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SAT SATURDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03sb60h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03s9y35 (Listen) SAT White Beech: The Rainforest Years, Episode 5 SAT SAT Germaine Greer returns from a six month stay in England to SAT find some exciting plantlings in her propagation unit in the SAT rainforest. And though they look nothing like their parent, SAT she is sure she knows what they will grow into. It is a SAT triumph that makes all the hard work, worry and expense SAT worthwhile. SAT SAT Read by Germaine Greer SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Germaine Greer SAT Producer: Jane Marshall SAT Abridger: Jane Marshall SAT Author: Germaine Greer SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03sb60k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03sb60m (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03sb60p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03sb60r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03sb7ww (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Rev'd Sharon Grenham-Toze. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03sb7wy (Listen) SAT 'This isn't just a story about plants, this is a love story' SAT - iPM hears from a woman who inherited her husband's SAT greenhouse full of orchids. Presented by Eddie Mair. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03sb60t (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03sb60w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03s9tmh (Listen) SAT Adlestrop SAT SAT Helen Mark visits the small Gloucestershire village of SAT Adlestrop that inspired Edward Thomas' famous eponymous poem SAT when his steam train unexpectedly stopped there 100 years SAT ago, on the eve of war. Helen meets Ian Morton of the Edward SAT Thomas Fellowship to find out more about the poet who died SAT in combat in 1917, as well as people who live and work in SAT this beautiful corner of the Cotswolds. She visits SAT Daylesford, the nearby large organic farm operation, makers SAT of their own Adlestrop cheese, and hears about the Wychwood SAT Forest Project. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03sr0wf (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Breakfast SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03sb60y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03sr0wh (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 b03sr0wk (Listen) SAT Actress and writer Natascha McElhone SAT SAT Richard Coles & Anita Anand with special guest actress, SAT writer and Costa Book award judge Natascha McElhone on her SAT unthespian roots and the sudden death of her husband. They SAT hear the Inheritance Tracks of singer Graham Nash and Ron SAT Moody's Secret Life of 'ombrage'. Flood victim Trixie Webber SAT tells them how she recovered from the Boscastle flood of SAT 2004 and Louise Ashley and Jason Liostatos reflect on how SAT their relationship fared with no fixed abode. Peter Caton SAT revisits the train journeys of his childhood and Matt Adkins SAT explains why a traffic roundabout was his salvation. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT STUDIO GUEST :: NATASCHA MCELHONE SAT SAT Stage and screen actress Natascha McElhone talks about her SAT early life in a journalistic household, the sudden death of SAT her husband and her connection with facial reconstruction SAT for kids from developing countries. Plus the challenge of SAT taking on the role of ‘bunny boiler’ in Fatal Attraction. SAT SAT BOSCASTLE FLOOD :: TRIXIE WEBBER SAT Trixie Webber recalls the Boscastle flood of 2004. SAT SAT TRAIN DIARIES :: PETER CATON SAT Peter Caton kept notebooks in his childhood of all the train SAT trips he made with his family on holiday. Now in his fifties SAT he revisits those journeys and observes the differences SAT between rail travel then and now. SAT SAT HOMELESS LOVE :: LOUISE ASHLEY & JASON LIOSTATOS SAT Louise Ashley SAT fell in love with SAT Jason Liostatos SAT when he was homeless and living in his car. SAT SAT SECRET LIFE :: RON MOODY SAT Actor Ron Moody tells us about his unique art form which he SAT calls 'ombrage'. SAT SAT ROUNDABOUT WAY TO GET A JOB :: MATT ADKINS SAT SAT Unemployed Matt Adkins decided to stand on a on a busy Essex SAT Roundabout and advertise himself. He eventually secured a SAT job with a landscape and gardening firm and now tends the SAT very roundabout he found a job on. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Matt on the right pictured with boss Ricky) SAT SAT INHERITANCE TRACKS :: GRAHAM NASH SAT Singer, songwriter and one third of Crosby, Stills and Nash, SAT Graham Nash chooses Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ and SAT ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ by Crosby, Stills and Nash. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Anita Anand SAT Interviewed Guest: Natascha McElhone SAT Interviewed Guest: Graham Nash SAT Producer: Harry Parker SAT SAT 10:30 Reimagining the City b03sr0wm (Listen) SAT Series 2, London SAT SAT "The city is about light and water for me because it SAT interrupts them, it interrupts light and it interrupts water SAT and when something is interrupted it reveals itself to you". SAT SAT Lavinia Greenlaw is perhaps unusual in that she has lived in SAT the same part of London for most of her life. Walking up SAT Hampstead Heath in the first light of a winter's morning she SAT explains how the Heath is her childhood landscape where she SAT played with her siblings. SAT SAT But it's also the point where the city and the suburbs meet: SAT "Although there's no clear edge to London I feel that the SAT lip of the bowl where it sits is defined by the Heath which SAT starts out being in the city and quickly ends up in the SAT suburbs - a very different place. I was born on the border SAT and used to feel that I was operating in two countries". SAT SAT Here she crosses the river, climbs towers and walks through SAT the Heath to reveal her unexpected and surprising vision of SAT London. SAT SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03sr0wp (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT What did the shenanigans over the immigration bill achieve SAT -who are the real UKIP voters and will Labour and Lib Dems SAT find common ground in their policies to tax the richest in SAT society. SAT SAT Plus the merits of a minority government and what leads SAT politicians of different parties to become friends. SAT SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03sr0wr (Listen) SAT Don't Call It a Drone! SAT SAT Reporters worldwide. In this edition: Britain and France SAT agree to co-operate on a new unmanned combat aircraft but SAT all involved say - let's not call it a drone! The first SAT round of the Syrian peace talks have come to an end in SAT Geneva. You might think little's been achieved, but that's SAT not necessarily the case. We go to meet the former warlord SAT with links to Osama bin Laden who wants to be the next SAT president of Afghanistan and to Work Street in Athens where, SAT despite some upbeat government forecasts, the workers reckon SAT there are more hard times ahead. And in Delhi, arguably the SAT world's noisiest city, we visit the car horn bazaar to find SAT the loudest hooter of them all. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03sr0wt (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b03sb3xd (Listen) SAT Series 42, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Andy SAT Zaltzman for a comic romp through the week's news. With SAT Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Jane SAT Lamacraft and Sarah Morgan. Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Andy Zaltzman SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Performer: Jon Holmes SAT Performer: Laura Shavin SAT Writer: Andy Wolton SAT Writer: Sarah Morgan SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03sb610 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03sb612 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03sb5y6 (Listen) SAT Diane Abbott MP, Eric Pickles MP, Simon Heffer, Baroness SAT Jenny Jones SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Purfleet in Essex with the Secretary of State for SAT Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles MP, Labour SAT backbencher Diane Abbott MP, author and columnist Simon SAT Heffer and the new Green party peer Baroness Jenny Jones. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03sr0ww (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Julian Worricker. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03sr0wy (Listen) SAT Seance on a Wet Afternoon SAT SAT Myra Savage conducts séances for a dwindling number of SAT clients. If only there were some way of persuading the wider SAT public of her paranormal abilities - then she'd enjoy the SAT fame and wealth she deserves. She and her husband Bill plan SAT a publicity stunt. They will kidnap the daughter of a SAT prominent businessman. At the critical moment Myra will tap SAT into her psychic powers, contact the distressed parents and SAT provide the police with the vital clues they need to find SAT the girl. What could go wrong? SAT SAT Mark McShane's novel was made into a 1964 film directed by SAT Bryan Forbes. This new version for radio is dramatised by SAT Adrian Bean. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT Myra: Caroline Strong SAT Bill: Robert Glenister SAT DS Payne: Carl Prekopp SAT Clayton: Nick Underwood SAT Rita: Jasmine Hyde SAT Adriana: Lizzy Watts SAT Supt. Watts: Gerard McDermott SAT Mrs Wintry: Jane Whittenshaw SAT Writer: Mark McShane SAT Adaptor: Adrian Bean SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT SAT 15:30 Mad About the Boy b03s6zmb (Listen) SAT Hysterical girls have been pathologised for centuries but, SAT in the last two or three generations, they've also helped SAT define pop culture, further feminism and shape society. SAT SAT Jude Rogers and Ruth Barnes - both music journalists and pop SAT fans - look at the empowering flipside of pop fandom and how SAT new, tribal rites of passage in teen pop culture have SAT offered women an interesting new mode of expression. SAT SAT Taking listeners on a journey from the Beatlemaniacs to the SAT Directioners, they reveal the real power of female music SAT fans. It's a power that helped form the fan clubs that fed SAT the music industry, created a safe space for pubescent SAT females to escape traditional gender roles and go wild, once SAT terrified the authorities and silenced the world's biggest SAT boy bands, and, today, drives social networks. SAT SAT Featuring contributions from Beatlemaniac Lillian Adams; SAT David Cassidy-fanatic - and writer - Allison Pearson; the SAT woman behind one of One Direction's biggest hits, Fiona SAT Bevan and ex-East 17 songwriter Tony Mortimer. SAT SAT Produced by Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree Production for SAT BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Mad About the Boy (2) SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03sr0x0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Germaine Greer; Anxiety; June Spencer SAT SAT Germaine Greer on her passion for restoring a small patch of SAT rainforest in south-east Queensland, Australia. Dealing with SAT anxiety: we hear from 27 year old Claire Eastham who has SAT suffered from anxiety from the age of 15 and from David SAT Clark, Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford SAT University, the National Clinical Advisor for Improving SAT Access to Psychological Therapies. SAT SAT Three editors of women's magazines discuss how they balance SAT their responsibilities to their readers with producing SAT something they want to read - Lisa Smosarski of Stylist, SAT Trish Halpin of Marie Claire and Lebby Eyres of New! SAT SAT Sophie Hannah on a new poetry collection 'The Poetry of Sex' SAT which she edited. June Spencer talks about playing the SAT longest running character on The Archers - Peggy Woolley. SAT SAT Two women who lost their jobs during the recession talk SAT about the impact. Anne Hollifield is a former council worker SAT from Middlesborough, and Melanie Bryan OBE set up her SAT company WhyNotChange in April 2009. SAT SAT Being A Man - Tim Samuels from Five Live's Men's Hour, SAT theatre director, writer and filmmaker Topher Campbell and SAT Jude Kelly from the Southbank Centre discuss. SAT SAT The BBC's Caroline Wyatt and Lindsey Hilsum from Channel 4 SAT News discuss reporting in war zones. SAT SAT Presented by Sheila McClennon SAT Produced by Catrina Lear SAT Edited by Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Germaine Greer SAT SAT In a special programme on Women and land, Germaine Greer SAT told us about her passion for restoring a small patch of SAT rainforest SAT in South East Queensland, Australia. SAT In 2002, Germaine Greer bought 60 hectares of abandoned SAT dairy farmland, previously used for harvesting bananas and SAT timber production. In her new book, “White Beech,” she tells SAT the story of her extensive search for the right plot, her SAT meticulous research into its history and her attempt to SAT rejuvenate a magnificent ecosystem. Germaine Greer also SAT spoke to the programme about selling her entire archive to SAT the University of Melbourne where she studied more than SAT 50-years ago. It includes notes for her books like The SAT Female Eunuch, her diaries and correspondence with SAT politicians, intellectuals and friends. SAT SAT SAT SAT Women Magazine Editors SAT SAT Last week, it was revealed that photographs of actress Lena SAT Dunham had been *gasp* re-touched for the front cover of SAT American Vogue’s February issue. Most understand the SAT business of fashion photography with its flattering shots SAT and digital retouching but the fact that it was done to a SAT young woman famed for being ‘normal’ looking and not SAT super-Hollywood, outraged many. Feminist blog ‘Jezebel’ SAT offered a "$10,000 bounty" to anyone who could reveal the SAT original "untouched" photos of Lena. And with the French SAT female Editor of SAT Closer SAT magazine publishing those photos of President Hollande, SAT resulting in the First Lady recovering in hospital, we asked SAT what is a magazine editor’s editorial responsibility to SAT women? What’s the tipping point for a magazine to be SAT entertaining and look good, yet remain feminist? Woman’s SAT Hour discussed how far female editors and their magazines SAT have to change with SAT Stylist SAT Editor Lisa Smosarski, Lebby Eyres from SAT new! SAT and Trish Halpin from SAT Marie Claire SAT SAT Treating Anxiety SAT SAT Earlier this month, figures from the Health and Social Care SAT Information Centre included in the annual report on the SAT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies SAT (IAPT) programme showed that the highest numbers of people SAT seeking help for anxiety and depression were women and young SAT people. Depression is a mental health problem most people SAT are aware of but SAT anxiety SAT is less talked about. And anxiety is an emotion we all SAT experience from time to time. We explored when anxiety SAT becomes a problem and if there is enough awareness and SAT understanding of it as a mental health problem. We heard SAT from 27 year old SAT Claire Eastham SAT who has suffered from anxiety since she was 15 and from SAT David Clark who is Professor of Experimental Psychology at SAT Oxford University and is the national clinical advisor for SAT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). SAT Anxiety UK is a charity for those affected by anxiety SAT disorders SAT SAT The Poetry of Sex SAT What’s black and white and contains threesomes, elephants, SAT Mick Jagger’s penis and two Daniel Craigs? It’s a new SAT collection of poems, The Poetry of Sex. This is not a book SAT of erotic poems designed to be read aloud to a lover, but by SAT turns an implicit, explicit, nuanced and starkly frank study SAT of the human relationship with sex. The editor Sophie Hannah SAT explained how she made her selection, which ranges from SAT ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight to SAT otherwise, from desire and hope, through disappointment and SAT confusion, to conclusion and consequence. SAT SAT The Poetry of Sex is published by Penguin Viking on 30th SAT January 2014. SAT SAT SAT After the economic downturn, which way is up? SAT SAT Woman's Hour and You & Yours collaborated for two outside SAT broadcasts examining the impact of the recession and the SAT strength of the current recovery. For Woman's Hour Jenni SAT Murray was live from a food bank, surprisingly located in SAT the relatively affluent suburb of Timperley in Cheshire. The SAT programme looked at the impact the recession has had SAT on women. Joining Jenni live from Timperley on the SAT panel were SAT Lucy Powell SAT Labour MP for Manchester Central; SAT Claire Annesley SAT Professor of Politics at Manchester University and also a SAT member of the management committee of the Women's Budget SAT Group; SAT Claire Perry SAT Conservative MP for Devizes; and SAT Ruth Porter SAT Head of Economics & Social Policy from the Think Tank Policy SAT Exchange. Also joining Jenni were two women who've had SAT different experiences of the downturn; Anne Hollifield, a SAT former council worker from Middlesborough, and SAT Melanie Bryan OBE SAT who set up her company WhyNotChange in April 2009. SAT SAT SAT The Trussell Trust SAT Trussell Trust Foodbanks SAT SAT Being a Man SAT SAT The SAT Being a Man SAT festival starts at London’s Southbank Centre this Friday. SAT Men of all ages and from different walks of life will be SAT coming together to discuss what it means to be a man today. SAT It’s the first time the event has been held and the idea has SAT come from the people who organise the women of the world SAT festival and Jude Kelly the Artistic Director of Southbank SAT Centre. So why do men need a special event to discuss SAT masculinity? Jenni discussed this with Judy Kelly, Tim SAT Samuels, presenter of Five Live's Men's Hour and Topher SAT Campbell, a Director of Film and Television. SAT SAT June Spencer SAT June Spencer was in the pilot episode of SAT The Archers SAT and has played the part of Peggy since 1951. At 94 she SAT continues to perform in some of the most demanding story SAT lines, including the death of her on-air husband Jack SAT Woolley following his long decline with dementia. Jane was SAT joined by June Spencer to talk about her career as the SAT longest serving cast member. SAT SAT War Journalists SAT SAT According to the ‘Committee to Protect Journalists,’ last SAT year over 200 journalists were imprisoned and seventy killed SAT – many of them reporting on the war in Syria. Others are SAT still missing. Next week, we’ll be broadcasting ‘Anna’s SAT War’ in the Woman’s Hour drama slot. It’s based on the life SAT of SAT Anna Politkovskaya SAT the Russian journalist who was murdered in 2006. The series SAT covers five key events in her life and in particular her SAT work covering the war in Chechyna from 1999 to 2006. And in SAT the new Woman’s Hour Archive Collection you can also hear SAT Jenni’s interview with Anna Politkovskaya from 2004 about SAT her why she continued speak out about President Putin and SAT the situation in Chechnya, despite receiving death threats. SAT Joining Jenni to discuss reporting in war and conflict SAT zones were Caroline Wyatt, BBC defence correspondent and SAT Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News, SAT author of ‘Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution.’ SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sheila McClennon SAT Interviewed Guest: Germaine Greer SAT Interviewed Guest: David Clark SAT Interviewed Guest: Lisa Smosarski SAT Interviewed Guest: Trish Halpin SAT Interviewed Guest: Lebby Eyres SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Hannah SAT Interviewed Guest: June Spencer SAT Interviewed Guest: Anne Hollifield SAT Interviewed Guest: Melanie Bryan SAT Interviewed Guest: Tim Samuels SAT Interviewed Guest: Topher Campbell SAT Interviewed Guest: Jude Kelly SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Wyatt SAT Interviewed Guest: Lindsey Hilsum SAT Producer: Catrina Lear SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03sr0x2 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03s9v66 (Listen) SAT The Sharing Economy SAT SAT The "sharing" economy is the topic of discussion for Evan SAT Davis & his guests in the first of a new series of The SAT Bottom Line. The market is built around renting out your SAT possessions to strangers and entrepreneurs have piled in to SAT enable us to share our homes, cars, bikes, clothes, tools SAT and much more besides. At its heart is the idea that SAT business works better if it collaborates, rather than SAT competes, with other companies. How disruptive might these SAT innovative enterprises prove to be? How much profit can they SAT make (and is that the point anyway?). SAT SAT Guests : SAT SAT Even Heggernes, UK & Ireland Country Manager, Airbnb SAT Ali Clabburn, Founder, Liftshare SAT Fiona Disegni, Founder, Rentez-Vous SAT SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT Evan Davis SAT Presenter of The Bottom Line SAT SAT Ali Clabburn SAT Founder, Liftshare SAT SAT Even Heggernes SAT UK & Ireland Country Manager, Airbnb SAT SAT Fiona Disegni SAT Founder, Rentez-Vous SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03sb614 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03sb616 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sb618 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03sr0x4 (Listen) SAT Harry Benson, James Bolam, Lesley Manville, Lou Stein, Aoife SAT O'Donovan, Hot Feet SAT SAT Clive talks to multi award-winning theatre, film and SAT television actor Lesley Manville, who stars in the Almeida SAT Theatre's acclaimed production of Ibsen's 'Ghosts'. SAT SAT Photographer Harry Benson talks to Clive about his SAT exhibition 'Harry Benson: 50 Years Behind the Lens', which SAT documents the history of our age and celebrates the man who SAT produced some of the most memorable images in the canon. SAT SAT Arthur Smith talks to Likely Lad James Bolam about SAT delighting a younger audience as Grandpa in CBeebies SAT programme 'Grandpa in My Pocket'. SAT SAT Clive talks to theatre director and writer Lou Stein, who SAT has adapted, re-envisioned and directed his old friend Dr SAT Hunter S Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A SAT Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'. SAT SAT With music from Hot Feet, who perform 'Sedation' from their SAT forthcoming EP and from Aoife O'Donovan, who performs 'Red & SAT White & Gold & Blue' from her album Fossils. SAT SAT produced by Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Harry Benson, James Bolam, Lesley SAT Manville, Lou Stein, Aoife O'Donovan, Hot Feet (2) SAT SAT Lesley Manville SAT ‘Ghosts’ is at London’s Trafalgar Studios until Saturday SAT 22nd March. SAT SAT Harry Benson SAT ‘Harry Benson: 50 Years Behind The Lens’ is at Mallet, SAT London from Tuesday 4th to Saturday 15th February. SAT SAT James Bolam SAT ‘Grandpa In My Pocket’ is on every weekday at 17.25 on SAT CBeebies until Friday 14th February and returns in March. SAT SAT Lou Stein SAT ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the SAT Heart of the American Dream’ is at Vault Festival, Waterloo SAT Tunnels, London until Saturday 8th March. SAT SAT Aoife O'Donovan SAT Aoife O'Donovan's album ‘Fossils’ is available now on Yep SAT Roc. SAT SAT Hot Feet SAT Hot Feet are currently touring the UK. They're playing Miss SAT Peabods, Falmouth on Saturday 1st, Chapel Arts Centre, Bath SAT on Sunday 2nd and The Prince Albert, Stroud on Tuesday 4th SAT February. Check their website for further dates. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b03sr0x6 (Listen) SAT Series 15, Morning SAT SAT Fast turn-around drama by dramatist and author, Steve SAT Waters. This award-winning series sees writers create a SAT fictional response to a major story from the week's news. SAT SAT Morning SAT As Geneva hosts the Syrian peace talks, Steve Waters's play SAT is set in an hotel in a beautiful lakeside city, where SAT breakfast becomes a series of delicate negotiations for a SAT young delegate who is running late. SAT SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Woman: Sirine Saba SAT Man 1: Peter Polycarpou SAT Man 2: Philip Arditti SAT Voice: Daniel Rabin SAT Writer: Steve Waters SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03sr0x8 (Listen) SAT Paxman on WWI, Martin Creed and Beckett SAT SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Happy Days SAT SAT Samuel Beckett’s SAT Happy Days SAT directed by Natalie Abrahami and starring Juliet Stevenson, SAT runs at the Young Vic theatre in London until 8 March 2014. SAT SAT Out of the Furnace SAT Out of the Furnace SAT directed by Scott Cooper, is in UK cinemas now, certificate SAT 15. SAT SAT Britain's Great War SAT SAT BBC One’s four-part documentary series SAT Britain’s Great War SAT continues with episode 2 on Monday 3 February 2014 at 9pm. SAT SAT The Crooked Maid SAT The Crooked Maid SAT by Dan Vyleta is available now, published by Bloomsbury. SAT SAT Martin Creed SAT SAT The retrospective exhibition SAT Martin Creed: What’s The Point of It? SAT is at the Hayward Gallery in London until 27 April 2014. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03lknbr (Listen) SAT The Haunted Apparatus SAT SAT When the phone was invented, people were astonished by the SAT new technology. Proust described it as a 'supernatural SAT instrument before whose miracles we used to stand amazed'. SAT Thirty years after the invention of the mobile phone, Ian SAT McMillan (in collaboration with sound artist Scanner) makes SAT strange what we very quickly came to take for granted - the SAT ability to send a disembodied voice down a line. Through a SAT reverie on time and place Ian and guests, including Jackie SAT Kay, Charlie Higson, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Toop will SAT explore why hanging on to the 'uncanny' nature of phone SAT calls, could help us understand what's happening to us - as SAT we become deluged with new ways to communicate. SAT SAT Producer: Faith Lawrence SAT Sound Design: Scanner SAT Studio Manager: Paul Cargill SAT Archive research: Christopher Wilson. SAT SAT 21:00 Saturday Drama b01qcttx (Listen) SAT Boots on the Ground SAT SAT Boots on the Ground by Don Webb SAT Danny Marks arrives at a Military Research centre. He's a SAT volunteer for speed reaction testing; trying to improve SAT reaction times under duress. His mate Billy Rogers was on SAT the same course, but he's gone missing. Has he just done a SAT bunk? Or is it something more sinister. A dark, contemporary SAT thriller by veteran TV writer. SAT SAT Don Webb is a hugely experienced TV and radio writer with SAT credits stretching back to the early eighties. He has SAT written for 'The Bill', 'Juliet Bravo', 'Rockcliffe's SAT Babies' and 'Byker Grove'. His recent R4 plays include SAT 'Right Place, Wrong Time' and 'A Bobby's Job'. SAT SAT Credits SAT Marks: Lee Ingleby SAT Joanie: Sue Kelly SAT Dr Callard: Gillian Kearney SAT Dr Ainsworth: Malcolm Raeburn SAT Tasker: Jonathan Keeble SAT Rogers: Greg Wood SAT Writer: Don Webb SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03sb61b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b03s76dp (Listen) SAT Series 7, Is work working for our kids? SAT SAT From April 2015, working parents will be able to share leave SAT after the birth of a child. Mariella Frostrup debates SAT whether this will change attitudes towards stay-at-home dads SAT and mums who choose to go back to work. SAT SAT Announcing the new policy, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg SAT has stated that 'women deserve the right to pursue their SAT goals and not feel they have to choose between having a SAT successful career or having a baby.' SAT SAT Mariella examines whether the idea of shared parental leave SAT is the best way to give working mothers a more fulfilling SAT career, and whether fathers will be prepared to spend more SAT time at home with a new baby. SAT SAT Few parenting dilemmas spark more debate than how to balance SAT work and play. Mariella and her guests discuss the tricky SAT juggling act and financial costs of childcare and examine SAT current research into the impact of working parents on SAT children. SAT SAT Joining Mariella to debate the issues are Sarah Jackson, SAT chief executive of Working Families, Laura Perrins, from SAT Mothers At Home Matter, Sally Goddard Blythe, director of SAT the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology, Gideon SAT Burrows, author of Men Can Do It, Dr Denise Hawkes, from the SAT Institute of Education and Anji Hunter from Edelman, where SAT she works to get equal numbers of women and men in British SAT boardrooms. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Bowen. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03s6mm1 (Listen) SAT (8/17) SAT SAT What traditional size of paper gets its name because it is SAT produced by folding a standard sheet eight times? And John SAT Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool was named after which SAT range of hills? SAT SAT Russell Davies asks these and many other questions in the SAT latest heat of the prestigious general knowledge quiz, now SAT in its 61st season. The four contestants taking part today SAT are competing for a semi-final place which will take them a SAT step nearer to the coveted title of Brain of Britain 2014. SAT SAT They come from Brighton, St Austell, Hedgerley Green in SAT Buckinghamshire, and Kingswood in Surrey. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT IAN GRETTON, a freelance writer and editor from Brighton; SAT SAT CHRIS KILBRIDE, a maths teacher from St Austell; SAT SAT ALAN MORGAN, a recruitment consultant from Hedgerley Green SAT in Buckinghamshire; SAT SAT FIONA SOMERVILLE, a headhunter from Kingswood in Surrey. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b03s6jv1 (Listen) SAT Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Mort and Paul Farley reading their SAT own work SAT SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests. With SAT Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Mort and Paul Farley reading their SAT own work. SAT SAT Bernard O'Donoghue's poems include his translation of some SAT of Piers Plowman as well as moving and beautifully observed SAT poems about personal relationships. There's the pain of SAT missed opportunity in poems like Ter Conatus, about a SAT brother and sister who have lived together all their lives. SAT Bernard also has a poem that was written in dedication to a SAT Poetry Please listener, Morag Morris. SAT SAT Rising poetry star Helen Mort makes her debut with a lovely SAT poem in honour of a music hall comic from Sheffield called SAT Stainless Stephen, and she reads others from her collection SAT Division Street. SAT SAT Paul Farley also reads his work, including an atmospheric SAT poem about listening in the dark. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Ter Conatus SAT By Bernard O’Donoghue SAT From Here nor There SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Stainless Stephen SAT By Helen Mort SAT From Division Street SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Rag & Bone SAT By Helen Mort SAT From Division Street SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Treacle SAT By Paul Farley SAT From The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT Twenty-Two Words for Snow SAT By Helen Mort SAT From Division Street SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT The Airbrake People SAT By Paul Farley SAT From The Dark Film SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT The People Through the Meadow Straying - Piers Plowman: SAT Prologue SAT By William Langland, Trans. Bernard O’Donoghue SAT From Farmers Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Exhibitions SAT By Bernard O’Donoghue SAT From Farmers Cross SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Dogs SAT By Helen Mort SAT From Division Street SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Common Names SAT By Helen Mort SAT From Division Street SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Gerund SAT By Bernard O’Donoghue SAT SAT SAT SAT The Nuthatch SAT By Bernard O’Donoghue SAT From The Weakness SAT Published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT The Circuit SAT By Paul Farley SAT From The Dark Film SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT Dockets SAT By Bernard O’Donoghue SAT From Farmers Cross SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sarah Langan SAT Reader: Helen Mort SAT Reader: Paul Farley SAT Reader: Bernard O'Donoghue SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03sbknl (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 b01dq53v (Listen) SUN One Piece SUN SUN The next in our series of stories from 'Emerald City', the SUN new collection by young American author Jennifer Egan, whose SUN 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' went on to win the Pulitzer SUN Prize for Fiction, and made her name as one of the best new SUN writers to emerge in the past decade. SUN SUN In today's story, 'One Piece', a young girl takes drastic SUN action to put the broken pieces of her brother's life back SUN together again. SUN SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Justine Willett SUN Reader: Teresa Gallagher. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Teresa Gallagher SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Abridger: Miranda Davies SUN Author: Jennifer Egan SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03sbknn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03sbknq (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03sbkns (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03sbknv (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03sr5qs (Listen) SUN St John the Baptist, Mathon, Herefordshire SUN SUN The bells of St. John the Baptist Church, Mathon, SUN Herefordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b03s76dr (Listen) SUN Series 4, Matthew Engel SUN SUN Matthew Engel makes a secular case for reclaiming the peace SUN and quiet of the Sabbath, arguing that a proper day of rest SUN will make us healthier, happier and more productive. 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 b03sbknx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03sr5qv (Listen) SUN The Call of the City SUN SUN Are cities paved with gold or sinks of iniquity? Mark Tully SUN examines the call of the city and contrasts its potential SUN for energy, creativity and community with its traditional SUN reputation for harshness and venality. SUN SUN Progressively, city populations are swelling as rural SUN communities dwindle. What is the draw of the big city, how SUN does it affect the way we live and think? SUN SUN Perhaps there is sometimes a knee jerk reaction that the SUN city is a harsh, destructive, soulless place. But what about SUN the energy of the city, the sense of purpose that it gives, SUN the opportunities, the vibrant sense of community, the SUN colour, the variety, the excitement? SUN SUN This celebration of the urban ranges in scope from William SUN Blake to Suzanne Vega and from New Orleans jazz to William SUN Wordsworth and an interview with historian and urbanist Leo SUN Hollis. SUN SUN The readers are Robert Glenister and Julie Covington. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b03sr5qx (Listen) SUN Grey Seals of Blakeney SUN SUN A small group of female grey seals first chose the naturally SUN managed sand spit Blakeney Point, on the North Norfolk coast SUN as spot to haul out and give birth to their pups back in SUN 2001. That year twenty-five pups were born and since then SUN the new colony has grown year on year. SUN Now every year, as autumn turns to winter, a whole soap SUN opera plays out on the beach. Throughout November and SUN December, white furred pups are born, weaned, and abandoned SUN within three weeks. Males fight; establishing loose SUN territories among the females to secure the best chance to SUN sire next year's pups. Females raise their pups while the SUN males slug it out and as soon as their pups are big and fat SUN enough to go it alone their mothers mate and head back into SUN the sea. SUN Twelve years after the first pups were born at Blakeney the SUN colony is thriving. By the end of December 2013, over SUN fourteen hundred pups had been born with more on the way. SUN Although delighted with the success of the new residents SUN this burgeoning population has led to major challenges for SUN the landowner, the National Trust to keep both the grey SUN seals and the curious public safe from one another. SUN To add to the challenge early December saw the biggest tidal SUN surge in 60 years hit the north Norfolk, inundating many of SUN the nature reserves along the coastline, including Blakeney. SUN Presenter, Trai Anfield goes to Norfolk to see how well the SUN Blakeney grey seals weathered the surge and to witness the SUN drama. SUN Produced by Ellie Sans. SUN SUN Ajay Tegala SUN SUN Ajay Tegala is a Coastal Ranger for the National Trust at SUN Blakeney, on the North Norfolk Coast. Being a coastal ranger SUN involves monitoring and protecting the unique wildlife on SUN Blakeney Point. In summer this is mostly the breeding birds SUN and in the winter; the ever-growing breeding Grey Seal SUN population. SUN SUN SUN Image courtesy of Pete Stevens. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03sbknz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03sbkp1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03sr5qz (Listen) SUN Religion and immigration SUN SUN In a special edition of Sunday one month on since EU SUN restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians were lifted, Edward SUN is joined by Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Dame Julia Neuberger SUN and Douglas Murray to examine the relationship between SUN religion and immigration in the UK. SUN SUN However, some Romanians have been here rather longer. Edward SUN travels to Luton to meet Rev Martin Burrell, chaplain to the SUN Gypsies, Travellers and Roma people of St Albans, to find SUN out how the Romanian Roma community and the Church of SUN England have been working together. SUN SUN Former coalition minister Sarah Teather joins Edward to SUN discuss why a month long Jesuit retreat helped her reach the SUN decision to step down at the next election and how religion SUN can inject humanity into the debate on immigration. SUN SUN Almost 18 months after the government action plan to stop SUN child abuse in the name of faith or belief we hear from SUN people within the African church community who say not SUN enough is being done to prevent future cases of witchcraft SUN related child abuse. Trevor Barnes investigates what happens SUN when religion and immigration go wrong. SUN SUN Every year thousands of immigrants travel to the UK to start SUN a new life. Kevin Bocquet meets the chaplains of Manchester SUN airport who minister to people from all over the world. SUN SUN Producer: Annabel Deas and Jill Collins SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN SUN Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin SUN Dame Julia Neuberger SUN Douglas Murray SUN Sarah Teather SUN Rev Martin Burrell. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03sr5r1 (Listen) SUN International Development Enterprises UK SUN SUN Andrew Marr presents the Radio 4 Appeal for International SUN Development Enterprises UK. SUN Reg Charity: 1087417 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'I D E UK'. SUN SUN International Development Enterprises SUN iDE SUN works with poor rural farmers in Africa and Asia. It designs SUN innovative, yet affordable technologies like the treadle SUN pump, so the farmers can increase their income and earn SUN their way out of poverty. SUN But iDE doesn’t give the pumps away; it sells them through a SUN network of village-based entrepreneurs, to build local SUN businesses. In this way, iDE reaches 100,000 farming SUN families each year. But with over one billion people in the SUN world living on less than 75p a day, most of whom are SUN smallholder farmers, iDE simply can’t meet the need. SUN SUN Florence Mapalanga SUN Florence is a poor farmer and mother of five living in SUN Kapini village in Zambia. She and her family barely survived SUN for years growing maize in the rainy season on their tiny SUN plot of land. But during the long dry season, they couldn’t SUN grow enough food, often going hungry. SUN When International Development Enterprises came to SUN Florence’s village they showed her how to use a treadle pump SUN and her life changed forever. SUN SUN SUN Treadle Pump SUN iDE demonstrated how one person can step up and down on a SUN treadle pump and lift water from wells during the dry SUN season. It’s as easy as riding a bike! Innovative SUN technologies like treadle pumps allow farmers to access SUN water and farm all year round. Florence’s income has SUN increased tenfold from less than sixty pence to six pounds a SUN day because she can sell selling vegetables at the market. SUN SUN Village-based entrepreneurs SUN iDE has trained over 150 entrepreneurs in Zambia to sell SUN innovations like pumps, seeds and fertiliser to farmers like SUN Florence living in remote, hard to reach areas. This saves SUN farmers from travelling long distance to the nearest town. SUN The entrepreneurs also provide advice to farmers to help SUN them grow higher quality produce. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03sbkp3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03sbkp5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03sr5r3 (Listen) SUN Mass for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord live from SUN Leeds Cathedral, celebrated by the Dean, Monsignor Philip SUN Moger, and sung to the music of Arvo Part with a homily by SUN Father Matthew Habron. Director of Music: Benjamin Saunders. SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03sb5y8 (Listen) SUN Why Sportsmanship Matters SUN SUN Adam Gopnik reflects on the value of sportsmanship ahead of SUN the American Super Bowl following controversy over a SUN player's supposedly unsporting comments. "Sportsmanship is SUN this day's triumph's salute to time...We will not always be SUN the winner." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv7x (Listen) SUN Shoveler 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 shoveler. Swimming SUN in circles, their huge beaks trawling the surface, shovelers SUN do the job of baleen whales on our lakes and ponds. In SUN winter our shoveler population is boosted by Continental SUN birds. They're rather shy though and you're not likely to SUN see them taking bread on the park lake! SUN SUN Shoveler (Anas clypeata) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03sr7dt (Listen) SUN We'll report live from the banks of the River Severn as the SUN bore makes its way up upstream. We're in Somerset where SUN residents have been living with floods for a month. Hugh SUN Sykes looks at French and German poetry from World War I. SUN Reviewing the Sunday papers: Broadcaster and political SUN blogger Iain Dale, novelist Val McDermid and historian Kate SUN Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Paddy Oconnell SUN Editor-of-the-Day: Amanda Lewis SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03sr7dw (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN Director ..... Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tony Archer..... David Troughton SUN Helen Archer..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper SUN Peggy Woolley..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Archer..... Buffy Davis SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy..... Heather Bell SUN William Grundy..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin SUN Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN Rob Titchener..... Timothy Watson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03sr7dy (Listen) SUN Bob Harris SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster, Bob SUN Harris. SUN SUN Known affectionately as Whispering Bob, he's rarely been off SUN our air waves in the past 44 years. SUN SUN His big break came standing in for John Peel and he was so SUN good that not long after he was given his own show on Radio SUN 1. Throughout the seventies he also hosted the true SUN music-fans' must see show, The Old Grey Whistle Test. His SUN beard and tank top were almost as legendary as some of the SUN guests - The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and John Lennon SUN were among the line up. However with the arrival of punk SUN things got personal. SUN SUN The closest his family ever got to showbiz was when his dad, SUN a policeman, clambered on stage to arrest the singer PJ SUN Proby when his trousers split. Young Bob did follow his dad SUN into the force but music and above all else radio were his SUN obsession. SUN SUN Much like his recording heroes, his own life has something SUN of the rock n' roll vibe - three wives, eight children, a SUN spell of bankruptcy and coping with prostate cancer. Yet SUN through it all his skill, knowledge and love of broadcasting SUN has always endured. SUN SUN He says, "I'm a music anorak, a fan who got lucky ... from SUN the moment I bought my first record aged 11, I couldn't wait SUN to share music with others." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Bob Harris SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b03s6pjn (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Marcus Brigstocke, Holly Walsh, John SUN Finnemore and Rufus Hound are the panellists obliged to talk SUN with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as board SUN games, salt, guinea pigs and actors. 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: Marcus Brigstocke SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: John Finnemore SUN Panellist: Rufus Hound SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03sr7f9 (Listen) SUN Britain and the Ready Meal SUN SUN Ready meals divide Britain, some love them, others think SUN they're a problem for our health and wellbeing and a major SUN culprit in de-skilling us in the kitchen. In the last four SUN decades we've helped lead the way in the ready meal's SUN innovation and in its consumption. We're now Europe's SUN biggest consumers of the "prepared meal". SUN SUN All of this came into sharp focus with the horsemeat SUN scandal. A 100pc horsemeat lasagne came to symbolise the SUN problems and anxieties of allowing others to cook our meals SUN for us. As a result some frozen ready meals were consigned SUN to the history books, never to be seen in a frozen cabinet SUN again, and manufacturers reported a big drop in sales. SUN SUN That's not the full picture however. In 2014 we're seeing SUN the continued rise and rise of the premium chilled ready SUN meal, the "posh" answer to the Italian, Indian and Asian SUN frozen options. What does this trend tell us about our SUN ongoing, and sometimes guilt-filled, romance with the ready SUN meal? Who's buying all of these ready meals anyway? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon visits high-end ready meals manufacturer SUN Charlie Bigham whose business is growing in double digit SUN figures. Sheila also hears from a sociologist (Miriam SUN Glucksmann) about our relationship with the ready meal. SUN Meanwhile Arabella Weir puts the ready meal in the context SUN of more of us having to feed our families on a tight budget. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlie Bigham SUN Interviewed Guest: Miriam Glucksmann SUN Interviewed Guest: Arabella Weir SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03sbkp7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03sr7gf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Walking with the Dead b03srddc (Listen) SUN James Joyce's revolutionary short story collection, SUN Dubliners, was first published in 1914. To mark the SUN centenary of its publication, author Colm TóibÃn explores SUN some of the Dublin locations haunted by Joyce's characters SUN in those stories and talks to contemporary writers Anne SUN Enright and John Banville about the influence of Dubliners SUN on their own work. SUN SUN These 15 stories were written when Ireland was ablaze with SUN converging and contradictory ideas about identity, history SUN and culture. And the book itself had a protracted and SUN anguished publication history. Between 1905, when Joyce SUN first sent a manuscript to a publisher, and June 1914, when SUN the book was finally published, Joyce's manuscript was SUN rejected 18 times, because of its sexual content and SUN references to real people. SUN SUN Colm is a passionate guide to Joyce's stories and in his SUN company, we visit many of the buildings and locations SUN featured in the stories, such as Mulligans pub, St Francis SUN Xavier church and 15 Ushers Island - the house that features SUN in the last story, 'The Dead'. He talks to writers, SUN academics and Dubliners themselves about the continuing SUN power and resonance of these stories. SUN SUN Contributors include Terence Brown, Anne Fogarty, Jonathan SUN Creasy, Brendan Kilty and Caroline Elbay. SUN SUN Extracts from the stories are read by Stephen Rea. SUN SUN The songs from Dubliners are performed by Noel O'Grady, SUN Kevin McDermott & Ralph Richey, and Susan Kilty. SUN Dubliners SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Emma Harding SUN Presenter: Colm Toibin SUN Reader: Stephen Rea SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03sb3x2 (Listen) SUN Buxton SUN SUN Eric Robson presents GQT from The Pavilion Gardens in SUN Buxton. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank SUN take questions from local gardeners. SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank takes a tour of the Pavilion Gardens SUN botanical conservatory to explore a collection of plants SUN from all over the world. James Wong visits Bob's Winter SUN Garden for the second in a special series of topical tips. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q.I have recently added a half allotment to our existing SUN hilltop site, which has come with some established soft SUN fruit. Can the panel suggest some additional soft fruit to SUN add to the traditional strawberries, raspberries, SUN gooseberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants? SUN SUN A. If you have established strawberries, raspberries and SUN blackcurrants you could take them all out and add new stock. SUN They rarely last for more than three or four years. However, SUN redcurrants and white currants are worth preserving. A SUN suggestion would be Aronia, which has a sour taste alone but SUN makes a wonderful jam when mixed with apple puree and sugar. SUN The Rokula Gooseberry is another option. Blueberries would SUN also grow well in an acidic soil. Loganberries grow well in SUN drier soil. Boysenberries would be recommended for a clay SUN soil. SUN SUN Q. I bought a Winter Sweet to brighten up the winter months SUN but it has not flowered in the ten years I have had it. What SUN can I do to encourage it to perform? SUN SUN A. Winter Sweet is a slow starter and can take ten years or SUN more to perform. They only flower on the younger growth. SUN Consider cutting it right back. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest some scented, colourful, trailing SUN plants for my hanging baskets? They are positioned in a SUN north-facing porch, often exposed to vicious winds? SUN SUN A. Try trailing Pelargoniums, such as the Tomentosum with SUN its scented foliage. Trailing Nasturtium is scented and good SUN if you are on a budget. Sweet peas are also a good option. SUN Jasmine could hang and would be extremely scented. SUN SUN Q. Due to a warm winter my perennials are starting to put SUN out new shoots and leaves. I am concerned that they will be SUN burnt by the frost and that there will be less growth and SUN fewer flowers in the summer? SUN SUN A. You could try straw or dry leaves around the shoots to SUN protect them from the frost, but perennials are often tough SUN enough to grow back. SUN SUN Q. To mark the anniversary of World War One, we plan to SUN create a bed of vegetables that would have been grown in SUN 1914. Could the panel recommend simple, easy to grow, SUN everyday vegetables for a garden at 1000ft? SUN SUN A. The Carlin Pea and other tall pea varieties. Visit the SUN Heritage Seed Library for more inspiration. SUN SUN Q. How do I get rid of Speedwell on my allotment? SUN SUN A. Be vigilant, pull it out before they are able to flower. SUN Speedwell does not like lime, so add lime to your vegetable SUN beds and it will discourage the weed. SUN 4 Extra Goes Gardening SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03sr7jh (Listen) SUN The Killing of Dian Fossey SUN SUN In 1985 the celebrated American gorilla expert was murdered SUN in her cabin at the research station she had set up in the SUN mountains of Rwanda. Hear from Kelly Stewart who worked SUN alongisde Fossey for 10 years in the Volcanoes National SUN Park. SUN SUN Photo of Dian Fossey courtesy of Kelly Stewart. SUN SUN 15:00 The Barchester Chronicles b03sg4s2 (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers, The New Bishop SUN SUN 1 of 3: The New Bishop SUN by Anthony Trollope; dramatised by Nick Warburton SUN SUN Four years have passed since Mr Harding was forced to SUN relinquish the wardenship of Hiram's Hospital. SUN Now the cathedral town of Barchester is changing again, with SUN the arrival of a new Bishop, his wife and Chaplain from SUN London throwing all Barchester into disarray. And Eleanor SUN Bold is to meet them all and discover a potential rival in SUN the beautiful but lame Madeline Neroni. SUN SUN Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SUN Gallant SUN SUN Directed by Marion Nancarrow SUN SUN Barchester Towers is the sequel to The Warden. Starting 4 SUN years later, it follows Mr Harding, his daughter Eleanor and SUN his son-in-law, Archdeacon Grantly. Mr Harding thinks he's SUN found a sort of peace, having accepted that he's lost the SUN Wardenship of Hiram's Hospital. But there's been a shocking SUN occurrence between the two books which has had a profound SUN effect on his younger daughter, Eleanor. And now the world SUN of Barchester is to be rocked again, with the arrival of SUN newcomers who threaten the sleepy tranquillity of the SUN cathedral town. SUN SUN The Barchester Chronicles is 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 SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Mr Harding: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Eleanor Bold: Claire Price SUN Archdeacon Grantly: Malcolm Sinclair SUN Obidiah Slope: Richard Lumsden SUN Bishop Proudie: James Lailey SUN Mrs Proudie: Joanna Monro SUN Madeline Neroni: Katherine Parkinson SUN Bertie: Joel MacCormack SUN 1st Clergyman: Joel MacCormack SUN Mrs Quiverful: Carolyn Pickles SUN Dr Stanhope: John Norton SUN Director: Marion Nancarrow SUN Adaptor: Nick Warburton SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b03srddf (Listen) SUN Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner SUN SUN With James Naughtie. SUN SUN Khaled Hosseini talks about his global bestselling novel, SUN The Kite Runner with a group of invited readers. SUN SUN The book describes how the happiness of an afternoon's kite SUN flying competition in late-1970s Kabul is broken when young SUN Amir fails to help his best friend Hassan avoid a terrible SUN incident. The effects on the duo's friendship are SUN devastating. Over 20 years later, Amir returns to SUN Afghanistan from America, determined to redeem himself. SUN SUN Khaled Hosseini explains the unequal relationship between SUN the two boys that lies at the heart of the novel, and how SUN the reader has a sense of dread and impending catastrophe as SUN the story develops. He says that although the West has a SUN view of Afghanistan as a violent culture, he remembers that SUN for most of the twentieth century, Afghanistan was a SUN peaceful place, and that the West has exoticised Afghans as SUN being 'warrior' like. SUN SUN March's Bookclub choice : Disobedience (2006) by Naomi SUN Alderman SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Hear The Kite Runner on R4 Extra SUN Kulvinder Ghir reads Khaled Hosseini's novel SUN a father-son tale set against the fall of the Afghan SUN monarchy, the Soviet military intervention, and the rise of SUN the Taliban. SUN SUN "The book...has clearly introduced a whole generation to the SUN colourful exotic life of Afghanistan." SUN Jim Naughtie writes about the cultural context to this SUN month's featured Bookclub choice SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Theroux SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b03srddh (Listen) SUN Dreams and Sleep SUN SUN Dreams and sleep people the poems that Roger McGough SUN introduces this week, with works by DH Lawrence, Rose SUN Macaulay, Norman MacCaig and others. Poets from across the SUN centuries nudge up against each other, as they engage in a SUN dialogue around the ways in which day dreams and deep sleep SUN can stoke the imagination. The readers are Adjoa Andoh and SUN Patrick Romer. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Journey Planner SUN By Lorraine Mariner SUN From Bye for Now SUN Published by The Rialto (Bridge Pamphlets No. 1) SUN SUN SUN SUN Travel SUN By Edna St Vincent Millay SUN From Collected Poems (ed. Norma Millay) SUN Published by Harper Perennial SUN Pleasant Sounds SUN By John Clare SUN From Sensational: Poems Inspired by the Senses SUN Published by Macmillan Children’s Books SUN Music’s Empire SUN By Andrew Marvell SUN From The Complete Poems SUN Published by Penguin SUN Incident SUN By Norman MacCaig SUN From Collected Poems: New Edition SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN Day Dream SUN By ASJ Tessimond SUN From Collected Poems (trans. Jacques Prevert) SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books SUN Elizabeth Pender’s Dream of Friendship SUN By Alan Brownjohn SUN From Alan Brownjohn: Collected Poems 1951-83 SUN Published by Secker & Warburg SUN While I was Sleeping SUN By Antonio Machado (trans. Willis Barnstone) SUN From Being Alive (ed. Neil Astley) SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books SUN Four Corners of Sleep SUN By Benn Moston SUN From The Civilized and Other Poems SUN Published by Arthur H Stockwell SUN We Are Transmitters SUN By D.H. Lawrence SUN From The Love Poems of D.H. Lawrence SUN Published by Kyle Cathie SUN I’d Sooner Go Hedging SUN By Frank Mansell SUN From Cotswold Ballads SUN Published by Richard Courtauld SUN When First SUN By Edward Thomas SUN From Collected Poems SUN Published by Faber SUN Selborne Hanger SUN By Gilbert White SUN From The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne SUN To Iron-Founders and Others SUN By Gordon Bottomley SUN From The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN Picnic July 1917 SUN By Rose Macaulay SUN From First World War Poems, chosen by Andrew Motion. SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Adjoa Andoh SUN Reader: Patrick Romer SUN Producer: Mark Smalley SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03s7428 (Listen) SUN Food Fraud SUN SUN A year after the horsemeat scandal there are calls for a new SUN police force to fight food fraud amid concerns that SUN organised crime is increasingly targeting the sector because SUN there are huge profits to be made at the expense of the SUN consumer. SUN Prof Chris Elliott, who was commissioned by the government SUN to investigate the UK's most serious food scandal in recent SUN years, says criminals are committing more food fraud because SUN there's little risk of detection or serious penalties if SUN they're caught. SUN Gerry Northam investigates the extent of food fraud across SUN the UK and reports from Brussels on whether the EU has SUN learned enough lessons from last year's scandal. SUN Producer: Carl Johnston. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b03sr0x6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03sbkp9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03sbkpc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sbkpf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03srddk (Listen) SUN Andy Kershaw makes his selection of highlights from the SUN previous seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03srddm (Listen) SUN Can Tony keep his temper? Meanwhile Tom makes unwise SUN assumptions. SUN SUN 19:15 Warhorses of Letters b03srddp (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN SUN The last in the series of the epistolary equine love story SUN starring Stephen Fry as Napoleon's horse Marengo and Daniel SUN Rigby as the Duke of Wellington's mount Copenhagen, with an SUN introduction by Tamsin Greig. SUN SUN Old age has come to our horses, and Marengo is sick. SUN Copenhagen is determined that he and his true love will be SUN truly together just once before Marengo quits this earthly SUN life for a new paddock in the sky. SUN SUN In perhaps the most moving exchange of letters ever sent by SUN one horse to another the final act of this tragic love story SUN unfolds. SUN SUN Written by Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips 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 b03ktz1b (Listen) SUN Series 2, Barney and George SUN SUN by Tony Bagley. SUN SUN 2. Barney and George SUN SUN An unreliable dog's eye view of the trials and tribulations SUN of living in the White House. Here, Barney reveals how SUN George broke his heart by being unfaithful with a man called SUN Tony. SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Barney: Jonathan Forbes SUN Writer: Tony Bagley SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN SUN 19:45 Scottish Shorts b03srddr (Listen) SUN Series 13, Paint Fumes SUN SUN Scottish Shorts, the best new writing from Scotland. SUN SUN Paint Fumes by Kirstin Innes SUN A young footballer from an oppressive home seeks escape SUN through Argentina's urban art scene. SUN SUN Reader Simon Donaldson. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Kirstin Innes is a novelist and playwright based in Glasgow. SUN Her first novel, FISHNET, will be published in early 2015. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Simon Donaldson SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN Writer: Kirstin Innes SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b03sb3x8 (Listen) SUN The 50p tax rate SUN SUN Labour say that in the three years where the 50p rate of tax SUN was in place, it raised almost 10 billion pounds more for SUN the Treasury than government estimates at the time captured. SUN When he scrapped it, George Osborne said the total was only SUN £300million. Who's right? SUN SUN Meanwhile, the Labour party has been attacking the SUN Government on the cost of living. It says wages are now down SUN £1600 a year after inflation under David Cameron, while SUN Conservative ministers say that 90% of people's wages have SUN been increasing above the rate of inflation. So who is SUN right? SUN SUN How many guests should you invite to your wedding? It's a SUN tricky problem. And one Damjan Vukcevic tried to solve with SUN statistics when he was planning his marriage to his partner, SUN Joan Ko. But with how much success? Tim Harford interviews SUN the couple. SUN SUN Disability benefits: Almost a million people who applied for SUN sickness benefit have instead been found fit for work, the SUN Department for Work and Pensions has announced. We put the SUN numbers into context. SUN SUN Cost of raising a child: Does it really cost nearly a SUN quarter of a million pounds to raise a child from birth to SUN the age of 21? That's a claim made by life insurance SUN providers LV in their annual report. We examine the SUN methodology behind their numbers. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from The 50p tax rate (2) SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03sb3x6 (Listen) SUN Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run SUN Run Shaw SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. We've SUN spoken to Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, his sister Peggy and Roger SUN McGuinn of the Byrds. SUN SUN Also: the architect Kathryn Findlay who worked on the Orbit SUN Tower at the Olympic Park and created surreal space age SUN houses in Japan. SUN SUN Sir Bob Scholey who presided over the transformation of SUN British Steel from loss making nationalised industry to SUN profitable private company. SUN SUN And Sir Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong movie mogul whose SUN studios produced nearly a thousand films. SUN SUN Pete Seeger SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his daughter Peggy Seeger and to fellow SUN musicians Joan Baez, Natalie Merchant, Tom Paxton and Roger SUN McGuinn. SUN SUN Born 3 May 1919; died 27 January 2014 aged 94. SUN SUN Kathryn Findlay SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Rory Olcayto, Deputy Editor of the SUN Architects’ Journal and to her old tutor, Professor SUN Christine Hawley of the Bartlett School of Architecture. SUN SUN Born 26 January 1953; died 10 January 2014 aged 60. SUN SUN Sir Robert Scholey SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Tommy Brennan, former Works Convener at SUN Ravenscraig Steelworks and to the BBC’s former Industrial SUN Correspondent, Nick Jones. SUN SUN Born 8 October 1921; SUN died 12 January 2014 aged 92. SUN SUN Sir Run Run Shaw SUN SUN Born 23 November 1907; died 7 January 2014 aged 106. SUN SUN Evrim Ersoy looks back on his life and career. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Simon Tillotson SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03sr0wt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03sr5r1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03s6pjx (Listen) SUN Last Rites for the Church of England? SUN SUN Andrew Brown asks if the Church of England has become SUN fatally disconnected from society. SUN The Darwin Economy SUN The Alawis SUN Catholic Social Teaching SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03srdlb (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03srdlw (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03s9ttv (Listen) SUN Director Scott Cooper; Alex Gibney; Lift to the Scaffold; SUN British indie films abroad SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to the director Scott Cooper about his SUN film Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Casey SUN Affleck, Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson. Cooper SUN explains why his own family history is so pertinent to this SUN story of brothers struggling to find their role as men SUN amidst the dying steel mills of Pennsylvania, and his SUN fascination with modern masculinity. SUN SUN Plus Alex Gibney on his Lance Armstrong documentary, The SUN Armstrong Lie and how he fell under the spell of the SUN disgraced but charismatic cyclist. What started as a SUN comeback story in 2009 turned into something very different SUN as the doping scandal gathered pace. SUN SUN Charlie Bloye, Chief Executive of Film Export UK, the trade SUN body that represents around 30 independent film sales SUN companies, makes a case for more support for getting British SUN indie films seen abroad. SUN SUN And Ginette Vincendeau of King's College London explores the SUN magic of Jeanne Moreau in Lift to the Scaffold, the 1958 SUN Louis Malle film which made her a full-blown star. She SUN explains why the noirish thriller has come to be seen as a SUN significant precursor of the French New Wave, which broke SUN with film making conventions. SUN SUN Out of the Furnace SUN Out of the Furnace SUN directed by Scott Cooper, is in UK cinemas from Wednesday 29 SUN January, certificate 15. SUN SUN Lift to the Scaffold SUN The 1958 film SUN Lift to the Scaffold SUN directed by Louis Malle, is re-released in UK cinemas from SUN Friday 7 February, certificate PG. SUN SUN The Armstrong Lie SUN The Armstrong Lie SUN written and directed by Alex Gibney, is in UK cinemas from SUN Friday 31 January, certificate 15. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Scott Cooper SUN Interviewed Guest: Alex Gibney SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlie Bloye SUN Interviewed Guest: Ginette Vincendeau SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03sr5qv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03sbkqg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03s76d5 (Listen) MON Prostitution in the Community; Drinking and Moderation MON MON Prostitution in the community: The criminologist, Sarah MON Kingston, discusses her study of the impact of sex work on MON local residents and businesses. Policies restricting sex MON work are often based on assumptions about the alleged MON negative effects of commercial sex on everyday lives. This MON is the first comprehensive text to examine the empirical MON basis of this assumption. How do neighbourhoods react to the MON presence of prostitutes and male clients in their areas? Do MON stereotypes of stigma and deviance mean that residents will MON always wish to move this 'problem' elsewhere. MON MON Also, the sociologist, Henry Yeomans, charts the fluid, ever MON changing definitions of 'moderate' alcohol consumption. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Sarah Kingston MON MON Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Metropolitan MON University MON MON MON MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Sarah Kingston MON MON MON MON MON Prostitution in the Community: Attitudes, Action and MON Resistance MON publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 0415688671 MON ISBN-13: 978-0415688673 MON MON Henry Yeomans MON MON Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the MON University of Leeds MON MON MON MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Henry Yeomans MON MON MON MON MON MON Abstract: MON Blurred visions: experts, evidence and the promotion of MON moderate drinking MON The Sociological Review MON Special Issue: Sociological Review Monograph Series: MON Sociologies of moderation: problems of democracy, expertise MON and the media MON by Alexander Thomas T. Smith and John Holmwood MON Volume 61, Issue Supplement S2, pages 58–78, December 2013 MON DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12100 MON MON MON MON MON MON Alcohol and moral regulations: Public Attitudes, Spirited MON Measures and Victorian Hangovers MON MON Publisher: Policy Press (18 Jun 2014) MON MON ISBN-10: 1447309936 MON MON ISBN-13: 978-1447309932 MON MON MON MON Ethnography Award MON MON Thank you for all your entries. MON MON MON MON These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, MON Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise MON Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor MON Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). MON MON MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, MON originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The MON work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. 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MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03vs5mt (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Rev'd Sharon Grenham-Toze. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03srfgl (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03sbkqs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03srfgn (Listen) MON Grey Heron (Winter) 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 grey heron. Winter can be a MON challenging time for grey herons. In freezing conditions, MON their favoured food supplies of fish and amphibians are MON locked beneath the ice and prolonged spells of cold weather MON can be fatal for these birds. MON MON Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03srfgq (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03srfgs (Listen) MON Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files MON MON Last year The Guardian ran a series of scoops about the MON extent of mass surveillance by the security services here MON and in the USA. Anne McElvoy talks to the journalist Luke MON Harding about the inside story on the whistle-blower Edward MON Snowden and what motivated him to commit one of the biggest MON intelligence leaks in history. The former director of GCHQ, MON Sir David Omand, fears the leaks have done untold damage and MON endangered state security. Claims that America hacked the MON phone of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel caused uproar MON in Germany, and the journalist Annette Dittert argues that MON the memory of the Stasi's spying machine is still raw. There MON has been little outcry among the British public and the MON philosopher Alain de Botton explores the nature of news and MON the 'noise' it generates. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Luke Harding MON Interviewed Guest: David Omand MON Interviewed Guest: Annette Dittert MON Interviewed Guest: Alain de Botton MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03srg9t (Listen) MON Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything, Warning MON Signs MON MON 'If dementia were a country it would be the world's 18th MON largest economy, somewhere between Turkey and Indonesia.' MON MON Scottish broadcaster Sally Magnusson reads her moving but MON searingly honest account of her mother Mamie Baird's long MON struggle with dementia. Regarded as one of the finest MON journalists of her generation, Mamie Baird's whole life was MON a celebration of words - words that she fought to retain MON until the very end. Married to writer and broadcaster Magnus MON Magnusson, the working-class Scot was known for her witty, MON outrageous and fun-loving stories, her love of music and of MON life itself. As well as chronicling the anguish, the MON frustrations and the unexpected laughs that Sally and her MON sisters experienced while caring for their mother for eight MON years until her death in 2012, Sally seeks understanding MON from scientists, doctors, philosophers and historians in the MON face of one of the greatest challenges of our times. This is MON both a call to arms, a poignant account of what makes us MON human, and a portrait of what it is really like to lose a MON loved one day by day. MON MON In today's episode: the early but frighteningly tell-tale MON signs of dementia emerge on a trip to Mull. MON MON Abridged by: Sara Davies MON Produced by: Justine Willett MON Reader: Sally Magnusson: Sally Magnusson is a Scottish MON broadcaster and writer, currently working as the presenter MON of Reporting Scotland for BBC Scotland. Her father is the MON late broadcaster and writer Magnus Magnusson. MON 'Do you know what year it is?' MON 'We realise as soon as we embark on it, that there can never MON be another holiday' MON Dementia on Radio 4 MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sally Magnusson MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Author: Sally Magnusson MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03srg9w (Listen) MON Angel Haze MON MON Rapper Angel Haze talks about about her troubled upbringing MON and how she's using her music to help others. MON MON New research from Women for Refugee Women suggests that MON almost twenty per cent of women they interviewed who were MON seeking asylum said they had fled persecution on grounds of MON sexual orientation. They say that lesbian women face a MON number of obstacles when claiming asylum in the UK - largely MON around "proving" their sexuality within a systematic MON "culture of disbelief". We hear one woman's experience. MON MON The Home Office is launching a new advert, part of its MON ongoing campaign against abusive relationships. It features MON two actors from Channel 4's Hollyoaks and aims to get young MON people talking about what consent means in a relationship. MON So how effective will it be and should there be more taught MON in schools on the issue. MON MON Plus historian Claudia Renton on why the portrait of the MON Wyndham sisters by John Singer Sargent inspired her to find MON out more about the three aristocratic women with a MON privileged, bohemian upbringing. She tells Jane Garvey about MON her how she got under the skin of the sisters for her new MON book Those Wild Wyndhams. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Beverley Purcell. MON MON Should we teach boys about consent? MON MON This week the Home Office is launching a new advert which is MON part of its ongoing campaign against abusive relationships. MON It features two actors from the Hollyoaks soap opera and the MON aim is promote discussion among young people about what is MON consent in relationships. We spoke to some of the young MON people who have been advising the Home Office on their MON campaign and Jenni is joined in the studio by Fiona Elvin MON from the charity, MON Rape Crisis MON to discuss how effective this advert will be in preventing MON abusive relationships. MON http://www.nspcc.org.uk/ MON MON Lesbian Women in the asylum system MON MON Last week a major new report was published on the experience MON of female asylum seekers detained in Britain by the charity MON Women for Refugee Women MON Almost twenty per cent of those interviewed said they had MON fled persecution on grounds of sexual orientation. The MON research suggests lesbian women face a number of obstacles MON when claiming asylum in the UK - largely around “proving” MON their sexuality within a systematic “culture of disbelief”. MON We hear from Alice (not her real name), a 26-year-old MON lesbian from Cameroon who was detained in Yarl's Wood last MON year. To discuss the issues raised, Jane is joined by MON Natasha Walter, co-founder of Women for Refugee Women, and MON Tim Barnden, a lawyer specialising in asylum claims relating MON to sexual orientation and Chair of the MON UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group MON . MON MON Those Wild Wyndhams MON MON In 1900, a portrait by John Singer Sargent was described by MON the Times as the ‘greatest picture which has appeared for MON many years on the walls of the Royal Academy’. The portrait MON was of the Wyndham sisters, three aristocratic women with a MON privileged, bohemian upbringing, who became intimate with MON some of the most powerful – and scandalous - men in the MON country. Claudia Renton, a rising star of the history scene, MON has written their biography, and speaks to Jane about how MON she got under the skin of the sisters. Those Wild Wyndhams MON published in hardback by William Collins on 30th Jan 2014, MON £25. MON MON Angel Haze MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Claudia Renton MON Interviewed Guest: Fiona Elvin MON Interviewed Guest: Natasha Walter MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Barnden MON Interviewed Guest: Angel Haze MON Producer: Beverley Purcell MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03srgrd (Listen) MON Anna's War, Episode 1 MON MON Anna's War - 1/5 MON by Lizzie Nunnery MON MON Based on the true and extraordinary story of Anna MON Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was murdered in MON 2006. The Drama series looks at five key events from her MON life with respect to Politkovskaya's work in Chechnya, from MON 1999 up to her murder in 2006. In today's episode Anna wants MON to help evacuate 85 old people from a war torn Chechen old MON people's home who have been abandoned by the authorities. MON But there is opposition. MON MON Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON Credits MON Anna Politkovskaya: Anastasia Hille MON Dimitry Muratov: Conrad Nelson MON Elena Kudimova: Fiona Clarke MON Maka: Christine Cox MON Lucia: Pauline Jefferson MON Ivan Bogolomov: Max Bollinger MON Alexander Politkovsky: Andrew Byron MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Writer: Lizzie Nunnery MON MON 11:00 Sheffield: City of Snowless Skiers b03srgv7 (Listen) MON David Goldblatt discovers the unlikely tale of how our most MON promising skiers to reach the Sochi Olympics began in a city MON with no snow, on a plastic material that's "like upturned MON scrubbing brushes". MON MON Next week a brand new sport debuts at the Winter Olympics. MON It is called freeskiing, and astonishingly, given the MON British record in winter sports, we are very good at it. MON Last season, the world number one in "slopestyle" skiing was MON a British 21-year-old with a half-shaved head, called James MON Woods. He, like a string of other skiers now making their MON mark internationally, grew up in a non-skiing family in MON Sheffield. MON MON According to the head coach of the British Freeski team, Pat MON Sharples - "Every single one of my athletes comes from a MON working class background... and the majority of my team are MON from Sheffield." How did this happen? MON MON It is all to do with a patch of land sandwiched between an MON enormous inner city landfill and a council estate MON overlooking the city centre. Built in the 1980s, Sheffield MON Ski Village was one of the best facilities in Europe, in its MON heyday. But as David discovers, it looks unlikely that this MON success will ever be repeated again. MON MON Featuring: James 'Woodsy' Woods, British Slopestyle Skier; MON Katie and Molly Summerhayes, British Slopestyle Skiers; Pat MON Sharples, Head Coach Team GB Freeski; Simon Ashton, Chairman MON British Freeski; Cllr Peter Price, Sheffield City Council; MON Kevin Pullan, owner of Sheffield Ski Village; Mike Rogge, MON Freeski Reporter; Norman and Molly Gill, founders of MON Sheffield Sharks MON MON Produced by Polly Weston. MON MON 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b03srgv9 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON Damien is nominated for a "Melvyn" award for his TV show MON about the culinary habits of the Great Poets but finds it MON hard to think of what to write in his column for a new MON gentleman's magazine. Meanwhile, Anthony busies himself MON preparing for an audition for an amateur production of Noel MON Coward's Hay Fever. MON MON Credits MON Damien Trench: Miles Jupp MON Anthony: Justin Edwards MON Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey MON Steven: Ade Oyefeso MON Ray Jarrow: Chris Brand MON Michel Houllewitz: Toby Longworth MON Janet Trench: Selina Cadell MON Ian Frobisher: Philip Fox MON Producer: Sam Michell MON Writer: Miles Jupp MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03srh3p (Listen) MON Design a high street; Superfast broadband; Car-sharing MON clubs; Tube refunds; Drive-in cinemas MON MON We investigate claims that public money is being wasted on MON superfast broadband for villages that would have got it MON anyway from commercial firms. MON MON With rumours of new garden cities planned for southern MON England we look at how to design a modern high street from MON scratch MON MON And the fed up commuter getting automatic refunds for fellow MON passengers. MON MON Presenter: Winifred Robinson MON Producer: Jon Douglas. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03sbkqv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03sbkqx (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 A Brief History of Mathematics b00sr3fm (Listen) MON Newton and Leibniz MON MON This ten part history of mathematics reveals the MON personalities behind the calculations: the passions and MON rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas MON heard. Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of MON abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that MON mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. MON MON Today, the story of two late 17th century mathematicians who MON worked on the same problem at the same time - the calculus - MON in which the great hero of British science, Newton, reveals MON himself to be a little less gentlemanly than his German MON rival, Leibniz. The calculus is one of the greatest MON achievements of mankind: an astronaut and an investment MON analyst pay homage to its enormous power. MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON Radio 4 Mathematics Collection MON MON Credits MON Producer: anna buckley MON Presenter: PROF DU MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03srddm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Tony Teardrop b03srjj5 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Tony Teardrop MON by Esther Wilson MON MON Gritty and sometimes humorous drama inspired by true stories MON taken from the homeless people of Manchester. The care of MON children is at the heart of this second drama about homeless MON couple Roz and Tony, who have been out of town but now MON they're back. Roz is a Methadone addict with four adult MON children. Her eldest daughter Carly has fallen out with Roz, MON and after having been made redundant is facing her worst MON fear; being homeless with her own young children. Tony MON Teardrop, is a father of two boys who are living with foster MON carers. He's hopeful of starting contact with them again. MON This is a sequel to the Friday Drama (Friday 31st January MON slot at 21.00). MON MON Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON Credits MON Roz: Siobhan Finneran MON Tony: Neil Bell MON Carly: Christine Bottomley MON Ken: Glenn Cunningham MON Kira: Glenn Cunningham MON Lynne: Deborah McAndrew MON Liam: Stephen Hoyle MON Michael: Callum King Chadwick MON Dylan: Ellis Hollins MON Kai: Lorenzo Rodriguez MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Writer: Esther Wilson MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03srhz2 (Listen) MON (9/17) MON The name of which chemical element derives from the Greek MON word for 'lazy'? And to which province of Canada does Cape MON Breton Island belong? MON MON Russell Davies puts these and a plethora of other general MON knowledge questions to today's competitors, who come from MON Cardiff, Ayrshire, Northumberland and North Yorkshire. MON They're hoping to win a place in the 2014 semi-finals which MON begin in a few weeks' time. MON MON Russell's questions cover history, music, science, MON literature, mythology, popular culture and more besides. MON There's also a chance for an ingenious listener to 'Beat the MON Brains' with questions of his or her own devising - with a MON prize on offer if the contestants' combined brainpower can't MON work them out. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Russell Davies MON Producer: Paul Bajoria MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03sr7f9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b03srhz4 (Listen) MON Alexander McCall Smith MON MON The popular writer of the Number One Ladies Detective Agency MON and 44 Scotland Street novels, Alexander McCall Smith MON chooses his favourite prose, poetry and music. With extracts MON from Jane Austen, WH Auden and Robert Burns, the pieces are MON read by actors Bill Paterson and Claire Corbett. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON With Great Pleasure: Alexander McCall Smith with actors MON Clare Corbett and Bill Paterson MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Alexander McCall Smith MON Reader: Bill Paterson MON Reader: Clare Corbett MON Producer: Maggie Ayre MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03srhz6 (Listen) MON The Ahmedi Community MON MON Officially anyone who declares that "There is one God and MON Muhammed is his prophet" is a Muslim. But many Muslims argue MON that the beliefs of the Ahmedi community mean they cannot be MON part of the faith. There are about 12 million Ahmedi MON worldwide and their headquarters, originally in Pakistan, MON are now in London. Their founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, MON claimed to be a prophet, although a lesser one than MON Mohammed, and it is this claim that critics say put his MON followers outside the fold of Islam. MON Joining Ernie to discuss the Ahmedi are Imam Ataul Rashed MON from the Ahmedi London Mosque, Dr Sahib Bleher founder of MON the Islamic Party of Britain, and Dr Simon Valentine, author MON of "Islam and the Ahmaddiya Jama'at.". MON MON 17:00 PM b03srhz8 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sbkqz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b03srj01 (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Henning Wehn, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy and Victoria Coren MON Mitchell are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the British, beetles, MON the Clergy and novels. 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: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Jeremy Hardy MON Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03srj0c (Listen) MON Clarrie fears the future, and Helen is adamant. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03srj0y (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mark Lawson MON Producer: Timothy Prosser MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03srgrd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b03srj32 (Listen) MON Let Me In MON MON Seymour is a serial offender in his late 40s. A few months MON after he was last released, he was seen on a bench outside a MON prison gate, head in hands, desperate to return. Within MON weeks he was back inside. MON MON In prison he thrives. He fills his time with purposeful MON activity, gaining respect among fellow inmates and staff. MON Outside, without the protective regime, he falls into old MON habits. MON MON Seymour has been locked up every year for the past decade, MON for sentences related to his crack cocaine habit. In prison, MON he gets clean and commits to change; out of prison, usually MON after a period of success, his addiction gets the better of MON him. MON MON Once back on crack, it's only a matter of time. Although MON "gutted" when he ends up back inside, he usually MON acknowledges a sense of relief. MON MON As his current sentence ends, Seymour shares his thoughts MON and experiences - through his final days in prison, then out MON on to the streets. Will he leave crime behind? What support MON will be available? Can he convince his family to trust him? MON MON BBC Radio 4 has been recording Seymour's progress since MON Summer 2012 and Let Me In provides rare, first-hand MON testimony from a man full of hope, but also fear, as he MON struggles to define his place in the world. MON MON Produced and narrated by Steve Urquhart MON A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03srj6m (Listen) MON The Philosophy of Russell Brand MON MON In a recent Newsnight interview, the comedian Russell Brand MON predicted a revolution. His comments entertained many and MON became the most-watched political interview of 2013. But MON between the lines, Brand was also giving voice to the MON populist resurgence of a serious but controversial idea: MON anarchism. MON MON The new "anarcho-populism" is the 21st century activist's MON politics of choice. In evidence in recent student protests, MON the Occupy movement, in political encampments in parks and MON squares around the world, it combines age-old anarchist MON thought with a modern knack for inclusive, consumerist MON politics. MON MON Brand's interview was just one especially prominent example. MON The thinkers behind the movement say it points the way MON forward. Jeremy Cliffe, The Economist's Britain politics MON correspondent, asks if they are right? MON MON Producer: Lucy Proctor. MON Steve Keen: Why Economics Is Bunk MON The Quantified Self: Can Life Be Measured? MON Pornography: What Do We Know? MON Who Decides if I'm a Woman? MON Making the Best of a Bad Job MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03s6zm8 (Listen) MON Ocean Governance MON MON The earth is mostly covered by seawater, yet most of the MON world's oceans are ungoverned - they are the largest of MON commons in the world. In today's Shared Planet we ask who is MON responsible for the life in the ocean? Featuring a field MON report from Scotland, Monty Don explores the problems faced MON by life trying to compete with us for resources in an area MON with little or no regulation. The Isle of May is home to a MON quarter of a million seabirds in the breeding season, yet MON come the winter months most disperse out to the open sea to MON spend weeks at the mercy of storms and cold weather. The MON birds need a rich food supply to survive, yet the fish MON stocks and all other life in the sea is at the mercy of MON humanity. Suffering from what is known as "The Tragedy of MON the Commons", no one owns the oceans and therefore no one MON has responsibility for them, they are open to exploitation MON from many nations. Can the seabirds, whales, dolphins, MON turtles and all the other life that lives in the open ocean MON be protected? And if so by whom? MON MON Producer Mary Colwell. MON MON Sylvia Earle MON MON Called “Her Deepness” by the New Yorker and the New York MON Times, a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress, and MON Time Magazine’s first “Hero for the Planet,” Sylvia Earle, MON has led more than 100 expeditions as an oceanographer and MON explorer, authored 180 publications, and lectured in 80 MON countries. She is Explorer in Residence of the National MON Geographic Society, Leader of the Sustainable Seas MON Expeditions, Council Chair for the Harte Research Institute, MON Founder of Mission Blue and the SEAlliance, and formerly the MON Chief Scientist of NOAA. She has founded three companies, is MON a Founding Ocean Elder, an IUCN Patron of Nature and served MON on various corporate and non-profit boards including MON Kerr-McGee, Dresser Industries, Oryx Energy, WWF US and MON International, Aspen Institute, Conservation International MON and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is a MON Founding Ocean Elder and an IUCN Patron of Nature. A MON graduate of St. Petersburg College and Florida State MON University with MA and PhD from Duke University she has 22 MON honorary doctorates and more than 100 national and MON international awards including the 2009 TED Prize, the MON Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark, the Academy of MON Achievement and in 2011 the Dominican Republic’s Medal of MON Honor, the Royal Geographical Society’s Patron’s Medal, and MON Australia’s SIMS Green Leadership Award. MON MON MON MON Image courtesy of Kip Evans. MON MON Paul Martin MON MON The Rt Hon Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada from MON 2003 to 2006 and Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2002. He MON was named the inaugural chair of the Finance Ministers’ G20 MON in 1999. Mr Martin chairs the $200m British-Norwegian MON poverty alleviation and sustainable development fund for the MON 10-nation Congo Basin Rainforest. He sits on the Advisory MON Council of the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa, sponsored MON by the African Union, the UN Economic Commission for Africa MON and the African Development Bank. MON In Canada, he is responsible for the Martin Aboriginal MON Education Initiative, and he founded, with his son David, MON the Capital for Aboriginal Prosperity and Entrepreneurship MON Fund. MON Before entering politics, Mr Martin had a distinguished MON career in the private sector as a business executive at MON Power Corporation of Canada and as Chairman and Chief MON Executive Officer of The CSL Group Inc. Mr Martin studied MON philosophy and history at St Michael’s College at the MON University of Toronto, and is a graduate of the University MON of Toronto Law School. He was called to the Ontario Bar in MON 1966. MON MON MON Callum Roberts MON Callum Roberts is Professor of Marine Conservation at the MON University of York. His research focuses on threats to MON marine ecosystems and species, and on finding the means to MON protect them. For the last 25 years he has used his science MON background to make the case for stronger protection for MON marine life. His award winning book, The Unnatural History MON of the Sea, charts the effects of 1000 years of exploitation MON on ocean life. His recent book, Ocean of life: how our seas MON are changing, shows how the oceans are changing under human MON influence and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton MON Science Book Prize. It charts the accelerating rate of MON damage to the oceans, revealing how we are on a path to MON self-destruction without an urgent change of course. His MON research team provided the scientific underpinning for a MON network of six high seas marine protected areas covering MON 285,000 km2 of the North Atlantic. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03srfgs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03sbkr1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03srj86 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03szn35 (Listen) MON Dubliners, The Sisters MON MON Naturalistic in style, 'Dubliners' depicts an array of MON characters, graduating progressively from childhood, through MON adolescence, to maturity, culminating in the final story, MON 'The Dead'. The stories each centre on the idea of a moment MON of epiphany, but are grounded in the minutiae of daily life. MON Stories of love, loss, con men, friendship, alcoholism, MON marriage, politics and family, combine to create a unified MON world, a celebration of a city, in the unparalleled prose of MON its most famous son. MON MON Abridger ..... Doreen Estall MON Reader ...... Stephen Rea MON Producer ..... Stephen Wright MON Music by .... Neil Martin. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Stephen Rea MON Producer: Stephen Wright MON Abridger: Doreen Estall MON Author: James Joyce MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b03s718d (Listen) MON Talking Terrorism MON MON It's a word that can start a war, incarcerate the innocent MON and bring a city to a standstill. Since September 11th 2001 MON the question of who is and who is not a 'terrorist' has MON taken a central role in world affairs. MON MON In 'Word of Mouth' Michael Rosen examines the roots of the MON word in the French Revolution, the strangely glamorous MON associations it took on in the late 1960s and the current MON debate over its use in post-9/11 legislation. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03srjhy (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03sbks4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03srg9t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03sbks6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03sbks8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03sbksb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03sbksd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03vs5zd (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Rev'd Sharon Grenham-Toze. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03srqz3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03srqz5 (Listen) TUE Great Bustard 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 great bustard. Great bustards, TUE one of the heaviest flying birds in the world, were most TUE common in Wiltshire and East Anglia but in the past they TUE were hunted to extinction and the last known breeding birds TUE in the UK were in 1832. TUE TUE Today, great bustards are back on Salisbury Plain, thanks to TUE the work of the Great Bustard Group. The Group aims to TUE establish a self-sustaining population in the UK. TUE TUE Great Bustard (Otis tarda) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03srqz7 (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 Great War of Words b03t88vz (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE On August 4th 1914 German forces entered neutral Belgium. A TUE decision that brought Britain to war in defence of TUE international law bound by strategic interests and moral TUE force. TUE TUE The subsequent atrocities committed in Belgium & Northern TUE France in those first weeks transformed many people's TUE understandings of what was now at stake. The war now defined TUE as a great moral cause, civilization versus German Kultur. TUE TUE The 'rape' of Belgium caused international outrage and TUE created a long propaganda war for the hearts and minds of TUE millions overseas. At home ordinary Briton's identified TUE strongly with the Belgian plight with hundred's of thousands TUE of refugees arriving on our shores. The German policy of TUE civilian bombing raids and later unrestricted submarine TUE warfare brought the shock of war to people's homes and TUE further shaped our ideas of the bestial Hun. TUE TUE The greatest atrocity of war was war itself. In the TUE turbulent years of peace after 1918 the wartime motivations TUE and meanings of the war for millions was refracted through TUE the prism of post war disillusionment. So much so that a TUE powerful counter myth set in by the late 1920's that has TUE largely persisted. Many now felt that the British public and TUE millions more were essentially manipulated by their TUE governments to wage a pointless war of slaughter. That the TUE atrocities were at best hysterical stories ruthlessly TUE transformed into motivational propaganda. TUE TUE Michael Portillo explores the true history of those events TUE in Belgium, the impact on people during wartime and the TUE battle for meaning that followed. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Burman. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03srqzc (Listen) TUE Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything, Facing TUE Up TUE TUE 'If dementia were a country it would be the world's 18th TUE largest economy, somewhere between Turkey and Indonesia.' TUE TUE Scottish broadcaster Sally Magnusson reads her moving but TUE searingly honest account of her mother Mamie Baird's long TUE struggle with dementia. Regarded as one of the finest TUE journalists of her generation, Mamie Baird's whole life was TUE a celebration of words - words that she fought to retain TUE until the very end. Married to writer and broadcaster Magnus TUE Magnusson, the working-class Scot was known for her witty, TUE outrageous and fun-loving stories, her love of music and of TUE life itself. As well as chronicling the anguish, the TUE frustrations and the unexpected laughs that Sally and her TUE sisters experienced while caring for their mother for eight TUE years until her death in 2012, Sally seeks understanding TUE from scientists, doctors, philosophers and politicians in TUE the face of one of the greatest challenges of our times. TUE TUE In today's episode: despite the tell-tale warning signs, TUE Sally and her family are still doing their best to ignore TUE the truth. TUE TUE Abridged by: Sara Davies TUE Produced by: Justine Willett TUE Reader: Sally Magnusson. TUE Dementia on Radio 4 TUE 'We realise as soon as we embark on it, that there can never TUE be another holiday' TUE 'Do you know what year it is?' TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sally Magnusson TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Author: Sally Magnusson TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03srqzf (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 b03srqzh (Listen) TUE Anna's War, Episode 2 TUE TUE Anna's War TUE by Lizzie Nunnery TUE TUE Based on the true story of Russian journalist Anna TUE Politkovskaya who was murdered in 2006. TUE The inhabitants of a Chechen mountain village have written TUE to Anna asking for her to investigate recent tortures by the TUE Russian army on civilians. Anna interviews an elderly woman TUE who was kept in a 12' outdoor pit, and then Anna herself is TUE captured by the soldiers. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE Credits TUE Anna Politkovskaya: Anastasia Hille TUE Dimitri Muratov: Conrad Nelson TUE Elena: Fiona Clarke TUE Vera Politkovskaya: Harriet Chandler Judd TUE Ilya: Max Bollinger TUE Lieutenant: Andrew Byron TUE Rozita: Christine Cox TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE Writer: Lizzie Nunnery TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b03srqzk (Listen) TUE Series 8, Islands of Ice and Fire TUE TUE In the first of new series of NATURE, we join wildlife sound TUE recordist Chris Watson in Iceland. When it comes to dynamic TUE landscapes, there's perhaps nowhere in the world more TUE exciting than Iceland; with its vast groaning glaciers, TUE spouting geysers, thundering glacial waterfalls, hissing TUE thermal vents and erupting volcanoes - and it's the sounds TUE of this landscape which Chris is keen to capture. Iceland is TUE situated on a geological rift, the Mid-Atlantic ridge TUE between the Eurasian plate and the North American plate. The TUE plates are moving apart at a rate of 2cm a year. "Iceland is TUE at least twice the size it was 10million years ago and is TUE still growing" geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson tells TUE Chris. Then, just over 50 years ago when another island, TUE Surtsey, erupted off the south west coast of Iceland. The TUE eruption lasted for 3 years, and the creation of a new TUE island offered scientists a unique opportunity to study the TUE process of island colonisation. "The landing was amazing I TUE can't describe the feeling, it's impossible" recalls Erling TUE Olafsson, one of the first scientists to land on Surtsey TUE "only three colours grey, brown and blue". In 2003 Chris was TUE given permission to visit Surtsey "I remember the sounds of TUE a newly established gull colony and seawash on a beach of TUE jet black lava". The colony of Lesser Black-backed gulls TUE have played a key role in facilitating the colonisation of TUE the island by other species. "I can understand now, how a TUE seemingly hostile volcanic island can give rise to new life" TUE says Chris, and back on Iceland he is astonished by the TUE density of birds on a hillside; snipe, whimbrel, redwing, TUE golden plover and redshank "At first, it's not apparent when TUE you just look round, but what you really need to do is just TUE listen". TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 The Black Liberace b03srrsp (Listen) TUE Record producer Joe Boyd gives his personal take on the TUE great New Orleans piano player James Booker - aka the Black TUE Liberace. TUE TUE New Orleans pianist Dr John once called Booker "the best TUE black, gay, junkie piano player New Orleans has ever TUE produced", but he remains little remembered outside his home TUE city. TUE TUE Classically trained in piano and a child prodigy, Booker had TUE his first hit record as a teenager, toured with the likes of TUE Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin and played on sessions with TUE Fats Domino and Little Richard. But it was as a solo TUE performer that he really came into his own. TUE TUE When record producer Joe Boyd met Booker at a session in the TUE 1970s he recognised his technical virtuosity and potential TUE to captivate an audience. He asked Booker if he'd like to TUE record an album on his own, without a band. The pianist was TUE cautious, but eventually agreed to record Junco Partner on TUE one condition - he had a candelabra on the piano. The TUE reason, he said, "cos I'm the Black Liberace baby!" TUE TUE Liberace may have been one of his idols, but Booker's styles TUE were wide and varied. He not only mastered but also TUE transformed the New Orleans piano style mixing Chopin, Liszt TUE and Rachmaninoff with jazz, blues, stride, gospel and TUE boogie-woogie. He played like he had four hands and made the TUE piano sound like a whole band. But, gay at a time when TUE homosexuality was a huge taboo and black in a divided TUE America, Booker died alone, aged 43, after a life of drug TUE and alcohol abuse. TUE TUE Featuring interviews with Dr John who was taught by Booker, TUE and New Orleans pianist Allen Toussaint, as well as Booker's TUE manager John Parsons and producer Scott Billington. TUE TUE Producer: Jo Wheeler TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03srrsr (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03sbksg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03sbksj (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 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lk (Listen) TUE Leonard Euler TUE TUE This ten part history of mathematics reveals the TUE personalities behind the calculations: the passions and TUE rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas TUE heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of TUE abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that TUE mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. TUE TUE Today, how the mathematics that Leonard Euler invented two TUE hundred years ago has transformed the internet. Euler's TUE solution to an eighteenth century conundrum paved the way TUE for the search engines most of us use every day . TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE Radio 4 Mathematics Collection TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03srj0c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Test Case b03sbmyl (Listen) TUE Mr C TUE TUE Philip Palmer tells the story of Mr C. TUE TUE Presented by Deborah Bowman, Professor of Ethics & Law at St TUE George's University of London. TUE TUE The case of 'Re C' is one of the most discussed legal cases TUE in the world, because it changed the way we make decisions TUE about our medical treatment forever. Those who were involved TUE in the ground-breaking hearing, in 1993, remember the events TUE vividly and with great affection. But it's unknown to the TUE general public, because of the strange way the case came TUE about ... and because of the extraordinary character at its TUE heart. TUE TUE Closely based on interviews with those who were there, TUE Philip Palmer's drama reveals the story of Mr C. TUE TUE And after the three o'clock news, you can join the real-life TUE participants, with presenter Deborah Bowman, as they discuss TUE the case, and its legacy for us all. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE Credits TUE Harold ('Mr C'): Louis Mahoney TUE Mr Peter Rutter: David Seddon TUE Dr Chandra Ghosh: Shaheen Khan TUE Lucy Scott-Moncrieff: Priyanga Burford TUE Dr Nigel Eastman: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Winsome: Ayesha Antoine TUE Usher: Ayesha Antoine TUE Nurse: Georgie Fuller TUE Mrs Miller: Georgie Fuller TUE Mr Archer: John Norton TUE Doctor: John Norton TUE Mr Justice Thorpe: Sean Murray TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Philip Palmer TUE TUE 15:00 Test Case b03sbmyn (Listen) TUE The Legacy of Mr C TUE TUE Following on from Philip Palmer's drama, what became of Mr TUE C, and why, twenty years on, does his case continue to be so TUE widely discussed? TUE TUE As Mr C's fate is revealed in the High Court's surprising TUE decision, Professor Deborah Bowman is joined by a panel of TUE experts, two of whom were directly involved in Mr C's TUE remarkable story. TUE TUE They share their personal memories of Mr C and discuss why TUE his legal case continues to have such far-reaching TUE consequences for us all when we're ill. TUE TUE Produced by Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE The Panel TUE TUE Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, Human Rights Lawyer, Founder of SCOMO TUE TUE TUE TUE Nigel Eastman, Emeritus Professor of Law and Ethics in TUE Psychiatry, St George’s University of London TUE TUE TUE TUE Angus Wallace, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Queens TUE Medical Centre in Nottingham TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b03sbmyq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 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 The Design Dimension b03srw0h (Listen) TUE Design and Desire TUE TUE Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. None TUE of us can avoid its influence. It's a ubiquitous element of TUE our world that determines how we feel, what we do and TUE whether we succeed or fail. In this new four-part series, TUE the architectural writer Shumi Bose explores its power to TUE affect us, for better and worse. TUE TUE In each episode of 'The Design Dimension' Shumi charts a TUE different aspect of our relationship to design - desire, TUE damage, choice and, finally, truth. TUE TUE She begins by unpicking what we consider desirable - and TUE undesirable - in design, taking in touch screens, innovative TUE book design and the erotic symbolism of Ann Summers' TUE corporate logo with its surprising similarity to that of TUE Apple Inc. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown TUE TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03szh9c (Listen) TUE Lord Mervyn King and Arabella Weir TUE TUE Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, and TUE Arabella Weir, comic actor and writer, discuss their TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS BROADCAST TUE TUE The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli TUE TUE Published by Penguin TUE TUE TUE TUE A Short Gentleman by Jon Canter TUE TUE Published by Vintage TUE TUE TUE TUE Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby TUE TUE Published by HarperCollins TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Mervyn King TUE Interviewed Guest: Arabella Weir TUE Presenter: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03srxrm (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sbksp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Dilemma b03szh9f (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE Sue Perkins presents a third series of Dilemma, the panel TUE show where she puts four guests through the moral and TUE ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced TUE dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. TUE TUE This week, Sue is joined by comedians Kerry Godliman and TUE John-Luke Roberts, journalist and broadcaster Julia TUE Hartley-Brewer and ex-footballer Clarke Carlisle, who TUE collectively attempt to resolve dilemmas based around TUE dinosaur bones, injured guinea pigs, and unethical banks. TUE They also assert their moral correctness over giving TUE directions and selling state secrets. TUE TUE The show was devised by the actor and award-winning comedian TUE Danielle Ward. TUE TUE "A non-irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times) TUE TUE Presenter ... Sue Perkins TUE Devised by ... Danielle Ward TUE Producer ... Ed Morrish. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Sue Perkins TUE Panellist: Kerry Godliman TUE Panellist: Clarke Carlisle TUE Panellist: Julia Hartley-Brewer TUE Panellist: John-Luke Roberts TUE Producer: Ed Morrish TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03szh9h (Listen) TUE Jolene seeks inspiration, and Tony is feeling low. TUE TUE Credits TUE Editor: Sean O'Connor TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03t7mn1 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03srqzh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03szh9m (Listen) TUE Ministers have promised a new focus on home care for the TUE elderly and disabled amid concern that 15-minute calls and a TUE low-paid, underskilled workforce are leaving vulnerable TUE people at risk. TUE TUE From this Spring, inspectors will ask how councils' TUE commissioning practices are affecting the daily lives of TUE those they care for. But with authorities under pressure TUE simultaneously to cut costs, will quality continue to TUE suffer? TUE TUE Fears have been mounting about whether the basic needs of TUE vulnerable people are being met. The government's human TUE rights watchdog has been pressing the issue, along with tax TUE officials who say many companies are breaching minimum wage TUE legislation. TUE TUE This week File on 4 reports on the results of its own survey TUE of local authorities in England. Have councils increased TUE spending to keep pace with inflation in the past few years, TUE or have they actually driven down costs? And are they TUE providing even the most basic level of resources that social TUE service chiefs say are needed to keep those in their care TUE safe and well? TUE TUE Reporter: Fran Abrams TUE Producer: Emma Forde. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03szh9p (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03szh9r (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Great War of Words b03t88vz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03szm03 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03tzcdg (Listen) TUE Dubliners, An Encounter TUE TUE Naturalistic in style, 'Dubliners' depicts an array of TUE characters, graduating progressively from childhood, through TUE adolescence, to maturity, culminating in the final story, TUE 'The Dead'. The stories each centre on the idea of a moment TUE of epiphany, but are grounded in the minutiae of daily life. TUE Stories of love, loss, con men, friendship, alcoholism, TUE marriage, politics and family, combine to create a unified TUE world, a celebration of a city, in the unparalleled prose of TUE its most famous son. TUE TUE Abridger ...... Doreen Estall TUE Reader ..... Stephen Rea TUE Producer ..... Stephen Wright TUE Music by ..... Neil Martin. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Stephen Rea TUE Producer: Stephen Wright TUE Abridger: Doreen Estall TUE Author: James Joyce TUE TUE 23:00 2525 b007znn2 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can TUE survive... then it may sound something like this. Set 511 TUE years in the future, 2525 welcomes you into a world of TUE competitive kitchen appliances, robotic stand-up comedians TUE and religions devoted to the worship of The Beatles. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Jenny Bede TUE Jamie Demetriou TUE Kieran Hodgson TUE Catriona Knox TUE Waen Shepherd TUE TUE Written by Colin Birch, Ali Crockatt and David Scott, Jason TUE Hazeley and Joel Morris, Jon Hunter, Jane Lamacraft, Alex TUE Lowe, Paul Putner, John Luke Roberts and Eddie Robson. TUE TUE Produced by Ashley Blaker TUE A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Jenny Bede TUE Performer: Jamie Demetriou TUE Performer: Kieran Hodgson TUE Performer: Catriona Knox TUE Performer: Waen Shepherd TUE Writer: Colin Birch TUE Writer: Ali Crockatt TUE Writer: Jason Hazeley TUE Writer: Joel Morris TUE Writer: Jon Hunter TUE Writer: Jane Lamacraft TUE Writer: Alex Lowe TUE Writer: Paul Putner TUE Writer: John-Luke Roberts TUE Writer: Eddie Robson TUE Producer: Ashley Blaker TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03szm0k (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03sbktr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03srqzc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03sbktt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03sbktw (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03sbkty (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03sbkv0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03szrzh (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Rev'd Sharon Grenham-Toze. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03szrzk (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 b03szrzm (Listen) WED Mallard 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 mallard. Mallards are our WED commonest ducks. In winter, mallards from Continental Europe WED join our resident birds. Some may have flown from as far WED away as Russia and many infiltrate local flocks, so the WED bills which snatch your bread may have been born hundreds, WED if not thousands of kilometres away. WED WED Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03szrzp (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 b03szrzr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03szrzt (Listen) WED Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything, The WED Death of a Husband WED WED 'If dementia were a country it would be the world's 18th WED largest economy, somewhere between Turkey and Indonesia.' WED WED Scottish broadcaster Sally Magnusson reads her moving but WED searingly honest account of her mother Mamie Baird's long WED struggle with dementia. Married to writer and broadcaster WED Magnus Magnusson, Mamie Baird was a pioneering journalist, WED known for her witty, outrageous and fun-loving stories, for WED her love of music and of life itself. As well as chronicling WED the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs that WED Sally and her sisters experienced while caring for their WED mother for eight years until her death in 2012, Sally seeks WED understanding from scientists, doctors, philosophers and WED politicians in the face of one of the greatest challenges of WED our times. WED WED In today's episode: the death of a beloved husband, and WED Mamie's struggle to grieve. WED WED Abridged by: Sara Davies WED Produced by: Justine Willett WED Reader: Sally Magnusson. WED Dementia on Radio 4 WED 'Do you know what year it is?' WED 'We realise as soon as we embark on it, that there can never WED be another holiday' WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sally Magnusson WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Author: Sally Magnusson WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03thdbh (Listen) WED World War One: Changing Women's Lives WED WED How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women. While WED women in their thousands volunteered for war service and WED nearly five million were employed by 1918, what power did WED women really achieve outside the home and how lasting was WED it? Joining Jenni Murray, Baroness Shirley Williams on the WED war's impact on the generation of her mother, Testament of WED Youth author Vera Brittain; writer and broadcaster Kate WED Adie; Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck WED College; and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews. We WED also hear about the work of doctors Flora Murray and Louisa WED Garrett Anderson who established and ran the only British WED army hospital staffed entirely by women, treating wounded WED soldiers. WED WED Producer: Anne Peacock. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED Interviewed Guest: Shirley Williams WED Interviewed Guest: Vera Brittain WED Interviewed Guest: Kate Adie WED Interviewed Guest: Joanna Bourke WED Interviewed Guest: Maggie Andrews WED Producer: Anne Peacock WED Editor: Alice Feinstein WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03sztrw (Listen) WED Anna's War, Episode 3 WED WED Anna's War 3/5 WED by Lizzie Nunnery WED WED Based on the true story of Russian journalist Anna WED Politkovskaya who was murdered in 2006. Armed Chechen rebels WED seize the crowded Dubrovka Theatre, in Moscow on 23 October WED 2002. The rebels ask for Anna to go to theatre to act as a WED mediator between them and the Russian Government. WED WED Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED Credits WED Anna Politkovskaya: Anastasia Hille WED Dimitri Muratov: Conrad Nelson WED Marku: David Fleeshman WED FSB Agent: Max Bollinger WED Bakar: Andrew Byron WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Producer: Pauline Harris WED Writer: Lizzie Nunnery WED WED 11:00 Whatever Happened to Community? b03kpy6k (Listen) WED Nostalgia 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 In our digital, global age, we look back with misty eyes to WED a 'golden age' of community in the 1950s. But our anxiety WED about lost community is nothing new. WED WED In 1836, Augustus Pugin published Contrasts, a book of WED architectural drawings comparing the buildings of the WED medieval community with those of the industrial revolution. WED In response to what he saw as the urban decay and social WED rootlessness created by the industrial revolution, Pugin set WED about re-inventing the architecture of medieval community, WED initiating the Gothic revival. This wasn't simply about WED highly decorated churches with pointy arches, it was a WED wholesale programme of social and moral reform - a return to WED some imagined 'golden age' where people lived at ease with WED each other in stable and religiously engaged communities WED with shared values. WED WED Giles travels to North Staffordshire, often known as WED 'Pugin-land' because of the high concentration of Pugin's WED buildings, to explore how many in the 19th century wanted to WED return to medieval forms of community. He argues that this WED is not dissimilar to the nostalgia many people feel today in WED response to globalisation and social churn. WED WED And in the struggling former pottery town of Stoke on Trent WED he talks to MP Tristram Hunt about contemporary anxiety over WED community, and challenges a former BNP councillor nostalgic WED for a past with few immigrants and full employment. WED WED Producer: Jane Greenwood. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b03sztry (Listen) WED Series 9, Panic Room WED WED Episode 5 - Panic Room WED WED Clare is forced to confront an old phobia after a regular WED home visit takes an unusual turn. Fortunately Helen is on WED hand to help. Back in the office, Joan is left holding the WED babies. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life In today's Big WED Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an WED involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Nali: Nina Conti WED Megan: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Terry Dobson: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03szts0 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03sbkv2 (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 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0l9 (Listen) WED Joseph Fourier WED WED This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the WED present day, reveals the personalities behind the WED calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians WED struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du WED Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in WED the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving WED force behind modern science. WED WED Today, the mathematics of Joseph Fourier. It's thanks to his WED mathematical insight that you can hear Marcus on the radio WED and that Brian Eno can create sounds that have never been WED heard before. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED Radio 4 Mathematics Collection WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03szh9h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03szts2 (Listen) WED The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Modern Husband WED Course WED WED A new two-dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's latest WED No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, 'The Minor Adjustment WED Beauty Salon'. Mma Remotswe and Mma Makutsi return to Radio WED 4 for a tenth series based on the popular novels set in WED Bostwana, dramatised by the author. WED WED Episode 1 : The Modern Husband Course WED Mr J.L.B. Matekoni embarks on a quest for self-improvement, WED with a little encouragement from Mma Ramotswe. Mma Makutsi WED settles into her new house while hiding a secret from her WED best friend. WED WED Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict WED Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall WED Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe WED Mma Sheba: Adjoa Andoh WED Aunt Radiphuti: Adjoa Andoh WED Phuti Radiphuti: Jude Akuwudike WED Charlie: Maynard Eziashi WED Liso: Maynard Eziashi WED Mma Soleti: Eleanor Crooks WED Mma Keitumetse: Anna Bengo WED Student: Steve Toussaint WED Mma Molapo: Janice Acquah WED Director: Eilidh McCreadie WED Writer: Alexander McCall Smith WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03szts4 (Listen) WED Financial Fraud WED WED Fraud, identity theft and money scams - Paul Lewis and a WED panel of guests answer calls and emails. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03szh9r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03sztx5 (Listen) WED Numbers in Global Politics; Gay Rights and Religion in WED Belfast WED WED The power of 'numbers' in global politics: Laurie Taylor WED talks to the economist, Lorenzo Fioramonti, about the hidden WED agendas which may underpin the use of statistics, affecting WED the way we deal with poverty and sustainability. Numbers are WED at the heart of debates on the GDP which drives our WED economies and the credit ratings which steer financial WED markets. But what is behind these numbers? WED WED Also, pride and prejudice in Northern Ireland: The social WED anthropologist, Jennifer Curtis, discusses her research with WED Belfast's LGBT Pride Festival to explore religious groups' WED increasing support for gay rights since 2008. She's joined WED by Andrew McKinnon, an expert on the sociology of religion. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Lorenzo Fioramonti WED WED Jean Monnet Chair in Regional Integration and Governance WED Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the WED University of Pretoria (South Africa) WED WED WED WED WED WED Find out more about WED Lorenzo Fioramonti WED WED WED WED WED Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most WED Powerful Number WED Publisher: Zed Books WED ISBN-10: 1780322720 WED ISBN-13: 978-1780322728 WED WED Jennifer Curtis WED WED Honorary Fellow in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh WED University WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Jennifer Curtis WED WED WED WED WED WED Abstract: WED Pride and prejudice: gay rights and religious moderation in WED Belfast WED The Sociological Review WED Volume 61, Issue Supplement S2, pages 141–159, December 2013 WED DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12104 WED WED Andrew Mckinnon WED WED Senior Lecturer, in the School of Social Science, University WED of Aberdeen WED WED WED WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Andrew Mckinnon WED WED WED WED WED WED Abstract: WED Elementary Forms of the Metaphorical Life: Tropes at Work in WED Durkheim’s Theory of the Religious WED Journal of Classical Sociology July 18, 2013 WED doi: 10.1177/1468795X13494130 WED WED Ethnography Award WED WED Thank you for all your entries. WED WED WED WED These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, WED Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise WED Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor WED Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, WED originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The WED work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of WED 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03sztx7 (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 b03sztx9 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sbkv4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03sztxc (Listen) WED Series 5, Birkenhead 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 Birkenhead, Wirral, where the WED landscape may be dominated by the shipyard but the local WED life has also included monks, a "Bantam Army", one of the WED quirkiest bands in the country, and a pub inside a WED barbershop. You will also find out why this edition of Mark WED Steel's In Town was probably the inspiration for Woody WED Allen's Manhattan. 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 Performer: Mark Steel WED Writer: Mark Steel WED Writer: Pete Sinclair WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03sztxf (Listen) WED Helen makes a fresh start. Meanwhile Emma saves the day. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03sztxh (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Kirsty Lang WED Producer: Claire Bartleet WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03sztrw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03sztyj (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo, Giles WED Fraser and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03sztyl (Listen) WED Series 4, Heaven Crawley WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 How to Teach Maths b03szv89 (Listen) WED Alex Bellos takes you on a mathematical learning journey WED from the first stages of number recognition through to an WED understanding of how children solve sums and calculate WED answers. On the way he will look at the neuroscience of WED maths and how our mathematical brain develops. He WED investigates the scientific evidence behind teaching maths WED and he'll compare how modern methods of teaching children WED differ from those taught to their parents, helping kids WED today go beyond basic numeracy to develop a passion for WED numbers. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03szrzr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03sbkv6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03szv8c (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03tzcgc (Listen) WED Dubliners, Araby WED WED Naturalistic in style, 'Dubliners' depicts an array of WED characters, graduating progressively from childhood, through WED adolescence, to maturity, culminating in the final story, WED 'The Dead'. The stories each centre on the idea of a moment WED of epiphany, but are grounded in the minutiae of daily life. WED Stories of love, loss, con men, friendship, alcoholism, WED marriage, politics and family, combine to create a unified WED world, a celebration of a city, in the unparalleled prose of WED its most famous son. WED WED Abridger ..... Doreen Estall WED Reader ..... Stephen Rea WED Producer ..... Stephen Wright WED Music by ..... Neil Martin. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Stephen Rea WED Producer: Stephen Wright WED Abridger: Doreen Estall WED Author: James Joyce WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03szv8f (Listen) WED Series 2, Music WED WED This week comedian Tim Key explores the concept of music WED with a poem about an ambitious songbird called Patrick. Tom WED Basden attempts to accompany the poet, but Tim threatens to WED hire a proper musician. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden, Katy Wix and Diane Morgan WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Katy Wix WED Performer: Diane Morgan WED Producer: James Robinson WED Writer: Tim Key WED WED 23:15 iGod b00x9xb8 (Listen) WED Procrastination 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 a different WED parallel world is accidentally wiped out by an ordinary WED bloke called Ian (Simon Day). With a full-range of sound WED effects and wonderfully funny and surreal twists, iGOD will WED be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED In this week's episode, a parallel Earth is obliterated when WED a lazy Ian decides to take the afternoon off. WED WED Cast: WED SIMON DAY as IAN WED DAVID SOUL as THE NARRATOR WED with WED ROSIE CAVALIERO WED ALEX MACQUEEN WED DAN TETSELL WED WED Written by WED SEAN GRAY WED WED Produced by WED Simon Nicholls. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Simon Nicholls WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03szvg2 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03sbkw4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03szrzt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03sbkw6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03sbkw8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03sbkwb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03sbkwd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03szw5y (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Rev'd Sharon Grenham-Toze. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03szw60 (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 b03szw62 (Listen) THU Avocet 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 avocet. With its black and white THU plumage, blue-grey legs and delicate upturned bill, the THU avocet is one of our easiest birds to identify. They are a THU conservation success and are now breeding in Norfolk, THU Lincolnshire, Kent and elsewhere. THU THU Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03szw8j (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 b03szw8l (Listen) THU The Phoenicians THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians. The THU Greek historian Herodotus wrote about a people from the THU Levant who were accomplished sailors and traders, and who THU taught the Greeks their alphabet. He called them the THU Phoenicians, the Greek word for purple, although it is not THU known what they called themselves. By about 700 BC they were THU trading all over the Mediterranean, taking Egyptian and THU Syrian goods as far as France and North Africa. Although THU they were hugely influential in the ancient world, they left THU few records of their own; some contemporary scholars believe THU that the Phoenicians were never a unified civilisation but a THU loose association of neighbouring city-states. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03szwsq (Listen) THU Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything, THU Consolation in Forgetting THU THU 'If dementia were a country it would be the world's 18th THU largest economy, somewhere between Turkey and Indonesia.' THU THU Scottish broadcaster Sally Magnusson reads her moving but THU searingly honest account of her mother Mamie Baird's long THU struggle with dementia. Married to writer and broadcaster THU Magnus Magnusson, Mamie Baird was a pioneering journalist, THU known for her witty, outrageous and fun-loving stories, for THU her love of music and of life itself. As well as chronicling THU the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs that THU Sally and her sisters experienced while caring for their THU mother for eight years until her death in 2012, Sally seeks THU understanding from scientists, doctors, philosophers and THU politicians in the face of one of the greatest challenges of THU our times. THU THU In today's episode: Sally sees that there is sometimes THU consolation in forgetting. THU THU Abridged by: Sara Davies THU Produced by: Justine Willett THU Reader: Sally Magnusson. THU Dementia on Radio 4 THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sally Magnusson THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Author: Sally Magnusson THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03szwss (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03szwsv (Listen) THU Anna's War, Episode 4 THU THU Anna's War 4/5 THU by Lizzie Nunnery THU Based on the true story of Russian journalist Anna THU Politkovskaya who was murdered in 2006. September, 2004. THU When Anna hears of the seizure of a school by Chechen THU militants she heads off to Beslan to report on the crisis, THU but never makes it. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU Anna Politkovskaya: Anastasia Hille THU Dimitri Muratov: Conrad Nelson THU Marcu: David Fleeshman THU Vera Politkovskaya: Harriet Chandler Judd THU Airline Stewardess: Harriet Chandler Judd THU Stella: Fiona Clarke THU Airport Attendant: Fiona Clarke THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Lizzie Nunnery THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03szwsx (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Will Carlos Acosta Get to the Pointe b03szwsz (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU The celebrated ballet star, Carlos Acosta, is preparing to THU take on one of his most demanding roles - to save the THU crumbling ruins of an abandoned ballet school in Cuba. THU THU Vittorio Garatti's Ballet School in Havana is an THU extraordinary labyrinth of corridors, graceful arches and THU majestic domes and has been described as one of the most THU remarkable buildings of the 20th century. But after its THU construction the sensuous structures became viewed as THU indulgent and elitist and the buildings were abandoned and THU fell into disrepair. THU THU Carlos Acosta has a dream to revive the school and transform THU it into an international centre for dance and the Arts. His THU plans have provoked ethical divisions with the original THU architect, and the restoration project is being seen as a THU touchstone for how modern Cuba feels about itself and its THU artistic history. In, Will Carlos Acosta Get to the Pointe, THU the ballet star travels back to his native country to reveal THU why this project is so close to his own heart. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03szwt1 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03sbkwg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03sbkwj (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 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lc (Listen) THU Evariste Galois THU THU This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the THU present day, reveals the personalities behind the THU calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians THU struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du THU Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in THU the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving THU force behind modern science. THU THU Today how the mathematics of the French revolutionary, THU Evariste Galois, has proved invaluable to particle THU physicists working today. The mathematics that Galois began, THU over two hundred years ago, now absolutely describes the THU fundamental particles that make up our universe. THU THU Producer: Anna Buckley. THU THU Radio 4 Mathematics Collection THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03sztxf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03szx7n (Listen) THU The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Minor Adjustment THU Beauty Salon THU THU A new two-dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's latest THU No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, 'The Minor Adjustment THU Beauty Salon'. Mma Remotswe and Mma Makutsi return to Radio THU 4 for a tenth series based on the popular novels set in THU Bostwana, dramatised by the author. THU THU Episode 2: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon THU Mma Ramotswe searches for answers as the campaign against THU Mma Soleti steps up a gear. Meanwhile the Agency welcomes a THU new arrival, and an old wrong is finally righted. THU THU Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall THU Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah THU Mma Soleti: Eleanor Crooks THU Charlie: Maynard Eziashi THU Daisy Manchwe: Noma Dumezweni THU Official: Steve Toussaint THU House Mother: Alibe Parsons THU Director: Eilidh McCreadie THU Writer: Alexander McCall Smith THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03szx7q (Listen) THU Common Ground, Dorset THU THU For thirty years, the arts and environment organisation THU Common Ground has used Dorset as a kind of laboratory for THU its work celebrating local distinctiveness, before rolling THU their projects out elsewhere around the UK. Helen Mark hears THU from Common Ground co-founder Sue Clifford why they began THU Apple Day events near her home in Shaftesbury, as a way of THU celebrating and protecting old apple orchards. Helen also THU meets the sculptor Peter Randall-Page who was commissioned THU to carve some small wayside sculptures along a footpath THU above Lulworth Cove, and the composer Karen Wimhurst THU reflects on Confluence, the three year music project she was THU involved in that celebrated the river Stour, from its source THU to the sea. THU THU But now that the Common Ground co-founders are retiring, THU Helen also meets Adrian Cooper, who's taken the helm, and is THU steering the organisation into new waters. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03sr5r1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b03srddf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03szxd9 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03szxdc (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 b03szxdf (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sbkwl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mitch Benn Is the 37th Beatle b03szxdh (Listen) THU Musical satirist Mitch Benn explores his comedy connections THU to the story of The Beatles. THU THU Mitch has realised that over the years many people have THU claimed the title The Fifth Beatle. In fact, so many of them THU have been described as such that there are now at least 36 THU of them. They can't all be right. But some of them are THU righter than others... THU THU Fifty years on from the release of 'Please, Please Me', THU Mitch presents his own definitive list of the Beatles. He THU presents a whistlestop tour through musical history and the THU enduring legacy of the Fab Four, whilst shamelessly milking THU his own - incredibly tenuous- connection to it. THU THU Written by and starring Mitch Benn THU THU Producer: Alexandra Smith. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03szxdv (Listen) THU Kenton is getting competitive, and Kirsty voices her THU opinions. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03szxl0 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03szwsv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03szxl3 (Listen) THU Sexual Harassment in Parliament THU THU Allegations of sexual harassment made against Lord Rennard THU prompted his suspension from the Liberal Democrats and the THU admission by his party leader Nick Clegg that the LibDems THU had been too slow to investigate. But beyond the LibDems, is THU there a wider problem of sexual harassment at Westminster? THU Reporter Simon Cox speaks to Parliamentary researchers who THU say they have been the victims of sexual harassment at work THU and were left unsupported when they complained. One MP THU speaks out about the misbehaviour of his fellow THU Parliamentarians, describing the problem as "endemic". THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03szxq8 (Listen) THU MBAs THU THU Business school or school of life? An MBA from a top THU business school is what defines many of today's high powered THU CEO's - but is the qualification worth the cost or are THU would-be entrepreneurs better off learning business acumen THU in the real world? Evan Davis debates with guests. THU THU Guests: THU Colin Drummond, Chairman of Viridor and Harvard MBA graduate THU Kim Winser, former CEO of Pringle, now CEO of Winser London THU Glenn Sykes, Associate Dean of Chicago Booth Business THU School, London THU THU Producer: Kent DePinto. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03szxdc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03szw8l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03sbkwn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03szxwp (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03tzcjr (Listen) THU Dubliners, Eveline THU THU Naturalistic in style, 'Dubliners' depicts an array of THU characters, graduating progressively from childhood, through THU adolescence, to maturity, culminating in the final story, THU 'The Dead'. The stories each centre on the idea of a moment THU of epiphany, but are grounded in the minutiae of daily life. THU Stories of love, loss, con men, friendship, alcoholism, THU marriage, politics and family, combine to create a unified THU world, a celebration of a city, in the unparalleled prose of THU its most famous son. THU THU Abridger ..... Doreen Estall THU Reader ..... Stephen Rea THU Producer ..... Stephen Wright THU Music by ..... Neil Martin. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Stephen Rea THU Producer: Stephen Wright THU Abridger: Doreen Estall THU Author: James Joyce THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00zdh7k (Listen) THU Series 1, Sham 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 Sham a country where alternative THU therapies abound. THU THU Written by Bill Dare 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, Vicky Pepperdine, Phil Cornwell, Antonia Campbell THU Hughes, Jo Bobin and Katherine Jakeways. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Satirical targets over the series: the medical profession THU and its need to pathologize everything; the effect of THU marriage on children; spirituality and pseudo-science; THU compensation culture; sexism; the affect of our obsession THU with fame. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU Credits THU Brian Gulliver: Neil Pearson THU Rachel: Mariah Gale THU Raindrop: Antonia Campbell-Hughes THU Muesli: David Horovitch THU Mumbo: Julian Dutton THU Kaleem: Lewis Alsamari THU Healer: Stuart McLoughlin THU Tofu: Sally Orrock THU Hunter: Bill Dare THU Grand: Joanna Monro THU Writer: Bill Dare THU Producer: Steven Canny THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03szxyx (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03sbkxn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03szwsq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03sbkxq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03sbkxs (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03sbkxv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03sbkxx (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03t02sf (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Rev'd Sharon Grenham-Toze. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03t02sh (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03t02sk (Listen) FRI Great Spotted Woodpecker 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 great spotted woodpecker. In late FRI winter and early spring, brightly-coloured head-bangers are FRI livening up the woods. The handsome Great Spotted Woodpecker FRI really knows how to grab our attention. They don't sing but FRI instead advertise their territories by drumming loudly on FRI the branch or trunk of a tree. FRI FRI Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03t02sm (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 b03sr7dy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03t02x8 (Listen) FRI Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything, A FRI Peaceful End FRI FRI 'If dementia were a country it would be the world's 18th FRI largest economy, somewhere between Turkey and Indonesia.' FRI FRI Scottish broadcaster Sally Magnusson reads her moving but FRI searingly honest account of her mother Mamie Baird's long FRI struggle with dementia. Married to writer and broadcaster FRI Magnus Magnusson, Mamie Baird was a pioneering journalist, FRI known for her witty, outrageous and fun-loving stories, for FRI her love of music and of life itself. As well as chronicling FRI the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs that FRI Sally and her sisters experienced while caring for their FRI mother for eight years until her death in 2012, Sally seeks FRI understanding from scientists, doctors, philosophers and FRI politicians in the face of one of the greatest challenges of FRI our times. FRI FRI Today: a peaceful end amongst family. FRI FRI Abridged by: Sara Davies FRI Produced by: Justine Willett FRI Reader: Sally Magnusson. FRI Dementia on Radio 4 FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sally Magnusson FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Author: Sally Magnusson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03t02xb (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03t37cx (Listen) FRI Anna's War, Episode 5 FRI FRI Anna's War FRI by Lizzie Nunnery FRI Based on the true story of Russian journalist Anna FRI Politkovskaya who was murdered in 2006. The Drama looks at FRI five key events from 1999 leading up to her murder. Anna is FRI very much focussed on family with the illness of her mother, FRI and death of her father. She wants to help her daughter who FRI is pregnant and looks forward to being a grandmother, when FRI tragedy strikes. FRI FRI PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Anna Politkovskaya: Anastasia Hille FRI Vera Politkovskaya: Harriet Chandler Judd FRI Elena Kudimova: Fiona Clarke FRI Raisa Mazepa: Pauline Jefferson FRI Stepan Mazepa: David Fleeshman FRI Ilya Politkovsky: Max Bollinger FRI Surveillance Man: Max Bollinger FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Writer: Lizzie Nunnery FRI FRI 11:00 Building Bridges - The Art of the Middle 8 b01s3791 (Listen) FRI Midge Ure explores the art and the craft of the bridge, or FRI middle 8, in popular song. FRI FRI Think of A Day In The Life, Good Vibrations, We Can Work It FRI Out, I'm Not In Love and Born To Run. Each of them features FRI a clever middle section which builds musical tension. FRI FRI It's not always in the middle and it's not always 8 bars in FRI length, but its job is always to introduce a new element FRI into the song, a new chord sequence or melody, a change in FRI the arrangement or an instrumental solo. FRI FRI Jazz pianist Neil Cowley traces its origins back to Mozart, FRI musicologist Helen Caddick and journalist David Hepworth FRI discuss the drama a good bridge can create, and songwriters FRI Justin Currie and Boo Hewerdine demonstrate some of the most FRI memorable examples and how they were composed. FRI FRI Boo even composes a new middle 8 for a famous Bee Gees song FRI which doesn't have one. FRI FRI Produced by Trevor Dann FRI A TDC production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Clip FRI empty FRI FRI Music Played FRI FRI Smokey Robinson & The Miracles FRI Tracks of My Tears FRI FRI Pet Shop Boys FRI It's A Sin FRI FRI The Beatles FRI Eleanor Rigby FRI FRI Pulp FRI Common People FRI FRI Burt Bacharach FRI Do You Know The Way To San Jose? FRI Dionne Warwick FRI FRI The Police FRI Every Breath You Take FRI FRI Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band FRI Born To Run FRI FRI Emeli Sandé FRI Heaven FRI FRI Mozart FRI Piano Sonata in C major FRI Neil Cowley FRI FRI Boo Hewerdine FRI Whispering Grass FRI FRI Justin Currie FRI Always The Last To Know FRI FRI Justin Currie FRI If I Ever Loved You FRI FRI Boo Hewerdine FRI I Started A Joke FRI FRI Coldplay FRI Fix You FRI FRI Boo Hewerdine FRI Patience of Angels FRI FRI The Beatles FRI A Day In The Life FRI FRI Elvis Costello FRI Oliver's Army FRI FRI 11:30 Ayres on the Air b03t37cz (Listen) FRI Series 5, Beauty FRI FRI Poet Pam Ayres brings her Radio 4 audience half an hour FRI packed with poems, stories and sketches, this week on the FRI subject of beauty and, that newly-coined term, wellness. 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 meeting Phyllis Diller and finding FRI out about 'chin brown', she recalls buying a very unsuitable FRI outfit having admired it on someone else and explains how FRI you know when you've put on a little too much weight. FRI Poems include: Too much of a Fag, Did I Turn off My Tongs?, FRI Had a Little Work Done, Pilates, Once I Was a Looker And So FRI Was My Spouse, and the legendary I Wish I'd Looked After Me FRI Teeth. FRI Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Claire Jones, FRI Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03t37d1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03sbkxz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03sbky1 (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 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lf (Listen) FRI Carl Friedrich Gauss FRI FRI This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the FRI present day, reveals the personalities behind the FRI calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians FRI struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du FRI Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in FRI the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving FRI force behind modern science. FRI FRI It was the German scientist and mathematician, Carl FRI Friedrich Gauss, who said mathematics was the Queen of FRI Science. One of his many mathematical breakthroughs, the FRI Gaussian or normal distribution, is the lifeblood of FRI statistics. It underpins modern medicine and is a valuable FRI tool in the fight against prejudice. FRI FRI Producer: Anna Buckley. FRI FRI Radio 4 Mathematics Collection FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03szxdv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03t37dw (Listen) FRI Just Dance FRI FRI What happens when a brilliant dancer loses his will to FRI dance? Frances Byrnes' passionate play is about someone who FRI has stopped moving and needs to move again. FRI FRI Luke was a brilliant dancer, the star of his generation. FRI Suddenly, without warning, he loses his ability to dance - FRI not physically, but psychologically. He has one last chance FRI to dance onstage - his old company has a big producer in FRI that audience they must impress. But Luke can't cope, he FRI runs to hide in a seedy bar behind the theatre where he FRI meets Guy, an elderly gentlemen adamant he will find the FRI love of his life at the party he has heard about in the FRI woods. FRI FRI Inspired by real non-dancers' stories, and based on FRI workshops at London Contemporary Dance School and Northern FRI School of Contemporary Dance, this new drama takes the FRI audience deep into what makes a dancer tick. The physical FRI compulsion to express oneself through movement and dedicate FRI yourself to relentless, all consuming dance training is FRI examined in words and movement. FRI FRI Frances Byrnes is a Sony award winning dance features maker FRI and dramatist. Her adaptation of L P Hartley's The FRI Go-Between for BBC Radio 3 was shortlisted in the 2013 FRI Writers Guild Awards. FRI FRI With thanks to Peter Lovatt, Ihsaan de Banya, Veronica FRI Lewis, Naomi Thomas and London Contemporary Dance School; FRI Janet Smith, Ceri Brierley and Northern School of FRI Contemporary Dance. FRI FRI Written by Frances Byrnes FRI Producer/director: Polly Thomas FRI FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Luke: John Heffernan FRI Guy: Wyllie Longmore FRI Bea: Alexandra Mathie FRI Debs: Carla Henry FRI Dancer: Akeim Toussaint Buck FRI Writer: Frances Byrnes FRI Director: Polly Thomas FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03t37gt (Listen) FRI Portmeirion FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel visit the Italianate village of FRI Portmeirion, North Wales. Answering questions from Hercules FRI Hall are Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Matthew Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The BBC and All That b01nxzcz (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Roger Eckersley was persuaded in 1923 to give up his FRI loss-making chicken farm and join the newly formed BBC. He FRI stayed there for the rest of his career, holding many FRI positions including Director of Entertainment. FRI FRI This year, 2012, is not just the 90th anniversary of the FRI BBC, but also the 80th of its move from Savoy Hill to the FRI now iconic Broadcasting House. FRI FRI Eckersley's memoirs, The BBC and All That, published in the FRI 1940s, include beautifully drawn descriptions of that first FRI month in Broadcasting House. He often smuggled in small FRI groups of friends for unofficial tours of the hidden areas FRI of the BBC, including drama studios, sound effects stores FRI and the boiler room in the basement - his favourite. FRI FRI He had a wonderfully unstuffy and rebellious nature - FRI surprisingly appropriate for a BBC that was regarded by the FRI Establishment of the time as an unruly upstart. He relished FRI tales of being banned from broadcasting live football FRI commentaries, so paying a string of eye-witnesses to leave FRI the ground at regular intervals and give descriptions of the FRI action they had just seen. He was part of the Pronunciation FRI Committee when George Bernard Shaw and poet laureate Robert FRI Bridges almost came to blows over the how to say "acoustic", FRI and found himself in a discussion about jazz with Queen Mary FRI during which, he learned from an appalled friend afterwards, FRI he had persisted in calling her "My Dear". FRI FRI The BBC and All That brings to life once more the feelings FRI of awe and excitement experienced by the radio pioneers who FRI worked within the walls of the brand new Broadcasting House. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03t37gw (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 Feedback b03t37jx (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03t37jz (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03sbky3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b03t3dvv (Listen) FRI Series 42, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn and FRI Laura Shavin for a comic run through the week's news. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Andy FRI Wolton and Jon Hunter. Produced by Colin Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Mitch Benn FRI Performer: Laura Shavin FRI Writer: Andy Wolton FRI Writer: Sarah Morgan FRI Writer: Kev Cor FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03t3dvx (Listen) FRI Tom tries to break the news gently. Meanwhile Jill does FRI something new. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03t3dvz (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Wilson FRI Producer: Timothy Prosser FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03t37cx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03t3dw1 (Listen) FRI Owen Paterson MP, Jack Straw MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Altrincham Grammar School for Girls with Jeremy Browne FRI MP and the Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03t3dw3 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00rd3ws (Listen) FRI Playing With Trains, Episode 1 FRI FRI Stephen Poliakoff is reunited with leading actor Timothy FRI Spall in a new two-part radio version of his drama Playing FRI With Trains, to be broadcast in March. Spall is joined by FRI Zoe Tapper (whose recent TV credits include lead roles in FRI Survivors, Desperate Romantics and Affinity) and Geoffrey FRI Streatfeild (who recently starred as Hal in the RSC's FRI History Cycle). Poliakoff and Spall previously collaborated FRI brilliantly on the ground-breaking TV dramas Shooting the FRI Past and Perfect Strangers. FRI FRI The play tells the story of the rise and fall of Bill Galpin FRI (Spall), a flamboyant entrepreneur who pools his fortune FRI into backing risky inventions which are concerned with FRI safeguarding the environment, while at the same time having FRI a very tempestuous but poignant relationship with his two FRI children Roxanna and Danny (Tapper and Streatfeild). FRI FRI Beginning in the heady days of the late 1960s, Playing With FRI Trains deals with the fact that Britain invents so much, yet FRI manufactures so little. Galpin makes a fortune from a FRI brilliant development in gramophone technology, and then FRI turns himself into a self-appointed patron and champion of FRI inventors and innovators everywhere, clashing with the FRI establishment through the libel courts, speeches to captains FRI of industry, Civil Service offices and even TV shows. FRI FRI Parallel to his relationship with industry is his even more FRI tempestuous relationship with his children. Roxanna - whom FRI he expects to become a great engineer - drops out of FRI Cambridge and becomes an art student in attempt to escape FRI her father's grip. Danny, meanwhile, turns into the very FRI thing his father despises - a financial expert, but in so FRI doing recognises the shortcomings of his father's FRI enterprises. FRI FRI Playing With Trains is a moving family drama set over two FRI decades, charting a "love affair" between father and FRI daughter. It's Poliakoff at his very best, telling an FRI intensely private story within a sweeping public drama. FRI FRI Playing With Trains was originally staged at the RSC in FRI 1989. FRI FRI The cast is completed by Helen Longworth (Frances), Joseph FRI Kloska (Mick), Nigel Hastings (Vernon Boyce), Michael Fenton FRI Stevens (Gant) and Bruce Alexander (QC). It was produced and FRI directed for BBC Radio Drama Birmingham by Peter Leslie FRI Wild. FRI FRI Producer/Director Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bill Galpin: Timothy Spall FRI Roxanna Galpin: Zoe Tapper FRI Danny Galpin: Geoffrey Streatfield FRI Frances: Helen Longworth FRI Mick: Joseph Kloska FRI Gant: Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Vernon Boyce: Nigel Hastings FRI QC: Bruce Alexander FRI Writer: Stephen Poliakoff FRI Producer: Peter Wild FRI Director: Peter Wild FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03sbky5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03t3dyc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03tzcmn (Listen) FRI Dubliners, After the Race FRI FRI Naturalistic in style, 'Dubliners' depicts an array of FRI characters, graduating progressively from childhood, through FRI adolescence, to maturity, culminating in the final story, FRI 'The Dead'. The stories each centre on the idea of a moment FRI of epiphany, but are grounded in the minutiae of daily life. FRI Stories of love, loss, con men, friendship, alcoholism, FRI marriage, politics and family, combine to create a unified FRI world, a celebration of a city, in the unparalleled prose of FRI its most famous son. FRI FRI Abridger: Doreen Estall FRI Reader: Stephen Rea FRI Producer: Stephen Wright. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Stephen Rea FRI Producer: Stephen Wright FRI Abridger: Doreen Estall FRI Author: James Joyce FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03szh9c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03t3f6v (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
31 January, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 01/02/2014 - 07/02/2014
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