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SAT SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01nxzb7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01nxzcb (Listen) SAT Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Episode 5 SAT SAT Artemis Cooper's biography charts for the first time the SAT extraordinary life story of the celebrated travel writer and SAT war hero who was as renowned for his feats of derring-do as SAT for his sumptuous prose. SAT SAT The construction of Paddy's "power-house for prose" in SAT Greece and a fascinating insight into the remarkable SAT creative journey which culminated in the award-wining, A SAT Time of Gifts. SAT SAT Read by Samuel West SAT Abridged by Miranda Davies SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nxzb9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nxzbc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nxzbf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01nxzbh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ny0gg (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with Church of SAT Scotland Elder, Alison Twaddle. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ny0gj (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01nxzbk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01nxzbm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01nxwn4 (Listen) SAT Snowdonia SAT SAT Helen Mark discovers the myths and legends of the landscape SAT of Snowdonia. A recent million pound appeal by the National SAT Trust successfully enabled the Trust to buy one of Wales' SAT most iconic farms, Llyndy Isaf, and the land around it on SAT the shores of Llyn Dinas. As well as being important SAT environmentally, legend states that the area is the setting SAT for the mythical battle between the red and white dragon, SAT the red dragon being the victor and claiming the honour of SAT becoming the country's national symbol. SAT Helen also visits Ty Hyll, the Ugly House, a cottage saved SAT from dereliction in the 1980s by the Snowdonia Society. The SAT true origins of the house remain shrouded in mystery, SAT although legend tells of it being built by two outlaw SAT brothers as a 'Ty Un Nos', a house built overnight between SAT sunset and sunrise with walls, roof and a smoking chimney. SAT Under ancient law anyone succeeding in doing this could SAT claim the freehold. SAT What other mysteries surround this stunning landscape? SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01p027n (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 Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01nxzbp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01p027q (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and James SAT Naughtie. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01p027s (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with writer Emma Kennedy SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT The actress, writer and winner of Celebrity Masterchef talks SAT about her work, food and her obsession with Sarah Lund. The SAT Killing Handbook is published by Orion Books. SAT SAT Having watched the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, JP went to SAT get a traditional wet shave from SAT Crushed, My NHS summer is published by the University of SAT Buckingham Press SAT SAT 10:30 Eddie Goes Country b01p2w7d (Listen) SAT PM presenter Eddie Mair has harboured a secret. But no more SAT - it's a lifelong love of Country music. He wants to know SAT why these three chord melodramas call him and many of his SAT fellow Celts. SAT SAT While, to the casual listener, Country is often regarded as SAT a twang of twee tunes and lachrymose lyrics for the SAT permanently melancholic, Eddie suggests that it is actually SAT a 'complex state of mind'. He considers the accessible SAT merits of the music and discovers the roots of Country. SAT SAT Returning to Scotland, Eddie attends the Celtic Connections SAT Music Festival in Glasgow. Here he compares notes, likes and SAT dislikes with fellow broadcaster and Country aficionado SAT Ricky Ross, along with singers Eleanor McEvoy and Dick SAT Gaughan. SAT SAT On hand to explain the 18th century Scots/Irish exodus to SAT America and Canada is emigration historian Professor James SAT Hunter. And providing a master class on the Celtic musical SAT lineage detected in contemporary Country Music is SAT musicologist Dr. Katherine Campbell from Edinburgh SAT University. SAT SAT And for the first time, Eddie will reveal where his musical SAT devotion took root. It began on the Sabbath in a yellow SAT Triumph PI. That almost sounds like the beginning of a SAT Country song... SAT SAT Producers: Jo Coombs and Stewart Henderson SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01p02n7 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01p02n9 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01p02nc (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01ny0fh (Listen) SAT Series 38, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in stand-up and SAT sketches with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and SAT special guest. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01nxzbr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01nxzbt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ny0fp (Listen) SAT Samuel Ward Academy, Haverhill, Suffolk SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Samuel Ward Academy in Haverhill, Suffolk. Guests SAT include the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate SAT Change Caroline Flint MP, Revd Canon Rosie Harper Chaplain SAT to the Bishop of Buckingham and member of General Synod, SAT Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP and Conservative MP Mark SAT Reckless who led the recent Tory rebellion on the Euro SAT budget. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01p02nf (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxxd (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Series, The Fire Engine That Disappeared SAT SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT Translated by Joan Tate SAT Dramatised by Katie Hims SAT SAT The apartment of a suspect being staked out by Gunvald SAT Larsson explodes, killing three people. Arson and murder SAT isn't at first suspected - much to Larsson's fury - but when SAT it becomes clear that the fire was started on purpose, the SAT case hinges on the needle-in-a-haystack chance of finding a SAT man who fits an impossibly vague description who was SAT somewhere in the area around the time of the fire. SAT SAT Martin Beck ..... Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg ..... Neil Pearson SAT Larsson ..... Ralph Ineson SAT Ronn ..... Russell Boulter SAT Gun Kollberg ..... Sally Orrock SAT Nadja ..... Christine Absalom SAT Mansson ..... Stuart McQuarrie SAT Zachrisson ..... Joe Sims SAT Stromgren ..... Harry Livingstone SAT Hammar ..... Patrick Brennan SAT Hjelm ..... Robert Blythe SAT Skacke ..... Sam Alexander SAT Mrs Borg ..... Susie Riddell SAT Ingrid Beck ..... Lauren Crace SAT Doris Martensen ..... Keely Beresford SAT Mats ..... Greta Dudgeon SAT Narrator 1 ..... Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator 2 ..... Nicholas Gleaves SAT SAT Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Larsson: Ralph Ineson SAT Ronn: Russel Boulter SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Nadja: Christine Absalom SAT Mansson: Stuart McQuarrie SAT Zachrisson: Joe Sims SAT Stromgren: Harry Livingstone SAT Hammar: Patrick Brennan SAT Hjelm: Robert Blythe SAT Skacke: Sam Alexander SAT Mrs Borg: Susie Riddell SAT Ingrid Beck: Lauren Crace SAT Doris Martensen: Keely Beresford SAT Mats: Greta Dudgeon SAT Narrator 1: Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator 2: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Producer: Mary Peate SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Writer: Katie Hims SAT SAT 15:30 Blues Run the Game b01nxh4s (Listen) SAT Laura Barton reveals a lost gem of British folk music and SAT tells the poignant story of its creator, Jackson C Frank. SAT SAT With insurance money from a childhood accident Jackson C SAT Frank migrated from New York to London in the mid-'60s, SAT where his first album was produced by another ascendant SAT young songwriter called Paul Simon. It was warmly received SAT and Frank is spoken of as an influence on a generation of SAT British folk performers. SAT SAT And then, it seems, he disappeared from view. Little was SAT heard from Jackson C Frank for decades. SAT SAT Laura Barton speaks to some of those who knew him to find SAT out about the lost years and the tragedy of the life of SAT Jackson C Frank. SAT SAT Featuring Jackson C Frank's friends Al Stewart, John SAT Renbourn, Jim Abbott and John Kay. SAT SAT Producer: Martin Williams. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01p02nh (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01p02nk (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01ny0gj (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nxzbw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01nxzby (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nxzc0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01p02sc (Listen) SAT Bobby Womack, Sir David Frost, Stewart Lee, Angela Hartnett, SAT Danny Wallace, Willy Mason SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01p03b4 (Listen) SAT Profiles of a person currently making headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01p03b6 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01p2wd0 (Listen) SAT From Easy to Cryptic - 100 Years of the Crossword SAT SAT Famous for her own love of word play, Lynne Truss decodes a SAT bountiful archive of clues, answers, interviews and puzzles SAT to celebrate the centenary of this resilient mind teaser. SAT The first crossword appeared in the New York Times in 1913, SAT devised by a Liverpudlian called Arthur Wynne. He was the SAT first of many setters whose cryptic clues and clever answers SAT encapsulate the cultural and social agenda of their age. MI5 SAT interrogated the Telegraph's first setter in 1944 when his SAT crossword solutions suggested he knew too much about SAT military operations. Lynne learns that code breakers SAT selection for Bletchley Park was based on their prowess for SAT cracking crosswords. SAT SAT In an internet age of gaming and quick access to SAT information, Lynne Truss learns why scientists argue that SAT the hardy crossword keeps the mind agile and listens to the SAT sounds of the setter and crossword solver at work, pondering SAT the trickiest clue. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01nx3pm (Listen) SAT Rebus: The Black Book, Episode 2 SAT SAT 2/2. As Rebus investigates an unsolved murder someone SAT kidnaps and suspends his brother over the Forth Bridge. Ian SAT Rankin's novel is dramatised by Chris Dolan. SAT SAT When DS Brian Holmes is left in a coma after being severely SAT beaten, Rebus discovers his colleague's black notebook SAT contains coded clues on a case involving arson and murder. SAT Five years before, a mysterious fire burned down Edinburgh's SAT seedy Central Hotel. All the staff and customers were SAT accounted for but an unidentified body was found in the SAT rubble. The post mortem revealed the victim had died from a SAT bullet through the heart before the fire broke out. SAT SAT The attack on his brother can only mean that Rebus is close SAT to deciphering the secrets of the black book - but can he SAT track down those responsible for the Central Hotel murder SAT before they decide that it will take more than a warning to SAT stop his investigation? SAT SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT DI John Rebus: Ron Donachie SAT Cafferty: Gary Lewis SAT DC Siobhan Clarke: Gayanne Potter SAT Mickey Rebus: Steven McNicoll SAT DS Brian Holmes: Sean Biggerstaff SAT CS Watson: Douglas Russell SAT Ringan: Douglas Russell SAT Eck Robertson: Tony Cownie SAT Angus Gibson: Richard Conlon SAT Heather: Wendy Seager SAT Kintoul: Simon Donaldson SAT Calder: Simon Donaldson SAT Torrance: Paul Young SAT Marie: Shauna MacDonald SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Writer: Chris Dolan SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01nxzc2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01nxw2g (Listen) SAT Morality and Ethics in the Gaza Conflict SAT SAT Both sides in the current conflict in Gaza have been SAT claiming the moral high ground. To the Israelis it's an SAT issue of self-defence and they're trying to avoid SAT casualties. To Hamas it's about responding to the oppression SAT and aggression of a much more powerful neighbour. The world SAT looks on, counting the bodies and is almost inevitably drawn SAT to the graphic simplicities of competing victimhood. The SAT Palestinians win that hands down, but, terrible though it SAT is, there's more to morality than suffering. What if, as the SAT Israeli writer Amos Oz says, they're both right? Should we SAT substitute pragmatism for morality? Stop trying to weigh up SAT competing moral claims in the interests of some sort of SAT solution. Or is giving up the idea of right and wrong, SAT relativism of the worst kind, that could lead to a different SAT kind of moral tragedy? Combative, provocative and engaging SAT debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne SAT McElvoy, Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. Witnesses: Professor SAT Daniel Statman - Department of Philosophy, University of SAT Haifa; one of the authors of the IDF Code of Conduct, Dr SAT David Rodin - Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute SAT for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford, Dr SAT Philip Cunliffe - Lecturer in International Conflict, SAT University of Kent. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nxh1t (Listen) SAT (12/12) SAT SAT What's the aesthetic connection between Sewell's horse, SAT Perrault's princess, the object of Spacey's affection, and a SAT South London insect? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe invites the regular teams from Scotland and SAT the North of England to tackle this and other cryptic SAT puzzles, in the last clash of the current series. By SAT tradition, the questions in this final programme have all SAT been suggested by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and the SAT teams will need to be on their mettle to deal with the SAT listeners' ingenuity. SAT SAT Michael Alexander and Alan Taylor play for Scotland, and SAT Adele Geras and Jim Coulson represent the North of England. SAT Both teams will be making a last-ditch effort to increase SAT their standing in the RBQ league table for 2012. The SAT questions, as always, are available to read on the Round SAT Britain Quiz pages of the BBC Radio 4 website. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b01nx3rp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT SAT Ruth Padel works with a group of poets who meet at SAT Stalybridge Station buffet bar in Manchester. Testing their SAT poems as they go, in a spirit of supportive criticism; tough SAT love for poems. SAT Poetry Workshops are gathering all over the country. In the SAT back rooms of pubs like this one, and in libraries and in SAT front rooms, poets meet to sharpen their verse. SAT Ruth and the group work on three very different poems on the SAT theme of 'journeys' - both symbolic and actual. One poem SAT takes us to Zante via Watford Gap, one considers perspective SAT and scale from on high, whilst another has a much darker SAT tone. The group will pay particular attention this week to SAT metaphor. SAT The group consider the use of metaphor in their poems that SAT are touching, funny and perceptive. Ruthless support is SAT applied as they chuck out each other's words and test and SAT prune as they go. SAT They discuss the techniques, inspiration, wordplay and SAT imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and rewarding. As SAT well as working on their own poems, they also consider a SAT poem by Carol Ann Duffy called Close. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01p01c4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Vasily Grossman from the Frontline b014m1pz (Listen) SUN The Stalingrad Army SUN SUN Elliot Levey reads the second of Vasily Grossman's front SUN line despatches from the battle of Stalingrad. The SUN Stalingrad Army. Red Star -January 13th 1943. Translated by SUN Jim Riordan. SUN SUN 'How can I convey my feelings at this moment in the dark SUN basement which hadn't surrendered the factory to the enemy?' SUN SUN As the 'special correspondent' for Red Star newspaper Vasily SUN Grossman conveyed the 'ruthless truth of war' from the first SUN disastrous weeks of the Nazi invasion in 1941 to victory in SUN the ruins of Berlin. His intimate portraits of baby faced SUN snipers, taciturn machine gunners and enthusiastic SUN 'tankists' brought home the struggle to both the Soviet SUN people and a wider world. Never more so than during the SUN terrible battle for Stalingrad between July 1942 to February SUN 1943. SUN SUN The whole world was transfixed by a struggle that might SUN determine the course of the war as Hitler's Sixth Army found SUN the early success of late summer turning into disastrous SUN defeat in the icy winter amidst the rubble. Throughout these SUN months of terrible battle Grossman endured countless dangers SUN to cross the river Volga and enter the ruined city. There he SUN would listen & gather material for his detailed portraits SUN for Red Star, stories from those who would most likely die SUN in this pitiless 'war of the rats'. A war in which every SUN cellar and every building became a front line. By January SUN 1943 the desperate defence of the city had shifted as the SUN surviving soldiers of the Red Army sensed a priceless SUN victory. 2: The Stalingrad Army. SUN SUN Reader: Elliot Levey SUN Translator: Jim Riordan SUN Producer: Mark Burman. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p01c6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p01c8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p01cb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01p01cd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01p03qw (Listen) SUN The bells of Howden Minster, East Yorkshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01p03b4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01p01cg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01p03qy (Listen) SUN Inside a Tree SUN SUN Mark Tully asks why trees are so important to us. SUN SUN Why is it that, from childhood onwards, we feel the urge to SUN climb inside their hollow trunks or up into their branches? SUN How does the world seem different from inside a tree? SUN SUN From Herman Hesse to Seamus Heaney, writers, poets and SUN composers have been inspired by the power and grandeur of SUN trees. The Hindu sacred text, the Bhagavata Purana, SUN celebrates the shade cast by trees and the many uses of SUN their bark, wood, leaves and sap. Their age and majesty SUN inspires respect and, as the Dalai Lama said, "trees echo SUN the Buddha's words expressing his fundamental teaching of SUN impermanence". SUN SUN With professional tree climber James Aldred, Mark visits the SUN ancient yew tree which stands in the corner of St George's SUN Churchyard in Crowhurst, Surrey. Together they climb inside SUN its hollow trunk to contemplate the protective, comforting SUN presence of a living organism which has stood in one place SUN for four thousand years. SUN SUN James has climbed hundreds of trees all over the world, even SUN slept inside them. He describes the connection he makes with SUN them and the way each tree he meets seems to have a distinct SUN personality. Being inside a tree is the closest he comes to SUN prayer. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Coombs SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01p03r0 (Listen) SUN Brambles SUN SUN Brambles are amazing plants, once introduced into New SUN Zealand they began to spread at a rate of 30 feet each year SUN to colonise vast stretches of the country and must come a SUN close second to oaks for their importance. It not only SUN provides the most accessible 'food for free' for us, it must SUN rank as one of the most important plants in Britain for SUN wildlife, providing nesting sites for at least 26 species of SUN bird and around 100 insect species that depend upon SUN brambles, and are a major component in a good habitat SUN mosaic, which is often the best invertebrate habitat and is SUN relatively resistant to rabbits which make it good in SUN creating shelter. SUN SUN For this Living World, James Brickell travel to mid Wales to SUN join botanist Ray Woods on a personal exploration of the SUN humble blackberry bush in an attempt to learn more about the SUN importance of brambles in supporting a myriad of nature. SUN With over 300 species of bramble in the British Isles, some SUN inhabiting small areas and highly adapted to soil type or SUN aspect such as the sub-erecta group living at over 1000 feet SUN above sea level. Ray explains the role of the blackberry in SUN the wider landscape and how its complex ecology is a boon to SUN the wildlife that inhabits, utilises and finds shelter from SUN its structure. SUN SUN Brambles are a very good nectar source, food plant mainly SUN for many species; the fruits are a wonderful reservoir for SUN raspberry beetles and feed wasps in late autumn! Humans have SUN been eating blackberry fruits, known as drupes, for SUN millennia and historically man may be one of the main SUN vectors of spreading the seeds across the British Isles. SUN Recent research though has uncovered a possible link to SUN bramble growth and Climate Change, which once again SUN illustrates the complexity surrounding brambles. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01p01cj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01p01cl (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01p03r4 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by William Crawley. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01p03r6 (Listen) SUN One to One Children's Fund SUN SUN Sue MacGregor presents the Radio 4 Appeal for One to One SUN Children's Fund SUN Reg Charity:1086159 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN One to One Children's Fund. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01p01cn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01p01cq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01p067h (Listen) SUN For the Feast of Christ the King, and looking forward to St SUN Andrew's Day. SUN From St Salvator's Chapel in the University of St Andrews. SUN Leader: University Chaplain, The Revd Donald MacEwan SUN Preacher: The Revd Johnston McKay SUN St Salvator's Chapel Choir directed by Thomas Wilkinson SUN Readings: John 16: 28-33 SUN John 6: 1-15 SUN Music: SUN Rejoice in God's saints (Tune: Laudate Dominum) SUN Kyrie from St Anne Mass (James MacMillan) SUN Courage, Brother, Do not stumble SUN 'Doctor Bonus' (Victoria) SUN Jesus calls us! (Tune: St Andrew) SUN 'O Radiant Dawn' (MacMillan) SUN Son of God, eternal Saviour (Blaenwern) SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ny0fr (Listen) SUN On Pompeii SUN SUN "Last weekend I spent a couple of hours with the remains of SUN one of the human victims of the eruption of Vesuvius" writes SUN Mary Beard, as she wanders through the rooms of a new SUN exhibition about Pompeii, the "City of the Dead". SUN SUN The display at the J Paul Getty museum in Malibu is one of SUN several Pompeii exhibitions running in different museums SUN around the world - and very similar to one coming to the SUN British Museum in the spring. SUN SUN As she makes her way through the bodies - or "anti-bodies" SUN as she refers to them - she ponders questions of privacy, SUN archaeology and restoration. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN The Oxbridge Interview SUN Rich man, poor man SUN Age and Beauty SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01p067k (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01p067m (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Lewis Carmichael..... Robert Lister SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Darrell Makepeace..... Dan Hagley SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Corey..... Adam Nagaitis. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01p067p (Listen) SUN Edmund de Waal SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist and author, Edmund de SUN Waal. His ceramics are on display in many of the world's SUN major museums. They're delicate pots in shades of white and SUN cream, informed he says by a great deal of thinking about SUN literature. SUN SUN His written work has also won him several awards; his book SUN "The Hare With Amber Eyes" traces the rich and dramatic SUN story of his family's Russian Jewish heritage and the SUN diaspora in Odessa, Paris, Vienna, and Tokyo. SUN SUN He says, "I make pots and I write. I'm not one of those SUN people who by mistake became a potter or by mistake is a SUN writer - they are both completely entwined." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01nxh2s (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 58th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to the Grove Theatre in Dunstable. Regulars SUN Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once SUN again joined on the panel by Tony Hawks with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01p067r (Listen) SUN 2012's Best "Big Food Ideas" SUN SUN Sheila Dillon meets finalists in the BBC Food & Farming SUN Awards offering ideas for our food future, from making more SUN local food available online to redistributing spare food. SUN SUN Joining Sheila to explore these ideas are Kath Dalmeny, SUN research director of Sustain, and Christine Tacon, former SUN CEO of the Coop's farms. SUN SUN Under discussion are Growing Communities in East London, SUN Riverford Organics in Devon, Cornish Food Market, The Real SUN Bread Campaign, and Fareshare. SUN SUN Producer: Toby Field. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01p01cs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01p067t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news presented by SUN Shaun Ley, including an in-depth look at events around the SUN world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b01nx3ph (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli travels around the country cooking SUN Sunday lunch with families and communities, introducing some SUN of his favourite recipes, learning about their food and SUN hearing some amazing stories. In the first programme in this SUN 6 part series Hardeep meets Avril and Ron Head. Over the SUN last 30 years they have dedicated much of their lives to SUN caring for children and in particular those with special SUN medical needs. As well as having 3 children of their own SUN they have adopted two children and fostered 138. At a time SUN when foster carers are increasingly in short supply for the SUN growing number of children who need care, Avril and Ron talk SUN about how the values and beliefs that underpin their SUN approach to fostering. As Hardeep cooks them Sunday lunch he SUN hears the story of how they became foster carers and the SUN highs and lows they have experienced over the years. SUN SUN Producer: Amanda Hancox SUN Dawn Bryan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nxzcx (Listen) SUN Balsall, West Midlands SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is in the chair as Gardeners' Question Time SUN heads to Balsall, West Midlands - with horticultural experts SUN Christine Walkden, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew SUN fielding queries from the local gardening audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01p067y (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears what Dorothy Sheridan of the Mass SUN Observation Archive thinks of the value of The Listening SUN Project to oral historians of all types in the Sunday SUN edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what SUN you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01p0680 (Listen) SUN The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 1 SUN SUN By Alexandre Dumas, adapted for radio by Sebastian SUN Baczkiewicz. SUN At the age of nineteen, seaman Edmond Dantès has a charmed SUN life - about to be promoted to Captain, and engaged to the SUN beautiful Mercédès. But Marseilles in 1815 is a dangerous SUN place, and three of Dantes' acquaintances set in train a SUN chain of events that will lead Edmond to fourteen years of SUN solitary confinement in the notorious Chateau D'If. SUN SUN Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. His father, the SUN illegitimate son of a marquis, was a general in the SUN revolutionary armies, but died when Alexandre was four years SUN old. His most successful novels were The Count of Monte SUN Cristo (serialised between 1844-5) and the Three Musketeers, SUN published in 1844. SUN SUN To coincide with the broadcast of The Count of Monte Cristo, SUN the Book of the Week is Tom Reiss's account of the life of SUN Alexandre Dumas's father - General Alex Dumas, 'The Black SUN Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of SUN Monte Cristo'. SUN SUN Credits SUN Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SUN Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SUN Abbe Faria: Richard Johnson SUN Monsieur Morrell: Robert Blythe SUN Danglars: Toby Jones SUN Fernand: Zubin Varla SUN Caderousse: Ben Crowe SUN Jacopo: Joe Sims SUN Captain Patin: Patrick Brennan SUN Albert de Morcerf: Will Howard SUN Antoine: Will Howard SUN Claude: Paul Stonehouse SUN Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SUN Mathilde: Liza Sadovy SUN Julie Morrell: Eleanor Crooks SUN Director: Jeremy Mortimer SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01p0682 (Listen) SUN Children's Book Special SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Rachel Johnson about Winter SUN Games, her book set in Bavaria across two time zones - 1936 SUN and 2006, in which a granddaughter seeks to understand her SUN grandmother's exploits in Nazi Germany. SUN SUN Ronald Frame discusses why he was drawn to write about Mrs SUN Havisham, Dickens' famous jilted bride in Great SUN Expectations, and Michael Carlson gives us Reader's Guide to SUN the life and works of Dashiell Hammett. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b01p0684 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN The Shalom House Poets meet regularly in Belfast Central SUN Library to dole out tough love on each other's poems. Ruth SUN Padel joins them as they workshop their poems in a spirit of SUN supportive criticism, going behind the scenes of a poem to SUN find out which techniques work and which don't. SUN Ruth and the group work on three very different poems on the SUN theme of 'windows'. One of them is an intricate observation SUN of a sculpture in Salzburg, another is an enigmatic SUN reflection on shadows, and there's a nostalgic and powerful SUN recollection of a living room in Belfast. SUN The technical focus this week will be on inspiration and SUN description .The group discuss the techniques, inspiration, SUN wordplay and imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and SUN rewarding. As well as working on their own poems, they also SUN consider a very well know one by Louis MacNeice; 'Snow'. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01nxt2p (Listen) SUN Highways Agency SUN SUN Fed up with road works? Stuck in a queue of traffic? The SUN Government is promising big improvements for drivers who use SUN motorways and major roads. It's looking for ways to increase SUN private sector involvement and to boost investment. So what SUN future for the body that currently manages the network in SUN England? With the CBI calling for it to be scrapped, and SUN with criticism from local authorities and motoring SUN organisations, Allan Urry road asks whether it's the end of SUN the road for the Highways Agency? SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01p03b4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p01cv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01p01cx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p01cz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01p0686 (Listen) SUN Catherine Bott makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01p0688 (Listen) SUN Emma faces a quandary. Meanwhile Fallon's news is out. SUN SUN 19:15 The Golden Age b01p068b (Listen) SUN Minority Appeal SUN SUN Last in the current series of Arthur Mathews' sitcom set in SUN the rarefied atmosphere of 1930s BBC Broadcasting House. SUN This week, Mabel suggests making some programmes for SUN "minorities"; a suggestion which takes Lord Reith by SUN surprise. Meanwhile, Tharb does his best to cheer up BBC SUN Radio's most depressed newsreader, Roger Eves. SUN SUN Robert Bathurst.....John Tharb SUN Vicky McClure.....Mabel Hopcraft SUN Ford Kiernan.....Lord Reith SUN Peter Egan.....Doctor Ganley SUN Malcolm Tierney.....Sergeant Major SUN Kevin Bishop.....Ordinary Cockney Father / Perfumed Pete SUN Pippa Evans.....Ordinary Cockney Mother SUN Ewan Bailey.....Roger Eves / Fancy Dan SUN Moisty.....Arthur Mathews SUN SUN Written by Arthur Mathews. Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SUN SUN 19:45 Astray b01p07lf (Listen) SUN The Widow's Cruse SUN SUN Four short stories from Emma Donoghue's new collection SUN Astray. These fact-inspired fictions, about travels to, in SUN and from North America, focus on emigrants, runaways or SUN drifters all gone astray for love or money, under duress or SUN incognito. Emma's compassionate imagination crosses borders SUN of race, law, sex, and sanity bringing the reader through a SUN scattered scrap-book of history. SUN SUN The Widow's Cruse, read by John Schwab, follows a bachelor SUN attorney in 1735 New York. The lawyer idealises his SUN childless, wifeless existence until a recently widowed Mrs SUN Gomez appears at his office door. SUN SUN Dublin born Emma Donoghue is an emigrant twice over; she SUN spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PHD before moving to SUN southwest Ontario where she now lives. Emma is probably best SUN known for her international bestseller Room, winner of the SUN Roger's Writers' Trust Fiction prize and the Hughes & Hughes SUN Irish novel of the year and a finalist for the Man Booker. SUN Emma has also written The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask SUN alongside many short story collections, most recently Three SUN and a Half Deaths. Emma has also written drama for radio, SUN theatre and screen. SUN SUN The Widow's Cruse was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced SUN by Laura Conway. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01ny0fc (Listen) SUN Ash Dieback and Fergie-Time SUN SUN Ash Dieback. Did the disease really kill 90 percent of ash SUN trees in Denmark? Is this really a good comparator for the SUN UK and have 100,000 trees really been 'felled' in the UK? SUN SUN Fiscal Multipliers. The International Monetary Fund has SUN admitted that it got its fiscal multipliers wrong when SUN forecasting growth. This could have huge consequences in SUN assessing whether or not austerity at a time of deep SUN recession is the right way forward. But what does this mean SUN for the Treasurer of Trumpton Tim Harford after he sacked SUN Dibble the fireman last year as part of his cutbacks. SUN SUN Cod - we show how wrong the headline 'There are only 100 cod SUN left in the North Sea' actually is. SUN SUN Fergie-time. Does Fergie-time exist? Do Manchester United SUN get more injury time than other top teams when they're SUN drawing or behind? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01nxzd1 (Listen) SUN William Turnbull, Albano Harguindeguy, Martin Fay, Kenneth SUN Cragg SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The sculptor and painter William Turnbull. He was friends SUN with Giacometti, Paolozzi and Rothko but always went his own SUN way. SUN SUN The Argentine General Albano Harguindeguy. As Interior SUN Minister in the coutnry's military regime, he was known as SUN the brains behind the government's "dirty war". SUN SUN Martin Fay, who was the original fiddle player with the SUN Irish traditional band the Chieftains, SUN SUN Bishop Kenneth Cragg, who devoted his life to the study of SUN relations between Islam and Christianity SUN SUN And Derek Hutchinson - the first and only man to kayak SUN across the North Sea. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01p02nc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01p03r6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01nxxzl (Listen) SUN On Their Metal SUN SUN Peter Day travels to the Midlands to find out how SUN beleaguered manufacturers are coping with the most difficult SUN economy in decades. The region used to be the metal bashing SUN heartland of the country but now manufacturers, service SUN providers and entrepreneurs starting their own companies are SUN all struggling to find a way to keep profitable in an era of SUN low growth. What lessons have been learned over the past SUN five years and how can the past help plan the way forward SUN for the future? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01p089g (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 b01p08bh (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01nxwn6 (Listen) SUN Colin Firth on his new film Gambit, and why he never SUN expected to play posh people. SUN SUN The man behind Festen, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, SUN discusses his timely drama The Hunt, about a nursery teacher SUN accused of wrongdoing. SUN SUN Cinema owner Kevin Markwick tracks the origins of SUN advertising on the big screen, unearthing ads from as far SUN back as the 1890s. SUN SUN And critic Peter Bradshaw on the power of The Passion of SUN Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic from 1928. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01p03qy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01p01dz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01nxw23 (Listen) MON Archaeology of homelessness; residential care revisited MON MON Residential care revisited - Laurie Taylor considers Peter MON Townsend's landmark research, 'The Last Refuge', fifty years MON after its publication. Retracing Townsend's footsteps, a MON hundred, older volunteer researchers sought to find out what MON had happened to the 173 care homes in his classic study. MON Julia Johnson, one of the authors of the new study, charts MON the changes and continuities in care for older people in MON England and Wales. She's joined by Robin Darton, an expert MON in social care, Also, the archaeologist Rachael Kiddey, MON examines artefacts from two homelessness sites in Bristol MON and York. What can these items, as well as oral histories MON collected from the homeless, tell us about what it means to MON have no shelter in the 21st century? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01p03qw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p01f1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p01f3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p01f5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01p01f7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p09nt (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with Church of MON Scotland Elder, Alison Twaddle. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01p09nw (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Polly Procter. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01p01f9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01p09ny (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01p09p0 (Listen) MON Germany and the EU MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at Germany's role in MON Europe. Katinka Barysch argues that despite the crisis, MON support for EU integration still dominates, and that unlike MON Britain, the ability to compromise is seen as a skill, not a MON weakness. Two British MPs, from left and right, Gisela MON Stuart and Douglas Carswell, remain sceptical about the EU, MON but German-born Stuart understands her birth country's MON emotional connection to it. Carswell argues that the digital MON revolution calls for smaller, not larger governments, and MON Karen Leeder believes that despite Germany's belief in the MON European project it still has not laid to rest the ghosts of MON unification. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01p09p2 (Listen) MON The Black Count, Episode 1 MON MON In his new biography Tom Reiss reveals that Alexandre Dumas' MON father led a life of derring-do that is captured in his MON son's novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three MON Musketeers. Born to a French nobleman, and a black slave in MON the colonies, the writer's father went on to rise rapidly MON through the ranks to become a general in the French army. MON General Alex Dumas' acts of heroism were met with great MON acclaim, but events conspired against him leading to an MON irrevocable reversal of fortune. MON MON Read by Hugh Quarshie who appears regularly in BBC One's MON Holby City. MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p09p4 (Listen) MON Tanni Grey-Thompson; Stooshe; women in farming MON MON Tanni Grey-Thompson. Why are women taking up farming? MON Stooshe perform live in the studio. How adult children react MON to a parent's romantic life. What impact did the creation of MON the welfare state have on women? MON Presenter Jane Garvey MON Producer Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p09p6 (Listen) MON Baby Powder and Perfume, The Punter MON MON By Janice Okoh. Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is MON about power. Or perhaps the lack of it. When a lap dancer MON fears she's being stalked by a regular punter and the local MON 'gentleman's' club faces closure, a small community is MON forced to confront its feelings on the sex industry. MON MON Part 1. The Punter MON MON Mike and Rani's cosy night in is disrupted by some startling MON accusations. MON MON Credits MON Mike: Ben Crowe MON Rani: Manjinder Virk MON Officer Wright: Will Howard MON Director: Helen Perry MON Writer: Janice Okoh MON MON 11:00 Walking on Planet C b01p09p8 (Listen) MON Even a cursory look at the writing credits for many of the MON world's greatest pop hits would reveal the name Nile MON Rodgers. As well as penning many memorable hit songs with MON his own band Chic, Rodgers spent the 1970s and 1980s writing MON and producing acclaimed records for Madonna, David Bowie, MON Diana Ross, Sister Sledge and Duran Duran. In 2010, Rodgers MON was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that very MON nearly claimed his life. MON MON As part of his recovery regime, Nile began to take a daily MON walk and many times these walks would produce vivid memories MON that were blogged online later that evening. 'Walking on MON Planet C' was the name Nile gave to his collection of MON thoughts and reminiscences and in this programme he MON recreates some of these well-trodden paths with microphone MON in hand. MON MON As we're guided throughout his native New York, we visit the MON site of the infamous Studio 54 discotheque, the Apollo MON Theatre in Harlem, plus the sometimes rough and ready MON streets of Manhattan where Rodgers was raised. With 'Walking MON on Planet C', Nile recounts the story of his life, a story MON entwined with the social history of the city itself. MON MON Producer: Paul McClean. MON MON 11:30 55 and Over b01p09pb (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's MON comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by MON the modern 50pluser. With new partners on the scene the MON possibility of progeny suddenly seems more likely. But not MON everyone is so keen on later-in-life breeding. MON MON Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson MON Ray ..... Philip Jackson MON Tony ..... Patrick Brennan MON Heather ..... Liza Sadovy MON Honey ..... Stephanie Racine MON Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis MON Dr Miller ..... Robert Blythe MON Portia ..... Sarah Thom MON MON Producer/Director ..... Helen Perry. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01p09pd (Listen) MON How to turn your old clothes into cash - whether they're MON high end or bargain basement. MON MON Inexperienced young drivers are involved in a MON disproportionately high number of road accidents causing MON death or serious injury. They learn about external hazards MON for the driving test - but what about behaviour inside the MON car? A teenager who passes the test in ideal conditions MON during the day, could be out driving that evening with a MON car-full of loud, lairy and most importantly, distracting MON mates. We hear about new technology that could help put a MON wise driving head on young shoulders and reduce the death MON toll amongst teenage motorists. MON MON And - if you live outside the big cities where bands usually MON stage concerts, there's a new way to attract them to play MON where you live - even if it's off the usual tour circuit. MON Find out how you could choose who plays and where they put MON on the show. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01p01fc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01p09pg (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Letters from Germany b01p09pj (Listen) MON Matthias Politycki MON MON Leading German novelist, poet and satirist Matthias MON Politycki, writes the first in a series of letters exploring MON the shifting and often darkening image of his native country MON as the European economic crisis deepens. MON MON The European Economic crisis has been broadly portrayed as a MON tale of north versus south with the north, and particularly MON Germany, portrayed as either the frugal, hardworking nation MON forced to prop up its profligate southern neighbours, or as MON the heavy-handed bully forcing those same neighbours into MON yet more penury. With each developing twist, starting first MON in Greece and then Spain, Portugal and Italy, Germany has MON been the 'other' side. Pressure has built and attitudes have MON become stark and, much to the horror of many in Germany, old MON and ugly stereotypes have been unleashed. It reached MON something of a watershed during Chancellor Angela Merkel's MON recent visit to Athens with Nazi flags there to greet her. MON MON In this series Radio Four invites a range of leading German MON figures, a writer a politician, a churchwoman, a historian MON and an economist, to write a letter putting forward their MON notion of national identity and the version of Germany they MON believe should inform the views of their British and broader MON European partners. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01p0688 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p0bms (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 9, A Dangerous Remedy MON MON New series of Victorian detective dramas, starring Brian Cox MON and Siobhan Redmond. MON MON Written by David Ashton. MON MON Episode one: A Dangerous Remedy. MON MON McLevy investigates a series of street attacks on clients of MON the Just Land - while Mulholland's Aunt Katie turns up MON unexpectedly from Ireland pursued by an angry neighbour. MON MON Other parts are played by the cast. MON Producer/Director: Bruce Young. MON MON Credits MON McLevy: Brian Cox MON Jean: Siobhan Redmond MON Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach: David Ashton MON Hannah: Colette O'Neil MON Katie: Cara Kelly MON Finbar Flood: Lewis Howden MON Ogilvie: Douglas Russell MON Mrs Beaton: Carol Ann Crawford MON Director: Bruce Young MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: David Ashton MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01p0bmv (Listen) MON (1/17) MON The most venerable radio general knowledge quiz of them all MON returns for the 2012-13 season, with Russell Davies MON welcoming 48 competitors from all over the UK hoping to be MON named the 60th Brain of Britain. MON MON In the first programme the contestants are from the Isle of MON Wight, Cornwall, South Wales and Aberdeen. MON MON History, music, science, geography, literature, mythology, MON popular culture, and all points in between, lurk in MON Russell's pack of questions. This is the quiz where you MON can't save yourself with clever tactics, hedging your bets, MON making your opponents go first, or voting them off! The MON winner will be the contestant who knows the most correct MON answers - who will go through to a place in the series MON semi-finals in the new year. MON MON As always, the programme includes the 'Beat the Brains' MON feature, in which the competitors tackle a pair of questions MON suggested by a listener trying to outwit them. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01p067r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 When Harry Potter Met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan MON Fiction b01p0bmx (Listen) MON Novelist Naomi Alderman investigates the extraordinary MON sub-culture of internet fan fiction and asks how it is MON influencing the future of popular culture. MON MON The age of the internet has seen an explosion in the writing MON and reading of fan fiction. Fans of books, movies, TV shows MON are writing their own stories about their favourite MON fictional characters and worlds. MON MON Some sample stories: What happens if Hamlet was a woman? MON What would happen if the Pirates of the Caribbean raided the MON Titanic? How does Mulder from the X Files deal with growing MON a pair of wings? MON MON Many of the stories are on explicit sexual themes. The MON recent, hugely successful series Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL MON James has its roots in the fan fiction scene and has sparked MON interest in the genre from commercial publishers. The MON homoerotic sub-genre known as Slash fiction also has a huge MON following among heterosexual women as readers and writers. MON MON Naomi talks to 'fanfic' writers and professional authors MON about this unprecedented flowering of creative writing. She MON finds out how it is giving a voice to female fans and MON pioneering new forms of creativity outside the commercial MON arena. MON MON With author China Mieville, Francesca Coppa, Henry Jenkins MON and Ika Willis MON MON Produced by Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01p0bmz (Listen) MON Series 7, Improbable Science MON MON Improbable Science MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince discuss some of the more unlikely MON and odd avenues of research travelled down in the name of MON science. For example, the British physicist who calculated MON the optimal way to dunk a biscuit into a cup of tea without MON it disintegrating too quickly. Or the brain researchers who MON demonstrated that they could detect meaningful brain MON activity... in a dead salmon. All these academics share MON something in common, not just a slightly quirky application MON of the scientific method. They have also been a recipient of MON the now infamous Ig Nobel prizes, awarded each year as a MON parody of the Nobel Prize, to research that seems at first MON glance, entirely improbable, and possibly pointless. Robin MON and Brian are joined on stage by the organiser of the Ig MON Nobels, Marc Abrahams, comedian Katy Brand and biologist MON Professor Matthew Cobb, from the University of Manchester, MON to ask whether all scientific exploration is valid, no MON matter how ridiculous it may seem at first glance, or MON whether there is genuinely something to be learned from MON observations that to many, may seem pointless. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox. MON MON 17:00 PM b01p0bn1 (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p01ff (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01p0bn3 (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01p0bn5 (Listen) MON Lilian is feeling low, and Roy has his fingers crossed. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01p0bn7 (Listen) MON Trouble with the Curve; Sports Book of the Year; theatre MON awards MON MON With Mark Lawson, including news of the winner of the MON William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize, announced today. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p09p6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Open Sesame: Science in the Desert b01p0bn9 (Listen) MON SESAME will be the first big scientific laboratory in the MON Middle East. It's a synchrotron radiation source, which MON produces light at different wavelengths that is used by all MON kinds of scientists to understand the structure of MON materials. MON MON It is being built in Jordan and will bring together MON scientists from a number of countries in the region. Apart MON from encouraging co-operation between different countries MON and disciplines it also aims to stop scientists leaving for MON Europe or the US to be able to access state of the art MON facilities. MON MON BBC Science Editor David Shukman visits Jordan to find out MON if the building of SESAME is on target to open in 2015. And MON he asks if the project will be able to fulfil its aims of MON creating a scientific centre of excellence in the Middle MON East. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01nxwmt (Listen) MON El Salvador's Gang Truce MON MON In one of the most violent countries on earth, peace has MON broken out. In March, a truce was brokered between El MON Salvador's two most violent street gangs; they agreed to MON stop killing each other. MON MON The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are criminal outfits that MON trace their origins to Los Angeles. In the 1990s, older MON members were deported from the US and forged local MON 'branches' on the streets of El Salvador. Since the truce - MON brokered in prisons with the gangs' leaders - the murder MON rate of this small Central American nation (with the highest MON homicide rate in the world after Honduras) has been cut by MON more than half. MON MON In Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly visits the imprisoned MON leaders of both gangs to find out how the deal was done. And MON she finds many Salvadorans are relieved. Now they can go out MON at night, and their children can play again on the streets. MON But the truce has not been without its critics. Should the MON state sponsor a non-aggression treaty between criminal MON organisations? And is there more to the agreement than MON Salvadorans are being told? MON MON Many are asking if this is a sustainable peace. Some MON question whether the murder rate is really falling, alleging MON that actually the gangs are continuing to kill and hiding MON the corpses. Claudia thinks this is what happened to her son MON - a teenager associated with the Barrio 18 who disappeared MON last month after a local shooting. She says she knows he's MON dead. All she wants is the return of his body. MON MON But for all the uncertainty, the gains are dramatic. Not MON only has the murder rate plummeted, but the number of public MON hospital emergency admissions in San Salvador for people MON injured by guns or knives has fallen by nearly two-thirds. MON Can the truce last? El Salvador is holding its breath. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01nxwn8 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01p09p0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01p01fh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01p0bnc (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis presented by MON Philippa Thomas. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p0bnf (Listen) MON The Mighty Walzer, Episode 1 MON MON From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at MON ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic MON edition of 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde') he can chop, flick, MON half-volley like a champion. MON MON At sex he is not so natural, being shy and frightened of MON women. But with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of MON the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. MON And while the Akiva boys teach him everything he needs to MON know about ping-pong, his father Joel Walzer teaches him MON everything there is to know about 'swag'. MON MON Unabashedly autobiographical, this is a hilarious and MON heartbreaking story of one man's coming of age in 1950's MON Manchester. MON MON Howard Jacobson won the Mann Booker in 2010 for "The Finkler MON Question", but this is his masterpiece. MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01p0bnh (Listen) MON Brinsley Forde (the B-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks MON to leading performers and songwriters about the album that MON made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live MON audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each MON edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing MON the artist about the album in question, and then, in the MON B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions MON feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 4, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "New MON Chapter", the third album from the UK reggae group, Aswad MON (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Tuesday 20th MON November and available online), Brinsley Forde responds to MON questions from the audience and performs acoustic live MON versions of some to the tracks from the album which was MON released more than three decades ago. MON MON Producer: Emma Kingsley. MON The A-Side MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p0bnk (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01p01gb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01p09p2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p01gd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p01gg (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p01gj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01p01gl (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p0fp4 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with Church of TUE Scotland Elder, Alison Twaddle. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01p0fp6 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Polly Procter. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01p0fp8 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b01p0fpb (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the TUE past behind the present. This week he takes the Long View of TUE tree disease in Britain by charting Dutch Elm Disease from TUE its arrival in the 1920s until the 1970s. As Ash Dieback TUE takes root in the countryside and is treated as a national TUE emergency, Jonathan asks what lessons can be learned from TUE the phenomenon and ensuing crisis of Dutch Elm Disease in TUE the 20th century when 28 million trees were lost. TUE TUE Produced by Neil McCarthy. TUE TUE 09:30 In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps b01p0fpd (Listen) TUE Washington DC to New York TUE TUE Alvin Hall concludes his trip through the USA revisiting TUE Alistair Cooke's Letter from America. This week he travels TUE to Washington DC to reflect on a letter about the war in TUE Vietnam. TUE TUE Letter from America was Alistair Cooke's weekly radio TUE broadcast that ran continuously for 58 years on the BBC, TUE from 1946 to 2004. The BBC will be making available the TUE entire archive - over 900 programmes - on the Radio 4 TUE website, from November 1st. Cooke had set himself a TUE challenge that seemed deceptively simple: to explain the TUE United States to Britain and the world. His Letters achieved TUE that and more. He was an acute observer, a marvellous story TUE teller, a man who loved America but saw it in intensely TUE clear terms - a country that was both great and sometimes TUE terribly flawed in its greatness. TUE TUE All the major issues, all the significant stories were grist TUE for his writer's mill. The Korean War and the Cold War, TUE desegregation, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin TUE Luther King, the fall of Nixon, the rise of Reaganomics, TUE immigration, September 11 and the George W Bush presidency. TUE TUE But eight years after his death are the Letters still TUE relevant? For Alvin Hall, the answer is emphatically yes. TUE Crisscrossing America he tests the insights and observations TUE of Cooke on subjects as diverse as desegregation and jazz, TUE the American Dream and immigration. And Hall discovers that TUE Alistair Cooke remains as fresh and insightful as he ever TUE was when he wrote and spoke over all those years about an TUE America he loved and understood so well. Alvin Hall is an TUE internationally renowned financial educator, television and TUE radio broadcaster, bestselling author, and regular TUE contributor to magazines, newspapers, and websites. He is an TUE unabashed admirer of Alistair Cooke and Letter from America. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01p4ns5 (Listen) TUE The Black Count, Episode 2 TUE TUE Tom Reiss's new biography about the novelist Alexandre TUE Dumas' father reveals that he led a life of derring-do that TUE is captured in his son's novels, The Count of Monte Cristo TUE and The Three Musketeers. Today, an opulent lifestyle is TUE surrendered when the young gallant enlists in the French TUE Army. TUE TUE Read by Hugh Quarshie. TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 The State of Welfare b01p0fpg (Listen) TUE Seventy years ago William Beveridge wrote a report that was TUE to lay the foundations for the welfare state. He identified TUE the Five Giants that society needed to slay: Want, Disease, TUE Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. Using archive from the TUE time, Jane Garvey and Julian Worricker take us back to that TUE extraordinary moment in wartime Britain that has proved so TUE pivotal to the shape of the welfare state today. They TUE discuss how well the system serves those who rely it on it TUE now - and those who pay for it. Changing attitudes to those TUE on benefits are reflected in a new BBC-commissioned poll and TUE we hear three radical visions for how welfare should be TUE provided in the future. There'll be tough debate on TUE fairness, entitlement, rights and compassion with Frank TUE Field, Labour MP, the philosopher Roger Scruton and social TUE commentator Polly Toynbee. The Secretary of State for Work TUE and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith will be challenged to outline TUE the philosophy behind his decisions on reforming the welfare TUE state, as well as responding to the views of contributors TUE and listeners. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01p01gn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01p0fpj (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Letters from Germany b01p3jwv (Listen) TUE Marina Schuster TUE TUE Marina Schuster is a leading member of Germany's FDP Free TUE Democratic Party; often compared to the Liberal Democrats in TUE Britain. In her roll as party spokeswoman on human rights TUE she has a keen interest in the way Germany is perceived in a TUE global and European context. TUE In this, the second of Radio Four's 'Letters from Germany' TUE Marina writes of her beliefs about the country she serves TUE and the changes in that perception over the last year. TUE TUE The European Economic crisis has been broadly portrayed as a TUE tale of north versus south with the north, and particularly TUE Germany, portrayed as either the frugal, hardworking nation TUE forced to prop up its profligate southern neighbours, or as TUE the heavy-handed bully forcing those same neighbours into TUE yet more penury. With each developing twist, starting first TUE in Greece and then Spain, Portugal and Italy, Germany has TUE been the 'other' side. Pressure has built and attitudes have TUE become stark and, much to the horror of many in Germany, old TUE and ugly stereotypes have been unleashed. It reached TUE something of a watershed during Chancellor Angela Merkel's TUE recent visit to Athens with Nazi flags there to greet her. TUE TUE In this series Radio Four invites a range of leading German TUE figures, a writer, a politician, a churchwoman, a historian TUE and an economist, to write a letter putting forward their TUE notion of national identity and the version of Germany they TUE believe should inform the views of their British and broader TUE European partners. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01p0bn5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p0fpl (Listen) TUE Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels TUE TUE As an ill child, Beryl Burton was told never to exercise. TUE And then she met a young cyclist called Charlie: "The first TUE year I pushed her, the second year I rode with her, and the TUE third year she was at the head of the bunch". TUE TUE Maxine Peake writes and stars in this true love story of TUE Beryl Burton, a working class mum from Morley in Leeds who, TUE with no financial backing or training, combined farm work TUE with global domination in all areas of cycling competition TUE from the 1950s to 1970s. TUE TUE Drama is intertwined with contributions from Charlie Burton, TUE now in his 80s, and their cycling champion daughter, Denise TUE Burton Cole. Their perspective provides an intimate, funny TUE and moving portrayal of Beryl, recorded on bikes in various TUE locations around Saddleworth and in Harrogate. TUE TUE Cast includes residents of Saddleworth as cyclists and TUE Morley Club supporters TUE TUE Contributors: TUE Charlie Burton TUE Denise Burton Cole TUE TUE Sound Engineer Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore TUE Assistant Producer: Cath Ames TUE Production Assistant: Claire Ennion TUE Executive Producer: Melanie Harris TUE TUE Directed and produced by Justine Potter TUE A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Beryl Burton: Maxine Peake TUE Charlie Burton: Mark Jordon TUE Stan: Tony Pitts TUE Young Beryl: Sydney Wade TUE Angela: Sydney Wade TUE Young Denise: Sophie Downham TUE Nim Carlin: Mike McNamara TUE Policemen: John Hollingworth TUE Doctors: John Hollingworth TUE Walter Hall: Eden Potter Williams TUE Announcer/Commentator: John Hollingworth TUE Announcer/Commentator: Markus Uhlig TUE Announcer/Commentator: Erica Ryan TUE Announcer/Commentator: Cornelia Mueller Claus TUE Russian Soldier: Pawlo Wintoniuk TUE Director: Justine Potter TUE Producer: Justine Potter TUE Writer: Maxine Peake TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01p0fpn (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01p0fpq (Listen) TUE Ray Davies (the A-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks TUE to leading performers and songwriters about the album that TUE made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each TUE edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing TUE the artist about the album in question, and then, in the TUE B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions TUE feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 5, A-side. "Lola Versus Powerman And The TUE Moneygoround, Part One" & "Muswell Hillbillies" - Ray Davies TUE goes back to the early 1970s and the making of two classic TUE Kinks albums. Marking a period of transition for the group TUE (as they left one British record label for an American one), TUE both were concept albums, tackling such broad themes as TUE corruption within the music industry and the destruction of TUE old communities via urban regeneration. In a revealing TUE interview, Ray Davies considers the power of the lyric and TUE the importance of place in his song-writing. He also TUE performs exclusive live versions of songs from the two TUE albums. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Care to Be a Nurse? b01p0fps (Listen) TUE Christina Patterson explores why nursing sometimes goes TUE wrong, and investigates what can be done to put it right. TUE TUE After she herself experienced nursing at its worst, in 2011 TUE Christina spoke out in a Radio 4 Four Thought talk. In this TUE programme she follows up, investigating the extent of poor TUE nursing, asking why it happens so often, and getting to the TUE bottom of what can be done to improve it. TUE TUE As she speaks to her fellow patients, healthcare experts, TUE politicians, and doctors, nurses and managers across the TUE NHS, Christina hears about everything from faulty training TUE programmes to inadequate regulatory regimes. But could the TUE solution be something simpler to describe and much harder to TUE deliver? TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01p0fpv (Listen) TUE Frances O'Grady and Ruth Richardson TUE TUE Frances O'Grady, General Secretary Designate of the TUC, TUE brings 'the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie' TUE as her choice of a good read. It's the powerful Booker TUE prize-winning novel, 'The Gathering' by Irish novelist, Anne TUE Enright. Meanwhile the medical historian Ruth Richardson TUE chooses TS Eliot's landmark poem written in the shadow of TUE the Second World War, 'Four Quartets'. The presenter TUE Harriett Gilbert nominates a children's classic, 'The Box of TUE Delights' by John Masefield. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE Four Quartets by T.S Eliot TUE TUE The Gathering by Anne Enright TUE TUE The Box of Delights by John Masefield TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01p0fz1 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn TUE Quinn. Includes Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p01gq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Bleak Expectations b01p0fz3 (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Re-Excited Life Made Distinctly Dangerous TUE TUE By Mark Evans TUE TUE Volume 5 Chapter 2: A re-excited life made distinctly TUE dangerous. TUE TUE The Victorian comedy adventure sees Pip and his friends TUE travel to India in their quest to thwart the evil TUE machinations of smooth but sinister genius Mr Gently TUE Benevolent. Gasp as our heroes struggle with TUE super-intelligent tigers, giant snakes, and secret gin! TUE TUE Richard Johnson ..... Sir Philip TUE Tom Allen ..... Young Pip Bin TUE Anthony Head ..... Gently Benevolent TUE James Bachman ..... Harry Biscuit TUE Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Clampvulture TUE Sarah Hadland ..... Ripely TUE Susy Kane ..... Pippa TUE Mark Evans ..... Viceroy Roy Weiss TUE TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01p0h5n (Listen) TUE There are high hopes for the Primestock Show, but David lets TUE the cat out of the bag. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01p0h5q (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on a new film TUE version of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations, TUE directed by Mike Newell, with Helena Bonham Carter as Miss TUE Havisham. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0h5s (Listen) TUE Baby Powder and Perfume, The Club Owner TUE TUE By Janice Okoh. Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is TUE about power. Or perhaps the lack of it. When a lap dancer TUE fears she's being stalked by a regular punter and the local TUE 'gentleman's' club faces closure, a small community is TUE forced to confront its feelings on the sex industry. TUE TUE Part 2. The Club Owner TUE Eddie struggles to keep his business afloat as the club TUE comes under attack from all directions. TUE TUE Director ..... Helen Perry. TUE TUE 20:00 The Hackers b01p0h5v (Listen) TUE Governments do it, companies do it, criminals do it. But in TUE recent years some of the highest profile computer hacks have TUE come from so-called hacktivist groups. Each week hackers TUE target a new organisation or government website. Many of TUE these hacker activists claim to belong to the amorphous TUE group known as Anonymous or an off-shoot of it. Their aim? TUE To wrest control of the internet from states and big TUE corporations and give it back to the people. Or simply to TUE have fun. TUE The FBI, the Metropolitan police, the US Senate, Sony, TUE PayPal and Visa have been some of the highest profile TUE victims of the hackers. More often than not the attacks come TUE in the form of DOS, or denial of service, attacks - TUE effectively flooding websites with requests so that they TUE crash. In some cases the hackers have managed to steal TUE personal and financial records from the organisations and TUE then post them online. Sometimes the reason given by the TUE hackers for these attacks is as a response to official TUE actions taken against Wikileaks or attempts by the TUE authorities to close down certain websites, such as free TUE music download sites. TUE The FBI and police have had some success in tracking down TUE some of the hackers - many of them just teenagers. TUE In "The Hackers" Simon Cox delves into the strange world of TUE hacktivism, as he tracks down some of these hackers and TUE speaks to those trying to catch them. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01p0h5x (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01p0h5z (Listen) TUE Our looks are our "social currency" so what happens when our TUE appearance is radically altered by disfigurement ? TUE How people cope, psychologically, with dramatic changes to TUE the way they look is the subject of a major new research TUE project, and the results challenge many myths about who TUE copes best. TUE "Time is a great healer", "women care about their looks more TUE than men", "the more serious the disfigurement, the harder TUE it is to cope", are all beliefs challenged in this new TUE study. TUE Claudia Hammond hears one woman's story about how she coped TUE with dramatic changes to her appearance and talks to Nichola TUE Rumsey and Diana Harcourt from the Centre for Appearance TUE Research in Bristol about their new research. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b01p0fpb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01p01gs (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01p0h61 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis presented by TUE Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p1x0k (Listen) TUE The Mighty Walzer, Episode 2 TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01p0bmz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p0h63 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01p01hm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01p4ns5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p01hp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p01hr (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p01ht (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01p01hw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p0hht (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with Church of WED Scotland Elder, Alison Twaddle. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01p0hhw (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. WED WED 06:00 Today b01p0hhy (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01p0hj0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01p4ntb (Listen) WED The Black Count, Episode 3 WED WED Tom Reiss's new biography about the novelist Alexandre WED Dumas' father reveals that he led life of derring-do that is WED captured in his son's great novels, The Count of Monte WED Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Today, General Dumas proves WED himself on the battlefield and encounters Napoleon Bonaparte WED for the first time. WED WED Read by Hugh Quarshie. WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p0hj2 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0hj4 (Listen) WED Baby Powder and Perfume, Episode 3 WED WED By Janice Okoh. Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is WED about power. Or perhaps the lack of it. When a lap dancer WED fears she's being stalked by a regular punter and the local WED 'gentleman's' club faces closure, a small community is WED forced to admit their feelings on the sex industry. WED WED Part 3. The Police Officer WED Stuart wants to make a difference in the community. But is WED everything as black and white as he thinks? WED WED Director ..... Helen Perry. WED WED 11:00 The Goddess of English b01p0hj6 (Listen) WED India has a new deity, the Goddess of English, worshipped by WED former Untouchables who see the language as their deliverer WED from poverty and ignorance. Zareer Masani investigates. WED WED The English language and the educational legacies of the Raj WED are still hotly contested. Lord Macaulay, the 19th century WED imperialist who introduced Western education, is reviled by WED Indian nationalists. The term "Macaulay's Children" is still WED used by as a pejorative label for anglicised Indians. WED WED Yet Macaulay's ideas have been enthusiastically adopted WED today by India's Dalits, the former 'Untouchables', For WED them, English is a liberating force. Their saviour from WED caste oppression is personified as a goddess, modelled on WED the Statue of Liberty, in a sari and mounted on a computer. WED WED Zareer visits the elite Cathedral school, where he was a WED pupil, a English medium school for poorer people, and one WED that teaches in the local language, Marathi. Talking to WED teachers, students, business people and politicians, in WED classrooms, by the pool at the Willingdon club, and in a WED cramped Dalit flat, Zareer explores the education of WED upper-class "Macaulay children", and the hunger for English WED among poor Indians. WED WED English is essential to upward mobility: politicians WED committed to education in indigenous languages send their WED own children to English medium schools. Servants spend half WED their salaries to get their children into these. Yet the WED teachers themselves might not speak English well. So, is a WED foreign language really the best medium of instruction for WED India's educational system? What is the impact on India's WED indigenous languages? Zareer ponders, too, whether English WED has now become as native to India as any of its own WED languages, in its vibrant Indianised form known as WED 'Hinglish'. WED WED Producer: Julian May. WED WED 11:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01bwp6g (Listen) WED Series 1, The Bathroom WED WED An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. WED Annabelle is annoyed because Will couldn't stand up to their WED over-enthusiastic builder. Will is furious at Annabelle for WED hiring the builder. Guy mediates, but this week the WED counsellor has his own problems. WED WED Will Smith ..... Will Smith WED Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland WED Guy ..... Paterson Joseph WED John ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Saskia, Sally ..... Susie Blake WED Adam ..... Dan Tetsell WED Claudia ..... Tracy Wiles WED WED Written by ..... Will Smith WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01p0hj8 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01p01hy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01p0hjb (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Letters from Germany b01p3jw4 (Listen) WED Michael Sturmer WED WED The leading German historian Michael Stürmer is the third in WED Radio Four's series 'Letters from Germany' to write about WED his country's shifting image in the light of the current WED European economic crisis. Michael, a chief correspondent WED with Die Welt and at one time a speech writer for Chancellor WED Helmut Kohl, takes the broad view of Germany's position as WED seen from his towerblock Berlin office. WED WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01p0h5n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p0hjd (Listen) WED The Healing of Sergei Rachmaninov WED WED This latest biographical drama by Martyn Wade about the WED lives of composers tells the remarkable story behind the WED composition of Sergei Rachmaninov's celebrated and famous WED 2nd Piano Concerto. WED WED When only 22, Rachmaninov composed his 1st Symphony and, WED having already established himself as a worthy successor to WED Tchaikovsky, he awaited its premiere with nervous WED anticipation. He was in a state of heightened emotion, WED having dedicated the piece to his lover Anna Lodyzhenskya, WED the wife of his best friend. His guilty passion for her WED inspired the work. WED WED The composer Glazunov, who conducts the piece, is drunk and WED the premiere is a disaster. Rachmaninov is so distraught he WED fears he will never compose again. A long period of creative WED block and the impact on his relationship with Anna leave him WED with no faith in himself. But his cousin Natasha suggests a WED visit to a hypnotherapist who claims he can cure the WED composer and enable him to start work on the piece he most WED wants to compose next - a second piano concerto. Will the WED treatment work? The play explores an extraordinary period in WED the life of one of the great composers. WED WED Writer: Martyn Wade WED Director: Cherry Cookson WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Rachmaninov: Jamie Glover WED Anna: Lydia Leonard WED Natasha: Alison Pettit WED Tolstoy: Philip Voss WED Glazunov: Stephen Critchlow WED Dr Dahl: Ian Masters WED Director: Cherry Cookson WED Writer: Martyn Wade WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01p0hjg (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01p0h5z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01p0hnv (Listen) WED Red Tape in India WED WED Red Tape in India - a major new study by the renowned WED anthropologist, Akhil Gupta, seeks to understand why state WED bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty in the world's WED fourth largest economy. Laurie Taylor hears about his WED ethnographic study among officials in charge of development WED programs in rural Uttar Pradash. Why is that the expansion WED of government programmes have failed to improve WED significantly the lives of the poorest? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01p0rpd (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01p0rpg (Listen) WED Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p01j2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01p0rpj (Listen) WED Series 4, Whitehaven WED WED Comedian Mark Steel returns with a new series, looking under WED the surface of some of the UK's more distinctive towns to WED shed some light on the people, history, rivalries, slang, WED traditions, and eccentricities that makes them unique. WED WED Creating a bespoke stand-up set for each town, Mark performs WED the show in front of a local audience. WED WED As well as examining the less visited areas of Britain, Mark WED uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all WED as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life WED and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who WED have shaped where we live. WED WED During this 4th series of 'Mark Steel's In Town', Mark will WED visit Tobermory, Whitehaven, Handsworth, Ottery St Mary, WED Corby, and Chipping Norton. WED WED This week, Mark visits Whitehaven, to discuss surrealist WED pirates, the dubious origins of rum butter, and the WED unreassuring link between rugby and nuclear power. WED WED Additional material by Pete Sinclair. WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01p0s0q (Listen) WED Lilian makes her choice, and Mike is getting breathless. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01p0s0s (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0hj4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01p0s0v (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David WED Aaronovitch with Kenan Malik, Anne McElvoy, Matthew Taylor WED and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01p0s0x (Listen) WED Series 3, Sara Ziff: The Problem with Fashion WED WED Model and activist Sara Ziff discusses the problems with WED fashion and modelling. Sara maintains that fashion WED modelling, far from being a glamorous profession, has a dark WED side. She argues that what links this dark side within the WED industry to its sometimes ugly public face is an unhealthy WED obsession with very young models. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01p0s0z (Listen) WED Brain Machine Interfaces WED WED Can reading the mind allow us to use thought control to move WED artificial limbs? WED WED Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, is one of the world's WED leading researchers into using the mind to control machines. WED One of his aims is to build a suit that a quadriplegic WED person can wear and control so that he or she can kick a WED football at the opening of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. His WED lab is working on ways of providing a sense of touch to WED these limbs so that the prosthetics feel more like a part of WED a person's body and less like an artificial appendage. WED Geoff Watts visits Nicolelis' laboratory to see just how WED near we are to achieving his aim on the football pitch. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01p0hj0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01p01j4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01p0s11 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis presented by WED Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p1xkh (Listen) WED The Mighty Walzer, Episode 3 WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b01p0s13 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED By Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson WED WED The romantic correspondence between two of history's most WED important horses: Napoleon's mount Marengo and the Duke of WED Wellington's own Copenhagen. This second series picks up the WED story of the two lovers sundered by fate as Napoleon returns WED from Elba. Their letters speak eloquently of love, loss, WED jealousy and nuts. WED WED Marengo ..... Stephen Fry WED Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby WED Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Mission Improbable b01p0s15 (Listen) WED Jungle! WED WED A brand new series of fast-paced mini-adventures written by WED and starring Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox, WED known collectively as The Boom Jennies. WED WED Prompted by the pine-fresh fragrance of zoo keeper Amelia's WED new perfume, adventure journalist Jane is reminded of a WED story her uncle Norman once told her about a rare midnight WED orchid found only in the Guatemalan jungle. This is no WED ordinary flower, but one that gives off a scent with such WED aphrodisiac properties it makes the person wielding it WED utterly irresistible. WED WED That's more than enough to convince perennial singleton Lucy WED that it is high time they all headed to South America. There WED follows a roller coaster ride of an adventure taking in WED waterfalls, crocodiles and a gang of ruthless drug WED smugglers. But our heroes remain unbowed. Each and every WED challenge thrown at them is met head-on with courage, WED determination and deeply inappropriate footwear. WED WED Jane.................Catriona Knox WED Lucy.................Lizzie Bates WED Amelia..............Anna Emerson WED Norman.............Paul Ryan WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox WED WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p0s17 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01p01jz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01p4ntb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p01k1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p01k3 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p01k5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01p01k7 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p0s9l (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with Church of THU Scotland Elder, Alison Twaddle. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01p0s9n (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. THU THU 06:00 Today b01p0s9q (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01p0s9s (Listen) THU Crystallography THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of THU crystallography, the study of crystals and their structure. THU Developments in crystallography have touched most people's THU lives, thanks to the vital role it plays in diverse THU scientific disciplines - from physics and chemistry, to THU molecular biology and mineralogy. THU THU The history of crystallography began with the work of THU Johannes Kepler in the 17th century, but perhaps the most THU crucial leap in understanding came in the early 20th century THU and the discoveries of the father-and-son team the Braggs. THU Their work revolutionised our perception of crystals and THU their atomic arrangements, and led to some of the most THU significant scientific findings of the last century - such THU as revealing the structure of DNA. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01p4nwb (Listen) THU The Black Count, Episode 4 THU THU Tom Reiss's new biography about the novelist Alexandre THU Dumas' father reveals that he led life of derring-do that is THU captured in his son's novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and THU The Three Musketeers. Today, General Dumas accompanies THU Napoleon on his ill-fated expedition to Egypt. THU THU Read by Hugh Quarshie. THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton. THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p0s9v (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0s9x (Listen) THU Baby Powder and Perfume, Episode 4 THU THU Exploring five very different perspectives on the lap THU dancing industry. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01p0s9z (Listen) THU The Mystery of South Africa's Missing Textbooks THU THU Many schoolchildren in South Africa's northern Limpopo THU province have gone for months without school textbooks. THU There was money to buy them. There was also a contract to THU deliver the books. Yet they didn't arrive. Students and THU parents are furious with politicians of the governing ANC - THU and say the problem is due to mismanagement and corruption. THU They say the issue typifies the faults of the political THU system, and that their children have been the victims. Rob THU Walker investigates the mystery of the missing textbooks. THU Mining controversy in South Africa THU From Our Own Correspondent THU THU 11:30 The Beat Hotel b01p0sb1 (Listen) THU Think of American writers in Paris and the chances are the THU first people to come to mind are the Lost Generation of the THU 1920s - Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stein and friends. But a THU period every bit as significant in the development of THU American letters and the culture more broadly is often THU overlooked. THU THU Professor Andrew Hussey tells the story of how a dirty, THU run-down hotel in the medieval heart of Paris became in the THU late 1950s and early 1960s a bohemian mecca, attracting some THU of the most important figures of the Beat Generation. And THU not only did those individuals live there, they also thrived THU among the more liberal social attitudes than they'd grown up THU with in America, creating some of their most important work. THU Allen Ginsberg wrote much of Kaddish, William Burroughs THU completed Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso rote BOMB; it was here THU that the famous cut-up technique so important to Burroughs THU and so influential on modern culture was invented by Bryon THU Gysin, and also the place where the Dream Machine - a means THU of inducing drug free hallucinations - was developed by THU Burroughs' lover Ian Sommerville. THU THU Andrew will also show that the Beats were much more engaged THU with their French surroundings than has previously been THU thought, meeting many of the most important European artists THU of the day and witnessing the frequent violence that the THU Algerian War brought with it to the streets in their THU immediate vicinity. He will make clear that the Beat THU movement - so often identified as strictly American in its THU focus - was in fact passionately internationalist and a key THU influence in global avant-garde political aesthetics. THU THU Presenter: Professor Andrew Hussey THU Producer: Geoff Bird. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01p0sb3 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01p01k9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01p0sb5 (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Letters from Germany b01p3jw6 (Listen) THU Margot Kassmann THU THU In the fourth of our series 'Letters from Germany' Prof THU Margot Käßmann the former Bishop of Hannover and one of the THU most senior figures in the German church, writes about her THU country and the way it is perceived. THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01p0s0q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p0sb7 (Listen) THU Two Minutes Hate THU THU By Kieran Prendiville THU THU "The horrible thing about the two minutes hate was not that THU one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it THU was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds THU any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of THU fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to THU smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through THU the whole group of people like an electric current, turning THU one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming THU lunatic" George Orwell, 1984 THU THU It isn't just the rich and famous who get super-injunctions. THU A small number of people in Britain, mostly on legal aid, THU have much more to lose from tabloid exposure than an THU expensive divorce. THU THU This drama imagines what it is like to be the most hated THU woman in Britain - fearing the mob and the forces that will THU lead them to you. Two Minutes Hate explores the fault line THU between the public interest and the interest of the public. THU THU The protagonist is a young woman whose partner murdered a THU child. She didn't believe he could do such a thing, which is THU why she gave him an alibi. THU THU She is of course inspired by the real life Maxine Carr, THU girlfriend of Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer. As one THU broadsheet observed: "It is - and will remain - Carr's THU particular bad luck to have come to public attention at THU roughly the same time as Myra Hindley died: there was a THU gaping Hindley-shaped hole in the tabloids Two Minutes' hate THU slot, and they have simply used her to plug it". THU THU Produced and Directed by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Catherine: Jasmine Hyde THU Jennifer: Jasmine Hyde THU Adrian: Patrick Marlowe THU Jane: Sasha Behar THU Barry: Nigel Lindsay THU Giles: Edward Max THU George: Matthew Townshend THU Lawyer: Matthew Townshend THU Policeman: Matthew Townshend THU Newsreader: Alana Ramsey THU Secretary: Alana Ramsey THU Director: Clive Brill THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Writer: Kieran Prendiville THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01p0sb9 (Listen) THU Atlantic College at 50 THU THU The 12th century St Donat's castle in South Wales was once THU home to media mogul William Randolph Hearst - subject of THU Citizen Kane. Fifty years ago it became the home of Atlantic THU College, a unique educational establishment bringing THU together students from around the world in the hope of THU promoting peace and understanding and to overcome the THU problems of the Cold War. Felicity Evans explores the campus THU grounds, meeting students past and present, to find out how THU an alternative education has influenced their lives. She THU asks how serving the community and working on the land - THU including running the organic farm and lifeboat unit - has THU helped shape their views and plans for the future. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01p03r6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01p0682 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01p0sbc (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01p0sbf (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 b01p0sbh (Listen) THU vwith interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p01kc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This? THU b01p0sbk (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU Comic explanation of human development via stand-up, song THU and sketch. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01p0sn8 (Listen) THU Jazzer is dejected, and Bert has a good idea. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01p0snb (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer Roddy THU Doyle, whose new novella Two Pints features two men in a THU pub, talking about events in the news from 2011-12. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0s9x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01p0snd (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. Presented by THU Angus Crawford. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01p0sng (Listen) THU Start-Up City THU THU Every city wants to become a high technology business hub, THU but ambitious entrepreneurs THU from all over Europe are rushing to set up shop in Berlin. THU So-called Silicon Allee is fast THU becoming a start-up rival to Silicon Roundabout in London. THU Peter Day finds out why. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01p0snj (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 13 THU THU Brett Westwood examines the world of nature and the THU challenges of wildlife conservation. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01p0s9s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01p01kf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01p0t37 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis presented by THU Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p1y5s (Listen) THU The Mighty Walzer, Episode 4 THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01p0t39 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre THU called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. THU Bernie brings her dog in to the office and starts a craze. THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma THU THU Writers ..... Various THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p0t3c (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01p01l8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01p4nwb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p01lb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p01ld (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p01lg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01p01lj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p0vf2 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with Church of FRI Scotland Elder, Alison Twaddle. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01p0vf4 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Polly Procter. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01p0vf6 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01p067p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01p4nxc (Listen) FRI The Black Count, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tom Reiss's new book reveals that the father of the writer, FRI Alexandre Dumas, led a life of derring-do that is captured FRI in his son's novels. Today, relief at escaping the rigours FRI of campaigning in Egypt turns to disillusion on reaching the FRI Neapolitan coast. FRI FRI Read by Hugh Quarshie. FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton. FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p0vf8 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0vfb (Listen) FRI Baby Powder and Perfume, The Dancer FRI FRI By Janice Okoh. Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is FRI about power. Or perhaps the lack of it. When a lap dancer FRI fears she's being stalked by a regular punter and the local FRI 'gentleman's' club faces closure, a small community is FRI forced to admit their feelings on the sex industry. FRI FRI Part 5. The Dancer FRI Colette is forced to re-think her future career plans as her FRI hopes and dreams are viciously challenged. FRI FRI Director ..... Helen Perry. FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b01p0vfd (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI FRI Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew return with a FRI third series of the programme in which they head to sporting FRI venues, in order to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade FRI tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. FRI This time round, they muse and mutter during a training FRI session at a boxing gym and they reminisce and recount their FRI own experiences of Real Tennis during the British Open. But FRI they begin the series amongst the youthful of a school rugby FRI match at Rugby School. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has a FRI fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal, about the FRI men and women in professional sport - their lives, their FRI characters, their training regimes, their triumphs and their FRI disasters. But Christopher more than matches him with his FRI own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest), as well as with his observations on sporting FRI events he finds himself attending for the first time. FRI FRI Indeed, amusing, informative and entertaining talk between FRI old friends is what these programmes are all about. FRI FRI Recorded entirely on location, their extended discourses FRI have been edited down to a seamless half hour - with each FRI programme capturing the atmosphere, the passion, the FRI frustration, the humour and, at times, the sheer quaintness, FRI of entertainments regularly enjoyed by millions of people up FRI and down the land. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b01p0vfg (Listen) FRI Series 2, Strange Dr Love FRI FRI In the NHS satire by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer, a FRI general practice somewhere in Bristol is faced with FRI challenges and opportunities in equal measure as they adjust FRI to another 'biggest shake-up of the NHS in a lifetime'. FRI FRI This week, Hugh is asked to chair a new government FRI commission, so Polyoaks needs a locum. Practice Manager FRI Betty, ever economic, appoints the cut-price option. FRI FRI Everyone is relieved that curmudgeonly Hugh is out of the FRI way, but Roy is suspicious of the interloper and Hugh's big FRI political opportunity is not turning out quite the way he FRI hoped. FRI FRI Dr. Roy Thornton.....................Nigel Planer FRI Dr. Hugh Thornton..................Simon Greenall FRI TV's Dr. Jeremy........................David Westhead FRI Betty Crossfield.......................Jane Whittenshaw FRI Nurse Vera Duplessis..............Polly Frame FRI Mr. Devlin..................................Phil Cornwell FRI Dr. Derek Love..........................Darren Benedict FRI Mr. Oberman and Mr. Raisey......David Holt FRI FRI Polyoaks is written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI Directed by Frank Stirling FRI Produced by David Spicer FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 Food and Farming Awards b01p0vfj (Listen) FRI Food and Farming Awards 2012 FRI FRI Sheila Dillon and Valentine Warner present the 13th, annual, FRI BBC Food & Farming Awards, featuring Angela Hartnett, FRI Raymond Blanc and Countryfile's Adam Henson. FRI FRI Recorded at the BBC Good Food Show, the chefs, food writers FRI and drinks experts announce the winners in nine different FRI categories, from Best Street Food or Takeaway to Best Food FRI Market. FRI FRI Producer: Dan Saladino. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01p0vfl (Listen) FRI Claudia and Izzy - Sisterly Heirarchy FRI FRI Fi Glover hears a conversation between sisters Claudia and FRI Izzy. Claudia is 11 and Izzy 10; they're close, but Claudia FRI will always be the older sister. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01p01ll (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01p0vfn (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 Letters from Germany b01p3jw8 (Listen) FRI Wolfgang Munchau FRI FRI In the last of Radio Four's series of letters from Germany, FRI the economist and journalist Wolfgang Munchau takes an FRI unusual view of his native Germany as seen from his current FRI home in England. Wolfgang looks at the way German leaders FRI helped create the situation that puts them in such a FRI potentially powerful situation within Europe, but he also FRI points out the inherent fragility that accompanies that FRI power. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01p0sn8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p0vfq (Listen) FRI On Mardle Fen, Series 5, At the Dawning FRI FRI By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock stars as inspirational FRI chef Warwick Hedges who runs an upmarket restaurant in the FRI Cambridgeshire Fens with his son Jack. It's been raining for FRI weeks and the river has risen to danger level. FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI FRI Credits FRI Warwick Hedges: Trevor Peacock FRI Jack Hedges: Sam Dale FRI Director: Claire Grove FRI Writer: Nick Warburton FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01p0vfs (Listen) FRI Oxfordshire FRI FRI Horticultural advice from Oxfordshire. FRI FRI 15:45 The BBC and All That b01p0vfv (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Roger Eckersley was persuaded in 1923 to give up his FRI loss-making chicken farm and join the newly formed BBC. He FRI stayed there for the rest of his career, holding many FRI positions including Director of Entertainment. FRI FRI This year, 2012, is not just the 90th anniversary of the FRI BBC, but also the 80th of its move from Savoy Hill to the FRI now iconic Broadcasting House. FRI FRI Eckersley's memoirs, The BBC and All That, published in the FRI 1940s, include beautifully drawn descriptions of that first FRI month in Broadcasting House. He often smuggled in small FRI groups of friends for unofficial tours of the hidden areas FRI of the BBC, including drama studios, sound effects stores FRI and the boiler room in the basement - his favourite. FRI FRI He had a wonderfully unstuffy and rebellious nature - FRI surprisingly appropriate for a BBC that was regarded by the FRI Establishment of the time as an unruly upstart. He relished FRI tales of being banned from broadcasting live football FRI commentaries, so paying a string of eye-witnesses to leave FRI the ground at regular intervals and give descriptions of the FRI action they had just seen. He was part of the Pronunciation FRI Committee when George Bernard Shaw and poet laureate Robert FRI Bridges almost came to blows over the how to say "acoustic", FRI and found himself in a discussion about jazz with Queen Mary FRI during which, he learned from an appalled friend afterwards, FRI he had persisted in calling her "My Dear". FRI FRI The BBC and All That brings to life once more the feelings FRI of awe and excitement experienced by the radio pioneers who FRI worked within the walls of the brand new Broadcasting House. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 The Media Show b01pgqss (Listen) FRI Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the FRI fast-changing media world. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01p0vqp (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01p0vqr (Listen) FRI Margaret and Marie-Therese - Brought Up By Nuns FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between Margaret and FRI Marie-Therese, friends since they met in a Belfast FRI children's home run by Catholic nuns. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01p0vqt (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p01ln (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01p0vqw (Listen) FRI Series 38, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present stand-up and sketches FRI with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests FRI Angela Barnes & Pippa Evans. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01p0vqy (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Graham Harvey FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Rogers..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady FRI Bert Fry..... Eric Allan FRI Lewis Carmichael..... Robert Lister FRI Jazzer McCreary..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Joyce Walters ..... Ann Beach. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01p0vw2 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who reports on The Mouse and His Child, FRI the RSC's new show for family audiences, which is based on a FRI book by Russell Hoban. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p0vfb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01p0vw4 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Pinner Parish Church in Pinner, in Middlesex. Guests FRI include the Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01p0vw6 (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b019qblm (Listen) FRI The Jinx Element FRI FRI by Stephen Wakelam FRI FRI Edith Wharton's private life was as dramatic as many of her FRI novels. FRI An encounter with a journalist was to have a seismic FRI effect on her marriage and her work. FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI Credits FRI Edith Wharton: Fenella Woolgar FRI Henry James: Allan Corduner FRI Morton: Patrick Baladi FRI Teddy Wharton: Nathan Osgood FRI Cook: James Lailey FRI Manservant: James Lailey FRI Mrs Gross: Rachel Atkins FRI French Admirer: Rachel Atkins FRI English Waiter: Simon Bubb FRI French Waiter: Simon Bubb FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Writer: Stephen Wakelam FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01p01lq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01p0vwq (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis presented by FRI Philippa Thomas. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p1xsy (Listen) FRI The Mighty Walzer, Episode 5 FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01p0fpv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p0vxp (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01p0vxr (Listen) FRI Gwen and Yumi - Chapter and Verse FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between grandmother and FRI granddaughter, Gwen and Yumi. Despite a 63 year age gap they FRI love to talk... mainly about books. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
23 November, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 24/11/2012 - 30/11/2012
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