25 September, 2015

Radio 4 Listings for 26/09/2015 - 02/10/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06bd4x7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06c45nz (Listen) SAT The White Road, Allach SAT SAT Julian Rhind-Tutt reads potter Edmund de Waal's new book. SAT SAT The author's pilgrimage to the lands and people who make SAT porcelain takes him to Dachau where he uncovers the dark SAT history of Allach porcelain SAT SAT Abridged by Jules Wilkinson SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Author: Edmund de Waal SAT Abridger: Jules Wilkinson SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06bd4x9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06bd4xc (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06bd4xf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06bd4xh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06c4lcg (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06c4lcj (Listen) SAT Who killed Elsie Frost? SAT SAT Who Killed Elsie Frost? Jon Manel returns with his final SAT report on listener Anne Cleave's attempt to find out more SAT about the murder of her sister 50 years ago. With Eddie SAT Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06bd4xk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06bd4xm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b06c0ch7 (Listen) SAT Series 31, Windsor Great Park with Bill Bryson SAT SAT Clare Balding heads out across Windsor Great Park in the SAT company of writer and prolific walker, Bill Bryson. He SAT explains how he developed a passion for exploring both SAT Britain and parts of America on foot. They discuss how ones SAT notion of distance changes dramatically when you walk. SAT SAT 'A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally SAT considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very SAT limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in SAT a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers SAT know. Planetary scale is your little secret.' SAT SAT Bill takes Clare on one of his very favourite walks around SAT Windsor Park, a place he has enjoyed walking with his SAT family. SAT SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Bill Bryson SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06d245x (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Herbs and Spices SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06bd4xp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06d2472 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06d24b8 (Listen) SAT Actor Sophie Thompson SAT SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Sophie Thompson. SAT The award winning actor has appeared in Harry Potter, SAT EastEnders and won celebrity MasterChef in 2014. Sophie SAT talks about how her family, which includes sister Emma and SAT father Eric, narrator of the Magic Roundabout, inspired her SAT to create a cookbook. SAT SAT Peter Bleksley is one of the experts on Channel 4's TV SAT series Hunted, where the police are on the hunt for 14 SAT 'fugitives'. Peter worked undercover for 10 years with the SAT Metropolitan Police and has first-hand experience of hunting SAT and being hunted. SAT SAT Listener Sara Marshall describes how the cooing sound of SAT wood pigeons helped her through a turbulent year. SAT SAT Trevor Lyttleton, a Saturday Live listener, talks about SAT Contact the Elderly, a charity he founded 50 years ago aged SAT 29. SAT SAT Ben Cohen, a member of the England national team that won SAT the 2003 Rugby World Cup, shares his Inheritance Tracks: The SAT Power of Love by Jennifer Rush and That's Life by Frank SAT Sinatra. SAT SAT Sarah Hyndman is a graphic designer who is an expert in type SAT and the way we respond to fonts. She explains the power that SAT fonts wield over us, how they appeal, or otherwise, and can SAT prompt us to think of food, luxury or tradition. SAT SAT Sophie Thompson's My Family Kitchen is out now. SAT SAT Hunted continues on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 9pm. SAT SAT Carry Me Home: My Autobiography by Ben Cohen is out now. SAT Ben's anti- bullying charity is the StandUp Foundation. SAT SAT Sarah Hyndman is taking part in the London Design Festival. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Sophie Thompson SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Bleksley SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Marshall SAT Interviewed Guest: Trevor Lyttleton SAT Interviewed Guest: Ben Cohen SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Hyndman SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06d24bb (Listen) SAT Series 11, Oban SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from the Scottish SAT city of Oban. SAT SAT On the panel this week are food scientist Professor Peter SAT Barham, the Glaswegian expert on Catalan cuisine Rachel SAT McCormack, experimental chef James 'Jocky' Petrie, and the SAT Middle Eastern maestro Itamar Srulovich. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Producer: Darby Dorras SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b06f3ss9 (Listen) SAT Upside Down SAT SAT Bridget Kendall and her guests step into a world turned SAT upside down. Inverted buildings are a passion of structural SAT engineer Hanif Kara, cabaret artist Fez Faanana subverts SAT gender stereotypes in his entertaining and subversive show SAT and biologist Dr. Kirsty Park explains why bats spend so SAT much of their lives hanging from their toes. SAT Photo: An upside down Sloth (Getty Images). SAT SAT Hanif Kara SAT SAT Hanif Kara is a British structural engineer who was born in SAT Uganda, teaches at Harvard and helps to realise the visions SAT of some of the world's leading architects. Hanif talks about SAT the trend for upside-down buildings, discusses pioneering SAT projects in London and Baghdad and tells us why inverted SAT buildings are so suited to today's over-crowded cities. SAT SAT Fez Faanana SAT SAT Fez Faanana is a cabaret artist and compere of the all-male SAT Australian burlesque and circus ensemble, Briefs. From SAT aerial acrobatics to drag acts, Fez tells us how the show SAT turns people and their expectations upside down as he traces SAT the subversive roots of cabaret back through the SAT centuries. SAT SAT Kirsty Park SAT SAT Dr Kirsty Park is a Reader in Conservation Studies at the SAT University of Stirling in Scotland and an expert on bats. SAT She explains why and how bats hang upside down and why bat SAT species around the world are under threat. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06bd4xr (Listen) SAT Miracle on the Beach SAT SAT Filling in the gaps between the headlines: shock, horror, SAT remorse, guilt -- how a piece of gold triggered an emotional SAT tsunami on a beach near Cape Town. Why the Pope's been so in SAT demand on his visit to Washington, a city where it's usually SAT money that's talking the loudest; robbed of everything she SAT had, even her blanket: it's one of the stories of those SAT fleeing the violence in South Sudan, the world's newest SAT nation; electioneering gathers pace in Myanmar, formerly SAT Burma, and there's at least one point the human rights SAT lawyer and the man who's been called the Buddhist Bin Laden SAT can agree on and Germany might seem the promised land to SAT many of the migrants making the long trek up through Europe SAT but, it seems, not all of them are happy with what they SAT find. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06bd4xt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06d24bd (Listen) SAT Interview with Pensions Minister Ros Altmann SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT GovUK: Your State Pension SAT GovUK: Pension Wise SAT Pensions Advisory Service SAT Ian McKenna on robo-advice SAT Billy Burrows on robo-advice SAT NUS: National Union of Students SAT NASMA: National Association of Student Money Advisors SAT MoneySavingExpert.com: Student Guide SAT Ombudsmen Services SAT The Retail Ombudsmen SAT The Consumer Ombudsmen SAT Citizens Advice: Consumer Rights Act 2015 SAT The Complaining Cow SAT Which: How to Complain to a Company SAT Trading Standards: Alternative Dispute Resolution for SAT Consumers SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06c4k4d (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles SAT Jupp. Samira Ahmed, Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter and Hugo SAT Rifkind are the panellists joining Miles to dissect the SAT week's big (and not so big) news stories. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Lucy Porter SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06bd4xw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06bd4xy (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06c4k66 (Listen) SAT Sir Vince Cable, John Hayes MP, Emily Thornberry MP, Dr Ruth SAT Lea SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from South Downs College in Waterlooville,Hampshire, with a SAT panel including the former Business Secretary Vince Cable, SAT Security Minister John Hayes MP, the Shadow Employment SAT Minister Emily Thornberry and the chair of Economists for SAT Britain Dr Ruth Lea. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06d24gm (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06cv5lk (Listen) SAT The Price of Oil, Stand Firm, You Cads! SAT SAT by Jonathan Myerson SAT SAT Anna Maxwell Martin, Raad Rawi and Luke Treadaway star in SAT the first of a season of factual dramas exploring the SAT history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. SAT SAT This is the colourful tale of how British Oil was thrown out SAT of post-war Iran. SAT SAT Anglo-Persian Oil (later BP) was specially formed to exploit SAT the 60-year oil concession to drill for oil, which was SAT signed in 1901 by the then Shah of Persia. Prompted by SAT Winston Churchill, the British Government bought 51% of the SAT company's shares. Persian oil soon became Britain's "single SAT largest overseas asset". SAT SAT But in 1951, newly-elected Prime Minister Mossadegh declared SAT the concession 'immoral', unilaterally cancelled it, and on SAT 1st May successfully passed a law which nationalised SAT Anglo-Persian - and all the oil. SAT SAT There are riots, demonstrations, and a blockade of shipping. SAT And in the great oil refinery on the island of Abadan, a SAT shocked British ex-pat community struggle to understand the SAT new world which has just arrived... SAT SAT All this week, The Price of Oil season will take us from SAT 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, SAT Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's SAT offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping SAT our world. SAT SAT Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan SAT Myerson, the season is produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC SAT Radio Drama. SAT SAT As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 SAT years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and SAT political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned SAT writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear SAT weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC SAT Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. SAT SAT Stand Firm, You Cads! was directed by Nicolas Kent. SAT SAT Credits SAT Janet: Anna Maxwell Martin SAT Rashid: Danny Rahim SAT Widman: Luke Treadaway SAT Prime Minister Mossadegh: Raad Rawi SAT Averell Harriman: Paul Chahidi SAT Eric: David Hounslow SAT Fitzy: Stephen Critchlow SAT Vera: Jessica Turner SAT Sir Richard Stokes: Sam Dale SAT Sir Francis Shepherd: David Acton SAT Sarah: Rhiannon Neads SAT Bryan: Finn Monteath SAT Pianist: Laurie O'Brien SAT Writer: Jonathan Myerson SAT Director: Nicolas Kent SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 15:30 Tom Ravenscroft's Campervan of Vinyl Dreamers SAT b06bnq0r (Listen) SAT Tom Ravenscroft takes up residence in an old campervan for a SAT journey into the pioneering DIY music world of the 70s and SAT 80s when the first private pressings were made. This is what SAT Tom calls real people music and some of it is so odd it SAT could never be released. SAT SAT It all started when companies like SRT in Luton began to SAT offer a new mail order trade in record pressing. The idea SAT was to subvert the major record labels' hold on the 70s SAT music industry and offer anyone the chance to release a SAT record. SAT SAT Janet Newton of the band Grannie recalls their heady story SAT and eventual bankruptcy. Tom also meets Tom Morley of SAT Scritti Politti who went on to be signed by Rough Trade but SAT started as passionate DIY artists, hand-printing every SAT sleeve of their first album. He hears the story of Eric the SAT Gardener - a novelty dance single self released by Andrew SAT McGibbon in the late 80s which dumbfounded DJs around the SAT country. SAT SAT 'I've always had a fondness for people's unwavering need to SAT put out the music they've made, often with no idea of what's SAT really driving them to do it,' says Tom. SAT SAT Much of the music was too personal (or too bad) to go SAT anywhere. Sometimes though, it was inspirational. Artists SAT often borrowed hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pounds in SAT order to fulfil their dream. SRT founder, David Richardson SAT describes how his studio turned into a factory as more and SAT more bands arrived to press their first album. SAT SAT Today these private pressings turn up in charity shops or SAT record fairs under miscellaneous. 'There's definitely SAT something of the League of Gentlemen about the whole scene', SAT says Tom. But as we find out, some albums were rediscovered SAT later on and became priceless collectables. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Cuddon. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06d24gp (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The actors Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore talk about their SAT new film 'Miss You Already' which explores female SAT friendship. SAT When the new flat rate state pension comes in in April 2016 SAT thousands of women will not be entitled to the full amount. SAT We hear why this has happened. SAT How restorative justice is helping in cases where women have SAT been raped and sexually assaulted. One woman tells us her SAT story. SAT We explore the silence that surrounds erectile dysfunction SAT and the way we view it in regards to masculinity. SAT The novelist JoJo Moyes talks about her new book 'After You' SAT the sequel to her international best seller 'Me Before You'. SAT Tiffany Watt-Smith delves into the history of emotions and SAT why some only exist in certain cultures. SAT And we have music from London based folk band Stick in the SAT Wheel. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Toni Collette SAT Interviewed Guest: Drew Barrymore SAT Interviewed Guest: Jojo Moyes SAT Interviewed Guest: Tiffany Watt-Smith SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06d24gr (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06c4lcj (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06bd4y0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06bd4y2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06bd4y4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06d24gt (Listen) SAT Phil Gayle, Mark Rylance, Neil Oliver, Craig Roberts, SAT Katherine Parkinson SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Phil Gayle are joined by Mark Rylance, SAT Katherine Parkinson, Neil Oliver and Craig Roberts for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Benjamin Folke Thomas and Ilaria Graziano & Francesco SAT Forni. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Mark Rylance SAT Farinelli and The King is at the Duke of York’s Theatre, SAT London until Saturday 5th December. SAT SAT Katherine Parkinson SAT 'The Kennedys' starts on Friday 2nd October at 21.30 on BBC SAT One. SAT SAT Craig Roberts SAT 'Just Jim' is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Neil Oliver SAT SAT 'Master of Shadows' is published by Orion and available now. SAT SAT 'The Celts: Blood, Iron, and Sacrifice' starts on Monday 5th SAT October at 21.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Ilaria Graziano and Francesco Forni SAT SAT 'From Bedlam To Lenane' is out on 16th October on Agualoca SAT Records. SAT SAT Ilaria and Francesco are playing at Nest Collective SAT Campfire Festival, London on Saturday 26th September. SAT SAT Benjamin Folke Thomas SAT SAT Rogue State Of Mind' is available now on Bucketfull Of SAT Brains. SAT SAT Benjamin and his band are playing at All Saints Hall, SAT Langport on Saturday 26th and Lewes Constitutional Club on SAT Sunday 27th September. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Phil Gayle SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Rylance SAT Interviewed Guest: Katherine Parkinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Neil Oliver SAT Performer: Benjamin Folke Thomas SAT Performer: Ilaria Graziano SAT Performer: Francesco Forni SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06d24gw (Listen) SAT Lord Ashcroft SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06d24gy (Listen) SAT A look at the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0075mvb (Listen) SAT Kindertransport SAT SAT The story of the Kindertransport, told through the voices of SAT the unaccompanied children sent to Britain from Nazi Europe. SAT SAT In late 1938, the British government agreed to grant asylum SAT to children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, as SAT long as they came alone and would not be a burden on public SAT funds. 10,000 arrived, most of them Jewish, and the BBC was SAT there to record their stories. A team went to Dovercourt SAT Camp in Kent and recorded the innocent, hopeful voices of SAT the newly arrived children for "Children in Flight" a SAT remarkable radio documentary. "We are all waiting to go to SAT homes in England where we can stay till our parents will SAT leave Germany," a girl called Kathe told the BBC team. "All SAT the children hurry to see if there is a letter from home SAT which tell them of their families," Irene said. SAT SAT In 1999, historian David Cesarani went in search of these SAT children for a Radio 4 documentary, to find out how they had SAT adapted to life in Britain, and to the eventual realisation SAT of the terrible fate of most of their parents. Few had SAT understood what their departure from home really meant. "I SAT thought it was a temporary thing, it was a temporary SAT parting," Eva Urbach told Dr. Cesarani. "We did not realise SAT the seriousness." With a new wave of refugees dominating the SAT news, the story of the Kindertransport has again become a SAT vital part of the national discussion. Radio 4 is repeating SAT the 1999 broadcast to provide the human story of this tale SAT of survival and heartbreak. SAT SAT Producer: Hugh Levinson. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06bd7sl (Listen) SAT A Place of Greater Safety, Fraternity SAT SAT Hilary Mantel's epic account of the French Revolution France SAT is at war. Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette have been SAT arrested and await execution. And Robespierre and Danton are SAT increasingly at odds over the direction the Revolution SAT should take SAT SAT Dramatised by Melissa Murray SAT SAT Part 3: Fraternity SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Danton: Mark Stobbart SAT Camille: Carl Prekopp SAT Robespierre: Sam Troughton SAT Lucile: Chloe Pirrie SAT Monsieur Leclerc: Paul Ritter SAT Jeanne: Lizzy Watts SAT Gabrielle: Sarah Thom SAT Annette: Jessica Turner SAT Claude: Sam Dale SAT Saint Just: Stephen Critchlow SAT The Executioner: David Hounslow SAT Gaoler: Chris Pavlo SAT Author: Hilary Mantel SAT Adaptor: Melissa Murray SAT Producer: Marc Beeby SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06bd4y6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b069x6fv (Listen) SAT Mobility SAT SAT How will we move from place to place in future? Will speed SAT and freedom always be the goal? FutureProofing examines how SAT huge changes in mobility will alter our world. SAT From driverless vehicles to personal flying machines, and SAT from new apps that can summon any transportation option SAT necessary at an affordable price to the linkage of two SAT cities hundreds of miles apart in journeys of just a few SAT minutes - presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson SAT discover how changes in the ways we move around might alter SAT our understanding of freedom, change cultures, and transform SAT economies in future. SAT FutureProofing travels to Ferrari's HQ to drive the latest SAT model and hear how this could be the real future for the SAT car; meets the men planning to connect Los Angeles and San SAT Francisco by Hyperloop technology which achieves speeds of SAT up to 750 mph; and discovers how the city of Helsinki is SAT about to totally revolutionise transport for everyone. And SAT the programme reveals what James May thinks we will lose if SAT such changes really take hold. SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT The Future of Mobility SAT Timandra SAT SAT I'm writing this on a train, crossing south west England. I SAT like to work on trains. The combination of removal from SAT distractions and the sense of moving through a landscape SAT helps me think. Sometimes (though it's increasingly a SAT luxury) I like to just sit & look out of the window. SAT SAT I could have driven instead, or ridden my motorcycle. It's SAT always a trade off between the convenience of leaving when I SAT like, and the privacy of my own vehicle, against the bonus SAT time to get work done, and the relaxation of letting SAT somebody else take responsibility for getting me there. Now SAT technology, allied with economics, is starting to promise SAT that I can have it all in one package. SAT SAT Does the car have a future? My first instinct is to hope so, SAT because for me, driving is bound up with adulthood. Being SAT able to drive, more than owning a car, is important to my SAT sense of independence. It's a skill I had to learn and SAT practice before society trusted me with a machine that could SAT kill myself or others. And it widens my horizons, in SAT distance and time, physically and mentally. SAT SAT But could we get around in other ways without losing what SAT the car offers? How important is the act of driving myself, SAT taking responsibility for judgments that are as much social SAT as mechanical? The statistician in me recognises that SAT self-driving vehicles could save thousands, maybe millions SAT of lives currently lost to human error. But the human being SAT in me recoils