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SAT SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01nbrn3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01nf3nd (Listen) SAT Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Adrian Fort. SAT SAT Final extract from a new biography of Nancy Astor, detailing SAT the fascinating life of the first woman to take a seat in SAT the British Parliament. SAT SAT Reader: Anna Maxwell Martin. SAT Abridger: Alison Joseph. SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nbrn5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nbrn7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nbrn9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01nbrnc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nbtwm (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh SAT Michael Mumisa, of the Woolf Institute for Abrahamic Faiths, SAT Cambridge. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01nbtwp (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01nbrnf (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01nbrnh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01nbqzh (Listen) SAT Series 22, Simon Evans of the Wye and Usk Foundation SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with Simon Evans and his family along a SAT tributary of the Usk, in the shadow of the Sugar Loaf. Simon SAT is a passionate fisherman and river conservationist who SAT works for the Wye and Usk Foundation. SAT SAT Simon's wife Hazel and their two children - Freya and Arlo - SAT also joined in... Freya contributing musical accompaniment SAT (Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose...) and Arlo narrowly SAT avoiding tree-branches from his elevated position in Simon's SAT backpack. A highlight was discovering otter spraint under a SAT bridge - concrete evidence of recent otter activity. It's SAT lilac-scented although perhaps not (as Clare pointed out) SAT enough to warrant taking it home and putting it in her chest SAT of drawers... SAT SAT An extraordinary 1000 year old sweet chestnut tree loomed SAT into view towards the end of the walk... one of the boughs SAT as big as a sizable tree. Clare's attempts to create a human SAT circle ended in tears.. not her's... rather Freya's nose got SAT rather too close to the trunk. SAT SAT We started at the Red Lion pub in Llanbedr, the walk took us SAT along a tributary of the River Usk...(with a small trout SAT leaping upstream) to our end point at The Bell in the SAT village of Glangrwyney SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01ng03n (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 Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01nbrnk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01ng03q (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Evan SAT Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01ng03s (Listen) SAT Michael Morpurgo, John McCarthy in the Wye Valley, dialect SAT poet Raymond Reed, Lenny Henry's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with author, playwright and SAT poet Michael Morpurgo, Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith who went to SAT Ghana to find her father and ended up being anointed Queen SAT Mother of Akoanso village, Northumbrian dialect poet Raymond SAT Reed, and animal movement coach Peter Elliott. John McCarthy SAT continues his romantic tour of the Wye Valley, best-selling SAT crime writer Peter James takes a stroll through Brighton's SAT dark underbelly and actor and comedian Lenny Henry shares SAT his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 For One Night Only b01ng098 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini is back with the award-winning series to SAT re-visit three more occasions when a classic live album was SAT recorded. He hears from those who were there, on-stage, SAT backstage and in the audience, to re-create the event for SAT all of us who, each time we play the album, think: 'If only SAT I could have been there'. SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini re-lives Thanksgiving 1969 when The Rolling SAT Stones played Madison Square Garden and recorded an album SAT later reviewed as 'the best rock concert ever put on SAT record'. SAT SAT In the company of many who were there on the night, SAT including the tour promoter Ronnie Schneider, sound engineer SAT Glyn Johns, Mick Jagger's assistant at the time Jo Bergman, SAT Chip Monck who looked after the lighting, tour manager Sam SAT Cutler, photographer Ethan Russell, and rock journalist SAT Michael Jahn, Paul Gambaccini re-creates the occasion. SAT SAT Also in this series of For One Night Only: 'Clapton SAT Unplugged' (1992) and 'The Weavers at Carnegie Hall' (1955) SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01ng09b (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01ng09d (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01ng09g (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01nbtb1 (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and SAT Michael Deacon. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01nbrnm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01nbrnp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01nbtb7 (Listen) SAT St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics SAT from St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Guests SAT include the media commentator Sally Bercow, Health Minister SAT Anna Soubry, The General Secretary of the RMT Bob Crow, and SAT Nigel Farage from UKIP. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01ng09j (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01ng158 (Listen) SAT The Gothic Imagination: Bloody Poetry SAT SAT In Switzerland 1816, by the shore of Lake Geneva, the poet SAT Shelley and his future wife Mary, together with her SAT step-sister Claire, meet the infamous Lord Byron. All are in SAT exile, self-imposed on Shelley's part, more serious for SAT Byron, and find they are natural allies in a world which is SAT threatened by their radical politics and unconventional SAT attitudes to sexual freedom. Close friendships and SAT treacherous affairs are begun, and a journal that bears SAT witness to it all is kept by Byron's companion and doctor, SAT William Polidori. And on one particular evening, in a SAT thunderstorm, stories are told that are to inspire Mary SAT Shelley to create the myth of Frankenstein. SAT SAT Howard Brenton's play was first performed in 1984 and SAT celebrates the artistic radicalism and the fiery, SAT intellectual anger of these young people, whose ideas SAT threatened to kick over the traces of the society from which SAT they were escaping. But their dreams of a utopian future SAT were to be swallowed up in lives of excess, illness and SAT tragic accidents. SAT SAT This production forms part of The Gothic Imagination season SAT which includes new dramatisations of Frankenstein and SAT Dracula for Radio 4, as well as some contemporary new takes SAT on gothic themes for 4 Extra. SAT SAT Adapted for radio and directed by Alison Hindell SAT SAT By coincidence, the play was recorded in the same week that SAT a London auctioneer put on view the copy of Frankenstein SAT that Mary Shelley inscribed for Byron ('To Lord Byron from SAT the author'). The book was recently rediscovered in a SAT private library and is expected to fetch something in the SAT region of £400,000. SAT SAT Credits SAT Percy Bysshe Shelley: Oliver Ryan SAT Mary Shelley: Clare Corbett SAT George, the Lord Byron: Patrick Kennedy SAT Claire Clairmont: Sarah Ovens SAT Dr William Polidori: Gareth Pierce SAT Director: Alison Hindell SAT Writer: Howard Brenton SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01ng15b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01ng15d (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01nbrjm (Listen) SAT Overcrowded markets SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan and his guests consider the perils and possibilities of SAT doing business in an overcrowded market, with too many SAT products chasing too few customers. And ahead of the arrival SAT of the latest James Bond film, they swap thoughts on product SAT placement and celebrity endorsement. How do you ensure your SAT products are seen in all the right places and none of the SAT wrong ones? SAT SAT In the studio are Willie Walsh, Chief Executive of SAT International Airlines Group; fashion and retail expert Kim SAT Winser; Peter Bamford, Chairman of Supergroup. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nbrnr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01nbrnt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nbrnw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01ng15g (Listen) SAT Honor Blackman, Charlie Brooker, Sarah Alexander, George The SAT Poet, The Herbaliser and The Magnetic North SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. Clive is joined by the SAT broadcaster, screenwriter and satirist Charlie Brooker. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01ng15j (Listen) SAT Sam Mendes SAT SAT As the new James Bond film "Skyfall" opens next week, Mary SAT Ann Sieghart profiles its director Sam Mendes, a man who SAT wanted to play cricket for England but went on to become a SAT theatre supremo before winning critical acclaim in SAT Hollywood. SAT SAT Born in Reading and brought up by a single mother, Sam SAT Mendes was educated at Magdalen College School in Oxford, SAT where he demonstrated a competitive streak as captain on the SAT cricket pitch, and Cambridge University where he won SAT critical acclaim for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac". SAT At just twenty four, he directed Judi Dench in Chekhov's SAT "The Cherry Orchard" before joining the Royal Shakespeare SAT Company where he forged a life long collaboration with actor SAT Simon Russell Beale. But it was as artistic director to the SAT Donmar Theatre in London that Mendes made his mark, winning SAT five Olivier Awards. Moving into Hollywood, he sealed his SAT success with five Oscars for his first film "American SAT Beauty" starring Kevin Spacey. And now, Mendes has chosen to SAT direct a British classic, a James Bond film "Skyfall". SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01ng15l (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01ng15n (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Episode 3 SAT SAT In July 1996 Horrett Campbell attacked children and staff at SAT St Lukes School in Wolverhampton with a machete. Lisa Potts SAT was a nursery nurse helping run a teddy bears picnic for the SAT under-fives, and in the course of the attack she suffered SAT major wounds while protecting children who might otherwise SAT well have been killed. Over the next few days she became a SAT national hero, championed in the press as the so-called SAT angel whose courage led to numerous awards including the SAT George Medal. What the press rarely mentioned, however, was SAT the pressure that not only the attack but also the massive SAT media attention put on Lisa, and the dark periods during SAT which she longed for an end to the press coverage and a SAT return to normal life. In the final part of this series of SAT 'A Life Less Ordinary' Geoff Bird takes her back over the SAT TV, newspaper and radio coverage of her story to find out SAT what it's like to declared a hero and how difficult that can SAT make returning to a normal life away from the media SAT spotlight. SAT SAT Produced by Geoff Bird. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01n9whk (Listen) SAT The Gothic Imagination, Dracula: Part 1 SAT SAT 1/2 Launching a month's focus on The Gothic Imagination, SAT Bram Stoker's disturbing vampire tale of horror, in a new SAT version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Told through letters, journal SAT entries, and other found testimony, this is the story of the SAT brief reign of terror of an uncivilised monster in Victorian SAT Britain. SAT SAT The Gothic Imagination on Radio 4 and 4 Extra, is reclaiming SAT original gothic creations from the clichés they have become, SAT and introducing three new works into the canon. For all the SAT fireworks of blood, flesh and horror, Frankenstein reveals SAT itself as the story of parenting and abandonment, and SAT Dracula, as a supernatural fable reflecting a harrowing fear SAT of female sexuality, and the treatment meted out to the SAT insane pervert who unleashes it for pleasure. SAT SAT Narrated by various characters, and with different 'takes' SAT on the progress of the story, this is an all action SAT adventure story, with ghosts, ghouls, lunatics, and SAT seriously gripping chase sequences. Adapting it in just two SAT hours takes the audience on a thrilling ride through the SAT dark psyche of Victorian England. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Bram Stoker SAT Count Dracula: Nicky Henson SAT Dr Seward: Charles Edwards SAT Renfield: Don Gilet SAT Jonathan Harker: Michael Shelford SAT Mina Murray: Ellie Kendrick SAT Lucy Westenra: Scarlett Brookes SAT Dr Van Helsing: John Dougall SAT Arthur: Joe Sims SAT Landlord's Wife: Christine Absalom SAT Driver: Robert Blythe SAT Simmons: Patrick Brennan SAT Vampiress: Sarah Thom SAT Vampiress: Ellie Crook SAT Vampiress: Stephanie Racine SAT Child: Harper Bone SAT Singer: Adriana Festeu SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01nbrny (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01nbq68 (Listen) SAT It's an interesting exercise looking back at the obituaries SAT of Jimmy Savile. You'd never describe them as warm. Even SAT before the child abuse revelations Savile was the kind of SAT personality who divided opinions. But the one thing that SAT unites the obit's is the fact that here was a man who did a SAT vast amount of good work for charity. Savile came from an SAT impoverished background, survived a potentially fatal SAT accident working in the mines during the war and went on to SAT personally raise an estimated £40 million for various SAT charitable causes - giving away 90% of his income, including SAT £12 million to help rebuild the National Spinal Injuries SAT Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Along the way he turned SAT "Jim'll Fix It" in to a national institution - attracting SAT over 3 million requests in the 19 years it was on TV and SAT fulfilling the dreams of thousands of those who appeared on SAT it. How should we view those good works now? Have they been SAT fatally morally contaminated by his crimes? His charity, The SAT Savile Foundation, is now considering changing its name and SAT even where it spends Savile's legacy with the possibility of SAT money going to groups helping the victims of sexual abuse. SAT Is it possible to draw a clear line between the sin and the SAT sinner, especially in the current climate of heightened SAT moral anxiety that has resulted in Jimmy Savile's headstone SAT being removed and ground-up for landfill and talk of his SAT body being dug up for cremation so his ashes can be SAT scattered to oblivion? Can we ever imagine a time when we SAT look back and say "Jimmy Savile wasn't all bad?" And if good SAT works can be morally transformed by the evil that motivated SAT them, what about works of art? There are plenty of artists SAT with morally reprehensible private lives whose work we still SAT value. The sculptor Eric Gill, who created the statute of SAT Ariel and Prospero over the entrance to BBC Broadcasting SAT House in Portland Place London, sexually abused his own SAT children, but should that concern the worshippers at SAT Westminster Cathedral who pray in front of his sculptures SAT for the Stations of the Cross? The legacy of Good versus SAT Evil on the Moral Maze.Combative, provocative and engaging SAT debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Kenan Malik, Giles SAT Fraser, Melanie Phillips and Claire Fox. SAT SAT Witnesses: Jo Summers -PWT Advice LLP, Alec Shelbrooke - MP SAT for Elmet & Rothwell, Dr Constantine Sandis - Reader in SAT Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, Antoinette Fox - SAT Assistant Principal at a Comprehensive School in SAT Cambridgeshire. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01n9yfj (Listen) SAT (7/12) SAT Believe it or not, you might confuse an alien's most SAT determined adversary with a talented murderer. Why, and who SAT are they? SAT SAT Another trademark puzzle opens the latest Round Britain Quiz SAT contest, this week between the South of England and the SAT Midlands. It's the second time these teams have played one SAT another in the current series, and the South of England team SAT of Marcus Berkmann and Marcel Berlins will be hoping to get SAT their own back against the Midlands, Rosalind Miles and SAT Stephen Maddock, who beat them very narrowly in the previous SAT encounter. SAT SAT They'll need all of their powers of recall and lateral SAT thinking, to weave together the programme's apparently SAT unrelated factual fragments into some logical patterns. Tom SAT Sutcliffe is in the chair to ensure fair play, and to SAT provide gentle good-humoured hints when they seem to be SAT needed. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01n9whp (Listen) SAT Celebrating the Bicentenary of Edward Lear's Birth SAT SAT Roger McGough celebrates the bicentenary of Edward Lear's SAT birth. Shirley Henderson and Andrew Sachs read a selection SAT of his nonsense poems as requested by listeners, including SAT The Jumblies and The Quangle Wangle's Hat. Adding to the mix SAT are some old favourites like Elton Hayes singing The Owl and SAT the Pussycat to a small guitar and Kenneth Williams' unique SAT interpretation of The Dong with the Luminous Nose. SAT SAT Produced by Beatrice Fenton. SAT SAT This week's poems SAT The Owl and the Pussycat SAT By Edward Lear SAT Sung by Elton Hayes SAT Taken from the CD ‘The Laughing Policeman – Children’s SAT Vintage Favourites’ SAT Label: Regis Records Ltd SAT SAT The Jumblies SAT By Edward Lear SAT From The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse SAT Publisher: Oxford University Press SAT SAT The New Vestments SAT By Edward Lear SAT From The New Faber Book of Children’s Verse SAT Publisher: Faber SAT SAT The Quangle Wangle’s Hat SAT By Edward Lear SAT From The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry SAT Publisher: Chatto & Windus SAT SAT The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo SAT By Edward Lear SAT Read by John Gielgud SAT Taken from BBC Archive recording ‘Book at Bedtime: The SAT Jumblies and Other Nonsense’ SAT Date: 25/12/1992 SAT SAT The Dong With the Luminous Nose SAT By Edward Lear SAT Read by Kenneth Williams SAT Taken from the CD ‘Parlour Poetry: Comic, Patriotic and SAT Improving Verse from the Victorian Age’ SAT Label: Saydisc Records SAT SAT Edward Lear SAT by W H Auden SAT From W H Auden – Collected Shorter Poems SAT Publisher: Faber SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01nfc5s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Georgian Trilogy b01ng1hz (Listen) SUN The Soul Is Missing Fairy Tales! SUN SUN The third of three specially commissioned stories by James SUN Hopkin, inspired by his travels in Georgia in Autumn 2008. SUN SUN A tour bus of journalists, writers and artists breaks down SUN on the infamous military highway from Vladikavkaz to SUN Tbilisi. It is only nine days since the Russian army SUN withdrew from parts of Georgia, but there are rumours of a SUN return. SUN SUN Read by Ben Miles. SUN SUN Producer: Rosalynd Ward SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nfc5v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nfc5x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nfc5z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01nfc61 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01ng1j1 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary the Virgin, Ilminster, Suffolk. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01ng15j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01nfc66 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01ng1j3 (Listen) SUN Homecoming SUN SUN Mark Tully discusses a concept encapsulated in the words of SUN Julian of Norwich - that "All shall be well, and all shall SUN be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." Should we SUN all be thinking about belief in a God, who ultimately always SUN comforts us - the god St Paul describes as "the God of all SUN comfort who comforteth us in all tribulation, that we may be SUN able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the SUN comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God"? SUN SUN It would take courage and faith to trust in God the SUN comforter because of course very often we go through SUN travails which seem endless. SUN SUN Mark talks to journalist Christopher Howse and introduces SUN readings from Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne and SUN Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with music ranging from Handel SUN to Melody Gardot and REM. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01ng1j5 (Listen) SUN Farmer of the Year finalist: Henry Edmunds SUN SUN Adam Henson visits a finalist in the BBC Farmer of the Year SUN awards. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01nfc6c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01nfc6h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01ng1j7 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01ng1j9 (Listen) SUN SHINE SUN SUN Danny Mills presents the Radio 4 Appeal for SHINE. SUN Reg Charity:1089464 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN SHINE. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01nfc6k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01nfc6m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01ng1jc (Listen) SUN "ASKING QUESTIONS" A Service of Worship from Hillsborough SUN Presbyterian Church in County Down. Led by the Rev Andrew SUN Conway. Preacher: Rev John Davey. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01nbtb9 (Listen) SUN Understanding Contemporary China 2/4 SUN SUN In this second talk, he examines the tributary system, the SUN historical China-centric network of international relations SUN which involved other parts of East Asia accepting the SUN principle of Chinese superiority in return for protection SUN and access to the Chinese market, an arrangement distinct to SUN European forms of colonialism. He asks whether a system of SUN this kind is now re-emerging. SUN SUN Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the SUN World'. SUN SUN Producer: Ros Jones. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01ng1jf (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 b01ng1jh (Listen) SUN Writer...Joanna Toye SUN Director...Kim Greengrass SUN Editor... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Writer...Joanna Toye SUN Director...Kim Greengrass SUN Editor... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer..... Helen Monks SUN Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Arthur Walters.... David Hargreaves SUN Doctor.... Jan Knightley. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01ng1kv (Listen) SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the academic & SUN commentator, Mona Siddiqui. SUN SUN Born in Karachi and brought up in Huddersfield, she's a SUN rarity - a female Muslim theologian. As Professor of Islamic SUN and Interreligious Studies at Edinburgh University her SUN analysis regularly sheds light on controversial issues SUN affecting the Muslim faith. Her calm & reasoned standpoint SUN can be heard regularly on the Today programme's Thought for SUN the Day. SUN SUN Brought up in a house stuffed full of books, her academic SUN promise revealed itself early on and despite dallying with SUN the idea of journalism as a career, she finally followed the SUN path her mother wanted for her - academia. SUN She says, "I like to be in places where I feel my voice can SUN be heard and I can say things of some value." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n9yfs (Listen) SUN Series 5, Ker, Stephenson Connolly, Geim 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 This week, John and Jimmy have invited along comedian SUN Humphrey Ker, sex therapist, comedian and author Dr Pamela SUN Stephenson-Connolly and Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir SUN Andre Geim. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01ng1tw (Listen) SUN The Future of the Oven SUN SUN Tim Hayward takes a fresh look at the oven, the object at SUN the heart of most of our cooking and our kitchens. SUN SUN In his look at the past, present and future of the domestic SUN oven he gets help from Great British Bake Off judge Mary SUN Berry and some of the developers working hard to change how SUN we cook and how we eat. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01nfc6p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01ng1ty (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 The 'arse that Jack Built b01ljwm4 (Listen) SUN Ian McMillan goes on a quest to find one of Britain's SUN strangest linguistic features. Somewhere between Sheffield SUN and Chesterfield, people stop saying house and say something SUN that sounds a lot more like 'arse. It's an isogloss, a kind SUN of linguistic boundary line where accent and dialect SUN changes. Ian calls it the house / arse interface, and with SUN his friend the musician Ray Hearne and linguist Kate Burland SUN in tow, he sets out to track it down. But can it really be SUN as simple as crossing a line on a map? SUN SUN REPEAT. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nbt9n (Listen) SUN Kidlington SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs an episode of the horticultural panel SUN programme recorded in Kidlington in Oxfordshire, with Pippa SUN Greenwood, Matthew Wilson, and Anne Swithinbank taking SUN questions from a local audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01ng1v0 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents conversations about dead pets, plastic SUN surgery, retirement, and the impact of disability on family SUN relationships between sisters, married couples, and SUN 8-year-old friends in the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. 