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SAT SATURDAY 03 JANUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04vjw0p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Comic Fringes b04f8pwm (Listen) SAT Series 10, Bad Fairytale SAT SAT Short story series featuring new writing by leading SAT comedians, recorded in August at the BBC's pop up venue at SAT the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SAT SAT Tonight, an alternative fairytale written and read by SAT Grainne SAT Maguire. SAT SAT A stand-up comic and comedy-writer, Maguire received a SAT prestigious BBC Radio 4 Comedy Writer's bursary in 2013. She SAT has written topical jokes for The Now Show and The News SAT Quiz. SAT SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Grainne Maguire SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04vqvbq (Listen) SAT Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 5 SAT SAT Literature, religion and the hurdy-gurdy man. SAT Internationally acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge concludes his SAT exploration of Schubert's existential masterpiece SAT Winterreise, Winter's Journey. SAT SAT Strange old SAT man, SAT Should I go with you? SAT Will you to my songs SAT Play your hurdy-gurdy? SAT SAT Written and read by Ian Bostridge SAT SAT Abridged by Laurence Wareing SAT SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Ian Bostridge SAT Author: Ian Bostridge SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjw0r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjw0t (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjw0w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04vjw0y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vr1nn (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04vr1nq (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04vjw10 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04vjw12 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04wgwbj (Listen) SAT Suffolk Coast SAT SAT Helen Mark travels to Suffolk, to explore the landscape of SAT the coast and the lives of the people who live near it. She SAT hears about the lost city of Dunwich, which in Medieval SAT times was a thriving commercial SAT port, but was gradually claimed by the sea, leaving only a SAT village still standing today. She also hears about the birds SAT which can be found on the RSPB nature reserve nearby, and SAT meets an artist whose life and work are inspired by the sea. SAT SAT Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04wnkcq (Listen) SAT Looking back at 2014 and forward to 2015 SAT SAT Charlotte Smith looks back at the big stories of 2014 for SAT farming, including tumbling milk prices and badger culling, SAT and considers what 2015 might hold...She is joined by the SAT President of the National Farmers' SAT Union Meurig Raymond, Gloucestershire dairy farmer Richard SAT Cornock, and the Chair of the National Federation of Young SAT Farmers' Clubs Claire Worden. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04vjw14 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04wnkcs (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04wnkcv (Listen) SAT Marcus Wareing and Alison Hammond SAT SAT Chef, restaurateur and Masterchef judge Marcus Wareing joins SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. SAT SAT Actor, presenter and reality TV star Alison Hammond talks SAT celebrity, 'Strictly' and allotments. SAT SAT We hear the extraordinary SAT story of the woman who fell in love with her sperm donor. SAT Aminah Hart's daughter was born two years ago following IVF SAT using an anonymous donor, but she tracked down the donor and SAT is now engaged to dad Scott Anderson. SAT SAT Michael Parker reveals how best to sell yourself. He shares SAT lessons learnt from fifty years as an advertising exec and SAT the two Olympic Games where he competed in the hurdles. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets Des O'Connor. SAT SAT And writer, director, actor and comedian John Waters picks SAT his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Joe Kent SAT Editor: Alex Lewis SAT SAT 'Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America' is SAT published by FSG Macmillan SAT SAT 'It's Not What You Say It's The Way You Say It' by Michael SAT Parker is published by Vermilion SAT SAT 'Laughter Lines' by Des O'Connor is published Panmacmillan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Marcus Wareing SAT Interviewed Guest: Alison Hammond SAT Interviewed Guest: Aminah Hart SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Parker SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Des O'Connor SAT Interviewed Guest: John Waters SAT Producer: Joe Kent SAT Editor: Alex Lewis SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04wnkcx (Listen) SAT Series 9, St Albans SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme in St. Albans. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience are chef Sophie SAT Wright, Masterchef winner Tim Anderson, food psychologist SAT Charles Spence and broadcaster and SAT cook Andi Oliver. SAT SAT The panel discuss the versatility of winter spices; explore SAT the history of Grains of Paradise; ask what constitutes the SAT perfect meal; and reveal their go-to new year comfort food. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Produced by Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04xn1td (Listen) SAT Lines SAT SAT Our world seems to be bound and criss-crossed by lines: SAT except that when you look closely, many of them do not exist SAT in reality, only in your mind. So what are we to make of SAT lines: a useful human abstraction, SAT to help us make sense of the world? And what does a line SAT mean to an artist, whether one who wields a paintbrush or SAT pencil, or one who fashions words into poetic verse? Joining SAT Bridget Kendall are social anthropology professor Timothy SAT Ingold, poet and graphic artist Imtiaz Dharker and SAT distinguished South African artist William Kentridge. SAT (Photo: Lines of pebbles on the beach with Timothy Ingold) SAT SAT Timothy Ingold SAT SAT Professor Timothy Ingold holds the Chair of Social SAT Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. One of his SAT recurring research themes is the idea of lines and human SAT life: starting from the premise that what walking, observing SAT and writing all have in common is that they proceed along SAT lines of one kind and another, one of his projects was to SAT forge a new approach to understanding the relation, in human SAT social life and experience, between movement, knowledge and SAT description. He is the author of SAT Lines: A Brief History SAT and SAT The Life of Lines SAT SAT William Kentridge SAT SAT Over the last three decades, the visual artist William SAT Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work SAT across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking SAT and theatre. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, SAT his images reflect his native South Africa and, like SAT endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more SAT elemental as well. Kentridge is the recipient of numerous SAT prizes and honorary doctorates, and his work has been SAT exhibited widely throughout the world, including at the Tate SAT Modern, the Louvre, Centres Pompidou, the Hirshhorn Museum SAT and Sculpture Garden, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in SAT Brussels. His lifelong focus on line and drawing is summed SAT up in his recent book, SAT Six Drawing Lessons, SAT based on the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. SAT SAT Imtiaz Dharker SAT SAT Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker. SAT Her collections of poems include SAT Purdah, Postcards from god, I speak for the devil, The SAT terrorist at my table, Leaving Fingerprints SAT and SAT Over the Moon SAT Recipient of The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Cholmondeley SAT Award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her SAT poems are on the GCSE and A Level English syllabus. She has SAT had a dozen solo exhibitions of drawings in India, London, SAT New York and Hong Kong. She scripts and directs films, many SAT of them for non-government organisations in India, working SAT in the area of shelter, education and health for women and SAT children. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04vjw16 (Listen) SAT Everything to Play For SAT SAT Insight, colour, analysis: in this edition, the once SAT impregnable Rajapaska camp is suddenly looking vulnerable as SAT the Sri Lankan election approaches, Charles Haviland; SAT Russians are enjoying their extended SAT Christmas break but for their president, Vladimir Putin, SAT difficult times may lie ahead, Sarah Rainsford; the SAT Ethiopian government faces accusations over its plans to SAT create huge new agricultural complexes, Matthew Newsome set SAT off towards the southern lowlands to investigate and a SAT journey of a lifetime in the US: Jonathan Izard points his SAT car towards the sunset and ponders the meaning of life SAT itself. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04vjw18 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04wnkcz (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b04vr10b (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 2 SAT SAT The classic impression show takes a look back at 2014 SAT together with a sneak preview of things that will definitely SAT happen in 2015. How will the UKIP/Labour coalition fair? SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis SAT MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. SAT SAT Producer: Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Debra Stevenson SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04vjw1b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04vjw1d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b04vr10j (Listen) SAT 2015 SAT SAT The BBC's top international news correspondents look ahead SAT to the major developments in 2015, in a lively discussion SAT chaired by Mark Mardell. SAT SAT He will be asking for their ideas about the stories and the SAT people SAT to watch over the coming months. SAT SAT What will happen in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine SAT - and how will it affect the rest of us in Europe? Will SAT Britain and other Western nations succeed in stopping the SAT advance of the group calling itself Islamic State in Iraq SAT and Syria - and which other countries' help will they need SAT to obtain? SAT SAT How far will the efforts to control the ebola epidemic, in SAT which Britain has taken a significant role, prompt wider SAT international cooperation? Will the recent protests in Hong SAT Kong and the nervousness of Beijing's neighbours about its SAT intentions escalate tensions in east Asia? And what impact SAT will Britain's general election have on international SAT affairs? SAT SAT Mark is joined by Chief International Correspondent Lyse SAT Doucet, China Editor Carrie Gracie, Business Editor Kamal SAT Ahmed and Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall. SAT SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 14:00 Faultline Scotland b04vkm6y (Listen) SAT The Independence Referendum was intended to settle the issue SAT of Scotland's future for a generation. But has it SAT highlighted - or even created - a crack down the centre of SAT Scottish society? On one side, you have SAT passionate yes voters; younger, mobilised, comfortable in SAT social media, disengaged from UK politics, less "British" SAT than before. On the other, you have older, perhaps wealthier SAT people, who tend to remember Thatcher and the Cold War, and SAT who may be more closely engaged with mainstream media. SAT Aasmah Mir will walk this faultline in Scottish society. SAT She'll speak to #the45 who are keeping Scottish Independence SAT alive in social media, and those no voters who, heart-sore SAT at the division caused by the referendum, are determined SAT that the question is never ever put again. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b04wnpr6 (Listen) SAT Cocktail Sticks SAT SAT An adaptation for radio of the National Theatre's production SAT of Alan Bennett's short autobiographical play "Cocktail SAT Sticks", originally directed by Nicholas Hytner. Alan looks SAT back on his early life with SAT affection and sadness, revisiting some of the themes and SAT conversations of his memoir "A Life Like other People's". SAT Both he and - to a certain extent - his mother (with her SAT longing for "cocktail parties"), are seduced by the idea SAT that other people's lives are much richer and more SAT fulfilling than their own. But in adulthood Alan came to SAT realise the value of a happy family upbringing, and the SAT particular strengths and virtues of his father and mother. SAT When Alan and his mother do, finally, have cocktail parties, SAT they are not at all what his mother would have envisaged.... SAT Alan is played by Alex Jennings and Alan Bennett, supported SAT by the original National theatre cast of Gabrielle Lloyd, SAT Jeff Rawle, Sue Wallace and Derek Hutchinson. SAT SAT Music composed by ..... George Fenton SAT by ..... Chris Fish and Rachel Elliot SAT National Theatre Director ..... Nicholas Hytner SAT Radio Abridgement and Production ..... Gordon House. SAT SAT Credits SAT Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett SAT Alan Bennett: Alex Jennings SAT Mam: Gabrielle Lloyd SAT Dad: Jeff Rawle SAT Nevill Coghill: Jeff Rawle SAT Actor: Sue Wallace SAT Actor: Derek Hutchinson SAT Writer: Alan Bennett SAT Abridger: Gordon House SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT SAT 15:30 Speak Low, Speak Weill b04wnpr8 (Listen) SAT Ute Lemper is a German singer and actress renowned for her SAT interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill. In this programme, SAT she explores the composer's journey from German Jewish SAT refugee to Broadway superstar. SAT SAT Best SAT known as the composer of Mack the Knife, Weill was forced to SAT leave his native Germany in 1933 as National Socialism SAT deemed his work 'entartete musik' - degenerate music. SAT SAT In New York, he forged a career as one of the most SAT successful theatre composers of the 20th century - with SAT stage works such as Street Scene, Lost in the Stars and Lady SAT in the Dark. SAT SAT In this personal portrait, Ute Lemper reflects on what she SAT describes as the cultural destruction of Germany and her SAT mission to bring the story of Kurt Weill to a wider SAT audience. SAT SAT Contributors include Professor Kim Kowalke, James Holmes and SAT Professor Stephen Hinton. SAT SAT Produced by Llinos Jones SAT A Terrier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04wnprs (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Hawking talks about her marriage to the cosmologist SAT Stephen and her reaction to seeing herself on screen in the SAT film based on her autobiography Travelling to Infinity. SAT SAT We celebrate women who have excelled SAT in sport in the last year and ask if women's sport is SAT finally getting the attention it deserves? SAT SAT Ruffles, gingham and wearing all white are going to be in SAT fashion this summer- so what will you be avoiding and what SAT will you be wearing? SAT SAT On May 7th Britain goes to the polls to vote in a General SAT Election so how will the politicians from all parties be SAT trying to appeal to women voters? SAT SAT We have advice on how to rid yourself of friendships that SAT are no longer working. SAT SAT We hear from the Master of the Queen's Music Judith Weir on SAT being the first woman ever to have held the post in its 400 SAT year history. SAT SAT The National Lottery is 20 years old but what is it really SAT like to hit the jackpot? Nine years ago eleven women, part SAT of a syndicate, won £18.2 million pounds. We hear from two SAT of those women on how the money changed their lives. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Hawking SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04wnprv (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04vr1nq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04vjw1j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04vjw1l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjw1n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04wnpxh (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Clare Balding, Will Self, Richard Wilson, SAT Rebecca Front, Rob Heron and the Teapad Orchestra SAT SAT In a special New Year edition from the BBC Radio Theatre, SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Danny Wallace, Clare Balding, SAT Richard Wilson, Will Self and Rebecca Front for an eclectic SAT mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rob SAT Heron & The Teapad Orchestra. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Richard Wilson SAT ‘Richard Wilson On The Road’ is on Monday 5th January at SAT 20.00 on ITV. SAT SAT Clare Balding SAT ‘Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles’ is published by SAT Viking and available now. SAT SAT Rebecca Front SAT SAT The first episode of ‘Love in Recovery’ is on Wednesday 7th SAT January at 23.15 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Will Self SAT ‘Self Orbits CERN’ starts daily on Monday 5th until Friday SAT 9th January at 13.45 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra SAT ‘Talk About The Weather’ is available now on Tea Pad SAT Recordings. SAT The band are playing at The Lights Arts Centre, Andover on SAT Friday 13th, at Jamboree in London on Saturday the 14th and SAT in Tarset Village Hall, Northumberland on Friday the 20th SAT February. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b04wnpxk (Listen) SAT Series 17, The Year That I Was Wrong SAT SAT Award winning comedy writer Rose Heiney creates a fictional SAT response to the week's news. SAT SAT In the week that saw rail fares increased again, coupled SAT with post-holiday travel chaos, screenwriter and novelist SAT Rose SAT Heiney takes a light-hearted look at the failures of modern SAT transport. SAT SAT Steve's New Year resolution is to give up all SAT 'pre-automobile' forms of travel. Question is, can he get SAT home without them? SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT SAT A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Tash: Hannah Daniel SAT Steve: Sion Pritchard SAT Posh Girl: Rose Heiney SAT Author: Rose Heiney SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04wnpxm (Listen) SAT Birdman; 10:04 by Ben Lerner; Golem at Young Vic; Crisis TV SAT drama; Kentucky Route Zero computer game SAT SAT Birdman starring Michael Keaton is director Alejandro G SAT Inarritu's first comedy and is hotly tipped for Academy SAT Awards - does it live up to the hype? SAT 10 04 by Ben Lerner is the poet, essayist and SAT novelist's second work of fiction which probes the reality SAT of his own life and in doing so raises questions about the SAT nature of fiction and truth itself. SAT Golem is staged at the Young Vic by the 1927 theatre company SAT and combines performance and live music with handcrafted SAT animation and film to create magical filmic theatre. SAT Inspired by Gustav Meyrink's The Golem published in 1915 - SAT the play's message challenges our current obsession with SAT technological gadgets. SAT Crisis is a new television drama on UKTV's Watch Channel SAT starring Gillian Anderson and revolving around a mass SAT kidnapping of a group of teenagers on a school bus. In this SAT case the teenagers are the children of America's rich and SAT powerful elite. SAT And Kentucky Route Zero, an innovative point and click SAT computer game in 5 acts which employs storytelling SAT techniques as well as graphics to involve the game player in SAT the process of the narrative itself. How entertaining is it SAT to play and how different is it to what has gone before? SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04wnpxr (Listen) SAT The Art of Filibustering SAT SAT Girdles, saunas, catheters and running shoes. Historically SAT these otherwise unrelated items have all played their part SAT in the Filibuster, the tactic of frustration, obstruction SAT and feat of stamina that can be SAT traced back to Roman times SAT SAT Anne Treneman, political sketch writer of The Times, SAT explores the art of the Filibuster and how in the USA where SAT it is called 'The Soul of the Senate' it is under threat of SAT extinction SAT SAT Ann, who was born in the USA, but lives and works here in SAT the UK, explores its rich history, hears stories of the SAT great Filibusters like Strom Thurmond the senator from South SAT Carolina who spoke for 24 hours 18 minutes to filibuster the SAT 1957 Civil Rights Act SAT SAT More recently Wendy Davis from Texas made headlines for her SAT 13 hour Filibuster against changes to the states Abortion SAT laws, she took the stand in pink running shoes, was fitted SAT with a girdle mid-speech. It's considered to be the first SAT social media filibuster SAT SAT Opponents of it in the US sense its time has come, Ann will SAT hear from both sides of the debate SAT SAT Filibusters are never as heroic as James Stewart's in the SAT 1939 film 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington'. They rarely have SAT the rhetoric of Smith standing up for the people and the SAT greater good, they are more likely to have the contents of SAT the phone book or excerpts from children's stories. SAT SAT Ann spends much of her time peering from the press gallery SAT into the commons chamber witnessing the best, and worst of SAT British democracy in action, and although 24 hour SAT Filibusters never happen, talking a bill out does. Using SAT archive from here and the USA, Radio 4 will explore the Art SAT of the Filibuster, along with its history, and of course its SAT future. SAT SAT Presenter: Ann Treneman SAT Producer: Richard McIlroy. SAT SAT 21:00 War and Peace b04w82wc (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by SAT Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes SAT of three Russian aristocratic families SAT during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John SAT Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter. SAT SAT There's a lively dinner party at the Rostov family home and SAT Anna Mikhailovna Dubretskoy is in battle with Prince Vassily SAT over the will and inheritance of the wealthy Count Bezukhov. SAT It seems Pierre, his illegitimate son, could be about to SAT inherit the Count's vast fortune. Meanwhile, Andrei's SAT decision to join the army causes tension between him and his SAT pregnant wife, Lise. SAT SAT The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, SAT Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the SAT events that shaped their lives and the lives of every SAT Russian who lived through these troubled times. SAT SAT War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level SAT of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th SAT Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, SAT social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale SAT never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in SAT ten episodes. SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Executive Producer: Peter Hoare SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Lesley Manville SAT Actor: John Hurt SAT Actor: Alun Armstrong SAT Actor: Harriet Walter SAT Author: Leo Tolstoy SAT Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04vjw1q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b04wh7xt (Listen) SAT Best of Four Thought SAT SAT Kamin Mohammadi presents three of the best recent episodes SAT of Four Thought, each addressing a state of mind. SAT SAT The talks include Amia Srinivasan on the potential benefits SAT of anger, Mark O'Connell discussing his own constitutional SAT ambivalence and Farrah Jarral on cheekiness. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b04vk72g (Listen) SAT Heat 1, 2015 SAT SAT (1/17) SAT Which politician was described by the writer Malcolm SAT Bradbury as 'the Bertie Wooster of Marxism'? And the A SAT horizon, B horizon, C horizon and O horizon are all layers SAT of what? SAT SAT Russell Davies returns to SAT Radio 4 with the first contest in a new season of the SAT evergreen general knowledge quiz, with contestants from all SAT over Britain competing for the title Brain of Britain 2015. SAT It's the 62nd series of the quiz, and the eventual champion SAT will join a long and illustrious list of names which down SAT the years has included Irene Thomas, Daphne Fowler, Kevin SAT Ashman and Barry Simmons. SAT SAT The competitors in this week's opening heat come from SAT London, Guernsey, Bath and Norwich. SAT SAT The programme also offers the customary chance for a SAT listener to 'Beat the Brains' by suggesting ingenious SAT questions that may stump their collective general knowledge. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT ANDREW FRAZER, a company director from Chiswick in London; SAT SAT PETER HUGHES, a retired civil servant from Guernsey; SAT SAT BERYL MADDISON, a chartered surveyor from Bath; SAT SAT LES MORRELL, a retired company director from Cringleford in SAT Norfolk. SAT SAT 23:30 Found at Sea b04vk035 (Listen) SAT Andrew Greig recounts, in poetic sequence, the tale of his SAT open dinghy voyage from Stromness in Scapa Flow to an SAT overnight stay on Cava island. SAT SAT In a small boat in open waters, he found a new element to SAT live in SAT and a new metaphor for life. He captures it in a poetry SAT sequence of moving simplicity,"in the middle of life, SAT halfway over, we pitch on a gurly sea." SAT SAT Written in six weeks, Found at Sea is a 'very wee epic', as SAT Andrew calls it himself, about sailing, male friendship and SAT a voyage to find a way through the rest of life by recalling SAT the lives they've lived before. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Narrator ............Andrew Greig SAT Skip ...................Lewis Howden SAT Crew .................Tam Dean Burn SAT Musician ............Rachel Newton SAT SAT Sound Design Lee McPhail SAT Director Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT Producer Gordon Kennedy SAT An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 JANUARY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04wrpyn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 The Wood Pushers b04h8792 (Listen) SUN A close encounter with the street chess players of Greenwich SUN Village in New York, who play for money on the stone tables SUN in Washington Square park. SUN SUN For these players, chess is like life - a game of survival, SUN of SUN war, of tricks and traps - with many paying their bills and SUN living costs from the money they win at the tables. SUN SUN These are highly skilled chess players who take on the SUN general public for money. Some are homeless - and a world SUN away from the official tournament scene and stuffy formalism SUN usually associated with the game. Chess is returned to its SUN roots as a street-level pastime - fast, aggressive, winner SUN takes all. SUN SUN Watching some of them play, it's somewhere between street SUN magic, confidence trick and the most serious tournament - SUN snappy patter disguises the sharpest moves in quick time. SUN These players don't lose often. The nearby Village chess SUN shop is a hub where players can take a break on long winter SUN afternoons, or after the parks are cleared at night. It's SUN been a fixture of the Village for many years. SUN SUN This programme - filled with the sounds of Washington Square SUN and its nearby chess rooms - features a mix of characters SUN who've been playing there for many years, and for whom chess SUN is a spiritual anchor as well as an economic lifeline. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:30 Comic Fringes b04fyf2x (Listen) SUN Series 10, The Gospel According to Judas SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded in August at the BBC's pop up venue at SUN the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. SUN SUN Tonight, an irreverent tale by satirist John O'Farrell: SUN imagine if SUN Judas Iscariot spent his 30 pieces of silver on a creative SUN writing class and re-drafted the books of the Gospels... SUN SUN A former comedy scriptwriter for Spitting Image, O'Farrell SUN can occasionally be spotted on such TV programmes as Grumpy SUN Old Men, Question Time and Have I Got News for You. He has SUN written four books: "The Man Who Forgot His Wife", "May SUN Contain Nuts", "This Is Your Life" and "The Best a Man Can SUN Get". SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: John O'Farrell SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04wrpyq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04wrpys (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04wrpyv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04wrpyx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04wrwlw (Listen) SUN The bells from the church of St. Edith in the village of SUN Monks Kirby, near Rugby. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b04wh7xy (Listen) SUN Series 4, Keeping It Personal SUN SUN Darren Harris, a double paralympic athlete and mathematics SUN graduate, draws similarities between people and prime SUN numbers: each is indivisible and unique. In the age of big SUN data, he makes the case for a more SUN person-centred approach in public services. And he finds it SUN in an unexpected place, somewhere more usually associated SUN with a 'win at all costs' mentality: elite sport. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04wrpyz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04wrwly (Listen) SUN The White North Has Thy Tiny Bones SUN SUN Samira Ahmed reaches for the far North, exploring how it has SUN been perceived, dreamed and even desired. Why is there such SUN enchantment for these snowy wastes, where death awaits so SUN many? SUN SUN She considers the Arctic SUN obsession of the 19th century, where society clamoured for SUN news of great explorers like Franklin and swooned at SUN thoughts of their fate. Tales of being frozen solid, SUN cannibalism and insanity. SUN SUN Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a short poem for the memorial to SUN Franklin which stands in Westminster Abbey, "Not here: The SUN white north has thy bones; and thou, heroic sailor soul, art SUN passing on thine happier voyage now towards no earthly SUN pole." SUN SUN But this is not simply the land of explorers. Samira hears SUN from the people who inhabit the apparently uninhabitable. SUN There's the Inuit. What is their relationship with the SUN environment and the creatures they share it with? SUN SUN Beneath the ice flows lie submarines, fearful, lying in the SUN dark. What of the men who live beneath these freezing SUN waters, and what of life in the Soviet labour camps of SUN Siberia? SUN SUN With music from contemporary composer Gavin Bryars, and SUN readings from Jules Verne and Philip Larkin, this is a SUN journey into the far north - which represents a sublime SUN paradise for many and, for so many others, a hell. SUN SUN Produced by Kevin Dawson SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04wrwm0 (Listen) SUN Animal Behaviour SUN SUN How important is it to understand the behaviour of farm SUN animals? Psychologically, are pigs, sheep and cows SUN particularly complex? Anna Jones travels to the research SUN headquarters of Scotland's Rural College SUN (SRUC) in Edinburgh where scientists are looking at the SUN relationship between farmyard behaviour, and farm SUN productivity. SUN SUN Dr Simon Turner is studying aggressiveness in pigs to try SUN and understand why some continually pick fights - SUN irrespective of whether they win or lose. He explains how SUN controlled 'contests' are allowing them to gather essential SUN data which could help the pig industry tackle a SUN long-standing welfare problem. SUN Anna also looks at research aimed at finding out if SUN defensive newly-calved beef cows make better mothers. It's a SUN dangerous character trait, posing a serious safety risk to SUN those handling cattle, and initial findings suggest SUN defensiveness has no commercial benefit. SUN SUN And sheep - how do their minds work? SRUC researcher Kenny SUN Rutherford is examining the effect of pre-natal stress in SUN ewes on their offspring, and challenges the commonly held SUN belief that sheep are stupid. SUN SUN You will never look at farm animals in the same way again. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04wrpz1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04wrpz3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04wrwm2 (Listen) SUN 2015 look-ahead, Richard III, Church of England leadership SUN plan SUN SUN In the first 'Sunday' of the year, Edward Stourton chairs a SUN discussion looking ahead to some of the big religious SUN stories for 2015. SUN SUN The re-interment of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral SUN in March will be a SUN moment of huge historical significance and international SUN interest. Trevor Barnes reports on the preparations for the SUN event. SUN SUN Ten years after the devastating South Asian tsunami, Saroj SUN Pathirana speaks to Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks and nuns SUN about how they have used their faith to counsel, heal and SUN help those left behind. SUN SUN A Vatican report looking into American women's religious SUN communities has praised their work, despite the main group SUN representing US nuns currently being investigated for SUN allegedly undermining church teachings and promoting radical SUN feminism. We speak to the group's president elect. SUN SUN China says new laws in the far Western province of Xinjiang, SUN including the banning of religious practice in public SUN buildings, are a response to a growing threat from militant SUN Islam. Members of the indigenous ethnic Uighur population, SUN most of whom are Muslim, see it as an attack on religious SUN freedom. China analyst Dr Michael Dillon explores the SUN reasons behind the tensions. SUN SUN And the Church of England's proposals to send senior clergy SUN on leadership courses have been criticised for being full of SUN executive management speak and barely mentioning God. So is SUN this the kind of 'blue sky thinking' the church needs, or a SUN case of too much 'thinking outside the box'? SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN David Cook SUN SUN Series producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Dr Michael Dillon SUN Rev'd Canon Martyn Percy SUN Sister Marcia Allen SUN Ruth Gledhill SUN Sughra Ahmed SUN Jessica Elgot. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04wrwm4 (Listen) SUN Magic Bus UK SUN SUN Dan Snow presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Magic Bus, which SUN trains local volunteers to mentor children living in slum SUN areas. SUN Registered Charity No 1124753 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - SUN Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Magic Bus UK'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Magic Bus UK. SUN SUN Magic Bus SUN SUN Magic Bus develops local community mentors who take children SUN and youth living in poverty on the journey from childhood to SUN livelihood. These volunteer mentors work with children and SUN parents through a weekly curriculum that includes the use of SUN sporting activities as metaphors to change behaviour in the SUN areas of education, health, gender and livelihood. They give SUN children the skills and confidence they need to move SUN themselves, their families and their communities out of SUN poverty. Magic Bus currently reaches 280,000 children and SUN 8,000 young people across India. SUN SUN Parvati's Story SUN SUN Twenty-three-year old Parvati Pujari, a training and SUN accreditation officer at Magic Bus in Mumbai, is the SUN daughter of unskilled migrant construction workers and grew SUN up playing in the dust and rubble of construction sites. She SUN is the fourth of six girls - her three older sisters SUN finished school after primary level and the two eldest were SUN married at the age of 13. SUN SUN Joining Magic Bus at the age of nine broadened Parvati’s SUN outlook and through sport she gained the necessary SUN confidence to exercise choice. Parvati was mentored by young SUN people from her community on the importance of education, SUN gender equality, health and livelihood. Despite pressure SUN from her parents to marry young, she resisted. SUN SUN Now a confident, articulate young woman, with a bachelor’s SUN degree in commerce, Parvati is a passionate advocate for SUN sport as a development tool and recognises the importance of SUN engaging adolescent girls: “One girl can change her family, SUN her community, her society and her village…even India.’’ SUN SUN Gulafsha's Story SUN SUN 21 year-old Gulfsha Khan lives in Bhalswa, a large SUN resettlement colony located on the fringes of Delhi’s SUN largest rubbish dump, in a one room dwelling with her SUN parents and five siblings. When Magic Bus was expanding its SUN programme in the area, Gulafsha was identified as someone SUN keen to make a difference in her community and was selected SUN to be trained as a community youth volunteer. SUN SUN The decision was not initially popular with community SUN leaders who disapproved of Gulafsha’s family allowing her to SUN take part in outdoor activities, something not seen as SUN suitable for girls. However the Magic Bus team persuaded SUN Gulafsha’s family to allow to her take part and Gulafsha SUN soon became popular with the children in her sessions and SUN seen as a role model in her community. SUN SUN Having completed secondary education, Gulafsha was keen to SUN continue with her studies but her parents did not see the SUN point in her doing so. The Magic Bus team spent a lot of SUN time with her family explaining the importance of education SUN and they eventually agreed to let her enrol in further SUN education, the first girl from her community to do so. SUN SUN Sonu's Story SUN SUN Sixteen-year old Sonu lives in the Begumpur community in SUN South Delhi. There are a number of health, hygiene and SUN education issues affecting the community and most children SUN do not go to school regularly. Sonu grew up spending most of SUN her time with her two older brothers. She dropped out of SUN school and used to hang around picking fights. Then she SUN enrolled in Magic Bus sessions. SUN SUN The community youth leaders running the sessions spotted an SUN interest for cricket in Sonu and helped her channel her SUN energy into the activities and encouraging the other girls SUN to take part. During one session on the importance of SUN education Sonu realised that her attitude had changed – SUN she’d stopped picking fights and was being kind and friendly SUN towards the other children on the sessions. She has now SUN re-enrolled in school and spends her evenings studying hard. SUN The change in Sonu has inspired other children to join Magic SUN Bus. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04wrpz7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04wrpz9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04wrwm6 (Listen) SUN The God Who Surprises SUN SUN The God Who Surprises SUN A service for Epiphany from Tabernacl Baptist Church, SUN Cardiff, in which the Rev. Roy Jenkins and the Rev. Denzil SUN John reflect on some of the unexpected situations in which SUN God can be SUN found. David Michael Leggett conducts the The Ardwyn SUN Singers. Organist Janice Ball. SUN Producer Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04vr10l (Listen) SUN The Pursuit of Happiness SUN SUN A L Kennedy reflects on what it means to pursue happiness in SUN a world where "not having enough money can be utterly SUN miserable" and indulging our desire to acquire is also SUN unsatisfying. The answer may lie in SUN seeing that happiness is, "not so much a condition as a SUN destination - it can inspire journeys ...better made in SUN company". SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN A Point of View: The pursuit of happiness SUN SUN Everybody wants to be happy, but few of us seem to know how SUN to achieve it, writes AL Kennedy. SUN Read AL Kennedy's article on the BBC News website SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: AL Kennedy SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0mj0 (Listen) SUN Greater Hill Mynah 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 mimic specialist Greater SUN Hill Mynah from Asia. Like many members of the starling SUN family, Greater Hill Mynah's are superb mimics with a SUN remarkable ability to reproduce the tones of the human SUN voice. This makes them popular as cage and now some wild SUN populations have been severely reduced by collecting. Hill SUN mynahs are not just vocally outstanding. They're dapper SUN looking birds too; glossy purplish-black with a white SUN wing-patch and wattles of bright yellow skin under their SUN eyes and around the back of their necks. The wild birds SUN don't impersonate people though; it's only those captive SUN birds which are amongst some of the best mimics of the human SUN voice. SUN SUN Greater Hill Mynah (Gracula religiosa intermedia) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Rod Williams / naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01178072 SUN © Rod Williams / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04wrwm8 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04wrwmb (Listen) SUN Kate confides in Adam, and Rob knows what 2015 should bring. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Tristram Hawkshaw: David Benedict SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04wrwmd (Listen) SUN Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the scientist, SUN Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, who is best known for her SUN work in the field of neuroscience and stroke research. She SUN is now President and Vice-Chancellor of SUN Manchester University. SUN She claims that her decision to enrol at Queen Elizabeth SUN College in London in the '70s was made not on the basis of SUN their superior teaching on the function of living systems, SUN but rather the institution's proximity to Kensington High SUN Street. Anyway, she gained a first class degree and then SUN bagged a PhD in just two years. SUN SUN Could it be that her interest in how we keep the human body SUN alive and functioning began when, aged eight, she contracted SUN primary tuberculosis and was so ill she spent 18 months at SUN home? SUN SUN She says, "Like most academics my fate was sealed during my SUN PhD, I fell in love with research and vowed I would do it SUN until retirement. I was also sure that I would do my utmost SUN to avoid any of those nasty administrative jobs." SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Nancy Rothwell SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04wrpzw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b04vk9np (Listen) SUN Series 14, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Lloyd SUN Langford, David O'Doherty, Susan Calman and Josh Widdicombe SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as penguins, spoons, dolls SUN and letters. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: David O'Doherty SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04ws12f (Listen) SUN Your food science questions for Harold McGee SUN SUN Sheila Dillon is joined by Harold McGee to answer your food SUN science questions. SUN SUN Harold McGee is fascinated by what we are actually doing to SUN our food when we prepare and cook it. His research and SUN writing have SUN inspired many chefs, including Heston Blumenthal. Today he SUN answers questions from listeners, food writers and chefs SUN about the chemistry of food and cooking. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Harold McGee SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04wrq05 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04ws12h (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invisible Age b04vk9nw (Listen) SUN Let Yourself Go SUN SUN News reports about increased longevity invariably come with SUN warnings and worries. Matthew Sweet asks whether we could SUN turn society's pessimism about our increasing old age into SUN an opportunity to gain a new SUN perspective on life. SUN SUN He spends time with some of the oldest and greatest SUN thinkers, who share with him their insights on ageing. He SUN travels to talk to writers who use their old age to write SUN about the privileged vantage point they enjoy. SUN SUN In the midst of a public conversation about old age which SUN centres on the cost and loss of a long life, Matthew talks SUN to people in their 80s and 90s about the gains that old age SUN can bring. Matthew likens his conversations with the so SUN called 'oldest-old' to meeting explorers of a new territory. SUN He is curious to ask them what they can share with us about SUN the things they have learnt and the things they can see. SUN SUN Produced by Catherine Carr SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04vqwyp (Listen) SUN The Garden Museum SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this week's edition from The Garden SUN Museum, London. Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bunny SUN Guinness join him to answer a range of horticultural SUN questions. SUN SUN We also hear all about the Garden SUN Museum's archive project. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. What English plant would you recommend for a garden in SUN China? SUN SUN A. Bunny would give you ten English Roses - probably the SUN 'Munstead Wood' variety. SUN Pippa suggests Primroses and Harebells and a Bramley Apple SUN Tree. SUN Meanwhile, Chris recommends a lawn as a way of uniting the SUN various areas in your garden and giving the garden some SUN breathing space. SUN SUN Q. As a reformed Foxglove lover, could the panel recommend a SUN variety with a prolonged flowering season that would add SUN colour to a shady garden? SUN SUN A. There is the perennial Foxglove which is pink but it SUN doesn't go to seed so they would have to be propagated. SUN There are so many different colours to choose from, from SUN brown through to apricot. SUN SUN Q. I have two fruit trees in my garden that are fruiting SUN well but at the centre of every fruit is a maggot. What is SUN it and what can I do about it? SUN SUN A. It's the larvae of the Coddling Moth and you can put out SUN a pheromone trap to attract the moths to a sticky end and SUN prevent the larvae from ruining your fruit. Hang one out in SUN two months' time. Don't use grease bands as they are SUN designed to catch winter moths rather than Coddling Moths. SUN But if you had a problem with winter moths, use grease paint SUN rather than bands. SUN SUN Q. My friend has two ponds linked with a waterfall, the pond SUN is filled with frogs and marginal plants. Should she keep SUN the pump running through the winter months? SUN SUN A. We usually recommend turning off water features as the SUN frosts come as this gives you an opportunity do a bit of a SUN clean up but if your friend kept it running in the winter SUN that wouldn't be a problem. The reason we keep water SUN features running through the summer is to ensure the water SUN is well oxygenated when activity is high but as things in SUN the pond slow down in the winter months it's not necessary SUN to keep the pump running. SUN SUN Q. I've just become a first time allotment holder. The SUN allotment is currently covered in thick, dense plants and a SUN few weeds. What's the best way to clear the plot? SUN SUN A. If the grass is Couch grass, the panel recommend using SUN glyphosate. Apply when the grass and weeds are in full SUN growth and then plant plugs of seeds through the dead grass. SUN Alternatively you could fork it out. Do not be tempted to SUN use a powered cultivator as this will just split the weeds SUN and make them multiply! SUN SUN Q. Does it bother the panel that in period dramas, there is SUN never any sight of the garden staff? SUN SUN A. Chris gets very annoyed at the horticultural inaccuracies SUN in period dramas, especially when he sees Conifers in Robin SUN Hood! SUN SUN Q. How could I build up a thriving Mycorrizal population SUN along a long plane tree avenue? There is only a two-metre SUN soil depth as the London Underground runs beneath! SUN SUN A. You could try putting deciduous bark of a 15cm depth SUN across the whole canopy spread of the trees. Don't worry SUN about the soil depth. The Mycorrizal fungi will spread out SUN and harvest the resources from the ground and feed it back SUN into the tree. Think of it as an extension of the tree SUN roots. Try to avoid soil compaction as this will damage the SUN Mycorrizal organisms. SUN SUN Q. I have a Pittosporum that I would like to reduce in width SUN but not height. When should I do this and how? SUN SUN A. They are very tolerant plants so you could just cut the SUN sides but maybe wait until March to do this. To make sure it SUN looks good you could do this over a couple of years so it SUN doesn't look so severe. Wait until it has the first buds SUN before pruning hard. Chris suggests sneaking up on it when SUN it least expects it and letting light in underneath to give SUN it a breath of fresh life! SUN SUN Q. Can the panel recommend a good thug that will take on SUN Creeping Buttercup? I have clay soil. SUN SUN A. Trachystemon Orientale is a kind of Borage that is very SUN attractive and would take on the buttercups and any other SUN weeds. When it starts to take over a bit you can trash it SUN down and it will give you lots of new flowers. Pippa loves SUN Buttercups and thinks that you should learn to love them SUN but, if you really can't, try planting Hypernicums. SUN Periwinkles would also work. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04ws12m (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Devon, Wales and SUN Leeds about magic, community and fatherhood, proving once SUN again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 SUN initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in SUN which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation SUN with someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library and used to build up a SUN collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK SUN in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more SUN about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Barchester Chronicles b04ws12p (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington, Episode 3 SUN SUN Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington by Michael SUN Symmons Roberts SUN SUN As Lily Dale fights scarlet fever, Dr Crofts is a frequent SUN visitor at the Small House. His patient, however, is not the SUN only focus of SUN his attentions. In London, Johnny Eames struggles to SUN extricate himself from his tangled romance with Amelia. SUN Meanwhile Crosbie begins to understand just exactly what SUN kind of life he is marrying into as preparations for his SUN wedding with Lady Alexandrina move on apace. SUN SUN Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SUN Gallant SUN SUN Written by Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Directed by Gary Brown SUN Produced by Charlotte Riches SUN SUN The Small House of Allington is the fifth instalment of The SUN Barchester Chronicles, Anthony Trollope's much-loved series SUN of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set SUN within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the SUN surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SUN lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SUN gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SUN set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SUN involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SUN love and friendship across the years. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Lily Dale: Scarlett Alice Johnson SUN Johnny Eames: Samuel Barnett SUN Crosbie: Blake Ritson SUN Squire Dale: Clive Mantle SUN Lord de Guest: David Bamber SUN Sir Raffle Buffle: David Bamber SUN Mrs Dale: Alexandra Mathie SUN Mrs Hearn: Alexandra Mathie SUN Cradell: Griffin Stevens SUN Bell Dale: Lisa Brookes SUN Dr Crofts: Lucas Smith SUN Amelia: Emily Pithon SUN Alexandrina: Emily Pithon SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Director: Gary Brown SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b04ws1xm (Listen) SUN Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian SUN SUN James Naughtie's first guest on Bookclub for 2015 is Marina SUN Lewycka. SUN SUN Marina was born in Kiel, Germany, after the war, and moved SUN to England with her family when she was about a year old. SUN SUN Her first novel, A Short SUN History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a SUN million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the SUN Orange Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the SUN Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005. SUN SUN Nadezhda and her sister Vera are dismayed when their SUN eighty-four year old father falls in love with a thirty-six SUN year old Ukrainian divorcee. Their campaign to oust SUN Valentina unearths family secrets going back fifty years SUN into some of Europe's darkest history, and the two sisters SUN must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their father. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers - including SUN some from the Ukrainian community in London - join in the SUN discussion. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : Marina Lewycka SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN February's Bookclub choice : When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit SUN by Judith Kerr. SUN SUN 16:30 India's Beats: The Hungry Generation b04ws24p (Listen) SUN Allen Ginsberg arrived in early 1960s Calcutta to discover a SUN collective of angry young poets whose anti-establishment SUN antics were uncannily reminiscent of his own past. This is SUN the story of the so-called Hungry SUN Generation. SUN SUN Fifty years later, we follow in the footsteps of the Beat SUN Generation to the literary centre of India and go in search SUN of the Hungryalist poets. Who were they? Where did they fit SUN with a rich Bengali literary tradition that includes the SUN great Rabindranath Tagore? What eventually led to their SUN arrests, imprisonment and disbandment? SUN SUN The Hungry Generation were a special breed - born in the SUN slums, but highly educated and primed for a revolution in SUN both literature and society. Through their verse, they broke SUN strict rules of Bengali poetry as well as social taboos. In SUN their actions they rubbished 'bourgeois' Bengali polity - SUN consciously acting without manners or etiquette, burping, SUN farting and using bad language. SUN SUN They also used clever stunts to attack local officials and SUN politicians, and held readings in socially unacceptable SUN venues such as brothels, opium dens and graveyards. SUN Hungryalist poets, such as the Roychoudhary brothers, and SUN Utpal Kumar Basu, stood for the outsiders of society. SUN SUN Eventually the authorities had enough. Hungryalists were SUN rounded up and arrested on charges of obscenity and SUN conspiracy against the state. Ginsberg attempted to SUN intervene, sending letters of support. US literary journals SUN carried the story and printed Hungryalist poetry. The SUN movement floundered. SUN SUN But despite this, we discover that the Hungryalist SUN anti-establishment spirit is very much still alive in SUN modern-day Calcutta today. SUN SUN Produced by Dom Byrne SUN A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Teaching Economics After the Crash b04svjbj (Listen) SUN At universities from Glasgow to Kolkata, economics students SUN are fighting their tutors over how to teach the subject in SUN the wake of the crash. The Guardian's senior economics SUN commentator, Aditya Chakrabortty, SUN reports from the frontline of this most unusual and SUN important academic war. SUN SUN The banking crash plunged economies around the world into SUN crisis - but it also created questions for economics itself. SUN Even the Queen asked why hardly any economists saw the SUN meltdown coming. Yet economics graduates still roll out of SUN exam halls and off to government departments or the City SUN with much the same toolkit that, just five years ago, SUN produced a massive crash. SUN SUN Now economics students around the world are demanding a SUN radical change of course. In a manifesto signed by 65 SUN university economics associations from over 30 different SUN countries, students decry a 'dramatic narrowing of the SUN curriculum' that they say prefers algebra to the real world SUN and teaches them there's only one way to run an economy. SUN SUN As fights go, this one is desperately ill-matched - in one SUN corner, young people fighting to change what they're taught; SUN in the other, the academics who've built careers researching SUN and teaching the subject. Yet the outcome matters to all of SUN us, as it is a battle over the ideas that underpin how we SUN run our economies. SUN SUN Aditya meets the students leading arguing for a rethink of SUN economics. He also talks to major figures from the worlds of SUN economics and finance, including George Soros, the Bank of SUN England's chief economist Andy Haldane, and Cambridge author SUN Ha-Joon Chang. SUN SUN Produced by Eve Streeter SUN A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Want to know more? SUN We asked the programme's contributors to recommend the SUN economics books (or blogs) they have found especially SUN influential. SUN Here is their suggested reading list: SUN Dr Ha-Joon Chang SUN • Herbert Simon: Reasons in Human Affairs (Stanford SUN University Press 1983) SUN SUN • Phyllis Deane: The State and the Economic System: An SUN Introduction to the History of Political Economy (Opus 1989) SUN Rob Johnson SUN • Frank Knight: Risk Uncertainty and Profit (1921) ; On the SUN History and Methods of Economics (1956) SUN SUN • John Maynard Keynes: General Theory (1936); A Treatise on SUN Probability (1921) SUN SUN • Rajani Kanth: Breaking with the Enlightenment SUN (NJ Humanities Press 1997) SUN SUN • Stuart Ewen: PR!: The Social History of Spin (Basic Books SUN 1998) SUN Professor Steve Keen SUN • Hyman Minsky: Can "It" Happen Again? (Routledge 1982) SUN SUN • John Blatt: Dynamic Economic Systems (Routledge 1983) SUN SUN • Karl Marx: Grundrisse (1939) SUN SUN SUN Professor Diane Coyle SUN • John McMillan: Reinventing the Bazaar - A Natural History SUN of Markets (Norton 2003) SUN SUN • Thomas Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehaviour (Norton SUN 1978) SUN Dr Victoria Bateman SUN • John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, SUN Interest and Money (chapter 12) SUN SUN • Avner Offer: The Challenge of Affluence (OUP 2006) SUN SUN • Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking SUN Public vs Private Sector Myths (Anthem Press 2013) SUN Professor Wendy Carlin SUN • David Soskice and Peter Hall (ed): Varieties of Capitalism SUN (OUP 2001) SUN SUN • Paul Seabright: The Company of Strangers: a Natural SUN History of Economic Life (PUP 2004) SUN Professor Philip Mirowski SUN nakedcapitalism.com or larspsyll.wordpress.com SUN Lord Robert Skidelsky SUN • Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner and SUN Andrew Jackson: Where Does Money Come From? A Guide to the SUN UK Monetary and Banking System (New Economics Foundation SUN 2014) SUN SUN • Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig: The Bankers' New Clothes: SUN What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It SUN (Princeton University Press 2013) SUN SUN • Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine SUN Age: Work Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant SUN Technologies (WW Norton 2014) SUN Dr Devrim Yilmaz SUN • Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation (1944) SUN Professor Danny Quah SUN • Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative SUN Information (Graphics Press 2001) SUN SUN • Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: SUN Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 SUN (Random House 1989) SUN SUN • Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of SUN Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (Vintage 1998) SUN Yuan Yang, Rethinking Economics SUN • Tony Lawson: Economics and Reality (Routledge 1997) SUN Joe Earle, Post-Crash Economics Society SUN • George Packer: The Unwinding (Faber 2014) SUN SUN • Rod Hill and Tony Myatt: The Economics Anti-Textbook: A SUN Critical Thinker's Guide to Economics (Zed 2010) SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b04wnpxk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04wrq08 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04wrq0g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04wrq0n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04ws2h7 (Listen) SUN In Gerry Northam's Pick Of The Week we drop in on one of SUN Frank Sinatra's greatest moments on stage and re-create SUN Richard Briers' visit to Terry-Thomas in his 1980s SUN retirement home in Majorca. Andrew Motion SUN worries what he'll look like sitting for a new portrait. A SUN Republican Senator breaks off from a speech to read his SUN children a bedtime story live on tv from the U.S. Congress. SUN And the 9 year-old Nigel Slater finds biscuits comforting SUN after the trauma of his mother's death. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04ws35y (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b04ws4hy (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SUN it. SUN SUN The Rest Is History is a comedy discussion show which SUN promises to help him find out more about it. SUN SUN Along with his historian in residence Dr Kate SUN Williams, each episode sees Frank joined by a selection of SUN celebrity guests, who will help him navigate his way through SUN the annals of time, picking out and chewing over the SUN funniest, oddest, and most interesting moments in history. SUN SUN Frank's guests in this programme are David Baddiel and Emma SUN Kennedy. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Frank Skinner SUN Panellist: David Baddiel SUN Panellist: Emma Kennedy SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Goodnight, Vienna b04ws4j0 (Listen) SUN A Bird in Vienna SUN SUN A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio SUN stories about this most beguiling of cities. To the SUN outsider, Vienna can be a state of mind as much as an actual SUN place. SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): A Bird In SUN Vienna by Louise Stern SUN An old woman in America remembers a moment from her Viennese SUN childhood in the 1930s. SUN SUN Louise Stern grew up in Fremont, California and is the SUN fourth generation of her family to be born deaf. She now SUN lives and works in London as an artist and writer. SUN Chattering, her first collection of short stories, was SUN published in 2010. The Electric Box, her first commission SUN for radio, featured in the series 'Where Were You...' in SUN 2012. Her experimental showcase, Latido, was broadcast in SUN 2013. SUN SUN Reader: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Eleanor Bron SUN Writer: Louise Stern SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04vqx64 (Listen) SUN Numbers of the Year 2014 SUN SUN Tim Harford and guests look back at some of the weird and SUN wonderful numbers of 2014. Featuring contributions from Evan SUN Davis, Sir David Spiegelhalter, Helen Joyce, Nick Robinson, SUN Helen Arney, Pippa Malmgren, Paul Lewis and Carlos Vilalta. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04vqx62 (Listen) SUN Debbie Purdy, David Ryall, Willy Burgdorfer, Dame Mary Glen SUN Haig, Graeme Goodall SUN SUN Julian Worricker on SUN SUN Debbie Purdy, the right-to-die campaigner who won a landmark SUN court ruling to clarify the law on assisted suicide. SUN SUN The actor, David Ryall, who had starring roles on stage, in SUN film and on SUN television. SUN SUN Dr Willy Burgdorfer, an entomologist who discovered the SUN bacterium that causes Lyme disease. SUN SUN Dame Mary Glen Haig, who fenced for Britain at four Olympic SUN Games and then became one of the first women on the SUN International Olympic Committee. SUN SUN And Graeme Goodall, the music producer and record label SUN owner, who was a key figure in the early days of Jamaica's SUN recording industry. SUN SUN Debbie Purdy SUN SUN Julian spoke live to Emma Glasbey, who recently interviewed SUN Debbie for BBC Look North. SUN SUN Born 4 May 1963; died 23 December 2014 aged 51. SUN SUN David Ryall (pictured) SUN SUN Julian spoke to his daughter, Charlie Ryall and to the SUN playwright Michael Frayn. SUN SUN Born 5 January 1935; died 25 December 2014 aged 79. SUN SUN Willy Burgdorfer SUN SUN Julian spoke to fellow entomologist, Dr Daniel Cameron. SUN SUN Born 27 June 1925; died 17 November 2014 aged 89. SUN SUN Dame Mary Glen Haig SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her friend and fellow fencer, Kristin SUN Payne and to Richard Cohen who wrote a book on the history SUN of sword fighting. SUN SUN Born 12 July 1918; died 15 November 2014 aged 96. SUN SUN Graeme Goodall SUN SUN Julian spoke to music writer and broadcaster David Katz. SUN SUN Born 1932; died 4 December 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Julian Worricker SUN Interviewed Guest: Emma Glasbey SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlie Ryall SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Frayn SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Cameron SUN Interviewed Guest: Kristin Payne SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Cohen SUN Interviewed Guest: David Katz SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04wnkcz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04wrwm4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04wsg1n (Listen) SUN 21st Century Unlimited SUN SUN 21st CENTURY UNLIMITED SUN New ways of doing business are making people think hard SUN about how companies function. Peter Day hears how these SUN alternative economies work, and what they might do. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Navi Radjou, Curator, Wave Exhibition SUN SUN SUN SUN Beatrice Coss Dumurgier, BNP Paribas SUN SUN SUN SUN Thomas Landrain President /co-founder, La Paillasse SUN SUN SUN SUN Paul Benoit, Founder Qarnot Computing SUN SUN SUN SUN Dame Ellen MacArthur, Founder Ellen MacArthur Foundation SUN SUN SUN SUN James Roberts, Inventor, Mom Incubators SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04wsg1q (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04wsh4x (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04wgwbm (Listen) SUN Michael Keaton; The Theory Of Everything; Doubles all round SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Batman star Michael Keaton discusses the similarities SUN between his career and that of his character in Birdman, an SUN actor making a come-back after finding fame playing a winged SUN super-hero. SUN Director James Marsh reveals what Stephen Hawking really SUN thought of his bio-pic The Theory Of Everything. SUN SUN Enemy, in which Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man haunted by his SUN doppelganger, is the second movie released in the last 12 SUN months about doubles. The other, The Double, was based on a SUN story by Dostoevsky and directed by Richard Ayoade, who SUN explains the technical difficulties of getting an actor to SUN talk to himself. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: James Marsh SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Keaton SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04wrwly (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 JANUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04wrq5t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04vr5j0 (Listen) MON Self-help and Self-improvement MON MON Self-help & self-improvement. As thoughts turn to MON resolutions and making a fresh start in 2015, Laurie Taylor MON wonders if his scepticism about self-help books and MON self-improvement programmes is well founded. He MON goes for advice to Christine Whelan - Professor in the MON School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin and a MON self-help author. Further enlightenment is provided by Meg MON John Barker - Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open MON University - who has studied self-help literature dealing MON with sex and relationships and has also written what she MON describes as 'an anti self-help book'. And Rebecca Coleman - MON Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of MON London - explains how TV makeover shows and online dieting MON sites create powerfully gendered and class-based messages MON about changing our bodies. MON MON Producer: Torquil MacLeod. MON MON Christine Whelan MON MON Clinical professor in the Department of Consumer Science and MON director of the Relationships, Finance and Life Fulfillment MON Initiative in the School of Human Ecology, University of MON Wisconsin-Madison MON MON Find out more from MON Christine Whelan MON Self-Help Books and the Quest for Self-Control in the United MON States 1950-2000 MON Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2000) MON ISBN-10: 1451643411 MON ISBN-13: 978-1451643411 MON Generation WTF: From What the #$%&! to a Wise, Tenancious, MON and Fearless You MON Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press (2011) MON ISBN-10: 159947347X MON ISBN-13: 978-1599473475 MON MON Meg John Barker MON MON Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, MON The Open University MON MON Find out more from Dr MON Meg John Barker MON Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and MON Relationships MON Publisher: Routledge (2012) MON ISBN-10: 041551763X MON ISBN-13: 978-0415517638 MON MON Rebecca Coleman MON MON Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of MON London MON MON Find out more from MON Rebecca Coleman MON The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience MON Publisher: Manchester University Press; Reprint edition MON (2012) MON ISBN-10: 0719089182 MON ISBN-13: 978-0719089183 MON Transforming Images: Screens, affect, futures MON Publisher: Routledge; Reprint edition MON ISBN-10: 1138820601 MON ISBN-13: 978-1138820609 MON MON Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography (new closing date for MON entries 31 January 2015) MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is MON open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or MON researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution MON of higher education. MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON The winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference MON in April 2015. MON MON Read on for essential information and details on how to MON enter. MON HOW TO ENTER MON : MON MON You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. MON MON All entries must include the summary and contact details and MON a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under MON the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON Email a summary of your work to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone MON number. MON Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' MON category of your email. MON If you are submitting a paper MON it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more MON than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation MON your paper is too large and you will need to send it by MON post. MON If you are submitting a book MON (which must be published during this year) it should be MON posted to: MON Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award MON Room 6045 MON Broadcasting House MON London MON W1A 1AA MON Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st MON January 2015 MON TERMS & CONDITIONS MON : MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and MON Conditions MON MON MON 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following MON criteria: MON MON 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. MON The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual MON entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered MON into. MON MON 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken MON and published by the entrant. Please include the name of MON your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The MON summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography MON must consist of a qualitative research project which MON provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday MON life and practice of a group, people or culture and been MON included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in MON 2014. All entries and research must be in English. MON MON 4. The email entry must include the following information MON and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal MON address, institution of higher education, email address and MON contact telephone number. MON MON 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published MON during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A MON 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, MON provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no MON automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you MON will need to send it by post. MON MON 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); MON (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard MON copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. MON MON 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they MON will not be considered. MON MON 9. All entries must be sole authored. MON MON 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select MON six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team MON for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select MON an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on MON the work which displays flair and originality, and which MON makes a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry MON will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research MON project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of MON the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or MON culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. MON It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision MON will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence MON with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding MON entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. MON MON 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring MON of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a MON selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable MON attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right MON to offer the prize to the next best entry. MON MON 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in MON order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be MON compliant with BBC branding policies. MON MON 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the MON purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the MON BBC’s Privacy Policy MON . MON MON 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st January 2015. MON All entries which are received after that will not be MON considered. MON MON 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem MON with the internet or electronic mail system. MON MON 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and MON must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC MON accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and MON entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims MON by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. MON MON 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas MON but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to MON broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, MON as well as use it on any online platforms on standard MON prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, MON Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). MON MON 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they MON have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be MON bound by these terms and conditions. MON MON 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant MON whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made MON public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event MON publicity if required. MON MON 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which MON breaches any of these terms and conditions. MON MON 22. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award MON (including amending these terms and conditions) at any MON stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed MON necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside MON its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the MON following website: MON http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed MON MON MON 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of MON England and Wales. MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04wrwlw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04wrq5z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04wrq63 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04wrq65 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04wrq67 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04wtchn (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04wtchq (Listen) MON Sustainable Farming MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Rusoe and produced by Sally Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04wrq69 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0n4w (Listen) MON Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Liz Bonnin presents the displaying Raggiana bird-of-paradise MON from Papua New Guinea. An explosion of colour flashes MON across the tree canopy of a rainforest: male Raggiana MON birds-of-paradise, one of the most spectacularly coloured MON birds in the world, are displaying to one another. The MON Raggiana or Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise is Papua New MON Guinea's national bird and it's easy to see why. His yellow MON head and green throat are eye-catching enough but even more MON flamboyant are the long tufted flank feathers which he can MON raise into a fan of fine reddish-orange plumes. Males gather MON at traditional display sites quivering these enormous MON flaming plumes like cabaret dancers as they cling to an MON advantageous branch. The urgency of their display is MON underlined by frantic calls which echo through the canopy, MON in the hope he can impress the much plainer female to mate MON with him. MON MON Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01460919 MON © David Tipling / naturepl.com. MON MON 06:00 Today b04wtchs (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Magna Carta b04wtchv (Listen) MON The Road to Magna Carta MON MON Melvyn Bragg begins a major new series marking the 800th MON anniversary of Magna Carta, one of the best known of all MON historical documents. In this first programme he explores MON the world of medieval England, MON examining the political turmoil and confused legal system MON which resulted in a major crisis in the early 13th century. MON He charts the developments that culminated in a tense MON stand-off between King John and his barons in 1215 - the MON backdrop to the agreement of Magna Carta later that year. MON MON With David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History at MON King's College London; Nicholas Vincent, Professor of MON Medieval History at the University of East Anglia; Cressida MON Williams, Cathedral and City Archivist at Canterbury MON Cathedral; and Louise Wilkinson, Professor of Medieval MON History at Canterbury Christ Church University. MON MON Producer: Thomas Morris. MON MON 09:30 Just So Science b0477m6s (Listen) MON Series 2, How the Camel Got His Hump MON MON Returning for a second series, Vivienne Parry considers the MON animals of Rudyard Kipling's much loved Just So Stories for MON Children. Assisted by researchers of 'infinite sagacity' MON (that means they're awfully MON clever) she'll discover if science can yet explain how the MON camel got his hump, the kangaroo his hop or the elephant his MON trunk. Kipling's tales are brought to life by the actor MON Samuel West. MON MON In How the Camel Got his Hump, Kipling's beast is as grumpy MON as they come and is punished for his laziness. Vivienne MON talks to Dr Lulu Skidmore, Director of the Camel MON Reproduction Centre in Dubai about the tricky business of MON Camel IVF and the truth about just how grumpy (and lazy) MON these beasts are. The reader is Samuel West. Producer: Rami MON Tzabar. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04wtchx (Listen) MON Different Every Time, Episode 1 MON MON Marcus O'Dair's biography of Robert Wyatt, a musical cult MON cum national treasure, is abridged in 5 parts by Katrin MON Williams: MON MON 1. A happy childhood surrounded by influential family, plus MON a love of jazz and a MON sense of the absurd. Then the young MON Wyatt starts to play drums.. MON MON Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Author: Marcus O'Dair MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04wtchz (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04wtcj1 (Listen) MON The Corrections, The Failure MON MON First ever dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's exuberant MON novel about the tribulations of a dysfunctional Midwestern MON family, starring Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Maggie MON Steed, Colin Stinton and Julian MON Rhind-Tutt. Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. MON MON Episode 1: The Failure - Chip Lambert arrives at La Guardia MON airport, New York, to meet his parents, Alfred and Enid, and MON take them back to his Manhattan apartment for lunch. But MON Alfred appears to be in a bad way, and Chip has his own MON troubles - his academic career has ended in disgrace, his MON girlfriend appears to be dumping him and his MON semi-autobiographical screenplay is in need of urgent MON corrections. MON MON Directed by Emma Harding. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Richard Schiff MON Enid Lambert: Maggie Steed MON Alfred Lambert: Colin Stinton MON Gary Lambert: Richard Laing MON Chip Lambert: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Denise Lambert: Roslyn Hill MON Julia Vrais: Kelly Burke MON Eden Procuro: Elaine Claxton MON Gitanas Misevicius: Sam Dale MON Melissa Paquette: Bettrys Jones MON Caroline Lambert: Jane Slavin MON Caleb Lambert: Adam Thomas Wright MON Jonah Lambert: Sean McCrystal MON Author: Jonathan Franzen MON Adaptor: Marcy Kahan MON Director: Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 This Farming Life b04wtcj3 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In the second of a two part series, Charlotte Smith follows MON three more farming families based around Sedgemoor Market in MON Somerset to look at the biggest challenges they face and how MON they're dealing with them. MON Sam Passmore has just become a dad aged 41 and fatherhood MON has made him reflect on how his team can get a work/life MON balance while also experimenting with milking three times a MON day with his dairy herd. He and his own father have MON different ideas about how best to do things. Finding MON reliable milkers to work unsociable hours is something of a MON challenge. MON MON Meanwhile Jeremy Walker likes to wear several hats, on top MON of being a farmer. While he keeps an eye on the harvest and MON the chickens, he's also a magistrate, committee member and MON soon-to-be mentor. But as he turns 70, he's not happy at MON being retired from certain roles as "To retire is to MON expire". MON MON John Small is several years past 'official' retirement age MON but still has 1500 sheep to see to. He hopes a 'share MON farming' venture will help a talented shepherdess expand her MON flock and help him ease off the pressure but do farmers like MON him ever really retire? MON MON All three are also facing pressures on their land - with MON losses to nature and development, tenancies being reviewed MON or finding places for the sheep to graze, Charlotte asks MON them how they're managing to keep their businesses afloat. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith MON Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. MON MON 11:30 The Best Laid Plans b04wtcj5 (Listen) MON A Slight Admin Error MON MON New sitcom by Mark Daydy. Ardal O'Hanlon plays Smallbone - MON an idiot angel who's sent to earth to fix his mistakes. MON MON In this first episode, Smallbone learns to use his new human MON body and ends up taking on the CEO MON of Grapefruit, a powerful technology company that wants to MON knock down the local library to expand their store. MON MON In 1885, God (Geoff McGivern) nodded off. In 2015, he awoke MON to discover that his idiot servant, the angel Smallbone, had MON accidentally handed out God's plans for the next millennium MON when he was only meant to hand out plans for the next MON century. A thousand years of leisurely human progression has MON been crammed into the last 130. No wonder we're all so MON stressed. We weren't even meant to have pocket calculators MON until 2550. MON MON Not only that, but God's blueprints should have run out in MON the mid-eighties - but we kept going. Humans are now MON inventing things God never even dreamed of - mobile phones, MON wireless internet and Made in Chelsea. MON Smallbone is cast down to Earth in human form by God, tasked MON with the dauntingly vague mission of 'reversing the last MON thirteen decades of human progression'. The problem is that MON Smallbone is the world's biggest fan - he loves modern MON technology and his new human body, and he becomes distracted MON by everything that he's meant to destroy. Especially MON escalators. MON MON Supporting Roles: Duncan Wisbey and Ruth Bratt MON MON Written by Mark Daydy MON MON Produced by Ben Worsfield MON A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Smallbone: Ardal O'Hanlan MON God: Geoff McGivern MON Tanya: Esther Smith MON Toby: Mike Wozniak MON Susan: Ruth Bratt MON Writer: Mark Daydy MON Producer: Ben Worsfield MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04wrq6c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04wtcj7 (Listen) MON 5 January 1915 - Isabel Graham MON MON The women of Folkestone struggle to help returning soldiers MON suffering from frostbite. MON MON Written by: Katie Hims MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Captain Maltby: Damian Lynch MON Frank: Robert Lonsdale MON Writer: Katie Hims MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON Producer: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04wtcj9 (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04wrq6f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04wtgjn (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Self Orbits CERN b04wtgjq (Listen) MON A Naked Lunch MON MON Will Self embarks on a 50 kilometre walking tour of the MON Large Hadron Collider at CERN just outside Geneva. MON MON Following the course of the Collider through the French and MON Swiss countryside, Will stops at regular MON intervals to descend to the tunnel and view the experiments MON below. He aims to complete the circuit entirely on foot. MON MON Invited to 'feel the wonder' of particle physics, Will is MON unconvinced. At lunch with his CERN hosts, he questions them MON closely on the rationale for their work. MON MON And as Will's journey gets under way, far from wondrous, he MON very soon finds himself wondering about his own capacity for MON misunderstanding - expressing concerns that his walking tour MON may be a complete waste of time. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04ws35y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04wtgjs (Listen) MON Pilgrim, Ouldmeadow Jack MON MON by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. MON MON 3 of 4 MON MON Still in search of gold to rescue the people trapped in MON Hartley's mine, Pilgrim comes to Ouldmeadow where he helps MON an old friend make a final river trip. MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON Pilgrim: Paul Hilton MON George: Karl Johnson MON Baz: Paul Ready MON Val: Elaine Claxton MON Maeva: Roslyn Hill MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b04wtgjv (Listen) MON (2/17) MON Which South American country owns Robinson Crusoe Island? MON And which punctuation mark is used in maths to stand for the MON factorial of an integer? MON MON Russell Davies puts these and many other questions to the MON contenders in the second heat of the 2015 series. This week MON they come from Leicestershire, Hampshire, East Sussex and MON the West Midlands. Each will be hoping he or she can win a MON place in the semi-finals and perhaps stand a chance of MON adding their name to the illustrious list of Brain of MON Britain champions. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04ws12f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Lipinski b04v2lyk (Listen) MON The startling 300-year journey of a 'golden period' MON Stradivarius violin - through the lives of geniuses, MON dictators, refugees, ordinary people and the thieves who MON stole it violently in 2014. MON MON An art crime story is MON the beginning of a journey around the world - and through MON varied lives and cultures - tracing the history of the MON Lipinski Stradivarius violin which left the hands of the MON master Antonio Stradivari in 1715. MON MON In Feb 2014, Milwaukee Symphony leader Frank Almond was MON beaten and tasered after a sell-out performance - and the $6 MON million violin was snatched from his hands. National US MON media overload followed, as the instrument had become the MON blue-collar city's emblem of accessible high culture. The MON programme explores its impact not on the musical elite, but MON on the life of the city and its regular people. MON MON And from the crime scene, we get into the rich international MON cast and stories. MON We hear the memories of Evi Liivak, an Estonian violinist MON whose father was murdered by the Gestapo and who played in MON Second World War refugee camps before marrying one of the MON main translators at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials and MON coming to America. MON MON And there's Peter Voight the Sussex luthier whose family MON have been making and repairing violins across Europe since MON the 17th century, the lawyer of Universal Allah, the MON Milwaukee barber imprisoned for the 2014 theft, and the MON local Police Chief who led the investigation. MON MON Produced by Peter Curran MON A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04wth54 (Listen) MON Moses MON MON Moses has always been good box office even before Ridley MON Scott's blockbuster movie hit the cinema screens on Boxing MON Day. There was Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments; the MON cartoon Prince of Egypt. It's a MON great story - Ancient Egyptian pharaohs and pyramids, babies MON in baskets, plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and a great MON chase. MON MON The story of Moses is the seminal one for Jews; without him MON they would never have become a people. But he's important MON for Muslims and Christians too. And the story of a people MON being rescued from slavery and journeying to the Promised MON Land has been claimed by countless groups down through the MON ages. MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Maureen Kendler, teaching fellow at MON the London School of Jewish studies, Shuruq Naguib, lecturer MON in Islamic Studies at Lancaster University, and the Rev MON Keith Hebden, Anglican Priest in Nottingham and author of MON "Seeking Justice: The Radical Compassion of Jesus. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b04wth56 (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04wrq6h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b04wth58 (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the comedy panel game. Ed Byrne, MON Henning Wehn, Holly Walsh and Richard Osman must talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy about Ireland, rules, London and MON beavers. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Ed Byrne MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Richard Osman MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04wth5b (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04wth5d (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04wtcj1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Mindfulness: Panacea or Fad? b04xmqdd (Listen) MON In little more than a few decades mindfulness has gone from MON being a specialist element of Buddhist teaching to the front MON cover of Time magazine. It's the must have app for the MON stars, courses in it are MON advertised in the back of all the glossies, businesses use MON it to reduce staff stress and boost productivity. It's even MON prescribed on the NHS for anxiety and depression. This is MON the story of "mindfulness" - from its roots in the Buddhist MON practice of meditation to today's multi-billion dollar, MON worldwide industry. Devoted followers hail it as a cure-all MON for the ills of modern life. Or is this just another health MON fad, destined for disparagement, like homeopathy? And what MON do Buddhists feel about their heritage being westernised, MON secularised and commercialised? Presenter: Emma Barnett. MON Producer: Phil Pegum. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04wgwb9 (Listen) MON Colombia - Where the Truth Lies Buried MON MON In Comuna 13, one of Medellin's poorest and most violent MON districts, there is a giant rubbish dump - la escombrera. MON Local people say it's where the truth lies buried. They're MON talking about the disappeared - MON dozens of victims of Colombia's bloody, civil conflict MON concealed beneath the mountains of junk. MON MON La escombrera stands in contrast to the 'Medellin Miracle' - MON the city's transformation over two decades from the darkest MON days of Pablo Escobar and his drug trafficking cartel, to MON its triumph in being voted the world's most innovative. MON MON For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly reports on the move MON to begin digging for human remains. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04wtjd2 (Listen) MON Lemurs out on a Limb MON MON The lemurs of Madagascar are the most endangered mammals on MON earth - driven to the edge of survival by habitat loss and MON hunting. Many different lemurs inhabit different parts of MON the island's forests but as these MON are cleared for development, food and fuel, so the lemurs MON are disappearing from the face of the earth. Monty Don MON explores what is being done to save these endearing mammals, MON including communities working together to find alternative MON ways of living that allows them to live in peace. MON Eco-tourism, community conservation projects and education MON are all being used to help local people as well as tourists MON value the lemurs, but is it too little too late? And is MON there the political will to save them? MON MON Dr Jonah Ratsimbazafy MON Dr Jonah Ratsimbazafy is a Malagasy primatologist and MON conservationist from Madagascar. He studied black and white MON ruffed lemurs in Manombo for his PhD at Stony Brook MON University. MON An Associate Professor at the University of Antananarivo, MON Jonah supervises student research projects and trains MON students to tackle current issues in conservation. Jonah has MON been MON Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust MON ’s Training & Conservation Coordinator for Madagascar since MON 2002, responsible for building the conservation capacity of MON the staff and partners at Durrell-Madagascar sites. Jonah is MON also a co-author of MON Conservation International’s Lemurs of Madagascar Field MON Guides MON MON Rainer Dolch MON Dr Rainer Dolch has a PhD in Ecology from the University of MON Göttingen and has been working in Madagascar since 1992. MON As senior coordinator of the Malagasy conservation MON organisation MON Association Mitsinjo MON his interest and research has been focusing on Madagascar's MON threatened and endemic animal and plant species, stretching MON across a wide variety of taxa including amphibians. MON MON Dr Julia Jones MON Dr Julia Jones is senior lecturer in conservation at the MON School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography at MON Bangor University MON Her research looks at how people interact with natural MON resources and how incentives can be best designed to MON maintain ecosystem services. MON She is interested in the growing field of MON Payment for Ecosystem Services MON (PES) and how such schemes can effectively deliver global MON environmental benefits while also having a positive impact MON on local livelihoods. Much of her research is based in MON Madagascar where she has worked for nearly 15 years. MON Julia started working in Madagascar in 2001 doing a PhD MON looking at the sustainability of crayfish harvesting in the MON eastern rainforests. This PhD started out with a focus on MON population dynamics and harvesting models but the time she MON spent working with crayfish harvesters got her interested in MON the role that traditional institutions such as taboos play MON in resource management. This started her into MON interdisciplinary research; integrating social science and MON ecology. MON MON Dr Ivan Scales MON Dr Ivan Scales is MON McGrath Lecturer in Geography MON at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. His MON research emphasises the role of political, cultural and MON economic factors in shaping the way natural resources are MON used and contested, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan MON Africa. He has carried out fieldwork in Cameroon, French MON Guiana, The Gambia, Madagascar and Senegal. MON He has worked in Madagascar since 2002, where his research MON has focused on the drivers of deforestation and the politics MON of forest use and conservation. He recently edited a book on MON 'Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar' MON . MON Other research projects include work on the emerging MON political economy of agriculture in Africa (with a focus on MON biofuels and biotechnology); green capitalism and ethical MON consumption; and the environmental values held by different MON individuals and groups (from rural households in Africa to MON research scientists and conservation organisations). MON Twitter: MON @ivanscales MON Website: MON http://ivanscales.tumblr.com/ MON MON 21:30 Magna Carta b04wtchv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04wth74 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04wv09d (Listen) MON The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Offences against the MON Person MON MON In Hilary Mantel's story the consequences of an illicit MON affair play out. At a Manchester solicitor's office Vicky, a MON precocious but conflicted junior clerk is observing: MON MON "I guessed why Nicolette had moved across MON the Square. It was more discreet for a senior partner to MON keep an affair extra-mural." MON MON Reader: Rebekah Staton MON Abridger: Jules Wilkinson MON Producer: Simon Richardson. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Rebekah Staton MON Author: Hilary Mantel MON Abridger: Jules Wilkinson MON Producer: Simon Richardson MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04vkl1s (Listen) MON Why do we laugh? MON MON Michael Rosen finds out why we laugh and why we cry, with MON neuroscientists Sophie Scott and Sam Evans, and linguist MON Laura Wright. It's probably not why you think... And does it MON matter if laughter and crying are real or false, in terms of MON their effect on us? Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04wtrll (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 JANUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04wrq80 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04wtchx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04wrq82 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04wrq84 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04wrq86 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04wrq88 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04wtwfg (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04wtwfj (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0nhb (Listen) TUE Spoon-billed Sandpiper TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Liz Bonnin presents the diminutive spoon-billed sandpiper of TUE the high Russian tundra. Spoon-billed sandpipers are TUE wading birds, no bigger than a house sparrow. They have TUE rust-coloured feathers and a black, spoon-shaped bill for TUE sifting tiny creatures from the mud or catching insects on TUE the tundra of eastern Russia, where they breed. In winter TUE they fly down to south-east Asian estuaries. Here they are TUE increasingly threatened by the reclamation of mudflats for TUE development and by local people who trap the waders in fine TUE nests to eat. Today, there may be fewer than a thousand TUE birds left. Now conservationists have taken some birds into TUE captivity to establish a breeding stock, but others are TUE being helped on their breeding grounds by headstarting, TUE whereby adults are encouraged to lay a second clutch of eggs TUE after the first are removed. Its hope that this work, plus TUE encouraging local hunters in Asia to release any sandpipers TUE caught in nets, will secure the spoon-billed sandpiper for TUE future generations. TUE TUE Spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Wildfowl & Wetland Trust. TUE TUE © TUE Wildfowl & Wetland Trust TUE TUE Spoon-billed sandpiper conservation breeding programme TUE TUE The spoon-billed sandpiper conservation breeding programme TUE is a collaboration between TUE WWT TUE Birds Russia, Moscow Zoo and the RSPB working with TUE colleagues from the BTO, BirdLife International, ArcCona and TUE the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force. TUE TUE The project is supported by TUE WWT TUE RSPB, Darwin Initiative and Save our Species, with TUE additional financial contributions and support from BirdLife TUE International, the East-Asian Australasian Flyway TUE Partnership, the Convention on Migratory Species, Heritage TUE Expeditions, the Australasian Wader Study Group of Birds TUE Australia, the BBC Wildlife Fund, Avios, the Olive Herbert TUE Charitable Trust, the Oriental Bird Club, British Airways TUE Communities & Conservation Scheme, Leica Camera AG TUE (exclusive optic partner for the spoon-billed sandpiper TUE project) and many generous individuals. TUE TUE More information about WWT's involvement in the project can TUE be found TUE here TUE TUE Recording of spoon-billed sandpiper provided by WWT TUE This programme contains some wildtrack recordings of the TUE spoon-billed sandpiper TUE kindly provided by WWT (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust). TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04wtwfl (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Magna Carta b04wtwfn (Listen) TUE Runnymede, 1215 TUE TUE Melvyn Bragg explores the events of 1215 and the dispute TUE between King John and his barons which led to the issuing of TUE one of the most important documents in English history. As TUE England descended into what TUE seemed an inevitable civil war, a group of rebellious TUE noblemen forced the English king to the negotiating table. TUE Melvyn visits Canterbury, seat of Archbishop Stephen TUE Langton, one of the key figures in the peace negotiations, TUE and comes face to face with the document sealed on the field TUE at Runnymede on June 15th, 1215: Magna Carta. TUE TUE With: David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History at TUE King's College London; Claire Breay, Curator of the British TUE Library's Magna Carta exhibition; and Nicholas Vincent, TUE Professor of Medieval History at the University of East TUE Anglia. TUE TUE Producer: Thomas Morris. TUE TUE 09:30 Just So Science b04795tq (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Crab That Played with the Sea TUE TUE In The Crab that Played with the Sea, Kipling tells the tale TUE of arrogant and mischievous Pau Amma the mighty King Crab TUE who eventually gets his comeuppance. For Palaeontologist TUE Richard Fortey, it's the TUE indestructible horseshoe crab that should be regarded as TUE truly regal, with its copper-rich blue blood and incredible TUE longevity, having remained almost stubbornly the same for TUE nearly 500 million years. The reader is Samuel West. TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04wtwfq (Listen) TUE Different Every Time, Episode 2 TUE TUE Marcus O'Dair's biography of Robert Wyatt, a musical cult TUE cum national treasure, is abridged in 5 parts by Katrin TUE Williams: TUE TUE 2. Wyatt perfects his drumming style, even practicing at the TUE Mallorca home of TUE poet TUE Robert Graves. Then he gets married and afterwards it's the TUE emergence TUE of The Soft Machine, playing psychedelic pop 'happenings' TUE and 'freak outs'. TUE TUE Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Author: Marcus O'Dair TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04wtwfs (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 b04wtwfv (Listen) TUE The Corrections, How Not to Get Tenure TUE TUE Jonathan Franzen's exuberant saga of a dysfunctional TUE Midwestern family, starring Richard Schiff, Maggie Steed, TUE Colin Stinton and Julian Rhind-Tutt. TUE TUE Episode 2 - How not to get tenure: Failed academic and TUE aspiring TUE screenwriter, Chip Lambert, has made an early exit from the TUE planned lunch with his parents, leaving his younger sister TUE Denise to pick up the pieces. But where did Chip's life TUE start to go so wrong? TUE TUE Directed by Emma Harding TUE TUE The Corrections is an acclaimed 2001 novel by American TUE author Jonathan Franzen. It was awarded the National Book TUE Award in 2001, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002, TUE and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, The TUE Corrections was included in TIME magazine's list of the 100 TUE best English-language novels since 1923. TUE TUE Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The TUE Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), TUE two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone), a TUE personal history (The Discomfort Zone), and a translation of TUE Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening. He lives in New York City TUE and Santa Cruz, California TUE TUE Marcy Kahan is a playwright and radio dramatist. Recent TUE radio work includes two series of Lunch (starring Claire TUE Skinner and Stephen Mangan) and Mr Bridger's Orphan. Theatre TUE work includes 20 Cigarettes (Soho Theatre), the stage TUE version of When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket) TUE and Goldberg Variations (Miranda Theatre, New York). TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Richard Schiff TUE Enid Lambert: Maggie Steed TUE Alfred Lambert: Colin Stinton TUE Gary Lambert: Richard Laing TUE Chip Lambert: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Denise Lambert: Roslyn Hill TUE Julia Vrais: Kelly Burke TUE Eden Procuro: Elaine Claxton TUE Gitanas Misevicius: Sam Dale TUE Melissa Paquette: Bettrys Jones TUE Caroline Lambert: Jane Slavin TUE Caleb Lambert: Adam Thomas Wright TUE Jonah Lambert: Sean McCrystal TUE Author: Jonathan Franzen TUE Adaptor: Marcy Kahan TUE Director: Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04wtzz3 (Listen) TUE The Future of Corals TUE TUE Coral reefs are renowned for their beauty and diversity, and TUE they provide us with a wondrous spectacle. Full of colourful TUE fish, patrolled by sharks and visited by a host of exotic TUE creatures from manta rays to TUE turtles, they bring breath-taking colour to our seas. But TUE what is their future? As our climate warms, so too do the TUE oceans and corals are highly sensitive to changes in TUE temperature. The increasing level of CO2 in our atmosphere TUE means more is dissolved in seawater, making our oceans ever TUE more acidic and hindering their ability to build their TUE structures. Mass coral bleaching, when large areas of corals TUE die and turn white, was unknown before the 1980s, now they TUE are increasingly common in many areas of the ocean. The lack TUE of build-up of new coral due to acidification is now TUE measurable and many scientists are wondering how long coral TUE reefs will survive. Monty Dom explores the future of coral TUE in our stressed oceans and explores what can be done. TUE TUE Jamie Craggs TUE TUE Jamie Craggs is the Aquarium Curator at the TUE Horniman Museum & Gardens TUE London, UK, overseeing the collection which contains around TUE 2,500 live specimens representing 200 different species. He TUE is the founder of TUE Horniman Project Coral TUE a pioneering multi-year coral sexual reproductive research TUE project which aims at understanding the impact that climate TUE change is having on the resilience of corals and their TUE ability to reproduce. TUE Horniman Project Coral utilises the latest microprocessor TUE technologies, to precisely replicate environmental cues TUE responsible to trigger coral reproduction within the coral TUE research facility at the museum. These include seasonal TUE temperature, sunlight and lunar cycles. In 2013, this TUE resulted in the first predictable broadcast coral spawning, TUE in a completely closed system, in the world. TUE In collaboration with scientific and corporate partners a TUE number of experiments are being conducted that focus on TUE specific areas of coral reproduction and are giving a deeper TUE understanding of the impacts of climate change on coral TUE reefs. TUE His vision has always been that a collection within a public TUE aquarium should be used to deepen our understanding of TUE biology and promote conservation of species and habitats. TUE TUE Twitter: TUE @aquariumcurator TUE TUE Dr Elvira Poloczanska TUE TUE Dr Elvira Poloczanska's focus is on the development of tools TUE to assess vulnerability of species, habitats and regions to TUE climate change, the direct and indirect mechanisms through TUE which climate change impacts manifest on our marine TUE biodiversity, and communication of impacts science. TUE TUE She joined TUE CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research TUE in 2005 and before that held research positions with the TUE