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SAT SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04hmg7g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04hyvth (Listen) SAT Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Crisis SAT Point SAT SAT The new biography of America's great playwright by the SAT acclaimed theatre critic, John Lahr. In today's episode, SAT drink and pills lead Tennessee Williams to crisis point. His SAT troubled relationship with Frank Merlo is reflected in a new SAT play, Sweet Bird of Youth. SAT SAT Read by Damian Lewis with Trevor White as the voice of SAT Tennessee Williams and with Elaine Claxton, Bettrys Jones SAT and Ian Conningham. SAT SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Damian Lewis SAT Reader: Trevor White SAT Reader: Elaine Claxton SAT Reader: Bettrys Jones SAT Reader: Ian Conningham SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Author: John Lahr SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hmg7j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hmg7l (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmg7n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04hmg7q (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04hyy00 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the SAT Rev Dr Karen Smith. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04hyy0k (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04hmg7v (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04hmg7y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b04hz629 (Listen) SAT Series 28, The Dales Way, Part Two SAT SAT Clare Balding embarks on the second leg of her journey along SAT The Dales Way, one of England's most loved long distance SAT walking paths. This week she walks from Cavendish Pavilion SAT to Burnsall Bridge in the company of Phil Richards, Access SAT Ranger for the Yorkshire Dales National Park and SAT photographer and blogger, Charles Hawes. SAT Producer Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Phil Richards SAT Interviewed Guest: Charles Hawes SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04j9ym3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Fashion and Farming SAT SAT Although the spheres of farming and high fashion might seem SAT like a world apart, Farming Today this Week takes a look at SAT UK produced fabrics which provide opportunities for UK SAT agriculture. Charlotte Smith goes to the Centre for SAT Sustainable fashion in central London to meet Charlotte SAT Turner and Alex McIntosh to talk about why using textiles SAT from UK farms is so important, including silk produced in SAT Hertfordshire. Melanie Brown visits a herd af Alpacas, a new SAT addition to the UK countryside, kept primarily for their SAT fleece. Meanwhile Mark Smalley goes to an rabbitery in SAT Wiltshire to hear about the small angora wool industry in SAT the UK. Another bi-product of livestock farming apart from SAT wool or fleece, is leather. The UK produces 9.5 million SAT square meters of it every year. Ruth Sanderson went to a SAT tannery in Bristol to meet Barry Knight who took her through SAT the process, he thinks that farmers should get more SAT involved, but concedes that for that to happen there needs SAT to be a financial incentive. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT Produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04hmg81 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04j9ym5 (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 b04j9ym7 (Listen) SAT Gary Kemp SAT SAT Actor and songwriter Gary Kemp joins Aasmah Mir and Richard SAT Coles to talk Spandau Ballet, old friends and his love of SAT the outdoors. SAT SAT Hilary Bradt is the founder of the Bradt travel guides. SAT After 40 years in the business she shares some of her more SAT irresponsible travel stories. SAT SAT Jimmy G is one of Russia's biggest pop stars but unheard of SAT anywhere else. He talks about what it's like to switch SAT between being mobbed and totally unrecognised. SAT SAT We also learn what it takes to be a World Champion stone SAT skimmer with reigning double champion Lucy Wood, and the SAT internationally renowned happiness expert Paul Dolan will be SAT giving his tips for a better life. SAT SAT Richard Branson shares his inheritance tracks: 'Tubular SAT Bells' by Mike Oldfield and 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling SAT Stones. SAT SAT 'Soul Boys of the Western World' documentary about the rise, SAT fall and reformation of Spandau Ballet has a special SAT premiere on Tuesday 30 September. It goes on general cinema SAT release from 3 October. SAT SAT 'The Irresponsible Traveller' published by Bradt is out now. SAT SAT Produced by Alex Lewis. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Gary Kemp SAT Interviewed Guest: Hilary Bradt SAT Interviewed Guest: Jimmy G SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Wood SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Dolan SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Branson SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04j9ym9 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Maldon SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the panel are in Maldon for this week's SAT episode of the culinary panel programme. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience are school food SAT adviser and restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, food scientist, SAT Peter Barham, Award winning chef Angela Hartnett and SAT broadcaster and cook, Andi Oliver. SAT SAT The team discuss salt, oysters and whitebait. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04j9z75 (Listen) SAT Multilingualism SAT SAT How is the brain affected by juggling between different SAT languages and how does this affect identity? And what is the SAT impact on a child's development if they speak one language SAT at home and another at school? Bridget Kendall talks to poet SAT and cultural critic Gustavo Perez Firmat, developmental SAT linguistics researcher Antonella Sorace, and cognitive SAT development specialist Ellen Bialystok. SAT SAT Illustration by Shan Pillay. SAT The benefits of speaking two or more languages SAT SAT Gustavo Pérez Firmat SAT Gustavo Pérez Firmat was SAT born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. He is SAT currently the David SAT Feinson Professor in the Humanities, Department of Latin SAT American and Iberian SAT Cultures at Columbia University and author of many books of SAT prose and poetry, SAT including Bilingual Blues, The Havana Habit and Next Year SAT in Cuba, a memoir of SAT life at home and in exile. He most recent SAT book: A Cuban in Mayberry is published October 1st 2014. He SAT says that when SAT writing and speaking in two different languages he often SAT asks himself, "in SAT which language am I most truly myself?" SAT SAT Antonella Sorace SAT SAT Antonella Sorace is professor of developmental linguistics SAT at SAT Edinburgh University and director of the online information SAT service SAT Bilingualism Matters, which aims to benefit children from SAT speaking more than SAT one language. Her work looks at the SAT effects of bilingualism over a lifespan, on the effects of SAT learning a new SAT language in early and late childhood, as well as the SAT changes that take place in SAT the native language of advanced language speakers. She SAT says that children exposed to different SAT languages become more aware of different cultures, other SAT people and other points SAT of view. But they also tend to be better than monolinguals SAT at ‘multitasking’ SAT and focusing attention, they often are more precocious SAT readers, and generally SAT find it easier to learn other languages. SAT SAT Ellen Bialystok SAT SAT Ellen Bialystok is distinguished research professor of SAT psychology at York University, Toronto and Associate SAT Scientist at The Rotman SAT Research Institute of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric SAT Care, Toronto. Her current work looks at the effects on the SAT brain of older people who regularly use two languages. SAT This appears to have an effect on the part of SAT the brain called the Executive Control System (the part of SAT the brain SAT responsible for focus and task management) with particular SAT benefit for people SAT with Alzheimer’s disease. She says that SAT the brain, contrary to popular opinion, does not have an SAT on/off switch when it SAT comes to language and so it has to find a way of dealing SAT with one language when SAT it works in another. This causes SAT hyper-stimulation of the Executive Control System and SAT appears to have the effect SAT of delaying the symptoms of dementia amongst bilingual SAT speakers. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04j9ymc (Listen) SAT Fractured Syllogisms SAT SAT Despatches from news correspondents around the world: Kevin SAT Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying to respond to SAT developments in the Middle East, are grappling with SAT difficulties created by their own predecessors. As American SAT warships prepared to fire missiles at targets in Syria, out SAT in the Pacific Ocean two US carrier battle groups were SAT carrying out the biggest live fire exercise in years. Rupert SAT Wingfield-Hayes wondered if they had a target in mind. Iona SAT Craig talks of a revolution in Yemen and how the whole SAT nation was surprised when a previously marginalised militia SAT group swiftly seized control of the capital, Sana'a. France SAT is a country where the economic news just gets gloomier and SAT gloomier. Hugh Schofield says one area everyone agrees SAT should be confronted is the so-called regulated professions SAT which carve out comfy little niches for themselves. And the SAT mushrooms, aided by a long wet summer, have been bursting SAT out in the woods in Hungary. Nick Thorpe has been out to SAT pick them. But which ones will lift his dinner to SAT gastronomic heights and which ones might kill? SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04hmg85 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04j9z77 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04hyx8q (Listen) SAT Series 44, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Sara SAT Pascoe for a comic romp through the week's news. With Pippa SAT Evans, Grace Petrie and Jon Holmes. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Sarah SAT Morgan, Nadia Kamil and Liam Beirne. Produced by Alexandra SAT Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Panellist: Pippa Evans SAT Panellist: Grace Petrie SAT Actor: Jon Holmes SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04hmg89 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04hmg8c (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04hyxj4 (Listen) SAT William Hague MP, Yvette Cooper MP, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, SAT Simon Jenkins SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the the City of London School in London with Shadow SAT Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP, the Leader of the House of SAT Commons William Hague MP, the columnist Yasmin Alibhai Brown SAT and the Chairman of the National Trust Simon Jenkins who SAT also writes for The Guardian newspaper. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04j9z79 (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04j9z7c (Listen) SAT Denmark Hill SAT SAT Alan Bennett's idiosyncratic take on the Hamlet story SAT adapted for radio. Seen largely through the beady eyes of a SAT 15 year old schoolgirl, this is Bennett in black comedy SAT mode. SAT SAT The play is set in a leafy south London suburb, in the year SAT of an election. Gwen's husband, Frank, lies ill in bed SAT upstairs while downstairs Harriet, her daughter, is SAT struggling with an essay on "Shakespeare's view of the SAT family". In the aftermath of Frank's death we slowly realise SAT we are being drawn into a strangely familiar story - a SAT suburban Hamlet. In different guises here come Claudius, SAT Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius and SAT Ophelia. Even the players play their part. SAT SAT Denmark Hill was originally written as an uncommissioned SAT TV/film screenplay in 1981/2. For whatever reasons, Bennett SAT can't remember, he kept it in a drawer until it went with SAT all his papers to the Bodleian library for archival storage. SAT Honor Borwick urged Tristram Powell, with Bennett's SAT permission, to search the archives. At last Powell unearthed SAT the hand typed script. SAT SAT Denmark Hill is Bennett's own kind of observational comedy, SAT the Hamlet connections are never heavy, just lightly touched SAT on. It is narrated by Alan Bennett, directed by Tristram SAT Powell, adapted for radio by Honor Borwick and produced by SAT Marilyn Imrie. SAT SAT Written by Alan Bennett SAT SAT Produced by Marilyn Imrie SAT A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Alan Bennett SAT Harriet: Bryony Hannah SAT Gwen: Penny Downie SAT George: Robert Glenister SAT Charles: Samuel Barnett SAT Canon Everest: Geoffrey Palmer SAT Frank: Geoffrey Palmer SAT Drunk: Geoffrey Palmer SAT Vicar: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Nightingale: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Player 1: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Rogers: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Green Party Canvasser: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Gilliatt: Stephen Critchlow SAT Gary: Stephen Critchlow SAT Stanley: Stephen Critchlow SAT Player 2: Stephen Critchlow SAT Labour Canvasser: Stephen Critchlow SAT Mourner 1: Stephen Critchlow SAT Nicola: Cathy Sara SAT Lillian: Cathy Sara SAT Woman in Church: Cathy Sara SAT Cons. Canvasser: Cathy Sara SAT Writer: Alan Bennett SAT Adaptor: Honor Borwick SAT Director: Tristram Powell SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT 15:30 Goldie the Alchemist b045z8wn (Listen) SAT Musician and artist Goldie passionately describes his SAT challenging story, from the roots of a broken home to his SAT commercial success and subsequent struggle to come to terms SAT with personal issues and a painful past. SAT SAT Featuring contributions from Pete Tong, DJ Fabio, Marc Mac, SAT Nihal Arthanayake and Dr Anamik Saha, the programme explores SAT the real character behind Goldie, who produced Timeless, one SAT of the most iconic British albums of the nineties. SAT SAT Produced by Paul Thomas SAT SAT A Three Street Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT The New Elizabethans: Goldie SAT SAT Music Played SAT SAT Goldie SAT Timeless SAT SAT Miles Davis SAT Blue In Green SAT SAT Thomas Newman SAT Komodo Dragon SAT SAT Neil Richardson SAT Mastermind SAT SAT George Frideric Handel SAT Water Music No.2 in D SAT SAT Stevie Ray Vaughan SAT Tin Pan Alley SAT SAT Goldie SAT Angel SAT SAT Steve Reich and Musicians SAT Electric Counterpoint SAT SAT Supertramp SAT Logical Song SAT SAT Thomas Newman SAT Any Other Name SAT SAT Terry Callier SAT Dancing Girl SAT SAT Soul II Soul SAT Back To Life SAT SAT Aga Khan SAT Vamp SAT SAT Rufige Kru SAT Dark Rider SAT SAT Goldie SAT Timeless SAT SAT Goldie SAT A Sense of Rage SAT SAT Goldie SAT Sea of Tears SAT SAT Goldie SAT Mother SAT SAT Goldie SAT Temper Temper SAT SAT Brian Eno SAT An Ending SAT SAT Pat Metheny SAT First Circle SAT SAT Zurich SAT A Harsh Truth SAT SAT [re:jazz] SAT Inner City Life SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04jb0q1 (Listen) SAT Michel Roux Sr, Franchesca Martinez, Sophie Kinsella, Jane SAT Green SAT SAT Michel Roux Sr cooks the perfect ratatouille and discusses SAT the essence of French cooking and what made him become a SAT chef. SAT SAT The stand up comedian, actress and disability rights SAT campaigner Francesca Martinez says we all need to stand up SAT to society's unrealistic and damaging expectations of being SAT normal. Is she right? SAT As many young adults leave for university we ask what it's SAT like for the single parents experiencing 'empty nest SAT syndrome'. SAT SAT Lad culture on UK university campuses is rife according to SAT research carried out by the National union of Students . SAT What's being done to combat it? SAT SAT We begin our series taking a closer look at the reasons and SAT process of reporting historic sex crimes. We start with SAT Debbie's story. She was abused as a child but only reported SAT it four years ago. SAT SAT Plus what does it mean to 'dress normal'? Well that is what SAT high street store Gap wants us to do. So what is Normcore SAT and how easy is it to pull the look off? SAT SAT And how do you become a successful writer of popular women's SAT fiction, we ask two two best selling authors. SAT SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Francesca Martinez SAT Interviewed Guest: Dorit Young SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlie Rice SAT Interviewed Guest: Toni Pearce SAT Interviewed Guest: Yvonne Traynor SAT Interviewed Guest: Debbie Grafham SAT Interviewed Guest: Lauren Cochrane SAT Interviewed Guest: Josephine Collins SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Kinsella SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Green SAT Interviewed Guest: Michel Roux Sr SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04jb0q3 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04hyy0k (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04hmg8h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04hmg8k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmg8p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04jhfqc (Listen) SAT Richard Ayoade, Sophie Ward, Al Jean, Holly Johnson, Sara SAT Cox, Kwabs, Anushka SAT SAT Clive embarks on an Auricular Odyssey with 'The IT Crowd' SAT sensation turned critically acclaimed director Richard SAT Ayoade. His new book 'Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey' SAT features over ten insightful and often erotic interviews - SAT with himself. SAT SAT Clive talks to actress Sophie Ward, who sprang to fame in SAT the film 'Young Sherlock Holmes'. She leads the cast for the SAT eightieth anniversary production of John van Druten's SAT Flowers of The Forest - a timely reminder of the brutal SAT effects of war and the fragility peace. SAT SAT From the face of the '80s to the sound of it, Sara Cox SAT relaxes with Holly Johnson. Best known as the lead vocalist SAT of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Holly has a new album - his SAT first for 15 years. SAT SAT Al Jean is head writer and executive producer of probably SAT the most successful show in television history. It's not SAT surprising that the team behind 'The Simpsons' is bristling SAT with brainiacs, but what about Computer Scientists and SAT Mathematicians? Al talks to Clive about 'The Simpsons and SAT Their Mathematical Secrets', as exposed by author Simon SAT Singh. SAT SAT With music from Kwabs who performs 'Walk' out on the 29th SAT September on Atlantic Records. And more music from Anushka SAT who perform 'Atom Bombs' from their album 'Broken Circuit' SAT out now on Brownswood Recordings. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Richard Ayoade, Sophie Ward, Al Jean, SAT Holly Johnson, Sara Cox, Kwabs, Anushka (2) SAT SAT Richard Ayoade SAT ‘Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey’ is published by SAT Faber and Faber and available on 2nd October. SAT Richard is participating in a discussion about ‘The Double’ SAT at Arts & Humanities Festival: underground on Monday 20th SAT October at King’s College London. SAT SAT Sophie Ward SAT ‘Flowers of The Forest’ is at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SAT until Saturday 18th October. SAT SAT Holly Johnson SAT ‘Europa’ is available on Monday 29th September on SAT Pleasuredome. SAT Holly is touring the UK in October. He’s playing at O2 SAT Academy, Bristol on Saturday 18th, The Institute, Birmingham SAT on Sunday 19th and O2 ABC, Glasgow on 20th. Check his SAT website for further dates. SAT SAT Al Jean SAT ‘The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets’ by Simon Singh SAT is published by Bloomsbury on 10th October. SAT ‘The Simpsons is on Weekdays at 18.00 on Channel 4. Series SAT 26 will start on Sky 1 in early November. SAT SAT SAT Kwabs SAT Kwabs is playing at The Haunt, Brighton on Saturday 11th, SAT Exchange, Bristol on 12th and KOKO, London on Thursday 16th SAT October. SAT SAT Anushka SAT ‘Broken Circuit’ is available now on Brownswood Recordings. SAT Anushka are playing at The Shacklewell Arms, London on SAT Tuesday 30th September, Audio, Brighton on Thursday 2nd and SAT Start The Bus, Bristol on Saturday 4th October. Check their SAT website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04jhfqf (Listen) SAT Ricky Tomlinson SAT SAT Ricky Tomlinson is a top TV actor with starring roles SAT including Brookside and The Royle Family. But he has a SAT controversial trade union past, and was once imprisoned for SAT picketing during a strike. A new play about him has just SAT opened. Mary Ann Sieghart discovers a powerful mix of SAT politics and personal drama in his life and career. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04jhfqh (Listen) SAT The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Anselm Kiefer, An SAT Enemy of the People, Ida SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests Lisa Appignanesi, Ryan Gilbey and SAT Denise Mina discuss the cultural highlights of the week SAT including two times Booker winner Hilary Mantel's new book SAT of short stories "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher," SAT in which she turns her gaze away from Tudor England to the SAT challenges of the recent past. SAT SAT The first major of retrospective of German artist Anselm SAT Kiefer in the UK opens at the Royal Academy of Arts in SAT London. From mythology to the Old and New Testaments, SAT Kabbalah, alchemy, philosophy and the poetry of Paul Celan SAT and Ingeborg Bachmann, Kiefer's work wrestles with the SAT darkness of German history and considers the complex SAT relationship between art and spirituality. SAT SAT Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Berlin's SAT SchaubÃ1/4hne's Theatre, launches the Barbican's SAT International Ibsen season with a potent adaptation of An SAT Enemy of the People, catapulting Ibsen into a modern world SAT of environmental and financial crises and involving direct SAT participation from the audience. SAT SAT Pawel Pawlikowski's award winning film Ida is his first set SAT in his native Poland - he left Warsaw aged 14 - and explores SAT the relationship between a novice and her magistrate aunt in SAT 1960's Poland struggling to come to terms with its recent SAT history. SAT SAT And Transparent is a new ten part series from Amazon, which SAT was greenlighted after a pilot was aired on line garnering SAT positive viewer feedback. Directed by Jill Soloway (writer SAT and producer of Six Feet Under), whose own father came out SAT as transgender, this dark comedy, starring Jeffrey Tambor as SAT Mort / Moira, is not directly autobiographical, but is SAT heavily influenced by her own experiences. What impact is SAT the consumption of TV on demand and via the internet having SAT on the kind television drama currently being produced? SAT SAT Ida SAT Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida is in cinemas from Friday SAT 26 September, certificate 12A. SAT SAT The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher SAT The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel is SAT published by Fourth Estate. SAT SAT Anselm Kiefer SAT An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, SAT Anselm Kiefer SAT is on display from 27 September until 14 December 2014. SAT SAT An Enemy Of The People SAT SAT A version by Florian Borchmeyer, SAT An Enemy Of The People SAT by Henrik Ibsen is at the Barbican in London until Sunday 28 SAT September, and then moves on to the Belfast Festival, SAT 23-25 October 2014. SAT SAT Transparent SAT SAT Series 1 of Transparent is released on Amazon Instant Video. