14 December, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 15/12/2012 - 21/12/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01p7c0p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01p7hcr (Listen) SAT Looking for Mrs Livingstone, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Tamara Kennedy. SAT SAT Writer Julie Davidson searches for traces of Mary SAT Livingstone, the courageous and stoical wife of renowned SAT explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. SAT SAT The author's travels through Southern Africa come to an end, SAT when she reaches Mary Livingstone's final resting place: a SAT crumbling grave on the banks of the Zambezi River, in a SAT remote part of Mozambique. SAT SAT Abridged by Laurence Wareing. SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p7c0r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p7c0t (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p7c0w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01p7c0y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p7hj2 (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Bishop Donal McKeown, SAT Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01p7hj4 (Listen) SAT A vicar and a former vicar with opposing views discuss gay SAT marriage. And we hear from a listener who's devoted her life SAT to persuading people not to smoke. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01p7c10 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01p7c12 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Costing the Earth b01p9dcp (Listen) SAT Future Forests SAT SAT The crisis in Britain's ash forests came as a shock to SAT public and politicians. But is it a vision of the future for SAT our woodlands? Stressed by climate change and vulnerable to SAT pests and diseases crossing the English Channel the SAT prospects seem grim. SAT SAT In a special edition of Costing the Earth Tom Heap asks what SAT our forests will look like in the future. Is there anything SAT we can do to stem the flow of disease, can our native trees SAT be made more resilient or should we consider planting a SAT wider range of trees? Tom visits Lithuania where ash dieback SAT disease first came to attention in Europe to find out how SAT they've come to terms with new threats to their forests and SAT meets the experts and enthusiasts with a fresh approach to SAT protecting our forests. SAT SAT Producer: Alasdair Cross. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01p9ddx (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01p7c14 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01p9ddz (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and SAT James Naughtie. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01p9f59 (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with comedian Lee Mack SAT talking about his life before and after he made it as comic SAT and Paul O'Grady on his enthusiasm for home remedies. Paul SAT Hodgkinson walked to all 92 Football League grounds as his SAT sight deteriorated and John McCarthy travelled on Leighton SAT Buzzard's miniature steam railway with travel writer Monisha SAT Rajesh who journeyed round India by train. Michael Sanderson SAT explains why he stockpiles goods and necessities for a SAT terrible eventuality, Ruth Keeling tells why she is never SAT without her Granny's sewing kit and the actor Fiona Shaw SAT chooses her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Actor's Gang b01p9f5c (Listen) SAT Just outside of LA in the Californian desert, presenter SAT Rajesh Mirchandani joins 'Shawshank Redemption' star Tim SAT Robbins as he leads acting classes with the segregated SAT inmates from Norco prison. Rajesh witnesses the SAT transformation of inmates, from tough gangsters into SAT respectable men and gains a unique insight into some of SAT America's toughest social challenges. SAT SAT Rajesh recorded inside the prison with Tim Robbins over a SAT three month period, gaining unique access not only to Tim SAT but also to the inmates. Tim visibly enjoys cult status SAT among the inmates and quickly gains their trust. He is no SAT stranger to prisons, having played an innocent man convicted SAT of murder in "The Shawshank Redemption" and was nominated SAT for a Best Director Oscar for "Dead Man Walking" - a film SAT about a death row inmate. He formed The Actor's Gang, an SAT acting troupe, which runs prison theatre workshop for SAT inmates having spent time in some of LA's toughest prisons SAT whilst researching both films. With re-offending a more SAT likely scenario once they are out of prison, Robbins SAT believes that more should be done whilst they are inside to SAT help them change their ways. SAT SAT Robbins' Hollywood master class ranges from Shakespeare to SAT Commedia dell' arte, a style that originated in 16th-Century SAT Italy and involves actors in masks playing basic character SAT types. Robbins explains that inmates learn to portray four SAT different emotions: happiness, sadness, fear and anger. One SAT of the inmates who Rajesh follows over the course is Mike SAT who is serving a lengthy prison sentence. Mike says, "In the SAT yard, gangs stick to their patch but these classes have SAT helped to make guys see that we don't need to be violent.". SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01p9f5f (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. Presented by Peter SAT Oborne. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01p9f5h (Listen) SAT Dementia Village SAT 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 b01p9f5k (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01p7hdv (Listen) SAT Series 38, Episode 6 SAT SAT Census and Censorability. In the week that the findings of SAT the 2011 England and Wales Census were released, and the UK SAT Government enshrined a "quadruple lock" in law that would SAT prevent same sex couples marrying in the Church of England SAT or the Church of Wales, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present SAT the week in topical stand-up and sketches. Joining them this SAT week are Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special SAT guest Roisin Conaty. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01p7c16 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01p7c18 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01p7hf1 (Listen) SAT Balshaw's CE High School, Leyland SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Balshaw's Church of England High School in Leyland SAT Lancashire. Guests include the journalist Alastair Campbell, SAT Camila Batmanghelidjh from Kids Co, Tim Montgomerie from SAT Conservative Home and the Director General of the Institute SAT of Economic Affairs Mark Littlewood. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01p9f5m (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01p9f5p (Listen) SAT Pinocchio SAT SAT Carlo Collodi's classic tale of a wooden puppet who wants to SAT be a boy dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. SAT SAT When Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life, SAT Geppetto names him Pinocchio and imagines a bright future SAT together. Pinocchio must understand what it is to be a boy SAT and the first step is school. But danger and folly lurk SAT around every corner and it is hard for Pinocchio to find the SAT right path. The world is full of temptation, contradiction SAT and fear. Will Pinocchio find his way to becoming a real SAT boy? SAT SAT Original Music by Olly Fox SAT Sound Design by Steve Brooke SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT SAT Following the success of the award winning The Wonderful SAT Wizard of Oz the same creative team come together to bring SAT Pinocchio to life for a new generation. A filmic musical SAT score by Olly Fox supports a magical sound world of dark SAT forests, a marionette theatre, the land of play, the sea, SAT the sky, inside a shark's belly. A world peopled by amazing SAT characters: the tyrannical puppet master with a heart; the SAT cruel tricksters Fox and Cat; the Fairy with Blue Hair; and SAT the children turned donkey. This is a story full of jeopardy SAT about a child's growing independence and awareness. SAT Pinocchio's loneliness is heartbreaking as he travels SAT through the world trying to understand what it means to be SAT human. SAT "I wondered if he was ever a puppet at all..?" SAT SAT Credits SAT Pinocchio: Ellis Hollins SAT Geppetto: Steve Evets SAT Fox: Lee Ingleby SAT Coachman: Lee Ingleby SAT Cricket: Lee Ingleby SAT Cat: William Ash SAT Hawker: William Ash SAT Giangio: William Ash SAT Blue Fairy: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Candlewick: Tom Rolinson SAT Harlequin: Tom Rolinson SAT Puppeteer: Jonathan Keeble SAT Policeman: Jonathan Keeble SAT Auctioneer: Jonathan Keeble SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Writer: Linda Marshall Griffiths SAT SAT 15:30 An Alternative Christmas b01p70p6 (Listen) SAT In An Alternative Christmas, Reverend Richard Coles is on a SAT mission to compile a playlist full of songs that were SAT recorded for Christmas but have mostly been unplayed and SAT forgotten, until now. SAT SAT The programme starts with a pair of uplifting Christmas SAT sermons that were originally advertised in the December SAT 17th, 1927 edition of the Chicago Defender: Rev. J.M. Gates' SAT "Will The Coffin Be Your Santa Claus?" and "Did you spend SAT Christmas Day in jail?". There were plenty of Christmas SAT sermons in the 1920's and 1930's when recorded sermons, many SAT which were sung and performed with a blues guitar, rivalled SAT blues in popularity among black audiences. SAT SAT We'll hear other songs and the stories behind them, such as SAT Santa's Rap Party, a favourite hidden Christmas treasure of SAT Radio 1 DJ, Huw Stephens. SAT SAT Rev Coles finds someone on a similar mission to him. Andy SAT Cirzan is the longtime vice president of concerts at Jam SAT Productions in Chicago. He's searched high and low to add to SAT his own collection of wildly obscure Christmas recordings SAT for his own playlist for more than a quarter of a century. SAT He plays Richard some of his treasured recordings from the SAT 50's and 60's, including the cold war era's 'Santa Miss SAT Those Missiles' and the dark Christmas track, 'There is No SAT Sanity Claus II', with its references to guns, missiles and SAT napalm. SAT SAT Music critic and recent Christmas album curator Pete SAT Paphides also shares his well stocked alternative Christmas SAT record box. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Meek SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01p9f5t (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01p9f5w (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news presented by Patrick SAT O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01p7hj4 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p7c1b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01p7c1d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p7c1g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01p9f5y (Listen) SAT Sophie Parkin, Sarah Hadland, Peter Wight, Scottee, Ed SAT Harcourt and Clock Opera SAT SAT Clive's overjoyed to talk to actor Peter Wight about his SAT career, including four collaborations with director Mike SAT Leigh. Peter's now starring in a violent satire about a SAT family Christmas interrupted by the unexpected arrival of SAT Uncle Bob. Who is he? Why has he come? And what's the SAT meaning of his long and outrageous message. 'In The Republic SAT Of Happiness' is at London's Royal Court Theatre until SAT Saturday 19th January 2013. SAT SAT Clive's up to mischief with actress Sarah Hadland, who last SAT Christmas played Miss Primly Tightclench in 'The Bleak Old SAT Shop of Stuff'. This Christmas, Sarah returns to our screens SAT to play "joke slash gift shop" manager Stevie Sutton in the SAT award-winning sitcom 'Miranda'. Will best friends Miranda SAT and Stevie ever be responsible enough to make a success of SAT the shop? 'Miranda' is on Wednesday 26th December on BBC One SAT at 21.00. SAT SAT Emma Freud dons her stiletto's for performance artist and SAT Burger Queen Scottee, whose new show features broken limbs, SAT police questioning, the loss of 100's of pairs of high heels SAT and leaves the audience elated, confused and covered in SAT glitter! 'Camp (As Christmas)' is at the Roundhouse, London SAT until Saturday 22nd December. SAT SAT Clive's Best of Friends with author Sophie Parkin with a new SAT book 'The Colony Room Club 1948 - 2008 - A History of SAT Bohemian Soho'. It about the explosion of culture in post SAT war London from one small green room up some filthy stairs SAT in Soho and the international figures who frequented it. SAT SAT With music from eclectic four piece avant pop band Clock SAT Opera, who perform 'Belongings' from their album 'Ways To SAT Forget'. SAT SAT And a welcome return for singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt, who SAT plays the title track of his new album 'Back Into the SAT Woods'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01p9f60 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Love and Honour SAT SAT Topical drama by award-winning playwright, Ali Taylor, marks SAT the return of the series in which writers respond to a major SAT story from the week's news. SAT SAT In the week that the Government announced its plans to SAT legislate on same-sex marriages, Lyn and Steff have plans of SAT their own. It's the dead of night and the couple embark on SAT an audacious undertaking to pledge their love for each SAT other. When an uninvited guest challenges them, it reveals SAT that the two women might not be on the same page. SAT SAT Lyn ... Morven Christie SAT Steff ... Alex Tregear SAT Jossy ... Greg McHugh SAT The Rev. Helen Cairn ... Sally Orrock SAT SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01p9f62 (Listen) SAT The Hobbit; Quentin Blake exhibition; pantomime dames SAT SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests, writers Aminatta Forna and SAT David Benedict and actor Kerry Shale, review the week's SAT cultural highlights. SAT SAT The latest Peter Jackson film is the first in a three part SAT adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Set in Middle Earth SAT 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings", the story follows SAT Bilbo Baggins (Martin Friedman) as he sets out on an epic SAT quest to reclaim stolen dwarf treasure from the dragon SAT Smaug. On the way he clashes swords with Goblins and Orcs, SAT deadly Wargs, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers not to mentioned SAT Gollum. SAT SAT There's a new exhibition of drawings and prints by renowned SAT artist and illustrator Quentin Blake, who turns eighty this SAT month. None of the work on display here will have been seen SAT before, and none are illustrations of books, but are SAT entirely derived from the artist's imagination and SAT observations. SAT SAT The play In the Republic of Happiness, by Martin Crimp, is a SAT violent satire on contemporary obsessions that follows the SAT unexpected return of a long-lost uncle one family Christmas. SAT This event provides an opportunity to explore the dark SAT underside of the contemporary demand for happiness. SAT SAT Flight Behaviour, the new novel by Orange Prize winner SAT Barbara Kingsolver, tells the story of a woman attempting to SAT escape her empty marriage and the drudgery of life on a SAT rundown Appalachian farm. En route to a tryst with a lover, SAT Dellarobia Turnbow