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SAT SATURDAY 18 JANUARY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03pmdr4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03pmddb (Listen) SAT Priscilla, Episode 5 SAT SAT Nicholas Shakespeare writes about his aunt, a glamorous SAT English woman whose life in Paris during the German SAT Occupation grew more and more mysterious. Abridged in 5 SAT episodes by Katrin Williams. SAT SAT 5. D-Day and the whole of Paris is jumping, dancing, clasped SAT in embrace. But Priscilla the eternal party girl is in a SAT very quiet place, with a dubious past hot on her heels. SAT SAT Reader Nicholas Shakespeare SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nicholas Shakespeare SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Author: Nicholas Shakespeare SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03pmdr8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03pmdrg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03pmdrn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03pmdrx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03pml0v (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Richard Frazer, Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03pml0x (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03pmds7 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03pmdsc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03pmb52 (Listen) SAT Falkland Centre for Stewardship SAT SAT The Falkland estate in rural Fife is very different to SAT traditional family-owned estates in Scotland. Felicity Evans SAT meets Ninian Stuart, who is using his inheritance to SAT increase public access to the woods and fields that make up SAT this 1,900 hectare estate, which is 35 miles north of SAT Edinburgh. She hears how Ninian's set up the Centre for SAT Stewardship which actively involves schools, playgroups and SAT many others in Fife's wider community to make the most of SAT the estate's varied landscape. SAT SAT It's a former royal hunting estate where Felicity meets Dr SAT Simon Taylor who's been researching Falkland's Trenches, now SAT understood to have been a way of funnelling red deer towards SAT the royal hunting parties. She also meets playgroup leaders SAT who bring children to the estate's woods so that they can SAT benefit from playing in nature. Ninian Stuart explains why SAT he's using some of his prime arable land for the benefit of SAT people who'd like to start new smallholdings from scratch. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03q4mlq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT How can small British family farms survive and remain SAT sustainable businesses? And what happens when the next SAT generation takes over? SAT SAT In Farming Today This Week, Charlotte Smith looks at family SAT farms. She meets Tom Heritage and his son Paul near the SAT village of Oxhill in South Warwickshire. SAT SAT The Heritage family farm around 900 acres with commercial SAT sheep and crops. Paul is the third generation of the family SAT to be involved in the farm after his grandfather bought it SAT in the 1930s. Whilst Tom is in his seventies, he still SAT remains active on the farm and together, father and son SAT share the workload between them. Charlotte hears about Tom's SAT plans for the succession of the family business though, as SAT Tom says, he has no plans for retirement from his work. SAT SAT The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has SAT designated 2014 as the year of family farming and Charlotte SAT speaks the campaign's chief who highlights the importance of SAT family-run agriculture businesses around the world. SAT SAT She also hears what can happen when farmers don't put plans SAT for the succession of a family farm in place, and the impact SAT this can have on both the farming family and their business. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03pmdsh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03q4mls (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03q4mlv (Listen) SAT Will Gompertz SAT SAT Suzy Klein and JP Devlin with BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz SAT who talks about his unpromising beginnings in the arts and a SAT project to find the Art of the Nation. Appropriately they SAT also hear the Inheritance Tracks of popular artist Jack SAT Vettriano and why the mandolin is so widespread from SAT musician Simon Mayor. Zoe Lemon tells what happened to a SAT message in a bottle she threw into the sea twenty three SAT years ago and Brian Conaghan explains how the late diagnosis SAT of Tourette's syndrome affected his life. Princess Michael SAT of Kent reveals a secret passion for singing and Jan Prebble SAT reveals her secret passion - a married man whose his SAT clandestine mistress she was for over forty years. And there SAT are the unspoken thanks of listeners, spoken at last. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Will Gompertz SAT SAT Will Gompertz is the SAT BBC’s Arts Editor SAT a post he’s as surprised about as anybody- his first job SAT was an assistant in a record shop. He left school without SAT any A-Levels, and after a series of directionless jobs, he SAT had a surprising revelation in an art museum that changed SAT his life and set him on course to a career in the arts. He SAT tells us about his fascination for modern art and his latest SAT project: discovering the stories behind the art in peoples’ SAT homes. SAT SAT Secret Mistress for 42 years, Jan Prebble SAT SAT Jan Prebble had a long and varied career but throughout, for SAT 42 years in fact, she was the secret mistress of author John SAT Prebble, who was married with children. They eventually SAT married and, now in her eighties, she reflects on a lifetime SAT of being the other woman. SAT SAT Secret Life: HRH Princess Michael of Kent SAT HRH Princess Michael of Kent SAT tells us about her love of singing. SAT SAT SAT SAT The Queen of Four Kingdoms by HRH Princess Michael of Kent SAT is published by Constable. SAT SAT SAT SAT Travel: Simon Mayor SAT SAT Musician SAT Simon Mayor SAT SAT talks about his travels playing the mandolin and the people SAT around the world he has met who make, play or love this SAT underrated instrument. SAT SAT Simon's new album ' The Art of Mandolin' is out now. SAT SAT SAT Mandolinquents SAT SAT Living With Tourettes: Brian Conaghan SAT SAT Brian Conaghan describes what it was like to be diagnosed SAT with Tourette’s Syndrome in his late 30s. SAT SAT When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan is published by SAT Bloomsbury SAT NHS SAT Tourettes Action SAT SAT SAT SAT Inheritance Tracks: Jack Vettriano SAT SAT Artist SAT Jack Vettriano SAT chooses Little Things Mean A Lot by Kitty Kallen and ‘My SAT Father’ by Judy Collins. SAT SAT SAT SAT The SAT Jack Vettriano Retrospective SAT is currently open at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, SAT Glasgow. SAT SAT Message In a Bottle SAT "I am 10 years old and I like ballet, playing the flute and SAT the piano. I have a hamster called Sparkle and fish called SAT Speckle." SAT SAT This was part of a message in a bottle which SAT Zoe Averianov threw into the North Sea in 1990. 23 years SAT later, she received a reply after it was discovered by a SAT couple in the Netherlands. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Will Gompertz SAT Interviewed Guest: Jack Vettriano SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Mayor SAT Interviewed Guest: Zoe Lemon SAT Interviewed Guest: Brian Conaghan SAT Interviewed Guest: Princess Michael of Kent SAT Interviewed Guest: Jan Prebble SAT Producer: Harry Parker SAT SAT 10:30 Piano Pilgrimage b03q4mlx (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT In the final part of his pilgrimage, Jamie finds out what SAT the piano means to its biggest fans. Starting outside York SAT Minster, he comes across two fellow jazz pianists whose SAT passion keeps them coming out on to the streets to busk on a SAT specially modified upright. SAT SAT Next, Jamie heads to a retirement village in Sheffield where SAT he performs with musicians from a charity, Lost Chord, that SAT uses the piano to help people living with dementia. SAT SAT Jamie hears from Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger about the SAT piano playing challenge he set himself, before learning SAT about left hand alone repertoire from one-handed pianist SAT Nicholas McCarthy. SAT SAT In Northern Ireland, Jamie meets the talented young piano SAT players being mentored by Adele's piano player, Neil Cowley. SAT Over a pint at Bennigan's Bar, Jamie finds out from the SAT pub's legendary landlord Joe, how a piano turned the place SAT into the heart of Derry's music scene. Jamie then tests the SAT ivories for a moving final performance together with Joe and SAT local musician Põl. SAT SAT Produced by Andrea Rangecroft. SAT A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03q4mlz (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03q4mm1 (Listen) SAT Kerouac's Back SAT SAT Story telling: Kerouac the runaway dog returns from his SAT adventures in Mali and the police present their bill; our SAT camera crew in Cairo set out to film a poster which the SAT military authorities strongly disapprove of; violence SAT against women is on the rise in Afghanistan as the SAT withdrawal of western troops gathers pace; there's SAT despondency in the world's newest nation, South Sudan, as SAT foreign troops join the fighting there and, in a sauna deep SAT in the Ural Mountains, our correspondent meets two hunters SAT and asks questions about bribery, corruption and gay sex. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03q4mm3 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b03pmk7r (Listen) SAT Series 42, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Sara SAT Pascoe for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch SAT Benn and Jon Holmes. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Jane SAT Lamacraft, Sarah Morgan and Paul Davighi. Produced by Colin SAT Anderson. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Sara Pascoe SAT Performer: Jon Holmes SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT Writer: Jane Lamacraft SAT Writer: Sarah Morgan SAT Writer: Paul Davighi SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03pmdsm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03pmdsp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03pmksw (Listen) SAT Christine Tacon, Andrew Mitchell MP, Andy Burnham MP, Tony SAT Caldeira SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Greenbank High School in Southport with the former SAT Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for SAT Health Andy Burnham, Supermarket Ombudsman Christine Tacon, SAT Defence Minister Anna Soubry, and Liverpool based textiles SAT businessman Tony Caldeira. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03q4mm5 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? Presented by Julian Worricker. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03q4pss (Listen) SAT Four Quartets SAT SAT Jeremy Irons reads Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot. SAT SAT Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's SAT career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical SAT and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its SAT four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' SAT and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the SAT spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which SAT preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private SAT voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire SAT generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it SAT as an enduring masterpiece. SAT SAT With an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David SAT Alton and Gail McDonald. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Jeremy Irons SAT Author: TS Eliot SAT SAT 15:45 The Island at the End of the World b03mtkbm (Listen) SAT It may be the most isolated inhabited place on earth. SAT Palmerston Island in the South Pacific is visited by a few SAT yachts each year and the occasional container ship. SAT Otherwise, the 62 inhabitants are untroubled by the outside SAT world. SAT Thomas Martienssen makes the 8-day yacht journey to meet the SAT native Palmerstonians, who are all descendants of an SAT Englishman, William Marsters, who settled on the island in SAT the 19th century with his three Polynesian "wives". He hears SAT about the strong Christian faith of the islanders, listens SAT to the ballad recounting the story of the community's SAT founder and learns how they regularly salvage the wreckage SAT of boats which have come to grief on the coral reefs. And he SAT hears how fishing, the island's only source of commercial SAT income, may now be threatened by over-exploitation of fish SAT stocks. How long can the Palmerstonians continue to survive SAT on their island at the end of the world? SAT Producer: Julie Ball. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03q4psv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Body image; Relationships and SAT Children; Campaigning families SAT SAT Child-free couples are happier than those with children - SAT according to a new Open University report out this week. So SAT can you have children and a good relationship? SAT SAT Sajda Mughal, Director of JAN Trust and a survivor of the SAT 7/7 London bombings, on why she's working with isolated SAT mothers from the Muslim community to educate them about the SAT dangers of being radicalised online. SAT SAT Why so many of us worry that we're too fat, too thin, too SAT old, or simply, just not attractive enough? SAT SAT Sports presenter, Charlie Webster who was sexually attacked SAT as a child, talks about embarking on a 250 mile run between SAT 40 football grounds to raise money for Women's Aid. SAT SAT The star and director of Opera North's new production of SAT Puccini Opera The Girl of the Golden West. SAT SAT The mother who has been campaigning for more than 15 years SAT on behalf of her son who she believes was murdered by a SAT racist gang. The Police believe it was an accident SAT SAT Plus is the fashion for Brazilians and Hollywoods over? And SAT novelist Ann Cleeves on her latest Vera Stanhope book SAT Harbour Street. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Beresford SAT Interviewed Guest: Deborah Coughlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Christine Northam SAT Interviewed Guest: Ann Cleeves SAT Interviewed Guest: Katie MacKay SAT Interviewed Guest: Susie Orbach SAT Interviewed Guest: Alwyn Meller SAT Interviewed Guest: Aletta Collins SAT Interviewed Guest: Sajda Mughal SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Producer: Katie Langton SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03q4psx (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT Mali Music & Africa Express SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03pml0x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03pmdsr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03pmdst (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03pmdsw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03q4psz (Listen) SAT Jack Cheshire, Paul Cotgrove, Catherine Johnson, Ardal SAT O'Hanlon, Jessica Raine, Eddi Reader SAT SAT Clive meets Ardal O'Hanlon, stand-up stalwart and best known SAT to many for his role as Dougal in Father Ted. Ardal's SAT currently starring in the highly acclaimed revival of Conor SAT McPherson's award winning play, The Weir. How does appearing SAT in a tense play on the London stage about an isolated Irish SAT pub compare with performing in a much loved television SAT sit-com about an isolated Parochial House in Ireland? The SAT Weir, Wyndham's Theatre, London from 16 January SAT SAT After thrilling and chilling hundreds of film fans for the SAT first time in 2013, the spook-tacular Horror-on-Sea is SAT returning to Southend-on-Sea once again in January 2014. SAT Clive tries to extract the secret attraction of the horror SAT film genre - and his now infamous Zombie Walk - from SAT Festival Director Paul Cotgrove. Horror-on-Sea 17-19 SAT January, Park Inn Palace Hotel, Southend-on-Sea SAT SAT Emma Freud is taken back to her youth by Catherine Johnson - SAT the writer of the international stage and screen smash Mamma SAT Mia! Her latest play, Shang-a-Lang, is the story of youthful SAT nostalgia, friendship, hitting forty and The Bay City SAT Rollers. Has Emma still got her old Rollers' LPs, and tartan SAT trews? Shang-a-Lang is at the Kings Head Theatre, Islington, SAT London from 22 Jan - 15 Feb. SAT SAT Finally, Clive meets Jessica Raine - one of the stars of SAT 'Call the Midwife. Jessica graduated from RADA in 2008, and SAT by 2009 was picked by both The Observer and the Daily SAT Telegraph as being 'one to watch'. She's equally at home on SAT stage and screen: how will she fare in the Loose Ends SAT studio? Call the Midwife Series 3 Episode 1 is on BBC1 SAT Sunday 19 January at 8pm SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Jack Cheshire, Paul Cotgrove, Catherine SAT Johnson, Ardal O'Hanlon, Jessica Raine, Eddi Reader (2) SAT SAT Ardal O’Hanlon SAT SAT The Weir is at Wyndham's Theatre, London, from 16 January SAT 2014 for a limited season. SAT SAT Eddi Reader SAT SAT ‘Vagabond’ will be available from 3rd February on Reveal SAT Records. See her website for Spring 2014 tour dates. SAT SAT Paul Cotgrove SAT Southend’s Horror-on-Sea festival is on this weekend, and SAT Southend’s Film Festival runs from Thursday 1st May to SAT Monday 5th May 2014. SAT SAT Catherine Johnson SAT Shang-a-Lang is at the Kings Head Theatre, Islington, London SAT from 22 Jan - 15 Feb 2014. SAT SAT Jack Cheshire SAT SAT ‘Long Mind Hotel’, which includes 'Into The Void', is SAT available now on Gun 20 Records. SAT SAT SAT Jessica Raine SAT ‘Call the Midwife’ returns to BBC1 for a third series, SAT starting Sunday 19th January at 8pm. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b03q4pt1 (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 2 SAT SAT Writers create a fictional response to a major story from SAT the week's news. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03q4pt3 (Listen) SAT Scorsese, Beckett, & Sons SAT SAT Martin Scorsese's new film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a SAT dodgy stock dealer in 1980s New York. The Wolf of Wall SAT Street shows the life of wild excess and reckless financial SAT and personal abandon that eventually came tumbling down. SAT SAT Usually we review one play per week on the programme, but SAT this time it's 3 plays - and they take less than an hour all SAT in. Samuel Beckett's Not I, Footfall and Rockaby are SAT currently at The Royal Court Theatre and will be touring the SAT country later this year. SAT SAT & Sons is David Gilbert's new novel. It's the story of a SAT famous J.D. Salinger-type novelist and his complicated SAT relationships with his sons and with friends and associates SAT outside his own family. SAT SAT An exhibition of art by Hannah Hoch looks at the work of the SAT often-overlooked Dadaist pioneer who was an originator of SAT photo-montage. Do her critiques of 1920s Germany still SAT resonate nowadays? SAT SAT A new TV series looking at the heyday of gangsters in SAT Chicago; Mob City, is just starting - what new angle can TV SAT bring to this much-exploited genre? SAT SAT The Wolf of Wall Street SAT The Wolf of Wall Street SAT directed by Martin Scorsese, is released in UK cinemas on SAT Friday 17 January, certificate 18. SAT SAT Not I / Footfalls / Rockaby SAT SAT The Royal Court Theatre’s production of SAT Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby SAT by Samuel Beckett, performed by Lisa Dwan, runs until 18 SAT January and then transfers to the Duchess Theatre in London, SAT 3 – 15 February 2014, before embarking on a national tour. SAT SAT & Sons SAT & Sons SAT by David Gilbert SAT is published by Fourth Estate on 16 January. SAT SAT Mob City SAT Mob City SAT starts Friday 17 January at 10pm on Fox UK. SAT SAT Hannah Höch SAT Hannah Höch SAT the exhibition is at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, 15 SAT January – 23 March 2014. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03q4pt5 (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Marci Shakespeare SAT SAT When two teenage girls were murdered on the streets of SAT Birmingham following a New Year's party, it immediately SAT became a massive media story. Marcia Shakespeare, one of the SAT girls' mothers, was confronted not only with the terrible SAT loss of her child, but was also forced to face enormous SAT attention from the press - much of which she initially found SAT intrusive. As time went on, though, she recognised that the SAT media could play a useful part in helping her keep the SAT issues around gun crime in the public consciousness, and SAT provide a platform for her to make a plea to witnesses SAT reluctant to come forward and help track down the killers. SAT In spite of facing threats to keep a lower profile she has SAT conducted hundreds of interviews in the 11 years since. In SAT this, the second part of 'A Life Less Ordinary', she SAT describes what those years have been like, and talks with SAT some of the journalists involved in covering the shootings SAT themselves and the lengthy court case that finally saw four SAT men convicted sent to prison. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03pqsdf (Listen) SAT The World According to Garp, Episode 2 SAT SAT John Irving's acclaimed novel is dramatised by Linda SAT Marshall Griffiths. SAT SAT Garp writes his first novel and marries Helen. When his SAT mother publishes her autobiography she becomes a feminist SAT icon overnight and Garp's adolescent adventures become SAT public property. It isn't easy being the son of the famous SAT Jenny Fields. Jenny inspires a whole generation of women, SAT including the radical Ellen Jamesians. Lust, lunacy and loss SAT thread their way through Garp's life as he vainly tries to SAT protect those he loves. SAT SAT This is the second episode of a three part dramatisation of SAT a novel that is both acclaimed for its originality, and SAT controversial for its dark representation of gender politics SAT and sexual violence. Published in 1978 it went on to win the SAT US National Book Award and was made into a film in 1982, it SAT placed Irving firmly on the map as a leading novelist. SAT SAT Dramatist Linda Marshall Griffiths adapted Irving's A Prayer SAT for Owen Meany for Radio 4 in 2009. SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT The Garp Family SAT Helen (Lyndsey Marshal), Garp (Lee Ingleby), Walt (Adam SAT Greaves-Neal) and Duncan (Adam Thomas Wright) SAT SAT Credits SAT Jenny: Miranda Richardson SAT Garp: Lee Ingleby SAT John Wolfe: John Guerrasio SAT Mrs Ralph: Charlotte Emmerson SAT Helen: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Roberta Muldoon: Jonathan Keeble SAT Duncan: Adam Thomas Wright SAT Walt: Adam Greaves-Neal SAT Mrs Poole: Carys Eleri SAT Michael Milton: Harry Jardine SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths SAT Writer: John Irving SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03pmdsy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b03pjfj1 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Money Matters SAT SAT Spending or saving - Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss SAT children, parenting and money. How should our kids learn SAT about money and how much should we tell them about our SAT finances? SAT SAT With Christmas over, many children will have money they were SAT given burning a hole in their pockets. Should we let them SAT spend it on whatever they like or should we impose parental SAT controls? What are the best ways to teach children about the SAT value of money? SAT SAT Bringing Up Britain takes a look at money matters by SAT investigating how the subjects of money and finance are SAT being taught at home and in school. Mariella and her guests SAT explore which are the most useful lessons for youngsters and SAT how perceptions of money change as children grow. SAT SAT We also investigate what parents tell youngsters about their SAT own money situations. Whether we're challenged by austerity SAT or seeing the green shoots of recovery, most parents will SAT have found themselves pre-occupied by money matters in SAT recent years. How much of that should we pass on to our SAT children? SAT SAT Mariella and her guests also discuss how we can talk to SAT youngsters about changing financial circumstances - if a SAT parent loses their job and money becomes tight for instance. SAT Surveys have shown that kids understand more than we think SAT and get worried about money too. How can we help ourselves SAT and our children through the financial minefield? SAT SAT On the panel are Anna Foster, Head of Services at P-FEG, the SAT Personal Finance Education Group which works in schools, Dr SAT Elizabeth Kilbey, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has SAT been working with the Money Advice Service, Dr Rajiv SAT Prabhaka, lecturer in personal finance at the Open SAT University and author of "The Assets Agenda" and Dr. Esther SAT Dermott from Bristol University who is one of the key SAT researchers on the survey "Poverty and Social Exclusion in SAT the UK". SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03phd4c (Listen) SAT (6/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes competitors from Thames Ditton, SAT Portsmouth, Twickenham and Henley on Thames, in the latest SAT heat of the nationwide general knowledge quiz. This week's SAT contest comes from the BBC's Maida Vale studios. SAT SAT The winner will take his or her place in the series SAT semi-finals, and move a step closer to being named the 61st SAT Brain of Britain champion in the spring. SAT SAT As always they'll have to prove the breadth of their general SAT knowledge, with questions covering everything from Classical SAT mythology to information technology, and from classic SAT literature to current affairs. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT DIANE CLEMENTS, a museum director from Thames Ditton in SAT Surrey; SAT SAT BRIAN DAUGHERTY, a postman from Portsmouth; SAT SAT ROBERT HART, an actuary from Henley-on-Thames; SAT SAT ANDREW MAYWOOD, a former journalist from Twickenham. SAT SAT 23:30 Radio Heaney b03pdh7d (Listen) SAT In his acceptance speech as newly anointed Nobel Laureate, SAT Seamus Heaney recalled how vital a role the wireless had SAT played in his early life growing up on a farm in Mossbawn SAT Co. Derry. On the radio, he heard dispatches from the front SAT line during the Second World War, was gripped by Dick Barton SAT Special Agent and revelled in the musicality of the Shipping SAT Forecast. As an up and coming published poet, Heaney wrote SAT and presented many programmes for schools in Northern SAT Ireland, exploring and celebrating fellow writers and the SAT local landscape. He also made for a compelling contributor SAT and interviewee to any discussion on the purpose of poetry SAT and was ultimately crowned with the medium's greatest SAT accolade, an invitation to Radio 4's Desert Island. This SAT programme compiles many of Heaney's greatest radio moments. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03q4jfk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Emerald City and Other Stories b01f5c03 (Listen) SUN Puerto Vallarta SUN SUN 2011 was a phenomenal year for the young American author, SUN Jennifer Egan. Her novel, 'A Visit From The Goon Squad' SUN became a run-away bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer SUN Prize for Fiction. Now a collection of her short stories has SUN been re-published by Constable and Robinson. SUN SUN Entitled Emerald City, the stories are a pithy and sometimes SUN poignant look at contemporary life in the United States. SUN Young and middle-aged characters change, grow and regret in SUN a series of tales that traverse the United States and the SUN state of modern marriage, parenting and ambition. Egan is SUN heralded as one of the best writers to emerge in the past SUN decade and this collection underlines her ability to bring a SUN spotlight on the particular and to reflect a nation in SUN challenging times. SUN SUN Today's story, Puerto Vallarta, is a portrait of a family, SUN where the truth is not as it seems and where a daughter has SUN to make a choice and so find her own freedom. SUN SUN The Reader is Sasha Pick SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Sasha Pick SUN Producer: Di Speirs SUN Abridger: Miranda Davies SUN Author: Jennifer Egan SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03q4jfm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03q4jfp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. 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SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03q4w8q (Listen) SUN The Strange Familiar SUN SUN Sarah Cuddon reflects on the conjunction of the familiar and SUN the strange in our lives. SUN SUN Our lives are full of everyday habits and routines that SUN provide a familiarity of experience. But they're also rich SUN with strangeness, with oddity, with the unreal and the SUN uncanny. Can we control how the strange and the familiar SUN permeate our lives or is it all a question of perspective? SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03q4w8s (Listen) SUN He's behind you! Anna Jones meets a talented troupe of SUN farmers who tread the boards...oh yes they do! Now in its SUN 35th year, the Rhydycroesau Village Pantomime is a SUN much-loved tradition on the Welsh-Shropshire border near SUN Oswestry. SUN SUN Ever since their first production of Robinson Crusoe in SUN 1979, a cast of local farmers and residents have rehearsed SUN throughout the winter months, to put on a real show for SUN sell-out audiences. Some members of the cast are now local SUN celebrities, including Trev Jones the hedge-layer who always SUN forgets his lines and panto stalwart Bryan Evans who SUN practises in front of his cattle. SUN SUN Anna explores the stories behind the pantomime and finds out SUN how theatre brings a remote rural community closer together. SUN So pull up a seat and put your hands together for the 2014 SUN performance of 'Puss in Boots'! SUN SUN Presented and produced by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03q4jg1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03q4jg3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03q4w8v (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03q51p7 (Listen) SUN The Green Belt Movement International - Europe SUN SUN Jonathon Porritt presents the Radio 4 Appeal for The Green SUN Belt Movement International - Europe. SUN SUN The Green Belt Movement works with rural communities, SUN particularly women, to help them address their needs for SUN essential basic services such as water, fertile soil, and a SUN healthy ecosystem through planting trees on critical SUN watersheds. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1112638 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The Greenbelt Movement'. SUN SUN The Green Belt Movement SUN The SUN Green Belt Movement (GBM SUN ) is an environmental organisation that empowers SUN communities, particularly women, to conserve the environment SUN and improve livelihoods. Being committed to the principles SUN of environment conservation, community involvement, SUN volunteerism and the values of accountability, transparency SUN and honesty the GBM runs various programs and initiatives SUN primarily in Kenya but also in other regions of Africa and SUN the world through its extensive partnership network. SUN SUN Founder Wangari Maathai SUN Professor Wangari Maathai SUN founder of the Green Belt Movement, won the Nobel Peace SUN Prize in 2004 for her work in Kenya. Empowering women in SUN local communities and environmental advocacy were two of her SUN life passions. SUN SUN Volunteerism and Environment Conservation SUN One of the women who SUN volunteers with the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. She works SUN at one of the SUN education sites where women are taught how to successfully SUN tend to tree SUN seedlings and the value of maintaining tree growth in the SUN region. SUN SUN Women at the Tree Nursery SUN Since 1977, the Green Belt SUN Movement has planted over 51 million trees in Kenya, in SUN watersheds located SUN within three of the five main mountain ecosystems in the SUN country. These little SUN seedlings are one of the first steps needed in maintaining SUN forest prosperity. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03q4jg5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03q4jg9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03q56kl (Listen) SUN from Jordanhill Parish Church, Glasgow. Led by The Revd SUN Sandra Black; Preacher: The Revd Colin Renwick. SUN SUN The service takes its theme from Psalm 40 on the rewards of SUN patience. What does 'waiting on the Lord' mean for those in SUN terrible conditions in a Syrian refugee camp, or those SUN living with grief; for someone trying to find a job, or SUN living with illness? Is the Lord trying to 'teach' us SUN something through such sufferings? SUN SUN Strathclyde University Chamber Choir directed by Alan SUN Tavener. Organist: David Hamilton. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03pmkzm (Listen) SUN Sex and the French SUN SUN Adam Gopnik reflects on the attitude of the French to the SUN sex lives of their statesmen and gives his opinion that the SUN price of privilege is prudence. "Puritanical societies are SUN less morally alert than ones like France that aren't, SUN because the puritanical societies have the judgments SUN prepackaged and their hypocrisies, too. Instead, in France, SUN the moral rights and wrongs, I've learned, are adjudicated SUN case by case." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztqw (Listen) SUN Bewick's Swan 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 David Attenborough presents the story of the Bewick's Swan. SUN This year is the 50th anniversary of Bewick Swan studies, SUN begun by Sir Peter Scott, at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. SUN Bewick Swans return here and to other UK sites each winter SUN to escape the icy grip of the Arctic tundra and studies have SUN identified individuals through their varying bill patterns. SUN SUN Bewick's swan (Cygnus columbianus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN David Attenborough: My Life In Sound SUN SUN The Bewick's swan is a bird that instills treasured memories SUN for Sir David, as revealed in the exclusive interview for SUN Radio 4 where he talks about his SUN life in sound SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03q56kn (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 b03q56kq (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN What is Wassail? SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham 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 William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03q56ks (Listen) SUN Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Reverend Rose SUN Hudson-Wilkin. SUN SUN The first black woman to be chaplain to Her Majesty the SUN Queen and also to the Speaker of the House of Commons, she's SUN also kept busy with her work in less rarefied surroundings - SUN ministering to two churches in the east London borough of SUN Hackney. SUN SUN It's all a long way from the crystal waters and swaying SUN palms of her birthplace, Montego Bay, where brought up by SUN her Auntie Pet she coped with poverty and separation from SUN her mother. She did however have a sense, from the age of SUN just 14, that her future lay in faith. SUN SUN She wasn't wrong and the combination of her belief and SUN dynamism has taken her to as close to the top as The Church SUN of England will currently allow. If they do eventually SUN permit women bishops it's easy to imagine she'd be a shoe SUN in. SUN SUN She says "Oh I have lots of ambition. You can't be Jamaican SUN and not be ambitious. My ambition is to enjoy life. My SUN ambition is to do everything I do to the best of my SUN ability." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Rose Hudson-Wilkin SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b03phd4m (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Henning Wehn, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy and Victoria Coren SUN Mitchell are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as trees, doctors, SUN newspapers and Spain. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SUN Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03q56lv (Listen) SUN Food and the Future of Pubs SUN SUN Sheila Dillon hears the latest on the role of food in the SUN future of the British pub. From traditional Asian curries to SUN the influence of Michelin starred chefs. SUN SUN Producer: Perminder Khatkar. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Perminder Khatkar SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03q4jgc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03q56lx (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 David Attenborough: My Life in Sound b03lnzxh (Listen) SUN In an exclusive interview for Radio 4 David Attenborough SUN talks to Chris Watson about his life in sound. SUN SUN One of Sir David's first jobs in natural history film making SUN was as a wildlife sound recordist. Recorded in Qatar, David SUN Attenborough is with wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, SUN there to make a film about a group of birds he is passionate SUN about, The Bird of Paradise. It is in Qatar where the worlds SUN largest captive breeding population is and it is in this SUN setting Chris Watson takes Sir David back to the 1950's and SUN his early recording escapades, right through to today where SUN David Attenborough narrates a series of Tweet of the Day's SUN on Radio 4 across the Christmas and New Year period. SUN David Attenborough: from the archive SUN Tweet of the Day SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from David Attenborough: My Life in Sound (3) SUN SUN David Attenborough in action SUN Picture of David Attenborough recording frog chorus with an SUN L2 EMI recorder. Image courtesy of David Attenborough. SUN SUN Preparing to record and film SUN SUN David Attenborough crouched down next to a parabolic SUN reflector and recording equipment, with cameraman Charles SUN Lagus - both primed ready to catch the object of their SUN attention. Image courtesy of David Attenborough. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough with WTT founder Sir Peter Scott SUN SUN Sir Peter Scott founded the Severn Wildfowl Trust (later SUN Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust - WWT) in 1946. He was also a SUN founder and the first chairman of the World Wildlife Fund SUN (WWF) in 1961, and founder of many local and regional bodies SUN from the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation to SUN Falkland Conservation. SUN SUN This picture was taken in May 1962. Image courtesy of David SUN Attenborough. SUN SUN SUN SUN (Information source: SUN http://www.wwt.org.uk/about-us/history-of-wwt/our-founder-si SUN -peter-scott/ SUN ) SUN SUN Gazing over a Slimbridge lake SUN Sir David Attenborough with Sir Peter Scott looking out over SUN one of the lakes at WWT Slimbridge in May 1962. SUN SUN Radio Times article about Chris Watson recording a solitary SUN ant. SUN SUN Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, is always searching SUN for new and innovative ways to record sound. A SUN Radio Times online article published in Febuary 2013 SUN explored Chris' remarkable insight into sound recording; SUN including the capture of the sound of a solitary ant. The SUN article also has some exclusive audio clips and his feelings SUN about music in wildlife shows. SUN SUN SUN SUN Download the programme for free SUN This programme will be available to download for free on SUN Friday 20th December 2013 via the SUN Radio 4 Documentary of the week SUN podcast page. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03pmk7h (Listen) SUN Myerscough College, Preston SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the show from Myerscough College, Preston. SUN Taking questions from an audience of horticultural students SUN are Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden. SUN SUN In 2013 an RHS survey revealed that 70% of SUN eighteen-year-olds considered gardening as something to do SUN if you couldn't find anything else. A year on, the GQT Team SUN have gone to meet young students and career changers who say SUN that horticulture is thriving and a job to be proud of. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q. How can I get rid of slugs from my potato crop? SUN SUN A. Line the trench with grass or throw the slug pellets SUN straight into the trench. There are lots of tricks such as SUN using olbas oil, salt, tea bags or grit. Improve your SUN drainage and make sure that the pH is right for the crop. SUN Also try planting resistant varieties. Talk to your local SUN growers and find out which crops prosper in your area. SUN SUN Q. Is moss on the surface of the soil an indication of SUN infertility as well as a sign of damp? How can I keep it at SUN bay? SUN SUN A. There are numerous species prospering in many different SUN soil types. Therefore this isn't necessarily an indication SUN of infertility. Wait a while to remove it because you don't SUN want to be disturbing the soil surface at this point in the SUN year. Roughing up the surface of the soil, combined with SUN improved weather conditions, should get rid of it later in SUN the year. Whilst it can be a problem, we must not forget SUN that these sorts of plants actually create our soil by SUN breaking down the rock, so make sure you don't completely SUN eradicate it from your garden. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel offer some tips for setting up a SUN polytunnel? SUN SUN A. Build raised beds in the polytunnel and line them with SUN timber. This will provide you with room to build up a good SUN soil. Do it early enough in the season to allow the soil to SUN warm. Studies suggest that if you have a polythene tunnel SUN closed at both ends you can increase your cropping by one SUN month at either end of the season. Be warned that warm and SUN moist conditions will attract pests. You need a good amount SUN of ventilation once the season gets going and a good SUN variation of small crop patches so that you are less likely SUN to get a build up of any one pest. SUN SUN Q. Has the panel ever left a sucker on a rose? I have left SUN an attractive flowering sucker on a Falstaff Rose. Do you SUN think that the plant will cope if I feed it well? SUN SUN A. It is tempting to leave suckers on plants because they SUN always appear promising. However, the rootstock should be SUN the engine of the plant. The sucker will take over and the SUN main plant will suffer. When pruning a sucker, do not use SUN secateurs because you will leave the bud behind. This will SUN in turn throw up two new suckers and so on. Instead, SUN excavate all the soil away from the plant and grasp the SUN sucker, pulling away from its direction of growth. You will SUN remove the heel that includes the bud. SUN SUN Q. My Hybrid Hellebore are stunted and have black veins. I SUN have looked up the systems and it appears to be a Hellebore SUN disease called The Black Death. Is there anything I can do SUN to save the plants? SUN SUN A. There is still a level of disagreement about what causes SUN it. It is thought to be a viral problem, but there are also SUN suggestions that it may involve a bacterial element. The SUN best solution is to get rid of the infected plants and SUN introduce fresh stock on a new site. Be very careful about SUN where you source your new plants from so that you don't risk SUN reinfecting the site. Perhaps try a Hellebore specialist. A SUN lot of disease can be spread by greenfly and it is SUN surprising how early on they appear and can last late into SUN the season. It is important to check the leaves for aphids SUN and remove them. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03q59sq (Listen) SUN The Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa SUN SUN In 1995, the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other activists were SUN executed by the Nigerian military regime. They'd been SUN campaigning against oil pollution in their native Ogoniland, SUN in the Niger Delta. Their deaths led to Nigeria's expulsion SUN from the Commonwealth. Ledum Mitee was a fellow campaigner SUN who was spared execution. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03q59ss (Listen) SUN The World According to Garp, Episode 3 SUN SUN John Irving's best selling novel of lunacy and sorrow is SUN dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. SUN SUN Jenny becomes a nurse again as she helps Garp to piece his SUN life back together following the tragic car accident. SUN Battling with loss and heartbreak, Garp finds salvation in SUN his writing until violent and unexpected events strike. SUN SUN This is the concluding episode of a three part dramatisation SUN of a novel that is both acclaimed for its originality, and SUN controversial for its dark representation of gender politics SUN and sexual violence. Published in 1978 it went on to win the SUN US National Book Award and was made into a film in 1982, it SUN placed Irving firmly on the map as a leading novelist. SUN SUN Dramatist Linda Marshall Griffiths adapted Irving's A Prayer SUN for Owen Meany for Radio 4 in 2009. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN Credits SUN Garp: Lee Ingleby SUN Duncan: Adam Thomas Wright SUN Walt: Adam Greaves-Neal SUN Helen: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Jenny Fields: Miranda Richardson SUN Roberta Muldoon: Jonathan Keeble SUN John Wolfe: John Guerrasio SUN Mrs Ralph: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Mrs Poole: Carys Eleri SUN Michael Milton: Harry Jardine SUN Jillsy: Emma Fielding SUN Sally: Emma Fielding SUN Jenny Garp: Emma Fielding SUN Pooh Percy: Amanda Hale SUN Ellen James: Amanda Hale SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths SUN Writer: John Irving SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03q59sv (Listen) SUN Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson on winter; Jeffery SUN Deaver; Anna Whitwham SUN SUN In the last in our series on how the seasons influence SUN literature, authors Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson SUN discuss the importance of Winter in the novel, from SUN Scandinavian crime to writers such as Thomas Hardy, Charles SUN Dickens and Jack London. SUN SUN For many young boys, the boxing clubs of the East End were a SUN haven from the grim realities and hardships of poverty SUN stricken London. One such young man was John Poppy, a SUN featherweight boxer at the Crown and Manor Boys Club in SUN Hoxton in the 1920s. His granddaughter, Anna Whitwham, SUN inspired by clubs such as this one and her grandfather's SUN early life as an amateur boxer, has written her debut novel SUN Boxer Handsome. Bringing the action into a more contemporary SUN setting, she delves into the sometimes raw and brutal world SUN of both the amateur boxing ring and the surrounding SUN community. SUN SUN We return to our occasional series, The book you'd Never SUN Lend and it's the turn of the internationally bestselling SUN thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who managed to get the SUN thousands of books he owns down to not one, but two SUN treasured tomes. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Winter by Christopher Nicholson SUN SUN Publisher: Fourth Estate SUN SUN SUN SUN Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare SUN SUN Publisher: Chatto and Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Books mentioned in the discussion on Winter SUN SUN SUN SUN Frankenstein by Mary Shelley SUN SUN November by Gustave Flaubert SUN SUN The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis SUN SUN A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens SUN SUN Fatherland by Robert Harris SUN SUN The books of Angela Carter SUN SUN Hanover Square by Patrick Hamilton SUN SUN Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox by BB (Denis SUN Watkins-Pitchford) SUN SUN The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen SUN SUN Jack London SUN SUN Snow by Orhan Pamuk SUN SUN The Road by Cormac Mccarthy SUN SUN The Darkling Thrush (Poem) by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen SUN SUN The Foddering Boy (Poem) by John Clare SUN SUN Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg SUN SUN The books of Jo Nesbo SUN SUN The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson SUN SUN Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte SUN SUN The Shining by Stephen King SUN SUN Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN The Box of Delights by John Masefield SUN SUN Tom Jones by Henry Fielding SUN SUN The Sword in the Stone and The Once Future King by T S White SUN SUN SUN SUN Boxer Handsome by Anna Whitwham SUN SUN Publisher: Random House SUN SUN SUN SUN Jeffrey Deaver would never lend his copies of: SUN SUN SUN SUN The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer SUN SUN and SUN SUN The Collected Poems of Robert Frost SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Horatio Clare SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher Nicholson SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b03q59sx (Listen) SUN Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti SUN SUN Roger McGough begins a new series with requests for poems by SUN Christina Rossetti. Shirley Henderson gives a beguiling SUN rendition of what is arguably Rossetti's most famous poem SUN 'Goblin Market', published in 1862. It is a heady fairy tale SUN about temptation involving two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. SUN The poem has a sexual undertone and a menacing quality that SUN lurks among the persistent pleas of the fruit selling Goblin SUN men to 'come buy, come buy.' Visits to your greengrocer may SUN never be the same again. There is also a reading of another SUN of Rossetti's much requested and moving poems 'Remember,' as SUN well as a lesser known poem of pilgrimage, 'Up-hill'. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03phrwz (Listen) SUN Liquid Assets SUN SUN As water companies submit their spending plans for the next SUN five years, Lesley Curwen investigates what happens to the SUN money once the household water bill has been paid. SUN SUN Half of England's water companies are now in the ownership SUN of global investment funds. In many cases these corporate SUN bodies are run and financed from abroad behind closed doors. SUN They use a web of companies some in off-shore tax havens to SUN provide a steady flow of dividends to their shareholders. SUN SUN But is their mechanism for generating shareholder income at SUN the expense of the customers who are looking for lower bills SUN and sustained investment in their water supply? SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b03q4pt1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03q4jgf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03q4jgh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03q4jgk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03q59sz (Listen) SUN Mark Thomas presents highlights from the previous seven days SUN of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03q59t1 (Listen) SUN Peggy makes an announcement, and Emma is feeling aggrieved. SUN SUN 19:15 Warhorses of Letters b03q59t3 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips SUN SUN Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby star as Napoleon's horse SUN Marengo and Wellington's horse Copenhagen, with an SUN introduction by Tamsin Greig, in the world's first SUN epistolary equine love story. SUN SUN Still cruelly sundered by fate despite the war having ended, SUN Marengo is put rather unwillingly out to stud and discovers SUN the overwhelming and exhausting joys of parenthood, and SUN Copenhagen finds a new way of passing the time - writing SUN racy horse fan fiction, a genre for which he turns out to SUN have a remarkable flair... SUN SUN Produced by Gareth Edwards. SUN SUN Credits SUN Marengo: Stephen Fry SUN Copenhagen: Daniel Rigby SUN Narrator: Tamsin Greig SUN Producer: Gareth Edwards SUN Writer: Marie Phillips SUN Writer: Robbie Hudson SUN SUN 19:30 Political Animals b01m179f (Listen) SUN Series 1, Humphrey SUN SUN by Tony Bagley SUN SUN The second in a series of four talks by well-known Downing SUN Street cats, relating their trials and tribulations under SUN four different Prime Ministers. SUN SUN The notoriously photo-shy Humphrey, Chief Mouser to the SUN Cabinet Office 1989 to 1997, a cat with a robust vocabulary SUN and a pretty earthy view of political life, looks back on SUN his struggles with all things New Labour. SUN SUN Humphrey ..... James Fleet SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Humphrey: James Fleet SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Writer: Tony Bagley SUN SUN 19:45 A Shepherd in London b03q59t5 (Listen) SUN Flocking to Selfridges SUN SUN Episode 1: Flocking to Selfridge's by Jerome Vincent SUN SUN In the 1920s and 30s, sheep were used in London parks to SUN keep the grass down. Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Clapham SUN Common and Hampstead Heath all had sheep grazing on them, SUN and there was much competition between shepherds to get SUN their flocks chosen for the privilege. There was SUN considerable profit to be made too - for when they were good SUN and fat, the sheep were herded to Smithfield Meat Market to SUN be prepared for the table. SUN SUN In Flocking to Selfridge's, writer Jerome Vincent imagines SUN the experiences of George Donald, a shepherd from SUN Aberdeenshire, who has brought his flock (aided by his SUN faithful sheepdog Birk) to graze in Hyde Park. George is no SUN stranger to the capital, but is always astonished by the way SUN in which Londoners behave, likening the crowds in Oxford SUN Street to mindless flocks of sheep. SUN SUN It's 1925, and technology is moving on apace. One day in the SUN park, George bumps into a fellow Scot - a young man at the SUN cutting edge of the next new thing. He's John Logie Baird, SUN the inventor of television, and George Donald is able to SUN give him a word of advice. SUN SUN Reader: Bill Paterson SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Bill Paterson SUN Producer: David Blount SUN Writer: Jerome Vincent SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b03pmk7p (Listen) SUN Fact-checking obesity crisis claims SUN SUN Estimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 SUN "underestimate" the problem, according to a report published SUN this week by health campaigners, the National Obesity Forum. SUN Tim Harford looks at the evidence, and discovers that health SUN statistics contradict the report. SUN SUN After the inquest into the fatal police shooting of Mark SUN Duggan concluded, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson told the SUN BBC that there had been about 10,000 armed police operations SUN in the past four years in the capital, during which officers SUN had fired on only six occasions . Tim Harford and Charlotte SUN McDonald look at the numbers. SUN SUN Britain has been gripped by 'the worst winter storms for 20 SUN years', according to media reports. How scientific is this SUN assessment? Tim Harford interviews Liz Bentley, from the SUN Royal Meteorological Society. SUN SUN Channel 4 documentary Benefits Street focuses on the SUN residents of one street in Birmingham, and it's been proving SUN controversial. The media reports that 90% of people living SUN on the road in question, James Turner Street, are on SUN benefits. But is this true? Gavin Fischer looks into the SUN matter. SUN SUN An apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away, SUN according to a study in the Christmas edition of the British SUN Medical Journal. The authors had their tongue firmly in SUN their cheek, but the media largely took them at their word. SUN Tim interviews one of the study's authors and critic Paul SUN Marantz. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03pmk7m (Listen) SUN Roger Lloyd Pack, Prof Julian B Rotter, Rae Woodland, Ariel SUN Sharon SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The actor Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for playing Trigger SUN in Only Fools and Horses and Owen Newitt in the Vicar of SUN Dibley. We have a tribute from Sir David Jason. SUN SUN Also Professor Julian B Rotter - the psychologist who came SUN up with the social learning theory. SUN SUN The versatile British soprano Rae Woodland, who had close SUN links to Sadler's Wells and Glyndebourne. SUN SUN And we assess the former Israeli military leader and Prime SUN Minister Ariel Sharon. SUN SUN Roger Lloyd Pack (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his colleague on SUN Only Fools and Horses SUN Sir David Jason and to friend and fellow actor Kenneth SUN Cranham SUN Born 8th February 1944; died 15th January 2014 aged 69. SUN SUN Julian B. Rotter SUN SUN We spoke to his widow, Doffie Rotter and to the psychologist SUN and broadcaster, Claudia Hammond. SUN SUN Born 22nd October 1916; died 6th January 2014 aged 97. SUN SUN Hiroo Onoda SUN SUN Born 19 March 1922; died 16 January 2014 aged 91. SUN SUN SUN SUN Rae Woodland SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her former pupil Nina Horrocks-Hopayian, SUN to her friend Gill Horrocks and to David Rayvern Allen who SUN worked with her. SUN SUN Born 9th April 1922; died 12th December 2013 aged 91. SUN SUN Ariel Sharon SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen. SUN SUN Born 26 February 1928; died 11th January 2014 aged 85. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: David Jason SUN Interviewed Guest: Kenneth Cranham SUN Interviewed Guest: Doffie Rotter SUN Interviewed Guest: Claudia Hammond SUN Interviewed Guest: Nina Horrocks-Hopayian SUN Interviewed Guest: Gill Horrocks SUN Interviewed Guest: David Rayvern Allen SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Bowen SUN Producer: Laura Northedge SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03q4mm3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03q51p7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03pmbjg (Listen) SUN Cyber Town Malvern SUN SUN The historic spa town of Malvern in Worcestershire is SUN rapidly becoming the centre of a hub of small companies SUN specialising in a very 21st century occupation: defending SUN people from Internet crime. Unlikely as it sounds, Malvern SUN has been a centre of science expertise for decades. Now it's SUN a place where innovation thrives outside big corporate labs. SUN Peter Day finds out why. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Mary Haigh SUN SUN Head of Cyber Defence, QinetiQ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Emma Philpott SUN SUN Head of the Malvern Cyber Security Cluster SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Simon Wiseman SUN SUN Chief Technology Officer, Deep Secure SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Andy Williams SUN SUN Commerial Director, Titania SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Alan White SUN SUN Chief Executive, Malvern Hills Science Park SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Caroll SUN SUN Cyber Security Marketing Director, QinetiQ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Chris Clinton SUN SUN QinetiQ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mark Smyth-Roberts SUN SUN Business Director, C3IA Solutions SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03q59v7 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03q5b20 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03pmbj2 (Listen) SUN Wolf of Wall Street; Night of the Hunter; composer Neil SUN Brand SUN SUN As Martin Scorsese's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, SUN picks up five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and SUN Best Director, Francine Stock talks to actor Jonah Hill, SUN nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He describes how SUN improvisation played an important part in the film which is SUN based on the memoir of trader and convicted fraudster Jordan SUN Belfort. We also hear from editor and long-time Scorsese SUN collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker about the alchemy of the SUN cutting room. SUN SUN The composer Neil Brand explores the use of found, or SUN pre-existing, music in film scores from Saving Mr Banks to SUN Inside Llewyn Davis, Raising Arizona and Black Swan. He SUN explores how the often well-known music can be re-invented SUN and manipulated to work on audiences in sometimes surprising SUN ways. SUN SUN Plus The Night of the Hunter, first released in 1955, SUN directed by British actor Charles Laughton and starring SUN Robert Mitchum, is back on limited re-release. Nick James SUN from Sight and Sound and broadcaster Michael Carlson discuss SUN why it has had such an influence on film makers and inspired SUN a genre of brooding southern Gothic. SUN The Night of The Hunter SUN The Wolf of Wall Street SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonah Hill SUN Interviewed Guest: Thelma Schoonmaker SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick James SUN Interviewed Guest: Mike Carlson SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03q4w8q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 JANUARY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03q4jht (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03pjfbb (Listen) MON Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt MON MON Faith and doubt: an ethnographic study into political and MON spiritual convictions in an age of uncertainty. Laurie MON Taylor talks to the Lecturer in Anthropology, Dr Mathijs MON Pelkmans, about wide ranging research which suggests that MON the foundations of religious and secular 'faiths' are MON surprisingly fragile. Drawing on a diverse range of cases, MON from spirit mediums in Taiwan to right-wing populists in MON Europe, he analyses the ways that belief systems are either MON sustained or collapse. He's joined by Alpa Shah who has MON studied Maoists revolutionaries in India. Also, Alexandra MON Hillman discusses her new paper on 'waiting' in hospital MON emergency departments. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Alex Hillman MON MON Research Associate, Cardiff School of Medicine, Primary Care MON and Public Health Research Group MON MON MON MON MON MON Find out more about MON Alex Hillman MON MON MON Abstract: MON ‘Why must I wait?’ The performance of legitimacy in a MON hospital emergency department MON Sociology of Health & Illness MON MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12072 MON MON Mathijs Pelkmans MON MON Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at London MON School of Economics MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Mathijs Pelkmans MON MON MON Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in MON Contemporary Societies MON Edited by Mathijs Pelkmans MON Publisher: I.B.Tauris MON ISBN-10: 1848858108 MON ISBN-13: 978-1848858107 MON MON Alpa Shah MON MON Reader in the Department of Anthropology at The London MON School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Alpa Shah MON MON MON MON MON Chapter: ‘In search of Certainty in Revolutionary India’ MON by Alpa Shah MON In Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in MON Contemporary Societies MON Edited by Mathijs Pelkmans MON Publisher: I.B.Tauris MON ISBN-10: 1848858108 MON ISBN-13: 978-1848858107 MON MON MON BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents: India's Red Belt MON MON MON British anthropologist Alpa Shah visits a Maoist-controlled MON region of Jharkhand in eastern India and explores the appeal MON of the Maoist fighters to the poor communities. MON MON MON BBC Radio 4 From Our Own Correspondent: Spending time with MON Maoist rebels MON MON MON Ethnography Award MON MON Thank you for all your entries. MON MON MON MON These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, MON Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise MON Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor MON Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). MON MON MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, MON originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The MON work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON MON MON The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of MON 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 MON MON MON MON Please see the MON Terms & Conditions MON for all the rules. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03q4q9j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03q4jhw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03q4jhy (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03q4jj2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03q4jj4 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03q5d6t (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Richard Frazer, Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03q5d6w (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 b03q4jjb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv53 (Listen) MON Mandarin Duck 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 Chris Packham presents the story of the Mandarin Duck. A MON drake mandarin has orange whiskers, red bill, a broad creamy MON eye-stripe and an iridescent purple chest, set off by a pair MON of extraordinary curved orange wing feathers which stand up MON like a boat's sails. Today there are seven thousand birds MON living in the wild and the numbers are increasing. MON MON Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) MON Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03q5d6y (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03q600h (Listen) MON Neuroscience and Free Will MON MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to the neuroscientist Dick Swaab who MON argues that everything we do and don't do is determined by MON our brain. He explains why 'we are our brains'. The MON philosopher Julian Baggini doesn't dispute the pre-eminence MON of brain processes but believes it doesn't tell the whole MON story. As a writer Helen Dunmore must get into the minds of MON her characters - the latest a war-damaged soldier from the MON trenches. Natalie Abrahami only has the heads of her MON characters to play with as she directs Samuel Beckett's MON Happy Days about the amazing ability of a woman to survive MON by denying her ever-diminishing world. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Dick Swaab MON Interviewed Guest: Julian Baggini MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Dunmore MON Interviewed Guest: Natalie Abrahami MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03kpnjq (Listen) MON Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal, Episode MON 1 MON MON From the Pizzaro brothers, who pillaged Peru for Inca gold MON in the 16th century, to the modern-day Mponeng mine in South MON Africa, the deepest in the world, where the ghost miners MON illegally siphon off millions - the pursuit of gold has led MON to wars, insurrections, betrayals and bloodshed. MON MON Matthew Hart charts a course through history and across MON continents to tell the story of the world's most coveted MON metal. Part history, part journalism and part economic MON analysis, Gold tells the story of a human obsession that MON shows no sign of abating. MON MON In 2008, when the financial crisis rattled economies, MON investors inevitably resorted to the perceived safety of MON gold - and its price escalated from $800 to $1900 an ounce. MON This, in turn, accelerated the exploration for yet more MON gold. MON MON Matthew Hart is a journalist, whose work has appeared in The MON Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly and The Globe and Mail. MON He has written two IMAX films, numerous TV documentaries, MON and appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes and the National MON Geographic channel. His previous books include Diamond: The MON History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair, which was filmed as a MON documentary by ABC. MON MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Karen Rose MON Abridger: Peter Nichols MON Author: Matthew Hart MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03q600k (Listen) MON Emilia Fox and Emma Fielding; men and body image; talking MON about suicide MON MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Men And Body Image MON MON Last Monday we looked at body image and self-esteem. We got MON a tremendous response from our listeners, but it was MON predominantly women who got in touch. The men who contacted MON us talked mainly about their daughters or partners, and few MON volunteered personal stories. Was it because men were not MON affected by body image issues? Or because men are less MON likely to talk about such matters? To discuss this, Jane is MON joined by Philippa Diedrichs, a psychologist at the Centre MON for Appearance Research at the University of the West of MON England, and by Glen Jankowski, a researcher of body image MON from Leeds Metropolitan University. MON MON MON Men Get Eating Disorders Too MON – a charity that aims to support and raise awareness about MON male eating disorders MON Beacon MON – an organization that reviews online support for different MON psychological problems, including body image concerns and MON eating disorders MON The Succeed Foundation MON - a UK charity which aims to promote positive body image and MON the prevention of eating disorders MON OCD Action - Body Dysmorphia MON - information on body dysmorphia from the largest UK MON charity focusing on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder MON Mind MON - MON the leading mental health charity for England and Wales MON BEAT: The Eating Disorders Association MON - MON a UK charity for people with eating disorders and their MON families MON Changing Faces MON - a UK charity which supports anyone with a disfigurement MON MON Working Women With Disabled Children MON MON Over the next three days we're going to be looking at some MON of the issues affecting the working lives of mothers who MON have disabled children. We’ll explore some of the problems, MON and look at the creative ways some mothers have found a MON solution to these challenges. Today we hear from Hannah, MON whose daughter is autistic. When Rosie was born she returned MON to her job as a Corporate Communications officer for her MON Local Council, but found juggling both impossible, and so MON reluctantly resigned. MON MON Rapture, Blister, Burn MON MON US writer Gina Gionfriddo’s play Rapture, Blister, Burn is MON premiering for the first time in the UK after a successful MON run in New York last year. It addresses the issue of gender MON politics and whether women can have it all. The two MON protagonists, Cathy and Gwen, both in their 40s, have taken MON different life paths. Cathy, an academic who has remained MON single, and Gwen, a stay at home mum, both covet each MON other’s life choices. MON MON MON MON Rapture, Blister, Burn is at Hampstead Theatre in London MON until 22 February MON MON Young Suicide MON MON Nearly four people under the age of 35 take their life every MON day, and tens of thousands more attempt suicide. Experts and MON campaign groups want compulsory lessons on mental health in MON school and say talking about it is the best way to prevent MON it. As a parent, would you know what signs to look for if MON your child was thinking of taking their own life? And would MON you know how to speak to them about it? Jane is joined by MON psychologist Sally Austen, Clare Milford Haven who lost her MON son to suicide and has set up charity in his name, and by 19 MON year old ‘Emma’ - not her real name - from Bristol, who MON tried to kill herself two years ago. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03q600m (Listen) MON November Dead List, Episode 1 MON MON By Nick Perry. MON MON Nicola Walker stars as a detective in our gritty new crime MON drama. MON MON Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from MON the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. MON Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: MON November Dead List. In our drama, a young priest opens one MON such envelope and discovers - not a list of the dead but a MON list of people he knows to be alive, and members of his MON congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a MON joke. Then the people named start turning up dead. MON MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Credits MON DI Flood: Nicola Walker MON Father Manu: Paul Ready MON John: Steve Toussaint MON Father Pat: Dermot Crowley MON Simon: Arthur Hughes MON Terrence: John Norton MON Gerry: Stephen Hogan MON Kevin: Sean Murray MON Eileen: Carolyn Pickles MON Journalist: Carys Eleri MON Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Writer: Nick Perry MON MON 11:00 One Day in Winter b03q66cf (Listen) MON December 21st is the darkest time of year, the winter MON solstice, and this year it was also one of the wettest. MON Following on from Radio 4's very successful One Day in MON Summer, six producers set out from Bristol to follow another MON set of characters - travellers, farmers, druids. All are MON travelling, setting out in the dark, but their various MON destinations may not be immediately clear. The run up to MON Christmas is a time of preparation and stress, but we expect MON some our travellers to have other festivities in mind. With MON contributions from the police, English Heritage, farmers MON David Johnson and Hugh Morrison, Lou Purplefairy, Arthur MON Pendragon, plus Lister and his friends from Leeds. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b03q69c1 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON MON by Katherine Jakeways MON MON Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the MON residents of a small market town in Northamptonshire. This MON week, it's Jan's birthday and she's determined to do MON something unexpected. MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex MON girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and MON Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at MON these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a MON label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. MON Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor MON south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the MON three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously. Now MON Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an identity. MON And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. MON And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. MON MON Joined by nearly all of the incredible cast which graced MON Series One and Two - including Sheila Hancock as the MON Narrator, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu, Geoffrey Palmer MON and Kevin Eldon - and with the exciting addition of Tim Key MON and Nathaniel Parker - North by Northamptonshire hopes (and MON promises) to once again delight audience and critics. MON 'The laughs are cruel, but the monsters of suburbia are MON curiously sympathetic, and the characters so well drawn and MON well played that this could run and run.' Time Out. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Sheila Hancock MON Rod: Tim Key MON Frank: Rufus Wright MON Orson: Nathaniel Parker MON Mary: Penelope Wilton MON Jonathan: Kevin Eldon MON Esther: Katherine Jakeways MON Norman: Geoffrey Palmer MON Jan: Felicity Montagu MON Producer: Steven Canny MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03q69c3 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03q4jjm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03q4jjp (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03q69c5 (Listen) MON Transatlantic MON MON On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will MON decide in a referendum whether they want their nation MON henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or MON remain within the union that has bound Britain together MON since the Act of Union of 1707. MON MON In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of MON History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces MON that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and MON loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally MON powerful movements that from time to time across the MON centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. MON MON 11: Transatlantic MON MON "In the 1600s, some 400,000 people from these islands, most MON of them from England, crossed the Atlantic, many of them MON settling in mainland America. In the 18th century, MON emigration from all parts of the British Isles ran much MON higher. Between 1760 and 1775 alone, over 100,000 men and MON women left these shores for America. To many Britons, the MON Thirteen Colonies - though 3000 miles of ocean away - were MON nonetheless bound up with their own experience and MON identities. American colonists were "our own people, our MON brethren". MON MON So American resistance after 1776 and ultimate violent MON separation was a kind of amputation from the British body MON politic which has arguably never completely healed over." MON MON Producer: Simon Elmes. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03q59t1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011pkg2 (Listen) MON The 40 Year Twitch MON MON Yvonne's having a wobble. Her husband's always been one for MON the birds and now she's worried she's finally lost him. But MON do blue tits really lure men into midlife crises? Can MON sparrows be a bad influence? Comedy drama by Daniel Thurman. MON MON Directed by Toby Swift MON MON When Yvonne loses her job at the age of 64, she starts to MON fear that husband Neil's devotion to birding - birdwatching MON to the uninitiated - is actually all about escaping her and MON their humdrum life together. Thus begins a somewhat MON overenthusiastic pursuit of the truth as she trains her MON binoculars firmly on Neil's every move. Can best friend MON Wendy bring her back to earth? MON MON Credits MON Yvonne: Paula Wilcox MON Neil: Philip Jackson MON Wendy: Anne Reid MON Austin: Brian Bowles MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Daniel Thurman MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03q6bqg (Listen) MON Russell Davies asks the questions in the seventh heat of the MON nationwide general knowledge quiz. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03q56lv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Getting the Picture b03q6bqj (Listen) MON He Seduces Everybody! MON MON "Before he's photographed other people, I don't see them," MON says Catherine Bailey, wife of the world-renowned MON photographer. MON MON "I see the person and won't necessarily think they're MON beautiful or interesting. Then I see the photograph and I MON think, 'Oh, I missed that!' Then I look at the person in a MON different way." MON MON In the second of two programmes about his work, David Bailey MON discusses frankly with Tim Marlow what draws him to his MON subjects and how he assesses the results of his shoots. MON MON Tim also considers with Bailey the less celebrated aspects MON of his work, including the documentary photographs he's MON taken on trips around the world since his National Service MON in Singapore in the 1950s. MON MON Bailey explains why the explorer, Richard Burton, fired his MON youthful imagination and why New York, when he first visited MON it, disappointed him. To a doubtful Tim, who wonders if MON there will be a change of heart, Bailey initially claims his MON recent punishing trip to India's Nagaland will also be his MON last foreign foray. This programme reveals if Bailey will in MON fact do more work abroad and, if so, where. MON MON Following on from programme 1, Bailey discusses the images MON he has taken of Tim in his studio. They also talk about the MON collaborations Bailey has undertaken. Damien Hirst tells Tim MON how he and Bailey worked together and why he sees Bailey as MON an artist. MON MON "If I do six photographs a year that's doing well," Bailey MON tells Tim. "There is no evolution in my work." MON MON As the opening of his forthcoming new show at London's MON National Portrait Gallery draws nearer, Bailey looks back on MON some of the shots that give him special pleasure. MON MON And Catherine tells Tim that Bailey "seduces everyone from MON behind the camera". She adds, "He does it to me, he does it MON to everybody!". MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03q6bql (Listen) MON Eve MON MON In the trailer for the final run of Desperate Housewives, MON viewers are seduced into watching the series with a variety MON of tantalising images. Four beautiful women in provocative MON poses, attracting the longing gazes of their easily led men. MON Snake like belts draped sinuously around their waists are MON provocatively removed or loosened. And there's an apple, red MON and luscious, newly plucked from a tree. A 21st century MON television hit makes its appeal by drawing on an ancient MON biblical character which it assumes will resonate with the MON viewer. MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the Biblical figure Eve, and MON what has been made of her down the centuries are Katie MON Edwards, lecturer in Biblical Studies at Sheffield MON University; Amy Orr Ewing, Director of the Oxford Centre for MON Christian Apologetics; and Maureen Kendler, head of MON Educational Programming at the London School of Jewish MON Studies. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b03q6bqn (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03q4jjr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b03q6crl (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 4 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Lloyd Langford, Lucy Porter, Tom MON Wrigglesworth and Fred MacAulay are the panellists obliged MON to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as MON women, Japan, owls and potatoes. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Lucy Porter MON Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Panellist: Fred MacAulay MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03q6crn (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03q6crq (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03q600m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Declared Interests: The Business of Politics MON b03q6crs (Listen) MON Our politicians are now required to declare many of the MON outside interests that they have. There are registers for MON the Lords, the Commons and all the political parties. But is MON that enough? MON MON Owen Bennett Jones explores the business of members' MON declared interests, Lords on boards, party funding, All MON Party Parliamentary Groups, sponsored assistants, and gifts. MON Owen reports on the ways in which outside interests try to MON gain access to the corridors of power without anyone MON breaking the rules. He considers whether the declaration of MON an interest is sufficient to ensure that no one is "buying" MON our political leaders. MON MON In 2010, David Cameron said that lobbying was 'the next MON scandal waiting to happen' - but it has been going on for MON decades in a system that sanctions and encourages outside MON interests to come inside parliament. Can the government's MON proposed lobbying bill realistically turn back the tide? The MON current parliamentary system emphasises transparency - if MON it's properly declared, then by and large it is legal - but MON is it ethical and good for democracy? MON MON Producer: Gemma Newby MON A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03pmb4r (Listen) MON Uzbekistan: Searching for Googoosha MON MON Natalia Antelava goes in search of Gulnara Karimova - pop MON star, philanthropist, socialite, intellectual - oh, and MON incidentally (according to leaked US Embassy cables) the MON most hated woman in Uzbekistan. The image that graces the MON screens and billboards of Tashkent is one of a glamorous, MON dynamic, celebrity who flits from Cannes to New York to MON Moscow, fronting glossy music videos under her musical alias MON GooGoosha, with stars like Julio Iglesias and Gerard MON Depardieu. She runs charities and helps children all in an MON attempt to win the hearts of the Uzbek people for what some MON say is a bid to succeed her father as president. But her MON ambitions have taken a hit and the princess of Uzbekistan's MON star is falling. Described as a 'robber baron' in cables MON from the US Embassy, her business dealings are getting her MON into trouble. Natalia travels to Sweden to find that MON Karimova us connected to a bribery case which is linked with MON a money laundering investigation in Switzerland and France. MON Karimova's rivals for power are now taking advantage. Her TV MON stations have been shut down and her charity has been MON subject to a tax investigation. With the story hitting the MON headlines, Karimova has taken to Twitter to defend herself, MON including a virtual encounter with Natalia herself. What is MON the future for GooGoosha and what does this power struggle MON say about the nature of power in one of the world's most MON repressive states? MON MON Producer: Wesley Stephenson. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03phpft (Listen) MON Community Protection MON MON Worldwide, with an increasing human population using more MON and more natural resources, it is often local people and MON local communities who are the first to notice when something MON is out of balance in the natural world. In Britain it was MON otter hunt records that first led to the realisation that MON otter numbers were in steep decline in the late 1950's, a MON result of chemical leachate into watercourses from adjoining MON farmland. So how much influence can a local community have MON in protecting a species for the benefit of the wider MON community? In this programme Monty Don explores this MON question through a field report looking at the decline in MON Napoleon wrasse around the coral reefs of Palau after MON commercial fishing arrived from other parts of Micronesia in MON the 1980's. Local fishermen noticed the wrasse were MON disappearing and brought about their own initiatives to MON protect the species. This episode also explores the level of MON success these local initiatives can have in a wider context. MON MON Producer Andrew Dawes. MON MON Karen Diele MON Dr Karen Diele is a Reader in Marine Sciences at Edinburgh MON Napier University and MASTS, Marine Alliance for Science and MON Technology for Scotland. Karen’s research topics include the MON dynamics, conservation and management of coastal ecosystems, MON in particular mangrove forests, and their fisheries MON resources. She has been conducting primary research on the MON biology, ecology and diversity of marine invertebrates and MON their responses to environmental pressures. Through her MON study on the life-history and functional role of a mangrove MON crab harvested by artisanal fishermen, Karen gained onsite MON experience with community-based marine protected area MON management in Brazil. MON MON Chris Sandbrook MON Chris Sandbrook is a Lecturer in Conservation Leadership at MON the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation MON Monitoring Centre and the University of Cambridge. He works MON to build capacity for conservation leadership through his MON teaching, and conducts interdisciplinary research on MON biodiversity conservation and its relationship with society. MON His current research addresses trade-offs between MON conservation and development at the landscape scale in MON developing countries, and the role of values and evidence in MON shaping the decisions of conservationists and their MON organisations. Before coming to Cambridge he spent several MON years living and working in Uganda, where his PhD research MON investigated the social and environmental impacts of MON mountain gorilla tracking tourism. He writes a blog on MON social issues relating to conservation, called MON Thinking Like a Human MON MON Napoleon Wrasse MON MON Napoleon Wrasse ( MON Cheilinus undulatus MON ) MON MON MON MON Image courtesy of Richard Brooks MON MON Napoleon Wrasse MON MON Napoleon Wrasse ( MON Cheilinus undulatus MON ) MON MON MON MON Image courtesy of Richard Brooks MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03q600h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03q4jjt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03q6crv (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03q6crx (Listen) MON Dissident Gardens, Episode 1 MON MON By Jonathan Lethem MON MON A Twentieth Century American epic by Jonathan Lethem, MON applying his sharp, funny and perfectly crafted prose to an MON alternative history of America which puts a woman at its MON heart - a Jewish, Communist woman, a single mother, a second MON generation immigrant deeply involved in the civil rights MON movement. MON MON In 1955 Rose Zimmer is kicked out of the American Communist MON party for her affair with a black policeman. Her rage and MON her radicalism, her incendiary disappointment in the MON Twentieth Century, prove inescapable for the generations MON that come after her - her idealistic hippy daughter Miriam, MON black stepson Cicero and her lost grandson Sergius. MON MON Jonathan Lethem is perhaps best known for 'Motherless MON Brooklyn', his noir-ish novel about a private detective with MON Tourettes which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, MON and the New York Times bestselling novel 'Fortress of MON Solitude' (named after Superman's ice cave hideaway) MON engaging with race, culture, comic books and cool music in MON the latter decades of the Twentieth Century. His novels MON tease the boundaries of genre and literary fiction. MON MON Read by Laurel Lefkow MON Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder MON MON Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Laurel Lefkow MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy MON Abridger: Elizabeth Reeder MON Author: Jonathan Lethem MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b03phrwl (Listen) MON Office Jargon MON MON Michael Rosen and guests "drill down" into the subject of MON office jargon. With guests including columnist Steven Poole, MON broadcaster Simon Fanshawe and Business Consultant, Julia MON Chanteray. MON MON Most people profess to loathe it, yet eavesdrop on office MON meetings across the UK and you are bound to catch a MON "Heads-up" a "paradigm shift", or at the least a "going MON forward". So why does it proliferate, and why exactly does MON it get under the skin of so many of us. Michael asks his MON guests if office jargon is in fact just another example of a MON language that has evolved to represent complex technical MON issues. They also make an attempt at re-branding the MON programme. MON MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03q6crz (Listen) MON News from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03q4jkx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03kpnjq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03q4jkz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03q4jl1 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03q4jl3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03q4jl5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03q6dzh (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Richard Frazer, Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03q6dzk (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 b03mzv59 (Listen) TUE Lesser White-Fronted Goose TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the story of the Lesser White-Fronted TUE Goose. The lesser white-fronted goose is now a very rare TUE bird in the UK, but the siting in Bristol of the BBC's TUE Natural History Unit, owes much to this bird. TUE TUE Lesser white-fronted goose (Anser erythropus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of Mike Lane (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03q6dzm (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b03q6dzp (Listen) TUE The Working Poor TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the TUE past behind the present. TUE Although there's unease in the air and many caveats included TUE in any reports on the subject it would seem that the British TUE economy is now strengthening. And yet a new challenge is TUE growing, the growing number of people in work who are also TUE facing poverty. TUE That's the story today with a report by the Joseph Rowntree TUE Foundation showing that the number of working families in TUE poverty has now outstripped those without employment. TUE And it was also the story in the late 18th century where TUE farm labourers, particularly in the South of England, found TUE that their wages were being outstripped by the rising price TUE of bread. It was an inflation made worse by a series of bad TUE harvests and the disruption to food imports from war torn TUE France. TUE But when Magistrates met at Speenhamland near Newbury to try TUE and resolve the issue they may well have been concerned not TUE merely by the conditions of local workers but by the TUE upheavals of the French Revolution. Something had to be TUE done. TUE IN this programme Jonathan and his guests tell the story of TUE the Speenhamland system which encouraged local employers to TUE improve their wages but also obliged Parish councils to TUE support labourers with bread to make up for their TUE straightened circumstances. TUE The Speenhamland system spread very quickly but it was TUE roundly criticised as a way of creating a dependency culture TUE and trapping people in poverty and the situation was TUE eventually resolved by the Poor Law amendment act of 1834 TUE and the institution of the Workhouse. TUE How much can we learn from Speenhamland today when the TUE language of poverty appears to be very similar with notions TUE of the 'deserving' and the 'undeserving' poor familiar in TUE the news headlines. TUE That's the Long View of the Working Poor. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03q6dzr (Listen) TUE Professor Iain Hutchison TUE TUE Anita Anand knew she was meant to be a journalist from the TUE moment she covered her first news story. An instinct she TUE followed proved to be correct, and convinced her that she TUE should pursue journalism. TUE TUE In this series of interviews for 'One to One', Anita TUE discovers what drives people to pursue certain careers. Was TUE there an epiphany, something in their very core, or a series TUE of events that motivated them? TUE TUE This week's guest is world-renowned facial surgeon, TUE Professor Iain Hutchison. In the very early part of his TUE career he spent a year working in casualty. He treated many TUE young men with facial injuries sustained in car accidents. TUE He realised that - simply by stitching them up under local TUE anaesthetic - he could make not just a medical, but an TUE emotional difference to their lives. It was this that led TUE him onto his career in facial surgery, and to the TUE establishment of a charity that researches the prevention TUE and treatment of facial diseases and injuries. TUE TUE Next week Anita speaks to Mathew Waddington, a partner in a TUE law firm who chose to specialise in children's law following TUE the death of his daughter. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE Anita Anand and Iain Hutchison TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03kqdzw (Listen) TUE Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal, Episode TUE 2 TUE TUE From the Pizzaro brothers, who pillaged Peru for Inca gold TUE in the 16th century, to the modern-day Mponeng mine in South TUE Africa, the deepest in the world, where the ghost miners TUE illegally siphon off millions - the pursuit of gold has led TUE to wars, insurrections, betrayals and bloodshed. TUE TUE Matthew Hart charts a course through history and across TUE continents to tell the story of the world's most coveted TUE metal. Part history, part journalism and part economic TUE analysis, Gold tells the story of a human obsession that TUE shows no sign of abating. TUE TUE In 2008, when the financial crisis rattled economies, TUE investors inevitably resorted to the perceived safety of TUE gold - and its price escalated from $800 to $1900 an ounce. TUE This, in turn, accelerated the exploration for yet more TUE gold. TUE TUE Matthew Hart is a journalist, whose work has appeared in The TUE Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly and The Globe and Mail. TUE He has written two IMAX films, numerous TV documentaries, TUE and appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes and the National TUE Geographic channel. His previous books include Diamond: The TUE History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair, which was filmed as a TUE documentary by ABC. TUE TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE Abridger: Peter Nichols TUE Author: Matthew Hart TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03q6dzt (Listen) TUE Sophie Ellis-Bextor TUE TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03q6dzw (Listen) TUE November Dead List, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Nick Perry. TUE TUE Nicola Walker stars as a detective in our gritty new crime TUE drama. TUE TUE Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from TUE the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. TUE Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: TUE November Dead List. In our drama, a young priest opens one TUE such envelope and discovers - not a list of the dead but a TUE list of people he knows to be alive, and members of his TUE congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a TUE joke. Then the people named start turning up dead. TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE DI Flood: Nicola Walker TUE Father Manu: Paul Ready TUE John: Steve Toussaint TUE Father Pat: Dermot Crowley TUE Simon: Arthur Hughes TUE Terrence: John Norton TUE Gerry: Stephen Hogan TUE Kevin: Sean Murray TUE Eileen: Carolyn Pickles TUE Journalist: Carys Eleri TUE Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Nick Perry TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03q6dzy (Listen) TUE The Medicinal Planet TUE TUE In recent years some conventional medicines such as TUE anti-biotics have become less effective in treating diseases TUE and infections. With an increasing human population TUE worldwide, the need to discover new medicines for the TUE benefit of human health will potentially become a major TUE issue in the coming years. Many commercially available TUE medicines today can trace their origins to compounds found TUE in the natural world, yet many of those natural compounds TUE are found in rare species, often in natural environments TUE that are now vulnerable due to human activity. Are we in TUE danger of losing these potentially valuable resources before TUE they are even discovered? Monty Don explores this question TUE through a field report from the Elan Valley in mid Wales TUE where a tree lungwort, ravished by pollution and climate TUE change, could provide a potential cure for Creutzfeldt-Jakob TUE disease in humans. Across the world, pharmaceutical TUE companies have begun to revisit the natural world for TUE compounds that may prove beneficial to the future of human TUE health. How many compounds can be sourced from the natural TUE world is impossible to know as until they are discovered and TUE their benefit is unknown, but with increased pressure from TUE human activities in natural areas, what can be done now to TUE ensure the survival of the unknown for future generations? TUE TUE Producer : Andrew Dawes. TUE TUE 11:30 Who Killed Classical Music? b03q6f00 (Listen) TUE The Composer Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei TUE Prokofiev) looks at the increasing disconnection between TUE classical music and its audience. How did composers such as TUE Schoenberg kill off 20th century classical music for all but TUE a small elite audience? TUE TUE Until the early 20th century, each composer of classical TUE music developed his own style built on the traditions of TUE previous composers. Then Arnold Schoenberg changed all this, TUE by devising 'Serialism' where melodies were no longer TUE allowed. TUE TUE In the 1950s, composers such as Pierre Boulez created 'Total TUE Serialism'. Every aspect of a piece of music - rhythms and TUE loudness as well as notes - was rigidly controlled by a TUE fixed formula. TUE TUE And the sense of composers being remote from their audience TUE was exacerbated by the elevation of musical performance to a TUE kind of ritual. TUE TUE But even at a time when Serialism gripped major parts of the TUE classical music establishment, music that was overtly TUE emotional was still being written by composers such as TUE Shostakovich and Prokofiev in Russia. Ironically, in these TUE countries, the State continued to support classical music, TUE whereas in more liberal regimes in Europe it retreated to TUE the intellectual margins. TUE TUE Now the Serialist experiment has been largely abandoned and TUE a whole new generation of composers - including Gabriel TUE himself - is embracing popular culture, just as composers TUE used to in the past when folk music or dance music were a TUE major source of inspiration. TUE TUE So has the death of classical music been exaggerated? Will TUE it find new homes and new means of expression to attract the TUE audiences of the future? TUE TUE With contributions from Arnold Whittall, Stephen Johnson, TUE Alexander Goehr, David Matthews, Ivan Hewett and Tansy TUE Davies. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03q6f8x (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03q4jl7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03q4jl9 (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03q6f8z (Listen) TUE Greater Britains TUE TUE On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will TUE decide in a referendum whether they want their nation TUE henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or TUE remain within the union that has bound Britain together TUE since the Act of Union of 1707. TUE TUE In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of TUE History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces TUE that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and TUE loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally TUE powerful movements that from time to time across the TUE centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. TUE TUE 12: Greater Britains TUE TUE "Between 1815 and 1930, some 19 million people left Great TUE Britain and Ireland permanently in order to live in North TUE America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Initially, TUE many of these outgoing men and women chose to voyage to the TUE lost empire of the United States, but gradually this TUE changed. By the first decade of the 20th century, two thirds TUE of these out-goers opted for Britain's existing settlement TUE empire, the Dominions as they came to be called. If the TUE millions of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish men and women TUE settling overseas in the empire were to be regarded as TUE "communities of citizens" still owning "the name of Britons" TUE - then what new acts of union would be required in order to TUE sustain their cohesion and allegiance? On what kinds of TUE foundations could Greater Britain, as many commentators TUE chose to call it, durably be constructed?" TUE TUE Producer: Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03q6crn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03q69c7 (Listen) TUE Paradigm TUE TUE 'Shameless' meets 'The Truman Show' in a new dark comedy by TUE Sean Grundy. TUE TUE Members of the Kilmartin family struggle with deception, TUE betrayal and a local authority official who knows jujitsu TUE when they discover that their lives aren't quite what they TUE thought they were. TUE TUE Directed by Alison Crawford. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rasha: Sirine Saba TUE Alan: Anton Lesser TUE Mrs Khory: Nina Wadia TUE Mrs Oud: Souad Farres TUE Dr Mansour: Peter Polycarpou TUE Shehadi: Zubin Varla TUE Elias: Amir El Masry TUE Sara: Georgie Fuller TUE Walid: Jude Edriss TUE Writer: Selma Dabbagh TUE Director: Sarah Bradshaw TUE Producer: Sarah Bradshaw TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b03q8z3x (Listen) TUE Series that looks at the latest historic research and TUE showcases listeners' passions. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b03q8z3z (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people are led by TUE the head or by the heart? How rational are we? and how do we TUE perceive the world? TUE TUE It's a curious blend of intriguing experiments to discover TUE our biases and judgements, explorations and examples taken TUE from what's in the news to what we do in the kitchen, all TUE driven by a large slice of curiosity. TUE TUE Michael Blastland is joined by Nick Chater, Professor of TUE Behavioural Science at Warwick University, who is on hand as TUE guide and experimenter in chief. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b03q8z41 (Listen) TUE How accurate are scientific metaphors? TUE TUE Gravity is like a bowling ball sitting on a bed sheet; the TUE atom is like a mini solar system, genes are selfish and the TUE forces of evolution are blind... TUE TUE We're familiar with the metaphors from school, from books TUE and various science docs on the telly. But how accurate are TUE these metaphors and could we find better ones? TUE TUE Michael Rosen talks to science explainers across the country TUE to find out how you get across ideas in science that are TUE only properly expressed in highly technical language or in TUE maths. Are they necessarily vague, even misleading, or are TUE some just perfect for the concept they express. TUE TUE Michael looks at the evolution of scientific metaphors in TUE history and celebrates some of the great science explainers TUE of the past. But he also asks whether some metaphors are not TUE only inaccurate but dangerous as they lead to TUE misunderstandings in the public conversation about science TUE and scientific ideas. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03q8z43 (Listen) TUE Series 32, Mark Constantine on Kahlil Gibran TUE TUE Snubbed and practically ignored by the literary TUE establishment in the West, this week's Great Live is Kahlil TUE Gibran author of 'The Prophet'. Regarded by millions as a TUE world class poet his work, published in 1923, has never been TUE out of print and next to the bible is the biggest selling TUE book in America. Businessman Mark Constantine champions the TUE poet and together with the actor Nadim Sawalha. Matthew TUE Parris is the presenter. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Mark Constantine TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03q8z45 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03q4jlf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Chain Reaction b03q8z47 (Listen) TUE Series 9, Neil Innes talks to Graham Linehan TUE TUE Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show TUE where last week's interviewee becomes this week's TUE interviewer. TUE TUE The chain continues this week with ex-Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band TUE member and Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes talking to TUE comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. TUE TUE Producer ... Carl Cooper. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03q8z49 (Listen) TUE Ed feels guilty, and it's all systems go for Neil. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03q8z4c (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03q6dzw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03q8z4f (Listen) TUE Last month a report by a government advisor, Lawrence TUE Tomlinson, accused The Royal Bank of Scotland of forcing TUE some viable businesses into insolvency. The Bank has denied TUE Tomlinson's claims and has asked a leading law firm to carry TUE out an independent investigation. With their findings due to TUE be published shortly, File on 4 assesses the evidence. TUE TUE Jane Deith speaks to families who claim their companies were TUE unfairly forced to the wall and their lives ruined as a TUE result of the actions of the Bank's Global Restructuring TUE Group. TUE TUE Billed as the equivalent of an intensive care unit designed TUE to help nurse distressed businesses back to health, did the TUE Global Restructuring Group kill some of them off instead? TUE And was RBS able to profit as a result? TUE TUE With a rising tide of complaints against the taxpayer-owned TUE bank, the Financial Conduct Authority is beginning its own TUE investigation. TUE TUE So, was RBS being predatory or prudent? TUE TUE Reporter: Jane Deith TUE Producer: Nicola Dowling. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03q8z4h (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03q8z4k (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b03q6dzp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03q4jlh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03q8z4m (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03q8z4p (Listen) TUE Dissident Gardens, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Jonathan Lethem TUE TUE A Twentieth Century American epic by prize-winning novelist TUE Jonathan Lethem, applying his sharp, funny and perfectly TUE crafted prose to an alternative history of America which TUE puts a woman at its heart - a Jewish, Communist woman, a TUE single mother, a second generation immigrant deeply involved TUE in the civil rights movement. TUE TUE In 1955 Rose Zimmer is kicked out of the American Communist TUE party for her affair with a black policeman. Her ire and her TUE radicalism, her incendiary disappointment in the Twentieth TUE Century, prove inescapable for the generations that come TUE after her - her idealistic hippy daughter Miriam, black TUE stepson Cicero and her lost grandson Sergius. TUE TUE Episode 2: Teenage Miriam plays on her parents' Communist TUE credentials to impress her friends, and risks her mother's TUE despair-fuelled rage when she sneaks a boy home. TUE TUE Read by Laurel Lefkow TUE Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder TUE TUE Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Laurel Lefkow TUE Producer: Allegra McIlroy TUE Abridger: Elizabeth Reeder TUE Author: Jonathan Lethem TUE TUE 23:00 Shappi Talk b00x41ng (Listen) TUE Series 2, History TUE TUE Shappi Khorsandi looks at a variety of subjects close to her TUE Iranian heart - including Politics, Addiction and, in this TUE programme, History. TUE TUE Having an incident filled, historical background herself, TUE Shappi looks back at a variety of historical figures and TUE moments in history, comparing our current lives. TUE TUE Joining her is iconic comedian Simon Evans, who puts his own TUE idiosyncratic spin on history, and TV historian Adam TUE Hart-Davis, who has a chat with Shappi about his love of TUE everything historic. There's also a comic song from Duncan TUE Oakley. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Shappi Khorsandi TUE Interviewed Guest: Adam Hart-Davis TUE Interviewed Guest: Simon Evans TUE Interviewed Guest: Duncan Oakley TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03q8z4r (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03q4jmf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03kqdzw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03q4jmh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03q4jmk (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03q4jmm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03q4jmp (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03q96bv (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Richard Frazer, Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03q96bx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv5m (Listen) WED Coot WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Chris Packham presents the story of the Coot. The explosive WED high-pitched call of the coot is probably a sound most of us WED associate with our local park lakes. Coot are dumpy, WED charcoal-coloured birds related to moorhens, though unlike WED their cousins, they tend to spend more time on open water, WED often in large flocks in winter. WED WED Coot (Fulica atra) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03q96bz (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03q96c1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03ktz05 (Listen) WED Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal, Episode WED 3 WED WED From the Pizzaro brothers, who pillaged Peru for Inca gold WED in the 16th century, to the modern-day Mponeng mine in South WED Africa, the deepest in the world, where the ghost miners WED illegally siphon off millions - the pursuit of gold has led WED to wars, insurrections, betrayals and bloodshed. WED WED Matthew Hart charts a course through history and across WED continents to tell the story of the world's most coveted WED metal. Part history, part journalism and part economic WED analysis, Gold tells the story of a human obsession that WED shows no sign of abating. WED WED In 2008, when the financial crisis rattled economies, WED investors inevitably resorted to the perceived safety of WED gold - and its price escalated from $800 to $1900 an ounce. WED This, in turn, accelerated the exploration for yet more WED gold. WED WED Matthew Hart is a journalist, whose work has appeared in The WED Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly and The Globe and Mail. WED He has written two IMAX films, numerous TV documentaries, WED and appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes and the National WED Geographic channel. His previous books include Diamond: The WED History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair, which was filmed as a WED documentary by ABC. WED WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Karen Rose WED Abridger: Peter Nichols WED Author: Matthew Hart WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03q96c3 (Listen) WED Menopause WED WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03q96c5 (Listen) WED November Dead List, Episode 3 WED WED By Nick Perry. WED WED Nicola Walker stars as a detective in our gritty new crime WED drama. WED WED Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from WED the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. WED Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: WED November Dead List. In our drama, a young priest opens one WED such envelope and discovers - not a list of the dead but a WED list of people he knows to be alive, and members of his WED congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a WED joke. Then the people named start turning up dead. WED WED After questioning by police in connection to a murder WED enquiry, a parish priest suddenly absconds. The detective WED travels to Ireland in pursuit. WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED DI Flood: Nicola Walker WED Father Manu: Paul Ready WED John: Steve Toussaint WED Father Pat: Dermot Crowley WED Simon: Arthur Hughes WED Terrence: John Norton WED Gerry: Stephen Hogan WED Kevin: Sean Murray WED Eileen: Carolyn Pickles WED Journalist: Carys Eleri WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: Nick Perry WED WED 11:00 Return to Angola b03m43g7 (Listen) WED Luanda, the capital of Angola, is currently the most WED expensive city in the world. Along the seafront, recently WED revamped at a cost of $350 million, Africa's most expensive WED one-bedroom apartment was snapped up for $9million, and a WED hamburger will set you back $30. WED WED Yet forty years ago it was a war zone. Angola won its WED independence and hundreds of thousands of Portuguese WED colonialists fled in panic. WED WED Now they're coming back and BBC Africa Editor Mary Harper WED finds out why. She meets some of the Portuguese who are WED leaving the economic crisis at home to cash in on Angola's WED oil-driven boom, and uncovers the tensions this reversal of WED fortunes is creating between the once-colonised and their WED former rulers. The migrant flood has been recent and rapid. WED In 2006, only 156 Portuguese emigrated to Angola. In 2012, WED there were 30,000. WED WED Among the Portuguese returnees, is a scuba diving instructor WED from the Algarve, now earning double in Luanda, and a young WED family from Portugal raising their children as Angolans. WED WED As well as providing jobs, and lucrative construction and WED engineering contracts, Angolans are also propping Portugal WED up by investing heavily on Portuguese soil - in the banking, WED energy and telecoms sectors. But just days before the Radio WED 4 team arrived in Luanda, the usually taciturn Angolan WED president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, gave an outspoken WED speech, saying all was not well with Portuguese relations. WED WED Producer: Eve Streeter WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b03q98yj (Listen) WED Series 9, Away Day Wey Hey WED WED Episode Three - Away Day Wey Hey WED WED Clare and the rest of the Sparrowhawk team are forced to WED take part in a team-building away day, much to Clare's WED disapproval. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life In today's Big WED Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an WED involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Simon: Andrew Wincott WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Student: Alex Tregear WED Young Clare: Alex Tregear WED Jenny: Carolyn Pickles WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03q98yl (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b03q9dc8 (Listen) WED Tried and Tested? WED WED Original investigations into social injustice, public WED policy, inefficiency and fraud. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03q4jmr (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03q9dcb (Listen) WED Europe WED WED On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will WED decide in a referendum whether they want their nation WED henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or WED remain within the union that has bound Britain together WED since the Act of Union of 1707. WED WED In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of WED History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces WED that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and WED loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally WED powerful movements that from time to time across the WED centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. WED WED Programme 13: Europe WED WED "At intervals these islands were politically linked to parts WED of Continental Europe, and ruled by monarchs who viewed WED their position very much in European terms. And, while the WED sea could deter invasions and operate as a psychological WED barrier, it was also a highway and a bridge. It was not just WED money and culture that rendered elite Britons such WED incorrigible European Grand Tourists in the 18th century. WED Nor was it simply politics that made London such a haven for WED Continental exiles in the 19th century. In both cases, the WED seas around these islands and the easy transport they WED afforded aided European-wide contacts and exchanges..." WED WED Producer: Simon Elmes. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03q8z49 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03q9q2j (Listen) WED Demon Brother, Episode 1 WED WED By Matthew Broughton WED WED When Jasper finds his father dead, a dark mystery begins to WED unfold. His dad kept a secret - Jasper has a twin brother, WED Eddie, whom he's never met. After the funeral the two WED brothers decide to swap lives. As Jasper escapes the WED confines of his faltering marriage and attempts to track WED down his father's killer, he soon discovers that with his WED new found freedom comes the threat of extreme danger. WED WED A dark thriller in two parts that reflect each other: The WED first tells Jasper's story. The second tells Eddie's. WED WED Demon Brother is a story about identity, sex and death. WED Shaun Dingwall (New Tricks, Young Victoria, Doctor Who) WED stars opposite himself as the two brothers, Jasper and Eddie WED - one good and one very bad. Valene Kane (The Fall) makes WED her radio debut as Jasper's wife Caitlin. With supporting WED performances from Vera Filatova (Peep Show) and Kenneth WED Cranham (Made in Dagenham, Layer Cake, Shine on Harvey WED Moon). WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Jasper: Shaun Dingwall WED Eddie: Shaun Dingwall WED Ricky Paggett: Kenneth Cranham WED Nancy: Vera Filatova WED Terry: Simon Ludders WED Doctor: John Norton WED Policeman: John Norton WED Director: James Robinson WED Writer: Matthew Broughton WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03q9q2l (Listen) WED Need help managing borrowing costs, paying off Christmas WED excess or dealing with debt problems? Paul Lewis and guests WED will be ready with help and advice on Wednesday's Money Box WED Live. Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Are you looking for a better credit card rate or a 0% WED interest deal to help you pay off existing borrowing? WED WED If you need to take out a loan, which charge the least and WED what are the pros and cons? WED WED How do you improve your credit rating to access cheaper WED finance? WED WED And if your monthly costs are becoming unmanageable where WED can you turn for free help to get your finances back on WED track? WED WED Maybe you need to know about bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Debt WED relief orders (DROs) or Individual Voluntary Arrangements WED (IVAs)? WED WED To answer your questions Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Laura Howard, Money Editor, MoneySuperMarket.com WED Dennis Hussey, Money Adviser, National Debtline WED James Jones, Head of Consumer Affairs, Experian WED Liz McVey, Debt Advisor Manager, StepChange Debt Charity, WED Scotland WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03q8z4k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03q9q2n (Listen) WED Bhangra and Belonging; Why Music Matters WED WED Why Music Matters: David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Music WED and Media Industries, examines the role of music in our WED lives and the ways in which it enriches people and society, WED or fails to do so. What is music's political and social WED significance beyond the pleasure it brings? He's joined by WED Caspar Melville, Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural WED Industries. Also, 'Bhangra and Belonging': Falu Bakrania, US WED lecturer in Race and Resistance Studies, discusses her WED research into the social life of British Asian musical WED culture in the late 90s. How did Bhangra, a fusion of WED Punjabi folk music with hip hop elements, break into the WED mainstream and what was its effect on the identities and WED lives of young British Asians. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED David Hesmondhalgh WED WED Professor of Media and Music Industries at the University of WED Leeds WED WED WED WED Find out more about WED David Hesmondhalgh WED WED WED ‘Why Music Matters’ WED Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell WED ISBN-10: 1405192410 WED ISBN-13: 978-1405192415 WED WED Caspar Melville WED WED Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at the WED School of Oriental and African Studies, London WED WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Caspar Melville WED WED Falu Bakrania WED WED Associate Professor & Acting Director Race and Resistance WED Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State WED University; Co-director, South Asian Studies Initiative WED WED WED WED Find out more about WED Falu Bakrania WED WED WED Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the WED Politics of Belonging in Britain WED Publisher: Duke University Press WED ISBN-10: 0822353172 WED ISBN-13: 978-0822353171 WED WED Ethnography Award WED WED Thank you for all your entries. WED WED WED WED These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, WED Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise WED Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor WED Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, WED originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The WED work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of WED 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03q9q2q (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 b03q9w0l (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03q4jmt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03q9w0n (Listen) WED Series 5, St Davids WED WED Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the WED award winning show that travels around the country, WED researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns WED that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and does a WED bespoke evening of comedy in each one. WED WED As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the WED next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the WED local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering WED to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in WED the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from WED Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay. WED WED This edition comes from St Davids, Pembrokeshire, which is WED technically a city - with the emphasis on the technically. WED He discusses lifeboats, art and wildlife, and discovers that WED in this sleepy coastal community, they are sometimes very WED rude but sometimes very, very friendly. Almost too friendly. WED But only if you're into that sort of thing. WED WED Written and performed by ... Mark Steel WED Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair WED Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens WED Producer ... Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Mark Steel WED Writer: Mark Steel WED Writer: Pete Sinclair WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03q9w0q (Listen) WED Pat tries to form an alliance. Meanwhile George is not WED happy. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03q9w0s (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03q96c5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b03q9w0v (Listen) WED Series 7, Sibling Rivalry WED WED From Cain and Abel to today, Mariella Frostrup and guests WED explore sibling rivalry, how parents should deal with it and WED whether it can be ended. WED WED Producer: Emma Kingsley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03qg8bk (Listen) WED Series 4, Emile Simpson WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Beauty and the Brain b03qb093 (Listen) WED Dr Tiffany Jenkins asks what our brains can tell us about WED art. Can there ever be a recipe for beauty, or are the great WED works beyond the powers of neuroscience? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03q96c1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03q4jmw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03qb095 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03qb097 (Listen) WED Dissident Gardens, Episode 3 WED WED By Jonathan Lethem WED WED A Twentieth Century American epic by prize-winning novelist WED Jonathan Lethem, applying his sharp, funny and perfectly WED crafted prose to an alternative history of America which WED puts a woman at its heart - a Jewish, Communist woman, a WED single mother, a second generation immigrant deeply involved WED in the civil rights movement. WED WED In 1955 Rose Zimmer is kicked out of the American Communist WED party for her affair with a black policeman. Her ire and her WED radicalism, her incendiary disappointment in the Twentieth WED Century, prove inescapable for the generations that come WED after her - her idealistic hippy daughter Miriam, black WED stepson Cicero and her lost grandson Sergius. WED WED Episode 3: Miriam sneaks a boy home and ignites a life WED changing row. Single mother Rose and teenage Miriam are WED caught in a dramatically escalating argument with WED consequences that spool out into both of their lives. WED WED Read by Laurel Lefkow WED Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder WED Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Laurel Lefkow WED Producer: Allegra McIlroy WED Abridger: Elizabeth Reeder WED Author: Jonathan Lethem WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03qf2rn (Listen) WED Series 2, Medicine WED WED Comedian Tim Key grapples with the concept of medicine by WED telling poems. He also attempts to cure his guitarist, Tom WED Basden, of an ailment. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:15 iGod b00wwc1r (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy WED series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and WED David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the WED head writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It, WED Sean Gray and produced by Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week WED / News At Bedtime). WED WED We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and WED environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD WED says that trying to predict the end of the world is as WED pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow. WED WED In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul WED - Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be WED worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining WED apocalypses on parallel Earths. Each week our case study is WED a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to WED accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel WED world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a WED lie, being lazy, cooking some lambshanks). A succession of WED comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel WED world. WED WED With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and WED surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED Written by WED SEAN GRAY WED WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED Credits WED The Narrator: Simon Day WED Ian: David Soul WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Alex MacQueen WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Producer: Simon Nicholls WED Writer: Simon Gray WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03qf3mb (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 JANUARY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03q4jnx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03ktz05 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03q4jnz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03q4jp1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03q4jp3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03q4jp5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03qf7qq (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Richard Frazer, Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03qf7qs (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv60 (Listen) THU Moorhen THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Chris Packham presents the story of the Moorhen. Almost THU anywhere there's freshwater you might hear or see a moorhen. THU They're easy to identify from their red and yellow bill, red THU shield on the forehead and green-ish yellow legs with a red THU patch that looks like a garter. THU THU Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03qf7qv (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03qf7qx (Listen) THU Sources of Early Chinese History THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early THU Chinese history. The first attempts to make a record of THU historical events in China date from the Shang dynasty of THU the second millennium BC. The earliest surviving records THU were inscribed on bones or tortoise shells; in later THU centuries, chroniclers left detailed accounts on paper or THU silk. Interpreting these ancient sources from the period THU before printing presents a number of challenges, and THU recently discovered texts are providing new insights into THU early Chinese history. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03kv1dq (Listen) THU Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal, Episode THU 4 THU THU From the Pizzaro brothers, who pillaged Peru for Inca gold THU in the 16th century, to the modern-day Mponeng mine in South THU Africa, the deepest in the world, where the ghost miners THU illegally siphon off millions - the pursuit of gold has led THU to wars, insurrections, betrayals and bloodshed. THU THU Matthew Hart charts a course through history and across THU continents to tell the story of the world's most coveted THU metal. Part history, part journalism and part economic THU analysis, Gold tells the story of a human obsession that THU shows no sign of abating. THU THU In 2008, when the financial crisis rattled economies, THU investors inevitably resorted to the perceived safety of THU gold - and its price escalated from $800 to $1900 an ounce. THU This, in turn, accelerated the exploration for yet more THU gold. THU THU Matthew Hart is a journalist, whose work has appeared in The THU Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly and The Globe and Mail. THU He has written two IMAX films, numerous TV documentaries, THU and appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes and the National THU Geographic channel. His previous books include Diamond: The THU History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair, which was filmed as a THU documentary by ABC. THU THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Karen Rose THU Abridger: Peter Nichols THU Author: Matthew Hart THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03qf7qz (Listen) THU Angelique Kidjo THU THU Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jane Garvey THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03qf7r1 (Listen) THU November Dead List, Episode 4 THU THU By Nick Perry. THU THU Nicola Walker stars as a detective in our gritty new crime THU drama. THU THU Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from THU the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. THU Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: THU November Dead List. In our drama, a young priest opens one THU such envelope and discovers - not a list of the dead but a THU list of people he knows to be alive, and members of his THU congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a THU joke. Then the people named start turning up dead. THU THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU Credits THU DI Flood: Nicola Walker THU Father Manu: Paul Ready THU John: Steve Toussaint THU Father Pat: Dermot Crowley THU Simon: Arthur Hughes THU Terrence: John Norton THU Gerry: Stephen Hogan THU Kevin: Sean Murray THU Eileen: Carolyn Pickles THU Journalist: Carys Eleri THU Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko THU Writer: Nick Perry THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03qf7r3 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Trollope b03qf7r5 (Listen) THU This is the story of Anthony Trollope, an (apparently) THU utterly English and conservative writer, whose life cuts THU against what Barchester readers might expect of him. This THU was a man raised by high born parents who had lost their THU money, who was bullied in his teens, who joined the Post THU Office and took an assignment in Ireland to escape THU professional and financial difficulties. He took to the THU Irish people so much that the English literati accused him THU of 'going native', yet he became one of our best loved THU novelists. He wrote over 50 books, insisted that he only THU wrote for money, and penned many of them on trains en route THU to inspect rural post offices. What kind of a man was he? THU And why does his work still resonate so strongly for readers THU across the English-speaking world. Is it, as WH Auden said, THU because he's one of the only English novelists truly to THU understand money and work? Presented by the poet Michael THU Symmons Roberts - who has been adapting Trollope's novels THU for Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03qflhc (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03q4jp7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03q4jp9 (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03qflhf (Listen) THU Constitutions THU THU On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will THU decide in a referendum whether they want their nation THU henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or THU remain within the union that has bound Britain together THU since the Act of Union of 1707. THU THU In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of THU History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces THU that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and THU loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally THU powerful movements that from time to time across the THU centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. THU THU Programme 14: Constitutions THU THU "The absence of a British written constitution has become so THU familiar that it is easily taken for granted, or treated as THU a subject for self-congratulation or (increasingly) for THU mockery. Yet, how did this now eccentric situation come THU about, and what does it tell us about identities and civic THU belonging in these islands?" THU THU Producer: Simon Elmes. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03q9w0q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03qflhh (Listen) THU Demon Brother, Episode 2 THU THU By Matthew Broughton THU THU When Eddie finds out he has an identical twin brother, THU Jasper, he sees an opportunity to escape his seedy life of THU petty crime. He decides to steal Jasper's life. But as Eddie THU begins to fall in love with Jasper's wife, Caitlin, he THU discovers a side of himself he never knew existed. THU THU A dark thriller in two parts that reflect each other: The THU first tells Jasper's story. The second tells Eddie's. THU THU Demon Brother is a story about identity, sex and death. THU Shaun Dingwall (New Tricks, Young Victoria, Doctor Who) THU stars opposite himself as the two brothers, Jasper and Eddie THU - one good and one very bad. Valene Kane (The Fall) makes THU her radio debut as Jasper's wife Caitlin. With supporting THU performances from Vera Filatova (Peep Show) and Kenneth THU Cranham (Made in Dagenham, Layer Cake, Shine on Harvey THU Moon). THU THU Directed by James Robinson THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU Jasper: Shaun Dingwall THU Eddie: Shaun Dingwall THU Caitlin: Valene Kane THU Ricky Paggett: Kenneth Cranham THU Nancy: Vera Filatova THU Terry: Simon Ludders THU Prison Warder: John Norton THU Waiter: John Norton THU Director: James Robinson THU Writer: Matthew Broughton THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03qflhk (Listen) THU Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage THU THU Helen Mark explores the aviation heritage of Lincolnshire, a THU county criss-crossed with former airfields, and finds out THU how they are being used today. THU THU She visits Woodhall Spa's airfield, once home to the THU Dambusters squadron and until recently, a sand and gravel THU quarry. Bordered by nature reserves, the Lincolnshire THU Wildlife Trust aim to buy the airfield and return it to the THU heathland it once was, as described by local Victorian THU naturalist, Joseph Burdett-Davey. Evidence of its past THU remains in the form of concrete and tarmac runways, lakes THU which were formed by sand excavation and more surprisingly, THU alien plants that arrived on the kit of the Australian and THU New Zealand air-crews who worked here in the 1940s. THU THU Helen meets Dora Garner who lived on the edge of the THU airfield in 1942. She recalls playing on the planes, writing THU messages on bombs in chalk, and one morning discovering the THU nose of a Lancaster bomber three yards from the bedroom THU window, after it slipped its moorings in the night. THU THU Open Country takes a trip to the Aviation Heritage Centre at THU East Kirkby to meet Harold Panton and his family. Harold and THU his brother Fred built a chicken farm on the old runway THU there, which now sits side-by-side with their privately THU owned museum. It's the only place in the country where you THU can still take a taxy-ride in a Lancaster Bomber. THU THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03q51p7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03q59sv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03qflhm (Listen) THU Meryl Streep on August Osage County; Oscar Isaac on Inside THU Llewyn Davis; Sundance festival THU THU Francine Stock talks to Meryl Streep about her role as THU vicious matriarch in August: Osage County, based on a THU widely-praised play by Tracy Letts. Streep has picked up her THU 18th Oscar nomination for the part, starring alongside Julia THU Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Juliette Lewis. The plot follows THU a family gathering to bury the head of the family after his THU suicide. THU THU Plus Oscar Isaac on playing a failing folk musician in the THU latest offering from the Coen Brothers, Inside Llweyn Davis. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Meryl Streep THU Interviewed Guest: Oscar Isaac THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03qflhp (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 b03qflhr (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03q4jpc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b015brnj (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU THU John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular THU guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda THU and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of THU his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang THU on, that system means starting the whole series with the THU least funny sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a THU new show filled with sketches written and performed by John THU Finnemore, but now no longer arranged in strict order of THU funniness. Also, he's cut the sketch that would have gone THU first. THU THU In this third edition, the show visits some THU documentary-makers, has a big debate, and then treats itself THU to a little trophy. THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News THU Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of THU Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six THU Impossible Things). THU THU Producer: Ed Morrish. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Performer: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03qflht (Listen) THU Tom tries to make amends. Meanwhile Jim is convinced that he THU is right. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03qflhw (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03qf7r1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03qflhy (Listen) THU Oakwood Prison THU THU Following the recent riot at Britain's largest prison, in THU which around 20 prisoners caused damage to cells and prison THU property, Hannah Barnes investigates what caused it. THU THU Oakwood has faced a troubled history since it opened in THU April 2012, with several rooftop protests and a number of THU damning reports into its operation to contend with. The THU Report speaks to those who have spent time at the prison, THU both as inmates and staff, and asks why there have been so THU many challenges in less than two years. THU THU The programme explores the changes taking place across the THU prison estate, and examines whether the most recent incident THU at HMP Oakwood is a sign of wider problems facing the UK THU prison estate. THU What Caused the Prison Riots? THU An Inside Job? THU THU 20:30 In Business b03qflj0 (Listen) THU Peter Day travels to Cork in Ireland to find out what life THU is really like in a country just recently realised from the THU constraints of an EU bailout. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03qflhp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03qf7qx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03q4jpf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03qflj2 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03qflj4 (Listen) THU Dissident Gardens, Episode 4 THU THU By Jonathan Lethem THU THU A Twentieth Century American epic by prize-winning novelist THU Jonathan Lethem, applying his sharp, funny and perfectly THU crafted prose to an alternative history of America which THU puts a woman at its heart - a Jewish, Communist woman, a THU single mother, a second generation immigrant deeply involved THU in the civil rights movement. THU THU In 1955 Rose Zimmer is kicked out of the American Communist THU party for her affair with a black policeman. Her ire and her THU radicalism, her incendiary disappointment in the Twentieth THU Century, prove inescapable for the generations that come THU after her - her idealistic hippy daughter Miriam, black THU stepson Cicero and her lost grandson Sergius. THU THU Episode 4: Miriam takes teenage Cicero under her wing. Years THU later he meets her adult son Sergius. THU Read by Laurel Lefkow THU THU Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder THU THU Produced by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Laurel Lefkow THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy THU Abridger: Elizabeth Reeder THU Author: Jonathan Lethem THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00yyc83 (Listen) THU Series 1, Juradia THU THU by Bill Dare THU THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have had a number of bizarre adventures. THU THU This week we hear about his travels in Juradia, a country THU where every other person is a lawyer. THU THU Produced by Steven Canny THU THU Brian Gulliver's Travels is a new satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and award winning star of the RSC's THU current season, Mariah Gale. Cast includes fantastic actors THU Tamsin Greig, John Standing, Paul Bhattacharjee, Christopher THU Douglas, Catherine Shepherd, Vicky Pepperdine, Phil THU Cornwell, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Jo Bobin and Katherine THU Jakeways. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Satirical targets over the series: the medical profession THU and its need to pathologize everything; the effect of THU marriage on children; spirituality and pseudo-science; THU compensation culture; sexism; the affect of our obsession THU with fame. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU About Brian Gulliver's Travels THU Brian Gulliver's Travels is a new satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and award winning star of the RSC's THU current season, Mariah Gale. Cast includes fantastic actors THU Tamsin Greig, John Standing, Paul Bhattacharjee, Christopher THU Douglas, Catherine Shepherd, Vicky Pepperdine, Phil THU Cornwell, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Jo Bobin and Katherine THU Jakeways. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Satirical targets over the series: the medical profession THU and its need to pathologize everything; the effect of THU marriage on children; spirituality and pseudo-science; THU compensation culture; sexism; the affect of our obsession THU with fame. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU Credits THU Brian Gulliver: Neil Pearson THU Rachel: Mariah Gale THU Dr Malik: Paul Bhattacharjee THU Gertian: Tamsin Greig THU Lawyer: John Standing THU Copper: Nyasha Hatendi THU Solicitor: Sam Dale THU Producer: Steven Canny THU Writer: Bill Dare THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03qflj6 (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03q4jqc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03kv1dq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03q4jqf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03q4jqh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03q4jqk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03q4jqm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03qflzj (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Richard Frazer, Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03qflzl (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv6d (Listen) FRI Merlin FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the story of the merlin. These FRI diminutive falcons nest in deep heather on moorland, mainly FRI in the north and west. In winter they also hunt over open FRI country, hillsides and coastal marshes. The male merlin or FRI jack is our smallest falcon, about the size of a mistle FRI thrush. FRI FRI Merlin (Falco columbarius) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03qflzn (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03q56ks (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03kv6kz (Listen) FRI Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal, Episode FRI 5 FRI FRI From the Pizzaro brothers, who pillaged Peru for Inca gold FRI in the 16th century, to the modern-day Mponeng mine in South FRI Africa, the deepest in the world, where the ghost miners FRI illegally siphon off millions - the pursuit of gold has led FRI to wars, insurrections, betrayals and bloodshed. FRI FRI Matthew Hart charts a course through history and across FRI continents to tell the story of the world's most coveted FRI metal. Part history, part journalism and part economic FRI analysis, Gold tells the story of a human obsession that FRI shows no sign of abating. FRI FRI In 2008, when the financial crisis rattled economies, FRI investors inevitably resorted to the perceived safety of FRI gold - and its price escalated from $800 to $1900 an ounce. FRI This, in turn, accelerated the exploration for yet more FRI gold. FRI FRI Matthew Hart is a journalist, whose work has appeared in The FRI Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly and The Globe and Mail. FRI He has written two IMAX films, numerous TV documentaries, FRI and appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes and the National FRI Geographic channel. His previous books include Diamond: The FRI History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair, which was filmed as a FRI documentary by ABC. FRI FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI Abridger: Peter Nichols FRI Author: Matthew Hart FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03qflzz (Listen) FRI Sheila McClennon presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03qflzq (Listen) FRI November Dead List, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Nick Perry. FRI FRI Nicola Walker stars as a detective in our gritty new crime FRI drama. FRI FRI Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from FRI the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. FRI Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: FRI November Dead List. In our drama, a young priest opens one FRI such envelope and discovers - not a list of the dead but a FRI list of people he knows to be alive, and members of his FRI congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a FRI joke. Then the people named start turning up dead. FRI FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI Credits FRI DI Flood: Nicola Walker FRI Father Manu: Paul Ready FRI John: Steve Toussaint FRI Father Pat: Dermot Crowley FRI Simon: Arthur Hughes FRI Terrence: John Norton FRI Gerry: Stephen Hogan FRI Kevin: Sean Murray FRI Eileen: Carolyn Pickles FRI Journalist: Carys Eleri FRI Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI Writer: Nick Perry FRI FRI 11:00 The Flaw at the Heart of the Wirtschaftswunder FRI b03qfzgd (Listen) FRI With its labour force likely to decline by 6.5 million FRI people by 2025, huge numbers of southern Europeans are FRI moving to Germany. About half a million people have settled FRI in Europe's powerhouse economy, fleeing the struggling, FRI unemployment-ridden economies of Italy, Spain and Greece. FRI FRI But there's a deeper reason behind this extraordinary, FRI sudden demographic shift at the heart of Europe than FRI Germany's new 'economic miracle': The Fatherland can make FRI the euros, but it can't make the babies. Germany's FRI demographic crisis has been creeping up on the country for FRI years and it has been called "the most important political FRI and social challenge in the coming decades for Germany" FRI FRI John Laurenson travels to Germany to gauge how this FRI demographic crisis stems partly because of falling FRI unemployment. While joblessness has soared in much of FRI Europe, it is now at its lowest rate since 1990 in Germany. FRI FRI There are not enough people to drive the trains, dispose of FRI the carefully sorted rubbish or mend its broken 'toiletten'. FRI FRI At 1.39 children per woman, this shortage is new, but the FRI effects are now becoming a big problem. Of EU countries only FRI Ireland comes close to having the number of children 2.1 FRI needed to maintain its population FRI FRI The German government has come up with incentives schemes to FRI persuade its young adults to add to reverse this decline in FRI numbers, John explores though how this just isn't working FRI and the government having to look outside its borders FRI FRI According to economists though this is short term fix for a FRI problem which could halt Germans economic progress for FRI decades to come FRI "In the short term, this can help. But in all likelihood, FRI many of these people from southern Europe will return to FRI their country of origin as soon as the economic situation FRI there improves. What Germany really needs to do is attract FRI workers from outside of Europe. But government policies are FRI not geared up for that." FRI FRI John find out how childless German women feel about FRI contributing to this shortfall and what are the reasons for FRI them choosing a life without children as well as meeting one FRI family with four young children, a rarity in modern day FRI Germany FRI FRI Are Germans really ready to accept the changes that huge FRI scale immigration might bring? Germany was long attached to FRI an ethnic definition of nationality. Unlike, say, the French FRI way of defining who was and wasn't part of their nation, the FRI Germans defined German-ness by blood not birth. Is this FRI still true today? FRI FRI 11:30 Ayres on the Air b03qfzgg (Listen) FRI Series 5, Horses FRI FRI Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories FRI and sketches, this week on a subject close to her heart: FRI Horses. FRI FRI She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey FRI Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband FRI 'Gordon'. FRI FRI This week Pam talks about her first memories of going to the FRI races as a little girl, about the significance of leg FRI positioning in statues of horses, and she shares an FRI intriguing story of being flattered by a stranger's FRI attentions at the Badminton Horse Trials. FRI FRI Poems include: The Racehorse Fred, The Stuffed Horse & FRI Dreaming of Fresh Fields. FRI FRI Sketch writers: James Bugg, Jan Etherington, Grainne FRI McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. FRI FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03qfzgj (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03q4jqp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03q4jqr (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03qfzgl (Listen) FRI Pasts and Futures FRI FRI On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will FRI decide in a referendum whether they want their nation FRI henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or FRI remain within the union that has bound Britain together FRI since the Act of Union of 1707. FRI FRI In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of FRI History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces FRI that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and FRI loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally FRI powerful movements that from time to time across the FRI centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. FRI FRI Programme 15: Pasts And Futures FRI FRI "As a historian, I do not believe that major developments FRI and events in the future can be pre-ordained, or are somehow FRI inevitable. The past matters. But, in regard to countries FRI and peoples, the past contains the seeds of many possible FRI futures. As far as the United Kingdom is concerned, FRI fragmentation on the one hand and the maintenance of the FRI status quo on the other, are not the only outcomes that may FRI be available in prospect..." FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03qflht (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03qfzgn (Listen) FRI The Road to Yalta FRI FRI February 1945. Hitler's exhausted armies are in full retreat FRI before the triumphant advance of American and British troops FRI from the West, and Russians from the East. It becomes FRI imperative that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet FRI face-to-face, to decide the future shape of Europe. They FRI meet at the tiny Russian resort of Yalta, each ready to play FRI their hand in a high-speed game of poker, and each relying FRI on their diplomatic and intelligence communities to deal FRI them the winning hand. FRI FRI Meanwhile, in Ian Curteis' drama, loosely based on real FRI events, diplomats at the British Embassy in Washington are FRI discussing their high-flying First Minister - an FRI impeccably-connected young man called Donald Maclean. FRI FRI Directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lord Halifax: Christopher Godwin FRI Sir John Balfour: Matthew Marsh FRI Donald Maclean: Geoffrey Streatfeild FRI Melinda Maclean: Kelly Burke FRI John Brightman: David Seddon FRI Brice Reynolds: Steve Toussaint FRI Nikolai Gorski: Ewan Bailey FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Writer: Ian Curteis FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03qfzgq (Listen) FRI Correspondence at Sparsholt FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts from the GQT potting shed at Sparsholt FRI College as Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa FRI Greenwood tackle listeners' questions sent in by post, email FRI and social media. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Time Being b03qfzgs (Listen) FRI Series 7, Closer FRI FRI The Time Being provides a showcase for new voices, none of FRI whom have been previously broadcast. FRI Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience FRI and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since FRI gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, FRI such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and FRI Joe Dunthorne. FRI FRI Closer by C.D. Rose: FRI In the 'anni di piombo' (Years of Lead), groups such as FRI Lotta Continua, Prima Linea and Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) FRI are active, and Italian cities are tense places to be. In FRI Rome 1977, an ordinary young woman seems more than curious FRI about the daily routines of a lawyer and academic. FRI FRI C.D. Rose has published a trail of short stories over the FRI last ten years. One of them was listed for the Sunday FRI Times/EFG Private Bank short story award, and another for FRI the Bridport Prize. He is the editor of The Biographical FRI Dictionary of Literary Failure, which will be published in FRI autumn 2014. C.D. Rose is currently working on a PhD in the FRI short story at Edge Hill University, lives in Norwich, and FRI makes bread. FRI FRI Reader: Bryony Hannah FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bryony Hannah FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI Writer: CD Rose FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03qfzgv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b03qfzgx (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the series that investigates the FRI numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03qfzgz (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03q4jqt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b03qfzh1 (Listen) FRI Series 42, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests FRI Lloyd Langford and Grace Petrie for a comic take on the FRI week's news. With Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Andy FRI Wolton, Sarah Morgan and Kev Cor. Produced by Colin FRI Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Lloyd Langford FRI Performer: Grace Petrie FRI Performer: Jon Holmes FRI Performer: Laura Shavin FRI Writer: Andy Wolton FRI Writer: Sarah Morgan FRI Writer: Kev Cor FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03qfzh3 (Listen) FRI Jazzer sees more than he bargained for, and Brian tries to FRI be tactful. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI William Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03qfzh5 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Mark Lawson FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03qflzq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03qfzh7 (Listen) FRI Rhun Ap Iowerth AM, Kirsty Williams AM, Michael Fabricant FRI MP, Carol Bell FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Neath in Wales with Rhun Ap Iowerth Plaid Cymru AM, FRI Conservative Vice Chairman Michael Fabricant MP, Leader of FRI the Welsh Liberal Democrats Kirsty Williams AM and Dr Carol FRI Bell S4C Board member and energy expert. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03qfzh9 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Acts of Union and Disunion b03qfzhc (Listen) FRI Acts of Union and Disunion: Omnibus, Episode 3 FRI FRI On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will FRI decide in a referendum whether they want their nation FRI henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or FRI remain within the union that has bound Britain together FRI since the Act of Union of 1707. FRI FRI In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of FRI History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces FRI that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and FRI loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally FRI powerful movements that from time to time across the FRI centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. FRI FRI In tonight's third and final Omnibus Edition, Professor FRI Colley explores Britain's relationships with North America, FRI with Europe, with its far-flung expatriate Britons and its FRI own (unwritten) Constitution. She then posits some FRI possibilities about how the UK may develop in the years FRI following next September's Independence vote in Scotland... FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03q4jqw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03qg7rw (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03qfzhf (Listen) FRI Dissident Gardens, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Jonathan Lethem FRI FRI A Twentieth Century American epic by prize-winning novelist FRI Jonathan Lethem, applying his sharp, funny and perfectly FRI crafted prose to an alternative history of America which FRI puts a woman at its heart - a Jewish, Communist woman, a FRI single mother, a second generation immigrant deeply involved FRI in the civil rights movement. FRI FRI In 1955 Rose Zimmer is kicked out of the American Communist FRI party for her affair with a black policeman. Her ire and her FRI radicalism, her incendiary disappointment in the Twentieth FRI Century, prove inescapable for the generations that come FRI after her - her idealistic hippy daughter Miriam, black FRI stepson Cicero and her lost grandson Sergius. FRI FRI Episode 5: A reflection on the men who have mattered in Rose FRI Zimmer's life. FRI FRI Read by Laurel Lefkow FRI Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder FRI FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Laurel Lefkow FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI Abridger: Elizabeth Reeder FRI Author: Jonathan Lethem FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03q8z43 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03qfzhh (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
17 January, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 18/01/2014 - 24/01/2014
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