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SAT SATURDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01md5mf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01mgyx0 (Listen) SAT Winter Journal, Episode 5 SAT SAT On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his 64th SAT birthday, Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of SAT Winter Journal, his unorthodox examination of his own life SAT as seen through the history of his body. SAT SAT Composed in the manner of a musical fugue, the journal SAT advances from one autobiographical fragment to the next, SAT jumping backward and forward in time as the various themes SAT intersect, bounce off one another, and ultimately merge in a SAT great chorus of multiple voices, of one voice multiplied SAT into many. Auster takes us from childhood to the brink of SAT old age as he summons forth a universe of physical SAT sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening SAT sexual desire as an adolescent to the ever deepening bonds SAT of married love, from the shocks of violent accidents to an SAT account of his mother's sudden death in 2002, from SAT meditations on eating and sleeping to the "scalding, SAT epiphanic moment of clarity" in 1978 that set him on a new SAT course as a writer. Winter Journal is a book that looks SAT straight into the heart of what it means to be alive. SAT SAT In today's final episode of Winter Journal Paul Auster SAT examines his 64-year-old self and looks forward rather than SAT back on a life still to be lived. Read by Garrick Hagon. SAT SAT Produced by: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01md5mh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01md5mk (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01md5mm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01md5mp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mf886 (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd SAT Scott McKenna of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, SAT Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01mf888 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01md5mr (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01md5mt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01mdkpl (Listen) SAT Isle of Bute SAT SAT Helen Mark explores the landscape and waters of the Isle of SAT Bute off the west coast of Scotland where, for over 200 SAT years, visitors have gone 'doon the watter' to take SAT advantage of the island's relaxing atmosphere and healing SAT properties. Suggestions have been made that Bute should be SAT designated as Britain's first 'blue space', an area defined SAT by blue sea, sky and fresh air which all have a therapeutic SAT effect. Boarding the ferry at Wemyss Bay, Helen joins Shiona SAT Lawson, one of those whose family would take the ferry each SAT year to go 'doon the watter'. Shiona recalls that back then SAT the beaches seemed to go on forever and the sun seemed to be SAT always shining and remembers an island that had such an SAT effect on her that she eventually moved to live there. At SAT the harbour to meet Helen is James McMillan. James is a SAT 'Brandane', someone who was born and bred on the island. SAT SAT Helen then meets up with Roddy McDowell who runs Kayak Bute SAT and who takes Helen out on the waters around the island and SAT gives her a lesson in sea kayaking , an experience which SAT Roddy describes as crossing the boundary between the green SAT space and the blue. Helen then hears from archaeologist, SAT Paul Duffy, about the rich heritage of Bute. Walking from SAT the car park at Scalpsie Beach to the seashore, Paul takes SAT Helen on a journey through 8000 years of history in 8 SAT minutes. Finally, wildlife photographer Philip Kirkham gives SAT Helen a lesson in photography on the shoreline in front of SAT his house under the big skies of the island he loves. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01mhm48 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Clare Freeman. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01md5mw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01mhm5c (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie SAT and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01mhmqj (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and John McCarthy with studio guest Edwina SAT Currie reflecting on her public and personal life, two very SAT different attitudes to burial from Mark Elliott and Wendii SAT Miller, Spanish author Javier Marias who is the literary and SAT literal king of the micronation Redonda, the pros and cons SAT of procrastination from Steve Swift, Talitha MacKenzie on SAT why her song caught on in Serbia, the musings of Mancunians SAT and the Inheritance Tracks of Big Issue founder John Bird. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b01mhmql (Listen) SAT Series 5, A Very Strange Stash SAT SAT Steve Punt turns private investigator, with a brand new SAT series of weird cases. SAT SAT 1. A Very Strange Stash. Punt is called on to investigate a SAT dead pensioner's secret stash of arms. SAT SAT When 74 year old Kris Ruddjers died in 2010, he left behind SAT a very bizarre legacy. The retired nurse anaesthetist had SAT placed 13 trunks in storage supposedly containing household SAT effects. But when the owners of the removals firm prised SAT them open they discovered handguns, surveillance equipment SAT and bomb making materials. SAT SAT Ruddjers seemed to all intents and purposes just your SAT average pensioner - but what was the reason behind his SAT strange stash? For starters, Ruddjers was an alias... Punt SAT embarks on a quest to find out more about an intriguing SAT senior citizen. SAT SAT Also in this series: the mysteries of the 1928 Charfield SAT Rail Crash and the lost American colony of Roanoke. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01mhmty (Listen) SAT What's it like to be reshuffled? Sue Cameron of The Daily SAT Telegraph finds out from the former Labour minister, Lord SAT Hutton, and the former top civil servant, Sir Richard SAT Mottram. SAT SAT She asks the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson and SAT Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson if the Government's new economic SAT plan is more than just a licence to build conservatories? SAT SAT And could Birmingham be the answer to the great airport SAT dilemma? Tory MP Mark Garnier thinks so, but Baroness SAT Valentine of the London Direct campaign group isn't so sure. SAT SAT The editor is Mandy Baker. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01mhmv0 (Listen) SAT Greece remains a land where millions go each year to enjoy SAT their summer holidays. But Mark Lowen's discovered that it's SAT now also a place where increasing numbers of people are SAT finding it hard to cope with the austerity measures being SAT demanded in this fifth year of recession. SAT SAT The Russian republic of Chechnya is enjoying the most SAT peaceful and prosperous time it's seen in years but Oliver SAT Bullough's been learning that despite this its people seem SAT far from happy with their lot. . SAT SAT Linda Pressly's been to Israel to talk to some of the SAT Haredi, the ultra-orthodox, and increasingly influential SAT part of Israeli society, who seem set to play a critical SAT role in the country's future. SAT SAT Emma Jane Kirby is in St Tropez as the new French leader, SAT who some call President Normal, prepares to address his SAT people on nationwide TV. She wonders if he might follow the SAT example of some of those strutting their stuff along the SAT glitzy Cote d'Azure and become just a little more SAT forthright. SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt has been travelling, with an official SAT 'minder', around China. He knows Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet SAT are subjects the authorities might prefer him to avoid. But SAT now he's learned there's a fourth T - toilets. The Chinese, SAT he's been finding out, do not like people poking fun at SAT their loos. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01mhmzr (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT When you pop into a branch of your bank do you hate the way SAT they always try to sell you things as well? If so you're not SAT alone. The man who will soon be in charge of the new SAT watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority hates it too. And SAT in a speech this week Martin Wheatley said that paying SAT bonuses to staff for sales makes them sell us things we SAT don't need. Martin Wheatley's remarks followed a survey of SAT 22 banks, building societies, insurance and investment SAT firms. And he promised a crackdown. Paul Lewis asks him SAT whether he would end these sales bonuses. SAT SAT More than 200,000 small business customers of Santander will SAT continue to get free banking forever after the bank did a SAT U-turn on a plan to charge them at least £90 a year. Over SAT the last few weeks the bank had written to its small SAT business customers telling them that in future the 'free SAT forever' accounts would cost them either £7.50 or £12.50 a SAT month. Many of them objected but Santander would not keep SAT its promise. Bob Howard reports. SAT SAT Lots of firms offer to match the price of a product or SAT service of a competitor or pay you the difference but how SAT easy is it to actually hold them to that promise? One Money SAT Box listener thought he had a strong case for getting back SAT the price difference for work carried on his car out by SAT Halfords. But he found getting the company to accept his SAT claim was no easy matter. Bob Howard reports and Paul Lewis SAT talks to Vena Raffle, head of investigations at the SAT Advertising Standards Authority. SAT SAT Cold calls and out-of-the-blue texts offering services you SAT neither want nor need are a bane of modern life. Some claims SAT management companies are amongst the worst culprits. Paul SAT talks to Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at The SAT Information Commissioner, to ask what he is doing to stop SAT them. SAT SAT Do you get points when you spend money on your credit card? SAT If you do and you're saving them up for some expensive treat SAT beware - points may not mean prizes. In fact points can SAT expire quicker than the parrot you are hoping to buy with SAT them. Rachel Springall from the comparison site SAT Moneyfacts.co.uk tells Paul the ins and outs. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01mf7zp (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 1 SAT SAT Paralympics, Presidentials and Planning Permission. In the SAT week where David Cameron's Cabinet reshuffle dominated the SAT headlines, Sandi Toksvig hosts Radio 4's long running SAT topical panel game. Andy Hamilton, Fred Macaulay and Sarah SAT Millican join regular panellist Jeremy Hardy, and Corrie SAT Corfield reads the news. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01md5my (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01md5n0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01mf83v (Listen) SAT Lympstone, Devon SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics SAT from Lympstone Parish Church, Devon SAT marking twenty-five years of Jonathan's chairing of the SAT show. On the panel, two of the panellists from that 1987 SAT programme: Conservative Peer Norman Tebbit and Labour Peer SAT Roy Hattersley; joining them, the producer of the 1987 Any SAT Questions, Carole Stone, now chairman of YouGov Stone and SAT the political historian and cross-bench peer, Peter SAT Hennessy. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01mhn52 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mhn54 (Listen) SAT Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab SAT SAT On 4th January 2011, self-made millionaire businessman and SAT governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was gunned down in the SAT car park of a popular Islamabad market. He had been leading SAT a campaign to amend Pakistan's SAT blasphemy laws, after an illiterate 45-year-old Christian SAT woman, Asia Bibi, from a village in his province had been SAT sentenced to death for blasphemy. SAT SAT Within hours of his death, a Facebook fan page for the SAT assassin Mumtaz Qadri had over 2000 members, before site SAT administrators shut it down. When Qadri was transferred to SAT jail, he was garlanded with roses by a crowd of lawyers SAT offering to take on his case for free. President Asif Ali SAT Zardari, an old friend of Taseer's, didn't go to the funeral SAT for fear of inflaming public opinion. Leaders of SAT state-funded mosques refused to say funeral prayers for the SAT slain governor. The Interior Minister even gave an impromptu SAT press conference announcing that he too would kill any SAT blasphemer "with his own hands". SAT SAT Using his extensive contacts in Pakistan, presenter Owen SAT Bennett-Jones has interviewed Taseer's family and friends SAT and the family of the assassin. He has also secured access SAT to court documents including the killer's confession. SAT SAT The programme includes both interviews and dramatic SAT reconstructions. SAT SAT Presented by Owen Bennett-Jones SAT Sound Design - Steve Bond SAT SAT Executive Producer: Jeremy Skeet SAT Director: John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor SAT Sagar Arya SAT Actor SAT Amerjit Deu SAT Actor SAT Asif Khan SAT Actor SAT Faryal Khan SAT Actor SAT Najma Khan SAT Actor SAT Abid Majid SAT Actor SAT Mariam Majid SAT Actor SAT Ayeesha Menon SAT Actor SAT Aatif Nawaz SAT Actor SAT Hassani Shapi SAT Director SAT John Dryden SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01mddl6 (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 2 SAT SAT Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major Opus 61 was written SAT in 1806, but was not a success at its premiere. 200 years on SAT and this Concerto is regarded as one of the greatest pieces SAT ever written for the violin. This programme explores ways in SAT which the Beethoven Violin Concerto has touched and shaped SAT people's lives. Writer Kelly Cherry describes her father SAT loving this piece and still remembering it even when he had SAT Alzheimers. Violinist Robert Gupta talks about this piece SAT being the music which cemented his friendship with Nathaniel SAT Ayers - a moment which changed Robert's life. Joe Quigley SAT remembers hearing the Concerto at a crucial point in his SAT life whilst living in a monastery. Devorina Gamalova recalls SAT being entranced by this music as a child. And violinist SAT Christian Tetzlaff talks about what it's like to play the SAT Beethoven Violin Concerto. SAT SAT Producer: Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01mhnc4 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week including: Emma SAT Thompson on taking up the baton from Beatrix Potter and SAT writing a sequel to Peter Rabbit. Are GPs failing infertile SAT women? Zdenka Fantlova was the only member of her immediate SAT family to survive the Holocaust - a new play, The Tin Ring, SAT tells her story. She explains the significance of the ring. SAT Should we have any sympathy for 'the other woman'? Susanna SAT Abse and Bibi Lynch discuss. The author, Rose Tremain, on SAT her new novel Merivel, a sequel to the award-winning SAT Restoration. Tanya Gold and Alice Peterson on the enduring SAT appeal of romantic fiction. And Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall SAT combines blackberries, apple and cream into the perfect SAT fruity granita. Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01mhnc6 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01mf888 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01md5n2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01md5n4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01md5n6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01mhnhb (Listen) SAT Rob Brydon, Warren Brown, Jonathan Meades, James Wong, Beth SAT Orton, and Hurray for the Riff Raff SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Rob Brydon, Nikki Bedi, Warren SAT Brown, Jonathan Meades and James Wong for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation and comedy. With music from Beth Orton and SAT Hurray for the Riff Raff. SAT SAT Rob Brydon make his West End acting debut in Alan SAT Ayckbourn's 'A Chorus of Disapproval', playing Dafydd, the SAT ferociously zealous director of an amateur production of 'A SAT Beggar's Opera'. 