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SAT SATURDAY 25 JANUARY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03qfzk7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03kv6kz (Listen) SAT Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal, Episode SAT 5 SAT SAT From the Pizzaro brothers, who pillaged Peru for Inca gold SAT in the 16th century, to the modern-day Mponeng mine in South SAT Africa, the deepest in the world, where the ghost miners SAT illegally siphon off millions - the pursuit of gold has led SAT to wars, insurrections, betrayals and bloodshed. SAT SAT Matthew Hart charts a course through history and across SAT continents to tell the story of the world's most coveted SAT metal. Part history, part journalism and part economic SAT analysis, Gold tells the story of a human obsession that SAT shows no sign of abating. SAT SAT In 2008, when the financial crisis rattled economies, SAT investors inevitably resorted to the perceived safety of SAT gold - and its price escalated from $800 to $1900 an ounce. SAT This, in turn, accelerated the exploration for yet more SAT gold. SAT SAT Matthew Hart is a journalist, whose work has appeared in The SAT Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly and The Globe and Mail. SAT He has written two IMAX films, numerous TV documentaries, SAT and appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes and the National SAT Geographic channel. His previous books include Diamond: The SAT History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair, which was filmed as a SAT documentary by ABC. SAT SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Abridger: Peter Nichols SAT Author: Matthew Hart SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03qfzk9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03qfzkc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03qfzkf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03qfzkh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03qfzn7 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Y SAT Y Rubinstein. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03qfzn9 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03qfzkk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03qfzkm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03qflhk (Listen) SAT Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage SAT SAT Helen Mark explores the aviation heritage of Lincolnshire, a SAT county criss-crossed with former airfields, and finds out SAT how they are being used today. SAT SAT She visits Woodhall Spa's airfield, once home to the SAT Dambusters squadron and until recently, a sand and gravel SAT quarry. Bordered by nature reserves, the Lincolnshire SAT Wildlife Trust aim to buy the airfield and return it to the SAT heathland it once was, as described by local Victorian SAT naturalist, Joseph Burdett-Davey. Evidence of its past SAT remains in the form of concrete and tarmac runways, lakes SAT which were formed by sand excavation and more surprisingly, SAT alien plants that arrived on the kit of the Australian and SAT New Zealand air-crews who worked here in the 1940s. SAT SAT Helen meets Dora Garner who lived on the edge of the SAT airfield in 1942. She recalls playing on the planes, writing SAT messages on bombs in chalk, and one morning discovering the SAT nose of a Lancaster bomber three yards from the bedroom SAT window, after it slipped its moorings in the night. SAT SAT Open Country takes a trip to the Aviation Heritage Centre at SAT East Kirkby to meet Harold Panton and his family. Harold and SAT his brother Fred built a chicken farm on the old runway SAT there, which now sits side-by-side with their privately SAT owned museum. It's the only place in the country where you SAT can still take a taxy-ride in a Lancaster Bomber. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03s645l (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Soil SAT SAT You could argue it's the world's most precious natural SAT resource. Soil. SAT SAT Farmers, whether they're growing cereals, vegetables or SAT grass for livestock, would not exist without it. Charlotte SAT Smith helps a soil scientist collect samples from a field SAT near Swindon and tests its pH balance back at the lab. She SAT speaks to soil health consultant Vince Gillingham from SAT Courtyard Argiculture about how GPS mapping technology is SAT helping farmers better care for their soil and increase SAT yields at the same time. And she gets to grips with the SAT science - how can you tell the difference between acidic and SAT alkaline soils? And why does it matter? SAT SAT We also look back over a week of 'soil coverage' on Farming SAT Today. Anna Hill discusses the importance of studying soil SAT biology, Sarah Swadling finds out how to farm microbes and SAT Jules Benham checks out soil-friendly equipment at LAMMA - SAT the UK's biggest agricultural machinery show. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03qfzkp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03s645n (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 b03s645q (Listen) SAT Tracey Thorn SAT SAT The Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir talk to SAT singer/songwriter Tracey Thorn. SAT SAT Tracey Thorn SAT SAT Tracey Thorn is a singer songwriter, best known perhaps for SAT being one half of ‘Everything But the Girl’. She talks about SAT her pop career, her current music and being a mother. SAT SAT 'Bedsit Disco Queen' is published by Virago. SAT SAT London Urban Sketchers SAT James Hobbs SAT and Simone Rudyard organise SAT urban sketcher groups SAT in London and Manchester and talk about the pleasure and SAT companionship of sketching in large groups. SAT SAT 'Sketch Your World - Essential Techniques for Drawing on SAT Location' by James Hobbs is published by Apple. SAT SAT Crowdscape: Stevenage SAT SAT JP Devlin meets the people on Queensway in Stevenage town SAT centre. Quietly known as “space city”, many of the world’s SAT satellites are built there. It’s home to an aerospace SAT company which built the first British ballistic missile – SAT the “Blue Streak” – in the 1950’s. Nowadays it builds SAT scientific equipment for dozens of space missions including SAT the Rosetta probe- awoken this week to explore comets in SAT outer space. SAT SAT Ed Igelhart SAT SAT Ed Iglehart grew up in the segregated Florida of the 1940s SAT and 50s, in a family where each of his eight SAT great-grandparents had owned slaves. The segregation mantra SAT was ‘separate but equal’ and everything from theatre SAT entrances, beaches, buses and schools had separate provision SAT for Black and White. Ed, who now lives in Scotland, tells SAT Saturday Live how he was brought up with racism, and how, as SAT the civil rights movement gained momentum, he came to be a SAT part of it. SAT SAT SAT Civil Rights Movement in Florida SAT Brief History of Florida SAT SAT Travel: Laurens de Groot SAT SAT Laurens de Groot is a former Dutch detective turned SAT environmental activist. He talks about protest on the high SAT seas and his travels around the world. SAT SAT SAT SAT 'Hunting the Hunters' is published by Bloomsbury. SAT SAT Inheritance Tracks: Commander Chris Hadfield SAT SAT Chris Hadfield is the former Commander of the International SAT Space Station. His inherited track is 'Where have all the SAT flowers gone' by the Kingston Trio and he passes on 'The SAT Story' by Brandi Carlile. SAT SAT SAT SAT Commander Hadfield recorded David Bowie's SAT Space Oddity SAT on board the International Space Station, and became a You SAT Tube sensation with over 20 million views. SAT SAT His book 'An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth' is SAT published by Macmillan. SAT Listen SAT to a clip from his book. SAT SAT Thank You SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracey Thorn SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Hadfield SAT Interviewed Guest: Laurens de Groot SAT Producer: Chris Wilson SAT SAT 10:30 Reimagining the City b03s645s (Listen) SAT Series 2, Birmingham SAT SAT Musician Soweto Kinch offers a different vision of a city SAT he's loved all his life - Birmingham. SAT SAT Soweto often gets a surprised response when he tells people SAT he's from Birmingham. For one, he doesn't have an accent. SAT But also, as a successful jazz musician and hip hop star, SAT the expectation is often that he should be living in London SAT or New York - or almost anywhere except Birmingham. SAT SAT But, for Soweto, Birmingham is a place of artistic endeavour SAT and cultural significance on a par with any other major SAT city. The city is where he served his cultural SAT apprenticeship in jazz and hip hop. "The saxophone called SAT me. I've never seen so many shiny keys. And the love affair SAT continued from there." SAT SAT He left to study history at Oxford but chose to make SAT Birmingham his home. "The fact that I've stayed in SAT Birmingham sets me apart from the other musicians in London SAT - I can do everything from here. There's a camaraderie and SAT respect that other musicians have for each other in SAT Birmingham." SAT SAT Soweto lives in a tower block in Hockley - it's been a place SAT that's given him creative input for his albums and music. SAT From his window he can see the Hockley Flyover, a space SAT which was the scene of gang fights and crime. Five years ago SAT Soweto decided to turn it into a festival venue. SAT SAT "I've been proud of the fact we've redefined peoples' SAT relationships to this space. It's a neglected area. I felt SAT that more than any other area this expressed a lot of the SAT innate contradictions we face in the black community in SAT Britain. I wanted to reclaim the space and reclaim the SAT stories." SAT SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03s645v (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The The Daily Telegraph looks behind the SAT scenes at Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03s645x (Listen) SAT Guns and Gangs SAT SAT Reporters' despatches from around the world, introduced by SAT Kate Adie. Today, Will Grant on the astonishing prevalence SAT of guns in Central America: Josh Spero in Jerusalem asks how SAT best to teach Israeli children about the Holocaust without SAT traumatising them: Jake Wallis Simons witnesses friendship SAT across the Muslim-Christian divide in Sierra Leone: Lina SAT Sinjab returns to her home city of Damascus, where the SAT once-vibrant cafe society is fast fading away: and in SAT Toulouse, Chris Bockman discovers that the municipal SAT bathhouse has become a virtual community centre. SAT SAT Producer: John Murphy. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03s645z (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b03qfzh1 (Listen) SAT Series 42, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests SAT Lloyd Langford and Grace Petrie for a comic take on the SAT week's news. With Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Andy SAT Wolton, Sarah Morgan and Kev Cor. Produced by Colin SAT Anderson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Lloyd Langford SAT Performer: Grace Petrie SAT Performer: Jon Holmes SAT Performer: Laura Shavin SAT Writer: Andy Wolton SAT Writer: Sarah Morgan SAT Writer: Kev Cor SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03qfzkr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03qfzkt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03qfzh7 (Listen) SAT Michael Fabricant MP, Jill Evans MEP, Lord Steel, Carwyn SAT Jones SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Gwyn Hall in Neath, with the First Minister of SAT Wales, Carwyn Jones, Jill Evans Plaid Cymru MEP for Wales, SAT Conservative Vice Chairman for Campaigning, Michael SAT Fabricant MP, and the former leader of the Liberal Party SAT Lord Steel. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03s6461 (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 b03s65my (Listen) SAT The Moonflask SAT SAT by Paul Sellar SAT SAT When a group of people meet on a back to work course they SAT pool their various skills to steal a priceless Ming vase SAT from an auction house and return it to its rightful owner. SAT But just who is conning who in this action packed drama? SAT SAT Producer ..... Sally Avens SAT Director ..... Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT This is a caper with a conscience, a heist with a smile on SAT its face. But the drama is firmly based in the real world; SAT an elderly couple recently discovered they were using a Ming SAT vase as an umbrella stand, Government plans include making SAT jobless criminals spend one day a week searching for work SAT and fraud in the UK has increased tenfold since the banking SAT crisis. Paul Sellar weaves a fast-paced yarn around these SAT facts to create a plot full of twists and turns. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mick: Lee Ross SAT Frank: Ken Bones SAT George: Sean Murray SAT Chris: Richie Campbell SAT John: David Yip SAT Ally: Laura Molyneux SAT Ned: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Raj: Tony Jayawardena SAT Ethel: Marlene Sidaway SAT Tina: Carys Eleri SAT Jamie: Matthew Fenton SAT Auctioneer: John Norton SAT Jan: Carolyn Pickles SAT Policeman: Harry Jardine SAT Writer: Paul Sellar SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Sally Avens SAT SAT 15:30 Who Killed Classical Music? b03q6f00 (Listen) SAT The Composer Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei SAT Prokofiev) looks at the increasing disconnection between SAT classical music and its audience. He investigates the SAT argument that composers such as Schoenberg killed off 20th SAT century classical music for all but a small elite audience. SAT SAT Until the early 20th century, each composer of classical SAT music developed his own style built on the traditions of SAT previous composers. Then Arnold Schoenberg changed all this, SAT by devising 'Serialism' where melodies were no longer SAT allowed. SAT SAT In the 1950s, composers such as Pierre Boulez created 'Total SAT Serialism'. Every aspect of a piece of music - rhythms and SAT loudness as well as notes - was rigidly controlled by a SAT fixed formula. SAT SAT And the sense of composers being remote from their audience SAT was exacerbated by the elevation of musical performance to a SAT kind of ritual. SAT SAT But even at a time when Serialism gripped major parts of the SAT classical music establishment, music that was overtly SAT emotional was still being written by composers such as SAT Shostakovich and Prokofiev in Russia. Ironically, in these SAT countries, the State continued to support classical music, SAT whereas in more liberal regimes in Europe it retreated to SAT the intellectual margins. SAT SAT Now the Serialist experiment has been largely abandoned and SAT a whole new generation of composers - including Gabriel SAT himself - is embracing popular culture, just as composers SAT used to in the past when folk music or dance music were a SAT major source of inspiration. SAT SAT So has the death of classical music been exaggerated? Will SAT it find new homes and new means of expression to attract the SAT audiences of the future? SAT SAT With contributions from Arnold Whittall, Stephen Johnson, SAT Alexander Goehr, David Matthews, Ivan Hewett and Tansy SAT Davies. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03s65n0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Edith Cavell; SAT Male body image SAT SAT Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her new album Wanderlust, music, SAT family and Strictly Come Dancing. SAT SAT African singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo talks to Jenni SAT about her upbringing in Benin, human rights campaigning and SAT her commitment to helping African women and girls fulfil SAT their potential. SAT SAT Part of our series looking at the working lives of mothers SAT who have a child with a disability. Linda Roberts, mum of SAT Paralympic gold medallist Jonnie Peacock, talks about the SAT difficulties of 'letting go'. And 31 year old Chris SAT Whitaker, who has Cerebral Palsy explains to Jane how SAT important it is to lead an independent life. SAT SAT What makes someone share the details of their SAT life-threatening with a wider audience? Jane talks to Dr SAT Kate Granger and BBC Essex radio presenter Sadie Nine. SAT SAT There is a new online petition to have Edith Cavell's image SAT on a limited edition £2 marking the centenary of WW1, SAT Cavell's biographer Diana Souhami discusses her life. SAT SAT How do men feel about their body image, and how does it SAT affect their self-esteem? Philippa Diedrichs, a psychologist SAT at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of SAT the West of England, and Glen Jankowski, a researcher of SAT body image from Leeds Metropolitan University discuss. SAT SAT And we talk female fandom with broadcaster Ruth Barnes and SAT psychologist Jo Hemmings. SAT SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Natalie Goldwater. SAT SAT Working Women with Disabled Children SAT SAT Our series on the working lives of mothers who have a child SAT with a disability concluded on Wednesday with a look at how SAT challenges change as their child grows up. Linda Roberts, SAT mum of Paralympic gold medallist Jonnie Peacock, talked SAT about the difficulties of ‘letting go’. She now works at the SAT charity SAT The Papworth Trust SAT supporting parents so they can give their child more SAT freedom. And 31 year old Chris Whitaker, who has cerebral SAT palsy, explained to Jane how important it is to lead an SAT independent life. SAT SAT SAT Working Women with Disabled Children: Part 1 SAT Working Women with Disabled Children: Part 2 SAT SAT Angelique Kidjo SAT SAT The Benin-born, Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter SAT Angelique Kidjo was once called "Africa's Premier Diva," and SAT is known for mixing different styles, like funk, salsa, SAT jazz, and rumba, alongside traditional West African music. SAT She has said that “we’re all a part of Africa, because SAT humanity was born there. From the time I started singing as SAT a little girl, my mom and dad said to always follow my SAT inspiration and never to compromise my music, but, above SAT all, to give music to empower people all over the world. SAT Music has no colour, no language, no boundaries.” She’s now SAT dedicated to helping African women and girls fulfil their SAT potential, and so alongside her singing career, she works as SAT a SAT