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SAT SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b015pc29 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b015sz8r (Listen) SAT Arguably, Flaws of Gravity SAT SAT Hitchens' uses Peter Ackroyd's biography of Isaac Newton as SAT a springboard for a nostalgic rumination on science and SAT Cambridge. SAT SAT Christopher Hitchens is a British-born political journalist SAT and reviewer, who has been based in the USA for over 25 SAT years (he is now a US citizen). His journalism, invariably SAT polemical, has appeared in a variety of publications, mainly SAT in the USA, but in the UK too. Arguably is the fifth SAT collection of his journalism - the columns defined as SAT 'Essays' in the book. SAT SAT The five 'Essays'selected for Book Of The Week all SAT originally appeared in The Atlantic Journal. SAT SAT Written by Christopher Hitchens SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT Read by Roger Allam SAT SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015pc2c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015pc2f (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015pc2h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b015pc2k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015pdmj (Listen) SAT Short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b015pdml (Listen) SAT 'Dad coming out brought us closer.' A policeman, a devout SAT Catholic, a devoted husband, listener Paul Ottaway was SAT shocked when his dad admitted to having relationships with SAT men - even when such encounters were illegal. The admission SAT brought father and son together. With Jennifer Tracey. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b015pc2m (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b015pc2p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b015ydzd (Listen) SAT Series 19, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the fifth of this series of listener's walks, Clare SAT Blading sets out three people who live in Lincolnshire and SAT share a passion for the Wolds. Listener, Mike Garrs, invited SAT Clare to join him in the landscape that he loves and where SAT he walks regularly with friends. They are joined by Pete SAT Skipworth, who has traced his ancestry in the Lincolnshire SAT Wolds back to the fourteenth century and who has also been SAT walking the area for 30 years, and Louise Niekirk from the SAT Lincolnshire Countryside Service which organises the annual SAT Lincolnshire Walking Festival. SAT In a walk which begins in the village of Tealby and passes SAT through Walesby and the centuries-old Ramblers Church before SAT arriving at Normanby-le-Wold, Clare discovers that SAT Lincolnshire is not as flat as most people think as the path SAT reaches the dizzy heights of around 500 feet with stunning SAT views across the landscape. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b015ydzj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte SAT Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b015pc2r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b015ydzl (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b015ydzn (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with advertising creative Rosie Arnold, poet SAT Luke Wright, a couple who took an OAP gap year, and a former SAT Zimbabwean Government official turned filmmaker who was SAT driven from his country. Frank Skinner reveals his Secret SAT Life and singer Tori Amos shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b015ydzq (Listen) SAT Natural Navigation - Snow Shoeing - Bulgaria SAT SAT John McCarthy looks at natural navigation with Alison SAT Steadman who has been learning from the adventurer Tristan SAT Gooley how to find and follow directions using only the SAT signs provided by the weather and the landscape. Leading SAT guide Kevin Albin talks about snow shoeing in the Pyrenees SAT and sun bears in Borneo and British Indian novelist Rana SAT Dasgupta explains why he is fascinated by Bulgaria and SAT post-colonial India. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 A Family Business: The Chaplin Legacy b00x3y28 (Listen) SAT The legacy of Charlie Chaplin extends far beyond the SAT celluloid archive. There is a living strand of creative SAT performance, which sees the grandchildren of Sir Charles SAT exploring an adventurous new world of physical theatre, and SAT adding a new dimension to those well-worn silent film images SAT of The Little Tramp, battling against a hostile world. SAT SAT The children of Victoria Chaplin - Aurelia and James SAT Thierree - were born in a tent, and brought up in their SAT parents' world of travelling circus. In their adult life, SAT both are theatrical pioneers, always pushing at the limits SAT of stagecraft, to create original work that mixes SAT acrobatics, illusion, music, mime and comedy. SAT SAT In this backstage documentary, Tim Brooke-Taylor goes behind SAT the scenes with James Thierree as he prepares to launch his SAT new one-man show RAOUL, combining mime, acrobatics, music, SAT comedy and illusion. How does the Chaplin legacy inform his SAT ideas? How do the marketing people sell his shows, which SAT always defy easy categorisation? How will audiences respond, SAT in London and Paris? SAT SAT The Chaplin biographer, David Robinson, explores the SAT theatrical connections of the Chaplin family: additional SAT commentaries are provided by Thierree admirers Bill Nighy SAT and Terry Gilliam, and by producer Rachel Clare. The voice SAT of Charlie Chaplin himself also makes a contribution from SAT the archives, with shrewd observations on genes and genius. SAT SAT Producer: Tony Staveacre SAT A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b015yf3d (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b015yf3g (Listen) SAT Is the name of Bahrain being dragged back into the Middle SAT Ages by a string of alleged human rights abuses? Frank SAT Gardner gives his assessment after meeting the king and the SAT prime minister and joining the riot police on patrol. SAT Yolande Knell in Cairo says that with every month that has SAT passed since President Mubarak was overthrown, public SAT frustration has mounted. Katya Adler's investigating the SAT scandal in Spain of the so-called 'Ninos Robados,' the SAT stolen children sold off to 'more deserving' parents. A long SAT way from Abidjan and a long way from Monrovia: John James is SAT in that part of Ivory Coast close to Liberia and sometimes SAT referred to as the 'Wild West.' It's a part of the country SAT which was particularly hard hit during the struggle, earlier SAT this year, for the country's presidency. And Andrew Harding SAT talks to Zarganar, his friend the Burmese comedian who's SAT just been released from a 59-year prison sentence. Jeeves SAT and Wooster, Andrew hears, were a great comfort in his cell. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b015yf3j (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b015pdbs (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Sarah SAT Millican and Paul Sinha. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b015pc2t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b015pc2w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b015pdbz (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a debate about news and politics SAT from St Mary's School, Ascot, with Shadow Secretary of State SAT for Business, Innovation and Skills, Chuka Umunna; Work and SAT Pensions minister, Chris Grayling;Rita Clifton, UK Chairman SAT of the world's largest branding consultancy, Interbrand; and SAT associate editor of The Mirror, Kevin Maguire. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b015yf3l (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b015yf3n (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The Little Sister SAT SAT A small, neat girl walks into Philip Marlowe's office. SAT Orfamay Quest is looking for her brother Orrin. She gives SAT Marlowe twenty dollars and lots of moral disapproval. SAT Marlowe takes the case and finds himself drawn into the SAT glamorous world of the Hollywood film studios. Toby Stephens SAT plays Philip Marlowe in a landmark series bringing all SAT Raymond Chandler's Marlowe novels to Radio 4. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe...Toby Stephens SAT Oramay Quest...Kelly Burke SAT Mavis...Fenella Woolgar SAT Clausen...Peter Polycarpou SAT Dolores...Ginita Jimenez SAT Lagardie...John Guerrasio SAT Hicks...Jonathan Forbes SAT SAT Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b015yf3q (Listen) SAT Cliff Richards, Katherine Jenkins, Adoption Parties: Do they SAT work? SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week presented by Jane SAT Garvey. Including an interview with the writer Diana Athill. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b015v5tz (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT With Carolyn Quinn. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b015pb0v (Listen) SAT Marketing and Mess SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented this week by SAT Stephanie Flanders, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, SAT statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the SAT business world, through discussion with people running SAT leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT Stephanie asks her panel about the dos and don'ts of SAT marketing. They also talk about messiness in the workplace. SAT Is there any truth to the claim that a cluttered desk is a SAT sign of a cluttered mind? SAT SAT Stephanie is joined in the studio by Richard Harpin, chief SAT executive of emergency home repairs business Homeserve; Nick SAT Wheeler, founder and chairman of shirt company Charles SAT Tyrwhitt; Charles Cohen, chief executive of mobile gaming SAT company Probability. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b015pc2y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b015pc30 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015pc32 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b015ygj3 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive will be finding out whether British Comedy Award SAT winner Bill Bailey is indeed 'Part Troll', as one of his SAT previous shows suggests and will be talking to him about his SAT new tour 'Dandelion Mind', in which Bill laments about punk SAT heroes, Iranian hip-hop and revisits the music of his youth SAT with some Wurzels-based remixes of German techno. Just your SAT normal Bill Bailey gig then! SAT SAT The man of mystery himself Derren Brown will appear in the SAT studio, as if by magic to talk about his new Channel 4 SAT series 'The Experiments'. The first show investigates SAT hypnosis and asks whether someone could be hypnotised into SAT killing a celebrity. Will Clive and his guests survive the SAT programme? 3, 2, 1, you're back in the room! SAT SAT Hopefully there won't be any skeletons in the closet of SAT anatomist and 'Coast'ess with the mostess Alice Roberts, SAT who's new BBC2 series 'Origins Of Us' tells the evolutionary SAT tale of humans. SAT SAT Emma Freud will be doodling with Perrier Award winning SAT stand-up comedian Demetri Martin, whose book of drawings and SAT riotous prose titled 'This Is A Book' swings from a SAT melodrama about a clinic of doctors who treat only the flesh SAT wounds of Hollywood action heroes to the occupational hazard SAT of human cannonballs. SAT SAT Music from artist and bluesy rock 'n' roller Marcus Foster, SAT who performs 'Memory Of Your Arms' on the Loose Ends grand SAT piano. And not content with tickling the conventional SAT ivories, singer-songwriter Jo Hamilton is the first artist SAT in the world to work with the AirPiano, also known as the SAT 'magic plank', which she will gracefully demonstrate by SAT performing 'There It Is'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b015ygj5 (Listen) SAT Jeremy Heywood SAT SAT He's long been one of the most powerful figures in British SAT government, but few outside Whitehall have heard of him. The SAT next Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood has been at the centre SAT of British government for two decades. He's been close to SAT top politicians ranging from Norman Lamont to Tony Blair to SAT David Cameron. And he's been in the thick of controversial SAT episodes such as Black Wednesday, rows within the Brown SAT government, and the global financial crisis. So what's the SAT secret behind the huge influence of a man who shuns the SAT limelight? Chris Bowlby profiles "the insider's insider". SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b015ygj7 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT Everything Must Go SAT SAT Everything Must Go, starring Will Ferrell is released on SAT Friday 14 October, certificate 15 SAT SAT Charles Dickens: A Life SAT SAT Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin is published by SAT Viking SAT SAT Top Boy SAT SAT Top Boy directed by Yann Demange and written by Ronan SAT Bennett is broadcast at 10pm on Channel 4 on 31 October and SAT screened on four successive nights SAT SAT Saved SAT SAT Saved by Edward Bond is playing at the Lyric Hammersmith SAT until 5 November SAT SAT Tacita Dean SAT SAT Tacita Dean’s installation is showing at the Turbine Hall in SAT Tate Modern until 11 March 2012 SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b015ygj9 (Listen) SAT The Red Bits Are British SAT SAT Over the past two years, historian Sir David Cannadine has SAT led a ground-breaking research project at the Institute of SAT Historical Research on the teaching of history in English SAT state secondary schools during the past century. SAT SAT Here, he draws on the oral histories that he has gathered - SAT recollections by former pupils, teachers and policy-makers - SAT to show that, for as long as history has been taught, the SAT questions of what history should be taught, how history SAT should be taught, how much history should be taught, and to SAT whom it should be taught, have caused fierce debate. SAT SAT These oral histories - which will be housed at the British SAT Library from 2012 - form a varied, complex, and often SAT surprising archive of how the teaching of history in English SAT state schools has evolved. David Cannadine also brings us SAT gems from the rich archive of schools history radio and TV SAT programmes. Together, these recordings both flesh out SAT vividly what we already know, either from our own experience SAT or from that of our parents, grandparents or indeed children SAT and grandchildren, and crucially, they explode some of the SAT myths and preconceptions about school history in the past. SAT SAT With appearances too from some of our favourite fictional SAT history teachers - from Muriel Spark's Miss Brodie to Alan SAT Bennett's Mr Irwin (The History Boys). SAT SAT Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b015mvs6 (Listen) SAT Neglected Classics - Nightingale Wood, Episode 2 SAT SAT by Stella Gibbons dramatised for radio by Christopher SAT William Hill SAT SAT 2/2. In this sparkling pre-war comedy of manners, the young, SAT widowed and pretty Viola Wither finally has the chance to SAT escape her stifling in-laws in Essex. Whilst they are SAT spending a month in the Lakes, she and her sister-in-law SAT Tina escape to Stanton on Sea. Viola is still pining for the SAT dashing Victor Spring - who has kissed her - and Tina for SAT the beautiful chauffeur, Saxon - likewise. But is it all SAT hopeless? SAT SAT Tina ..... Victoria Hamilton SAT Mother/Nellie ..... Dinah Stabb SAT Father/Falger ..... Paul Moriarty SAT Viola ..... Francine Chamberlain SAT Victor ..... Simon Bubb SAT Saxon ..... Adam Billington SAT Edna/Fawcuss ..... Adjoa Andoh SAT Hetty ..... Alex Rivers SAT Phyllis ..... Joan Walker SAT Spurrey ..... Ian Masters SAT Madge ..... Victoria Inez Hardy SAT Uncle Frank ..... James Lailey SAT Miss Cattyman ..... Judith Coke SAT Mr Brodhurst/Cotton ..... Gerard McDermott SAT SAT Director/producer Marion Nancarrow. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b015pc34 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b015p86x (Listen) SAT In other circumstances, being loyal to a longstanding friend SAT would be hailed as a positive character trait. Liam Fox has SAT just discovered that is not necessarily the case in politics SAT - especially if you're the defence secretary. Mr Fox has SAT maintained he's done nothing wrong, but has apologised for SAT allowing distinctions to be blurred between his professional SAT responsibilities and personal loyalties to his friend Adam SAT Werritty. Senior civil servants are carrying out an SAT investigation to see if ministerial codes of conduct on SAT conflicts of interest have been breached. The affair raises SAT important questions about the kind of politicians we want. SAT In our quest for transparency and moral blamelessness are we SAT in danger of imprisoning our politicians in a Westminster SAT bubble, sterilised from the influences and realities of the SAT world outside? It also raises the question for all of us, SAT what are the moral boundaries of friendship? The nature and SAT obligations of friendship has occupied philosophers down the SAT centuries. Aristotle regarded friendship as essential to the SAT good life, but it can also cloud and call in to question our SAT judgment. It's easy to throw around charges of nepotism and SAT we all pay lip service to the modern ideals of a SAT meritocratic society, but in tough economic times, what is SAT wrong with giving a helping hand to a friend? And would SAT bankers have so nakedly pursued their own self-interest, SAT rather than those of their company, if it had been a family SAT firm? In a world that relies increasingly on social networks SAT and connections does it sound hopelessly old fashioned to SAT say that we cross a moral boundary when we mix business and SAT friendship and ask someone to offer practical help as well SAT as sympathetic ear? And when it comes to our family, our SAT children, how many of us would balk at the idea of doing SAT anything we could to further their interests? How to win SAT friends and influence people - the Moral Maze. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Anne SAT McElvoy and Michael Portillo. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b015mzl6 (Listen) SAT (9/12) SAT Wales take on the North of England in the latest contest of SAT cryptic connections, in Round Britain Quiz. Joining chairman SAT Tom Sutcliffe are the regular Welsh team of David Edwards SAT and Myfanwy Alexander, and playing for the North of England SAT are Jim Coulson and Diana Collecott. SAT SAT They'll need all their powers of lateral thinking, and will SAT have to marshal their knowledge of science, literature, SAT sport, history, music and popular culture in order to tackle SAT the programme's notoriously contorted questions. SAT SAT As usual, there are question ideas from Round Britain Quiz SAT listeners among them - and you can find out how to send in SAT your own suggestions for questions to outwit the regulars. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b015mvsb (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite SAT poetry requested by listeners, read by Bill Paterson and SAT Catherine Harvey. SAT SAT The poetry requests this week take us up a mountain at two SAT o'clock in the morning, and strolling back through time down SAT pathways with Edward Thomas and UA Fanthorpe. And Dylan SAT Thomas takes us wandering under the apple boughs at 'Fern SAT Hill.' Roger also introduces requests for the work of SAT Elizabeth Jennings and Anne Ridler, who both died 10 years SAT ago, and he re-visits an archive recording of Sorley MacLean SAT reading his lament 'Hallaig' SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b015sh7s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00grgvl (Listen) SUN Wrestling Angels, The Assassin's Mother-in-Law SUN SUN A woman recalls one of the Old Testament's more SUN extraordinary acts of seduction, and the friendship forged SUN with the wise old woman who coached her. The second of SUN Fraser Grace's biblical tales. SUN SUN Read by Numa Dumezweni SUN SUN Produced by Marilyn Imrie SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015sh7v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015sh7x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015sh7z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b015sh81 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b015ygww (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael's in Kingsteignton, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b015ygj5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b015sh83 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b015ygwy (Listen) SUN Mentors SUN SUN Particularly in the aftermath of disturbances like the SUN British riots in August, youth mentoring programmes have SUN been much a frequent topic for discussion in recent months. SUN SUN In this edition of Something Understood, Mark Tully examines SUN the important part a mentor can play in everybody's life. He SUN also examines some of the attendant dangers in being a SUN mentor, the temptation to exploit, patronize or SUN underestimate a pupil, charge or protege. SUN SUN Writer and broadcaster Malchi O'Doherty remembers his SUN troubled relationship with his mentor for three years, a SUN Hindu guru in India and we hear about mentors of all types SUN from spiritual directors and schoolteachers to musicians and SUN youth workers. With music from Bach, Tavener and Bernstein SUN and readings from Denise Levertov and Umberto Eco. SUN SUN The readers are Hattie Morahan and Dan Stevens. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b015ygx0 (Listen) SUN Adam Henson meets the second finalist in the BBC Radio 4 SUN Farmer of the Year category in the Food and Farming Awards. SUN Paul Sousek shows Adam around his farm near Bude in SUN Cornwall. SUN SUN Paul Sousek farms 70 acres organically near Bude in SUN Cornwall. With no previous experience he entered farming in SUN 2005 because he wanted to become self sufficient and reduce SUN his carbon emissions. SUN SUN Paul farms a herd of local Red Ruby cattle and a herd of SUN native rare breed Wiltshire Horn sheep. He has completely SUN converted the farmhouse to run on renewable power and now SUN Paul claims to have a less than zero carbon footprint. He SUN has installed solar thermal heating, photovoltaic cells, a SUN wood burner burning home grown wood and a wind turbine. Also SUN all the vehicles Paul runs for farming and delivering the SUN meat boxes are powered by biodiesel that he produces on the SUN farm from waste vegetable oil. SUN SUN Paul regularly hosts farm visits to teach people about SUN renewable energy installations and promoting eco-living in SUN general. SUN SUN Presenter: Adam Henson SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b015sh85 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b015sh87 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b015ygx2 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b015ygx4 (Listen) SUN Motivation Charitable Trust SUN SUN Michael Palin presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN Motivation Charitable Trust. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1079358 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Motivation Charitable Trust SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Motivation SUN SUN Motivation is an international development charity that SUN supports people with mobility disabilities. Since our work SUN began in 1991 we've reached over 110,000 people in some of SUN the world's poorest countries. Our high-quality, low-cost SUN wheelchairs, plus our innovative training programmes in SUN health, disability rights and inclusion transform lives. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b015sh89 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b015sh8c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b015ygx6 (Listen) SUN Roy Jenkins leads a service from Mount Pleasant Baptist SUN Church, Northampton, to mark the 250th anniversary of the SUN birth of missionary pioneer William Carey. Preacher: Revd SUN David Kerrigan, General Director of BMS World Mission; SUN Director of Music: Paul Lavender. Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b015pdc1 (Listen) SUN In praise of wind turbines SUN SUN Will Self praises the beauty of wind turbines and says SUN protests against them spring from a misconceived idyllic SUN view of our already man-made landscape. "It would seem to me SUN that most of those who energetically campaign against the SUN planting of wind farms in their bosky vale do so not out of SUN a profound appreciation of the dew-jewelled web of life, but SUN merely as spectators who wish the show that they've paid SUN admission for to go as advertised." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b015ygx8 (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b015ygxb (Listen) SUN Written by: Mary Cutler SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Clive Horrobin ..... Alex Jones SUN Martyn Gibson ..... Jon Glover. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b015ygxd (Listen) SUN Michael Johnson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the athlete Michael Johnson. SUN SUN He is the only person ever to hold world records in the 200 SUN and 400 metres at the same time and, by the time he hung up SUN his legendary gold trainers, his haul of medals included SUN five Olympic golds. SUN SUN His upright running style earned him the nickname 'the SUN duck'. He says: "They called me a really fast duck! I was SUN ranked number one in the world - I'm so far ahead of the SUN other people, why am I the one that's wrong?" SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015mzzd (Listen) SUN Series 4, Linehan, Sutherland, Scales SUN SUN Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of SUN Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and comedian Dave Gorman. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b015ykwg (Listen) SUN Pickling and Preserving SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at some of the ingenious ways we have SUN developed of preserving food through the ages, and enjoys SUN some autumn foraging for fruits and berries with Jill Mason SUN of the School of Artisan Food in Nottinghamshire. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b015sh8f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b015ykwj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; SUN twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Younge on Obama - Performance Notes on a Presidency SUN b015ykwl (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN On the campaign trail in 2008 Barack Obama was an SUN inspirational performer. But three years on he seems to have SUN lost his touch. SUN SUN Intellectual where Bush was impulsive and consensual where SUN Bush was polarising, Obama's election appeared to mark a SUN turning point in the elusive human qualities Americans seek SUN in a President. But as his bid to win a second term ramps SUN up, amid rising unemployment and plummeting approval SUN ratings, the very same characteristics are widely seen as SUN handicaps. SUN SUN Journalist Gary Younge visits Washington D.C., where living SUN presidents are ravaged and dead ones revered, to find out SUN what qualities Americans want in their head of state and SUN whether Obama has them. SUN SUN Do they want someone down-to-earth who can feel their pain SUN or a lofty statesman who can pose as leader of the free SUN world. Does it even matter how a President performs their SUN role? Or is it simply their record - what they achieve in SUN office - that counts? If performance does matter, what can SUN Obama do about it as he seeks to win a second term in 2012? SUN SUN In part one, Gary looks to Presidents past for lessons on SUN how to perform the role. He meets Velma Hart, the ordinary SUN woman who articulated the anxieties of a nation when she SUN challenged Obama at a town hall meeting in 2010. And he SUN considers one of Obama's most noteworthy performances so SUN far: the killing of Osama Bin Laden. SUN SUN Producer: Peggy Sutton SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b015pc03 (Listen) SUN Wiltshire SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A with Matthew Wilson, Anne SUN Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew in Wiltshire. SUN Christine Walkden advises on maximising autumn colour and SUN guest presenter Kate Bradbury visits Jenie Eastman in her SUN garden in Portishead, Part of the Listeners' Gardens series. SUN Find out what a Snake's Head Fritillary can do for a bumble SUN bee, or a pile of leaves can do for frog spawn. SUN SUN Then some discussion on soil enrichment: Lime, mattresses SUN and dead donkeys - they all have their uses! SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Underwater Gendarme b015ykwn (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN The Brigade Fluviale, the Paris River Police, know the Seine SUN better than anybody else. They understand its moods, the SUN dangerous currents which can suddenly pin a diver to the SUN bottom or sweep them far downstream. They know the places SUN where stolen cars are dumped and where the river gathers the SUN bodies of the drowned. SUN SUN In The Underwater Gendarme, writer and former lifeboatman SUN Horatio Clare joins the Brigade Fluviale, an elite team SUN which for over a century has been recovering the drowning SUN and the drowned from the Seine, along with murder weapons SUN and other criminal evidence. SUN SUN In the first programme Horatio meets Pascal Jacquin, an SUN expert diver and boat handler who has worked for the SUN Fluviale for 27 years. Three times a week Pascal takes an SUN early morning swim around the Ile de la Cité, the island SUN heart of Paris. This three-kilometre dip is essential not SUN only for fitness but also to give Pascal a daily sense of SUN the 'mood' of the river. He compares the river to a lover. SUN At any moment he could find himself called out to dive for a SUN body or a piece of evidence and he needs to be prepared. SUN SUN Horatio also meets Eric Calvet who leads Squad A3 of the SUN Brigade Fluviale and joins him on an evening patrol. SUN Suddenly Horatio finds himself involved in an emergency SUN call-out when they're deployed to rescue a young woman who's SUN reported to have thrown herself into the Seine from the Pont SUN de la Concorde. SUN SUN These programmes are not just about the Brigade. They're SUN also a portrait of the river itself. We see the Seine SUN through the eyes of people whose lives are intimately bound SUN up with it. In the first programme the theme is love - from SUN the unhappy affairs which have prompted so many lovers to SUN jump from the city's bridges to Pascal's own love affair SUN with the river which flows through the heart of Paris. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b015ykwq (Listen) SUN Silas Marner, Episode 1 SUN SUN Silas Marner by George Eliot SUN dramatised by Richard Cameron SUN Episode 1/2 SUN Outcast from the church, community, and closest friends for SUN a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith SUN falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, exiled, he builds a SUN new faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his SUN cloths, counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of SUN his new religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his SUN money is stolen he's bereft and grief stricken. Then on New SUN Year's Eve a vision of gold flickers before the flames. SUN Spilling locks are tumbling coins. For a moment Silas is SUN reunited with his lovely sovereigns. And then he sees a SUN little child. SUN SUN SILAS MARNER.............George Costigan SUN SARAH/PRISCILLA ............................Fiona Clarke SUN WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...........Conrad Nelson SUN MINISTER/MACEY.............Seamus O'Neill SUN SNELL/BRYCE..............Leigh Symonds SUN DUNSEY/DOWLAS..............James Nickerson SUN SQUIRE ............. ......Terence Wilton SUN DOLLY............. ...Deborah McAndrew SUN AARON (child).............................George Herbert SUN NANCY/MOLLY........ ........Maeve Larkin SUN Directed by Pauline Harris. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b015ykws (Listen) SUN Ian Rankin discusses The Impossible Dead with Mariella SUN Frostrup SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup celebrates books and authors old and new, SUN and the world of the written word. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN Ian Rankin The Impossible Dead published by Orion SUN SUN Ian Rankin The Complaints SUN published by Orion SUN SUN Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert published by Vintage SUN Classics SUN SUN The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky published by Chatto SUN and Windus SUN SUN Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky SUN published by Vintage SUN SUN Southern Frontiers: A journey across the Roman empire by Don SUN McCullin published by Jonathan Cape SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b015ykwv (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of favourite poetry SUN requests. The readers are Bill Paterson and Catherine SUN Harvey. SUN SUN Today we go dancing with leaves in the wind, and sailing SUN with Yeats. Roger will be taking us on other metaphorically SUN rich journeys with CP Cavafy, Michael Longley and a poet who SUN is better known as a novelist: Sebastian Barry. There's also SUN a chance to hear Frances Cornford's poem To a Fat Lady, SUN alongside its (arguably as well known) parody by GK SUN Chesterton. Rich autumnal offerings in verse. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b015p62t (Listen) SUN Planning Rows SUN SUN With the Government's controversial reforms under fire from SUN countryside campaigners, Allan Urry investigates radical SUN changes to the planning system. SUN SUN Ministers insist more housing is needed, fuelling fears of SUN greenfield sites being bulldozed. But as they begin to slim SUN down bureaucracy to speed up development, how many more SUN homes are actually getting built? SUN SUN Under the localism agenda, communities are being told SUN they'll get much more say about who builds what in their SUN neighbourhood. But what happens if it's a waste incinerator SUN or a power station? The programme reveals how local SUN objections are likely to been given much less consideration. SUN Presenter Allan Urry SUN Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b015ygj5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b015sh8h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b015sh8k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015sh8m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b015ykwx (Listen) SUN Susan Calman makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN Pick of the Week this week spends quite a bit of time in the SUN past. Childhood reminiscences about the musical version of SUN War of the Worlds, Hank Marvin and Betty Hutton all feature SUN in a feast of clips that'll remind you of the good old days. SUN In a rather startling turn of events we also find out why we SUN should be nice to politicians and avoid home surgery. Add in SUN President Obama, a Nobel prizewinning geneticist with an SUN astonishing family tale, the trial of a witch and a SUN considered argument regarding marriage and there's barely SUN time to take breath. And there's a song about Meerkats. Of SUN course there is. SUN SUN In Defence Of Politics - Radio 4 SUN Younge On Obama: Performance Notes On A Presidency - Radio 4 SUN Sounds Of The 20th Century: 1978 - Radio 2 SUN The Thing About Hank - Radio 4 SUN Barbara Windsor's Funny Gals: Betty Hutton - Radio 4 SUN Clare In The Community - Radio 4 SUN Don't Start - Radio 4 SUN Radcliffe and Maconie - 6music SUN Curb Your Judaism - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: I Confess - Radio 3 SUN The Life Scientific - Radio 4 SUN Good Morning Wales - BBC Radio Wales SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN Out In The World: A Global Gay History - Radio 3 SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b015ykwz (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b015pb11 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN A new age of austerity, riots on our streets, phone hacking, SUN the prospect of global economic meltdown...not since the SUN 1980s has Britain needed its sharp-tongued satirists to pour SUN a healthy dollop of scorn on these uncertain and tumultuous SUN times. SUN SUN And who better to do that than the country's most well-known SUN satirical impressionist, Rory Bremner? He hosts Tonight, a SUN brand new topical satire show for Radio 4. SUN SUN Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SUN things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then SUN will people laugh at the truth. So expect a blend of SUN stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and SUN incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who SUN really know what they're talking about. SUN Regular performers will include Political Animal veteran SUN Andy Zaltzman and the multi-talented impressionist Kate SUN O'Sullivan with a special guest each week. SUN SUN Presenter: Rory Bremner SUN SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Midsummer Night in the Workhouse b015ykx1 (Listen) SUN A Weekend in the Country SUN SUN In A Weekend in the Country by Diana Athill, an invitation SUN to Richard's family home finds Elizabeth compelled to make a SUN difficult choice. SUN SUN The short stoires collected in Midsummer Night in the SUN Workhouse represent the start of Diana Athill's writing SUN career. In the preface to the selection she says: 'I can SUN remember in detail being hit by my first story one January SUN morning in 1958. Until that moment I had been hand-maiden, SUN as editor, to other people's writing, without ever dreaming SUN of myself as a writer.' Then she encountered someone who SUN reminded her of an episode in her past and that evening she SUN wrote her first short story. She went on to win the the SUN "Observer" short story competition and writes, 'Bury me, SUN dear friends, with a copy of the Observer folded under my SUN head, for it was the Observer's prize that woke me up to the SUN fact that I could write and had become happy.' SUN SUN Read by Zoe Tapper SUN Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b015pbhl (Listen) SUN Did Radio 4 really get off that lightly in last week's BBC SUN cuts? Roger Bolton talks to Tim Davie, the BBC's head of SUN radio about the true impact of those Delivering Quality SUN First proposals on news programmes in particular. SUN SUN The BBC has also signalled the death of longwave. Roger asks SUN Denis Nolan, Radio 4's network manager, why alternatives SUN can't be found, and how much will be saved by the axing of SUN this service which is still crucial to so many listeners. SUN SUN Plus Feedback's Glasswatchers find another example of SUN repeated use of minimalist composer Philip Glass's Facades, SUN and the final instalment of "Strife and Fate" the gripping SUN tale of a Radio 3 controller. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b015pc07 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The actor George Baker, best known for his TV portrayal of SUN Inspector Wexford. The character's creator Baroness Ruth SUN Rendell pays tribute; SUN SUN The former Albanian President Ramiz Alia who oversaw the SUN country's transition from isolated Stalinism to democracy; SUN SUN Madeleine Simms who campaigned for the reform of abortion SUN law in the 1960s; SUN SUN George Hinchcliffe the railway enthusiast who toured America SUN with the Flying Scotsman; SUN SUN And the "Ghazal King" - Indian singer and composer Jagjit SUN Singh. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b015yf3j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b015ygx4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b015n05l (Listen) SUN Hezbollah SUN SUN Owen Bennett Jones looks at the Shia movement Hezbollah SUN which has a big following in Lebanon but is regarded by some SUN in the West as a terrorist organisation. It has a militia SUN with more weapons than many European armies and wants SUN Islamic rule but is in government with Christian allies. The SUN British government draws a distinction between Hezbollah's SUN military and political wings whereas the Americans do not. SUN The French government would like to see Hezbollah disarm but SUN do not regard them as terrorists. How the West sees the SUN organisation and how it sees itself is central to stability SUN in the Middle East but what exactly is Hezbollah and is it SUN heading for another war with Israel? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b015yqw9 (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b015yqwc (Listen) SUN Episode 74 SUN SUN Sarah Sands of The Evening Standard analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b015pc09 (Listen) SUN Presenter Francine Stock talks to Tilda Swinton about her SUN role as the mother spurned in the film adaptation of We Need SUN To Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay. SUN SUN What happens when a group of Swedish journalists comes face SUN to face with the Black Power movement? Director Göran Olsson SUN explains all. SUN SUN Julia Leigh discusses her erotically charged debut Sleeping SUN Beauty. SUN SUN 2011 is fast becoming a record-breaking year for British SUN cinema but we reveal why this week is not a good week to be SUN releasing your much slaved-over masterpiece. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b015ygwy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 OCTOBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b015sh98 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b015p86n (Listen) MON Migration - Music and Politics MON MON Laurie Taylor explores new research that resonates in MON society. In the recent Arab Spring a Syrian singer has his MON vocal chords cut after singing at protest rallies. Forty MON years ago the Chilean musician Victor Jara had his hands MON chopped off before being murdered by government forces. In MON both cases, music was seen as challenging the power of a MON dictatorship. Thinking Allowed explores popular music as a MON threat to national security.John Street, Professor of MON Politics at the University of East Anglia joins Laurie to MON discuss a paper on the subject written by Thierry Cote, MON Research Associate at the York Center for International and MON Security Studies in Toronto, Canada MON MON Laurie also looks at a new book co-authored by economist MON Professor Ian Goldin, a former Vice President of the World MON Bank, which examines the history, present and future of MON immigration and argues that, overall, immigration is MON essential for economic and cultural prosperity. MON MON Producer. Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b015ygww (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015sh9b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015sh9d (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015sh9g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b015sh9j (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015yr49 (Listen) MON Short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b016bhjt (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b015sh9l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b015yr4f (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b015yr4h (Listen) MON God and science with the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard MON Dawkins and Lisa Randall MON MON Andrew Marr discusses the wonders of the universe with Lisa MON Randall, Richard Dawkins and the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. MON The cosmologist Professor Randall looks at the how the MON latest developments in physics have the potential to alter MON radically our view of the world around us, and our place MON within it. Richard Dawkins explores the beauty and magic of MON scientific reality, from rainbows and shooting starts, to MON our genetic ancestors, and believes the facts far exceed the MON stories of ancient myth. Jonathan Sacks rejects the false MON dichotomy of science and religion, and argues that faith has MON a complementary role to play in the understanding of the MON human condition. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b015yt3s (Listen) MON Something Fierce, Episode 1 MON MON Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Carmen Aguirre MON was always destined to become a revolutionary. After MON Pinochet's violent coup in Chile in 1973, her family is MON forced to flee to Canada. And when, a few years later, the MON Chilean resistance calls for exiled activists to return to MON fight the cause, Carmen's mother heeds the call. Determined MON to make mini revolutionaries of her two daughters, she takes MON them with her - and so Carmen's double life begins. Posing MON as a westernised teenager by day, at night she is drilled in MON surveillance techniques, cryptography and subterfuge, not to MON mention political theory and revolutionary history. It is a MON time of high excitement, but also one of fear and paranoia, MON of who to trust, and who to fear. MON MON From Pinochet's repressive rule in Chile, to Shining Path MON Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia to post-Malvinas Argentina, MON this is a darkly comic coming-of-age memoir is a rare MON first-hand account of a life as teenage revolutionary. It is MON also the story of a young girl trying to reconcile her MON commitment to the cause with her very unrevolutionary new MON interests in boys, music and fashion. MON MON Today: dressed as an all-American teenager, Carmen returns MON to Latin America with her mother and sister to join the MON underground, and a new life of subterfuge and danger. MON MON Reader: Mia Soteriou. MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b015yt3v (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Genetic cancer links MON MON A genetic mutation that increases a woman’s risk of ovarian MON cancer six-fold has been identified in a study led by MON Professor Nazneen Rahman from the Institute of Cancer MON Research. In the future, all patients with ovarian cancer MON could be tested for the gene, and, if positive, all their MON female relatives too. Jane is joined by Professor Rahman and MON Sir John Bell, the government’s chief genetics adviser. How MON might the treatment of ovarian cancer be improved? How do MON the discoveries in genetics advance medical treatment for MON other cancers? And how ready is the NHS to embrace these new MON findings in its hospitals? MON MON Cook the Perfect... Pumpkin Soup with Heston Blumenthal MON MON Molecular gastro star Heston Blumenthal joins Jane in the MON latest of the Woman’s Hour Cook the Perfect series. As MON chef-patron of his three-Michelin-starred restaurant The Fat MON Duck and with a new London venue, Dinner, to his name, he’s MON famous for serving up dishes such as snail porridge, hot and MON iced tea and bacon and egg ice cream. But Heston Blumenthal MON says he’s “not into complexity for its own sake” and with MON his latest book, he says he’s setting out to demystify the MON process and make “people feel really at home in the MON kitchen”. Heston joins Jane to show her how to make the MON perfect pumpkin soup – complete with a few surprises. MON MON Asa MON MON Asa has been described as "a Franco-Nigerian Corinne Bailey MON Rae". Born in Paris, raised in Nigeria, the MON singer-songwriter sings in both English and her native MON Yoruban. As a young woman she immersed herself in her MON father’s extensive record collection which included MON everything from soul classics to traditional Nigerian music. MON Her own songs, perhaps unsurprisingly, fuse soul, pop, world MON music, folk, funk and jazz. Asa joins Jane for a chat and to MON perform a track live from her second album, ‘Beautiful MON Imperfection’. MON MON Diana Athill - Instead of a Book MON MON Candid, funny and, in her own words, extremely ‘beady-eyed’, MON Diana Athill found unexpected fame in her 80s with her sharp MON and vivid memoirs ‘Stet’ and ‘Somewhere Towards the End’. MON Now 93, the former editor of writers such as Jean Rhys, MON Philip Roth and Norman Mailer has published ‘Instead of a MON Book’, a collection of her letters written over 30 years to MON her friend, American poet Edward Field. She talks to Jane MON about growing old, meeting the "dismayingly impressive" Myra MON Hindley, and a life fully lived. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015yt3x (Listen) MON Disconnected, Episode 1 MON MON By Richard Monks MON MON Following his son's separation, Ray is forbidden to see MON Ellie, his granddaughter, And so the legal struggle begins MON for access to the child he loves. By Richard Monks., MON MON Ray.....Paul Copley MON Rachel.....Julia Ford MON Ellie.....Grace Clarke MON Martin.....Alun Raglan MON Policeman.....Simon Bubb MON WPC.....Elaine Claxton MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b015yt3z (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 2 MON MON The village of Woodhouses is half-rural, half-suburban MON idyll. It has two pubs, a bowling green, a working men's MON club, a golf course and a thriving cricket club. Just ten MON minutes from the heart of Manchester, the village is full of MON excitement and anticipation because, as Alan Dein discovers, MON it's just won the semi-final of the 2011 Village Cricket MON Cup; the final - at Lords - is only a few weeks away. MON MON However this proud Lancashire cricketing village, once home MON to quarter of a million pigs, suddenly finds itself part of MON a broader national debate about Britain's threatened MON countryside, because Woodhouses is today in real danger of MON being consumed by bricks and concrete. Although the very, MON very smelly pigs have all but gone, a handful of horses MON remain, keeping the builders at bay. But how long will MON Woodhouses remain a village? Will the bowling green become a MON car park as the rumour has it? If the building does not stop MON will Woodhouses be eligible to enter the National Village MON cup? The future could be up to a few horses, six small pigs MON and the final result at Lords. MON MON Producer: Neil George. MON MON 11:30 The Return of Inspector Steine b015yt41 (Listen) MON Towards the End MON MON A comedy series written by Lynne Truss set in and around a MON Brighton police station in the 1950s a few years after the MON end of World War Two. MON MON Second World war Bomb disposal hero Captain 'mad Hoagy' MON Hoagland, now fallen on hard times, appears at Brighton MON Police Station to deliver two boxes. One contains a silver MON truncheon; an award for valour for Sergeant Brunswick. The MON other contains the head of one of Mrs Groynes' old criminal MON accomplices Birthmark Potter. It is a warning to them all MON that Mrs G's criminal nemesis Adelaide Vine is heading back MON to Brighton, and that the sadistic criminal Terence Chambers MON is heading for town too ; both hell bent on havoc and MON revenge.. MON MON Inspector Steine ....... Michael Fenton Stevens MON Mrs Groynes ........ Samantha Spiro MON Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm MON Twitten ....... Matt Green MON Captain Hoagland ....... Robert Bathhurst MON MON Sound design: David Thomas MON Music: Anthony May MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b015yt43 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON We hear from Mitch Winehouse who is planning to set up the MON Amy Winehouse Foundation to help young people, especially MON those with problems such as addictions. But what is the best MON way to treat these youngsters, should they go into rehab or MON be treated in other more community based ways? MON MON Would you like to invite tourists into your home? That's MON what the Icelandic president has asked people to do to boost MON tourism. MON MON And why more people are turning to shopping channels. MON MON 12:57 Weather b015sh9n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b015yt45 (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b015yt47 (Listen) MON 10/12 MON Northern Ireland take on the South of England in the game of MON lateral thinking and cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe MON in the chair to ensure all is fair. The last time these MON teams faced one another, the South of England won - will the MON tables be turned today? MON MON The writer Polly Devlin and historian Brian Feeney play for MON Northern Ireland, while the South of England regulars are MON Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins. As usual they'll need to MON dredge their memory banks for chunks of history, literature, MON music, science, etymology and popular culture, in order to MON answer Tom's fiendish questions. MON MON The programme also includes a selection of questions MON suggested by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and Tom will be MON providing the answer to last week's teaser question: 'If you MON enjoyed our hospitality with the navigator and the general, MON you might welcome a night out with Bruce Wayne and Annie - MON why would this be?' MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b015ykwz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b015yt49 (Listen) MON Brief Lives - Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly 1/6 MON The return of Frank Twist and his team of Manchester legal MON eagles. When a pop entrepreneur is arrested for alleged MON fraud Frank discovers a personal connection. MON Frank.....David Schofield MON Sarah.....Kathryn Hunt MON Declan....Jonjo O'Neill MON Doug......Eric Potts MON Phineas....Hugo Chandor MON Laura.......Sue Jenkins MON Mickey....Jim Barclay MON MON Producer Gary Brown. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b015ygj9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Musical Migrants b015yt4c (Listen) MON Series 3, Nashville MON MON Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, MON influenced by music. MON MON The man now known as Jesse Lee Jones went by a different MON name when he was living in Brazil. His decision to change MON his name was an expression of his desire to reinvent himself MON following his move to the USA. MON MON Throughout a difficult upbringing, Jesse Lee always found MON solace in American music and dreamed of being there, but as MON a young man, he "was going nowhere fast". Then, out of the MON blue, the members of his church, in an effort to help him, MON clubbed together and bought him a plane ticket. Shortly MON afterwards, Jesse Lee arrived in Miami, Florida with a 12 MON string guitar but no English and no plan. On his first day, MON while travelling on a Greyhound Bus, he was robbed of the MON few possessions he had - including his money and that MON guitar. MON MON He got off the bus in Peoria, Illinois. Out of pity, some MON people from a local church took him in. They became his MON "American family" and Peoria was his home for the next MON decade. Jesse Lee took a series of jobs (including training MON as a law enforcement officer) but he kept up with the music MON on the side - playing all kinds of American music in local MON bars. Then a friend gave him a CD by the country and western MON legend Marty Robbins. After that, Jesse Lee realised that MON his true passion was traditional country music. He headed to MON Nashville and got a job scrubbing the decks of the General MON Jackson Showboat for $3.25 an hour. However, within a few MON years, a series of serendipitous encounters led to his MON becoming first leader of the house band, then owner, of the MON "best honkytonk in Nashville" right in the heart of Lower MON Broadway. MON MON Producer: Rachel Hopkin MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b015ykwg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b015yt4f (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 2 MON MON Simon Cox with the latest from the digital world. From MON robotic scalpels to recreating the thrill of a ski run, MON technology aims to put feel back into touch. MON MON 17:00 PM b015yt4h (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015sh9q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b015yt4k (Listen) MON Series 4, Ince, Highfield, Edwards MON MON Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of MON Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious MON comedian Dave Gorman. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b015yt82 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b015yt84 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with film-maker MON Lynne Ramsay, director of We Need to Talk About Kevin, based MON on the acclaimed novel by Lionel Shriver. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015yt3x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invention of Germany b015yt86 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON " Germany as we understand it, unified and strong, only came MON into existence a mere 140 years ago. Before then ? Well MON there was Bavaria and Prussia, Saxony, Baden Wurttemberg, MON Pomerania, Westfalia, Schleswig Holstein .this list is MON extremely long. And defining where one bit ended and the MON next began - well, it was utterly bewildering." MON MON Misha Glenny presents a three part history of Germany before MON the world wars, revealing how weak and fragmented it used to MON be. MON MON The series starts with the siege of Magdeburg of 1631, when MON a city the size of Paris was burnt to the ground. The events MON of the Thirty Years War hugely influenced later German MON nationalists, as Swedes, French, Danish, Spanish and huge MON numbers of Scottish mercenaries rampaged through the area we MON now call Germany. MON "Germany was in many ways more sinned against than sinning," MON concludes contributor Simon Winder. MON MON Misha Glenny is a former BBC central European correspondent MON and winner of a Sony gold. The producer is Miles Warde, who MON collaborated with Misha Glenny on previous series about the MON Alps, the Habsburgs and Garibaldi. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b015zm4c (Listen) MON Euroscepticism Uncovered MON MON As opinion polls reveal that half the British population MON would vote in favour of withdrawal from the European Union, MON it seems the political class is catching up with public MON opinion when it comes to the EU. MON MON While perhaps just dozens of MPs are publicly calling for a MON referendum on the UK's EU membership, behind closed doors MON there are many more closet secessionists: at least 40 per MON cent of Conservative MPs according to one party insider. MON MON "In public I call for renegotiation of the Lisbon treaty. In MON private I argue for complete withdrawal from the European MON Union. And there are plenty of others like me," says one MON anonymous sceptic. MON MON Edward Stourton asks whether the crisis in the eurozone has MON emboldened more politicians to speak frankly on their MON attitudes towards EU membership and talks to supporters of MON withdrawal from both the left and right wings of British MON politics. MON MON Producer: Hannah Barnes. MON MON 21:00 Material World b015pb0n (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science. MON MON Producer: Fiona Roberts MON MON Stem cells, gene therapy and human cloning MON MON Two big fields of medical technology - stem cell technology MON and precision gene therapy - have been united for the first MON time in humans. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger MON Institute and the University of Cambridge have created stem MON cells from a patient with a mistake in their genetic code. MON The mutated gene causes a protein, antitrypsin, which MON protects the body from damage, to be trapped in the liver, MON where it’s made, unable to get where it’s needed. It causes MON cirrhotic liver disease, which is one of the most common MON genetic diseases, affecting people in Europe. The only cure MON is a liver transplant. But in a report in the journal Nature MON this week – Quentin talks to one of the researchers who took MON a skin cell from a patient and converted it to a stem cell. MON Then they used a molecular scalpel to cut out the single MON mutation and insert the right letter - correcting the MON genetic fault. The stem cells were then turned into liver MON cells, which functioned perfectly. MON Further studies and human clinical trials would be needed MON before the treatment would be considered safe to use. MON MON Quentin also finds out about how the medical profession has MON reacted to news last week that a group in the United States MON finally managed use cloning techniques to create MON personalised embryonic stem cells in humans. The results are MON not yet perfect with, the stem cells containing chromosomes MON from both the adult and the egg cells. But it’s being seen MON as a step on the road towards possible therapeutic use. The MON researchers now know that a human egg can turn an adult MON specialised cell, such as a skin cell, into a stem cell. MON MON Black Death MON MON Scientists can finally say, conclusively, that the cause of MON the Black Death in the 14th Century was the plague bacteria, MON Yersinia pestis. They have now sequenced the bacteria’s MON genome which was recovered from the remains of victims of MON the Black Death. The remains were unearthed from the East MON Smithfield cemetery in London, and this cemetery was used MON exclusively for Black Death victims in 1348-9. They also MON learned that modern strains of the bacteria are genetically MON little changed from this 700 year old "mother" of all modern MON bubonic plague bacteria. MON Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a MON descendant of the medieval plague. MON MON Lawrence Krauss MON MON Professor of Earth and Space Exploration and Chair of the MON physics department at Case Western Reserve University in the MON United States is in London to give a ‘Sunday Sermon’ at the MON School of Life - a new enterprise based in a small shop in MON Central London where they offer a variety of programmes and MON services concerned with how to live wisely and well. MON Lawrence will be delighting the audience with his ‘sermon’ MON called Cosmic Connections. He says “Every atom in your body MON came from a star that exploded…you are all stardust.” MON Quentin finds out what the author of ‘The Science of Star MON Trek’ thinks about what the stars can teach us about MON ourselves. MON MON So You Want to Be a Scientist? MON MON Looking for inspiration for your entry to become the BBC's MON Amateur Scientist of the Year? Quentin runs through some of MON the entries so far, from crowd behaviour in cars to the MON chemistry of dustbins. MON MON KickSat project MON MON PhD student Zac Manchester is a graduate in aerospace MON engineering at Cornell University. As a sideline he has set MON up a project that he hopes will allow (paying) members of MON the public to have their own tiny satellites launched into MON space. MON He has designed, built, and tested a very tiny and MON inexpensive spacecraft called Sprite that can be built and MON launched into low Earth orbit for just a few hundred dollars MON each. They are basically a microchip with a radio antenna, MON which can be launched into low Earth orbit. MON Zac tells Quentin that he hopes this is step forward in the MON democratization of space, where school kids and individuals MON can have their own spacecraft in orbit. MON It’s initially a ‘proof of principle’ experiment, but he MON hopes that, if successful, subsequent launches will allow MON people to design and carry out their own space experiments. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b015yr4h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b015sh9s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b015zm4f (Listen) MON With Robin Lustig. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015zm4h (Listen) MON The Cat's Table, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Michael Ondaatje. MON MON The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from MON Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the MON Oronsay. MON MON The Oronsay arrives at the Suez Canal: a vivid moment of MON dream like transition which ripples out into their future MON lives in England. MON MON Abridged by Jill Waters MON Read by Sam Dastor MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Poetry Slam b00mrwng (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Radio 4's Radio 4's 2009 Poetry Slam kicked off with MON performance poets competing in heats all round Britain for a MON place in the semi-finals, the first of which was held at The MON Bluecoat in Liverpool and hosted by popular poetry MON performer, slammer and former Poet Laureate of Birmingham, MON Dreadlock Alien. The competition was fierce, the energy high MON and the rhymes came thick and fast as nine poets battled it MON out for a place in the final. They were: Ash Dickinson, MON Harry Giles, Mark Madden, Ben Mellor, James Oates, Abby MON Oliveira, Scott Tyrell, Sohia Walker and Michael Wilson. MON MON A slam is a knockout performance poetry competition in which MON poets perform their own work to a time limit and are given MON scores based on content, style, delivery and level of MON audience response. In the space of two minutes, performers MON must demonstrate their word-play, performance skills and MON inventiveness; over two or three rounds, poets are knocked MON out until one top scorer emerges as the winner. Slams MON attract a wide range of performers and styles, from MON heartfelt love poetry to searing social commentary, MON uproarious comic routines, and bittersweet personal MON confessional pieces. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b015zm4m (Listen) MON Susan Hulme presents the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b015shbc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b015yt3s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015shbf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015shbh (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015shbk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b015shbm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0167gny (Listen) TUE Short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b015zm8w (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b015zm8y (Listen) TUE Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b015zm90 (Listen) TUE Steven Pinker TUE TUE Cognitive psychologist, Steven Pinker, has been dubbed TUE "science's agent provocateur". TUE TUE Pinker studies how the mind works. Presenter Jim al-Khalili TUE wants to find out how his mind works. Pinker replies: "as a TUE psychologist you look at your own life as data and say geez TUE that's what I'm like". TUE TUE From verbs to violence, he's author of several books that TUE many say are mind-changing. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b015zm92 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Lyse Doucet presents the second in Radio 4's new interview TUE series where respected broadcasters follow their passions by TUE speaking to the people whose stories interest them most. TUE TUE Lyse has a long-standing connection to the country and TUE people of Afghanistan, having reported from there for over TUE 20 years. This month marks the 10th anniversary of the TUE American led invasion, a good time to reflect on recent TUE history and consider the future. This week she's talking to TUE a media mogul who's changed the face of popular culture in a TUE country where, until recently, TV was banned: TUE TUE Saad Mohseni has become known as Afghanistan's answer to TUE Rupert Murdoch. Until recently he would have accepted that TUE as a huge compliment, perhaps no longer. But, either way, TUE Mohseni is a big player. Running his media empire out of TUE offices in Dubai and Kabul, he's revolutionised TV and Radio TUE broadcasting in Afghanistan by TUE introducing local versions of international hits like Afghan TUE Star (a singing competition in the X-Factor mould) and TUE controversial radio programmes where male and female TUE broadcasters are in studio together. TUE TUE His father was an Afghan diplomat who moved his family TUE around the world - London, Tokyo, Kabul, with a long period TUE in Australia. where, eventually, Saad became an investment TUE banker. TUE TUE But shortly after the fall of the Taliban, Saad Mohseni TUE returned to Afghanistan and, long fascinated with the media, TUE established a hugely successful media empire. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b015zm94 (Listen) TUE Something Fierce, Episode 2 TUE TUE Mia Soteriou reads Carmen Aguirre's coming-of-age memoir of TUE life as a revolutionary in Latin America. TUE TUE Today: After a perilous visit to her beloved Chile, Carmen TUE finds herself questioning her commitment to the cause. TUE TUE Author: Carmen Aguirre. TUE Reader: Mia Soteriou. TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b015zm96 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zpdz (Listen) TUE Disconnected, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Richard Monks TUE TUE Following the death of his son, Ray finds himself caught in TUE a web of legal difficulties as he fights for the right to TUE see his beloved granddaughter. TUE TUE Ray.....Paul Copley TUE Rachel.....Julia Ford TUE Ellie.....Grace Clarke TUE Annie.....Paula Wilcox TUE Alex.....Simon Bubb TUE Howard.....James Lailey TUE Craig.....Carl Prekopp TUE Judith/Mourner.....Elaine Claxton TUE Judge.....Jane Whittenshaw TUE Solicitor.....Alun Raglan. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b015zm98 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 22 TUE TUE Red Kites have been successfully re-introduced into Wales in TUE recent times and now they are spreading naturally and TUE quickly into England. They are no longer a large bird of TUE prey never to be seen in the UK - they can be seen from TUE cars, from trains - and country walks. They have even been TUE seen soaring above the city of Bristol. And go to the right TUE part of mid Wales, swirling masses of them can be seen TUE soaring above farms. Red Kites are charismatic birds. They TUE are large with a forked tail and have a rich rusty red tone TUE to their plumage. Being scavengers they can attract large TUE crowds of paying tourists watching them soaring and swooping TUE down for meat routinely put out for them. The Red Kite is TUE now contributing to the economy. Clearly the Red Kite has TUE taken to the UK landscape well - and they are a conservation TUE success story and a valuable part of the UK's ecological TUE landscape. But, can success go wrong? Could there be a time TUE when there are too many Red Kites - or is there room for TUE everybody? Can wildlife conservation be too successful? We TUE report from the coast and the behaviour of Herring Gulls. TUE Herring Gulls, with their characteristic cry typical of the TUE UK seaside soundscape, can become very habituated to people TUE having picnics on the beach. They stalk and seize their TUE moment to grab a sandwich - a nuisance yes, but Herring TUE Gulls are in decline and have been put in to the Red Data TUE Book of threatened species. Should they be conserved? TUE TUE And we also have a report on the status of the Wild Boar in TUE Sweden ands the UK. TUE TUE Presenter Brett Westwood TUE Producer Mary Colwell TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Change of Art b015zm9b (Listen) TUE Public artist Andrew Shoben explores a controversial new TUE idea to 'rotate or retire' public artworks. TUE The last three decades have seen a flourishing of public art TUE in our towns and cities with works adorning every new TUE housing estate, shopping centre or local park. But what was TUE bold and innovative in the eighties may now seem tired, TUE decrepit or meaningless. In a bid to refresh our cities and TUE rescue 'orphaned' works, Andrew sets out to explore the TUE arguments around relocating more of our artworks. TUE TUE In Trafalgar Square he examines the Fourth Plinth phenomenon TUE with Sandy Nairne of the National Portrait Gallery, and a TUE trip to Antony Gormley's studio reveals the artist's hopes TUE for his most famous creation, Angel of the North. Andrew TUE also visits the Cass Sculpture Park in Sussex where owner, TUE Sir Wilfred Cass, offers works from top sculptors. We hear TUE from local authority art departments about the process of TUE commissioning and de-commissioning work for our communities. TUE TUE There's a historical precedent too. Italians weren't afraid TUE of moving their public art around, or retiring it and TUE replacing it with something else. Donatello's Judith and TUE Holofernes was moved around Florence three times between TUE 1455 and 1505, before it was replaced with Michelangelo's TUE David. TUE TUE With his company Greyworld, Andrew has created public TUE artworks for several UK cities, including the robotic bust TUE close to the Tate Modern in London. But who decides how long TUE his works, or any artworks in the public realm should occupy TUE their space? TUE TUE Tasting his own medicine Andrew speaks to people passing one TUE of his own sculptures to find out if they love it or if TUE they'd prefer that it be replaced by something, anything TUE else. TUE TUE Producers: Joby Waldman and Kathryn Willgress TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b015zm9d (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b015shbp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b015zvlg (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales from the Stave b015zm9j (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 1 TUE TUE Returning for a seventh season, crime writer Frances Fyfield TUE once again leads off her series exploring the tales and TUE tribulations revealed in the hand-written music manuscripts TUE of some of the greatest works of classical music. TUE TUE The opening programme of the series takes us to Paris where TUE a beautifully crafted wooden box made in London in the mid TUE 19th century houses Mozart's handwritten score of 'Don TUE Giovanni'. TUE TUE The Mozart expert and renowned conductor Jane Glover and TUE arguably the world's finest living singer of the title role, TUE Simon Keenlyside join Frances at the Bibliotheque Nationale TUE de France as guests of their head of music manuscripts TUE Elisabeth Giuliani. TUE TUE How the score came to be in Paris after a spell in London, TUE what secrets it reveals of Mozart's rush to complete it for TUE a premiere in Prague and why one of the boldest lines in his TUE entire operatic output should have been crossed out with a TUE clear intent for it to be put back as soon as the censor's TUE back was turned, will be revealed. TUE TUE It's also a chance to be astonished by the sheer detail of TUE Mozart's musical invention, his professionalism as he adapts TUE the odd line or the shaping of a phrase to fit the singers TUE he was writing for, and blotches and coffee stains which TUE give a vivid sense of the speed at which he was working. TUE TUE All that plus the story of Giovanni's ruthless seductions, TUE hell-raising lifestyle and some of the most celebrated music TUE ever composed for the operatic stage - in Tales from the TUE Stave. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b015yt82 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b015zm9l (Listen) TUE All the Dark Corners, The Desk TUE TUE All the Dark Corners: The Desk by Andrew Readman TUE The first in our chilling series of three plays. Davis Finch TUE is a hack TV writer with aspirations to write a novel. In TUE order to be a real writer he feels he needs a proper desk. TUE The one he buys changes his life. He becomes a success - but TUE at what price? A spooky psychological thriller. TUE TUE Finch.............Graeme Hawley TUE Harrison.........Tim McInnerny TUE Rachel...........Karen West TUE Morris............Greg Wood TUE Valerie...........Melissa Jane Sinden TUE Shopkeeper....Russell Richardson TUE TUE Producer/Director Gary Brown TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b015zpdj (Listen) TUE A new series of 'Making History'. Tom Holland, Helen Castor TUE and Fiona Watson share the workload as we sift through TUE listener's questions and research and turn to some of our TUE leading historians for some answers. TUE TUE Each week, the Making History team: tackles listeners TUE questions; hears about the latest research and puts the TUE Radio 4 audience at the heart of historical debate. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015zpdl (Listen) TUE The Mystery of the Hills, Making Contact TUE TUE By Andrew Greig. TUE TUE Read by Liam Brennan. TUE TUE A poet reflects upon a romantic encounter from his youth, TUE which taught him the value of language and the nature of TUE identity. TUE TUE First in a series of stories commissioned to mark the TUE centenary of the birth of the Highland poet Sorley MacLean. TUE Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1990, MacLean TUE is regarded as the greatest Gaelic poet of the Twentieth TUE Century, giving new literary standing to a language which TUE has at times seemed close to extinction. TUE TUE MacLean was born in October 1911 on Raasay, a small island TUE lying off the east coast of Skye, into a family immersed in TUE Highland history and culture. It is often said that what TUE Hugh MacDiarmid did for Scots, Sorley MacLean did for TUE Gaelic, sparking a Gaelic renaissance in Scottish TUE literature. He was also instrumental in preserving and TUE promoting the teaching of Gaelic in Scottish schools. He TUE died in 1996. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:45 Musical Migrants b015zqv7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Milan TUE TUE Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE TUE Pedro Carrillo is from Venezuela. He fell in love with TUE Italian opera when he was five years old and heard a TUE recording of Verdi's Rigoletto playing in his father's TUE study. TUE TUE When he grew up, Pedro fulfilled his childhood ambition and TUE began singing regularly in the main theatre of Caracas. TUE However, not long into his career, the political regime in TUE Venezuela encroached on the nation's cultural life and TUE Pedro, who had not hidden his anti-government views, found TUE himself blacklisted. For three years - "three terrible TUE years" - he was unable to work as a singer. He grew TUE depressed. His voice suffered. He thought about giving up. TUE TUE Eventually, despite many misgivings and his love for his TUE homeland, he decided to emigrate. He moved, with his wife TUE Victoria, to Milan - the city of La Scala and of Verdi. TUE There, in the birthplace of opera, he had to start again and TUE rebuild his career from zero. TUE TUE Producer: Rachel Hopkin TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b015zpdn (Listen) TUE The riots which hit England in August of this year presented TUE the legal system with significant challenges. In this TUE programme, Joshua Rozenberg explores how the state responded TUE to this very unusual situation. The programme examines the TUE sentences given to those arrested during the riots, and the TUE reasons behind them, and also asks why many people were TUE refused bail. It looks at the speed at which cases were TUE processed and asks how fast is too fast? TUE TUE Producer Michael Wendling TUE Researcher Lucy Proctor. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b015zpdq (Listen) TUE Rick Stein & Michael Dobbs TUE TUE Chef Rick Stein and Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, TUE recommend favourite books to presenter Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Rick Stein talks about Lifting the Latch (A Life on the TUE Land) by Sheila Stewart, which he enjoyed because it's set TUE in the area of Oxfordshire in which he was born and spent TUE his childhood. The true-life story of rural labourer Mont TUE Abbott, It's been described as a rival to Lark Rise of TUE Candleford. TUE TUE Lord Dobbs' choice is Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu, TUE a powerful love story set in Ceausescu's Romania. TUE TUE Then Harriett Gilbert brings something completely different TUE to the table: Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b015zpds (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015shbr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Hard to Tell b015zpdv (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE One of those parties that starts out as a great way to get TUE to know each other better, but promptly gets taken over by TUE fake tans, jerk chicken, insomniac parents and berets. TUE TUE Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy which sees TUE Jonny Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009) TUE make his debut in radio comedy writing. TUE TUE In Hard To Tell, Jonny Sweet conjures up characters TUE depicting every relationship from father and daughter to the TUE mirror in the bathroom and the feller hiding at a party; TUE from the stalker and the stalked to dog owners and their TUE dogs, and from lifelong friends to long term partners and TUE their dearly departed - weaving them into a four part, half TUE hour romantic comedy. TUE TUE The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny TUE himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki TUE Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going TUE Out's Katy Wix), plus Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new TUE girlfriend, Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best TUE friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's TUE zealously protective father (Simon Greenall). TUE TUE Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo TUE appearances. TUE TUE Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, TUE contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to TUE pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and TUE Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek. TUE TUE Tom ..... Jonny Sweet TUE Paul ...... Simon Greenall TUE Delivery Man ...... Tim Key TUE Ashley ....... Alex MacQueen TUE Lesley ...... Vicki Pepperdine TUE Hermione ...... Sarah Solemani TUE Ellen ...... Charlotte Ritchie TUE Maeve...... Katy Wix TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE A Tiger Aspects Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b015zpdx (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b015zrfc (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zpdz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b015zpf1 (Listen) TUE Earlier this year, an imam working in Stoke-on-Trent was TUE jailed for raping a 12 year old boy at his mosque. In the TUE wake of the case, File on 4 investigates whether the TUE thousands of children who visit mosques and madrassas each TUE week to study the Quran are being properly protected. TUE TUE The leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain has TUE warned that without urgent action, his religion could face TUE an "avalanche" of historic cases similar to the ones which TUE have swamped the Roman Catholic church. Already, several TUE other abusers whose crimes remained undetected for decades TUE have been brought to court. TUE TUE How can parents be sure their children are safe in TUE unregulated madrassas where no-one ensures proper criminal TUE record checks are made on staff and volunteers? And should TUE the ban on corporal punishment in schools be extended to TUE cover madrassas when some children still face physical TUE punishment? TUE Fran Abrams investigates. TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b015zpf3 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 The Sound of Fear b015zpf5 (Listen) TUE A door creaks, footsteps echo, someone's breathing - and we TUE are terrified. But why? Sean Street investigates the TUE psychology of fear, so potently sensitive to sound. TUE TUE He hears from musician and writer David Toop and film-maker TUE Chu-Li Shrewring how sounds trigger fear and the way this TUE inspires them. The neuro-scientist Sophie Scott explains how TUE our brains process terror. TUE TUE Context is important: anomalous noises, disembodied voices TUE and sounds whose origins are mysterious - all these frighten TUE us. David Hendy reveals that, in its early day, radio itself TUE was alarming. Louis Niebur, author of a book on the BBC's TUE Radiophonic Workshop, reveals how in the 1950s, the advent TUE of electronic sounds allowed programme-makers to use sounds TUE that frightened people because they didn't know what made TUE the noises. Sound researcher Marcus Leadley explains how TUE this triggers a state called schizophonia. TUE TUE Sean also questions whether sound and fear are culturally TUE specific, and hears about an experiment with the Himba, a TUE nomadic people in Namibia. Do they recognise our expressions TUE of fear, and do we theirs. TUE TUE Nigel Paterson, director of 'Planet Dinosaur' explains how TUE his team created sounds for animals about whose calls we TUE know next to nothing. Sean hears, too, a drill TUE sergeant-major whose voice is, in reality, very scary. And TUE in an anechoic chamber, Sean experiences what might be the TUE most frightening sound of all - absolute silence. TUE TUE Through the whole programme are woven an array of scary TUE sounds, noises and music, from foxes fighting in the north TUE London night to cicadas in the jungle, from the voices of TUE the Daleks to the music from the film 'Psycho', and from a TUE tiger to a rain drop. That, and some Freud, too, in The TUE Sound of Fear. TUE TUE Producer: Julian May. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b015zm90 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b015shbt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b015zpf7 (Listen) TUE With Robin Lustig. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015zpf9 (Listen) TUE The Cat's Table, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Michael Ondaatje. TUE TUE The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from TUE Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the TUE Oronsay. TUE TUE Relationships past and present fracture and shift. Michael TUE reflects on his brief marriage to Ramdhin's sister and TUE continues to look back at the voyage which launched him upon TUE the shores of the adult world. TUE TUE Abridged by Jill Waters TUE Read by Sam Dastor TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Curiosity Killed The Cabaret b00tgct1 (Listen) TUE The Edinburgh Fringe is the home to some of the best cabaret TUE acts the world has to offer and back in 2010 Fringe Radio 4 TUE bought you a selection of some of the most talked about TUE cabaret acts who appeared over the Festival. TUE TUE Australian cabaret legend Ali McGregor (La Clique and Opera TUE Burlesque), who recently hosted a Late-Nite Variety-Nite TUE Night at The Assembly Rooms, hosted a special Radio 4 late TUE night review show Curiosity Killed The Cabaret. TUE TUE She introduced the cream of the cabaret acts appearing at TUE the 2010 Fringe including Frisky and Mannish, Oompah Brass, TUE Asher Treleaven and Fitzrovia Radio Hour. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE A Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b016bvrb (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b015shcd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b015zm94 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015shcg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015shcj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015shcl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b015shcn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0167gp2 (Listen) WED Short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b015zq2h (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b015zq2k (Listen) WED Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b015zq2m (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b015zq2p (Listen) WED Something Fierce, Episode 3 WED WED Mia Soteriou reads Carmen Aguirre's coming-of-age memoir of WED life as a teenage revolutionary in Latin America. WED WED Today: when the situation in Bolivia becomes to dangerous, WED Carmen finds herself in rural Argentina in the depths of a WED harsh winter. WED WED Author: Carmen Aguirre. WED Reader: Mia Soteriou. WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b015zq2r (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zq2t (Listen) WED Disconnected, Episode 3 WED WED By Richard Monks WED WED 3 of 5 WED WED Ray hopes that he will soon be granted legal access to his WED beloved granddaughter. But things are not as straightforward WED as he would like to believe. WED WED Ray.....Paul Copley WED Rachel.....Julia Ford WED Ellie.....Grace Clarke WED Annie.....Paula Wilcox WED Judith.....Elaine Claxton WED Security Guard.....Simon Bubb WED Petrol Attendant/BailiffRay.....Alun Raglan. WED WED 11:00 David Hume and the Triumph of Reason b010lyyb (Listen) WED Recorded on location in Edinburgh, Allan Little pays a 300th WED anniversary tribute to his hero, the philosopher David Hume. WED WED Hume was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment at a WED time when Edinburgh was 'a hotbed of genius'. His scepticism WED and alleged atheism got him into trouble - but broke the WED shackles of the old beliefs and paved the way for new WED thinking in science and politics and economics. WED WED We hear not only about these radical thoughts but about Hume WED the man - intensely convivial, a bon viveur and cook - he WED was the toast of Paris and became, eventually, the highest WED paid man of letters ever to write in English. WED WED We hear from Hume biographer Roderick Graham and from WED academics Miranda Fricker, Nicholas Phillipson, Tom Devine, WED Simon Blackburn and Michael Fry. WED WED Brian Pettifer plays the part of David Hume. WED WED We hear too how Hume's ideas are still relevant - how WED 'Enlightenment for the 21st Century' has become the new WED strap line for the RSA. WED WED Presenter: Allan Little WED Producer: Susan Marling WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b015zq2w (Listen) WED The Murders in the Rue Morgue WED WED By Edgar Allan Poe. WED Dramatised by Chris Harrald. WED WED Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock WED Holmes stories. Now he has a chance to get his own back, WED with tales of Holmes' rivals. He begins with the famous case WED of the Murders In The Rue Morgue, and the eccentric talents WED of Auguste Dupin. WED WED Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet WED Dupin . . . . . Andrew Scott WED Lucy . . . . . Alex Tregear WED Granjean . . . . . Sean Baker WED Duborg . . . . . Brian Bowles WED Mme Duborg . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw WED The Sailor . . . . . Stuart McLoughlin WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b015zq2y (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b015shcq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b015zq30 (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b015zq32 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b015zpdx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b015zq4p (Listen) WED All the Dark Corners, Something in the Water WED WED 15:00 Stephanomics b016bhdj (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In the first of three programmes, Stephanie Flanders WED discusses the global financial crisis with top economic WED thinkers. Together they debate the twists and turns of the WED world economy - and assess where the euro will be in five to WED ten years time. And they'll consider the implications for WED jobs and growth in order to map the future economic WED landscape. WED Producer: Caroline Bayley WED Editor Stephen Chilcott. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015zqv5 (Listen) WED The Mystery of the Hills, The Girl with the Red Hair WED WED By Mairi MacLeod. WED WED Read by Mairi Morrison. WED WED A young Skye woman, Eilidh, stops for a break during a walk WED in the Cuillin mountains. In her rucksack she carries a WED recent gift: the collected poems of Sorley MacLean. As she WED begins to read, she hears a woman singing and is transported WED by the sadness in her voice. Who is the stranger; what WED tragedy has she suffered? WED WED Second in a series of stories specially commissioned to mark WED the centenary of the birth of the Highland poet Sorley WED MacLean. A warded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1990, WED MacLean is regarded as the greatest Gaelic poet of the WED Twentieth Century, giving new literary standing to a WED language which has at times seemed close to extinction. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:45 Musical Migrants b015zs0x (Listen) WED Series 3, Zanzibar WED WED Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, WED influenced by music. WED WED Watching the Live Aid concert on television in the mid 80s WED changed the life of Englishman, Yusuf Mahmoud. At the time, WED Yusuf was working as a milkman in Cheltenham and doing the WED odd bit of DJ-ing, but when he realised that music could be WED used as a tool for change he got involved in music promotion WED and festival organising for the Anti-Apartheid movement and WED similar operations. WED WED After several years of doing that, an opportunity arose for WED him to work at the first Zanzibar International Film WED Festival. Driven by his interest in the music of the region, WED he headed off to Tanzania intending to stay for only six WED months. Thirteen years on, he's still there and has set up WED the Sauti Za Busara Festival - a thriving festival that WED promotes the music of East Africa. WED WED Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world; Yusuf WED is used to going for months without power and his daily WED shower consists of a beaker and a bucket of water. Yet such WED things don't phase him because - he says - he's nourished by WED the cultural richness of his adopted land. WED WED Producer: Rachel Hopkin WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b015zqv9 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED Producer: Chris Wilson. WED WED 16:30 The Sound of Fear b015zpf5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b015zqvc (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015shcs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014gmfm (Listen) WED Series 4, Ian Hislop WED WED Ian Hislop is invited to try four totally new experiences by WED Marcus Brigstocke. WED WED Ian Hislop tries on a pair of jeans for the first time. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b015zrdv (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b015zrdx (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the WED documentary maker and writer Michael Moore, as he publishes WED a memoir. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zq2t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b015zrkg (Listen) WED The Law and Government Spending Cuts WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and WED judges discuss legal issues of the day. WED WED The first programme in the new series looks at how the WED courts are increasingly being used to try to prevent WED government and local authorities from implementing spending WED cuts. WED WED A large number of legal actions have already been launched WED challenging proposed cuts in such things as disability WED benefits, libraries, advice centres, national parks and WED school building. WED WED Are such cases likely to be successful, or will they simply WED delay the implementation of the cuts or force reductions in WED other services? And are the courts being drawn into the WED political arena, effectively threatening the operation of WED government and sovereignty of parliament? WED WED Claimant lawyers and those acting for government and local WED authorities discuss the issues. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b015zrkj (Listen) WED Ed Yong WED WED Science journalist and blogger Ed Yong explores the physical WED and philosophical implications of being host to billions of WED microbes. WED WED He reports the latest science showing how the bacteria we WED come into contact with can profoundly affect our lives - WED from the ability to digest different foodstuffs to our WED susceptibility to asthma, diabetes and even stress and WED anxiety. And he asks whether he should be seen as a human, WED or a universe of bacteria in a "human shaped sack"? 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 Costing the Earth b015zrkl (Listen) WED March of the Pylons WED WED Britain's electricity grid needs replacing. Our old power WED network is approaching obsolesence. That means that there's WED a real threat of a new army of pylons spreading out across WED some of our most beautiful landscapes. WED WED Since the advent of electricity, power cables have spread WED out from large, centrally-located coal-fired power stations. WED In the future we're going to be extracting our power from WED small sources dotted around the periphery of the country- WED wind, wave and hydro-electric stations far from the big WED power users of the major cities. To cope with this change a WED new national grid will have to be constructed. The shape of WED that grid and the method for transferring power is already WED provoking controversy. How acceptable are large pylons in WED our National Parks? How much more expensive is an WED underground cable? Tom Heap investigates the options. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b015zq2m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b015shcv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b015zrkn (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015zrkq (Listen) WED The Cat's Table, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Michael Ondaatje. WED WED The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from WED Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the WED Oronsay. WED WED The history of the silent girl, Asuntha, has profound WED implications for the other passengers on the Oronsay. Veiled WED connections and mysterious promises are made. WED WED Abridged by Jill Waters WED Read by Sam Dastor WED Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b015zrks (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Kim's bad dream sparks a heated debate that incorporates WED Elvis on fire, Stoke on Trent car washes and the literary WED merits of the New Testament. WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of WED arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad WED night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim WED battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The WED two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, WED unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop WED up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's WED weaknesses. WED WED Neil ..... Frank Skinner WED Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Producer/Director: Polly Thomas WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b00sk6jn (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED WED Written by Richie Webb. WED WED Another week; another barrage of useless pupils for music WED teacher Nigel Penny in this new musical comedy written by WED and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. WED Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. WED WED Episode 5: Shut away in his tiny windowless practice room WED Nigel endures his usual steady stream of talentless pupils: WED a vocalist claiming a sub-bass range and a wannabe WED Avant-Garde composer stretching his already taut patience. WED But hidden amongst the dross is a little ray of light in the WED shape of Martha - a local folk singer/songwriter who WED reignites not only his passion for performing, but his WED passion for - well, passion. WED WED Will Nigel be able to make this opportunity count both on WED and off stage? Not if Belinda has anything to do with it: WED she's forgotten to get Nigel's CRB clearance sorted, and the WED local Beavers and Brownies gang show is in town. WED WED Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb WED Belinda ...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. WED WED Produced by Richie Webb WED Directed by Nick Walker WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b015zrkv (Listen) WED David Cornock presents the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b015shdh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b015zq2p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015shdk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015shdm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015shdp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b015shdw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0167gpj (Listen) THU Short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b015zrrd (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte THU Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b015zrrg (Listen) THU Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b015zrrj (Listen) THU Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Delacroix's painting THU Liberty Leading the People. In 1830 revolution once more THU overtook France, when a popular uprising toppled the French THU king Charles X. A few months later, the artist Eugene THU Delacroix immortalised the events of the July Revolution in THU a painting which remains one of the icons of the age. His THU allegorical depiction of a Paris barricade, with the figure THU of Liberty clutching a tricolore while standing on a pile of THU corpses, is a powerful image which has provoked much debate THU in the years since it was first unveiled to an enthusiastic THU public. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b015zrrl (Listen) THU Something Fierce, Episode 4 THU THU Today: a mission across the Andes goes perilously wrong, and THU Carmen is forced to risk all. THU THU Author: Carmen Aguirre. THU Reader: Mia Soteriou. THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b015zrrn (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zrrq (Listen) THU Disconnected, Episode 4 THU THU By Richard Monks THU THU Following the meeting with Ellie at the CAFCAS offices, Ray THU is beginning to believe that access to Ellie will never be THU granted. But Annie has other ideas. THU THU Ray .... Paul Copley THU Rachel.....Julia Ford THU Ellie.....Grace Clarke THU Annie.....Paula Wilcox THU Alex.....Simon Bubb THU Judge.....Jane Whittenshaw THU Solicitor.....Alun Raglan THU Volunteer/Operator.....Elaine Claxton. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b015zrrs (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 When Hollywood Met Halifax b010r7bw (Listen) THU Liza Tarbuck discovers how Jayne Mansfield sprinkled THU Hollywood glamour on the northern club circuit during the THU last turbulent year of her life. Jayne Mansfield's story is THU a story of our times - the celebrity whose life unravelled. THU In 1967, the year she was to die in a tragic road accident THU at 34, she packed up her furs and embarked on a little known THU tour of English northern clubs. THU THU Her unique act of breathy ballads and risque lap dancing THU routines astonished her audiences more used to THU it's-the-way-I-tell-'em comedians and inoffensive covers THU bands. At the time Mansfield was spiralling into alcoholism THU and her life was imploding - realities she kept hidden from THU her English fans. The programme traces how the once THU glittering star of the Girl Can't Help It and Too Hot to THU Handle was forced to get out on the road as her movie career THU faded. THU THU Producer: Paula McGinley. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b015zrrv (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b015shdy (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b015zrrx (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b015zrkl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b015zrdv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b015zrrz (Listen) THU All the Dark Corners, The Dying Wish THU THU The Dying Wish THU by Rosemary Kay THU THU Fran and her partner Abe are befriended by a lonely old THU woman, Joy, who lives in the flat above. THU Joy persuades them to perform an ancient ritual after she's THU died. They unwittingly agree without THU realising the terrifying consequences of their action. A THU quest for eternal life and the living dead THU permeate this chilling horror story. THU THU Fran ..... Sarah Smart THU Abe ..... Jonathan Keeble THU David ..... Robert Pickavance THU Joy ..... Janice McKenzie THU Jack ..... James Quin THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b015ydzd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b015ygx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015zs0v (Listen) THU The Mystery of the Hills, Hallaig THU THU By Iain Finlay MacLeod. THU Read by Tony Kearney. THU THU A man reflects upon the consequences of a decision made too THU lightly. THU THU Hebridean writer Iain Finlay MacLeod completes this series THU of stories specially commissioned to mark the centenary of THU the birth of the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean. The title of THU this story refers to MacLean's great poem "Hallaig", while THU lines from the poem "The Choice" are central to the story's THU theme. Both poems can be read in full on MacLean's official THU website (see link opposite). THU THU Sorley MacLean was born in October 1911 on Raasay, a small THU island lying off the east coast of Skye, into a family THU immersed in Highland history and culture. Awarded the THU Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1990, he is regarded as the THU greatest Gaelic poet of the Twentieth Century, giving new THU literary standing to a language which at times seemed close THU to extinction. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:45 Musical Migrants b015ztm9 (Listen) THU Series 3, Cajun THU THU Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, THU influenced by music. THU THU We join Ann Savoy cooking up some chicken sauce piquant in THU the kitchen of her traditional Arcadian home in Eunice, THU Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun country. THU THU Ann was born in Richmond, Virginia and was raised to be a THU 'southern lady'. But her love for the wild freedom she found THU in Cajun music drew her to relocate to the Deep South and THU the prairies of south-western Louisiana - an area which she THU describes as 'Virginia blown to smithereens'. There, THU alongside her husband Marc Savoy (who hails from a Cajun THU family with many generations of musicians), Ann earned her THU stripes by playing Cajun guitar for hours at all-night THU parties out on the bayou, while gumbo bubbled away in trash THU cans. She also began documenting the old-time Cajun THU musicians and their way of life, interviewing some of the THU greats like Dennis McGee and Wade Fruge, whilst also raising THU a family who are now forming the new generation of Cajun THU musicians. THU THU Producer: Rachel Hopkin THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b015ykws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b015zs0z (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b015zs11 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015shf2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00sjmvq (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU THU Charlie Brooker presents the comedy panel show about the THU wrong side of life. THU THU 'So Wrong It's Right' is the game where guest compete to THU suggest the best in bad ideas. THU THU Actress & presenter Liza Tarbuck - plus comedians Richard THU Herring and Jack Whitehall - are special guests for this THU edition. Are they up to Charlie's 'wrong' challenges? These THU include confessing their worst ever excuses and also their THU creative suggestions for the most terrible new gimmick for a THU TV Detective show. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b015zs13 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b015zs15 (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including an interview with musician Peter THU Gabriel, and a reassessment of the work of painter Edward THU Burra, renowned for capturing the seedy side of city life. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zrrq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b015zpdn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b015zs17 (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b015zm98 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b015zrrj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b015shf4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b015zs19 (Listen) THU With Ritula Shah. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015zs1c (Listen) THU The Cat's Table, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Michael Ondaatje. THU THU The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from THU Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the THU Oronsay. THU THU Michael's enduring connection with Emily prompts THU recollections of events in the Mediterranean, as the ship THU nears England. THU THU Abridged by Jill Waters THU Read by Sam Dastor THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b0164693 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU A new age of austerity, riots on our streets, phone hacking, THU the prospect of global economic meltdown...not since the THU 1980s has Britain needed its sharp-tongued satirists to pour THU a healthy dollop of scorn on these uncertain and tumultuous THU times. THU THU And who better to do that than the country's most well-known THU satirical impressionist, Rory Bremner? He hosts Tonight, a THU brand new topical satire show for Radio 4. THU THU Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of THU things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then THU will people laugh at the truth. So expect a blend of THU stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and THU incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who THU really know what they're talking about. THU Regular performers will include Political Animal veteran THU Andy Zaltzman and the multi-talented impressionist Kate THU O'Sullivan with a special guest each week. THU THU Presenter: Rory Bremner THU Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b015zs1f (Listen) THU Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b015shfq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b015zrrl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015shfs (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015shfv (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015shfx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b015shfz (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0167grl (Listen) FRI Short reflection and prayer with Canon Noel Battye. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b015zsbx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte FRI Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b015zsbz (Listen) FRI Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and FRI Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b015ygxd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b015zsc1 (Listen) FRI Something Fierce, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mia Soteriou reads Carmen Aguirre's coming-of-age memoir of FRI life as a revolutionary in Latin America. FRI FRI Today: secret police, paranoia and mistrust, as the FRI resistance begins to falter... FRI FRI Author: Carmen Aguirre. FRI Reader: Mia Soteriou. FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b015zsc3 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Sheila McClennon. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zsc5 (Listen) FRI Disconnected, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Richard Monks FRI FRI Increasingly desperate, following his row with Annie, Ray is FRI beginning to believe that he will never be granted access to FRI his beloved grandchild. FRI FRI Ray.....Paul Copley FRI Rachel.....Julia Ford FRI Ellie.....Grace Clarke FRI Annie.....Paula Wilcox FRI Howard.....James Lailey FRI Craig/Clerk.....Carl Prekopp FRI Judge.....Jane Whittenshaw FRI Volunteer/PA.....Elaine Claxton. FRI FRI 11:00 Up To Scratch b015zsc7 (Listen) FRI Kit Hesketh Harvey follows the fortunes of judges and FRI competitors taking part in this year's Nailympics. With FRI delegates coming from all over the world to take part, Kit FRI follows the fortunes of Kirsty Meakin from Staffordshire. FRI Rated number three in the world, Kirsty is already so FRI renowned in the world of nail art that her work is currently FRI being shown as part of the V&A's exhibition ,The Power of FRI Making. FRI He also meets Marian Newman one of the worlds top FRI manicurists who has over sixty British Vogue covers to her FRI name. She started out as a forensic scientist and explains FRI that the development of the nail industry comes from FRI advances made in dentistry. FRI As part of the cabaret act Kit and the Widow, for many years FRI a support act to Joan Rivers, Kit's very at home discussing FRI all types of cosmetic enhancement and hopes to come away FRI from the event with a few tips. FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b015zswt (Listen) FRI Series 7, Heroes FRI FRI In Episode Five - 'Heroes'; Clare encounters Bradley Bigg - FRI Pop's tub-thumping troubadour and Blue Collar balladeer FRI whose music influenced and shaped her as a teenager. FRI Meanwhile, Brian has to break some bad news to Nali and FRI Helen takes on the role of Health and Safety Officer with FRI uncharacteristic vigour. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS FRI Brian: ALEX LOWE FRI Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI FRI Ray/Mr Trueman: RICHARD LUMSDEN FRI Helen: LIZA TARBUCK FRI Simon/Bradley: ANDREW WINCOTT FRI Libby: SARAH KENDALL FRI Chelsy: VICTORIA INEZ HARDY FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b015zswy (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b015shg1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b015zsx0 (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b015zsx2 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b015zs13 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fpx7q (Listen) FRI Prayer Mask FRI FRI By David Pownall FRI FRI JOSEPH FIENNES stars as the young Lieutenant Richard Burton FRI who in 1853 disguised himself as an Afghani pilgrim and FRI undertook an expedition to Mecca. His aim was to explore the FRI Holy of Holies. He chronicles this journey fraught with FRI dangers and misadventure. But can he hide his identity from FRI his two young guides? FRI FRI Lieutenant Richard Burton .... Joseph Fiennes FRI Mohammed............... Akbar Kurtha FRI Nur.......................... Rasmus Hardiker FRI Wali..................... Paul Rider FRI Larking.................... Roger Hammond FRI Kaaba official............ Inam Mirza FRI Surgeon.................... Jonathan Tafler FRI Mohammed's mother ... Natasha Pyne FRI FRI Director..... Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b015ztlj (Listen) FRI Newport, Pembrokeshire FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this week's edition from Newport, South FRI West Wales. FRI FRI Christine visits the National Collection of Hollies. As part FRI of the Listeners' Gardens series, Matt Biggs returns to St FRI Anns Allotments in Nottingham to advise new plot holders on FRI winter preparation. FRI FRI Producer by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Musical Migrants b015ztll (Listen) FRI Series 3, Norway FRI FRI Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, FRI influenced by music. FRI FRI Daniel Sanden-Warg grew up in Sweden listening to rock FRI giants. As a teenager, he appeared on Swedish television FRI playing the guitar a la Jimi Hendrix (including behind his FRI back and with his teeth). Then a new boy arrived at his FRI school and through him, Daniel discovered folk music, FRI specifically the hardanger fiddle tradition of Norway's FRI Setesdal Valley. Of hearing this music for the first time, FRI he says "it was life-changing for me. I was sure at once FRI that this is what I want to do. This is the music I want to FRI play. I have to get good at it, and if I'm going to be poor, FRI I don't care, that's going to be my life, that's it." FRI FRI Daniel's dream was to study with the man who'd played on the FRI first recording he heard - Hallvard Bjorgum. After FRI practising for hours each day for months, he sent Hallvard a FRI demo tape and waited anxiously for a response. On Christmas FRI Eve, Hallvard called him. He told Daniel that his playing FRI reminded him of his father and that he could come and study FRI with him any time. FRI FRI So Daniel moved to the extraordinary Setesdal valley in the FRI south of Norway - an area famed for centuries for its FRI fiddlers and where folklife is cherished. He became fully FRI absorbed into the culture. He played side by side with FRI Hallvard, built his own traditional log cabin, and learned FRI the ancient art of silver-smithing - a craft typically FRI practised by Setesdal fiddlers because it is gentler on FRI their fingers than, for example, logging. Daniel, whom FRI Hallvard describes as a genius, is now one of the most FRI sought-after hardanger fiddle players in the world. FRI FRI Producer: Rachel Hopkin FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b015ztln (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b015ztlq (Listen) FRI With Francine Stock. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b015ztls (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015shg3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b015ztlv (Listen) FRI Series 75, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred Macaulay, Andy FRI Hamilton and Matthew Parris. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b015ztlx (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b015ztlz (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including interviews with Brian Wilson and FRI Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys, as the never-released 1967 FRI album Smile is made available for the first time. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015zsc5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b015ztqk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Torquay, Devon, with associate editor of The FRI Times, Danny Finkelstein. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b015ztqm (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00k1wsx (Listen) FRI Des Res FRI FRI Black comedy by Ed Jones. Scriptwriter Luke loses his TV job FRI and has to downsize from a bohemian terrace in a leafy FRI Manchester suburb to the dark heart of Salford. The house is FRI a bargain and he's lived in worse; and he can handle those FRI scallies that use his front doorstep as a youth club, can't FRI he? FRI FRI Luke ...... Ian Puleston-Davies FRI Toto ...... Szilvi Naray-Davey FRI Kenny ...... Luke Broughton FRI Adele ...... Michelle Tate FRI Ryan ...... Warren Brown FRI Lotta ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Script Editor ...... Natasha Byrne FRI Policeman ...... Greg Wood FRI FRI Directed by Gary Brown. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b015shg7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b015ztqp (Listen) FRI With Ritula Shah. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015ztqr (Listen) FRI The Cat's Table, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Michael Ondaatje. FRI FRI The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from FRI Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the FRI Oronsay. FRI FRI Asuntha and her father were last seen as they leapt over the FRI side of the ship into the sea. But Michael has never fully FRI understood his cousin's role in those final dramatic days; FRI years later they meet and he is able to ask her what FRI happened. FRI FRI Abridged by Jill Waters FRI Read by Sam Dastor FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b015zpdq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b015ztqt (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy presents all the news from Westminster. FRI
14 October, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 15/10/2011 - 21/10/2011
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