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SAT SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b017cm64 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b017zyj2 (Listen) SAT My Week with Marilyn, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. SAT SAT Read by Samuel Barnett. SAT SAT In 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark (younger brother of Tory MP SAT Alan and son of Kenneth 'Lord Clark of Civilisation') worked SAT as a 'gofer' on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. In SAT this memoir, Clark recalls how, during filming, he became SAT Monroe's confidante and helped her to escape from the SAT pressures of stardom. SAT SAT In today's episode, Colin helps Marilyn cope with a tragic SAT and unexpected event. Next morning he wakes to the SAT realisation that he must put an end to their friendship: too SAT many people claim Marilyn as their property to allow him to SAT stay close to her for much longer. His week-long adventure SAT is over. SAT SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017cm66 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017cm68 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017cm6b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b017cm6d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017cm7v (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented from SAT Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. SAT Producer: Mo McCullough. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b017cm7x (Listen) SAT "Green Grows My Peston, Oh!" Ramblin' Syd Rumpo puts SAT listeners' invented swearwords to music. Becky Milligan SAT meets the Indiana Jones of ancient Egyptian bread. And SAT listeners share their stories, including for the father of a SAT dead Royal Marine who dreads public acts of Remembrance; a SAT wife who's sticking by her fraudster husband despite his SAT crime having ruined their lives; and the bisexual son who SAT feared coming out to his strict policeman father, until it SAT became clear his private life was complex too. Also Evan SAT Davis reads Your News. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b017cm6g (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b017cm6j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b017cjmq (Listen) SAT In the second of two programmes on the Channel Islands, Open SAT Country visits Jersey to find out what it was like to live SAT on the Island during the German occupation in World War 2. SAT The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles SAT to be seized and for five years, residents lived under Nazi SAT rule. Now a file of papers which spent decades stuffed in SAT the back of a wardrobe has been found revealing graphic SAT accounts of some of those who were deported to Germany after SAT being caught in acts of resistance. Richard Uridge SAT investigates why these accounts are only just coming to SAT light. SAT SAT Presenter: Richard Uridge SAT Producer : Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b017l4g5 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b017cm6l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b017l4g7 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b017l4g9 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with crime writer Patricia Cornwell and poet SAT Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b017l4gc (Listen) SAT Storytelling - Coastal Stations SAT SAT John McCarthy explores storytelling in Japan with charity SAT director Nicola Grove who visited the country recently to SAT learn about the heritage of folk tales there and in SAT particular the depiction and involvement of those with SAT learning difficulties. Journalist Richard Hamilton compares SAT this with his own experience of the tellers of tales in the SAT market place of Marrakesh and how this is surviving in SAT modern times. John also meets Geoff Saunders who made a SAT series of journeys all round the British Isles to the SAT coastal weather stations featured in the early morning SAT shipping forecast. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The iPod Series b017l5y3 (Listen) SAT Robert Burns's iPod SAT SAT David Owen Norris and guests listen to Robert Burns's SAT favourite songs in his drinking club in Tarbolton, near SAT Glasgow. SAT SAT With National Poet of Scotland Liz Lochhead (who has just SAT written a play about Burns), Dr Kirsteen McCue and Professor SAT Nigel Leask - and featuring Burns's own fiddle. We hear the SAT songs with the tunes he wanted - not always the ones which SAT have become famous. 'My Love is like a Red Red Rose' for SAT instance was changed by his publisher against his wishes. SAT Kirsteen McCue is the world expert on Burns's songs, and she SAT reveals the original versions. We also hear a naughty song SAT called 'Nine Inch will Please a Lady'... SAT SAT Robert Burns's playlist reflects his political vision and SAT also his complex love life. Burns was writing for the SAT high-class Edinburgh ladies who took him up in his 30s, but SAT he was also composing songs in broader Scots about their SAT maids. Songs were a crucial part of his seduction technique SAT - and they seem to have worked for him. He left 15 SAT illegitimate children. Even on his death-bed, Burns was SAT writing songs - for the pretty blonde teenager who was SAT nursing him. That song, 'Oh Wert Thou in the Cold Blast', is SAT one of his most beautiful, and almost unbearably moving. SAT Burns was destitute, he was dying at the age of only 37, and SAT yet he sang to his nurse: 'Oh wert thou in the cold blast, SAT I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee'. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b017l5y5 (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b017l5y7 (Listen) SAT 'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned SAT observer to Andrew Harding as he travels in the Democratic SAT Republic of Congo wondering if Monday's election is a chance SAT for Africa's wounded giant to get back on its feet. And SAT there's another election, in Egypt, starting on Monday: Lyse SAT Doucet joins a family whose window, overlooking Tahrir SAT Square, offers a unique view of world history unfolding. SAT Fergal Keane, who's been watching the opening of the Khmer SAT Rouge trial in Cambodia, finds young people there more SAT interested in the future than in their country's bloody SAT past. Mark Lowen's in the Former Yugoslav Republic of SAT Macedonia which lost the major part of its Jewish population SAT to the holocaust and recalls the life of his own grandmother SAT who once came face to face with the commandant of a Nazi SAT death camp. And why James Harkin, chasing revolutionaries in SAT Syria, found himself drawn, repeatedly, to what he claims is SAT the best ice cream shop in the world! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b017l74n (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b017clx9 (Listen) SAT Series 35, Episode 3 SAT SAT Topical stand-up, sketches and comedy songs. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b017cm6n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b017cm6r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b017clxh (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics at the BBC Radio Theatre in London with chief SAT executive of advertising group WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell; SAT general secretary of the TUC, Brendan Barber; Conservative SAT MP and former chief of staff to George Osborne, Matthew SAT Hancock; and Labour's deputy leader and Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Culture, Media and Sport, Harriet Harman. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b017l74q (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00cwxm4 (Listen) SAT Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All SAT SAT Comedy thriller by Joyce Porter, set in the 1970s, SAT dramatised by Paul Mendelson. SAT SAT Chief Inspector Dover's annual seaside break becomes a SAT busman's holiday with the death of a local policeman. Was it SAT suicide and was it linked to the recent murder of a SAT well-known gangster? It's another strange case for Scotland SAT Yard's laziest detective. SAT SAT Chief Inspector Dover ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Sgt McGregor ...... Stuart McQuarrie SAT Chief Constable ...... Philip Madoc SAT Mrs Dover ...... Carolyn Pickles SAT Sgt Rhys-Smith ...... Gareth Armstrong SAT Joey the Jock ...... Ben Crowe SAT Miss Ffiske ...... Jennifer Hill SAT Sandra Pugh ...... Siwan Morris SAT SAT Directed by David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b017cfkb (Listen) SAT Series 9, Zoot Sims SAT SAT Zoot Sims was one of the most naturally talented saxophone SAT players in jazz, most remembered for his incredible sense of SAT swing. He was the archetypal saxophonist and found fame with SAT the general public thanks to having a Muppets puppet SAT modelled on him, right down to the name. SAT Born in 1925, Zoot grew up as the youngest in a family of SAT vaudeville performers. He took up the saxophone, developing SAT his signature sound in the early 1940s when he was picked up SAT by bandleader Benny Goodman. A few years later he was SAT playing alongside fellow saxophonists Stan Getz, Herbie SAT Steward and Serge Chaloff in Woody Herman's famed Second SAT Herd band. SAT But after a move to New York his career stalled and by the SAT early 50s Zoot was making ends meet working as a house SAT painter. He was rescued by the legendary baritone saxophone SAT player Gerry Mulligan who asked Zoot to join his quartet. SAT From the late 50s onwards Zoot went on to form a series of SAT successful partnerships, the most enduring with tenorman Al SAT Cohn. Although his style got gruffer with age, Zoot's SAT popularity continued right up until his death in 1985. SAT Ken Clarke, QC, MP and his guest John Altman discuss Zoots' SAT life and music, revealing how he never once lost his SAT enthusiasm or that gifted sense of swing throughout his SAT career. SAT SAT Ken's guest John Altman is a BAFTA award winning film and SAT television composer. He's also a saxophonist who has played SAT with such jazz luminaries as Chet Baker, Slim Gaillard and SAT Red Holloway. He's played on rock music sessions too with SAT stars such as Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Jimmy Page and SAT Little Richard. Zoot Sims is one of his all-time favourite SAT musicians. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b017l74s (Listen) SAT Christian Louboutin, History of Madame Tussauds SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. French shoes designer Christian SAT Louboutin, Has Lapdancing become normalised? The history of SAT Madame Tussauds, Chef Giorgio Locatelli on cooking the SAT perfect Sardine Pasta, Female Bishops? Health in pregnancy SAT and the female ideal of beauty in history. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b017l74v (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b017cm7x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b017cm6t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b017cm6w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017cm6y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b017l76l (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Award-winning actor and author Terence Stamp will be talking SAT to Clive about his extraordinary acting career, which has SAT spanned over fifty years and has seen him appear in over SAT sixty films. From Superman villain to transgender showgirl, SAT Terence has played a variety of roles. His memoir 'Rare SAT Stamps, Reflections on Living, Breathing and Acting' takes SAT an introspective journey into the life of a British icon. SAT SAT Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore will be making a SAT pilgrimage to the Loose Ends studio to tell us about his new SAT BBC Four series 'Jerusalem - The Making of A Holy City'. SAT Simon explores how this unique city came into being and SAT illuminates its sacred history. SAT SAT Rachael Stirling will be getting her skates on and talking SAT to ice legends Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean about their SAT dazzling Olympic gold win dancing to 'Bolero' at the 1984 SAT games. This year, Jane and Chris joined a host of SAT celebrities for 'Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice - The Live SAT Tour 2011', which is now available on DVD. SAT SAT Clive will be posing for the UK's leading fashion SAT photographer, Rankin, whose snap-happy career has seen him SAT photograph countless celebrities. In BBC Four's 'America in SAT Pictures', Rankin examines the work of the iconic 'LIFE' SAT magazine's legendary photographers and how they pioneered SAT new forms of photojournalism. Say 'cheese' Clive! SAT SAT 8 piece Mariachi El Bronx will have their trumpets at the SAT ready to perform '48 Roses' and 'Revolution Girls' from SAT their album 'Mariachi El Bronx (II)'. Olé! SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b017l87h (Listen) SAT Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi SAT SAT With Parliamentary elections due next week, Chris Bowlby SAT charts the career of 76 year old Field Marshal Mohamed SAT Hussein Tantawi, the key figure in Egypt's new political SAT crisis. SAT SAT A young military officer at the time of Suez, Tantawi went SAT on to fight against the Israelis in the wars of 1967 and SAT 1973. SAT SAT Rising through the military ranks, he was appointed Defence SAT Minister by President Hosni Mubarak in 1991. SAT SAT Known as a courteous but inscrutable figure, Tantawi came to SAT be viewed as the loyal heir apparent to President Mubarak. SAT SAT But when the democracy demonstrators of Tahrir Square SAT demanded the President's resignation earlier this year, it SAT was his right hand man Mohamed Tantawi who told the SAT longstanding premier that his time was up. SAT SAT Nine months later the demonstrators are back, frustrated by SAT the slow pace of political change. And this time they are SAT demanding Tantawi's resignation. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b017l87k (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Louise Doughty and SAT Dreda Say Mitchell and artistic director of the Royal Opera SAT House Deborah Bull review the week's cultural highlights SAT including Matilda The Musical. SAT SAT THEATRE Matilda The Musical - Cambridge Theatre - Dennis SAT Kelly and Tim Minchin's adaptation of Roald Dahl's much SAT loved book SAT SAT FILM Take Shelter - dir. Jeff Nichols, starring Michael SAT Shannon and Jessica Chastain SAT SAT EXHIBITION Electroboutique - Science Museum SAT SAT TV Black Mirror - E4 - Charlie Brooker's series of three SAT stand-alone dramas SAT SAT BOOK Deep Field - Philip Gross - new collection from the SAT award-winning poet about his elderly father's aphasia SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4: Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers SAT b017l87m (Listen) SAT Maxwell Hutchinson analyses the great push to re-build post SAT war Britain on the fiftieth anniversary of the emblematic SAT Parkhill Flats. SAT SAT In the 1990's architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson SAT began recording interviews with the men who re-built Britain SAT after World War 2. These idealists - then in their eighties- SAT told how they'd returned from war to a country ravaged by SAT the Luftwaffe, determined to design a country fit for heroes SAT . Many were graduates of the left-leaning Architectural SAT Association and brought their radical ideas, influenced by SAT le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, to building social housing SAT for slum clearance families ; hospitals for the infant NHS; SAT schools for the children of the Butler Education act; and SAT bold new tower blocks that would transform the city skyline. SAT Most of them worked for local authorities and saw their SAT profession as a public service. These "duffle-coated SAT pip-squeaks" as they were known, included Sir Phillip Powell SAT ,Sir Andrew Derbyshire , Ivor Smith, Peter Smithson , the SAT father of Brutalism; Lord Esher and Jim Cadbury Brown. Many SAT have since died. Using these interviews, plus newsreel and SAT contemporary archive , this programme captures that idealism SAT and reflects the later disillusionment when modernism - and SAT architects - fell out of fashion. SAT SAT 2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of Parkhill Flats, SAT Sheffield. It was seen as the embodiment of the modernist SAT movement - streets in the sky to replace the grim terraces SAT bulldozed after the war to give families indoor lavatories, SAT central heating and airy balconies. At first the families SAT couldn't believe their luck - they loved their modern new SAT homes. But as the building began to show cracks, and the SAT community spirit failed to translate from slum-terrace to SAT deck access, Parkhill Flats became a by-word for all that SAT was rotten in the state of post war architecture. It wasn't SAT long before residents starting chucking their rubbish over SAT the balconies, and the flats became the new slums. Peter SAT Smithson, once blamed the residents of his much criticised SAT development, Robin Hood Gardens (a sister project to SAT Parkhill) for letting the building go to rack and ruin; for SAT "painting their doors purple" and not applying "the minor SAT arts of occupation". SAT SAT Parkhill Flats - the largest listed building in Europe - is SAT undergoing extensive renovation by the trendy developers SAT Urban Splash; so the story of this emblematic building, SAT which Sheffielders love and loathe in equal measure, is SAT still a talking point. Maxwell Hutchinson goes back to SAT Parkhill to see the renovation, talk to former residents and SAT find out if the post-war dream of the young architects who SAT designed this colossal building can be revived. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b017c9pc (Listen) SAT The Ambassadors, Episode 2 SAT SAT THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry SAT James novel centres on Lambert Strether, a New Englander SAT dispatched to Europe on a mission. Henry Goodman is the SAT hapless protagonist. SAT SAT EPISODE 2 Strether had hoped to persuade the fun-living son SAT of his wealthy fiancee to return home to New England. But SAT now Strether has fallen under the spell of the beautiful Mme SAT de Vionnet. More ambassadors are sent by the angry fiancee SAT to bring both men home. SAT SAT Lambert Strether Henry Goodman SAT Chad Orlando Seale SAT Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin SAT Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody SAT John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton SAT Waymarsh Paul Moriarty SAT Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh SAT Jim Pocock James Lailey SAT Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles SAT Andre Carl Prekopp SAT Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington SAT Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy SAT SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b017cm70 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b017chqg (Listen) SAT The Morality of the F-Word SAT SAT Don't take offence, but this week the Moral Maze is talking SAT about the f-word. A 20 year old man has had his conviction SAT for repeatedly swearing at police officers quashed. A High SAT Court judge decided that use of the f- word is now so SAT commonplace that, in the rather quaint legal definition, it SAT could not cause "harassment, alarm or distress" to those who SAT heard it. Is he right? Should we all be a bit more thick SAT skinned about this? How many of us still reach for the SAT smelling salts when we overhear bad language on the street SAT or in the media? The sight of an 89 year old Baroness SAT caught, on the floor of the House of Lords, flashing a SAT V-sign at a fellow peer of the realm, may have raised SAT eyebrows but there's a serious issue here. Are we allowing a SAT coarsening of society and a debasing of the standards that SAT underpin a civil society? Have we become too tolerant of SAT this kind of thing, or just more censorious? How should we SAT define what language or behaviour is offensive and should it SAT always be in the eye of the beholder? FIFA president Sepp SAT Blatter may have been naïve about the problem of racism in SAT football, but how many of us, in the heat of the moment, SAT haven't said something we regret and which would be best SAT dealt with immediately with a face to face apology rather SAT than in the court? Much of what passed for humour in the SAT 1970's would now probably be regarded as "hate speech" and SAT end up with a criminal charge of racism. Has this made us a SAT more tolerant society or a society that is less willing to SAT tolerate? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, Michael SAT Portillo and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b017cb0r (Listen) SAT (2/17) SAT According to the comic history classic '1066 And All That', SAT which parliament was so-called because it had been sitting SAT for such a long time? And which figure from South American SAT history gives his name to the currency of Venezuela? SAT SAT These are among the questions posed by Russell Davies in the SAT second heat of the evergreen general knowledge contest, SAT which comes this week from the BBC Radio Theatre in London, SAT with competitors from Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, London and SAT Northern Ireland. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Hilda Doolittle b017j1vr (Listen) SAT It is one hundred years since the American poet Hilda SAT Doolittle came to live in London. She lived through SAT explosive changes in twentieth century culture with her SAT dramatic life often overshadowing her work. SAT SAT Considered for decades as Ezra Pound's Imagiste acolyte, she SAT held her own through psychoanalysis with Freud, travelled SAT extensively, had numerous long term relationships with both SAT men and women, and an intense emotional and artistic SAT connection with DH Lawrence. SAT SAT Yet it was her poetry that was the core of her being. Though SAT her early Imagist poems are her best known work, it was SAT World War 2 that saw her at the height of her powers. SAT Breaking from the Imagist tradition, in Trilogy, her epic SAT poem, she reports on the war torn city from a pacifist SAT perspective. The life of the bombed city is central and SAT Doolittle redefines the heroic in terms of the suffering of SAT ordinary people. Her trilogy is ranked alongside and Eliot's SAT Four Quartets and Pound's Pisan Cantos as among the greatest SAT civilian poetry of war in the 20th century. SAT SAT Writer and broadcaster Diana Collecott is our guide to the SAT world of Hilda Doolittle and Sara Kestelman reads a SAT selection of her poetry. SAT SAT Producer: Merilyn Harris SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b017jdqx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kvh1x (Listen) SUN Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Getting to Know The King SUN SUN Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian writer SUN of the 1870s, laced with dry humour. SUN SUN It should be an honour taking the King in your wagon, but SUN after the fireworks and trumpets die down and the journey SUN beckons, Cosimo begins to worry. Read by Dermot Crowley SUN SUN Read by Dermot Crowley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017jdqz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017jdr3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017jdr5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b017jdr7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b017lbcv (Listen) SUN The bells of St Eadburgha in Ebrington, Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b017l87h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b017jdr9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b017lbcx (Listen) SUN The Unresolved SUN SUN Poet Stewart Henderson questions whether the agitated, SUN complaining presence of the unresolved - in the form of SUN disappointed hopes, continuous regret, or hideous trauma - SUN can be stilled, even silenced, bringing the individual to a SUN contemplative and functioning resolution. SUN SUN Stewart talks to Julie Nicholson whose daughter Jenny was SUN killed in the London bombings on 7th July 2005. At Horfield SUN Church in Bristol, where Jenny is buried, they talk about SUN her struggle with this cataclysmic event - the shock, the SUN loss of her priestly vocation and the search for SUN reconciliation. SUN SUN Julie says: "Jennifer was a vibrant, joyous human being, a SUN 24 year old young woman on the cusp of fully adult life. At SUN the time of her death Jenny lived with her partner in SUN Reading, had recently completed a Masters in music and SUN worked for a music publishing company in London. She had so SUN much to look forward to. Jenny's death and circumstance of SUN her death will always contain elements of the unresolved, SUN how could it not? So much was lost. The unresolved is a SUN reality I live with and within that state attempt to live SUN well. Jenny's passion for learning and her love of music and SUN literature is reflected in a charitable trust established in SUN her name. Jenny is gone but her name and the essence of her SUN continue to make a difference and to inspire others." Julie SUN Nicholson's book about her daughter, "A Song for Jenny" SUN tells the story of her loss and grief. SUN SUN The programme includes poetry from George Herbert, Rainer SUN Maria Rilke and Carol Ann Duffy and music from Christian SUN Forshaw and Charles Ives. SUN SUN Perhaps that which seems to bankrupt us at the time, leaving SUN us naked and numb, is not necessarily the final reckoning? SUN SUN Producer: Jo Coombs SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b017lbcz (Listen) SUN Cuckoo Trees SUN SUN In early winter, Joanna Pinnock heads up to the Stiperstone SUN Hills in Shropshire. Here she meets up with Sara Bellis and SUN Carl Pickup from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust at a SUN remarkable place, The Hollies. Here high up on the windswept SUN hills, Joanna encounters ancient holly trees, which could be SUN as old as 400 years. Holly, naturally an understory tree of SUN more developed woodland, is not suited to grow up here in SUN the cold windy conditions. But how and why these trees came SUN to be here is something of a mystery. SUN SUN These holly trees though are a living link to a past age in SUN this landscape, where lead mining was once common and over 2 SUN centuries ago there were thousands of people eking a SUN subsistence living up here. Possibly the hollies we seen SUN now, gnarled and twisted though they are, are all that SUN remains of a woodland which at one time covered all the SUN hills around here. That woodland was subsequently cleared SUN for whatever reason, leaving the holly trees as a valuable SUN source of winter fodder. With the altitude and animal SUN grazing on the hills these days, young holly cannot SUN regenerate, so this landscape is one of preservation not SUN conservation. SUN SUN But the story ends with a surprise, the cuckoo trees up SUN here. Sometimes known as bonded trees, here Joanna witnesses SUN the growing of full height rowan trees, inside the trunks of SUN older holly trees. How did the rowan trees get there, well, SUN it all has something to do with winter thrushes, as is SUN revealed in the programme. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b017jdrc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b017jdrf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b017lbd1 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b017lbd3 (Listen) SUN Move Europe SUN SUN Griff Rhys Jones presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Move Europe. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1062307 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Send a cheque payable to Move Europe to Freepost BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal. SUN Mark the back of the envelope Move Europe SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Move Europe SUN SUN MOVE is a small UK based charity that runs the MOVE SUN Programme. The Programme enables children and adults with SUN physical disabilities and/or complex needs to improve their SUN skills in sitting, standing, walking and transferring in SUN order to reach their mobility potential. No-one is SUN considered too disabled physically or cognitively to take SUN part in and benefit from it. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b017jdrh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b017jdrk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b017lbd5 (Listen) SUN Advent 1: Longing for wisdom SUN SUN A service for Advent from Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, SUN Edinburgh. SUN SUN As Christmas approached, worship in the early centuries of SUN the Christian church would direct thoughts towards the SUN coming of Christ: looking back to his birth and forward to SUN his return at the end of time. Lines inspired by scripture SUN would be sung as a reminder of these events and humanity's SUN continual longing for the kingdom of God. This week's SUN service looks at humanity's search for wisdom. SUN SUN O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High, SUN reaching from one end to the other mightily, SUN and sweetly ordering all things: SUN Come and teach us the way of prudence. SUN Leader: The minister, the Revd Scott McKenna SUN Preacher: The Revd Dr Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh. SUN With Edinburgh University Music Society Chorus directed by SUN Neil Metcalfe. SUN Organist: John Willmett SUN SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b017clxk (Listen) SUN The Oxbridge Interview SUN SUN Mary Beard reflects on the purpose of the much-maligned SUN "Oxbridge interview" and defends the "Would you rather be an SUN apple or a banana" school of questioning.... SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b017lbd7 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN With Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b017lbd9 (Listen) SUN Written by: Caroline Harrington SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b017lbdc (Listen) SUN Bear Grylls SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the adventurer Bear Grylls. SUN SUN His first career was with the SAS, but he was forced to SUN leave after a parachute jump went wrong and he broke his SUN back in three places. As he recuperated, he rekindled his SUN childhood ambition of climbing Mount Everest - he went on to SUN become the youngest Briton to reach its summit. His TV SUN series, Born Survivor, has a global audience of more than a SUN billion people who regularly watch him eating the apparently SUN indigestible and risking his life by pitting himself against SUN nature. Married with three young sons, he says: "The SUN unresolved struggle in my life is the fact that I have a job SUN that has an element of danger to it and at the same time I SUN have a gorgeous family - three young boys that are the pride SUN of my life." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b017cb10 (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 56th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to G-Live in Guildford. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on SUN the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. SUN Regular listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, SUN pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - SUN Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b017lbdf (Listen) SUN Britain's best food producers SUN SUN Sheila Dillon reports on the winners and finalists of The SUN BBC Food & Farming Awards 2011. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b017jdrm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b017lbdh (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Things We Forgot to Remember b017lbdk (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 3 SUN SUN Michael Portillo discovers how romantic memories of the SUN French Resistance created an enduring military legend which SUN overshadowed its more important political role in shaping SUN post war France. SUN SUN When we remember the Resistance we think of square-jawed men SUN in leather jackets hiding out in caves and young women in SUN berets bent over secret radios - thanks to film and TV SUN portrayals of those who resisted the German occupation. SUN However, while acknowledging the bravery and sacrifice of SUN individuals, historians and resisters themselves agree that SUN the Resistance was not an effective military force. Active SUN resisters numbered only 2% of the French population and SUN until 1943 it was a fractured group of several different SUN movements. SUN SUN But in 1944 the Resistance, which had become increasingly SUN made up of Communists, drew up a charter of social and SUN political reforms to be implemented after the liberation of SUN France. General Charles de Gaulle, whose regard for the SUN Resistance was equivocal and who was not a champion of the SUN left was, however, a pragmatist. Mindful that he needed the SUN support of the Resistance to bolster his case to become SUN Prime Minister - in the face of Allied opposition - he SUN agreed to these far reaching reforms which went on to shape SUN the course of modern day France. SUN SUN Michael Portillo hears from former resisters including SUN Stephane Hessel who believes modern France has lost sight of SUN the values many people lost their lives for. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017clwz (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs a programme from Othery Somerset. Chris SUN Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and guest panelist Toby Buckland SUN join him on the panel. Anne Swithinbank discusses good SUN cultivation techniques in a nut forest near Totnes. Chris SUN Beardshaw puts 'No Dig' to the test. SUN SUN In addition, how to harvest the water falling onto your SUN polytunnel and why do carrots fork? SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Coming Out b017lbqh (Listen) SUN Cathy, Andrew and Emily SUN SUN Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how SUN far to be honest about ourselves, and in doing so become SUN vulnerable to the judgements of others. SUN SUN 2. Cathy, Andrew and Emily SUN SUN Multiple Sclerosis is most often diagnosed in people aged SUN between 20 and 40, a time when careers and relationships are SUN of primary importance. Two MS patients in their 30s talk SUN about the challenges of coming out with the disease, and how SUN far to be totally open about it. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b017lbqk (Listen) SUN Beware of Pity, Episode 1 SUN SUN By Stefan Zweig. Dramatised for radio by Stephen Wyatt. SUN SUN Stefan Zweig is a remarkable writer who had a remarkable SUN life, but is not nearly as well known as he deserves to be, SUN as Simon Gray discovered when he was attracted by the cover SUN of his only novel, Beware of Pity. SUN SUN Simon Gray took the book on holiday with him and used it as SUN an escape from worrying about his cancer and the likely SUN prognosis, "it being too good to read except with the SUN closest attention" and he became immersed in the story of "a SUN young man betrayed by his own unwonted impulses, his own SUN nature........ it's the way that the novel single-mindedly, SUN almost obsessively, illustrates and analyses the destructive SUN power of a single emotion -if that's what pity is - that SUN makes it unique, at least in my experience." SUN SUN Simon Gray embarked on a dramatisation of the book for Radio SUN 4, but it was unfinished at his death in 2008. Another SUN writer, Clare McIntyre, was also attracted by the story and SUN wrote a stage version, but she too died before it was SUN completed. Stephen Wyatt has taken on the task of writing a SUN two part radio version based on Clare McIntyre's material, SUN which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 27 November and 4 SUN December, with a cast that includes Piers Wehner, Bryony SUN Hannah, Ronald Pickup, Jasper Britton & Michael Jayston. SUN SUN Anton Hofmiller ...... Piers Wehner SUN Edith ...... Bryony Hannah SUN Kekesfalva ...... Ronald Pickup SUN Dr Condor ....... Jasper Britton SUN Josef ...... Michael Jayston SUN Ilona ...... Mabel Clements SUN Ferencz ...... Jack Chedburn SUN Jozsi/Flowerseller ..... Tai Lawrence SUN The Apothecary ..... Jason Devoy SUN SUN Director: Jane Morgan SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b017ldlf (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup continues Open Book's celebration of funny SUN books with Tony Parsons, award winning writer of "Man And SUN Boy" and "One For My Baby", whose choice for Open Book's SUN Funniest Book is "The Virgin Soldiers" by Leslie Thomas. SUN First published in 1966 The Virgin Soldiers sold over 7 SUN million copies world wide, it is both a satirical indictment SUN of the futility of the war and a celebration of young SUN manhood. SUN SUN In Open Book's Mini History of Comedy Professor of SUN Literature at UCL, John Mullan, is joined by writer and SUN biographer Jenny Uglow to take a romp through the 18th SUN century and the birth of the comic novel in such SUN masterpieces as The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, SUN Gentleman by Laurence Sterne and Tom Jones by Henry SUN Fielding. What do these two comic masterpieces have to tell SUN us about our own time and how have they influenced the SUN development of the contemporary comic novel? SUN SUN And a round up of the Best Book of 2011 with critic Suzi SUN Feay and writer and bookseller Evie Wyld. Following on from SUN the controversial Booker short list this year, our SUN contributors assess the best "readable" books of the year - SUN are they the same as simply "best" books and what does the SUN term "readable" actually imply when it comes to literary SUN fiction? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Simonides: Body Bags b017ldlh (Listen) SUN Poet Robert Crawford, who has translated Simonides into SUN Scots, investigates the connections between the ancient SUN Greek Poet and modern warfare. SUN SUN 17:00 From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting SUN b017cfv4 (Listen) SUN Against a backdrop of high unemployment and a reported SUN million empty properties former squatter Robert Elms charts SUN the history of squatting. He assesses the ideology and SUN mythology that has surrounded this subversive search for a SUN home. As the Government consider new legislation to further SUN criminalise squatting, could it soon be a thing of the past? SUN SUN Producer: Jim Frank. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b017l87h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b017jdrp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b017jdrr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017jdrt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b017ldnt (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN This week's Pick of the Week features people struggling with SUN dilemmas. The young man who finds himself being seduced by SUN Marilyn Monroe. The advertising executive who decides that SUN the best way to sell his product is to declare that it has SUN no redeeming qualities - in fact it's rubbish. Then there's SUN the tragic story of the British airman captured by the Nazis SUN who betrays his friends under torture. And the extraordinary SUN moment when Sting decided to accept the invitation to share SUN a drug induced experience with Amazonian Indians just days SUN before he played to an audience of thousands in Brazil. SUN SUN My Week With Marilyn - Radio 4 SUN I've Never Seen Star Wars - Radio 4 SUN One To One - Radio 4 SUN The Strand - World Service SUN The Infinite Monkey Cage - Radio 4 SUN The Counter Tenor - Radio 4 SUN Drama on 3: Cock - Radio 3 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN From Frestonia to Belgravia - Radio 4 SUN Food and Farming Awards - Radio 4 SUN BBC Radio Cornwall - Wednesday 23rd SUN The Freedom Trail - Radio 4 SUN Johnny Walker Meets Sting - Radio 2 SUN Something Understood - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b017ldnw (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Dilemma b017lfd5 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical SUN wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" SUN answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. SUN SUN This edition features comedians Shappi Khorsandi and Simon SUN Munnery, broadcaster Fi Glover, and journalist Hugo Rifkind. SUN They attempt to justify the murder of a pet and the theft of SUN a girlfriend, as well as debating such dilemmas as "Would SUN you sleep with Michael Winner if it would mean an end to SUN dyslexia". The show was devised by award-winning stand-up SUN and writer Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The SUN Week). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng b017lfd7 (Listen) SUN The Cabaret Boys SUN SUN Julian Clary plays camp cabaret star, drag artiste and the SUN finest of panto dames, Douglas Byng - who makes a ghostly SUN comeback to entertain his friends at the Pavilion Theatre, SUN Brighton. SUN SUN In today's episode, Byng tells of his first professional SUN engagement as a member of a concert party in Hastings , SUN remembers working at London's Gaiety Theatre during the SUN First World War, and has a thing or two to say about SUN theatrical 'digs'! SUN SUN Douglas Byng (1893 - 1987) was a female impersonator and the SUN most famous cabaret star of his day. Billed as "Bawdy but SUN British", his professional career lasted for over 70 years. SUN This short series traces the journey of the cross-dressing SUN glamour queen from privileged childhood in the 1890s, SUN through concert parties in Hastings, to his emergence as the SUN darling of the society set, entertaining royalty and SUN London's 'Bright Young Things' at the Café de Paris in the SUN 1920s and 30s. SUN SUN Douglas Byng has been dubbed 'the highest priest of camp'. SUN He blazed a trail for others to follow, treading a fine line SUN between sophisticated urbanity and risqué innuendo which SUN presaged more contemporary, boundary-bending comedians such SUN as Kenneth Williams, Danny La Rue, Barry Humphries and...our SUN own Julian Clary. SUN SUN Byng's debonair appearances in revue were described by Noel SUN Coward as "the most refined vulgarity in London"! SUN After the Second World War, Douglas Byng became a familiar SUN stage and film actor and much-loved pantomime dame. His SUN saucy recordings of self-penned songs led to occasional bans SUN by the BBC, but his popularity never diminished. SUN SUN He wrote his autobiography (As You Were - published in 1970) SUN in retirement in Brighton, and this book provides the SUN material for the series. SUN SUN With Julian Clary as Douglas Byng. SUN SUN Compiled by Tony Lidington. SUN Pianist Martin Seager. SUN SUN Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b017clx5 (Listen) SUN Less than two years ago the BBC Asian Network faced SUN extinction. It was spared, but now its budget is set to be SUN cut by almost half. What will this mean for the station, and SUN for its audience? Listener Ravinder Sondh relies on the SUN Tommy Sandhu breakfast show to get her family out of bed in SUN the morning, so Roger goes behind the scenes to meet Tommy SUN and his team in the studio. Roger also talks to Husain SUN Husaini, the Asian Network's head of programmes, about how SUN the station will manage the cuts. SUN Are you filling in the Delivering Quality First consultation SUN document? If so you still have plenty of time, the deadline SUN is 21st December 2011. But some listeners feel the document SUN itself isn't delivering much in the way of quality; too SUN dense, too long and too much jargon. Roger enlists the help SUN of Marie Clair of the Plain English Campaign. SUN And after a Radio 4 news report accidentally declares the SUN speed of light to be many thousand times slower than it SUN really is, Feedback sorts out all this pesky business with SUN neutrinos and relativity once and for all. SUN SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the SUN place to air your views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b017clx3 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The South African cricketer Basil D'Oliveira. His selection SUN to play for England on a tour of his homeland was seen as a SUN turning point in the anti apartheid campaign. SUN SUN The playwright Shelagh Delaney. Her ground-breaking play "A SUN Taste of Honey" was written when she was a teenager. SUN Jeanette Winterson pays tribute. SUN SUN The civil servant Sir Robin Mountfield. Under New Labour, he SUN reviewed the government information service, paving the way SUN for the controversial influx of special advisers. SUN SUN Sir David Jack was the scientific mind behind the success of SUN the pharmaceutical company Glaxo. The drugs he developed SUN transformed the lives of asthma sufferers and people with SUN stomach ulcers. SUN SUN And the poet Peter Reading - we have a tribute from his SUN admirer and fellow poet Ian Macmillan. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b017l74n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b017lbd3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b017cjn5 (Listen) SUN Survival Strategy SUN SUN As economic gales blow even harder, are there lessons to be SUN learned from previous recessions? In hard times many SUN businesses owners concentrate on increasing turnover at any SUN cost. They fail to realise that some, maybe much, of the SUN work they take on may force up overheads without delivering SUN profits. People who run their own enterprises can be so SUN involved in the day-to-day running of their firms that they SUN lose sight of important financial details and of the world SUN in which they operate. SUN SUN Peter Day talks to some veteran small business survivors and SUN small business advisors to find out how they manage to get SUN through tough times and he hears about some surprising SUN strategies to keep a business afloat in these unpredictable SUN times. SUN SUN Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Michael Wendling SUN Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b017lffl (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b017lffn (Listen) SUN Episode 80 SUN SUN George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b017cjms (Listen) SUN Conflict is this week's theme. It begins with the clash SUN between Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier during the SUN filming of The Prince and The Showgirl - a story which lies SUN at the heart of Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn starring SUN Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams; it continues with the SUN friction caused when belief bumps into psychoanalytic dogma SUN in Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope; it encompasses the SUN struggle between invading Nazis and Welsh farmers in SUN Resistance - a counterfactual film made by Owen Sheers and SUN Amit Gupta; and it concludes with Michael Shannon's fight SUN with his personal demons in Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols' SUN follow up to Shotgun Stories. Francine Stock lends an ear to SUN all the factions and questions their assertions in this SUN week's Film Programme. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b017lbcx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b017jdsx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b017chq4 (Listen) MON Older gays in rural areas; Protest over art and culture in MON America MON MON Protests against art and culture occur every day across MON America. Conservatives object to artworks deemed blasphemous MON or obscene; liberals rally against depictions they see as MON racist or misogynist. But why do some parts of the United MON States see more such controversies than others? Why so many MON protests in Atlanta and so few in West Palm Beach? The US MON sociologist, Steven Tepper, talks to Laurie Taylor about his MON new book 'Not Here, Not Now, Not That..Protest over Art and MON Culture in America'. They're joined by Jo Glanville, the MON editor of Index on Censorship. Also, Dr Kip Jones from MON Bournemouth University discusses the challenges faced by MON older gay men and lesbians who live in rural areas of The MON South West of England and Wales. His paper, 'Gay and MON Pleasant Land?' uses first hand evidence to explore the MON attitudes of both older gay countryside dwellers and the MON communities they live in. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b017lbcv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017jdsz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017jdt1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017jdt3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b017jdt5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017lt4v (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented from MON Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. MON Producer: Mo McCullough. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b017lt4x (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b017jdt7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b017lt4z (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b017lt51 (Listen) MON Political leadership: George Ayittey, Simon Heffer, Martin MON Wolf and Maha Azzam MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the pursuit of MON power, and the art of leadership, from dictators to MON technocrats. The Ghanaian economist George Ayittey sets out MON the fight against tyranny in Africa and around the world, MON while Maha Azzam looks to see whether Egypt could learn any MON lessons from his assertion that many of today's despots were MON yesterday's freedom fighters. The columnist Simon Heffer MON discusses how the desire to protect or assert power has MON distorted the course of history, and the economist Martin MON Wolf assess the rise of the technocrat in Europe. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b017lt53 (Listen) MON Charles Dickens - A Life, Episode 1 MON MON Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of Britain's great MON novelist paints a portrait of an extraordinarily complex MON man. Today's theme is Dickens' troubled childhood. MON MON As part of Dickens on the BBC Radio 4 broadcasts extracts MON from Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of the MON novelist who called himself the "inimitable". He was the MON writer "so charged with imaginative energy that he rendered MON nineteenth century England crackling, full of truth and MON life, with his laughter, horror and indignation - and MON sentimentality." The Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip and MON David Copperfield are just a handful of the characters he MON created and who continue to endure. He was also a MON hard-working journalist, a philanthropist, a supporter of MON liberal social causes, and father of ten, and yet his genius MON also had a dark side which emerged with the break down of MON his marriage. MON MON Read by Penelope Wilton MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b017lt55 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017lt57 (Listen) MON The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Tenant MON MON By Anne Bronte MON MON Dramatised by Rachel Joyce MON MON Episode 1. The Tenant MON MON Helen Graham is the mysterious and striking new tenant of MON the dilapidated Wildfell Hall. As gentleman farmer Gilbert MON Markham becomes more and more powerfully drawn to this MON enigmatic "widow" he finds that her unconventionally MON independent life disguises a turbulent and painful past. MON MON Gilbert Markham - Robert Lonsdale MON Helen Graham - Hattie Morahan MON Mrs. Markham - Carolyn Pickles MON Rose - Leah Brotherhead MON Mr. Lawrence - Carl Prekopp MON Eliza - Victoria Inez Hardy MON Rev. Millward - Gerard McDermott MON Arthur - Samuel Bridger MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON 11:00 Prisoners' Women b017lt59 (Listen) MON When a man goes to prison, there is usually a woman - wife, MON girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter - left behind whose MON life is changed for ever, and who may have to confront MON challenges she's completely unprepared for. This programme MON is about a group of women, whose paths would never normally MON cross, who have come together to support each other while MON their men are inside - and afterwards. MON MON String of Pearls is an informal support group set up to MON raise awareness of the impact of imprisonment on families. MON The participants come together to share first-hand MON experience of the isolation and anxiety that affects MON prisoners' families; the group is often the only place they MON feel confident enough to talk about their situation they MON find themselves in: their distress, their fears for their MON families and hopes for the future. For some, it is the only MON place they ever actually feel able to talk about the fact MON that they have a husband, partner or family member in MON prison. They talk about the shock of suddenly having to run MON a family on their own, cope with telling the truth to MON children and other family members, or hiding it from them, MON learn how the prison system works when they've never MON encountered it before and never expected to, and the ways in MON which their lives and relationships have changed MON irrevocably. MON MON String of Pearls offers much-needed support to families at a MON very vulnerable time, and it also provides training for MON professional and support agency staff in how to deal with MON these families. Some of the women involved in this programme MON have trained, and are training others, to be mentors, MON spreading the network across the country. MON MON 11:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off b017m14c (Listen) MON Series 5, Local Hero MON MON When an American mogul tries to buy up every last pebble in MON lovely Budleigh, Giles decides to run for Mayor. Meanwhile MON his sister Charlotte goes on a tent protest... MON MON Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is back! But this MON time, he's got a computer! Giles Wemmbley Hogg has been MON grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set MON up GWH Travvel ("2m's 2g's 2v's, bit of a mix up at the MON printers"). MON MON Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of MON his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis MON and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop MON Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each MON week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming MON the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a MON rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or MON finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll MON look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to MON D".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it MON all, so you won't want to". MON MON Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles MON MON And featuring - MON MON Mr. Timmis ...... Vincent Franklin MON Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd MON Annie ...... Rebecca Front MON Ronald Crump ..... Stuart Milligan MON Mayor Netherclap ..... Flip Webster MON Gabe Bjesterveldt ...... David Armand MON MON Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies MON Producer/Director: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b017m14f (Listen) MON Five centres of excellence have been opened around the UK to MON help recruit more people to work in the UK's curry industry MON - we find out how this will help ease a shortage of chefs. MON MON Helping communities and businesses cope with extreme weather MON - a five year research project presents its findings and why MON small shops are performing better than larger stores. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker. Produced by Alex Lewis. MON MON 12:57 Weather b017jdt9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b017m14h (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites b017m14k (Listen) MON Alex Kapranos MON MON Following on from the success of her first series, legendary MON guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joan Armatrading, brings MON together a collection of great guitarists form around the MON world, in this five part series. Alex Kapranos, front man of MON the Scottish band, Franz Ferdinand has captured Joan's MON attention for this great musical sense and performance. She MON brings out the staccato style of his guitar, the tone MON changes in the music, the influence of his Greek heritage, MON and the importance of the Glasgow art scene to his ideas MON about and attitude towards music. MON MON Producer: Kate Bland MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b017ldnw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b017m14m (Listen) MON Sleeping Dog MON MON Dave is an uptight architect who's fed up with designing MON public lavatories. He needs to impress the boss, who likes MON blues music. So he hires an old busker who had a hit in the MON sixties. And what should improve his prospects actually MON starts to unravel his life. A comedy by Peter Roberts. MON MON Mitchell......David Shaw-Parker MON Dave..........Conrad Nelson MON Karen.........Natasha Byrne MON Paul............Paul Greenwood MON Anastasia....Kathryn Hunt MON Jonathan.....Adam Billington MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b017m14p (Listen) MON (3/17) MON Competitors from East Anglia, the West Midlands and London MON join Russell Davies at the BBC Radio Theatre for the third MON heat in the quest for the next Brain of Britain. MON MON From which port, in 1588, did the Spanish Armada set sail? MON And which singer fronted the Jeff Beck Group in 1968 and MON 1969 before going on to sing with The Faces? MON MON There's also a chance for a Brain of Britain listener to win MON a prize and outwit the contestants with questions of his or MON her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b017lbdf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Alias Men b017m14r (Listen) MON Alan Smithee never directed a film in his life. He didn't MON even exist. Yet he has more films to his name than almost MON anyone. Andrew Collins looks back on the 40-year career of MON an extraordinary non-entity, a journey which lays bare a MON radical turning-point in the history of twentieth-century MON cinema. MON MON 'Who has 68 films to his name but never attended a MON premiere?' MON 'The Alias Men is an anagram of which director's name?' MON MON Answer: Alan Smithee, the credit film-makers took when their MON projects lurched towards disaster, or the results were so MON stymied by producers that they refused to put their names on MON the roller. Officially sanctioned by the Directors Guild of MON America in 1969, his filmography lists the likes of 'Dune' MON (in the TV remake of David Lynch's spectacular), 'City in MON Fear' (with its introduction of Mickey Rourke), Rocky Horror MON Show sequel 'Shock Treatment' and the self-explanatory MON 'Blood-sucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh'. It's certainly MON tempting to revel in the failings of Smithee's films, the MON misguided rescriptings and tortuous (and torturous) TV edits MON which led their original directors to be so ashamed that MON they handed over the glory, or ignominy, to Smithee. MON MON For film critic Andrew Collins Smithee has always been a MON fascinating enigma, a spectacular non-entity who has MON nonetheless attracted interest from the highest of MON high-minded film theorists and sofa-bound film buffs alike. MON His journey through Smithee's output takes him back to the MON age of the spaghetti western, when pseudonyms were the MON standard modus operandi for Italian directors, actors and MON crew members who were happy to take on American names for MON the sake of marketing appeal. But it was only when another MON western, Death of a Gunfighter, came to production grief in MON 1967 that the name Smithee was born as an official, yet MON covert, way of sparing a director's blushes. MON MON Contributors include founding member of the academic 'Alan MON Smithee Group' Jeremy Braddock and the BFI's self-confessed MON credits boffin Kevin Lyons, a man endlessly intrigued by the MON implications of the words 'Directed by Alan Smithee' at the MON end of a final roller. But what of the directors themselves, MON the film-makers who turned to Smithee in desperation when MON their projects turned to dust? The rules of Smithee forbid MON them to speak, but two are able to break the silence. Alex MON Cox, director of 'Sid and Nancy', looks back with anguish at MON his film 'The Winner', whose producers saw fit to destroy MON his vision with a new soundtrack after he signed it off. But MON even worse is to come from ever-enigmatic Tony Kaye, whose MON debut feature 'American History X' ended with him demanding MON a Smithee, having his application rejected, and resorting a MON backup plan of getting himself signed 'Humpty Dumpty' MON instead. MON MON The end of Smithee's story is equally intriguing. He became MON a victim of his own success with the release of 'Hollywood MON Burn - An Alan Smithee Film'. The Directors Guild decided he MON had become too famous, no good as an inconspicuous entity. MON But there was one final twist: the director of this very MON film decided he was too ashamed of the result to be MON associated with it. It was one final, memorable performance MON for this auteur of all auteurs. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b017m14t (Listen) MON Series 5, A Balanced Programme on Balance MON MON A Balanced programme on Balance MON MON The Infinite Monkeys, Brian Cox and Robin Ince, are joined MON on stage by Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, MON and comedian and theology graduate Katy Brand to look at how MON science is portrayed in the press and whether opinion is MON ever as valid as evidence. Occasionally accused of lack of MON balance by lovers of astrology and the supernatural, the MON unashamedly rational and evidence loving duo tackle the MON issue of balance head on. Does the media skew scientific MON debate by giving too much weight to public opinion over the MON scientific evidence? Do important science messages get lost MON because scientists don't engage enough with seemingly MON irrational concerns and beliefs? A witty irreverent look at MON some of the issues surrounding the public's perception of MON science and how it's reported in the media. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox MON Guests: Katy Brand and Sir Paul Nurse. MON MON 17:00 PM b017m14w (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017jdtc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b017m14y (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a MON first-time visit to The Sage Theatre in Gateshead. Regulars MON Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined MON on the panel by Marcus Brigstocke, with Jack Dee in the MON chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. Producer - MON Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b017m150 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b017m152 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including news of the winner of the MON William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize, announced today. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017lt57 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Blood Stained Banner b017m154 (Listen) MON The Confederate Battle Flag was presented to the armies of MON the Confederacy in a ceremony on November 28th 1861, a few MON months after the start of the American Civil War. It wasn't MON the only flag flown by the Confederacy, nor was it the MON first, but it has become known as The Confederate Flag. MON MON In 2011 for some people the Confederate Flag represents MON their region - the South - and is a symbol of the sacrifices MON their forbears made to defend their homes. They fly it MON outside their homes, it appears on car bumper stickers and MON T-shirts. MON MON But for others it is a potent symbol of racism; inextricably MON linked to the South's struggle to preserve slavery during MON the Civil War and its ongoing legacy of segregation and MON inequality. MON MON Gary Younge explores what attitudes to the Confederate Flag MON say about American identity today. 150 years after the civil MON war started, and the flag was first flown, can the American MON South move beyond its divisive legacy? MON MON He begins his journey in the city of Columbia, where the MON Confederate Flag flies just a few meters away from the South MON Carolina State House. MON MON Producer: Peggy Sutton MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b017cjmd (Listen) MON Roubles and Radicals in Dagestan MON MON The main focus of the violence in the North Caucasus these MON days is in Dagestan, Chechnya's neighbour. Shoot-outs MON between police and Islamist militants occur almost daily, MON and suicide bombings and assassinations have become common. MON In response, the authorities use what many see as excessive MON force and the violence spirals still further. In the past MON two years suicide bombings in the Moscow metro and a Moscow MON airport have been traced to the region. In Dagestan it's a MON war that has touched almost every community and family, and MON one where differences between the opposing sides are MON apparently irreconcilable. For the authorities, Dagestan is MON part of Russia and subject to its secular laws; for the MON militants the region should be a sharia state independent of MON Moscow. MON MON After ten years trying to combat the militants and their MON appeal, Russian businessman Suleiman Kerimov has hit on a MON new idea - football. Sports facilities and pitches are being MON built across this impoverished and deeply conservative MON Muslim republic, encouraging young boys and men to play on MON the pitch rather than join the militants in the forest, and MON girls to watch them instead of withdrawing behind the veil. MON Dagestan's top club Anzhi Makhachkala has been bought up by MON the pro-Kremlin Dagestani billionaire and now he is buying MON world-class footballers, including Samuel Eto'o, currently MON the highest-paid player on the planet. MON MON Lucy Ash asks whether this is just bread and circuses for MON the masses or whether it is making a real difference in this MON restive Russian republic. Mr Kerimov is bankrolling many MON other projects from mosque building to job creation, from a MON glass factory to a glistening vision of an entirely new MON city. The reclusive billionaire's representative in Dagestan MON says he is trying to find an economic solution to one of the MON poorest and most troubled regions in Russia. The government MON is also trying a new tactic; it has recently set up a MON commission to persuade young fighters to lay down their arms MON and return to a peaceful civilian life. Lucy watches an MON anti-terrorism policeman lecturing university students in MON the capital, Makhachkala, on the dangers of radical MON Islam.But with entrenched corruption, heavy-handed policing MON and a blatant disregard for law, the Islamic underground MON shows little sign of retreat. More alarmingly, it looks as MON if the insurgency is spreading from the north to the MON traditionally peaceful and secular south of the republic. MON Lucy visits the village of Sovetskoye where in May this year MON police beat up dozens of young Salafists. A few months later MON the head teacher was murdered, allegedly because he'd banned MON the hijab in class. Can a massive injection of cash really MON neuter deep-seated pressures for change? MON MON 21:00 Material World b017mr3t (Listen) MON This week, risk and uncertainty: how to communicate it to MON politicians and the public. Quentin Cooper asks the MON Government Chief Science Advisor, Sir John Beddington and MON the Chairman of the Lord's Committee on Science and MON Technology, Lord Krebs. Also, revealing the secrets of MON locust flight: how they may help the design of miniature MON flying robots. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Communicating Risk and Uncertainty MON MON The public and politicians want to know the risks and MON uncertainties surrounding everyday life and rare disasters MON and it is often the job of scientists to communicate such MON risks in a clear and balanced way. Quentin is joined by the MON Government Chief Science Advisor, Sir John Beddington and MON the Chairman of the Lord’s Committee on Science and MON Technology, Lord Krebs to discuss the challenges of making MON uncertainty clear and helping government ministers arrive at MON sensible, science-based policies. MON MON The Flight of the Locust MON MON Flying insects represent spectacular examples of MON miniaturised technology. Evolution has adapted insect flight MON for several different specialisations. In the Royal Society MON journal Interface this week, Dr Richard Bomphrey of Oxford MON University describes detailed studies of the wing-strokes MON of flying locusts and works out just how efficient they are MON as endurance flyers. The research gives insight into the MON evolution of insect flight and also possible applications MON for miniaturised flying robot surveillance craft. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b017lt51 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b017jdtf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b017mr2y (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017mz4h (Listen) MON A Night with a Vampire 2, The Lady of the House of Love MON MON This wonderful retake on the Sleeping Beauty story first MON appeared in Carter's 1979 volume "The Bloody Chamber". MON MON A virginal English soldier, travelling through Romania by MON bicycle, finds himself in a deserted village. He comes MON across a mansion inhabited by a vampiress who survives by MON enticing young men into her bedroom and feeding on them. She MON intends to feed on the young soldier but his purity and MON virginity have a curious effect on her....... MON MON David Tennant returns with another selection of chilling MON Vampire stories. MON Last year in the first series we concentrated on Victorian MON Vampire output but in these five tales we enter the 20th MON Century and introduce stories with a little twist from the MON UK and the USA. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b017cfkn (Listen) MON Japan MON MON Japan: Hiroko Kawanami, Richard Lloyd Parry and Imran Yusuf MON explore the idea of Japan. What is it really like, and how MON does it match up to people's preconceptions? MON MON Hiroko Kawanami is a Japanese lecturer in Buddhism who MON prefers living in the UK. Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor MON of The Times and has lived in Tokyo for sixteen years. MON British stand-up comedian Imran Yusuf has visited Japan and MON loved it. MON MON All three write and talk about the Japan they know, with MON presenter Dominic Arkwright - who has never been to Japan MON and freely admits he knows little about it.. MON MON Producer: Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b017mr60 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b017jdv0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b017lt53 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017jdv2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017jdv4 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017jdv6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b017jdv8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017x7q6 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented from TUE Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. TUE Producer: Mo McCullough. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b017mrb8 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b017mrbb (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday in TUE Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b017mrbd (Listen) TUE John Sulston TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to biologist John Sulston about TUE sequencing the genome first of a worm and then of man. TUE TUE When, as a young man, John Sulston first decided to sequence TUE the DNA of a worm, many of his fellow scientists thought he TUE was wasting his time. It took twenty years of painstaking TUE research but it paid off handsomely. Sulston's research on TUE this humble worm led to one of the most significant TUE scientific breakthroughs of the modern age - the sequencing TUE of the human genome. Jim al -Khalili talks to Sulston about TUE the highs and lows of doing genetic research; fighting to TUE keep scientific findings in the public domain; protecting TUE human health against corporate wealth; and having his DNA TUE portrait done. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b017mrbg (Listen) TUE Evan Davis with Elliot Castro TUE TUE Evan Davis continues his exploration into deception by TUE talking to those who've had cause to be economical with the TUE truth. Today he talks to convicted fraudster Elliot Castro. TUE Elliot was a teenage credit-card thief who found the buzz he TUE got from lying about his identity was truly addictive.Yet TUE when he was finally caught six years later, it was a relief. TUE He talks to Evan about why he started lying and how it TUE overtook his life, bringing material comfort and excitement TUE but also social isolation. He says his career in fraud TUE lasted so long because he often managed to lie to himself as TUE well as others. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b017mrbj (Listen) TUE Charles Dickens - A Life, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Penelope Wilton TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b017mrfm (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mtf9 (Listen) TUE The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, A Snake in the Grass TUE TUE By Anne Bronte TUE TUE Dramatised by Rachel Joyce TUE TUE Episode 2. A Snake in the Grass TUE TUE Helen Graham is the mysterious and striking new tenant of TUE the dilapidated Wildfell Hall. As gentleman farmer Gilbert TUE Markham becomes more and more powerfully drawn to this TUE enigmatic "widow" he finds that her unconventionally TUE independent life disguises a turbulent and painful past. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b017mrfp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 28 TUE TUE 28/30 In this weeks programme Buzzards are implicated as TUE part of the cause in the decline of Brown Hares in North TUE Wales. Hares are not commonly linked to a Buzzards diet - so TUE can this be right. We're in North Wales to find out. TUE TUE We're also in Brazil with Mark Brazil who is exploring the TUE flooded Amazon forest in search of the White Uakari Monkey. TUE TUE And back in the UK - news that many more of the global TUE species of whales can be found in British waters. TUE TUE Presenter Kelvin Boot TUE Producer Sheena Duncan TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b017mszh (Listen) TUE Series 9, Joe Henderson TUE TUE This week Ken examines the life and music of Joe Henderson, TUE the tenor saxophone star of both Verve & Blue Note Records. TUE Born in Ohio in 1937 Joe Henderson taught himself to play at TUE the young age of 9, later perfecting his craft at college TUE and university. By the time he was 25 he'd led his own band TUE and joined a group with Kenny Dorham. Over the course of his TUE career he went on to play with jazz greats such as Miles TUE Davies and Herbie Hancock and even joined the jazz-rock band TUE Blood, Sweat & Tears. TUE His own projects won several Grammys and in his later career TUE he became something of a national star in America, even TUE performing for Bill Clinton at his first presidential TUE inauguration. He had a lovely lyrical style with a virtuosic TUE technique and is widely regarded as one of the greatest TUE improvisers in jazz. TUE Ken is joined in the studio by one of UK's leading TUE saxophonists, Soweto Kinch. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b017mszk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b017jdvb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b017mszm (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites b017mszp (Listen) TUE Sharon Isbin TUE TUE Following on from the success of her first series, legendary TUE guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joan Armatrading, brings TUE together a collection of great guitarists from around the TUE world, in this five part series. In today's programme she TUE meets Sharon Isbin, America's leading Classical guitarist TUE and winner of 2 Grammys for her guitar playing: virtually TUE unheard of in the Classical music world. Joan hears how TUE Sharon has recorded with a diverse range of musicians around TUE the world, adding richness and complexity to the classical TUE guitar repertoire. Sharon describes her rendition of older TUE pieces and her care to set them in an accurate musical TUE context for their time. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Bland TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b017m150 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b017mszr (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 8, The Blue Gown TUE TUE New four-part series of Victorian detective mysteries TUE starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. TUE TUE Written by David Ashton. TUE TUE Episode one: The Blue Gown. TUE TUE McLevy enlists the help of Jean Brash as he investigates the TUE death of a young seamstress. TUE TUE McLevy...........................................BRIAN COX TUE Jean Brash........................SIOBHAN REDMOND TUE Mulholland.......MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL TUE Roach.......................................DAVID ASHTON TUE Cory Metcalf...........................IAIN ROBERTSON TUE Andrew Crichton.........................DAVID RINTOUL TUE Sarah Crichton.............................TRACY WILES TUE Christine McKenna..................JAYNE McKENNA TUE Maureen.........................VICTORIA INEZ HARDY TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b017mszt (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b017mszw (Listen) TUE Imaginary Friends TUE TUE Imaginary Friends. Did you have any as a child, or do you in TUE fact have some now? Poet Matt Harvey, biographer Sarah TUE Churchwell and writer Paul B Davies tell all about the TUE imaginary relationships we have both as children and adults, TUE to presenter Dominic Arkwright. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:00 Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society b017mszy (Listen) TUE Brain Science and Behaviour Change TUE TUE Matthew Taylor continues his exploration of "Brain Culture," TUE looking at how multinational companies and governments are TUE trying to alter our behaviour by exploiting new ideas about TUE how decisions are made in the human brain. He looks at how TUE "neuro-marketing," based on new understandings of how our TUE brain operates automatically, is already all around us: in TUE fast food restaurants, on some cherished TV ad campaigns, TUE and even being used by politicians in elections. Number 10 TUE is catching up: Matthew looks at the idea of "nudging" TUE citizens to make decisions, and how brain science is feeding TUE into it. The programme asks how valid the neuroscientists' TUE challenging new ideas of human nature really are, and TUE whether they are being over-used by the powerful. Matthew TUE also discovers how the science may be used to give us, as TUE individuals, more power to control our lives and resist mind TUE control. TUE Producer: Mukul Devichand. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b017mt00 (Listen) TUE Lucy Worsley, Barbara Stocking TUE TUE Chief Executive of Oxfam Barbara Stocking, and historian TUE Lucy Worsley discuss their favourite paperbacks with TUE Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Barbara's choice is Antonia Fraser's intimate portrait of TUE her relationship with Harold Pinter: Must You Go. TUE TUE Lucy's book is a kitchen classic: Food in England by Dorothy TUE Hartley. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is the seedy crime thriller that gave us TUE the malevolent character Pinkie: Brighton Rock by Graham TUE Greene. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Barbara Stocking's choice: 'Must You Go' by Antonia Fraser. TUE Publ. Phoenix TUE TUE Lucy Worsley's choice: 'Food in England' by Dorothy Hartley. TUE Publ. Piatkus TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'Brighton Rock' by Graham Greene. TUE Publ. Vintage TUE TUE 17:00 PM b017mt02 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017jdvd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b017mt04 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Old School Tie TUE TUE Richard Herring's Objective TUE Episode 4: 'The Old School Tie' TUE TUE Richard Herring examines 'The Old School Tie' an object that TUE has come to represent public school networks and contacts. TUE Richard asks if it is acceptable to be prejudice against the TUE posh. TUE TUE Written by and starring Richard Herring, with Emma Kennedy TUE and special guest Alexei Sayle. TUE Produced by Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b017mt06 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b017mtf7 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mtf9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Last Jews of Iraq b017wyym (Listen) TUE Jews in Iraq? Alan Yentob investigates a 2600 year old TUE community, now almost disappeared. Once they thrived as a TUE third of Baghdad's population, now only seven Jewish people TUE remain. TUE TUE Few people realise there was once a thriving Jewish TUE community in Iraq - in 1917 it was a third of Baghdad's TUE population. Jewish people had government jobs and dominated TUE the music scene. They were an integral part of the TUE community, living peacefully with Arab neighbours. The Jews TUE had been in Iraq for more than two and a half millennia, TUE since it was called Babylon, and remembered in Psalms. For TUE centuries it was the centre of Jewish learning. Alan speaks TUE to people who remember a life in Baghdad characterised by TUE integration, religious diversity and colourful traditions. TUE TUE In the 40s, everything changed. Nazism, Arab-nationalism and TUE anti-Zionist feeling created a wave of anti-semitism. TUE Violent pogroms flared up, young Jewish men were publically TUE hanged, Jews were forced from jobs. By the 1970s nearly all TUE had left, many in 1951 when 110,000 people were flown to TUE safety in Israel. We hear from those who remember the TUE community's traumatic final days. TUE TUE Now those few Jews who remain are hidden away. They will TUE certainly be the last of the ancient Babylonian Jewish line, TUE says Canon Andrew White, the 'Vicar of Baghdad'. TUE TUE In a very personal programme, BBC Creative Director Alan TUE Yentob, himself the child of Iraqi Jewish immigrants, looks TUE into his heritage and uncovers the hidden history of the TUE Jews of Iraq. Although the community is now almost vanished TUE in Iraq itself, its traditions survive though around the TUE world. With interviews, archive recordings and contemporary TUE music, Alan brings its vibrancy to life. TUE TUE Producer: Hannah Marshall TUE A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b017mtff (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b017mtfh (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond reports on an innovative mentoring project TUE in Manchester where people with social phobia, agoraphobia TUE or other anxiety disorders are matched up with volunteer TUE mentors who've been through, and recovered their own TUE experience of anxiety. They meet once a week for six months TUE and initial results are finding great success with those on TUE the scheme reporting significant reductions in their own TUE anxiety. Claudia meets the mentors and mentees and to find TUE out how and why it works and asks whether similar schemes TUE could spread across the country. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b017mrbd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b017jdvg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b017mtfk (Listen) TUE With Robin Lustig. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017mv2s (Listen) TUE A Night with a Vampire 2, The Girl with the Hungry Eyes TUE TUE Written by Fritz Lieber. TUE TUE This 1949 story has exerted it's grip on many an imagination TUE and has been filmed several times. It concentrates on the TUE magnetic power of the Vampire and - in this case - the TUE utterly captivating and inescapable lure of a Vampiress cum TUE glamour model. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b017m14t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b017mtfp (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the news from Westminster as George Osborne TUE delivers the Autumn Statement. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b017jdw1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b017mrbj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017jdw3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017jdw5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017jdw7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b017jdw9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017x7r5 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented from WED Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. WED Producer: Mo McCullough. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b017mv1c (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b017mv1f (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in WED Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b017mv1h (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b017mv1k (Listen) WED Charles Dickens - A Life, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Penelope Wilton WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b017mv1m (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mv1p (Listen) WED The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Assault WED WED By Anne Bronte WED WED Dramatised by Rachel Joyce WED WED Episode 3. Assault WED WED Helen Graham is the mysterious and striking new tenant of WED the dilapidated Wildfell Hall. As gentleman farmer Gilbert WED Markham becomes more and more powerfully drawn to this WED enigmatic "widow" he finds that her unconventionally WED independent life disguises a turbulent and painful past. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 Mel's Iron Age Holiday b017mv1r (Listen) WED Mel Giedroyc takes a British family back 2,000 years to live WED in a Danish Iron Age village. Every summer ordinary families WED apply to live in the authentically reconstructed village for WED a week, to experience living as close to the Iron Age as WED possible. This year one lucky British family has been WED accepted. WED WED Mel Giedroyc joins them and immerses herself with glee: WED putting on the layers of hand-woven woollen garments and WED matching bonnet and settling down onto her sheepskins in her WED pitch-dark wattle-and-daub hut. It's hard and primitive WED living. Days are occupied by gathering and preparing food as WED close to authentic Iron Age food as possible, grinding WED flour, fetching water, forging iron and chopping wood. WED Through the week, there are emotional highs and lows for all WED of them. WED WED Then the week ends with a pagan ceremony at the Sacrificial WED Bog... WED WED Producer Beth O'Dea. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00txjth (Listen) WED Series 4, In the Name of the Wee Man WED WED Stanley Baxter, inspired in his own stellar career by the WED man's outstanding impersonations, stunning pantomime dame WED performances and brilliant comic timing; pays tribute to WED Tommy Lorne, one of Scotland's greatest early twentieth WED century comedians WED WED Stanley says: "In the long and distinguished history of WED great Scottish comedians there is one name that stands out WED particularly in my mind, that of Tommy Lorne. His star WED burned brightly, but briefly, in the early years of the 20th WED century. My parents loved him, as did many Glaswegians, and WED in 1934 as an eight year old boy I was taken to the Theatre WED Royal to see him as Dame in Babes in the Wood. Although he WED died only a year later and I was to see him no more, his WED hilarious and extraordinary stage persona is still etched in WED my memory. He was, rightly, a huge star in Scotland, and WED although he may be long gone I'd hate for him to be WED forgotten. So this is my tribute to the great Tommy Lorne WED entitled, in the words of his own, famous catch phrase: 'In WED the Name of the Wee Man.'" WED WED Baxter recounts the triumphs and disappointments of Tommy's WED short life, where he brought laughter and happiness to many WED in his Pantomime Dame performances and musical hall WED routines, recreated in this production by Stanley himself, WED joined by John Sessions, himself an ace impersonator and WED life long fan of Stanley's , he says that Stanley has had WED exactly the same kind of lasting influence on his work as WED Tommy Lorne had on Stanley himself. WED WED Tommy Lorne ..... Stanley Baxter WED Willie Barbour ..... John Sessions WED Harry McKelvie ..... John Ramage WED Mary ..... Gabriel Quigley WED Danny ..... David Holt WED WED Producer: Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b017mv1t (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b017jdwc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b017mv1w (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites b017mv1y (Listen) WED Richard Thompson WED WED Following on from the success of her first series, legendary WED guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joan Armatrading, brings WED together a collection of great guitarists from around the WED world, in this five part series. WED WED In today's programme, she talks to Richard Thompson, the WED guitarist's guitarist and all round philosopher. Inspired by WED Django Rheinhardt, Richard is the Fairport Convention WED veteran guitarist who brought the excitement of rock to WED British folk music. WED WED Producer: Susan Marling WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b017mt06 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b017mv20 (Listen) WED Ancient Greek WED WED Sony nominated writer, Oliver Emanuel's sharp contemporary WED drama about a sixth-former who decides to take a stand. WED WED Since Christmas, strange words have been appearing all over WED the school - on the walls of the math's department, across WED the windows of the gym, scratched into the deputy head's WED Mondeo. A protest of sorts it would seem. Apparently written WED in Ancient Greek. WED WED On the last day of school, Alex King walks into Head's WED office and admits that the work is all his. He's one of the WED brightest students in the school. And now he wants his WED chance to speak. WED WED Written by Oliver Emanuel. WED WED Alex King - Alex Austin WED Mr Desai - Vincent Ebrahim WED Lorraine - Sophie Stanton WED The Chorus - Caitlin Fitzgerald WED The Messenger - Austin Moulton. WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b017mv22 (Listen) WED On Tuesday the Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his WED Autumn Statement to Parliament, outlining the country's WED economic prospects and the progress made in tackling the WED deficit. The Bank of England has forecast that the economy WED will stagnate over the next few months and that growth next WED year will be in the region of 0.7%. Meanwhile the net trade WED deficit, the difference between the country's imports and WED exports, grew to £5.5bn from £4.1bn over the last quarter. WED WED Faced with concern over the economy, what measures might the WED Chancellor introduce to boost consumer spending, economic WED expansion and at the same time reduce the deficit? WED WED Money Box Live will look at the small print of the Autumn WED Statement and answer your questions on any tax, welfare, WED saving and investment issues. WED WED Joining Vincent Duggelby on the programme: WED WED John Whiting, Tax Policy Director, Chartered Institute of WED Taxation WED WED Louise Oliver, partner, Taylor Oliver. WED WED Will Hadwen - Working Families WED WED So join Vincent Duggleby and guests and ring in with your WED question. Phone lines open at 1.45pm on Wednesday afternoon WED and the number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic WED charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The WED programme starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b017mtfh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b017mv24 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b017mv26 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b017mv28 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017jdwf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b017mv2b (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 1 WED WED The first in a new series of the programme that dares to WED commit heresy. Victoria Coren and her guests have fun WED exposing the wrong-headedness of received wisdom and WED challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. WED WED Her guests in the first programme are comedian Mark Steel, WED novelist Jessica Berens and actor and national treasure, WED Christopher Biggins. WED WED Christopher Biggins get's on his high pantomime horse, WED arguing against the assertion that Panto is an outdated art WED form, Mark Steel comes out in support of public displays of WED drunkenness and former Tattler journalist Jessica Berens WED explains why people are totally misguided if they think it WED would be nice to live in a house like Downton Abbey. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b017mv2d (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b017mv2g (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a review of Lenny Henry in The WED Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare's tale of two sets of twins WED separated at birth, in a new National Theatre production. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mv1p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b017mv2j (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David WED Aaronovitch with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Anne McElvoy WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b017mv2l (Listen) WED Series 2, Angela Saini WED WED Science writer Angela Saini confesses that as a late adopter WED of new technology, she struggles to reconcile a deep human WED desire to make, mend and recycle with the throwaway culture WED on which the development of new computers, gadgets and WED phones seems to depend. Much of this is inherited from the WED thrifty traditions of her parents. WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b017mv2n (Listen) WED Why don't we all get depressed? The short answer is that WED most of us do - and, paradoxically, there may be good WED reasons, rooted in our evolutionary past, for this. But WED depression comes in all degrees of severity, and only a WED minority of us get clinically depressed: a state which is WED not only more intense than ordinary everyday gloom and WED despondency, but less obviously adaptive. In Frontiers, WED Geoff Watts explores the origins of depression and efforts WED to find new treatments. The latest research is looking into WED the brains of those who never get depressed, those who seem WED to have a natural resilience. Could these hardy individuals WED hold the key to preventing depression taking hold in the WED first place? WED WED The notion that milder forms of depression may be helpful WED emerged a little over a decade ago, prompted by the WED observation that this state of mind is so relatively common. WED The claim is part of a more general attempt to explain the WED kinds of illness we suffer from by reference to our WED evolutionary history. Natural selection is pretty good at WED adapting organisms to function effectively in their WED environments. If depression is a regular feature of our WED state of mind, so the argument goes, maybe it's serving some WED useful purpose. It could be a bit like pain: something we WED don't like, but which has a biological value. WED WED The father of this theory is the American psychologist WED Randolph Nesse, who believes that mild depression deters you WED from wasting energy pursuing unattainable goals, and WED encourages you to disengage from them and turn instead to WED something else. At first hearing the idea sounds fanciful. WED But since Nesse put forward the hypothesis, at least one WED study seems to have confirmed its plausibility. WED WED So much for mild depression; but what of the more severe WED forms that don't so much prompt sufferers to reconsider WED their goals as drive them to give up entirely? Why, ask WED researchers, if mild depression is an adaptation, can it WED become so destructive so easily? Can this destructive form WED of depression be understood and prevented? WED WED One helpful clue towards a better means of doing so can be WED found in the biology of people who experience huge amounts WED of stress, yet show no signs at all of depression. They have WED what is known in the trade as "resilience", and a research WED group in Manchester is trying to understand what it is and WED why it works. Is it a specific brain process? A variation of WED brain chemistry, a set of genes or all three in combination WED with specific life experiences? If something specific in WED people with resilience can be uncovered and then targeted, WED might we be able to prevent other people who face major life WED stress from succumbing to this debilitating disease? WED WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b017mv1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b017jdwh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b017mv2q (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017mr5y (Listen) WED A Night with a Vampire 2, Bewitched WED WED Written by Edith Wharton. WED WED A tale of Vampire possession written in 1925 WED WED Saul Rutledge had a girlfriend before he married his current WED wife. Unfortunately, he still slips at night to see her. WED Even though she dies several years ago... WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b017mv2v (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED WED Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly WED assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden and with the additional WED help of the listening audience as we broadcast live and WED invite them to join in. WED WED Mark will be asking the big questions that are crucial to WED our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic WED and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the WED live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation WED via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the WED world a better place. WED WED This week Mark looks at "Tolerance" - Religious tolerance, WED moral tolerance, not striking the person next to you on the WED bus because they haven't worked out you can send a text WED without your phone beeping every time you press a key. It's WED important to tolerate others' faults, their little quirks, WED and their massive despicable crimes. But can tolerance make WED us into doormats, allowing evil to thrive? Probably. Shame, WED that. WED WED Mark Watson is a multi award winning comedian, including the WED inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim WED Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden WED who won the the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. WED WED Produced by Lianne Coop. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b017mv2x (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 DECEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b017jdx2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b017mv1k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017jdx4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017jdx6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017jdx8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b017jdxb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017x7s8 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented from THU Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. THU Producer: Mo McCullough. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b017mvwt (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte THU Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b017mvww (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in THU Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b017mvwy (Listen) THU Christina Rossetti THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the THU Victorian poet Christina Rossetti. She was born into an THU artistic family and her siblings included Dante Gabriel THU Rossetti, one of the leading lights of the Pre-Raphaelite THU Brotherhood, to whose journal Christina contributed poems. THU Best known for her ballads and religious poetry, Rossetti THU was admired by contemporaries including Swinburne and THU Tennyson. Her work has a spirituality and sensitivity that THU has led to her rediscovery in recent decades, not least by THU feminist critics. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b017mvx0 (Listen) THU Charles Dickens - A Life, Episode 4 THU THU Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of Britain's great THU novelist paints a portrait of an extraordinarily complex THU man. Today a theatrical performance changes the course of THU his life. THU THU As part of Dickens on the BBC Radio 4 broadcasts extracts THU from Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of the THU novelist who called himself the "inimitable". He was the THU writer so "charged with imaginative energy that he rendered THU nineteenth century England crackling, full of truth and THU life, with his laughter, horror and indignation - and THU sentimentality." THU THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b017mvx2 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mvx4 (Listen) THU The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Warnings of Experience THU THU By Anne Bronte THU THU Dramatised by Rachel Joyce THU THU Episode 4. The Warnings of Experience THU THU Rumours have been building about Helen Graham's relationship THU with her landlord Mr. Lawrence. After scurrilous rumours and THU an incident of violence Helen has revealed that he is her THU brother. Now she has given Gilbert her journal to explain THU the events of her past. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b017mvx6 (Listen) THU Farming Zimbabwe THU THU In 2000, President Robert Mugabe introduced "fast-track land THU reform" to Zimbabwe in a wave of often violent takeovers of THU mainly white-owned farms. THU THU Led by veterans of the second Chimurenga - the Zimbabwe War THU of Liberation of the 1960s and 1970s - the takeover was seen THU internationally as a disaster. It was widely reported that THU cronyism and corruption meant only the country's THU politically-connected elite were benefiting from the land THU reform programme, and in the process were leading Zimbabwe's THU lucrative agricultural export industry into freefall. But THU what is the situation a decade on? THU THU Martin Plaut travels across Zimbabwe to investigate new THU research which suggests that farm production levels are THU recovering. He meets some of Zimbabwe's new black farmers - THU some of whom took part in the land seizures - who reveal how THU land reform has transformed their lives. THU THU He also examines the fortunes of Zimbabwe's remaining white THU farmers and the black farm workers they employed and asks if THU country's wider economy has recovered from the massive THU disruption caused by land reform. THU THU Reporter: Martin Plaut THU Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. THU THU 11:30 St Ives and Me b017mvx8 (Listen) THU St Ives, a Cornish seaside town 300 miles from comedian and THU poet Anna Chen's London home has been attracting artists for THU two centuries. A varied assortment of eccentrics, THU entrepreneurs and free spirits have turned the THU pilchard-fishing and tin-mining town into a popular cultural THU haven. THU THU Anna has been holidaying there since she was ten and knew THU many of the famous artists who've populated and popularised THU St Ives. THU THU In the late 1970s the bohemian fashion journalist and THU novelist Molly Parkin was a regular on the St. Ives scene THU and she recalls how, in the dark recesses of Mr Peggotty's THU disco, she introduced Anna to artist Patrick Heron. In his THU Porthmeor studio by the Atlantic, Heron used to make Anna THU mugs of tea while he painted and sketched her and their THU conversations opened her eyes to the arts. Revisiting those THU studios, she meets two present day painters maintaining the THU St Ives' tradition. THU THU On a personal tour of the town, she returns to Barbara THU Hepworth's sculpture garden, hears about the unique light THU conditions that attract so many artists and reveals the THU vital roles Napoleon, Von Ribbentrop and the 1960s hippies THU played in promoting and preserving St Ives. THU THU At lunchtime, in Norway Square, Anna performs her comic THU poetry in the St Ives Festival, which has been attracting THU trendsetters for thirty years. THU THU And she waits on the beach, with bated breath, for the THU legendary 33rd wave. THU THU Producer: Chris Eldon Lee THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b017mvxb (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b017jdxd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b017mvxd (Listen) THU Martha Kearney with national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites b017mvxg (Listen) THU Jennifer Batten THU THU Following on from the success of her first series, legendary THU guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joan Armatrading, brings THU together a collection of great guitarists from around the THU world, in this five part series. In today's programme she THU talks to the American rock chick, effects supremo, shredder THU and tapper Jennifer Batten, who rose to fame with Michael THU Jackson and then Jeff Beck. Jennifer is the one of the THU world's great session guitarists with an added ability to THU perform. She was Jackson's 'blonde twin' who he dressed in THU camp outfits and choreographed her to fly to stage alongside THU him. She never tires of pushing her guitar to the limits, THU finding the latest technology and effects to dazzle her THU listeners. THU THU Producer: Kate Bland THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b017mv2d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b017mvxj (Listen) THU The Hamster THU THU Written by Anders Lustgarten. THU THU Things are going to get out of hand for David and Nicola THU soon after they realise their hamster's unique capacity for THU growth. It's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Life has THU been tough but soon it's improving dramatically. Money is THU rolling in as people queue up to view the rapacious rodent. THU But how long can it last? Where will it end? THU THU It must be like the economists say - growth is guaranteed to THU get us out of the grim situation that we find ourselves in. THU Or will it? THU THU The Hamster is a dark comedy inspired by an observation made THU by the New Economics Foundation; a Hamster doubles in weight THU every week until maturity, after which its growth slows THU down. If it were to continue growing at that rate it would THU reach nine billion tonnes by its first birthday. This is why THU growth, in nature, is limited - and yet we are told that THU economic growth should continue for ever and ever. THU THU Nicola ...... Louise Ford THU David ..... Nick Chambers THU Mr Marshall ...... Patrick Driver THU Mrs Bannister ..... Illona Linthwaite THU Reg Taylor ...... John Yapp THU Robert Benson ..... Dominic Hawksley THU THU Other parts played by Bill Nash, Ania Tomaszewska-Nelson, THU Avita Jay, Oliver Lavery and Anders Lustgarten. THU THU Sound and Music: Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques THU THU Thanks to Nishil Solanki, Andrew Sims and Viki Johnson THU THU Producer/Director: Boz Temple-Morris THU A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b017mwrl (Listen) THU British Waterways is responsible for over two thousand miles THU of canals and navigable rivers across the country. Next THU year, it is just one of many bodies preparing to become a THU charity due to Government cuts. As part of this new status, THU the organisation is launching a recruitment drive for THU volunteers to train as lock keepers. Today's Open Country, THU is from Caen Hill locks in Devizes, one of the most THU impressive and iconic canals in the country. Jules Hudson THU finds out how important volunteers will be in maintaining THU our canals and what the future holds for British Waterways. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer : Anna Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b017lbd3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b017ldlf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b017mwrn (Listen) THU Francine Stock meets renowned film-maker Martin Scorsese, THU who talks about his latest film Hugo 3D and why he has THU ventured into a new world of storytelling. THU THU 16:30 Material World b017mwrq (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 THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b017mwrs (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017jdxg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Elvenquest b01616lj (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU THU When Sam is left behind to "guard the stuff" whilst the THU others are off killing the Man-munching Giant of Rankor he THU is accosted by a beautiful maiden, Eirwen, who has been kept THU captive in the giant's castle and takes Sam to be her THU rescuer. She promptly proposes, throwing the future of the THU Questers' Fellowship into jeopardy. THU THU Meanwhile, Lord Darkness' attempts to conquer Lower Earth THU take a new turn when Kreech discovers an ancient prophesy THU enabling Lord Darkness to create the "UnChosen One", an evil THU spirit that is the only being that can defeat the Chosen THU One. Problem is, it means Lord Darkness has to impregnate a THU hideous, misshapen creature. If only there was one of those THU close to hand... THU THU Starring: THU THU Darren Boyd as Vidar THU Kevin Eldon as Kreech/Dean THU Martha Howe-Douglas as Eirwen THU Dave Lamb as Amis/The Chosen One THU Stephen Mangan as Sam THU Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness THU and Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea THU THU The producer is Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b017mwrx (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b017mwrz (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mvx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b017mws1 (Listen) THU Behind the Lines THU THU Public sector workers are signing up for a Day of Action on THU November 30 in support of a 'fair deal on public service THU pensions'. Lucy Ash goes behind the scenes in Birmingham - THU where the TUC will hold a national rally - with union THU officials planning the strike and the schools and hospitals THU preparing for the effects of the disruption. Will public THU support for the strikers wane as the day approaches, and the THU anger of workers in the private sector is heard? THU THU Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. THU THU 20:30 In Business b017mws3 (Listen) THU Don't Cry for Me, Argentina THU THU Is there life after a sovereign debt default such as Greece THU is now facing ? Peter Day reports from Argentina, a country THU which went through a similar sort of crisis ten years ago. THU You can subscribe to "Peter Days World of Business" podcast, THU via the Radio 4 website. The podcast brings you both the "In THU Business" programme, which broadcasts twenty six times a THU year and also "Global Business" which broadcasts every week THU of the year on the BBC World Service. THU Producer: Richard Berenger Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b017mrfp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b017mvwy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b017jdxj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b017mws5 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig with national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017mtfm (Listen) THU A Night with a Vampire 2, Drink My Blood THU THU Written by Richard Matheson. THU THU Written in 1951 this is an unusually dark comic twist on the THU Vampire tale about a young pasty-faced school kid, Jules, THU whose only ambition in life is to become a Vampire. But will THU his dreams come true? Richard Matheson wrote "I am Legend". THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Les Kelly's Britain b017mws9 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) hosts a magazine show from hell. THU Les is a cross between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. THU He claims this is the only radio show for 'normal, decent THU people'. 'If you aren't normal or decent, this is not the THU show for you,' says Les. THU THU This week Les talks to Britain's only male nun, a man who THU only speaks using sound fx and answers the question: what is THU the world coming to? THU THU Written by Bill Dare with Julian Dutton. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b017mwsc (Listen) THU Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 DECEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b017jdy3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b017mvx0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017jdy5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017jdy7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017jdy9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b017jdyc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017x7zy (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented from FRI Edinburgh by Alison Twaddle. FRI Producer: Mo McCullough. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b017mwyy (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b017mwz0 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b017lbdc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b017mwz2 (Listen) FRI Charles Dickens - A Life, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Penelope Wilton FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b017mwz4 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mwz6 (Listen) FRI The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Anne Bronte FRI FRI Dramatised by Rachel Joyce FRI FRI Episode 5. Matrimony FRI FRI Gilbert has been reading Helen's journal about her FRI tempestuous courtship and marriage with the "wildish" Mr. FRI Huntingdon. Now he is worried about how the story will FRI proceed. FRI FRI Gilbert ... Robert Lonsdale FRI Helen ... Hattie Morahan FRI Huntingdon ... Leo Bill FRI Arthur ...Samuel Bridger FRI Mrs. Markham ... Carolyn Pickles FRI Rose ... Leah Brotherhead FRI Annabella ... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Hargrave ... Stephen Critchlow FRI Lowborough ... Chris Webster FRI Miss Myers ... Alex Rivers FRI Lawrence ... Carl Prekopp FRI Eliza ... Victoria Inez Hardy FRI Rev. Millward ... Gerard McDermott FRI Mrs. Maxwell ... Tracy Wiles FRI Boarham ... James Lailey FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 Escape from the Deep b017mx3x (Listen) FRI Louis de Bernieres returns to Cephalonia, the setting for FRI Captain Corelli's Mandolin, to tell one of the greatest, FRI most controversial, submarine escape stories of World War FRI II. FRI FRI In the village of Mavrata, in the south east corner of the FRI Greek island of Cephalonia, is a memorial to the 60 men who FRI died when their submarine HMS Perseus hit an Italian mine FRI and sank, instantly, to the seabed 170 feet below. FRI FRI But at the bottom of this memorial are the extraordinary FRI words "The sole survivor John H Capes was rescued and FRI sheltered by patriotic islanders who helped him to escape." FRI FRI When John Capes, romantic, adventurer, womaniser and FRI submarine stoker was found half-dead on a Cephalonia beach FRI on the morning of 7th December 1941, he had a scarcely FRI believable tale to tell: he claimed to have, almost FRI miraculously, survived the destruction of Perseus, and have FRI escaped, alone, from the wreck at the bottom of the sea. FRI FRI For nearly 70 years after the event, Capes' story was a FRI source of controversy for naval historians: could he really FRI have escaped through a jammed hatch in the severely damaged, FRI flooded vessel? Could he possibly have made it to the FRI surface through 170 feet of water from the bottom of the FRI Mediterranean, a depth never before survived? Could he then FRI have swum, injured, through three miles of cold, choppy sea FRI to the island? FRI FRI Almost as extraordinary are the eighteen months Capes spent FRI on the island before being spirited away by the Royal Navy FRI in 1943. The islanders, at great risk to themselves, FRI sheltered and disguised Capes from the occupying Italian FRI forces, and fed him when they themselves were on the brink FRI of starvation. FRI FRI Louis explores John Capes' extraordinary story, and asks: FRI could it really be true? FRI FRI Producer: Jane Greenwood FRI A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b017mx3z (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI FRI Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about the inhabitants of FRI a small town. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b017mx41 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b017jdyf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b017mx5v (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites b017mx5x (Listen) FRI Baaba Maal FRI FRI Following on from the success of her first series, legendary FRI guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joan Armatrading, brings FRI together a collection of great guitarists from around the FRI world, in this five part series. FRI FRI In today's programme she transforms listeners to the FRI northern most reaches of Senegal and the music and culture FRI of Baaba Maal, an inspirational musician at home and abroad. FRI She hears about the core of classical music at the heart of FRI traditional and contemporary music, the range of instruments FRI that make up the beautiful sounds from the region and the FRI extraordinary position of Senegal in Africa, a meeting place FRI for Arabic and African cultures. Baaba demonstrates some FRI different tunings to Joan, that reveal the geographic and FRI cultural origins of the music; he also discusses the FRI resurgence of interest in traditional music among young FRI musicians in Dakar. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Bland FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b017mwrx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tt6fs (Listen) FRI The Second Mr Bailey FRI FRI John is a young gay man living in Edinburgh in 1967. FRI Homosexuality is about to be legalised in England, but not FRI in Scotland. When John takes up lodgings with the enigmatic FRI Mrs Margaret Bailey, he begins to experience what life as a FRI conventional straight man could be like. But Margaret is no FRI ordinary house-wife; she's slowly turning John into a FRI replica of her husband. And John's beginning to like it. FRI FRI Haunting drama by Andrew Doyle. FRI FRI Young John...... Sam Swann FRI Older John ...... Richard Greenwood FRI Brian................ Owen Whitelaw FRI Margaret..... Gerda Stevenson FRI Hilary........ Gabriel Quigley FRI Policeman...... James Bryce FRI FRI Producer: Kirsty Williams FRI Director: Lu Kemp. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017mz3s (Listen) FRI Hailsham, East Sussex FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Hailsham Pavilion, FRI East Sussex. Joining him are Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness FRI and Matthew Wilson. FRI FRI Pippa explores biosecurity in the new Quarantine House at FRI Kew Gardens' Research Facility. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b00szzmv (Listen) FRI A Little More Love in the Afternoon, Chitting FRI FRI By Elizabeth Buchan. FRI FRI Read by Melody Grove. FRI FRI Twelve-year-old Edie is not happy. Her mum's going away for FRI a week which means she has to go to her grandmother's house FRI after school. Worse still, she'll have to eat her gran's FRI cooking (stew, with boiled carrots! White fish with FRI cabbage!). Needless to say, her grandmother's none too happy FRI to have the company of a "sulky young miss". As the week FRI passes, slowly, the pair learn to make the best of a bad FRI situation. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b017mz3v (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's weekly obituaries FRI programme. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b017mz3x (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b017mz3z (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017jdyh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b017mz41 (Listen) FRI Series 35, Episode 4 FRI FRI Topical stand-up, sketches and comedy songs. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b017mz43 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b017mz45 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including a review of The Heart of Robin FRI Hood, a new Royal Shakespeare Company production which FRI offers a twist on the classic tale of the Sherwood Forest FRI outlaws. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017mwz6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b017mz47 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live panel discussion of news and FRI politics from the Dallow Community Centre in Luton. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b017mz49 (Listen) FRI The historian Lisa Jardine reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b017mz4c (Listen) FRI The Bid FRI FRI After five years of planning and an 18-month campaign to win FRI votes costing more than £15m, England's bid to host the 2018 FRI World Cup ended in humiliation in front of millions of TV FRI viewers around the world. FRI FRI Exactly a year after FIFA President Sepp Blatter walked onto FRI the stage at the Messe Centre in Zurich and revealed that FRI Russia would be hosting the 2018 World Cup, this drama tells FRI the behind-the-scenes story of what happened in Zurich in FRI the days leading up to the announcement on 2nd December FRI 2010. FRI FRI Focusing on the England bid team - which included David FRI Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham - the drama is FRI based on interviews with many of those who were there, and FRI on published material, and uses actors to play all the key FRI characters. FRI FRI The England bid team arrived in Zurich with high hopes. They FRI were well organized, had a strong technical bid and their FRI formal presentation to the FIFA voting executives went FRI without a hitch - it was heartfelt, passionate and had the FRI biggest A-list celebrities. FRI FRI But behind England's super-confident presentation, a FRI desperate struggle was taking place in hotel rooms and the FRI corridors of FIFA's HQ in Zurich as England jostled with FRI other countries, courting FIFA executive members, lobbying FRI for votes and making deals. FRI FRI This is a gripping story of hope, broken promises and FRI disappointment - a compelling and entertaining insight into FRI the business behind the game. FRI FRI Andy Anson ..... Adrian Rawlins FRI Geoff Thompson ..... Richard Ridings FRI David Dein/Sepp Blatter ...... John Sessions FRI David Beckham/Prince William ..... James Hurn FRI David Cameron ..... Christopher Villiers FRI Jack Warner ..... Larrington Walker FRI Eddie Afekafe ..... Jermaine Liburd FRI Chuck Blazer ..... Glenn Wrage FRI Mohamed Bin Hamman ..... Nadim Sawalha FRI Voiceover ...... Justine Greene FRI Other parts ..... Dolya Gavanski & Tracy Ifeachor FRI FRI Writen by Matthew Solon FRI FRI Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b017jdyk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b017mz4f (Listen) FRI With Ritula Shah. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017mws7 (Listen) FRI A Night with a Vampire 2, A Lot of Mince Pies FRI FRI Written by Robert Swindells. FRI FRI Swindells is a British author known mainly for his FRI children's books and indeed, this tale first appeared in a FRI collection of haunted tales for the young adult. But it has FRI a macabre and chilling undertone - set at Xmas and focussing FRI on a group of carollers who visit the same cottage every FRI year - and receive a special treat in return..... FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b017mt00 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b017mz4k (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy presents his weekly round-up of events at FRI Westminster. FRI
25 November, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 26/11/2011 - 02/12/2011
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