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 Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01ng1v2 (Listen) SUN The Gothic Imagination, Dracula: Part 2 SUN SUN 2/2 Bram Stoker's disturbing vampire tale of horror, in a SUN new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Lucy Westenra is dead, SUN but Professor Van Helsing is determined to find out the true SUN cause of her death, track it down, fight it and defeat it SUN forever. SUN SUN Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: Bram Stoker SUN Count Dracula: Nicky Henson SUN Dr Seward: Charles Edwards SUN Renfield: Don Gilet SUN Jonathan Harker: Michael Shelford SUN Mina Harker: Ellie Kendrick SUN Lucy Westenra: Scarlett Brookes SUN Dr Van Helsing: John Dougall SUN Arthur: Joe Sims SUN Maid: Christine Absalom SUN Policeman: Robert Blythe SUN Simmons: Patrick Brennan SUN Vampiress: Sarah Thom SUN Vampiress: Ellie Crook SUN Vampiress: Stephanie Racine SUN Child: Harper Bone SUN Singer: Adriana Festeu SUN Director: Jessica Dromgoole SUN Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01ng26b (Listen) SUN AM Homes on her new novel May We Be Forgiven SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Learning to Love Dafydd b01ng26d (Listen) SUN Gwyneth Lewis, the first Welsh Poet Laureate whose giant SUN words light up the front of the Wales Millennium Centre, has SUN never been able to come to terms with the great Welsh SUN language poet Dafydd ap Gwilym. SUN SUN He's the Welsh equivalent of Chaucer or Shakespeare and has SUN been hugely influential on contemporary Welsh poetry, from SUN Dylan Thomas to the bardic competitions on Radio Cymru. But SUN Gwyneth's teenage self found him sexist and laddish and a SUN representative of a tradition she rebelled against. SUN SUN As a Welsh language poet Gwyneth feels she can't avoid SUN Dafydd any longer and needs to face him head on. She visits SUN the ruined abbey at Strata Florida in West Wales where he SUN worked and was buried, meets songwriter and former lead SUN singer of Catatonia Cerys Matthews and Welsh poet and SUN language activist Menna Elfyn, and goes in search of him in SUN the poetry competitions at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. SUN Actor Steffan Rhodri brings Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetry to SUN life. SUN SUN Gwyneth tries to come to terms with her heritage and learn SUN to love Dafydd - and see if she can write a poem directly to SUN him. SUN SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01nb1sc (Listen) SUN Recoiling the Arab Spring SUN SUN The ultra-conservative Salafist movement, which is said to SUN be the fastest growing branch of Islam, has been blamed for SUN being behind many of the recent violent protests over an SUN anti-Muslim film which appeared on the internet. Jenny Cuffe SUN investigates the spread of Salafism across the countries of SUN the Arab Spring. She asks what threat it poses to democracy SUN in the whole region and also examines concerns in Europe SUN that Salafists now represent a significant security risk. SUN Presenter: Jenny Cuffe SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01ng15j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nfc6t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01nfc6w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nfc6y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01ng26j (Listen) SUN Selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01ng26l (Listen) SUN It's Apple Day in Ambridge. Meanwhile Matt is being SUN obstructive. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01ng26n (Listen) SUN Series 3, Put a Lid on It SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist with more of his SUN wit and charm in a series of audience readings. This week we SUN encounter his sister, Tiffany, in a story called "Put A Lid SUN On It" and hear some more extracts from his diaries. SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Dear Life b01nhcq8 (Listen) SUN In Sight of the Lake SUN SUN A new collection of short stories by one of the world's most SUN acclaimed short story writers, Alice Munro, is always a SUN cause for celebration. Winner of the Man Booker SUN International Prize, the Lannon Prize, the Giller Prize and SUN many other awards, Alice Munro is widely regarded as a SUN doyenne of the short story form, and a writer whose acuity SUN and compassion shine through all her work. Her latest SUN collection, Dear Life, is published in November and five of SUN the stories from Dear Life can be heard on Radio 4 on Sunday SUN evenings during October and November. SUN SUN Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic SUN surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, SUN captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that SUN lies beneath. Life is revealed and laid bare, and the SUN complicated emotions of normal lives resonate long after the SUN final page is turned. SUN SUN Today in 'In Sight of the Lake' a woman goes in search of a SUN doctor, again. SUN SUN The reader is Liza Ross, SUN The abridger is Sally Marmion SUN The producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01nbt9v (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01nbt9s (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01ng09g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01ng1j9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01n9yg1 (Listen) SUN Alternative Economic Cultures SUN SUN Paul Mason interviews renowned sociologist Prof Manuel SUN Castells about the rise of alternative economic cultures SUN since the financial crisis. Recorded in front of an audience SUN at the London School of Economics on Monday 8th October. SUN SUN The financial crisis which has unfolded since 2008 marks SUN more than an economic downturn, according to Prof Castells. SUN The problems which caused the crisis are so deep rooted that SUN they have provoked a profound reassessment of our economic SUN beliefs and institutions. They have also given rise to SUN social movements such as Occupy and alternative economic SUN cultures opposed to financial capitalism. These ideas are SUN explored in "Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic SUN Crisis", a book edited by Prof Castells. SUN SUN Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology, and Director of SUN the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Open SUN University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He is also SUN University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair SUN Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the SUN Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern SUN California, Los Angeles. SUN SUN Paul Mason is the Economics Editor of BBC 2's Newsnight SUN programme. His books include Meltdown: The End of the Age of SUN Greed; and Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global SUN Revolutions. SUN SUN The hashtag for this event is #LSECastells. SUN From networked protest to 'non-capitalism' SUN Why Economics is Bunk SUN Escaping credit serfdom SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01ng26q (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 b01ng26s (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01nbrj5 (Listen) SUN Apocalypse looms in the waterlogged deep south of America - SUN director Benh Zeitlin talks Beasts of the Southern Wild. SUN Cinema owner Kevin Markwick gives a potted history of the ad SUN reel. Filmmaker Sally Potter discusses her latest, Ginger SUN and Rosa, a teenage drama set at the start of the Cold War. SUN And critic Scott Jordan Harris reveals his film of the year SUN - a three hour epic - Woody Allen: A Documentary, directed SUN by Robert B. Weide. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin, is SUN released nationwide from this weekend, certificate 12A. SUN SUN Woody Allen: A Documentary, directed by Robert Weide, is out SUN now on DVD, certificate 15. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01ng1j3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01nfc8r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01nbq5y (Listen) MON Sociologists and the financial crisis - Against security MON MON Are the stringent checks at airports really for our benefit? MON 'Against Security', a new book by the acclaimed American MON sociologist, Harvey Molotch, explores the complex systems MON which are designed to make us feel safe in public places. He MON tells Laurie Taylor why he thinks that security measures in MON airports and subways, post 9.11, have damaged the pleasure MON and dignity of our daily lives. They're joined by the design MON critic, Stephen Bayley. Also, Sociology's failure to address MON the financial crisis. The social scientist, Alberto MON Toscano's paper 'Reformism and Melancholia' argues that the MON twin spectres of Fordism and Keynesianism have prevented MON sociologists from imagining a future beyond austerity. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01ng1j1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nfc8t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nfc8w (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nfc8y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01nfc90 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ng2dr (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh MON Michael Mumisa, of the Woolf Institute for Abrahamic Faiths, MON Cambridge. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01ng2ql (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01nfc92 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01ng2qn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01ng2qq (Listen) MON Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the legacy of MON modernism. Kevin Jackson returns to 1922, the year he argues MON changed the literary world with publications of Joyce's MON Ulysses and TS Eliot's The Waste Land. And Ali Smith reveals MON how her writing today melds different forms to explore MON style, love, death and the art of writing. But Will Gompertz MON and the composer Julian Anderson argue that art and music MON respectively embraced modernism earlier and more profoundly MON than the world of literature. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01ng2qs (Listen) MON Into the Abyss, Episode 1 MON MON Read by Barbara Barnes. MON MON The astonishing true life adventure story of a plane crash MON in the wilds of northern Canada and the four men who MON survived to tell the tale. MON MON On a wintry October night in 1984, nine passengers boarded a MON Piper Navajo commuter plane bound for remote communities in MON the far north of Canada. Only four people - strangers from MON wildly different backgrounds - survived the night that MON followed: the pilot, a prominent politician, an accused MON criminal and the rookie policeman escorting him. MON MON The title is taken from the American mythologist Joseph MON Campbell who explored mankind's quest for meaning and MON adventure: 'It is by going down into the abyss that we MON recover the treasures of life'. MON MON The author, Carol Shaben, is the daughter of Larry Shaben a MON politician in the Alberta Legislature who survived the MON crash. Using extensive interviews with all the remaining MON survivors and their families, as well as investigation MON reports and court records, she reconstructs the events MON leading up to the fatal crash and unravels the enduring MON impact it had on the four survivors and the bonds they MON formed that night on the mountain. MON MON Episode 1: MON When Carol Shaben was starting out as a young journalist in MON Jerusalem, she opened the paper one day and saw a tiny MON report on an inside page. It briefly described a small plane MON crash back in Canada, only four of the ten people on board MON had survived. One of them was her father. MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ng2qv (Listen) MON Dionne Warwick MON MON Dionne Warwick, soul music legend. Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ng2qx (Listen) MON The Pillow Book, Episode 1 MON MON Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari reunite for a new MON mystery in 10th century Japan. MON MON Yukinari returns to the palace to find that the Lady MON Shonagon's affections are no longer his, and furthermore his MON lover is not pleased to see him. Instead she is focused on MON unravelling a mystery that Yukinari cannot understand: the MON mystery of her friend's marriage - a passionate affair MON between a woman of royal blood and a young low-born poet MON that seems to be moving towards an increasingly dark place. MON MON Meanwhile, the entire palace is captivated by the Emperor's MON new pet - a tiger sent all the way from India. MON MON Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and MON lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese MON court. MON MON Written by Robert Forrest. MON MON Directed by Lu Kemp. MON MON Credits MON Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell MON Yukinari: Cal Macaninch MON Zushio: Joseph Arkley MON Komatsu: Matti Houghton MON Director: Lu Kemp MON Writer: Robert Forrest MON MON 11:00 Earworms b01ng2qz (Listen) MON Earworms are those nagging songs you find yourself humming MON on the bus. MON MON In this programme, music presenter Shaun Keaveny talks to MON fellow sufferers and scientists to find out why songs get MON stuck in our head. He asks songwriter Guy Garvey from Elbow MON how to write a catchy tune and discovers the Holy Grail of MON musicians everywhere - the 'earworm formula'. MON MON As a 6 Music DJ, earworms are an occupational hazard for MON Shaun. "Pretty much anything can trigger an earworm for me. MON If I'm going through Baker Street station, then Gerry MON Rafferty will sneak into my brain." MON MON For the past three years on his breakfast show, Shaun has MON been asking listeners to send in their earworms. When MON psychologist Dr Lauren Stewart found out, she was fascinated MON by this strange mental phenomenon. She wrote in to the show MON to ask if they would help her to investigate these musical MON worms that burrow their way into our brains. MON MON Together they've compiled the largest study on earworms to MON date, with over 10,000 reports from people around the world. MON Now Lauren and her team at Goldsmiths, University of London, MON are starting to discover why some people are more MON susceptible to earworms than others. MON MON Martha, 39, has been plagued by Bananarama since her 1989 MON GCSE chemistry exam. "I have no idea why it came. The song MON 'Nathan Jones' appeared in my head and was stuck there for MON weeks and weeks, it just wouldn't go away." MON MON Ever since, whenever Martha is very stressed, Nathan Jones MON returns to haunt her. "It followed me down the aisle at my MON wedding, and even managed to force its way past an epidural MON when I was giving birth." MON MON But what is it about certain songs which make them so MON sticky? And can psychologists uncover the secret formula MON behind the world's catchiest tunes? MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 11:30 Ayres on the Air b01mxpyr (Listen) MON Series 4, Summer MON MON Popular poet Pam Ayres is joined in her poetry and sketch MON show by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as they look MON at the season of