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SAT SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03bg58h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03bg4v9 (Listen) SAT Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern SAT China, Episode 5 SAT SAT Jung Chang's biography of this remarkable 19th century SAT stateswoman continues. Cixi faces her greatest challenge as SAT ruler when anti-Western feeling in rural China leads to SAT violence. SAT SAT Read by Pik-Sen Lim SAT Abridged by Sara Davies SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bg58m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bg58r (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bg58t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03bg58y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03bg660 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon SAT Simon Doogan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03bg662 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03bg594 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03bg598 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b03bfsz6 (Listen) SAT Series 25, Werca's Folk, Warkworth in Northumberland SAT SAT Clare Balding is in Northumberland to join the walking group SAT from the local women's choir, Wercas Folk. It was formed SAT over eighteen years ago by the well- known folk singer and SAT composer, Sandra Kerr. They set off from the village she SAT lives in and loves very much, Warkworth. Wercas Folk, an SAT unauditioned group, specialise in singing new and SAT traditional folk songs about the area, its people and its SAT history. SAT SAT Many of the original founder members are still in the choir SAT and they explain it's not just the singing that keeps them SAT turning up week after week. The group have developed a SAT collaborative and mutually supportive ethos that has forged SAT strong friendships, resulting in them enjoying social time SAT together even away from the rehearsal room and concert hall. SAT They regularly escape from home and family for weekends away SAT to walk, talk and indulge in the odd glass of wine. SAT SAT As they set off on a circular route around the village they SAT talk to Clare about the role the choir plays in their lives SAT and the joy of singing and walking together. SAT SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03bps1h (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03bg59d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03bps1k (Listen) SAT News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03bps1m (Listen) SAT Richard Coles and Anita Anand meet Nicholas Parsons. SAT SAT STUDIO GUEST :: NICHOLAS PARSONS SAT SAT Just shy of ninety Nicholas Parsons is the chair of the long SAT running Radio 4 favourite Just A Minute. He talks to Richard SAT and Anita about his many years in show business after a SAT start in engineering! His latest venture is a junior version SAT of Just A Minute. SAT SAT INHERITANCE TRACKS :: STEVE EARLE SAT SAT American singer-songwriter Steve Earle inherits ‘Shoo Fly SAT Pie and Apple Pandowdy’ by Ella Fitzgerald and passes on ‘I SAT am a patriot’ by Little Steven. SAT SAT TRAVEL :: PLACE HACKING WITH BRADLEY GARRATT SAT SAT Bradley Garret is a place hacker or urban explorer SAT accessing tunnels or high buildings and the out-of-bounds SAT parts of cities all over the world. SAT SAT APPRENTICE SHIP PIPE FITTER :: JILL HUGHES SAT SAT Jill Hughes is an apprentice pipe fabricator and fitter with SAT Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd on the River Clyde in Glasgow. SAT This is one of the hybrid passenger/vehicle ferries she SAT helped to build. SAT SAT JUNIOR JUST A MINUTER :: ZREY SHOLAPURKAR SAT SAT 12 year old Zrey Sholapurkar tells us what it was like to SAT sit alongside Nicholas Parsons and take to the mic in Junior SAT Just a Minute. SAT SAT ROUND EYE SPECS :: ALGHA WORKS FACTORY SAT SAT The Algha Works Factory in London’s East End has been SAT producing little gold round spectacle frames, once NHS SAT standard issue, since 1932. Though it has supplied everyone SAT from John Lennon to Harry Potter over the years, the factory SAT remains almost unchanged to this day. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker SAT SAT 10:30 Blind Man Roams the Globe b03bps1p (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Peter's job as a broadcaster has already taken him to many SAT places. At first he thought that he was missing out on not SAT being able to see the standard tourist monuments, but when SAT he travels now he has an arsenal of strategies to get to SAT know a place. He listens to local radio, he takes in the SAT sounds of restaurants, travel systems and the voices of the SAT locals. He also meets other blind people and uses their SAT experiences of an area to understand it better and to SAT appreciate the aural clues which help guide them. SAT SAT Peter realised sightseeing was not for him when, as a twelve SAT year, he trailed round the ruins of Berkeley Castle in SAT Gloucestershire: "The fact is, sightseeing and I were never SAT going to see eye to eye. The plain fact is, though, that SAT however good the intentions, touch is not sight - and once SAT you've run your hands over one piece of ancient stone, one SAT stuccoed wall, one marble floor, well, you've touched them SAT all." SAT SAT It was a wish to try to explain and share what it was that SAT could make travelling come alive for a totally blind person, SAT unable to see from birth, that gave rise to the series. In SAT these programmes Peter hopes to build on its growing SAT reputation and its unique take on the world's cities He SAT begins by visiting San Francisco, where he uses aural clues SAT to sample typical West Coast life - including trips to an SAT Oakland baseball game, the Golden Gate park and the beach. SAT SAT As Peter says: 'the fact is, sightseeing and I were never SAT going to see eye to eye. The tragedy is that over the years, SAT people have tried so hard to make it work. Specially SAT recorded tapes for blind people, rails to follow so that you SAT can go round unaided, a huge revolution in what you're SAT allowed to touch. SAT SAT 'The plain fact is, though, that however good the SAT intentions, touch is not sight - and once you've run your SAT hands over one piece of ancient stone, one stuccoed wall, SAT one marble floor, well, you've touched them all. SAT The problem with touch really is that the hand is too small. SAT You can only touch one little bit at a time. SAT SAT 'There's too much missing; a sense of size, colour, SAT perspective, visual contrast. With the best will in the SAT world, you are playing at being able to see, and for me, SAT that kind of self-deception has never cut any ice. SAT This, nevertheless, does not mean that travelling, visiting SAT and poking about in other people's cultures cannot be SAT enormous fun for a blind person. It's just that I think you SAT have to be honest about what is fun, and what isn't.'. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b03bps1t (Listen) SAT Second Chances SAT SAT Bridget Kendall and guests discuss the idea of re-visiting a SAT place, reviving old friendships and learning to walk again. SAT For over thirty years, photographer Nick Danziger has made a SAT point of returning to his subjects in troubled places from SAT Afghanistan to Bosnia. He explains what makes his second SAT visit so different from the first one. Works by the SAT Chinese-American author Gish Jen prompt the question: do SAT whole countries, as well as individual people, deserve SAT another bite of the cherry? And Californian inventor Van SAT Phillips reveals the inspiration behind his revolutionary SAT artificial leg design which has given a new lease of life to SAT both himself and countless other amputees world-wide. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03bps1w (Listen) SAT The President's Golden Scissors SAT SAT Correspondents' stories: behind the scenes at the UN General SAT Assembly in New York - Nick Bryant says it's been about so SAT much more than the keynote speeches in the assembly hall. SAT Andrew Harding was covering the siege in Nairobi in which SAT more than 160-people were killed. So many of the city's SAT residents, he says, feel personally scarred by the horrors SAT of what happened at the Westgate Centre. Havana Marking SAT talks of her bid to track down the Pink Panthers, the gang SAT thought responsible for a string of daring jewel heists in SAT the south of France this summer. There's a visit to Dushanbe SAT in Tajikistan: Jamie Coomarasamy takes a look at the SAT president's spectacular building programme while Nick Thorpe SAT is in Austria where hydropower is a major issue and the SAT hills are alive with the sound of disagreement. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03bps1y (Listen) SAT Closed accounts, another banking divorce, flight SAT compensation, Royal Mail shares SAT SAT Over the past fifteen month we've reported on cases of SAT customers being told - out of the blue - that their bank SAT account is being closed with immediate affect. Many are SAT never told why and find it impossible to open another SAT account. The Kafkaesque nightmare of losing banking with no SAT way to find out why. A lawyer tells us it is within the law. SAT Others accuse the banks of arbitrary behaviour. Where can SAT you turn for help? SAT SAT Around 1.5 million retail customers of RBS/NatWest are to SAT become customers of a new bank Williams & Glyn's. All the SAT RBS branches in England and Wales and a handful of NatWest SAT branches in Scotland are being hived off to the new brand SAT and will be floated on the Stock Exchange. SAT SAT If your flight is delayed, European law gives you the right SAT to compensation - sometimes of more than the cost of the SAT flight. If the airline refuses to pay up the Civil Aviation SAT Authority is supposed to help you enforce your rights. But SAT as claim numbers grow is the CAA's mediation role grounded? SAT SAT The Government has begun the process of selling off Royal SAT Mail. The pricing envelope for the shares is 260p to 330p SAT with a final announcement being delivered at 0700 on Friday SAT 11 October. The public will need to weigh in with a minimum SAT parcel of £750 of shares (£500 for Royal Mail employees). So SAT will they be a first or second class investment? SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b03bg4w6 (Listen) SAT Series 41, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Susan Calman present a comedic look at the SAT week's news, providing a topical mix of stand-up, sketches SAT and songs that tell you everything you need to know. With SAT Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, and Jonny & the Baptists. SAT SAT Produced by Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03bg59q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03bg59x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03bg4wg (Listen) SAT Ken Clarke, Lord Falconer, Caroline Lucas, Neil Hamilton SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Nottingham with Ken Clarke MP who's minister without SAT portfolio in the cabinet office, the UKIP's Campaign SAT Director for the 2014 Euro elections Neil Hamilton, the SAT Labour peer Lord Falconer and the Green MP Caroline Lucas. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03bps20 (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? Presented by Julian SAT Worricker. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b018v2ks (Listen) SAT The Million Pound Bank Note SAT SAT The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain SAT dramatised by Bryony Lavery SAT Stranded in London, a penniless young American becomes the SAT subject of a £20,000 bet between two wealthy English SAT gentlemen. Can he can survive and prosper for a month as the SAT bearer of a 1,000,000 pound bank note? A colourful, bright SAT and vivid dramatisation of this charming and surprisingly SAT relevant classic short story, first published in 1893. SAT Brimming with Mark Twain's gentle humour, Henry Adam's SAT plight is sure to entertain family audiences. SAT SAT Produced by ...... Pauline Harris and Sharon Sephton SAT SAT Tony Award winning playwright Bryony Lavery presents a SAT rhythmic, energised dramatisation of this classic SAT short story. SAT SAT Credits SAT Henry Adams: Trevor White SAT Miss Portia Langham: Verity-May Henry SAT Trubshaw: Conrad Nelson SAT Bosun: Conrad Nelson SAT Vesuvius: Conrad Nelson SAT Basil: Jonathan Keeble SAT Mr Raymond: Jonathan Keeble SAT Majordomo: Jonathan Keeble SAT Abel: Malcolm Raeburn SAT Concierge: Malcolm Raeburn SAT Mrs Harris: Kathryn Hunt SAT Tod: Stephen Hoyle SAT Bellboy: Stephen Hoyle SAT Lloyd Hastings: John Guerrasio SAT American Ambassador: John Guerrasio SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Sharon Sephton SAT Adaptor: Bryony Lavery SAT Author: Mark Twain SAT SAT 15:30 The Secret Life of JS Bach b03bds3t (Listen) SAT Long before the world of pop beckoned, and when the SAT priesthood was an unimagined future calling, Rev Richard SAT Coles had an unusual teenage passion. By his bed stood the SAT bust of the greatest composer the world has ever known, with SAT an inescapable marmoreal gaze that only the most SAT self-assured genius could produce. This was a man with a SAT gigantic musical brain, an untouchable god, a super-human SAT with a daily life and preoccupations we can't begin to SAT imagine. Bach that is, for avoidance of any doubt. SAT SAT Or was he? For Radio 4, Coles sets out to meet another Bach, SAT the hot young talent whose daily life as a church organist SAT was punctuated as much by petty quarrels and hard graft as SAT it was the call of the Romantic muse. He clambers inside the SAT technological marvel which is an 18th-century German organ SAT and discovers that the principles of physics, architecture, SAT metallurgy and acoustics were every bit as prominent in SAT Bach's armoury as his musicianship. And he hunts for clues SAT as to why the young Bach might have been the prickly SAT hot-head he appears to have been, including the intriguing SAT theory that a disrupted childhood and chaotic education may SAT have left him with a personality we might now consider to be SAT characterised by clinical paranoia. SAT SAT But what if we were to meet Bach in the flesh? Now Richard SAT gets the chance to do exactly that. Well almost, thanks to SAT the pioneering work of scientists in Dundee who have SAT recreated the composer's image in 3D using the very latest SAT forensic techniques. Is this meeting a realisation of SAT lifelong fantasies, or is the Bach we uncover the very last SAT person Richard would like to appoint as parish organist? SAT SAT With contributions from organists John Butt, Jon Cullen and SAT Tim Rishton, psychologist Tamar Pincus, musicologist Ruth SAT Tatlow, and forensic scientist Caroline Wilkinson. SAT More information on the Barony Organ at the University of SAT Strathclyde can be found here: SAT http://www.strath.ac.uk/music/thebaronyorgan/. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03bpsx6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03bpsx8 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03bg662 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03bg5b3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03bg5b7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bg5bc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03bpsxb (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Roy Harper, Frederick Forsyth, Steven SAT Berkoff, Lucy Worsley, Miranda Sawyer, Rafiki SAT SAT Clive talks to bestselling author Frederick Forsyth about SAT penning such thrillers as 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The SAT Odessa File'. Frederick's latest novel 'The Kill List' tells SAT the story of The Preacher, a terrorist who radicalises young SAT Muslims abroad to carry out assassinations. Unfortunately SAT for him, one of those killed is a retired Marine general, SAT whose son is trained to track and kill those who are SAT dangerous to the West. SAT SAT Historian and curator Dr Lucy Worsley's new TV series SAT focusses on a very British obsession. Murder is the most SAT despicable and foulest crime of all, yet we are fascinated SAT by it. Lucy tells Clive why in real-life and in fiction, SAT murder provides us with stories that do more than repel us, SAT they entertain us. 'A Very British Murder' is on Monday 30th SAT September at 21.00 on BBC Four. SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer's in The Garden of Uranium with wildly SAT influential folk / rock singer songwriter Roy Harper, who's SAT just released 'Man And Myth'; his first studio album in 13 SAT years. Miranda finds out what it takes to be one of the SAT leading, most erudite and passionate orators of the British SAT folk rock renaissance. Roy also performs 'Time Is Temporary' SAT in the Loose Ends studio. SAT SAT Clive talks to maverick writer, director and actor Steven SAT Berkoff, whose collection of short plays, 'Religion and SAT Anarchy' centres around the theme of the latent SAT anti-Semitism - a prejudice that, despite the cataclysmic SAT events of twentieth century, refuses to go away and SAT continues to infuse the very heart of the society in which SAT we live. It's at London's Jermyn Street Theatre until SAT Tuesday 26th October. SAT SAT With more music from five piece progressive funk rock band SAT Rafiki, who perform 'Another Time' from their forthcoming SAT 'One By One' EP. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03bpsxd (Listen) SAT Hassan Rouhani SAT SAT Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani has been centre of SAT attention at the UN this week. He's promising a new approach SAT to talks with the West over his country's nuclear programme. SAT SAT He is certainly a change from his abrasive anti-Western SAT predecessor. Rouhani studied in Britain, loves Bogart films SAT and Thomas Hardy novels and is fond of designer clerical SAT robes. SAT SAT So, Mary Ann Sieghart asks, is all that merely a matter of SAT presentation? Or is he a completely new kind of Iranian SAT leader? SAT SAT Producer: Heba Ayoub SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03bpsxg (Listen) SAT Blue Jasmine, Serpentine Sackler Gallery SAT SAT Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine and Zaha SAT Hadid's Serpentine Sackler Gallery. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03bpv42 (Listen) SAT A Brief History of Irony SAT SAT "What is irony ? Why do we need it ? Does it have any SAT socially redeeming features whatsoever, or is it merely SAT nasty ?" SAT SAT Ian Hislop, John Sergeant, Kathy Lette, Barry Cryer and SAT Madonna join the American satirist Joe Queenan in a search SAT for the meaning and purpose of irony - or saying one thing SAT to mean something else. Juvenal, Swift and John Lennon all SAT find a place in the spotlight, as do the bible, Oliver SAT Cromwell and World War One. SAT SAT "Some might think it ironic that the BBC has hired an SAT American presenter for this show," says the presenter, "but SAT the latest chapter in irony's history was written in the SAT United States." The reference is to the 2001 destruction of SAT the Twin Towers, and the proclamation that the Age of Irony SAT was dead. "Shattered Nation Yearns to Care About Stupid SAT Bullshit Again," replied the Onion newspaper. We have an SAT interview with the editor about the dangers of stepping into SAT the irony-free zone. SAT SAT The programme also features Armando Iannucci, Kurt Anderson, SAT Brenda Maddox, Dean Martin, Bert Kaempfert and The Mike SAT Flowers Pops. SAT SAT The producer is Miles Warde. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03bg7gv (Listen) SAT Three Men in a Boat, Episode 2 SAT SAT The Now Show's Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt with Julian SAT Rhind-Tutt from Green Wing star in a sparkling new SAT dramatisation of Jerome K.Jerome's comic classic. SAT SAT In Edwardian London, three carefree young men and their dog, SAT Montmorency, plan a rowing holiday down the Thames to SAT Oxford. But nothing goes smoothly. SAT SAT Episode 2: SAT Harris, unable to recollect words or tune, attempts a comic SAT song - to the dismay of J, George and other revellers. J SAT buys a round for the whole pub to compensate. After a meal SAT of cold beef but no mustard, they cheer up at the prospect SAT of pineapple - but they've forgotten the tin opener. And SAT nothing - not the penknife, the scissors, the hitcher, a SAT sharp stone or the mast - can break into that tin. Their SAT last night on the river involves another sing-song at SAT another pub of course, but not before Harris and Montmorency SAT survive a serious encounter with swans. SAT SAT Three Men In A Boat has never been out of print since its SAT first publication in 1889. In stark contrast to the SAT adventure writers of the time - Kipling, Haggard and SAT Stevenson - Jerome K Jerome gave us a story about three SAT ordinary fellows having a jolly time down the river. SAT SAT Pub singers ............from Rose Bruford College SAT Music...................... provided by Gary Yershon, with SAT Eddie Hession accordion SAT Dramatised by Chris Harrald SAT Original and adapted music by Gary Yershon SAT SAT Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Producer: Melanie Harris SAT Executive Producer: Polly Thomas SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT J: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT George: Steve Punt SAT Harris: Hugh Dennis SAT Mrs P: Katherine Jakeways SAT Musician: Gary Yershon SAT Author: Jerome K Jerome SAT Adaptor: Chris Harrald SAT Producer: Melanie Harris SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03bg5bk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b03bfkbw (Listen) SAT Taking the Government to Court SAT SAT Is our legal right to challenge the power of government SAT under threat? Clive Anderson and guests discuss concerns SAT that Government proposals to limit the use of judicial SAT review could result in unlawful decisions by government and SAT other public bodies going unchecked. SAT SAT The number of applications for judicial review have SAT increased rapidly in recent years, at great financial cost, SAT but very few are ultimately successful. Is judicial review a SAT "lawyers' charter" or an essential check on the way SAT government and other public bodies exercise power? SAT SAT A quadrupling of legal fees and tighter restrictions on time SAT limits for lodging applications will choke off the "soaring SAT number of judicial review" cases brought before the courts, SAT according to Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling. He says SAT these measures will prevent claims being used as a "cheap SAT delaying tactic" in planning and immigration appeals. But SAT lawyers have warned that the changes will restrict legal SAT challenges to local authority decisions, creating the risk SAT that vulnerable teenagers will be deprived of care and safe SAT accommodation. SAT SAT And Labour's justice spokesman, Sadiq Khan, says, "Recent SAT history has shown the importance of judicial reviews in SAT exposing shoddy and unlawful government decision-making - SAT from the disastrous west coast mainline franchising to the SAT botched cancelling of Building Schools for the Future". SAT SAT Senior lawyers, judges and politicians discuss the strengths SAT and weakness of judicial review, look at landmark cases, and SAT argue about whether such legal challenges undermine good SAT government. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b03bddcy (Listen) SAT (2/12) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the cryptic quiz between SAT teams from six UK regions. This week the defending SAT champions, Wales, represented by Myfanwy Alexander and David SAT Edwards, take on the challenge from the North of England SAT (Adele Geras and Jim Coulson). SAT SAT As always, there are plenty of question ideas provided by SAT listeners, and Tom will have full details of how you can SAT suggest your own puzzles with which to stump the regulars. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b03bg7gz (Listen) SAT RS Thomas at 100 SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests SAT for the poems of R.S.Thomas who was born 100 years ago. Owen SAT Teale is the reader. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03bppsw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b010dp0z (Listen) SUN Tales from the Casino, Ten Miles High SUN SUN 'They say the floor at the Casino is amazing - a sprung wood SUN floor! And they can fit 1200 people in the ballroom there. SUN Twelve hundred people dancing!' SUN SUN David's mate Batty converted him to Northern Soul: lending SUN him obscure records, teaching him dance moves and describing SUN the legendary club. The plan is to hitch-hike to Wigan to SUN experience the Casino for themselves. SUN SUN Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate SUN venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over SUN the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the SUN latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were SUN sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way SUN up the road. SUN SUN The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with Russ SUN Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three songs SUN that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time Will Pass SUN You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is Over" by SUN Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean Parrish. SUN SUN These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton SUN (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw SUN off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was SUN voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard SUN Magazine. SUN SUN Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a SUN freelance writer of features and music columns, notably SUN 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first SUN story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as SUN part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series SUN for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was SUN published in 2010. Laura lives in London. SUN SUN Written by Laura Barton. Read by Bryan Dick. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bppsy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bppt0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bppt2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03bppt4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03bpxx6 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Helen's Parish Church, Sefton, Merseyside. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03bpsxd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03bppt6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03bpxx8 (Listen) SUN The Boundaries of Religion: Part 2 SUN SUN Mark Tully concludes his exploration of the relationship SUN between reason and religion in the company of theologian SUN Keith Ward, who maintains that religious faith is rational, SUN and doubt can be irrational. SUN SUN In part one of the series Mark discussed how rational SUN science might need help from religion in answering the SUN important questions in life. In this final programme he SUN explores the idea that religion has to adapt to advances in SUN science and, by doing so, benefits greatly. SUN SUN In the end, Mark wonders if any of us, religious or not, are SUN quite as rational as we think we are in our faith or our SUN scepticism, if we fail to take into account the conclusions SUN of others when they conflict with our own. SUN SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, Frank Stirling and Peter SUN Guinness. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03bpxxb (Listen) SUN Damson Harvest SUN SUN The Lyth Valley in Cumbria is the home to orchards full of SUN damsons - and it's harvest time. An old native fruit with SUN rather mysterious origins and once a crucial crop for many SUN farmers in the area, damsons are prized for their unique SUN sharp taste. Times have changed though, and the damson has SUN fallen out of favour. Erratic crops have been a problem too, SUN with last year's harvest almost non-existent. SUN SUN Caz Graham heads to the Lyth Valley to help with the SUN harvest, and to understand how some farmers and food SUN producers are looking again at the damson and celebrating SUN this British fruit so steeped in history. On her journey she SUN will encounter Hartley Trotter, who has been picking SUN damsons, armed only with a bucket and a ladder, for more SUN than sixty years. She also meets Sean Partington who makes SUN damson sausages with his rare breed pigs, and Lizzie Smith SUN who used to make an annual pilgrimage with her family to the SUN valley in the sixties and now makes sought-after damson SUN "cheese" there. SUN SUN Caz also meets up with Hartley's neighbour, Anne Wilson, who SUN helps with the harvest, John Holmes from the Westmoreland SUN Damson Association, and farmer Edward Sharp, whose dairy SUN herd and sheep are his main business these days, but who SUN still tends to his damson orchard, which was planted mostly SUN by his father. SUN SUN It's a tale of musical fruit, changing tastes, competitive SUN harvesting and making the most of the riches on your SUN doorstep. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03bpptc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03bpptf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03bpxxd (Listen) SUN Shortly after we went off air last weekend, we received news SUN of the suicide bombing on an Anglican church in Peshawar, SUN Pakistan. Today William Crawley hears from a man whose wife SUN lost twelve family members in the attack, and Mustafi Quadri SUN from Amnesty International tells him about the other SUN minority groups in Pakistan who are also under threat from SUN Islamic extremists. SUN SUN The Government is to introduce a Modern Slavery Bill into SUN the next session of Parliament. Trevor Barnes has been SUN meeting victims of human trafficking and talking to the SUN agencies which work with them. Is the Government's draft SUN bill on the right lines? SUN SUN The Catalans are calling on the Spanish government for a SUN referendum on their independence. They're being urged on by SUN Sister Teresa Forcades. Matt Wells has been to meet her. SUN SUN Can you be a Muslim and a foodie? Yes, if you are a SUN "Halaloodie" according to the organisers of the first Halal SUN food festival taking place in London this weekend . They're SUN expecting 20,000 paying visitors; they've had enough of SUN curries and halal - they think its time the high dining SUN establishments catered for their palates. SUN SUN And is the Big Society still the Tories Big idea? As the SUN Conservatives gather in Manchester for their annual SUN conference, the minister for civil society Nick Hurd debates SUN with Steve Bobb, who represents the chief executives of SUN voluntary organisations. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03bpxxg (Listen) SUN The Trussell Trust SUN SUN Charlotte Sewell, a beneficiary, presents the Radio 4 Appeal SUN on behalf of the charity The Trussell Trust. SUN Reg Charity: 1110522 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN The Trussell Trust. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Trussell Trust UK Foodbank Network SUN SUN The Trussell Trust’s award-winning UK foodbank network SUN provides emergency food and support to people in crisis in SUN the UK. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03bppth (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03bpptk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03bpxxj (Listen) SUN Back to Church Sunday SUN SUN Over the last ten years, Back to Church Sunday has become SUN the largest single local-church invitational initiative in SUN the world, welcoming back many who have, over the years, SUN stopped regularly attending church. SUN SUN Latimer Minster, near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire is a SUN new Church of England community which aims to be a new model SUN of what church can be, reaching out to those who have become SUN disconnected from traditional and conventional models of SUN church. SUN SUN In this service, Latimer Minster's leaders Frog and Amy SUN Orr-Ewing are joined by the Bishop of Hertford, the Rt Revd SUN Paul Bayes, who is a member of the national leadership team SUN for Back to Church Sunday. SUN SUN Music directors: Natasha Edwards and Nathan Fellingham. SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03bg4wj (Listen) SUN The Horror of Love SUN SUN Stephen King says "Love creates horror." AL Kennedy agrees. SUN "As someone who often says 'I think' and almost never says SUN 'I feel', I don't personally welcome love's ability to make SUN me fear not only for myself, but others," she writes. SUN SUN But love makes us altruistic, humane. "We would find it SUN bizarre if a parent was more worried about dropping a vase SUN than dropping their baby - even a Ming vase and an ugly SUN baby. An absence of love within a family or a relationship SUN is taken as a sign of something having gone very wrong," she SUN says. SUN SUN "But an absence of love in the world we help construct SUN around us, that's regarded as a form of common sense. We are SUN used to making decisions - or having them made for us - SUN which would save the vase and not the baby." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk9b (Listen) SUN Bluethroat SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Brett Westwood presents the bluethroat. This is a fine SUN songbird and a sprightly robin-sized bird with a dazzling SUN sapphire bib. Your best chance of seeing one is in autumn SUN when they pass through the north or east coast on migration. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03bpxxl (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03bpxxn (Listen) SUN Brenda's catching up, and Kathy's been pushed too far. SUN SUN Credits SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN Leigh Barham: Jonathan Forbes SUN Eric: Gerry Hinks SUN Writer: Graham Harvey SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03bpxxq (Listen) SUN Lee Mack SUN SUN Kirsty Young interviews the comedian Lee Mack. SUN SUN He writes and stars in the BBC One hit show "Not Going Out". SUN His stand-up tours do great business and his lightening SUN sharp comedy reflexes are also put to good use on a number SUN of prime-time panel shows. SUN SUN His first ever performance was doing impressions for his SUN school mates, but it took him more than ten years to pluck SUN up the courage to step on stage. Leaving school with two SUN O'levels and a cheeky grin, he had a stint as Red Rum's SUN stable boy and a bash at being a professional darts player. SUN SUN He says of his comedy career "I'm the kind of person that, SUN if I don't think it's hard work, I worry that it's not SUN worthwhile. I have to feel as if I've struggled a bit." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b03bddd8 (Listen) SUN Series 67, Episode 7 SUN SUN In the last of the series Nicholas Parsons challenges Jenny SUN Eclair, Julian Clary, Liza Tarbuck and Paul Merton to talk SUN on a subject he gives them for 60 seconds without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03bpxxs (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the new "School Food Plan" and SUN asks if it can make real change. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03bpptm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03bpxxv (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 Steve Richards Stands Up for Politics b03bpxxx (Listen) SUN Steve Richards is a leading columnist about politics for the SUN national press. But he has also been developing a new career SUN in stand-up comedy, putting on a one-man show which explores SUN some of the manoeuvring and absurdities of politics without SUN being cynical or distrustful about the motives of SUN politicians. SUN SUN He says he's trying to do what he calls "pro-politics SUN comedy". This is his audio diary of how it went. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03bg4vw (Listen) SUN North East London SUN SUN Chaired by Eric Robson, the Gardeners' Question Time team is SUN in North East London with Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and SUN Bob Flowerdew tackling questions from local gardeners. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03bpxxz (Listen) SUN Re-education in China SUN SUN In China 're-education' is still used as a form of SUN punishment. It was introduced by the Communist Party and the SUN police still send people for re-education without trial. SUN Listen to the story of Robert Ford, an Englishman who spent SUN 5 years being taught the error of his ways in Chinese jails SUN in the 1950s. He had been captured by the Red Army during SUN the invasion of Tibet. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03bq0c2 (Listen) SUN Sword of Honour, Men at Arms SUN SUN by Evelyn Waugh SUN Dramatised by Jeremy Front SUN SUN Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: SUN Guy Crouchback is a man scarred by a broken marriage, SUN searching for a purpose in a modern world, when war breaks SUN out he feels he may have at last found a cause worth SUN fighting for. SUN SUN Directed by Sally Avens SUN SUN Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his SUN literary career. Originally published as three volumes: SUN Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional SUN Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and SUN published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the SUN form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are SUN dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. SUN This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the SUN comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty SUN and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be SUN counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most SUN enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his SUN own experiences during WWII. Sword of Honour effortlessly SUN treads the line between the personal and the political - it SUN is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied SUN war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from SUN isolation to self fulfilment. His adventures are peopled by SUN colourful characters: the eccentric, Apthorpe, one-eyed, SUN Ritchie-Hook, promiscuous, Virginia Troy. At the centre of SUN the novel is Guy for whom we never lose our sympathy as he SUN emerges from his adventures bowed but not broken. From Dakar SUN to Egypt, the Isle of Mugg to the evacuation of Crete, SUN tragedy is leavened by Waugh's acerbic and farcical comedy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator: Tim McInnerny SUN Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready SUN Apthorpe: Adrian Scarborough SUN Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws SUN Trimmer: Lee Ingleby SUN Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris SUN Angela: Priyanga Burford SUN Tony: Harry Jardine SUN Mr Crouchback: Sean Murray SUN Major Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Mrs Tickeridge: Joanna Brookes SUN Leonard: Arthur Hughes SUN Daisy: Georgie Fuller SUN De Souza: Joel MacCormack SUN Sgt Major: Ben Crowe SUN Aide: John Norton SUN Director: Sally Avens SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN Author: Evelyn Waugh SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03bq5tl (Listen) SUN Brazilian literary scene; Sathnam Sanghera; Harrogate SUN History Festival SUN SUN Sathnam Sanghera made a literary splash with his memoir The SUN Boy with the Topknot. He's now written his first novel, SUN Marriage Material, a contemporary reworking of Arnold SUN Bennett's classic The Old Wives' Tale. Transferring the SUN action to a corner shop in Wolverhampton, his version SUN follows three generations of Sikhs originally from the SUN Punjab. He explains why he felt that Bennett's original lent SUN itself so well to a Punjabi setting and why he felt it was SUN important to tackle the issue of Asian stereotypes in the SUN novel. SUN SUN With the world looking to Brazil for football next year and SUN for the Olympics in 2016 and a new Festival of Brazilian SUN culture called FLIPside starting in the UK this year, Open SUN Book explores the country's vast literary scene with author SUN Ana Maria Machado, President of the Brazilian Academy of SUN Letters and Dr Charlotte Matthews, lecturer in Portuguese SUN and Brazilian literature of the University of Edinburgh. SUN SUN Harrogate's world renowned Crime Writing Festival is the SUN biggest event of its kind in Europe and has put the town SUN firmly on the literary map. Well now they want to build on SUN that reputation and this October sees the inaugural SUN Harrogate History Festival. The CEO of Harrogate SUN International Festivals Sharon Canavar explains why they SUN decided to embrace a history festival as well. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b03bq5tn (Listen) SUN Charles Causley Anniversary SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests SUN for poems by Charles Causley who died ten years ago. SUN Including BBC archive recording of the poet and new readings SUN of some of his poems by Simon Armitage and Andrew Motion. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03bdsyk (Listen) SUN Secrecy and Surveillance SUN SUN Recent revelations about secret mass surveillance programmes SUN have raised fears about potential abuses of individual SUN privacy in favour of national security. SUN With requests to intercept personal communications data on SUN the rise, just who is collecting the information and for SUN what purpose? SUN Even local authorities can now use surveillance powers to SUN track employees and monitor the activities of residents. SUN So what rights do people have when they feel they have been SUN unfairly targeted? SUN Jenny Chryss examines the role of the Investigatory Powers SUN Tribunal - the little known body that considers complaints SUN from those who've been under surveillance by the state. SUN Critics talk of an "Orwellian system" in which cases are SUN shrouded in too much secrecy. The Tribunal usually sits in SUN private, with claimants barred from hearing evidence and SUN with little detailed explanation of its decisions. SUN So where should the balance lie between openness and SUN effective oversight? SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03bpsxd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03bpptq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03bppts (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bpptv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03bq5tq (Listen) SUN This week, no stone unturned and no turn un-stoned as we SUN celebrate the Working Man's Club, the original Big Society. SUN Also, find out how rats learn to be ticklish, how dreams SUN keep you asleep and why Johann Sebastian Bach was the Bill SUN Gates of his day. Plus John Steinbeck, Evelyn Waugh, a SUN light-hearted guide to the conflict in the Middle East, the SUN Forton junction of the M6 motorway and Quentin Tarantino SUN sings the Bear Necessities. Well, almost. SUN Join Stuart Maconie for Pick of the Week SUN SUN Programmes featured this week: SUN SUN Our Dreams Our Selves ep 5 - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - John Steinbeck - Radio 4 SUN The Secret Life of JS Bach - Radio 4 SUN The First Time with Matt Everitt - Quentin Tarantino - SUN 6music SUN My Teenage Diary - Kate Mosse - Radio 4 SUN The Life Scientific - Professor Sophie Scott - Radio 4 SUN Give Order Please - Radio 4 SUN The Weekend Documentary - Isolation - World Service SUN BBC National Short Story Award - Mr Fox by Sarah Hall - SUN Radio 4 SUN Classic Serial - Men At Arms - Sword of Honour - Radio 4 SUN OBJ's Guide to the Middle East - Radio 4 SUN Big Band Special - Radio 2 SUN SUN Produced by Louise Clarke. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03bq5ts (Listen) SUN Elizabeth looks forward, and David's in for a nasty shock. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01d51th (Listen) SUN Series 1, With David O'Doherty SUN SUN In a new brand music comedy series comedian Alex Horne and SUN his 5 piece band give us a latin lesson; ponder the language SUN that unifies us all and guest stand-up David O Doherty takes SUN us for a noisy ride in the quiet carriage. SUN SUN Host .... Alex Horne SUN Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland SUN Saxophone/clarinet .... Mark Brown SUN Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier SUN Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds SUN Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe SUN Guest performer .... David O'Doherty SUN SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Bloody Scotland b03bq5tv (Listen) SUN Waiting with the Body SUN SUN Malcolm Mackay continues our series of brand new commissions SUN from leading crime writers, all recorded in front of an SUN audience at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in SUN Stirling. SUN SUN 'Waiting With the Body' is a tale from the seedy underbelly SUN of Glasgow, where a professional hitman finds himself in an SUN unexpected situation. Read by Robin Laing SUN SUN Crime writer Malcolm Mackay has lived all his life on the SUN island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, but writes noir-ish SUN tales set in the criminal urban underworld of Glasgow. SUN SUN Read by Robin Laing SUN Produced by Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b03bg4w2 (Listen) SUN Are patients 45% more likely to die in NHS hospitals than US SUN ones? SUN SUN Health service patients are 45% more likely to die in SUN hospital than in the US, the news headlines read. The media SUN were reporting the work of Professor Sir Brian Jarman from SUN the Doctor Foster Intelligence Unit. But the claim has SUN attracted criticism. Tim Harford looks into the story. SUN SUN "We just shut our eyes to the fact that the world's SUN population is increasing out of control... and we owe it to SUN future generations to face up to this." Is Sir David SUN Attenborough right about global population projections? SUN SUN Scotland is home to 20% of the world's redheads, the BBC has SUN reported. Hannah Barnes looks at whether the numbers add up. SUN SUN Tim Harford tells the story of the Hawthorne Experiments, SUN one of the most famous studies in industrial history - and SUN one of the most misunderstood. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03bg4w0 (Listen) SUN A Ghanaian poet, an addiction counsellor, a beat writers' SUN muse and a special branch officer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Kofi Awoonor, the Ghanaian poet, diplomat and academic who SUN was killed in the Nairobi shopping mall attack. SUN SUN Peter Kay, the addiction counsellor who drew on his own SUN struggle with drink and drugs to help leading footballers SUN kick their habits. One of them - Clarke Carlisle - pays SUN tribute. SUN SUN Carolyn Cassady, the wife of the beat poet Neal Cassady who SUN had an affair with Jack Kerouac and was portrayed as Camille SUN in On The Road SUN SUN And war hero turned Special Branch officer Ferguson Smith, SUN who helped to catch the Portland spy ring and George Blake. SUN SUN Producer: Philip Sellars SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03bps1y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03bpxxg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03bfszs (Listen) SUN China's Economic Crossroads SUN SUN The Chinese government plans to have 200 million graduates SUN by 2020. Although this number still needs to be seen in its SUN context of the 1.3 billion Chinese population, it is still a SUN large increase in skilled workers from the 1 million SUN graduates in 2000. But cracks in the plan are being shown by SUN the class of 2013. Seven million people finished university SUN this year and many are finding that the types of job they SUN want aren't available. Many employers also can't find the SUN workers they want to fill their jobs. This is an SUN illustration of China's economy at a turning point in its SUN development. The rapid economic expansion of the past thirty SUN years, based on cheap labour making goods for export, is SUN slowing down and something needs to come and fill the gap it SUN is leaving behind. In this week's In Business, Peter Day SUN travels to the centre of China, the city of Zhengzhou in SUN Henan province. For centuries the city has been known as the SUN crossroads of the country, situated on the Yellow River and SUN where the north-south and east-west railways meet. It's an SUN apt place perhaps to investigate China's economy at its own SUN crossroads. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03bq5tx (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 b03bq5tz (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03bfszd (Listen) SUN Cate Blanchett on Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine; Michael Roemer SUN on Nothing But a Man; Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners SUN SUN Cate Blanchett talks to Francine Stock about her SUN well-received performance as banker's wife and socialite in SUN Blue Jasmine. Directed by Woody Allen, it tells the story of SUN a corrupt financier, played by Alec Baldwin, and his wife SUN who fall from high society when he is arrested for fraud. SUN SUN The Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve, who made Incendies SUN and Polytechnique, is back with a new film, Prisoners, SUN starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. The plot follows SUN two families whose daughters mysteriously disappear and SUN explores how grief and desperation can corrupt. SUN SUN As biopics dominate the award season releases, the director SUN Margarethe von Trotta discusses her new film about the SUN German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt. It focuses SUN on the period around 1961 when Arendt caused great SUN controversy in her essays about the trial of the Nazi Adolf SUN Eichmann in Israel. The trial inspired her famous phrase SUN "the banality of evil". SUN SUN Plus director Michael Roemer looks back at his SUN ground-breaking film Nothing But A Man, released in 1964 and SUN now restored by the Library of Congress and re-released by SUN the BFI. It follows a young black man as he tries to shake SUN off his alcoholic father and find a decent life for himself SUN in the segregated South. Michael Roemer explains why it was SUN difficult to find black audiences and how even today, many SUN people presume he must be black himself to have made this SUN film. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03bpxx8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03bpp9x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03bfk9h (Listen) MON Noodle narratives; British men dancing Capoeira MON MON Noodle narratives - Laurie Taylor talks to US MON anthropologist, Deborah Gewertz, about the invention, MON production and consumption of instant ramen noodles. From MON their origins in Japan to their worldwide spread to markets MON as diverse as the USA and Papua New Guinea. As popular with MON the affluent as with the poor, they enable diverse MON populations to manage their lives. So how did noodles become MON one of the industrial food system's most successful MON achievements? And what can the humble noodle tell us about MON the history of food and the anthropology of globalisation? MON Also, British men dancing like Brazilians. Social scientist, MON Neil Stephens, discusses a study which finds that Capoeira MON challenges the traditional opposition between masculinity MON and dance. He's joined by Theresa Buckland, Professor of MON Dance History and Ethnography. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03bpxx6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bpp9z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bppb1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bppb3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03bppb7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03c7f8z (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon MON Simon Doogan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03bq6j8 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03bppb9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qkfw (Listen) MON Serin MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the serin. Serins breed just across MON the English Channel but they are small finches that continue MON to tantalize ornithologists here in the UK. Hopes were MON raised that this Continental finch would settle here to MON breed, especially if our climate became warmer. However, MON something about our islands doesn't suit them. They do like MON large parks and gardens, so keep an ear out for the song of MON this visitor....a cross between a goldfinch and a goldcrest, MON and you may be rewarded. MON MON 06:00 Today b03bq6jb (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03bq6jd (Listen) MON Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana MON MON Stephanie Flanders talks to the Canadian poet Anne Carson MON about updating a three thousand year old myth, in which the MON red winged monster becomes a moody teenage boy. Daljit Nagra MON takes inspiration from poets across Asia for his own version MON of the ancient text, Ramayana. The sins of the father are MON revisited in Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts. And MON Celtic Europe is the setting for Graham Robb's latest MON journey, as he uncovers a lost map which reveals hidden MON meanings in an ancient civilisation. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03byzzf (Listen) MON Beowulf, Episode 1 MON MON In the years after the funeral of the Dane's warrior King MON Shield Sheafson, the evil fiend Grendel rises to prowl the MON land. At the court of Hygelac in Geatland, a great warrior MON prepares to help King Hrothgar. MON MON Radio 4 pays tribute to Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning MON poet, internationally recognised as one of the greatest MON contemporary voices who passed away earlier this month at MON the age of 74. MON Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the MON Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics MON and a classic of European literature. Seamus Heaney's MON translation , completed near the end of the second MON millennium is both true, line by line, to the original, as MON well as being an expression of his own creative, lyrical MON gift. MON Here, in a recording made ten years ago, Seamus Heaney MON brings his vibrant powerful writing to life as he reads ten MON fifteen minute extracts from the narrative. MON The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, MON and then living on, physically and psychically exposed, in MON that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels MON between this story and the history of the twentieth century, MON nor can Heaney's Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light MON of his Northern Irish upbringing. MON But it also transcends such considerations, telling us MON psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and MON liberating. MON MON Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. MON Radio Drama North. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03bq9cw (Listen) MON What do we know about so-called "white widow" Samantha MON Lewthwaite and how has her image come to dominate coverage MON of the Kenyan Westgate shopping mall attack? The social MON enterprise built on fruit and vegetables destined for the MON dump. Why more women are doing it for themselves in business MON start-ups. Eminent publisher Liz Calder on why she's MON bringing a Brazilian literary festival to Britain. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Producer: Louise Corley. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03brkss (Listen) MON The Pillow Book: Time and Change, Episode 1 MON MON Yukinari is summoned to visit his old friend Takashi. MON Shonagon is confined in the palace MON MON Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! But this time, MON not together... MON MON Despite her conviction that she is unable to bear children, MON Shonagon has fallen pregnant by Yukinari. She has gone into MON labour prematurely, and the process is as distasteful to her MON as the idea of being a mother is. MON MON Meanwhile, Yukinari, believing the child to be due a month MON later has answered the summons of a childhood friend, MON Takashi. He arrives at the rural outpost where the two boys MON grew up to find his old friend much changed. MON MON Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and MON lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese MON court. MON MON Written by Robert Forrest. MON MON Directed by Lu Kemp. MON MON Credits MON Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell MON Yukinari: Cal MacAninch MON Takashi: Alexander Morton MON Saisho: Victoria Liddelle MON Writer: Robert Forrest MON Director: Lu Kemp MON MON 11:00 The Young Devolutionaries b03bq9d0 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In 1998 and 1999 Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland voted MON for devolution. In this series nine young people from the MON devolved nations come together at the Edinburgh Festival of MON Politics to share their experiences of the new UK, and to MON reveal their vision of the future. MON MON They are the generation who have grown up under devolution MON and a vote for Scottish independence is just around the MON corner. Devolution has cost a lot of money, and created a MON new kind of politician. But has it created a new politics MON and how do they feel about their national identity? Where do MON they fit in? What sets them apart? MON MON Radio 4 brought together nine young people from the devolved MON nations who all had something to say. With an expert on MON Social Inclusive Art, Jeremy Weller, acting as a mentor, MON this three-part series follows them as they attempt to tell MON the story of their lives through a theatre performance. MON MON Aasmah Mir charts the group's progress as observers and MON academics drop in to meet them and give their insight on MON this devolution generation; a generation which many surveys MON suggest are capable of changing the face of our national MON politics. MON MON The clock is ticking - not just for the young people as they MON approach show-time but perhaps for the Union itself. MON MON Presenter: Aasmah Mir MON Producers: Steven Rajam (Wales), Esme Kennedy (Scotland) MON Conor Garrett (Northern Ireland). MON MON 11:30 Reception b03bq9kq (Listen) MON Birthday Boy MON MON Reception is a sitcom about two men sitting behind a desk, MON starring Adrian Scarborough, Morwenna Banks and Amit Shah. MON Written by Paul Basset Davies. MON MON Clarissa's inexplicable obsession with Brian goes into MON overdrive when he's late for work and Danny tells her he's MON at the doctor's. Clarissa accesses Brian's personnel files, MON searching for clues about his health and breeding prospects, MON and she discovers it's his birthday. She persuades Danny to MON help her plan a surprise party, but their schemes are MON disrupted by the arrival of Brian's elderly father, who is MON even more eccentric than his son. Meanwhile, Brian's new MON sinus tablets seem to be affecting him very strangely. MON MON Will Brian survive his birthday, and why have a stripper, a MON policeman and an alien arrived to help him celebrate it? MON MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Brian: Adrian Scarborough MON Danny: Amit Shah MON Clarissa: Morwenna Banks MON Producer: Anna Madley MON Writer: Paul Bassett Davies MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03bq9ks (Listen) MON Carbon Monoxide: The Silent Killer MON MON This week Scotland brings in a law which makes it compulsory MON to fit a carbon monoxide alarm if you install a new heater. MON So why doesn't the rest of the UK do the same? We'll also be MON looking at the millions of pounds being paid to solicitors MON who are making claims against NHS hospitals. And we go to MON Bristol, where in some streets, cars and motorbikes are MON banned so children can play safely on the streets. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03bppbc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03bqchb (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Publishing Lives b03bqchd (Listen) MON John Murray MON MON As the digital revolution shakes publishing to its MON foundations, writer and former publisher Robert McCrum MON explores the stories of five great British publishers. He MON looks back at their remarkable lives and asks what they can MON tell us about the challenges facing their successors today. MON MON The story of British book publishing is the story of taking MON ink and paper, words and ideas, to the people. It's a tale MON of incredible showmen, hustlers, mavericks, gamblers and MON talent scouts - people with a global vision and pioneers who MON found new ways to take books to a mass market. MON MON Robert starts with the John Murray publishing dynasty. In MON seven generations of John Murrays, the list of authors is a MON roll-call of English literature: Jane Austen, Lord Byron, MON Charles Darwin, Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, John MON Betjeman, and many more. MON MON In 1768 John Murray set up a publishing company, whose most MON celebrated author was Lord Byron. When Murray published his MON 'Childe Harold' in 1812, it was said that Byron 'woke up to MON find himself famous'. It was also the making of Murray the MON publisher. Yet Murray participated in one of the most MON notorious acts in publishing history when he burnt the MON manuscript of Byron's personal memoirs because he thought MON the scandalous details would damage Byron's reputation. MON MON During the Victorian age, through charm, luck and hard work, MON the second John Murray put himself at the centre of the MON literary scene and transformed his trade as a coarse MON bookseller into a profession for gentlemen. MON MON Robert meets the seventh and last John Murray, as well as MON experts in literature and publishing, to discuss one of the MON oldest publishing houses in Britain. MON MON Produced by Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03bq5ts (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00zdhzs (Listen) MON The Gun Goes to Hollywood MON MON The Pride and the Passion is Hollywood's 1957 adaptation of MON The Gun, by C S Forester. It's set in Spain during the MON Napoleonic wars and tells the story of Captain Anthony MON Trumbull, played by Cary Grant, a British military officer, MON who is ordered to retrieve an enormous cannon and transport MON it across Spain to the British lines, where it will be used MON to attack the French garrison at Avila. Guerrilla leader MON Miguel, played by Frank Sinatra, agrees to help, even though MON he despises the Englishman, and Miguel's feisty girlfriend MON Juana, played by Sophia Loren, comes with them. Along the MON way Juana falls in love with Trundall. But the film had a MON notoriously troubled set. Sinatra left the production early MON because of marriage difficulties with Ava Gardner, and MON Grant, then 53, fell in love with his co-star Loren, 23. MON Mike Walker's play imagines the behind-the-scenes ructions MON from the viewpoint of the script doctor, Earl Felton, who MON was drafted in to save the day. MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON Credits MON Earl Felton: Steven Weber MON Cary Grant: Gregory Itzin MON Sophia Loren: Kate Steele MON Frank Sinatra: Jonathan Silverman MON Stanley Kramer: Jonathan Getz MON Barman: Andre Sogliuzzo MON Gangster: Tom Virtue MON Writer: Mike Walker MON Director: Kate McAll MON Producer: Kate McAll MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b03bqchg (Listen) MON (3/12) MON 'Make a start by opening your mouth in the Mongolian desert, MON and with your fourth step you might encounter an operatic MON baritone. Can you explain?' MON MON Tom Sutcliffe will be asking the teams to do exactly that, MON in Round Britain Quiz. Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins MON return for the South of England, playing opposite Brian MON Feeney and Roisin McAuley of Northern Ireland, in the game MON of cryptic connections. MON MON As usual, several of the questions have been suggested by MON listeners, and you can play along by following the questions MON under today's date on the Round Britain Quiz pages of the MON BBC Radio 4 website. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03bpxxs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Walter Kershaw: The UK's First Street Artist? MON b01mk8zs (Listen) MON Years before the super-cool graffiti of Banksy and his ilk, MON guerrilla art was being pioneered on condemned buildings in MON Rochdale. Walter Kershaw brightened up bridges, transformed MON toilets and glorified gable-ends. His work was large scale. MON Poppies the size of a house and a portrait of Alvin Stardust MON that covered an old shop (it WAS the 1970s). MON MON Kershaw's art upset local authorities but delighted many MON locals. Wherever he painted he drew a crowd and soon MON residents were requesting him to paint their houses. He MON sought no fee and knew that his work would fade or be MON bulldozed, but he persisted. There were no slogans, no MON protests and nothing overtly political. This really was art MON for art's sake. MON MON Mark Hodkinson, who grew up around Rochdale, meets Walter MON and takes him back to his old haunts. He meets Walter's MON accomplices and the art historians who put his work in MON context. He discovers what makes Walter tick and what he MON thinks of the current crop of graffiti artists. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03bqchj (Listen) MON JRR Tolkien MON MON 40 years since the death of J.R.R. Tolkien many people MON remain as spell bound as ever by the richly detailed world MON he created in his epic works of fantasy fiction. The books MON are among the nations most loved and 150 million copies have MON been sold worldwide. The Peter Jackson films, first 'The MON Lord of the Ring' series and now 'The Hobbit', have been MON among the highest-grossing films of all time. MON MON What underlies this enduring appeal? Tolkien, a devout MON Catholic, described 'The Lord of the Ring' in a letter as "a MON fundamentally religious and Catholic work". MON MON How are we to interpret the theology of Tolkien's world of MON 'Elves' and 'Orcs', 'Froddo' and 'Gollum', darkness and MON light? How do we reconcile Catholic symbolism with the magic MON and mysticism that lean to a more pagan reading of his MON stories? And what do these epic battles of good versus evil MON tell us about Tolkien's own faith and world view? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the religious and philosophical MON nature of J.R.R. Tolkien's literary works are Joseph Pearce, MON writer in Residence and Fellow at Thomas More College and MON author of 'Tolkien: Man or Myth'. Ronald Hutton, Professor MON of History at Bristol University, specialising in ancient MON and medieval paganism and magic. And Rev Dr Alison Milbank, MON Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious MON Studies, Nottingham University and author of 'Chesterton and MON Tolkien as Theologians'. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b03bqchl (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bppbh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b03bqchn (Listen) MON Series 6, Watson, Fletcher, Blashford-Snell MON MON The Museum of Curiosity is the natural meeting place for MON entertaining experts and expert entertainers. This week, MON it's flinging open its doors, inaugurating a brand new wing MON of empty plinths is ready to receive 3 new exhibits. Our MON host is (as ever) the Professor of Ignorance, John Lloyd, MON and for this series he is joined by a new curator, the MON comedian Humphrey Ker. This week's generous donors are MON Egyptologist Prof. Joann Fletcher, who is presenting us with MON a hugely significant Roman coin; explorer Col. John MON Blashford-Snell, who brings a compass that led its owner the MON greatest one-liner in History; and the comedian Mark Watson, MON who is offering us something rather small and personal. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03bqchq (Listen) MON Alan's trying to be encouraging, and it's Emma to the MON rescue. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03bqd0q (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on Art Under Attack, an MON exhibition charting the history of physical attacks on MON art-works in the UK over the past 400 years, opening at Tate MON Britain. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03brkss (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Fear of the Brain Drain b039pf5h (Listen) MON Our elite universities claim that an alarming number of the MON most talented British youngsters are heading out of the MON country for their education, driven by the stick of domestic MON fees and the carrot of better facilities abroad. MON MON Meanwhile City banks say they have to pay enormous bonuses MON and wages to keep staff in a global market. MON MON What is the reality of the emigration of highly skilled MON people? MON MON Some research indicates that the UK has benefitted from a MON "brain gain" in the last decade, as young academics have MON returned here from abroad. Rod Liddle argues that we need to MON be sceptical of claims of a Brain Drain, which he says is MON used by all sides of the political debate for their own MON ends. Rod looks at the evidence, talks to the fleeing, the MON returning, the immigrants and the emigrants. MON MON Interviewees include former Chancellor of the Exchequer MON Nigel Lawson, and businessman Martin Sorrell who has MON received vociferous criticism for his own pay packages. MON MON Producer: Steve Kyte MON A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03bqfwv (Listen) MON Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Why Did They Fail? MON MON Barely a year after Egypt's post-revolution elections were MON held, millions of protestors took to the streets to demand MON the resignation of President Mohammed Morsi. After a short MON stand-off with army leaders, he was removed from power in MON what many describe as a coup d'etat. MON MON The subsequent clashes between Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood MON supporters and security forces have proved violent and MON bloody and the country is once again being governed by the MON military - but what were the events which closed this short MON chapter in the fledgling Egyptian democracy? MON MON Christopher de Bellaigue speaks to insiders from across MON Egypt's political spectrum to reveal the mistakes and MON power-plays which led to the downfall of the country's first MON democratically elected president. MON MON Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. MON Syria and the New Lines in the Sand MON Green Shoots from the Arab Spring MON The Alawis MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03bds3r (Listen) MON Elephant Poaching in Africa MON MON Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at MON the crunch point between human population and the natural MON world. In this programme a field report from Saba MON Douglas-Hamilton of Save the Elephants from the Samburu MON National Park in Kenya. Saba sees first-hand the sight of an MON elephant shot for its ivory. From Kenya, Monty Don explores MON some of the wider issues in Africa with David Western, MON Chairman of the Africa Conservation Centre in Kenya, ex MON Director of the Kenyan Wildlife Service and Adjunct MON Professor at University of California, San Diego. With many MON commentators and scientists saying the end markets for ivory MON are too large to supply from legally traded ivory, what MON argument will save elephants from the huge market incentive MON to kill elephants for their ivory? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03bq6jd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03bppbk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03bqfwx (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03bqfwz (Listen) MON Solo, Episode 1 MON MON It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly MON motivated by revenge. MON MON A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to MON single-handedly stop a civil war in a small West African MON nation. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the MON local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which MON compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand MON of justice. MON MON Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington DC, where he MON discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh MON horrors. MON MON Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with MON two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment. MON MON Written by William Boyd, who is the author of one work of MON non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen MON novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller MON Restless - winner of the Costa Novel of the Year - and Any MON Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. MON Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, MON the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial MON Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a fellow of the Royal MON Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et MON des Lettres. In 2005 he was awarded the CBE. MON MON Solo - a James Bond novel written by William Boyd. Copyright MON Ian Fleming Publications Limited 2013 MON MON Reader: Paterson Joseph MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Verse Illustrated b0132l7v (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Verse Illustrated is a new series of short story poems by MON some of the UK's leading spoken word artists, illustrated MON with sound and music. Each is narrated by its author, in MON their own distinctive style. And each takes us on a very MON different late night journey. MON MON In the first of the series, Laura Dockrill and Polar Bear MON tell two very different stories. MON MON 'Earwig' written and performed by Laura Dockrill MON A darkly modern fairy tale. When Mrs Budge attempts to MON squash an earwig, it grows in size until: "He, giant like MON for a bug, is less of an earwig and more like a thug". MON MON 'Homebase' written and performed by Polar Bear MON A tale of two teenage friends at a party they'll never MON forget: "We went to cubs together, snuck into pubs together, MON dabbled in drugs together and now and then we blend in at MON uni student parties." MON MON Actors... Alex Tregear, Daniel Rabin, Peter Polycarpou, Carl MON Prekopp, Susie Riddell and Jonathan Forbes. MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON MON 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b01p0s13 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON By Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson MON MON The romantic correspondence between two of history's most MON important horses: Napoleon's mount Marengo and the Duke of MON Wellington's own Copenhagen. This second series picks up the MON story of the two lovers sundered by fate as Napoleon returns MON from Elba. Their letters speak eloquently of love, loss, MON jealousy and nuts. MON MON Marengo: Stephen Fry MON Copenhagen: Daniel Rigby MON Narrator: Tamsin Greig MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON Writer: Marie Phillips MON Writer: Robbie Hudson MON MON 23:30 With Great Pleasure b036twt3 (Listen) MON Lenny Henry MON MON Actor and comedian Lenny Henry chooses his favourite MON readings, from Othello to 'Small Island'. MON MON Each piece triggers thoughts about his life and the words MON that have mattered to him, from plays he's performed to MON writers he loves. MON MON Including extracts from Chinua Achebe's classic 'Things Fall MON Apart', Neil Gaiman's 'Anansi Boys' and his current show MON 'Fences'. MON MON Recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre, with reader Nadine MON Marshall and Jude Akuwudike. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 OCTOBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03bppcs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03byzzf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bppcv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bppcx (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bppcz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03bppd1 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03c78v5 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon TUE Simon Doogan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03bqw3v (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Anna Jones. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkc26 (Listen) TUE Redwing TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the TUE Redwing. The soft thin 'seep' calls of redwings as they fly TUE over at night are as much a part of autumn as falling TUE leaves, damp pavements and the smoke of bonfires. In winter TUE up to a million redwings pour into our islands, most of them TUE from Scandinavia and Iceland. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03bqw3x (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b03bqw3z (Listen) TUE Jenny Graves TUE TUE Australian geneticist Jenny Graves discusses her life TUE pursuing sex genes in her country's weird but wonderful TUE fauna, the end of men and singing to her students in TUE lectures. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03bqw41 (Listen) TUE Pallab Ghosh talks to Bob Greig TUE TUE In this series of One to One, where broadcasters pursue TUE topics that interest them beyond their day to day job, BBC TUE science correspondent Pallab Ghosh finds out more about the TUE way fathers and daughters interact - a subject that's TUE fascinated him since the birth of his daughter 5 years ago. TUE In the first programme of two, he talks to lone parent Bob TUE Greig about his experiences of fatherhood, especially when TUE it was something that was thrust upon him by the breakdown TUE of his marriage when his daughters were young. TUE TUE Producer: Sally Heaven. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03c31f0 (Listen) TUE Beowulf, Episode 2 TUE TUE Beowulf arrives in the land of the Shieldings and explains TUE his mission to Hrothgar, the Danish King. TUE TUE Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. TUE Radio Drama North. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Seamus Heaney TUE Producer: Susan Roberts TUE Author: Seamus Heaney TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03bqw43 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03bq9cy (Listen) TUE The Pillow Book: Time and Change, Episode 2 TUE TUE Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! But this time, TUE not together... TUE TUE Written by Robert Forrest. TUE TUE Directed by Lu Kemp. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03bqws7 (Listen) TUE Religion and Nature TUE TUE The world human population is increasing and although in TUE some parts of the world increased secularism is reported, TUE nevertheless more people on earth are affiliated to a TUE religion than not. Can the major religions of the world play TUE a role in conserving the natural world? Monty Don explores TUE how religious teachings might help people get more involved TUE in conservation. In southern India the city of Bangalore is TUE the third most populous city in India and one of the fastest TUE growing. As the city expands to accommodate new migrants TUE from the surrounding countryside the nearby national park - TUE Bannerghatta - is under pressure. People now live in the TUE buffer zone that was designed to separate people and TUE wildlife. Elephants now regularly damage crops and farmland TUE as their traditional sites are settled by people. The TUE Christian based conservation organisation A Rocha has TUE established a programme in Bannerghatta to both help the TUE people who are losing their livelihood and the elephants who TUE are being poisoned and persecuted. Can this example be TUE replicated around the world where wildlife and people come TUE into conflict? Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker and Bishop James TUE Jones join Monty to explore how religion and conservation TUE fit together. TUE TUE 11:30 The Night Visiting b03bqws9 (Listen) TUE The award-winning folk musician Tim van Eyken has travelled TUE the world performing traditional songs. He also works in the TUE theatre and was the Song Man in the National Theatre's TUE production of 'War Horse'. One of the first songs he ever TUE heard, from his mother, was 'The Bay of Biscay'. In this a TUE woman is visited in the night by her lover, returned after TUE seven years at sea. It turns out that he was drowned, the TUE visitor is his ghost... and he cannot stay. TUE TUE There are many varieties of night visiting song: tales of TUE seduction; stories of deception, when the visitor turns out TUE not to be the expected lover; and songs of ghostly TUE visitation. TUE TUE In 'The Night Visiting' Tim probes the history, meaning and TUE significance of these songs. He talks to the singer Martin TUE Carthy about their power. Dr Vic Gammon sets them in their TUE international context - there are in Europe dawn songs. He TUE hears from Bella Hardy; the first song she ever wrote was a TUE new night visiting song. TUE TUE Tim believes that the night visiting songs are more than old TUE yarns; that they speak to us today of desire, love and loss TUE - and sexual and class politics. He tests his ideas with the TUE Jungian psychotherapist, Warren Colman. Professor Chris TUE French, who researches the paranormal, and film-maker Carla TUE MacKinnon, who have both been working on sleep paralysis, TUE consider the psychology of the songs, what might actually be TUE happening to the people in them. TUE TUE Tim considers, too, how the night visiting is a trope in our TUE literature. Isn't the balcony scene in 'Romeo and Juliet' a TUE night visit? What of Cathy in 'Wuthering Heights'? TUE Throughout, we hear beautiful, haunting, night visiting TUE songs, performed by the people Tim speaks to, and taken from TUE archive recordings. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03bqwsc (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03bppd3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03br27g (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Publishing Lives b03bs6z3 (Listen) TUE Allen Lane TUE TUE Allen Lane left school at 16 and had no university TUE education, yet he was fascinated by learning and education, TUE ideas and argument. His revolutionary innovation was to TUE produce a series of inexpensive books, in paper covers, at TUE sixpence apiece - the price of a packet of cigarettes. It TUE was an idea which came to him when, returning from visiting TUE Agatha Christie in the West Country, he could find nothing TUE worth reading on the Exeter railway station bookstall. TUE TUE Allen Lane's brainwave - the Penguin - was the biggest TUE single innovation in books of the twentieth century. TUE Households across Britain began sprouting those colour-coded TUE spines. Lane's Penguin books revolutionised publishing and TUE changed people's lives. TUE TUE Allen Lane's populist instincts told him that post-war TUE Britain was hungry for knowledge. Central to post-war TUE renewal, Penguin titles eventually sold 250 million copies. TUE But he never dumbed down. His Pelican titles, specially TUE commissioned non-fiction, became an informal university for TUE 1950s Britons. Pelicans, said Lane, were "another form of TUE education for people like me who left school at sixteen." TUE TUE Lane was a great innovator and a great risk taker. In 1960 TUE he took the biggest risk of all by publishing the infamous TUE 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', which had become almost a byword TUE for pornography. In publishing the novel, Lane deliberately TUE risked prosecution. TUE TUE Penguin, that jaunty little bird from the twentieth century, TUE survives in the new century, still one of the most TUE recognised publishing brands in the English-speaking world. TUE TUE Robert McCrum meets Allen Lane's daughters, as well as TUE experts in literature and publishing, to discuss the man who TUE brought books to the mass market. TUE TUE Producer: Melissa Fitzgerald TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03bqchq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03br3bp (Listen) TUE Man in the Moon TUE TUE Linda Marshall Griffiths' bittersweet love story told from TUE two perspectives across five different encounters. TUE TUE At Glastonbury Festival Scarlet is hiding from Joe. Joe has TUE found her after years of searching and he is not about to TUE give up now and walk away. It was love at first sight when TUE Joe and Scarlet met but eighteen year old Joe was taking a TUE motorbike around Africa and seventeen year old Scarlet TUE wanted to be a drummer in a band; life took them in TUE different directions. Now sixteen years later will their TUE stories come together? TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE Credits TUE Scarlet: Christine Bottomley TUE Joe: William Ash TUE Older Freddie: Oliver Lee TUE Younger Freddie: Lorenzo Rodriguez TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE Producer: Nadia Molinari TUE Writer: Linda Marshall Griffiths TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b03brkdq (Listen) TUE Series 4, Hush TUE TUE Josie Long presents a series of short documentaries about TUE keeping quiet, being lost for words and complete silence. TUE TUE From the crushing silence after a musician's mistake to the TUE tense hush that surrounds two teenage boys as they hide TUE inches from their headmaster in an oversized box - tales of TUE attempts to keep quiet and the struggle to raise your voice. TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE Wilderness TUE Feat. Kate Adie TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE TUE Hidden TUE Feat. Kester Brewin TUE TUE Sailing By TUE Feat. Pete Long and Diana Speed TUE Produced by Leo Hornak TUE TUE Nobody Else Can Hear It TUE Feat. Jack Davidson TUE Produced by Hana Walker-Brown TUE TUE Hearing Voices TUE Feat. Kate Adie TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE TUE El's Story TUE Produced by Natalie Kestecher TUE Originally broadcast in 'Stories of Silence' on ABC TUE http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/silence/el/ TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b03brkds (Listen) TUE The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change TUE TUE Tom Heap reports on the latest findings of the TUE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. TUE TUE The last report from the IPCC was published in 2007. Costing TUE The Earth discovers what has changed since then and what the TUE indications are for the global climate over the next few TUE decades. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Keeping It Real b03brkdv (Listen) TUE Anyone who prefers Jake Bugg to Harry Styles or Laura TUE Marling to Lana del Rey; anyone who knows the farm that TUE grows the beef they eat, wears vintage clothing, shops only TUE locally or has ever been to Bhutan on holiday will know they TUE belong to a very modern tribe - the Authenticity Seekers. TUE TUE Comedy writer Jane Bussmann takes a personal tour round her TUE life choices to ask why we are obsessed with authenticity. TUE Is it a noble cause or another type of status seeking? TUE TUE She's joined by Giles Coren on the trail of real food, by TUE writer David Boyle on his allotment, by Hugh Barker who TUE turns her ideas about authentic music upside down, and by TUE smart philosophical thinkers Julian Baginni and Andrew TUE Potter who explain some of the origins and the dangers of TUE this contemporary cult. TUE TUE From New York we hear from NYTimes journalist Alessandra TUE Stanley about our ability as audiences to determine what's TUE real and what's fake. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03brkdx (Listen) TUE Series 31, Al Murray on Bernard Montgomery TUE TUE "In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable" - so said TUE Winston Churchill on this week's Great Live, Field Marshal TUE Bernard Law Montgomery. Many would argue that he was TUE Britain's greatest field commander since Wellington - TUE arrogant, hard to like but undeniably successful - one of TUE the most, perhaps the most, conspicuously successful British TUE commander of the Second World War. He was a national TUE celebrity. In this edition of Great Lives - Al Murray - TUE comedian and TV personality best known for his character of TUE 'The Pub Landlord' champions Monty - and Al starts off by TUE showing presenter Matthew Parris his action figure doll of TUE the man. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03brkdz (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bppd7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03brkf1 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE TUE John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, TUE regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things TUE like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit TUE sketch show. TUE TUE The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by TUE The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny TUE sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The TUE second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and TUE Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. TUE TUE This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches TUE about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how TUE goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate TUE instead on the the big, serious issues. TUE TUE This fifth episode of the series reveals the truth behind TUE some famous anecdotes and a curious tale of a hard-bitten TUE dame. Part of this show are in 3-D. Unfortunately, it's a TUE horrible part. TUE TUE Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. TUE TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03brkf3 (Listen) TUE Clarrie's supportive, and Tom's getting ready to party. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03brkf5 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who talks to actor David Tennant and TUE director Gregory Doran, as they rehearse a new production of TUE Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company, opening in TUE Stratford. TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03bq9cy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03brkvp (Listen) TUE Electricity Prices: A Shock to the System? TUE TUE The Government wants more wind power and nuclear energy to TUE supply our electricity, but how well is it delivering that TUE plan? In Scotland where conditions for renewable sources are TUE good, there's been a rush to cash in on generous subsidies TUE for wind farms. But the infrastructure can't cope so TUE companies are also being paid handsomely to dump the energy TUE they produce. And, deals which include subsidies are being TUE concluded behind closed doors between Government officials TUE and the nuclear industry for a new generation of power TUE stations. What's this going to add to our fuel bills? Allan TUE Urry investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03brkvr (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03brkvt (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b03bqw3z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03bppdc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03brkz9 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03bx9s7 (Listen) TUE Solo, Episode 2 TUE TUE Reader: Paterson Joseph TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 He Died with His Eyes Open b03brkzc (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE By Derek Raymond TUE Adapted by Nick Perry TUE TUE Burn Gorman plays a detective investigating a brutal murder TUE in 1980s London. He has little to go on except for the TUE cassette diaries left by the victim, played by Toby Jones. TUE Fragments of his life, recorded at different times, punch TUE through into the present, and supply the detective with TUE elusive clues to the true nature of the man's fate. TUE TUE Director - Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Sound design by Caleb Knightley. TUE TUE Credits TUE The Detective: Burn Gorman TUE Staniland: Toby Jones TUE Barbara: Tanya Franks TUE Bowman: Ben Crowe TUE Grampian: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Betty: Christine Absalom TUE Landlord: Sean Murray TUE Pathologist: Ed Thorpe TUE Scar: Will Howard TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Adaptor: Nick Perry TUE Author: Derek Raymond TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b0375byw (Listen) TUE Hannah Gordon TUE TUE Actress Hannah Gordon chooses her favourite readings, TUE including poems by Joyce Grenfell, Noel Coward and Wendy TUE Cope. There's Hannah's party piece, Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 TUE 'Shall I compare the to a summer's day?' and a sparkling TUE extract from 'Shirley Valentine'. TUE TUE Recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre with readers Michael TUE Pennington and Eleanor Bron. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 OCTOBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03bppg2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03c31f0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bppg4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bppg6 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bppg8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03bppgb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03c7bjl (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon WED Simon Doogan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03brnr2 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Jules Benham. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkc54 (Listen) WED Red-Legged Partridge WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the WED Red-legged Partridge. The red-legged partridge, which are WED sometimes called French partridges, are native to WED Continental Europe and were successfully introduced to the WED UK as a game bird in the 18th century. Seen from a distance, WED crouching in an arable field, they look like large clods of WED earth, but up close they have beautiful plumage. WED WED 06:00 Today b03brnr4 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03brnr6 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED Producer: Paula McGinley WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03c31kp (Listen) WED Beowulf, Episode 3 WED WED Beowulf's first encounter with the evil monster Grendel. WED Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. WED Radio Drama North. WED WED Reader: Seamus Heaney WED Producer: Susan Roberts WED Author: Seamus Heaney WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03brnrb (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03brnrd (Listen) WED The Pillow Book: Time and Change, Episode 3 WED WED Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! But this time, WED not together... WED WED Written by Robert Forrest. WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED 11:00 The Young Devolutionaries b03brnrg (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED They are the generation who have grown up under devolution WED and a vote for Scottish independence is just around the WED corner. Now, nine young people from Scotland, Northern WED Ireland and Wales come together at the Edinburgh Festival of WED Politics to share their vision of their home countries. WED World expert on social inclusive art Jeremy Weller will be WED their mentor as they attempt to tell the story of their WED lives through a theatre performance. How do they feel about WED their national identity? Where do they fit in and what sets WED them apart? WED Aasmah Mir will chart their progress as observers such as WED Polly Toynbee and academics from each nation drop in to meet WED them and give their insight on this devolution generation, WED but the clock is ticking - not just for the young people as WED they approach show-time but perhaps for the Union itself?... WED Presenter/ Asmah Mir, Producers/ Steven Rajam, Esme Kennedy WED and Conor Garrett for the BBC. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b03brnrj (Listen) WED Series 2, The Intangible Clue WED WED By Anna Katharine Green WED WED Dramatised By Chris Harrald. WED WED Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock WED Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a WED chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He WED continues with gifted amateur sleuth Lady Violet Strange WED trying to solve a horrific murder with apparently no clues. WED WED Producer: Liz Webb. WED WED Credits WED Lestrade: Tim Pigott-Smith WED Lady Violet: Jeany Spark WED Treadwell: Sean Murray WED Mrs Amberly: Cassie Layton WED Mr Amberly: David Seddon WED Mr Hutton: Ben Crowe WED Author: Anna Katharine Green WED Adaptor: Chris Harrald WED Producer: Liz Webb WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03brql7 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03bppgg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03brql9 (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Publishing Lives b03bs759 (Listen) WED Harold Macmillan WED WED As the digital revolution shakes publishing to its WED foundations, writer and former publisher Robert McCrum WED explores how Harold Macmillan, the publishing Prime WED Minister, mixed politics with business. WED WED Harold Macmillan was always a publisher and a politician. In WED both lives, he was a showman, an operator, and an inveterate WED reader. Print was in his DNA and books were his business. As WED a Conservative Prime Minister, he was also a successful WED publisher with the firm that carried his name. WED WED The firm was founded in 1843 by two outsiders. Brothers WED Daniel and Alexander Macmillan were Scottish crofters. It's WED a story whose romantic undertones always stirred Harold WED Macmillan's love of a good tale. WED WED Under Harold, Macmillan would become a publishing empire WED with a worldwide reach. As Prime Minister, Macmillan gave WED independence to Britain's African colonies. Officially, he WED was letting go. As a publisher, however, he was doing WED lucrative deals to secure the company's future. WED Simultaneously with decolonisation, Macmillan oversaw an WED ambitious expansion programme for the family firm. Macmillan WED remains one of the largest publishers in the world, WED operating in over seventy countries. WED WED Today, the digital revolution has made publishing truly WED global. A world without borders, largely de-coupled from its WED colonial past. Publishers can now reach new markets across WED the English-speaking world at the click of a mouse, in a way WED Harold Macmillan could only dream of. WED WED Robert meets Harold Macmillan's grandson, Lord Stockton, as WED well as experts in literature and publishing, to discuss the WED wily publishing Prime Minister. WED WED Produced by Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03brkf3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03bsbgg (Listen) WED Nothing Happened WED WED NOTHING HAPPENED by Nick Hoare WED WED They have partners who are friends, children who are friends WED and friends who are friends. So Tom and Alice agree that WED their affair can never happen. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Tom: David Seddon WED Alice: Priyanga Burford WED Jill: Susie Riddell WED Ben: Mark Bonnar WED Writer: Nick Hoare WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03brqlc (Listen) WED Welfare Benefits WED WED Having trouble applying for Welfare Benefits? Let Paul Lewis WED and guests help with claims and advice. Call 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Benefits worth billions of pounds remain unclaimed each WED year, yet the Child Poverty Action Group estimate that 3.5 WED million children live in poverty in the UK and Age UK say 1 WED in 3 older people fail to claim the pension credit they're WED entitled to. WED WED If you want to check that you're not missing out on WED financial help why not contact our team. WED WED Or perhaps you have a question about the rapidly changing WED benefit system, the Spare Room Subsidy, Personal WED Independence Payments, Universal Credit or the Benefits Cap. WED WED Maybe you're affected by the High Income Child Benefit WED charge, do you need to take action? WED WED To help you make sense of welfare benefits Paul Lewis will WED be joined by: WED WED Jean French, Head of Advice and Information, Carers UK WED Eddy Graham, Advice and Rights Manager, CPAG WED Alban Hawksworth, Welfare Benefits Specialist, Turn2us WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03brkvt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03brqlf (Listen) WED Slum Tourism WED WED Slum Tourism - the transformation of impoverished WED neighbourhoods into attractions for international tourists. WED Laurie Taylor talks to the sociologist, Bianca WED Freire-Medeiros, about 'Touring Poverty', her study of WED Rocinha, a district in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as WED "the largest favela in Latin America." She talked to tour WED operators, guides, tourists and residents to explore the WED ethical and political questions raised by selling a glimpse WED into other peoples' poverty. Professor of Tourism WED Mobilities, Kevin Hannam, joins the discussion. Also, WED 'eating the world' - the geographer, Emily Falconer, WED discusses her research into the food driven impulses of WED backpacking tourists. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03brqlh (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b03brqlk (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bppgl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Fresh from the Fringe b03brqlm (Listen) WED Fresh from the Fringe: 2013 WED WED Mark Watson hosts a showcase of up-and-coming comic talent WED from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, recorded at Bush Hall in WED London. WED WED Featuring a mixture of performers who have never appeared on WED Radio 4 before (Phil Wang, Tim Renkow, Ellie White, Liam WED Williams), along with one or two names you might already WED recognise (Romesh Ranganathan - "28 Dates Later", Aisling WED Bea - "Irish Micks and Legends"), Fresh From the Fringe is WED our pick of the people who made us laugh this August. WED WED This programme is an edited highlights show of a live gig WED hosted by Radio 4 at Bush Hall on 18th September 2013. A WED filmed programme - featuring different edited highlights - WED will be playing out on the Red Button service throughout WED this week, and material from all the acts will be available WED to view on the Fresh From the Fringe website. WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03brqlq (Listen) WED Rosa has an unwelcome visitor, and Kenton has to take a WED stand. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03brqls (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actress WED Saoirse Ronan, who stars in the film How I Live Now, based WED on the book by Meg Rosoff. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03brnrd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b03brqlv (Listen) WED Instant Justice WED WED A sharp rise in the use of on the spot fines, penalty WED notices for disorder, cautioning, and other "out of court WED disposals" has raised concerns that the criminal justice WED system is being circumvented and undermined. WED WED More than 50% of all offences are now dealt with outside of WED the courts. Clive Anderson brings together leading lawyers, WED a senior magistrate and a chief constable to discuss the WED developments. WED WED Penalty notices for disorder and fixed penalty notices mean WED police and other officials can bypass time-consuming and WED costly court cases for less serious offences, but they are WED also able to "find people guilty" and mete out punishment WED without legal checks and balances. According to some WED critics, criminal offences such as harassment and disorderly WED conduct are being dealt with "like a parking ticket". WED WED The number of on-the-spot fines issued by public authorities WED has increased 16-fold in the last decade, for offences such WED as leafleting and dog-fouling, and the number of fixed WED penalty notices issued by police, local authorities and WED schools has also increased dramatically. Meanwhile, Justice WED Secretary Chris Grayling has initiated a consultation about WED the frequent and inconsistent use of police cautions, often WED for very serious offences. WED WED What does it mean for justice in Britain when criminal WED offences which were once tried in a court room are now dealt WED with on-the-spot, with the "offenders" unable to argue their WED case, or the public able to see justice done? And to what WED extent do these untested "crimes" lay on a police computer, WED accessible during CRB checks? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03brt2x (Listen) WED Series 4, Language Is Power WED WED Author and broadcaster Lindsay Johns argues that language is WED power, and makes the case for speaking English properly. WED WED Lindsay, who has mentored young people in Peckham, south WED London, for years, believes that street slang and what he WED calls 'ghetto grammar' disempower and limit the life chances WED of those who speak it. WED WED And he says that those who make excuses for this language, WED or argue that it is good for young people, are really just WED encouraging them to ostracize themselves even further from WED mainstream society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03brkds (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03brnr6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03bppgq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03brt2z (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03bx9tv (Listen) WED Solo, Episode 3 WED WED Reader: Paterson Joseph WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b03brt31 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel tries to get his online music lessons up and running WED but finds himself hampered by an inability to speak WED Portuguese. Meanwhile, with the Arts Centre having been WED commandeered as a refuge for local flood victims, Belinda is WED attempting to keep four hundred wet members of the public WED from dripping on the carpet. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Lee: Jim North WED Sebastian: Dave Lamb WED Louis: Sam Katz WED Louis's Mum: Jess Robinson WED Beverley: Jess Robinson WED Xavier: Arcindo Guimaraes WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 It Is Rocket Science b01hkz33 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Helen Keen stars alongside Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane WED for a second series of the factually-correct but funny WED exploration of the science and history of space travel. This WED week examines the Fermi paradox - if the universe is really WED infinite it should contain infinite life, and yet we have WED had no contact from alien civilisations. It also takes a WED look at different ideas through history of what life might WED be like on other planets, and some of the more surprising WED suggestions scientists have had on how to get in touch with WED it, from giant burning parallelograms in the Sahara to WED sending nude pictures into space.... WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Garth Edwards. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Helen Keen WED Actor: Peter Serafinowicz WED Actor: Susy Kane WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED Writer: Helen Keen WED Writer: Miriam Underhill WED WED 23:30 With Great Pleasure b037smxx (Listen) WED Barry Cryer WED WED Comedy guru Barry Cryer, star of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, WED chooses some of his favourite pieces of writing to present WED to an audience, with the help of readers Bernard Cribbins WED and Sheila Steafel. WED It's a funny and personal mix, from books that have both WED given him pleasure and marked significant events over the WED years, including works by JB Priestley, John Betjeman, Alan WED Bennett, Ogden Nash and Phyllis Diller. WED WED Producer Beth O'Dea. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 OCTOBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03bppjk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03c31kp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bppjm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bppjp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bppjr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03bppjt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03c7f0q (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon THU Simon Doogan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03brwqg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Jules Benham. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkcwq (Listen) THU Eider THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Eider. THU Eiders are northern sea-ducks perhaps most famous for the THU soft breast feathers with which they line their nests. These THU feathers were collected by eider farmers and used to fill THU pillows and traditional 'eider -downs'. Drake eiders display THU to the females with odd moaning calls which you can hear in THU the programme. THU THU 06:00 Today b03brwqj (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03brwql (Listen) THU Exoplanets THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss exoplanets. THU Astronomers have speculated about the existence of planets THU beyond our solar system for centuries. Although strenuous THU efforts were made to find such planets orbiting distant THU stars, it was not until the 1990s that instruments became THU sophisticated enough to detect such remote objects. In 1992 THU Dale Frail and Aleksander Wolszczan discovered the first THU confirmed exoplanets: two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR THU B1257+12. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than THU 900 exoplanets, and are able to reach increasingly THU sophisticated conclusions about what they look like - and THU whether they might be able to support life. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03c31lq (Listen) THU Beowulf, Episode 4 THU THU Hrothgar, King of the Danes, hosts a victory feast to THU celebrate Beowulf's defeat of the evil monster Grendel. THU THU Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU Radio Drama North. THU THU Reader: Seamus Heaney THU Producer: Susan Roberts THU Author: Seamus Heaney THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03brwqn (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03brwqq (Listen) THU The Pillow Book: Time and Change, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Robert Forrest. THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03brwqs (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Nobody's N-Word b03brwqv (Listen) THU In late 2011 Dean Atta caused an online stir with a poem THU written as a response to the conviction of Stephen THU Lawrence's killers. THU THU "I am Nobody's Nigger" became the title of his debut poetry THU collection - and also his calling card. In this programme, THU Dean interrogates his viewpoint on one of the most THU controversial words in the English language, as the debate THU around its place on the streets, in music and in popular THU culture refuses to go away. THU THU Focusing on his own experience in the UK, Dean has a series THU of conversations with young people, academics, activists, THU rappers and his peers to compare contemporary reactions to THU the n-word. Dean meets former Black Panther Darcus Howe, THU sociologist Emma Dabiri, the rapper TY, the comedian THU Reginald D Hunter, fellow poet Inua Ellams and the DJs at THU youth radio station Reprezent 107.3FM to discover that, in THU 2013, 'nigger' is still a word provoking complicated and THU emotive debate. THU THU Why is Dean so uncomfortable using it, when many of those THU around him aren't? What do we understand of its history? Can THU it ever be reclaimed or de-fanged? Should we even be talking THU about it? THU THU In these personal and sometimes challenging encounters, Dean THU is asked to consider the motivation behind his provocative THU poem and whether his opinion has changed since writing it. THU THU Produced by Rebecca Maxted and Tom Whalley. THU A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03brwqx (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03bppjy (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03brwqz (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Publishing Lives b03bs78d (Listen) THU George Weidenfeld THU THU Writer and former publisher, Robert McCrum meets George THU Weidenfeld to talk about his extraordinary publishing life. THU THU Weidenfeld left his native Austria at the time of the THU Anschluss in 1938, the last survivor of a remarkable band of THU European émigrés - including André Deutsch, Paul Hamlyn and THU Ernest Hecht - who transformed the clubby world of British THU publishing after the Second World War. THU THU Gambler, opportunist, intellectual, socialite, and still THU working at 94, Weidenfeld is a living witness to the changes THU that have taken place in British publishing over the last THU century. THU THU In 1955, the exiled Russian author Vladimir Nabokov's novel THU 'Lolita' was published in Paris. Graham Greene had THU recognised it as a masterpiece, but in England the story of THU an obsessive sexual relationship between a 12-year-old girl THU and a middle-aged man was too hot to handle. THU THU Only Weidenfeld, an outsider standing apart from the Fifties THU cultural consensus, dared to take the gamble and defy the THU censor. 'Lolita' became Weidenfeld's first bestseller - THU 200,000 copies in hardback alone. It was a milestone for his THU publishing house and for English literature. THU THU Featuring George Weidenfeld and Lady Antonia Fraser. THU THU Produced by Melissa FitzGerald THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03brqlq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03brwr1 (Listen) THU Imaginary Boys THU THU By Paul Magrs. THU A fantastical tale of teenage love and close encounters. THU THU 17 year-old David Taylor begins to see the world in a THU different light when he meets Lawrence. Lawrence is new in THU town, new to earth actually - he claims to be from Verbatim THU 6, a small planet about three hundred light years away. A THU strange but very real story of a burgeoning teenage THU relationship, with all the fear and confusion that goes with THU it. THU THU Paul Magrs is a scriptwriter and novelist, whose writing has THU been described by The Guardian as 'gloriously, zanily THU ludicrous... unique, idiosyncratic and unclassifiable...' THU His hugely-popular series of Brenda and Effie novels were THU adapted for BBC7 in 2008 as a three-part mini-series (Never THU the Bride), whilst previous commissions for Radio 4 include THU Life After Mars, Sunseeker and The Longsight Branch. THU THU Directed by Scott Handcock THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU David: James Baxter THU Lawrence: Geoffrey Breton THU Mam: Jill Halfpenny THU Dad: Daniel Brocklebank THU Simon: Daniel Brocklebank THU Robert: Liam Dascombe THU Director: Scott Handcock THU Writer: Paul Magrs THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b03bs0z2 (Listen) THU Series 25, Durham with Maggie and Keith Bell THU THU Clare Balding is in Durham for today's edition of Radio4's THU walking series, when she joins Maggie and Keith Bell. They THU take her on one of their favourite routes from their home, THU Crook Hall, through the outskirts of the city and along the THU river. The couple now use walking as a time to catch up, THU hold business meetings and relive memories of their THU courtship, when they both arrived in the city over thirty THU years ago as students. THU THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03bpxxg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03bq5tl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03bs0z4 (Listen) THU James McAvoy on Filth; Kevin MacDonald on How I Live Now; THU Dexter Fletcher on Sunshine on Leith THU THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03bs0z6 (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b03bs0z8 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bppk0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01ng89q (Listen) THU Series 5, Turn Around Dave Eyes THU THU More shop-based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy THU courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. THU THU The staff of Fags, Mags and Bags continue their tireless THU quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke THU with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh THU Mahju has built the business up over 30 years and loves the THU art of the shop. However, he does apply the "low return" THU rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. Then THU there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not THU keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but Ramesh THU is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them whether THU they like it or not! THU THU In this episode, Dave embraces internet dating and gets THU close to someone who is passing themselves off as 80s rock THU goddess Bonnie Tyler. Meanwhile Ramesh has a wobble about THU his Meat Loaf date with Malcolm as it falls on a delicate THU family anniversary. THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave: Donald McLeary THU Sanjay: Omar Raza THU Alok: Susheel Kumar THU Malcolm: Mina Anwar THU Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns THU Keith Futures: Gavin Mitchell THU Mrs Begg: Marjory Hogarth THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU Writer: Sanjeev Kohli THU Writer: Donald McLeary THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03bs0zb (Listen) THU Jill tries to be sensitive, and Lynda has her heart set on THU something. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03bs0zd (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including an interview with sitar player THU Anoushka Shankar, who reflects on her new album, which THU features three songs recorded with her half-sister Norah THU Jones. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03brwqq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03bs384 (Listen) THU Help to Buy THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU Housing Benefit Cuts THU How is Social Housing Allocated? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03bs386 (Listen) THU Big Data THU THU Big data has become big business as improvements in computer THU memory storage have made it possible to keep and analyse THU digital data on a scale previously unknown. Evan Davis and THU guests discuss how the ability to store information about us THU has created new industries and transformed others. THU THU Presenter: Evan Davis THU THU Guests: Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer and Director THU of Search, Microsoft UK; Konrad Feldman, CEO Quantcast; THU Lawrence Jones, Founder UK Fast. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03bs0z6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03brwql (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03bppk2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03bs3tc (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03bx6qy (Listen) THU Solo, Episode 4 THU THU Reader: Paterson Joseph THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Seekers b03bs3tf (Listen) THU The New Seeker THU THU Stuart (Mathew Horne) an employee of the job centre who is THU made redundant and is faced with the belittling scenario of THU returning to the place where he worked to find employment THU through people he's pretty sure he can do the job better THU than. He didn't really care about the job very much, but he THU was happy, well, not happy, he was content to work there, THU especially because of Senior Job Seeker Advisor, Nicola THU (Zahra Ahmadi) who he had a one night stand with during half THU time of the England Vs. Portugal game in 2006 and still THU holds out for a relationship to blossom even though it's THU been over seven years and she has shown no sign of wanting THU to. THU THU Now stuck on the other side of the desk with the unemployed, THU Stuart is reunited with Joe (Daniel Mays) and Terry (Tony THU Way) two old school friends that Stuart outgrew eons ago. THU THU Seekers, is about the characters that regularly frequent a THU Job Centre in the Essex town of Rayleigh. Be it the THU unfulfilled or aspirational staff that work there, or the THU mixture of jobless people from every walk of life, some THU desperate to get back to work, some trying their best to THU never have to work at all. THU THU We listen into the mundane, pointless and sometimes THU bewildering conversations, the petty arguments and pointless THU rivalries that people involve themselves in just to relieve THU the boredom in the sterile, air conditioned building, they THU all have to return to day after day. THU THU Episode One: The New Seeker THU THU Written by Steven Burge THU Produced by Katie Tyrrell. THU THU Credits THU Stuart: Matthew Horne THU Joe: Daniel Mays THU Terry: Tony Way THU Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi THU Dave Manager: Alex Lowe THU Mr Dibble: Alex Lowe THU Mr Manford: Alex Lowe THU Mr Everett: Alex Lowe THU Mr Gleason: Michael Bertenshaw THU Mrs Wilcox: Philippa Stanton THU Mrs Rahman: Bharti Patel THU Gary Probert: Steve Oram THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU Writer: Steven Burge THU THU 23:30 With Great Pleasure b0383lm6 (Listen) THU Kwame Kwei-Armah THU THU Kwame Kwei-Armah, playwright and theatre director, chooses THU the pieces of writing that he loves and that have inspired THU him in his own writing life. He presents them to the THU audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, with the help of readers THU Don Warrington and Jaye Griffiths. THU THU As the writer of plays such as Elmina's Kitchen, Kwame's own THU passions range from novels by Toni Morrison and Ben Okri to THU Redemption Song by Bob Marley - which the audience joins him THU in singing. THU THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 OCTOBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03bpplm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03c31lq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03bpplp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03bpplr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03bpplt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03bpplw (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03c7fcm (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon FRI Simon Doogan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03bs7fq (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkdkt (Listen) FRI Ortolan Bunting FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Ortolan FRI Bunting. Ortolan Buntings are smart relatives of our FRI yellowhammer. They're migrants which winter in Africa and FRI small numbers of birds heading south for the winter may turn FRI up on our coasts in autumn. But until recently in parts of FRI southern Europe, their arrival was welcomed by hunters with FRI nets. FRI FRI The sound archive recording of the ortolan bunting featured FRI in this programme was sourced from: FRI Volker Arnold, XC139765. Accessible at FRI www.xeno-canto.org/139765. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03bs7t4 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03bpxxq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03c31w7 (Listen) FRI Beowulf, Episode 5 FRI FRI After King Hrothgar's great victory feast for Beowulf FRI Grendel's mother appears to avenge the death of her son. FRI FRI Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. FRI Radio Drama North. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Seamus Heaney FRI Producer: Susan Roberts FRI Author: Seamus Heaney FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03bsb95 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03bsb97 (Listen) FRI The Pillow Book: Time and Change, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Robert Forrest. FRI Directed by Lu Kemp. FRI FRI 11:00 The Young Devolutionaries b03bsb99 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI They are the generation who have grown up under devolution. FRI Now, nine teenagers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and FRI Wales share their vision of the system that brought them up. FRI FRI 11:30 Start/Stop b03bsb9c (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI by Jack Docherty FRI FRI A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the FRI sunset. And sinking. This week two parties provide a FRI particular challenge. FRI FRI Producer ..... Steven Canny FRI FRI Jack Docherty FRI Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. FRI He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe FRI with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to FRI write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, FRI Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, FRI The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News FRI Huddlines and a ton of other things. FRI He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows FRI including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks FRI Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and FRI Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies FRI Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has FRI appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got FRI News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented FRI his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on FRI Channel 5. FRI FRI Credits FRI Barney: Jack Docherty FRI Cathy: Kerry Godliman FRI Fiona: Fiona Allen FRI David: Charlie Higson FRI Evan: John Thomson FRI Alice: Katherine Parkinson FRI Producer: Steven Canny FRI Writer: Jack Docherty FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03bsb9f (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03bsb9h (Listen) FRI Joan and Roger - Web and Wings FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an 84 year old FRI and her SeniorNet mentor about the wonders of the web and FRI the changes in technology they've both witnessed as the FRI Radio 4 series that proves it's surprising what you hear FRI when you listen returns for a fourth series. FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03bppm0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03bsb9k (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Publishing Lives b03bsb9m (Listen) FRI Geoffrey Faber FRI FRI Geoffrey Faber was a brilliant middleman. He sought out the FRI best new poetry and prose. And he hired a young American FRI banker named T.S. Eliot - not just a poet of genius, but FRI also a gifted publisher. Together, Eliot and Faber built one FRI of the most influential literary lists of the twentieth FRI century. FRI FRI Faber was a classical scholar, a fellow of All Souls and a FRI member of the Yorkshire brewing family Strong & Co. In 1924, FRI bored with beer, he went into partnership with an Oxford FRI friend, Maurice Gwyer, as a publisher. Gwyer already FRI specialised in medical books and journals, but Faber had FRI other ideas. Within five years he turned a company that FRI published 'The Nursing Mirror' and the 'Hospital Newsletter' FRI into one that hosted Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound and T.S. FRI Eliot. FRI FRI He championed the notion that Faber & Faber had a FRI responsibility to the world to preserve the best in FRI literature and encouraged enterprises that were not always FRI commercial. Yet it was show business that saved the company FRI when T.S. Eliot's 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' FRI became a hit musical. FRI FRI In a landscape increasingly dominated by giant media FRI empires, Faber & Faber remains one of the last great FRI independent publishing houses in the UK. As the digital FRI revolution shakes traditional publishing to its foundations, FRI the firm is exploring new ways of presenting its authors, FRI including Eliot, for a new generation of readers. FRI FRI Robert meets Geoffrey's grandson Toby Faber, and literary FRI and publishing experts, to explore Geoffrey Faber's life and FRI the future of publishing in Britain. FRI FRI Produced by Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03bs0zb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03bsb9p (Listen) FRI Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk FRI FRI This new dramatisation by Marty Ross of the classic 1865 FRI novella by Nikolai Leskov tells the dramatic story of FRI Katerina, whose provincial life in 19th century Russia, FRI married to an older man she has never loved, is transformed FRI by the arrival of attractive philanderer, Sergei. FRI FRI Katerina embarks on a passionate affair and, in her state of FRI heightened emotion, she is determined to destroy anything FRI that stands in her way. With her husband working away, and FRI her relationship with Sergei on the point of exposure in the FRI close knit farming community, she begins by dispensing with FRI her father in law, but soon it becomes inevitable that FRI further murders will be necessary to sustain her ferocious FRI desires. FRI FRI Shakespearean in both its language and emotional intensity, FRI Katerina is portrayed as an anti-heroine of compelling FRI intensity. The story, perhaps best known as the source for FRI Shostakovich's famous opera of the same name, is by a FRI Russian writer less well known than the likes of Tolstoy and FRI Dostoevsky, but whose work was much admired by Chekhov and FRI Gorki, a rural Russian 'film noir'. FRI FRI Sound design.......Jon Calver FRI Writer..................Nikolai Leskov FRI Dramatist.............Marty Ross FRI Director................Cherry Cookson FRI FRI Producer: Mariele Runacre Temple FRI A Wireless Theatre Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Katerina: Rochenda Sandall FRI Sergei: Joe Armstrong FRI Zinovy: Harry Myers FRI Boris: Trevor Cuthbertson FRI Aksinya: Jessica Dennis FRI Guard: Mark Straker FRI Sonya: Ceri Gifford FRI Fedya: Christopher York FRI Director: Cherry Cookson FRI Producer: Mariele Runacre Temple FRI Adaptor: Marty Ross FRI Author: Nikolai Leskov FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03bsb9r (Listen) FRI West Dean College and Gardens FRI FRI This week Eric Robson and his Gardeners' Question Time panel FRI - Christine Walkden, Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew - are FRI at West Dean College and Gardens, near Chichester. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Brazilian Bonanza b03bsb9t (Listen) FRI Lost Time FRI FRI Tatiana Salem Levy's Lost Time reflects on the legacy of FRI Brazil's military regime of the 70s and 80s. The readers are FRI Barbara Flynn and Georgie Fuller with Joel MacCormack. FRI FRI Tatiana Salem Levy debut novel A Chave de Casa (2007) won FRI the the Sao Paulo Prize for literature. She is a writer and FRI translator and lives in Rio de Janeiro. FRI FRI Ángel Gurría-Quintana translated Lost Time and aswell as a FRI translator he is also a historian and journalist. His work FRI has appeared in The Financial Times, The Guardian, The FRI Economist and The ParisReview among others. FRI FRI Abridged by Miranda Davies FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Brazilian Bonanza is a series of three short stories shining FRI the spotlight on Brazil's literary culture. As all eyes turn FRI to Brazil in anticipation of the next World Cup and the FRI Olympics, and as dance and cinema continue to make their FRI mark, now is the moment for the burgeoning interest in FRI literature to take centre stage. The three stories FRI illustrate how Brazilian writing is making a name for itself FRI on Britain's literary scene. Tatiana Salem Levy's, Lost Time FRI will appear in Other Carnivals, a new anthology of short FRI stories which is being published to coincide with FlipSide a FRI vibrant festival celebrating Brazilian literature, art, FRI music and dance at Snape Maltings on Suffolk's beautiful FRI coast from 4th-6th October. Paloma Vidal's story, Asi Es La FRI Vida - That's Life, will appear in English in the October FRI 2013 issue of Litro magazine which focuses on women's FRI writing from Brazil. Finally, Antonio Prata's Valdir Peres, FRI Juanito and Poloskei appeared in Granta's special issue FRI featuring contemporary Brazilian writing. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Barbara Flynn FRI Reader: Georgie Fuller FRI Reader: Joel MacCormack FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI Abridger: Miranda Davies FRI Writer: Tatiana Salem Levy FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03bsb9w (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b03bsb9y (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03bsbb0 (Listen) FRI Roger and Cal - Leaving Home for the Circus FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a timely conversation about leaving home FRI for college. Cal will be leaving his father Roger in County FRI Down when he sets off for Bristol; the same thing is FRI happening all over the nation. But Cal's course is less FRI common: he'll be studying circus arts, proving once again FRI that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03bsbb2 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03bppm2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b03bsbb4 (Listen) FRI Series 41, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw are joined by David Quantick, FRI Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin for a comic run FRI through the week's news. Producer: Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03bsbb6 (Listen) FRI Jazzer chances his arm, and Shula makes an offer. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Tracy Horrobin: Susie Riddell FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Peter Wild FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03bsbb8 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Olivia Skinner. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03bsb97 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03bsbbb (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Ilkley Literature Festival in North Yorkshire with FRI Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves, FRI General Secretary of the RMT Bob Crow and the journalist FRI John Kampfner. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03bsbbd (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b0171ydt (Listen) FRI Bar Mitzvah Boy FRI FRI by Jack Rosenthal, Adapted for radio by Amy Rosenthal FRI FRI A radio version of Jack Rosenthal's award-winning television FRI play about a boy having his Bar Mitzvah - the ceremony in FRI which a thirteen year old becomes a man in the Jewish faith. FRI FRI At the tender age of thirteen Eliot Green is about to become FRI a man - in the Jewish religion at least. In synagogue, in FRI front of the whole congregation, he will read and sing in FRI Hebrew from the Torah (the Hebrew scrolls) - this after a FRI year of intensive tuition. Later he will enjoy receiving FRI gifts from relatives and friends as he celebrates with them FRI at his Bar Mitzvah party. FRI All eyes are on Eliot as he is called up in synagogue for FRI his big moment! But is he ready to become a man? FRI FRI This play along with many others established the late Jack FRI Rosenthal as one of Britain's best loved television writers. FRI A master at creating characters that you could recognise and FRI empathise with, his plays were always sharp and finely tuned FRI with a rich helping of humour. FRI FRI This new version of Bar Mitzvah Boy is specially adapted for FRI radio by Jack's daughter, the playwright Amy Rosenthal. FRI FRI Produced and directed by David Ian Neville. FRI FRI Credits FRI Eliot: Hugo Raine FRI Rita: Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Victor: David Horovitch FRI Grandad: Andrew Sachs FRI Lesley: Susannah Wise FRI Harold: Jonathan Tafler FRI Rabbi Sherman: Peter Majer FRI Denise: Maya Gerber FRI Squidge: Sam Cummings FRI Synagogue Cantor: Rabbi Mark L Solomon FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI Adaptor: Amy Rosenthal FRI Writer: Jack Rosenthal FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03bppm4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03bsbbg (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03bx824 (Listen) FRI Solo, Episode 5 FRI FRI Reader: Paterson Joseph FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03brkdx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b00yj5vj (Listen) FRI Dame Joan Bakewell FRI FRI The incomparable Joan Bakewell with some favourite pieces of FRI prose and poetry. Her readers are Samuel West and Harriet FRI Walter. FRI FRI Producer: Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03bsbbv (Listen) FRI Michael and Yvonne - Driving Lessons FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation that explores difficult FRI territory, as a mother and son discuss the love of speed FRI Michael inherited from his father, and confront memories of FRI the car crash in which he died when Michael was only three. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
27 September, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 28/09/2013 - 04/10/2013
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