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SAT SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b015zs39 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b015zsc1 (Listen) SAT Something Fierce, Episode 5 SAT SAT Mia Soteriou reads Carmen Aguirre's coming-of-age memoir of SAT life as a revolutionary in Latin America. SAT SAT Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Carmen Aguirre SAT was always destined to become a revolutionary. After SAT Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973, her family is forced to SAT flee to Canada, but a few years later return to join the SAT underground movement against Pinochet. And so Carmen's SAT double life begins. Posing as a westernised teenager by day, SAT at night she is drilled in surveillance techniques, SAT cryptography and subterfuge, until she finally takes the SAT resistance oath herself. SAT SAT Today: secret police, paranoia and mistrust, as the SAT resistance begins to falter... SAT SAT Author: Carmen Aguirre. SAT Reader: Mia Soteriou. SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015zs3c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015zs3f (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015zs3h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b015zs3k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015ztrq (Listen) SAT with Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for SAT Hindu Studies. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b015ztrs (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b015zs3m (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b015zs3p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b0167qph (Listen) SAT Series 19, Devon - Hope Cove to Salcombe SAT SAT Clare Balding joins Gordon and Caroline Luff and their son, SAT Sam, to walk a section of the South West Coastal Path from SAT Hope Cove to Salcombe. This is thought to be one of the most SAT beautiful stretches of the 630 mile long distance footpath SAT where kestrels and peregrine falcons can be seen flying SAT above the cliffs and seals can sometimes be seen down below. SAT The walk is one that Gordon and Caroline have done several SAT times but, after surviving breast cancer in 2001, Caroline SAT then faced agonising back pain resulting in spinal surgery SAT in 2010. Throughout both her treatment for cancer and SAT surgery on her back, Caroline was determined to continue SAT with the walking that she loves. SAT The last time Gordon and Caroline walked from Hope Cove to SAT Salcombe ended in tears with Caroline convinced that she SAT would never walk again. Along with their son Sam, Clare SAT joins Gordon and Caroline as they return to the aptly named SAT Hope Cove to walk the route to Salcombe, something that SAT Caroline can now do pain-free. And when the group reach Soar SAT Mill Cove, nobody can resist taking off their walking boots SAT and running into the sea for a paddle. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0167qpk (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 b015zs3r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0167qpm (Listen) SAT Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0167qpp (Listen) SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world, with Richard Coles. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0167qpr (Listen) SAT Exploring the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel, SAT with John McCarthy. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Rupert Bear and Me b0167qpt (Listen) SAT From his humble beginnings in a strip cartoon back in 1920, SAT Rupert Bear has been captivating children - and adults - for SAT the best part of a century. SAT SAT Now into his 90's Rupert Bear is one of the longest-running SAT children's comic characters in the world and has touched the SAT lives of millions and drawn them into his enchanting world. SAT SAT Lifelong Rupert fan, Mark Radcliffe reflects on his life SAT growing up with the little white bear and explores what SAT makes Rupert and his adventures in Nutwood so appealing. SAT SAT He delves into his own Rupert annual collection and talks to SAT fellow fans including the actor Terence Stamp, former-Python SAT Terry Jones and comedy actor John Thomson about what they SAT find so enticing about the world of the curious white bear. SAT SAT With contributions from current Rupert annual illustrator SAT Stuart Trotter, biographer Caroline Bott and children's SAT literature expert Julia Eccleshare, Mark takes a look at SAT Rupert's origins, the artistry and creativity of long-time SAT illustrator Alfred Bestall and the significance of Rupert's SAT home - the wonderful world of Nutwood. SAT SAT With a yellow and black checked scarf tied firmly round his SAT neck, Mark dives into the magical world of Nutwood and SAT considers Rupert's place in popular culture, his rock 'n' SAT roll credentials, his longevity and success. SAT SAT Producer: Lorna Skingley SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0167qpw (Listen) SAT Steve Richards looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0167qpy (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0167qq0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b015ztlv (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred Macaulay, Andy SAT Hamilton and Matthew Parris. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b015zs3t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b015zs3w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b015ztqk (Listen) SAT Torquay SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Devon, with SAT associate editor of The Times, Danny Finkelstein; Minister SAT of State for Schools and Families, Sarah Teather; Deborah SAT Mattinson, founder of the research and polling company SAT Britain Thinks; and Shadow Attorney General, Emily SAT Thornberry. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0167qq2 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0167qq4 (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, Poodle Springs SAT SAT By Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT SAT Fresh from his honeymoon with heiress Linda Loring, Philip SAT Marlowe has set up shop in the upmarket Californian town of SAT Poodle Springs. But the life of a kept man soon loses its SAT charm, and when he's asked to find a gambler on the run from SAT his debts, Marlowe can't resist. Toby Stephens plays iconic SAT detective Philip Marlowe. SAT SAT The eighth and final Philip Marlowe novel, Raymond SAT Chandler's Poodle Springs was unfinished at the time of the SAT author's death in 1959. It remained so for another 30 years, SAT until crime writer Robert B. Parker completed the novel to SAT mark the centenary of Chandler's birth. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe . . . . . Toby Stephens SAT Linda Marlowe . . . . . Lorelei King SAT Larry Victor . . . . . Stephen Campbell Moore SAT Muffy Valentine . . . . . Laurel Lefkow SAT Manny Lipshultz . . . . . Peter Polycarpou SAT Angel Victor . . . . . Sasha Pick SAT Bernie Ohls . . . . . Gerard McDermott SAT Film Director . . . . . James Lailey SAT Eddie Garcia . . . . . Alun Raglan SAT Clayton Blackstone . . . . . Sean Baker SAT Leonard . . . . . Carl Prekopp SAT Turn Key . . . . . Simon Bubb SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT Produced by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b015zm9j (Listen) SAT Series 7, Episode 1 SAT SAT Returning for a seventh season, crime writer Frances Fyfield SAT once again leads off her series exploring the tales and SAT tribulations revealed in the hand-written music manuscripts SAT of some of the greatest works of classical music. SAT SAT The opening programme of the series takes us to Paris where SAT a beautifully crafted wooden box made in London in the mid SAT 19th century houses Mozart's handwritten score of 'Don SAT Giovanni'. SAT SAT The Mozart expert and renowned conductor Jane Glover and SAT arguably the world's finest living singer of the title role, SAT Simon Keenlyside join Frances at the Bibliotheque Nationale SAT de France as guests of their head of music manuscripts SAT Elisabeth Giuliani. SAT SAT How the score came to be in Paris after a spell in London, SAT what secrets it reveals of Mozart's rush to complete it for SAT a premiere in Prague and why one of the boldest lines in his SAT entire operatic output should have been crossed out with a SAT clear intent for it to be put back as soon as the censor's SAT back was turned, will be revealed. SAT SAT It's also a chance to be astonished by the sheer detail of SAT Mozart's musical invention, his professionalism as he adapts SAT the odd line or the shaping of a phrase to fit the singers SAT he was writing for, and blotches and coffee stains which SAT give a vivid sense of the speed at which he was working. SAT SAT All that plus the story of Giovanni's ruthless seductions, SAT hell-raising lifestyle and some of the most celebrated music SAT ever composed for the operatic stage - in Tales from the SAT Stave. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0167qq6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0167qq8 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT With Carolyn Quinn. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b015zs17 (Listen) SAT Producers or Parasites? SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT With protests continuing around the world against the SAT financial sector, three guests from that industry swap SAT candid thoughts about it. Evan puts to them a fundamental SAT question: is their industry creating genuine wealth, or is SAT it essentially parasitic, finding clever ways of SAT distributing other people's wealth to its own workers? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Ken Olisa, chairman of SAT boutique technology merchant bank Restoration Partners; Ian SAT Gorham, chief executive of financial advisory firm SAT Hargreaves Lansdown; Julian Roberts, chief executive of SAT savings and investment group Old Mutual. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b015zs3y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b015zs40 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015zs42 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0167rdp (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Douglas Hodge will be SAT swearing to tell Peter Curran 'the whole truth and nothing SAT but the truth' about his role as struggling middle-aged SAT lawyer Bill Maitland in John Osborne's witty and compelling SAT play 'Inadmissable Evidence' at the Donmar Warehouse. SAT SAT The sweetest man on radio, (sorry Peter!) broadcaster and SAT author Matthew Sweet will be checking in to regale some of SAT the scandalous antics in his book 'The West End Front: The SAT Wartime Secrets Of London's Grand Hotels'. Matthew's SAT extraordinary tales range from Dylan Thomas licking gravy SAT from an MI5 girl's legs to the barmaid appointed keeper of SAT Churchill's private bottle of whiskey! SAT SAT Lady of the 'Live Lounge', DJ and Radio 2 presenter Jo SAT Whiley is no stranger to live music in her radio studio. She SAT now returns to television on Friday nights with yet more SAT rock 'n' roll and industry chit chat on her music-themed SAT show on Sky Arts 1. No doubt Jo will be tapping her feet to SAT our music performances this week. SAT SAT Rachael Stirling is exposed to the elements as polar SAT producer Alastair Fothergill blows in from the arctic to SAT talk about his new BBC1 series and book 'Frozen Planet'. SAT Alistair goes to the ends of the earth to see the planet's SAT great wildernesses before they change forever..... SAT SAT Having just cycled across the finish line of their 'Tour De SAT Anglais', Bombay Bicycle Club will be saddling up again to SAT perform their new single 'Lights Out Words Gone'. And no SAT 'Passing Stranger' to Loose Ends, Ivor Novello Award-winner SAT Scott Matthews returns to sing the fruit of his labours, SAT 'Bad Apple' from his new album 'What The Night Delivers'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0167rdr (Listen) SAT Ian Brown SAT SAT Legendary band Stone Roses announced this week that they are SAT reforming. This week Linday Pressly profiles lead singer Ian SAT Brown. Brown formed the band with school friend John Squire SAT but the rift between the two saw the break-up after just two SAT albums and left a generation of music fans hanging. Brown SAT went on to have a solo career but now he has decided to make SAT amends with his former bandmates. He made a huge mark on SAT music and influenced many who met him including bands such SAT as Oasis and in their early days, Radiohead. SAT Producer: Wesley Stephenson. