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SAT SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b016869m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b016g4wr (Listen) SAT State of the Union, Episode 5 SAT SAT Five prominent thinkers from five EU countries offer SAT personal reflections on the idea of Europe at this critical SAT moment in its history. SAT SAT Today, writer Ersi Sotiropoulos contemplates the view from SAT Greece. SAT SAT Producers: Justine Willett and Emma Harding SAT SAT Ersi Sotiropoulos, who was born in Patra and now lives in SAT Athens, is the author of ten works of fiction and a book of SAT poetry. Her novel Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees SAT (Peter Green's English translation of which was published in SAT 2005 by Interlink Books) was the first novel ever to win SAT both the Greek national prize for literature and Greece's SAT preeminent book critics' award. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016869p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016869r (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016869t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b016869w (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01694qr (Listen) SAT with the Revd George Pitcher. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01694qt (Listen) SAT Care leaver Kevani Kanda tells the inspirational story of SAT how she turned her life around after years in foster care SAT following child abuse. She now campaigns for improvements to SAT youth services on behalf of others like her. With Eddie SAT Mair. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b016869y (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01686b0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b016k6x8 (Listen) SAT The Dark Peaks SAT SAT On the 22nd July 1937 the 6 man crew of Heyford K6875 were SAT briefed to carry out a night cross country exercise from RAF SAT Leconfield in east Yorkshire, the weather that night was SAT poor, with low visibility. The crew were seen to fire flares SAT to illuminate the ground beneath to hopefully see a feature SAT they could recognise, this proved fruitless as the aircraft SAT flew up the Vale of Edale striking Broadlee Bank Tor just SAT below the summit. SAT SAT Jim Watson's Uncle Jim Barker was one of the crewmen lost SAT that night and in 2002 Jim set out to find the site where SAT his Uncle had lost his life. He was aided by Douglas Rowland SAT who had witnessed the crash as a young boy in 1937 and could SAT clearly remember the spot which he had clambered up to the SAT next day. Douglas was able to present Jim with a brass SAT plaque which he had rescued from the Heyford all those years SAT ago. SAT SAT Jules Hudson joins Jim and Douglas as they retrace the SAT journey they took to the crash site. SAT SAT Nor is the Heyford the only plane which lost its way in SAT these treacherous peaks. Pat Collins has written about the SAT many hundreds of wartime crashes and the invaluable lessons SAT they have taught airline pilots who have come after them. He SAT and National Park Ranger John Owen take Jules to one of the SAT largest sites, the Super Fortress on Bleaklow. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b016k6xb (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Plans to expand two National Parks in England have SAT re-ignited the debate over whether the authorities that SAT control the parks are striking the right balance between SAT preservation and modernisation. The proposals being SAT considered by the Secretary of State, would see the SAT boundaries stretch around the Lake District and Yorkshire SAT Dales parks. There has been a mixed response from the people SAT who could soon be living and working under the jurisdiction SAT of a Park Authority for the first time. Caz Graham visits SAT one village, Orton in East Cumbria where some are delighted SAT with the possibility of more tourism whilst others are SAT concerned about restrictions on planning and development. In SAT Scotland redundant pylons are being removed from one part of SAT the Cairngorms and section of cable put underground to SAT protect the landscape. Whilst plans for the very first SAT National Park in Northern Ireland covering the area around SAT Mourne have sparked controversy. In this episode Caz Graham SAT is on home turf as she meets some of the people living and SAT working in England's largest National Park - the Lake SAT District. SAT SAT Presenter: Caz Graham; Producer: Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01686b2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b016k6xd (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b016k6xg (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with author and illustrator Lauren Child, poet SAT Matt Harvey & Inheritance Tracks from Sue Johnston. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b016k6xj (Listen) SAT Transoceanic Rowing - Tango SAT SAT John McCarthy hears about the transoceanic rowing SAT experiences of Roz Savage who has just completed a crossing SAT from Australia to Mauritius making her the first woman to SAT row solo across the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. SAT John also goes cheek to cheek with the tango as he finds out SAT why the dance draws people to its roots in Argentina. He SAT talks to travel writer Kapka Kassabova about its history and SAT hold over her, Sarah Kennedy who went on a tango holiday and SAT Sally Blake who has written a tango guide to Buenos Aires. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Roger's Rabbits b016k6xl (Listen) SAT In his spare time, satirist Roger Law used to breed rabbits, SAT but sadly none of them ever came up to the exacting SAT standards of the British Rabbit Council. Now he's determined SAT to find out the secret of breeding the perfect English SAT rabbit. SAT SAT A portrait of this bunny underworld is long overdue. Roger SAT will be looking at his favourite, the Old English Spot, one SAT of the country's oldest breeds. A drawing of the perfect SAT English Rabbit was made by Victorian artist Robert Wippell SAT circa 1838. To breed pedigree Old English for exhibition, SAT their spots must accord with Wippell's drawing as closely as SAT possible. The judges mark the spots to a total of 100 SAT points. Unfortunately some judges like small spots, others SAT large ones. Famous breeder of English rabbits, Fred Haslam, SAT commented on the process, "Only he who attempts the absurd SAT is capable of achieving the impossible." The perfect English SAT Rabbit is yet to be born. SAT SAT Roger will be visiting Thirsk in Yorkshire and Sandringham SAT in Norfolk to talk to the best breeders. He'll find out what SAT drives someone to set up hutches for a mind boggling 100 SAT rabbits in their back garden, and how some people live, SAT breathe and dream rabbits. The ultimate dream is the SAT ultimate rabbit: a perfect English Spot. SAT But is it really possible? Roger burrows into the facts. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b016k6xn (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b016k89h (Listen) SAT The appointment of a white vice president in Zambia SAT indicates, according to Fergal Keane, that for Africa's SAT whites, the long journey towards feeling they have a future SAT as of right on the continent is finally underway. David SAT Willey in Rome tells of Italian scepticism about their prime SAT minister's ability to deliver on the promises he's made to SAT EU-leaders about the implementation of austerity measures in SAT Italy. Horatio Clare's aboard a vast container ship in the SAT South China Sea finding out how economic hard times have SAT been affecting life on the ocean wave. There's an incident SAT in the High Pamir as John Pilkington's dragged, feet first, SAT into an icy river and much talk about the sort of food you SAT can find in German canteens, and what it tells you about its SAT eaters, from our own correspondent in the German capital, SAT Steve Evans. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b016k89k (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0169445 (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig and with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Fred SAT Macaulay and Susan Calman. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01686b4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01686b6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01694ny (Listen) SAT Newcastle upon Tyne SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Hoults Yard in Newcastle. SAT SAT On the panel this week: David Davis, Conservative MP; Rachel SAT Reeves, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Matthew SAT Parris, columnist and broadcaster, and Jeremy Browne, SAT Minister of State at the Foreign Office. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Ledgard. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b016k89m (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b016k89p (Listen) SAT Something Wicked This Way Comes SAT By Ray Bradbury SAT Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SAT SAT Will .. Theo Gregory SAT Jim ... Josef Lindsay SAT Charlie ... Henry Goodman SAT Mr. Dark .. Kenneth Cranham SAT Mr. Coogar/ SAT Lightening rod salesman ... Gerard McDermott SAT Miss Foley ..... Barbara Barnes SAT Dust Witch ... Buffy Davis SAT Robert .. Taran Stanzler SAT Young Miss Foley ..... Amelia Clarkson SAT JED ..... Ethan Brooke SAT Composer ..... David Paul Jones SAT Sound ..... Paul Cargill SAT Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris SAT SAT Set in 1960's Illinois this gem of modern Gothic literature SAT is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and SAT William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small SAT Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one SAT Autumn midnight. These two innocents, both aged 13, (Will is SAT born one minute before Halloween, and Jim one minute after) SAT save the souls of the town (as well as their own). This is a SAT vivid variation on the eternal theme of the fight between SAT Good and Evil. A thrilling, chilling, richly kaleidoscopic SAT sound world ensues; a shimmering mirror maze that reflects SAT your older or younger self, depending on your desires, and a SAT magic carousel that plays Chopin's Funeral March forwards - SAT with each rotation you gain a year, and rotating backwards - SAT you get younger. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b016812z (Listen) SAT Series 7, Episode 2 SAT SAT Frances Fyfield and a team of musical experts look at the SAT scores of one of Sir Hubert Parry's best known works: his SAT anthem 'I Was Glad'. SAT SAT 'Dear Parry, SAT The King wishes you to write something for the Coronation SAT Service and I am desired to propose this to you in His SAT Majesty's Name. Your know already how much I hope you will SAT write an anthem ' I was glad'. SAT SAT The Director of Music for the forthcoming coronation of King SAT Edward VII contacted Parry with this request and Parry's SAT resulting setting of Psalm 122 remains one of the great SAT pieces of Anglican ceremonial music. It's been a favourite SAT at Coronations and it was played at Westminster Abbey SAT earlier this year when Catherine Middleton processed up the SAT aisle to meet Prince William. SAT SAT Frances Fyfield is joined by Parry expert, Jeremy Dibble, SAT Peter Wright, director of music at Southwark Cathedral, SAT custodian of the score, Royal College of Music librarian SAT Peter Horton and handwriting expert, Ruth Rostron. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b016kft6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Will Young, a fan of SAT the programme, talks about his music and sings from his new SAT album. There's a look at the importance of breast cancer SAT screening for the over 70s. After her success in "The Hour" SAT Anna Chancellor talks about playing another journalist in a SAT new play about the Duchess of Windsor. John and Penny Clough SAT talk about the death of their daughter, killed by her SAT ex-boyfriend while he was on bail. We ask whether dyslexia SAT could ever be regarded as a gift rather than a disadvantage. SAT And the artistic range of Stephanie Beacham - she's played SAT alongside Marlon Brando and Ken Barlow - as she joins the SAT programme to talk about her autobiography. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b016kft8 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT With Carolyn Quinn. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0169295 (Listen) SAT Product Proliferation 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. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT This week Evan and his guests serve up a smorgasbord of SAT topics, from Swedish business and the IKEA model, to the SAT crisis in the Eurozone crisis. They also discuss SAT proliferation - how many different products should a company SAT sell? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are John Vincent, co-founder of SAT Leon Restaurants; Helena Morrissey, chief executive of SAT global asset manager Newton Investment Management, part of SAT BNY Mellon Asset Management; Peter Jelkeby, senior vice SAT president of Swedish chain store Clas Ohlson. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01686b8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01686bb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01686bd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b016kftb (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Emmy Award-winning 'Mambo Mouth' John Leguizamo has thawed SAT out from the Ice Age and is currently heating up the stage SAT with vivid descriptions of the colourful characters that SAT have populated his life in his new solo show 'Ghetto Klown'. SAT John leads his audience through his adolescence in Queens SAT and on to Hollywood and beyond! SAT SAT Actress Nichola McAuliffe will be giving Peter a remarkable SAT true-life account of how she and journalist husband Don SAT Mackay helped free a British man from death row in Pakistan. SAT Nichola is the star of 'A British Subject' which tells the SAT story of the media colliding with politics, civil liberties SAT and ultimately, faith. SAT SAT Arthur Smith will be talking to the perfect gentleman, SAT member of the Handlebar (Moustache) Club of Great Britain, SAT Tom Cutler and author of 'The Gentleman's Instant Genius SAT Guide'. Amongst other things, Arthur discovers how to SAT remember people's names. Isn't that right Albert?! SAT SAT The very spritely Mackenzie Crook will be fluttering through SAT the office and into the Loose Ends studio to talk about SAT writing and illustrating his debut children's novel 'The SAT Windvale Sprites'. Mackenzie also talks about his role as SAT Mark Rylance's right-hand man 'Ginger' in Jez Butterworth's SAT 'Jerusalem'. SAT SAT Shropshire songstress, Mara Carlyle samples and reworks SAT classical and contemporary pieces into her songs. Her new SAT album 'Floreat' means 'let her bloom' and Mara will be SAT performing the blooming marvellous 'Bowlface en Provence'. SAT SAT A 'Gentle Spirit' will be rolling in from North Carolina and SAT into the studio in the form of Jonathan Wilson who plays SAT 'Rolling Universe'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b016kftd (Listen) SAT Profile this week takes a look at the firebrand of Italian SAT politics, Umberto Bossi. The controversial leader of the SAT Northern League party, who takes a strident line on SAT immigration and crime, is currently at the centre of the SAT Euro crisis. Critics accuse Umberto Bossi of holding up SAT Italy's economic reform which is vital for the survival of SAT the Euro. Geeta Guru-Murthy discovers how this former SAT electrician and singer has become such an infamous SAT politician who could have a dramatic effect on Europe. SAT SAT Producers: Emma Rippon and Anna Meisel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b016kftg (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT The Ides of March SAT SAT The Ides of March is on general release, certificate 15. SAT SAT How It All Began SAT SAT How It All Began by Penelope Lively is published by Fig SAT Tree/Penguin. SAT SAT 13 SAT SAT Mike Bartlett’s play 13 continues in rep at the National SAT Theatre in London until 8 January.. SAT SAT The Jury SAT SAT The Jury begins on ITV1 on 7 November at 9pm and continues SAT for the next four nights at the same time. SAT SAT V&A Photographs Gallery SAT SAT V&A Photographs Gallery is now open at the V&A in London and SAT admission is free. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0172547 (Listen) SAT After the Dictator SAT SAT As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen SAT Bennett-Jones explores what happens next after dictators SAT leave power. SAT SAT Some, like Gaddafi and Romania's Ceausescu, are killed SAT outright. SAT SAT Some, like Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's Charles SAT Taylor, end up in international courts. SAT SAT Yet others, like Stalin and Mao, pass away peacefully in SAT bed. SAT SAT So how does the manner of the dictator's downfall shape SAT their country's chances of recovery? SAT SAT Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones' long reporting experience SAT includes his time in Romania after the fall of Ceausescu in SAT 1989. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Watts. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0167vk2 (Listen) SAT Silas Marner, Episode 2 SAT SAT by George Eliot SAT dramatised by Richard Cameron SAT SAT After a life of exile and a miserly existence, Silas's life SAT changes forever when Eppie, a little girl SAT crosses his threshold on a cold New Year's evening. Their SAT life together, from her childhood to SAT womanhood is his salvation. But all is threatened when her SAT biological father makes SAT a claim on her. SAT SAT Silas Marner ...... George Costigan SAT Eppie ....... Rebecca Callard SAT Dolly ..... Deborah McAndrew SAT Aaron ..... Stephen Hoyle SAT Godfrey/Jem ..... Conrad Nelson SAT Nancy ...... Maeve Larkin SAT Macey .... Seamus O'Neill SAT Dr. Kimble......... Leigh Symonds SAT Priscillia ...... Fiona Clarke SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01686bg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01684k6 (Listen) SAT Reporting The Law SAT SAT Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and SAT judges discuss legal issues of the day. SAT SAT The second programme in the series explores growing concerns SAT that press coverage of the judicial process is out of SAT control, resulting in trial by media and a threat to the SAT defendant's right to be presumed innocent until proven SAT guilty. SAT SAT Guests include the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, who is SAT responsible for initiating contempt of court proceedings SAT against the media and has successfully prosecuted several SAT national newspapers this year. SAT SAT Challenged to take action more frequently, he says he is SAT reluctant to act in a way which would inhibit freedom of SAT speech, but says that if newspapers flagrantly disregard the SAT law he would be forced to consider introducing tougher laws. SAT SAT The other guests are Old Bailey judge Peter Rook, leading SAT barrister Desmond Browne QC and Gill Phillips, a senior SAT lawyer in the legal department of the Guardian. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b0167zkg (Listen) SAT (11/12) SAT What would a philanthropist with an aversion to Mondays, the SAT Goons' harmonica player, and all of the inhabitants of SAT Arnhem, do to a horse? SAT SAT In answering this week's batch of convoluted questions, Tom SAT Sutcliffe is joined by the teams from The Midlands and SAT Wales, both currently looking like strong contenders for the SAT Round Britain Quiz champions' title this year. SAT SAT Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands take on SAT Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards of Wales, in what will SAT be the last match this season for both teams. They'll need SAT all their powers of lateral thinking as usual, along with a SAT healthy store of random information from history, music, SAT sport, literature, popular culture and science. SAT SAT There are questions supplied by Round Britain Quiz listeners SAT and a chance, as ever, to submit your own ideas. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0167vk6 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite SAT poetry requested by listeners. SAT SAT Roger goes in search of happiness, with the help of Raymond SAT Carver and Charles Bukowski. There are some spooky SAT diversions along the way, with poems by Kipling and John SAT Drinkwater. Robin Robertson also reads his own poem The Wood SAT of Lost Things, and there are some surreal offerings from SAT Galway Kinnell, having breakfast with Keats, and a spot of SAT de-cluttering with the beat poet Gregory Corso. The readers SAT are Garrick Hagon and Bill Paterson SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b016k1bk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00r0tbs (Listen) SUN Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight, Stowmont SUN SUN The first in a series of supernatural tales commissioned by SUN Radio 4 for last year's Bath Literature Festival SUN SUN 1/3 : Stowmont by Sadie Jones, read by John Telfer. SUN SUN An 18th century story about a man and the architect he SUN employs, who are forced to shelter for the night from a snow SUN storm in the house they have resolved to pull down and SUN replace. In spite of their rationalism, and beyond their SUN comprehension, the past asserts itself over their will. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016k1bm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016k1bp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016k1br (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b016k1bt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b016kgcy (Listen) SUN The bells of St Sepulchre in Newgate, City of London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b016kftd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b016k1bw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b016kgmb (Listen) SUN Dawn SUN SUN Millions of Hindus start their day by greeting the sun with SUN a Yoga practice known as Surya Namaskar. During the holy SUN month of Ramadan, Muslims start their day at dawn. SUN SUN In Japan Shinto believers bow before the rising sun and clap SUN to get the sun goddess' attention, so that she will dispel SUN evil. St. Benedict, the father of Western Christian SUN Monasticism, ordained that monks should say the office of SUN Matins. Yet not all of us are good in the morning. SUN Notwithstanding it is difficult to ignore the mystical SUN resonance of the sunrise. SUN SUN With the help of Henry David Thoreau, Vachel Lindsay and SUN Brendan Kennelly and with music from Carl Nielsen, Bruce SUN Cockburn and Ortolino Respighi, Mark Tully explores the SUN psychological and spiritual significance of this particular SUN time of day. SUN SUN The readers are Hattie Morahan and Dan Stevens. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b016kgmd (Listen) SUN Stone Curlew SUN SUN The stone curlew is one of the rarest birds in Britain. The SUN historical change in agricultural practices across the SUN country resulted in the decline of suitable habitat, such as SUN grazed chalk grassland and fallow areas, which are the kinds SUN of habitat most favoured by the stone-curlew for breeding. SUN Subsequently, their numbers dwindled to an all time low in SUN the mid-1980s of just a few dozen pairs in the Brecklands in SUN East Anglia and the Wiltshire downs. SUN SUN For this weeks' Living World, Joanna Pinnock travels to a SUN remote part of Wiltshire to meet Nick Adams of the RSPB's SUN Wessex Stone Curlew Project where she is keen to discover SUN for herself the lifecycle of this strange almost prehistoric SUN wader, with wide open beady yellow eyes and knobbly knees. SUN SUN Secretive and difficult to see in the breeding season due to SUN their nocturnal behaviour, in the autumn, stone curlews SUN gather in roost flocks to prepare for their migration to SUN Africa. So, after a wet autumnal day, as the light begins to SUN fade, for this Living World, the pair listen and wait for SUN the eerie calls of this summer migrant resonating around the SUN equally strange and prehistoric landscape near Stonehenge. SUN With increasing darkness, stone curlews begin to leave their SUN daytime roost sites to forage and disperse over the SUN landscape. In doing so Joanna and Nick become eager SUN spectators to a cacophony of calls as birds fly from area to SUN area, calls that in days gone by people likened to banshees SUN of the night. All too soon darkness envelopes the pair, but SUN pointedly this is Nick Adam's very last day on the project, SUN and as the calling becomes more intense, are the birds SUN saying goodbye to Nick for one last time? SUN SUN Producer : Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b016k1by (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b016k1c0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b016kgmg (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b016kgmj (Listen) SUN Ataxia UK SUN SUN Kim Wilde presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Ataxia UK. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1102391 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Ataxia UK SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Ataxia UK SUN SUN Ataxia UK is the largest national medical research charity SUN dedicated to supporting people affected by ataxia. Ataxia UK SUN funds research and provides support through its Helpline and SUN Advocacy services, dedicated Ataxia Centres in national SUN hospitals in London, Sheffield and Oxford, a national SUN network of Branch and Support Groups, free membership, SUN provision of up-to-date information and conferences. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b016k1c2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b016k1c4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b016kgml (Listen) SUN with Don Carson, celebrated preacher and Research Professor SUN of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, SUN Illinois. From the Renewal Centre, Solihull where supporters SUN of Grace Baptist Mission gathered to celebrate 150 years of SUN outreach and service. Leader: Trevor Condy (GBM Council SUN Chairman), Music Director: Jonathan Gooch, Producer: Simon SUN Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01694p0 (Listen) SUN The Arms Trade SUN SUN Will Self deplores the arms trade and Britain's role in it, SUN including the sale of weapons to authoritarian regimes which SUN abuse human rights. He takes aim at the euphemisms that SUN surround the sector. "The elision of business-speak with the SUN foggy verbiage of warfare is perhaps the most deranging SUN aspect of the contemporary arms trade," he says. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b016kgmn (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b016kgtx (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Clive Horrobin ..... Alex Jones. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b016kgtz (Listen) SUN Lord Victor Adebowale SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the crossbench peer and social SUN entrepreneur Lord Victor Adebowale. SUN SUN For the past decade, when not in the House of Lords, he has SUN devoted his time to overseeing services for people who are SUN homeless, suffer from drug or alcohol addiction and have SUN mental health issues or learning disabilities. To many, they SUN are the most disadvantaged people in society, but he says SUN that's not a term he finds useful: "I find it very difficult SUN when people use words like 'bottom of the pile' and SUN 'disadvantaged' - you'd be amazed that the veneer that SUN separates people who don't think they're at the bottom of SUN the pile from people who are is quite thin." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b0167zkv (Listen) SUN Series 4, Natalie Haynes, David McCandless & David Crystal 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 12:32 Food Programme b016kgv1 (Listen) SUN Palm Oil SUN SUN Used increasingly by the food industry in a wide array of SUN products from chocolate, crisps, ready meals to sweets, palm SUN oil is both a controversial ingredient and, for many, an SUN unknown one. SUN SUN Used for centuries as a cooking oil in West Africa, palm oil SUN has properties that make it a highly desirable and SUN affordable component in food production. It is also used SUN widely in animal feed, and in ever-larger quantities in SUN South-East Asia as a cooking oil. SUN SUN The target of several high-profile campaigns highlighting SUN environmental damage caused by the rapid unchecked spread of SUN palm plantations, it currently does not have to be labelled SUN as palm oil, only 'vegetable fat' or 'vegetable oil'. SUN SUN Dan Saladino goes on a journey to find out why the global SUN use of this oil is growing so fast, and speaks to some of SUN the key players in the palm oil world. SUN SUN Tim Hayward meets Lloyd Mensah from Ghanaian street-food SUN caterers Jollof Pot to discover palm oil's use in SUN traditional West-Africa cuisine. SUN SUN Dan follows the trail of this infamous and ubiquitous SUN substance, ending at the Liverpool refinery of New Britain SUN Palm Oil. Despite all the difficulties that the industry SUN faces he asks if palm oil - actually an incredibly SUN efficient, high-yielding crop - is the future for food? SUN SUN Produced by Dan Saladino and Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b016k1c6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b016kgv3 (Listen) SUN With Edward Stourton. The latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Making Tracks b012l1yn (Listen) SUN Critic and cultural commentator Paul Morley returns to the SUN Basing Street Studios, home to Island Records and then his SUN own ZTT label. These were the very rooms in which everyone SUN from Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and Bob Marley through to SUN Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Art of Noise and Grace Jones SUN recorded some of their most iconic albums. In the company of SUN Island's Chris Blackwell and ZTT's Trevor Horn, as well as SUN legendary engineer Tony Platt, Paul attempts to find out SUN what it was about this particular space that led to some of SUN the most memorable recordings of the 70s and 80s. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Kobrak. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b016943v (Listen) SUN Wheatfields, Scunthorpe SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs this Grow Your Own themed programme, SUN hosted by the Wheatfields Allotment Group. SUN White beetroot and purple Pak Choi : this week the panel SUN answer questions on 'edibles'. SUN SUN Bob and Bunny can't seem to agree on fig cultivation SUN methods. And Bob explains why he collects Venetian blinds. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Underwater Gendarme b016kgzj (Listen) SUN Episode 3 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 saving lives and SUN recovering bodies from the River Seine in Paris, along with SUN murder weapons and criminal evidence. SUN SUN This week, Horatio is back out on an evening patrol with the SUN Brigade. As they work their way downriver through the heart SUN of the city, Horatio marvels at the diversity of people who SUN are irresistibly drawn to the banks and quays of the Seine - SUN from musicians, dancers and lovers to dog walkers and SUN drinkers. And as the evening progresses, it's the drinkers SUN who keep the Brigade busy, including one who prompts a SUN call-out when he decides that a bridge parapet overhanging SUN the river would be a good place to sleep! SUN SUN Horatio also asks why the Seine which has attracted SUN generations of writers. He explores the river's role as a SUN source of literary inspiration with the proprietor of a SUN bookshop which has become a Parisian institution and with a SUN journalist who lives on the Seine and has written the SUN river's biography. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b016kj6w (Listen) SUN The Heat of the Day, Episode 1 SUN SUN Adapted by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick. SUN SUN Elizabeth Bowen's wartime novel of betrayal adapted from a SUN screenplay by Harold Pinter. Part love story, part spy SUN thriller, in which the beautiful Stella's allegiances are SUN tested. SUN SUN Stella discovers that her lover, Robert, who works for SUN British Intelligence, is suspected of selling classified SUN information to the enemy. Harrison, the man who has tracked SUN Robert down, wants Stella herself as the price for his SUN silence. Caught between these two men, not sure whom to SUN believe, Stella finds her world crumbling as she learns how SUN little we can truly know of those around us. SUN SUN First published in 1949, The Heat of the Day was Bowen's SUN most successful novel. In it she draws heavily on her affair SUN with Charles Ritchie, a Canadian diplomat, to whom the book SUN is dedicated. The tortuous nature of their affair is SUN reflected in the doubts and uncertainties of Stella's SUN relationship with Robert. Robert and Stella share the same SUN ages (and age difference) as Bowen and Ritchie. SUN SUN Bowen's preoccupation with the cracks below the surface and SUN the psychology of hurt and betrayal is echoed in Harold SUN Pinter's work. Pinter's style and Bowen's dialogue find a SUN perfect marriage in this adaptation. SUN SUN Directed by Tristram Powell SUN SUN Screenwriter ..... Henry Goodman SUN Harrison ..... Matthew Marsh SUN Stella ...... Anna Chancellor SUN Robert ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Louie/ Anne ...... Teresa Gallagher SUN Roderick ...... Daniel Weyman SUN Ernestine ...... Honeysuckle Weeks SUN Mrs Kelway/ Mrs Tringsby ...... Tina Gray SUN Cousin Francis/ Blythe ...... Nigel Anthony SUN Nettie ....... Gemma Jones SUN Peter ...... Ben Baker SUN SUN Producer: Marilyn Imrie SUN A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b016kj6y (Listen) SUN Victoria Hislop talks about her new novel The Thread SUN SUN Victoria Hislop discusses her latest novel The Thread, a SUN romantic saga intertwined with the fascinating changing SUN fortunes of Thessaloniki over four decades of blood soaked SUN Greek history. The author of the hugely successful The SUN Island and The Return, she also explains why, despite having SUN already published these two bestsellers, she still doesn't SUN like to refer to herself as a novelist. SUN SUN "What happens when writers are given the freedom to be SUN writers - regardless of colour or religion; to write about SUN what they want, how they want?" This question was Kavita SUN Bhanot's starting point for her anthology Too Asian, Not SUN Asian Enough, in which she argues that we see the same SUN stories about generation gap and culture clash over and over SUN again in British Asian writing. Kavita is joined by the SUN Pakistani novelist H.M Naqvi to discuss the issues SUN surrounding young South Asian writers today. SUN SUN Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom are the latest in a long SUN line of successful Swedish crime writers. Writing together SUN under the name Roslund and Hellstrom, their series is based SUN around a melancholic work-obsessed detective superintendent, SUN who sleeps in his office and obsessively listens to the SUN music of the 1960s Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist. Coming from SUN different backgrounds, they tackle controversial SUN contemporary issues but won't ever talk about how they SUN collaborate together. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b016kj70 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Ruth Padel presents a landmark series exploring the SUN pleasures of writing and reading poems. SUN SUN Poetry is everywhere, and all over the country workshops of SUN aspiring poets meet to work together on their craft. The SUN Edinburgh School of Poets is one such group, and Ruth joins SUN them to work on three of their poems on the theme of 'Family SUN Ties'. The text of all the poems featured will be available SUN on the Radio 4 website a few days before the broadcast. SUN SUN Ruth and the group listen to the poems and offer practical SUN and inspirational pointers to each other. As they go behind SUN the scenes of the poems, testing and pruning, exploring SUN technical things like structure, rhyme and line endings, SUN they reveal the imagination and the skill that makes poetry SUN so rewarding for both writers and readers of poetry. SUN SUN The poems from the group include about a tender one about SUN the never ending anxieties of motherhood, which includes SUN some interesting Scottish words like 'stravaiging'. There's SUN also a funny piece about the pre-occupation with genealogy, SUN and a moving poem about an attempt to piece together a SUN picture of a lost family member from their remaining SUN personal effects. SUN SUN The group also share and appreciate a poem by the award SUN winning poet Don Paterson, called The Thread. SUN SUN Producers: Sarah Langan and Sara Davies. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b016817r (Listen) SUN Cash from the Crisis SUN SUN World leaders preparing for the G20 conference are facing a SUN threat to the global economy from the on-going Eurozone SUN sovereign debt crisis. But as they try to avert further SUN economic catastrophe some investors see opportunities to SUN profit from the mayhem. SUN SUN Michael Robinson reveals how on-going economic volatility SUN and uncertainty can also present golden investment SUN opportunities - and how, through complex trades, bets and SUN investments, some find cash in the current crisis. SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion SUN Reporter: Michael Robinson SUN Editor: David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b016kftd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b016k1c8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b016k1cb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016k1cd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b016kj72 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her 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 b016kj74 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b01692g0 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 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 Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Midsummer Night in the Workhouse b016kj76 (Listen) SUN An Unavoidable Delay SUN SUN In Diana Athill's story, An Unavoidable Delay, first SUN published in 1962, Rose is travelling home from her holiday SUN in Lubjiana when she encounters Paul and events take an SUN unexpected turn. 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 draws 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 b01693gz (Listen) SUN Why were listeners' views on the two biggest news stories of SUN last week not covered in Any Answers? Roger Bolton asks the SUN programme's editor Clare McGinn why calls on the row over SUN the St Paul's protest, school results and downsizing of SUN homes left no room for listeners' views on Gaddafi's death SUN and the proposed EU referendum. SUN SUN It's the beginning of the end for long wave. Tens of SUN thousands of small-time mariners, who can't afford expensive SUN equipment and currently rely on hearing the Shipping SUN Forecast on long wave, will have to find other ways of SUN checking the weather once the signal is switched off. SUN SUN Your verdict on Radio 4's new Sunday night schedule. SUN Finnemore fans call for a second series of his Souvenir SUN Programme and mixed reviews for Tonight with Rory Bremner. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b016943z (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Elouise Cobell, who fought a long legal battle against the SUN US government to recover billions of dollars owing to Native SUN Americans. SUN SUN Edmundo Ros, who brought Latin American music to the UK and SUN taught the Queen how to dance the rumba SUN SUN Gil Hayward, who helped to design the Tunny 2 codebreaking SUN machine - which deciphered thousands of messages from German SUN High Command during the second world war. SUN SUN Powerful Hollywood agent Sue Mengers - one of her clients, SUN Sir Michael Caine, pays tribute. SUN SUN And Norman Corwin, who wrote, produced and directed SUN acclaimed dramas during the golden age of American radio. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b016k89k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b016kgmj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0167zl3 (Listen) SUN Cultural diplomacy SUN SUN Frances Stonor Saunders looks at the role of cultural SUN diplomacy in spreading liberal British values around the SUN world. SUN SUN The British Council and the BBC World Service, both SUN part-funded by the Foreign Office, are the two most SUN important institutions of British cultural diplomacy. SUN SUN The British Council organises exhibitions and events at its SUN offices around the world with artists such as Grayson Perry. SUN He feels that the fact his work deals with controversial SUN themes is part of his attraction for the cultural diplomats SUN keen to convey the values of liberalism by saying, "Look SUN what we put up with in our country: a cross-dressing potter SUN who's talking about the evils of advertising." SUN SUN The BBC World Service is editorially independent but is SUN funded by the Foreign Office. SUN SUN Frances Stonor Saunders explores the tension between the SUN fact that cultural diplomacy has an official purpose yet the SUN endeavours it seeks to promote need to maintain freedom and SUN independence as a mark of a liberal society. SUN SUN Contributors include Grayson Perry, Timothy Garton Ash and SUN Sir Sherard Cowper Coles. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b016kj78 (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 b016kj7b (Listen) SUN Episode 76 SUN SUN Miranda Green of The Day analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0169441 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with director Roland Emmerich whose new SUN film Anonymous claims William Shakespeare is not the man SUN behind the plays. SUN SUN Is George Clooney a future President of the United States of SUN America? His character in the Ides of March is hoping to go SUN all the way to the White House - at any cost. The man behind SUN the film Beau Willimon discusses the grubby game of getting SUN elected. SUN SUN Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo explains why his film Miss SUN Bala is a desperate plea to the Mexican authorities to rid SUN his country of organised crime. SUN SUN Analogue film made by the old photochemical process is fast SUN becoming a thing of the past. It's been announced that a SUN trio of leading film camera manufacturers - Arri, Panavision SUN and Aaton - have made their last. Paul J Franklin - the man SUN responsible for the onscreen wizardry of Christopher Nolan's SUN Batman films - laments its demise. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b016kgmb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 31 OCTOBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b016k1d1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01684jw (Listen) MON Muslim women's basketball - Still life MON MON Is tradition under threat from capitalism, or are we overly MON negative about the cultural impact of globalisation? MON Henrietta Moore challenges what she sees as despair about MON the impact of international capitalism and new technology MON and claims that globalisation is just as likely to improve MON the human experience. She tells Laurie Taylor that her new MON theory about how we create culture, rejects the notion that MON it is ever 'imposed' from abroad. MON Also, there's an absence of visible Muslim female MON sportswomen. Islamic rules on gender segregation and dress MON codes can create limitations on women's ability to be MON athletes. And the secular world of sport doesn't always MON welcome women who don't wear shorts and swimsuits. But new MON research suggests that the picture is changing as women find MON ways to play sport which don't conflict with their faith. MON The sociologist, Dr Sam Farooq, tells Laurie about the young MON British Muslim women who see no contradiction between MON basketball and religious belief. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b016kgcy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016k1d3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016k1d5 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016k1d7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b016k1d9 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016kkb8 (Listen) MON with the Revd George Pitcher. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b016kkbb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b016k1dc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b016kkbd (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b016kkbg (Listen) MON Andrew Marr is in Perth in Australia for the Commonwealth MON Heads of Government Meeting, to discuss mining, money and MON the monarchy. He talks to the Director of the Commonwealth MON Foundation, Danny Sriskandarajah, about the future of an MON organisation, headed by the Queen, that's been criticised MON for being impotent and irrelevant. Compared to many MON Commonwealth nations, Australia is going through an economic MON boom time. At its heart is the mineral-rich land of Western MON Australia, and ABC's morning show presenter Geoff Hutchison MON explains how the growth in mining has affected the lives of MON his listeners. The Minister for Mines and Petroleum in WA, MON Norman Moore, lambasts the federal government over its plans MON for a carbon tax. And the economic advisor to the former MON Labor leader, Andrew Charlton, says the debate about the MON environment has become so vicious and polarised that it has MON the power to bring down party leaders. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b016kkbj (Listen) MON Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 1 MON MON 'Why be happy when you could be normal ?' was the parting MON shot fired at the 16 year old Jeanette as she left the home MON of her adopted mother, Mrs Winterson. The words echoed MON through the author's life as she repeatedly sought happiness MON and love whilst constantly being aware that her early life MON had included neither. MON MON When she was six weeks old baby Janet became Jeanette and MON was taken into the home of two Pentecostal Christian parents MON in the small town of Accrington. The tyranny of her mother's MON peculiar belief system and her uncompromising rules meant MON that the young Jeanette grew up being told that the devil MON had led her parents to the wrong crib. Mrs Winterson banned MON books from the house but read the Bible aloud every night; MON she also kept a revolver in the duster drawer and refused to MON share a bed with her husband. Jeanette was frequently MON punished for misdemeanours by being locked outside and left MON to spend the night on the doorstep. Nothing was 'normal' in MON the household. Jeanette was supposed to grow up and become a MON missionary in Africa, instead she fell in love with another MON girl and was subjected to an exorcism. MON MON Elements of the story are familiar to those who read her MON fictionalised version of this childhood in Oranges Are Not MON the Only Fruit (1985). This memoir exposes some of the MON harsher truths and more bizarre incongruities. But it is MON also the story of how in later life, and recent years, the MON profound sense of loss and absence was catastrophically MON detonated by the end of a relationship. Struggling to remain MON intact, still clinging to her passion for language and MON literature, the author began to rebuild her sense of self MON and the way she lives her life. Love arrived and so too did MON a sense of home - and with it the courage to go back into MON the past and find the person who had always wanted her in MON those first few weeks of life. MON MON Funny, acute, fierce and celebratory, this is a tough-minded MON search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a MON mother. MON MON Today's episode: Jeanette Winterson recalls her early life MON with her adopted mother Mrs Winterson whose Pentecostal MON Christian beliefs dominated the household in sometimes MON peculiar ways. MON MON Read by Jeanette Winterson MON MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b016kkbl (Listen) MON Orchids - the history and care of this popular house plant. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Legal Aid MON MON The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill MON is being discussed in the House of Commons this week. MON Amongst other areas, restrictions are being imposed on MON access to legal aid in divorce and family proceedings. The MON Ministry of Justice has said legal aid will be preserved for MON those who suffer violence and psychological abuse in MON domestic disputes but many organisations are continuing to MON voice their concerns about the disproportionate effects MON these ‘restrictions’ will have on women, children and MON vulnerable families. Jane is joined by Nicola Harwin, Chief MON Executive of Women’s Aid, and Lawyer, Emma Scott, Director MON of Rights of Women, an organisation that lobbies and MON provides free legal advice to women. MON MON Friends Through Thick and Thin MON MON Radio 4 will be broadcasting a special programme about MON female friendship next January, and the producers would like MON Woman’s Hour listeners to get in touch if they have a story MON about friendship which they would like to share. Elizabeth MON Burke will be joining Jane to talk about the programme and MON how they are hoping to portray friendship among women. It’s MON the third time that the programme makers have drawn on our MON listeners’ experiences – earlier programmes have covered the MON relationships mothers have with their daughters and with MON their sons. In this latest programme they’ll be looking at MON how a friendship might have sustained you through hard times MON and at the special bond between female friends. You may have MON a story about a relationship which has broken down and then MON been mended, or one where someone or something got in the MON way. MON MON A Magnificent Obsession – The enduring relationship between MON Victoria and Albert MON MON When Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, died in MON December 1861, his death was a catastrophe for the Queen. MON She had not only adored her husband, but had relied on him, MON through 21 years of marriage, as companion, father of her MON children, friend, confidant and unofficial private MON secretary. Jane is joined by the historian Helen Rappaport MON and Dr John Plunkett, lecturer in Victorian studies at MON Exeter University, to talk about the death that changed the MON monarchy; its impact on Victoria and her nine children, and MON the funeral trade. MON MON Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that MON Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport published on 3 MON November just ahead of the 150th anniversary of Prince MON Albert’s death on 14 December. ISBN 978 0 09 193154 4. MON MON Orchids MON MON When the orchid first arrived in our country in the late MON 1700s it represented a mysterious and exotic world and went MON on to become a symbol of status amongst the Victorians. Now MON the flower has become so mainstream it can be seen MON dominating florists and supermarkets up and down the MON country. Kew Gardens’ orchid expert, Lara Jewitt, joins Jane MON to discuss why we are so obsessed with the world’s largest MON flowering plant. MON MON Brenda Parker Way MON MON Of the hundreds of footpaths dotted around the UK, very few MON are named after women – and those that are, such as MON Boudicca’s Way in Norfolk and Lady Anne’s Way in Yorkshire MON and Cumbria, tend to mark historical figures. Earlier this MON year a long-distance trail was created in Hampshire, named MON after Brenda Parker who, as a volunteer for the Ramblers MON Association, campaigned for decades to keep rights of way MON open in the county. Brenda Parker died in 2008 and the MON 78-mile trail has been set up in her memory by some of her MON rambler friends. Fiona Clampin met Rob Hannah, Stuart MON Shurlock and Janet Davis from the Ramblers, as well as MON Brenda’s cousin Judith Borsay in the village of St Mary MON Bourne as they were getting ready to set off on their walk. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016kkbn (Listen) MON The Pillow Book, series 4, Episode 1 MON MON Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari reunite for a new MON adventure in 10th century Japan. MON MON The young Emperor has disappeared from the Palace into the MON wilds of Japan, to learn the ways of his people. Mischievous MON as ever, he leaves behind him a challenge addressed to his MON champion and favourite, Lieutenant Yukinari, to find him. MON And, of course, Yukinari must be accompanied by his guide in MON the ways of palace life, the Lady Shonagon. The Emperor MON makes two conditions: that the couple travel unaccompanied MON and in disguise, dressed in peasant garb, a prospect that MON Lady Shonagon - a connoisseur of all the finer luxuries of MON life - finds both appalling and humiliating. MON MON Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and MON lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese MON court. MON MON Written by Robert Forrest. MON MON Shonagon............... Ruth Gemmell MON Yukinari...................Cal Macaninch MON Emperor...................Freddie Rayner MON Kei..........................Brian Ferguson MON Peasant..................John Paul Hurley MON MON Directed by Lu Kemp. MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b016kkbq (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 4 MON MON Alan Dein goes to Boston, Lincolnshire to explore the MON simmering tensions caused by a large influx of migrant MON workers from Eastern Europe. MON MON On arriving in this traditional market town dominated by its MON vast church known locally as the Stump, Alan hears rumours MON of escalating crime, homelessness and enforced MON repatriations. Migration is without doubt the number one MON issue here - the population of this market town has swollen MON dramatically since the expansion of the EU, with workers MON drawn by the ready supply of agricultural work. MON MON Alan talks to Bostonians and migrant workers alike. He MON witnesses for himself the troubles in the town on a Saturday MON night, attempting to build up a balanced picture of the MON truth behind the rumours. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 11:30 The Return of Inspector Steine b016kkbs (Listen) MON The End in Sight MON MON There's a talent contest at the Hippodrome, and Mrs G and MON Sergeant Brunswick take part in it and win with a new song. MON MON Inspector Steine has written and delivered a landmark MON broadcast on the topical legal case known to the newspapers MON as 'Tatiana and the Five Hats', and Fred Nesbit a Canadian MON film maker, and his English assistant Leslie, come to MON Brighton to make a film about the work of the Brighton MON police force. MON MON But Mrs G uncovers Leslie's plan to plot to show the police MON in a terrible light ; revealing that he is in fact that most MON dreaded and feared of 1950s creatures; a Commie! It's MON becoming clear Mrs G is deeply smitten by Captain Hoagland, MON and also that Adelaide Vine is still alive, well and MON plotting further dastardly events to torment the Brighton MON police force, and Mrs G herself. MON MON Producer: Marilyn Imrie MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b016kkbv (Listen) MON Energy Ombudsman MON MON Complaints about energy firms have soared by 81% on last MON year and the Energy Ombudsman had to deal with 623 of them MON in September alone. During the previous September there were MON 349 complaints. Julian Worricker asks the Ombudsman, Rev MON Lewis Shand Smith, about the extent of his powers, the level MON of public recognition, and how well his service is coping MON with the increased workload. MON MON Ever felt like replying to spam emails, just to waste the MON spammers' time? That's exactly what author Neil Forsyth does MON in the guise of Bob Servant, self proclaimed Hero of Dundee MON and former cheeseburger magnate. Neil tells us about his new MON book 'Why Me? The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant.' MON MON The Government is planning a review of the MOT test. Should MON vehicles be examined every two years instead of annually? MON MON We talk to campaigners who claim that a shortage of suitable MON housing for young people with disabilities means many can't MON live independently. MON MON Earlier in the week we heard a claim that washing at lower MON temperatures might not kill some fairly unpleasant bugs. MON Following that item You and Yours listeners have emailed us MON to say there's not much in their laundry baskets with a hot MON wash label! We find out why, seemingly, more and more MON garments and bedding items are carrying a 40C or 50C care MON label. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Sarah Swadling. MON MON 12:57 Weather b016k1df (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b016ld6l (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 b016kkbx (Listen) MON (12/12) MON If five contains four, and six contains nine, but eight and MON nine each contain only one, how many will you find in seven? MON MON This and all of the other devious questions in the last MON edition of the current series have been suggested by MON listeners, and to tackle them Tom Sutcliffe is joined by the MON teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. As ever, the MON cryptic questions draw on everything from history to MON literature, classical music to cinema, physics to football. MON MON At the end of the contest it will become clear which of the MON six regular teams has taken the Round Britain Quiz MON champions' title for 2011. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b016kj74 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b016kkbz (Listen) MON Brief Lives - Series 4, Episode 3 MON MON Brief Lives by Elizabeth Heery 3/6 MON Frank and Declan both stand witness for things they are MON unsure about. How much does this compromise them? MON MON FRANK....David Schofield MON SARAH....Kathryn Hunt MON DECLAN.. Jonjo O'Neill MON PETER.....Steven Pinder MON AISHA...Balvinder Sopal MON FR KEARNEY..Charles Lawson MON MARCUS HANLEY..Andonis James Anthony MON WPC MOLLISON....Lisa Moore MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON Original Music by Carl Harms. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0172547 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press MON Photographers b016lf5f (Listen) MON Royal Wedding MON MON Miles Warde presents the first of five programmes featuring MON famous press photographers. Largely recorded in real time, MON they offer drama and insight into professionals at work. In MON the first programme James Hill of the New York Times gives MON up the chance to go to Libya in order to shoot the famous MON balcony kiss at this year's royal wedding between Catherine MON Middleton and Prince William. MON MON "I don't know if this was a reward, or a punishment. Perhaps MON it was both," says the Moscow based photographer, winner of MON both the Pulitzer and the world press. His paper paid £900 MON to put him on the stand at the Victoria Memorial in front of MON Buckingham Palace, but he is further from the balcony than MON he had guessed, and he has the wrong lens. James Hill shares MON his thoughts on this 'blink and you miss it' event - the MON anguish and stress - via a microphone we gave him before the MON day began. MON MON Also in this series - Lewis Whyld of the Press Association MON at the first night of the Tottenham riots; Mike Goldwater MON back in Rwanda 17 years after the genocide; Geoff Waugh on MON the final alpine stage of this year's Tour de France; and MON Jane Mingay of the Telegraph, who took the most famous MON picture at the London bombings, in New York looking for MON images of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b016kgv1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b016lbpp (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 4 MON MON Simon Cox presents the latest news from the digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b016lbpr (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016k1dh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b016lbpt (Listen) MON Series 4, Alex Horne, Sara Wheeler & Alain De Botton 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 b016lbth (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b016lbtk (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including an interview with writer Ronan MON Bennett, whose new TV drama focuses on young drug dealers in MON Hackney, London. MON MON Producer Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016kkbn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invention of Germany b016lbtm (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON In 1871, at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles, the king of MON Prussia was crowned emperor of the newly unified German MON empire - a quite staggering event. This is the story of MON Germany's journey to define itself, indeed to stamp itself, MON on the European map. MON MON "Everything was decided by military strength, but also by a MON revolutionary idea that there were parts of the map reserved MON for particular nations - blood and soil, and that if you MON pick up a handful of soil, this is German, and if you move MON fifty yards to the left, this is French." Professor Norman MON Davies. MON MON Travelling from the great areas of conflict - Alsace MON Lorraine in the west to Konnigratz in the east - Misha MON Glenny brings to life moments in European history that have MON huge resonance today. Contributors include Dr Abigail Green MON of Oxford University, and Professor Michael Sturmer, a MON former advisor to Helmut Kohl. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b016lbtp (Listen) MON A New Black Politics? MON MON The 2010 general election saw the largest influx of black MON and minority ethnic MPs to the Commons that Britain has ever MON seen. There are currently 27 sitting on the Conservative and MON Labour benches - up from 14 in the last Parliament. MON MON But are we starting to see a 'new black politics'? Some MON suggest that the radical left-wing politics of the 1980s is MON no longer relevant in twenty-first century Britain, where MON there is a growing black middle class, a multitude of MON different black communities, and where black people are MON represented at the highest levels. MON MON David Goodhart meets the black politicians adopting a more MON socially conservative standpoint to their predecessors and MON also talks to their critics: those who say that some of the MON country's most vulnerable people have been forgotten by the MON establishment; that institutionalised racism still exists; MON and that many of today's politicians do not represent the MON people they are meant to serve. MON MON Producer: Hannah Barnes. MON MON 21:00 Material World b016928z (Listen) MON London Science Festival Special MON MON Material World this week comes from the London Science MON Festival. Quentin Cooper presents an outside broadcast MON recorded in front of an audience at the National Maritime MON Museum in Greenwich. MON MON The programme celebrates citizen science and do-it-yourself MON discovery, as part of 'So You Want to Be a Scientist?', MON Radio 4's search for the next BBC Amateur Scientist of the MON Year. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin MON MON Guerilla science MON MON Some of last year’s hopefuls get the chance to test out MON their questions with the aid of performance troupe, Guerilla MON Science. This year has seen acclaimed performances by MON Guerilla Science at Glastonbury, where revellers entered MON their Decontamination Unit and at the National Portrait MON Gallery, exploring the nature of beauty in The Glamour MON Factory. MON MON Today, the team invite last year's shortlisted amateur Annie MON Trolley, and her two teenage sons, to take part in an aroma MON challenge. MON MON We asked the whole family to wear t-shirts for 3 nights MON running. Plus we had samples from Zoe Cromier from Guerilla MON Science and a mystery guest - Nakima (see picture above) MON from the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary. But how much could MON the audience tell about them, just from their smell? MON MON Dr Leslie Knapp, a biological anthropologist from Cambridge MON University, is on hand to decode the data and explain why MON smell is a vital to us for choosing, or rejecting, potential MON suitors. MON MON Inside the Zooniverse MON MON Astronomer and Sky at Night presenter Chris Lintott gives us MON a tour of his Zooniverse - the online portal where citizen MON scientists can take part in real research, from hunting MON supernovae to discovering new planets. MON MON One of their research projects, based at the National MON Maritime Museum is called ‘Old Weather’. Visitors can adopt MON a ship and analyse old naval logs to input weather data MON which will help environmental scientists improve their MON climate change models. MON MON One man and his mannequin MON MON Also on the bill is one of last year’s hopefuls Shane MON Record, along with his sidekick Flora the mannequin. MON MON Shane was convinced that having a dummy inside his art MON gallery improved visitor numbers, as people were more likely MON to enter if they thought they wouldn’t be alone. MON MON But will this work at the National Maritime Museum? And is MON it just men who are attracted to the quiet brunette standing MON in the corner? MON MON Quentin is also joined by 'So You Want to Be a Scientist?' MON judge, Dr Lucie Green, to provide inspiration and advice for MON this year’s entrants. MON MON The deadline for entries is now midnight on Tuesday 15 MON November 2011. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b016kkbg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b016k1dk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b016lbtr (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b016lbtt (Listen) MON All That I Am, Episode 6 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 the Nazi noose tightens in Germany, Dora is MON determined to bring evidence of Hitler's real plans to MON London. But will her Commission of Inquiry into the MON Reichstag fire have any real impact in a Britain that turns MON a blind eye to the threat? 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 b00n1p9v (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON Radio 4's 2009 Poetry Slam came to its high-octane climax at MON the Birmingham Book Festival, where six competitors from all MON over Britain battled for the title of Radio 4 slam winner. MON The competition was fierce and the rhymes came thick and MON fast as the six performers who had made their way through MON tough regional heats and the semi-finals faced this final MON test of their poetry and performance skills. They were: Kit MON Lambert, Mark Madden, Ben Mellor, Deanna Rodger, Pete the MON Temp and Michael Wilson. MON MON A slam is a knockout performance poetry competition in which MON poets perform their own work to a time limit and are given MON scores based on content, style, delivery and level of MON audience response. In the space of two minutes, performers MON must demonstrate their word-play, performance skills and MON inventiveness; over two or three rounds, poets are knocked MON out until one top scorer emerges as the winner. Slams MON attract a wide range of performers and styles, from MON heartfelt love poetry to searing social commentary, MON uproarious comic routines, and bittersweet personal MON confessional pieces. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b016lbtw (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b016k1f4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b016kkbj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016k1f6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016k1f8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016k1fb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b016k1fd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016ld4j (Listen) TUE with the Revd George Pitcher. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b016ld4l (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b016ld4n (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b016ld4q (Listen) TUE Sir Michael Marmot TUE TUE When Professor Sir Michael Marmot was a junior doctor he TUE decided that medicine was failed prevention. TUE To really understand disease you have to look at the society TUE people live in. His major scientific discovery came from TUE following the health of British civil servants over many TUE years. The Whitehall studies, as they're known, challenged TUE the myth about executive stress and instead revealed that, TUE far from being 'tough at the top', it was in fact much TUE tougher for those lower down the pecking order. This wasn't TUE just a matter of rich or poor, or even social class. What TUE Marmot showed was the lower your status at work, the shorter TUE your lifespan. Mortality rates were three times higher for TUE those at the bottom than for those at the top. The TUE unpleasant truth is that your boss will live longer than TUE you. TUE TUE What's more, this social gradient of health, or what he TUE calls Status Syndrome, isn't confined to civil servants or TUE to the UK but is a global phenomenon. In conversation with TUE Jim Al-Khalili Michael Marmot reveals what inspires and TUE motivates his work. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b016ld4s (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Lyse Doucet is in Kabul to talk to Rangina Hamidi who runs a TUE successful company which gives women economic independence. TUE However she's now 'given up' on Afghanistan following the TUE murder of her father who - at the time of his death - was TUE the Mayor of Kandahar. TUE TUE In 1981, at the age of three, Rangina Hamidi's family TUE escaped their native Afghanistan during the Soviet TUE occupation. They spent seven years in Pakistan before moving TUE to the United States and settling in Virginia. TUE TUE But in 2003 (following the fall of the Taliban) Rangina TUE returned to Afghanistan and set up Kandahar Treasure; a TUE private company run by women, it makes and sells TUE traditionally embroidered fabric. TUE TUE However, Rangina is now packing up and leaving, returning to TUE the United States. The reason is the recent murder of her TUE father, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, who was killed in a suicide TUE bomb attack in July. His death has left her feeling TUE 'negative' and 'pessimistic' , and although her decision to TUE leave makes her feel as if she has failed, she says she TUE needs the space to heal. TUE TUE One day she may return, and hopes it will be to a more TUE peaceful country. TUE TUE Join Lyse Doucet as she speaks to Rangina Hamidi for this TUE week's One to One. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b016p9z9 (Listen) TUE Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Jeanette Winterson TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b016ld4v (Listen) TUE Female Freedom Riders: The 50th anniversary of the civil TUE rights activists. Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r105 (Listen) TUE The Pillow Book, series 4, Episode 2 TUE TUE Robert Forrest's popular thriller, set in 10th century TUE Japan. Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari are reunited in TUE a new adventure. TUE TUE The young Emperor has disappeared from the Palace into the TUE wilds of Japan, to learn the ways of his people. Mischievous TUE as ever, he has left behind him a challenge addressed to his TUE champion, and favourite, Lieutenant Yukinari to find him. TUE And, of course, Yukinari must be accompanied by his guide in TUE the ways of palace life, the Lady Shonagon. The Emperor has TUE made two conditions: that the couple travel unaccompanied TUE and in disguise, dressed in peasant garb, a prospect that TUE Lady Shonagon - a connoisseur of all the finer luxuries of TUE life - finds both appalling and humiliating. Now on the TUE road, Lady Shonagon is confronted with a world in which she TUE is unknown and unrecognised. While the Emperor himself is TUE delighting in his new life as anonymous wanderer. TUE TUE Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and TUE lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese TUE court. TUE TUE Written by Robert Forrest. TUE TUE Shonagon...........Ruth Gemmell TUE Yukinari..............Cal Macaninch TUE Emperor.............Freddie Rayner TUE Kei....................Brian Ferguson TUE Dosser..............John Paul Hurley TUE Isuzu.................Meg Fraser TUE TUE Directed by Lu Kemp. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b016ld4x (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 24 TUE TUE 24/30 This weeks Saving Species is recorded in front of an TUE audience at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. And the TUE programme has a theme - fungi. It's at this time of year TUE that many of us see the fruiting bodies of fungi, the TUE "mushroom", but so much more goes on underground and in the TUE leaf litter. On the panel we have fungi expert Professor TUE Lynne Boddy of Cardiff University and Rosie Plumer, the TUE Director of the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Delivering TUE some specially written prose is writer and broadcaster Paul TUE Evans and a special report from naturalist Ray Woods. And of TUE course questions from the audience. TUE TUE Presenter Brett Westwood TUE Producer Sheena Duncan TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE The Open University – iSpot TUE TUE 11:30 Angels in the North b016ld4z (Listen) TUE In the early 1970s, five of Britain's leading Artistic TUE Directors had a vision. Tired of regional theatre-goers TUE being treated as second-class citizens, they wanted to TUE breathe life into the country's cultural landscape. They TUE wanted to create a theatre outside London with national TUE standards - not another testing ground for West End TUE transfers - but a distinct, individual voice for the TUE regions. From the humble beginnings of the Century and 69 TUE Theatre Companies, Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre TUE opened in 1976. Designer Richard Negri's innovative plans - TUE inspired by the interior of a beehive - took shape in the TUE city's old Cotton Exchange building, a magnificent building TUE in itself, symbolic of Manchester's strength as the power TUE house of the industrial revolution. A seven-sided, TUE glass-walled module, literally suspended from huge marble TUE pillars in the Great Hall, its pioneering design broke free TUE of the confinements of the proscenium arch. It remains the TUE world's largest theatre-in-the-round. TUE TUE In this programme, actress Gabrielle Drake chats to founding TUE Artistic Director Braham Murray about the success of the TUE theatre over its 35 year history. The calibre of actors, TUE directors and new work it has attracted, and the effect the TUE theatre has had on the region. We hear how, in 1996, the TUE theatre was badly damaged by an IRA bomb, but carried on TUE producing plays in the city until the fully re-furbished TUE theatre opened two years later. TUE TUE We trace the roots and development of regional theatre in TUE Britain with The Guardian theatre critic Lyn Gardner, TUE Artistic Director of Manchester's Library Theatre Chris TUE Honer, and Professor of Theatre Tony Jackson. We look at TUE funding issues in light of the recent biting Arts Council TUE cuts and discuss the way forward for British theatre. TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Foster. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b016ld51 (Listen) TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b016k1fg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b016ld53 (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 b016ld55 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Handel's Firework Suite TUE TUE 'The Peace is signed between us, France, and Holland, but TUE does not give the least joy; the stocks do not rise, and the TUE merchants are unsatisfied.in short, there has not been the TUE least symptom of public rejoicing; but the government is to TUE give a magnificent firework. TUE (Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 October 1748)' TUE TUE Handel was commissioned by King George II to compose an TUE orchestral work to accompany a lavish firework display to TUE celebrate the end of Austrian War of Succession. TUE TUE It was the most spectular display of fireworks ever seen and TUE crowds queued for hours to enter the park. The festivities TUE went on for nine hours with part of the pavillion catching TUE fire. TUE TUE Christopher Hogwood, Graham Sheen, Ruth Rostron and Nicolas TUE Bell join Frances Fyfield around the maunscript to look at TUE Handel's original intentions in one of his most popular TUE orchestral works. Included with the artefacts is a pamplet TUE detailing the order of the firework display. It makes the TUE millenium firework celebrations look puny by comparison! TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b016lbth (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k8lg5 (Listen) TUE Sargasso TUE TUE By Simon Bovey TUE TUE Elver season on the river Severn - a time of mystery and TUE danger. The wrong time and place for a young man to be TUE searching for his place in the world. TUE TUE Kevin ..... Robert Lonsdale TUE Sabrina ..... Emily Wachter TUE Bruce ..... Ian Gelder TUE Tan ..... Stuart McLoughlin TUE Debbie ..... Lizzy Watts TUE Gilpin ..... Stephen Hogan TUE Buyer / Policeman ... Benjamin Askew TUE Phil ..... Matt Addis TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b016ldsw (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 b016ldsy (Listen) TUE Moments Past, The Night Eleanor Roosevelt Became Eleanor TUE Roosevelt TUE TUE Written by Ellen Feldman. TUE Read by Miriam Margolyes. TUE TUE First in a series of new short stories in which leading TUE historical authors write about a particular moment from the TUE past, one which went on to influence the future. TUE TUE Today, how a shocking discovery changed the course of TUE Eleanor Roosevelt's life. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:45 Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press TUE Photographers b016lg5q (Listen) TUE Tottenham Riots TUE TUE Miles Warde presents the second of five programmes featuring TUE photographers capturing the most dramatic events of the past TUE year. When Lewis Whyld of the Press Association arrived on TUE Tottenham High Street on August 6th, the first and fiercest TUE night of this summer's riots, he soon saw three other TUE photographers being attacked. For the next hour therefore he TUE shot on his mobile phone, and only pulled out his cameras TUE once it was dark. Shooting by the light of the police TUE helicopter searchlight, Lewis captured images that went TUE right round the world. In this compelling account of an TUE extremely difficult assignment, he draws parallels between TUE what was happening in north London, and what he had TUE witnessed earlier this year in the riots Tahrir Square in TUE Cairo. This programme is filled with extraordinary detail, TUE and reveals how little are the rewards for photographers who TUE risk everything in order to witness events. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b016ldt0 (Listen) TUE Crime stats and false confessions TUE TUE In this programme, Joshua Rozenberg reveals new statistics TUE on the use of so-called 'taken into consideration' offences. TUE After their arrest, some suspects confess to additional TUE crimes to wipe the slate clean. But with no prosecution or TUE trial, can these admissions of guilt really count as solved TUE crimes? TUE Law in Action also looks into the issue of false confessions TUE and asks why people admit to a crime they didn't commit. TUE Some suspects may find themselves convicted of a crime even TUE when they retract their initial statements. Research from TUE the US indicates that one in five death row inmates TUE exonerated by DNA evidence falsely confessed to murder. TUE Closer to home, a study shows that false confessions can set TUE off a chain of events that can skew the justice system TUE against an innocent suspect. TUE The programme also examines proposed anti-sectarianism TUE football legislation in Scotland. The law is designed to TUE crack down on the kinds of ugly violence that plagued TUE Rangers and Celtic matches last season. But the one thing TUE that seems to unite the supporters of the two clubs is their TUE opposition to the bill, and few others in Scotland see the TUE need for new legislation to tackle sectarian violence. In TUE this programme, Joshua Rozenberg explores the roots of TUE Scottish sectarianism and finds out how the law deals with TUE it. TUE TUE Producer: Mike Wendling TUE Researcher: Lucy Proctor. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b016ldt2 (Listen) TUE Stephanie Flanders & Roisin McAuley TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by the BBC's Economics Editor TUE Stephanie Flanders and novelist and journalist Roisin TUE McAuley to discuss favourite books. TUE TUE Stephanie Flanders' choice is 'The Great Crash 1929', a TUE classic account of financial disaster by one of the TUE twentieth century's most influential economists, John TUE Kenneth Galbraith. A witty and elegant analysis which is TUE compelling even to those who can't tell their leverage from TUE their margins. TUE TUE Roisin McAuley chooses a novel by the award-winning Patricia TUE Ferguson, 'Peripheral Vision'. The quality of her writing TUE and the intelligence of her psychological insights into her TUE characters has drawn comparisons to Muriel Spark. TUE TUE Harriett's choice this week is a classic fifties detective TUE story from Dame Ngaio Marsh: 'Singing in the Shrouds'. TUE TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b016ldt4 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016k1fj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Hard to Tell b016ldt6 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 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 Tom's loyalty is tested to the full when he's forced to TUE choose between supporting Ellen as a bridesmaid or indulging TUE in an uninterrupted TV marathon of Jonathan Creek, season 2. TUE TUE Luke ..... Tom Basden TUE Paul ..... Simon Greenall 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 b016ldt8 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b016ldtb (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with the soprano TUE Angela Gheorghiu. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r105 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b016ldtd (Listen) TUE An Inside Job? TUE TUE The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke wants more jobs for TUE convicts. He told his party conference: "If we want prison TUE to work, then our prisoners have got to be working". He TUE encourages private companies to open workshops inside TUE prisons, where inmates would be 'properly paid' for hard TUE work, would pay their due of taxes and help fund victims' TUE support. TUE Mr Clarke points to a metal factory in a Merseyside prison TUE where prisoners work a 40 hour week and learn skills which TUE could make them more employable on release. He argues that TUE this will also make then less likely to return to crime. TUE But is this plan practicable? TUE Prison Governors say that two-thirds of their inmates were TUE unemployed before they started their sentences and that they TUE are generally reluctant to engage in meaningful work. They TUE say many of them can hardly read and write. TUE Governors also fear that moving jobs inside prison would TUE mean taking opportunities away from law-abiding job-seekers TUE outside. And they complain that it would prove costly in TUE terms of staff time. TUE One prison reform group which set up a pioneering graphic TUE design studio inside prison says the project was popular and TUE effective among prisoners but was forced to close following TUE hostility and obstruction from officers. TUE Gerry Northam asks if the government is overstating the TUE possible advantages of its policy, and investigates whether TUE it can be made to succeed at a time when the Ministry of TUE Justice faces funding cuts. TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b016ldtg (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b016ldtj (Listen) TUE "Nudge" was the best-selling book that David Cameron TUE famously ordered his shadow cabinet to read over their TUE summer holidays. The previous Labour government had already TUE shown some interest in the new science of behavioural TUE economics, but as Prime Minister, Cameron put the ideas of TUE University of Chicago behavioural economist, David Thaler, TUE at the heart of his government, and set up the world's first TUE Behavioural Insight Team, or "Nudge Unit". TUE TUE Based in the Cabinet Office and led by psychologist, David TUE Halpern, this small team is chewing over ways to persuade us TUE to make the "right" decisions about the way we live using a TUE nudge, rather than a regulatory shove - but will it work ? TUE TUE Claudia Hammond talks to the Behavioural Insight Team about TUE where they believe they can really make a difference and TUE finds out whether the psychological research to date, TUE justifies the belief that major policy challenges like TUE crime, obesity and environmental sustainability, can be TUE tackled using behavioural science. TUE TUE And Claudia hears from the critics, sceptical that evidence TUE of individual behaviour change can be extrapolated to whole TUE populations when it comes to the most serious problems in TUE our society. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b016ld4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b016k1fl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b016ldtl (Listen) TUE With Robin Lustig. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b016ldtn (Listen) TUE All That I Am, Episode 7 TUE TUE Today: Ruth remembers how as Dora succeeded in getting news TUE of Hitler's plans to the newspapers, Hans needed to find his TUE own way to make an impact. 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 b016ldtq (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE This is the world's first epistolary equine love story, TUE comprising the recently discovered passionate love letters TUE between Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse (played TUE by Daniel Rigby), and his hero Marengo (Stephen Fry). It is TUE the story of two horses united by an uncommon passion, TUE cruelly divided by a brutal 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 former racehorse ridden by the TUE Duke of Wellington. This collection of their moving letters TUE to each other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. TUE TUE Episode 2 sees Copenhagen becoming a warhorse, and Marengo TUE setting out into the vast Russian Steppe as he carries TUE Napoleon at the head of his vast army towards Moscow. As TUE uncertainty and conflict beset our heroes it puts strains on TUE their new relationship, especially when Copenhagen begins to TUE explore his physical side with really quite a lot of other TUE horses, and things begin to go less well for the French army TUE and its horses as winter sets in. 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 b0106rvs (Listen) TUE Home Time TUE TUE Phillip is about to take early retirement and has plans with TUE his golf friend Arnold to tour some of the best courses in TUE the country. Maybe it's time for mother to go into a home, TUE after all, she is losing her marbles and that wheelchair is TUE a burden. TUE TUE Poor June wants to stay in her own home but feels guilty TUE about her son having to care for her. Will Phillip feel TUE guilty? Will he end up missing watching his favourite TUE programmes with mother? Or will June make some new friends TUE and actually love her freedom and day trips? TUE TUE June: Anne Reid TUE Phillip: Timothy Spall TUE TUE Producer: Anna Madley TUE An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b016xkwq (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b016k1g5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b016p9z9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016k1g7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016k1g9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016k1gc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b016k1gf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016lf2d (Listen) WED with the Revd George Pitcher. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b016lf2g (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 b016lf2j (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in WED Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b016lf2l (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including actor Rita Tushingham. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b016pb9y (Listen) WED Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Jeanette Winterson WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b016lf2n (Listen) WED Joan Bakewell on her new novel. Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r15d (Listen) WED The Pillow Book, series 4, Episode 3 WED WED Episode three in a new series of Robert Forrest's popular WED thriller, set in 10th century Japan. Lady Shonagon and WED Lieutenant Yukinari are reunited for another adventure, this WED time beyond the safety of the Palace walls. WED WED The young Emperor has disappeared from the Palace into the WED wilds of Japan, to learn the ways of his people. Mischievous WED as ever, he has left behind him a challenge addressed to his WED champion Lieutenant Yukinari, and the detective's associate WED the Lady Shonagon, to find him. WED WED As the couple travel anonymously through Japan on the trail WED of the young royal, the Emperor himself is beginning to WED learn lessons - in fence building and facing his nemesis, WED the Bandit king, Inokichi. WED WED Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and WED lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese WED court. WED WED Written by Robert Forrest. WED WED Shonagon...........Ruth Gemmell WED Yukinari..............Cal Macaninch WED Emperor..............Freddie Rayner WED Kei.....................Brian Ferguson WED Isuzu..................Meg Fraser WED Inokichi...............Gary Lewis WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED 11:00 Too Many Books b01351q2 (Listen) WED It's something that most of us have to do, from time to WED time: get rid of old books. People moving house, someone WED whose partner has died, those simply needing more space in WED the kitchen find that their bookshelves just aren't big WED enough. WED WED Sarah Cuddon examines the difficult decisions behind the WED seemingly mundane choices we make when deciding which books WED stay and which books go. WED WED Amongst the people she talks to are Brian, who lives in WED Dorset. One shelf at a time, he wades through, weighing up a WED Delia Smith against a book about Spike Milligan. Does it WED stay on the shelf? Should it go in the box? Angel is WED contemplating a vast and varied collection of valuable WED volumes left after the death of her husband. Whilst Trevor WED in South East London peruses each title, skimming, pausing WED to reflect on his attachment to Boswell, Hunter S Thompson WED and James Lee Burke. They all stare at their shelves and WED start making painful decisions, based on their human WED relationship with individual books. WED WED What will happen to them? Are they destined for ebay? A high WED end auction? Or to get rained-on in a sad-looking plastic WED bag outside a charity shop? WED WED Sarah visits Britain's largest second hand bookshop. Every WED book has to justify its shelf space and Sarah discovers the WED fate of thousands of unwanted ones. WED WED Arriving early, pavement bookseller Mike assesses the WED clutter and junked belongings at a car boot sale. WED WED As the stories unfold, we learn that the reasons people hold WED on to them are as individual as the books. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Cuddon WED Producer: Tamsin Hughes WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b016lf2q (Listen) WED Murder by Proxy WED WED By Matthias McDonnel Bodkin 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 a country WED house murder and the devious talents of private detective WED Paul Beck. WED WED Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet WED Beck . . . . . Anton Lesser WED Lucy . . . . . Alex Tregear WED Jonathan . . . . . Stuart McLoughlin WED Mark . . . . . Simon Bubb WED Julia . . . . . Eloise Secker WED Neville . . . . . Sean Baker WED Tilley . . . . . Brian Bowles WED Mrs Beck . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b016lf2s (Listen) WED Combating shoplifting, Shisha row and Science and UK PLC WED WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b016k1gh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b016lf2v (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b016lf2x (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b016ldt8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b016lf2z (Listen) WED Immaculate WED WED by Merryn Glover WED WED When Lily, a young girl from a troubled background becomes WED pregnant, she insists she is still a virgin. A host of WED professionals swing into action. Lily becomes increasingly WED isolated: her belief is diagnosed as delusion, there are WED suspicions of abuse, and the unborn baby is shown to be WED severely disabled. But despite all of this, her conviction WED that God has chosen her for a miracle finds proof in the WED most unexpected ways. WED WED The play revolves around the three central characters of WED Lily; Bev, the bubbly, bossy manager of Lily's residential WED home; and Karen, the local GP. Lily is an impish, WED other-worldly fifteen-year-old who heads off a life of WED poverty, neglect and chaos with a profound faith whose power WED is demonstrated when she makes the alarming claim that her WED baby is from God. Whether that faith is sustaining or WED deluded - or both - is one of the central questions of the WED play. Not for Lily, though, who seems remarkably able to WED keep her head - and her sense of humour - when all around WED are losing theirs. WED WED Meanwhile Bev and Karen are increasingly in conflict with WED Lily, and with each other as they struggle to steer a WED professional route through the dilemmas and demands of the WED situation. In addition Bev's reputation is threatened when WED it is suggested she has been imposing her Christian faith on WED Lily. WED WED Merryn Glover has written short stories for Radio 4 and a WED thirty minute play for Radio Scotland - The Colour Of Light. WED WED LILY...............Helen Mackay WED KAREN...............Cathleen McCarron WED FRED. . . . ..............Ken Drury WED BEV........................Jane Whittenshaw WED MARJORY/radiographer.......Jenny Lee WED JEZ/STEVIE...............Ali Craig WED SINGER/MUSICIAN........Megg Nicol WED WED Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED WED 15:00 Stephanomics b016lf31 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third of three programmes, Stephanie Flanders WED discusses the global financial crisis with top economic WED thinkers. Together they debate the twists and turns of the WED world economy. They'll discuss growth and ask whether it's WED time to consider an alternative economic model. And they'll WED consider the implications of the euro's problems and the WED future for jobs in the western world. WED Producer: Caroline Bayley. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b016pkq1 (Listen) WED Moments Past, A Black Dog WED WED Written by Philippa Gregory. WED WED Read by Maureen Beattie. WED WED Short story series in which leading historical authors write WED about a particular moment from the past, one which went on WED to influence the future. WED WED Today, bestselling author Philippa Gregory examines the life WED and trial of of Eleanor Cobham: the unlucky Duchess of WED Gloucester, who married Duke Humphrey, uncle to Henry VI of WED England, in 1428 and was accused of treasonable necromancy - WED using magic to destroy the king. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:45 Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press WED Photographers b016lggd (Listen) WED The Tour de France WED WED Reporter Miles Warde follows photographer Geoff Waugh during WED this year's Tour De France. It's the last stage in the Alps, WED on the twenty one bends of Alpe d'Huez, and Geoff Waugh has WED to find the best place to stand. Cycling photography is WED notoriously difficult - unlike most sports, the action is WED not contained to a stadium but spread out along a course WED over a hundred kilometres long. Geoff describes in gripping WED detail what it is like to hang off the back of a motorbike, WED large lenses flapping around, while following the race. We WED hear from the sun-crazed fans lining the course, and also WED capture Geoff at work as the main contenders, including WED Alberto Contador, come past. "It's arms, legs, flags, WED motorbikes, noise, burning clutches - 250th of a second WED snippets.". WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b016lggg (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. Producer. Chris Wilson. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b016ldtj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b016lggj (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016k1gk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014r5qh (Listen) WED Series 4, Alan Davies WED WED Alan Davies tries five things he has never done before. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b016lggn (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b016lggq (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a review of John Hodge's play WED Collaborators, set in Moscow in 1938, with Simon Russell WED Beale as Stalin, and Alex Jennings as the writer Mikhail WED Bulgakov. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r15d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b016lggs (Listen) WED The Lawyer's Dilemma: Defending the Guilty, Suing the WED Innocent WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and WED judges discuss legal issues of the day. WED WED The third programme in the series explores the moral and WED ethical dilemmas faced by lawyers including those who are WED required to defend clients accused of rape, murder and other WED heinous crimes. What should a lawyer do if he or she knows WED or strongly suspects that a client is guilty? WED WED The brutal cross-examination in court of the parents of WED murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler raised concerns about the WED rules that control the limits to which a lawyer can go to WED defend a client in court. Are the rules fair? WED Among Clive's guests is Jeremy Moore, the solicitor who had WED briefed the defence barrister in the Millie Dowler murder WED trial. He staunchly defends the cross-examination tactics. WED WED The other guests are leading barristers Chris Sallon QC and WED Dinah Rose QC and Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Alan WED Moses, who defend the legal profession against a range of WED criticisms levelled by the public. WED Clive Anderson asks if the behaviour of lawyers needs to be WED more closely regulated or if we can we rely on their WED professional judgment? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b016lggv (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 28 WED WED Dreda Say Mitchell argues that the importance of cultural WED institutions like family, faith and community has been WED ignored in the debate about social mobility. WED WED Born into an extended working class family, she found her WED own upbringing was influenced by each of these institutions, WED and she believes their importance in promoting social WED mobility has been underestimated. 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 Frontiers b016lggx (Listen) WED For six months, CERN scientists guarded the best kept secret WED in science - that they'd seen tiny subatomic particles WED called neutrinos breaking the universal speed limit. The WED measurements were at the boundaries of scientific techniques WED - the discrepancy was just 10s of nanoseconds; parts of WED their apparatus barely ran at that speed. For six months WED they checked and then re- checked again every step of their WED analysis. And still the result held up. WED WED When the results were finally released at the end of WED September, the headline writers had a field day. Nothing WED sells copy like proof that Einstein was wrong. But fellow WED researchers at CERN were less excited. The overwhelming WED belief was that there still remained some hidden error. And WED for those who ran the experiment, the dreadful concern that WED sooner or later that error could turn up, and their triumph WED might become the stuff of mockery. And the next day the WED investigations continued. WED WED Roland Pease meets the scientists who have staked their WED reputations on the result, on the critics who think they can WED spot the mistake, and the theoreticians who think they can WED explain it all. WED WED Producer: Roland Pease. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b016lf2l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b016k1gm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b016lgkg (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b016lgkj (Listen) WED All That I Am, Episode 8 WED WED Today: As Dora finds a newer source at the heart of Hitler's WED government, Hans makes his own plans, and there's a knock at WED the door. 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 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b016lgkl (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Brand new series from Mark Watson where he reignites his WED quest to improve the world, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and WED Tom Basden and with the additional help of the listening WED audience as we broadcast live and invite them to join in. WED WED Mark will be asking the big questions that are crucial to WED our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic WED and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the WED live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation WED via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the WED world a better place. WED WED This week Mark looks at "Strength" - Strength comes in many WED forms. We all need to be strong sometimes in life, whether WED we're dealing with an emotional fall-out or carrying a WED really heavy dog to the vet's. Some have inner strength, WED like people who survive divorce etc; some have outer WED strength, like those guys you get who pull buses with their WED teeth in competitions. WED WED But can strength be - ironically - a weakness? Strength can WED have its downsides. Our fondness for displays of strength WED has led to disastrous episodes like wars breaking out and WED 'Gladiators' being brought back. Mr Strong, in the Mr Men WED books, got strong by eating a barn full of eggs, but must WED have suffered terrible side-effects. How can we be strong, WED but remain human? WED WED Mark Watson is a multi award winning comedian, including the WED inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim WED Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden WED who won the the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. WED WED Produced by Lianne Coop. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b016lgkn (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b016k1h6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b016pb9y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016k1h8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016k1hb (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016k1hd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b016k1hg (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016lh0z (Listen) THU with the Revd George Pitcher. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b016lh11 (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 b016lh13 (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in THU Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b016lh15 (Listen) THU The Moon THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and THU mythology of the moon. Humans have been fascinated with our THU only known satellite since prehistory. In some cultures the THU moon has been worshipped as a deity; in recent centuries THU there has been lively debate about its origins and physical THU characteristics. The advances of space science, including THU data from satellites and the moon landings, have given us THU some startling insights, but also posed intriguing THU questions. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b016pf5t (Listen) THU Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Jeanette Winterson THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b016lh17 (Listen) THU Cook the Perfect ... Soda Bread with Dan Lepard. Presented THU by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r1g1 (Listen) THU The Pillow Book, series 4, Episode 4 THU THU Episode four in a new series of Robert Forrest's popular THU thriller, set in 10th century Japan. Lady Shonagon and THU Lieutenant Yukinari are reunited for another adventure, this THU time beyond the safety of the Palace walls. THU THU The young Emperor has disappeared from the Palace into the THU wilds of Japan, to learn the ways of his people. Mischievous THU as ever, he has left behind him a challenge addressed to his THU champion Lieutenant Yukinari, and the detective's associate THU the Lady Shonagon, to find him. THU THU As the couple travel anonymously through Japan on the trail THU of the young Emperor, the boy has been kidnapped by his THU nemesis, the Bandit king, Inokichi. Meanwhile, Lieutenant THU Yukinari and Lady Shonagon find themselves, and each other, THU in a secret rose garden. THU THU Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and THU lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese THU court. THU THU Written by Robert Forrest. THU THU Shonagon..........Ruth Gemmell THU Yukinari ............Cal Macaninch THU Emperor............Freddie Rayner THU Inokichi.............Gary Lewis THU THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b016lh19 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Lawrence in New Mexico b016lh1c (Listen) THU "In the magnificent fierce morning of New Mexico one sprang THU awake, a new part of the soul woke up suddenly and the old THU world gave way to a new" THU - D.H. Lawrence, "New Mexico" THU THU The ashes of one of Britain's greatest writers lie lonely THU and untended in a tumbledown lodge, tens of thousands of THU miles from his birthplace. THU THU The Kiowa ranch at Taos, New Mexico was the only place that THU DH Lawrence could ever bear to call his 'home' - and the THU only property he ever owned. It was a place that haunted his THU spirit, which he yearned to return to in his fevered, THU consumptive dreams before his death. Later, his beloved THU Frieda was to return there with his remains and keep his THU flame alive. THU THU For the author and Lawrence devotee Geoff Dyer, this THU little-investigated corner of the American Southwest is THU where his hero wrote his greatest work: writings Geoff THU believes will stay contemporary long after Women in Love, THU Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley - whose THU once-revolutionary social and sexual mores drift slowly into THU anachronism. THU THU In the little-known letters, essays and nature writing THU Lawrence poured out in Taos's unique terrain, are brilliant, THU vivid, ephemeral depictions of native American culture and THU landscape - writings which, uniquely, hold up a mirror to THU the author's ravaged psyche. They reflect his neuroses about THU his home, his heart and his Englishness. For Geoff, you THU can't truly understand Lawrence until you understand what he THU experienced in Taos, New Mexico. THU THU Yet this little-known 'holy site' in Lawrentian studies that THU for decades thrived - welcoming Lawrence scholars and THU students (gratis) to experience the same unique creative THU atmosphere - is now falling dramatically into ruin. Its THU university owners say they have no money to maintain it; THU some locals carp that the faculty has no real interest. Only THU a hardy bunch of enthusiasts prevent Lawrence's only 'home' THU - and his poignant tomb - from being lost forever. THU THU Geoff Dyer returns to a place that first stole his own THU creative heart more than a decade ago to make a passionate THU plea for the 'unknown Lawrence': replacing our image of the THU fey, nervous, English novelist - with his anxieties about THU sex, class and gender - with a creative spirit finally at THU home in the rugged American deserts and mountains - riding THU horses, doing DIY, communing with native American culture THU and joyously penning some of the finest travel and nature THU writing of the 20th century. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b016lf2s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 12:57 Weather b016k1hj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b016lh1f (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b016wx2p (Listen) THU Away with the Fairies THU THU Dominic Arkwright asks why fairies, once threatening and THU scary meddlers in human affairs, have become innocent, pink THU and fluffy. THU THU He's joined by Irish storyteller Eddie Lenihan, fairy THU illustrator and writer Faye Durston, and folklorist Juliette THU Wood. We hear how Eddie successfully campaigned to save an THU ancient hawthorn near Shannon Airport which was threatened THU by a new bypass. It was, he argued, the portal to the other THU world of the fairies of Munster. The tree still stands, THU though surrounded by cars on three sides. THU THU Future editions include programmes on Glut, Japan, and THU Follow the Yellow Brick Road. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b016lggn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b016ljhy (Listen) THU No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, A Late Van Just Glimpsed THU THU written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith THU THU Episode One: A Late Van Just Glimpsed THU THU The first of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's THU enormously successful and popular series set in Botswana. THU THU Mma Ramotswe makes a ghostly sighting and there is THU disturbing news about Charlie, Mr JLB Matekoni's wayward THU apprentice and the ladies investigate unexplained, violent THU attacks on cattle. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for THU Mma Makutsi's wedding to Phuti Radiphuti , but tragedy THU awaits outside the shoe shop. THU THU Mma Ramotswe ..... Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi ..... Nadine Marshall THU Mr J L B Matekoni ..... Ben Onwukwe THU Housekeeper ..... Janice Acquah THU Woman by Road/Shoe Shop Assistant ..... Adjoa Andoh THU Charlie ..... Maynard Eziashi THU Mr Moeti ..... Nyasha Hatendi THU THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b016k6x8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b016kgmj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b016pktn (Listen) THU Moments Past, Hare Dreamer THU THU Written by Manda Scott. THU THU Read by Colette O'Neil. THU THU Short story series in which leading historical authors write THU about a particular moment from the past, one which went on THU to influence the future. THU THU Manda Scott's story takes us back to 61AD and imagines the THU mood of the Eceni elders on the eve of the final battle of THU the Boudican revolt - which came tantalisingly close to THU ridding Britain of the Roman legions. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:45 Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press THU Photographers b016ljj0 (Listen) THU 9/11 anniversary THU THU The tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York's THU twin towers was a solemn and emotional event. Miles Warde THU follows photographer Jane Mingay of the Daily Telegraph as THU she searches for the image which captures the day. The THU reading of the long list of names of those who perished THU moves the photographer almost to tears. In 2005, Jane Mingay THU took perhaps the most iconic shot of the London terrorist THU bombings, of a woman being helped away from a tube station, THU her face wrapped in a burn mask. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b016kj6y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b016ljj2 (Listen) THU Science programme reporting on developments across the THU disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, THU conveying the excitement they feel for their research THU projects. THU THU 17:00 PM b016ljj4 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016k1hl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Listen Against b016ljj6 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU A satirical look back over the past week of radio. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b016ljj8 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b016ljjb (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r1g1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b016ldt0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b016ljjd (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b016ld4x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b016lh15 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b016k1hn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b016ljlv (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b016ljlx (Listen) THU All That I Am, Episode 9 THU THU Today: Ruth learns the truth, too late to save her beloved. 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 b016ljlz (Listen) THU Episode 4 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 THU Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b016ljm1 (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b016k1j7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b016pf5t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016k1j9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016k1jc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016k1jf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b016k1jh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016ljwx (Listen) FRI with the Revd George Pitcher. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b016ljwz (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 b016ljx1 (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b016kgtz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b016pfyh (Listen) FRI Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Jeanette Winterson FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b016ljx3 (Listen) FRI The changing role of the bedroom. Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r2st (Listen) FRI The Pillow Book, series 4, Episode 5 FRI FRI The concluding episode in a new series of Robert Forrest's FRI popular thriller set in 10th century Japan. Lady Shonagon FRI and Lieutenant Yukinari have been reunited for another FRI adventure, this time beyond the safety of the Palace walls. FRI FRI The young Emperor has disappeared from the Palace into the FRI wilds of Japan, to learn the ways of his people. Mischievous FRI as ever, he has left behind him a challenge addressed to his FRI champion Lieutenant Yukinari, and Yukinari's associate the FRI Lady Shonagon, to find him. FRI FRI But a bandit king, Inokichi, is abroad in Japan. He knows FRI everything that happens in the land that he terrorizes and FRI has taken the young man, the Lieutenant and the Lady FRI captive. Yukinari knows Inokichi of old, they were boys FRI together, and this meeting has been a long time coming for FRI both of them. FRI FRI Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and FRI lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese FRI court. FRI FRI Written by Robert Forrest. FRI FRI Shonagon.........Ruth Gemmell FRI Yukinari............Cal Macaninch FRI Emperor...........Freddie Rayner FRI Inokichi............Gary Lewis FRI FRI Directed by Lu Kemp. FRI FRI 11:00 The Young Italians b016ljx5 (Listen) FRI Italy is losing it's young, talented professionals, driven FRI out by a stagnant domestic economy and an entrenched FRI employment market riddled with patronage and nepotism. As FRI the Prime Minister advocates marrying someone wealthy as a FRI means to get ahead, more and more young Italians are FRI choosing to find work, recognition and respect abroad. FRI FRI Alessandron Poggi is a young journalist living and working FRI in London. We follow him as he talks to family and friends FRI about life abroad, and his mixed feeling about leaving home. FRI FRI Young Italians in London are socially organised; they picnic FRI in Battersea Park; arrange costume balls, stage showings of FRI Italian movies, and complain of both homesickness and FRI disappointment in their homeland. As 29-year-old copywriter FRI Simone puts it; "If you're young in Italy you're a problem; FRI in other countries you're a resource." Silvia, a FRI construction project manager is similarly cynical about FRI opportunities back home; "If I was 45, or somebody's FRI daughter or mistress, I'd get work. But I'm not." FRI FRI Traditionally, ex-pat Italians have settled in London, FRI Glasgow and Manchester. London sees the greatest FRI concentration of Italians, young and old, at an estimated FRI 39000. We also hear from the old, established "Britalians" FRI who came in previous waves of immigration about the Italian FRI experience of Britain. FRI FRI 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b016ljx7 (Listen) FRI January 1st to 5th FRI FRI Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen comprises the FRI entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien FRI Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, FRI Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day FRI life, "no matter how grizzly or, indeed, how gristly". FRI FRI This first episode finds Damien and his partner, Anthony, FRI deciding on their New Year's Resolutions. They start by FRI finally making up their minds to commit to each FRI other...namely, by signing up a builder, Mr Mullaney (played FRI by Brandan Dempsey) to install a new kitchen which Damien FRI hopes will eventually become the food and preparation space FRI that he's always dreamed of. FRI FRI On top of all this, Anthony decides to get fit and Damien FRI decides to do a radio programme about the French bean. But FRI not everything goes according to plan... FRI FRI The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes: FRI for a "Super Simple" Roast Beef, cooking your own pasta, and FRI "Marvellously Moist Muffins". FRI FRI Miles Jupp as Damien Trench FRI Justin Edwards as Anthony FRI with FRI Selina Cadell as Damien's mother FRI Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney FRI Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher FRI and FRI Alex Tregear as the Researcher FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b016ljx9 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b016k1jk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b016lkgd (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b016lkgg (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 b016ljj8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b016lkgj (Listen) FRI No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Saturday Big Tent FRI Wedding FRI FRI written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith FRI FRI Episode Two: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding FRI FRI The second of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall FRI Smith's enormously successful and popular series set in FRI Botswana. FRI FRI The ladies solve the case of the murdered cattle. Mma FRI Makutsi is feeling anxious about her upcoming wedding to FRI Phuti Radiphuti and an old friend comes to the rescue. And FRI Charlie is let off the hook. FRI FRI Mma Ramotswe ..... Claire Benedict FRI Mma Makutsi ..... Nadine Marshall FRI Mr J L B Matekoni ..... Ben Onwukwe FRI Housekeeper/Mma Potokwani ..... Janice Acquah FRI Maid ..... Adjoa Andoh FRI Charlie/Teacher ..... Maynard Eziashi FRI Mr Moeti ..... Nyasha Hatendi FRI Fortitude Seleo/Priest ..... Obi Abili FRI Mpho ..... Beru Tessema FRI Phuti Radiphuti ..... Jude Akuwudike FRI Prudence ..... Gbemisola Ikumelo FRI FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b016lkgl (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition, Sparsholt College FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel answer the questions you have sent FRI in by post and email. FRI BBC Gardeners' World Magazine's Kate Bradbury advises on FRI protecting your pond in winter. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press FRI Photographers b016lkgn (Listen) FRI Return to Rwanda FRI FRI Miles Warde talks to photographer Mike Goldwater, recently FRI back from Rwanda where he made moving recordings of the FRI people he photographed. These include a woman whose husband FRI is now in jail for genocide crimes. Mike was in Rwanda FRI during the genocide, and won a world press award for his FRI picture of a young Hutu girl caught up in the ethnic FRI fighting in Burundi the previous year. We hear from both the FRI photographer and his subjects about how the war affected FRI their lives. FRI The producer is Miles Warde. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b016lkgq (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's weekly obituaries FRI programme. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b016lkgs (Listen) FRI With Francine Stock. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b016lkgv (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016k1jm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b016lkgx (Listen) FRI Series 75, Episode 9 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Andy FRI Hamilton and Dom Joly. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b016lkgz (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b016lkh1 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016r2st (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b016lkh3 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from King's School, Ely, in Cambridgeshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b016lkh5 (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00prgb0 (Listen) FRI Deep Cut FRI FRI Written by Philip Ralph. Adapted from his original stage FRI play of the same name. FRI FRI Deep Cut is a radio adaptation of the award-winning FRI production which has been performed at the Edinburgh FRI Festival, in London and on tour in the UK. The central FRI characters are Des and Doreen James, and the play follows FRI their search for an answer as to why their 18 year old FRI daughter Private Cheryl James was found shot dead at Deepcut FRI training barracks on November 27th 1995. FRI FRI The play was drawn together by writer Philip Ralph from FRI verbatim transcripts of interviews, alongside publicly FRI available documents. It traces the events surrounding FRI Cheryl's death from the points of view of her parents and FRI her female Army friend Jonesy, weaving in the statements by FRI Nicholas Blake QC, who was commissioned to carry out the FRI judicial review, as well as, among others, comments from the FRI independent forensics expert Frank Swann, and the journalist FRI Brian Cathcart. FRI FRI Des and Doreen are at the heart of the play and their FRI poignant memories of their daughter alternate with FRI bewilderment at her sudden and unexpected death. Cheryl was FRI one of four recruits, each of whom was found shot dead FRI between 1995 and 2002. The result of the review by Nicholas FRI Blake in 2006 affirmed that the most likely explanation was FRI suicide, and that there would not be a further public FRI enquiry. Des and Doreen feel passionately that there are FRI questions still to be answered. FRI FRI Des James ..... Pip Donaghy FRI Doreen James ..... Janice Cramer FRI Nicholas Blake QC ...... Simon Molloy FRI Jonesy ...... Amy Morgan FRI Frank Swann ....... Robert Willox FRI Brian Cathcart ...... Derek Hutchinson FRI Colonel Nigel Josling ....... Adam James FRI Bruce George ...... Rhydian Jones FRI FRI Music & Sound Design: Mike Furness FRI Recorded & Edited by Richard Bignell FRI Director: Mick Gordon FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b016k1jp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b016lkh7 (Listen) FRI With Ritula Shah. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b016lkh9 (Listen) FRI All That I Am, Episode 10 FRI FRI Today: Ruth remembers the dark days after Dora's death and FRI how she tried to make amends. 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 b016ldt2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b016lkhc (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the news from Westminster. FRI
28 October, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 29/10/2011 - 04/11/2011
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