12 November, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 12/11/2011 - 18/11/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b016x4wk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b016x42m (Listen) SAT One Day I Will Write about This Place, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Binyavanga Wainaina. SAT SAT Having felt desperately homesick in South Africa, and not SAT enjoying his university course, Wainaina has lost his way. SAT But finally he gets the call to return home to Kenya and a SAT memorable family reunion. SAT SAT Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall SAT Produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b016x4wm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b016x4wp (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b016x4wr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b016x4wt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b016x4yf (Listen) SAT with Judy Merry. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b016x4yh (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b016x4ww (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b016x4wy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b016x2k8 (Listen) SAT It's been dubbed the foot and mouth of the tree world. SAT Phytophthora ramorum or sudden oak death as its commonly SAT known is ravaging forests across the UK resulting in SAT millions of trees being cut down. The disease has spread SAT from the South West to Wales, the peaks and even as far SAT north as the Isle of Mull. But experts say they are finding SAT fewer and fewer new outbreaks. Today on Open Country, Helen SAT Mark visits The South West, the region that's hardest hit, SAT to find out what impact this disease is continuing to have SAT on the countryside and whether there are signs that we are SAT finally getting on top of it. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark. SAT Producer : Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0171x19 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Sarah Swadling. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b016x4x0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0171x1c (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0171x1f (Listen) SAT Michael Ball, Mr Gee, Jim'll Fix It fixer, Mini-Miss SAT Worldwide, Robert Maxwell receiver, John Crowley SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with performer Michael Ball, poet Mr Gee, SAT Mini-Miss Worldwide Bethany Jade and her mum Debbie, Peter SAT Phillips who was Robert Maxwell's official receiver, an I SAT Was There feature from Jim'll Fix It with the man who fixed SAT it for Jim, and the Inheritance Tracks of film and theatre SAT director John Crowley. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0171x1h (Listen) SAT John McCarthy looks at responsible tourism with journalist SAT Catherine Mack who warns that our water footprint can be as SAT significant as our carbon footprint as ground water is SAT depleted to satisfy holiday activities from swimming pools SAT to ski slopes. John also hears about responsible tourism in SAT Cambodia from author Sue Guiney who returns there to run SAT writing workshops and marine protection leader Pete Raines SAT and citizen scientist Kirsty Brown who are helping map and SAT preserve coral reefs. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Mysterious Mr Mercury b0171x1k (Listen) SAT Freddie Mercury was a hugely charismatic and dynamic SAT performer who cultivated a flamboyant stage personality, and SAT yet in private he was extremely shy and retiring, and gave SAT very few interviews. To mark the 20th anniversary of his SAT death, Midge Ure goes in search of the real Freddie Mercury. SAT SAT Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in 1946 to Indian SAT parents in Zanzibar, when it was still part of the British SAT Empire. At the age of 17, he and his family moved to SAT Feltham, Middlesex, and he became a British citizen. After SAT studying at art college, his music career took off in 1970 SAT when he joined up with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger SAT Taylor. Together they became "Queen". SAT SAT "Queen's" unique brand of stadium rock appealed to audiences SAT across the globe. The band were the first to play in South SAT American stadiums in the 1980s, they stole the show at Live SAT Aid in 1985 and three hundred thousand fans flocked to see SAT Freddie Mercury's final live performance at Knebworth Park SAT in 1986. SAT SAT Mercury's sexual ambiguity was a particular source of SAT intrigue. In 1969 he began a long-term relationship with SAT Mary Austin. Throughout his life he referred to her as his SAT 'common law wife' and his 'only friend'. Yet the wedding SAT ring Mercury was wearing on his death bed was given to him SAT by his male partner, Jim Hutton. SAT SAT In the years following his triumph at Live Aid, Freddie SAT Mercury was rarely seen in the public eye. His health became SAT a subject of speculation, even though his colleagues and SAT friends continually denied there was anything wrong with SAT him. Finally, on the day before he died, Freddie made a SAT public statement confirming that he was HIV positive and he SAT had AIDS. SAT SAT With Freddie's ex-girlfriend Mary Austin, Queen guitarist SAT Brian May, music producers Mike Moran and Reinhold Mack, SAT Queen roadie Peter Hince, and Freddie's personal assistant SAT Peter Freestone. SAT SAT Producer: Melissa FitzGerald SAT A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0171x1m (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0171x1p (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0171x1r (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b016x4tk (Listen) SAT Series 35, Episode 1 SAT SAT Since The Now Show was last on air there has been rioting SAT across London, strikes across Europe and demonstrations SAT outside St Paul's Cathedral. So they've finally relented and SAT are coming back for another series. SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are back for a new series of The SAT Now Show, with Laura Shavin, John Holmes, Lloyd Langford and SAT Mitch Benn. SAT SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b016x4x2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b016x4x4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b016x4tr (Listen) SAT Brighton SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a live panel discussion of news SAT and politics from Varndean College, East Sussex, with SAT columnist Toby Young, Secretary of State for International SAT Development, Andrew Mitchell, Shadow Minister for Care and SAT Older People, Liz Kendall, and children's commissioner for SAT England, Maggie Atkinson. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0171ydr (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0171ydt (Listen) SAT Bar Mitzvah Boy SAT SAT by Jack Rosenthal, Adapted for radio by Amy Rosenthal SAT SAT A radio version of Jack Rosenthal's award-winning television SAT play about a boy having his Bar Mitzvah - the ceremony in SAT which a thirteen year old becomes a man in the Jewish faith. SAT SAT At the tender age of thirteen Eliot Green is about to become SAT a man - in the Jewish religion at least. In synagogue, in SAT front of the whole congregation, he will read and sing in SAT Hebrew from the Torah (the Hebrew scrolls) - this after a SAT year of intensive tuition. Later he will enjoy receiving SAT gifts from relatives and friends as he celebrates with them SAT at his Bar Mitzvah party. SAT All eyes are on Eliot as he is called up in synagogue for SAT his big moment! But is he ready to become a man? SAT SAT This play along with many others established the late Jack SAT Rosenthal as one of Britain's best loved television writers. SAT A master at creating characters that you could recognise and SAT empathise with, his plays were always sharp and finely tuned SAT with a rich helping of humour. SAT SAT This new version of Bar Mitzvah Boy is specially adapted for SAT radio by Jack's daughter, the playwright Amy Rosenthal. SAT SAT Eliot......................................HUGO RAINE SAT Rita.......................................TRACY-ANN OBERMAN SAT Victor.....................................DAVID HOROVITCH SAT Grandad.................................ANDREW SACHS SAT Lesley. . . . ............................SUSANNAH WISE SAT Harold......................................JONATHAN TAFLER SAT Rabbi Sherman ......................PETER MAJER SAT Denise...................................MAYA GERBER SAT Squidge.................................SAM CUMMINGS SAT Synagogue Cantor...................RABBI MARK L. SOLOMON SAT SAT Produced and directed by David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b016wxv7 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique SAT SAT Written when he was still little more than an aspiring SAT composer, driven by the image of a woman with whom he had SAT fallen passionately in love from afar, and breaking new SAT ground in the drama of concert performance, Berlioz's SAT Symphonie Fantastique is one of the most important SAT manuscripts held at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. SAT SAT With the help of the conductor Nigel Simeone, the Berlioz SAT scholar Professor Peter Bloom and the music curator Cecile SAT Reynaud, Frances Fyfield discovers the youthful energy of SAT the handwritten score that Berlioz kept with him for SAT fourteen years before delivering it to the publishers. In SAT that time there were rewrites, extra parts written in for SAT extraordinary circumstances and all the usual tweaks and SAT refinements you'd expect of a composer working towards his SAT imaginative ambitions. But the score also comes complete SAT with the composer's dedications to Harriet Smithson, the SAT Anglo-Irish actress whose image became the famous 'idee SAT fixe' of the symphony. This simple melody returns again and SAT again throughout the five movements. SAT SAT There are also printed programme notes created for the first SAT audiences, notes describing the 'story' of a young man SAT taking opium and having a sequence of dreams and imaginings SAT about his love, his jealousy, his death at the scaffold and SAT the witches' sabbath thereafter. SAT SAT As well as evidence of extraordinary musical imagination the SAT manuscript score also displays bizarre gothic doodles SAT alongside the fourth movement, complete with ravens, chains SAT and helmets. This, the famous March to the Scafford was SAT actually lifted from one of the composer's earlier operas SAT that doesn't survive. To make it work in the symphony, SAT Berlioz felt it needed the inclusion of the 'idee fixe', and SAT there, on the last page, in the dying breath of the hero as SAT he awaits the guillotine's blade, it appears wistfully SAT played by the clarinet. SAT SAT And just to cap it all there are the many exotic instruments SAT Berlioz called upon, including the magnificent brass SAT ophycleide. SAT SAT It's all in the last of this series of Tales from the Stave. SAT SAT Producer Tom Alban SAT Presenter FRANCES FYFIELD. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0171ydw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Jilly Cooper on marital happiness, SAT Cook the Perfect Christmas Cake, Sue Tollefsen on late SAT motherhood, New Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth SAT Davidson, Should brothels be legalised to protect sex SAT workers? Jodi Bieber, winner of the World Press Photography SAT award, Sarah Raven on the beauty of wild flowers and the SAT enduring appeal of Nancy Mitford? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0171ydy (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b016x3gz (Listen) SAT Business Bonds 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 After a week of turmoil in the bond markets, Evan and his SAT panel discuss the importance of bonds in business. The boss SAT of Heathrow talks about the trials and tribulations of SAT running one of the world's busiest airports. And the panel SAT swap thoughts on whether a good business manager can run any SAT company of any type. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Mark Elborne, president and SAT chief executive of multinational conglomerate GE (UK and SAT Ireland); Alison Carnwath, chairman of property company Land SAT Securities; Colin Matthews, chief executive of airport owner SAT and operator BAA. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b016x4x6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b016x4x8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b016x4xb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0171yjw (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Choreographer Gillian Lynne certainly knows how to pull some SAT dance moves. She was star dancer at the London Palladium, SAT acted opposite Errol Flynn in the movies and danced with all SAT the greats on early TV. Gillian talks about choreographing SAT The Phantom of the Opera which celebrates its 25th SAT anniversary this year with a DVD/CD box set recorded at SAT London's Royal Albert Hall. SAT SAT Clive has a cup of tea and a chin-wag with Ralf Little about SAT writing and starring in his new Sky 1 sitcom 'The Café'. SAT Acting as the social hub of a seafront town, Cyril's Café SAT sees all walks of life pass through it's doors for a chat SAT and a bacon sarnie. Pass the sugar please Ralf! SAT SAT The much too young Nikki Bedi will be talking to her very SAT special guest Jerry Dammers about founding 2 Tone Records SAT and ska revival band 'The Specials'. His latest musical SAT venture 'Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra' is a mash-up SAT of Sun Ra, Massive Attack, Specials and reggae, all filtered SAT through Dammer's unique musical vision. They're performing SAT at The Barbican as part of London's Jazz Festival on Friday SAT 18th November. SAT SAT Well known for being one half of Yorkshire detective duo SAT 'Dalziel and Pascoe', Warren Clarke has returned to the SAT stage and behind the doors of Number Ten to perform as the SAT cigar-smoking Winston Churchill in Ben Brown's political SAT drama 'Three Days In May' at The Trafalgar Studios in SAT London. SAT SAT The beautifully bow-tied French soul sensation Ben l'Oncle SAT Soul performs 'Soulman'. And the comedy-jazz juggernaut that SAT is The Horne Section will be pulling in to perform 'If We SAT Ever Get Any Groupies' from their part improvised, part SAT performance, part party of a West End show. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0171yjy (Listen) SAT The Labour MP Tom Watson compared James Murdoch with "a SAT Mafia boss" while questioning him about phone hacking this SAT week. He has lead the charge in Parliament against News SAT International, and has been forensically campaigning on SAT phone hacking for years. SAT SAT While many of his Labour colleagues regard him as a hero for SAT his role in taking on the Murdoch empire, Watson wasn't SAT always so popular. A close ally of Gordon Brown, he called SAT for Tony Blair to resign in 2006, although he denied Brown SAT conspired with him to bring down the Prime Minister. SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles the pioneer blogger and populist SAT campaigner, who is unafraid to take on powerful figures in SAT and out of politics. SAT SAT Producer Bill Law. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0171yk0 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests playwright Mark Ravenhill, SAT anthropologist Kit Davis and film-maker James Runcie review SAT the week's cultural highlights including Wuthering Heights SAT SAT FILM 1 Wuthering Heights - directed by Andrea Arnold SAT SAT THEATRE Hamlet - Ian Rickson directs Michael Sheen in the SAT title role at the Young Vic SAT SAT FILM 2 Tabloid - director Errol Morris's documentary about SAT notorious fromer beauty queen Joyce McKinney SAT SAT BOOK Seven Houses in France - Bernardo Atxaga SAT SAT EXHIBITION Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan SAT - National Gallery SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0171yk2 (Listen) SAT Remembrance SAT SAT There are now no living survivors of the First World War, SAT yet Remembrance Day has gained a new and powerful SAT significance in the nation's life. Today we not only SAT commemorate the war dead on Remembrance Sunday, we also mark SAT the anniversary of the actual moment in 1918 when the guns SAT stopped firing with a two minute silence. SAT SAT This custom, which ceased in 1939, was reinstated in 1995, SAT meaning that today we remember the war dead more actively SAT than any previous post war generation, and arguably more SAT than at any time since the First World War itself. As SAT Professor Jay Winter says, Remembrance is "the spinal column SAT that connects 1918 with 2011". SAT SAT While the ceremonial rituals of Remembrance have remained SAT constant, their social and emotional meaning has changed SAT over the years, mirroring the massive shifts in British SAT society since their creation more than ninety years ago. SAT Remembrance is now pivotal to British identity, as shaped by SAT the collective memories of two great conflicts. The Second SAT World War especially has infused our culture with feelings SAT of pride, moral worth and British exceptionalism. The SAT Remembrance ceremony has become a crucial moment to sustain SAT this sense of ourselves, despite the more controversial SAT legacy of modern wars. SAT SAT In this programme, Denys Blakeway explores the Act of SAT Remembrance through recordings of the ceremony, and the SAT debates surrounding it, and asks why Remembrance Day has SAT become so important in the life of the modern British SAT nation, despite the relatively few who have fallen in recent SAT conflicts. SAT SAT With Professor David Cannadine, Professor Jay Winter, Dr. SAT Adrian Gregory, Dr. Dan Todman, author Juliet Nicholson and SAT forces chaplain, Padre Mark Christian. SAT SAT Producer: Melissa FitzGerald SAT A Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b016w0nc (Listen) SAT The Heat of the Day, Episode 2 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 has discovered 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 The Heat of the Day is directed by Tristram Powell and SAT adapted for radio by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick. SAT SAT Screenwriter ..... Henry Goodman SAT Harrison ..... Matthew Marsh SAT Stella ...... Anna Chancellor SAT Robert ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Louie/ Anne/ Mary/Waitress ...... Teresa Gallagher SAT Roderick ...... Daniel Weyman SAT Ernestine ...... Honeysuckle Weeks SAT Mrs Kelway ...... Tina Gray SAT Donovan ...... Nigel Anthony SAT SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b016x4xd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b016x23q (Listen) SAT St Paul's Protest SAT SAT The Occupy London protest camp outside St Paul's Cathedral SAT shows no signs disappearing anytime soon. The combination of SAT God and Mammon, an idealistic protest group with a SAT well-defined set of grievances, but no clear policies and SAT the resignation of senior churchmen has been a gift for SAT leader writers and columnists. But at the heart of this SAT story are the issues of moral leadership and vision. The SAT prolonged financial crisis has forced us to ask profound SAT questions about the purpose and nature of capitalism and SAT whether the markets have become so powerful that it is us SAT and the politicians who are serving them, rather than the SAT other way around. The Church of England, the Catholic Church SAT and other religious communities have been asking these SAT questions for some time, but protest on the steps of St SAT Paul's, with all its Biblical resonances, has undoubtedly SAT brought the issues more to surface. As a survey commissioned SAT by St Paul's in to the attitude of workers in the City, even SAT some of them are asking the same questions. You might call SAT that prophetic leadership which is long overdue - tackling SAT the issues of financial inequality and injustice, but is it SAT the duty of the Church to criticise the values of today's SAT capitalism, rather than simply championing the poor? And are SAT the protesters a rag-tag army that is hypocritically SAT demonising capitalism, scapegoating bankers, and privileging SAT sentimentality over morality? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Claire SAT Fox and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b016w811 (Listen) SAT To herald a new series of 'Brain of Britain' starting next SAT week, the three most recent 'Brain of Britain' champions SAT compete for the prestigious title 'Brain of Brains'. Russell SAT Davies chairs this turbo-charged edition of the evergreen SAT general knowledge quiz, at the BBC Radio Theatre in London. SAT SAT The competitors are the 2008 champion Geoff Thomas from SAT Northwich in Cheshire; the 2010 champion Dr Ian Bayley from SAT Oxford; and the reigning 'Brain of Britain', Dr Iwan Thomas SAT from Beeston in Notts. It's anyone's guess which of these SAT seasoned quiz champions will emerge victorious. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Spike Milligan - The Serious Poet b016w0nh (Listen) SAT Spike Milligan's 3 daughters, Sile, Laura and Jane discuss SAT how their father's serious poetry reflected his life and SAT personality. Milligan's writing was intimate and honest. SAT SAT Spike Milligan's funny verse is well loved and his poem On SAT The Ning Nang Nong was once voted the UK's favourite comic SAT poem. However, there is a body of serious poetry that Spike SAT Milligan wrote which, although is lesser known, is equally SAT as powerful. A prolific writer, Milligan used his poetry as SAT an outlet for his feelings about everything in his life from SAT his family, to losing friends in the war, to the issues he SAT cared about. SAT SAT In this personal reflection, Spike's 3 daughters - Sile, SAT Laura and Jane talk about the poems and remember their SAT father. Through this, his most intimate work, they discuss SAT the man they grew up with - the loving and creative hands-on SAT father and the man who would disappear for days to his bed SAT with depression. He often wrote beautiful and moving poetry SAT for his children and mourned the passing of their SAT childhoods. They in turn had a 'magical' childhood with SAT Spike creating imaginary worlds for them and taking time for SAT small things - for example he wrote a poem of the beauty of SAT throwing pebbles into water with Jane. SAT SAT The daughters recall Spike's affinity to children and SAT animals and the pain he suffered when he witnessed suffering SAT in either. They also remember Spike the husband to three SAT wives. Sile and Laura are daughters from Spike's first SAT marriage to June and Jane's mother was Spike's second wife, SAT Paddy. The poems reveal Spike's love affairs during the SAT marriages and the subsequent turbulent emotional life. Sile SAT was once given a pair of Jade earrings from her father for SAT Christmas. It was only later when she read one of his poems SAT about the earrings that she realised they had been bought SAT for a lover who had left him. SAT SAT Jane recalls that Spike never stopped writing, even when SAT depressed and that he used his writing to try to heal SAT himself. Some of the poems were written in a psychiatric SAT ward. Laura remembers Spike giving a reading of a poem about SAT lost friends who died in Lauro, Italy in the war, in front SAT of an audience in the last years of his life. He broke down SAT during the reading. It was the war that kick started his SAT poetry writing. SAT SAT Despite their serious content, Spike's wit is present in SAT some of the poems, but they are a chance to see a different SAT side to this comic genius. Apparently, Spike was immensely SAT proud of the work and was terrified that he'd only be SAT remembered for The Goons. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0171tdq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00r0tbx (Listen) SUN Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight, The Whisper SUN SUN Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight SUN SUN The last in a series of supernatural tales commissioned by SUN Radio 4 for last year's Bath Literature Festival. SUN SUN 3/3 : The Whisper by Diana Evans read by Syan Blake SUN SUN Rachel is a burden to her neighbours, but she carries her SUN own burden too. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0171tds (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0171tdv (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0171tdx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0171tdz (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0171yqp (Listen) SUN The bells of Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0171yjy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0171tf1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0171yqr (Listen) SUN The Outsider SUN SUN Fergal Keane considers the Outsider both as a force for good SUN and progress, and also as a more malign being. He reflects SUN on the psychology of the individual writer, musician or SUN painter and their need to create an outsider image for the SUN public; on outsiders who are consigned to exclusion because SUN of their social circumstances, and on more sinister SUN outsiders who keep dark secrets. SUN SUN The programme includes readings of work by Colin Wilson, SUN William Trevor, and Anton Chekhov, and music by Gustav SUN Mahler, Ismael Lo, and Rufus Wainwright. The readers are SUN Jonjo O'Neill, Gina Peach and Frank Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b0171yqt (Listen) SUN Waxcap Grasslands SUN SUN West Wales receives a lot of rain, which is perfect for this SUN week's Living World. Paul Evans joins Bruce Langridge from SUN the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Dr Gareth SUN Griffiths, a mycologist from Aberystwyth University on a SUN fungal foray with a difference, as they look for waxcaps SUN hidden amongst grass. SUN SUN With over a million fungal species in the World, SUN understanding these could be a daunting prospect for someone SUN new to the science of mycology. However waxcaps are a good SUN entry point as in Britain there are just 40 or 50 of these SUN beautiful fungi species. Apart from being wonderful to view, SUN waxcaps are now known to be an indicator species of the SUN health of a grassland, especially below ground. SUN SUN Waxcaps generally are in decline in Western Europe as SUN unimproved grasslands succumb to agricultural SUN intensification, with increased nitrogen fertilizers being SUN especially harmful to their microrhiza in the soil. So to SUN begin the journey Paul travels to a remote rural chapel SUN where Bruce has been working to improve the habitat of the SUN graveyard for the benefit of waxcaps. The vibrancy of colour SUN these little fungi buttons produce is astounding, but as SUN Gareth recalls, no one really knows why they are so bright SUN as their one and only function is to disperse spores across SUN the landscape. SUN SUN From there the trio head down the valley to an organic farm SUN to find the fabled ballerina waxcap, a shocking pink candy SUN sweet looking fungi poking through the green sward. Once SUN thought very rare, these waxcaps have now become the iconic SUN flagship for waxcaps. So why should we conserve these waxcap SUN grasslands? Well as both Gareth and Bruce explain they are SUN the visible evidence of a healthy soil ecosystem underneath SUN the grass who's activity is as important as photosynthesis. SUN SUN Producer Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0171tf3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0171tf5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0171yqw (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 b0171ys1 (Listen) SUN War Memorials SUN SUN Matt Croucher who has been awarded the George Cross for SUN gallantry, presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity War Memorials Trust. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1062255 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Send a cheque payable to War Memorials Trust to Freepost SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal. SUN Mark the back of the envelope War Memorials Trust SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN War Memorials Trust SUN SUN War Memorials Trust works to protect and conserve war SUN memorials across the UK. It provides advisory and advocacy SUN services, financial assistance for repair and conservation SUN through grant schemes and is a key referral point for all SUN issues regarding war memorials. The Trust promotes an SUN understanding of the historical and cultural significance of SUN war memorials to ensure they are cherished and preserved for SUN future generations. War Memorials Trust is an independent SUN registered charity which relies upon voluntary income and SUN support to undertake its work. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0171tf7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0171tf9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0171ys3 (Listen) SUN A Service for Remembrance Sunday from Down Cathedral, SUN Downpatrick in Northern Ireland.Led by the Very Rev Henry SUN Hull, the Dean of Down. The preacher, the Rev Canon Noel SUN Battye, will consider how poetry written by Irish soldiers SUN from World War I reflects the horrors and sacrifice of war. SUN Director of Music: Michael McCracken. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b016x4tt (Listen) SUN On Age and Beauty SUN SUN Mary Beard takes a peek at Miss World 2011 and ponders why - SUN unlike her days as a radical feminist teenager -the whole SUN occasion doesn't fill her with fury. SUN SUN "It all felt" - she writes - "like a scantily-clad, tabloid SUN version of University Challenge....but with a kind of SUN high-minded worthiness". Long gone the old beauty contest SUN ambitions of travelling and starting a family. "These SUN contestants talked of becoming international lawyers, museum SUN curators, architects, diplomats". SUN SUN So does this lack outrage mean she has she sold out on SUN feminism? "That's not how it seems to me" she writes. "At 56 SUN I count myself as strong a feminist as I was at 26". Just a SUN bit more laid back. SUN SUN "The less I see my own body as a positive asset" she says - SUN joking about her greying hair and her thickening toe nails - SUN "the less I have wanted to interfere with what other women SUN choose to do with theirs". SUN SUN "Times do change and some battles honestly do get won" she SUN concludes. "I don't any longer feel that Miss Venezuela is SUN much of an enemy". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 News and Papers b0171ywz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 09:15 The Archers Omnibus b0171yx1 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Clive Horrobin ..... Alex Jones SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Sharon ..... Celia Nelson SUN Kylie Richards ..... Leah Brotherhead SUN Rich ..... Luke Hudson SUN Andrew Eagleton ..... John Flitcroft. SUN SUN 10:30 Ceremony of Remembrance from the Cenotaph b0171rb8 (Listen) SUN Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London's Whitehall for SUN the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifice SUN made by so many in the two World Wars and in other more SUN recent conflicts. The traditional music of remembrance is SUN played by the massed bands and, after the Last Post and Two SUN Minutes Silence, Her Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath SUN on behalf of nation and commonwealth. The Bishop of London SUN leads a short Service of Remembrance; then, during the March SUN Past, both veterans and those involved in present conflicts SUN throughout the world share their thoughts. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 11:45 Known unto God b01724m7 (Listen) SUN It is almost a hundred years since the 'Great War' of SUN 1914-18 yet still a small number of bodies are uncovered SUN each year on the former battlefields of France and Belgium. SUN Each set of remains is carefully recovered, identified if SUN possible, and given a military funeral in the nearest SUN Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery, attended SUN by representatives of the Commission, the British Embassy SUN and veterans associations. SUN SUN Mark Whitaker attends the service for one of these soldiers SUN and recounts the story of how the remains were found prior SUN to widening the Canal du Nord near Cambrai in north-eastern SUN France, a key part of the front line during World War 1. SUN SUN A French archaeologist describes what he found and the care SUN they have to take when there can still be unexploded SUN grenades and shells under such remains. The CWGC Exhumation SUN Officer describes his role and the satisfaction it gives him SUN to be caring for members of his grandfather's generation. SUN Identifying the soldier as a member of the Machine Gun Corps SUN meant that the find was reported to the Ministry of SUN Defence's veterans agency in Gloucester. They in turn SUN involved the regiment's 'Old Comrades Association' whose SUN historian explains how the MGC was formed and why it was SUN known as 'the Suicide Club'. SUN SUN He is certain the soldier will be one of ten men of the MGC SUN who died in the area but have no known grave. Whitaker SUN visits the Arras Memorial to the Missing where all those ten SUN names are engraved, among over 35,000. But no more precise SUN identification is possible so the casket is placed in a SUN grave under a headstone that reads "A soldier of the Great SUN War. Machine Gun Corps. Known Unto God." SUN SUN Producer: Mike Hally SUN A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b016w83r (Listen) SUN Series 4, Harry Enfield, Alan West Lord West of Spithead, SUN Lucie Green SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01724m9 (Listen) SUN Future Food SUN SUN Simon Parkes meets the people trying to come up with food SUN ideas for the future. Will techniques used by experimental SUN chefs become mainstream in the 21st century? SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0171tfc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01724mc (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Things We Forgot to Remember b01724mf (Listen) SUN Series 7, The Real Boston Tea Party SUN SUN In 1773 a group of American revolutionaries threw tea into SUN Boston Harbour to protest against rising British Taxes. The SUN 'Boston Tea Party' has become a founding moment in American SUN History and, ahead of the 2012 presidential elections; a SUN 'Tea Party' is again making the US political weather. This SUN republican small-government movement with real grass-roots SUN power may hold the keys to the White House and it takes both SUN its name and its slogan - no taxation without representation SUN - directly from 1773. SUN SUN But the Boston Tea party that we remember is a long way from SUN events as they actually happened. The murky and ambiguous SUN real story owes more to the vested interests of smugglers SUN than revolutionary patriotism. No wonder the American SUN founding fathers initially took a dim view of such violence SUN against property. And the tax on tea was actually going SUN down. SUN SUN Peeling back the layers of history, Michael examines how the SUN tea party has been re-engineered over time. He also SUN discovers that events like the Molasses Act and the Boston SUN Massacre were arguably more significant in fermenting SUN rebellion, forging a national identity and ultimately SUN leading to independence. Both have now been overshadowed by SUN the more romantic idea of the Boston Tea Party. SUN SUN We have been sold a version of the revolution that is much SUN simpler than at the time. Out of a total population of 2.5 SUN million, eighty five thousand Americans loyal to the British SUN crown were forced to quit their native land. Most went to SUN Britain, neither welcomed nor wanted there, some went west SUN and built new lives under assumed names. Thousands were SUN tarred and feathered or hanged from trees, which later SUN became symbols of the great Revolution. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b016x4t7 (Listen) SUN Melrose, Scottish Borders SUN SUN Eric Robson leads the panel in a gardening Q&A recorded with SUN gardeners in Melrose. Eric Robson finds out about Sir Walter SUN Scott, the gardener. SUN SUN Matthew Biggs visits the National Memorial Arboretum. SUN SUN Size matters: which slugs cause the most damage? How to SUN fortify your plants against winter and how to prevent scab. SUN SUN The questions answered in the programme were: SUN 'If t's black put it back, it ti's brown squidge it down'. SUN Is this good advice? SUN What do to with lawn plugs after you scarify SUN Can the panel suggest a plant for all-year interest? SUN Which veg can be grown in dry shade? SUN Is it possible to use nutrients to make a plant more hardy? SUN When is the best time to move a Himalayan Honeysuckle? SUN Can the panel suggest rockery plants to flower from April SUN til June? SUN Suggestions included: Rhodiola Rosea "Roseroot", SUN Erythorniums, Erigeron daisies and Pulsitillas, SUN What is the black scab on my cordoned pears and how can I SUN treat it organically? SUN If a Camomile hedge with deter a rhinoceros will it deter SUN badgers? SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Afternoon Play b016x4t3 (Listen) SUN Laurels and Donkeys SUN SUN A sequence of dramatic and new poems by Andrew Motion to SUN mark Remembrance Day. The poems draw on soldiers' SUN experiences of war from 1914 until today, beginning with a SUN story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two SUN and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. SUN Most of the poems are in the voices of combatants. With: SUN Julian Rhind Tutt, Toby Stephens, David Birrell, Russell SUN Boulter, Carl Prekopp. Music: Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim SUN Dee. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01724z2 (Listen) SUN The Ambassadors, Episode 1 SUN SUN THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry SUN James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, SUN a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. SUN Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel SUN many critics find James' finest. SUN SUN EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the SUN fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett SUN to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell SUN of Paris. . SUN SUN Lambert Strether Henry Goodman SUN Chad Orlando Seale SUN Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin SUN Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody SUN John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton SUN Waymarsh Paul Moriarty SUN Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh SUN Jim Pocock James Lailey SUN Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles SUN Andre Carl Prekopp SUN Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington SUN Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy SUN SUN Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01724z4 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup embarks on her celebration of funny books, SUN funny writers and the much under-rated virtues of SUN laughter-inducing literature. She begins her search for Open SUN Book's Funniest Book and asks listeners to nominate the book SUN they'd recommend to put a smile back on people's faces. SUN SUN In the five Open Books leading up to Xmas, listeners can SUN hear a mini history of funny humour, when Mariella, with the SUN help of academic John Mullen romps through centuries of SUN comic writing. Joining them this week will be Terry Jones on SUN Chaucer. (Coming up are Fiona Shaw on Shakespeare, Jenny SUN Uglow on the 18th century, Roy Hattersley on the 19th SUN century and Ronald Harwood on the 20th century SUN SUN Mariella will also invite listeners to join her for Open SUN Book's Funniest Book Balloon debate, happening in the Radio SUN Theatre (rec. Dec 8/ tx in an OB special on Dec 24). She'll SUN be joined by Jo Brand, Tony Parsons, A L Kennedy and John SUN Sessions amongst other as they try to convince the audience SUN that their book is the most consistently rewarding funny SUN read. SUN SUN Their choices are - SUN TONY PARSONS - The Virgin Soldiers/ Leslie Thomas SUN A L KENNEDY - The Loved One/ Evelyn Waugh SUN JOHN SESSIONS - 1066 And All That/ W C Sellar & R J Yeatman SUN JO BRAND - A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian/ Marina SUN Lewycka SUN SUN Each week our panel will take it in turns to come onto the SUN programme to tell us more about their funny writer and give SUN a bit of background to their lives. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN Chaucer: SUN Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary by SUN Terry Jones SUN Who Murdered Chaucer by Terry Jones SUN Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer published by Penguin SUN Classics SUN Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer SUN Canterbury Tales audiobook translated by J U Nicholson SUN SUN Penelope Lively: SUN How It All Began published by Fig Tree Press SUN Moon Tiger published by Penguin Modern Classic SUN SUN John Sessions: SUN 1066 and All That by W.C. Sellar and R J Yeatman SUN SUN 16:30 Schtzngrmm b01724z6 (Listen) SUN Alan Dein travels to Vienna to piece together the story and SUN legacy of one of Austria's most important and original SUN modern poets. Ernst Jandl's experimental poems broke down SUN words and language on the page and reorganised them for the SUN ear. The plasticity of Jandl's poetry was quickly noted by SUN the technicians of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop who turned SUN the work into lively aural creations and Jandl, an SUN anglophile, stunned and delighted the audience at the famous SUN 1965 Royal Albert Hall Poetry Incarnation with his violent SUN and wild sounding 'concrete poetry'. Speaking to Austrian SUN composers, musicans and writers as well as Jandl's friend, SUN Britain's Michael Horovitz, Dein explores the life and work SUN of this very arresting poet. SUN Producer Neil McCarthy. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b016wzs5 (Listen) SUN Costing the Games SUN SUN With plans for future use of London's Olympic stadium in SUN disarray, Allan Urry asks whether taxpayers' billions will SUN leave a lasting legacy from 2012. SUN SUN London's successful bid to stage the 2012 Olympics placed SUN great emphasis on the benefits it could create for Britain SUN and its capital city. Not only should the Games bequeath SUN impressive new sporting facilities to the people of London, SUN but the event and its aftermath was expected to kick-start SUN economic development in the East End -- still one of the SUN least prosperous parts of the country. SUN SUN Has the forward planning paid off? Controversy and confusion SUN still shrouds the future ownership and operation of London's SUN Olympic stadium. Despite bids from rival football clubs, the SUN stadium remains in public ownership. The Olympic village SUN meanwhile has been sold to developers at a loss to SUN taxpayers, and some critics claim a major opportunity to SUN embed a new science and technology research centre on the SUN Olympic park has been squandered. SUN SUN With mounting pressure on Games organisers and Government to SUN recoup the taxpayers' investment in the Olympics, many SUN Londoners fear that the early promises of economic SUN regeneration for the East End will fail to materialise. SUN SUN Reporter: Allan Urry SUN Producer: Andy Denwood. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0171yjy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0171tff (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0171tfh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0171tfk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01747kp (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN In Pick of the Week this Remembrance Sunday, John Waite will SUN be looking back at the very first such commemoration in SUN 1919. When, the trauma of the Great War being so fresh, the SUN whole nation fell silent for what was to become the SUN traditional two minutes. Ships at sea dropped anchor to cut SUN their engines as Big Ben struck - even the trains SUN criss-crossing the country stopped in their tracks. He'll SUN also be hearing how the "king of bling" met "The king of SUN showbiz" - when Jimmy Savile became pals with Elvis Presley. SUN And Enid Blyton comes back from the grave to defend her SUN depiction of the golliwog - in an exchange with comedian SUN Richard Herring that is not for the faint-hearted - or the SUN politically correct! SUN SUN Archive on 4 - Remembrance - Radio 4 SUN Bleached Bone and Living Wood - Radio 4 SUN The Real Jimmy Savile - Radio Leeds SUN The Poppy Factory - Radio 4 SUN Composer of the Week - Radio 3 SUN The War Brides Return - Radio 4 SUN The Things We Forgot To Remember - Radio 4 SUN Richard Herring's Objective - Radio 4 SUN The House of Silk - Radio 4 SUN The History of the Brain - Radio 4 SUN The Songs My Son Loved - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01747kr (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Dilemma b01747kt (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical SUN wringer in this show that looks at the choices we are SUN bombarded by in Britain today, as well as some more SUN theoretical problems. Salad or chips? Do you buy local SUN produce or from co-ops in Africa? Would you rather live in SUN perfect happiness for ten years or general contentment for SUN thirty? This is a panel show in which there are no "right" SUN answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. SUN SUN From everyday and even surreal either/or situations, to SUN classic philosophical quandaries, Dilemma is a format to get SUN witty, intelligent comic voices sparking off one another. SUN The edition features comedians Dave Gorman and Richard SUN Herring, actress and writer Rebecca Front, and journalist SUN Dominic Lawson. They discuss such quandaries as "Would you SUN provide an alibi to someone you hate?" and "Would you SUN confront an elderly relative about casual racism at a family SUN gathering?", and they debate the relative merits of Silvio SUN Berlusconi, Vlad the Impaler, L. Ron Hubbard and Amanda SUN Holden. The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and SUN writer Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The SUN Week). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00lbq2j (Listen) SUN One More Year, Companion SUN SUN Companion is the next selected story from Sana Krasikov's SUN collection One More Year. Ilona Siegal has left conflict SUN riven Georgia and anticipates a brighter future in America. SUN SUN The stories selected from One More Year by the Ukranian SUN writer Sana Krasikov centre on the experiences of those who SUN have left the former Soviet Union, and gone to America. How SUN they make new lives for themselves, and how those left SUN behind understand their absence are the themes of these SUN subtle, and touching, stories by an exciting literary SUN talent. SUN SUN Read by Sian Thomas SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b016x4tf (Listen) SUN The World at One now has 15 extra minutes to fill, following SUN the shake-up of the afternoon schedule on Radio 4. Some SUN listeners are delighted - others less so. Roger asks Nick SUN Sutton, the programme's editor, what he plans to do with the SUN time and how much investigation he has done into what the SUN audience really wants to hear. SUN SUN Feedback itself will be staying the same length, but the SUN Friday edition moves to 4:30 in the afternoon. SUN SUN The BBC Trust has launched a review into the impartiality of SUN the BBC's reporting of the Arab Spring. Alison Hastings, SUN chair of the Trust's Editorial Standards Committee, explains SUN the reasons for the review and the scope of its inquiry. SUN SUN And a keen-eared listener who is also a ferret fan questions SUN the identity of Eddie Grundy's ferret, Daphne. Judging by SUN the sounds she makes, he accuses her of being... a guinea SUN pig. All will be revealed. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b016x4tc (Listen) SUN Wallace Cunningham, Lord Gould, Alfonso Cano and Joe Frazier SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Battle of Britain pilot Wallace Cunnigham, who took part SUN in the celebrated "Wooden Horse" escape from a German SUN prisoner of war camp. SUN SUN Lord Gould - the political strategist behind New Labour. SUN Lord Mandelson and Alastair Campbell pay tribute. SUN SUN Alfonso Cano - communist leader of the FARC militants in SUN Columbia SUN SUN And heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier - we recall the Thriller SUN in Manila and have a tribute from the philosopher AC SUN Grayling. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0171x1r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0171ys1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b016wx0y (Listen) SUN Do Leaders Make a Difference? SUN SUN We talk much of personal leadership being the key to change SUN in, say, politics or business. But how much can such figures SUN really influence events? Do we overattribute power to SUN individuals such as a prime minister or a media mogul? Have SUN we lost sight of the overall importance of collective action SUN and attitudes, or the trends and events that no individual SUN can resist? Michael Blastland investigates. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Innes Bowen SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01748vh (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 b01748vk (Listen) SUN Episode 78 SUN SUN Steve Richards of The Independent analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b016x3g6 (Listen) SUN The Film Programme this week features ill -fated romance, SUN outer space and excessive drinking. So something for SUN everyone! Francine Stock talks to Withnail's creator, Bruce SUN Robinson about his return to directing with The Rum Diary SUN starring Johnny Depp; Errol Morris will be discussing his SUN new documentary --Tabloid -- about Joyce McKinney the former SUN beauty queen known to some readers and newspaper editors in SUN the Seventies as the woman at the centre of the sex in SUN chains scandal;and Fish Tank's director Andrea Arnold SUN explains her involvement with Wuthering Heights. Then to SUN round it all off the critic Nigel Floyd revisits the cult SUN science fiction film, Silent Running which gave Bruce Dern SUN his first lead role as a kind of cosmic gardener. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN Presenter FRANCINE STOCK. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0171yqr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0171tg6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b016x23b (Listen) MON Power Restoration After Hurricane Ike - White Middle Class MON Identity In Urban Schools MON MON Laurie Taylor explores new research examining the motives of MON middle class parents who deliberately send their children to MON failing or under-performing schools.'White, Middle Class MON Identities in Urban Schools' is discussed by the paper's MON author Diane Reay, Professor of Education at Cambridge MON University and journalist Melissa Benn. MON MON Laurie also talks to Dr Lee Miller, Department of Sociology, MON Sam Houston State University in Texas, about her paper MON 'Hazards of Neo-Liberalism: Delayed Electric Power MON Restoration after Hurricane Ike'. MON MON Producer Chris Wilson MON Presenter LAURIE TAYLOR. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0171yqp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0171tg8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0171tgb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0171tgd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0171tgg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0174906 (Listen) MON with Judy Merry. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0174908 (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 b0171tgj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b017490b (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01749rw (Listen) MON Writing History with Peter Englund, Norman Davies, Boris MON Johnson and Alison Weir. MON MON Andrew Marr discusses the writing of history with Peter MON Englund, Norman Davies Alison Weir and Boris Johnson. Norman MON Davies turns to the vanished kingdoms of Europe to explore MON an alternative history of the continent and to reclaim the MON stories of the vanquished. While the Swedish historian Peter MON Englund puts the lives of ordinary people throughout Europe MON at the heart of his re-telling of the First World War, the MON London mayor Boris Johnson celebrates the vitality of the MON capital through the lives of the great and good. Tudor MON specialist, Alison Weir who has published both academic MON history and historical fiction, argues against the blurring MON of these very distinct genres. MON MON Produced by Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01749ry (Listen) MON The West End Front, Episode 1 MON MON Kenneth Cranham reads Matthew Sweet's dark history of the MON scandalous life above and below stairs in London's grand MON hotels during the Second World War. While bombs rain down on MON London's East End, life in the capital's glittering hotels MON carries on regardless, with hotels like the Ritz, the MON Dorchester, the Savoy and Claridge's becoming mini MON Casablancas, where spies and con artists, traitors and MON royalty rub shoulders under the reinforced ceilings. MON MON Today: as rationing hits, London's well-heeled diners chomp MON their way through acorns, turnips and eels in a nod to the MON war effort. MON MON Reader: Kenneth Cranham MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Abridger: Viv Beeby MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01749s0 (Listen) MON Anita Dobson on Strictly Come Dancing. Presented by Jane MON Garvey. MON MON Vancouver's Missing Women MON MON In 2002 the population of Vancouver, Canada, was shocked MON when details emerged of the country’s most prolific serial MON killer, pig farmer Robert Pickton. From the early 1980s as MON many as 65 women had disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown MON Eastside - all poverty-stricken, drug-addicted prostitutes. MON Pickton had lured them to his pig farm with promises of MON money, drugs and alcohol, and then committed extremely MON gruesome murders. DNA of 33 women was found on his farm, MON though he later admitted to killing 49. Eventually, in 2007, MON he was convicted of six counts of murder and sentenced to MON life in prison. But now, four years later, questions are MON still being asked – why did the police ignore the signs and MON allow this man to keep on killing? And did police fail to MON act because the women were prostitutes and drug addicts? The MON Missing Women’s Inquiry is now taking place, and hopes to MON answer those questions. Jane Garvey speaks to Canadian MON journalist Stevie Cameron, who wrote two books on the MON Pickton murders, and to Elaine Allen – a coordinator of a MON drop-in centre for street sex workers in the Downtown MON Eastside at the time. MON MON Anita Dobson MON MON Anita Dobson, currently starring in Strictly Come Dancing, MON says the show has taken over her life - and she has MON described the experience as the most liberating experience MON ever. The former Eastenders actress who won a standing MON ovation for her charleston joins Jane to discuss her MON progress. MON MON Online abuse of women writers MON MON Sick of insults and abuse, some female news columnists and MON bloggers are speaking out about sexist trolls lurking on MON websites to pour scorn and invective on the writers who are MON sometimes threatened with rape and violence. Helen Lewis MON Hasteley writes for the New Statesman. She says this abuse MON puts some women off writing online at all and hopes that by MON speaking out they’ll feel less isolated and vulnerable – and MON that public opinion will change enough to stop people making MON offensive personal comments under the cloak of anonymity. MON She joins Jane, along with Tamara Littleton, CEO and founder MON of eModeration, to discuss the issues. MON MON Children in Need: Sibling Group MON MON Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice near Sheffield was given MON money by Children In Need to start a sibling group [called MON Shooting Stars] for the brothers and sisters of the children MON who use the hospice. Judy Merry went to one of their monthly MON meetings, where she spoke to Sarah Champion, the Chief MON Executive, Lynne Barnett, sibling and family support worker MON and Anna Clark, a nursery nurse on the care team. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0174dz7 (Listen) MON Journey to Starlight Mountain, Episode 1 MON MON Prepare to laugh and cry with one of the highlights of the MON BBC Children in Need appeal this week. The charity has MON collaborated with BBC Radio Four to produce this truly MON heart-warming new drama by acclaimed writer Sarah Daniels MON and all-star cast. The story is inspired by one of the MON projects funded by BBC Children in Need. MON MON Nine year old Mia (Sydney Wade) has a vivid imagination, MON loves eavesdropping and wants to be a writer when she grows MON up, despite her very bad spelling. She is desperate to go on MON the rollercoaster ride of her dreams, 'Starlight Mountain', MON with her thirteen year old sister Emma and her Mum, Lucy MON (Gaynor Faye). She'd really like her Dad Steve (John Godber) MON to come too but he's busy with his new wife and baby son, so MON that's not very likely. MON MON Lucy has the tickets but then Steve refuses to let them go. MON He knows the truth that Lucy refuses to face, that Emma is MON too ill to make the trip. MON MON Mia decides she must do everything she can to help Emma. If MON that means some rather odd sacrifices, then so be it. Emma's MON most difficult wish is that the whole family can be friends, MON even Steve's first love Lucy and his new wife Jules. MON MON The drama was inspired by the Siblings Project at Bluebell MON Wood Hospice for Children near Sheffield, which supports the MON siblings of children with life-limiting conditions and is MON funded by BBC Children in Need. MON MON An extraordinarily moving, funny and truthful story from MON Sarah Daniels about how love really can be stronger than MON death - with an all-star cast: Sydney Wade (Curio, The MON Royal, Dr Who) as Mia, Gaynor Faye (Coronation Street, Fat MON Friends) as Lucy, John Godber (Bouncers, Up n' Under) as MON Steve, and Sirens star Amy Beth Hayes as Jules. MON MON Mia Parker...Sydney Wade MON Emma Parker...Nicola Miles-Wildin MON Lucy Hawkins...Gaynor Faye MON Mercedes...Martha Godber MON Steve Parker...John Godber MON Jules Parker...Amy Beth Hayes MON Mr Golden...James Weaver MON MON Writer...Sarah Daniels MON Music composed and performed by Lawrence Williams MON Director...Mary Ward-Lowery MON MON 11:00 The Freedom Trail b0174dz9 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The Freedom Trail is a four day walk over the central MON Pyrenees to commemorate the World War II escape routes taken MON by allied servicemen and women and all those who helped MON them. More than 40 miles from France to Spain, with a total MON climb of fifteen thousand feet up and nearly twelve thousand MON down, it was the most-used and toughest route to freedom. MON Many Jews and others escaping forced labour also took this MON trek over the mountains. Earlier this year Edward Stourton MON joined the walk to tell the remarkable stories of bravery, MON endurance and remembrance. MON MON 11:30 The Return of Inspector Steine b0174dzc (Listen) MON Not Long MON MON The Brighton police force is holed up in Inspector Steine's MON office without tea making equipment or biscuits. As the MON strain begins to show big secrets are revealed, finally. 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 b0174dzf (Listen) MON Increases to tax on petrol and flood insurance MON MON People power - the campaign to stop tax on petrol going up MON by around 4p a litre in January. MON MON If your home is at risk of flooding will you be able to get MON insured beyond 2013? Campaigners, the insurance industry and MON MPs think the government could end up picking up the bill. MON MON And care home providers in the Midlands claim a victory in MON their battle to bump up the fees they get from councils. MON What impact will this have across the country? MON MON And we begin a look at youth unemployment - what's it like MON to be 16 and searching for a job in Doncaster. MON MON The presenter is Julian Worricker. The producer is Alex MON Lewis. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0171tgl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0174dzh (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 A History of the Brain b0174dzk (Listen) MON The Beast Within MON MON Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey MON through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex MON organ in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, MON he reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is MON for and how it fulfils its functions. MON MON While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this MON is a 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 Episode 6: The Beast Within, focuses on localisation. MON Following a macabre accident when an iron rod shot through MON his head, Phineas Gage, a mild-mannered railway worker in MON Vermont, became capricious and profane. Meanwhile in France MON Paul Broca established that damage to another part of the MON brain caused aphasia. While phrenology had it that the MON brains of 'degenerates' differed from those of poets or MON scientists, British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson MON incorporated evolutionary ideas into his theory of brain MON function: higher centres with more recent evolutionary MON origins kept lower, more primitive ones in check. MON MON The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff MON Bunn of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul MON Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of MON those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to MON the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy MON Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be MON highlighted in each episode - in this instance the four MON lobes. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by MON composer, Barney Quinton. MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01747kr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0174dzm (Listen) MON Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly 5/6 MON MON A right wing academic is accused of assault and this leads MON to a personal and ethical crisis for Sarah Gold. MON MON FRANK...David Schofield MON SARAH...Kathryn Hunt MON DECLAN.Jonjo O'Neill MON DOUG...Eric Potts MON DI NEWTON.Danielle Henry MON PETER....Malcolm Raeburn MON HEATHER..Julia Rounthwaite MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON Original Music by Carl Harms. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0174dzp (Listen) MON (1/17) MON The quest begins for the 59th Brain of Britain champion, as MON competitors from all over the UK line up to face Russell MON Davies' general knowledge questions. The first heat, from MON the BBC Radio Theatre in London, features competitors from MON as far apart as London and Inverness. They are the first of MON 48 appearing in this year's heats, most of them taking part MON for the first time, some returning for another go - but all MON hoping they can progress through to the Final in spring, and MON add their names to the illustrious list of Brains of Britain MON down the years. MON MON As usual, in the current series, there's a chance for MON listeners to outwit the contestants by submitting questions MON with which to win a prize and 'beat the brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01724m9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Oscar and Al Pacino b0174dzr (Listen) MON Al Pacino has played the part of Herod on stage in Oscar MON Wilde's play 'Salome'. MON He became fascinated by the play, which was once described MON by The Times as 'morbid, bizarre, repulsive and very MON offensive.' MON 'This,' says Pacino, 'is the story of an obsession'. MON MON In conversation with Mark Rickards, Al Pacino describes the MON inspiration he has found in Wilde's work. He first saw the MON play performed by Steven Berkoff, and says that he was MON 'bitten by the rub of love.' He made the decision to stage MON it for a theatre in Los Angeles, and to film the process of MON putting it on stage. The end result is the extraordinary MON 'Wilde Salome', a blend of drama and documentary directed by MON Al Pacino himself. MON MON The programme features an exclusive contribution from Al MON Pacino on his interpretation of Oscar Wilde's work, extracts MON from the film, and contributions from producer Barry Navidi MON and Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Al Pacino says he has MON a taste for 'making movies where I can just make it up as I MON go along.' MON MON This is a chance to hear from one of the world's greatest MON actors on one of the world's greatest writers. MON MON 16:30 Click On b0174dzt (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 6 MON MON In this last programme in the series Simon Cox and Rupert MON Goodwins get their hands dirty as they lift the bonnet of MON the technology we all rely on. Starting in the London Hack MON Space they learn the joy to be had by building you own MON technology before looking at the £15 computer aiming to gets MON us all programming again. They end up discovering how MON getting creatively involved with technology allows you to MON come up with your own solutions for your own problems. MON MON 17:00 PM b0174dzw (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0171tgn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0174dzy (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 1 MON MON The 56th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment MON for all the family. The series starts its run at Guildford's MON brand new venue 'G-Live'. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by MON Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant MON chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect inspired MON nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0174f00 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0174f02 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Neil MON LaBute, whose new play asks if conventional beauty can be a MON curse. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0174dz7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The New Global Economics b0174f04 (Listen) MON The Shock MON MON In the first of a two part series, Martin Wolf, the chief MON economics commentator of the Financial Times, examines how MON the world has changed since the beginning of the financial MON crisis four years ago and asks if the pre-2007 era might be MON the high point for free market capitalism. MON MON Will the world face the combination of post-crisis austerity MON and disappointing global growth? Will fiscal pressure become MON a permanent feature of political, economic and social life MON in developed countries? Will there be a re balancing of East MON and West and will the on going crisis in the Euro zone lead MON to a greater or weaker currency union? MON MON Martin Wolf talks to world leaders such as US Treasury MON Secretary Timothy Geithner, IMF Managing Director Christine MON Lagarde and Chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority MON Adair Turner to examine how the consequences of our economic MON choices have evolved since 2007 and what the future could MON look like in a world where there are no easy answers. MON MON Producer Sandra Kanthal Editor Stephen Chilcott. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0174f06 (Listen) MON The Darwin Economy MON MON Professor Robert Frank tells an audience at the LSE that MON Darwin was a greater economist than Adam Smith. Newsnight's MON economics editor Paul Mason asks him to explain why. MON MON 21:00 Material World b016x3gd (Listen) MON This week Quentin investigates fracking for oil and gas - MON could it cause earthquakes or contaminate water supplies? MON Listening to the ground with an optical fibre to hear what's MON going on down a borehole. A visit to the new Hidden Heroes MON exhibition at the Science Museum and a last chance for MON amateur scientists to enter 'So You Want To Be A Scientist. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Fracking – Dangerous or Desirous? MON MON The process of drilling for shale gas known as Hydraulic MON Fracturing – or fracking for short - currently being MON trialled off the cost of Lancashire has proved MON controversial. Last week, the company behind the drilling MON issued a report saying that there was a link between the MON process and recent small tremors felt on the mainland. MON However, with such tremors reaching a maximum of 3 on the MON Richter scale according to the report, is there real cause MON for concern, or are they a necessary side-effect to MON resolving Britain’s energy shortages? Quentin discusses the MON issue with Professor Ernie Rutter, a structural geologist at MON the University of Manchester who took part in the report, MON and Professor Stuart Haszeldine, a geologist at the MON University of Edinburgh. MON MON Fibre-Optic Fra MON MON Crucial to Fracking’s success will be the reduction of any MON risk. One way to do this is to keep a close ear on exactly MON how the hydraulic fluid is affecting the rock: remotely MON eavesdropping on what’s happening right at the bottom of MON boreholes using fibre optic cables that can be tens of MON kilometres long. A recently-developed system that promises MON to do just this is Opta-Sense, managed by Qinetiq. Quentin MON talks to the Managing Director Magnus McEwan King down the MON line from Calgary about why rocks have a lot to say to those MON who take the trouble to listen. MON MON Everyday Inventions – Hidden Heroes at the Science Museum MON MON Often in science, it’s the big developments that make the MON headlines – the recent furore over the neutrino allegedly MON breaking the speed of light at CERN being just one example. MON But what about the everyday difference that science makes to MON our lives – the smaller inventions that don’t exactly put a MON man on the moon, but do make life considerable easier? MON MON That’s the focus of a new exhibition at London’s Science MON Museum, called ‘Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday MON Things’. Having just opened to the public, Quentin visited MON the gallery in its final construction stages earlier in the MON week to see how the teabag, dummy and paper clip all came to MON be. MON MON So You Want To Be A Scientist? MON MON The competition is nearly reaching boiling point for So You MON Want To Be A Scientist. Quentin talks to one of the judges, MON Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Times, and Andrea MON Sella, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University MON College London about what ideas will go far in the MON competition. The deadline for entries is Tuesday November MON 15th – you can find out more through the link below. MON MON Periodic knitting MON MON To celebrate the 2011 International year of chemistry, the MON Knit the Periodic Table project has created it's very own MON woolen table of the elements. It took place in New Zealand, MON and was headed by mother and daughter team Sarah and Rachel MON Wilcox. Gold (Au) was knitted with wool coloured with gold MON nanoparticles in a process being developed in New Zealand. MON One knitter chose to knit carbon because she worked in a MON radiocarbon dating laboratory in the 1960s. Another chose MON calcium after being impressed by the many beautiful and MON amazing forms of calcium he found in bird bones while MON researching his PhD. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01749rw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0171tgq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0174f0d (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0174fh1 (Listen) MON The House of Silk, Episode 6 MON MON Acting on a tip off, Sherlock Holmes has gone to an opium MON den in Limehouse. Whilst Watson is waiting in a public house MON nearby, he hears a gunshot and rushes outside to find Sally MON Dixon lying dead in the street. Lying unconscious beside MON her, with a gun in his hand, is none other than the famous MON detective Sherlock Holmes. MON MON Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b016wzrl (Listen) MON Glut MON MON Dominic Arkwright invites his three guests to debate excess MON and gluttony - what exactly is enough? Cityboy Geraint MON Anderson explains why he retired in his mid 30s with £2.5M. MON That, argues punk poet Attila the Stockbroker, is an obscene MON amount, as he recalls former East Germany in the late '80s MON before the introduction of advertising and mass consumerism. MON Meanwhile, it's the consumption of her autumn glut of apples MON and quinces that motivates food writer Xanthe Clay to waste MON not a single piece of fruit. MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0174fh5 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with all the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0171th9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01749ry (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0171thc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0171thf (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0171thh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0171thk (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0174fhf (Listen) TUE with Judy Merry. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0174fhh (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 b0174fhk (Listen) TUE Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0174gk0 (Listen) TUE Molly Stevens TUE TUE Tissue engineer, Molly Stevens, does geeky hard core science TUE but her main aim is to help people. TUE TUE In the last five years, she's been awarded countless prizes TUE for cutting-edge research and is starting to get noticed TUE beyond the lab. Earlier this year, with some reservations, TUE she agreed to do a photo shoot for Vogue; but as a rule, TUE she'd rather not draw attention to the fact that she's a TUE woman in a man's world. TUE TUE In short, she grows bones. Getting stem cells to grow into TUE bones is a serious challenge but in the last few years, TUE Molly Stevens and her team have made phenomenal progress. TUE They've worked out which stems cells can be coaxed into TUE making bones and which can't, (stem cells from mouse skulls TUE are better than those from embryos). And now they're close TUE to creating a finger joint. TUE TUE The techniques they've developed could revolutionise the TUE treatment of broken or brittle bones, help fix ailing organs TUE in the very young and improve the lives of soldiers who've TUE lost limbs in Afghanistan. TUE TUE Jim finds out what makes a good tissue engineer, why Molly TUE Stevens chose to work in this area and how easy she finds it TUE to balance family life with award-winning research. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0174gk2 (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE TUE Evan Davis continues his exploration into deception by TUE talking to those who've had cause to be economical with the TUE truth. We think of truth and falsehood as simple binary TUE concepts. Statements surely have to be one or the other. TUE Well not quite. In these interviews Evan meets people who've TUE found themselves on the fuzzy boundary between truth and TUE falsehood. This week he meets Penny who lead life as a TUE married man but who became more and more aware that she TUE needed to change sex. She'd concealed her feelings for years TUE and as in so many deceptions she'd concealed them from TUE herself too. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0174gk4 (Listen) TUE The West End Front, Episode 2 TUE TUE Kenneth Cranham reads Matthew Sweet's dark history of the TUE scandalous life above and below stairs in London's grand TUE hotels during the Second World War. While bombs rain down on TUE London's East End, life in the capital's glittering hotels TUE carries on regardless, with hotels like the Ritz, the TUE Dorchester, the Savoy and Claridge's becoming mini TUE Casablancas, where spies and con artists, traitors and TUE royalty rub shoulders under the reinforced ceilings. TUE TUE Today: as the Blitz begins in earnest, a group of East TUE Enders storm the Savoy in demand of decent shelter for all. TUE TUE Reader: Kenneth Cranham TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Abridger: Viv Beeby. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0174gk6 (Listen) TUE Diane Keaton on her memoir. Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0174gk8 (Listen) TUE Journey to Starlight Mountain, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Sarah Daniels. TUE Mia is in trouble at school. TUE TUE Prepare to laugh and cry with one of the highlights of the TUE BBC Children in Need appeal this week. The charity has TUE collaborated with BBC Radio Four to produce this truly TUE heart-warming new drama by acclaimed writer Sarah Daniels TUE and all-star cast. TUE TUE The story is inspired by one of the projects funded by BBC TUE Children in Need, the Siblings Project at Bluebell Wood TUE Hospice for Children near Sheffield, which supports the TUE siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. TUE TUE An extraordinarily moving, funny and truthful story from TUE Sarah Daniels about how love really can be stronger than TUE death. TUE TUE Mia Parker...Sydney Wade TUE Emma Parker...Nicola Miles-Wildin TUE Lucy Hawkins...Gaynor Faye TUE Mercedes...Martha Godber TUE Steve Parker...John Godber TUE Jules Parker...Amy Beth Hayes TUE Mr Golden...James Weaver TUE TUE Writer...Sarah Daniels TUE Music composed and performed by Lawrence Williams TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b0174gkb (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 26 TUE TUE 26/30 Assisi in Rome is the home town of Saint Francis - the TUE patron saint of the environment. A fitting place for a TUE unique gathering of world faiths and members of the global TUE conservation community. They were there to inspire one TUE another and find ways of working more closely together to TUE protect the natural world. Karen Partridge joined the TUE delegates and speakers in Assisi and will be in the studio TUE to talk about the upsum of this special meeting of minds. TUE TUE And we're hoping to bring you a special report and an TUE encounter with a bird that is on the brink of extinction. A TUE last ditch effort by two major UK wildlife organisations and TUE collaborators in Russia might, in the long term, turn the TUE fortunes of this most beautiful migrant bird around. Fingers TUE crossed for this weekend when we hope Brett will get the TUE green light to go and get the story. TUE TUE Presented by brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b0174gkd (Listen) TUE Series 9, Lee Morgan TUE TUE Ken Clarke, QC, MP returns with another series of Jazz TUE Greats. Joining Ken in the studio for this first instalment TUE is the lecturer and musician Ian Smith. Their subject: the TUE American hard-bop trumpeter Lee Morgan. TUE TUE Lee Morgan's tense, urgent trumpet with his searing high TUE register and funky timing was the essence of harp-bop. He TUE became a professional musician in his late teens when he TUE joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1956. It was the TUE perfect launch-pad for his career and he went on to play TUE with some of the best in the genre: Art Blakey, John TUE Coltrane and Benny Golson. Perhaps most known for his TUE landmark album "The Sidewinder," Morgan became one of the TUE legendary Jazz label Blue Note's best loved stars. TUE He may have been blessed with musical talent but the rest of TUE Morgan's life was something of a mess. A crippling heroin TUE addiction hampered his recording career and resulted in a TUE painful encounter with gangsters. While the unfortunate TUE tangle of his personal relationships brought about his TUE rather dramatic demise. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0174gkg (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours - the rising UK population: a problem or TUE an opportunity? TUE 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). The UK's population is due to hit 70 million souls by TUE 2027- three years ahead of earlier forecasts. Surveys TUE consistently show that we feel over-crowded in Britain but TUE we are richer and live longer than ever before. Is a TUE continued rise in population really such a bad thing ? TUE Rather than viewing it as a problem should we not see it as TUE an opportunity? TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0171thm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0174gkj (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 b0174gkl (Listen) TUE Mind the Gap TUE TUE Episode 7: Mind the Gap, focuses on how the microscope TUE allowed neurologists to detail the structure of brain cells. TUE While Sigmund Freud, who started out as a neurologist, had TUE hoped his gold chloride staining method would revolutionise TUE brain research, it was in fact Camillo Golgi's La Reazione TUE Nero, using silver nitrate, that enabled brain scientists to TUE see the cell composition more clearly. Combined with the TUE Gudden microtome, which provided extremely thin sections of TUE brain tissue, neurologists began to explore how neurons are TUE connected, with Charles Sherrington coining the term synapse TUE to describe the gap between them. 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 nerve TUE cell or neuron. The original, atmospheric score is supplied TUE by composer, Barney Quinton. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0174f00 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lmd98 (Listen) TUE Incident at Boulonvilliers TUE By Dave Sheasby TUE TUE It's June 1982 and the Falkland's War is in its last throes. TUE Three Second World War veterans return on a coach trip to TUE Normandy and are forced to confront a difficult incident TUE back in 1944 - and consequently their own "heroism". TUE TUE Frank................Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Tommy..............Michael Mears TUE Arthur................David Hargreaves TUE Mandy...............Ella Smith TUE Madame............Gabrielle Reidy TUE TUE Directed by David Hunter. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0174gkn (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 b0174gkq (Listen) TUE Follow the Yellow Brick Road TUE TUE Follow the Yellow Brick Road - three writers discuss heart, TUE courage and brains. With Guardian blogger, Stuart Heritage; TUE Yachtswoman, Dee Caffari, and journalist Neil McCormick. TUE TUE Stuart hates personal contact so much he moved to South TUE Korea where they're "not huggers. They're not really TUE handshakers. They're not even that fond of eye contact, the TUE travel guide said. Brilliant." TUE TUE Dee Caffari has solo circumnavigated the globe, braving TUE icebergs in the Southern Ocean along the way: "We surf down TUE huge waves on the edge of control at breakneck speeds - any TUE collision would be the end of the race. Rescue is often days TUE away and our closest chance of survival is a fellow TUE competitor." TUE TUE Neil talks about how intelligence may be over-rated and that TUE sometimes it's better just to let your mind make itself up. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 16:00 Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society b0174gks (Listen) TUE Brain Science and the Law TUE TUE In part one of his series exploring the coming "Brain TUE Culture," Matthew Taylor asks if the ability to scan brains TUE will transform our system of criminal justice. He meets the TUE doctor who operated on a paedophile's brain and seemingly TUE "cured" him. He explores how studies on the brains of TUE criminal psychopaths are changing our understanding of TUE whether anti-social behaviour is "hard wired" in the brain. TUE These ideas raise the controversial question of a new legal TUE defence: "my brain made me do it." Should this be accepted TUE in court? TUE TUE These studies have also inspired pioneering new work with TUE young children, tackling brain-based bad behaviour with TUE remarkable new techniques. Matthew also explores the TUE frontiers of a transformative, but potentially frightening, TUE new technology: the brain scanner in the courtroom. He looks TUE at how scans have been used to test memories and evidence in TUE courts so far - including in a case of murder. TUE TUE Producer: Mukul Devichand. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0174gkv (Listen) TUE Nerina Pallot, Peter Molyneux TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by award-winning TUE singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot and the computer games TUE industry pioneer Peter Molyneux to discuss their favourite TUE books. TUE TUE Nerina's choice is an elegiac story of loss and life - The TUE Sportswriter by Richard Ford. TUE TUE Peter has picked the gripping and intimate Father-Son story TUE - The Road by Cormac McCarthy. TUE TUE Harriett's book is an intriguing and occasionally torrid TUE collection of short stories - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by TUE Carson McCullers. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Nerina Pallot's choice: 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford TUE Publ. Bloomsbury TUE TUE Peter Molyneux's choice: 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy TUE Publ. Picador TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe' by TUE Carson McCullers TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE L-R: Harriett Gilbert, Peter Molyneux and Nerina Pallot TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0174gkx (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0171thp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b0174gl1 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Wheelchair TUE TUE Richard Herring examines 'The Wheelchair' the representative TUE symbol of disability on disability access signs and asks if TUE there is equal access. He wonders if it is still the case TUE that we see the disability rather than the person. TUE TUE Written by and starring Richard Herring, with Emma Kennedy TUE and special guest, comedian Francesca Martinez. TUE TUE Produced by Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0174gl7 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0174glw (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a report on a Design Museum TUE exhibition marking Terence Conran's 80th birthday. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0174gk8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0174gly (Listen) TUE Are families getting justice in the coroner's court? TUE Ann Alexander investigates concerns about the conduct of TUE inquests in England and Wales and asks why there is so much TUE variation in behaviour of coroners and the rigour of their TUE investigations. TUE Under the current system, it is up to the coroner what TUE evidence he or she relies on, but this can leave families TUE unhappy at the verdict and with little hope of appeal. The TUE Coroners and Justice Act 2009 included long awaited reforms TUE to the coronial system. At its centre was the role of Chief TUE Coroner, but the coalition Government said the post was TUE unaffordable and want it scrapped. So are Ministers missing TUE a chance to ensure judicial oversight, enforce national TUE standards and increase accountability? TUE Presenter: Ann Alexander TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0174gm0 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b0174gm2 (Listen) TUE Could conjoined twin girls, joined at the head have two TUE brains but share a mind? One girl is pricked for a blood TUE test, her sister cries. Or one watches TV, the other laughs TUE at the images her sister sees. What does the connection of TUE these young girls' brains reveal about the difference TUE between brain and mind? TUE TUE Also in the programme, he has been called "among the most TUE influential psychologists in history and certainly the most TUE important psychologist alive today." Claudia Hammond talks TUE to nobel laureate psychologist, Daniel Kahneman from TUE Princeton University about his lifetime contribution to our TUE understanding of human behaviour, his pioneering TUE psychological approach to economic theory, behavioural TUE economics. He also discusses his latest groundbreaking TUE research into judgement, decision making, happiness and TUE well-being. He argues that our cognitive blind spots mean we TUE often don't know why we make the judgements and choices we TUE do, we're bad at knowing what we want and what will make us TUE happy. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0174gk0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0171thr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0174gm4 (Listen) TUE With Robin Lustig. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0174gm6 (Listen) TUE The House of Silk, Episode 7 TUE TUE Sherlock Holmes has been arrested on suspicion of murdering TUE the very girl who was most likely to be able to provide an TUE answer to the conundrum of the House of Silk. TUE TUE Whilst Watson sits at Baker Street wondering what to do, he TUE is surprised to receive a visit from Catherine Carstairs, TUE the wife of the art dealer who set this whole investigation TUE in motion. And he tries to find a link between the death of TUE the girl in Limehouse, the death of the man in the flat cap TUE in a Bermondsey Hotel and the destruction of four valuable TUE paintings by a notorious Boston Gang. TUE TUE Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b0174gm8 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 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 4 sees the wars rage on as Copenhagen lives it up in TUE Paris and Marengo tries to enjoy a quiet retirement. 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 b010ms1h (Listen) TUE Curtains at the Window TUE TUE We're in the rural part of deep Devon on a remote cattle TUE farm. 79 yr old Patrick has always lived with his 103 year TUE old mother Maisy in their humble farm house. Patrick, TUE however, is as tight as they come and won't hear of spending TUE money on anything but the essentials. TUE TUE All's going well until his Maisy's old school friend Susan TUE returns home from London to retire and fills Maisy's head TUE with all sorts of modern ideas. Will life be the same again TUE or will Patrick still not allow curtains at the window? TUE TUE Maisy: Stephanie Cole TUE Patrick: David Ryall TUE TUE Producer: Anna Madley TUE An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0174gmd (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0171tjb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0174gk4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0171tjd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0171tjg (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0171tjj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0171tjl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0174gpl (Listen) WED with Judy Merry. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0174gpn (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Sarah Swadling. Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b0174gpq (Listen) WED Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0174gq7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Reginald D Hunter. WED Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0174gq9 (Listen) WED The West End Front, Episode 3 WED WED Kenneth Cranham reads Matthew Sweet's dark history of the WED scandalous life above and below stairs in London's grand WED hotels during the Second World War. While bombs rain down on WED London's East End, life in the capital's glittering hotels WED carries on regardless, with hotels like the Ritz, the WED Dorchester, the Savoy and Claridge's becoming mini WED Casablancas, where spies and con artists, traitors and WED royalty rub shoulders under the reinforced ceilings. WED WED Today: two clandestine networks - the homosexual subculture WED and London's spy community - form an unlikely alliance at WED the bar below the Ritz. WED WED Reader: Kenneth Cranham WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Abridger: Viv Beeby. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0174gqc (Listen) WED Imogen Stubbs on her latest theatre role - in Salt, Root and WED Roe. Presented by Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0174h5p (Listen) WED Journey to Starlight Mountain, Episode 3 WED WED by Sarah Daniels. Mia has to persuade her Mum to make WED friends with her Dad's new wife. WED WED Prepare to laugh and cry with one of the highlights of the WED BBC Children in Need appeal this week. The charity has WED collaborated with BBC Radio Four to produce this truly WED heart-warming new drama by acclaimed writer Sarah Daniels WED and all-star cast. WED WED The story is inspired by one of the projects funded by BBC WED Children in Need, the Siblings Project at Bluebell Wood WED Hospice for Children near Sheffield, which supports the WED siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. WED WED An extraordinarily moving, funny and truthful story about WED how love really can be stronger than death. WED WED Mia Parker...Sydney Wade WED Emma Parker...Nicola Miles-Wildin WED Lucy Hawkins...Gaynor Faye WED Mercedes...Martha Godber WED Steve Parker...John Godber WED Jules Parker...Amy Beth Hayes WED Mr Golden...James Weaver WED WED Writer...Sarah Daniels WED Music composed and performed by Lawrence Williams WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery WED WED 11:00 The British Germans b0174h5t (Listen) WED The British armed forces are due over the next decade to WED complete a final withdrawal from bases in Germany. But WED they'll leave behind a remarkable human legacy - many WED thousands of former soldiers who have decided to stay in WED Germany. In this programme Chris Bowlby goes in search of WED these ' British Germans', and traces their relationship with WED Germany and Germans. He meets a soldier who was punished by WED the British army for marrying a German woman just after the WED end of the Second World War. He hears about the pubs where WED Brits and Germans learnt each other's language, the struggle WED to understand each other's humour, the belief among many WED ex-soldiers that Germany offers a better society than WED Britain. And he finds that the children of British-German WED relationships are becoming increasingly influential in WED today's German society as he meets a potential future German WED chancellor called David McAllister. WED WED Producer: Chris Bowlby. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00tq1vh (Listen) WED Series 4, The Porter's Story WED WED Written by Rona Munro. WED WED In this first play in Series 4 of The Stanley Baxter WED Playhouse fellow Scots leading actors Gordon Kennedy, Stuart WED McQuarrie and Siobhan Redmond join Stanley in a comedy based WED on Shakespeare's Scottish play, where the porter becomes the WED hero and invites us to hear his version of the events that WED led up to the murder of King Duncan; and what just might WED have happened after it. WED WED We will discover that it was all really Lady Macbeth's WED fault, for marrying Macbeth and spoiling the porter's long WED term plans to groom his coarse and unschooled master to be a WED suave, smooth operator with fine manners and a statesman WED like approach to politics. His plans are foiled in a series WED of mishaps which are hilarious and very cunning. WED WED Porter ..... Stanley Baxter WED Macbeth ...... Gordon Kennedy WED Lady Macbeth ...... Siobhan Redmond WED Duncan/Nobleman ...... Stuart McQuarrie WED WED Producer: Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0174h60 (Listen) WED Demolition of council homes, cutting sickness absence from WED work and coins that don't work in parking meters. WED WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. The Government is due WED to publish the results of a review into reducing absence WED through sickness from work. It says it is costing the UK WED economy £100 billion every year. We hear from the UK WED Rehabilitation Council, who welcome the review, but say WED employers must do far more to help employees to get back to WED work. WED WED Will the Government reforms of council house funding lead to WED the demolition of many homes? WED WED And local authorities are concerned about the Treasury's WED plans for new 5p and 10p coins which are to be introduced in WED January - the new coins made from steel as opposed to the WED more expensive copper will not WED be suitable for existing parking machines. We examine the WED impact. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0171tjn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0174h66 (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 b0174h6b (Listen) WED The Agony and the Ecstasy WED WED Episode 8: The Agony and the Ecstasy, focuses on the WED collaborative work between Otto Loewi in Austria and Henry WED Dale in England. They established that communication within WED the brain is chemical and not electrical. Thanks to the work WED of many exiles from Nazism (and a leech smuggled out by one WED of them) the vital role of acetylcholine became known. This WED work laid the foundation for the neuropharmalogical gold WED rush of the 1950s, with the discovery of drugs to help those WED suffering from schizophrenia, depression and anxiety. 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 neurotransmitters actylcholine and adrenalin. The original, WED atmospheric score is supplied by composer, Barney Quinton. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0174gl7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00n5vjs (Listen) WED A Dose of Fame WED WED By Stephen Wakelam WED WED In the final stages of writing Howards End, and nervous of WED success, E.M. Forster grapples with a mysterious death, his WED own sexuality and the seed of an idea for his next novel WED Maurice. WED WED Morgan....Stephen Campbell Moore WED Lily.............Diana Quick WED Masood.....Navin Chowdhry WED Malcolm.......Matt Addis WED Ernest.....Benjamin Askew WED Unwin......Sam Dale WED Edward Arnold.Philip Fox WED Roger Fry...Malcolm Tierney WED Hilda........Caroline Guthrie WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0174hrm (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests take questions live from WED students, parents and teachers at Harrogate Grammar School - WED a specialist language and technology academy. Many of the WED students in the school's upper 6th will be among those who WED will be paying increased tuition fees of up to £9,000 next WED year. So what are their financial options in terms of loans, WED grants and bursaries? At what point will they have to begin WED paying off their student loans after graduating? WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b0174gm2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0174hrp (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0174hrr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b0174hrt (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0171tjq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b015fkl4 (Listen) WED Series 4, Kathy Burke WED WED Actress Kathy Burke tries five things she has never done WED before. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0174hs2 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0174hs4 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with American WED novelist Don DeLillo, as he publishes a collection of short WED stories. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0174h5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0174hs8 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Anne WED McElroy and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0174hsn (Listen) WED Series 2, James Daunt WED WED James Daunt issues a ringing defence of printed books, and WED argues that libraries and local bookshops - the 'purveyors WED of the written word' - are vital social and cultural spaces. WED WED Brought in to turn around the Waterstone's chain of WED bookshops, he argues that book chains should continue to WED play a vital role in introducing readers to books, but will WED only succeed if they re-connect with their communities. 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 b0174hvg (Listen) WED When leptin failed to be a wonder solution to obesity, this WED hormone produced by fat cells, disappeared from the WED headlines. Twenty years on scientists now believe leptin is WED critical to how the body works, regulating appetite, the WED immune response, inflammation and depression. Vivienne Parry WED investigates. WED WED Producer: Erika Wright. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0174gq7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0171tjs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0174hvj (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0174hvs (Listen) WED The House of Silk, Episode 8 WED WED Dr Watson has been abducted from the street and taken to an WED unknown address where a man who refused to identify himself WED warned him that Holmes' life is in grave danger; that the WED people who wish to keep the House of Silk a secret won't let WED his case come to court, and that the order has already been WED given that he must not leave prison alive. WED WED Armed with the key to his friend's cell, Watson makes an WED appointment to visit the famous detective in the House of WED Correction. WED WED Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged by Jane Marshall. 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 b0174hvv (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 "Intelligence" - A certain amount of WED intelligence is pretty useful. Without the ability to WED reflect and calculate, we would all be setting fire to our WED shoes and buying those novels about women who shop and have WED relationship issues. Yet intelligence has been something of WED a curse to many. Galileo was tortured for knowing more about WED science than the church leaders, and Paxman sighs an awful WED lot when he's hosting University Challenge. WED WED We all know the phrase 'a little learning is a dangerous WED thing, but then so is a lot of learning, but then again you WED wouldn't want none at all. So... oh dear, we're basically WED ruined. We'd better knock down all our schools and WED universities.' Are we sometimes too smart for our own good? 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 b0174hvz (Listen) WED David Cornock with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0171tkc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0174gq9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0171tkf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0171tkh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0171tkk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0171tkm (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0175286 (Listen) THU with Judy Merry. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0175288 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Sarah Swadling. Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b017528b (Listen) THU Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b017528d (Listen) THU Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek THU astronomer and mathematician, Ptolemy, and consider how and THU why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so THU many centuries. Ptolemy's seminal astronomical work was the THU 'Almagest' (written in the 2nd century AD), in which he THU proposed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe THU and and explained all the observed motions of the Sun, Moon, THU planets, and stars with a system of uniform circular THU motions. Ptolemy's model of the universe was to be the THU dominant one for over a thousand years and it was not until THU 1543 with Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the world that THU the Ptolemaic model was finally challenged. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b017528g (Listen) THU The West End Front, Episode 4 THU THU Kenneth Cranham reads Matthew Sweet's dark history of the THU scandalous life above and below stairs in London's grand THU hotels during the Second World War. While bombs rain down on THU London's East End, life in the capital's glittering hotels THU carries on regardless, with hotels like the Ritz, the THU Dorchester, the Savoy and Claridge's becoming mini THU Casablancas, where spies and con artists, traitors and THU royalty rub shoulders under the reinforced ceilings. THU THU Today: Mussolini's involvement in the conflict breeds THU hostility against Italians - and the Savoy's waiting staff THU must prove their allegiance to Britain or face detention THU . THU Reader: Kenneth Cranham THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Abridger: Viv Beeby. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b017528j (Listen) THU The US band The Dum Dum Girls play live in the studio. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017528l (Listen) THU Journey to Starlight Mountain, Episode 4 THU THU by Sarah Daniels. Mia is called unexpectedly to the THU Headmaster's office. THU THU Prepare to laugh and cry with one of the highlights of the THU BBC Children in Need appeal this week. The charity has THU collaborated with BBC Radio Four to produce this truly THU heart-warming new drama by acclaimed writer Sarah Daniels THU and all-star cast. THU THU The story is inspired by one of the projects funded by BBC THU Children in Need, the Siblings Project at Bluebell Wood THU Hospice for Children near Sheffield, which supports the THU siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. THU THU An extraordinarily moving, funny and truthful story about THU how love really can be stronger than death. THU THU Mia Parker...Sydney Wade THU Emma Parker...Nicola Miles-Wildin THU Lucy Hawkins...Gaynor Faye THU Mercedes...Martha Godber THU Steve Parker...John Godber THU Jules Parker...Amy Beth Hayes THU Mr Golden...James Weaver THU THU Writer...Sarah Daniels THU Music composed and performed by Lawrence Williams THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b017528n (Listen) THU India's Whistleblowers THU THU Rupa Jha investigates how local-level campaigners against THU corruption in India face threats and violence - despite THU promises that the government will stamp out graft. She tells THU the stories of two whistleblowers in two different states THU who faced ferocious intimidation after they tried to THU challenge powerful individuals on the take. THU Producer: Ed Butler. THU THU 11:30 Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys b017528q (Listen) THU Barbara Windsor tells the story of the popular variety act THU Wilson, Keppel and Betty. THU THU Wilson, Keppel and Betty formed one of the greatest THU eccentric dance acts of all time. Their names are so THU familiar and yet amazingly their fascinating story has never THU been told on radio before. As with many tales of the stars THU of music hall and variety, it is one which is shrouded in THU contradictions and myth. THU THU The programme includes new research into their early days as THU a duo in Australia and America - and reveals how the act was THU catapulted to stardom when Wilson and Keppel met Betty. THU THU Liverpudlian Jack Wilson and Irishman Joe Keppel were THU doleful, gangling, moustachioed and skinny-legged. They wore THU parodies of Eastern dress, usually a fez and a short THU nightshirt, revealing their scrawny legs. The third member THU was the glamorous Betty - who over the years was played by THU several different women. THU THU They performed a side-splitting sand dance based on poses THU familiar from Egyptian tomb art, with Betty as the central THU seductress. Their complete seriousness added to the THU hilarity. THU THU From the early 1930's the trio became an established feature THU of British variety shows and were chosen for several Royal THU Variety Performances. Because the act was visual and hence THU instantly understandable to anyone, they received many THU offers from Europe. THU THU In 1938 it was reported that whilst performing at the Berlin THU Wintergarden they upset Goebbels who was disgusted at the THU display of bare legs, calling them 'bad for the morals of THU Nazi Youth'. Mussolini, however, is said to have loved the THU act. THU THU Contributors include Bill Pertwee, Mark Colleano, Jean Kent, THU Georgy Jamieson and relatives of the trio. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b017528s (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0171tkp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b017528v (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 b017528x (Listen) THU All or Nothing THU THU Episode 9: All Or Nothing, focuses on the invention of the THU electroencephalograph, which made our brain waves visible. THU Invented by Hans Berger, one of its main proponents was the THU eccentric English robotics pioneer and neuroscientist, THU William Grey Walter. Until a near fatal accident, Walter was THU one of 15% of the population who can't produce the resting, THU alpha wave - only the active, beta wave. After the accident THU he could emit alpha waves. Meanwhile, at Cambridge, Edgar THU Adrian, no fan of the EEG, established the 'all or nothing' THU principle of nerve transmission to explain simple reflex THU actions. 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 cerebral THU cortex. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by THU composer, Barney Quinton. THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0174hs2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mx8rh (Listen) THU Love In A Glass Jar THU By Nancy Harris THU THU Eve and Patrick are two strangers who have been chatting on THU a dating website. They've agreed to meet face to face in a THU hotel room in order to carry out an unofficial sperm THU donation. They both know why they're there. But do they know THU what they want? THU THU Eve.....Niamh Cusack THU Patrick.....Lorcan Cranitch THU Seamus Kenny.....Stephen Hogan THU THU Producer Steven Canny. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b017528z (Listen) THU Today on Open Country, Richard Uridge visits what's known as THU the jewel of the Channel Islands. Herm stretches just a mile THU and a half long. The whole island is leased by one couple, THU who own everything on it from the hotel to the beach café's THU and all the houses. 58 people live on the Island and all THU work for the same employer. Richard Uridge finds out what THU it's like to live in such a close-knit community and to all THU work for the same company. THU THU Presenter : Richard Uridge THU Producer : Anna Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0171ys1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01724z4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0175291 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Material World b0175293 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests discuss the science changing our THU world this week, talking to researchers and opinion-formers THU about the latest research in the news and in the journals. THU THU 17:00 PM b01752w5 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0171tkr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Listen Against b01752w7 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 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 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 b01752w9 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01752wc (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017528l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01752wf (Listen) THU In the first of a new series of The Report, Simon Cox THU investigates the events of late October when an Occupy THU London protest led to the closure of St Paul's Cathedral, THU the resignation of key clerics and threats of legal action. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01753jg (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b0174gkb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b017528d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0171tkt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01753jj (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01753jl (Listen) THU The House of Silk, Episode 9 THU THU The headmaster of Chorley Grange School for Boys has given THU Watson a flyer that was hidden in a book which belonged to THU the dead boy, Ross. The advertisement is for Dr Silkins' THU House of Wonders. Convinced he has finally found the House THU of Silk, Watson gives it to Holmes who has newly escaped THU from jail, and the two make their way to Jackdaw Lane. 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 b01753jn (Listen) THU Episode 2 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'. THU THU Les meets Britain's first firm of emergency yodelers, a THU woman whose claim to fame is that she can walk backwards, THU and a man with such an embarrassing medical condition that THU Les refuses to have him on the show. THU THU Written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton. THU Producer Bill Dare. THU THU 23:30 The Chaplin Archive b00yqhrh (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU An exclusive look into Charlie Chaplin's life through his THU personal archives. Some of this material has never been THU revealed before so it's a wonderful opportunity for the THU Radio 4 audience. THU THU In 1952 America turned it's back on Charlie Chaplin. His had THU been the classic American story: from rags to riches and THU from street boy to millionaire. But, in the McCarthy era, THU Chaplin wasn't regarded as patriotic enough for some and he THU decided to leave. He chose exile in Vevey, Switzerland where THU he lived on the shores of Lake Geneva, seeking sanctuary THU from the hostile atmosphere of Hollywood. Vevey was where he THU brought up his children and found peace but always waiting THU for the America's authorities to realise the mistake they THU had made. He died on Christmas Day in 1977 and is buried on THU the slopes above the lake. However his archival remains are THU there too - letters, photos, scripts, recordings, THU scrap-books - the written legacy of one of the iconic THU figures of the 20th century. THU THU Writer, broadcaster and film buff Matthew Sweet travels to THU Vevey in Switzerland where he meets Chaplin's son, Michael, THU to explore the house and get unprecedented access to some of THU the amazing revelations of the archive. We hear recordings THU of Chaplin composing and Michael Chaplin shows Matthew a THU document, found in a locked drawer after his death, which THU could lead experts to revise one of the most basic THU assumptions made about his famous father. THU THU Helping to guide us and explain the significance of these THU discoveries through Chaplin's music, his Victorian Poverty THU and his women are Timothy Brock, composer, conductor and THU restorer of Chaplin's music, Dinah Birch, historian and Neil THU Brand, a respected authority on Chaplin. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0171tld (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b017528g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0171tlg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0171tlj (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0171tll (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0171tln (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01753ls (Listen) FRI with Judy Merry. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01753lv (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 b01753n5 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0175519 (Listen) FRI Anna Scher FRI FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the drama teacher Anna Scher. FRI FRI It's more than forty years since she set up her theatre FRI school and it has launched the careers of Kathy Burke, FRI Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke and Patsy Palmer to name just a FRI few. It started out as a lunchtime drama club - and very FRI quickly grew. Anna Scher says: "There were enormous classes FRI - about seventy in a class - and a lot of those pupils were FRI non-readers and so I fell into improvisation by chance. I FRI found that it was a very effective way of character FRI training." FRI FRI Producer: Leanne Buckle. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b017551c (Listen) FRI The West End Front, Episode 5 FRI FRI Kenneth Cranham reads the final part of Matthew Sweet's FRI history of the scandalous life above and below stairs in FRI London's grand hotels during the Second World War. While FRI bombs rain down on London's East End, life in the capital's FRI glittering hotels carries on as usual, with the Ritz, the FRI Dorchester, the Savoy and Claridge's transforming themselves FRI into mini Casablancas. FRI FRI Today: cabinet ministers and spies, anti-Semites and FRI zionists, dowagers and showgirls - the weird and wonderful FRI clientele of the Dorchester carries on regardless. FRI . FRI Reader: Kenneth Cranham FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Abridger: Viv Beeby. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b017551f (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017551h (Listen) FRI Journey to Starlight Mountain, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Sarah Daniels. Steve is worried about his ex-wife Lucy. FRI FRI Prepare to laugh and cry with one of the highlights of the FRI BBC Children in Need appeal this week. The charity has FRI collaborated with BBC Radio Four to produce this truly FRI heart-warming new drama by acclaimed writer Sarah Daniels FRI and all-star cast. FRI FRI The story is inspired by one of the projects funded by BBC FRI Children in Need, the Siblings Project at Bluebell Wood FRI Hospice for Children near Sheffield, which supports the FRI siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. FRI FRI An extraordinarily moving, funny and truthful story about FRI how love really can be stronger than death. FRI FRI Mia Parker...Sydney Wade FRI Emma Parker...Nicola Miles-Wildin FRI Lucy Hawkins...Gaynor Faye FRI Mercedes...Martha Godber FRI Steve Parker...John Godber FRI Jules Parker...Amy Beth Hayes FRI Mr Golden...James Weaver FRI FRI Writer...Sarah Daniels FRI Music composed and performed by Lawrence Williams FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery FRI FRI 11:02 Malmesbury: The Philosophy Town b017551k (Listen) FRI Britain's most famous political philosopher Thomas Hobbes FRI was born there, and Malmesbury in Wiltshire wants to become FRI for philosophy what Hay-on-Wye is for books, St. Ives for FRI painting, or Aldeburgh for music. FRI FRI It is setting out to become the country's special FRI 'Philosophy Town'. The scheme is the brainchild of FRI philosophy and small-town enthusiast Michael Cuthbert, and FRI he has got the backing of Wiltshire Council and the FRI involvement of the local and long-established Thomas Hobbes FRI Society. He has also enthused the head teacher of Malmesbury FRI School, whose students are being encouraged to take FRI philosophy seriously. FRI FRI For the past three years Malmesbury has hosted an annual FRI philosophy festival. Initially this focused on Hobbes - and FRI the country's leading experts came to speak - but now its FRI scope is wider. This year, under the title Cherish The FRI Thought, the theme is 'history and ideas', with a particular FRI emphasis on links between British and French philosophical FRI traditions. FRI FRI Mark Whitaker (who has himself published work on Hobbes) FRI reports from the Malmesbury Festival. He interviews leading FRI philosophers who are speaking. These include John FRI Cottingham, Simon Glendinning and Angie Hobbs. Professor FRI Hobbs has been designated a 'Town Philosopher', and she also FRI holds an academic title in the Public Understanding of FRI Philosophy. FRI FRI The Festival raises questions as to what philosophy is once FRI it escapes from the academy. Whitaker interviews members of FRI the audience and local residents about how they see the link FRI between their town and philosophy. He also explores plans to FRI give philosophy a permanent place in Malmesbury. There is FRI talk of a 'Philosopher's Footpath' from Oxford, of FRI inscriptions of great philosophical sayings on the town's FRI buildings, and of a philosophical bookshop-cum-cafe. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Whitaker FRI A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b017551m (Listen) FRI July 15th to 19th FRI FRI Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few 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 life, "no FRI matter how grizzly" as he puts it "or, indeed, how gristly". FRI FRI This episode sees Damien and his partner, Anthony, setting FRI off for the warm embrace of the Italian countryside so that FRI Damien can do some writing for a new book, and their builder FRI Mr Mullaney can have space to properly fit the granite FRI worktops that Damien's been dreaming of "from what seems FRI like the beginning of the Jurassic era". But there's trouble FRI in paradise when Damien receives a call to tell him their FRI Umbrian villa has collapsed and they will have to go FRI somewhere else. Luckily, Damien's agent, Ian, is quick to FRI the rescue... FRI FRI The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes FRI for: FRI - a perfect pasta puttanesca FRI - comforting Cornish Pasties FRI and FRI - something for the more experimental, "pilchards al FRI limone". FRI FRI Miles Jupp as Damien Trench FRI with FRI Justin Edwards as Anthony FRI Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney FRI Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher FRI Alex Tregear as the BA Lady/Helpful Student FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b017551p (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0171tlq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b017551r (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 b017551t (Listen) FRI Einstein's Brain FRI FRI Episode 10: Einstein's Brain focuses on how advances in FRI neurology have influenced our understanding of human's as FRI 'neurochemical selves'. Examining the recent trend to FRI explain every aspect of personality by underlying brain FRI processes, Geoff Bunn highlights how disciplines from FRI aesthetics to sociology have felt the impact of FRI neuroscience. He acknowledges the benefits supplied by MRI FRI scanning but points out the flaws in promoting an FRI understanding of humanity based entirely on analysis of the FRI brain. If the dissection of Einstein's brain were all we had FRI to go on, we wouldn't know much about the famous physicist's FRI life and character. 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. The original, atmospheric score is supplied FRI by composer, Barney Quinton. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01752w9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mrygf (Listen) FRI Comedy by Nick Leather. FRI FRI When a welcome pack to the UK offers advice on how to talk FRI to strangers, a migrant worker decides to spend his one day FRI off each week attempting to get to know the people of FRI Britain and prove to his disillusioned flatmate that there FRI is such a thing as the British Dream after all. FRI FRI Mirek ...... Matt McGuirk FRI Alex ...... Eddie Capli FRI Andy ...... James Quinn FRI Frank ...... Greg Wood FRI Joy ...... Sue Kelly. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017553c (Listen) FRI Durham FRI FRI Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Chris Beardshaw are FRI guests of Durham Wildlife Trust. FRI Matthew Wilson finds out how to create a historical garden. FRI FRI In addition: Bunny Guinness discusses growing and processing FRI dried flowers. FRI The programme is chaired by Eric Robson. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Junior Science b01756jf (Listen) FRI The Answering Machine 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 'The Answering Machine', the narrator remembers his FRI father buying an early version of an answering machine. The FRI machine changes the lives of his family in a chilling and FRI unexpected way. FRI FRI Written by Mick Jackson FRI Read by David Holt FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01756jh (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 b01756jk (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 b01756jm (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0171tls (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01756jp (Listen) FRI Series 35, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis dissect the week's news with the FRI assistance of; Jon Holmes, Henning Wehn, Pippa Evans and FRI Mitch Benn. FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01756jr (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01756jt (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the comedian FRI and composer Tim Minchin, whose recent work includes the FRI score for the musical Matilda, based on Roald Dahl's book. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017551h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01756jw (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live panel discussion of news and FRI politics from the Royal Grammar School, Worcester. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01756jy (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the Brain Omnibus b01756k0 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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 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 four FRI lobes. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by FRI composer, Barney Quinton. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0171tlv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01756k2 (Listen) FRI With Ritula Shah. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01756k4 (Listen) FRI The House of Silk, Episode 10 FRI FRI Sherlock Holmes has exposed the dreadful secret of the House FRI of Silk. But still it isn't clear what links the house of FRI ill repute to the destruction of the paintings by the Flat FRI Cap Gang in Boston and the murder of the man in the flat cap FRI at the hotel in Bermondsey. And so he returns to where the FRI case began, at the home of the art dealer, Edmund Carstairs, FRI in Wimbledon. 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 b0174gkv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The Chaplin Archive b00yyb49 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Charles Spencer Chaplin was once the most recognised human FRI being on the planet. His name was part of everyday FRI conversation in every culture touched by the art of cinema. FRI In America, his adopted home, he was even the subject of a FRI "mass hallucination". But America fell out of love with FRI Chaplin. Hounded by the press and the FBI, he set sail over FRI the Atlantic never to return. He made his home in a villa on FRI the slopes of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the place where he FRI endured the cold war against him, brought up his children, FRI found his peace and waited for America to realise what a FRI mistake it had made. He died there in 1977, and the evidence FRI of his life remains there too. His house stands empty FRI waiting to be turned into a museum of his life and art. FRI Stored carefully in a vault in the town below is the FRI extraordinary record of his genius, a hoard of letters, FRI home-movies, recordings, press-cuttings and unfinished FRI scripts. FRI FRI Matthew Sweet travels to Switzerland to meet Kate FRI Guyonvarch, the director of the Chaplin Family Estate whose FRI job it is to protect and preserve this unique legacy. FRI Together they explore the vast archive of unpublished work FRI that's barely been touched by scholars and researchers, to FRI conjure a man who came to represent the spirit of his age, FRI the face of the 20th Century. FRI FRI The team of experts to guide and illuminate us along the way FRI are Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside, Cecilia FRI Cenciarelli head of Progetto Chaplin (the Chaplin Project) FRI at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, Lisa Stein author of Syd FRI Chaplin: A Biography and Simon Louvish author of Chaplin: FRI The Tramp's Odyssey. FRI FRI