at the idea of a world without risk, in which SAT we trade all our freedom for safety. SAT SAT Part of my love for the car is about the freedom it SAT represents for whole generations of people, as prosperity SAT grows. The British working class found their horizons SAT widened in the mid 20th century by affordable car ownership SAT and the building of motorways. Can the masses of the SAT developing word enjoy the same freedoms? There may be better SAT ways for billions of people to travel: faster, cheaper and SAT safer, avoiding congestion and air pollution. SAT SAT Big Data promises more efficient use of the resources we SAT have, to deliver an integrated transport system through SAT which we all make individual journeys. Which is fine, as far SAT as it goes, but where are the big visions: Jet packs and SAT monorails, hypersonic flight and personal flying machines? SAT SAT I'm really hoping technology can deliver a mobile future SAT that will make the car look as limited to future generations SAT as horse-drawn carriages do to us. SAT SAT SAT Leo SAT SAT Sitting opposite me, masticating horseradish-dipped SAT Norwegian gravlax, is Nolan Bushnell, the guy who once SAT kissed goodbye to a third of a trillion US dollars. Nolan SAT was running Atari when a 19 year old junior employee had the SAT nerve to announce he was going to quit and set up his own SAT company. The kids name was Steve Jobs. A third of the SAT company, he offered Nolan, just a third, for $50,000. Nolan SAT passed. Hell no, and went on instead to found Chuck E SAT Cheese, the video game empire. Now here’s the thing. SAT History, Nolan tells me, is about to prove him right. SAT SAT What’s the play? A 2014 Oxford Martin School study predicted SAT that 47% of current white-collar professional jobs are SAT already at risk of being displaced by algorithms. What’s SAT left for us to do, in this universe where automation has SAT replaced swathes of white-collar employment, where SAT technologies such as Oculus Rift have created immersive SAT virtual reality environments? Nolan has got an answer: each SAT uncaptured minute of consumer time in transit is worth, SAT according to a recent McKinsey study, some US$5bn. On the SAT screens of our driverless cars, we, the partially employed, SAT game. Mobility and entertainment have merged. The world has SAT become a giant network of mobile Chuck E Cheeses. SAT SAT A month later, I am on a Gondola at night in Venice. What is SAT it that makes this so great, I am asking myself. The moon on SAT the water? The silence, just the sound of the water lapping SAT against the sides of the boat? Then I get it, the thing that SAT makes it work, the thing you really pay for. There’s no SAT SatNav… SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b069r3rw (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT it's 51st series. SAT SAT In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by SAT writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy SAT types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, SAT Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... SAT have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. SAT SAT Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the SAT origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the SAT famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. SAT SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT Writer Jeremy Front SAT Comedian Sarah Kendal SAT Writer, critic and broadcaster Nicolette Jones SAT Comedian and Red Dwarf actor Norman Lovett SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Jeremy Front SAT Panellist: Sarah Kendall SAT Panellist: Nicolette Jones SAT Panellist: Norman Lovett SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06bd86y (Listen) SAT Families SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests SAT with a family theme. Including poems by Anna Akhmatova, SAT Jacob Sam-La Rose and Sylvia Plath. With readers James Fleet SAT and Amanda Root. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Family Group SAT SAT By Ken Smith SAT SAT From You Again – Last Poems and Other Words SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Stones on a Dorset Beach SAT SAT By David Scott SAT SAT From Playing for England SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT My Old Cat SAT SAT By Hal Summers SAT SAT From The Oxford Book of Death SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Road to Persia SAT SAT By Kathryn Simmonds SAT SAT From Sunday at the Skin Launderette SAT SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT SAT SAT Parting SAT SAT By Kathleen Raine SAT SAT From The School Bag SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Once SAT SAT By Carol Rumens SAT SAT From Poems: 1968-2004 SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Farewell SAT SAT By Agha Shahid Ali SAT SAT From The Veiled Suite – The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid SAT Ali SAT SAT Published by W.W Norton & Company SAT SAT SAT SAT Dedication SAT SAT From ‘Requiem’ SAT SAT By Anna Akhmatova SAT SAT Translated by D.M Thomas SAT SAT From You Will Hear Thunder – Akhmatova: Poems SAT SAT Published by Secker & Warburg SAT SAT SAT SAT For My Daughter SAT SAT By Jo Roach SAT SAT From Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology SAT SAT Published by Oxford Poets SAT SAT SAT SAT Cheap Moisturiser SAT SAT By John Siddique SAT SAT From The Prize SAT SAT Published by The Rialto SAT SAT SAT SAT Never SAT SAT By Jacob Sam-La Rose SAT SAT From Breaking Silence SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Daddy SAT SAT By Sylvia Plath SAT SAT Read by Sylvia Plath SAT SAT From LP ‘The Poet Speaks’ SAT SAT Label: Argo (Decca) SAT SAT PLP1085 SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: James Fleet SAT Reader: Amanda Root SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06d2591 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Words and Music b036tqq7 (Listen) SUN Darkness in Degrees SUN SUN A series of stories by novelist Chris Paling, in which the SUN music plays as important a role as the words. SUN SUN Episode 3: Darkness in Degrees SUN SUN Explosions echo through the streets of Old Damascus but life SUN must go on for the people of the city. Each day an architect SUN goes dutifully to his office and his small team of workers. SUN He loves his city and he loves his family - especially his SUN daughter. Like him, she's a strong character. They clash. SUN But they have a ritual. Every week she gives him a new piece SUN of music. He listens to it and they discuss it and he comes SUN to understand a little more about her. SUN SUN When a car bomb explodes outside his office it robs him of SUN his hearing - but has it also robbed him of his beloved SUN daughter? SUN SUN Read by Kayvan Novak SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Kayvan Novak SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN Writer: Chris Paling SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d2597 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d259f (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d259k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06d259p (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06d27f7 (Listen) SUN Bells from the church of St Mary and St Benedict in Buckland SUN Brewer, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06d24gw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06d259y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06d29b1 (Listen) SUN The Lump in the Throat SUN SUN The writer Laura Barton reflects on how we articulate SUN emotion and how feeling finds its way into words. SUN SUN Starting from Robert Frost's assertion that "a poem begins SUN as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a SUN lovesickness" and becomes something in which "the emotion SUN finds the thought, and the thought finds the words", Laura SUN draws on some of her favourite writers, including Gerard SUN Manley Hopkins, Carol Ann Duffy and Vladimir Nabokov, as SUN well as music from Van Morrison, Volcano Choir and cellist SUN Oliver Coates. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06d29b3 (Listen) SUN Suffolk Succession SUN SUN Handing the farm over to the next generation is one of the SUN perennial problems in agriculture. Anna Hill travels to SUN Suffolk to meet the McVeigh family who seem to have resolved SUN it amicably and profitably. Daughter Lucy is breeding pigs SUN on the farm whilst studying for a business degree. SUN Meanwhile, her sister Emily brings income to the farm SUN through her glamping and wedding venue enterprise and SUN youngest sibling, Tom is eager to get farming in his own SUN right. But can parents David and Sharon really hand over SUN their business without a twinge of regret? SUN SUN Producer: Anna Hill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06d25b4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06d25b8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06d29b5 (Listen) SUN Pope Francis in the USA SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06d29b7 (Listen) SUN Brittle Bone Society SUN SUN The actor Brian Cox presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Brittle SUN Bone Society SUN Registered Charity No 272100 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Brittle Bone Society'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Brittle Bone Society'. SUN SUN Another day another plaster cast! SUN SUN Cameron aged 12 (who is called Jack in the appeal) is an SUN ardent sports fan and always manages to keep smiling after SUN yet another knock at school. Cameron also happens to be one SUN of the Brittle Bone Society’s keenest fundraising champions. SUN He is looking forward to the next BBS Cool Bones evert for SUN youngsters his age – meeting friends who understand what SUN it’s like to have OI. SUN SUN Cooking up experience for those living with a rare disease SUN SUN Teenagers with OI attending a BBS youth event; where they SUN enjoyed a cookery class, equipping them with skills for SUN their journey towards independent living. Our charity – SUN breaking the cycle of isolation and making learning valuable SUN skills fun! SUN SUN Scaling heights & learning not to be afraid SUN SUN Richard aged 21 attending a Brittle Bone Society Youth Event SUN in a specialised wheelchair (currently) costing £20k that SUN the BBS helped to fund. Here we see Richard trying outdoor SUN pursuits for the first time, making new friends and gaining SUN information on what he needs to know about independent SUN living. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06d25bg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06d25bj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06d29b9 (Listen) SUN Mass from St Aloysius' RC Church, Glasgow, marking the SUN Pope's visit to the United States and attendance this SUN weekend at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. SUN Celebrant: Fr James Crampsey, with the Choir of St Aloysius' SUN Church and the Choirs of the Schola Cantorum of St Aloysius' SUN College. SUN Readings: Numbers 11:25-29 SUN St James 5: 1-6 SUN Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 SUN Hymns: For the Beauty of the Earth (Dix) SUN Soul of My Saviour (Anima Christi) SUN Kyrie & Agnus Dei : Missa Octavi Toni (Lassus) SUN Gloria & Sanctus: De Angelis (Plainsong) SUN Day by Day (Prayer of St Richard of Chichester) - Martin How SUN Tantum Ergo (Andriessen) SUN Musical Directors: Keith Roberts and Dan Divers. SUN Organists: Hugh Reid and James Clarkson SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06c4l20 (Listen) SUN Will Self: A Life of Habit SUN SUN Will Self sees our love of habit as a shield against the SUN unexpected in life. SUN SUN "For us, custom, and its bespoke application, habit, are SUN integral to our lives; because - or so we sort of reason - SUN if we fill up our days with oft repeated actions, we can SUN shut our ears to the siren song of contingency." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkwnn (Listen) SUN Andean Cock-of-the-Rock SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Andean Cock-of-the-rock SUN from Peru. Deep in a cloud forest a female awaits the SUN display of her displaying males. Gathered in front of her SUN several head-bobbing wing-waving males, these males are SUN spectacularly dazzling; a vibrant orange head and body, with SUN black wings and tails, yellow staring eyes, and ostentatious SUN fan-shaped crests which can almost obscure their beaks. Male SUN cock-of-the rocks gather at communal leks, and their SUN performances include jumping between branches and bowing at SUN each other whilst all the time calling loudly. Yet, for all SUN the males' prancing and posturing, it is the female who's in SUN control. Aware that the most dominant and fittest males will SUN be nearest the centre of the lekking arena, it's here that SUN she focuses her attention. SUN SUN Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Ben Lascelles / naturepl.com. SUN N SUN PL Ref 01394947 SUN © Ben Lascelles / naturepl.com. SUN SUN Recording of Andean Cock-of-the-rock by Theodore A Parker, SUN III / Ref: ML 31883 SUN SUN This programme contains a wildtrack SUN recording of the Andean Cock-of-the-rock SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Theodore A Parker, III; on 8 Jul SUN 1983, in Huánuco, Peru. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06d25bv (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 b06d29bc (Listen) SUN Catch up on the week's events in Ambridge with the omnibus SUN edition of the long-running series. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Lillian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06d29bf (Listen) SUN Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaways this week are the comedy writers SUN Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. SUN They've been at the rock-face, mining for laughs, for over SUN 40 years and they've given us plenty of gems ... amongst SUN them monologues in the '70s for Frankie Howerd, the SUN era-defining character Alan B'Stard MP, star of The New SUN Statesman, and now the successful revival of their long SUN running and much loved sitcom "Birds of a Feather". SUN SUN Grammar school boys from North London they first met as ten SUN year olds at a youth club, growing up to have 'real jobs' in SUN the civil service and journalism, before finally embarking SUN on the precarious business of making a living from putting SUN words into other people' mouths. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Laurence Marks SUN Interviewed Guest: Maurice Gran SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06d25c3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b06bnbpn (Listen) SUN Series 15, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN David O'Doherty, Susan Calman, Jon Richardson and Arthur SUN Smith are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Yorkshire, fizzy drinks, SUN skin and pirates. 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: David O'Doherty SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Jon Richardson SUN Panellist: Arthur Smith SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06d29bh (Listen) SUN Food Stories from Syria SUN SUN The continuing conflict in Syria has caused millions of SUN people to flee the country. Images of men, women and SUN children living in camps, walking vast distances and even SUN risking perilous journeys by boat or stowed away on trucks SUN have been shown around the world. Life in many regions for SUN those who remain is also in turmoil. While seeking safety, SUN many also face a challenge to survive. Dan Saladino asks how SUN those from Syria - the world's biggest producer of both SUN internally displaced people and refugees - manage to eat and SUN feed their families and the cost and long-term effects of SUN both the conflict and displacement. SUN SUN Syria has an ancient food culture and was once a bread SUN basket for the Middle East but conflict has damaged SUN agriculture and food supplies to many areas. The World Food SUN Programme explain how they manage to transport food through SUN territory occupied by so-called 'Islamic State' and also how SUN they feed the thousands in refugee camps in bordering SUN countries like Jordan. SUN SUN Dan hears from one refugee who paid traffickers to get him SUN to Europe after he was threatened by IS and the Assad SUN regime. He explains how he survived and ate when on an SUN extended and dangerous journey. Now in the UK he shows Dan SUN what he buys to cook and eat. Ingredients for Syrian dishes SUN can be hard to come by or out of budget so he shows how he's SUN adjusting to make it work. SUN SUN From daily bread to the loss of an ancient food culture, SUN hear how the the conflict and displacement of Syrians means SUN for the long-term rebuilding of infrastructure and tradition SUN in the place they call home. SUN SUN Presented by Dan Saladino SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06d25cc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06d29bk (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Oil: A Crude History of Britain b06bnbpv (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Enough oil and gas has been drawn from the UK continental SUN shelf to fill almost 3-million Olympic-sized swimming pools. SUN In recent years though, the global oil price has slumped, SUN the UK industry tax-take is well down, and redundancies are SUN being made across the board. SUN SUN Moreover, the estimated 15- to 24-billion barrels of oil SUN left to be recovered are in ever deeper and harder-to-reach SUN areas. What is the future for the North Sea, and for areas SUN that rely on oil and gas for jobs, like Europe's 'oil SUN capital' Aberdeen? Oil no longer feels transformational for SUN Britain in the way it did 40 years ago. Far from being a SUN gushing font of power, it is now the sluggish dark stream SUN which runs under Britain's politics. SUN SUN In this final episode of Oil: A Crude History of Britain, SUN James Naughtie also speaks to decision-makers about the long SUN term impact of oil on the British State. In a world in which SUN Russia, China and the OPEC countries all use their gas and SUN oil reserves as tools of geo-politics, did Britain make the SUN most of its North Sea oil rush? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06c4fvw (Listen) SUN Eden Project SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from the Eden Project. SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson answer SUN questions from the Mediterranean Biome. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q - I live on a hill facing the Atlantic Ocean – what SUN climbing plant would the panel recommend to survive the SUN frequent strong winds and heavy downpours? South-west facing SUN and heavy clay soil. I have tried a *Zephirine drouhin SUN *rose but that didn’t work. SUN Matthew SUN – That’s a failure of a rose at the best of times! SUN Not a great combination of conditions! First thing to do is SUN improve the clay – lots of sharp grit and light-weight soil SUN improvers like garden compost or spent mushroom compost. SUN Think about plants like Cytisus battandieri (the Pineapple SUN Broom) which is a wall shrub. SUN Anne SUN – You could try blue potato or white potato vines. *Solanum SUN crispum* ‘Glasnevins’ which has purple flowers, or you could SUN try *Solanum laxum* as well. SUN Q – Pansies – we have a perennial problem in that they get SUN eaten within a day – what can we do? SUN Chris SUN – Most likely to be birds pecking away. Pansies are rich in SUN nectar and are attractive to birds. Insect spray will have SUN no effect on a bird. Maybe buy a cat! SUN Q – I have two small Loquat trees grown in pots brought back SUN from Spain/Portugal… can I expect them to flower and fruit? SUN Matthew SUN – This is the *Eriobotrya* and you’ll see them in the front SUN of London gardens… They are grown mainly for their foliage SUN but last summer I saw lots of them bearing fruit. You just SUN need patience and a better summer. SUN Chris SUN – Growing in pots probably not the best idea though and it SUN is always difficult to grow fruiting plants from seed. Much SUN better, if you get another chance, to take cuttings from a SUN plant that is already fruiting and use those. SUN Q – Can you tell me what is wrong with my Dahlias? They SUN flower profusely but half of my buds grow in an elongated SUN shape and seem to rot before they open… so I end up SUN deadheading before they flower. SUN Anne SUN – Sometimes wet weather will do this SUN Matthew SUN – It looks to me like insect damage but I’m not aware of SUN anything specific to Dahlias SUN Chris SUN – I’ve had aborted Dahlia blooms before on the secondary SUN blooms – which could explain why half of yours aren’t SUN flowering – and I’ve always put it down to bad weather. At SUN the end of this season when you go to lift them, dust them SUN in sulphur (a natural fungicide), and that may help SUN Q – I have an established Hydrangea, a Madame Mouillere, SUN which this year has been beaten flat by the heavy rain, SUN should I cut it back drastically to old wood or prune in the SUN normal way? SUN Chris SUN – Hydrangeas all rejuvenate wonderfully. If you have good SUN rootstock and it’s in good condition then I would have no SUN problem in cutting back as far as the damage is obvious, as SUN soon as leaf fall has occurred. Tip a bucket of garden SUN compost into the crown of the plant, firm it down with your SUN fingers, and then new buds/shoots will grow from the top of SUN the plant too. SUN Q – One of the major seed companies has stopped putting SUN dates on the backs of the packets of seeds – do you have any SUN comments on this? SUN Anne SUN – It is a shame because seeds do go off and some go off SUN faster than others – write the date on as soon as they SUN arrive so you have some idea as to how old they are SUN Chris SUN – Absolutely this is important… however the oldest seed to SUN ever germinate was over ten-thousand-years old! It was an SUN Arctic Lupin. SUN Q – I have a 6ft x 8ft (1.8m x 2.4m )herb garden – made SUN about 8 years ago – we put down weed proof matting and then SUN a chequerboard pattern of paving slabs and planted the herbs SUN in the gaps. I planted the mint in a pot but it’s escaped SUN everywhere! What can I do about it? SUN Matthew SUN – The only way is to dig it all up and start again! A lot SUN of the herbs would probably benefit from being refreshed SUN anyway. SUN Chris SUN – When you grow mint in a pot keep it in a moat – get a nice SUN terracotta saucer and keep it topped up with water to keep SUN it under bay. SUN Q –I’ve had *Trachelospermum jasminoides* – variegated form SUN – and a *camellia sasanqua* growing against a south-facing SUN wall for over 12 years. They’ve thrived but over the last SUN few years they’ve infested with cushion scale. I’ve cut SUN them back but if they grow again what can I do to avoid the SUN same situation? SUN Anne SUN – Regular spraying would be the only solution I’m afraid – SUN three sprays every ten days. I think a heavy prune is fine, SUN get rid of the pest, and then control from there. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06d29bm (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between a blind man and SUN his cycling guide, between horsewomen, and between SUN zookeepers, from Derry, Devon and the Durrell Wildlife Park SUN in Jersey, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06d29bp (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - Germany: Look Who's Back, Episode 1 SUN SUN The next stop on Radio 4's literary journey across Europe is SUN Timur Vermes' transgressive novel which topped the SUN bestseller list in its native Germany. SUN SUN Look Who's Back shocked and then thrilled over 1.5 million SUN German readers with its bold approach to the most taboo of SUN subjects - Adolf Hitler. David Threlfall stars as the SUN infamous Nazi leader in this provocative satire. SUN SUN Part 1 SUN SUN When Adolf Hitler wakes up in modern day Germany he is not SUN pleased. The war is lost. The Nazi party is defunct. And his SUN beloved Fatherland is being run by a woman. He decides to SUN re-take control. Only this time, mistaken for a comedy SUN impersonator, his road to power is paved with TV stardom and SUN internet fame. SUN SUN Theme music composed by Clive Swift and arranged by Stuart SUN Morley. SUN SUN From the novel by Timur Vermes SUN Translated by Jamie Bulloch SUN Dramatised for radio by Marcy Kahan SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SUN SUN Timur Vermes is a journalist and a ghost-writer. Look Who's SUN Back is his first novel. SUN SUN David Threlfall is a prominent stage, film and TV actor and SUN director. He is best known for his portrayal of Frank SUN Gallagher in the long running TV show Shameless. He recently SUN played Noah in BBC drama The Ark, has portrayed iconic SUN comedian Tommy Cooper in Not Like That, Like This and SUN real-life cop David Baker in ITV drama Code Of A Killer. SUN SUN Credits SUN Adolf Hitler: David Threlfall SUN Fraulein Vera Kromeier: Alex Tregear SUN The Kiosk Owner: Ben Crowe SUN Frau Carmen Bellini: Caroline Berry SUN Joachim Sensenbrink: John Norton SUN Frank Sawatski: Richard Mylan SUN Ali Gagmez: Sargon Yelda SUN Actor: Debra Baker SUN Actor: Leo Wan SUN Actor: Gerard Watkins SUN Author: Timur Vermes SUN Adaptor: Marcy Kahan SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06d29br (Listen) SUN Orhan Pamuk on A Strangeness in My Mind SUN SUN The Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk talks to Mariella SUN about his new novel A Strangeness in My Mind. Mevlut, a boy SUN from the countryside, arrives in the city in 1969 and for SUN forty years wanders the streets of Istanbul selling his boza SUN (a local drink), yoghurt and rice. One of life's observers, SUN he watches the inhabitants as they transform under political SUN movements and modernity, while the fabric of the city itself SUN is ever evolving. SUN SUN Vendela Vida's new novel The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is SUN all written in the second person, an unusual choice for a SUN novel, as they are usually in the first or third person. SUN Vendela and writer Richard Beard discuss the secrets of SUN finding and sustaining the right narrative voice. SUN SUN And critic Erica Wagner joins Mariella to reveal why a six SUN word story most frequently attributed to Ernest Hemingway SUN may not be by him at all. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Orhan Pamuk SUN Interviewed Guest: Vendela Vida SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Beard SUN Interviewed Guest: Erica Wagner SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06d29bt (Listen) SUN Colours SUN SUN Roger McGough brings poetry of love and of colours: blue, SUN green, crimson, silver... from poets as varied as SUN Christopher Marlowe and ee cummings. The readers are Indira SUN Varma and Tim Pigott-Smith. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Elegia V, Corinnae Concubitus SUN SUN By Christopher Marlowe SUN SUN From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed SUN SUN By Jonathan Swift SUN SUN From Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Gift SUN SUN By Czeslaw Milosz SUN SUN (translated from the Polish by the author) SUN SUN From Being Alive SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books SUN SUN SUN SUN stand with your lover on the ending earth SUN SUN By ee cummings SUN SUN From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962 SUN SUN Published by Liveright SUN SUN SUN SUN Romance SUN SUN By W.J. Turner SUN SUN From The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Love After Love SUN SUN By Derek Walcott SUN SUN From Being Alive SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Under SUN SUN By J.C. Squire SUN SUN From The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Ever After SUN SUN By Maggie Sawkins SUN SUN From The Zig Zag Woman by Maggie Sawkins SUN SUN Published by Two Ravens Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White SUN SUN By Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN Poems Of Solitary Delights SUN SUN By Tachibana Akemi SUN SUN Translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite SUN SUN From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer SUN SUN By John Keats SUN SUN From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN A Birthday SUN SUN By Christina Rossetti SUN SUN From The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Colours SUN SUN By Yevgeny Yevtushenko SUN SUN Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland SUN SUN From: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN For the Bed at Kelmscott SUN SUN By William Morris SUN SUN From William Morris: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN SUN SUN Sweet and low, sweet and low SUN SUN By Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Indira Varma SUN Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Producer: Beth O'Dea SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06bnqsy (Listen) SUN Working in the Shadows SUN SUN With the Government cracking down on migrants working SUN illegally, Simon Cox investigates Britain's shadow economy. SUN He meets illegal workers to ask whether the get-tough SUN message is putting them off. And he reveals the ways in SUN which both employers and workers are getting round the law. SUN So can the UK Border Force deliver on ministers' promises to SUN make the UK an "unattractive" place for those who want to SUN work illegally? SUN SUN Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06d24gw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06d25cr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06d25cw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d25d0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06d25d4 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the SUN past week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06d29bw (Listen) SUN It is a crucial match for the Ambridge cricket team, and SUN Henry is cheering his Daddy. SUN SUN 19:15 The Absolutely Radio Show b06d29by (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch SUN show Absolutely reunite for a brand new series on BBC Radio SUN 4. Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy SUN and John Sparkes are back together with all new material. SUN They revisit some of their much loved sketch characters for SUN four half hour shows, whilst also introducing some newcomers SUN to the show. SUN SUN In 2013, the group got back together for the Sketchorama: SUN Absolutely Special for BBC Radio 4 which subsequently won a SUN BBC Audio Drama Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy SUN category. SUN SUN The fourth and final episode of the series will feature SUN another meeting of the highly confused Stoneybridge Town SUN Council as well as pearls of nonsense from Calum Gilhooley, SUN Edinburgh's most boring man, and the ever popular Little SUN Girl, telling us what is true about teenagers. Frank Hovis SUN makes an appearance, there will be more stories from those SUN who were nearly there in The People's War, talking Facebook SUN will return and we'll meet an angsting Actor who is very SUN concerned about the length of his co-star's credits. SUN SUN Produced by Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy. SUN An Absolutely/Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Peter Baikie SUN Performer: Morwenna Banks SUN Performer: Moray Hunter SUN Performer: Gordon Kennedy SUN Performer: John Sparkes SUN Producer: Gus Beattie SUN Producer: Gordon Kennedy SUN SUN 19:45 Jellyfish b06d29c0 (Listen) SUN Fine Day SUN SUN Stories from the new collection by award-winning writer SUN Janice Galloway. SUN Following the success of her 'anti-memoirs' THIS IS NOT SUN ABOUT ME and ALL MADE UP, the novelist, poet and frequent SUN collaborator with artists and musicians returns to short SUN fiction with the publication of JELLYFISH. SUN SUN A troubled relationship dissolves to the strains of Puccini. SUN 'Fine Day' is read by the author. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Janice Galloway SUN Writer: Janice Galloway SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06c4k46 (Listen) SUN Dementia, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, SUN Decimate SUN SUN Dementia SUN What's behind the claim that 1 in 3 people born in the UK SUN this year could get dementia? SUN SUN How reliable is the science in psychology? SUN The Reproducibility of Psychological Science project SUN reported recently and it made grim reading. Having SUN replicated 100 psychological studies published in three SUN psychology journals only thirty six had significant results SUN compared to 97% first time around. So is there a problem SUN with psychological science and what should be done to fix SUN it? SUN SUN One of mathematics' enigmas SUN He is described as one of the most charismatic SUN mathematicians but he is also shy and enigmatic. Professor SUN John Conway has been described as a genius whose most famous SUN innovation is the cell automaton The Game of Life - Tim SUN talks to Siobhan Roberts about the man and his life. Thanks SUN to Numberphile for allowing us to use a clip of their John SUN Conway interview in this piece. Listen to their full SUN interview with John Conway here SUN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kUJL04ELA and you can see SUN other number goodness at numberphile.com SUN SUN Is it more difficult to play against ten men? SUN Arsene Wenger has said it, Sam Allerdyce and Steve Bruce SUN have said it too - it's more difficult to play against ten SUN men. It's an oft quoted footballing cliché but is there any SUN truth in it? SUN SUN Decimate SUN Tim used the word in an interview last week to mean SUN devastate rather than cut by ten percent - many listeners SUN said this was unforgivable - was it? - We ask Oliver Kamm - SUN Author of 'Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to SUN English Usage'. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06c4k44 (Listen) SUN Brian Sewell, Jackie Collins, Ted Smith CBE, PJ Kavanagh, SUN Yogi Berra SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Brian Sewell, the art critic with the distinctive voice, SUN outspoken opinions and love of dogs. SUN SUN Jackie Collins who sold millions of copies of her sex and SUN showbusiness novels, SUN SUN Ted Smith, the conservationist who built up the UK's network SUN of Wildlife Trusts. SUN SUN PJ Kavanagh, the poet who also played a Nazi loving priest SUN in the TV comedy Father Ted. SUN SUN And Yogi Berra the top baseball player also known for his SUN mangling of the English language. SUN SUN Brian Sewell SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend, publisher Naim Attallah. SUN SUN Born 15 July 1931; died 19 September 2015 aged 84. SUN SUN Jackie Collins SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her friend, broadcaster Gloria Hunniford. SUN SUN Born 4 October 1937; died 19 September 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN Ted Smith CBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Sir David Attenborough and to Stephanie SUN Hillborne OBE, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust. SUN SUN Born 24 August 1920; died 13 September 2015 aged 95. SUN SUN PJ Kavanagh SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Michael Schmidt, Professor of poetry at SUN University of Glasgow. SUN SUN Born 6 January 1931; died 26 August 2015 aged 84. SUN SUN Yogi Berra SUN SUN Born 12 May 1925; died 22 September 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06d24bd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06d29b7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06c0cjk (Listen) SUN What Makes a Company Last? SUN SUN Peter Day asks whether companies really should still be SUN built to last in today's hi-tech internet world. What are SUN the characteristics of those that stand the test of time? SUN Many do learn to change or even re-invent themselves while SUN others, such as Woolworths, have disappeared altogether. In SUN interviews with business leaders and entrepreneurs he SUN discusses whether longevity still matters. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06d25dj (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06d29cn (Listen) SUN Andrew Grice of The Independent analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 TED Radio Hour b06d29cv (Listen) SUN Series 2, Press Play SUN SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN SUN Guy Raz investigates whether something serious happens when SUN we play. Can it make us smarter, saner and more SUN collaborative? SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b06c4l20 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06d25k1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06bp3z0 (Listen) MON Cross-Class Marriage, The social history of women-only train MON carriages MON MON Cross class marriage: Laurie Taylor talks to Jessi Streib, MON Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University, US, MON about her study into the lives of people who married a MON partner raised in a social class very different from their MON own. Do spouses from blue collar backgrounds take a laissez MON faire approach to daily life? Are those from white collar, MON professional families likely to want to take organisational MON control? They're joined by Mary Evans, Centennial Professor MON at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics MON and Political Science. MON MON Also, the social history of women only train carriages: did MON they promote safety or inequality? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06d27f7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d25k7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d25kc (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d25kh (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06d25kk (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06d29d1 (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06d29d3 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06d25kr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvz9y (Listen) MON Guira Cuckoo MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents the guira cuckoo of central MON South America. Guira cuckoos break all the usual rules of MON their family. They are very sociable and travel in noisy MON gangs, feeding and roosting together. But what makes the MON behaviour of guira cuckoos so different is that several MON females often lay their eggs in a single nest, sometimes as MON many as 20 eggs which are tended by the respective mothers . MON This is known as co-operative breeding. Whether a female MON recognises her own eggs isn't certain, but it's possible MON that they can distinguish them by variable markings on the MON eggshells and single them out for special care. MON MON Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01261884 MON © Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b06d2btn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06d2btq (Listen) MON Celts and Romans MON MON On Start the Week Mary Ann Sieghart explores how far leaders MON and governments have shaped our world. Matt Ridley dismisses MON the assumption that history has been made by those on high, MON whether in government, business or religion, and argues for MON a system of evolution in which ideas and events develop from MON the bottom up. The historian Tom Holland revels in the MON antics of the house of Caesar, from Augustus to Nero, and MON how this imperial family greatly influenced the ancient MON world. Barry Cunliffe tells the story of the beginnings of MON civilisation across Europe and the Far East over the course MON of ten millennia while the curator Julia Farley concentrates MON on one of those groups - the Celts - and celebrates their MON distinctive stylised art in a new exhibition at the British MON Museum. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mary Ann Sieghart MON Interviewed Guest: Tom Holland MON Interviewed Guest: Barry Cunliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Julia Farley MON Interviewed Guest: Matt Ridley MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06f239c (Listen) MON Reading Europe, Dorthe Nors MON MON Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore MON how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected MON by contemporary novelists. MON MON Today, Dorthe Nors investigates whether today's Danish MON fiction reflects the identity of those living outside the MON capital, Copenhagen. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Dorthe Nors MON Producer: Kate Lamble MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06d2cx5 (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 b06d2fxc (Listen) MON Sovereign, Episode 6 MON MON Colin MacDonald's dramatisation of the third novel in C J MON Sansom's bestselling crime series, set during Henry VIII's MON Royal Progress to the north of England in 1541. MON MON Shardlake has been left badly shaken by the attempt upon his MON life. Fearing for his safety, he hopes to convince Sir MON William Maleverer that he should be sent back to London. MON MON Writer: C J Sansom MON MON Dramatiser: Colin MacDonald MON MON Producer/Director: Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Shardlake: Justin Salinger MON Barak: Bryan Dick MON Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow MON Radwinter: David Acton MON Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Broderick: Nick Underwood MON Tamasin: Cath Whitefield MON Rich: Chris Pavlo MON Rochford: Amelia Lowdell MON Director: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON Adaptor: Colin MacDonald MON Author: CJ Sansom MON MON 11:00 The Art of Walking into Doors b06d2fxf (Listen) MON Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Leonardo da Vinci...all of them, MON it's said, were dyslexic. But was there any connection MON between that and their work? Chris Ledgard visits the Royal MON College of Art in London, where he explores the relationship MON between dyslexia and dyspraxia, and students' ability to MON draw. MON MON 11:30 All Those Women b06d2fxv (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations MON of women living under one roof. MON MON Hetty's old diaries turn up some uncomfortable home truths MON for Maggie, who sets out to challenge herself and prove MON things have changed. MON MON All Those Women explores familial relationships, ageing, MON marriages - it's about life and love and things not turning MON out quite the way that you'd expected them to. Every week we MON join Hetty, Maggie, Jen and Emily as they struggle to MON resolve their own problems, and support one another. MON MON Written by KATHERINE JAKEWAYS MON MON Script editor Richard Turner MON Producer Alexandra Smith MON MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Hetty: Sheila Hancock MON Maggie: Lesley Manville MON Jen: Sinead Matthews MON Emily: Lucy Hutchinson MON Stu: Chris Pavlo MON Layla: Katie Redford MON Pat: Katherine Jakeways MON Announcement: George Watkins MON Delivery Man: George Watkins MON Instructor: George Watkins MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06d25l4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06495s5 (Listen) MON 28 September 1915 - Adeline Lumley MON MON Mrs Crayford claims she can communicate with the dead, but MON can't seem to get through to Adeline Marshall. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Adeline: Helen Schlesinger MON Esme: Katie Angelou MON Sylvia: Joanna David MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Clemmie: Joanna Monro MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06d2fyd (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06d25lb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06d2fyn (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06d2fyq (Listen) MON Sir Hans Sloane MON MON The vast number of natural and cultural artefacts Sir Hans MON Sloane collected formed the nucleus of two of the most MON iconic museums in the world The British and Natural History MON Museums in London. A philanthropist with strong sense of MON civic duty Sloane wanted his collection to be kept available MON for the contemplation of the British public and so upon his MON death it was offered to the King and Parliament for the very MON reasonable price of £20,000. The British museum (from which MON the Natural History Museum was founded) was the first MON national public museum in the world and was open to all MON 'studious and curious persons'. Botanist Mark Spencer guides MON us through the Sloane Herbarium to explain why Sloane is his MON Natural History Hero. MON MON Dr Mark Spencer MON Dr Mark Spencer is Senior Curator of the British and Irish MON Herbarium at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London. His curatorial and research interests are MON focused on environmental change and its impact upon the UK's MON flora, as well as investigating novel approaches to MON incorporating botanical data into the forensic investigative MON environment. MON Mark also has an interest in historic botany, particularly MON 17th and 18th century herbariums as well as non-native MON invasive species. He is committed to engaging with and MON educating the wider British public about the value and MON interest of Britain’s flora. Mark’s botanical interests are MON wide-ranging but are particularly focused on the historic MON and non-native floras of London and the Isles of Scilly. MON Mark is the MON Botanical Society of the British Isles MON vice-county recorder for Middlesex and the Vascular Plant MON Recorder for the MON London Natural History Society MON MON Sir Hans Sloane MON In his long life, the noted physician, scientist and MON collector Sir Hans Sloane amassed one of the greatest MON collections of plants, animals, antiquities, coins and many MON other objects of his time. MON MON Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium MON Sir Hans collected the first plant specimens to be brought MON back to England from Jamaica. They were mounted in seven MON bound volumes, which have been preserved intact in the MON herbarium MON at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London where they remain an invaluable resource for both MON scientific and historical research. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06d29bw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06cvb4x (Listen) MON The Price of Oil, Looking for Billy MON MON Nicholas le Prevost and Jemma Redgrave star in Nigel MON Williams' gumshoe road movie, set in the Alaskan Oil Fields. MON MON Looking for Billy takes us up Alaska's Haul Road all the way MON to the Arctic Sea. Every day alongside the road, above the MON tundra, billions of barrels of oil are being piped south MON from the wells discovered in the 1960's, on the North Slope. MON As a private detective sets out with his mysterious client MON to investigate protests against the pipeline, we learn what MON that oil discovery did to the indigenous Inupiat people of MON Alaska. MON MON The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the MON history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this MON week, season will take us from 1951 to 2045, and around the MON world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, MON Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the MON role oil has played in shaping our world. MON MON Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan MON Myerson, the season is produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC MON Radio Drama. MON MON As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 MON years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and MON political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned MON writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear MON weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC MON Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. MON MON Inupiat translations provided by Chelsey Zibell MON MON Looking For Billy was directed by Nicolas Kent. MON MON Credits MON Charlie: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Susannah: Jemma Redgrave MON Jez: Sam Dale MON Jenny: Amelia Lowdell MON Billy: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Mack: David Hounslow MON Hitchhiker: Chris Pavlo MON Writer: Nigel Williams MON Translation: Chelsey Zibell MON Director: Nicolas Kent MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b06d2fys (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for MON its 51st series. MON MON In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by MON writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy MON types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, MON Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... MON have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. MON MON Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the MON origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the MON famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. MON MON Episode 4 MON MON Comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. MON Sports presenter Sally Jones. MON Actress and writer Morwenna Banks MON Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band member and Monty Python collaborator MON Neil Innes MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Graham Linehan MON Panellist: Sally Jones MON Panellist: Morwenna Banks MON Panellist: Neil Innes MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06d29bh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 I Was... b06d2fz9 (Listen) MON Series 2, Tina Turner's Dancer MON MON Andrew McGibbon talks to Anne Behringer, Tina Turner's MON dancer in her touring band at the height of her fame as a MON solo stage performer during the nineties. MON MON Tina Turner remains one of the greatest r'n'b singers of the MON 20th and 21st centuries. Her partnership with Ike Turner MON produced one of the most electrifying live acts in the MON 1960s. After her split with abusive husband Ike, her career MON revived in the 1980s. The spectacle of Live Aid and the MON explosion of corporate CD rock in that decade led Tina to an MON astonishing level of global success in sales and on stage. MON It made her an international star and, critically, a MON universal performer, appealing to both black and white MON audiences. MON MON Anne Behringer was born into a liberal New England family MON brought up to believe that everybody was equal regardless of MON tribe, colour and religion. Anne was also a serial dancer MON from a very early age - almost, it seems, since she could MON walk. MON MON During the most significant time in Tina Turner's career, MON Anne, having recovered from major drug and alcohol abuse, MON was then offered work on Tina's world tour. This meant MON exposure to the drugs and alcohol all over again. Could Anne MON cope with being on a world tour, a dry singer in a world MON surrounded by temptation? MON MON She went on to set up the internationally renowned Promises MON chain of rehabs. But, as Tina's white dancer in a US tour, MON she experienced first hand the racism still alive in MON America's deep south. MON MON Written and Presented by Andrew McGibbon MON MON Producers Nick Romero and Louise Morris MON A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06d2fzc (Listen) MON New Religious Communities MON MON Of all the career choices open to young people, entering a MON religious community must come fairly near the bottom of the MON list. Yet the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has MON set up a new community based at Lambeth Palace for young MON Christian people from all over the world. About 500 started MON the application and 16 have been chosen. They will have the MON opportunity to live in the Palace for a year, experiencing a MON daily round of prayer, silence and work. They will be MON supported by another 20 who will share some of the community MON life while continuing with their jobs. Religious orders have MON been in steep numerical decline since the 1960s, but in MON recent years new communities like the Archbishop's, have MON emerged. So what is this new movement all about? Could it be MON bucking a cultural trend? Will it bring new life to the MON church? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Mark Berry, a member of "Safespace," MON a new monastic community in Telford; Sister Dr Gemma MON Simmonds, Director of the Religious Life Institute, Heythrop MON College, London and a Trustee of the new St Anselm's MON Community at Lambeth Palace; and Dr Abby Day Senior Research MON Fellow in the Anthropology of Sociology and Religion at The MON University of Kent. MON MON Producer: Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b06d2g54 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d25ll (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b06d2g56 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and MON Katherine Ryan are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as IKEA, MON marriage, Switzerland and chewing gum. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06d2g58 (Listen) MON Ruth is making an important journey, and Will is worried. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06d2g5b (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06d2fxc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Can Porn Be Ethical? b06d2g5d (Listen) MON Journalist, broadcaster and author Nichi Hodgson attempts to MON get to the heart of an issue which divides as many as it MON unites. MON MON Nichi specialises in writing about sex and sexuality issues. MON She says: 'Porn has become something of a media obsession of MON late especially around fears that more children are getting MON access to extreme pornography online'. MON MON This programme looks at the making of porn by and for MON consenting adults. Nichi, a long term advocate of an ethical MON code for pornography, explores the arguments for whether the MON watching and making of it could be policed to ensure MON standards and best practices. MON MON Such a code might cover things like pay, hours, making sure MON people are happy with the activities they're taking part in, MON setting strict consensual boundaries, verifying ages, health MON checks and making it clear how and where the images will be MON distributed. MON MON On a tour of the UK she meets porn actors, porn producers MON and those opposed vehemently to the production of porn. MON MON Leading feminists and anti-porn campaigners Gail Dines and MON Julie Bindel are challenged about their views by women who MON claim to make ethical porn. Nichi hears from porn actors MON about the kinds of practices that bother them, she visits a MON so-called 'feminist porn' shoot in Brighton and meets a male MON porn actor turned gay porn producer in Manchester who tells MON Nichi how he safeguards his performers. MON MON Historian Julie Peakman and sociologist Clarissa Smith put MON things in perspective and Nichi speaks to leading lawyer MON Mark Stephens about whether an ethical code could be MON voluntary or guaranteed in legislation. MON MON Producer: Ashley Byrne MON A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06d2g5g (Listen) MON Can We Learn to Live with Nuclear Power? MON MON The Fukushima disaster made many people oppose nuclear MON power. Michael Blastland asks what it would take to change MON their minds. In 2011, following a devastating tsunami, MON Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station went into meltdown, MON leaking radiation. It was the most serious nuclear accident MON since Chernobyl. It appeared to send the nuclear power MON industry into retreat - and not just in Japan. Other nations MON had second thoughts too. Germany decided to phase out its MON nuclear reactors altogether. But now Japan has resumed MON nuclear power generation. At the heart of the 'nuclear MON wobble' of 2011 is the question of risk. Attitudes to, and MON understanding of, risk vary surprisingly between nations and MON cultures. But after one of the most shocking incidents in MON nuclear power's history, will we be able to cope with our MON fears? In other words, can we learn to live with nuclear MON power? MON Producers: Ruth Alexander and Smita Patel. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9dth (Listen) MON Parrots MON MON Colourful birds of the rainforest and companions of pirates, MON parrots evoke contradictory images. They encompass a huge MON range of forms from the flightless lumbering kakapo of New MON Zealand to the diminutive and talkative budgerigar of MON Australia, the chatty African grey parrot to the garishly MON colourful macaws of South America. Their striking appearance MON and apparent sense of mischief have made parrots popular as MON pets from ancient Egypt to the present day. During the 19th MON century their exoticism made them status symbols of wealth MON and luxury. Noted by a young Edward Lear who, believing the MON upper classes fascination with the family might be MON lucrative, set about the task of illustrating as many MON species of parrot as he could for their admirers to collect. MON Picture the teenage Lear crouching inside the parrot MON enclosure at London Zoo drawing the birds -the occasional MON face of his human observers appearing in his sketchbooks as MON he became an exhibit in himself. Lear's unique method of MON sketching his subjects from living rather than stuffed MON specimens captured the character of the birds in a way that MON had not been achieved before - even rivalling the celebrated MON Audubon for best bird illustrator of the time. Unfortunately MON after a series of set-back's Lear ceased natural history MON illustration in favour of writing nonsense poetry - MON including one about a parrot (There was an old man from MON Montrose...). The uncanny ability of some species of parrot MON to mimic the human voice only add to their appeal. The Popes MON had a keeper of parrots and Henry VIII was supposedly MON captivated by his. We cast parrots as the clowns of the MON natural world; painted in many colours they appear MON mischievous but innocent, playful but intelligent. But has MON our anthropomorphism of parrots limited our true MON understanding of the family? In the words of Mark Cocker MON "parrots are held in cages, but they are trapped in our MON imaginations". MON MON Paul Cooper MON Paul Cooper is Special Collections Librarian at the MON Natural History Museum, London MON for nearly 30 years. Paul's work has focused on the MON acquisition and curation of Life Sciences literature. MON He has contributed an essay on Edward Lear’s “Illustrations MON of the Family of Parrots” to the forthcoming book “Rare MON Treasures from the Library of the Natural History Museum” MON and he is the author of the forthcoming book “The Bauer MON Brothers” on the Austrian born botanical artists Franz and MON Ferdinand Bauer. MON MON Jonathan Elphick MON Jonathan Elphick is a naturalist, specialising in MON ornithology, who has worked since 1969 as a writer, editor MON and consultant for many publishers, including the Natural MON History Museum and the BBC. MON His many books include MON The Birdwatcher’s Handbook MON an award-winning BBC field guide to the birds of Britain and MON Ireland, MON Birds: The Art of Ornithology MON Great Birds of Europe, the bestselling multimedia title MON Birdsong MON and a major new encyclopaedic book for the NHM, MON The World of Birds MON . Jonathan was researcher on two vital celebrations of the MON cultural importance of birds by Mark Cocker, Birds MON Britannica and Birds and People. MON He is also on the Steering Group of MON New Networks for Nature MON a broad alliance of individuals who in their personal and MON professional lives draw creative inspiration from the birds, MON wildlife and landscapes of this country. MON MON Vicky Hammond and Max the parrot MON Vicky Hammond is the owner of seven parrots including Max, a MON macaw who appeared in the James Bond film For Your Eyes MON Only. MON In the film, Bond receives a call from the Prime Minister, MON Margaret Thatcher, and Max the parrot asks her to 'give us a MON kiss, give us a kiss'. MON MON Tony Juniper MON Tony Juniper is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser MON and a well-known British environmentalist. He wrote the book MON What Nature Does for Britain MON and currently works as a Special Adviser to the Prince of MON Wales Charities’ International Sustainability Unit. MON He is a Senior Associate with the University of Cambridge MON Programme for Sustainability Leadership MON (CPSL), working as a member of the teaching faculty and MON contributing to several programmes. In November 2012, he was MON named as the first MON President of the Society for the Environment MON Twitter: MON @TonyJuniper MON MON Professor Ralph Pite MON Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the MON University of Bristol. His research is focused on the MON Romantic period MON MON Thomas Hardy MON MON ecocriticism MON and 20th-century poetry. MON He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost MON and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three MON years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. MON Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the MON simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call MON sustainable. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06d2btq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06d25lz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06d2g5v (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06d2g5x (Listen) MON Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 6 MON MON 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel MON from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable MON woman through the decades of the twentieth century. MON MON In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its MON course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present MON for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for MON photography. Her camera will take her from high society MON London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of MON inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in MON London's East End, and to France and Germany during the MON Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female MON war photographers. MON MON She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, MON where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life MON that has been just as rich and complex as her professional MON one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - MON her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by MON two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of MON conflict and loss, passion and joy. MON MON William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A MON Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, MON Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and MON Solo. He lives in London and South West France. MON MON Read by Barbara Flynn MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON Produced by Mair Bosworth. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Barbara Flynn MON Author: William Boyd MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Mair Bosworth MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06bnq18 (Listen) MON Reading: Print v eBooks MON MON Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright discuss with linguist MON Professor Naomi Baron the quantifiable differences between MON the experience of reading print books and of reading eBooks, MON or onscreen. Which allows for deeper reading and a stronger MON emotional response, and what is the future of reading? MON Producer Beth O'Dea MON Naomi S. Baron is the author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of MON Reading in a Digital World. MON MON 23:30 Digital Human b03c2zw6 (Listen) MON Series 4, Altruism MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores what technology tells us about MON ouselves and the age we live in. In this first programme; is MON the digital world allowing us to be more altruistic than MON ever? MON MON So can true altruism exist online? With all the stories of MON cyber-bullying and trolling it's very easy to forget the MON random acts of kindness that the technology also allows. MON Aleks explores some amazing stories of online altruism. But MON when no good deed goes unpublished and you can keep score of MON your goodness through 'followers', 'likes' and the MON accompanying boosts to ego and reputation is truly selfless MON altruism online an impossibility? And in the end, if good MON gets done does it matter? MON MON Contributors: Primatologist Frans De Waal, Psychologist Dana MON Kilsanin, Founder of Random acts of pizza Daniel Rodgers, MON YouTube DIY guru Chez Rossi MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON Frans de Waal MON MON Primatologist Frans de Waal, author of 'The Bonobo and the MON Atheist' talks to Aleks about altruism is a product of MON human evolution, and can be observed in our closest genetic MON relatives. MON http://www.psychology.emory.edu/nab/dewaal/ MON MON Rick O'Gorman MON MON Rick O'Gorman, evolutionary social physchologist at the MON University of Essex. MON http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/department/people/ogorman. MON tml MON His research focuses on how we choose who we’re going to MON help. MON MON Chez Rossi MON MON Chez Rossi, the Ultimate Handyman tells us why he dedicates MON so much time to helping people with their DIY problems. MON http://www.youtube.com/user/ultimatehandyman MON MON Daniel Rogers MON MON Texan Lawyer Daniel Rogers, who co-founded Random Acts of MON Pizza, tells us how the internet can grow kindness - and how MON being online makes it easier, and more fun. MON http://randomactsofpizza.com/ MON MON Dana Klisanin MON MON Psychologist Dana Klisanin, explains why the internet lends MON itself to altruism, and what can be done to foster kindess MON in the online world. MON http://danaklisanin.com/ MON MON Jack Skirianos MON MON Jack Skirianos, the transplant patient who reached out to MON the internet for help when he most desperately needed it, MON and got a reply. MON http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/187gj0/rboston_can_y MON u_help_a_guy_with_a_kidney/ MON MON Amy Holdorf MON MON Amy Holdorf, the Redditor who drove through a blizzard to MON get medicine to a stranger. MON http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/187gj0/rboston_can_y MON u_help_a_guy_with_a_kidney/ MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06d25qm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06f239c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d25qp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d25qr (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d25qt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06d25qw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06d2g7b (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06d2g7d (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw6yc (Listen) TUE Spix's Macaw TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the now extinct in the wild, TUE Spix's macaw. The Spix's macaw was declared extinct in 2000 TUE when the last known wild born male disappeared from its TUE final refuge in Brazil. Fortunately this strikingly TUE beautiful member of the parrot family survives in captivity. TUE The Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation centre in Qatar is TUE providing a reservoir for an organised breeding programme TUE which is now managed by several conservation organisations TUE under the guidance of the Brazilian government. Soon it is TUE hoped the bird that inspired the film Rio, can once more fly TUE free in the wild. TUE TUE Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Roland Seitre / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01386353 TUE © Roland Seitre / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06d2g8q (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b06d2g8s (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of history looking at TUE the past behind the present. On a farm in Cambridgeshire he TUE compares the current Dairy Crisis with the 1930's Wheat TUE Crisis. TUE TUE Freedland, accompanied by an agricultural historian, rural TUE affairs correspondent, farmer and an actor whose line about TUE "Accrington Stanley" immortalized the Milk Board, compares TUE both crises. Then as now a global glut in supply led to TUE plummeting prices and failing farms in Britain, smaller TUE farms suffered and farmers were forced to diversify. But TUE what lessons can the dairy industry learn from how the wheat TUE crisis was handled in the 1930's? Answers solicited down on TUE the farm. TUE TUE Producers Neil McCarthy and Kate Lamble. TUE TUE 09:30 The Town Is the Menu b04807hv (Listen) TUE Inverness TUE TUE How do you capture the city of Inverness in a single dish? TUE That's the challenge for food innovator Simon Preston and TUE local chef Steven Devlin as they gather some colourful local TUE characters at Eden Court Theatre to hear inspirational TUE stories, past and present. Naturalist, Kenny Taylor, shares TUE his perspective on the city's unique blend of wilderness in TUE an urban environment, from journalist Iain MacDonald there's TUE comic stories of the theft of Nessy while Gaelic broadcaster TUE Roddy Maclean draws on a the city's rich multi-lingual and TUE multi-cultural history. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06dyc6k (Listen) TUE Reading Europe, Abdelkader Benali TUE TUE Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore TUE how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected TUE by contemporary novelists. TUE TUE Today, the Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali reflects TUE on how bookshops can offer refuge to those fleeing their TUE home countries. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Abdelkader Benali TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06d2g8v (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 b06d2g8x (Listen) TUE Sovereign, Episode 7 TUE TUE Atmospheric dramatisation of the third novel in C J Sansom's TUE bestselling Tudor crime series set during King Henry VIII's TUE Royal Progress to the north of England in 1541. TUE TUE Shardlake, aided by his trusty assistant Barak, is TUE determined to pursue his own investigations into Oldroyd's TUE murder and the theft of the treasonous papers - as well as TUE to discover who has been trying to kill him. Their inquiries TUE lead them to a rough part of York, in search of information TUE about Craike. TUE TUE Other parts played by members of the cast. TUE TUE Writer: C J Sansom TUE TUE Dramatiser: Colin MacDonald TUE TUE Producer/Director: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Shardlake: Justin Salinger TUE Barak: Bryan Dick TUE Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow TUE Radwinter: David Acton TUE Broderick: Nick Underwood TUE Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Craike: Patrick Brennan TUE Rich: Chris Pavlo TUE Innkeeper: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Director: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Adaptor: Colin MacDonald TUE Author: CJ Sansom TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9dx8 (Listen) TUE Crocodiles TUE TUE Not many creatures can boast being a god, a sports logo, a TUE sly trickster, a bringer of fertility, a producer of false TUE tears and a comic book hero, but then not many animals have TUE lived on earth for as long as the crocodile. It is a TUE cold-bloodied killer, using crude techniques to crush and TUE drown its prey, but it is a master of survival over millions TUE of years. In the Nile, where they grow to 7 metres and 1000 TUE kilogrammes, they were revered as gods; they even had their TUE own city Crocodilopolis where mummified crocs were the TUE subject of long, sacred rituals. Cleopatra viewed herself as TUE a sexy crocodile devouring Mark Anthony. More recently they TUE were used by JM Barrie in Peter Pan to bring us the much TUE loved ticking time-bomb that silently chased Captain Cook. TUE We are in awe of their lightning fast movements and cold, TUE ruthless character. The famous tennis player Rene Lacoste TUE was considered such a ferocious player he was nicknamed The TUE Crocodile, and the iconic sports logo was born. Our TUE relationship with crocodiles is complex, a mixture of fear TUE and reverence. Today we are finding more about the TUE non-predatory side of their lives - how they use tools and TUE cooperate. The crocodile continues to beguile us. TUE TUE Dr Adam Britton TUE Dr Adam Britton is a Senior Research Associate at Charles TUE Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, and runs the TUE crocodile research consultancy TUE Big Gecko TUE He was born and raised in West Yorkshire, but its lack of TUE toothy predators led him to a life in northern Australia TUE working on crocodile behaviour, ecology, management and TUE conservation for the last 19 years. TUE Adam's recent work has included diving with Nile crocodiles TUE in the Okavango Delta to collect DNA for a project on TUE population dynamics, studying predatory behaviour by TUE crocodiles on turtle nesting beaches in Far North TUE Queensland, and training rangers in Australia and Indonesia TUE on safe field methods to manage wild crocodile populations. TUE Adam also has a strong internet presence, having TUE created the Internet's first crocodile website TUE in 1994, and most recently building a worldwide database of TUE crocodile attacks called TUE CrocBITE TUE TUE Amber Butchart TUE Amber Butchart TUE is a fashion historian working across cultural heritage, TUE broadcasting and academia and presents a regular ‘In TUE Conversation’ series at the V&A museum covering areas from TUE Shakespeare to David Bowie. TUE She is an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical TUE Studies at London College of Fashion and her interest in TUE antique clothing was ignited by working as Head Buyer for TUE vintage clothing company Beyond Retro. TUE A former Research Fellow at the University of the Arts TUE London, she is regularly asked to speak on fashion and TUE cultural history, and has done so at the Institute for TUE Contemporary Arts, British Museum, Royal Academy, British TUE Library, Wellcome Collection, Design Museum, British Film TUE Institute, and is a regular on the SHOWstudio fashion week TUE panels. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and TUE the Association of Dress Historians. TUE Picture: TUE Jenny Lewis TUE TUE Sue Giles TUE Sue Giles is Senior Curator World Cultures at TUE Bristol Museum & Art Gallery TUE and is responsible for various collections including TUE Ethnography (Africa, Americas and Oceania) and Egyptology, TUE plus Numismatics, Firearms and Maps. TUE The Egyptology collection at Bristol is among the top 10 in TUE the country and she has catalogued much of the collection, TUE collected new material, and worked on two Egypt galleries, TUE one opened in 1982 and its replacement in 2007. TUE She also worked on the Bristol Mummy Project, when the TUE rotting bandages of the mummy of a man named Hor-em-kenesi TUE were archaeologically unwrapped from the body. She curated TUE the exhibition TUE Horemkenesi: may he live for ever! TUE and co-edited the Bristol Mummy Project publication. TUE TUE Dr Salima Ikram TUE Dr Salima Ikram TUE is Professor of Egyptology at the American University in TUE Cairo, and has worked in Egypt since 1986. She has lived in TUE Pakistan, the US, UK and Egypt. TUE She has directed the TUE Animal Mummy Project TUE co-directed the Predynastic Gallery project, and has served TUE as co-director of the TUE North Kharga Oasis Survey TUE and as director of the North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur TUE Survey. TUE Dr Ikram has worked on several excavations in Egypt as well TUE as in the Sudan, Greece, and Turkey. Her research interests TUE are diverse, ranging from death to rock art, and is TUE currently very involved with the preservation and TUE presentation of cultural heritage. TUE TUE Professor Ralph Pite TUE Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the TUE University of Bristol. His research is focused on the TUE Romantic period TUE TUE Thomas Hardy TUE TUE ecocriticism TUE and 20th-century poetry. TUE He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost TUE and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three TUE years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. TUE Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the TUE simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call TUE sustainable. TUE TUE 11:30 When Van Played Cyprus Avenue b06d2g8z (Listen) TUE "And I'm caught one more time TUE Up on Cyprus Avenue..." TUE TUE Van Morrison made a number of references in his songs to the TUE east Belfast neighbourhood in which he grew up, none more TUE directly than in Cyprus Avenue from his 1968 album Astral TUE Weeks. Romantic images of leaves shaking on a tree, rainbow TUE ribbons in a young girl's hair and a mansion on the hill TUE evoke memories of Cyprus Avenue in the years before Van left TUE Northern Ireland to pursue his career in the States. TUE TUE Cyprus Avenue - with its intricate arrangement of flute, TUE harpsichord and strings - was recorded in New York, far from TUE the well-heeled, tree-lined avenue along which the young Van TUE would pass on his way home to the working class area of TUE Hyndford Street. This was in the years before the Troubles. TUE East Belfast was steadfastly loyalist and protestant. TUE TUE When the arts broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir moved into the TUE area, she was already aware of the iconic quality of TUE street's name - not just from Van Morrison's song, but from TUE the fact that the Reverend Ian Paisley lived on Cyprus TUE Avenue. Marie-Louise was a Catholic 'blow-in'. So, when Van TUE announced that he'd be celebrating his 70th birthday by TUE playing a gig literally feet from her front door, she was TUE curious to see how the community would respond. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall. TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06d25r4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06495sx (Listen) TUE 29 September 1915 - Kitty Lumley TUE TUE Peter Lumley says his first words. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Edie: Kathryn Beaumont TUE Stella: Ava Bell TUE Ray: Scarlet Bell TUE Station master: Stephen Critchlow TUE Adam: Billy Kennedy TUE Albert: Harry Myers TUE Johnnie: Paul Ready TUE Adeline: Helen Schlesinger TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06d2g91 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06d25rj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06d2g93 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06d2g97 (Listen) TUE Edward Tyson TUE TUE Edward Tyson, a physician and scientist, is regarded as the TUE father of the study of comparative anatomy. Tyson was one of TUE an early group of scientists who started to look inside TUE animals in order to understand them and therefore learn more TUE about ourselves. In a time before the category 'mammal' even TUE was recognised Tyson's anatomy of a porpoise described an TUE animal more similar to a pig than a fish without resorting TUE to mythical explanations for this incongruity. Later Tyson TUE was the first to note that a chimpanzee is physically more TUE in akin to a human than to a monkey. These observations were TUE only made possible due to Tyson's incredible dissection TUE skills and knowledge of anatomy. Richard Sabin curator of TUE large mammals at the Natural History Museum explains why TUE Edward Tyson is his Natural History Hero. TUE TUE Richard Sabin TUE Richard Sabin is Principal Curator in the Department of Life TUE Sciences at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE specialising in the study of the form and function of marine TUE mammal skeletal anatomy. TUE He is special advisor to the NHM’s TUE UK Strandings Project TUE carries out endangered species identification work for UK TUE and international law enforcement, and develops TUE internationally recognised protocols and techniques for the TUE extraction of genetic material from the Museum's research TUE specimens. TUE TUE Edward Tyson TUE Edward Tyson (1650-1708) was an English physician and TUE pioneer of comparative anatomy whose study of a chimpanzee TUE in 1669 provided an empirical basis for the study of man. TUE He demonstrated for the first time the probability of a TUE relationship between the anatomy of man and other animals, TUE which was not established more clearly until Charles Darwin TUE published 'The Descent of Man', 150 years later. TUE ' TUE The Anatomy of a Pygmie compared with that of a Monkey, an TUE Ape and a Man TUE ', was the first work to study tailless apes and for the TUE first time distinguished them as a separate group to monkeys TUE and man. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06d2g58 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06cvbc9 (Listen) TUE The Price of Oil, The Weapon TUE TUE Zubin Varla and Joseph Balderrama star in Jonathan Myerson's TUE thriller - a tense dramatisation of the real-life OPEC TUE siege. TUE TUE After the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, OPEC used an oil TUE embargo to punish the US and Europe for its support for TUE Israel. TUE TUE By early 1974, the embargo had plunged the world into an TUE economic crisis. TUE TUE Then on 21st December 1975, Venezuelan Marxist pin-up Carlos TUE the Jackal storms the OPEC HQ in Vienna. He takes 96 TUE hostages, including 11 oil ministers from OPEC countries. TUE TUE This is the story of the siege. TUE TUE The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the TUE history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this TUE week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and TUE around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, TUE Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, TUE to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world. TUE TUE The season is devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & TUE Jonathan Myerson, and produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC TUE Radio Drama. TUE TUE As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 TUE years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and TUE political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned TUE writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear TUE weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC TUE Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. TUE TUE The Weapon is directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carlos 'the Jackal' Martinez: Joseph Balderrama TUE Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani: Zubin Varla TUE 'Nada': Kristin Atherton TUE 'Angie': Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Jamshid Amouzegar: Bijan Daneshmand TUE Riad Al-Azzawi: Amir El-Masry TUE Chief Feyide: Alex Lanipekun TUE Grizelda Carey: Rhiannon Neads TUE Eddie Hinterecker: Sam Dale TUE Pilot: Stephen Critchlow TUE Writer: Jonathan Myerson TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06d24bb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01n1qys (Listen) TUE Where Have All Our Gardens Gone? TUE TUE Urban Britain is paving over its front gardens. Lawns, TUE hedges and hollyhocks are being replaced by tarmac and car TUE ports. Jheni Osman investigates the impact on city wildlife. TUE TUE Producer: Emily Knight. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06d2j1w (Listen) TUE Romance and Romanticism TUE TUE In a romantic edition, Michael Rosen, Dr Laura Wright and TUE Professor John Mullan explore the clusters of meanings and TUE differences between the words romance and the Romantic TUE poets, romanticism and the romance languages. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06d2j24 (Listen) TUE Series 37, Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn TUE TUE Dubbed an 'oddity' and 'box office poison', she liked to TUE goad the press and public with her eccentric behaviour and TUE unconventional love life. Her career in Hollywood spanned TUE six decades, during which she starred alongside other TUE Hollywood greats, including James Stewart, Cary Grant, TUE Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy. TUE TUE The four time Oscar award winning actress Katharine Hepburn TUE is this week's Great Life. She is championed by singer and TUE actress Toyah Willcox. The expert is Dr Mark Glancy - Reader TUE in Film History, at Queen Mary, University of London. The TUE presenter is Matthew Parris. The producer is Perminder TUE Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Nick Stadlen TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06d2lz3 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d25s3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06d2lz5 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Things are getting desperate for the staff of Hardacre's, TUE London's worst advertising agency. The work isn't coming in TUE and accounts chief Amanda Brook finds herself reduced to TUE pleading for the business of old friend/nemesis, India. TUE TUE Back at the office, hopeless creative team Joe and Teddy TUE devise a campaign for an anti-aging cream for men. Worse, TUE they must grapple with the most difficult and least TUE glamorous form of advertising of all - radio work. TUE TUE They find themselves unexpectedly assisted by creative TUE director Rupert Hardacre who descends from on high at TUE Amanda's instruction to give the little people the benefit TUE of his creative wisdom. The only trouble is, he seems to TUE have forgotten most of it. Fortunately, he wrote it all down TUE in a book entitled Hardacre on Advertising and he sets out TUE to find a copy for Joe and Teddy. TUE TUE Director Alan Nixon TUE Producer Gordon Kennedy TUE An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rupert Hardacre: Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook: Josie Lawrence TUE Joe: Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy: Rasmus Hardiker TUE Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Edward Rowett TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06d2lz7 (Listen) TUE Pat has some advice for Helen, and Ruth is exhausted. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06d2lz9 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06d2g8x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06d2lzr (Listen) TUE Why is the NHS struggling to get hold of some life-saving TUE medicines for its patients? Allan Urry reveals serious TUE concern over the availability of some drugs used in the TUE treatment of cancer and for pain control. Pharmacists and TUE doctors say they face a daily battle to get access to a TUE range of medicines and either end up buying alternatives at TUE a greater cost to the health service or using less effective TUE alternatives which can compromise patient care. So is the TUE Government doing enough to ensure essential supplies are TUE available? And has Whitehall's drive to push down the NHS TUE drugs bill deterred some manufacturers from supplying the TUE UK? TUE TUE Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Emma Forde. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06d2lzt (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06d2lzw (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series exploring health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b06d2g8s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06d25sk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06d2lzy (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06d2m00 (Listen) TUE Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 7 TUE TUE 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel TUE from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable TUE woman through the decades of the twentieth century. TUE TUE In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its TUE course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present TUE for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for TUE photography. Her camera will take her from high society TUE London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of TUE inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in TUE London's East End, and to France and Germany during the TUE Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female TUE war photographers. TUE TUE She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, TUE where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life TUE that has been just as rich and complex as her professional TUE one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - TUE her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by TUE two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of TUE conflict and loss, passion and joy. TUE TUE William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A TUE Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, TUE Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and TUE Solo. He lives in London and South West France. TUE TUE Read by Barbara Flynn TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE Produced by Mair Bosworth. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Barbara Flynn TUE Author: William Boyd TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Mair Bosworth TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b06d2m05 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE The Machiavellian Madame Cauchemar is put in charge of the TUE school pantomime. Will Caroline, daughter of cricket TUE billionaire Clive Spoon, be allowed to take the leading TUE role? TUE TUE New series by Alice Lowe, featuring Marcia Warren as the TUE narrator, with Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel TUE Stubbings and Clare Thompson. TUE TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Marcia Warren TUE Performer: Alice Lowe TUE Performer: Richard Glover TUE Performer: Simon Greenall TUE Performer: Rachel Stubbings TUE Performer: Clare Thompson TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE Writer: Alice Lowe TUE TUE 23:30 Digital Human b03g94qw (Listen) TUE Series 4, Dark TUE TUE We might want to drown it out in light, but, as Aleks TUE Krotoski discovers, darkness can be good for us. Electric TUE light tampers with our circadian rhythms. Now we can light TUE up any part of the day, our body isn't shutting off to sleep TUE as easily as it once did. Aleks discovers the way that TUE technology is starting to recognise this on both a personal TUE level and a societal level. TUE Produced by Victoria McArthur. TUE TUE Christian B. Luginbuhl TUE TUE Christian Luginbuhl is an astronomer at the United States TUE Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, and one of the TUE original founders of the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition. He TUE tells us why we still need dark skies in the digital age. TUE http://www.nofs.navy.mil/about_NOFS/staff/cbl/ TUE TUE Kenneth P Wright TUE TUE Dr. Wright is a behavioral neuroscientist/psychologist TUE University of Colorado at Boulder whose research interests TUE include understanding the physiology of the human circadian TUE pacemaker. He tells us about a study he conducted that shows TUE how quickly we can recover our normal sleep cycles when we TUE get back to nature. TUE http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/faculty/wright.html TUE TUE Kirstie Anderson TUE TUE Dr Anderson is a Consultant Neurologist and is one of the TUE foremost sleep neurologists in the UK. She explains how the TUE human sleep cycle works, and how the disruption of that TUE rhythm can adversely affect us. TUE http://www.drkanderson.org.uk/ TUE TUE Simon Bainbridge TUE Professor Bainbridge teaches English Lancaster University, TUE specialising in Romanticism. We went to Dove Cottage in the TUE Lake District to discuss why the night was so inspirational TUE in the work of Samuel Coleridge, and why darkness opens up TUE the creative mind. TUE http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/english/profiles/simon-bainb TUE idge TUE TUE Kirk Watson TUE TUE Kirk Watson is a filmmaker and mountain instructor based in TUE Aviemore. He directed ‘South of Sanity’, which was the first TUE feature film ever set in Antartica. His website is: TUE perfectviewproductions.co.uk. TUE TUE Michael and Lorna Herf TUE TUE Michael and Lorna Herf are the developers of F.lux, a TUE computer programme that adjusts the lights of computer TUE screens as the day progresses. Michael tells us how they TUE came up with the app, and how it could help users to sleep TUE better. TUE http://justgetflux.com/ TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06d25vm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06dyc6k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d25vt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d25vw (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d25w0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06d25w6 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06d2m0d (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06d2m0g (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw6z4 (Listen) WED Red-Headed Woodpecker WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the red-headed woodpecker WED found in North America. With Its inky black wings, snow WED white body and crimson hood, the red-headed woodpecker is WED one of the most striking members of its family, a real WED 'flying checker-board'. This striking Woodpecker has an WED ancient past, fossil records go back 2 million years and the WED Cherokee Indians used this species as a war symbol. More WED recently and nestled amongst Longfellow's epic poem The Song WED of Hiawatha, the grateful Hiawatha gave the red headed WED woodpecker its red head in thanks for its service to him. WED WED Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com WED WED NPL Ref WED 01299255 WED © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com WED WED Recording of red-headed woodpecker by Wilbur L Hershberger / WED Ref: ML 168035 WED WED This programme contains a wildtrack recording of the WED red-headed woodpecker WED kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab WED of Ornithology; recorded by Wilbur L Hershberger on 19 June WED 2011, West Virginia, USA. WED WED WED WED Link: WED http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/168305 WED WED 06:00 Today b06d8gzx (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06d8h01 (Listen) WED Frederick Forsyth, Bruce Forsyth WED WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06f20r0 (Listen) WED Reading Europe, David Wagner WED WED Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore WED how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected WED by contemporary novelists. WED WED Today, David Wagner uncovers whether German literature still WED shows any sign of an East-West divide, a quarter of a WED century after the reunification of his home country. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: David Wagner WED Producer: Paul Kobrak WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06d8h08 (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06d8h0j (Listen) WED Sovereign, Episode 8 WED WED Dramatisation of the third novel in C. J. Sansom's bestcrime WED Tudor crime series featuring lawyer detective Matthew WED Shardlake; set in 1541 during Henry VIII's Royal Progress to WED the rebellious north of England. WED WED After the second attempt upon his life, Shardlake is WED convinced that the stolen papers - with their allegations WED against the King - hold the key to the whole mystery. WED WED Other parts played by members of the cast. WED WED Writer: C J Sansom WED WED Dramatiser: Colin MacDonald WED WED Producer / Director: Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Shardlake: Justin Salinger WED Barak: Bryan Dick WED Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow WED Radwinter: David Acton WED Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead WED Broderick: Nick Underwood WED Tamasin: Cath Whitefield WED Jennet: Alex Tregear WED Rochford: Amelia Lowdell WED Henry VIII: Patrick Brennan WED The Queen: Melody Grove WED Director: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED Adaptor: Colin MacDonald WED Author: CJ Sansom WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06d8h0l (Listen) WED Alex and Josh - First-Time Fathers WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between old school friends who WED are now facing fatherhood for the first time and share their WED hopes and fears, recorded in the Booth at the Hay Festival, WED another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Burying Chernobyl b06d8h0t (Listen) WED Returning to Pripyat WED WED In the second part of her trip back to Chernobyl, Alla WED Alban, the daughter of two former employees at the power WED station, returns to the nearby town of Pripyat. Now a world WED famous ghost town with trees growing through the once neat WED concrete squares and streets, it used to be her hometown. WED WED As well as an emotional journey back, Alla also talks to WED other people dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl WED disaster. Dr Yevgenia Stepanova runs the National Research WED Centre for Radiation Medicine in Kiev. For her the disaster WED is ongoing with second generation children still needing all WED the help that a struggling nation can afford. WED WED She also talks to Ighor Gramotkin the Director General of WED the Chernobyl plant who arrived in 1988 and has spent his WED entire working life dealing with the problems left by the WED catastrophic mistakes made in 1986. WED WED Professor Timothy Mouseau heads the Chernobyl Research WED initiative, an attempt to make some detailed sense of the WED impact the accident had on humans and the plant and animal WED life within the exclusion zone. WED WED Alla asks them about their reading of the situation and WED whether the old slogan that still stands above the main WED square in Pripyat still applies, that the atom should be 'a WED worker not a soldier'. WED WED But at the heart of the programme is a journey back to a WED place which feels as though it has been robbed of its WED innocent memories; hanging out with friends, attending WED concerts that would change a life and being part of a WED community that was to be ripped apart. WED WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 11:30 Miss Marple's Final Cases b06d8h0y (Listen) WED Sanctuary WED WED June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in the last of three new WED Agatha Christie dramatisations by Joy Wilkinson. WED WED Miss Marple and her god-daughter, Bunch, arrive at the local WED church to discover a dying man. His last words provide the WED clues to unlock an unsolved crime. WED WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Miss Marple: June Whitfield WED Bunch: Rosie Cavaliero WED Inspector Slack: Stephen Critchlow WED Edna: Alex Tregear WED Mrs Eccles: Sally Orrock WED Edwin Moss: Michael Shelford WED Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson WED Author: Agatha Christie WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06d25w8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06495vb (Listen) WED 30 September 1915 - Sam Wilson WED WED The war seems particularly far away for the Wilson family. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Sam: Alexander Aze WED Harry: Alec Fellows-Bennett WED Adam: Billy Kennedy WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Albert: Harry Myers WED Sister: Rhiannon Neads WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Ken: Joe Sims WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06d8h10 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06d25wb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06d8h12 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06d8jrd (Listen) WED Dorothea Bate WED WED When Dorothea Bate turned up at the Natural History Museum WED in late 1890's London and demanded a job she would have been WED unaware of the tremendous legacy her work would leave. Her WED boldness led Dorothea to the Mediterranean looking for the WED bones of extinct mammals, finding many species of tiny WED elephants and hippos. She would later become the first WED female scientist to be employed by the museum. We delve into WED the palaeontology department at the Natural History Museum WED to reveal the bones Dorothea unearthed - some which turned WED out to not be elephants after all and Tori explains why WED Dorothea Bate is one of her Natural History Heroes. WED WED Dr Tori Herridge WED Dr Tori Herridge is a palaeobiologist at the WED Natural History Museum WED in London. Her work focuses on the evolution of island WED mammals during the Pleistocene epoch, a time more commonly WED known as the last ice age. WED Together with WED Professor Adrian Lister WED she WED identified the smallest mammoth ever known to have lived WED and her internationally recognised work helps us understand WED evolutionary responses to extreme climate change. WED She is currently writing her first book for Bloomsbury Sigma WED called ‘The World’s Smallest Mammoth’ and is co-founder of WED TrowelBlazers WED a website dedicated to telling the stories of pioneering WED women in archaeology, palaeontology & geology. WED WED Dorothea Bate WED Fossil hunter Dorothea Bate explored the Mediterranean WED islands of Cyprus in 1902, Crete in 1904 and and the WED Balearics in 1909-1911. WED She excavated through high fevers and her fearless WED collecting trips led to the discovery of many extinct WED Mediterranean island species, including tiny 1m-tall dwarf WED elephants and dwarf mammoths, and the bizarre mouse-goat WED Myotragus. WED WED Dwarf elephant tooth WED This dwarf elephant tooth and jaw bone (Palaeoloxodon WED cypriotes) was discovered by Dorothea Bate and is between WED 10,000 and 800,000 years old. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06d2lz7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b06cvf4w (Listen) WED The Price of Oil, Baby Oil WED WED Daniel Betts, James McArdle and Michael J Shannon star in WED Jonathan Myerson's imagined political drama, based on real WED events in the propaganda campaign at the outbreak of the WED First Gulf War. WED WED 1991: the start of the First Gulf War. As the first bombs WED fall on Baghdad, a young man walks into the Marines WED Recruiting Office and demands to join up... because the war WED is his fault. WED WED Baby Oil follows a young staffer's last crazy weeks in the WED White House, as George Bush Snr's administration struggles WED to sell to the American people the unpalatable idea of WED committing US troops to defend an oil-rich monarchy like WED Kuwait. WED WED That is until the young staffer finds the perfect way... WED WED The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the WED history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this WED week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and WED around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, WED Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, WED to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world. WED WED Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan WED Myerson, the season is produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC WED Radio Drama. WED As director of London's Tricycle theatre for almost 30 WED years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and WED political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned WED writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear WED weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC WED Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. WED WED Baby Oil was directed by Nicolas Kent. WED WED Credits WED Recruiting Sergeant: Daniel Betts WED Admiral: Daniel Betts WED Forbes McEwen III: James McArdle WED George HW Bush: Michael J Shannon WED Dick Cheney: Sam Dale WED UK Military Attache: Chris Pavlo WED Drake: Stephen Critchlow WED Diana: Jessica Turner WED Cashier: Alex Tregear WED Nayirah: Rhiannon Neads WED Writer: Jonathan Myerson WED Director: Nicolas Kent WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06d8jrg (Listen) WED Are you among the millions of people given new freedom to WED access their pensions - but only if you seek costly WED financial advice? WED WED Or perhaps you're young and want to invest a few thousand WED pounds for a rainy day and need some tips on what to do with WED it? WED WED Long term financial decisions are among the most important WED choices you're likely to make. But they're complicated, and WED technical. And it getting advice about them seems to be WED getting more expensive. WED WED The Government says there's now an 'advice gap' - that many WED people who need advice aren't seeking it because they're put WED off by the cost. The financial regulator is now looking into WED ways to make it more accessible for people who 'work hard WED and do the right thing, but don't have significant wealth'. WED WED Financial advisers can no longer make money from commission WED on products they sell you, a relatively new rule which has WED been welcomed across the industry. But, some analysts and WED financial advisers say the move has also driven up the cost WED of advice. WED WED On Money Box Live this Wednesday, we'll be asking how much WED guidance is available free, how much you can do for WED yourself, how to find an advisor you can trust, how much you WED should reasonably expect to pay, in what circumstances it's WED worth paying for advice, and lots more. WED WED Paul Lewis will be joined by our panel of experts: WED WED Justin Modray, Founder, Candid Money WED Fiona Sharp, Chartered Financial Planner, Almary Green WED Caroline Rookes, CEO, Money Advice Service WED WED They'll be here to take your questions. Call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm-3.30 pm on Wednesday. Standard geographic call WED charges apply. Or email us at moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Related LInks WED FCA: Changes to Financial Advice WED FCA: Different Types of Investment Advisors WED Citizens Advice: Types of Financial Advisors WED New Review to Radically Improve Access to Financial Advice WED Unbiased: Guide to Cost of Financial Advice WED Unbiased: Cost of Financial Advice has decreased over the WED past year WED Money Advice Service WED Pensions Advisory Service WED GovUK: Pension Wise WED Money Saving Expert .com: Best Financial Advisors WED Citizens Advice WED MoneySupermarket.com: Are you happy to pay for financial WED advice? WED Candid Money WED Money Matters WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06d2lzw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06d8jrj (Listen) WED Russia's Red Web - Older Entrepreneurs WED WED The 'Red Web': The Internet in Russia is a totalitarian tool WED but is also a device by which totalitarianism can be WED resisted. Laurie Taylor talks to Andrei Soldatov, a Moscow WED based journalist and co-author of a book which explores the WED Russian government's battle with the future of the Internet. WED Drawing on numerous interviews with officials in the WED Ministry of Communications, as well as the web activists who WED resist the Kremlin, he exposes a huge online surveillance WED state. What hope is there for ordinary digital citizens? WED They're joined by Natalia Rulyova, a Lecturer in Russian at WED the University of Birmingham. WED WED Also, older entrepreneurs. Oliver Mallett, Lecturer in WED Management at the University of Durham, discusses the WED obstacles faced by late entrants to enterprise culture. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06d8pqg (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06d8pqj (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d25wd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06d8pql (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Sami Shah is an award-winning comedian and best-selling WED author, and one of Pakistan's most successful comedians. WED Yes, Pakistan has comedians. In A Beginner's Guide To WED Pakistan he has traveled to Birmingham - or, to give it its WED full name, the Islamic Republic of Birmingham - to give WED Radio 4 a quick guide to the country who have directly WED and/or indirectly provided the UK with 1.8% of its WED population: Pakistan. WED WED In this first episode he looks at the country's political WED history, from its foundations in British-ruled India right WED up to the present day. It's a litany of coups and WED assassinations, in the middle of which Sami was grew up, WED moved away and came home - to a very different Pakistan from WED the one he left. Which isn't to say that there weren't more WED coups and/or assassinations. WED WED Written and performed by ... Sami Shah WED The Voice of the Guide ... Anita Anand WED Producer ... Ed Morrish WED WED A Beginner's Guide To Pakistan is a BBC Radio Comedy WED production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06d8pqn (Listen) WED Kate is raring to go, and Lynda makes a discovery. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06d8pqq (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06d8h0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Jeremy Corbyn and Britain's Place in the World WED b06fnmjk (Listen) WED Radio 4 documentary. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06d8pqs (Listen) WED A Scaredy-Cat's Guide to Moving Abroad WED WED Sarah Bennetto is now an established comedian but, not so WED long ago, she was a lonely Australian trying - against the WED odds - to make a new life for herself in London. It wasn't WED easy. "Heroes find themselves in some pretty sticky WED situations at the start of a quest," she says. "What a shame WED that 'sticky' was, in my hostel's case, literal." In this WED witty and wise essay, Sarah shares her tips for starting a WED new life in a strange land. Recorded at the End of the Road WED music festival. WED WED Producer: Richard Knight. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01n1qys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06d8h01 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06d8sss (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06d8ssv (Listen) WED Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 8 WED WED 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel WED from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable WED woman through the decades of the twentieth century. WED WED In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its WED course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present WED for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for WED photography. Her camera will take her from high society WED London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of WED inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in WED London's East End, and to France and Germany during the WED Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female WED war photographers. WED WED She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, WED where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life WED that has been just as rich and complex as her professional WED one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - WED her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by WED two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of WED conflict and loss, passion and joy. WED WED William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A WED Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, WED Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and WED Solo. He lives in London and South West France. WED WED Read by Barbara Flynn WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Mair Bosworth. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Barbara Flynn WED Author: William Boyd WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Mair Bosworth WED WED 23:00 The Celebrity Voicemail Show b06d8ssx (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED The Celebrity Voicemail Show is an entirely fictitious WED comedy show written, improvised and starring only Kayvan WED Novak in which he imagines what it might be like to hear the WED answerphone messages of the rich and famous. WED WED This week we listen in to the voicemail of The Great British WED Bake Off's Paul Hollywood. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Kayvan Novak WED Writer: Kayvan Novak WED Producer: Matt Stronge WED WED 23:15 The Lach Chronicles b037v4gn (Listen) WED Series 1, North Beach, San Francisco WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. WED WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others, discovering and nurturing lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches. WED But nobody discovered him. WED WED This week Lach remembers the time he spent in North Beach, WED San Francisco, hanging out with the beatniks. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED WED Executive Producer: Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Digital Human b01nl671 (Listen) WED Series 2, Tales WED WED Aleks Krotoski looks at whether how we tell stories has WED changed with the digital world. And it looks like it has WED much more to do with our distant past that we might think. WED WED She begins by looking at the online phenomena of the Slender WED Man a supernatural figure that's been appearing in pictures, WED blogs and YouTube movies since 2009 and is described as the WED first great myth of the web. WED WED Aleks speaks to AS Byatt to understand what story is for WED before examining how modern online storytelling bears a WED striking resemblance to oral traditions of medieval times. WED To see this in action she explores the growth of the Slender WED Man myth and how its community based evolution mimics how WED legends grew in the past. WED WED But for many of these stories they still don't make the most WED of what the digital world has to offer storytellers. For WED this Aleks turns to Alison Norrington one of the world's WED leading proponents of trans-media stories. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06d25yb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06f20r0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d25yd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d25yg (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d25yj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06d25yl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06d9359 (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06d935c (Listen) THU Reduced honey harvest, UKIP on EU withdrawl, Kiwi berries THU THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dyh64 (Listen) THU Laughing Gull THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents the laughing gull off the THU Florida coast. In summer, the hearty peal of laughter is one THU of the characteristic sounds people hear along the North THU American east coast where laughing gulls come to breed. THU America's version of the British black-headed gull they are THU easy to recognise as they patrol the seashore in search for THU food. Like many gulls they eat what they can find and will THU scavenge at rubbish dumps, and will even feast on the eggs THU of horseshoe crabs which spawn in Deleware Bay each spring. THU Some become swept up in autumnal hurricanes and having THU crossed the Atlantic, occasionally turn up on a European's THU bird-watching list. THU THU Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Tom Vezo / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01047526 THU © Tom Vezo / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b06d9bkv (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06d9bkx (Listen) THU Alexander the Great THU THU Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated military THU commanders in history. Born into the Macedonian royal family THU in 356 BC, he gained control of Greece and went on to THU conquer the Persian Empire, defeating its powerful king, THU Darius III. At its peak, Alexander's empire covered modern THU Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and THU part of India. As a result, Greek culture and language was THU spread into regions it had not penetrated before, and he is THU also remembered for founding a number of cities. Over the THU last 2,000 years, the legend of Alexander has grown and he THU has influenced numerous generals and politicians. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06dyb7f (Listen) THU Reading Europe, Alba Arikha THU THU Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore THU how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected THU by contemporary novelists. THU THU Today, the French writer Alba Arikha reflects on whether THU long-term immigration is causing an identity crisis in her THU country's contemporary fiction. THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Alba Arikha THU Producer: Beaty Rubens THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06d9bkz (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 b06d9bl1 (Listen) THU Sovereign, Episode 9 THU THU Dramatisation of the third novel in C J Sansom's bestselling THU Tudor crime series, set during Henry VIII's Royal Progress THU to the north or 1541. THU THU With the killer unmasked and his final duty - caring for the THU prisoner, Broderick - almost complete, Shardlake is glad to THU be heading returning south with the Progress. But when the THU ship docks in London, he receives a shocking summons. THU THU Writer: C J Sansom THU THU Dramatiser: Colin MacDonald THU THU Producer / Director: Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Shardlake: Justin Salinger THU Barak: Bryan Dick THU Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow THU Radwinter: David Acton THU Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Broderick: Nick Underwood THU Rich: Chris Pavlo THU Rawling: Patrick Brennan THU Dereham: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Swann: Sam Dale THU Director: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU Adaptor: Colin MacDonald THU Author: CJ Sansom THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06d9bl3 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Mind the Gap b06d9bl5 (Listen) THU In the Caribbean, gap teeth are associated with sexual THU allure; in West Africa, they signify wealth. In historical THU fiction, gap teeth signified poverty, idiocy or deviousness, THU as with Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath'. A gap-toothed character THU was not one to be taken seriously, and they'd often be found THU lurking at the bottom of the social pecking order. THU THU Gap teeth have served some of us particularly well. THU Comedians have long-played on a gap-toothed appearance to THU convey disingenuousness and lack of guile. This plays to the THU idea of flaws being funny, but in an age where gap teeth are THU easily fixable, uniformity has become increasingly THU desirable. As Patricia discovers, retaining a gap-toothed THU appearance now has a lot to do with allure. In France, it THU represents coquettishness, lustfulness and sexual naivety. THU Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin and Vanessa Paradis were all THU cast in the role of alluring child-women early in their THU careers; their uneven dentistry helped to convince. African THU and Caribbean cultures embrace this trait in the same way, THU whilst in Nigeria, gap teeth symbolise beauty and luck. THU THU Today, a dentist's point of view on diastema, gap teeth THU would be that it's a flaw waiting to be corrected. What does THU it say about those who choose to retain this distinguishing THU characteristic in the face of bright white, even-toothed THU homogeny? In this playful, surprising personal journey, THU Patricia unpicks the consequences and the cultural THU connotations of retaining the gap in her two front teeth. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06d25yn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06495w4 (Listen) THU 1 October 1915 - Florrie Wilson THU THU Florrie and Albert can hardly speak for happiness. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Sam: Alexander Aze THU Harry: Alec Fellows-Bennett THU Adam: Billy Kennedy THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Sister: Rhiannon Neads THU Adeline: Helen Schlesinger THU Ken: Joe Sims THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06d9bl7 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06d25ys (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06d9bl9 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06d9blc (Listen) THU Allan Octavian Hume THU THU Allan Octavian Hume donated the largest single collection of THU birds to the Natural History museum - around 80,000 items THU all collected during his time working for the East Indian THU Company and the British Raj in India. He spent 20 years THU recording and documenting all the birds of India only for THU the manuscript to be destroyed just before his return to THU England. So profound was his frustration that Hume gave up THU ornithology altogether and turned his attention to botany, THU founding the South London Botanical Institute which THU encouraged the ordinary working person to make a THU contribution to science. Curator of birds at the Natural THU History Museum Robert Prys Jones takes us into the Natural THU history Museum bird collection to explain why ornithologist THU and botanist Allan Octavian Hume is his Natural History THU Hero. THU THU Robert Prys Jones THU Dr Robert Prys-Jones is responsible for all non-fossil bird THU collections in the THU Natural History Museum THU and for their associated staff. He organises and THU participates in the Bird Group collections management THU programme, the provision of access to the bird collections THU and the communication of information and advice concerning THU them. THU He also undertakes and supervises collections-based research THU aimed at developing techniques to improve the quality of THU data associated with museum specimens and, where necessary, THU to establish the reliability of existing specimen data. THU THU THU Allan Octavian Hume THU Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) was a civil servant THU and spent 45 years in India. During that time he became a THU leading ornithologist but after his return to England in THU 1894 he turned his attention to horticulture. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06d8pqn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06cvgq8 (Listen) THU The Price of Oil, Someone's Making a Killing in Nigeria THU THU Nadine Marshall, Obi Abili, and David Ajala star in Rex THU Obano's drama, set in Rivers State, Nigeria, in 1994. THU THU The Ogoni people's campaign against the environmental THU degradation of their land by the oil industry has THU crystallised into a mass movement. Under General Abacha's THU military regime, the dispute between the people led by Ken THU Saro-Wiwa on the one hand, and big oil on the other, is THU reaching its height - when one local businesswoman finds THU herself caught up in its notoriously violent consequences. THU THU This drama uses fictional characters to reflect on real THU events, about which responsibilities are still disputed, and THU many details have never fully come to light. THU THU The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the THU history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this THU week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and THU around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, THU Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, THU to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world. THU THU The season is devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & THU Jonathan Myerson, and produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC THU Radio Drama. As director of London's Tricycle theatre for THU almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual THU and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned THU writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear THU weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC THU Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. THU THU The poem 'Ogoni! Ogoni!' quoted in the drama, was written by THU Ken Saro-Wiwa. THU THU Someone's Making a Killing in Nigeria was directed by THU Jonquil Panting. THU THU Credits THU Sira Banatu: Nadine Marshall THU Monday Banatu: Obi Abili THU Felix: David Ajala THU Donald Chesworth: Jude Akuwudike THU Joseph Idigbe: Landry Adelard THU Barinem: Zackary Momoh THU The Buyer: Jessica Turner THU The Protester: Rhiannon Neads THU Schoolboy: Michael Ogunseye THU Schoolboy: James Okulaja THU Writer: Rex Obano THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b06d9blf (Listen) THU Series 31, Artists' Ways - Falkirk THU THU Clare Balding walks along the Forth and Clyde canal to the THU spectacular Kelpies - 30 metre high statues of horses' THU heads, modelled on Clydesdales. Walking with her is a group THU led by Janet Brown - the Reader in Residence at Falkirk THU Libraries. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Janet Brown THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06d29b7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06d29br (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06d9lhq (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06d9lhs (Listen) THU Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global THU biodiversity THU THU As the Paris summit on climate change looms, Adam is joined THU by guests at the Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, to THU examine the global challenges and innovative solutions to THU preserving the essential biodiversity of the planet. From THU new perspectives on how plant populations can be made more THU resilient, to the remarkable genetic diversity of plants THU just being revealed by new analytical techniques, to coffee, THU how can one of our most prolific commodities be protected THU from a changing climate? Or do we need a radical new THU approach - are the large scale climate fixes offered by THU geoengineering the right solution? Adam Rutherford is joined THU by panellists: Kew's Director of Science, Kathy Willis; THU evolutionary botanist, Ilia Leitch, Kew's research leader in THU plant resources, Aaron Davis and author Oliver Morton. THU THU 17:00 PM b06d9lhv (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d25zf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Brig Society b06d9lhx (Listen) THU Series 3, Diplomat THU THU Ahem. Marcus Brigstocke coughs politely, dons a crumpled THU linen suit and fibs for Britain as he tries his hand at THU becoming a diplomat. On the way, he'll look at the history THU and origins of diplomacy, the training required and the fact THU that approximately 60% of the modern British diplomat's work THU is spent apologising for Jeremy Clarkson. THU THU Helping him to foster mutually beneficial relationships will THU be Margaret Cabourn-Smith, William Andrews and Colin Hoult. THU THU Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, THU Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell THU THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: William Andrews THU Ensemble: Tom Crowley THU Ensemble: Freya Parker THU Producer: David Tyler THU Writer: Marcus Brigstocke THU Writer: Jeremy Salsby THU Writer: Toby Davies THU Writer: Nick Doody THU Writer: Steve Punt THU Writer: Dan Tetsell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06d9lhz (Listen) THU Lynda looks forward to Christmas, and are Grey Gables THU hiring? THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06d9lj1 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06d9bl1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06d9lj3 (Listen) THU The 'Pink Pill': The Female Viagra? THU THU The 'pink pill' flibanserin has been called 'the female THU Viagra', but critics argue its benefits are few and side THU effects many. THU THU Melanie Abbott investigates how the failed anti-depressant THU came to be licensed in the USA, and what the future plans THU are to bring the drug to Europe. THU THU Presenter: Melanie Abbott THU Producer: James Melley THU Researcher: Phoebe Keane. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06djzl5 (Listen) THU Art and the Business of Taste THU THU How do you value something like a painting? What makes one THU artist worth more than another? Who decides what is in vogue THU and why do they have so much power in the art world? Evan THU Davis presents a discussion on taste and value in the art THU world with a panel including the British artist Grayson THU Perry. THU THU Guests: THU THU Grayson Perry - Artist THU THU Valeria Napoleone - Collector and Patron THU THU Ralph Taylor - Director, UK Board Contemporary Art, Bonhams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06d9lhs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06d9bkx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06d9lj7 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06d9lj9 (Listen) THU Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 9 THU THU 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel THU from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable THU woman through the decades of the twentieth century. THU THU In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its THU course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present THU for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for THU photography. Her camera will take her from high society THU London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of THU inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in THU London's East End, and to France and Germany during the THU Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female THU war photographers. THU THU She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, THU where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life THU that has been just as rich and complex as her professional THU one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - THU her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by THU two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of THU conflict and loss, passion and joy. THU THU William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A THU Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, THU Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and THU Solo. He lives in London and South West France. THU THU Read by Barbara Flynn THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU Produced by Mair Bosworth. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Barbara Flynn THU Author: William Boyd THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Mair Bosworth THU THU 23:00 Richard Marsh b06d9ljc (Listen) THU Cardboard Heart, Wedding THU THU Award-winning writer and poet Richard Marsh stars alongside THU Russell Tovey and Phil Daniels in this new, heart-warming THU sitcom set in a greetings card company. THU THU This week, Will's asked to be best man at a wedding. As a THU man who spends every day writing heartfelt sentiments, the THU speech is easy - Will's used to writing other people's THU feelings. It's much harder to confront his own. THU THU Richard Marsh is the writer and star of Love and Sweets, a THU Radio 4 comedy series that won Best Comedy in the BBC Audio THU Drama awards 2014. Now, in Cardboard Heart, he plays Will, a THU hapless romantic who's keen to find love and an aspiring THU writer with a 9 to 5 job writing poetry at a greetings card THU company. THU THU Will shares an office with Goadsby (Rebecca Scroggs), who's THU responsible for the card artwork and being Will's nemesis, THU Colin (Sam Troughton), the firm's safety and THU survival-obsessed accountant, and charming renegade salesman THU Beast (Russell Tovey). Phil Daniels plays Rog, their roguish THU boss. THU THU Paid to express heartfelt emotions for people he will never THU meet, Will consistently fails to express himself properly to THU anyone he does meet. Every social interaction is a minefield THU for Will. In his head, he knows exactly what to say but the THU minute he opens his mouth, it's a disaster. Luckily for you, THU Will shares his inner thoughts with the audience. THU THU Written and created by Richard Marsh THU Directed by Pia Furtado THU Produced by Ben Worsfield THU A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Rog: Phil Daniels THU Will: Richard Marsh THU Louise: Jemima Rooper THU Goadsby: Rebecca Scroggs THU Beast: Russell Tovey THU Colin: Sam Troughton THU Writer: Richard Marsh THU Director: Pia Furtado THU Producer: Ben Worsfield THU THU 23:30 Digital Human b04nrmgs (Listen) THU Series 6, Maps THU THU Aleks Krotoski examines what digital mapping has meant for THU our understanding of the world. Are we always aware of the THU decisions that make them look the way they do? Traditionally THU of course maps are as "authored" as anything else. As Simon THU Garfield writer of On the Map: Why the world looks the way THU it does , explains we should think of maps like the THU biography of a famous person; highly subjective and usually THU with some sort of angle. THU THU We hear this authorship at work when we join Bob Egan of THU PopSpotsNYC; he maps out where famous album cover photos THU were taken in his native New York and puts them online for THU us all to visit. We join him on the hunt through Google maps THU and on the streets as tracks down his latest quarry. Bob is THU adding his own layer of information to the digital mapping THU of our world for Dr Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet THU Institute this is happening all around us. THU THU And it's this phenomenon that makes the understanding of the THU choices that go into making our maps even more important. We THU hear about the experience of paleo-anthropologist Prof Lee THU Berger and how hidden choices in GPS data he was using THU nearly cost him the most important discovery of his career. THU Aleks then explores if the so called "open mapping" movement THU hold the answer to eliminating some of issues created by THU digital maps with the example of Christchurch recovery map THU -a crowd sourced map that was created within hours of the THU Christchurch earth quake of 2012. THU THU Simon Garfield THU Simon THU is the author of ‘On the Map: Why the world looks the way it THU does’. He explains why a map is not always just a chart of THU land, but a biography of our past. THU THU Dr. Mark Graham THU Mark THU is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the THU Oxford Internet Institute and contributor to the Guardian. THU THU He tells us how layers of information are added to maps in THU the digital age, and explains why some areas of the world THU are so lacking in information. THU THU Bob Egan THU THU Bob is the Sherlock Holmes of pop culture. When he isn’t THU working or writing books, he hunts down the locations where THU classic album covers were photographed for his website THU Popspots THU THU We join Bob as he hunts down the location of ‘Judy Collins THU Sings Bob Dylan’. THU THU Paula Williams THU THU Paula is a Senior Map Curator at the THU National Library of Scotland THU with a particular interest in Polar Maps. THU THU She shows us some historical maps, and explains how THU influential the cartographer’s were in making the map, and THU why the world seemed so different to people in the past. THU THU Tim McNamara THU Tim THU is an independent data scientist, artist and technology THU writer, who in 2011 created the Christchurch recovery map. THU THU He tells us how he created the map, and what it did to help THU people affected by the disaster. THU THU Rachel Graham THU Rachel THU is a reporter for Radio New Zealand. A resident of THU Christchurch, she reported on the 2011 earthquake and THU followed the continuing reconstruction of the city. THU THU She takes us round the city, explaining what it was like in THU the immediate aftermath of the quake and how much still THU needs to be done. THU THU Manik Gupta THU THU Manik leads THU Google Ground Truth THU a project to build the most accurate and in-depth maps for THU countries around the world. THU He tells us how Google Maps work to achieve accuracy in a THU constantly changing world THU THU Professor Lee Berger THU Lee THU is the Reader in Human Evolution and the Public THU Understanding of Science at the Institute for Human THU Evolution, School of GeoSciences, University of the THU Witwatersrand. THU THU He shares the story of how he almost lost the most important THU discovery of his carreer due to GPS. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06d261b (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06dyb7f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d261g (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d261l (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d261q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06d261s (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06d9ln5 (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Andrea Rea. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06d9ln7 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dyh88 (Listen) FRI Emperor Penguin FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the emperor penguin from the FRI Antarctic Peninsula. With temperatures down to minus 50oC, FRI midwinter blizzards scouring one of the most inhospitable FRI places on the planet, this is not an obvious location for FRI raising young. Yet at the heart of this landscape, the FRI world's largest penguin, the emperor, stands guard over FRI their young. Tightly-packed colonies of hundreds or FRI sometimes thousands of birds huddle together, to conserve FRI heat. The male broods the single egg on his feet, protected FRI under folds of bare abdominal skin. Females travel up to FRI 100km from the colony in search of food, using a technique FRI called tobogganing which is far more efficient than walking FRI on their short legs. Harsh though the landscape is in FRI midwinter, all this activity is co-ordinated to allow the FRI young to fledge into the relatively warmth of an Antarctic FRI summer. FRI FRI Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Sue Flood / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01276694 FRI © Sue Flood / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06d9p9n (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06d29bf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06f23n4 (Listen) FRI Reading Europe, Elif Shafak FRI FRI Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore FRI how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected FRI by contemporary novelists. FRI FRI Today, Elif Shafak visits a bookstore in Istanbul to FRI understand whether modern Turkey can be experienced through FRI its shelves. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Elif Shafak FRI Producer: Karen Holden FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06d9p9q (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 b06d9p9s (Listen) FRI Sovereign, Episode 10 FRI FRI Final instalment of Colin MacDonald's dramatisation of the FRI third novel in C J Sansom's Tudor crime series featuring FRI lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake. FRI FRI Falsely accused of treason and unable to answer the gaoler's FRI questions, Shardlake awaits his fate in the Tower of London. FRI Can Barak convince Archbishop Cranmer that the allegations FRI are false and save him from the torture chamber? FRI FRI Other parts are played by members of the cast. FRI FRI Writer ..... C. J. Sansom FRI FRI Dramatiser ..... Colin MacDonald FRI FRI Producer/Director ..... Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shardlake: Justin Salinger FRI Barak: Bryan Dick FRI Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Tamasin: Cath Whitefield FRI Radwinter: David Acton FRI Broderick: Nick Underwood FRI Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow FRI Jennet: Alex Tregear FRI Rawling: Patrick Brennan FRI Cranmer: Sam Dale FRI Rochford: Amelia Lowdell FRI Rich: Chris Pavlo FRI Dereham: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Queen Catherine: Melody Grove FRI Director: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Adaptor: Colin MacDonald FRI Author: CJ Sansom FRI FRI 11:00 Two Men and a Mule b06d9p9v (Listen) FRI From Andean Cloud Forest to Steamy Jungle FRI FRI The Andes have become a symbol of a lost world of Inca FRI wisdom and cities in the clouds, of the Celestine Prophecy FRI and Indiana Jones. It needs two men (and their mule) to cut FRI their way through the mystique with some machetes and wit. FRI FRI Renowned explorers Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen join FRI forces with their trusty mule, Washington to journey to the FRI extraordinary Last City of the Incas, Espíritu Pampa. Deep FRI down in the Amazon, this is where the Incas escaped when on FRI the run from the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th Century FRI and where the very last Inca emperor, Tupac Amaru, was FRI finally captured and brought back to be executed in the main FRI square of Cuzco. FRI FRI This arduous trek takes them down off the steep slopes of FRI the Andean cloud-forest into the steamy jungle, down FRI stone-laid Inca paths, across raging rivers and landslides FRI as they trek to the last city of the Incas - Espiritu Pampa FRI - 'the Pampa of Ghosts'. FRI FRI Produced by Ruth Evans FRI A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Shush! b06d9p9x (Listen) FRI Tome Raider FRI FRI Alice and Snoo have to elicit the help of Alice's father to FRI save Dr Cadogan from disgrace. Meanwhile Simon's feelings FRI for Alice face an unexpected obstacle. FRI FRI Meet Alice, a former child prodigy who won a place at Oxford FRI aged 9 but, because Daddy went too, she never needed to have FRI any friends. She's scared of everything - everything that FRI is, except libraries and Snoo, a slightly confused FRI individual, with a have-a-go attitude to life, marriage, FRI haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books, and fully intends to FRI read one one day. FRI FRI And forever popping into the library is Dr. Cadogan, FRI celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with his finger in FRI every pie. Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly wanted by FRI Interpol, if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then FRI photos of it accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr FRI Cadogan is your man. FRI FRI Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon FRI Nielson, a man with a mission, a mission to close down FRI inefficient libraries. Fortunately, he hates his mission. FRI What he really wants to do is once, just once, get even with FRI his inexhaustible supply of high-achieving brothers. FRI FRI Written by Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front FRI Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alice: Rebecca Front FRI Snoo: Morwenna Banks FRI Simon Neilson: Ben Willbond FRI Dr Cadogan: Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Daddy: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Spong Customer: Matt Green FRI Writer: Morwenna Banks FRI Writer: Rebecca Front FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06d2621 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b064969c (Listen) FRI 2 October 1915 - Juliet Argent FRI FRI Juliet's secret is growing out of control. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Howard: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06d9p9z (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06d2629 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06d9pb1 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06d9pb3 (Listen) FRI Alice Eastwood FRI FRI Alice Eastwood was a self-taught botanist using her holidays FRI to collect and identify plants in Colorado who went on to FRI become the curator of the California Academy of Science FRI botany collection. Over her career Eastwood discovered many FRI of the plants on California's coastline and during the fire FRI that followed the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco Eastwood FRI rescued 1,497 important specimens from the museum - only FRI made possible because she had taken the fortunate step of FRI segregating it in the first place. The rest of the FRI collection was destroyed and Eastwood devoted the rest of FRI her life to rebuilding it. When she retired the collection FRI contained over 300,000 specimens, over three times as many FRI as were destroyed in 1906. Sandy Knapp explains why Alice FRI Eastwood is her Natural History Hero. FRI FRI Dr Sandy Knapp FRI Dr Sandra Knapp is a specialist on the taxonomy of the FRI nightshade family, Solanaceae and has spent much time in the FRI field in Central and South America collecting plants. Her FRI particular focus of research is the taxonomy of Solanum, the FRI genus that contains potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants and is FRI one of only a handful of flowering plant genera with more FRI than 1000 species. FRI Sandy came to the Natural History Museum in 1992 and has FRI described more than 75 new species of plants. She is the FRI author of several popular books on the history of science FRI and botanical exploration, including the award-winning FRI Potted Histories FRI (2004). She is also the author of more than 175 FRI peer-reviewed scientific papers and actively involved in FRI promoting the role of taxonomy worldwide. FRI In 2009 she was honoured by the FRI Peter Raven Outreach Award FRI by the FRI American Society of Plant Taxonomists FRI and the UK National Biodiversity Network’s FRI John Burnett Medal FRI FRI FRI Alice Eastwood FRI Alice Eastwood (1859-1953) was a self-taught botanist and FRI remembered as one of the most exceptional women of her time, FRI exploring regions of the American West that made for FRI difficult traveling. She negotiated unfavorable terrain in FRI long skirts, even fashioning a skirt that could be buttoned FRI in the center to make pants. FRI As curator of the California Academy of Sciences he FRI undertook the unconventional act of separating botanical FRI type specimens, which would turn out to be a very fortunate FRI decision. FRI Picture: California Wildflowers by Mike Baird. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06d9lhz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06cvgy2 (Listen) FRI The Price of Oil, No Two Days FRI FRI Faye Marsay and Paul Higgins star in Joy Wilkinson's maze of FRI tales about risk, passion and deep-sea oil. FRI FRI On 20th April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig explodes, FRI spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Mexican Gulf. FRI An ambitious young journalist is determined to investigate, FRI but her story becomes confused between youthful romantic FRI dreams and reality. It leads her to a massive old oil rig FRI off the coast of Aberdeen, and a grizzled but good-looking FRI drilling engineer. Their lives become entwined in a FRI sparkling series of alternative stories about the risks, FRI rewards and realities of deep-sea drilling. FRI FRI The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the FRI history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this FRI week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and FRI around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, FRI Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, FRI to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world. FRI FRI Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan FRI Myerson, the season is produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC FRI Radio Drama. As director of London's Tricycle theatre for FRI almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual FRI and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned FRI writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear FRI weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC FRI Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. FRI FRI No Two Days was directed by Nicolas Kent. FRI FRI Credits FRI Izzy: Faye Marsay FRI Richard: Paul Higgins FRI Marco: Sam Dale FRI Samantha: Amelia Lowdell FRI Shahana: Jessica Turner FRI Dudley: David Hounslow FRI Steve: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Writer: Joy Wilkinson FRI Director: Nicolas Kent FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06d9rll (Listen) FRI Gartmore FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Gartmore, Stirling. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and FRI Christine Walkden answer questions from a local audience. 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 Rowing to Eden b06d9rln (Listen) FRI Only You FRI FRI Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the American FRI short story, and her new collection, Rowing to Eden, FRI celebrates more than two decades of her work. FRI FRI In this unconventional tale, a woman trapped in a loveless FRI marriage, seeks solace in a friend, and discovers a love FRI more complex and complicated than she could ever have FRI imagined. FRI FRI Author: Amy Bloom is regarded as one of the masters of the FRI American short story. She's the author of three novels FRI (Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us), and three collections FRI of short stories, and has been nominated for the National FRI Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. FRI Though her novels have been highly acclaimed, she's best FRI known for her short stories, which have appeared in The New FRI Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic FRI Monthly, among others, over the past 25 years. She is also a FRI trained psychotherapist FRI FRI Reader: Teresa Gallagher FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Teresa Gallagher FRI Writer: Amy Bloom FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06d9rlq (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06h2d4x (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06d9rlv (Listen) FRI David and Mairead - A Pregnant Pause FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a first for the Project, a conversation FRI about the forthcoming birth between the prospective parents, FRI recorded when the Booth was in Suffolk, only hours before FRI their baby arrived... Another conversation in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06d9t2z (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d262k (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06d9t31 (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles FRI Jupp. This week Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Elis James, FRI Andy Hamilton and Emily Ashton to mull over the big stories FRI of the moment. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI Panellist: Emily Ashton FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06d9t33 (Listen) FRI There's news for Rob, and opportunity for Fallon? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Peter Wild 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 Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Helen Titchner: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Heather Pritchard: Margaret Jackman FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06d9t35 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06d9p9s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06d9t37 (Listen) FRI Hilary Benn MP, Louise Bours MEP, Alice Nutter FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Winstanley FRI College in Wigan with Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, FRI UKIP spokesperson on health Louise Bours MEP and the FRI playwrighter and former Chumbawumba singer Alice Nutter. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06d9t39 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064969f (Listen) FRI 28 September - 2 October 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week. A week that the FRI Wilson family could never have dreamed of. FRI FRI CAST FRI Esme ..... Katie Angelou FRI Sam ..... Alexander Aze FRI Edie ..... Kathryn Beaumont FRI Stella ..... Ava Bell FRI Ray ..... Scarlett Bell FRI Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Juliet ..... Lizzie Bourne FRI Howard ..... Gunnar Cauthery FRI Dolly ..... Elaine Claxton FRI Station Master ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Sylvia ..... Joanna David FRI Harry ..... Alec Fellows-Bennett FRI Roland ..... Jack Holden FRI Adam ..... Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Clemmie ..... Joanna Monro FRI Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert ..... Harry Myers FRI Matron ..... Rhiannon Neads FRI Johnnie ..... Paul Ready FRI Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Adeline ..... Helen Schlesinger FRI Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Ken ..... Joe Sims FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Edie: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Stella: Ava Bell FRI Ray: Scarlet Bell FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Howard: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Station master: Stephen Critchlow FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Harry: Alec Fellows-Bennett FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Adam: Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Clemmie: Joanna Monro FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Sister: Rhiannon Neads FRI Johnnie: Paul Ready FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Ken: Joe Sims FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06d262m (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06d9t3d (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06d9t3h (Listen) FRI Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, Episode 10 FRI FRI 'Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay', the new novel FRI from bestselling author William Boyd, follows one remarkable FRI woman through the decades of the twentieth century. FRI FRI In 1915, Amory's uncle unknowingly sets her life on its FRI course when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No. 2 as a present FRI for her seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for FRI photography. Her camera will take her from high society FRI London in the 1920s to the cabaret clubs and brothels of FRI inter-war Berlin; to 1930s New York, the Blackshirt riots in FRI London's East End, and to France and Germany during the FRI Second World War, where she becomes one of the first female FRI war photographers. FRI FRI She eventually comes to rest on a remote Scottish island, FRI where she drinks, writes and looks back on a personal life FRI that has been just as rich and complex as her professional FRI one. She remembers the men that have been closest to her - FRI her father, her brother, her lovers - irreparably scarred by FRI two world wars, and reflects upon her own experiences of FRI conflict and loss, passion and joy. FRI FRI William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A FRI Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, FRI Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Waiting for Sunrise and FRI Solo. He lives in London and South West France. FRI FRI Read by Barbara Flynn FRI Abridged by Sara Davies FRI Produced by Mair Bosworth. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Barbara Flynn FRI Author: William Boyd FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b06d2j24 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Digital Human b04n31cr (Listen) FRI Series 6, Nostalgia FRI FRI We live in a world where the nostalgia for the past now FRI permeates our present. FRI FRI With online trends like 'Throw Back Thursdays', apps like FRI Timehop and platforms which gives you the tools to make your FRI digital image look like it was taken with an analogue FRI camera, the internet has never seemed so backwards-facing. FRI FRI In this week's episode of The Digital Human, Aleks Krotoski FRI visits imagined worlds and eras long past to explore whether FRI the web is a nostalgia machine. FRI FRI We speak with Professor of Svetlana Boym to trace the FRI origins of the word back to homesick Swiss mercenaries in FRI the 17th century, visit a water park in New Jersey which was FRI reborn through the collective power of online nostalgia and FRI take tea with a vintage enthusiast, who divides his time FRI between working as an air host in a high-flying company, FRI with living in the 1940s. FRI FRI Producer: Caitlin Smith. FRI FRI Ben Sansum FRI Ben Sansum FRI is air steward vintage enthusiast who ‘lives’ in the 1940s. FRI His home is a time capsule of wartime living, with only a FRI couple of concessions to modern living. He tells us why the FRI 1940s has such appeal to him, and what he gets from living FRI in a past he never experienced. FRI FRI Svetlana Boym FRI Svetlana Boym FRI is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at FRI Harvard University and author of The Future of Nostalgia. FRI She explains how far from the initial perception that FRI nostalgia was a disease, we’ve come to understand it can be FRI vital for our well being. FRI FRI Wells Riley FRI Wells Riley FRI is an interactive product designer Envoy and creator of Hack FRI Design and Startups, This Is How Design Works. He explains FRI the power of nostalgia and FRI skeuomorphs FRI in design. FRI FRI Donovan Sung FRI FRI Donovan Sung is the product manager at FRI Spotify FRI he explains why even with the latest tech, we go back to the FRI old songs we love. FRI FRI Bill Benneyan FRI FRI Bill Benneyan is Manager of FRI Action Park FRI in New Jersey, he explains how what could have been a PR FRI disaster lead to an outpouring of nostalgia and renewed FRI interest in the park. FRI "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> FRI FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06d9t3l (Listen) FRI Sophie and Monica - Leaving a Legacy FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who are FRI in their 40s and have chosen life without children, about FRI how the outside world judges them, recorded when the Booth FRI was in Moseley Park in Birmingham. Another in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI