Rally and he talks to two of the engineers who were MON involved in creating these wonderful vehicles back in the MON 1950s and early '60s. MON MON If you want to upset anybody in the microcar world, just MON mention the Mini. Alec Issigonis' creation, unveiled at the MON 1958 Motor Show, may have been a triumph for the British MON motor industry and an icon of the 1960s but it rang the MON death knell for the real British microcar. Why have three MON wheels and two seats when you could pay £100 more and own a MON family car with four wheels? With the arrival of the Mini MON the bubble (car) burst. MON MON In this programme Andy Kershaw recalls the golden age of MON British microcars. At a time when we're only too aware of MON tightening budgets, he celebrates a uniquely creative, MON three-wheeled answer to post-war austerity and evokes a lost MON era of tiny family companies making tiny family cars. MON MON Producer: Jeremy Grange. MON MON 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01n61sf (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 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 the build up MON to the wedding of the year. MON MON Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse MON Gran ..... Anne Reid MON Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley MON Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford MON Ray ..... Paul Copley MON Tanya ..... Victoria Elliott MON Miles ..... Rob Rouse MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01n61sh (Listen) MON Lodging homeless people with council tenants, and Islamic MON branding MON MON Crawley Borough Council is proposing a new voluntary scheme MON whereby council house tenants take in a homeless person who MON might otherwise have been put in B&B accommodation. Under MON the new housing benefit laws due to come into effect next MON year, tenants with spare rooms could see their benefits cut MON by up to a quarter. So is this a sensible use of resources MON and help for homeless people? Or an unwarranted intrusion MON into tenants' homes. MON MON What can do when your mobile phone provider stops providing MON a signal in your neighbourhood? Should the company be MON obliged to make an effort to alert customers? And, do you MON have the right to break your contract without penalty? MON MON Bespoke Islamic branding. What is it? Why do we need MON branding and advertising agencies aimed specifically at MON Muslim consumers? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01n4l41 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01n61sk (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness b01n61sm (Listen) MON Sima Qian: China's Great Historian MON MON Free speech has long had a high price in China. Here Sima MON Qian ponders his privates - and posterity - in a tale that MON still resonates after more than 2,000 years. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01n60m0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vkwvf (Listen) MON Setting a Glass MON MON By Nick Warburton MON MON A man is summoned to a hospital where his elderly mother is MON fading away. He arrives in the middle of the night and walks MON through empty corridors looking for a coffee machine. So why MON is he avoiding sitting at his mother's bedside? MON MON He gets talking to an auxiliary nurse, a disgruntled but MON determined young woman whose life is starting, just as his MON mother's is ending. As he tells this complete stranger about MON his mother's uneventful life, her small achievements, he MON comes to understand some of the mechanisms at play in his MON strange inability to sit with her. MON MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON Credits MON Mike: James Fleet MON Ellie: Hannah Pierce MON Director: Peter Kavanagh MON Writer: Nick Warburton MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01n61sp (Listen) MON (6/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for another cerebral work-out, MON this week featuring the regulars from the North of England MON and Scotland. Scientist Jim Coulson and children's author MON Adele Geras play for the North of England, while the Scots MON are the critic and translator Michael Alexander and MON journalist Alan Taylor. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01n6066 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Was Dracula Irish? b01n61sr (Listen) MON Bram Stoker's Dracula is said to be the biggest selling book MON after the Bible. First published in 1897 the book has never MON been out of print and has been translated into over fifty MON languages. Stoker's vampire has spawned over a thousand MON films and still counting, shaped popular culture and though MON it has been a hundred years since the death of Bram Stoker, MON interest in his charismatic vampire does not seem to be on MON the wane. So where did Stoker get the idea for his iconic MON blood-sucking Count? Dracula has long been associated with MON Vlad the Impaler and Transylvania. Whitby and London feature MON heavily in the book, but is the landscape of Transylvania MON really Ireland? How much did Irish politics shape the novel MON and was Dracula really based on Irish folklore, legend, and MON the stories told to the young Bram Stoker by his mother? MON Patrick McCabe, the Irish novelist, explores the idea that MON Dracula was, in fact, Irish. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01n621l (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON Alex Krotoski explores what the digital world tells us about MON ourselves. This week: Influence. How has the digital world MON changed the way opinions are voiced and shaped? MON MON 17:00 PM b01n61st (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4l43 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b01n7l2h (Listen) MON Series 5, Brand, Hart Dyke, Clark MON MON The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor MON of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John MON Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, MON Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined MON by the comedian Jimmy Carr. MON MON This week, John and Jimmy have invited along Astronomer Dr MON Stuart Clark; Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke; MON and comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01n61sy (Listen) MON Ed is down in the dumps. Meanwhile Lynda is on the hunt. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01n621n (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film Ruby MON Sparks, from the directors of the Academy Award-winning MON Little Miss Sunshine. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n61s9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Ireland's Troublesome Priests b01mtslz (Listen) MON Early this summer, hundreds of Catholic priests gathered in MON Dublin, with the whiff of rebellion on their nostrils. They MON are demanding modernisation of their church, which they say, MON has lost touch with its people. But the people are also MON rebelling, not only going to Sunday mass in ever smaller MON numbers, but organising their own rebel groups to protest MON against a church which, they say is out of touch with the MON modern world MON MON Ruth McDonald meets the dissident Priests, some of whom have MON been censured by Rome, demanding relaxation of rules MON relating to women, homosexuality, divorce and even their own MON celibacy, but the church is taking tough line telling them MON that strict church teaching is not open to interpretation, MON even by them. MON MON As the campaign gains pace with series of meeting across MON Ireland, Ruth asks what the future is for the faith in a MON country where Catholicism and the state were, at one time, MON one and the same, and asks how The Vatican will deal with MON Irelands Troublesome Priests. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01n625z (Listen) MON Keeping the Free Market Faith MON MON The financial crisis has made many on the political right MON question their faith in free market capitalism. Jamie Whyte MON is unaffected by such doubts. The financial crisis, he MON argues, was caused by too much state interference and an MON unhealthy collusion between government and corporate power. MON MON Interviewees include Luigi Zingales, author of Capitalism MON for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American MON Prosperity and a professor at Chicago Booth School of MON Business. MON MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01n1rpr (Listen) MON This week Material World looks into what happens when MON published research is wrong, or worse fraudulent? When a MON published peer reviewed article is subsequently found to MON have something wrong with it, journals may send out a MON "retraction notice". But do these notices tell the whole MON story? Research out this week suggests that up to two thirds MON of retracted papers are due to scientific misconduct, rather MON than simple error. Also ecologists ask the public to help MON them identify 2 million bat calls and test tube spiders; how MON one of the largest British spiders has been reared in MON captivity and is now being released into the wild. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01n61s3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01n4l45 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01n6261 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n6263 (Listen) MON Summer Lies, The Night in Baden-Baden, Part 1 MON MON Bill Nighy reads from the new collection of short fiction by MON the author of The Reader, Bernhard Schlink. MON MON He begins with a three-part story called The Night in MON Baden-Baden. An author goes to the first night of his first MON play, which is being performed in Baden-Baden. To celebrate MON the occasion he invites Therese to go with him. But Therese MON is not his girlfriend. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz USA b01n6265 (Listen) MON The News Quiz gets a US makeover with an all-American panel. MON MON With the US election in balance this year, turmoil in the MON Middle East, financial insecurity all around - not to MON mention Pippa Middleton threatening to move to New York - a MON team of US comedians dissect the headlines as the News Quiz MON format crosses the Atlantic. MON MON The host is Andy Borowitz - New York Times columnist, brain MON behind the Borowitz Report and Time magazine's top Twitterer MON (not to mention the creator of the Fresh Prince of Bel MON Air!). The panel are: US and UK improve legend Greg Proops; MON creator of the Daily Show, Lizz Winstead; a stand-up who's MON just returned from a UK stint of TV appearances, Hari MON Kondabolu; and top political comedian, Lee Camp. MON MON Producer: Sam Bryant. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01n6267 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as the House of Lords MON returns from its summer break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 OCTOBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01n4l50 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01n61s5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4l52 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4l54 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4l56 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01n4l58 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01njxy3 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina TUE Beattie of Roehampton University. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01n651f (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Ella McSweeney and produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01n65zd (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01n651h (Listen) TUE Hugh Montgomery TUE TUE Professor Hugh Montgomery is an intensive care physician and TUE researcher at University College Hospital in London. His TUE work has taken him to the Himalayas, where he and colleagues TUE were studying the effect of oxygen uptake at high altitude. TUE The findings were surprising and have implications for TUE patients in intensive care. Jim al-Khalili talks to Hugh TUE Montgomery about the gene for fitness and how mountaineers TUE have influenced intensive care medicine. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01n651k (Listen) TUE Kate Silverton wanted desperately to be a journalist from TUE the age of 12. In her teens she travelled extensively - TUE hitch-hiking across Israel and visiting the Palestinian TUE territories in an attempt to better understand the conflict TUE there, she stayed in a Bedouin in the desert and at nineteen TUE went to Zimbabwe for four months armed with just a TUE dictaphone to capture the stories of the people she met TUE along the way. Despite her natural curiosity about the world TUE and her desire to report stories of people living in TUE conflict she didn't follow her heart because she feared she TUE might fail. As the first in her family to go to university TUE much depended on her and her career choice and she opted to TUE enter the City as a Corporate Financier - a demanding job TUE but one that diverted from her doing the one thing she TUE wanted to do - because she feared she might not be good TUE enough.It took the death of her best friend to convince her TUE to change her mind. In the first of this two part series for TUE One to One Kate talks to composer Raymond Yiu who despite TUE his love for music at an early age, his strict parental TUE upbringing stopped him from pursuing this as a career as he TUE thought he wasn't good enough. TUE TUE Presenter: Kate Silverton TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01n8414 (Listen) TUE On the Map, Episode 2 TUE TUE After the brilliant theories of Alexandria, the world TUE appeared to fall into a cartographic dark age for about a TUE thousand years. TUE TUE Still the great maps of the middle ages, such as the Mappa TUE Mundi in Hereford Cathedral, had their own different but TUE lofty ambitions of metaphysical meaning - to provide a TUE map-guide for a largely illiterate public to a Christian TUE life. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n651m (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n651p (Listen) TUE HighLites: Retouched, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. TUE TUE 2/5 Bev and Shirley take their unique hairdressing style to TUE an old people's home, and set about making Enid feel ten TUE years older. TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01n651r (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 6 TUE TUE In this episode of Saving Species we focus on the issues TUE facing bird migrants as they move around our shores. Joanna TUE Pinnock travels to a swallow roost in southern england, TUE where overnight she joins the British Trust for Ornithology TUE to trap and ring swallows as they gather in a mass roost to TUE head south. So how have the swallows and other summer TUE migrants done this year? To find our Paul Stancliffe of the TUE BTO explains what is happening at the roost sight and how TUE their research influences our understanding of the birds TUE needs TUE TUE However as swallows fly south, other migrants arrive into TUE our country from the North. Winter Thrushes, redwing and TUE fieldfare are a familiar sight in the winter countryside TUE arriving now from Scandinavia. But are we doing enough for TUE them, are our hedgerows able to provide enough food? TUE TUE And Howard Stableford joins Yadira Galindo from the San TUE Diego Zoo in America to investigate the issues of wind farms TUE and the use of new technology to assist Californian Condors TUE to avoid collision with the blades as the birds migrate. 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 Universities iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 One Man's War b01n651t (Listen) TUE This is the story of classical music life in London during TUE the Second World War, which instead of stopping altogether TUE once war was declared in 1939, actually flourished as the TUE bombs fell. Lionel Bradley was a Librarian at the London TUE Library, and also an avid lover of ballet, opera, orchestral TUE and chamber music. After each event he attended, Lionel TUE would write a personal bulletin describing the occasion, TUE which he then circulated to his friends. Katie Derham TUE explores musical life in London during the Second World War, TUE through the writings of Bradley who often provides TUE invaluable insight into world premieres, refugee artists, TUE and a classical music scene which flourished during a world TUE in turmoil. TUE TUE Lionel Bradley was passionate about the arts. He often went TUE to see the same productions, or hear the same works again TUE and again, and through his diaries, Bradley captures TUE developments, changes, or nuggets of social history, TUE otherwise forgotten today. These priceless insights into a TUE bygone world contained within Bradley's bulletins, are held TUE at the Royal College of Music, and the Victoria and Albert TUE Museum. Professor Paul Banks from the RCM, and V&A's Curator TUE of Dance Jane Pritchard, team up with Katie Derham to TUE explore these written narratives, whilst Joan Bailey who TUE worked with Bradley at the London Library, brings Bradley TUE the man to life. TUE TUE This story begins with the discovery of the Bradley TUE documents at the RCM, and continues with the investigation TUE of musical life in London during World War Two. Enlisting TUE the help of historians Terry Charman, Patrick Bade and TUE Suzanne Bosman, Katie Derham glimpses through the windows of TUE Bradley's writings, exploring the determination of the likes TUE of Myra Hess to continue concert life during war time, and TUE surveying how the influx of refugee musicians, the falling TUE bombs, and conscription, all impacted upon the musical scene TUE of the day. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01n651w (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01n4l5b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01n651y (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbs6p (Listen) TUE Kublai Khan: The Barbarian TUE TUE The Chinese emperor who inspired Coleridge and Columbus was TUE not Chinese. Carrie Gracie finds a pattern in the way China TUE digests foreigners and their ideas. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01n61sy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00r7l7b (Listen) TUE Not Bobby TUE TUE by Nick Warburton TUE TUE Frank brings a pet rabbit home. Mum gives Bobby's hutch TUE pride of place in the sitting room. But who finished that TUE last clue in yesterday's crossword? It wasn't mum... TUE TUE Director: Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE Credits TUE Frank: Mackenzie Crook TUE Miss Bradfield: Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Mum: Kate Layden TUE Sophie: Tessa Nicholson TUE Mr Vincent: Bruce Alexander TUE Director: Peter Kavanagh TUE Writer: Nick Warburton TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01n65q0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Making the Cut TUE TUE Nina Garthwaite presents a showcase for delightful and TUE adventurous short documentaries. A selection of brief TUE encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. TUE TUE This week, Nina hears about the cuts we make and how we TUE learn to recover from them. From not making the cut in a TUE team to the actions of a rogue hairdresser. TUE TUE We hear one man's story of how he coped working inside an TUE Irish "meat factory" and the unusual soundtrack that TUE enveloped him, and a modern retelling of the old Persian TUE fable which looks at how the moon got her scars. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE Derby Tape Club - Cut Up TUE Found sound from Mark Vernon TUE TUE Meat Factory: Earworms TUE Produced by Ronan Kelly TUE TUE Making the Cut TUE Featuring Glen Morris TUE TUE Two Little Girls Explain the Worst Haircut Ever TUE Produced by Jeff Cohen TUE TUE Not Untouchable TUE Produced by Matilda James TUE TUE Christine Jorgensen TUE Produced by Pejk Malinovski and Seline Baumgartner. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01n65q2 (Listen) TUE Tsunami Debris TUE TUE Since the Japanese tsunami 1.5 million tonnes of debris has TUE been floating across the Pacific towards the West coast of TUE North America. Despite predictions that it would hit land TUE from 2013 already material including a ship and a 66 foot TUE dock have beached - far earlier than expected. The dock TUE itself - which landed in Newport, Oregon was covered in TUE living creatures, including invasive species which could TUE threaten native species and fisheries. It's also feared the TUE debris could endanger wildlife that becomes entangled in or TUE consumes it. As the Winter storms approach a new cluster of TUE debris is expected. Tom Heap investigates what's being done TUE to track it, what danger it poses, how it's being cleaned up TUE and, in some cases, how posessions are being returned to TUE their owners 5000 miles away. TUE TUE 16:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00pfr4y (Listen) TUE Series 5, The Glorious Revolution TUE TUE Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great TUE moments of history to discover that they often conceal other TUE events of equal but forgotten importance. TUE TUE The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is remembered for TUE establishing the supremacy of Parliament over the Crown, TUE setting Britain on the path towards constitutional monarchy TUE and parliamentary democracy. Yet what's forgotten is that TUE the events of 1688 actually constituted a foreign invasion TUE of England by another European power, the Dutch Republic. TUE TUE When William of Orange landed at Torbay in Devon on 5 TUE November 1688, with a fleet four times the size of the TUE Armada of the previous century, it was ostensibly at the TUE invitation of seven Whig supporters who were anxious to TUE avoid a Catholic succession to James II's reign. But TUE William's invasion was central to his plan of war with TUE France, ensuring that England would not add her armed force TUE to that of the French; he was set on becoming king himself TUE and was leading his troops as an occupying force. The last TUE comparable event was a previous William's invasion in 1066. TUE TUE Even though bloodshed in England was limited - though far TUE from the entirely 'Bloodless' revolution that has been TUE mythologised - the revolution was only secured in Ireland TUE and Scotland by force and with much loss of life. Michael TUE investigates the uncomfortable facts of invasion and TUE occupation which lie behind the popular celebration of 1688. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01n65q4 (Listen) TUE Andy Cave and Ed Douglas TUE TUE Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller' The Talented Mr TUE Ripley' would make a great expedition read, according to TUE Harriett Gilbert's guests this week, multi-award-winning TUE writers - mountaineers both - Ed Douglas and Andy Cave. Not TUE unexpectedly their choices both feature mountains, but from TUE markedly different perspectives. TUE TUE Ed's good read is Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain', an TUE undiscovered lyrical masterpiece of mountain literature from TUE a writer who made her name as a modernist novelist. TUE TUE Andy chooses a hair-raising account of the life and career TUE of one of France's most colourful and energetic climbers, TUE Lionel Terray, in 'Conquistadors of the Useless'. TUE TUE Harriett GIlbert admits she's not a natural mountaineer but TUE she loves a (fictional) murderous psychopath, namely, Tom TUE Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's famous anti-hero. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAMME TUE Ed Douglas's Choice: 'The Living Mountain' by Nan Shepherd TUE TUE Andy Cave's choice: 'Conquistadors Of The Useless' by Lionel TUE Terray TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'The Talented Mr Ripley' by TUE Patricia Highsmith TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01n65q6 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Includes Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4l5d (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01n7hhp (Listen) TUE Series 4, Three's a Crowd TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker TUE and some terrific tunes. TUE TUE Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record TUE shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real TUE soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if TUE we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the TUE charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), TUE reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son TUE Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly TUE girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently TUE married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) TUE which is leaving his best friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) TUE feeling left out. TUE TUE Adam.............Lenny Henry TUE Rudy............Larrington Walker TUE Tasha...........Natasha Godfrey TUE Doreen..........Claire Benedict TUE Clifton...........Jeffery Kissoon TUE Karen ..........Susie Riddell TUE Craig...............Joe Sims TUE TUE Written by Danny Robins TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01n65rq (Listen) TUE Alistair offers some constructive criticism and Lilian needs TUE to find out more. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01n65rs (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who interviews the musician Pete TUE Townshend, as he publishes a memoir called Who I Am. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n651p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01n65zg (Listen) TUE Alcohol Fraud TUE TUE A criminal gang was recently jailed for one of the biggest TUE ever alcohol smuggling rackets in the UK. It's become big TUE business for organised crime according to HMRC, with tax TUE losses in unpaid duty as high as £1.2 billion per year. MP's TUE are demanding tougher action. But these are highly complex TUE frauds, which take years to investigate. Allan Urry examines TUE the scale of the challenge facing the authorities, and TUE reveals the extent to which criminals have penetrated the TUE legitimate market in beer, wine and spirits TUE Presenter: Allan Urry TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01n65zj (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01n65zl (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01n651h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01n4l5g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01n65zn (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n7h2w (Listen) TUE Summer Lies, The Night in Baden-Baden, Part 2 TUE TUE A playwright has taken an old friend to the opening night of TUE his first play but, when his girlfriend, finds out she isn't TUE pleased. The more he claims the date was innocent, the more TUE her jealousy escalates and he reflects that it is just this TUE sort of jealousy that prompted his deception in the first TUE place. TUE TUE Bill Nighy reads from Bernhard Schlink's collection of short TUE fiction.. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Clayton Grange b01n65zq (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE by Neil Warhurst with additional material by Paul Barnhill TUE Episode 3 TUE Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly stupid scientists TUE in Clayton Grange, a top secret Scientific Institute at the TUE top of the hill behind the supermarket; with a government TUE brief to think the unthinkable. This week, the team attempt TUE to make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the scientists who TUE are a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science. TUE TUE Saunders ..... Anthony Head TUE Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst TUE Roger ..... Paul Barnhill TUE Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine TUE Lionel ..... Don Gilet TUE Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse TUE TUE Producer/Director ..... Marion Nancarrow. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01n65zs (Listen) TUE Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01n4l69 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01n8414 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4l6c (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4l6f (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4l6h (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01n4l6k (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nbz88 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina WED Beattie of Roehampton University. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01n6r9q (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Heather Simons. WED WED 06:00 Today b01n6r9v (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in WED Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01n6r9x (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01n842w (Listen) WED On the Map, Episode 3 WED WED Simon Garfield's journey through the world of maps WED investigates why America was named after a man who got there WED a year after Christopher Columbus. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n6r9z (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n6rb2 (Listen) WED HighLites: Retouched, Episode 3 WED WED by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. WED WED 3/5 Bev and Shirley use their mobile salon to pervert the WED course of justice in a hit and run investigation that may be WED putting their van at the scene of the crime. WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01n6rb6 (Listen) WED Series 11, The Longest Commute in Britain WED WED The Longest Commute in Britain WED WED Geoff picks up a copy of "Horse and Hound" for his wife and WED strides toward Euston Station; Angus heads for the lounge WED car, where a whisky is ready and waiting; Mary leaves the WED offices of 'Country Life', and joins the London rush hour WED crowds wearing sturdy walking boots; meanwhile Ann Marie has WED taken up her position at the end of the platform 15, to WED await the longest train in the UK - it will be her job to WED unlock the doors, and ready the train for departure. WED WED This is arguable the longest commute in the UK - the WED Caledonian Sleeper - which at a quarter of a mile long, is WED also the longest train. WED Walkers, climbers, shooting-parties and Americans tourists WED are regular fare, but week in week out, the same faces WED return, the band of commuters who live in the Scottish WED Highlands, but work in London. WED WED Would you, given the choice, choose to spent two nights a WED week on a train? Two nights of camaraderie in the lounge WED car; two nights of friendly exchanges, unwinding with late WED night whiskies; but two nights also of jolting rails, beds WED just a mite too short for the tallest folk, and the WED notorious uncoupling at Edinburgh. WED WED Alan Dein rides the rails with the experts, through the long WED night of the long distance commuter, to find out where home WED really lies. WED WED Producer: Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01n6rrz (Listen) WED Series 5, Effervescent Members WED WED In Episode Three, the new sweetie craze of Fizzy Limbs has WED Fags, Mags and Bags rocking every lunchtime with rampaging WED kids. Local headmistress Mrs Temple (Julie T Wallace) WED confronts Ramesh about stocking them as she feels it's WED affecting the children's behaviour. But are such matters WED Ramesh's concern? WED WED Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli WED Dave ..... Donald Mcleary WED Sanjay ..... Omar Raza WED Alok ..... Susheel Kumar WED Mrs Temple ..... Julie T Wallace WED Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo WED Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth WED Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford WED Bras Jeff ..... Steven McNicol. WED WED Produced by Gus Beattie WED A Comdey Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01n6rs1 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01n4l6m (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01n6rs3 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbsv9 (Listen) WED The Duke of Zhou: The Ancestor WED WED Many Chinese look to Confucius for guidance. But Confucius WED looked to the Duke of Zhou. He handed power to his nephew WED 3,000 years ago, but his ideas still motivate leaders today. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01n65rq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00js8m5 (Listen) WED Available Means WED WED Available Means is the story of David an academic who flies WED into an Eastern European city to give a lecture on poetry. WED The city is remote and strange - full of puzzles and WED possibilities - and David is not a seasoned traveller. He WED strikes up relationships with both Oksana, a hotel cleaner WED and Adam, the city's police chief who takes it upon himself WED to be David's guide and mentor. The man is good company, WED amusing and, most importantly, he has integrity. He also has WED a mission: to clear up the corruption that is ruining his WED city. He's a "good" man. WED WED But David's perspective changes when he realises that the WED police chief is using torture to achieve what he wants. Not WED only that, but the cleaner's brother is in his cells at the WED moment. Oksana is very distressed to think what might be WED happening to him. But then David learns something about the WED girl's brother that, perhaps, she doesn't know herself. WED WED So it's not just the city that confuses David, it's the WED moral world he finds there. What seems right at one moment WED can suddenly change and seem wrong. The play ends with David WED facing a dilemma of his own. By the time he has experienced WED for himself the dark underside of this apparently WED respectable city, he has been forced to re-set his whole WED moral compass. WED WED Original music by David Chilton WED Written by Nick Warburton WED WED Producer: Gordon House WED A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED David: Philip Jackson WED Adam: Anton Lesser WED Oksana: Lia Williams WED Director: Gordon House WED Writer: Nick Warburton WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01n6rs5 (Listen) WED Part-time working WED WED Part-time working: More than 8 million people in the UK now WED work part-time. For some, working part-time is a choice, WED giving them time to bring up a family or care for an elderly WED relative. For others, it's a necessity because they can't WED find a full-time job in the current economic climate. WED WED If you're amongst the millions of part-timers in the UK, do WED you know your rights? Perhaps you are self-employed and work WED part-time. If you have children or need to care for a family WED member, is your employer obliged to let you work part-time? WED How will part-time work affect your pension, your tax or WED your benefits? What about maternity rights, holiday WED entitlement and sickness provision? How can you ensure WED you're getting the same rate of pay, pro rata, as your WED full-time colleagues? WED WED For all your questions on working part-time, join Paul Lewis WED and a panel of experts at 3pm. You can email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444. Lines open at 1pm, WED Wednesday. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01n65zl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01n6rs7 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01n6rs9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01n6rsc (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4l6p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b01n6rsf (Listen) WED Series 3, Radio WED WED Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young WED idealists trying to make waves with their new political WED party. For the last episode in the series the group get a WED crucial radio interview ahead of the upcoming by election. WED Written by Tom Basden. WED WED Simon .... Tom Basden WED Duncan .... Tim Key WED Jared .... Jonny Sweet WED Mel .... Anna Crilly WED Phoebe .... Katy Wix WED Alison the radio producer .... Rachel Stubbings WED Radio Interviewer .... Peter Curran WED Drama interviewee ...Jot Davies WED WED Producer .... Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01n6rsh (Listen) WED Matt is on edge and Tom thinks ahead. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01n6rsk (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the WED best-selling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø, as his WED original book about the tough detective Harry Hole is WED published in English for the first time. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n6rb2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01n6rsm (Listen) WED The BBC, the world's first national broadcasting WED organisation, marks its 90th anniversary this year. It WED started life on the 18th of October 1922 as the British WED Broadcasting Company - a joint venture by a group of 6 WED companies. As the wireless grew in popularity, it became WED clear that the power of this new medium in people's lives WED required a different kind of approach. In 1927 the BBC WED became a non-commercial corporation with its own Royal WED Charter and the age of the public service broadcaster was WED born. Creating the BBC was an act of civil morality, a WED recognition that such a powerful medium should have WED something other than a commercial purpose; it should provide WED a public service - hence the now slightly quaint idea that WED it should "inform, educate and entertain." To say we're in a WED very different commercial and broadcasting environment now WED would be an understatement - so what is the moral purpose of WED a public service broadcaster today? Especially one that is WED funded by a universal tax? What is the balance between doing WED what the market won't, or can't do, but at the same time WED serving the widest possible audience to make sure they get WED something out what they're being forced to fund? In an age WED where the importance of an individual's right to choose has WED become almost an article of faith, is the idea of a WED universal licence fee to fund a common good still tenable? WED Especially in a sector where there is ample commercial WED provision? Or, by making individual choice the sole measure WED of quality, are we abandoning all values to the short-term WED demands of the market-place. A special edition of the Moral WED Maze recorded in front of a live audience at The Times WED Cheltenham Literature Festival to mark the 90th anniversary WED of the BBC. WED WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Claire WED Fox and Matthew Taylor. WED WED Witnesses: David Elstein - Chairman of Broadcasting Policy WED Group, Robin Aiken - Journalist, Matthew Flinders - WED Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, Steve WED Barnett - Professor of Communications, University of WED Westminster. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01n6rsp (Listen) WED Series 3, Mark Vernon WED WED Mark Vernon, writer and former priest, says we should WED rehabilitate the concept of narcissism as a valuable form of WED self-love. "Love others as if they were yourself, yes. But WED also, love yourself so you can love others. Proper WED self-regard resources other regard." WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01n65q2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01n6r9x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01n4l6r (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01n6rst (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n7h6w (Listen) WED Summer Lies, The Night in Baden-Baden, Part 3 WED WED A playwright has taken an old friend to the opening night of WED his first play but, when his girlfriend, finds out she isn't WED pleased. The more he claims the date was innocent, the more WED her jealousy escalates and he reflects that it is just this WED sort of jealousy that prompted his deception in the first WED place. WED WED Bill Nighy reads from Bernhard Schlink's collection of short WED fiction.. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b01462bb (Listen) WED Series 3, Janet Street-Porter WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with four more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by WED writer and editor Janet Street-Porter who revisits her heady WED teen years at the heart of swinging 60's Soho. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01n6rsw (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01n4l7s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01n842w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4l7x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4l7z (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4l81 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01n4l83 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nbz8d (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina THU Beattie of Roehampton University. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01n6rzz (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b01n6s01 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01n6s03 (Listen) THU Hannibal THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and THU achievements of Hannibal. One of the most celebrated THU military leaders in history, Hannibal was an inspirational THU Carthaginian general who led an entire army across the Alps THU in order to attack the Roman Republic. His deeds in the THU Second Punic War during the third century BC ensured that THU his name would resound down the ages. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01n846c (Listen) THU On the Map, Episode 4 THU THU Simon Garfield continues his journey through the world of THU maps. Today, he shows how the plotting of a very special map THU of London led a Victorian doctor to the source of cholera THU and enabled him to conquer it. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n6sj2 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n6sj4 (Listen) THU HighLites: Retouched, Episode 4 THU THU by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. THU THU 4/5 Bev and Shirley take their mobile salon to the police THU station, the headquarters of the hit and run investigation, THU still keen to pervert the course of justice. THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01n6sj6 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 In Search of Richard Yates b01n6sj8 (Listen) THU Nick Fraser argues that the work of Richard Yates should THU receive greater recognition. Yates is best known for his THU first novel, the remarkable Revolutionary Road, which was THU published to great acclaim in 1961. However, his subsequent THU books failed to gain the same readership and Yates slowly THU faded from view. By the time of his death in 1992 he was THU largely forgotten. THU THU Friends, family and biographer Blake Bailey reveal the stark THU beauty of his prose, the heart-breaking complexity of his THU characters, and how his own struggles with alcohol and THU mental illness informed his work. THU THU Fraser seeks to uncover the mystery of Richard Yates and THU examine how a a writer so well-respected, loved by his THU peers, capable of moving his readers so deeply, fell so THU quickly out of print. He explores the reasons why his work THU has, in recent years, enjoyed a revival and why his stories THU sit nicely alongside the public's affection for programmes THU such as Mad Men. THU THU Producers: Jessica Treen and Stephen Garner. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01n6sjb (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01n4l85 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01n6sjd (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbsx2 (Listen) THU Du Fu and Li Bai - The Poets THU THU Carrie Gracie explores the lives of Du Fu and Li Bai, two THU men whose poetry remains as vivid in the Chinese imagination THU as Shakespeare is in our own. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01n6rsh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00v1qnm (Listen) THU Stone, Collateral Damage THU THU Series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Written by Martin THU Jameson. THU THU DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into THU the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War THU suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The theory THU that he died from a self-inflicted drug overdose is turned THU on it's head when one of his ex-army mates accuses Gary's THU grieving widow of having murdered him. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Stone: Hugo Speer THU Sue: Deborah McAndrew THU Tanner: Craig Cheetham THU Copsey: Paul Oldham THU Carol: Becky Hindley THU Lisa: Suranne Jones THU Jason: Johann Myers THU Steve: Andrew Westfield THU Waleria: Vivienne Harvey THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Danny Brocklehurst THU Writer: Martin Jameson THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01n6sjg (Listen) THU Series 22, Samuel West at Rainham Marshes in Essex THU THU Clare Balding walks with the actor, and passionate THU bird-watcher, Samuel West around one of his favourite THU birding spots, the RSPB reserve at Rainham Marshes in Essex. THU THU Currently in rehearsals for a West End production of Uncle THU Vanya, Samuel West takes a day off to share with Clare THU Balding his deep love of birding. THU THU He's drawn to birdlife because, he says, it reflects THU human-nature so well, "birds interact with the world through THU colour and song, both of which we - as humans - really get." THU THU A trip to Kenya at the age of 14 ignited this passion; "In THU Britain, birds were 3 inches long and brown.. in Kenya they THU were 7ft tall and couldn't fly, or bright blue... they were THU easy to tell apart... that's where it all started". THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01n605w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01n60lt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01n6sjj (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01n6sjl (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01n6sjn (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4l87 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n6sjq (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his THU hit sketch show. THU THU The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by THU The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny THU sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It THU featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive THU relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people THU who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr THU Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. THU THU This week sees some moth-based lunacy, and a heartwarming THU tale of the days before health and safety. All of which is, THU as you'll see, "awesome". THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, THU Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced THU by Ed Morrish. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01n6sjs (Listen) THU There's a surprise arrival at Lynda's auditions. Meanwhile THU Kathy needs advice. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01n6sjv (Listen) THU Mark Lawson reviews a new National Theatre production of THU Damned by Despair by Tirso de Molina, a 17th century THU morality tale, starring Bertie Carvel. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n6sj4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01n6sjx (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01n6sjz (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01n651r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01n6sk1 (Listen) THU Hannibal THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and THU achievements of Hannibal. One of the most celebrated THU military leaders in history, Hannibal was an inspirational THU Carthaginian general who led an entire army across the Alps THU in order to attack the Roman Republic. His deeds in the THU Second Punic War during the third century BC ensured that THU his name would resound down the ages. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 21:58 Weather b01n4l89 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01n6sk3 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Shaun Ley. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n7jpj (Listen) THU Summer Lies, Stranger in the Night, Part 1 THU THU A man sits beside a stranger on an overnight flight to THU Frankfurt and tells him the story of his life. A bond is THU formed in the dark cabin - but can either rely on the other THU or believe what they have been told? THU THU Bill Nighy reads the first part of this haunting two part THU story from Bernhard Schlink's collection of short fiction. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b012l2z5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - The Wisdom Of Crowds THU THU In this episode, the wisdom of crowds, the joy of THU deregulated advertising and Bigipedia throughout history. THU THU At last, the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2.0 - the THU infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back! Now with all THU errors and mistakes. THU THU Bigipedia 2.0 is now bigger, better and closer - so it looks THU bigger twice! THU THU Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody, and written by Nick THU Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan, with Carey Marx. THU THU It features Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, THU Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Martha Howe-Douglas, Lewis Macleod THU and Jess Robinson. Occasionally you can hear Matt Kirshen. THU THU Guy Jackson has done some music and that. THU THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01n6sk5 (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01n4l94 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01n846c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4l96 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4l98 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4l9b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01n4l9d (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nbz8g (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina FRI Beattie of Roehampton University. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01n6st7 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01n6st9 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01n6064 (Listen) FRI Celia Birtwell FRI FRI Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Celia FRI Birtwell. FRI FRI In the ephemeral world of fashion she has endured; Marian FRI Faithfull wore her creations in the 60s, Kate Moss is a fan FRI today. Whimsical prints and flattering forms are her FRI signature style and the vintage creations that she designed FRI with her then husband Ossie Clarke now change hands for a FRI small fortune. Her new ranges are highly collectable and fly FRI off the high street rails too. FRI FRI Never one of the fashion world's flamboyant self promoters FRI she has, none the less, a face known to millions - as a long FRI time friend and muse to David Hockney she is the woman at FRI the centre of his famous painting "Mr and Mrs Clark and FRI Percy". FRI FRI She wants her work to be relevant because and says "there's FRI nothing worse than being out-dated. If that happens and I FRI feel I'm past it, I'll stop". FRI FRI Producer: Cathy Drysdale. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b01n848r) FRI On the Map, Episode 5 FRI FRI Is the old cliché that women are less good at navigating FRI than men true? Or do they just have different ways of FRI finding their bearings? FRI FRI The last part of Simon Garfield's wander through the history FRI of maps takes us down the routes of gender difference and FRI sat nav. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b01n6stc) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n6stf (Listen) FRI HighLites: Retouched, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. FRI FRI 5/5 When intimidating witnesses, tampering with CCTV, and FRI making false statements fail to take the heat off Beverley FRI and Shirley in a hit and run investigation, they resort to FRI discrediting the victim. All in a week's work. FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 The Flower Fields (b01nb02j) FRI There's a gold rush in Cornwall; it's been going on for more FRI than a century - producing the first flowers of spring, FRI daffodils especially. Like mining, it's marked the FRI landscape, and there are networks of tiny fields west of FRI Mousehole and in the Isles of Scilly. Smaller than tennis FRI courts, they nestle, safe from the wind between high hedges, FRI warm on south facing terraced cliffs. From these old flower FRI fields, called quillets, came something even more valuable FRI than the 'Golden Harvest' of daffodils that bloomed earlier FRI than anywhere else in Britain - delicate Cornish violets, FRI carnations and anemones. From Victorian times to the 1960s FRI fragrant bunches of these sped overnight by rail to reach FRI the London markets in the morning. FRI FRI The writer Michael Bird, who lives in St Ives, listens while FRI Bill Harvey works the plots his father tended. They are too FRI small to admit machines and depend on the long-handled FRI Cornish shovel. At Churchtown Farm on St Martins in the FRI Scillies, Keith Low explains how the fields were created, by FRI first building, then moving entire dry stone walls. With the FRI internet and the post these old fields have become key to a FRI modern business. FRI FRI Michael walks the cliff gardens with the archaeologist FRI Graeme Kirkham, who interprets the landscape they pass FRI through. He draws on the recorded memories of flower farmers FRI and workers to recapture the life of the flower fields and FRI the industry's mysterious skills and traditions - such as FRI boiling the soil in huge cauldrons at the end of the season FRI to sterilise it for next year's anemones. And he meets Bob FRI Paterson at Covent Garden market who remembers selling the FRI violets and anemones that came on the Penzance trains, and FRI hopes he might again. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury (b01n6vn5) FRI The St Ives School of Painting FRI FRI The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her FRI bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in FRI search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. FRI Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to FRI prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal FRI magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover FRI has scandalized and unsettled them all. FRI FRI Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces FRI arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. FRI However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets FRI a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He FRI informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by FRI Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes FRI her in the brambles. FRI FRI Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for FRI Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes FRI Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy FRI Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks FRI Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman FRI Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer FRI DH Lollipop ..... John Sessions FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 News Headlines; Shipping Forecast (b01n86f5) FRI The latest national and international news headlines, FRI followed by the shipping forecast. FRI FRI 12:04 You and Yours (b01n6vn7) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project (b01n6vn9) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather (b01n4l9g) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One (b01n6vnc) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness (b01nbsxj) FRI The Soong Sisters - The Consorts FRI FRI Carrie Gracie explores the lives of three sisters who end up FRI on different sides of China's bloody political divide after FRI marrying some of the most important men of the 20th century. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01n6sjs (Listen) FRI There's a surprise arrival at Lynda's auditions. Meanwhile FRI Kathy needs advice. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama (b01n6vnf) FRI Power in Crimpsea FRI FRI Written by Vicky Meer FRI FRI Mayor Goderick Derrick loves Crimpsea, surfing and his small FRI business. Determined to be a cut above his seaside FRI neighbours, he is hatching a master plan to extend FRI Crimpsea's season. By embracing renewable energy, can he put FRI his bracing seaside town on the tourist map, save his FRI struggling plumbing business and the environment? A FRI fantastical, tall tale of sea, surf and ambition. FRI By Vicky Meer. FRI FRI Produced by Sharon Sephton FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Goderick: Mark Benton FRI Paulie: Steve Hillman FRI Anna: Fiona Clarke FRI Barnie: Jonathan Keeble FRI Captain Hills: Jonathan Keeble FRI Julie: Melissa Jane Sinden FRI Energy Minister: Melissa Jane Sinden FRI Reporter: Dominic Woodward FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Sharon Sephton FRI Writer: Vicky Meer FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b01n6vnh) FRI Eglwys Fach FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Eglwysfach in West Wales, with Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew FRI and Matt Biggs fielding questions from a gardening audience. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 On the Brink (b01n6vnk) FRI Four-Minute Warning FRI FRI Fifty years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear FRI war, as the US and Soviet leadership engaged in a military FRI stand-off over missiles in Cuba. FRI FRI In Marina Lewycka's story, the second in a series looking at FRI the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary FRI people, a teenage girl wonders how to make the most of her FRI last four minutes, should the warning come... FRI FRI Reader: Sian Thomas FRI Writer: Marina Lewycka's novel, 'A Short History of Tractors FRI in Ukrainian', was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize FRI and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her FRI most recent novel is 'Various Pets Dead and Alive'. FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word (b01n6vnm) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01n6vnp (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 16:55 The Listening Project b01n6vnr (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01n6vnt (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4l9j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01n6vnw (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Rebecca FRI Front and Nick Doody. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01n6vny (Listen) FRI Mike bumps into Lilian, who had heard about the baby. If FRI there's anything she can do, she will be more than happy to FRI help. FRI FRI Roy takes Mike fishing. Mike's afraid that Eddie's avoiding FRI him after finding out about the baby's condition. He's also FRI worried that he is too old to be a father. Roy thinks Mike FRI will make a fantastic dad and promises that he and Hayley FRI will help with the baby. FRI FRI Eddie apologises to Mike for avoiding him and explains that FRI Joe's a dinosaur and was worried what he would say if they FRI met. Eddie offers to help in any way that he can. Mike's FRI much happier. FRI FRI Darrell's still working at the Walters' and Lilian's FRI wondering why the work is taking so long. Darrell's evasive FRI about the job and reveals that he will be soon working on a FRI new project restoring a church alongside his work at Amside. FRI Lilian's stunned that Darrell's boss will be Paul Morgan. FRI (Darrell is unaware that Paul is Matt's half-brother). FRI FRI Later at the Dower House, Lilian tries to persuade Matt that FRI Darrell should finish up at the Walters so that he can move FRI on to their priority property on Borchester Road. Matt FRI eventually agrees to move Darrell on Monday. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01n6vp0 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n6stf (Listen) FRI HighLites: Retouched, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. FRI FRI 5/5 When intimidating witnesses, tampering with CCTV, and FRI making false statements fail to take the heat off Beverley FRI and Shirley in a hit and run investigation, they resort to FRI discrediting the victim. All in a week's work. FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bev: Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Shirley: Rosie Cavaliero FRI Lucinda: Liza Sadovy FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Gordon: Ben Crowe FRI Writer: Steve Chambers FRI Writer: Phil Nodding FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01n6vp2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion FRI programme from Canford School, Canford Magna in Wimbourne, FRI Dorset.Guests include the Labour peer Lord Falconer of FRI Thoroton, and the head of Relate Ruth Sutherland. FRI Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01n6vp4 (Listen) FRI Understanding Contemporary China 1/4 FRI FRI Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to FRI understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries FRI of contemporary China, its development and its possible FRI future. In a new series of talks he sets out the building FRI blocks for making sense of China today. FRI FRI In this introductory talk, he argues that we cannot make FRI sense of China by looking at it through a Western prism. FRI China is not like a Western nation-state and never will be. FRI Western nations are countries constituted on the basis of FRI nation, China is a country constituted on the basis of a FRI civilization. The consequences are profound and FRI far-reaching. FRI FRI In his second talk, he examines the tributary system, the FRI historical China-centric network of international relations FRI which involved other parts of East Asia accepting the FRI principle of Chinese superiority in return for protection FRI and access to the Chinese market, an arrangement distinct to FRI European forms of colonialism. He asks whether a system of FRI this kind is now re-emerging. FRI FRI In his third talk, he explores the nature of race in China. FRI Over 90 per cent of the Chinese population regard themselves FRI as belonging to the same race, the Han. This is a stark FRI contrast to the multi-racial composition of the world's FRI other populous states. Chinese ethnic identity stems from a FRI process of integration and of cultural identity. What FRI defines the Chinese above all is pride in their culture and FRI a sense of cultural achievement. The advantage of the Han FRI identity is that it is the cement that has held China FRI together. The disadvantage is a weak understanding of and FRI respect for ethnic and cultural differences. FRI FRI In his final talk, he asks how the undemocratic Chinese FRI state can enjoy legitimacy and authority in the eyes of its FRI population. He argues that the Chinese state is held in such FRI high esteem because it is seen as the embodiment, protector FRI and guardian of Chinese civilization. The state is seen as FRI an intimate, a member of the family indeed - in fact, the FRI head of the family. It is a remarkable institution which FRI will come to exercise interest and fascination outside FRI China. FRI FRI Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the FRI World'. FRI FRI 21:00 China: As History Is My Witness b01n9v4d (Listen) FRI Omnibus: Part 1 FRI FRI Sima Qian - China's Great Historian; Kublai Khan - The FRI Barbarian; The Duke of Zhou - The Ancestor; Li Bai and Du Fu FRI - The Poets; The Soong Sisters - The Consorts. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01n4l9l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01n6vtx (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis, with Carolyn FRI Quinn. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n7kfx (Listen) FRI Summer Lies, Stranger in the Night, Part 2 FRI FRI A stranger tells his seatmate a chilling story on a night FRI flight to Germany and then asks for his help. But is this FRI soft-voiced, smiling man capable of murder? Bill Nighy reads FRI the concluding instalment of Stranger in the Night from FRI Bernhard Schlink's new collection of short fiction. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01n65q4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 The First LP in Ireland b01h666r (Listen) FRI In 1947, the Irish Folklore Commission and the BBC FRI established a scheme to seek out and record folk music and FRI stories throughout Ireland. The project was the idea of FRI Donegal-born BBC producer Brian George and it lasted until FRI 1952. FRI FRI Field recordings in Cork, Kerry, Donegal and Galway were FRI made by singer, storyteller, piper and broadcaster Seamus FRI Ennis along with Brian George and his colleague Maurice FRI Brown, a features producer from the BBC. Recordings were FRI simultaneously being made in Northern Ireland by Peter FRI Kennedy and Sean O Baoill. In all 1500 performances were FRI preserved. FRI FRI In early 1951, American folklorist and musicologist Alan FRI Lomax travelled to Ireland on a similar mission, to record FRI '...authentic performers in the isolated places where songs FRI are handed down from generation to generation by word of FRI mouth' and which '...are threatened to be engulfed by the FRI roar of our powerful society.' FRI FRI Lomax is regarded as one of the great field collectors of FRI the twentieth century: His recordings introduced the world FRI to such talents as Jelly Roll Morton and Leadbelly. With FRI Seamus Ennis as his guide, Lomax visited villages across FRI Ireland, recording singers and musicians. FRI FRI Lomax and Ennis pooled their unique archive - from their FRI separate 1947 and 1951 field trips - to assemble the very FRI first anthology of Irish traditional music ever to be FRI compiled on an LP - what they described as '...the first FRI systematic mapping of the folk or oral musical tradition.' FRI Filled with accordions, fiddles, pianos, stories and songs, FRI the album would become a template for future musicians, FRI introducing generations to songs which would eventually FRI become standards: I'll Go No More A Rovin', Whiskey In The FRI Jar, She Moves Through The Fair. FRI FRI Presenter: Colum Sands FRI Producer: Owen McFadden. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01n8ly2 (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI