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SAT SATURDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01q97zl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01qbngw (Listen) SAT Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for SAT the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed SAT shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops SAT poured through the high mountain passes and re-established SAT on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. SAT On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But, SAT after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in SAT answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into SAT violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in SAT Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth SAT century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in SAT the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly SAT equipped tribesmen. SAT SAT Read by Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Written by William Dalrymple SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01q97zn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01q97zq (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01q97zs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01q97zv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01q980w (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Rev'd Canon Noel Battye. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01q980y (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01q97zx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01q97zz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01q976s (Listen) SAT Johnsons Island SAT SAT Tiny Johnsons Island sits in contrast to the hustle and SAT bustle of Brentford and West London surrounding it. At the SAT confluence of the Rivers Thames and Brent and the Grand SAT Union Canal, the area was important historically for the SAT barges that had carried goods from Birmingham. Nearby boat SAT yards continue to repair and renovate vessels of all types SAT while shiny new developments overlook the island - a mixture SAT of old and new alongside one another. Helen Mark meets the SAT community of artists who work on Johnsons Island and SAT discovers how its nature and surroundings inspire them. A SAT small gallery has been set up to exhibit their work but also SAT to honour the late local character and 'naive artist' Barry SAT Jones - an accomplished jazz musician who sold art works for SAT beer money. The island is shared by one of the boatyards, SAT complete with wet dock, chickens, bees and allotments. Yet SAT many don't know of the island's existence, let alone its SAT history. Helen explores the secrets of Johnsons Island. SAT Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01qctqk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Weekend edition of the rural magazine. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01q9801 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01qctqm (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT In today's programme SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01qctqp (Listen) SAT Richard Curtis; Murray Lachlan Young; John McCarthy and SAT Meredith Hooper; Ben Elton's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles live from the BBC Radio SAT Theatre in London's Broadcasting House with screenwriter & SAT director Richard Curtis, poet Murray Lachlan Young, Annie SAT Hutchinson who arrived in the UK 10 years ago with just £62 SAT to her name and is now turning neglected houses into SAT comfortable homes for children and their families, and SAT Edward Adoo whose love of London buses led him to a career SAT as a DJ. John McCarthy talks to Antarctic explorer Meredith SAT Hooper, Sylvia Hopwood describes the sound of Star Ferry SAT bell in Hong Kong, comedian Ben Elton shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks and JP Devlin mingles with the crowds. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b01qctqr (Listen) SAT Series 4, On the Waterfront SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini returns with the series about how some of SAT the greatest Best Picture Oscar winning films were made, and SAT what they tell us about the history of the time. SAT The 27th Academy Awards, for the films released in 1954, SAT were dominated by ON THE WATERFRONT, a gritty, black and SAT white masterpiece, which takes us down to the highly SAT unionised New Jersey docks, then controlled by the mob. SAT A real tale of corruption and murder on the waterfront is SAT transformed into a fiction - as a simple minded ex-boxer, SAT played by Marlon Brando, wrestles with his conscience as he SAT turns informer to win the girl he loves. SAT ON THE WATERFRONT not only gives us the most famous scene SAT ever to take place in the back of a taxi, ("I coulda been a SAT contender!"), it also showcases the talents of director Elia SAT Kazan, and an astonishingly strong support cast - Rod SAT Steiger, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and newcomer Eva Marie SAT Saint- Method Acting at its height. SAT It also marks the end of the powerful team of director Elia SAT Kazan and Method actor Marlon Brando - blown apart by SAT Brando's horror at Kazan's decision to testify in front of SAT the House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC - then SAT investigating the red-scare in Hollywood. SAT Is it a coincidence that ON THE WATERFRONT tells the story SAT of a man who informs - snitches on his friends - but holds SAT the moral high ground? SAT With a rich mix of archive and original interviews with SAT actors, screen writers and film critics, and a revelatory SAT interview with Thomas Hanley, a real life longshoreman who SAT played Brando's young friend Tommy back in 1954, Paul SAT Gambaccini presents "And The Academy Award Goes to... On The SAT Waterfront." SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01qctqt (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01qctqw (Listen) SAT Retribution in Mali SAT SAT Looking behind the week's headlines: Tim Whewell, just back SAT from Mali, talks of it being a time of retribution. Every SAT conflict throws up winners and losers. And it's the nomadic SAT Touareg, he tells us, who have become targets for revenge. SAT SAT Arguments over gun control have once again been dominating SAT the headlines in the US and Paul Adams has been reporting on SAT a story he says is quintessentially American. SAT SAT Darius Bazargan has been in northern Lebanon, where he has SAT been talking to factions allied to different warring groups SAT in Syria. SAT SAT The Swiss train service has an enviable reputation, but SAT Imogen Foulkes has been finding out it has managed to anger SAT its customers. SAT SAT And in South Africa, Hamilton Wende has been out with a SAT group of township teenagers whose extravagance and SAT flamboyance has managed to anger some of their elders. SAT SAT Producer: Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01qctqy (Listen) SAT Fraud busters, the Money Box savings challenge and air SAT travel rights SAT SAT FRAUD BUSTERS SAT If there's something weird and it don't look good and you're SAT defrauded, who you gonna call? From 1 April not the police. SAT In future every fraud will be handled by a central agency SAT and local police forces will take no responsibility. The SAT head of Action Fraud explains why. And a fraud prevention SAT expert gives his view. SAT SAT COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT SAT Major changes are afoot to Council Tax Benefit. It SAT disappears on 1 April and responsibility for helping low SAT income households with their council tax moves to local SAT councils. In England the national scheme will be replaced by SAT potentially 326 different sets of rules - one for each local SAT council. Thursday was the deadline for all councils to SAT declare how they were dealing with the 10% cut in their SAT funding. Who will pay the most? SAT SAT SAVINGS SAT After last week's savings challenge - will any bank or SAT building society move customers from a savings account SAT paying a rubbish rate to one paying a decent rate - we SAT reveal the bottom five savings accounts on the market. We SAT also explain why we were right and the Post Office was wrong SAT when it told savers of a cut in their savings rate after it SAT had happened. The Post Office has now 'revoked' the cut and SAT will make sure it gives the correct notice before it is SAT re-imposed. SAT SAT AIR TRAVEL SAT A European Court ruling means that airlines have an absolute SAT duty to reimburse customers for long delays even if they SAT were caused by circumstances outside the airline's control. SAT This week a customer got £1000 from Ryanair which had been SAT fighting his claim for expenses caused by delays due to the SAT Icelandic ash cloud in 2010 - a natural phenomenon which SAT Ryanair has told Money Box didn't even exist. So what can SAT you claim for, how, and how much? SAT SAT ANNUITIES SAT For many years Money Box has been complaining about the way SAT annuities are sold by insurance firms and the glacial pace SAT of improvements. This week the Financial Services Authority SAT says the market is working badly enough for it to launch an SAT investigation - what it calls a thematic review. Those of SAT you with a long memory will remember its previous review in SAT 2008. Not much has changed. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01q97r7 (Listen) SAT Series 79, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Rebecca SAT Front and Roisin Conaty. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01q9803 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01q9805 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01q8mwx (Listen) SAT Ken Clarke, Keith Vaz, George Galloway, Ruth Porter SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Minster School, Southwell. Guests include Ken Clarke SAT MP, George Galloway MP and Ruth Porter from the Institute of SAT Economic Affairs. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01qcttv (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01qcttx (Listen) SAT Boots on the Ground SAT SAT by Don Webb SAT SAT Danny Marks arrives at a Military Research centre. He's a SAT volunteer for speed reaction testing; trying to improve SAT reaction times under duress. His mate Billy Rogers was on SAT the same course, but he's gone missing. Has he just done a SAT bunk? Or is it something more sinister. A dark, contemporary SAT thriller by veteran TV writer. SAT SAT Don Webb is a hugely experienced TV and radio writer with SAT credits stretching back to the early eighties. He has SAT written for 'The Bill', 'Juliet Bravo', 'Rockcliffe's SAT Babies' and 'Byker Grove'. His recent R4 plays include SAT 'Right Place, Wrong Time' and 'A Bobby's Job'. SAT SAT Credits SAT Marks: Lee Ingleby SAT Joanie: Sue Kelly SAT Dr Callard: Gillian Kearney SAT Dr Ainsworth: Malcolm Raeburn SAT Tasker: Jonathan Keeble SAT Rogers: Greg Wood SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Writer: Don Webb SAT SAT 15:30 Baaba Maal and the Senegalese Kingdom of Music SAT b01q6xtb (Listen) SAT Each year the Senegalese king of music, Baaba Maal, invites SAT musicians across the region to play at the Blues du Fleuve SAT festival, Festival of the River, which takes place somewhere SAT along the Senegal River on the northern edge of the country. SAT SAT The river is the key - it runs from Guinea through Mali, SAT Mauritania and Senegal - the countries that were once SAT unified in the kingdom of Mali, the most musical region in SAT Africa and Baaba has invited musicians from all these SAT countries to perform at the festival. SAT SAT This year the English cellist Adrian Brendel travels with SAT his instrument to the most remote festival location ever, to SAT immerse himself in the music. He makes his way to the desert SAT town of Demet on the Senegal side of the river and to Bogue SAT on the Mauritanian side, to hear traditional singing of the SAT griots, spine tingling laments from Mauritania's Veyrouz, SAT love songs from Guinea's Binta Laly Sow next to the finest SAT hip hop artists including Duggy Tee. SAT SAT Baaba's own band Daande Lenol draws thousands - young and SAT old. The band's name means the "Voice of the People" and SAT they follow him in droves. SAT SAT Baaba is increasingly deemed a guide for these people - SAT collectively the Fulani - and he represents peace and wisdom SAT in a culturally threatened region. SAT SAT He and Adrian share a passion for music and discuss SAT differences in their approach. Baaba describes his alarm at SAT the upheaval in Mali along with sadness that music has been SAT banned as part of the repressive regime. Adrian plays with SAT different musicians, ultimately going on stage with Daande SAT Lenol. SAT SAT Producer: Kate Bland SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01qdp8j (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01qdp8l (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01q9779 (Listen) SAT Gambling SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion and spin to present a SAT clearer view of the business world through discussion with SAT people running leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT This week, we hear from three people in the avant garde of SAT the global gambling industry, which is said to be worth $417 SAT billion. With smart phone and tablet technology driving a SAT revolution in the way that people gamble, will old-fashioned SAT betting shops and bingo halls survive? And can gambling SAT companies really keep expanding despite recession, SAT competition from the black market and prohibition in SAT emerging economies? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Norbert Teufelberger, CEO of SAT the online gaming company bwin.party; Melissa Blau, director SAT of the consultancy iGaming Capital; Juergen Reutter, SAT Director of Mobile at the bookmaker William Hill. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Grady. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01q9807 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01q9809 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01q980c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01qdp8n (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Raymond Gubbay, Miles Jupp, Dan Mazer, SAT Matthew Fort, Ralf Little, I Am Kloot, Milo Greene SAT SAT Grubs up for Clive, who's served a large helping of actor, SAT author and comedian Miles Jupp. Since starring as lay-reader SAT Nigel in the much-loved 'Rev', Miles wrote and stars as SAT cookery writer Damian Trench in the second series of BBC SAT Radio 4's sitcom 'In and Out of the Kitchen'. It's on SAT Mondays at 1130. Miles is currently appearing in Alan SAT Bennett's 'People' at London's National Theatre. SAT SAT Screenwriter and director Dan Mazer's Indahouse! As Sacha SAT Baron Cohen's writing and production partner, Dan helped SAT create Ali G, Borat and Brüno. His new romcom 'I Give It A SAT Year', starring Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall lifts the veil on SAT the realities of the first year of marriage. It's released SAT in UK cinemas on 8th February. SAT SAT Ralf Little peruses the menu with food critic Matthew Fort, SAT who's currently judging the British chefs participating in SAT BBC Two's 'Great British Menu'. Alongside fellow judges Prue SAT Leith and Oliver Peyton, Matthew decides who goes through to SAT cook a dish at a banquet celebrating 25 years of Comic SAT Relief on 29th of March. 'Great British Menu' is broadcast SAT Monday - Fridays at 19.30. SAT SAT Clive talks Bach, Beethoven and Bizet with classical music SAT promotor and impresario Raymond Gubbay, who presents over SAT 600 concerts, opera and ballet performances every year. His SAT latest opera 'Carmen' is the story of the downfall of Don SAT José, a naive soldier, seduced by the wiles of a fiery SAT gypsy. It's at the Royal Albert Hall from Thursday 21st SAT February to Sunday 3rd March. SAT SAT With music from LA-based five-piece folk-poppers Milo SAT Greene, who turn back time to perform '1957' from their SAT eponymously titled debut album. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01qdp8q (Listen) SAT Series 13, One Needs Me-Time SAT SAT Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced her abdication SAT this week. Novelist Terence Blacker imagines how another SAT queen might respond to this news, given that the Dutch SAT monarchy seems to be a perfect model for our times. So, what SAT might it inspire this other queen to do? SAT SAT Queen ..... Sara Kestelman SAT SAT Produced by Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01qdp8s (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT Tom Sutcliffe on the Radio 4 Blog SAT SAT ©the artist/DACS, Cruz-Diez Foundation, Photo: Linda Nylind SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01q7g6n (Listen) SAT Spoken Like a Woman SAT SAT In the earliest days of radio, women commented on 'household SAT matters', talked about their garden or their travels - SAT writers Vita Sackville-West and Rebecca West were regulars - SAT and became Children's Hour 'Aunts'; but certainly never read SAT the news. On the other hand, the young BBC employed a number SAT of brilliant young women behind the microphone who shaped SAT the earliest days of programme-making. SAT SAT But when they finally broke into the male bastion of SAT mainstream broadcasting, largely as a result of the second SAT world war, women's particular affinity with the microphone SAT was quickly recognised, notably on the World Service where SAT the female voice was soon found to be more effective at SAT reaching listeners at the other end of the Empire than that SAT of their male counterparts. SAT SAT In this programme, Anne Karpf explores, with the help of the SAT sound archive, the way women's voices have shaped the sound SAT of British radio, from Auntie Kathleen of Children's Hour SAT and those formal talks of the early BBC, via the forces' SAT sweethearts like Jean Metcalfe and Marjorie Anderson, to SAT today's topliners like Martha Kearney and Bridget Kendall. SAT SAT Producer Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 21:00 The Real George Orwell b01pz4cy (Listen) SAT Homage to Catalonia, Episode 1 SAT SAT Adapted by Mike Walker. In 1936 Eric and Eileen Blair were SAT making ends meet by running a small village shop in SAT Wallington and growing vegetables. Eric had recently sent SAT 'The Road to Wigan Pier' to Victor Gollancz, hoping it would SAT be published. But then news came from Spain that Franco's SAT Nationalists had risen up against the elected Republican SAT government. In this first episode of his autobiographical SAT account, Eric decides to go to Spain - not just to record SAT the struggle but to fight the Fascists. Unusually tall, and SAT with size 12 feet, he immediately stood out amongst the SAT locals. He joined a badly organised and ill equipped SAT militia, armed with dud bombs and rusty guns. It was a SAT decision that would nearly cost him his life, and produce SAT one of the most vivid accounts of the Spanish Civil War. SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT First Page: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell SAT SAT Credits SAT Eric Blair: Joseph Millson SAT Eileen Blair: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Georges Kopp: Ewan Bailey SAT Spanish volunteer: Javier Marzan SAT Jack: Hywel John SAT Henry Miller: Richard Laing SAT John McNair: John McAndrew SAT Benjamin: Jon Lolis SAT Idris: Ben McGregor SAT Tom Gallagher: Gareth Pierce SAT Fascist soldier: Asier Newman SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01q980f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01q8qqk (Listen) SAT Nimbyism and HS2 SAT SAT The government has announced its preferred route for the SAT northern section for the high speed rail line - HS2 - and SAT predictably it has attracted howls of protest from those SAT likely to be impacted. The route from London to Birmingham, SAT Manchester and Leeds will undoubtedly cut through some of SAT the richest - in both senses of the word - countryside in SAT England. But, according to its supporters, that's a price SAT worth paying. To them HS2 is not just any old infrastructure SAT scheme; it's a national priority that will benefit the whole SAT country, creating a hundred of thousand jobs and helping to SAT tackle the North South divide. SAT SAT You may, or may not believe those claims, but many thousands SAT of people will suffer for decades to come as we go through SAT the planning and construction process and promises of SAT financial compensation will sound very hollow. How far are SAT they entitled to resist what may benefit the wider nation? SAT Whether it's HS2, a third runway for Heathrow, nuclear power SAT or wind farms, how should we make a moral calculation SAT between the needs of the majority and the suffering and SAT losses of the minority? And at a time of economic crisis SAT should our priority always be jobs and GDP, or in the drive SAT for development and progress are we in danger of bulldozing SAT other intangible values like happiness and living the Good SAT Life? SAT Engaging debate examining the moral issues behind one of the SAT week's news stories. Chaired by David Aaronovitch, with SAT Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Matthew Taylor and Giles Fraser. SAT Witnesses: Martin Durkin - Controversial documentary SAT film-maker, Lord Robert Skidelsky - Author: How much is SAT enough? Money and the Good Life (2012), Penny Gaines - SAT Chair, Stop HS2, Sir Richard Leese - Leader Manchester City SAT Council. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01q8l3m (Listen) SAT (10/17) SAT What was the name of Mussolini's mistress? And which word SAT was once described as the 'great Australian adjective'? SAT The answers to these and many other questions can be found SAT in the tenth heat of Brain of Britain, with Russell Davies SAT in the chair. This week's competitors come from London, SAT Maidenhead and Cardiff, and they'll each be hoping their SAT general knowledge will win them a place in the 2013 SAT semi-finals and a further step towards the coveted title. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT JOHN COLMANS, a professional tour guide from London; SAT SAT BOB DEL QUIARO, a retired journalist from London; SAT SAT BRIAN ROLES, a computer systems developer from Maidenhead; SAT SAT GEORGE SHELDRICK, a local government officer from Cardiff. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01q7gvx (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with a selection of listeners' poetry SAT requests. Leontia Flynn reads her own poems. John Mackay and SAT Eleanor Tremain read work by others including Larkin, Milosz SAT and Charles Causley. SAT SAT Inspiration is the theme of two of the poems today in SAT Charles Causley's lovely 'Kelly Wood' , and one by the SAT Estonian, Jaan Kaplinski. There are a couple of love poems - SAT one by RS Thomas and one by Moniza Alvi, tempered by SAT Larkin's typical cynicism in 'Love Songs in Age'. Larkin was SAT the poet who really sparked Leontia Flynn's interest in SAT poetry and she joins the programme to read a poem about SAT comfortably resisting the urge to travel, and to introduce a SAT selection of her work from her highly commended collection SAT 'Profit and Loss'. SAT There's also a poem advocating the joys of metaphor by Mark SAT Doty, a clever and moving one by the late Wislawa SAT Szymoborska called 'Cat in an Empty Apartment', and Hopkin's SAT magical celebration of weeds and wilderness, 'Inversnaid'. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01qcrjm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Deep Country b01bwd37 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Neil Ansell is living in a very remote part of the Welsh SUN countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water, SUN and only the wildlife around him for company. He survives SUN the gales but has to face another storm - his own SUN vulnerability. Read by Matthew Gravelle. SUN SUN Abridged by Willa King. SUN Directed by Emma Bodger SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qcrjp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qcrjr (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qcrjt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01qcrjw (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01qdpcw (Listen) SUN The bells of St Helen's Church, Lundy Island. SUN SUN 05:45 Pop-Up Economics b01q8qsc (Listen) SUN War-gaming Armageddon SUN SUN Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an SUN economist who helped America and the Soviet Union to avoid SUN nuclear war. He reveals how Schelling, a game theorist, SUN became one of the most influential strategists of the 20th SUN century. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01qcrjy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01qdpcy (Listen) SUN Towards a New Consciousness SUN SUN Mark Tully explores how a new way of thinking about SUN spirituality might change our attitude to the environment. SUN By looking at modern and historical ideas about the SUN relationship between the cosmos and God, he encounters an SUN emerging theology which brings science and religion SUN together, and claims to make possible a new level of SUN consciousness. SUN SUN He discovers how this ecological spirituality might have SUN profound ethical implications for us as we struggle to SUN develop ways of protecting our planet. The programme also SUN considers how this green theology might reconcile both the SUN sacred and scientific stories of evolution. SUN SUN Drawing from a diverse selection of music, from Gustav Holst SUN to Joni Mitchell, and readings from Margaret Atwood and the SUN Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo, Mark Tully describes the SUN development of a theology and philosophy that hopes to meet SUN the challenges posed by the crisis our natural world faces. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01qdpd0 (Listen) SUN Godwits SUN SUN Black-tailed godwits are an elegant long legged bird about SUN the size of a pigeon. In the summer they are found in the SUN arctic where the Icelandic race of this species then SUN migrates to Britain to spend the winter in relatively warmer SUN weather. For this week's Living World, Chris Sperring SUN travels to a private estate in Hampshire where on the SUN flooded meadows along the River Avon, he joins Pete Potts SUN from Operation Godwit. SUN On a cold day Chris and Pete first of all see a few hundred SUN godwits in the distance but with a bit of fieldwork and time SUN they manage to get close enough to count leg rings on these SUN birds, birds that Pete Pots will have ringed in Iceland. As SUN the afternoon progresses more and more godwits come onto the SUN flooded meadows until as the last light fades well over 2000 SUN black tailed godwits could be seen wheeling over the SUN landscape. This part of southern England may hold a quarter SUN of the Worlds population of the Icelandic black-tailed SUN godwit over winter. SUN In a few short months these birds will head back to Iceland SUN and Pete explains to Chris the work he does for Operation SUN Godwit and how it is connecting both conservation and SUN communities. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01qcrk0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01qcrk2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01qdr29 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01qdr2c (Listen) SUN International Nepal Fellowship SUN SUN Anne Wafula Strike presents the Radio 4 Appeal for SUN International Nepal Fellowship SUN Reg Charity:1047178 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN International Nepal Fellowship. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01qcrk4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01qcrk6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01qdr2f (Listen) SUN In a feature edition of Sunday Worship, Canon Mark Oakley, SUN from St Paul's Cathedral, explores how the Church can be a SUN bridge to the future. SUN SUN On the eve of the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the SUN Temple, Canon Mark Oakley, from St Paul's Cathedral, SUN explores how the Church can be loyal to the past and the SUN future. In a series of reflections around the cathedral and SUN meeting visiting youth groups who are part of the SUN cathedral's education outreach programme, Mark Oakley SUN examines the response of the Church to some of issues facing SUN it today. SUN Producer Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01q97tv (Listen) SUN The Love of Bears SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on the enduring appeal of the teddy SUN bear in contemporary culture. Why, he wonders, have they SUN been such popular toys and featured so prominently in SUN literature and song since they were first named after SUN Theodore Roosevelt over a hundred years ago. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01qdr2h (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01qdr2k (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Tim Stimpson SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd ..... Louis Hamblett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01qdr2m (Listen) SUN Sir Terry Leahy SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Terry Leahy, the businessman SUN and former CEO of Tesco. SUN SUN His first job with the company was as a teenager when he SUN worked as a shelf-stacker, but he made his name transforming SUN the supermarket from a lack-lustre brand into Britain's SUN biggest retailer. SUN SUN His ascent to the very top was marked by a fundamental SUN understanding of his customers' needs and a single minded SUN determination, powered, he says, by a fear of failure. SUN SUN He says of himself, "I was a relatively shy guy from a SUN council estate and an unlikely chief executive, I'm quite SUN happy not to be in the limelight". SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01q8lhr (Listen) SUN Series 10, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Lloyd Langford, Celia Pacquola, Phill Jupitus and Marcus SUN Brigstocke are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Tomatoes, SUN Koalas, Boats and Cheese. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01qdr2p (Listen) SUN Food on a Pension SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the food lives of people SUN surviving on the basic state pension. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01qcrk8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01qdr2r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Guns: An American Love Affair b01qnxn0 (Listen) SUN After the December shooting in Sandy Hook, the debate about SUN guns in the United States is more intense than ever with SUN passionate and emotive arguments on both sides. Some believe SUN tighter gun controls are necessary to curb violent crime - SUN but for many Americans owning a gun is a fundamental right, SUN a practical necessity and a crucial piece of their identity. SUN In his home state of Vermont, writer and journalist D.D. SUN Guttenplan explores the cultural and historical roots of SUN America's love affair with guns. It's one of the most SUN liberal states, but also one of the easiest places in the SUN U.S. to buy and carry a gun. He meets gun owners from across SUN the political spectrum and discovers how and why guns have SUN become such a central part of life in America. SUN Producer: Peggy Sutton SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01q97p6 (Listen) SUN Stilton SUN SUN This week Eric Robson chairs Gardeners' Question Time from SUN Stilton in Cambridgeshire with Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew SUN and Matthew Wilson taking the audience's questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01qdr2t (Listen) SUN The 'flour bomb' rugby tour SUN SUN In 1981 the South African 'Springboks' rugby team was SUN invited to tour New Zealand. Its presence led to massive SUN anti-apartheid protests across the country. During the final SUN match of the tour protestors took to the air, throwing flour SUN bombs at players and spectators from a light plane. Rebecca SUN Kesby has been talking to Stu Wilson, one of the New Zealand SUN team, and Marx Jones, one of the protestors. SUN SUN 15:00 The Real George Orwell b01qdr2w (Listen) SUN Homage to Catalonia, Episode 2 SUN SUN Adapted by Mike Walker. The final episode of Eric Blair's SUN autobiographical account of the Spanish Civil War. The SUN fighting at the front is deadlocked. Freezing temperatures, SUN ancient guns and dud ammunition only add to their woes. SUN Eric's spirits are cheered by a visit from his wife, Eileen, SUN but when they take the train to Barcelona they find the SUN atmosphere changed. Last time there were no class divisions, SUN no masters and servants, only comrades. Now the waiters are SUN calling their customers 'Sir' again. To add to the confusion SUN the different factions of the Left are all fighting each SUN other. Then Georges Kopp is arrested and imprisoned; others SUN are tortured. The Blairs begin to realise they are in SUN terrible danger and must flee for their lives. SUN SUN A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SUN SUN Credits SUN Eric Blair: Joseph Millson SUN Eileen Blair: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Georges Kopp: Ewan Bailey SUN Spanish volunteer: Javier Marzan SUN Jack: Hywel John SUN Henry Miller: Richard Laing SUN John McNair: John McAndrew SUN Benjamin: Jon Lolis SUN Idris: Ben McGregor SUN Tom Gallagher: Gareth Pierce SUN Fascist militiaman: Asier Newman SUN Director: Kate McAll SUN Writer: Mike Walker SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01qdr2y (Listen) SUN George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia SUN SUN John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs Editor and writer SUN Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, SUN as part of the Radio 4 Real Orwell Season. SUN SUN Homage to Catalonia was first published in 1938 and is SUN political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal SUN account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish SUN Civil War. This pivotal time in his writing career led in SUN later years to Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the SUN questions. SUN SUN March's Bookclub choice : Pure by Andrew Miller SUN SUN Produced by Dymphna Flynn. SUN The Real George Orwell SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01qdr32 (Listen) SUN Poetry requested by listeners, introduced by Roger McGough, SUN including work by Vernon Scannell and Adrian Mitchell - and SUN an unusual conversation between a cockroach and an Egyptian SUN mummy. SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01q8nrg (Listen) SUN Taxing Questions SUN SUN After a series of controversies over the tax bills of SUN multinationals such as Google and Starbucks, ministers have SUN been talking tough about avoidance. But as new tax rules SUN come into operation, Fran Abrams looks at the reality behind SUN the rhetoric. Will these new regulations halt the decline in SUN corporate tax revenues? And why were so many major companies SUN involved in writing them - even as their own tax affairs SUN were coming under scrutiny? SUN Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01qdp8q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qcrkb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01qcrkd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qcrkg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01qdr34 (Listen) SUN John Waite's choices. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01qdr36 (Listen) SUN Peggy is lost for words, and Vicky takes things to heart. SUN SUN 19:15 The Newsagent's Window b01qdr38 (Listen) SUN Comic story written and narrated by John Osborne about the SUN community he discovered when he started replying to adverts SUN in his local newsagent's window. SUN SUN 19:45 Annika Stranded b01qdr74 (Listen) SUN An Echo SUN SUN Annika Strandhed is a leading light in the murder squad of SUN the Oslo police. Her neuroses - and she has a few - are SUN mostly hidden by a boisterous manner and a love of motor SUN boats. And she thinks she's funny - although her colleagues SUN aren't so sure. SUN SUN Commissioned specially for Radio 4, these three stories by SUN Nick Walker introduce us to a new Scandinavian detective: SUN not as astute as Sarah Lund or Saga Norén perhaps, but SUN probably better company. SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): An Echo SUN A body is found in a metro carriage - but Annika's judgments SUN are being clouded by personal matters. SUN SUN Nick Walker is part of the Coventry-based mixed media SUN experimentalists, Talking Birds, whose work has been SUN presented extensively in the UK as well as in Sweden, SUN Ireland, and the USA. He has worked with some of the SUN country's leading new work theatre companies both in the UK SUN and abroad, including Stan's Cafe, Insomniac, and Theatre SUN Instituut Nederlands. SUN SUN He is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels SUN 'Blackbox' and 'Helloland'. His plays and short stories are SUN often featured on BBC Radio 4 including: Arnold In A Purple SUN Haze (2009), the First King of Mars stories (2007 - 2010), SUN the Afternoon Play Life Coach (2010), and the stories Dig SUN Yourself (2011) and The Indivisible (2012) - all of them SUN Sweet Talk productions. SUN SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN Sound Design: Jon Calver SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01q97pb (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 2 has just announced record audience figures, but SUN is the network satisfying all its listeners? Following SUN changes to Sunday Half Hour, a new presenter for the Folk SUN programme and a clutch of technical difficulties, Roger SUN Bolton puts your concerns to Controller Bob Shennan. SUN SUN Also, Roger speaks to the Head of the BBC's Newsroom, Mary SUN Hockaday, to get her views on the story that won't go away - SUN the gender imbalance on air. With other major broadcasters SUN signing up to a pledge to give female presenters, SUN correspondents and experts at least 30% of the airtime, we SUN ask if there should be a quota of women in the BBC news. SUN SUN Aye Aye Cap'n! Plugwatch is back. You've been on the lookout SUN for book plugs across BBC Radio. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01q97p8 (Listen) SUN An architect, a fox hunter, a publisher, a star of musicals, SUN a pioneering sociologist and the last surviving Andrews SUN Sister SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The landscape architect John Hopkins - who led the SUN development of the Olympic Park in East London. SUN SUN Lizbeth Webb, the West End and radio star of the 1940s, who SUN gave up showbusiness to raise her family. SUN SUN Peter Carson, the editor in chief who turned round the SUN fortunes of Penguin Books SUN We have a tribute from one of his authors: Professor Mary SUN Beard. SUN SUN Mary McIntosh, the pioneering sociologist, feminist and SUN campaigner for gay and lesbian rights SUN SUN And Migs Greenall, fearless horsewoman who married into the SUN Greenall Whitley brewing family and rode out with the SUN leading hunts in Leicestershire. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01qctqy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01qdr2c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01q8lj0 (Listen) SUN A Scottish Pound? SUN SUN The cash question facing an independent Scotland. Chris SUN Bowlby discovers the key role of currency in debate ahead of SUN the Scottish referendum next year. With the SNP proposing to SUN keep using sterling if Scotland becomes independent, what SUN will this mean in the world of eurozone crises and financial SUN panics? We discover the mysterious story of Scottish money - SUN how its banknotes are guaranteed by so called giants and SUN titans at the Bank of England. And we ask whether sterling SUN can continue to work smoothly and keep popular confidence if SUN the UK splits. What's the thinking behind the scenes as SUN politicians and officials worry about a British version of SUN the eurozone drama? With Scotland preparing to vote next SUN year, and London wondering what could happen, Analysis SUN reveals the key role of currency in the UK's political SUN future. SUN SUN Producer Mark Savage SUN Editor Innes Bowen. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01qdrg3 (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 b01qdrg7 (Listen) SUN Miranda Green of The Day analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01q976v (Listen) SUN Roger Michell on Hyde Park on Hudson, plus the costumes of SUN Anna Karenina SUN SUN Director Roger Michell talks to Francine Stock about his SUN latest film Hyde Park on Hudson based on the extraordinary SUN meeting between King George VI and President Roosevelt in SUN New York State in 1939. BAFTA and Oscar nominee Jacqueline SUN Durran discusses designing costumes for Anna Karenina, SUN explaining why she brought a 1950s twist to 19th Century SUN Russia. We hear from the critic Jane Graham in Glasgow on SUN why The Wee Man, inspired by the real life criminal career SUN of Paul Ferris, is doing do so well at the box office in SUN Scotland, despite unfavourable reviews. And what's thought SUN to be Richard Burton's first credited film role, The Last SUN Days of Dolwyn, comes out on DVD for the first time, more SUN than 60 years after it was made. The director Marc Evans, SUN who made Trauma and My Little Eye, explores the mythology of SUN the lost Welsh village.Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01qdpcy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01qcrll (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01q8qq5 (Listen) MON Rock climbing in conflict; women in Russian prisons MON MON Russian women prisoners - in the light of Pussy Riot's MON imprisonment, timely research on Russia's distinctive penal MON geography. The sociologist, Judith Pallot, talks to Laurie MON Taylor about a study based on extensive interviews with MON prisoners and officers in different regions of Russia. She MON finds that the vast distances between prisons and womens' MON homes imposes harsh penalties on women and their families. MON They're joined by the criminologist, Dr Sharon Shalev. Also MON 'Bolt Wars': Lisa Bogardus spent 16 months researching and MON observing the rock climbing world. She describes a battle MON for the cliffs in which climbers clash about the need to MON reduce risk and danger. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01qdpcw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qcrln (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qcrlq (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qcrls (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01qcrlv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qfswk (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Rev'd Canon Noel Battye. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01qdsmd (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01qcrlx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01qdsmg (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan MON Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01qdsmj (Listen) MON Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan to Mali MON MON Bridget Kendall discusses the roots and reach of Islamist MON terrorism from Afghanistan to Africa. The historian William MON Dalrymple looks back to Britain's First Afghan War where MON many Afghanis rose in answer to the call for jihad. Nadeem MON Aslam's latest novel ranges across the Afghan-Pakistan MON border where the past and the present are locked together. MON Dr Christina Hellmich explores what has happened to al-Qaeda MON since Osama bin Laden's death. And as David Cameron calls MON the response to Islamist terrorism in North Africa a MON "generational struggle", the political analyst Imad Mesdoua MON looks at the parallels with Afghanistan. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01qdsml (Listen) MON Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, Episode 1 MON MON Paul Kildea's major biography of the twentieth-century MON composer, Benjamin Britten, is published in the year that MON marks his centenary. MON MON In this vivid portrait of the composer, Paul Kildea explores MON the private and creative life of the man who composed operas MON that have entered the popular consciousness as well as the MON musical canon. These include, Peter Grimes, Billy Budd and MON The Turn of the Screw. Kildea also explores his forty-year MON complex relationship with Peter Pears for whom Britten MON created an array of operatic and vocal roles. Kildea brings MON his experience as a conductor who has performed many of MON Britten's works to bear in his insightful interpretation of MON the composer's music. Radio 3 will be marking Britten's MON Centenary across the year including broadcasts of all his MON operas MON MON Read by Alex Jennings who is well known to Radio 4 MON audiences, and has appeared in many films, and television MON dramas. He is currently appearing at the National Theatre in MON Hymn by Alan Bennett. In 2009 he played Benjamin Britten in MON The Habit of Art also by Alan Bennett. MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qdsmn (Listen) MON Eve Ensler, Susannah Cahalan, secret families MON MON Eve Ensler describes her One Billion Rising Project and her MON trip to India to campaign on violence against women. MON Susannah Cahalan, the author of Brain on Fire, talks to MON Aasmah Mir about her sudden and acute psychosis and eventual MON diagnosis with a rare brain disease. Welsh Assembly member MON Rosemary Butler and Scottish MP Elaine Smith, on concern MON about the falling number of female politicians in Scotland MON and Wales. And we discuss secret second families with MON listeners and author Lucy Caldwell. MON MON 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qdsmq (Listen) MON More Tales of the City, Episode 1 MON MON With a huge windfall, Mary Ann and Mouse set off on a cruise MON with the aim of seducing people in shifts . With no MON following wind and no extra cash Mona runs away, setting MON off on a road-trip she will never forget MON MON Set in 1976 in San Francisco, Tales of the City is the MON second novel about the denizens of the mythic apartment MON house at 28 Barbary Lane; Tales is both a sparkling comedy MON of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed MON the way we live forever. MON In this sequel to Tales of the City, Anna Madrigal reveals MON her secrets to her second family - the tenants of her house, MON 27 Barbary Lane . Mona Ramsey is on a cross-country trip MON that takes her to a brothel which may hold a secret about MON her past. Michael "Mouse" Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton go MON on a cruise where they meet up with lovers old and new. MON Brian Hawkins becomes involved with a mysterious woman he MON spots from his window, while DeDe Halcyon Day becomes MON acquainted with a new friend who helps her discover her true MON inner feelings. MON MON Credits MON Anna Madrigal: Kate Harper MON Mary Ann: Lydia Wilson MON Dede: Nancy Crane MON Bobbi: Nancy Crane MON Mona: Buffy Davis MON Hampton-Giddes: Kerry Shale MON Mucca: Bernice Stegers MON Beauchamp: John Guerrasio MON Burke: Trevor White MON Michael: Jos Slovick MON D'Or: Valerie Cutko MON Brian: Simon Lee Phillips MON Director: Susan Roberts MON Writer: Bryony Lavery MON MON 11:00 Hard Shoulder, Soft Heart? b01ckgfx (Listen) MON When you pull off at a motorway service station what do you MON look for? Is it a chance for a break and a coffee or do you MON check out the shops and the arcades? The chances are that MON you don't think too much about its employment policy or MON where its profits go. Jolyon Jenkins investigates a new MON motorway service station which has ambitions to make you MON consider those questions. Situated on the M5 in the West MON Country, the Gloucestershire Gateway service station MON promises to pay part of its turnover to local charities and MON to transform the employment prospects of residents from the MON local area. But there are underlying issues that threaten to MON split the community.... MON MON 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qdsms (Listen) MON Series 2, The Dinner Party MON MON Damien and Anthony invite their neareat and dearest round MON for a dinner party to celebrate some good news: Anthony has MON finally decided to start his own investment company, whilst MON Damien has finally got from Sky Arts for a new series all MON about the culinary habits of the great poets. MON MON Unfortunately, things do not get off to an auspicious start MON when Anthony is beset by incurable hiccups, and Damien's MON agent Ian arrives with marital problems in tow. MON MON Includes recipes for Baked Camembert, Trout "en papillotte" MON and Rum Baba. MON MON Damien Trench - Miles Jupp MON Anthony MacIlveny - Justin Edwards MON Damien's mum - Selina Cadell MON Ian Frobisher/Damien's dad - Philip Fox MON Mr Mullaney - Brendan Dempsey MON and MON Marion Duffett - Lesley Vickerage MON MON Written by Miles Jupp MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01qdsmv (Listen) MON The water company charging thousands for a service it never MON provided, and how to snoop on your kids online MON MON Would your children let you befriend them on Facebook or MON other social media? If not, find out how to keep an eye on MON what they're up to anyway. MON Also - should you know what everyone else in your workplace MON earns? Hear how it's working for one company. MON And the curious case of the teacher asking for the return of MON thousands of pounds she was charged by a water company for a MON service she never used. Guess what? They're trying to hold MON on to the cash. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01qcrlz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01qdsts (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The Call b01qhqh4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made life-changing MON phone calls. Today he talks to John Gillatt, who set off for MON a gentle stroll in the Malaysian jungle, and got lost for MON five days. MON MON John was visiting Malaysia on business, and took some time MON out to go for a stroll. But when he lost his way, he tried MON in vain to find the path back to the hotel. With just a few MON biscuits to sustain him, John fought his way through the MON jungle and tried to find some high ground to make a call MON home. As the days went by, his hopes began to fade, but back MON in Bolton, his wife Noelene was busy trying to organise a MON rescue. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01qdr36 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 The Real George Orwell b01qdtpw (Listen) MON Biographical Dramas, Dreaming MON MON By Mike Walker MON The second of four plays featuring episodes in the life of MON Eric Blair. MON In September 1938, Eric and Eileen Blair leave London for MON Marrakech. He is hoping that the climate will be good for MON his health, and that he will be able to complete 'Coming Up MON for Air' a novel that examines, among other things, the MON nature of England. But the bruising reception he received MON following the publication of Homage to Catalonia is MON troubling Eric. And both Eric and Eileen are still feeling MON guilty about the fate of one of their Spanish Civil War MON comrades, Georges Kopp. In the summer of 1938 Kopp had just MON been released from prison. In Marrakech, Eileen falls ill, MON and Eric dreams of England, and of Kopp. MON MON Directed by Jeremy Mortimer MON MON Of course there is no real George Orwell - it was the pen MON name of Eric Blair - but he was a writer and political MON commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his MON early death in 1950, he has been at one and the same time MON the darling of some on both the left and the right of MON British politics - whilst being reviled by others. For all MON the beautiful simplicity of his writing and storytelling MON Orwell/Blair is a complex mass of confusions - an MON anti-establishment, pro-English, ex-Etonian ex-policeman and MON socialist, who was ardently anti-authoritarian. He was as MON anti-fascist as he was anti-communist, a former Spanish MON Civil War soldier who was anti-war but pro the Second World MON War, and so on and so on. MON MON Through dramatisations of the key books, through four newly MON commissioned plays that explore the disjuncture between the MON man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell, MON and through factual programming and readings, Radio 4 will MON take you on a journey from Burma via Catalonia, Wigan, Jura, MON Manor Farm along the road that led to Nineteen Eighty-Four, MON one of the most influential novels of the twentieth MON century. MON Listen to Homage to Catalonia MON MON Credits MON Eric Blair: Joseph Millson MON Eileen Blair: Lyndsey Marshal MON Georges Kopp: Ewan Bailey MON Tommy: Paul Stonehouse MON Actor: Ben Crowe MON Actor: Will Howard MON Director: Kate McAll MON Writer: Mike Walker MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01qdtpy (Listen) MON (11/17) MON Russell Davies asks the questions in the eleventh heat of MON the 2013 series of the evergreen general knowledge quiz. IN MON this episode the competitors come from Staffordshire, MON Gloucestershire, North Yorkshire and Leeds. At stake is a MON coveted place in the semi-finals which begin after two more MON heats. MON MON The contestants will face Russell's questions on everything MON from music and literature to science, sport, history, MON mythology, etymology, popular culture and current affairs. MON MON There's also a chance for a listener to win a prize by MON stumping the assembled brains with questions of his or her MON own devising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01qdr2p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01qdtq0 (Listen) MON Natalie Haynes MON MON Inspirational prose and poetry chosen by comedian and critic MON Natalie Haynes, read by Tracy Wiles, Dan Mersh and special MON guest Julian Barnes and recorded in front of an audience. MON The pieces reflect Natalie's enthusiasms from childhood to MON her career as a classicist and include observations on life, MON death and why women don't need the men of their dreams. MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01qdtq2 (Listen) MON Mali MON MON The history of Islam in Mali is a long one. The faith, MON brought by traders, was adopted slowly over the centuries MON until the French colonisers arrived, after which its spread MON was accelerated. The recent conflict in Mali has been MON portrayed as a struggle between a home-grown "tolerant" MON Islam and an aggressive Wahabi influence from outside. How MON accurate is this picture? Ernie Rea is joined by journalist MON Celeste Hicks, academic Marie Rodet and the South African MON Sheik and academic Michael Mumisa. MON MON 17:00 PM b01qdtq4 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qcrm1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01qdtq6 (Listen) MON Series 10, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Holly Walsh and Arthur Smith MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, Beards, Camels MON and Simon Cowell. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01qdtq8 (Listen) MON Bert flexes his creative muscles, and Elizabeth faces an MON uncomfortable meeting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01qdtqd (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who talks to actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who MON plays a 1930s jazz band leader in Stephen Poliakoff's TV MON drama Dancing on the Edge. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qdsmq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 In Search of the British Dream b01qdtqj (Listen) MON In Search of the British Dream travels from the cramped MON sitting rooms of poor illegal migrants to the plush London MON homes of the global elite, including a Saudi princess and MON the son of a Russian billionaire. MON MON There are now 7.5 million foreign-born people in the UK. MON Almost three million have come in the last 10 years. One in MON eight people in England and Wales were born abroad - the MON same ratio as in the land built on immigration, the United MON States. MON MON But do we have a defined "British Dream" -- a road map for MON how to integrate? MON MON In part two of the series, Mukul Devichand asks newcomers MON sometimes difficult questions about fitting in. Do people MON chose to remain apart, or is Britain an easy place to make MON local friends? Is there still racism on British streets? Are MON people able to just be themselves -- and should they be? MON MON Mukul Devichand was born in a Welsh town as the son of MON Indian migrants and has explored migration issues around the MON world for the BBC. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01qdtql (Listen) MON The Alawis MON MON The government of President Assad of Syria is under threat. MON So too is the secretive Shia sect known as the Alawis - or MON Alawites - to which he and many of the governing party and MON security officials belong. MON Hostility towards the minority Alawi population is such that MON one leading commentator predicts they are likely to be the MON victims of the world's next genocide. MON Presenter Owen Bennett Jones investigates the Alawis' MON origins, history and culture and asks how these once MON marginalised people came to power in a Sunni majority state. MON He discovers that for many their fortunes changed fifty MON years ago when the Baath party seized power in a coup MON d'etat. Alawis were dominant among the army officers who MON took control. They set about modernising the country and MON rolling out a secular agenda. MON Now, as Syria's revolution has morphed into a civil war, MON many Alawis believe their only choice is to kill or be MON killed. MON Are the majority of Alawis right to be convinced that the MON Assad regime is all that stands between them and a return to MON second-class status, or worse? If the opposition wins in MON Syria, are warnings about pogroms against the Alawis MON alarmist, or inevitable? MON Presenter: Owen Bennett Jones MON Producer: Damian Quinn. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01q976x (Listen) MON High speed rail; Radioactive waste; Universe within us; MON Quantum Biology. MON MON Quentin Cooper speaks to Professor Roderick Smith, the Head MON of the Future Rail Research Centre at Imperial College, MON London about the engineering advances needed for high speed MON rail. Also on the programme; what now for nuclear waste? Dr. MON Richard Shaw, the leader of the Radioactive Waste Management MON Programme at the British Geological Survey, explains what MON will happen now with Britain's radioactive waste. Professor MON Neil Shubin, from the University of Chicago, presents his MON idea that the one place where the universe, the solar system MON and the planet merge is inside our bodies. And finally Dr MON Luca Turin, from the Fleming Biomedical Research Sciences MON Centre in Greece, and Tim Jacob, Professor of Physiology at MON Cardiff University, discuss the controversial theory that MON the way we smell involves quantum physics. MON MON Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01qdsmj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01qcrm3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01qdtqq (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 The Real George Orwell b01qdw2d (Listen) MON Down and Out in Paris and London, Episode 6 MON MON After several months slaving as a dishwasher in Paris, MON Orwell returns to England. MON MON But when the job he was promised fails to materialise he MON finds himself down and out once more. And he sees London MON from a totally new perspective. MON MON Read by Joseph Millson MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON Dreaming MON MON 23:00 The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the MON Diplomatic Bag b01mvzfr (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Matthew Parris opens the diplomatic bag to reveal some of MON the funniest, most striking and memorable despatches sent MON home by British diplomats down the ages. Diplomats toiling MON in obscure posts know that by employing a bit of wit and MON style their reports can end up being read by senior MON Ministers - even by the Queen. MON MON In an interview for this programme, Sir John Major recalls MON the curious tale of a racehorse given to him as a gift by MON the President of Turkmenistan in 1993. The stallion had to MON make an epic train journey across the former USSR, MON overcoming an attack by bandits. Despatches by a junior MON diplomat recounting her subsequent efforts to rescue the MON horse from the clutches of the Moscow railway bureaucracy - MON aided only by her ingenuity and a carriageload of melons MON which had also made the journey - reached 10 Downing Street. MON MON The former British High Commissioner in Sierra Leone, Peter MON Penfold, reads from his 1998 despatch in which the worlds of MON Westminster and West Africa collide. MON MON And we venture into the Saharan desert with the Spanish MON Ambassador to try to find out what's inside his unfeasibly MON large suitcase. MON MON These new programmes follow a previous BBC Radio 4 series MON Parting Shots, which looked at the last despatches MON ambassadors sent before quitting a post. MON MON Producer: Andrew Bryson. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qdtqs (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01qcrn2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01qdsml (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qcrn4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qcrn6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qcrn8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01qcrnb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qfssg (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Rev'd Canon Noel Battye. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01qdvl5 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01qdvl7 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01qdw1k (Listen) TUE Valerie Beral TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to breast cancer pioneer, Professor TUE Valerie Beral director of the cancer epidemiology unit in TUE Oxford about her Million Women study and why she thinks a TUE so-called 'vaccine' should be developed to prevent breast TUE cancer. TUE Jim finds out why the brilliant mathematician who became TUE female Australia junior chess champion as a teenager and who TUE got a first class degree in medicine decided she was unhappy TUE with the uncertainties of diagnosis as a doctor, and turned TUE her back on clinical medicine in the quest for answers to TUE the bigger questions about public health. She talks about TUE pioneering research into the causes of cancer, effects of TUE the contraceptive pill, radiation from Chernobyl and TUE Hiroshima. Most recently as lead investigator on the million TUE women study she has looked at the risks and health effects TUE from taking HRT. She has said that it is a 'crime' that more TUE research hasn't been done on what is known about women who TUE don't get breast cancer to prevent breast cancer in other TUE women. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01q8mm2 (Listen) TUE John McCarthy talks to a young woman who was made to feel an TUE outsider within her own community, for becoming the victim TUE of her husband's physical and psychological abuse. TUE John says of the series: TUE I hope to talk to people who are living on the 'outside' of TUE mainstream UK society. On the street they would look like TUE anyone else but in fact they are somehow apart. I have TUE experienced being an 'outsider' myself; on my return from TUE captivity in Lebanon, when I'd look like any other Londoner, TUE but would feel utterly self-conscious and confused by the TUE world around me. I've had similar feelings following the TUE deaths of close family members. One experience was very TUE rare, the other universal. TUE I want to explore the idea of being an outsider; having TUE conversations with others who will have walked those same TUE private/public paths either through choice or because of TUE circumstances beyond their control. TUE What is it like being on the 'outside'? How do you cope with TUE loneliness and feelings of being excluded? What are the TUE attractions of removing yourself from society? What are the TUE practicalities of such a life, the numbness of living in a TUE fog for so long? How do you keep strong and maintain your TUE hopes of coming in from the cold; of not giving in and TUE renouncing your solitary way? TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01qdvlc (Listen) TUE Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today, new beginnings. TUE TUE Read by Alex Jennings. TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qdvlf (Listen) TUE Ghana Comic Relief report TUE TUE With Jane Garvey in Ghana and Aasmah Mir in London. TUE TUE 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qdvlh (Listen) TUE More Tales of the City, Episode 2 TUE TUE On the cruise, Mary Ann and Burke get closer, and an old TUE friend turns up for Mouse. At home, 28 Barbary Lane seems TUE empty . Mrs Madrigal is looking for Mona who has interrupted TUE her road trip for a stay at the best whorehouse in TUE Winnemucca . TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01qdvlk (Listen) TUE Series 3, British and Arctic Mammals TUE TUE The weekly look by the BBC Natural History Unit into the TUE world of wildlife and its conservation. Presented by Brett TUE Westwood and produced in association with the Open TUE University. TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01qgr4h (Listen) TUE Series 15, Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? TUE TUE Is That All There Is, the Leiber and Stoller song made TUE famous by Peggy Lee, is based upon a short story by Thomas TUE Mann called 'Disillusionment', but those who know and love TUE it feel it's inspirational rather than a cynical, world TUE weary musical take on existentialism and the futility of TUE life. TUE TUE Soul Music finds the compelling individual stories behind TUE our collective love of music. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01qdvlm (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01qcrnd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01qdvlp (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 The Call b01qlktl (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made and received TUE life-changing phone calls. Today he talks to counsellors at TUE Childline in Birmingham about the thousands of calls they TUE receive every year from distressed and vulnerable children. TUE The operators, who all work voluntarily, discuss the highs TUE and lows of their work, and acknowledge the strength and TUE bravery of the young people who pick up the phone to ask for TUE help. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01qdtq8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qdvlr (Listen) TUE Kathleen and Con TUE TUE When the great explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott meets TUE the sculptor Kathleen Bruce on his return from his first TUE Antarctic expedition, he falls for the rather bohemian but TUE passionate and unconventional young artist. This is the TUE story of their rather unlikely love affair, told through TUE their actual letters, from the early days together to the TUE many months apart, until his ill-fated final expedition to TUE the South Pole less than five years later. TUE TUE Written by Meredith Hooper, author and Antarctic historian. TUE In 1994 she was selected by The Australian Antarctic TUE Division to visit Antarctica as a writer in 1994, and by the TUE US National Science Foundation to visit Antarctica as a TUE writer in 1998 and 2001 on their Antarctica Artists Writers' TUE Programme. TUE TUE Directed by Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kathleen: Emilia Fox TUE Captain Scott: Samuel West TUE Wunchie: Liza Sadovy TUE Director: Justine Willett TUE Writer: Meredith Hooper TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01qdvlt (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by leading historians TUE and writers to discuss issues from our past that have been TUE raised by new research carried out by listeners, heritage TUE organisations and the academic community. TUE TUE Among the highlights in this series, Tom and his TUE co-presenter Helen Castor will be asking whether the TUE Renaissance began on the 26th April 1336, probably about tea TUE time ... and possibly over a game of cards, investigating TUE how a London conference set up to limit naval fire power in TUE 1930 had the opposite affect, and finding out why you can't TUE necessarily see the wood through the trees in a Royal TUE Forest. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01qdvlw (Listen) TUE Robot Farmers TUE TUE Satellite technology and advances in robotics are set to TUE revolutionise the future of farming. TUE Out go the heavy, soil destroying combines and tractors, in TUE come a light army of mini robots which weed, spray and pick TUE crops at the optimum time. Expert agronomists will advise TUE thousands of farmers at a time. Using real data, farmers TUE will be able to maximise the yield and quality of the crops TUE as they leave the field. TUE Sarah Cruddas meets the scientists engineering the robotic TUE shepherds of the future, and hops into the cab of a TUE self-driving tractor to experience labour and fuel saving TUE precision farming. TUE She also hears from Science Minister, David Willetts who TUE believes that the UK can become Europe's centre of satellite TUE technology. The data provided will, in the coming years, TUE become more and more detailed enabling farmers to have a TUE greater understanding of their land and allow them to TUE produce yield maps and farm more efficiently than ever TUE before. TUE Costing The Earth ask if farms of the future will be run by TUE a fleet of robots: from crop-picking automatons to swarms of TUE electronic bees, and whether the farmer of the future be TUE found in a control centre rather than out in a muddy field. TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 It's My Story b01qlkjf (Listen) TUE My Lover, My Carer TUE TUE What happens to long-term relationships when a lover becomes TUE a carer? Julie Fernandez talks to four couples where one TUE partner has a severe disability about the challenges of TUE being the carer - and the cared-for. TUE TUE Natalie Burr was a world-class trampolinist, training for TUE the Olympics. In a split second her life was turned TUE upside-down: she misjudged a triple summersault and crashed TUE onto the mat. She lay there, unable to feel her legs, TUE knowing she had broken her neck. Being handed her phone, she TUE rang her husband Shane and asked "Will you leave me?". TUE TUE Many couples don't survive sudden disability - the pressures TUE are just too great. But Shane didn't leave, and he is still TUE together with Natalie and they have gone on to have a baby. TUE How have they made it work? For those who do manage to stay TUE together, how do they negotiate the sudden shift of roles? TUE TUE The four couples whose lives have been transformed by TUE disability, talk frankly and movingly about how their TUE relationship has changed and how power has shifted between TUE them. They talk about adjusting to a different life: all the TUE daily stuff - making tea, mowing the grass, cuddles in a TUE wheelchair, what to do about sex. When a lover becomes a TUE carer it can distort intimacy in ways which can be difficult TUE to discuss. TUE TUE Julie has brittle bone disease from birth, while her husband TUE Andrew is not disabled. She brings her own experience of TUE disability to those for whom this is a new and sometimes TUE devastating experience. She's both challenging and sensitive TUE in probing taboo areas - from attitudes towards sex to TUE feelings of guilt and exhaustion. TUE TUE Producers Elizabeth Burke and Hilary Dunn TUE A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01qdvst (Listen) TUE Miles Jupp and Barb Jungr TUE TUE Comedian Miles Jupp and singer Barb Jungr talk to Harriett TUE Gilbert about the books they love. Barb brings The TUE Corrections: Jonathan Franzen's critically acclaimed TUE blockbuster. Miles - who plays Nigel the lay reader in Rev - TUE plumps for Spies by Michael Frayn and Harriett's choice is TUE the dark and satirical Death And The Penguin by the TUE Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov - which features a penguin called TUE Misha who almost steals the show. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01qdvsw (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qcrng (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01qdvsy (Listen) TUE Series 5, Dame Evelyn Glennie TUE TUE Dame Evelyn Glennie, despite having appeared in the Olympic TUE 2012 ceremony as the rhythmic backbone, had never seen it. TUE She watches it for the first time, and also watches Downton TUE Abbey, goes on a Go-Kart, and throws a pot. She gives her TUE verdicts to Marcus Brigstocke. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01qdvt0 (Listen) TUE Jazzer is tempted, and Rob makes a friend. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01qdvt2 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on a show of Ice Age TUE sculpture, ceramics and ornaments at the British Museum. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qdvlh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01qdvtj (Listen) TUE Russian Riches TUE TUE Surrey police are probing the mystery death of a Russian TUE exile who was helping to locate millions of dollars missing TUE from the Russian treasury. City experts claim London is one TUE of the routes for those laundering the proceeds of Russian TUE crime. Britain is also now a destination of choice for many TUE wealthy Russians. But how much do we know about some of TUE those who choose to settle here? Internationally, there's TUE tension between Washington and Moscow over the Magnitsky TUE Act, in which the US introduced new sanctions for Russian TUE officials suspected of corruption, freezing their assets and TUE barring their entry to America. Prominent MPs are arguing TUE for similar measures here. So is Britain too lax in cases TUE where suspicions are raised? TUE Reporter: Julian O'Halloran TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01qdw0p (Listen) TUE Getting a job once school finishes, deciding on whether or TUE not to pursue further education, or taking that step to TUE leaving home; all tough decisions faced by young people. But TUE are there higher barriers to attaining these milestones if TUE you are visually impaired? The charity Action for Blind TUE People thinks so. That's why it's developed a residential TUE transition programme called "Boot Camps". Catering for the TUE 18-25-year age group, they are designed to provide advice on TUE finding employment or further training, and perhaps most TUE importantly, giving visually impaired young people an TUE opportunity to meet and network. Lee Kumutat visits one of TUE the first courses to find out some of the challenges being TUE faced by the participants. TUE TUE Braille is the preferred choice for most visually impaired TUE readers, nowadays. And with its growth in popularity, the TUE use of Moon - an alternative alphabet where shapes are TUE raised - has declined. First published by Dr William Moon in TUE 1845, the characters are fairly large, with over half the TUE letters bearing a strong resemblance to the print TUE equivalent. That's why some people find it much easier to TUE read than braille. However, the RNIB has now stopped most of TUE their Moon products and services, but is there an argument TUE for it continuing? We speak to people in favour of its use TUE as a simpler alternative alphabet which still has a value TUE for the visually impaired. TUE TUE On last week's programme, Peter White spoke to the Minister TUE for Disabled People, Esther McVey, about Personal TUE Independence Payments, or PIP, the new benefit replacing TUE Disability Living Allowance. The interview prompted many TUE questions about how to claim for PIP, and whether other TUE benefits will be affected, which we'll answer in this week's TUE programme. TUE TUE Presenter: Peter White TUE Producer: Katy Takatsuki. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01qdw0r (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01qdw1k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01qcrnj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01qdw1w (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 The Real George Orwell b01qdw35 (Listen) TUE Down and Out in Paris and London, Episode 7 TUE TUE Back home in England, but down and out once more, Orwell TUE makes the acquaintance of an Irish tramp who introduces him TUE to days on the road and nights in various doss houses. And TUE he learns what he needs to do to get a cup of tea. TUE TUE Read by Joseph Millson TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b018xtrr (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 6 TUE TUE Victoria Coren presents the last in the current series of TUE the show which dares to commit heresy. TUE TUE Her guests this week are comedian Sue Perkins, singer Cerys TUE Matthews and actress Maureen Lipman. Together they have fun TUE exposing the wrong-headedness of received wisdom and TUE challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. TUE TUE Both Sue Perkins and Maureen Lipman disagree with the view TUE that the world would be a better place if it was run by TUE women, arguing that women would make an equally fine mess of TUE things. TUE TUE Former lead singer with the rock group Catatonia, Cerys TUE Matthews, doesn't believe it's more fun to be a pop star TUE than a classical violinist. Confessing to a previous life as TUE an oboe player, she claims that orchestral musicians TUE definitely have more fun - particularly the horn players. TUE TUE All three guests rather struggle to argue against the TUE received opinion that there is still stigma attached to TUE Internet dating but, when challenged by Victoria Coren, they TUE all admit that they have never tried it themselves - and TUE never would. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qdw37 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01qcrpc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01qdvlc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qcrpf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qcrph (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qcrpk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01qcrpm (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qfssj (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Rev'd Canon Noel Battye. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01qdxw6 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01qdxw8 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01qdxwb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01qdxwd (Listen) WED Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, Episode 3 WED WED Today, Aldeburgh and Billy Budd. WED Read by Alex Jennings. WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qdxwg (Listen) WED Power List Judging Panel Report WED WED We eavesdrop on the Woman's Hour Power List judging WED meetings. Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qdxwj (Listen) WED More Tales of the City, Episode 3 WED WED Michael and Jon are re-united and Mary-Ann's relationship WED with Burke is blossoming on the cruise. WED Dede meets a new friend and Beauchamp tries another way of WED dealing with his wife's pregnancy. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01qdxwl (Listen) WED Series 17, Episode 3 WED WED In 1982, behind the grand, pillared facade of London's Royal WED Exchange, a new financial market transformed the image of WED the City. The London International Financial Futures and WED Options Exchange or LIFFE (pronounced as in 'life', not the WED Irish river) was modelled on markets in Chicago. Business WED was done by 'open outcry' - traders (nearly all men) shouted WED deals to each other in trading pits. They wore coloured WED jackets and, for a while, LIFFE became a much photographed WED emblem of Thatcher's London. WED In this episode of In Living Memory, Chris Ledgard meets the WED men who set it up. He talks to traders who were there on day WED one, to journalists who covered the early weeks, and to one WED of the financial wizards employed to explain how it worked. WED And, he asks, is there any connection between this kind of WED speculation and some of the disastrous financial events of WED recent times? WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b01qdxwn (Listen) WED Series 8, The Parent Trap WED WED In 'The Parent Trap' Clare is relishing the role of acting WED Team Leader at the Family Centre but at home she's not WED relishing a visit from Brian's mother. WED WED Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS WED Brian: ALEX LOWE WED Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI WED Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN WED Hazel: HANNAH GORDON WED Joan/Laura: SARAH THOM WED Joe/Mike: ADAM NAGAITIS WED Paul/Frank: PAUL STONEHOUSE WED Girl: STEPHANIE RACINE WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01qdxwq (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01qcrpp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01qdxws (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 The Call b01qlkyd (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have made and received WED life-changing phone calls. WED WED Today he meets John Askey, the Northamptonshire man who WED received a phone calls from a sister he didn't know existed. WED For Rita Holford of Stoke-on-Trent, speaking to John was the WED end of a long search to find her lost siblings. WED John and Rita talk to Dominic about the search for the whole WED truth of their family background, and what it's been like WED getting to. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01qdvt0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00s0fn5 (Listen) WED The Six Loves of Billy Binns WED WED By Richard Lumsden WED WED Tom Courtenay stars as a 110-year-old who wants to remember WED what love feels like one last time before he dies. His past WED loves are ready to remind him. WED WED Credits WED Billy Binns: Tom Courtenay WED Evie: Alison Pettitt WED Alice: Tanya Franks WED Vera: Ella Smith WED Dotty: Joanna Monro WED Mrs Coggins: Keely Beresford WED Sylvie: Gbemisola Ikumelo WED Boy: Walter Lumsden WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Richard Lumsden WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01qdzbw (Listen) WED Energy saving and bills WED WED Do you need help with energy prices and efficiency? For a WED cheaper deal, or advice about help with the cost of WED insulation, call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm or WED email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED If you haven't checked what you are paying for your gas and WED electricity recently then you could be throwing money away. WED To find out if you could pay less, dig out your bill and WED call our energy experts to compare costs. WED WED Perhaps you have heard about negotiating lower rates through WED collective buying and switching? How does it work and where WED can you find out about it? If you are already in a WED collective tell us how it's going. WED WED If you want to make your home more energy efficient, ask us WED about help with insulation costs. WED The Green Deal has just been launched offering 45 different WED types of energy efficient measures. The government hopes the WED savings people make on their bills will pay for the cost of WED the home improvements, and there's a cashback offer for WED some. Would it work for you? WED WED What are the alternatives if the Green Deal does not appeal? WED Could you be eligible for help through the Energy Company WED Obligation system or the Warm Home Discount scheme? WED WED To find out more call 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday, lines are WED open between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED 'Energy efficiency' Green Deal launched by government WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01qdw0r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01qdzby (Listen) WED Organised crime in the UK - how has it changed? Professor WED Dick Hobbs, joins Laurie Taylor, to discuss his work on WED 'Lush Life', a rich, ethnographic study into 'Dogtown', a WED composite of several overlapping neighbourhoods in East WED London. Looking behind the clichéd notions of criminal firms WED and underworlds, he finds that activity which was once the WED preserve of professional criminals has now been normalised. WED He invites us to consider whether or not the very idea of WED organised crime has become outdated in a predatory, post WED industrial world in which many fight, by illegal as well as WED legal means, to survive on the margins. Also, the presence WED and activities of the Mafia in the UK. Dr Felia Allum, a WED Lecturer in Italian History and Politics, discusses how WED Italian organised crime functions outside its territory of WED origin. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01qdzc0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01qdzc2 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qcrpr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01qdzc4 (Listen) WED Series 4, Xinzhou WED WED Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter WED airline. WED It's cold, it's dark & there's no food on board. What better WED time for Gertie to decide to fall to bits? And what worse WED time for Arthur to try out his maths skills? WED Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world WED of a tiny, one plane, charter airline; staffed by two WED pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to WED start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, WED metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu WED Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too WED difficult... WED Starring WED Carolyn Knapp-Shappey................. Stephanie Cole WED 1st Officer Douglas Richardson........ Roger Allam WED Capt. Martin Crieff................... Benedict Cumberbatch WED Arthur Shappey........................ John Finnemore WED ATC................................... Lobo Chan WED Written by John Finnemore WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for the BBC. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01qdzc6 (Listen) WED Will reacts angrily. Meanwhile the rumour mill is buzzing at WED Lower Loxley. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01qdzc8 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qdxwj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01qdzcb (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Matthew Taylor and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Economics b01qdzcd (Listen) WED The Indiana Jones of Economics WED WED "I'd really like to re-model all of your economic systems in WED plumbing," Bill Phillips said to his incredulous tutor. WED WED The tutor agreed and Phillips set to work on a kind of WED wardrobe-sized fish gym with sluice gates, floats and trap WED doors where everything was connected and revenues literally WED flowed from one place to another. It was the first computer WED anyone had built of any economy, and it was astonishingly WED accurate. WED WED Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of how Phillips - WED war hero, engineer and crocodile-hunter - became one of the WED fathers of macroeconomics. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01qdvlw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01qdxwb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01qcrpt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01qdzcg (Listen) WED Ritula Shah presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 The Real George Orwell b01qdzcj (Listen) WED Down and Out in Paris and London, Episode 8 WED WED Orwell befriends a tramp called Paddy and they seek shelter WED in a Salvation Army Hostel where Orwell is struck by the WED range of men who find themselves down and out - from the WED young clerk who is desperate and starving, to the elderly WED foreign gentlemen down on their luck. WED WED Read by Joseph Millson WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b011ppyc (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED WED Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second WED series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real WED advice for real people. WED WED Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she WED wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of WED ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of WED the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self WED qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's WED problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which WED normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). WED WED This week the team tackle two problems - "Bullying at work - WED a trapeze artist who's been pushed off her perch" and "I've WED finally found what I'm looking for...Terry, it's you!" WED WED Sarah Millican Sarah WED Ruth Bratt Marion WED Simon Day Terry WED Anna Crilly Judy WED Elis James Evan. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qdzcl (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01qcrqq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01qdxwd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qcrqs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qcrqv (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qcrqx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01qcrqz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qfssl (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Rev'd Canon Noel Battye. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01qf07z (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01qf081 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01qf083 (Listen) THU Epicureanism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Epicureanism, the system THU of philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus, founded in THU the fourth century B.C. Epicurus described philosophy as THU "the art of making life happy". THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01qfhgy (Listen) THU Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, Episode 4 THU THU Today, Gloriana. THU THU Read by Alex Jennings. THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton. THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qfhh0 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qfhh2 (Listen) THU More Tales of the City, Episode 4 THU THU Mary Ann is determined to solve the mystery of Burkes THU amnesia . Turning detective she follows some clues from his THU past in search of answers. Also wanting to get things out THU into the open, Michael decides to open up to his mother THU about being gay. THU THU Directed by Susan Roberts THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01qfhh4 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The World Cup for Writers b01qfhh6 (Listen) THU The England Writers Football team brings together some of THU the most exciting writers - and the worst footballers - in THU Britain today. Despite sounding like a Monty Python joke, THU its members would claim that there is a connection between THU the two activities that's well worth exploring. Author of THU Submarine and acclaimed new talent (literary) Joe Dunthorne THU provides a running commentary on a match between his England THU Writers Football Team and the newly-formed Scotland Writers THU Football Team, at a hotly-contested international match in THU Glasgow. Can a writer ever make a really good footballer? THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01qfhh8 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01qcrr1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01qfhhb (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The Call b01qll04 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made and received THU life-changing phone calls. THU THU Dominic talks to dancer Rose Metcalf, who escaped from the THU stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia, and made an emotional THU call home to her parents in the UK. The message got as far THU as her father's ansaphone at the family home in Dorset, but THU her mother was travelling back from a holiday abroad, and THU saw the news breaking on a television screen in a London THU hotel lobby. THU Rose, her Mum Carolyn and her Dad Philip, talk to Dominic THU about the missed call, and the hours of not knowing exactly THU what had happened to Rose. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01qdzc6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00s2w24 (Listen) THU Lifecoach THU THU Nicola Walker and Stephen Tompkinson star in Nick Walker's THU real-time drama about a life coach who gets the job of a THU lifetime. But is she up to it? THU THU Written by Nick Walker. THU THU Directed and Produced by Karen Rose. THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Derby: Nicola Walker THU Jack: Stephen Tompkinson THU Secretary General: Patrice Naiambana THU Other Parts: Paul Panting THU Director: Karen Rose THU Producer: Karen Rose THU Writer: Nick Walker THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01qfj3g (Listen) THU Series 23, The Walking Book Group THU THU Clare Balding is walking for self improvement in this new THU series of Ramblings; in six weeks time she hopes to be THU smarter, fitter, calmer and cleverer. In this first THU programme she joins a walking book group in west London, who THU find wandering on Hampstead Heath much more conducive to THU discussing literature than sitting round a coffee table. The THU walking book group is the brainchild of Emily Rhodes. Emily THU explains to Clare how she chooses the books each month and THU why she thinks the group attracts a growing and enthusiastic THU following. The book under discussion today is Elizabeth THU Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont. Clare, an English THU graduate, joins in enthusiastically with her opinions on the THU novel as well as discussing with fellow group members the THU issues of aging, loneliness and retirement homes. Archie, THU her Tibetan Terrier accompanies Clare but is sadly, not THU improved by the experience. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01qdr2c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01qdr2y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01qfj3j (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01qfj3l (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01qfj3n (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qcrr3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qfjdg (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Stephen K Amos and guest stand-ups investigate modern life. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01qfjdj (Listen) THU There's a fleeting meeting for Lilian and Paul. Meanwhile THU Josh pushes himself forward. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01qfjdl (Listen) THU With John Wilson, who reports on Glam! at Tate Liverpool, an THU exhibition reassessing the pop styles and sounds of the THU early 1970s. THU THU Producer Ekene Akalawu. THU THU 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qfhh2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01qfjdn (Listen) THU High Street Closures THU THU With the recent collapse of several top retail brands, Jenny THU Chryss reports on the behind-the-scenes battles to save some THU of the High Street's best known names. And she examines the THU knock-on effects on other businesses. Why does the law allow THU some creditors to get back millions of pounds, while others THU will get nothing? THU The programme hears from angry workers in one chain who say THU they were kept in the dark about the state the company was THU in. It also talks to the owners of one small family business THU which is owed hundreds of thousands of pounds. They describe THU how they had to wind up their company because of the debts THU they've been left with. THU The Government has now ordered an inquiry into the demise of THU one of the major retailers, but how much information will be THU made public ? THU And, with more retailers facing a losing battle against the THU internet, and more closures expected, experts warn of severe THU implications for the wider British economy. THU THU Producer: Emma Forde THU Reporter: Jenny Chryss. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01qfjdq (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01qdvlk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01qfjds (Listen) THU Epicureanism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Epicureanism, the system THU of philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus, founded in THU the fourth century B.C. Epicurus described philosophy as THU "the art of making life happy". THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 21:58 Weather b01qcrr5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01qfjhy (Listen) THU David Eades presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 The Real George Orwell b01qfjj0 (Listen) THU Down and Out in Paris and London, Episode 9 THU THU Down and out in London, Orwell meets a couple of pavement THU artists and considers society's attitudes to those who are THU forced to beg. Then, forced by the system to move on to new THU accommodation, he takes to the road, leaving London for the THU leafy lanes of Lower Binfield. THU THU Read by Joseph Millson THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qfjmz (Listen) THU Mastermind THU THU Brand new character comedy from 2011 Edinburgh Award winner, THU Adam Riches. With fast-paced, offbeat sketches, songs (there THU are no songs) and a generous dollop of audience interaction. THU Also starring Cariad Lloyd and Jim Johnson. THU Written by Adam Riches THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qfjn1 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01qcrs2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01qfhgy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qcrs4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qcrs6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qcrs8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01qcrsb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qfssn (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Rev'd Canon Noel Battye. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01qfk3f (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01qfk3h (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01qdr2m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01qfk3k (Listen) FRI Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today, the final years. FRI FRI Read by Alex Jennings. FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton. FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qfk3m (Listen) FRI Early Jazz Queens; British Chinese Women FRI FRI As Stephen Poliakoff's new TV drama Dancing on the Edge hits FRI our screnes, Jenni Murray takes a look at the early jazz FRI queens. Three generations of British Chinese women discuss FRI their experiences of growing up in the UK. Alex Huntesmith FRI talks about being brought up by parents with learning FRI difficulties. He's joined by his mum, Jill. FRI FRI 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qfk3p (Listen) FRI More Tales of the City, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mary Ann and Burke's detective work to solve the reason for FRI his amnesia steps up a pace . Mona's extrmely worried as her FRI mother is in town . Anna Madrigal has a mystery of her own FRI to reveal . FRI FRI Director: Susan Roberts FRI Writer: Bryony Lavery FRI FRI 11:00 Grahame Dangerfield: Back to the Serengeti b01qkpgb (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Grahame Dangerfield, veteran wildlife rescuer and FRI naturalist, revisits the place he thought was Eden. FRI Programme one of two: from the Home Counties to Happy FRI Valley. FRI FRI In the 1960s Grahame Dangerfield was among the first TV FRI naturalists joining people like David Attenborough and FRI Johnny Morris and rescuing all sorts of English wildlife FRI casualties at his zoo in Hertfordshire. He gave up the show FRI biz life to work as a warden in the Serengeti National Park FRI in Tanzania. Seeing the life of the huge herds of the Great FRI Rift valley and the predators that hunted them was, he says, FRI as close to Eden as he thought it was possible to get. He FRI now lives in Kenya and still is called out regularly to FRI rescue sick hoopoes and remove puff adders from his FRI neighbours' gardens. He has never been back to the Serengeti FRI fearing it altered beyond recognition... until now. FRI FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01qfkh6 (Listen) FRI Series 3, It's That Song Again FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett returns to Radio 4 for a third series of his FRI popular sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. FRI FRI Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along FRI with his dog Henry. His grown up children - both married to FRI people Sandy doesn't approve of at all - would like him to FRI move out of the family home so they can get their hands on FRI their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this. He's not FRI moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how can he FRI move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that FRI his too attractive lodger Dolores is after Sandy and his FRI money. FRI FRI Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a FRI friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help FRI a granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together FRI face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make FRI it more so. FRI FRI Episode Five: It's That Song Again FRI FRI Sandy is haunted by the song 'Green Grow the Rushes Oh' and FRI recent events seem to match its verses. Is it all a FRI countdown? What will happen when the song gets to "One"? FRI FRI Sandy.................................Ronnie Corbett FRI Dolores...............................Liza Tarbuck FRI Mrs Pompom.......................Sally Grace FRI Ellie.....................................Tilly Vosburgh FRI Lance...................................Philip Bird FRI Walker.................................Matt Addis FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01qfkh8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01qcrsd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01qfkhb (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 The Call b01qlldp (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made and received FRI life-changing phone calls. FRI FRI Dominic talks to Emma Cashen, the young mum who gave birth FRI on her bathroom floor, whilst her mother Tina took FRI directions from a 999 operator over the phone. Dominic FRI visits Emma, Tina and baby Ruby at home in Suffolk, and FRI listens to the dramatic 999 recording of Ruby's birth. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01qfjdj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qfkhd (Listen) FRI Stone, Mother Love FRI FRI Mother Love by Richard Monks. Fourth play in the Stone FRI series created by Danny Brocklehurst. FRI FRI Devoted mother Jean fights to defend her son Matthew after FRI he is arrested for downloading child pornography. As DCI FRI Stone delves deeper into the case he uncovers a dark and FRI disturbing underbelly and Jean is forced to confront the FRI shocking and painful truth with devastating consequences. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI DCI John Stone: Hugo Speer FRI DI Mike Tanner: Craig Cheetham FRI DS Sue Kelly: Deborah McAndrew FRI Jean: Julia Ford FRI Matthew: Dean Smith FRI Strawson: David Fleeshman FRI Kelsby: David Crellin FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qfkvv (Listen) FRI Kirton-in-Lindsey FRI FRI Join Eric Robson and panellists Anne Swithinbank, Matthew FRI Wilson and Pippa Greenwood as they visit gardeners in FRI Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire. FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Pierrot Hero: The Story of Clifford Essex b01qfkvx (Listen) FRI Cowes Regatta, Royalty and Posterity FRI FRI In this episode, Essex and his A selection of readings from FRI the personal memoirs of Clifford Essex, which have remained FRI unpublished since they first appeared in magazine format in FRI the 1920s. In this episode, Essex and his pierrot troupe are FRI invited aboard the Royal Yacht at Cowes to entertain His FRI Majesty King Edward VII. FRI The seaside pierrot troupe is an uniquely British art form, FRI which began in 1891. That year, a gifted banjo player and FRI producer of entertainments for society events, called FRI Clifford Essex, watched a performance of L'Enfant Prodigue FRI at The Prince of Wales Theatre. It was a largely mimed FRI performance featuring a family of pierrots and it gave Essex FRI the idea of costuming a concert party in white satin, FRI pompoms and ruffles, to perform banjo pieces at The Henley FRI Regatta and, later that year, at Cowes. FRI The project was a resounding success and led to his troupe FRI performing throughout the country for almost three decades. FRI During this time, the idea was copied and developed in such FRI a way that, by the 1920s, there were more than 500 pierrot FRI troupes performing along the coasts of Britain. These FRI troupes were the stand-up comedy club and indie pop charts FRI of their day - it was here that artists honed their craft by FRI learning old routines and developing new ideas. They paved FRI the way for the styles of music and humour that subsequently FRI found a mass audience on radio and television. FRI The reader, Tony Lidington is known by many people as 'Uncle FRI Tacko', leader and founder of The Pierrotters, the FRI last-remaining professional, seaside pierrot troupe in FRI Britain, now in its 27th year of performing. FRI Abridged and read by Tony Lidington FRI Producer: David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01qfkvz (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01qfkw1 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01qfkw3 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qcrsg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01qfkw5 (Listen) FRI Series 79, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Daniel FRI Finkelstein, Mark Steel and Katy Brand. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01qfkw7 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister FRI Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Matthew Watkins ..... Paul Stonehouse FRI Connie ..... Carolyn Pickles. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01qflzt (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b01qfk3p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01qflzy (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St Chad's Church, Gateshead. Guests include the former FRI minister Alan Milburn, Deputy First Minister of the Scottish FRI Parliament Nicola Sturgeon MSP, David Davis MP, and FRI coalition Transport Minister Norman Baker MP. FRI Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01qfm00 (Listen) FRI David Cannadine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00g45y4 (Listen) FRI The Forgotten FRI FRI Bee has been suffering alarming lapses of memory, losing FRI time and numbers, and is forced to return home to live with FRI her mother May and niece Thea. Desperate to understand Bee FRI and what is happening to her May and Thea begin reading FRI Bee's private notebooks, while Bee becomes increasingly FRI frustrated with her inability to function in the world. FRI There is something important she has forgotten. FRI And then one day, in the park, she meets a rather odd FRI creature, known only as The Forgotten. A mysterious being, FRI he declares to Bee that he is all the things she has FRI forgotten, the memories and experiences she tries to piece FRI together in understanding what is happening to her. FRI Taking her on a journey through her disparate memories we FRI travel into Bee's increasingly isolated and solitary world, FRI to explore where the mind might go when enslaved by a FRI dementia that will not let it function meaningfully with the FRI world, and to discover what secret it is that Bee has FRI 'forgotten'. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bee: Ger Ryan FRI The Forgotten: George Harris FRI Thea: Gemma Reeves FRI Anthony: Sean Campion FRI And May: Stella McCusker FRI Examiner: Peter Ballance FRI Mary Russell: Fo Cullen FRI Doctor: Kieran Lagan FRI Director: Heather Larmour FRI Writer: Anne Devlin FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01qcrsj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01qfm03 (Listen) FRI David Eades presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 The Real George Orwell b01qfm05 (Listen) FRI Down and Out in Paris and London, Episode 10 FRI FRI Orwell discovers that it's not the lack of money or the FRI hunger that dispirits him most, but the boredom that goes FRI hand in hand with poverty. And he rails against a system FRI which he feels forces a man to waste his energy pointlessly, FRI when he could put it to better use. FRI FRI Read by Joseph Millson FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01qdvst (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qfmb2 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
01 February, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 02/02/2013 - 08/02/2013
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