26 November, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 27/11/2010 - 03/12/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00w247v (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00w48g8 (Listen) SAT Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Episode 5 SAT SAT A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who SAT changed the course of Tudor history. At Henry's urging, SAT Parliament has passed the Act of Succession annulling the SAT marriage of the king and queen. However Catherine still has SAT influential allies across Europe. SAT SAT Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of SAT Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage SAT lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives SAT put together. SAT SAT Abridged by Alison Joseph SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w247x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w247z (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w2481 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00w2483 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w249l (Listen) SAT Prayer for the Day SAT SAT With Kevin Franz, a member of the Religious Society of SAT Friends. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00w249n (Listen) SAT "I've been a rape victim, mental health patient and SAT murderer." An actor explains how she trains public sector SAT workers for real life challenges and gives Eddie Mair a SAT masterclass. Newsnight's Kirsty Wark reads 'Your News', and SAT Professor Heinz Wolff uses science to explain what iPM is SAT all about. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00w2485 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00w2487 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00w6kzn (Listen) SAT Ardtornish SAT SAT In Open Country this week, Helen Mark visits Ardtornish SAT Estate in Morvern, in the western Highlands of Scotland. The SAT estate covers around sixty square miles of hill, woodland, SAT rivers and lochs and has been in the Raven family for three SAT generations. Hugh Raven describes himself as the present SAT 'steward' of Ardtornish, working on behalf of the whole SAT family and the local community, and, along with his wife, SAT Jane Stuart-Smith, is building on groundwork laid down at SAT Ardtornish by his late brother, Andrew Raven. SAT SAT Helen is here to see how the way Ardtornish is managed has SAT changed over the years, and chief among those changes is the SAT way in which the climate is being exploited. The estate is SAT harnessing the power of the rainfall, which is never in SAT short supply in this part of the world, to supply SAT electricity to the National Grid. Estate manager Angus SAT Robertson and farm stock manager James Laurie discuss how SAT Ardtornish's natural qualities and produce can help secure SAT its future, while Faith Raven, who was born as her father SAT bought the estate, and estate gardener Ian Lamb, tell Helen SAT why change and continuity can go hand in hand in the SAT Highlands. SAT SAT Producer: Moira Hickey. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00w6l3j (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00w2489 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00w6l3l (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00w6l3n (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, poet SAT Murray Lachlan Young, a man who was in a band with a very SAT young David Bowie, a headteacher who was caught up in the SAT Montserrat volcano eruption and who helped her pupils SAT through the aftermath by encouraging them to write poems and SAT stories, a woman who extols the virtues of keeping pigs as SAT pets, and the Inheritance Tracks of comedian and author SAT Alexei Sayle. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00w6l3q (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets the human rights advocate Bianca Jagger SAT and asks her about a lifetime of travel from her home SAT country of Nicaragua and student protests in the Paris of SAT the sixties to her recent work in the state of Orissa in SAT India protesting at the effects on the local tribes of SAT aluminium processing there. John also talks to the Welsh SAT actor Matthew Rhys about his trek on horseback across SAT Patagonia. He joined a group of Welsh Patagonian riders SAT recreating the original nineteenth century journey from the SAT Atlantic to the Andes in search of fertile land to settle. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Me and My Mobile b00w6ljy (Listen) SAT In the last twenty-five years mobile phones have SAT revolutionised our lives- ever since Ernie Wise made the SAT first mobile call in the UK in 1985. Could we imagine not SAT walking around with our mobile in our pockets as instant SAT communication and often a portable office. For Radio Four, SAT Dom Joly explores our relationship with mobiles during the SAT past quarter of a century, where they've changed the way we SAT work, socialise, communicate, get our news, pay our bills, SAT do business. SAT SAT When phones were first launched they were the size of a SAT briefcase, cost about £2,000 and had a battery life of SAT little more than 20 minutes. They were an immediate status SAT symbol, now there are nearly two phones per head for every SAT man, woman and child living in the UK, and as many as ten SAT thousand of them are stolen each month. They've become SAT small, sleek, slim objects of desire. When did we fall in SAT love with our phones, and whatever did we do before them? SAT SAT Producer: Anna Horsbrugh-Porter SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00w6lkd (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00w6lkj (Listen) SAT Why Pakistan's flood victims feel they've been let down by SAT their rulers. SAT SAT A victim of the China's Cultural Revolution who emerged from SAT prison and made a fortune. SAT SAT Russia's policemen fail to see the funny side of a campaign SAT of ridicule. SAT SAT And a ticklish problem brings acute embarrassment for the SAT BBC in New York. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00w6lkx (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00w243n (Listen) SAT Series 32, Europe faces the music - with special guest Jon Culshaw SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of the SAT topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. Jon SAT Holmes raises an eye brow at the new toy Transformer from SAT America; Mitch Benn sings about the Pope and prophylactics; SAT Laura Shavin reads us the nursery tale of Three little SAT piggies and the student rioters and Jon Culshaw brings Simon SAT Cowell, Graham Norton, George Bush, Tony Blair and Boris SAT Johnson along for the party. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00w248c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00w248f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00w243v (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from North SAT Leamington School in Leamington Spa with questions for the SAT panel including editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley, SAT shadow Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, business minister Ed SAT Davey and director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Jill SAT Kirby. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00w6llk (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00w6lqz (Listen) SAT The Caretaker SAT SAT David Warner and Daniel Mays star in Harold Pinter's dark SAT comedy. The late author was considered before his death to SAT be one of a handful of living British dramatists. And this SAT play is considered by many critics to be his finest.The SAT style and comedy employed are reminiscent of post-war SAT European drama, especially the plays of Samuel Beckett. That SAT said, this is a powerful and original play. SAT SAT Aston (Tony Bell) rescues Davies (David Warner) an elderly, SAT homeless man from a fight in a café and brings him home to SAT recover. SAT SAT The tramp tells of the hiding he would have had from one of SAT the café staff if Aston hadn't intervened. Aston also had SAT trouble in the same café some time ago. The men bond. SAT SAT The old man's past is murky. He lives under an assumed name SAT and seems unsure of his real identity. He talks of going to SAT Sidcup to get his papers, to confirm the matter. SAT SAT Aston offers Davies the job of caretaker of the dingy West SAT London house, owned by Aston's brother Mick. SAT SAT Davies is reluctant to accept the job, and the SAT responsibility involved. Even when Mick arrives and repeats SAT the offer. Perhaps Davies realises it is not just the SAT building he might have to care-take. This is confirmed at SAT the plays darkly comedic climax, puts the situation the SAT characters into perspective. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00w6mfb (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00w6n6j (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00w249n (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00w248h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00w248k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w248m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00w6nlr (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by Simon Le Bon, lead singer of 80's New SAT Wave pop sensation Duran Duran with hits like Rio and Girls SAT on Film. Mark Ronson has produced their thirteenth studio SAT album All You Need I Now which is out next year and the SAT single of the same name will be released in December. They SAT begin a world tour in the New Year. SAT SAT The EMMY, BRIT and BAFTA award-winning composer Howard SAT Goodall has written the music for the new West End musical SAT adaption of the romantic hit film of the seventies, Love SAT Story. SAT SAT Columnist, political commentator and sports fanatic Matthew SAT Norman talks about his new book counting down the 101 SAT greatest torments in sport... SAT SAT And Arthur Smith talks to the woman who managed Spike SAT Milligan for over 35 years, Norma Farnes. Her book 'Memories SAT of Milligan' is a collection of interviews from those who SAT knew him best including Barry Humphries, Eric Sykes and SAT George Martin. SAT SAT With music from Indie singer-songwriter Joan As Police Woman SAT and atmospheric Newcastle 5-piece Let's Buy Happiness. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00w6nm5 (Listen) SAT Series 9, Episode 5 SAT SAT Carnival by Janice Okoh. SAT SAT In a week that once again saw students protesting on the SAT streets Janice Okoh tells the story of single mother SAT Lorraine and daughter Nicole and how they are affected by SAT the proposed changes to student fees. SAT SAT Lorraine ..... Clare Perkins SAT Nicole ..... Deeivya Meir SAT Dean ..... LLoyd Thomas SAT SAT Producer: David Hunter. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00w6nm7 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT The Rivals SAT SAT The Rivals, written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and SAT directed by Peter Hall is on at the Haymarket Theatre, London. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00mtnq7 (Listen) SAT Self on Ballard SAT SAT The writer Will Self, who came to know J.G. Ballard well in SAT his final years, journeys upriver through the life and SAT imagination of the seer of Shepperton. From his suburban SAT anonymity, Ballard charted the realms of innerspace and the SAT madness of the modern world with a cool eye and visionary SAT prose. Written & presented by Will Self. With readings by SAT Anna Massey. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Burman SAT SAT (repeat). SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00w13n6 (Listen) SAT Alone in Berlin, Episode 2 SAT SAT From the Novel by Hans Fallada. Dramatised for radio by SAT Shelagh Stephenson. SAT SAT Primo Levi's declaration that Alone in Berlin is "the SAT greatest book ever written about German resistance to the SAT Nazis" is bold and unequivocal. English readers have had to SAT wait 60 years to explore the 1947 novel in which Otto SAT Quangel, a factory foreman (Ron Cook) and his wife Anna SAT (Margot Leicester) believe themselves morally obliged to SAT take on the full might of the Nazis. SAT SAT When their son is killed "for Führer and Fatherland", the SAT Quangels begin to write anonymous postcards, denouncing the SAT war and the regime, and leave them on the stairwells of SAT public buildings in Berlin. Over two years, the cards become SAT their life. Trapped through a trivial mistake, by their SAT nemesis, Inspector Escherich of the Gestapo (Tim McInnerny) SAT they are put on trial for their lives, but find a strange SAT freedom in a mocking defiance and then in a terrible silence. SAT SAT Alone in Berlin is a grim but heroic story told with laconic SAT determination by a man who lived through the war in Berlin. SAT It is about the quiet moral triumph of a seemingly SAT inconsequential couple - it points to a courage which lay in SAT the hearts of most true Germans, if only angst and SAT overwhelming fear hadn't been allowed to gain the upper hand. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Otto Quangel ..... Ron Cook SAT Anna Quangel ..... Margot Leicester SAT Escherich ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Trudel Bauman ..... Jasmine Hyde SAT Eva Kluge ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT Enno Kluge ..... Ian Bartholomew SAT Emil Borkhausen ..... Richard McCabe SAT Frau Rosenthal ..... Joanna Munroe SAT Inspector Rusch ..... John McAndrew SAT Judge Fromm ..... Andrew Sachs SAT Inspector Zott ..... Nickolas Grace SAT Inspector Prall ..... Sam Dale SAT SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00w248p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00w2190 (Listen) SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, SAT Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00w195w (Listen) SAT (5/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes four more contestants bidding to SAT become Brain of Britain, in the fifth heat of the current SAT series, from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria SAT Presenter Russell Davies. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT ROSALIND AMEY, a supply teacher from Thornhll in West SAT Cumbria; SAT WILLIAM BARRETT, an IT developer from London; SAT RAY EATON, a postman, also from London; SAT DR JEREMY PLATT, a GP from Bracknell in Berkshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Lunch Poems b00w13qb (Listen) SAT The poet Frank O'Hara was at the very centre of the SAT explosion in New York's artistic life that took place in the SAT nineteen-fifties and sixties. SAT SAT Friend and champion of Abstract Expressionists such as SAT Pollock and de Kooning, O'Hara worked at the Museum of SAT Modern Art; during his lunch hours, he'd explore the city at SAT its most vibrant peak before stopping off at the Olivetti SAT typewriter store to write the poems that would eventually SAT appear as the collection 'Lunch Poems'. SAT SAT In this programme, Paul Farley heads to New York to see what SAT it is about this collection- and the man that created it- SAT that ensures its continuing popularity today. Along the way SAT he meets some of the current crop of the city's poets, as SAT well as O'Hara's long time friend and now elder statesman of SAT verse, John Ashbery. SAT SAT Producer: Geoff Bird SAT An All Out Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00w49j1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00chwbg (Listen) SUN Urban Welsh, Twelve Beer Blues SUN SUN Stories by Welsh writers. In Tristan Hughes's tale, the SUN morning after the night before brings mixed memories for SUN Dylan. Read by Ian Puleston-Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w49j3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w49j5 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w49j7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00w49j9 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00w6nv1 (Listen) SUN The bells of Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Wall in the Mind b00w2192 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Lynsey Hanley, the author of "Estates: An Intimate History" SUN explores the complexities of class and social mobility in SUN her own life and in British society more widely. SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00w49jc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00w6p8f (Listen) SUN I Don't Believe in Being Lost SUN SUN Broadcaster Anita Rani explores the significance of being SUN lost, both physically and spiritually. Drawing on a broad SUN range of music and texts, from the Qawwali of Sufi Islam to SUN the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, Anita illustrates the SUN importance of losing oneself in culture and spirituality. SUN SUN In some ways, Anita doesn't believe in being lost if there's SUN a map, a signpost or even a person to ask, it's possible to SUN get where you need to be. On another level we are all SUN incredibly lost throughout our lives. From birth until death SUN there's no plan and no map, just meanderings and different SUN destinations. How does this feeling of being lost manifest SUN itself in our existence, physically, mentally and spiritually? SUN SUN Anita reflects on the nature of being lost with Reverend SUN Peter Owen Jones, priest, award-winning television presenter SUN and author, described by the Times as "the bravest vicar in SUN Britain". Peter has journeyed deep into the wilderness in SUN the footsteps of St Anthony. In a hermit's cell in the heart SUN of the Egyptian Sinai Desert, he lived alone. The SUN experience, he says, withered his illusions and allowed him SUN to see things as they really are. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Coombs SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00w6phn (Listen) SUN 12/18. Many people are unaware of the importance the British SUN Isles plays in the survival of Ancient Trees. We all look at SUN these venerable old trees in parkland but do we ever think SUN that they should actually be viewed as the Old Masters of SUN the British countryside? SUN SUN In this week's Living World, Lionel Kelleway travels to the SUN Croft Abbey estate in Herefordshire. Here, inside the hollow SUN belly of a 700 year old oak, Lionel meets Brian Muelaner an SUN Ancient Tree advisor with the National Trust, and Professor SUN of mycology Lynne Boddy. Apart from the inherent beauty an SUN individual tree has in a parkland landscape, as a group, SUN Ancient Trees are vital to the survival of many fungi in the SUN landscape. And without fungi, the trees would be unable to SUN survive at all. With a changing climate, can this symbiotic SUN relationship have a future? Or are we seeing the last of SUN these trees forever. SUN SUN Croft Abbey estate is remarkable because of its continuity SUN of ownership over many generations by the same family who, SUN like us, valued their ancient trees for aesthetic, not SUN commercial, value. Hidden away in a corner of the parkland SUN is Britain's oldest sessile oak, gnarled and twisted by age, SUN but at over 1000 years old it could live for many centuries SUN to come. Nearby an avenue of sweet chestnuts, planted from SUN seeds washed up after the Spanish Armada failed in its SUN mission, majestically recreate the Spanish fleets formation SUN at sea on the hill. SUN SUN In the glinting sunlight of a late autumnal day one final SUN surprise awaits Lionel as he encounters an ancient hawthorn SUN orchard, Why was it planted and for what purpose? No one SUN seems to know, but at 200 years old, these mystical looking SUN trees are indeed unique in Europe. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00w49jf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00w49jh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00w6pk6 (Listen) SUN More than twenty years after the first World Aids Day, our SUN reporter Trevor Barnes asks if HIV prejudice is still an SUN issue in the UK and if the Government takes HIV seriously. SUN SUN They maybe the most unlikeliest of pairings, but classical SUN music group The Priests and poet Shane MacGowan are hoping SUN that together their version of Little Drummer Boy/Peace on SUN Earth will be the Christmas Number One. Father Eugene SUN O'Hagan tells our Presenter William Crawley how their fans SUN have reacted to the news. SUN SUN Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury explains to SUN William why he's backing the 'Not Ashamed' Campaign, which SUN offers Christians across the UK the chance to stand up and SUN speak out on behalf of the Christian faith. SUN SUN A number of Teaching Unions, Educationalists, Religious SUN Bodies and the British Humanist Association have written a SUN joint letter to the Secretary of State for Education, SUN seeking an end to compulsory worship in publicly funded SUN schools in England. Brian Lightman, the General Secretary of SUN the Association of School and College Leaders and the SUN Reverend David Holloway, a Trustee of The Christian SUN Institute, debate the issue. SUN SUN The General synod has voted to press ahead with the Anglican SUN Covenant, a worldwide deal designed to keep Anglicans around SUN the world united. Backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr SUN Rowan Williams, the Covenant will now be sent to dioceses SUN for consideration. But the traditionalist lobby group Gafcon SUN (the Global Anglican Future Conference) rejected the SUN covenant, saying it was "no longer appropriate". William SUN Crawley will be talking to one of the lead GAFCON Primates, SUN the Archbishop of Kenya the Most Rev Dr Eliud Wabukala. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00w6pk8 (Listen) SUN Women and Children First SUN SUN Juliet Stevenson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Women and Children First. SUN SUN Donations to Women and Children First should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Women and Children First. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Women and Children First with your full name SUN and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1087417. SUN SUN Women and Children First SUN SUN Women and Children First, a small UK charity which works to SUN save the lives and improve the health of mothers and babies SUN in some of the poorest communities in the world. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00w49jk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00w49jm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00w6pkn (Listen) SUN A Vision for City People SUN SUN The first of our series of services for Advent which visits SUN 4 cities across the nations of the United Kingdom exploring SUN the meaning of incarnation in daily city life. SUN Live from Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, SUN with Greyfriars Choir and the Edinburgh Singers. SUN Led by the Rev Ruth Halley. Preacher: The Minister, the Rev SUN Richard Frazer. SUN Readings: Isaiah 2: 1-5 SUN 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11 SUN Hymns: O Come, O Come Emmanuel SUN Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) SUN People Look East (Besancon) SUN I will always bless the Lord (Ps 34) (Taladh Chriosta) SUN Anthem: O thou the central orb (Wood) SUN Musical Director: John Gormley. SUN Oganist: Henry Wallace SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00w243x (Listen) SUN Sex and Religion SUN SUN Joan Bakewell compares the tensions in the Catholic and SUN Anglican church over policy on homosexuality, contraception SUN and the status of women priests, reflecting that organised SUN religion tends to lag behind attitudes in secular society. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00w6pkz (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00w6pnw (Listen) SUN Written by: Keri Davies SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Frith SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00w6pny (Listen) SUN Robert Harris SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the best-selling writer Robert SUN Harris. SUN SUN He was, apparently, a political junkie from a young age; he SUN was just six when he wrote the essay: 'Why me and my dad SUN don't like Sir Alec Douglas Home' and he also had an early SUN realisation that he wanted to grow up to be a writer. His SUN first novel - Fatherland - imagined a world after the Nazis SUN had won World War II. It sold more than three million copies SUN and made him a household name. "I can remember I wrote the SUN opening sentence and I practically had to go and lie down SUN afterwards," he said, "the possibilities of it - and the SUN feeling that I'd finally arrived at what I wanted to do - it SUN was overwhelming.". SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00w1bf9 (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 3 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons presides over the grandaddy of all panel SUN games where the idea is to see who has the gift of the gab. SUN SUN This week's programme comes from the Lowry Centre in Salford SUN where the panellists are Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Kit SUN Hesketh-Harvey and Alun Cochrane. SUN SUN The panellists are given subjects on which they must speak SUN without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much SUN more difficult than it sounds... SUN SUN This week Paul has to speak on the subject of What Nicholas SUN Keeps in his Wallet; Kit talks about Seeing the Dentist, SUN Tony declaims on the subject of The Age of the Dinosaur and SUN Alun explains What Makes Me Furious. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00w6pp0 (Listen) SUN Best Drinks Producer, Food & Farming Awards SUN SUN A distiller, a brewer and a cider maker - but who will be SUN the first winner of the Food and Farming Awards Best Drinks SUN Producer Award? Oz Clarke joins Sheila Dillon in SUN Birmingham's NEC to reveal all. SUN SUN Food writer and critic Charles Campion and restaurateur and SUN writer Mark Hix were the judges for this category and talk SUN Sheila through the finalists. SUN SUN In this first year of the Best Drinks Producer category the SUN judges were overwhelmed with nominations for innovative SUN entrepreneurs making all manner of juice, perry, teas, and SUN wines. But the three drinks chosen - a cask ale, a spirit SUN and a traditional cider - have been made in these islands SUN throughout our history. SUN SUN Sipsmiths are one of a new generation of artisan distillers SUN riding the coat-tails of pioneer distiller Julian Temperley SUN who battled H M Customs for the right to distil. Simpsmith's SUN were awarded the first London distillers licence in nearly SUN 200 years, and now produce a London gin and a barley vodka SUN from their west London residential neighbourhood distillery. SUN SUN Mike Henney's Herefordshire ciders are the result of a hobby SUN that got out of hand. From airing cupboard tinkering via SUN farmers markets the brand is now sold throughout the SUN country's main supermarkets, making good quality cider SUN accessible to all. Henney's ciders all have protected name SUN status, with apples sourced from within Herefordshire and SUN the cider is made in a traditional way. SUN SUN Wye Valley Brewery is a family business started by Peter SUN Amor and now run by his son Vernon. It brings new meaning to SUN local produce - beers are only sold within 50 miles of the SUN brewery, the majority of hops are grown within 7 miles, and SUN one beer, the Dorothy Goodbody Imperial Stout, even used SUN Herefordshire malting barley. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00w49jp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00w6pp2 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 What Happened at Copenhagen? b00w6pp4 (Listen) SUN It was the biggest gathering of world leaders outside the SUN United Nations. 15,000 delegates from 192 countries SUN (including over 100 heads of state or government), watched SUN by thousands of journalists and harangued by thousands of SUN activists, travelled to Copenhagen in December 2009 for the SUN UN climate summit. SUN SUN Hyped in advance by some as the most important conference SUN the world has ever seen, it fizzled out in exhaustion and SUN recrimination without a binding global deal nor a plan or SUN timetable for creating one. Its conclusion was a limited SUN agreement between a select group of countries, of which the SUN rest of the world merely agreed to take note. SUN SUN It's a story of good intentions gone wrong, of the ambitions SUN of politicians from a tiny host nation who briefly saw SUN themselves as saviours of the world, and a tale of mistrust, SUN complex diplomatic wrangling and in some cases a diametric SUN clash of vision about the very nature of human progress - SUN topped by the emergence of new and powerful forces in global SUN politics. SUN SUN So why did such a massive effort lead to such a small SUN result? Presented by the BBC's environmental analyst Roger SUN Harrabin, this programme tells the story of what really went SUN on behind the scenes in the international negotiations. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00w243d (Listen) SUN Manchester City SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a programme from Manchester City. He is SUN accompanied by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs and Bob SUN Flowerdew. SUN In addition, Pippa Greewood visits the birthplace of the SUN RSPB - Fletcher Moss Gardens; and local gardener and SUN broadcaster Paul Peacock discusses the programmes on offer SUN to a gardening volunteer. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 In The Footsteps of Giants b00rzvfm (Listen) SUN Paul Davies on Carl Sagan SUN SUN Within a series of passionate explorations, Paul Davies SUN looks back on the life of Carl Sagan. Sagan's public SUN lectures laid the groundwork for Davies' own fascination SUN with the universe. Both scientists have played key roles in SUN SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and SUN both have championed the popularisation of science. SUN SUN Paul Davies returns to the Boyd Orr Lecture Hall at Glasgow SUN University where Sagan delivered his Gifford lecture 'The SUN Search for Who We Are', meeting up with Martin Hendry, SUN Senior Lecturer in Astronomy at Glasgow University who also SUN attended the lecture and was similarly inspired. Looking SUN back at Carl's work, he reflects on the similarities to his SUN own life and career. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00w6q37 (Listen) SUN I, Claudius, Augustus SUN SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' scandalous SUN histories of Roman political vice. SUN SUN Young Claudius grows up in the turbulent household of SUN Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, and Livia, the wife who SUN matched his achievements with her ambition. The Imperial SUN Couple disregard their young grandson as they inch towards SUN absolute power. But that won't save Claudius from heartbreak. SUN SUN Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Augustus ..... Derek Jacobi SUN Livia ..... Harriet Walter SUN Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Julia ..... Alison Pettitt SUN Athenodorus ..... Sam Dale SUN Cato ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Thrasyllus ..... Sean Baker SUN Young Claudius ..... Harvey Allpress SUN Young Herod ..... Felix Zadek-Ewing SUN Young Germanicus ..... Harry Child SUN Camilla ..... Lauren Mote SUN Young Postumus ..... Ryan Watson SUN Young Livilla ..... Holly Gibbs SUN Other parts played by Adeel Akhtar, Tony Bell, Christine SUN Kavanagh, and Sally Orrock. SUN SUN Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00w6q42 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup speaks to writers Peter Ackroyd and Kevin SUN Crossley-Holland about the legend of King Arthur. SUN SUN Novelist Philip Kerr talks about his new book Field Grey. SUN SUN And writer Paul Bailey discusses the life, work and letters SUN of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lamedusa, author of The Leopard SUN SUN Producer:Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 David Walliams on Philip Larkin b00w6q44 (Listen) SUN Actor David Walliams is a great admirer of Philip Larkin's SUN poetry, and to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the SUN poet's death he talks to former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, SUN who wrote a widely acclaimed biography of Larkin, about why SUN he finds this poetry so appealing. Walliams chooses a SUN selection of the poems he likes best, some well-known and SUN some far less so, to explore the central themes that recur SUN throughout Larkin's work. It's a fascinating three-way SUN meeting of minds: the actor, the biographer and the poet SUN they both admire. SUN SUN The poems are read by Philip Larkin, Tom Courtenay and SUN Patrick Romer. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00w1zy4 (Listen) SUN Care Homes: When An Inspector Calls SUN SUN A new law regulating care homes in England came into force SUN last month. All homes must be registered and ensure they SUN meet certain standards of quality and safety. The regulator SUN - the Care Quality Commission - is promising to monitor SUN homes and take action against those who fail to meet standards. SUN But unions say the numbers of inspectors has been cut. They SUN are warning of fewer inspections and say staff are so SUN overstretched they could miss vital warning signs of abuse SUN or neglect. Worried relatives say they feel their concerns SUN are not being heard. SUN Fran Abrams asks whether the elderly in care homes are being SUN adequately protected. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00w6nm5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00w49jr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00w49jt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w49jw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00w6q46 (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Me and My Mobile SUN City Teachers SUN How Roald Dahl shaped British Pop SUN Off the Page SUN A Charles Paris Mystery: Murder in the Title SUN Moeran's last Symphony SUN Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story SUN Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack SUN Front Row SUN The Food and Farming Awards SUN World Routes SUN Len Goodman's Dancing Years SUN I'm a Celebrity, Get Me into Here SUN Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen SUN Outlook SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00w6q48 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00w6q4g (Listen) SUN As Americans continue to celebrate, and recover from, the SUN Thanksgiving holiday, Americana examines US food choices and SUN "going without". Professor and UN special advisor, Jeffrey SUN Sachs, discusses the increase in poverty and hunger across SUN the nation. Nationally renowned California chef Alice Waters SUN explains why she thinks everyone can, and should, care about SUN eating organic food and the customers and staff at The SUN Dinner Bell restaurant in Mississippi offer a different SUN view. Squirrel hunter Hovey Smith steps into his backyard in SUN rural Georgia to share some hunting tips and a family recipe SUN for squirrel stew. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c83jk (Listen) SUN SOS: Save Our Souls, Ghosts SUN SUN Short stories to mark the 100th anniversary of the SUN international distress call. SUN SUN In Colette Paul's tale, a retired woman is jolted out of her SUN comforting routine by the intrusion of a voice from her SUN past. SUN SUN Read by Barbara Rafferty. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00w236t (Listen) SUN Aspiring comedian Richard Hanrahan desperate to break into SUN BBC radio pitches his talents directly to the woman who can SUN say yes.... Or ... er no thanks. SUN SUN Praise for 'Atching Tan' - a play about, written by and SUN acted by travellers. All information can be found online. SUN If you hate digital radio you'll be dreading 2015 - Tim SUN Davie, the BBC's head of radio, tries to reassure you. And a SUN Radio 4 fan and her Radio 1 loving step-daughter swap SUN stations for a week. SUN SUN Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00w243g (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Ingrid Pitt - best known as a voluptuous vampire in Hammer SUN Horror films. SUN SUN Foreign correspondent John Bulloch - an expert on the Middle SUN East who worked in war zones around the world. SUN SUN The furniture designer Robin Day who produced the polyprop SUN stacking chair which sold in millions around the world. SUN SUN Professor Dudley Williams whose work on antibiotics helped SUN to tackle the superbug MRSA. SUN SUN And Bernard Matthews, the Norfolk Turkey farmer whose catch SUN phrase "It's Bootiful" made him a household name. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00w6lkx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00w6pk8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00w228b (Listen) SUN Growing Pains SUN SUN In the middle of a recession renewed economic growth is SUN always considered the great panacea that will get us out of SUN the mess we are in. However, is this really the way to SUN tackle the problems of a finite world? Peter Day wonders if SUN our reliance on growth is not a snare and a delusion. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00w49jy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00w6q9m (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn previews the week's political events with SUN George Parker of the Financial Times. SUN SUN She discusses the big stories at Westminster with SUN Conservative MP Andrea Leadson and Labour MP Alison McGovern. SUN SUN Mandy Baker reports on complaints from some peers that the SUN procedures of the House of Lords are chaotic and absurd and SUN should be reformed. SUN SUN Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics SUN explains how local government will respond to cuts in SUN spending amounting to - in England - 28%. SUN SUN Programme Editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00w6q9p (Listen) SUN Episode 29 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Nick Watt of The SUN Guardian takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00w243j (Listen) SUN Oscar winning British producer Graham King discusses his SUN adventures in Hollywood and his working relationship with SUN Martin Scorsese. SUN SUN The writer of Of Gods And Men discusses the real-life drama SUN behind his film about the conflict between North African SUN monks and Islamist terrorists SUN SUN Nikki Bedi's tour of Britain's community cinemas continues SUN at The Star And Shadow in Newcastle, which is staffed SUN entirely by volunteers SUN SUN Colin Shindler reveals what British critics thought of SUN Elvis's 1960 effort G.I. Blues and why they wanted to return SUN to sender. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00w6p8f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00w49qm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00w20zb (Listen) MON Civic Core - Public convenience MON MON Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Harvey Molotch from New MON York University about his book examining public conveniences MON from a sociological, architectural and town planning MON perspective. Laurie also discusses the idea of a 'civic MON core'- who volunteers in their community and how? - and MON talks to Professor John Mohan about his research paper MON exploring volunteerism. They are joined by Professor Su Maddock. MON MON Producer Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00w6nv1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w49qp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w49qr (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w49qt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00w49qw (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w77d2 (Listen) MON with Kevin Franz, a member of the Religious Society of MON Friends and Lead Mental Healthcare Chaplain in Greater Glasgow. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00w77dn (Listen) MON Farmers say they are running out of non-GM animal feed. And MON tenant farmers fear too many farms are being sold off by MON cash-strapped councils. Charlotte Smith visits a farmer in MON South Birmingham who fears a rent rise could force him out MON of business. MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith MON Producer: Fran Barnes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00w49qy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00w77dz (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00w77g4 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr travels back to Egypt in the 1950s to a time of MON religious pluralism and openness with the writer Tarek MON Osman. As Egypt votes in parliamentary elections, Tarek, MON asks what has happened in the intervening years. Francis MON Spufford imagines a very different world with his account of MON the Soviet Union under Krushchev, and what could have MON happened if the dream of plenty had come true. And Turkey's MON best-selling female novelist, Elif Shafak, argues against MON the constraints of identity politics and the pigeon-holing MON of multi-cultural writers. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00w77g6 (Listen) MON Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, Episode 1 MON MON Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his MON generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and MON as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows and radio comedies, MON he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles. MON MON But he was a complicated character which often showed in his MON erratic behaviour - he could be affectionate one minute then MON spiteful the next, ever the extrovert in public he would MON return to his tiny sparsely decorated flat alone and he MON turned down more than his fair share of professional MON opportunities. MON MON Since the publication of edited extracts from his diaries, MON much controversy has surrounded Williams's personal and MON professional lives. But journalist and author Christopher MON Stevens has been granted access by the estate to Williams's MON complete archive - the forty-three volumes of diaries and MON hundreds of unseen letters to and from the star. He has also MON interviewed many of Williams's friends and colleagues (some MON who have never spoken publicly before about their time with MON Kenneth). MON MON Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams (the first MON full-length authorised biography) traces the complex MON contradictions that characterised an extraordinary life. MON MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Read by Nicholas Boulton MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w77g8 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Why people are coming out gay at a MON younger age. A recent report by the gay campaign group MON Stonewall has found that people are revealing their sexual MON identity at a younger age than previous generations. Jenni MON Uglow the biographer of Elizabeth Gaskell talks about the MON new Woman's Hour drama "Wives and Daughters" and we discuss MON how rape continues to be used as a weapon of war in the MON Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN Special representative MON on Sexual Crime in conflict Margot Walstrom talks to Jane MON and the Gynaecologist Dennis Mukwege who specialises in MON reconstructive surgery for victims of rape talks about his MON work at the Pansie Hospital. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w77h3 (Listen) MON Wives and Daughters, Episode 1 MON MON Episode One MON MON It's an exciting day for young Molly Gibson as she prepares MON for her first visit to the Hollingford gala. But her MON experience there gives her widowed father Dr Gibson a new MON idea. Elizabeth' Gaskell's classic novel of everyday MON provincial life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. MON MON Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew MON Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall MON Hyacinth Kirkpatrick . . . . . Julia Hills MON Lady Cumnor . . . . . Claire Neilson MON Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer MON Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey MON Mrs Goodenough . . . . . Kate Layden MON Coxe . . . . . Henry Devas MON Wynne . . . . Iain Batchelor MON Bethia/Miss Rose . . . . . Toni Midlane MON Squire Hamley . . . . . Paul Greenwood MON Mrs Hamley . . . . . Jilly Bond MON Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery MON Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot MON MON Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild MON MON 11:00 Power to Persuade: The Story of NLP b00w77k3 (Listen) MON Thousands claim NLP has changed their lives, but what MON exactly is it and is there any scientific evidence that it works? MON MON NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming - is a psychological MON approach originally developed in 1970s California by John MON Grinder and Richard Bandler. It was radically different from MON mainstream therapies of the time, offering its users fast MON results instead of the years of commitment required for MON psychoanalysis. MON MON Today NLP has found its way into all walks of life, spawning MON numerous practitioners and schools and offering many MON different ways to improve, from curing phobias or depression MON to becoming a better teacher, athlete or manager. Its most MON prolific gurus are multi-millionaires and, in the case of MON Paul McKenna, household names. MON MON But for all its commercial success and numerous devotees, MON NLP is seen by its critics as just another pseudo-science MON without robust evidence to support its claims. So does NLP MON genuinely help with powerful behavioural change, or can its MON achievements be explained by the placebo effect? MON MON William Little, journalist and author of The Psychic MON Tourist, finds out for himself what it's like to experience MON NLP techniques, meets those who have used it to change their MON lives and interviews its co-founder Richard Bandler, the MON charismatic exponent of so-called "persuasion engineering". MON MON 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: MON Murder in the Title b00w77k5 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON By Jeremy Front MON Based on the novel by Simon Brett MON MON Charles has been the victim of an attempted stabbing. MON Can he find the murderer before he strikes again or MON will Charles be fired from the cast first? MON MON Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy MON Frances ..... Suzanne Burden MON Maurice ..... Jon Glover. MON Fabio ..... Theo Cross MON Tony ..... Sam Dale MON Sean ..... Iain Batchelor MON Ronnie ..... Sean Baker. MON Phoebe ..... Claire Harry MON Chris ..... Henry Devas MON Landlady ..... Sally Orrock MON Barmaid ..... Leah Brotherhead. MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00w77k7 (Listen) MON Julian Worricker finds out why there's growing concern over MON the increasing use of civil recovery agencies by retailers MON to recover the billions of pounds they lose every year MON through shoplifting. MON MON What the British Airways and Iberia merger will mean for the MON companies and the customers and how the marketing men are MON making the most of the forthcoming Royal Wedding. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00w49r0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00w77kk (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00w7854 (Listen) MON (6/17) MON Four more contestants join Russell Davies in Manchester for MON the latest heat in the long-established general knowledge MON contest. This week they are from Swansea, Manchester, MON Northwich in Cheshire and Middle Rasen in Lincolnshire. The MON winner goes through to the 2011 semi-finals, with a chance MON of being named the 58th annual Brain of Britain. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00w6q48 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00w7856 (Listen) MON Blue Eyed Boy MON MON A powerful and moving documentary-drama by Helen Cross, MON which tells the true story of her father, Lawrence, the MON evacuee who never went home. Told through improvised MON interviews and re-created actuality, the play is constructed MON as a documentary, as if it were happening now. MON MON In 1944, when he was five years old, Lawrence Duncomb (Albie MON D'Urso) was evacuated from Blitz-torn London to Willerby, a MON village on the outskirts of Hull, and taken in by a MON childless couple. Lawrence had never eaten at a table MON before, never said prayers, never slept alone in a bed or MON had to mind his manners. Lilian (Jane Godber) is determined MON to raise him as a well-mannered Christian. She wants this MON substitute-child to accept and be grateful for all that MON she's offering. Her husband (John Godber) also knows she's MON desperate at the thought of the boy leaving her after the MON war. Soon Lilian starts to dream of ways of keeping him, MON even against his will. MON MON Finely judged and authentic performances from a quality cast MON bring a poignant realism to this true story. The play MON concludes with an interview with the real Lawrence. He says MON he never stopped missing his mother and when he finally MON tracked her down as an adult, her first words were: 'I've MON been waiting for you to call.' MON MON Director...Mary Ward-Lowery MON MON Violet...Lindsey Coulson MON Lilian...Jane Godber MON Dick...John Godber MON Ronnie...Rasmus Hardiker MON Lawrence...Albie D'Urso MON Headteacher...Sean Baker. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mtnq7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Empire of Climate b00w7858 (Listen) MON Cultures of Climate MON MON Eminent geographer Professor David Livingstone wants us to MON see that climate is more than just the weather outside our MON window - it's an empire that has shaped our lives throughout MON history. MON MON In the Western world, we live very cushioned lives, so that MON climate rarely impacts on us in a disastrous fashion. When MON it does - like the floods that hit parts of the UK in 2007 - MON we're left shocked and surprised by the ferocity of what MON climate can do. David explores the way human beings are MON shaped by weather patterns; "climate has always been a moral MON issue - not just a description of the weather" he says. MON MON We are used to talking about climate change - or how WE MON influence the climate. In today's programme David takes us MON back to a time in history when people were used to thinking MON about climate in terms of how it influenced us. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00w6pp0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00w78gr (Listen) MON Series 3, Randomness MON MON Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are joined by MON the Australian comedian and musician Tim Minchin and MON mathematician Alex Bellos to discuss randomness, probability MON and chance. They look at whether coincidences are far more MON common than one might think and how a mathematical approach MON can make even the most unpredictable situations... well, MON predictable. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b00w78gt (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w49r2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00w78h2 (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 4 MON MON The grandaddy of all panel games with Nicholas Parsons in MON the chair. This week Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock and Ian MON MacMillan are panellists. This week the programme is a guest MON of the British Library as part of its Evolving English MON Exhibition. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00w78jh (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00w78jk (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including news of the winner of the BBC MON National Short Story Award. MON MON Producer Gavin Heard. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w77h3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00w78jt (Listen) MON Series 6, 3. The Violent Side of Indian Independence MON MON The struggle for Indian independence is remembered most for MON the peaceful protests inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. In this MON week's Things We Forgot To Remember Michael Portillo MON discovers the seam of violence that ran alongside the MON peaceful civil disobedience. In particular he looks at the MON pivotal role played by India House, a villa in North London MON that became a base for those plotting against British rule MON in India. He also investigates how in the First World War , MON Germany tried to destabilise the British Empire by MON exploiting Indian disaffection. MON MON Producer: James Crawford. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00w227k (Listen) MON The Primorsky Partisans MON MON Russia's police are out of control. They are often referred MON to as "werewolves in epaulettes" because so many officers MON prey on the public rather than protect them. Even Prime MON Minister Vladimir Putin complains about the lawlessness of MON the country's law enforcers. He once said upstanding MON citizens cross to the other side of the street as soon as MON they see a man in uniform. MON The crimes police commit range from bribe taking to MON kidnapping, drug trafficking, torture and murder. This MON brutality is accompanied by corruption. Illegal raids of MON businesses by police are commonplace as well as the MON subsequent jailing of their owners on false charges. Victims MON of police abuse are often helpless in a system of cover-ups MON long established in the law enforcement forces. MON Earlier this year, a group of six young men in Primorye, the MON remote Maritime region of Russia's Far East, decided to MON fight back. They declared a guerrilla war against the police MON with the sole purpose of killing as many cops as they could. MON Their attacks have included shooting of traffic policemen on MON roads, raiding a village police station and stabbing to MON death the officer on duty. Bare-chested and brandishing MON pistols, the 'Primorsky Partisans' posted videos on the MON internet to explain the motives behind their actions. MON This summer the gang's exploits gripped the Russian public's MON imagination. Many people in the Far East and beyond MON supported them: a poll on Ekho Moskvy radio indicated that MON 60-75 percent of listeners sympathised with the "young Robin MON Hoods" and would offer them help. MON In June the authorities launched a manhunt with tanks and MON helicopters. Eventually two members of the group died in a MON shoot-out with police while the rest were captured and are MON now behind bars awaiting trial. MON The local government of the Maritime Region is jittery about MON the case and is reluctant to comment. Local police and the MON prosecutor's office dismiss them as gangsters. Lucy Ash MON visits Kirovskiy, the home village of the young men, to MON investigate what drove the men to act in such an extreme way. MON MON Producer: Ibrat Jumaboyev. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00w227y (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Recession and a warming world MON MON Global recession has done less to offset global warming than MON scientists first predicted, according to a report out this MON week. A year ago, experts had thought the financial crisis MON would lead to a 2.6% reduction in CO2 emissions, as industry MON slowed down. In fact, the reduction was just half that, with MON a lot of industry transferring to inefficient plants in MON China and India. Corinne Le Quéré digs into the climate data. MON MON Liquid Universe, an LHC breakthrough MON MON High-energy nuclear collisions at CERN show that the MON particle plasma that filled the Universe in the few MON microseconds behaved like a liquid. The aim of the ALICE MON experiment on the Large Hadron Collider is to heat nuclear MON matter to more than a trillion degrees, to study the stuff MON the present Universe emerged from. Birmingham University’s MON David Evans says what it’s like to be part of the team that MON produced the first science from the LHC. MON MON Stranded cetaceans MON MON More whales and dolphins are being stranded than ever before MON according to a report out this week. The UK Cetacean MON Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), set up in 1990, MON says between 300 to 400 were reported each year in the MON 1990s, but now that’s risen to around 500 a year. Most of MON the animals are washed ashore dead, but about 10% are still MON alive. Cetacean research is difficult to conduct at sea, so MON information from stranding post-mortems is essential to MON understanding the health of cetacean populations. Gareth is MON joined by Dr Paul Jepson, senior research fellow at the MON Institute of Zoology, and Sir Alan Knight, Director of MON British Divers Marine Life Rescue. MON MON Alan Turing’s Papers MON MON A collection of key papers by computer genius Alan Turing MON failed to make the reserve price at an auction earlier this MON week. But why should a set of offprints of academic papers MON be worth several hundred thousand pounds? And why is the MON Bletchley Park computer museum so keen to obtain them. MON Bletchley Park’s Simon Greenish explains the excitement, and MON what happens next. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00w77g4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00w49r4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00w794q (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00w794s (Listen) MON A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 1 MON MON Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told MON from three very different perspectives. MON MON Yet each is a member of the Battle family - perfectly MON average, perfectly dysfunctional. Mo is about to hit the big MON 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite MON apparent: she doesn't understand either of her teenage MON children, which as a child psychologist, is fairly MON embarrassing. She has become entirely grey. Inside, and out. MON Her face has surrendered, and is frightening children. Dora MON is about to hit the big 18 . . . and about to hit anyone who MON annoys her, especially her precocious younger brother Peter MON who has an incurable Oscar Wilde fixation. MON MON A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the story of a modern family whose MON members all live in their own separate bubbles sinking MON towards meltdown. It is for anyone who has ever shared a MON home with that weird group of strangers we call 'relations'. MON MON Read by: MON Dawn French MON Lenny Henry MON Sam Barnett and MON Beattie Edmondson MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00w227t (Listen) MON Favourite Child MON MON Who was it in your family, and do you have one amongst your MON own children? It's the great taboo. MON MON Dominic Arkwright is joined by Rebecca Abrams, who bravely MON admits that she found it hard to love her first child after MON her second child was born. David Akinsanya grew up in care, MON aware that he was nobody's favourite child. And Bidisha has MON always known she is the most favoured. Why is it that even MON as adults it matters so much? New writing and honest, MON revealing talk in Off The Page. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w794v (Listen) MON The latest events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00w4f58 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00w77g6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w4f5d (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w4f5g (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w4f5j (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00w4f5l (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w79d6 (Listen) TUE with Kevin Franz, a member of the Religious Society of TUE Friends and Lead Mental Healthcare Chaplain in Greater Glasgow. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00w79gx (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00w79gz (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00w79h1 (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to Claudia Wallace. Mexico has become one TUE of the kidnap capitals of the world as drug gangs seek to TUE consolidate their power. Claudia's brother Hugo was one of TUE the many hundreds who go missing each year. He was abducted TUE in 2005 and his body has never been found. Believing the TUE police to be involved in his disappearance, Claudia and her TUE mother Isabel decided to investigate the case themselves, TUE sometimes wearing disguises to eavesdrop on those they knew TUE were involved. They discovered Hugo had been lured to an TUE apartment by an attractive woman and killed the night he was TUE taken, his body is disposed of in black bin liners. But TUE extraordinarily they managed to bring 5 of his kidnappers to TUE justice, a rare occurrence in Mexico. And they have pressed TUE for, and achieved, changes in the law on kidnapping. TUE TUE 09:30 I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Into Here b00w79h3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE When Spitting Image came to an end, Roger Law decided it was TUE time for a fresh start. Having made one attempt to emigrate TUE to Australia in the 1960s, thwarted by the cultural attache TUE who told him that it was 'a one way ticket to hell' , Ten TUE years ago, Roger decided to give it a second shot. He's now TUE living in Bondi Beach concentrating on in-depth surfing, and TUE he's never looked back. TUE TUE Roger is not the only one and in this series he meets up TUE with other new Australians. This week he continues his down TUE under probe and talks to the Brits who are captains of TUE industry in their new found lands. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00wfhck (Listen) TUE Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, Episode 2 TUE TUE Now an established star of the Carry On films, Kenneth is TUE offered a role in an exciting new radio comedy series TUE TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Read by Nicholas Boulton TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w79h5 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wfhfy (Listen) TUE Wives and Daughters, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode Two TUE TUE Dr Gibson realises his daughter has become a young woman, TUE and has to prescribe strong medicine for one of his TUE apprentices. Meanwhile Molly has to prepare herself for an TUE unexpected trip. Elizabeth' Gaskell's classic novel of TUE everyday provincial life in the 1820s is dramatised by TUE Theresa Heskins. TUE TUE Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew TUE Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall TUE Hyacinth Kirkpatrick . . . . . Julia Hills TUE Lady Cumnor . . . . . Claire Neilson TUE Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer TUE Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey TUE Mrs Goodenough . . . . . Kate Layden TUE Coxe . . . . . Henry Devas TUE Wynne . . . . Iain Batchelor TUE Bethia/Miss Rose . . . . . Toni Midlane TUE Squire Hamley . . . . . Paul Greenwood TUE Mrs Hamley . . . . . Jilly Bond TUE Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery TUE Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot TUE TUE Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00w79h7 (Listen) TUE Episode 31 TUE TUE 31/40. We take a look at British farmland and ask how fit it TUE is for wildlife to flourish. The little known Blue Pimpernel TUE is a diminutive flower of arable land and now very rare. TUE Early in the autumn we went to the Midlands to find some, TUE and discovered what changes to farming arable land have been TUE needed to allow this wild flower to re-emerge. We also look TUE for the retreating Narrow-headed Ant, one of many ant TUE species in the UK, but one species that is specifically TUE suffering from land fragmentation. How can UK and Euro-wide TUE funding schemes help link up farmland habitat to conserve TUE this species and many others? And we ask the bigger TUE questions about the challenges of joining up land and good TUE practice for the good of food supply as well as sustainable TUE wildlife populations. It's not just about one or two wild TUE flower species and a mini-beast or two, but much more TUE fundamental and wide-ranging ideas of "living landscapes" TUE which implicate both nature and ourselves. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Decoding Basquiat b00w79m5 (Listen) TUE Fifty years after the birth of one of America's most TUE enigmatic visual artists, Benjamin Zephaniah explores the TUE poetry in Jean Michel Basquiat's text-filled canvasses. TUE TUE By the time he died in 1988 Basquiat had achieved a unique TUE feat: rising from graffiti artist to international star. TUE Basquiat's prodigious talents and 'cool status' made him a TUE hero of the converging disco, hiphop and no-wave music scenes. TUE TUE Still a teenager he found himself rubbing shoulders with the TUE likes of Madonna and David Byrne in Studio 54. By 1983 TUE Basquiat had given up graffiti and was one of the most TUE sought-after art commodities on the planet, surrounded by a TUE string of sometimes contradictory mythologies: bohemian, TUE ladies man, genius, drug addict, poet, inarticulate. TUE TUE From his use of symbols like the crown and the copyright TUE sign, to his references to medical terms, jazz records and TUE Greek myths; text is a consistent, and often overlooked TUE aspect of his work. TUE TUE In Decoding Basquiat, poet Benjamin Zephaniah travels to TUE Basquiat's hometown of New York to read between the lines of TUE his graffiti-inspired paintings. Speaking with gallerists, TUE musicians and graffiti writers who knew Jean Michel, can we TUE use the text in his work to get beyond the Basquiat myth? TUE Was Jean Michel purposefully trying to confuse us? TUE TUE Contributors include: music journalist Greg Tate, gallerist TUE Annina Nosei, art historian Richard Marshall and Basquiat's TUE longterm girlfriend Suzanne Malouk. TUE TUE Producer: Joby Waldman TUE A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00w7bgh (Listen) TUE Consumer news. An opportunity to contribute your views to TUE the programme. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00w4f5n (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00w7bgk (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Stevie's Wonder Men b00w7bly (Listen) TUE You may not have heard of Malcolm Cecil or Robert Margouleff TUE but you'll certainly be familiar with their work. These two TUE electronic music boffins helped transform Little Stevie TUE Wonder in to one of the greatest song writers in pop music. TUE They produced and engineered four albums that are widely TUE regarded as "Stevie's classic period." Four albums that TUE featured his most enduring songs such as Living For the TUE City, Superstition, Higher Ground and You Are the Sunshine TUE of My Life. Stevie was at the height of his creative powers TUE but Margouleff and Cecil were his sonic architects, steering TUE him away from the bubble gum pop sound of Motown. TUE Central to Margouleff and Cecil's production style was their TUE creation, TONTO. The Original New Timbral Orchestra was a TUE huge, room-sized super-synthesiser developed with the TUE express purpose of making this new, intimidating technology TUE work together as a giant electronic ensemble. Margouleff and TUE Cecil manipulated its futuristic controls, while Stevie TUE played its keyboards. The results turned out to be timeless. TUE Their pioneering electronic developments in sound and TUE production proved hugely influential to black popular music TUE in the 1970s. TUE As well as Stevie Wonder, Margouleff and Cecil have worked TUE with a whole host of big name artists such as The Isley TUE Brothers, Gil Scott-Heron, George Harrison and Devo. So why TUE have you never heard of them? Broadcaster and fan Stuart TUE Maconie investigates their story and argues we should be TUE celebrating these forgotten men of pop instead of consigning TUE them to Rock 'n' Roll's backroom staff. TUE Contributors include Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Cecil, Pete TUE Townshend, Michael Sembello, Steve Hillage and music TUE historian Mark Sinker. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00w78jh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fq1br (Listen) TUE The Babington Plot TUE TUE Documentary-style drama by Michael Butt that tells the story TUE of the 1586 plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and return TUE England to Catholic rule under Mary, Queen of Scots. The TUE story is told from the perspective of several of the TUE conspirators - some genuine, some governemnt spies that had TUE infiltrated the group. TUE TUE Presenter ...... Stephen Greif TUE Robert Poley ...... Burn Gorman TUE Thomas Salisbury ...... Sam Barnett TUE Aloysius Skeres ...... Chris Pavlo TUE Thomas Phelippes ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Robert Bull ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Gilbert Gifford ...... Inam Mirza TUE Don Mendoza ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Mistress Bellamy ...... Marlene Sidaway TUE Jane Tichbourne ...... Janice Acquah TUE Agnes Lauren ...... Jill Cardo TUE Shepherd ...... Dan Starkey TUE Casey ...... Paul Rider TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00w7bnk (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00w7btq (Listen) TUE Chattering, Black and White Dog TUE TUE Black and White Dog is the first in our selection of short TUE stories from Louise Stern's debut collection. In this story TUE about love and family, a memory from Beth's childhood casts TUE a shadow. What sets Beth apart is that like Stern herself TUE she has grown up deaf, and reveals a world that is at times TUE unfamiliar and hard to grasp, but one that at the same time TUE is instantly understood. TUE TUE Alan Warner says: "An amazing debut. Vibrantly perceptive, TUE gentle, funny and profound." TUE TUE The reader is Sasha Pick. TUE Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 15:45 The Empire of Climate b00w7bts (Listen) TUE The Body of Climatic Opinion TUE TUE Eminent geographer Professor David Livingstone wants us to TUE see that climate is more than just the weather outside our TUE window - it's an empire that has shaped our lives throughout TUE history. TUE TUE In the Western world, we live very cushioned lives, so that TUE climate rarely impacts on us in a disastrous fashion. When TUE it does - like the floods that hit parts of the UK in 2007 - TUE we're left shocked and surprised by the ferocity of what TUE climate can do. David explores the way human beings are TUE shaped by weather patterns; "climate has always been a moral TUE issue - not just a description of the weather" he says. TUE TUE In today's programme Professor Livingstone looks at how our TUE global geography has been divided into the pestilential and TUE the paradisial, the healthy and the harmful. Whole regions TUE of the world have been cast as nourishing; others as TUE noxious. And these mental maps have had immediate effects on TUE human behaviour. He believes lessons from history about the TUE effects of climate on our bodies should act as a cautionary TUE tale. TUE TUE 16:00 Anatomy Of... b00s0b3c (Listen) TUE A House Fire TUE TUE From the makers of the Sony award-winning Anatomy of a Car TUE Crash, the last in this new series dissecting often TUE neglected everyday dramas that change ordinary lives forever. TUE TUE When Clive Tempest and his daughter Sarah set off from their TUE Gloucestershire home on Halloween almost eighteen months ago TUE to visit their sister who was in hospital, it seemed TUE perfectly natural to leave Anna Tempest at home with a fire TUE burning in the grate. How could they know that ancient TUE timbers embedded in the chimney fabric would choose that TUE night to ignite? They returned to find flames leaping from TUE their 17th century home. Anna was safe and fire-fighters at TUE work, but the damage, already evident, was only beginning. TUE TUE The family, fire crew and those who assessed the damage talk TUE about that evening and the weeks and months that followed as TUE they tried to move on from the catastrophe that had engulfed TUE them. They recall the slow process leading to the rebuilding TUE of the family home and coming to terms with the losses both TUE real and intangible that the fire caused. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00w7btw (Listen) TUE Timothy West, Amanda Craig TUE TUE Sue MacGregor hosts the final edition of this series in TUE front of an audience the Bristol Old Vic Theatre. Her guests TUE are the acclaimed actor Timothy West, who has appeared on TUE the Old Vic stage many times over the years, and TUE best-selling novelist Amanda Craig, whose most recent book, TUE Hearts and Minds, came out earlier this year to much TUE critical praise. They are talking about a powerful play TUE about war, a newly re-published novella and one of this TUE year's leading fiction titles. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00w7bty (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w4f5q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00w7bv1 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, TUE Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. In this TUE third episode, we meet a woman who believes crystals solve TUE everything, learn about a brand new pension plan and also TUE hear Madeline the naughty cellist upset yet another conductor. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00w7bv3 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00w7bv5 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the winner of the TUE William Hill Sports Book of the Year. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wfhfy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00w7bv7 (Listen) TUE Europe's Missing Millions TUE TUE As European member states make spending cuts should more be TUE done to prevent mismanagement of subsidies at EU level? TUE Angus Stickler tracks how money has gone astray across the TUE 27 member states and asks why funding continues in regions TUE with proven records of mismanagement and fraud. TUE TUE Producer: Gail Champion TUE Editor: David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00w7bv9 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00w7bvc (Listen) TUE John O'Donoghue was first admitted to psychiatric hospital TUE when he was 16 years old. He experienced the old Victorian TUE asylums, ECT, homeless hostels and life on the streets. He TUE tells Claudia Hammond about how he turned his life around. TUE He's a poet and now teaches creative writing. This year his TUE memoir, Sectioned: A Life Interupted, has scooped the MIND TUE Book of the Year prize. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00w79h1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00w4f5s (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00w7bvf (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wbq1x (Listen) TUE A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 2 TUE TUE Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told TUE from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member TUE of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly TUE dysfunctional. TUE TUE Life gets more complicated for Mo and Peter whose respective TUE attraction to Noel grows apace. Meanwhile, the dog is TUE pregnant, and Dora wants to be on X Factor. TUE TUE Read by: TUE Dawn French TUE Lenny Henry TUE Sam Barnett and TUE Beattie Edmondson TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Beautiful Dreamers b00w7byd (Listen) TUE The Stardiver TUE TUE Nat travels to Tuscany to meet the Uzbek dissident and TUE billionaire Mikhail Azazev, as he prepares freefall from TUE beyond the Karman Line - an altitude of over 100 kilometres. TUE Featuring contributions from Simon McBurney and Kevin Eldon. TUE TUE Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit. TUE Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w7byh (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 DECEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00w4gxt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00wfhck (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w4gxw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w4gxy (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w4gy0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00w4gy2 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w7c3n (Listen) WED with Kevin Franz, a member of the Religious Society of WED Friends and Lead Mental Healthcare Chaplain in Greater Glasgow. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00w7c3q (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00w7c3s (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00w7c3v (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00wbp36 (Listen) WED Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, Episode 3 WED WED Kenneth meets two young men who become great friends and WED provide the closest thing Williams ever had to a love affair. WED WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Read by Nicholas Boulton WED WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w7c3x (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wbpws (Listen) WED Wives and Daughters, Episode 3 WED WED Episode Three WED WED Molly hears all about the Hamley Brothers while becoming a WED good friend to the ailing Mrs Hamley. She is reunited with WED her father when he arrives bearing some intriguing news. WED Elizabeth' Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial WED life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. WED WED Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew WED Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall WED Hyacinth Kirkpatrick . . . . . Julia Hills WED Lady Cumnor . . . . . Claire Neilson WED Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer WED Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey WED Mrs Goodenough . . . . . Kate Layden WED Coxe . . . . . Henry Devas WED Wynne . . . . Iain Batchelor WED Bethia/Miss Rose . . . . . Toni Midlane WED Squire Hamley . . . . . Paul Greenwood WED Mrs Hamley . . . . . Jilly Bond WED Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery WED Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot WED WED Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00w7c3z (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 3 WED WED Alan Dein explores the lives of those making and buying WED chapattis as Bradford families mark Eid al-Adha, the Muslim WED Festival of Sacrifice. WED WED The emergence of businesses based solely on providing warm WED fresh chapattis to accompany meals cooked at home meets a WED yearning for something provided in Pakistan where such WED sellers are commonplace. In addition, as Alan discovers, WED there's a social aspect to the queues forming as all sorts WED of people wait to take this final part of the meal back WED home. From Parveen's son, Aman, sent to buy 25 chapattis for WED a get together involving brothers, sisters, cousins and WED aunts, to eleven year old Alina, who already has her sights WED set on following her parents into a legal career and can't WED wait to get her warm food back home where it will sit WED alongside a feast prepared for family friends. WED WED Thousands of chapattis and nan breads are made at Chach WED Valley every day by four men, one recently arrived from WED Pakistan. At Eid, in mid-November, Muslims share food and WED remind themselves of their own sacrifices. These are hard WED times in this part of Bradford and cultural and economic WED pressures leave the older generations worrying about what WED will happen to the young WED WED But the relentless turnover as the chapatti orders flow - WED each batch carried off to tables across the city - is a WED reminder of what can bring people together. The ties between WED families but also the links between communities as those in WED the snaking queue wait their turn. The popularity of WED businesses providing chapattis and little else besides has WED taken many by surprise but whether it's a taste of the past, WED a sign of the times or just a convenient by product of both WED it's certainly something exciting and new WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 11:30 Hazelbeach b00w7c41 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED In which Ronnie decides to become a psychic vet, while Nick WED explores the joys of the sink plunger. WED WED Part 3 of 4 WED By Caroline and David Stafford WED WED Ronnie Hazelbeach ..... Jamie Foreman WED Nick ..... Paul Bazely WED Chloe ..... Claire Harry WED Andrea ..... Joanna Monro WED Policeman ..... Lloyd Thomas WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00w7c43 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00w4gy4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00w7c8q (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00w7c8s (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00w7bv3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fsylj (Listen) WED The End of the Alphabet WED WED Juliet Stevenson and David Haig star in an adaption of C S WED Richardson's The End of the Alphabet, a charming and thought WED provoking debut novel short-listed for the 2008 Commonwealth WED Writers' Prize. WED WED "Those who knew him described Ambrose Zephyr as a better man WED than some. Wanting a few minor adjustments, they would WED admit, but didn't we all. His wife described him as the only WED man she had loved. Without adjustment." WED WED Ambrose Zephyr and Zappora Ashkenzai (known as Zipper) live WED contentedly in London, their world one of work, friends and WED their abiding love for each other, their routines settled WED and certain. Until the day, sometime around his 50th WED birthday, that Ambrose learns that he has only one month to WED live. In response he makes frantic plans to travel the WED globe, alphabetically, from Amsterdam to Zanzibar, with his WED beloved wife at his side. And if he wants to travel at this WED time, she will go, wherever the journey takes them and WED whatever her own feelings may be. WED WED Juliet Stevenson .... Zipper WED David Haig .... Ambrose WED Adam Godley .... the Narrator/Freddie WED Carolyn Pickles .... Kitts/Pru. WED Philip Fox .... Doctor/Mr Umtata WED Adaptor .... Penny Leicester WED Director .... Di Speirs. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00w7c8v (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00w7c8x (Listen) WED Chattering, Window Washer WED WED Window Washer is the next in our selection of short stories WED from Louise Stern's debut collection. In this story WED sculptures about the voice and silence belonging to a client WED give Christian, a window cleaner, pause for thought. What WED sets Christian apart is that like Stern herself he is deaf, WED and reveals a world that is at times unfamiliar and hard to WED grasp, but one that at the same time is instantly WED understood. WED WED Alan Warner says: "An amazing debut. Vibrantly perceptive, WED gentle, funny and profound." WED WED The reader is Harry Lloyd. WED Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 15:45 The Empire of Climate b00w7c8z (Listen) WED Climate, Race and Immmigration WED WED Eminent geographer Professor David Livingstone wants us to WED see that climate is more than just the weather outside our WED window - it's an empire that has shaped our lives throughout WED history. WED WED In the Western world, we live very cushioned lives, so that WED climate rarely impacts on us in a disastrous fashion. When WED it does - like the floods that hit parts of the UK in 2007 - WED we're left shocked and surprised by the ferocity of what WED climate can do. David explores the way human beings are WED shaped by weather patterns; "climate has always been a moral WED issue - not just a description of the weather" he says. WED WED In today's programme David explores a very old idea that WED persists - with no small consequences today - that human WED culture flourishes in certain climates but degenerates in WED others. And how that philosophical argument has been used to WED underpin racist thinking, prevent philanthropical donations, WED and prevent aid from being sent to Africa. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00w7c91 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00w7bvc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00w7c93 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w4gy6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00w7c95 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack is a multi-paced, one woman WED Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing the exceptional talent of WED Lucy Montgomery. Featuring Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, WED Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Walter. WED WED In this episode we meet Daisy, the chattering public school WED girl's, parents and find out why the Mona Lisa has been WED dumped by the Laughing Cavalier. Plus, a Police Officer who WED can't find the right words, a street survey that probes too WED far and Candi Karmel's sister makes an appearance. WED WED Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by WED Steven Burge and Dan Tetsell. WED Music by Philip Pope WED Producer by Katie Tyrrell WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00w7ccj (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00w7ccl (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Alex Ross, WED author of The Rest Is Noise, an award-winning book charting WED the story of music in the 20th century. WED WED Producer Ella Mai-Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wbpws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00w7ccn (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Kenan Malik, Clifford WED Longley and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 The Joy of Ceps b00wgpyj (Listen) WED They grow like...mushrooms, so why is there so little known WED about Britain's fungal world? Expert mycologist Alan Bennell WED of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh reveals all. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00w7ccr (Listen) WED The end of Moore's Law? WED WED Ever smarter, faster and cheaper silicon chips have driven WED the computing revolution but many believe this rapid pace of WED technological change is about to grind to a halt. WED WED We take it for granted that mobile phones today do as much, WED or more, than the cumbersome personal computers we bought WED just a decade before. But many industry insiders believe WED silicon chip manfacturers are about to hit the buffers. And WED without the hardware to support them, computers may not WED continue to evolve at the astonishing rate to which we have WED grown accustomed. WED WED Arranging transistors,a thousand times smaller than a human WED hair, on a silicon chip isn't easy but the ability to WED manipulate such miniscule entities is just one of the WED challenges chip manufacturers are facing and it's probably WED not the most serious. WED WED When transistors are smaller than this, silicon starts to WED lose the very properties that make it so useful for building WED logic circuits . "It's like having light switches that are WED made from soggy pieces of pasta . They just don't work" says WED Rich Howard. WED WED In 1965, Intel employee Gordon Moore predicted that the WED number of transistors that manufacturers could fit on a WED silicon chip would double every two years. At the time a WED naive and rather glib remark that has since become known as WED Moore's Law and has driven the rapid pace of technological WED change that we've witnessed over the last four decades. But WED now even Moore himself is clear: this dramatic rate of WED progress must soon come to an end. WED WED Roland Pease asks if this is really the end for Moore's Law, WED or is there something new around the corner to fuel the next WED technological step to smaller and faster devices. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00w7c3v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00w4gy8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00w7cgt (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wbq87 (Listen) WED A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 3 WED WED Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told WED from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member WED of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly WED dysfunctional. WED WED Dora sits her A-Level exams but focuses on her social life. WED Noel flirts with Mo, and Peter flirts with Noel, with WED dramatic consequences. WED WED Read by: WED Dawn French WED Lenny Henry WED Sam Barnett and WED Beattie Edmondson WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00w7cgw (Listen) WED Bespoken Word, Radio 4's performance poetry series, this WED week features two incredible women: queen of the salacious, WED Hastings poet Salena Godden, plus one of the most exciting WED new talents, Indigo Williams. WED WED Salena Godden is the most mischievous of today's female WED performance poets. She has travelled the world performing WED and writing, as well as television and radio presenting. As WED the title of one of her best known pieces "Hunger is the WED Best Sauce" suggests, she's the queen of the salacious. Her WED performances are legendary, from London's Book Slam to WED Festivals around the country. WED WED She has hosted workshops in schools across Britain and in WED New York to inspire teenagers to write fiction and/or WED poetry. As a writer she's been published in a myriad of both WED mainstream and art-house literary magazines and anthologies. WED WED Salena is also the lyricist and lead singer of underground WED eclectic ska-break band SaltPeter, who's album 'Hunger is WED The Best Sauce' featured in The Critical List in The WED Independent On Sunday as one of the most outstanding WED albums of 2007. WED WED Springfield Road tells the story of her early life, born to WED a Jamaican go-go dancer mother and an Irish jazz musician in WED Hastings. She says that her father left, with no WED explanation, and Salena's mother, after living alone and WED eking out a living, married "a horrible disciplinarian" who WED wouldn't allow Salena or her brother to be in the house WED without an adult present. WED WED Producer: Graham Frost WED A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00w7cgy (Listen) WED Series 2, Switzerland McNaughtiehorse WED WED Written by Andrew McGibbon. WED WED Switzerland McNaughtiehorse, Switzy to his associaties is a WED Bronx, New York ex pat living on the Cornwell Estate. He is WED a dedicated anglophile too and finds the differences in WED American and British culture fascinating, especially when it WED comes to his special line of work- "waste disposal". Phil WED Cornwell stars. WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. WED Additional material by Nick Romero WED WED Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w7ch0 (Listen) WED The latest events from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 DECEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00w4h69 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00wbp36 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w4h6c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w4h6f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w4h6h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00w4h6k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w7clb (Listen) THU with Kevin Franz, a member of the Religious Society of THU Friends and Lead Mental Healthcare Chaplain in Greater Glasgow. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00w7cld (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie THU Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b00w7clg (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00w7clj (Listen) THU Cleopatra THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra. The last THU pharaoh to rule Egypt, Cleopatra was a person of THU intelligence, charisma and celebrated beauty. During an THU eventful life she was ousted from her throne, and then THU restored to it with the help of her lover Julius Caesar. A THU later relationship with another Roman statesman, Mark THU Antony, and Cleopatra's subsequent death at her own hands, THU provided Shakespeare with the raw material for one of his THU greatest plays. Today Cleopatra is still an object of THU fascination, her story revealing as much about the Roman THU world as it does about the age of the Pharaohs. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00wbp38 (Listen) THU Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, Episode 4 THU THU Tom and Clive join Williams on holiday but, as ever, if THU Kenneth does something he loves every day, he begins to hate it. THU THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Read by Nicholas Boulton THU THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w7cmf (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wbpwv (Listen) THU Wives and Daughters, Episode 4 THU THU Episode Four THU THU As Molly comes to terms with her father's news, we hear how THU he came to his momentous decision. Still at Hamley Hall, THU Molly begins to see Roger in a more sympathetic light. THU Elizabeth' Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial THU life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. THU THU Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew THU Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall THU Hyacinth Kirkpatrick . . . . . Julia Hills THU Lady Cumnor . . . . . Claire Neilson THU Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer THU Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey THU Mrs Goodenough . . . . . Kate Layden THU Coxe . . . . . Henry Devas THU Wynne . . . . Iain Batchelor THU Bethia/Miss Rose . . . . . Toni Midlane THU Squire Hamley . . . . . Paul Greenwood THU Mrs Hamley . . . . . Jilly Bond THU Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery THU Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot THU THU Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00w7cmh (Listen) THU Georgian fir cones THU THU The Christmas tree industry is worth almost a billion pounds THU a year in Europe alone. Most of the ones around us now, THU covered in baubles and tinsel didn't start life in the UK or THU even Scandinavia, but in one small village, in the mountains THU of Georgia close to the border with Russia. Angus Crawford THU travels to the small town of Ambrolauri in the shadow of the THU Caucasus mountains. There men risk their lives climbing the THU big firs to harvest the seeds of Abies Nordmanniana, the THU Nordman pine. More than forty million are sold in Europe THU every year. The harvesters are paid little and many are THU given no safety equipment. If they fall they may be injured THU or killed. The pine cones they gather are sold abroad and THU it's foreign companies that make profits from growing and THU selling the crop. Meanwhile Georgia's villages are dying. THU Families can't make enough money from farming and move away. THU Most of those who remain have to live on less than three THU pounds a day. But things are changing. One Danish firm is THU working with local people to put more of the profits from THU the business back into their hands. They pay their workers THU above the market rate, process the seed locally and for THU every tree sold abroad money is sent back for development THU projects. There's talk of starting nurseries near Ambrolauri THU to feed growing markets in Eastern Europe and bring more THU foreign capital into the country. Money that Georgia THU desperately needs. Its economy is still only 60% of what it THU was in Soviet times, and it now imports eighty per cent of THU its food. The rusting hulks of abandoned factories litter THU the countryside. But now some Georgians are asking if the THU pine cone trade can provide a model of how to breathe new THU life into their country's crumbling economy. THU THU 11:30 Brubeck at 90 b00w7cmk (Listen) THU 'Take 5' by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is possibly one of the THU best know jazz pieces of all time. For many it reflects the THU hip West coast sound of fifties America and its success THU propelled Brubeck on to the international stage. THU THU Paul Gambaccini travelled to the Connecticut home of the THU jazz legend to explore his music and career reflecting his THU war years, world famous Quartet, best known tunes and THU family. We hear about the Dave Brubeck Quartet classic line THU up featuring - drummer Joe Morello, bassist Eugene Wright THU and saxophonist Paul Desmond. The huge success of Desmond's THU composition "Take Five" was followed by many tunes played in THU Brubeck's unusual time signature best know of which - is THU 'Blue Rondo A La Turk'. What distinguishes Brubecks THU experiments in time is his innate sense of song and THU commitment to musical populism. THU THU As we hear, in 'Brubeck at 90' these days when his health THU permits Dave enjoys playing with his musical sons Darius, THU Chris, Matthew and Danny. Happily as we discover he is still THU harvesting the highest awards his nation and his profession THU can offer, including the BBC Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award THU and most recently the Kennedy Center Honour in America THU alongside Bruce Springsteen, Robert Di Niro and Mel Brooks. THU A remarkable night as Brubeck rubbed shoulders with THU President Obama and got the surprise of his life as we hear THU in this revealing programme in the week Dave turns ninety. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00w7cnb (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00w4h6m (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00w7cwt (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00w7cww (Listen) THU My Own Private Utopia THU THU How, and where, and with whom, do you want to lead your life THU ? Most of us don't ask ourselves this very often, preferring THU instead to slide along, taking what may be acceptable and THU conventional as enough. But what if you do pursue an answer, THU as one of our guests, Tobias Jones, is trying to do, in a THU ten acre wood ? THU The full title of Thomas More's work Utopia included the THU words, "A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than THU entertaining, of a republic's best state ...." But has THU Utopia ever been achieved ? Rob Penn and Amanda Mitchison THU think definitely not. The problem is the presence of other THU people, and so a private Utopia is the best that can ever be THU achieved. Rob Penn, presenter of a recent tv documentary THU about building the perfect bike, outlines very clearly what THU it means to him. THU But Tobias Jones, author of the Dark Heart of Italy and THU Utopian Dreams, argues very clearly that the woodland life THU he is now establishing with his family and guests should not THU be so easily dismissed. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Human beings THU will be happier not when they cure cancer or get to Mars ... THU but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities THU again." THU Dominic Arkwright presents. The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00w7ccj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00w7cwy (Listen) THU No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, An Exceptionally Wicked Lady THU THU Written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith THU THU The first of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's THU enormously successful and popular series set in Botswana. THU THU Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi face an old adversary while a THU letter from America sets the agency a seemingly impossible THU task. THU THU Mma Ramotswe ..... Janice Acquah THU Mma Makutsi ..... Nadine Marshall THU Mr J L B Matekoni ..... Ben Onwukwe THU Oliver Maxwell ..... Sam Dale THU Mr Gaefale ..... Jude Akuwudike THU Mr Kereleng ..... Maynard Eziashi THU Violet Sephotho ..... Anna Bengo THU Aunt ..... Noma Dumezweni THU Mma Potokwani ..... Adjoa Andoh THU Reverend ..... Babou Ceesay THU Joe Bosilong ..... Nyasha Hatendi THU THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00w6kzn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00w6pk8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00w7db7 (Listen) THU Chattering, The Deaf School THU THU The Deaf School is the last in our selection of short THU stories from Louise Stern's debut collection. The school is THU the place where the solitary schoolboy Ray is captivated by THU Joey's beautifully signed stories. In this story, Stern THU reveals a world that is at times unfamiliar and hard to THU grasp, but one that at the same time is instantly understood. THU THU Alan Warner says: "An amazing debut. Vibrantly perceptive, THU gentle, funny and profound." THU THU The reader is Debora Weston. THU Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 15:45 The Empire of Climate b00w7dlc (Listen) THU Climate, Mind and Brain THU THU Eminent geographer Professor David Livingstone wants us to THU see that climate is more than just the weather outside our THU window - it's an empire that has shaped our lives throughout THU history. THU THU In the Western world, we live very cushioned lives, so that THU climate rarely impacts on us in a disastrous fashion. When THU it does - like the floods that hit parts of the UK in 2007 - THU we're left shocked and surprised by the ferocity of what THU climate can do. David explores the way human beings are THU shaped by weather patterns; "climate has always been a moral THU issue - not just a description of the weather" he says. THU THU In today's programme David explores the idea that our minds THU and brains register in deep ways the imprint of the climate. THU For some it even extends into the interior reaches of our THU internal worlds. And why that conviction has given an added THU sense of urgency to the global warming debate. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00w6q42 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00w7dlf (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00w7dnt (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at THU 5.57pm Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w4h6p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00w7dnw (Listen) THU Series 4, A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled THU THU Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic sees Pip and Harry put to THU sea with Captain Beehab in a bid to thwart a sea-going THU Mister Benevolent and rescue Ripely. But fate has other THU plans and they are shipwrecked. Pip soon finds himself on a THU desert island that holds many surprising secrets. THU THU Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman THU Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland THU Pippa ..... Susy Kane THU THU Writer ..... Mark Evans THU Producer ..... Gareth Edwards. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00w7dq7 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00w7dr2 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wbpwv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00w7dr4 (Listen) THU Who Runs England's Schools THU THU 20:30 In Business b00w7dyx (Listen) THU Operation Robot THU THU The revolution in the operating theatre is only just THU beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think THU about healthcare ... and the way surgeons work. Peter Day THU looks at what surgeons are able to achieve with robots now THU and at the proto-types for healthcare in the future. He asks THU how significant these advances could be for health in THU Britain and for British business and hears from the robot THU pioneers: surgeons, engineers and business people. THU Producer : Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00w79h7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00w7clj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00w4h6r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00w7f21 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wbqcb (Listen) THU A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 4 THU THU Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told THU from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member THU of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly THU dysfunctional. THU THU Oscar confides in Nana Pamela, Dora celebrates her 18th THU birthday but Mo is a far from dutiful mother, on account of THU a date with Noel. THU THU Read by: THU Dawn French THU Lenny Henry THU Sam Barnett and THU Beattie Edmondson THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Elvenquest b00w7f23 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU The Quest for the Sword of Asnagar continues and this week THU finds Vidar and his team outside the Citadel of Gondola THU which is being laid siege to by the amassed hordes of the THU evil Lord Darkness. But when they get searched on their way THU into the Citadel - there's been a lot of trouble with THU "suicide fairies" - Sam comes across a love potion in THU Vidar's belongings and his mind unsurprisingly turns from THU defending the citadel to making his move on Penthiselea. THU THU But the path of true love is never a steady one and Sam's THU plans for marital bliss soon fall apart when he discovers THU time with an amorous Penthiselea isn't all it's cracked up THU to be, and Vidar drinks the love potion by mistake. THU THU An all-star cast, featuring: THU THU Stephen Mangan as "Sam", THU Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", THU Christine Kavanagh as "The High Priestess of Gondola" THU Kevin Eldon as "Dean/Kreech", THU Darren Boyd as "Vidar", THU Dave Lamb as "Amis - The Chosen One" THU Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" THU THU The writers are Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (Goodness THU Gracious Me, The Kumar's At No. 42) THU The producer is Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w7f25 (Listen) THU The latest news from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 DECEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00w4h78 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00wbp38 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00w4h7b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00w4h7d (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00w4h7g (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00w4h7j (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w7f2t (Listen) FRI with Kevin Franz, a member of the Religious Society of FRI Friends and Lead Mental Healthcare Chaplain in Greater Glasgow. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00w7f2w (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00w7f3n (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00w6pny (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00wbp3b (Listen) FRI Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams, Episode 5 FRI FRI Now a regular on television chat shows and Radio 4's Just a FRI Minute, Kenneth is invited to direct Joe Orton's play, Loot. FRI FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Read by Nicholas Boulton FRI FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w7f6h (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wbpwx (Listen) FRI Wives and Daughters, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode Five FRI FRI Molly has to come to terms with many changes in her life. FRI The changes to the house are not all to her taste, and she FRI is called to Mrs Hamley's bedside. Finally she is burdened FRI with an important secret by the Hamley brothers. Elizabeth FRI Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial life in the FRI 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins. FRI FRI Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew FRI Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall FRI Hyacinth Kirkpatrick . . . . . Julia Hills FRI Lady Cumnor . . . . . Claire Neilson FRI Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer FRI Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey FRI Mrs Goodenough . . . . . Kate Layden FRI Coxe . . . . . Henry Devas FRI Wynne . . . . Iain Batchelor FRI Bethia/Miss Rose . . . . . Toni Midlane FRI Squire Hamley . . . . . Paul Greenwood FRI Mrs Hamley . . . . . Jilly Bond FRI Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery FRI Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot FRI FRI Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild FRI FRI 11:00 City Teachers b00w7f6k (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Peter Curran follows three former city high fliers through FRI their year of PGCE teacher training. They were all FRI previously working in the corporate and financial sectors FRI and decided to go into teaching when the 2008 recession hit. FRI Despite their professional experience this will be one of FRI the most challenging years of their lives. FRI FRI Peter rejoins the trainees as they take up their second FRI school placements. The teaching profession needs sensitive FRI and intelligent people; it also needs motivated leaders. We FRI discover whether our trainees have these qualities. We also FRI examine in what ways their pupils might benefit from this FRI influx of enthusiastic career changers. We explore how the FRI teaching world as a 'community' compares with that. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Cuddon FRI A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00w7f6m (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI FRI By Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI A comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. FRI FRI Maddox has lost the job of news editor and now faces being FRI sued. FRI FRI Maddox ..... John Sessions FRI Oliver ..... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ..... Stephen Wight FRI Carol ..... Polly Frame FRI Masha ..... Debbie Chazen FRI Keith ..... Sam Dale FRI Producer ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00w7f70 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00w4h7l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00w7f72 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00w7f74 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place for listeners FRI to air their views on the things heard on BBC Radio. FRI FRI Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00w7dq7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00w7f87 (Listen) FRI No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Episode 2 FRI FRI written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith FRI FRI The second of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall FRI Smith's enormously successful and popular series FRI set in Botswana. FRI FRI Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have to face the dangers of FRI crocodiles, hippos and a tiny canoe as their case takes them FRI to the Okovango Delta to trace a safari guide. There is also FRI the problem of Phuti's aunt to solve, as well as the FRI necessity of confronting their old adversary, Violet Sepotho. FRI FRI Mma Ramotswe ..... Janice Acquah FRI Mma Makutsi ..... Nadine Marshall FRI Mr J L B Matekoni ..... Ben Onwukwe FRI Hansi ..... Maynard Eziashi FRI Boatman ..... Nyasha Hatendi FRI Mighty ..... Obi Abili FRI Tebogo ..... Chuk Iwuji FRI Moripe/Phuti ..... Jude Akuwudike FRI Violet Sephotho ..... Anna Bengo FRI Aunt ..... Noma Dumezweni FRI Mma Potokwani ..... Adjoa Andoh FRI FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00w7f89 (Listen) FRI Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Biggs and Eric Robson pay fellow FRI panellist Anne Swithinbank a visit at her home in Devon. FRI Here they answer some of the questions sent into the programme. FRI FRI Also, part one in a three-part series on growing FRI houseplants, presented by houseplant expert, Anne Swithinbank. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Empire of Climate b00w7f8c (Listen) FRI Climate's Moral Economy FRI FRI Eminent geographer Professor David Livingstone wants us to FRI see that climate is more than just the weather outside our FRI window - it's an empire that has shaped our lives throughout FRI history. FRI FRI In the Western world, we live very cushioned lives, so that FRI climate rarely impacts on us in a disastrous fashion. When FRI it does - like the floods that hit parts of the UK in 2007 - FRI we're left shocked and surprised by the ferocity of what FRI climate can do. David explores the way human beings are FRI shaped by weather patterns; "climate has always been a moral FRI issue - not just a description of the weather" he says. FRI FRI In the last programme in the series, David explores why FRI fears over the influence we are having on climate change, FRI are fundamentally fears about the influence a changed FRI climate will have on us. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00w7f8k (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00w7f9j (Listen) FRI Award winning composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett discusses FRI his career in films. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00w7f9l (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at FRI 5.57pm Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00w4h7n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00w7f9v (Listen) FRI Series 32, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of the FRI topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. FRI Guests include Marcus Brigstocke, Andi Osho, Mitch Benn, and FRI Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00w7fbc (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00w7fd5 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Jeff Kinney, FRI creator of the best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wbpwx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00w7fd7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from FRI Gillotts School in Henley-on-Thames with questions for the FRI panel including Theresa May, Home Secretary and writer Alain FRI De Botton. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00w7fd9 (Listen) FRI Joan Bakewell with her topical reflections FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects FRI Omnibus b00w7fdy (Listen) FRI The World of Our Making (AD 1914-2010) FRI FRI Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in FRI London, finally completes his mamouth global history as told FRI through objects from the Museum's collection. In this final FRI episode, he brings us to the world of our own making. The FRI 20th century saw objects used to express the power of FRI totalitarian regimes, the sexual revolution of the 1960s and FRI the end of Europe's colonial empires. Technological FRI innovations have changed the way we relate to each other and FRI the material world. The invention of man-made materials like FRI plastic resulted in mass production and consumption on an FRI unprecedented scale. More objects have been produced in the FRI last 100 years than ever before. Yet many of these new FRI objects are ephemeral and disposable. This raises questions FRI about the environment, global resources, and sustainability. FRI But, as has been true for almost 2 million years, the FRI objects we use to face these challenges will go on to reveal FRI our history to future generations. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00w4h7q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00w7fgc (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wbqjc (Listen) FRI A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 5 FRI FRI Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told FRI from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member FRI of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly FRI dysfunctional. FRI FRI Dora fixes a secret date on Facebook, but thanks to Oscar, FRI Dad finds out and stirs himself to action. Mo plans to run FRI away with Noel. Will the Battles ever be the same again? FRI FRI Read by: FRI Dawn French FRI Lenny Henry FRI Sam Barnett and FRI Beattie Edmondson FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00w7btw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w7fgf (Listen) FRI The latest events at Westminster. FRI