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0167rdt (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the writers Rowan Pelling, Jim SAT White and Deborah Moggach review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT FILM : We Need To Talk About Kevin - starring Tilda Swinton, SAT directed by Lynne Ramsay SAT THEATRE : Jumpy by April de Angelis, directed by Nina Raine SAT at the Royal Court SAT EXHIBITION : George Condo: Mental States - Hayward Gallery SAT BOOK : King Ed - from the pen of Snow Falling On Cedars SAT author David Guterson SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0167rdw (Listen) SAT Mind Your PMQs SAT SAT Prime Minister's Questions dominates our image of SAT Parliament. It's one of the things foreign observers SAT automatically associate with life in Britain, but far from SAT being an indelible part of our political heritage, it was SAT introduced only fifty years ago in 1961. SAT SAT Tony Blair once described it as the most challenging and SAT terrifying experience of his life, but what really is the SAT point of Prime Minister's Question Time? Does it really hold SAT the Prime Minister to account? In this programme, historian SAT Dominic Sandbrook traces its development to show how it has SAT reflected the changing political culture. SAT SAT Throughout its short history, there have been constant calls SAT for reform. Just last year The Speaker John Bercow described SAT PMQs as 'scrutiny by screech' but has it always been like SAT this? SAT SAT Harold Wilson's former private secretary reveals how the SAT personal animosity between Heath and Wilson poisoned the SAT atmosphere of PMQs. It was never to be the same again with SAT successive party leaders calling for an end to Punch & Judy SAT politics whilst simultaneously using Prime Minister's SAT Questions for political point scoring. SAT SAT The programme features interviews with Lord Kinnock, Lord SAT Ashdown, Commons Speaker John Bercow, former Speaker Betty SAT Boothroyd, MPs John Whittingdale and Stephen Pound as well SAT as Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell. SAT SAT Produced by Barney Rowntree SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b015ykwq (Listen) SAT Silas Marner, Episode 1 SAT SAT Silas Marner by George Eliot SAT dramatised by Richard Cameron SAT Episode 1/2 SAT Outcast from the church, community, and closest friends for SAT a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith SAT falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, exiled, he builds a SAT new faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his SAT cloths, counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of SAT his new religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his SAT money is stolen he's bereft and grief stricken. Then on New SAT Year's Eve a vision of gold flickers before the flames. SAT Spilling locks are tumbling coins. For a moment Silas is SAT reunited with his lovely sovereigns. And then he sees a SAT little child. SAT SAT SILAS MARNER.............George Costigan SAT SARAH/PRISCILLA ............................Fiona Clarke SAT WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...........Conrad Nelson SAT MINISTER/MACEY.............Seamus O'Neill SAT SNELL/BRYCE..............Leigh Symonds SAT DUNSEY/DOWLAS..............James Nickerson SAT SQUIRE ............. ......Terence Wilton SAT DOLLY............. ...Deborah McAndrew SAT AARON (child).............................George Herbert SAT NANCY/MOLLY........ ........Maeve Larkin SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b015zs44 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b015zrkg (Listen) SAT The Law and Government Spending Cuts SAT SAT In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and guests SAT discuss how the courts are increasingly being used to try to SAT prevent government and local authorities from implementing SAT spending cuts. SAT SAT Clive is joined by former Justice Secretary Lord Falconer, SAT human rights lawyer, Hugh Southey QC, former appeal court SAT Judge, Sir Stephen Sedley and solicitor Louise Whitfield, SAT who specialises in representing clients fighting spending SAT cuts. SAT SAT They discuss how human rights and equalities law can be used SAT to stop government or local authorities from cutting back on SAT such things as disability benefits, libraries, advice SAT centres, national parks and school building. SAT SAT While acknowledging that the courts have a legitimate role SAT in ensuring that public bodies fulfil their legal SAT obligations, he admits that he and his government colleagues SAT were often more than a little peeved at being prevented from SAT doing the things they wanted to do. SAT SAT But how likely is it that challenges to spending cuts will SAT be successful? Will such legal action simply delay the SAT implementation of the cuts or force reductions in other SAT services? And are the courts being drawn into the political SAT arena, effectively threatening the sovereignty of SAT parliament? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b015yt47 (Listen) SAT 10/12 SAT Northern Ireland take on the South of England in the game of SAT lateral thinking and cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe SAT in the chair to ensure all is fair. The last time these SAT teams faced one another, the South of England won - will the SAT tables be turned today? SAT SAT The writer Polly Devlin and historian Brian Feeney play for SAT Northern Ireland, while the South of England regulars are SAT Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins. As usual they'll need to SAT dredge their memory banks for chunks of history, literature, SAT music, science, etymology and popular culture, in order to SAT answer Tom's fiendish questions. SAT SAT The programme also includes a selection of questions SAT suggested by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and Tom will be SAT providing the answer to last week's teaser question: 'If you SAT enjoyed our hospitality with the navigator and the general, SAT you might welcome a night out with Bruce Wayne and Annie - SAT why would this be?' SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b015ykwv (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of favourite poetry SAT requests. The readers are Bill Paterson and Catherine SAT Harvey. SAT SAT Today we go dancing with leaves in the wind, and sailing SAT with Yeats. Roger will be taking us on other metaphorically SAT rich journeys with CP Cavafy, Michael Longley and a poet who SAT is better known as a novelist: Sebastian Barry. There's also SAT a chance to hear Frances Cornford's poem To a Fat Lady, SAT alongside its (arguably as well known) parody by GK SAT Chesterton. Rich autumnal offerings in verse. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0162p02 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00grgvn (Listen) SUN Wrestling Angels, The Jeweller's Wife SUN SUN The pain of a woman's infertility is nothing compared to the SUN trouble caused by her miraculous healing. The third of SUN Fraser Grace's biblical tales. SUN SUN Read by Deborah Findlay SUN Produced by Marilyn Imrie SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0162p04 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0162p06 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0162p08 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0162p0b (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0167vj7 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Wilfred's in York. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0167rdr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0162p0d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0167vj9 (Listen) SUN Steps in Time SUN SUN Deborah Bull, ex principal dancer for the Royal Ballet and SUN now Creative Director for the Royal Opera House, explores SUN how the the urge to dance is one of the most natural of SUN human instincts. In 'Steps in Time' she reflects on how SUN dance has been used to serve secular, sacred and social SUN situations, and has evolved into a performance art. SUN SUN She draws on a range of music to illustrate her theme - SUN Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', a Klezmer wedding dance, a SUN traditional Raqs Sharqi used for belly dancing, and the SUN soaring romantic music of Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet'. SUN There is poetry from Rumi, Billy Collins and Laurence Binyon SUN and an extract from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy, Greg Hicks and Frank Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0167vjc (Listen) SUN Adam Henson meets the third finalist in the BBC Radio 4 SUN Farmer of the Year category in the Food and Farming Awards. SUN Adrian Dolby shows Adam around his farm in Oxfordshire. SUN SUN Adrian manages a 6500 acre organic mixed farm with around SUN 100 suckler cows, 2500 ewes and 8500 organic free range SUN hens. The farm has the largest area of organic arable in the SUN UK. SUN SUN The farm's 8,500 organic hens produce fresh eggs sold SUN directly to independent shops and restaurants across SUN southern England and also to local people through " Egg SUN Sheds" where people can come and buy eggs directly from the SUN farm. They also produce organic liquid egg for bakers, ice SUN cream makers and food producers. Adrian uses precision SUN farming to reduce his carbon emissions, and encourages SUN wildlife onto his farm by using margins at the edges of SUN arable fields. SUN SUN Presenter: Adam Henson SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0162p0g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0162p0j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0167vjf (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0167vjh (Listen) SUN Adoption UK SUN SUN Jeremy Hardy presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Adoption UK. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 326654 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Adoption UK SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Adoption UK SUN SUN Adoption UK is a national charity run by and for adopters SUN offering support before, during and after adoption. SUN SUN Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2011, Adoption UK SUN provides self-help information, advice, support and training SUN on all aspects of adoption and adoptive parenting. SUN We work with parents and practitioners to make adoptions SUN succeed, promoting loving and supportive family SUN relationships within adoptive families. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0162p0l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0162p0n (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0167vjk (Listen) SUN Protesting Faith SUN SUN In a service live from the University Church of St Mary the SUN Virgin, Oxford, Canon Brian Mountford and the Revd Charlotte SUN Bannister-Parker explore the challenges of faith which beset SUN the Christian pilgrim in search of God. The choir is SUN directed by Gulliver Ralston and the organist is David Maw. SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b015ztqm (Listen) SUN Class, race and social mobility SUN SUN Will Self reflects on a topical issue. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0167vjm (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0167vjp (Listen) SUN Written by: Mary Cutler SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass 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 Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis 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 Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Doug Somerville ..... Simon Bubb. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0167vjr (Listen) SUN Mark Gatiss SUN SUN Writer and actor Mark Gatiss is interviewed by Kirsty Young SUN for Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015yt4k (Listen) SUN Series 4, Ince, Highfield, Edwards SUN SUN Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of SUN Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious SUN comedian Dave Gorman. SUN SUN This week's guests: SUN SUN Coming from a long line of vicars, Robin Ince is the UK's SUN most rational comedian, and he tests his reason to the limit SUN once every year by performing at least four shows a day at SUN the Edinburgh fringe. His infamous Bad Book Club, which in SUN which he invites his fellow comedians to celebrate awful SUN literature, has become an institution, and his massive SUN Christmas show Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People is SUN now a huge event, feating the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Dara O SUN Briain and Richard Dawkins. SUN SUN Roger Highfield is a scientist, science author and the SUN editor of New Scientist, but if you met him, you wouldn't SUN immediately guess that science is his thing. He's jolly and SUN worldly and has the hearty laugh of a comic supervillain. He SUN first made his name as a scientist be being the first person SUN ever to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger has SUN written and co-written 9 best-selling science books, SUN including a book on the hows and whys of Dolly the sheep, an SUN explanation of the science of Harry Potter and a biography SUN of Einstein. SUN SUN Gareth Edwards is a filmmaker whose success and methods of SUN achieving it have sent ripples of fear through the studios SUN of Hollywood. His movie Monsters is an apocalyptic SUN blockbuster which he made for one five hundredth of the SUN budget for Avatar by shooting with a small, mobile team, SUN hiring non-actors on the spot and using dazzling-but-cheap SUN CGI effects. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0167vjt (Listen) SUN The Calorie SUN SUN Sheila Dillon asks if the calorie is an outdated way of SUN controlling diet and reducing obesity. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0162p0q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0167vjw (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 b0167vjy (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 b015ztlj (Listen) SUN Newport, Pembrokeshire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this week's edition from Newport, South SUN West Wales. SUN SUN Christine visits the National Collection of Hollies. As part SUN of the Listeners' Gardens series, Matt Biggs returns to St SUN Anns Allotments in Nottingham to advise new plot holders on SUN winter preparation. SUN SUN Producer by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Underwater Gendarme b0167vk0 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 River Seine in Paris, along with SUN murder weapons and other criminal evidence. SUN SUN In the second programme Horatio gets a taste of life for the SUN community of barge- and houseboat-dwellers who proliferate SUN along the banks of the river. He meets Jillie Faraday, an SUN English woman who first came to live on her Dutch barge in SUN the centre of Paris in 1969. In four decades she's seen just SUN about everything float past her home - from dead bodies to SUN gigantic cargo barges which have come adrift from their SUN tugs. SUN SUN And whenever anything unusual or unsettling does come past, SUN Jillie always phones the Brigade Fluviale. Over the years SUN she's got to know members of the Brigade quite well and has SUN even asked their divers to retrieve keys and mobile phones SUN accidentally dropped into the river from her barge. Always SUN looking for an opportunity to train, the Brigade are happy SUN to oblige. Horatio joins Jillie as her old friend, Chief SUN Brigadier Pascal Jacquin, drops in on a routine call and SUN they recall the incidents and accidents which are part of SUN the flow of life on the river. SUN SUN Horatio also takes part in a training session on board the SUN Brigade's flagship, the Ile de France, a massive tug which SUN can manoeuvre stricken cargo barges and retrieve sunken SUN cars. Horatio briefly finds himself driving the tug through SUN central Paris and discovers that there's a considerable SUN knack in not colliding with the city's famous bridges! And SUN Pascal tells the story of navigating those bridges in the SUN Ile de France while babysitting an unexploded Second World SUN War bomb. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0167vk2 (Listen) SUN Silas Marner, Episode 2 SUN SUN Silas Marner by George Eliot SUN dramatised by Richard Cameron SUN SUN After a life of exile and a miserly existence, Silas's life SUN changes forever when Eppie, a little girl SUN crosses his threshold on a cold New Year's evening. Their SUN life together, from her childhood to SUN womanhood is his salvation. But all is threatened when her SUN biological father makes SUN a claim on her. SUN SUN Silas Marner ...... George Costigan SUN Eppie ....... Rebecca Callard SUN Dolly ..... Deborah McAndrew SUN Aaron ..... Stephen Hoyle SUN Godfrey/Jem ..... Conrad Nelson SUN Nancy ...... Maeve Larkin SUN Macey .... Seamus O'Neill SUN Dr. Kimble......... Leigh Symonds SUN Priscillia ...... Fiona Clarke SUN Directed by Pauline Harris. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0167vk4 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the Canadian Booker prize winning SUN author Margaret Atwood about her latest book "In Other SUN Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination" which explores the SUN writer's life long love of science fiction starting with the SUN books she read as a child. Having published three SF novels SUN of her own: The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Year SUN of The Flood, she argues that what she writes is speculative SUN fiction, the distinction from other forms of science fiction SUN being that the events she depicts are based in a reality SUN which could actually happen. SUN SUN Award winning short story writer Helen Simpson joins SUN Margaret Atwood to discuss the challenge of making issue SUN based fiction readable with particular reference to the SUN demands posed in writing fiction about climate change. Helen SUN Simpson's most recent collection "In Flight Entertainment" SUN focuses in particular on aeroplane travel reflecting in her SUN short stories the tensions it raises in her characters SUN personal relationships. Both writers contributed stories to SUN "I Am With The Bears: Short Stories From a Damaged Planet" a SUN collection themed entirely around climate change. Critics SUN often dismiss issue based writing as leaden and not SUN literary, so how are writers to depict an issue as large, SUN complex and controversial as climate change within the SUN demands of a literary narrative? SUN SUN And as Haruki Murakami's epic trilogy 1Q84 is published in SUN English simultaneously in America and the UK, writer Hari SUN Kunzru considers whether it lives up to the hype - it sold a SUN million copies when it was first published in Japan in 2009. SUN Is it Murakami's magnum opus, how does it relate to his SUN other work and is it - as some critics have claimed - SUN essential reading for anyone wanting to understand life in SUN contemporary Japan. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0167vk6 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite SUN poetry requested by listeners. SUN SUN Roger goes in search of happiness, with the help of Raymond SUN Carver and Charles Bukowski. There are some spooky SUN diversions along the way, with poems by Kipling and John SUN Drinkwater. Robin Robertson also reads his own poem The Wood SUN of Lost Things, and there are some surreal offerings from SUN Galway Kinnell, having breakfast with Keats, and a spot of SUN de-cluttering with the beat poet Gregory Corso. The readers SUN are Garrick Hagon and Bill Paterson SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b015zpf1 (Listen) SUN Madrassas SUN SUN Earlier this year, an imam working in Stoke-on-Trent was SUN jailed for raping a 12 year old boy at his mosque. In the SUN wake of the case, File on 4 investigates whether the SUN thousands of children who visit mosques and madrassas each SUN week to study the Quran are being properly protected. SUN SUN The leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain has SUN warned that without urgent action, his religion could face SUN an "avalanche" of historic cases similar to the ones which SUN have swamped the Roman Catholic church. Already, several SUN other abusers whose crimes remained undetected for decades SUN have been brought to court. SUN SUN How can parents be sure their children are safe in SUN unregulated madrassas where no-one ensures proper criminal SUN record checks are made on staff and volunteers? And should SUN the ban on corporal punishment in schools be extended to SUN cover madrassas when some children still face physical SUN punishment? SUN Fran Abrams investigates. SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0167rdr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0162p0s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0162p0v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0162p0x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0167vk8 (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0167vkb (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b0164693 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 b0167vmx (Listen) SUN For Rain It Hath a Friendly Sound SUN SUN In Diana Athill's story For the Rain it Hath a Friendly SUN Sound first published in 1961, a phonecall leads Kate to SUN reflect on her marriage and her experience of love. SUN SUN The short stories 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.' Each of her stories draw on her own SUN personal experiences and her keen observations of others. SUN SUN Diana Athill was born in 1917. In 1946 she joined Andre SUN Deutsch and went on to become one of the country's leading SUN editors in a career spanning fifty years. She has also SUN published six volumes of memoirs and a novel. SUN SUN Read by Emma Fielding SUN Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b015zsx2 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. 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 b015ztln (Listen) SUN With Jane Little. Obituary series, analysing and celebrating SUN the life stories of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0167qq0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0167vjh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b015zm4c (Listen) SUN Euroscepticism Uncovered SUN SUN As opinion polls reveal that half the British population SUN would vote in favour of withdrawal from the European Union, SUN it seems the political class is catching up with public SUN opinion when it comes to the EU. SUN SUN While perhaps just dozens of MPs are publicly calling for a SUN referendum on the UK's EU membership, behind closed doors SUN there are many more closet secessionists: at least 40 per SUN cent of Conservative MPs according to one party insider. SUN SUN "In public I call for renegotiation of the Lisbon treaty. In SUN private I argue for complete withdrawal from the European SUN Union. And there are plenty of others like me," says one SUN anonymous sceptic. SUN SUN Edward Stourton asks whether the crisis in the eurozone has SUN emboldened more politicians to speak frankly on their SUN attitudes towards EU membership and talks to supporters of SUN withdrawal from both the left and right wings of British SUN politics. SUN SUN Producer: Hannah Barnes. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0167vpl (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 b0167vpn (Listen) SUN Episode 75 SUN SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b015ztlq (Listen) SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0167vj9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 OCTOBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0162p1k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b015zqv9 (Listen) MON Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias MON MON Laurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political MON interviewing and he examines how the colour 'yellow' became MON applied to people of Asian origin. MON Professsor Ian Hutchby from the University of Leicester MON discusses a recent seminar 'Going Ballistic: Non-neutrality MON in the Televised Hybrid Political Interview'. In it, he MON outlines the structures of a new form of televised political MON journalism, the Hybrid Political Interview (HPI), which MON combines standard forms of interview technique with much MON more tendentious, opinionated, and even argumentative MON reporting. Laurie and Ian are joined by the Director of MON Broadcasting at City University, Lis Howell. MON Laurie also discusses a new book called 'Becoming Yellow: A MON short history of racial thinking'. Professor Michael Keevak MON from The National Taiwan University explores how the notion MON of the colour yellow became attached to people of Asian MON origin. MON MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON Michael Keevak MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0167vj7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0162p1m (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0162p1p (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0162p1r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0162p1t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0167zjt (Listen) MON with Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for MON Hindu Studies. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b015yr4c (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 b0162p1w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0167zjw (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0167zjy (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to musician Jarvis Cocker about lyrics and MON the lyricism of the everyday; to playwright Jez Butterworth MON about his vision of bucolic myths and modern brutality in MON the English countryside; to poet Melanie Challenger about MON the extinction of species and also of ways of life and to MON Matthew White who catalogues and compares the brutality of MON humanity throughout the ages. MON MON Producer: Eleanor Garland. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0167zk0 (Listen) MON State of the Union, Episode 1 MON MON Five prominent writers from five EU countries offer personal MON reflections on the idea of Europe at this critical moment in MON its history. Can Europe retain its unity in the face of MON economic adversity? MON MON Today, writer and journalist Beppe Severgnini contemplates MON the view from Italy. MON MON Producers: Justine Willett and Emma Harding MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0167zk2 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women.Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0167zk4 (Listen) MON Soloparentpals.com: Series 3, Bed MON MON SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern MON Episode 1. Bed. MON MON Four months into their long distance relationship single MON parents Rosie and Tom have only spent five weekends together MON and they still haven't told their online pals. MON MON Rosie - Liz White MON Tom - Kris Marshall MON Tash - Karina Jones MON Barb - Adjoa Andoh MON Gill - Jane Whittenshaw MON Tony - James Lailey MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b0167zk6 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 3 MON MON In a 1930s art deco building on an industrial site in MON Edinburgh's Craigmillar estate, a group of evangelical MON travellers meets every Sunday and Thursday in the Life and MON Light church. Alan Dein meets Violet and other members of MON the church as they mingle with former heroin addicts, and MON joins them and Pastor Alister as they go 'witnessing' on MON Craigmillar. MON MON Once a thriving community, today Craigmillar lies two thirds MON empty, with promised re-development on hold. For the last MON twenty years Craigmillar has been in a constant state of MON flux as one housing project after another has been flattened MON and entire neighbourhoods moved from one end of the estate MON to the other. MON MON In contrast, the travellers' site has been isolated from MON Craigmillar's ever changing landscape. Through their church MON they have created a bubble in which to live. It's a small MON pocket of life, pretty much self contained and contrasts MON greatly with the fragmented estate next door. MON MON Venturing into the heart of a housing scheme rife, so say MON the travellers, with drug dealers, Alan is not sure what MON kind of reception they will receive. On the estate he meets MON Heather, Craigmillar born and bred, who takes him to a MON wasteland. Once her home, it's now an eerie landscape with MON the roads and street lights still there but the houses gone. MON MON Violet and Heather: a story of a small patch of inner-city MON life with two very different perspectives... MON MON Producer: Kate Bissell. MON MON 11:30 The Return of Inspector Steine b0167zk8 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON A comedy series written by Lynne Truss set in and around a MON Brighton police station in the 1950s. MON MON Second World war Bomb disposal hero Captain 'mad Hoagy' MON Hoagland, reassures a doubtful Sergeant Brunswick that he MON does indeed deserve his silver truncheon award for bravery, MON and saves the day at the bandstand presentation ceremony of MON this presentation when he defuses a ticking bomb in a box MON with the aid of his old army bomb disposal team member MON Terence Chambers; who discovers that criminal Adelaide Vine MON has arranged for the severed head of his old criminal MON fraternity friend Birthmark Potter to be placed in the MON ticking box so it will appear that Mrs Groynes is MON responsible for his murder. MON MON Vine is led off by Chambers to meet her fate at his hands, MON and the Brighton police station team learn that Inspector MON Steine can be persuaded into all kinds of useful behaviour MON by the employment of reverse psychology; with hilarious MON results.. 