'A Chorus of Disapproval' is at Harold SAT Pinter Theatre, London from Monday 17th September until SAT Saturday 5th January 2013. SAT SAT Clive samples the good life with self-confessed botany geek SAT James Wong. After cultivating herbal remedies at home for SAT his series 'Grow Your Own Drugs', his new book 'James Wong's SAT Homegrown Revolution' instructs urban foodies on how to grow SAT their own incredible edibles. SAT SAT Guest interviewer Nikki Bedi squares up to former SAT professional Thai boxer turned actor Warren Brown. He's now SAT packing a punch as PC John Paul Rocksavage, who's life as a SAT Liverpool policeman is turned upside down when his best SAT friend is murdered. Episode two of 'Good Cop' is repeated on SAT BBC One on Monday 10 Sep 2012 at 03.15 and Episode three is SAT on BBC One on Thursday 13th September at 21.00. SAT SAT Jonathan Meades new book 'Museum Without Walls' is born of SAT his preoccupation with places, their composition, their SAT power over us and the ideas they inspire. With his trademark SAT wit and narrative agility, Jonathan's lectures, essays and SAT scripts dissolve the barriers between high and low culture SAT and good and bad taste. SAT SAT With music from New Orleans band Hurray For The Riff Raff, SAT who perform 'Little Black Star' from their album 'Look Out SAT Mama', and folktronica songbird Beth Orton performs 'Magpie' SAT from her new album 'Sugaring Season'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01mhnnh (Listen) SAT Grant Shapps SAT SAT Geeta Guru-Murthy profiles Grant Shapps, the new SAT Conservative party co-chairman. SAT Producers: Chris Bowlby and Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01mhnnk (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Torquil SAT MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01mhnnm (Listen) SAT A Brief History of Blame SAT SAT Blame the abstract, blame the real, blame the stars, blame SAT the bankers, blame the mother-in-law, blame anyone but SAT yourself .... SAT The American satirist Joe Queenan presents A Brief History SAT of Blame, an archive opera in six acts featuring Margaret SAT Thatcher, Niall Ferguson, Tom Wrigglesworth, Richard Nixon, SAT Melvyn Bragg, the Archbishop of Canterbury, plus new SAT interviews with Germaine Greer, John Sergeant and Charlie SAT Campbell. Together they reveal that we are all now living in SAT a babel of blame. SAT SAT Queenan gives no nonsense answers to six headings, including SAT How Blaming Began. There are explanations for the word SAT scapegoat, discussion of the role of parents in messing SAT things up, and a rare outing from Margaret Thatcher in a SAT performance of Yes Minister which she wrote herself. "I want SAT you to abolish economists, " she demands. "Don't worry if it SAT goes wrong - I'll get the blame, I always do." SAT SAT "My qualifications for presenting this programme are SAT impeccable," says Queenan. "My father was an alcoholic, my SAT mother an emotionally distant manic depressive. Together we SAT grew up in a charm free housing project in Philadelphia. So SAT don't whine to me about how tough life is." SAT SAT The producer is Miles Warde, who previously collaborated SAT with Joe Queenan on A Brief History of Irony and An SAT American's Guide to Failure. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01m9n85 (Listen) SAT The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 1 SAT SAT By John Steinbeck SAT Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SAT SAT A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SAT the endurance of the human spirit. SAT SAT Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and SAT Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in SAT search of work, only to discover thousands like them are SAT also on the move. SAT SAT Credits SAT Tom SAT Robert Sheehan SAT Preacher Casy SAT Zubin Varla SAT Ma SAT Michelle Fairley SAT Pa SAT Steven McNicoll SAT Al SAT Finn den Hertog SAT Rosasharn SAT Melody Grove SAT Ruthie SAT Nicola Jo Cully SAT Connie SAT Nick Underwood SAT Grampa SAT Jim Bryce SAT Wilson SAT Jimmy Chisholm SAT Ragged Man SAT Jimmy Chisholm SAT Sairy SAT Irene MacDougall SAT Scrapyard Man SAT Gavin Mitchell SAT Floyd SAT Gavin Mitchell SAT Director SAT Kirsty Williams SAT Producer SAT Kirsty Williams SAT Writer SAT John Steinbeck SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01md5n8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Education Debates b01mdgrq (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT As a host of new players gets involved in the running of SAT schools and rules about qualifications for academy school SAT teachers are relaxed, John Humphrys asks leading SAT educationalists - who should teach? As long as the quality SAT is high - does it matter who provides our children's SAT education? SAT SAT More groups of parents are setting up free schools; Disney SAT and Fulham Football Club are among businesses backing a new SAT generation of "studio schools" in which work experience is SAT part of the timetable - and Labour wants the military to be SAT involved helping to run so-called "service schools". SAT SAT Meanwhile academies can now recruit teaching staff who don't SAT have Qualified Teacher Status. SAT SAT John Humphrys also asks - what's the role of the state in SAT education? How much freedom have schools really got and how SAT much should they have? Can the market drive up standards? SAT Why do we have private schools? Can a non-educationalist run SAT a school or teach a class? SAT SAT An invited audience gathers at Bristol University to hear a SAT panel of key decision makers and thinkers including shadow SAT education secretary Stephen Twigg and pro-private schools SAT guru Prof James Tooley - debate the crucial and timely SAT question - who should teach? SAT SAT Producer: Karen Pirie SAT Executive Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mc132 (Listen) SAT (1/12) SAT Where would you be most likely to find a durable SAT Welsh-language soap opera, a plant with bell-shaped flowers, SAT and a highwayman hanged in 1670? SAT SAT This question heralds the start of a new series of radio's SAT longest-running quiz. Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair to SAT welcome the regular panellists from six regions and nations SAT of the UK, who'll be trying over the next three months to SAT solve the programme's trademark cryptic cultural conundrums. SAT SAT In the first programme of the series, last year's Round SAT Britain Quiz champions - the Midlands pairing of the writer SAT Rosalind Miles and the Chief Executive of the City of SAT Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Maddock - begin the SAT defence of their title. Their opponents are the South of SAT England team, this year consisting of the journalist Marcel SAT Berlins and the author and columnist Marcus Berkmann. SAT SAT In the coming weeks the regular teams from Scotland, SAT Northern Ireland, Wales and the North of England will join SAT the fray. Northern Ireland are on home turf this year, as SAT the series is being recorded at a rural hideaway in County SAT Antrim. As always, the programme features a generous helping SAT of questions suggested by listeners. The eclectic references SAT and convoluted connections encompass literature, science, SAT music, etymology, the natural world, history and popular SAT culture of all kinds. SAT SAT The questions are on the programme's website each week, as SAT is a special 'teaser' question to exercise listeners' SAT brain-cells between broadcasts - with Tom revealing the SAT solution at the beginning of the next edition. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S TEASER QUESTION SAT In 1992, how did Leicester, Thames and Newcastle, previously SAT ‘skilled in many arts’, become a revolting baron, a Royal SAT borough and an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom? SAT SAT The answer will appear in next week’s programme. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01m9p7x (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a varied selection of listeners' SAT poetry requests with work by Frost, Yeats and Julia Copus. SAT The readers are Pippa Haywood, Patrick Romer, Harry SAT Livingstone and Philip Franks. SAT Poems that celebrate the miniscule and the massive, and from SAT all sorts of perspectives and dimensions in between, SAT starting with Robert Frost observing a tiny mite scurrying SAT across his book. Moon poems feature too with work by Carol SAT Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes and Yeats's deceptively simple yet SAT beguiling tale of The Cat and The Moon. There's a famous SAT love poem by ee cummings, and a skilful and moving 'mirror' SAT poem by Julia Copus. There are also a handful of poems on SAT the perspectives of war with work by the late Wislawa SAT Szymborksa. And there's a note of warning about the passing SAT of time, by Derek Mahon, in his poem 'Dog Days'. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT A Considerable Speck SAT by Robert Frost SAT From The Poetry of Robert Frost SAT Publisher: Jonathan Cape SAT SAT The Woman in the Moon SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT From To The Moon SAT Publisher: Picador SAT SAT somewhere I have never travelled SAT by ee Cummings SAT From ee Cummings – Complete Poems SAT Publisher: Liveright SAT SAT Cypress SAT by Jo Shapcott SAT From Of Mutability SAT Publisher: Faber SAT SAT The Horses SAT by Ted Hughes SAT From The Hawk in the Rain SAT Publisher: Faber SAT SAT War Photographer SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT From Standing Female Nude SAT Publisher: Anvil Press SAT SAT Hitler's first Photograph SAT by Wislawa Szymborska SAT Translated by Stanislaw Baranczack and Clare Cavanagh SAT From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 SAT Publisher: Faber SAT SAT Full Moon and Little Frieda SAT by Ted Hughes SAT From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994 SAT Publisher: Faber SAT SAT Raymond at 60 SAT by Julia Copus SAT From Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets SAT Publisher: Bloodaxe SAT SAT The Cat and the Moon SAT by WB Yeats SAT From Yeats – Poems SAT Publisher: Everyman SAT SAT A Runnable stag SAT by John Davidson SAT From A Book of Scottish Verse SAT Publisher: St Martin’s Press SAT SAT Dog Days SAT by Derek Mahon SAT From 100 Poems on the Underground SAT Publisher: Cassell SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01mhnr2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00sm5mf (Listen) SUN If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, Harriet Elliot SUN SUN 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This' is the debut SUN collection by US author Robin Black, whose work has drawn SUN comparisons with that of Lorrie Moore and Alice Munroe. SUN SUN A new girl at school with a 'strangely adult air' shocks her SUN classmates with an improbable story from her past. But one SUN of the disbelieving children decides she must be telling the SUN truth. SUN SUN Robin Black's stories and essays have appeared in numerous SUN US magazines and newspapers, where she has also won several SUN awards, but this is her first published collection. She is SUN currently teaching creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, SUN Pennsylvania, and lives with her family in Philadelphia. SUN SUN Reader: Laurel Lefkow SUN Abridger: Richard Hamilton SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhnr4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhnr6 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhnr8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01mhnrb (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01mhpc5 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Mary the Virgin Church, Hanbury, SUN Worcestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01mhnnh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01mhnrd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01mhpl1 (Listen) SUN Out of Silence SUN SUN Curiously, the word silent is an anagram of the word listen! SUN In this edition of Something Understood the poet Sean Street SUN reflects upon what can be heard in silence and the SUN difference in its nature from stillness - the difference, SUN perhaps, between doing and being. SUN SUN With reference to the words of Rupert Brooke, John Berger SUN and Rachel Muers and music by John Cage, Bob Chilcott and SUN Miles Davis. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01mhq6q (Listen) SUN Rhonda Perry and Roger Allison raise cattle, soybeans and SUN grains on their farm in Howard County, Missouri.But the SUN worst drought in 40 years is turning their crops to dust . SUN Roger tells Anna Hill that they won't have any grain or soya SUN to sell this year if their cattle are to survive.And SUN insurance is unlikely to protect them entirely from SUN devastation. SUN But if farmers like them can't produce grain to sell to US SUN producers , fellow farmers and markets overseas , what does SUN that mean for food stocks and prices in shops around the SUN world? SUN SUN Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin SUN Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01mhnrg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01mhnrj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01mhqk2 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01mhqk4 (Listen) SUN Macular Disease Society SUN SUN Henry Blofeld presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Macular SUN Disease Society. SUN Reg Charity:1001198 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Macular Disease Society. SUN SUN The Macular Disease Society SUN The Macular Disease Society is a national charity dedicated SUN to providing support to anyone affected by a macular SUN condition. The macula is the central area of the retina at SUN the back of the eye which is responsible for our central SUN vision, colour vision and the fine detail of what we see. SUN People with macular disease find it hard to read, drive or SUN recognise faces. The most common form is age-related SUN macular degeneration which is now the biggest cause of sight SUN loss in the developed world. The Society has 250 support SUN groups around the country and runs a helpline, counselling, SUN befriending and advocacy services. It also funds research SUN into treatments and cures. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01mhnrl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01mhnrn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01mhsdp (Listen) SUN A service from Bath Abbey: Pearls of wisdom SUN The Revd Prebendary Edward Mason and the Revd Dr Sarah SUN Hartley consider the value of wisdom handed down from SUN generation to generation with stories from those involved in SUN teaching and learning. SUN Music from Bath Abbey choir and children from the Abbey SUN Schools Singing Programme. SUN Director of Music: Dr Peter King SUN Sub-organist: Marcus Sealy SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01mf83x (Listen) SUN Policing Sex SUN SUN "Once again the snake pit of policing sexual behaviour and SUN the conflict between men and women's attitudes of it have SUN become news" writes Sarah Dunant. SUN SUN She discusses the remarks by the American would-be senator SUN who claimed that after "legitimate rape", women's bodies SUN protect them from pregnancy. She looks at George Galloway's SUN assertion that what Julian Assange did or didn't do in bed SUN was simple bad sexual etiquette. And she discusses the SUN controversy surrounding Fifty Shades of Grey. SUN SUN She starts from a very personal perspective, and broadens SUN the debate on attitudes to sex by looking at it from an SUN historical perspective. She concludes that a storm of female SUN outrage serves only to stifle debate and that men must be SUN involved in the discussions. SUN SUN Producer Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01mhsdr (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01mhsdt (Listen) SUN Writer.....Adrian Flynn SUN Director.....Rosemary Watts SUN Editors.....John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter..... Georgie Feller SUN Tom Archer..... Tom Graham SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN Pawel Jasinski..... Max Krupski SUN Darrell Makepeace..... Dan Hagley SUN Arthur Walters..... David Hargreaves. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01mhsdw (Listen) SUN Dolly the Sheep SUN SUN In this week's Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers together SUN creators of Dolly the cloned sheep - a revolutionary but SUN divisive scientific breakthrough. SUN SUN Dolly defied scientific convention. With her birth on 5th SUN July 1996, her makers had done the impossible - cloned an SUN animal from a cell taken from an adult mammal. When Dolly SUN was announced to the world on 22nd February 1997 she became SUN global front page news. Press and public flocked to her home SUN at the Roslin Institute outside Edinburgh to catch a glimpse SUN of the world's most famous sheep. SUN SUN Dolly's birth sparked fears that human cloning, a favourite SUN topic for science fiction authors, would soon become SUN reality. Roslin scientists were called upon to advise SUN Government select committees on the implications of cloning SUN research and in the United States the Clinton administration SUN scrambled to create laws to prevent human cloning. SUN SUN Fifteen years on, Dolly's impact is still being felt. The SUN research she sparked into stem cells, which could be used to SUN treat conditions such as Motor Neuron Disease and SUN Parkinson's, is still developing and with remarkable SUN breakthroughs. Yet it too is controversial, some pro-life SUN groups object to certain areas of research that use cells SUN harvested from human embryos. SUN SUN Joining Sue MacGregor to recall Dolly's creation and legacy SUN is: Sir Ian Wilmut, then head of the Dolly team and now SUN Chair of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of SUN Edinburgh; Professor Keith Campbell who led the scientific SUN research; Dr Bill Ritchie, who implemented the cloning SUN theory; Marjorie Ritchie, the Institute's surgeon; and John SUN Bracken, the anaesthetist present at Dolly's birth and the SUN man who named her. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01md9v4 (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 5 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all SUN panel games. SUN SUN Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and Graham SUN Norton join Nicholas this week - but who will prove they SUN have the greatest gift of the gab? SUN SUN This week Paul Merton talks about Noisy Neighbours, Sue SUN Perkins shows she is equally at ease talking about The SUN Credit Crunch and The School Disco, Liza Tarbuck talks for SUN 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation about SUN her Roots and Graham Norton reveals the things he does When SUN Nobody's Looking. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01mhsdy (Listen) SUN Australia's Food Revolution SUN SUN Sheila Dillon finds out how Australia, a nation founded on SUN the bulk export of cheese and meat, became one of the SUN world's most exciting gastronomic destinations. SUN SUN The food story of the early settlers is told by Michael SUN Symons, former restaurateur, academic and author of One SUN Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia. In SUN 1788, convicts and peasants arrived to an uncultivated land SUN and farming and food were quickly geared towards large scale SUN agriculture and exports of meat and dairy to the British SUN Empire. SUN SUN In more recent years Australia has become a place of SUN pioneering, experimental chefs and home to some of the SUN world's greatest ingredients as well as the source of global SUN food trends. Sheila tells the story of this major transition SUN with the help of food writer Charles Campion, on tour in SUN Sydney and Melbourne. SUN SUN The story also weaves in a hunt for indigenous aboriginal SUN foods and the account of a man whose contribution to SUN Australian food culture was to bury 80kg of Roquefort cheese SUN to the French national anthem. Both are fascinating episodes SUN in a colourful and surprising food story. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01mhnrs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01mhtcw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01mhtcy (Listen) SUN Peter White talks to Genevieve Barr about the impact SUN deafness has on her acting career. SUN SUN Genevieve Barr is a deaf actress who recently took the lead SUN in the BBC drama, The Silence. She played Amelia, a deaf SUN girl who preferred the silence to hearing with a cochlear SUN implant. Genevieve tells Peter that her own experience SUN differs from that of her character Amelia, as she didn't SUN learn to sign and was taught to speak by her mother. SUN Genevieve has also not had a cochlear implant. She explained SUN that she had to learn how to use sign language to perform SUN the role and was also asked to remove her hearing aids by SUN the director, so that Amelia could have her hair tied back SUN and the implant could be visibly inserted and removed from SUN her ear. SUN SUN Genevieve said that this experience meant that she was then SUN subjected to hearing the silence enjoyed by her character SUN and that this experience helped her play the part better. SUN SUN Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01mf7zc (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the GQT team tackle gardening questions in SUN his very own garden in Berkshire. The panellists are Pippa SUN Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Christine Walkden. In SUN addition, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew meet a roses SUN expert at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire to get the lowdown SUN on scent and longevity of flowering. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01mhtd0 (Listen) SUN Nehru and Edwina SUN SUN As India gained its independence from Britain, the last SUN Viceroy's wife was falling in love. Edwina Mountbatten's SUN younger daughter, Lady Pamela Hicks remembers her mother's SUN deep love for India's first post-independence leader. She SUN talks to Witness about Pandit Nehru's charm and sense of SUN fun, and the correspondence that continued until Edwina SUN Mountbatten died. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01mhtd2 (Listen) SUN The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 2 SUN SUN By John Steinbeck SUN Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SUN SUN A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SUN the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop SUN of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. SUN SUN The Joads have travelled from Oklahoma to California in SUN search of work, only to discover thousands like them have SUN also been on the move. Following a violent altercation with SUN some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of SUN a promised land temporarily in tatters. SUN SUN Director: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Tom SUN Robert Sheehan SUN Ma SUN Michelle Fairley SUN Preacher Casy SUN Zubin Varla SUN Timothy SUN Gavin Mitchell SUN Pa SUN Steven McNicoll SUN Al SUN Finn den Hertog SUN Rosasharn SUN Melody Grove SUN Ruthie SUN Nicola Jo Cully SUN Watchman SUN Jimmy Chisholm SUN Mr Thomas SUN Jimmy Chisholm SUN Jeff SUN Laurie Brown SUN Store Clerk SUN Laurie Brown SUN Willie SUN Nick Underwood SUN Director SUN Kirsty Williams SUN Producer SUN Kirsty Williams SUN Writer SUN John Steinbeck SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01mhtd4 (Listen) SUN Zadie Smith talks to Mariella Frostrup about her much SUN anticipated new novel NW SUN SUN Many writers grow up in public but few are a literary SUN sensation before they've even finished their debut. Today's SUN programme is devoted to Zadie Smith who was catapulted to SUN stardom in 1997 while still at Cambridge when publishers had SUN a bidding war over her unfinished manuscript. Her first SUN novel White Teeth with its exuberant, funny and contemporary SUN tale about friendship, love and war across three cultures SUN and three families over three generations was worth fighting SUN over and won many awards including The Guardian First Book, SUN the Whitbread First Novel and the Commonwealth Writers SUN Prize. Since then she's written two further novels - The SUN Autograph Man, which explored the nature of fame and the SUN Orange Prize-winner On Beauty, another duelling family saga SUN published in 2005. Her latest novel returns to the self-same SUN streets of her debut and views the world through the eyes of SUN the two main protagonists, school friends Leah and Natalie. SUN It's called NW, the postcode which covers the North West of SUN London and where Smith herself was born and brought up. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Books written by Zadie Smith SUN SUN NW SUN White Teeth SUN The Autograph Man SUN On Beauty SUN The Book of Other People (editor) SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01mhtf7 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents Welsh poets Gillian Clarke, Menna SUN Elfyn and Paul Henry reading their poems that have been SUN requested by listeners, as well as brand new pieces. SUN Recorded in Cardiff. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN 17:00 And Now an Urgent SOS Message... b01mdf9r (Listen) SUN Radio 4 used to broadcast SOS messages - "could Mr and Mrs SUN Snodgrass, believed to be travelling in the Cotswolds please SUN ring this hospital where their auntie is dangerously ill". SUN SUN Eddie Mair wants to know more about them. He hears from SUN listeners whose lives were dramatically changed through the SUN SOS service. These short messages were transmitted regularly SUN on The Home Service, and later Radio 4, for much of the 20th SUN century. They appealed for relatives of dying people, often SUN on holiday and thus, before mobile phones and internet SUN cafes, uncontactable, to return home before it was too late. SUN SUN Eddie invited readers of his Radio Times column to send in SUN their recollections of the SOS Message Service, and little SUN did the PM Presenter expect such a rich response of vivid SUN memories, first person experiences and in one case, SUN unexpected consequences as a result of the broadcast. SUN SUN Some of these remarkable testimonies are told, in SUN understated, haunting and even cheery ways in this narrative SUN tribute to radio, and a nation, - "as it was". Best summed SUN up by the tale of a six year old girl in the North East who SUN while staying with a relation in 1958, was hospitalised with SUN a very serious illness. She survived and tells Eddie her SUN story. In the days of very few domestic telephones, the SUN BBC's SOS message brought her parents to her bedside from SUN London courtesy of an observant member of the public who SUN heard the message and recognised the car number plate that SUN had been announced. SUN SUN The SOS Service, was the vision of John Reith, the first SUN General Manager, and later Director General of the BBC. But SUN its heart was the listener, as Eddie reveals. SUN SUN Producers: Jo Coombs and Stewart Henderson SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01mhnnh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mhnrv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01mhnrx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhnrz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01mhtl0 (Listen) SUN This week's Pick of the Week contains plenty of BIG themes - SUN Blame, Blasphemy, Guilt, Betrayal, Hubris - and, in fact, SUN quite a lot of these were evident in a programme about SUN Larry, the Downing Street cat. The poor chap's got two SUN bosses and doesn't know which way to turn. We also uncover SUN the bizarre subculture known as steampunk - so bonkers it's SUN almost impossible to describe - and also find out what SUN unlikely company the Queen has been keeping in the final few SUN instalments of the New Elizabethans. SUN SUN Presenter - Simon Parkes SUN Producer - Helen Lee SUN SUN And Now an Urgent SOS Message - Radio 4 SUN Political Animals - Radio 4 SUN Witness - World Service SUN World Routes - Radio 3 SUN Book of the Week - Winter Journal - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama - A Cold Supper Behind Harrods - Radio 4 SUN Mr Jupitus in the Age of Steampunk - Radio 4 SUN The Lebrecht Interview - Radio 3 SUN Blasphemy and the Governor of the Punjab - Radio 4 SUN A Brief History of Blame - Radio 4 SUN The New Elizabethans - Fred Goodwin - Radio 4 SUN The New Elizabethans - the Queen - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes - "Ne'er Cast a Clout" - Radio 3. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01mhtl2 (Listen) SUN Roy and Brenda are at a loss. Meanwhile Jill ministers to SUN the sick. SUN SUN 19:15 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014r5qh (Listen) SUN Series 4, Alan Davies SUN SUN Alan Davies tries five things he has never done before. SUN SUN 19:45 Where Were You... b01mhtl4 (Listen) SUN The Electric Box SUN SUN Read by Nathan Nolan. SUN SUN Where were you when Kennedy was shot? That was the starting SUN point for this series in which five writers are asked to SUN build a story around a significant historical event and SUN explore it in fiction. As well as the assassination of JFK, SUN the writers explore the meltdown of Chernobyl, the Tottenham SUN riots, Columbine and the splitting of the lithium atom. SUN SUN People often ask the "Kennedy Question" to highlight the SUN magnitude of the event itself. And occasionally we find SUN ourselves in the thick of the moment. But just as SUN interesting are the polarities, disjunctions and weird SUN connections between the moment that shakes the world and the SUN life of the everyday. SUN SUN Episode One: The Electric Box by Louise Stern. SUN SUN In the late 1980s teenager Ricky looks on with detachment as SUN his family host a Fourth of July barbecue for their SUN immediate neighbourhood. Passions come to a head, until the SUN sight of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on television rescues an SUN awkward social situation. SUN SUN Louise Stern grew up in Fremont California and is the fourth SUN generation of her family to be born deaf. She now lives and SUN works in London as an artist and writer. She is also the SUN founder and publisher of "Maurice", a contemporary art SUN magazine for children. "Chattering", her first collection of SUN short stories, was published in 2010. SUN SUN The Electric Box is Louise's first commissioned story for SUN Radio 4. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01mf7zk (Listen) SUN When it comes to music, variety is the spice of life at BBC SUN Radio 2. Its database of tracks carries some 14,000 hits SUN from every decade since the 40s. But it's the network's much SUN vaunted playlist that every band and musician is itching to SUN get on. This list of around 30 songs guarantees regular SUN plays on the BBC's most popular radio station. Every week SUN the great and the good of BBC Radio 2 gather for the SUN playlist meeting, and this week Roger gets in on the action. SUN Will it be the end for The Beach Boys? Will rockstars Muse SUN make it on? Or is there a surprise joker in the pack? SUN Feedback finds out. SUN SUN Roger will also talk to Radio 2's Head of Music, Jeff Smith, SUN to discover just how the playlist is put together - and SUN finds out what makes the ultimate Radio 2 song. SUN SUN And listeners respond to Radio 4's Chain Reaction, the SUN series in which public figures choose who they want to SUN interview, with their subject, in turn, turning interviewer. SUN Too chummy? Or entertaining, unguarded and revealing SUN discussions? Roger talks to the programme's producers, and SUN to interviewee, turned interviewer - Caitlin Moran (warning SUN some answers may include Bernie Clifton and his ostrich). SUN SUN And finally, you say twenty-twelve, I say two-thousand and SUN twelve - let's call the whole thing off. Luckily the BBC SUN Pronunciation Unit is on hand to help Roger out. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01mf7zh (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The controversial founder of the Unification Church. The SUN Reverend Sun Myung Moon was a self proclaimed Messiah who SUN faced allegations of brainwashing and embezzlement and was SUN imprisoned for tax evasion. SUN The singer and comedian Max Bygraves. His son recalls his SUN rise from poverty to stardom. SUN The Conservative MP Sir Rhodes Boyson - a former head SUN teacher who was outspoken on education policy. SUN Daire Brehan - the radio presenter best known for her work SUN on Radio 4's Afternoon Shift SUN And the lyricist Hal David who penned many a classic with SUN Burt Bacharach. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01mhmzr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01mhqk4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01mdl67 (Listen) SUN A Great Disruption SUN SUN Series about the world of work, from vast corporations to SUN the modest volunteer. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01mhvvb (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 b01mhvvd (Listen) SUN Episode 120 SUN SUN Jan Moir of The Mail analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01mdkqc (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Joe Wright about "Anna Karenina" - SUN adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard and starring Keira SUN Knightly, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. SUN SUN Sandra Hebron discusses the numerous screen adaptations of SUN Tolstoy's epic novel, including Clarence Brown's 1935 SUN version starring Greta Garbo and Frederic March, and the SUN Alexander Korda picture produced in 1948 with Vivien Leigh, SUN Ralph Richardson and Kieron Moore. SUN SUN John Hillcoat and Nick Cave discuss Lawless. Lawless is SUN directed by John Hillcoat (his previous works include The SUN Road and The Proposition) and Nick Cave adapted the SUN screenplay from Matt Bondurant's book "The Wettest Country SUN In The World", a fictional account of the exploits of his SUN paternal grandfather. Nick Cave also composed the music with SUN Warren Ellis. SUN SUN Portugese film director Miguel Gomes discusses his third SUN feature film, "Tabu", a film which probes Portugal's SUN colonial past through the medium of cinema - with reference SUN to Murnau's 1931 film Tabu, A Story of the South Seas. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN ANNA KARENINA SUN Anna Karenina, directed by Joe Wright - certificate 12a, SUN opens nationwide this weekend. SUN SUN LAWLESS SUN Lawless, directed by John Hillcoat, is released in cinemas SUN nationwide this weekend, certificate 18. SUN SUN TABU SUN Tabu, directed by Miguel Gomes, is on release in selected SUN cinemas this week, certificate 15. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01mhpl1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01mhnt1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01mdgpk (Listen) MON Italian Family 3: Studio discussion MON MON What has cause the Italian family to decline so fast? What MON are the prospects for encouraging Italians to start having MON more children? Laurie is joined in the studio by three MON experts in order to discuss his explorations of the family MON in Italy. Geoff Andrews, David Gilmour and Annalisa Piras MON give their views on what has caused the Italian crisis and MON what hopes there are for the future. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01mhpc5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhnt3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhnt5 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhnt7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01mhnt9 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mhvyw (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd MON Scott McKenna of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, MON Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01mhvz0 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01mhntc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01mhwsn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01mhwsq (Listen) MON The Suit MON MON Amanda Vickery explores the history of masculinity through MON six different archetypes of the ideal man, archetypes which MON still have an echo today. This week: The Suit. MON MON Professor Vickery ends her series in the 1950s, with a MON post-war generation of men trying to make it into positions MON of power in the British establishment. This is the era of MON Madmen, but with a very different British setting. She goes MON to the House of Lords to meet Peter Hennessy, who talks MON about how as a grammar school boy you had to learn to be a MON "social amphibian", imitating other more powerful and MON privileged men. Hennessy and his chums were "already MON betweeded" at 21. How did your looks, manners and language MON reveal that you naturally deserved your "Room at the Top"? MON MON The programme was also given permission to record in the MON Foreign Office with Foreign Office historian James Ellison, MON who has studied the application files of young men trying to MON get jobs there. We include funny and revealing extracts from MON those application forms, and a very revealing exchange of MON views about whether to accept a candidate guilty of a sexual MON misdemeanour. Historian Martin Francis talks about how MON wartime heroism helped create an ideal of masculinity even MON after the war was over, and about what it was like to try to MON get on as a gay man. MON MON Sources include Foreign Office files; management manuals for MON men from the late 50s; BBC archive programmes; contemporary MON films, music and advertisements. MON MON Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen MON Mary, University of London. She has made several series in MON creative collaboration with producer Elizabeth Burke, the MON most recent of which was Voices from the Old Bailey. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b01mhwss (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON MON Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from MON the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind MON them and echoes of the arguments today. MON MON By 1971, Austrian Sir Karl Popper was already established as MON perhaps the greatest philosopher of science when he appeared MON on Dutch television. He sat opposite Nobel-winning MON neuroscientist Sir John Eccles to discuss the scientific MON method and its flaws. How did we know if a fact or theory MON was unquestionably true or not? MON MON As a young man, the discoveries of Albert Einstein, which MON dislodged many of the basic "truths" of physics according to MON Newtonian laws, had impressed on him the fallibility of MON scientific experiments. The scientific community, he MON asserted, needed to look at problems from a very different MON perspective - using his theory of falsifiability. Eccles MON had, in fact, used this way of thinking to disprove his own MON theories. MON MON So how can we differentiate between pseudo-science and real MON science? What is the role of science and scientists in the MON progress of mankind? And on to today - do these arguments MON still hold sway? MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate is Colin Blakemore, MON Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford; and MON Anthony O'Hear, Professor of Philosophy at the University of MON Buckingham. MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01mhwsv (Listen) MON Bring Me Sunshine - A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, MON Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather, Rain MON MON By Charlie Connelly MON Read by Stephen Mangan MON MON Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island MON obsession, the weather. And when talking about the British MON climate which aspect do we usually turn to first? Rain... MON MON We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds MON and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is MON dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know MON about it? In Bring Me Sunshine, Charlie Connelly sets off on MON the trail of our island obsession. MON MON He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics, MON geniuses, rainmakers and cloud-busters and brings vividly to MON life great weather events from history. MON He sheds light on Britain's weirdest wind, the first weather MON forecast and why people once thought firing cannons at MON clouds was a great idea. MON MON Having adventured round the shipping forecast areas for his MON bestselling Attention All Shipping, Connelly is the perfect MON guide through a melange of gales, blizzards, mists, MON heatwaves and the occasional shower of fish. Bring Me MON Sunshine answers all your weather questions as well as MON helping you to distinguish your graupel from your petrichor. MON MON Produced by Joanna Green MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mhwsx (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON School Gate relationships – How to make them work MON Whether you are a SAHM (Stay at Home Mum) who has time for a MON post drop off coffee… or you hold down a full-time job and MON rarely grace the playground, you are likely to have feelings MON about the relationships you have made at the school gates. MON At the start of another school year, Mumsnet founder Justine MON Roberts and author Imogen Edwards Jones discuss how to face MON drop off and pick up time, without feeling six years old all MON over again. MON MON Why Did Nobody Tell Me? Home Truths Every Parent Needs to MON Know by Natasha Joffe & Justine Roberts is published now. MON MON What should happen to the HFEA? MON The government is currently consulting on the future of The MON Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Two years ago MON the Government made a commitment to significantly reduce the MON number of arm’s length health bodies in order to streamline MON regulation and reduce bureaucracy. The government’s MON preferred option is to transfer the HFEA’s functions to the MON Care Quality Commission and the Health Research Authority by MON 2015. So should the UK regulator of IVF and embryo research MON be transferred to those bodies and what difference will it MON make to treatment, services and research? To discuss Jane is MON joined by Rachel Cutting, Chair of the Association of MON Clinical Embryologists and Alison Murdoch, Professor of MON Reproductive Medicine and Head of Newcastle Fertility Centre MON at Life. MON MON Alison is taking part in 'Quangoing, Going, Gone: What MON Should Happen to the HFEA?' a debate being run by the MON Progress Educational Trust, at University College London, on MON Tuesday 11 September at 6.30pm. MON MON Elsa Schiaparelli MON Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was first MON featured in Vogue in 1927 and for over a decade she and her MON rival ‘Coco’ Chanel dominated fashion both on and off the MON pages of the magazine. A bold creative force, Vogue once MON called her a genius who was “madder and more original than MON her contemporaries.” She collaborated with artists such as MON Salvador Dali, and was known for her trompe l’oeil images, MON dresses with skeletal forms, perfume bottles in the shape of MON Mae West’s torso, pioneering use of man-made fabrics, and MON revolutionary items like her Shoe Hat and Bow Knot sweater. MON Fashion historian Judith Watt has written a new book for MON Vogue about Elsa Schiaparelli and joins Jane Garvey to MON describe both her remarkable creativity and also her legacy. MON MON 'Vogue On...Elsa Schiaparelli' by Judith Watt is published MON now. MON MON Nail Art - Sophie Robson MON You may remember the American sprinter Flo Jo – she won MON three golds at the Seoul games in 1988...and, if you paid MON close enough attention you might remember her nails – long MON and elaborately painted. Fast forward to London 2012 and MON the kind of nail art sported by Flo Jo was everywhere. MON Athletes like swimmers Ellie Simmonds, Rebecca Addlington MON and Jessica-Jane Applegate along with Laura Trott and MON Victoria Pendleton all competed sporting miniature flags on MON their fingers. A team of 18 artists, recruited and trained MON by the Sophie Robson - who describes herself as ‘the flyest MON nail artist in the UK’ was hired by official Olympic MON sponsors to work on site, recreating the 200 odd national MON flags for anyone who wanted them. She spoke to Catherine MON Carr about how she first got into nail art… MON MON Are government policies driving women back to the kitchen MON sink? MON It’s long been argued that women are bearing the brunt of MON the cuts in what’s now a double dip recession. What’s new is MON the thinking that this could be part of a ‘deliberate MON strategy’. Against the background of this week’s TUC MON congress, Frances O’Grady who takes over as its general MON secretary at the end of the year, has launched a strong MON attack on the government’s record on employment and workers’ MON rights. She said people would be forgiven for thinking there MON was a “back to the kitchen sink” campaign, with women being MON hit hardest by the recession. She cites among her evidence MON women’s unemployment, pay depression, rising bills and lack MON of childcare. Frances, the first woman who will head the MON TUC, is joined in discussion with Conservative MP Harriet MON Baldwin, member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk37x (Listen) MON Dissolution, Episode 6 MON MON C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for MON radio by Colin MacDonald. MON MON Winter, 1537, the South Kent Coast. Lawyer-detective Matthew MON Shardlake interrogates Brother Jerome, whose hatred for the MON murdered King's Commissioner, has marked him out as a prime MON suspect. MON MON Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Shardlake MON Jason Watkins MON Jerome MON Sam Dale MON Mark MON Joseph Arkley MON Alice MON Alex Rivers MON Director MON Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer MON Kirsteen Cameron MON Writer MON CJ Sansom MON MON 11:00 The Gentle Art of Tramping b01mhwx3 (Listen) MON The tramp, or wayfarer, is a romantic figure - almost part MON of folklore in this day and age. It conjures up the MON bitter-sweet antics of Charlie Chaplin or the writings of WH MON Davies, the 'tramp poet': "What is this life if, full of MON care, we have no time to stand and stare?" MON MON Keen rambler Arthur Smith has a childhood memory of tramps MON too -- mysterious figures, both fascinating and a little bit MON fearsome, men who seemed to appear from nowhere and then MON disappear again. MON MON And what about the present day -- is it even possible to be MON a tramp in the modern world? Does this wistful, romantic MON image -- of Chaplin, of the 'tramp poet' and the tramp of MON Arthur Smith's nostalgic imagination -- bear any relation to MON the actual lives of those who might step outside of settled MON society and take to the lanes? MON MON Arthur Smith wants to find out. And he's guided on his MON journey by The Gentle Art of Tramping. Written by Stephen MON Graham in 1926, it's an extraordinary, poetic how-to guide MON to becoming a tramp, which includes colourful advice on all MON aspects of the tramp's life: carrybags, boots, tobacco and MON cooking; how to build a fire, whether or not to carry money, MON and friends met on the way; scrounging, shelter, and reading MON material. MON MON Does Stephen Graham's discerning tramp resemble the modern MON wayfarer? With guidebook in hand, Arthur Smith hears the MON stories of the tramps of today and considers our attachment MON to the romance of life without ties and responsibilities, MON even in the face of its sometimes painful reality. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01mhwx5 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser MON MON Justin's still living with his father-in-law, still working MON with his ex-wife and still calling on his Gran for her words MON of wisdom. This week he also has to cope with trying to get MON elected as a school governor, trying to find a new job and MON trying not to miss Justin Jr's school play. MON MON Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse MON Gran ..... Anne Reid MON Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley MON Man in bar ..... Jim Poyser MON Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford MON Ray ..... Paul Copley MON Miles ..... Rob Rouse MON Woman in bar ..... Victoria Brazier MON Tanya ..... Victoria Elliott MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01mhx2n (Listen) MON Pre-teen entrepreneurs, inflated vets bills and cut-throat MON competition between barbers MON MON If you've ever wanted to start a new business you might need MON to get a move on because your rivals are getting younger all MON the time. Entrepreneurs aged 18, 11 and eight talk about how MON to get young people interested in business. MON MON The deadline has just passed for tens of thousands of pet MON owners to decide what to do about renewing lifetime pet MON insurance policies. And is there any truth in claims that MON bills for the treatment of pets are being inflated? MON MON Competition amongst barbers is becoming more cut throat. MON With the price of a short back and sides dropping in some MON places - do we need regulation to protect established MON salons? Or is it a case of more competition the better? MON Would you switch barbers or have you been getting a trim in MON the same seat for years? MON MON Pre-teen entrepreneur Miro McCarthy MON Miro McCarthy managed to by himself a tablet device through MON selling arty photos of his father’s childhood toy cars. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01mhntf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01mhx6s (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 The History of the Future b01mhx6v (Listen) MON The Oracle of Delphi MON MON Juliet Gardiner begins her journey into the History of the MON Future with a look at the Oracle of Delphi, the place where MON the Ancient Greeks went to consult the Oracle and hear what MON the future held for them. MON MON Juliet argues that a history of the future is really a MON history of anxiety, and begins her excavation of how the MON futurologists of their day foretold what was to come, and MON what these visions says about the pre-occupations of the MON time. How different were prophesies about the future at MON different points in history? What can ideas about the future MON tell us about the past? MON MON People seek reassurance about the future, but that desire is MON rooted in their understanding of the present, with its MON specific predicaments, and it is these particularities that MON Juliet will be unearthing. Whose master plan does the future MON represent? Is it determined by God, or gods, or does man MON have the power to change what might seem predetermined? MON MON This series of ten programmes will range from the MON Apocalyptic visions found in the New Testament Book of MON Revelation, to the enigmatic prophesies of Nostradamus in MON 16th century France to the science fiction dystopias of HG MON Wells and George Orwell. In 5th Century BC Greece, the god MON Apollo and his Oracle at Delphi was central to the idea of MON the future. In a fragmented society made up of warring City MON States with no over-arching authority people flocked to the MON Oracle to see what the future held. The Priestess through MON whom the god Apollo would speak would greet a questioner MON seated on a tripod in an underground chamber chewing bay MON leaves and surrounded by the intoxicating vapours which MON escaped through the fault line in the earth on which the MON Temple was built. Juliet speaks to classicists Nick Lowe and MON Hugh Bowden, and visits a tarot card reader on Brighton MON Pier. MON MON Produced by Victoria Shepherd MON A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01mhtl2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00sp5ch (Listen) MON Nuclear Reactions MON MON At the end of the war, Germany's most talented nuclear MON physicists were brought to England to discover exactly what MON they knew about the atomic bomb. MON MON Producer / Director - Eoin O'Callaghan MON MON Nuclear Reactions stars Nick Dunning and Nickolas Grace. At MON the end of WWII, Germany's most talented and formidable MON nuclear physicists were rounded up and brought to England. MON The British were keen to discover exactly what they knew MON about the atomic bomb, but they also wanted to ensure that MON the powerhouse of German thought remained intact, and MON capable of regenerating a defeated nation. MON MON Credits MON Major Rittner MON Nick Dunning MON Anton MON Michael Shelford MON Fee MON Alison Pettitt MON Werner Heisenberg MON Chris McHallem MON Otto Hahn MON Nickolas Grace MON Max Von Laue MON Richard Howard MON Kurt Diebner MON Sam Dale MON Friedrich Von Weizsacker MON Michael Shelford MON Professor Blackett MON Ian McElhinney MON Reader MON Ian McElhinney MON Pianist MON Mark McGrath MON Director MON Eoin O'Callaghan MON Producer MON Eoin O'Callaghan MON Writer MON Adam Ganz MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mhxmj (Listen) MON (2/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe puts more cryptic brain-teasers to the regular MON panellists in the second contest of the 2012 series, this MON week featuring the teams from Northern Ireland and Scotland. MON The Northern Ireland team consists of the writer Polly MON Devlin and the historian Brian Feeney, while the journalist MON Alan Taylor and the writer and critic Michael Alexander MON compete for Scotland. MON MON Among the puzzles they'll have to unravel this week is: Why MON might the following be said to be on the increase in America MON - an abattoir, a logical paradox, an auction item and a MON point of combustion? MON MON Tom will also be providing the answer to the question left MON unanswered at the end of last week's programme, and, as MON always, there's a chance for you to suggest your own MON question ideas with which to baffle the panel. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01mhsdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Stir It Up - 50 Years of Writing Jamaica b01mhxml (Listen) MON 2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence. In MON this programme Salena Godden explores the homeland of her MON mother through contemporary poetry and prose. And as poet, MON musician, writer and performer herself Salena asks what MON impact her Jamaican heritage has on her storytelling. MON MON So much of the widely accessible contemporary literature MON written about or set within Jamaica is created or published MON away from the island. Salena Godden speaks to some of the MON "now generation" of Jamaican writing, many of whom reside in MON the UK and examines how the country features in their MON writing, both as a physical and imaginary location. From the MON shores of Sandy Bay with celebrated dub poet Jean "Binta" MON Breeze to the "ghetto fiction" of Courttia Newland via MON Kingston on the dawn of independence and the streets of MON Chapeltown in Leeds, Salena discusses reggae, patois, MON negotiated identity, dub poetry and a relationship with a MON homeland that often isn't your home. MON MON The independent and free Jamaica is only 50 years young, how MON are these writers Salena amongst them writing her past, MON present and future? MON MON Keen to add her own voice to this dialogue Salena adds her MON own poetic reflections informed by this exploration and MON marking Jamaica 50. MON MON Produced by Rebecca Maxted. MON A Wise Buddah Creative Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01mhxn3 (Listen) MON Women in Hinduism MON MON The story of Ram and Sita - told in the Hindu epic, the MON Ramayan - is known to every Hindu and - more indirectly - to MON the millions who have seen the film Slumdog Millionaire. MON The hero of the film, like Ram, takes control and conquers MON in adversity. The heroine - the love interest - is a passive MON figure , in need of rescue. MON MON There are around a million Hindus living in Britain and MON they take many of their values from the story of Ram. But MON are some of those values demeaning to women? There are many MON gods and goddesses in Hinduism but do they provide good role MON models for modern women? What does Hinduism teach about how MON women are supposed to live their lives? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss a woman's place in Hindu MON society are Atreyee Sen, Lecturer in Contemporary Religion MON and Conflict at Manchester University; Shaunaka Rishi Das, MON Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies; and Padma MON Anagol, Senior Lecturer in History at Cardiff University. MON MON 17:00 PM b01mhxn5 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhnth (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01mhxnf (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 6 MON MON Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all MON panel games. MON MON This week panellists include Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks, Alun MON Cochrane and Kevin Eldon. Chairman Nicholas Parsons asks the MON team to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition MON or deviation - a task much more difficult than it sounds. MON MON This week Tony Hawks describes his preparations for Rio MON 2016, Jenny Eclair speaks on The Brontes, Alun Cochrane MON talks about of Victorian Inventions and Kevin Eldon reveals MON how he keeps his body looking that good. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01mk0dv (Listen) MON Vicky tries to explain and Darrell waits for news. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01mk0dx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Meryl Streep and MON Tommy Lee Jones in the film Hope Springs, the tale of a MON long-married couple who go on a retreat in an attempt to MON revive their relationship. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk37x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Is Eve Still Being Framed? b01mg55t (Listen) MON Twenty years ago barrister Helena Kennedy wrote her book MON "Eve Was Framed" drawing attention to widespread MON discrimination against women in our criminal justice system. MON Back then senior judges and lawyers were nearly all men and MON the system was rife with prejudices and misconceptions about MON women's behaviour - both as victims and offenders. MON MON Since then, and despite progress on many fronts, the number MON of women sent to prison has trebled, growing at a faster MON rate then men. MON MON Helena Kennedy sets out to indentify the extent to which MON women are still marginalised within the system. She is MON concerned that both the police and the courts, in an attempt MON to treat men and women equally, are failing to take into MON account the social and psychological differences. MON MON She explores cases of women who have received rough justice MON at the hands of the authorities and asks how have we arrived MON at a situation where every year 17,000 children are MON separated from their mothers by prison. MON MON Helena talks to lawyers, judges, academics and politicians MON to get to the bottom of what is going wrong, who is to blame MON and what needs to change. MON MON Produced by: Gina Peach & Brian King MON An Above The Title Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01mdjh4 (Listen) MON Israel's New Front Line MON MON When Israel was established, its tiny community of MON ultra-Orthodox Jews were, uniquely, exempted from the normal MON requirement of service in the Israeli Defence Force. They MON were seen as keepers of the spiritual soul of the nation, MON and their vital duty of studying religion and Jewish law was MON more important than wielding guns. 70 years on, and the MON community's numbers have grown massively - and there are MON increasing demands for the ultra-Orthodox to play their part MON in the defence of the nation. A Supreme Court decision which MON has cleared the way for the drafting of all Jewish citizens MON reaching the age of eighteen has divided the coalition MON government and led to furious rows. MON Linda Pressly investigates how conscription is exposing deep MON faultlines among Israeli Jews. Secular and mainstream MON religious Jews increasingly see the ultra-Orthodox as a MON drain on the Israeli state, and resent this community MON ruthlessly exploiting their political power. Meanwhile the MON ultra-Orthodox see themselves as fulfilling a sacred duty MON which lies above the day-to-day considerations of politics MON or defence. Can the rifts be healed - or will Israeli MON society become irrevocably split? MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01mdkrg (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper features some of the highlights of the MON British Science Festival in Aberdeen, including research MON into foods that could make us feel full for longer that MON could be useful to help people lose weight. He'll also be MON finding out why Aberdeen University ecologists have been MON tracking voles in the north west of Scotland and how the MON flooded old mines under Glasgow could be a source of heating MON for homes and offices. And there's a report on the latest MON news about the human genome which reveals more of what our MON DNA actually does. MON MON 21:30 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01mhwsq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01mhntk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01mk0f3 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mk0l0 (Listen) MON Sweet Tooth, Episode 6 MON MON Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during MON the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore. MON Episode 6 MON Serena and the writer she's grooming, Tom Haley, become MON lovers. Serena now has two major problems: Tom's novel is MON exactly what her superiors don't want him to write, and - MON more pressingly - she is unable to be honest with him about MON who she is and what she's doing. MON MON Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01mdf0b (Listen) MON Conflict Resolution MON MON Chris Ledgard examines how the words we use play a critical MON role in resolving conflicts. From hostage negotiations to MON relationship counselling to dealing with difficult MON neighbours or pupils in school, the language we use is MON all-important in defusing arguments and bringing calm and MON reconciliation. MON MON Contributors: MON MON Chris White, retired police hostage negotiator, now MON communications trainer MON Matt Overd, Director of Programme Development - Dfuse MON Barbara Bloomfield, Relate trainer and counsellor MON Stephen Drew, Headteacher, Brentwood County High School MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mk0m3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports as the House of Commons returns from its MON summer break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01mhnvd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01mhwsv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhnvg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhnvj (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhnvl (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01mhnvn (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mk1p3 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd TUE Scott McKenna of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, TUE Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01mk1p5 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01mk1zb (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in TUE Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01mk1zd (Listen) TUE Andrea Sella TUE TUE Andrea Sella is a science showman, whose theatrical TUE demonstrations of chemistry are filling theatres up and down TUE the country. But as Professor of Materials and Inorganic TUE Chemistry, Jim Al-Khalili asks him if he would rather be TUE known for his research into rare metals than for his whizz TUE bang displays. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01mk1zj (Listen) TUE Paddy O'Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer's TUE microphone to explore a subject that reflects his own TUE experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family TUE life. TUE TUE Paddy lost his father when he was 11, and in last week's TUE programme he met Sir Al Aynsley-Green whose career was TUE shaped by the early loss of his own father. TUE TUE This week's programme takes a slightly different tack as TUE Paddy meets Lisa Cherry, whose childhood was spent in the TUE Care System. TUE TUE Born in a home for unmarried mothers, her childhood was TUE spent moving from foster home to care home and a spell of TUE homelessness. Eventually Lisa managed to get control of her TUE spiralling life - giving up drinking and getting an TUE education was the making of her. TUE TUE producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01mlslq (Listen) TUE Bring Me Sunshine - A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, TUE Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather, Wind TUE TUE by Charlie Connelly TUE Read by Stephen Mangan TUE TUE From Aristotle in 4th century BC, to Edmond Halley in the TUE 1680s, great thinkers have always been fascinated by the TUE most powerful force in the weather's armoury - the wind. TUE TUE Produced by Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mk1zl (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk38h (Listen) TUE Dissolution, Episode 7 TUE TUE C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for TUE radio by Colin MacDonald. TUE TUE Winter, 1537, the South Kent Coast. The search for a murder TUE weapon has led to the discovery of a third body. When the TUE victim is identified, Shardlake realises that the case is TUE even more complicated than he had realised. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01mk23g (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Saving Species presented by Brett Westwood this week has a TUE flavour of the night about it. Bats are both loved and TUE loathed by the public, but their plight in an increasingly TUE urbanised Britain is the focus of this week's programme. TUE TUE Professor John Altringham from Leeds University has spent TUE much of his academic career looking at the role of TUE evolution, especially in bats, and how this shapes the form TUE and physiology of animals for locomotion, in particular for TUE swimming and flying. But in a rapidly changing World, TUE evolution is struggling to cope, so can we as humans do TUE anything to help flying animals like bats cope with an TUE increasingly built up environment? TUE TUE Brett Westwood heads off to a Worcestershire woodland in the TUE hope of seeing one of the rarest mammals in the UK, and a UK TUE Biodiversity Action Plan priority species, the Bechstein's TUE bat. Here he joins James Hitchcock who is part of the TUE National Bat Monitoring Programme which began in 2007. TUE TUE Over the years many tortoises have been a special pet to TUE families across the Globe. However the Sulcata tortoise is TUE now of global concern and to discover more of the TUE conservation efforts to return this species in the wild, TUE Helen Scales travels to Senegal to see the pioneering work TUE by Tomas Diagne. TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open Universities iSpot. TUE TUE Worcestershire Wildlife Trust and volunteers from TUE Worcestershire Bat Group discovered Bechstein’s bats in one TUE of the county's woodland nature reserves as part of a TUE national survey run by the Bat Conservation Trust. The TUE project was funded by the People's Trust for Endangered TUE Species. Find out more about the exciting discovery TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01mk23j (Listen) TUE Series 14, The Skye Boat Song TUE TUE For many hearing The Skye Boat Song brings back a wealth of TUE childhood memories, as the words "Speed Bonnie Boat Like a TUE Bird on the Wind" tell the story of the escape of Bonnie TUE Prince Charlie, dressed as a maid to the Isle of Skye, after TUE this defeat at the battle of Culloden. TUE TUE Originally written by Sir Harold Boulton and Anne MacLeod TUE back in the 1870's, we explore the beauty of this song and TUE how it continues to touch people's lives across the world in TUE very different ways. TUE TUE Contributors in this programme include: TUE TUE The Queen's Piper, who has played this tune in happy and sad TUE times, recalls playing it outside the Queen's window and TUE leading Princess Margaret's cortege. A New Zealand artist TUE shares his memories of time spent with his father, and the TUE sound of him whistling the song on their way home as dusk TUE fell. A sailor from the Isle of Skye, describes his TUE connection with the spirituality of piece and the Loch on TUE which he sails. TUE TUE Acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little shares her own arrangement TUE of the piece and explains why it works so well musically. An TUE Australian mum, tells how important this song has been in TUE connecting with the two girls she has adopted from China. TUE Gaelic Singer Maggie MacInnes tells the history of the TUE piece. TUE TUE Producer - Rachel Matthews. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01mk23l (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01mhnvq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01mk23q (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The History of the Future b01mk2hl (Listen) TUE The Druids TUE TUE Juliet Gardiner continues her journey back to the History of TUE the Future with a look into the society of the Druids and TUE their beliefs about the future. TUE TUE Druids held a crucial role in Britain, Ireland and Gaul TUE until the first Century AD. Very little evidence of their TUE mysterious culture remains and we might think of them now as TUE the Roman writers portrayed them, wearing white robes and TUE wreaths of mistletoe and oak leaves, making animal, even TUE human sacrifices. One thing is for certain: their powers of TUE prophesy were the sources of awe, fear and political threat TUE to the conquering Romans who saw them as an alternative TUE power base. The Druids are said to have predicted the Fall TUE of the Roman Empire. Was this political expediency or TUE something more mysterious? Juliet sees ancient spoons which TUE may have been used by the Druids in divination ceremonies. TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Shepherd TUE A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01mk0dv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mk2qp (Listen) TUE Brief Lives, Episode 5 TUE TUE Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. TUE Another case for Frank Twist and his team of paralegals. A TUE female athletics coaching team are being hounded by vicious TUE online slurs and sexual innuendo. This could ruin their TUE careers; who could be targeting them? TUE TUE Director/Producer Gary Brown TUE Original Music by Carl Harms. TUE TUE Credits TUE Frank TUE David Schofield TUE Sarah TUE Kathryn Hunt TUE Declan TUE Kerr Logan TUE Jane TUE Fiona Clarke TUE Harriet TUE Deborah McAndrew TUE Stella TUE Natasha Byrne TUE Liza TUE Lauren Gabrielle-Thomas TUE Director TUE Gary Brown TUE Producer TUE Gary Brown TUE Writer TUE Tom Fry TUE Writer TUE Sharon Kelly TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01mk3fq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Tracing the Line TUE TUE Nina Garthwaite, the founder of the public listening TUE phenomenon "In the Dark", presents a showcase for delightful TUE and adventurous short documentaries. A selection of brief TUE encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. TUE TUE In "Tracing the Line" we hear tales of lifelines, unfamiliar TUE paths and lines broken and crossed. In one short the TUE economics editor for Newsnight, Paul Mason, offers us an TUE unusual take on the UK's economic lines. We dive deep into TUE Britain's underwater labyrinth of tunnels and caves in order TUE to discover the tale of the "Dead Man's Handshake" - only TUE attached to the surface, and safety, by one thin lifeline. TUE Whilst across the pond, we hear the story of an American who TUE secretly wore a wire to record his life for five years. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01mk3k1 (Listen) TUE Chinese Salmon TUE TUE In January 2011 the Scottish Government announced a new deal TUE to supply salmon to China. If only 1% of its population TUE chose to eat it the Scottish industry would have to double TUE in size. The target set is to increase the industry by 50% TUE by 2020. Conor Woodman asks how this can be done without TUE impacting on the environment. TUE TUE Concerns about salmon farming include the spread of sea TUE lice, escapes, pollution of the sea bed and the impact of TUE sea lice treatment on other sea life. However it provides TUE jobs, both directly and indirectly in areas often with TUE fragile economies. TUE TUE Conor visits the island of Gometra in the Inner Hebrides TUE where a new fish farm is being proposed. The island has no TUE electricity and only a few residents but is classed as 'very TUE sensitive countryside'. It's one of five new fish farm sites TUE applied for in the last 6 months. While the residents there TUE oppose it, many of those on neighbouring Ulva hope the jobs TUE will attract more young people to the area. TUE TUE Conor speaks to the Scottish Association for Marine Science TUE about how the industry is dealing with the environmental TUE issues. He also hears about the new direction some of the TUE industry is taking - Marine Harvest is moving out of TUE traditional lochs to open sea locations which it hopes will TUE lead to larger farms being permitted. He also speaks to a TUE British company looking to introduce 'closed containment' TUE systems by farming tanks of fish on land. Is this the new TUE image of salmon farming in the UK and will these methods TUE face issues of their own? TUE TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00fpx7z (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Jarrow March TUE TUE Michael Portillo with the series revisiting the great TUE moments of history to discover that they often conceal other TUE events of equal, but forgotten, importance. TUE TUE The Jarrow March. TUE 'Marshal Riley's Army', the 'Jarrow Crusade' has become a TUE symbol of the reaction of British society to the mass TUE unemployment of the 1930s. In the month of October 1936, two TUE hundred out-of-work Jarrow men came south to draw London's TUE attention to their plight. They did not make political TUE demands, but merely asked that something ought to be done to TUE help them. They were polite, respectful, and orderly, and as TUE they passed, all sections of society, rich and poor, came TUE out to greet them. The Jarrow Marchers were treated to a TUE heroes' welcome when they got to London. They showed how TUE much the British cared about the unemployed, so now their TUE place in history is secure. TUE But, Michael discovers that here had been a variety of TUE "Hunger Marches" going back to the 1920s, the biggest of TUE which was in 1932 organised by the Comunist backed National TUE Unemployed Workers Movement or NUWM, after the level of TUE unemployment was cut, with thousands of men and women TUE marching to London. When the march arrived in Hyde Park on TUE October 27th 1932, 100,000 supporters were greeted by over TUE 3,000 police who launched a series of mounted charges into TUE the crowds, and the arrival ended in chaos. But this event TUE lead to the formation of the movement for civil liberties TUE which resulted in the pressure group Liberty being formed. TUE TUE So - why do we remember Jarrow? Maybe because it is pleasant TUE to think of the past as an era of social peace, a time when TUE there was a dignity in poverty and working men would ask TUE for, rather than take, social and political recognition TUE TUE Producer - Neil George TUE TUE (repeat). TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01mk4mw (Listen) TUE Series 28, Karel Reisz TUE TUE Film director Stephen Frears discusses the life of his TUE mentor, Czech-born director, Karel Reisz, with the help of TUE critic and Reisz's friend, John Lahr. Frears is one of TUE Britain's most successful directors, responsible for "My TUE Beautiful Laundrette", "Dangerous Liaisons", and "Dirty TUE Pretty Things", among many others. Reisz is probably best TUE known for "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", and "The TUE French Lieutenant's Woman". TUE TUE "Karel took me into his life and into his family and he took TUE on the business of turning me into whatever it is I've TUE become," Frears has said. "Without him, I wouldn't have TUE become a film director". Matthew Parris chairs the TUE discussion. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01mk4my (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhnvs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Secret World b01mk55k (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE The impression show that imagines alternative lives for TUE famous people. Each episode takes place over one day, with TUE stories unfolding and overlapping from morning to night. TUE In this third series the team of Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, TUE Julian Dutton, Duncan Wisbey, Margarter Cabourn-Smith, TUE Jessica Robinson is joined by Debra Stephenson. TUE In this series, Professor Brian Cox finds himself the object TUE of excessive female attention, from, amongst others, Kirsty TUE Young and the Queen. Al Pacino reveals his alternative life TUE as a balloon twister. Ed Miliband spends a whole day trying TUE to get a batman costume for his son, Peter Sallis discovers TUE a new form of energy, and President Obama becomes a pearly TUE king. TUE The show is written by Bill Dare, Julian Dutton, and Duncan TUE Wisbey. TUE It's produced by Bill Dare. TUE TUE Episode synopsis for ep 1 TUE In this episode, the Arch Bishop of Canterbury tries TUE Tweeting for the first time, with disastrous results. TUE Professor Brian Cox finds himself stalked by various women, TUE including the Queen. Al Pacino is a balloon twister, and TUE Princess Anne reveals her secret life as a trainspotter. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01mk56s (Listen) TUE Kathy uncovers the truth and Ruth hatches a plan. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01mk5bp (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the TUE Man Booker Prize for fiction, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk38h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Latinos USA b01mk5br (Listen) TUE Trillions in debt. A battered economy. A polarized and TUE embittered political climate. America needs to re-invent TUE itself. Is the answer already within its borders? Claire TUE Bolderson taps into the under exploited potential of TUE America's fastest growing minority and asks if Latinos hold TUE the key to a reborn USA. TUE TUE America is a country built on immigrants' dreams of a better TUE life. Equally, the country has used successive waves of TUE immigration to build an economic powerhouse. Critics say TUE that powerhouse is now in decline. But there is a source of TUE immigration that could re-energize America - if America lets TUE it. TUE TUE Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic population in the TUE country. One in four children and teenagers are Hispanic and TUE in many states the Latino population has doubled in the last TUE decade. TUE TUE This documentary examines Latino power and how it could be TUE harnessed to meet the challenges America faces in the 21st TUE century. TUE TUE Claire Bolderson analyses the biggest change in the makeup TUE of the US population for a century, exploring the cultural, TUE social, political and economic challenges and the potential TUE of a community that has long been marginalised. TUE TUE Dealing with some of the biggest Latino issues of the past TUE decades, Bolderson charts how immigration attitudes, TUE historical injustice and political impasse show signs of TUE transformation in an America needing to rediscover itself. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01mk5bt (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01mk5bw (Listen) TUE Osteoarthritis is usually put down to aging and the result TUE of wear and tear. But as Mark Porter finds out, it should be TUE seen as a disease in its own right and treated accordingly. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01mk1zd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01mhnvx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01mk5by (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mk5c0 (Listen) TUE Sweet Tooth, Episode 7 TUE TUE Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during TUE the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore TUE Episode 7 TUE Christmas 1973 is a challenging one for Serena. First, an TUE angry and emotional Max turns up on her doorstep; then she TUE has to accompany Tom and his terrible dystopian novel to its TUE publisher. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 Jack's Return Home b01mk5c2 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE London gangland enforcer Jack Carter is back in Scunthorpe TUE to investigate the death of brother Frank. So far he has met TUE only with silence and hostility from the locals. Ted Lewis's TUE British crime classic became famous as the cult movie Get TUE Carter. A new version for radio by Nick Perry. TUE TUE Jack Carter . . . . . Hugo Speer TUE Margaret . . . . . Katherine Dow Blyton TUE Glenda ..... Charlotte Riley TUE Mrs Garfoot . . . . . Tracy Wiles TUE Keith . . . . . Joe Sims TUE Brumby ..... James Weaver TUE TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE TUE Studio Managers: Anne Bunting, Keith Graham, Alison Craig. TUE Editor: Anne Bunting. TUE Production Co-ordinator: Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mk5c4 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on Treasury Questions and the rest of TUE today's events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01mhnwr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01mlslq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhnwt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhnww (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhnwy (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01mhnx0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mk5k2 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd WED Scott McKenna of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, WED Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01mk5k4 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01mk5k6 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in WED Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01mk5k8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01mlss5 (Listen) WED Bring Me Sunshine - A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, WED Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather, Clouds WED WED by Charlie Connelly WED Read by Stephen Mangan WED WED The meteorological journey continues with the invention of WED the barometer, a Fleet Street pharmacist's obsession with WED clouds and the father of the weather forecast Robert WED FitzRoy. WED WED Produced by Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mk5lt (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk5lw (Listen) WED Dissolution, Episode 8 WED WED C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor murder mystery, adapted for WED radio by Colin MacDonald. WED WED Shardlake leaves Scarnsea for London, hoping that a contact WED in the Tower Armoury can identify the markings on the weapon WED used to kill Commissioner Singleton. While there, he is WED summoned to Westminster and questioned closely about the WED progress of his investigation by an impatient Thomas WED Cromwell. WED WED Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 11:00 The Ceasefire Generation b01mk5ly (Listen) WED August 2012 marked the eighteenth anniversary of the IRA WED ceasefire and the beginning of a process which has WED culminated in a devolved government at Stormont and an era WED of relative peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland. WED For many school leavers today, Northern Ireland is a place WED of opportunity, in which they're happy to settle. Many know WED little of the story for which their homeland is infamous WED around the world. WED Professor of Psychology at Manchester University, Geoffrey WED Beattie knows this territory. He grew up in Ligoniel in WED North Belfast, an area known as the 'murder triangle' where WED nearly 20% of all the murders in the Troubles took place. WED Academic excellence enabled him to escape the fate of many WED of his classmates. WED 'When I left Ligoniel for university,' he recalls, 'I had WED the strange experience of reading about my friends on the WED front pages of newspapers. A number had been murdered, some WED had become notorious killers, many just got by.' For those WED of Beattie's generation, the Troubles were seemingly never WED ending. Tribal beliefs, handed down from family to family, WED were unchanging and unchangeable. Violence only served to WED deepen divisions, not dent them. WED But then, in the summer of 1994, something remarkable WED happened. The IRA announced "a complete cessation of WED military operations." WED WED In this programme Beattie returns home to engage with WED eighteen year olds from across Northern Ireland to discover WED what they feel about their country's past and future. Is WED there any sign that age-old beliefs might finally be WED changing or is the 'Good Friday Generation' doomed to carry WED the baggage of the past? WED WED On location, on their turf, Beattie will discover what those WED who grew up without the backdrop of violence really believe WED about the past. With the Troubles now part of the GCSE WED History curriculum, what have they learned about their WED country's recent history ? What do they know of bombings and WED bereavement, politics and prejudice ? And how will they WED behave differently from their parents generation ? WED WED Producer: Owen McFadden. WED WED 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mk5nk (Listen) WED Series 2, Hermicia WED WED by Bill Dare WED WED Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel WED documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit WED after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre WED adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in WED Hermicia where charity is strangely in abundance. WED WED Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson WED Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale WED Kalfa ..... Colin Hoult WED Mena ..... Nina Conti WED Boria ..... Martin Treneman WED Doctor ..... Patrick Brennan WED Rimanda ..... Amaka Okafor WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01mk5nm (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01mhnx2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01mk71g (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The History of the Future b01mk71l (Listen) WED The Book of Revelation WED WED Juliet Gardiner continues her look back into the History of WED the Future with the apocalyptic visions of Divine Judgement WED in the Book of Revelation. WED WED There is some dispute about its authorship but it is WED generally believed that the Revelations of Jesus Christ were WED communicated to a mystic, John, while in exile on the island WED of Patmos off the coast of Turkey. John wrote them down WED around AD 95 and some interpret the Book of Revelation as WED unveiling events that will take place in the future, when WED Satan will be cast out and the Second Coming will bring WED about paradise on earth, others see it as an allegory of the WED struggle between good and evil. WED WED Juliet views the Douse Manuscript, a dazzling 15th century WED illuminated Book of Revelation from a period when there was WED a flowering of interest in this vision of future, with its WED images of beasts, fires and plagues. Why did the Book's WED predictions become so pertinent at this particular time? Was WED this connected to anxieties and political aspirations of the WED Crusades? Juliet speaks to Professor of Early Modern ideas, WED Justin Champion. WED WED Produced by Victoria Shepherd WED A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01mk56s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b017mv20 (Listen) WED Ancient Greek WED WED Sony nominated writer, Oliver Emanuel's sharp contemporary WED drama about a sixth-former who decides to take a stand. WED WED Since Christmas, strange words have been appearing all over WED the school - on the walls of the maths department, across WED the windows of the gym, scratched into the deputy head's WED Mondeo. A protest of sorts it would seem. Apparently written WED in Ancient Greek. WED WED On the last day of school, Alex King walks into Head's WED office and admits that the work is all his. He's one of the WED brightest students in the school. And now he wants his WED chance to speak. WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED Credits WED Alex King WED Alex Austin WED Mr Desai WED Vincent Ebrahim WED Lorraine WED Sophie Stanton WED The Chorus WED Caitlin Fitzgerald WED The Messenger WED Austin Moulton WED Director WED Lu Kemp WED Writer WED Oliver Emanuel WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01mk71n (Listen) WED Insurance WED WED Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on insurance. WED WED From December 2012 consumers will see a big shake up in the WED way some insurance premiums are calculated with women car WED drivers expected to pay more for their cover. WED WED The ruling by the European Court of Justice means that from WED 21st December insurers will no longer be able to charge WED different premiums to men and women because of their gender. WED WED The AA has calculated that young women drivers who are WED generally a lower risk to insure than men could see their WED premiums rise by 25% and men's premiums could fall by about WED 10%. WED WED The ECJ directive will also affect life insurance, critical WED illness, income protection and health insurance. Though of WED course other factors such as age, general health and claims WED history are also taken into account when premiums are WED calculated. WED WED You may also have questions about obtaining flood insurance WED or pursuing a claim after the downpours earlier this summer. WED WED Do you understand how the European Directive could impact on WED your car, health or life insurance premiums? WED Are you concerned about rising premiums? WED Perhaps you want some insurance jargon explained? WED Do you live near an area at risk from flooding and need WED advice on getting insurance cover? WED How can you find a specialist policy? WED Maybe you want advice pursuing a claim? WED Who can help if you have a dispute with your insurer? WED WED Join Vincent Duggleby and guests: WED WED Guests: WED Malcolm Tarling, ABI WED Graeme Trudgill, BIBA WED Clare Francis, Moneysupermarket WED WED Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring Ring 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm. Or e mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01mk5bw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01mk71q (Listen) WED Odd Couples WED WED 'Odd Couples' - friendships which cross the boundaries of WED gender and sexuality. A new book challenges the widespread WED assumption that men and women are fundamentally different WED and can only forge significant bonds within romantic WED relationships. It charts the deep friendships between gay WED men and straight women, and also between lesbians and WED straight men. Laurie Taylor talks to the sociologist, Anna WED Muraco, who claims that such 'intersectional' friendships WED serve as as a barometer for shifting social and sexual WED norms. Also, an in depth study of the centrality of drinking WED to student identity. Its author, Maria Piacentini, discusses WED the ways in which young people neutralise feelings of guilt WED and stigma regarding their alcohol consumption. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01mk71s (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01mk71v (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhnx4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 When the Dog Dies b0140l7g (Listen) WED Series 2, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night WED WED Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom WED Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sorry ran for seven WED series on BBC 1 and was number one in the UK ratings. WED WED In the second series of their Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays WED Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along with his dog WED Henry. His grown up children - both married to people Sandy WED doesn't approve of at all, would like him to move out of the WED family home so they can get their hands on their money WED earlier. But Sandy's not having this. He's not moving until WED the dog dies. And not just that, how can he move if he's got WED a lodger? His daughter is convinced that his too attractive WED lodger Dolores (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. WED WED Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a WED friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help WED a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together WED face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make WED it more so. WED WED Episode Five - It Was A Dark And Stormy Night WED Dolores rashly plunges into an oral history project which WED reveals the yawning chasms which divide the Hopper family. WED Even in the small matter of the history of a picnic they WED can't agree. Sandy says one thing, Lance another and Blake WED another - Is it possible that Henry the dog can settle the WED argument? WED WED Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett WED Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck WED Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace WED Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh WED Blake ..... Jonathan Aris WED Lance ..... Philip Bird WED Tyson ..... Daniel Bridle WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01mk73s (Listen) WED Adam faces temptation. Meanwhile, what is going on in Jim's WED shed? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01mk73v (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Jonathan Pryce as WED he takes the title role in a new staging of King Lear. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk5lw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Four Thought b01mrhyg (Listen) WED Three of the best of Four Thought - personal storytelling WED introduced by David Baddiel. 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, and at the Edinburgh WED festival, speakers take to the stage to air their latest WED thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that WED affect our culture and society. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01mk3k1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01mk5k8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01mhnx6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01mk778 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mk77b (Listen) WED Sweet Tooth, Episode 8 WED WED Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during WED the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore WED Episode 8 WED Just as Serena and Tom's relationship starts to deepen, WED Serena feels threatened by a possible rival. WED WED Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b01ml8b3 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Notebook WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. WED Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED Episode 1: The Notebook WED Frank's apparently innocent discovery of an old notebook WED strangely rekindles Kim's former enthusiasm for Frisbee WED throwing. WED WED Neil ..... Frank Skinner WED Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Directed and produced by Polly Thomas WED An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b01681l4 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a WED book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of WED extraordinary letters has been discovered. WED WED "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've WED never written a letter like this before...." WED WED Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the WED Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this WED epistolary equine love story. A story of two horses united WED by an uncommon passion, cruelly divided by a brutal WED conflict. WED WED Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the WED seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of WED Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as WED Copenhagen, the frisky young racehorse who as our story WED begins is about to be the new mount for the Duke of WED Wellington. This collection of their moving letters to each WED other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. WED WED Episode 1 charts the early days of their romance and the WED early days of the Peninsular Campaign, and as their love WED blossoms the shadow of impending combat looms over our two WED heroes. WED WED Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) WED and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly - soon to be a WED feature film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone), WED directed by Steven Canny and produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mk77d (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports on Prime Minister's Questions and the WED day's events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01mhny5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01mlss5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhny7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhny9 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhnyc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01mhnyf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mk8v9 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd THU Scott McKenna of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, THU Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01mk8vc (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Sarah THU Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b01mk8vf (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie. THU Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01mk8vh (Listen) THU The Cell THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biology and origins THU of the cell. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01mltjr (Listen) THU Bring Me Sunshine - A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, THU Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather, Eccentrics THU THU by Charlie Connelly THU Read by Stephen Mangan THU THU From firing cannons at clouds to the cult of rainmakers, the THU author looks at meteorological eccentrics, geniuses, THU charlatans and dreamers. THU THU Produced by Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mk8zl (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk8zn (Listen) THU Dissolution, Episode 9 THU THU C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for THU radio by Colin MacDonald. THU THU Shardlake makes a shocking discovery and rushes back to THU Scarnsea monastery, ready to confront the murderer. THU THU Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01mk8zq (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Walter Kershaw: The UK's First Street Artist? THU b01mk8zs (Listen) THU Years before the super-cool graffiti of Banksy and his ilk, THU guerrilla art was being pioneered on condemned buildings in THU Rochdale. Walter Kershaw brightened up bridges, transformed THU toilets and glorified gable-ends. His work was large scale. THU Poppies the size of a house and a portrait of Alvin Stardust THU that covered an old shop (it WAS the 1970s). THU THU Kershaw's art upset local authorities but delighted many THU locals. Wherever he painted he drew a crowd and soon THU residents were requesting him to paint their houses. He THU sought no fee and knew that his work would fade or be THU bulldozed, but he persisted. There were no slogans, no THU protests and nothing overtly political. This really was art THU for art's sake. THU THU Mark Hodkinson, who grew up around Rochdale, meets Walter THU and takes him back to his old haunts. He meets Walter's THU accomplices and the art historians who put his work in THU context. He discovers what makes Walter tick and what he THU thinks of the current crop of graffiti artists. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01mk8zv (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01mhnyh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01mk8zx (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The History of the Future b01mk92q (Listen) THU Nostradamus THU THU Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a THU look into the world of the most famous futurologist of them THU all, Nostradamus. Nostradamus's name is synonymous with THU prediction and his poetic quatrains have not been out of THU print since they were first published in France in 1555. THU THU The prophesies were an instant bestseller all across Europe THU and struck a chord in London too. Widespread fear in France THU of invasion by the Ottoman Empire made his prophesies with THU their reference to the Anti-Christ seem urgent and people THU were drawn to the predictions for clues to how to act in a THU war-torn present. Five hundred years later people still THU consult the almanacs of Nostradamus and find in its pages THU predictions that seem to have foreseen major current events, THU the most famous of which was the attack on the World Trade THU Centre on 9/11. THU THU The prophesies are enigmatic, poetically vague and ripe for THU interpretation, but what is striking is that Nostradamus's THU words can represent the anxieties of the time in which they THU were written, and ours today. Juliet speaks to Nostradamus THU experts Peter Le Mesurier and Mario Reading. THU THU Produced by Victoria Shepherd THU A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01mk73s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tt4ly (Listen) THU The Last Tudor THU THU A reality show contestant decides that he has a greater THU claim to the throne than the current Royal Family. This THU improvised drama, told in a documentary format, charts his THU rise and fall, in a satire on celebrity, delusion and spin. THU THU The story is based on a true story of Anthony Hall, a former THU policeman who in 1931 started to give public speeches THU claiming that he was the descendant of an illegitimate son THU of Henry VIII and therefore the last Tudor. Documents THU released by the National Archives show that his threats to THU the Royal Family started to alarm the police and Home THU Office, and that George V lobbied to have him quietly THU declared insane and put away without trial. THU THU The drama supposes that Anthony Hall's great grandson, a THU local government employee at Bristol City Council, discovers THU his family history and decides to exploit the royal claim as THU part of his bid to win a television talent show called the THU Fame Factor. This central character, called Murray Gray, THU dresses up as Henry VIII to raise money for charitable THU causes, and seeks pop stardom to escape his boring job THU dealing with parking fines. THU THU Initially the case of Murray Gray is simply one story in a THU history documentary about royal pretenders, but as Murray's THU gets more and more successful in the Fame Factor, events, THU and the documentary, spiral out of control. THU THU The "documentary" is presented by real life presenter and THU producer Jolyon Jenkins, who also devised the drama with THU Abigail Youngman. Murray Gray is played by Jonathan Alden THU and his girlfriend Chantelle by Nadia Williams. Murray's PR THU agent Memphis Garfield is played by real life music promoter THU Conal Dodds. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01mk92s (Listen) THU Open Country visits Scotland's Moray Firth, testing the THU health of its marine mammal population THU The beaching of twenty six pilot whales in Scotland's Firth THU of Forth made headlines, and highlighted the importance THU attached by many of us to the creatures which live, largely THU unobserved, in our seas. In Open Country this week, Richard THU Uridge travels further north, to the Moray Firth, to test THU the health of its mammal populations, and to try to fathom THU what it is about these creatures which strikes such a chord THU in humans. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01mhqk4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01mhtd4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01mk92x (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01mk93p (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01mk93r (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhnyk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01l1dl0 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his THU hit sketch show. THU THU The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by THU The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny THU sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It THU featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive THU relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people THU who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr THU Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. THU THU This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it THU does feature an awkward celestial relationship, surprisingly THU easy contract negotiations, and a trailer for a film about THU the only mode of transport that hasn't had a film made about THU it yet. THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, THU Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced THU by Ed Morrish. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01mk9dh (Listen) THU David comes bearing gifts and Neil offers advice. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01mk9dk (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with musician, THU songwriter and Talking Heads front-man David Byrne, as he THU publishes a book called How Music Works. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mk8zn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01mk9dm (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01mk9ns (Listen) THU Iceland - In from the Cold THU THU Series about the world of work, from vast corporations to THU the modest volunteer. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01mk23g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01mk8vh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01mhnym (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01mk9nv (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mk9nx (Listen) THU Sweet Tooth, Episode 9 THU THU Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during THU the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore THU Episode 9 THU Tom's dystopian novel has won a prestigious prize and THU started a chain of events which is now well out of Serena's THU control. THU THU Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mk9nz (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU In Episode 2: We pick up with 'Two Episodes of Mash' (Diane THU Morgan, Joe Wilkinson and David O'Doherty) a week after THU David barricaded them inside the Radio 4 studio. He's taken THU all the Radio 4 microphones hostage in an attempt to make THU the network give them their own radio series. They fill THU air-time in their own unique way with their version of the THU news, weather, sport, traffic and a fly on the wall THU documentary about working behind the scenes on a sketch THU show. Things take a turn for the worse when David receives a THU call from the Radio 4 Negotiator. THU THU An online animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke is THU available on the Radio 4 website. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Paul THU Harry Allen, Bobbie Pyor & Gary Newman. Producer: Clair THU Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mk9p1 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01mhnzj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01mltjr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhnzl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhnzn (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhnzq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01mhnzs (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mkzb8 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd FRI Scott McKenna of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, FRI Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01mkzbb (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Rich Ward. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01mkzbd (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and FRI Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Yesterday in FRI Parliament; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01mhsdw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01mltk6 (Listen) FRI Bring Me Sunshine - A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, FRI Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather, Fog FRI FRI by Charlie Connelly FRI Read by Stephen Mangan FRI FRI The final stops on Charlie Connelly's meteorological journey FRI include a young man's obsession with photographing FRI snowflakes and a musical ode to the sea - the foghorn FRI symphony. FRI FRI Produced by Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mkzbg (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mkzgc (Listen) FRI Dissolution, Episode 10 FRI FRI C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel, adapted for FRI radio by Colin MacDonald. FRI FRI Betrayed and abandoned by Mark, Shardlake must act alone to FRI catch the killer of Orphan Stonegarden, Novice Whelplay and FRI Brother Gabriel. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 11:00 The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle b01mkzgf (Listen) FRI The East German secret service, the Stasi, loved to keep FRI records. It built up a library of hundreds of thousands of FRI files on its own people. When the order came to destroy FRI those files, in late 1989, there was so much paper to get FRI through that the state's shredders collapsed under the FRI pressure. They then resorted to using chemicals and burning FRI and, finally, to simply tearing them up by hand, until FRI ordinary people themselves stormed the Stasi buildings and FRI rescued what they could. Amongst the files that were FRI rescued, they found 16,000 sackfuls of torn up bits of FRI paper. FRI FRI Over the last fifteen years a small group of people near FRI Nuremberg has been painstakingly trying to put those bits of FRI paper back together; but the task was going to take 400 FRI years to complete. FRI FRI An expert in image processing, Dr. Bertram Nikolay came FRI forward with his E-puzzler prototype computer, which is FRI being put through its paces. Dr. Nikolay says the E-puzzler FRI will be able to read the scraps of paper and put them back FRI together in just a few years. FRI FRI In The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle Chris Bowlby returns to Berlin, FRI where he spent time as a student in the divided city, and FRI meets the scientists hoping to rescue the destroyed Stasi FRI paper archive. He also hears some disturbing audio archive FRI which is being catalogued; there are stories from some of FRI the Stasi's victims and we hear how, twenty years after the FRI fall of the Berlin wall, the search for the truth within the FRI archives is as important as ever. FRI FRI 11:30 Beauty of Britain b01mkzgh (Listen) FRI Series 3, Other People's Children FRI FRI Comedy about an outspoken African careworker by Christopher FRI Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. FRI Beauty is getting broody after looking after Worship Leader FRI Wayne's kids. Karen in the office wants her to apply her FRI business acumen to flog a 'multi-media aid to living well FRI with dementia'. Can this one woman have it all? Comedy by FRI Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson FRI FRI Jocelyn Jee Esien ..... Beauty FRI O.T. Fagbenle ..... Wayne FRI Felicity Montagu ..... Sally FRI Nicola Sanderson ..... Karen FRI Lisa Coleman ..... Janice FRI Llewella Gideon ..... Colette FRI Lottie Willcox ..... Dylan FRI Katy Willcox ..... Molly FRI Christopher Douglas ..... Father of the Bride FRI FRI Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson FRI Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01mkzgk (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01mhnzv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01mkzgm (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The History of the Future b01mkzgw (Listen) FRI Leonardo Da Vinci FRI FRI Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a FRI look at the designs of Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci. FRI Juliet views his designs for warfare which seem to prefigure FRI the modern tank and helicopter, and tries to understand how FRI the culture of 15th century Florence with its political and FRI religious turmoil as well as artistic flowering spoke to FRI Leonardo's vision of the future. Many of Leonardo's FRI inventions were astonishingly ahead of their time, but he is FRI also a man firmly of his time, a time in which God, and the FRI Revelation of the judgement of the Apocalypse depicted on FRI the roof of the Baptistry would determine the end times for FRI all. Juliet speaks to Evelyn Welch and Martin Kemp. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01mk9dh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tt6r8 (Listen) FRI We Happened to Be Passing FRI FRI It is a quiet Saturday morning in the Hinchcliffe home. Tony FRI and Sal, tired after a week of work, have time on their FRI hands. But not for each other. Middle aged and middle class FRI - they haven't had kids and they still feel that emotional FRI vacuum. FRI FRI The doorbell rings. It is an American couple - Monty and FRI Janey - a rather loud duo they stayed with in Delaware years FRI ago. They said "If ever you happened to be passing...". FRI Well, the Americans are passing and they have no hotel FRI booked. To Tony's horror Sal invites them to stay. Well, FRI it's only polite isn't it? FRI FRI Once Monty and Janey are settled the doorbell goes again. It FRI is Jan and Hilda, the Flemish Belgian couple from Bruges. FRI They kindly helped when Janey had a migraine in Bruges. Even FRI fed them some waterzooi (flemish stew). In gratitude Sal and FRI Tony said - "If ever you happened to be passing." FRI FRI Then the doorbell goes again - it is Pierre and Colette, FRI French Belgians who helped them in Namur when Sal was sick FRI over a Saab because she had eaten some cloying Flemish stew. FRI In gratitude they said - "If ever you happened to be FRI passing." FRI FRI So - polite Tony and Sal have a house full. The Americans FRI are loud and pompous and the Belgians loathe each other. But FRI when Colette and Jan find themselves drawn to one another, FRI the ensuing, messy crisis precipitates a reassessment of all FRI the couples' pattern of a behaviour. FRI FRI A wonderfully perceptive comedy of manners and international FRI relations by David Nobbs - writer of 'The Fall and Rise of FRI Reginald Perrin' and 'A Bit of a Do' FRI FRI Directed by Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Tony FRI James Nickerson FRI Monty FRI Kerry Shale FRI Jan FRI Malcolm Raeburn FRI Sal FRI Olwen May FRI Hilda FRI Maggie Fox FRI Janey FRI Melissa Sinden FRI Collette FRI Szilvi Naray-Davey FRI Pierre FRI Hugo Chandor FRI French Chef FRI Hugo Chandor FRI Director FRI Gary Brown FRI Writer FRI David Nobbs FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ml0j5 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson and the team tackle questions from the audience FRI at this year's GQT Summer Party, held at Ness Botanic FRI Gardens, South Wirral. FRI FRI In addition highlights from the all-day gardening event with FRI appearances from Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Matthew FRI Wilson, Christine Walkden, Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood FRI and Anne Swithinbank. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe b01ml0j9 (Listen) FRI How to Survive FRI FRI Read by Mark Little. FRI FRI The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe was the book most often FRI stolen from British libraries in the 1970s. Mark Little FRI reads from the young travellers' bible that nestled in every FRI student rucksack forty years ago as they set off to explore FRI Europe on £10 a week. Australian Ken Welsh was the hitcher FRI who inspired thousands to follow "the infinite miles of FRI tarmac and pot-holes which criss-cross the world, the magic FRI ribbon which can lead to a thousand other worlds." FRI FRI With a great deal of humour, some common sense and a spirit FRI of recklessness lost to today's youngsters, Welsh's book FRI covered everything from How To Hitch ("Providing a driver FRI isn't obviously bombed out of his mind, my rule is to take FRI any car that stops which has its bonnet pointed even vaguely FRI in the direction I want to go...") to tips on How To Survive FRI ("If you make the mistake of getting in with a fast driver FRI who won't stop, make sounds which suggest you're about to FRI throw up all over his upholstery...") FRI FRI Re-reading it forty years on it's surprising what a FRI different world it was then for the young traveller. There FRI seemed to be more trust around (hitch-hikers are a rarity FRI nowadays), and no real worries about roughing it far from FRI home without the comfort of a mobile phone and by relying on FRI the black markets, pawn shops or even blood banks when cash FRI machines were simply not an option. FRI FRI Produced by Neil Cargill FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01ml0jc (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01ml0jf (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: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01ml0jh (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhnzx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01ml0nk (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Susan FRI Calman and Cal Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01ml0nm (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Carolyn Sally Jones FRI Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild FRI Editor ..... John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski FRI Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves FRI Joyce Walters ..... Ann Beach. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ml0np (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including the announcement of the FRI contenders for the BBC International Short Story Award, with FRI the chair of the judges Clive Anderson. FRI FRI Producer Claire Bartleet. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mkzgc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ml0nr (Listen) FRI Walsall, West Midlands FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall FRI FRI Producer: Isobel Eaton. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ml0nt (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 The History of the Future b01ml0nw (Listen) FRI Omnibus: Part 1 - The Oracle of Delphi FRI FRI Juliet Gardiner begins her journey into the History of the FRI Future with a look at the Oracle of Delphi, the place where FRI the Ancient Greeks went to consult the Oracle and hear what FRI the future held for them. FRI FRI Juliet argues that a history of the future is really a FRI history of anxiety, and begins her excavation of how the FRI futurologists of their day foretold what was to come, and FRI what these visions says about the pre-occupations of the FRI time. How different were prophesies about the future at FRI different points in history? What can ideas about the future FRI tell us about the past? FRI FRI People seek reassurance about the future, but that desire is FRI rooted in their understanding of the present, with its FRI specific predicaments, and it is these particularities that FRI Juliet will be unearthing. Whose master plan does the future FRI represent? Is it determined by God, or gods, or does man FRI have the power to change what might seem predetermined? FRI FRI This series of ten programmes will range from the FRI Apocalyptic visions found in the New Testament Book of FRI Revelation, to the enigmatic prophesies of Nostradamus in FRI 16th century France to the science fiction dystopias of HG FRI Wells and George Orwell. In 5th Century BC Greece, the god FRI Apollo and his Oracle at Delphi was central to the idea of FRI the future. In a fragmented society made up of warring City FRI States with no over-arching authority people flocked to the FRI Oracle to see what the future held. The Priestess through FRI whom the god Apollo would speak would greet a questioner FRI seated on a tripod in an underground chamber chewing bay FRI leaves and surrounded by the intoxicating vapours which FRI escaped through the fault line in the earth on which the FRI Temple was built. Juliet speaks to classicists Nick Lowe and FRI Hugh Bowden, and visits a tarot card reader on Brighton FRI Pier. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01mhnzz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ml0wp (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ml0wr (Listen) FRI Sweet Tooth, Episode 10 FRI FRI Ian McEwan's novel of love and deception set in MI5 during FRI the early 1970s, read by Amelia Bullmore and Andrew Scott. FRI Episode 10 FRI MI5's involvement with funding Sweet Tooth is made public. FRI Serena is exposed as an employee of the intelligence service FRI and Tom as having taken money from an inappropriate source. FRI But the story doesn't end there. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01mk4mw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ml0wt (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. FRI
07 September, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 08/09/2012 - 14/09/2012
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