02 October, 2015

Radio 4 Listings for 03/10/2015 - 09/10/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06d266f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Reading Europe b06f23n4 (Listen) SAT Elif Shafak SAT SAT Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore SAT how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected SAT by contemporary novelists. SAT SAT Today, Elif Shafak visits a bookstore in Istanbul to SAT understand whether modern Turkey can be experienced through SAT its shelves. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Elif Shafak SAT Producer: Karen Holden SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06d266h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06d266k (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06d266m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06d266p (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06d9tgq (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop SAT John Arnold. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06d9tgs (Listen) SAT A listener shares his insight into the Syrian crisis. SAT Harriet Cass reads Your News. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06d266s (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06d266w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b06d9blf (Listen) SAT Series 31, Artists' Ways - Falkirk SAT SAT Clare Balding walks along the Forth and Clyde canal to the SAT spectacular Kelpies - 30 metre high statues of horses' SAT heads, modelled on Clydesdales. Walking with her is a group SAT led by Jan Bee Brown - the Reader in Residence at Falkirk SAT Libraries. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Kelpies SAT SAT Approaching the Kelpies from the canal SAT SAT A canal-side pause in the walk SAT SAT Anonymous graffiti SAT SAT Knitted Kelpies SAT SAT Kelpies SAT SAT Baron SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Jan Bee Brown SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06f4vk2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06d266y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06f4vk4 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06f4vq9 (Listen) SAT Gaby Roslin SAT SAT Inspired by Blue Peter at the age of three Gaby Roslin's SAT career has taken her from The Big Breakfast to Chicago and SAT the National Lottery Draw. She joins Richard Coles and SAT Aasmah Mir to talk about her life and career on stage and SAT TV. SAT George Dowell dreamed of playing professional football SAT before a car crash left him paralysed from the chest down. SAT The former defender used to play for Worthing FC but he now SAT has a different dream - guiding the club into the football SAT league. SAT JP Devlin meets Allan Charles Wilmot, who describes moving SAT from Jamaica to the UK and his life as a WWII Serviceman and SAT post-war entertainer. SAT Martin Withers DFC, The Vulcan to the Sky Trust's Chief SAT Pilot, was the captain of the Vulcan that flew the historic, SAT record-breaking, bombing run to the Falkland Islands in SAT 1982. He talks about flying her for her final display on SAT Sunday. Marty Jopson shares his passion for the science of SAT everyday life - from why teapots dribble, what's the SAT difference between a biscuit and a cake and why leaves go SAT brown. SAT And the singer Belinda Carlisle shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks. She chooses True Love sung by Bing Crosby and Grace SAT Kelly and Drugs Don't Work by The Verve. SAT SAT Vulcan's final display is on Sunday 4 October at Gaydon - SAT Heritage Motor Centre (Warwickshire) and Old Warden SAT (Bedfordshire). SAT SAT The Science of Everyday Life by Marty Jopson, is out now. SAT SAT Now You Know, The Memoirs of Allan Charles Wilmot, is SAT available from Liberation Publishers. SAT SAT Belinda Carlisle is touring the UK from 3 - 10 October. SAT BELINDA CARLISLE: CD SINGLES 1986 - 2014 is out now. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Gaby Roslin SAT Interviewed Guest: George Dowell SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Allan Charles Wilmot SAT Interviewed Guest: Martin Withers SAT Interviewed Guest: Marty Jopson SAT Interviewed Guest: Belinda Carlisle SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06f4vqc (Listen) SAT Series 11, Hampton Court SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the panel are at the Royal Palace at Hampton SAT Court. SAT SAT This week's line-up of culinary experts includes the food SAT historian Dr Annie Gray, the experimental DIY cooking expert SAT Tim Hayward, singer and foodie Andi Oliver, and our expert SAT in Middle Eastern cuisine Itamar Srulovich. SAT SAT The panel discuss all things Tudor and investigate the SAT truths (and myths) surrounding eating in the time of Henry SAT VIII. They sink their teeth into fresh produce from the SAT palace's own kitchen garden and, as always, they answer SAT questions from the amateur chefs in the audience - this SAT week's topics ranging from how to slowly reintroduce oneself SAT to seafood to how best to roast a chicken. 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 b06fpk54 (Listen) SAT Deja Vu SAT SAT Is déjà vu a brain glitch, something triggered by the SAT broader environment or a more mystical phenomenon? Bridget SAT Kendall talks to cognitive neuropsychologist Chris Moulin, SAT cognitive psychologist Anne Cleary and Nigerian born SAT novelist and academic Chigozie Obioma, who was recently SAT shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. SAT SAT Chris Moulin SAT SAT Dr Chris Moulin is a cognitive neuropsychologist at the SAT Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. He researches the SAT science of déjà vu. SAT "Déjà vu is a fault in a kind of cognitive process that is SAT going on in the background all the time. When it goes wrong, SAT it's very striking," says Moulin. “At the extreme, patients SAT with permanent déjà vu - dubbed déjà vécu, for already SAT experienced - actually make up stories to make sense of it”. SAT He believes that déjà vu is caused not by genuine memories SAT but erroneous activity in the brain. SAT SAT Anne Cleary SAT SAT Anne Cleary is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the SAT Colorado State University. SAT Anne think that déjà vu has environmental influences- that SAT is, other causes outside the brain itself and that genuine SAT not false memories and familiarity play a big part in its SAT makeup. SAT SAT Chigozie Obioma SAT SAT Chigozie Obioma was born in Nigeria. He now lives in the SAT United States where he is a Fiction Fellow at the University SAT of Michigan. SAT His novel ‘The Fisherman’ is told from the point of view of SAT nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers. The SAT book is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in SAT 1990s Nigeria and deals with themes of familiarity, SAT repetition and memory. SAT Chigozie is interested in deja vu both as a writer and from SAT the perspective of his Nigerian heritage. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06d2672 (Listen) SAT The Mermaid of Madagascar SAT SAT Storytelling, writing and looking beyond the news spotlight. SAT Today: warm orangeade, a tot of rum and some chain-smoking - SAT all part of daily life for the fishermen and women of SAT Madagascar who've harnessed new conservation techniques to SAT long-standing traditions. Also, a despatch from SAT south-eastern Turkey, where renewed hostilities between SAT government forces and Kurdish PKK militants have left SAT efforts to establish a long-term peace in shreds; there's an SAT examination of the reasons why Russia has chosen to step up SAT its military activity in the Middle East; The Spanish SAT bullfighting season's coming to an end and many now wonder SAT if the same will soon be said of bullfighting itself. And SAT why tonight's big rugby match at Twickenham might set off SAT some wild, if lonely, rejoicing in a small hotel room in SAT Japan. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06d2676 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06f4vqf (Listen) SAT The solicitor defrauded out of £750,000 of her clients' SAT money SAT SAT Today the incredible story of a solicitor contacted by SAT criminals, posing as her bank, and persuaded to transfer SAT almost three quarters of a million pounds of her clients' SAT money to the crooks. As a result of this crime Karen Mackie SAT has been barred from working as a solicitor. She's lost her SAT livelihood and stands to lose her home after being declared SAT bankrupt. With reports that three to four solicitors are SAT being targeted this way every week with millions being lost, SAT what is being done to protect our money? SAT SAT Also, is a line under the costliest financial services SAT redress scheme in history about to be drawn? With over £20bn SAT already paid out , the Financial Conduct Authority is SAT proposing to introduce a two year deadline for PPI SAT complaints. SAT SAT The level of protection given to deposits held by financial SAT institutions is changing from 1st January 2016 from £85k to SAT £75k. We hear from Money Box listeners about inconsistencies SAT in how this change is being applied. SAT SAT And why thousands of part time low paid workers are losing SAT out on pension tax relief. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT ActionFraud SAT Financial Fraud Action SAT TPS: Telephone Preference Service SAT Financial Conduct Authority Announcement SAT How to Claim SAT GovUK: About Tax Relief SAT The Pensions Regulator - What to consider when choosing a SAT scheme SAT Financial Servies Compensation Scheme SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06d9t31 (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles SAT Jupp. This week Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Elis James, SAT Andy Hamilton and Emily Ashton to mull over the big stories SAT of the moment. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Elis James SAT Panellist: Andy Hamilton SAT Panellist: Emily Ashton SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06d267g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06d267l (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06d9t37 (Listen) SAT Hilary Benn MP, Louise Bours MEP, Ken Clarke MP, Alice SAT Nutter. SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Winstanley SAT College in Wigan with Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, SAT UKIP spokesperson on health Louise Bours MEP, former SAT Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke MP and the playwright SAT and former Chumbawumba singer Alice Nutter. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06f4xlp (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06cvjv0 (Listen) SAT The Price of Oil, Blood From Stone SAT SAT Alun Armstrong and Paul Ritter star in Tamsin Oglesby's SAT future oil comedy - set in 2045. SAT SAT A father and son energy company are struggling with the new SAT economics of the oil market. With their wells running dry in SAT Turkmenistan, and having to fight Chinese companies for the SAT right to frack under Lytham St Annes .... is Ralph wrong SAT about getting out of oil for good? SAT SAT Or is his dad Charlie more of an addict than a businessman? SAT SAT Will we ever be able to give up oil? SAT SAT The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the SAT history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. All this SAT week, The Price of Oil takes us from 1951 to 2045, and SAT around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, SAT Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, SAT to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world. SAT SAT Tamsin Oglesby's political fire and deftly funny writing SAT have led to a series of theatrical hits, including 'Future SAT Conditional' with Rob Bryden, which opened this season at SAT the Old Vic, 'Really Old, Like Forty-Five' (National), 'The SAT War Next Door' (Tricycle), 'US and Them' (Hampstead), and SAT her adaptation's of Russell Hoban's 'The Mouse and His SAT Child' (RSC) and Feydeau's 'Every Last Trick' (Royal and SAT Derngate, Northampton). SAT SAT The Price of Oil season is devised by Nicolas Kent, with SAT Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, and produced by Jonquil SAT Panting for BBC Radio Drama. As director of London's SAT Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent SAT championed responsive factual and political drama, including SAT seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The SAT Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings SAT that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil. SAT SAT Blood From Stone was directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT Credits SAT Charlie: Alun Armstrong SAT Ralph: Paul Ritter SAT Therapist: Jessica Turner SAT Buyer: Stephen Critchlow SAT Buyer: Amelia Lowdell SAT Claudia: Lucy Hutchinson SAT Gemma: Helen Longworth SAT Duncan: David Hounslow SAT Jock: David Tse SAT Engineer: Chan Kwan Ting SAT Engineer: Chin Hoi Tung SAT Engineer: Wong Wai Yan SAT Engineer: Oscar Kwan SAT Writer: Tamsin Oglesby SAT Director: Jonquil Panting SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 15:30 When Van Played Cyprus Avenue b06d2g8z (Listen) SAT "And I'm caught one more time SAT Up on Cyprus Avenue..." SAT SAT Van Morrison made a number of references in his songs to the SAT east Belfast neighbourhood in which he grew up, none more SAT directly than in Cyprus Avenue from his 1968 album Astral SAT Weeks. Romantic images of leaves shaking on a tree, rainbow SAT ribbons in a young girl's hair and a mansion on the hill SAT evoke memories of Cyprus Avenue in the years before Van left SAT Northern Ireland to pursue his career in the States. SAT SAT Cyprus Avenue - with its intricate arrangement of flute, SAT harpsichord and strings - was recorded in New York, far from SAT the well-heeled, tree-lined avenue along which the young Van SAT would pass on his way home to the working class area of SAT Hyndford Street. This was in the years before the Troubles. SAT East Belfast was steadfastly loyalist and protestant. SAT SAT When the arts broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir moved into the SAT area, she was already aware of the iconic quality of SAT street's name - not just from Van Morrison's song, but from SAT the fact that the Reverend Ian Paisley lived on Cyprus SAT Avenue. Marie-Louise was a Catholic 'blow-in'. So, when Van SAT announced that he'd be celebrating his 70th birthday by SAT playing a gig literally feet from her front door, she was SAT curious to see how the community would respond. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06f4xlr (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT It's fifteen years since the world first met Erin Brockovich SAT through Julia Robert's Oscar winning film portrayal of the SAT single mum who took on a billion dollar gas and electric SAT company in small town America. She joins me to talk about SAT the film' s legacy and women's rights today. SAT SAT What happens when you turn to Yes Parenting? Parenting coach SAT and creator of Yes Parenting Bea Marshall discusses why she SAT never says no to her children. SAT SAT We find out about the art of Make up with Lan Nguyen-Grealis SAT who has worked with top photographers Rankin and Bailey. SAT SAT What is it really like to grow up as a lesbian in rural SAT England? SAT SAT Tomorrow a bronze statue of Joan Littlewood will be unveiled SAT at the Theatre; Why was she such a significant figure in the SAT cultural life of Great Britain? SAT SAT The Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, talks SAT about how she's been working to make sexual consent guidance SAT clear. SAT SAT 'Overshare' was named word of the year in 2014 by Chambers SAT Dictionary - we hear from two journalists who admit to SAT pouring their lives out to unknowns on social media and the SAT reaction they have received. SAT SAT And the Opera Soprano Ilona Domnich performs an aria from SAT her upcoming role in The Tales of Hoffman. SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT Presented by Jenni Murray. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Erin Brockovich-Ellis SAT Interviewed Guest: Bea Marshall SAT Interviewed Guest: Lan Nguyen-grealis SAT Interviewed Guest: Alison Saunders SAT Performer: Ilona Domnich SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06f4xlt (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06djzl5 (Listen) SAT Art and the Business of Taste SAT SAT How do you value something like a painting? What makes one SAT artist worth more than another? Who decides what is in vogue SAT and why do they have so much power in the art world? Evan SAT Davis presents a discussion on taste and value in the art SAT world with a panel including the British artist Grayson SAT Perry. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Grayson Perry - Artist SAT SAT Valeria Napoleone - Collector and Patron SAT SAT Ralph Taylor - Director, UK Board Contemporary Art, Bonhams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06d267v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06d267x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06d267z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06f4xlw (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Paul O'Grady, Morwenna Banks, SAT Larry Lamb, Sam Simmons, McAlmont & Butler SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Paul O'Grady, SAT Morwenna Banks, Larry Lamb and Sam Simmons for an eclectic SAT mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from SAT McAlmont & Butler. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Larry Lamb SAT ‘Disappearing Britain’ starts on More 4 on Thursday 8th SAT October at 21.00. SAT SAT Paul O'Grady SAT 'Open the Cage, Murphy' is published by Bantam Press and SAT available now. SAT SAT Morwenna Banks SAT 'Miss You Already' is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Sam Simmons SAT Sam Simmons is at London’s Soho Theatre until Saturday 10th SAT October. SAT SAT McAlmont & Butler SAT SAT ‘The Sound Of…McAlmont & Butler 20 Year Deluxe Remaster’ SAT is out now on Edsel Records. SAT McAlmont & Butler playing at O2 ABC, Glasgow on Monday 2nd, SAT Ritz, Manchester on Tuesday 3rd and Institute, Birmingham on SAT Wednesday 4th November. Check their website for further SAT dates. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul O'Grady SAT Interviewed Guest: Morwenna Banks SAT Interviewed Guest: Sam Simmons SAT Interviewed Guest: Larry Lamb SAT Performer: David McAlmont SAT Performer: Bernard Butler SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06f4xly (Listen) SAT Gina Rinehart SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06f4xm0 (Listen) SAT Medea, Jeanette Winterson, The Martian, Edmund deWaal's SAT White at the RA, TV crime series SAT SAT Medea is the latest production in London's Almeida Theatre's SAT Greek season. Written by Rachel Cusk it's shows Medea as a SAT realist and a moralist not a psycho. SAT The writer Edmund de Waal's interest in porcelain can be SAT seen in an exhibition "White", at London's Royal Academy SAT Library SAT Jeanette Winterson's latest novel The Gap of Time retells SAT Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, setting it in the modern day. SAT Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars in The SAT Martian: how do you cope with life millions of miles from SAT any other human being? And as 2 new TV crime series begin - SAT Unforgotten and From Darkness - we consider the enduring SAT appeal of police detective dramas. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Iwona Blazwick, Don Guttenplan SAT and Sarah Churchwell. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Iwona Blazwick SAT Interviewed Guest: Don Guttenplan SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Churchwell SAT Producer: Olivia Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06f4xm2 (Listen) SAT John Lennon: Verbatim SAT SAT John Lennon: Verbatim marks the iconic Beatle's 75th SAT birthday on October 9th with a soundscape incorporating SAT rarely heard archive interviews, poetry readings, studio SAT outtakes and alternative recordings of some of his most SAT acclaimed compositions. It's a personal insight into the SAT creative genius of one of the 20th centuries most diverse SAT artistes. SAT SAT Long before public figures mastered the art of the sanitised SAT sound bite to protect their privacy, Lennon always spoke SAT openly and honestly about his art and his personal life, SAT whether talking about his earliest childhood memories, the SAT highs and lows of The Beatles or his solo career. Lennon SAT loved radio because he found it more relaxing than coping SAT with the confrontation of a television film crew, so his SAT radio sessions were often very revealing and entertaining. SAT SAT Collated from conversations recorded between 1962 and 1980, SAT it's an opportunity to hear, in John's own words, the SAT honesty and passion that fuelled his genius. SAT SAT Produced by Des Shaw SAT A Ten Alps production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06d29bp (Listen) SAT Reading Europe - Germany: Look Who's Back, Episode 1 SAT SAT The next stop on Radio 4's literary journey across Europe is SAT Timur Vermes' transgressive novel which topped the SAT bestseller list in its native Germany. SAT SAT Look Who's Back shocked and then thrilled over 1.5 million SAT German readers with its bold approach to the most taboo of SAT subjects - Adolf Hitler. David Threlfall stars as the SAT infamous Nazi leader in this provocative satire. SAT SAT Part 1 SAT SAT When Adolf Hitler wakes up in modern day Germany he is not SAT pleased. The war is lost. The Nazi party is defunct. And his SAT beloved Fatherland is being run by a woman. He decides to SAT re-take control. Only this time, mistaken for a comedy SAT impersonator, his road to power is paved with TV stardom and SAT internet fame. SAT SAT Theme music composed by Clive Swift and arranged by Stuart SAT Morley. SAT SAT From the novel by Timur Vermes SAT Translated by Jamie Bulloch SAT Dramatised for radio by Marcy Kahan SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SAT SAT Timur Vermes is a journalist and a ghost-writer. Look Who's SAT Back is his first novel. SAT SAT David Threlfall is a prominent stage, film and TV actor and SAT director. He is best known for his portrayal of Frank SAT Gallagher in the long running TV show Shameless. He recently SAT played Noah in BBC drama The Ark, has portrayed iconic SAT comedian Tommy Cooper in Not Like That, Like This and SAT real-life cop David Baker in ITV drama Code Of A Killer. SAT SAT Credits SAT Adolf Hitler: David Threlfall SAT Fraulein Vera Kromeier: Alex Tregear SAT The Kiosk Owner: Ben Crowe SAT Frau Carmen Bellini: Caroline Berry SAT Joachim Sensenbrink: John Norton SAT Frank Sawatski: Richard Mylan SAT Ali Gagmez: Sargon Yelda SAT Actor: Debra Baker SAT Actor: Leo Wan SAT Actor: Gerard Watkins SAT Author: Timur Vermes SAT Adaptor: Marcy Kahan SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06d2681 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Jeremy Corbyn and Britain's Place in the World SAT b06fnmjk (Listen) SAT Gavin Esler is joined by a panel of experts to debate the SAT foreign policies of Labour's new leader. Could the Corbyn SAT effect change British policy towards Syria, Trident, the SAT European Union, NATO and other issues, and open up a debate SAT over matters which have been subject to a cross-party SAT consensus for many years? SAT SAT The participants are the Shadow International Development SAT Secretary Diane Abbott, the former diplomat Sir Stephen SAT Wall, Mark Leonard of the European Council on Foreign SAT Relations, Bronwen Maddox from Prospect magazine, and the SAT journalist Peter Oborne. SAT SAT Producer: Gary Connor. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b06d2fys (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT its 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 4 SAT SAT Comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. SAT Sports presenter Sally Jones. SAT Actress and writer Morwenna Banks SAT Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band member and Monty Python collaborator SAT Neil Innes SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Graham Linehan SAT Panellist: Sally Jones SAT Panellist: Morwenna Banks SAT Panellist: Neil Innes SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06d29bt (Listen) SAT Colours SAT SAT Roger McGough brings poetry of love and of colours: blue, SAT green, crimson, silver... from poets as varied as SAT Christopher Marlowe and ee cummings. The readers are Indira SAT Varma and Tim Pigott-Smith. SAT SAT Producer Beth O'Dea. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Elegia V, Corinnae Concubitus SAT SAT By Christopher Marlowe SAT SAT From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed SAT SAT By Jonathan Swift SAT SAT From Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Gift SAT SAT By Czeslaw Milosz SAT SAT (translated from the Polish by the author) SAT SAT From Being Alive SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe Books SAT SAT SAT SAT stand with your lover on the ending earth SAT SAT By ee cummings SAT SAT From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962 SAT SAT Published by Liveright SAT SAT SAT SAT Romance SAT SAT By W.J. Turner SAT SAT From The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Love After Love SAT SAT By Derek Walcott SAT SAT From Being Alive SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Under SAT SAT By J.C. Squire SAT SAT From The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Ever After SAT SAT By Maggie Sawkins SAT SAT From The Zig Zag Woman by Maggie Sawkins SAT SAT Published by Two Ravens Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White SAT SAT By Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT SAT SAT Poems Of Solitary Delights SAT SAT By Tachibana Akemi SAT SAT Translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite SAT SAT From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer SAT SAT By John Keats SAT SAT From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT A Birthday SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT From The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Colours SAT SAT By Yevgeny Yevtushenko SAT SAT Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland SAT SAT From: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT SAT SAT For the Bed at Kelmscott SAT SAT By William Morris SAT SAT From William Morris: Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT Sweet and low, sweet and low SAT SAT By Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Indira Varma SAT Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Producer: Beth O'Dea SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 OCTOBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06f4xpf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Opening Lines b037525f (Listen) SUN Series 15, The Underwater Cathedral SUN SUN The series which gives first-time and emerging short story SUN writers their radio debut. SUN SUN In Martin Cathcart Froden's beguiling tale about humankind's SUN desire to conquer the natural world, a young man answers the SUN siren call of the sea and pushes his body to extremes. SUN SUN (repeat) SUN SUN Read by Stuart McLoughlin SUN Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN Martin Cathcart Froden on The Underwater Cathedral SUN SUN It’s hard to know exactly where *The Underwater Cathedral* SUN came from. Childhood visits to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm SUN and white hot summers on a tiny sailing boat in the Baltic SUN archipelago probably had something to do with it. Reading SUN about endurance too – cyclist Miguel Indurain’s resting SUN pulse of 28 BPM, and diver Stig Severinsen holding his SUN breath for 22 minutes. Then there was that documentary about SUN free diving I watched while I should have been doing SUN something more important. SUN SUN Writing, like diving, is essentially a solitary experience. SUN Observing milieus and characters, chronology and dialogue SUN bustling about the harbour of your mind. Allowing an editor SUN into that space, and being open to other ideas, influences, SUN interpretations, can be pretty tricky. But from past SUN experience I know my work is always better once it’s been SUN through the mill of others – my wife, usually my friend SUN Emma, occasionally Gail. A friend of someone at a playgroup SUN my five-year-old goes to, who we had heard was half Greek. SUN And this time Gemma at the BBC, whose insightful SUN contributions brought out the best in the story. SUN SUN Before the written word became our currency, everything was SUN told. Passed on, performed, sometimes embellished, usually SUN remembered. People used to gather around fires to listen, SUN hearing life explained in story form, and later around the SUN wireless, for the latest news or the oldest sagas. To see my SUN story go from silent sentences in a notebook, to a page in SUN an actor’s hand, to words spoken to a wide audience is SUN exhilarating. In a way I’ve travelled backwards in the story SUN telling tradition, from words written to words proclaimed. SUN I’m grateful to have been invited to make my own small SUN contribution, and I hope you enjoy *The Underwater SUN Cathedral*. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Martin Cathcart Froden SUN Reader: Stuart McLoughlin SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4xph (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4xpk (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4xpm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06f4xpp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06f4ybm (Listen) SUN Bells from St Clement Danes, Strand, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06f4xly (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06f4xpr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06f4z33 (Listen) SUN The Art of Correspondence SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the pleasures of correspondence - from SUN beautiful letters to ever increasing opportunities for SUN conversations on social networks, via texts, emails and SUN among those who develop a brilliant gift for talking on the SUN telephone. SUN SUN In conversation with journalist and writer Simon Garfield, SUN he investigates whether the skill of communicating at a SUN remove is on the wane or whether we are actually SUN corresponding as never before. SUN SUN And, above all, he celebrates the letter. SUN SUN There are readings from writers as varied as Carol Ann SUN Duffy, Dylan Thomas and Clementine Churchill, and there's SUN music from Samuel Barber, Fats Waller and Benjamin Britten. SUN SUN The readers are Cyril Nri, Francis Cadder and Jane SUN Whittenshaw. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b06f4z35 (Listen) SUN Farming at Heathrow SUN SUN Colin Rayner's family have farmed land near London since the SUN 17th century. In 1947 some of it was compulsorily purchased SUN under the War Act, to build what is now Heathrow airport. As SUN the years have gone by, more and more of the fields have SUN been covered by concrete. But Colin still grows wheat, maize SUN and oil seed rape on fields chopped in half by runways and SUN the M25. A new railway line is also being built across the SUN farm along with a construction compound for the planned HS2 SUN high-speed rail link. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06f4z3c (Listen) SUN Raise the Song of Harvest Home SUN SUN In 1843, the Revd Robert Hawker created the first Harvest SUN Festival service - "Let us gather together in the chancel of SUN our church on the first Sunday of next month, and there SUN receive, in the bread of the new corn, that blessed SUN sacrament which was ordained to strengthen and refresh our SUN souls." SUN SUN Today's Sunday Worship, a traditional service for Harvest, SUN comes from Wallingford Parish Church in rural Oxfordshire, SUN and reflects on the life and legacy of Robert Hawker. It is SUN led by the Rector, the Revd David Rice, and the Preacher is SUN the Acting Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher OBE. SUN Music includes familiar harvest hymns 'Come, ye thankful SUN people, come' and 'We plough the fields and scatter', led by SUN the Choirs of Wallingford Parish Church, and directed by Sue SUN Ledger. Producer Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4. Sunday Worship celebrates Harvest now and comes SUN direct from Wallingford Parish Church in rural Oxfordshire. SUN The preacher is the Acting Bishop of Oxford, the Right SUN Reverend Colin Fletcher, and the service is led by the SUN Rector, the Reverend David Rice. It begins as the choir SUN sings ‘Cantate Domino – Cry out with joy to God all the SUN earth, praise your creator with gladness.’ SUN SUN Choir Introit Cantate Domino – Margaret Rizza SUN SUN Welcome: Revd David Rice SUN Good morning and welcome to our annual Harvest Festival. SUN Built in the 10th century as a fortified town by King SUN Alfred, Wallingford had a vast medieval castle constructed SUN by William the Conqueror to guard this important crossing on SUN the river Thames. In fact during its long history it’s had SUN many important royal connections, and in the twentieth SUN century the outskirts of Wallingford were home to that Queen SUN of crime Agatha Christie. SUN SUN Through all those long years though Wallingford has been SUN dependent for its existence on agriculture; on the crops SUN grown in the surrounding countryside. So today, as every SUN year, we give thanks to God for the fruits of another SUN season. SUN SUN Let us pray. SUN Creator God, SUN You made the goodness of the land, SUN the riches of the sea SUN and the rhythm of the seasons; SUN as we thank you for the harvest, SUN may we cherish and respect SUN this planet and its peoples, SUN through Jesus Christ our Lord. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Our first hymn calls us to thanksgiving. As we respond to SUN that call, children from our parish place bread and grapes SUN on the altar as tokens of God’s goodness which he shows to SUN us in these and so many other ways. “Come ye thankful SUN people, come.” SUN SUN Opening hymn: Come ye thankful people, come SUN Prayer (child) SUN Father in heaven all good gifts come from you. You send the SUN sunshine and the rain, and it’s through your love and care SUN that we enjoy the harvest time. Thank you for providing so SUN richly for our needs and help us to share the good things we SUN have with those who have little or nothing. Amen. SUN SUN Revd David Rice SUN Well the children have finished bringing up their harvest SUN gifts now, and the church looks truly glorious, with tins of SUN all sorts of exotic things and flowers, vegetables SUN festooning the windowsills and altar. And so it’s time for SUN our first reading. SUN Bible reading – Leviticus 23.9-14 SUN A reading from the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 23, beginning SUN at verse 9. The offering of the first fruits. SUN SUN The Lord spoke to Moses: Speak to the people of Israel and SUN say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you SUN and you reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the SUN first fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall raise SUN the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may find acceptance; SUN on the day after the sabbath the priest shall raise it. On SUN the day when you raise the sheaf, you shall offer a lamb a SUN year old, without blemish, as a burnt-offering to the Lord. SUN And the grain-offering with it shall be two-tenths of an SUN ephah of choice flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire of SUN pleasing odour to the Lord; and the drink-offering with it SUN shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. You shall eat no SUN bread or parched grain or fresh ears until that very day, SUN until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a SUN statute for ever throughout your generations in all your SUN settlements. SUN SUN This is the word of the Lord. SUN Thanks be to God. SUN SUN David SUN Reflecting on the harvest gifts of God, the Wallingford SUN Parish Choir Junior Choristers now sing ‘The fruits of the SUN land’ by David Ogden. ‘Some people give time when they help SUN for our sake, and others give talent with things they can SUN make. God gave us these gifts which he spread through the SUN land. So we bring you, we bring you the fruits of our SUN hands.’ SUN Children’s Choir: The fruits of the land David Ogden SUN SUN David SUN This weekend, churches everywhere are celebrating the SUN Harvest - but strange as it may seem, the Harvest Festival SUN as we know it is a tradition that’s less than two hundred SUN years old, and was invented by a local vicar in the tiny SUN (but beautiful) North Cornish Parish of Morwenstow. SUN SUN Reader SUN SUN The Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker was a somewhat eccentric SUN man. He was not what you might call a conventional priest, SUN refusing to wear clerical black, instead wearing a purple SUN three-quarter length coat, and underneath the coat a thick SUN fisherman’s jersey, to show people that, like Jesus, he was SUN a ‘fisher of men’. On top of this he wore long sea-boots, a SUN pink brimless hat and a poncho made from a yellow horse SUN blanket. He talked to birds, invited his nine cats into SUN church and apparently kept a pig as a pet. SUN SUN Hawker became famous for giving Christian burials to SUN shipwrecked mariners washed up on the shores of the parish, SUN and was often the first to reach the cliffs when there was a SUN shipwreck. SUN SUN In 1843 he began a tradition which lives to this day. One SUN September day, he nailed up, in the church porch, an open SUN invitation to his parishioners “Let us gather together in SUN the chancel of our church...and there receive in the bread SUN of the new corn, that blessed sacrament which was ordained SUN to strengthen and refresh our souls.” SUN A few days later, on 1st October, the first Harvest festival SUN took place, during which bread made from the first cut of SUN corn was taken at communion. From these humble beginnings, SUN Harvest festivals are now celebrated in churches throughout SUN the world. SUN SUN David SUN Giving thanks for Robert Hawker, and for the gifts that SUN surrounds us, we sing the hymn ‘For the fruits of all SUN creation’, sung to the tune ‘East Acklam’ by the composer SUN Francis Jackson, who celebrated his 98th birthday on Friday. SUN SUN Hymn: For the fruits of all creation SUN David SUN In a few moments our preacher will be the Acting Bishop of SUN Oxford, the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, but first we hear words SUN from St Matthew’s Gospel, describing the feeding of the four SUN thousand. SUN SUN Bible reading (adult): Matthew 15: 32-38 SUN A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew, Chapter 15, SUN beginning at verse 32. SUN SUN Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have SUN compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now SUN for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to SUN send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.” The SUN disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in SUN the desert to feed so great a crowd?” Jesus asked them, “How SUN many loaves have you?” They said, “Seven, and a few small SUN fish.” Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground, he SUN took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving thanks SUN he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the SUN disciples gave them to the crowds. And all of them ate and SUN were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, SUN seven baskets full. Those who had eaten were four thousand SUN men, besides women and children. After sending away the SUN crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of SUN Magadan. SUN SUN This is the word of the Lord. SUN Thanks be to God. SUN Sermon SUN SUN Fifteen years ago this week I was consecrated as a bishop to SUN serve in this wonderful part of the country. SUN SUN In many ways it was slightly strange as an appointment. My SUN predecessor was a real expert in all matters to do with the SUN countryside, and Oxfordshire is the most rural county in SUN South-East England. My own upbringing and background had SUN been in urban areas. Like most people I had never lived in SUN a village let alone on a farm, and it therefore meant that I SUN had a lot of learning to do. And the truth is that I have SUN loved it. It’sbeen fascinating to learn from farmers as SUN they face the many complexities of their lives – whether SUN caused by changes in the exchange rate, or global food SUN prices, or the weather. Fascinating too to learn about the SUN dynamics of different villages and market towns. But, above SUN all else, it’s been wonderful to get back in touch with the SUN rhythms of nature. SUN SUN Immediately before coming here we’d been living in central SUN London. There I was aware of the seasons, but not in the SUN same way as I am here. It comes partly from driving around SUN the swathes of Oxfordshire’s countryside – but also from SUN having a garden of our own and seeing the rhythms of growth, SUN dying back, decay and new life at first hand. There is, as SUN many of you know, something very special about eating SUN something home-grown, and I could talk for a long time about SUN my struggles with growing parsnips. SUN SUN Spiritually too it has been energising. I’m not someone who SUN blindly believes that line ‘You are nearer God’s heart in a SUN garden than anywhere else on earth’ – apart from anything SUN else I’ve heard it used too often as a reason for not coming SUN to church. But, nevertheless, there’s something very SUN special about being in touch with the natural world. SUN SUN Jesus may have been a carpenter, but he was also a man of SUN the land. He travelled around Galilee and down the Jordan SUN Valley or through Samaria at walking pace. He told stories SUN about farmers and shepherds - about crops and vineyards. He SUN encouraged his followers to think about the lilies of the SUN field and the birds of the air. Harvest too featured SUN strongly in his thinking. Not just, of course, because he SUN watched it happening year by year, but because, the annual SUN rhythm of the land was reflected in a string of festivals SUN where he and his fellow Jews gave thanks to God. SUN Robert Hawker may indeed have been the originator of the SUN many harvest festivals happening all around this country SUN during these weeks, but services to celebrate harvest have SUN been part of human experience down the centuries and central SUN to them has been the desire to give thanks to God. SUN SUN And even if we don’t have much contact with the land or the SUN harvest in our own lives we can still give thanks for the SUN precious gift of the food that sustains our lives. SUN When Jesus fed those 4,000 people with the bread and fish in SUN our Gospel reading, I suppose he could’ve short-circuited SUN everything and just done the miracle without any specific SUN references to God. But he didn’t. Before anything else he SUN gave thanks. Thanks not to those who had provided the bread SUN and the fish - but to the God who is the Creator of all SUN things. His Father was central to the whole of his life, as SUN he delighted to remind people on a regular basis, and that SUN showed itself in the very ordinary aspects of life like SUN eating and drinking. SUN SUN And what of ourselves? Most of us do not work on the land – SUN hunting and gathering have been replaced by a trip to the SUN supermarket. And the vast majority of us enjoy a SUN superabundance of riches. So it’s easy to lose touch with SUN the fact that food has to grow and be grown. Empty SUN supermarket shelves, and bare kitchen cupboards – that’s SUN what would happen if our crops failed. For those of us in SUN plenty it can be hard to imagine, especially if you’re one SUN of those gathered in a church this Sunday surrounded by the SUN fabulous sight and smell of fruit and flowers. God provides SUN it all. SUN SUN So as we mark with thanksgiving this year’s harvest, it SUN leaves us with a question – how, in the light of God’s SUN generosity to us, can we respond appropriately to him? The SUN people of Israel were given clear instructions in our first SUN reading from Leviticus Chapter 23. They were told to ‘bring SUN the sheaf of the first fruits, and a lamb without blemish a SUN year old for the burnt offering, and choice flour mixed with SUN oil as a grain offering. In other words they were to bring SUN the best of the harvest and give it back to God. It’s an SUN attitude of heart. Earlier this week I was at one of the SUN financial consultations about our diocese’s 2016 budget. SUN Bishops spend an amazing amount of time at such meetings, SUN and of course I had to give a short speech. After it someone SUN came up to congratulate me – ‘You got it right,’ he said, SUN ‘you began with the vision and only came on to the budget at SUN the end.’ What I cannot now remember is whether he also SUN mentioned the word generosity but I think he did. It’s so SUN hard to link the daily round of life – meetings, emails, SUN jobs around the house and looking after the family, to the SUN generous spiritual growth and maturity God wants for each SUN one of us. But our vision must be to serve – and to bring SUN him our first fruits, whatever they may be. SUN All these belong together – our money, our time, our gifts SUN and abilities are part of a single whole. The key thing at SUN harvest is to rejoice in the love of God and to respond in SUN the same spirit. SUN This service gives a focus – but a focus to something that SUN we can remind ourselves about throughout the year. For we SUN worship God the Creator who gives us so much – our daily SUN bread, our breath, life itself and supremely, of course, he SUN gives us himself, to forgive us for our sins and sustain us SUN in our daily lives. SUN Anthem Look at the world – John Rutter SUN SUN David SUN The anthem ‘Look at the World’, with music by John Rutter. SUN And now we turn to our prayers. SUN SUN Intercessor 1 SUN Upon the rich earth send a blessing, O Lord. SUN Let the earth be fruitful SUN and its resources be hallowed. SUN We ask in faith: SUN we ask you to hear us, good Lord. SUN Intercessor 2 SUN Upon human labour send a blessing, O Lord. SUN Prosper the work of our hands; SUN may all find dignity and just reward in their work; SUN free the exploited and oppressed. SUN We ask in faith: SUN we ask you to hear us, good Lord. SUN Choir: Taize chant ‘Bless the Lord my soul’ SUN Intercessor 1 SUN Upon the produce of the earth send a blessing, O Lord. SUN Guide us into a sustainable future, SUN and give us the will to share the fruits of the world. SUN We ask in faith: SUN we ask you to hear us, good Lord. SUN SUN Intercessor 2 SUN Upon the seas and waters send a blessing, O Lord. SUN Teach us to cherish the water of the earth, SUN and to conserve the seas, lakes and rivers. SUN We ask in faith: SUN we ask you to hear us, good Lord. SUN Choir: Bless the Lord my soul SUN Intercessor 1 SUN Upon aid agencies send a blessing, O Lord. SUN Where the earth is parched and the well has run dry; SUN where war brings want, and children go hungry; SUN where the poor cry out for bread and for justice, SUN give hands to care and heal, and compel us to be generous. SUN We ask in faith: SUN we ask you to hear us, good Lord. SUN SUN Intercessor 2 SUN Topical prayer TO BE ADDED SUN SUN SUN We ask in faith: SUN we ask you to hear us, good Lord. SUN Choir: Bless the Lord my soul SUN We ask you to hear us, good Lord, SUN for the sake of your Son, SUN our Saviour Jesus Christ. SUN Amen. SUN SUN David SUN Let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us SUN Our Father, who art in heaven, SUN hallowed be thy name; SUN thy kingdom come; SUN thy will be done; SUN on earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread. SUN And forgive us our trespasses, SUN as we forgive those who trespass against us. SUN And lead us not into temptation; SUN but deliver us from evil. SUN For thine is the kingdom, SUN the power and the glory, SUN for ever and ever. SUN Amen. SUN David SUN The poem that forms our final hymn is perhaps the most SUN well-known of harvest words. They appear to come from the SUN English countryside but were in fact written in Germany. SUN They remind us, wherever we are, of the importance of SUN thanksgiving for God’s generosity. We plough the fields and SUN scatter. SUN Hymn: We plough the fields and scatter SUN David: Blessing SUN SUN God the Father, who created the world, SUN give you grace to be wise stewards of his creation. SUN Amen. SUN God the Son, who redeemed the world, SUN inspire you to go out as labourers into his harvest. SUN Amen. SUN God the Holy Spirit, whose breath fills the whole of SUN creation, SUN help you to bear his fruits of love, joy and peace. SUN Amen. SUN SUN And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and SUN the Holy Spirit, SUN be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen. SUN Choir SUN A Gaelic Blessing – Rutter SUN Organ Voluntary SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06d9t39 (Listen) SUN Will Self: What's in a Name SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the significance of names, including SUN his own. SUN SUN "We desire to be recognised for who we really are, and seek SUN out in our very ascription the means of uniting our intimate SUN identities with our social selves.". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvz9y (Listen) SUN Guira Cuckoo SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the guira cuckoo of central SUN South America. Guira cuckoos break all the usual rules of SUN their family. They are very sociable and travel in noisy SUN gangs, feeding and roosting together. But what makes the SUN behaviour of guira cuckoos so different is that several SUN females often lay their eggs in a single nest, sometimes as SUN many as 20 eggs which are tended by the respective mothers . SUN This is known as co-operative breeding. Whether a female SUN recognises her own eggs isn't certain, but it's possible SUN that they can distinguish them by variable markings on the SUN eggshells and single them out for special care. SUN SUN Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01261884 SUN © Roy Mangersnes/naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06f4xq2 (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 b06f4z3f (Listen) SUN It is a crucial match for the cricket team, and Lynda looks SUN forward to Christmas. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Peter Wild SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Helen Titchner: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Heather Pritchard: Margaret Jackman SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06f4z3h (Listen) SUN Alison Balsom SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician, Alison SUN Balsom. SUN SUN Widely considered the finest classical trumpet player of her SUN generation, she's performed in all the great concert halls SUN of the world, winning a huge amount of fans and a string of SUN awards for her ability to exquisitely convey the many voices SUN of her chosen instrument. SUN SUN As a child she had dreams of being a part-time trumpet SUN player, astronaut and jockey - she's only 36 so there's time SUN yet for the other two; but whilst she is solely devoting her SUN energies to her instrument her belief in the power of music SUN seems endless. In between gigs, rehearsals, recordings and SUN motherhood, she's found time to travel to Uganda and Liberia SUN as patron of Brass for Africa, with the heartfelt conviction SUN that she can transform the lives of street children by SUN teaching them to play. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Alison Balsom SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06f4xq4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b06d2g56 (Listen) SUN Series 15, Episode 6 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 Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and SUN Katherine Ryan are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as IKEA, SUN marriage, Switzerland and chewing gum. 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: Sarah Millican SUN Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: Katherine Ryan SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06f4z3k (Listen) SUN Bitterness SUN SUN Dan Saladino hunts down that flavour we call 'bitter', and SUN asks if bitterness is disappearing from our food and drink - SUN and why this matters. SUN SUN Bitter tastes are found all over the planet; wild leaves, SUN fruits, vegetables and more. Bitterness is also charged with SUN cultural and culinary meaning. It can be revered, sought SUN after - but it is also a sign of toxicity, and is, it seems, SUN increasingly being shunned. SUN SUN Dan Saladino talks to Jennifer McLagan, author of the James SUN Beard Award-winning book "Bitter: A Taste of the World's SUN Most Dangerous Flavour", who begun her epic journey into SUN bitter following a conversation about grapefruits. SUN Journalist and science writer Marta Zaraska has been SUN tracking the de-bittering of our food, and reveals her SUN findings, including the 'holy grail' of the assault on SUN bitter. He also seeks out bitterness in the wild with SUN forager and wild food specialist Miles Irving, and discovers SUN the secrets of the bitter gourd (also known as bitter melon SUN or karela) within a food culture that still deeply values SUN bitterness, in the company of food writer and cookery SUN teacher Monisha Bharadwaj. SUN SUN As Dan delves into the world of bitter flavours, he shares a SUN bitter brew with Professor Peter Barham - author of "The SUN Science of Cooking" - and visits the drinks laboratory run SUN by cocktail experts Tony Conigliaro and Max Venning. SUN SUN Tasting bitter leaves, crystals, digestifs and more along SUN the way, Dan asks what we stand to lose if we lose the taste SUN for bitter. SUN SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Jennifer McLagan SUN Interviewed Guest: Marta Zaraska SUN Interviewed Guest: Miles Irving SUN Interviewed Guest: Monisha Monisha Bharadwaj SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Barham SUN Interviewed Guest: Tony Conigliaro SUN Interviewed Guest: Max Venning SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06f4xq6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06f4z3m (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Will Cameron Change Britain? b06f4z3p (Listen) SUN As the Conservatives meet in Manchester for their first SUN party conference since winning May's general election, Janan SUN Ganesh of the Financial Times explores the ambitions of SUN Cameron's Government. Now the Conservatives are no longer SUN shackled by coalition, are they likely to transform Britain, SUN as the Thatcher Government did in the 1980s? SUN The first Conservative government to have won an overall SUN majority for more than 20 years is starting to implement its SUN plans. Free from the constraints of coalition and energised SUN by their generally unexpected victory, David Cameron and his SUN colleagues may now feel they have the scope to make the SUN United Kingdom into the country they want it to be. SUN But how likely are they to re-model Britain? Will David SUN Cameron be the kind of prime minister like Attlee or SUN Thatcher who transforms the country by fundamental economic SUN and social reforms? Would the nation let him? SUN Is Cameron instead a pragmatist who prefers to govern and SUN not to transform? Or is he happy for his Ministers to drive SUN radical reform? Take the Conservatives' intentions for a SUN smaller central state; reforms of pensions, schools and SUN welfare; and the plans for devolution to cities: beyond the SUN substantial, direct impact of these policies, will they also SUN bring deeper, lasting change to Britain? SUN In this programme Janan Ganesh explores how far-reaching are SUN the government's ambitions, how different UK society might SUN be in five years' time, and whether Cameron's second term as SUN prime minister is likely to go down in British history as a SUN time of fundamental change. SUN Producer: Rob Shepherd. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06d9rll (Listen) SUN Gartmore SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Gartmore, Stirling. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and SUN Christine Walkden answer questions from a local audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I have a passion for cut flowers from the garden and I SUN wonder if the panel can suggest varieties that will keep SUN their looks through a long, wet summer? SUN Christine SUN – Things like *Moluccella laevis* – Bells of Ireland – SUN beautiful plants with green spikes and papery green SUN flowers. SUN Bunny SUN – *Mathiasella bupleuroides* – lovely green brack to it, SUN grows to about a metre high, and very hardy. Grew from April SUN right through to Septembers. Dahlias are brilliant, they SUN don’t start at the beginning of the summer but I’ve got a SUN Blackjack at the moment that is lasting very well. SUN Chris SUN – I would start with *Aquilegia crysantha* – strong yellow, SUN tall flower, with a nodding head. Later in the season, SUN hybrid anemones are very good and are happy to bob around in SUN the wind. *Acanthus mollis too*. Also, look into the wet SUN areas of the garden – the *Ligulerias* the *Rodgersias* are SUN very handsome. Don’t ignore the ferns either – plants like SUN *Metusia* has wonderful, feather-like plumes. And *Geranium SUN palmatum* if you want lovely cerise flowers from May SUN onwards. SUN SUN SUN Q – ‘Allotmenteers’ are very interested in biodiversity and SUN we’re concerned about invasive weeds. Round my allotment SUN there is a lot of* Himalayan balsam* – is it possible to SUN compost this? SUN Bunny SUN – I would worry that if they are flowering or setting seed SUN that if you put them in your compost you’re unlikely to get SUN high enough temperatures to kill the seeds off. I would SUN chop the roots off too because they would probably grow too. SUN Chris SUN – If you’ve got them in an allotment situation – get a mower SUN or a flail or a scythe and keep them trimmed right down at SUN grass level and then you can compost. But only if heavily SUN trimmed. If there is any sign of flower then forget it. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve a fine crop of apples this year and some are badly SUN cracked – we’ve had a wet summer so I don’t think it’s a SUN lack of water – why is this? SUN Christine SUN – I think it’s a combination of them having been very dry SUN and then been very wet and the skin has just split under the SUN pressure SUN Chris SUN - There is sign of scab too SUN Bunny SUN – I think you just need to hope for better weather next SUN year! SUN SUN * * SUN Q – We have a Mount Etna Broom in the garden which has been SUN there for at least forty years and I’m anxious to propagate SUN it soon. Tips please? SUN Chris SUN – Anything that is going to succour naturally or produce SUN plenty of shoots from the base – the best thing to do is to SUN mound up the earth around it, give it a small rise in earth SUN level around the crown of the plant and you’ll find that if SUN you do that it will regenerate from the base that you can SUN take cuttings from. Or you will find that the plant will SUN rejuvenate itself. SUN SUN SUN Q – I used to have a lovely herbaceous border but this SUN summer is has been ravished by escapee lambs which seem able SUN to trip even the most secure fences. We’re on heavy clay SUN soil, well mulched with manure and can grow most plants. SUN Are there any sheep-proof plants that would still give some SUN colour in late-July and into Autumn? SUN Bunny SUN – I don’t think they exist! You need to get your fences SUN sorted I’m afraid. SUN SUN SUN Q – For the last two or three years my Silver Birch, Snow SUN Queen and Jackmanii have been affected by an orange fungus. SUN My raspberries have also been affected – is it the same SUN disease and should I give up growing raspberries? SUN Christine SUN – This is a rust. It is very common when the weather is as SUN up and down as it is here. The key thing to do with the SUN birch is to rake up the leaves when they drop and destroy SUN them, don’t compost them. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Hill House, Helensburgh SUN SUN Another view of Hill House SUN SUN Mr and Mrs Blackie’s bedroom SUN SUN Mr and Mrs Blackie’s Bedroom Wall SUN One of the ladder-backed chairs designed to resemble SUN trellises for the painted roses to 'grow up' SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06f54rn (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about the joys and fears SUN of prospective parenthood - one of them recorded just hours SUN before the baby's arrival - and about not choosing SUN parenthood, all recorded during The Listening Project SUN Booth's tour of the UK and featuring in the Omnibus of the SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN 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 b06f54rq (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - Germany: Look Who's Back, Episode 2 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 2 SUN SUN Having woken up in modern day Berlin Adolf Hitler decides he SUN needs to re-take control of his beloved Fatherland. But when SUN he is mistaken for a comedy impersonator by TV Executives, SUN rather than running the country, he finds himself the star SUN of a satirical show. As his rants against foreigners and SUN current politics increase in popularity, so does his power SUN over the German people. 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, he 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 Actor: 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 Bookclub b06f54rs (Listen) SUN Tessa Hadley - Married Love SUN SUN Tessa Hadley talks about her short story collection Married SUN Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers. SUN SUN Tessa is one of our leading short story and longer fiction SUN writers. Tensions run high in these sharp observational SUN stories about the events in our lives. A young woman marries SUN against her parents' wishes; a young man in the early 20th SUN century wants to do better for himself and inveigles his way SUN into a local businessman's family home; and three grown up SUN godchildren question the life and legacy of their recently SUN deceased godmother. SUN SUN Tessa is one of the New Yorker magazine's most revered short SUN story writers. She is noted especially for her talent for SUN writing about families and their capacity for splintering, SUN praised for how she handles the passing of time as well as SUN her finely tuned sense of irony. SUN SUN In this edition of Bookclub Jim, Tessa and readers discuss SUN three of the stories from the collection : Married Love, The SUN Trojan Prince and The Godchildren. SUN SUN Recorded at the Small Wonder Festival at Charleston SUN Farmhouse, East Sussex. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN Interviewed Guest : Tessa Hadley SUN SUN November's Bookclub choice : The City & The City by China SUN Miéville (2009). SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06f54rv (Listen) SUN Islands SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a programme in celebration of the SUN islands around the UK, from Sark to Shetland. With poetry by SUN AC Swinburne, TE Brown and Sorley MacLean. Producer Sally SUN Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Snow in Sark SUN SUN by Mervyn Peake SUN SUN From Mervyn Peake – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Fyfield Books SUN SUN SUN SUN In Sark SUN SUN by AC Swinburne SUN SUN From Collected Poetical Works, Volume II [Algernon Charles SUN Swinburne] SUN SUN Published by Harper and Brothers SUN SUN SUN SUN When the Hounds of Spring SUN SUN by AC Swinburne SUN SUN A Choice of Swinburne's Verse SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Isles of Scilly SUN SUN by Geoffrey Grigson SUN SUN From The Isles of Scilly And Other Poems SUN SUN Published by Routledge SUN SUN SUN SUN A Bay in Anglesey SUN SUN by John Betjeman SUN SUN From The Best of Betjeman SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Anglo Welshman and his Friends SUN SUN by Steve Griffiths SUN SUN From Steve Griffiths – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Seren SUN SUN SUN SUN The Schooner SUN SUN by TE Brown SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of T E Brown SUN SUN Published by MacMillan & Co SUN SUN SUN SUN On the Point of Extinction SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN From Roger McGough – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Viking SUN SUN SUN SUN Hallaig SUN SUN by Sorley McLean SUN SUN From Sorley MacLean – From Wood to Ridge, Collected Poems in SUN Gaelic and English SUN SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN SUN SUN The Angel SUN SUN by Pauline Prior-Pitt SUN SUN From Waiting Women SUN SUN Published by Spike Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Young, Chinese and Scottish SUN SUN by Kevin MacNeil SUN SUN From Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides SUN SUN Published by Canongate SUN SUN SUN SUN The Whale SUN SUN by George Mackay Brown SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown SUN SUN Published by John Murray SUN SUN SUN SUN Perfect SUN SUN by Hugh MacDiarmid SUN SUN From Hugh MacDiarmid – Selected Poetry SUN SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN SUN SUN Shetland SUN SUN by Helen Mort SUN SUN From Division Street SUN SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06d2lzr (Listen) SUN Missing Medicines SUN SUN Why is the NHS struggling to get hold of some life-saving SUN medicines for its patients? Allan Urry reveals serious SUN concern over the availability of some drugs used in the SUN treatment of cancer and for pain control. Pharmacists and SUN doctors say they face a daily battle to get access to a SUN range of medicines and either end up buying alternatives at SUN a greater cost to the health service or using less effective SUN alternatives which can compromise patient care. So is the SUN Government doing enough to ensure essential supplies are SUN available? And has Whitehall's drive to push down the NHS SUN drugs bill deterred some manufacturers from supplying the SUN UK? SUN SUN Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Emma Forde. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06f4xly (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06f4xq8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06f4xqb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4xqd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06f4xqg (Listen) SUN James Walton SUN SUN James Walton chooses his BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06f54rx (Listen) SUN Rob gets into character, and Jill just cannot settle. SUN SUN 19:15 Liam Mullone's Disappointing World b06f54rz (Listen) SUN British comedy's only contrarian libertarian antiquarian, SUN Liam Mullone tackles the universal theme that sums up all SUN human endeavour - disappointment. SUN SUN In this comedy lecture dedicated to history's losers Liam SUN celebrates some enormously bad ideas from the world of SUN technology. SUN SUN He tells the hubristic story of Sweden's 17th Century SUN warship, The Vasa, which was even more disappointing than SUN The Mary Rose. Some of NASA's most inspiration-lacking SUN ventures are laid bare. And Frenchman Marcel Lucont honours SUN countryman Jacques Cousteau and his cigarette smoke-filled SUN Conshelf stations in a song. SUN SUN Liam Mullone with Alexis Dubus and Eri Jackson SUN Writer: Liam Mullone SUN Producer: Aled Evans. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Liam Mullone SUN Performer: Alexis Dubus SUN Performer: Eri Jackson SUN Writer: Liam Mullone SUN Producer: Aled Evans SUN SUN 19:45 Funny Bones b06f54s1 (Listen) SUN Mary and the Fairy SUN SUN A new series of original stories in which Irish writers SUN showcase their funny bones. SUN SUN In this fantastically funny series, Yasmine Akram tells a SUN tale of young woe and magical intervention. Tara Flynn takes SUN us into the world of competitive baking and zombie hordes in SUN 'Fete Worse than Death'. Finally, a trip to the cinema takes SUN a surprising turn in a new story by comedian Maeve Higgins. SUN SUN Writer ..... Yasmine Akram SUN Reader ..... Yasmine Akram SUN Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Yasmine Akram SUN Reader: Yasmine Akram SUN Producer: Jenny Thompson SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06h2d4x (Listen) SUN Corbyn Coverage SUN SUN From walkouts to bias and booing, we're kicking off a brand SUN new series of Feedback with the biggest stories in BBC SUN Radio. All told by you. SUN SUN By far the most talked about man in the Feedback inbox SUN (rivalled only by the villainous Rob from The Archers) is SUN the newly-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Many Feedback SUN listeners say they think BBC Radio has been too quick to SUN dismiss Mr Corbyn's style of politics and has a tendency to SUN focus too much on what some see as trivial aspects of his SUN leadership, such as why he didn't sing the National Anthem. SUN Jeremy Corbyn's victory took many in the media by surprise, SUN so does the BBC's political reporting need to adapt to a new SUN political landscape to suit the mood of the country? Roger SUN Bolton talks to the BBC's Assistant Political Editor Norman SUN Smith and Richard Clarke, Editor of the BBC Radio newsroom. SUN SUN Legendary war correspondent Kate Adie joins Roger to discuss SUN 60 years of From Our Own Correspondent. Feedback listeners SUN have getting in touch with their dispatches about why they SUN think the programme's decades-old format still delivers the SUN goods SUN SUN And BBC Radio 3 have been targeting listeners subliminally, SUN with a special nocturnal broadcast of composer Max Richter's SUN piece 'Sleep'. The piece lasts for the duration of our SUN recommended eight hours of rest and a Feedback listener SUN takes us into his bedroom to tell us whether Radio 3 gave SUN him sweet dreams. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06d9rlq (Listen) SUN Brian Friel, General Mario Menendez, Tessa Ransford, John SUN Guillermin, Ben Cauley SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The award winning Irish playwright Brian Friel, best known SUN for Dancing At Lughnasa and Translations. SUN SUN Argentine General Mario Menéndez who was appointed Governor SUN of the Falkland Islands during the invasion. SUN SUN Tessa Ransford who founded the Scottish Poetry Library. SUN SUN John Guillermin who directed movie blockbusters like The SUN Towering Inferno, Death on the Nile, and the 1976 re-make of SUN King Kong. SUN SUN And Ben Cauley, the trumpeter who was the only survivor of SUN the plane crash which killed Otis Redding. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN Brian Friel (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to actress Niamh Cusack and to the President SUN of Ireland, Michael D.Higgins. SUN SUN Born 9 January 1929; died 2 October 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Mario Menéndez SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Max Seitz, former South America SUN correspondent for the BBC, and to Graham Bound who wrote a SUN book about the Falklands Conflict. SUN SUN Born 3 April 1930; died 18 September 2015 aged 85. SUN SUN Tessa Ransford SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Tom Hubbard who was the first librarian at SUN the Scottish Poetry Library. SUN SUN Born 8 July 1938; died 2 September 2015 aged 77. SUN SUN John Guillermin SUN SUN Matthew spoke live to British film scholar Professor Ian SUN Christie. SUN SUN Born 11 November 1925; died 27 September 2015 SUN SUN Ben Cauley SUN Born 3 October 1947; died 21 September 2015 aged 67 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Niamh Cusack SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Higgins SUN Interviewed Guest: Max Seitz SUN Interviewed Guest: Graham Bound SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Hubbard SUN Interviewed Guest: Ian Christie SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06f4vqf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06f4z39 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06d2g5g (Listen) SUN Can We Learn to Live with Nuclear Power? SUN SUN The Fukushima disaster made many people oppose nuclear SUN power. Michael Blastland asks what it would take to change SUN their minds. In 2011, following a devastating tsunami, SUN Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station went into meltdown, SUN leaking radiation. It was the most serious nuclear accident SUN since Chernobyl. It appeared to send the nuclear power SUN industry into retreat - and not just in Japan. Other nations SUN had second thoughts too. Germany decided to phase out its SUN nuclear reactors altogether. But now Japan has resumed SUN nuclear power generation. At the heart of the 'nuclear SUN wobble' of 2011 is the question of risk. Attitudes to, and SUN understanding of, risk vary surprisingly between nations and SUN cultures. But after one of the most shocking incidents in SUN nuclear power's history, will we be able to cope with our SUN fears? In other words, can we learn to live with nuclear SUN power? SUN Producers: Ruth Alexander and Smita Patel. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06f4xqj (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06f54s5 (Listen) SUN Nosheen Iqbal of The Guardian looks at how the newspapers SUN are analysing the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06d9lhq (Listen) SUN Macbeth, Robbie Ryan, Greensman, Shooting Stars in 1928 SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Director Justin Kurzel tells Francine why he believes that SUN Macbeth is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. SUN SUN Greensman is not the latest super-hero but the name of the SUN person who dresses a set with trees and shrubbery to make SUN the indoors look like the outdoors. Richard Payne of Living SUN Props reveals a few trade secrets. SUN SUN Cinematographer Robbie Ryan explains why the selfie is SUN making better actors of us all. SUN SUN Matthew Sweet and Bryony Dixon of the BFI take us behind the SUN scenes of a British film studio in 1928, just as new sound SUN technology was about to change everything. SUN SUN London Film Festival SUN More details about the silent film SUN Shooting Stars SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Justin Kurzel SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Payne SUN Interviewed Guest: Robbie Ryan SUN Interviewed Guest: Matthew Sweet SUN Interviewed Guest: Bryony Dixon SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06f4z33 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 OCTOBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06f4xrl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06d8jrj (Listen) MON Russia's Red Web - Older Entrepreneurs MON MON The 'Red Web': The Internet in Russia is a totalitarian tool MON but is also a device by which totalitarianism can be MON resisted. Laurie Taylor talks to Andrei Soldatov, a Moscow MON based journalist and co-author of a book which explores the MON Russian government's battle with the future of the Internet. MON Drawing on numerous interviews with officials in the MON Ministry of Communications, as well as the web activists who MON resist the Kremlin, he exposes a huge online surveillance MON state. What hope is there for ordinary digital citizens? MON They're joined by Natalia Rulyova, a Lecturer in Russian at MON the University of Birmingham. MON MON Also, older entrepreneurs. Oliver Mallett, Lecturer in MON Management at the University of Durham, discusses the MON obstacles faced by late entrants to enterprise culture. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Oliver Mallett Article MON Making sense of self-employment in late career: MON understanding the identity work of olderpreneurs MON in Work, employment and society, April 2015, 29(2) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06f4ybm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4xrn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4xrq (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4xrs (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06f4xrv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06f54vv (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop MON John Arnold. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06f54vx (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06f4xrx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkxh9 (Listen) MON Common Hawk Cuckoo MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the common hawk cuckoo from MON the Bengal region. The repetitive call of the common MON hawk-cuckoo, otherwise known as the brain-fever bird, is one MON of the typical sounds of rural India and on into the MON foothills of the Himalayas. Its name partly derives from its MON call sounding like "brain fever" but also what one writer MON called its repetition being a "damnable iteration". It looks MON like a bird of prey, and flies like one too, imitating the MON flapping glide of a sparrowhawk in the region, known as the MON shikra, often accompanied by mobbing small birds. MON Unwittingly as they mob her, birds like babblers betray MON their nest, into which the cuckoo will lay her egg. MON MON Common Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com. MON N MON PL Ref 01380485 MON © Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b06fk9pf (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06fk9ph (Listen) MON Jonathan Franzen MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to the American writer MON Jonathan Franzen about his latest novel, Purity. One of MON Franzen's characters compares the internet with the East MON German Republic and he satirises the utopian ideas of the MON apparatchik web-users. The head of the Oxford Internet MON Institute Helen Margetts counters with her research on the MON success and failure of political action via social media. MON The artist Tacita Dean laments the ubiquity of digital at MON the expense of film, and the financial journalist Gillian MON Tett roots out tunnel vision - both personal and business - MON in her new book on silos. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Franzen MON Interviewed Guest: Gillian Tett MON Interviewed Guest: Tacita Dean MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Margetts MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06fkd1l (Listen) MON Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants, Episode 1 MON MON In the aftermath of the Falklands victory, Margaret MON Thatcher's stock was rising. This period of almost five MON years, up to the 1987 election, could be described as her MON golden years. With a decisive majority and a pre-eminent MON place on the world stage she could truly begin to make her MON mark. MON MON Charles Moore was authorised by Margaret Thatcher to write MON her biography on the condition that it was published after MON her death. She also encouraged her former staff and MON colleagues to readily offer their recollections, diaries and MON memoirs of their time working with and for her. MON MON This abridgement for Radio 4 of his second volume offers a MON series of windows onto the key events of her second term - a MON term that was packed with challenges and drama. MON MON Episode 1: MON Margaret Thatcher tackles the problem of Hong Kong. MON MON Music : MON The music used to frame this series reflects the title of MON the book. As the author writes, "I have called this book MON Everything She Wants - the title of a song of the time by MON Wham! - because it expresses Mrs Thatcher's appetite for MON achievement and change and the degree to which she was the MON commanding personality of the era; but, hard as she fought MON for everything she wanted, this was not always what she MON got." MON Track: 'Everything She Wants' from the Wham! album Make it MON Big, 1984 MON MON Read by Nicholas Farrell MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Charles Moore MON Reader: Nicholas Farrell MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06fkd1n (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 b06fkd1s (Listen) MON 30 Eggs, Episode 1 MON MON Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, MON Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return MON to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country MON with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheeky seven MON year-old street orphan. The journey starts well when they MON stumble upon a small amount of money but little Innocent MON inadvertently spends the cash purchasing a basket of thirty MON raw eggs during a mix up in a market melee. With their MON peculiar bounty of raw eggs the unlikely duo set off on an MON adventure of a life time along the rising road cresting atop MON the many rolling hills of Rwanda. MON MON A beautiful, funny and inspirational story which catapults MON you into life in Rwanda and one remarkable journey. MON MON Irish writer Eoin O'Connor has spent a number of years MON living in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. MON Having recently returned to Ireland, Eoin is currently MON working on two further feature scripts, a comedy, Family MON Remains, currently in development with Grand Pictures, MON Dublin, and a thriller set in Syria entitled Stolen, MON currently in development with Epos Films, Dublin. MON MON Credits MON Modeste: Jude Akuwudike MON Innocent: Milanne Gordon MON Claire: Noma Dumezweni MON Father Boniface: Nyasha Hatendi MON Daniel: Richard Pepple MON Jacques: Damian Lynch MON Assad: Josiah Choto MON Richard: Khalil Vaughan MON Writer: Eoin O'Connor MON MON 11:00 Hell Is Other People: A Self-Help Guide to Social MON Anxiety b06fkd1y (Listen) MON Performer Byron Vincent is unfazed when entertaining an MON audience but is terrified of making conversation with MON strangers. He embarks on a quest to overcome his paralyzing MON fear of social situations. MON MON Social anxiety - the fear of social interaction with others MON - is the most common anxiety disorder. Byron has a bad case MON of it. Like many people has been held back from enjoying or MON getting involved in situations he would have liked to. MON MON For those who live with social phobia, life can be a litany MON of missed opportunities, of people assuming a lack of saying MON something denotes a lack of something to say. So he's MON decided to tackle his stranger danger head on and beat his MON social anxiety. On a journey of trial and error via MON Californian tranquility gurus, life coaches, fellow MON 'panickers', dinner parties, the barbers' chair and more, MON Byron hopes that the mortal dread induced by social MON interaction will become a thing of the past. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 11:30 All Those Women b06fkd21 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON It's Maggie's 60th birthday, so bring on the surprise MON present! And also some unwelcome revelations and a lot of MON facts about ballooning... 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 David: Denis Lill MON Niamh: Isy Suttie MON Stu: Chris Pavlo MON Gareth: Stephen Critchlow MON Announcement: George Watkins MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06f4xs0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b064fz9s (Listen) MON 5 October 1915 - Alice Macknade MON MON Roy takes a surprising step to avoid being identified as a MON deserter. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON Credits MON Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell MON Roy: Tim Beckmann MON Pearl: Tim Beckmann MON Tom: Clive Hayward MON Basil: Gerry Hinks MON Roland: Jack Holden MON Maisie: Cassie Layton MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON Maggie: Hollie Thoupos MON Lilian: Alex Tregear MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06fkd26 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06f4xs2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06fkg1s (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06fkg22 (Listen) MON Franz Nopsca MON MON Franz Baron Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás was among the first MON people to think about what fossils can tell us about how MON extinct animals lived - rather than just giving them a name MON Nopcsa is therefore considered the father of palaeo-biology. MON Nopcsa described the first fossil evidence that the MON Sauropods had gone through a process of island dwarfism - MON shrinking body size over generations to adapt to living on MON islands. Nopcsa was a flamboyant character and was unafraid MON to make his more wacky and outlandish theories public and MON was also one of very few openly gay men in the early part of MON the 20th century. Paul Barrett, dinosaur research at the MON Natural History Museum, explains why Nopsca is his Natural MON History Hero. MON MON Produced by Ellie Sans. MON MON Professor Paul Barrett MON Professor Paul Barrett is a world-leading expert on the MON evolution and biology of dinosaurs and other extinct MON reptiles and has published more than 100 scientific papers MON and books. He joined the MON Natural History Museum MON in 2003 and is a Merit Researcher in the Department of MON Earth Sciences and Head of Division for Fossil Vertebrates, MON Anthropology and Micropalaeontology. Prior to this he held MON academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and MON Oxford. MON His main areas of interest are in MON the biology of plant-eating dinosaurs MON describing new dinosaurs, and in large-scale evolutionary MON processes, such as the coevolution of animals and plants MON through time. MON During the course of this work, he has travelled extensively MON to work on museum collections around the world and conducted MON fieldwork in China, the UK and South Africa. He is currently MON President of the MON Palaeontographical Society MON holds numerous editorial positions and sits on the councils MON and committees of several learned societies. MON Twitter: MON @NHMdinolab MON MON Franz Nopsca MON Franz Nopsca (1877-1933) was a Hungarian-born aristocrat who MON examined bones found by his sister on their family's estate. MON The young Nopsca established that the bones were those of a MON dinosaur but realised that they were unusually small. The MON conclusion he reached as to why had a profound impact on our MON understanding of how habitat impacted dinosaurs. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06f54rx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b06fkjm2 (Listen) MON Frankie Goes to Flensburg MON MON By Jennifer Howarth and based on a true story. In the spring MON of 1945, as the war in Europe was ending, Frank Howarth, a MON Major in the Royal Artillery and a lawyer in civilian life, MON was taken out of the frontline of the invading Allied army MON in Holland and sent with two other soldiers to Flensburg in MON Northern Germany. Their task was to set up a civilian MON administration - but what they found there was truly MON surprising. MON MON Starring Paul Popplewell and Sam Troughton, this is a moving MON account of an experience both different and unexpected for a MON Major at the end of the second world war. MON MON Directed by Celia de Wolff MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Frankie: Paul Popplewell MON Colonel: Mark Straker MON Brigadier: Kim Wall MON Major: Ian Masters MON OC: Anthony Howell MON Bert: Sam Troughton MON Sergeant Bristow: James Joyce MON Edward Ward: Anthony Calf MON Dagmar: Nelly Harker MON Writer: Jennifer Howarth MON Director: Celia de Wolff MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b06fkjm4 (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 5 MON MON Writer Jeremy Front MON Comedian Sarah Kendal MON Writer, critic and broadcaster Nicolette Jones MON Comedian and Red Dwarf actor Norman Lovett MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Jeremy Front MON Panellist: Sarah Kendal MON Panellist: Nicolette Jones MON Panellist: Norman Lovett MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06f4z3k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Manchester Ballads b06fkm2g (Listen) MON The folk singer Eliza Carthy visits Chetham's Library in MON Manchester to find out about nineteenth century broadside MON ballads, and to see if she can find a new song to perform. MON She is joined by Andrew Biswell, Professor of English at MON Manchester Metropolitan University, who is an advocate of MON the cultural value of the ballads, which were printed on a MON single sheet and sold on the streets of Manchester. She MON meets Michael Powell, Librarian of Chetham's Library, which MON is one of the oldest public libraries in the MON English-speaking world, and he tells her more about the MON collections of ballads there. Many of the ballads reflect MON the Irish community in Manchester and she goes to the site MON of Little Ireland with Professor Brian Maidment to find out MON more about the conditions there. Eliza also has a go at MON printing a ballad herself, with help from Graham Moss at the MON Incline Press in Oldham. She talks to Jennifer Reid, the MON self-styled 'pre-eminent broadside balladress of the MON Manchester region', who has collaborated with the artist MON Jeremy Deller. Jennifer and Jeremy describe their work on MON his exhibition at the recent Venice Biennale which includes MON some of the ballads. Eliza asks her guests about their MON favourites then chooses one of her own to sing. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b06fkm2k (Listen) MON The Family MON MON This week the Catholic Church began its second Synod on the MON Family. After a year of reflection and discussion, there has MON been much speculation as to what might emerge. The model for MON what constitutes a family has posed difficulties for MON Christianity down through the centuries. The greatly MON increased divorce rate, the movement for gay and lesbian MON equality; the possibility for surrogate children, all pose MON challenges for churches of all denominations which have MON longstanding theological ideas about what a family is and MON what it is for. MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the family is Dr Clare Watkins, MON Lecturer in Ministerial Theology at the University of MON Roehamption in London; the Rt Rev Alan Wilson, Anglican MON Bishop of Buckingham; and the Rev Dr Paul Middleton, Senior MON Lecturer in New Testament and Early Christianity at Chester MON University and a minister of the Church of Scotland. MON MON Producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b06fkm2r (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4xs4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b06fkm2w (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 1 MON MON Record breaking, Cologne and Street Performers get the Just MON a Minute treatment in a special edition recorded at the MON Edinburgh Festival in August 2015. Nicholas Parsons is MON joined by Janey Godley, Gyles Brandreth, Joe Lycett, and MON Paul Merton - who disrobes to display his Edinburgh Tattoo. MON Thank goodness it's Radio. Hayley Sterling blows the MON whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Janey Godley MON Panellist: Joe Lycett MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06fkm32 (Listen) MON Lynda looks for inspiration, and Neil is Mr Diplomacy. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06fkm34 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06fkd1s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Spain's Battle for the Bull b06g7rxl (Listen) MON Two sides are sharpening their swords in Spain. Between MON them, half-tonne bulls. One side wants to kill them in the MON name of culture, the other to save them in the name of MON animal rights. It's an age-old contest but the balance of MON power is changing. Spain's economic crisis has hit MON bullfighting hard. And municipal elections in May brought to MON power a number of left-wing parties bent on stopping funding MON for bullfights or even banning them altogether. Spain's MON national bullfighting association has warned that the MON tradition is in crisis. This programme goes to the rings and MON ranches where livelihoods are under threat, and asks what MON the battle for the bull says about contemporary Spain. MON MON Produced by Mark Savage. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06fkm3g (Listen) MON The Iran-Iraq War's Legacy MON MON Lyse Doucet asks how far the Middle East today is defined by MON the legacy of the Iran-Iraq war? The conflict - the longest MON convention war of the 20th century- exposed deep fault lines MON in a region still shattered by violence. Thirty five years MON after it began, Iraq has imploded. Syria too. And Iran is MON extending its influence. Lyse retells the story of the war, MON then is joined by a panel of guests to ask if the events of MON three decades ago can help us understand what's going on in MON the Middle East today? MON Guests: MON Professor Mansour Farhang : Former Ambassador to UN of the MON Islamic Republic of Iran MON Sinan Antoon: Iraqi poet and novelist MON Dr Haider al-Safi: BBC Arabic service MON Professor Ali Ansari: Historian and Director of the MON Institute for Iranian Studies, St Andrews University MON MON Producers: Mike Gallagher and Rozita Riazati. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9dx8 (Listen) MON Crocodiles MON MON Not many creatures can boast being a god, a sports logo, a MON sly trickster, a bringer of fertility, a producer of false MON tears and a comic book hero, but then not many animals have MON lived on earth for as long as the crocodile. It is a MON cold-bloodied killer, using crude techniques to crush and MON drown its prey, but it is a master of survival over millions MON of years. In the Nile, where they grow to 7 metres and 1000 MON kilogrammes, they were revered as gods; they even had their MON own city Crocodilopolis where mummified crocs were the MON subject of long, sacred rituals. Cleopatra viewed herself as MON a sexy crocodile devouring Mark Anthony. More recently they MON were used by JM Barrie in Peter Pan to bring us the much MON loved ticking time-bomb that silently chased Captain Cook. MON We are in awe of their lightning fast movements and cold, MON ruthless character. The famous tennis player Rene Lacoste MON was considered such a ferocious player he was nicknamed The MON Crocodile, and the iconic sports logo was born. Our MON relationship with crocodiles is complex, a mixture of fear MON and reverence. Today we are finding more about the MON non-predatory side of their lives - how they use tools and MON cooperate. The crocodile continues to beguile us. MON MON Dr Lorna Steel MON Dr Lorna Steel has been a curator within the Vertebrates and MON Anthropology Palaeobiology department at the MON Natural History Museum MON for nine years. She has a particular focus on fossil MON crocodiles and pterosaurs. MON Lorna’s work has been published in over 30 scientific MON journals including MON Historical Biology MON and MON Royal Society Open Science MON . MON Before joining the Museum, Lorna worked at the Dinosaur Isle MON Museum in the Isle of Wight as an Education Officer and MON Assistant Curator. MON MON MON Dr Adam Britton MON Dr Adam Britton is a Senior Research Associate at Charles MON Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, and runs the MON crocodile research consultancy MON Big Gecko MON He was born and raised in West Yorkshire, but its lack of MON toothy predators led him to a life in northern Australia MON working on crocodile behaviour, ecology, management and MON conservation for the last 19 years. MON Adam's recent work has included diving with Nile crocodiles MON in the Okavango Delta to collect DNA for a project on MON population dynamics, studying predatory behaviour by MON crocodiles on turtle nesting beaches in Far North MON Queensland, and training rangers in Australia and Indonesia MON on safe field methods to manage wild crocodile populations. MON Adam also has a strong internet presence, having MON created the Internet's first crocodile website MON in 1994, and most recently building a worldwide database of MON crocodile attacks called MON CrocBITE MON MON Amber Butchart MON Amber Butchart MON is a fashion historian working across cultural heritage, MON broadcasting and academia and presents a regular ‘In MON Conversation’ series at the V&A museum covering areas from MON Shakespeare to David Bowie. MON She is an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical MON Studies at London College of Fashion and her interest in MON antique clothing was ignited by working as Head Buyer for MON vintage clothing company Beyond Retro. MON A former Research Fellow at the University of the Arts MON London, she is regularly asked to speak on fashion and MON cultural history, and has done so at the Institute for MON Contemporary Arts, British Museum, Royal Academy, British MON Library, Wellcome Collection, Design Museum, British Film MON Institute, and is a regular on the SHOWstudio fashion week MON panels. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and MON the Association of Dress Historians. MON Picture: MON Jenny Lewis MON MON Sue Giles MON Sue Giles is Senior Curator World Cultures at MON Bristol Museum & Art Gallery MON and is responsible for various collections including MON Ethnography (Africa, Americas and Oceania) and Egyptology, MON plus Numismatics, Firearms and Maps. MON The Egyptology collection at Bristol is among the top 10 in MON the country and she has catalogued much of the collection, MON collected new material, and worked on two Egypt galleries, MON one opened in 1982 and its replacement in 2007. MON She also worked on the Bristol Mummy Project, when the MON rotting bandages of the mummy of a man named Hor-em-kenesi MON were archaeologically unwrapped from the body. She curated MON the exhibition MON Horemkenesi: may he live for ever! MON and co-edited the Bristol Mummy Project publication. MON MON Dr Salima Ikram MON Dr Salima Ikram MON is Professor of Egyptology at the American University in MON Cairo, and has worked in Egypt since 1986. She has lived in MON Pakistan, the US, UK and Egypt. MON She has directed the MON Animal Mummy Project MON co-directed the Predynastic Gallery project, and has served MON as co-director of the MON North Kharga Oasis Survey MON and as director of the North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur MON Survey. MON Dr Ikram has worked on several excavations in Egypt as well MON as in the Sudan, Greece, and Turkey. Her research interests MON are diverse, ranging from death to rock art, and is MON currently very involved with the preservation and MON presentation of cultural heritage. 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 b06fk9ph (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06f4xs6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06fkm3x (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06fkm47 (Listen) MON Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, My love, this is MON not going to end well MON MON In 'Reading Europe', Radio 4 continues its journey across MON Europe exploring the best in contemporary literature with MON this hugely successful German thriller set on a small MON cliff-top town in which everyone has a secret. MON MON Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the MON country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has MON it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one MON carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to MON protect. He has been lucky until now, but when he makes one MON fatal error, the whole dream begins to unravel. MON Today: Henry's editor - and mistress - has some news... MON Reader: Jamie Parker MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned MON screenwriters, whose award-winning crime dramas are MON television events of the year. This, his first novel, has MON been a huge bestseller in Germany. MON Translated by Imogen Taylor. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jamie Parker MON Author: Sascha Arango MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06d2j1w (Listen) MON Romance and Romanticism MON MON In a romantic edition, Michael Rosen, Dr Laura Wright and MON Professor John Mullan explore the clusters of meanings and MON differences between the words romance and the Romantic MON poets, romanticism and the romance languages. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Digital Human b01s4764 (Listen) MON Series 3, Isolation MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores our lives in the digital world. This MON week she asks, are our connected modern lives making us MON lonelier than ever? MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06f4xt9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06fkd1l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4xtc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4xtf (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4xtj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06f4xtl (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06fvm2g (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop TUE John Arnold. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06flmb9 (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 b04hkxj9 (Listen) TUE Galapagos Mockingbird TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents a bird which intrigued TUE Darwin, the Galapagos mockingbird. There are four species of TUE Mockingbird in the Galapagos islands, which probably all TUE descended from a single migrant ancestor and then TUE subsequently evolved different adaptations to life on their TUE separate island clusters, hence their fascination for TUE Charles Darwin. The most widespread is the resourceful TUE Galapagos Mockingbird. Unlike other mockingbirds which feed TUE on nectar and seeds, the Galapagos mockingbird has adapted TUE to its island life to steal and break into seabird eggs and TUE even attack and kill young nestlings. They'll also ride on TUE the backs of land iguanas to feed on ticks deep within the TUE reptiles' skin and will boldly approach tourists for foot. TUE They aptly demonstrate the theory of the "survival of the TUE fittest". TUE TUE Galapagos mockingbird (Mimus parvulus) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. TUE N TUE PL Ref 01399219 TUE © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06fwqjx (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b06flmbf (Listen) TUE Dame Carol Black TUE TUE Carol Black was an overweight child who, aged 13, put TUE herself on a diet. Now, as an expert advisor to the TUE government, she's the woman behind recent newspaper TUE headlines suggesting that obese people who refuse treatment TUE could see their benefits cut. In the last decade, Carol has TUE conducted several reviews on work and health, sickness TUE absence and how best to help people with obesity, alcohol TUE and drug problems get back into the workplace. In 2008 she TUE suggested the Sick Note should be replaced with a Fit Note TUE which states what people can do rather than what they can't. TUE Later she recommended that an independent assessor should TUE decide who is, or is not, Fit for Work. Dame Carol Black TUE talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the challenges associated with TUE advising government on these controversial issues; and how, TUE despite relative adversity and several bad decisions, she TUE achieved such a position of power and influence. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06flmc6 (Listen) TUE Steve Backshall and Ed Stafford TUE TUE Steve Backshall is one of our leading natural history TUE broadcasters; he's also an extreme sportsman who has TUE conquered some of the world's most dangerous mountains. TUE Despite suffering a severe rock-climbing injury in 2008, he TUE continues to set himself extraordinary challenges. TUE TUE For One to One Steve meets two other extreme adventurers to TUE discover what drives them to significant levels of danger TUE and physical discomfort in order to complete challenges that TUE are almost superhuman. TUE TUE In this first programme he meets Ed Stafford. Ed was the TUE first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River - TUE 6000 miles over two and a half years. Ed acknowledges that TUE explorers have a 'chink in their armour, an insecurity, a TUE fear of something in life... Doing something tangible, TUE something remarkable, enables you to prove yourself'. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06flmck (Listen) TUE Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the aftermath of the Falklands victory, Margaret TUE Thatcher's stock was rising. This period of almost five TUE years, up to the 1987 election, could be described as her TUE golden years. With a decisive majority and a pre-eminent TUE place on the world stage she could truly begin to make her TUE mark. TUE TUE Charles Moore was authorised by Margaret Thatcher to write TUE her biography on the condition that it was published after TUE her death. She also encouraged her former staff and TUE colleagues to readily offer their recollections, diaries and TUE memoirs of their time working with and for her. TUE TUE This abridgement for Radio 4 of his second volume offers a TUE series of windows onto the key events of her second term - a TUE term that was packed with challenges and drama. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE A momentous lunch at Chequers turns into a meeting with 'a TUE man we can do business with'. TUE TUE Music : TUE The music used to frame this series reflects the title of TUE the book. As the author writes, "I have called this book TUE Everything She Wants - the title of a song of the time by TUE Wham! - because it expresses Mrs Thatcher's appetite for TUE achievement and change and the degree to which she was the TUE commanding personality of the era; but, hard as she fought TUE for everything she wanted, this was not always what she TUE got." TUE Track: 'Everything She Wants' from the Wham! album Make it TUE Big, 1984 TUE TUE Read by Nicholas Farrell TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Charles Moore TUE Reader: Nicholas Farrell TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06flmct (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 b06g6rx6 (Listen) TUE 30 Eggs, Episode 2 TUE TUE Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, TUE Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return TUE to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country TUE with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheeky seven TUE year-old street orphan. The journey starts well when they TUE stumble upon a small amount of money but little Innocent TUE inadvertently spends the cash purchasing a basket of thirty TUE raw eggs during a mix up in a market melee. With their TUE peculiar bounty of raw eggs the unlikely duo set off on an TUE adventure of a life time along the rising road cresting atop TUE the many rolling hills of Rwanda. TUE A beautiful, funny and inspirational story which catapults TUE you into life in Rwanda and one remarkable journey. TUE TUE Irish writer Eoin O'Connor has spent a number of years TUE living in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. TUE Having recently returned to Ireland, Eoin is currently TUE working on two further feature scripts, a comedy, Family TUE Remains, currently in development with Grand Pictures, TUE Dublin, and a thriller set in Syria entitled Stolen, TUE currently in development with Epos Films, Dublin. TUE TUE Credits TUE Modeste: Jude Akuwudike TUE Innocent: Milanne Gordon TUE Claire: Noma Dumezweni TUE Father Boniface: Nyasha Hatendi TUE Daniel: Richard Pepple TUE Jacques: Damian Lynch TUE Assad: Josiah Choto TUE Richard: Khalil Vaughan TUE Writer: Eoin O'Connor TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9dxn (Listen) TUE Anemone TUE TUE The Natural History Museum in London owns treasures that TUE simply take your breath away. Delicate, anatomically TUE accurate and beautifully crafted glass models of anemones TUE are so realistic they look like the real thing crystallised TUE from the sea. They were made by father and son glass blowers TUE called Blaschka in the 19th century in what is now the Czech TUE Republic. Scientists could now study the internal structures TUE of these delicate animals in the days when it was difficult TUE to keep live specimens. Sadly, when the Blaschkas passed TUE away they took their secrets of glass blowing with them, but TUE they left us objects of pure wonder. These models allowed TUE ordinary people too to see the wonders beneath the sea. The TUE glass models and the beautiful paintings of anemones in TUE books by people like Philip Henry Gosse and Thomas Alan TUE Stephenson made the once hidden realm of the sea accessible TUE to all. Beach combing became more and more popular with TUE strawberry, beadlet and snakes-locks being collected in TUE their thousands for home aquaria. The Victorian craze for TUE aquariums which Gosse encouraged (he called them "glimpses TUE of the wonderful") put pressure on some places where TUE anemones grow and notable declines were recorded. Today the TUE collection of anemones for aquariums is devastating places TUE like the Philippines, especially since the Hollywood TUE blockbuster Finding Nemo was released. Bizarrely the TUE complexity of their nerves means they are more closely TUE related to humans than to flies and worms. Some species are TUE as close to immortal as you can get. Cut them in half and TUE you get two, cut off the mouth and it will grow a new one. TUE They seem to go on and on, leading some scientists to use TUE them in the search for eternal youth. Sea anemones are TUE flowers of the sea, they inspire whimsy and fancy, poetry TUE and art. TUE TUE Miranda Lowe TUE Miranda Lowe has been curating the Museum’s invertebrate TUE collection, including corals, starfish and crustacea since TUE 1991. Her work has been published in TUE Darwin-Inspired Learning TUE Journal of Natural History TUE The London Naturalist and various Natural History Museum TUE publications. TUE She is involved in many public events at the Museum that TUE promote the Museum’s science and collections to wider TUE audiences, including Nature Live sessions, Members tours and TUE VIP tours. She is also a spokesperson at TUE STEMNET TUE Science Ambassador Days in Schools. TUE TUE Dr Keith Hiscock TUE Diver and scientist Dr Keith Hiscock is an Associate Fellow TUE at the Plymouth-based TUE Marine Biological Association TUE (MBA) one of Britain’s most distinguished experts in TUE underwater conservation. TUE He became interested in sea anemones after reading books by TUE Philip Henry Gosse while at school and visiting the shores TUE he described to find those same species of anemones. He TUE started diving in 1969 and that year was the first person to TUE discover the spectacularly colourful sunset cup coral in TUE Britain at Lundy. TUE He is the author of TUE Marine Biodiversity Conservation: A Practical Approach TUE and now chairs the TUE Lundy Field Society TUE Picture: Neil Hope 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 Dr Andrew Rhyne TUE Dr Andrew Rhyne has invested his career in understanding the TUE biology of aquarium fishes and invertebrates and TUE the industry for these creatures TUE . The trade in aquarium species can be considered a data TUE limited industry and the lack of available trade data TUE hinders sustainability movements within the trade. Dr. Rhyne TUE has worked to develop solutions to this data gap. TUE He is developing methods for breeding and rearing popular TUE species in aquaria and his body of work illuminates life TUE histories, husbandry and larval rearing requirements of many TUE wild ornamental fish and invertebrate larvae. TUE He is an Associate Professor at Roger Williams University in TUE Bristol, Rhode Island, and is a Research Scientist at the TUE New England Aquarium TUE in Boston, Massachusetts. TUE TUE Professor Dan Rokhsar TUE Dan Rokhsar is Professor of Genetics, Genomics and TUE Development at the University of California, Berkeley. TUE His research is focused on understanding the origin, TUE evolution, and diversity of animals by combining TUE computational genome analysis with comparative developmental TUE biology. TUE He and his team conducted the TUE first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone TUE which revealed it to be nearly as complex as the human TUE genome. It offered major insights into the common ancestor TUE of not only humans and sea anemones, but of nearly all TUE multi-celled animals. TUE TUE Professor Rebecca Stott TUE Rebecca Stott is Professor of Literature and Creative TUE Writing at UEA and the author of several books of fiction TUE and non-fiction including a biography of the woman who TUE 'invented' the aquarium and who managed a large colony of TUE living corals in Westminster Abbey in the middle of the TUE nineteenth century. TUE The book is called TUE Theatres of Glass: The Woman who Brought the Sea to the City TUE . TUE TUE 11:30 Something Old, Something New b06flmcw (Listen) TUE What happens when your Dad's an African-American soul star TUE and your Mum's a music-loving girl from a Sheffield council TUE estate? Are your roots on the terraces at a Sheffield United TUE match, or in the stylings of a Spike Lee film? TUE TUE For writer and photographer Johny Pitts, whose parents met TUE in the heyday of Northern Soul on the dance floor of the TUE legendary King Mojo club, how he navigates his black roots TUE has always been an issue. TUE TUE Not being directly connected to the Caribbean or West TUE African diaspora culture, all he was told at school was that TUE his ancestors were slaves. In this programme, Johny heads TUE off to the USA, to trace his father's musical migration and TUE to tell an alternative story of Black British identity. TUE TUE From Pittsmore in Sheffield, to Bedford Stuyvesant in New TUE York, and all the way down to South Carolina where his TUE grandmother picked cotton, Johny Pitts makes a journey of TUE self-discovery. TUE TUE On the way, he meets author Caryl Phillips, a half sister he TUE never knew, and historian Bernard Powers. He visits the TUE Concorde Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, and the Bush TUE River Missionary Baptist Church, in Newberry, South TUE Carolina. He tracks down a whole host of long-lost cousins, TUE and talks to Pulitzer winning writer Isabel Wilkerson. TUE TUE Johny Pitts' journey shines a light on the shadows of his TUE ancestry, revealing stories and culture that bring a new TUE understanding of his own mixed race identity and history. TUE TUE Produced by Peter Meanwell TUE A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06f4xts (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b064fz77 (Listen) TUE 6 October 1915 - Gabriel Graham TUE TUE Gabriel begins to suspect Dolly Clout may not be the real TUE thing TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Esme: Katie Angelou TUE Norman Harris: Sean Baker TUE Roy: Tim Beckmann TUE Juliet: Lizzie Bourne TUE Dolly: Elaine Claxton TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Solly: Stephen Critchlow TUE Sylvia: Joanna David TUE Adeline: Helen Schlesinger TUE Maggie: Hollie Thoupos TUE Ivy: Lizzy Watts TUE Audience 1: Rhiannon Neads TUE Audience 2: Jane Slavin TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06fwr13 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06f4xtv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06fwr15 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06flmd3 (Listen) TUE Evelyn Cheesman TUE TUE Evelyn Cheesman was an entomologist and the first female TUE curator hired by London Zoo. An intrepid traveller and TUE collector who defied expectations at a time when science, TUE exploration and natural history were still heavily dominated TUE by men. A formidable character her 8 solo research trips to TUE the Islands of the Pacific South Seas left Cheesman laid low TUE by fever, septic sores, malaria and lack of food, found TUE herself trapped in spiders webs and came close to falling to TUE her death - but she always learned from her experiences and TUE had an indomitable spirit. Beulah Garner takes us into the TUE beetle collections at the Natural history museum to explain TUE why Evelyn Cheesman is her Natural History Hero. TUE TUE Produced by Ellie Sans. TUE TUE Beulah Garner TUE Beulah Garner is a senior curator of beetles at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE in London, a hyper-diverse group, with over 400,000 known TUE species. TUE Her expertise focuses on the taxonomy of the predatory TUE ground beetles, the Carabidae, as well as curating the world TUE collection which totals over 10 million specimens. She is an TUE experienced fieldworker and travels throughout the tropical TUE regions of the world to study beetles in their rainforest TUE habitats. TUE TUE Evelyn Cheeseman TUE Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) had a passion for nature and a TUE sense of adventure to match. The 70,000 specimens she TUE collected have ensured her place as a collecting founder of TUE the Natural History Museum. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06fkm32 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06flmdp (Listen) TUE Kempton and the Duke TUE TUE Kevin Whately stars as Kempton Bunton, the pensioner who TUE stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the TUE National Gallery in 1961. A new comedy drama by David TUE Spicer. TUE TUE In 1961, a portrait of the Duke of Wellington by the great TUE Spanish artist Francisco de Goya was bought by an American TUE collector for £140,000. Following a public outcry the TUE British Government stepped in, matched the bid and saved the TUE painting for the nation. TUE TUE It was put on display in the National Gallery from where, TUE three weeks later, it was stolen by Kempton Bunton - a 61 TUE year old retired lorry driver from Newcastle who was TUE protesting about having to buy a television licence. TUE TUE He was a dedicated campaigner who had already served time in TUE jail for refusing to pay for his TV licence. His plan was to TUE get the Government to pay another £140,000 for the return of TUE the painting and then use this money to buy TV licences for TUE OAPs. Once he had the painting safely stored in a wardrobe TUE at his home in Newcastle, he started writing letters TUE explaining his plan to the press and Chairman of the TUE National Gallery. However, no one took his letters TUE seriously. TUE TUE This is a play about a heist, a manhunt and a marvellously TUE English eccentric character. It also looks at art - highbrow TUE Goya versus lowbrow TV - and the relative values we place TUE upon it. Kempton Bunton was a man who, although he had a TUE 19th century masterpiece in his wardrobe, just wanted to TUE watch Emergency Ward 10 for free. TUE TUE Written by David Spicer TUE TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kempton Bunton: Kevin Whately TUE Lord Robbins: Hugh Fraser TUE Mrs Bunton: Madelaine Newton TUE Inspector Greene: Simon Greenall TUE Sergeant Entwistle: Matt Addis TUE Mr Peach: Julien Ball TUE Writer: David Spicer TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06f4vqc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b06flmf1 (Listen) TUE Lungs, Lies and Automobiles TUE TUE Have we been lied to about the quality of the air we TUE breathe? Do car manufacturers, regulators and farmers have TUE some explaining to do about their emissions to the TUE atmosphere? Tom Heap investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06flmfc (Listen) TUE Inventing Brand Names TUE TUE Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright look into how new commercial TUE brand names are invented, with Greg Rowland, the semiotician TUE who came up with the name of a new perfume for Calvin Klein. TUE Which words and sounds work, and which don't, and why? TUE Professor Will Leben talks about how his company came up TUE with the name Blackberry, and the uses of sound symbolism. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06flmfm (Listen) TUE Caroline Lucas and Rod Liddle TUE TUE Green MP Caroline Lucas and columnist Rod Liddle debate TUE books with Harriett Gilbert. Under discussion are Flight TUE Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver, Red or Dead by David Peace TUE and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. No prizes for guessing who TUE chose the novel about climate change, but there are some TUE surprises along the way. Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Caroline Lucas TUE Interviewed Guest: Rod Liddle TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06fwr17 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4xty (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06flmfv (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE The final episode of the first series of Edward Rowett's TUE sitcom - and things are looking up for Hardacre's. They may TUE still be London's worst ad agency, but business has begun to TUE trickle in. TUE TUE Moreover, thanks to a herculean effort by accounts chief TUE Amanda Brook, the agency will be featured in an article in TUE industry bible Campaign. It's a chance to answer their TUE critics and take control of their image. A reporter is TUE coming by today to interview the team, and Amanda needs them TUE at their very best. Or - failing that - their least TUE incompetent. TUE TUE But the team has other things on their mind. Like Joe's TUE divorce lawyer, who seems to have developed a sideline as a TUE blacksmith. Or their campaign for Hardacre's mysterious TUE gentlemen's club. Or why Teddy is covered in spiders. TUE TUE Or what to do when the office lift breaks down, stranding TUE Joe, Teddy, Amanda, and Hardacre between floors, with the TUE woman from Campaign due any minute. TUE TUE Starring Nigel Havers, Mathew Baynton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Rasmus Hardiker. 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 b06flmfx (Listen) TUE Eddie feels threatened, and Adam needs to hold his nerve. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06fwrcx (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06g6rx6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06flmfz (Listen) TUE Dirty Money UK TUE TUE What does the theft of a billion dollars from Europe's TUE poorest country have to do with a run-down housing estate in TUE Edinburgh? Moldova was robbed of 12% of its GDP by the TUE bafflingly complex financial scam uncovered earlier this TUE year. It involved a web of companies in the ex-Soviet TUE country, with the money thought to have ended up in Russia TUE via Latvian banks. TUE TUE But the trail also goes via a number of UK-registered TUE companies, including one based in the district of north TUE Edinburgh made famous by "Trainspotting", the novel about TUE heroin addicts. It's not the only example of Eastern TUE European fraudsters using the UK to launder their dirty TUE money in this way. So why is it allowed to happen? Why is it TUE so easy to set up an opaque shell company in the UK? And TUE what is the role of so-called company formation agents? Tim TUE Whewell investigates TUE TUE Reporter: Tim Whewell Producer: Simon Maybin. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06flmg1 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06flmg7 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series exploring health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06flmbf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06f4xv2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06fwrd5 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06flmgm (Listen) TUE Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, Don't worry, I'll TUE take care of things TUE TUE Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the TUE best in contemporary literature with this hugely successful TUE German thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which TUE everyone has a secret. TUE TUE Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the TUE country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has TUE it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one TUE carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to TUE protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream TUE begins to unravel. TUE Today: Henry prepares to meet his mistress on a remote TUE clifftop. TUE Reader: Jamie Parker TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned TUE screenwriters, whose award-winning crime dramas are TUE television events of the year. This, his first novel, has TUE been a huge bestseller in Germany. TUE Translated by Imogen Taylor. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jamie Parker TUE Author: Sascha Arango TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b06flmgr (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE A genderwar has broken out in Wunderland, the Poundland of TUE magical realms. Can the narrator help genderwar poet Penny TUE Beard to bring peace between men and women? 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 b042jcx6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Broken TUE TUE Digital devices operate in binary ways; either they're TUE working or they're a brick! Aleks Krotoski asks what this TUE means for our natural instincts as tool builders and tool TUE breakers? TUE TUE As technology becomes more resistant to prying fingers and TUE minds are we losing the ability to imagine it differently? TUE Take the dying art of tuning an engine it can make cars TUE faster and more efficient but only comes through a symbiotic TUE relationship between mechanic and machine and of course TUE every child knows the joy of taking something apart to see TUE how it works at least until they're caught doing it TUE TUE Are these the same sensibilities we see in the digital TUE world? From hacking to playing a video game in such a TUE perverse way as to see if it can be broken? Do the TUE constraints of digital technology lock us out of our TUE devices; licensing us to only use them in the prescribed TUE ways, that while convenient are also dis-empowering? TUE TUE Producer: Peter McManus. TUE TUE Professor Thomas M. Malaby TUE TUE Thomas Malaby is Professor and Chair of Anthropology in the TUE Department of Anthropology TUE at the TUE University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee TUE where he studies virtual worlds, games, institutions, and TUE indeterminacy. TUE TUE His primary interest is in the relationships among TUE institutions, unpredictability, and technology, particularly TUE as they are realized through games and game-like processes. TUE TUE Jamie Gibbon TUE Jamie Gibbon has been driving and tinkering with cars since TUE he was 12. It's a family tradition with his father building TUE and racing cars during 1940s and 50s. Jamie works on his TUE beloved Jaguars and other classic cars in his workshop in TUE the north of Glasgow. TUE TUE Edinburgh Hacklab TUE Grace Kane is a founding member of the Edinburgh Hacklab, TUE part of the worldwide movement of TUE Hackerspaces TUE – shared spaces for people who mess around with technology TUE for fun. Edinburgh Hacklab was launched on 24th August 2010 TUE and is now based at TUE Summerhall TUE on the south side of Edinburgh. If you’d like to see or use TUE the space, TUE contact TUE us or come to one of our open TUE events TUE TUE Rosa Menkman TUE Rosa Menkman TUE is a Dutch artist and theorist who likes to focus on visual TUE artifacts created by accidents in both analogue and digital TUE media. TUE TUE " The visuals I make are the result of TUE glitches TUE compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although TUE many people perceive these accidents as negative TUE experiences, I emphasize their positive consequences: I TUE believe that these artifacts facilitate an important insight TUE into the otherwise obscure world of media resolutions. " TUE TUE Kurt J. Mack TUE TUE On the 28th March 2011 Kurt J Mack loaded a new of Minecraft TUE and since then he's been walking west in search of the edge TUE of this infintelty generating universe *the farlands*. Its a TUE quest he's been sharing in a youtube game channel - TUE Farlands or Bust TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 OCTOBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06f4xw9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06flmck (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4xwc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4xwg (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4xwj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06f4xwl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06fvlf2 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop WED John Arnold. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06fmnyq (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 b04hkxn6 (Listen) WED Crested Lark WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the crested lark found from WED Europe across to China. The west coast of Europe is one edge WED of the huge range of the crested lark. Much like many larks WED it is a streaky brown bird but supports, as its name WED suggests a prominent crest of feathers on its head. Its song WED is delivered in a display flight over its territory as a WED pleasant series of liquid notes. Unlike skylarks which are WED rural birds, crested larks often nest in dry open places on WED the edge of built-up areas. Its undistinguished appearance WED and behaviour were cited by Francis of Assisi as signs of WED humility and he observed that like a humble friar, "it goes WED willingly along the wayside and finds a grain of corn for WED itself". WED WED Crested lark (Galerida cristata) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Roger Powell / naturepl.com. WED N WED PL Ref 01448172 WED © Roger Powell / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b06fvlf5 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06fmnys (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06fmnyv (Listen) WED Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants, Episode 3 WED WED In the aftermath of the Falklands victory, Margaret WED Thatcher's stock was rising. This period of almost five WED years, up to the 1987 election, could be described as her WED golden years. With a decisive majority and a pre-eminent WED place on the world stage she could truly begin to make her WED mark. WED WED Charles Moore was authorised by Margaret Thatcher to write WED her biography on the condition that it was published after WED her death. She also encouraged her former staff and WED colleagues to readily offer their recollections, diaries and WED memoirs of their time working with and for her. WED WED This abridgement for Radio 4 of his second volume offers a WED series of windows onto the key events of her second term - a WED term that was packed with challenges and drama. WED WED Episode 3: WED Arthur Scargill vs Margaret Thatcher. WED WED Music : WED The music used to frame this series reflects the title of WED the book. As the author writes, "I have called this book WED Everything She Wants - the title of a song of the time by WED Wham! - because it expresses Mrs Thatcher's appetite for WED achievement and change and the degree to which she was the WED commanding personality of the era; but, hard as she fought WED for everything she wanted, this was not always what she WED got." WED Track: 'Everything She Wants' from the Wham! album Make it WED Big, 1984 WED WED Read by Nicholas Farrell WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Charles Moore WED Reader: Nicholas Farrell WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06fmppr (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06g6sjj (Listen) WED 30 Eggs, Episode 3 WED WED Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, WED Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return WED to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country WED with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheeky seven WED year-old street orphan. The journey starts well when they WED stumble upon a small amount of money but little Innocent WED inadvertently spends the cash purchasing a basket of thirty WED raw eggs during a mix up in a market melee. With their WED peculiar bounty of raw eggs the unlikely duo set off on an WED adventure of a life time along the rising road cresting atop WED the many rolling hills of Rwanda. WED A beautiful, funny and inspirational story which catapults WED you into life in Rwanda and one remarkable journey. WED WED Irish writer Eoin O'Connor has spent a number of years WED living in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. WED Having recently returned to Ireland, Eoin is currently WED working on two further feature scripts, a comedy, Family WED Remains, currently in development with Grand Pictures, WED Dublin, and a thriller set in Syria entitled Stolen, WED currently in development with Epos Films, Dublin. WED WED Credits WED Modeste: Jude Akuwudike WED Innocent: Milanne Gordon WED Claire: Noma Dumezweni WED Father Boniface: Nyasha Hatendi WED Daniel: Richard Pepple WED Jacques: Damian Lynch WED Assad: Josiah Choto WED Richard: Khalil Vaughan WED Writer: Eoin O'Connor WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06fmsy4 (Listen) WED Glyn and Hywel - Dark Suits and Blazers WED WED Fi Glover hears two of the first basses from the Cor Meibion WED Aberystwyth consider whether or not some swaying in time to WED the music would enhance the male voice choir experience. WED Another conversation in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen, this one recorded WED in the mobile Booth on the Promenade at Aberystwyth. 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 Recycled Radio b06fmsy6 (Listen) WED Series 4, Travel WED WED Today Recycled Radio invites you on a wondrous journey. WED Famous travellers including Colin Thubron, Bruce Chatwin and WED Paul Theroux are all jostling for a seat, while presenter WED Gerald Scarfe attempts to steer the wheel. This is the WED archive hour at breakneck speed, chopped up, looped up and WED mashed up with breathtaking results. WED WED So, do four males out of five really start life predisposed WED in favour of adventure? Why does Lucy Mangan want to stay at WED home? And is that John Prescott on the last ever edition of WED Excess Baggage? WED Thought-provoking silly fun with an unusually starry cast - WED Sue MacGregor, Sir John Betjeman, Nicholas Parsons, Benedict WED Allen, Sarah Wheeler, Humphrey Lyttleton and Clive James. WED WED The producer is Miles Warde. WED WED 11:30 The Sinha Carta b051s4qh (Listen) WED Magna Carta is a document, eight hundred years old this WED year, that surprisingly few people have read, considering WED how important it is. Luckily for you, comedian and quizzer WED Paul Sinha (The Sinha Test, The Sinha Games, Paul Sinha's WED History Revision) has read it, and it turns out it's ace, WED especially if you love keeping your own timber and hate WED fishing traps in the River Medway. WED WED In The Sinha Carta, Paul will explain why what's in it is in WED it - how it came to be - and guide you through some of its WED 63 clauses of medieval Latin. He will also supply some new, WED modern clauses, for a Magna Carta fit for Britain in 2015. WED WED Written & performed by ... Paul Sinha WED Produced by ... Ed Morrish. WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06f4xwn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b064fzt6 (Listen) WED 7 October 1915 - Dorothea Winwood WED WED Dorothea writes a difficult letter to Ralph. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED Credits WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Dolly: Elaine Claxton WED Adam: Billy Kennedy WED Alec: Tom Stuart WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06fn26c (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06f4xwq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06fvlv3 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06fn26f (Listen) WED George Verrall WED WED George Verrall was an entomologist who loved lists. In a WED time when his peers were busy chasing butterflies and WED beetles Verrall made himself extremely busy attempting to WED list all the species of 'true' fly of the British Isles. His WED initial list of around 2000 flies from the late 1800's has WED been updated over the years and at the last revision WED included over 7000 species. Verrall's love of wildlife and WED his concern for the British countryside inspired him along WED with the better known naturalist Walter Rothschild to start WED buying up the fenland around Cambridge. On his death this WED land was gifted to the National Trust increasing the size of WED their very first nature reserve - Wicken Fen. Fellow fly WED expert Erica McAllister explains why Verrall is her Natural WED History Hero. WED WED Produced by Ellie Sans. WED WED Dr Erica McAlister WED Dr Erica McAlister is the Collections Manager for flies, WED fleas, spiders, and Myriapoda, the group WED containing millipedes and centipedes at the WED Natural History Museum WED in London. The collection contains 3-4 million specimens and WED is the most important type collection of flies globally and WED receives many UK and international visitors. WED She has carried out contract work for the MoD in Tajikistan, WED where she was involved in the training of mosquito WED identification and malaria incrimination over a three year WED project. She is also involved in UK Mosquito projects which WED have included incriminating for viruses and also for genomic WED resolution. WED WED George Verrall WED George Henry Verrall (1848-1911) was an entomologist who, WED along with his nephew James Edward Collin, dominated the WED study of British diptera, which is the name for the WED scientific order containing flies. WED For a century the pair formed what was probably one of the WED finest private collections of remains the most comprehensive WED single collection of British diptera. WED WED Wicken Fen WED Wicken Fen WED is one of Europe's most important wetlands and supports WED more than 8,500 species of wildlife, including a spectacular WED array of plants, birds and dragonflies. WED George Verrall originally purchased a section of it and WED bequeathed to the nation, leading to it becoming the first WED National Trust nature reserve. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06flmfx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b067w6ts (Listen) WED Frank and the Bear WED WED Written by Emily Steel and inspired by real life WED experiences. WED WED Baby Frank is just hours old when his breathing becomes WED difficult and he's whisked from his mother's arms. The WED situation is critical. Hours turn into days as the doctors WED try to make him better. Whilst they wait Frank's parents WED tell make-believe stories of their baby son and his pal WED Bear, as they desperately long for a happy ending. WED WED A truthful and emotional drama about motherhood, hope and WED endless love. WED WED Directed by Helen Perry WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Eve Myles is best known for playing Gwen Cooper in WED Torchwood, alongside her roles in Broadchurch, Belonging and WED Frankie. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Emily Steel WED Amy: Eve Myles WED Joe: Alex Beckett WED Linda: Claire Cage WED Katrina: Jaimi Barbakoff WED Bear: Lynn Hunter WED Baby: Samuel Creasey WED Director: Helen Perry WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06fvlzn (Listen) WED The loss of a loved one can be an overwhelming time WED emotionally and while financial decisions may be the last WED thing on your mind, you might be faced with paying for WED funeral costs or dealing with wills, probate and inheritance WED tax. To help you through this difficult time, Lesley Curwen WED and guests will answer your questions about the financial WED implications of bereavement. Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm WED and 3.30 pm on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED How much will a funeral cost? Adam Heath from the National WED Association of Funeral Directors will be here to talk you WED through the likely costs, from the service itself to the WED flowers and newspaper announcements, plus sources of WED financial help for those on a low income. WED WED If you're the executor of a will you may have a question WED about your role in sorting out the estate of a relative or WED friend. When and how do you apply for probate, the legal WED document which gives you the authority to share out the WED estate? What should you do about bank accounts, debts, WED inheritance tax or notifying beneficiaries? WED WED Or perhaps you want to plan your own affairs by making a WED will. What are they key considerations about property, WED investments, pension and personal possessions? Who do you WED want to provide and how can you ensure that your wishes are WED carried out after your death? WED WED Gary Rycroft, Solicitor at Joseph A Jones & Co and Alan WED Barr, Tax Practitioner at Brodies LLP in Scotland will be WED here to answer your legal questions. WED WED Whatever you need to know, presenter Lesley Curwen and WED guests will be waiting for your call. WED WED Phone lines are open from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday, call WED 03700 100 444, standard geographic call charges apply. Or WED email us at moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Money Advice Service: When Someone Dies WED Money Advice Service: Making a will and planning what to WED leave WED Citizens Advice Bureau Death and wills WED GOV.UK: Death and Benefits WED GOV.UK: Funeral Payment Claim Form WED The Bereavement Service Northern Ireland WED Turn2us WED National Association of Funeral Directors WED The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral WED Directors WED NHS Choices: Coping with Bereavement WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06flmg7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06fn26h (Listen) WED Female Serial Killers, Secular Stagnation WED WED Female Serial Killers: Although there is much written on WED male serial killers, there's less analysis of their female WED equivalent, perhaps because of their comparative rarity. WED Elizabeth Yardley, Associate Professor of Criminology at WED Birmingham City University, talks to Laurie Taylor about her WED new study into the social context in which such killings WED occur. They're joined by Lisa Downing, Professor of French WED Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Cambridge. WED WED Also Secular Stagnation: the impossibility of an economic WED future for our grandchildren? Kevin O'Rourke, the Chichele WED Professor of Economic History at All Souls College Oxford, WED discusses the recent revival of the hypothesis that 'secular WED stagnation' - negligible or zero economic growth - could WED lead to permanently depressed economies, if no policy WED counter-measures are taken. What's the history of this WED theory and how applicable is it today? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06fn26k (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06fn26m (Listen) WED PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4xws (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06fn26p (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 travelled 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 second episode he looks at Pakistan's social and WED cultural history, from its music and cinema, to its WED increasing religious conservatism as the nature of Islam in WED the country has changed through the years, all the way to WED the best brewery in Pakistan. Alright, the only brewery in WED Pakistan. 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 b06fn26r (Listen) WED Home sweet home for Fallon and Harrison? Pip feels the WED weight of responsibility. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06fn26t (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06g6sjj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 The Bottom Line b06jt518 (Listen) WED Crisis at VW: A Bottom Line Special WED WED Volkswagen is dealing with a corporate crisis following the WED emissions rigging scandal. Evan Davis and guests discuss. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06fngrq (Listen) WED Why Run? WED WED In this thoughtful essay Adharanand Finn provides a subtle WED answer to a simple question: why do we run? After all, he WED says, "running is hard. It requires effort. And after all WED the pain you usually end up right back where you started, WED having run in a big, pointless circle". WED WED With reference to childhood, hunter-gatherers and even the WED monks of mount Hiei, who run the equivalent of 1,000 WED marathons in 1,000 days, Adharanand arrives at an answer: WED running brings us joy. Recorded at the End of the Road music WED festival. WED WED Producer: Richard Knight. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06flmf1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06fmnys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06fvlzq (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06fnh5m (Listen) WED Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, Darling, can you WED guess how it ends? WED WED Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the WED best in contemporary literature with this bestselling German WED thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which everyone WED has a secret. WED WED Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the WED country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has WED it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one WED carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to WED protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream WED begins to unravel. WED Today: After the incident on the cliff, Henry has a most WED unexpected visitor. WED Reader: Jamie Parker WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned WED screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge WED bestseller in Germany. WED Translated by Imogen Taylor. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jamie Parker WED Author: Sascha Arango WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 The Celebrity Voicemail Show b06fnh5p (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 controversial WED newspaper columnist, Katie Hopkins. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Kayvan Novak WED Writer: Kayvan Novak WED Producer: Matt Stronge WED WED 23:15 Dreaming the City b02224wv (Listen) WED Ashes WED WED Four journeys into the dark, recurring dreams of the city. WED In each episode, leading writers collaborate with WED documentary-makers Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta to WED uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life. WED WED Episode 1: Ashes by Craig Taylor. WED WED When an urban explorer suffers a fatal accident, two friends WED are charged with the task of scattering his ashes. They WED travel to London and revisit the derelict buildings, river WED barges and train sidings he used to explore, to find the WED most appropriate location for his final resting place. WED WED These experimental radio features blend archive, fiction and WED documentary footage. What's real and what's fiction becomes WED unclear, just like in the city. WED WED A city isn't just a location on the map, it's a place we WED imagine, dream about, invent. A place to love, to endure or WED to resent. A place where you can find anything - but it WED always has a price. WED WED You don't need to live in a city - it's part of the WED universal imagination. But the way we think of it has common WED dark undertones, recurring dreams that come round again and WED again. These late night woozy dreamscapes uncover those WED unsaid obsessions, each taking a different theme, and WED question why these ideas seem to keep coming back in the way WED we imagine urban living. WED WED Featuring the voice of Joseph Kloska. WED WED Producers: Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Joseph Kloska WED Producer: Russell Finch WED Producer: Francesca Panetta WED Writer: Craig Taylor WED WED 23:30 Digital Human b01nt3y2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Last Word WED WED At the Digital Death Day Aleks meets with Vered Shavit from WED Israel who having dealt with her late brother's digital WED legacy set up a website called Digital Dust to help others WED going through the same experience. WED WED Hearing Vered's story Alek's asks how are we using the web WED to adapt the rituals that we have used for centuries to help WED us transition between the living and the dead? WED WED Aleks discovers that since Vered's brother's death people WED continue to communicate with him through his Facebook WED profile. Dr Elaine Kasket a Counselling Psychologist who WED practices psychotherapy with the bereaved likens Facebook to WED a modern day medium. She also explains how Facebook is WED enabling people to continue bonds with the deceased. WED WED The distinction between our physical selves and mental WED states is a philosophical construction, but it signifies a WED line in the sand between those who believe our bodies make WED us human and those who define humanity by our thoughts and WED social lives. But after our death can our persisting digital WED selves continue our presence for those left behind? WED WED Produced by Kate Bissell. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06f4xxs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06fmnyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4xxv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4xxx (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4xxz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06f4xy1 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06fpvnf (Listen) THU A special Prayer for the Day marking National Poetry day THU with Simon Russell Beale. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06fnjlh (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkypv (Listen) THU Echo Parakeet THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the echo parakeet found only THU in Mauritius, a bird which has brushed extinction by its THU wingtips. This once familiar bird of the island of Mauritius THU will only nest in large trees with suitable holes, few of THU which remain after widespread deforestation on the island. A THU close relative of the more adaptable ring necked parakeet THU found now across southern Britain where it's been THU introduced, by the 1980's the wild population of echo THU parakeets numbered around ten birds. Threatened with THU extinction in the wild, captive breeding and successful THU releases into the wild have stabilised the population to THU about three hundred birds. THU THU Echo parakeet (Psittacula eques) THU THU The echo parakeet is also know as Mauritius parakeet. THU Webpage image courtesy of John Morgan / Durrell.org. THU © John Morgan / Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust THU THU Recording of echo parakeet by Jon P Erickson / Ref: ML THU 167641 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the echo parakeet THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Jon P Erickson on 28 Apr 2010, THU in "Camp" Field Station, River Black Gorges National Park, THU Mauritius. THU THU THU THU THU THU 06:00 Today b06fpvnh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 We British b06g1m60 (Listen) THU Foundation Stones THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National THU Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our story. THU THU In this opening episode Andrew looks at the various origins THU of our story found in some of the earliest verses written in THU these islands. Then he plunges into the majestic weirdness THU and strange familiarity of the medieval world. Before, in THU the figure of Chaucer he finds the first stirrings of an THU English ascendancy. THU THU With Simon Armitage, Patience Agbabi, Gillian Clarke, Carol THU Ann Duffy and Jacob Polley. THU THU We'll hear the origins of our British poetry, and of our THU national character, in poems like The Ruin, Y Goddodin and THU the Canterbury Tales. And fans of Lord of the Rings and King THU Arthur will recognise the mediaeval landscapes of Sir Gawain THU and the Green Knight. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06fnjlt (Listen) THU Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants, Episode 4 THU THU In the aftermath of the Falklands victory, Margaret THU Thatcher's stock was rising. This period of almost five THU years, up to the 1987 election, could be described as her THU golden years. With a decisive majority and a pre-eminent THU place on the world stage she could truly begin to make her THU mark. THU THU Charles Moore was authorised by Margaret Thatcher to write THU her biography on the condition that it was published after THU her death. She also encouraged her former staff and THU colleagues to readily offer their recollections, diaries and THU memoirs of their time working with and for her. THU THU This abridgement for Radio 4 of his second volume offers a THU series of windows onto the key events of her second term - a THU term that was packed with challenges and drama. THU THU Episode 4: THU The Iron Lady and the Queen. THU THU Music : THU The music used to frame this series reflects the title of THU the book. As the author writes, "I have called this book THU Everything She Wants - the title of a song of the time by THU Wham! - because it expresses Mrs Thatcher's appetite for THU achievement and change and the degree to which she was the THU commanding personality of the era; but, hard as she fought THU for everything she wanted, this was not always what she THU got." THU Track: 'Everything She Wants' from the Wham! album Make it THU Big, 1984 THU THU Read by Nicholas Farrell THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Charles Moore THU Reader: Nicholas Farrell THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06fpwx3 (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 b06g6t40 (Listen) THU 30 Eggs, Episode 4 THU THU Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, THU Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return THU to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country THU with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheeky seven THU year-old street orphan. The journey starts well when they THU stumble upon a small amount of money but little Innocent THU inadvertently spends the cash purchasing a basket of thirty THU raw eggs during a mix up in a market melee. With their THU peculiar bounty of raw eggs the unlikely duo set off on an THU adventure of a life time along the rising road cresting atop THU the many rolling hills of Rwanda. THU A beautiful, funny and inspirational story which catapults THU you into life in Rwanda and one remarkable journey. THU THU Irish writer Eoin O'Connor has spent a number of years THU living in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. THU Having recently returned to Ireland, Eoin is currently THU working on two further feature scripts, a comedy, Family THU Remains, currently in development with Grand Pictures, THU Dublin, and a thriller set in Syria entitled Stolen, THU currently in development with Epos Films, Dublin. THU THU Credits THU Modeste: Jude Akuwudike THU Innocent: Milanne Gordon THU Claire: Noma Dumezweni THU Father Boniface: Nyasha Hatendi THU Daniel: Richard Pepple THU Jacques: Damian Lynch THU Assad: Josiah Choto THU Richard: Khalil Vaughan THU Writer: Eoin O'Connor THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06fpwx5 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 We British b06g1m62 (Listen) THU The Rise of England THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. To celebrate THU National Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our THU story. In this episode Andrew Marr examines the long 16th THU century - from the rise of the Tudors to the elegance of THU Shakespeare. The 16th century is as elegant and brutal as a THU deft execution. This is a story of English power - THU entrenched in the South East of the country and never really THU relinquished. But also of Scottish elegance - the poets of THU the age reading and re-writing Virgil and the classics long THU before their Southern brethren. THU THU Joining Andrew are a great cast of poets, historians and THU experts who help guide us through this golden age of poetry. THU THU Black Country poet Liz Berry opens the programme, reclaiming THU Shakespeare for the Midlands with Sonnet 18 - 'Shall I THU compare thee to a summer's day?'. THU THU We follow the path of Tudor aggression to Ireland, where THU professor Andy Orchard explores Seamus Heaney's THU reinterpretation of one of the great Irish anti-colonial THU poems: Brothers. And we observe the rise of power in the THU South East as Barry Rutter, founder of Northern Broadsides THU theatre company, describes his theatrical rebellion against THU it. THU THU Diane Purkiss takes us to the heart of Tudor London: poets THU like Isabella Whitney chronicling the growth of the city, THU it's wealth and its dangers. We hear the torment of one the THU earliest-known female poets, Anne Askew, as she prepares to THU be burned at the stake. THU THU A high-water mark in poetic brilliance is reached, as the THU sonnet arrives on these shores. Poet Don Paterson reads one THU of his own, and we hear Ben Jonson's extraordinary sonnet THU written for his dead son. THU THU And do you know which Scottish poet outshone Shakespeare in THU his day? Professor Robert Crawford introduces us to George THU Buchanan. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06f4xy3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:03 We British b06gymyn (Listen) THU The People's Shipping Forecast THU THU The poet Murray Lachlan-Young presents his own poetic take THU on the Shipping Forecast. THU THU 12:06 Home Front b064g04b (Listen) THU 8 October 1915 - Sylvia Graham THU THU Sylvia Graham finds her family at the centre of an THU unexpected theatrical incident THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU Credits THU Sylvia: Joanna David THU Esme: Katie Angelou THU Norman Harris: Sean Baker THU Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw THU Juliet: Lizzie Bourne THU Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown THU Sid: Gerry Hinks THU Adeline: Helen Schlesinger THU Ivy: Lizzy Watts THU Audience 1: Rhiannon Neads THU Audience 2: Jane Slavin THU Audience 3: Alex Tregear THU Audience 4: Clive Hayward THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:18 You and Yours b06fvgpy (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06f4xy5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06fvgq0 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark THU Mardell. THU THU 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06fnjlw (Listen) THU Alfred Russel Wallace THU THU Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the co-publisher of THU the theory of evolution by Natural Selection along with THU Charles Darwin. Yet this most famous of his achievements THU should not eclipse his equally important contributions to THU science. The 'father' of the study of evolutionary THU biogeography - the Wallace line is the place where the THU biogeography of Asia becomes distinct from Australia. Well THU known in his time as an explorer, collector, naturalist, THU geographer, anthropologist and political commentator Wallace THU was above all driven by a wonder and enchantment for the THU natural world that would be considered childlike if it THU weren't for the hugely important contribution he made to THU further our understanding of the natural world. Entomologist THU George Beccaloni explains why Alfred Russel Wallace is his THU Natural History Hero. THU THU Produced by Ellie Sans. THU THU Dr George Beccaloni THU Dr George Beccaloni is curator of the THU Natural History Museum THU London’s collection of cockroaches, termites, praying THU mantids, earwigs, ice crawlers, stick insects, grasshoppers, THU crickets and bush crickets. He also curates the historic THU A. R. Wallace Insect Collection THU - a grand total of about 790,000 specimens both dry pinned THU and in spirit. THU In 1999, he set up the THU A.R. Wallace Memorial Fund THU and in 2002 he played a key role in helping the Natural THU History Museum’s library acquire the world's largest and THU most important collection of Wallace’s manuscripts, books THU and insect specimens from his grandsons, made up of more THU than 6,000 items. He is also the director of the THU Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project THU THU Alfred Russel Wallace THU Alfred Russel Wallace was a worldwide celebrity when he died THU in 1913 only for his name to fall into relative obscurity in THU the years since. George Beccaloni and others have worked THU hard to make sure he now gets the recognition he deserves. THU THU Bronze Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace THU The only statue in the world of Alfred Russel Wallace stands THU outside the Darwin centre at the Natural History Museum. The THU money for the statue was raised by George Beccaloni. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06fn26r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 We British b06g1m64 (Listen) THU Things Fall Apart THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National THU Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our story. THU THU Episode three watches the world fall apart as Britain THU descends into war. Elizabeth I is dead. The Scottish King THU has inherited the English throne. After the Tudor age, came THU the greatest crisis in British history - civil war, THU religious fanaticism, King Vs Parliament, family vs family, THU faith vs faith in all corners of the land. As the poet John THU Donne bewailed "'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone". THU THU But this period of turbulence produced some of Britain's THU finest poetry; we hear great poems by Andrew Marvell, George THU Herbert, John Donne and John Milton, together with lesser THU known works by Anne Bradstreet and Margaret Cavendish. THU THU With readings by Fiona Shaw, Alice Oswald, Barrie Rutter and THU Simon Russell Beale. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b06fnkdg (Listen) THU Series 31, Nun Appleton House, North Yorkshire THU THU Clare Balding goes in search of Nun Appleton House in North THU Yorkshire, the subject of one of Andrew Marvells most famous THU poems. She's accompanied by contemporary landscape poet, THU John Wedgwood Clarke and Stewart Mottram a Lecturer in THU Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Hull University. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: John Wedgwood Clarke THU Interviewed Guest: Stewart Mottram THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06f4z39 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 We British b06g1m6b (Listen) THU Restoration to Revolution THU THU The British are a people of poetry. On National Poetry Day, THU Andrew Marr is using the best British poems to tell our THU story. Episode 4 brings us into the 18th century. An age in THU which we tried hard to be civilised whilst enjoying the fact THU that we were not. The Age of Reason? No - an uneasy peace, THU not sedate, or reasonable, or ordered, and least of all THU enlightened. With literary scholars, John Mullan and Judith THU Hawley, the cartoonist Martin Rowson and a song from the THU times sung by Lucie Skeaping. Reader: Siobhan Redmond. THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06fvgq2 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 We British b06g1mcd (Listen) THU Hopeful Romantics THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National THU Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our story. THU THU The British are supposedly poor at romance, but they make THU excellent Romantics. The Romantics dominate our sense of THU what a poet is. Infact they loom pretty large in our sense THU of what an individual is. An outpouring of poetic genius not THU seen before or since. Yet this might just be the period when THU poetry went completely off the rails. THU THU With Richard Holmes and Lucy Newlyn. Poems by Wordsworth, THU Byron, Coleridge and Clare and a new one by Andrew Motion; THU plus the archteypal romantic artist - a singing nightingale. THU Reader: Siobhan Redmond. THU THU 17:00 PM b06fvgq6 (Listen) THU PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4xy7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:29 We British b06gyppz (Listen) THU The People's Shipping Forecast THU THU The poet Murray Lachlan-Young reads a poetic reimagining of THU the Shipping Forecast, based on listeners' suggestions. THU THU 18:31 The Brig Society b06fnkdj (Listen) THU Series 3, The Housing Crisis THU THU In this nicely-furnished affordable programme with very THU attractive views, Marcus Brigstocke decides to solve the THU housing crisis. He'll also be building a basement under the THU studio and knocking down a party wall he shares with The THU Archers. THU THU With him on the show are stay-at-home twenty-somethings THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry THU I've Got No Head") and Tom Crowley, all of whom should THU really have fled the nest by now. 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 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 b06fnkdl (Listen) THU Rob is in a sharing mood, and Jazzer misses his usual THU comforts. THU THU 19:15 We British b06g1mn7 (Listen) THU Previously on We British THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National THU Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our story. To THU start the evening Andrew presents a recap of the highlights THU of the day. THU THU 19:35 We British b06g1mn9 (Listen) THU The Victorians THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National THU Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our story. By THU the middle of the evening Andrew has reached the Victorian THU Age accompanied by Sir Ian McKellen, Siobhan Redmond, Dinah THU Birch, Daljit Nagra, Michael Rosen & Matthew Sweet THU THU The Victorians were a confident bunch but also terribly THU anxious. 'Play up, play up and play the game' pales against THU the tectonic anxiety of poems like Dover Beach. And we are THU still caught in Victorian dilemmas about capitalism, social THU justice, colonialism, marriage, science and faith. THU THU We'll be guided through the 19th century by poems like THU Tennyson's In Memoriam, Edward Lear's The Owl and the THU Pussycat, and Modern Love - George Meredith's portrait of a THU failing marriage; and we'll hear Victorians at their most THU unbuttoned in Elizabeth Barratt-Browning's seduction poem, THU Lord Walter's Wife. THU THU 20:15 We British b06g1nfp (Listen) THU 20th-Century Jukebox THU THU The British are brilliant at writing poems. On National THU Poetry Day, Andrew Marr is using them to tell our story. The THU 20th century arrives and so does the BBC archive. Simon THU Armitage, Juliet Gardiner, Kate Tempest, Kei Miller and Glyn THU Maxwell help Andrew to paint a fresh portrait of the 20th THU century in poems. THU THU 21:15 We British b06g1nfr (Listen) THU The Afterparty THU THU Contemporary poetry and music broadcast live from the Radio THU theatre to celebrate the final act of We British: A Epic in THU Poetry will include live poetry performed by some of our new THU and best loved British poets including Simon Armitage, Mike THU Garry, Hollie McNish and Roger McGough. Music is provided by THU singer/songwriter Ricky Ross and Pauline Black of the THU Selecter. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06fvkbr (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06fnkqq (Listen) THU Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, We've found your THU wife THU THU Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the THU best in contemporary literature with this hugely successful THU German thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which THU everyone has a secret. THU THU Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the THU country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has THU it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one THU carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to THU protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream THU begins to unravel. THU Today: as the search for his wife begins on the windswept THU local beach, Henry prepares to tell his mistress what really THU happened on the cliffs. THU Reader: tbc THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned THU screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge THU bestseller in Germany. THU Translated by Imogen Taylor. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jamie Parker THU Author: Sascha Arango THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 BBC Inside Science b06fvgq4 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 23:30 Digital Human b04mc1hf (Listen) THU Series 6, Abandon THU THU What happens when we abandon a place? And why is it so THU difficult for us to leave these places behind? THU In this episode, Aleks explores abandon both on and offline. THU We tell the story of the only permanent resident of THU Fukushima's radiation exclusion zone. Naoto Matsura stayed THU in Tomioka while everyone around him fled. He's now the THU unofficial caretaker of this abandoned town. THU THU Aleks contrasts this with a remarkable example of digital THU abandon. Meridian 59 was the first massively multiplayer THU online game. When newer competitors arrived on the scene, THU many players left. The game has been abandoned and restarted THU several times over since. Aleks hears from the hardcore THU community of players who refuse to let the game disappear THU entirely. THU THU Alastair Bonnett THU Alastair Bonnett THU is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University and THU author of THU ' THU Off the Map: Lost Space, Feral Places and Invisible Cities THU and What They Tell Us About the World' THU THU He explains why people are so drawn to abandoned places, as THU well as the psychological and spiritual hold they have on THU us. THU THU Marie Mutsuki Mockett THU Marie Matsuki Mockett THU author of THU ' THU Where the Dead Pause the Japanese Say Goodbye' THU tells us about her relative who remained in the THU Fukishima exclusion zone after the tsunami and nuclear THU disaster to care for the Buddhist temple, and the ancestors THU who will ever remain in the abandoned town. THU THU Naoto Matsumura THU Naoto Matsumura THU was the sole person to remain in Tomioka city. He tells us THU about life after the nuclear disaster, why he remains to THU care for the animals and what life is in like in the THU abandoned city. THU THU Andrew Kirmse THU Andrew Kirmse THU with his brother Chris, co-created THU Meridian 59 THU one of the very first graphical MMOs. THU THU THU THU He tells us about the fantasy world's massive popularity in THU it's hayday, the decline and shut down of the world, and why THU he revived the game as an open source platform allowing the THU die-hard members of the community to play and reconnect. THU THU Matt Dymerski THU Sci-fi and horror author THU Matt Dymerski THU was a player, and developer of, Meridian 59. He tells us THU about the boom times for the game, and how the community THU reacted when the world was shut down. THU THU Idajean Fisher THU Idajean Fisher is an engineer and one of the original THU Meridian 59 players. She explains why the community was a THU greater draw than the hack and slash adventure, and what THU happened when it was torn asunder by the shut down. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06f4xz8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06fnjlt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06f4xzb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06f4xzd (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06f4xzg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06f4xzj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06fpy7n (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop FRI John Arnold. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06fpyzb (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04kjgy6 (Listen) FRI Pied Butcherbird FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the virtuoso songster the FRI pied butcherbird of Australia. Australian parks, gardens FRI resonate to the flute like calls of a medium sized black and FRI white bird with stout blue-grey bills, and a black hood. FRI They earned their name 'butcherbird' from their habit of FRI storing prey by impaling it onto thorns or in a tree crevice FRI before feeding on it with their hooked bill. They can sing FRI for up to twenty minutes at a time, appearing to improvise FRI as they perform a mellifluous, but unpredictable performance FRI which they deliver as a solo or a duet with another FRI butcherbird. Australian composer David Lumsdaine, described FRI its call as..... "a virtuoso of composition and FRI improvisation". FRI FRI Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of William Osborne / naturepl.com. FRI NPL Ref 01130597 FRI © William Osborne / naturepl.com. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06fpy7q (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06f4z3h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06fntm5 (Listen) FRI Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the aftermath of the Falklands victory, Margaret FRI Thatcher's stock was rising. This period of almost five FRI years, up to the 1987 election, could be described as her FRI golden years. With a decisive majority and a pre-eminent FRI place on the world stage she could truly begin to make her FRI mark. FRI FRI Charles Moore was authorised by Margaret Thatcher to write FRI her biography on the condition that it was published after FRI her death. She also encouraged her former staff and FRI colleagues to readily offer their recollections, diaries and FRI memoirs of their time working with and for her. FRI FRI This abridgement for Radio 4 of his second volume offers a FRI series of windows onto the key events of her second term - a FRI term that was packed with challenges and drama. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI What was she really like? FRI FRI Music : FRI The music used to frame this series reflects the title of FRI the book. As the author writes, "I have called this book FRI Everything She Wants - the title of a song of the time by FRI Wham! - because it expresses Mrs Thatcher's appetite for FRI achievement and change and the degree to which she was the FRI commanding personality of the era; but, hard as she fought FRI for everything she wanted, this was not always what she FRI got." FRI Track: 'Everything She Wants' from the Wham! album Make it FRI Big, 1984 FRI FRI Read by Nicholas Farrell FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Charles Moore FRI Reader: Nicholas Farrell FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06fpy4m (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 b06g6vn8 (Listen) FRI 30 Eggs, Episode 5 FRI FRI Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, FRI Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return FRI to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country FRI with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheeky seven FRI year-old street orphan. The journey starts well when they FRI stumble upon a small amount of money but little Innocent FRI inadvertently spends the cash purchasing a basket of thirty FRI raw eggs during a mix up in a market melee. With their FRI peculiar bounty of raw eggs the unlikely duo set off on an FRI adventure of a life time along the rising road cresting atop FRI the many rolling hills of Rwanda. FRI A beautiful, funny and inspirational story which catapults FRI you into life in Rwanda and one remarkable journey. FRI FRI Irish writer Eoin O'Connor has spent a number of years FRI living in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. FRI Having recently returned to Ireland, Eoin is currently FRI working on two further feature scripts, a comedy, Family FRI Remains, currently in development with Grand Pictures, FRI Dublin, and a thriller set in Syria entitled Stolen, FRI currently in development with Epos Films, Dublin. FRI FRI Credits FRI Modeste: Jude Akuwudike FRI Innocent: Milanne Gordon FRI Claire: Noma Dumezweni FRI Father Boniface: Nyasha Hatendi FRI Daniel: Richard Pepple FRI Jacques: Damian Lynch FRI Assad: Josiah Choto FRI Richard: Khalil Vaughan FRI Writer: Eoin O'Connor FRI FRI 11:00 Two Men and a Mule b06fntmd (Listen) FRI To the Last City of the Incas FRI FRI Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen, along with their trusty FRI mule Washington, continue their exploration of Peru's Inca FRI past as they journey from the high Andes, deep down into the FRI steamy Amazon jungle, searching for Espíritu Pampa, the FRI extraordinary Last City of the Incas. FRI FRI Espiritu Pampa means 'the Pampa of Ghosts' and this romantic FRI and evocative site has been a magnet for every explorer in FRI this part of Peru since Hiram Bingham, with its enormous FRI plaza so overgrown that it is impossible to see from side to FRI side, its towering ceiba trees and jungle birds like the FRI oropendula with their long, looping calls. This is where the FRI Incas escaped when on the run from the Spanish conquistadors FRI in the 16th Century, and where the very last Inca emperor, FRI Tupac Amaru, was finally captured and brought back to be FRI executed in the main square of Cuzco. FRI FRI Produced by Ruth Evans FRI A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Shush! b06fntmg (Listen) FRI New Romantics FRI FRI A wandering poet, a bottle of Calpol and some Roman bathing FRI techniques cause trouble for Snoo and Alice. And just what FRI is Dr Cadogan's unexpected skill? 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 Rebecca Front and Morwenna Banks 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 Writer: Morwenna Banks FRI Writer: Rebecca Front FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06f4xzl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b064g0nr (Listen) FRI 9 October 1915 - Lilian Frost FRI FRI Lilian Frost sees Roland in a new light. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lilian: Alex Tregear FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Percy: Chris Pavlo FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06fpy4p (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06f4xzn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06fpy4t (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Natural History Heroes b06fnw13 (Listen) FRI Antoni van Leeuwenhoek FRI FRI The development of the microscope unlocked the tiny and FRI enchanting world of microorganisms. Antony van Leeuwenhoek, FRI a draper with an interest in the natural world spent 50 FRI years making his own lenses and developing unique techniques FRI to light and view his subjects. Leeuwenhoek's descriptions FRI of the movements and appearance of the organisms he FRI observed, some of which he scraped from his teeth, are FRI remarkably accurate given that the single lens he viewed FRI them through was tiny itself - only 1mm in diameter. He was FRI the first person to see a red blood corpuscle, bacteria and FRI sperm. His observations led to the conclusion that FRI fertilisation occurred at the point that an individual sperm FRI cell penetrates the egg. With lenses that were almost FRI microscopic in size themselves Leeuwenhoek opened up a FRI miniature world captivating and disturbing the public in FRI equal measure. Scientist Andrew Parker explains why the FRI father of microbiology is his Natural History Hero. FRI FRI Produced by Ellie Sans. FRI FRI Professor Andrew Parker FRI Professor Andrew Parker is a Research Leader at the FRI Natural History Museum FRI His main research involves biomimetics - learning from FRI nature to improve industrial products and businesses. At the FRI Museum he specialises in colour, particularly structural FRI colour, and water management surfaces in nature. FRI He is also interested in the origin and evolution of vision FRI and visual systems. FRI FRI Antoni van Leeuwenhoek FRI Portrait of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek painted by Jan_Verkolje. FRI Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is considered the father of FRI microbiology, using his tiny lenses to open up the FRI microscopic world. FRI FRI Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope FRI Van Leeuwenhoek made his unique lenses by a variety of FRI methods and mounted them between two plates of metal. Most FRI of the microscopes made by van Leeuwenhoek have been lost. FRI This replica was made for the FRI Royal Society FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06fnkdl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06fpbxf (Listen) FRI Cuttin' It FRI FRI Charlene James won the Alfred Fagon Award for 'Best Play' FRI and the George Devine Award for 'Most Promising Playwright' FRI for her taut drama set in South London. FRI FRI Two Somali teenagers, Muna and Iqra, go to the same school. FRI They are from the same place but they are strangers; FRI strangers who share a secret embedded in their culture. FRI FRI Director ..... Jessica Brown. FRI FRI Find out more about the Awards FRI Alfred Fagon award for best new play of the year FRI George Devine award for most promising playwright FRI FRI Credits FRI Muna: Susan Wokoma FRI Iqra: Nahel Tzegai FRI Mr Dennis: Chris Pavlo FRI Muna's Mother: Suheba Mohammed FRI Leyla: Hermione Amoah-Alexander FRI Writer: Charlene James FRI Director: Jessica Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06fpbxh (Listen) FRI Beaulieu Motor Museum FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the FRI Beaulieu Motor Museum in The New Forest. FRI FRI Bob Flowerdew, Matt Biggs, and Pippa Greenwood answer FRI questions from the audience of local gardeners. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Enduring Land - Extracts from Sunset Song FRI b06fpbxk (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI One of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th FRI century, Sunset Song follows the childhood and coming of age FRI of its heroine Chris Guthrie in rural Aberdeenshire. Set at FRI the beginning of the last century, the novel is a FRI beautifully wrought depiction of a rural community coming to FRI terms with a rapidly changing modern world and the FRI devastating impact of the Great War. FRI FRI The extracts focus on Chris coming into her womanhood: the FRI first shows her inheriting the farm in its entirety from her FRI father, meeting and falling for Ewan Tavendale; the second, FRI after he enlists, his return from military training, FRI brutalised; and the third, the final pages from the book, in FRI which Chris learns of his fate at the Front. FRI FRI Terence Davies's eagerly anticipated film of Lewis Grassic FRI Gibbon's classic get its UK premiere at the London Film FRI Festival on 15th October and will go on general release at FRI the beginning of December. FRI FRI Reader: Hannah Donaldson FRI FRI Writer: Lewis Grassic Gibbon FRI FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06fpyzd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06fpbxm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06fpc93 (Listen) FRI Harry and John - Chelsea Pensioners FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two residents of the Royal Hospital FRI Chelsea, reflecting on their life there, and whether or not FRI they will remain there after they've passed on... Another FRI conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI 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 b06fpyzg (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06f4xzq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06fpc99 (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 4 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06fpc9f (Listen) FRI The Grundy boys are on their guard, and Ruth is keeping FRI busy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes 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 Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06fpz3r (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06g6vn8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06fpcgb (Listen) FRI David Aaronovitch, Diane Abbott MP, Charles Moore, Grant FRI Shapps MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Therfield College in Leatherhead, Surrey, with a panel FRI including The Times columnist David Aaronovitch, Shadow FRI Secretary of State for International Development, Diane FRI Abbott MP, Charles Moore the political journalist and FRI authorised biographer for Margaret Thatcher and FRI Internationanl Development Minister Grant Shapps MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06fpcgd (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g17k (Listen) FRI 5-9 October 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the Epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week, as individual losses FRI in Folkestone increasingly fuelled an interest in FRI spiritualism. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam: Billy Kennedy FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Alec: Tom Stuart FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Audience 1: Rhiannon Neads FRI Audience 2: Jane Slavin FRI Audience 3: Alex Tregear FRI Audience 4: Clive Hayward FRI Basil: Gerry Hinks FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Lilian: Alex Tregear FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Maisie: Cassie Layton FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Percy: Chris Pavlo FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Roy: Tim Beckmann FRI Pearl: Tim Beckmann FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Sid: Gerry Hinks FRI Solly: Stephen Critchlow FRI Sylvia: Joanna David FRI Tom: Clive Hayward FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06f4xzt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06fwxmq (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06fpcgg (Listen) FRI Reading Europe - The Truth and Other Lies, No corpse is FRI beautiful FRI FRI Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the FRI best in contemporary literature with this bestselling German FRI thriller set on a small cliff-top town, in which everyone FRI has a secret. FRI FRI Famous novelist, with a beautiful wife, grand house in the FRI country and more money than he can spend - Henry Hayden has FRI it all. Or so it seems. His perfect life rests on one FRI carefully constructed lie, a lie he will stop at nothing to FRI protect. But when he makes one fatal error, the whole dream FRI begins to unravel. FRI Today: An unexpected encounter on the way to the mortuary. FRI Reader: Jamie Parker FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Writer: Sascha Arango is one of Germany's most renowned FRI screenwriters. This, his first novel, has been a huge FRI bestseller in Germany. FRI Translated by Imogen Taylor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jamie Parker FRI Author: Sascha Arango FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06flmfm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Digital Human b04p7yg3 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Ethics FRI FRI If a driverless car has to choose between crashing you into FRI a school bus or a wall who do you want to be programming FRI that decision? Aleks Krotoski explores ethics in technology. FRI FRI Join Aleks as she finds out if it's even possible for a FRI device to 'behave' in a morally prescribed way through FRI looking at attempts to make a smart phone 'kosher'. But FRI nothing captures the conundrum quite like the ethical FRI questions raised by driverless cars and it's the issues they FRI raise that she explores with engineer turned philosopher FRI Jason Millar and robot ethicist Kate Darling. FRI FRI Professor of law and medicine Sheila MacLean offers a FRI comparison with how codes of medical ethics were developed FRI before we hear the story of Gus a 13 year old whose world FRI was transformed by SIRI. FRI FRI Producer Peter McManus. FRI FRI Jason Millar FRI Jason FRI was an engineer before returning to the academic world to FRI pursue philosophy studies at Queen’s University at Kingston, FRI and he teaches a 3rd year undergraduate course in Robot FRI Ethics at Carleton University. FRI FRI He explains how the ethical of tech development has so far FRI been left to engineers, and why that has to change as FRI autonomous FRI becomes a greater part of our everyday lives. FRI FRI Kate Darling FRI Kate FRI is a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab, a Fellow at FRI the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a FRI Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. FRI FRI She talks to us about, anthropomorphism, robot ethics and FRI the potential benefits technology can have for vulnerable FRI people – also, robot dinosaurs. FRI FRI Dr Alana Vincent FRI Alana FRI is Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Chester. FRI FRI She talks to us about the strict moral laws of the FRI Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and how they can be FRI implemented into modern tech to make devices Kosher. FRI FRI Assaf Nativ FRI Assaf FRI is a software developer in Israel, who was approached with FRI an unusual request – to disable most of the functions of a FRI phone and make it Kosher. FRI FRI He explains what he had to do to a standard Nokia to get it FRI approved for use in the Ultra Orthadox community. FRI FRI Judith Newman FRI Judith FRI is an author and journalist for publications including FRI Harper’s, Vanity Fair and the New York Times. FRI FRI She wrote an article called ‘ FRI To Siri with Love’ FRI about how the benefits her autistic son got from FRI conversations with Siri. We catch up with both at them at FRI home and find out how things have changed for the better, FRI and if Judith has any reservations about the relationship FRI between Siri and her son. FRI FRI Professor Sheila McLean FRI Sheila FRI is Professor Emerita of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the FRI University of Glasgow. FRI FRI She explains how ethical guidelines were developed in FRI Medicine, and how a similar approach could be used in the FRI technological world. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06fwx5y (Listen) FRI Andy and Josh - The Garden FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a visitor from Alabama and a much FRI younger local from Bangor, whose honest conversation shows FRI how quickly it's possible to develop a meaningful FRI relationship. Another in the series that proves it's FRI 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