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 Bathurst MON Adelaide Vine ...... Janet Ellis MON Terence Chambers ..... Ewan Bailey MON MON Sound design: Daivd Thomas MON Music: Anthony May MON MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0167zkb (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0162p1y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0167zkd (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 b0167zkg (Listen) MON (11/12) MON What would a philanthropist with an aversion to Mondays, the MON Goons' harmonica player, and all of the inhabitants of MON Arnhem, do to a horse? MON MON In answering this week's batch of convoluted questions, Tom MON Sutcliffe is joined by the teams from The Midlands and MON Wales, both currently looking like strong contenders for the MON Round Britain Quiz champions' title this year. MON MON Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands take on MON Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards of Wales, in what will MON be the last match this season for both teams. They'll need MON all their powers of lateral thinking as usual, along with a MON healthy store of random information from history, music, MON sport, literature, popular culture and science. MON MON There are questions supplied by Round Britain Quiz listeners MON and a chance, as ever, to submit your own ideas. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0167vkb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0167zkj (Listen) MON Brief Lives - Series 4, Episode 2 MON MON Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly 2/6 MON A young teacher is accused of having an affair with a sixth MON former. This is now a criminal offence and the teacher MON stands to lose more than his career. To make matters worse MON the pupil's mother seems to have given her blessing to the MON affair and theoretically she could be charged with aiding MON and abetting. A complicated case of trust and consent for MON Frank Twist and co. MON MON FRANK....David Schofield MON SARAH....Kathryn Hunt MON DECLAN....Jonjo O'Neill MON DS MOORE...James Quinn MON LAURA....Sue Jenkins MON MICHAEL...Alan Morrissey MON CARRIE...Amanda Orton MON BRYONY..Rosie Fleeshman MON KEITH..Lloyd Peters MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON Original Music by Carl Harms. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0167rdw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Sleep Diaries b0167zkn (Listen) MON The Crossing MON MON Why do we sleep, and why do many of us find crossing the MON threshold of sleep so difficult? MON MON Sleep is our shadow life: if it were a place we'd spend MON about a third of our life there. We are as varied and MON eccentric in sleep as we are in our waking lives. And we MON still understand very little about why we sleep, how it MON works and what sleep and dreams actually mean. In this MON series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, award MON winning poet and broadcaster Paul Farley goes on the long MON journey through a night's sleep. MON MON We hear from Armond Aserinsky, whose father discovered REM MON sleep in the 1950s and poetry from across the centuries MON capturing the enduring mysteries of sleep. Paul also spends MON the night wired up at a sleep clinic to find out what MON happens to the brain as we cross the threshold into sleep. MON MON This series blends theories of treatment and cause with the MON surreal, the supernatural and fantastic; the eerie recording MON of sleep talkers and testimony of sleep walkers with poetry MON from Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Jane Kenyon. MON MON Presenter: Paul Farley MON Producer: Jo Wheeler MON A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0167vjt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b0167zkq (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 3 MON MON Simon Cox presents the latest news from the digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b0167zks (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0162p20 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b0167zkv (Listen) MON Series 4, Natalie Haynes, David McCandless & David Crystal 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 b0167zkx (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0167zkz (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Stephan MON Solzhenitsyn, son of the Nobel Prize-winning writer MON Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who reflects on his father's life MON and legacy, as a new collection of his short stories is MON published in English for the first time. MON MON Producer Georgia Mann. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0167zk4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invention of Germany b0167zl1 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Germany history is often obscured by the fog of Nazism, MON making it easy to forget both the high culture, and its MON often feeble past. There is for example in Koblenz a MON fountain, marked in 1812 by Napoleon's army heading east, MON and by the Russians in 1813 heading west. In this series MON Germany is the turntable, the chess board, the stomping MON ground of Europe. MON MON "It's very difficult to think of Germany at this time as MON having a future of unity and power," says Professor Norman MON Davies. "It was in many ways retarded." MON MON In this second programme, Misha Glenny explores the rise of MON Prussia - from Frederick the Great in 1740 to humiliation by MON Napoleon in 1806. He discovers a state far removed from the MON images of Iron Crosses, spiked helmets and officious MON bureaucrats of popular imagination. It is Prussia that will MON eventually create modern Germany, but first there are MON several myths to dispel. 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 b0167zl3 (Listen) MON Cultural diplomacy MON MON The British Council offices in Kabul are bombed; the BBC is MON accused by Iran of spying. How have our cultural MON institutions become mired in foreign policy? MON MON Frances Stonor Saunders looks at the tasks undertaken by the MON British Council in Iran and elsewhere. It presents itself as MON an independent eco system of creative exchange. The Taliban MON views it differently - as a tool for British Government MON influence and a legitimate target violent attack. In Iran, MON the British Council was the subject of suspicion and MON harassment from the Islamic regime. Was it paranoia on the MON part of the Iranian regime to depict the British Council as MON a front for the government when nearly a third of its MON operating costs are paid for directly by the Foreign Office? MON MON The BBC World Service's Persian TV is an exemplar of MON cultural diplomacy, say some. Its broadcasts are powerfully MON attractive to viewing audiences and it does an excellent job MON of transmitting Britain's democratic values. The Iranian MON authorities consider it an instrument of British cultural MON imperialism, scramble its signals and even threaten the MON families of the network's UK based staff. Six independent MON filmmakers who had their work broadcast on BBC Persian were MON accused of spying though the BBC disclaims any formal MON association with them. To what extent do the structure, MON funding and behaviour of BBC World Service fuel the flames MON of suspicion? MON MON Both the British Council and BBC World Service strenuously MON deny that they are, in any way, doing the work of the MON British government. Each says that they are independent to MON core, at arm's length from government and its international MON policies. Yet the questions remain. MON MON Contributors include Grayson Perry, Timothy Garton Ash and MON Sherard Cowper Coles. MON MON 21:00 Material World b015zs0z (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: Deborah Cohen MON MON EU Stem cells ruling MON MON In this week’s programme, we’ll be examining the MON ramifications of the EU ruling that human stem cells can not MON be patented. The decision follows a legal challenge from MON Greenpeace on the issue in a German court case. They argued MON that human cells should not be used for commercial gain, but MON some scientists fear it will now hinder research into new MON treatments. Quentin hosts a debate with Dr Christophe Then, MON the Greenpeace campaigner who took this issue to the courts, MON and Alexander Denoon, a lawyer who specialises in stem cell MON regulations, to ask whether the ruling hinders research. MON MON The Population Process MON MON According to the United Nations Population Fund, the world’s MON population is due to reach 7 billion at the end of the MON month. It’s a further indication of the rapid growth in MON human’s population – humanity only reached the six billion MON mark in 1998, and it’s believed the population has increased MON six-fold since 1804. But how do we know such precise figures MON are accurate when it comes to measuring population and MON making projections? Quentin talks to Mike Murphy, Professor MON of Demography at the London School of Economics about the MON process behind population measurement. MON MON New human viruses and pandemics MON MON In the week when the feature film, Contagion, opens in the MON UK, Quentin talks to virologist Nathan Wolfe, one of its MON scientific advisors. They discuss how well a film aimed at MON a general audience can describe what really happens when the MON world is faced with a new and potentially fatal disease MON that's travelling around the world at a fast pace. And they MON talk about Nathan's new book, The Viral Storm, in which he MON explains how he and his colleagues have an early warning MON system to spot when viruses hop from animals to humans and MON could cause a pandemic. MON MON So You Want to Be a Scientist? MON MON Adam Rutherford stages some street science outside MON Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on the opening night of the MON London Science Festival. He’s joined by materials scientist MON and Royal Institution Christmas lecturer Dr Mark Miodownik, MON who is asking unsuspecting theatre goers to test the taste MON of spoons. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0167zjy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0162p22 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0167zl5 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0167zl7 (Listen) MON All That I Am, Episode 1 MON MON Anna Funder shot to fame when her first book, 'Stasiland', MON about the secret police in East Germany, won the Samuel MON Johnson Prize in 2004. Now she has taken a true story and MON written a gripping novel that reveals what happened to the MON German Left as the Reich took over in the early MON nineteen-thirties. In a story of fear and fortitude, MON enormous bravery and terrible betrayal, she reveals not only MON the lengths the Gestapo went to, to drive the socialists out MON and to pursue them across Europe, but also the sacrifices MON made by the émigrés who wanted to tell the truth about what MON was happening in their homeland. MON MON Anna Funder was inspired by the true story of her friend, MON Ruth Blatt, and by those of Dora Fabian, Ernst Toller and MON Hans Wesemann. She has woven history into a story of passion MON for a cause, for the truth and for life. MON MON Today: As Ruth Becker reaches the end of her life she finds MON herself remembering more and more, and above all thinking of MON her beloved cousin Dora. MON MON Hattie Morahan, Sara Kestelman and Samuel West read All That MON I Am by Anna Funder. MON It was abridged by Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Poetry Slam b00mx3y7 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON Radio 4's Radio 4's 2009 Poetry Slam second semi-final was MON held at the South Street Arts Centre in Reading, where nine MON slammers battled it out for a place in the final. They were: MON Catherine Brogan, Alison Brumfitt, Danny Chivers, Kit MON Lambert, Simone Mansell Browne, Brenda Reade Brown, Deanne MON Rodger, Pete the Temp, Liv Torc. 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 b0167znf (Listen) MON Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0162p2n (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0167zk0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0162p2q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0162p2s (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0162p2v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0162p2x (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016812b (Listen) TUE with Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for TUE Hindu Studies. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b016812d (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 b016812g (Listen) TUE Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b016812j (Listen) TUE Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to astronomer Jocelyn Bell- Burnell. TUE TUE Jocelyn Bell-Burnell forged her own path through the TUE male-dominated world of science - in the days when it was TUE unusual enough for women to work, let alone make a discovery TUE in astrophysics that was worthy of a Nobel Prize. TUE TUE In 1974, her supervisor and head of department won the Nobel TUE prize for Physics for a discovery which was essentially TUE hers. Some people call it the No-Bell, Nobel prize because TUE they feel so strongly that Jocelyn Bell-Burnell should have TUE shared in the award. TUE TUE As a 24-year old PhD student, Jocelyn spotted a tiny smudge TUE on a graph buried within 100 feet of printed data from a TUE radio telescope. Her supervisor, Tony Hewish, dismissed this TUE "bit of scruff" as insignificant; but she was determined to TUE get to the bottom of it. TUE TUE Her curiosity about such a tiny detail led to one of the TUE most important discoveries in 20th century astronomy - the TUE discovery of pulsars - those dense cores of collapsed stars. TUE TUE It's a discovery which changed the way we see the universe, TUE making the existence of black holes suddenly seem much more TUE likely and providing further proof to Einstein's theory of TUE gravity. TUE TUE Jocelyn Bell -Burnell was made a dame in 2008 and a year TUE later became the first ever female President of the TUE Institute of Physics. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b016812l (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE For this week's edition of 'One to One' Lyse Doucet has TUE travelled to Kabul to speak to Nader Nadery, a human rights TUE campaigner who, despite living under direct threat from the TUE Taliban, continues to work for the future of his country. TUE TUE He's in his thirties, which means that in his lifetime his TUE country has never been at peace. When he was eight his TUE primary school was destroyed by the Mujahideen and, in his TUE twenties, he was arrested and tortured by the Taliban. TUE Highly educated and able to live abroad should he want to, TUE he's chosen to remain in Kabul and now works for a human TUE rights organisation. His inspiration is Ghandi - his TUE telephone screensaver bears his image - yet he must travel TUE in an armoured car for his own protection. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b016g4v2 (Listen) TUE State of the Union, Episode 2 TUE TUE Five prominent writers from five EU countries offer personal TUE reflections on the idea of Europe at this critical moment in TUE its history. Can Europe retain its unity in the face of TUE economic adversity? TUE TUE Producers: Justine Willett and Emma Harding. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b016812n (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016972w (Listen) TUE Soloparentpals.com: Series 3, Wedding TUE TUE SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern TUE Episode 2. Wedding. TUE TUE After a disastrous and decidedly unromantic weekend away TUE Rosie is worried that Tom doesn't want her at his ex-wife's TUE wedding. TUE TUE Rosie - Liz White TUE Tom - Kris Marshall TUE Tash - Karina Jones TUE Gill - Jane Whittenshaw TUE Barb - Adjoa Andoh TUE Waiter - James Lailey TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b016812q (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 23 TUE TUE Four years in the making, months and months of gruelling TUE filming in both the Antarctic and Arctic, this week BBC1 TUE airs the Natural History Units latest wildlife landmark TUE Frozen Planet. The series Executive Producer Alastair TUE Fothergill will be in the Saving Species studio to talk TUE about the series and especially recounting the experience TUE taking Sir David Attenborough down to the Antarctic ice TUE shelf - a lasting experience Alastair tells us that portrays TUE the change under way in the Antarctic. TUE TUE And our embedded reporter in the Middle East Matt Heywood TUE reports on the conservation effort to save marine turtles in TUE the region and protect the beaches on which they lay their TUE eggs. TUE TUE Presenter Brett westwood TUE Producer Sheena Duncan TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Classics Illustrated: The Comic Book Unbound TUE b016812s (Listen) TUE Bill Paterson marks the 70th anniversary of the launch of TUE the comic book series Classics Illustrated. TUE TUE Marking the 70th anniversary of the comic book series TUE Classics Illustrated, actor Bill Paterson explores the TUE publication's impact and recent revival on Britain's TUE bookshelves. TUE TUE Classics Illustrated, the comic book adaptations of classic TUE literature, began in America in 1941, starting with an TUE adaptation of The Three Musketeers, followed by Ivanhoe and TUE The Count of Monte Cristo, and soon became a favourite TUE reading material for children and many adults. TUE TUE Paterson reveals his lifelong passion for the comic as he TUE charts the fortunes of Russian Jewish immigrant Albert TUE Kantner, who conceived the idea of a comic book series as TUE self-contained abridgments of a literary work into a single TUE comic book. TUE TUE Over a thirty year period a vast range of literary classics TUE were adapted; from The War of the Worlds, to Sherlock TUE Holmes, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, Faust and Dr No. These TUE publications later became popular in Britain but the series TUE regularly came under fire for distracting children from TUE reading the original stories. TUE TUE Contributors include Professor John Sutherland and British TUE bookseller Jeff Brooks who in recent years revived the comic TUE book versions using the original artwork with new covers. TUE TUE Readings are provided by Buzz Hawkins, Jayne Ashbourne and TUE Barnaby Gordon. TUE TUE The programme is written by Roger Dobson and produced in TUE Manchester by Stephen Garner. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b016812v (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 b0162p2z (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b016812x (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 b016812z (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 2 TUE TUE Frances Fyfield and a team of musical experts look at the TUE scores of one of Sir Hubert Parry's best known works: his TUE anthem 'I Was Glad'. TUE TUE 'Dear Parry, TUE The King wishes you to write something for the Coronation TUE Service and I am desired to propose this to you in His TUE Majesty's Name. Your know already how much I hope you will TUE write an anthem ' I was glad'. TUE TUE The Director of Music for the forthcoming coronation of King TUE Edward VII contacted Parry with this request and Parry's TUE resulting setting of Psalm 122 remains one of the great TUE pieces of Anglican ceremonial music. It's been a favourite TUE at Coronations and it was played at Westminster Abbey TUE earlier this year when Catherine Middleton processed up the TUE aisle to meet Prince William. TUE TUE Frances Fyfield is joined by Parry expert, Jeremy Dibble, TUE Peter Wright, director of music at Southwark Cathedral, TUE custodian of the score, Royal College of Music librarian TUE Peter Horton and handwriting expert, Ruth Rostron. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0167zkx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b015cnnh (Listen) TUE Tontine TUE TUE When a community savings system goes wrong, disaster looms TUE for one struggling family. A hard hitting new play from TUE Karen Brown, starring Alison Steadman. TUE TUE Current Treasury figures suggest that 1.75 million UK adults TUE have no access to a transactional bank account. So how are TUE they keeping their money safe? TUE TUE Tontines were started on mainland Europe in the 17th TUE century, but fell out of favour. Such schemes still exist in TUE the UK, where people are struggling to make ends meet, TUE without access to the banking system. Tontines run TUE successfully in small communities, where trust and TUE responsibility are still respected. The Tontine collector is TUE given regular payments every week. The savers can call on TUE the money in an emergency or often at Christmas, paying back TUE a small fee on any loan. TUE TUE Thomas and Anne Lally have taken over the local tontine TUE scheme from Thomas' mum, Marie. A run of bad luck culminates TUE in Thomas being on crutches and so not able to work. Anne TUE reveals that she has been dipping into the tontine savings - TUE and now owes thousands to their friends and neighbours. The TUE family have to make the money back. The grim reality is that TUE they are too much in debt to ever reach their target..so TUE what options do they have? TUE TUE Marie..............Alison Steadman TUE Anne..............Jess Schofield TUE Thomas.............Shaun Mason TUE Cheryl..............Angela Simms TUE Gordon............Roy Brandon TUE TUE Director/producer Polly Thomas TUE Sound designer Eloise Whitmore TUE Executive producer Kate McAll TUE TUE A BBC Radio Drama at Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0168131 (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 b0168133 (Listen) TUE Just William: Rightin' Wrongs, The Pennymans Hand on the TUE Torch TUE TUE Adapted by Martin Jarvis. TUE TUE Martin Jarvis chooses and performs three more Richmal TUE Crompton stories about her immortal hero, William Brown. TUE Today, the Outlaws are intrigued by some eccentric newcomers TUE to the village who plan to persuade everyone to return to TUE the simple life. TUE TUE They say they want to 'bring back the morning to the world'. TUE The village, naturally, isn't too keen on the idea. But when TUE William gets involved - which includes his exciting TUE performance as Saint George's dragon - there's a TUE surprisingly effective, if unexpected, outcome. TUE TUE Producer: Rosalind Ayres TUE Director: Pete Atkin TUE A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Sleep Diaries b016k8qy (Listen) TUE 3am Eternal TUE TUE Paul explores the dead of night where each moment brings the TUE insomniac closer to the first chink of light through the TUE curtains. TUE TUE Sleep is our shadow life: if it were a place we'd spend TUE about a third of our life there. We are as varied and TUE eccentric in sleep as we are in our waking lives. And we TUE still understand very little about why we sleep, how it TUE works and what sleep and dreams actually mean. In this TUE series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, award TUE winning poet and broadcaster Paul Farley goes on the long TUE journey through a night's sleep. TUE TUE We hear from Armond Aserinsky, whose father discovered REM TUE sleep in the 1950s and poetry from across the centuries TUE capturing the enduring mysteries of sleep. Paul also spends TUE the night wired up at a sleep clinic to find out what TUE happens to the brain as we cross the threshold into sleep. TUE TUE This series blends theories of treatment and cause with the TUE surreal, the supernatural and fantastic; the eerie recording TUE of sleep talkers and testimony of sleep walkers with poetry TUE from Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Jane Kenyon. TUE TUE Presenter: Paul Farley TUE Producer: Jo Wheeler TUE A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b0168135 (Listen) TUE As the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and TUE ethics of the press takes evidence, Joshua Rozenberg looks TUE at the expanding role of public inquiries and independent TUE reviews, their practices and procedures and how accountable TUE they are. TUE TUE In his inquiry, Lord Justice Leveson is seeking an inclusive TUE approach, holding open seminars and teach-in sessions and TUE creating a role for "core participants" who have TUE demonstrated a special interest in the Inquiry's work. The TUE panel of experts working with the judge has been chosen, it TUE is claimed, for its independence. But just how transparent TUE will the Inquiry be? Joshua Rozenberg talks to those TUE involved in previous high-profile public inquiries to TUE discover what effect they have had on our law and public TUE policy, whether they represented value for money for the TUE taxpayer and whose interests they really served. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b016817f (Listen) TUE Christopher Frayling & Nikki Bedi TUE TUE Christopher Frayling, Professor Emeritus at the Royal TUE College of Art, and broadcaster Nikki Bedi talk to Harriett TUE Gilbert about the books they love. TUE TUE Christopher's recommendation is a passionate political TUE polemic: Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present TUE Discontents, by Tony Judt. TUE TUE Nikki picks The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, the story of a TUE boy growing up in an Indian family in America. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is the first in the celebrated Tales of TUE the City series by Armistead Maupin. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b016817h (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0162p31 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Hard to Tell b016817k (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 If your son is visiting with his new girlfriend, how far TUE apart should their beds be placed? Can she be trusted with a TUE remote control? And is it OK to indulge your fondness for TUE Helen Mirren? TUE TUE Ashley ...... Alex MacQueen TUE Lesley ...... Vicki Pepperdine TUE Ellen ...... Charlotte Ritchie TUE Hermione ..... Sarah Solemani TUE Tom ...... Jonny Sweet TUE Maeve ...... Katy Wix TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b016817m (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b016817p (Listen) TUE Kirsty Lang meets Italian writer Umberto Eco, who looks back TUE at his surprise at the success of his first novel The Name TUE of the Rose, published when he was 48, and discusses how his TUE fascination for language and the way it is used to deceive TUE lies at the heart of much of his writing. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016972w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b016817r (Listen) TUE Cash from the Crisis TUE TUE World leaders preparing for the G20 conference are facing a TUE threat to the global economy from the on-going Eurozone TUE sovereign debt crisis. But as they try to avert further TUE economic catastrophe some investors see opportunities to TUE profit from the mayhem. TUE TUE Michael Robinson reveals how on-going economic volatility TUE and uncertainty can also present golden investment TUE opportunities - and how, through complex trades, bets and TUE investments, some find cash in the current crisis. TUE TUE Producer: Gail Champion TUE Reporter: Michael Robinson TUE Editor: David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b016817t (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01681ky (Listen) TUE How can a good night's sleep improve your memory? Why does TUE the answer to a crossword clue suddenly appear first thing TUE in the morning after a night's rest? In this week's TUE programme Claudia Hammond talks to psychologist, Kimberly TUE Fenn about what happens in the brain when we sleep and why TUE it can significantly improve our memory. Hysteria or TUE conversion disorder is surprisingly, not confined to medical TUE history. Nearly 1 in 5 patients seen by neurologists will TUE have symptoms like paralysis, fits or loss of vision which TUE can't be explained neurologically. Claudia talks to TUE neurologist, Mark Edwards and psychiatrist, Richard Kanaan TUE about the history of conversion disorder, how common it is TUE today, the best way to treat it and its complex causes. Also TUE in the programme, Claudia meets the carers getting involved TUE in mental health research and why their input is making a a TUE difference to research projects exploring mental health TUE across the country. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b016812j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0162p33 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01681l0 (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01681l2 (Listen) TUE All That I Am, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: Ruth remembers the heady early days when she fell TUE first under her cousin, Dora's, spell, and then met the TUE charismatic Toller and the handsome Hans Wesemann, and love TUE and the cause of the left became intertwined. TUE TUE Hattie Morahan, Sara Kestelman and Samuel West read All That TUE I Am by Anna Funder. TUE It was abridged by Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b01681l4 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a TUE book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of TUE extraordinary letters has been discovered. TUE TUE "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've TUE never written a letter like this before...." TUE TUE Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the TUE Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this TUE epistolary equine love story. A story of two horses united TUE by an uncommon passion, cruelly divided by a brutal TUE conflict. TUE TUE Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the TUE seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of TUE Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as TUE Copenhagen, the frisky young racehorse who as our story TUE begins is about to be the new mount for the Duke of TUE Wellington. This collection of their moving letters to each TUE other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. TUE TUE Episode 1 charts the early days of their romance and the TUE early days of the Peninsular Campaign, and as their love TUE blossoms the shadow of impending combat looms over our two TUE heroes. TUE TUE Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) TUE and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly - soon to be a TUE feature film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone), TUE directed by Steven Canny and produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 23:15 Living with Mother b0100grq (Listen) TUE Spilt Milk TUE TUE Michael has never had a girlfriend and his mum Susan decides TUE it's time for him to buck his ideas up and get a woman. She TUE wants him out of the house for both their sakes, he's 41 TUE after all! TUE TUE But Michael is a lazy dreamer. No woman in her right mind TUE would want him. Still, Susan has a plan. Her friend's got a TUE single niece and if needs be, Susan will drag Michael over TUE there. Perhaps the niece will take pity on him. But maybe TUE Michael has plans of his own... TUE TUE Susan: Alison Steadman TUE Michael: Alexander Kirk TUE TUE Producer: Anna Madley TUE An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b016dq0t (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0162p3p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b016g4v2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0162p3r (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0162p3t (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0162p3w (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0162p3y (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01684j3 (Listen) WED with Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for WED Hindu Studies. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01684j5 (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 b01684j7 (Listen) WED Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01684j9 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b016g4vs (Listen) WED State of the Union, Episode 3 WED WED Five prominent writers from five EU countries offer personal WED reflections on the idea of Europe at this critical moment in WED its history. Can Europe retain its unity in the face of WED economic adversity? WED WED Today political commentator and author Agnès Poirier WED contemplates the view from France. WED WED Producers: Justine Willett and Emma Harding WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01684jc (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0169761 (Listen) WED Soloparentpals.com: Series 3, Choices WED WED SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern WED Episode 3. CHOICES. WED WED Long-distance single parent couple Rosie and Tom both have WED difficult decisions to make and they confide in different WED online pals. WED WED Rosie - Liz White WED Tom - Kris Marshall WED Tash - Karina Jones WED Callum - Keaton Lansley WED Gill - Jane Whittenshaw WED Tony - James Lailey WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 Number One Forensic Detective Agency b01684jf (Listen) WED The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency returns to BBC Radio 4 WED shortly. The stories, of course, are set in Botswana. But WED did you know that this tiny nation of under 2 million is WED probably the most advanced in Africa in crime scene WED investigation, with police from all over the continent sent WED there for training ? And the United States has one of only WED four international police academies based there. WED WED Yet, at the same time, traditional beliefs, such as WED witchcraft and the power of curses, persist ; senior police WED officers are also cattle farmers; and the head of the police WED training college sees herself as a real-life Mma Ramotswe. WED WED The former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, Professor Jon WED Silverman, has travelled to Botswana to unravel these WED contradictions and finds that truth is at least as strange WED as fiction. WED WED Producer: Vera Frankl WED A IGA Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b01684jh (Listen) WED The Problem of Cell 13 WED WED By Jacques Futrelle. 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 continues with the WED extraordinary story of Professor SFX Van Dusen, who thinks WED his way out of a locked prison cell. WED WED Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet WED Van Dusen . . . . . Paul Rhys WED Lucy . . . . . Alex Tregear WED Fielding . . . . . Sean Baker WED Merriman . . . . . Stuart McLoughlin WED Hatch . . . . . Alun Raglan WED O'Connor . . . . . Simon Bubb WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01684jk (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0162p40 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01684jm (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 b01684jp (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b016817m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b01684jr (Listen) WED Stevenson in Love, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes WED WED By Mike Harris. WED WED Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, WED journals and personal letters. WED WED Stevenson sets off with a donkey across the Cevennes in WED France and in the process keeps a journal that later becomes WED his popular travelogue "Travels with a Donkey in the WED Cevennes." But does his journeying help him to forget the WED woman he has met and fallen in love with - Fanny Osbourne? WED WED In 1879 and 1880, three years before he was to write WED 'Treasure Island', Robert Louis Stevenson was a largely WED unpublished and unsuccessful writer. WED WED Despite his father's wishes, however, he saw his life in WED literature. In 1876, he had met Fanny Osbourne the woman who WED was to become his lover and later his wife. At the time of WED their meeting Fanny was escaping from America with her WED children - away from a husband who only brought her misery WED through his serial infidelities. WED One of Stevenson's earliest publications was an essay 'On WED Falling in Love' for The Cornhill magazine. WED WED In 1878 Fanny decided that she had to return to America and WED to her husband. Stevenson embarked on a walk through the WED Cevennes with a donkey in 1879 which was later to be WED published as 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' and in WED August of the same year he resolved to follow Fanny to WED America. WED WED His journey was also published - most particularly in 'The WED Amateur Emigrant'. WED WED Mike Harris' two plays portray these two enormously WED significant journeys and attempt to capture Stevenson's WED feelings for Fanny and how they affected him on his travels. WED WED Robert Louis Stevenson ...... David Tennant WED Fanny ..... Lizzy Mcinnerny WED Peasant, Monk ..... Matthew Marsh WED Bob ...... Forbes Masson WED Saddler, RLS Father ..... Nigel Cooke WED Auberge Woman ..... Jane Slavin WED Belle ..... Lottie Rice WED Child's Voice ..... Bethane Cullinane WED Lloyd ..... Ned Leadbeater WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Stephanomics b016bhsr (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In the second of three programmes, Stephanie Flanders WED discusses the global financial crisis with a panel of top WED economic thinkers. She'll be asking just who is to blame for WED the current economic mess we're in. Was it the fault of the WED bankers - who plenty of people want to blame - or was it the WED economists? And what can we learn from this, or is the WED problem that we simply don't learn lessons from past crises? WED Stephanie Flanders will be joined in the studio to debate WED these questions by the billionaire investor, George Soros, WED Sir Howard Davies, who is the former director of the LSE, WED former chairman of the FSA and former deputy governor of the WED Bank of England, and also Dr DeAnne Julius, chairman of WED Chatham House and a former member of the Bank of England's WED monetary policy committee. WED WED Producer: Caroline Bayley WED Editor: Stephen Chilcott WED WED Producer: Caroline Bayley. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b016dggx (Listen) WED Just William: Rightin' Wrongs, The Knights of the Square WED Table WED WED Adapted by Martin Jarvis. WED WED Martin Jarvis chooses and performs three more Richmal WED Crompton stories about her immortal hero, William Brown. WED William persists in his belief that there's money to be made WED from 'rightin' wrongs' - a shilling for big ones and WED sixpence for little ones. And he'll be in charge as King WED William. His faith is rewarded by the arrival of an amiable WED young man who has a wrong that is definitely worth a WED shilling to put right - one that involves a fair damsel and WED a false knight. William's ingenuity as a knight of the WED square table is tested to the limit as tea-time approaches. WED WED Producer: Rosalind Ayres WED Director: Pete Atkin WED A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Sleep Diaries b016k8td (Listen) WED In Dreams WED WED In deep sleep, where the places we go and things we see are WED almost unlimited, but does dream interpretation matter? WED WED Sleep is our shadow life: if it were a place we'd spend WED about a third of our life there. We are as varied and WED eccentric in sleep as we are in our waking lives. And we WED still understand very little about why we sleep, how it WED works and what sleep and dreams actually mean. In this WED series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, award WED winning poet and broadcaster Paul Farley goes on the long WED journey through a night's sleep. WED WED We hear from Armond Aserinsky, whose father discovered REM WED sleep in the 1950s and poetry from across the centuries WED capturing the enduring mysteries of sleep. Paul also spends WED the night wired up at a sleep clinic to find out what WED happens to the brain as we cross the threshold into sleep. WED WED This series blends theories of treatment and cause with the WED surreal, the supernatural and fantastic; the eerie recording WED of sleep talkers and testimony of sleep walkers with poetry WED from Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Jane Kenyon. WED WED Presenter: Paul Farley WED Producer: Jo Wheeler WED A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01684jw (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b01681ky (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b01684jy (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0162p42 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014gsmn (Listen) WED Series 4, Frank Skinner WED WED Frank Skinner tries five things he has never done before. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01684k2 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01684k4 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer WED Jeanette Winterson, as she publishes a memoir which promises WED the true story behind her first novel Oranges Are Not The WED Only Fruit. WED WED Producer Lisa Davis. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0169761 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01684k6 (Listen) WED Reporting The Law WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and WED judges discuss legal issues of the day. WED WED The second programme in the series explores growing concerns WED that press coverage of the judicial process is out of WED control, resulting in trial by media and a threat to the WED defendant's right to be presumed innocent until proven WED guilty. WED WED A central tenet of the British legal system is that justice WED should not just be done, it should be seen to be done, but WED does the media coverage of some high profile cases, such as WED that which followed the arrest of a suspect in the Joanna WED Yeats murder inquiry, overstep the mark? WED WED The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has WED warned that the Contempt of Court Act has had 'little or no WED effect' on reporting of cases. Prejudicial press reporting WED has led to the collapse of trials, and the Attorney General, WED Dominic Grieve, has indicated that he may introduce tougher WED laws to control press reporting. WED Despite numerous arrests, there continues to be blanket WED media coverage of the News of the World phone hacking story. WED What effect will this have on any subsequent court WED proceedings? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01684k8 (Listen) WED Christie Watson WED WED Novelist and former paediatric nurse Christie Watson asks WED whether there are some things worse than death. WED WED She describes the extraordinary medical breakthroughs which WED allow children to be kept alive today who previously would WED have died. But she asks whether community care and medical WED ethics have kept up with the increasing number of WED technology-dependent children, that is, children who cannot WED breathe without life support machines. 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 b01685zk (Listen) WED Let it Snow! WED WED With planes grounded, airports shut and chaos on the roads, WED last winter was the harshest in a century. WED WED Temperatures plummeted to minus 22 degrees in Scotland and WED the whole of the UK was covered in a thick blanket of snow WED and ice for weeks. Britain was brought to a standstill. WED WED It is estimated that the cold weather cost the economy WED around £700 million; energy demand rocketed with demand for WED gas breaking all records; 60,000 miles of roads were WED gritted; thousands of schools were shut. WED WED Weather forecasters are unsure if the last two winters are WED the shape of things to come, or whether the country suffered WED freak conditions. WED WED With winter 2011 approaching, Tom Heap finds out what WED preparations are being made to ensure the country's WED transport infrastructure, power stations, emergency services WED and food retailers are ready for another big freeze. WED WED Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01684j9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0162p44 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01685zm (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01685zp (Listen) WED All That I Am, Episode 3 WED WED Today: As Ruth Becker reaches the end of her life she finds WED herself remembering more and more, and today recalls her WED marriage, Dora's love affair and the night in the TicTacToe WED Club in Berlin, when the noose began to tighten around them WED all. WED WED Hattie Morahan, Sara Kestelman and Samuel West read All That WED I Am by Anna Funder. WED It was abridged by Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b01685zr (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Celery rears its ugly head again as Neil attempts his WED Androcles and the lion tactic when making tea, and Kim WED admits she has grievance nostalgia. 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 b00smrlt (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED WED Written by Richie Webb. WED WED Shut away in a tiny practice room in the bowels of WED Letchington Arts Centre Nigel endures a steady stream of WED challenging pupils: a tone deaf Priest struggling to sing WED mass, a highly-strung harpist with a over-strung harp and WED the world's most flatulent tuba player rank among the most WED trying. WED WED Particularly as Nigel is in the middle of an OFSTED WED inspection - the impending results of which prey heavily on WED his mind. Almost as heavily as the prospect of the closure WED of Arts Centre, which Belinda is convinced is on the cards. WED So much so that she has started a 'Save Letchington Arts WED Centre' campaign - and she wants Nigel to front a protest WED song live on the local TV news. WED WED Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb WED Belinda ...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01685zt (Listen) WED Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0162p4q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b016g4vs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0162p4s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0162p4v (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0162p4x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0162p4z (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016924q (Listen) THU with Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for THU Hindu Studies. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b016924s (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 b016924v (Listen) THU Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b016924x (Listen) THU The Siege of Tenochtitlan THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Siege of THU Tenochtitlan. In 1521 the Spanish conquistador Herman Cortes THU led a Spanish army against the city of Tenochtitlan, the THU capital of the Aztec civilisation. After a fierce battle, in THU which many thousands died, the city finally fell. This major THU confrontation between Old and New Worlds precipitated the THU downfall of the Aztec Empire, and marked a new phase in THU European colonisation of the Americas. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b016g4w7 (Listen) THU State of the Union, Episode 4 THU THU Five writers from five EU countries offer personal THU reflections on the idea of Europe at this critical moment in THU its history. Can Europe retain its unity in the face of THU economic adversity? THU THU Today, writer and journalist Fintan O'Toole contemplates the THU view from Ireland. THU THU Producers: Justine Willett and Emma Harding THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b016924z (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0169251 (Listen) THU Soloparentpals.com: Series 3, Plain Tie No Hair Gel THU THU SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern THU Episode 4. Plain tie no hair gel. THU THU Rosie is keeping the baby but Tom doesn't know about it yet. THU And Tom is being interviewed for a job in Manchester but he THU hasn't told Rosie. THU THU Rosie - Liz White THU Tom - Kris Marshall THU Tash - Karina Jones THU Gill - Jane Whittenshaw THU Callum - Keaton Lansley THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0169253 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Jack Jackson: Rhythm and Radio Fun Remembered THU b0169255 (Listen) THU Exploring the legacy of musician and broadcaster Jack THU Jackson through the eyes of three generations of his family. THU THU Kenny Everett said of him 'He was the first person to have THU fun on radio', but even though he inspired many broadcasters THU and musicians it is the incredible impact Jackson still has THU on his family over thirty years since his death which proves THU the most fascinating. THU THU This programme uncovers another Jackson dynasty overflowing THU with musicians, record producers and artists all striving to THU preserve his memory and make their own impression on the THU world. His two son's established a recording studio, used by THU artists such as Elton John, Tom Robinson and Motorhead. His THU daughter is a successful artist and designer and several of THU his grandchildren are forging effective careers in the music THU business - one of which co-founded production group 'Bimbo THU Jones' which has taken numerous number ones to the top of THU the dance charts. His great grand children are all THU encouraged to be musical. THU THU Jackson's career in entertainment spanned fifty years and he THU is recognised today in the Sony Radio Hall of Fame Jackson THU formed his band in the thirties and was a regular at THU London's Dorchester Hotel. He became a disc jockey in 1948 THU on the BBC Light Programme. His programmes featured a mix of THU linking his voice with comedy clips and popular music. THU According to his grandson Marc he was the first broadcaster THU in Britain to introduce the technique of sampling and to THU present a "clip show" programme. He is also often cited as THU the man who gave the BBC the nickname 'Auntie' and the first THU voice heard on ITV. THU THU Jack Jackson died in 1978, but over thirty years later his THU spirit is very much alive in the daily life of generations THU of Jacksons. His memory has touched every branch of the THU Jackson family tree, but as this programme reveals they all THU respond to his influence in a variety of interesting and THU different ways. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0169257 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0162p51 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0169259 (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 b01685zk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01684k2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b016fs6f (Listen) THU Stevenson in Love, The Amateur Emigrant THU THU By Mike Harris. THU THU Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, THU journals and personal letters. THU THU In pursuit of the woman he loves Stevenson first catches a THU steamer to New York and then undertakes a momentous train THU journey across America - ending in California. But will she THU leave her husband for him. THU THU In 1879 and 1880, three years before he was to write THU 'Treasure Island', Robert Louis Stevenson was a largely THU unpublished and unsuccessful writer. THU THU Despite his father's wishes, however, he saw his life in THU literature. In 1876, he had met Fanny Osbourne the woman who THU was to become his lover and later his wife. At the time of THU their meeting Fanny was escaping from America with her THU children - away from a husband who only brought her misery THU through his serial infidelities. THU One of Stevenson's earliest publications was an essay 'On THU Falling in Love' for The Cornhill magazine. THU THU In 1878 Fanny decided that she had to return to America and THU to her husband. Stevenson embarked on a walk through the THU Cevennes with a donkey in 1879 which was later to be THU published as 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' and in THU August of the same year he resolved to follow Fanny to THU America. THU THU His journey was also published - most particularly in 'The THU Amateur Emigrant'. THU THU Mike Harris' two plays portray these two enormously THU significant journeys and attempt to capture Stevenson's THU feelings for Fanny and how they affected him on his travels. THU THU Robert Louis Stevenson ...... David Tennant THU Fanny ...... Lizzy McInnerny THU Sam ..... Matthew Marsh THU Irish Conductor ..... Forbes Masson THU RLS Father , Joshua ...... Nigel Cooke THU Dutch Woman, Milk Woman ...... Jane Slavin THU Belle ...... Lottie Rice THU Nose in a Book, Schoffelheimer ...... Danny Webb THU NY Conductor, Chicago Telegraph Man, THU Ogden Conductor ...... Chinna Wodu THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b0167qph (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0167vjh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b016fwlk (Listen) THU Just William: Rightin' Wrongs, William Helps the Cause THU THU Adapted by Martin Jarvis. THU THU Martin Jarvis chooses and performs three more Richmal THU Crompton stories about her immortal hero, William Brown. THU Since he's recovering from flu, William is compelled to go THU with his mother to a planning meeting for the local Bazaar. THU His quietness is ill-advisedly taken for seriousness and a THU genuine interest in the proceedings, so, rashly, the THU organisers give him the responsibility of running one of the THU stalls. But his initial