Summer. MON MON This week she looks subjects such as keeping cool, finding MON the perfect swimsuit, summer weddings and eating al fresco. MON MON Her poems this week include: No Alarm on the Flight Deck, MON That Perfect Swimsuit, The Seagull and The Swifts Are Back. MON MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01ng3zy (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01nfc94 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01ng400 (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 Foreign Bodies b01mnz2n (Listen) MON Foreign Bodies, Hercule Poirot and Jules Maigret MON MON Foreign Bodies: A History Of Modern Europe Through Literary MON Detectives MON MON Crime fiction reflects society's tensions. Helped by famous MON literary detectives including Maigret, Montalbano, Dalgliesh MON and Wallander, Mark Lawson shows how crimes reflect Europe's MON times from the world wars of the 20th century to the MON Eurozone crisis and nationalist tensions of the 21st. In MON programme one, Mark Lawson looks at the template set by a MON Belgian created by an Englishwoman and a French cop created MON by a Belgian: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Georges MON Simenon's Jules Maigret hearing from Val McDermid, Lord Grey MON Gowrie, Andrea Camilleri and David Suchet. MON MON In crime fiction, everyday details become crucial clues: the MON way people dress and speak, the cars they drive, the jobs MON they have, the meals they eat. And the motivations of the MON criminals often turn on guilty secrets: how wealth was MON created, who slept with whom, what somebody did in the war. MON For these reasons, detective novels often tell the story of MON a place and a time much better than more literary novels and MON newspapers which can take a lot of contemporary information MON for granted. MON MON Mark Lawson's series focuses on some of the celebrated MON investigators of European fiction and their creators: from MON popular modern protagonists - including Henning Mankell's MON Kurt Wallander, Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole and Andrea Camilleri's MON Inspector Montalbano - through Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus MON and Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison back to Friedrich MON Dürrenmatt's Inspector Barlach and Josef Skvorecký's MON Lieutenant Boruvka. MON MON The series accompanies BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the MON Martin Beck novels written by Swedish husband and wife Maj MON Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. MON MON Producer: Robyn Read. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01ng26l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ng402 (Listen) MON Best Queue MON MON Absurdist, existential drama by Sean Grundy about a family MON stuck in a queue that never ends. MON MON One Tuesday evening, Jean Brooker receives a call from her MON husband Mark. He tells her to quickly come and join him and MON their two teenage kids in a queue forming at the end of MON Daisy Street: apparently someone's giving away a million MON pounds to anyone who makes it to the front. When Jean turns MON up it's an incredible sight, the queue has gained thousands MON of people and goes on for miles, moving intermittently. A MON celebrity turns up with a TV crew and it's all very MON exciting. Food and water is handed down the line, and, at MON first, it feels like a street party. But as the days pass, MON the Brookers lose track of time and their lives change from MON stability and ordinariness to despair and chaos and their MON commitment to the queue and to each other is sorely tested. MON MON Producer: Alison Crawford. MON MON Credits MON Jean: Susan Cookson MON Mark: Simon Armstrong MON Sophie: Rachel Austin MON Bradley: Samuel Holland MON Doctor Keith: Alun Raglan MON Other Voices: Alun Raglan MON Celebrity: Tony Marshall MON Newsreader: Will Glennon MON Producer: Alison Crawford MON Writer: Sean Grundy MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01ng404 (Listen) MON (8/12) MON Why might you find Julia Roberts and King Lear's daughters MON on a pedestrian crossing in Louisiana? MON MON This is just the first of the mind-bending puzzles the teams MON in today's contest have to tackle. Alan Taylor and Michael MON Alexander of Scotland take on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney MON of Northern Ireland, in a return fixture following Northern MON Ireland's victory a few weeks ago. MON MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, to award points and to give MON the teams the gentlest of verbal nudges when they seem to be MON struggling. As usual the programme features two questions MON devised by Round Britain Quiz listeners. The programme was MON recorded in County Antrim: but does this give the Northern MON Ireland team any home advantage? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01ng1tw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus! b010y1wr (Listen) MON Roll up, it's Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus! This is the MON extraordinary tale of when the Pythons went Bavarian. MON MON German Comedy Ambassador, Henning Wehn, tells the story of MON how in 1971 the Pythons were flown into Bavaria, full of new MON original ideas for sketches, including pieces about the MON German artist Albrecht Durer, William Tell and The Merchant MON of Venice. They also adapted the popular Flying Circus MON Lumberjack Song into German and planned to sing it with the MON Austria Border Police Choir. MON MON Only Michael Palin and John Cleese were capable of MON delivering lines in 'understandable' German. Despite MON extensive language coaching, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry MON Jones and Graham Chapman were virtually incomprehensible. MON This may have added to the Pythons' trademark absurdity and MON surrealism, but was somewhat confusing to the German TV MON audience. MON MON Realising this dream was becoming a nightmare, Alfred Biokek MON took the decision to make the second programme in English, MON with German overdub added later. It proved to be a major hit MON on German TV, but all concerned decided it best not to MON repeat the experience. MON MON We hear clips from both programmes and Michael Palin, Terry MON Jones and Alfred Biolek, the man who persuaded them to take MON their comedy to Germany, talk about how they came up with MON the material for the German shows - and how life on set MON began to imitate a Monty Python sketch. MON MON Producer: Jo Meek MON An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01ng40n (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON MON Aleks Krotoski looks at whether we've all become MON techno-fundamentalists. Do we know what all our technology MON is for or more intriguingly what it wants? MON MON Aleks hears from Douglas Rushkoff about how the whole of the MON world around us has always been programmed by architects, MON religion, and politics. But it's something we seem to have MON forgotten about technology itself. MON MON Tom Chatfield discusses how the biases of technology (the MON things it naturally tends towards or is best at) interplay MON with human nature to turn much of our interaction with MON technology into some sort of perverse game. MON MON But some of these biases like the end use of technology only MON emerge once people start to use it. Kevin Kelly is one of MON the world's most respected commentators on technology he MON believes that the biases of all our technology put together MON start to combine so that it behave very much like an MON organism. His provocative theories are detailed in his book MON What does Technology want? MON MON We explore these theories by discussing our biggest MON technologies; the city and whether the latest innovations MON aiming to make our city's smarter and more sustainable hint MON at a better future relationship with the world of MON technology. MON MON 17:00 PM b01nkw2q (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nfc96 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b01ng413 (Listen) MON Series 5, Roberts, Cottrell Boyce, Nyman 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). This week he is joined by the MON comedian Humphrey Ker in the role of Temporary Curator. MON MON This week, John and Jimmy have invited along screenwriter MON Frank Cottrell Boyce, actor/writer/magician Andy Nyman and MON anatomist Dr Alice Roberts. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01ng41j (Listen) MON Fallon is feeling nervous. Meanwhile Lilian has her work cut MON out. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01ng4h1 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Sam Mendes, MON director of Skyfall, the new James Bond film. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ng2qx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Real Rachman - Lord of the Slums b01ng4h3 (Listen) MON History tells us that Peter Rachman was a slum landlord; the MON evil head of an empire based on vice, violence and MON extortion. His festering heartland was Notting Hill - long MON before the rich and famous made it their home. MON MON But can we really trust history? MON MON On the fiftieth anniversary of Rachman's death, Joshua MON Levine goes in search of the man behind the legend. Looking MON beyond the tabloid headlines and the scandal of the Profumo MON affair, he asks whether Rachman deserves such a sordid MON reputation? MON MON With no films or tapes, and only three photographs of the MON notorious 50s landlord, rumour and hearsay is all that MON remains. In an attempt to find the truth, Levine tracks down MON the key players who can shed light on Rachman's past. Mandy MON Rice Davis, famous for her role in the Profumo scandal, MON tells Josh about the generous, intelligent and vulnerable MON man she fell in love with as a 16 year old fresh to London; MON controversial modern landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten MON shares how landlords like he and Rachman made money out of MON the slums; and noted psychologist James Thompson analyses MON the behaviour of Rachman in light of his experiences as a MON Holocaust survivor. MON MON With access to newly released Home Office documents and old MON Rachman tenants, Joshua Levine pieces together the puzzle to MON ask who is the real Peter Rachman? MON MON Produced by Gemma Newby MON A Goldhawk Essential Limited production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01ng4h5 (Listen) MON The School of Hard Facts MON MON E.D. Hirsch is a little-known American professor whose MON radical ideas about what should be taught in schools are set MON to have a profound effect on English schools. A favoured MON intellectual of the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, MON Hirsch advocates a curriculum strongly grounded in facts and MON knowledge. He also believes that there are certain specific MON ideas, works of literature and scientific concepts which MON everyone should know so that they can be active participants MON in society. MON MON Presenter Fran Abrams interviews Hirsch about his ideas. She MON considers their likely impact on English schools and speaks MON to the former English schools minister, Nick Gibb MP, who MON championed Hirsch's ideas when he was in government. He MON explains the reasons for bringing Hirsch's ideas across the MON Atlantic and how they could counteract what he describes as MON a prevailing left-wing ideology among teachers. MON MON Fran also visits London's Pimlico Academy which is MON pioneering a "Hirsch-style" curriculum in its new primary MON school. She talks to the young women leading this MON experiment: Anneliese Briggs and Daisy Christodoulou. MON MON Daisy was once dubbed "Britain's brightest student" after MON captaining the successful Warwick University team on MON "University Challenge". She discusses why she finds Hirsch's MON ideas so compelling. She also explains why, in her view, he MON stands in a proud left-wing tradition that champions MON knowledge as power, a view that contrasts with Nick Gibb's MON more right-of-centre take on Hirsch's ideas. MON MON Fran also talks to Professor Sir Michael Barber, chief MON education adviser to Pearson and former policy MON implementation director to Tony Blair in Downing Street, and MON to a former leading member of the Government's expert panel MON on the curriculum, Professor Andrew Pollard. MON MON Producer Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01nbrj7 (Listen) MON The ten year randomised badger culling trial was set up MON under the eye of Lord Krebs. On Material World this week he MON outlines some of the scientific knowledge - and the gaps in MON that knowledge - that relate to the two licences granted MON recently to pilot wider badger culls in England. Badgers can MON carry TB and infect cattle. Bovine TB is a significant and MON growing problem for British farmers. MON MON As part of the inaugural Biology Week, Prof. Adam Hart MON outlines the results from this year's "Flying Ant Survey", MON promoted by the Society of Biology. 6000 sightings were MON reported by the public. And it seems that this year at MON least, there was no single genuine "Flying Ant Day... MON MON Two interesting new exoplanets have been announced this MON week: one discovered by the crowd research site MON planethunters.org which would seem to have four suns; the MON other, orbiting one of our nearest stars, alpha centauri B, MON and likely to be our nearest planetary neighbour outside of MON our solar system. MON MON And finally, this year marks 50 years of British involvement MON in space. Royal Mail has released a set of stamps covered MON with images from ESA space probes of the sights of our solar MON system. Stuart Clark explains. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01ng2qq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01nfc98 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01ng4h7 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ng4h9 (Listen) MON The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 6 MON MON By Patricia Ferguson MON MON Read by Joanna Tope MON MON The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and MON moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who MON changes their lives. MON MON Grace has caught the eye of young Tommy Dando. And Violet MON learns the astonishing truth about her adopted daughter. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 23:00 Fresh from the Fringe b01ng4hc (Listen) MON Jason Cook hosts a showcase of the best new acts from the MON 2012 Edinburgh Fringe. Featuring stand-up from Nish Kumar, MON Celia Pacquola and Dan Schreiber, character comedy from MON Kieran Hodgson and music from Jonny & the Baptists and Mae MON Martin. MON MON An extended version of the show, also featuring interviews MON and outtakes, is available on the BBC Red Button service. MON MON Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. MON Don't I know you from somewhere? MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ng4hf (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01nfcb3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01ng2qs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nfcb5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nfcb7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nfcb9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01nfcbc (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ngn41 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh TUE Michael Mumisa, of the Woolf Institute for Abrahamic Faiths, TUE Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01ng7rm (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01nktyw (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and TUE James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in TUE Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b01ng7rr (Listen) TUE Series 2, Immigration TUE TUE The eminent Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel is TUE Radio 4's "Public Philosopher." Now, as America prepares for TUE its Presidential elections, he and Radio 4 are going on the TUE road in America with a unique mission to lay bare the deeper TUE moral questions bound up in the noisy Romney and Obama TUE campaigns. TUE TUE In this week's programme, Professor Sandel visits the TUE heartland of America's deep south, hosting a public TUE discussion at the University of Dallas in Texas. He TUE challenges ordinary Texans to consider the moral issues TUE raised when it comes to controlling immigration and deciding TUE who should be entitled to citizenship. TUE TUE Texas has a long frontier with Mexico and the issue of TUE immigration divides people sharply. A million people in TUE Texas are "undocumented" living without immigration papers. TUE Many Hispanic voters want immigration to be reformed and TUE President Obama recently outlined initiatives aimed at this TUE base. Mitt Romney, too, is reaching out to Hispanic voters TUE but many in the Tea Party movement pull the Republicans in TUE the other direction. They insist that the border must be TUE closed and deportations must be stepped up. TUE TUE Against this backdrop, our public audience will be asked: TUE "how far should an open society go on accepting outsiders?" TUE Michael Sandel weaves through these issues with the help of TUE philosophers past and present. TUE TUE Producer: Mukul Devichand. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01njy4l (Listen) TUE Into the Abyss, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Barbara Barnes. TUE TUE Erik Vogel was the 24 year old pilot of the Piper Navajo TUE plane and he was not at all comfortable with the idea of TUE flying north on the evening of 19th October 1984. The small TUE airline had been repeatedly cited for safety violations and TUE visibility on that snowy night was dangerously poor. TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ng7rt (Listen) TUE PD James TUE TUE P D James, the queen of crime writing. Presented by Jane TUE Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nmjt1 (Listen) TUE The Pillow Book, Episode 2 TUE TUE Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari reunite for a new TUE mystery in 10th century Japan. TUE TUE Yukinari has returned to the palace to ask the Lady Shonagon TUE to be his wife, only to discover that his lover is already TUE married. Furthermore, Shonagon is obsessed by a new mystery, TUE one that Yukinari cannot understand: the mystery of her TUE friend's marriage - a passionate affair between a woman of TUE royal blood and a young low-born poet that seems to be TUE moving towards an increasingly dark place. TUE TUE Meanwhile, the entire palace is captivated by the Emperor's TUE new pet - a tiger sent all the way from India. TUE TUE Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and TUE lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese TUE court. TUE TUE Written by Robert Forrest. TUE Directed by Lu Kemp. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01ng7rw (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 8 TUE TUE Before the nineteenth century many bird of prey species were TUE a common sight in our towns and cities, with red kites being TUE frequent scavengers in the City of London. The rise of game TUE shooting from the mid 1800's and changes in agricultural TUE practices saw many birds of prey populations begin to TUE seriously decline. After the World War Two, increased use of TUE agricultural pesticides; pesticides that gradually built up TUE in the ecosystems of birds of prey, finally tipped the TUE balance and many of our once familiar birds of prey such as TUE the peregrine and red kite were slowly driven to near TUE extinction in Britain. TUE TUE In the 1950's and 60's the tide turned, with the outlawing TUE of certain pesticides; and this along with changing TUE attitudes to what our British countryside was for meant that TUE many of our birds of prey have increased dramatically over TUE the last half century, with some conservationists stating TUE that their recovery is one of the glories of 21st century TUE Britain. TUE TUE All birds of prey are protected by law, and 2012 saw public TUE opinion reversing a Government plan to allow research into TUE buzzard control to reduce the so-called 'significant' effect TUE of buzzards on pheasant shoots. For this Saving Species, TUE Brett Westwood discusses what does the science and the TUE ecology of birds of prey reveal about their needs and how TUE does this fit in to the landuse in which they live. TUE TUE 11:30 Swansong b01ng7ry (Listen) TUE Synchronicity by the Police TUE TUE A new series in which each week Stuart Maconie examines the TUE final album by a major artist. This week, Synchronicity by TUE The Police. Released in 1983, it was the band's fifth album TUE and it hit the number one spot on both sides of the TUE Atlantic. In America, it knocked the commercial juggernaut TUE of Michael Jackson's Thriller from the top of the charts, TUE selling over 8 million copies in the process. It also TUE produced five international hit singles, including their TUE most famous track Every Breath You Take. As Sting & co TUE toured the world to promote their most successful release, TUE each night playing 60,000 seater venues, at that point in TUE their career they could genuinely lay claim to being the TUE biggest band on planet Earth. TUE Although the split was never officially announced, TUE Synchronicity was to be the last studio album they would TUE ever record. Despite all of the success, the truth was the TUE three members couldn't stand to be in the same room as each TUE other. With archive interviews from Sting and Andy Summers TUE and brand new contributions from Stewart Copeland, manager TUE Miles Copeland, producer Hugh Padgham and journalist John TUE Pidgeon, Stuart Maconie examines what went wrong. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01ng7s0 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01nfcbf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01ng7s2 (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 Foreign Bodies b01mnz34 (Listen) TUE Foreign Bodies, Inspector Barlach TUE TUE Mark Lawson's history of Europe seen through the pages of TUE crime fiction looks at the ideas of guilt, responsibility TUE and justice in the writing of Friedrich Dürrenmatt TUE (1921-1990). TUE TUE His Inspector Barlach books were published in Switzerland in TUE 1950 and 1951 and he used elements of the crime genre in TUE plays including The Pledge and The Visit. TUE TUE Theatre directors Josie Rourke and Simon McBurney, Hollywood TUE scriptwriters Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski; TUE Professor and crime blogger Katharina Hall and German lawyer TUE turned best selling author Ferdinand von Schirach share TUE their passion for Dürrenmatt's clear eyed depictions of the TUE impact of German and Swiss actions in World War II. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01ng41j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ng7s4 (Listen) TUE Forever Mankind TUE TUE It's 1973 and the American public wants to honour the bodies TUE of the heroic astronauts who made it to the moon, but died TUE unexpectedly, four years earlier. TUE TUE After much lobbying, NASA gets the funds to launch a new TUE mission with better technology. Three lucky astronauts are TUE delighted that they have the responsibility of reviving TUE popular interest in the space race. They are Clyde, Frank TUE and Scott - three patriots who are all professionals and TUE aware that sometimes a mission goes beyond what the public TUE is told. TUE TUE Ellen, an ambitious Houston TV reporter, documents their TUE preparations and is convinced that this story will give her TUE a national scoop. As the mission develops, she gets more TUE than she bargains for. TUE TUE In Jonathan Mitchell and Judith Kampfner's alternative TUE history, all doesn't go according to plan and the second TUE Moon expedition opens up questions about the Cold War and TUE competing motives for space journeys, which have a sinister TUE edge. TUE TUE Recorded on location in New York City TUE TUE Produced by Judith Kampfner and Jonathan Mitchell TUE A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ellen: Amy Warren TUE Danny: Eddie Schweighart TUE George: John Henry Cox TUE Clyde: David Slavin TUE Frank: Christian Paluck TUE Scott: Mike Iveson TUE Dean: Mike Iveson TUE Maggie: Chet Siegel TUE Sergei: Moti Margolin TUE President: John Ottavino TUE Granma: Dorothy Stinette TUE Buzz Aldrin: Ed Herbstman TUE Walt: Ed Herbstman TUE Neil Armstrong: Matt Evams TUE Producer: Jonathan Mitchell TUE Producer: Judith Kampfner TUE Writer: Judith Kampfner TUE Writer: Jonathan Mitchell TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01ng7s6 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is in the chair for the first in a new series of TUE programmes in which listener's historical and archaeological TUE inquiries are showcased alongside the latest work being TUE carried out in universities, archives and museums across the TUE UK. TUE TUE Joining Tom in the studio are Dr Lucy Worsley from the TUE Historic Royal Palaces and Professor Owen Davies from the TUE University of Hertfordshire. Helen Castor is in Lancashire TUE to find out how local ghost stories help us understand the TUE way people thought in centuries gone by. TUE TUE Martin Ellis takes on the invading Normans to find out TUE whether re-enactment is just dressing up or serious TUE historical research and Professor Ronald Hutton takes us to TUE the inspirational medieval castle in Wales that set him on a TUE lifetime's path of making history. TUE TUE Join in the discussion on Facebook, Twitter or by emailing TUE making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01mwvl6 (Listen) TUE Apocalypse Then and Now TUE TUE During the Vietnam War two million tons of American bombs TUE were dropped on the tiny nation of Laos, more than the TUE combined weight dropped on Japan and Germany during World TUE War Two. The environmental impact was horrific, destroying TUE forests, killing endangered wildlife and poisoning water TUE supplies. For forty years the people of rural Laos have had TUE to live with the constant fear of stepping on one of the TUE thousands of unexploded bombs that litter the countryside. TUE TUE Bomb clearance has been partial and sporadic but the sudden TUE influx of mining companies coupled with the building of new TUE roads and hydro-electric dams is speeding things up. TUE Farmland which has been unusable for decades is being bought TUE up, cleared of bombs and sold on to developers. In 'Costing TUE the Earth' Tom Heap and Georgia Catt hear how the tough work TUE of the bomb clearance teams is altering the environment of TUE Laos. Local people may be glad to see the back of the TUE American bombs but the roads and mines that replace them are TUE changing the face of the country forever. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01ng7s8 (Listen) TUE Earlier this year, in a complete reversal of government TUE policy, ministers decided after all to establish the new TUE post of Chief Coroner. His Honour Judge Peter Thornton TUE formally took up his role in September. The post is a highly TUE visible one in an area of the law that has captured enormous TUE public attention in recent years. TUE TUE The inquest into the 7/7 bombings; the inquest into the TUE death of the newspaper seller, Ian Tomlinson; Hillsborough; TUE deaths in police custody; and deaths on military service TUE abroad - all these have put the spotlight on the inquest TUE system and the role of coroners in unprecedented ways. TUE TUE In his first broadcast interview since taking up the TUE newly-created post of Chief Coroner, Judge Thornton talks to TUE "Law in Action" presenter, Joshua Rozenberg, about what the TUE public can expect from him and how inquest procedures will TUE be improved. TUE TUE The programme will also explore the coalition's highly TUE controversial plans for new sentencing rules. First, the TUE proposed new "2-strikes-and-you're-out" rubric for serious TUE violent and sexual criminals. How many offenders will TUE actually be affected by this? And will it mean that such TUE offenders really do serve "life sentences"? TUE TUE At the other end of the scale, the government also plans a TUE change. This is to give victims the power to choose the form TUE which an out-of-court community sentence will take. Joshua TUE Rozenberg asks if it is a good idea to involve victims in TUE the sentencing process in this way. And, if it is, where TUE might we go next in giving victims sentencing powers? TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01ng831 (Listen) TUE Justin Webb and Frances Fyfield TUE TUE Justin Webb and Frances Fyfield tell Harriett Gilbert about TUE the books they love, including Crossing to Safety by Wallace TUE Stegner, which is a great American novel you've probably TUE never heard of. Stone's Fall by Iain Pears goes back from TUE London in 1909 to Paris in 1809 to Venice in 1867, to solve TUE the mystery of a rich man's suicide. And Seeking Whom He May TUE Devour by Fred Vargas (popular French crime novelist TUE Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau), creates a gently funny and oddly TUE believable world of its own in the French Alps, a world in TUE which wolves are eating the local sheep - or are they? TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01nkw3y (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nfcbh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01ng835 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Let It Grow TUE TUE Episode 3: Let It Grow TUE TUE Adam is keen to take on an allotment and work the land with TUE his Dad, Rudy. Rudy would prefer a patio. TUE TUE Adam hopes to bond with his Dad, Rudy, whilst they till the TUE earth together on an allotment. However, Rudy prefers to TUE chill with his best friend Clifton and only takes an TUE interest when they spot a rare and illegal plant growing in TUE the greenhouse. 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 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 Lucinda ............ Sarah Thom TUE Trader/Customer/Dealer ............ Adam Nagaitis TUE TUE Written by Danny Robins TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01ng837 (Listen) TUE Don has made his decision and Hayley's getting hot under the TUE collar. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01ng839 (Listen) TUE With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the poet TUE Sharon Olds, whose most recent volume charts the end of her TUE marriage. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nmjt1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01ng83c (Listen) TUE Public, Private and Profitable TUE TUE The midnight collapse of the Government's plans for the West TUE Coast main railway line once again raises questions about TUE the outsourcing of public services to private providers. TUE Public bodies of all kinds now face massive budget cuts and TUE are under pressure to deliver savings. As a result, across TUE the country, public services of all kinds are now up for TUE tender in the hope they can be delivered more cheaply by the TUE private sector. TUE With relatively straightforward things such as refuse TUE collection, there's general agreement that experience to TUE date shows outsourcing can work, and can save the taxpayer TUE money. TUE But with complex services in education, health or transport, TUE the picture is far less clear. TUE Michael Robinson investigates the outsourcing of these TUE complex public services and uncovers another, as yet TUE unreported, example of huge profits being earned by major TUE private companies at taxpayers' expense. TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01ng83f (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01ng83h (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b01ng7rr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01nfcbk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01ng83k (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ng83m (Listen) TUE The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Patricia Ferguson TUE TUE Read by Joanna Tope TUE TUE The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and TUE moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who TUE changes their lives. TUE TUE Grace is injured in an unexpected attack while Violet is TUE away. She becomes dangerously ill and is looked after by TUE both her mother and her aunt. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lgj3p (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music and TUE comedy. TUE TUE Paul Sinha in the lounge, Milton Jones in the bedroom and TUE Glenn Tilbrook in the kitchen provide music and nourishment TUE in the shape of Welsh rarebit, and Pippa Evans - as TUE singer-songwriter Loretta Maine - lends a hand. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ng83p (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01nfccd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01njy4l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nfccg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nfccj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nfccl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01nfccn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ng89b (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh WED Michael Mumisa, of the Woolf Institute for Abrahamic Faiths, WED Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01ng89d (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. WED WED 06:00 Today b01nkw0d (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01ng89j (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01njy53 (Listen) WED Into the Abyss, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Barbara Barnes. WED WED Paul Archambault was a convicted criminal, but he was also a WED personable young man and his police escort had felt WED comfortable removing his handcuffs once the plane was WED airborne. Relatively unscathed, it was Paul who chose to go WED back to the wrecked plane to see who was alive. He found WED Erik, Scott the police officer and Larry Shaben - the WED author's father. Now all they had to do is stay alive until WED help arrived. WED WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ng89l (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nmjzn (Listen) WED The Pillow Book, Episode 3 WED WED Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari reunite for a new WED mystery in 10th century Japan. WED WED Yukinari has returned to the palace to ask the Lady WED Shonagon's to be his wife, only to discover his lover is WED already married. And the Lady Shonagon is obsessed by a new WED mystery, one that Yukinari cannot understand: the mystery of WED her friend's marriage - a passionate affair between a woman WED of royal blood and a young low-born poet that seems to be WED moving towards an increasingly dark and tempestuous place. WED WED Meanwhile, the entire palace is captivated by the Emperor's WED new pet - a tiger sent all the way from India. WED WED Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and WED lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese WED court. WED WED Written by Robert Forrest. WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01ng89n (Listen) WED Series 11, Episode 4 WED WED Alan Dein visits a Hastings allotment and finds that a plot WED of land means a lot more to people than a place to grow WED vegetables. He joins various allotmenteers as they tend WED their plot and, in turn, hears how differently they use it. WED A young family have created a haven where the children learn WED about nature; a teacher uses the allotment to help him deal WED with depression; two friends meet up under a full moon and WED await the wild original inhabitants of the allotment whilst WED reflecting on life and their place in it. WED WED Produced by Sarah Bowen and Neil McCarthy. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01ng89q (Listen) WED Series 5, Turn Around Dave Eyes WED WED The hit Radio 4 series Fags, Mags and Bags returns for a WED fifth series, with more shop-based shenanigans and over the WED counter philosophy courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty WED sidekick Dave. WED WED Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli, WED the previous series picked up a Writers Guild nomination for WED best comedy and this new run sees a return of all the shop WED regular characters as well as some guest appearances along WED the way from the likes of Julie T Wallace, Barry Howard and WED Sean Biggestaff. WED WED The staff of Fags, Mags and Bags continue their tireless WED quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke WED with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh WED Mahju has built the business up over 30 years and loves the WED art of the shop. However, he does apply the "low return" WED rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. Then WED there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not WED keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but Ramesh WED is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them whether WED they like it or not! WED WED In this episode, Dave embraces internet dating and gets WED close to someone who is passing themselves off as 80s rock WED goddess Bonnie Tyler. Meanwhile Ramesh has a wobble about WED his Meat Loaf date with Malcolm as it falls on a delicate WED family anniversary. WED WED Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli WED Dave ..... Donald Mcleary WED Sanjay ..... Omar Raza WED Alok ..... Susheel Kumar WED Malcolm ..... Mina Anwar WED Mrs Birkett ..... Stewart Cairns WED Keith Futures ..... Gavin Mitchell WED Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01ng98s (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01nfccq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01ngmcj (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 Foreign Bodies b01mnz3x (Listen) WED Foreign Bodies, Lieutenant Boruvka WED WED When Josef Skvorecký published the Mournful Demeanour of WED Lieutenant Boruvka in 1966 he had to refer obliquely to the WED Czech political situation but following the Prague spring he WED emigrated to Canada and his writing became more explicit. WED WED Mark Lawson discusses his writing with translator and former WED member of the Plastic People of the Universe, Paul Wilson, WED who argues that the country was a crimescape and that WED Skvorecký's interest in the crime genre went beyond his WED Boruvka series. WED WED Producer: Robyn Read. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01ng837 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ngmcl (Listen) WED What Love Sounds Like Love WED WED What Love Sounds Like centres around the meeting of a blind WED man, Dom, and a deaf woman, Thea, in a faith-healer's WED waiting room. Dom has only recently gone blind and is at WED odds with the world and himself. Thea, using her computer WED voice generator, plies him with questions - particularly WED about an old, painful relationship which Dom is initially WED reluctant to talk about. As the play progresses we realise WED that all is not quite as it seems, and that this meeting may WED have profound consequences for them both. Alex Jennings and WED Juliet Stevenson star in a new play by award-winning WED playwright Peter Souter WED WED Produced and directed by Gordon House. WED WED Credits WED Dom: Alex Jennings WED Thea: Juliet Stevenson WED Shenoa: Don Gilet WED Luda: Stephanie Racine WED Director: Gordon House WED Producer: Gordon House WED Writer: Peter Souter WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01ngmcn (Listen) WED Mortgages WED WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01ng83h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01ngmcq (Listen) WED Trouble at Work WED WED Trouble at work. Laurie Taylor considers the findings of the WED largest UK study on ill treatment in the workplace ever WED undertaken. He's joined by the researchers, Ralph Fevre and WED Amanda Robinson, who claim that organisations which are well WED versed in modern management practices may create a culture WED in which bullying, harassment and stress thrive. Also, WED travellers versus tourists - Lara Weeks' research questions WED whether or not those seeking 'authentic culture' provide WED more to foreign countries than those who stick to the WED 'tourist trail' WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01ngmcs (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01nktln (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nfccs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00wsqvc (Listen) WED Series 6, Calendar Boys WED WED Arthur is informed by Malcolm that there is an emergency WED meeting to be held in order to discuss raising funds for the WED local Church Hall, which is in dire straits and requires WED important improvements to remain open. WED WED In true Arthur style he comes up with an idea or two to help WED the fund-raising process, hoping to involve as many of his WED friends in the process. WED WED With an idea finally put to the committee and inevitably WED agreed to, after Arthur's persuasive words, the 'stage is WED set' for a fund-raising project that will surely turn heads WED and raise Arthur's personal profile as well as the much WED needed funding for the Church... WED WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Man, Wilf, Policeman ...... Alastair Kerr WED Ref, Geoffrey, Child ..... Dave Mounfield WED Mother, Sally,Woman ..... Mel Giedroyc WED Malcolm ..... Terry Kilkelly WED WED Prodcuers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01ngmcx (Listen) WED Neil senses something is wrong, and will Joe let the cat out WED of the bag? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01ngmcz (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who meets the Booker Prize-winning WED Australian writer Thomas Keneally. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nmjzn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01ngmjp (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Matthew Taylor and Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01ngmjr (Listen) WED Series 3, Ben Dyson WED WED Ben Dyson, founder and director of Positive Money, tells how WED his disillusionment with mainstream economics led him to WED campaign for a proper understanding of how money works as WED the first step in fixing a failed banking system. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 The Ice Mountain b01g65gs (Listen) WED This haunting soundscape follows the journey of a fictional WED iceberg as it travels south into the North Atlantic after WED calving from a glacier in Greenland. One hundred years ago WED RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and WED more than 1500 people died as a result of this collision. As WED a result, the International Ice Patrol (I.C.P.) was formed WED to monitors the ice conditions near the Grand Banks of WED Newfoundland and warn mariners of the dangers that icebergs WED present to safe navigation. Since the formation of the WED I.C.P. no ship which has heeded their warnings has struck an WED iceberg in the North Atlantic. Narrated by Adjoa Andoh and WED with sound recordings by Chris Watson, the ICE MOUNTAIN WED follows the journey of an iceberg; from creation to WED destruction and recalls the events which led up to the WED sinking of RMS Titanic. Each spring, huge numbers of WED icebergs set off on a 'one way migration' south. How far WED they travel and in which direction depends on their size, WED shape, wind direction and strength, currents and tides. WED During their journey the most astonishing groans, creaks and WED growls can be heard as they heat up in the sun, crack and WED melt or roll around in the waves. Writer and broadcaster WED Tony Soper describes how birds including Glaucous gulls and WED Kittiwakes, will use them as places to roost and fish. This WED in turn will attract killer whales which feed on small fish WED like Capelin. But for mariners, icebergs are to be avoided. WED One of the most dangerous aspects is that most of the body WED of the berg is below the surface. About 1/10th is above WED water and the rest below. "There's nothing, almost nothing WED you can do to control its behaviour, to determine what it's WED going to do, and it is just a force of nature." WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01ng89j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01nfccv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01ngmjt (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ngmjw (Listen) WED The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 8 WED WED By Patricia Ferguson WED WED Read by Joanna Tope WED WED The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and WED moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who WED changes their lives. WED WED The War is taking its toll on the young men of the WED community. Grace is recovering and is offered a job in a WED convalescent home in Patricia Ferguson's story of two WED sisters and the young black orphan who changes their lives. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b014qnwq (Listen) WED Series 3, Arabella Weir 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. WED WED Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by actor Arabella Weir who WED describes a teenage life full of drinking, calorie-counting WED and boys. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ngmjy (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy reports on Prime Minister's Questions and WED today's events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01nfcdr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01njy53 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nfcdt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nfcdw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nfcdy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01nfcf0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ngn3b (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh THU Michael Mumisa, of the Woolf Institute for Abrahamic Faiths, THU Cambridge. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01ngn3d (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Heather Simons. THU THU 06:00 Today b01ngn3g (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01ngn3j (Listen) THU Fermat's Last Theorem THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem. THU In 1637 the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scribbled THU a note in the margin of one of his books. He claimed to have THU proved a remarkable property of numbers, but gave no clue as THU to how he'd gone about it. "I have found a wonderful THU demonstration of this proposition," he wrote, "which this THU margin is too narrow to contain". For over three centuries THU mathematicians struggled in vain to work out what Fermat's THU proof had been. In 1995 the British mathematician Andrew THU Wiles finally unveiled a solution to a problem that had THU stymied some of the world's greatest minds. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01njy62 (Listen) THU Into the Abyss, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Barbara Barnes. THU THU In the aftermath of the accident and the rescue, the nation THU decides that Paul is a hero - but can he rise to fill the THU role that he finds himself unexpectedly cast in? Meantime, THU Scott is recovering from life-threatening injuries and THU trying to work out just what he had witnessed that night on THU the mountain. THU THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ngn3l (Listen) THU James Cracknell and Beverley Turner THU THU James Cracknell & Beverley Turner talk about how their lives THU were affected by his head injury. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nmkv2 (Listen) THU The Pillow Book, Episode 4 THU THU Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari reunite for a new THU mystery in 10th century Japan. THU THU Yukinari has returned to the palace to ask the Lady THU Shonagon's to be his wife, only to discover his lover is THU already married. Furthermore, the Lady Shonagon has become THU obsessed by a new mystery, one that Yukinari cannot THU understand: the mystery of her friend's marriage - a THU passionate affair between a woman of royal blood and a young THU low-born poet. That mystery has now met a tragic end, but THU Shonagon is sure that the explanation everyone else seems so THU prepared to accept is far from being the whole truth. THU THU Meanwhile, the Emperor's new pet, a tiger sent all the way THU from India, paces in its cage in the palace grounds. THU THU Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and THU lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese THU court. THU THU Written by Robert Forrest. THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01ngn3n (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 What's So Great About ...? b00c7fbx (Listen) THU Sereis 1, Bob Dylan THU THU Comedian and actor Lenny Henry asks "What's So Great THU About...?" people, things, institutions and aspects of THU contemporary life that frequently go unexplored, THU unchallenged and widely accepted but which he, personally THU doesn't really buy. THU THU In the first of three programmes he questions the greatness THU of BOB DYLAN. Lenny - a great fan of Soul music and Rhythm & THU Blues - gets to grips one recording artist he never really THU "got" : Bob Dylan. From the time he was a teenager in Dudley THU in the early 70s he had to listen to his schoolmate Greg THU Stokes tell him what a "classic" the Dylan album 'Blonde On THU Blonde' was ; and ever since friends have been trying to THU convince him that "His Bobness", as Lenny describes him, is THU the one recording artist to whom he should really devote his THU energies. It's now make or break time and Lenny assembles a THU band of musicians and fans to see if they can, once and for THU all, change his mind. THU "Dear oh dear", says Lenny. "That whine! That grating THU music!" Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Kris Kristofferson, THU Bryan Ferry, Jools Holland and Al Kooper, who played with THU Dylan on some of his most famous albums in the 1960s, are THU among the defence team. It seems they have their work cut THU out. THU THU Producer: Patrick Gregory THU (Repeat). THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01ngn3s (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01nfcf2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01ngn3v (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 Foreign Bodies b01mnz4r (Listen) THU Foreign Bodies, Commissaris Van Der Valk THU THU The Van Der Valk novels written by Nicholas Freeling became THU a popular Thames TV series starring Barry Foster in 1970s. A THU British chef who lived first in Holland and then France, THU Freeling's books depict both post war Europe and the THU development of closer European ties in the European Union. THU THU Mark Lawson's series exploring European history through THU crime fiction continues with a trip to Amsterdam in search THU of Van Der Valk. Lord Grey Gowrie remembers interviewing THU Nicholas Freeling before his death in 2003, and Dutch author THU Saskia Noort describes her books about crimes involving THU women which draw on trends in Dutch society now. THU THU Producer: Robyn Read. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01ngmcx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vcprb (Listen) THU Stone, The Night THU THU Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Written by THU James Rye. THU THU DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife THU of one of his team and uncovers a dark secret. THU DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after THU a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has THU been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given THU Rohypnol. I would seem that this is just the beginning of THU something bigger and as Stone investigates further he THU uncovers a dark secret. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Stone: Hugo Speer THU Tanner: Craig Cheetham THU Sue: Deborah McAndrew THU Karen: Kaye Wragg THU Louisa: Eva Pope THU Gould: Greg Wood THU Sammy: Kevin Harvey THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Danny Brocklehurst THU Writer: James Rye THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01ngnwb (Listen) THU Series 22, Steve Backshall THU THU Clare Balding walks with naturalist, author & TV presenter, THU Steve Backshall. Together they stroll along his favourite THU stretch of the Thames from Bourne End to Boulter's Lock in THU Buckinghamshire. THU THU Steve is best known for presenting CBBC's 'Deadly 60', and THU has recently started writing children's fiction - his first THU book is 'Tiger Wars', about a group of renegade children who THU become involved with tiger poaching in India. THU THU He spends a lot of time filming abroad so Clare was lucky to THU catch up with him on his home patch. As they wander along THU the Thames, Steve explains that his love of the outdoors THU began when - as a child - his parents sent him and his THU sister out to play and told them not to come back until it THU was dark. This kind of 'feral' (as he put it) freedom THU developed in him an enduring passion for the natural world. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01ng1j9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01ng26b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01ngnwd (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01ngnwg (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 b01nkw1t (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nfcf6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This? THU b01njxp8 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Fosters nominated and talented comedian, Andrew Lawrence, THU kicks off his new series in which he brings us a comic THU explanation of our development via stand up, sketch and THU song. This week Andrew looks at what goes in to making our THU diet: "what we shove in our mouths, dissolve in our guts and THU shunt out of our poo pipes". Including a rather different THU view of fair trade, a comment on road-kill as food and a THU moving song about the extinction of the Mammoth. Sara Pascoe THU and Marek Larwood assist. THU Producer: Jane Berthoud. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01ngnwl (Listen) THU There isn't a moment's peace for Lilian. Meanwhile Peggy has THU a brainwave. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01ngnwn (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the cartoonist THU and writer Posy Simmonds. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nmkv2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01ng7s8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01ngnwq (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 b01ng7rw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01ngn3j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01nfcf8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01ngnws (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ngnwv (Listen) THU The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 9 THU THU By Patricia Ferguson THU THU Read by Joanna Tope THU THU The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and THU moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who THU changes their lives. THU THU Grace has met the injured soldier, Joe Gilder, and they plan THU their life together - with support from Aunt Bea. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b012wjdp (Listen) THU Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - BigiHype! THU THU This episode sees the launch of BigiHype - the surefire way THU to raise the profile of a new event or an unpopular charity. 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 was conceived by Nick Doody and written by Nick THU Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan with Carey Marx. It THU 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 b01ngnzx (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01nfcg9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01njy62 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nfcgc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nfcgf (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nfcgh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01nfcgk (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ngrw3 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sheikh FRI Michael Mumisa, of the Woolf Institute for Abrahamic Faiths, FRI Cambridge. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01ngrw5 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01ngrw7 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, FRI Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01ng1kv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01njy7v (Listen) FRI Into the Abyss, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Barbara Barnes. FRI FRI Erik becomes a campaigner for aviation safety and warns of FRI the dangers of pilot fatigue. He takes to the air once FRI again. Larry organises a reunion. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ngrw9 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nml7l (Listen) FRI The Pillow Book, Episode 5 FRI FRI The concluding episode in a new series of Robert Forrest's FRI popular thriller set in 10th century Japan. FRI FRI Yukinari has returned to the palace to discover that his FRI lover, the Lady Shonagon, is married. Shonagon claims to FRI want peace and tranquillity and yet her determination to FRI unravel the mystery of a crime committed on the Palace FRI grounds threatens her favoured position in the palace. FRI Shonagon is asking questions, and looking into dark corners, FRI and Yukinari fears for her safety while he struggles to FRI understand why she will not let this mystery lie. FRI FRI Meanwhile the Emperor's new pet, a tiger all the way from FRI India, roars inside its cage in the palace grounds. FRI FRI Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and FRI lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese FRI court. FRI FRI Written by Robert Forrest. FRI Directed by Lu Kemp. FRI FRI 11:00 Universities Challenged b01ngrwc (Listen) FRI The Coalition insists their reforms to the English FRI university system will create a healthy marketplace where FRI universities have to compete to fill their places and FRI students become consumers shopping around for value for FRI money, and driving up quality. But - as the Secretary of FRI State responsible for universities, Business Secretary Vince FRI Cable, tells this programme - that part of the reforms is FRI "experimental". FRI FRI So how is the experiment working out ? FRI FRI For more than a year, Radio 4 has been given inside access FRI to the University of Bedfordshire as it, along with every FRI other university in England, tries to recruit as many FRI students as it can, setting fees as high as it dares. FRI FRI The programme hears how Bedfordshire's outspoken Vice FRI Chancellor, Professor Les Ebdon (who midway through the year FRI became the Government's independent universities access FRI czar) justified charging nine thousand pounds a year - the FRI same as Oxford and Cambridge. And how did he handle a FRI tabloid campaign attacking him and the University's so FRI called "Mickey Mouse" degrees? FRI FRI Professor Ebdon's successor at Bedfordshire, former Labour FRI universities minister Bill Rammell, also responds to the FRI view that it's just too easy to get into his university. FRI FRI "Universities Challenged" charts an extraordinary year for FRI English universities. It's a story of risk, good news and FRI some nasty surprises . FRI FRI Produced by Ivor Gaber FRI An IGA production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b01ngrwf (Listen) FRI A Desperate Attempt To Have Fun FRI FRI The writer Vera Sackcloth-Vest has to tear herself away from FRI her beloved garden just at the moment when her mammillarias FRI are about to open. FRI FRI She and her husband Henry have been summoned to London by FRI her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox. Ginny and her FRI husband Lionel have realized that they have never had what FRI is known as "fun" and they beg Vera and Henry to provide it. FRI FRI Simultaneously, Vera's ardent acolyte Venus Traduces asks FRI Vera to educate her, so she can be taken seriously by the FRI Gloomsbury set. Exhausted by her efforts to educate and FRI entertain, and haunted by the fear that her beloved Henry FRI will soon be posted to the Balkans, Vera endures an FRI emotional crisis at a picnic in Kensington Gardens. FRI FRI Rescue arrives unexpectedly, and she escapes back to her FRI beloved Sizzlinghurst, just as her mammillarias lift their FRI saucy little faces to the sun. FRI 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 FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01ngrwh (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01ngrwk (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 12:57 Weather b01nfcgm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01ngrwm (Listen) 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 Foreign Bodies b01mnz57 (Listen) FRI Foreign Bodies, Inspector Martin Beck FRI FRI In 1965 husband and wife Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö FRI published the first of their series of 10 police procedurals FRI featuring Inspector Martin Beck and his team. Written during FRI a time when Stockholm saw demonstrations against the Vietnam FRI War, the arming and re-organisation of the police force and FRI stresses on the welfare state, the Beck novels deliberately FRI used the crime genre to depict changes in Swedish society. FRI FRI Current crime best sellers Jo Nesbø, Henning Mankell, Åsa FRI Larsson, Camilla Lackberg, Jens Lapidus, Val McDermid and FRI Gunnar Staalesen are amongst those discussing the influence FRI of the Martin Beck series with Mark Lawson as part of his FRI series looking at European history through crime fiction. FRI FRI Producer: Robyn Read. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01ngnwl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ngrwp (Listen) FRI The Man Who Jumped from Space FRI FRI The real life story of Captain Joe Kittinger and Project FRI Excelsior. As jet planes flew higher and faster in the FRI 1950s, the USAF became increasingly worried about the safety FRI of flight crew who had to eject at high altitude. So Project FRI Excelsior was initiated to perfect a parachute system that FRI would allow a safe, controlled descent after a high-altitude FRI ejection. FRI FRI Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI Project Excelsior was initiated in 1958 to design a FRI parachute system that would allow a safe, controlled descent FRI after a high-altitude ejection. FRI FRI To test the parachute system, staff at Wright Field built a FRI 200 ft (61 m) high helium balloon with a capacity of nearly FRI 3 million cubic feet (85,000 m³) that could lift an open FRI gondola and test pilot into the stratosphere. Joe Kittinger, FRI who was test director for the project, made three ascents FRI and test jumps. This is the story of the three jumps. FRI FRI Credits FRI Joe Kittinger: Simon Lee Phillips FRI Beau: David Fleeshman FRI Stapp: Garrick Hagon FRI Bobby: Kerry Shale FRI Grubitz: Andrew Westfield FRI Technician: Hamilton Berstock FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Andy Walker FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ngrwr (Listen) FRI Stamford FRI FRI The GQT team visit Stamford in Lincolnshire, with Eric FRI Robson in the chair and Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and FRI Bob Flowerdew taking questions from the local gardening FRI audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b01ngrwt (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Four acclaimed novelists write their first stories for FRI radio. And Tom Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists, FRI describes how a protest threatens to turn into a coup, in FRI London' s genteel Kensington, next door to where FRI the two Geralds have just moved in. FRI FRI Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt. FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01ngrww (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01ngrwy (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 b01ngrx0 (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 b01nkw1w (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nfcgp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01ngrx4 (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy and Miles Jupp. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01ngrx6 (Listen) FRI Writer.....Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Director....Rosemary Watts FRI Editor.....Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Tom Archer..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood FRI Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley..... June Spencer FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison FRI William Grundy..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur FRI Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ngrx8 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the acclaimed FRI composer Thomas Adès. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nml7l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ngrxb (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion and debate FRI programme from Blackheath Halls in South London. Guests FRI include the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ngrxd (Listen) FRI Understanding Contemporary China 3/4 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 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 Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the FRI World'. FRI FRI Producer Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Foreign Bodies b01ngrxg (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Poirot, Maigret, Martin Beck, Van Der Valk, Boruvka FRI and Barlach FRI FRI Foreign Bodies: A History Of Modern Europe Through Literary FRI Detectives FRI FRI Crime fiction reflects society's tensions. Helped by famous FRI literary detectives including Maigret, Montalbano, Dalgliesh FRI and Wallander, Mark Lawson shows how crimes reflect Europe's FRI times from the world wars of the 20th century to the FRI Eurozone crisis and nationalist tensions of the 21st. FRI FRI Beginning with the template set by Agatha Christie's Hercule FRI Poirot and Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret. Mark Lawson FRI hears from Val McDermid, Lord Grey Gowrie, Andrea Camilleri, FRI PD James and David Suchet. FRI FRI We move to a Swiss view of Germany in the novels of FRI Friedrich Dürrenmatt which explore guilt, responsibility and FRI justice after World War II. Contributions come from FRI Ferdinand von Schirach, Simon McBurney, Josie Rourke, FRI Hollywood scriptwriters Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary FRI Olson-Kromolowski; and Professor Katharina Hall (aka Mrs FRI Peabody Investigates) FRI FRI Josef Skvorecký's depiction of Czech history is discussed by FRI translator (and former member of the Plastic People of the FRI Universe) Paul Wilson. After his novel The Cowards was FRI banned by the Communist authorities, Skvorecký began the FRI Lieutenant Boruvka series. FRI FRI Inspector Van Der Valk brought an image of Holland to '70s FRI viewers of the TV dramatisations starring Barry Foster. Mark FRI Lawson finds out the Dutch view of Nicholas Freeling's cop FRI from best seller Saskia Voort FRI FRI The Martin Beck crime novels written by Maj Sjöwall and Per FRI Wahlöö deliberately traced changes in Swedish society FRI between 1965 and 1975. Their influence is discussed by Jo FRI Nesbø, Henning Mankell, Åsa Larsson, Camilla Lackberg, Jens FRI Lapidus and Gunnar Staalesen. FRI FRI BBC Radio 4 is dramatising all 10 Martin Beck novels FRI starring Steven Mackintosh as Beck and Neil Pearson as FRI Kollberg. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01nfcgr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ngrxj (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ngrxl (Listen) FRI The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 10 FRI FRI By Patricia Ferguson FRI FRI Read by Joanna Tope FRI FRI The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and FRI moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who FRI changes their lives. FRI FRI There is wonderful news for Grace but joy is short lived. FRI And the final truth about the past is revealed. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01ng831 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ngrxn (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01ngrxq (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
19 October, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 20/10/2012 - 26/10/2012
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