UNICEF SAT Ambassador, and has her own SAT Batonga Foundation SAT to help girls in Africa gain an education. And now she has a SAT new autobiography and an album called Eve, which she has SAT dedicated to the women of Africa, and includes the voices of SAT African women’s choirs. Angelique Kidjo joined Jenni Murray SAT to explain how music, her upbringing as a girl in Benin, and SAT her experiences as an exile in Paris, inspired her to use SAT her voice to not only make music, but to campaign for human SAT rights, to help girls and women all across Africa. SAT SAT SAT SAT Angelique Kidjo’s new album, Eve, is released on 28 January SAT on 429 Records, and her autobiography, Spirit Rising, is SAT published on 30 January by Harper Collins. SAT SAT SAT SAT And Angelique can also be heard in session on SAT World Routes SAT on BBC Radio 3 on 14 February, speaking to Lopa Kothari and SAT playing five tracks from her new album, Eve. SAT SAT Edith Cavell SAT SAT A new SAT online campaign SAT is calling for Edith Cavell to feature on a £2 coin, as one SAT in a new series being issued by The Royal Mint over the SAT next four years to mark WW1. Edith Cavell was a a nurse, SAT shot at dawn by a German firing squad for her resistance SAT work in helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape occupied SAT Belgium. Cavell’s biographer, Diana Souhami is a supporter SAT of the campaign, and tells Sheila why she deserves SAT the honour. SAT SAT Going Public About Cancer SAT SAT A cancer diagnosis can be devastating and life changing, so SAT why do some people choose to share the details of their SAT illness with the general public? Both SAT Kate Granger SAT and SAT Sadie Nine SAT have chosen to do so because it’s both empowering and helps SAT to demystify the disease. Kate Granger has been diagnosed SAT with a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma in 2011 which SAT will cut her life short prematurely. She has written widely SAT about her illness both on social media and in two books. SAT Sadie Nine is a radio presenter with BBC Essex who was SAT diagnosed with breast cancer and has discussed it widely SAT with her listeners. SAT SAT Sophie Ellis-Bextor SAT SAT Pop songstress Sophie Ellis-Bextor has been entertaining us SAT for over a decade, with hit dance and pop tracks like SAT Groovejet and Murder On The Dancefloor. And recently she SAT took to the actual dance-floor on our Saturday night TV SAT screens, when she competed on Strictly Come Dancing. She SAT grew up in a television household as daughter of Blue Peter SAT presenter Janet Ellis, and today she combines a music career SAT with family life, with three young children of her own. SAT She’s sold over five million records, but now with her new, SAT fifth, solo studio album, she’s moved away from the dance SAT floor to collaborate with the Mercury-nominated SAT singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt. Sophie Ellis Bextor joined SAT Jane to perform live in the studio from her new album, SAT Wanderlust, and to talk about her change of musical SAT direction, dancing on Strictly, being a woman and mother in SAT music, and growing up in a Blue Peter household. SAT SAT SAT SAT Wanderlust is out now on SAT EBGB. SAT SAT Men And Body Image SAT SAT Last Monday we looked at body image and self-esteem. We got SAT a tremendous response from our listeners, but it was SAT predominantly women who got in touch. The men who contacted SAT us talked mainly about their daughters or partners, and few SAT volunteered personal stories. Was it because men were not SAT affected by body image issues? Or because men are less SAT likely to talk about such matters? To discuss this, on SAT Monday Jane was joined by Philippa Diedrichs, a psychologist SAT at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of SAT the West of England, and by Glen Jankowski, a researcher of SAT body image from Leeds Metropolitan University. SAT SAT SAT Men Get Eating Disorders Too SAT – a charity that aims to support and raise awareness about SAT male eating disorders SAT Beacon SAT – an organization that reviews online support for different SAT psychological problems, including body image concerns and SAT eating disorders SAT The Succeed Foundation SAT - a UK charity which aims to promote positive body image and SAT the prevention of eating disorders SAT OCD Action - Body Dysmorphia SAT - information on body dysmorphia from the largest UK SAT charity focusing on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder SAT Mind SAT - SAT the leading mental health charity for England and Wales SAT BEAT: The Eating Disorders Association SAT - SAT a UK charity for people with eating disorders and their SAT families SAT Changing Faces SAT - a UK charity which supports anyone with a disfigurement SAT SAT Mad About the Boy SAT SAT How does being a female fan shape your life and define your SAT relationships? Radio 4’s documentary SAT Mad About the Boy SAT looks behind the ‘hysteria’ and finds ordinary women finding SAT a sense of belonging that goes beyond the screaming SAT portrayal of ‘crazy obsessives’. We speak to music SAT journalist and broadcaster Ruth Barnes, one of the SAT presenters of the documentary and Jo Hemmings, a behavioural SAT psychologist specialising in celebrity culture. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Ellis-Bextor SAT Interviewed Guest: Angelique Kidjo SAT Interviewed Guest: Linda Roberts SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Whitaker SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Granger SAT Interviewed Guest: Sadie Nine SAT Interviewed Guest: Diana Souhami SAT Interviewed Guest: Philippa Diedrichs SAT Interviewed Guest: Glen Jankowski SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Barnes SAT Interviewed Guest: Jo Hemmings SAT Producer: Natalie Goldwater SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03s65n2 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03qfzn9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03qfzkw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03qfzky (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03qfzl0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03s65n4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Dan Croll, Lisa Dwan, Wayne Hemingway, Isaac SAT Julien, Michael Paterniti, Peggy Sue SAT SAT This week Clive Anderson asks designer and entrepreneur SAT Wayne Hemingway about Being a Man. He's not being SAT impertinent - it's the title of a weekend-long series of SAT events at London's Southbank Centre, at which Wayne is SAT speaking. What inspired him to take part? SAT SAT Actress Lisa Dwan tells Clive about following in the SAT footsteps of someone's muse - in this case Billie Whitelaw. SAT Lisa's performance in a trilogy of Samuel Beckett's work SAT quickly sold out at London's Royal Court Theatre, and has SAT now transferred to the Duchess Theatre. SAT SAT Clive talks to journalist and author Michael Paterniti about SAT his latest book 'The Telling Room' based on Michael's SAT experiences in a small Spanish village. He was captivated by SAT the story of a wonderous cheese - one bite could conjure SAT long-lost memories - but, Michael was told, things went SAT horribly sour. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi asks installation artist Isaac Julien about his SAT latest work: 'Playtime' - set across three cities defined by SAT their relationship to capital - London, Reykjavik and Dubai. SAT What links this to Julien's previous work 'Ten Thousand SAT Waves', a nine-screen film installation, inspired by the SAT 2004 Morecambe Bay cockle-pickers tragedy? SAT SAT Music from Peggy Sue who perform 'Longest Day Of The Year SAT Blues' from their forthcoming album 'Choir of Echoes', and SAT from Dan Croll who performs 'Home'. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Clive Anderson, Dan Croll, Lisa Dwan, SAT Wayne Hemingway, Isaac Julien, Michael Paterniti, Peggy Sue SAT (2) SAT SAT Wayne Hemmingway SAT SAT Wayne Hemmingway takes part in ‘Being A Man’ at the SAT Southbank Centre from Friday 31 Jan - Sun 2 February 2014. SAT SAT Peggy Sue SAT SAT Peggy Sue perform ‘Longest Day Of The Year Blues’ from their SAT forthcoming album ‘Choir of Echoes’. SAT They are touring the UK in April – see their website for SAT details. SAT SAT Michael Paterniti SAT SAT The Telling Room is available now, in paperback, published SAT by Canongate. SAT SAT SAT Isaac Julien SAT SAT PLAYTIME is on view at Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London, SAT N1 7RW and accompanying photographic works are on view at SAT Victoria Miro Mayfair, 14 St George Street, London W1S 1FE. SAT See their website for details. SAT SAT SAT Dan Croll SAT SAT Dan performed ‘Home’. He’s touring the UK in March – Think SAT Tank, Newcastle 18th, 19th Ruby Lounge in Manchester, and SAT King Tuts Glasgow on 20th. More dates on his website. SAT SAT SAT SAT Lisa Dwan SAT SAT The Royal Court Theatre and Mighty Mouth present Not I / SAT Footfalls / Rockaby by Samuel Beckett at the Duchess SAT Theatre, London 3–15 Feb 2014. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b03s65n6 (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 3 SAT SAT Writers create a fictional response to a major story from SAT the week's news. SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03s65n8 (Listen) SAT King Lear, Llewyn Davis, Jonathan Lethem SAT SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT King Lear SAT SAT Sam Mendes directs Simon Russell Beale in the title role of SAT Shakespeare's play SAT King Lear SAT at the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank in SAT London from 27 January – 28 May 2014. SAT SAT Inside Llewyn Davis SAT Inside Llewyn Davis SAT written and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, is SAT released in UK cinemas on Friday 24 January, certificate 15. SAT SAT Dissident Gardens SAT SAT Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem is published by SAT Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing, on 16 January SAT 2014. SAT SAT In The Making SAT SAT The exhibition, SAT In The Making SAT curated by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, is at the Design SAT Museum in London, 22 January 2014 – 04 May 2014. SAT SAT Restaurant Man SAT Restaurant Man SAT begins Wednesday 29 January at 8pm, BBC Two. SAT SAT My Kitchen Rules SAT My Kitchen Rules SAT begins Thursday 23 January at 9pm on Sky Living. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03s65sw (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Episode 3 SAT SAT When Mel went into the Big Brother house for the programme's SAT first UK series, neither she nor the other contestants - or SAT the production company behind the show - could anticipate SAT the huge attention it would garner and the extent to which SAT the media would pick up on the individuals involved. In SAT this, the final part of 'A Life Less Ordinary' she describes SAT how it felt to come out of the house and realise she'd been SAT widely portrayed as a divisive flirt, and the impact the SAT negative coverage had on not only her but also her family. SAT Much of this negativity came from women journalists, and we SAT also hear from Ruby, finalist in 'The Great British Bake SAT Off' to hear how her experiences of both traditional and SAT social media led her to write an angry retort in her own SAT Guardian article against sexist coverage. Mel considers the SAT extent to which signing up for a show makes participants in SAT reality tv 'fair game' for reporters, talks with journalists SAT who wrote about her time in the house - and also Jonny SAT Mitchell, head of the Thornhill Academy - subject of the SAT hugely successful series Educating Yorkshire, to hear his SAT description of the positive opportunities the programme and SAT the related media attention have offered not only him and SAT his staff but also his pupils. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03q59ss (Listen) SAT The World According to Garp, Episode 3 SAT SAT John Irving's best selling novel of lunacy and sorrow is SAT dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. SAT SAT Jenny becomes a nurse again as she helps Garp to piece his SAT life back together following the tragic car accident. SAT Battling with loss and heartbreak, Garp finds salvation in SAT his writing until violent and unexpected events strike. SAT SAT This is the concluding episode of a three part dramatisation SAT of 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 Credits SAT Garp: Lee Ingleby SAT Duncan: Adam Thomas Wright SAT Walt: Adam Greaves-Neal SAT Helen: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Jenny Fields: Miranda Richardson SAT Roberta Muldoon: Jonathan Keeble SAT John Wolfe: John Guerrasio SAT Mrs Ralph: Charlotte Emmerson SAT Mrs Poole: Carys Eleri SAT Michael Milton: Harry Jardine SAT Jillsy: Emma Fielding SAT Sally: Emma Fielding SAT Jenny Garp: Emma Fielding SAT Pooh Percy: Amanda Hale SAT Ellen James: Amanda Hale SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths SAT Writer: John Irving SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03qfzl2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b03q9w0v (Listen) SAT Series 7, Sibling Rivalry SAT SAT From Cain and Abel to today, Mariella Frostrup and guests SAT explore sibling rivalry, how parents should deal with it and SAT whether it can be ended. SAT SAT Recent reports suggest sibling rivalry can have an even more SAT sinister impact - what starts out as simple bickering can SAT become sibling bullying with traumatic and long-lasting SAT effects. SAT SAT Joining Mariella to discuss the issues are Professor Juliet SAT Mitchell from Jesus College Cambridge, a literature scholar SAT and an expert in the field of psychoanalysis, who's SAT currently working on a book about siblings in Shakespeare. SAT SAT Professor Dieter Wolke from the Department of Psychology at SAT the University of Warwick , who's been researching sibling SAT relationships for many years. He is shortly to publish work SAT on sibling bullying. SAT SAT Karen Doherty, co-author of the parent's guide Sibling SAT Rivalry, Seven Simple Solutions, SAT SAT And Tim Lott, a journalist on the Guardian's Family section SAT and writer whose book "Under the Same Stars" was based on SAT his often fraught relationship with his older brother. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03q6bqg (Listen) SAT Russell Davies asks the questions in the seventh heat of the SAT nationwide general knowledge quiz. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT ANGELA BENHAM, a retired teacher from Chinley in Derbyshire; SAT SAT JACQUELINE FITZGIBBON, a professional oboist from West SAT Kilbride; SAT SAT COLIN FOSTER, a chartered accountant from Warrington; SAT SAT DAG GRIFFITHS, a retired teacher from Ormskirk. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b03q59sx (Listen) SAT Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti SAT SAT Roger McGough begins a new series with requests for poems by SAT Christina Rossetti. Shirley Henderson gives a beguiling SAT rendition of what is arguably Rossetti's most famous poem SAT 'Goblin Market', published in 1862. It is a heady fairy tale SAT about temptation involving two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. SAT The poem has a sexual undertone and a menacing quality that SAT lurks among the persistent pleas of the fruit selling Goblin SAT men to 'come buy, come buy.' Visits to your greengrocer may SAT never be the same again. There is also a reading of another SAT of Rossetti's much requested and moving poems 'Remember,' as SAT well as a lesser known poem of pilgrimage, 'Up-hill'. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Goblin Market SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT SAT SAT Up-Hill SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT SAT SAT Remember SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Sarah Langan SAT Reader: Shirley Henderson SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03s661w (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 b01fhp9l (Listen) SUN Emerald City 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. SUN SUN In her first collection of short stories, entitled Emerald SUN City, the stories are a pithy and sometimes poignant look at SUN contemporary life in the United States. Young and SUN middle-aged characters change, grow and regret in a series SUN of tales that traverse the United States and the state of SUN modern marriage, parenting and ambition. SUN SUN Today's title story, Emerald City, examines the allure and SUN the disappointments of life among the trend-setters of New SUN York, where fashionistas scrabble for fame and fortune and SUN where realities hit hard. SUN SUN The Reader is tbc SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Di Speirs SUN Abridger: Miranda Davies SUN Author: Jennifer Egan SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03s661y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03s6622 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03s6624 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03s6626 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03s67p0 (Listen) SUN St Mary and St Chad, Brewood, Staffordshire SUN SUN The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood in Staffordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b03qg8bk (Listen) SUN Series 4, Emile Simpson SUN SUN Former soldier Emile Simpson draws on his experience in SUN Afghanistan to argue that we need to rethink the way we SUN fight wars now the boundary with politics has been blurred. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of thought-provoking talks in which SUN the speakers tell personal stories that give rise to their SUN thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that SUN affect culture and society. SUN SUN Presenter: David Baddiel SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03s6628 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03s69dg (Listen) SUN Moving with God SUN SUN Mark Tully discusses the relationship between dance and SUN spirituality. Both movement and specifically dance are part SUN of the rich history of spirituality, but somehow this is SUN often overlooked. SUN SUN Mark Tully aims to redress the balance by investigating the SUN relationship between the movement and dance and the SUN transience of spirituality. He asks how physicality can play SUN a part in formal worship and looks at dance as a metaphor SUN for divine philosophy. He also talks to choreographer and SUN dancer Akram Khan about his theories on the spirituality of SUN movement and the ability of dance to cross cultural and SUN religious borders. SUN SUN The readings include poetry ranging from W. B. Yeats to SUN Rumi, and there's music from Leonard Cohen to Stravinsky. SUN SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Michael Feast. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03s69dj (Listen) SUN The Finlay family has worked the land at Rainton Farm, near SUN Gatehouse of Fleet in Galloway, south west Scotland, for SUN more than a century. Attitudes towards the land have changed SUN enormously over the years, and two members of the family SUN still working on the farm are living reminders of that. SUN James Finlay is ninety and his aim, on returning to the farm SUN after World War Two, was to wring the maximum from the land. SUN His entire focus was to change boggy unproductive pasture SUN into good grazing for sheep, removing trees and scrub and SUN draining wet areas. His son David, who now runs the farm, SUN has built on what his father achieved but in some instances SUN this has meant actively reversing his work and taking a very SUN different approach. Along with his wife Wilma, whom he SUN credits with much of the vision behind the success of SUN Rainton, David has planted broadleaf woodland where once SUN James cut down trees, let bogland return to its natural SUN state while intensifying production in other corners of the SUN farm, and has opened the farm to the public, welcoming SUN seventy thousand visitors a year. He's now rethinking the SUN way in which he milks the herd. Best-known for their ice SUN cream, the Finlays are now moving towards cheese production, SUN anxious to continue to innovate. They are perfecting a SUN system which allows calves to stay with their mothers to SUN feed, rather than being bucket-fed from birth - and, to SUN their great surprise, they are now looking forward to bigger SUN calves, calmer cows with longer lives, and a healthier herd. SUN While fellow farmers and scientists have derided this SUN approach, David suggests that, globally, we simply cannot SUN allow ourselves to continue to farm in the same old ways. SUN The time for that has run out. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03s662b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03s662d (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03s69dl (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03s69dn (Listen) SUN The Simon Community SUN SUN Alexei Sayle presents the Radio 4 Appeal for The Simon SUN Community. SUN Reg Charity: 283938 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The Simon Community'. SUN SUN The Simon Community SUN The Simon Community SUN in London has been working since 1963 to alleviate the SUN isolation of people sleeping rough, provide a place where SUN they can gain a sense of belonging and foster the skills SUN they need to move towards independent living. We are a SUN community of homeless people and volunteers living and SUN working together in a spirit of love, acceptance, tolerance SUN and understanding. We aim to reach out to support and SUN campaign for people who are experiencing homelessness, and SUN particularly those for whom no other provision exists. SUN SUN Community SUN The Simon Community is made up of homeless residents and SUN volunteers. We live together in community and run outreach SUN services for street homeless people in London. SUN SUN Outreach SUN Our community members run outreach services to street SUN homeless people in London every day of the year. These SUN services include soup runs, street cafes, a winter night SUN shelter and a day centre. SUN SUN Volunteers SUN Volunteers are central to our work. Some volunteers live and SUN work full-time in our residential projects. Some volunteers SUN help with outreach for a few hours a week. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03s662g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03s662j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03s69dq (Listen) SUN Along Paths of Memory SUN SUN a reflection for Holocaust Memorial Day with the Rev'd Ruth SUN Scott who explores how the memories of survivors and their SUN experience draw us into a complex and sometimes disturbing SUN understanding of what it is to be truly human. SUN SUN Music details for the programme SUN Music used in the programme SUN SUN The Lord’s my shepherd, Townend SUN (Tr 9 KMCD2444 The New Hymn Makers, Stuart Townend SUN How deep the Father’s love SUN with The Coventry Singers) SUN SUN Fratres, Arvo Part (Tr 5 Pieces In A Modern Style, The SUN Electric Chamber, ISRC: GBAHT9500309 SUN SUN Psalm 16 Keep me safe, O God (Tr 5 The Psalms Project Volume SUN 1, Steven Faux SFPSV1) SUN SUN Psalm 10 The wicked hunt down the weak (Tr 4 The Psalms SUN Project Volume 1, Steven Faux SFPSV1) SUN SUN Kyrie eleison from an Ambrosian Mass (Tr 19, More Sublime SUN Gregorian Chant, The Cathedral Singers Kevin Mayhew 1490206 SUN SUN Dolente (Tr 9, Il Pergolese ECM 2340 Maria Pia De Vito etc. SUN ) SUN SUN Ubi Caritas, Duruflé (Tr 19 CD1 Hallelujah: Great Sacred SUN Choruses, Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill EMI SUN VTDCD601) SUN SUN God beyond all names, Bernadette Farrell SUN SUN (Tr 3 St Thomas More Group’s Greatest Hits Volume II OCP SUN 9744) SUN SUN SUN SUN We are unable to provide a transcript for this feature as SUN much was hand written on location. SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03qfzh9 (Listen) SUN Self-Drive Manhood SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv53 (Listen) SUN Mandarin Duck 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 Chris Packham presents the story of the Mandarin Duck. A SUN drake mandarin has orange whiskers, red bill, a broad creamy SUN eye-stripe and an iridescent purple chest, set off by a pair SUN of extraordinary curved orange wing feathers which stand up SUN like a boat's sails. Today there are seven thousand birds SUN living in the wild and the numbers are increasing. SUN SUN Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03s69ds (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 b03s69dv (Listen) SUN Peggy makes an announcement, and Ed feels guilty. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03p8wdc (Listen) SUN Sir Ben Ainslie SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the sailor Sir Ben SUN Ainslie. SUN SUN Eleven times World and 9 times European Champion he's also SUN the most successful sailor in Olympic history. SUN SUN As he crossed the finishing line at the London 2012 Games, SUN winning his fourth gold, the crowd gave a rousing rendition SUN of Rule Britannia: indeed he rules the waves with such a SUN ruthless will to win it seems somewhat contradictory that on SUN dry land he comes across as an unassuming bloke from SUN Cornwall. SUN SUN He was eight when, in a duffle coat and wellies, he made his SUN first solo journey in a little wooden boat. Ever since SUN sailing has been his obsession. He's brave, strong and SUN skilled, but it's his tactical nouse and maverick streak SUN that sets him apart. In last year's America's Cup he turned SUN a 1-8 defeat into a 9-8 win for the US. Whether he can do SUN the same for his home team may be his next big challenge. SUN SUN He says, "The desire to win is still the same as ever ... if SUN it wasn't there, that would be a worry. Motivation has never SUN really been a problem for me." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Ben Ainslie SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b03q6crl (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 4 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. Lloyd Langford, Lucy Porter, Tom SUN Wrigglesworth and Fred MacAulay are the panellists obliged SUN to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as SUN women, Japan, owls and potatoes. 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: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: Lucy Porter SUN Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth SUN Panellist: Fred MacAulay SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03s6jtq (Listen) SUN Greek Yogurt: a global love affair SUN SUN Sheila Dillon finds out why humble Greek yogurt triggered a SUN worldwide food craze. SUN SUN Produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03s662l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03s6jts (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Declared Interests: The Business of Politics SUN b03q6crs (Listen) SUN Our politicians are now required to declare many of the SUN outside interests that they have. There are registers for SUN the Lords, the Commons and all the political parties. But is SUN that enough? SUN SUN Owen Bennett Jones explores the business of members' SUN declared interests, Lords on boards, party funding, All SUN Party Parliamentary Groups, sponsored assistants, and gifts. SUN Owen reports on the ways in which outside interests try to SUN gain access to the corridors of power without anyone SUN breaking the rules. He considers whether the declaration of SUN an interest is sufficient to ensure that no one is "buying" SUN our political leaders. SUN SUN In 2010, David Cameron said that lobbying was 'the next SUN scandal waiting to happen' - but it has been going on for SUN decades in a system that sanctions and encourages outside SUN interests to come inside parliament. Can the government's SUN proposed lobbying bill realistically turn back the tide? The SUN current parliamentary system emphasises transparency - if SUN it's properly declared, then by and large it is legal - but SUN is it ethical and good for democracy? SUN SUN Producer: Gemma Newby SUN A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03qfzgq (Listen) SUN Correspondence at Sparsholt SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts from the GQT potting shed at Sparsholt SUN College as Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa SUN Greenwood tackle listeners' questions sent in by post, email SUN and social media. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson goes to meet the original gorilla gardener, SUN Richard Reynolds, to explore an urban forest in the depths SUN of a London council estate. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q. I have a large, noticeable dip in my garden, which often SUN floods after heavy rainfall. It does drain but as it is clay SUN soil it is a very slow process. I have been told I should SUN fill it in, could the panel suggest plants to use to make a SUN feature of this area? SUN SUN A. Hostas and Astilbe would grow well in both damp and boggy SUN areas. Marsh Marigolds and Bog Irises are also recommended SUN in wetter areas. Blackcurrant plants are resistant to water SUN logging. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest plants that would thrive on the SUN Hampshire Downs under the shade of large conifers and would SUN be relatively easy to maintain? SUN SUN A. Native Bluebells may work - however, there is a SUN possibility the soil may be too dry in a dry, shaded SUN environment. Another more unusual suggestion would be Paris SUN Quadrifolia which has a small central flower and will spread SUN naturally. Daphne Laureola, an evergreen with a scented SUN small flower, cyclamen and wooden Anemones should also grow SUN well. SUN SUN Q. Why does some Ivy flower and not others? SUN SUN A. As a young plant Ivy is in what is known as a 'juvenile SUN state', during which it is full of vigour and energy and SUN upward ascendancy. Whilst in this youthful state the plant SUN will not flower. However once the Ivy reaches the point of SUN maturity (which usually means it has run out of enthusiasm SUN or support to continue growing) it will engage in a SUN different mode of growth habit, the leaves will get larger SUN and flowers should grow. SUN SUN Q. Do the panel have any suggestions for a brown, SUN carbon-rich material to use in my compost heap now that SUN newspapers are read online? SUN SUN A. Office waste would be a good substitute. Baled straw or SUN sawdust would also work. Cardboard boxes would be great SUN because worms love the glue. Consider adjusting the compost SUN content by putting on dry deciduous foliage. Hay crop would SUN also be a great natural option. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest a tree to replace a Norway Spruce SUN in our southwest facing and exposed garden, 800ft (250m) up SUN on the south edge of the Derbyshire Peak District? We would SUN love a fruit tree. SUN SUN A. Damson should be able to take on the conditions the SUN location presents. It may not fruit for several years due to SUN wind and frost, but when it does it could be a good crop. SUN Plus, you get the spring blossom and Damsons tend to hang on SUN until the autumn unlike plums. Another suggestion would be SUN to try one of the Amalancier trees because they are wind SUN resistant and have a large spring display of blossom. SUN Finally Malus and Prunus are worth considering, particularly SUN the Malus Tschonoskii, which is not a fruiting form but you SUN will get early season flowers and great autumn colours. For SUN something narrower try the Prunus Hillieri Spire or a SUN Grayswood Ghost Birch. Or if you would like to grow from SUN seed try the Hunza Apricot. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03s6jtv (Listen) SUN Tunnelling Under the Berlin Wall SUN SUN In 1964 a group of West German students helped more than 50 SUN people escape from East Berlin through a tunnel that they SUN had dug under the Berlin Wall. Joachim Neumann and Ralph SUN Kabisch were two of the students who did the digging - SUN Joachim's wife Christa was one of the people they helped to SUN flee. SUN SUN 15:00 The Barchester Chronicles b03s6jtx (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's The Warden SUN SUN Anthony Trollope's The Warden, dramatised by Michael Symmons SUN Roberts SUN SUN The Warden is the first story in an exciting new series of SUN dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles. SUN SUN The gentle Mr Harding finds his peaceful life disrupted when SUN his would be son-in-law John Bold calls into question the SUN large income he receives as warden of Barchester alms house. SUN Mr Harding's daughter Eleanor is equally shocked and upset SUN by her suitor's actions and she sets out to discover why the SUN man she loves wants to injure someone as well respected and SUN loved as her mild mannered father. SUN SUN Directed by Susan Roberts SUN Produced by Charlotte Riches SUN SUN The Barchester Chronicles are Anthony Trollope's much-loved SUN series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life SUN set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and SUN the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SUN lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SUN gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SUN set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SUN involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SUN love and friendship across the years. SUN The Barchester Chronicles continues on Sunday 2nd February SUN with the three-part Barchester Towers. SUN Trollope SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Mr Harding: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Bishop Grantly: Andrew Sachs SUN Eleanor: Claire Price SUN John Bold: Bryan Dick SUN Archdeacon Grantly: Malcolm Sinclair SUN Susan Grantly: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Mary Bold: Georgie Fuller SUN Bunce: Sean Murray SUN Abel Handy: Nick Brimble SUN Tom Towers: David Seddon SUN Director: Susan Roberts SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b03s6jv1 (Listen) SUN Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Mort and Paul Farley reading their SUN own work SUN SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests. With SUN Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Mort and Paul Farley reading their SUN own work. SUN SUN Bernard O'Donoghue's poems include his translation of some SUN of Piers Plowman as well as moving and beautifully observed SUN poems about personal relationships. There's the pain of SUN missed opportunity in poems like Ter Conatus, about a SUN brother and sister who have lived together all their lives. SUN Bernard also has a poem that was written in dedication to a SUN Poetry Please listener, Morag Morris. SUN SUN Rising poetry star Helen Mort makes her debut with a lovely SUN poem in honour of a music hall comic from Sheffield called SUN Stainless Stephen, and she reads others from her collection SUN Division Street. SUN SUN Paul Farley also reads his work, including an atmospheric SUN poem about listening in the dark. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Ter Conatus SUN By Bernard O’Donoghue SUN From Here nor There SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Stainless Stephen SUN By Helen Mort SUN From Division Street SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Rag & Bone SUN By Helen Mort SUN From Division Street SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Treacle SUN By Paul Farley SUN From The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You SUN Published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN Twenty-Two Words for Snow SUN By Helen Mort SUN From Division Street SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN The Airbrake People SUN By Paul Farley SUN From The Dark Film SUN Published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN The People Through the Meadow Straying - Piers Plowman: SUN Prologue SUN By William Langland, Trans. Bernard O’Donoghue SUN From Farmers Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Exhibitions SUN By Bernard O’Donoghue SUN From Farmers Cross SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Dogs SUN By Helen Mort SUN From Division Street SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Common Names SUN By Helen Mort SUN From Division Street SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Gerund SUN By Bernard O’Donoghue SUN SUN SUN SUN The Nuthatch SUN By Bernard O’Donoghue SUN From The Weakness SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN The Circuit SUN By Paul Farley SUN From The Dark Film SUN Published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN Dockets SUN By Bernard O’Donoghue SUN From Farmers Cross SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN Reader: Helen Mort SUN Reader: Paul Farley SUN Reader: Bernard O'Donoghue SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03q8z4f (Listen) SUN Default by Design? SUN SUN Last month a report by a government advisor, Lawrence SUN Tomlinson, accused The Royal Bank of Scotland of forcing SUN some viable businesses into insolvency. The Bank has denied SUN Tomlinson's claims and has asked a leading law firm to carry SUN out an independent investigation. With their findings due to SUN be published shortly, File on 4 assesses the evidence. SUN SUN Jane Deith speaks to families who claim their companies were SUN unfairly forced to the wall and their lives ruined as a SUN result of the actions of the Bank's Global Restructuring SUN Group. SUN SUN Billed as the equivalent of an intensive care unit designed SUN to help nurse distressed businesses back to health, did the SUN Global Restructuring Group kill some of them off instead? SUN And was RBS able to profit as a result? SUN SUN With a rising tide of complaints against the taxpayer-owned SUN bank, the Financial Conduct Authority is beginning its own SUN investigation. SUN SUN So, was RBS being predatory or prudent? SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith SUN Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b03s65n6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03s662n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03s662q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03s662s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03s6jv3 (Listen) SUN If your idea of a pleasant tune is the skippy frippery of SUN Strauss waltz then Arnold Schoenberg may not be your idea of SUN a harmonious night in. SUN SUN So was the Austrian, avant garde composer responsible for SUN killing off classical music? We ask - you decide. SUN SUN And for those who remember reading Germaine Greer's seminal SUN work, The Female Eunuch, songwriter Tracey Thorn offers a SUN latter-day perspective on the book's critique of motherhood. SUN SUN We're also out and about watching sheep graze in Hyde Park, SUN Warrior Druids heading for Stonehenge, and a young Italian SUN anarchist planning dark deeds on the piazza. SUN SUN That's just some of the dishes on offer in Pick Of The SUN Week's rich audio feast, and not forgetting Amy Winehouse SUN who'll be singing at the banquet. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03s6jv5 (Listen) SUN Peggy is taken aback, and Pat cannot keep silent. SUN SUN 19:15 Warhorses of Letters b03s6jv7 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 3 SUN SUN Comedy 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 in the moving SUN epistolary tale of two horses deeply in love but sundered by SUN history. With an introduction by Tamsin Greig. SUN SUN This week artistic differences threaten to destroy our SUN heroes' love for each-other as both attempt to find fame as SUN writers. But is the literary horse public ready for SUN Marengo's experimental, Proustian and incredibly long SUN exploration of what it is to be a horse? Or is there more of SUN a market for Copenhagen's rather racier "Fifty Shades of SUN Hay"? 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 b01m5nt0 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Sybil SUN SUN by Tony Bagley. SUN SUN The third in a series of four scurrilous talks given by SUN well-known, if unreliable, Downing Street cats, relating SUN their trials and tribulations under four different Prime SUN Ministers. SUN SUN Sybil, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 2007 to 2008, SUN reflects on her troubled life with Gordon and Alistair. SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Sybil: Tracy Wiles SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Writer: Tony Bagley SUN SUN 19:45 A Shepherd in London b03s6jv9 (Listen) SUN Looking for Angels SUN SUN Episode 2: Looking for Angels by Sarah Salway 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 Looking for Angels, writer Sarah Salway has George SUN Donald, a shepherd from Aberdeenshire, visit an Open Air SUN School for children with TB, which existed on Clapham Common SUN in the 1920s. Accompanied by his flock (and his faithful dog SUN Birk), George befriends both staff and pupils, including a SUN young schoolmaster suffering from shell shock, and a Cockney SUN girl who proves herself an able shepherdess. 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: Sarah Salway SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b03qfzgx (Listen) SUN Counting the contribution of immigrants SUN SUN Now the initial furore about Romanian and Bulgarian people SUN being allowed to work in the UK has subsided, what does a SUN more detailed look at immigration statistics tell us about SUN the benefits, or otherwise, of welcoming overseas citizens? SUN The picture is mixed, More or Less discovers. SUN SUN "Today, by the age of 60, more than twice as many women as SUN men are single," according to a recent article in The SUN Guardian. "Older men are often living with younger women, SUN which is why twice as many young men as young women live SUN alone," author Lynne Segal wrote. Can this be right? SUN Charlottle McDonald investigates. SUN SUN Do two large glasses of wine triple your risk of mouth SUN cancer, as claimed on an NHS leaflet spotted by a sceptical SUN listener? Tim Harford examines the difficulties of SUN extracting smoking from the equation. SUN SUN Surprising as this may seem, one of the world's best tennis SUN players of all time, Roger Federer, is also the worst ranked SUN player on one scale. The scoring system makes it possible to SUN lose a match despite winning more points, and Federer has SUN lost the highest percentage of these types of games. Tim SUN speaks to sports number-cruncher Ryan Rodenberg about why SUN this might be the case. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03qfzgv (Listen) SUN Lord McAlpine, Jocelyn Hay, Amiri Baraka, Sir Christopher SUN Chataway, Claudio Abbado SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Lord McAlpine, the colourful bon viveur who raised millions SUN for the Conservative Party. SUN SUN Jocelyn Hay, who founded the pressure group Voice of the SUN Listener and Viewer to campaign for high quality public SUN service broadcasting. SUN SUN Amiri Baraka, the African American poet who was influenced SUN by jazz and blues. SUN SUN Sir Christopher Chataway, the successful long distance SUN runner who became a government minister. SUN SUN And the conductor Claudio Abbado, who led some of the SUN world's greatest orchestras. SUN SUN Lord McAlpine of West Green SUN SUN Matthew spoke to journalists Julia Langdon and Simon Heffer. SUN SUN Born 14 May 1942; died 17 January 2014 aged 71. SUN SUN Jocelyn Hay CBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Professor Steven Barnett live in the SUN studio. SUN SUN Born 1927; died 21 January 2014 aged 86. SUN SUN Amiri Baraka (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to fellow poet Professor Kevin Young and to SUN the author Bernardine Evaristo. SUN SUN Born 7 October 1934; died 9 January 2014 aged 79. SUN SUN Sir Christopher Chataway SUN SUN Author and broadcaster Russell Davies reflects on his life SUN and career. SUN SUN Born 31 January 1931; died 19 Janary 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Claudio Abbado SUN Born 26 June 1933; died 20 January 2014 aged 80. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Julia Langdon SUN Interviewed Guest: Simon Heffer SUN Interviewed Guest: Steven Barnet SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Bernardine Evaristo SUN Producer: Simon Tillotson SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03s645z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03s69dn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03qflj0 (Listen) SUN Cork SUN SUN Peter Day travels to Cork in Ireland to find out what life SUN is really like in a country just recently realised from the SUN constraints of an EU bailout. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN Claire Nash SUN SUN Owner, Nash 19 Restaurant SUN SUN SUN Pat O’Connell SUN SUN Fishmonger, Owner KO’Connell Fish Merchants SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Damien O’Mahony SUN SUN Cork City Council TEAM Unit SUN SUN SUN Seamus Coffey SUN SUN Economics Lecturer, University College Cork SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Bob Savage SUN SUN Managing Director of EMC Ireland SUN SUN SUN SUN Owen O’Callaghan SUN SUN Owner, O’Callaghan Properties SUN SUN SUN Frank Daly SUN SUN Chairman of NAMA SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Michael O’Flynn SUN SUN Chairman and Managing Director , The O'Flynn Group SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Valerie O’Sullivan SUN SUN Director of Corporate Affairs at Cork City Council. SUN SUN SUN SUN Alan and Valerie Kingston SUN SUN Owners Glenilen Farm, West Cork. SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03s6k26 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03s6k28 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03qflhm (Listen) SUN Meryl Streep; Oscar Isaac; Sundance festival; National Trust SUN film locations SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Meryl Streep about her role as SUN vicious matriarch in August: Osage County, based on a SUN widely-praised play by Tracy Letts. Streep has picked up a SUN record 18th Oscar nomination for the part, starring SUN alongside Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Juliette Lewis. SUN The plot follows a family gathering to bury the head of the SUN family after his suicide. Meryl describes how she revels in SUN the freedom of playing a character without limits and SUN discusses her next project Into the Woods, which has been SUN filming in Richmond Park, London. SUN SUN The National Trust provides a surprisingly diverse range of SUN film locations from elf cottages to Russian love nests. Film SUN Unit Manager Harvey Edgington shows us around, including Ham SUN House which has featured in Anna Karenina and A Little SUN Chaos. SUN SUN Plus Oscar Isaac on playing a failing folk musician in the SUN latest offering from the Coen Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis. SUN He explains why it was so important to play the music live SUN himself and why it's never fun working with cats.. SUN SUN The critic Catherine Bray picks up on the highlights of the SUN Sundance Festival which aims to promote the best of SUN independent film making. She praises Frank, starring Michael SUN Fassbender, The Trip to Italy the new outing from Rob Brydon SUN and Steve Coogan as well as Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen SUN Wiig. SUN August: Osage County SUN Inside Llewyn Davis SUN The Woman's Hour Collection: Meryl Streep (1981) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Meryl Streep SUN Interviewed Guest: Oscar Isaac SUN Interviewed Guest: Harvey Edgington SUN Interviewed Guest: Catherine Bray SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03s69dg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03s663x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03q9q2n (Listen) MON Why Music Matters?; Bhangra and Belonging MON MON Why Music Matters: David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Music MON and Media Industries, examines the role of music in our MON lives and the ways in which it enriches people and society, MON or fails to do so. What is music's political and social MON significance beyond the pleasure it brings? He's joined by MON Caspar Melville, Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural MON Industries. Also, 'Bhangra and Belonging': Falu Bakrania, US MON lecturer in Race and Resistance Studies, discusses her MON research into the social life of British Asian musical MON culture in the late 90s. From Bhangra to Asian underground, MON she talked to the male artists and female club goers. What MON impact did this musical explosion have on British Asian MON identity? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON Radio 4 on Music MON MON David Hesmondhalgh MON MON Professor of Media and Music Industries at the University of MON Leeds MON MON MON MON Find out more about MON David Hesmondhalgh MON MON MON ‘Why Music Matters’ MON Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell MON ISBN-10: 1405192410 MON ISBN-13: 978-1405192415 MON MON Caspar Melville MON MON Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at the MON School of Oriental and African Studies, London MON MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Caspar Melville MON MON Falu Bakrania MON MON Associate Professor & Acting Director Race and Resistance MON Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State MON University; Co-director, South Asian Studies Initiative MON MON MON MON Find out more about MON Falu Bakrania MON MON MON Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the MON Politics of Belonging in Britain MON Publisher: Duke University Press MON ISBN-10: 0822353172 MON ISBN-13: 978-0822353171 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 b03s67p0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03s663z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03s6641 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03s6643 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03s6645 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03sgp24 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Y MON Y Rubinstein. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03s6mdm (Listen) MON Apples, Schmallenberg, Breakfasts MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03s6647 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv7x (Listen) MON Shoveler 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 shoveler. Swimming MON in circles, their huge beaks trawling the surface, shovelers MON do the job of baleen whales on our lakes and ponds. In MON winter our shoveler population is boosted by Continental MON birds. They're rather shy though and you're not likely to MON see them taking bread on the park lake! MON MON Shoveler (Anas clypeata) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03s6mdp (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03s6mdr (Listen) MON Sir Peter Maxwell Davies MON MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to the celebrated composer, Sir Peter MON Maxwell Davies on the eve of the premier of his tenth MON symphony. His latest work creates a musical structure based MON on architectural proportions, inspired by the 17th century MON architect Francesco Borromini. Waldemar Januszczak turns to MON the 18th century and Rococo for his inspiration, and looks MON at how this artistic movement spread from painting and MON interior design, to music and theatre. The environment, both MON built and natural, is key to Trevor Cox's study of sound as MON he listens intently to the cacophony around us. While the MON psychologist Victoria Williamson explores our relationship MON with music, including why we're prone to earworms, certain MON rhythms repeating endlessly in our heads. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Maxwell Davies MON Interviewed Guest: Trevor Cox MON Interviewed Guest: Waldemar Januszczak MON Interviewed Guest: Victoria Williamson MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03s6mdt (Listen) MON White Beech: The Rainforest Years, Episode 1 MON MON Germaine Greer is in search of 'heart's ease'. She longs to MON find a patch of her native Australia to make good, to MON restore after years of misguided exploitation. And she has MON just the person to help her with her project - her sister MON who is 'a properly trained Australian botanist'. But finding MON the right patch of land turns out to be far more difficult MON than she ever imagined. MON MON Read by Germaine Greer MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Germaine Greer MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON Abridger: Jane Marshall MON Author: Germaine Greer MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03s6mdw (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Women’s Magazines and their Editorial Responsibility to MON Women MON MON Last week, it was revealed that photographs of actress Lena MON Dunham had been *gasp* re-touched for the front cover of MON American Vogue’s February issue. Most understand the MON business of fashion photography with its flattering shots MON and digital retouching but the fact that it was done to a MON young woman famed for being ‘normal’ looking and not MON super-Hollywood, outraged many. Feminist blog ‘Jezebel’ MON offered a "$10,000 bounty" to anyone who could reveal the MON original "untouched" photos of Lena. And with the French MON female Editor of MON Closer MON magazine publishing those photos of President Hollande, MON resulting in the First Lady recovering in hospital, we ask MON what is a magazine editor’s editorial responsibility to MON women? What’s the tipping point for a magazine to be MON entertaining and look good, yet remain feminist? Woman’s MON Hour discusses how far female editors and their magazines MON have to change with MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON Stylist MON Editor Lisa Smosarski, Lebby Eyres from MON new! MON and Trish Halpin from MON Marie Claire MON MON June Spencer MON June Spencer was in the pilot episode of MON The Archers MON and has played the part of Peggy since 1950. At 94 she MON continues to perform in some of the most demanding story MON lines, including the death of her on-air husband Jack MON Woolley following his long decline with dementia. Jane is MON joined by June Spencer to talk about her career as the MON longest serving cast member. MON MON Anna Hope MON Wake, Anna Hope’s debut novel, takes place over five days in MON November 1920, soon after the First World War as the people MON of London await the arrival of the Unknown Solider from MON France.. This is a story that brilliantly portrays the MON female experience of the war and its aftermath, told through MON the lives of three women: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a MON waltz at the Hammersmith Palais, upper class Evelyn who MON toils at a lowly job in the Pensions Office, and Ada, a MON housewife, who is beset by visions of her dead son. Anna MON joins Jane in the studio to talk about this extraordinary MON period of history and the inspirations behind her novel. MON MON Global Child Marriage Report MON The UN estimates that 14 million girls enter into child MON marriage each year and that this becomes the basis for other MON forms of abuse including rape, domestic violence and the MON removal of future opportunities. This week the charity MON Equality Now which campaigns against sexual violence against MON women and girls around the world, has published a report on MON the issue and is calling for 18 to be the new global minimum MON age for marriage. Anber Raz from Equality Now joins Jane to MON discuss the report. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03s6mdy (Listen) MON Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 1 MON MON By Amanda Whittington. In January 1946, at the age of MON sixty-eight, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a MON life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg MON Trials. MON MON Dame Laura meets Major Peter Casson, Deputy Assistant MON Adjutant-General of the British War Crimes Executive, who is MON charged with smoothing her path through bureaucracy. He MON helps her to settle into her suite in the Grand Hotel MON (originally built for Hitler); to deal with the MON international social whirl that attends the trials and to MON cope with coming face-to-face with Hitler's henchmen for the MON first time in court. MON MON Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas MON reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters. MON MON This serial is based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, MON whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the MON Nazi War Crime Trials. MON MON Writer...Amanda Whittington MON MON Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON Credits MON Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick MON Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery MON Penny Ayres: Kate Sobey MON William Dean: Patrick Keeler MON French Prosecutor: Mark Meadows MON Director: Mary Ward-Lowery MON Writer: Amanda Whittington MON MON 11:00 Mapping the Void b03s6mf0 (Listen) MON Dr Kat Arney meets the people trying to change the world one MON map at a time. These are volunteers who use their free time MON to map the world's unmapped places and people. MON MON She sees how being on a map affects people's work, education MON and rights. And in extreme weather or after a natural MON disaster, she hears how mappers might help us to find the MON people who have fallen off the maps. She also hears from MON crisis mappers, people who source any information they can MON after tragedies to document what is happening on the ground MON as fast as possible. MON MON This story starts in January 2010, when a huge earthquake MON hit the island nation of Haiti. Thousands of miles away, a MON group of American students heard about the damage, logged MON onto their laptops and started mapping any post-disaster MON information they could find online. Their aim was to help MON the rescue and relief services save as many lives as MON possible. MON MON Four years on, international contingents of cartographers MON now deploy after every natural disaster, and in areas of MON political unrest and civil war. They scour the internet for MON cries for help on social media, then mark them on maps to MON try to get help to people who need it most. MON MON There's also a project making a continual effort to make the MON most accurate physical map of the globe. Contributing could MON mean joining a mapping party in London. Or cycling around MON rural Uganda with a GPS device. MON MON Thousands of volunteers are now spending their spare time MON contributing to these efforts. Some of those who started it MON all have become internationally recognised in a new area of MON expertise. As volunteers assemble around the world, Dr Kat MON Arney asks how powerful these maps can be and also assesses MON the problems that come with them. MON MON Produced by Clare Salisbury and Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b03s6mf2 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 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, a funeral focuses everyone's mind. 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 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 Mary: Penelope Wilton MON Jonathan: Kevin Eldon MON Keith: John Biggins MON Esther: Katherine Jakeways MON Norman: Geoffrey Palmer MON Orson: Nathaniel Parker MON Alistair: Michael Bertenshaw MON Jan: Felicity Montagu MON Producer: Steven Canny MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03s6mf4 (Listen) MON Electronic cigarettes, ski insurance, Asda Mobile problems MON MON Winifred Robinson looks at efforts to stop children using MON e-cigarettes. Also the challenges involved in getting the MON most comprehensive ski insurance. The man who's become a MON professional tweeter on behalf of big brands. Plus a look at MON what goes into dog food and the impact it can have on man's MON best friend. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03s6649 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03s664c (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 The Ideas That Make Us b03s6mf6 (Listen) MON Series 2, Liberty MON MON Bettany Hughes examines changing ideas of liberty by MON allowing a neuroscientist to take control of her brain and MON by perusing the pornography of the French Revolution. MON MON The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the MON history of the most influential ideas in the story of MON civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. MON MON In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning MON historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each MON programme with the first, extant evidence of a single MON word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards MON and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have MON been moulded by history and have shaped the human MON experience. In the first programme of this series, Bettany MON examines changing ideas of liberty with neuroscientist MON Professor Patrick Haggard, classicist Professor Paul MON Cartledge, historian Dr. Stephen Pigney and Ruth Porter from MON the Institute of Economic Affairs. MON MON Other ideas examined in this series are comedy, hospitality, MON wisdom and peace. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03s6jv5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011zzhn (Listen) MON Crimes of Mancunia MON MON Criminals' loved ones are being kidnapped around Manchester. MON When the kidnapper starts asking for very specific amounts MON of ransom money, word soon spreads that he is an ex-cop with MON a dangerous grudge against the criminal community. DCI Lise MON Lazard and DI Mikey Finn take up the case before time runs MON out for the kidnapper's victims. A noir drama in verse by MON Michael Symmons Roberts. MON MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON Director: Susan Roberts. MON MON Sinead Keenan as DCI Lise Lazard and Danielle Henry as CHIZ MON MON Credits MON DI Mickey Fin: Jason Done MON DCI Lise Lazard: Sinead Keenan MON Bennett: James Quinn MON Chiz: Danielle Henry MON Sonja: Beth McCann MON Craig: Stephen Hoyle MON Barman: Stephen Hoyle MON Station Foreman: Russell Richardson MON Policeman: Russell Richardson MON Director: Susan Roberts MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03s6mm1 (Listen) MON (8/17) MON MON What traditional size of paper gets its name because it is MON produced by folding a standard sheet eight times? And John MON Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool was named after which MON range of hills? MON MON Russell Davies asks these and many other questions in the MON latest heat of the prestigious general knowledge quiz, now MON in its 61st season. The four contestants taking part today MON are competing for a semi-final place which will take them a MON step nearer to the coveted title of Brain of Britain 2014. MON MON They come from Brighton, St Austell, Hedgerley Green in MON Buckinghamshire, and Kingswood in Surrey. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03s6jtq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b03s6mm3 (Listen) MON Poet Paul Farley MON MON This edition of With Great Pleasure was recorded at the new MON Birmingham Library as part of the Birmingham Literature MON Festival. Poet Paul Farley talks about the words and sounds MON that have inspired his writing. He recalls growing up in MON Liverpool listening to the Radio Four Shipping Forecast as MON well as the football scores on Sports Report, and learning MON to appreciate poetry from the women in his family. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Paul Farley MON Producer: Maggie Ayre MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03s6mm5 (Listen) MON Christianity and the Law MON MON Last year Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division, MON gave a speech in which he said the law of this country is MON secular, and that Christianity no longer informs its MON morality or values." Happily for us," he went on, "the days MON are past when the business of judges was the enforcement of MON morals or religious beliefs." MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Sir Mark Hedley, Joshua Rozenberg and MON David McIlroy to discuss the relationship between MON Christianity and the Law. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b03s6mm7 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03s664f (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b03s6pjn (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 5 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. Marcus Brigstocke, Holly Walsh, John MON Finnemore and Rufus Hound are the panellists obliged to talk MON with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as board MON games, salt, guinea pigs and actors. 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: Marcus Brigstocke MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: John Finnemore MON Panellist: Rufus Hound MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03s6pjq (Listen) MON Kirsty has a favour to ask, and Susan is making excuses. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03s6pjs (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03s6mdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Does Scandinavia Want Scotland? b03s6pjv (Listen) MON Some in the SNP dream of an independent Scotland aligned MON with the Nordic Pact. But is it a realistic geopolitical MON strategy or a Scandinavian pipe dream? Allan Little MON investigates. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03s6pjx (Listen) MON Last Rites for the Church of England? MON MON Andrew Brown asks if the Church of England has become MON fatally disconnected from society. MON The Darwin Economy MON The Alawis MON Catholic Social Teaching MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03q6dzy (Listen) MON The Medicinal Planet MON MON In recent years some conventional medicines such as MON anti-biotics have become less effective in treating diseases MON and infections. With an increasing human population MON worldwide, the need to discover new medicines for the MON benefit of human health will potentially become a major MON issue in the coming years. Many commercially available MON medicines today can trace their origins to compounds found MON in the natural world, yet many of those natural compounds MON are found in rare species, often in natural environments MON that are now vulnerable due to human activity. Are we in MON danger of losing these potentially valuable resources before MON they are even discovered? Monty Don explores this question MON through a field report from the Elan Valley in mid Wales MON where a tree lungwort, ravished by pollution and climate MON change, could provide a potential cure for Creutzfeldt-Jakob MON disease in humans. Across the world, pharmaceutical MON companies have begun to revisit the natural world for MON compounds that may prove beneficial to the future of human MON health. How many compounds can be sourced from the natural MON world is impossible to know as until they are discovered and MON their benefit is unknown, but with increased pressure from MON human activities in natural areas, what can be done now to MON ensure the survival of the unknown for future generations? MON MON Producer : Andrew Dawes. MON MON Professor Monique Simmonds OBE MON Professor Monique Simmonds holds the position of Director, MON Kew Innovation Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Monique MON co-ordinates research into the economic uses of MON plants/fungi, their potential as cosmetics, pharmaceutical MON and agrochemical leads, and as sources of sustainably MON harvested medicines. She has been involved in international MON projects evaluating the medicinal and pesticidal properties MON of plants. These projects involve working with NGO’s, MON commercial and academic collaborators as well as the police. MON In addition, Monique’s team has developed chemical MON authentication methods to check the quality of plant-derived MON products being sold as medicines, cosmetics and functional MON foods. This includes the supply of good quality plants used MON in traditional Chinese medicine. She has a keen research MON interest in exploring and understanding the role plant MON diversity plays in maintaining sustainable environments and MON the relevance of plant-based solution to shaping business MON practises – Business shaped by nature. MON MON Professor Marcel Jaspars MON Marcel Jaspars was an avid fan of Jacques Cousteau as a MON child and started diving at the age of 14. A degree and PhD MON in chemistry was followed by the realisation that he could MON couple his love of the marine environment with his skills in MON chemistry. In doing this, he has investigated marine life MON from many tropical nations in the world for their potential MON to provide new pharmaceuticals. He was appointed as lecturer MON at the University of Aberdeen in 1995 and was promoted to MON Professor in 2003. He is director of the Marine Biodiscovery MON Centre which aims to realise the potential of marine MON bioresources for the discovery of new pharmaceuticals. More MON recently, Marcel has started to investigate organisms from MON the deepest and coldest parts of the oceans. He is project MON leader of PharmaSea, a multinational project funded by the MON EU to investigate the biomedical potential of organisms from MON deep and cold marine environments. MON MON Tree Lungwort MON A tree lungwort in the Elan Valley of mid-Wales. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03s6mdr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03s664h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03s6pjz (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03s6pk1 (Listen) MON Dissident Gardens, Episode 6 MON MON By Jonathan Lethem MON MON A Twentieth Century American epic by prize-winning novelist MON Jonathan Lethem, applying his sharp, funny and perfectly MON crafted prose to an alternative history of America which MON puts a woman at its heart - a Jewish, Communist woman, a MON single mother, a second generation immigrant deeply involved MON in the civil rights movement. MON MON In 1955 Rose Zimmer is kicked out of the American Communist MON party for her affair with a black policeman. Her ire and her MON radicalism, her incendiary disappointment in the Twentieth MON Century, prove inescapable for the generations that come MON after her - her idealistic hippy daughter Miriam, black MON stepson Cicero and her lost grandson Sergius. A fragmented MON and compelling story of modern America from the perspective MON of those who lost out. MON MON Episode 6: Letters between Miriam in America and her father MON Albert in Germany shed new light on their relationship. MON MON Read by Laurel Lefkow MON Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder MON MON Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON Jonathan Lethem's musical influences 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 b03q8z41 (Listen) MON How accurate are scientific metaphors? MON MON Gravity is like a bowling ball sitting on a bed sheet; the MON atom is like a mini solar system, genes are selfish and the MON forces of evolution are blind... MON MON We're familiar with the metaphors from school, from books MON and various science docs on the telly. But how accurate are MON these metaphors and could we find better ones? MON MON Michael Rosen talks to science explainers across the country MON to find out how you get across ideas in science that are MON only properly expressed in highly technical language or in MON maths. Are they necessarily vague, even misleading, or are MON some just perfect for the concept they express. MON MON Michael looks at the evolution of scientific metaphors in MON history and celebrates some of the great science explainers MON of the past. But he also asks whether some metaphors are not MON only inaccurate but dangerous as they lead to MON misunderstandings in the public conversation about science MON and scientific ideas. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03s6pk3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 JANUARY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03s665j (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03s6mdt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03s665l (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03s665n (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03s665q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03s665s (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03sgp6b (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Y TUE Y Rubinstein. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03s6yl9 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv81 (Listen) TUE Blue Tit 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 blue tit. The perky TUE blue tit is a stalwart of garden bird-feeders. This popular TUE British bird has a blue cap and wings, olive green back and TUE yellow belly. The male and females look identical to us but TUE blue tits can clearly tell each other apart, find out how in TUE this episode. TUE TUE Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03s6ylc (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 b03s6ylf (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the TUE past behind the present. As storms and floods have been TUE hitting the UK, Jonathan and his team go on location to TUE investigate the Big Flood of 1953, the worst natural TUE disaster to affect Britain in the 20th century. The biggest TUE legacy of the 1953 flood was the Thames Barrage, TUE safeguarding London from future inundations. He asks what TUE lessons were learned in 1953 and what the future is for the TUE nation's flood defences when government departments are TUE under pressure to cut budgets. TUE Producer Neil McCarthy. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03s6ylh (Listen) TUE Mathew Waddington 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 towards certain careers. Was TUE there an epiphany, something they discovered in their very TUE core, or a series of events that motivated them? TUE TUE This week's guest is Mathew Waddington, a partner in a TUE Midlands and South-West based legal firm. He entered law TUE relatively late having worked in the travel industry, after TUE studying history. He was a trainee solicitor, unsure where TUE to specialise, when his daughter, who was born with a rare TUE chromosomal abnormality, died. It suddenly became clear to TUE him that he should work in children's law. He became a TUE Children's Panel solicitor representing abused children in TUE care cases, as well as parents and grandparents in other TUE Children Act cases. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE Mathew Waddington TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03s6ylk (Listen) TUE White Beech: The Rainforest Years, Episode 2 TUE TUE After a two year search, Germaine Greer has almost given up TUE her quest for a piece of land to heal. But then she is taken TUE to see an abandoned dairy farm on the Gold Coast. TUE TUE It is absolutely not what she has been looking for but, when TUE she gets there, there is a surprise in store. TUE TUE Read by Germaine Greer TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshal production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Germaine Greer TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE Abridger: Jane Marshall TUE Author: Germaine Greer TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03s6zm6 (Listen) 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 b03sgp6d (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Amanda Whittington. In a break from painting the Trial, TUE Dame Laura explores the city of Nuremberg. She meets TUE citizens who have lost everything in the bombing and visits TUE the stadium where Hitler addressed five hundred thousand TUE people, now home to a baseball team. TUE TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick TUE Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery TUE Sarah: Kate Sobey TUE Guy: Martin Bonger TUE Ella: Cristina Catalina TUE Director: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE Writer: Amanda Whittington TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03s6zm8 (Listen) TUE Ocean Governance TUE TUE The earth is mostly covered by seawater, yet most of the TUE world's oceans are ungoverned - they are the largest of TUE commons in the world. In today's Shared Planet we ask who is TUE responsible for the life in the ocean? Featuring a field TUE report from Scotland, Monty Don explores the problems faced TUE by life trying to compete with us for resources in an area TUE with little or no regulation. The Isle of May is home to a TUE quarter of a million seabirds in the breeding season, yet TUE come the winter months most disperse out to the open sea to TUE spend weeks at the mercy of storms and cold weather. The TUE birds need a rich food supply to survive, yet the fish TUE stocks and all other life in the sea is at the mercy of TUE humanity. Suffering from what is known as "The Tragedy of TUE the Commons", no one owns the oceans and therefore no one TUE has responsibility for them, they are open to exploitation TUE from many nations. Can the seabirds, whales, dolphins, TUE turtles and all the other life that lives in the open ocean TUE be protected? And if so by whom? TUE TUE Producer Mary Colwell. TUE TUE 11:30 Mad About the Boy b03s6zmb (Listen) TUE Hysterical girls have been pathologised for centuries but, TUE in the last two or three generations, they've also helped TUE define pop culture, further feminism and shape society. TUE TUE Jude Rogers and Ruth Barnes - both music journalists and pop TUE fans - look at the empowering flipside of pop fandom and how TUE new, tribal rites of passage in teen pop culture have TUE offered women an interesting new mode of expression. TUE TUE Taking listeners on a journey from the Beatlemaniacs to the TUE Directioners, they reveal the real power of female music TUE fans. It's a power that helped form the fan clubs that fed TUE the music industry, created a safe space for pubescent TUE females to escape traditional gender roles and go wild, once TUE terrified the authorities and silenced the world's biggest TUE boy bands, and, today, drives social networks. TUE TUE Featuring contributions from Beatlemaniac Lillian Adams; TUE David Cassidy-fanatic - and writer - Allison Pearson; the TUE woman behind one of One Direction's biggest hits, Fiona TUE Bevan and ex-East 17 songwriter Tony Mortimer. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree Production for TUE BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Clips TUE empty TUE empty TUE See all clips from Mad About the Boy (2) TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03s6zmd (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03s665v (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03s665x (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 The Ideas That Make Us b03s6zmg (Listen) TUE Series 2, Comedy TUE TUE Bettany Hughes considers changing ideas of comedy by TUE listening to a rat laughing and by giggling at schoolboy TUE jokes from Ancient Mesopotamia. TUE TUE The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the TUE history of the most influential ideas in the story of TUE civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. TUE TUE In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning TUE historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each TUE programme with the first, extant evidence of a single TUE word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards TUE and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have TUE been moulded by history and have shaped the human TUE experience. In the second programme of this series, Bettany TUE considers changing ideas of comedy with neuroscientist Dr TUE Sophie Scott, Assyriologist Dr. Irving Finkel, Artistic TUE Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Gregory Doran, and TUE comedian John Lloyd. TUE TUE Other ideas examined in this series are liberty, TUE hospitality, wisdom and peace. TUE TUE Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03s6pjq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03s70y8 (Listen) TUE A Bag on Ballyfinch Place TUE TUE By Deirdre Kinahan TUE TUE Michelle Fairley stars as Maeve in Deirdre Kinahan's TUE powerful Radio 4 debut. TUE TUE Maeve returns from work to find her Dublin street TUE transformed into a crime scene. The body of a young woman TUE has been found outside her house. The newspapers contain TUE conflicting reports about the victim's identity and Maeve TUE starts asking her own questions. Her enquiries lead to a TUE confrontation with her own painful loss. TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE Deirdre Kinahan is a Dublin-based playwright and theatre TUE producer. Deirdre wrote her first play in 1999 when a group TUE of women at Ruhama Women's Project asked her to write a play TUE about their lives as prostitutes. Bé Carna was widely TUE regarded as a powerful debut. Most recently, Deirdre's play TUE Moment played at The Bush to critical acclaim and sell-out TUE audiences. Her play Bogboy opened in New York in September TUE 2011. In 2013, her play These Halcyon Days picked up a TUE Fringe First. This is her first drama for Radio 4. TUE TUE Critical praise for Deirdre's play Moment: TUE 'What gripped me about this one was Kinahan's assured TUE handling of dramatic form... what matters is Kinahan's TUE ability to show how the present is contaminated by the past, TUE and how drama, like any other art form, depends on a TUE rigorous command of structure.' **** Michael Billington, The TUE Guardian TUE TUE 'The stuff of Greek tragedy, but delivered along with TUE quiche, coleslaw and cups of tea.' **** Sarah Hemming, The TUE Financial Times. TUE TUE Credits TUE Maeve: Michelle Fairley TUE Tony: Aidan McArdle TUE Mirjana: Anamaria Marinca TUE Aisling: Carys Eleri TUE Nicu: John Norton TUE Sharon: Carolyn Pickles TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Deirdre Kinahan TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b03s70yb (Listen) TUE Series that looks at the latest historic research and TUE showcases listeners' passions. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b03s718b (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 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 b03s718d (Listen) TUE Talking Terrorism TUE TUE It's a word that can start a war, incarcerate the innocent TUE and bring a city to a standstill. Since September 11th 2001 TUE the question of who is and who is not a 'terrorist' has TUE taken a central role in world affairs. TUE TUE In 'Word of Mouth' Michael Rosen examines the roots of the TUE word in the French Revolution, the strangely glamorous TUE associations it took on in the late 1960s and the current TUE debate over its use in post-9/11 legislation. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03s718g (Listen) TUE Series 32, DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' TUE Lopes TUE TUE Sara Cox nominates Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, a hip hop artist TUE and rapper, the first on Great Lives. The presenter is TUE Matthew Parris. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE Assistant Producer: Milly Chowles. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Sara Cox TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03s71cx (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03s6661 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Chain Reaction b03s71cz (Listen) TUE Series 9, Graham Linehan talks to Adam Buxton 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 final episode in the series sees Father Ted and IT crowd TUE writer Graham Linehan talking to comedian, actor and one TUE half of Adam and Joe, Adam Buxton. TUE TUE Producer ... Carl Cooper. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03s7426 (Listen) TUE There is a late-night phone call at Brookfield. Meanwhile TUE Susan has some last-minute worries. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03szh9k (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgp6d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03s7428 (Listen) TUE Food Fraud TUE TUE A year after the horsemeat scandal there are calls for a new TUE police force to fight food fraud amid concerns that TUE organised crime is increasingly targeting the sector because TUE there are huge profits to be made at the expense of the TUE consumer. TUE Prof Chris Elliott, who was commissioned by the government TUE to investigate the UK's most serious food scandal in recent TUE years, says criminals are committing more food fraud because TUE there's little risk of detection or serious penalties if TUE they're caught. TUE Gerry Northam investigates the extent of food fraud across TUE the UK and reports from Brussels on whether the EU has TUE learned enough lessons from last year's scandal. TUE Producer: Carl Johnston. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03s742b (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03s742d (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b03s6ylf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03s6663 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03s742g (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03s742j (Listen) TUE Dissident Gardens, Episode 7 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. A fragmented TUE and compelling story of modern America from the perspective TUE of those who lost out. TUE TUE Episode 7: Today's episode is a poignant glimpse into Miriam TUE and Tommy's personal experience of revolution. TUE TUE Read by Laurel Lefkow TUE Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder TUE TUE Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE Jonathan Lethem's musical influences 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 b00wsr2x (Listen) TUE Series 2, Politics TUE TUE Shappi Khorsandi looks at a variety of subjects close to her TUE Iranian heart - including History, Addiction and, in this TUE programme, Politics. TUE TUE Shappi reveals her thoughts on Margaret Thatcher, how Anne TUE Frank got her into politics and that, while other parents TUE took their children to the zoo, she was taken to Speakers' TUE Corner. TUE TUE She'll be joined by writer and satirist John O'Farrell to TUE discuss how humour and politics are intertwined. Stand-up TUE comedian Ian Stone offers his take on the world of politics TUE and there's a witty song from Duncan 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: Ian Stone TUE Interviewed Guest: John O'Farrell TUE Musician: Duncan Oakley TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03s742l (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 JANUARY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03s666y (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03s6ylk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03s6670 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03s6672 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03s6674 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03s6676 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03sgpj1 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Y WED Y Rubinstein. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03s7547 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv8n (Listen) WED Grey Wagtail 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 grey wagtail. Grey WED wagtails are supremely graceful birds which boost their WED appeal by nesting in photogenic locations. They revel in WED shaded spots near swift-flowing water and will also nest by WED canal lock-gates or mill-races. WED WED Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) WED Webpage image courtesy of Jan Sevcik (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03s7549 (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 b03s754c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03s754f (Listen) WED White Beech: The Rainforest Years, Episode 3 WED WED Germaine Greer has bought a piece of battered rainforest on WED the Gold Coast. Now she has it, the task of restoring it WED seems overwhelming. WED WED So she has to admit to her sister, a trained botanist, what WED she's done so they can come up with a plan. WED WED Read by Germaine Greer WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Germaine Greer WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED Abridger: Jane Marshall WED Author: Germaine Greer WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03s754h (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgpj3 (Listen) WED Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 3 WED WED By Amanda Whittington. Even though her press box at the WED court in Nuremberg is so tiny, Dame Laura decides to bring WED in her enormous canvas and paint the trial in situ. But the WED United States Civil Broadcasting Company has other ideas. WED WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED Credits WED Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick WED Major Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery WED Colonel Clark: Mark Meadows WED Elizabeth Endes: Cristina Catalina WED French Prosecutor: Patrick Keeler WED Director: Mary Ward-Lowery WED Writer: Amanda Whittington WED WED 11:00 Whatever Happened to Community? b03jz22w (Listen) WED Through Thick and Thin WED WED Giles Fraser has left a glittering job as Canon Chancellor WED of St Paul's Cathedral and is now working as the priest of a WED run-down parish in Elephant and Castle. This has set him WED thinking about the nature of community, which he WED investigates in this very personal series. WED WED Community has become one of those warm and fuzzy notions WED about which it feels impossible to complain. But Giles WED thinks our presumptions about community should be WED challenged. WED WED His parish in inner London is rich in diversity, but many WED people survive in bedsits on short-term lets and have little WED in common with their neighbours. Their communities have WED become very thin and they struggle to find common ground. WED WED Nowhere is that common ground more apparent than in our WED nostalgic ideal of community - embodied in the picture WED postcard English village. Here is the ultimate 'thick' WED community - everybody knows everybody else's business, some WED people still leave their back doors unlocked, and locals are WED broadly similar in their worldview. WED WED To examine this rural idyll, Giles travels to WED Northamptonshire to talk to his parents. He has no desire to WED live in this sort of place, but he's really interested to WED try to get under the skin of a close, cohesive and WED un-diverse community and to get a sense of the real benefits WED and disadvantages of living there. He also goes to nearby WED Finedon to talk to the vicar - Rev Richard Coles. He asks WED what it's like to live in a place like this if you're not WED quite the same as the majority - perhaps because you're gay, WED an immigrant, or simply plain different. WED WED Producer: Jane Greenwood. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b03s754k (Listen) WED Series 9, Driven to Extremes WED WED Episode Four - Driven To Extremes WED WED Clare is facing a disciplinary tribunal after a seemingly WED straightforward job goes awry. Can she convince the panel of WED her professionalism? At home, Brian tries to cheer up a WED despondent Nali. 