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Lisa Appignanesi SAT Interviewed Guest: Ryan Gilbey SAT Interviewed Guest: Denise Mina SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04jhfqk (Listen) SAT Joan Littlewood and the People's Theatre SAT SAT "Such a woman might easily have been burned as a witch." SAT Kenneth Tynan SAT SAT When Sir Richard Eyre was head of the National Theatre he SAT wrote to Joan Littlewood asking if he could put on a SAT production of her masterpiece, Oh What a Lovely War. He got SAT a postcard in reply. Something to this effect: Dear SAT Richard...I don't know what you're doing in that SAT building...you should blow it up. SAT SAT To her core, Joan Littlewood was an anti-establishment SAT figure. This programme illustrates her determination to SAT create a theatre for everybody, touring villages and towns SAT in Northern England for nearly a decade and then - when the SAT company settled in East London - sending letters to the SAT local trade unions to advertise the theatre to working SAT people. SAT SAT Did she succeed in attracting the audiences she wanted? Sir SAT Richard Eyre gives his take on this question, along with SAT Professor Nadine Holdsworth and critic Michael Billington. SAT SAT The programme pieces together a selection of the best SAT archive from Joan's career. The actors she trained - Victor SAT Spinetti, Avis Bunnage, Brian Murphy - explain why working SAT for Joan was different to working with other directors. SAT Murray Melvin, still going strong and curating the archive SAT at Stratford East, introduces us to the Theatre Royal where SAT Joan directed her company for over 20 years. SAT SAT Here at the Theatre Royal, Joan created the shows which made SAT her name - Brendan Behan's The Hostage, Shalegh Delaney's A SAT Taste of Honey, Frank Norman's Fings Ain't Wot They Used SAT T'Be, and of course Oh What a Lovely War. The programme SAT gives a taste of these shows and how they succeeded in being SAT controversial, innovative, and entertaining at the same SAT time. SAT SAT Produced by Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The James M Cain Series b03jsrwr (Listen) SAT The Postman Always Rings Twice SAT SAT Frank Chambers, a young drifter in 1930s California, stops SAT at a diner and is offered a job. The owner is Nick SAT Papadakis, and his much younger, beautiful wife, Cora. There SAT is immediate sexual chemistry between Frank and Cora, and SAT they begin a passionate affair. Cora is tired of working at SAT the diner, and of her husband, so they decide to murder Nick SAT and start a new life together. The plan is to hit Nick over SAT the head and make it look like he drowned in the bath. But SAT the plan goes wrong, and soon everything starts to unravel. SAT Adapted by Charlotte Greig SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT Frank Chambers: Ronan Summers SAT Cora Papadakis: Samantha Dakin SAT Nick Papadakis: Chris Pavlo SAT Sackett: Kerry Shale SAT Author: James M Cain SAT Adaptor: Charlotte Greig SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04hmg8t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Future Proofing b04hyy1p (Listen) SAT The Singularity SAT SAT Rohan Silva and Timandra Harkness discover how close we are SAT to The Singularity - the day when machines match human SAT intelligence. And they find out why it's so vital to SAT understand the implications of such a momentous future event SAT right now. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from The Singularity (3) SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04hv9y0 (Listen) SAT Series 28, Heat 1, 2014 SAT SAT (1/13) SAT The wide-ranging music quiz is back, with Russell Davies, SAT one of Britain's most knowledgeable music broadcasters, SAT taking the questionmaster's chair for the 2014 series. SAT Another 27 music lovers from around the UK embark on the SAT annual knockout competition to be named Radio 4's musical SAT mastermind. SAT SAT They'll have to answer questions on the broadest possible SAT range of music, from the core classical repertoire through SAT to stage musicals, jazz, film music, classic and current SAT rock and pop. There'll be the usual generous helping of SAT musical extracts, both familiar and surprising, for them to SAT identify. They'll also have to choose a musical subject on SAT which to answer specialist questions, from a diverse list of SAT choices of which they've had no warning whatsoever. SAT SAT The first set of competitors this week come from London, SAT Guildford and Edinburgh. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Music Played SAT SAT Johann Sebastian Bach SAT Partita in E Major SAT Jacques Loussier SAT MUSIC CLUB SAT MCCD-113 SAT Round One Music SAT SAT Giuseppe Verdi SAT Ella giammai m'amo SAT Jerzy Semkow SAT Boris Christoff SAT New Philharmonia Orchestra SAT EMI SAT CDM 7 69542 2 SAT SAT Camille Saint-Saëns SAT Fossils (Carnival of the Animals) SAT New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein. SAT CBS SAT 72072 SAT SAT Dexys Midnight Runners SAT The Celtic Soul Brothers SAT Universal SAT 9800889-2 SAT SAT Claudio Monteverdi SAT Quinto libro dei madrigali SAT Anthony Rooley SAT The Consort of Musicke SAT L'Oiseau-Lyre SAT 455 718-2 SAT SAT Richard Rodgers SAT March Of The Siamese Children SAT Stephen Hough SAT Virgin Classics SAT 7 59304 2 SAT SAT Herbert Howells SAT Sonata for Clarinet & Piano SAT Robert Plane SAT Sophia Rahman SAT Naxos SAT 8.557188 SAT Round Two Music SAT Sporting Greats SAT SAT [musical theater] SAT STAND UP AND FIGHT SAT EMI CLASSICS SAT CDC-754351-2 SAT SAT Richard Strauss SAT Olympische Hymne SAT James Stobart. SAT Locke Brass Consort SAT Chandos SAT CHAN 8419 SAT A Load of Nonsense SAT SAT Cab Calloway SAT MINNIE THE MOOCHER SAT CASTLE COMMUNICATIONS SAT MACCD-358 SAT World War I & Music SAT SAT George Butterworth SAT ENGLISH IDYLL NO. 1 SAT Grant Llewellyn SAT Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra SAT ARGO SAT 436-401-2 SAT SAT Claude Debussy SAT En blanc et noir for 2 pianos SAT Jean-Philippe Collard SAT Michel Béroff SAT EMI SAT CZS-7674162 SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT ROBERT CHARLESWORTH, a recently-retired financial SAT consultant from London; SAT SAT MICHAEL PAINE, a retired teacher from Guildford; SAT SAT GILLIAN TAIT, an editorial assistant from Edinburgh. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b04hmnnp (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a mixed bag of listeners poetry SAT requests, from Emily Bronte to Philip Larkin. Topics covered SAT include religion, a trip to the seaside and a really SAT embarrassing dinner party. 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SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Green Rain SAT SAT by Mary Webb SAT SAT From A Book of Nature Poems. SAT SAT Published by Viking Press SAT SAT SAT SAT In Praise of Cities SAT SAT by Thom Gunn SAT SAT From Thom Gunn – Collected Poems. SAT SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Remembrance SAT SAT by Emily Bronte SAT SAT From Selected Bronte Poems SAT SAT Published by Basil Blackwell Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT The Winter Palace SAT SAT by Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems. SAT SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Kingdom of God SAT SAT by Francis Thompson SAT SAT From The Poems of Francis Thompson. SAT SAT Published by Hollis and Carter Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT He Fumbles at Your Soul SAT SAT by Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. SAT SAT Published by Faber. SAT SAT SAT SAT Drawing Water SAT SAT by Ann Atkinson SAT SAT Taken from her website, SAT http://annatkinson.wordpress.com/poems/ SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Poppies SAT SAT by Ida Affleck Graves SAT SAT From A Kind Husband by Ida Affleck Graves. SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Ginger SAT SAT by Zena Edwards. SAT SAT Taken from 57 Productions website. SAT http://www.57productions.com/ipoems_items.php?search=Zena%20 SAT dwards SAT SAT SAT SAT The Sorry Hostess SAT SAT by Edgar A Gest SAT SAT Taken from Just Folks by Edgar A Guest. SAT SAT Published by The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago 1917 SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04jhjb4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Time Being b01slrsy (Listen) SUN Series 6, Llama Sutra SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being offers another showcase SUN for new writers, none of whom have had their work broadcast SUN before. Previous series provided a stepping stone for SUN writers who have gone on to enjoy further success both on SUN radio and in print - such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, SUN Sally Hinchcliffe and Joe Dunthorne. SUN SUN Programme 2: Llama Sutra by Melanie Whipman SUN SUN Things get complicated for a couple undergoing IVF after SUN they visit the llama farm. SUN SUN Melanie Whipman lives in a leafy Surrey village with her SUN husband, teenage twins, dog, cats and chickens. She has an SUN MA in Creative Writing and is currently a PhD student at the SUN University of Chichester. Her short stories have been listed SUN or placed in various competitions and her work has appeared SUN online and in several magazines and anthologies. Her story, SUN Peacock Girl, was the winner of this year's Rubery Prize. SUN SUN Reader: Camilla Marie Beeput SUN SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Reader: Camilla Marie Beeput SUN Writer: Melanie Whipman SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04jhjb6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04jhjb8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04jhjbb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04jhjbd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04jhkzy (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Harpole, Northamptonshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04jhfqf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04jhjbg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04jhl50 (Listen) SUN May His Memory Be a Blessing SUN SUN Within the Jewish tradition, it's common to use the SUN honorific 'may his memory be a blessing' when writing of the SUN dead. The composer Michael Zev Gordon uses this phrase to SUN reflect on the idea that so much of what we are is locked in SUN memory, but that we only grasp this fully when it starts to SUN slip away. SUN SUN He draws on writings by Proust and W.G.Sebald, poems by SUN Carol Ann Duffy and Marjorie Agosin, and musical excerpts SUN from JS Bach, Thomas Ades, Robert Schumann, his own piano SUN piece entitled 'On Memory' and the music hall song that was SUN one of his father's last triggers to memory and identity, SUN 'Daisy Bell'. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Remembrance of Things Past SUN SUN Author: Marcel Proust SUN SUN Synopsis: The taste of a Madeleine cake opens up memories of SUN a world long closed. SUN SUN SUN Title: M-M-Memory SUN SUN Author: Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN Synopsis: A poem about the intimate relationship of memory SUN and forgetting. SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Austerlitz SUN SUN Author: W.G. Sebald SUN SUN Synopsis: An extract from Sebald’s final book in which SUN Austerlitz recalls the memories of his nanny, Vera. SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Romantic Generation SUN SUN Author: Charles Rosen SUN SUN Synopsis: A description of Robert Schumann’s technique in SUN his songcycle SUN Frauenliebe und Leben SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Memorial SUN SUN Author: Marjorie Agosin SUN SUN Synopsis: A poem about what we choose to remember. SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: One Day SUN SUN Author: Rupert Brooke SUN SUN Synopsis: A poem about the warmth - and chillier aspects – SUN of nostalgic recollections. SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: A Grief Observed SUN SUN Author: C.S. Lewis SUN SUN Synopsis: Lewis reflects on the unexpected rewards of SUN letting memories of his dead wife go. SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Burning Your Boats SUN SUN Author: Angela Carter SUN SUN Synopsis: From her short story, a description of how memory SUN can impose meaning. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04jhl52 (Listen) SUN Borrowdale Shepherds' Meet SUN SUN Borrowdale Shepherds' Meet is one of the traditional sheep SUN shows and shepherds' gatherings that take place across the SUN Lake District every autumn. But it looked as if it was going SUN to fold for good a few months ago. Several years of bad SUN weather and cancellations meant the volunteers who organise SUN it hadn't got the funds for insurance and running costs. The SUN future of the Meet was hanging in the balance until an SUN anonymous shepherd with a large following on Twitter set SUN about raising money to save it, through a crowd-funding SUN website. His global following on social media stumped up SUN more than £5000 in less than a week, which guarantees the SUN event's survival for years to come. Caz Graham has been to SUN Borrowdale to see what happens at a Shepherds' Meet and to SUN hear how this ancient social gathering of farmers has been SUN saved by modern social media. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Caz Graham. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04jhjbj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04jhjbl (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04jhl54 (Listen) SUN Air strikes, Opus Dei, atheist evangelisation SUN SUN Following MPs voting in favour of air strikes in Iraq, we SUN debate the moral case for the latest military intervention SUN in the Middle East. SUN SUN A review of Religious Education in Church of England schools SUN has found that the teaching of RE is "not good enough" in SUN 60% of their Primary Schools. We discuss the issues. SUN SUN Muhammad Asghar, a British man who was sentenced to death in SUN Pakistan for blasphemy, is in hospital after being shot by a SUN prison guard in jail. We get the latest on the case and SUN where it sits within Pakistan's controversial blasphemy SUN laws. SUN SUN With one week to go until Brazil's presidential elections, SUN abortion has become a significant issue. Bruce Douglas SUN reports on whether this controversial subject is likely to SUN determine the outcome of the election. SUN SUN We hear about the life of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, former SUN leader of the Opus Dei movement of the Catholic Church who SUN is being be beatified at a ceremony in Madrid over the SUN weekend. SUN SUN With over 30 new Sunday Assemblies, or so-called Godless SUN congregations, opening up across the world this weekend, and SUN a poster campaign in the London Underground from the British SUN Humanist Association, Kevin Bocquet reports on the rise of SUN "atheist evangelisation". SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN Series producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Lord Richard Dannatt SUN Asad Zaman SUN Bishop John Pritchard SUN Alan Brine SUN Jack Valero SUN John Allen. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04jhl56 (Listen) SUN War Child SUN SUN Carey Mulligan presents The Radio 4 Appeal for War Child, SUN who provide care and counselling for children traumatised by SUN war, rebuilding lost childhoods. SUN Registered Charity No 1071659 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'War Child'. SUN SUN War Child SUN War Child is an SUN international charity founded in 1993, working to protect SUN children and young SUN people living in some of the worst conflict-affected places SUN in the world. SUN Children do not start wars but their homes, schools and SUN families – the very SUN things upon which they rely for safety and stability SUN continue to be destroyed SUN by conflict. Our staff are now on the SUN ground in the Iraq, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of SUN Congo, Uganda, Central SUN African Republic and Jordan responding to the Syrian SUN crisis. SUN We ensure that the SUN most vulnerable and marginalised children are not forgotten SUN during and in the SUN aftermath of conflict. Children who may have been orphaned, SUN are living and SUN working on the streets, are at risk from abuse and SUN exploitation, or are SUN returning to their day to day life after having been SUN recruited and trained as a SUN soldier. SUN SUN Protecting children who have been forced to flee SUN Many children who flee their homes from conflict will have SUN suffered SUN unimaginable atrocities and are badly traumatised. Some SUN have lost family members, been targeted SUN with violence or separated from their parents. We’re SUN providing safe spaces and SUN protection for children like Dima and her siblings, in the SUN Za’atari camp for SUN refugees from the fighting in Syria, as well as in Iraq, SUN Afghanistan and more SUN recently in Gaza. SUN SUN Providing support to street children SUN SUN Our Night Ambulance and drop-in centres provide support to SUN street girls and SUN boys in the one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in SUN Kinshasa, Democratic SUN Republic of Congo. Our team provides livelihoods support so SUN that these young SUN people can lead a safer life away from the streets. SUN SUN Empowering young generations SUN “To me safety means being able to grow, learn and play SUN without fear.” Our Child SUN Rights Clubs help children to understand their rights. SUN Through role play, group SUN discussions and drawing, children can express concerns SUN about their safety, SUN violations of their rights and learn what to do when they SUN feel vulnerable. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04jhjbn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04jhjbq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04jhl58 (Listen) SUN Wrestling with Angels SUN SUN On the Eve of the Feast of Michael and All Angels, Bishop SUN David Walker and Canon Stephen Shipley lead a service from SUN Emmanuel Church, Didsbury with Manchester Chamber Choir SUN exploring the significance of angels, God's messengers. In SUN both Old and New Testaments they offer healing, and engage SUN in battle. Meeting an angel is disturbing, challenging, life SUN changing. For most it is ultimately strengthening and SUN enriching. The struggle yields its reward; as it did for SUN Jacob in one of the oldest stories in the Bible. This SUN service thanks God, not for granting us pleasant pathways, SUN but for being the one who we both wrestle with and for, and SUN yet who is also the one fighting for us. Director of Music: SUN Barry Rose; Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04hyxmj (Listen) SUN Keeping Time SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the rich history of time-pieces and SUN the power of clocks and watches. SUN "Each watch on display in the British Museum's Clocks and SUN Watchers galleries speaks to me of a world galvanized by SUN scientific innovation, whose horizons were expanding through SUN voyages of discovery and the new objects and ideas brought SUN back." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dwdb1 (Listen) SUN Eurasian Scops Owl SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the Eurasian scops owl found SUN in Mediterranean regions. In summer a mournful monosyllabic SUN call interrupts the heady scented air of a Greek olive grove SUN at dusk. A male scops owl is proclaiming his territory with SUN a repeated call lasting over 20 minutes. Hearing these tiny SUN owls, no bigger than a starling is one thing, seeing one SUN roosting in an old tree is quite a challenge. They feed SUN mainly on moths and beetles which they hunt for in open SUN country with scattered trees. By autumn these largely SUN nocturnal birds are heading south to sub-Saharan Africa, SUN until the following spring when once again the olive groves SUN resound to their plaintive song. SUN SUN Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Bengt Lundberg / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01057063 SUN © Bengt Lundberg / naturepl.com SUN SUN SUN SUN The Eurasian scops owl is also known as 'common scops owl'. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04jhl6h (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04jhmhc (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Johnny Richards: Tom Gibbons SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde SUN Carol Treggoran: Eleanor Bron SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04jhmhf (Listen) SUN Marin Alsop SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the conductor, Marin SUN Alsop. SUN SUN Music Director of both The Baltimore Symphony and The Sao SUN Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, she is a maestro with a SUN mission: music, she believes, is a powerful vehicle for SUN social change. SUN SUN She had the good fortune to be brought up in "a household SUN that exuded possibility" and was filled with music - both SUN her parents played professionally. She took up the piano SUN aged two, swapped to the violin at 6 and then aged 9, saw SUN Leonard Bernstein at work and made the decision that SUN conducting would be her career. Much later she would go on SUN to be mentored by the man who inspired her. SUN SUN It bores her when interviewers ask why there aren't more SUN women conductors - nonetheless her capacity to maximise the SUN few opportunities she was given as a young woman making her SUN way in an exclusively mans' world gives one a flavour of her SUN indomitability. Her day-to-day job after all is working out SUN how to convince 100 experts to do what she wants. SUN SUN She says, "maybe it's being an only child: you want to bring SUN people together and create this big family feeling, I don't SUN know what it is but I always gravitated towards organising." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Marin Alsop SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04jhjbs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b04hvrqz (Listen) SUN Series 70, Episode 7 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons challenges Tony Hawks, Kerry Godliman, SUN Stephen Mangan and Gyles Brandreth to talk for 60 seconds SUN without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Tony Hawks SUN Panellist: Kerry Godliman SUN Panellist: Stephen Mangan SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04jhmhh (Listen) SUN Bees and the City - the Urban Honey Story SUN SUN As bee populations fall, Sheila Dillon asks if some SUN salvation may be found in the mean streets of our cities. SUN With a report from New York where bee keeping was actually SUN illegal for a long time but where the honey festival now SUN thrives. In London a young brewer tells us how she combined SUN her love of brewing and beekeeping to produce an award SUN winning honey ale. In Copenhagen we hear from a project with SUN hives across the city - each producing its own distinctive SUN taste and flavour, determined by the source of the nectar. SUN Even the offices are alive with the hum of bees as Dan SUN Saladino hears how the venture enlists the help of homeless SUN people and asylum seekers, giving them confidence and and SUN training in all aspects of beekeeping, honey production and SUN sales. Meanwhile in Bristol are trying to find out if urban SUN habitats really can provide a stable environment for our SUN bees to flourish - can our overlooked scruffy verges and car SUN parks contribute to the solution to one of our biggest SUN ecological threats? SUN SUN Produced by Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Barnaby Shaw - BeeUrban SUN SUN Reverend Billy - NYC 'bee activist' SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04jhjbv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04jhmhk (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis., presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Hamlet Undressed b04jhn49 (Listen) SUN This Autumn, the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is SUN staging Shakespeare's Hamlet. Maxine Peake will be taking on SUN the iconic role in a production which sees her reunited with SUN Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom, a year after their hugely SUN successful version of Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy at the SUN Manchester International Festival. SUN SUN In this programme, we'll go behind the scenes and document SUN Maxine's journey to playing the part of Hamlet. From SUN research meetings to vocal sessions, from sword fight SUN training to character preparation, we'll follow Maxine as SUN she prepares to take on Shakespeare's most iconic work. SUN SUN We'll hear from the director, the designer and other SUN creatives about how they go about putting their unique stamp SUN on the play, and create a Hamlet for Manchester, a Hamlet SUN for now. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Foster. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04hywtd (Listen) SUN Sparsholt College SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Sparsholt College in Hampshire. On this week's panel are SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank, Christine Walkden and SUN Matthew Wilson. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant producer: Darby Dorras. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Q. I will be on holiday for the next six months and would SUN like some advice on preparing the garden to survive whilst I SUN am away. SUN A. Anne: Make sure you do the normal winter tidy-up and trim SUN the edges of the lawn. Cut back any heavy shrubs from the SUN base of the plant, taking back any straggling shoots. SUN Christine: The main thing is to weed and mulch. SUN Chris: Now is the time for early planting of spring SUN flowering bulbs. SUN SUN Q. Is it true that a garlic-based solution will stop slugs SUN from breeding? SUN A. Matthew: The national collection holder of Hosta has SUN thousands of unmarked plants and his secret is to put down SUN one slug pellet per square metre in early February. He SUN places them in hiding places rather than next to the plants. SUN He then uses the garlic spray every ten days, or more SUN frequently if the weather is wet. SUN SUN Q. I grow large amounts of Basil in the greenhouse. Many of SUN the stems have gone brown and hard, and the leaves have SUN started to drop off. What can I do to prevent this happening SUN in the future? SUN A. Christine: This could be a case of wilt disease. I would SUN favour soil-based compost because they have a better SUN nutrient content and retain water more easily. An SUN interrupted flow of water to the plant can cause SUN dehydration. Try to regulate the watering. SUN Chris: Check the proximity of the plants and make sure you SUN have plenty of air flow. If they are congested, you will be SUN creating an environment which will allow disease to take SUN hold. Water from below rather than above and reduce the SUN amount of moisture falling onto the foliage. Add a fine sand SUN mulch to the surface of the soil. SUN SUN Q. How can I get the flowers at the top of a Yucca plant to SUN open before the bottom blooms have died? SUN A. Chris: Unfortunately there is nothing you can do and it SUN has been the perfect summer for the Yucca. They are SUN programmed to flower in a deliberate sequence and it is SUN hormonally triggered. It is an evolutionary process designed SUN to extend the insect pollination period. SUN SUN Q. Do beech tree leaves inhibit the growth of plants? If so, SUN could the panel suggest some shrubs that would flourish SUN under the canopy of large beech trees? SUN A. Christine: This is a process called allelopathy. However, SUN the dry conditions beneath the tree are an even bigger SUN issue. In the early spring you could look at bulbs such as SUN Cyclamen. Improve the soil and make sure you water SUN continually. SUN Anne: A lot of the Euonymus plants would cope well in dry, SUN shady conditions, such as the Spindle with its lovely SUN berries. Christmas Box would also do well on such as site. SUN SUN Q. Will my forty-year-old monkey puzzle be effectively SUN bonsaied after always being kept in a pot or will it grow SUN now that it has been planted out? SUN A. Matthew: There is no reason why it shouldn't do well. You SUN will need some proper soil preparation and there may be some SUN root girdling. SUN Christine: You will have very few young and vigorous roots. SUN You could try root pruning, by taking away about two thirds. SUN Make sure it is well watered. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04jhp4b (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces three conversations between work SUN colleagues, old friends, and female members of a Jewish SUN family in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b04jhp4d (Listen) SUN Rebus: Set in Darkness, Episode 1 SUN SUN 1/2. Ian Rankin's crime thriller centres on the building of SUN the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1998. During the SUN construction work a body is discovered in an old fireplace. SUN The forensics suggest the victim was murdered 20 years SUN before. Police are still attempting to identify the corpse SUN when a second body is found on the site - and this time it's SUN one of the prospective candidates for the new parliament. SUN It's a high-profile case and the rising star of Lothian And SUN Borders Police - 28-year-old Detective Inspector Linford - SUN is assigned to investigate, assisted by a reluctant John SUN Rebus. SUN SUN Dramatised by Chris Dolan. SUN SUN Other parts are played by the cast. SUN SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young SUN BBC Scotland. SUN SUN Credits SUN Rebus: Ron Donachie SUN Clarke: Gayanne Potter SUN Linford: Martin McBride SUN Lorna: Juliet Cadzow SUN Wylie: Amiera Darwish SUN Billie Collins: Julie Austin SUN Alicia: Lesley Mackie SUN Watson: Douglas Russell SUN Dr Curt: Gregor Powrie SUN Adaptor: Chris Dolan SUN Author: Ian Rankin SUN Director: Bruce Young SUN Producer: Bruce Young SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04jhpnx (Listen) SUN The Brethren; The Sense of Style SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup discusses Robert Merle's The Brethren, the SUN first book in an epic French historical drama which is just SUN been translated into English, with it's translator T. SUN Jefferson Kline and critic Agnes Poirier. SUN SUN Experimental psychologist Steven Pinker on his new book The SUN Sense of Style - the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in SUN the 21st Century, about the written word and how best to SUN utilise it. SUN SUN And a new book celebrating the lyrics of Ian Curtis of Joy SUN Division. SUN SUN Producer: Kirsten Locke. SUN Bernard Sumner on his memoir New Order, Joy Division and Me SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Brethren by Robert Merle, translated by T. Jefferson SUN Kline - SUN SUN Publisher: Pushkin Press SUN SUN The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker - Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN This is Permanence by Catherine Eccles - Publisher: Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Read the first chapter of The Brethren by Robert Merle SUN The Brethren: Chapter 1 SUN by Robert Merle SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Steven Pinker SUN Interviewed Guest: T Jefferson Kline SUN Interviewed Guest: Agnes Poirier SUN Producer: Kirsten Locke SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b04jhpnz (Listen) SUN Remember SUN SUN To coincide with National Poetry Day, Roger McGough presents SUN listeners requests on the theme of 'Remember'. Including SUN 'Aftermath', a moving poem of the First World War by SUN Siegfried Sassoon, Brian Patten reading 'So Many Different SUN Lengths of Time', and the Christina Rossetti classic SUN 'Remember'. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Remember SUN SUN by Christina Rossetti SUN SUN From Christina Rossetti - Poems SUN SUN Published by Everyman SUN SUN SUN SUN So Many Different Lengths of Time SUN SUN by Brian Patten SUN SUN From Armada by Brian Patten SUN SUN Published by HarperCollins SUN SUN SUN SUN Cleaning the Brasses SUN SUN by Angela Topping SUN SUN From Dandelions for Mother’s Day SUN SUN Published by Stride Publications SUN SUN SUN SUN My Papa’s Waltz SUN SUN by Theodore Roethke SUN SUN From The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry SUN (second edition) SUN SUN Published by Longman SUN SUN SUN SUN In Memoriam SUN SUN by Michael Longley SUN SUN From Michael Longley – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Cape Poetry SUN SUN SUN SUN I Remember, I Remember SUN SUN by Thomas Hood SUN SUN From Thomas Hood – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Fyfield Books SUN SUN SUN SUN (Extract from) Summoned by Bells SUN SUN by John Betjeman SUN SUN Published by John Murray SUN SUN SUN SUN It Was Long Ago SUN SUN by Eleanor Farjeon SUN SUN From A Little, Aloud SUN SUN Published by Chatto and Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN A New Diary SUN SUN by Dannie Abse SUN SUN From Dannie Abse - New and Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Hutchinson SUN SUN SUN SUN I Sit Beside the Fire SUN SUN by JRR Tolkien SUN SUN From the Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings Part SUN 1 SUN SUN Published by HarperCollins SUN SUN SUN SUN A History Lesson SUN SUN by Miroslav Holub SUN SUN From The Fly by Miroslav Holub SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Remembrance by Waldo Williams SUN SUN Translation by Alan Llwyd SUN SUN Taken from the website SUN http://www.waldowilliams.com/?page_id=327〈=en SUN SUN SUN SUN Memories SUN SUN by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SUN SUN From The Poetical Works of Longfellow SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Aftermath SUN SUN by Siegfried Sassoon SUN SUN From Siegfried Sassoon - Collected Poems 1908–1956 SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b04hvynp (Listen) SUN Rigged Markets? SUN SUN Is a new scandal about to engulf the UK's banking industry? SUN Was LIBOR just the tip of the iceberg? SUN Regulators around the world are looking at the way important SUN financial benchmarks have been calculated. These are used to SUN set the value of pension funds, investments and SUN international contracts worth billions of pounds. Financial SUN regulators in the UK, across Europe and in the US are SUN investigating whether the benchmarks have been rigged to SUN increase bank profits - and to short change their customers. SUN Banks are already receiving big fines over the LIBOR SUN interest rate scandal but the focus is now shifting to the SUN way prices in the foreign exchange, gold and interest rate SUN swap markets have been set. Reporter Lesley Curwen assesses SUN the evidence that banks have got together to manipulate the SUN markets and asks what it means for the reputation of London SUN as a global financial sector and public confidence in SUN banking. SUN Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04jhfqf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04jhjbx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04jhjbz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04jhjc1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04jhrp3 (Listen) SUN Amorous spiders, Marlon Brando's plumbing skills and a New SUN York drag queen in search of a corset are just some of this SUN week's highlights. SUN There are memories of the Gresford Colliery Disaster in SUN Wales 80 years ago and how it inspired a beautiful melody SUN that's been adopted by miners as their hymn. SUN Paul Merton and Nicholas Parsons conduct a Just a minute SUN Masterclass SUN Oh and there's also Gyles Brandreth's Love Sausage but SUN probably the least said about that the better... SUN That's Pick of the Week with Sheila McClennon at 6.15 this SUN Sunday evening. SUN SUN Midweek (Radio 4, 24th September) SUN SUN Just a Minute: Edinburgh Masterclass (Radio 4 Extra, 26th SUN September) SUN SUN Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (Radio 4, 23rd September) SUN SUN 5 Live Breakfast (5 Live, 25th September) SUN SUN Tweet of the Day: Eurasian Scops Owl (Radio 4, 24th SUN September) SUN SUN Saturday Drama: Denmark Hill (Radio 4, 27th September) SUN SUN Book of the Week: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Radio 4, SUN All-Week) SUN SUN Joan Littlewood and the People's Theatre (Radio 4, 27th SUN September) SUN SUN Wordaholics (Radio 4, 24th September) SUN SUN BBC National Short Story Award (Radio 4, All-Week) SUN SUN Health Check: The Truth About Life and Death (World Service, SUN 24th September) SUN SUN Same-Sex Parents (Radio 4, 22nd September) SUN SUN Gresford - The Miners' Hymn (Radio Wales, 22nd September). SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila hails from the Wirral but started her career off at SUN BBC Radio Shropshire, before moving on to work on TV SUN programmes such as Wogan, Primetime and reporting for SUN Carlton. SUN SUN Moving back to radio Sheila has presented Woman's Hour, You SUN & Yours, The Message, Sunday and is a regular here at Pick SUN of the Week. SUN SUN SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04jhrp5 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The New Blur Album b04jj113 (Listen) SUN You always remember where you were when you first heard SUN certain pieces of music, watched films that were important SUN to you, were told of big news events. Sometimes when you SUN hear a song you are transported back to the first time you SUN heard it, you remember everything: where you were, who you SUN were with, what was going on in your life that means it was SUN so important to you. SUN SUN If you were growing up in the nineties it is likely you can SUN chart your life by where you were as each new Blur album was SUN released. This is the story of a Blur fan, who looks back on SUN his life remembering where he was the first time he heard SUN 'the new Blur album; from their first in 1992, to seventh SUN and most recent release in 2003. From being at school, to SUN his first jobs and relationships, this is John's story of SUN life, love, friendship and growing older, with the new Blur SUN album as a constant backdrop. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lynne Truss SUN Water Boatman: Sandi Toksvig SUN Great Diving Beetle: David Ryall SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt SUN Writer: Lynne Truss SUN SUN 19:45 Out There b04jj115 (Listen) SUN Outing SUN SUN Stories from a new anthology celebrating the work of SUN Scottish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender writers. SUN SUN Episode 1/ 3 SUN SUN Outing SUN SUN A man sits on a station platform reflecting back on his life SUN and on the love he's experienced exclusively behind closed SUN doors. SUN SUN Credits SUN SUN Writer ..... Allan Radcliffe SUN Reader ..... Liam Brennan SUN Producer ..... Kirsty Williams SUN SUN A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Liam Brennan SUN Writer: Allan Radcliffe SUN Producer: Kirsty Williams SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04hywws (Listen) SUN The Barnett Formula SUN SUN This week Tim Harford explains the Barnett Formula with a SUN bit of help from Money Box's Paul Lewis and Alan Trench from SUN University College London. SUN He looks at Ed Balls sleight of hand in his speech to the SUN Labour Party Conference with Carl Emmerson from the SUN Institute for Fiscal Studies. SUN Is Ed Miliband's promise on NHS funding really worse than SUN the funding increases delivered by Margaret Thatcher? Tim SUN asks John Appleby Chief Economist at The think-tank The SUN Kings Fund. SUN And how do we know how far away is the sun really is? SUN Astrophysicist, Andrew Pontzen from University College SUN London explains all. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04hywtj (Listen) SUN The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky, Jim SUN Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe SUN SUN Julian Worricker on SUN The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the Mitford SUN Sisters and a woman credited with turning around the SUN financial fortunes of the Chatsworth Estate. SUN SUN Oleg Ivanovsky, one of the last remaining rocket scientists SUN who witnessed the complete Soviet space programme from SUN within. SUN SUN The artist and illustrator, Jim Petrie, who brought us the SUN comic-strip adventures of Minnie the Minx in the Beano. SUN SUN The scientist, Dame Julia Polak, who - after a heart and SUN lung transplant - embarked on a second career developing SUN laboratory organs. SUN SUN And the songwriter, Bob Crewe, who composed some of the Four SUN Seasons' biggest hits. SUN SUN The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Susan Hill who edited and published one SUN of the Duchess’ books, to Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern SUN Cultural History in Cambridge and to Bridget Flemming who SUN grew up on the Chatsworth Estate. SUN SUN Born 31 March 1920; died 24 September 2014 aged 94. SUN SUN Oleg Ivanovsky SUN SUN Julian Worricker spoke to Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History SUN Fordham University New York. SUN SUN SUN Born 12 January 1922; died 18 September 2014 aged 92. SUN SUN Jim Petrie SUN SUN The poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan pays tribute. SUN SUN SUN Born 2 June 1932; died 26 August 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Dame Julia Polak SUN SUN Julian spoke to her friend Rosemary Friedman who wrote Dame SUN Julia’s biography and to her friend and colleague, Professor SUN Sarah Ranking. SUN SUN Born 26 June 1939; died 11 August 2014 aged 75. SUN SUN SUN SUN Bob Crewe SUN SUN Julian spoke to the writer and broadcaster Spencer Leigh and SUN to Bob Gaudio, who co-wrote many of the SUN Four Seasons SUN hits and played keyboard in the band. SUN SUN Born 12 November 1930; died 11 September 2014 aged 83. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04j9z77 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04jhl56 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04hz62w (Listen) SUN Myanmar - Learning to Do Business SUN SUN Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, used to be one of the SUN wealthiest countries of south-east Asia. Then came decades SUN of military rule. While other Asian countries furiously SUN modernised, Myanmar stagnated. In the past few years, the SUN country has begun to open up and many international SUN sanctions have been lifted. SUN SUN But what's it like for home grown businesses and new SUN entrepreneurs? Peter Day talks to those who are setting up SUN businesses despite a number of challenges, such as a lack of SUN funding and poor infrastructure. In the capital, Yangon, he SUN meets people who went abroad for education and have now SUN returned to seek business opportunities at home. And he SUN visits rural Myanmar and sees how micro-financing is working SUN in the countryside. SUN SUN Producer: Charlotte MacDonald. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Melvyn Pun SUN SUN Chief Executive of SPA Myanmar SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Nay Aung SUN SUN founder, Oway SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Htoo Myint Naung SUN SUN founder, Technomation SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Joe Barker-Bennett SUN SUN consultant, Tun Foundation Bank SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Pete Silvester SUN SUN co-founder, Project Hub Yangon SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Barbara Bauer SUN SUN Executive Officer, Myanmar, Partnership for Change SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Kyaw Moe Hain SUN SUN General Manager (lower Myanmar), Pact Global Microfinance SUN Fund SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04jj117 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04jj119 (Listen) SUN Andrew Gimson analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04hz62f (Listen) SUN Olivia Williams; The Mafia in Italian Movies; Pawel SUN Pawlikowski SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN British actress Olivia Williams discusses her experiences of SUN Hollywood and why the Tinsel Town satire Maps To The Stars SUN is all too real. SUN SUN An investigation into why Italian cinema was so coy about SUN the mafia until fairly recently. SUN SUN Polish director reveals why he returned to his homeland for SUN his post-war drama Ida and how a black-and-white movie in a SUN foreign language about a novice nun turned out to be his SUN biggest hit. SUN SUN Location manager Sue Quinn explains how she managed to get a SUN military helicopter to land in Trafalgar Square at the SUN personal request of Tom Cruise. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Olivia Williams SUN Interviewed Guest: Pawel Pawlikowski SUN Interviewed Guest: Sue Quinn SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04jhl50 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04jhjd2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Educators b04gw6rh (Listen) MON Jo Boaler MON MON Is our attitude towards maths killing the subject for MON children? Professor Jo Boaler believes a widespread belief MON in the existence of a 'maths brain' is ruining pupils' MON chances of success in the subject. MON MON She tells Sarah Montague that anybody can be good with MON numbers, but unlike other subjects, we teach the idea that MON some people are simply good or bad at mathematics. MON MON Having researched the way maths is taught in schools in the MON UK and in the US, Stanford University professor Jo Boaler MON says pupils are too often made to think that maths is a long MON list of rules and procedures to be learned off by heart. MON MON In the programme Sarah Montague discovers why real MON mathematics is about uncertainty; the study of patterns and MON creative problem solving. She hears about some of the MON controversial new methods designed to teach flexibility with MON numbers, which have some parents confounded by the homework MON their children are being set. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04jhkzy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04jhjd4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04jhjd6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04jhjd8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04jhjdb (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04jj1zn (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the MON Rev Dr Karen Smith. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04jj3jd (Listen) MON Pony meat, Animal welfare, Ukip farming policy MON MON The controversy over horsemeat takes a new turn, with a MON suggestion from the Dartmoor Hill Pony Association that MON selling a small amount of gourmet pony meat would actually MON help ensure the breed's survival for the future. Critics say MON it would put people off coming to the moors, but trials on a MON range of pony meat products are already underway. MON MON As the party conference season continues, Charlotte Smith MON talks to the agriculture spokesman for the UK Independence MON Party, and asks him to outline his priorities for farmers. MON What would farming be like under a UKIP government? MON MON And Farming Today starts a week-long look at the issue of MON animal welfare. Charlotte asks the RSPCA whether recent MON improvements in farm animal welfare go far enough, or MON whether farmers should be doing more. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04jhjdd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwbt (Listen) MON African Southern Ground Hornbill MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the African Southern Ground MON hornbill. Ground hornbills live in south and south-east MON Africa. They're glossy black birds, as big as turkeys with MON huge downward-curving bills. The bird produces a deep MON booming sound that reverberates over long distances, MON sometimes as much as 5 kilometres, across its grassy MON habitat. Preferring to walk rather than fly, they strut MON about in the long grass, searching for prey. Snakes are a MON favourite: even deadly puff adders are no match for the MON birds' bludgeoning beaks. MON MON African Southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Denis-Huot / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 0141300 MON © Denis-Huot / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04jj3jg (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04jj3jj (Listen) MON Karen Armstrong on War and Religion MON MON Karen Armstrong argues against the notion that religion is MON the major cause of war. The former nun tells Tom Sutcliffe MON that faith is as likely to produce pacifists and MON peace-builders as medieval crusaders and modern-day MON jihadists. But Justin Marozzi charts the violent history of MON Baghdad and asks what role religion had to play there. The MON philosopher Christopher Coker explores how warfare dominates MON our history, and argues that war, like religion, is central MON to the human condition. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Karen Armstrong MON Interviewed Guest: Justin Marozzi MON Interviewed Guest: Christopher Coker MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04dwckb (Listen) MON The View from the Gate MON MON Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, begins his MON series examining 600 years of German history through MON objects, with a reflection on Germany's floating frontiers. MON MON Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which MON led to the reunified modern Germany, Neil visits the MON Brandenburg Gate. MON MON In November 1989 the East Berlin crowds gathered there and MON cheered and then poured into West Berlin as the Berlin Wall MON fell and the world changed. It was there in July 2014 that a MON huge crowd celebrated Germany's victory in the World Cup in MON Brazil. In 1950 the first major demonstration was held there MON to protest against Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe: the MON crowd pulled down the red flag that flew over the MON Brandenburg Gate and demanded free elections. And in 1806 MON Napoleon made his triumphal entry into Berlin through the MON Brandenburg Gate, after humiliating the Prussian army. MON MON From this focal point of modern Germany, Neil begins a 30 MON part series which reveals the profound influence of MON Germany's history, culture and inventiveness across Europe, MON as well as the catastrophic events of the 20th century. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Napoleon riding through the Brandenburg Gate MON The first person to use the Brandenburg Gate for a triumphal MON entry was Napoleon after the devastating Prussian defeat at MON the battle of Jena-Auerstadt. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04jj3jl (Listen) MON Jessie Ware; Tory Party Conference MON MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Conservative Party Conference MON MON All the political parties are busy talking about what women MON voters MON want and setting their priorities. As part of our coverage MON of the party MON conferences this autumn, we find out what the Conservatives MON are saying this MON week. We’ve been hearing from some of the women who are MON active members of a MON political party, about why they do it and what difference MON they feel it makes. MON Of course, some of the keenest campaigners are those who MON are standing for seats MON in parliament next May. Jane talks to some of the women MON hoping to become MPs MON about what they hope to do this week to connect with women MON voters. MON MON Jessie Ware MON The Mercury Prize MON nominee will be singing her latest single, Say You You MON Love Me live in the studio. Two years MON after her first album, Devotion was released to critical MON acclaim and success, MON Jessie Ware is about to release her second, Tough Love, MON only a couple of weeks MON after getting married. The 29-year old South Londoner joins MON Jane to talk about MON love, family, and confidence. MON MON Campus Culture MON MON Recent statistics show that ‘Lad Culture’ is on the rise in MON universities, but has life in university always been MON blighted by some form of misogyny? Lorna Fitzsimons was the MON National Union of Student’s President from 1992 to 1994 and MON was involved in various campaigns aimed to improve the MON plight of female students in the early 90’s. Gemma Tumelty MON was the NUS president from 2006 to 2008 and dealt with the MON first forms of online gender bullying. And Alice Phillips is MON the former Women’s Officer from the University of Bristol MON who set up the ‘Spotted: Sexism in Bristol’ Facebook page. MON They will join Jane to discuss university life as they MON experienced it and consider how things have changed. MON MON MON MON Divorce Settlement MON A recent judgement in a divorce case is causing concern in MON Family Law circles as it seems to suggest divorcing couples MON ought to avoid new relationships until after their divorce MON settlement. Mr Justice Mostyn, in giving his written ruling MON following a family court hearing in Swansea took into MON account a wife’s new relationship when deciding how much MON money she was entitled to and warned that women risked MON losing out as judges might well assume she would set up home MON with a new partner and not need as much support. Marilyn MON Stowe from Stowe Family Law explains the impact this could MON have. MON MON SEN MON MON Transitioning from primary to secondary school can be a MON difficult MON time for any child. Anxiety about new friends, unknown MON buildings and different MON teachers can affect their behaviour and confidence. But for MON the 1.6 million MON Special Education Needs (SEN) pupils in Britain, and their MON parents, making the MON move to ‘big school’ can be incredibly stressful and MON disruptive. So what are MON the best ways to make the transfer successful? MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04jjjx9 (Listen) MON The Pillow Book, Episode 1 MON MON Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return for a seventh MON series of the popular mystery series the Pillow Book, set in MON 10th Century Japan. MON MON Yukinari has taken the Emperor to see a natural wonder - an MON underground cave sparkling with a thousand diamonds. But MON these are not diamonds, they crumble at the touch, and these MON caves are patrolled by a pack of wolves. A pack of wolves MON and their strange, un-wolf-like leader. MON MON Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and MON lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese MON court. MON MON Written by Robert Forrest. MON MON Directed by Lu Kemp. MON MON A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell MON Yukinari: Cal Macaninch MON Empress: Laura Rees MON Emperor: Paul Ready MON Uzume: Jessica Hardwick MON Writer: Robert Forrest MON Director: Lu Kemp MON MON 11:00 The War Widows of Afghanistan b049xtjr (Listen) MON Lisa and Jacqui live in Britain, Tajbibe and Marzia live in MON Afghanistan. Their lives are very different but they have MON one thing in common - they were all widowed by the same war. MON MON Their husbands were among the estimated 13000 Afghan MON soldiers and 453 British soldiers who have died in the war MON against the Taliban, which began in 2001 and which draws to MON an official close with the withdrawal of NATO troops from MON Afghanistan this year. MON MON Zarghuna Kargar hears how the lives of all four women MON changed the moment they received the news of their husbands' MON sudden deaths, how they have coped in the aftermath and what MON they feel about war today. MON MON Reporter Zarghuna Kargar MON MON Produced by Mukti Jain Campion MON A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b04jjjxc (Listen) MON Series 2, Death MON MON Kerry Godliman's list-based comedy series returns with a MON list including explaining religion to child, making soup, MON ham strings and laminating something. The usual mixture of MON sitcom, sketches, stand up and songs all make up Kerry's MON List. MON MON This week also features Kerry's husband Ben (Ben Abell) MON coping with the death of a university friend and, in so MON doing, inadvertently being challenged about his faith. Kerry MON and Ben's two year old son, Frank, is going through some MON major potty training and things, inevitably, don't go as MON smoothly around the potty as Kerry would like. She has an MON incredibly frustrating experience trying to report dog mess MON to her local council. MON MON Furthermore Kerry decides it's high time she gives Frank MON some cinematic education - but an existential Swedish MON classic may not necessarily be the best for the inquisitive MON child. MON MON Kerry comes into contact once again with her Guilt alter-ego MON who challenges her on her inevitable insecurities. There's MON also another manic conversation with best friend Hazel MON (Bridget Christie). MON MON The cast includes co-writer David Lane Pusey, Rosie MON Cavaliero, Lucy Briers, Nicholas Le Prevost, Dominic Frisby MON and Melissa Bury. MON MON Produced by Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: Ben Abell MON Actor: Bridget Christie MON Actor: David Lane Pusey MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Actor: Lucy Briers MON Actor: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Actor: Dominic Frisby MON Actor: Melissa Bury MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Lane Pusey MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04jhjdg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04jjjxf (Listen) MON 29 September 1914 - Gabriel Graham MON MON Councillor Graham develops a taste for tobacco and potatoes, MON and wishes for a New World. MON MON Cast MON Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw MON Hilary ..... Craige Els MON Walter ..... Joel MacCormack MON Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook MON Esme ..... Katie Angelou MON Isabel ..... Keely Beresford MON Sylvia ..... Deborah Findlay MON MON Written by Katie Hims MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Hilda: Bella Hamblin MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown MON Young Man: Joel McCormack MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04k9h4w (Listen) MON Consumer news presented by Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04jhjdj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04jjz3l (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Open or Wrapped...? b04jjz3n (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Food writer, Home Economist and Food stylist Alison Clarkson MON follows eight people on a course in Leeds, specialising in MON how to run their very own Fish and Chip shop. MON MON For generations, the meal has been a constant favourite with MON thousands, if not millions, of people across Britain. MON Churchill called them 'the good companion' and John Lennon MON loved his with tomato ketchup. MON MON This episode focuses on the beginning of the course, MON introducing us to the eight students and featuring Mark MON Drummond and Arthur Parrington, who both play key roles in MON the course's leadership. MON MON The series follows a three day course run by the National MON Federation of Fish Fryers in Leeds. It takes students MON through the requirements involved in running your own shop - MON from fish preparation and battering, through health and MON safety, to the legal and financial issues inherent in the MON business. MON MON The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds - from MON the finance industry to a retired musician, from an optician MON to a newsagent. Two have ventured from France and one from MON Hamburg, especially to attend the course. MON MON As well as following the students, the programmes trace the MON history and development of selling chips. The meal became MON popular in the early part of the nineteenth century as a MON result of the rapid growth of trawl fishing in the North MON Sea. In its heyday there were approximately thirty thousand MON fish and chip shops in Britain. Today the number is around MON twelve thousand. The acclaimed 5 out of 5, AA Rosette and MON multi Michelin Star award winning chef Jean-Christophe MON Novelli discusses his love and respect for our traditional MON meal. MON MON Finally, we follow up the featured members of the course, MON six months after attending it. How do you like the meal, MON 'Open or wrapped..?!' MON MON Presenter: Alison Clarkson MON MON Produced by Eurof Williams MON An Acme tv production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04jhrp5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04jjz3q (Listen) MON Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight MON MON by Charlotte Bogard Macleod MON MON What are the odds on the earnest statistician Liam meeting MON the impulsive photographer Sadie? What are the chances of MON starting a family? A tale of love, surrogacy and statistics. MON MON Liam ..... Andrew Scott MON Sadie ..... Jeany Spark MON Cath ..... Hannah Genesius MON Finn ..... Karna Majdian MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04jjz3s (Listen) MON Series 28, Heat 2, 2014 MON MON Russell Davies is in the chair for the second heat in the MON 2014 series of Britain's most eclectic music quiz, from the MON Radio Theatre in London. Three more amateur music MON enthusiasts compete for a place in the series semi-finals, MON answering questions on music in all its variety. MON MON As well as answering general questions on music, they'll MON also have to pick from a list of specialist musical topics MON on which to answer their own individual questions, with no MON prior knowledge of the choices. MON MON There's something to suit every taste and plenty of musical MON extracts, both familiar and surprising, to identify. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04jhmhh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Art of the Menu b04jjz3v (Listen) MON At the family restaurant run by Ben Schott's in-laws just MON outside Trenton, New Jersey, there is no written menu. Once, MON during the war, Giacomo Rosati wrote out the dishes and MON their prices - not to show customers what was being served MON but to show what was being charged. The practice didn't MON last. That menu hangs decoratively but redundantly on the MON wall. MON MON So, back in his New York neighbourhood, Ben learns that MON every menu tells its own story - quite literally in the MON curious menu collection of Bernard Freed. For forty odd MON years, Bernard wrote what he ate and how it tasted on the MON back of his menu alongside the film he saw after each meal. MON They're in the New York Public Library. MON MON The menu is a compromise between cooking and commerce. Using MON artful language (scrumpets* anyone?) and clever graphics, it MON is simultaneously about - and not about - the food. MON MON Ben meets a chef who writes menus and a menu designer who MON rarely uses one, discovering the tricks and secrets of that MON little piece of paper or fancily decorated card. MON MON With The Homestead Inn's Giacomo and Peter Rosati; MON Birmingham-born, Manhattan-based chef April Bloomfield; The MON New York Public Library's Rebecca Federman who co-curates MON What's On The Menu?; graphic designer and menu sumpremo MON Matteo Bologna; Kate Krader, Restaurant Editor at Food and MON Wine magazine; and Eisenbergs lunch counter regular Mark MON Kirschner. MON MON * Braised lamb breasts, breaded and deep fried with a little MON mint vinegar sauce on the side. MON MON Reader: Tina Lohmann MON MON Produced by Tamsin Hughes MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04jjz3x (Listen) MON Karma MON MON The belief in Karma is central to many of the religions of MON the east - the idea that every action has consequences, that MON what we did in a previous life affects who and what we are MON in this life. The concept may have originated in the east MON but it has seeped into Western thinking. When someone is MON seen to get their 'just deserts', we often remark that what MON goes around comes around. But is that a simplistic MON understanding of Karma? What does Karma really mean? Is it a MON fatalistic belief in a system of cause and effect, is it any MON different from the Christian belief that what your reap you MON sow? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss Karma are Ani Rinchern Khandro, MON an ordained nun in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; MON Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu MON Studies; and Martin Palmer Secretary General of the Alliance MON of Religions and Conservation. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b04jjz3z (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04jhjdl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04jjz41 (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 8 MON MON In the last of the current series; Nicholas Parsons MON challenges Sheila Hancock, Russell Kane, Holly Walsh and MON Paul Merton to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, MON repetition or deviation? MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04jjz43 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04jjz45 (Listen) MON Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, MON literature, film, media and music. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON MON 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04dwckb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Inside the Ebola Lock-Down b04kjzhs (Listen) MON Tim Mansel gives a day by day account of the attempt to MON ensure that the 5.8-million people of Sierra Leone stay in MON their homes for three days. They will be visited "hos to MON hos" (house-to-house) by hastily assembled teams drawn from MON 21,000 volunteers and given health advice on how to prevent MON the spread of Ebola. MON MON It's a policy that's been adopted against the advice of MON international health agencies who doubt it will have the MON desired effect and who doubt already stretched Sierra Leone MON health facilities will be able to cope with the MON consequences, (potentially the identification of thousands MON of new cases). Others have concerns the lock-down could lead MON to civil unrest (as happened in a slum in Monrovia when a MON similar thing was attempted). MON MON With identified cases approaching 1,700 and deaths edging MON towards 500, Sierra Leone is not the country worst effected MON by Ebola but none have adopted such a dramatic policy to MON deal with the outbreak. MON MON Tim Mansel, who recently spent three months living in Sierra MON Leone, talks to ordinary people there as they attempt to go MON about their ordinary lives in these extraordinary MON circumstances. MON MON Producer:Gemma Newby. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b04jjz49 (Listen) MON Michael Pollan on Food MON MON What should we eat? Jo Fidgen talks to the influential MON American writer Michael Pollan about what food is - and what MON it isn't. In an interview before an audience at the London MON School of Economics and Political Science he criticises the MON way the food industry has promoted highly-processed products MON delivering hefty doses of salt, sugar and fat. He believes MON that the plethora of accompanying health claims have left us MON more confused than ever about what food really is, where it MON has come from and its impact on our health and the MON environment. His solution? To cook at home. He argues that MON this simple change will guarantee a healthy diet and stop us MON relying on big food companies to feed us. It is also, he MON says, a profoundly political act. But is it a realistic MON proposition for busy working families or simply a MON middle-class ideology? MON MON Producer: Sally Abrahams. MON Eldar Shafir: Scarcity MON Manuel Castells: Alternative Economic Cultures MON Deirdre McCloskey MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04hvxb9 (Listen) MON Are We Getting Used to Less Wildlife? MON MON The diversity and abundance of wildlife is declining across MON the world. As people grow older they notice the changes but MON for each new generation the baseline is reset. Is each MON generation is getting used to living with less and less MON wildlife? With so many other distractions do young people MON today notice the wildlife around them? Monty Don explores MON whether shifting baselines are a problem for conservation or MON simply inevitable in a system already subject to natural MON fluctuations. MON MON Professor Kevin Gaston MON Kevin Gaston is the inaugural Director of the MON Environment and Sustainability Institute MON (ESI) and Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at the MON University of Exeter. MON The ESI conducts cutting-edge research into solutions to MON problems of environmental change, thereby enhancing people’s MON lives through improving their relationships with the MON environment. It has staff drawn from a variety of MON backgrounds - including mathematicians, engineers and MON environmental, political and social scientists - reflecting MON the need for an interdisciplinary approach to such MON solutions. MON An ecologist with diverse interests, a major strand of MON Gaston’s research is concerned with the health and MON well-being benefits that people gain from natural MON environments. This program of work includes determining the MON breadth and form of these benefits, the components of nature MON that provide them, the dynamics of this provision, and how MON the provision can most effectively be improved. MON Twitter: MON @KevinJGaston MON MON Professor Aubrey Manning, OBE MON Professor Aubrey Manning is recognised as one of the MON country’s leading authorities on animal behaviour. MON He rose from Assistant Lecturer at the University of MON Edinburgh to become a Professor of Natural History at the MON university in 1971, a position he retained until retirement MON in 1997. MON Manning's storytelling skills have led to him presenting MON television programmes such as BBC2’s Earth Story and Talking MON Landscapes and he has worked on a range of radio output MON including recent Radio 4 programme The Sounds of Life, in MON which he explores natural sounds ranging from the seabed to MON the jungle. MON He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, holds MON honorary degrees from Toulouse, the Open University and MON St.Andrews, and was awarded an OBE in 1998. He has been MON Chairman of the MON Scottish Wildlife Trust MON and a MON Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland MON and MON Project Wallacea MON MON George Monbiot MON George Monbiot is an environmental campaigner, a regular MON columnist for the MON Guardian newspaper MON and the author of several best selling books, including MON Heat: How we can stop the Planet Burning MON The Age of Consent: A MON Manifesto for a New World Order MON and MON Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain MON as well as the investigative travel books MON Poisoned Arrows MON Amazon Watershed MON and MON No Man's Land MON His latest book is MON Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of MON Rewilding MON Twitter: MON @GeorgeMonbiot MON MON Professor EJ Milner-Gulland MON Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland MON works on improving the design of conservation interventions MON so that they work better for both poor people and wildlife MON in developing countries. MON She is the Director of MON Imperial College's Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the MON Environment MON (GCEE) initiative and runs the MON Imperial College Conservation Science MON (ICCS) research group. MON ICCS works at the interface of social and ecological MON systems, using a range of approaches to address key issues MON in current conservation. The underlying philosophy is that MON in order to make progress the incentives, pressures and MON challenges faced by individual decision-makers must be MON considered. MON Twitter: MON @EJMilnerGulland MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04jj3jj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04jhjdn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04jjz4c (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04jjz4f (Listen) MON The Bone Clocks, Episode 6 MON MON By David Mitchell. Part six. Ed Brubeck is a foreign MON correspondent home from Iraq for a family wedding. As he MON looks after his daughter and spends time with the woman he MON loves, he struggles to overcome the gaps between life at MON home and the daily traumas of his work. Read by Joe MON Armstrong. MON MON This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author MON of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks MON is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's MON life through those who encounter her. The journey has a MON global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via MON 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a MON playfully genre-bending subplot. MON MON Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five MON actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as MON Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke MON Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good MON looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed MON Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, MON struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and MON the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is MON Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a MON novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow MON is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who MON meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Joe Armstrong MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Author: David Mitchell MON MON 23:00 The Human Zoo b04980f1 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON MON Familiarity breeds contempt, as the saying goes. But MON psychologists say that repetition does something powerful to MON our appreciation of everything we hear - be it music, comedy MON or a political speech. MON MON The first time you hear a piece of music you may like it, MON you may hate it, you may be indifferent. Listen again and MON then again, and the chances are it will grow on you. It MON becomes familiar, enjoyable and may even enter your desert MON island discs. MON MON This is the power of repetition in action. Politicians MON attempt to harness it by repeating key phrases, though that MON can be a double edged sword - remember Norman Lamont's MON "green shoots of recovery"? MON MON The way our brains deal with repetition reveals some of the MON extraordinary ability we have to identify speech in an MON otherwise meaningless jumble of noise. Listen as Michael MON Blastland explores the power of repetition, the power of MON repetition. MON MON Produced by Toby Murcott MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Reimagining the City b01pnfjc (Listen) MON Series 1, New Orleans MON MON When the writer Nik Cohn was 10 years old, while on holiday MON in London, he visited a bookshop and found a copy of Alan MON Lomax's book on Jelly Roll Morton, the famous New Orleans MON musician. It had photographs of Jelly Roll's hometown - "the MON city of dreams" as it seemed to Nik. He fell for Jelly Roll MON Morton's vision of the city "hook line and sinker". MON MON Sitting in the rain in a school room back home in Northern MON Ireland, New Orleans became a place of magical MON possibilities. It would be another decade before he finally MON got to visit it, but it has become a place he returns to and MON re-discovers constantly. MON MON "Re-Imagining the City" is a series of four programmes in MON which we're offered a different vision of a city which can MON feel familiar. In this first programme, Nik takes us to the MON city he's had a love affair with all his life. "Music is MON just here" he says, "it's all around the city". Nik muses on MON what makes New Orleans so different, so special. The beauty, MON the music and the food are all part of it, but living under MON sea level also has an impact on anyone who spends proper MON time in the city. It's still his city of dreams. MON MON Produced by Rachel Hooper MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps MON Food Programme: New Orleans MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04jhjfl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04dwckb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04jhjfn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04jhjfq (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04jhjfs (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04jhjfv (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04jk08v (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the TUE Rev Dr Karen Smith. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04jk08x (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwdc (Listen) TUE African Jacana TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the wetland loving African TUE Jacana. Being rich chestnut coloured above, with black TUE heads, white throats, each has a patch of blue skin above TUE the bill, known as a shield, Jacanas are waders with very TUE long slender toes which allow them to walk on floating TUE plants giving them the name lily-trotters. Widespread in wet TUE places south of the Sahara desert they may become nomadic TUE moving between wetlands as seasonal water levels change. TUE They have an unusual mating system. Females mate with TUE several males, but leave their partners to build the nest, TUE incubate the eggs and bring up the chicks. With up to 3 or 4 TUE mates rearing her different broods, her strategy is to TUE produce the maximum number of young lily-trotters each year. TUE TUE African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Lou Coetzer / naturepl.com TUE NPL Ref 01463976 TUE © Lou Coetzer / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of African Jacana by Linda R. Macaulay / Ref: ML TUE 135964 TUE TUE This programme contains a wildtrack recording of the TUE African Jacana TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Linda R Macaulay, 5th October TUE 2002, Mukumi National Park, Tanzaniaa. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04jk35y (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b04jk360 (Listen) TUE Jackie Akhavan TUE TUE Jackie Akhavan, Professor of Explosive Chemistry, tells Jim TUE al-Khalili all about the science of explosives. She explains TUE exactly what explosives are and how to make them safer to TUE handle. TUE TUE She started by working on how to make fireworks safer and TUE has been involved in research with bees to see whether they TUE can be used smell different types of explosives. Her current TUE project involves testing the rocket fuel that will be used TUE in Bloodhound, the British designed and built supersonic car TUE that aims to reach a speed of 1,000mph. TUE TUE Her work involves finding out how to best detect explosives TUE in airports and elsewhere, teaching security professionals TUE how to differentiate between false alarms and the real TUE thing. She also works on explosives used in warfare and TUE discusses the ethical issues involved. TUE TUE Producer: Melissa Hogenboom. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01mc1rj (Listen) TUE Paddy O'Connell explores a subject that reflects his own TUE experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family TUE life. TUE TUE When Paddy was 11 his father died, and in this week's TUE programme -- in order to explore what impact this can have TUE -- he meets Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green who, at the age TUE of 10, lost his own father. Almost immediately he decided TUE that, when he grew up, he would become a doctor so that TUE other children "didn't have to lose their mummies and TUE daddies". TUE TUE This passion for helping children has continued throughout TUE his career: Sir Al was the first Children's Commissioner for TUE England (2005-2010), having also been involved in the TUE political arena of Children's Services since 2000. He was TUE appointed Chair of the NHS Taskforce for Children and then TUE the first National Clinical Director for Children in TUE government. He believes strongly that the topic of childhood TUE bereavement should be spoken about more openly. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jk08q (Listen) TUE Divided Heaven TUE TUE Neil MacGregor examines the story of the two Germanys, East TUE and West, created in 1949, through objects including a wet TUE suit used in an escape attempt from the East in 1987, which TUE was later used as a training device by the Stasi, the East TUE German secret police. TUE TUE Neil also focuses on another Stasi training device, a model TUE of Friedrichstrasse Station, a border crossing point in the TUE divided Berlin, and reflects on the life and work of the TUE East German writer Christa Wolf. TUE TUE Her novel Der Geteilte Himmel - The Divided Heaven, or The TUE Divided Sky - was published in 1963, two years after the TUE Berlin Wall went up. It made Christa Wolf's reputation, and TUE has been seen as the definitive account of the divergence of TUE the two Germanys, as seen from the East. Yet Wolf's own TUE position within the East German state was not simple, and TUE she later questioned whether her own memories were reliable. TUE TUE Producer Paul Kobrak. TUE Tunnelling Under the Berlin Wall TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Model of Friedrichstraße Station TUE Berlin's underground and overground rail systems intersected TUE above all at the Friedrichstraße Station. It was here that TUE most German people travelling in a divided Berlin had to TUE cross from one side to the other. TUE The process was meticulously controlled and governed, above TUE all on the Eastern side, by a determination to prevent TUE escape and to keep a very close eye on those who were TUE allowed to come in. TUE This intriguing object, a cross between a model railway and TUE a doll’s house, is doubly disturbing because it looks at TUE first sight like a plaything. Only later do you realize it TUE has a very grown up purpose: to train border guards in their TUE duties. TUE TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04jk364 (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 b04jk366 (Listen) TUE The Pillow Book, Episode 2 TUE TUE Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! TUE TUE The Emperor has become fascinated with a young woman he and TUE Yukinari discovered living among wolves. The girl has been TUE bought back to the palace for cleansing and examination. But TUE what the Emperor sees in this strange, wild girl is a TUE mystery to those who love and serve him. TUE TUE Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and TUE lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese TUE court. TUE TUE Written by Robert Forrest. TUE TUE Directed by Lu Kemp. TUE TUE A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell TUE Yukinari: Cal Macaninch TUE Empress: Laura Rees TUE Emperor: Paul Ready TUE Uzume: Jessica Hardwick TUE Writer: Robert Forrest TUE Director: Lu Kemp TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04jk368 (Listen) TUE Ocean Plastic and Seabirds TUE TUE Plastic litter has the knack of finding its way into the TUE ocean. Unfortunately this means that seabirds that have, TUE until relatively recently, been safe to assume that the TUE objects floating on the surface are food are getting a TUE stomach full of trash. Shared Planet finds out how bad the TUE situation is for seabirds like the fulmar and the simple TUE things we can do to reduce the problem. TUE TUE 11:30 Always the Bridesmaid b04jk36b (Listen) TUE Classical soprano and broadcaster Catherine Bott is used to TUE standing centre stage as a soloist, but has never sung TUE backing vocals live. She explores the world of the backing TUE vocalist and asks is it a case of constantly being TUE frustrated - always the bridesmaid and never the bride? She TUE talks to singer songwriter Eddi Reader about her move from TUE backing singer with Gang of Four and the Eurythmics to lead TUE singer of Fairground Attraction and then solo artist. Eddi TUE invites her to sing live in concert as a backing vocalist - TUE how will Catherine cope outside her comfort zone? Catherine TUE speaks to Annie Skates who is a backing vocalist to major TUE stars, and to singers from the Chorus of Opera North about TUE another type of backing vocalist - being a member of an TUE opera chorus. And with the help of arranger and producer TUE Steve Pycroft she tries her hand at recording backing vocals TUE to a song where she sings the main vocal line. TUE TUE With contributions from Eddi Reader, Steve Pycroft, Annie TUE Skates, Edward Thornton, Sarah Estill and Paul Rendall. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04jhjfx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04jk36d (Listen) TUE 30 September 1914 - Alice Macknade TUE TUE Alice is released from prison, but really doesn't want to go TUE home. TUE TUE Written by Katie Hims TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Maggie: Evie Clark TUE Esme: Katie Angelou TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Florrie: Claire Rushbrook TUE Bill: Ben Crowe TUE Trumpeter: Peter Ringrose TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04jk36g (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04jhjfz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04jk36j (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Open or Wrapped...? b04jk36l (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Food writer, Home Economist and Food stylist Alison Clarkson TUE follows eight people on a course in Leeds, specialising in TUE how to run their very own Fish and Chip shop. TUE TUE For generations, the meal has been a constant favourite with TUE thousands, if not millions, of people across Britain. TUE Churchill called them 'the good companion' and John Lennon TUE loved his with tomato ketchup. TUE TUE This episode takes us to the 2014 National Fish & Chip TUE Awards, and features Awards presenter and renowned chef Jean TUE Christophe Novelli. TUE TUE The series follows a three day course run by the National TUE Federation of Fish Fryers in Leeds. It takes students TUE through the requirements involved in running your own shop - TUE from fish preparation and battering, through health and TUE safety, to the legal and financial issues inherent in the TUE business. TUE TUE The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds - from TUE the finance industry to a retired musician, from an optician TUE to a newsagent. Two have ventured from France and one from TUE Hamburg, especially to attend the course. TUE TUE As well as following the students, the programmes trace the TUE history and development of selling chips. The meal became TUE popular in the early part of the nineteenth century as a TUE result of the rapid growth of trawl fishing in the North TUE Sea. In its heyday there were approximately thirty thousand TUE fish and chip shops in Britain. Today the number is around TUE twelve thousand. The acclaimed 5 out of 5, AA Rosette and TUE multi Michelin Star award winning chef Jean-Christophe TUE Novelli discusses his love and respect for our traditional TUE meal. TUE TUE Finally, we follow up the featured members of the course, TUE six months after attending it. How do you like the meal, TUE 'Open or wrapped..?!' TUE TUE Presenter: Alison Clarkson TUE TUE Produced by Eurof Williams TUE An Acme tv production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04jjz43 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b042ldz6 (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Underground Man, pt 2 TUE TUE 2 /2. Two men are dead and the police are searching TUE Glasgow's disused underground tunnels for their prime TUE suspect, an injured ex-soldier. Psychic Thomas Soutar senses TUE that danger is imminent - but the realisation comes too late TUE to prevent his girlfriend, Kat, from disappearing. By TUE Alastair Jessiman. TUE TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Brodie: Simon Donaldson TUE George: Finlay Welsh TUE DI Crawford: Stevie Hannan TUE Paul: Finlay McLean TUE WPC: Sharon Young TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04j9ym9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b04jk36n (Listen) TUE A Decade of Fracking TUE TUE After a decade of fracking, communities in Texas are still TUE arguing about the pros and cons of the shale gas industry. TUE With the industry ready to begin production in Lancashire, TUE Tom Heap compares and contrasts the hopes and fears of TUE Texans with those of the villagers of the Fylde coast. TUE TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Out of the Ordinary b03w0118 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Secrets of Picking Up Women in Public TUE TUE In a new series bringing stories from the left field, Jolyon TUE Jenkins investigates the underground brotherhood of "pick up TUE artists" - men who claim to have have turned the art of TUE seduction into a science. TUE TUE It all started with a best-selling book written ten years TUE ago called The Game, which revealed the existence of a band TUE of men who had incredible success with women, not because of TUE their looks, but because they had apparently deconstructed TUE the mystery that is the feminine psyche. As a result of the TUE book, men around the world formed pick up artist societies TUE or "lairs". There are trainers, coaches, videos and forums. TUE They have their own vocabulary and acronyms. The central TUE tenet of their faith is that men can approach random women TUE out of the blue and, provided they structure the interaction TUE right, success is virtually guaranteed. TUE TUE Jolyon spends an afternoon roaming the West End with members TUE of the "London Seduction Society", and then joins a weekend TUE bootcamp in which four unconfident, inexperienced men are TUE trained by expert seducers in how to pick up women in Oxford TUE Street. Is it all deeply misogynistic or just another form TUE of self-help? TUE TUE Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04jk3qm (Listen) TUE Series 34, Prof Edith Hall on Lucille Ball TUE TUE Matthew Parris discovers that Edith Hall, Professor of TUE Classics at King's College, London, has a surprising TUE nomination for a Great Life - that of Lucille Ball, the TUE vivacious redhead who in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the TUE best-known and best-loved actresses on television, both in TUE the United States and here. What makes a professor of Greek TUE and Roman writing such a great fan of a zany American TUE actress? What was Lucy like behind the television persona? TUE Matthew finds out in the company of Carole Cook, Lucy's TUE long-time friend and protégée. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Edith Hall TUE Interviewed Guest: Carole Cook TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04jk3qp (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04jhjg1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself b04jk3qr (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE A brand new impression and sketch show that looks behind the TUE scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis TUE Macleod (Newsjack, Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace, Dead TUE Ringers) with Kate O'Sullivan, Duncan Wisbey and Julian TUE Dutton. TUE TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ensemble: Lewis Mcleod TUE Ensemble: Kate O'Sullivan TUE Ensemble: Duncan Wisbey TUE Ensemble: Julian Dutton TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04jk3qt (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04jk3qw (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Interviewed Guest: Hilary Mantel TUE TUE 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jk08q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b04jk3qy (Listen) TUE How well are Britain's borders patrolled and defended at a TUE time when the authorities are battling to stem the flow of TUE illegal immigrants coming across the Channel and tightening TUE national security because of fears of a terrorist attack by TUE extremists returning from fighting in Syria and Iraq? TUE Allan Urry assesses the vulnerability of our ports, TUE struggling with cuts to Border Force personnel and problems TUE with a computer system that was supposed to have identified TUE all those coming into and going out of the UK. The programme TUE reveals how security checks on cargo are being compromised TUE and hears concern about the gaps in surveillance of our TUE coastline. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Forde TUE Reporter: Allan Urry. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04jk3rv (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04jk3rx (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b04jk360 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04jhjg3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04jk3rz (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04jk3s1 (Listen) TUE The Bone Clocks, Episode 7 TUE TUE By David Mitchell. Part seven. Ed and Holly. Foreign TUE correspondent Ed Brubeck's life shifts on its axis when his TUE six year old daughter goes missing. As he and Holly search TUE for their daughter their own relationship comes into focus. TUE Read by Joe Armstrong TUE TUE Ed Brubeck is a foreign correspondent home from Iraq for a TUE family wedding. As he looks after his daughter and spends TUE time with the woman he loves, he struggles to overcome the TUE gaps between life at home and the daily traumas of his work. TUE Read by Joe Armstrong. TUE TUE This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author TUE of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks TUE is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's TUE life through those who encounter her. The journey has a TUE global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via TUE 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a TUE playfully genre-bending subplot. TUE TUE Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five TUE actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as TUE Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke TUE Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good TUE looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed TUE Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, TUE struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and TUE the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is TUE Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a TUE novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow TUE is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who TUE meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Joe Armstrong TUE Producer: Allegra McIlroy TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Author: David Mitchell TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b04jk3s3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Escarpments TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient returns with another TUE series of his own sketch show. Sketches, characters, sound TUE effects, bit of music, some messin' about, you know... TUE TUE This week, if you've ever been abducted by an alien, had an TUE idea for a novelty tea towel or simply love escarpments, TUE then this is the show for you. It's also the show for you if TUE you don't have any of the afore-mentioned qualifications. TUE TUE Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually TUE every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not TUE content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve TUE Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, TUE Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally TUE decided to put together another run of his own comedy series TUE for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now... TUE TUE Appearing across the series are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan TUE Partridge, Scott and Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), TUE Paul Putner (Little Britain), Justin Edwards (The TUE Consultants), David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls) and Catherine TUE Shepherd (Cardinal Burns, Harry and Paul). TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon, with additional material by Jason TUE Hazeley and Joel Morris (A Touch Of Cloth, That Mitchell and TUE Webb Sound) TUE Original music by Martin Bird TUE TUE Produced and Directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Kevin Eldon TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE Writer: Kevin Eldon TUE Writer: Jason Hazeley TUE Writer: Joel Morris TUE TUE 23:30 Reimagining the City b03sr0wm (Listen) TUE Series 2, London TUE TUE "The city is about light and water for me because it TUE interrupts them, it interrupts light and it interrupts water TUE and when something is interrupted it reveals itself to you". TUE TUE Lavinia Greenlaw is perhaps unusual in that she has lived in TUE the same part of London for most of her life. Walking up TUE Hampstead Heath in the first light of a winter's morning she TUE explains how the Heath is her childhood landscape where she TUE played with her siblings. TUE TUE But it's also the point where the city and the suburbs meet: TUE "Although there's no clear edge to London I feel that the TUE lip of the bowl where it sits is defined by the Heath which TUE starts out being in the city and quickly ends up in the TUE suburbs - a very different place. I was born on the border TUE and used to feel that I was operating in two countries". TUE TUE Here she crosses the river, climbs towers and walks through TUE the Heath to reveal her unexpected and surprising vision of TUE London. TUE TUE Produced by Rachel Hooper TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 OCTOBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04jhjh7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jk08q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04jhjh9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04jhjhc (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04jhjhf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04jhjhh (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04jlntd (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the WED Rev Dr Karen Smith. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04jlntg (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwg9 (Listen) WED Brown Kiwi WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the New Zealand brown kiwi. A WED piercing wail can be heard in a forest at night. A brown WED kiwi is calling. Only found in New Zealand, kiwi are WED flightless birds and the brown kiwi, which is about the size WED of a domestic chicken, lays an egg weighing as much as a WED quarter of its own bodyweight - proportionally; the largest WED egg for its size of any bird. More mammal like than birds; WED their tiny eyes are of little use, but they have an WED excellent sense of smell, using their nostrils located WED unusually for birds near the end of the bill. Held in great WED affection, brown kiwi appear on coins, stamps and coats-of- WED arms as well as providing a nick-name for New Zealand's WED national rugby team. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. WED N WED PL Ref 01443142 WED © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b04jlntj (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b04jlntl (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jlntn (Listen) WED Kafka, Kant and Lost Capitals WED WED Continuing the week's theme of Germany's floating frontiers, WED Neil MacGregor visits two cities now beyond Germany's WED present borders, but which played important roles in WED Germany's intellectual and literary history. WED WED Kaliningrad, on the Baltic, became part of the Soviet Union WED in 1945, and is now part of Russia. But for centuries it was WED Königsberg, a major Prussian city, and birthplace of the WED philosopher Immanuel Kant - and so central to the WED intellectual history of Germany. WED WED Neil also visits the Czech city of Prague, once home to a WED large German-speaking community, which included Franz Kafka, WED one of the most acclaimed writers in the German language. WED WED Today neither Russian-speaking Kaliningrad nor WED Czech-speaking Prague are in any sense German - but what is WED their place within the memories of Germany? WED WED Producer Paul Kobrak. WED WED Amber tankard WED This splendid amber tankard in the British Museum was made WED around 1650 in Königsberg - once the eastern-most outpost of WED the German-speaking world but now known as Kaliningrad and WED part of Russia. WED Königsberg grew rich thanks to trade in one commodity above WED all: amber. For centuries the local rulers exploited their WED near-monopoly of the material to give sumptuous diplomatic WED gifts that nobody could match and nobody would refuse. WED WED Amber tankard lid WED This tankard was not principally designed for drinking, but WED for show. To have this on your table places you very high. WED The white amber (rarer even than the golden) used for the WED disc in the centre of the lid bears the arms of the Swedish WED crown. WED This tankard almost certainly belonged to Queen Christina of WED Sweden, a gift from the Elector of Brandenburg, who was Duke WED of Prussia, ruler of Königsberg and in search of powerful WED allies. WED WED Königsberg manhole cover in Kaliningrad WED This is all that remains of the long German presence in the WED city once known as Königsberg. WED All around, you see Soviet buildings and statues and the WED name of Kaliningrad in Cyrillic. But on the city's manhole WED covers you can still read the name KÖNIGSBERG. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04jlntq (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b04jlnts (Listen) WED The Pillow Book, Episode 3 WED WED Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! WED WED The feral girl is sheltered and housed within the Palace WED walls, given Lady Shonagon as her tutor, and allowed to WED frequent the company of the Emperor and Empress. The Emperor WED insists that the girl has something to teach them, and that WED he for one intends to listen. WED WED Meanwhile, there is trouble abroad beyond the palace walls - WED forest fires, earthquakes and wolves coming out of the hills WED and down into the towns. The people of the palace are WED beginning to wonder whether the girl wields an uncanny power WED over it all. WED WED Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and WED lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese WED court. WED WED Written by Robert Forrest. WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell WED Yukinari: Cal Macaninch WED Empress: Laura Rees WED Emperor: Paul Ready WED Uzume: Jessica Hardwick WED Writer: Robert Forrest WED Director: Lu Kemp WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04jlpmz (Listen) WED Grace and Dani - Cancer Can't Stop Me WED WED At the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Fi Glover WED introduces a conversation between friends dealing with the WED return of cancer after being given the all clear. It's now WED terminal but Grace is still determined to live life to the WED full. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b04jlpn1 (Listen) WED Series 5, Going It Alone WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers. WED WED This week he speaks to people who, through choice or WED circumstance, are going it alone. WED WED He hears from a Chinese student, now living in Los Angeles, WED who is coping with living alone in a foreign country and has WED come to terms with his stutter without the help of a speech WED therapist. WED WED A woman from Australia explains how she is overcoming the WED disappointment of being jilted by her Vietnamese fiancé WED while another in Argentina explains why she wants to remain WED alone having lost her savings in pursuit of a relationship. WED WED And finally he hears from a widow in London who is haunted WED by her husband's death. WED WED Producer: Clare Walker. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b04jlpn3 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED WED Stand up comedians Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh and Paul WED Sinha and novelist and classicist Natalie Haynes join chair WED Gyles Brandreth for the panel game for word fans. WED WED Today's Letter of the week is the sinuous letter 'S'. Lloyd WED Langford has to work out what the Victorian term 'Smothering WED a parrot' meant. Natalie Haynes works out what a 'Saint WED Giles Carpet' was. Holly Walsh works out what she'd be doing WED in the 1700s if she were to ride on 'Shank's mare'. And Paul WED Sinha works out what a 'spermologer' is. WED WED In a round about portmanteau words Natalie is asked what a WED 'chork' is; Holly a 'geep'; Paul 'smirting' and Lloyd a WED 'flexitarian'. WED WED Next the panellists are asked to guess the meaning of some WED foreign words which have no direct equivalent in English. WED Lloyd tries to guess the meaning of the Central American WED word 'chaquetero' and Holly works out what the Chilean WED phrase 'pagar el piso' means. WED WED The panel then try and ban the words which drive them most WED mad including 'foodie' and 'chillax'. WED WED Finally they try and decipher what the long-forgotten words WED from the early 1600s are: 'mulct','matrixe', 'pistated' and WED 'obnubilate'. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Gyles Brandreth WED Panellist: Lloyd Langford WED Panellist: Holly Walsh WED Panellist: Paul Sinha WED Panellist: Natalie Haynes WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04jhjhk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04jlrxd (Listen) WED 1 October 1914 - Isabel Graham WED WED First Dorothea and then Sylvia start to act entirely out of WED character. Isabel has trouble understanding anyone's WED behaviour. WED WED Written by Katie Hims WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Sylvia: Deborah Findlay WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED Writer: Katie Hims WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04jlrxg (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04jhjhm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04jlrxj (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Open or Wrapped...? b04jlrxl (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Food writer, Home Economist and Food stylist Alison Clarkson WED follows eight people on a course in Leeds, specialising in WED how to run their very own Fish and Chip shop. WED WED For generations, the meal has been a constant favourite with WED thousands, if not millions, of people across Britain. WED Churchill called them 'the good companion' and John Lennon WED loved his with tomato ketchup. WED WED This episode takes us to day two of the course in Leeds, WED where we discover the intricacies of mushy peas... WED WED The series follows a three day course run by the National WED Federation of Fish Fryers in Leeds. It takes students WED through the requirements involved in running your own shop - WED from fish preparation and battering, through health and WED safety, to the legal and financial issues inherent in the WED business. WED WED The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds - from WED the finance industry to a retired musician, from an WED opticians to a newsagent. Two have ventured from France and WED one from Hamburg, especially to attend the course. WED WED As well as following the students, the programmes trace the WED history and development of selling chips. The meal became WED popular in the early part of the nineteenth century as a WED result of the rapid growth of trawl fishing in the North WED Sea. In its heyday there were approximately thirty thousand WED fish and chip shops in Britain. Today the number is around WED twelve thousand. The acclaimed 5 out of 5, AA Rosette and WED multi Michelin Star award winning chef Jean-Christophe WED Novelli discusses his love and respect for our traditional WED meal. WED WED Finally, we follow up the featured members of the course, WED six months after attending it. How do you like the meal, WED 'Open or wrapped..?!' WED WED Presenter: Alison Clarkson WED WED Produced by Eurof Williams WED An Acme tv production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04jk3qt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03jdw6f (Listen) WED Amah in the Bathtub WED WED It's 1967 and the women who are members of a British WED swimming club in colonial Singapore take their social events WED seriously - but not all of them know what's going on at WED home. WED WED A young mother, Connie Conport, is particularly clueless WED about problems developing between her two young boys and WED their nanny. She has hired an amah, a servant from China, WED who is a member of a group dedicated to domestic service. WED WED Ah Chat belongs to a sisterhood of 'black and whites'. They WED wear a traditional uniform and swear an oath to remain WED celibate. On their rare days off, they meet up at their WED headquarters, the kongsi house. It's a refuge and a support WED group. These women are her only family in Singapore. WED WED Elderly Ah Chat has good references - seventeen British WED families have employed her previously - but this position WED seems to have serious problems. WED WED Sound Design: Jon Nicholls WED Written, directed and produced by Judith Kampfner WED WED A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED Credits WED Flora Hampton: Alexandra Williamson WED Donna Simon: Amy Warren WED Connie Conport: Ruth Moore WED Rupert Conport: Tom Phelps WED Brian Conport: Bryn Spender WED Priscilla Hampton: Suzanne Bertish WED Sun Yun Wing: Hansel Tan WED Sylvia Lim: Margaret Leng Tan WED Ah Sui: Jane Wu WED Pianist: Hannah Nicholls WED Writer: Judith Kampfner WED Director: Judith Kampfner WED Producer: Judith Kampfner WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04jlrxn (Listen) WED Wills and Inheritance Tax Planning WED WED The rules about who will inherit your property and money if WED you don't have a will are changing in England and Wales on WED 1st October. To find out how you or your loved ones will be WED affected call 3700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday WED or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Without a will, who will inherit and who will be responsible WED for settling your affairs? WED WED If you want to draw up a will what should you consider, how WED much will it cost and should you do it yourself? WED WED Can you give away assets before you die or protect someone's WED interests after you are gone? WED WED What can you pass on to your nearest and dearest without WED paying inheritance tax? WED WED Whatever your question, ready to share their knowledge and WED experience will be: WED WED Jenny Bird, Solicitor, Russell-Cooke WED Nicola Plant, Partner and Notary Public, Pemberton Greenish WED Solicitors WED Austin Lafferty, Austin Lafferty Solicitors and Past WED President of the Law Society of Scotland. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04jk3rx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04hytg6 (Listen) WED Salman Khan WED WED Sal Khan worked as a hedge-fund analyst before he set up the WED Khan Academy, almost by accident, when his cousin in another WED city needed help with her maths homework. Since then, his WED online video lessons have been watched half a billion times, WED and he's been described by Bill Gates as 'the world's WED favourite teacher'. WED WED In this programme, Sal Khan talks about how and why he set WED up the not-for-profit organisation. He tells Sarah Montague WED why he believes lesson time in school could be spent more WED effectively if the explanation of new ideas is done at home, WED with students watching video lectures, in a process known as WED 'flipped learning'. WED WED He argues that pupils should have the freedom to move at WED their own pace, only moving on when they have mastered a WED concept. He says this type of learning would be done best in WED larger classes made up of students from mixed age groups and WED abilities. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04jlrxq (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04jlrxs (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news, with Eddie Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04jhjhp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04jlrxv (Listen) WED Series 10, How to Be a Good Citizen WED WED Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves WED with a broadcast of national comic import! WED WED In this programme, Jeremy attempts to understand WED citizenship, to examine the State and to spell surveillance. WED Looking over his shoulder at the script will be Gordon WED Kennedy (Absolutely) and Carla Mendonça. WED WED Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of WED debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank WED exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, WED erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series WED of his show, famous for lines like, "Kids should never be WED fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old WED daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she WED was old enough to go out and make her own". WED WED Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they WED first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show WED was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on WED a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since WED the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment WED department was besieged, questions were asked in the House WED and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible WED for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with WED Paul Lewis. WED WED Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony WED Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for WED Chemistry. He is a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz WED and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He can't sing. WED WED Written by Jeremy Hardy WED WED Produced by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jeremy Hardy WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Jeremy Hardy WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04jlrxx (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04jlrxz (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Kirsty Lang WED WED 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jlntn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Future Proofing b04jlry1 (Listen) WED The Descent of Man WED WED Will men be needed in the future? Writer Michael Smith WED explores the uncertain future of masculinity. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04jlry3 (Listen) WED Sunil Shaunak argues that pharmaceuticals could, and should, WED build social capital. WED WED Arguing that the twin risks of rampant infectious disease WED and resistance to antibiotics represent a grave threat to WED our future, Sunil makes the case for ethical WED pharmaceuticals. Sunil's own background bridges the gap WED between academia and the pharmaceutical industry, and from WED this vantage point he has grown concerned that while the WED public sector puts up the initial financial capital, the WED return is often in purely financial terms, diminishing our WED shared social capital. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04jk36n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04jlntl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04jhjhr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04jls69 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04jls6c (Listen) WED The Bone Clocks, Episode 8 WED WED By David Mitchell. Part eight. Crispin Hershey. WED No-longer-so-Young Turk of the literary scene Crispin WED Hershey spins a brilliant strategy to exact revenge on a WED Literary critic. Read by Robert Glenister WED WED This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author WED of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks WED is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's WED life through those who encounter her. The journey has a WED global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via WED 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a WED playfully genre-bending subplot. WED WED Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five WED actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as WED Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke WED Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good WED looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed WED Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, WED struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and WED the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is WED Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a WED novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow WED is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who WED meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Robert Glenister WED Producer: Allegra McIlroy WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Author: David Mitchell WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01fjvxv (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel is charged with creating relaxing music for a pregnant WED ladies music group. WED WED But whilst Arts Centre director Belinda happily sells WED tickets for his 'live inspirational womb music' sessions, WED Nigel is hampered in his preparations by the usual array of WED challenging pupils and a rather early arrival. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Alfie: Jim North WED Heather: Felicity Montagu WED Jeremy: Dave Lamb WED Claude: Joseph Webb WED Libby: Jess Robinson WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01kbjdj (Listen) WED Series 3, The Start, the Middle, and the End of Time WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated WED 2000-year-old Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his WED small finger to destroy a town, yet hasn't enough clout to WED get a speed bump installed outside his cave by the local WED Council. Even for such a skilful sorcerer - modern life is WED rubbish! WED WED In this episode Mordrin (David Kay) decides he has to do WED something to rescue his chances of ever getting together WED with Heather (Hannah Donaldson), who has just announced her WED engagement to slime-ball Aiden (Donald Pirie). He asks WED Bernard The Blue (Jack Docherty) to borrow the Timepiece of WED Trapathia to travel back in time and make up for all the WED missed opportunities with Heather. WED WED Cast: WED Mordrin ........ David Kay WED Geoff ....... Gordon Kennedy WED Bernard ........ Jack Docherty WED Heather ........ Hannah Donaldson WED Aiden ........ Donald Pirie WED DJ ........ Johnny Austin WED WED Written by David Kay & Gavin Smith. WED WED Produced by Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Geoff: Gordon Kennedy WED Bernard: Jack Docherty WED Heather: Hannah Donaldson WED Aiden: Donald Pirie WED DJ: Johnny Austin WED Writer: David Kay WED Writer: Gavin Smith WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED WED 23:30 Reimagining the City b03tqx9v (Listen) WED Series 2, Calcutta WED WED In 1999, the novelist Amit Chaudhuri moved from England back WED to Calcutta. It was a place he had loved in his youth and WED the place he made his name writing about. WED WED Growing up in Bombay, Amit Chaudhuri used to feel a charge WED of anticipation on visiting Calcutta. For him, it was his WED first taste of modernism, of a completely contemporary city. WED WED "This is what I must have had an intuition of, even as a WED child. And this is why I feel, even now, that the most WED revealing places in Calcutta are not the museums or the WED monuments - there aren't many of those - but the houses and WED lanes." WED WED That Calcutta was one of the great cities of modernity for WED Amit. He found himself changed by his encounters. WED WED "By modern, I don't mean new or developed, but a self WED renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting space, of apprehending WED life." WED WED A colleague of Amit's told him that he loved the city WED because "you can feel that something happened here". WED WED Amit takes us on a guided tour of the city, and explores WED whether that city of his childhood still exists or is just a WED realm of his imagination. WED WED Produced by Rachel Hooper WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 OCTOBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04jhjjp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jlntn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04jhjjr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04jhjjt (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04jhjjw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04jhjjy (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04jlygp (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the THU Rev Dr Karen Smith. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04jlygr (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwj9 (Listen) THU Shoebill THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the mysterious shoebill of THU Uganda. Reaching almost one and a quarter metres in height THU and looking like a hefty-looking blue-grey stork, THU ornithologists remain unsure which birds are their closest THU relatives. As its name suggests, the Shoebill's most THU outstanding feature, is its enormous clog-shaped bill. Up to THU 20cm long, half as wide and ending in a nail-like hook. They THU live in central and east African swamps where they feed on THU reptiles, fish, amphibians and even young crocodiles. Their THU bill is also useful in the baking heat of the African sun, THU when the adults scoop up beak-fulls of water and shower it THU over their chicks to help them keep cool. THU THU Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Barrie Britton / naturepl.com. THU NPL Ref 01426232 THU © Barrie Britton / naturepl.com. THU THU Recording of Shoebill by Myles E. W. North / Ref: ML 2284 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the Shoebill THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by MilesE. W. North on 24th Oct THU 1961, in Uganda. THU "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> THU THU 06:00 Today b04jlygt (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b04jlygw (Listen) THU Julius Caesar THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life, work and THU reputation of Julius Caesar. Famously assassinated as he THU entered the Roman senate on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Caesar THU was an inspirational general who conquered much of Europe. THU He was a ruthless and canny politician who became dictator THU of Rome, and wrote The Gallic Wars, one of the most admired THU and studied works of Latin literature. Shakespeare is one of THU many later writers to have been fascinated by the figure of THU Julius Caesar. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jlygy (Listen) THU Strasbourg - Floating City THU THU Neil MacGregor visits Strasbourg, now in France, but also a THU city with a key place in German history, culture and THU precision engineering, as revealed by a model of the THU cathedral clock, now in the British Museum. THU THU When the writer Goethe stood in front of Strasbourg's THU Cathedral, he discovered two things: the transporting, THU transforming force of Gothic architecture and one aspect of THU what it meant to him to be German. THU THU Producer Paul Kobrak. THU THU Strasbourg Clock THU The clock in Strasbourg Cathedral, completed in 1574, was THU the work of Isaac Habrecht, one of the greatest masters of THU mechanical precision to flourish in Renaissance Germany. THU In 1589, Habrecht made a smaller domestic version of his THU Strasbourg masterpiece. This almost-portable clock tower THU (pictured here) is housed in the British Museum. THU THU THU Broadside print THU This broadside print of around 1678, housed in the British THU Museum, shows how the Germans viewed the French occupation THU of territory which had always been part of the Holy Roman THU Empire. THU An angry eagle, carrying the Imperial orb, surrounded by THU smaller allies and brandishing a sword, swoops down to THU attack and repel the French cock which is trampling a map of THU the Empire, its shadow blotting out Strassburg. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04jlyh0 (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 b04jlyh2 (Listen) THU The Pillow Book, Episode 4 THU THU Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to solve a new THU mystery in 10th Century Japan. THU THU The Emperor is sickening, a disturbance of his mind has THU become a fever and the feral girl is appearing to him in THU dreams. The Empress attends to him, for once without her THU ladies. She is determined to return her husband to health THU herself, regardless of palace etiquette. And she will go to THU any lengths necessary to do so. THU THU Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and THU lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese THU court. THU THU Written by Robert Forrest. THU THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell THU Yukinari: Cal Macaninch THU Empress: Laura Rees THU Emperor: Paul Ready THU Uzume: Jessica Hardwick THU Writer: Robert Forrest THU Director: Lu Kemp THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b04jlzcc (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The First Action Movie b041vvw0 (Listen) THU The Mottershaws of the Sheffield Photo Co. are not as famous THU as Hollywood but they made their mark. In this programme - THU The First Action Movie - filmmaker Penny Woolcock brings the THU Mottershaws' most pioneering work back to life - a THU little-known silent film called Daring Daylight Burglary THU that they say influenced the classic Great Train Robbery. THU Making it, the Mottershaws worked out how to tell fictional THU stories on location and tell them well: chase sequences, THU revenge motives, trains leaving stations pursued and just THU missed or caught as they pull away... these are just some of THU the thriller tropes we take for granted now: the Mottershaws THU made them work in 1903. THU THU Two generations of Mottershaw did it, both called Frank, THU using a camera built by young Arthur. Penny meets the next THU two generations of Mottershaw, both still in pictures, THU father and son, both called John. THU THU The Mottershaws' early films sold internationally, but then THU the States - with its sunshine and crowds and money - took THU over from European independents like the Sheffield Photo THU Co.. What happened to the film-makers, after their few years THU of success and to the Sheffield Photo Co.? THU THU With Judith Buchanan, Professor of Film and Literature at THU the University of York and Audio Descriptions by Radio 3's THU Louise Fryer. THU THU Produced by Frances Byrnes THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04jhjk0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04jlzcf (Listen) THU 2 October 1914 - Ralph Winwood THU THU Adam finally tells the whole truth, as all Reverend THU Winwood's chickens come home to roost. THU THU Written by Katie Hims THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Victor: Joel McCormack THU Adam: Leo Montague THU Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Katie Hims THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04jlzch (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04jhjk2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04jlzck (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark THU Mardell. THU THU 13:45 Open or Wrapped...? b04jlzsh (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Food writer, Home Economist and Food stylist Alison Clarkson THU follows eight people on a course in Leeds, specialising in THU how to run their very own Fish and Chip shop. THU THU For generations, the meal has been a constant favourite with THU thousands, if not millions, of people across Britain. THU Churchill called them 'the good companion' and John Lennon THU loved his with tomato ketchup. THU THU In this episode it's the final day of the course, where we THU learn the vital importance of potatoes being cut to time! THU The public experience the efforts of the students for the THU first time, including 100 year-old local Edna Beavis. THU THU The series follows a three day course run by the National THU Federation of Fish Fryers in Leeds. It takes students THU through the requirements involved in running your own shop - THU from fish preparation and battering, through health and THU safety, to the legal and financial issues inherent in the THU business. THU THU The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds - from THU the finance industry to a retired musician, from an THU opticians to a newsagent. Two have ventured from France and THU one from Hamburg, especially to attend the course. THU THU As well as following the students, the programmes trace the THU history and development of selling chips. The meal became THU popular in the early part of the nineteenth century as a THU result of the rapid growth of trawl fishing in the North THU Sea. In its heyday there were approximately thirty thousand THU fish and chip shops in Britain. Today the number is around THU twelve thousand. The acclaimed 5 out of 5, AA Rosette and THU multi Michelin Star award winning chef Jean-Christophe THU Novelli discusses his love and respect for our traditional THU meal. THU THU Finally, we follow up the featured members of the course, THU six months after attending it. How do you like the meal, THU 'Open or wrapped..?!' THU THU Presenter: Alison Clarkson THU THU Produced by Eurof Williams THU An Acme tv production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04jlrxx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04jlzsk (Listen) THU Conlang of Love THU THU By Lou Ramsden. THU Oona Chaplin stars as Frances, a young fantasy fiction THU fanatic who finds communicating in the real world a THU struggle. She's a con-langer - someone who constructs THU languages for fun. So when the opportunity to create THU 'dwarvish' for a new novel arises Frances jumps at the THU chance. But her dream job takes her on an even bigger THU adventure than she'd bargained for. THU THU The Conlang of Love is a unique, heartfelt comedy about THU love, language and dwarves. THU THU Produced by Nandita Ghose THU Directed by Helen Perry THU THU Oona Chaplin is best known for her role as Talisa Maegyr in THU HBO's Game of Thrones and has also appeared in The Hour, THU Sherlock and Channel 4's Dates. THU THU Clips THU empty THU empty THU empty THU empty THU See all clips from Conlang of Love (4) THU THU Credits THU Frances: Oona Chaplin THU Gethin: Paul Heath THU Rita: Lorelei King THU Vorgen: Shaun Mason THU Jogo: Monty D'Inverno THU Keritas: Bettrys Jones THU Producer: Nandita Ghose THU Director: Helen Perry THU Writer: Lou Ramsden THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b04jm36f (Listen) THU Series 28, The Dales Way, Part Three THU THU Clare Balding continues her journey along The Dales Way, THU hiking from Grassington to Kettlewell in the company of two THU experienced long distance walkers, Aileen Strangham and THU Brenda Dodd. Clare enjoys their company so much and their THU tales of taking part in every Great North Run, that they THU wander off track and have to use all their combined map THU reading skills to get themselves back onto the right route. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Aileen Strangham THU Interviewed Guest: Brenda Dodd THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04jhl56 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04jhpnx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04jm36h (Listen) THU Film programme looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs THU and films on TV. THU THU Credits THU Interviewed Guest: Clint Mansell THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04jm36k (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04jm36m (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04jhjk4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b04jm36p (Listen) THU Series 3, About Bad Boys THU THU ABOUT BAD BOYS THU THU In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan THU Caton tries to be a good role model for his younger brother THU Tyree. THU THU Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing is a series about young, THU up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the THU first in his family to graduate from University, opted not THU to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand THU at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's THU horror and disgust. They desperately want him to get a THU 'proper job.' THU THU Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and THU rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving THU family as he tries to prove himself. THU THU The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with THU scenes from his family life. THU THU Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of THU the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she THU just wants the best for her son. However, she'd also love to THU brag and show her son off to her friends, but with Nathan THU only telling jokes for a living that's kind of hard to do. THU THU Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was THU looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of THU them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan THU has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is clumsy and THU hard-headed and leaves running the house to his wife (she THU wouldn't allow it to be any other way). THU THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down THU architecture for comedy. She can't believe she left the THU paradise in the West Indies and came to the freezing United THU Kingdom for a better life so that years later her grandson THU could 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use THU foul language and filthy material... it's not the good THU Christian way! THU THU So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan THU do? Will he persevere and follow his dreams? Or will he give THU in to his family's interference? Or will he finally leave THU home?! THU THU Credits THU Nathan: Nathan Caton THU Grandma: Mona Hammond THU Mum: Adjoa Andoh THU Dad: Curtis Walker THU Tyree: Alhaji Fofano THU Ms Carter: Chizzy Akudolu THU Lethal Damager: Damian Lynch THU Year 11 Boy: Kavern Batchelor THU Year 11 Boy: Oscar Wilkinson THU Writer: Nathan Caton THU Writer: James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04jm36r (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04jm36t (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Kirsty Lang THU Interviewed Guest: Rosamund Pike THU THU 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jlygy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04jm36w (Listen) THU Francis: The Pope's Calling THU THU Just over a year ago, the phone rang at the office of the THU Italian newspaper La Repubblica. A man asked to speak to THU Eugenio Scalfari, the paper's 90 year old founder and a THU prominent atheist. The caller was Pope Francis. And so began THU an unusual friendship, an unconventional piece of journalism THU and an unexpected glimpse into the character of a man who THU has taken the world stage by storm. Scalfari drew a picture THU of a "revolutionary" Pope, set on reforming Church THU bureaucracy, punishing paedophilia and re-examining priestly THU celibacy. THU THU It's just one example of the style that has seen Pope THU Francis labelled the "cold-call Pope" - someone who has THU swapped the traditional, measured means of Papal THU communication for off the cuff statements and direct THU outreach to Catholics and non-Catholics alike. His informal THU approach has added to his mega-star popularity and fuelled THU hopes, and fears, about change in the Catholic Church. THU THU For The Report, the BBC's Director of News and Current THU Affairs James Harding sets out to understand one of the THU world's most fascinating and charismatic leaders. How does THU Pope Francis really operate, does he herald a revolution in THU style or substance, and can his popularity survive in the THU face of such high expectations? As Church leaders gather in THU the Vatican for a Synod looking at how Church teaching THU concerning the family relates to the reality of modern life, THU The Report asks whether a "revolutionary" really has taken THU over at the Vatican. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b04jm36y (Listen) THU The Saviour Returns THU THU The best person for the job? Evan Davis hears from four THU bosses who took back control of the companies they had once THU founded. Why did they leave and what events made them THU return? From boardroom coups to corporate collapses, THU entrepreneurs explain how they took the helm - for the THU second time - of the businesses they knew so well. What had THU changed while they were away? And what were the very first THU decisions they made when they walked back through the doors? THU THU Guests: Steve Morgan, founder, Redrow; Louise O'Sullivan, THU founder, Anam; Nick and Kath Whitworth, co-founders, Celtic THU Sheepskin. THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04jm36k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04jlygw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04jhjk6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04gwm5h (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04jm3d7 (Listen) THU The Bone Clocks, Episode 9 THU THU By David Mitchell. Part nine. Crispin Hershey, once a major THU star of the literary firmament, is now living with the THU spectacularly disastrous consequences of his plan to THU embarrass an unpleasant literary critic. At a literary THU festival in Australia he encounters fellow author Holly THU Sykes and her teenage daughter. Read by Robert Glenister THU THU This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author THU of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks THU is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's THU life through those who encounter her. The journey has a THU global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via THU 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a THU playfully genre-bending subplot. THU THU Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five THU actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as THU Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke THU Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good THU looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed THU Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, THU struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and THU the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is THU Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a THU novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow THU is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who THU meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Robert Glenister THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Author: David Mitchell THU THU 23:00 Ayres on the Air b01n20gw (Listen) THU Series 4, Autumn THU THU Popular poet Pam Ayres presents her poetry and sketch show. THU She is joined by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as THU they look this week at Autumn. THU THU She looks at subjects such as what to donate to the harvest THU festival, interesting things to put on a bonfire, checking THU out retirement homes in the Autumn of one's life and the THU choosing a suitable evening class for you husband. THU THU Her poems this week include: I Don't Want to Go to School THU Mum and The Harvest Hymn. THU THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU THU 23:30 Reimagining the City b01pz4tg (Listen) THU Series 1, Istanbul THU THU In her twenties, the writer Elif Shafak moved to Istanbul. THU "The city called me," she says. She moved there, knowing THU no-one, hoping to become a full time writer. She found her THU subject matter. THU THU "In Istanbul, you understand, perhaps not intellectually but THU intuitively, that East and West are ultimately imaginary THU ideas, ones that can be de-imagined and re-imagined." THU THU Elif offers us her vision of Istanbul; a city that's never THU quiet, always moving and wrestling with itself. THU THU Produced by Rachel Hooper THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 OCTOBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04jhjl4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jlygy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04jhjl6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04jhjl8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04jhjlb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04jhjld (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04jm9mq (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the FRI Rev Dr Karen Smith. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04jm9ms (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwkp (Listen) FRI Swainson's Hawk FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the North American Swainson's FRI hawk. About the size of the European buzzard, Swainson's FRI hawks are dark-brown birds, rusty brown on the chest and FRI white on the belly, and a familiar sight across open FRI farmland and prairies of western North America where they FRI soar effortlessly in search in prey. Most winter in South FRI America, this epic round-trip of around 20,000 kilometres is FRI probably the longest regular migration made by any American FRI bird of prey. When they reach their wintering grounds they FRI switch diet. In North America they feed mainly on mammals, FRI but in South America, they gather in flocks to hunt FRI dragonflies and grasshoppers in the vast pampas plains. FRI FRI Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Diana McAllister / naturepl.com FRI NPL Ref 01343726 FRI © Diana McAllister / naturepl.com FRI FRI Recording of Swainson's hawk by William W. H. Gunn / Ref: ML FRI 59299 FRI FRI This programme contains a wildtrack FRI recording of the Swainson's hawk FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by William W. H. Gunn on 17 May FRI 1961, in Saskatchewan, Canada. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04jm9mv (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04jhmhf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jm9mx (Listen) FRI Fragments of Power FRI FRI Neil MacGregor discovers how coins reveal the range and FRI diversity of the Holy Roman Empire, with around 200 FRI different currencies struck in the different territories of FRI Germany. FRI FRI It's an extraordinarily immediate and physical way of FRI grasping the complexity and the confusion of the Holy Roman FRI Empire, because every coin represents a kind of sovereignty. FRI To be able to strike a coin you needed to be the ruler in FRI your territory - and every coin speaks of a particular FRI state, with its particular laws and a whole set of FRI traditions. FRI FRI Producer Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04jm9mz (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04jm9n1 (Listen) FRI The Pillow Book, Episode 5 FRI FRI Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return to solve a new FRI mystery in 10th Century Japan. FRI FRI Trouble abroad. Wolves in the town, forest fires, storms and FRI earthquakes. The Emperor is sick, and his fever grows worse. FRI A feral girl, sometimes woman sometimes wolf, roams the FRI palace. But the Empress has taken matters into her own FRI hands, and like a Kambai warrior will restore the Palace and FRI her Emperor to health. FRI FRI Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and FRI lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese FRI court. FRI FRI Written by Robert Forrest. FRI FRI Directed by Lu Kemp. FRI FRI A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell FRI Yukinari: Cal Macaninch FRI Empress: Laura Rees FRI Emperor: Paul Ready FRI Uzume: Jessica Hardwick FRI Writer: Robert Forrest FRI Director: Lu Kemp FRI FRI 11:00 One Day In... b04jm9n3 (Listen) FRI The Leeds West Indian Carnival began in 1967 as one man's FRI cure for his homesickness. It now attracts up to 150,000 FRI visitors every year, generating an estimated ten million FRI pounds for the local economy. In this programme, dancers, FRI designers, police and parade-goers all tell their stories as FRI we follow their progress, from sunrise to sunset. FRI FRI Costume designer Hughbon Condor trained as an engineer, and FRI it shows. One of his creations consists of giant bat wings FRI which, when unfurled, release lots of tiny bats all dancing FRI around the "parent." Meanwhile, his son Sephbon is busy FRI constructing his own creation, hoping to outdo his father FRI and be crowned Carnival King. As the last minute FRI preparations and costume repairs are executed, the staff at FRI Maureen's Caribbean Cuisine are building their stall in the FRI park, ready to sell succulent jerk chicken for eight hours FRI non-stop. And, as the carnival beat begins to rise, Chief FRI Inspector Matt Davison is briefing his officers on how to FRI safely and successfully police the heady mix of spices, FRI soca, drum and bass, and alcohol. FRI FRI One Day in Summer was recorded on August 25th 2014, and FRI follows the stores of designers, dancers, chefs and FRI carnival-goers as they take to the streets of Chapeltown in FRI Leeds. FRI FRI 11:30 My First Planet b04dqlh4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Let Me Entertain Me FRI FRI The discovery of a poet on the colony sets off a bomb, a FRI monster, a sword-fight and a poem. But is Archer really FRI capable of murder? FRI FRI The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and FRI Vicki Pepperdine ("Getting On") set on a shiny new planet. FRI FRI Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep FRI cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some FRI supplementary information. FRI FRI Personnel: FRI Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on FRI the voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is FRI now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, FRI and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly FRI meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian FRI (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd really rather everyone was walking FRI round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. FRI She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive FRI and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, FRI the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and FRI Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to FRI get on the trip. FRI FRI Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and FRI also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an FRI "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer FRI the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it FRI destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and FRI infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) FRI FRI Written by Phil Whelans FRI Produced and Directed by David Tyler. FRI FRI Credits FRI Brian: Nicholas Lyndhurst FRI Lillian: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Mason: Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Archer: Phil Whelans FRI Carol: Letty Butler FRI Richard: John Dorney FRI The Poet Hopkin: Thom Tuck FRI Writer: Phil Whelans FRI Director: David Tyler FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04jhjlg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04jm9n5 (Listen) FRI 3 October 1914 - Florrie Wilson FRI FRI The last episode in the current season, as the Wilson family FRI wave Victor off to war. Another lost boy. FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Lilian: Lisa Brookes FRI Policeman: Nicholas Murchie FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04jm9n7 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04jhjlj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04jm9n9 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Open or Wrapped...? b04jm9nc (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Food writer, Home Economist and Food stylist Alison Clarkson FRI follows eight people on a course in Leeds, specialising in FRI how to run their very own Fish and Chip shop. FRI FRI For generations, the meal has been a constant favourite with FRI thousands, if not millions, of people across Britain. FRI Churchill called them 'the good companion' and John Lennon FRI loved his with tomato ketchup. FRI FRI Six months on, this episode follows up on the progress of FRI the students in the time following the course, and sums up FRI the great British tradition with help from the students, FRI award-winning Fish and Chip shop owner Mark Petrou and Jean FRI Christophe Novelli. FRI FRI The series follows a three day course run by the National FRI Federation of Fish Fryers in Leeds. It takes students FRI through the requirements involved in running your own shop - FRI from fish preparation and battering, through health and FRI safety, to the legal and financial issues inherent in the FRI business. FRI FRI The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds - from FRI the finance industry to a retired musician, from an FRI opticians to a newsagent. Two have ventured from France and FRI one from Hamburg, especially to attend the course. FRI FRI As well as following the students, the programmes trace the FRI history and development of selling chips. The meal became FRI popular in the early part of the nineteenth century as a FRI result of the rapid growth of trawl fishing in the North FRI Sea. In its heyday there were approximately thirty thousand FRI fish and chip shops in Britain. Today the number is around FRI twelve thousand. The acclaimed 5 out of 5, AA Rosette and FRI multi Michelin Star award winning chef Jean-Christophe FRI Novelli discusses his love and respect for our traditional FRI meal. FRI FRI Finally, we follow up the featured members of the course, FRI six months after attending it. How do you like the meal, FRI 'Open or wrapped..?!' FRI FRI Presenter: Alison Clarkson FRI FRI Produced by Eurof Williams FRI An Acme tv production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04jm36r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04jmcr1 (Listen) FRI The Electrical Venus FRI FRI May 1749. Grainger's travelling fair develops an astonishing FRI new act, care of Sebastian Fox and his 'electrickery' in a FRI play by Julie Mayhew. FRI FRI In the courtyard of a country tavern, Mr Francis P Grainger FRI displays the wonders of his menagerie - animal and human. FRI FRI Mim is the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic lady and FRI her black slave, and she's been raised by Grainger since she FRI was a baby. But now her mistress, Hildy 'the Hog-Faced FRI Lady', has run away to London, Mim needs to find her own FRI act. FRI FRI Sound design by Caleb Knightley FRI FRI Directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mim: Hannah John-Kamen FRI Alex: Arthur Hughes FRI Fox: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Grainger: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Lizzie: Jane Slavin FRI Abel: Peter Burroughs FRI Old Joe: David Cann FRI Count: David Cann FRI Director: Emma Harding FRI Writer: Julie Mayhew FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04jmcr3 (Listen) FRI The Next Horticultural Generation FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme in front FRI of an audience of 150 young gardeners during London's FRI Landscape Show. FRI FRI James Wong, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Wilson answer the FRI questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Quartier Perdu b04jmcr5 (Listen) FRI Jessica Raine reads Sean O'Brien's gothic tale set in 1930s FRI Europe. A young doctoral student arrives from America to FRI study an obscure poet who was rumoured to have dabbled in FRI the occult. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jessica Raine FRI Writer: Sean O'Brien FRI Abridger: Gemma Jenkins FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04jmcr7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04jmcr9 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04jmcrc (Listen) FRI Peter and Amy - Ronnie's Recipes FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how a grandfather FRI passed his love of cooking down to his granddaughter, even FRI though he died when she was just 6 months old. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04jmcrf (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04jhjll (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b04jmcrj (Listen) FRI Series 44, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest John FRI Finnemore for a comic romp through the week's news. With FRI Pippa Evans and Mitch Benn. FRI FRI Written by the cast, with additional material from Sarah FRI Morgan,Jane Lamacraftl and Sarah Campbell. Produced by FRI Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: John Finnemore FRI Panellist: Pippa Evans FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04jmd86 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Johnny Richards: Tom Gibbons FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04jmd88 (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Wilson FRI FRI 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04jm9mx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04jmd8b (Listen) FRI Baroness Williams, Michael Gove MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Surbiton High School in Surrey with Baroness Williams FRI and Government Chief Whip Michael Gove MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04jmd8d (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04jmd8g (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 29 September - 3 October 1914 FRI FRI Last of this season of drama set in Great War Britain, a FRI hundred years ago. The end of the beginning, perhaps, but a FRI long long way from the end. FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Lilian: Lisa Brookes FRI Maggie: Evie Clark FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Trumpeter: Peter Ringrose FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04jhjln (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04jmd8j (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04jmd8l (Listen) FRI The Bone Clocks, Episode 10 FRI FRI By David Mitchell. Part ten. Crispin Hershey, ex-Wild Child FRI of British Letters, makes amends for past wrongs and dabbles FRI in writing Sci-fi to his agent's despair. Alone in Iceland, FRI he has a disturbing encounter with Hugo Lamb. Read by Robert FRI Glenister FRI FRI This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author FRI of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks FRI is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's FRI life through those who encounter her. The journey has a FRI global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via FRI 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a FRI playfully genre-bending subplot. FRI FRI Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five FRI actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as FRI Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke FRI Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good FRI looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed FRI Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, FRI struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and FRI the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is FRI Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a FRI novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow FRI is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who FRI meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Robert Glenister FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Author: David Mitchell FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04jk3qm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Reimagining the City b03s645s (Listen) FRI Series 2, Birmingham FRI FRI Musician Soweto Kinch offers a different vision of a city FRI he's loved all his life - Birmingham. FRI FRI Soweto often gets a surprised response when he tells people FRI he's from Birmingham. For one, he doesn't have an accent. FRI But also, as a successful jazz musician and hip hop star, FRI the expectation is often that he should be living in London FRI or New York - or almost anywhere except Birmingham. FRI FRI But, for Soweto, Birmingham is a place of artistic endeavour FRI and cultural significance on a par with any other major FRI city. The city is where he served his cultural FRI apprenticeship in jazz and hip hop. "The saxophone called FRI me. I've never seen so many shiny keys. And the love affair FRI continued from there." FRI FRI He left to study history at Oxford but chose to make FRI Birmingham his home. "The fact that I've stayed in FRI Birmingham sets me apart from the other musicians in London FRI - I can do everything from here. There's a camaraderie and FRI respect that other musicians have for each other in FRI Birmingham." FRI FRI Soweto lives in a tower block in Hockley - it's been a place FRI that's given him creative input for his albums and music. FRI From his window he can see the Hockley Flyover, a space FRI which was the scene of gang fights and crime. Five years ago FRI Soweto decided to turn it into a festival venue. FRI FRI "I've been proud of the fact we've redefined peoples' FRI relationships to this space. It's a neglected area. I felt FRI that more than any other area this expressed a lot of the FRI innate contradictions we face in the black community in FRI Britain. I wanted to reclaim the space and reclaim the FRI stories." FRI FRI Produced by Rachel Hooper FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04jmd8r (Listen) FRI Soo and Kristy - Adoption: Fighting for the Future FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between friends about the FRI challenges of parenting, especially when you want to make up FRI to your adopted child for the difficulties of her early FRI life. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
26 September, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 27/09/2014 - 03/10/2014
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