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SAT SATURDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b016lkjg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b016pfyh (Listen) SAT Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Episode 5 SAT SAT 'Why be happy when you could be normal ?' was the parting SAT shot fired at the 16 year old Jeanette as she left the home SAT of her adopted mother, Mrs Winterson. The words echoed SAT through the author's life as she repeatedly sought happiness SAT and love whilst constantly being aware that her early life SAT had included neither. SAT SAT When she was six weeks old baby Janet became Jeanette and SAT was taken into the home of two Pentecostal Christian parents SAT in the small town of Accrington. The tyranny of her mother's SAT peculiar belief system and her uncompromising rules meant SAT that the young Jeanette grew up being told that the devil SAT had led her parents to the wrong crib. Mrs Winterson banned SAT books from the house but read the Bible aloud every night; SAT she also kept a revolver in the duster drawer and refused to SAT share a bed with her husband. Jeanette was frequently SAT punished for misdemeanours by being locked outside and left SAT to spend the night on the doorstep. Nothing was 'normal' in SAT the household. Jeanette was supposed to grow up and become a SAT missionary in Africa, instead she fell in love with another SAT girl and was subjected to an exorcism. SAT SAT Elements of the story are familiar to those who read her SAT fictionalised version of this childhood in Oranges Are Not SAT the Only Fruit (1985). This memoir exposes some of the SAT harsher truths and more bizarre incongruities. But it is SAT also the story of how in later life, and recent years, the SAT profound sense of loss and absence was catastrophically SAT detonated by the end of a relationship. Struggling to remain SAT intact, still clinging to her passion for language and SAT literature, the author began to rebuild her sense of self SAT and the way she lives her life. Love arrived and so too did SAT a sense of home - and with it the courage to go back into SAT the past and find the person who had always wanted her in SAT those first few weeks of life. SAT SAT Funny, acute, fierce and celebratory, this is a tough-minded SAT search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a SAT mother. SAT SAT Read by Jeanette Winterson SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016lkjj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016lkjl (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016lkjn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b016lkjq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016lkls (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day SAT on Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b016lklv (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b016lkjs (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b016lkjv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b010dd3s (Listen) SAT Horseback UK SAT SAT Helen Mark is in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire to find out how SAT horses and the natural landscape of Royal Deeside are SAT helping wounded and serving military personnel. Set up by SAT ex-marine Jock Hutchison and his wife Emma, Horseback UK is SAT a charity aiming to provide a safe and secure environment SAT for soldiers returning from active service or those that SAT have already left, many of whom have suffered injury or SAT acute stress as a result of active service. The charity uses SAT equine therapy and the value of the great outdoors and SAT nature therapy to provide part of the rehabilitation process SAT for serving personnel and veterans from the UK military. SAT Helen hears from Jock about their hope that those who have SAT lived their lives on the edge will benefit from the SAT opportunities available to them in the peace and SAT tranquillity of the countryside and the quality of life this SAT offers. Fundamental to this is the relationship with the SAT horses and the style of Western riding which gives these SAT guys the experience of being a cowboy high up in the saddle SAT and looking down on countryside that they might previously SAT not have noticed as they passed through. Mixing equine SAT therapy, nature therapy and adventure training the aim is SAT for people to learn about opportunities in the Scottish SAT countryside, including game-keeping, horsemanship, fishing SAT etc. while getting to know their local community. Helen SAT hears from Jay Hare and Rick Anderson, two of the people who SAT have benefited from the centre, and also from Eric Baird at SAT the nearby Glen Tanar Estate, one of the areas that is SAT supporting the charity by encouraging people there to become SAT involved in conservation work. At the heart of everything SAT are the horses and the way in which they are used to SAT integrate the people they carry on their backs into the SAT community and countryside of the Royal Deeside landscape. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b016vx6t (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte SAT Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b016lkjx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b016vx6w (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b016vx6y (Listen) SAT Allegra McEvedy, Murray Lachlan Young, Omid Djalili, SAT freegan, firework funeral, Randy Newman SAT SAT Richard Coles with chef Allegra McEvedy, poet Murray Lachlan SAT Young, one woman who wants to be a firework when she dies SAT and another who lives on stuff that's been thrown away; SAT comedian Omid Djalili plays bongos and singer-songwriter and SAT all round musical legend Randy Newman shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b016vx70 (Listen) SAT Panama - North Korea SAT SAT John McCarthy focuses on Panama with Verol Gordon who has SAT moved there with his family and explains the attractions of SAT a new life in a fast developing land. John also meets SAT foreign correspondent Nicholas Wood who has turned his hand SAT to running tours of some of the world's politically SAT sensitive spots. They are joined by playwright Samantha SAT Holcroft and economist Alistair Muriel who recently SAT accompanied him on a trip to North Korea to find out if they SAT could get any closer to this controversial country. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Honest Musician's Fear of Accidental Plagiarism SAT b00xw21s (Listen) SAT Many musicians have found themselves accused of stealing SAT from another artist. It's every songwriter's biggest fear - SAT that really great phrase or lyric you thought was all your SAT own creation turns up in another song. There are few SAT musicians who would admit to stealing even if caught red SAT handed, but what happens if the theft was unintentional? And SAT what if you heard lines from one of your songs in someone SAT else's work? Would you immediately reach for the lawyers SAT phone number or would you let it go without complaint if the SAT offending writer 'fessed up? Musicians assimilate what is SAT around them and even the finest tunesmiths derive SAT inspiration by drawing on and re-adapting existing popular SAT music. So is any song really original? SAT SAT As Noel Gallagher put it rather bluntly when confronted SAT about his musical influences: "There's twelve notes in a SAT scale and 36 chords and that's the end of it. All the SAT configurations have been done before." SAT SAT Singer and songwriter Guy Garvey, with the help of fellow SAT songwriters Sir Tim Rice, Paul Heaton and John Bramwell, SAT explores the legal pitfalls that can befall the honest SAT musician and how to avoid them. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b016vx72 (Listen) SAT Fraser Nelson of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT Peter Mulligan is the editor. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b016vx74 (Listen) SAT America has the Wild West, Russia has its Far East. And SAT Reggie Nadelson's there, in the port city of Vladivostok. SAT The city, once closed to foreigners, is getting a big SAT makeover. It'll be the new San Francisco, some claim. Paul SAT Moss is in Athens where it's been a week of uncertainty and SAT high political drama. Herman Cain is the choice of many SAT Republicans to be the man to contest next year's SAT presidential election. But his campaign's been sidelined by SAT allegations of sexual harassment. Mark Mardell's been SAT following his campaign. There's a new rail line in SAT Jerusalem. Matthew Teller says it provides interesting SAT travel possibilities but it's also proving controversial. SAT And Hugh Schofield's been to the south of France to talk to SAT the iconic fashion designer Pierre Cardin and hear how he SAT saw off all his rivals. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b016vx76 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b016lkgx (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 9 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Andy SAT Hamilton and Dom Joly. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b016lkjz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b016lkk1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b016lkh3 (Listen) SAT Ely, Cambridgeshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a live panel discussion of news SAT and politics from King's School, Ely, in Cambridgeshire, SAT with Secretary of State for Transport, Justine Greening; SAT shadow secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural SAT Affairs, Mary Creagh; columnist and author James Delingpole; SAT and editor in chief of medical journal, The Lancet, Richard SAT Horton. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b016vxyx (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00p7g8q (Listen) SAT The Middle SAT SAT by Amelia Bullmore SAT SAT Clare is the golden middle sister in a family headed by a SAT formidable matriarch, Luca. Clare meets and quickly marries SAT Martin, who falls just as much in love with her fun, sparky SAT family. But Martin makes a mistake and sets in train a SAT series of events which brings the family to its knees. SAT SAT Clare ..... Emma Cunniffe SAT Martin ..... Ben Miles SAT Nicky ..... Anna Madeley SAT Justine ..... Eve Matheson SAT Luca ..... Paola Dionisotti SAT Karl ..... Nigel Pilkington SAT Owen ..... Baxter Willis SAT Mick ..... John Biggins SAT Ed ..... Piers Wehner SAT Donna ..... Melissa Advani SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b016ld55 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Handel's Firework Suite SAT SAT 'The Peace is signed between us, France, and Holland, but SAT does not give the least joy; the stocks do not rise, and the SAT merchants are unsatisfied.in short, there has not been the SAT least symptom of public rejoicing; but the government is to SAT give a magnificent firework. SAT (Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 October 1748)' SAT SAT Handel was commissioned by King George II to compose an SAT orchestral work to accompany a lavish firework display to SAT celebrate the end of Austrian War of Succession. SAT SAT It was the most spectular display of fireworks ever seen and SAT crowds queued for hours to enter the park. The festivities SAT went on for nine hours with part of the pavillion catching SAT fire. SAT SAT Christopher Hogwood, Graham Sheen, Ruth Rostron and Nicolas SAT Bell join Frances Fyfield around the maunscript to look at SAT Handel's original intentions in one of his most popular SAT orchestral works. Included with the artefacts is a pamplet SAT detailing the order of the firework display. It makes the SAT millenium firework celebrations look puny by comparison! SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b016vxz1 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b016vxz3 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b016ljjd (Listen) SAT Special Relationship 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 panel consider the secrets of a happy SAT business marriage - those key symbiotic partnerships SAT companies have with each other. They also discuss whether SAT flat organisations work best. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Mike Roney, chief executive SAT of business supplies distributor Bunzl; James Reed, chairman SAT of recruitment specialist Reed; Nicola Shaw, chief executive SAT of HS1, the fast rail link from London to the Channel SAT Tunnel. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b016lkk3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b016lkk5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016lkk7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b016vxz7 (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Hallelujah! Our prayers have been answered because the SAT divine Tom Hollander will be giving a sermon on his role as SAT inner city 'Rev' Adam Smallbone, who struggles to remain SAT relevant in his inner-city parish, where he's largely SAT derided by his tiny flock of misfits. A new series of 'Rev' SAT begins on Thursday at 9pm on BBC2 SAT SAT Next up Guys and Dolls, is the very entertaining conductor SAT and arranger, John Wilson, who has painstakingly SAT reconstructed the scores to the classic MGM film musicals. SAT He'll soon be conducting his orchestra's 'Hurrah For SAT Hollywood!' tour, which celebrates some of the best loved SAT songs from Hollywood's golden age. SAT SAT And there's more moustachioed mayhem this week as Emma Freud SAT will be heckling comedian, Cheryl Cole impersonator and fine SAT moustache owner Rufus Hound. His book 'Stand Up Put Downs' SAT is a collection of hilarious heckler put-downs from his SAT friends on the comedy circuit, past comedy legends and his SAT own performances. He also has a DVD out 'Rufus Hound is SAT Being Rude'. SAT SAT Artist and living legend, Andrew Logan will be donning his SAT swimwear to show off about his new documentary, delving into SAT the glittering world of the spectacularly outrageous costume SAT pageant, the Alternative Miss World Show. 'The British Guide SAT To Showing Off' is in cinemas from 11 November. SAT SAT Wretch 32 or 'The Metaphor Man', as he is referred to by the SAT grime glitterati, has lived up to the hype of being one of SAT of this year's biggest music success stories and will be SAT performing his new single 'Forgiveness'. SAT SAT And never one to be kept quiet, the exuberantly defiant SAT Memphis rebel Amy LaVere will be playing 'Stranger Me'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b016vxz9 (Listen) SAT Mario Draghi SAT SAT The new President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi SAT now finds himself at the centre of the European financial SAT crisis. SAT SAT The appointment of an Italian to this key role, from a SAT country no stranger to inflation and which is itself at risk SAT of defaulting may have raised some eyebrows, but Draghi was SAT once dubbed 'Super Mario' for his combination of financial SAT and diplomatic intelligence. SAT SAT Lesley Curwen profiles the cool mountain climbing banker and SAT charts his path to the top of European banking. SAT SAT Reporter: Lesley Curwen SAT Producer: Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b016vxzc (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Lionel Shriver and SAT writers Ekow Eshun and Misha Glenny review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Collaborators by John Hodge. SAT SAT THEATRE Collaborators by John Hodge at the National Theatre SAT - stars Simon Russell Beale as Stalin and Alex Jennings as SAT Bulgakov SAT SAT FILM The Future directed by Miranda July SAT SAT BOOK The Beautiful Indifference - Sarah Hall SAT SAT TV Life's Too Short - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's SAT new comedy on BBC3 SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b016vxzf (Listen) SAT The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell SAT SAT As a companion piece to his archive hour on Rupert Murdoch, SAT Steve Hewlett presents this programme on Murdoch's late SAT archrival: Robert Maxwell. Unlike Murdoch's, Maxwell's life SAT is a classic 'rags-to-riches' story. SAT SAT However, Maxwell's character appears less like that of a SAT happily-ever-after Cinderella tale and more like that of SAT Genghis Khan, born in poverty to become an infamous, SAT charismatic head of a vast empire only to die in uncertain SAT circumstances. SAT SAT Steve speaks to former Union leader Brenda Dean, Roy SAT Greenslade who edited the Daily Mirror, Maxwell's former SAT 'chief of staff' Peter Jay, Maxwell's 'other woman' Wendy SAT Leigh, the Mirror's former political editor Alastair SAT Campbell and Pandora Maxwell, who married into the family SAT and intimately witnessed Robert's relationship with his son SAT Kevin. SAT SAT Robert Maxwell was born Jan Ludvik Hoch in Czechoslovakia to SAT a poor Orthodox Jewish family, claiming that he didn't own a SAT pair of shoes until the age of seven and only received three SAT years of education. He somehow fled from the Carpathian SAT Mountains to Britain at the age of seventeen while the rest SAT of his remaining family were killed in Auschwitz. Maxwell SAT changed his name and entered the British Army, rising to the SAT ranks of a decorated captain. SAT SAT With Maxwell Communications