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SAT SATURDAY 31 DECEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b018h2kb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Afternoon Reading b00wlg39 (Listen) SAT For the Love of a Child, Call Me and I'll Come to You SAT SAT Written and read by the Costa-shortlisted writer Julia SAT Blackburn, the second of two stories about relationships SAT between adults and children, drawn from real-life. SAT SAT 2. Call me and I'll Come to You SAT At a low ebb, Julia rediscovers a letter her father wrote to SAT her before his death. He describes how the love between a SAT parent and child is not diminished by death. Julia is SAT comforted, as if her father was with her in that moment. SAT SAT The stories are written with the same mesmerising delicacy SAT of touch that Julia brought to her Penn-Ackerley SAT prize-winning memoir 'The Three of Us', demonstrating her SAT extraordinary capacity to find the best in people while SAT encompassing their frailty. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery SAT SAT Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b018sgp1 (Listen) SAT Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be: The Lionel Bart Story, SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT Lionel Bart was a unique musical talent. He found fame with SAT the hugely successful musicals Oliver! and 'Fings Ain't Wot SAT They Used T'Be', but he was also a hit-making machine for SAT some of Britain's first rock'n'roll stars - Tommy Steele, SAT Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard, as well as giving the James SAT Bond movie franchise its first song. SAT SAT He socialised with figures from both serious and populist SAT culture, and experienced a downfall that was as spectacular SAT as his theatrical triumphs. SAT SAT David and Caroline Stafford's new biography of Bart draws on SAT previously unseen archive sources and interviews with those SAT closest to him. SAT SAT Today, Bart's reputation is in tatters, and he slides SAT towards alcoholism and bankruptcy. But in the 1980s and 90s, SAT revivals of his earlier work provide a return to grace. Read SAT by Alistair McGowan. SAT SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Emma Harding. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018h2kd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018h2kg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018h2kj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b018h2kl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018h2qn (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Very Revd SAT Kelvin Holdsworth. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b018h2qq (Listen) SAT "Adoration is a very large word!" Meet Gareth Malone and our SAT New Year Honour nominees. iPM talks to the people listeners SAT want to celebrate and crowns a winner. And, of course, we SAT play out the year with a steel pan band. With Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b018h2kn (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b018h2kq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b018grvr (Listen) SAT The fisherman’s gansey (a word thought to derive from SAT ‘guernsey’) is a seamless woollen pullover worn by SAT generations of seamen for work and at leisure. It was SAT comfortable, practical and tough enough to provide some SAT protection from the elements, and every community had its SAT own pattern (possibly in an effort to identify drowned SAT fishermen) although these patterns were seldom committed to SAT paper. The ganseys of the Moray Firth coastline, the 500 SAT miles between Duncansby Head and Fraserburgh, have become SAT the focus of a three-year project aiming to preserve the SAT heritage of the fishing communities and save the gansey from SAT becoming a historical curiosity. Project workers are working SAT to save existing ganseys, helping local knitting groups to SAT create new ones and encouraging modern interpretations of SAT this most traditional of garments. The gansey, it turns SAT out, is more than a fisherman’s jumper: it’s a potent SAT symbol of lives past and of a community in danger of losing SAT touch with its early fishing roots. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b018v0j3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The Milton family farm cattle, sheep, Exmoor ponies, and SAT arable crops on the patchwork of land which makes up Exmoor SAT National Park. Brothers Robin and Rex are the fifth SAT generation of their family to farm, and two of their sons SAT are following suit. In Farming Today This Week, Sarah SAT Swadling experiences life on their farm, and finds out how SAT they combine food production and conservation. SAT SAT Produced and Presented by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b018h2ks (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b018v0j5 (Listen) SAT With Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b018v0j7 (Listen) SAT Anita Anand with social entrepreneur Paul Twivy, poet Mr SAT Gee, a girl born mid-flight, a German heralding New Year SAT with British slapstick, the homeless tour guides & singer SAT Cyndi Lauper's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b018v0j9 (Listen) SAT England SAT SAT John McCarthy looks at the changing nature of the SAT traditional attractions of England with historian John SAT Julius Norwich, curator Lucy Worsley and journalist Martin SAT Wainwright. Together they discuss the appeal of English SAT places from Kensington Palace to Watford Gap and why we look SAT for the past in palaces and cottages. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Cheers! b018v0jc (Listen) SAT For New Year's Eve, John Sergeant invites his guests to a SAT musical celebration of the ancient art of toasting. The SAT programme is recorded in Clare College Cambridge, in the SAT fellows' Senior Combination Room, with its wood panelling SAT and huge fireplace. SAT SAT Toasting has a fascinating history. The way you toasted SAT revealed your politics - whether you were for or against the SAT monarchy, and which political party you supported. It wasn't SAT just the rich who toasted - farm labourers had elaborate SAT ritual toasts for harvest time (they toasted in cider). Men SAT toasted women, of course - women could even become known as SAT "a toast", which was tantamount to being called a slut. SAT SAT John Sergeant hosts a party and invites three food and drink SAT historians to tell stories about toasting in the past: SAT Scottish wine buff Billy Kay, food historian Ivan Day, and SAT Professor of Literature Judith Hawley. There is also music SAT during the party: toasting songs arranged by David Owen SAT Norris and performed by student members of the Clare College SAT Choir. These include drinking songs 'For Auld Lang Syne' and SAT 'Here's a health unto his Majesty', as well as a SAT revolutionary toast sung by English supporters of the French SAT Revolution. There is also a sexy musical toast from the 17th SAT century to a woman with wonderful thighs. SAT SAT We may have forgotten the history of toasting, but something SAT of it remains deep in our collective memory, when we look SAT each other in the eye and chink glasses. Cheers! SAT SAT Produced by Elizabeth Burke and Hilary Dunn SAT A Loftus Audio Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b018v0jf (Listen) SAT Controlling the Past SAT SAT The flow of books by former New Labour ministers and SAT insiders has continued this year as more and more key SAT players give their accounts of their time in government - SAT and out of it. In Beyond Westminster, Anne McElvoy looks at SAT the way in which political diaries and memoirs shape our SAT view of the past. SAT SAT She asks how much these books contribute to our SAT understanding of governments, their policies and the SAT relationships between their principal figures. What have we SAT learnt about Tony Blair's government from the recent SAT outpourings? And how do the diaries and memoirs from those SAT who served in earlier governments contribute to our SAT political understanding? SAT SAT In interviews with a range of political diarists and SAT memoirists, Anne McElvoy considers how far those who rush SAT into print soon after leaving government influence public SAT perceptions. Do those who get in first shape our view of the SAT political history or are those politicians who wait, reflect SAT and consider more likely to add lasting insights? SAT SAT And how much can we learn from these books compared with SAT those of seasoned journalists and historians who write SAT allegedly more objective accounts based on a range of SAT sources for the full picture of what really happened? SAT SAT Talking to those who have published both diverting and SAT definitive diaries and accounts of their time in office, SAT Anne McElvoy asks how far politicians can control our SAT understanding of the past and their own part in it. SAT SAT Among those taking part are: Chris Mullin, Edwina Currie, SAT Gyles Brandreth, Alistair Darling, Nigel Lawson and David SAT Blunkett. SAT SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b018v0jh (Listen) SAT Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led SAT up to the death of Colonel Gaddafi in October. A chance to SAT hear again some of the BBC's senior correspondents filing on SAT the long road to Tripoli and charting a revolution which SAT stunned the world. SAT SAT 12:00 The News Quiz b018gzr1 (Listen) SAT Series 76, Oh No It Isn't... The News Quiz SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig & Andy Hamilton embark on a quest to recover SAT the Greenwich Pips, which have been stolen by an masked SAT stranger and scattered around the distant and mysterious SAT Radio 4 Island. Will they manage to recover them in time for SAT the 7 O'Clock News..? Oh no they won't! Or, in fact, will SAT they? SAT SAT Written by John Finnemore & Kevin Baker, and featuring all SAT your favourite News Quiz regulars with a host of top-secret SAT Radio 4 names. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner & Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:45 A Point of View b018h188 (Listen) SAT Glamour in Austerity SAT SAT Lisa Jardine remembers 2011 for the spectacle of the Royal SAT Wedding, reflecting on the historic power of regal glamour SAT in times of austerity. Queen Elizabeth I "used ostentation SAT and opulence in her dress as a political tool to increase SAT national confidence in the solvency of her regime." SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b018h2kv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b018v2kq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b018h186 (Listen) SAT The turmoil on the world's economic markets was anticipated SAT but no-one predicted the revolution which swept the Middle SAT East in the so-called Arab Spring. So what is likely to SAT happen in 2012? SAT SAT Owen Bennett Jones chairs a discussion with the BBC's SAT special correspondent Lyse Doucet, North America Editor Mark SAT Mardell, Newsnight's Economics Editor Paul Mason and SAT diplomatic correspondent James Robbins. SAT SAT Paul Mason was right about one thing last year, anticipating SAT the problems faced by the Eurozone. Lyse Doucet can lay SAT claim to have predicted the death of Osama bin Laden but she SAT was one year out - she thought it would happen in 2010 and SAT failed to mention it in last year's programme. Mark Mardell SAT also had his eye on the Euro and will, no doubt, have SAT something to say about America's concerns about the global SAT effect of the European crisis in 1012. James Robbins SAT correctly predicted anger against austerity cuts in those SAT countries worst hit but he was wrong about Italy where he SAT thought prime minister 'Silvio Berlusconi would sail SAT serenely on'. SAT SAT Join our panel as they polish up their crystal ball and try SAT to identify the key trends in a fast-moving world. SAT SAT Producer Mark Savage. SAT SAT 14:00 Punt PI b01509vj (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt turns detective and searches for the true site of SAT the Battle of Watling Street where tens of thousands of SAT ancient Britons were massacred by the occupying Roman army SAT but the exact location is unknown. Setting off in a hire car SAT shaped chariot, Punt travels up Watling Street, now known as SAT the A5, which runs all the way from London to Holyhead. SAT Applying his guile and unwavering intuition, he visits three SAT separate sites in the Midlands to examine the evidence. In SAT what becomes an unexpected odyssey, he enlists the help of a SAT pagan psychic, a spiritualist and a military agent to SAT determine where Britain's most epic battle took place. SAT SAT Producer: Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b018v2ks (Listen) SAT The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain SAT SAT dramatised by Bryony Lavery SAT Stranded in London, a penniless young American becomes the SAT subject of a £20,000 bet between two wealthy English SAT gentlemen. Can he can survive and prosper for a month as the SAT bearer of a 1,000,000 pound bank note? A colourful, bright SAT and vivid dramatisation of this charming and surprisingly SAT relevant classic short story, first published in 1893. SAT Brimming with Mark Twain's gentle humour, Henry Adam's SAT plight is sure to entertain family audiences. SAT SAT HENRY ADAMS ..... Trevor White SAT MISS PORTIA LANGHAM ......Verity-May Henry SAT TRUBSHAW/BOSUN/VESUVIUS .... Conrad Nelson SAT BASIl/MR RAYMOND/MAJORDOMO ......Jonathan Keeble SAT ABEL/CONCIERGE ...... Malcolm Raeburn SAT MRS HARRIS ...... Kathryn Hunt SAT TOD/BELLBOY ...... Stephen Hoyle SAT LLOYD HASTINGS/AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.......John Guerrasio SAT Produced by ...... Pauline Harris and Sharon Sephton SAT SAT 15:30 Beatles Christmas b018g6ws (Listen) SAT Show business enjoys a cosy relationship with Christmas and SAT as we hear The Fab Four responded with a wealth of festive SAT fan club recordings, appeared in panto and (later) their SAT Boxing Day TV film 'Magic Mystery Tour'. 'Beatle Christmas' SAT hears the best of their rare Christmas message recordings SAT revealing a refreshing sense of fun that helped set the Fab SAT Four apart. SAT SAT Presenter Alexei Sayle explores how their fan club messages SAT were recorded with comments from the man who wrote the SAT scripts Beatles publicist Tony Barrow. The fan club SAT recordings are featured and reflect the changing stages of SAT the Beatles career and creativity. The programme also SAT reveals the Beatles played two seasons in panto and we hear SAT what was going on back stage . Christmas 1963 saw The SAT Beatles taking to the stage for 16 shows across the seasonal SAT period and it's surprising they took to wearing pantomime SAT costume so well. SAT SAT The Beatles did a second spell in panto this time playing 21 SAT shows in London Christmas 64 and the programme has comments SAT from supporting acts, singer Elkie Brooks and Barron Knights SAT guitarist Peter Langford. Time is also devoted to the SAT group's Boxing Day broadcast on BBC 1 for their 'Magical SAT Mystery Tour' film and we hears how the movie was made and SAT scheduled for festive family viewing with comments from the SAT film's editor Roy Benson. SAT SAT Presenter Alexei Sayle takes us on a remarkable musical SAT journey through the Christmas recordings of The Beatles. SAT SAT Producer: John Sugar SAT A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b018v2kv (Listen) SAT Remarkable Women of 2011 SAT SAT Jane Garvey celebrates the stories of remarkable women from SAT 2011 including Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and is joined by SAT journalists Sue Lloyd-Roberts and Nita May to discuss the SAT pro-democracy leader's struggle and future. SAT Margaret Humphreys is a social worker whose story is told in SAT the film "Oranges and Sunshine" which reveals what happened SAT to thousands of British children taken from their birth SAT parents and sent abroad for a "better life". Former head of SAT M15 Eliza Manningham-Buller on her role as its director at SAT the time of the Iraq war. Wendy Butler talks about the SAT diagnosis with pancreatic cancer that was to change her life SAT - why are survival rates still so poor? Astronaut Colonel SAT Catherine 'Cady' Coleman returned from a five month tour of SAT duty on the international space station in May where she SAT accomplished an unusual task - playing a flute duet in SAT space. Karyn McCluskey discusses the unit she set up to SAT tackle violence in Strathclyde which brings together gang SAT members and those whose lives have been affected, such as SAT Joyce Young whose son died in a knife attack. And we hear SAT from Betty Morgan - who became the World Indoor and Mixed SAT Pair Bowls Champion this year. SAT SAT Aung San Suu Kyi SAT SAT The fim - The Lady - is released in cinemas across the UK SAT and Ireland on 30th December 2011. SAT SAT The documentary - Lady of No Fear - is at Sheffield Showroom SAT on 3 January, and Cambridge Arts Picturehouse on January 8, SAT 2012. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b018v2kx (Listen) SAT Carolyn Quinn presents a fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b018h2qq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b018h2kx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b018h2kz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018h2l1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b018v2kz (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests bid farewell to 2011 from the SAT Radio Theatre. SAT SAT Clive will be going head to head with Griff Rhys Jones, who SAT in the eighties, teamed up with Mel Smith in 'Not the Nine SAT O' clock News' and 'Alas Smith and Jones'. Griff's new show SAT 'The One Griff Rhys Jones' is part of a series of programmes SAT pioneered by Ronnie Corbett in 'The One Ronnie'. Griff will SAT be joined by Mel to reprise their famous head to head sketch SAT on January 16th on BBC One. SAT SAT After celebrating Christmas with 'Rev', Olivia Colman will SAT be talking to Clive about her comedy roles in 'Peep Show' SAT and 'Green Wing'. Recently praised for her serious acting, SAT starring as an abused wife in Paddy Considine's SAT award-winning 'Tyrannosaur', Olivia now finds herself acting SAT with Meryl Streep as she plays Carol Thatcher in 'The Iron SAT Lady'. SAT SAT Meanwhile, over in the comedy corner, Arthur Smith will be SAT talking to the maestro of suburban absurdism, Sam Simmons. SAT Pitched somewhere in the no-man's land between psychotic SAT breakdown, ground-breaking genius and outer space, Sam's SAT Soho Theatre show 'Meanwhile' is a comedic trip to the SAT furthest reaches of humanity! SAT SAT Clive will be spinning 'The Wheel Of Fortune' and talking to SAT award-winning actor and TV presenter Bradley Walsh, who will SAT be bringing some much-needed 'Law & Order' to the Radio SAT Theatre and telling Clive about playing DS Ronnie Brooks in SAT the sixth series of the ITV 1 drama. Following that SAT arresting performance, Bradley will also be giving Clive SAT tips on how not to keep a straight face on a TV gameshow! SAT SAT Ay Caramba! Cuban cats 'Ska Cubano' will be offering some SAT musical mambo madness and raucous rumba by performing the SAT title track of their album 'Mambo Ska' and a second helping SAT of samba with 'Soy Campesino'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b018v2l1 (Listen) SAT Michael Acton Smith SAT SAT Once described as the 'rock star version of Willie Wonka', SAT Michael Acton Smith is emerging as one of the major players SAT in Britain's high tech industry. You may not have heard of SAT him, but any five to eleven year old will know of his Moshi SAT Monsters video game website, where children tend a virtual SAT pet. Moshi Monsters is growing rapidly and has 50 million SAT members worldwide. Acton Smith began his first business in SAT the late 1990s when he was not long out of university. SAT Despite recent success he has suffered major setbacks in the SAT past. Rory Cellan-Jones profiles the 37 year old who is SAT already making waves beyond these shores. SAT Producer: Kate Dixon. SAT SAT 19:15 Pick of the Year b018v2l3 (Listen) SAT This year we have tales of heroism from the Arctic convoys SAT and from a devoted wife losing her husband to dementia. Find SAT out why Brian Blessed nearly killed a fellow soldier ..... SAT over Sibelius, about Sir David Attenborough's close shave SAT with a lion and what happened when Rob Bryden supplanted Ken SAT Bruce. Plus, this year there are plenty of bees - on the SAT roof of a bank in the City of London, down in Hundred Acre SAT Wood and yes, inside the World at One studio. SAT SAT Spirit of the Beehive - Radio 4 SAT PM - Radio 4 SAT John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - Radio 4 SAT Arthur Smith's Balham Bash - Radio 4 SAT The Foghorn: A Celebration - Radio 4 SAT In Tune - Radio 3 SAT Life and Fate: Anna's Letter - Radio 4 SAT Music Planet - Radio 3 SAT David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SAT Front Row - Radio 4 SAT Just A Minute - Radio 4 SAT PM - Radio 4 SAT Graham Torrington's Phone In - Radio Devon SAT The Proms: Mahler's 2nd Symphony - Radio 3 SAT The Real Jimmy Savile - Radio Leeds SAT Ken Bruce - Radio 2 SAT Jamie Cullum - Radio 2 SAT SAT Producer: Helen Lee. SAT SAT 20:00 What the Papers Say b018v2l5 (Listen) SAT New Year's Eve Special SAT SAT What happens when the newspapers become the news they are SAT reporting? Kevin Maguire chairs a What the Papers Say review SAT of the year from a Fleet Street watering hole. He's joined SAT by What the Papers Say regulars for their take on how the SAT papers reported the news in a year that brought us hackgate, SAT austerity, eurocrisis, revolutions and much more. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b018g264 (Listen) SAT England Their England SAT SAT Martin Jarvis directs a galaxy of stars in a Classic Serial SAT one-off episode - a Radio 4 Special for Christmas. The cast SAT is led by outstanding Scots actor Tony Curran as Donald. SAT SAT In this classic 1930s comic novel, a young Scot, Donald SAT Cameron, invalided from the Western Front in 1918, finds SAT himself commissioned to write a book about the SAT eccentricities of the English - through 'a foreigner's SAT eyes'. An enthusiastic innocent abroad, Donald encounters an SAT array of richly comic characters. He attends an absurd SAT country house weekend, enjoys drinks with Fleet Street SAT hacks, attempts some book-reviewing, visits The League of SAT Nations as an MP's private secretary and, memorably, plays SAT village cricket - the most famous fictional cricket match in SAT literature. SAT SAT The novel is dramatised by Archie Scottney ('Something SAT Fresh', 'Summer Lightning', 'Goldfinger', 'The Mysterious Mr SAT Quin') and who once took 5 wickets for 36 runs. SAT SAT Martin Jarvis says: 'A joy to direct. The preposterous game SAT of cricket at its heart leaps happily onto the air waves. SAT With Ian Hislop to skipper our all-stars, I felt we had hit SAT some kind of pitch-perfection. The absurdity and SAT blessedness of England and the English remains reassuringly, SAT recognisable.' SAT SAT Donald Cameron .....Tony Curran SAT Evan Davies ..... Ioan Gruffudd SAT Mr Hodge ..... Ian Hislop SAT Tommy Huggins ..... Alfred Molina SAT Rupert Harcourt .. ... Rufus Sewell SAT Mr Bloomer ..... Michael York SAT Sir Henry ..... Ian Ogilvy SAT Gwennie ..... Jill Gascoine SAT Pendragon ..... Lloyd Owen SAT Esmeralda .....Sophie Winkleman SAT Carolyn Seymour, Julian Holloway, Oliver Dillon, JD SAT Cullum,Kenneth Danziger, SAT Darren Richardson, Simon Templeman, Alan Shearman, Matthew SAT Wolf, Daisy Hydon. SAT SAT Sound design: Mark Holden SAT SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b018h2l3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b018gr0l (Listen) SAT Series 4, Consumer Children SAT SAT Consumer Children: SAT SAT It's the week after Christmas, and children across the UK SAT will have found their stockings bulging with new toys and SAT gadgets. SAT SAT But how do you decide what you should and shouldn't buy for SAT your children? Quite apart from cost, this question has SAT become increasingly fraught. SAT SAT Ethicists and child psychologists, environmentalists and SAT politicians, even fellow parents - all have something to say SAT about what you buy your children. SAT SAT So in this programme, Mariella and guests explore how SAT parents make these decisions. SAT SAT She asks how much attention parents should pay to what other SAT adults might think. If we buy our children the latest SAT gadget, does it make us feel guilty about our values as SAT parents? And should it? SAT SAT Consumer society is unlikely to vanish any time soon - so SAT Mariella explores how we are educating the next generation SAT of consumers. How can we empower our youngsters by teaching SAT them about the need for limits, and about how to judge SAT value? Can handling pocket money or learning about planning SAT a family budget help teach them useful skills? SAT SAT But Mariella also questions whether buying products is the SAT most effective way to show your child affection. Do we SAT decide what to buy in our children's best interests, or are SAT we really buying for our own gratification? SAT SAT We hear from parents who are faced with pester-power and SAT explore the choices that they make in these straitened SAT times. We also hear about the effects of deprivation on SAT children's happiness. SAT SAT The panel includes Dr. Agnes Nairn, policy researcher and SAT author of 'Consumer Kids', Fiona Ellis, who works as an SAT advisory member for the Personal Finance Education Group SAT which teaches finance in schools, and Donald Hirsch who SAT works on issues around minimum income standards. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b018g3nb (Listen) SAT (7/17) SAT Would you know which organ of the human body is affected by SAT Gerstmann Syndrome? Or what official post was held by SAT Bernard de Launay, who became the first prominent casualty SAT of the French Revolution? SAT SAT Russell Davies is in the chair for another heat of the SAT evergreen general knowledge contest. This week, contestants SAT from South Wales, London and the Home Counties compete for a SAT place in the semi-finals. SAT SAT A Brain of Britain listener will also be hoping to win a SAT prize by outwitting the contestants with questions of his or SAT her own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Stopping by Woods b018fv67 (Listen) SAT The poem 'Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' was written SAT about nightfall on the shortest day of the year, though it SAT was actually put to paper at dawn on June 21st, 1922 - the SAT longest day. This has always puzzled Kenneth Steven, a poet SAT captivated by Frost's seemingly effortless mastery of rhyme, SAT metre, language and imagery. SAT SAT Kenneth Steven visits the poet's home in Shaftesbury, SAT Vermont, now a museum. He talks to the curator there, Carole SAT Thompson, and a pair of Frost scholar, Lea Newman and David SAT Sanders, and he walks the very woods that are possibly SAT evoked by the horseman who pauses to watch the snow settle, SAT despite having "promises to keep/And miles to go before I SAT sleep". SAT SAT He makes a pilgrimage to Frost's final resting place in a SAT New England cemetery - his gravestone covered in glinting SAT pennies left by fellow pilgrims - and he reveals compelling SAT new insights into the origins and impact of the poem which SAT Frost himself considered his "best bid for remembrance". SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 JANUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b018v430 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Late Nights at the Blue Boar b012fcyk (Listen) SUN Music journalist Pete Paphides tells the story of the M1's SUN improbable 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar cafe at SUN Watford Gap services. SUN SUN There surely can't be any less likely rock'n'roll hangouts SUN than the M1 Blue Boar cafe at Watford Gap services. SUN Nevertheless, by the late 1960s, Britain's first ever SUN service station was a thriving meeting point for any SUN London-based musicians driving home from a show between SUN midnight and 6am. Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix thought SUN that Blue Boar was the name of a cool London club because so SUN many of his fellow rock stars would refer to it. In 1977, SUN Roy Harper paid tribute to its cuisine on his album SUN Bullinamingvase, with a song called Watford Gap -'Watford SUN Gap, Watford Gap/A plate of grease and a load of crap' SUN although later versions of the album had the song removed as SUN a member of the EMI board was also a member of Blue Board's SUN board of directors. SUN SUN Using first-hand testimonies from musicians Francis Rossi, SUN Chas Hodges, Pete Langford, Shelia Ferguson from the 3 SUN Degrees, seminal photographer to the Rolling Stones, Philip SUN Townsend, beat poet Pete Brown, DJ Johnnie Walker, and David SUN Lawrence, author of 'Food on the Move', 'Late Nights and the SUN Blue Boar' aims to shine a light on the experience of the SUN touring musician in the late 60s, before the era of air SUN conditioned tour buses and salubrious hotel stopovers. It SUN will capture and analyse a certain moment in rock history SUN painting vivid pictures of the era. Among the other SUN participants in the programme will be the original waitress SUN charged with the job of cracking open eggs for hungry rock SUN stars and the security guard at the time - shading in a SUN picture of an improbable time and place in music (and SUN motorway) history. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018tzck (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018tzcm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018tzcp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b018tzcr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b018v432 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Petroc, South Brent, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b018v2l1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b018tzct (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b018v434 (Listen) SUN Home from Home SUN SUN Irma Kurtz reflects on expatriation. SUN SUN Expatriation has a long and sometimes tragic history. From SUN the earliest times people have settled far away from their SUN homelands, sometimes to escape persecution or famine, SUN sometimes simply because other countries hold out the dream SUN of a better life. SUN SUN Now that the world has shrunk, thanks to planes and boats SUN and trains, places that were not long ago ports of odysseys SUN and mysteries became accessible to everyone with the price SUN of a ticket. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from the work of Primo Levi, SUN Monica Ali and Henry James, and music composed by Bela SUN Bartok, George Frederick Handel and Ferde Grofe. SUN SUN The readers are Greg Hicks and Vaneeta Rishi. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis. SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b018v436 (Listen) SUN Two years ago former professional golfer Paul Dobson bought SUN a farm in East Sussex to fulfil his lifelong dream of SUN becoming an organic farmer. There are around 3000 organic SUN farms in the UK, and to join their ranks Paul will spend at SUN least 2 years converting his farm. But, as government SUN figures suggest consumer demand for organic food is at its SUN lowest since 2005 Anna Hill asks Paul if this is really the SUN best time to go organic? SUN SUN Paul's farm is a conventional 240 acre livestock farm and he SUN is working on converting the land to organic for his 350 SUN sheep and his veggies and crops. On a cold winter morning, SUN Anna Hill visits him in the fields alongside Sarah Hathway, SUN an Inspector from the Soil Association, which monitors SUN organic farms to ensure they meet the required standard. SUN During her visit Sarah and Paul explain how the land and the SUN animals that graze on it, now have to be managed SUN differently. SUN SUN Presented by Anna Hill and produced in Birmingham by Angela SUN Frain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b018tzcw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b018w7k2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b018w7b7 (Listen) SUN Samira Ahmed presents a special New Year's Day edition of SUN Sunday, looking at the religious, ethical and moral issues SUN likely to arise in 2012. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b018w7k4 (Listen) SUN African Initiatives SUN SUN Jane Garvey presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity African Initiatives. SUN Reg Charity:1064413 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN African Initiatives SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN African Initiatives SUN SUN African Initiatives is a small but effective social justice SUN organisation that supports the rights of people to take part SUN in the social, economic, political and environmental SUN decision-making that affects them. We work in long-term SUN partnerships, to strengthen the capacity of a number of SUN local grassroots organisations in Tanzania and Ghana. We SUN support projects concerning girls’ education, women’s rights SUN (including domestic violence), sustainable livelihoods, SUN economic empowerment, land rights and youth at risk, with SUN education and community empowerment forming an integral part SUN of all their projects overseas. SUN Here in the UK we implement a Global Education programme, SUN dedicated to raising awareness of development issues and SUN promoting positive images of the developing world. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b018tzcy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b018w7k6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b018w7k8 (Listen) SUN "Looking forward, Looking back." The people of All Souls SUN Langham Place in the heart of London remember a significant SUN 20th Century preacher their own former Rector John Stott who SUN died in 2011 and was a prophet in his own time. John Stott SUN enjoyed an international ministry with thousands flocking to SUN All Souls from across the world. His love for making the SUN bible accessible and for helping people understand its call SUN on their own lives was expressed through his many books and SUN influence upon Christian communities across the world. With SUN the All Souls Orchestra and Prom Praise Choir and SUN congregation directed by Noel Tredinnick. Organist: Oliver SUN Nicolson. Preacher: Hugh Palmer (Rector) with David Turner SUN (Lay Reader). SUN SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b018h188 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b018tzd0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b018w7rd (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b018w7rg (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Jenny Stephens SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller 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 Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b018w7rj (Listen) SUN Sir Terry Wogan SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan. SUN SUN His career has spanned more than five decades and includes SUN the chat show Wogan, the Eurovision Song Contest, the quiz SUN Blankety Blank and for many years being the host of Radio SUN 2's breakfast show. SUN SUN He says: "You have to create a kind of little club - you are SUN not talking to an audience, you are talking to one person - SUN and they are only half listening anyway. It's a mistake to SUN think that everyone is clinging to your every word." SUN SUN Producer: Corinna Jones. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b018g3nz (Listen) SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Lee Mack, Jack Dee, Rufus Hound and Graeme SUN Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Reindeer, Decorations, SUN Boxes and Pantomime. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b018w7rl (Listen) SUN New Year's Food Quiz SUN SUN Tim Hayward and The Food Quiz team juggle more food history, SUN trivia and recipe knowledge in pursuit of fun and SUN gastronomic curiosity. SUN SUN Recorded in front of a live audience at The Abergavenny Food SUN Festival this special edition of the Radio 4 Food Quiz SUN features panellists comedian Chris Neill, food writer SUN Richard Johnson, television presenter Gizzi Erskine and SUN restaurant insider Thomas Blythe. SUN SUN This week's quiz categories include, "beer or racehorse" and SUN "what's cookin'" as well as more from inside "the museum of SUN brands". SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b018w7xd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b018w7xg (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton presents the latest national and SUN international news, with an in-depth look at events around SUN the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The iPod Series b00wqj51 (Listen) SUN Charles Dickens' iPod SUN SUN Charles Dickens wrote and performed songs all his life. As a SUN little boy, his mother stood him on the table in the local SUN pub to sing; as a successful writer he sang to his guests SUN after dinner. He also wrote the libretto for an opera. SUN SUN David Owen Norris re-imagines his favourite tunes, beginning SUN with his party piece as a little boy ending with the carol SUN in 'A Christmas Carol'. Recorded on location in Dickens's SUN drawing room, with biographers Claire Tomalin and Michael SUN Slater and actor and writer Simon Callow. With singers SUN Gwyneth Herbert, Thomas Guthrie and Laura Crowther. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus Audio Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b018gzmb (Listen) SUN Mickleton, Gloucestershire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a forward-looking programme from the SUN village of Mickleton. On the panel are Chris Beardshaw, SUN Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood. In addition, what makes a SUN grafted plant send out suckers? Why you should mind your SUN French when talking about medlar fruit. SUN Also includes the GQT quiz and an insight into becoming a SUN garden volunteer. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 Dickens Wallah b018w865 (Listen) SUN It was when the writer Ayeesha Menon was at a large family SUN gathering in Bangalore a number of years back, that SUN something about her large, Indian family made her realise SUN that the whole situation looked surprisingly Dickensian. SUN Then she looked beyond her family to India as a whole "the SUN gap between rich and poor, the unbridled development, the SUN massive social changes, the migration from the countryside SUN to the cities" and it all seemed so obvious. Far from being SUN a vestige of the colonial era, Dickens' novels talk to India SUN today. SUN SUN In Dickens Wallah - a curtain raiser to the three-part SUN Classic Serial The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Ayeesha Menon SUN explains the thinking behind her adaptation. We also hear SUN from British playwright Tanika Gupta who adapted Great SUN Expectations into an Indian setting, for a touring stage SUN production earlier this year. With members of the cast of SUN The Mumbai Chuzzlewits talking about their own experience of SUN growing up in India with Dickens firmly on the school SUN syllabus, Dickens Wallah sets the mood for a Radio 4 SUN re-interpretation of one of Dickens' classic novels. SUN SUN Producer: Nicola Barranger SUN A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b018w867 (Listen) SUN The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 1 SUN SUN By Ayeesha Menon SUN SUN Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles SUN Dickens 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and sets it amongst the Catholic SUN community in modern-day Mumbai, India. SUN SUN Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old SUN recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, SUN Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit SUN nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost SUN to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey SUN (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans SUN are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers SUN a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the SUN extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his SUN fortune. SUN SUN Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), SUN an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a SUN fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and SUN murder... SUN SUN Thomas, an orphan, is apprentice to the scheming architect SUN Pinto, a cousin to miserly old Martin Chuzzlewit, the SUN richest landlord in Bandra. Drawn into the world of the SUN Chuzzlewits, he forms a close friendship with the spirited SUN Mickey, grandson of Martin and heir to the family fortune. SUN When old Martin gets ill, Thomas witnesses attempts by SUN family members to worm their way into his life and secure SUN his fortune, while Mickey gives up everything in pursuit of SUN love... SUN SUN Ayeesha Menon is an award-winning writer who works SUN extensively in film and radio. For BBC Radio 4 she has SUN written several outstanding adaptations including: Q & A SUN (Slumdog Millionaire) which won Gold for Best Drama at the SUN Sony Radio Academy Awards; THE Cairo Trilogy, starring Omar SUN Sharif, which won a Bronze at the Sony Awards; My Name is SUN Red from the novel by Orhan Pamuk; and Six Suspects from the SUN novel by Vikas Swarup. SUN SUN Martin ..... Roshan Seth SUN Thomas ..... Karan Pandit SUN Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala SUN Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur SUN Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla SUN Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon SUN Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir SUN Joseph ..... Nadir Khan SUN Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur SUN Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital SUN Louis ..... Rohit Malkani SUN Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel SUN Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri SUN Manek ..... Vivek Madan SUN Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon SUN Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg SUN SUN Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja SUN Sound Design: David Chilton SUN Music: Sacha Puttnam SUN Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan SUN SUN Producer: John Dryden SUN A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b018wb0g (Listen) SUN Hunter Davies on The Beatles SUN SUN Hunter Davies talks to James Naughtie and readers about his SUN biography of The Beatles, first published in 1968. Recorded SUN at the Cavern, Liverpool. SUN SUN In 1966-68 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the SUN Beatles at the peak of their powers. As their only ever SUN authorised biographer he had unparalleled access - not just SUN to John, Paul, George and Ringo but to their friends, family SUN and colleagues. SUN SUN He hung out in Abbey Road studios whilst they recorded Sgt SUN Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At the end of sessions the SUN Beatles happily let him pick up scraps of paper with half SUN written lyrics on them, before the cleaners could tidy up. SUN In the early 1980s he realised they were worth more than his SUN house, and he gave them to the nation; the lyrics to SUN Yesterday he saved now sit alongside the Magna Carta in the SUN British Library. SUN SUN All four Beatles were committed to the book, and Hunter was SUN able to spend time with their families, John's Aunt Mimi, SUN and Ringo's mother and stepfather as they settled into their SUN swanky new bungalows far from the screaming fans in SUN Liverpool. He even found John Lennon's estranged father, SUN Freddie Lennon, who was washing dishes in a hotel not far SUN from John's new home in Surrey - and Hunter introduced John SUN to him after many years. SUN Looking back at the book some forty years later, Hunter SUN regrets not writing more about witnessing the Lennon and SUN McCartney song writing process; he saw the genesis of songs SUN like Getting Better and Across the Universe. SUN SUN And although the book was first written and published before SUN the group's acrimonious split, Hunter says that George was SUN already fed up of being a Beatle, and John was listless and SUN bored. SUN SUN Bookclub with Hunter Davies is a fascinating account of the SUN heady days of the Beatles' success. At the time he thought SUN the bubble would burst and that they would be replaced in SUN people's affections - though not his own. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN February's Bookclub : Maus by Art Spiegelman. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b018wb0j (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN The third in Ruth Padel's landmark series exploring the SUN pleasures of writing and reading poems comes from Newcastle, SUN where Ruth leads a workshop for group of poets working on SUN their own poems on the theme of The City. SUN SUN Poetry and poetry fans are everywhere - on the underground, SUN buses and the internet; in schools, colleges and SUN universities; on the stage at slams and festivals; in pubs, SUN theatres and concert halls; in reading groups and writing SUN workshops. All over the country groups of aspiring poets SUN meet regularly to work together on their craft, and in this SUN series Ruth taps into the energy of these poetry workshops SUN to explore how poems work for both writers and readers. In SUN Newcastle, she joins seven poets at the beginning of their SUN writing careers, who have all won recent awards for their SUN poetry, to work on some of their poems on the theme of The SUN City The text of all the poems featured will be available on SUN the Radio 4 website a few days before the broadcast. SUN SUN Ruth and the group listen to the poems and offer practical SUN and inspirational pointers to each other. As they go behind SUN the scenes of the poems, testing and pruning, exploring SUN technical points like structure, rhyme and line endings, SUN they reveal the imagination and the skill that makes poetry SUN so rewarding for both writers and readers of poetry. SUN SUN The group also share and appreciate a poem by the award SUN winning poet Sean O'Brien called Essay on Snow. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 17:00 Buying Defence b017mtfc (Listen) SUN The Prime Minister has described the country's defence SUN budget as "a complete car crash", with delays and overspends SUN on military equipment costing the taxpayer hundreds of SUN millions of pounds each year. SUN SUN But why have successive governments found it so hard to get SUN defence procurement right? How did the Ministry of Defence SUN end up with a £38b black hole in its budget? And can they SUN realistically balance the books while keeping the armed SUN forces in tanks, submarines and fighter jets? SUN SUN Defence expert and former soldier Francis Tusa takes us SUN inside the secretive world of defence procurement and tries SUN to work out what has gone wrong and how things can be fixed. SUN He investigates some of the MOD's most costly procurement SUN decisions and asks where the blame lies -with the civil SUN servants, the politicians, the defence industry or the SUN military top brass? Finally, he examines some of the radical SUN solutions being proposed to cut Britain's defence bill. SUN SUN Presenter Francis Tusa in a Scimitar armoured vehicle. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b018v2l1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b018wb8x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b018wb8z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018tzd4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b018wb91 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN It's Gin - but not as we knew it and it's rising in SUN popularity in the UK; a Yeti's finger has lain in storage in SUN London for several decades and Fings Ain't What They Used to SUN Be! Which of those is the Unbelievable Truth? It's certainly SUN true that our national treasures are more curmudgeonly these SUN days and that it's been an amazing week for music and drama. SUN so if you'd like a flavour of some of the best on Radio this SUN week join Liz Barclay on Pick of the Week at.. SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee SUN SUN Fings Ain't What They Used t'Be - Radio 4 SUN Dexter and Dodd - Radio 4 SUN Make Me A National Treasure - Radio 4 SUN In Business - Radio 4 SUN Yeti's Finger - Radio 4 SUN The Unbelieveable Truth - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 3 SUN Goodnight John Boy - Radio 4 SUN A Tale of Two Cities - Radio 4 SUN Suzi Quatro in Search of Janis Joplin - Radio 2 SUN Amy Winehouse at the BBC - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b018wb93 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 It's Your Round b018wb95 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN SUN Angus Deayton presides over another episode of the show SUN conceived not for the panellists but by them. This time, SUN Sandi Toksvig, Clive Anderson, Humphrey Ker and Milton Jones SUN have each brought their own rounds for them all to play. SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 A Dalmatian Trilogy b018wb97 (Listen) SUN The Lompic Cape SUN SUN By James Hopkin. SUN SUN The reader is Alan Cox. SUN SUN James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, SUN including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast SUN of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories SUN explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as SUN providing a colourful journey for the senses. SUN SUN An eccentric writer-explorer leads his bemused amanuensis SUN over the island. But on the rocks, in the sea and in the old SUN town, the two men see very different things ... SUN SUN James Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English SUN and Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA SUN on modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for a SUN PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story SUN competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. His novel SUN Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and SUN critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major SUN new writer. His short stories have been anthologised, SUN broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including 'The SUN Mural At Frau Krauser's': commissioned by Sweet Talk and SUN produced as part of a week of readings called Berlin. He SUN published a small collection of stories in 2008, along with SUN the paperback of Winter Under Water. A Georgian Trilogy, SUN also produced by Sweet Talk, was broadcast in 2010. He is SUN currently working on his second novel, Say Goodbye to SUN Breakfast. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b018gzqx (Listen) SUN The year in numbers - people name and discuss the number SUN which they found to be the most revealing or surprising. SUN Plus, does probability really exist. SUN Contributors: David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public SUN Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University; Owen SUN Spottiswoode, Fullfact.org; Tracey Brown from Sense about SUN Science; Jil Matheson, UK Statistics Authority; George SUN Monbiot; Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust; SUN Money Box presenter Paul Lewis; Sports Statistician, Robert SUN Mastrodomenico; Dr Linda Yeuh Economics Correspondent at SUN Bloomberg; Stand up Mathematician Matt Parker. SUN SUN 20:30 In Business b018gsdc (Listen) SUN A Glass of Its Own SUN SUN For decades now, gin has been regarded as an old-fashioned SUN drink for old fashioned drinkers. But now that may be SUN changing, thanks in part to the efforts of some tiny new SUN British drinks entrepreneurs with big ideas. SUN After centuries of decline, London's distilling industry is SUN picking up again, fuelled by small-scale producers and SUN European rules changes that recognise London dry gin as a SUN distinct drinks category. At a festive time of the year, SUN Peter Day meets some of the entrepreneurs behind the trend SUN and raises a glass or two to home-grown UK businesses. SUN SUN Producer: Mike Wendling SUN Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 20:56 Radio 4 Appeal b018w7k4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Counterpoint b018g3n2 (Listen) SUN Christmas Special SUN SUN Paul Gambaccini presents a special festive edition of the SUN wide-ranging music quiz, with all of the musical clues SUN played live by the BBC Philharmonic. Taking part in SUN Counterpoint's seasonal celebration are the lyricist Sir Tim SUN Rice, world-renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, and SUN journalist and BBC Proms presenter Suzy Klein. The questions SUN cover a wide range of music, classical and popular, with a SUN distinct festive flavour. SUN SUN At their orchestrated musical party, the panellists will be SUN treated to well-known melodies in unfamiliar arrangements, SUN unravelling different carols played simultaneously, and SUN tucking into their own musical Christmas dinner. SUN SUN The BBC Philharmonic are on hand, under conductor Clark SUN Rundell, to provide plenty of surprises. SUN SUN Producers: Paul Bajoria & Angela Sherwin. SUN SUN 22:00 UK Confidential b018gy51 (Listen) SUN 1981 SUN SUN It was the year of the Royal Wedding, urban riots and SUN soaring unemployment. Leading economists despaired of the SUN government's handling of the economy, while spending cuts SUN were considered too deep, and relations with European allies SUN fragile. This was 1981. SUN SUN Martha Kearney reviews newly-released government papers from SUN 1981 with guests including former Ministers, government SUN advisers and leading opponents. There are fascinating SUN insights to be gleaned from Margaret Thatcher's personal SUN files, containing secret memos, letters from Ministers and SUN foreign leaders, often furiously annotated with her SUN immediate response. Minutes of Cabinet meetings reveal SUN divisions between departments over the government's handling SUN of key policies. SUN SUN This was the year in which Mrs Thatcher visited the newly SUN instated Ronald Reagan, ten IRA prisoners died on hunger SUN strike in Northern Ireland, and trouble flared in British SUN cities, with looting and rioting in Brixton, Moss Side and SUN Toxteth. Martha and guests will look beyond the headlines to SUN see how key government decisions were made, and where SUN tensions between Ministers lay. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN A Wingspan and Whistledown co-production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b018grz9 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock is joined by historian Ian Christie and film SUN composer Neil Brand to explore the enduring appeal of the SUN silent era. SUN SUN Tipped for Oscar success and opening this week in the UK, SUN The Artist is a film with almost no dialogue and which SUN chronicles the transition from silent to talkies. We hear SUN from its director Michel Hazanavicius. SUN SUN As a child actor Diana Serra Carey appeared in hundreds of SUN shorts and features between 1920 and 1924 as 'Baby Peggy'. SUN Now 93 she looks back as one of the last surviving stars of SUN the era. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b018v434 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 JANUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b018tzds (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b018gqzt (Listen) MON Home Life 4: Shared Home MON MON Is there an age in which people should couple-up and settle MON down? Laurie Taylor visits the home of 6 young people who MON are extending their student sharing habits into their early MON thirties. What is the factor that keeps an increasing amount MON of people living like this - is it economics, good MON friendships or an antipathy towards what other people might MON regard as growing up? Laurie and his two sociological MON companions, Esther Dermott from Bristol University and Josh MON Richards from the University of Manchester accompany him on MON his investigation. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b018v432 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018tzdv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018tzdx (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018tzdz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b018tzf1 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018wdx7 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Very Revd MON Kelvin Holdsworth. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b018wdx9 (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith visits the Upton Estate on the Warwickshire, MON Oxfordshire border which has planted what could be one of MON the biggest bird feeding tables in the country. The farmer MON and wildlife advisor have gone to great lengths to ensure MON that wildlife and the environment are looked after just as MON much as food production. Charlotte sees how European MON Stewardship money is being spent and whether it's right to MON set aside fields for wildlife instead of growing food. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith. Producer: Fran Barnes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b018tzf3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b018wdxc (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 In Our Time b018wfsc (Listen) MON The Written World, Episode 1 MON MON Melvyn Bragg investigates the development of the written MON word and how it has shaped our intellectual history. In this MON first programme he looks at the technology of writing, MON arguably our most important invention. He examines some of MON the oldest surviving writing implements, and discovers and MON how making signs on clay, wood or parchment enabled the MON development of human culture. MON MON Producer: Thomas Morris. MON MON 09:30 The Paper Round b014pw4p (Listen) MON Sir Alan Parker MON MON A series in which five public figures revisit the route of MON their paper round to reveal how it influenced their MON attitudes to work, creativity and independence. MON MON Having a paper round is a rite of passage for many children, MON and many successful public figures claim to have braved the MON early mornings and the elements to deliver newspapers. For MON some, it's a chance for independence and freedom, or a MON temporary escape from the horrors at home. For others, it MON provides money to spend on music, fashion and MON girl/boyfriends. MON MON Actor and former paper boy Bob Kingdom joins his guests in MON England, Wales and Northern Ireland as they reflect on the MON formative years of their paper round. MON MON In the first episode, award-winning film director Sir Alan MON Parker retraces his route in North London which provided the MON inspiration for some of the key moments in his films. MON MON Producer: Olivia Landsberg MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b018wfsf (Listen) MON Looking for Transwonderland, Episode 1 MON MON Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer MON she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an MON annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all MON her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her MON father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the MON military government causing international outrage, and she MON didn't return for 10 years. Noo decides to rediscover and MON come to terms with the country her father loved and so she MON embarks on a journey round Nigeria in an attempt to MON understand her heritage. She begins in Lagos. MON MON Read by Janice Acquah MON Abridged by Laurence Wareing MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b018wfsh (Listen) MON Women in Business MON MON We catch up with some of the female entrepreneurs who've MON been in touch with Woman's Hour over the year to see how MON they're doing; the challenges they've faced; and their plans MON for expansion in 2012. We discuss how to market a business MON when you lack confidence; starting a business for the first MON time when you're in your sixties; finding time to yourself MON when you're running a business; whether an office is really MON necessary; and how a small business thinks big. MON MON Guests MON MON Jane Garvey is joined throughout the programme by business MON advisor, Cally Robson from website She's Ingenious! - a MON support network providing information and mentoring for MON entrepreneurs. MON MON Marketing Yourself: Rae Stephenson, creative director of MON Acumen Sales Coaching and Katja Seaton who runs Katja's MON Kupcakes. MON MON Starting a business late in life: Dr Dianne Bown-Wilson, MON Cranfield School of Management and Christine Brown who set MON up Yarn on the Square in Ely in her 60s. MON MON Finding time for yourself: Rosie Greenhalgh, Art House B&B, MON Norwich. MON MON Do you really need an office?: Emma Elston co-founder of UK MON Container Maintenance and Helen Wooldridge co-founder of MON Cuddledry. MON MON Thinking big - how to expand your business: Louisa Stout, MON Lodge Farm Kitchens, Ross-on-Wye. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018wfsk (Listen) MON Possession, Episode 11 MON MON Roland Michell, an academic research assistant, is MON completing some work in the London Library, when he comes MON across two unfinished letters written by the Victorian Poet, MON Randolph Henry Ash. Theses letters have obviously not been MON found by anyone else and they are not to his wife but to an MON unknown woman. Roland, whose entire academic life has been MON devoted to studying Ash, decides, recklessly to pocket the MON letters and try to determine exactly who they were written MON to. MON MON This is the beginning of a quest that will change literary MON history and with the help of a feminist literary scholar MON Maud Bailey, they are determined to find out the truth MON behind these letters. Certain other characters hear about MON the letters and are eager to get their hands on them for MON their own financial gain and will do so, by any means MON necessary, and so the chase begins. MON MON Roland, risking his future and Maud risking friendship and MON reputation, find themselves on a ferry bound for Brittany in MON France. MON MON Written by A S Byatt. Dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker MON MON Maud ...... Jemma Redgrave MON Roland ...... Harry Hadden-Paton MON Ash ....... James d'arcy MON Lamotte ..... Rachael Stirling MON Blackadder ..... Bill Paterson MON Cropper ..... Matthew Marsh MON George ...... Kenneth Cranham MON Joan ....... Joanna David MON Beatrice Nest ...... Stella Gonet MON Euan ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Fergus ...... Jonjo O'Neil MON Hildebrand ..... Robert Portal MON Val ...... Laura Pyper MON Leonora .... Lorelei King MON Raoul/Toby Byng .... Sam Dale MON Mrs Wapshott/Mrs Cammish/Mrs lees ..... Jane Whittenshaw MON Beth/PA/Mrs Judge/Librarian ...... Rachel Atkins MON Girl ...... Sylvie Goodwin MON MON Director: Celia de Wolff MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Don't Log Off b018wgzb (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Alan Dein attempts to cross the world on a series of late MON night excursions via Facebook and Skype - discovering the MON real life dramas behind the online profiles across two MON programmes. MON MON It's a hesitant start as Alan starts from a "Friend" count MON of zero, struggling to lure users away from the anonymity of MON the keyboard to the glare of the webcam - and engage in real MON verbal communication. Yet over five long late nights, he MON gradually builds up a circle of friends, crossing the time MON zones and discovering some startling stories. MON MON In programme one, Alan's in the realm of love and loss - MON online and offline. He connects with a single parent MON snowbound in Nova Scotia, an Egyptian whose online romance MON turned sour and a Pakistani yearning for a girl from the MON wrong caste. MON MON In programme two, he's among those dreaming of freedom, MON talking to a man car-jacked in Caracas, and an Iranian MON evading the electronic eavesdropping of the authorities. MON MON Previously, Alan Dein brought us the acclaimed Don't Hang MON Up, in which he set himself the task of calling phone boxes MON around the world to see who picked up. This time, the MON project reaches a whole new scale. MON MON Producers: Laurence Grissell and Sarah Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Party b011jrmq (Listen) MON Series 2, All Publicity Is Good Publicity MON MON The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party MON attempt to step up a gear and get the recognition and MON publicity they deserve. All they need to do is sort out the MON diversity of their group first. Second series of a satirical MON comedy written by Tom Basden. MON MON Simon - Tom Basden, MON Duncan - Tim Key MON Jared - Jonny Sweet MON Mel - Ann Crilly MON Phoebe - Katy Wix MON Photographer - Jane Wittenshaw MON MON Producer - Julia McKenzie. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b018wgzd (Listen) MON Sporting Nation? MON MON As we enter the Olympic year, Julian Worricker investigates MON the extent to which we're a sporting nation. MON MON How do our lifestyles and the economy affecting our approach MON to sport today? Has the growth of mass sporting events MON increased participation as much as it's boosted the coffers MON of the people organising them? And does success at the MON Olympics really equate to more people on the pitch? MON MON Julian enjoys a school sport that's enjoying a revival; MON Winifred Robinson has a go at Nordic walking and Peter White MON finds out why those taking part in one Paralympic sport are MON determined that it will go mainstream. MON MON The presenter is Julian Worricker. The producer is Katy MON Takatsuki. MON MON 12:57 Weather b018tzf5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b018wh2l (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Dear Professor Hawking b018wh2n (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON On the eve of his 70th birthday, BBC Radio 4 pays tribute to MON one of the world's most famous living scientists, Professor MON Stephen Hawking. Using letters, archive recordings and MON interviews, each programme will focus on one aspect of MON Professor Hawking's life. This is a series which will reveal MON the thoughts, concerns and humour of one of the icons of MON modern science. MON MON Contributions from: his children, Lucy Hawking and Tim MON Hawking; noted theoretical physicist Kip Thorne; MON Lord Professor Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal (a student MON at Cambridge with Hawking); Cosmologist Professor Paul MON Stelland (a PhD student of Hawkings in the 1980s); Producer MON Ben Bowie (producer of 'Stephen Hawking's Universe' for MON Discovery); Biographer Kitty Ferguson; his personal MON assistant Judith Croasdell; his graduate assistant Sam MON Blackburn (who looks after the voice/chair technology). MON MON Stephen Hawking was, from 1979 to 2009, the Lucasion MON Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge MON (following in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton). He is a MON Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, MON Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, lifetime member of the MON Pontifical Academy of Science and, in 2009, was awarded the MON Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in MON the United States. MON MON Producer: Julian Mayers MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b018wb93 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mw15p (Listen) MON Hoffnung: Drawn to Music MON MON By Alan Stafford. MON MON Starring Matt Lucas and originally broadcast to commemorate MON the 50th anniversary of Gerard Hoffnung's death, the MON eccentric cartoonist organises the first ever full-scale MON humorous symphonic concert at the Royal Festival Hall. MON MON It is 1956, and the fruity-voiced raconteur, tuba player and MON occasional Quasimodo impersonator Gerard Hoffnung is about MON to unveil his latest madcap scheme, a Hoffnung Music MON Festival: a full-scale symphonic concert that will bring MON many of his cartoon creations to life and poke fun at the MON pomposities of classical music. Will he succeed in filling MON the Royal Festival Hall with laughter, or will the whole MON enterprise come crashing to earth like a barrel of bricks? MON MON An all-star cast including Gina McKee, Hugh Bonneville, Jon MON Glover and Felicity Montagu bring Alan's play to life. Matt MON Lucas, a long time fan of Hoffnung, brilliantly conveys MON Gerard Hoffnung's surreal sense of humour and extraordinary MON voice. MON MON Gerard Hoffnung/ Psychiatrist 2 ..... Matt Lucas MON Annetta Hoffnung ..... Gina McKee MON Donald Swann/ Ian Messiter ..... Stephen Boswell MON Malcolm Arnold/ Bean ..... Nicholas Jones MON John Amis/ Roy Plomley/ Richard Dimbleby ..... Jon Glover MON Arthur Drummer ..... Hugh Bonneville MON Susan Drummer/ Announcer ..... Felicity Montagu MON Tuba player ..... Geoff Webb MON Pianist ..... .Alan Stafford MON Annetta Hoffnung (present day) ..... herself MON MON Producer: Adam Bromley. MON An Above The Title Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b018wh33 (Listen) MON (8/17) MON Russell Davies hosts the eighth heat of the current series MON of the evergreen general knowledge quiz, featuring MON competitors from East Lothian, West Yorkshire, Merseyside MON and Nottinghamshire. This week the programme comes from the MON BBC studios in Salford. MON MON The winner will go through to the semi-finals and will be MON one step closer to the coveted title of 'Brain of Britain MON 2012'. MON MON As ever, a Brain of Britain listener gets the chance to MON outwit the contestants with devious questions of his or her MON own, in 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b018w7rl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 In Search of Barney Bubbles b018wh7h (Listen) MON Mark Hodkinson goes in search of the truth about one of the MON most influential and enigmatic of graphic designers - Barney MON Bubbles who changed the way record sleeves looked. MON Barney Bubbles worked with some of the biggest names in MON popular music in the 1970s and 80s. He created album sleeves MON of cryptic intricacy, giving a depth of detail that was new MON to the medium. But he hardly ever signed his work and often MON operated under obscure pseudonyms, so his creations are MON still being uncovered.. With some difficulty as Barney took MON his own life nearly 20 years ago. MON Mark Hodkinson speaks to Barney's family and colleagues to MON uncover his genius and the reasons for his tragically early MON death. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b018wh7k (Listen) MON Islam and the Veil MON MON In the first of a new series, Ernie Rea and his three guests MON discuss Islam & the Veil. MON MON France, Belgium & Italy have already banned the full face MON veil. Other countries are considering it. In Britain a MON Private Member's Bill on the subject was thrown out 18 MON months ago. But the subject prompts fierce debate amongst MON Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In a country like the UK, MON which prizes individual freedom, is it a basic human right? MON Or is it essentially divisive in promoting community MON cohesion? The Qur'an contains very few relevant verses and MON the word "hijab" literally means "curtain" but many new MON converts to Islam believe that the full veil is a religious MON obligation, but is it? Ernie and his guests get to the heart MON of what the Qur'an actually says and, more, importantly, how MON that has been interpreted. MON MON Joining Ernie for a lively debate on Islam & the Veil are MON Fatima Barkatullah, writer and lecturer for the Islamic MON Education & Research Academy, Dr Shuruq Naguib, Lecturer in MON Islam at Lancaster University and Khola Hasan, Lecturer on MON Women's Rights under Islamic law & member of the Islamic MON Sharia Council. MON MON 17:00 PM b018wvmv (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018tzf7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wqgn1 (Listen) MON Series 6, Dr Bruce MON MON 15 Minute Musical - a bite-size treat that melts in the ear MON not in the hand. MON MON Bruce Forsyth tirelessly defends his Saturday Tea Time TV MON dominance in Dr Bruce a 15 Minute Musical delicacy with MON music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. MON MON Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson MON Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick MON Music by: Richie Webb MON Music Production: Matt Katz MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b018wvmx (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Mark Watson, Phill Jupitus, Ed Byrne and MON Henning Wehn are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: The MON Olympics, Butter, Bees and Blood. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b018wvmz (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b018wvn1 (Listen) MON Kate Bush, Nick Mason and Brian Wilson on new life for old MON tapes MON MON John Wilson talks to musicians including Kate Bush, Brian MON Wilson of The Beach Boys, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Ray MON Davies of The Kinks and Nile Rodgers of Chic, as they MON re-visit old recordings, re-assess the out-takes left in the MON vaults and consider why some tracks - and even complete MON albums - lie unreleased for years. MON MON Producer John Goudie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018wfsk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bishop and the Prisoner b018wvn3 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In this three part series the BBC is given a rare degree of MON access to prisons as it accompanies the Rt Rev James Jones, MON the Church of England's "Bishop for prisons," into the MON country's jails. Conversations with prisoners - voices MON rarely heard on radio - are the centrepieces of these MON programmes, but the Bishop also talks to prison staff, MON politicians and opinion-formers about what prison should be MON for, how prisoners can be helped to become useful citizens MON and whether community sentences can ever win the public's MON confidence as a viable alternative to prison. MON MON In this first programme, James Jones visits Liverpool, High MON Down and Forest Bank prisons. He witnesses the "processing" MON of inmates as they go through prison reception (or "The MON Churn" ) and gets out of the way of officers on the walkways MON responding to alarms that are always sounding. He measures a MON cell (12 paces by 9). He talks to prisoners - first-timers, MON old hands, self-harmers - about why they are there. MON Governors and prison officers tell him how they seek to MON manage inmates' routines and behaviour, and about the MON importance of looking out for themselves - when two staff MON can be responsible for a wing holding sixty prisoners, it MON doesn't do to let your guard down. MON MON The prison population is at record levels, having almost MON doubled in the last twenty years. The Justice secretary MON Kenneth Clarke says he doesn't understand how it has been MON allowed to get so big, and lambasts attempts of previous MON Governments to cut crime by giving longer sentences as MON "pathetic". He tells the Bishop that his aim is to reduce MON the re-offending rate. Yes, it will help his department's MON bottom line, but it's common sense too. MON MON How to cut re-offending is the million dollar question. MON Prisoners, governors and commentators seem to agree that an MON offender only stops committing crimes when he decides he's MON had enough; as one said, "I've got too old for it - my heart MON isn't in it anymore." The deprivation of liberty, courses in MON thinking skills and literacy don't seem to work as MON effectively as the simple passage of time. MON MON If prison doesn't reduce re-offending, does that mean it MON doesn't work? MON Prison is also there to punish - though some say it doesn't MON do that well enough. MON MON In one obvious sense prison is effective; while prisoners MON are locked away from society, they can't commit crime on the MON outside. But if prison is to mend the prisoner as well as MON incarcerate him, it must do more - and that is the focus of MON the next programme. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b018grht (Listen) MON Frank Wild's last journey MON MON Sir Ernest Shackleton has a heroic place in the annals of MON Antarctic exploration, famously for his expedition on the MON aptly-named Endurance in 1914. He intended to cross over the MON Antarctic landmass. Instead, his ship became stuck in ice MON which eventually crushed it. Shackleton and his crew made a MON desperate voyage in three small boats to Elephant Island, MON where they split up. The men on the island were left under MON the command of Shackleton's Number 2, Frank Wild. Shackleton MON and a small team sailed 800 miles to South Georgia, from MON where they mounted a rescue mission for Wild's group. MON Nearly a century on, reporter Karen Bowerman joins a group MON of Wild's relatives retracing his extraordinary journey to MON the southern seas. They are bearing Wild's ashes, which they MON bury next to Shackleton, on South Georgia. MON Producer: John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b018gs8y (Listen) MON In this special edition, Adam Rutherford finds out which MON four finalists will be competing for the title of BBC MON Amateur Scientist of the Year. MON MON Over 1,000 people entered 'So You Want to Be a Scientist?' MON hoping to put their scientific questions to the test. During MON the last few weeks on Material World, we've met the 10 MON amateur scientists on this year's shortlist. But which of MON them will make the final four to turn their idea into an MON experiment? MON MON Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir Paul Nurse chairs the MON judging panel and is joined by astronomer Dr Lucie Green, MON statistician Dr Yan Wong from Bang Goes the Theory and MON science journalist Mark Henderson. They'll decide which MON entries show the most scientific promise and discuss how MON these budding amateur scientists might go about designing MON their experiments. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 21:30 In Our Time b018wfsc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01982br (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b018wvn5 (Listen) MON David Eades presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b018wvn7 (Listen) MON Cousin Bette, Episode 1 MON MON Cousin Bette is one of the best loved and most admired of MON Honore de Balzac's novels, written when his powers were at MON their height and marking the culmination of his MON extraordinary chronicle, La Comedie Humaine. MON MON A tale of seductive women and philandering men, of MON passionate affairs and spiralling debts, Cousin Bette paints MON a vivid portrait of Paris in the 1830s and '40s. It's a city MON full of temptations, in which money is king, morals are MON loose and the appeals of the virtuous are usually in vain. MON In the midst of it all sits a poor relation, Cousin Bette, MON like a spider in her web. Fuelled by bitterness and MON jealousy, she is determined to weave destruction into the MON lives of her extended family, the socially superior Hulots. MON MON With her friend and accomplice, the beautiful Madame MON Marneffe, Bette sets out to manipulate events so that men MON are brought to their knees and their wives to despair, and MON she attains the power and prestige she seeks. MON MON Cousin Bette was written in less than a year, in serial MON instalments, often only completed just before the deadline. MON Within its pages, Balzac conjures a kaleidoscope of MON characters from all walks of life, chronicles the rise of a MON grasping bourgeoisie and tells a gripping tale of jealousy, MON passion and treachery. MON MON Honore de Balzac remains one of France's greatest writers. MON The author of over ninety novels and stories, his great work MON is the epic series of interlocking novels, La Comedie MON Humaine, designed to portray the radical changes France MON experienced after the Revolution and Empire. Balzac died MON three years after completing Cousin Bette, in 1850. MON MON The Reader is Alex Jennings, who is currently appearing in MON The Collaborators as Mikhail Bulgakov at the National MON Theatre and will shortly be seen in Silk on BBC One. His MON many readings for Radio 4 include Chesil Beach by Ian MON McEwan, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and Speaking for MON Themselves, the letters of Clementine and Winston Churchill. MON MON Cousin Bette is translated by Marion Ayton Crawford and the MON abridger was Sally Marmion. MON MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b018g5t3 (Listen) MON But I've Got a Degree! MON MON But I've Got A Degree! Michael Rosen discusses the letters MON we put before and after our names. Are you a BA, MA, Dr or MON Dame - or "just a plain Mister"? And does it matter? MON MON 23:30 Oscar and Al Pacino b0174dzr (Listen) MON Al Pacino has played the part of Herod on stage in Oscar MON Wilde's play 'Salome'. MON He became fascinated by the play, which was once described MON by The Times as 'morbid, bizarre, repulsive and very MON offensive.' MON 'This,' says Pacino, 'is the story of an obsession'. MON MON In conversation with Mark Rickards, Al Pacino describes the MON inspiration he has found in Wilde's work. He first saw the MON play performed by Steven Berkoff, and says that he was MON 'bitten by the rub of love.' He made the decision to stage MON it for a theatre in Los Angeles, and to film the process of MON putting it on stage. The end result is the extraordinary MON 'Wilde Salome', a blend of drama and documentary directed by MON Al Pacino himself. MON MON The programme features an exclusive contribution from Al MON Pacino on his interpretation of Oscar Wilde's work, extracts MON from the film, and contributions from producer Barry Navidi MON and Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Al Pacino says he has MON a taste for 'making movies where I can just make it up as I MON go along.' MON MON This is a chance to hear from one of the world's greatest MON actors on one of the world's greatest writers. MON MON Al Pacino: Why I love Oscar Wilde MON MON Al Pacino says a chance visit to a theatre in London first MON inspired him to tell the story of Oscar Wilde which he has MON made into the award-winning drama documentary, Wilde Salome. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 JANUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b018tzfw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b018wfsf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018tzg0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018tzg2 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018tzg4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b018tzg6 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019c735 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Very Revd TUE Kelvin Holdsworth. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b018wx3v (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b018wy44 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 In Our Time b018wy46 (Listen) TUE The Written World, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second instalment of his survey of the written word, TUE Melvyn Bragg traces the evolution of writing technology from TUE the time of classical antiquity to the invention of TUE printing. He discovers the origins of the book, and TUE encounters the earliest surviving intact example in the TUE Western world. TUE TUE Producer: Thomas Morris. TUE TUE 09:30 The Paper Round b014q007 (Listen) TUE Molly Parkin TUE TUE A series in which five public figures revisit the route of TUE their paper round to reveal how it influenced their TUE attitudes to work, creativity and independence. TUE TUE Having a paper round is a rite of passage for many children, TUE and many successful public figures claim to have braved the TUE early mornings and the elements to deliver newspapers. For TUE some, it is a chance for independence and freedom, or a TUE temporary escape from the horrors at home. For others, it TUE provides money to spend on music, treats and TUE girl/boyfriends. TUE TUE Artist and irrepressible Bohemian Molly Parkin joins actor TUE Bob Kingdom in Dollis Hill, the location of the first of her TUE two paper rounds. TUE TUE Producer: Olivia Landsberg TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b018wy48 (Listen) TUE Looking for Transwonderland, Episode 2 TUE TUE Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer TUE she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an TUE annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all TUE her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her TUE father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the TUE military government causing international outrage, and she TUE didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to TUE rediscover and come to terms with the country her father TUE loved. Today's episode takes her to Transwonderland, a TUE bizarre deserted amusement park, and to a tranquil sacred TUE shrine. TUE TUE Read by Janice Acquah TUE Abridged by Laurence Wareing TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b018wy4b (Listen) TUE Selection for secondary school; writing about fathers TUE TUE Jane Garvey asks whether we are seeing the return of a TUE selective secondary school system; tips for TUE multigenerational living with Shay Grewal and Michele TUE Hansen. A survival guide for women with too much to do - is TUE it time to embrace domestic sluttery? And writing about TUE fathers with novelists Kerry Young + Roopa Faruki. TUE TUE Domestic Sluttery: Tips and cheats for women with too much TUE to do TUE TUE With family, friends, children, home and work, when do women TUE have time to themselves? How can women find short cuts to TUE save time, money and effort? Jane is joined by Sian Meades, TUE founder and editor of Domestic Sluttery, and the journalist TUE and broadcaster and mother of three, Joanna Gosling, to TUE discuss how to cheat your way to the good life and ways to TUE get maximum return for minimum effort. TUE TUE Domestic Sluttery – Cheat Your Way to the Good Life, by Sian TUE Meades, is published by Pavilion. TUE TUE Simply Wonderwoman – A survival guide for women with too TUE much to do, by Joanna Gosling, is published by Kyle Books. TUE TUE Writing About Fathers TUE TUE One of the novels shortlisted for this year's Costa award TUE for first novels is "Pao" by Kerry Young, the story of a man TUE who becomes a powerful "godfather" figure at the heart of TUE Chinatown in Kingston, Jamaica as the political violence of TUE the 60s escalates. He's capable of violence but also of TUE great insight and humour. It's inspired by Kerry's real TUE father and her memories of her early years with him in TUE Jamaica. Roopa Farooki - who has also won acclaim for her TUE writing and was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2010 - is TUE about to publish "The Flying Man", a novel which likewise is TUE inspired by her father, a man who lived to gamble and left TUE his family behind but seemed somehow to charm everyone he TUE met. Roopa and Kerry will tell Jane about writing about TUE flawed fathers. TUE TUE The Return of Grammar Schools? TUE TUE Will the New Year see an expansion of the grammar school TUE system in England? The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, TUE last month paved the way for grammars to expand; while TUE schools selection procedures are under review – are we TUE moving towards a more selective education system? We discuss TUE with writer and educational campaigner, Melissa Benn and TUE Public Policy Editor for the Economist, Anne McElvoy. TUE TUE Changing Households TUE TUE Michelle Hanson lived with her mother and daughter, writing TUE a weekly column about her experience and Shay Grewal's TUE multi-generational family spent eight weeks on our TUE television screens in Channel 4's The Family. So how can you TUE make these household set-ups work? And in these difficult TUE economic times how much more likely is it that people will TUE have to absorb an elderly relative, unemployed grown up TUE child or lodger into their home? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018wy4d (Listen) TUE Possession, Episode 12 TUE TUE Cropper and Fergus, follow Roland and Maud to France in the TUE hope of forcing them to hand over the letters. Unfortunately TUE however they bump into Leonora and Blackadder instead! TUE TUE Written by A S Byatt. Dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker TUE TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b018wy4g (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 1 TUE TUE What strikes most people when they first arrive in TUE Antarctica is the quiet . "It's so quiet; its the only place TUE in the world that you can actually hear Geology happening; TUE all these processes that you're schooled to think take TUE thousands and thousands of years, the movement of glaciers TUE and the shifting of rocks ... And that's an amazing TUE experience that process of the landscape changing" says Jeff TUE Wilson, a Director on the BBC series Frozen Planet. And the TUE sounds of 'geology happening' are captured in the first of a TUE new series of NATURE by wildlife sound recordist Chris TUE Watson. The sounds of the ice are astonishing; from the TUE huge, powerful grinding and creaking sounds as glaciers TUE calve or ice sheets buckle under pressure, to the delicate TUE sounds of water lapping under thin sheets of sea ice or the TUE tinkling sounds produced when fine needle-like ice crystals TUE move in a breeze of volcanic gases inside an ice cave at the TUE base of Erebus, Antarctica's most active volcano. TUE TUE With contributions from some the team who worked on the BBC TUE series, Frozen Planet, NATURE presents a journey in sound TUE across this frozen landscape. Whilst above the ice, the TUE landscape is quiet, below the ice the underwater world is TUE full of sound; for example, Orcas (killer whales) use pulses TUE of sound to navigate rather like bats and produce and TUE squeaks and whistles to communicate with one another over TUE vast distances, whilst Weddell seals produce the most TUE hauntingly beautiful ascending and descending tones. TUE Antarctica - frozen landscape, and surprising, mesmerizing, TUE powerful and haunting soundscape. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 How Folk Songs Should Be Sung b018wy4j (Listen) TUE Immediately after the success of the BBC Radio Ballads, Ewan TUE MacColl set about the Herculean task of trying to drag TUE British folk music into mainstream culture. Frustrated by TUE the dreary amateurishness of folk song performance, he TUE decided to establish his own centre of excellence to TUE professionalise the art. He called it "The Critics Group". TUE TUE MacColl tutored select artists "to sing folk songs the way TUE they should be sung" and to think about the origins of what TUE they were singing. He introduced Stanislavski technique and TUE Laban theory into folk performance and explored style, TUE content and delivery. TUE TUE BBC producer Charles Parker recorded these sessions to aid TUE group analysis. 40 years on, the tapes have come to light. TUE For the first time, a clear sound picture can be constructed TUE of this influential group in action. Former group members TUE Peggy Seeger, Sandra Kerr, Frankie Armstrong, Richard Snell, TUE Brian Pearson and Phil Colclough recount six frantic years TUE of rehearsing, performing and criticising each other. They TUE recall the powerful hold that Ewan MacColl exerted which was TUE eventually to lead to the collapse of the group in acrimony TUE and blame. TUE TUE Presenter Martin Carthy MBE, now an elder statesman of the TUE British folk music scene, shared many of McColl's ambitions TUE but didn't join the group himself. He listens to the TUE recordings and assesses the legacy of MacColl's TUE controversial experiment. TUE TUE Producers: Genevieve Tudor and Chris Eldon Lee TUE A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b018wy4l (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE What's your Sport? In this Olympics year, what exercise are TUE you doing regularly and why? How affordable is it to stay TUE fit? Whatever your sporting passion - whether it's football, TUE tennis, basketball, badminton, tell us what it means to you. TUE Would you like to do more sport - but your finances won't TUE allow it? Maybe your local area runs sporting schemes that TUE don't cost a penny. Can you afford to play sport regularly TUE or do you feel priced out of regular exercise? Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk, Text 84844 and we may call you back TUE or call 03700 100 444. Lines open at 10am, Tuesday. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b018tzg8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b018wy4n (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Dear Professor Hawking b018zd9b (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Producer: Julian Mayers TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b018wvmz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b018wy4q (Listen) TUE Birkett, Birkett and the Blind Soldier TUE TUE By Caroline and David Stafford. TUE 1 of 4 TUE A blind WW1 veteran, accused of murdering his wife, is TUE defended by Norman Birkett, the most celebrated advocate of TUE the inter-war years. 1 of 4 TUE TUE Norman Birkett.....Neil Dudgeon TUE Billie.....Bonnie Engstrom TUE Edgar.....Alun Raglan TUE Lady Pearson.....Adjoa Andoh TUE Arthur.....Carl Prekopp TUE MacCormac.....Paul Moriarty TUE Frazer/Warder.....Adam Billington TUE Humphreys.....James Lailey TUE Sgt Waller.....Gerard McDermott TUE Randall/Clerk..... Rikki Lawton TUE Grace/Margaret.....Alex Rivers TUE Woman.....Victoria Inez Hardy TUE TUE The casebook of Norman Birkett KC (1883-1962) covers pretty TUE much every story that entertained the readers of News of the TUE World between the wars. Birkett was a busy man who, in those TUE days before legal specialisation, could at any one time be TUE dealing simultaneously with a juicy murder, a society TUE divorce or a livid libel action. The four stories in this TUE series cover some of Birkett's most famous cases, including TUE the dramatic trial of Buck Ruxton, the doctor accused of TUE murdering and dismembering his wife and maid; the scandalous TUE Dennistoun affair; and the very peculiar events surrounding TUE the mysterious cyclist Ronald Light. In many ways, these TUE stories represent an abridged history of those inter-war TUE years and reflect, in their parade of moral confusions, TUE hypocrisies, panics and vanities, our own not dissimilar TUE age. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b018wy4s (Listen) TUE What has happened to the lapwings? TUE TUE Fifty or so years ago, winter fields used to be alive with TUE huge flocks of lapwings filling the air with their TUE distinctive "pee-wit" cry?. But no more, as one listener TUE laments on this week's Home Planet. Where have these birds TUE gone, have they moved to friendlier climes or have their TUE numbers crashed for other reasons? Why, you ask, do TUE different animals live for such different lengths of time? TUE And what can we learn about human longevity from them? TUE TUE And why do dogs insist on rolling in the myriad of TUE unpleasant things they find in fields, and then come home so TUE proud of their new smell? TUE TUE On the panel this week are ecologist Dr Lynn Dicks of TUE Cambridge University, naturalist Derek Moore and Professor TUE Philip Stott an environmental scientist from the University TUE of London. TUE TUE The programme is presented by Richard Daniel. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Questions, Questions b012wzfs (Listen) TUE Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of TUE Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to TUE those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by TUE current events and popular culture. TUE Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed TUE and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled TUE collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. TUE TUE In the programme this week, Stewart begins by finding out TUE why tea and coffee pots are different shapes. He sets out on TUE a mission to discover what the Neolithic structures called TUE 'quoits' reveal, grabs a magnifying glass to examine the TUE history of the flea circus and has a good time sampling the TUE answer to the conundrum, what is a wingwom? TUE TUE Producer: Kate Taylor TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b018xs89 (Listen) TUE Comparing the way we bring up children and train dogs TUE TUE Do dog training techniques work just as well on children? TUE Michael Rosen investigates, comparing the way we bring up TUE our children and train our dogs. Taking part are Victoria TUE Stilwell of TV's It's Me or the Dog, John Bradshaw, Jez TUE Rose, Steven Rose and parents who have strong views on the TUE subject.. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b018xs8c (Listen) TUE Series 26, Lonnie Donegan TUE TUE Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter tells Matthew Parris why TUE skiffle king Lonnie Donegan is his hero. TUE TUE Lonnie Donegan is probably best remembered for the novelty TUE hits "My Old Man's a Dustman" and "Does Your Chewing Gum TUE Lose its Flavour? " However, early hits like "Rock Island TUE Line" were instrumental in inspiring the likes of John TUE Lennon, Brian May and Roger Daltrey to perform. TUE TUE Donegan played a decisive role in the development of British TUE popular music. His revitalisation of skiffle provided the TUE inspiration for the whole British beat movement that was to TUE come. Ironically, although Donevan was the catalyst, he was TUE soon eclipsed by the young electric guitar heroes of the TUE mid-sixties, and he was left with the comedy and cabaret TUE circuits. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b018xw8l (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018tzgb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b018xs8f (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 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 5 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the TUE residents of Bungay in Suffolk, where he talks about TUE non-existent castles, haunted pubs and chicken roundabouts. TUE TUE Written and performed by Mark Steel with additional material TUE by Pete Sinclair. TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b018xs8h (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b018xs8k (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the category winners of TUE the Costa Book Awards, announced this evening. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018wy4d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Inside Fortress Bill b018xs8p (Listen) TUE Katie Derham takes a 'warts and all' look at the Bill and TUE Melinda Gates Foundation and examines the immense political TUE power and global influence that it now wields. TUE TUE In June 2008 Bill Gates retired from the day to day running TUE of Microsoft and began to devote his time to distributing TUE his fortune. Now the Foundation's fund, swelled by a $31 TUE billion pledge over ten years from Warren Buffett in 2006, TUE is estimated at $33.5 Billion making it the world's largest TUE grant-giving organisation giving away up to $4billion a TUE year. Gates' views are now welcomed by world leaders, he TUE addressed the G20 in November of 2010, and the man credited TUE with putting computers into every household, is now fighting TUE a battle to save American Education, beat malaria, TB and TUE polio. His status as a great philanthropist is not up for TUE debate. TUE TUE However, this is a sharp contrast with his former persona of TUE ruthless businessman flaunting competition law, buying off TUE rivals and pursuing his goals with a vengeance. Critics TUE believe his market-led philosophies can distort the picture, TUE allowing Governments to be let off the hook, causing a brain TUE drain in countries where they are backing aid, and the way TUE that funds are distributed seems to be at the whim of the TUE co-chairs who are beyond any form of accountability. TUE TUE In this programme, Katie Derham has been given unique access TUE to key decision makers at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, TUE follows Bill Gates as he lobbies European opinion formers in TUE Paris, and hears how some of the grantees view their TUE relationship with the richest man in the world. TUE TUE Producer: David Prest TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b018xs8r (Listen) TUE Latest mobile phones and what they offer the visually TUE impaired TUE TUE What the new generation of phones and smartphones is TUE offering blind and visually impaired people. Lee Kumutat and TUE Geoff Adams-Spink look at the push for accessibility of TUE mainstream phones by manfacturers and designers. TUE TUE With touch screens, voice activation and Apps to help you TUE customised your phone - there are tips on what mobile TUE technology can offer people of all ages. And if you're TUE thinking of purchasing or upgrading your phone there's TUE plenty of advice on offer from the RNIB's Robin Spinks about TUE what to think about before you look buy. TUE TUE Presenter Peter White TUE Producer Cheryl Gabriel. TUE TUE 21:00 Thinking Streets b018xs8t (Listen) TUE The streets beneath our feet are getting smart. Pavements TUE are melting into the roads and traffic lights are TUE disappearing. Inspired by the work of scientists and TUE engineers in Holland and Japan, this revolution in urban TUE design, a movement dubbed 'Shared Space', promises to TUE dramatically change the way cities look and how we TUE experience them. But can it really fulfil the promise of TUE making us all safer, happier and more efficient? TUE TUE Two years ago, at the heart of London's shopping district, a TUE strange thing happened. The big red buses, white vans and TUE black taxis that usually skimmed pedestrians as they tried TUE to beat the maddeningly slow grid of traffic lights at TUE Oxford Circus, were stone still for thirty seconds. And TUE suddenly every person standing at the junction scrambled TUE into the middle of the road. TUE TUE In one stroke, life changed for the 90 million people who TUE step through Oxford Circus every year. Not only has it made TUE life easier for those on foot by giving them 70% more space, TUE it's also faster and looks neater. In 2010, the council even TUE claimed that it contributed to a 7% rise in annual sales in TUE the area's shops. TUE TUE The Oxford Circus diagonal crossing was one of the first TUE steps in a growing movement to change streets in Britain and TUE all over the world. Today, engineers at Imperial College TUE London are helping to overhaul South Kensington's museum TUE district, with pavements being levelled down to the same TUE height as the road and new criss-cross paving patterns TUE designed to calm drivers (the scheme is nearly complete and TUE the result is striking if rather disconcerting). In TUE Portishead, near Bristol, a trial that removed traffic TUE lights from a notoriously congested crossing was such a TUE success there are plans to roll it out across the town. TUE Other schemes already constructed include Brighton's New TUE Road and another in Ashford, Kent. But Shared Space has been TUE labelled 'speed-bump science' by its critics - Jeremy TUE Clarkson among them. True, one of the guiding principles is TUE reducing traffic speed, often with the use of raised TUE brick-paved areas (very long speed-bumps!) but proponents TUE insist Shared Space is a creative and radical solution aimed TUE at improving the experience of all road users. And the TUE benefits go beyond reduced accident rates to a host of TUE socio-economic benefits for the cities, towns and villages TUE choosing to adopt such schemes. TUE TUE In practical terms, a shared space scheme will involve TUE removing the distinction between streets and pavements. No TUE barriers, few if any road markings, no pedestrian crossings, TUE and little in the way of street signage. The result of this TUE street minimalism is that you enter a shared space very much TUE at your own risk. And this is the key to improving safety, TUE traffic flow and quality of experience. The early roots of TUE this innovative concept lies in the work of the late Dutch TUE traffic engineer, Hans Monderman. A passionate advocate of TUE shared space, Monderman and colleagues started small - more TUE than twenty years ago, converted an intersection in the TUE northern Dutch province of Friesland from a conventional TUE signal-controlled intersection to a brick-paved street, TUE giving equal priority to cars, people and cycles. The idea TUE was that people would use their own minds in navigating the TUE streets, building their own informal traffic rules. Research TUE has shown that these kinds of shared spaces automatically TUE reduced traffic speed to under 20 mph - the threshold at TUE which the chances of being severely injured in a road TUE accident plummets. This highly counterintuitive approach - TUE increasing risk decreases accidents is finding favour TUE (albeit slowly and not without opposition) all over the TUE world. TUE TUE Today, Monderman's vision can be experienced throughout his TUE Dutch province of Friesland, no where more so than in TUE Drachten, an unassuming town that until recently was famous TUE only for being the home of the Dutch electronics giant TUE Philips. Drachten's shared space schemes (and those of its TUE near neighbours) now attracts a regular pilgrimage of TUE engineers and planners, from all parts of the world - TUE Australia, Japan, Britain, South Africa, India and even TUE Colombia.. TUE TUE 21:30 In Our Time b018wy46 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b018tzgd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b018xs8w (Listen) TUE David Eades presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b018xs8y (Listen) TUE Cousin Bette, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode, the incorrigible Baron Hector Hulot TUE meets a captivating young woman, Madame Marneffe, and Cousin TUE Bette tries to bind the young sculptor, Count Wenceslas TUE Steinbock, that she has 'adopted', ever closer. TUE TUE The reader is Alex Jennings. TUE The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger TUE was Sally Marmion. TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 I, Regress b018xs90 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an TUE unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees TUE Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff TUE Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking TUE unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through TUE their subconscious. TUE TUE Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client TUE who has come to him for a different problem (quitting TUE smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under TUE hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various TUE situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played TUE out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) TUE like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is TUE disturbing. TUE TUE Episode 1: Karen House-Water (Katherine Parkinson) visits Dr TUE Berry to treat her fear of water, and finds that the cure TUE can sometimes be worse than the disease - via mermaids, the TUE titanic, and talking dolphins. TUE TUE The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT TUE Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall TUE (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes TUE Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's TUE Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter TUE Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, TUE and The Royal Exchange). TUE TUE 23:15 Continuity b00tdnt4 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE A Continuity Announcer's booth can be a lonely place - TUE especially on the late shift, when you've barely seen your TUE wife and children for a week. Still, this Radio 4 Continuity TUE Announcer is nothing, if not a consummate professional and TUE he's not going to let his own insignificant little problems TUE get in the way of your listening pleasure. Especially when TUE there are so many exciting programmes coming up in the next TUE week, which he's got to tell you about. At least some of TUE them are exciting. Some of them aren't quite his cup of tea, TUE if he's honest, but that's not really the point, is it? They TUE may be right up your street. It's not really his place to TUE express an opinion. Even if it is tempting. This may be a TUE come-down from heady days spent announcing on the Today TUE programme, but he's got a job to do. Though sometimes it is TUE rather difficult to concentrate..... TUE TUE Alistair McGowan stars in a new subversive sitcom about a TUE Continuity Announcer brooding on the escalating disasters of TUE his private and professional life; at the same time as TUE attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer TUE in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a TUE parallel universe. Trails for 'The Ethical Enigma', TUE 'Britain's Favourite Sound' and 'The History of Britain One TUE Year at a Time' are just some of the strange delights on TUE offer in the world of this 'radio professional', who TUE harbours a slightly inappropriate relationship with his TUE audience. TUE TUE Written by Hugh Rycroft a stalwart of 'The News Quiz' and TUE co-creator of 'Parliamentary Questions' and 'Life, Death and TUE Sex with Mike and Sue', the series also features the voices TUE of Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David TUE Holt. TUE TUE Produced by David Spicer and Frank Stirling TUE A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Britain in a Box b00y4cjj (Listen) TUE Series 4, World in Action TUE TUE A second chance to hear Paul Jackson with stories about TUE classic TV hits. Tonight, the show that led the way for TUE current affairs on ITV, World in Action. Coming up later TUE this week, the laddish antics of Men Behaving Badly and the TUE dulcet tones of whispering Bob Harris in The Old Grey TUE Whistle Test. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 JANUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b018tzh1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b018wy48 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018tzh3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018tzh5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018tzh7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b018tzh9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019c7rj (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Very Revd WED Kelvin Holdsworth. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b018xsm8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b018xsmb (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 In Our Time b018xsmd (Listen) WED The Written World, Episode 3 WED WED Melvyn Bragg continues his survey of the history of the WED written word by investigating how writing has influenced the WED spread of religion. He finds out how the evolution of WED writing materials and techniques allowed religions to WED develop, and encouters some of the earliest surviving sacred WED texts, including the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus and a WED Koran produced in Iraq in the 8th century. WED WED Producer: Thomas Morris. WED WED 09:30 The Paper Round b014qndb (Listen) WED Tony Macaulay WED WED A series in which five public figures revisit the route of WED their paper round to reveal how it influenced their WED attitudes to work, creativity and independence. WED WED Having a paper round is a rite of passage for many children, WED and many successful public figures claim to have braved the WED early mornings and the elements to deliver newspapers. For WED some, it's a chance for independence and freedom, or a WED temporary escape from the horrors at home. For others, it WED provides the money to spend on music, treats and WED girl/boyfriends. WED WED Northern Ireland peace builder and writer Tony Macaulay WED recalls his paper round on the Shankill Road in 1970s WED Belfast with actor Bob Kingdom. WED WED Producer: Olivia Landsberg WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b018xsmg (Listen) WED Looking for Transwonderland, Episode 3 WED WED Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer WED she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an WED annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all WED her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her WED father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the WED military government causing international outrage, and she WED didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to WED rediscover and come to terms with the country her father WED loved. Today's episode takes her to Ibidan, her father's WED university city, to the now derelict imperial city of Benin WED and on to a successful mechanised farm run by Zimbabweans. WED WED Read by Janice Acquah WED Abridged by Laurence Wareing WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b018xsmj (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018xs8m (Listen) WED Possession, Episode 13 WED WED WED Back in England, Maud is made aware that Cropper is wanting WED to buy up all the letters and take them back to America to WED add to his collection and that he will, by any means WED necessary, achieve this. WED WED Written by A S Byatt. Dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker WED WED Director: Celia de Wolff WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Among the Managers b018xt53 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED It's a world in which team work and goals are more than just WED motivational phrases, and moving the goal posts will get you WED sent off the pitch. Football management has come a long way WED since men in sheepskin coats bestrode the land. The BBC's WED business editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on this WED multimillion pound industry and, with managers like Harry WED Redknapp, Dario Gradi and Sam Allardyce, explores the WED management skills of Britain's top football managers. WED WED 11:30 A Short Gentleman b018xt55 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED by Jon Canter, adapted by Robin Brooks WED WED Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect WED specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless WED legal logic to his disastrous personal life. WED WED 1/4 WED Robert sails through all his exams, but finding a girlfriend WED is more testing. WED WED Father ..... James Hayes WED Mother ..... Nichola McAuliffe WED Young Robert ..... Josef Lindsay WED Pilkington ..... Ewan Bailey WED Ticky Moxon-Smith ..... Katherine Jakeways WED Judy Page ..... Tracy Wiles WED Alan Temperley ..... Gerard McDermott WED WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b018xt57 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b018xtr9 (Listen) WED The Disowned Army WED WED John Waite reports on the campaign to recognise 5,000 Irish WED soldiers who deserted their own country's army to fight WED Nazism alongside the British in World War 2. When they WED returned home their names were placed on "The List" and they WED were denied jobs and treated as outcasts. Many in Ireland WED now see their treatment as inhumane and unjustified and WED there is a campaign underway to have the Irish Government WED officially erase the stain on their names. WED WED 12:57 Weather b018tzhc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b018xtrc (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 Dear Professor Hawking b018zdds (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Producer: Julian Mayers WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b018xs8h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b018xtrf (Listen) WED Dolly Would WED WED By Alison Carr. When Denize falls in love with washed-out WED Kenny Rogers impersonator, Martin, her dreams of being a WED singer are long forgotten. But then 'Kenny' asks her to be WED his 'Dolly'. A romantic comedy about the highs and lows of WED pretending to be Dolly Parton. WED WED Denize ... Sharon Percy WED Joanne ... Libby Davison WED Martin ... Lee Ross WED Other parts are played by Tracy Wiles, Gerard McDermott and WED Victoria Inez Hardy WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b018xtrh (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests take your calls on benefits. WED WED There are more changes to the benefits system coming into WED force this year as the Government continues to make welfare WED more affordable - bringing the total welfare savings to WED £18bn per year by 2014-15. WED From 1 January 2012, the rate of Local Housing Allowance for WED single people aged 25-34 who rent from a private landlord WED will be reduced. WED There are further changes to the Tax Credits system coming WED in from April 2012. These include the faster withdrawal of WED the credit as a claimant's incomes rises; couples with WED children must work at least 24 hours a week between them, WED with one working at least 16 hours, to qualify for Working WED Tax Credits; and the couple and lone parent rates of Working WED Tax Credit will be frozen. WED If you rent from a private landlord are you clear about how WED the changes to the Local Housing Allowance will affect you? WED If you and your partner currently claim Working Tax Credits WED will you still be eligible? WED Are you wondering how you find out if you qualify for WED benefits, and where you apply to? WED Have you become unemployed or need help while looking for WED work? WED Do you know what to do if your benefit is overpaid? WED Are you uncertain as to whether you can claim Disability WED Living Allowance? WED WED Expert panel: WED Julie Mitchell, Gingerbread WED Phil Agulnik, Entitled to WED Sally West Age UK WED WED Lines open at 13:00. The number to ring - 03 700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Thinking Streets b018xs8t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b018xtrk (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b018xtrm (Listen) WED FT editor Lionel Barber on reporting the economy. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b018xtrp (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018tzhf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b018xtrr (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 6 WED WED Victoria Coren presents the last in the current series of WED the show which dares to commit heresy. WED WED Her guests this week are comedian Sue Perkins, singer Cerys WED Matthews and actress Maureen Lipman. Together they have fun WED exposing the wrong-headedness of received wisdom and WED challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. WED WED Both Sue Perkins and Maureen Lipman disagree with the view WED that the world would be a better place it if was run by WED women, arguing that women would make an equally fine mess of WED things. WED WED Former lead singer with the rock group Catatonia, Cerys WED Matthews, doesn't believe it's more fun to be a pop star WED than a classical violinist. Confessing to a previous life as WED an oboe player, she claims that orchestra musicians WED definitely have more fun - particularly the horn players. WED WED All three guests rather struggle to argue against the WED received opinion that there is still stigma attached to WED Internet dating, but when challenged by Victoria Coren they WED all admit that they have never tried it themselves - and WED never would. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon Television Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b018xtrt (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b018xtrw (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with director and WED writer J C Chandor about his film Margin Call, set in an WED investment bank during the financial crisis, and starring WED Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Paul Bettany. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018xs8m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b018xtry (Listen) WED Series 4, Butting Out and Letting Go WED WED In the early years parents control their children's lives, WED but a failure to foster independence even in young children WED is key to debates being had now about whether young people WED are coping at university and work and with life in general. WED WED Are we raising a generation unable to deal practically and WED emotionally with adult life after years of parental WED indulgence and funding? The recession and rising house WED prices might mean that adult children increasingly come back WED home or never leave, so - once they're over 18 is your WED opinion relevant? Should you expect an input about big WED decisions and is seeking parental approval good for adults? WED Reseach about the impact of the situation in Italy where 8 WED out of 10 men between 18 and 30 live with their parents WED suggests that parents 'bribe' their children by offering WED home comforts and security in return for compliance. WED WED So are we risking young people less inclined to seek work WED and control their own lives? And when do you need to start WED letting them go? How do you help your child become WED themselves - do we know what's hard-wired and what are the WED key developmental moments? WED WED With Dr Terri Apter, author of 'The Myth of Maturity', the WED journalist Deborah Orr, Dr Helene Guldberg, author of WED 'Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear' WED and Matt Whyman, who offers advice to young people about how WED to manage their parents via the advice web-site TheSite.org. WED WED Producer: Erin Riley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b018xts0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 37 WED WED Paul Flatters argues that childhood today is better than WED ever before, and he explains why (wrongly) thinking the WED reverse is bad for us as individuals and as a society. WED WED Paul deconstructs several examples of recent media coverage, WED and explains why charities and academics have a vested WED interest in exaggerating the negative. WED WED And he seeks to dispel the inevitable gloom of early January WED by pointing out the many ways in which research suggests WED life is certainly no worse, and much better, for children WED and families than it has ever been before. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Big Game, Little Game b00txjsg (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Mark Stephen charts a unique swap involving two gamekeepers WED - one from the Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. WED Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of heather WED moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the edge WED of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from there WED will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for BBC WED Radio 4. WED The programmes offer the very different perspectives of WED Scottish gamekeeper Andy Malcolm and his South African WED counterpart Dylan Smith. Both men track their experiences in WED the form of audio diaries and in reflections to presenter WED Mark Stephen who is alongside them in this job exchange. How WED they deal with issues ranging from land conservation to WED animal welfare and how far experiences in their own WED landscapes can translate into ideas for their new ones, is WED at the heart of the recordings. WED WED The Tswalu game reserve in South Africa is currently owned WED by Nicky Oppenheimer's family but was originally the vision WED of the Manchester entrepreneur Stephen Boler. In a four year WED period he established the 100 000 hectare reserve and WED introduced thousands of game animals, including sable and WED roan antelope, Cape buffalo and cheetah. Following his death WED in 1999 the Oppenheimers purchased Tswalu and set about the WED task of restoring the Kalahari to itself: hunting was WED stopped, farm buildings and fences were removed and WED indigenous game like the endangered desert black rhino and WED black-maned Kalahari lions were brought home. The WED Oppenheimer's regularly spent time at Lord Dalhousie's WED Invermark estate in Scotland and although the lands were WED vastly different the realities of overseeing them was not: WED the idea of an exchange arose from a desire to broaden the WED experiences of the two management teams. WED WED Dylan Smith, Tswalu's Projects Manager, is engaged in a huge WED conservation effort which allows many endangered animals to WED flourish. In some cases, surpluses are used to restock other WED reserves. In Scotland there is a harsher reality; Invermark WED is a traditionally run sporting estate and it's continued WED survival is dependant on producing Red Grouse and Red Deer WED for shooting. Andy Malcolm and the other five gamekeepers WED who work this 55,000 acre highland wilderness take 700 deer WED and up to 1200 brace of grouse annually. However they are WED quick to point out that there are many other beneficiaries. WED "It's a well documented fact that managing moorland for WED grouse improves habitat and increases biodiversity. And at WED peak times the estate employs up to 40 seasonal workers- WED grousebeaters, ghillies, ponymen and the like. That, in WED turn, boosts the local economy. All of this is not always WED appreciated politically. WED WED Andy Malcolm's life in Kalahari takes some adjusting to: WED from the tortoise ambling across the road, to adrenalin WED filled ventures when he's tracking rhinos and zapping lions: WED "It's the end of a most amazing week...I'm aware of how much WED I haven't told you. I haven't told you just how amazing this WED place really is; how extraordinary it is to be seeing so WED many different animals, birds, insects and plants; and how WED perplexing it is not to know what they are; how strange it WED feels to be in an environment that holds potential dangers. WED It's a place that, if it weren't for the roads, you could WED imagine nobody had ever been here before you. When I get up WED in the morning, the first thing I do is open the doors and WED listen. Back home, you can always hear a river or burn, or WED the wind in the trees, or a dog barking, or a plane flying WED over. Here it's a stillness that's more like total deafness. WED And as I have breakfast, I listen to the world waking up. WED WED "And I still haven't scratched the surface of Tswalu..It has WED a vast area of plain crossed with dunes, parallel but half a WED mile between them, it has mountains that look higher than WED anything we've got and far more inaccessible due to the WED incredibly broken ground, it has hidden glens and I've even WED seen a pond! It has big open areas and dense thicket, it has WED trees that look so old and gnarled that they might have seen WED the very first white men. And it's hot." WED WED Meanwhile in Scotland Dylan is also adjusting - particularly WED given the dramatic change in temperature and the very WED different tasks undertaken, from cutting firewood for the WED bothies to shovelling gravel into potholes: "this has been WED one of the most unusual weeks I have spent in my entire WED life.Invermark is an incredible place - I have often heard WED of the Scottish Highlands and yet when one hears such talk, WED one is never truly able to capture the essence of a place. WED In order for this to happen, for a place to be indelibly WED imprinted on ones mind and soul, one needs to be drawn into WED its very heart and soul." WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 21:30 In Our Time b018xsmd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b018tzhh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b018xts2 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b018xts4 (Listen) WED Cousin Bette, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, as Bette and Madame Valerie Marneffe WED find common cause and prepare to entrap Baron Hulot, Bette WED learns some unwelcome news about her young sculptor WED Wenceslas. WED WED The reader is Alex Jennings. WED The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger WED was Sally Marmion. WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed b018xtw1 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Uh oh, not another bank Heist... Kerching! Join Nick and co. WED as they attempt to solve something akin to that bit at the WED start of The Dark Knight. WED WED Written and performed by Nick Mohammed, with Anna Crilly & WED Colin Hoult. WED WED Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED 23:30 Britain in a Box b00yd8n5 (Listen) WED Series 4, The Old Grey Whistle Test WED WED Another chance to catch the programme in which Paul Jackson WED shines a light on TV classics that helped define their time. WED Today, he turns an ear to The Old Grey Whistle Test, the WED music show devoted to the rock album, which began life just WED over 40 years ago and survived for a further sixteen. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 JANUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b018tzj2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b018xsmg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018tzj4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018tzj6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018tzj8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b018tzjb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019dh2v (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Very Revd THU Kelvin Holdsworth. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b018xw5w (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b018xw5y (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b018xw60 (Listen) THU The Written World, Episode 4 THU THU Melvyn Bragg investigates how the written word, a technology THU originally used for accountancy, gave rise to all of human THU literature. He charts the emergence of poetry and history THU writing in the ancient world, inspects an ancient Egyptian THU precursor to Hamlet, and discovers how Greek literary THU traditions reached this country in the Middle Ages. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:30 The Paper Round b014qnwj (Listen) THU Melanie Walters THU THU A series in which five public figures revisit the route of THU their paper round to reveal how it influenced their THU attitudes to work, creativity and independence. THU THU Having a paper round is a rite of passage for many children, THU and many successful public figures claim to have braved the THU early mornings and the elements to deliver newspapers. For THU some, it's a chance for independence and freedom, or a THU temporary escape from the horrors at home. For others, it THU provides the money to spend on music, fashion and THU girl/boyfriends. THU THU Gavin and Stacey star Melanie Walters joins Bob Kingdom as THU she retraces her paper round route in Swansea. THU THU Producer: Olivia Landsberg THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b018xw62 (Listen) THU Looking for Transwonderland, Episode 4 THU THU Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer THU she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an THU annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all THU her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her THU father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the THU military government causing international outrage, and she THU didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to THU rediscover and come to terms with the country her father THU loved. In today's episode, she encounters the devastating THU effect of desertification on the edges of the Sahara and THU finds tranquility in a mountain kingdom. THU THU Read by Janice Acquah THU Abridged by Laurence Wareing THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b018xw64 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018xw66 (Listen) THU Possession, Episode 14 THU THU In the knowledge that Cropper is prepared to go to any THU lengths to get his hands on the letters. Beatrice Nest THU gathers everyone together to try to stop him in his tracks THU THU Written by A S Byatt. Dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b018xw68 (Listen) THU Saving the Brazilian Amazon THU THU The Amazon rainforest is perhaps the world's greatest single THU environmental asset. For years the accepted wisdom has been THU that the remorseless tide of destruction there is THU unstoppable. Justin Rowlatt travels to Brazil to question THU this conventional account and finds that over the last five THU years rates of deforestation have plummeted by more than THU half. There is now serious and credible discussion about THU stopping deforestation completely and even replanting THU rainforest in deforested areas. THU THU He joins raids deep in the jungle with a team of armed THU Brazilian environment agents - and watches as a gang of THU loggers are caught in the act. He meets the farmers and THU ranchers who are now conserving rather than cutting the THU forest, including one of the world's biggest farmers, the THU man they call the King of Soya, Blairo Maggi. He meets an THU Indian tribe who have been enlisted as "smoke jumpers" - THU frontier firefighters protecting the forest from wild fires. THU THU He travels to the most remote state in Brazil to see a THU project which has created a viable market for the THU traditional industry of wild rubber tapping by building a THU condom factory in the middle of the jungle. THU THU Of course there is still enormous pressure on the forest. THU 2011 saw a spike in deforestation and a big debate about the THU management of the forest which has shown the continued power THU of the rural lobby. While Brazil's success in taming THU deforestation remains fragile Justin asks if there is cause THU for hope that the greatest ecosystem on the planet can be THU preserved. THU THU Producer: Keith Morris. THU THU 11:30 Black Is a Country b018xwcn (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU This two part series explores the extraordinary underground THU music generated by the Black Power movement of the late THU Sixties: radical, beautiful and rare. THU THU Black Power - with its symbol of a fist clenched in anger THU and defiance - politicised African American music in ways THU the Civil Rights movement had not. The desire for THU integration gave way to a new, fighting impulse of cultural THU separatism and self-determination. Politics and music became THU explosively attuned. From 1968 The Black Arts Movement - THU 'the cultural and spiritual sister of the Black Power THU concept' - flourished, dedicated to the foundation of an THU authentic Black aesthetic in literature, poetry and music. THU 'The Black Power and Black Arts concept both relate to the THU Afro-American's desire for self-determination and THU nationhood' wrote the African American philosopher Larry THU Neale in 1968,'...a main tenet of Black Power is the THU necessity for Black people to define the world in their own THU terms. The Black artist will make the same point in the THU context of aesthetics.' THU THU The quest for freedom had both a musical and political THU resonance. Musicians opened up new and unexplored worlds of THU musical possibility. Players like Ornette Coleman and Archie THU Shepp pioneered the 'New Thing' - an avant-garde in jazz, THU pushing the limits of harmony and rhythm. Music was THU explicitly pressed into political service: The Black Panther THU Party even produced its own album of underground anthems THU 'Seize the Time' and Black music as a whole became far more THU vocal in its opposition to white mainstream society. THU Poet-musicians like Gill Scott Heron and the Last Poets THU delivered stinging attacks on the political failure of Civil THU Rights and the reality of the black experience in cities THU across America. Meanwhile Africa became as a powerful symbol THU for a younger generation of black American artists, a source THU of political identification, spiritual sustenance and often THU exotic, musical inspiration. THU THU Black Power transformed the way musicians negotiated control THU and ownership of their own music. The club and bar circuit THU gave way to performances in galleries, lofts, community THU halls and public spaces. The Association for the Advancement THU of Creative Musicians was inaugurated in Chicago (and still THU thrives today) and other collectives followed. Radical THU independent labels flourished with very limited vinyl THU release. Many of these records, infused with the Black Power THU ethos, are extremely rare, and are featured throughout the THU series. THU THU Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder THU of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet THU Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole THU of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian THU Jackson and former Black Panther leader Ericka Huggins. THU THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b018xwcq (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b018tzjd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b018xwcs (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 Dear Professor Hawking b018zm25 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Producer: Julian Mayers THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b018xtrt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pg5rb (Listen) THU Lamia THU THU Adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem about the THU ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the THU innocent mortal Lycius. THU THU Narrator ...... Paterson Joseph THU Lamia ...... Charlotte Emmerson THU Lycius ...... Tom Ferguson THU Hermes ...... Jonathan Keeble THU THU With original music by John Harle THU Singer: Sarah Leonard. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b018xwcv (Listen) THU Knockando woolmill, near Aberlour on Speyside, has produced THU fabric since 1784. Its original machinery has supported THU families down the centuries and the mill has retained a THU place at the heart of the local community, working with wool THU from local sheep and weaving tweed and blankets for the THU flocks' owners. A break had to come, though, for renovation THU and renewal work which, it is hoped, will allow it to THU continue its work into the next century and beyond. The THU trust which runs the mill is determined that it should THU continue to be far more than a living museum, so Helen Mark THU visits Knockando just as the restoration work comes to an THU end to ask where it might market its products, whether THU anyone nowadays has the skills to keep it alive, and how the THU Knockando community can be involved in its survival. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark. THU Producer : Moira Hickey. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b018w7k4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b018wb0g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b018xwt1 (Listen) THU Francine Stock talks to Olivia Colman about playing opposite THU Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady and discusses teenage THU pregnancy, lost daughters and redemption with Rodrigo Garcia THU the director of Mother and Child, starring Annette Benning. THU THU Producer: Zahid Warley. THU THU 16:30 Material World b018xwt3 (Listen) THU The ancient Mayans had two calendars; the solar calendar of THU the agricultural year and a lunar calendar on which they THU based their religious festivals. The two don't coincide very THU often. The longest cycle they considered lasts 5 125 years THU and completes a cycle on 21st December 2012 at the midwinter THU solstice. That has given rise to predictions that this is THU when the world will end - something not stated in the Mayan THU texts. It was also the basis for the Hollywood epic "2012" THU with earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and all the THU special effects of modern film making. THU THU So how might the world actually end? Could geological or THU cosmic catastrophe take place this year, and if not, how do THU we know? But this is not just about geology and astronomy. THU It's also about human psychology. Why do predictions of an THU apocalypse continue? What drives those who invent them, and THU their followers who sometimes have such strong beliefs that THU they commit mass suicide? THU THU And will the world end eventually, and if so, how and when? THU Quentin Cooper investigates the end of the world with the THU help of astronomers, psychologists and anthropologists. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b018xw7m (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018tzjg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Elvenquest b017757w (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 6 THU THU When the Questers get drunk to celebrate Vidar's birthday, THU Sam tries once again to gain (albeit with customary THU cack-handedness) the affections of Penthiselea, much to her THU consternation. Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is anxious to get THU one over his old nemesis, Kaybar the Maleficent, and so THU decides to do something really newsworthy and light the THU "Beacon of Doom". THU THU If the "Beacon of Doom" is lit then the runes dictate that THU one of the Questers must do battle in hand-hand combat with THU Lord Darkness himself. And so, to impress Penthiselea, Sam THU volunteers to be that Quester. Problem is, Sam doesn't have THU the first idea how to fight hand-to-hand. Fortunately, nor THU it seems, does Lord Darkness. Should make for an interesting THU showdown then... THU THU Starring: 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 and THU Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea THU THU Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b018xwt5 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b018xwt7 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018xw66 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b018xwt9 (Listen) THU Metal theft has reached epidemic proportions, not just in THU the UK but across the world, driven by a huge demand in THU countries like India and China. Andrew Hosken visits one of THU the worst hit areas in the country, Walsall, and explores THU how stolen scrap is 'laundered' into the legitimate system. THU More sophisticated criminals are now involved with reports THU of some stolen goods being exporting directly out of the THU country. As forecasts predict that demand for metal will THU mean that prices continue to rise, we ask why the criminal THU justice system seems unable to control metal theft. THU THU Producer: Rob Cave. THU THU 20:30 In Business b018xwtc (Listen) THU Class Struggle THU THU In nearly every country in the world, there's one sector THU that everyone seems to think is in crisis: education. THU America produces legions of Nobel laureates and has the best THU universities in the world - and yet faces an epidemic of THU failing state-run schools. India churns out vast numbers of THU engineers ready for the modern economy, and yet its business THU leaders yearn for the kind of creative thought that is THU taught in the Anglo-Saxon system. In the UK we worry about THU discipline and standards, while at the same time welcoming THU thousands of foreigners anxious to get qualifications and THU training that are non-existent in their home counties. THU Peter Day asks why everyone thinks education is so bad and THU what schools and businesses are doing to try to improve it. THU Producer: Mike Wendling. THU THU 21:00 Nature b018wy4g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b018xw60 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b018tzjj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b018xwtf (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b018xwth (Listen) THU Cousin Bette, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode, as Hulot's debts spiral further out of THU control, Bette seizes on a new plan to destroy her detested THU family. THU THU The reader is Alex Jennings. THU The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger THU was Sally Marmion. THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Meanwhile, It's Will & Greg b018xwtk (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Comedy performers William Andrews and Greg McHugh explore THU the surreal and the absurd through characters and everyday THU situations in their first sketch show for BBC Radio 4. Along THU with live sketches recorded in front of an appreciative THU Glasgow audience, the show also features studio based THU sketches with Will & Greg as "themselves" exploring a THU particular scenario and utilizing their hilarious THU relationship with each other and their trademark skew-whiff THU logic. The studio based sketches allows them to play with THU sound and atmosphere of the radio sketch form and blend them THU with the live audience material. THU THU Together with brand new regulars and one-off sketches, the THU series explores the bizarrely familiar, the recognisably odd THU and the upbeat offbeat way of life that only exists when the THU planet is touched by Will and Greg. THU THU Stars William Andrews and Greg McHugh with Gavin Mitchell THU and Kirsten Mclean. THU THU Director: Iain Davidson THU Script editor: Chris Grady THU Original music by Alex Attwood. THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Britain in a Box b00ym5fc (Listen) THU Series 4, Men Behaving Badly THU THU Another chance to catch the programme in which Paul Jackson THU shines a light on TV classics that helped define their time. THU Tonight, the 1990s sitcom whose title spelled out exactly THU what the audience saw: Men Behaving Badly, featuring THU contributions from producer Beryl Vertue, writer Simon Nye THU and stars Martin Clunes and Leslie Ash. THU THU Producer: Ed Morrish. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 JANUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b018tzk1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b018xw62 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b018tzk3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b018tzk5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b018tzk7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b018tzk9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019dh3w (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Very Revd FRI Kelvin Holdsworth. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b018xy1y (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b018xy20 (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 In Our Time b018xy22 (Listen) FRI The Written World, Episode 5 FRI FRI Melvyn Bragg concludes his survey of the written word by FRI considering how the invention of writing made the scientific FRI revolution of the Enlightenment possible - and examines FRI influential documents, including the student notebooks of FRI Sir Isaac Newton. FRI FRI Producer: Thomas Morris. FRI FRI 09:30 The Paper Round b014qxbx (Listen) FRI Stephen K Amos FRI FRI A series in which five public figures revisit the route of FRI their paper round to reveal how it influenced their FRI attitudes to work, creativity and independence. FRI FRI Having a paper round is a rite of passage for many children, FRI and many successful public figures claim to have braved the FRI early mornings and the elements to deliver newspapers. For FRI some, it's a chance for independence and freedom, or a FRI temporary escape from home. For others, it provides the FRI money to spend on music, fashion and girl/boyfriends. FRI FRI Award-winning comedian Stephen K Amos recalls his paper FRI round route with Bob Kingdom in Balham, South West London. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b018xy24 (Listen) FRI Looking for Transwonderland, Episode 5 FRI FRI Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer FRI she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an FRI annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all FRI her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her FRI father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the FRI military government causing international outrage, and she FRI didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to FRI rediscover and come to terms with the country her father FRI loved. The emotional conclusion to her journey takes her to FRI her father's house in Port Harcourt and then on to her FRI ancestral village, where she is reunited with members of her FRI extended family. FRI FRI Read by Janice Acquah FRI Abridged by Laurence Wareing FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b018xy26 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018xy28 (Listen) FRI Possession, Episode 15 FRI FRI 1987, the night of the Big Storm, Cropper and Hildebrand are FRI caught in the act of digging up a grave. FRI FRI Written by A S Byatt. Dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker FRI FRI Director: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Internet Millionaires' Club b018xy2b (Listen) FRI Wouldn't it be nice to have money rolling into your bank FRI account without really having to do anything; perhaps an FRI hour or so's work every other day merely to check FRI everything's flowing smoothly? Thousands of people dream of FRI doing just that, using the internet. They call it "passive FRI income", or "the laptop lifestyle". In this documentary FRI Jolyon Jenkins meets the people trying to make it work - and FRI the others who are telling them that their dream really FRI could come true. FRI FRI It is a bigger business than you might imagine. For example FRI at the World Internet Summit in a hotel near Heathrow, FRI several hundred people gathered to listen to globe trotting FRI gurus who explained how to leave your job and gain FRI "freedom". And the Summit is only one dozens of events that FRI are going on all the time. But can it really work? FRI FRI It seems to, for people like Mili Ponce, the self-styled FRI "Twitter Queen" who promotes "health products" like green FRI tea, vitamin pills and diets. Or Mark Lyford, a former FRI online pornography seller and cannabis grower, who claims to FRI have made $320,000 in his first year as an internet FRI marketer. Others struggle, like John Hutchinson, a 70 year FRI old retired charity worker, who has spent £15,000 on advice FRI from "mentors" but who has made almost nothing back. FRI FRI If all else fails, you can make money working for other FRI internet marketers, for example by writing junk content for FRI websites designed to attract lucrative traffic. You'll get FRI paid 50p per article and you'll be competing with people in FRI the Phillippines and India. In the programme, Jolyon enters FRI this world of globalised hack work, churning out dozens of FRI articles on "How to Get Your Ex Back", "Getting Rid of FRI Boils", and - as a low point - "Huggies Printable Wipes FRI Coupons". The latter turns out to have been commissioned by FRI the administrator of a nursing home in Ohio, who is hoping FRI to earn enough money from internet marketing to quit her day FRI job. FRI FRI With luck and hard work it is possible to get rich through FRI internet marketing. But only by polluting the internet with FRI rubbish. And for most, the dream of joining the internet FRI millionaires club remains tantalisingly out of reach. FRI FRI 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b018xy2d (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the FRI residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. The dawn of FRI the Dickensian festival brings chaos to Wadenbrook, and FRI Angela has something to tell Frank. 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 b018xy2g (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b018tzkf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b018xy2j (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 Dear Professor Hawking b018zv5r (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Producer: Julian Mayers FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b018xwt5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b018xy2l (Listen) FRI Coalition FRI FRI By Sarah Wooley. FRI FRI A contemporary thriller set in the world of post-Coalition FRI politics. Like most Liberal Democrats, Iris never thought FRI she'd ever have a Cabinet post, and so has never worried FRI about the past. But is it now coming back to haunt her? FRI FRI Iris ..... Maureen Beattie FRI Bill ..... Nicholas le Prevost FRI Ruby ..... Melody Grove FRI Mackenzie ..... Robin Laing FRI Mary ..... Monica Gibb FRI Headmaster/Dan Lucas ..... Simon Donaldson FRI FRI Directed by Gaynor MacFarlane. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b018xy2n (Listen) FRI North Somerset FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A with panellists Chris FRI Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny Guinness. FRI Matt Biggs revisits St Anns allotments in Nottingham to make FRI plans for the coming year. Part of the Listeners' Gardens FRI series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 O Henry Stories b018xy2q (Listen) FRI The Retrieved Reformation FRI FRI The Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry. FRI Safebreaker Jimmy Valentine is unexpectedly released from FRI prison and vows to go straight. FRI FRI A Christmas classic by a cherished American writer, to warm FRI the soul and intrigue the listener with satisfyingly FRI unexpected plot twists. FRI FRI Reader...John Guerrasio FRI Abridger...Annie Caulfield FRI Producer...Mary Ward Lowery. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b018xy2s (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b018xy2v (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b018xw7t (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b018tzkh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b018xy2x (Listen) FRI Series 76, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b018xy2z (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b018xy31 (Listen) FRI Puppets take centre stage FRI FRI Kirsty Lang reports on how puppets have entered the FRI theatrical mainstream, with the Handspring company, who FRI worked on the international hit War Horse, and are part of FRI the London 2012 Festival, and director Joe Wright, whose new FRI film version of Anna Karenina includes puppets. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b018xy28 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b018xy33 (Listen) FRI Preston, Hertfordshire FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Preston, Hertfordshire, with Stephen Twigg, FRI Shadow Secretary of State for Education; Lionel FRI Barber,editor of the Financial Times; Sophie Hannah, crime FRI writer; and Cheryl Gillan, Secretary of State for Wales. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b018xy35 (Listen) FRI The historian Lisa Jardine reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Repainting Giverny b0150p5v (Listen) FRI The writer and broadcaster Irma Kurtz travels to Monet's FRI garden at Giverny to hear how losing his wife and his sight FRI affected the last years of his life and work. Monet's famous FRI Water Lilies series was his last great masterpiece. It FRI nearly wasn't painted as exactly 100 years ago in 1911 his FRI wife died and he stopped painting for the first time in his FRI life. FRI FRI At the same time, Monet was losing his sight and cataracts FRI changed the way he saw things. It was his great friend and FRI Prime Minister of France, Clemenceau who encouraged him to FRI pick up his brush again. FRI FRI Irma Kurtz meets one of Monet's few remaining relatives - FRI Claire Joyes - to walk in the gardens Monet created at his FRI home in Giverny, Northern France. Clare tells Irma about the FRI passion Monet had for his wife Alice and how his garden FRI became an obsession. He painted the garden time after time, FRI and re-touched his canvasses many times as well in the FRI search for perfection. A cataract operation towards the end FRI of his life changed the way he saw things again and he went FRI over some of his previous work. Irma ends her journey in FRI Paris looking at the famous Water Lilies canvasses. FRI FRI The programme contains interviews with James Priest, British FRI head gardener at Giverny, and the painter Sargy Mann who has FRI experienced cataracts and is now blind but still painting. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:30 In Our Time b018xy22 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01982bt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b018xyl0 (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b018xyl2 (Listen) FRI Cousin Bette, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, the arrival of a brooding Brazilian has FRI upset the careful balance of lovers that Valerie Marneffe FRI had contrived. Briefly Hulot and Crevel find themselves FRI allies, not rivals, for her love. FRI FRI The reader is Alex Jennings. FRI The translator was Marion Ayton Crawford and the abridger FRI was Sally Marmion. FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b018xs8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Britain in a Box b00yw1pk (Listen) FRI Series 4, Driving School FRI FRI Another chance to catch Paul Jackson with the last in his FRI most recent series that goes behind the scenes of TV FRI classics and the eras that produced them. FRI FRI Today Paul concludes with the hit show, Driving School, FRI which only ran for six editions, but left an indelible mark FRI on British documentary television and made a national and FRI international star of cleaner Maureen Rees. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor. FRI
30 December, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 31/12/2011 - 06/01/2012
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