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SAT SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06gxd1q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06j78nc (Listen) SAT 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, Union SAT SAT by James Shapiro SAT SAT Episode Five : Union SAT SAT King James' quest for the union of England and Scotland is SAT not easily resolved. SAT SAT Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for SAT his bestseller 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SAT SHAKESPEARE. SAT SAT 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR is a SAT compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life. SAT The book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn SAT of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, SAT THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, and transformed it into SAT his most searing tragedy, KING LEAR. SAT SAT 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, SAT witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, SAT divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an SAT outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional SAT one for Shakespeare who, before the year was out, went on to SAT complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke SAT directly to these fraught times: MACBETH and ANTONY AND SAT CLEOPATRA. SAT SAT Abridged by Anna Magnusson SAT SAT Read by Ian McDiarmid SAT SAT Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Ian McDiarmid SAT Author: James Shapiro SAT Abridger: Anna Magnusson SAT Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06gxd1v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06gxd1x (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06gxd1z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06gxd21 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06gxdb8 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT Shaunaka Rishi Das. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06gxdbb (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06gxd23 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06gxd25 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b06gw3kk (Listen) SAT Series 31, Artists' Ways - Wiltshire SAT SAT Clare Balding has been exploring Artists' Ways in this SAT series of Ramblings. This week she walks with Matthew SAT Hopwood whose project 'A Human Love Story' takes him walking SAT through England as a pilgrim, seeking hospitality where it SAT is offered, meeting people where they are; on the path, in SAT the pub, around the corner, on the street, in prison, in SAT church, on the towpath. The people he meets share their love SAT stories, which Matthew records and publishes on his online SAT audio archive. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Matt Hopwood SAT SAT Panorama SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Matthew Hopwood SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06hk4yd (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 b06gxd27 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06hk68b (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b06hk68d (Listen) SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. SAT SAT 10:30 Homer, Hagrid and the Incredible Hulk b06hk68g (Listen) SAT Ben Hammersley meets creators and fans to investigate how SAT extended fictional universes, from Harry Potter to Game of SAT Thrones, took over global culture. SAT SAT Ben visits Professor Dumbledore's office to talk to Stuart SAT Craig, production designer on the Harry Potter films; goes SAT to Los Angeles to meet Lauren Faust, creator of My Little SAT Pony: Friendship is Magic; and travels to San Diego Comic SAT Con where he discusses different universes with Marc Zicree, SAT writer on numerous film and TV series, including Star Trek. SAT SAT Ben also speaks to authors Robin Hobb and Warren Ellis, and SAT to Axel Alonso and Ryan Penagos from Marvel. And he hears SAT from numerous fans, including Game of Thrones superfans SAT Linda Antonsson and Elio Garcia about the joys of fandom. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06hk6bq (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06gxd29 (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06gxd2c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06hyt38 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06gx716 (Listen) SAT Series 88, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles SAT Jupp. Joining Miles this week in the name of news are Jeremy SAT Hardy, Anne McElvoy and Sara Pascoe. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Anne McElvoy SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06gxd2g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06gxd2j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06gxc1q (Listen) SAT Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP, Ian Murray MP, Owen Paterson MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Elphindale Hall at Aberdeen University with a panel SAT including one of the SNP's new MPs at Westminster Tasmina SAT Ahmed-Sheikh, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian SAT Murray MP, and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06hyt3m (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06hyt3p (Listen) SAT Unmade Movies, Arthur Miller's The Hook SAT SAT The world broadcast premiere of Arthur Miller's unproduced SAT screenplay tells the story of a 1950s Brooklyn longshoreman SAT who is fired for standing up to his corrupt union boss, but SAT decides to fight back by standing for union president. SAT SAT 1951. The Brooklyn Docks. Dawn. Hundreds of longshoreman SAT queue in line to see if they're going to be given a counter SAT and picked for work in that day's gang. It's dangerous work, SAT but with a hierarchy of corrupt union bosses all taking SAT backhanders above them, they have no option but to accept. SAT SAT The Hook is part of a season of radio adaptations of SAT unproduced screenplays by the major authors of the 20th SAT century - including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Orson SAT Welles and Ernest Lehman. SAT Arthur Miller developed the script for The Hook with Elia SAT Kazan and it was on the trip to LA to pitch it to Harry Cohn SAT at Columbia Studios that he met Marilyn Monroe for the first SAT time. Cohn asked Miller to change the script and turn the SAT corrupt union bosses into communists. Miller refused and the SAT screenplay was shelved. He and Kazan then fell out over SAT Kazan's testimony to McCarthy's House of Un-American SAT Activities Committee. Kazan went on to make On The SAT Waterfront and Miller wrote A View From The Bridge, SAT essentially reworkings of The Hook. SAT SAT This radio adaptation is directed by Adrian Noble. During SAT his career Adrian has received over 20 Olivier Award SAT nominations both as artistic director of the RSC and as a SAT freelance theatre director. SAT SAT Screenplay written by Arthur Miller SAT Adapted for radio by Laurence Bowen SAT SAT Sound Design by Wilfredo Acosta SAT SAT Directed by Adrian Noble SAT Produced by Laurence Bowen SAT A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: David Suchet SAT Marty: Elliot Cowan SAT Louis: Nigel Lindsay SAT Rocky: Michael Feast SAT Farragut: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Piggy: Nathan Wiley SAT Enzo: Jonathan Guy Lewis SAT Sleeper: Kerry Shale SAT Therese: Joanne Pearce SAT Old Dominic: Vincent Riotta SAT Mama: Lorelei King SAT Irene: Hollie Burgess SAT Pete: Leo Heller SAT Writer: Arthur Miller SAT Adaptor: Laurence Bowen SAT Director: Adrian Noble SAT Producer: Laurence Bowen SAT SAT 16:15 Woman's Hour b06hyt3r (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06hywnj (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b06gwfzx (Listen) SAT Going Public SAT SAT Companies like Royal Mail, Saga and the AA have recently SAT listed their shares on the stock market. It gives them SAT access to plenty of money to help them grow, but also means SAT they're subject to public scrutiny. Evan Davis and guests SAT discuss why firms decide to float and how they must adapt to SAT becoming a plc. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Martin Clarke, CFO, the AA; SAT Dan Wagner, CEO, Powa Technologies; SAT Gillian Karran-Cumberlege, Co-Founder, Fidelio Partners. SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06gxd2m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06gxd2p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06gxd2r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06hywnl (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Olivia Colman, Robbie Savage, SAT Alexander Armstrong, Lucy Beaumont, Rae Morris, Nitin SAT Sawhney SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Olivia Colman, SAT Robbie Savage and Alexander Armstrong for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rae Morris SAT and Nitin Sawhney. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Alexander Armstrong SAT SAT 'Land Of The Midnight Sun' is published by Bantam Press and SAT available now and the accompanying TV series continues at SAT 9pm next Wednesday on ITV. SAT 'Alexander Armstrong – A Year Of Songs' is available on 6th SAT November on East West Records. SAT SAT SAT Olivia Colman SAT 'The Lobster' is in cinemas now. SAT SAT SAT Lucy Beaumont SAT 'To Hull and Back' starts on Radio 4 on Wednesday 14th SAT October at 18.30. SAT SAT Robbie Savage SAT 'I'll Tell You What' is published by Little Brown and SAT available now. SAT SAT Nitin Sawhney SAT SAT ‘Dystopian Dream’ is out now on Positiv-ID. SAT SAT Nitin is playing at Concorde 2, Brighton on Sunday 15th, SAT Trinity Centre, Bristol on Monday 16th and Heaven, London on SAT Tuesday 17th November. SAT SAT Rae Morris SAT 'Unguarded' is out now on Atlantic. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Olivia Colman SAT Interviewed Guest: Robbie Savage SAT Interviewed Guest: Alexander Armstrong SAT Performer: Rae Morris SAT Performer: Nitin Sawhney SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b06hywnn (Listen) SAT Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06hywnq (Listen) SAT Suffragette, City on Fire - Garth Risk Hallberg, Wolf in SAT Snakeskin Shoes, Periodic Tales at Compton Verney SAT SAT The film Suffragette looks at the campaign 100 years ago to SAT gain women the right to vote. It was made with an all-star SAT largely-female cast and crew. How broad is the appeal of SAT this historical retelling? SAT City On Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg has been hyped by the SAT publishers and lauded by many critics. It's a 944-page novel SAT about New York City in the mid 1970s; does it justify the SAT hoopla? SAT Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes is a modern reworking of Moliere's SAT Tartuffe at London's Tricycle Theatre. Set in a black SAT southern baptist church with a dissembling pastor, do the SAT themes still resonate in the twenty-first century? SAT 'Periodic Tales, The Art of the Elements" is an exhibition SAT at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. It explores the way the SAT elements of the periodic table have inspired and influenced SAT artists over the centuries. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06hyxc6 (Listen) SAT Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary SAT SAT "Attention must be paid to such a person," says Linda of SAT Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' . SAT Miller himself spent his long life paying close attention to SAT the society and times in lived in. He scrutinised the SAT American Dream in 'Salesman', in 'The Crucible' revealed its SAT hysteria and in 'All My Sons' its corruption. SAT SAT One hundred years, to the day, after the birth of Arthur SAT Miller his biographer, Christopher Bigsby, mines the BBC's SAT and his own archives, tracing the life and work of this SAT towering American figure. SAT SAT When Miller turned 80 Bigsby, with the radio producer Julian SAT May, spent a weekend at Miller's Connecticut home and, on SAT the porch with the birds singing, recorded him recalling his SAT life. Miller talks about his early days as the son of an SAT illiterate Polish immigrant in Harlem, surviving the SAT Depression and his initial struggles as a writer. He SAT remembers his first sight of Marilyn Monroe and his hearing SAT before the Un-American Activities Committee which informed SAT 'The Crucible'. SAT SAT As well as these monumental events this programme includes SAT his insights into lesser known aspects of his life. How his SAT earliest performed dramas were written for radio in the SAT 1940s, for stars such as Orson Welles, recordings of which SAT Bigsby found. There is, too, the story of how be became a SAT music collector, and how he was a carpenter. SAT SAT There are contributions from Dustin Hoffman, Warren Mitchell SAT and Brian Dennehy, who all played Willy Loman, and Ying SAT Ruocheng, who played the role in Beijing. Henry Goodman SAT speaks about working on his late play, 'Broken Glass'. We SAT hear from Harold Pinter, Nicholas Hytner and John Malkovich. SAT And there is previously unbroadcast material from Miller's SAT brother and sister, and his wife, the photographer, Inge SAT Morath. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06gtr70 (Listen) SAT Reading Europe - Poland: Entanglement, The Reflection Room SAT SAT Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the SAT best contemporary literature. In this hugely successful SAT Polish crime thriller, a long suffering State Prosecutor SAT finds himself trapped in a post-Communist limbo land of SAT half-truths and secrets. Will he prove himself to be a SAT redoubtable seeker of the truth or will he compromise? A SAT perplexing murder reveals tantalising glimpses of links to SAT the old regime. SAT SAT Part 1: The Reflection Room SAT When Henryk Telak is found dead with a meat skewer in his SAT eye during a Family Constellation Therapy weekend, State SAT Prosecutor Szacki and his police colleague Olga, Kuzniecow, SAT have to work together to deduce who killed the man and why. SAT An apparent total absence of motive is compounded when SAT attractive young news reporter Monika Grezlka, shows a more SAT than professional interest in Szacki. SAT SAT The writer Zygmunt Miloszewski is a leading Polish writer. SAT The Teodor Szacki series is a best seller in Poland. Antonia SAT Lloyd Jones is an award winning translator of Polish fiction SAT and chair of the Translators Association. Dramatised for SAT radio by the writer, critic and journalist, Mark Lawson. SAT SAT About Reading Europe: SAT Europe is central to our lives - we go on holiday to Europe, SAT we do business in Europe, we watch in amazement as the SAT various states try to grapple with migration in Europe. Over SAT the next year or so we will be engaged in the debate as to SAT whether or not we stay in Europe. But how much do we know SAT this continent's countries and, in particular, how much do SAT we know about what they're reading? SAT SAT Over the course of two years, Reading Europe will travel SAT from Calais to Istanbul. Through dramatisations, readings SAT and essays, Reading Europe and Front Row will explore what SAT Europe is writing, publishing and reading - and why. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Teodor Szacki................Bryan Dick SAT Olga Kuzniecow.............Christine Bottomley SAT Cezary Rudzki................David Crellin SAT Monika Grzelka/ SAT Hanna Kwiatowska........Rachel Austin SAT Barbara Jarczyk/ SAT radio news reader.........Alexandra Mathie SAT Euzebius Kaim...............Dermot Daly SAT Henryk Telak/ SAT Father Pazcek...............Glenn Cunningham SAT SAT Written by Zygmunt Miloszewski SAT Translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones SAT Dramatised for radio by Mark Lawson SAT SAT Warsaw backgrounds: Zofia Morus SAT Polish language advisor: Richard Abel SAT Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SAT SAT Producer/director: Polly Thomas SAT Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Teodor Szacki: Bryan Dick SAT Olga Kuzniecow: Christine Bottomley SAT Cezary Rudzki: David Crellin SAT Hanna Kwiatowska: Rachel Austin SAT Monika Grzelka: Rachel Austin SAT Barbara Jarczyk: Alexandra Mathie SAT Radio News Reader: Alexandra Mathie SAT Euzebius Kaim: Dermot Daly SAT Henryk Telak: Glenn Cunningham SAT Father Pazcek: Glenn Cunningham SAT Author: Zygmunt Miloszewski SAT Adaptor: Mark Lawson SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06gxd2t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Open Art b06hyyt1 (Listen) SAT Master Rock SAT SAT Master Rock is a repertoire for a mountain, conceived and SAT written by Maria Fusco, and recorded live inside Cruachan SAT Power Station, sited deep inside one of the highest peaks on SAT the West coast of Scotland. SAT SAT Master Rock is a story composed of three voices and the SAT sound of the mountain, which will be played by French SAT composer Olivier Pasquet. SAT SAT Created through brutal blasting procedures and pioneering SAT technologies, Cruachan Power Station was opened by Queen SAT Elizabeth II on 15 October 1965. Since winning a commission SAT from Artangel and Radio 4, Fusco has immersed herself in the SAT history of this extraordinary site, researching the power SAT station's own archive, talking with the people involved in SAT its creation 50 years ago and making field writings in the SAT site. SAT SAT Master Rock is a result of that work and tells the story of SAT the mountain. SAT SAT One of the voices in Master Rock is a Tunnel Tiger, one of SAT the Irish explosive experts who emptied out the mountain so SAT that the power station could be built one mile beneath the SAT newly dammed Cruachan reservoir. Another is the ancient SAT obdurate granite itself, the 450 million year old hard rock SAT of Ben Cruachan. The third voice is Elizabeth Falconer, an SAT unknown artist who made the huge mural inside the turbine SAT hall of the power station. SAT SAT This is the recording of a live performance, staged within SAT the cavernous interior of the mountain. SAT SAT Cast: SAT John Mulholland...........Lalor Roddy SAT Elizabeth Falconer.......Denise Riley SAT Granite........................Ceylan Hay SAT SAT Music / Sound Design: Olivier Pasquet SAT SAT Producer / Director: Maria Fusco SAT Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b06gqh8f (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 6 SAT SAT Oscar winning lyricist Don Black SAT Actress and writer Shobu Kapoor SAT TV Presenter Fern Britton SAT Novelist and Screenwriter Anthony Horowitz SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Don Black SAT Panellist: Shobu Kapoor SAT Panellist: Fern Britton SAT Panellist: Anthony Horowitz SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b06gtn4z (Listen) SAT Rural Miscellany SAT SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite poetry on a SAT rural theme, including works by Robert Frost, John Clare, SAT Christina Rossetti, and Wendell Berry, recorded for the SAT programme in his native Kentucky. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Hurrahing in Harvest SAT SAT By Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT SAT From Hopkins – Poems and Prose SAT SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT SAT SAT Unharvested SAT SAT By Robert Frost SAT SAT From The Poetry of Robert Frost SAT SAT Published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT SAT SAT Gathering Leaves SAT SAT By Robert Frost SAT SAT From The Poetry of Robert Frost SAT SAT Published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT SAT SAT The Wild Geese SAT SAT By Wendell Berry SAT SAT From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry SAT SAT Published by Counterpoint Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Autumn Change SAT SAT By John Clare SAT SAT From The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837–1864, Volume I SAT SAT Published by Clarendon Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Spring Quiet SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT From Christina Rossetti – Poems and Prose SAT SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT SAT SAT Weathers SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From The Oxford Authors - Thomas Hardy SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Bracken Hills in Autumn SAT SAT by Hugh MacDiarmid SAT SAT From Hugh MacDiarmid – Selected Poetry SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT The Heron SAT SAT by Sorley MacLean SAT SAT From Sorley MacLean – From Wood to Ridge, Collected Poems in SAT Gaelic and English SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT The Peace of Wild Things SAT SAT By Wendell Berry SAT SAT From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry SAT SAT Published by Counterpoint Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Trespass SAT SAT By John Clare SAT SAT From John Clare SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Roman Road SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From The Oxford Authors - Thomas Hardy SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Aurora Leigh SAT SAT By Elizabeth Barrett Browning SAT SAT From The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning SAT SAT Published by The Wordsworth Poetry Library SAT SAT SAT SAT Air and Fire SAT SAT By Wendell Berry SAT SAT From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry SAT SAT Published by Counterpoint Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Acquainted With the Night SAT SAT By Robert Frost SAT SAT From The Poetry of Robert Frost SAT SAT Published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT SAT SAT Sonnet SAT SAT By Charles Hamilton Sorley SAT SAT From 101 Poems Against War SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06j0m2v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Opening Lines b037sdyz (Listen) SUN Series 15, Princess SUN SUN The series which gives first-time and emerging short story SUN writers their radio debut. SUN SUN Philip Arditti reads Atar Hadari's straight-talking SUN monologue. A young blade working as a hired hand in a SUN kibbutz kitchen offers friendly advice on love but his SUN motives are far from clear cut. SUN SUN (repeat) SUN SUN Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Atar Hadari SUN Reader: Philip Arditti SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06j0m2y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06j0m30 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06j0m32 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06j0m34 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06j0tqq (Listen) SUN Bells from St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake in Oxfordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b06hywnn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06j0m38 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06j0tqs (Listen) SUN The Return SUN SUN Inevitably, we all have to leave a place and, more likely SUN than not, will experience a yearning to return - to a home, SUN a sense of familiarity and safety. SUN SUN The writer Kirsty Gunn explores her own relationship with SUN the Scottish Highlands and the impulse to 'make homes in SUN words'. SUN SUN With reference to writings from Katherine Mansfield, Jayne SUN Anne Philips and CS Lewis, and music by the Dixie Chicks, SUN Dick Gaughan and Glen Campbell. SUN SUN Produced by Rachel Hooper SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06j0tqv (Listen) SUN Water Vole SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In this programme recorded in 1999, Lionel Kelleway is SUN joined by the late Rob Strachan on the outskirts of Oxford SUN in search of water voles; the original 'ratty' in Kenneth SUN Graham's 'Wind in the Willows'. When that book was written SUN water voles were a much more common sight than today. But as SUN Lionel is about to discover, looking in some of the most SUN unlikely places near to modern human infrastructure can SUN often bring about great rewards. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06j0m3n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06j0m3z (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06j0tqx (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06j0tqz (Listen) SUN Peace Direct SUN SUN Kamila Shamsie presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Peace Direct SUN Registered Charity No 1123241 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Peace Direct'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Peace Direct'. SUN SUN Peace Direct SUN SUN Peace Direct is a British charity that supports local peace SUN projects in conflict areas worldwide. It funds work in SUN Africa and Asia, runs the annual Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders SUN awards, and showcases over 1,000 grassroots peace SUN organisations on its website Insight On Conflict. Full SUN details at SUN www.peacedirect.org SUN SUN Training volunteers SUN SUN Young men training to become peace volunteers in Pakistan, SUN where they will go out to villages, schools and universities SUN to identify young people at risk of joining extremist SUN groups, and persuade them not to join. They are trained to SUN give group workshops and one-to-one counselling and SUN education for ‘at risk’ youngsters, exploring Islamic SUN history and teachings on peace and tolerance. They reached SUN 4,000 vulnerable people like this in 2014. SUN SUN Project leader Gulalai Ismail SUN SUN Gulalai Ismail set up the volunteer network, Aware Girls, 10 SUN years ago when she was just 16. It’s their project that SUN features in the appeal. Since then she has won SUN international awards, been invited by President Obama to a SUN summit in Washington, and been named by Foreign Policy SUN magazine as among today’s 100 most influential thinkers. SUN SUN Malala Yousafzai SUN SUN Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai was a guest speaker at a SUN project training session, in the days before she was shot by SUN the Taliban and forced to leave Pakistan. Here she is shown SUN with the project leader Gulalai Ismail, who was named SUN International Humanist of the Year in 2014. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06j0m45 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06j0m49 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06j0tr1 (Listen) SUN By Adoption and Grace SUN SUN Sunday Worship marks the beginning of National Adoption Week SUN with a service of readings and music reflecting the joys and SUN challenges of life for adoptive families. It's presented by SUN Krish Kandiah, President of the London School of Theology SUN and himself a foster and adoptive father. Krish hears SUN stories from all corners of the Adoption triangle; Angela SUN Frazer Wicks speaks of the circumstances which led to her SUN losing her two sons to adoption, Rachel Gardiner and Alison SUN Southall tell of their experience as adoptive mothers, and SUN adoptees Sam and Ashley reflect on the effect of their early SUN life experiences on their later development. Preacher: The SUN Revd Tamsin Merchant reflects on the biblical metaphor of SUN God as our adoptive Father. Producer: Rosie Dawson. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06gxysx (Listen) SUN Will Self: On Gardening SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04mj5kt (Listen) SUN New Zealand Bellbird SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Chris Packham presents the New Zealand bellbird. In 1770, SUN during Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand, an SUN extraordinary dawn chorus caught the attention of his crew SUN "like small bells exquisitely tuned": these were New Zealand SUN bellbirds. New Zealand bellbirds are olive green birds with SUN curved black bills and brush-like tongues which they use to SUN probe flowers for nectar. Like other honeyeaters , they play SUN an important role in pollinating flowers and also eat the SUN fruits which result from those pollinations and so help to SUN spread the seeds. The well camouflaged bellbird is more SUN often heard before it is seen. They sing throughout the day, SUN but at their best at dawn or dusk when pairs duet or several SUN birds chorus together. Their song can vary remarkably, and SUN it is possible hear different 'accents' in different parts SUN of New Zealand, even across relatively short distances. SUN SUN New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01369363 SUN © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com SUN SUN Recording of New Zealand bellbird by Matthew D Medler / Ref: SUN ML1361111 SUN SUN This programme contains a wildtrack SUN recording of the New Zealand bellbird SUN kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab SUN of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 12 Apr 2004, SUN in Te Urewera National Park, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06j0m4f (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 b06j0wf1 (Listen) SUN Ed has reason to be gloomy, and there is a poignant day for SUN Ruth. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Alex Redwood: Josh Harper SUN Ellie: Katie Redford SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06j0wf3 (Listen) SUN Professor Sue Black SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Sue Black. SUN SUN She is Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the SUN University of Dundee, founder and past President of the SUN British Association for Human Identification and heads the SUN Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification in Dundee. SUN SUN Brought up on the west coast of Scotland and in Inverness, SUN she fell in love with biology at secondary school and read SUN Human Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen. After SUN graduation she worked at London's St Thomas' Hospital as an SUN anatomist and police began to call on her to help identify SUN bones. SUN SUN In 1999 she travelled to Kosovo, tasked with investigating SUN the site of a mass shooting. She has worked in areas of SUN conflict including Iraq and was part of the team helping to SUN identify victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. SUN SUN She was awarded an OBE in 2001 for her services to forensic SUN anthropology. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Sue Black SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06j0m4h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b06gqkv8 (Listen) SUN Series 73, Episode 2 SUN SUN A Trip to Ikea and The Hippocratic Oath are amongst the SUN subjects on the cards as Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Susan SUN Calman and Josie Lawrence join Nicholas Parsons to see who SUN can avoid hesitation, deviation and repetition. Hayley SUN Sterling blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Julian Clary SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Josie Lawrence SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06j0wf5 (Listen) SUN A Milk Appreciation SUN SUN When was the last time you drank a simple glass of milk? SUN Perhaps you view it more as an ingredient for cooking or to SUN splash in your tea rather than a product of beauty with its SUN own strengths and qualities? When the retailers slashed milk SUN prices to lure in customers, treating it as a loss leader SUN may have made the consumer also view it as a commodity and SUN devalue it too. Is it simply the 'white stuff'? SUN SUN Dairy UK figures show an 18% decline in the average SUN consumption of milk and milk products over the last 20 SUN years. In the last year while volumes of milk sold on the SUN market have increased slightly the value has declined. This SUN Summer saw many dairy farmers protesting at supermarket SUN depots, taking cows into stores and buying up all the SUN supplies on the shelves in some branches. SUN SUN Meanwhile sales of many milk alternatives are rising despite SUN costing more. Sheila Dillon explores how these milks are SUN made and can be used, what they give us compared to cow's SUN milk and why they've become so popular. SUN SUN Dutch 'milk addict and sommelier' Bas de Groot invites her SUN for a tasting of milks, along with public health SUN nutritionist Dr Helen Crawley and Professor Peter Atkins SUN who's written about the history of milk. They discuss what SUN could make us value the product more highly, what makes a SUN variety distinctive and if it's possible to taste the SUN 'terroir' of your pinta. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Bas de Groot SUN Interviewed Guest: Helen Crawley SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Atkins SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06j0m4k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06j0wf7 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War b06j6lh3 (Listen) SUN Julian Joseph tells the story of how some of the biggest SUN jazz musicians toured the world in the name of democracy, SUN only to turn the tables on the US government that had sent SUN them. SUN SUN During the Cold War, jazz was used as an instrument of SUN global diplomacy. In an attempt to improve America's image SUN abroad, a US State Department cultural programme sent out SUN such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and SUN Dizzy Gillespie. SUN SUN Jazz pianist, composer and broadcaster Julian Joseph SUN recounts how, between 1954 and 1968, these 'jazz SUN ambassadors' performed unlikely concerts in countries such SUN as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the SUN Congo, Yugoslavia and Russia. SUN SUN But soon.,the contradictions began to occur to the musicians SUN - they represented a liberal America, yet at home they still SUN lived in a segregated society, with the Civil Rights SUN Movement in full flow. The project exposed the often SUN complicated and sometimes conflicted politics of the US SUN government. SUN SUN As the tours continued, the State Department's master plan SUN had unanticipated consequences. The jazz luminaries did not SUN always play ball and, in some cases, used their position to SUN express their own politics. SUN SUN Contributors include: Dizzy Gillespie's drummer, Charli SUN Persip; jazz impresario George Wein; Penny Von Eschen, SUN Professor of History at the University of Michigan; and SUN Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi. SUN SUN Producer: Dom Byrne SUN A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06gx5qx (Listen) SUN Ayrshire SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Ayrshire. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank, and Bunny Guinness are on SUN this week's panel, answering questions from the audience. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b06j0wf9 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Lowestoft, Omagh and SUN Glasgow, between family members who have had to face SUN challenges but have overcome them with no regrets, in the SUN Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's surprising SUN what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06j0wfc (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - Poland: Entanglement, Antigone in Warsaw SUN SUN Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the SUN best contemporary literature. In this hugely successful SUN Polish crime thriller, a long suffering State Prosecutor SUN finds himself trapped in a posst-Communist limbo land of SUN half-truths and secrets. Will he prove himself to be a SUN redoubtable seeker of the truth or will he compromise? A SUN perplexing murder reveals tantalising glimpses of links to SUN the old regime. SUN SUN Part 2: Antigone in Warsaw SUN Szacki struggles with his burgeoning feelings for attractive SUN journalist Monika Grzelka and the increasingly complex SUN background of the murder victim. The final clues fall into SUN place when he stages his own Family Constellation Therapy SUN session with all the suspects. SUN SUN The writer Zygmunt Miloszewski is a leading Polish writer. SUN The Teodor Szacki series is a best seller in Poland. Antonia SUN Lloyd Jones is an award winning translator of Polish fiction SUN and chair of the Translators Association. Dramatised for SUN radio by the writer, critic and journalist, Mark Lawson. SUN SUN About Reading Europe: SUN Europe is central to our lives - we go on holiday to Europe, SUN we do business in Europe, we watch in amazement as the SUN various states try to grapple with migration in Europe. Over SUN the next year or so we will be engaged in the debate as to SUN whether or not we stay in Europe. But how much do we know SUN this continent's countries and, in particular, how much do SUN we know about what they're reading? SUN SUN Over the course of two years, Reading Europe will travel SUN from Calais to Istanbul. Through dramatisations, readings SUN and essays, Reading Europe and Front Row will explore what SUN Europe is writing, publishing and reading - and why. SUN SUN Written by Zygmunt Miloszewski SUN Translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones SUN Dramatised for radio by Mark Lawson SUN SUN Warsaw backgrounds: Zofia Morus SUN Polish language advisor: Richard Abel SUN Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SUN SUN Producer/director: Polly Thomas SUN Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Teodor Szacki: Bryan Dick SUN Olga Kuzniecow: Christine Bottomley SUN Cezary Rudzki: David Crellin SUN Monika Grzelka: Rachel Austin SUN Hanna Kwiatowska: Rachel Austin SUN Barbara Jarczyk: Alexandra Mathie SUN Radio News Reader: Alexandra Mathie SUN Euzebius Kaim: Dermot Daly SUN Henryk Telak: Glenn Cunningham SUN Father Pazcek: Glenn Cunningham SUN Author: Zygmunt Miloszewski SUN Adaptor: Mark Lawson SUN Director: Polly Thomas SUN Producer: Polly Thomas SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06j0wff (Listen) SUN Jonathan Lee on High Dive SUN SUN Novelist Jonathan Lee talks to Mariella Frostrup about his SUN new book High Dive, a re-imagining of the events surrounding SUN the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton by the IRA during SUN the Conservative Party Conference in 1984. SUN SUN Also on the programme, novelist Sebastian Faulks reveals the SUN influence of DH Lawrence on his own work, as he select Lady SUN Chatterley's Lover as the Book He'd Never Lend, Mariella SUN discusses prison book groups with Ann Walmsley and Sarah SUN Turvey and Tatiana Salem Levy sends a literary postcard from SUN Brazil. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Lee SUN Interviewed Guest: Sebastian Faulks SUN Interviewed Guest: Ann Walmsley SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Turvey SUN Interviewed Guest: Tatiana Salem Levy SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06j0wlw (Listen) SUN Pot Luck SUN SUN Roger McGough presents half an hour of satirical poetry, SUN read by Rory Bremner, with expert Katherine Rundell. Satire SUN comes from poets as diverse as Horace, John Donne, Alexander SUN Pope, Jonathan Swift, Hilaire Belloc and Adrian Mitchell. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Satire 1.3 SUN SUN By Horace SUN SUN Translated by AS Kline SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceSatires SUN kISatIII.htm SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Satire III SUN SUN by John Donne SUN SUN From Donne SUN SUN Published by Everyman’s Library SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind SUN SUN by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester SUN SUN From English Satire – An Anthology SUN SUN Published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN The Run Upon the Bankers SUN SUN by Jonathan Swift SUN SUN From Jonathan Swift – The Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Rape of The Lock SUN SUN by Alexander Pope SUN SUN From English Satire – An Anthology SUN SUN Published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Masque of Anarchy SUN SUN by Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN SUN From English Romantic Poetry and Prose SUN SUN Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Through the Looking Glass SUN SUN by Lewis Carroll SUN SUN Published by MacMillan Children’s Books SUN SUN SUN SUN The Garden Party SUN SUN by Hilaire Belloc SUN SUN From H.Belloc – Complete Verse SUN SUN Published by Duckworth SUN SUN SUN SUN How Beastly the Bourgeois Is SUN SUN by D H Lawrence SUN SUN From D H Lawrence – Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN next to of course god america i SUN SUN by ee cummings SUN SUN From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962 SUN SUN Published by Liveright SUN SUN SUN SUN To Whom It May Concern SUN SUN By Adrian Mitchell SUN SUN From The Oxford Book of War Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Car School SUN SUN By Michael Rosen SUN SUN From Big Book of Bad Things SUN SUN Published by Puffin SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Rory Bremner SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06grl93 (Listen) SUN Colleges in Crisis SUN SUN David Cameron has promised three million new apprenticeships SUN by 2020. But Further Education colleges must deliver them SUN against a background of year-on-year cuts - with the axe SUN likely to fall again in this Autumn's spending review. SUN SUN The National Audit Office has warned more than a quarter of SUN further education colleges could be deemed financially SUN inadequate by the end of the year. And this month MPs on the SUN Public Accounts Committee will launch an inquiry into the SUN financial sustainability of the sector. SUN SUN But how far is the crisis also a result of poor planning and SUN excessive borrowing by colleges themselves? A File on 4 SUN investigation finds some institutions taking increasingly SUN desperate measures to make ends meet. SUN SUN And it asks whether the sector is being adequately policed: SUN when a college faces financial collapse, what safety nets SUN are in place? SUN SUN Reporter: Fran Abrams Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06hywnn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06j0m4y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06j0m59 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06j0m5h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06j0wty (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses his BBC Radio highlights from SUN the past week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06j0wv0 (Listen) SUN Everybody seems to have a theory, and Susan has a taste for SUN more than apples. SUN SUN 19:15 Shedtown b01pw3lq (Listen) SUN Series 2, 'Til Press Do Us Part SUN SUN Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some SUN time or other? SUN SUN Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching oneself out of a SUN long established orbit to head for the deep space of the SUN unknown? SUN SUN In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of SUN escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol SUN of possibility and change. SUN SUN Episode 2: SUN As William weds his blushing, boiler-suited, berk of a SUN bride, old Johnny Edwards takes a turn for the worse. SUN SUN Barry............................Tony Pitts SUN Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan SUN Eleanor.........................Ronni Ancona SUN Johnny..........................Alan Leith SUN Colin.............................Johnny Vegas SUN Deborah........................Emma Fryer SUN William.........................Adrian Manfredi SUN Diane...........................Rosina Carbone SUN Dave............................Shaun Dooley SUN Father Michael.............James Quinn SUN Wes............................Warren Brown SUN Nell.............................Eleanor Samson SUN SUN Narrator.......................Maxine Peake SUN Music..........................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus SUN SUN Written and Directed by Tony Pitts SUN Produced by Sally Harrison SUN A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Funny Bones b06j0xfj (Listen) SUN Cinema Trip 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 ..... Maeve Higgins SUN Reader ..... Eileen Walsh SUN Producer ..... Michael Shannon. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Maeve Higgins SUN Writer: Eileen Walsh SUN Producer: Michael Shannon SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b06gxxl9 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06gxxl7 (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06hyt38 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06j0tqz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06gqr68 (Listen) SUN Scotland's Radical Land Reform SUN SUN In June the Scottish Government introduced radical proposals SUN for land reform. Local communities would gain a new right to SUN ask the government to force a landowner to sell their land SUN if they are deemed a barrier to sustainable development. The SUN plan caused uproar amongst landowners. David Cameron's SUN father-in-law, Lord Astor, claimed the SNP was staging a SUN Mugabe-style land grab. Yet campaigners in the growing SUN cross-party movement for reform see this as just the start SUN of a generational mission to break up the most unequal SUN pattern of land ownership in the developed world. Is this an SUN attack on the right of individuals to hold on to their SUN property - or a much-needed step towards sustainable SUN development? SUN SUN Euan McIlwraith asks why so few people own so much of SUN Scotland, whether it matters, and how you can legitimately SUN diversify ownership in a 21st century liberal democracy. SUN SUN Producer: Liza Grieg. SUN SUN (Image: The Scottish Highlands. Credit: Shutterstock) SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06j0m65 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06j0xfv (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the big stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06gwcp9 (Listen) SUN Tom Hiddleston, The Program, The Lobster, Beasts of No SUN Nation, Virtual Reality SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN We can see Tom Hiddleston in three movies over the next few SUN months; he explains why his films are like London buses. SUN SUN Actor Ben Foster mounts a defence of Lance Armstrong, the SUN disgraced cyclist he plays in Stephen Frears' new drama The SUN Program. SUN SUN Yorgos Lanthimos discusses the reasons that his characters SUN are transformed into animals if they don't find a a mate in SUN his satire The Lobster. SUN SUN Chris Milk reveals the future of virtual reality and why it SUN will supersede the medium of cinema. SUN SUN Cary Fukunaga discusses the use of child actors to play SUN child soldiers in his harrowing war movie Beasts Of No SUN Nation SUN SUN Producer Catherine Bray remembers the time when she thought SUN her hair might actually be space worms, after watching a SUN horror movie at the tender age of ten. SUN SUN Our emotional responses to horror movies SUN If a film has ever prompted an irrational fear in you, or SUN even some unexpected, embarrassing visceral reaction, then SUN let us know by e-mailing thefilmprogramme@bbc.co.uk or tweet SUN Francine @francinefilm SUN And on 18 October a new horror movie called Fear Itself will SUN be released exclusively on BBC iPlayer. SUN SUN SUN See the future of Virtual Reality SUN At the SUN BFI/London Film Festival SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06j0tqs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06j0m8v (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06grz17 (Listen) MON Being Single - Modern Romance MON MON Modern romance: love in the age of technology. Laurie Taylor MON talks to Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology at New York MON University, & co- author of a new study exploring the MON dilemmas & pleasures of dating in the age of Tinder. He's MON joined by the writer & blogger, Zoe Margolis. MON MON Also, Ai Ling Lay, lecturer in Marketing & Management at the MON University of Leicester, discusses her research on 'singles' MON in the marketplace. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06j0tqq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06j0m8x (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06j0m8z (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06j0m93 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06j0m97 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06l4ztc (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON Shaunaka Rishi Das. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06j0ymn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06j0m9h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hky3h (Listen) 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 Australia's satin bowerbird. MON Then male is a blackish looking bird with bright purple MON eyes, whose plumage diffracts the light to produce an indigo MON sheen with a metallic lustre. He builds a U-shaped bower of MON sticks on the forest floor into which he hopes to lure a MON female. But brown twigs on a brown woodland floor aren't MON very eye-catching, so he jazzes up the scene with an array MON of objects from berries and bottle-tops to clothes-pegs and MON even ballpoint pens. All have one thing in common: they are MON blue. The male dances around his bower to attract the MON greenish females: often holding something blue to impress MON her. As he poses, he calls enticingly to advertise his MON prowess. Once she's made her choice, she will leave to build MON her nest and rear her young alone. MON MON Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling / naturepl.com. MON N MON PL Ref 01423848 MON © David Tipling / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of satin bowerbird by Mary Katz / Ref: ML 46836 MON MON This programme contains a wildtrack MON recording of a satin bowerbird MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Mary Katz on 18 Oct 1988, in MON Washpool National Park, New South Wales, Australia. MON MON 06:00 Today b06j13r1 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06j13r3 (Listen) MON On Start the Week the classicist Mary Beard tells Tom MON Sutcliffe that Ancient Rome matters: its debates about MON citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still MON influence our own debates on civil liberty. The Magna Carta MON is the starting point for the playwright Timberlake MON Wertenbaker's latest play which draws parallels between the MON King's abuse of power in 1215 and the global business elite MON today. The film director Stephen Frears tells the story of MON the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and MON controversial sportsmen in recent history, Lance Armstrong, MON and of the journalist who was vilified when he tried to MON expose him. Lurid headlines take centre stage in the play MON Clarion, directed by Mehmet Ergen, which takes a satirical MON look at nationalism and the state of the British media. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Mary Beard MON Interviewed Guest: Timberlake Wertenbaker MON Interviewed Guest: Stephen Frears MON Interviewed Guest: Mehmet Ergen MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06j13r5 (Listen) MON John le Carre: The Biography, Episode 1 MON MON The life of John Le Carre by Adam Sisman, is abridged for MON radio MON in 5 episodes by Katrin Williams: MON MON 'John Le Carre' was born David Cornwell, and his early life MON was MON in thrall to a genial, vivid and rascally father called MON Ronnie, who MON was never short of surprises.. MON MON Reader Stephen Boxer MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Stephen Boxer MON Author: Adam Sisman MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06j13r7 (Listen) MON Emma Barnett presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Emma Barnett MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06j13r9 (Listen) MON Early One Morning, Episode 6 MON MON Italy 1943. Chiara and Cecilia are living with their MON grandmother in a remote farmhouse, where they shelter MON passing deserters and Daniele, the small Jewish boy Chiara MON saved from the Nazis. MON MON Thirty years later, Chiara has lost touch with her troubled MON adoptive son, but is preparing to host Welsh teenager, MON Maria, who claims to be Daniele's daughter. MON MON Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in MON Miranda Emmerson's dramatization of Virginia Baily's new MON novel, which moves between Nazi-occupied Italy and Rome, MON 1973. MON MON CAST: MON MON Directed by Emma Harding. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Greta Scacchi MON Chiara: Juliet Aubrey MON Maria: Sophie Melville MON Cecilia: Alex Tregear MON Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright MON Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi MON Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi MON Simone: Jessica Turner MON Nonna: Jessica Turner MON Antonio: David Hounslow MON Gabriele: David Acton MON Tommaso: Felix Auer MON Nazi Officer: Felix Auer MON Brian: Felix Auer MON Edna: Amelia Lowdell MON Barry: Chris Pavlo MON Goffredo: Chris Pavlo MON Gianni: Sam Dale MON Author: Virginia Baily MON Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson MON Director: Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b06j144b (Listen) MON Three Months on Pitcairn MON MON Each year, the Royal Geographical Society organises, in MON association with BBC Radio 4, a contest to discover the most MON imaginative and exciting dream travel project. Rhiannon Adam MON is this year's winner and her goal was to visit one of the MON world's smallest countries, Pitcairn Island. MON MON Rhiannon grew up on sailing boat in the Atlantic reading MON romantic stories about The Mutiny of the Bounty and Pitcairn MON Island as final resting place for the renegade mutineers. MON She wondered about this far flung piece of the former MON British Empire and, as a wandering Brit, whether she might MON have something in common with the descendants of the MON mutineers. MON MON The tiny, remote British territory of Pitcairn lies in the MON Pacific between Chile and and New Zealand. It is home to MON about fifty people and its remoteness has raised questions MON about its future as it needs to attract more settlers in MON order to survive. The romantic image of the island was MON challenged a decade ago when a number of men on the island MON were imprisoned for sexual abuse of young girls. MON MON In this very personal account, photographer Rhiannon Adam MON explores the romance and reality of Pitcairn Island on her MON 'Journey of a Lifetime'. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 11:30 Dilemma b01qwglw (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the MON moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of MON finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on MON their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was MON asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi MON Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that MON once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if MON he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, MON Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) MON MON As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also MON features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience MON Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience MON may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates MON a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the MON others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, MON where each panellist is given an indefensible action that MON they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own MON Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, MON each one following on from the last as they burrow their way MON deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of MON grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers MON binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a MON swan?". MON MON This week's show sees comedian Josie Long deal with a MON catering faux pas; journalist Owen Jones putting a value on MON human life and/or robots; actor, musician and author Clare MON Grogan keeping her back yard tidy; and comedian Andrew MON Maxwell hearing the patter of tiny feet. MON MON The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle MON Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06j0m9q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b064g54g (Listen) MON 19 October 1915 - Lilian Frost MON MON On this day Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria, and MON Lilian Frost tries to make amends MON MON Written by Richard Monks MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON Credits MON Lilian: Alex Tregear MON Juliet: Lizzie Bourne MON Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies MON Roland: Jack Holden MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06j144d (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06j0m9y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06j147h (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06j1kdh (Listen) MON Chris Packham MON MON There's no more famous extinct creature than the dodo. In MON the latest of Peter Snow's trips to the past and the future MON the nature broadcaster Chris Packham goes back to witness MON its extinction, then travels forward to 2017 to see the MON luckless bird resurrected thanks to some unlicensed DNA MON experiments in a Beijing laboratory. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06j0wv0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Open Art b06hyyt1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 on Saturday] MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b06j1kdm (Listen) MON Programme 1, 2015 MON MON (1/12) MON Kurt's widow, Keir's party and Kate's adventures with her MON fellow survivors could lead you to the Court of Navarre - at MON least, they could if you have the same kind of mind as the MON panellists on Round Britain Quiz, which returns for a brand MON new series with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair. MON MON As always, six teams from around the UK will play one MON another to decide the eventual series title, with some MON familiar voices as well as newcomers among the panel this MON season. The first programme features the Scots, Val McDermid MON and Roddy Lumsden, against the Welsh team of Myfanwy MON Alexander and David Edwards. The Scots are defending their MON title, but Wales are always strong contenders and will be MON going all-out to wrest it from them this year. MON MON As always they'll need to draw on all of their general MON knowledge and ingenuity to unravel RBQ's trademark cryptic MON questions. The series will feature a generous smattering of MON questions devised by listeners and sent in since the MON programme was last on air. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06j0wf5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts MON Movement b06j1kdp (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The novelist and poet Bernardine Evaristo explores the MON complex and controversial man who played a key role in the MON development of the Black Arts Movement in the United States, MON and looks back at how the energy of that cultural phenomenon MON in 1960s America, inspired her as an emerging Black writer MON in 1980s Britain. MON MON In Part I, Bernardine Evaristo returns to Rose Bruford MON College where she took her first steps towards building a MON career in the Arts, and she travels to New York to trace the MON steps that Amiri Baraka took towards establishing the Black MON Arts Movement. MON MON Presenter - Bernardine Evaristo MON Producer - Ekene Akalawu. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Bernardine Evaristo MON Interviewed Guest: Patricia St Hilaire MON Interviewed Guest: Paulette Randall MON Interviewed Guest: Hazel Carey MON Interviewed Guest: Angelina Fiordellisi MON Interviewed Guest: Jerry Gafio Watts MON Producer: Ekene Akalawu MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b06j1kdr (Listen) MON Series 8, Vigilante MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b06j1kdt (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06j0mbb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b06j1kdy (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 3 MON MON The South Pacific, Conkers and Harvest Festivals are among MON the subjects on the cards as Andy Hamilton, Sue Perkins, MON Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth join Nicholas Parsons to play MON another round of the classic panel show. There's deviation, MON hesitation and repetition a-plenty. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06j1kf0 (Listen) MON Adam feels the need to help, and Toby says seize the day. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06j1kf2 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06j13r9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Britain and China b06jtztq (Listen) MON Ahead of the State Visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, MON the BBC's China Editor Carrie Gracie examines the past and MON future of the relationship between his country and Britain. MON Chancellor George Osborne has predicted a "Golden Decade" MON with huge benefits for both countries. The opportunities for MON business seem obvious. But what does history tell us about MON how China sees the relationship - and what are the risks to MON the UK in the future, both in terms of the economy and MON security? MON Producer: Ingrid Hassler. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b06j1kf4 (Listen) MON Will George Be King? MON MON Edward Stourton examines the long-term prospects for the MON British monarchy as an avowed republican becomes leader of MON the opposition. At least eighty per cent of the population MON affirm their belief in the institution, opinion polls MON suggest - a figure that has remained remarkably constant MON since the Queen, now the longest serving monarch, ascended MON to the throne. But how can we be sure that this support and MON the institutions that underpin the monarchy will remain by MON the time her great-grandson becomes King? MON MON Within two or three generations the constitutional make-up MON of Britain could look very different. Could the monarchy MON withstand a series of upheavals such as the disestablishment MON of the Church of England, Scottish independence, a weakening MON of Britain's links with the Commonwealth and reform of the MON House of Lords (along with the remnants of the hereditary MON principle)? What if the institutional foundations on which MON the monarchy rests change irrevocably or disappear MON altogether? By the time Prince George is likely to become MON King, in the latter half of this century, social attitudes MON may have changed considerably. Is it safe to assume that the MON monarchy will survive? And what will attitudes towards this MON institution say about wider changes across British society? MON MON Producer: Peter Snowdon. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9l70 (Listen) MON Hornbill MON MON Exotic and bizarre, hornbills wowed European society when MON the first live specimens arrived in the nineteenth century. MON Their almost human like walk combined with their MON unbelievable bills and strange calls presented an image of MON nature most Europeans had never encountered. When their odd MON breeding behaviour became known - the males seal up the MON female in a hole in a tree cavity so that only her beak can MON protrude for weeks on end - they became great curiosities. MON The bill of the helmeted hornbill was particularly prized MON for carving the Victorian obsession - netsuke. Beautifully MON coloured, especially if reddened by the oil from a preen MON gland, the "ivory" became the most sought after material for MON Victorian display cabinets. Hornbill ivory is still so MON highly prized by the Chinese that the helmeted hornbill is MON on the verge of extinction; its bill fetches a higher price MON than elephant ivory. However in their Indonesian homeland MON they are seen as mythical creatures that guard the thin veil MON between life and death, ferrying souls between the earth and MON heaven. This sacred belief is now being used by modern MON conservationists to help protect them as they disappear at MON an alarming rate from the face of the earth. Because many of MON the Asian Hornbills nest in the largest trees, they are at MON greatest risk from loggers, legal or illegal, and therefore MON stand as flagship species for forest conservation in SE MON Asia. MON MON Dr Joanne Cooper MON Dr Joanne Cooper is a senior curator of the avian anatomical MON collections at the MON Natural History Museum MON including both the avian osteological and spirit MON collections, some 35,000 specimens in total. MON After nearly 20 years working on the skeleton collection in MON particular, she has become an internationally recognised MON authority in avian osteology and has particular experience MON and expertise in the taxonomic identification of bird bones. MON She is interested in the history of the bird collections, MON and is currently investigating Charles Darwin’s domestic MON birds, Captain Fitzroy’s bird collection from the famous MON 1831-36 voyage of HMS Beagle and John Gould’s collection of MON hummingbird cases. MON MON Mark Gordon MON Singapore-based Mark Gordon is a corporate communications MON consultant who originally trained as an anthropologist and MON evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York MON and the University of Michigan. MON He has maintained a passionate life-long interest in MON Southeast Asian Tribal Art. He has assembled a world-class MON collection of more than 400 pieces that has been exhibited MON in museums and galleries in Asia and featured in numerous MON publications, including the illustrated book, MON Ancient Echoes; the Mark Gordon Collection of Southeast MON Asian Indigenous Art MON MON MON Dr Alan Kemp MON Dr Alan Kemp and his wife Meg began a long-term population MON study of hornbills in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in MON 1967. Alan is the author of a photographic guide to MON Hornbills entitled MON Hornbills of the World MON He and Meg work with the MON Mabula Ground Hornbill Project MON which re-introduces hand-reared ground hornbill chicks into MON areas where they have become locally extinct, once the MON original threats in those areas have been mitigated. MON The project also researches the genetics, behaviour and MON other important unanswered questions necessary for MON successful re-establishment of ground hornbills and runs MON awareness campaigns to educate the general public to the MON threats facing the species and to reinstate the bird into MON collective memory in areas where it has become locally MON extinct. MON MON Andrew Owen MON Andrew Owen began his career as a bird keeper 33 years ago MON at Padstow Bird Gardens in Cornwall. Since then he has MON worked all over the country in diverse places from MON Chessington World of Adventures to Jersey Zoo (Durrell MON wildlife conservation trust), Waddesdon Manor and the MON Wildfowl & Wetlands trust at Slimbridge. Andrew also spent MON four years in the United Arab Emirates working on a bird MON conservation project. MON Now at MON Chester Zoo MON he is actively involved in many field conservation projects MON in Mauritius and South East Asia. One of his projects is MON looking at the critically endangered songbirds of Bali, many MON of which will feature in a huge free flight aviary in MON Chester Zoo’s Monsoon Forest – the UK’s largest ever indoor MON zoo exhibit. He is the European studbook keeper for the MON Sumatran Laughingthrush. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06j13r3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06j0mbk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06j1kf6 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06j1kf8 (Listen) MON Reading Europe - Austria: A Whole Life, Episode 1 MON MON Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the MON best in contemporary literature. Robert Powell reads A Whole MON Life by the Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler. MON MON This 'slim masterpiece' (Daily Mail) went straight onto the MON bestseller lists in Germany last summer and has been there MON ever since. Jim Crace called it both 'heart-rending and MON heart-warming', and over 200,000 people have read and MON celebrated this book across Europe. MON MON When Andreas Egger reaches the village on the night that he MON tries to save Hannes, the goatherd, he goes into the inn and MON meets Marie - the only love of his life - for the first MON time. Romance and grief and a sometimes wry stoicism are the MON touchstones of Egger's solitary life as the 20th century MON unfolds around him. The modern world encroaches slowly on MON the valley, the forest is carved out for ski lifts, MON electricity arrives, and tourists too. But throughout it MON all, Egger remains steadfast in his modest struggle to MON survive and in his ever constant respect for the landscape MON around and above him. MON MON Episode 1: MON A snowbound rescue brings Andreas Egger down from the MON mountain. He carries a man on his back. MON MON Read by Robert Powell MON Written by Robert Seethaler MON Abridged by Jennie Howarth MON MON Produced by Elizabeth Davies MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Robert Powell MON Author: Robert Seethaler MON Abridger: Jennifer Howarth MON Producer: Elizabeth Davies MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b06grjn0 (Listen) MON The Alphabet MON MON Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright take us through the A-Z of MON the alphabet, with the help of Professor Nils Langer. How do MON we come to have the letters we do? MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06j1kfb (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06j0mf7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06j13r5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06j0mf9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06j0mfc (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06j0mff (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06j0mfh (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06l5pqd (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE Shaunaka Rishi Das. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06j1n2g (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 b04hkygm (Listen) TUE Red-Billed Quelea TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the World's most numerous TUE bird; red billed quelea. Red-billed queleas are the most TUE numerous birds in the world and as part of the weaverbird TUE family sound and look like small neat sparrows. Their TUE ability to adapt to local conditions and travel for food TUE allows large populations of fast-breeding queleas to build TUE up. The statistics are mind-boggling. Some flocks of TUE red-billed quelea can comprise millions of birds which may TUE take hours to fly past. There are probably between one and a TUE half and ten billion birds in Africa. They breed in vast TUE colonies; one colony in Nigeria covered one hundred and ten TUE hectares and contained thirty one million nests. TUE TUE Red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Jabruson / naturepl.com. TUE N TUE PL Ref 01038186 TUE © Jabruson / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of red-billed quelea by Linda R Macaulay / Ref: ML TUE 100298 TUE TUE This programme contains a wildtrack TUE recording of the red-billed quelea TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Linda R Macaulay on 13 Jan 1996, TUE in Awash National Park, Ethiopia. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06j1qtn (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b06j1qts (Listen) TUE Robert Plomin TUE TUE Professor Robert Plomin talks to Jim Al-Khalili about what TUE makes some people smarter than others and why he's fed up TUE with the genetics of intelligence being ignored. Born and TUE raised in Chicago, Robert sat countless intelligence tests TUE at his inner city Catholic school. College was an attractive TUE option mainly because it seemed to pay well. Now he's one of TUE the most cited psychologists in the world. He specialized in TUE behavioural genetics in the mid seventies when the focus in TUE mainstream psychology was very much on our nurture rather TUE than our nature, and genetics was virtually taboo. But he TUE persisted, conducting several large adoption studies and TUE later twin studies. In 1995 he launched the biggest TUE longitudinal twin study in the UK, the TED study of ten TUE thousand pairs of twins which continues to this day. In this TUE study and in his other work, he's shown consistently that TUE genetic influences on intelligence are highly significant, TUE much more so than what school you go to, your teachers or TUE home environment. If only the genetic differences between TUE children were fully acknowledged, he believes education TUE could be transformed and parents might stop giving TUE themselves such a hard time. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b06j1qty (Listen) TUE Bel Mooney on Home TUE TUE Bel Mooney explores whether home is an idea as much as a TUE place. She goes to Birmingham to meet student Alan, who TUE shares a rented house with two friends. While they return TUE home to their parents at weekends, Alan stays in the student TUE digs, the only home he currently has. He explains to Bel how TUE family breakdown led to him to be homeless twice, first TUE emotionally and then physically when his mother finally TUE evicted him and his possessions from her house when he was TUE eighteen. TUE Now twenty four, Alan describes how devastated he felt and TUE how through the help of a local charity he got back onto his TUE feet again. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06j6fcy (Listen) TUE John le Carre: The Biography, Episode 2 TUE TUE The life of John Le Carre by Adam Sisman, is abridged for TUE radio TUE in five episodes by Katrin Williams: TUE TUE 2. Under his real name of David Cornwell, he leaves TUE Sherbourne, goes to Bern TUE and meets Joe Kraemer, who proves a route of sorts into the TUE spying game.. TUE TUE Reader Stephen Boxer TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Stephen Boxer TUE Author: Adam Sisman TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06j1qv5 (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 b06j1qv7 (Listen) TUE Early One Morning, Episode 7 TUE TUE Italy 1943. A Nazi officer officer arrives at the remote TUE farmhouse where Chiara is hiding her young Jewish charge, TUE Daniele. TUE TUE Thirty years later, in Rome 1973, Chiara is showing Welsh TUE teenager, Maria, around Rome. Maria believes that Chiara is TUE Daniele's former landlady and knows nothing about Daniele's TUE past, or that Chiara has not seen her troubled adoptive son TUE in over a decade. TUE TUE Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in TUE Miranda Emmerson's dramatization of Virginia Baily's new TUE novel, which moves between Nazi-occupied Italy and Rome, TUE 1973. TUE TUE Directed by Emma Harding. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Greta Scacchi TUE Chiara: Juliet Aubrey TUE Maria: Sophie Melville TUE Cecilia: Alex Tregear TUE Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright TUE Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi TUE Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi TUE Simone: Jessica Turner TUE Nonna: Jessica Turner TUE Antonio: David Hounslow TUE Gabriele: David Acton TUE Tommaso: Felix Auer TUE Nazi Officer: Felix Auer TUE Brian: Felix Auer TUE Edna: Amelia Lowdell TUE Barry: Chris Pavlo TUE Goffredo: Chris Pavlo TUE Gianni: Sam Dale TUE Author: Virginia Baily TUE Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson TUE Director: Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9l34 (Listen) TUE Oak TUE TUE Oak is the symbol of noble endurance, loyalty, strength, TUE constancy and longevity, and there are over 600 species. TUE Heart of Oak is the official march of the Royal Navy - a TUE rallying cry to brave sailors to guard our shores. Tennyson TUE urges us to live our lives like the oak, to be "bright in TUE spring, Living in gold." Its broad, pleasing shape, hard TUE wood and prolific acorns, as well as the lovely shape of the TUE leaves, establishes the oak as the nation's favourite tree. TUE TUE As a timber its fine qualities also make it perfect for TUE prestigious buildings, such as the debating chamber of the TUE House of Commons. It is the symbol of Germany and the TUE national tree of the US. In war it is used on medals of TUE honour. The acorn has been eaten by many cultures and North TUE American peoples revere the ancient oaks, their acorns made TUE flour and the bark medicine. Oaks have inspired many moral TUE tales. Huge, sturdy oaks grow slowly from small acorns and TUE in The Man Who Planted Trees and old shepherd re-forests a TUE barren valley by carefully and steadily planning a few TUE acorns each day. TUE TUE We have rested under oaks, climbed them, used their acorns, TUE bark and wood. We have even made music from their tree TUE rings. We see the oak as a symbol of virtue and goodness and TUE in druidism the oak is central to beliefs that stretch back TUE two millennia or more - no wonder we have a love affair with TUE oaks. TUE TUE Fred Rumsey TUE Dr Fred Rumsey is Angela Marmont Centre Enquiries Officer, TUE Plants, at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE in London. He has a strong interest in conservation and TUE deals with plant identification enquiries within the TUE Identification and Advisory Service team. TUE He also provides expert taxonomic advice to various Taxon TUE Groups, sits on the TUE International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) TUE specialist groups and referees for several families for TUE the TUE Botanical Society of the British Isles TUE TUE Penny Billington TUE Penny Billington is a Druid of 20 years practical TUE experience, trained by the Order of Bards, Ovates and TUE Druids. TUE She is editor of TUE Touchstone TUE magazine and author of TUE The Path of Druidry TUE and The Wisdom of Birch, Oak and Yew. She is also a regular TUE speaker on all aspects of Druidry. TUE Picture: Penny Billington and Brett Westwood TUE TUE Dr Amy Cutler TUE Dr Amy Cutler is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the TUE School of English at the University of Leeds. Her main TUE academic research focuses on modern literature and its TUE engagement with environmental politics and with old and new TUE geographical imaginaries of Britain. Her specialist areas of TUE study are coasts and forests in popular, small press, and TUE avant-garde writing. TUE She recently curated the exhibition TUE Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig TUE on forests, social memory, and environmental memory. She is TUE the lead academic on the new cross-disciplinary White Rose TUE network, TUE Hearts of Oak: Caring for British Woodland TUE based at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York. TUE TUE Esmond Harris TUE Esmond Harris has spent a lifetime working as a forester, TUE and is a past Director of The Royal Forestry Society. With TUE his wife Jeanette Harris, a naturalist and author, he wrote TUE Oak: A British History and the Reader's Digest Guide to the TUE Trees and Shrubs of Britain. TUE In 2002, he and Jeanette won the TUE Duke of Cornwall's Award for Forestry and Conservation TUE for the renovation of woodlands at the small farm they ran TUE in Cornwall. TUE TUE David Gentleman TUE David Gentleman is a watercolourist, lithographer, wood TUE engraver and designer. His work is compiled in numerous the TUE books including TUE In The Country TUE London You're Beautiful TUE and David Gentleman's Britain. TUE He redesigned the National Trust's oak leaf logo, designed TUE British postage stamps and his platform-length mural at TUE Charing Cross underground station is well-known to Londoners TUE and he has published lithographs and screenprints and TUE designed British postage stamps. TUE His work is represented in Tate Britain, the British Museum TUE and the Victoria and Albert Museum. TUE TUE Brian Lavery TUE Brian Lavery is a British Naval and Maritime historian, TUE expert in shipbuilding techniques including the use of oak. TUE He is the author of over 30 books and consultant on the TUE blockbuster film TUE Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World TUE His latest book is TUE The Conquest of the Ocean: The Illustrated History of the TUE Seafaring TUE TUE TUE Stuart Phillips TUE Stuart Phillips trained in horticulture at the Royal Botanic TUE Gardens, Kew before taking up a career as a horticultural TUE lecturer at Reaseheath College in Cheshire and Moulton TUE College, Northampton. TUE He works for TUE Lantra Sector Skills Council TUE as Product Development Manger for Forestry and TUE Arboriculture and has been a regular contributor to TUE gardening programmes on BBC radio, giving gardening advice TUE and answering listeners’ questions. TUE He is also the author of TUE An Encyclopaedia of Plants in Myth Legend Magic and Lore TUE and he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b06j1qv9 (Listen) TUE Series 12, Janacek - Glagolitic Mass TUE TUE Leos Janacek wasn't an obvious candidate for a setting of TUE the Mass, but the suggestion from Archbishop Precan and his TUE own profound sense of Czech Nationalism was enough to TUE inspire him. In 1926, during a damp holiday at the Czech spa TUE town of Luhacovice, he began work on his famous Glagolitic TUE Mass. There was also inspiration in the form of his muse, TUE Kamila Stösslová. Hundreds of letters to Kamila tell of his TUE infatuation with her. The truth is that both she, and her TUE husband, were somewhat bewildered by the attention of this TUE relatively elderly man. However, he insisted to her that the TUE Mass might be heard as an imagined wedding celebration. If TUE that was purely a figment of his imagination it matters TUE little. The piece is a dazzling dramatisation of the mass TUE ordinarium with spell-binding music. TUE TUE In this programme Frances Fyfield is joined by Janacek TUE specialists Nigel Simeone along with Jan Spacek from the TUE Janacek museum and archive and members of the Philharmonic TUE choir of Brno, Hana Skarkova and Tomas Suchomel. The score TUE they examine is fragmentary. Leaves of A4 sized paper TUE scribbled out by the composer in a way that few could make TUE head nor tail of. It was left to his copyists to piece TUE together this astonishing material. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06j0mfk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b064g55q (Listen) TUE 20 October 1915 - Alice Macknade TUE TUE On this day Germany announced an assault on Riga, and Alice TUE Macknade reluctantly hosts a dinner party TUE TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Roy: Tim Beckmann TUE Beau: Stephen Critchlow TUE Maggie: Hollie Thoupos TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06j1xz4 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06j0mfm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06m9rpw (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06j1xz6 (Listen) TUE Hermione Eyre TUE TUE The world of fashion takes some unusual turns, and none more TUE extraordinary than this temporal trip to 1640 to witness the TUE last Masque of the Court of Charles I, then forward to a TUE 23rd century fashion show where the models are run off on a TUE 3D printer and the whole thing ends in a riot. Peter Snow TUE feels terribly underdressed but the writer Hermione Eyre TUE keeps him on the straight and narrow. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06j1kf0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b06j1xz8 (Listen) TUE The Mermaid of Zennor TUE TUE The Mermaid of Zennor is a re-imagining by Paul Dodgson of TUE the Cornish folk tale. A supernatural story of mystery and TUE obsession rooted in the contemporary world. TUE TUE Jack and his wife Mary, from Cricklewood, are concerned that TUE their son is falling into bad ways and, determined to turn TUE his life around, they decide to move to Zennor. TUE TUE Jack used to visit Zennor as a child and always dreamed of TUE returning one day to fulfil his dream of becoming a TUE fisherman. This seems the perfect opportunity - and a chance TUE to get Matthew back on the right track. TUE TUE Reluctantly, Matt agrees and gradually begins to rebuild his TUE life with help of a local girl, Bel - until, one day, he TUE hears some singing which can be heard by no one else. TUE TUE Written by Paul Dodgson TUE Music composed by Paul Dodgson TUE TUE Directed by Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jack: Nigel Lindsay TUE Mary: Robin Weaver TUE Matt: Joe Gaminara TUE The Mermaid: Teresa Gallagher TUE Bel: Alice Hoskyns TUE Brian: Ian Masters TUE Vicar: Ian Masters TUE Writer: Paul Dodgson TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b06j1xzb (Listen) TUE Series 8, The Clock TUE TUE Josie Long navigates the changing texture of a day - with TUE stories from the rush hour commute through the night until TUE first light. TUE TUE From an afternoon with Dr Clock the horologist through to a TUE serendipitous voice reaching a woman in the darkness at 1am, TUE we hear stories of time and timing. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b06j1xzd (Listen) TUE Coast: 50 Years of Change TUE TUE A new report from the National Trust reveals how how our TUE coast has changed over the last 50 years. Tom Heap asks if TUE we've become better or worse at protecting the nation's TUE prime asset. TUE TUE He joins John Whittow who led a team of students to survey TUE the coast in 1965 and compares his findings with a brand new TUE study from Leicester University. Has the rapid urbanisation TUE of the 1960s continued or has the tide been turned? What new TUE threats are on the horizon? TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06j1xzg (Listen) TUE Gorilla gorilla gorilla: Latin names for animals and plants TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk to River Cottage TUE natural forager and writer John Wright about the surprising TUE and wonderful Latin names used to describe animals and TUE plants, and how they came to be. What is an Aha ha? TUE John Wright is the author of The Naming of the Shrew: A TUE Curious History of Latin Names. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b06j21bx (Listen) TUE Fraser Nelson and Adam Mars-Jones TUE TUE Editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson and critic Adam TUE Mars-Jones talk about books they admire with Harriett TUE Gilbert. Adam recommends I Knew The Bride, a moving TUE collection of poems by Hugo Williams, and Fraser's choice is TUE an historical novel of great relevance now: The Emigrants by TUE Vilhelm Moberg. Harriett brings along Rum Punch by Elmore TUE Leonard, which was adapted into the film Jackie Brown by TUE Quentin Tarantino. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Fraser Nelson TUE Interviewed Guest: Adam Mars-Jones TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06j21c1 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06j0mft (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 There Is No Escape b06j21c5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, TUE whose feeble attempts to run away invariably end with him TUE traipsing home defeated. In Episode 2 Andrew finds himself, TUE like so many others across the country, having to spend a TUE few hours over Saturday lunchtime with his girlfriend's TUE parents. But Andrew is determined not to go. He hatches a TUE plan to get his workmate to call him in to an "emergency" at TUE work. But all goes wrong when he gets a flat tyre and the TUE only person who can come to his rescue is his girlfriend's TUE father. Starring Andrew Lawrence and Diane Morgan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Andrew Lawrence TUE Actor: Diane Morgan TUE Writer: Andrew Lawrence TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06j21c9 (Listen) TUE Does Toby have the gift of the gab? A certain cat is out of TUE a certain bag. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06j21cc (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06j1qv7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06j21ch (Listen) TUE Like other steel communities, Rotherham faces the loss of TUE hundreds of jobs. It is the latest blow to a town now TUE synonymous with widespread sexual abuse. So can Rotherham TUE recover? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06j21ck (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Letters of Ada Lovelace b06bglnh (Listen) TUE Thinking Machines TUE TUE In part two of this dramatization of The Letters of Ada TUE Lovelace, Georgina Ferry reveals the nature of the TUE relationship between the young heiress, Ada Lovelace (Sally TUE Hawkins) and the crusty mathematician, Charles Babbage TUE (Anthony Head), inventor of steam-powered calculating TUE machines. TUE TUE Despite, (or perhaps because of), constant battles with her TUE mental and physical health, Ada pursued her interest in TUE Babbage's innovative engines, with zeal. She threw herself TUE into the task of describing his Analytical Engine and TUE writing the Notes of the engine for which she is now famous. TUE In an extraordinary leap of imagination, she suggested that TUE this steam-powered engine could be used for much more than TUE just adding and subtracting - 'for music and art perhaps'. TUE And grasped just how many problems - and not only TUE mathematical ones - might one day be solved by rigorous, TUE logical analysis. TUE TUE All her life Ada struggled to escape her controlling mother, TUE Lady Byron (Olivia Williams) and the legacy of her notorious TUE and absent father, the romantic poet Lord Byron. Babbage TUE gave her the attention and intellectual respect that neither TUE of her parents offered. She defied convention and produced a TUE work of astonishing prescience, predicting how steam-powered TUE calculating machines might one day change the world. She was TUE a flawed and fragile individual: a Victorian tech visionary. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b06j1qts (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06j0mg8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06j21cr (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06jtp1f (Listen) TUE Reading Europe - Austria: A Whole Life, Episode 2 TUE TUE Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the TUE best in contemporary literature. Robert Powell reads A Whole TUE Life by the Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler. TUE TUE This 'slim masterpiece' (Daily Mail) went straight onto the TUE bestseller lists in Germany last summer and has been there TUE ever since. Jim Crace called it both 'heart-rending and TUE heart-warming', and over 200,000 people have read and TUE celebrated this book across Europe. TUE TUE When Andreas Egger reaches the village on the night that he TUE tries to save Hannes, the goatherd, he goes into the inn and TUE meets Marie - the only love of his life - for the first TUE time. Romance and grief and a sometimes wry stoicism are the TUE touchstones of Egger's solitary life as the 20th century TUE unfolds around him. The modern world encroaches slowly on TUE the valley, the forest is carved out for ski lifts, TUE electricity arrives, and tourists too. But throughout it TUE all, Egger remains steadfast in his modest struggle to TUE survive and in his ever constant respect for the landscape TUE around and above him. TUE TUE Episode 2: Egger is ready to settle down, he has built a TUE house and knows love. TUE TUE Read by Robert Powell TUE Written by Robert Seethaler TUE Abridged by Jennie Howarth TUE TUE Produced by Elizabeth Davies TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Robert Powell TUE Author: Robert Seethaler TUE Abridger: Jennifer Howarth TUE Producer: Elizabeth Davies TUE TUE 23:00 Charles Paris Mystery b01p71wn (Listen) TUE An Amateur Corpse, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Jeremy Front TUE Based on the novel by Simon Brett. TUE What starts as a simple voiceover job soon leads Charles to TUE the discovery of a dead body. TUE TUE Charles ..... Bill Nighy TUE Frances ..... Suzanne Burden TUE Joan ..... Geraldine McEwan TUE Maurice ..... Jon Glover TUE Hugo ..... Paul Ritter TUE Ellie ...... Amaka Okafor TUE Saskia ..... Christine Absalom TUE Geoff ...... Patrick Brennan TUE Clive ...... Sam Alexander TUE TUE Director ...... Sally Avens TUE TUE Bill Nighy is back as Charles Paris, actor, alcoholic and TUE amateur sleuth. Charles is once again out of work an event TUE that is made worse by the fact that his mother (played by TUE Geraldine McEwen) has come to stay whilst recovering from an TUE operation; and Frances thinks she may be secret tippler - so TUE it might be a good job if Charles laid off the booze in the TUE run up to Christmas. TUE So when he bumps into old friend, Hugo, who offers him the TUE chance of some voiceover work Charles is doubly happy; some TUE money and a chance to get out of the house. In return TUE Charles agrees to critique Hugo's wife's am-dram group's TUE production of Marat Sade. TUE But the world of amateur dramatics it seems has more drama TUE off stage than on and Charles discovers a dead body. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06j22fh (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06j0mhr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06j6fcy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06j0mht (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06j0mhw (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06j0mhy (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06j0mj0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06mb9jg (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED Shaunaka Rishi Das. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06jtxbl (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkyht (Listen) WED House Crow 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 house crow, native of WED southern Asia. Leggier and longer-billed than the slightly WED larger European carrion crow and having a charcoal grey bib WED and collar and raucous call, these are common birds in towns WED and villages from Iran through India to Thailand. As WED scavengers they eat almost anything, which is how they've WED come to live alongside us. We provide water as well as food WED and have introduced the birds into areas of the Middle East WED and Africa. Although they don't fly long distances, the WED crows often hop aboard ships and arrive in foreign ports. WED Ship-assisted house crows have the potential to spread WED around the globe, a beautiful example of avian exploitation WED of human activity. WED WED House crow (Corvus splendens) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Markus Versvuo / naturepl.com. WED N WED PL Ref 01225218 WED © Markus Versvuo / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b06mbbhf (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06j2fpd (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06j6g4p (Listen) WED John le Carre: The Biography, Episode 3 WED WED The life of John Le Carre by Adam Sisman, is abridged for WED radio WED in 5 episodes by Katrin Williams: WED WED Oxford, teaching at Eton, employment at M15. And WED publication. WED During these eventful years the shadow of his father Ronnie WED continues to loom large.. WED WED Reader Stephen Boxer WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Stephen Boxer WED Author: Adam Sisman WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06j2fpg (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06j2fpj (Listen) WED Early One Morning, Episode 8 WED WED Italy 1944. Chiara and her young Jewish charge, Daniele, are WED back in Rome, where food supplies are scarce. WED WED Thirty years later, in 1973, Chiara struggles to know what WED to say to Daniele's daughter, a Welsh teenager called Maria, WED who is staying with her over the summer. Maria knows nothing WED of Daniele's past, nor that Chiara has not been in touch WED with her troubled, adoptive son in over a decade. WED WED Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in WED Miranda Emmerson's dramatization of Virginia Baily's new WED novel, which moves between Nazi-occupied Italy and Rome, WED 1973. WED WED Directed by Emma Harding. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Greta Scacchi WED Chiara: Juliet Aubrey WED Maria: Sophie Melville WED Cecilia: Alex Tregear WED Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright WED Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi WED Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi WED Simone: Jessica Turner WED Nonna: Jessica Turner WED Antonio: David Hounslow WED Gabriele: David Acton WED Tommaso: Felix Auer WED Nazi Officer: Felix Auer WED Brian: Felix Auer WED Edna: Amelia Lowdell WED Barry: Chris Pavlo WED Goffredo: Chris Pavlo WED Gianni: Sam Dale WED Author: Virginia Baily WED Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson WED Director: Emma Harding WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06j2fpl (Listen) WED Hector and Delores - Inner City Life WED WED Fi Glover with siblings who were born in Jamaica but have WED lived their life in Handsworth; it's changed over 50 years, WED but they continue to play an active part in the community. WED Another conversation in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Recycled Radio b06j2fpn (Listen) WED Series 4, The Countryside WED WED Radio 4's alternative take on the sound archive in the WED company of Gerald Scarfe. This week, we take a twisting, WED scenic route through the great British countryside. WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 11:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics b06j2gfy (Listen) WED The Rat-catchers of Yonville WED WED By John Nicholson, Richard Katz and Javier Marzan WED WED In 19th-century provincial France, a pair of vermin WED controllers seek their fortune. Arriving in the market town WED of Yonville, things start to go wrong when their WED rat-catching kit goes missing and then when they find WED themselves entangled in the marital woes of the town's WED doctor. WED WED In this new series the comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the WED roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and WED derail the plot of the book through their hapless WED buffoonery. WED WED Director . . . . . Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED Emma: Ingrid Oliver WED John: John Nicholson WED Javier: Javier Marzan WED Charles: Richard Katz WED Tuvache: Leo Wan WED Hippolyte: Stephen Critchlow WED Justin: Caolan McCarthy WED Homais: Chris Pavlo WED Madame Codoux: Jessica Turner WED Felicite: Rebecca Hamilton WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: John Nicholson WED Writer: Richard Katz WED Writer: Javier Marzan WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06j0mj3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b064g57r (Listen) WED 21 October 1915 - Isabel Graham WED WED On this day the Allied fleet bombarded the Bulgarian coast, WED and Isabel and Dorothea have to put aside their differences WED WED Written by Richard Monks WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED Credits WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Dolly: Elaine Claxton WED Johnnie: Paul Ready WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06j2gg0 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06j0mj5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06mcy40 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06j2gg2 (Listen) WED Robert Peston WED WED Could we one day all be spending the Globo, the global WED currency? Robert Peston joins Peter Snow's time travelling WED car and visits the forge of King Alyattes in 600AD to see WED the minting of the world's first coin, then forward to the WED 2060 launch of the first universal currency. But what WED happens in the event of Globo Grexit? WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06j21c9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tommies b06j2gg4 (Listen) WED 21 October 1915 WED WED by Nick Warburton WED WED Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. WED WED Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness WED accounts, the new series of TOMMIES traces one real day at WED war, exactly 100 years ago: from the Western Front, to WED Mesopotamia, via neutral Holland and occupied Belgium. WED WED And through it all, we'll follow the fortunes of Mickey WED Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of WED the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense WED machine, one which connects situations across the whole WED theatre of the war, over four long years. WED WED Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Jassa Ahluwalia star in this WED story, set at Brigade HQ 89th Punjabis, Pont du Hem, France, WED on October 7th, 1915. Mickey Bliss returns to the front line WED as a newly-trained officer, with the beginnings of WED war-winning technology in his hands. But it's a month since WED the battle of Loos began - and the Allies are still where WED they were before it started. WED WED Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: Jonquil Panting. WED WED Credits WED Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross WED Commentator: Indira Varma WED Pavan: Jassa Ahluwalia WED Albert: Colin Hoult WED Kinch: David Acton WED Lever: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Chopra: Neet Mohan WED Producer: David Hunter WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: Jonquil Panting WED Writer: Nick Warburton WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06mczxq (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on the state WED pension. WED WED 15:30 The Letters of Ada Lovelace b06bglnh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06j57f3 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06j57f5 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06j57f7 (Listen) WED PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06j0mj7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 To Hull and Back b06j57f9 (Listen) WED Crying in the Chapel WED WED To Hull and Back is the eagerly anticipated sitcom from BBC WED New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont. WED WED Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a WED living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they WED don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get WED rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As WED their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. WED WED "Crying in the Chapel" WED WED Songs of Praise are paying a visit to Hull. Sophie sees this WED as an opportunity to start a successful singing career but WED neglected plumbing and a painting of Elvis at The Last WED Supper make an impossible task even more difficult. WED WED Writer ... Lucy Beaumont WED Producer ... Carl Cooper WED WED This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Sophie: Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila: Maureen Lipman WED Jean: Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie: Norman Lovett WED DJ Richie: John Richardson WED Heather: Sue McCormick WED Gwen: Annie Sawle WED Roy: Mike Bubbins WED Imogen: Rebecca Hamilton WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06j57fc (Listen) WED Susan fears overexposure, and Henry feels happier. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06j57ff (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06j2fpj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06j5bjl (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk, with Giles Fraser, Michael Portillo, Claire WED Fox and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06j5bjn (Listen) WED On Being Ignored WED WED John Osborne tells a story of waiting for a bill in a cafe, WED and explores how a proliferation of new ways of WED communicating can mean we end up feeling ignored. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b06j1xzd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06j2fpd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06j5bjq (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06jtp3l (Listen) WED Reading Europe - Austria: A Whole Life, Episode 3 WED WED Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the WED best in contemporary literature. Robert Powell reads A Whole WED Life by the Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler. WED WED This 'slim masterpiece' (Daily Mail) went straight onto the WED bestseller lists in Germany last summer and has been there WED ever since. Jim Crace called it both 'heart-rending and WED heart-warming', and over 200,000 people have read and WED celebrated this book across Europe. WED WED When Andreas Egger reaches the village on the night that he WED tries to save Hannes, the goatherd, he goes into the inn and WED meets Marie - the only love of his life - for the first WED time. Romance and grief and a sometimes wry stoicism are the WED touchstones of Egger's solitary life as the 20th century WED unfolds around him. The modern world encroaches slowly on WED the valley, the forest is carved out for ski lifts, WED electricity arrives, and tourists too. But throughout it WED all, Egger remains steadfast in his modest struggle to WED survive and in his ever constant respect for the landscape WED around and above him. WED WED Episode 3: WED War arrives in Europe and Egger leaves the valley for the WED Russian front. WED WED Read by Robert Powell WED Written by Robert Seethaler WED Abridged by Jennie Howarth WED WED Produced by Elizabeth Davies WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Robert Powell WED Author: Robert Seethaler WED Abridger: Jennifer Howarth WED Producer: Elizabeth Davies WED WED 23:00 The Pin b06j5bjs (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act WED sketch show. Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of WED oddness performed in front of a live studio audience. WED WED The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of WED Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a WED show that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and WED utterly joyous silliness. WED WED After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious WED performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, and WED Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show for Radio WED 4. Join them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild WED their jokes, each other, and probably the radio too. WED WED For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a WED show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. WED WED 'Reinventing sketch comedy before our very eyes.' WED ***** The List WED 'Eviscerating their chosen form completely.' WED **** The Sunday Times WED 'A very classy, very funny show indeed.' WED **** The Telegraph WED 'Adept at finding laughs in surprising places.' WED **** The Times WED 'A genuine boundary pusher.' WED **** London is Funny. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Alex Owen WED Performer: Ben Ashenden WED WED 23:15 Dreaming the City b02x93ry (Listen) WED Raising the Bones 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 3: Raising the Bones by Naomi Alderman WED WED A heart-broken girl returns to the Roman ruins of WED Silchester, where she once spent the perfect day with a lost WED love. But on her return, she discovers it has been WED transformed into a bustling city - the city that could have WED been but never was. 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 With thanks to English Heritage. WED WED Producers: Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Russell Finch WED Producer: Francesca Panetta WED Writer: Naomi Alderman WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06j5jsj (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06j0mkt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06j6g4p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06j0ml0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06j0ml2 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06j0ml7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06j0mlb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06j6nml (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU Shaunaka Rishi Das. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06j5k6m (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Sally Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkylk (Listen) THU King Eider 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 Arctic specialist the THU king eider duck. Relatives of the larger common eider found THU around the British coast, king eiders breed around the THU Arctic and sub-Arctic coasts of the northern hemisphere. As THU true marine ducks they can dive to depths of 25 metres on THU occasion, to feed on molluscs and marine crustaceans. The THU drake King Eider has colourful markings; having a black and THU white body with a reddish bill, surmounted by an THU orange-yellow shield. His cheeks are pale mint-green and his THU crown and nape are lavender-grey. He uses his bill pattern THU and head colours in a highly ritualised display to woo his THU mate, fluffing up his chest and issuing an amorous coo-ing THU call. THU THU King eider (Somateria spectabilis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Markus Versvuo / naturepl.com. THU N THU PL Ref 01225238 THU © Markus Versvuo / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b06j6nmx (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06j5ncn (Listen) THU Simone de Beauvoir THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simone de Beauvoir. "One is THU not born, but rather becomes, a woman," she wrote in her THU best known and most influential work, The Second Sex, her THU exploration of what it means to be a woman in a world THU defined by men. Published in 1949, it was an immediate THU success with the thousands of women who bought it. Many male THU critics felt men came out of it rather badly. Beauvoir was THU born in 1908 to a high bourgeois family and it was perhaps THU her good fortune that her father lost his money when she was THU a girl. With no dowry, she pursued her education in Paris to THU get work and in a key exam to allow her to teach philosophy, THU came second only to Jean Paul Sartre. He was retaking. They THU became lovers and, for the rest their lives together, THU intellectual sparring partners. Sartre concentrated on THU existentialist philosophy; Beauvoir explored that, and THU existentialist ethics, plus the novel and, increasingly in THU the decades up to her death in 1986, the situation of women THU in the world. THU THU With THU Christina Howells THU Professor of French and Fellow of Wadham College at the THU University of Oxford THU THU Margaret Atack THU Professor of French at the University of Leeds THU THU And THU THU Ursula Tidd THU Professor of Modern French Literature and Thought at the THU University of Manchester THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Christina Howells THU Interviewed Guest: Margaret Atack THU Interviewed Guest: Ursula Tidd THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06j5ncw (Listen) THU John le Carre: The Biography, Episode 4 THU THU The life of John Le Carre by Adam Sisman, is abridged for THU radio THU in five episodes by Katrin Williams: THU THU From The Spy Who Came In From The Cold to Tinker, Tailor.., THU Le Carre THU is one of the biggest names in the writing world. Then THU there's the time he THU encountered Dennis Healey at a party, with genial THU accusations in the air.. THU THU Reader Stephen Boxer THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Stephen Boxer THU Author: Adam Sisman THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06j6nn3 (Listen) THU Emma Barnett presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Emma Barnett THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06j5nd2 (Listen) THU Early One Morning, Episode 9 THU THU 1944. As American soldiers parade through Rome, Chiara THU receives some devastating news. THU THU 1973. Chiara confides in her oldest friend about her dilemma THU over Daniele's teenage daughter, Maria, who doesn't yet know THU anything about her father's past. THU THU Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in a THU dramatization of Virginia Baily's new novel, which moves THU between Nazi-occupied Rome and 1973. THU THU CAST: THU Narrator.....Greta Scacchi THU Chiara.....Juliet Aubrey THU Maria.....Sophie Melville THU Cecilia.....Alex Tregear THU Daniele.....Adam Thomas Wright THU Gennaro/ Adult Daniele.....Cesare Taurasi THU Simone/ Nonna.....Jessica Turner THU Antonio.....David Hounslow THU Gabriele.....David Acton THU Tommaso/ Nazi officer/ Brian.....Felix Auer THU Edna.....Amelia Lowdell THU Barry/ Goffredo.....Chris Pavlo THU Gianni.....Sam Dale THU THU Directed by Emma Harding. THU THU Credits THU Shardlake: Justin Salinger THU Barak: Bryan Dick THU Wrenne: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Maleverer: Stephen Critchlow THU Tamasin: Cath Whitefield THU Jennet: Alex Tregear THU Craike: Patrick Brennan THU Director: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU Adaptor: Colin MacDonald THU Author: CJ Sansom THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06j0mlh (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Rave: The Beat Goes On b06j5qcx (Listen) THU In the early 90s, a group of young people thought they'd THU found an entire new way of living, powered by music, THU dancing, love, and drugs. Just as the world seemed to be THU getting more materialistic, they went in the other THU direction, living without money, usually without homes, with THU life as one long noisy illegal party. But can you keep that THU up? What about when the state tries to crush you? What about THU when children come along? When the drugs scene turns bad, THU and when you just get older and more tired? This is the THU story of a small group of friends that came together in THU 1990, who called themselves Spiral Tribe. On the rave scene, THU they are legendary. Now 25 years on, many of them are still THU together, still partying across Europe, but now with money THU and a keen sense of the value of their historic brand. Are THU they still living the dream, or has the dream changed? THU Jolyon Jenkins reports. THU THU Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06j0mln (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b064g582 (Listen) THU 22 October 1915 - Adam Wilson THU THU On this day a British subject was found guilty of spying for THU Germany and sentenced to a lifetime of penal servitude, and THU Florrie and Albert take a trip to the pictures THU THU Written by Richard Monks THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU Credits THU Adam: Billy Kennedy THU Sam: Alexander Aze THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Adeline: Helen Schlesinger THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06j6t8f (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06j0mlx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06j6t8h (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06j5qcz (Listen) THU Genevieve Bell THU THU Peter Snow's guest is the futurist Genevieve Bell who takes THU him on a journey to meet the monks who compiled the medieval THU Domesday Book in 1086 then forward to the day after tomorrow THU and a world shaped by Big Data. But what connects the THU historical database of the past with the decision shaping THU data of the future? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06j57fc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06j5qd1 (Listen) THU Ten Funerals and a Wedding THU THU By Nick Underwood. THU THU Phoebe works part-time in a whisky shop where her skirt THU matches the tartan carpet. The rest of the time she's a THU humanist celebrant who specializes in death. THU THU She's not remotely qualified for weddings and she's THU certainly not a fan of them. And then her best friend asks THU her to conduct hers... THU THU Directed by Kirsty Williams. THU THU Credits THU Phoebe: Rosalind Sydney THU Annie: Sandra Voe THU Graeme: Steven McNicoll THU Lisa: Claire Knight THU Victor: Robin Laing THU Judith: Francesca Dymond THU The Doorman: Nick Underwood THU Writer: Nick Underwood THU Director: Kirsty Williams THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b06j5qd3 (Listen) THU Series 31, Artists' Ways - North Somerset THU THU Clare Balding walks with Carolyn Savidge in the final THU programme of this series which has been themed Artists' THU Ways. In the first programme she walked with an artist who THU created outdoor artworks to help her to come to terms with THU never having had children. In this final programme, Carolyn THU explains how walking and art have helped her deal with the THU loss of her husband. THU THU Carolyn's walk leaves from her front door in the village of THU Bleadon in North Somerset, and takes her out onto the hills THU and levels of north Somerset. On the way she describes the THU written, photographic and sound based project she has THU created since losing her husband to cancer. It's a moving THU walk, but also very uplifting as Carolyn describes how THU embracing the landscape has helped her begin to move forward THU with her life. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Carolyn Savidge THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06j0tqz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06j0wff (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06j5qd5 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06j5qd7 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06j6t8m (Listen) THU PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06j0mm4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Brig Society b06j5qd9 (Listen) THU Series 3, GCSE THU THU Please turn your radio over and start listening as Marcus THU Brigstocke has just thirty minutes to retake his GCSEs. THU During the show he will be sitting a genuine GCSE exam set THU by the Producer in an attempt to get the bottom of Grade THU Inflation and also the class. THU THU The invigilators are Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), THU William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and Justin THU Edwards ("The Thick Of It") with a secret appearance by The THU Now Show's Jon Holmes. 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: Justin Edwards THU Ensemble: Jon Holmes 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 b06j5qdc (Listen) THU It is a bitter-sweet day for Pip, and Emma is ready to move THU on. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06j6t8r (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06j5nd2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06j5qdf (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b06j5qdh (Listen) THU Sponsorship THU THU Whether it's high-profile sports events or blockbuster art THU exhibitions, companies like Adidas and Unilever spend THU millions of pounds on sponsorship - to get their brand THU associated with sporting or artistic excellence. The global THU sponsorship market is worth more than 30 billion pounds a THU year, but what happens when negative publicity - like Fifa's THU World Cup corruption scandal - starts to tarnish a brand? THU Evan Davis and guests discuss whether sponsors should walk THU away or use their influence to press for change. THU THU Guests: THU THU Peter Mather, Group Regional Vice President for Europe, BP; THU Jan Gooding, Group Brand Director, Aviva; THU Jaimie Fuller, Chairman, Skins. THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06j5qd7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06j5ncn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06j6t8t (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06jtp9b (Listen) THU Reading Europe - Austria: A Whole Life, Episode 4 THU THU Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the THU best in contemporary literature. Robert Powell reads A Whole THU Life by the Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler. THU THU This 'slim masterpiece' (Daily Mail) went straight onto the THU bestseller lists in Germany last summer and has been there THU ever since. Jim Crace called it both 'heart-rending and THU heart-warming', and over 200,000 people have read and THU celebrated this book across Europe. THU THU When Andreas Egger reaches the village on the night that he THU tries to save Hannes, the goatherd, he goes into the inn and THU meets Marie - the only love of his life - for the first THU time. Romance and grief and a sometimes wry stoicism are the THU touchstones of Egger's solitary life as the 20th century THU unfolds around him. The modern world encroaches slowly on THU the valley, the forest is carved out for ski lifts, THU electricity arrives, and tourists too. But throughout it THU all, Egger remains steadfast in his modest struggle to THU survive and in his ever constant respect for the landscape THU around and above him. THU THU Episode 4: THU Television comes to the valley and stirs emotions Egger has THU buried deep. THU THU Read by Robert Powell THU Written by Robert Seethaler THU Abridged by Jennie Howarth THU THU Produced by Elizabeth Davies THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Robert Powell THU Author: Robert Seethaler THU Abridger: Jennifer Howarth THU Producer: Elizabeth Davies THU THU 23:00 Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of THU Evolution b06j5qr3 (Listen) THU One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman returns to THU Radio 4 with a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and THU sketches, challenging notions of Survival of the Fittest and THU The Selfish Gene with a new theory that's equal parts THU enlightening and hilarious. THU THU Rob is our guide on a journey through a unique audio A-Z of THU nature that takes in everything from altruistic amoebae and THU dancing squid to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with a THU postal worker. THU THU Piecing these fragments together allows Rob to correct some THU major distortions of Darwinism, as well as rejig the theory THU of natural selection in the light of what we now know about THU epigenetics, mirror neurons and the Flintstones. THU THU Written by Rob Newman THU Starring Claire Price, with Jenni Murray as the voice of the THU Encyclopaedia. THU THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU Executive Producer: Richard Wilson THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06j5qr5 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06j0mpw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06j5ncw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06j0mpy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06j0mq0 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06j0mq4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06j0mq6 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06jvbcn (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI Shaunaka Rishi Das. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06jvbcq (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 b04hkxq8 (Listen) 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 Panamanian Montezuma FRI oropendola. In a clearing in the humid rainforest in Panama FRI a tall tree appears to be draped in hanging baskets. These FRI are the nests of a New World blackbird, Montezuma FRI oropendola. The male produces an ecstatic bubbling liquid FRI call as he displays to females, reaching a crescendo whilst FRI bowing downwards from his perch, spreading his wings and FRI raising his tail. They weave long tubular basket-like nests FRI from plant fibres, which they suspend in clusters from tall FRI trees. Colonies can contain up to one hundred and seventy FRI nests, but more usually number about thirty. FRI FRI Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Mary McDonald / naturepl.com. FRI N FRI PL Ref 01301067 FRI © Mary McDonald / naturepl.com. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06jvcms (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b06j0wf3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06j5ycc (Listen) FRI John le Carre: The Biography, Episode 5 FRI FRI The life of John Le Carre by Adam Sisman, is abridged for FRI radio FRI in 5 episodes by Katrin Williams: FRI FRI From The Constant Gardener in the 1990's to the present day, FRI and the FRI author is still very much at work - "I find it very FRI difficult to read my own FRI stuff, but I look at it with satisfaction.." FRI FRI Reader Stephen Boxer FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Stephen Boxer FRI Author: Adam Sisman FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06jvcmv (Listen) FRI Nikki Bedi presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Nikki Bedi FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06j5ycg (Listen) FRI Early One Morning, Episode 10 FRI FRI Rome 1973. With Simone's encouragement, Chiara determines to FRI tell Maria the truth about Daniele and confront her own FRI past. FRI Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in FRI Miranda Emmerson's dramatization of Virginia Baily's FRI powerful new novel. FRI FRI Directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Greta Scacchi FRI Chiara: Juliet Aubrey FRI Maria: Sophie Melville FRI Cecilia: Alex Tregear FRI Daniele: Adam Thomas Wright FRI Gennaro: Cesare Taurasi FRI Adult Daniele: Cesare Taurasi FRI Simone: Jessica Turner FRI Nonna: Jessica Turner FRI Antonio: David Hounslow FRI Gabriele: David Acton FRI Tommaso: Felix Auer FRI Nazi Officer: Felix Auer FRI Brian: Felix Auer FRI Edna: Amelia Lowdell FRI Barry: Chris Pavlo FRI Goffredo: Chris Pavlo FRI Gianni: Sam Dale FRI Author: Virginia Baily FRI Adaptor: Miranda Emmerson FRI Director: Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Cold War Confidential b06j6665 (Listen) FRI The disappearance of diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald FRI Maclean in May 1951 rocked the British establishment and FRI lead ultimately to the unmasking of the notorious Cambridge FRI spies - a network of brilliant graduates who had penetrated FRI the heart of British power to spy for the Soviet Union. FRI FRI As the Government finally opens its archives on Burgess and FRI Maclean, held secret for nearly 65 years, Martha Kearney FRI examines the papers to discover how Foreign Office Mandarins FRI reacted to the horrifying discovery of spies within their FRI midst. FRI FRI Heavily criticised at the time for saying too little in FRI public and engaging in a cover-up, we can now learn what was FRI being said behind closed doors. Donald Maclean had been FRI under suspicion for leaking documents from Washington during FRI the war and was due to be confronted about it when he FRI disappeared. We can now follow events as the net closed in FRI around him- and see how attention soon turned to Kim Philby, FRI Maclean's fellow spy, still at his post in the Washington FRI Embassy. FRI FRI The archives include files from the Foreign Office, Cabinet FRI Office and Security Service but, in this programme, Martha FRI focuses mostly on the Foreign Office as an institution and FRI what the papers reveal about its atmosphere at the time - FRI the Old Boy network mode of recruitment and management, and FRI the soul searching that went on in the wake of the spy FRI scandal. FRI FRI Producer: Deborah Dudgeon FRI Series Producer: David Prest FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Double Acts b06j6667 (Listen) FRI Wysinnwyg FRI FRI It's Kerry's first day in the Sales Support Department of FRI Willard & Son Bath Suppliers - where she meets Adele for the FRI very first time. FRI FRI Alison Steadman and Isy Suttie star in the second of six FRI two-handers written by Cabin Pressure's John Finnemore. FRI FRI Cast:Adele............Alison Steadman FRI Kerry.............Isy Suttie FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Alison Steadman FRI Actor: Isy Suttie FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06j0mqd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b064g592 (Listen) FRI 23 October 1915 - Albert Wilson FRI FRI On this day German cruiser Prinz Aldalbert was sunk by an FRI Allied submarine losing most of its crew, and Albert Wilson FRI has to make an impossible decision. FRI FRI Credits FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Foxton: Sam Dale FRI Adam: Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06jvcmy (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06j0mql (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06j6669 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun FRI Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Peter Snow Returns to the Future b06j666c (Listen) FRI Jonathan Glancey FRI FRI What will remain of the greatest architecture in the world FRI when human beings are no longer here? The architectural FRI writer Jonathan Glancey takes Peter Snow on a tour of FRI ancient Rome and a trip to the City of London in a far FRI future when humankind has gone. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06j5qdc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06j67y0 (Listen) FRI The Liberty Cap FRI FRI Pete has been suffering from depression for many years but FRI no therapy or medicine has had any lasting benefit. Now he FRI is considering taking part in a clinical trial that is FRI testing a new treatment that uses Psilocybin, the FRI psychoactive chemical found in magic mushrooms. FRI FRI The Liberty Cap is written by Hattie Naylor (award winning FRI playwright whose many plays include Ivan and the Dogs and FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys) and made in consultation with Dr FRI Robin Carhart-Harris, a psycho-pharmacologist at Imperial FRI College London, who is conducting research into psychedelic FRI drugs and their potential therapeutic uses. FRI FRI Scientific research into psychedelic drugs has been FRI effectively shut down for decades but is now becoming more FRI widespread. The action of this drama is inspired by clinical FRI trials that are currently taking place and the ethical FRI questions they raise, although all characters portrayed are FRI entirely fictional. FRI FRI Written by Hattie Naylor FRI FRI Programme consultant: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris FRI Music consultant: Mark Jackson FRI Sound design by Alisdair McGregor FRI FRI Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris FRI A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Pete: Nigel Barrett FRI Sam: Paul Currier FRI Anna: Sally Orrock FRI Writer: Hattie Naylor FRI Director: Boz Temple-Morris FRI Producer: Boz Temple-Morris FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06j67y2 (Listen) FRI South Yorkshire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI South Yorkshire. FRI FRI Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden 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 b06j67y4 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI One of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th FRI century, Sunset Song follows the coming of age of its FRI heroine Chris Guthrie in rural Aberdeenshire. Set at the FRI beginning of the last century, the novel is a beautifully FRI wrought depiction of a rural community coming to terms with FRI a rapidly changing modern world and the devastating impact FRI of the Great War. FRI FRI In this final extract, Chris receives devastating news from FRI Chae, a neighbour, home on leave from the Front, who had FRI spoken to her husband, Ewan, just before his death. Though FRI awful to hear, it allows her to grieve properly, and sheds FRI light upon Ewan's terrible behaviour before he left for FRI France. FRI FRI Terence Davies's eagerly anticipated film of Lewis Grassic FRI Gibbon's classic novel had its UK premiere at the London FRI Film Festival last week 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 Abridger / Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hannah Donaldson FRI Writer: Lewis Grassic Gibbon FRI Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06jvcn0 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b06jvcn2 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06j67y6 (Listen) FRI Bob and Ben - Glory Days FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two friends who meet regularly for a FRI 'clonc' (West Welsh for chat) and enjoy exulting in the art FRI of rugby - another conversation in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b06jvdyc (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm - Eddie Mair with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06j0mr1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06j67y8 (Listen) FRI Series 88, Episode 6 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 b06j6by4 (Listen) FRI Charlie makes a discovery, and Fallon feels the warmth at FRI Woodbine. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06kj8ww (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06j5ycg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06j6by6 (Listen) FRI Lord Wigley FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Porthcawl in Wales with a panel including Lord Wigley FRI the former leader of Plaid Cymru. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06j6byb (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g5b3 (Listen) FRI 19-23 October 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain a hundred years ago this week, when crises lead to FRI drastic actions FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Story-led by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam: Billy Kennedy FRI Adeline: Helen Schlesinger FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Beau: Stephen Critchlow FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Foxton: Sam Dale FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie: Paul Ready FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Lilian: Alex Tregear FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Roland: Jack Holden FRI Roy: Tim Beckmann FRI Sally: Sarah Thom FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Soldier 1: Owen Clark FRI Soldier 2: Neet Mohan FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06j0mrf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06jtq2b (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06jtpn5 (Listen) FRI Reading Europe - Austria: A Whole Life, Episode 5 FRI FRI Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the FRI best in contemporary literature. Robert Powell reads A Whole FRI Life by the Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler. FRI FRI This 'slim masterpiece' (Daily Mail) went straight onto the FRI bestseller lists in Germany last summer and has been there FRI ever since. Jim Crace called it both 'heart-rending and FRI heart-warming', and over 200,000 people have read and FRI celebrated this book across Europe. FRI FRI When Andreas Egger reaches the village on the night that he FRI tries to save Hannes, the goatherd, he goes into the inn and FRI meets Marie - the only love of his life - for the first FRI time. Romance and grief and a sometimes wry stoicism are the FRI touchstones of Egger's solitary life as the 20th century FRI unfolds around him. The modern world encroaches slowly on FRI the valley, the forest is carved out for ski lifts, FRI electricity arrives, and tourists too. But throughout it FRI all, Egger remains steadfast in his modest struggle to FRI survive and in his ever constant respect for the landscape FRI around and above him. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI An echo from his past shocks Egger and he seeks shelter on FRI the high slopes. FRI FRI Read by Robert Powell FRI Written by Robert Seethaler FRI Abridged by Jennie Howarth FRI FRI Produced by Elizabeth Davies FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Robert Powell FRI Author: Robert Seethaler FRI Abridger: Jennifer Howarth FRI Producer: Elizabeth Davies FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b06j21bx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06kj8wy (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06j6byl (Listen) FRI Jack and Angela - I Always Want to Be There for You FRI FRI Fi Glover with a mother and son who reflect on how difficult FRI it was for him to leave for university when his grandmother FRI was ill, but also how there comes a time to let go. Recorded FRI in the mobile Booth at the Woodland Trust in Grantham, this FRI is another conversation 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
16 October, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 17/10/2015 - 23/10/2015
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