lack of enthusiasm turns into one of THU his greatest triumphs when his stall becomes the centre of THU an extraordinary incident which the village will never THU forget. THU THU Producer: Rosalind Ayres THU Director: Pete Atkin THU A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Sleep Diaries b016k9yr (Listen) THU Walking in Your Sleep THU THU Paul explores the uncanny world of sleep disorders and sleep THU talk. THU THU Sleep is our shadow life: if it were a place we'd spend THU about a third of our life there. We are as varied and THU eccentric in sleep as we are in our waking lives. And we THU still understand very little about why we sleep, how it THU works and what sleep and dreams actually mean. In this THU series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, award THU winning poet and broadcaster Paul Farley goes on the long THU journey through a night's sleep. THU THU We hear from Armond Aserinsky, whose father discovered REM THU sleep in the 1950s and poetry from across the centuries THU capturing the enduring mysteries of sleep. Paul also spends THU the night wired up at a sleep clinic to find out what THU happens to the brain as we cross the threshold into sleep. THU THU This series blends theories of treatment and cause with the THU surreal, the supernatural and fantastic; the eerie recording THU of sleep talkers and testimony of sleep walkers with poetry THU from Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Jane Kenyon. THU THU Presenter: Paul Farley THU Producer: Jo Wheeler THU A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b0167vk4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b016928z (Listen) THU London Science Festival Special THU 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 b0169291 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0162p53 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Strictly Dave Podmore b00nct5b (Listen) THU This is the hitherto untold story of Strictly series Seven, THU when England's least co-ordinated cricketer Dave Podmore THU spun his way onto the dancefloor of Strictly Come Dancing, THU stumbling in the twinkle-toed footsteps of Messrs THU Ramprakash, Gough and Tuffnell. THU THU Can England's legendary journeyman, never known for his THU timing and footwork on the field, pull it off on the night? THU Will he manage the Rhumba without spilling his Red Bull? THU THU Its Saturday Night Fever meets Test Match Special. Not THU exactly Dirty Dancing, but certainly a disappointing THU standard of hygiene. Dave Podmore is written and performed THU by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds with Nick Newman. THU THU Producer: Richard Wilson THU A Hat Trick Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0169293 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b016944r (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Gerard Butler, THU star of the film Machine Gun Preacher, based on the true THU story of a drug dealer who becomes a crusader for children THU caught up in conflicts in Africa. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0169251 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b0168135 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0169295 (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b016812q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b016924x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0162p56 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01692fw (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01692fy (Listen) THU All That I Am, Episode 4 THU THU Today: As Ruth Becker reaches the end of her life she finds THU herself remembering more and more. Tonight she recalls 1933 THU and the night when stormtroopers forced Hans and herself THU into exile and Dora into terrible danger. THU THU Hattie Morahan, Sara Kestelman and Samuel West read All That THU I Am by Anna Funder. THU It was abridged by Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b01692g0 (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 b01692g2 (Listen) THU David Cornock with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0162p5s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b016g4w7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0162p5v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0162p5x (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0162p5z (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0162p61 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01693gd (Listen) FRI with Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for FRI Hindu Studies. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01693gg (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 b01693gj (Listen) FRI Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and FRI Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0167vjr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b016g4wr (Listen) FRI State of the Union, Episode 5 FRI FRI Five prominent writers from five EU countries offer personal FRI reflections on the idea of Europe at this critical moment in FRI its history. Can Europe retain its unity in the face of FRI economic adversity? FRI FRI Producers: Justine Willett and Emma Harding. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01693gl (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Sheila McClennon. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01693gn (Listen) FRI Soloparentpals.com: Series 3, Rosewood and Ebony FRI FRI SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern FRI Episode 5. Rosewood and Ebony. FRI FRI Rosie and Tom are not a couple any more but can a piano be FRI ever without its stool? FRI FRI Rosie - Liz White FRI Tom - Kris Marshall FRI Chatroom voice - Karina Jones FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 The Iraqi Interpreter's New Home b01693gq (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 b01693gs (Listen) FRI Series 7, Basic Attraction FRI FRI Episode Six - Basic Attraction FRI FRI In Episode Six 'Basic Attraction'; Finally, it's Clare and FRI Brian's wedding day! But first there's the Hen Party and FRI Stag Night to get through. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI Episode 6 'Basic Attraction' Cast: FRI FRI SALLY PHILLIPS Clare FRI ALEX LOWE Brian FRI NINA CONTI Megan / Nali FRI RICHARD LUMSDEN Ray FRI LIZA TARBUCK Helen FRI ANDREW WINCOTT Simon FRI SARAH KENDALL Libby FRI TRACY WILES Nina / Mrs Mellish FRI GERARD MCDERMOT Registrar FRI ADAM BILLINGTON Gavin / Terry FRI VICTORIA INEZ HARDY Nurse / Trudi FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01693gv (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0162p63 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01693gx (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 b01693gz (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 b0169293 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b01693h1 (Listen) FRI On It FRI FRI A young man joins Tony's boxing ring in an attempt to escape FRI the circle of addiction he has come to inhabit. FRI FRI Tony Pitts is an exciting and accomplished northern FRI Writer-Performer, now turning his hand to BBC Radio 4's FRI Afternoon Play. Tony is also a boxing coach. He conquered FRI some of his own demons through boxing - and has helped FRI others to do so too. This is a story of one of his students, FRI Liam Jones. FRI FRI Heroin addiction. It's not news. This all-too-familiar story FRI is difficult but not shocking. And that's the shame. FRI On It, is a play written full of gut-wrenching love, FRI determination and the hope that one day there may be a full FRI stop, instead of another comma in the story of every family FRI with this fight on its hands. FRI FRI Narrator ......Tony Pitts FRI Liam ....... Adam Gillen FRI Michelle ....... Maxine Peake FRI Belinda ........Hannah Kew FRI David ....... Dominic Brunt FRI Kay ...... Joanne Mitchell FRI Nana ...... Gwyneth Powell FRI Josephine ...... Isabelle Sykes FRI FRI Written and Directed by Tony Pitts FRI Produced by Sally Harrison FRI A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b016943v (Listen) FRI Wheatfields, Scunthorpe FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs this Grow Your Own themed programme, FRI hosted by the Wheatfields Allotment Group. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson answer FRI questions on 'edibles'. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Sleep Diaries b016kb0w (Listen) FRI The Mattressphere FRI FRI Beds are the places we withdraw to, away from currents of FRI society and community. FRI FRI Sleep is our shadow life: if it were a place we'd spend FRI about a third of our life there. We are as varied and FRI eccentric in sleep as we are in our waking lives. And we FRI still understand very little about why we sleep, how it FRI works and what sleep and dreams actually mean. In this FRI series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, award FRI winning poet and broadcaster Paul Farley goes on the long FRI journey through a night's sleep. FRI FRI We hear from Armond Aserinsky, whose father discovered REM FRI sleep in the 1950s and poetry from across the centuries FRI capturing the enduring mysteries of sleep. Paul also spends FRI the night wired up at a sleep clinic to find out what FRI happens to the brain as we cross the threshold into sleep. FRI FRI This series blends theories of treatment and cause with the FRI surreal, the supernatural and fantastic; the eerie recording FRI of sleep talkers and testimony of sleep walkers with poetry FRI from Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Jane Kenyon. FRI FRI Presenter: Paul Farley FRI Producer: Jo Wheeler FRI A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b016943z (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 b0169441 (Listen) FRI With Francine Stock. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0169443 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0162p65 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0169445 (Listen) FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig and with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Fred FRI Macaulay and Susan Calman. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0169447 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0169449 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with cellist Yo-Yo FRI Ma, whose new disc draws inspiration from traditional FRI American music. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01693gn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01694ny (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Hoults Yard in Newcastle. FRI FRI Producer: Chris Ledgard. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01694p0 (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b01694p2 (Listen) FRI Recordings Recovered from the House of Leaves FRI FRI Adapted by Mike Walker. FRI FRI "The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's FRI cultural experience and yet, in spite of the fact that FRI hundreds of thousands of people have seen it, the film FRI continues to remain an enigma. Some insist it must be true, FRI others believe it is a trick on a par with the Orson Welles FRI radio romp The War of the Worlds. Many more have never even FRI heard of it." FRI FRI With these words Zampano preludes the excerpts from an FRI extraordinary film, cut together by Will Navidson from FRI cameras located within his house and those he took with him FRI into the labyrinth that had sprung up there over the course FRI of a few days. FRI FRI According to the Navidson record, it was when the family FRI returned to the house from a trip to Seattle that they first FRI discovered the additional door and the space behind it. Will FRI Navidson, celebrated adventure photographer, was intrigued, FRI his partner Karen insisted that the door be permanently FRI locked. But one night after a row, Navidson opened the door FRI and went in. He found rooms beyond rooms, all windowless, FRI all unlit, and only narrowly escaped becoming lost forever FRI in the labyrinth. Not long afterwards the spiral staircase FRI appeared, corkscrewing downwards to a dark infinity. So FRI Navidson equipped his brother Tom and others for an FRI expedition, as if they were embarking on a quest into some FRI architectural jungle. The cameras rolled and they descended, FRI and here's the audio. FRI FRI House of Leaves is the remarkable cult novel by Mark Z FRI Danielewsky, a labyrinth of its own kind with its multiple FRI interwoven narratives and textual tricks. This dramatic FRI piece re-imagines the terrifying heart of the story. FRI FRI Zampano ..... Jim Norton FRI Navidson .....William Hope FRI Karen ..... Debora Weston FRI Tom Navidson ..... Martin McDougall FRI Jed Leeder ..... Jeff Mash FRI Holloway ..... Richard Ridings FRI Reston ..... Vinta Morgan FRI Daisy ..... Eleanor Blaney FRI FRI Producer/Director: John Taylor FRI A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0162p67 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01694p4 (Listen) FRI With Ritula Shah. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01694p6 (Listen) FRI All That I Am, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: Ruth remembers how hard life was as a refugee in FRI London, with no money, no rights, no status, but how some FRI rose to the challenge. FRI FRI Hattie Morahan, Sara Kestelman and Samuel West read All That FRI I Am by Anna Funder. FRI It was abridged by Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b016817f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01694p8 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with all the news from Westminster. FRI
21 October, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 22/10/2011 - 28/10/2011
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