02 November, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 03/11/2012 - 09/11/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01nlbzz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01nnfgk (Listen) SAT Tombstone, Episode 5 SAT SAT Mao's support of the system of communal kitchens exacerbates SAT China's famine disaster. As the peasants give up their SAT allotments and their livestock, they have no means of saving SAT themselves when the kitchens run out of food and close down. SAT SAT Read by David Yip. SAT Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nlc01 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nlc03 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nlc05 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01nlc07 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nlc1g (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01nlc1j (Listen) SAT "Tina's been walloped a fair few times"; we hear what it's SAT like to work in a care home, and Your news is read by the SAT BBC's North America Editor, Mark Mardell. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01nlc09 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01nlc0c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01nl9p9 (Listen) SAT Hicks Lodge/National Forest SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Hicks Lodge, a restored open cast mine in SAT Leicestershire, now a haven for wildlife, walkers and SAT cyclists and other more unusual visitors. Over 100 different SAT bird species have been recorded at Hicks Lodge, which is run SAT by the Forestry Commission and is situated in young SAT woodlands at the heart of the National Forest. SAT SAT Helen meets Area Forester, Alan Dowell, to find out more SAT about Hicks Lodge and the various walking routes and cycle SAT trails that are available and joins local cyclist, Marc SAT Stapleford for a bike ride through the site of what is now SAT the National Forest Cycle Centre. Helen also hears from SAT Chief Executive of the National Forest, Sophie Churchill, SAT about the background to the Forest itself which covers 200 SAT square miles of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and SAT Staffordshire. They are joined by retired Geography teacher, SAT Dot Morson, and one of her former pupils, Mark Knight. Both SAT are local residents who have seen the landscape around them SAT transformed over the years. And SAT Stuart Malcolmson and Racheal Bailey of the National Forest SAT Mushing Team give Helen a lesson in dog sledding - one of SAT the more unusual pastimes to be found on the site of a SAT former open cast mine! SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01nnw7r (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01nlc0f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01nnw7t (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan SAT Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01nnw7w (Listen) SAT Jan Ravens and Charley Pride's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and JP Devlin with actress and impressionist SAT Jan Ravens SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT Actress and impressionist Jan Ravens join Richard and JP to SAT discuss drama, comedy and the art of impersonation. SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes a day trip with JP to Winston SAT Churchill’s country house Chartwell. SAT SAT Peter and Sunny both escaped death sentences when their SAT convictions for murder were quashed. They tell us about how SAT they bonded over their experiences and got married. SAT SAT President of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society Kevin SAT Beresford shares his passion for roundabouts. SAT SAT Tracey and Charlotte Dawson, widow and daughter of the late SAT comedian, join JP and Richard to talk about their beloved SAT Les. SAT SAT Les Dawson’s Joke Book is published by Michael O’Mara Books SAT SAT Country singer Charley Pride chooses Roy Acuff, Great SAT Speckled Bird and his own, Kiss An Angel Good Morning. SAT SAT Susanna went to work in Japan as a bar hostess to boost her SAT income. The job wasn’t all it first seemed, but her SAT experiences did enable her to realise her dream of becoming SAT a writer. SAT SAT 10:30 GI Britain b01nnw7y (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Based on new interviews with surviving GI's and their SAT brides, and more than 150 archive interviews from both the SAT Imperial War Museum and the National Library of Congress, SAT Martha Kearney presents the first of two programmes SAT exploring the wartime GI years and their social and cultural SAT impact. SAT SAT Marking the 70th anniversary, Martha tells the story of how SAT the number of American servicemen based in the UK grew to SAT more than 1.5 million from the start of 1942 through to SAT 1944. The programme evaluates the military importance of the SAT GI's, the integration of British and American troops and the SAT sometimes difficult relationship between their commanders. SAT SAT The arrival of large numbers of ebullient young men from an SAT alien culture inevitably made a huge impression on British SAT society. For many Britons the GI's were 'over sexed, over SAT paid and over here' and misunderstandings on both sides SAT frequently led to tension and hostility. SAT SAT Racial tensions sometimes spilled over into violence, SAT notably at the so-called Battle of Bamber Bridge in 1943 SAT when Black and White GI's fought in the streets of the SAT village near Preston. SAT SAT The programme evokes Rainbow Corner, the American Red Cross SAT Club near London's Piccadilly Circus where servicemen went SAT for food, entertainment or even just a hot shower. Luxuries SAT were available there of which most Britons could only dream. SAT SAT In the aftermath of VE day, it is believed that around SAT 70,000 British girls married American GI's with many girls SAT emigrating immediately. Unofficial estimates also suggest SAT that around 9,000 illegitimate children were born after the SAT war as a result of relationships with serving GI's. SAT SAT Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01nnw80 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Anne McElvoy. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01nnw82 (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 b01nnw84 (Listen) SAT Child benefit cuts: Around a million families are being SAT written to, to be told how their child benefit could be cut. SAT In January, households where at least one person earns more SAT than £50,000 will have child benefit effectively reduced or SAT stopped. If you're the new partner of a divorced parent, the SAT changes could affect your salary. Paul Lewis interviews the SAT Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke and Lin SAT Homer, HMRC chief executive and permanent secretary, about SAT who will be affected and how. SAT SAT Car insurance: Money Box has been hearing complaints about SAT car insurers rolling on customers' policies for another 12 SAT months - against their wishes. The practice of providing a SAT customer with continuous cover, unless they cancel, is SAT called "auto-renewal". The insurance industry says it keeps SAT people covered - and on the right side of the law - if they SAT forget to renew their insurance. But Money Box is hearing of SAT cases where customers are being "auto-renewed" against their SAT wishes - sometimes facing cancellation charges to get out of SAT their old policies. Paul Lewis interviews Malcolm Tarling, SAT from the Association of British Insurers. SAT SAT Pension projections cut by FSA: Projected investment returns SAT on pension plans must be reduced from 2014, according to the SAT Financial Services Authority (FSA). The City regulator wants SAT investment firms to show more realistic, and also less SAT optimistic, potential returns than those currently used. It SAT says this will reduce the chances of investors getting a SAT "false impression" of the value of their potential future SAT pensions. Pension firms are currently meant to give three SAT different rates of return - 5%, 7% and 9% - and to revise SAT them down if a product appears unlikely to achieve this. The SAT new projection rates will be cut to 2%, 5% and 8%. Paul SAT Lewis discusses the changes with Tom McPhail of Hargreaves SAT Lansdowne. SAT SAT Income investing: Equity income funds are an increasingly SAT popular choice for investors, who have been frustrated by SAT falling share prices in recent years, and dividend pay-outs SAT are at record highs. So why are companies paying out more SAT cash to investors, and what should you look for if you're SAT thinking of income investing? And what are the pitfalls? SAT Paul Lewis discusses the pros and cons with Jane Sydenham of SAT Rathbones and Justin Hollands of Bestinvest. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01nlblg (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 9 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Jo Brand and Lloyd SAT Langford. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01nlc0h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01nlc0k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01nlbxz (Listen) SAT From Cardiff SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion and debate SAT programme from the Cardiff School of Music at Cardiff SAT University with Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP, his SAT shadow, the labour MP Chris Bryant, Iron Maiden lead singer SAT Bruce Dickinson who also runs Cardiff Aviation in the city SAT and Leanne Wood the Leader of Plaid Cymru. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01nnw86 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxtk (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Series, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke SAT SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT Dramatised for radio by Katie Hims. SAT SAT Having just arrived on a beautiful, remote island for his SAT much-needed Summer break with his wife and young children, SAT Detective Inspector Beck is summoned back to Stockholm, SAT where he is sent on a seemingly pointless and unofficial SAT mission to Budapest, in search of a missing journalist. It SAT is only when Beck has pretty much given up on the case that SAT the truth finally emerges. SAT SAT Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Gunnarsson: Justin Salinger SAT Ari Boeck: Georgia Groome SAT Szluka: Patrick Brennan SAT Frobe: Joe Sims SAT Inga Beck: Lucy Black SAT Molin: Robert Blythe SAT Foreign Office Man: Sam Alexander SAT Embassy Man: Harry Livingstone SAT Frau Boeck: Christine Absalom SAT Steffi: Amaka Okafor SAT Radeberger: Don Gilet SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Narrator 1: Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator 2: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Writer: Katie Hims SAT SAT 15:45 Key Matters b01hy2xt (Listen) SAT Series 3, E Major SAT SAT In "Key Matters" Ivan Hewett explores the way in which SAT different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics SAT of their own. In this third programme, Ivan is joined by SAT violinist, Professor Paul Robertson, to explore the bright SAT and energetic key of E major. This key has traditionally SAT been employed by composers for ecstatic music, such as SAT Spring in Vivaldi's Four Seasons. But as Paul points out, SAT sometimes a really great composer will take the key of E SAT major and combine it with such subtle ideas, that the SAT results become sublime, such as the slow movement of SAT Schubert's String Quintet. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01nnw8b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jenni SAT Murray. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01nnw8d (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01nnw8g (Listen) SAT Pricing 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 discuss the science of pricing goods and SAT services. How do companies decide what to charge - and how SAT much of it is educated guesswork as to what they can get SAT away with? SAT SAT In the studio are Roger Mavity, chief executive of the SAT Conran Group; Rita Clifton, branding expert and former SAT chairman of Interbrand; Scott Malkin, founder and chairman SAT of Value Retail which owns the outlet shopping centre SAT Bicester Village. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nlc0m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01nlc0p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nlc0r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01nnw8j (Listen) SAT Robert Bathurst, Huey Morgan, Diana Quick, Richard Smyth, SAT Robin Ince and Joss Stone SAT SAT Clive gets Cold Feet with actor Robert Bathurst, whose SAT career has seen him Wild At Heart and who plays hapless SAT landowner Sir Anthony Strallan, who jilted Lady Edith at the SAT altar in 'Downton Abbey'. In his new play, Robert is the SAT consultant to a patient convinced that a military dictator SAT is his father in a darkly comic story touching on race, SAT mental illness and 21st century British life. 'Blue/Orange' SAT is on tour until Saturday 1st December. SAT SAT Clive revisits Brideshead with actress Diana Quick and talks SAT to her about playing Julia Flyte; the beautiful and SAT mercurial belle of the Flyte clan in 'Brideshead Revisited'. SAT Diana's now starring as 'Kettle', a selfish woman embroiled SAT in a tale about a family facing the loss of their beloved SAT French holiday home. 'Mother's Milk' is showing at cinemas SAT from Friday 9th November. SAT SAT Robin Ince shares some toilet humour with author and SAT cartoonist Richard Smyth, whose book 'Bum Fodder: An SAT Absorbing History of Toilet Paper', details the origin of SAT the humble loo roll and how our ancestors coped without it. SAT Richard also gets to the bottom of how toilet paper even SAT played a part in British espionage during World War II. SAT SAT Clive squares up to musician, broadcaster and native New SAT Yorker Huey Morgan and talks to him about life as a DJ on SAT BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music and his other job as rock 'n' roll SAT Renaissance Man and Fun Lovin' Criminal. Huey's come a long SAT way from the ladies man who twinkled his wise-guy way SAT through his Fun Lovin' 90's and is now going solo. He SAT performs 'Fall Into Me' from his debut solo album 'Say It To SAT My Face'. SAT SAT And more music from a lady who needs no introduction, Grammy SAT Award-winning soul singer-songwriter Joss Stone performs SAT 'Teardrops' from her album 'The Soul Sessions Volume 2'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01nnw8l (Listen) SAT Xi Jinping SAT SAT Tim Franks profiles the Chinese leader-in-waiting, Xi SAT Jinping. SAT Producer: Kai Wang. SAT China's Battle of Ideas SAT China's Migrant Worker Mega-City SAT China: Too Old to Get Rich? SAT Ai Weiwei SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01nnw8n (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01nnw8t (Listen) SAT Tuning In SAT SAT The press fulminated, the enthusiasts were frustrated, and SAT the radio manufacturers fumed. Despite the fact that Marconi SAT had invented radio before Queen Victoria had celebrated her SAT Diamond Jubilee in 1897, radio in Britain took another 25 SAT years to begin an official service to listeners. But when, SAT on November 14th 1922 the British Broadcasting Company's SAT station at Marconi House radiated to an awaiting nation SAT "This is 2LO calling" for the first time under the company's SAT name, it marked the start of the first and most SAT distinguished public-service radio station in the world. SAT SAT As part of the celebrations to mark nine decades of the BBC, SAT historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the long and involved SAT pre-BBC history of radio in Britain, how Britain's SAT broadcaster got going and developed into an institution SAT dedicated to entertainment, education and information, SAT discovers why Australian diva Dame Nellie Melba was SAT involved, and how the improbably-named Captain Plugge made SAT his first British commercial broadcast from the roof of SAT Selfridges department store in London. From Marconi to Savoy SAT Hill via an old army hut in Essex, the story of the early SAT radio in Britain. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01nkt24 (Listen) SAT The Gothic Imagination, Frankenstein: Part 1 SAT SAT A new production of Mary Shelley's heart-breaking modern SAT myth of obsession, pride and the need for love. SAT While sailing through the Arctic wastes, Captain Walton SAT picks up an unexpected passenger. Close to death the man SAT begins to tell Walton his strange and terrible story. 1 of 2 SAT SAT Credits SAT Frankenstein: Jamie Parker SAT The Monster: Shaun Dooley SAT Elizabeth: Susie Riddell SAT Walton: Alun Raglan SAT Father: Robert Blythe SAT Clerval: Sam Alexander SAT Mother: Christine Absalom SAT Waldman: Patrick Brennan SAT Justine: Emma Hook SAT Sailor: Joe Sims SAT Lieutenant: Don Gilet SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Writer: Lucy Catherine SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01nlc0t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01nl8gh (Listen) SAT The Morality of Drone Attacks SAT SAT The RAF top brass were out on parade in Lincolnshire this SAT Friday. At a time of defence cuts it was something for them SAT to celebrate; the dust was being blown off one of its old SAT formations. 13 Squadron RAF Waddington may not stir SAT evocative Battle of Britain images, but in its own way this SAT was modern warfare history in the making. The RAF has just SAT doubled the number of Reaper drone aircraft it flies and for SAT the first time they'll be controlled via satellite from this SAT small base in rural Lincolnshire. The pilots will never have SAT to face enemy fire; they won't even set foot in Afghanistan. SAT It will all be done via a computer screen. As fate would SAT have it, this all happened in the same week human rights SAT lawyers launched an action to sue Foreign Secretary William SAT Hague over the alleged use of UK intelligence in assisting SAT US drone attacks in Pakistan. The case, at the High Court, SAT was brought on behalf of Noor Khan, whose father was killed SAT in a US unmanned drone strike which killed around 40 people SAT at a tribal gathering. Since 2004, CIA drones have targeted SAT suspected militants with missile strikes in the Pakistani SAT tribal regions, killing thousands of people. The program is SAT controversial because of questions about its legality, the SAT number of civilians it has killed and its impact on SAT Pakistan's sovereignty. And the drone campaign against al SAT Qaeda is spreading to other countries as well, with 4 SAT attacks in North Yemen this month, the latest on Sunday SAT killing 3 people. To their supporters, drones are an SAT extremely effective way of targeting our enemies; a just and SAT proportionate response to terrorism protecting both civilian SAT life and the life of our soldiers. Do the ends justify the SAT means or are drone attacks immoral acts of assassination SAT which have caused the deaths of hundreds of innocent SAT civilians? Are drones inherently more moral or immoral than SAT any other weapon? In the age of the drone do we need to SAT re-draw the moral, ethical and legal principles of just war? SAT The Moral Maze looks at the morality of drone attacks. SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, SAT Matthew Taylor and Giles Fraser. Witnesses: Richard Kemp - SAT Former Commander, British Forces in Afghanistan; former SAT Chair, COBRA Intelligence Group, Chris Cole - Drone Wars UK, SAT Dr Peter Lee - Senior Lecturer in Air Power Studies, King's SAT College London Dept. War Studies, Paul Schulte - SAT Non-Resident Senior Associate, Carnegie Europe & Carnegie SAT Nuclear Policy, former civil servant at the MOD. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nl66z (Listen) SAT (9/12) SAT In Spain, why would Mr Kipling have preferred not only a SAT sponge cake to a woman, but also a crown and a bull? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe puts this and other mind-bending questions to SAT the regulars from Wales and the Midlands, in the latest heat SAT of the cryptic quiz. David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander SAT play for Wales, while the defending champions from the SAT Midlands are Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock. There's a SAT lot at stake, as whichever team wins today's contest may SAT stand a strong chance of taking the Round Britain Quiz title SAT for 2012. SAT SAT 23:30 Return to Oasis b01nkt28 (Listen) SAT Benghazi, Tobruk, Tripoli - they are all places with SAT resonance for a disappearing generation of British soldiers SAT who fought in the western desert in the Second World War. SAT This programme revisits a remarkable anthology of poems that SAT grew out of the experiences of those that took part. SAT SAT The Oasis anthology was edited by a group of soldier-poets SAT in Cairo in 1943. Unlike their forbears, the poets of the SAT First World War, none was above the rank of corporal. And SAT the poems they gathered together represent the missing SAT voices of war - the men and women from all branches of the SAT services of the citizen army that fought its way from the SAT Nile delta to Tunis. SAT SAT The poetry evokes the boredom and the terrifying activity of SAT war, the minutiae of daily life, the alien but beautiful SAT environment of the desert, reflections on lost comrades and SAT dead enemies, the purpose and the pointlessness of war. SAT SAT The original print run of 5,000 copies quickly sold out. The SAT war ended and people returned to their lives. Then in the SAT late 1970s the surviving original editors came together SAT again. They launched an appeal via the press for further SAT unpublished poems. Manuscripts came in by the thousand. They SAT were edited and combined with the original anthology in SAT Return to Oasis, perhaps the most complete poetic account of SAT the collective war experience. SAT SAT Mike Greenwood returns to the western desert as veterans SAT gather in El Alamein to mark the 70th anniversary of the SAT campaign. He talks to military historian Julian Thompson and SAT veterans to evoke a world at war in the western desert, SAT discusses the Oasis anthology with poet Owen Sheers and SAT professor of literature Antony Rowland - and we hear the SAT poems in readings and archive. SAT SAT Producer: Eve Streeter SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01nnvz3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Casual Cruelty b01np0zt (Listen) SUN Trial by Combat SUN SUN Martin Jarvis directs Joanne Whalley in a tale of loneliness SUN and mysterious pilfering at a humble boarding house - or is SUN this actually a strange method of seeking companionship? SUN SUN American author Shirley Jackson's work has been described as SUN the 'literature of psychological suspense'. Writing from the SUN 1940s into the 1960s, her style of 'creeping unease' was SUN hugely popular, initially with readers of magazines such as SUN Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Harper's, The New Republic, SUN The New Yorker, and Woman's Home Companion. SUN SUN After Jackson's early death in 1965, at the age of 48, her SUN story collections began a marked revival of interest in her SUN work. In recent years she has received increasing attention SUN from literary critics and a new generation of readers. Her SUN deceptively simple, apparently realistic style, often SUN cloaking chilling or darkly hidden agendas, has influenced SUN writers like Neil Gaiman, Stephen King and Nigel Kneale SUN among others. SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nnvz5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nnvz7 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nnvz9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01nnvzc (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01np0zw (Listen) SUN The bells of St Thomas' Church, Norbury, Stockport. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01nnw8l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01nnvzf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01np0zy (Listen) SUN This Is My Vigil SUN SUN There are many different types of vigils; from waiting at SUN the bedside of a loved one who is ill or dying, to SUN peacefully praying for peace in a conflict. Sometimes we SUN choose to keep vigils, but sometimes they are thrust upon us SUN - like waiting for someone to return from being in danger. SUN In this edition of Something Understood, Mark Tully asks why SUN people hold and participate in vigils. SUN SUN Mark Tully speaks to Dr Shelia Cassidy, who believes that SUN vigil is part of the very fabric of life. Her own life has SUN been full of vigil. We hear about her most important SUN personal experience, when she was in jail in Chile and SUN threatened with execution or life imprisonment. That night SUN she stayed awake, arguing with God. She explains how, in SUN this personal vigil, she tried to abandon herself to the SUN will of God - like Jacob wrestling with the angel. SUN SUN A pioneer of the hospice movement and of palliative SUN medicine, Dr Sheila Cassidy has also helped many people to SUN keep vigil as they die. She explains that she has learned we SUN all have to keep vigils during our lives. SUN SUN Sheila also sees prayer in general as a type of vigil; it's SUN a time to leave one's mind open to whatever comes, and to SUN wait for God. SUN SUN With readings from Rabindranath Tagore on patience and SUN Christopher Reid on the vigil he held at his dying wife's SUN bedside, and music from John Tavener and Joan Baez, Mark SUN Tully explores what role hopeful "watching and waiting" can SUN play in our lives. SUN SUN The readers are Gareth Armstrong, Emily Bevan and Simon SUN Tcherniak. SUN SUN Produced by Jo Coombs. SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01np100 (Listen) SUN The Night Island SUN SUN As dusk begins for this weeks Living World ornithologist SUN Chris Sperring travels by boat over to Skomer where he is SUN joined by David Boyle, an ecologist researching two of our SUN most mysterious seabirds, the Manx Shearwater and the storm SUN petrel. SUN SUN A visitor to Skomer island in the daytime in late summer SUN will find sea the strewn with rafts of guillemots, SUN razorbills and puffins, which scatter, leaving watery trails SUN of sunlit footprints across the surface, or dive deep to SUN make a pathway for the approaching boat. But at night a more SUN dramatic wildlife spectacle unfolds as storm petrels and SUN tens of thousands of nocturnal Manx shearwaters return to SUN their burrows, skimming the air like half-seen shadows and SUN tumbling clumsily to the ground. SUN SUN Once the day flying seabirds have fallen quiet, in the SUN semi-moonlit night Chris and David sit on a cliff edge SUN waiting with anticipation for the first birds to come in SUN from the sea; soon bat like shapes fly around their heads as SUN the sparrow sized storm petrels begin to arrive. Although SUN few in number on the island, storm petrels give a clue to SUN the islands other and much bigger nocturnal seabird, the SUN Manx shearwater. Moving further into the island Chris SUN discovers that these true global seabirds, who travel SUN thousands of kilometres from Wales to South America in a SUN year, have difficulty landing and walking as their legs and SUN feet are designed for swimming and digging. A true seabird. SUN SUN Sitting amongst the huge Manx shearwater breeding colony, SUN birds begin to crashland all around them and with so many SUN birds all calling at once, the intensity of their discordant SUN cries smothers the island in a nocturnal blanket of noise. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01nnvzh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01nnvzk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01np102 (Listen) SUN The murder of Northern Ireland prison officer, David Black, SUN will stir old fears for his community. William Crawley talks SUN to the Rev. Tom Greer whose church Mr David attended. SUN SUN In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Matt Wells visits one SUN of the worst hit areas New York, to hear how Catholic and SUN Jewish blue collar workers are starting to rebuild. Matt SUN talks to William about how religious and ethical issues are SUN feeding into the election ahead of Tuesday's vote. SUN SUN With the Church of England on the cusp of electing a new SUN leader, philosopher Roger Scruton examines where the Church SUN of England now stands, through his own experiences. SUN SUN A drive by President François Hollande to legalise gay SUN marriage is shaping up as an epic battle. John Laurenson SUN reports from France. SUN SUN Kevin Bocquet reports on Church of England plans to merge SUN three Yorkshire dioceses into one. SUN SUN We hear from a man who's celebrating 80 years singing for SUN his church choir this Sunday. Might it be a record? SUN SUN And as more of Britain's tree species are threatened with SUN deadly diseases, we explore the spiritual and sacred SUN significance of woodland and trees. SUN SUN The Coptic Church will announce its new Pope this Sunday. SUN Anthony O'Mahoney joins the programme to explain the process SUN which ends with a blindfolded child picking a name from pot. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01np104 (Listen) SUN Emmaus UK SUN SUN Terry Waite presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Emmaus UK, a SUN charity which works with homeless people. SUN Reg Charity: SUN To Give: 1064470 SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Emmaus UK. SUN SUN Emmaus Communities offer homeless people a home, work and SUN the chance to regain self respect in a supportive SUN environment. Emmaus currently has 23 Communities throughout SUN the UK with over 550 rooms for Companions, as residents are SUN known. There are also 11 volunteer-led Groups who are SUN working to open new Communities in parts of the country SUN where there is an urgent need for the sustainable, long-term SUN solution to homelessness and worklessness that Emmaus SUN provides. SUN SUN Cooking and eating together is important to everyone who SUN lives and works in an Emmaus Community. For Companions, it SUN not only means that life is no longer a daily fight for SUN survival, it also helps to foster a sense of belonging and SUN self-worth. SUN SUN Communities not only have furniture stores but have also SUN branched out into boutique style shops and cafes. This SUN creates additional training and skills development SUN opportunities for Companions, as well as helping the SUN Community to become financially self-sustaining. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01nnvzm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01nnvzp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01npb0r (Listen) SUN Remembering Hidden Lives SUN On All Souls Day, Sunday Worship from St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields explores ideas of memory. There is an SUN awareness that memories are suppressed and also that some SUN people are suppressed in the collective consciousness of SUN church and society. The service reflects on these difficult SUN and sometimes painful realities and how memories might be SUN healed by God and the lost restored. SUN Leader: the Revd Richard Carter SUN Preacher: the Revd Dr Sam Wells, the new vicar of St SUN Martin's SUN The choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields is directed by Andrew SUN Earis and accompanied by Nicholas Wearne. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01nlby1 (Listen) SUN Understanding Contemporary China 4/4 SUN SUN Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to SUN understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries SUN of contemporary China, its development and its possible SUN future. In a new series of talks he sets out the building SUN blocks for making sense of China today. SUN SUN In his final talk, he asks how the undemocratic Chinese SUN state can enjoy legitimacy and authority in the eyes of its SUN population. He argues that the Chinese state is held in such SUN high esteem because it is seen as the embodiment, protector SUN and guardian of Chinese civilization. The state is seen as SUN an intimate, a member of the family indeed - in fact, the SUN head of the family. It is a remarkable institution which SUN will come to exercise interest and fascination outside SUN China. SUN SUN Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the SUN World'. SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01npb0t (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paul Mason. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01npb0w (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford..... Lesley Saweard SUN Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN William Grundy..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01npb0y (Listen) SUN Tidjane Thiam SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is businessman Tidjane SUN Thiam. SUN SUN He's chief executive of the Prudential, but he's about as SUN far from the archetypal "man from the Pru" as you can get. SUN The seeds of his success were sown amid the complex SUN political terrain of the Ivory Coast with an extended family SUN heavily involved in politics and a father imprisoned for his SUN beliefs. His life quickly took on an international flavour SUN from West Africa to Morocco, Paris to Washington, but in his SUN early 30s a coup in his homeland left him high and dry. He SUN says "I had no job, no career, nothing at all. It taught me SUN a lot about myself. If you've been in a situation where you SUN have nothing there's nothing much you're afraid of." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01nl675 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity is hosted by the Professor of SUN 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) and the comedian Jimmy Carr. SUN SUN This week, John and Jimmy have invited along comedian Sean SUN Hughes, physicist Dr Helen Czerski and cuneiform expert Dr SUN Irving Finkel. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01npb10 (Listen) SUN Lard SUN SUN Loving lard - Tim Hayward delves into the guilty pleasure of SUN eating animal fat. Lard is so unfashionable that the word is SUN used as an insult. But Tim goes on a mission to reclaim lard SUN and argue that it can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet. SUN SUN Science journalist Gary Taubes is researching saturated SUN animal fats and says that eating lard is healthy. Food SUN writer Oliver Thring visits restaurant Quo Vadis where chef SUN Jeremy Lee is a lard evangelist. And Tim hears about gourmet SUN Italian lardo di colonnata. SUN SUN Presented by Tim Hayward and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01nnvzr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01npb12 (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 Invention of Spain b01npb14 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN September 11th in Barcelona is celebrated annually as the SUN national day of Catalonia. This year more than a million SUN people marched through the city, waving their distinctive SUN flags - many want independence from Madrid. This is clearly SUN a critical moment in Spanish history, but the mood of SUN separation is not new. SUN SUN In The Invention of Spain, Misha Glenny explores flashpoints SUN and fragmentation in the Spanish monarchy's territorial SUN possessions - from the revolts of Catalonia in both 1640 and SUN 1714, to the emergence of the United Provinces, or the SUN Dutch, as a nation separate and free from their Habsburg SUN overlords. SUN SUN "This was a David and Goliath struggle. The Spanish army was SUN indisputably the strongest in Europe," says Ben Kaplan of SUN UCL. ""For this smattering of rebels living in this marshy SUN bogland was adventurous at best, and suicidal at worst." SUN SUN With contributions from Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, Felipe SUN Fernandez Armesto and Sir John Elliott. Misha Glenny is a SUN winner of a Sony gold. Producer Miles Warde previously SUN collaborated with him on The Invention of Germany. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nlbl2 (Listen) SUN Humshaugh SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the third episode of GQT's North of SUN England tour to mark the programme's 65th anniversary, this SUN week recorded in Humshaugh in Northumberland. SUN SUN With Anne Swithinbank, Matt Biggs, and Bob Flowerdew on the SUN panel the team take questions from a gardening audience in SUN the same town that the programme visited back in 1947. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01npb16 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents a Sunday Edition dedicated to mental SUN health, with conversations between those who have suffered SUN from psychosis and depression, and those who have stood by SUN them. Conversations from Cumbria, Scotland, Leeds and SUN Berkshire prove that it's surprising what you hear when you SUN 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 b01npb18 (Listen) SUN The Gothic Imagination, Frankenstein: Part 2 SUN SUN The second part of a new production of Mary Shelley's SUN heart-breaking modern myth of obsession, pride and the need SUN for love. In attempting to find some peace from his SUN troubles, Frankenstein has gone walking in the mountains, SUN where he is about to come face to face with what he most SUN hates and fears. SUN SUN Credits SUN Frankenstein: Jamie Parker SUN The Monster: Shaun Dooley SUN Elizabeth: Susie Riddell SUN Walton: Alun Raglan SUN Father: Robert Blythe SUN Clerval: Sam Alexander SUN Old Man: Bruce Alexander SUN Agatha: Emma Hook SUN Felix: Joe Sims SUN Lieutenant: Don Gilet SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Writer: Lucy Catherine SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01npb1b (Listen) SUN David Almond - Skellig SUN SUN David Almond talks about his prize winning novel, Skellig, SUN which is loved by children and adults alike. SUN SUN Skellig is the story of what happens when a Newcastle boy SUN finds a strange man living in the garage of his new home. SUN SUN Michael sets out to help the ill Skellig recover. With him SUN is his new unconventional friend Mina, who David Almond says SUN is the star of the book. She introduces Michael to the SUN worlds of nature and evolution, and to William Blake's SUN poetry, his drawings of angels, his views on education. SUN David says that when Mina walked into the book she brought SUN Blake with her. SUN SUN David Almond's story centres on the imaginations of children SUN - is Skellig an Angel, or perhaps a man evolving into a SUN bird? In the programme, David refuses to confirm either, SUN saying that to him, Skellig is as much of a mystery as he is SUN to the reader. SUN SUN Recorded at the Lit and Phil Library in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. SUN James Naughtie presents. SUN SUN December's Bookclub choice : The Boy with the Top Knot by SUN Sathnam Sanghera. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN Read Jim Naughtie's blog post on Skellig SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b01npb1d (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN Ruth Padel and the The Dove Cottage Poets in Grasmere work SUN on some poems in progress. Tough love for poems. SUN SUN Poetry Workshops are gathering all over the country. In the SUN back rooms of pubs, in libraries and in front rooms, poets SUN meet to hone their craft and sharpen their verse. Ruth Padel SUN begins a new series of programmes by working with The Dove SUN Cottage Poets in Grasmere. SUN Going behind the scenes of the poems, the group are ruthless SUN yet supportive as they chuck out words and redraft; SUN listening, pruning and testing their work as they go. The SUN theme for this week's poems is fathers, apt of course for SUN the home-place of Wordsworth, the father of English SUN romanticism. SUN The group discuss the techniques, inspiration, wordplay and SUN imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and rewarding. As SUN well as working on their own poems, the group bravely try SUN out a writing exercise to warm up their poetry muscles, SUN focussing on line endings by experimenting with a very SUN famous poem by William Carlos Williams. They also consider a SUN poem by a much loved poet associated with the area; Norman SUN Nicholson. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01nl77n (Listen) SUN Too Many Chiefs? SUN SUN In April next year, the SNP government in Scotland will SUN merge 8 existing constabularies to create a single national SUN police force. This is intended to bring efficiency savings SUN by cutting out duplication of functions and gaining the SUN economies of scale. But the move is proving controversial SUN amid fears that it will damage local accountability and lead SUN to worsening services in some areas. SUN Next month in England and Wales elections will be held for SUN 41 Police and Crime Commissioners to oversee a continuing SUN patchwork of local forces. The Westminster government sees SUN the Commissioners as signs of its commitment to 'localism'. SUN But seven years ago, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of police SUN said the fragmented network of local forces was 'not fit for SUN purpose'. So, given the cuts the police are facing, is it SUN time for a radical re-organisation south of the border? SUN Gerry Northam investigates. SUN Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01nnw8l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nnvzt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01nnvzw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nnvzy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01npb7z (Listen) SUN This week, the mild-mannered Welshman who melted the Iron SUN Lady; what's God going to think of what Jimmy Savile's been SUN up to. It's fifty years of the Beatles, so we've got the man SUN who was at Sunday school with John Lennon and later turned SUN down a place in the fab Four line up. And Mark Gatiss goes SUN native and plays a Geordie push bike pizza delivery boy. So, SUN in the words of my favourite song of the week - and you SUN don't want to miss this twenties classic I assure you..I'll SUN B-B-C-ing you for Pick of the Week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01npb81 (Listen) SUN James revels in all the attention. Meanwhile George is in SUN trouble. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01npb83 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Rubbish, Jesus Shaves SUN SUN The multi-award winning American with more of his wit and SUN charm in the final edition of this series of audience SUN readings. This week moving to the British countryside has SUN its downsides exposed in "Rubbish" and David recounts the SUN eye-opening experience of learning French at a Paris SUN language school in "Jesus Shaves". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Dear Life b01npb85 (Listen) SUN Pride 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, a writer whose acuity and SUN 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 laid bare, and the complicated SUN emotions of superficially humble lives resonate long after SUN the final page is turned. SUN SUN Today in Pride, an old man remembers his past and a SUN friendship that might have grown in other circumstances. SUN SUN The reader is Garrick Hagan SUN The abridger is Sally Marmion SUN The producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01nlbl8 (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 Read Roger Bolton on the Radio 4 Blog SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01nlbl6 (Listen) SUN Hans Werner Henze, Emanuel Steward, Jacques Barzun, Yash SUN Chopra, Terry Callier SUN SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Hans Werner Henze, one of the great post-war German SUN composers, remembered by fellow composer Mark Antony SUN Turnage. SUN SUN Boxing trainer Emanuel Steward, who coached Lennox Lewis and SUN others to world titles. SUN SUN Eminent cultural historian and philosopher Jacques Barzun, SUN author of more than 40 books. SUN SUN Indian director Yash Chopra, who made some of the best-loved SUN Bollywood films. SUN SUN And tributes to jazz and soul singer Terry Callier from DJ SUN Gilles Peterson and Paul Weller. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01nnw84 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01np104 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01nl67f (Listen) SUN Labour, the Left and Europe SUN SUN The crisis in the eurozone means that fundamental changes to SUN the European Union are on the agenda. Conservative SUN politicians have called for a re-appraisal of the UK's SUN relationship with a more integrated and potentially less SUN democratic EU. Yet Labour's leadership is curiously quiet on SUN the topic. SUN SUN Edward Stourton talks to leading figures in Labour's policy SUN debate and finds out what rethinking is going on behind the SUN scenes. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01npbcm (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 b01npbcp (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01nl9pc (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with French director Jacques Audiard to SUN discuss his award-winning film Rust and Bone, an ominous SUN story on the sunlit Cote d'Azur. SUN SUN Irish charmer Chris O'Dowd, on playing the impromptu manager SUN of an Australian girl group, The Sapphires, touring war-torn SUN Vietnam. SUN SUN Neil Brand is behind the piano to deconstruct Jonny SUN Greenwood's score to one of the most anticipated films of SUN the year, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. SUN SUN And historian Ian Christie looks at the Ealing films with a SUN dark heart. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01np0zy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01nnw0w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01nl8g5 (Listen) MON The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans MON MON Growth of the strip clubs - Why has erotic dance and MON stripping become a staple of the night time economy in the MON UK? Kate Hardy tells Laurie Taylor why her research suggests MON that the proliferation of these clubs has little to do with MON the demands of male customers. Instead, it's a by product of MON the economics of an industry which maintains its profits, MON even during a recession, by passing the financial risks on MON to its workers. Also, the anthropologist, Daniel Miller asks MON what the ubiquity of blue jeans tells us about our MON individual and social lives. He's joined by the sociologist, MON Sophie Woodward. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01np0zw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nnw0y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nnw10 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nnw12 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01nnw14 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01npgmz (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01npgn1 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01nnw16 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01npgn3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and MON Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01npgn5 (Listen) MON Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff MON MON Start the Week is at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in MON Gateshead to debate whether the world is becoming a more MON divided place. Andrew Marr discusses the state of politics MON with the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and the MON writer-turned-politician Michael Ignatieff, while the MON Israeli author Amos Oz asks whether entrenched ideas have MON increasingly polarised debate. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01npgn7 (Listen) MON On Wheels, Episode 1 MON MON Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this MON charming memoir. Weaving together personal stories and MON historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars MON through a lifetime of biography. MON MON Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael. The MON lessons required military precision when practising how to MON get in and out of his car correctly. His biographical MON subjects also had their difficulties: Bernard Shaw drove MON with reckless gusto when overtaking his eightieth year; Vita MON Sackville-West's car became a chamber for sudden romantic MON assignations and getaways; Augustus John and his family MON careered through vulnerable villages as the poor vehicle, MON piled high with bohemian friends, stuttered and jerked along MON in first gear. MON MON Wry, thoughtful and very funny, On Wheels is an elegy to the MON glamour of the car. Subtle and perceptive, Michael Holroyd MON finds surprising ways to understand the past and challenge MON our view of the future. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01npgnc (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Colleen Graffy, ex chair of Republicans Abroad and Karen MON Robinson, vice-chairwoman of Democrats Abroad. MON MON Who are the women who are running the media? Claire Enders, MON CEO of Enders Analysis joins Jane to discuss who the MON powerful women are in the media business. MON MON When it was first published thirty years ago 'A Woman In MON Your Own Right' by Anne Dickson was described by many women MON as their bible. It was an assertiveness training handbook. MON Originally translated into over a dozen languages, it has MON now been re-written and re-published. The journalist, MON Suzanne Moore, joins Anne and Jane to discuss if, despite MON three decades of significant changes, particularly for MON women, the need for assertiveness training still exists? MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nphnn (Listen) MON The Righteous Sisters, Episode 1 MON MON by Jane Purcell. MON MON The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook MON (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose MON love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing MON Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. MON MON 1/5 Civil servants may be 'safe until they're nailed down in MON their coffins', but when music comes into the lives of young MON Ida and Louise, romance and adventure come with it. MON MON Translations by Johannes Mirbach MON Original research by Louise Carpenter MON Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Ida Cook ('Mary Burchell'): Liza Sadovy MON Louise Cook: Susie Riddell MON Florence Taft: Carolyn Pickles MON Clemens Krauss: Tom Frederic MON Dad: Robert Blythe MON Ezio Pinza: Ben Crowe MON Journalist: Eleanor Crooks MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Writer: Jane Purcell MON MON 11:00 The Gaza Surf Club b01nphnq (Listen) MON Violence and conflict have never been very far from the tiny MON Palestinian territory of Gaza. Damaged buildings and empty MON spaces in Gaza City still bear witness to Operation Cast MON Lead, the Israeli military attack on the territory four MON years ago. Today, militants launch rockets from Gaza over MON the border and Israeli helicopter gunships return fire. The MON people of Gaza are hemmed in by checkpoints and walls, MON fences and watchtowers and few are able to leave the MON territory or to import and export goods. MON MON But one thing Gaza does have in its favour is the sea. Long MON sandy beaches stretch right down the territory's west coast MON and on summer weekends it seems that most of Gaza's MON one-and-a half million residents are enjoying themselves on MON the beach. And that's where you'll find members of the Gaza MON Surf Club, a group of young Palestinians who defy both the MON Israeli blockade and a sea that's often polluted with raw MON sewage to ride the waves off the coast of this troubled MON territory. MON MON In Gaza Surf Club we meet Mahmoud El Reyashi, Yousef Abo MON Ghanem and Ibrahim Nehad, three members of the Club in their MON teens and early twenties who take their boards, turn their MON backs on the land with its hardships, politics and conflict, MON and immerse themselves in the surf. In Gaza the unemployment MON rate is 44% and the average per capita income is just $2 a MON day. Young men are vulnerable to being drawn into a cycle of MON radicalism and violence but Mahmoud, Yousef and Ibrahim have MON defied this, finding in surfing freedom, optimism and even MON hope for the future. MON MON One source of hope is the fact that many of the boards they MON use were originally donated by Israelis and Jews who believe MON that surfing transcends national and religious barriers. We MON meet surfing legend Dorian 'Doc' Paskowitz, a 91 year old MON Jewish-American who in 2007 arrived at the Erez border MON crossing, the main Israeli checkpoint into Gaza, with MON fifteen surfboards. He'd been inspired to travel the twelve MON thousand miles from his home in California by a newspaper MON picture of two Palestinians surfers sharing one beaten-up MON old surfboard between them. Fifty years earlier Doc MON Paskowitz had brought surfing to Israel and now he was doing MON the same for Gaza. MON MON The relationship between the Israeli government and Hamas MON who control Gaza means that few surfboards are currently MON making it across the border into Gaza but members of the MON Club are still in regular contact via Facebook with fellow MON surfers in Israel and across the world. And they're learning MON new surfing skills from Matt Olsen, the son of an American MON diplomat who has known Gaza since childhood. We join Matt as MON he helps members of the Club with setting up their own surf MON shack, a place to hang out and recruit new members on Gaza MON City's Sheikh Hazdien Beach. MON MON Gaza Surf Club is a portrait of life in Gaza through the MON eyes of a group of young Palestinian surfers. The programme MON gives a fresh perspective on the issues which beset this MON troubled territory and shows how a community has overcome MON divisions and tensions. It's about common humanity and MON passion rather than a divided people. In a territory where MON every scrap of land is weighed down with history and MON bloodshed, surfing allows you to leave the land behind and MON discover freedom. MON MON After all, if you can surf together, you can live together. MON MON 11:30 Ayres on the Air b01n6yj5 (Listen) MON Series 4, Winter MON MON Popular poet Pam Ayres is joined in her poetry and sketch MON series by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. This week MON they focus on Winter. MON MON This week she looks at subjects including that magic MON combination of cold weather and broken boilers; the art of MON comparing ailments; she updates the Yuletide song The 12 MON Days of Christmas and, as we reach the end of the Winter MON season tells how to fan the dying flame of passion, come MON Valentine's Day. MON MON Her poems this week include: Who's Had My Scissors, Ever MON Since I Had Me Op and Insomnia. MON MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01nphns (Listen) MON Behind the scenes of the hair extension industry, and MON stopping the cowboy builders MON MON Ever wondered where the hair in hair extensions comes from? MON Or how much cash you could get for your own hair? We look MON behind the scenes in the world of hair extensions. What are MON the risks? What are the different types? Is the demand for MON hair extensions putting up the price of wigs on the NHS? MON MON New pro-biotic formula baby milk is being sold in the UK MON which tells parents to make up the formula at lower MON temperatures than government guidelines. Is it safe? We find MON out. MON MON And - if you want to hire a builder for your home extension, MON it's time to stop dreaming and start being more hard-headed. MON We have advice on how not to be ripped off by rogue MON builders. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01nnw18 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01nphnv (Listen) MON National and international news presented by Edward MON Stourton. Listeners can share their views via email: MON wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz8v (Listen) MON Foreign Bodies, PI Kemal Kayankaya MON MON German author Jakob Arjouni returns periodically to write MON fiction featuring his Turkish PI Kemal Kayankaya. Mark MON Lawson visits him in Berlin to discuss the way his crime MON novels have reflected upon events including re-unification MON and the war in Yugoslavia, and drawn on more recent debates MON about what view of Islam it's appropriate to show in MON cartoons and films. MON MON Producer: Robyn Read. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01npb81 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vy10v (Listen) MON Everything MON MON By Oliver Emanuel. The story of a 14-year-old girl who MON spends seven days in a refuge for runaways. MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nphnx (Listen) MON (10/12) MON Why could you be forgiven for thinking a Labour Prime MON Minister, a Daphne du Maurier novel and a Fred Astaire film MON had caused a surprising amount of fuss? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe puts this and many other cryptic teasers to MON the regular panellists from the South of England and the MON North of England, in the latest contest of the mind-bending MON quiz. As always, he'll be available to provide just the MON right amount of help when the teams seem to be struggling - MON but the more help he has to give them, the fewer points MON they'll win. MON MON Marcus Berkmann and Marcel Berlins play for the South of MON England, and Jim Coulson and Adele Geras for the North. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01npb10 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Justice between the Covers b01nphnz (Listen) MON From labyrinthine and interminable cases through the court MON of Chancery to the black arts of lawyerly intervention in MON marriage, stolen inheritance, identity fraud, blackmail and MON open theft - classic fiction is a treasure trove of legal MON storytelling and legal history. MON MON Here the law has been deployed as plot device, as social MON criticism, as ferocious satire or allegory or in fascinating MON close up - illuminating how law was actually practiced and MON experienced by all social classes at least as vividly as MON professional legal journals, newspapers or records of the MON day. MON MON But did classic novels also help shape the law they MON represent? To what extent has our legal system been MON influenced by the transforming force of great fiction, its MON powerful depictions of the law and, ultimately, the justice MON system? Weaving together the literary and the legal, Helena MON Kennedy QC uses her lawyerly skill and a warm love of MON literature to show how fiction has had its own part to play MON in the unfolding story of law, not only the transformations MON brought about by campaigning literature of the Victorian era MON such as Dickens' 'Bleak House' (agitating for the reform of MON the English courts) but also in broader cultural terms: the MON law presented as a metaphysical, brooding and sometimes MON sinister presence, driven by as much by obscure and unending MON bureaucracy as by justice and equity (powerfully depicted by MON Franz Kafka) MON MON But fiction has also championed the ideal of law and MON positive legal redress, and in contrast with the cynicism of MON Dickens and Kafka Helena traces the rise of the great MON 'Lawyer Hero' of American writing in the Civil Rights era, MON as novels like 'To Kill A Mockingbird' directly intervened MON in debates about desegregation and constitutional equality MON in early 1960s America, MON MON This will be new and surprising territory for presenter and MON listener alike: Helena unravels these much loved works of MON fiction, exploring what they were trying to say about law MON and justice, the power of having a reading public and what MON they had in their transformative sights. MON MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01nphp7 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world. In today's MON programme have we all become cyborgs without even knowing MON it? MON MON We've always extended our human bodies ever since we first MON picked up rocks or sticks as tools, it's part of human MON nature. So are the digital tools of today any different? MON Aleks asks just how far we've come and are willing to go to MON become one with our technology and become cyborg. MON MON Aleks hears from film maker Rob Spence better known as MON Eyeborg about the reaction he gets to the camera he has MON where his right eye used to be. It's a different type of eye MON artist and composer Neil Harbisson uses, born entirely MON colour blind Neil uses an electronic eye on an antenna MON attached to his skull to hear colours it's now such a part MON of how Neil perceives the world that he hears the colours in MON his dreams! MON MON Brandy Ellis is a very different type of cyborg; having MON suffered from depression for years she opted to have MON electronics implanted in her brain to control her symptoms. MON Her feelings are literally regulated by a machine. MON MON Ultimately Aleks finds out from anthropologist Amber Case MON how we're all every bit as cyborg as Rob, Neil or Brandy in MON how we coexist symbiotically with our digital devices. MON MON 17:00 PM b01nphp9 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nnw1b (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b01npjp9 (Listen) MON Series 5, Pascoe, Abrahams, Aldrin MON MON The Museum of Curiosity is hosted by the Professor of MON 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) and the comedian Jimmy Carr. MON MON This week, John and Jimmy have invited along comedian Sara MON Pascoe, Ig Nobels founder Marc Abrahams and Astronaut Dr MON Buzz Aldrin. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01npjpc (Listen) MON Fallon steps up to the plate, and Lynda proves to be MON unstoppable. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01npjpf (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on a newly-published selection MON of letters to politicians and broadcasters from the archive MON of the campaigner Mary Whitehouse. MON MON Producer Ella-mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nphnn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01npjph (Listen) MON GCHQ: Keeping the Last Great Secret MON MON A document left in a pub, its chance discovery and scandals MON already facing the secret services in post-war Britain are MON the subject of the latest in Mike Thomson's Document series. MON MON The document was a journalist's notebook. Passing through MON the hands of a barmaid, a landlord and the local police, it MON got perilously close to disclosing vital secrets about MON British surveillance - secrets that thousands of workers had MON taken strenuous efforts to preserve. MON MON Why had a journalist been able to conduct interviews about MON all this? What impact would the revelations have had on the MON secret services, our foreign policy and our relations with MON America? MON MON These questions confronted senior security service officials MON at a moment when they were already deep in the greatest MON peacetime crisis they faced in the twentieth century. MON MON The last thing they needed, in the fevered weeks after the MON flight to Moscow of the Soviet spies Guy Burgess and Donald MON Maclean, was the threat of yet another major breach of MON security. MON MON In this edition of Document, Mike discovers exactly how MON close they came to facing a fresh calamity. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01npjpk (Listen) MON Left Turn to Catholic Social Teaching? MON MON Catholic Social Teaching embodies a tradition of thought MON which goes back to Aristotle; yet its proponents say that it MON offers the sharpest critique of rampant capitalism in our MON present time. Charting a course through the dichotomies of MON capital versus labour, the free market versus welfare state, MON public versus private, its aim is to redraw the social and MON political landscape and put human dignity and virtue back at MON the centre. Matthew Taylor, former policy advisor to New MON Labour, ponders the tradition and asks what it might offer MON to post credit crunch polities which are looking for ways to MON regenerate. MON MON There is no doubt that it has captured the policy zeitgeist. MON A whole programme of public lectures, seminars and events is MON rolling out to feed the demand for more information. MON Business people, academics and players from both Left and MON Right are attending, looking for an ethical alternative for MON our time. MON MON So exactly what do its core principles, which include ideas MON like 'solidarity', 'subsidiarity', and the 'common good', MON offer practising Labour party politicians which they cannot MON find elsewhere? Jon Cruddas, currently responsible for the MON Labour Party's policy review, and Labour Peer Maurice MON Glasman, say they find Catholic Social Teaching MON 'inspirational'. On the Right, free marketers like Professor MON Philip Booth of the IEA, also point to its prescience. Is MON this more than a political fad? And will political MON enthusiasts for Catholic Social Teaching inevitably be MON forced to engage with issues such as abortion and MON euthanasia? MON MON Presenter: Matthew Taylor MON Producer: Sue Davies MON Editor: Nicola Meyrick. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01nl9pf (Listen) MON In a few weeks the Government will unveil its new energy MON bill. Recently energy sources and prices have occupied a lot MON of headlines, and a couple of weeks ago much was made over MON an industrial process to convert air into petrol. What links MON all these things together is the often under-reported issues MON surrounding energy storage. John Loughhead and Malcolm MON Wilkinson discuss the various challenges and possible MON solutions to storing electrical energy to bridge the gaps MON between a varying energy demand and an intermittent MON renewable supply. MON MON Just a little over a decade ago a massive international MON effort went into the first sequencing of a human genome. MON This week, scientists writing in the journal Nature present MON a study that has sequenced the genomes of over a thousand MON individuals, from many different countries. It hopes to MON provide a reference map of local variabilities to help MON researchers understand indicators of disease or medicinal MON effectiveness in individuals. MON MON Also on the programme; the real threats to British trees. MON Ash dieback may be in the headlines but between 3 to 4 MON million larches have been felled since 2009, horse chestnuts MON are seldom being replanted because of the destruction caused MON by the leaf miner moth and bleeding canker and will the elm MON ever recover from Dutch elm disease? Professor Clive MON Brasier, Andrew Halstead and Dr. Micheal Pocock discuss the MON 10 current epidemics that are infecting trees in Britain. MON MON Recently energy sources and prices have occupied a lot of MON headlines, and a couple of weeks ago much was made over an MON industrial process to convert air into petrol. John MON Loughhead and Malcolm Wilkinson discuss the various MON challenges and possible solutions to storing electrical MON energy to bridge the gaps between a varying energy demand MON and an intermittent renewable supply. MON MON This week, scientists writing in the journal Nature present MON a study that has sequenced the genomes of over a thousand MON individuals, from many different countries. It hopes to MON provide a reference map of local variabilities to help MON researchers understand indicators of disease or medicinal MON effectiveness in individuals. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01npgn5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01nnw1d (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01npjpm (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01npjpp (Listen) MON The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 6 MON MON The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Read by Lesley Manville MON MON There is something special about the ancient cathedral in MON Chartres with its mismatched spires, astonishing MON stained-glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something MON special too about Agnès Morel, the mysterious woman who is MON to be found cleaning it each morning. MON MON No one quite knows where she came from - not the diffident MON Abbé Paul who discovered her sleeping in the north porch; MON nor lonely Professor Jones whose chaotic existence she helps MON to organise; nor Philippe Nevers whose neurotic sister and MON newborn child she cares for; nor even the irreverent young MON restorer, Alain Fleury, who works alongside her each day and MON whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes, colourful MON clothes and elusive manner. And yet everyone she encounters MON would surely agree that she has touched their lives in MON subtly transformative ways, even though they couldn't quite MON say how. MON MON But with a chance meeting in the cathedral one day, the MON spectre of Agnès' past returns, provoking malicious MON speculation from the prejudiced Madame Beck and her gossipy MON companion Madame Picot. As the rumours grow more ugly, Agnès MON is forced to confront her history, and the mystery of her MON origins unfold. MON MON The Cleaner of Chartres is a compelling story of darkness MON and light, of traumatic loss and second chances. Told with MON sparkling wit and beguiling charm, but infused with deeper MON truths, it speaks of the power of love and mercy to MON transform the tragedies of the past. MON MON Episode 6: MON Madame Picot begins to feel guilty and Madame Beck is MON determined to blacken Agnès' name. In the past, Agnès goes MON to live with Jean Dupère, the man who found her as a baby. MON MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01npjpr (Listen) MON Billy Bragg (the B-Side) MON MON John Wilson launches a major new series in which he talks to MON leading performers and songwriters about the album that made MON them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience MON at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON MON Programme 1, Side B. 'Talking With The Taxman About Poetry' MON - Having discussed the making of his self-proclaimed MON 'difficult' third album (in the A-side of the programme, MON broadcast on Tuesday 30th October and still available MON online), Billy Bragg responds to questions from the MON audience. MON MON He considers the state of protest songs today, reveals what MON music he is writing at the moment and explains what poetry MON he would discuss with today's taxman. And he plays excerpts MON from the album live in front of the audience. MON MON Future Programmes will include Paul Weller talking about the MON Jam's last album, 'The Gift'; Suzanne Vega recalls the MON making of 'Solitude Standing', the album that made her a MON worldwide superstar; and Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone MON takes us back to the seminal Zombies' record 'Odessey and MON Oracle' MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the MON Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded MON and other musical goodies accessed. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01npjpt (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01nnw27 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01npgn7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nnw29 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nnw2c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nnw2f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01nnw2h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns3sx (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01npjs8 (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 b01npjsb (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Evan TUE Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b01npjsd (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland looks at graduate employment today and in TUE the 16th century. Among Jonathan's guests are David Blunkett TUE and actor Nigel Planer - Neil in 'The Young Ones' - who TUE provides the historical readings. TUE TUE As graduates today grapple with the difficulties of finding TUE suitable employment, they might reflect on the experiences TUE of graduates in the 16th century. In response to the TUE Reformation, university education had undergone significant TUE expansion - but when the newly qualified youngsters went out TUE into the world, they found very few jobs waiting for them. TUE Among them was dramatist Christopher Marlowe. Some say that TUE the alienation which followed was a contributing factor in TUE the English Civil War. TUE TUE Alongside David Blunkett, Jonathan is also joined by TUE historian Professor Nandini Das, Phil Baty of Times Higher TUE Education magazine, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng and Shiv TUE Malik, author of the book 'Jilted Generation', to debate the TUE lessons for today. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 09:30 In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps b01npjsg (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Letter from America was Alistair Cooke's weekly radio TUE broadcast that ran continuously for 58 years on the BBC, TUE from 1946 to 2004. The BBC will be making available the TUE entire archive - over 950 programmes - on the Radio 4 TUE website, from November 1st. Cooke had set himself a TUE challenge that seemed deceptively simple: to explain the TUE United States to Britain and the world. His Letters achieved TUE that and more. He was an acute observer, a marvellous story TUE teller, a man who loved America but saw it in intensely TUE clear terms - a country that was both great and sometimes TUE terribly flawed in its greatness. TUE TUE All the major issues, all the significant stories were grist TUE for his writer's mill. The Korean War and the Cold War, TUE desegregation, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin TUE Luther King, the fall of Nixon, the rise of Reaganomics, TUE immigration, September 11 and the George W Bush presidency. TUE TUE But eight years after his death are the Letters still TUE relevant? For Alvin Hall, the answer is emphatically yes. TUE Crisscrossing America he tests the insights and observations TUE of Cooke on subjects as diverse as desegregation and jazz, TUE the American Dream and immigration. And Hall discovers that TUE Alistair Cooke remains as fresh and insightful as he ever TUE was when he wrote and spoke over all those years about an TUE America he loved and understood so well. Alvin Hall is an TUE internationally renowned financial educator, television and TUE radio broadcaster, bestselling author, and regular TUE contributor to magazines, newspapers, and websites. He is an TUE unabashed admirer of Alistair Cooke and Letter from America. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01ns0qx (Listen) TUE On Wheels, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2 of 5 TUE Despite holding some unusual views on driving, Michael TUE Holroyd finally gets hold of a driving licence, thanks to a TUE colourful array of instructors. He then sets about passing TUE on his new wisdom to the writer Margaret Drabble. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01npjx9 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Aasmah Mir. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01npjxc (Listen) TUE The Righteous Sisters, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Jane Purcell. TUE TUE The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook TUE (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose TUE love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing TUE Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. TUE TUE 2/5 1934. Don Giovanni in Salzburg, and Charles Boon in TUE London, change the sisters' lives forever. TUE TUE Translations by Johannes Mirbach TUE Original research by Louise Carpenter TUE Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01npjxf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Wildcats and tooth fungi TUE TUE Scottish wildcats are seen as an iconic emblem of the TUE unspoilt wilderness of Scotland. It has been suggested that TUE there may be fewer than one hundred pure bred wildcat in TUE Scotland, with some studies concluding that this species may TUE actually be rarer that the Amur tiger or even extinct as a TUE genetic species. Saving Species reporter Karen Partridge TUE travels to Scotland to meet Kerry Kilshaw from the Wildlife TUE Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford; in the TUE hope of finding one of the last wildcats for herself and in TUE doing so looks at the role genetics is playing in preserving TUE this species. TUE TUE Professor Lynne Boddy from Cardiff University travels to the TUE New Forest in search of a very rare fungus, the bearded TUE tooth fungus (Hericium erinaceus). This species is commonly TUE grown commercially however in the wild it is one of the TUE rarest fungi's in the UK and it's importance in the woodland TUE ecosystem as a wood-recycling fungus is giving TUE conservationists cause for concern. TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 Swansong b01npjxh (Listen) TUE Big Country's Driving to Damascus TUE TUE Stuart Maconie presents Swansong Ep 3 this week looking at TUE Big Country's 1999 album Driving To Damascus. TUE TUE Big Country were one of the most successful acts of the TUE 1980's - with a dual guitar sound that's been likened to TUE Thin Lizzy in Kilts- their epic Celtic anthems ontracks like TUE 'Fields of Fire' and 'In A Big Country' sold millions both TUE in the UK and the States. Singer and guitarist Stuart TUE Adamson had previously tasted the limelight with his TUE post-punk outfit The Skids - but it was the mainstream TUE success of Big Country with their uniquely Scottish sound TUE and lyrics emphasizing the plight of the working man that TUE heralded their worldwide fame and to Adamson brought its TUE associated troubles. TUE TUE In summer 1999 the band entered Rockfield Studios in TUE Monmouth to record Driving To Damascus - it would be their TUE last full album with Adamson. Swansong Ep 3 features honest TUE and revealing interviews with guitarist, Bruce Watson, TUE drummer Mark Brzezicki, album's producer Rafe Mckenna, Eddi TUE Reader and Stuart's daughter Kirsten Adamson who then aged TUE 14 sang backing vocals on the album. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01nq1br (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01nnw2k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01nq1bt (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz91 (Listen) TUE Foreign Bodies, DI John Rebus TUE TUE Mark Lawson visits Edinburgh to meet Ian Rankin and discuss TUE the way his novels featuring DI John Rebus reflect the TUE building of the Scottish parliament, the G8 summit and TUE debates over Scottish independence. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01npjpc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nq1bw (Listen) TUE Warrior Class TUE TUE The title refers to the cut and thrust and horse-trading of TUE the American political machine. If accepted into the TUE ruthless game of the Warrior Class, you understand that it's TUE about politics for politics sake. If not - you risk getting TUE dumped and, once the apparatchiks stop working on your TUE behalf, it's very difficult to rise back on your own. TUE TUE Julius Lee is a local assemblyman who explodes onto the TUE political scene from nowhere, makes a great speech TUE suggesting he could be a congressional candidate and the TUE Republican answer to Obama. The party puts down seed money TUE to begin marketing him. They groom him to take back a seat TUE that has been held by a Democrat for twenty years. TUE TUE Julius is Chinese, Christian, an ex-marine with a Harvard TUE law degree. He's steely and principled but he knows that TUE 'moves' have to be made.One of the necessary steps is to TUE make sure no skeletons from the past undermine or ruin his TUE meteoric rise. That's where things start to unravel. There's TUE a bitter ex college girlfriend whose description of him is TUE not exactly appealing. She wants a favour in return for TUE keeping quiet. TUE TUE This tale of backstage life in American politics is the work TUE of Kenneth Lin, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. He's TUE a political addict engaged in observing the intersection of TUE politics, media and morality. TUE TUE Music by Jon Nicholls TUE Sound design by Peregrine Andrews TUE Written by Kenneth Lin and adapted by Judith Kampfner TUE TUE The play was originally produced in New York at Second Stage TUE Theatre 2011. Developed at the South Coast Repertory. TUE TUE Directed and produced by: Judith Kampfner TUE A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Julius: Louis Changchien TUE Holly: Katharine Powell TUE Nathan: David Rasche TUE Director: Judith Kampfner TUE Producer: Judith Kampfner TUE Writer: Kenneth Lin TUE Writer: Judith Kampfner TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01nq1by (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01nq1c0 (Listen) TUE Suzanne Vega (the A-Side) TUE TUE The second programme of this new series in which John Wilson TUE talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album TUE that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each TUE edition includes two episodes. In Episode 1 (The A side), TUE John asks the artist about the album in question, and then, TUE in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both TUE editions feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 2, A-side "Solitude Standing". Singer and TUE songwriter Suzanne Vega discusses the influences behind her TUE platinum-selling second album, released 25 years ago, which TUE included hits like "Luka" and the title track. TUE TUE She explains that it was her manager who saw the potential TUE of "Luka" and convinved her that a song with a social TUE message could be a hit. TUE TUE She recalls how the tune for "Tom's Diner" came to her while TUE she was walking down Broadway after having been to the real TUE Tom's restaurant. TUE TUE And she discusses the way in which images and words were TUE part of her life from a very early age and have influenced TUE her work. TUE TUE In the next programme (The B-side) it'll be the turn of the TUE audience to ask Suzanne the questions. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01nq1c2 (Listen) TUE Sorting out extradition and prisoner voting TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg considers how the tension between TUE politicians' wishes and what the law requires is likely to TUE be resolved in two highly controversial areas of government TUE policy: extradition and prisoners' right to vote. TUE TUE The Home Secretary's recent decision to prevent the TUE extradition to the United States of Gary McKinnon prompted TUE dismay in Washington. But the US welcomed the much-delayed TUE transfer at around the same time of five suspected TUE terrorists, including Abu Hamza al-Masri. Joshua asks what TUE planned changes to the law of extradition are likely to mean TUE for those UK citizens sought by other countries and how such TUE decisions can be made more quickly in future. TUE TUE Meanwhile, tensions with the European Court of Human Rights TUE in Strasbourg have risen after the Prime Minister ruled out TUE votes for prisoners during the life of the present TUE government - a statement which appeared to set the TUE government on a collision course with the court. Ministers TUE have only a few more weeks to respond formally to the TUE court's judgment earlier this year that the United Kingdom TUE would be in breach of its obligations under the European TUE Convention on Human Rights if it continued to operate a TUE blanket ban on prisoners' voting. The Attorney General has TUE now underlined the importance of the issue by telling MPs TUE that the UK should be seen to abide by the judgments of the TUE Strasbourg court. Joshua asks legal experts and politicians TUE if these two seemingly contradictory positions can be TUE reconciled and, if so, how. TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01nq1c4 (Listen) TUE Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones TUE TUE Actor Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the TUE self-described "Black Farmer", talk about the books they TUE love. TUE TUE Neil Pearson's choice is Coming Up For Air, a little-known TUE novel by George Orwell about an ordinary man who yearns to TUE recapture his childhood. But can we ever go back? TUE TUE Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones introduces the others to The TUE Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the TUE autobiography of a man who was born into slavery. Does it TUE matter if important first-person testimony is true in every TUE detail? TUE TUE And presenter Harriett Gilbert's choice is Giovanni's Room TUE by James Baldwin, a European classic about an American man TUE living in Paris who's struggling with his sexuality. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01nq1c6 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Includes Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nnw2m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01nq1c8 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Miss Reenie Comes to Stay TUE TUE Adam's surprise birthday present for his Dad backfires. TUE TUE Adam has a surprise for his Dad's birthday - his sister TUE Reenie! It backfires when Miss Reenie turns out to be the TUE house guest from hell and plans to stay for 6 months. TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker TUE and some terrific tunes. TUE TUE Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record TUE shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real TUE soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if TUE we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the TUE charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), TUE reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son TUE Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly TUE girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently TUE married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) TUE which is leaving his best friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) TUE feeling left out - that is until Rudy's sister Miss Reenie TUE comes to stay. TUE TUE Adam ..........Lenny Henry TUE Rudy.......... Larrington Walker TUE Tasha...........Natasha Godfrey TUE Doreen..........Claire Benedict TUE Clifton...........Jeffery Kissoon TUE Miss Reenie.......Angela Wynter TUE RSPCA Man ........ ..Joe Sims TUE TUE Written by Paula Hines TUE TUE Script Editor: Danny Robins TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01nq1cb (Listen) TUE Nic offers the voice of reason, and Brenda's stress levels TUE are rising. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01nq1cd (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the acclaimed TUE director Michael Haneke, whose most recent film Amour won TUE the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Festival. TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01npjxc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01nq1cg (Listen) TUE Second-Class Patients? TUE TUE Britain has 1.5 million people with learning difficulties, TUE and the number is growing. Campaigners say the health TUE service is struggling to cope: the number of specialist TUE nurses is falling, and though extra support is supposed to TUE be available for this vulnerable group, hospitals and other TUE health facilities often struggle even to identify them. TUE TUE Families say their relatives have been left to die in pain - TUE and in some cases people who were not dying have had 'do not TUE resuscitate' orders placed on their notes without being TUE told. The learning disabled are more likely to be ill, more TUE likely to be obese or underweight and more likely to die TUE prematurely. And with health service cuts starting to bite, TUE are things set to get worse? Fran Abrams reports. TUE TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01nq1cj (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01nq1cl (Listen) TUE Anti-psychotic medication has long been seen as the first TUE line of treatment for psychosis. In fact, prescriptions are TUE increasing in the UK and around the world. But there's TUE criticism that the effectiveness of these drugs has been TUE over-estimated, and the serious side effects, TUE underestimated. Now, in the first trial of its kind in the TUE world, treating psychosis using talking therapies alone, is TUE being measured and analysed. TUE TUE It is the first time psychological treatment, in the absence TUE of medication, has been put to the test, and the results of TUE this experiment have the potential to transform the TUE treatment options for the many people who have diagnoses of TUE schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. TUE TUE Tony Morrison, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the TUE University of Manchester, is leading the research along with TUE colleagues in the North East of England. He tells Claudia TUE Hammond that patients should be given more choice about the TUE treatments they're offered for psychosis, instead of TUE medication always being the default option. TUE TUE And trial participants, Natalie and Steve, describe their TUE experience of psychosis and the treatments that helped them TUE to recover and stay well. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b01npjsd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01nnw2p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01nq1dh (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nq1dk (Listen) TUE The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 7 TUE TUE The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Read by Lesley Manville TUE TUE Episode 7: TUE Little does Agnès know that a chance meeting with someone TUE from her past will bring back painful memories and threaten TUE to destroy the happiness she has found in Chartres. TUE TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lp32n (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE TUE Arthur plays host to comedians Nat Luurtsema and Seann TUE Walsh, while Micky Flanagan headlines his front room, and TUE guest band Alabama 3 perform in the kitchen. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nq1dm (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 America Decides b01nq7kk (Listen) WED James Naughtie and Bridget Kendall host coverage of the US WED presidential election as the results are announced. WED WED 05:57 Prayer for the Day b01ns3tm (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. WED WED 06:00 Today b01nq3sg (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and James WED Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01nq3sj (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01ns0sz (Listen) WED On Wheels, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3 of 5 WED In the third episode of On Wheels Michael Holroyd describes WED the pleasures of driving a Daf, and the danger of doing so WED in Northern Ireland. And he gives us a taste of playwright WED Bernard Shaw's rather individualistic approach to driving. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nq3sl (Listen) WED Kirstie Allsopp WED WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nq3sn (Listen) WED The Righteous Sisters, Episode 3 WED WED by Jane Purcell. WED WED The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook WED (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose WED love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing WED Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. WED WED 3/5 Ida and Louise travel to Berlin as rescuers, but find WED themselves leaving as smugglers. WED WED Translations by Johannes Mirbach WED Original research by Louise Carpenter WED Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 11:00 One Day in Summer b01nq3sq (Listen) WED Police, coastguards, hoteliers and holidaymakers talk about WED life in Cornwall on one of the county's busiest days, Bank WED Holiday Saturday, 25th August 2012. WED Behind the traffic jams and the dash for accommodation is WED the story of an infrastructure under strain and a local WED housing market out of control. The crowds bring noise, life, WED litter and trouble. Last year, lifeguards on Perranporth WED beach in Cornwall dealt with a record 808 separate WED incidents, as swimmers, surfers, body-boarders, kayakers and WED kite-surfers all vied for some time and space in the water. WED Across the South West, lifeboats took to the water in their WED busiest year on record, and the RNLI helped over 16 000 WED people. WED Cornwall is a unique county. Not because of the scenery, the WED redundant tin industry or the inflated house prices. It is WED unique because of the invasion of tourists from up-country WED that descend on the county's roads, resorts and beaches WED every summer. It is estimated that up to five million people WED charge down the A30 to visit Cornwall every summer, most of WED these from mainland UK. This programme, recorded between WED sunrise and sunset, is a day-in-the-life of Britain's WED playground. WED WED 11:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b019rpw8 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Dinner Party WED WED Episode 1 - The Dinner Party WED WED An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. WED Will and Annabelle throw a disastrous dinner party. The WED quarrelling couple tell their counsellor Guy all about the WED event, with flashbacks to the dinner party itself. WED WED Will Smith ..... Will Smith WED Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland WED Guy ..... Paterson Joseph WED Katrina ..... Tracy Wiles WED Doug ..... Simon Bubb WED Heather ..... Morwenna Banks WED WED Written by ..... Will Smith WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01nq3sv (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01nnw3v (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01nq3sx (Listen) WED National and international news presented by Edward WED Stourton. Listeners can share their views via email: WED wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz97 (Listen) WED Foreign Bodies, Kurt Wallander and Lisbeth Salander WED WED If the Martin Beck novels of Sjöwall and Wahlöö set the WED template for the social commentary found in Scandinavian WED crime fiction - Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and WED Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy have both used the form WED to focus on racist attitudes in modern Sweden. WED WED Henning Mankell, Kenneth Branagh, Liza Marklund, Camilla WED Läckberg and Eva Gabrielsson - Stieg Larsson's partner, WED share their views about whether the Swedish state can still WED be held up as an ideal as Mark Lawson continues his series WED about the way modern European history is reflected through WED the pages of crime fiction. WED WED Producer Robyn Read. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01nq1cb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nq3sz (Listen) WED Two Pipe Problems, A Rose by Any Other Name WED WED Comedy drama by Michael Chaplin, featuring mystery-solving WED retired thespians William and Sandy. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01nq3t1 (Listen) WED Wills and Inheritance Tax WED WED Millions of people in Britain have not made a will. If WED you're one of them, it means you have no control over where WED your assets - your property, your investments or your WED hard-earned cash - will end up when you die. It could also WED cause extra distress for your family trying to sort out the WED mess that's been left behind. WED WED And it may mean more of your money going to the Inland WED Revenue instead of to your nearest and dearest. WED WED If you're living together, but aren't married or in a civil WED partnership, it's even more important to write a will WED because without one, there are no special rules that WED automatically allow the surviving partner to inherit. So WED they might get nothing. The situation is different in WED Scotland. WED WED If you're worried about the cost, now might be a good time WED to get your affairs in order, because November is the annual WED Will Aid month - when thousands of solicitors around the UK WED offer to write your will without charging a fee and ask you WED instead to make a donation to charity. WED WED It's also a good time to get advice on inheritance tax WED planning - especially if your possessions are worth more WED than £325,000 or £650,000 for a married couple or those in a WED civil partnership. Any gifts to beneficiaries above that WED amount is taxed at 40%. WED WED Tax rules allow you to give away some of your assets WED tax-free. But do you know what these rules are? Can you give WED away cash or even a house to your family before you die? WED What are the tax implications of doing so? WED Whatever your question, Vincent Duggleby and a panel of WED guests are ready to provide you with answers WED WED How do you make a will and how much will it cost? WED WED What information is required? WED WED Do you understand the inheritance laws and how they'll WED affect your family? WED WED What happens if you're not married or not in a civil WED partnership? WED WED What is the system in Scotland? WED WED How much can you give away during your lifetime to reduce WED tax on your death? WED WED How can you protect your digital assets? WED WED Vincent Duggleby will be joined by: WED James Brogan, Solicitor at Russel and Aitken Solicitors WED Nicola Plant, Partner at Pemberton Greenish Solicitors WED Mark Smithson, Senior Tax Manager, Grant Thornton WED WED Producer is Sally Abrahams. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01nq1cl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01nq3t3 (Listen) WED Couch Surfing WED WED Ever in need of a new way to travel? 'Couchsurfing', in the WED form of online social networking, allows users to travel WED with and stay at the homes of fellow users. It's just one WED example of how the internet aids face to face intimacy - WED sometimes amongst strangers. Paula Bialski talks to Laurie WED Taylor about her book 'Becoming Intimately Mobile' . Based WED on five years of ethnographic research amongst coach surfers WED and online hitchhiking website users, it documents new forms WED of human hospitality and connection. Also, trauma advocates WED in Croatia. Vanessa Pupavac and Ben Shepherd reflect on the WED growth of compensation schemes for victims of civil war. WED WED Producer:Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01nq3t5 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01nq3t7 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nnw3x (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x40p1 (Listen) WED Series 6, The Curse of Count Arthur WED WED With all things 'horror' on his somewhat confused mind, WED Arthur receives a phone call from his good friend Barry WED Cryer to say that they have somehow lost Barry's briefcase WED containing the tickets they require to attend a lunchtime WED Hammer Horror convention at which they are due. WED WED They decide to re-trace their steps from the previous night, WED which includes taking in a visit to some local haunts and WED shops, as well as the Shoulder of Mutton. WED WED With the briefcase (and thus the tickets) nowhere to be WED found, Arthur and Barry are left to decide what they should WED do - try and get in to the convention by relying on their WED good names and reputations alone, or risk missing out on the WED Hammer Horror lunch...? WED WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Dracula/Himself ..... Barry Cryer WED Sally ..... Melanie Giedroyc WED Gerry/Jack ..... Dave Mounfield WED Shop Assistant/Wally/ WED Bouncer/Wilf ..... Alastair Kerr WED WED Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01nq3t9 (Listen) WED Will Ed relent? Meanwhile Lilian takes on a new role. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01nq3tc (Listen) WED John Wilson meets Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The WED Rolling Stones, as the band prepare to return to the stage WED 50 years after their first performances. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nq3sn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01nq3tf (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Kenan Malik, Matthew WED Taylor and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01nq41q (Listen) WED Series 3, James Friel WED WED Novelist James Friel, author of "The Posthumous Affair", WED defends the value and virtues of the single life against the WED widespread cultural view that being in a couple is a WED superior state of being. WED Four Thought is a series of talks offering a personal WED viewpoint recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in WED London. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01nq41t (Listen) WED Future of Particle Physics WED WED Finding the Higgs boson was the last piece in physicists' WED model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there is much WED more for them to find out at the Large Hadron Collider. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01nq3sj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01nnw3z (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01nq41w (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nq420 (Listen) WED The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 8 WED WED The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Read by Lesley Manville WED WED Episode 8: WED Robert finds a body in the river and Madame Beck learns of WED Agnès' past. Agnès agrees to babysit Max but, the day after WED she hands him back to Brigitte, all hell breaks loose. WED WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b01nq4j1 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are the WED very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's WED freshest story-tellers to the British nation very seriously WED indeed but they haven't had the time to do much research, WED learn their lines or work out who is doing which parts. WED WED The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a WED concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors WED and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. WED WED With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices WED Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern WED re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. WED WED Today it's Tir Na Nog. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:15 Living with Mother b01nq4j3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Told You I Was Ill WED WED Lisa is a hypochondriac and worries about everything. She WED can't accept the fact that her son has grown up and isn't a WED baby anymore. WED WED Luke wants to leave home and move in with his girlfriend but WED he dare not break the news to his Mum. He hasn't actually WED told her that he's been going out with someone for the past WED year. The girlfriend gives Luke an ultimatum and he WED eventually plucks up the courage to tell his mother about WED her and that she is coming over for tea. Lisa seems OK with WED it all - but we soon discover that she has a plan. WED WED Writing about the first series of Living with Mother, Radio WED Times described it as "Alexander Kirk's astutely-observed WED comedy series...underpinning each of these tales is a WED bittersweet poignancy, a moment when the easy laughs are WED replaced with a lip-trembling insight into the WED vulnerability, lack of self-confidence and interdependency". WED WED Luke ..... Daniel Mays WED Lisa ..... Linda Robson WED WED Written by: Alexander Kirk WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nq4j5 (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports on Prime Minister's Questions and the WED day's events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01nnw4t (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01ns0sz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nnw4w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nnw4y (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nnw50 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01nnw52 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns3vv (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01nq504 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Polly Procter. THU THU 06:00 Today b01nq7cr (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys. THU Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01nq7ct (Listen) THU The Upanishads THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the THU ancient sacred texts of Hinduism. Composed over several THU centuries by a variety of authors, the Upanishads were also THU the starting point for the Hindu school of philosophy known THU as Vedanta. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01ns1ff (Listen) THU On Wheels, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4 of 5 THU Michael explains the delight the Bloomsbury set took in THU motor cars, both as objects of desire and locations for THU illicit assignations. And he explains how the motor car THU allowed Augustus John to reveal his true, colourful and THU cavalier character. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nq7cw (Listen) THU Jessica Ennis THU THU Jessica Ennis, one of the golden girls of London 2012 talks THU about her success at the Olympics, how life has changed THU since the Games, and her new biography. Presented by Jenni THU Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nq7cy (Listen) THU The Righteous Sisters, Episode 4 THU THU by Jane Purcell. THU THU The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook THU (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose THU love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing THU Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. THU THU 4/5 1938. A secret weekend in Frankfurt becomes a race THU against time. THU THU Translations by Johannes Mirbach THU Original research by Louise Carpenter THU Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01nq7d0 (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 ...? b00ps1hd (Listen) THU Series 2, Samuel Beckett THU THU Lenny Henry questions the iconic status of people or things THU held dear by many. THU THU Despite having seen Waiting for Godot half a dozen times and THU studying the work of the modernist Irish writer as part of THU his degree, Lenny has never really completely tuned in to THU the work of Samuel Beckett. He sets out to rectify this by THU talking to a glorious cast of Beckettophiles, who are THU determined to make the great playwright and poet come alive THU for him. He talks to actor and director Simon McBurney, THU actress Fiona Shaw, Beckett's long-term friend and publisher THU John Calder, and the man who was authorised to write his THU biography, James Knowlson. Lenny also joins a rehearsal by THU the Godot Theatre players, some of whom knew the playwright THU well, and hears their thoughts on tuning in to the Beckett THU idiom. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01nq7d2 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01nnw54 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01nq7d4 (Listen) THU National and international news presented by Edward THU Stourton. Listeners can share their views via email: THU wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz9h (Listen) THU Foreign Bodies, Harry Hole THU THU Jo Nesbø's novels, featuring detective Harry Hole top best THU seller lists across the world - the latest example of the THU boom in Scandinavian crime fiction. THU THU Mark Lawson talks to Nesbø, Liza Marklund and Gunnar THU Staalesen about the impact of Norwegian oil on the economy, THU the divisions caused by the Second World War and the effect THU of random acts of violence in Sweden and Norway with the THU assassination of politicians and the killing spree on Utøya THU island. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01nq3t9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nq7d6 (Listen) THU The Other Simenon, The Neighbours THU THU When he wasn't writing Maigret, Georges Simenon produced a THU huge body of novels and short stories, often tough, gripping THU and psychologically-penetrating dissections of lives THU confounded by fate. In The Other Simenon we explore more of THU his dark tales of human misfortune! THU In The Neighbours, Emile Jovis, the director of a Paris THU travel agency, finds that moving home doesn't always make THU for a better life. Acting from the best possible motives he THU decides to uproot his family from their dilapidated flat in THU the Marais district of Paris to a new development outside THU the city. All too soon, however, he becomes aware that his THU wife and son do not share his enthusiasm. And his peace of THU mind is shattered when he overhears a series of blunt and THU brusque conversations coming from his neighbours' flat. His THU irritation on hearing their voices leads to an obsessive THU interest in their world. THU Dramtised by Ronald Frame and starring Jamie Glover and THU Robin Weaver. THU THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. THU THU Credits THU Emile: Jamie Glover THU Blanche: Robin Weaver THU Alain: Sam Alexander THU Irene: Alison Pettit THU Leon: Ben Crowe THU Neighbour: Joe Sims THU Neighbour: Alex Rivers THU Director: David Neville THU Producer: David Neville THU Writer: Georges Simenon THU Writer: Ronald Frame THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01nq7d8 (Listen) THU Lakeland Adventures THU THU Over 80 years after the publication of 'Swallows and THU Amazons', Helen Mark visits the Lake District to find out THU why the lakes and landscapes that inspired some of Arthur THU Ransome's most famous stories are now the setting for a THU variety of different and often more daring adventures. From THU trails to triathlons, ghyll scrambling to zorbing and aqua THU rolling, there is now something for everyone to be found on THU the Lakeland fells. THU THU On the lower slopes of Helvellyn, around 1200 people prepare THU to take part in a trail run designed to test and exhilarate THU them as they make their way through some of the most THU dramatic views that Lakeland has to offer. Helen meets the THU organiser, Graham Patten, to find out more about the people THU who travel miles to take part and also why the National Park THU is so keen to promote the area as the UK's Adventure THU Capital. It's a far cry from the more genteel adventures of THU sailing, camping and fishing experienced by the Walker THU children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger, who Arthur Ransome THU wrote about. THU THU Out on Coniston water Arthur's cousin, Richard Ransome, THU tells Helen how his own childhood, growing up in the area, THU was very like something from his cousin's books and how he THU feels that the magic element of imagination seems to be THU missing from the adventures of today. Helen is given a THU demonstration of ghyl scrambling by a group of adventurers THU who describe the thrill this gives them. And finally, Helen THU meets John Nettleton and Jenny Massie, whose own adventures THU climbing and running on the screes and fells of this THU landscape began at a time when they almost had their own bit THU of Lakeland to themselves. THU THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01np104 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01npb1b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01nq7db (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01nq7dd (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 b01nq7dg (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nnw56 (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 b01nq7dj (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Comic explanation of human development via stand-up, song THU and sketch. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01nq7dl (Listen) THU Rhys receives an offer out of the blue, and Jill is THU concerned. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01nq7dn (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on the opening night of THU People, a new play by Alan Bennett, starring Frances de la THU Tour. THU THU Producer Claire Bartleet. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nq7cy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01nq1c2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01nq7dq (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 b01npjxf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01nq7ct (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01nnw58 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01nq7ds (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nq7dv (Listen) THU The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 9 THU THU The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Read by Lesley Manville THU THU Episode 9 THU Following the accusation that she hurt baby Max, Agnès THU disappears. Alain has a good idea where she'll be and heads THU for the cathedral crypt. Madame Beck continues her hate THU campaign. THU THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01nq7dx (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2, Series 2 THU THU EPISODE 2 THU THU Sketches set in a call centre called Smile 5, a mail order THU catalogue company that sells anything and everything. On the THU Smile 5 call centre floor, Bernie is excessively angry over THU her missing lunch. THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Various characters ..... Lucy Montgomery THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma THU THU Writers ..... Various THU Script editor ..... James Kettle. THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nq7dz (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01nnw63 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01ns1ff (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nnw65 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nnw67 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nnw69 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01nnw6c (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns3wr (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01nq2sb (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 b01nq2sd (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in FRI Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01npb0y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01ns1k9 (Listen) FRI On Wheels, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5 of 5 FRI In the final episode, Michael Holroyd describes playwright FRI Bernard Shaw's enthusiastic, if cavalier, approach to FRI driving - only thwarted by the outbreak of world war. For FRI Michael Holroyd, however, it was the satnav that did for FRI him. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nq2vj (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nq2wm (Listen) FRI The Righteous Sisters, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Jane Purcell. FRI FRI The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook FRI (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose FRI love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing FRI Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. FRI FRI 5/5 August 1939. No one knows when the Western borders will FRI close, but Ida attempts a last case in Berlin. FRI FRI Translations by Johannes Mirbach FRI Original research by Louise Carpenter FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI 11:00 What's in a Name? b01nq2zp (Listen) FRI Impiaz - yes. Oisin - yes. Musa - yes. Ayisat - yes. Araya - FRI yes. Tianna - yes. Taking the register at the start of the FRI school day at one London primary school says much about FRI names in 21st century Britain. FRI FRI As a child growing up in 1980s Britain, journalist Sangita FRI Myska desperately wanted a name her white English friends FRI could pronounce. She says getting someone to pronounce her FRI name was like sending it through a verbal mincer: Sanjeeta, FRI Fangita, Sageeta, Sangria. As she tries to book a table in a FRI restaurant, we hear just what this feels like when you have FRI a "foreign" sounding name. FRI FRI Years of garbled pronunciations and awkward corrections FRI later, she now believes those challenges have helped her FRI forge her sense of identity. FRI FRI Sangita talks to other people whose names have had a huge FRI effect on their lives and work. Over honey cake with Rabbi FRI Lionel Blue, he tells Sangita "I'd much rather be called FRI Pete. I don't feel like being labelled. I'd like to be FRI something like Pete Brown or Pete Smith or Pete Jones or FRI something like that. It would mean I'd finally graduated FRI into English life". FRI FRI She meets poet Musa Okwonga, who describes how his surname FRI led to his family being expelled from Uganda under Idi FRI Amin's regime....and later influenced many of his career FRI choices. He wanted to study English at university. But in FRI the jobs market he thought he'd get nowhere with a name like FRI his. So he did law at Oxford. FRI FRI Shahid Iqbal and Richard Brown (one and the same person) FRI explains why he has both names. One for his personal life - FRI and one for business. "People would cancel contracts when FRI they heard my name". FRI FRI And names expert, Prof Kevin Schurer says long gone is the FRI tradition of giving a child a name that somehow denotes FRI lineage. "Literally the world is your oyster", he says FRI "there are no holds barred as far as names are concerned". FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b01ns7vz (Listen) FRI Series 2, A Question of Psychology FRI FRI Have you ever wondered about the profitability of mental FRI health? Or why your locum looks familiar? Or what's so FRI fascinating on your doctor's computer? Or what that funny FRI rash is? And how long he's had it? These and other questions FRI may well be answered in this brand new series of the Radio 4 FRI satire set in Polyoaks, that flagship of enlightened West FRI Country General Practice at the forefront of a constantly FRI reforming NHS. FRI FRI Nigel Planer stars as Dr. Roy Thornton and Simon Greenall as FRI his brother Dr. Hugh Thornton in a clinic always at odds FRI with itself over diagnoses, funding, clinical commissioning FRI groups, Jeremy Hunt and the ever more dubious commercial FRI activities of their associate, TV's Dr. Jeremy (David FRI Westhead), who's still diagnosing with Google, selling FRI patent remedies and generally teetering on the brink of any FRI number of malpractice suits. FRI FRI If you want to know what it's really like to live and work FRI in the brave new world of modern health care - or why your FRI GP often has that confused expression on their face - visit FRI Polyoaks and ask for a second opinion. FRI FRI Dr. Roy Thornton .................... Nigel Planer FRI Dr. Hugh Thornton .................. Simon Greenall FRI TV's Dr. Jeremy ...................... David Westhead FRI Betty Crossfield ...................... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Nurse Vera Duplessis .............. Polly Frame FRI Mr. Devlin ............................... Phil Cornwell FRI The Practice's patients and associates were played by Mel FRI Hudson and Duncan Wisbey. FRI FRI Polyoaks is written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer and FRI directed by Frank Stirling. FRI Producer: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01nq3d7 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01nq3fv (Listen) FRI Ranjit and Sara: It Started in a Coffee Shop FRI FRI Fi Glover presents this conversation about how spaghetti FRI bolognese for breakfast in an Oxford coffee shop caused an FRI English girl and an Indian Brahmin to meet and fall in love FRI in Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you FRI 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 b01nnw6f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01nq3fx (Listen) FRI National and international news with James Robbins. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnzb2 (Listen) FRI Foreign Bodies, Erast Fandorin FRI FRI Boris Akunin sets his Erast Fandorin novels in nineteenth FRI century Russia whilst Andrey Kurkov describes twenty first FRI century Ukraine. FRI FRI Mark Lawson looks at the influence of Bulgakov and FRI Dostoevsky on Russian crime fiction and compares the inside FRI view with those created by outsiders including Martin Cruz FRI Smith and Tom Rob Smith. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01nq7dl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00w236w (Listen) FRI Moeran's Last Symphony FRI FRI Written by Martyn Wade. FRI FRI A dramatic portrait of the last weeks in the life of the FRI English composer E.J. Moeran [1894-1950]. After the FRI triumphant reception of his First Symphony, a second was FRI commissioned by the prestigious Halle Orchestra. Tortured by FRI the end of his marriage to the cellist Peers Coetmore and by FRI residual pain from injuries received in the Great War, he FRI hoped that Kenmare in Ireland - a place of previous FRI inspiration - would provide the right setting for FRI creativity. But this was to prove the biggest battle of his FRI life. FRI FRI E.J. Moeran, acclaimed as one of the greatest unsung heroes FRI of English composition, wrote works of exceptional, FRI beautiful lyricism including a stunning Cello Concerto. But FRI his personal life was a disaster. An early dependence on FRI alcohol, partly to relieve the pain from a bad shrapnel FRI wound to the head, led to his wife leaving him as he was FRI struggling to fulfil this exciting new commission. In FRI Kenmare he is befriended by a new pupil, Patrick, who is FRI touchingly encouraging and their relationship becomes FRI important to them both, but ultimately it cannot save him FRI from his dramatic and extraordinary death. FRI FRI Tim McInnerny, who plays Moeran, is well known from his FRI numerous TV appearances including Blackadder and his role in FRI the film Notting Hill. Author Martyn Wade has written many FRI critically acclaimed radio plays, including an award-winning FRI portrait of the life of composer Percy Grainger, and Classic FRI Serial dramatisations of the Trollope novels. FRI FRI Directed and Produced by Cherry Cookson FRI Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Moeran: Tim McInnerny FRI Mrs Donnell: Kate Binchy FRI Patrick: Sean Froudist Walsh FRI Peers: Geraldine Fitzgerald FRI Peter Warlock: Nicholas Boulton FRI Tomlinson: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Director: Cherry Cookson FRI Producer: Cherry Cookson FRI Writer: Martyn Wade FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nq3h7 (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI This week the team is in the GQT potting shed in Sparsholt FRI to tackle listeners' questions, as Eric Robson hosts a FRI postbag edition of Gardeners' Question Time. Matthew Wilson, FRI Christine Walkden and Anne Swithinbank are on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Robert Abel FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b01nq3kw (Listen) FRI She Wiped the Surface FRI FRI Four acclaimed novelists write their first stories for FRI radio. FRI In She Wiped The Surface, Louisa Young, describes how FRI a mother happily arranges her daughter's birthday party, but FRI this masks a family bereavement. How to cope? FRI FRI Reader Emma Fielding FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01nq3lv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01nq3lx (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 b01nq3m5 (Listen) FRI Thea and Brigitte: Forgiving the Past FRI FRI Fi Glover presents this conversation between two friends FRI born in Germany; the Jewish father of one was killed at FRI Treblinka, the other is the daughter of a German soldier. An FRI astonishing lesson in forgiveness 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 b01nq4hd (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nnw6h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01nq4pp (Listen) FRI Series 38, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in stand-up and FRI sketches with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and FRI special guests Andi Osho & Tina C. Produced by Victoria FRI Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01nq508 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Tim Stimpson FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene 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 Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI William Grundy..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler FRI Robert Snell..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Leonie Snell..... Jasmine Hyde FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01nq50b (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nq2wm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01nq50d (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion and FRI debate programme from the National Railway Museum at Shildon FRI in Co Durham. Guests include the Bishop of Durham, the FRI writer Val McDermid and Shadow Chief Secretary to the FRI Treasury Rachel Reeves MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01nq50g (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Foreign Bodies b01nq50j (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Wallander, Hole, Rebus, Fandorin and Kayankaya FRI FRI Mark Lawson continues his series looking at the way shifts FRI in modern European society have been depicted in crime FRI fiction. FRI FRI In Germany, Mark Lawson meets Jakob Arjouni to discuss his FRI Turkish PI Kemal Kayankaya and the way events including the FRI war in Yugoslavia and re-unification have fed into his FRI writing. Outside the Scottish parliament building, Ian FRI Rankin describes the changes in Scottish politics which his FRI Rebus stories have charted and the links he sees with FRI Scandinavia - where authors including Jo Nesbo, Henning FRI Mankell, Stieg Larsson and Liza Marklund have tackled racism FRI and the increasing gap between rich and poor in their FRI novels. In Russia, the tradition of crime writing is less FRI developed and Boris Akunin and Andrey Kurkov reflect on FRI their different approaches. FRI FRI Producer: Robyn Read. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01nnw6k (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01nq50l (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nq50n (Listen) FRI The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 10 FRI FRI The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Read by Lesley Manville FRI FRI Episode 10: FRI Philippe confronts Brigitte about baby Max. Madame Picot, FRI feeling guilty, tries to put things right and Madame Beck FRI spots something shocking in Abbé Paul's deanery. FRI FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01nq1c4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nq51c (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01nq51f (Listen) FRI Isabel and Annie: Young Ambition FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation uploaded by listeners FRI Isabel and Annie, grandmother and granddaughter, who share a FRI ring and the amazing story of Isabel's early achievements in FRI Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear FRI 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