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 WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an 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 Nali: Nina Conti WED Mr Byrne: Richard Lumsden WED Ms Mellor: Liza Tarbuck WED Mr Plummer: Andrew Wincott WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Hannah: Alex Tregear WED Dermott: Arthur Hughes WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03s76cj (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03t7pgm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03s6678 (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 The Ideas That Make Us b03s76cm (Listen) WED Series 2, Hospitality WED WED Bettany Hughes samples changing ideas of hospitality by WED gazing into outer space and by inviting poet and author Ben WED Okri 'round to her house for supper. WED WED The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the WED history of the most influential ideas in the story of WED civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. WED WED In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning WED historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each WED programme with the first, extant evidence of a single WED word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards WED and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have WED been moulded by history and shaped the human experience. In WED the third programme of this series, Bettany samples changing WED ideas of hospitality with astronomer Professor Didier WED Queloz, classicist Professor Paul Cartledge, poet and author WED Ben Okri and former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. WED WED Other ideas examined in this series are liberty, comedy, WED wisdom and peace. WED WED Producer: Dixi Stewart. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03s7426 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03s76cr (Listen) WED Karma WED WED Kulvinder Ghir and Shobu Kapoor star in Samina Baig's WED powerful new drama. When a shocking discovery is made WED outside a rural village in northern Rajasthan, an elderly WED couple are forced into the spotlight, confronted with a WED moral dilemma that is shaped by deeply embedded attitudes WED and customs. WED WED Karma emerged from Samina Baig's long held interest in the WED position of women in India. The seed was sewn for this WED compelling and heartfelt drama when in 2012 the shocking WED rape of a 23 year old student on a bus in New Delhi provoked WED worldwide outrage and led women to take to India's streets WED to demand social and political change and the right to live WED in safety. WED WED Samina Baig is an established writer with a track record in WED television and radio drama. Her radio plays include, Tall WED Stories, Husud (Jealousy) and Migrant Memory. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Ram Gopal: Kulvinder Ghir WED Sanjana: Shobu Kapoor WED Veeru: Jaz Deol WED Charu: Vineeta Rishi WED Lal Bhai: Adeel Akhtar WED The Doctor: Adeel Akhtar WED Pratibha: Ayesha Dharker WED Roopa: Ayesha Dharker WED Mohan: Sacha Dhawan WED Laxmi: Jerry Dufficy WED Writer: Samina Baig WED Director: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03s76cy (Listen) WED Divorce, Dissolution of Civil Partnerships and Separation WED WED Splitting up? How do you divide your money and assets fairly WED when a relationship ends? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED There are many difficult and emotional decisions to make WED when a relationships breaks down and you may need help to WED work out your rights and how you will manage financially. WED WED What happens to the family home and who will take WED responsibility for paying the rent or mortgage? WED WED How do you share or protect joint assets? WED WED If there are children to consider, what provision should be WED made to support them? WED WED What are the considerations and rules about sharing a WED pension? WED WED Will you be entitled to benefits support? WED WED Can you avoid the cost of going to court? WED WED What are the options if you can't agree a settlement? WED WED Whatever your question presenter Paul Lewis will be joined WED by: WED WED Joanne Edwards, Partner and Family Law Specialist, WED Penningtons Manches. WED Liz Welsh, Elizabeth Welsh Family Law Practice. 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 b03s742d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03s76d5 (Listen) WED Prostitution in the Community WED WED Prostitution in the community: The criminologist, Sarah WED Kingston, discusses her study of the impact of sex work on WED local residents and businesses. Policies restricting sex WED work are often based on assumptions about the alleged WED negative effects of commercial sex on everyday lives. This WED is the first comprehensive text to examine the empirical WED basis of this assumption. How do neighbourhoods react to the WED presence of prostitutes and male clients in their areas? Do WED stereotypes of stigma and deviance mean that residents will WED always wish to move this 'problem' elsewhere. WED WED Also, the sociologist, Henry Yeomans, charts the fluid, ever WED changing definitions of 'moderate' alcohol consumption. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03s76dc (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 b03s76df (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03s667b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03s76dh (Listen) WED Series 5, Southall 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 Southall in Middlesex, which is also WED known as "little India" due to the large Asian community WED there. Mark tried the local food - Jalebi, Paan, Pakora - WED that can seem alien to someone who grew up in 1960s Kent. WED The twin landmarks of Heathrow Airport and the Sikh temple WED dominate the area, with the latter proving more popular as WED Mark also discusses football, astrology and bank openings. 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 Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Mark Steel WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Mark Steel WED Writer: Pete Sinclair WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03s76dk (Listen) WED The Ambridge rumour mill gets to work. Meanwhile Tony has a WED brainwave. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03s76dm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Mark Lawson WED Producer: Ellie Bury WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgpj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b03s76dp (Listen) WED Series 7, Is work working for our kids? WED WED From April 2015, working parents will be able to share leave WED after the birth of a child. Mariella Frostrup debates WED whether this will change attitudes towards stay-at-home dads WED and mums who choose to go back to work. WED WED Announcing the new policy, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg WED has stated that 'women deserve the right to pursue their WED goals and not feel they have to choose between having a WED successful career or having a baby.' WED WED Mariella examines whether the idea of shared parental leave WED is the best way to give working mothers a more fulfilling WED career, and whether fathers will be prepared to spend more WED time at home with a new baby. WED WED Producer Sarah Bowen. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03s76dr (Listen) WED Series 4, Matthew Engel WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Frozen in Mawson's Footsteps b03s76dt (Listen) WED Andrew Luck-Baker has spent the last two months with the WED polar scientists who have been following in the footsteps of WED the first Australasian Expedition to Antarctica a century WED ago, lead by Douglas Mawson. On Christmas Day 2013 their WED ship, the Academik Shokalskiy, became trapped in the ice. WED Andrew reflects on doing science in the frozen southern WED continent, the experience of getting stuck for 10 days and WED the elation of the eventual rescue. WED WED Between 1911 and 1914, Douglas Mawson explored a fiercely WED harsh part of Antarctica while the more celebrated Scott and WED Amundsen raced to the South Pole elsewhere on the frozen WED continent. Mawson's expedition was dedicated to scientific WED study and discovery in the early Heroic Age of Antarctic WED Exploration. That said, Mawson's experiences were fraught WED with horror and danger. His story includes the most WED remarkable episode of suffering in the jaws of death in that WED Heroic Age. WED WED Times have changed and travellers to the Antarctic are well WED prepared with modern hi-tech clothing and ice breaking WED ships. But still the 2013 expedition was a victim of the WED unpredictable conditions in the southern continent. WED WED The 2013 Australasian Antarctic Expedition has repeated many WED of Mawson's investigations around Commonwealth Bay and Cape WED Denison in East Antarctica where the original team set up WED their base. This remote area hasn't been studied WED systematically for100 years and the expedition has revealed WED how this part of Antarctica is being altered by climate WED change. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03s754c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03s667d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03s7746 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03s7748 (Listen) WED Dissident Gardens, Episode 8 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. A fragmented WED and compelling story of modern America from the perspective WED of those who lost out. WED WED Episode 8: Alone in a Quaker boarding school, Sergius tries WED to come to terms with the loss of his family WED WED Read by Laurel Lefkow WED Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder WED WED Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED Jonathan Lethem's musical influences 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 b03s9pjl (Listen) WED Series 2, Survival WED WED This week comedian Tim Key has travelled to 'the wilds' to WED recite poems which grapple with the concept of survival. Tom WED Basden plays the banjo. 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 b00x41ns (Listen) WED Fame 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 Ian: Simon Day WED Narrator: David Soul WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Alex MacQueen WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Producer: Simon Nicholls WED Writer: Sean Gray WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03s9pxb (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03s668b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03s754f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03s668d (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03s668g (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03s668j (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03s668l (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03sgpz6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Y THU Y Rubinstein. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03s9tlv (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv8v (Listen) THU Hen Harrier 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 hen harrier. The THU sight of hen harriers floating in to their roost on a THU winter's afternoon is one that once seen, you'll never THU forget. Hen harriers are long-winged, graceful birds of prey THU which hunt by quartering rough ground such as marshes and THU moorland. THU THU Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03s9tlx (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 b03s9tlz (Listen) THU Catastrophism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Catastrophism, the idea THU that the geological record has been influenced by a series THU of natural disasters. In 1822 William Buckland, the first THU reader of Geology at the University of Oxford, published his THU famous Reliquae Diluvianae, in which he ascribed most of the THU fossil record to the effects of Noah's flood. Charles Lyell THU in his Principles of Geology challenged these writings. But THU in the 1970s the idea that a series of natural disasters had THU left its imprint in the Earth's geology was revived and THU given new respectability by the discovery of evidence of a THU catastrophic asteroid impact 65 million years ago, believed THU by some to have resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03s9tm1 (Listen) THU White Beech: The Rainforest Years, Episode 4 THU THU The hero of Germaine Greer's rainforest is the rare White THU Beech tree although, with further research, she discovers it THU is neither white nor a beech. However, after years of THU misguided exploitation, it is one of the most endangered THU species of the forest. A tragedy she is determined to put THU right. THU THU Read by Germaine Greer THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Germaine Greer THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU Abridger: Jane Marshall THU Author: Germaine Greer THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03s9tm3 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgpz8 (Listen) THU Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 4 THU THU By Amanda Whittington. THU Dame Laura takes Peter on a visit to her old circus friends, THU the Carollis, who are also living, by coincidence, in THU Nuremberg. THU THU Meanwhile there is a hitch with the press box at court and THU Laura's eminence as a painter cuts no ice with the American THU colonel. THU THU Guitar music played by Benedict Scrivener THU THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU Credits THU Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick THU Major Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery THU Francesco Carolli: Mark Meadows THU Elizabeth Endes: Cristina Catalina THU Director: Mary Ward-Lowery THU Writer: Amanda Whittington THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03s9tm5 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Houses of Horror b03s9tm7 (Listen) THU It's almost a given that the story of British horror movies THU belongs to Hammer films. The studio, with its lurid THU combination of sex and death, lashings of blood and gore, THU has given it a special stake in British hearts. It made over THU 200 films such as Dracula and Curse of Frankenstein with a THU recurring, legendary cast, including Peter Cushing and THU Christopher Lee, and its 2007 revival drew heavily on past THU mystique. THU THU Hammer was the most successful British film company of all THU time but, throughout its heyday in the 60s and 70s, it did THU battle with a much smaller, poorer, creative, upstart rival THU - Amicus films. Amicus was a small British horror studio THU that pioneered the much loved 'portmanteau' picture, such as THU Tales of the Crypt and Vault of Horror - each movie a THU composite of four or five short stories, whose connection is THU revealed at the end. THU THU Horror aficionado and film buff Matthew Sweet explores the THU productive rivalry between the two contenders for the heart THU and soul of British horror, in a blood-curdling tale of low THU budget, gore spattered one-upmanship that's full of chilling THU atmosphere and fun. THU THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03s9tm9 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03s668n (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03s668q (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 The Ideas That Make Us b03s9tmc (Listen) THU Series 2, Wisdom THU THU Bettany Hughes enquires into changing ideas of wisdom by THU watching a football match and going to a synagogue to hear THU the Song of Deborah being sung. THU THU The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the THU history of the most influential ideas in the story of THU civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. THU THU In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning THU historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each THU programme with the first, extant evidence of a single THU word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards THU and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have THU been moulded by history and have shaped the human THU experience. In the fourth programme of this series, Bettany THU enquires into changing ideas of wisdom with footballer THU Eniola Aluko, philosopher Professor Angie Hobbs, Rabbi Laura THU Janner-Klausner, and papyrologist Professor Dirk Obbink. THU THU Other ideas examined in this series are liberty, comedy, THU hospitality and peace. THU THU Producer: Dixi Stewart. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03s76dk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03s9tmf (Listen) THU Secure THU THU by Audrey Gillan THU THU Fifteen year old Siobhain is taken into care. In new friend THU Kerry she finds someone who understands her. But will she THU ever feel secure? THU THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane THU THU Sharon Rooney stars as teen heroine Rae Earl in the E4 THU series MY MAD FAT DIARY. THU THU Credits THU Siobhain: Sharon Rooney THU Kerry: Jasmin Riggins THU Amber: Rebecca Elise THU Mark: Kenny Blyth THU Psychologist: Wendy Seager THU Moira: Julie Austin THU Marie: Julie Austin THU Jim: Robin Laing THU Colin: Robin Laing THU Writer: Audrey Gillan THU Director: Gaynor MacFarlane THU Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03s9tmh (Listen) THU Adlestrop THU THU Helen Mark visits the small Gloucestershire village of THU Adlestrop that inspired Edward Thomas' famous eponymous poem THU when his steam train unexpectedly stopped there 100 years THU ago, on the eve of war. Helen meets Ian Morton of the Edward THU Thomas Fellowship to find out more about the poet who died THU in combat in 1917, as well as people who live and work in THU this beautiful corner of the Cotswolds. She visits THU Daylesford, the nearby large organic farm operation, makers THU of their own Adlestrop cheese, and hears about the Wychwood THU Forest Project. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03s69dn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03s6jtz (Listen) THU Deborah Levy revisits her early work THU THU Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Deborah Levy about THU her early work THU THU Producer: Andrea Kidd. THU THU BOOKLIST THU THU Deborah Levy's Books: THU THU THU THU Swimming Home THU THU Publisher: Faber and Faber THU THU THU THU The Unloved THU THU Publisher: Penguin THU THU THU THU Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography THU THU Publisher: Penguin THU THU THU THU Bulgarian Literature discussion THU THU THU THU East of the West by Miroslav Penkov - Publisher: Picador THU (US) THU THU Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova - Publisher: THU Portobello THU THU Twelve Minutes of Love by Kapka Kassabova - Publisher: THU Portobello THU THU Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev - Publisher: Portobello THU THU THU THU THU THU Read the Opening Chapter of The Unloved by Deborah Levy THU Chapter 1: The Unloved by Deborah Levy THU THU The Unloved THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Mariella Frostrup THU Interviewed Guest: Deborah Levy THU Producer: Andrea Kidd THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03s9ttv (Listen) THU Lone Survivor director Peter Berg; Alex Gibney on The THU Armstrong Lie THU THU Francine Stock talks to the director Peter Berg about his THU film Lone Survivor based on a real US military mission in THU Afghanistan which goes terribly wrong, leading to difficult THU choices and sacrifice. Plus Alex Gibney on his Lance THU Armstrong documentary, The Armstrong Lie and how he fell THU under the spell of the disgraced but charismatic cyclist. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Peter Berg THU Interviewed Guest: Alex Gibney THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03s9ttx (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 b03s9ttz (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03s668s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b015mvsj (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 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 This week's show features some musical interludes from the THU zoo, and a sketch that only a fool wouldn't find funny. 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 b03s9tv1 (Listen) THU There is a terrifying night in store for the Grundys, and Ed THU feels the pressure. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03s9tv3 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgpz8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03s9tv5 (Listen) THU Dieudonne: France's most dangerous comedian? THU THU Dieudonne has divided France with his controversial comedy. THU His shows are sold out, his videos get millions of hits THU online, and people around the world from firefighters to THU famous footballers have been photographed doing the THU 'quenelle', a gesture he popularised. Many fans see THU Dieudonne and the quenelle as expressing their anger and THU disillusionment with 'the system'. But the French government THU has banned his shows and his opponents say Dieudonne is a THU dangerous anti-Semite who is popularising the ideas of the THU extreme-right. Helen Grady investigates why Dieudonne has THU become so popular, and whether his critics are right to THU claim he's become a 'recruiting sergeant' for the French THU National Front. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03s9v66 (Listen) THU The Sharing Economy THU THU The "sharing" economy is the topic of discussion for Evan THU Davis & his guests in the first of a new series of The THU Bottom Line. The market is built around renting out your THU possessions to strangers and entrepreneurs have piled in to THU enable us to share our homes, cars, bikes, clothes, tools THU and much more besides. At its heart is the idea that THU business works better if it collaborates, rather than THU competes, with other companies. How disruptive might these THU innovative enterprises prove to be? How much profit can they THU make (and is that point anyway?). THU THU Guests : THU THU Even Heggernes, UK & Ireland Country Manager, Airbnb THU Ali Clabburn, Founder, Liftshare THU Fiona Disegni, Founder, Rentez-Vous THU THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03s9ttx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03s9tlz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03s668v (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03s9x1t (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03s9x1w (Listen) THU Dissident Gardens, Episode 9 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. A fragmented THU and compelling story of modern America from the perspective THU of those who lost out. THU THU Episode 9: Today's episode offers a moving glimpse into the THU relationship between Rose and her stepson Cicero as she THU struggles with her encroaching loss of memory. THU THU Read by Laurel Lefkow 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 b00z58bb (Listen) THU Series 1, Osminia 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 he travels to Osminia, a land where marriage is THU outlawed. 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 Credits THU Brian Gulliver: Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver: Mariah Gale THU Dr Malik: Paul Bhattercharjee THU Tandia: Joanna Bobin THU Gigia: Jane Whittenshaw THU Seldon: Brian Bowles THU Mayor: Sam Dale THU Sancti: Sally Orrock THU Producer: Steven Canny THU Writer: Bill Dare THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03s9x1y (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03s669s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03s9tm1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03s669v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03s669x (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03s669z (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03s66b1 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03sgq25 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Y FRI Y Rubinstein. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03s9y31 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv9d (Listen) FRI Great Northern Diver 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 great northern FRI diver. The wailing cries of a great northern diver echo FRI around the lakes where they live. If the bird sounds FRI striking, then its appearance is just as dramatic....a FRI dagger bill, sleek submarine-shaped body, it's plumage FRI covered in graphic patterns of black and white stripes, dots FRI and dashes. FRI FRI Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Graham Easton (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03s9y33 (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 b03p8wdc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03s9y35 (Listen) FRI White Beech: The Rainforest Years, Episode 5 FRI FRI Germaine Greer returns from a six month stay in England to FRI find some exciting plantlings in her propagation unit in the FRI rainforest. And though they look nothing like their parent, FRI she is sure she knows what they will grow into. It is a FRI triumph that makes all the hard work, worry and expense FRI worthwhile. FRI FRI Read by Germaine Greer FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Germaine Greer FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI Abridger: Jane Marshall FRI Author: Germaine Greer FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03s9y37 (Listen) FRI Women and Austerity FRI FRI On Friday 31st January Woman's Hour and You & Yours will FRI combine for two outside broadcasts examining the impact of FRI the recession and the strength of the recovery. For Woman's FRI Hour Jenni Murray will be live from a food bank, FRI surprisingly located in the relatively affluent suburb of FRI Timperley in Cheshire. She's joined by guests to discuss if FRI the recession is over for women and also to meet people for FRI whom the economic downturn has brought a new lease of life. FRI At noon Peter White will be in Liverpool at the new Central FRI Library. The Library has been built in partnership with FRI private funding and the City Council is committed to fund it FRI - meaning there is even less money for other council FRI priorities. Personal finance expert, Alvin Hall, will take FRI people's questions about their money. FRI FRI Presenter:Jenni Murray FRI Producer: Bernadette McConnell. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgq3n (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Amanda Whittington. FRI FRI Dame Laura's painting of the Nuremberg Trial is almost FRI complete. When she was commissioned as war artist by the FRI British government, they were not expecting this: a vision FRI of the courtroom as a kind of hell, with a mirage of the FRI ruined city in the background. FRI FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick FRI Major Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Hans: Patrick Keeler FRI Director: Mary Ward-Lowery FRI Writer: Amanda Whittington FRI FRI 11:00 The Road to Sochi b03sb0ln (Listen) FRI The July 2007 announcement that the 22nd Winter Olympics FRI would be held in Sochi, was a surprise to many. Sochi was FRI better known for its palm trees and Soviet-era sanatoriums FRI than for ski slopes. But Vladimir Putin's intensive lobbying FRI efforts swayed the International Olympic Committee. He saw FRI the Olympics as an opportunity to showcase to the world a FRI 'new and modern Russia', a country that had left behind its FRI tumultuous era of transition and one eager to embrace global FRI institutions and attract international investment. FRI FRI But preparations for the games have been mired in FRI controversy. Human rights groups have called attention to FRI the alleged maltreatment of migrant labourers and Russia's FRI anti-LGBT policies. Environmental activists claim damage to FRI protected areas. With the cost of the games escalating from FRI £12 to £32 billion there are serious accusations of FRI corruption and criminality. Given that all Olympic host FRI cities endure fierce criticism on various fronts in the FRI lead-up to the Games are the concerns about Sochi truly FRI justified, or are they being exaggerated? Is this debate FRI really about corruption, or are the Games just a pawn in FRI Russia's intense political battles? FRI FRI Robin Lustig heads to Russia to investigate the allegations. FRI He speaks to local residents and city officials in Sochi FRI whose lives have been affected. Boris Nemtsov, a prominent FRI opposition leader and native of Sochi describes how FRI 'billions' have gone missing, relaying some of the FRI absurdities - such as the road so expensive it 'could have FRI been paved with gold'. Valery Morozov a local businessman FRI explains how he paid millions in bribes to a government FRI official and discusses how the Russian bureaucracy has FRI systematized corruption. FRI FRI Producer: Emily Williams. FRI A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Ayres on the Air b03sb0lq (Listen) FRI Series 5, Self-Sufficiency 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 self-sufficiency. FRI She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey FRI Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband FRI 'Gordon'. FRI This week Pam talks about her love of allotments, knitting FRI and her more recent love of beekeeping. FRI Poems include: The Allotment Rustler, Over-Penguinisation, FRI Behold My Bold Provider, Stuck on You and The Litter Moron. FRI Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and FRI Tom Neenan. FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03sb2v1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03s66b3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03s66b5 (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 The Ideas That Make Us b03sb2v3 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Peace FRI FRI Bettany Hughes explores changing ideas of peace through FRI images of war-torn Syria and by talking to a man on the FRI brink of death. FRI FRI The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the FRI history of the most influential ideas in the story of FRI civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. FRI FRI In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning FRI historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each FRI programme with the first, extant evidence of a single FRI word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards FRI and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have FRI been moulded by history and have shaped the human FRI experience. In the final programme of this series, Bettany FRI explores changing ideas of peace with photojournalist Paul FRI Conroy, historians Dr. David Gwynn and Dr. Faisal Devji, FRI Consultant in Palliative Medicine Emily Collis and Davor FRI Sesil. FRI FRI Other ideas examined in this series are liberty, comedy, FRI hospitality and wisdom. FRI FRI Producer: Dixi Stewart. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03s9tv1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012078f (Listen) FRI Playing for His Life FRI FRI Written by John Peacock. FRI FRI Already under Gestapo Surveillance, tennis ace Baron FRI Gottfried Von Cramm, married but secretly homosexual, FRI offends Hitler, by refusing to join the Nazi Party. He FRI believes himself to be safe as long as he remains Germany's FRI number one and winning. 'But I must win. I can't lose, and I FRI can't quit.' He was left playing for his life. FRI FRI Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Gottfried von Cramm: Geoffrey Streatfeild FRI Lisa von Cramm: Paloma Baeza FRI Jutta von Cramm: Frances Jeater FRI Joachim von Ribbentrop: Sam Dale FRI Manasse Herbst: Nicholas Boulton FRI Bill Tilden Jr: William Hope FRI Commentator: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Pate: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Hermann Goering: Simon Treves FRI Umpire: Simon Treves FRI Don Budge: Adam Unze FRI Lady Astor: Rachel Atkins FRI Henkel: James Joyce FRI David: James Joyce FRI Writer: John Peacock FRI Director: Celia de Wolff FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03sb3x2 (Listen) FRI Buxton FRI FRI Eric Robson presents the horticultural panel programme from FRI The Pavilion Gardens in Buxton. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny FRI Guinness and Anne Swithinbank take the questions from local FRI gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Time Being b03sb3x4 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Spells for Love 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 Spells For Love by Melissa Lee-Houghton: FRI A tale of love, loss and white magic. Sybil will do FRI everything in her power to see that her daughter Lucia falls FRI in love. FRI FRI Melissa Lee-Houghton has written two collections of poetry. FRI Her most recent, Beautiful Girls, is a Poetry Book Society FRI Recommendation. Melissa lives in Blackburn, Lancashire. FRI FRI Reader: Ruth Gemmell FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ruth Gemmell FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI Writer: Melissa Lee-Houghton FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03sb3x6 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Matthew Bannister FRI Producer: Simon Tillotson FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b03sb3x8 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the series that investigates the FRI numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03sb3xb (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03s66b7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b03sb3xd (Listen) FRI Series 42, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Andy FRI Zaltzman for a comic romp through the week's news. With FRI Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI Written by the cast, with additional material from Jane FRI Lamacraft and Sarah Morgan. Produced by Colin Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Andy Zaltzman FRI Performer: Mitch Benn FRI Performer: Jon Holmes FRI Performer: Laura Shavin FRI Writer: Andy Wolton FRI Writer: Sarah Morgan FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03sb3xg (Listen) FRI Ed turns over a new leaf, and Peggy makes her mind up. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI William Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Writer: Carolyn Jones FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03sb3zr (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Mark Lawson FRI Producer: Rebecca Armstrong FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03sgq3n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03sb5y6 (Listen) FRI Eric Pickles MP, Polly Billington, Baroness Jenny Jones, FRI Simon Heffer FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Purfleet in Essex with Secretary of State for FRI Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles MP, Green FRI party peer Jenny Jones, Ed Miliband's former political FRI adviser now Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Thurrock FRI Polly Billington, and the historian and Daily Mail columnist FRI Simon Heffer. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03sb5y8 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Drama b03sb5yb (Listen) FRI Tony Teardrop, The Wire: Tony Teardrop FRI FRI Tony Teardrop FRI by Esther Wilson FRI FRI Based on true stories, this is a biting and sometimes FRI humorous play about homeless people and people living on the FRI breadline. It follows the poignant story of Roz, a homeless FRI drug addict who has four adult children and looks especially FRI at the relationship with her and eldest daughter Carly. Tony FRI Teardrop is also homeless, and a parent; he's hoping to FRI arrange a visit to see his two boys, who are in long term FRI foster care. When Tony and Roz meet a relationship develops. FRI FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Tony Teardrop: Steve Evets FRI Roz: Siobhan Finneran FRI Carly: Christine Bottomley FRI Billy: Gerard Kearns FRI Ken: Glen Cunningham FRI Lynne: Deborah McAndrews FRI Big Truck: Stephen White FRI Writer: Esther Wilson FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03s66b9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03sb5yf (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03sb5yj (Listen) FRI Dissident Gardens, Episode 10 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. A fragmented FRI and compelling story of modern America from the perspective FRI of those who lost out. FRI FRI Episode 10: This fragmented and compelling story of modern FRI America concludes with Rose's stepson Cicero, and her FRI grandson Sergius. 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 b03s718g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03sb5yl (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
24 January, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 25/01/2014 - 31/01/2014
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