15 January, 2016

Radio 4 Listings for 16/01/2016 - 22/01/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 16 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b06vjc61 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06vjstn (Listen) SAT The Vanishing Man, Episode 5 SAT SAT Laura Cumming charts the obsession of a 19th century Reading SAT bookseller with a portrait of Charles I - painted when the SAT Monarch was a young man on a visit to Madrid. The Spanish SAT genius Velasquez painted very few pictures, so did John SAT Snare discover a long-lost treasure? And if so, where is it SAT now? SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT In 1888 a Velasquez portrait of Prince Charles is reported SAT as being lent to the Reading Art Museum by the widow of John SAT Snare. Somehow the picture has returned to Britain. SAT SAT This is a story about the intense emotions that great art SAT can provoke - passions that sometimes verge on the SAT irrational and which transcend considerations of value. SAT SAT John Snare's conviction about the painting he bought evolved SAT into a dispute with those who had more money, power and SAT influence. In a sense, the missing Velasquez became a SAT battleground for class war and the individual against the SAT establishment. SAT SAT But at the heart of the story lies a work of art, created SAT with such skill and delicacy that it inspired the fiercest SAT of feelings and continues to exert its mysterious pull to SAT this day. SAT SAT Read by Siobhan Redmond SAT Written by Laura Cumming SAT Abridged by Isobel Creed SAT SAT Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Siobhan Redmond SAT Author: Laura Cumming SAT Abridger: Isobel Creed SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06vjc63 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06vjc65 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06vjc67 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b06vjc69 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06vnd2r (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Pádraig Ó Tuama. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b06vnd2t (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b06vjc6c (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b06vjc6f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b06vmxpk (Listen) SAT Yorkshire in the Dark SAT SAT Yorkshire looks different in the dark. Helen Mark looks up SAT into the heavens and deep underground for a new SAT understanding of England's biggest county. SAT SAT Off-road cycling in the Dales becomes a lot more thrilling SAT when you strike out into the dark and, armed with an SAT infra-red nghtscope you realise just how busy the forests of SAT the North York Moors National Park are after sunset. SAT SAT Helen will also be discovering how the Brontë sisters filled SAT the long nights in the Haworth Parsonage and mining precious SAT Blue John in the caverns of the Peak District. SAT SAT Producer: Alasdair Cross. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b06w53b4 (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 Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b06vjc6h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b06w53b6 (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 b06w53b8 (Listen) SAT Katy Brand SAT SAT Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Katy SAT Brand. SAT SAT Comedian Katy Brand graced our screen in her Big Ass Show SAT where we saw her parody pop culture. She danced like Beyonce SAT for Sport Relief, has written her first novel Brenda Monk is SAT Funny and her acting credits include Peep show and Nanny SAT McPhee. Now she's a judge on the Costa book awards. SAT SAT Almost four years ago Clare Owen found a gold wedding ring SAT with an inscription and date. Her desire to reunite the ring SAT with it's owner led her to set up her own lost and found SAT company. She joins us to talk about how she's since reunited SAT animals, soft toys and even people and to sing the praises SAT of much maligned social media. SAT SAT Levison Wood is an explorer who can currently be seen SAT Walking the Himalayas in a Channel 4 documentary series. SAT It's a distance of 1700 miles. He previously Walked the SAT Nile. He joins Aasmah and Richard to share his experiences SAT and explain why he is drawn to such expeditions. SAT SAT Dr Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to make maths accessible. SAT She does online maths tutorials, teaches maths to arts SAT students and advises primary school teachers and she's even SAT written a book about it in relation to baking: How to Bake SAT Pi. She'll be talking about her passion for maths, music and SAT infinity. SAT SAT Composer and Wombles creator Mike Batt tells us his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT Her chooses the 1st movement of Schuberts 9th Symphony (The SAT Great C major) and SAT Little Red Rooster performed by Howling Wolf, written by SAT Willy Dixon SAT SAT JP takes a look in the diary of listener Barbara Bindley and SAT we have your thankyous. SAT SAT Levison Wood's book Walking the Himalayas is out now, and SAT the fourth and fifth parts of the series air on Channel 4, SAT 8pm Sundays and the whole series can be viewed on All 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Katy Brand SAT Interviewed Guest: Clare Owen SAT Interviewed Guest: Levison Wood SAT Interviewed Guest: Eugenia Cheng SAT Interviewed Guest: Mike Batt SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b06w53bb (Listen) SAT Series 12, Stoke-on-Trent SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from SAT Stoke-on-Trent. SAT SAT This week's audience questions are answered by the materials SAT expert Zoe Laughlin, DIY cooking expert Tim Hayward, SAT no-nonsense Manchester chef Rob Owen Brown, and the Catalan SAT Cook Rachel McCormack. SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b06w53bd (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b06vjc6k (Listen) SAT Poles Apart SAT SAT 'Don't tell us how to run our country!' That was the word SAT from Warsaw as the European Commission launched an SAT investigation into some of the decisions taken by the new SAT right-wing government in Poland; the authorities in India SAT meet on Monday to evaluate the controversial traffic SAT experiment in Delhi which was aimed at reducing pollution; SAT the latest consumer spending figures in France offer little SAT evidence that an economic recovery is underway -- but in SAT Toulouse some people know where to get their food for free; SAT lawyers for the Mexican drug lord known as 'el Chapo' have SAT started to prepare a case against his extradition to the US SAT -- some in Mexico would anyway prefer to see him face SAT justice there and there's something to sing about in SAT northern Norway - after six weeks their polar night season SAT has come to an end, and the sun has finally made an SAT appearance! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b06vjc6m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b06w53bh (Listen) SAT How mobile phone firms can hold the key to bank security SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b06vn929 (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 2 SAT SAT Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the SAT chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests SAT take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. SAT Hugo Rifkind and Sarah Kendall are among the panellists SAT joining Miles to tackle the news of the last seven days. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Sarah Kendall SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b06vjc6p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b06vjc6r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b06vnbcw (Listen) SAT Ken Livingstone, Alison McGovern MP, Dominic Raab MP, Ann SAT Widdecombe SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Nexus Methodist Church in Bath with a panel SAT including the Joint Chair of Labour's Defence Review Ken SAT Livingstone, the chair of Progress Alison McGovern MP, SAT Justice Minister Dominic Raab MP and the former Conservative SAT minister Ann Widdecombe. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b06w53bk (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b06w53bm (Listen) SAT Human Voices SAT SAT by Penelope Fitzgerald SAT SAT dramatised by Michael Butt SAT SAT Young Annie Asra finds bureaucracy, camaraderie, SAT eccentricity and love in the BBC of 1940. Based on the SAT Booker Prize-Winner's comic novel, starring Helen George and SAT Toby Jones. SAT SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT Helen George is well known for both her role as Trixie SAT Franklin in the BBC Series CALL THE MIDWIFE and her recent SAT performance in reaching the quarter-final stage of STRICTLY SAT COME DANCING. SAT SAT Toby Jones is shortly to be seen as Captain Mainwaring in SAT the forthcoming DAD'S ARMY film. Also on TV in THE SAT DETECTORISTS and CAPITAL. His career ranges from Dobby in SAT the HARRY POTTER films to Truman Capote in INFAMOUS. Recent SAT radio includes the G.F. Newman series THE CORRUPTED. SAT SAT Credits SAT Annie: Helen George SAT Sam: Toby Jones SAT Jeff: Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Vi: Katie Redford SAT Mrs Milne: Susan Jameson SAT Eddie: Chris Pavlo SAT DDG: Ewan Bailey SAT Producer: George Watkins SAT General Pinard: Sean Baker SAT Author: Penelope Fitzgerald SAT Adaptor: Michael Butt SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT 15:30 I Dressed Ziggy Stardust b01r91qk (Listen) SAT For more than four decades, David Bowie entranced his SAT followers. In this programme Samira Ahmed looks at his SAT particular appeal for British Asian women. SAT SAT Across the generations, they were inspired by the skinny SAT South Londoner, who challenged gender barriers and who SAT played with alien identity and other-worldliness. Beneath SAT the make up and exotic costumes, he was also the SAT intelligent, politely spoken suburban young man who you SAT could potentially introduce to your mother. SAT SAT As Samira explores Bowie's impact on British Asian SAT teenagers, she talks to Shami Chakrabarti - the director of SAT Liberty - about Bowie's changing identities, sociologist SAT Rupa Huq tackles his suburban psychoses, and Shyama Perera SAT takes Samira on a journey to explain how her teenage SAT obsession with Bowie even extended to sending costume SAT designs to her hero, enabling her to claim that "I Dressed SAT Ziggy Stardust". SAT SAT Presenter: Samira Ahmed SAT Producer: Alice Bloch SAT A Whistledown/ Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b06w56gs (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 Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b06w56gv (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b06vnd2t (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06vjc6t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b06vjc6w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06vjc6y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b06w56gx (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith, Frank Skinner, Peter SAT Richardson, Isy Suttie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, The Milk, SAT Reverieme SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Frank Skinner, SAT Peter Richardson, Isy Suttie and Phoebe Waller-Bridge for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Frank Skinner SAT 'Room 101' is on Thursday 21st January at 20.30 on BBC One. SAT SAT Phoebe Waller-Bridge SAT 'Crashing' is on Monday 18th January at 22.00 on Channel 4. SAT SAT Isy Suttie SAT 'The Actual One' is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and SAT available on 14th January. SAT SAT Peter Richardson SAT ‘The Comic Strip Presents… Red Top’ is on Wednesday 20th SAT January at 22.00 on UKTV Gold. SAT SAT The Milk SAT 'Favourite Way' is out now on Wah Wah 45s. SAT SAT Reverieme SAT 'Straw Woman' is available in 9th Story Records in May. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Frank Skinner SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Richardson SAT Interviewed Guest: Isy Suttie SAT Interviewed Guest: Phoebe Waller-Bridge SAT Performer: The Milk SAT Performer: Reverieme SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b06w56gz (Listen) SAT Series 19, Changes SAT SAT Graham White responds to a story in this week's news. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Graham White SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b06w56h1 (Listen) SAT The Revenant, Annie Leibovitz, Nicholas Searle, The Rack SAT Pack, Give Me Your Love SAT SAT Leonardo DiCaprio stars as American pioneers-man Hugh Glass, SAT in Oscar-contender The Revenant. It's graphic, visceral, SAT epic in scope and could sweep the boards at the awards SAT Photographer Annie Leibovitz has an exhibition of portraits SAT under the title "Women", which will tour the globe. How does SAT she tackle such an enormous subject? SAT The debut novel by former civil servant Nicholas Searle "the SAT Good Liar" is gaining a lot of attention but do our critics SAT think it's a good book? SAT BBC iPlayer's first online-only drama is a snooker comedy SAT film 'The Rack Pack' - which tells the story of the rise of SAT the sport in the early 80's from a parlour game to a SAT world-conquering TV fixture. SAT Give Me Your Love is a play at The Battersea Arts Centre SAT about the treatment of former combatants who have PTSD with SAT MDMA (ecstasy). Is this a wise move? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Paul Morley, Natalie Haynes and SAT Jacqueline Springer. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Morley SAT Interviewed Guest: Natalie Haynes SAT Interviewed Guest: Jacqueline Springer SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b06w56h3 (Listen) SAT The Stranger in the Mirror SAT SAT What is autism, and what causes it? Nobody knows, but there SAT have been many theories, from the plausible to the offensive SAT to the downright wacky. Autism remains a mysterious enigma SAT and thus a receptacle of whatever we want to project onto SAT it. Author and broadcaster Michael Blastland, whose son is SAT autistic, delves into a rich archive and finds that looking SAT at autism is like looking into a mirror. In it we see our SAT own fears, beliefs, hopes and cultural prejudices. SAT SAT Autism was formally identified in 1943, by child SAT psychiatrist Leo Kanner. It existed long before that, of SAT course, but autistic children were instead seen as "wild SAT children", or mentally disabled, or bewitched. In some parts SAT of the world they still are. SAT SAT Michael Blastland takes us on a journey through the history SAT of the theories about autism, which is in effect a history SAT of social or scientific trends. With the post-war rise of SAT psychoanalysis, for example, autism was blamed on mothers, SAT so-called "refrigerator mothers". (Audio from the film SAT Refrigerator Mothers is featured courtesy of Kartemquin SAT Films, it was produced by David E. Simpson and J.J. Hanley.) SAT When we worried about science messing with nature and our SAT bodies (remember the BSE scandal?) we blamed vaccines. Then SAT it was genes. And now, with economic need, autism and its SAT more high-functioning form Asperger's Syndrome are almost SAT fashionable. Silicon Valley has been called the largest SAT sheltered workplace scheme in history. SAT SAT Whenever there has been a twist in our attitude to autism, SAT it has come out of a new scientific or social trend. The SAT latest of which may be that as we are becoming a more SAT diverse society, autism is just another kind of different. SAT SAT Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b06vjlbb (Listen) SAT East of Eden, Episode 2 SAT SAT Episode 2 of 3 SAT SAT By John Steinbeck SAT Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SAT SAT An epic tale exploring the nature of good and evil, inspired SAT by the story of Cain and Abel. SAT SAT Adam has fallen under the spell of the enigmatic Cathy - a SAT woman who has murdered her parents and now, on the run, has SAT married Adam. He's captivated by her. But on their wedding SAT night it was Adam's brother Cathy slept with. SAT SAT The newly-weds are about to start a new life in California, SAT but it's not the one Adam imagines in this dark and febrile SAT drama about familial love. SAT SAT Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip. SAT SAT Director: Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Samuel: Jimmy Chisholm SAT Cathy: Holliday Grainger SAT Cal: Alasdair Hankinson SAT Faye: Kathryn Howden SAT Aron: Samuel Keefe SAT Adam: Robin Laing SAT Abra: Gemma McElhinney SAT Dr Tilson: Nick Underwood SAT Ethel: Anita Vettesse SAT Lee: David Yip SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Author: John Steinbeck SAT Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b06vjc70 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b06vkktf (Listen) SAT Positively Medieval SAT SAT Lucy Allen argues that the way in which medieval society is SAT often presented - as indifferent to sexual violence against SAT women - is wrong. SAT SAT Lucy is an academic at Cambridge University, and she SAT recounts a disagreement with a colleague about the realism SAT of violence depicted in the TV show Game of Thrones. In SAT fact, she says, medieval monarchs were passing laws against SAT sexual violence in wartime, and some medieval literature SAT reflects a nuanced understanding of trauma caused by rape. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. SAT SAT 22:30 Three Pounds in My Pocket b064z758 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT SAT Kavita Puri looks at a turbulent period for South Asians SAT living in Britain, from 1976 to 1981. There were SAT confrontations and street battles across the country, in SAT largely immigrant towns, between the National Front and SAT anti-racist organisations. Many from the first generation SAT shied away from conflict and ignored racist abuse, but the SAT younger generation - many born here - fought back. "We are SAT likely to die in this country," one interviewee says, "so if SAT it means staying and fighting that's what we will have to SAT do, and we won't give an inch." Kavita explores this SAT generational difference, through candid and heartfelt SAT memories. SAT Producer: Smita Patel SAT SAT With help from Dr Florian Stadtler, University of Exeter. SAT SAT The programme contains archive from "Mind Your Language" SAT written by Vince Powell for London Weekend Television. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b06vjv12 (Listen) SAT Heat 1, 2016 SAT SAT (1/17) SAT Russell Davies hosts the quiz that's been testing the SAT general knowledge of the general public for longer than any SAT other. Now in its 63rd season, Brain of Britain returns with SAT another 48 quiz enthusiasts from around the UK competing for SAT the title Brain of Britain 2016. SAT SAT The first heat of the new series draws together competitors SAT from Cardiff, Shrewsbury, St Andrews and Haddenham in SAT Buckinghamshire. At least one of them will be going forward SAT to the semi-final stage in the spring. There are also SAT semi-final places for the top-scoring runners-up, so those SAT pipped in close contests can often get a second chance. SAT SAT Russell will also be selecting a pair of questions submitted SAT by a listener in a bid to 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Competitors in this programme SAT SAT GAVIN BROOKMAN, a freelance researcher from Llandaff in SAT South Wales SAT SAT JOHN GALLAGHER, a retired finance director from Shrewsbury SAT SAT JANE ANN LISTON, a railway campaigner from St Andrews SAT SAT DR MIKE PORTER, a university lecturer from Haddenham in SAT Buckinghamshire SAT SAT 23:30 Edinburgh at the Year's Midnight: A Winter Journey in SAT Poetry through Scotland's Capital City b06vjlbg (Listen) SAT A winter journey through Scotland's capital city by Stewart SAT Conn. The poetry is introduced and read by Stewart with the SAT acclaimed Scots actors Gordon Kennedy and Siobhan Redmond. SAT Music is arranged and played by Aly Macrae. SAT SAT Stewart Conn is one of Scotland's most highly-regarded SAT poets. He lives in Edinburgh and was, from 2002 to 2005, the SAT city's inaugural Makar - the Scots name for a poet or bard. SAT His Bloodaxe collections include The Breakfast Room (2011 SAT SMIT Scottish Poetry Book of the Year) and a new and SAT selected volume, The Touch of Time. SAT SAT "He stands among the indispensible poets of modern and SAT contemporary Scotland" - Douglas Dunn SAT SAT A fragment from Under The Ice by Stewart Conn, inspired by SAT Raeburn's portrait which hangs in the National Gallery in SAT Edinburgh: SAT "...Was Raeburn's skating parson SAT a man of God, poised SAT impeccably on the brink; SAT or his bland stare SAT no more than a decorous front? SAT If I could keep my cool SAT like that. Gazing straight ahead, SAT not at my feet. Giving SAT no sign of knowing SAT how deep the water, how thin the ice." SAT SAT Produced by Gordon Kennedy SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie. SAT An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b06w6rb5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Four Bare Legs in a Bed b0222fgn (Listen) SUN An Interesting Condition SUN SUN The second of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, SUN Four Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. SUN 2/3 An Interesting Condition. Fear and loathing in an SUN antenatal class. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rosie Cavaliero SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN Writer: Helen Simpson SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6rb8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6rbg (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6rbl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b06w6rbn (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b06w6t82 (Listen) SUN Bells from St. Leonard's Church, Hythe in Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b06vkktf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b06w6rbs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b06w6t84 (Listen) SUN Eruption SUN SUN Samira Ahmed explores the power of eruptions - emotional, SUN spiritual or geological. SUN SUN We often think of eruptions of emotion, anger for example, SUN as troubling and out of our control, but can they be useful SUN or powerful ways of effecting change? Giles Fraser discusses SUN with Samira the significance of Jesus over-turning the SUN tables of the money changers in the temple. SUN SUN Eye-witness accounts of volcanic eruptions and poems by Neil SUN Rollinson and James Kirkup are read by Emily Taaffe and SUN Peter Marinker, with music by Sibelius, Ennio Morricone, CPE SUN Bach and Alan Hovhahness. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Ode to a Magnolia Tree SUN SUN Author: Neil Rollinson SUN SUN Publisher: Cape Poetry SUN SUN ISBN: 0224097296 SUN Title: Extracts from eye-witness accounts of the 1980 Mount SUN St Helen’s eruption recorded by Richard Waitt SUN SUN Synopsis: SUN SUN Author: Richard Waitt SUN SUN Publisher: Washington State University Press SUN SUN ISBN: 0874223237 SUN Title: For the 90th Birthday of Sibelius SUN SUN Author: James Kirkup SUN SUN Publisher: Poetry Salzburg SUN SUN ISBN: 370520288X SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b06w6t86 (Listen) SUN A Life of Slime 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 snail expert Mary Seddon in the Wye Valley. Lionel SUN and Mary search through an ancient woodland on the trail of SUN possibly the least-loved of creatures especially to SUN gardeners. Along the way Lionel discovers many of this SUN fascinating group are active in December and often easier to SUN find as they search the woodland floor. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b06w6rbw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b06w6rby (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b06w6t88 (Listen) SUN Seeking Sanctuary in Germany SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b06w6t8b (Listen) SUN The National Holocaust Centre and Museum SUN SUN Broadcaster Natasha Kaplinsky presents The Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of The National Holocaust Centre and Museum. SUN Registered Charity No 509022 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The National Holocaust Centre and Museum'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'The National Holocaust SUN Centre and Museum. SUN SUN The National Holocaust Centre and Museum SUN SUN The National Holocaust Centre and Museum remains the only SUN centre dedicated to Holocaust remembrance and education in SUN the UK. It plays an important role as a memorial, museum and SUN a place of testimony and learning. SUN Built to honour those who died and to give a voice to those SUN who survived and to educate future generations, the centre SUN stands as a permanent record of the very worst and the very SUN best in humankind. SUN The centre emphasises how current and future generations SUN must carefully examine and learn from the Holocaust. The SUN centre promotes respect for human rights, equal SUN opportunities and good citizenship. SUN In 2015 we welcomed 20,000 young people to the centre from SUN schools across the UK. They were able to speak to a SUN holocaust survivor and listen and ask questions about their SUN experiences first hand. SUN SUN Arek Hersh, MBE SUN SUN *‘I feel it is vital for me to talk. I know I am teaching a SUN lot of young people not to hate and to do all the right SUN things. I believe my story impacts on them and they are SUN learning a great deal from me’.* SUN Arek was taken to his first concentration camp when he was SUN only eleven years old. Arek moved around several camps SUN before being taken to Auschwitz in Poland. Arek regularly SUN shares his experiences with young people at the centre. SUN Please support The National Holocaust Centre and Museum so SUN survivors’ memories can live on. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b06w6rc0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b06w6rc2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b06w6t8d (Listen) SUN God's Kingdom and Human Need SUN SUN From New Kilpatrick Parish Church, Glasgow, with The Rev SUN Roddy Hamilton. SUN Bearsden Choir directed by Andrew Nunn. Organist: SUN Christopher Nickol. SUN Reading: Mark 2: 1-12 SUN I heard the voice of Jesus say (Tune: Kingsfold) SUN We cannot measure how you heal (Tune: Ye Banks and Braes) SUN Take this moment, sign and space (J L Bell/G Maule) SUN Lord, we come to ask your healing (Ar Hyd Y Nos) SUN Spirit of God (Mallaig Sprinkling Song, Tune: Leaving of SUN Lismore) SUN Angel voices ever singing (Tune: Angel Voices) SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b06vnbcy (Listen) SUN Sing a New Song SUN SUN Tom Shakespeare argues that we need a new national anthem, SUN one that celebrates what's great about the whole country, SUN reflects the diversity of the population and the values of SUN modern society. SUN He suggests that existing anthem-like hymns such as SUN Jerusalem, or the likes of Rule Britannia and Land of Hope SUN and Glory won't do. Jerusalem, for example, talks of walking SUN on England's mountains green, excluding the Welsh, Scottish SUN and Northern Irish. SUN A new anthem, written and composed for the purpose, would SUN actually mean something and would make us proud of what's SUN great about the United Kingdom. It would be in tune with our SUN times. SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0sc8 (Listen) SUN Kakapo SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the New Zealand Kakapo, high on the SUN ferny slopes of its island fortress off the coast of New SUN Zealand. Kakapos are flightless and the heaviest parrots in SUN the world. They're also called owl-parrots from their SUN nocturnal habits and open owlish expressions. Like owls SUN their plumage is richly mottled although no owl shares their SUN beautiful moss-green tones. SUN SUN Kakapos also have a curious mating strategy. The males SUN gather at traditional "leks" or display areas to attract SUN mates. At the top of a wooded ridge, the male digs one or SUN more a bowl- like depressions in the ground which function SUN as an amplifier. He then takes a deep breath, swells his SUN throat-pouch like a balloon then releases the air with a SUN soft booming call which can carry up to five kilometres. SUN SUN This sound can now only be heard on a handful of offshore SUN islands. The kakapo story is tragically familiar. Flightless SUN and ground-nesting, it was helpless in the face of settlers SUN who logged its forests and introduced cats and rats which SUN slaughtered the birds. Between 1987 and 1992 the last SUN surviving kakapos were relocated to predator-free islands. SUN Now following intensive care and a national conservation SUN strategy, there are about 130 kakapos in the wild. SUN SUN Kakapo (Strigops habroptila) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of SUN Kākāpō Recovery SUN SUN © SUN Kākāpō Recovery SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b06w6rc5 (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 b06w6ty2 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b06w6ty4 (Listen) SUN Sir Anthony Seldon SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the educationalist and writer, SUN Sir Anthony Seldon. SUN SUN Now Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, he was the SUN Master of Wellington College. He has written, co-written and SUN edited more than 30 books, including political biographies SUN of Prime Ministers Churchill, Blair, Brown and Cameron. SUN SUN He had to take his 'A' levels twice before going on to read SUN PPE at Oxford and doing a PhD at the LSE, before embarking SUN on his teaching career. His first headmaster job was at SUN Brighton College and then he went onto be Master of SUN Wellington College. During his tenure, the school became SUN co-educational, set up partner schools in China, and SUN introduced a more holistic approach to learning with SUN happiness classes and stillness sessions added to the SUN curriculum and in 2009 the state secondary Wellington SUN Academy was founded in Wiltshire. SUN SUN He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the SUN Royal Society of Arts and in 2014 was knighted for services SUN to education and modern political history. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Anthony Seldon SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b06w6rc7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b06vk8xv (Listen) SUN Series 8, Walsh, Dubner, Bramwell SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new SUN curator Sarah Millican welcome Holly Walsh, comedian, SUN would-be medieval scholar and host of Radio 4's hit panel SUN show Best Behaviour; Stephen J. Dubner, the co-author of SUN Freakonomics, a best-selling book that turned our SUN understanding of economics on its head; and Dr David SUN Bramwell, the author, comedian, and adventurer whose book SUN The No. 9 Bus To Utopia recounts his year-long pilgrimage in SUN search of a Better Life. SUN SUN This week, the Museum's Guest Committee speculate on what SUN drove medieval monks to draw obscene doodles on sacred SUN manuscripts; why a mind-reading microchip could see the end SUN of civilisation as we know it; and an interesting theory SUN about who all those streakers were at 1970 sports events. SUN SUN The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of SUN QI. SUN SUN The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. SUN SUN It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Sarah Millican SUN Interviewed Guest: Holly Walsh SUN Interviewed Guest: Stephen Dubner SUN Interviewed Guest: David Bramwell SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: James Harkin SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b06w6ty6 (Listen) SUN Leeds: The Story of a City Through Its Food SUN SUN When the Food Programme went to Leeds to cover its growing SUN food and drink scene many areas of the city had recently SUN been flooded. At the time community groups, including SUN Muslims and Sikhs, were taking part in a food operation to SUN feed those forced out of their homes - meeting the SUN fundamental need for food while showing the strength of the SUN community. SUN SUN Dan Saladino explores the city - which has historic links to SUN supermarket chains, wealth from the textiles industry and SUN 'Leeds Dripping Riots'. The last 2 years have seen a SUN thriving independent food and drink movement, with SUN innovators starting projects which are changing the face of SUN Leeds but also inspiring others around the world. SUN SUN Adam Smith was working in Australia when he became aware and SUN angered at the scale of edible food being wasted. After SUN being told if he wanted to change the world he needed to SUN change his home town he returned to Leeds, setting up a cafe SUN which intercepted food being thrown away from shops, SUN markets, projects and allotments to 'feed bellies not bins'. SUN The pay as you feel model of the Real Junk Food Project has SUN been replicated across Leeds and around the world with 126 SUN cafes and more in the making. Yet Adam is far from content. SUN SUN At Trinity Kitchen, a radical new model for a shopping mall SUN food court which has drawn attention from others as far SUN flung as Sweden and China. A 6 week rotation of new traders SUN is no mean feat - with road closures and cranes hoisting SUN food trucks into place. SUN SUN Dan also meets Northern Monk in Grub and Grog - brewing SUN quirky ales to match a changing, mainly vegan menu while SUN Northern Bloc ice creams are keeping things close to home SUN with flavours like Yorkshire Parkin and Black Treacle but SUN with their eyes on expansion into the London market.. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b06w6rc9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b06wbp94 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Can We Trust the Opinion Polls? b06wbp96 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Last year's general election should have been an easy result SUN to predict. There was a constant stream of opinion polls, SUN many more than in previous campaigns. But they turned out to SUN be highly misleading, suggesting a hung parliament. The SUN actual result was a huge shock to the polling industry. So SUN went wrong with the polls, and why? And how easy will it be SUN to put it right? SUN SUN In the first part of a series examining the role of opinion SUN polling in British politics, David Cowling looks at the SUN track record of polls in previous elections. He explores why SUN their results matter and whether there were warning signs SUN that should have indicated they were going wrong before last SUN year's general election. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06vn91z (Listen) SUN RHS Harlow Carr SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel answer questions from the postbag SUN at RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate. Matthew Wilson, Bob SUN Flowerdew and Christine Walkden offer the advice. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q - I'm a novice gardener and have just come back from my SUN allotment where I'd hoped to prune my raspberries. I was SUN surprised to see that they're already in bud and am unsure SUN if I should still prune them. SUN SUN Bob – I’d thin them out. Take off the tips but otherwise SUN leave them. You should be able to pass a hand around each SUN raspberry cane without touching another one. SUN Q - I love ivy especially at this time of year but we have a SUN problem. We moved here 11 years ago to a soft covering of SUN ivy on the fence. It has now really grown and covers the SUN neighbour’s garage on one side and another’s green house is SUN slowly being engulfed. We have tried to cut it back as best SUN we can but have not owned up to the fact that the root is SUN behind our shed. We plead ignorance to where it can be SUN coming from. We have no access to the back of the shed SUN unless we take it down completely. How can we get rid of SUN this problem? SUN SUN Matthew – Ivy is a great thing in the right place – and that SUN means nowhere near a house! SUN SUN Christine – You do need to be aware of its invasive nature SUN but it is brilliant for wildlife. I think the thing to do SUN is committed cutting back and pulling out to keep on top of SUN it but no need to go further. SUN SUN Matthew – If you can access the root behind the shed I’d get SUN a ladder up against the shed and chop it at the lowest point SUN you can see. Then all those tendrils above it will die off SUN and then do it again a few years later. SUN SUN Bob - Leave it after chopping as long as possible as it SUN will go brown and become much easier to remove – and then it SUN burns a treat! SUN Q - How do I get rid of wild garlic, which is spreading all SUN over the garden? Bad enough in beds, where I can dig it out SUN but worse on lawns. SUN SUN Christine – Regular close mowing is likely to take out most SUN of it. I wouldn’t think a herbicide would be necessary in SUN this instance. Don’t compost from the mowings as the garlic SUN may come back. SUN SUN Matthew – Garlic is pretty resistant to chemicals so I SUN wouldn’t be bother with that route. SUN Q - Can you lay turf in winter? My husband says no and SUN everyone else says yes! Can you please help settle an SUN argument? SUN SUN Matthew – The key things is what the conditions are like – SUN if it’s waterlogged, absolutely not. If frozen, no. Lay it SUN when soil conditions are right and it is warm. The warmth SUN will encourage the roots to form on the turf and then it’ll SUN all bond together. I’d leave it until March/April. SUN Q - We have five plum trees planted by our swimming pool SUN near Marazion in Cornwall. They are probably 25 foot tall SUN and fruit like mad. We cannot keep up with the crop. The SUN result is that we have loads of wasps and rotting plums at SUN exactly the time when we want to use the pool. We would like SUN to find some way of limiting or halting their enthusiasm. We SUN do not really want to lose them but they are on probation at SUN the moment. Would pruning them out of season stop their SUN fruiting? SUN SUN Christine – Apart from thinning the fruit, I can’t think of SUN another method. You could attract the wasps away from the SUN tree with sugar in jam jars. If you prune out of season SUN you’ll upset the tree and have bigger problems. I think the SUN answer is fruit thinning. SUN SUN Bob – I think the answer is to put up tennis nets – the high SUN ones around the court – and then put up a fine mesh net so SUN that the wasps and the plums are kept away from the SUN poolside. SUN Q - Can old Christmas trees ever be replanted outside? As an SUN owner of a fake tree, I don't know … SUN SUN Matthew – You can but it’ll get a pretty big shock having SUN been indoors for a few weeks – they often react to being SUN planted out by shedding all their needles and dying! Do be SUN aware that they grow into large forest trees so make sure SUN you’ve got the space! SUN SUN Bob – They grow brilliantly in pots so consider that as an SUN option. But the best thing to do with old Christmas trees SUN is chop them up for kindling. SUN Q - I live in a mountain town called Pemberton where we have SUN incredibly hot summers and cool wet winters, with occasional SUN 'Northerly Outflow' weather fronts that bring temperatures SUN around -20 degrees C. Plants have a short growing season and SUN summers are a mixture of scorching heat and wild west wet. SUN Pemberton is also a flood plain with incredible loamy soil. SUN Can recommend any vines that may survive here as I would SUN love a climber to enjoy year after year. SUN SUN Christine – Look at the higher-altitude Himalayan stuff – SUN the Schisandra (Magnolia vine) potentially could work. SUN SUN Bob – Or grow things in tubs, under cover, and then put them SUN out after winter. Some of the Nasturtiums, the ‘Canary SUN Creeper’ would be good. The ‘Japanese Hop’ could work. SUN SUN Matthew – It’s going to be herbaceous perennial climbers SUN that will be most successful. SUN Q - I have an indoor palm - not sure of its name - which has SUN thrived on neglect. Although you may think it a bit scraggy, SUN I love it dearly and it is about eight feet tall. We are SUN about to move to a smaller house where, I fear, there will SUN not be headroom for it. What can I do? I understand that it SUN will die if I prune it. If I were to cut through the main SUN stem below a node and trim most of the side branches, might SUN it grow new roots? SUN SUN Matthew – You could take the older, taller shoots off SUN encourage new shoots. SUN SUN Christine – It often depends on how old the plant is and how SUN vigorous it is – but I think give it a go. SUN SUN Andrew (from Harlow Carr) – As long as there is plenty of SUN new growth towards the base to cut back to then, yes, go for SUN it. SUN Q - We have just moved from semi-rural South Wales, with a SUN garden, a greenhouse and a productive allotment, to SUN Edinburgh and a top-floor flat in a Victorian tenement in SUN the Old Town. I like a horticultural challenge, so I'll be SUN aiming to grow as much as possible on windowsills and a SUN stairwell landing with good natural light. Inspiring ideas, SUN please, for fruit, veg, herbs or edible ornamentals? SUN SUN Christine – Plenty of options – I’d look at ornamental SUN melons, some of the edible melons too. Sweet corn you can SUN grow in a seed tray; all of the different herbs; the salads. SUN Grow what you like to eat and then enjoy! SUN SUN Andrew - Little gem are ideal – and just pick a few leaves SUN each time you need them. SUN SUN Bob – Trailing tomatoes from hanging baskets would be SUN perfect. Some of the smaller sweet or hot peppers, too. SUN Q – Would it be possible to grow a moss bath mat? And, if SUN so, what colour would be best for a dark bathroom? SUN SUN Bob – Put a bit of nylon-based carpet outside in a shady, SUN damp place and let it moss over in a year – and then just SUN take that inside! SUN SUN Matthew – Get three or four bits of carpet and then rotate SUN otherwise it’ll wear out pretty quickly. SUN Q - Hi, I sent a letter into the show when I was five years SUN old, asking how to grow a mango from seed. 15 years have SUN passed and of course I've completely forgotten your answer, SUN so here I am again. My granddad used to grow mangoes from SUN seeds and I'm wondering how to go about it once I've eaten SUN the mango and I'm left with the hairy seed casing. SUN SUN Bob – I find it best to split the casing and take the seed SUN out; if you leave it in it’ll start to rot and take the seed SUN with it. Mangos require a lot of warmth to keep it alive SUN during winter. You’ll struggle to get fruit to be perfectly SUN honest. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04bmtph (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between couples who SUN together find the strength to make a fresh start, eliminate SUN starvation in a small Tanzanian town, and deal with fatal SUN illness, from Scotland, Birmingham, and Devon. 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 upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b06wbrk5 (Listen) SUN East of Eden, Episode 3 SUN SUN Episode 3 of 3 SUN SUN By John Steinbeck SUN Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SUN SUN An epic tale exploring the nature of good and evil, inspired SUN by the story of Cain and Abel. SUN SUN Adam Trask has been raising his twin boys with the help of SUN his cook, Lee. SUN SUN His estranged wife -the enigmatic Cathy - has taken over a SUN brother after murdering its previous owner. SUN SUN In order to protect the twins, Adam has always maintained SUN that their mother is dead, but Cal, after listening in at a SUN door, now knows the truth. SUN SUN That knowledge is set to destroy the Trask world in this SUN dark and febrile drama about familial love. SUN SUN Starring Holliday Grainger, Robin Laing and David Yip. SUN SUN Director: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Judge: Jimmy Chisholm SUN Cathy: Holliday Grainger SUN Cal: Alasdair Hankinson SUN Aron: Samuel Keefe SUN Adam: Robin Laing SUN Abra: Gemma McElhinney SUN Joe: Gavin Mitchell SUN Will: Nick Underwood SUN Ethel: Anita Vettesse SUN Lee: David Yip SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Author: John Steinbeck SUN Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b06wbrk7 (Listen) SUN Janice YK Lee SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Janice Y K Lee whose first SUN novel The Piano Teacher was an international bestseller. Her SUN new book, The Expatriates, explores the lives of three SUN American women living in Hong Kong, and the challenges of SUN their privileged but isolated lifestyle. SUN SUN Close Reading of Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons SUN SUN In the large kitchen, which occupied most of the middle of SUN the house, a sullen fire burned, the smoke of which wavered SUN up the blackened walls and over the deal table, darkened by SUN age and dirt, which was roughly set for a meal. A snood SUN full of coarse porridge hung over the fire, and standing SUN with one arm resting upon the high mantel, looking moodily SUN down into the heaving contents of the snood, was a tall SUN young man whose riding-boots were splashed with mud to the SUN thigh, and whose coarse linen shirt was open to his waist. SUN The firelight lit up his diaphragm muscles as they heaved SUN slowly in rough rhythm with the porridge. SUN SUN He looked up as Judith entered, and gave a short, defiant SUN laugh, but said nothing. Judith crossed slowly over until SUN she stood by his side. She was as tall as he. They stood SUN in silence, she staring at him, and he down into the secret SUN crevasses of the porridge. SUN SUN ̒ Well, mother mine, ̓ he said at last, ̒ here I am, you SUN see. I said I would be in time for breakfast, and I have SUN kept my word. ̓ SUN SUN ... SUN SUN Judith’s breath came in long shudders. She thrust her arms SUN deeper into her shawl. The porridge gave an ominous leering SUN heave; it might almost have been endowed with life, so SUN uncannily did its movements keep pace with the human SUN passions that throbbed above it. SUN SUN ̒ Cur, ̓ said Judith, levelly, at last. ̒ Coward! Liar! SUN Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill SUN or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the SUN ironmongery? Seth – my son… ̓ Her deep, dry voice SUN quivered, but she whipped it back, and her next words flew SUN out at him like a lash. SUN SUN ̒ Do you want to break my heart? ̓ SUN SUN ̒ Yes, ̓ said Seth, with an elemental simplicity. SUN SUN The porridge boiled over. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Expatriates by Janice Y K SUN Lee SUN The Expatriates: Chapter 1 SUN by Janice Y K Lee SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Janice YK Lee SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dillon SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b06wbrk9 (Listen) SUN Home SUN SUN Roger McGough opens a new series of the poetry request SUN programme with a selection of listeners' favourite poems SUN about home, exile and belonging. The readers are Pippa SUN Haywood and Richard Mitchley. Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Bristol by John Betjeman SUN From John Betjeman Collected Poems SUN Published by John Murray SUN SUN The Seasons in North Cornwall by Charles Causley SUN From Charles Causley Collected Poems SUN Published by Macmillan SUN SUN Fires by WW Gibson SUN Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online, 2008 SUN SUN It’s A Jungle Out There by Roger McGough SUN SUN From Everyday Eclipses SUN SUN Published by Viking SUN SUN Extract from The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke SUN From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SUN Published by Sidgwick & Jackson SUN SUN I Want to Go Home / Just In Case by Charlotte Mitchell SUN From I Want to Go Home SUN Published by Souvenir Press SUN SUN Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson SUN From Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN Warmth by Lotte Kramer SUN From New and Collected Poems SUN Published by Rockingham Press SUN SUN Never Go Back by Felix Dennis SUN From A Glass Half Full SUN Published by Dennis Publishing SUN SUN On Exiles and Defeats by Maria Eugenia Bravo SUN SUN Translated by Cicely Herbert SUN http://www.purochile.rrojasdatabank.info/indexen5.htm SUN SUN The Wrong Beds by Roger McGough SUN SUN From That Awkward Age SUN SUN Published by Viking SUN SUN The Right Word by Imtiaz Dharker SUN http://www.imtiazdharker.com/poems/show/6 SUN SUN Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden SUN From As I Walked Out One Evening SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN The South Country by Hilaire Belloc SUN From Sonnets and Verse by H. Belloc SUN Published by Duckworth SUN SUN Bath by Roger McGough SUN From Roger McGough Collected Poems SUN Published by Penguin Viking SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Pippa Haywood SUN Reader: Richard Mitchley SUN Producer: Christine Hall SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b06vkg22 (Listen) SUN Bent Cops? SUN SUN In the first of a new series, Allan Urry investigates claims SUN by former officers from one of Britain's biggest police SUN forces that they've been the victims of crimes committed by SUN their own colleagues. He hears claims of dirty tricks by a SUN secretive police unit within Greater Manchester Police which SUN some officers say have led to criminal charges against them. SUN Others say they've been unfairly targeted through the SUN internal disciplinary process, with evidence distorted and SUN statements changed. SUN SUN Are they bad cops with an axe to grind or victims of corrupt SUN practices and institutional cover up? SUN SUN Producers: Sally Chesworth and Neil Morrow. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b06w56gz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b06w6rcc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b06w6rcf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6rch (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b06wbrkc (Listen) SUN Pauline Black SUN SUN Pauline Black chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b06wbrkf (Listen) SUN Pip fancies a little trip, and Jazzer pines for home. SUN SUN 19:15 So Wrong It's Right b01hxmws (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 2 SUN SUN Presented by Charlie Brooker, 'So Wrong It's Right' is a SUN competitive game of failure where coming up with the wrong SUN answer is the right thing to do. SUN SUN Over a series of rounds, Charlie asks three guests a number SUN of questions to rummage through their pasts and test their SUN creativity. So Wrong It's Right celebrates the pungent taste SUN of disappointment by turning embarrassing mistakes into SUN perverse triumphs. SUN SUN In this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong SUN each other are comedians Lee Mack, Holly Walsh and panel SUN show legend Barry Cryer. SUN SUN The panel's worst experiences at school and the best ideas SUN for the worst TV News gimmicks are put to the panel. Will SUN anyone surpass Barry Cryer's suggestion of a revamped SUN 'Newsnight' presented by tabloid darling and reality TV SUN superstar Katie Price? SUN SUN The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SUN presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You SUN Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The SUN Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British SUN Press Awards and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards SUN 2009. SUN SUN Produced by Aled Evans SUN A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 The Interrogative Mood b06wbx0x (Listen) SUN Padgett Powell is an acclaimed writer of very stylised SUN fiction and, in an extract from The Interrogative Mood, he SUN weaves curious questions in a truly haunting manner. SUN SUN In this amusing sonata of bizarre questions by the SUN award-winning author, three voices ask the listener SUN seemingly random thoughts to a soundtrack of American music. SUN SUN In the introduction, the author himself explains the SUN peculiar circumstances that led him to create the work. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Ross, Garrick Hagon and Robert Ravelli. SUN SUN Directed by Samuel Gunn SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Padgett Powell SUN Reader: Liza Ross SUN Reader: Garrick Hagon SUN Reader: Robert Ravelli SUN Director: Samuel Gunn SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b06vn925 (Listen) SUN Weekend Stroke Deaths SUN SUN Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said this week that if you have SUN a stroke at the weekends, you're 20% more likely to die. But SUN is that true? We look at the evidence. SUN SUN Are you more likely to win prizes with newer Premium Bonds? SUN We ask Radio 4's Money Box presenter Paul Lewis if there is SUN any truth in this. SUN SUN A few weeks ago many newspapers were reporting that alcohol SUN was the cause of 70% of Accident and Emergency attendances SUN over the weekends. Did the newspapers misunderstand the SUN research? SUN SUN Why was the polling in the run up to the General Election SUN last year so wrong? We speak to Professor John Curtice, lead SUN author on a report using the 2015 British Social Attitudes SUN Survey to see if they could come up with better data. SUN SUN There is great excitement over rumours that one of the SUN predictions Einstein made in his theory of General SUN Relativity has finally been observed. We ask UCL physicist SUN Dr Andrew Pontzen why this is big news. SUN SUN Plus, is the air in Beijing is so bad that it's like smoking SUN 40 cigarettes a day? We investigate. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b06vn923 (Listen) SUN David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Olwyn Hughes and Ed Stewart SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN David Bowie, art expert, fashion icon and media manipulator. SUN SUN Alan Rickman, the actor most famous for playing villains SUN from the Sheriff of Nottingham to Professor Snape. SUN SUN Olwyn Hughes, the sister of the poet Ted Hughes who fiercely SUN guarded his literary legacy and that of his late wife Sylvia SUN Plath. SUN SUN And Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, the Radio 1 and 2 DJ who presented SUN Junior Choice. SUN SUN David Bowie SUN SUN Matthew spoke to editor of GQ magazine; Dylan Jones and T.V SUN Producer, Francis Whately. Academic, Richard Mills joins SUN Matthew in the studio. SUN SUN Born 8 January 1947; died 10 January 2016 aged 69 SUN SUN Alan Rickman SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Drama Critic; Paul Allen. SUN prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" SUN /> SUN SUN Born 21 February 1946; died 14 January 2016 aged 69 SUN SUN Olwyn Hughes SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Author; Sir Jonathan Bate. SUN SUN Born 26 August 1928; died 3 January 2016 aged 87 SUN SUN Ed Stewart SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Radio Producer, Phil Hughes and British SUN Radio Personality; Keith Skues. SUN SUN Born 23 April 1941; died 9 January 2016 aged 74 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b06w53bh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b06w6t8b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b06vmzv5 (Listen) SUN California - Agriculture and Migration SUN SUN Peter Day travels to California to discover how migrant SUN workers have transformed farming and agriculture. He speaks SUN to families from Japan and Mexico - who've made California SUN their home and learns about the history of mass migration SUN and its impact on the land. SUN SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b06w6rcl (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b06wbx1h (Listen) SUN Michael Deacon of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b06vmypd (Listen) SUN Alejandro Inarritu on The Revenant SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN The Oscar winning director of Birdman, Alejandro Inarritu SUN discusses his western The Revenant, which tested his actors, SUN including Leonardo Di Caprio, to their limits and was SUN reportedly described as a living hell by members of the SUN crew. SUN SUN Director Lenny Abrahamson describes just how he made Room, a SUN movie mainly set in a 11 x 11 foot cell. SUN SUN Critic Catherine Bray assesses the runners and riders in SUN this year's Oscars race. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Alejandro G Inarritu SUN Interviewed Guest: Lenny Abrahamson SUN Interviewed Guest: Catherine Bray SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b06w6t84 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b06w6rdp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b06vkj24 (Listen) MON Modern slavery, School lunch boxes MON MON Modern Slavery: Laurie Taylor explores the tensions and MON dilemmas at the heart of contemporary struggles against MON enslavement; from forced labour to sex trafficking. He's MON joined by Julia O'Connell Davidson, the author of a new MON study which argues that the 'new abolitionist movement' MON fails to address the fundamental realities of injustice and MON exploitation in a globalised world. The writer and MON journalist, Rahila Gupta, offers another perspective. MON MON Also, school lunchboxes: Vicki Harman, Senior Lecturer in MON Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, considers MON the way in which middle class mothers view their children's MON packed lunches as a reflection of their parenting skills - MON sometimes struggling to satisfy their children's tastes and MON keeping on the right side of the school's strict guidelines. MON Is a home-made cupcake a transgression of rules or a worthy MON display of good mothering and home baking? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Julia O'Connell Davidson at the University of Bristol MON Vicki Harman at Royal Holloway, University of London MON Rahila Gupta, writer and journalist MON MON MON MON Rahila Gupta, *Enslaved: The New British Slavery*, MON (Portobello Books, 2007) MON MON Julia O'Connell Davidson, *Modern Slavery and the Margins of MON Freedom: Debtors, Detainees and Children*, (Palgrave MON Macmillan, 2015) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b06w6t82 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6rdr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6rdt (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6rdw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b06w6rdy (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wv701 (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Pádraig Ó Tuama. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b06wcl1w (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b06w6rf0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0syn (Listen) MON Poorwill (American Nightjar) MON MON Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona MON desert. In the dead of night, loud calls pierce the MON stillness on a moonlit track, a small shape suddenly sprouts MON wings and flutters into the darkness ... a Common Poorwill MON is hunting. MON MON Poorwills are small nightjars that breed mainly in western MON North America, often in deserts and dry grassland. By day MON the poorwill sits in the open or among rocks relying on its MON mottled plumage for camouflage. By night, it emerges to hawk MON after insects snapping them up with its large frog-like MON mouth. MON This technique works if it's warm enough for insects to be MON active, but in some places where poorwills live there are MON sudden cold snaps. Instead of migrating, the poorwill slows MON down its metabolism and goes into torpor for days or even MON weeks . This hibernation-like state is very rare among birds MON and allows the poorwill to get through lean periods and was MON first scientifically described in 1948, although the MON phenomenon had been recorded more than 140 years earlier by MON the great explorer Meriwether Lewis, during the Lewis and MON Clark Expedition to discover western side of America in MON 1804. MON MON Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01304731 MON © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com MON MON Recording of common poorwill by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML MON 40634 MON MON This programme contains a MON wildtrack recording of the common poorwill MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 4 Jun 1987; MON in Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA. MON MON 06:00 Today b06wclxj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b06wclxl (Listen) MON Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Egyptian writer MON Alaa Al Aswany about his latest novel which charts the MON country's social upheaval through the prism of Cairo's elite MON Automobile Club of Egypt. The foreign correspondent Wendell MON Steavenson looks back at the Egyptian revolution as the MON crowds gathered in Tahrir Square in 2011. The political MON economist Tarek Osman explores how Islamism has spread MON through the Middle East, and what its future prospects mean MON for the region, while Professor Hugh Kennedy charts the rise MON of the Caliphate and how the so-called Islamic State uses MON the iconography of early Islam as propaganda. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Alaa Al Aswany MON Interviewed Guest: Wendell Steavenson MON Interviewed Guest: Tarek Osman MON Interviewed Guest: Hugh Kennedy MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b06wclxn (Listen) MON The Outrun, Washed Up and Back Home MON MON Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid MON the luminous Orkney landscape. MON MON Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by MON the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the MON city. A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and MON fun but she was unable to control her drinking. Her MON alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and MON left her lost and lonely. At thirty she finds herself washed MON up back home in Orkney, and discovers that this place she MON once longed to escape is curative, its wildness and lore MON playing an essential part in her recovery from addiction. MON MON Today: Amy finds herself washed up and back home. MON MON Written by Amy Liptrot MON Read by Tracy Wiles MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Simon Richardson. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tracy Wiles MON Author: Amy Liptrot MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Simon Richardson MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b06wcph8 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06wcphb (Listen) MON The One About the Social Worker, Episode 1 MON MON Claire Skinner returns as the social worker with a past, in MON another rollercoaster story based on tough true cases by MON Martin Jameson. MON MON Devon Sutcliffe's life has been less of a car crash, more of MON a motorway pile-up. Rejected, dumped, failed by everyone who MON could have cared for him, he has bounced from foster MON placement to residential unit to foster placement, and MON several times been labelled as 'unplaceable'. Finally out of MON care, almost anyone who has encountered him professionally MON expects him to be in prison within weeks. MON MON Assigned to returning social worker Liz Beecham, she stakes MON her own rehabilitation on helping Devon survive alone. But MON when his chaotic mother Cheryl arrives in his new flat, MON Devon's need for her threatens to undo all Liz's work. A MON heart-stopping story is about to unfold about Devon's MON past... and his family's future. MON MON 1/5 How did the boy in boxers become the wanted man in an MON armed siege? MON MON Claire Skinner is best known to TV viewers as harassed mum MON Sue in Outnumbered, but her wide-ranging career includes MON long associations with Mike Leigh, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sam MON Mendes. Her recent stage credits include Blurred Lines (NT MON Shed), Deathtrap (West End), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre) MON and The Father (Tricycle Theatre and West End). MON MON Theo Barklem-Biggs has starred in Silk, the BAFTA-nominated MON Our World War, and the Donmar Warehouse's new production of MON Les Liaisons Dangereuses. MON MON Martin Jameson is a prolific screenwriter, director and MON playwright whose recent work on Radio 4 includes Zola, MON Stone, Can You Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?, and MON The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister. MON MON Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Liz Beecham: Claire Skinner MON Devon Sutcliffe: Theo Barklem-Biggs MON Ian Green: Sam Dale MON Cheryl Sutcliffe: Debra Baker MON Sgt Morris: David Hounslow MON Janet Williams: Amelia Lowdell MON PC Kirtley: George Watkins MON Kirk: Leo Wan MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Writer: Martin Jameson MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06wcphd (Listen) MON Strictly Come Langport MON MON Grace Dent presents a new series documenting the untold MON stories of 21st century Britain. MON MON Langport in Somerset has a secret. Not a dark secret, quite MON a happy one really - a dance competition to blow away the MON winter blues. Grace Dent and her producer zoom in on events MON and discover a classic tale of good vs evil - a sparky 70 MON year old widow called Mo doing the salsa; and opposing her a MON tango-ing video technician called Ferg. At stake, a small MON silver trophy and eternal local glory. So who will win MON Strictly Come Langport this year? MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON Mo Fletcher, star of Strictly Come Langport MON A small west country town with attitude, Langport in MON Somerset holds an annual dance competition to blow away the MON winter blues. Locals are paired with professional MON dancers.This year's contestants included a schoolgirl, a MON fitness instructor, a video technician and a retired widow MON dancing to Ricky Martin's Livin'La Vida Loca. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01p720p (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON MON Comedian Mark Steel returns with a new series, looking under MON the surface of some of the UK's more distinctive towns to MON shed some light on the people, history, rivalries, slang, MON traditions, and eccentricities that makes them unique. MON MON Creating a bespoke stand-up set for each town, Mark performs MON the show in front of a local audience. MON MON As well as examining the less visited areas of Britain, Mark MON uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all MON as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life MON and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who MON have shaped where we live. MON MON During this 4th series of 'Mark Steel's In Town', Mark will MON visit Tobermory, Whitehaven, Handsworth, Ottery St Mary, MON Corby, and Chipping Norton. MON MON This week, Mark takes a trip to Handsworth in Birmingham to MON explore reggae and riots, white supremacist gardening, and MON how takeaway food affects the time space continuum. MON MON Additional material by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b06w6rf2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b06l3665 (Listen) MON 18 January 1916 - Ralph Winwood MON MON On this day, the battle of Sheik Sa'ad represented the first MON of several efforts to relieve the Siege of Kut, and Ralph MON Winwood has a mission of his own. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Edward Easton: Raymond Wilson MON Alec Poole: Tom Stuart MON Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b06wcq19 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b06w6rf4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b06wcq1c (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Three Score Years and Ten b06wcq1f (Listen) MON Looking Back MON MON Bishop Richard Holloway, with the aid of great poets and MON writers, looks back on his life now that he has passed his MON allotted three score years and ten and wonders what his MON decreasing future holds and how best to cope with it. MON MON He decides that, despite his apparent control of his own MON life and everything he has been taught about free will, we MON must start by acknowledging that, to a great extent, our MON lives were propelled by factors that were never under our MON control. We didn't choose our parents, and they didn't MON choose their parents, nor anything else in the history that MON formed us into the kind of person we were revealed to be. MON MON Richard recalls his thoughts sitting at the bedside of many MON people as death approached and he watched them being eaten MON up with regret because they had not made more of their MON lives, and now it was too late. Wrong roads taken, right MON roads not taken, relationships broken and still unrepaired, MON and troubled children who blamed them for their own MON failures. Regret can be the saddest part of ageing and it MON can add an extra burden to what is already a difficult time. MON MON There's no delete or rewind button in a human life, though MON we often wish there were. That's what we said. That's what MON we did. That's the kind of person we were. MON MON But, he concludes, the remedy for irreversibility is the MON capacity to forgive and to be forgiven. And it has to MON include the hardest kind of forgiveness - self-forgiveness. MON MON A Butterfly Wings production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b06wbrkf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b036kbl2 (Listen) MON James Lees-Milne, The Unending Battle MON MON by Christopher William Hill MON MON It's 1944 and James Lees-Milne - and the National Trust - MON have returned to London. Comfortably accommodated in a flat MON in Cheyne Walk, Lees-Milne is attempting to secure a nearby MON property to house the musical collection of Boer War MON veteran, Major Benton Fletcher. Late one night, whilst MON trying to telephone a friend, Lees-Milne has a crossed line MON and makes the acquaintance of an anonymous woman. A MON friendship grows over the telephone wires, but at the MON woman's insistence they both keep their identities secret. MON When Lees-Milnes's childhood friend Tom Mitford returns MON unexpectedly from the continent, a sexual attraction is MON reawakened. Tom, however, has been a committed red-blooded MON male since Eton and is now determined to settle down after MON the war and raise a family - expecting James to help him MON sift through a list of potential wives. Tom is now a realist MON in love, but Lees-Milne is still an idealist. When disaster MON strikes, Lees-Milne is rely on the mysterious woman at the MON end of the telephone more than ever before. MON MON Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow MON MON The three plays star Tobias Menzies (Rome; Game of Thrones ) MON as James Lees-Milne and Victoria Hamilton (Lark Rise to MON Candleford; Victoria & Albert) as the novelist Nancy Mitford MON and chart four years during the war when Lees-Milne was at MON his most industrious in trying to secure properties for the MON National Trust. In this play, Joseph Mison (Salmon Fishing MON in the Yemen; Lost in Austen) stars as Tom Mitford. MON MON Credits MON James Lees-Milne: Tobias Menzies MON Nancy Mitford: Victoria Hamilton MON Tom Mitford: Tom Mison MON Major Benton Fletcher: Sean Murray MON Woman: Philippa Stanton MON Girl: Philippa Stanton MON Neighbour: Joanna Brookes MON 2nd Operator: Joanna Brookes MON Post Official: David Seddon MON Operator: Hannah Wood MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Christopher William Hill MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b06wcsnb (Listen) MON Heat 2, 2016 MON MON (2/17) MON Russell Davies hosts the second heat in the 2016 series, MON with competitors from London and Leicester taking their MON first step towards the title Brain of Britain. MON MON Would you know which city is the setting for Verdi's opera MON La Traviata? Or who the Republican nominee was, when Barack MON Obama won his second Presidential election in 2012? Russell MON has plenty more questions that will put today's four MON contenders to the test. MON MON The winner will go forward to the series semi-finals after MON Easter, and there are semi-final places for the top-scoring MON runners-up of the series too, so there is a chance that more MON than one competitor today will qualify. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b06w6ty6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b06wcsnd (Listen) MON Rebecca Front MON MON Comedy actress Rebecca Front, star of Alan Partridge and The MON Thick of It, takes the audience at the Radio Theatre through MON her life in reading and comedy. Her readers are Nicola MON Stephenson and Ben Willbond. The pieces she loves are from MON How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran, The Code of the Woosters MON by P.G. Wodehouse, Rabbi Hugo Gryn and The Wind in the MON Willows. Rebecca also sings a song by the songwriter she MON most admires, Stephen Sondheim. It's Could I Leave You?, MON from the musical Follies, for which she's accompanied on MON piano by Benjamin Frost MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Rebecca Front MON Performer: Rebecca Front MON Performer: Nicola Stephenson MON Performer: Ben Willbond MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06wcsng (Listen) MON Series 13, Artificial Intelligence MON MON Artificial Intelligence MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince return for a new series of their MON award winning science/comedy show. Tonight the infinite MON monkey's are joined on stage by comedian Jo Brand, MON neuroscientist Anil Seth, and robotics expert Alan Winfield MON to discuss Artificial Intelligence. How close are we to MON creating a truly intelligent machine, how do we define MON intelligence anyway, and what are the moral and ethical MON issues that the development of intelligent machines might MON bring? MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b06wcsnj (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6rf6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06wcsnl (Listen) MON Series 8, Dodd, Fry, Jenner MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome the singer, photographic MON playboy and failed accountant Ken Dodd; the University MON College London lecturer who took up mathematical modelling MON to get to grips with the dating scene, Dr Hannah Fry; and MON the man with the enviable task of overseeing the historical MON accuracy of over 1,200 songs and sketches that make up MON Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner. MON MON This week, the Museum's peripatetic scholars reveal how the MON first ever alcoholic drinks were guzzled from a spitton; why MON the equation Wt+l =a +r.W,+IHW(H) and Hl+l = b + r2Ht + MON IWH(Wt), is the formula for a happy marriage; and why you MON can tell a joke in Liverpool that that won't get a laugh in MON London. MON MON The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of MON QI. MON MON The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. MON MON It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Ken Dodd MON Interviewed Guest: Hannah Fry MON Interviewed Guest: Greg Jenner MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 19:00 The Archers b06wcsnn (Listen) MON Fallon has a brainwave, and Rob feels enlightened. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b06wcttj (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06wcphb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Deciding Fast and Slow b06wcttl (Listen) MON What is it really like to make decisions affecting millions MON of people, knowing that a mistake might be pounced upon MON instantly and your career left in tatters? MON MON Government ministers face this challenge every day, and now MON under ever-rising pressures - not just 24 hour news, but MON also hugely influential social media and far stronger demand MON for more open and accountable decision-making. MON MON Elinor Goodman finds out from senior politicians, civil MON service leaders and their advisors how government ministers MON make decisions in the face of growing pressure from this MON instant all-pervasive information culture. How is the MON quality of decision-making affected when the demands for MON faster and more transparent policy-making become impossible MON to resist? MON MON As information circulates ever faster, can ministers MON actually keep up and make good decisions rather than succumb MON to the demands for swifter ones? MON MON Where once there was just a news cycle to manage, now there MON is a need for instant replies to all manner of questions and MON challenges about the detail and purpose of policies MON themselves - and sometimes this happens before the policy MON has actually been finalised. MON MON David Cameron leads a government that can only dream of the MON time and space afforded to his political hero Harold MON Macmillan, who was able to take weeks deliberating on MON subjects which today's PM must sometimes resolve in minutes. MON So, what are the pressures and processes that contribute to MON ministerial decision-making in the 21st century? MON MON Producer: Jonathan Brunert. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b06vmr1w (Listen) MON Molenbeek, Through the Looking Glass MON MON After the terror attacks in Paris, the world's attention MON turned to an inner-city district of the Belgian capital, MON Brussels, where several of the attackers came from. MON Molenbeek has been notorious for many years as a MON breeding-ground for Islamist extremism - and the Belgian MON government vowed to "clean it up". But do the authorities MON really have any plan to prevent the radicalisation of young MON Belgians? Tim Whewell has been travelling back and forth to MON Brussels since the Paris attacks to talk to local people as MON they hold up a mirror to themselves and search for MON explanations - and attempt to have a dialogue with a MON sometimes dysfunctional state. MON MON Lode Desmet producing. MON MON 21:00 Is Ignorance Bliss? b0639xsw (Listen) MON In an age where we are saturated with information are we MON ever better off just 'not knowing'? Could 'not knowing' MON improve our memory, enhance our learning and even making us MON happier? MON MON As someone who is occupationally immersed in information, MON author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera sets out to discover MON if ignorance really is bliss. MON MON Leading us gently through a journey of the 'unknown', MON Sathnam meets scientists and psychologists who are MON investigating the realms of ignorance. MON MON James Carse, Professor Emeritus at NYU has identified three MON types of ignorance - ordinary, wilful and higher, and says MON that this is a subject area he just can't resist talking MON about. Carse's research takes us back to a small group of MON medieval monks who dedicated their life to 'not knowing'. MON MON Jumping back into the 21st Century Sathnam will join Lisa MON Son of Columbia University. She has conducted recent studies MON into the virtues of ignorance and how the process of MON ignorance can actually enhance our memory and learning. MON MON Talking about education, Professor of Biology Stuart MON Firestein runs a course on ignorance - it's one of his most MON popular classes and basically involves a group of very smart MON people talking about what they don't know. MON MON Alongside the 'science of ignorance' will be a healthy dose MON of personal reflection from those who have chosen ignorance MON as a way of life, including musician Johnny Borrell who MON boycotted the news as he believes you can find out more MON truth by walking down the street with a guitar. MON MON Produced in Bristol by Nicola Humphries. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b06wclxl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b06w6rf8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b06wcttn (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06wcttq (Listen) MON The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 1 MON MON Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen MON into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced MON into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of MON colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. MON MON A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social MON unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the MON internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian MON Building and Chicago. MON MON Read by Raad Rawi and Emerald O'Hanrahan MON MON Translated by Russell Harris MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON MON Produced by Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Raad Rawi MON Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Author: Alaa Al Aswany MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b06wctts (Listen) MON Series 5, Bellowhead (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks MON to leading performers and songwriters about the album that MON made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live MON audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON MON Programme 9. 'Hedonism' by Bellowhead, released in 2010 and MON still the best selling independent folk album of all time. MON MON The idea for Bellowhead came to John Spiers and Jon Boden MON when they were caught in a traffic jam on tour. The longer MON they were stuck in the car, the more names of friends they MON came up with of whom to invite - initially settling on a MON 'modest' line-up of 10 which then grew to an even sillier MON 11-piece after the recording of their first EP. MON MON In June 2015, they announced that the band would be calling MON it a day on May 1st 2016, and exactly two weeks after the MON twelfth anniversary of their first ever gig in Oxford Town MON Hall they will finish their farewell tour with an intimate MON final show in the very same venue. The tickets for this gig MON sold out in two minutes. MON MON Their most commercially successful album, Hedonism was MON recorded in Abbey Road Studios and released in October 2010. MON Produced by John Leckie, it served up a further mix of MON shanties, folk songs and dance tunes, arranged in an MON eclectic mix of musical styles and influences. The album MON includes rousing versions of 'Cold Blow The Wind', 'New York MON Girls' and the Jacques Brel song 'Amsterdam' MON MON The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard on Tuesday 29th MON December at 3.30pm. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b06wcttv (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b06w6rgf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b06wclxn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6rgh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6rgk (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6rgm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b06w6rgp (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wv70y (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Pádraig Ó Tuama. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b06wcydm (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 b04t0t02 (Listen) TUE Oilbird TUE TUE Michael Palin presents the oilbird, from a Venezuelan TUE cavern. Demonic screeching's and the rush of unseen wings TUE mixed with a volley of strange clicks are the sound backdrop TUE to oilbirds. TUE TUE Oilbirds are known in Spanish as guacharos .."the wailing TUE ones". These bizarre-looking brown birds with huge mouths, TUE long broad wings and long tails were seen in 1799 by the TUE explorer Alexander von Humboldt in 1817 who described their TUE sounds as "ear-splitting". They're similar to nightjars, TUE their closest relatives, but unlike them, oilbirds feed on TUE fruit; ..... they're the world's only nocturnal flying TUE fruit-eating bird. TUE TUE In their dark breeding caves, they navigate using TUE echolocation like bats. Young oilbirds grow fat on a diet of TUE fruit brought in by their parents and can weigh half as much TUE as again as the adults. These plump chicks were once TUE harvested by local people and settlers for oil which was TUE used in cooking and, ironically for a bird which spends its TUE life in darkness, for lighting lamps. TUE TUE Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01402255 TUE © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of oilbird by Scott T Olmstead / Ref: ML 168752 TUE TUE This programme contains a TUE wildtrack recording of the oilbird TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Scott T Olmstead on 22 Mar 2008; TUE in Shaime, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b06wcydp (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b06wcydr (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland focuses on the rise of Donald Trump TUE through the prism of the past, by examining the careers of TUE three high-profile 20th century Americans who reached large TUE audiences. TUE TUE Producer Julia Johnson. TUE TUE 09:30 Under the Mushroom Cloud b063zt9r (Listen) TUE A dramatic eye-witness account of the events in Hiroshima TUE just over seventy years ago. TUE TUE On 5th August 1945, Shuntaro Hida was a 28-year old doctor TUE working at the Hiroshima Military Hospital - the epicentre TUE of the atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay. After a dinner TUE for visiting dignitaries, where a lot of sake had been TUE consumed, he was woken by a man who had come to ask him to TUE treat his sick grandchild. Strapped to the back of the man's TUE bike, they cycled 6 km to the village of Heseka, where he TUE spent the night treating the child. TUE TUE This chance event saved his life. TUE TUE Dr Hida's personal and professional story is such a TUE remarkable and extraordinary one it makes compelling TUE listening. As he was preparing to give the child a syringe, TUE he happened to look up into the clear blue sky on the TUE morning of 6th August and saw the American bomber flying TUE over Heseka. Then he saw the blinding flash over Hiroshima TUE and, a few seconds later, was thrown through the air by the TUE force of the blast. TUE TUE Clawing his way from under the rubble of the collapsed TUE building, he saw the growing mushroom cloud. TUE TUE Dr Hida's immediate instinct was to rush back to the TUE hospital - but he describes encountering so many TUE horrendously injured and burnt people fleeing the city, some TUE crawling on their hands and knees with burnt flesh dropping TUE off their bodies like molten wax, he couldn't get through. TUE TUE So he jumped into the river and swam to the city centre, TUE where he found complete and utter devastation. He made his TUE way back to Heseka and did what he could - with only a few TUE bandages and little else - to set up a treatment centre for TUE the victims. Now aged 98, Dr Hida has dedicated the rest of TUE his life to treating Hiroshima survivors. TUE TUE Produced by Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b06wcydt (Listen) TUE The Outrun, Back from the Brink TUE TUE Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid TUE the luminous Orkney landscape. TUE TUE Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by TUE the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the TUE city. A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and TUE fun but she was unable to control her drinking. Her TUE alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and TUE left her lost and lonely. At thirty she finds herself washed TUE up back home in Orkney, and discovers that this place she TUE once longed to escape is curative, its wildness and lore TUE playing an essential part in her recovery from addiction. TUE TUE Today: after hitting rock bottom in London Amy seeks TUE treatment before the Orkney lambing season. TUE TUE Written by Amy Liptrot TUE Read by Tracy Wiles TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Simon Richardson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tracy Wiles TUE Author: Amy Liptrot TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Simon Richardson TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b06wczlz (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 b06wczm1 (Listen) TUE The One About the Social Worker, Episode 2 TUE TUE Claire Skinner returns as the social worker with a past, in TUE another rollercoaster story based on tough true cases by TUE Martin Jameson. TUE TUE Devon Sutcliffe's life has been less of a car crash, more of TUE a motorway pile-up. Rejected, dumped, failed by everyone who TUE could have cared for him, he has bounced from foster TUE placement to residential unit to foster placement, and TUE several times been labelled as 'unplaceable'. Finally out of TUE care, almost anyone who has encountered him professionally TUE expects him to be in prison within weeks. TUE TUE Assigned to returning social worker Liz Beecham, she stakes TUE her own rehabilitation on helping Devon survive alone. But TUE when his chaotic mother Cheryl arrives in his new flat, TUE Devon's need for her threatens to undo all Liz's work. A TUE heart-stopping story is about to unfold about Devon's TUE past... and his family's future. TUE TUE 2/5 Liz's decisions lead to an official complaint. TUE TUE Claire Skinner is best known to TV viewers as harassed mum TUE Sue in Outnumbered, but her wide-ranging career includes TUE long associations with Mike Leigh, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sam TUE Mendes. Her recent stage credits include Blurred Lines (NT TUE Shed), Deathtrap (West End), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre) TUE and The Father (Tricycle Theatre and West End). TUE TUE Theo Barklem-Biggs has starred in Silk, the BAFTA-nominated TUE Our World War, and the Donmar Warehouse's new production of TUE Les Liaisons Dangereuses. TUE TUE Martin Jameson is a prolific screenwriter, director and TUE playwright whose recent work on Radio 4 includes Zola, TUE Stone, Can You Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?, and TUE The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE Credits TUE Liz Beecham: Claire Skinner TUE Devon Sutcliffe: Theo Barklem-Biggs TUE Ian Green: Sam Dale TUE Cheryl Sutcliffe: Debra Baker TUE Sgt Morris: David Hounslow TUE Janet Williams: Amelia Lowdell TUE PC Kirtley: George Watkins TUE Kirk: Leo Wan TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Martin Jameson TUE TUE 11:00 Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa b06wczm3 (Listen) TUE Anorexia Nervosa is the most lethal of all psychiatric TUE disorders. Early treatment can be effective but about a TUE quarter of people develop a severe and enduring form of the TUE disorder, which persists into adulthood and is notoriously TUE difficult to treat. TUE TUE The longer this pernicious disorder persists, the worse the TUE prognosis for these patients. Desperate to find answers and TUE offer hope, doctors and researchers are now pushing the TUE boundaries of science in search of novel treatments. Sally TUE Marlow talks to those at the cutting edge of research and to TUE people who have been battling anorexia nervosa for decades. TUE She discovers the role that thoughts and emotions play in TUE the disorder, and how these are being examined by scientists TUE who are increasingly turning to the brain to look for TUE answers. TUE TUE Scans are revealing areas and circuits in the brain which TUE behave differently in people with anorexia nervosa. It's TUE thought that the food rituals, obsessional thoughts and TUE habits that characterise the disorder become entrenched over TUE time, making it ever more difficult to break free from them. TUE It appears that this might explain why for those who have TUE had anorexia nervosa for many years, treatments such as TUE talking therapies so often fail to help. TUE TUE Armed with this knowledge, researchers are now using TUE electrical stimulation to reset the brain areas and circuits TUE that appear to be abnormal in patients with severe and TUE enduring anorexia nervosa. TUE TUE At Kings College London, researchers are trialling a TUE technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, whereby TUE electromagnetic currents are delivered to the brain of each TUE study participant via a device held above the head. TUE Meanwhile researchers at Toronto University are trialling a TUE much more invasive technique, which involves implanting TUE electrodes deep inside the brain. TUE TUE It's hoped that these techniques may free patients from some TUE of the mental torment that prevents them from benefitting TUE from existing therapies. While researchers are cautiously TUE optimistic about what they're discovering, trialling TUE experimental techniques in such vulnerable and desperate TUE patients, raises a myriad of ethical dilemmas for everyone TUE involved. TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 11:30 The Manchester Ballads b06fkm2g (Listen) TUE The folk singer Eliza Carthy visits Chetham's Library in TUE Manchester to find out about nineteenth century broadside TUE ballads, and to see if she can find a new song to perform. TUE She is joined by Andrew Biswell, Professor of English at TUE Manchester Metropolitan University, who is an advocate of TUE the cultural value of the ballads, which were printed on a TUE single sheet and sold on the streets of Manchester. She TUE meets Michael Powell, Librarian of Chetham's Library, which TUE is one of the oldest public libraries in the TUE English-speaking world, and he tells her more about the TUE collections of ballads there. Many of the ballads reflect TUE the Irish community in Manchester and she goes to the site TUE of Little Ireland with Professor Brian Maidment to find out TUE more about the conditions there. Eliza also has a go at TUE printing a ballad herself, with help from Graham Moss at the TUE Incline Press in Oldham. She talks to Jennifer Reid, the TUE self-styled 'pre-eminent broadside balladress of the TUE Manchester region', who has collaborated with the artist TUE Jeremy Deller. Jennifer and Jeremy describe their work on TUE his exhibition at the recent Venice Biennale which includes TUE some of the ballads. Eliza asks her guests about their TUE favourites then chooses one of her own to sing. TUE TUE An image of a nineteenth century broadside ballad seller in TUE Manchester TUE Courtesy of Chetham’s Library TUE TUE Part of the broadside ballad Manchester’s an Altered Town TUE Printed by Eliza Carthy on a treadle press at the Incline TUE Press in Oldham. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b06w6rgz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b06l36ch (Listen) TUE 19 January 1916 - Alec Poole TUE TUE On this day, negotiations between Montenegro and Austria TUE were broken off, and it appears to parallel events in the TUE Winwood household. TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Alec Poole: Tom Stuart TUE Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook TUE Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman TUE Nev Cotton: Leo Wan TUE Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley TUE Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads TUE Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06wd1jz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b06w6rh5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06wd1k1 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Three Score Years and Ten b06x95p2 (Listen) TUE What Next? TUE TUE Bishop Richard Holloway, with the aid of great poets and TUE writers, looks back on his life now that he has passed his TUE allotted three score years and ten and wonders what his TUE decreasing future holds and how best to cope with it. TUE TUE What happens after death is the great unknown. But Richard TUE argues that death itself is our friend and we should reach TUE out our hand to it because, whatever we believe or do not TUE believe about what happens to us after death, most of us TUE will need courage to face it at the end. TUE TUE Courage is not being unafraid. It is to be very afraid, yet TUE to overcome our fear and refuse to flinch. It is the best TUE lesson life teaches us. TUE TUE He suggests that, while Death is a necessity if we want to TUE keep the earth habitable, this necessity is spiritual as TUE well as physical. Apart from the boredom of living forever, TUE without the prospect of death there would be little to spur TUE human achievement, because there would always be time to get TUE round to it later. TUE TUE He concludes, "Maybe that's why Jesus told us to work while TUE it was yet day, for the night was coming when no one could TUE work. Death is the friend who prods us to do something with TUE the one life while we have it and not waste it hanging TUE around." TUE TUE A Butterfly Wings production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b06wcsnn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 British New Wave b039cd9g (Listen) TUE Up the Junction TUE TUE By Nell Dunn. Dramatised by Georgia Fitch. TUE TUE In Nell Dunn's Sixties classic, a young writer from Chelsea TUE decides to swap her privileged life for a grittier TUE experience in industrial Battersea. We join Lily as she TUE embarks on life in the working class community, forming TUE strong friendships with sisters Sylvie and Rube and working TUE in the local sweet factory. The girls scrape together enough TUE to get by on, live in each other's pockets and shake off TUE whatever drama life throws at them. TUE TUE The bold energy of Nell Dunn's writing and characters is TUE still like a breath of fresh air - fifty years on from the TUE book's original publication. TUE TUE Director/Producer ..... Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE Up the Junction was Eastenders' star Lacey Turner's first TUE radio drama. TUE TUE Credits TUE Lily: Zoe Tapper TUE Rube: Lacey Turner TUE Sylvie: Hannah Wood TUE Dave: Alex Lanipekun TUE Terry: Ben Crowe TUE Ron: Don Gilet TUE Sheila: Amaka Okafor TUE Winny: Philippa Stanton TUE Mum: Joanna Brookes TUE Tallyman: Paul Stonehouse TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE Producer: Lucy Collingwood TUE Adaptor: Georgia Fitch TUE Author: Nell Dunn TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b06w53bb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b06wd266 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Bellowhead TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his fifth series of Mastertapes, TUE in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters TUE about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in TUE front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale TUE Studios. TUE TUE Programme 10 (B-side): Having discussed the making of TUE 'Hedonism' (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on TUE Monday 18th January and available online), Bellowhead TUE respond to questions from the audience and performs TUE exclusive live acoustic versions of some to the key tracks TUE from the album. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b06wd268 (Listen) TUE Bad Language TUE TUE What is bad language? Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright TUE thrash it out with lexicographer of slang and swearing TUE Jonathon Green. Is slang bad language? What have we TUE traditionally meant by bad language, and what do we mean by TUE it now? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b06wd26b (Listen) TUE Series 38, Nitin Sawhney on the life of Jeff Buckley TUE TUE In this edition, musician and performer Nitin Sawhney TUE champions the life of Jeff Buckley who he regards as a TUE genius singer, songwriter. TUE The expert is Steve Abbott who was Buckley's tour manager in TUE the UK. Matthew Parris is the presenter and the producer is TUE Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Nitin Sawhney TUE Interviewed Guest: Steve Abbott TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06wd7dr (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6rht (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06wd7dt (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Employment Agency TUE TUE When Milton launches a job agency, it turns out that getting TUE people into work actually is rocket science. Which is why TUE his best client suddenly goes ballistic. TUE TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The TUE Guardian. TUE TUE "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda) TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton returns TUE to the radio with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new TUE jokes. TUE TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Ben Willbond. TUE TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Actor: Josie Lawrence TUE Actor: Ben Willbond TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b06wd7dw (Listen) TUE Lynda is ready for a grand reopening, and Tom is ready to TUE know a secret. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b06wd7dy (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06wczm1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b06wd7f0 (Listen) TUE File on 4 reveals secret evidence of match fixing in tennis TUE and investigates claims that sport's governing bodies have TUE failed to act on repeated warnings about suspect players. TUE The programme has seen confidential documents which reveal TUE how some were linked to gambling syndicates in Russia and TUE Italy which won hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on TUE matches they played in. A number of those who have been TUE repeatedly flagged on fixing lists passed to the game's TUE Tennis Integrity Unit have continued to attract highly TUE suspicious gambling activity. Reporter Simon Cox also has an TUE exclusive interview with one of the most high profile TUE players to be banned for match fixing who says the problem TUE is widespread in the sport. TUE Reporter Simon Cox Producer Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b06w6rj6 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b06wd7f4 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b06wcydr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b06w6rjf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06wd7f6 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ymmx1 (Listen) TUE The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 2 TUE TUE Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen TUE into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced TUE into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of TUE colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. TUE TUE A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social TUE unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the TUE internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian TUE Building and Chicago. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Abd el-Aziz's wages from the Automobile Club are barely TUE covering his costs. But that is the least of his problems. TUE TUE Read by Raad Rawi and Amir El-Masry TUE Translated by Russell Harris TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Produced by Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Raad Rawi TUE Reader: Amir El-Masry TUE Author: Alaa Al Aswany TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b06wcsng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b06wd8jh (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b06w6rn2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b06wcydt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6rn4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6rn6 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6rn8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b06w6rnb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wv714 (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Pádraig Ó Tuama. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06wf5l0 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0vb1 (Listen) WED Black Sicklebill WED WED Michael Palin presents the black sicklebill of New Guinea. WED The black sicklebill is a breath-taking creature. It's a WED bird of paradise, and the male sicklebill's black feathers WED gleam with metallic blue, green and purple highlights. But WED his most striking features are a slender scythe-like bill, WED and an extremely long sabre-shaped tail whose central plumes WED can reach 50cm in length. WED WED During courtship, he transforms his pectoral and wing WED feathers into a huge ruff which almost conceals his head and WED exposes an iridescent blue patch. Perching on a dead branch, WED he displays horizontally, looking less like a bird than a WED small black comet, all the while producing strange rattling WED cries. WED WED It is thought that the Black sicklebill and its relative the WED Brown Sickle bill may have spooked the Japanese in the WED Second World War. Japanese forces had occupied the North WED coast of (Papua) New Guinea and during their push south to WED the capital, Port Moresby, had to cross the mountain WED territories of the sicklebills. It's said that on hearing WED the birds' courtship displays; they flung themselves to the WED ground, thinking that they were under fire from the Allies. WED WED Black sicklebill (Epimachus fastuosus) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01442211 WED © Tim Laman / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b06wf6n5 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b06wf6n7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b06wf6n9 (Listen) WED The Outrun, The Corncrake Wife WED WED Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid WED the luminous Orkney landscape. WED WED Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by WED the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the WED city. A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and WED fun but she was unable to control her drinking. Her WED alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and WED left her lost and lonely. At thirty she finds herself washed WED up back home in Orkney, and discovers that this place she WED once longed to escape is curative, its wildness and lore WED playing an essential part in her recovery from addiction. WED WED Today: a job with the RSPB sees Amy scouring the islands WED nightly, listening for rare Corncrakes. WED WED Written by Amy Liptrot WED Read by Tracy Wiles WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Simon Richardson. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tracy Wiles WED Author: Amy Liptrot WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Simon Richardson WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06wf6nc (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 b06wf6nf (Listen) WED The One About the Social Worker, Episode 3 WED WED Claire Skinner returns as the social worker with a past, in WED another rollercoaster story based on tough true cases by WED Martin Jameson. WED WED Devon Sutcliffe's life has been less of a car crash, more of WED a motorway pile-up. Rejected, dumped, failed by everyone who WED could have cared for him, he has bounced from foster WED placement to residential unit to foster placement, and WED several times been labelled as 'unplaceable'. Finally out of WED care, almost anyone who has encountered him professionally WED expects him to be in prison within weeks. WED WED Assigned to returning social worker Liz Beecham, she stakes WED her own rehabilitation on helping Devon survive alone. But WED when his chaotic mother Cheryl arrives in his new flat, WED Devon's need for her threatens to undo all Liz's work. A WED heart-stopping story is about to unfold about Devon's WED past... and his family's future. WED WED 3/5 Devon's mother has a surprise for him. WED WED Claire Skinner is best known to TV viewers as harassed mum WED Sue in Outnumbered, but her wide-ranging career includes WED long associations with Mike Leigh, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sam WED Mendes. Her recent stage credits include Blurred Lines (NT WED Shed), Deathtrap (West End), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre) WED and The Father (Tricycle Theatre and West End). WED WED Theo Barklem-Biggs has starred in Silk, the BAFTA-nominated WED Our World War, and the Donmar Warehouse's new production of WED Les Liaisons Dangereuses. WED WED Martin Jameson is a prolific screenwriter, director and WED playwright whose recent work on Radio 4 includes Zola, WED Stone, Can You Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?, and WED The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister. WED WED Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED Credits WED Liz Beecham: Claire Skinner WED Devon Sutcliffe: Theo Barklem-Biggs WED Ian Green: Sam Dale WED Cheryl Sutcliffe: Debra Baker WED Sgt Morris: David Hounslow WED Janet Williams: Amelia Lowdell WED PC Kirtley: George Watkins WED Kirk: Leo Wan WED Director: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED Writer: Martin Jameson WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06wf7ll (Listen) WED Jim and Robin - Setting Sail WED WED Fi Glover with friends who are united by their love of the WED sea and encourage unity through traditional seafaring: "If WED we don't all pull together in one direction we'll go WED nowhere" - another conversation in the series that proves WED it's 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 Road Stories b06wf7ln (Listen) WED Nepal WED WED "People talk about the power of the internet, the WED information super-highway; but sometimes a highway is all WED you need." WED WED Miles Warde sets off on three eye-opening journeys, on foot, WED by bus and all other means to discover the importance of the WED highway to everyday life. In Nepal he travels north to WED south, from Tibet to India, across the mighty Himalaya. Here WED he meets people for whom a blacktopped highway is a source WED of astonishment. Fifty years ago there were only footpaths WED in these high mountains, but as the Chinese say, "To get WED rich quick first you build a road." WED WED In Kenya a newly upgraded route from Nairobi through the WED badlands to Ethiopia promises to transform a region of WED tribal fighting and banditry. This is the road of 'terror WED and death', so Miles takes local reporter Michael Koloki WED along for the ride. Together they meet nomadic people who WED say Kenya starts at the road; and you'll hear perhaps the WED first ever recording of a border crossing intimate search. WED WED And closer to home in Wiltshire, the Prime Minister's WED promise of a new tunnel past Stonehenge kicks up a hornet's WED nest of local and international uproar. WED WED Miles Warde is the producer of The Invention of ... Germany, WED Brazil, Italy and France; and winner of the Royal Mail WED International travel writer award. WED WED 11:30 Bad Salsa b06wf7lq (Listen) WED Series 2, Jumping the Shark WED WED A second series of the sitcom about three women who meet WED during cancer treatment and start going to salsa class WED together to maintain their friendship. As they adjust to WED life after cancer they realise that they've all changed. WED This second series begins as Jill has left her husband and WED son to live at her new boyfriends' parent's house, Camille WED is planning a huge life change and Chippy has a new live-in WED wannabe step-father in the shape of Gordon from their salsa WED class. WED WED In the second episode, Marco's sister arrives and is not WED impressed by his new girlfriend - Camille. Jill is still WED trying to decide whether to have reconstruction while Tim WED lives the high-life on a photo shoot and Chippy thinks she WED can save her budding relationship with a lie. WED WED The series is not about cancer, but about life after cancer, WED how you cope the changes in your outlook, your desires and WED your expectations. It's also about how other people cope WED with the change in you. WED WED Written by Kay Stonham WED WED Produced and directed by Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED Credits WED Chippy: Sharon Rooney WED Jill: Natasha Little WED Terri: Camille Coduri WED Marco: Derek Elroy WED Gordon: Andrew Obeney WED Elaine: Ayesha Antoine WED Georgie: Emily Chase WED Joel: Joe Johnsey WED Writer: Kay Stonham WED Director: Alison Vernon-Smith WED Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith WED WED 12:00 News Summary b06w6rnh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b06l375l (Listen) WED 20 January 1916 - Kitty Lumley WED WED On this day, the first men from the Derby Scheme were WED mobilised for service, and Kitty has a moment of hope for WED her missing brother. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack WED Bob Capeling: Joe Sims WED Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger WED Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom WED Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson WED Clemmie Crayford: Joanna Monro WED Nurse Wright: Isobel Rogers WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b06wg6y1 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b06w6rnl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b06wg6y3 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Three Score Years and Ten b06x966h (Listen) WED Dancing Towards Death WED WED Bishop Richard Holloway, with the aid of great poets and WED writers, looks back on his life now that he has passed his WED allotted three score years and ten and wonders what his WED decreasing future holds and how best to cope with it. WED WED In this third episode, Richard is coming to terms with WED having exceeded his allotted Biblical span of three score WED years and ten while watching the world around him change out WED of all recognition and renewing itself in a way that he WED cannot. WED WED He explains that he knew that the dissolution of his body WED had begun and he had started the dance to the grave when he WED noticed the skin on his arms developing the wavy alligator WED look of skin that was wearing out and coloured patches began WED appearing on his face like 'stains on old stone'. WED WED In fact, he recalls, the process had started for him when he WED began to go bald in his twenties. He hated it and fought it WED in all the usual hopeless ways - buying pills advertised in WED a church magazine and combing what was left on top to the WED front of his head . WED WED Caesar had been bald too and had actually started the WED comb-over fashion but, unlike Caesar, Richard's comb-over WED was never convincing and always looked sad to him. So one WED day he just shaved the whole thing off . WED WED Now he suggests that losing his hair was a good preparation WED for ageing and for death - the final loss. "You could say WED that the skeleton is the ultimate baldy. That's how we're WED all going to end up so maybe I've been lucky to have had a WED bit of a rehearsal." WED WED A Butterfly Wings production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b06wd7dw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Tumanbay b06wg7rk (Listen) WED The Purge WED WED Tumanbay, the beating heart of a vast empire, is threatened WED by a rebellion in a far-off province and a mysterious force WED devouring the city from within. WED WED Gregor (Rufus Wright), Master of the Palace Guard, is WED charged by Sultan Al-Ghuri (Raad Rawi) with the task of WED rooting out this insurgence and crushing it. WED WED Increasingly insecure and fearful for his life, the sultan WED begins a purge of the palace. Slave trader Ibn (Nabil WED Elouahabi), is reunited with the daughter he thought he had WED lost. And her slave companion finally comes face to face WED with Gregor, the man who stole his kingdom. WED WED Epic saga created by John Dryden and Mike Walker inspired by WED the Mamluk slave-dynasty of Egypt. WED WED Music - Sacha Puttnam WED Sound Design - Steve Bond, Jon Ouin WED Editors - Ania Przygoda, James Morgan WED Producers - Emma Hearn, Nadir Khan, John Dryden WED WED Written and Directed by John Dryden WED WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gregor: Rufus Wright WED Al-Ghuri: Raad Rawi WED Cadali: Matthew Marsh WED Wolf: Alexander Siddig WED Ibn: Nabil Elouahabi WED Maya's Envoy: Nadir Khan WED Madu: Danny Ashok WED Daniel: Gareth Kennerley WED Heaven: Olivia Popica WED Slave: Akin Gazi WED General Qulan: Christopher Fulford WED Manel: Aiysha Hart WED Frog: Deeivya Meir WED Sarah: Nina Yndis WED Frog's Mother: Sirine Saba WED Shamsi: Laure Stockley WED Pesha: Sky Yang WED Boy: Darwin Brokenbro WED Hodah: Nathalie Armin WED The Hafiz: Antony Bunsee WED Writer: John Dryden WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box b06wg7rm (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b06wd7f4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b06wg7rp (Listen) WED Con Men in New York, Iconography of punishment WED WED Con men in New York: The little known world of the urban WED hustler. Laurie Taylor talks to Terry Williams, Professor of WED Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, WED about his study into the ways in which con artists play WED their game in back alleys, police precincts and Wall St WED boiler rooms. He spent years studying their psychological WED tricks as they scammed tourists with bogus tales, sold off WED knock offs in Canal St and crafted Ponzi schemes. They're WED joined by Dick Hobbs, WED Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. WED WED The iconography of punishment. From Piranesi's prison WED fantasies to Warhol's Electric Chair, images of penal WED retribution have featured prominently in Western art. Eamonn WED Carrabine, Professor of Sociology at the University of WED Essex, asks what we can learn from artistic treatments of WED the ways in which we've dealt with criminals over time. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED RELATED LINKS WED Eamonn Carrabine at the University of Essex WED Terry Williams at the New School for Social Research, USA WED Dick Hobbs at the University of Western Sydney WED WED WED WED Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, *The Con Men: Hustling WED in New York City,* (Columbia University Press, 2015) WED WED WED WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b06wg7rr (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06wg7rt (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6rnq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 It's Jocelyn b06wg7rw (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED It's Jocelyn is the eagerly anticipated new series from WED comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien (3 Non Blondes and Little Miss WED Jocelyn). WED Back with a raft of brand new characters including a WED monosyllabic shop assistant, a pair of terrible African WED Drummers and a 2 terrible bedroom DJ's called 'Uncooth Youth WED FM'. Jocelyn vents her frustrations at the world around her WED through sketches and stand-up - from pedantic dinner dates WED to coping with annoying friends, Jocelyn's life provides a WED rich seam of humour. WED WED Jocelyn is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis WED Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. WED WED The producer is John Pocock WED WED It is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Performer: Curtis Walker WED Performer: Ninia Benjamin WED Performer: Kevin J WED Writer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Producer: John Pocock WED WED 19:00 The Archers b06wg7t9 (Listen) WED Ian is thinking about the future, and there is no room for WED failure at Brookfield. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06wg7zz (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06wf6nf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b06wg801 (Listen) WED Series 5, 20/01/2016 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley chairs the live debate programme which takes WED the form of a newspaper leader conference that decides the WED editorials which will appear the next day. He is joined by WED five prominent journalists who write leading articles for WED major newspapers across the United Kingdom. Three subjects WED in the news will be chosen and the panel will then determine WED - after lively discussion - what should be said about them. WED Two of the subjects debated will reflect current events and WED will encourage strong - and witty - exchanges. The third WED topic will be in a lighter vein. Following the discussion of WED each subject, Andrew will invite one of his guests - WED different in each case - to draw up on air, without notice, WED the leader for that subject and to set out what it will say. WED All the leading articles will be published on the Radio 4 WED website the following day. WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06wg803 (Listen) WED Reaching Out WED WED Charlie Howard argues that public services should find their WED users, not wait to be found. WED WED Charlie started the charity MAC-UK to provide specialist WED mental health services to gang members and other at-risk WED young people. As she began to work with them, she found more WED and more people who would never have accessed traditional WED services, but were in desperate need of them. WED WED She makes the case that this is also a better, more WED efficient way to help service users, and argues that other WED public service providers - from teachers to job advisers - WED should consider how they can adopt the same approach. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b06wg805 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Meteorite and the Hidden Hoax WED WED In 1864 a strange type of rock fell from the sky above WED Orgueil in rural France. Shocked and frightened locals WED collected pieces of the peculiar, peaty blob from the WED surrounding fields, and passed them on to museums and WED scientists. WED WED At that time, a debate had been raging over the origin of WED life; Could life possibly form from mere chemicals? Or did WED it need some strange unidentified vital substance? WED WED Into this debate fell the Orgueil meteorite, and because it WED seemed remarkably similar to loamy soil, some wondered WED whether it may hint at the existence of extra-terrestrial WED life. WED WED The great Pasteur allegedly investigated, but WED disappointingly found no such thing. Nevertheless, the mere WED possibility prompted later ideas that the origin of life on WED earth indeed lay elsewhere in the universe, ideas that were WED greeted with varying degrees of scepticism over ensuing WED decades. WED WED As Phil Ball narrates, given how much was at stake, and how WED bitterly scientists argued on either side, the most WED remarkable thing about the story is the extraordinary secret WED the meteorite kept to itself until exactly 100 years later. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b06wf6n7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06wg807 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ymn5b (Listen) WED The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 3 WED WED Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen WED into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced WED into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of WED colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. WED WED A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social WED unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the WED internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian WED Building and Chicago. WED WED Episode 3: WED Abd el Aziz gets a new job. With tragic repercussions. WED WED Read by Raad Rawi and Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Translated by Russell Harris WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED WED Produced by Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Raad Rawi WED Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Author: Alaa Al Aswany WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b06wg843 (Listen) WED Series 3, Driving WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner returning for a third series. WED Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED In this episode, Kim and Neil's return home from a funeral WED involves a missed left turn, a backseat stenographer and the WED planet Zobula. WED WED The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant WED critical and audience acclaim: WED WED "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with WED such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a WED writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, WED he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that WED would be lost in his stand-up routines." Jane Anderson, WED Radio Times WED WED "Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic WED comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a WED bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly WED precise dissection of a relationship." Daily Mail WED WED "...a lesson in relationship ping-pong..." Miranda Sawyer, WED The Observer WED WED Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple WED premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over WED another apparently trivial flashpoint. Each week, the stakes WED mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no WED ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with WED increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references WED and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. WED Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an WED unmistakable tenderness. WED WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Neil: Frank Skinner WED Kim: Katherine Parkinson WED Writer: Frank Skinner WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03vgnk5 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED A brand new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther WED Coles, with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and WED Marcia Warren. WED WED The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse WED in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service WED Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad WED and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, WED whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their WED medication and offer comfort and support. WED WED Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot WED cure her patients, only help them manage their various WED conditions. She visits the following characters throughout WED the series: WED WED Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean WED descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made WED tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, WED who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. WED So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. WED WED Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of WED affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by WED the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. WED WED Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating WED disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to WED sugary and fatty snacks at all times. WED WED Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the WED Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a WED product of his imagination. WED WED Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, WED charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if WED he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more WED time he will explode. WED WED Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. WED Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures WED unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. WED WED Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who WED have collaborated many time in the past, including on The WED Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. WED WED Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with WED additional material from Esther Coles WED Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani WED A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Graham Downes: Paul Whitehouse WED Ray: Paul Whitehouse WED Maurice Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Graham's Mum: Rosie Cavaliero WED Tony: Simon Day WED Lorrie: Cecilia Noble WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b06wg86g (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b06w6rpp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b06wf6n9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6rpr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6rpx (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6rq3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b06w6rq7 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wv73q (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Pádraig Ó Tuama. THU THU Script THU THU Good morning. The other day, I was writing down the date, THU and instead of the new year twenty sixteen I wrote down THU the wrong one, but not the one you’re thinking of. THU Instead of twenty sixteen, I wrote down nineteen sixteen. THU THU Nineteen sixteen is remembered in Britain and Ireland for THU different reasons. THU For some, they’ll remember the atrocities of the battle of THU the Somme, one of the worst battles in history, where on the THU first day alone, almost 60,000 people, many of them Irish, THU died in fields in France by a river where, by the end, over THU a million bodies had fallen. THU For others, they’ll remember the Easter Uprising of nineteen THU sixteen in Dublin, that failed plot to bring independence to THU Ireland that led to it being granted a few years later with THU the creation of a new Irish Freestate, and a new Irish THU border that was resented by some and welcomed by others. THU THU The battle of the Somme and the Easter Uprising are stories THU that include people from both Britain and Ireland. We are so THU close, these islands, similar and different. And sometimes THU our telling of history unites us, and sometimes it divides THU us. Perhaps that’s a purpose of history to tell the past in THU new ways so that we see old things with new eyes, not THU seeking to start new wars, but live well with the effects of THU old ones. THU THU God of history THU and today. THU You who have seen our wars THU and have bled with the dying. THU Help us turn toward the living THU and help us live THU so that fewer die. THU Amen. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06wg8p3 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0t44 (Listen) THU Kea THU THU Michael Palin presents the kea from a windswept mountain in THU New Zealand. A a snow-capped mountain in New Zealand's South THU Island are not a place where you'd expect to find a parrot, THU least of all a carnivorous one (and with a penchant for THU rubber). But this is the home of the kea. THU THU Keas are curious birds in every sense of the word. Drab THU greenish brown, they're the world's only Alpine parrot. When THU they can find them, keas eat fruits and berries, but also, THU especially in winter they descend from the higher slopes and THU scavenge on animal carcasses at rubbish dumps, cracking THU bones with their sharp beaks to reach the marrow. They will THU even attack live sheep, stripping the fat from their backs THU and damaging vital organs. Although this habit is rare and THU is now understood to be largely restricted to injured sheep, THU it led to widespread persecution of the birds and a bounty THU was paid on the head of each bird killed which led to THU widespread declines so that keas became endangered. THU THU Today Keas are legally protected. In their mountain homes, THU the parrots survive to entertain and exasperate tourists as THU they clamber over cars, strip rubber seals from windscreens THU and remove wiper-blades ... curious birds indeed. THU THU Kea (Nestor notabilis) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01266363 THU © Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. THU THU 06:00 Today b06wg9dt (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 b06wg9dw (Listen) THU Thomas Paine's Common Sense THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine and his THU pamphlet "Common Sense" which was published in Philadelphia THU in January 1776 and promoted the argument for American THU independence from Britain. For this, Paine has been called a THU Founding Father of the American Revolution. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b06wg9dy (Listen) THU The Outrun, Rose Cottage THU THU Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid THU the luminous Orkney landscape. THU THU Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by THU the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the THU city. A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and THU fun but she was unable to control her drinking. Her THU alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and THU left her lost and lonely. At thirty she finds herself washed THU up back home in Orkney, and discovers that this place she THU once longed to escape is curative, its wildness and lore THU playing an essential part in her recovery from addiction. THU THU Today: Amy has moved to tiny Pappa Westray, one of the THU smallest inhabited Orkney islands. THU THU Written by Amy Liptrot THU Read by Tracy Wiles THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Simon Richardson. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tracy Wiles THU Author: Amy Liptrot THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Simon Richardson THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06wg9f0 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06wg9gf (Listen) THU The One About the Social Worker, Episode 4 THU THU Claire Skinner returns as the social worker with a past, in THU another rollercoaster story based on tough true cases by THU Martin Jameson. THU THU Devon Sutcliffe's life has been less of a car crash, more of THU a motorway pile-up. Rejected, dumped, failed by everyone who THU could have cared for him, he has bounced from foster THU placement to residential unit to foster placement, and THU several times been labeled as 'unplaceable'. Finally out of THU care, almost anyone who has encountered him professionally THU expects him to be in prison within weeks. THU THU Assigned to returning social worker Liz Beecham, she stakes THU her own rehabilitation on helping Devon survive alone. But THU when his chaotic mother Cheryl arrives in his new flat, THU Devon's need for her threatens to undo all Liz's work. A THU heart-stopping story is about to unfold about Devon's THU past... and his family's future. THU THU 4/5 Devon's hopes for the future meet the reality of his THU past. THU THU Claire Skinner is best known to TV viewers as harrassed mum THU Sue in Outnumbered, but her wide-ranging career includes THU long associations with Mike Leigh, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sam THU Mendes. Her recent stage credits include Blurred Lines (NT THU Shed), Deathtrap (West End), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre) THU and The Father (Tricycle Theatre and West End). THU THU Theo Barklem-Biggs has starred in Silk, the BAFTA-nominated THU Our World War, and the Donmar Warehouse's new production of THU Les Liaisons Dangereuses. THU THU Martin Jameson is a prolific screenwriter, director and THU playwright whose recent work on Radio 4 includes Zola, THU Stone, Can You Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?, and THU The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister. THU THU Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU Credits THU Liz Beecham: Claire Skinner THU Devon Sutcliffe: Theo Barklem-Biggs THU Ian Green: Sam Dale THU Cheryl Sutcliffe: Debra Baker THU Sgt Morris: David Hounslow THU Janet Williams: Amelia Lowdell THU PC Kirtley: George Watkins THU Kirk: Leo Wan THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Writer: Martin Jameson THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06wg9gr (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Raising the Dead b06wg9gt (Listen) THU For the past few decades music teacher and pianist Francesco THU Lotoro has been collecting music written in concentration THU camps from the Second World War. THU THU Francesco's life is entirely given over to recovering the THU creations of composers and performers, many of them Jewish, THU who died in the camps. A massive amount of music was written THU in camps. Classical music by established composers, but also THU songs, symphonies, sonatas, operas, lullabies, jazz riffs THU often scribbled on old sacks, toilet paper or scratched into THU mess tins. THU THU Francesco has discovered works by important composers as THU Hans Krasa, the Czech creator of the masterpiece THU 'Brundibar', aswell as Viktor Ullman and Gideon Klein - all THU killed by the Nazis in 1944, but writing music until the THU very end. THU THU Composer Adam Gorb is head of composition at the Royal THU Northern College of Music in Manchester. Working closely THU with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Adam travels to Italy THU to meet Francesco and together they pick through his 8000 THU piece archive, much of which has never been heard before. THU THU In this special documentary, which broadcasts in the days THU running up to Holocaust Memorial Day, Adam Gorb returns to THU Britain with a piece of unfinished music written by Viktor THU Ullman before his death. This piece will be performed by the THU Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time. THU THU Producer: Caitlin Smith. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b06w6rqh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06l37nw (Listen) THU 21 January 1916 - Marion Wardle THU THU On this day, the Prime Minister stated that more women THU workers would be needed to supply enough munitions to the THU war, and former factory workers Marion and Edie feel even THU more liberated. THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone THU Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Bob Capeling: Joe Sims THU Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06whswj (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b06w6rqk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06whswl (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Three Score Years and Ten b06x96pw (Listen) THU Letting Go THU THU Bishop Richard Holloway, with the aid of great poets and THU writers, looks back on his life now that he has passed his THU allotted three score years and ten and wonders what his THU decreasing future holds and how best to cope with it. THU THU He recalls being young, celebrating the constant shift and THU change of history and embracing every fad and fashion that THU appeared. So it has been a surprise to realise, almost THU without noticing, that he has joined the ranks not only of THU the old but of the old fashioned - the crazy shift of change THU embraced so eagerly in youth is the very energy that is now THU carrying him into the past along with steam trains and THU shopping-free Sundays. THU THU He says, "Hardly surprising that some of us oldies become THU bitter and angry and feel like strangers in our own homes. THU Some think it's a modern disease, bred of the accelerating THU rate of change in our world today. In fact, the bitter old THU person is a constant in history." THU THU Go back as far as you can and the old grumble about the THU young. In the century before the birth of Christ, the Roman THU poet Horace recorded an old man. "Tiresome, complaining, a THU praiser of the times that were when he was a boy, a THU castigator and censor of the young generation," he wrote. THU THU It seems to be ageing itself that corrodes the spirit, not THU change as such, which is why growing old can be spiritually THU dangerous - anger against the young for being young, rage THU against the world for becoming an unfamiliar place, fury at THU change and its sister decay. THU THU Richard's solution is "bite the bullet, hand over the reins THU and sit in the sun to enjoy what's left.". THU THU 14:00 The Archers b06wg7t9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b036w39n (Listen) THU Bang Up THU THU Bang Up by Sarah Hehir THU THU Winner of the first BBC Writer's Prize. THU THU Emma teaches creative writing in a detention centre . Her THU life is imploding. Her estranged father contacts her with THU news of the birth of a baby . Throwing herself into work THU with the young offenders, new student Lee surprises her with THU the sensitivity of his writing . THU THU Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU BBC Writer's Prize Winner Sarah Hehir THU THU THU THU On her inspiration for *Bang Up…* THU THU THU THU I was teaching literacy in a young offenders institute and I THU knew I wanted to write something about the experience of THU being there - I just wasn’t quite sure what the story was. THU The character of Emma is not me, but is obviously influenced THU by the time I spent teaching in prison. I wanted to write a THU play that combined the tensions and potential violence of THU prison (the atmosphere there can turn on a word) with the THU unexpected tenderness and camaraderie that exists between THU the guards and the boys. THU THU THU THU People I’ve spoken to make assumptions about prison before THU they’ve been inside one; their preconceptions seem to be THU based on media representation and rumour. My experience THU unravelled my own expectations and prejudice. I think most THU people who have been inside would agree that it’s a THU difficult, diverse and complex environment. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Sarah Hehir THU Lee: Samuel Holland THU Emma: Gillian Kearney THU Bruce: Simeon Truby THU Patrick: Paul Sockett THU Ray: Matt Sutton THU SEG Guard: Matt Sutton THU Ishan: Faz Shah THU Guard: James Quinn THU Director: Susan Roberts THU THU 15:00 Open Country b06whswq (Listen) THU Somerset Peat: Past, Present and Future THU THU Helen Mark uncovers why peat makes the Somerset Levels a THU special place to visit, not just for the wildlife. Since THU earliest times humans have exploited this natural resource. THU Its wetlands once supported Lake Villagers whose secrets lay THU buried deep beneath the feet of the modern archaeologist THU keen to uncover what these wetlands preserves for millennia. THU THU A mere 50 years ago the extraction of peat was a major THU industry employing hundreds of people. It was cut for fuel, THU for horticulture, even animal feed. That industry has all THU but faded into history and Helen visits one of the last THU remaining extraction companies. Once this landscape was THU scarred by man, littered by trackways and industry, yet THU today what remains of this scarred is being managed to THU return it to another use. Helen discovers the memories of THU those who walked this peatland landscape are enjoyed by a THU new visitor, the nature watcher. THU THU Producer Andrew Dawes. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b06w6t8b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b06wbrk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b06whsws (Listen) THU Adam McKay on The Big Short THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Anchorman writer/director Adam McKay on The Big Short, a THU tragi-comedy about the financial crisis that hit the global THU markets in the mid 2000s. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Adam McKay THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b06whswv (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06whswx (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6rqt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06whsx1 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 THU THU John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John THU Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and THU The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his THU multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie THU Quinlan. THU THU This week we look back at a career in accounting, hear of an THU over-rated experience and, we're sorry to say, Patsy THU Straightwoman returns with an interview sketch. THU THU "One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" - The Guardian THU "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - THU The Radio Times THU "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the THU goods" - The Daily Mail THU "Superior comedy" - The Observer THU THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU THU Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally THU Stares THU THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a BBC Radio Comedy THU production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b06whsx3 (Listen) THU Pat is rather taken by surprise, and Kirsty is talking THU weddings. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b06whsx5 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06wg9gf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b06whsx7 (Listen) THU Litvinenko: The Miniature Nuclear Attack THU THU It was a death in Britain like no other seen in living THU memory. THU THU The gaunt and agonised face of the former Russian security THU service officer, Alexander Litvinenko, stared out of THU television screens and newspaper front pages in November THU 2006 as his painful end approached in London's University THU College Hospital. His poisoning by a radioactive isotope was THU a bizarre death. It baffled the experts and transfixed a THU horrified nation. THU THU As the public inquiry into this mysterious death got under THU way in 2014, reporter Peter Marshall investigated the THU evidence suggesting that the Russian state might have been THU behind the fatal poisoning. Eighteen months later, as the THU inquiry publishes its findings, The Report returns to the THU story. THU THU This is an updated version of a programme first broadcast on THU 7 August 2014. THU THU Reporter: Peter Marshall THU Producer: Simon Coates. THU THU 20:30 In Business b06wj1bt (Listen) THU Norway's European Vision THU THU Norway isn't a member of the European Union, but does THU business with the EU. Is it a model for other countries? THU Jonty Bloom speaks to people working in a range of THU businesses - including Norway's vital fishing industry - and THU asks about the advantages and disadvantages of the THU arrangement. THU THU Produced by Ruth Alexander. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b06whswv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06wg9dw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06wj1bw (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ymn8g (Listen) THU The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 4 THU THU Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen THU into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced THU into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of THU colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. THU THU A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social THU unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the THU internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian THU Building and Chicago. THU THU Episode 4: THU Abd el-Aziz's death triggers strong emotions at the THU Automobile Club. THU THU Read by Raad Rawi, Amir El-Masry and Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Translated by Russell Harris THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU THU Produced by Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Raad Rawi THU Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Author: Alaa Al Aswany THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01c7rqd (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 THU THU Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience THU consider proposals for a People's Manifesto. THU THU The Agenda: THU 1) Cancel out everyone's debt. THU 2) Sue Goldman Sachs for their part in the Greek economic THU collapse. THU and THU 3) Increase the indicated speed on car speedometers. THU THU Plus throughout the show there are "any other business" THU policy suggestions from the studio audience. THU THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b06wj1c0 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b06w6rv0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b06wg9dy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b06w6rv2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b06w6rv6 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b06w6rv8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b06w6rvd (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06wv9c6 (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Pádraig Ó Tuama. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06wj5w9 (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 b04t0sxg (Listen) FRI Red-Eyed Vireo FRI FRI Michael Palin presents the red-eyed vireo from North FRI America. About the size of British great tits the red-eyed FRI vireo is a common summer visitors to much of North America FRI where they breed in woodlands. The adult vireos are mainly FRI olive green with white bellies and grey heads and their red FRI eyes are highlighted by a white eyestripe. Seeing the birds FRI as they hunt insects among the leaves is much harder than FRI hearing them, because red-vireos are tireless songsters. FRI They used to be known locally as "preacher birds " and FRI territorial males hold the record for the largest repertoire FRI produced by a songbird in a single day. FRI FRI Each vireo can have a repertoire of between a dozen and over FRI a hundred different song-types. And while these marathon FRI "question- and- answer" sessions are the soundtrack to many FRI North American woods, they aren't universally appreciated. FRI The nature writer Bradford Torrey wrote in 1889 that FRI "whoever dubbed this vireo the preacher could have had no FRI very exalted opinion of the clergy". FRI FRI Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01308817 FRI © Gerrit Vyn / naturepl.com FRI FRI Recording of Red-eyed vireo by Geoffrey A Keller / Ref: ML FRI 176120 FRI FRI This programme contains a FRI wildtrack recording of the red-eyed vireo FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Geoffrey A Keller on 1 May FRI 2007; in Yellowwood State Forest, Brown County, Indiana, FRI USA. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06wj5wc (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 b06w6ty4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b06wj5wf (Listen) FRI The Outrun, Personal Geology FRI FRI Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid FRI the luminous Orkney landscape. FRI FRI Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm on Orkney. She was shaped by FRI the wind-swept islands, but longed for the excitement of the FRI city. A move to London led to a life that was hedonistic and FRI fun but she was unable to control her drinking. Her FRI alcoholism exposed her to some terrifying situations and FRI left her lost and lonely. At thirty she finds herself washed FRI up back home in Orkney, and discovers that this place she FRI once longed to escape is curative, its wildness and lore FRI playing an essential part in her recovery from addiction. FRI FRI Today: examining the fault lines bisecting her life, Amy FRI questions why she became an alcoholic. FRI FRI Written by Amy Liptrot FRI Read by Tracy Wiles FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Simon Richardson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tracy Wiles FRI Author: Amy Liptrot FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Simon Richardson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06wv9y2 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06wj5wh (Listen) FRI The One About the Social Worker, Episode 5 FRI FRI Claire Skinner returns as the social worker with a past, in FRI another rollercoaster story based on tough true cases by FRI Martin Jameson. FRI FRI Devon Sutcliffe's life has been less of a car crash, more of FRI a motorway pile-up. Rejected, dumped, failed by everyone who FRI could have cared for him, he has bounced from foster FRI placement to residential unit to foster placement, and FRI several times been labeled as 'unplaceable'. Finally out of FRI care, almost anyone who has encountered him professionally FRI expects him to be in prison within weeks. FRI FRI Assigned to returning social worker Liz Beecham, she stakes FRI her own rehabilitation on helping Devon survive alone. But FRI when his chaotic mother Cheryl arrives in his new flat, FRI Devon's need for her threatens to undo all Liz's work. A FRI heart-stopping story is about to unfold about Devon's FRI past... and his family's future. FRI FRI 5/5 Liz walks into a siege. FRI FRI Claire Skinner is best known to TV viewers as harrassed mum FRI Sue in Outnumbered, but her wide-ranging career includes FRI long associations with Mike Leigh, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sam FRI Mendes. Her recent stage credits include Blurred Lines (NT FRI Shed), Deathtrap (West End), Mrs Affleck (National Theatre) FRI and The Father (Tricycle Theatre and West End). FRI FRI Theo Barklem-Biggs has starred in Silk, the BAFTA-nominated FRI Our World War, and the Donmar Warehouse's new production of FRI Les Liaisons Dangereuses. FRI FRI Martin Jameson is a prolific screenwriter, director and FRI playwright whose recent work on Radio 4 includes Zola, FRI Stone, Can You Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?, and FRI The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Credits FRI Liz Beecham: Claire Skinner FRI Devon Sutcliffe: Theo Barklem-Biggs FRI Ian Green: Sam Dale FRI Cheryl Sutcliffe: Debra Baker FRI Sgt Morris: David Hounslow FRI Janet Williams: Amelia Lowdell FRI PC Kirtley: George Watkins FRI Kirk: Leo Wan FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI Writer: Martin Jameson FRI FRI 11:00 Every Case Tells a Story b05xd5k2 (Listen) FRI The Case Against Slavery FRI FRI Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous and infamous FRI court cases and retells the story that the case brought into FRI the public eye. FRI FRI In this programme he explores the Somersett Case from 1772. FRI FRI James Somersett was an escaped slave in London. His master FRI Charles Stuart tracked him down and tried to transport him FRI back to the Caribbean to be sold. The court case that FRI ensued, in which defenders of James Somersett argued in FRI front of the most powerful judge in the country, Lord FRI Justice Mansfield, that a human being cannot be forced out FRI of the country against their will would go on to pave the FRI way for the abolition of the slave trade a generation later. FRI FRI Featuring Amma Asante, Professor Norman Poser, Professor FRI James Walvin and Steven M. Wise. FRI FRI 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b06wj5wm (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI FRI The second series of this sitcom from Danny Robins FRI (co-creator Lenny Henry comedy Rudy's Rare Records), set and FRI recorded in Sweden and starring Edinburgh Comedy FRI Award-winner Adam Riches, Danny Robins and a cast of FRI Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors. FRI FRI Geoff has moved to Yxsjö in northern Sweden, to start a new FRI life with his girlfriend Linda in the (frequently frosty) FRI bosom of her family. FRI FRI This year, new dad Geoff has plenty of fresh experiences to FRI contend with, including three varieties of pickled cabbage, FRI sinister Christmas elves and an unpleasant visit from FRI Sweden's answer to the BNP. It's all worth it though for FRI Linda (Sissela Benn, star of the Swedish version of The FRI Office) and baby John. FRI FRI While Geoff and Linda now have their own place, he still has FRI to deal with her disapproving Dad, Sten (comedian Thomas FRI Orredsson from Crimes of Passion), her alarmingly FRI flirtatious mother Gunilla (comedian Anna- Lena Bergelin) FRI and her apparently suicidal, arsonist brother, Anders FRI (award-winning stand upFredrik Andersson). FRI FRI Geoff is determined to be more Swedish than the Swedes as he FRI takes to his new country with renewed enthusiasm, and he has FRI help, in the form of fellow ex-pat, cynical Ian (Danny FRI Robins), an unending source of (slightly misleading) FRI information, and Soran (Farshad Kohlgi of The Killing), a FRI Danish Kurd with Swedophobia. FRI FRI Episode 4: It's Summer and Geoff, Linda and baby Jon are off FRI on holiday - bliss. Geoff has seriously romantic plans too, FRI as they head further north for bright summer nights, skinny FRI dipping and wild strawberries. But their idyll is soon under FRI threat from mosquitoes, fish and the rest of the family. FRI FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Adam Riches FRI Sten: Thomas Oredsson FRI Linda: Sissela Benn FRI Gunilla: Anna-Lena Bergelin FRI Anders: Fredrik Andersson FRI Ian: Danny Robins FRI Soran: Farshad Kohlgi FRI Actor: Thomas Ericsson FRI Actor: Shanthi Rydwall FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI Writer: Danny Robins FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b06w6rvn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b06l37r3 (Listen) FRI 22 January 1916 - Isabel Graham FRI FRI On this day, the Dublin police raided several houses, FRI seizing arms and a printing press, and Isabel is unhappy FRI witness to a raid on the Belgian restaurant. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper FRI Anna White: Amelia Lowdell FRI Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe FRI Emile Tourte: Stephane Cornicard FRI Mr Mottershead: Gerard McDermott FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b06wv9c8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b06w6rvs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b06wv9cb (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Three Score Years and Ten b06x97fy (Listen) FRI Perish Resisting FRI FRI Bishop Richard Holloway, with the aid of great poets and FRI writers, looks back on his life now that he has passed his FRI allotted three score years and ten and wonders what his FRI decreasing future holds and how best to cope with it. FRI FRI He reflects on the way time steals everything from us - "our FRI youth, those we love and last of all it comes for us". What FRI disconcerts him most is how the "unstaying feet of time" FRI seem to be speeding up as they pursue him towards his end FRI and he wonders if Time is trying to cheat him of what is FRI left by fast-forwarding it like this. FRI FRI The positive side to this apparent increasing acceleration FRI of his life is that it has made Richard determined to FRI cherish what remains. Not to moan about the cold days and FRI long dark nights of a Scottish winter, but to savour them. FRI Not to grieve over the fact that there may not be many FRI springs and summers left, but to heed the words of Dylan FRI Thomas and learn to catch and sing the sun in flight before, FRI for him, it sinks forever. FRI FRI He admits, "Time has been generous to me so I can bear its FRI impatience now to see me gone, but it doesn't stop me FRI wondering and obsessing about time itself and the way it FRI devours all its children." FRI FRI Now he is determined not to worry about what comes next but FRI to live his life in such a way that his death will be an FRI unjust fate. FRI FRI A Butterfly Wings production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b06whsx3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06wj67f (Listen) FRI Because... FRI FRI A psychological thriller by BAFTA-winning writer Trevor FRI Preston. Ruth was a successful investigative journalist FRI until a terrible accident in France. Her physical recovery FRI now takes second place to her desperate need to remember FRI what really happened that night. Only recovering that memory FRI can allay the fears that fill her every thought. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI Trevor Preston trained at the Royal College of Art before FRI embarking on a career in television. He wrote for many of FRI the best dramas of the 1970s and 80s, including Ace of FRI Wands, Callan, The Sweeney, Minder, Out and Fox, for which FRI Trevor received a BAFTA in 1981. His film work includes FRI Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire and the Mike FRI Hodges directed I'll Sleep When I'm Dead starring Clive FRI Owen. Trevor has written several radio dramas, the first of FRI which, Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood, was shortlisted FRI for the Imison Award and a Mental Health in the Media Award FRI in 2009. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ruth: Raquel Cassidy FRI Dr Quinn: Caroline Catz FRI Elsa: Jasmine Hyde FRI Bernard: Stephane Cornicard FRI Jean: Chris Pavlo FRI Farid: Maximilien Seweryn FRI Rushmer: Ewan Bailey FRI Professor: Sean Baker FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Trevor Preston FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b06wj67h (Listen) FRI Stowe Gardens FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel answer gardening questions from FRI Stowe Gardens. The panellists this week are Bunny Guinness, FRI Pippa Greenwood, and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b06wj6y1 (Listen) FRI The Time Being, The Sandwich FRI FRI The eighth season of the showcase for previously FRI un-broadcast writers. Past series have brought new talent to FRI a wider audience and provided a stepping stone for writers FRI who have since gone on to enjoy further success on radio and FRI in print - such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally FRI Hinchcliffe, Joe Dunthorne and Rebecca F. John. FRI FRI Episode 3: The Sandwich by Ben Pedroche FRI With no one to talk to and in a job that he hates, Pan Wong FRI can't wait for lunchtime. FRI FRI Ben Pedroche writes fiction, and also blogs about his two FRI passions - London and hip-hop music. He has published books FRI related to London history, and lives south of the river with FRI his wife and daughter. FRI FRI Reader: Thom Tuck FRI Writer: Ben Pedroche FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Ben Pedroche FRI Reader: Thom Tuck FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06wv9cd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06wv9cg (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b06wj7bs (Listen) FRI Edward and James - The Sausage Machine FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who have FRI both come out of university with degrees, but at some cost; FRI another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI 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 b06wv9cj (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b06w6rw1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b06wj7bv (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 3 FRI FRI Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the FRI chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests FRI take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. FRI Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Andrew Maxwell and Samira Ahmed FRI are this week's guests. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI Panellist: Samira Ahmed FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06wj7bx (Listen) FRI Lilian enjoys being back in the saddle, and Rex and Toby FRI need to choose their moment. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Peter Leslie Wild FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Matthew Holman: Michael Winder FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06wv9cl (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06wj5wh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06wj7bz (Listen) FRI Stephen Crabb MP, Carwyn Jones AM, Mark Reckless, Kirsty FRI Williams AM, Leanne Wood AM FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Pater Hall, FRI Pembroke Dock in Wales with the Welsh Secretary, Stephen FRI Crabb MP, First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones AM, the FRI Director of Policy Development for UKIP Mark Reckless, the FRI Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Wales Kirsty Williams AM, FRI and the leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood AM. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06wj7c1 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l37tj (Listen) FRI 18-22 January 1916 FRI FRI In the week of the first concerted attempt to break the FRI Siege of Kut, Folkestone's characters are all looking for FRI release. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger FRI Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman FRI Alec Poole: Tom Stuart FRI Anna White: Amelia Lowdell FRI Bob Capeling: Joe Sims FRI Clemmie Crayford: Joanna Monro FRI Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Edward Easton: Raymond Wilson FRI Emile Tourte: Stephane Cornicard FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Mr Mottershead: Gerard McDermott FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair FRI Nev Cotton: Leo Wan FRI Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie FRI Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack FRI Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe FRI Nurse Wright: Isobel Rogers FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b06w6rw9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06wv9cn (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06ymphx (Listen) FRI The Automobile Club of Egypt, Episode 5 FRI FRI Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen FRI into penury and has moved his family to Cairo. He is forced FRI into menial work at the Automobile Club, a refuge of FRI colonial luxury and privilege for its European members. FRI FRI A vibrant and moving story of a family swept up by social FRI unrest in post-War Cairo, written by Alaa Al Aswany, the FRI internationally best-selling author of The Yacoubian FRI Building and Chicago. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Kamel takes over his father's job in the storeroom where he FRI makes a powerful contact. FRI FRI Read by Raad Rawi and Amir El-Masry FRI Translated by Russell Harris FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Produced by Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Raad Rawi FRI Reader: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Author: Alaa Al Aswany FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b06wd26b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b06wj87s (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06wj87w (Listen) FRI Alan and Victoria - Fishing for Family History FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation from Jersey about a FRI onetime family fishing business and the powerful pull of the FRI sea for island dwellers - another 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