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SAT SATURDAY 03 DECEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b017mxdm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b017mwz2 (Listen) SAT Charles Dickens - A Life, Episode 5 SAT SAT Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of Britain's great SAT novelist paints a portrait of an extraordinarily complex SAT man. Today's themes are adulation and farewells. SAT SAT As part of Dickens on the BBC Radio 4 broadcasts extracts SAT from Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of the SAT novelist who called himself the "inimitable". He was the SAT writer so "charged with imaginative energy that he rendered SAT nineteenth century England crackling, full of truth and SAT life, with his laughter, horror and indignation - and SAT sentimentality." SAT SAT Read by Penelope Wilton SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017mxdp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017mxdr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017mxdt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b017mxdw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017mz6f (Listen) SAT with Richard Hill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b017mz6h (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b017mxdy (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b017mxf0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b017vbbf (Listen) SAT British Waterways is responsible for over two thousand miles SAT of canals and navigable rivers across the country. Next SAT year, it is just one of many bodies preparing to become a SAT charity due to Government cuts. As part of this new status, SAT the organisation is launching a recruitment drive for SAT volunteers to train as lock keepers. Today's Open Country, SAT is from Caen Hill locks in Devizes, one of the most SAT impressive and iconic canals in the country. Jules Hudson SAT finds out how important volunteers will be in maintaining SAT our canals and what the future holds for British Waterways. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer : Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b017vbbh (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 b017mxf2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b017vcll (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b017vcln (Listen) SAT Noah Stewart, Aoife Mannix, photojournalist Giles Duley, SAT Parliament Choir, art teacher David Wood, Mel C's SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with rising opera star Noah Stewart, poet SAT Aoife Mannix, the fashion photographer turned SAT photojournalist who went to Afghanistan where he stepped on SAT a landmine and lost three limbs, the art teacher who taught SAT two Turner Prize winners, the Parliament choir, and the SAT Inheritance Tracks of Sporty Spice Girl Mel C. SAT SAT Producer: Anna Bailey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b017vclq (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets scriptwriter Edward Canfor-Dumas who has SAT just returned from Gambia where he was acting as a SAT Commonwealth observer in the recent Presidential elections. SAT He describes how even with a scrupulously correct voting SAT process in the remote bush the outcome can still be SAT influenced. John also talks to journalist Julia Horton who SAT went trekking in Nepal on the trail of the Maoist guerillas SAT and Leigh Banks for whom the Himalayas meant white water SAT rafting. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The iPod Series b017c8cd (Listen) SAT Oscar Wilde's iPod SAT SAT David Owen Norris and guests listen to Oscar Wilde's SAT favourite songs, in the room in the Cadogan Hotel, SAT Knightsbridge, where he was arrested. The guests include SAT Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, who has unearthed a whole SAT series of popular songs about Wilde. SAT SAT This was before his disgrace, while Wilde was a celebrity, SAT and the songs are satirical but affectionate - we hear 'The SAT Flippety Flop Man' and 'Quite Too Utterly Utter'. Other SAT guests are Wilde scholar Owen Dudley Edwards and Franny SAT Moyle, the author of the recent biography of Wilde's wife SAT Constance. SAT SAT Constance and Oscar gave great parties in their 'house SAT beautiful' in Chelsea, and visitors would write poems - and SAT songs - in their autograph books. David Owen Norris digs SAT these out of the British Library, and discovers a song SAT written by George Grossmith of 'Diary of a Nobody' fame - a SAT song about a party, so we hear it, 'Keep on Talking.' Also SAT from the autograph books comes a song about Mrs Wilde and SAT her baby son; a now-forgotten side of Wilde, as a family SAT man. We hear too the favourite song of Wilde's lover and SAT nemesis 'Bosie', Alfred Lord Douglas, a Mozart aria about SAT seduction, deception, and ruin. SAT SAT Presenter David Owen Norris is a broadcaster, composer and SAT concert pianist. He has arranged the songs, which are SAT performed by Thomas Guthrie and jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b017vcls (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT Who's ahead in the long bout between George Osborne and Ed SAT Balls ? The clashes between the Chancellor and his Labour SAT shadow are perhaps the most riveting at Westminster. Here, SAT reflecting from the political ringside after the Autumn SAT Statement, are Janan Ganesh of The Economist, and William SAT Keegan of The Observer. SAT SAT How reliable are economic predictions? Andrew Dilnot, former SAT director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies. explains the SAT art of economic forecasting on which politicians rely. SAT SAT After Wednesday's public sector strike over pensions, the SAT trades unions are considering their next move. What should SAT it be? The former union leader Bill Morris and the blogger SAT Dan Hodges weigh the chances of success. SAT SAT Finally, how do you go about painting a picture of the SAT Commons Speaker ? The artist, Brendan Kelly, reveals his SAT approach in the week his picture of John Bercow was SAT unveiled. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b017vcm7 (Listen) SAT Being Italian is bad for your health! Well at least that's SAT the contention from Bologna where winter is descending and a SAT range of ailments, unknown to British correspondent Danny SAT Mitzman, are making their presence felt! It's election time SAT in the Democratic Republic of Congo and while you might SAT expect the sounds of tear gas canisters being fired and SAT angry argument about electoral fraud, Will Ross has SAT encountered a more unexpected accompaniment: an orchestra SAT playing Handel's Water Music! A bag of snakes tipped out in SAT a government office in India - Craig Jeffrey says the SAT incident's once again got the country talking about SAT corruption. A book fair --and a beating up: Sara Sheridan in SAT the United Arab Emirates on the issues surrounding the SAT release from prison of a group of people accused of being SAT disrespectful to the ruling family. And it might be chilly SAT in Des Moines, Iowa, but the state's preparing for its SAT moment in the political sunlight. It's time for the Iowa SAT caucuses, critical for Republicans hoping to become their SAT party's candidate for the White House. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b017vcpk (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b017mz41 (Listen) SAT Series 35, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Jan SAT Ravens, Andrew Maxwell and Mitch Benn to scour this week's SAT news for comedy. SAT SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b017mxf4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b017mxf8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b017mz47 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live panel discussion of news and SAT politics from the Dallow Community Centre in Luton with SAT Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt; Shadow Justice Secretary, SAT Sadiq Khan; writer, Bonnie Greer; and Chairman of NBNK SAT Investment bank and former chairman of Lloyds, Lord Levene. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b017vcpm (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00p016z (Listen) SAT Dover and the Sleeping Beauty SAT SAT Comedy thriller by Paul Mendelson, set in the 1960s, SAT featuring Scotland Yard's most unwanted man, Chief Inspector SAT Wilfred Dover, and his long-suffering gofer, Sergeant SAT McGregor. A young woman, Isabel Slatcher, has been in an SAT irreversible coma for months after being shot outside her SAT local church in a small northern town. Now she has been SAT smothered - murdered. Who killed her? Was it the person that SAT shot her and why have they waited until now to complete SAT their evil crime? SAT SAT Chief Inspector Dover ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Sergeant McGregor ...... Stuart McQuarrie SAT Chief Constable Muckle ...... Philip Whitchurch SAT Mrs Muckle ...... Colleen Prendergast SAT Reverend Bonnington ...... Shaun Prendergast SAT Mrs Horsley ...... Geraldine McNulty SAT Violet ...... Debbie Arnold SAT Freddie Gash ...... Ross Adams SAT Muckle ...... Cesca Bonetti SAT SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Directed by David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b017mszh (Listen) SAT Series 9, Joe Henderson SAT SAT This week Ken examines the life and music of Joe Henderson, SAT the tenor saxophone star of both Verve & Blue Note Records. SAT Born in Ohio in 1937 Joe Henderson taught himself to play at SAT the young age of 9, later perfecting his craft at college SAT and university. By the time he was 25 he'd led his own band SAT and joined a group with Kenny Dorham. Over the course of his SAT career he went on to play with jazz greats such as Miles SAT Davies and Herbie Hancock and even joined the jazz-rock band SAT Blood, Sweat & Tears. SAT His own projects won several Grammys and in his later career SAT he became something of a national star in America, even SAT performing for Bill Clinton at his first presidential SAT inauguration. He had a lovely lyrical style with a virtuosic SAT technique and is widely regarded as one of the greatest SAT improvisers in jazz. SAT Ken is joined in the studio by one of UK's leading SAT saxophonists, Soweto Kinch. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b017vdhb (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b017vdhf (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines, SAT presented by Carolyn Quinn. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b017mz6h (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b017mxfb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b017mxfd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017mxfg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b017vdhh (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive will be getting up close and personal with pop legend SAT Jimmy Osmond, who topped the charts at the tender age of SAT nine with 'Long Haired Lover From Liverpool' and has been SAT performing with 'The Osmonds' for almost five decades. Jimmy SAT talks to Clive about their final UK tour next year and how SAT he'll soon be leading the cast of panto favourite 'Aladdin' SAT in Swansea. SAT SAT For those who have ever pondered what a bracket and a SAT codpiece have in common, 'The Inky Fool', journalist, SAT blogger and man of many words Mark Forsyth will be SAT enlightening us about this and other etymological SAT complexities at play in the English language. His book 'The SAT Etymologicon' maps the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath SAT our vocabulary. SAT SAT Loose Ends Princess Allegra McEvedy will be trying on a SAT glass slipper and talking to comic, presenter and handsome SAT Prince Hardeep Singh Kohli about writing 'Bollywood SAT Cinderella' for cross-cultural theatre Tara Arts. SAT This much loved Christmas classic has been spiced up with an SAT Indian twist. Will Allegra escape her fate and go to the SAT Bollywood Ball? Oh no she won't!...Oh yes she will! SAT SAT Following the BAFTA-nominated success of 'Dead Set', SAT journalist and screen burner Charlie Brooker returns to SAT Channel 4 with three satirical, blackly comic dramas which SAT tap into the collective unease of the modern world. Charlie SAT wrote two of the three 'Black Mirror' episodes which start SAT on 4th December at 21.00. SAT SAT Tragi-comic pop artist Liz Green will be performing 'Bad SAT Medicine' from her album 'O! Devotion!' And Lightspeed SAT Champion Devonté Hynes celebrates his solo return as Blood SAT Orange and will be performing 'Champagne Coast' from his SAT album 'Coastal Grooves'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:02 Profile b017vdhk (Listen) SAT Youssou N'Dour SAT SAT Profile this week takes a look at the Senegalese singer SAT Youssou N'Dour who has surprised many by announcing he is to SAT quit music for a career in politics. The son of a car SAT mechanic, N'Dour went on to become one of the most SAT influential recording artists in the world. With SAT presidential elections taking place in Senegal next SAT February, Edward Stourton asks if N'Dour has what it takes SAT to succeed on the political stage. SAT SAT Producers: Ben Crighton and Hannah Barnes. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b017vdhm (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the writers Liz Jensen and SAT Natalie Haynes and comedian David Schneider review the SAT week's cultural highlights including Martin Scorsese's film SAT Hugo SAT SAT FILM Hugo - Martin Scorsese's first 3D film SAT SAT THEATRE The Comedy of Errors - National Theatre - starring SAT Lenny Henry SAT SAT BOOK The Origins of Violence -- Fabrice Humbert - winner of SAT the French Orange Prize SAT SAT EXHIBITION United Enemies - Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds - SAT survey of British sculpture in the 1960s and 70s SAT SAT TV Enlightened - Sky Atlantic SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b017vdhp (Listen) SAT When Reporters Cross the Line SAT SAT How did the notion of journalistic impartiality develop? SAT Former ITN editor Stewart Purvis explores how the line that SAT separates reporting from opinion - and even propaganda - has SAT been drawn and redefined over the past 80 years. Through SAT rare archive and through interviews with some of the SAT twentieth century's best-known correspondents, he charts the SAT move from wartime censorship and Cold War clashes between SAT broadcasters and the Government to more authored styles of SAT reporting including Martin Bell's famous 'journalism of SAT attachment'. SAT SAT Stewart Purvis is Professor of Television Journalism at City SAT University, London. Newsreel historian Jeff Hulbert helped SAT with the archive research for this programme. The producer SAT is Helen Grady. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b017lbqk (Listen) SAT Beware of Pity, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Stefan Zweig. Dramatised for radio by Stephen Wyatt. SAT SAT Stefan Zweig is a remarkable writer who had a remarkable SAT life, but is not nearly as well known as he deserves to be, SAT as Simon Gray discovered when he was attracted by the cover SAT of his only novel, Beware of Pity. SAT SAT Simon Gray took the book on holiday with him and used it as SAT an escape from worrying about his cancer and the likely SAT prognosis, "it being too good to read except with the SAT closest attention" and he became immersed in the story of "a SAT young man betrayed by his own unwonted impulses, his own SAT nature........ it's the way that the novel single-mindedly, SAT almost obsessively, illustrates and analyses the destructive SAT power of a single emotion -if that's what pity is - that SAT makes it unique, at least in my experience." SAT SAT Simon Gray embarked on a dramatisation of the book for Radio SAT 4, but it was unfinished at his death in 2008. Another SAT writer, Clare McIntyre, was also attracted by the story and SAT wrote a stage version, but she too died before it was SAT completed. Stephen Wyatt has taken on the task of writing a SAT two part radio version based on Clare McIntyre's material, SAT which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 27 November and 4 SAT December, with a cast that includes Piers Wehner, Bryony SAT Hannah, Ronald Pickup, Jasper Britton & Michael Jayston. SAT SAT Anton Hofmiller ...... Piers Wehner SAT Edith ...... Bryony Hannah SAT Kekesfalva ...... Ronald Pickup SAT Dr Condor ....... Jasper Britton SAT Josef ...... Michael Jayston SAT Ilona ...... Mabel Clements SAT Ferencz ...... Jack Chedburn SAT Jozsi/Flowerseller ..... Tai Lawrence SAT The Apothecary ..... Jason Devoy SAT SAT Director: Jane Morgan SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b017mxfj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b017mv2j (Listen) SAT Culture of Entitlement SAT SAT They're calling it the biggest strike in a generation. SAT Around 2 million public sector workers are expected to walk SAT out on Wednesday, including teachers, health workers and SAT immigration staff. More than 20,000 schools face closure, SAT coastguard services will be restricted, benefits centres SAT shut and emergency plans have been put in place at Heathrow SAT to cope with the cues for passport control. The strike is in SAT protest at plans to make workers contribute an extra 3% SAT towards their pension and raise the retirement age to 67. SAT The strike comes a day after what's being called "Black SAT Tuesday" when the Chancellor George Osborne reveals just how SAT bad our national economic prospects are. Of course no one SAT wants to work longer and pay more towards their pension, but SAT state sector pensions cost £32 billion a year - more than SAT the police, prisons and courts combined. In times of such SAT extreme economic peril and austerity is the duty of all us - SAT not just the bankers - to ask what are we entitled to get SAT from the state? The majority of public sector pensioners are SAT less than £5,000; hardly excessive, but from the perspective SAT of the 65% of workers in the private sector who have no SAT pension at all Wednesday's strike might look like greed. For SAT a long time we assumed that increasing people's sense of SAT entitlement - to benefits, core public services, decent SAT pensions - was a sign of moral progress but should we SAT instead think the reverse? That we need to lower people's SAT sense of entitlement and tackle the culture of dependency SAT not just to make the economy more dynamic and services more SAT affordable, but to strengthen the moral sinews of society? SAT When Europe is looking to China to bail it out perhaps it's SAT time to listen to the words of Jin Liqun, the chairman of SAT China's sovereign wealth fund, who's blamed the Eurozone SAT problems on the accumulated troubles of the worn out welfare SAT society that, in his words, encourages sloth and indolence. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b017m14p (Listen) SAT (3/17) SAT Competitors from East Anglia, the West Midlands and London SAT join Russell Davies at the BBC Radio Theatre for the third SAT heat in the quest for the next Brain of Britain. SAT SAT From which port, in 1588, did the Spanish Armada set sail? SAT And which singer fronted the Jeff Beck Group in 1968 and SAT 1969 before going on to sing with The Faces? SAT SAT There's also a chance for a Brain of Britain listener to win SAT a prize and outwit the contestants with questions of his or SAT her own. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Simonides: Body Bags b017ldlh (Listen) SAT Poet Robert Crawford, who has translated Simonides into SAT Scots, investigates the connections between the ancient SAT Greek Poet and modern warfare. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 DECEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b017n1cr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kvh1q (Listen) SUN Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Wolf-hunt SUN SUN Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian writer SUN of the 1870s, laced with dry humour. SUN SUN Lollo says he is setting a trap for a local animal but SUN really it will be for a human, someone close to his heart. SUN SUN Read by Dermot Crowley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017n1ct (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017n1cw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017n1cy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b017n1d0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b017vf0y (Listen) SUN The bells from the Church of St David, Moreton-in-Marsh, SUN Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b017vdhk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b017n1d2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b017vjlc (Listen) SUN The Choir SUN SUN Through a visit to one of Britain's best known Cathedrals, SUN Mark Tully investigates the importance of the choir's role SUN in contemporary worship. With examples from some of the SUN finest choral music ranging from contemporary masses and SUN traditional psalms to the work of Gospel choirs and the New SUN York Cantorial Choirs, this is a programme that explores the SUN communal power of singing. SUN SUN Why does such music continue to provide a vital and SUN indispensible element of worship and how can it have a wider SUN impact on the spiritual communities its serves? SUN SUN With special recordings of the Winchester Cathedral Choir in SUN rehearsal and in conversation with the Precentor and SUN Director of Music, this is a celebration of singing to the SUN glory of God. SUN SUN This edition of Something Understood includes music by SUN Antonio Lotti, Gustav Holst and Samuel Malavsky and readings SUN by Samuel Butler, Wendy Cope and Siegfried Sassoon. The SUN readers are Samantha Bond, Jack Shepherd and Wendy Cope. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b017vjlf (Listen) SUN Bill Grayson from the Morecombe Bay Conservation Grazing SUN Company has a herd of more than 100 organic native cows, SUN which graze an area of around 2,500 acres in the North of SUN England...but he has no farm and no land of his own. SUN SUN His cows are brought on to nature reserves and areas of SUN special interest to hoover up unwanted grasses without SUN damaging the rare flowers and plants. This traditional way SUN of managing land is now unusual in the UK. SUN SUN The native breeds including Red Poll and Blue Grey cattle SUN are rotated around more than thirty sites in Cumbria, SUN Lancashire and Yorkshire. Some are internationally important SUN limestone pavements, others forests, wetlands and fens. As SUN each site is different each of the wildlife groups and SUN organisations he works with have different requests on how SUN the so called 'old fashioned mowers' use the land. SUN SUN Caz Graham follows the annual journey of three of the older SUN cows, Buffy, Lilian and Alice as they are moved from a SUN grazed hay meadow on the Natural England's Gaitbarrrows SUN Nature Reserve to an ungrazed hilly forest reserve around 15 SUN miles away. SUN SUN She also catches up with the Cumbria Wildlife Trust and Rare SUN Breeds Survival Trust who are using a GPS collar to map the SUN activity of one of the cows 24 hours a day. SUN SUN This programme is presented by Caz Graham and produced in SUN Birmingham by Angela Frain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b017n1d4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b017n1d6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b017vjlk (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 Christmas Appeal b017n1v9 (Listen) SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal SUN SUN To give to this years appeal call: 0800 082 82 84. Or donate SUN online via the Radio 4 website. Or send cheques payable to SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, Trafalgar Square, SUN London, WC2N 4JJ SUN SUN This will be the 85th year that St Martin-in-the-Fields in SUN Trafalgar Square, has had a radio appeal at Christmas. Last SUN year this appeal raised a over a million pounds. The Vicar SUN of St Martins said at the time: "we're standing on the SUN shoulders of lots of people who've done this before and SUN we've reached a million pounds - it is extraordinary." The SUN money helps homeless people who arrive in London from all SUN over the UK, and receive shelter, food, help and advice at SUN the Connection at St Martins. As Ben who's from Glasgow SUN says: "It's easy to walk in your home city when you're a SUN success, but when things are not going your way you want to SUN be somewhere where nobody knows anything about you." The SUN Christmas Appeal also maintains a special Vicar's Relief SUN fund which makes thousands of one-off grants to people in SUN need around the country. So a homeless family in Cardiff who SUN were moving with their month old baby from a hostel to SUN unfurnished temporary accommodation received a grant to buy SUN bedding and a bed. SUN SUN Donate to the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal SUN SUN You can support the Appeal by SUN :: giving online at www.smitf.org/christmas SUN :: or phone 0800 082 82 84 (free from most UK landlines) SUN :: or send a cheque made payable to the St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal and post to SUN SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields SUN Trafalgar Square SUN London SUN WC2N 4JJ SUN SUN Please give us your name and address for GiftAid! SUN 88p of every £1 donated to the 2010 Appeal is SUN helping thousands of people in need through the SUN work of the Vicar’s Relief Fund and The Connection SUN at St Martin’s. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b017n1d8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b017n1db (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b017vjlp (Listen) SUN A service for Advent: Searching for light from Our Lady and SUN the English Martyrs, Cambridge 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 light. SUN SUN O Morning Star, SUN splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness: SUN Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness SUN and the shadow of death. SUN SUN Leader: Monsignor Peter Leeming SUN Address: Dr Susan O'Brian, University of the Sorbonne SUN Director of Music: Nigel Kerry SUN Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b017mz49 (Listen) SUN Finding Family History SUN SUN The historian Lisa Jardine welcomes recent moves to promote SUN the teaching of history in schools and finds herself SUN converted to the value of family history after the discovery SUN of a tape recording shed light on a puzzling family SUN photograph which was taken in 1906. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b017vjlr (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN With Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 09:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b017n1vc (Listen) SUN Received with Thanks SUN SUN To give to this year's appeal call: 0800 082 82 84. Or SUN donate online via the Radio 4 website. Or send cheques SUN payable to St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, SUN Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 4JJ SUN SUN "It's easy to walk in your home town when you're a success, SUN but when things are not going your way you want to be SUN somewhere where nobody knows anything about you." Ben, SUN formerly a project manager in construction from Glasgow, SUN found himself homeless in London for the first time: "I had SUN no sleeping bag, I had no skills, I'd lived an ordinary SUN life." He is one of the many people who have been helped by SUN the Christmas Appeal this past year. He received shelter, SUN food, help and advice at the Connection at St Martins. For SUN 85 years radio listeners have been giving to this St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal. The money also SUN maintains a special Vicar's Relief fund which makes SUN thousands of one off grants to people in need across the UK. SUN It might be a grant to help someone secure a tenancy and SUN prevent homelessness or money for a family needing basic SUN furniture - a bed, a cooker as they move from a hostel into SUN temporary accommodation. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b017vjlt (Listen) SUN Written by: Nawal Gadalla SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b017vjlw (Listen) SUN Martin Sorrell SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the businessman Sir Martin SUN Sorrell. SUN SUN He's been called "the world's most influential ad man," and SUN is the founder and chief executive of the world's biggest SUN advertising agency, WPP. SUN SUN He was 40 when he left Saatchi and Saatchi to be his own SUN boss, he says: "When I started off, what I wanted to do was SUN to build a company and manage it - I wanted to be an SUN entrepreneur and be a manager." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b017m14y (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a SUN first-time visit to The Sage Theatre in Gateshead. Regulars SUN Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined SUN on the panel by Marcus Brigstocke, with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. Producer - SUN Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b017vjly (Listen) SUN Britain's best food markets SUN SUN Sheila Dillon talks to Food Award judges Jeremy Lee and Kath SUN Dalmeny about some of the exciting grassroots developments SUN in local markets around the country, focusing on the three SUN outstanding examples of community food retailing which are SUN transforming their communities in different and imaginative SUN ways. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b017n1dd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b017vjm0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with Shaun Ley. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Things We Forgot to Remember b017vjyd (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 4 SUN SUN We remember the defeat of the Spanish Armada as a triumph SUN for the English underdog. How Sir Francis Drake fought off a SUN Spanish behemoth with superior seamanship, first rate SUN gunnery and some friendly weather. But we forget that SUN 'plucky' England sent a fleet of comparable might to invade SUN Spain the very next year. And unlike its Spanish SUN counterpart, The English successfully landed their troops. SUN Michael Portillo tells the story of Sir Francis Drake and SUN the English Armada and finds a series of events remembered SUN very differently either side of the Bay of Biscay. Michael SUN also finds the origins of our own forgetting amidst the SUN scurrilous complexities of an Elizabethan cover up. SUN SUN Producer James Cook. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017mz3s (Listen) SUN Hailsham, East Sussex SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Hailsham Pavilion, SUN East Sussex. Joining him are Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness SUN and Bob Flowerdew. SUN SUN Pippa discusses the latest biosecurity measures at Kew SUN Gardens' Quarantine House. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness discusses the use of architectural plants, a SUN garden centerpiece, as it were. SUN SUN In addition, "the toughest plant in the country" and making SUN a meal of your Dandelions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Coming Out b017vk95 (Listen) SUN Kelly SUN SUN Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how SUN far to be honest about ourselves to the rest of the world, SUN and in doing so make ourselves vulnerable to the judgements SUN of others. SUN SUN 3. Kelly SUN SUN At the age of 17, as a newly-qualified driver, Kelly knocked SUN down an elderly woman on a pedestrian crossing. The case SUN never came to court but for 40 years Kelly lived with the SUN unexplored trauma and guilt of what had happened, until at SUN last she was able to share her secret. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b017vk97 (Listen) SUN Beware of Pity, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Stefan Zweig. Dramatised for radio by Stephen Wyatt. SUN SUN What had seemed to Hofmiller to be merely a social blunder SUN has had unforeseen consequences and he's now embarked on a SUN most perilous course of deception. 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 Anton Hofmiller ..... Piers Wehner SUN Edith ...... Bryony Hannah SUN Kekesfalva ....... Ronald Pickup SUN Dr Condor ..... Jasper Britton SUN Colonel/ Josef ...... Michael Jayston SUN Ilona ..... Mabel Clements SUN Ferencz ..... Jack Chedburn SUN SUN Director: Jane Morgan SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b017vk99 (Listen) SUN Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture SUN SUN December's Bookclub author is Sebastian Barry. Well known as SUN a successful dramatist and novelist, his literary career SUN became stellar when he won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year SUN Award with this month's chosen book, The Secret Scripture; SUN and he is considered one of Ireland's greatest living SUN writers. SUN SUN The novel is told by Roseanne, who is uncertain of her age; SUN she thinks she is now one hundred. She's been incarcerated SUN in asylums in Ireland for over sixty years, and is writing SUN the story of her life, on pieces of paper that she hides SUN under the floor boards of her room. SUN SUN This is the Secret Scripture of the title; which comes from SUN a poem by an Irish nationalist poet, Thomas Kettle, who SUN fought for the British in World War I. As the book unfolds, SUN we discover the why and the how of her incarceration. SUN SUN The second narrator of the novel is Roseanne's psychiatrist SUN Dr William Grene, who must judge whether Roseanne can be SUN released into society as the hospital is about to close. As SUN he comes to know her, he becomes fascinated by her and the SUN history - which is the history of twentieth century Ireland SUN - that she represents. SUN SUN Sebastian Barry tells readers how he uses his own family in SUN his fiction and how the character of Roseanne came from SUN hearing about a great aunt who had been shunned by the rest SUN of the family - the only thing known about her was her great SUN beauty. His was a family beset with secrets, and his mother, SUN Joan O'Hara (a famous actress of her day), was a "consummate SUN un-coverer of secrets". SUN SUN January's Bookclub choice : 'The Beatles' by Hunter Davies. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 The Poetry of Aran b017vk9c (Listen) SUN For centuries The Aran Islands, three limestone rocks of the SUN west coast of Ireland, have been an inspiration to writers, SUN artists and intellectuals, in search of an authentic Irish SUN experience. SUN SUN As the future of the Irish language in Ireland is far from SUN secure, award-winning poet Daljit Nagra visits the islands SUN where Irish is still the first language, and explores their SUN rich poetic heritage. SUN SUN He speaks to the poet Seamus Heaney about why he wrote three SUN poems about the Aran Islands in his first collection and SUN Heaney reads some poetry in Irish for the first time around SUN 40 years; Daljit also visits the cottage where Anglo-Irish SUN playwright John Millington Synge wrote his influential SUN journal of island life - a mouthpiece for the Gaelic-seeking SUN spirit of the Irish literary revival. SUN SUN We also hear from a local poet who continues the tradition SUN of oral poetry on the islands; and explore the life of one SUN of the key modern, Irish language poets, Martin O Direain, SUN who took his inspiration from his birthplace on Aran. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Wheeler SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Last Jews of Iraq b017wyym (Listen) SUN Jews in Iraq? Alan Yentob investigates a 2600 year old SUN community, now almost disappeared. Once they thrived as a SUN third of Baghdad's population, now only seven Jewish people SUN remain. SUN SUN Few people realise there was once a thriving Jewish SUN community in Iraq - in 1917 it was a third of Baghdad's SUN population. Jewish people had government jobs and dominated SUN the music scene. They were an integral part of the SUN community, living peacefully with Arab neighbours. The Jews SUN had been in Iraq for more than two and a half millennia, SUN since it was called Babylon, and remembered in Psalms. For SUN centuries it was the centre of Jewish learning. Alan speaks SUN to people who remember a life in Baghdad characterised by SUN integration, religious diversity and colourful traditions. SUN SUN In the 40s, everything changed. Nazism, Arab-nationalism and SUN anti-Zionist feeling created a wave of anti-semitism. SUN Violent pogroms flared up, young Jewish men were publically SUN hanged, Jews were forced from jobs. By the 1970s nearly all SUN had left, many in 1951 when 110,000 people were flown to SUN safety in Israel. We hear from those who remember the SUN community's traumatic final days. SUN SUN Now those few Jews who remain are hidden away. They will SUN certainly be the last of the ancient Babylonian Jewish line, SUN says Canon Andrew White, the 'Vicar of Baghdad'. SUN SUN In a very personal programme, BBC Creative Director Alan SUN Yentob, himself the child of Iraqi Jewish immigrants, looks SUN into his heritage and uncovers the hidden history of the SUN Jews of Iraq. Although the community is now almost vanished SUN in Iraq itself, its traditions survive though around the SUN world. With interviews, archive recordings and contemporary SUN music, Alan brings its vibrancy to life. SUN SUN Producer: Hannah Marshall SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b017n1vc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b017n1dg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b017n1dj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017n1dl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b017vkrk (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN In Pick Of The Week, Gerry Northam learns the extraordinary SUN story of a submarine stoker in World War II who was the only SUN survivor when HMS Perseus hit an Italian mine and sank. He SUN struggled out, managed to surface from an unprecedented SUN depth and then swam three miles in rough seas despite his SUN injuries. SUN SUN Gerry also tracks the career of one of Hollywood's most SUN highly-credited directors, who never actually made a single SUN film. We find out what Charles Dickens dreamed of as a SUN career, before he found fame as a writer. And we hear the SUN inside story of the race to keep the Human Genome Project SUN freely available to the public. All that, and some expert SUN musical analysis from Ken Clarke and Joan Armatrading. SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b017vkrm (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Dilemma b017vkrp (Listen) SUN Episode 4 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 Susan Calman, Greg Proops SUN and Simon Evans, and the author and former lead singer of SUN the band Sleeper, Louise Wener. This week the guests have SUN been asked to bring along dilemmas from their own lives, SUN including Louise being offered a record deal if she sacked SUN half the band, and Greg making a choice between paying his SUN rent or eating. They are also asked what they would do if SUN reporting a crime would get them into trouble, and whether SUN cheating on your partner is ever acceptable. SUN SUN The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and writer SUN Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng b017vkrr (Listen) SUN I Had My Bit of Cake SUN SUN In today's episode, Byng explains how he began playing SUN risqué female characters, and became the darling of 'the SUN smart set' at London's Café de Paris. 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 Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b017mz3x (Listen) SUN Public sector strike: SUN This week a 24-hour strike over pension changes saw hundreds SUN of thousands of public sector workers at rallies, marches SUN and on picket lines. But there were a lot of conflicting SUN numbers being thrown about. Tim Harford explains how the SUN government was able to make public sector pensions sound SUN generous, at the same time the unions could make them sound SUN small. SUN SUN Eurostats: SUN The Financial Times this week reported that the head of SUN Greece's new independent statistics agency, Andreas SUN Georgiou, is facing an official criminal investigation for SUN alleged statistical crimes. Tim finds out from the economist SUN Professor Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens what SUN Mr Georgiou is accused of. SUN SUN And in the first of a series of scrutiny of Eurozone-crisis SUN inspired statistical claims, Wesley Stephenson asks whether SUN it's really true that there are more Porsche Cayenne owners SUN than tax payers declaring an income of more than £55,000 in SUN Greece. SUN SUN Cheap homes? SUN We explain what affordable housing is, and how affordable it SUN is. SUN SUN World on an island: SUN It is often said that the world's population could fit on SUN the Isle of Wight, if people stood shoulder to shoulder. But SUN is it true, now that the UN estimates that there are 7bn SUN people on earth? To test the theory, Tim Harford tries to SUN squeeze as many people as possible into his studio. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander SUN Editor: Richard Vadon. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b017mz3v (Listen) SUN Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka SUN Odumegwu-Ojukwu SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The film director Ken Russell, once called the wild man of SUN British cinema. SUN SUN Gary Speed, the Premiership and intetrnational footballer SUN who managed the Welsh national side. SUN SUN The Nigerian soldier and politician Chukwuemeka SUN Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who led the breakaway republic of Biafra SUN with tragic results SUN SUN Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the West and had SUN an ambivalent attitude to her father. SUN SUN And the operatic soprano Sena Jurinac. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b017vcpk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b017n1v9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b017mws3 (Listen) SUN Don't Cry for Me, Argentina SUN SUN Is there life after a sovereign debt default such as Greece SUN is now facing ? Peter Day reports from Argentina, a country SUN which went through a similar sort of crisis ten years ago. SUN You can subscribe to "Peter Days World of Business" podcast, SUN via the Radio 4 website. The podcast brings you both the "In SUN Business" programme, which broadcasts twenty six times a SUN year and also "Global Business" which broadcasts every week SUN of the year on the BBC World Service. SUN Producer: Richard Berenger Editor Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b017vkrt (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 b017vkrw (Listen) SUN Episode 81 SUN SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b017mwrn (Listen) SUN Martin Scorsese talks to Francine Stock about the future of SUN cinema, his passion for its history and the way he has used SUN 3D to bring them both to life in his new film Hugo. SUN SUN Hugo SUN SUN Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese, is released nationwide SUN from this weekend SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b017vjlc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 DECEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b017t05t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b017mv24 (Listen) MON Grammar Schools and Social Mobility; The Opera Fanatic MON MON Laurie Taylor explores opera fanatics at the Teatro Colon in MON Buenos Aires and compares them to fans in Cardiff, with MON Professor Claudio Benzecry from the University of MON Connecticut and Professor Paul Atkinson from Cardiff MON University. And he explores the popularly held notion that MON grammar schools aid social mobility with Dr Adam Swift from MON the University of Oxford. MON Producer Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b017vf0y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017t05w (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017t05y (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017t060 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b017t062 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017vmfd (Listen) MON with Richard Hill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b017vmfg (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 b017t064 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b017vmfj (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b017vmfl (Listen) MON Philosophy: Bernard-Henri Levy, Mary Warnock and Roger MON Scruton MON MON Andrew Marr discusses the role of the public intellectual on MON Start the Week. The French philosopher, journalist and MON activist Bernard-Henri Levy flexes his muscles as he sets MON out his views on everything from literature to politics and MON fame, Baroness Mary Warnock looks at morality and what MON philosophers can add to the current debates about privacy, MON society and fairness, while Roger Scruton argues that his MON 'green philosophy' finds a natural home in right wing MON politics. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0184zfz (Listen) MON Just My Type, Episode 1 MON MON "Just My Type" - a book about fonts by Simon Garfield. MON MON Read by Julian Rhind Tutt MON MON From type on the high street and book covers, to the print MON in our homes and offices, our world is surrounded by and MON spelt out by fonts. Little do we realise how our everyday MON choices are subtly informed and manipulated by these MON miniature works of art. Simon Garfield explores the history MON of the font and the people who brought them into being. MON MON This week we begin to tell the story of the creation of the MON font - and start with a stark warning concerning the MON terrible reputation of the much derided 'comic sans'. What MON started out as a thrilling new concept quickly turned into a MON a rather bizarre hate campaign. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b017vmfn (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017vmfq (Listen) MON The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Domestic Scenes MON MON By Anne Bronte MON MON Dramatised by Rachel Joyce MON MON Episode 6. Domestic Scenes MON MON Gilbert has read in Helen's journal of how her marriage has MON been severely tested by her husband's prolonged absences, MON his drinking and his infidelity. And now she has a son to MON care for too. MON MON Gilbert - Robert Lonsdale MON Helen - Hattie Morahan MON Huntingdon - Leo Bill MON Hargave - Stephen Critchlow MON Annabella - Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Lowborough - Chris Webster MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON 11:00 Unravelling Eve b0183php (Listen) MON Women who've suffered psychotic illness after childbirth MON talk about their journey back to recovery. MON MON Between one in 500 and one in a thousand women suffer from MON postpartum psychosis after childbirth. It's an illness which MON often appears rapidly and without warning and leaves women MON in the grip of psychotic delusions or of mania. They talk of MON losing touch with reality and feeling split and fragmented. MON MON However, because it's comparatively rare and can happen to MON women with no history of mental illness, postpartum MON psychosis may go undiagnosed or be confused with post natal MON depression. In fact if it's treated properly, recovery from MON this very severe disorder can be very swift. MON MON Now Radio 4 has been offered unique access to a group of MON women who have experienced the illness. They're taking part MON in an art project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, whose aim MON is to raise awareness of the condition. MON MON As they meet at a workshop and in the artist Joan Molloy's MON studio they talk openly about what they went through, the MON hallucinations they suffered in the depths of the psychosis MON and their journey back to health. They also tackle the MON difficult topics of whether they wanted to harm themselves MON or their baby, the decision about whether to have a second MON child, and their perception of themselves as mothers. MON MON The art project is supported by leading perinatal MON psychiatrist, Dr Ian Jones, who is working with teams in MON Cardiff and Birmingham universities to try to discover what MON it is about the physical experience of childbirth that MON triggers the illness. He tells us if they were able to MON establish whether some women had a genetic pre-disposition MON to the condition, it would be possible to predict which MON women were at high risk and to take the right steps before MON rather than after the illness has struck. MON MON Presented by former journalist - Clare Dolman, who suffered MON an episode of post partum psychosis herself after the birth MON of her first child twenty two years ago. She is the founder MON of Action on Postpartum psychosis and now works to raise MON awareness of the disorder. MON MON Producer: Philippa Goodrich MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off b017vmfs (Listen) MON Series 5, Iron Man MON MON When Giles accidentally enters an Iron Man triathlon in MON Spain, he has to enlist the help of Neil Diamond and a MON donkey... 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 Mr. Timmis .....Vincent Franklin MON Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd MON Jose ..... Mitch Benn MON Mariluz ..... Debbie Chazen MON Carl ...... Kieran Hodgson 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 b017vnqw (Listen) MON The effects of extreme weather MON MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b017t066 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b017vnqy (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post MON Office b017vp92 (Listen) MON The Secret Room MON MON As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook MON explores the social history of the post office. MON MON Throughout its history, the Post Office has been a MON consistently progressive and democratising force in society. MON Launched in 1516 by Henry VIII, the Royal Mail was intended MON to support official communications and bolster intelligence. MON It was only a rise in literacy, trade and interest that MON stimulated a demand for a public service. MON MON It became a vehicle for literacy, free speech, commerce and MON communications in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, MON before evolving into a kind of prototypical welfare state in MON the early twentieth century, when it was the largest MON employer in the world. The Post Office has become a MON cherished social institution, linking people together and MON extending their vision outward into the wider world. MON MON It's called Royal Mail but it should be known as the MON People's Post MON MON In the paranoid era of the English Civil War the postal MON network became an important instrument of state control. In MON a secret room deep in the post office building, agents MON opened and copied letters from suspected dissidents on a MON grand scale. MON MON Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook MON Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman MON Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart MON Actors:Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, MON Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw MON Producer: Joby Waldman MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b017vkrm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b017vp94 (Listen) MON Burning Up MON MON By Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON It's Monday 5th December, and Maisie steps out of a Secure MON Children's Centre. She's had an extraordinary year - she MON turned fifteen, met the love of her life, and then spent MON four months in detention following the London riots. Rebecca MON Lenkiewicz's hard-hitting drama tells her story. MON MON Maisie . . . . . Danielle Vitalis MON Dad . . . . . Danny Sapani MON Sonia . . . . . Aimee-Ffion Edwards MON Scott . . . . . Richie Campbell MON Simon . . . . . Carl Prekopp MON Mrs Moon . . . . . Adjoa Andoh MON Susan . . . . . Tracy Wiles MON MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON MON Studio Manager: Anne Bunting MON Editors: Colin Guthrie and Anne Bunting MON Production Co-Ordinator: Jessica Brown. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b017vp96 (Listen) MON (4/17) MON Russell Davies chairs the latest heat in the contest to MON become the 59th Brain of Britain. The competitors tackling MON the age-old general knowledge quiz this week are from MON Scotland and North-West England. As always, there's also a MON chance for a Brain of Britain listener to 'beat the brains' MON with teasing questions of his or her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b017vjly (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Three Wishes b01608jr (Listen) MON The genie - or jinn, to give it its original name - has been MON a key player in some of the world's oldest stories. Compared MON to similar beings from classical western mythologies, the MON jinn is much harder to predict and pin down thanks to its MON unpredictable spirit. Born of fire, it can be a tempestuous, MON vindictive, benevolent or sometimes just downright grumpy MON character, after thousands of years trapped in a lamp. The MON fact of its frequent servitude has led some to interpret the MON popularity of the stories during the abolition of slavery MON campaign as a commentary on the slave trade. Others have MON focused on the quandaries posed by the giving and receiving MON of wishes, while others, perhaps most famously Robin MON Williams, have simply revelled in the larger-than-life MON exuberance the shape-shifting genie offers. In 'Three MON Wishes', Janet Ellis talks with Marina Warner, an expert on MON the Arabian Nights; Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, who's film 'Jinn' is MON released next year; Philip Kerr, best known for his crime MON novels but also responsible for series of seven children's MON books focusing on twin heroes who happen to be genies; MON polymath Hugh Montgomery, who's exploiting the metaphorical MON potential of the idea of the genie in the bottle for a major MON campaign against global warming; and the director and star MON in a production of perhaps the most famous genie story of MON them all - Aladdin. MON MON Producer Geoff Bird. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b017vsj9 (Listen) MON Series 5, The Origins of Life MON MON The Origins of Life MON Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined inside the Infinite MON Monkey Cage by rationalist comedian and musician Tim MON Minchin, science broadcaster and biologist Adam Rutherford MON and biochemist Professor Nick Lane to discuss the science of MON creation and the latest theories about the origins of life. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox. MON MON 17:00 PM b017vsjc (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017t068 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b017vsjf (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 4 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return MON visit to The Sage Theatre in Gateshead. Regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Marcus Brigstocke with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin MON Sell attempts piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b017vsjh (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b017vsjk (Listen) MON Mark Lawson meets writer and comedy performer John Cleese, MON who reflects on his career, from Monty Python to his recent MON Alimony Tour. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017vmfq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 An African Asian Affair b017vsjm (Listen) MON Vishva Samani, a descendant of British Asian Ugandans, MON returns to the country of her family and witnesses the MON rekindling of a relationship with the land her parents left MON behind almost 40 years on. MON MON Set against the trauma that came with being expelled from MON Uganda in 1972 and the fierce resilience of the Asian MON community in re-establishing their lives and livelihoods in MON the UK, Vishva explores the motivations and the current MON challenges faced by those British Asians who have chosen to MON make Uganda their focus. MON MON She meets the Madhvanis - one of the most successful and MON powerful British Asian Ugandan families doing business in MON the country. What were the lessons learnt in 1972? She MON contrasts how two generations of family feel about the MON country today. MON MON Putting the expulsion in context, Vishva speaks to Ugandan MON businessman Andrew Rugasira - founder of the international MON brand Good African Coffee. After the Asian Ugandans were MON expelled, the country suffered, not least economically. MON Despite this, she asks whether General Idi Amin's objective, MON to clear a space for Africans to thrive in business was in MON any way successful. MON MON In the course of her travels Vishva witnesses a strike at MON the Madhvani's sugar plantation and asks if this is a sign MON of an entrenched resentment that still exists between MON 'outsiders' and locals. MON MON Now, a new generation of British Asians are choosing to make MON Uganda their home despite being raised in the UK. Vishva MON meets Leicester-born Ashish Thakkar. At just 30 years old he MON owns a multi-national company operating out of the capital MON Kampala, as well as Dubai. How has Ashish's British MON background informed how he does business? And as the African MON continent once again becomes a prime land for investment is MON there the potential for it all to go wrong once more? MON MON Producer: Vivienne Perry MON A Like It Is Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b017mvx6 (Listen) MON Farming Zimbabwe MON MON In 2000, President Robert Mugabe introduced "fast-track land MON reform" to Zimbabwe in a wave of often violent takeovers of MON mainly white-owned farms. MON MON Led by veterans of the second Chimurenga - the Zimbabwe War MON of Liberation of the 1960s and 1970s - the takeover was seen MON internationally as a disaster. It was widely reported that MON cronyism and corruption meant only the country's MON politically-connected elite were benefiting from the land MON reform programme, and in the process were leading Zimbabwe's MON lucrative agricultural export industry into freefall. But MON what is the situation a decade on? MON MON Martin Plaut travels across Zimbabwe to investigate new MON research which suggests that farm production levels are MON recovering. He meets some of Zimbabwe's new black farmers - MON some of whom took part in the land seizures - who reveal how MON land reform has transformed their lives. MON MON He also examines the fortunes of Zimbabwe's remaining white MON farmers and the black farm workers they employed and asks if MON country's wider economy has recovered from the massive MON disruption caused by land reform. MON MON Reporter: Martin Plaut MON Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. MON MON 21:00 Material World b017mwrq (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper hears about the impact of thawing MON permafrost on climate change; how generations of space worms MON may lead the way for humans to reach Mars; and how DNA MON barcoding is identifying species and spotting fraud. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Permafrost: The Next Threat to Climate MON MON As scientists and politicians meet in Durban to debate the MON next steps in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, MON Quentin hears new concerns that feedbacks from melting of MON the permafrost could add to the greenhouse gases already MON being put into the atmosphere. Professor Ted Schuur of the MON Permafrost Carbon Research Network reports that existing MON climate models underestimate the amount of carbon locked up MON in the frozen tundra, and overestimate its stability. And MON Professor Euan Nisbet of Royal Holloway, University of MON London, has long argued the need for long-range sensing of MON methane emissions using sensor stations scattered around the MON globe – a call he repeats today at a “Methane Hack†at the MON Geological Society of London. MON MON Space Worms MON MON The soil worm Caenorhabditis elegans is a guinea pig among MON multicellular organisms. It has been so carefully studied MON that every gene is known and every cell has been followed MON through its stages of development. Now they have lived MON through more generations than any other multicellular MON organism in space. 12 generations were bred on the MON international space station in low Earth orbit over a period MON of six months. Lead scientist Dr Nathanial Szewczyk of MON Nottingham University developed a complete remote system for MON growing and feeding the worms and observing them on high MON magnification video. His results are published this week in MON the Royal Society journal Interface. He thinks his system MON should be sent to Mars to pave the way for human astronauts. MON MON DNA Barcodes MON MON The new ability quickly to “fingerprint†species via DNA is MON being deployed to unmask quack herbal medicines, reveal MON types of ancient Arctic life frozen in permafrost, expose MON what eats what in nature, and halt agricultural and forestry MON pests at borders, among other applications across a wide MON array of public interests. 450 world experts are meeting at MON the University of Adelaide this week to discuss the MON explosion of creative new uses of DNA “barcoding†-- MON identifying species based on a snippet of DNA. Prof Alfried MON Vogler of Imperial College London and the Natural History MON Museum discusses the potential applications. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b017vmfl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b017t06b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b017w4wv (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017w4wx (Listen) MON Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Helen Simonson. MON A family bereavement sparks an unexpected friendship between MON retired Major Pettigrew and the lady who runs Edgecombe St MON Mary's village shop, Mrs Ali. Their encounter forces the MON Major to confront the reality of his life as a widower in MON this charming, against-all-odds love story. MON Abridged by Nigel Lewis. MON Read by Sam Dastor. MON A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b017mszw (Listen) MON Imaginary Friends MON MON Imaginary Friends. Did you have any as a child, or do you in MON fact have some now? Poet Matt Harvey, biographer Sarah MON Churchwell and writer Paul B Davies tell all about the MON imaginary relationships we have both as children and adults, MON to presenter Dominic Arkwright. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b017w4wz (Listen) MON Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 DECEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b017t06x (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0184zfz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017t06z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017t071 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017t073 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b017t075 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018b9lj (Listen) TUE with Richard Hill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b017w65m (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 b017w65p (Listen) TUE Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b017w65r (Listen) TUE Uta Frith TUE TUE Professor Uta Frith came from a grey post war Germany to TUE Britain in the swinging sixties, when research into TUE conditions such as autism and dyslexia was in its infancy. TUE At the time many people thought there was no such thing as TUE dyslexia and that autism was a result of cold distant TUE parenting, but Professor Frith was convinced that the TUE explanation for these enigmatic conditions lay in the brain. TUE And she set out to prove this through a series of elegant TUE experiments. Together with her students Francesca Happe and TUE Simon Baron Cohen she developed the idea that people with TUE autism find it hard to understand the intentions of others, TUE known as theory of mind. Neuro-imaging experiments carried TUE out with her husband Professor Chris Frith, meant she was TUE able to show that there is a region in the brain which is TUE linked to dyslexia. Uta Frith talks about her pioneering TUE work that has changed how we view these brain disorders with TUE Jim Al Khalili. TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b017w65t (Listen) TUE Lucy Kellaway with Anon TUE TUE Lucy Kellaway of The Financial Times, explores the TUE complexities of having considerable personal wealth by TUE talking to the super rich. For Anne (she wishes to remain TUE anonymous) the day her company was floated on the stock TUE market and became a multi millionaire, she was paralysed by TUE fear. TUE 'I had always believed that rich people were not nice TUE people. I was terrified my money would taint and destroy my TUE relationships with friends and loved ones'. TUE A decade on, she has come to terms with her position, TUE becoming a member of The Network for Social Change, ' for TUE people who want to do more than sign a cheque' and having TUE worked out how she wants to spend her money and who she TUE wants to give it to. TUE She talks honestly to Lucy about how she maintains TUE boundaries on her spending and whether she now feels it's TUE possible to be rich and nice. TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b018v7zs (Listen) TUE Just My Type, Episode 2 TUE TUE "Just My Type" - a book about fonts by Simon Garfield. TUE TUE Read by Julian Rhind Tutt TUE TUE Today we tell the sad tale of Vicki Walker who had the TUE temerity to capitalise her emails. Then we go back in time TUE to the origins of the font and the Gutenberg press. And end TUE with the only example in history of a drowned font! TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b017wy6v (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017wy6x (Listen) TUE The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Solitude TUE TUE By Anne Bronte TUE TUE Dramatised by Rachel Joyce TUE TUE Episode 7. Solitude TUE TUE The account of her husband's behaviour in Helen's journal TUE has continued to be one of wild debauchery but now she is TUE convinced he is changing his ways. Reading the journal TUE Gilbert is not so confident. TUE TUE Gilbert - Robert Lonsdale TUE Helen - Hattie Morahan TUE Huntingdon - Leo Bill TUE Annabella - Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Hargrave - Stephen Critchlow TUE Arthur - Samuel Bridger TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b017wy6z (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 29 TUE TUE Examining the world of nature and the challenges of wildlife TUE conservation. TUE TUE 11:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b017wy71 (Listen) TUE Series 9, Clifford Brown TUE TUE In the last programme of the current series, Ken Clarke and TUE his guest Abram Wilson discuss the life and music of the TUE 1950s trumpeter Clifford Brown. TUE Given a trumpet by his father at the age of 15, Clifford's TUE natural talent was immediately apparent. After only a few TUE years of practising the instrument he was playing gigs with TUE artists such as Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham and Fats Navarro. TUE By 22 he already had an original style and the quintet he TUE went on to form with Max Roach is regarded as one of the TUE best of the 1950s. TUE Sadly his professional career was bookended by two horrific TUE car crashes. The first was nearly ended his life and left TUE him in hospital for a year. And only five years later he was TUE involved in a second accident, but this time he was TUE tragically killed. But, as Ken and Abram explain, in the TUE short time he was playing and recording he did enough to put TUE him up there with the all time Jazz Greats. TUE TUE Abram Wilson is an award winning New Orleans trumpeter and TUE vocalist based in the UK. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b017wy73 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE 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 b017t077 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b017zts9 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post TUE Office b017wy75 (Listen) TUE The London Penny Post TUE TUE TUE Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook TUE Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman TUE Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart TUE Actors:Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, TUE Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw TUE Producer: Joby Waldman TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b017vsjh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b017wy77 (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 8, Flesh and Blood TUE TUE Victorian detective mystery starring Brian Cox and Siobhan TUE Redmond. TUE TUE Written by David Ashton. TUE TUE Episode 2: Flesh And Blood. A student is accused of murder TUE after a tavern brawl. TUE TUE McLevy..............................BRIAN COX TUE Jean Brash........................SIOBHAN REDMOND TUE Roach............................DAVID ASHTON TUE Mulholland...............MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL TUE Hannah.......................COLETTE O'NEIL TUE Barnaby Buchanan.................MATTHEW PIDGEON TUE Norris Dunleavy....................ROBERT McINTOSH TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b017wy79 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b017wy7c (Listen) TUE The Making of You TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright talks to three guests about their TUE formative years: The Making of You. TUE TUE Sports writer Julie Welch recalls boarding school days of TUE innocence, lusting after her Games Captain. Social TUE entrepreneur, Gwilym Gibbons, remembers growing up in a TUE commune, feeling an outsider from the mainstream world. TUE Psychotherapist Paul Welcomme, whose schooldays were far TUE from halcyon, argues that the decisions adults make for TUE their children can have a devastating and lasting affect on TUE their lives. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:00 Dishonour and Depression b017wyy9 (Listen) TUE Yasmeen Khan investigates the high rate of depression among TUE South Asian women in Britain, looking at the underlying TUE social and cultural factors and talking to those affected as TUE well as doctors and counsellors. TUE TUE Research has shown that suicide and self- harm are TUE significant issues for South Asian women and that they are TUE more likely to suffer depressive episodes than the general TUE population. Concepts of family honour (izzat) and shame TUE (sharam) are often cited as reasons for the denial of mental TUE health problems which are shrouded in stigma within the TUE community. TUE TUE It's a problem which can affect all classes and generations TUE from the bride just arrived from the Indian sub-continent TUE only to experience abuse within her new family to the TUE British-born university-educated professional. Yasmeen TUE visits groups helping these women - Southall Black Sisters TUE and Sahayak in Gravesend, run by the charity Rethink Mental TUE Illness. TUE TUE Surprisingly she is told the word counselling does not exist TUE in Asian languages and that women suffering from depression TUE are often labelled mad or bad. Can mainstream health service TUE provision cope with these cultural and social differences or TUE are sufferers too often fobbed off with anti-depressants? TUE TUE Producer: Merilyn Harris TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b017wyyc (Listen) TUE Series 26, Philip K Dick TUE TUE Actor Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon; The Queen; Midnight in TUE Paris) explores the life of Philip K. Dick with Matthew TUE Parris, and explains why he had such a big influence on his TUE recent production of Hamlet. TUE TUE Michael first discovered Philip K. Dick through the film TUE Bladerunner, and moved onto his short stories which got him TUE thinking about science-fiction in a new way. Whilst reading TUE about philosophy, quantum physics, and comparative TUE mythology, it struck him how Dick was intuitively weaving TUE narratives around all the most interesting elements that TUE these fields were throwing up. TUE TUE He talks about Philip K. Dick's innate interest in multiples TUE realities, and how they overlap with Sheen's own family TUE experiences of mental health issues. In fact the more he TUE found out about him, the more he was drawn to this enigmatic TUE writer. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b017x7ld (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017t079 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b017wyyf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Dartford TUE TUE In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK TUE towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants TUE distinctive. TUE TUE He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and TUE performs the show in front of a local audience. TUE TUE As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of TUE Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate TUE with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British TUE way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and TUE people who have shaped where we live. TUE TUE During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit TUE Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of TUE Man), Bungay and Wigan. TUE TUE Episode 1 - In this first episode Mark performs a show for TUE the residents of Berwick-Upon Tweed where he talks about war TUE with Russia, Scottish rivalries and rather unusual local TUE slang. TUE TUE Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete TUE Sinclair. TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b017wyyh (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b017wyyk (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film New Year's TUE Eve, featuring an ensemble cast of more than a dozen TUE Hollywood stars. TUE TUE Producer Georgia Mann. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017wy6x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Greece: Broken Marble, Broken Future b017x7kf (Listen) TUE Modern Greece has lived through the Asia Minor disaster of TUE 1922, Axis occupation in 1940s, civil war and military TUE dictatorship. But in those critical times there was at least TUE an enemy, a cause and the belief that popular action could TUE bring about significant change. But the current national TUE crisis feel different. Different every day, different every TUE week, different every month. TUE TUE As the most recent 48 hour national strike gripped the TUE nation, the writer Maria Margaronis navigated her way TUE through her beloved country to hear - above the din of TUE protest and the hiss of the tear gas - those voices trying TUE to make sense of this spiralling crisis in Athens and in the TUE mountains and villages beyond. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Burman TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b017wyyp (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b017wyyr (Listen) TUE Zoe from South Wales spent twelve years with undiagnosed TUE Bipolar Disorder. The personal cost to this mother of three TUE was devastating, as, over the years, she was told she had TUE Post Natal Depression and treated with anti-depressants. TUE It's long been recognised that Bipolar Disorder could be TUE under-diagnosed and Claudia Hammond hears about a pilot TUE study to screen for the condition in Leicester. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b017w65r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b017t07c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b017wyyt (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017wyyw (Listen) TUE Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 2 TUE TUE Major Pettigrew is dismayed to discover the contents of his TUE brother Bertie's will. Meanwhile, his friendship the lady TUE from the village shop, Mrs Ali, blossoms when they discover TUE a shared love of Kipling. TUE Written by Helen Simonson and abridged by Nigel Lewis. TUE TUE Read by Sam Dastor. TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b017vsj9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b017wyyy (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme presents the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 DECEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b017t07y (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b018v7zs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017t080 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017t082 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017t084 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b017t086 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018b9kp (Listen) WED with Richard Hill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b017x061 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, WED presented by Anna Hill. WED WED Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b017x063 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday WED in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b017x065 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Matthew Bourne. WED Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b018v85v (Listen) WED Just My Type, Episode 3 WED WED "Just My Type" - a book about fonts by Simon Garfield. WED WED Read by Julian Rhind Tutt WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b017x067 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017x069 (Listen) WED The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Escape WED WED By Anne Bronte WED WED Dramatised by Rachel Joyce WED WED Episode 8. Escape WED WED Helen Graham's marriage is now five years old and Huntingdon WED has refused to let her leave with her son but just as she is WED planning a secret flight he has discovered her journal. WED WED Gilbert - Robert Lonsdale WED Helen - Hattie Morahan WED Huntingdon - Leo Bill WED Lawrence - Carl Prekopp WED Arthur - Samuel Bridger WED Miss Myers - Alex Rivers WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 Random Edition b017x06c (Listen) WED Pearl Harbor WED WED US President Franklin D Roosevelt called the 7th December WED 1941 'a date which will live in infamy'. The total WED unexpectedness of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is WED vividly captured in the newspaper which Peter Snow uses in WED this Random Edition Special to bring alive this key landmark WED in the history of the Second World War - the Honolulu WED Star-Bulletin. The paper's 'Extra' editions describe bombs WED 'raining from the skies' and 'huge fires raging'. Civilian WED casualties are named and there are reports of suspected WED Japanese saboteurs. Other attacks in the Pacific are listed. WED Yet as there was only time to change a few pages of the WED newspaper, the Star-Bulletin also paints a picture of a WED Hawaiian community peacefully anticipating Christmas and WED following sport and movie stars. And it was clearly a WED society in which those of Japanese descent are deeply WED embedded. WED WED As ever in Random Edition, Peter Snow uses news reports to WED recreate history. From the Star-Bulletin's pages spring some WED of the major players - Roosevelt and Churchill, legendary US WED Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Japanese navy minister WED Shigetaro Shimada and Emperor Hirohito among them. This WED Pearl Harbour special features colourful sound archive of WED the time, not least the BBC's reporting of the attack. There WED are eye-witness memories of the day and some of the music WED that Pearl Harbour inspired. Perhaps most fascinating is the WED story of the effect Pearl Harbour had on Japanese Americans WED on Hawaii and mainland USA. WED WED Joining the programme is Daniel Martinez, grandson of a WED Pearl Harbor survivor and the foremost historian of the WED Japanese attack living in Hawaii. Central to everything is WED the ultimate significance of the day of 'infamy' - that in WED bringing the USA into the war, Pearl Harbor decided the fate WED of both Japan and Germany WED WED Producer: Andrew Green. WED WED 11:30 49 Cedar Street b010t7x5 (Listen) WED As far as the residents of 49 Cedar Street are concerned, WED this is one place where the Outside World need not apply. WED WED Laurence and Elliot have been living together for some time WED now - and it shows. They've settled into a sort of father WED and son role, with regular game nights and the occasional WED song and dance routine. WED WED Laurence does his best to look after Elliot and read him WED bedtime stories, in return Elliot tries to keep his room WED tidy and always eats his greens before pudding. Their home WED is a haven of peace and contentment, with comfy sofas, WED crayon drawings on the fridge and nice homemade biscuits. WED WED That is, until Hannah moves into the spare room. A walking WED collection of neuroses, emotions and non-stop jabbering WED about her ex, she crowbars her way into their life and WED threatens to turn everything upside down with her crazy WED woman's brain. However, the bond with her dysfunctional new WED family develops and she gradually lets go of some of her WED more destructive compulsions. WED WED And so it becomes the three of them against the world, WED battling side by side through the strange adventures WED surrounding the house at 49 Cedar Street, in a ludicrous but WED ultimately lovely world. WED WED Laurence ..... Colin Hoult WED Elliot ..... Tom Parry WED Hannah ..... Isabel Fay WED Cupid ..... Duncan Wisbey WED Victorian Orphan Boy ..... Alix Dunmore WED WED Original music was composed and performed by Alexander Rudd, WED with Natalie Rosario on cello. WED Written by Julie Bower WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b017x0vf (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b017t088 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0180fh9 (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 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post WED Office b017x0vh (Listen) WED A Culture of Letters WED WED Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook WED Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman WED Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart WED Actors:Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, WED Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw WED Producer: Joby Waldman WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b017wyyh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v1r9k (Listen) WED Visitors WED WED Peter Tinniswoood's final play, written just before his WED death in 2003, is an elegiac drama on the shortness of life WED and the frailty of love. WED WED Shacklock ..... Roy Hudd WED Stella ..... Emma Fielding WED WED Music ..... David Chilton WED Abridger ..... Liz Goulding WED Producer ..... Gordon House WED WED Shortly before he died, Peter Tinniswood - one of Radio WED Drama's iconic dramatists - wrote Visitors. Set on a misty WED Thames embankment over the course of several evenings, the WED play recounts the meetings of two hospital "visitors", WED Shacklock and the much younger Stella, whose relationship - WED strange, erotic and yet seemingly entirely innocent, is the WED bedrock of this hauntingly sad and beautiful drama about the WED shortness of life and the frailty of love. We are in WED archetypal Tinniswood territory, where nothing is WED straightforward, where words take on a surreal existence of WED their own (the visitors' respective patients live in WED "Indifferent Ward" and "Terrified Ward") and where the quiet WED beauty of much of the descriptions is undercut by recurring WED echoes of loss, transience and death. Our two characters' WED lives, like Vladimir and Estragon, while providing much WED humour and no little sexual frisson, are essentially brief WED and unfulfilling. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b017x0vk (Listen) WED The subject of Money Box Live with Paul Lewis is managing WED borrowing and debt. WED WED Growing numbers of people are contacting debt advice WED agencies as they're struggling to pay basic household costs WED like utility bills. Citizens Advice says its latest WED quarterly statistics reveal that debt problems top the list WED of issues raised by people seeking help. Falling incomes WED coupled with increasing living costs and Christmas spending WED is putting pressure on many household budgets. The housing WED charity Shelter says that over two million people have WED resorted to using credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent WED in the last year and is urging people who are struggling to WED pay bills to seek help. So if you are in debt, struggling to WED pay off loans or credit card bills which debts should you WED pay off as a matter of priority? WED What should you do if you are falling behind with credit WED cards, bills or mortgage payments? WED How do you prioritise debt and where can you find free, WED impartial advice? WED If you are facing insolvency or bankruptcy - what are the WED options? WED What are the cheapest credit cards or loans? WED Can you pay back loans early and avoid further interest WED payments? WED If you want to withdraw from a loan how much time do you WED have? WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30 pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED Presenter Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Lynne Jones, National Debtline WED Freelance debt consultant, Nick Lord WED Kevin Mountford, Money Supermarket. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b017wyyr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b017x0vm (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b017x0vp (Listen) WED A topical programme about the fast-changing media world, WED this week with Anne McElvoy WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b017x0vr (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017t08b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b017x0vt (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 2 WED WED Victoria Coren presents another edition of the show which WED dares to commit heresy . WED Her guests this week are comedians David Baddiel and Lucy WED Porter and the co-presenter of daytime quiz show Pointless, WED Richard Osman. Together they have fun exposing the WED wrong-headedness of received wisdom and challenging WED knee-jerk public reaction to events. WED WED Arguing against the common belief that "the economy is up WED the creek without a paddle." David Baddiel argues that we're WED actually sailing serenely through the recession. Lucy Porter WED isn't convinced that "the innocence of children is snatched WED away too fast these days" and wants to know when her 13 WED month old daughter will start paying her share of the WED household bills, and Richard Osman finds reasons not to WED mourn the passing of the News of the World. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon Televison Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b017x0vw (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b017x0vy (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on a new staging of WED Shakespeare's Richard II, directed by Michael Grandage and WED starring Eddie Redmayne. WED WED Producer Lisa Davis. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017x069 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b017x0w0 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b017x0w2 (Listen) WED Series 2, David Perks WED WED David Perks, state school physics teacher and founder of the WED Physics Factory in London, believes current science teaching WED is depriving children of the academic science education they WED deserve. 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 b017x0w4 (Listen) WED Flying at many times the speed of sound has been an elusive WED goal of aeronautical engineers for many years. Gareth WED Mitchell looks at how near we are to achieving hypersonic WED flight. WED WED Producer: Julian Siddle. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b017x065 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b017t08d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b017x0w6 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017x0w8 (Listen) WED Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Helen Simonson. WED At the golf club the ladies are trying to decide on this WED year's theme for the annual dinner dance. But Major WED Pettigrew has other matters on his mind - like how to WED confront his sister in law,Marjorie, about Bertie's gun. WED Abridged by Nigel Lewis. WED Read by Sam Dastor. WED A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. WED WED 23:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b017x0wb (Listen) WED Episode 6 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 Quite a few years ago Matt Damon and Robin Williams went WED Good Will Hunting. Now Mark and co finish the job by finding WED it, as the final edition of the series takes on a festive WED aspect. What is goodwill? How we can incorporate it into our WED lives? Is it better than ill-will? (SPOILER: it is). All WED this plus the moderate level of Christmas merriment suitable WED for early December. 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 23:30 Today in Parliament b017x2wt (Listen) WED Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 DECEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b017t08z (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b018v85v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017t091 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017t093 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017t095 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b017t097 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018b9kr (Listen) THU with Richard Hill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b017x3p0 (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 b017x3p2 (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 b017x3p4 (Listen) THU Heraclitus THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek THU philosopher Heraclitus. Writing in the 5th century BC, THU Heraclitus believed that everything was constantly changing THU and is famous for stating that "no man ever steps into the THU same river twice." Often considered an enigmatic thinker, THU much of Heraclitus's work is complex and puzzling. Unlike THU most of his contemporaries he was not associated with a THU particular school or disciplinary approach. At times a THU rationalist, at other times a mystic, Heraclitus is an THU intriguing figure who influenced major later philosophers THU such as Aristotle and Plato. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b018v86k (Listen) THU Just My Type, Episode 4 THU THU It's the perfect time of year for a celebratory THU gin-and-tonic, and these days the tipple raised at Christmas THU may well have been made in London. After centuries of THU decline, the capital's distilling industry is picking up THU again, fuelled by small-scale producers and European rules THU changes that recognise London dry gin as a distinct drinks THU category. Peter Day meets some of the entrepreneurs behind THU the trend and raises a glass or two to home-grown UK THU businesses. THU Producer: Mike Wendling THU Editor: Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b017x3p6 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017x3p8 (Listen) THU The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Reconciliation THU THU By Anne Bronte THU THU Dramatised by Rachel Joyce THU THU Episode 9. Reconciliation THU THU Gilbert has reached the end of Helen's journal and now knows THU all the painful secrets of her past and her reasons for THU seeking seclusion at Wildfell Hall. THU THU Gilbert - Robert Lonsdale THU Helen - Hattie Morahan THU Huntingdon - Leo Bill THU Lawrence - Carl Prekopp THU Arthur - Samuel Bridger THU Eliza - Victoria Inez Hardy THU Rose - Leah Brotherhead THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b017x3pb (Listen) THU Exposing Bali's Orphanages THU THU Ed Butler reports on a cycle of abuse in the orphanages of THU Bali. Some seventy orphanages now populate the island, THU housing thousands of children, many recruited from poor THU families, on the promise of a decent diet, education, and THU healthcare. But in some cases the promises are empty, as THU unscrupulous owners abuse and exploit the children - using THU them for free labour over long hours, and forcing them to THU beg. The most lucrative profits come from well-meaning THU tourists, who are often convinced by the tough living THU conditions to give generously - the hope being the money THU will benefit the children, not the owner. Is such charity THU actually intensifying the misery of Bali's most vulnerable THU children? THU THU 11:30 Hemingway in Havana b017x3pd (Listen) THU The least chronicled chapter of Hemingway's life is the 20 THU years he spent in Cuba. The political stand off with the USA THU meant that scholars were denied access to his home, Finca THU Vigia, and to the many papers and books he left there after THU his suicide 50 years ago in 1961. THU THU But now, as Susan Marling reports from Cuba, a unique THU partnership between the Cubans and conservators and THU academics from America has allowed the house (and THU Hemingway's beloved fishing boat, Pilar) to be restored and, THU more importantly, many of his letters, manuscripts and books THU have also been saved. THU THU Susan visits the house, speaks to Hemingway experts about THU the significance of the documents and gives an account of THU the writer's deep love of Cuba, its people, landscape and THU the fabulous Gulf Stream. THU THU Producer: Susan Marling THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b017x3pg (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b017t099 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0180hw0 (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents 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 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post THU Office b017x3pj (Listen) THU The Mail Coach THU THU Introduced in 1784 the mail coach slashed journey times by THU two thirds, provided a new state of the art form of public THU transport, and allowed newspapers to reach the provinces THU within 24 hours. The time-pieces carried by guards also had THU the unintended consequence of creating standard UK time in THU the era before GMT. THU THU Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook THU Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman THU Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart THU Actors:Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, THU Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw THU Producer: Joby Waldman THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b017x0vw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b017x3pl (Listen) THU Burning Both Ends: When Oliver Reed Met Keith Moon THU THU Burning Both Ends, starring Sean Pertwee as Oliver Reed, and THU Arthur Darvill as Keith Moon. THU THU Burning Both Ends tells the story of one of the most THU infamous, unexpected and touching of friendships between two THU icons of the 1970s, Oliver Reed and Keith Moon. THU THU In the mid-1970s, Oliver was an international movie star, THU and Keith was a rock n'roll legend, the drummer for rock THU band, The Who. Both were famous for their partying and THU boozing, as well as their undeniable talents. Mercurial and THU unpredictable, both men were at the top of their game - but THU the top can be a very lonely place. THU THU Then they met, on the film set of The Who's epic rock opera, THU Tommy. What followed was a revelation - in each other they THU found a true kindred spirit, their own shadow image. THU THU This is a story of madness and mayhem, antics and THU adventures, but also of love and loss - the dangerous, THU dazzling brilliance of two unbridled spirits connecting, but THU then the huge pain when one of them dies prematurely. THU THU Recounting the electrifying "bruv-affair" between these two THU iconic figures, Burning Both Ends is the story of two men THU who found in each other a true friend, and who loved each THU other as fiercely as they partied... THU THU Burning Both Ends is written by Matthew Broughton, and THU directed by Sam Hoyle. Matt and Sam have collaborated THU together on several radio plays, most recently, Vincent THU Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast - a peek THU behind the scenes of the British cult horror classic, THU WitchFinder General. THU THU Burning Both Ends is inspired by true events, but scenes and THU characters have been created for dramatic effect. THU THU Burning Both Ends is a BBC Cymru/Wales production directed THU by Sam Hoyle. Other members of the cast include Matthew THU Gravelle, Richard Nichols, Bethan Walker and Claire Cage. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b017x3pn (Listen) THU Lancashire - Shale Gas THU THU Does the British landscape hold the key to a new and THU revolutionary form of energy? Jules Hudson is in Lancashire THU to find out about shale gas, a by-product of shale rock THU which forms much of the geology of the county's landscape. THU Using a technique known as 'fracking', which involves using THU a high pressure combination of water, sand and chemicals, THU the rock is then fractured in order to release the gas. THU For Cuadrilla, the company responsible for the drilling, THU these are exciting times. But opponents to the process are THU concerned about the environmental damage this may cause and THU also about the possibility of earthquakes after drilling was THU halted earlier this year following two quakes close to THU Blackpool. THU Should we unlock the vast resources of shale gas deep under THU our landscape? Jules Hudson visits Lancashire to meet the THU people responsible for the drilling and to find out what is THU so special about the Bowland Shale. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b017n1v9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b017vk99 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b017x3pq (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Material World b017x3ps (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 b017z1nz (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017t09c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Elvenquest b016c8y5 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU THU As they continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the THU noble Questers are lead to a quiet town in the countryside, THU which they have heard may hold their prize. But they get THU there only to discover that it has been razed to the ground THU by a band of ruthless barbarians, lead by the blood-thirsty THU Ragnar Half-tooth (Daniel Rigby), who has taken the Sword THU taken as booty. In order to get it back, the Questers decide THU to masquerade as barbarians and enter Ragnar's camp. Can THU they trick Ragnar, deceive his men and get the Sword? THU Well...they give it a jolly good go... THU THU Meanwhile, Kreech tells Lord Darkness that his annual THU regeneration is coming up and that he needs to get some THU sleep in order to avoid meeting the new Dawn which will send THU his body crumbling into dust. Problem is, getting to sleep THU when it really matters is easier said than done. And Lord THU Darkness is suddenly overcome by a nasty bout of insomnia... THU THU Darren Boyd as Vidar THU Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech THU Dave Lamb as Amis aka The Chosen One THU Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness THU Stephen Mangan as Sam THU Daniel Rigby as Ragnar Half-tooth THU and THU Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea THU Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b017x3px (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b017x3pz (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on The Ladykillers, THU a new staging of the classic Ealing comedy film, adapted by THU Graham Linehan, with a cast including Peter Capaldi. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017x3p8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b017x3q1 (Listen) THU It seems barely a day goes by without further damaging THU revelations about the UK Border Agency, the organisation THU which oversees Britain's immigration and customs operation. THU The recent disclosure that security checks were lowered at THU UK ports, allegedly without Ministerial consent, cost Brodie THU Clark, former Head of the Border Agency, his job. But behind THU the headlines, what's really going on in immigration halls THU up and down the land? In this week's The Report, Simon Cox THU investigates the under fire UK Border Agency. Can the public THU have confidence that it's now being run and managed THU properly? Are British ports now safe and secure? THU THU 20:30 In Business b017x3q3 (Listen) THU The Curse of the Bonus THU THU It started off as a nice pat on the back for exceptional THU work. But then the bonus became some people's primal THU motivation..first in the financial markets in the City of THU London, then in big business, and then in the way public THU services are run too. Peter Day traces the rise and rise of THU the bonus culture, and asks how much damage it causes. THU Producer Caroline Bayley THU Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b017wy6z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b017x3p4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b017t09f (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b017x3q7 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017x3qc (Listen) THU Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Helen Simonson. THU Major Pettigrew tries to help his son Roger with a tricky THU house purchase negotiation but it doesn't go to plan when THU the owner is shocked to find Grace and Mrs Ali on a bench in THU the garden. THU Abridged by Nigel Lewis. THU Read by Sam Dastor. THU A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. THU THU 23:00 Weird Tales b017x3qf (Listen) THU Series 3, Original Features THU THU by Christopher William Hill. The first in a new series of THU chilling plays for winter nights. THU THU When Carl and Rob buy a flat in a nineteenth century house, THU it seems they've found their perfect home. With Carl away on THU business, Rob throws himself into restoring the flat, but he THU ends up with more of the original features than he had THU anticipated. THU THU Carl ..... Martin Hutson THU Rob ..... Carl Prekopp THU Jess ..... Adjoa Andoh THU Girl ..... Francine Chamberlain THU Answerphone ..... Tracy Wiles THU Woman ..... Alex Rivers THU Man ..... Christopher Webster THU THU directed by Mary Peate. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b017x3qh (Listen) THU David Cornock presents the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 DECEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b017t0b0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b018v86k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017t0b2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017t0b4 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017t0b6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b017t0b8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018b9kt (Listen) FRI with Richard Hill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b017x4f9 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte FRI Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b017x4fd (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b017vjlw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b018v874 (Listen) FRI Just My Type, Episode 5 FRI FRI "Just My Type" - a book about fonts by Simon Garfield. FRI FRI Read by Julian Rhind Tutt FRI FRI The Font in politics. How Barack Obama used a font to win a FRI presidency. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b017x4fg (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017x4fj (Listen) FRI The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Startling Intelligences FRI FRI By Anne Bronte FRI FRI Dramatised by Rachel Joyce FRI FRI Episode 10. Startling Intelligences FRI FRI Gilbert is in despair. He hasn't seen Helen Graham for FRI several months now and he has learnt that she has returned FRI to nurse her sick husband. FRI FRI Gilbert ... Robert Lonsdale FRI Helen ... Hattie Morahan FRI Huntingdon ... Leo Bill FRI Arthur ...Samuel Bridger FRI Lawrence ... Carl Prekopp FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 Backstage Tales b017x4fl (Listen) FRI Getting a music tour on the road is a massive undertaking, FRI particularly if the star has a large entourage. A big tour FRI can be the size of a small town, and every night it ups FRI sticks and takes to the road again. Just feeding the crew is FRI a military operation, which takes an army of caterers. So FRI how do they do it? Having spent nearly 30 years on the road, FRI Midge Ure is perfectly placed to spill the beans on FRI musicians on tour. As Midge says, it is an incredible thing FRI to be part of but it is also a hermetically sealed bubble, FRI detached from the real world and creating its own reality. FRI FRI In this programme, Midge Ure goes backstage into the bizarre FRI world of musicians on tour, to explore how touring has FRI changed since his heyday in the 80s and to meet the army of FRI crew behind the scenes who put the tour together: the FRI roadies, lighting technicians, sound engineers, tour FRI managers, caterers, and the artists themselves. He hears FRI their backstage tales and finds out exactly what it takes to FRI get the show on the road. FRI FRI Presented by Midge Ure. With Jason Donovan, Boy George, Kim FRI Wilde, Belinda Carlisle and Martin Kemp. FRI FRI Producer: Melissa Fitzgerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI FRI Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the FRI residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Jan has Helen FRI back at home, but is it what she really wants? FRI FRI written by Katherine Jakeways FRI produced by Victoria Lloyd FRI FRI John Biggins............Keith FRI Mackenzie Crook.........Rod FRI Kevin Eldon.........Jonathan / Ken FRI Shelia Hancock........... Narrator FRI Jessica Henwick.............Helen FRI Katherine Jakeways.... Esther / Jacqui FRI Felicity Montagu..............Jan FRI Geoffrey Palmer..........Norman FRI Lizzie Roper............Angela FRI Penelope Wilton............Mary FRI Rufus Wright..............Frank. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b017x4fq (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b017t0bb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b017x4fs (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 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post FRI Office b017x4fv (Listen) FRI Freepost FRI FRI In the early 1800s the post office operated an expensive and FRI illogical payment system. This forced letter-writers into FRI ever more imaginative ways of avoiding postage, from using FRI private couriers, to hiding letters in barrels of butter, to FRI sending coded newspapers. MPs were allowed to send letters FRI for free, but as only a signature was required it created a FRI system that was ripe for abuse. FRI FRI Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook FRI Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman FRI Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart FRI Actors:Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, FRI Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw FRI Producer: Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b017x3px (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play: The Benefit of Time b017x5zh (Listen) FRI Debbie Green is dull. Debbie Green is plain. Debbie Green FRI works in Human Resources, where she has few friends, and FRI lives a very mundane existence. That is, until she starts FRI going to visit a hypnotist, who claims to be able to explore FRI people's past lives. FRI FRI And guess what? Debbie, apparently, has had a very eventful FRI past life - she was once Anne Boleyn. Or so Donald FRI Cruikshank her hypnotist excitedly confirms. He is, of FRI course, a charlatan, and he's gulling her. Or is he? Is she FRI gulling him? As the sessions progress, and Debbie starts FRI doing an office round-robin e-mail of her experiences, her FRI popularity at work increases dramatically, as do her career FRI prospects. FRI FRI In our celebrity-fixated world, what better celebrity to FRI conjure up - and then actually be - than a famous figure of FRI history? And as Debbie climbs that greasy pole to success FRI and high status, she leaves a trail of human devastation in FRI her wake. FRI FRI Donald Cruickshank ..... Adrian Scarborough FRI Debbie Wilson ..... Samantha Spiro FRI FRI Original Music composed by David Chilton FRI Producer/Director: Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017x5zk (Listen) FRI Scottish Borders FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a horticultural Q&A with Pippa Greenwood, FRI Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson. FRI How to secure your allotment against burglars: Bob Flowerdew FRI gives practical advice. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon & Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 FRI FRI Producer Howard Shannon. FRI FRI 15:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b017n1vc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Sunday] FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b017x76p (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents the obituary programme that analyses FRI and celebrates the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b017x76r (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b017x76t (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017t0bd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b017x76w (Listen) FRI Series 35, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by David Quantick, FRI Paul Sinha, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn to mine comedy FRI nuggets from this week's news. FRI FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b017x76y (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b017x770 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Lisa Davis. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017x4fj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b017x772 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from High Arcal School, Sedgley, Dudley, West FRI Midlands. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b017x776 (Listen) FRI A personal reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post FRI Office b017x7g8 (Listen) FRI The Origins of the Post Office FRI FRI Introduced by Henry VIII to aid the spread of intelligence, FRI the first 200 years of Royal Mail saw a series of attempts FRI to reform the postal system with mixed results. By the early FRI 19th century the system had reached breaking point as all FRI social classes sought ever more ingenious ways to avoid the FRI high cost of postage. FRI FRI Launched in 1516, the Royal Mail was intended to support FRI official communications and bolster intelligence. It was FRI only a rise in literacy and trade that stimulated a demand FRI for a public service. In the paranoid era of the English FRI Civil War the postal network became an important instrument FRI of state control. In a secret room deep in the post office FRI building, agents opened and copied letters from suspected FRI dissidents on a grand scale. FRI FRI Launched in 1680, The London Penny Post was the first FRI accessible and cheap method for sending mail within the FRI capital for the equivalent of £6. FRI FRI During the eighteenth century an expanding postal network FRI offered new possibilities for long-distance relationships. FRI From travelling preachers to sailors and their families, FRI people from all backgrounds found ways to write home. FRI FRI Introduced in 1784 the mail coach slashed journey times by FRI two thirds, provided a new state of the art form of public FRI transport, and allowed newspapers to reach the provinces FRI within 24 hours. The timepieces carried by guards also had FRI the unintended consequence of creating standard UK time in FRI the era before GMT. FRI FRI In the early 1800s the post office operated an expensive and FRI illogical payment system. This forced letter-writers into FRI ever more imaginative ways of avoiding postage, from using FRI private couriers, to sending coded newspapers. MPs were FRI allowed to send letters for free, but as only a signature FRI was required it created a system that was ripe for abuse. FRI FRI Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook FRI Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman FRI Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart FRI Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, FRI Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw, FRI Producer: Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b017t0bg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b017x778 (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017x77b (Listen) FRI Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Helen Simonson. FRI Major Pettigrew offers to solve Mrs Ali's family problem but FRI his son Roger's nose is severely out of joint when he makes FRI a surprise visit with his fiance, Sandy, and expects to stay FRI over. The major takes solace in the thought of a walk with FRI Mrs Ali next Sunday. FRI Abridged by Nigel Lewis. FRI Read by Sam Dastor. FRI A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b017wyyc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b017x77d (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy presents his weekly round-up of events at FRI Westminster. FRI
02 December, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 03/12/2011 - 09/12/2011
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