stumbles on a hillside covered with SAT swathes of orange monarch butterflies that appear like fire SAT on the landscape, an event that will transform her life. SAT SAT In a BBC documentary Michael Grade explores the rich history SAT of the very British Pantomime Dame. From the extravagant SAT productions in Drury Lane in the 19th Century to the vintage SAT performances by Terry Scott and Arthur Askey, the Pantomime SAT Dame has always been anarchic, witty, vulgar, affectionate SAT and good box office. SAT SAT Producer: Anne-Marie Cole. SAT SAT Quentin Blake: New Etchings Lithographs and Drawings SAT continues at Marlborough Fine Art in London until 19th SAT January 2013. SAT SAT Image Above: Quentin Blake - from the Old and young series, SAT 2012, pen ink and watercolour. Courtesy of the artist. SAT SAT In the Republic of Happiness continues at the Royal Court SAT Theatre in London until 19th February 2013. SAT SAT The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is in cinemas nationwide, SAT certificate 12A. SAT SAT Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver is published by SAT Bloomsbury. SAT SAT There's Nothing Like a Dame: A History of the Pantomime Dame SAT is on BBC4 on Thursday 20th December at 9.00pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01p9f64 (Listen) SAT Nixon at 100 SAT SAT Watching Richard Nixon's first inauguration ceremony in SAT January 1969, and hearing the prayer of the Reverend Billy SAT Graham who stood by him at that ceremony, it seemed that SAT here was an honest man of integrity. Yet much detail has SAT emerged since that time demonstrating that the 37th SAT President of the United States was less than upstanding in SAT his dealings with his Democrat opponents and the American SAT people. SAT SAT But who was Nixon the man? What was he really like? Do all SAT those allegations and solid facts alluding to his dirty SAT tricks - the wire-tapping, the break-ins, the pay-offs, the SAT "Commie" slurs, the Machiavellian manoeuvrings - add up to a SAT thoroughly dishonest and dislikeable man? SAT SAT Many of the Nixon insiders, some of whom were jailed and SAT several of whom were sacked by their boss after the SAT Watergate scandal, were not critical of Nixon - and others, SAT such as Bob Haldeman, while not admitting to a love of SAT Nixon, still claimed to respect him after the event. SAT SAT Many observers and colleagues point to Nixon's awkwardness SAT and aloofness, citing that he came across in this way SAT because he was a diffident man who was not a natural SAT politician. His speeches were often mawkishly sentimental SAT and manipulative, simplistic in their appeal to an American SAT down-home conservatism and a hatred of Communism. Yet he won SAT two elections - the second a landslide despite the parlous SAT state of a country being riven in two because of the Vietnam SAT war. SAT SAT In this programme, the man who got close to Nixon when in SAT 1977 he taped nearly 29 hours of interviews with Nixon, Sir SAT David Frost, searches through the BBC archives and the White SAT House tapes to try to discover just what kind of man Richard SAT Nixon was. SAT SAT Producer: Neil Rosser SAT A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Letters From America: Nixon and Watergate SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01p6rz5 (Listen) SAT The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 3 SAT SAT By Alexandre Dumas, adapted for radio by Sebastian SAT Baczkiewicz. SAT With Fernand de Morcerf dead, the Count begins to tighten SAT the net around Baron Danglars and Gerard de Villefort, and SAT their unsuspecting wives. SAT SAT Music by David Tobin and Jeff Meegan SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Count/Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SAT Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SAT Mercedes de Morcerf: Josette Simon SAT Gerard de Villefort: Paul Rhys SAT Heloise de Villefort: Kate Fleetwood SAT General Noirtier: Karl Johnson SAT Baron Danglars: Toby Jones SAT Hermine Danglars: Stephanie Racine SAT Fernand de Morcerf: Zubin Varla SAT Caderousse: Ben Crowe SAT Andrea Cavalcanti: Will Howard SAT Madame Lascelles: Sarah Thom SAT Coachman: Paul Stonehouse SAT Bertuccio: Paul Stonehouse SAT Valentine de Villefort: Lizzy Watts SAT Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SAT Eugenie Danglars: Eleanor Crooks SAT Jacopo: Joe Sims SAT Operator: Robert Blythe SAT Banker: Paul Stonehouse SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01p7c1j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01p7bxr (Listen) SAT Who's to Blame? SAT SAT In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and guests SAT discuss the legal liability of organisations for crimes or SAT other misbehaviours committed by people who work for them. SAT SAT In the wake of Jimmy Savile and other recent abuse cases, SAT complex legal questions have arisen about who, apart from SAT the perpetrators themselves, should be held to blame - and SAT liable to pay compensation. SAT SAT Clive's guests, all leading experts in the field, argue SAT about the way the courts are currently applying the law of SAT vicarious liability to hold employers to blame for the SAT actions of their staff, even when there is no indication of SAT any fault on their part. SAT SAT In what all agree is rapidly becoming a legal minefield, the SAT courts are widening their interpretation of who can be SAT legitimately sued in these circumstances. Bodies are SAT increasingly being held liable for the actions of people for SAT whom they are responsible but do not formally employ. This SAT could include freelancers or other casual workers or even SAT volunteers working for a charity. SAT SAT Senior barrister, Edward Faulks says the law is being SAT misused to identify parties with deep pockets and to ensure SAT victims receive compensation from someone. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01p704h (Listen) SAT (3/17) SAT Which film actor was known as 'The Great Stone Face'? And SAT which Welsh rugby coach is credited with first using the SAT phrase 'get your retaliation in first'? SAT SAT The competitors in Brain of Britain will have to come up SAT with the answers, and many others, as they face Russell SAT Davies' questioning in the third heat of the current series. SAT The programme comes from Salford and the contestants this SAT week hail from Liverpool, Norwich, Leeds and Lincoln. If SAT their general knowledge carries them through to the next SAT stage in the new year, they'll stand a real chance of SAT becoming the sixtieth holder of the prestigious quiz title, SAT 'Brain of Britain'. SAT SAT As always, a Brain of Britain listener stands to win a SAT prize, as the competitors try to answer a pair of fiendish SAT questions he or she has devised. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT ROB CRUISE, a primary school teacher from Liverpool; SAT SAT CHRISTOPHER GOULD, a window cleaner from Norwich; SAT SAT SARAH GREENAN, a barrister from Leeds; SAT SAT ALISON JACOBS from Lincoln, not currently employed. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01p6szg (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents some tree poems, old and new, as the SAT country contemplates losing its ashes. Part of a short SAT season of tree programmes on BBC Radio 4. Poets Simon SAT Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Alice Oswald and Robin Robertson SAT read some of their own poems, including new work, and some SAT much loved and requested favourite tree poems including work SAT by DH Lawrence, Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, WB Yeats and SAT Gerard Manley Hopkins. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 DECEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01p9cv7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Rhys Davies Competition Winners b01p9fxk (Listen) SUN One Summer SUN SUN One Summer by Kate Hamer. Scarlet is a young girl dealing SUN with the fact that her mother has been seriously injured in SUN a car accident. She spends a summer without her mother and SUN realises that there is more to the world than she ever SUN previously knew. Winner of the Welsh short story contest. SUN SUN Read by Eiry Thomas SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p9cv9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p9cvc (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p9cvf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01p9cvh (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01p9fxm (Listen) SUN The bells of York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01p7bxt (Listen) SUN Series 3, Nancy Lublin: 21st-Century Social Activism SUN SUN Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething.Org, discusses how the next SUN generation are doing social activism. She describes the SUN impact of the web on social activism, making it faster, SUN cheaper and easier to do than ever before, and argues that SUN this has big implications for societies around the world. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on SUN the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SUN culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01p9cvm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01p9g0b (Listen) SUN In Search of Bohemia SUN SUN Irma Kurtz remembers her quest to find bohemia with a small SUN 'b'. SUN SUN The bohemians had a hunger for art, literature and changing SUN the rules and Irma's personal odyssey in search of a SUN non-materialistic and art-focused society took her from SUN Greenwich Village in Manhattan to the Left Bank in Paris and SUN finally to London's Soho. SUN SUN She considers the historical background to bohemia and SUN wonders if it exist today. If not, why not and are we the SUN poorer without it? SUN SUN To illustrate her journey, Irma draws on extracts from the SUN work of Henri Murger, Dylan Thomas and Alan Ginsberg and the SUN music of Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini and Juliet Greco. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy and Col Farrell. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01p9g0d (Listen) SUN Series that gets to the heart of country life, with a look SUN at individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01p9cvp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01p9cvr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01p9g0g (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01p9g0j (Listen) SUN Lively Minds SUN SUN Katy Hill presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Lively Minds SUN Reg Charity:1125512 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Lively Minds. SUN SUN Lively Minds works in very poor villages in Ghana and Uganda SUN where children don’t have the basic early learning SUN opportunities that we in the UK take for granted. Without SUN education these children will never have the chance to break SUN out of poverty. Lively Minds trains and empowers uneducated SUN mothers to run Play Centres in their villages. The Centres SUN reach young children at a crucial stage in their SUN development, giving them happier childhoods and improving SUN their education, health and wellbeing. This transforms the SUN mothers too - giving them childcare skills, confidence and SUN the support of other mothers. This is a low-cost, SUN sustainable and fun way to bring about lasting change. SUN Lively Minds is a very small charity but is already working SUN in 50 communities. With your support they could work in 18 SUN new villages next year, creating thousands more Lively SUN Minds. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01p9cvt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01p9cvw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01p9g0l (Listen) SUN Advent Expectations - 'Great Expectations' is the theme of SUN Sunday Worship live from Bradford Cathedral. Preacher: The SUN Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Nick Baines; Leader: Canon SUN Andy Williams; SUN Alexander Woodrow directs the Girls and Adults of Bradford SUN Cathedral Choir; Organist: Paul Bowen; Producer: Katharine SUN Longworth. SUN SUN Advent is a time of expectation. The Biblical texts are SUN filled with anticipation of the coming Messiah, promises of SUN hope for the future, and expectations of the Second Coming SUN of Christ. It's a time that we're called to question what's SUN expected of us and reflect upon what we can expect from God. SUN As we prepare for Christmas our hearts are filled with SUN expectations, which may or may not be fulfilled. And we are SUN also reminded that God does not show His love for us in the SUN way we expect; rather than making a great and triumphant SUN entry into the world, he comes to us as a tiny, vulnerable SUN child. SUN SUN The expectations we hold during advent are the same as those SUN held by the People of Judah in the time of Isaiah. They SUN hoped for a wise ruler who would bring about a new age. SUN Christians also have great expectations for the future as SUN they wait patiently for the Second Coming of Christ. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01p7hf3 (Listen) SUN Digital Past SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the effect of digital technology on SUN his perception of the passage of time. "Perhaps the reason I SUN feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more SUN attached, not to the individually recalled 'good old days', SUN but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is SUN because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with SUN digital images of the places I've been and the people I've SUN met, all of them time-coded to within a tenth of a second." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01p9g3r (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01p9g3t (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Matt Crawford... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Will 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 Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins SUN Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01p9g3w (Listen) SUN Sister Wendy Beckett SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the nun, writer and SUN broadcaster Sister Wendy Beckett. SUN SUN For over 40 years she's lived the life of a hermit, rising SUN every day at midnight to spend seven hours praying. Her home SUN is a caravan in the grounds of a Carmelite Monastery where SUN she spends her days in silence - speaking only once a day to SUN the nun charged with delivering her daily food rations of SUN skimmed milk, cold cooked vegetables and two rice crackers. SUN SUN Her self-imposed isolation has only been broken by the - SUN frankly rather unlikely - occurrence of a television career. SUN She is the nun who knows about art and her passionate and SUN pithy critiques of the world's great works and hidden SUN treasures have won her many devoted fans. SUN SUN With decades of solitude and prayer under her belt she SUN seems, unlike nearly every other guest, to be perfectly cut SUN out for a stretch alone on a desert island. SUN SUN She says "It's my apostolic duty to talk about art. If you SUN don't know about God, art is the only thing that can set you SUN free". SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01p704r (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 5 SUN SUN The 58th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable, where regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee as the programme's SUN reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect SUN inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the SUN piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01p9g3y (Listen) SUN Cheap Veg SUN SUN Cheap veg - the surprising stories behind humble British SUN vegetables. Sheila Dillon enlists three experts to uncover SUN the hidden side of our veggies. SUN SUN Ethno-botanist James Wong argues that rhubarb is the only SUN uniquely British indigenous vegetable. Agricultural expert SUN Dr Oliver Moore discovers the work that a seed bank in SUN Ireland is doing to increase variety in our potatoes. And SUN food writer Andrew Webb unearths new uses for onions. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01p9cvy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01p9g42 (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents national and international news, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b01p9g44 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN For this week's Sunday Lunch Hardeep Singh Kohli visits a SUN beautiful valley in Lancashire to meet the volunteers who SUN run Clarion House. With it's red flag waving and a sign SUN outside saying 'Socialism Our Hope', Clarion House is the SUN last Independent Labour Party socialist tea room in the SUN country. Visited several times by Keir Hardie, the tea room SUN was set up at the end of the 19th century to encourage mill SUN workers into the countryside every Sunday. Over pint mugs of SUN tea, visitors were encouraged to make friends, discuss the SUN issues of the day and spread the message of socialism. And SUN as Hardeep finds out, today Clarion House still attracts SUN lots of cyclists and walkers every Sunday in search of a SUN pint of tea and a chat even though the social message is SUN diminished. SUN SUN Producers: Dawn Bryan SUN Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01p7hdg (Listen) SUN Cranleigh, Surrey SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the team are in Cranleigh in Surrey for this SUN week's GQT. On the panel taking questions are gardening SUN experts Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01p9gjw (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about marriage, spiders, frogs, SUN birds, leaving home for university and coming back again, SUN all in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01p9gjy (Listen) SUN The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 4 SUN SUN By Alexandre Dumas adapted by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. SUN Caderousse is dead, and the Count's ward Andrea is poised to SUN marry Eugenie Danglars. While Heloise de Villefort pursues SUN her own murderous plans to secure General Noirtier's SUN inheritance for her son. The Count's revenge, so long in the SUN planning, is devastating in its conclusion. SUN SUN Music by David Tobin and Jeff Meegan SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Credits SUN The Count/Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SUN Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SUN Younger Haydee: Amber Rose Revah SUN Mercedes de Morcerf: Josette Simon SUN Fernand, Count de Morcerf: Zubin Varla SUN Gerard de Villefort: Paul Rhys SUN Heloise de Villefort: Kate Fleetwood SUN Abbe Faria: Richard Johnson SUN Baron Danglars: Toby Jones SUN Hermine Danglars: Stephanie Racine SUN Eugenie Danglars: Eleanor Crooks SUN Valentine de Villefort: Lizzy Watts SUN Edouard de Villefort: Finn Monteath SUN Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SUN Andrea Cavalcanti: Will Howard SUN Bertuccio: Paul Stonehouse SUN Jacopo: Joe Sims SUN Actor: Sarah Thom SUN Director: Jeremy Mortimer SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01p9gk0 (Listen) SUN Barbara Kingsolver, Victoria Glendinning and David Baddiel SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Orange Prize winner Barbara SUN Kingsolver about her latest novel Flight Behaviour, set in a SUN poor district of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee. The SUN book explores the impact of climate change, an issue which SUN Kingsolver, with a background as a scientist, feels is SUN important to highlight. SUN SUN Despite only completing two novels in his lifetime, The SUN Broom of the System and his blockbuster Infinite Jest, and SUN leaving one unfinished manuscript, The Pale King, the SUN American author David Foster Wallace has been described as SUN one of the most gifted and innovative writers of his SUN generation. Fan David Baddiel and biographer DT Max explain SUN why he deserves that praise. SUN SUN Sir Stamford Thomas Raffles has become an integral part of SUN the mythology of the British Empire and he remains SUN omnipresent in the Singapore he is credited with founding. SUN The twice Whitbread Winning biographer Victoria Glendinning SUN explains why she has called her latest biography, Raffles SUN and The Golden Opportunity, the book of her life. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01p9gk2 (Listen) SUN Presented by poet Annie Freud, with the former American Poet SUN Laureate Billy Collins, and poets August Kleinzahler and SUN Mark Ford. SUN SUN William Carlos Williams is known as a revolutionary figure SUN in poetry but, in comparison to his friend Ezra Pound and SUN American writers including TS Eliot and Gertrude Stein, who SUN sought a more exciting environment for creativity in Europe, SUN Williams lived a strikingly conventional life. SUN SUN A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey SUN town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients and the SUN America around him to create a distinctively American verse. SUN His lifelong quest was that poetry should mirror the speech SUN of the American people. SUN SUN A second generation immigrant, he sought to make something SUN of the people and for the people in America. He was mocked SUN by Pound who came from centuries of Americans and wrote to SUN him "My dear boy, you have never felt the whoop of the SUN PEEraries", but their correspondence was vital in developing SUN the poetry of Imagism, which Pound would formally name in SUN 1912. SUN SUN Williams' sense of ordinary people, living in a real place SUN not an imagined city of ancient relics and memory, defined SUN America for him and infused his work. He got rid of the high SUN blown poetic language of Europe, paring down his verse to SUN essential, unemotional, broken lines. His famous poem The SUN Red Wheelbarrow, published in 1923, is 16 words on 8 lines. SUN SUN He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for poetry, posthumously, SUN in the year he died 1963. He is America's first true poet. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Bland SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Pension Off the Old Lady! b01p71gs (Listen) SUN The role of Governor of the Bank of England is one of the SUN most important in the financial world. Mark Carney, whose SUN appointment was announced in November by the Chancellor of SUN the Exchequer, George Osborne, will have vast oversight of SUN everything from the level of mortgage finance to the way the SUN British financial system functions. The role is unique in SUN its power, scope and influence. SUN SUN So what should the new Governor's plan for Britain's SUN economic future be? In this programme, Kamal Ahmed considers SUN the prospects for jobs, growth and economic well-being under SUN the new Governor. And he examines what will be the likely SUN impact on the value of everyone's debts, borrowings and SUN savings. SUN SUN For some observers, the Bank of England failed to see the SUN approach of the financial crisis and, when it did arrive, SUN did not act decisively to mitigate its effects. Responsible SUN for targeting inflation at 2%, managing monetary policy and SUN smoothing the economic cycle, the Old Lady of Threadneedle SUN Street - as the Bank is known in the City of London - has, SUN they claim, consistently disappointed. And we have all paid SUN the price. SUN SUN Yet others argue that it has done no worse than other major SUN central banks. Ministers seem to agree: the government is SUN making the Bank responsible for more of the UK's financial SUN system. SUN SUN Talking to former Bank insiders, prominent politicians, SUN business leaders, economists and bankers, Kamal Ahmed asks SUN what lessons the Bank needs to draw from its role in the SUN crisis. Given its new responsibilities, what and how does it SUN need to change about how it is currently run and managed? SUN Can it be made more effective - while also being properly SUN accountable for its actions? And should it emulate how other SUN central banks do their job or do its own thing? SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01p9f60 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p9cw0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01p9cw2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p9cw4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01p9gn8 (Listen) SUN Who do we have peeping out from the audio advent calendar SUN that is this week's Pick Of The Week? All your festive SUN favourites, Richard Nixon, Morrissey, Jean Cocteau, The SUN Supremes , the entire population of Handsworth and many SUN more. SUN SUN Alternative Christmas - Radio 4 SUN Poundshops R Us - Radio 4 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN The Smiths at the BBC - Radio 2 SUN Analysing the Child Sex Offender - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Jean Cocteau - Radio 4 SUN Mark Steel's in Town - Handsworth - Radio 4 SUN Free Thinking - Radio 3 SUN Mr X - Julian Mclaren Ross - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - The Meaning of Trees - The Sycamore - Radio 3 SUN Archive on 4 - Nixon at 100 - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The Story of the Supremes - Radio 2 SUN SUN Produced by Geoff Bird SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01p9gnb (Listen) SUN Lynda has a directing dilemma, and Matt makes a generous SUN gesture. SUN SUN 19:15 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tpn6r (Listen) SUN Daniel Thornthwaite SUN SUN Character comedian Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, I'm Sorry SUN I've Got No Head) plays a wildlife expert on the edge of SUN sanity in this fly on the wall look at the making of a major SUN new documentary series. Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) and Colin SUN Hoult co-star as his hapless colleagues. SUN SUN Bits showcases the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic SUN characters in a series of one off comic plays. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN 19:45 The Apocalypse Clock b01p9gnd (Listen) SUN Before the End SUN SUN A short story diptych written by the award-winning author SUN Patrick Ness. SUN SUN Read by Lindsay Duncan. SUN SUN In an abandoned hospital, on the day the Mayans predicted SUN would bring the apocalypse, a terminally ill man counts down SUN the minutes and waits with his wife for the end to come. SUN SUN The Mayans predicted that the world will end on 21st SUN December 2012. These specially commissioned short stories SUN explore the nature of endings, seen through the eyes of a SUN woman who loses everything on the day of revelation. SUN SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01p7hdn (Listen) SUN The Census, and what is 'rare'? SUN SUN This week Tim Harford asks why the estimate for the number SUN of Eastern Europeans likely to come to the UK made back in SUN 2003 was so wrong. SUN SUN Tim asks what is rare? And are words sometimes better than SUN numbers when communicating information. SUN SUN Nassim Taleb explains anti-fragility SUN SUN And we'll debunk the oft quoted 'you're never more than 6ft SUN from a rat'. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01p7hdl (Listen) SUN An astronomer, a sitar player, a surgeon, an engineer, a SUN singer and a newsreader SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar who found fame in SUN the West after collaborations with George Harrison and SUN Yehudi Menhuin. SUN SUN Joseph Murray - the American surgeon who carried out the SUN world's first successful human organ transplant SUN SUN The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore - Murray Lachlan Young pays SUN tribute in verse. SUN SUN The bicyle designer Alex Moulton SUN SUN And the influential folk singer Ian Campbell - he's recalled SUN by Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention and Mike Harding. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01p9f5k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01p9g0j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01p7ddy (Listen) SUN Strike Up the Broadband SUN SUN The government's aim is clear: by 2015, it wants Britain to SUN have the best superfast broadband network in Europe. The SUN internet is so essential to businesses, the argument goes, SUN that the network over which internet traffic travels is SUN becoming a vital part of the UK's infrastructure - as SUN important as energy and roads. SUN Right now, though, the country is a long way off from the SUN target. Nowhere is this more apparent than in rural and SUN remote areas of the country. In Norfolk, some small SUN businesses are struggling just to get connected, much less SUN plug into the high-speed network the government has pledged SUN to help expand. SUN A decade ago, internet access was a luxury for many small SUN firms, but today it's essential. Orders are placed and SUN received online, a website is a key marketing tool for all SUN sorts of companies, and businesses must now file VAT returns SUN via a website. SUN This week on In Business, Peter Day evaluates the SUN government's plans for broadband and finds out how close the SUN UK is coming to a high-speed future online. SUN SUN Producer: Mike Wendling. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01p9jmf (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 b01p9jmh (Listen) SUN John Harris of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01p7ddk (Listen) SUN Peter Jackson on The Hobbit SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Sir Peter Jackson about his new film SUN The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, the first in a trilogy of SUN films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit SUN by J R R Tolkien, which was published 75 years ago this SUN year. Sir Ian McKellan reprises his role as Gandalf from The SUN Lord of The Rings trilogy, and the film also stars Andy SUN Serkis as Gollum, Christopher Lee as Saruman and Cate SUN Blanchett as Galadriel. SUN SUN Critic Alice Tynan on Hobbit mania: with commemorative SUN stamps and coins, and Air New Zealand inflight safety video SUN featuring air crew dressed as Hobbit characters, will it SUN outstrip that provoked by The Lord of the Rings trilogy when SUN the New Zealand government appointed a new Minister SUN especially for the film? SUN SUN As the Golden Globes nominations are released, critic Tim SUN Robey and Clare Binns, Director of Programming and SUN Acquisitions at Picture House, look back at the films of SUN 2012. SUN SUN And film journalist Chris Laverty provides a master class in SUN how to read the subtle clues in costume design which make SUN cult film Cabin in The Woods such a subversive take on the SUN horror film genre - as Laverty says "a jacket is never just SUN a jacket, it is always there for a reason." SUN SUN Producers: Timothy Prosser and Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey directed by Peter Jackson, SUN is released nationwide from this weekend, certificate 12A. SUN SUN The Cabin in the Woods, directed by Drew Goddard, is out now SUN on DVD, certificate 15. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01p9g0b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 DECEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01p9cx6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01p720h (Listen) MON Children in hospitals; History, heritage and tradition in MON British politics MON MON British politics, heritage and history. Laurie Taylor MON explores the divergent stories political parties construct MON about our history and their own historical roles. From MON disputes over the National Curriculum for History to the MON assertion of a lost 'social democratic' tradition by New MON Labour. Research Fellow, Emily Robinson, argues that MON politicians' manipulation of the past leaves them unable to MON speak of different futures. Also, Allison James talks about MON her research on the experience of sick children in hospital. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01p9fxm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p9cx8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p9cxb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p9cxd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01p9cxg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pw4vx (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Bishop Donal McKeown, MON Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01pbhvs (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and presented by Polly Procter. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01p9cxj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01pbhvv (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah MON Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01pbhvz (Listen) MON Science Special MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Peter Wothers about MON modern day alchemy, as we enter a new era of chemistry. In MON the past the vast majority of human genes were dismissed as MON 'junk DNA', Ewan Birney talks about hubris and MON breakthroughs, and curiosity gets the better of Sanjeev MON Gupta as he explores the terrain on Mars. But science MON doesn't have all the answers as Helen Bynum charts the MON history of tuberculosis, from the medieval period to the MON present day, and looks at how this killer disease continues MON to spread and evolve. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01p9k16 (Listen) MON Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through MON One Extraordinary Pub, Episode 1 MON MON Pete Brown's history of pubs as seen through the story of MON one remarkable London inn, the George in Southwark, said to MON be the one-time local of Chaucer, Dickens and Shakespeare. MON MON The George Inn is one of the few remaining galleried MON coaching inns, and lies a few minutes' walk from the Thames. MON 'Shakespeare's Local' takes us on a literary pub crawl MON through the history of this pub, from its regulars - the MON watermen, merchants, actors, craftsmen, writers and MON coachdrivers - as well as the many incarnations of the pub MON itself - from lawless Southwark tavern to coaching inn, MON theatre pub to Victorian drinking den, unfashionable boozer MON to tourist attraction. MON MON This isn't only a history of half a century of pubs and MON drinking, but also a paean to the importance of the now MON declining pub to British society. MON MON Today: the George's early days as a Southwark drinking den MON in the lawless neighbourhood south of the City. MON MON Reader: Tony Robinson is best-known for his portrayal of MON Baldrick in the Blackadder series. He also presented MON Channel' 4's TV's Time Team, and is the author of numerous MON children's books. MON Author: Pete Brown , the 'Beer drinkers' Bill Bryson' (TLS), MON was named Beer Writer of the Year by the British Guild of MON Beer Writers, and is the author of three other books on pubs MON and brewing. MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pbhw1 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p9l4s (Listen) MON Modesty Blaise - A Taste for Death, Episode 1 MON MON She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. MON Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but MON she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in MON martial arts and unusual weapons, the ability to speak MON several languages and her liking for fast cars, MON twenty-something Modesty became a female icon long before MON the likes of Emma Peel, Lara Croft, or Buffy. MON MON In Stef Penney's brand new radio adaptation of Peter MON O'Donnell's novel, Sir Gerald Tarrant, Head of a secret MON British agency, tempts Modesty out of retirement and into a MON job involving a young woman with extra sensory powers, an MON exotic desert location, and a larger than life public school MON villain, intent on murdering his way to a vast fortune. With MON its perfect cocktail of glamorous settings, hidden treasure, MON a twisting turning plot, and characters to root for, A Taste MON for Death is an action packed treat - and a guilty pleasure. MON MON With an original score by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory, arranged MON by Ian Gardiner, and performed by the BBC National Orchestra MON of Wales, conducted by Ben Foster. MON MON Produced and Directed by Kate McAll MON MON Credits MON Modesty Blaise: Daphne Alexander MON Willie Garvin: Carl Prekopp MON Sir Gerald Tarrant: Alun Armstrong MON Simon Delicata: Sam Dale MON Steve Collier: Geoffrey Streatfeild MON Dinah Pilgrim: Samantha Dakin MON McWhirter: Alex Fearns MON Skeet Lowry: Jeff Mash MON Sir Howard Presteign: Nigel Anthony MON Director: Kate McAll MON Producer: Kate McAll MON Writer: Stef Penney MON MON 11:00 Our Language in Your Hands b01pbhw3 (Listen) MON New York City MON MON New York has long been a city of immigrants, and as a result MON of waves of immigration, language experts describe it as the MON most linguistically dense city on earth. Mark Turin travels MON to the Big Apple to track the many languages of New York. He MON travels the 7 train, designated a US Heritage Trail, as it MON rattles its way from Flushing to the heart of Manhattan, MON passing through areas where Korean, Bengali and Spanish are MON the languages spoken on the street. He meets the linguists MON who are tracking New York's many languages and hears from MON those who believe that the US needs to promote the English MON language ahead of all others. MON His journey ends with a story of linguistic rebirth as he MON discovers how the Yiddish language, once in decline, has MON attracted a new generation of speakers. MON MON 11:30 Jeeves in Manhattan b00wx6rn (Listen) MON Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest MON MON Martin Jarvis performs 'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest', the MON second of two of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated 'New York' MON stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet MON Jeeves. It was recorded in front of a live audience - a MON packed house at the Everyman Theatre - as a highlight of the MON 2010 Cheltenham Festival of Literature. MON MON In this one-man tour de force, as well as the characters of MON Jeeves and Wooster, Jarvis also portrays chinless wonder MON Lord Pershore and his lordship's formidable mother Lady MON Malvern. As her ladyship and her son arrive in New York MON expecting hospitality from Bertie (and therefore Jeeves) the MON situation becomes electric. MON MON After Lord Pershore sets about to misbehave his way around MON the night clubs of Manhattan it is left to Jeeves to seek a MON solution. Wodehouse wrote these sparkling stories in 1925 MON during the period when he was living in Manhattan and MON enjoying great success as a lyric writer for American MON musicals. The tales provide a brilliantly humorous MON perspective for Jeeves and Bertie Wooster on how to deal MON with eccentric Americans, plus how to cope with the Brits MON abroad. MON MON Producer/Director: Pete Atkin MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01pbhw5 (Listen) MON Post-adoption support, theatre dress codes and the Rathlin MON Island postman MON MON The government's adoption advisor Martin Narey responds to MON your complaints about the lack of support for parents who MON adopt children who have suffered abuse or neglect. MON MON Italian designer Valentino has branded British theatre goers MON as scruffy. Is he right? We test your elegance quotient. MON MON And we'll be casting off on one of the country's most remote MON postal routes - delivering the Christmas mail to Rathlin MON Island off the north east coast of Ireland. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01p9cxl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01pbhw7 (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Grimm Thoughts b01p3hql (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and MON Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a MON national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an MON obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. MON MON To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and MON mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and MON often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part MON series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we MON know so well, and introducing us to the charms and MON challenges of those that we don't. MON MON Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales MON themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely MON with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of MON these deceptively complex stories. MON MON In the opening episode, we are introduced to the Grimm MON brothers themselves and the context in which they collected MON these tales, in parallel with the story of The Frog King - a MON tale of transformation and sexual favour that has opened the MON collection since it was first published and has played a MON central role in the Romantic attraction to the tradition of MON Volkspoesie. MON MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01p9gnb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pbk7z (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 9, The Cross-Roads MON MON Victorian detective drama series, starring Brian Cox and MON Siobhan Redmond. MON MON Written by David Ashton. MON MON Episode four: The Cross-Roads. MON MON McLevy is kidnapped by a grieving father who seeks vengeance MON for the death of his son. Jean, Roach and Mulholland join MON forces in a desperate bid to find the Inspector before MON kidnap turns into murder. MON MON Producer/Director: Bruce Young. MON MON Credits MON McLevy: Brian Cox MON Jean: Siobhan Redmond MON Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach: David Ashton MON Joseph Keir: Alexander Morton MON Director: Bruce Young MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: David Ashton MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01pbk81 (Listen) MON (4/17) MON Which explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name? And which MON film actor played both Sergeant Bilko in 1996 and Inspector MON Clouseau in 2006? MON MON Russell Davies asks the questions in this fourth heat of the MON current series of Britain's longest-running general MON knowledge contest. The competitors are from Chorley in MON Lancashire, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham and Aberdare. They'll MON each be hoping they can win through to the semi-finals in MON the new year, with a chance of becoming the sixtieth holder MON of the coveted Brain of Britain title. MON MON There's also a chance for a listener to win a prize by MON devising questions tricky enough to stump the combined MON brainpower of the contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01p9g3y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Stage Door b01pbk84 (Listen) MON Set back from the street, down dingy courts or in the MON recesses of a grubby alleyway, the stage door is often out MON of the way and hidden from public view. It separates the MON hurly burly off-stage reality outside a theatre or opera MON house, from the drama behind the curtain and out front on MON stage. Why does it remain, for most of us, a curious and MON peculiar place? MON MON In Stage Door, actress Rachael Stirling reveals its secrets, MON unwritten rules and routines - and we get a glimpse of what MON happens in the moments before and after crossing the MON threshold, past and present. However unglamorous its MON environs, visitors become momentarily enchanted, whether for MON a fleeting glimpse of John Gielgud or Peter O'Toole, an MON autograph and a smile from Margot Fonteyn, or the shock of MON seeing Simon Callow in his pants. MON MON Staking out the stage door, we hear from 'stage dooring' MON fans and autograph hunters as well as actors, cast members MON and crew. In the middle is the stage door keeper, MON determining who goes in and what stays out, organising its MON transitory residents and protecting the performers when the MON show comes in. "One time in Newcastle, Ray - smashing fella MON - picked up a bad vibe from someone waiting for me" explains MON Shaun Williamson. "The guy was waiting to assault me for MON something that Barry Evans had done on screen in MON EastEnders." MON MON Contributors: Shaun Williamson (Barry from EastEnders); MON Harry Gabriel, stage door keeper at London's Shaftesbury MON Theatre; house assistants Tom Shallaker and Martha Lamb from MON The Lyceum and Crucible in Sheffield; opera critic Rupert MON Christiansen; actor Geoffrey Streatfield; and Geoffrey MON Marsh, Director of Theatre Collections at The Victoria and MON Albert Museum. MON MON Producer: Tamsin Hughes MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01pbq3p (Listen) MON Series 7, Creating Life MON MON Unnatural. MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by guests Ed MON Byrne, Adam Rutherford and Philip Ball to talk about MON science's quest to create life. From the medieval MON alchemists' recipe for creating an homunculus through to MON IVF, cloning and the current cutting edge science working on MON creating artificial DNA, the quest to create life is an MON age-old one, but with modern scientific techniques now a MON reality. Viewed by many as deeply suspicious, even MON heretical, creation of life is one of the key ideas that MON generates distrust in science, but is this fair and are we MON really entering a brave new world where life is no longer in MON nature's hands. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Brian Cox and Robin Ince. MON MON 17:00 PM b01pbq3r (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p9cxn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01pbq3t (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Charter Theatre in Preston, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by the great Victoria Wood, with MON Jack Dee in the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by MON Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01pbq3w (Listen) MON Will doesn't hold back. Meanwhile Vicky is feeling pampered. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01pbq3y (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Dominic MON West, as he takes the role of Henry Higgins in a new staging MON of My Fair Lady in Sheffield. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p9l4s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 2012: The End of Time b01pbq40 (Listen) MON December 21st, 2012 is the date ancient Mayans believed MON would be the end of time. The Mayan civilisation died out MON thousands of year ago, yet still this archaic prophecy has MON attracted followers from multiple faiths and philosophies MON around the world, spawned countless conspiracy theories and MON fed a multi-million dollar industry in extreme survival MON guides. Why is this Mayan prediction so enduring and, MON perhaps more importantly, is there anything in it? This MON programme will be an often light hearted, but always MON authoritative guide through the sometimes wild shores of MON 2012 beliefs. As the clock ticks down on the prophesy that MON spells the end of the world perhaps this is the one MON programme you need to listen to. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01p7dd3 (Listen) MON Libya: Life after the Revolution MON MON The city of Misrata arguably suffered the most during the MON Libyan conflict as missiles rained on it for months on end. MON By the end of the revolution though, fighters from Misrata MON had exacted their revenge on neighbouring towns and had been MON responsible for the capture of Colonel Gaddafi, as well as MON Gaddafi strongholds. More recently Misratan fighters have MON been in action against the city of Bani Walid. Many MON residents of Bani Walid, accused of being Gaddafi MON supporters, have been expelled from their homes. Misrata MON has, effectively, set itself up as a city state, outside the MON control of Libya's new government. MON Writer and journalist Justin Marozzi, who has been visiting MON Libya over the last twenty years, including during the MON revolution, returns to examine if this fragmented country MON can rebuild itself and come together. Is reconciliation MON possible while different armed groups continue to fight each MON other? MON Producer: John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01p7ddm (Listen) MON Earlier this week, Steven Hawking was awarded 3 million MON dollars for his contribution to theoretical physics. 7 MON scientific leaders at CERN received the same amount between MON them. We look at the impact of awarding such prizes. While MON they create headlines for the scientists involved - do they MON help promote the science and are they fair, given the MON collaborative nature of contemporary scientific research? MON MON We also look at the mystery of Piltdown man. Once thought of MON as the missing link between ancient apes and humans this MON Sussex fossil was exposed as a fake more than 50 years ago. MON The mixture of human, orang-utan and chimpanzee parts is the MON subject of a new scientific investigation using modern MON techniques including DNA analysis. Researchers hope to solve MON the mystery of who produced the hoax and why. MON MON Also on the programme we speak to mathematicians who may MON have found a way of making computers process information MON thousands of times faster than they do now. MON MON And we discuss the 'science of Middle earth' how far the MON fantasy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit stories MON accurately reflect science. MON MON And we discuss the ‘science of Middle-earth’ how far the MON fantasy of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit stories MON accurately reflect science. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01pbhvz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01p9cxq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01pbq42 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pbq44 (Listen) MON Maeve Binchy Short Stories, Dolly's Mother MON MON In tribute to Maeve Binchy who died earlier this year, a MON selection of her short stories taken from Radio 4's Archive. MON In today's story, the beauty, grace and efficiency of her MON perfect parents have always made Dolly feel inferior - until MON the day of her sixteenth birthday. MON MON Maeve Binchy was one of Ireland's most-loved authors, with MON her 30-year career also including work as a playwright, MON short story writer and columnist. Her 16 novels and 4 short MON story collections sold 42 million copies worldwide and MON include Circle of Friends and Tara Road. She died in July MON 2012 after a short illness. MON MON Dolly's Mother was written especially for R4 and was first MON broadcast in 1992. MON MON Written by Maeve Binchy MON Read by Stella McCusker MON Produced by Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01pbq46 (Listen) MON The Zombies (the B-Side) MON MON John Wilson concludes his 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. Each edition MON includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the MON artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, MON the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature MON exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 7, the B-side. Having discussed the making of the MON Zombies' seminal 1968 album, "Odessey & Oracle" (in the MON A-side of the programme, broadcast on Tuesday 11th December MON and available online), Rod Argent, Chris White and Colin MON Blunstone responds to questions from the audience and MON perform live versions of some of the songs from the album, MON still held in such high regard. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pbq48 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01p9cyk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01p9k16 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p9cym (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p9cyp (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p9cyr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01p9cyt (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p9k18 (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer.with Bishop Donal McKeown, TUE Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01p9k1b (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01p9ks6 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin TUE Webb. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01p9ks8 (Listen) TUE John Gurdon TUE TUE Sir John Gurdon talks to Jim al-Khalili about how coming TUE bottom of the class in science was no barrier to winning TUE this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He TUE describes how he cloned a frog decades before Dolly the TUE Sheep and why, in future, he would consider cloning humans. TUE John Gurdon believes it is almost certainly technically TUE possible to clone one human being today but says it would TUE involve creating thousands of abnormal human embryos and who TUE would want to do that. However, fifty years from now, if the TUE technology was to improve and the parents agreed, he would TUE be in favour of cloning a young relative who had died TUE prematurely. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01p9ksb (Listen) TUE Olivia O'Leary with Mick Fitzgerald TUE TUE For 'One to One' Olivia O'Leary is speaking to people, who TUE have reached the peak of their profession, about growing TUE older. TUE TUE This week she meets one of the greatest ever jump-jockeys, TUE Mick Fitzgerald. He was forced to retire in 2008 after a TUE very serious fall in the Grand National. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01p9ksd (Listen) TUE Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through TUE One Extraordinary Pub, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: along with neighbouring Southwark Inn, the Tabard, TUE the George enters literary history with the publication of TUE Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p9ksg (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pc3h2 (Listen) TUE Modesty Blaise - A Taste for Death, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sir Gerald Tarrant, Head of a secret British agency, has TUE heard from his friend, Dr Aaronson, that there's trouble at TUE an archaeological dig in the Sahara. But when Sir Gerald and TUE Modesty go to meet Dr Aaronson they find his lifeless body TUE at the bottom of the stairs. Modesty's side-kick, Willie TUE Garvin, meanwhile, has returned from South America with a TUE blind Canadian girl called Dinah, whom he rescued from being TUE kidnapped. Now, it seems that these two threads are TUE connected. In this second episode, Dinah reveals her special TUE skill, a talent that explains why the bad guys were after TUE her. Modesty and Willie, meanwhile, get a lead from Paris TUE and decide to follow it up. They leave Dinah and Steve at TUE the cottage, with specially rigged steel screens over the TUE windows to keep them safe. But is it enough to keep at bay TUE Delicata, a villain of inhuman strength? Adapted by Stef TUE Penney from the novel by Peter O'Donnell. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01pcsmf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 16 TUE TUE In the bleak midwinter the days are short and nights are TUE long so how does our native wildlife survive in light of TUE diminishing food reserves. For this Saving Species, Brett TUE Westwood head off into the winter landscape to discover more TUE about the conservation work being done to understand the TUE needs of our wildlife at this time of year. 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 Riot Grrrls b01p9l1l (Listen) TUE "From hundreds of once pink, frilly bedrooms comes the young TUE feminist revolution... and it's not pretty" - USA Today, TUE 1992. TUE TUE For many young women coming of age in the nineties and TUE beyond, the music of the Riot Grrrl movement was TUE tremendously influential. It had a riotous exuberance, with TUE bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Huggy Bear TUE encouraging young women to stand up and shout out against a TUE culture they felt had turned a deaf ear to the voices of TUE young women. TUE TUE In this noisy exploration of the movement's music and TUE politics we hear from the riot grrrls themselves, their punk TUE foremothers and the young women who still feel their legacy TUE today. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01p9l1n (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01p9cyw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01p9l1q (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Grimm Thoughts b01pc2td (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second episode, Marina traces the tales right back to TUE their ancient origins, hoping to answer the question of why TUE we find parallels with the Grimms' stories in texts across TUE cultures throughout time. Her search centres on Cinderella TUE as she visits the tale's oldest known incarnation - an TUE ancient Egyptian manuscript that tells the rags-to-riches TUE story of the 'rosy-cheeked' Rhodopis and was a (perhaps TUE fittingly) precious find, recovered from a rubbish dump. TUE TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01pbq3w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p9l1s (Listen) TUE Rumpole, Episode 1 TUE TUE By John Mortimer. TUE Adapted for radio by Richard Stoneman. TUE TUE Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West star as the younger TUE and elder Rumpole in this new story. TUE TUE In 1964, Rumpole returns to Oxford, where he studied law, to TUE defend a young gardener, Peter Vernon, accused of TUE blackmailing the Master of St Joseph's College, Sir Michael TUE Tuffnell. TUE TUE Peter and Sir Michael had enjoyed a friendship that provoked TUE rumours of homosexuality - still illegal in those days. Sir TUE Michael has gone to the police alleging Peter was about to TUE accuse him publicly of sodomy. Peter denies the charge and, TUE indeed, is engaged to be married to his solicitor - a young TUE woman by the name of Sue Galton. Rumpole sees through a plot TUE to depose the Master and, sensing Peter's underlying TUE honesty, he defends his client. But, in doing so, he's TUE forced to re-assess the choices he's made in his career and TUE his marriage to She Who Must Be Obeyed. TUE TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Older Rumpole: Timothy West TUE Younger Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde TUE Nicholas Rumpole: Louis Tafler-Hyde TUE Humphrey Grice: Stephen Critchlow TUE Judge Everglades: Stephen Critchlow TUE Sue Galton: Faye Castelow TUE Peter Vernon: Adam Gillen TUE Sir Michael Tuffnell: Adrian Scarborough TUE Claude Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony TUE Porter: Nigel Anthony TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE Writer: Richard Stoneman TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01p9l1v (Listen) TUE Series 3, Birmingham TUE TUE This week Jay Rayner and The Kitchen Cabinet team are with TUE food-enthusiasts in Birmingham, with Angela Hartnett, Annie TUE Gray, Henry Dimbleby and Angela Malik on the panel. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Library Returns b01h75xw (Listen) TUE The public outcry over the predicted closure of libraries TUE masks a subtler story. Across Europe, the USA and Britain TUE libraries are being re-invented. They are being given a much TUE needed architectural facelift and a profound review of TUE services in order to guarantee their survival into the 21st TUE century. TUE TUE Jonathan Glancey presents this programme which visits the TUE great game-changing library in Seattle, Europe's 'most TUE modern' library in Deft, a library in Stuttgart which is TUE reviving a whole neighbourhood, Piers Gough's 'super TUE library' for Canada Water in London's Docklands and, of TUE course, the huge new library at the centre of Birmingham TUE which will open next year as the largest public cultural TUE space in Europe. TUE TUE He considers what these libraries are doing to secure their TUE place in the future - what they can offer in terms of TUE inspiring architecture, engagement with the communities they TUE serve and democratic access to the digital world. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01p9l1x (Listen) TUE Under the Influence TUE TUE Michael Rosen returns for a new series with an investigation TUE into the effects of alcohol on speech and voice quality. TUE Michael talks to psychologists at the University of TUE Liverpool and listens to some of the controlled experiments TUE they're carrying out with undergraduates both sober and TUE intoxicated. He looks at research into the perfect pub song, TUE and beer writer Pete Brown talks about the quintessential TUE hum of pub chat. And we visit the Royal College of Music to TUE discuss voice care and the kinds of food and drink TUE professional singers have to avoid in order to prolong their TUE careers. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01p9l1z (Listen) TUE Series 29, Prince Alamayu TUE TUE A royal prince rescued from a savage fate by the British - TUE or a child prisoner of war? Poet Lemn Sissay joins Matthew TUE Parris to discuss the life of Queen Victoria's favourite, TUE the Abyssinian Prince Alamayu, and finds many surprising TUE parallels with his own. Writer Elizabeth Laird joins the TUE debate. TUE Lemn Sissay MBE is a poet, playwright and performer of TUE Ethiopian heritage who was 'raised by Wigan Social TUE Services': 'the guilty secret of an innocent woman and a TUE dead man'. Saved from a loveless childhood by a passion for TUE words, Lemn's work has been inspired by the consequences of TUE his early life and the search for his family. TUE TUE Prince Alamayu was uprooted from his home after the British TUE defeated his father in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868. TUE Taken to England as an orphaned seven year old, speaking no TUE English, he was befriended by the Queen and became an TUE unwilling national celebrity. Alamayu was refused permission TUE to return home despite the pleas of his grandmother. He died TUE at the age of eighteen while staying with a friend in Leeds, TUE of pleurisy. TUE TUE Elizabeth Laird writes fiction for children and young TUE adults, set in places around the world where she has lived TUE and worked, including Ethiopia. Her novel 'The Prince Who TUE Walked with Lions' is based on the life of Prince Alamayu. TUE TUE In this moving and evocative programme Lemn's personal TUE experiences of loneliness as a solitary black child in a TUE white community, longing for a real family, shine a light on TUE the tragic life of a young prince whose heritage he shares. TUE TUE Reader...Liza Sadovy. TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01p9l21 (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 b01p9cyy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Bleak Expectations b01p9l4v (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Terrifying Life Made Even Scarier a Bit Some TUE More TUE TUE Bleak Expectations TUE By Mark Evans TUE Volume 5, chapter 5: 'A Terrifying Life Made Even Scarier A TUE Bit Some More' TUE The Victorian adventure comedy continues. This week a new TUE and terrible danger threatens Victorian Britain as Harry TUE Biscuit becomes possessed by the evil Pen of Penrith which TUE turns his heart to inky black. Pip and Gently Benevolent TUE join forces to take on this new, cruel and cake-obsessed TUE nemesis and his army of robot swans. They also turn out to TUE share a love of antiquing in the Cotswolds. TUE TUE Richard Johnson.............Sir Philip TUE Tom Allen.............Young Pip Bin TUE Anthony Head...................Gently Benevolent TUE James Bachman.....Harry Biscuit/Servewell TUE Geoffrey Whitehead..............Clampvulture TUE Sarah Hadland............Ripely/Lily TUE Susy Kane...............Pippa TUE Mark Evans........Hector the Holy Horse TUE TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01p9l4x (Listen) TUE Jim is disgruntled, and Kenton devises a secret strategy. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01p9l4z (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Salman Rushdie TUE about the film adaptation of his novel Midnight's Children. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pc3h2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Europe Moves East b01p9l5f (Listen) TUE Allan Little looks at the changing dynamic of the European TUE Union TUE TUE The Europe that Britain joined forty years ago was a small TUE and loose association of nations on the western edge of the TUE continent. Germany was still divided, with its capital in TUE the sleepy town of Bonn near the Belgian border. France - TUE with its long-standing commitment to the sovereignty of TUE nation states - was the driving force of the European TUE project. TUE TUE But the last decade has seen a profound and irreversible TUE shift. Europe's centre of gravity has moved dramatically TUE east. After reunification in 1990, a much more powerful TUE Germany has emerged. The countries of the old Eastern bloc TUE look to Berlin for leadership. Their experience of Soviet TUE occupation and communist dictatorship has committed them to TUE building a much stronger and more tightly integrated Europe, TUE one that will help secure their young and still vulnerable TUE democracies. "I want the European Union to become a TUE superpower," the Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski TUE tells the programme. This changing dynamic is the subtle, TUE hidden undertow to the continuing tensions over the Euro. TUE TUE Forty years ago the European project was being shaped by TUE those who had survived the Second World War on the Western TUE Front. Now, more and more, it is being driven by those who TUE lived through the brutality and horror of the Eastern Front, TUE and who endured forty years of communist oppression. TUE TUE Power in Europe has shifted, from the old and familiar TUE Paris-Bonn relationship to the new and much more dynamic TUE Berlin-Warsaw. This is the new Europe. It is one in which TUE France - once the unchallenged leading voice - is TUE increasingly marginalised. And it is one in which Britain TUE seems, increasingly, reluctant to stay part of. TUE TUE Producer: Jane Beresford. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01p9l5h (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01pbqkh (Listen) TUE How reading a baby's mind aids their development, Claudia TUE Hammond investigates a new technique which helps depressed TUE mothers connect with their infants. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01p9ks8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01p9cz0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01pbqkk (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pbqkm (Listen) TUE Maeve Binchy Short Stories, Home Coming TUE TUE Homecoming was written especially for R4 and was first TUE broadcast in 2001. TUE TUE Written by Maeve Binchy TUE Read by Sean Campion TUE Produced by Heather Brennon. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01pbq3p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pbqkp (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01p9czx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01p9ksd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p9czz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p9d01 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p9d03 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01p9d05 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pjj0f (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer.with Bishop Donal McKeown, WED Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01pbvxr (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer was Rich Ward. WED WED 06:00 Today b01pbvxt (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01pbvxw (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01pbvxy (Listen) WED Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through WED One Extraordinary Pub, Episode 3 WED WED Today: Shakespeare's inn-yard theatres take off in WED Southwark's taverns, against stiff competition from the far WED less lofty pursuits of bear-baiting and cockfighting. WED WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pbvy0 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pc2kr (Listen) WED Modesty Blaise - A Taste for Death, Episode 3 WED WED Modesty and Willie have been hoodwinked into going to Paris, WED leaving Dinah vulnerable at the cottage. Now she's been WED abducted by Delicata and taken to the desert. He plans to WED use her special powers to help him locate something very WED valuable. Knowing that Dinah's life is in terrible danger, WED Modesty and the gang hitch a ride with Skeet Lowry, pilot of WED the archaeological dig's supply plane. But are they walking WED into a trap? Adapted from the novel by Peter O'Donnell by WED Stef Penney. WED WED 11:00 Train Hopping in the USA b01p71wl (Listen) WED "The last red blooded American adventure out there" - the WED words of a man who doesn't need to ride the rails, but does WED it for excitement. WED WED Train hopping has a long tradition in America - from Jack WED London to the 1930s, when the unemployed took to the rails WED to find work. Despite increased security since 9/11, train WED hopping is far from a forgotten way of travelling in the USA WED - but the demographics are new. WED WED Today the vast majority are illegal workers, mainly WED Hispanic, who seek to cross the border in to the States, and WED join legal migrants following the seasonal work - from WED lumber cutting in the north, to the melon fields of WED California. They risk entanglement with border guards and WED heavy machinery, even hanging in wire baskets under the WED units to avoid detection. Others take that risk voluntarily WED - seeking fun and adventure - getting their information from WED handbooks, conventions and websites giving safety tips and WED eulogising the thrill to be had taking to the rails. WED Finally, there are the hobos - people who choose to spend WED their lives on the road, and rails - welcomed annually as WED romantic heroes in Britt, Iowa, at the Hobo Festival. WED WED Peter Bowes hears from the train hoppers of the 21st century WED - hair-raising tales from illegal migrants from Honduras and WED El Salvador; the engine drivers who takes two mile long WED freight trains across the remotest wildernesses in America, WED spotting 'jumpers' alongside the desert tracks; and those WED who prefer the excitement of an open box car to the safety WED of the wheel - preferring to lie on top of a lumber car and WED watch a starry sky as the wheels thunder below. Romance and WED danger - desperation and fear - the real world of "Train WED Hopping In The USA" today. WED WED Producer: Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris b01pc2kt (Listen) WED An Amateur Corpse, Episode 3 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED Based on the novel by Simon Brett. WED Charles wants to prove that his old friend Hugo didn't kill WED his wife, but all the signs are pointing to Hugo's guilt. WED WED Charles ..... Bill Nighy WED Frances ..... Suzanne Burden WED Joan ..... Geraldine McEwan WED Maurice ..... Jon Glover WED Hugo ..... Paul Ritter WED Holly ..... Susie Ridell WED Detective ..... Don Gilet WED Paramedic ...... Joe Sims WED WED Director ...... Sally Avens WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01pc2q3 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01p9d07 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01pc2q5 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Grimm Thoughts b01pc2q7 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third episode we enter the magical worlds of the WED fairy tale, immersing ourselves in the spellbound WED transformations, landscapes and objects that have charmed WED generations. When magic rubs against the grain of reality WED and the impossible is naturalised, the stories' unique WED character comes alive. WED WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01p9l4x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pc33r (Listen) WED My Boy WED WED A lonely young woman and an isolated teenager share the WED secret of her miracle baby. WED WED Lisa is being rehoused, providing a fresh start for her and WED the baby she is expecting. She makes friends with Jordan, a WED teenage neighbour who cares for his depressed father. Lisa WED is under social work supervision and Claire, her worker, WED becomes concerned about her ability to deal with motherhood. WED When Jordan is intimidated by local kids, Lisa threatens the WED bullies and the police are called. Lisa barricades herself WED in her flat and waits for her baby, the angel she believes WED will save her from the real world. WED WED My Boy is an uplifting new play by theatre writer Laura WED Lomas, exploring a modern miracle. It has been developed WED over nine months with lead actress Christine Bottomley, and WED recorded with documentary techniques, reflecting the WED contemporary story and characters. WED WED Laura Lomas was one of six writers selected for the Paines WED Plough / Channel 4 Future Perfect scheme in 2009. She has WED been produced by Paines Plough, Nottingham Playhouse, and WED Hampstead and New Perspectives theatre companies. Her radio WED plays include Lucy Island (BBC Radio3, The Wire) and Siren WED (BBC Radio3, The Verb). WED WED Writer: Laura Lomas WED Produced and directed by Polly Thomas WED Sound design: Eloise Whitmore WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Lisa: Christine Bottomley WED Claire: Nadine Marshall WED Jordan: Ciaran Clancy WED Policeman: Edward Hulme WED Director: Polly Thomas WED Producer: Polly Thomas WED Writer: Laura Lomas WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01pc37x (Listen) WED Child Benefit WED WED The rules about who can claim child benefit are changing. Do WED you claim the allowance and could you get caught by the new WED tax charge? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm on Wednesday or WED email moneybox@bbc.co.uk with your questions. WED WED Around a million letters have been sent out by HM Revenue & WED Customs (HMRC) warning people that their entitlement to WED child benefit could be reduced or lost. WED WED The High Income Child Benefit Charge starts on 7 January WED 2013, for those with an income above 50,000 pounds. If you WED are affected you will need to decide whether to keep WED receiving the benefit and pay the tax charge through self- WED assessment, or to stop claiming. WED WED If you have a question about the new system or making a WED decision about your claim you can call or e-mail Wednesday's WED programme. WED WED How can you find out if you are affected? WED WED Which income do you need to declare and what happens if your WED finances increase or decrease? WED WED Where do you stand if your personal circumstances change or WED your partner moves in or out? WED WED What can you do to keep your benefit? WED WED If you don't claim child benefit will your right to other WED benefits and your pension be damaged? WED WED Perhaps you need advice about paying the charge through a WED self-assessment form? WED WED Whatever your question, Paul Lewis and guests will be ready WED to help. Paul will be joined by: WED WED Lin Homer, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary, HMRC WED Anita Monteith, Technical Manager, Tax Faculty, ICAEW WED Phil Agulnik Director of Entitledto, suppliers of online WED benefit calculators WED WED You can email your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or the WED number to call is 03 700 100 444 - lines are open between WED 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01pbqkh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01pc37z (Listen) WED Female jockeys; military migrants WED WED Military Migrants and the British Army. From Fiji to Ghana, WED the British military recruits soldiers to fight Britain's WED wars. Since 1998 overseas recruitment has been stepped up in WED response to labour shortages and diversity programmes. The WED sociologist, Vron Ware, talks to Laurie Taylor about her new WED book 'Military Migrants: Fighting for Your Country'. She WED argues that this new category of soldier inhabits a WED contradictory situation - on the one hand, praised as a WED 'hero' but on the other, stigmatised as an 'immigrant' and WED 'foreigner'. They're joined by the sociologist, Les Back. WED Also, Deborah Butler discusses her research on trainee WED female jockeys in the horse racing world. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01pc3bt (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01pc3bw (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p9d09 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01pc3by (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED WED This week, Mark visits Ottery St Mary in Devon to discuss WED Coleridge's embarrassing childhood, pixies, and what happens WED when you put five thousand people in a square with a lit tar WED barrel. WED WED Additional material by Pete Sinclair. WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01pc3c0 (Listen) WED Lilian faces an awkward encounter, and Vicky is determined WED to enjoy herself. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01pc3c2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pc2kr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01pcqkf (Listen) WED Unfair Dismissal WED WED Clive Anderson and guests discuss concerns that proposed WED government changes to employment law are nudging us towards WED a US-style 'fire at will' culture. WED WED Business secretary Vince Cable plans to cut 'red tape' in WED employment law in order to promote economic growth. But the WED proposals, which include a cut in how much workers can claim WED for unfair dismissal, have raised fears that workers' rights WED are being eroded. WED WED With many recession-hit businesses looking for ways to WED downsize their workforces, and the government determined to WED simplify dismissal procedures, this programme asks if WED current employment law strikes the right balance between WED protecting job security and allowing employers the WED flexibility to adjust their staffing levels. WED WED Leading lawyers representing the interests of employers and WED employees explain how current law works in the areas of WED dismissal and redundancy and argue about the need for WED further change. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01pcqkh (Listen) WED Series 3, Georgie Fienberg: Saying No to Pity WED WED Georgie Fienberg believes that endless fundraising by WED overseas aid charities is not sustainable, and she argues WED that charities should want to close. WED WED Georgie is Founder of Afrikids, a charity which supports WED poor children in Ghana. When she started the organisation WED she set a deadline for closing its UK fundraising arm, so WED that the organisation in Ghana would be sustainable and WED self-sufficient. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 For All Mankind b01pcqkk (Listen) WED What did the Apollo Moon missions ever do for us? To mark WED the fortieth anniversary of the last man on the Moon, WED science writer Chris Riley examines the difference this WED brief human adventure has made to all our lives. WED WED In December 1972, astronaut Gene Cernan left the last WED footprint on the Moon. In that brief era of lunar WED exploration, only twelve men had walked on the Moon's WED surface but, forty years on, the legacy of those missions is WED still having an impact. WED WED Chris Riley talks to astronauts, philosophers and WED entrepreneurs about the enduring impact of Apollo. By WED pushing technology to its limits, the missions showed us WED what we could achieve as a species. In the longer term, they WED accelerated the development of modern electronics, inspired WED the environmental movement and even helped thaw Cold War WED relations. WED WED Tens of thousands of schoolchildren became scientists and WED engineers as a result of Apollo. The missions to the Moon WED made the Earth a very different place. WED WED Producer: Richard Hollingham. WED A Boffin Media production for Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01pbvxw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01p9d0c (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01pcqkm (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pcqkp (Listen) WED Maeve Binchy Short Stories, The White Trolley WED WED The White Trolley, along with its counterpart story The WED Feast of Stephen, was written for the BBC and originally WED aired at Christmas in 1998. WED WED Written by Maeve Binchy. WED WED Read by Jenny Agutter. WED WED Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon. WED WED 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b01pcqkr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED By Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson WED WED The romantic correspondence between two of history's most WED important horses: Napoleon's mount Marengo and the Duke of WED Wellington's own Copenhagen. It is the eve of Waterloo and WED our two heroes face the prospect of seeing each other face WED to face, if only it was not across a battlefield. And is WED Marengo's life at risk from another more immediate enemy? WED WED Marengo ..... Stephen Fry WED Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby WED Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Mission Improbable b01pcqkt (Listen) WED Ice! WED WED Adventure journalist Jane, long term singleton Lucy and WED zookeeper Amelia set off on another international adventure. WED WED This time, Jane finds herself trying to beat that famous WED adventurer Marcus Wolfton across the arctic tundra in a bid WED to be the first and only journalist to record the voice of WED the last speaker of a dying language. Meanwhile Lucy finds WED herself trying to slow the team down so she can get up close WED and personal with the man himself, who's only a matter of WED hours behind. Amelia only has eyes for the polar bears she's WED hoping she'll get a chance to chat to. WED WED During this ice cap caper, our heroes survive sub-zero WED temperatures, furious indigenous wildlife and a frantic game WED of cosmetic tennis before an encounter with an angry Inuit WED has them running for their lives. Will they survive? Will WED they beat Marcus Wolfton to the prize? Or will they dress up WED as nuns and make complete fools of themselves? WED WED Jane................Catriona Knox WED Lucy................Lizzie Bates WED Amelia.............Anna Emerson WED Marcus............James Lance WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pcqkw (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01p9d16 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01pbvxy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p9d18 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p9d1b (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p9d1d (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01p9d1g (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pvdcz (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Bishop Donal McKeown, THU Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01pcs5b (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01pcs5d (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01pcs5g (Listen) THU The South Sea Bubble THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The South Sea Bubble, THU the speculation mania in early 18th-century England which THU ended in the financial ruin of many of its investors. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01pcs5j (Listen) THU Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through THU One Extraordinary Pub, Episode 4 THU THU Today: while the age of the stagecoach changes the face of THU British pubs, the George faces its darkest hour. THU THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pcs5l (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Aasmah Mir. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pcs5n (Listen) THU Modesty Blaise - A Taste for Death, Episode 4 THU THU Dinah is using her extra sensory powers to try and locate THU the lost treasures of the Garamantes. So far, she's only THU found Roman swords and buckles. Delicata is becoming THU impatient and furious. Time is running out for the gang and THU they need an escape plan. So Modesty comes up with a ruse to THU get hold of McWhirter's notebook and win the pilot, Skeet THU Lowry over to their side. Adapted from the novel by Peter THU O'Donnell by Stef Penney. THU THU Produced and Directed by Kate McAll THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01pcs5q (Listen) THU Poland's New Immigrants THU THU For decades, Poland has been a country of emigrants THU travelling to build new lives abroad, not least in the UK. THU But could things be about to change? Paul Henley travels to THU the country at the eastern edge of the EU, where the THU financial crisis has, so far, been avoided. He meets the THU migrants already making a life in Europe's least THU multicultural society, and explores the conditions that THU suggest Poland could be on the cusp of becoming a THU destination; home to a new wave of migrants. THU Producer: Lila Allen. THU THU 11:30 Neil Tennant's Smash Hits Christmas b01pcs5s (Listen) THU Neil Tennant had a life as a journalist before he became THU famous as a Pet Shop Boy. In fact, it was on a Smash Hits THU trip to New York that he had his big breakthrough with the THU record producer Bobby O. THU THU Here, 30 years after his first stint on pop's most THU successful and inventive magazine, Neil recalls the golden THU days of Smash Hits. THU THU We hear from founder and legendary magazine maker Nick THU Logan, editors David Hepworth and Mark Ellen, writers THU Miranda Sawyer and Sylvia Patterson, and from regular Smash THU Hits cover girl, Toyah. THU THU We also sample a rare recording from the 1982 Christmas THU Flexidisc (a message from the stars) and probably Neil THU Tennant's first recording - the music for a trailer THU advertising Smash Hits stickers. THU THU Producer: Susan Marlin THU A Just Radio Ltd. production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01pcs5v (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01p9d1j (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01pcs5x (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Grimm Thoughts b01pcs5z (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In the fourth episode, Marina tells the latent truth from THU the familiar fiction in the tales, identifying the real THU people and places that some believe to have inspired the THU Grimms brothers' collection. Was Bluebeard inspired by the THU real-life serial killer Giles de Rais, a 15th century French THU lord who served under Joan of Arc? Was Snow White based on THU truth? Leading academics discuss what these parallels tell THU us about the dormant human anxieties that transcend time and THU place. THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01pc3c0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pcs61 (Listen) THU Strummer and Me THU THU Written by Colin MacDonald. THU THU In early 1982, The Clash, the greatest live rock band in the THU world, was in crisis. Their album had been panned and ticket THU sales for an upcoming tour were not going well. With THU tensions among the band running high, their manager hit on THU what he thought would be a great PR stunt: he took the band THU frontman Joe Strummer aside and told him it'd be good to THU disappear - to create massive headlines. THU THU But Joe, fed up with what was going on, decided he really THU would disappear. He vanished with his girlfriend and no-one THU knew where he was until, three weeks later, he turned up in THU Paris. This play imagines what might have taken place during THU two of those 'lost' Parisian nights. THU THU 22nd December 2012 is the tenth anniversary of Joe THU Strummer's untimely death - aged only fifty - from a THU congenital heart defect. This drama pays tribute to the man THU and his music, and examines the influence on him of his THU mother's Scottish Highland roots. THU THU Other parts were played by members of the cast. THU THU Written by Colin MacDonald. THU THU Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU MacKenzie: Robert Jack THU Strummer: Bryan Dick THU Sheriff: Patrick Brennan THU Michelle: Stephanie Racine THU Danny: Stuart Martin THU Director: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU Writer: Colin MacDonald THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01pcs63 (Listen) THU Christmas in Norfolk THU THU Helen Mark is in Norfolk where preparations for Christmas THU are underway. In Great Hockham Helen meets Vincent THU Thurkettle whose life has been defined by a love of trees THU and the great outdoors. During the early part of the year, THU Vincent tends his fields of Christmas trees, which are THU allowed to grow with wild flowers at their roots, before THU spending his summers diving for sunken treasure off the THU coast of Britain. Returning to Norfolk later in the year, THU Vincent begins his Christmas tree deliveries and Helen joins THU him as he sets off. THU In the coastal town of Cromer, a rather more unusual THU Christmas tree has appeared in the churchyard and Helen THU meets fisherman, John Davies, to find out about the 150 THU lobster pots that were used to build the tree which now THU lights up the town and celebrates the town's fishing THU heritage. THU Helen also finds out how to decorate a Christmas tree for THU garden birds before heading back to Great Hockham where THU Vincent Thurkettle has finished the day's deliveries. THU Vincent, who also spends a week each year chopping wood to THU heat his cottage and cook his food gives Helen a lesson in THU how to lay the best wood fire and where the chestnuts will THU soon be roasting. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01p9g0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01p9gk0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01pcs65 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01pcs67 (Listen) THU Recorded in front of an audience Quentin Cooper and guests, THU Adam Rutherford, Mark Miodownik, Claudia Hammond and Dalls THU Campbell, discuss the unsung heroes of science. THU THU 17:00 PM b01pcsm3 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p9d1l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jhnyh (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU In this episode, Malcolm is distracted by a breast feeding THU mother during a birth registration, causing Lorna to suspect THU he might have made his first ever mistake. THU THU Malcolm................David Schneider THU Lorna..................Sarah Hadland THU Anita..................Sandy McDade THU Luke...................Russell Tovey THU Mary...................Sally Bretton THU Mr Carrick.............Andrew Brooke THU Mrs Carrick............Kerry Godliman THU Mrs Ferguson/ Mrs Goldring/ THU Mrs Smith..............Jane Whittenshaw THU THU Producer: Simon Jacobs THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01pcsm5 (Listen) THU Jazzer makes Lynda blush, and Elizabeth is on a high. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01pcsm7 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pcs5n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01pcsm9 (Listen) THU Simon Cox presents the current affairs series combining THU original insights into major news stories with topical THU investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01pcsmc (Listen) THU Can the Co-Op Cope? THU THU The Cooperative movement is 168 years old and the Co-op THU brand is a presence in food, funerals, travel and banking. THU Peter Day reports on its relevance to the 21st century THU consumer. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01pcsmf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01pcs5g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01p9d1n (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01pcsmh (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Philippa THU Thomas. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pcsmk (Listen) THU Maeve Binchy Short Stories, The Feast of Stephen THU THU The Feast of Stephen, along with its counterpart story The THU White Trolley, was written for the BBC and was originally THU aired at Christmas in 1998. THU THU Written by Maeve Binchy. THU Read by Jenny Agutter. THU Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon. THU THU 23:00 The Simon Day Show b010t7qt (Listen) THU Series 1, Dave Angel THU THU British comedy legend and star of The Fast Show, Down the THU Line and Bellamy's People, Simon Day debut's his own Radio 4 THU character comedy show. THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The THU Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show, THU along with the back stage and front of house goings on at THU the theatre itself. THU THU This week 1990s Eco-Warrior Dave Angel (Simon Day), performs THU at The Mallard Theatre and a confused delivery man arrives THU with gifts from a star. THU THU Dave Angel / White Van Man ..... Simon Day THU Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pcsmm (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01p9d2h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01pcs5j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p9d2k (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p9d2m (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p9d2p (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01p9d2r (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pjj10 (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer.with Bishop Donal McKeown, FRI Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01pctnz (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter was Charlotte Smith and the producer was Polly FRI Procter. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01pctp1 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in FRI Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01p9g3w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01pcvkw (Listen) FRI Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through FRI One Extraordinary Pub, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: the myths and the ghosts of landlords and ladies FRI past. FRI FRI Reader: Tony Robinson is best known for his role as Baldrick FRI in the Blackadder series. He's also presented Channel 4's FRI 'Time Team' and written numerous books for children. FRI Author: Pete Brown , the 'Beer drinkers' Bill Bryson' (TLS), FRI was named Beer Writer of the Year by the British Guild of FRI Beer Writers, and is the author of three other books on pubs FRI and brewing. FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pcvky (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pcvl0 (Listen) FRI Modesty Blaise - A Taste for Death, Episode 5 FRI FRI The showdown in the desert reaches its climax as Modesty and FRI Willie use all their resources - not to mention a few FRI ancient Roman weapons - to put their escape plan into FRI action. Superhumanly strong Delicata finally meets his FRI match. Back at home, though, there's still one more villain FRI who has to be dealt with. FRI FRI The final episode of Stef Penney's adaptation of Peter FRI O'Donnell's novel. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Down and Out Debaters b01pcvl2 (Listen) FRI Every Tuesday night during Michaelmas term at Durham FRI University, the debating chamber at the Durham Union Society FRI is filled with student volunteers training a group of FRI participants brought in by the homeless charity Cyrenians. FRI FRI The hope is that through debating the group can hone their FRI skills of speaking, and gain confidence and the ability to FRI deal better with job interviews and challenging FRI environments. They've got eight weeks, then there's a black FRI tie dinner and the participants will be debating in front of FRI an audience. FRI FRI The participants have had a tough history, and for many of FRI them the idea of public speaking fills them with terror. The FRI students 'ooze confidence' and it's up to them to impart FRI some of that on their trainees, and hope that in the long FRI term it might make a difference to their lives. FRI FRI Can it? Edi Stark finds out. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Lloyd. FRI FRI 11:30 Three Wishes b01608jr (Listen) FRI The genie - or jinn, to give it its original name - has been FRI a key player in some of the world's oldest stories. Compared FRI to similar beings from classical western mythologies, the FRI jinn is much harder to predict and pin down thanks to its FRI unpredictable spirit. Born of fire, it can be a tempestuous, FRI vindictive, benevolent or sometimes just downright grumpy FRI character, after thousands of years trapped in a lamp. The FRI fact of its frequent servitude has led some to interpret the FRI popularity of the stories during the abolition of slavery FRI campaign as a commentary on the slave trade. Others have FRI focused on the quandaries posed by the giving and receiving FRI of wishes, while others, perhaps most famously Robin FRI Williams, have simply revelled in the larger-than-life FRI exuberance the shape-shifting genie offers. In 'Three FRI Wishes', Janet Ellis talks with Marina Warner, an expert on FRI the Arabian Nights; Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, who's film 'Jinn' is FRI released next year; Philip Kerr, best known for his crime FRI novels but also responsible for series of seven children's FRI books focusing on twin heroes who happen to be genies; FRI polymath Hugh Montgomery, who's exploiting the metaphorical FRI potential of the idea of the genie in the bottle for a major FRI campaign against global warming; and the director and star FRI in a production of perhaps the most famous genie story of FRI them all - Aladdin. FRI FRI Producer Geoff Bird. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01pcvl4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01pcvl6 (Listen) FRI Nadine and Frank - Autism FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation about Tommy, an 8 year old FRI with autism, between his parents. They contend with his FRI challenging behaviour daily, but also celebrate his FRI uniqueness, in Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01p9d2t (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01pcvl8 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Grimm Thoughts b01pcvlb (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the fifth episode, we are drawn into the tales' rich FRI history of illustration. These evocative stories have always FRI stirred vivid images in the minds of artists, from the FRI angular drawings of an early David Hockney to Dickens' FRI Victorian illustrator George Cruikshank. Through these FRI artists' impressions, we paint a new picture of the tales' FRI vital contribution to the long tradition of visual FRI storytelling. FRI FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01pcsm5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pcwqn (Listen) FRI The Long Count FRI FRI By Glen Neath. FRI FRI Today is the winter solstice and, according to some, FRI doomsday. FRI FRI A Mayan prophecy seems to specify 21st December 2012 as the FRI end of a 'Long Count' and the beginning of a cataclysm that FRI will engulf us all. Assorted spiritualists and new age FRI groups add their own spin on the day's events: some say we FRI are passing a tipping point, the birth of a new age where FRI we'll take better care of our people and our planet; others FRI say we are entering the end times, where many will die and FRI the chosen few will ascend to another dimension, a higher FRI consciousness - in a space ship. FRI FRI Avis Roberts, a journalist, has been following one such FRI group and, today, he is joining them at Silbury Hill in FRI Wiltshire to share their final moments and figure out what FRI is actually happening. FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the company. FRI FRI Music and sound by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris. FRI FRI A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Avis: Anthony Shuster FRI Hayley: Alice O'Connell FRI Rob: Iain Robertson FRI Daniel: Claude Starling FRI Hester: Laura Elphinstone FRI Bertrice: Niall Ashdown FRI Director: Boz Temple-Morris FRI Producer: Boz Temple-Morris FRI Writer: Glen Neath FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01pcwqq (Listen) FRI Muncaster Castle, Cumbria FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts a special Christmas edition of GQT from FRI Muncaster Castle, Cumbria. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness FRI and Matthew Wilson join in the seasonal fun on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Murals b01pcwqs (Listen) FRI Banana Bread FRI FRI These three stories by Morven Crumlish, commissioned FRI specially for Radio 4, are inspired by the work of the FRI artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. FRI FRI Traquair (1852-1936) was born in County Dublin and, in the FRI 1870s, moved to Edinburgh where she would later become a FRI prominent figure in the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement. FRI FRI Probably her best-known works are the vibrantly-coloured FRI murals in what was formerly the Catholic Apostolic Church in FRI Broughton Street, Edinburgh which Traquair took eight years FRI to complete (1893-1901). When the church fell out of FRI ecclesiastical use, the murals suffered badly through FRI neglect but, following the formation of the Mansfield FRI Traquair Trust, a major restoration was undertaken, FRI completed in 2005. FRI FRI While art is at the core of all three fictions, Murals also FRI mirrors the evolution of a similar building: from church, to FRI brickyard, to present-day use for visitors and as a venue FRI for events. FRI FRI 2/3. Banana Bread FRI FRI The building has fallen into disuse as a church and is now a FRI warehouse for bricks. A builder uncovers some of the FRI neglected murals and relives the life and death of his lost FRI son. FRI FRI Morven Crumlish's stories have been broadcast widely, and FRI she also contributes to the Guardian. Her work has featured FRI in four previous Sweet Talk productions for BBC Radio 4, FRI including Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs - five of her stories - FRI in 2008; and most recently 'Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of FRI My Dreams' (Three For My Baby, 2011). Morven lives in FRI Edinburgh. FRI FRI Reader: Mark Bonnar FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01pcwqv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01pcwqx (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01pcwqz (Listen) FRI Phil and Nicky - The Price of Campaigning FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation about the price paid by FRI one online disability rights campaigner who is cyber-bullied FRI for her work. While she copes, it's harder for her husband. 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 b01pcwr1 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p9d2w (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01pcwr3 (Listen) FRI Series 79, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Samira FRI Ahmed and Nick Doody. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01pcwr5 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Mary Cutler FRI Director ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Matt Crawford... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary..... Ryan Kelly FRI Usha Franks..... Souad Faress FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Joyce Walters..... Ann Beach. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01pcwr7 (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson unwraps new interviews with arts headline makers FRI of the year, including Dame Judi Dench and the band alt-J, FRI winners of the Mercury Prize for album of the year. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pcvl0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01pcwr9 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Haddenham FRI Village Hall in Buckinghamshire - the panel includes the FRI Labour MP Frank Field. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01pcwrc (Listen) FRI Economics Priesthood FRI FRI Will Self warns against the false prophets of the new FRI priesthood of economics who base their analyses and FRI predictions on "spurious notions of human behaviour". "In FRI place of the vulgate we require the holy books of economics FRI to be written in the language we actually speak, and along FRI with this we should actively seek a liberty of individual FRI conscience, so that we communicate directly with Mammon, FRI freed from the intercession of a priesthood who, when not FRI arguing about how many angels can be fitted on the head of a FRI pin, are spending our money producing elegant but utterly FRI spurious mathematical models of possible future angel-on-pin FRI scenarios." FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b012f5qv (Listen) FRI The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Revolution FRI FRI The French Revolution was one of the most far-reaching FRI social and political upheavals in modern history spanning 10 FRI years and involving the execution of the King, collapse of FRI monarchy and slaughter of thousands at the guillotine. FRI Starring Richard E Grant and Sally Hawkins, comedy trio The FRI Penny Dreadfuls will attempt to tell the epic story of the FRI Revolution in one hour, with jokes. FRI FRI The play's two main characters are Maximilien Robespierre FRI the dictatorial architect of the Reign of Terror, who sent FRI thousands to their death and Marie-Therese, the 16 year old FRI daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. FRI FRI Marie-Therese was incarcerated for three years by the FRI revolutionaries. When she was locked up her father, mother, FRI aunt and little brother were also with her. After the FRI execution of her father the rest of the family were moved to FRI another part of the tower and Marie-Therese was kept in FRI solitary confinement. It is recorded that Robespierre FRI visited Marie-Therese at one point in the tower but there is FRI no historical record of that conversation. This play is that FRI conversation. FRI FRI Revolution is written by comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls, FRI Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck, all successful in FRI their own rights as solo performers and all taking their own FRI shows to Edinburgh this year. Last year they wrote an FRI Afternoon Play for Radio about Guy Fawkes and they have FRI previously had two series of The Brothers Faversham FRI broadcast on Radio 7. FRI FRI Producer - Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Robespierre: Richard E Grant FRI Therese: Sally Hawkins FRI Actor: David Reed FRI Actor: Humphrey Ker FRI Actor: Thom Tuck FRI Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Director: Julia McKenzie FRI Writer: Humphrey Ker FRI Writer: David Reed FRI Writer: Thom Tuck FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01p9d2y (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01pcwrf (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Philippa FRI Thomas. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pcwrh (Listen) FRI Maeve Binchy Short Stories, Euston FRI FRI Written by Maeve Binchy. FRI Read by Frances Tomelty. FRI Abridged by Di Speirs. FRI Producer: Sarah Johnson. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01p9l1z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pcwrk (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy looks back at the year in parliament, as MPs FRI begin their Christmas break. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01pcwrm (Listen) FRI Jo and George - Washing Your Dirty Linen in Public FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation from Cumbria about the FRI etiquette of the washing basket and the daily irritations of FRI living with someone you love in Radio 4's series that proves FRI it's 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