Scottish Association of Marine Science TUE and the Marine Biological Association of the UK. TUE TUE Her original research focus was on modelling the role of TUE climate and biotic interactions such as competition and TUE predation in mediating climate change impacts on populations TUE and communities. Since joining CSIRO her research focus has TUE been on climate change ecology and the role of ecological TUE processes and climate forcing in structuring coastal and TUE inshore communities. TUE TUE Dr George Roff TUE TUE Dr George Roff has spent most of the past decade both TUE studying and living in Australia and travelling around the TUE world. His PhD research focused on reconstructing the TUE historical ecology of the Great Barrier Reef and he is TUE currently he is a post-doctoral researcher at the TUE Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, University of Queensland TUE TUE He is broadly interested in processes of resilience, TUE disturbance and recovery in Indo-Pacific and Caribbean coral TUE reef ecosystems. His research to date has been largely based TUE in the Indo-Pacific (Great Barrier Reef & Palau) and the TUE Caribbean (Belize & Bahamas), looking at processes of TUE disturbance (coral bleaching, coral disease, cyclones, TUE corallivory) and the recovery of coral assemblages (coral TUE recruitment) at varying spatial scales. TUE TUE Dr Julius Pearcy TUE TUE Dr Pearcy's passion for the natural world started in the TUE Italian countryside where he grew up catching frogs, snakes, TUE lizards and fish at a nearby stream. He pursued this passion TUE by studying Zoology at the University of Bristol in 2007 TUE where he first heard about the world of coral reef sounds TUE during a seminar talk by Dr Steve Simpson. This paved the TUE way for his future course in life. TUE TUE Upon completing his degree he worked as a research TUE assisstant at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, TUE Australia, before embarking on a PhD with the TUE Coral Reef Research Unit at the University of Essex TUE in 2011. His research focussed on the underwater sounds of TUE coral reefs and how they influenced recruitment of larval TUE fish, spending most of his time between East Anglia, the TUE Coral Triangle in Indonesia and the Great Barrier Reef in TUE Australia. He completed his PhD in December 2014. TUE TUE Twitter: TUE @singingfishes TUE TUE 11:30 Sasha's Song b04wtzz5 (Listen) TUE In a rapidly changing Russia, Sasha Tsaliuk continues to TUE fight for the existence of his beloved Moscow Acapella TUE Jewish Choir. Formed as the Soviet Union collapsed around TUE him, Sasha came to the choir as TUE conductor when it was a potent, exciting and hopeful symbol TUE of the new Russia. Here was music both sacred and folk that TUE had been arrested, buried and silence by Communism, TUE anti-semitism and the hammer blow of war- it was the return TUE of those voices long stifled. TUE TUE Whilst many of Sasha's contemporaries left to begin new TUE lives abroad Sasha stayed, believing the choir offered hope TUE and progress for the best of modern Russian values. Tsaliuk TUE had once performed in the legendary Big Soviet Children's TUE Choir, beloved across all of the Soviet Union. Singing to TUE the Party highups and travelling the length and breadth of TUE the Union. Now Sasha lives to revive Jewish Russian music; TUE the music of the vanished world of his grandparents. His TUE choir has won international acclaim on its many tours and TUE draws diverse audiences at home. Frequently it performs for TUE the mega rich who find it charming and fashionable. But TUE Sasha's perfect dinner jacket hides deep worries. TUE TUE The choir perennially struggles for funding and the Russia TUE he hoped would be home to the choir is perplexingly TUE different and volatile. Every night, Sasha is up late on TUE Skype scouring the world for sponsors. As the Moscow Jewish TUE Acapella Choir marks its 25th anniversary Monica Whitlock TUE hears its story and encounters Sasha's world. TUE TUE Producer Mark Burman. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04wrq8b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04wtzz7 (Listen) TUE 6 January 1915 - Jack Wilson TUE TUE A couple of visitors descend on the Wilsons, one more TUE welcome than the other. TUE TUE Written by: Katie Hims TUE Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jack: Ashley Kumar TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Albert: Harry Myers TUE Florrie: Claire Rushbrook TUE Phyllis: Christine Absalom TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE Producer: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04wtzz9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04wrq8d (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04wtzzc (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Self Orbits CERN b04wtzzf (Listen) TUE Bamboozled TUE TUE Will Self continues his 50 kilometre circumnavigation of the TUE Large Hadron Collider at CERN just outside Geneva - entirely TUE on foot. TUE TUE Following the course of the Collider through the French and TUE Swiss countryside, TUE Will stops at regular intervals to descend to the tunnel TUE below and view the experiments. TUE TUE Invited to 'feel the wonder' of particle physics, Will is so TUE far baffled. Far from wondrous, he very soon finds himself TUE wondering about his own capacity for misunderstanding - TUE expressing concerns that his walking tour may be a complete TUE waste of time. TUE TUE And to make matters worse, just as he emerges from one of TUE the tunnels Will is engulfed by a huge thunderstorm. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04wth5b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b04wtzzh (Listen) TUE The Ferryhill Philosophers, A Good Thing for a Good Reason TUE TUE A rather unlikely duo, they come from two very different TUE worlds, albeit only seven miles apart - Joe Snowball, TUE unemployed ex-miner in a village forgotten by the world, and TUE the Hon. Hermione Pink, slightly TUE disenchanted senior lecturer at the third oldest university TUE in England, an ivory tower almost encircled by the River TUE Wear. TUE TUE Together, they wrestle with the collision between moral TUE philosophy and the sundry dilemmas encountered by the TUE not-always-good people of Ferryhill, deprived of jobs, TUE opportunities and the kind of ethical guidance once offered TUE by the Methodist Church and the National Union of TUE Mineworkers. TUE TUE Should a man bent on suicide be stopped - or allowed to do TUE as he wishes? Should one always tell the truth even if it TUE has bad consequences? TUE TUE The philosophy is thought provoking, the unlikely TUE partnership is intriguing, and the world of Ferryhill is a TUE humorous, engaging and sometimes challenging place to visit. TUE TUE Written by Michael Chaplin TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Joe: Alun Armstrong TUE Hermione: Deborah Findlay TUE Derek: Joe Caffrey TUE Gloria: Tracy Whitwell TUE Lucy: Lauren Kellegher TUE Barry: Jonathan Keeble TUE Writer: Michael Chaplin TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04wnkcx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 In Search of the Holy Tail b04m7bsn (Listen) TUE Broadcaster Marc Riley, rock musician Damon Albarn and film TUE maker Ceri Levy venture outside their usual comfort zone and TUE travel to Mull in search of Sea Eagles and Basking Sharks. TUE TUE During their weekend on the TUE island they do some bird watching, swim with seals and Damon TUE composes a new piece of music which he performs to Marc and TUE Ceri in Fingal's cave on the Isle of Staffa, using the TUE unique echoes of the waves in the cave as accompaniment. TUE TUE During their journey they discuss Gilbert and Sullivan, how TUE to catch a Blue Tit in a snowy garden and the reintroduction TUE of Sea Eagles to the Scottish Islands. TUE TUE As a finale to the weekend, Marc and Damon overcome their TUE fears and venture into the deep waters off Mull to swim with TUE Basking Sharks, some of them over 20 feet in length. TUE TUE Produced by John Leonard TUE A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04wtzzk (Listen) TUE How Is English Going to Change in the future? TUE TUE How's English going to change in the future? Michael Rosen TUE looks ahead, with the help of linguists Bas Aarts and Laura TUE Wright, and biologist Mark Pagel. It's not looking good for TUE "shall" and "must"... TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04wv045 (Listen) TUE Series 35, Philippa Langley on Richard III TUE TUE When Philippa Langley and other members of the Richard III TUE Society helped to discover the body of the king in a TUE Leicester car park, Richard's life once again became a hotly TUE contested debating point. Philippa TUE joins Matthew Parris to defend Richard III as a Great Life, TUE with expert witness and Richard biographer Annette Carson. TUE Can the man who may have been responsible for the TUE disappearance of the Princes in the Tower really be TUE described as "great"? Or was he the victim of Tudor TUE propaganda and Shakespearian slander? TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Philippa Langley TUE Interviewed Guest: Annette Carson TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04wv047 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04wrq8g (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04wv049 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Roy Walker TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new TUE experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. TUE Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show TUE all about embracing the new. TUE TUE This week, TUE Marcus persuades Roy Walker, the comedian made famous by TUE Catchphrase, to see his first ever Shakespeare play and TUE banter with the audience for the first time. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Roy Walker TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04wv04c (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04wv04f (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04wtwfv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The City on the Couch b04wth5g (Listen) TUE Psychoanalyst Mary Bradbury investigates why a growing TUE number of big businesses in the financial sector are taking TUE more care of their employees' mental health. TUE TUE Contributors include Graham Thornicroft, Professor TUE of Community Psychiatry at King's College London; Professor TUE David Tuckett of University College London; Ian Gatt QC of TUE Herbert Smith Freehills; and Sacha Romanovitch of Grant TUE Thornton. TUE TUE Presented by Mary Bradbury TUE TUE Produced by David Morley TUE A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04wv050 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04wv052 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 Magna Carta b04wtwfn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04wrq8j (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04wv054 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04wwgzk (Listen) TUE The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Sorry to Disturb, TUE Part One TUE TUE Harriet Walter reads the first part of Hilary Mantel's TUE autobiographical tale. Isolated in a claustrophobic flat in TUE Jeddah, life becomes increasingly off kilter when the TUE doorbell rings. TUE TUE Harriet Walter reads. TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Harriet Walter TUE Author: Hilary Mantel TUE Abridger: Julian Wilkinson TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 23:00 Cabin Pressure b04vf25d (Listen) TUE Series 5, Zurich, Part 1 TUE TUE One of the most popular radio sitcoms of the past ten years TUE bows out with a special double episode. As Martin decides TUE whether to take his new job, is this the end for MJN Air? TUE And just what has Arthur painted TUE on the side of the van? TUE TUE With the show titles running alphabetically from the first TUE ever episode - "Abu Dhabi" through to this double finale TUE "Zurich" - the cast and crew of MJN Air discover that TUE whether it's choosing an ice-cream flavour, putting a TUE princess in a van or remembering your grandmother's name, no TUE job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. TUE TUE With special guests including Anthony Head and Timothy West. TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore TUE Produced and Directed by David Tyler TUE TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole TUE First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam TUE Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore TUE Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright: Anthony Head TUE Princess Theresa: Matilda Ziegler TUE Gordon Shappey: Timothy West TUE Karl: Dan Tetsell TUE Bruce Fraser: Gordon Kennedy TUE The Auctioneer: Jonathan Kydd TUE Writer: John Finnemore TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04wv09g (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 JANUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04wrq9g (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04wtwfq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04wrq9l (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04wrq9n (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04wrq9q (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04wrq9v (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04ww0p1 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04wwcnh (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0nw9 (Listen) WED Blue Rock Thrush WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Liz Bonnin presents the blue rock thrush, perched high on a WED Spanish castle. The blue rock thrush has a slim WED silhouette, rather like that of a blackbird, but these WED largely sedentary, elusive and sun-loving birds are a rare WED sight in northern Europe. They are widespread in summer WED across southern Europe and also occur in the Arabian WED Peninsula and across most of south-east Asia. The male lives WED up to his name, as in sunlight his deep indigo body feathers WED contrast with his darker wings and tail. His mate is a more WED muted mid brown, and barred beneath. Blue rock thrushes WED often nest in old ruins, but can also be found in houses in WED villages and on the edge of towns. Here in sunny spots they WED feed on large insects like grasshoppers and will even take WED small reptiles in their long thrush-like bills. WED WED Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Hans and Jens Eriksen / WED naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01150189 WED © Hans and Jens Eriksen / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b04wwcnk (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Magna Carta b04wwcnm (Listen) WED The Aftermath of Runnymede WED WED Melvyn Bragg discovers the consequences of the agreement WED thrashed out between King John and his barons at Runnymede WED in May 1215. He finds out what happened to the charter in WED the months after it was composed, WED and how it affected politics and the rights of the WED individual in the years after it came into force. WED WED Producer: Thomas Morris. WED WED 09:30 Just So Science b047bzlb (Listen) WED Series 2, The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo WED WED The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo. Jon Hutchinson and Maria WED Nilsson discuss how the Kangaroo got his hop and why Skippy WED is no longer considered Australian - at least, genetically. WED The Reader is Samuel West. Producer: Rami Tzabar WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04wwcnp (Listen) WED Different Every Time, Episode 3 WED WED Marcus O'Dair's biography of Robert Wyatt, a musical cult WED cum national treasure, WED is abridged in 5 parts by Katrin Williams: WED WED 3. In 1970 Wyatt splits with Soft Machine and goes on to WED play with Matching WED Mole. WED Three years later, at a party in London, comes the moment WED that will change his life WED forever.. WED WED Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Author: Marcus O'Dair WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04wwcnr (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 10:40 15 Minute Drama b04wwcnt (Listen) WED The Corrections, Chip Lands a New Job WED WED Jonathan Franzen's exuberant saga of a dysfunctional WED Midwestern family, starring Richard Schiff (The West Wing), WED Maggie Steed, Colin Stinton and Julian Rhind-Tutt. WED WED Episode 3 - Chip lands a new job: Failed WED academic and aspiring screenwriter, Chip Lambert, has made WED an early exit from the planned lunch with his parents. He is WED anxious to make some urgent corrections to the draft of his WED screenplay, before producer Eden Procuro reads it. But Eden WED has other plans for him. WED WED Directed by Emma Harding WED WED The Corrections is an acclaimed 2001 novel by American WED author Jonathan Franzen. It was awarded the National Book WED Award in 2001, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002 WED and was included in TIME magazine's 2005 list of the 100 WED best English-language novels since 1923. WED WED Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The WED Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), WED two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone) WED and a personal history (The Discomfort Zone). WED WED Marcy Kahan is a playwright and radio dramatist. Recent WED radio work includes two series of Lunch (starring Claire WED Skinner and Stephen Mangan) and Mr Bridger's Orphan. Theatre WED work includes 20 Cigarettes (Soho Theatre) and the stage WED version of When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal Haymarket). WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Richard Schiff WED Enid Lambert: Maggie Steed WED Alfred Lambert: Colin Stinton WED Gary Lambert: Richard Laing WED Chip Lambert: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Denise Lambert: Roslyn Hill WED Julia Vrais: Kelly Burke WED Eden Procuro: Elaine Claxton WED Gitanas Misevicius: Sam Dale WED Melissa Paquette: Bettrys Jones WED Caroline Lambert: Jane Slavin WED Caleb Lambert: Adam Thomas Wright WED Jonah Lambert: Sean McCrystal WED Author: Jonathan Franzen WED Adaptor: Marcy Kahan WED Director: Emma Harding WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04wwcnw (Listen) WED Alison and Shirley - Feeling a Failure WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between sisters about the WED impact of failing the 11-plus, compounded with being brought WED up by parents who believed that praise would spoil a child. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio WED 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain WED in which people across the UK volunteer to have a WED conversation with someone close to them about a subject WED they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations WED are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from WED local and national radio stations who facilitate each WED encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, WED and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, WED and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection WED between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations WED are being archived by the British Library and used to build WED up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the WED UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn WED more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Beirut's House of Barakat b04wwcny (Listen) WED On the intersection of Damascus and Independence streets in WED the Lebanese capital Beirut, there's an elegant house, WED pockmarked by bullet holes, that goes by a number of names - WED the Barakat house, the yellow WED house, or Beit Beirut. This building has stood witness to WED the experiences of Beirut over the last century. It contains WED the stories of those who lived in it before the war and the WED snipers who occupied it during the war. WED WED The house has been saved from demolition by the dogged WED efforts of an architect, Mona el-Hallak. In a city where old WED buildings are continuously knocked down to make way for new WED flats, Mona has championed this building and preserved it WED for future generations. WED WED Rebecca Lloyd-Evans went to meet Mona in the house, and this WED programme is a document of her experience there. The plan WED for the museum is to encourage Beirutis to come together and WED share their histories of the city. WED WED Mona hopes that this could show the way towards a permanent WED peace in Lebanon, but - as Rebecca finds out - people's WED stories diverge and conflict and finding unity is not an WED easy mission. WED WED Produced by Isabel Sutton WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b04wwcp0 (Listen) WED Series 3, A Snapshot WED WED Based on a short story by M. McDonnell Bodkin WED Dramatised by Chris Harrald WED WED Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock WED Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memoirs and has a WED chance to get his own WED back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with WED private detective and keen gardener Paul Beck as they WED question the apparently watertight evidence against Squire WED Clement Gore in a fatal shooting. WED WED Directed by Liz Webb WED WED Episode by Chris Harrald inspired by the short story 'A WED Snapshot' by M. McDonnell Bodkin. WED WED Credits WED Lestrade: James Fleet WED Paul Beck: Adrian Scarborough WED Margaret: Hannah Genesius WED Maisie: Bettrys Jones WED Gore: Paul Heath WED Carmondy: Michael Bertenshaw WED Producer: Liz Webb WED Adaptor: Chris Harrald WED Author: M McDonnell Bodkin WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04wrq9z (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04wwcp2 (Listen) WED 7 January 1915 - Ivy Layton WED WED At Folkestone's Pleasure Gardens Theatre, someone's in for a WED surprise. WED WED Written by: Katie Hims WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Ivy: Lizzy Watts WED Archie: Arthur Hughes WED Dolly: Elaine Claxton WED Writer: Katie Hims WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED Producer: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04wwcp4 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04wrqb1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04wwcp6 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Self Orbits CERN b04wwcp8 (Listen) WED The Ultimatum WED WED Will Self continues his 50 kilometre circumnavigation of the WED Large Hadron Collider at CERN just outside Geneva - entirely WED on foot. WED WED Following the course of the Collider through the French and WED Swiss countryside, WED Will stops at regular intervals to descend to the tunnel WED below and view the experiments. WED WED Invited to 'feel the wonder' of particle physics, Will is WED still baffled. He decides to issue an ultimatum to his CERN WED hosts. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04wv04c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b04xf78v (Listen) WED The Ferryhill Philosophers, Wants and Desires WED WED A rather unlikely duo, they come from two very different WED worlds, albeit only seven miles apart - Joe Snowball, WED unemployed ex-miner in a village forgotten by the world, and WED the Hon. Hermione Pink, slightly WED disenchanted senior lecturer at the third oldest university WED in England, an ivory tower almost encircled by the River WED Wear. WED WED Together, they wrestle with the collision between moral WED philosophy and the sundry dilemmas encountered by the WED not-always-good people of Ferryhill, deprived of jobs, WED opportunities and the kind of ethical guidance once offered WED by the Methodist Church and the National Union of WED Mineworkers. WED WED Should a jobless teenage girl be entitled to sell her body WED for sex? Should one always tell the truth even if it has bad WED consequences? WED WED The philosophy is thought provoking, the unlikely WED partnership is intriguing, and the world of Ferryhill is a WED humorous, engaging and sometimes challenging place to visit. WED WED Written by Michael Chaplin WED WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Joe: Alun Armstrong WED Hermione: Deborah Findlay WED Vera: Jackie Lye WED Kerry: Laura Elphinstone WED Gaz: Chris Grahamson WED Rollo Ironside: John Rowe WED Writer: Michael Chaplin WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04wwdyz (Listen) WED Tax and Self-Assessment WED WED Getting ready for Self-Assessment? If you've got a question WED about tax or your tax return call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Chas WED Roy-Chowdhury, Head of Taxation, Association of Chartered WED Certified Accountants. WED Elaine Clark, Managing Director, Cheap Accounting. WED Paula Tallon, Managing Partner, Gabelle Tax WED WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04wv052 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04wwdz1 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04wwdz4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04wwdzf (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04wrqb6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b04wwgz3 (Listen) WED Series 2, All the Fun of the Affair WED WED Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing WED up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly WED Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04wwgz5 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04wwgz7 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04wwcnt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b04wwgz9 (Listen) WED The Law and Artificial Intelligence WED WED Clive Anderson ask how our legal system will cope in a WED fast-approaching world of autonomous cars, care-bots and WED other machines using artificial intelligence to make WED judgments normally made by humans. WED WED What will WED be the legal implications of the use of robotics in WED healthcare - the introduction of care-bots that not only WED monitor patients' medical care, but carry meals, crack jokes WED and remind patients to take medication? Who will be sued for WED negligence if the care-bot malfunctions - the NHS, the WED doctor who delegated responsibility to the machine, the WED manufacturer of the machine or the software company? WED WED The Government is currently changing laws to allow the WED testing of prototype autonomous self-driving vehicles on UK WED roads - how will these changes affect motorists? Who will be WED liable in the event of an accident? What happens if a car is WED hacked and taken over by a criminal third party? Who has WED access to data about the car's, and therefore the WED passenger's, movements? WED WED The development in Japan of therapeutic robots looking like WED baby seals has raised questions about whether robots should WED be given human or animal form. What are the legal WED implications of having to separate a sick child from the WED malfunctioning robot with which he or she has bonded? WED WED Can a super intelligent robot be legally accountable for the WED decisions it takes? Who has the intellectual property rights WED for the creative output of a robot? And can existing laws WED deal with all these issues or do we need major new WED legislation to deal with the robotic future? WED WED Produced by Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b04wwgzc (Listen) WED Electricity WED WED In a new series, David Baddiel sets out to make sense of WED some apparently puzzling topics. WED WED In this first programme, and after hearing suggestions from WED his followers on social media, David seeks to understand WED electricity. He travels to Manchester to learn the basics WED from a professor of high voltage technology, and to WED Staffordshire to grasp the operations of a huge power WED station. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Station b04wwgzf (Listen) WED 60 years ago, Dounreay Power Plant in Caithness crackled WED into life. Now decommissioned, Radio 4 looks at what it WED takes to dismantle a nuclear power station. WED WED Poised on a cliff-top in the far northeast of WED Scotland, Dounreay's nuclear power plant looks like WED something from The Twilight Zone. A castle once marked this WED spot. Now a sprawl of industrial units form the base of an WED extensive and complicated operation - Dounreay's WED dismantling. WED WED The ethical and environmental arguments for and against WED nuclear power are extensive, but what of the practical side WED of things? WED WED In this programme, Radio 4 takes a very practical and WED pragmatic approach to the nuclear debate. As Dounreay WED reaches the halfway mark through it's 20-year dismantling WED process, this 'how to' guide tells you how it's done. This WED is process in real terms - the nuts and bolts of the WED operation. WED While Dounreay hasn't provided power for two decades, it WED provides 3000 local people with jobs. They'll be kept busy WED for some time to come. The dismantling process will take at WED least another 20 years, after which this sleeping giant will WED be carefully watched and monitored for a further three WED centuries until the site can be officially be deemed 'safe'. WED This task will be undertaken by the Nuclear Decommissioning WED Authority at a predicted cost of GBP2.9 billion. And it's WED not just Dounreay. Calder Hall and Windscale in Cumbria are WED also being wound down, so it's a really critical time to WED explore this issue. What on earth is everyone actually WED doing? Listen to this programme to find out. WED WED 21:30 Magna Carta b04wwcnm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04wwgzh (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04wwqcw (Listen) WED The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Sorry to Disturb, WED Part Two WED WED Harriet Walter reads the second part of Hilary Mantel's WED autobiographical tale. Set in a claustrophobic flat in WED Jeddah, feelings of unease and cultural disconnect come to a WED head. WED WED Harriet Walter reads. WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Harriet Walter WED Author: Hilary Mantel WED Abridger: Julian Wilkinson WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 23:00 Roger McGough's Other Half b04wwgzm (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Roger McGough is joined by Helen Atkinson-Wood, Philip WED Jackson and Richie Webb in a hilarious and surreal new WED sketch show for BBC Radio 4. With sketches about Fandom, WED Fatherhood and 17th Century France, you'll WED hear his familiar voice in a whole new light. Expect WED merriment and melancholy in equal measures, and a whisker of WED witty wordplay too. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Roger McGough WED WED 23:15 Love in Recovery b04wwh8j (Listen) WED Fiona WED WED Comedy drama by Pete Jackson, set in Alcoholics Anonymous WED and inspired by his own road to recovery. Starring Sue WED Johnston, John Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul WED Kaye and Julia Deakin. WED WED The programme WED follows the lives of five very different recovering WED alcoholics. Set entirely at their weekly meetings, we hear WED them get to know each other, learn to hate each other, WED argue, moan, laugh, fall apart, fall in love and, most WED importantly, tell their stories. WED WED There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small WED victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, WED and stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but still WED do. Along with the storyteller. WED WED In the first programme, Fiona (Rebecca Front), a competitive WED and snobby ex-banker, tries to come to terms with the fact WED that she might have more in common with the rest of the WED group than she'd like to admit. WED WED Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent WED time with Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found, as WED many people do, support from the unlikeliest group of WED disparate souls, all banded together due to one common bond. WED As well as offering the support he needed throughout a WED difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, sometimes daily, WED dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and friendship. WED WED Written and created by Pete Jackson WED WED Produced and Directed by Ben Worsfield WED A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Marion: Julia Deakin WED Fiona: Rebecca Front WED Simon: John Hannah WED Julie: Sue Johnston WED Danno: Paul Kaye WED Andy: Eddie Marsan WED Writer: Pete Jackson WED Producer: Ben Worsfield WED Director: Ben Worsfield WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04wwh8m (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 JANUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04wrqc3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04wwcnp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04wrqc5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04wrqc7 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04wrqc9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04wrqcc (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04wwkgw (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04wwkh0 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0p28 (Listen) THU Brown Skua THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Liz Bonnin presents brown skua hunting over an Antarctic THU landscape. These bulky brown birds with their hooked death THU dealing bills are often cast as villains alongside the THU apparently helpless and lovable penguins. But skuas are THU highly efficient predators, their skills honed to find the THU maximum food they can in a largely barren landscape. They're THU resourceful pirates, forcing other birds to drop or disgorge THU their catches. They also scavenge around fishing boats or THU loiter at seal colonies where carcases are easy meat. But a THU penguin rookery which may have hundreds of pairs of birds THU provides a real bounty, where waiting for an opportunity, THU the keen-eyed skua swoops to seize its next victim which if THU it is small enough, will even swallow it whole. THU THU Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus / Catharacta THU antarctica) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Ole Jorgen Liodden / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01409333 THU © Ole Jorgen Liodden / naturepl.com. THU THU Recording of brown skua by Theodore A Parker, III / Ref: ML THU 42308 THU THU This programme contains a THU wildtrack recording of the brown skua THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Theodore A Parker, III; on 1 Feb THU 1988 in Albatross Island, South Georgia, South Georgia and THU South Sandwich Islands. THU THU 06:00 Today b04wwkh4 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Magna Carta b04wwkh8 (Listen) THU The Legacy of Magna Carta THU THU Melvyn Bragg looks at the rich legacy of Magna Carta, THU examining the ways in which it has influenced ideas of THU liberty, human rights and even political systems. King THU John's Great Charter, formally agreed in a THU field at Runnymede in 1215, was a key influence on the THU American Constitution; 800 years after it came into force it THU remains a document of huge influence whose ideas resonate THU all over the world. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:30 Just So Science b047c776 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Elephant's Child THU THU In Kipling's tale, the elephant got his trunk from a THU crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green greasy THU Limpopo river. But does science understand how the trunk THU really evolved? Vivienne talks to researchers THU Kathleen Smith and her husband William Kier about the THU wonders of muscular hydrostats (trunks, tongues and THU tentacles to you and me) whilst vet Jon Hutchinson ponders THU the elephant's aquatic origins. Last of the series. The THU reader is Samuel West. Producer: Rami Tzabar THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04wwkhb (Listen) THU Different Every Time, Episode 4 THU THU Marcus O'Dair's biography of Robert Wyatt, a musical cult THU cum national treasure, THU is abridged in 5 parts by Katrin Williams: THU THU 4. He records the sublime song Shipbuilding, with Elvis THU Costello and Clive THU Langer. THU After that, some great records follow, penned and arranged THU at his home in Louth, THU Lincolnshire. THU THU Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Author: Marcus O'Dair THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04wwkhd (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 b04wwkhj (Listen) THU The Corrections, The Battle for Christmas THU THU Jonathan Franzen's darkly comic novel about a dysfunctional THU Midwestern family, dramatised by Marcy Kahan. Starring THU Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Maggie Steed, Colin Stinton THU and Julian Rhind-Tutt. THU THU Episode 4 - THU The Battle for Christmas. Enid and Alfred Lambert, two THU Midwesterners in their seventies, are about to embark on a THU long-awaited cruise to Eastern Canada. But Enid won't be THU truly content until all three of her children promise to THU come for one last Christmas in St Jude. THU THU Directed by Emma Harding THU THU The Corrections is an acclaimed 2001 novel by American THU author Jonathan Franzen. It was awarded the National Book THU Award in 2001, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002 THU and was included in TIME magazine's 2005 list of the 100 THU best English-language novels since 1923. THU THU Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The THU Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), THU two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone) THU and a personal history (The Discomfort Zone). THU THU Marcy Kahan is a playwright and radio dramatist. Recent THU radio work includes two series of Lunch for BBC Radio 4 THU (starring Claire Skinner and Stephen Mangan) and Mr THU Bridger's Orphan. Theatre work includes 20 Cigarettes (Soho THU Theatre) and the stage version of When Harry Met Sally THU (Theatre Royal Haymarket). THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Richard Schiff THU Enid Lambert: Maggie Steed THU Alfred Lambert: Colin Stinton THU Gary Lambert: Richard Laing THU Chip Lambert: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Denise Lambert: Roslyn Hill THU Julia Vrais: Kelly Burke THU Eden Procuro: Elaine Claxton THU Gitanas Misevicius: Sam Dale THU Melissa Paquette: Bettrys Jones THU Caroline Lambert: Jane Slavin THU Caleb Lambert: Adam Thomas Wright THU Jonah Lambert: Sean McCrystal THU Author: Jonathan Franzen THU Adaptor: Marcy Kahan THU Director: Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04wwkhl (Listen) THU Should Comics Be Crimes? THU THU In Japan, manga and anime are huge cultural industries. THU These comics and cartoons are read and watched by young and THU old, men and women, geeks and office workers. Their fans THU stretch around the world and their THU cultural appeal has been used by the government to market THU 'Cool Japan'. THU THU Manga and anime can be about almost anything, and some can THU be confronting - especially those featuring young children THU in sexually explicit scenarios. The UK, Canada and Australia THU have all banned these sorts of virtual images, placing them THU in the same legal category as real images of child abuse. THU THU Earlier this year, Japan became the last OECD country to THU outlaw the possession of real child abuse images, but they THU decided not to ban manga and anime. To many outsiders and THU some Japanese, this seems baffling - another example of THU 'weird Japan', and a sign the country still has a long way THU to go to taking child protection seriously. THU THU James Fletcher travels to Tokyo to find out why the Japanese THU decided not to ban. Is this manga just fodder for THU paedophiles, and is Japan dragging its feet on protecting THU children? Or is Japan resisting moral panic and standing up THU for freedom of thought and expression? THU THU 11:30 Jim Allen: A Man of His Words b04wwkhq (Listen) THU In 1978, Christopher Eccleston was inspired to work in THU television after watching the BBC Play For Today, The THU Spongers. A shattering piece of drama about the impact of THU welfare cuts, its devastating ending THU shocked the viewing public. THU THU In this programme, Christopher returns to Manchester to THU discover more about Jim Allen, the playwright behind The THU Spongers - a man who "wrote beautifully about real people's THU lives". His many works include Days of Hope, United Kingdom, THU Raining Stones, Land & Freedom, and the controversial THU theatre piece, Perdition. THU THU With contributions from Ken Loach and Jimmy McGovern, we THU hear about the life of the former docker, miner and THU labourer, a lifelong passionate Socialist with an acute ear THU for the rhythms of working class speech. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Foster. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04wwkzj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04wwkwr (Listen) THU 8 January 1915 - Alice Macknade THU THU The Folkestone community mourns the loss of one of its THU missing. THU THU Written by: Katie Hims THU Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Bill: Ben Crowe THU Esme: Katie Angelou THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Joe: Lloyd Thomas THU Maggie: Hollie Thoupos THU Mickey: Ben Pettengell THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Writer: Katie Hims THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU Producer: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04wwkwt (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04wwkzl (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Self Orbits CERN b04wwmc7 (Listen) THU Finally Feeling the Wonder THU THU Will Self continues his 50 kilometre circumnavigation of the THU Large Hadron Collider at CERN just outside Geneva - entirely THU on foot. THU THU Following the course of the Collider through the French and THU Swiss countryside, THU Will stops at regular intervals to descend to the tunnel THU below and view the experiments. THU THU So far Will has been feeling completely baffled. Following THU an ultimatum to his CERN hosts, he receives a crash course THU in particle physics from Professor Akram Khan of Brunel THU University. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04wwgz5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b04wwmc9 (Listen) THU The Last of the Pearl Fishers THU THU By Hannah Khalil. THU THU Played by Pippa Nixon, Lillian becomes obsessed with her THU Filipino maid Celeste's disappearance. As she searches Dubai THU for Celeste she realises how little she knows about her and THU begins to THU question her own credentials as an employer. A modern-day THU exploration of slavery. THU THU Pippa Nixon recently was heard as the regular character THU Celestine de Tulio in Tommies, Radio 4's major First World THU War drama series. THU THU Credits THU Lillian: Pippa Nixon THU Celeste: Renee Montemayor THU Ben: Ian Conningham THU Mary: Tina Chiang THU Amit: Paul Bazely THU Marianne: Liz Sutherland THU Jennifer: Elaine Claxton THU Siobhan: Hannah Genesius THU Director: Nandita Ghose THU Writer: Hannah Khalil THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04wwmcc (Listen) THU Wiltshire Wellbeing Group THU THU Helen Mark meets the people who have found the courage to THU embrace outdoor life. THU THU The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has been running the Well Being THU Programme since 2008, in partnership with NHS Wiltshire, THU providing THU support for people suffering from mental and emotional THU stress. The programme is available to anyone experiencing THU issues such as persistent low mood, depression, anxiety or THU long-term mental health conditions - this includes people THU who may be experiencing mental health issues on top of THU physical or mental disability too. THU THU Joining them at one of their regular weekly sessions, Helen THU meets those whose lives have quite literally been THU transformed by this project - and by embracing the landscape THU on their doorstep have also found their way back to a THU happier life. THU THU Produced by Nicola Humphries. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04wrwm4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b04ws1xm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04wwn6n (Listen) THU Bennett Miller on Foxcatcher THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Director Bennett Miller reveals the reasons he cast Steve THU Carrell as a multi-millionaire who sponsored an American THU Olympic wrestling team with tragic consequences. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04wwn6q (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU THU 17:00 PM b04wwn6s (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04wrqch (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b04wwnh8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Bridget Christie returns in another series of her THU multi-award winning series about modern feminism. Bridget THU thought that she'd be able to put her feet up after her last THU Radio 4 series, she expected it to bomb. THU Sadly it was a huge success and she's had to bang on about THU feminism ever since, perform two sell-out runs at the THU Edinburgh festival and win lots of awards. THU THU But she hasn't managed to single-handedly eradicate sexism THU so she's made a whole new four-part series about it for THU Radio 4. THU THU In the first episode, she asks who has the best sexism in THU the world, deconstructs a yogurt advert and looks at what THU happens when a perfectly normal woman appears on television. THU THU She's assisted in this by the series' token man, Fred THU MacAulay who in episode one, reveals a hitherto unsuspected THU penchant for certain kitchen cleaning products. THU THU The series is written and performed by Bridget Christie and THU the producers are Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Bridget Christie THU Performer: Fred MacAulay THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU Writer: Bridget Christie THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04wwnhb (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04wwnhd (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04wwkhj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04wwqcp (Listen) THU Islamic State THU THU A former jihadi tells reporter Peter Marshall how Islamic THU State came to power and how it survives. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04wwqcr (Listen) THU Meet the Vloggers THU THU Vlogging may be the internet's new path to riches. Peter Day THU meets the Youtubers who start off making videos in their THU bedroom and end up being courted by big brands. Will these THU new relationships disrupt the THU advertising and broadcasting industries and, for those who THU make the big time, can their authentic appeal be maintained THU in the face of fame and money? THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04wwn6q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Magna Carta b04wwkh8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04wwqct (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04wwwck (Listen) THU The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Comma THU THU Comma is a sinister tale of childhood transgression, where THU the narrator Kitty is led astray by Mary, child of an THU ostracised local family. Mary is obsessed with what she has THU seen in the garden of a local family. THU The two little girls go on an illicit quest to find out THU more. THU THU Reader: Rebekah Staton THU Abridger: Jules Wilkinson THU Producer: Simon Richardson. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Rebekah Staton THU Author: Hilary Mantel THU Abridger: Jules Wilkinson THU Producer: Simon Richardson THU THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b04wwqcy (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Master character comedian Colin Hoult returns to BBC Radio 4 THU for the second series of his sinister sketch show. Enter the THU Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of THU sketches, stories and characters, THU presented by the sinister Ringmaster. THU THU A host of characters are the exhibits at the Carnival - all THU played by Colin himself. THU Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: THU Wannabe Hollywood screenwriter Andy Parker; Anna Mann - THU outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such as THU 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For THU My Bottom'; and a host of other characters from acid jazz THU obsessives, to mask workshop coordinators. THU THU Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his THU highly acclaimed starring roles in Paul Whitehouse's THU 'Nurse', 'Being Human', Rickey Gervais' 'Life's Too Short' THU and 'Derek', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as THU his many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also THU appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series THU including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' THU Digi-Radio'. THU THU 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully THU staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out THU 'Comic gold' - Metro THU 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Colin Hoult THU Writer: Colin Hoult THU Producer: Sam Bryant THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04wwqd0 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 JANUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04wrqdf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04wwkhb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04wrqdh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04wrqdk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04wrqdm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04wrqdp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04xfc17 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04xfc19 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0p9q (Listen) FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Liz Bonnin presents Montserrat oriole from the Caribbean FRI island of Montserrat. In 1995, after being dormant for over FRI 300 years, a volcano erupted. The eruption not only FRI destroyed Montserrat's capital but much of the wildlife FRI couldn't escape, and one bird, the Montserrat oriole was FRI almost silenced forever. The male is a colourful bird with FRI coal-black head, wings and tail and underparts the colour of FRI egg-yolk. It is one of the most endangered birds in the FRI world, a bird caught between a rock and a hard place. Its FRI forest home had already been reduced by cultivation and FRI introduced predators. It was reduced to living in fragmented FRI pockets of forest, two thirds of which were destroyed in the FRI 1995 and later eruptions. This threatened to wipe out an FRI already endangered bird. So, conservationists from Jersey FRI Zoo moved 8 orioles into captivity to avoid natural FRI extinction and now a captive breeding programme is FRI successfully underway, such as this oriole specially FRI recorded for Tweet of the Day at Chester Zoo. FRI FRI Montserrat oriole (Icterus oberi) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of FRI Chester Zoo FRI FRI © FRI Chester Zoo FRI FRI Montserrat oriole conversation project FRI FRI More information about the Montserrat oriole convervation FRI work by FRI Chester Zoo FRI in partnership with FRI Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust FRI FRI Specially captured recording of Montserrat oriole FRI FRI The sound recordings of the Montserrat oriole featured in FRI this programme where specielly recorded by Andrew Dawes for FRI BBC Natural History Unit FRI ; with the kind permission of FRI Chester Zoo FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04xfc1c (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04wrwmd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04wwtsj (Listen) FRI Different Every Time, Episode 5 FRI FRI Marcus O'Dair's biography of Robert Wyatt, a musical cult FRI cum national treasure, FRI is abridged in 5 parts by Katrin Williams: FRI FRI 5. Wyatt curates a very successful Meltdown Festival in FRI London. We learn about FRI 'le FRI trac' - his particular form of stage fright - and meet some FRI of his famous FRI collaborators.. FRI FRI Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Author: Marcus O'Dair FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04xfc1f (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 b04wwtsl (Listen) FRI The Corrections, Alfred's Patent FRI FRI Jonathan Franzen's darkly comic novel about a dysfunctional FRI Midwestern family, dramatised by Marcy Kahan. Starring FRI Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Maggie Steed, Colin Stinton FRI and Julian Rhind-Tutt. FRI FRI Episode 5 - FRI Alfred's Patent. Gary Lambert has spent his entire life FRI trying to be the kind of son his parents would want him to FRI be. But this only seems to leave him at odds with everyone. FRI FRI Directed by Emma Harding FRI FRI The Corrections is an acclaimed 2001 novel by American FRI author Jonathan Franzen. It was awarded the National Book FRI Award in 2001, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002 FRI and was included in TIME magazine's 2005 list of the 100 FRI best English-language novels since 1923. FRI FRI Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The FRI Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), FRI two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone) FRI and a personal history (The Discomfort Zone). FRI FRI Marcy Kahan is a playwright and radio dramatist. Recent FRI radio work includes two series of Lunch for BBC Radio 4 FRI (starring Claire Skinner and Stephen Mangan) and Mr FRI Bridger's Orphan. Theatre work includes 20 Cigarettes (Soho FRI Theatre) and the stage version of When Harry Met Sally FRI (Theatre Royal Haymarket). FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Richard Schiff FRI Enid Lambert: Maggie Steed FRI Alfred Lambert: Colin Stinton FRI Gary Lambert: Richard Laing FRI Chip Lambert: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Denise Lambert: Roslyn Hill FRI Julia Vrais: Kelly Burke FRI Eden Procuro: Elaine Claxton FRI Gitanas Misevicius: Sam Dale FRI Melissa Paquette: Bettrys Jones FRI Caroline Lambert: Jane Slavin FRI Caleb Lambert: Adam Thomas Wright FRI Jonah Lambert: Sean McCrystal FRI Author: Jonathan Franzen FRI Adaptor: Marcy Kahan FRI Director: Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Hip in a Hijab b04wwtsn (Listen) FRI Meet the Mipsterz - or Muslim Hipsters - just one example of FRI the growing number of articulate, style-conscious, FRI politically-savvy, headscarf-wearing young women who are FRI confronting cultural stereotypes at the FRI same time as they negotiate the sometimes difficult divide FRI between their own, their families' and society's FRI expectations. FRI FRI The most recent census figures show that one in twenty FRI children under five in England and Wales is a girl raised a FRI Muslim - but who are they and how do they envisage their FRI futures? The popular press and the mass media might leave FRI the impression that Muslim girls are either all shy, FRI submissive wallflowers or aspiring terrorists. And yet FRI statistics show that young Muslim women growing up in the UK FRI are among the most academically high-achieving of their peer FRI group. Add to this the boom in social media and Instagram - FRI which has offered them both the chance for self-expression FRI and a window into a world of like-minded young Muslim women FRI domestically and abroad - and what you've got is the very FRI modern phenomenon of a new tribe of highly-educated, FRI fiercely ambitious, pop-culture loving young women intent on FRI claiming what they consider their birthright. FRI FRI But as more and more gifted, young Muslim women assert their FRI identities, what also needs to be acknowledged is that, FRI within Islamic communities, there is a potential FRI culture-clash waiting to happen. Will the backlash against FRI secularism in many communities, the pressures of tradition FRI and culture mean that, despite the glowing grades and the FRI hijabi-swagger, the Mipsterz and their sisters may not FRI achieve their dreams? FRI FRI The writer Shelina Janmohamed investigates. FRI FRI Produced by Anna McNamee FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03pjfbj (Listen) FRI Series 5, Derry/Londonderry FRI FRI Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the FRI award winning show that travels around the country, FRI researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns FRI that have nothing in common but their FRI uniqueness, and does a bespoke evening of comedy in each FRI one. FRI FRI As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the FRI next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the FRI local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering FRI to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in FRI the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from FRI Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay. FRI FRI This edition comes from Derry/Londonderry in County FRI Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where the problems start with FRI deciding which name to actually use. Mark also looks at the FRI somewhat contentious history of the city, the impact of FRI being the 2013 City of Culture, the local dialect, and the FRI new bridge that's got everyone talking in this jam-packed FRI half-hour show. (It would have been quicker, but he used the FRI local trains.) FRI FRI Written and performed by ... Mark Steel FRI Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair FRI Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Mark Steel FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: Mark Steel FRI Writer: Pete Sinclair FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04wrqdr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04wwtsq (Listen) FRI 9 January 1915 - Kitty Lumley FRI FRI The Graham household is a hive of activity as they await a FRI special delivery. FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Connie: Felix Lailey FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Edna: Lara West FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Walter: Joel MacCormack FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04xf1cx (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04wrqdt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04wwwc2 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Self Orbits CERN b04wwtst (Listen) FRI What Goes Around... FRI FRI Will Self concludes his 50 kilometre circumnavigation of the FRI Large Hadron Collider at CERN just outside Geneva - entirely FRI on foot. FRI FRI Following the course of the Collider through the French and FRI Swiss countryside, FRI Will stops at regular intervals to descend to the tunnel FRI below and view the experiments. FRI FRI As Will gets close to completing his circuit, he visits FRI Voltaire's chateau and an abandoned CERN experiment. The FRI excursions put Will in a pensive frame of mind as he heads FRI towards Geneva Airport. FRI FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04wwnhb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jhb3d (Listen) FRI Operation Black Buck FRI FRI During the Falklands War 30 years ago, the RAF staged the FRI world's longest bombing run, in an attempt to damage the FRI runway at Port Stanley. Using ageing Vulcan bombers, crews FRI flew a round trip of 8000 miles from FRI Ascension Island to the South Atlantic. Such a journey FRI required not just in-flight refuelling, but re-fuelling of FRI the refuelling planes - a hazardous undertaking that had FRI never before been attempted on such a scale. FRI FRI In this drama, Robin Glendinning recreates the nail-biting FRI adventure. Not only were the raids themselves difficult to FRI pull off, but even getting the aircraft ready for the FRI flights was a major task. Aviation museums across the world FRI were raided for spares, and key parts retrieved from FRI junkyards. FRI FRI But there are those who question whether or not the FRI operation was militarily useful - or whether or not the same FRI job could have been done more effectively using planes FRI attached to the naval task force. Was this really about war, FRI or was it about the RAF trying to carve out a role for FRI itself in a conflict that threatened to be entirely FRI dominated by the Army and Royal Navy? And how successful FRI were the raids anyway? FRI FRI Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Jolyon Jenkins FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04wwtsy (Listen) FRI West Yorkshire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI West Yorkshire. Taking questions from an audience of local FRI gardeners are Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and Matthew FRI Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Irish International b04wwtt0 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Three original stories from current, cutting edge Irish FRI writers, Nick Laird, Philip O Ceallaigh and Robert McLiam FRI Wilson, who have chosen to leave Ireland and make their FRI homes in New York, Bucharest and Paris who each give their FRI own unique take on being an Irishman living and writing FRI abroad. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Nick Laird FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04xf1d1 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04xf1d5 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04xf1d9 (Listen) FRI Alison and Shirley - Still the Same Person FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between sisters FRI remembering their unhappy relationships, and the support FRI they have always given each other, even at a distance. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative FRI that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library and used to build up a FRI collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK FRI in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more FRI about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04xf1dc (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04wrqdw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b04wwvnq (Listen) FRI Series 45, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with a new series of The FRI Now Show, looking at the week's events via topical stand-up FRI and sketches with guests Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, David FRI Quantick and Vikki Stone. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Mitch Benn FRI Performer: Laura Shavin FRI Performer: David Quantick FRI Performer: Vikki Stone FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04wwvns (Listen) FRI Pat has got plenty to celebrate, and there is a shock for FRI Rob and Helen. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: William Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Tina Galloway: Bella Hamblin FRI Fran Griffiths: Hannah Genesius FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04wwvnv (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04wwtsl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04wwwc6 (Listen) FRI Suzanne Evans, Maajid Nawaz, Sir Keir Starmer FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Harlow College in Essex with prospective parliamentary FRI candidates hoping to win a seat in the May General Election. FRI Maajid Nawaz is standing for FRI the Liberal Democrats , Suzanne Evans for the UK FRI Independence Party and Sir Keir Starmer for Labour. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04wwwc8 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04wwwcc (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 5-9 January 1915 FRI FRI Folkestone mourns one of its missing and the Grahams await a FRI special delivery... FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Phyllis: Christine Absalom FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Archie: Arthur Hughes FRI Jack: Ashley Kumar FRI Connie: Felix Lailey FRI Frank: Robert Lonsdale FRI Captain Maltby: Damian Lynch FRI Walter: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Edna: Lara West FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04wrqdy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04xfc1h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04wtrlj (Listen) FRI The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, The Assassination of FRI Margaret Thatcher FRI FRI In Hilary Mantel's mischievous story a knock at the door FRI announces an unexpected visitor who has plans to alter the FRI course of history as we know it. Harriet Walter reads. FRI FRI The stories selected from Hilary FRI Mantel's collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher FRI for Book at Bedtime are dark and sharply observed. From the FRI middle-class woman with powerful feelings about a former FRI prime minister; the woman trapped in her apartment in FRI Jeddah, to the two young girls who during the heat of the FRI summer holidays venture into forbidden territory, each of FRI the stories deal with psychological unease and at the same FRI time are wickedly witty. FRI FRI Hilary Mantel is the author of thirteen books. She is the FRI first and only writer to have won the Man Booker Prize twice FRI for her last two historical novels, Wolf Hall and Bringing FRI Up the Bodies. FRI FRI Harriet Walter is the reader. FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Emilia Fox FRI Author: Muriel Spark FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04wv045 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04wwwcp (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04wwwcx (Listen) FRI Alison and Shirley - Family Comes First FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation about moving on from an FRI unhappy life with the support of those you love. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library and used to build up a FRI collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK FRI in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more FRI about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
02 January, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 03/01/2015 - 09/01/2015
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