Corporation, he sat atop a vast SAT trans-continental publishing empire. That is, until his body SAT was found in the Mediterranean Sea. SAT SAT Producer: Colin McNulty SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b016kj6w (Listen) SAT The Heat of the Day, Episode 1 SAT SAT Adapted by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick. SAT SAT Elizabeth Bowen's wartime novel of betrayal adapted from a SAT screenplay by Harold Pinter. Part love story, part spy SAT thriller, in which the beautiful Stella's allegiances are SAT tested. SAT SAT Stella discovers that her lover, Robert, who works for SAT British Intelligence, is suspected of selling classified SAT information to the enemy. Harrison, the man who has tracked SAT Robert down, wants Stella herself as the price for his SAT silence. Caught between these two men, not sure whom to SAT believe, Stella finds her world crumbling as she learns how SAT little we can truly know of those around us. SAT SAT First published in 1949, The Heat of the Day was Bowen's SAT most successful novel. In it she draws heavily on her affair SAT with Charles Ritchie, a Canadian diplomat, to whom the book SAT is dedicated. The tortuous nature of their affair is SAT reflected in the doubts and uncertainties of Stella's SAT relationship with Robert. Robert and Stella share the same SAT ages (and age difference) as Bowen and Ritchie. SAT SAT Bowen's preoccupation with the cracks below the surface and SAT the psychology of hurt and betrayal is echoed in Harold SAT Pinter's work. Pinter's style and Bowen's dialogue find a SAT perfect marriage in this adaptation. SAT SAT Directed by Tristram Powell SAT SAT Screenwriter ..... Henry Goodman SAT Harrison ..... Matthew Marsh SAT Stella ...... Anna Chancellor SAT Robert ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Louie/ Anne ...... Teresa Gallagher SAT Roderick ...... Daniel Weyman SAT Ernestine ...... Honeysuckle Weeks SAT Mrs Kelway/ Mrs Tringsby ...... Tina Gray SAT Cousin Francis/ Blythe ...... Nigel Anthony SAT Nettie ....... Gemma Jones SAT Peter ...... Ben Baker SAT SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b016lkk9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b016lggs (Listen) SAT The Lawyer's Dilemma: Defending the Guilty, Suing the SAT Innocent SAT SAT Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and SAT judges discuss legal issues of the day. SAT SAT The third programme in the series explores the moral and SAT ethical dilemmas faced by lawyers including those who are SAT required to defend clients accused of rape, murder and other SAT heinous crimes. What should a lawyer do if he or she knows SAT or strongly suspects that a client is guilty? SAT SAT The brutal cross-examination in court of the parents of SAT murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler raised concerns about the SAT rules that control the limits to which a lawyer can go to SAT defend a client in court. Are the rules fair? SAT Among Clive's guests is Jeremy Moore, the solicitor who had SAT briefed the defence barrister in the Millie Dowler murder SAT trial. He staunchly defends the cross-examination tactics. SAT SAT The other guests are leading barristers Chris Sallon QC and SAT Dinah Rose QC and Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Alan SAT Moses, who defend the legal profession against a range of SAT criticisms levelled by the public. SAT Clive Anderson asks if the behaviour of lawyers needs to be SAT more closely regulated or if we can we rely on their SAT professional judgment? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b016kkbx (Listen) SAT (12/12) SAT If five contains four, and six contains nine, but eight and SAT nine each contain only one, how many will you find in seven? SAT SAT This and all of the other devious questions in the last SAT edition of the current series have been suggested by SAT listeners, and to tackle them Tom Sutcliffe is joined by the SAT teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. As ever, the SAT cryptic questions draw on everything from history to SAT literature, classical music to cinema, physics to football. SAT SAT At the end of the contest it will become clear which of the SAT six regular teams has taken the Round Britain Quiz SAT champions' title for 2011. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b016kj70 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Ruth Padel presents a landmark series exploring the SAT pleasures of writing and reading poems. SAT SAT Poetry is everywhere, and all over the country workshops of SAT aspiring poets meet to work together on their craft. The SAT Edinburgh School of Poets is one such group, and Ruth joins SAT them to work on three of their poems on the theme of 'Family SAT Ties'. The text of all the poems featured will be available SAT on the Radio 4 website a few days before the broadcast. SAT SAT Ruth and the group listen to the poems and offer practical SAT and inspirational pointers to each other. As they go behind SAT the scenes of the poems, testing and pruning, exploring SAT technical things like structure, rhyme and line endings, SAT they reveal the imagination and the skill that makes poetry SAT so rewarding for both writers and readers of poetry. SAT SAT The poems from the group include about a tender one about SAT the never ending anxieties of motherhood, which includes SAT some interesting Scottish words like 'stravaiging'. There's SAT also a funny piece about the pre-occupation with genealogy, SAT and a moving poem about an attempt to piece together a SAT picture of a lost family member from their remaining SAT personal effects. SAT SAT The group also share and appreciate a poem by the award SAT winning poet Don Paterson, called The Thread. SAT SAT Producers: Sarah Langan and Sara Davies. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b016vpld (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00r0tbv (Listen) SUN Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight, The Ghost Writer SUN SUN Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight SUN SUN The second of a series of supernatural tales commissioned by SUN Radio 4 for last year's Bath Literature Festival. SUN 2/3 The Ghost Writer by Amanda Craig, read by John Telfer SUN SUN Justin Vest, critically-acclaimed but poorly-selling SUN novelist, is staying temporarily in the home of the late, SUN wildly successful, very pink and fluffy writer Arabella SUN Fysshe. At first glance they don't have much in common - for SUN a start, he's alive and she isn't - but Arabella has some SUN unfinished business with the world. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016vplg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016vplj (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016vpll (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b016vpln (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b016vydh (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's in Abergavenny, Gwent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b016vxz9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b016vplq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b016vydk (Listen) SUN Running with the Crowd SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the idea of 'Running with the Crowd' SUN from the Gordon Riots in the eighteenth century to Woodstock SUN in the 60s or the Arab Spring a few months ago. He asks why SUN it is that being part of a crowd moves individuals in SUN different ways than the same event experienced alone, and SUN examines the positive and negative aspects of being part of SUN a crowd. SUN SUN With the help of the work of Peter Ackroyd, Dannie Abse, SUN V.S. Naipaul and Shakespeare and with music by J. S. Bach, SUN Malcolm Arnold, Joni Mitchell and Aaron Copeland, Mark Tully SUN picks his way through different crowds and asks whether they SUN are destructive or empowering. 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 b016vydm (Listen) SUN The Celtic Rainforest SUN SUN High in the hills of the Snowdonia National Park in Wales, SUN can be found a rare and fascinating habitat. For this weeks' SUN Living World, Paul Evans joins Ray Woods from Plantlife SUN Cymru on a voyage of discovery into the Celtic Rainforest. SUN SUN In an area where 200 days of rain each year is normal, Paul SUN and Ray don their waterproofs and venture up the valley of SUN the Rhaeadr Ddu, the Black Waterfall. The landscape in this SUN valley is dominated by water, not only from the exceptional SUN rainfall this area is known for, but from the river SUN thundering along many rapids and waterfalls providing a SUN constant mist of high humidity within the Atlantic wood SUN enveloping the valley. Linked to a mild climate in this part SUN of Wales, everything in the woodland is a carpeted in a SUN magical sea of emerald green moss, fungi and lichen. SUN SUN This valley is home to some rare and exotic plants, the SUN filmy ferns are however special in this landscape. Ray and SUN Paul eventually make it to the side of the huge Rhaeadr Ddu SUN waterfall itself, where, as the roar of the water almost SUN drowns their voices, there on a single rocky outcrop, bathed SUN in constant spray they discover the rare, minute and SUN exotically beautiful Tunbridge Filmy-fern. Nearby a Wilson's SUN Filmy-fern is found on a single boulder of an ancient moss SUN encrusted dry stone wall. How did this Filmy-fern get here SUN is a point of discussion. SUN SUN We all know of the importance of the Tropical Rainforests, SUN however these Celtic Rainforests are in a way even rarer, SUN with Britain being home to most of the best preserved SUN examples in the World. The Valley is changing and time could SUN possibly be running out for these remarkable and sensitive SUN habitats, which have been suffering from pollution and SUN climate change since the dawn of the Industrial Age. SUN SUN Producer : Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b016vpls (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b016vplv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b016vysc (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b016vysf (Listen) SUN Inquest SUN SUN Benjamin Zephaniah presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Inquest. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1046650 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Send a cheque payable to Inquest to Freepost BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal. SUN Mark the back of the envelope Inquest SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Inquest SUN SUN INQUEST is a charity that provides a free advice service to SUN bereaved people on contentious deaths and their SUN investigation with a particular focus on deaths in custody. SUN Casework also informs our research, parliamentary, SUN campaigning and policy work. SUN SUN Founded in 1981, it is a small charitable organisation with SUN a staff team of ten and the only organisation in England and SUN Wales that provides a specialist, comprehensive advice SUN service to bereaved people, lawyers, other advice and SUN support agencies, the media, MPs and the wider public on SUN contentious deaths and their investigation. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b016vplx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b016vplz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b016vysh (Listen) SUN A eucharist celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth SUN of educational pioneer Nathaniel Woodard. Live from Lancing SUN College Chapel, the first school he founded. Woodard's SUN concern was for the education of the middle classes at a SUN time of revolution on the Continent and unrest at home, in SUN the context of a clear Christian, and eucharistic tradition. SUN That legacy broadened to the involvement of some forty state SUN and independent schools, including recently five academies. SUN With BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year 2010 Ella SUN Taylor, who is a pupil at Lancing. Director of Music: Neil SUN Cox; Chaplain, Fr Richard Harrison; Preacher: The Revd Wendy SUN Dalrymple, Chaplain of The Sir Robert Woodard Academy, SUN Lancing. Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b016lkh5 (Listen) SUN On Tyrants SUN SUN From the ingeniously ghastly ways they killed their SUN opponents to their weird forms of dress, Mary Beard reflects SUN on the uncanny similarities between Colonel Gaddafi and the SUN tyrants of ancient Rome. SUN SUN She argues that the similarities were present in life - and SUN in death. SUN SUN "On 11 March 222 AD," she writes, "a posse of rebel soldiers SUN tracked down the Roman emperor Elagabalus to his hiding SUN place. The tyrant was holed up in a latrine, desperately SUN hoping to keep clear of the liberators, who were out for his SUN blood". She continues: "The story goes that the rebels SUN rooted him out, killed him, triumphantly dragged his body SUN through the streets of Rome and then threw his mutilated SUN remains into a drain." SUN SUN Mary suggests modern and ancient tyrant are portrayed as SUN sharing a penchant for eccentric accommodation, like SUN Gaddafi's tent and Nero's infamous "Golden House". And they SUN seem to enjoy dubious hobbies - such as Emperor Domitian's SUN obsession with stabbing flies and Gaddafi's obsessive SUN collection of pictures of Condoleeza Rice, which were stuck SUN in a scrapbook. SUN SUN But she argues that these stereotypes of tyrants are little SUN more than half-truths and hearsay....an easy way of making a SUN figure of fear into a figure of fun. SUN SUN The reality, she says, is much more nuanced. "Badness", she SUN suggests, "comes in inconveniently complicated ways. Most SUN bad people are good in parts". SUN SUN How often, she asks, are we told that life expectancy in SUN Libya far exceeds that of its neighbours, that Libya has SUN substantially lower child mortality than its neighbours, the SUN highest literacy rate in North Africa, free hospitals and SUN free childcare. SUN SUN "My point is not that we should see Gaddafi as a good man" SUN she says. Rather that "among all the things that have been SUN going terribly wrong under the Gaddafi regime, some things SUN have been going right". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b016w0mx (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b016w0mz (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Graham Harvey SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer 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 Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Clive Horrobin..... Alex Jones. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b016w0n1 (Listen) SUN Francesca Simon SUN SUN Children's author Francesca Simon is interviewed by Kirsty SUN Young for Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b016lbpt (Listen) SUN Series 4, Alex Horne, Sara Wheeler & Alain De Botton 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 b016w0n3 (Listen) SUN Into the Wild SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the world of the commercial forager. SUN As chefs become increasingly interested in sourcing wild SUN ingredients, who are the people turning it into a SUN profession? SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b016vpm1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b016w0n5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; SUN twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The State of Israel b016w0n7 (Listen) SUN Israel suddenly finds itself lonely in an uncertain world. SUN The Arab Spring has meant it has lost Egypt, a key ally. SUN Turmoil in Syria threatens the stability of an enemy who was SUN at least a known quantity. Inept handling has destroyed the SUN friendship with Turkey. And Iran remains an active threat. SUN Now the Palestinians are nominally united and rivalling SUN Israel in international diplomacy with their quest for SUN statehood. SUN SUN The BBC's former Jerusalem correspondent Tim Franks asks how SUN this looks from the Israeli perspective. SUN SUN He finds a nation which is turning in on itself and which SUN is, surprisingly, in a more consensual position now than it SUN has perhaps ever been. Its strong high-tech sector has meant SUN healthy economic growth, though record numbers demonstrated SUN against high food prices and rents. There is - broadly - a SUN consensus on the need for a two-state solution, but no SUN belief that it will happen soon. SUN SUN In the meantime, there are subtle, but potentially tectonic SUN shifts. The right are entrenching their grip on the SUN institutions of the country. The CEO of the Settlers' SUN Council is not some hilltop firebrand, but a high-tech SUN millionaire who doesn't even live in the West Bank. The SUN settlers are making their presence felt more in the army. SUN Demographics are pulling Israel in opposite directions, with SUN both ultra-orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs having the most SUN children. SUN What is holding Israel together, is a defensive crouch - a SUN conviction that international pressure only proves that they SUN are right to depend on themselves. SUN Tim Franks explores the complexities of contemporary Israel SUN in the company of leading politicians, thinkers and artists SUN and finds a country "sitting on the side of the volcano, SUN sipping cappuccinos." SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b016lkgl (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition, Sparsholt College SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel answer the questions you have sent SUN in by post and email. SUN BBC Gardeners' World Magazine's Kate Bradbury advises on SUN protecting your pond in winter. SUN SUN What is a Pride of India tree? How rare is Clematis wilt and SUN how to store your almond crop. All this and much, much more. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Underwater Gendarme b016w0n9 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN In The Underwater Gendarme, writer and former lifeboatman SUN Horatio Clare meets the Brigade Fluviale, the Paris river SUN police, an elite team which for over a century has been SUN saving lives and recovering bodies from the River Seine, SUN along with murder weapons and criminal evidence. SUN SUN This week, Horatio joins the Brigade a few kilometres SUN downriver from the centre of the city in a quiet backwater SUN of Neuilly-sur-Seine. They're here to investigate the SUN disappearance of an elderly man from his houseboat and SUN suspect that his body may be in the river nearby. SUN SUN Today the Seine is calm and relatively warm but as the SUN Brigade's diver searches the river bed, Horatio talks to the SUN team about the difficulties of doing their job in strong SUN currents, in waters close to freezing and zero visibility. SUN And one diver reveals that as well as discarded bicycles and SUN cars, lost mobile phones and keys, the bottom of the Seine SUN is also littered with miniature models of the Eiffel Tower! SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b016w0nc (Listen) SUN The Heat of the Day, Episode 2 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 has discovered 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 The Heat of the Day is directed by Tristram Powell and SUN adapted for radio by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick. SUN SUN Screenwriter ..... Henry Goodman SUN Harrison ..... Matthew Marsh SUN Stella ...... Anna Chancellor SUN Robert ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Louie/ Anne/ Mary/Waitress ...... Teresa Gallagher SUN Roderick ...... Daniel Weyman SUN Ernestine ...... Honeysuckle Weeks SUN Mrs Kelway ...... Tina Gray SUN Donovan ...... Nigel Anthony SUN SUN Producer: Marilyn Imrie SUN A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b016w0nf (Listen) SUN Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory SUN SUN Iain Banks meets James Naughtie and readers at the National SUN Library of Scotland in Edinburgh to talk about his debut SUN novel The Wasp Factory, first published in 1984. SUN SUN This shocking novel is an insight into the life of sixteen SUN year old Frank, a brutal and disturbed teenager who enjoys SUN killing animal and insects all too much. But Frank isn't SUN alone in his madness - his brother Eric has just escaped SUN from an asylum, and is gradually making his way back home to SUN the remote island house Frank shares with his father Angus. SUN SUN Banks' major achievement is to make the reader feel sorry SUN for this character of Frank and as one audience member SUN acknowledges, to make us laugh. SUN SUN Iain talks about how he drew on his own childhood SUN experiences of dam-building, kite-making and experimenting SUN with explosives to create the character of Frank - but that SUN is where the similarities end. Iain's own boyhood was a SUN happy one, it was purely his desire to shock as an emerging SUN author that led him to Frank. He says he identifies with SUN none of the characters in the story and describes his SUN writing in the Wasp Factory as 'exaggeration'. SUN SUN Readers who know the Wasp Factory will remember its SUN startling ending, where it is disclosed that Frank is not SUN all he seems, and Iain reveals how this part of the story SUN came to him. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN December's Bookclub choice : The Secret Scripture by SUN Sebastian Barry. SUN SUN 16:30 Spike Milligan - The Serious Poet b016w0nh (Listen) SUN Spike Milligan's 3 daughters, Sile, Laura and Jane discuss SUN how their father's serious poetry reflected his life and SUN personality. Milligan's writing was intimate and honest. SUN SUN Spike Milligan's funny verse is well loved and his poem On SUN The Ning Nang Nong was once voted the UK's favourite comic SUN poem. However, there is a body of serious poetry that Spike SUN Milligan wrote which, although is lesser known, is equally SUN as powerful. A prolific writer, Milligan used his poetry as SUN an outlet for his feelings about everything in his life from SUN his family, to losing friends in the war, to the issues he SUN cared about. SUN SUN In this personal reflection, Spike's 3 daughters - Sile, SUN Laura and Jane talk about the poems and remember their SUN father. Through this, his most intimate work, they discuss SUN the man they grew up with - the loving and creative hands-on SUN father and the man who would disappear for days to his bed SUN with depression. He often wrote beautiful and moving poetry SUN for his children and mourned the passing of their SUN childhoods. They in turn had a 'magical' childhood with SUN Spike creating imaginary worlds for them and taking time for SUN small things - for example he wrote a poem of the beauty of SUN throwing pebbles into water with Jane. SUN SUN The daughters recall Spike's affinity to children and SUN animals and the pain he suffered when he witnessed suffering SUN in either. They also remember Spike the husband to three SUN wives. Sile and Laura are daughters from Spike's first SUN marriage to June and Jane's mother was Spike's second wife, SUN Paddy. The poems reveal Spike's love affairs during the SUN marriages and the subsequent turbulent emotional life. Sile SUN was once given a pair of Jade earrings from her father for SUN Christmas. It was only later when she read one of his poems SUN about the earrings that she realised they had been bought SUN for a lover who had left him. SUN SUN Jane recalls that Spike never stopped writing, even when SUN depressed and that he used his writing to try to heal SUN himself. Some of the poems were written in a psychiatric SUN ward. Laura remembers Spike giving a reading of a poem about SUN lost friends who died in Lauro, Italy in the war, in front SUN of an audience in the last years of his life. He broke down SUN during the reading. It was the war that kick started his SUN poetry writing. SUN SUN Despite their serious content, Spike's wit is present in SUN some of the poems, but they are a chance to see a different SUN side to this comic genius. Apparently, Spike was immensely SUN proud of the work and was terrified that he'd only be SUN remembered for The Goons. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b016ldtd (Listen) SUN An Inside Job? SUN SUN The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke wants more jobs for SUN convicts. He told his party conference: "If we want prison SUN to work, then our prisoners have got to be working". He SUN encourages private companies to open workshops inside SUN prisons, where inmates would be 'properly paid' for hard SUN work, would pay their due of taxes and help fund victims' SUN support. SUN Mr Clarke points to a metal factory in a Merseyside prison SUN where prisoners work a 40 hour week and learn skills which SUN could make them more employable on release. He argues that SUN this will also make then less likely to return to crime. SUN But is this plan practicable? SUN Prison Governors say that two-thirds of their inmates were SUN unemployed before they started their sentences and that they SUN are generally reluctant to engage in meaningful work. They SUN say many of them can hardly read and write. SUN Governors also fear that moving jobs inside prison would SUN mean taking opportunities away from law-abiding job-seekers SUN outside. And they complain that it would prove costly in SUN terms of staff time. SUN One prison reform group which set up a pioneering graphic SUN design studio inside prison says the project was popular and SUN effective among prisoners but was forced to close following SUN hostility and obstruction from officers. SUN Gerry Northam asks if the government is overstating the SUN possible advantages of its policy, and investigates whether SUN it can be made to succeed at a time when the Ministry of SUN Justice faces funding cuts. SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b016vxz9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b016vpm3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b016vpm5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016vpm7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b016w5wy (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN 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 b016w5x0 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b016ljlz (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN A new age of austerity, riots on our streets, phone hacking, SUN the prospect of global economic meltdown...not since the SUN 1980s has Britain needed its sharp-tongued satirists to pour SUN a healthy dollop of scorn on these uncertain and tumultuous SUN times. SUN SUN And who better to do that than the country's most well-known SUN satirical impressionist, Rory Bremner? He hosts Tonight, a SUN brand new topical satire show for Radio 4. SUN SUN Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SUN things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then SUN will people laugh at the truth. So expect a blend of SUN stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and SUN incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who SUN really know what they're talking about. SUN Regular performers will include Political Animal veteran SUN Andy Zaltzman and the multi-talented impressionist Kate SUN O'Sullivan with a special guest each week. SUN SUN Presenter: Rory Bremner SUN SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00lbgqv (Listen) SUN One More Year, Maia in Yonkers SUN SUN Series of stories from the debut collection by Sana SUN Krasikov, exploring the experiences of characters who leave SUN the former Soviet Union for a new life in America. SUN SUN Following the death of her husband and with no job, Maia SUN finds work in New York, caring for an elderly woman. She SUN sends money back home to her sister, who looks after her SUN teenage son Gogi, so they can live a better life. Gogi sees SUN his mother's absence differently, and Maia must contend with SUN his resentment on his much-anticipated visit to the Big SUN Apple. SUN SUN Read by Sian Thomas. SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b016lkgg (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b016lkgq (Listen) SUN Jimmy Savile, Nusrat Bhutto, George Daniels, Axel Axgil, SUN Norrie Woodhall SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Begum Nusrat Bhutto, matriarch of Pakistan's political SUN dynasty. SUN SUN Sir Jimmy Savile, broadcaster, philanthropist and eccentric. SUN We hear from his TV and radio producers. SUN SUN George Daniels, one of the world's greatest watchmakers SUN whose creations can sell for up to one million pounds. SUN SUN Axel Axgil, the Danish gay rights campaigner who took part SUN in the world's first same sex civil partnership. SUN SUN And Norrie Woodhall. At the age of 105, she was the last SUN surviving person to have known Thomas Hardy. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b016vx76 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b016vysf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b016lbtp (Listen) SUN A New Black Politics? SUN SUN The 2010 general election saw the largest influx of black SUN and minority ethnic MPs to the Commons that Britain has ever SUN seen. There are currently 27 sitting on the Conservative and SUN Labour benches - up from 14 in the last Parliament. SUN SUN But are we starting to see a 'new black politics'? Some SUN suggest that the radical left-wing politics of the 1980s is SUN no longer relevant in twenty-first century Britain, where SUN there is a growing black middle class, a multitude of SUN different black communities, and where black people are SUN represented at the highest levels. SUN SUN David Goodhart meets the black politicians adopting a more SUN socially conservative standpoint to their predecessors and SUN also talks to their critics: those who say that some of the SUN country's most vulnerable people have been forgotten by the SUN establishment; that institutionalised racism still exists; SUN and that many of today's politicians do not represent the SUN people they are meant to serve. SUN SUN Producer: Hannah Barnes. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b016w5x2 (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 b016w5x4 (Listen) SUN Episode 77 SUN SUN How the newspapers are covering the biggest stories in SUN Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b016lkgs (Listen) SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b016vydk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b016vpn0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b016lggg (Listen) MON Kissing men - Decline of violence in history MON MON Laurie Taylor explores Professor Steven Pinker's notion of a MON decline in human violence with Anthony O'Hear, Professor of MON Philosophy at the University of Buckingham. Laurie also MON examines an apparent rise in heterosexual men kissing other MON men, with Professor Eric Anderson from the University of MON Winchester. MON MON Producer. Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b016vydh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016vpn2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016vpn4 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016vpn6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b016vpn8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016w7zk (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day MON on Radio 4. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b016w7zm (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 b016vpnb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b016w7zp (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b016w7zr (Listen) MON Australian culture with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and MON Deborah Cheetham MON MON Andrew Marr discusses Australia's cultural heritage with the MON prize-winning authors Thomas Keneally and Kate Grenville, MON and the opera singer and composer Deborah Cheetham. Keneally MON has embarked on a history of Australia through its people: MON from convicts and Aborigines, settlers and bushrangers, MON patriots and reformers, and he builds up a picture of the MON country's unique national character. For her latest trilogy MON Kate Grenville delves back into Australia's history and the MON first three generations of white settlement, to explore the MON complex relationship contemporary Australians have with the MON past. Deborah Cheetham is one of the country's "Stolen MON Generation", taken from her Aboriginal family when she was MON months old and fostered in a white community. She discusses MON how she has mined her lost heritage for her latest MON composition. MON Produced by Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b016w7zt (Listen) MON One Day I Will Write about This Place, Episode 1 MON MON Prize-winning author Binyavanga Wainaina's impressionistic MON memoir of growing up in modern day Kenya amongst a cacophony MON of sounds, black mamba bicycle bells, the hairdryers at his MON mother's beauty parlour, the languages of dozens of tribes MON and the infectious laughter of his sister Ciru. But over it MON all hangs the dread of what is happening in his mother's MON homeland, to her family and friends, under the dictatorship MON of Idi Amin. MON MON Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall MON MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b016w7zw (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Nancy Mitford MON MON Nancy Mitford is considered one of the funniest writers of MON the 20th century. She was born in London in 1904, the MON eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters. All of the MON girls were considered great beauties. They were educated at MON home, and Nancy always claimed that apart from being taught MON to ride and speak French, she never received a proper MON education. In the politically polarized 1930s, her sisters MON Diana and Unity were drawn to the extreme Right, and Jessica MON to the Left. Nancy wavered between the two. She remained MON childless and was said to have been unfulfilled in love, but MON did find huge success as a writer. Her fifth novel, The MON Pursuit of Love (1945), was a phenomenal best seller. Jane MON is joined by the historian Lisa Hilton and the writer India MON Knight to discuss Nancy Mitford, her life, razor-sharp wit MON and enduring popularity. MON MON Camila Vallejo MON MON Recent months in Chile have seen mass student uprisings MON against the elite which have gained huge popular support. MON And at the heart of this is one young woman and a group of MON teenage schoolgirls. Commandante Camila, as some have called MON her, is 23 year old student leader Camilla Vallejo, who has MON become a cult figure in the protests demanding free MON education. She has inspired teenage girls to occupy their MON school for the past six months, and has led protests of MON hundreds of thousands of people. She’s had pop songs written MON about her, become a pin-up to many, and has set the media MON alight. But who is this young woman making waves in the MON machismo world of Chilean politics? And just what impact is MON she making as the young generation stand up for change? Jane MON Garvey speaks to Marcela Rios of the UN Development MON Programme in Chile, and Carmen Sepulveda, a Chilean Phd MON student here in London. MON MON Women’s refuges - impact of spending cuts MON MON Local authority spending cuts are said to be threatening the MON future of some domestic violence services. Reporter Felicity MON Finch visits one refuge in the Home Counties which is under MON threat. To discuss the potential impact of refuge closures, MON Jane is joined by Jan Dalrymple, CEO of Saferplaces and MON Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9gj (Listen) MON Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital, Episode 1 MON MON Writing The Century - MON The Camel Hospital, MON Inspired by the diaries of Sara Wilsdon MON dramatised by Karen Brown MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people: MON Sara Wilson was a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse MON posted to Egypt in January 1918. MON The drama charts her journey through three different MON military hospitals,one of which is a canvas hospital in the MON desert, where she meets and marries the love of her life.Her MON diary spans a tour de force period in Sara's life, when this MON young woman from a sheltered background encounters death and MON love. MON MON Sara ...... Rebecca Callard MON Mary ...... Jessica Blake MON Matron ....... Jacqueline Redgewell MON Italian boy ...... Peter Singh MON American Officer ...... James Nickerson MON Research consultant - Professor Alison Fell MON Directed by Pauline Harris MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b016w800 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 5 MON MON Alan Dein travels to Elsecar Park, Barnsley.For the past 4 MON years it has been home to Francis McDonald who both runs the MON cafe and acts as unofficial park keeper. This was once MON called 'Elsecar by the sea'. Day trippers from Sheffield and MON hordes of local children from the pit village would play and MON swim in its reservoir. There's a wrought iron bandstand, a MON modern playground and the water still laps against the MON shore. In the last of the golden autumn sun, with eddies of MON brown leaves skittering around, it is a place of quiet MON beauty. MON MON It seemed like a paradise when McDonald opened the doors on MON a world he had known since his childhood. But gradually it MON became a kind of lonely hell. Now this will be his last MON autumn and the house on the hill will fall silent and MON shuttered. MON MON Producer: Mark Burman. MON MON 11:30 The Return of Inspector Steine b016w802 (Listen) MON The Home Stretch MON MON Tons of bread and fish have been dumped all around the MON police station and the birds are reacting in a strange way. MON And talking of fishy, why is Inspector Steine behaving so MON peculiarly? MON MON Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens MON Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro MON Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm MON Twitten ..... Matt Green MON Adelaide Vine ..... Janet Ellis MON Captain Hoagland ...... Robert Bathurst MON MON Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b016w804 (Listen) MON Should super-strength ciders cost more? MON MON Should super-strength ciders cost more ? Why a group of MP's MON wants the tax breaks on them to be cut. MON MON Why swapping your council house under the Government's Home MON Swap scheme could help you get a job. MON MON Plus a look at the companies who are in the frame to take MON over Edinburgh Airport. MON MON The presenter is Julian Worricker. The producer is Alex MON Lewis. MON MON 12:57 Weather b016vpnd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b016w806 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 A History of the Brain b016w808 (Listen) MON A Hole in the Head MON MON Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey MON through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex MON thing in the known universe. From Neolithic times to the MON present day, Geoff journeys through the many ideas of what MON the brain is for and how it fulfils its functions. While MON referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this is a MON cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes MON obvious is that our understanding of this most inscrutable MON organ has in all periods been coloured by the social and MON political expedients of the day no less than by the MON contemporary scope of scientific or biological exploration. MON MON In Episode 1: A Hole in the Head, the focus is on MON trepanation, the practice of drilling holes in the skull MON believing that such operations might correct physiological MON or spiritual problems. Trepanation reveals much about the MON understanding of the brain from Neolithic to recent times. MON The Ancient Egyptians, however, rarely trepanned, even MON though their Secret Book of the Physician, one of the oldest MON medical texts in the world, shows that they recognised how MON damage to the brain can paralyze limbs on opposite sides of MON the body. Believing the heart to be the core organ, they MON discarded the brain altogether at death, since it had no MON part to play in the afterlife. MON MON The series is written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn of MON Manchester Metropolitan University. Actors Paul MON Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes provide the voices of MON those who have written about the brain across the ages. MON Actor Hattie Morahan gives the Anatomy Lesson establishing MON the part of the brain to be highlighted in each episode - in MON this instance the cranium and the meninges. The original, MON atmospheric score is supplied by composer, Barney Quinton. MON The producer is Marya Burgess. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b016w5x0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b016w80j (Listen) MON Brief Lives - Series 4, Episode 4 MON MON Brief Lives by Eve Steele and Ed Jones 4/6 MON A sixty year old photographer is accused of assaulting his MON financial advisor. Emotional triangle? Or Baby Boomer MON revenge? MON MON FRANK....David Schofield MON SARAH....Kathryn Hunt MON DECLAN..Jonjo O'Neill MON PC MCGOWAN.David Corden MON OLIVER....Jonathan Keeble MON ARNOLD....David Fleeshman MON HAZEL.....Olwen May MON JUSTIN.....Drew Carter Cain MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON Original Music by Carl Harms. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b016w811 (Listen) MON To herald a new series of 'Brain of Britain' starting next MON week, the three most recent 'Brain of Britain' champions MON compete for the prestigious title 'Brain of Brains'. Russell MON Davies chairs this turbo-charged edition of the evergreen MON general knowledge quiz, at the BBC Radio Theatre in London. MON MON The competitors are the 2008 champion Geoff Thomas from MON Northwich in Cheshire; the 2010 champion Dr Ian Bayley from MON Oxford; and the reigning 'Brain of Britain', Dr Iwan Thomas MON from Beeston in Notts. It's anyone's guess which of these MON seasoned quiz champions will emerge victorious. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b016w0n3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Leonardo Detectives b016w813 (Listen) MON Who decides that a newly unveiled work of art actually came MON from the hand of an old master? How do they go about doing MON this? And is it difficult to prove your case if you own MON something which could turn out to be valuable? MON MON In this programme Rachel Campbell-Johnston, chief art critic MON for The Times, delves into the mysterious world of art MON attribution. MON MON Starting off at the conservation laboratories of the MON National Gallery in London, she meets the people who can MON break down minute shards of paint to its component parts, MON who can group together painted oak panels according to the MON tree they originally came from and who can show us the MON actual fingerprints of artists like Bellini and Leonardo. MON MON She also meets some of the most powerful people in the world MON of art including Professor Ernst Van De Wetering, whose word MON is law when it comes to attributing the works of Rembrandt MON and whose techniques in distinguishing the works of the MON master from the works of his pupils revolutionized the way MON in which art is attributed. MON MON But, it's not an exact science. John Myatt, one of Britain's MON most prolific art forgers, managed to fool the art market MON for a decade before he was caught and imprisoned, and his MON paintings were made from household emulsions. MON MON Along the way Rachel Campbell-Johnston learns how the great MON and the good of the art world came to accept that a damaged MON and previously forgotten painting of Jesus Christ was the MON work of Leonardo. She hears the story of an Italian art MON restorer who is convinced that a Jesuit Seminary House in MON Oxford is home to an unknown painting by Michelangelo. She MON also meets the retired plumber from East Sussex with a MON photographic memory who, after first discovering a lost MON sculpture by Thomas Banks is now convinced that he has an MON unknown painting by Marc Chagall. MON MON Producer: Brian McCluskey MON A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Click On b016w83f (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 5 MON MON Simon Cox presents the latest news from the digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b016w83k (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016vpng (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b016w83r (Listen) MON Series 4, Harry Enfield, Alan West Lord West of Spithead, MON Lucie Green MON MON 19:00 The Archers b016w8h3 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b016w8h5 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with MON Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan, as he returns to MON TV with The Jury, a series he first created in 2002. MON MON Producer Georgia Mann. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9gj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Lobotomists b016wx0w (Listen) MON 2011 marks a 75th anniversary that many would prefer to MON forget: of the first lobotomy in the US. It was performed by MON an ambitious young American neurologist called Walter MON Freeman. Over his career, Freeman went on to perform perhaps MON 3,000 lobotomies, on both adults and later on children. He MON often performed 10 procedures or more a day. Perhaps 40,000 MON patients in the US were lobotomised during the heyday of the MON operation - and an estimated 17,000 more in the UK. MON MON This programme tells the story of three key figures in the MON strange history of lobotomy - and for the first time MON explores the popularity of lobotomy in the UK in detail. MON MON The story starts in 1935 with a Portuguese doctor called MON Egas Moniz, who pioneered a radical surgical procedure on MON the brain. Moniz was a remarkably distinguished figure, a MON diplomat as well as a doctor, who had invented the technique MON of cerebral angiography which is still used today. With very MON little evidence, he speculated that cutting the links MON between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain would MON relieve symptoms of mental disorder. His results were seized MON on with enthusiasm the following year by Freeman, the MON grandson of one of the US's most famous surgeons. Freeman MON was a relentless self-publicist and managed to convince many MON of the efficacy of his procedure. Freeman's promotion of MON lobotomy as a cure for mental illness was instrumental in MON Moniz receiving the Nobel Prize for medicine. The operation MON was also taken up by the most celebrated British MON neurosurgeon of the time, Sir Wylie McKissock. Like Freeman, MON he travelled the country, performing numerous lobotomies in MON single sessions. For this programme, Hugh Levinson MON interviews McKissock's former colleagues and hears in detail MON about how he performed several thousand lobotomies, or MON leucotomies as they were known in the UK. MON MON The operations were successful in subduing disturbed MON patients, usually with immediate positive results, which MON sometimes persisted. Freeman argued that this was better MON than letting mentally ill patients rot away for decades in MON squalid institutions, untreated and unattended. However, MON further monitoring showed very mixed results. While a MON significant number of patients with affective disorders MON seemed to become better, a large proportion were unaffected MON or got worse. Many patients reverted to a child-like state. MON A significant proportion died as a direct result of the MON procedure. MON MON In the 1940s, Freeman pushed on, devising a faster and MON cheaper procedure. He hammered an icepick (originally taken MON from his home fridge) through the top of each eye socket, MON directly into the skull. He then swept the icepick from side MON to side, destroying the connections to the frontal lobes. MON Other surgeons were horrified by the random nature of the MON operation. He recorded with satisfaction in his diary when MON attending doctors ended up vomiting or fainting. His closest MON aide refused to participate. By the late 1950s the lobotomy MON craze was over, and only a very few continued to be MON performed in special cases. In the late 1960s, Freeman was MON banned from operating. MON MON The stories of Moniz, Freeman and McKissock - all commanding MON and dynamic figures - raise profound questions about our MON ideas both of mental health and science. Is a patient MON "cured" just because he becomes subdued? And how come the MON lobotomy became so popular despite the lack of evidence of MON its efficacy - and the rapid dissemination of evidence of MON its potential for harm? To what extent is science MON independent of powerful personalities, economic MON considerations and media pressure? MON MON 20:30 Analysis b016wx0y (Listen) MON Do Leaders Make a Difference? MON MON We talk much of personal leadership being the key to change MON in, say, politics or business. But how much can such figures MON really influence events? Do we overattribute power to MON individuals such as a prime minister or a media mogul? Have MON we lost sight of the overall importance of collective action MON and attitudes, or the trends and events that no individual MON can resist? Michael Blastland investigates. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby MON Editor: Innes Bowen. MON MON 21:00 Material World b016ljj2 (Listen) MON Fission at Fukushima? MON MON It's been eight months since the devastating earthquake and MON tsunami hit Japan's Honshu Island. Now at the Fukushima MON Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, despite all the MON efforts to stabilise and disable the power station, there MON are signs that nuclear fission may still taking place within MON one of the reactors. There's also fresh speculation based on MON atmospheric modelling that the scale and range of MON radioactive emissions from the plant, at the time of the MON disaster, were much greater than the Japanese government MON reported. Quentin is joined by Robin Grimes, Professor of MON Materials Physics and Director of the Centre for Nuclear MON Engineering at Imperial College London, to discuss how MON significant these findings are. MON MON Ice Age Extinctions MON MON Beringia winter scene, including mammoth, horse, bison and MON musk ox MON MON The end of the last Ice Age saw the extinction of many large MON animals – the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros are just MON two examples. Until now, most of the causes have been MON assumed to be attributable to either climate change or the MON influence of humans, such as over-hunting. But a new report MON out this week suggests that the causes for the extinction MON are a lot more varied and complex. Quentin talks to Eske MON Willerslev, one of the principal authors of the report and MON Director of the Centre for Geogenetics at the University of MON Copenhagen, about the findings of their study. MON MON Airships - The Future of Air Travel? MON MON This week the Airships Association has held a meeting in MON London to galvanise interest in a new European project to MON develop commercial airships. Paul Stewart, Professor of MON Control Engineering and Pro-Vice Chancellor in research at MON Lincoln University, outlines to Quentin why he believes the MON airship may well be one of the main forms of air travel in MON the future. MON MON Legend of the Sunstone MON MON How did the Vikings make their epic voyages, even supposedly MON reaching America? According to Norse legends they wielded a MON "Sunstone", a rock capable of working out where the sun was, MON even if, as was often the case in the far north, conditions MON were overcast. But there may well be some truth behind the MON myth - at least according to a paper just published by the MON Royal Society. Quentin speaks to Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, MON Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering MON at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, to see if there's MON any substance to the stories. MON MON Producer: Fiona Roberts. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b016w7zr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b016vpnj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b016wx12 (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book of the Week b016wx14 (Listen) MON The House of Silk, Episode 1 MON MON Derek Jacobi reads the new, page turning Sherlock Holmes MON mystery by best selling author Anthony Horowitz. It is the MON first such project to be endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate. MON MON Some hundred years after the death of Sherlock Holmes, a MON manuscript has been discovered in the vaults of Cox and Co MON in Charing Cross. It recounts the events of a 'missing' MON Sherlock Holmes case, a case written up by Dr Watson for the MON sake of completing the Holmes canon but considered by him to MON be too shocking to be published in his lifetime. Only now MON can the full story be told... MON MON Abridged by Jane Marshall MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b016wx2p (Listen) MON Away with the Fairies MON MON Dominic Arkwright asks why fairies, once threatening and MON scary meddlers in human affairs, have become innocent, pink MON and fluffy. MON MON He's joined by Irish storyteller Eddie Lenihan, fairy MON illustrator and writer Faye Durston, and folklorist Juliette MON Wood. We hear how Eddie successfully campaigned to save an MON ancient hawthorn near Shannon Airport which was threatened MON by a new bypass. It was, he argued, the portal to the other MON world of the fairies of Munster. The tree still stands, MON though surrounded by cars on three sides. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b016wx16 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b016vpp3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b016w7zt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016vpp5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016vpp7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016vpp9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b016vppc (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0179ydz (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day TUE on Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b016wxts (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 b016wxtv (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b016wxtx (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Colin Blakemore is a neuroscientist who nearly became an TUE artist. He specialised in vision and the development of the TUE brain, and pioneered the idea that the brain has the ability TUE to change even in adulthood contrary to the popular view at TUE the time. TUE TUE Professor Blakemore, the youngest ever Reith Lecturer, is an TUE influential science communicator and is committed to raising TUE the profile of brain research. Because of his work he was TUE targeted by animal rights campaigners for over a decade, but TUE rather than keeping a low profile as advised, he decided to TUE work with the activists and explain his point of view about TUE the need for animal testing in medical research. He was TUE appointed head of the Medical Research Council in 2003 but TUE threatened to resign shortly after when he was refused a TUE knighthood, because of his defence of animal research. He TUE has been equally outspoken on many issues including TUE classification of drugs and GM foods. His current areas of TUE research include how the brain develops which has TUE implications for many diseases including autism and TUE schizophrenia. TUE TUE He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about why he's not been afraid to TUE stand up to his critics. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b016wxtz (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Evan Davis explores the issue of deception by talking to TUE those who have had cause to be economical with the truth . TUE From doctors, guilty of well intentioned obfuscation, to TUE ex-fraudsters skilled at outright lies, over the next four TUE weeks, as Evan takes over the One to One chair, he discusses TUE the complicated truth about lying with those, for whom the TUE truth is rarely plain and never simple. TUE In the first programme he talks to Rob George, Consultant in TUE Palliative Care who explains why complete honesty is not TUE always in the best interest of the patient and his need to TUE second guess what information the terminally ill need and TUE when. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b016wxv1 (Listen) TUE One Day I Will Write about This Place, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Binyavanga Wainaina. TUE TUE Wainaina is nine and has learned to read. He devours a book TUE a day and loves to play with words. And he observes that all TUE around him East Africa is in turmoil. "Kings are in trouble TUE from Presidents. Presidents are in trouble from Generals. TUE Everybody is in trouble from communists." And as he tries to TUE puzzle out the difference between tribe and nation, he TUE decides that one day he will become a writer. TUE TUE Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b016wxv3 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016w7zy (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital, Episode 2 TUE TUE Writing The Century - TUE The Camel Hospital, TUE Inspired by the diaries of Sara Wilsdon TUE dramatised by Karen Brown TUE TUE The series which explores the 20th century through the TUE diaries and correspondence of real people: TUE in January 1918. TUE After travelling thousands of miles from Aldershot to TUE Abbasea the military hospital has only one TUE patient so Sara and her friend Mary have time to sightsee. TUE Soon, however, the is hospital is full and TUE Sara has a sense of purpose until she receives tragic news TUE regarding her brother. She meets TUE Ray for the first time and hopes he wishes for nothing more TUE than friendship. TUE TUE Sara ...... Rebecca Callard TUE Mary ...... Jessica Blake TUE Ray ..... Jake Norton TUE Captain Theobald ...... James Nickerson TUE Matron ...... Melissa Jane Sinden TUE Amelia ...... Verity-May Henry TUE Patient ...... Peter Singh TUE Research Consultant - Professor Alison Fell TUE Directed by Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b016wxv5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 25 TUE TUE 25/30 Saving Species reports from Tampa Bay on studies TUE following the movements and whereabouts of Sea Horses. How TUE is it the males have been left "holding the baby" and why TUE does understanding how the female has got out of rearing off TUE spring help in the conservation of the species. TUE TUE We are also in the historic Italian town of Assisi, home of TUE Saint Francis, the founder of the men's Catholic order the TUE Franciscans and the female order St Clare - he is famously TUE the patron saint of animals and the environment. We are TUE reporting from a meeting taking place in Assisi where many TUE world faiths are coming together to make pledges towards TUE conserving the natural world. Can the Taoists in China make TUE a difference to the unsustainable trade in endangered TUE species for Chinese medicine - And what does religion in TUE general bring to the wildlife conservation table? TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b016wxv7 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 4 TUE TUE Written when he was still little more than an aspiring TUE composer, driven by the image of a woman with whom he had TUE fallen passionately in love from afar, and breaking new TUE ground in the drama of concert performance, Berlioz's TUE Symphonie Fantastique is one of the most important TUE manuscripts held at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. TUE TUE With the help of the conductor Nigel Simeone, the Berlioz TUE scholar Professor Peter Bloom and the music curator Cecile TUE Reynaud, Frances Fyfield discovers the youthful energy of TUE the handwritten score that Berlioz kept with him for TUE fourteen years before delivering it to the publishers. In TUE that time there were rewrites, extra parts written in for TUE extraordinary circumstances and all the usual tweaks and TUE refinements you'd expect of a composer working towards his TUE imaginative ambitions. But the score also comes complete TUE with the composer's dedications to Harriet Smithson, the TUE Anglo-Irish actress whose image became the famous 'idee TUE fixe' of the symphony. This simple melody returns again and TUE again throughout the five movements. TUE The programme also uses extracts from Berlioz programme TUE notes for the Symphony and from his Memoirs written later TUE while in England. Extracts translated by Michel Austin. TUE TUE There are also printed programme notes created for the first TUE audiences, notes describing the 'story' of a young man TUE taking opium and having a sequence of dreams and imaginings TUE about his love, his jealousy, his death at the scaffold and TUE the witches' sabbath thereafter. TUE TUE As well as evidence of extraordinary musical imagination the TUE manuscript score also displays bizarre gothic doodles TUE alongside the fourth movement, complete with ravens, chains TUE and helmets. This, the famous March to the Scafford was TUE actually lifted from one of the composer's earlier operas TUE that doesn't survive. To make it work in the symphony, TUE Berlioz felt it needed the inclusion of the 'idee fixe', and TUE there, on the last page, in the dying breath of the hero as TUE he awaits the guillotine's blade, it appears wistfully TUE played by the clarinet. TUE TUE And just to cap it all there are the many exotic instruments TUE Berlioz called upon, including the magnificent brass TUE ophycleide. TUE TUE It's all in the last of this series of Tales from the Stave. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b016wzr8 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b016vppf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b016wzrb (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 13:45 A History of the Brain b016wzrd (Listen) TUE The Blood of the Gladiators TUE TUE Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey TUE through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex TUE organ in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, TUE he reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is TUE for and how it fulfils its functions. TUE TUE While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this TUE is a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes TUE obvious is that our understanding of this most inscrutable TUE organ has in all periods been coloured by the social and TUE political expedients of the day no less than by the TUE contemporary scope of scientific or biological exploration. TUE TUE In Episode 2: The Blood of The Gladiators, the focus is TUE Ancient Greek scholarship, with Hippocrates' astonishingly TUE prescient belief in the brain as the chief organ of control TUE and his debunking of the myth of the 'sacred disease' with TUE his assertion that epilepsy was the result of natural TUE causes. Yet the belief that a cure lay in the magical TUE properties of blood persisted for centuries. TUE TUE The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff TUE Bunn of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul TUE Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of TUE those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to TUE the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy TUE Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be TUE highlighted in each episode - in this instance the cerebrum TUE and cerebellum. The original, atmospheric score is supplied TUE by composer, Barney Quinton. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b016w8h3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b016wzrg (Listen) TUE The Alterer TUE TUE By Finlay Welsh. TUE TUE Atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in 1791. TUE A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into TUE making a machine that will alter time and create a different TUE universe; one in which he hopes his desperately ill daughter TUE will be returned to him, fully recovered. TUE TUE Smith ..... Cal MacAninch TUE Buchan ..... Liam Brennan TUE Mary ..... Pauline Knowles TUE William ..... Finn den Hertog TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b016wzrj (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 Off the Page b016wzrl (Listen) TUE Glut TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright invites his three guests to debate excess TUE and gluttony - what exactly is enough? Cityboy Geraint TUE Anderson explains why he retired in his mid 30s with £2.5M. TUE That, argues punk poet Attila the Stockbroker, is an obscene TUE amount, as he recalls former East Germany in the late '80s TUE before the introduction of advertising and mass consumerism. TUE Meanwhile, it's the consumption of her autumn glut of apples TUE and quinces that motivates food writer Xanthe Clay to waste TUE not a single piece of fruit. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b016wzrn (Listen) TUE Britain and human rights law TUE TUE With political pressure mounting for far-reaching reform to TUE the Human Rights Act, Joshua Rozenberg explores how this TUE might be done. More than ten years after the incorporation TUE into UK law of the European Convention on Human Rights, how TUE far has the Convention re-shaped our law? How far do the TUE provisions of the Human Rights Act affect the day-to-day TUE decisions of our courts? And if Parliament were to amend the TUE law, what could - and should - be changed and why? TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg explores the legal issues underlying this TUE controversial legal and political debate. TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b016wzrq (Listen) TUE Trevor Phillips & David Morrissey TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by actor David Morrissey and TUE Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor TUE Phillips to discuss some of their favourite books. TUE TUE David Morrissey's choice is the 1934 crime classic 'The TUE Postman Always Rings Twice' by James M Cain. TUE TUE Trevor Phillips chooses 'The War of the End of the World' by TUE Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. TUE TUE Harriett's choice this week is 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn TUE Waugh. TUE TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE David Morrissey's choice: 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' TUE by James M Cain TUE Publ. Orion TUE TUE Trevor Phillips choice: 'The War of the End of the World' by TUE Mario Vargas Llosaand TUE Publ. Faber and Faber TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn TUE Waugh TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE 17:00 PM b016wzrs (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016vpph (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b016wzrz (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Golliwog TUE TUE Richard Herring's Objective returns for a second series to TUE poke and prod a variety controversial objects and see if the TUE controversy falls out. Through vox pops, interviews and TUE stand up comedy Richard examines the objects' history, TUE meaning and significance and challenges our assumed logic TUE and stereotypes. Can we reclaim these objects away from TUE their unfortunate associations? TUE TUE In series one the comedian investigated 'The Hitler TUE Moustache', 'The Hoodie' and 'The St. George's Flag' and in TUE the new series he'll be training his beady eye on 'The TUE Golliwog', 'The Wheelchair', 'Page 3' and 'The Old School TUE Tie'. TUE TUE Richard Herring's Objective TUE Episode 1: 'The Golliwog' TUE TUE Richard Herring examines 'The golliwog' an object that has TUE been the cause of controversy, debating whether it's an TUE object we should reclaim, or consign to the dustbin of TUE history. TUE TUE Written by and starring Richard Herring, with Emma Kennedy TUE and special guest Ava Vidal. TUE Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b016wzs1 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b016wzs3 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a report on a major National TUE Gallery exhibition of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, billed TUE as the first of its kind. TUE TUE Producer Lisa Davis. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b016w7zy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b016wzs5 (Listen) TUE With plans for future use of London's Olympic stadium in TUE disarray, Allan Urry asks whether taxpayers' billions will TUE leave a lasting legacy from 2012. TUE TUE London's successful bid to stage the 2012 Olympics placed TUE great emphasis on the benefits it could create for Britain TUE and its capital city. Not only should the Games bequeath TUE impressive new sporting facilities to the people of London, TUE but the event and its aftermath was expected to kick-start TUE economic development in the East End -- still one of the TUE least prosperous parts of the country. TUE TUE Has the forward planning paid off? Controversy and confusion TUE still shrouds the future ownership and operation of London's TUE Olympic stadium. Despite bids from rival football clubs, the TUE stadium remains in public ownership. The Olympic village TUE meanwhile has been sold to developers at a loss to TUE taxpayers, and some critics claim a major opportunity to TUE embed a new science and technology research centre on the TUE Olympic park has been squandered. TUE TUE With mounting pressure on Games organisers and Government to TUE recoup the taxpayers' investment in the Olympics, many TUE Londoners fear that the early promises of economic TUE regeneration for the East End will fail to materialise. TUE TUE Reporter: Allan Urry TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b016wzs7 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Mind Myths b016wzs9 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's psychologist Claudia Hammond makes it her cheerful TUE mission to slay 5 common myths about the brain and its TUE workings. TUE TUE Neuroscientific nonsense in Claudia's cross hairs includes TUE the notion that we only use 10% of our brains. Another is TUE that the right side of our brains is the site of our TUE creative, intuitive selves and is all too often repressed by TUE our cold, logical left hemispheres. TUE TUE The brain scientists whom Claudia consults are cross about TUE these myths in part because, too often, writers of self-help TUE books, purveyors of CDs aimed at making your children TUE cleverer and management gurus claiming to unleash latent TUE neurological powers have made money on the back of TUE misconceptions. This money has come out of the public purse TUE as well as those of individual consumers. Some of this Bad TUE Neuroscience is promulgated in some British schools. TUE TUE The commonest and, arguably, most ludicrous notion is the TUE one that we only use 10% of our brains and that 90% of our TUE grey matter sits idly waiting for us to somehow access it. TUE The most recent cultural outing of this myth was in the plot TUE of the Hollywood movie 'Limitless'. Brain scientists say TUE this untapped reserve does not exist. TUE TUE One proof that this is incorrect lies in the experience of TUE people who have had relatively modest amounts of brain TUE tissue die and yet they are catastrophically incapacitated. TUE TUE On a trip to a scanning lab at University College, London, TUE Claudia hears from neuroscientist Sophie Scott that TUE experiments monitoring brain activity also reveal the myth TUE to be just that. Functional brain imaging machines quite TUE definitely show that large swathes of neural circuitry are TUE hard at work even when we do something simple like moving TUE our fingers. TUE TUE Professor Scott says she frequently encounters the 10% myth. TUE Her most eyebrow-raising experience was when she went on a TUE first aid course. The trainer told his class that head TUE injuries usually didn't matter because 90% of the brain TUE didn't do anything. The trainer didn't thank Professor Scott TUE for the neuroscience primer she felt obliged to give. TUE TUE Claudia talks to American neuroscientist Eric Chudler about TUE the genesis of the myth. Its origin is murky but it might TUE have been a misquote of the famous early 20th century US TUE psychologist William James. James once wrote that most TUE people only use "10% of their intellectual potential." This TUE phrased morphed into 10% of the human brain in the early TUE self-help best-seller 'How to Win Friends and Influence TUE People' published in 1930s. The birth of this example of TUE Neuro-nonsense has also been attributed to Einstein. TUE TUE Talking of geniuses, Claudia also examines the notorious TUE 'Mozart Effect' - the concept that playing the music of TUE Mozart to young children and babies will make them grow into TUE more intelligent people by enhancing brain development. TUE TUE This myth started with a science paper in the journal Nature TUE in 1993. The research described an experiment in which adult TUE students were a bit better at a spatial reasoning test after TUE listening to Mozart than students who heard a relaxation TUE tape or nothing at all. The sonata-charged enhancement wore TUE off after 15 minutes. Yet within a few years this TUE interesting observation had snowballed into the idea that TUE playing Mozart to young children made them brainier. Quite TUE an industry built up around selling Mozart CDs for this TUE purpose. In 1998 the US state of Georgia started issuing TUE mothers of newborn babies with their own Mozart CDs. TUE TUE People theorised that the complexity and rhythms of Mozart's TUE music had a biological influence on the wiring of the brain. TUE The truth turns out to be more mundane and that any TUE temporary boost of your performance in a test could just as TUE validly be called the GaGa Effect as the Mozart Effect. TUE TUE The five myths in the programme are: TUE TUE We only use 10% of our brains. TUE Our right brain is creative and intuitive, our left brain is TUE logical and rational. TUE Our brains stop developing when we are young children. TUE The 'Mozart Effect' TUE The full moon turns some people mad and dangerous. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b016wxtx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b016vppk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b016wzsc (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book of the Week b016wzyr (Listen) TUE The House of Silk, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sherlock Holmes has been consulted by London art dealer TUE Edmund Carstairs. TUE TUE A notorious Boston gang has inadvertently destroyed four TUE valuable paintings during the course of a train robbery. TUE Carstairs persuaded a wealthy American benefactor to fund a TUE reward for the capture of the Flat Cap Gang, but during the TUE manhunt, one of the leaders of the gang was killed. Now TUE Carstairs is being watched by a man in a flat cap and he TUE fears that the gangster's twin has followed him to London to TUE exact revenge. TUE TUE Read by Derek Jacobi and abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b016wzyt (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a TUE book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of TUE extraordinary letters has been discovered. TUE TUE "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've TUE never written a letter like this before...." TUE TUE Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the TUE Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this TUE epistolary equine love story. A story of two horses united TUE by an uncommon passion, cruelly divided by a brutal TUE conflict. TUE TUE Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the TUE seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of TUE Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as TUE Copenhagen, the frisky young racehorse who as our story TUE begins is about to be the new mount for the Duke of TUE Wellington. This collection of their moving letters to each TUE other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. TUE TUE Episode 3 sees our heroes' fortunes fluctuate as the TUE Napoleonic Wars get bloodier and colder making it much TUE harder to send Valentine's cards. 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 TUE Directed by Steven Canny TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 23:15 Living with Mother b010drrl (Listen) TUE Wild Card TUE TUE This mother and son are as posh as posh can be. An old TUE established family and proud of it. Unfortunately Xander is TUE a drunken idiot who is always getting into all sorts of TUE scrapes. TUE TUE His mother has run the family home with a rod of iron ever TUE since her husband was imprisoned for dodgy dealings. Has her TUE foolish son inherited his father's genes? When he loses the TUE family jewels, will she be able to bail him out? TUE TUE Mother: Penelope Keith TUE Xander: Kevin Eldon TUE TUE Producer: Anna Madley TUE An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b016wzyw (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b016vpq4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b016wxv1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016vpq6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016vpq8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016vpqb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b016vpqd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0179yf1 (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day WED on Radio 4. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b016x22k (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 b016x22m (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in WED Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b016x22p (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b016x22r (Listen) WED One Day I Will Write about This Place, Episode 3 WED WED By Binyavanga Wainaina. WED WED Wainaina and his sister are doing well at primary school and WED are hoping their grades will get them into a top secondary WED school. But there are rumours that Gikuyus' names are being WED taken off the lists. WED And the author visits the industrial sprawl of Nairobi with WED his father: hot sun city with its creaking, cantankerous WED corrugated iron roofs, and learns manly things about cars' WED entrails. WED WED Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b016x22t (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9n5 (Listen) WED Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital, Episode 3 WED WED The Camel Hospital - Episode 3 WED Sara Wilson was a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse WED posted to Egypt in January 1918. WED Peace is declared in Egypt, but conflict erupts between Ray WED and Sara when he declares his love for her. WED WED Sara ...... Rebecca Callard WED Amelia .... Verity-May Henry WED Ray ..... Jake Norton WED Matron ...... Olwen May WED Research Consultant - Professor Alison Fell WED Directed by Pauline Harris WED WED 11:00 The Poppy Factory b016x22w (Listen) WED Chris Ledgard explores the story of The Poppy Factory in WED Surrey where, for nearly ninety years, former members of the WED armed forces have made millions of poppies and wreaths for WED Remembrance Sunday. WED WED In 1922, Major George Howson, the founder of the Disabled WED Society, wrote to his parents: "I have been given a cheque WED for £2,000 to make poppies with. It is a large WED responsibility and will be very difficult. If the experiment WED is successful it will be the start of an industry to employ WED 150 men. I do not think it can be a great success, but it is WED worth doing." WED WED Major Howson's pessimism was short-lived. His workforce grew WED rapidly and, a few years later, The Poppy Factory had to WED move from the Old Kent Road in London to bigger premises in WED Richmond, Surrey. Soon, more than 350 men had jobs there. WED WED The factory is still in the same place and still staffed by WED former servicemen and women and their dependants, some of WED whom are coping with stress disorders. We meet them and hear WED about the history of this remarkable institution. Millions WED of poppies are now made by home workers in the surrounding WED area, like Mr and Mrs King, all of whom have a connection WED with the armed services. We go out in the Poppy Van to meet WED the Kings who, between them, put together five thousand WED remembrance poppies a week, every week of the year. WED WED We'll hear how the charity is coping with a dwindling WED workforce and a shift to mechanised production. Flats on the WED large Richmond site are now let out to provide money which WED is being used all over the country to help members of the WED armed forces find civilian work. Chris discovers how the WED money helped Caroline Plank, a Territorial Army Signaller WED with 8 months' service in Afghanistan who now lives on a WED houseboat on the River Avon. WED WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b016x22y (Listen) WED The Mystery of Redstone Manor WED WED By Chris Harrald, based on the character by Catherine Louisa WED Pirkis. 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 concludes with a WED nail-biting adventure that features the uncompromising WED Loveday Brooke. WED WED Lestrade . . . . . James Fleet WED Loveday . . . . . Honeysuckle Weeks WED Lucy . . . . . Alex Tregear WED Winter . . . . . Brian Bowles WED Simkins . . . . . Stuart McLoughlin WED Alex . . . . . Daniel Rabin WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b016x230 (Listen) WED The electricity price hike for people who share communal WED living space. Why we need to support antibiotic discovery, WED research, and development to help combat diseases in the WED future, and the business of dating in the 21st Century. WED WED Plus why a group of cancer patients are mounting a legal WED challenge over the decision not to offer radiotherapy WED treatment at their local hospital in Essex. If they win, WED their lawyer believes it could allow other patients to use WED the Equality Act to lobby for treatment closer to home. The WED Primary Care Trust which made the decision says having WED fewer, larger, radiotherapy centres means better care. WED Presenter Peter White WED Producer Beverley Purcell. WED WED 12:57 Weather b016vpqg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b016x232 (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 A History of the Brain b016x234 (Listen) WED The Origin of Common Sense WED WED Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey WED through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex WED organ in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, WED he reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is WED for and how it fulfils its functions. WED WED While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this WED is a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes WED obvious is that our understanding of this most inscrutable WED organ has in all periods been coloured by the social and WED political expedients of the day no less than by the WED contemporary scope of scientific or biological exploration. WED WED In Episode 3: The Origin of Common Sense, the focus is on WED Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating WED the ventricles and making thought possible, and on how early WED Christian scholarship placed the soul in the brain's WED ventricles. But with the Dark Ages, it was Islamic scholars WED who continued to explore the brain: Al Razi studied apoplexy WED or stroke, while Ibn Sina proposed that thoughts travelled WED through the brain in a predictable sequence and identified WED the 'common sense' in the front ventricle. WED WED The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff WED Bunn of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul WED Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of WED those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to WED the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy WED Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be WED highlighted in each episode - in this instance the WED ventricles. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by WED composer, Barney Quinton. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b016wzs1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b016x236 (Listen) WED Giving It Back WED WED A comedy adventure about how hard it can be to do the right WED thing. WED WED When Johnny, a small-time thief, is disturbed during a WED burglary his life changes. Inspired, he rushes home to share WED the good news with his heavily-pregnant girlfriend Laura. WED He's decided to give everything back - all the things he has WED ever stolen. Laura isn't keen - she's even less enthusiastic WED when Johnny takes the telly back. And then she goes into WED labour. Set and recorded in Cardiff, Kevin Dyer's play is a WED race-against the clock - can Johnny get everything sorted WED before the baby comes? Johnny goes back to every house, WED shop, every scene of every crime. This is the story of what WED he gets in return - mockery, humiliation, a spell in the WED cells. but also, at the end, a glimmer of hope. WED WED Johnny ..... Gareth Milton WED Laura ..... Catrin Stewart WED Nadine ..... Rhiannon Oliver WED Big Ronnie ..... Matthew Gravelle WED Mrs Williams ..... Siriol Jenkins WED Craig ..... Keiron Self WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Stefan Escreet. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b016x238 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED divorce and the financial implications of relationship WED break-up. WED If you and your partner are divorcing, dissolving a civil WED partnership or splitting up after cohabitation, you may have WED to face the difficult task of dividing your assets. WED This could involve selling your home, splitting a pension WED fund and arranging maintenance payments for children. WED What do you need to consider and what are the likely costs? WED How do you decide what is fair and what happens if you don't WED agree? WED Can a pre-nuptial or pre-civil partnership agreement help? WED Perhaps you have a question about supporting children. WED Do you have any rights if you have been cohabiting? WED Whatever your question: call Vincent Duggleby and guests. WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Mind Myths b016wzs9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b016x23b (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b016x23d (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b016x23g (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016vpqj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b0153pml (Listen) WED Series 4, Giles Coren WED WED Giles Coren tries five things he has never done before. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b016x23l (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b016x23n (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with musician, WED songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers, who first found fame WED with his band Chic, as he publishes an autobiography. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9n5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b016x23q (Listen) WED Combative debate examining the moral issues behind one of WED the week's news stories. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b016x23s (Listen) WED Series 2, Aza Raskin WED WED Aza Raskin proposes a design renaissance in healthcare, WED making it easier and more enjoyable. WED WED Whose fault is it that DVD recorders are hard to programme, WED he asks? And why do we complete so few courses of WED antibiotics, with all the terrible individual and social WED consequences? WED WED His answer in both cases is that the products are badly WED designed, and they don't take into account how human beings WED actually behave. He argues that by applying cognitive WED psychology, design, and feedback loops to some of our most WED intractable medical problems, we can dramatically improve WED our health. 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 b016x23v (Listen) WED The last untouched realm of life on the Earth is about to be WED opened up for scientific exploration. These are the WED subglacial lakes of Antarctica - vast, dark bodies of WED prehistoric water, which have been sealed under kilometres WED of ice for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. WED Andrew Luck-Baker looks at the science and the ambitious WED plans behind their exploration. WED WED Russian scientists are poised to penetrate the largest, Lake WED Vostok, with a conventional drill next January. They have WED been drilling their way towards the lake top for several WED years now, located at their research station where the WED lowest temperature ever measured on the planet was recorded, WED -90 degrees C. WED WED But the British may beat them when it comes to profound WED discoveries about subglacial lakes. In December this year, a WED UK team will set up its own extraordinary ice 'drilling' WED operation, three kilometres above Lake Ellsworth on the WED other side of the frozen continent. Lake Ellsworth is WED roughly the size of Lake Windermere. The UK's audacious plan WED entails melting a narrow 3.5 kilometre long hole into that WED lake with a jet of near- boiling water. The scientists will WED deploy a probe into the depths of the hidden lake to take WED readings and samples from top to bottom. This stage of WED NASA-style mission is scheduled for December 2012. It WED involves scientists and engineers from the British Antarctic WED Survey and a number of British universities. WED WED Between them, the projects could discover unique forms of WED microbial life which are adapted to a combination of extreme WED cold, crushing pressure and no light. The findings may WED reveal the limits at which life can exist and the tricks it WED has evolved to survive there both here on Earth and on other WED planets. The projects will also act, it is argued, as tests WED for technologies for seeking for extraterrestrial life on WED ice-encrusted water-moons such as the planet Jupiter's WED Europa. WED WED The British programme will also drill into the muds and WED sands at the bottom of Lake Ellsworth and bring samples back WED to the surface. Those sediments promise to give us a much WED clearer picture of what climate conditions would bring about WED the collapse of Antarctica's great ice sheets and resulting WED catastrophic global sea level rise. The sediments should WED contain information about this because they themselves WED formed when Antarctica in that region was too warm to host a WED thick ice sheet. WED WED The engineering effort behind the project is daunting. The WED project will set up a powerful boiler on the ice surface in WED a place where the air temperature is routinely at -20 WED degrees C. That initially involves transporting 60 tonnes of WED hardware and 55 tonnes of diesel fuel 300 kilometres through WED the icy Ellsworth Mountains. Part of the cargo is a length WED of hose 3500 metres long. Once it is all assembled and the WED team is ready to go, it will take them about 3 days to melt WED a 30 cm wide hole to the top of the lake. WED WED Then they'll have just 24 hours to lower a probe (and WED another coring device for taking sediment samples) down the WED hole into the lake water and down about 100 metres to the WED lake bottom. The probe will sample the water as it descends WED and grab mud off the bottom in its search for extreme WED adapted microbes. It then has to be hauled back more than 3 WED kilometres up to our world before the shaft in the ice WED freezes up. WED WED As for the Russian project, Lake Vostok is the size of Lake WED Ontario, 1000 metres deep and is under 4 km of ice. It's WED been isolated under ice for maybe 20 million years. The most WED interesting time-encapsuled life-forms are likely to be WED there. Last February the Russians had to stop 30 metres WED short of the lake top because of bad weather and drilling WED snags. Using a more standard drilling technique, the WED drilling gets trickier as you go deeper. Although the WED Russians may break through into Vostok's water this year, WED they won't retrieve any samples. According to their plan, WED they'll do that the following year and will only get a WED glimpse of life forms in the lake's upper reaches. WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b016x22p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b016vpql (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b016x23x (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book of the Week b016x23z (Listen) WED The House of Silk, Episode 3 WED WED The man who has been terrorising Edmund Carstairs has been WED found dead in a hotel room, but who, Sherlock Holmes WED wonders, killed him and why? And did the young boy Ross, who WED is one of the Baker Street Irregulars, and who was watching WED the hotel on the night of the murder, see more than he is WED letting on? WED WED Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged by Jane Marshall WED WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b016x241 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly WED assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden and with the additional WED help of the listening audience as we broadcast live and WED invite them to join in. WED WED Mark will be asking the big questions that are crucial to WED our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic WED and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the WED live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation WED via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the WED world a better place. WED WED This week Mark looks at "Faith" - What is faith? One of the WED most used, and feared, words of modern times. Yet these WED days, it's often used derisively about religious beliefs and WED so on. We look at odd things done in the name of 'faith', WED versus the obvious merits of having faith (belief that WED England will eventually win World Cup, ability to ride out WED difficult marriages). Should we be more credulous and WED believe people like estate agents? Or LESS credulous and WED destroy our TV sets altogether in case we accidentally WED absorb lies? 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 b016x243 (Listen) WED The day's top news stories from Sean Curran with the day's WED top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b016vpr5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b016x22r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016vpr7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016vpr9 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016vprc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b016vprf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0179yf5 (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day THU on Radio 4. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b016x2jk (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 b016x2jm (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in THU Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b016x2jp (Listen) THU The Continental-Analytic Split THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Continental-Analytic THU split in Western philosophy. Around the beginning of the THU last century, philosophy began to go down two separate THU paths, as thinkers from Continental Europe explored the THU legacy of figures including Schopenhauer, while those THU educated in the English-speaking world tended to look to THU more analytically-inclined philosophers like Bertrand THU Russell. The Continental and Analytic schools have developed THU independently, with the analytic school favouring a logical THU scientific approach in contrast to the Continental emphasis THU on the importance of time and place; but today some THU philosophers are attempting to bridge this historic divide. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b016x2jr (Listen) THU One Day I Will Write about This Place, Episode 4 THU THU By Binyavanga Wainaina. THU THU The Kenyan government is to stop subsidizing university THU education so Wainaina and his sister enrol at Transkei THU University and join the thousands of students from all over THU Africa who are moving to South Africa, which is transforming THU as the old regime makes way for the new. THU THU Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b016x2jt (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9qc (Listen) THU Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital, Episode 4 THU THU Writing The Century - THU The Camel Hospital, THU Inspired by the diaries of Sara Wilsdon THU dramatised by Karen Brown THU THU The series which explores the 20th century through the THU diaries and correspondence of real people: THU THU Amidst the celebrations of peace being declared, Sara tries THU to find a moment to tell Ray about her change of feelings THU for him. THU THU Sara ...... Rebecca Callard THU Ray ..... Jake Norton THU Amelia ...... Verity-May Henry THU Matron ...... Olwen May THU Patient ..... James Nickerson THU THU Research Consultant - Professor Alison Fell THU Directed by Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b016x2jw (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Bleached Bone and Living Wood b016x2jy (Listen) THU On 4 November 1918 the poet Wilfred Owen was killed at Ors THU in northern France. Seven days later as bells rang out the THU Armistice, his parents received the tragic telegram. And THU then Owen's final letter to his mother, written on 31 THU October in the cellar of a forester's house, arrived. THU THU For nearly a century the house remained a nondescript, THU red-brick building. Now it's been transformed by the British THU artist, Simon Patterson, into a stunning work of art. THU Neither museum nor memorial, it's a startling white tribute THU to Owen's life and poetry. THU THU Patterson was first approached by the Mayor of Ors seven THU years ago. Jacky Duminy, having discovered an important THU English poet was buried in his cemetery, sought local THU recognition. The community, helped by the county council, THU the regional tourist board and Lille-based Art Connexion, THU finally raised the funds to achieve Patterson's ambitious THU vision: entirely French funding for a British artist to THU honour a British poet. THU THU Leaving untouched the cellar where Owen sheltered with his THU men, Patterson gutted the interior of the house, creating a THU huge space in which Owen's poems are projected onto glazed THU walls, while spoken by Kenneth Branagh, and in French by THU Philippe Capelle. In the cellar the same actors read the THU poignant last letter home. THU THU Christine Finn first saw the house as a building site; she THU returned for the preview for the local community, who are THU the custodians of the artwork. She met Simon Patterson, and THU the architect Jean-Christophe Denise, who helped realize THU Patterson's dream. Peter Owen, Wilfred's nephew, initially THU sceptical about the project, was bowled over by the finished THU house. The Belgian novelist Xavier Hanotte showed her Owen's THU grave in the village cemetery and the canal where he fell. THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b016x2k0 (Listen) THU Food banks and the rising costs of student accommodation THU THU Food banks opening at a rate of one a week, the modern THU business of online dating, and the rising cost of student THU accommodation. Consumer news with Julian Worricker. THU THU Producer: Rebecca Moore. THU THU 12:57 Weather b016vprh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b016x2k2 (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 A History of the Brain b016x2k4 (Listen) THU Spirits in the Material World THU THU Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey THU through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex THU organ in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, THU he reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is THU for and how it fulfils its functions. THU THU While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this THU is a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes THU obvious is that our understanding of this most inscrutable THU organ has in all periods been coloured by the social and THU political expedients of the day no less than by the THU contemporary scope of scientific or biological exploration. THU THU In Episode 4: Spirits in the Material World, the focus is on THU Thomas Willis, the 17th century physician after whom the THU 'Circle of Willis' - the circuit of arteries supplying blood THU to the brain - is named. Willis' Anatomy of the Brain and THU Nerves was a groundbreaking attempt to correlate brain THU anatomy with mental function. A friend of Christopher Wren, THU the humbly-born Willis was one of the founder members of the THU Royal Society. Yet his ideas were not universally accepted. THU The Cambridge philosopher, Henry More, considered the brain THU no more than 'a bowl of curds'', with no possibility that it THU could house reason. THU THU The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff THU Bunn of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul THU Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of THU those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to THU the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy THU Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be THU highlighted in each episode - in this instance the Circle of THU Willis and the tiny pineal gland. The original, atmospheric THU score is supplied by composer, Barney Quinton. THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b016x23l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b016x2k6 (Listen) THU The State of Water THU THU A Welsh family is fiercely divided over the future of their THU farm. THU THU Eldryd and his daughter, Siwan, are sheep farmers in the THU uplands of Wales. Prices are better than they have been but THU it's a hard, physical life that increasing age doesn't make THU any easier. Still, Eldryd loves this landscape and the life THU - the raw beauty, the wide horizons, the solitude. Then THU Siwan hears about a scheme which helps sheep farmers to give THU up their animals and become eco-stewards of their landscape. THU The idea is that this will improve water retention on the THU uplands, which helps the water supply and hinders flooding. THU For Eldryd the answer is simple: no. For Siwan, things are THU more complex - this new way of life might offer her a THU future. Sarah Woods' new play looks at the debate between THU sheep farming and eco management through the experience of THU one family. THU THU Narrator . . . Iestyn Jones THU Eldryd . . . . Phyl Harries THU Siwan . . . . Mali Harries THU Penny . . . . Claire Cage THU Huw . . . . Rhys ap William THU Sion . . . . Saul Woods THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b016x2k8 (Listen) THU It's been dubbed the foot and mouth of the tree world. THU Phytophthora ramorum or sudden oak death as its commonly THU known is ravaging forests across the UK resulting in THU millions of trees being cut down. The disease has spread THU from the South West to Wales, the peaks and even as far THU north as the Isle of Mull. But experts say they are finding THU fewer and fewer new outbreaks. Today on Open Country, Helen THU Mark visits The South West, the region that's hardest hit, THU to find out what impact this disease is continuing to have THU on the countryside and whether there are signs that we are THU finally getting on top of it. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark. THU Producer : Anna Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b016vysf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b016w0nf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b016x3g6 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Material World b016x3gd (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 b016x3gj (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016vprk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Listen Against b016x3gn (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU Listen Against is the comedy that takes the back off your THU radio and television, fiddles round with the programmes THU inside and then puts them all back the wrong way round. THU THU Using "beautifully crafted, scalpel sharp" (Gillian THU Reynolds) mash-ups of current and archive programmes Listen THU Against creates a "sly, sharp, smart, surreal, satirical" THU world (Sunday Telegraph) where Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes THU look back in amplitude of at a week's worth of broadcasting THU like a media tapeworm going through a dog. THU THU Like "the mischievous offspring of Points of View and The THU Day Today" (Observer) fictional listeners bombard Listen THU Against with fictional letters and emails complaining about THU half-fictional programmes while fictional guests and real THU life presenters (this series includes Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy THU Vine and Vanessa Feltz) argue with each other in "a gem of a THU satirical swoop at radio and television." (Guardian). THU THU Written and created by Jon Holmes THU Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes THU THU Cast: THU Kevin Eldon (Brass Eye, Big Train) THU Justin Edwards (The Thick of It) THU Sarah Hadland (Miranda) THU James Bachman (Mitchell & Webb) THU Kim Wall (Big Train , IT Crowd) THU David Mara (RSC & Donmar Warehouse) THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b016x3gq (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b016x3gv (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including the first-night verdict on THU Michael Sheen's return to the London stage in the title role THU of Hamlet. THU THU Producer Georgia Mann. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9qc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b016wzrn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b016x3gz (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b016wxv5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b016x2jp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b016vprm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b016x3h3 (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book of the Week b016x3h5 (Listen) THU The House of Silk, Episode 4 THU THU One of Sherlock Holmes' young informants has gone missing. THU Concerned for his safety the detective has visited Chorley THU Grange School for Boys, the institution from which Ross ran THU away earlier in the year. Though the headmaster has no idea THU where his young charge has run to, one of Ross's friends THU recalls that he had a sister who worked at a public house THU called The Bag of Nails. THU THU Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged by Jane Marshall THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Les Kelly's Britain b016x3h7 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) hosts a magazine show from hell. THU Les is a cross between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. THU He claims this is the only radio show for 'normal, decent THU people'. 'If you aren't decent, this is not the show for THU you,' says Les. THU THU Les meets a father whose daughter needs a new kidney. Well, THU perhaps 'need' isn't quite the right word. She just wants THU one more kidney than all her friends. Les also meets an THU expert on sanglanding. It's the dangerous new craze amongst THU young people - trouble is, no on knows what it is. THU THU Produced & Written by Bill Dare. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b016x3hc (Listen) THU David Cornock with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b016vps6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b016x2jr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016vps8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016vpsb (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016vpsd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b016vpsg (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016wxtq (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection by George Craig to start the day FRI on Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b016x42h (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Sarah Swadling. Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b016x42k (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b016w0n1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b016x42m (Listen) FRI One Day I Will Write about This Place, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Binyavanga Wainaina. FRI FRI Having felt desperately homesick in South Africa, and not FRI enjoying his university course, Wainaina has lost his way. FRI But finally he gets the call to return home to Kenya and a FRI memorable family reunion. FRI FRI Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall FRI FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b016x42p (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9s7 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 18: The Camel Hospital, Episode 5 FRI FRI Writing The Century - FRI The Camel Hospital, FRI Inspired by the diaries of Sara Wilsdon FRI dramatised by Karen Brown FRI FRI The series which explores the 20th century through the FRI diaries and correspondence of real people. FRI FRI Torn between returning home to her family or staying with FRI Ray in Egypt, Sara must make an agonising decision. FRI FRI Sara ...... Rebecca Callard FRI Ray ..... Jake Norton FRI Amelia ...... Verity-May Henry FRI Matron...... Fionnuala Dorrity FRI FRI Research Consultant - Professor Alison Fell FRI Directed by Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Armistice Day Silence b016x4sq (Listen) FRI The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. FRI FRI 11:02 The War Brides Return b016x4ss (Listen) FRI In the 1940s, over 70 thousand women, and 22 thousand FRI children sailed across the Atlantic in more than 60 ships, FRI on a one way passage, to begin a new life with their FRI American and Canadian husbands they had met and married FRI during the war. This War Bride exodus - is one of the FRI greatest and unheralded mass movements in recent history. In FRI April 2011, the Queen Mary 2nd brought some of them home. FRI FRI Recorded as a montage programme on board the ship as it FRI travelled from New York back to Britain, these women who are FRI now in their 80s and 90s, tell extraordinary tales of that FRI one way passage. Tales of falling in love, hasty marriages FRI and arriving in a foreign land thousands of miles from home. FRI For most of them it worked out - for some it didn't. But FRI today there are over a million descendants in America and FRI Canada, of these remarkable women who followed their hearts FRI and took a leap of faith all those years ago. FRI FRI Producer: Angela Hind FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b016x4sv (Listen) FRI April 21st to 25th 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 second episode finds Damien reluctantly drawn into FRI accepting a job for a supermarket's online magazine, whilst FRI Anthony resolves to start the "courgette diet" and lose a FRI few pounds. FRI FRI The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes FRI for: FRI - a simple Lobster Bisque FRI - comforting Lardy Cake FRI - relaxing Nettle Tea FRI and FRI - easy Wiener Schnitzel. FRI FRI Miles Jupp as Damien Trench FRI Justin Edwards as Anthony FRI with FRI Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Geraldine McBeef FRI Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney FRI Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b016x4sx (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b016vpsj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b016x4sz (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 A History of the Brain b016x4t1 (Listen) FRI The Spark of Being FRI FRI Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey FRI through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex FRI organ in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, FRI he reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is FRI for and how it fulfils its functions. FRI FRI While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this FRI is a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes FRI obvious is that our understanding of this most inscrutable FRI organ has in all periods been coloured by the social and FRI political expedients of the day no less than by the FRI contemporary scope of scientific or biological exploration. FRI FRI In Episode 5: The Spark of Being, the focus is on FRI electricity and communication, within the brain and between FRI the brain and the rest of the body. When John Walsh showed, FRI in 1776, that an eel could generate electricity, it became FRI possible that human consciousness also relied on sparks FRI fizzing within the brain. Coming at a time when Benjamin FRI Franklin - an acknowledged expert on electricity - was FRI signing the Declaration of Independence which asserted that FRI all men are created equal, it generated a new perspective on FRI the workings of the brain; the old hierarchical model was FRI discarded in favour of the doctrine of equipotentiality. FRI FRI The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff FRI Bunn of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul FRI Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of FRI those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to FRI the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy FRI Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be FRI highlighted in each episode - in this instance the Corpus FRI Callosum. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by FRI composer, Barney Quinton. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b016x3gq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b016x4t3 (Listen) FRI Laurels and Donkeys FRI FRI A sequence of dramatic and new poems by Andrew Motion to FRI mark Remembrance Day. The poems draw on soldiers' FRI experiences of war from 1914 until today, beginning with a FRI story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two FRI and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. FRI Most of the poems are in the voices of combatants. With: FRI Julian Rhind Tutt, Toby Stephens, David Birrell, Russell FRI Boulter, Carl Prekopp. Music: Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim FRI Dee. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b016x4t7 (Listen) FRI Melrose, Scottish Borders FRI FRI Eric Robson leads the panel in a gardening Q&A recorded with FRI gardeners in Melrose. FRI Bunny Guinness visits Priorwood Dried Flower garden. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Junior Science b016x4t9 (Listen) FRI Back To School FRI FRI To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick FRI Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence FRI at The Science Museum in London. FRI FRI In these three specially-commissioned stories, children FRI become involved in science with strange and unsettling FRI results. FRI FRI In Back To School, young Robert Thornber discovers strange FRI goings-on in the Science Block when he accidentally goes FRI back to school a day early. He is soon forced to run for his FRI life. FRI FRI Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. FRI His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for FRI The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won FRI The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has FRI published three novels and two illustrated collections of FRI stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears FRI which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. FRI One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by FRI Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at FRI international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best FRI Short Animation. FRI FRI Mick lives in Brighton with his family. FRI FRI Written by Mick Jackson. Read by David Holt. FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b016x4tc (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b016x4tf (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 17:00 PM b016x4th (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016vpsl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b016x4tk (Listen) FRI Series 35, Episode 1 FRI FRI Since The Now Show was last on air there has been rioting FRI across London, strikes across Europe and demonstrations FRI outside St Paul's Cathedral. So they've finally relented and FRI are coming back for another series. FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are back for a new series of The FRI Now Show, with Laura Shavin, John Holmes, Lloyd Langford and FRI Mitch Benn. FRI FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b016x4tm (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b016x4tp (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Lisa Davis. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017b9s7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b016x4tr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a live panel discussion of news FRI and politics from Varndean, East Sussex. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b016x4tt (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the Brain Omnibus b016x4tw (Listen) FRI Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey FRI through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex FRI thing in the known universe. From Neolithic times to the FRI present day, Geoff journeys through the many ideas of what FRI the brain is for and how it fulfils its functions. While FRI referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this is a FRI cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes FRI obvious is that our understanding of this most inscrutable FRI organ has in all periods been coloured by the social and FRI political expedients of the day no less than by the FRI contemporary scope of scientific or biological exploration. FRI FRI In Episode 1: A Hole in the Head, the focus is on FRI trepanation, the practice of drilling holes in the skull FRI believing that such operations might correct physiological FRI or spiritual problems. Trepanation reveals much about the FRI understanding of the brain from Neolithic to recent times. FRI The Ancient Egyptians, however, rarely trepanned, even FRI though their Secret Book of the Physician, one of the oldest FRI medical texts in the world, shows that they recognised how FRI damage to the brain can paralyze limbs on opposite sides of FRI the body. Believing the heart to be the core organ, they FRI discarded the brain altogether at death, since it had no FRI part to play in the afterlife. FRI FRI The series is written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn of FRI Manchester Metropolitan University. Actors Paul FRI Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes provide the voices of FRI those who have written about the brain across the ages. FRI Actor Hattie Morahan gives the Anatomy Lesson establishing FRI the part of the brain to be highlighted in each episode - in FRI this instance the cranium and the meninges. The original, FRI atmospheric score is supplied by composer, Barney Quinton. FRI The producer is Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b016vpsn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b016x4ty (Listen) FRI With Robin Lustig. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book of the Week b016x4v0 (Listen) FRI The House of Silk, Episode 5 FRI FRI Holmes and Watson are on the trail of the mysteriously named FRI House of Silk. Unable to find any information about what it FRI is or where it can be found, Holmes reluctantly turns to the FRI only person he knows who is possibly even better informed FRI and better connected than he himself, his brother Mycroft. FRI FRI Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged by Jane Marshall FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b016wzrq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b016x4v2 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the news from Westminster. FRI
04 November, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 05/11/2011 - 11/11/2011
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