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SAT SATURDAY 28 JANUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01b1k88 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01bbz1y (Listen) SAT A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis, Episode 5 SAT SAT For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due SAT warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next SAT you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair SAT growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age SAT should come dignity and respect, but instead everyone makes SAT tired jokes about buying a motorbike. SAT Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth SAT birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is SAT determined to find some light in the all-consuming darkness. SAT SAT 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way SAT completely. But we have also gained a certain amount of SAT guile and what some might call "gravitas" (and others would SAT call "weight").' SAT SAT Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, SAT he concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror SAT today, it will be much worse in ten years' time. His SAT brutally candid dispatch from the front line is essential SAT listening for anyone over thirty-five - as well as all those SAT who want to prepare for what lies ahead... SAT SAT Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in SAT front of various television screens swearing at incompetent SAT England batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns SAT on sport for Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily SAT Express. He is a regular contributor to Private Eye and has SAT been the Spectator's pop music critic for over twenty years. SAT His books include Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer SAT Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, SAT Fatherhood: The Truth and A Matter of Facts: The Insider's SAT Guide to Quizzing SAT SAT Read by Toby Longworth SAT Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b1k8b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b1k8d (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b1k8g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01b1k8j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01b1pq9 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Dr Mark Beach, Team Rector of Rugby. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01b1pqc (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01b1k8l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01b1k8n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01b1lk4 (Listen) SAT Deep in the countryside of eastern England, British troops SAT train in a mock Afghan village designed to look, feel, and SAT sound like the real thing. The 30,000-acre training complex SAT allows soldiers to prepare themselves for the cultural and SAT tactical challenges operating in Afghanistan. The facility, SAT built in 2008, is meant to replicate a typical village in SAT Helmand, with houses, shops and open markets, and the exiles SAT playing the role of villagers. SAT In July 1942 about a thousand men, women and children were SAT compulsorily evacuated from the site north of Thetford. It SAT is an area of heath forming a large part of the unique SAT Norfolk- Suffolk Breckland landscape which was cleared to SAT make way for an army training area where troops could SAT manoeuvre using live ammunition. SAT On today's Open Country, Jules Hudson visits the site to SAT investigate how important the village is in preparing the SAT troops for Afghanistan and finds out how those displaced SAT from their villages in 1942 feel about the evacuation 70 SAT years on. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01b8w5x (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT This winter's warm weather is affecting wildlife, plants, SAT crops and livestock across the UK. January has been two SAT degrees celsius warmer on average, and follows a similarly SAT warm December. Charlotte Smith visits Ragley Hall Estate in SAT Warwickshire to discover how this alters woodlands, confuses SAT crops and improves lambing. SAT SAT The mild weather means that there are plenty of berries for SAT birds to eat and many species are thriving. Angela Frain SAT visits Lower Smite Farm which is owned by the Worcestershire SAT Wildlife Trust. She joins Steve Bloomfield and Caroline SAT Corsie to search for birds, bugs and worms. SAT SAT The warm temperatures also means that there is more food for SAT farmland pests. Clare Freeman joins Peter Crowther from SAT Rutland Pest Control to visit a mice infested farm in SAT Northamptonshire. At the other end of the country, John SAT Picken who farms near St Andrews tells Charlotte that they SAT are struggling from too much rain. SAT SAT Farmers are even changing the way that they care for their SAT livestock because of the warm weather. Emma Weatherill SAT visits Shropshire farmer Malcolm Roberts who is keeping his SAT cows outside to calf. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01b1k8q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01b8w5z (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01b8w61 (Listen) SAT Alain de Botton. Aoife Mannix, killer brother, undertaker SAT windfall, oldest diabetic, Smokie at the Kremlin, Ani SAT DiFranco SAT SAT Richard Coles with philosopher Alain de Botton, poet Aoife SAT Mannix, the 70's pop star who was summoned to play at the SAT Kremlin, the woman who tracked down her long lost brother SAT only to find him serving 99 years for murder in an American SAT jail, one of the UK's oldest diabetics who was treated by SAT the man who invented insulin, the vicar's son who got a SAT windfall from the local undertaker and the Inheritance SAT Tracks of singer Ani DiFranco. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01b8w63 (Listen) SAT Overland To Mongolia - Wild West - The Calgary Stampede SAT SAT John McCarthy discusses the 'Wild West' with former SAT documentary film-maker Tim Slessor who has just written a SAT book called 'More than Cowboys'. He is also joined by travel SAT writer, Kieran Meeke, who, as a keen horse-rider, also loves SAT the cowboy culture and has a passion for the Calgary SAT Stampede, in Alberta, Canada, currently marking its SAT centenary. John is also joined by Nick Hewer (Lord Sugar's SAT right-hand man on BBC TV's 'The Apprentice') who recounts SAT his solo journey driving from London to Ulan Bator in SAT Mongolia in an old Renault 4L to raise money for charity. SAT SAT Producer: Margaret Collins. SAT SAT 10:30 Phil Collins: King of the Wild Frontier b01b8w65 (Listen) SAT The largest private collection of Alamo memorabilia resides SAT in an impressive Geneva home in Switzerland. Also resident SAT is singer songwriter and Genesis drummer - Phil Collins. SAT SAT Davy Crockett and The Alamo are his very private passion and SAT Collins invites presenter Patrick Humphries into his home to SAT talk us through his impressive collection. We discover how SAT he began collecting, where he secures his artefacts and how SAT he has organised excavations through the profits of a gift SAT shop at the famous Alamo battle site. SAT SAT We have all heard of The Alamo but why does this American SAT battle of March 6th 1836, when 180 Texans fought an army of SAT 6,000 Mexicans still resonate nearly two centuries on? SAT Collins is very knowledgeable about this particular period SAT of American history and talks impressively about the framed SAT the documents and letters, the dozens of rifles and swords, SAT authentic uniforms and the many artefacts collected across SAT 30 years. His comments, are complemented by Historian Bill SAT Chemerka and we hear Film buff Lee Pfeiffer, he talks us SAT through films and TV series which have enshrined the Alamo SAT in many young minds 50 years ago. SAT SAT Crockett was a largely forgotten hero, but his legend was SAT reborn in the 1950s thanks to a Walt Disney TV show, which SAT also introduced his legendary coonskin cap into his legacy. SAT The John Wayne Alamo movie also raised Crockett's profile. SAT The programme also hears from a living relative of Davy SAT Crockett, his great great great grandson also called Davy! SAT He reveals how the family see his famous father's legend and SAT the events at The Alamo. However it's Patrick's visit to SAT Phil Collins home that makes sure this is a different kind SAT of history programme, revealing in the process why this SAT particular piece of American history touches people so SAT deeply. SAT SAT Producer: John Sugar SAT A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01b8w67 (Listen) SAT Fraser Nelson of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01b8w69 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01b8w6c (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01b1nkr (Listen) SAT Series 76, Episode 6 SAT SAT Drugs, Debt and Delicious Dinners: Sandi Toksvig hosts Radio SAT 4's long running panel game in the week that National Debt SAT reached £1Trillion, Richard Branson called for a softer SAT approach to narcotics, and schoolchildren were asked to SAT create a new dish for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Rebecca SAT Front, Hugo Rifkind and Steve Punt join series regular SAT Jeremy Hardy, and Carolyn Brown reads the news. SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01b1k8s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01b1k8v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01b1nky (Listen) SAT Lichfield SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Lichfield Cathedral with former Labour Cabinet SAT minister, David Blunkett; Parliamentary Private Secretary at SAT the Department of Health, Anna Soubry; Director of newly SAT established think tank British Future, Sunder Katwala; and SAT Times columnist, Danny Finkelstein. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01b8w6f (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00rv6nd (Listen) SAT The Believers SAT SAT Liverpool, 1963. The Merseybeat boom is about to take off. SAT And with it, The Believers, a Christian pop band determined SAT to spread the Word. If only they were all singing from the SAT same hymn sheet. Comedy drama by acclaimed screenwriter SAT Frank Cottrell Boyce. SAT James..................................Ray Quinn SAT Debbie.................................Samantha Robinson SAT Billy.....................................Kieran Lynn SAT Warren..............................John Biggins SAT Reverend Michaels.............Rufus Wright SAT Elder Wardle......................Gary Bleasdale SAT Jenny................................Alison Pettitt SAT Other parts played by Joanna Monro, David Seddon, Laura SAT Molyneux, Jill Cardo and Keely Beresford. SAT Original music by Carl Hunter and Mel Bowen SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 A Last Excuse Me Dance b019rm1j (Listen) SAT The ever-popular children's writer and illustrator Shirley SAT Hughes recently published a magazine article recalling the SAT dances she attended as a teenager growing up in wartime West SAT Kirby. Readers responded with their own memories of similar SAT dances in other parts of the country. Amongst them was the SAT writer and journalist, Philip Purser. But he didn't just SAT remember similar dances: he remembered exactly the same SAT ones. SAT SAT Now, over seventy years after Shirley and Philip danced the SAT foxtrot and joined in a Paul Jones or an Excuse-Me dance SAT together, they are reunited for the very first time, not SAT only in recalling these Saturday night dances but with the SAT promise of taking to the dance-floor one last time. SAT SAT Felicity Finch, herself a keen dancer, hears from Philip and SAT from Shirley about their memories of the dances and the SAT music, the clothes and shoes, and about the heated SAT atmosphere of teenage courtship in West Kirby as nearby SAT Liverpool blazed in the Blitz. She tracks down the girl whom SAT Shirley envied above all others and whom Philip most desired SAT - Joan Brotherton, now also in her late 80s - and hears her SAT side of the story. SAT SAT Finally, she reunites Philip and Shirley for what may be a SAT last Excuse Me Dance. SAT SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01b8wrk (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT How could Labour Party strategists sell Ed Miliband to SAT women? Why Lord Leveson needs to examine the portrayal of SAT women in the media . Plus what would you say if your partner SAT asked you to commit to a schedule which stipulated how often SAT you had sex and is it time we dropped any title which SAT indicates whether we're married or single. Plus lots lots SAT more as Jane Garvey presents the highlights of this week's SAT Woman's Hour. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Produced by Laura Northedge. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01b8wrm (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01b1lnm (Listen) SAT Capitalism SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Evan and his panel debate the big issue of the moment: SAT capitalism, its virtues and vices. Across the media it's SAT associated with negative words like 'crisis' and 'crony'. So SAT how would Evan's executive guests redesign and rebrand SAT capitalism? They also discuss peaking - just when do you SAT reach your prime in business? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Keith Clarke, former Chief SAT Executive and now Director of Sustainability at civil SAT engineering and design consultancy Atkins; entrepreneur and SAT investor Deborah Meaden; Heather Killen, co-founder of SAT private equity and corporate finance advisory boutique SAT Hemisphere Capital. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01b1k8x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01b1k8z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b1k91 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01b8wrp (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Calendar Girl Celia Imrie will be baring all about her SAT hugely successful career, from St Trinian's to Shakespeare, SAT and, of course, having to strip off in front of a plate of SAT cherry bakewells! Celia's new black comedy 'Acts of Godfrey' SAT is a humorous modern twist on Shakespeare and the first SAT feature film to be written entirely in verse. It's showing SAT now at selected cinema's across the UK. SAT SAT There'll always be a place at the table for 'The Very Hungry SAT Frenchman', chef Raymond Blanc. His new BBC Two series SAT explores the distinctive produce and cuisine of France, from SAT world famous Burgundy to his home region of Franche Comte SAT (where his 90 year old mother still lives). 'The Very Hungry SAT Frenchman' starts on Thursday 2nd February at 20.00. Bon SAT Appetit! SAT SAT Nikki Bedi tumbles between the sheets with Russell Tovey who SAT tells us about his role alongside Jaime Winstone in the play SAT 'Sex With A Stranger' at London's Trafalgar Studios from 1st SAT to 25th February. SAT SAT Charismatic crooner Curtis Stigers talks to Clive about his SAT musical career as a pop star, jazz singer and saxophonist. SAT And we also get to hear him perform 'Everyone Loves Lovers' SAT from his new album 'Let's Go Out Tonight'. SAT SAT And the second instalment of great music has a country twist SAT from the big city of Seattle. Zoe Muth and the Lost High SAT Rollers play 'I've Been Gone' from their album 'Starlight SAT Hotel'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01b8wrr (Listen) SAT Series 11, Mongrel SAT SAT In his tale, Mongrel, the novelist Adam Thorpe takes as his SAT starting point the story of two dogs that have shot to SAT prominence this last week. One dog is bound for SAT international stardom and one is on a decidedly different SAT course, aided and abetted by his hopeful owner, Fay. Then, SAT in the world at large, men and women in suits gather in SAT Switzerland to dicsuss our current economic hardships... SAT SAT The reader is Hannah Waterman SAT Producer Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01b8wrt (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT THE DESCENDANTS SAT SAT The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne, is on general SAT release certificate 15. SAT SAT AN HONOURABLE MAN SAT SAT An Honourable Man, by Gillian Slovo, is published by Virago. SAT SAT THE TAMING OF THE SHREW SAT SAT The Taming of the Shrew continues at Stratford until the SAT 18th of February and then tours to Newcastle, Milton Keynes, SAT Nottingham, Richmond upon Thames and Bath. SAT SAT HAJJ: JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF ISLAM SAT SAT Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam continues at the British SAT Museum until the 15th of April. Tickets are £12 with the SAT usual concessions. SAT SAT INSIDE MEN SAT SAT Inside Men begins on BBC One on Thursday at 9.00pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01b8wrw (Listen) SAT Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs SAT SAT Kirsty Young tells the story of the long-running programme SAT as it celebrates its 70th anniversary and investigates what SAT has made it such an enduring part of the radio schedule. In SAT addition to hearing some classic clips from some amazing SAT castaways, Kirsty talks to BBC historian Professor Jean SAT Seaton, former castaway Mary Portas and is also joined by SAT her predecessors, Sue Lawley and Sir Michael Parkinson and, SAT from the archives, by Roy Plomley himself. SAT SAT Producer: Isabel Sargent. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b019rgnv (Listen) SAT The Spy, Episode 1 SAT SAT By James Fenimore Cooper, dramatised by DJ Britton. SAT SAT New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the SAT British in the American War of Independence, creeps into SAT no-man's land to spend an evening with his family. But the SAT happy reunion is cut short when American troops surround the SAT house. Can the mysterious peddler Harvey Birch provide Henry SAT with a means of escape? SAT SAT Harvey Birch . . . . . Burn Gorman SAT Frances . . . . . Rose Leslie SAT Henry . . . . . Alex Waldmann SAT Mr Wharton . . . . . James Lailey SAT Sarah . . . . . Francine Chamberlain SAT Mr Harper . . . . . Timothy Watson SAT Caesar . . . . . Richard Pepple SAT Peyton Dunwoodie . . . . . Simon Bubb SAT Captain Lawton . . . . . Gerard McDermott SAT Colonel Wellmere . . . . . Adam Billington SAT Isabella Singleton . . . . . Victoria Inez Hardy SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Studio managers: Anne Bunting, Jenni Burnett, Alison Craig. SAT Editor: Anne Bunting SAT Production Co-ordinator: Beverly Tagg SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01b1k93 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01b1g9j (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and SAT inside Westminster to explore how controversial decisions SAT are reached. Each week, he asks people with experience of SAT government and politics how a government, of whatever SAT political colour, would approach a looming decision. SAT Producer, Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b019rjng (Listen) SAT (11/17) SAT The 2012 contest reaches the penultimate heat, from Salford, SAT with Russell Davies in the chair. This week's competitors SAT come from Hull, Glasgow, Bristol and Leeds. SAT SAT Among the questions they face will be: What's the usual SAT title given to the poem by Robert Browning that begins 'Oh, SAT to be in England, now that April's there'? SAT SAT And: Which physicist gave his name to zones of highly SAT energised charged particles trapped at high altitude in the SAT earth's magnetic field? SAT SAT The winner today takes one of the last remaining places in SAT the semi-finals, and takes a crucial step closer to the SAT coveted title of Brain of Britain 2012. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b019rgt5 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with poetry requests read by Catherine Cusack SAT and Patrick Romer. Kathryn Simmonds also reads her own work. SAT Conformity and subversion are among the themes that pop up SAT today with Edna St Vincent Millay being merry on a ferry and SAT William Carlos Williams prancing around naked, singing to SAT himself. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's poem Fireman's Lift SAT recalls the experience of seeing Coreggio's frescoes in the SAT dome of Parma Cathedral, and the vagabond poet W.H. Davies SAT also makes the case for staring in his famous poem SAT 'Leisure'. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 JANUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01b8tbv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Deep Country b01b8xcb (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Neil Ansell is in search of solitude. He takes up home in a SUN dilapidated cottage in a very remote part of the Welsh SUN countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water. SUN He has only wildlife around him for company as he makes the SUN cottage habitable. Read by Matthew Gravelle. SUN SUN Abridged by Willa King SUN Directed by Emma Bodger SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b8tbx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b8tbz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b8tc1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01b8tc3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01b8xcd (Listen) SUN The bells of St Bartholomew's Church, Sutton-Cum-Lound, SUN Nottinghamshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01b1g9l (Listen) SUN Series 2, Gerard Darby SUN SUN Creativity is just as vital in science and engineering as it SUN is in art and drama, argues Gerard Darby. SUN SUN Yet the present education system is undermining young SUN people's natural creativity, he says, and is in urgent need SUN of reform. He highlights some novel approaches, and explains SUN why this matters both for the individuals, and for our wider SUN society and economy. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SUN of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the SUN stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, SUN interests and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01b8tc5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01b8yxk (Listen) SUN Postcards SUN SUN Sarah Cuddon explores the pleasure of the postcard. With SUN reference to authors, such as the Chilean novelist Robert SUN Bolano, composers including Edward Elgar and poets (among SUN them, Charles Simic) who have found inspiration and comfort SUN in the writing, drawing and sending of cards, she celebrates SUN a rare medium. SUN SUN And we hear the story and the correspondence of two friends, SUN Laura Eades and Retta Bowen, who dedicated themselves to SUN writing a postcard to each other every day for a month. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01b8yxm (Listen) SUN Jackdaw Roost SUN SUN For this week's Living World, Joanna Pinnock heads to a site SUN in Cambridgeshire which is currently part of a long term SUN study into jackdaw behaviour. Here she meets Dr Alex SUN Thornton on a blustery morning before dawn. As first light SUN begins to creep silently over the horizon the first SUN chattering's of a jackdaw roost can be heard. With SUN increasing light, this chatter becomes louder until at some SUN given signal, the jackdaws simultaneously leave their night SUN roost in a cacophony of sound. It is a winter spectacle SUN often overlooked but rivalling any in the natural world. So SUN what is actually going on here? SUN SUN Some corvid roosts are recorded in the Domesday Book and SUN throughout history they have associated themselves with SUN humans, and even have a sinister reputation as robbers of SUN rare and precious gems. Corvids are known for their SUN intelligence, in fact some scientists refer to members of SUN the crow family, as the Feathered Apes. Science understands SUN the biology of these birds, they pair for life, and a strong SUN social cohesion exists, but as Dr Thornton expands, these SUN familiar birds are deeply mysterious. There is a lot more to SUN jackdaws than meets the eye. In fact the jackdaw eye is SUN unusual in the animal kingdom in that it is similar to a SUN human eye and will gaze at an object inquisitively. As the SUN birds head out into the fields to feed, Joanna herself goes SUN in search of them, asking why jackdaws are often in mixed SUN flocks with rooks. SUN SUN All too soon the light begins to fade, and so the pair head SUN back to find pre roost birds in trees around the village. As SUN night gathers, jackdaws in their thousands provide an aerial SUN dance over the Cambridgeshire countryside, before in a role SUN reversal of the morning, a given signal returns them to the SUN roost once more. SUN SUN Producer Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01b8tc7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01b8tc9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01b8yxp (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01b8yxr (Listen) SUN Peace Direct SUN SUN John le Carré presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Peace Direct. SUN SUN Reg Charity:1123241 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Peace Direct SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Peace Direct SUN SUN Peace Direct supports local peacebuilders in war zones SUN worldwide – local people who are stopping violence, saving SUN lives and healing communities. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01b8tcc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01b8tcf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01b8yxt (Listen) SUN 'Speak Up, Speak Out' is a theme being taken by many SUN communities across the UK during this Holocaust Memorial SUN season. Live from The Lighthouse Christian Centre, a multi SUN cultural community church near Media City in Salford. SUN Leader, Pastor Alex Robertson, Preacher Pastor Paul Hallam. SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01b1nl0 (Listen) SUN The Thatcher Story SUN SUN The historian Lisa Jardine reflects on the portrayal of SUN Margaret Thatcher in the film "The Iron Lady", and considers SUN the complexities of portraying the lives of both public and SUN private figures. She recalls, for example, her grandmother, SUN whom she admired but whom others hated. "Have I skewed the SUN historical record with my fond reminiscences of my SUN grandmother?", she wonders. SUN Producer:Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b01b8tch (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01b8yxw (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01b8yxy (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01b8yy0 (Listen) SUN Sir David Attenborough SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway for the 70th anniversary edition of SUN Desert Island Discs is Sir David Attenborough. SUN SUN He has seen more of the world than anyone else who has ever SUN lived - he's visited the north and south poles and witnessed SUN most of the life in-between - from the birds in the canopies SUN of tropical rainforests to giant earthworms in Australia. SUN SUN But despite his extraordinary travels, there is one part of SUN the globe that's eluded him. As a young man and a keen SUN rock-climber, he yearned to conquer the highest peak in the SUN world. "I won't make it now - I won't make it to base camp SUN now - but as a teenager, I thought that the only thing a SUN red-blooded Englishman really should do was to climb SUN Everest." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b019rlnl (Listen) SUN Series 8, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Mark Watson, Henning Wehn, Roisin Conaty SUN and Alex Horne are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: SUN Competitions, Chickens, Sweets and The Romans. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01b8yy2 (Listen) SUN The Trouble with Chocolate SUN SUN The trouble with chocolate. Sheila Dillon explains why SUN supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a challenging SUN future. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01b8tck (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01b8yy4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world, with James SUN Robbins. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Europe's Choice b01b8yy6 (Listen) SUN 1989: Reshaping Europe SUN SUN Allan Little looks at key moments and issues which brought SUN the EU to the current crisis. In this episode he focuses on SUN 1989 and its consequences. SUN SUN By the early 1980s the major players in the European project SUN were already committed to some sort of monetary union. But SUN the fall of the Berlin Wall, which happened much sooner than SUN anticipated, propelled the project forward with a new SUN urgency. France - and others - feared a resurgent Germany SUN would pull the axis of Europe east. Germany too wanted to SUN send a message that it continued to see its future anchored SUN at the heart of the EU: it would give up its cherished SUN deutschmark and embrace the euro. Civil servants and SUN politicians describe the bargaining that took place to close SUN the deal. Compromises were made that would come back to SUN haunt the union as early as 1992 when the Exchange Rate SUN Mechanism - which precipitated one the UK's most serious SUN financial crises - showed the difficulties of maintaining a SUN single currency across very different economies. SUN SUN Producer: Jane Beresford. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01bs90w (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a postbag programme from the GQT potting SUN shed in Sparsholt College. SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer the SUN questions you've sent in by post and email. In addition, is SUN green manure compatible with 'no dig'? And how does SUN long-term seed storage affect plant health? SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Welsh's Scottish Journey b01b8yy8 (Listen) SUN Highlands SUN SUN In 1934 the Orcadian poet Edwin Muir embarked on his iconic SUN 'Scottish Journey' a set of travels round depression-era SUN Scotland where he tried to get to grips with Scottish SUN identity and to consider what the future held for a country SUN whose industries were being devastated by a recession SUN SUN '. . . a silent clearance is going on in industrial SUN Scotland, a clearance not of human beings, but of what they SUN depend upon for life' SUN SUN As a man very much of his time, of the 1930s, he wavered SUN between socialism and nationalism as cures for Scotland's SUN ills, but in-between reflected on the nature of work, SUN poverty, Scottishness, tourism, the ideal way of living, the SUN highland and the lowland character and the possible SUN existence of a best of all possible worlds on his native SUN Orkney. SUN SUN In the summer of 2011, crime writer Louise Welsh decided to SUN embark on a mini whistle-stop version of Muir's journey, SUN taking to the roads in an open-top car, just as he did, and SUN trying to get a flavour now of a country also in the grip of SUN austerity and flirting with nationalism. This week we hit SUN the A9 from Dunkeld to Aviemore, stopping to meet poet SUN Kenneth Steven and the Grant family - Seumas, Alison and SUN Mairi. How do you make a living in the modern day Highlands? SUN And we take a peek into the Gaelic and Scots speaking SUN Highland world, the real one that we don't bottle and sell SUN to the tourists. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01b8yyb (Listen) SUN The Spy, Episode 2 SUN SUN By James Fenimore Cooper, dramatised by DJ Britton. SUN SUN New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the SUN British, has been captured by American forces while wearing SUN a disguise in no-man's land. He must stand trial as a spy, SUN and if found guilty, he will hang. Can General Washington be SUN found in time to issue a pardon? SUN SUN Harvey Birch . . . . . Burn Gorman SUN Frances . . . . . Rose Leslie SUN Henry . . . . . Alex Waldmann SUN Mr Wharton . . . . . James Lailey SUN Sarah . . . . . Francine Chamberlain SUN Mr Harper . . . . . Timothy Watson SUN Caesar . . . . . Richard Pepple SUN Peyton Dunwoodie . . . . . Simon Bubb SUN Captain Lawton . . . . . Gerard McDermott SUN Skinner . . . . . Adam Billington SUN Isabella Singleton . . . . . Victoria Inez Hardy SUN Colonel Martin . . . . . Paul Moriarty SUN SUN Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01b8zvv (Listen) SUN Depictions of students in literature and Catherine Fletcher SUN on Our Man in Rome SUN SUN News and features from the world of books with Mariella SUN Frostrup. SUN SUN BOOK LIST SUN SUN Our Man in Rome, Henry VIII & his Italian Ambassador by SUN Catherine Fletcher. SUN Published by Bodley Head SUN SUN Noughties by Ben Masters SUN Published by Hamish Hamilton. SUN SUN The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore SUN Published by Hammer Books SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01b8zvx (Listen) SUN Music and Lyrics SUN SUN Roger McGough presents poetry requests based on the themes SUN of music and lyrics, featuring work by Yeats, Maya Angelou, SUN Joanna Newsom, Louis MacNeice, and Patti Smith. SUN SUN There are musical interpretations by the likes of The SUN Waterboys, The Wraiths, Cantamus Girls' Choir, and Natalie SUN Merchant. SUN SUN There's also a chance to hear Scroobius Pip read his SUN inventive Mr Otis Regrets, a response to Miss Otis Regrets, SUN and Kenneth Patchen delivering Lonesome Boy Blues against a SUN gritty jazz soundtrack. SUN SUN The readers are Peter Marinker, Pippa Haywood, Mark Meadows SUN and Nadia Williams. SUN SUN Producer: Toby Field. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b019rqcl (Listen) SUN Carers in Conflict SUN SUN Jenny Cuffe talks to foster parents who find themselves SUN battling with local authorities over the children in their SUN care. They describe a Kafkaesque nightmare where doors are SUN shut, telephone calls and emails unanswered, even court SUN orders are ignored. Meanwhile, vulnerable children are SUN treated as pawns as social workers move them from one place SUN to another. SUN SUN In one case investigated by File on 4, foster parents who SUN offered to care for four siblings were denied the financial SUN and practical support they needed from the council. Their SUN official complaints were upheld yet key recommendations SUN continued to be ignored and, as a consequence, the children SUN have now been split up. After giving up their jobs to care SUN for the children, the couple are now in debt and have to SUN sell their home. The local MP describes the council's SUN treatment of the family as outrageous. He says the case is SUN extreme but not unusual and he's called for an enquiry. SUN In another case, a teenager with complex mental and physical SUN needs was unlawfully removed from the foster home where he'd SUN grown up. His sister told File on 4: "When he was in his SUN foster mum's care he was always clean, always happy and he SUN looked well but when I saw him he was dishevelled. It was as SUN if someone took him away from himself. I felt his SUN personality had gone." When his foster mother went to court SUN to get him back, she was vilified by the council who used SUN public funds to defend their actions to the bitter end but SUN lost in court. SUN SUN A recent report identified a shortage of foster carers in SUN the UK but are some councils driving away the people who SUN should be their best resource? SUN SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01b8wrr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01b8tcm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01b8tcp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b8tcr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01b8zvz (Listen) SUN On the programme this week, why the Swedes are bothered by SUN badgers and a train passenger by unnecessary public SUN announcements. There's the extraordinarily brave and SUN articulate 14 year old girl who's spoken out about the SUN brutality of the Taliban, and the 21st century technology SUN that is revealing the horrors of Treblinka. If you like SUN music, there's the Czech cellist Milos Sadlo and the SUN Madagascan girl singers whose name means bringing joy. Which SUN is what writer Shirley Hughes did for many of you this week, SUN when she took to the floor once more with a teenage beau. SUN SUN That's all in Pick of the Week with Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Ol' Blue Eyes of Bayswater - Radio 2 SUN A Last Excuse Me Dance - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN Deep Country - Radio 4 SUN Viva Sweden - 6music SUN Short Cuts - Radio 4 SUN Between the Ears - Radio 3 SUN Things Might Change or Cease - Radio 3 SUN With Great Pleasure - Radio 4 SUN The Cellists That Time Forgot - Radio 3 SUN Outlook - BBC World Service SUN Hidden Graves of The Holocaust - Radio 4 SUN Birkett and the Naked Toreador - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01b8zw1 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 It's Your Round b01b8zw3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 SUN SUN Angus Deayton presides over another episode of the show SUN where the format is, there isn't one. Instead, each of the SUN four panellists has brought their own round for the other SUN panellists to play. How will each round play out? And, more SUN importantly, who will be beaten at their own game? SUN SUN The rounds featured this episode are: SUN SUN Alex Horne's "Font, Fighter or Fragrance" in which SUN panellists are given a word and they must guess whether that SUN word refers to a typographical font, the name of a Gladiator SUN from ITV's show "Gladiators" or a "Lynx deodorant" SUN fragrance. SUN SUN Roisin Conaty's "Four Second Pitch" in which panellists have SUN but four seconds to pitch Angus the elements of an idea for SUN a blockbuster film and a new religion. SUN SUN Paul Sinha's "World Record Recall" in which panellists have SUN to fill in the missing details from the description of a SUN real record from the Guinness Book of World Records. SUN SUN And Rufus Hound's "Which Lady Done Say That Thing" in which SUN panellists must guess which audience member said a certain SUN phrase. As the title suggests. SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b8zw5 (Listen) SUN Broad Reach SUN SUN Written by Roy Apps. SUN SUN Today's story - Broad Reach by Roy Apps - is the second in a SUN series of specially commissioned stories which take boats SUN and boating as their theme. SUN SUN Nick has lost both legs in a car crash - and all his SUN confidence as well. With the help of Jamie, his son, he SUN starts sailing again - and manages to get the better of a SUN pompous Yacht Club Commodore into the bargain.... SUN SUN A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers SUN and boats. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01b1nkm (Listen) SUN The decision to end Radio 4's Home Planet has dismayed many SUN listeners. The programme has been answering listeners' SUN environmental science questions for the last 10 years. This SUN week two listeners meet commissioning editor Mohit Bakaya to SUN ask - what on earth is going on? They also talk to the newly SUN appointed science editor David Shukman about his plans for SUN science on BBC radio. SUN SUN And Happy 70th Birthday Desert Island Discs. Executive SUN producer Cathy Drysdale tells Roger how this weekend - each SUN BBC local radio station as well as BBC Scotland, Northern SUN Ireland and Wales are running special programmes dedicated SUN to the music choices and personal stories of hundreds of SUN listeners. SUN SUN We also hear your reactions to news that the BBC Trust has SUN ordered BBC managers to rethink cuts to local radio budgets. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01b1nkk (Listen) SUN Nicol Williamson, Gustav Leonhardt, Manuel Fraga and Hugh SUN Carless SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The actor Nicol Williamson, praised for his passionate SUN performances in Shakespeare and Osborne, notorious for his SUN erratic and sometimes violent behaviour SUN SUN The harpsichordist and conductor Gustav Leonhardt, a leading SUN figure in the early music movement. SUN SUN The Spanish politician Manuel Fraga, who founded the current SUN centre right governing party and once shot Franco's daughter SUN in the bottom during a hunting trip. SUN SUN And Hugh Carless, the diplomat who went with the travel SUN writer Eric Newby on his celebrated "Short Walk In the Hindu SUN Kush". SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01b8w6c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01b8yxr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b019rlnv (Listen) SUN Capitalists against the Super Rich SUN SUN Are the champions of the capitalist system now turning SUN against the super-rich? And if they are, what will they now SUN do about it? In this week's Analysis, we meet leading SUN figures of the centre right who suddenly seem to have SUN something in common with the political left: a moral SUN aversion to the an era of high finance that saw huge payouts SUN to a few, and bailouts funded by the rest. Prime Minster SUN David Cameron opened 2011 with a speech criticising a system SUN where "a few at the top get rewards that seem to have SUN nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they SUN put in." He promises change, but how can that be achieved SUN without undermining the logic of capitalism? Edward Stourton SUN meets influential defenders of market forces who say they SUN can keep the best of free trade but exclude the undeserving SUN rich. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01b8zw7 (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 b01b8zw9 (Listen) SUN Episode 88 SUN SUN John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01b1lk6 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to three Oscar-nominated directors - SUN Martin Scorsese, Michel Hazanavicius and Woody Allen. SUN SUN Uggie, the Jack Russell from The Artist, has been snubbed by SUN the Academy despite an online campaign to have him receive a SUN best actor nod. But should animals receive Academy Awards? SUN Susan Orlean, author of a new biography of Rin Tin Tin, SUN believes so. She explains why. SUN SUN Director Volker Schlöndorff discusses his Oscar winning film SUN from 1979, The Tim Drum, an adaptation of Gunter Grass's SUN celebrated novel of the same name. SUN SUN And former cast member of Radio 4's The Archers Felicity SUN Jones discusses her new film, Like Crazy. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01b8yxk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 JANUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01b8tdd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01b1g96 (Listen) MON Conspiracy theories - International suffering MON MON Do you remember the moon landings? Up to 20% of American MON believe they never happened. When it comes to 9/11 the MON public suspicion is even greater. Polls consistently show MON that between 30% and 40% of Americans think the official MON account is a cover up, that the US establishment was MON directly involved in planting explosives in the towers or MON was guilty of deliberately looking the other way as the MON attacks were planned. In this country we are scarcely more MON trusting. Why has suspicion of conspiracy become so MON widespread? Laurie discusses the lure of the conspiracy MON theory with David Aaronovitch and Jovan Byford. MON Also on the programme, the suffering of strangers: What is MON it that makes us care for people we have never met and have MON very different lives from our own? A sense of justice or an MON impulse for charity? Laurie talks to Kate Nash MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01b8xcd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b8tdg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b8tdj (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b8tdl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01b8tdn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01b90bk (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Dr Mark Beach, Team Rector of Rugby. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01b90bm (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01b8tdq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01b90bp (Listen) MON Presented by Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01b90br (Listen) MON Revolution: Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks revolution. Wael Ghonim MON explains how social networks played a vital role in the Arab MON Spring. His Facebook page,'We Are All Khaled Said', which MON featured the death of a young Egyptian, inspired a new MON generation to fight oppression. Mary King, Professor of MON Peace and Conflict Studies looks back to earlier struggles MON in eastern Europe, and the journalist Paul Mason explores MON how far the worldwide economic crisis and growing inequality MON lie behind the new revolutions. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01b90bt (Listen) MON The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, Episode 1 MON MON Nick Coleman's account of how he struggled to overcome MON losing his hearing in one ear, and how he reinvented his MON relationship to music, his great passion in life. Today, the MON ability to hear is music is altered irrevocably, and the MON process of readjustment begins. MON MON The Train in the Night is the new memoir by Nick Coleman and MON recounts how he lost his hearing in one ear, and how he MON struggled to overcome losing his inability to hear music by MON rethinking the complex relationship we all have with music MON from psalms and symphonies, to love songs, ballads and punk. MON MON Nick Coleman grew up in the Fens. He has written about music MON throughout his career as a journalist for titles including MON NME, Time Out, the Independent and Independent on Sunday, MON The Times and The Wire. MON MON Reader: Sean Foley, actor and comedian, is currently MON directing the West End production of The Ladykillers. MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01b9b7q (Listen) MON Child protection; Marine le Pen; could a woman lead the BBC? MON MON Could a woman lead the BBC - and what impact might that have MON on programmes? Child protection: how difficult decisions get MON made. Marine Le Pen: a serious contender for the French MON Presidency? How to resolve conflict with friends. And why MON are there so few female architects? MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b9b7s (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways return as Mr and Mrs MON Pepys in Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662 MON - a year which begins badly when Sam accidentally whacks MON Elizabeth in the eye with his elbow as he's waking up. On MON Twelfth Night they enjoy a feast, including eighteen mince MON pies, with their neighbours, Lord and Lady Batten, who are MON also celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary on that day. MON There's more entertainment on a night out at the theatre MON when they see Romeo and Juliet - but decide it's the worst MON play - and the worst acted - they've ever seen. MON MON Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways MON Captain Holmes . . . Andrew Wincott MON Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley MON Lady Batten . . . Marilyn le Conte MON Will . . . John Biddle MON Captain Cook/Mr Saville . . . Matthew Gravelle MON Jane . . . Rebecca Newman MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 The Secret Catacombs of Paris b01b9h73 (Listen) MON Famously known as the City of Light, Paris is a diverse MON metropolis rich in architecture and steeped in history. But MON it has a dark alter ego that lies 30 metres under the MON ground, mirroring centuries of bloody wars, revolutions and MON riots on the surface. For Paris is porous - built on 177 MON miles of tunnels that were formed when limestone and gypsum MON were quarried to build the capital. Most people are only MON aware of just a tiny fraction of these tunnels - the world MON famous ossuary known as The Catacombs. The authorities have MON tried to keep a lid on the full extent of the labyrinthine MON remainder for hundreds of years. But there are little known MON entry points everywhere - in basements, in train stations, MON cellars and sewers. Throughout history, invaders have always MON found a way in, whether they were fighting Prussian MON soldiers, fleeing royalty of the French Revolution, the MON Nazis or The Resistance. Today they're home to the MON cataphiles - urban explorers who use the tunnels as an art MON space, a music venue or even a clandestine meeting point for MON secret societies. MON The Guardian's architecture and design correspondent MON Jonathan Glancey investigates the underground maze of Paris, MON revealing a mysterious and intriguing history. MON MON 11:30 Sparkling Cyanide b01b9h75 (Listen) MON Rosemary MON MON by Agatha Christie MON adapted by Joy Wilkinson. MON Part 1: Rosemary MON MON 21 year old Rosemary dies at her birthday party after MON drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced champagne. The small MON group of friends and family who were present struggle to MON understand - was it suicide, or could one of them possibly MON have murdered her? An ex-lover, a younger sister who stood MON to inherit, a jealous husband? It seems almost all the MON guests had a motive. MON MON IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick MON ROSEMARY ..... Jasmine Hyde MON GEORGE ..... Peter Wight MON ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney MON RUTH ..... Amanda Drew MON STEPHEN ..... James Lailey MON SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles MON VICTOR ..... Simon Bubb MON MON directed by Mary Peate. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01b9h77 (Listen) MON We look at why high street pharmacists are still running MON short of vital drugs, a year after the government admitted MON the system wasn't working. MON MON Also, could rear-facing car seats be the next big thing for MON nine-month to four-year-olds? Some say they're safer than MON the traditional forward facing seats. MON MON And have you been "brandwashed"? We'll be finding out the MON secret tricks that big brands and shops use to manipulate us MON into buying what they want - and how to resist them. MON MON Presented by Winifred Robinson MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01b8tds (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01b9h79 (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Sport and the British b01b9h7c (Listen) MON The Rise of Olympism MON MON CLARE BALDING charts how Britain has shaped sport and sport MON has shaped the British.Apart from the English language MON itself, the invention of modern sport has been our major MON cultural legacy to the rest of the world.In this thirty part MON narrative history series with the help of the academic team MON from the International Centre for Sport History and Culture MON at De Montfort University, Clare looks at the unique and MON vital role sport has played, and continues to play, in our MON national life. As we gear up for the 2012 games, in this MON first programme she looks at the birth of the modern MON olympics movement. While it was inspired by the Greeks and MON revived by the French nobleman, Pierre de Coubertin, his MON motivation came from a provincial English public school. It MON was while visiting Rugby and contemplating the work of its MON visionary headmaster, Thomas Arnold, that de Coubertin came MON to the conclusion that inferior physical fitness in young MON Frenchmen had played a part in their defeat by the Germans MON in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. If they played more MON sport at school, he thought, the outcome might have been MON different. With Richard Holt and Tony Collins, Professors at MON the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De MON Montfort University, Clare discusses what lessons can be MON drawn from the games since 1896, in order to achieve success MON when they return to us this year. MON The reader is Stuart McLoughlin. MON Producer: Lucy Lunt. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01b8zw1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b010t6h0 (Listen) MON Lost Property, The Wrong Label MON MON by Katie Hims. London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop MON your children from being evacuated is to tantamount to MON siding with Hitler. MON MON Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero MON Alice ..... Alex Tregear MON Queenie ..... Katie Angelou MON Ray ..... Daniel Cooper MON Jim ..... Daniel Rabin MON Mr Nightingale ..... Stuart McLoughlin MON Miss Pearl ..... Bethan Walker MON Miss Stanwyck ..... Sally Orrock MON Mr Jones ..... Sean Baker MON Mrs Jones ..... Joanna Monro MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01b9h7f (Listen) MON (12/12) MON The 2012 general knowledge contest reaches its twelfth and MON final heat, with one automatic place remaining in the MON semi-finals which begin next week. Which of today's four MON competitors will win through? MON MON Russell Davies is in the chair, at the BBC's Maida Vale MON studios. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01b8yy2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01b9h7h (Listen) MON Gervase Phinn MON MON The popular writer and educationalist Gervase Phinn presents MON his selection of favourite literary extracts to a home crowd MON in Yorkshire, with Oscar Wilde, Seamus Heaney and Trollope MON among his chosen pieces. Recorded at The Red Shed, MON Wakefield's Labour Club, he shares his indebtedness to his MON parents for encouraging a love of reading from an early age MON - whilst also acknowledging their sense of humour. There MON they were, living in a red brick semi in Rotherham, his MON father a steelworker - and they saw fit to name him Gervase. MON MON Gervase Phinn is a tremendous anecdotalist, with a profound MON love of children and their unique experience of an unfolding MON world. This is very much reflected in his choice of extracts MON - from Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' to a telling MON evocation of an Edwardian schooling by Robert Roberts. MON Gervase warmly recalls key teachers and figures from his own MON childhood, honouring the importance of the work that MON teachers do today, many of them being - in his own words - MON 'fair rigwelted' by the constant changes. MON MON The readers are Jane Godber and Jonathan Keeble. MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01b9hjd (Listen) MON Pilgrimage MON MON Every year more than 100 million people around the world go MON on pilgrimage, the biggest mass migration of people on the MON planet. Two and a half million Muslims visited Mecca for MON last year's Hajj and over 600,000 visited Graceland to MON worship at the shrine of Elvis Presley. Tourist companies MON specialising in pilgrimage tours are expanding - it's big MON business. Ernie & his guests discuss whether there is MON something in the human psyche which seeks fulfilment from a MON physical journey, but one that has a spiritual motive, and MON also consider the growing phenomenon of cyber pilgrimage. MON Can a "virtual" journey in any way be seen as comparable? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss pilgrimage are Dr Marion MON Bowman, Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the MON Open University; Martin Palmer, Secretary General of the MON Alliance of Religions & Conservation, and Connie Hill-Smith MON who is writing her doctoral thesis on cyber pilgrimage at MON the University of Wales, Trinity & St. David's. MON MON 17:00 PM b01b9hjg (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b8tdv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01b9hjj (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Tony Hawks, Alan Davies, Tom Wrigglesworth MON and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Wool, MON Flowers, The Radio and Pasta. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith. MON A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01b9hjl (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01b9hjn (Listen) MON Mark Lawson reviews Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster as warring MON parents in the film Carnage, based on a play by Yasmina MON Reza. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b9b7s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 What Are the Police For? b01b9hjq (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON With policing top of the political agenda, and major change MON on the way, Mark Easton asks what we want from our police. MON MON Mark spends time with police officers doing jobs as diverse MON as roads policing, neighbourhood policing and monitoring sex MON offenders to paint a picture of how we are policed in 2012 MON and examine whether the daily reality matches the political MON rhetoric. And he speaks to politicians, academics and the MON public to assess whether what we are getting is what we MON want. MON MON In this first programme, he digs into the origins of the MON current political debate over policing, and asks what the MON huge political changes lined up for policing in 2012 - MON including budget cuts and major changes to working practices MON - will mean for the service. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01b9hjs (Listen) MON Do schools make a difference? MON MON Are good schools anything more than schools with a good MON intake? Fran Abrams investigates. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01b1lk8 (Listen) MON Do the health and bio-security risks of influenza research MON justify its benefits in preparing for the next pandemic? MON Could a fresh water bulge in the Arctic Ocean upset the MON British climate? Does the shape of someone's face affect the MON tone of their voice? And will the widening of the Panama MON Canal bring environmental benefits? Quentin Cooper questions MON the scientists involved. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Freedom, Flu and Terrorism MON MON The next flu pandemic, say researchers, we'll come not from MON bio-terrorists but from the chicken farms of Asia. MON MON Influenza researchers trying to stay one step ahead of the MON natural mutations that might lead to a new pandemic have MON engineered strains of flu based on the pathogenic H5N1 avian MON virus but that are passed easily between mammals, in this MON case laboratory ferrets. MON MON But US bio security advisers don't want the details of the MON research published and mounting concerns have led the MON researchers to undertake a 60 day moratorium on such MON research. So how risky is it and how serious is the threat MON that it may be used by bio terrorists or rogue nations? MON MON Quentin discusses the issues with Prof John Oxford of the MON Royal London Hospital and Prof Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus MON Medical Centre in Rotterdam. MON MON Arctic Bulge MON MON Satellite data showing the bulge in the Arctic Ocean north MON of Alaska in 2010 and the variation in sea surface height MON over the past 15 years. MON MON Careful satellite measurements have revealed a bulge in the MON Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. The bulge, revealed this week MON in an article in Nature Geoscience, is only 16 cm high but MON so broad that it contains roughly 8000 km³ of fresh water. MON MON Dr Katharine Giles of the centre for polar observation and MON modelling at University College London suggests that MON circulating winds may have built up the bulge over the past MON decade, perhaps assisted by overlying sea ice. MON MON However, if the water is released into the North Atlantic it MON could upset ocean circulation and have a serious effect on MON the temperate climate of north-west Europe. MON MON Does the face match the voice? MON MON Do Radio 4 presenters look as you had imagined them? Or are MON they different in the flesh? MON MON Caricaturist William Rudling thinks that your face shape MON influences your voice and is our next finalist on So You MON Want to Be a Scientist? MON MON Adam Rutherford offers his face up for artistic MON interpretation and asks William’s mentor, Dr Paul Carter MON from Leeds University, whether there’s any scientific reason MON to believe that our face shapes our voice. MON MON Widening the Panama Canal MON MON In 2014 an eight-year project to widen the Panama Canal will MON be complete. It will enable bigger container ships to use MON the canal and also, says a report by Paul Stott of Newcastle MON University, bigger bulk carriers. MON MON At the moment, nearly half of all vessels over 20,000 tons MON are built to fit the existing width of the canal. Widening MON the canal, say the researchers, gives ship designers the MON chance to redesign hulls for greater efficiency and economy MON of scale, thus reducing the increasing proportion of global MON CO2 emissions that are due to shipping. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01b90br (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01b8tdx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01b9hjv (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01b9hjx (Listen) MON Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 1 MON MON A starkly minimalist flat drives a writer to the edge in MON Will Wiles' darkly comic tale. MON MON 'Thanks so much for this; you're a real friend for helping MON me out. I don't feel comfortable leaving the flat for so MON long, not with the cats... You'll like it, it's a nice MON flat.' MON MON When an unnamed writer finds himself entrusted with looking MON after a disturbingly minimalist apartment in a nameless MON Mittel European city, he looks forward to a chance to write, MON relax and recuperate. But all too soon, and all too MON inevitably, things begin to go wrong. The flat is owned by MON his old friend, Oskar, a minimalist composer, best known for MON his piece, 'Variations on Tram Timetables', who turns out to MON be quite the perfectionist... MON MON Will Wiles' absurdist comic debut is the story of an MON unlikely friendship between two very different men, of MON alienation in a foreign city, of the quest for perfection - MON and of how to take care of wooden floors. MON MON Reader: Bertie Carvel. Bertie Carvel is currently playing MON Miss Trunchbull in the RSC's production of Roald Dahl's MON 'Matilda' in the West End. MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Original music: Kirsten Morrison. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b019rpvw (Listen) MON Teens and TV MON MON Michael Rosen explores the portrayal of teens on TV, and MON speaks to Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill about how MON approaches have changed over the years, and the battle MON Grange Hill faced to stay on the air. MON MON He visits Albert Square and speaks to writer/cast-members of MON E20, Emer Kenny and Arinze Kene. Together with senior writer MON Jeff Povey they discuss how they developed the character of MON Fatboy to parody people who over-use slang, and Emer talks MON collecting words on buses. MON MON What programme about young people and TV would be complete MON without mention of Skins? Writer Laura Hunter and cast talk MON about how they coined the phrase "Amazeballs." MON MON We also hear from Paul Parry, the self-styled "literally MON tsar" about the way the use of the word has changed. Why is MON it, like, literally everywhere? MON MON Producer: Toby Field. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01b9hjz (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 JANUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01b8tfh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01b90bt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b8tfk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b8tfm (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b8tfp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01b8tfr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bf78t (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Dr Mark Beach, Team Rector of Rugby. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01b9jnk (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01b9jnm (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; TUE Thought for the Day. Presented by Sarah Montague and James TUE Naughtie. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b01b9jnp (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland explores a moment in history which TUE illuminates a current debate. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b015ztll (Listen) TUE Series 3, Norway TUE TUE Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE TUE Daniel Sanden-Warg grew up in Sweden listening to rock TUE giants. As a teenager, he appeared on Swedish television TUE playing the guitar a la Jimi Hendrix (including behind his TUE back and with his teeth). Then a new boy arrived at his TUE school and through him, Daniel discovered folk music, TUE specifically the hardanger fiddle tradition of Norway's TUE Setesdal Valley. Of hearing this music for the first time, TUE he says "it was life-changing for me. I was sure at once TUE that this is what I want to do. This is the music I want to TUE play. I have to get good at it, and if I'm going to be poor, TUE I don't care, that's going to be my life, that's it." TUE TUE Daniel's dream was to study with the man who'd played on the TUE first recording he heard - Hallvard Bjorgum. After TUE practising for hours each day for months, he sent Hallvard a TUE demo tape and waited anxiously for a response. On Christmas TUE Eve, Hallvard called him. He told Daniel that his playing TUE reminded him of his father and that he could come and study TUE with him any time. TUE TUE So Daniel moved to the extraordinary Setesdal valley in the TUE south of Norway - an area famed for centuries for its TUE fiddlers and where folklife is cherished. He became fully TUE absorbed into the culture. He played side by side with TUE Hallvard, built his own traditional log cabin, and learned TUE the ancient art of silver-smithing - a craft typically TUE practised by Setesdal fiddlers because it is gentler on TUE their fingers than, for example, logging. Daniel, whom TUE Hallvard describes as a genius, is now one of the most TUE sought-after hardanger fiddle players in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Rachel Hopkin TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01b9jnr (Listen) TUE The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, Episode 2 TUE TUE Nick Coleman's account of how he struggled to overcome TUE losing his hearing in one ear, and how he reinvented his TUE relationship to music, his great passion in life. Today, TUE teenage recollections of his first seven records. TUE TUE Reader: Sean Foley, actor and comedian, is currently TUE directing the West End production of The Ladykillers. TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01b9jnt (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b9jnw (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of Pepys' diary for 1662, TUE Sam wants to go on a jaunt to Portsmouth with Captain Cook - TUE a trip combining navy business with pleasure. But Elizabeth TUE is not so keen on him going without her, especially as he TUE insists on sending her away from London to the country where TUE she'll get no visitors. On Sam's return they see a puppet TUE show at Covent Garden, and catch up on court gossip with TUE Lord Sandwich - the new Queen is about to arrive from TUE Portugal but the King is still spending most nights with his TUE mistress, Lady Castlemaine. TUE TUE Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall TUE Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways TUE Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley TUE Sir William Coventry . . . Andrew Wincott TUE Jane . . . Rebecca Newman TUE Captain Cook . . . Matthew Gravelle TUE Mr Hollier . . . Gareth Pierce TUE Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson TUE Will . . . John Biddle TUE TUE Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by TUE Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany TUE Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David TUE Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by TUE Alice Baxter. TUE TUE Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE Sound by Nigel Lewis TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01b9jny (Listen) TUE Series 5, In search of the Tiger’s Roar TUE TUE Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson travels to India, to TUE capture the sounds of the forest and the spine tingling roar TUE of a Bengal Tiger. TUE TUE Chris is leading a team of wildlife sound recordists on this TUE quest. They travel to Corbett National Park which was TUE established in 1936 as Asia's first National Park. It TUE stretches over some 1300 sq km. in the foothills of the TUE Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand. TUE TUE The park is named after the legendary hunter, naturalist and TUE author Edward James Corbett, better known as 'Jim Corbett'. TUE Author of 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon', Corbett spent many years TUE killing tigers and leopards before concern about their TUE future and that of their habitat, led him to playing a key TUE role in establishing the National Park. TUE TUE Today the Park is home to a rich and diverse range of TUE wildlife including over 100 Bengal tigers. To help them, the TUE team have several local guides; who are not only skilled in TUE the art of tracking tigers; knowing what signs to look for; TUE like scats on the ground, scratch marks on the trees, and TUE perhaps most importantly, knowing how to listen to the TUE forest and use the alarm calls of other animals such as the TUE peacocks and samba deer to help track the tigers. It might TUE sound easy enough but as Chris and the team discover, it's TUE far more difficult than it sounds. TUE TUE In their search for tigers, they play a game of TUE 'Grandmother's footsteps' with a pair of elephants, TUE encounter crocodiles in a river, are puzzled by something TUE that sounds like rain but isn't, and record the unusual TUE barks of Hanaman Langurs in the forest. As for recording the TUE roar of a tiger, they need skill, patience and, a bit of TUE good luck. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01b9jp0 (Listen) TUE Series 13, Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street TUE TUE Gerry Rafferty's glorious and instantly recognisable hit, TUE Baker Street launches the new series of Soul Music. TUE TUE Rafferty died just over a year ago (on January 4th 2011) at TUE the age of 63, and to mark the anniversary we're celebrating TUE his most popular hit. TUE TUE His daughter Martha Rafferty recalls hearing her father TUE develop the melody in the attic of their Glasgow home; the TUE sound of him picking-out the tune on his acoustic guitar TUE would drift through the push-up attic-door, filling the rest TUE of the house with what would become his biggest hit. She TUE describes the inspiration for the lyrics: a book called 'The TUE Outsider' by Colin Wilson which Rafferty was reading at the TUE time. It's about the sense of disconnection from the world TUE that artists often feel. Martha regards Baker Street as the TUE lyrical version of that book. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01b9kd2 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01b8tft (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01b9kd4 (Listen) TUE Shaun Ley presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Sport and the British b01b9kd6 (Listen) TUE A Level Playing Field TUE TUE CLARE BALDING explores how the British shaped sport and TUE sport shaped Britain. If the French had played cricket, TUE would they have prevented the revolution? Clare visits TUE Broadhalfpenny Down in Hampshire, the original home of TUE Hambledon Cricket Club, that's widely regarded as the TUE birthplace of modern cricket. The origins of the game go TUE back to the sixteenth century, it was a farm game, played on TUE landed estates. Highly competitive aristocratic landowners, TUE with money and time to spend, would employ men on their TUE estates who were the best cricketers, so they could use them TUE on their team. Cricket brought together landowners and their TUE agricultural workers, they played together on the same TUE pitch, in the same team - on a level playing field. TUE Professor Richard Holt of the International Centre for TUE Sports history and culture at De Montfort University TUE explains that while we shouldn't confuse social mixing with TUE social harmony, this picture of cricket as a village game, TUE played on summer afternoon, everyone knowing their place on TUE the field, has become the image of Englishness. TUE Producer: Sara Conkey. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01b9hjl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b010xzzm (Listen) TUE Lost Property, The Year My Mother Went Missing TUE TUE It's 1979, and it's not the first time that Ruthie's mother TUE Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note. The TUE second in Katie Hims' trilogy of plays. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Ruthie ..... Shannon Flynn TUE Vincent ..... Ceallach Spellman TUE Marcus ..... Elliot Griffiths TUE Dad ..... Ralph Ineson TUE Ray ..... Daniel Rabin TUE Alice ..... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Queenie ..... Sally Orrock TUE PC O'Hara ..... Stuart McLoughlin TUE DI Driscoll ..... Sean Baker TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01b9kd8 (Listen) TUE Lost for Words TUE TUE A selection of brief encounters, true stories and found TUE sound find a home in this new series for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Nina Garthwaite, the founder of the public listening TUE phenomenon In the Dark, presents a showcase for delightful TUE and adventurous short documentaries. TUE TUE In the final edition of the series we find ourselves 'Lost TUE for Words' as Nina explores our difficulty expressing TUE ourselves. In 'The True Language', the sound artist John TUE Wynne examines our attachment to the first language we learn TUE - and what happens when it starts to disappear. We discover TUE how simple geographical terms can become politically charged TUE as the Irish novelist Glenn Patterson struggles to find the TUE right word to describe his home. And the singer and TUE broadcaster Cerys Matthews reflects on the musicality of TUE language. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01b9kdb (Listen) TUE Bottle Bank Wars TUE TUE Since goldrush days San Francisco has been a magnet for TUE those on the make. But the latest moneymakers aren't TUE interested in striking gold, they're in search of cans and TUE bottles. The city's efforts to boost recycling rates have TUE been so successful that the value of rubbish has spiralled, TUE leading to battles between official, unofficial and TUE downright criminal garbage collectors. TUE TUE San Francisco now recycles 78% of it's trash: paper, TUE bottles, cans, plastics and even food gets recycled or TUE composted. This is partly due to the California Bottle Bill TUE of 1987 that introduced legislation to ensure a deposit was TUE repaid on bottles and cans that were sold in the state. The TUE amount recyclers get depends on the package they return. TUE TUE The city has also made it extremely easy for residents to TUE recycle. They now have three bins. A brown bin for food TUE waste, a black bin for general waste and a blue bin for TUE recycling. TUE TUE It's these now iconic blue bins that scavengers target, TUE pillaging the bottles and cans before Recology, the city's TUE official garbage collectors, can get to them. They then take TUE the booty to recycling centers and collect a few bucks. TUE TUE The fear is that now small time pilfering by a handful of TUE scavengers is becoming more organised with criminal gangs TUE getting in on the act. TUE TUE Tom Heap hits the streets of San Francisco to meet those TUE making cash from trash. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Europe's Choice b01b8yy6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01b9kdd (Listen) TUE Series 26, Razia Sultana TUE TUE Co-chairman of the Conservative party, Baroness Warsi TUE recalls her Pakistani-born father during her Yorkshire TUE childhood telling her about the heroic martial deeds TUE conducted by a thirteenth century Indian princess, Razia TUE Sultana. TUE TUE Descended from humble stock, the much mythologized Sultana TUE ruled for less than four years in the 1230s, but has long TUE been celebrated as the first female Indian Muslim leader. TUE Sayeeda Warsi explains why she's fascinated by this TUE character whose reign was abruptly brought to an end by the TUE jealous rivalries of the male nobility around her who could TUE not tolerate the fact that she had been chosen by her father TUE above the heads of her brothers. We'll hear whether Sayeeda TUE draws inspiration from Razia's model of bold leadership, and TUE whether she finds parallels with her own experience of TUE British politics today within the senior ranks of the TUE Conservative Party. TUE TUE Writer and expert on India, William Dalrymple sets the TUE scene, explaining how and why Turkish Muslims had an empire TUE that reached as far as the Himalayas, at a time when TUE northern India was having to withstand the Mongol incursions TUE of Genghis Khan. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01b9kdg (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b8tfw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01b9kdj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Sally's Birthday TUE TUE Episode 2 - Sally's Birthday TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. TUE Will and Annabelle attend her mum's 60th Birthday Party. TUE Will makes an effort to get on with his straight talking TUE father-in-law John. TUE TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy ..... Paterson Joseph TUE John ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Sally ..... Susie Blake TUE Shop Assistant ..... Tracy Wiles TUE TUE Written by ..... Will Smith TUE Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01b9kdl (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01bb701 (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson meets the award-winning Australian novelist Kate TUE Grenville, whose books include The Secret River. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01b9jnw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01bb703 (Listen) TUE Inquests in England are increasingly hearing a new term to TUE explain deaths in police custody: Excited Delirium. It's a TUE diagnosis with origins in the United States, where it has TUE been associated with consumption of massive doses of TUE cocaine. People with ED are said to possess super-human TUE strength and to be largely impervious to pain. They behave TUE bizarrely, sometimes destructively.They often seem paranoid TUE and frequently resist arrest. As police struggle to restrain TUE them they overheat and die. TUE TUE But critics -- including some British Pathologists -- point TUE out that Excited Delirium is not recognised by the World TUE Health Organisation and that there is a lack of valid TUE research. Civil liberties organisations fear that the TUE diagnosis might be employed to excuse improper use of TUE restraint techniques by police. TUE TUE For 'File on 4' Angus Stickler has travelled to the cocaine TUE capital of the United States, Miami, where police and TUE scientists are attempting to define and deal with the TUE controversial condition. TUE TUE And in England he speaks to families whose loved ones have TUE died after being restrained by the police. Is Excited TUE Delirium well-enough understood to be used by courts? And TUE just how many people are dying while being restrained -- TUE either in custody or while being arrested? Are the official TUE figures reliable? TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01bb705 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01bb707 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us TUE and separates the facts from the fiction. He brings clarity TUE to conflicting health advice, explores new medical research TUE and tackles the big health issue of the moment revealing the TUE inner workings of the medical profession and the daily TUE dilemmas doctors face. TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Mark Porter TUE Producer: Erika Wright/Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b01b9jnp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01b8tfy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01bb709 (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bb70c (Listen) TUE Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: it's Day Two in the flat, and time to explore the TUE city. But already there's a wine stain on Oskar's pristine TUE wooden floor. TUE TUE Reader: Bertie Carvel TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 I, Regress b01bb70f (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an TUE unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees TUE Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff TUE Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking TUE unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through TUE their subconscious. TUE TUE Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client TUE who has come to him for a different problem (quitting TUE smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under TUE hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various TUE situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played TUE out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) TUE like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is TUE disturbing. TUE TUE Ep 5: Dr Berry's latest patient, Christian Parcel (Nick TUE Lucas) finds himself in the worst place on the planet thanks TUE to some 'experimental hypnotherapy'. But events take a twist TUE that even Dr Berry himself finds hard to control, thanks to TUE a football pitch, a nightclub and a very unusual tattoo... TUE TUE The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT TUE Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall TUE (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes TUE Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's TUE Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter TUE Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, TUE and The Royal Exchange). TUE TUE A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone TUE else's head! TUE TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 23:15 Continuity b00tq0p2 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE A Continuity Announcer's booth can be a lonely place - TUE especially on the late shift, when you've barely seen your TUE wife and children for a week. Still, this Radio 4 Continuity TUE Announcer is nothing, if not a consummate professional and TUE he's not going to let his own insignificant little problems TUE get in the way of your listening pleasure. Especially when TUE there are so many exciting programmes coming up in the next TUE week, which he's got to tell you about. At least some of TUE them are exciting. Some of them aren't quite his cup of tea, TUE if he's honest, but that's not really the point, is it? They TUE may be right up your street. It's not really his place to TUE express an opinion. Even if it is tempting. This may be a TUE come-down from heady days spent announcing on the Today TUE programme, but he's got a job to do. Though sometimes it is TUE rather difficult to concentrate ..... TUE TUE Alistair McGowan stars in a new subversive sitcom about a TUE Continuity Announcer brooding on the escalating disasters of TUE his private and professional life; at the same time as TUE attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer TUE in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a TUE parallel universe. Trails for 'The Ethical Enigma', TUE 'Britain's Favourite Sound' and 'The History of Britain One TUE Year at a Time' are just some of the strange delights on TUE offer in the world of this 'radio professional', who TUE harbours a slightly inappropriate relationship with his TUE audience. TUE TUE Written by Hugh Rycroft a stalwart of 'The News Quiz' and TUE co-creator of 'Parliamentary Questions' and 'Life, Death and TUE Sex with Mike and Sue', the series also features the voices TUE of Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David TUE Holt. TUE TUE Produced by David Spicer and Frank Stirling. TUE A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bb70h (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01b8tgj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01b9jnr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b8tgl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b8tgn (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b8tgq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01b8tgs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bf87m (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Dr Mark Beach, Team Rector of Rugby. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01bb7j1 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b01bb7j3 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; WED Thought for the Day. Presented by Sarah Montague and James WED Naughtie. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01bb7j5 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01bb7j7 (Listen) WED The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, Episode 3 WED WED The story of Nick Coleman's struggle to overcome suddenly WED losing music from his life, and to adjust to a new way of WED perceiving the world. Today, an unpleasant treatment for WED hearing loss, and how music defines who we are, are among WED the themes taken up. WED WED Reader: Sean Foley, actor and comedian, is currently WED directing the West End production of The Ladykillers. WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bb7j9 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bb7jc (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of 1662, Samuel witnesses WED the death of Henry Vane, a Puritan executed after an unfair WED trial. At home he tends to his appearance, by having Jane WED comb out his hair which is 'foul with powdering and other WED troubles', and bathe his feet in herbs. There is much WED discussion of the new Queen's poor fashion sense - she wears WED old fashioned farthingales and has a hairstyle not seen in WED England for years. Elizabeth, meanwhile, appears to be going WED deaf - until Mr Hollier, the doctor, comes to the rescue. WED WED Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall WED Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways WED Henry Vane/Swan . . . Matthew Gravelle WED Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson WED Jane . . . Rebecca Newman WED Mr Hollier . . . Gareth Pierce WED WED Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by WED Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany WED Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David WED Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by WED Alice Baxter. WED WED Historical consultant: Liza Picard WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01bb7jf (Listen) WED Series 15, Operation Julie WED WED In 1977, police forces from across England and Wales closed WED down a multi-million pound LSD manufacturing ring, in WED "Operation Julie". The police thought they were greedy WED criminals - and the courts agreed, handing down stiff jail WED sentences. It was a story of a clash of cultures, and marked WED the beginning of the end for the British underground. Jolyon WED Jenkins talks to both sides. WED WED 11:30 HR b01bb7jh (Listen) WED Series 3, Naked WED WED Nigel Williams' comedy series returns for a third run of six WED new hilarious episodes. Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le WED Prevost star as two 60-something chums enjoying a WED comfortable retirement. Until, that is, in the first episode WED they get a chilly warning about an imminent danger to their WED pensions. Will they soon be joining the army of dispossessed WED older folk? WED WED Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce WED Sam ..... Nicholas le Prevost WED Man ..... James Lailey WED WED Director....Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01bb7jk (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01b8tgv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01bb7jm (Listen) WED Shaun Ley presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Sport and the British b01bb7jp (Listen) WED The Bare Fists of Boxing WED WED CLARE BALDING explores the way the British have shaped sport WED and sport has shaped Britain. WED An ability to box defined the 19th century alpha male. No WED gloves or weapons, pugilism was pure, painful and deeply WED patriotic.Even though prize fighting was technically WED illegal, it thrived under the support and protection of the WED aristocracy, notably Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, a WED son of George II. His nephew, the Prince of Wales - who WED later became George III was also passionate about pugilism WED and where royalty led, the rest followed. Dr Neil Carter of WED the International Centre for Sport History and culture at De WED Montfort University explains how the subculture of boxing WED was led by a group of wealthy influential backers known as WED 'The Fancy' a group of thrill seekers for whom gambling on a WED bout was part of the risk.Boxing was an underground, cultish WED fashion until the birth of sports journalism when Sunday WED newspapers, such as 'Bell's Life' and 'Weekly Dispatch' WED started to cover it. WED Readers, Nyasha Hatendi, Brian Bowles and Stuart McLoughlin WED Producer: Garth Brameld. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01b9kdl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0112flb (Listen) WED Lost Property, A Telegram from the Queen WED WED For Alice's 100th birthday present, her granddaughter Ruthie WED sets out to put her family back together again. The final WED play in Katie Hims' trilogy of heartbreak and redemption. WED WED Ruthie ..... Rosie Cavaliero WED Alice ..... Edna Doré WED Ted ..... Gary Beadle WED Vincent ..... Daniel Rabin WED Marcus ..... Stuart McLoughlin WED Ray ..... Sean Baker WED Queenie ..... Jane Whittenshaw WED Roseanna ..... Alex Tregear WED Ella May ..... Joanna Monro WED Receptionist ..... Sally Orrock WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01bb7jr (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests take your calls on renting and WED Letting WED WED Rents are continuing to rise, as demand outstrips supply. WED The shortage of housing is partly caused by would-be buyers WED forced to rent because they can't raise a deposit or get a WED mortgage. WED WED And, as the economy continues to stagnate, and unemployment WED rises, the number of tenants struggling to pay their rent WED has also increased. WED WED And, from this month, more people needing help with their WED rent will be affected by big changes in local housing WED allowance that came into force last April. WED WED If you're one of them, can you still afford the same WED property or do you have to move to a cheaper place? Will you WED get any extra help to cover the costs? WED WED If you're looking to rent, how can you be sure you're not WED paying too much? WED WED Perhaps you're planning to rent out your property because WED you can't sell it. One of the so-called 'reluctant WED landlords'. So what must you do before you putting it on the WED rental market? WED WED When a deposit is paid at the start of a let, how will new WED rules affect both tenants and landlords? WED WED And who's responsible for burst pipes or a faulty boiler? WED WED Vincent Duggleby is joined by: WED WED John Gallagher, principal solicitor at Shelter WED David Salusbury, Chairman, National Landlords Association WED Marveen Smith, Partner of Solicitors Pain Smith WED WED The number to ring. Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring - WED 03 700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01bb707 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01bb7jt (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01bb7jw (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01bb7jy (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b8tgx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b012fqnb (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser WED WED Sitcom by Justin Moorhouse & Jim Poyser starring Justin, WED Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A Manchester DJ tries to balance WED love, work, life and everything else without much success. WED This week an untimely death causes a rethink. WED WED Anne Reid ..... Gran WED Bernard Wrigley ..... Sven WED Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa WED Jim Poyser ..... Vicar WED Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin WED Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn WED Paul Copley ..... Ray WED Rachel Austin ..... Receptionist WED Susan Cookson ..... Tanya WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01bb7k0 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01bb7k2 (Listen) WED John Wilson talks to the artist Howard Hodgkin, as his WED entire collection of Indian paintings goes on display in WED Oxford. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bb7jc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01bb7k4 (Listen) WED Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and WED inside Westminster to explore how controversial decisions WED are reached. Each week, he asks people with experience of WED government and politics how a government, of whatever WED political colour, would approach a looming decision. WED Producer, Rob Shepherd. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01bb7k6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Bali Rai WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01b9kdb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01bb7j5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01b8tgz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01bb7qc (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bb7qf (Listen) WED Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 3 WED WED Today: the minimalist apartment fails to inspire work, while WED the intrusion of an inexplicably angry cleaner does nothing WED to improve the situation. WED WED Reader: Bertie Carvel WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Global Depression Tour b01bb7qh (Listen) WED Europe WED WED Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US WED Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former WED CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can WED come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets WED off on a six country tour to prove it. WED WED This week she visits Europe WED WED Tina C ...Christopher Green WED With Paul Mason and Victoria Inez Hardy WED Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher WED Green WED Director Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 23:15 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b014610b (Listen) WED Series 2, Special Occasions WED WED An episode exploring the peculiar ways in which we choose to WED celebrate special occasions like weddings, birthdays, WED anniversaries, and Christmas. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bb7qk (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01b8thk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01bb7j7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b8thm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b8thp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b8thr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01b8tht (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bfd9z (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Dr Mark Beach, Team Rector of Rugby. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01bb9c5 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01bb9c7 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; THU Thought for the Day. Presented by John Humphrys and Justin THU Webb. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01bb9c9 (Listen) THU The Kama Sutra THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra, one of THU the most celebrated and often misunderstood texts of Indian THU literature. Composed during the reign of the Gupta dynasty THU around 1800 years ago, the work is a collection of writings THU about the art of love and sensual pleasure. Although it is THU best known today for a single chapter devoted to sexual THU pleasure, this important Sanksrit collection contains much THU besides, and is a far richer work than is commonly realised. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01bb9cc (Listen) THU The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, Episode 4 THU THU Nick Coleman's account of struggling to overcome losing his THU ability to hear music and how he has reconsidered the THU complex relationship we all have with music. Today, the THU soundtrack to his first teenage crush is revisited. THU THU Reader: Sean Foley, actor and comedian, is currently THU directing the West End production of The Ladykillers. THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bb9cf (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bb9ch (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662, Sir THU William Batten is having a storey added to his house - so THU Sam decides to keep up with the neighbours and do the same. THU Sir William is becoming tiresome in more ways than one - THU he's untidy in the office, and pays too much for materials. THU In August the Queen comes to town by barge and Samuel goes THU to watch - it's so busy and crowded he can't get a boat, THU even for 8 shillings. Then some scaffolding collapses and THU people are injured. Sam notes that the only person of THU 'quality' who tries to help is the King's mistress, Lady THU Castlemaine, who tends to an injured child. Sam is also THU worried about his new neighbour, Sir John Minnes, who keeps THU questioning him over their shared boundaries. THU THU Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall THU Elizabeth Pepys . . Katherine Jakeways THU Jane . . . Rebecca Newman THU Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley THU Sir John Minnes . . . Alun Raglan THU Captain Cook . . . Matthew Gravelle THU Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson THU THU Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by THU Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany THU Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David THU Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by THU Alice Baxter. THU THU Historical consultant: Liza Picard THU Sound by Nigel Lewis THU THU A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01bb9ck (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Holy Mackerel - It's My Life! b01bb9cm (Listen) THU Bernard Cribbins helps paint a radio portrait of one of this THU country's most successful but least well known cartoonists. THU The longest-running daily cartoon strip in the world is the THU work of Frank Dickens - his character "Bristow", the THU middle-aged office rebel, first appeared in 1961 and has THU been a well-loved feature of newspapers throughout the world THU ever since. THU THU Dickens tried to make sense of his life as a cartoonist, and THU life in general, while pootling around the countryside in THU his old VW, the "Kaisermobile", but his autobiography THU remains unfinished. As a result - and despite being a legend THU in Fleet Street - he remains an enigma to most of his THU readers. THU THU Michael Williams succeeded in lifting the character Bristow THU out of the newspaper in a Radio 4 series (described by the THU Daily Mail as "a model for sitcoms", with The Times claiming THU "The dull routine of office life has not been so hilariously THU transformed since the stage musical 'How to Succeed in THU Business Without Really Trying'") and Bristow's inspiration THU can be seen in many workplace comedy creations including THU "Dilbert" and "The Office". Originally conceived as a guide THU to car maintenance, the strip that defined the humour in THU red-tape muddles has been a daily constant during its THU creators turbulent and eventful life. THU THU Through the comical warp and woof of survival in Chipping THU Norton revealed in his diary entries and with the help of THU fellow cartoonists and artists MAC, Ralph Steadman, Bernard THU Cookson and Rick Brookes, perhaps we'll finally find out who THU the man is behind one of this country's (and now the THU world's) most successful cartoons. THU THU Narrator: Bernard Cribbins. THU THU Contributors include - Ralph Steadman, MAC, Bernard Cookson, THU Rick Brookes. THU THU Producer: Neil Cargill THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01bb9cp (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01b8thw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01bb9cr (Listen) THU Shaun Ley presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Sport and the British b01bb9ct (Listen) THU The Unsporting Side of Sport THU THU CLARE BALDING watches all sections of society gather on THU Epsom Downs to watch the Derby, the biggest day of the flat THU racing year. In her exploration of the way Britain has THU shaped sport and sport has shaped the British, Clare looks THU at the socially unifying power of the race course and the THU way sport and gambling have become inextricably linked. As THU Professor Richard Holt from the International Centre for THU Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University THU explains, the British have always loved a flutter. Gambling THU is in the DNA of sport. Having a bet not only gives an THU incentive to the thrill of sporting competitions but also THU pushed early sports to have clear and enforceable rules. The THU extravagant losses of the eighteenth century aristocracy THU caused a moral backlash in the Victorian era that led to a THU crackdown in betting legislation. THU Producer: Sara Conkey. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01bb7k0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01bb9cw (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 3, Sookey Hill THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. THU THU 2 of 4 THU THU When Pilgrim investigates a story about a man being turned THU into a hare, he meets a dangerous new enemy. The second in a THU new series of dark fantasy adventures. THU THU William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton THU Colonel Coburn ..... Ralph Ineson THU Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood THU Barry ..... Carl Prekopp THU Nathan ..... Gerard McDermott THU Mary ..... Alex Tregear THU Dale ..... Simon Bubb THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01bb9cy (Listen) THU Jules Hudson discovers an ancient landscape buried deep THU beneath the East Anglian fens which gives, possibly, the THU best idea yet of what life was like here thousands of years THU ago. Several wooden boats, spears, swords and other items THU have been found on the site of a brick quarry, preserved in THU silt and peat, and researchers say that this is one of the THU most important Bronze Age sites ever to be found in Britain THU Jules hears from David Gibson and Mark Knight of Cambridge THU University's Archaeological Unit about the history of the THU Fenland environment and what the discovery of the six boats THU tells them about the utilisation of the landscape's river THU system. Amongst the objects that have been found are ancient THU eel traps, used by some of the first fishermen, and Jules THU meets Peter Carter who is possibly Fenland's last eel THU fisherman. Peter takes Jules out on the fens to explain how THU the the eel traps that have been unearthed at the dig site THU were made and used and how little this ancient technology THU has changed over the years. And Maisie Taylor, an expert in THU prehistoric wood, explains the technology of the boats that THU have been found and her excitement at the fact that six have THU been discovered so close to each other. Could there be THU more?! THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01b8yxr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01b8zvv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01bb9d0 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01bb9d4 (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 Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b01bb9d6 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b8thy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b015pbhd (Listen) THU Series 7, Debt of Honour THU THU Episode Four - Debt of Honour THU THU Clare is being plagued by Brian's marriage proposals. Her THU driving lessons lead to an unexpected encounter and there is THU an unveiling of a piece of public art at the Sparrowhawk THU Family Centre. THU THU Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS THU Brian: ALEX LOWE THU Megan / Nali: NINA CONTI THU Ray / Nick Powell: RICHARD LUMSDEN THU Helen/ Lady Mayoress/Carol Morley: LIZA TARBUCK THU Simon / Frankie 'The Fruitcake' Finnigan: ANDREW WINCOTT THU Libby: SARAH KENDALL THU Spartacus /'James Naughtie': GERARD McDERMOT THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Producer Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01bb9d8 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01bb9db (Listen) THU Arts news interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bb9ch (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01bb9dd (Listen) THU At least 16 people died when the cruise ship Costa Concordia THU ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio on 13 January. THU Simon Cox investigates exactly what happened and asks THU whether warning signs about cruise ship safety should have THU been acted on sooner. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01bb9dg (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU Producer Ben Crighton THU Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01b9jny (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01bb9c9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01b8tj0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01bb9lg (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bb9lj (Listen) THU Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 4 THU THU Today: after further mishaps in the flat, including a battle THU with one of the cats, it's time to brave a classical THU concert. THU THU Reader: Bertie Carvel THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00sq2n3 (Listen) THU 27a Berkeley House Place THU THU Paul picks up a trail that leads him from a highly THU suspicious café in Soho to a dangerous rendezvous on the THU Great North Road. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bb9ll (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01b8tjl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01bb9cc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01b8tjn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01b8tjq (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01b8tjs (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01b8tjv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bbb5y (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Dr Mark Beach, Team Rector of Rugby. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01bbb60 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01bbb62 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; FRI Thought for the Day. Presented by John Humphrys and Evan FRI Davis. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01b8yy0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01bbb64 (Listen) FRI The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, Episode 5 FRI FRI The story of Nick Coleman's struggle to overcome losing FRI music, and adjust to a new way of perceiving the world. FRI Today, his hearing loss is diagnosed. FRI FRI Reader: Sean Foley, actor and comedian, is currently FRI directing the West End production of The Ladykillers. FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bbb66 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bbb68 (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662, FRI Samuel's brother, Tom, is in love and hoping to marry. But FRI he has exaggerated his income and after some toing and FRI froing, his fiancée breaks the engagement, much to Tom's FRI distress. Lord Sandwich tells Sam that there is hidden FRI treasure undiscovered in the Tower - and charges Samuel with FRI trying to find it. The year ends with Elizabeth unwell in FRI bed and Sam feeding her Christmas treats. FRI FRI Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall FRI Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways FRI Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson FRI Tom . . . Gareth Pierce FRI Mr Wade . . . Matthew Gravelle FRI FRI Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by FRI Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David FRI Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by FRI Alice Baxter. FRI FRI Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI FRI A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 The Nile b01bbb6b (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI For 5000 years the river Nile has dominated Egypt. To mark FRI the first anniversary of the fall of Egyptian president FRI Hosni Mubarak, Edward Stourton travels along the Nile from FRI the magnificent high dam at Aswan to the rich farmland of FRI the Delta to explore the enduring undercurrents that have FRI helped shape the country. While rulers come and go the Nile FRI remains eternal and fundamental to Egypt's existence. The FRI country gets 98% of its water from the river. Seen from the FRI air the Nile cuts a narrow green strip through the desert FRI and the vast majority of Egypt's population live within a FRI few miles either side of its banks. How will the Nile and FRI its people respond to the passing of another dynasty? FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b01bbb6d (Listen) FRI Author of the Week is Gustave Flaubert - French modernist FRI novelist and firebrand, who created perhaps the best novel FRI of all time in the form of "Madame Bovary". FRI FRI Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by FRI comedy writer and author of "May Contain Nuts", John FRI O'Farrell, and literary critic and Guardian journalist, Alex FRI Clark to answer questions about the great Frenchman's life FRI and work. FRI FRI For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine a FRI 2012 update of Flaubert's "Dictionary of Received Ideas". FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01bbcqg (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01b8tjx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01bbcql (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Sport and the British b01bbcqn (Listen) FRI The Making of Men FRI FRI The Duke of Wellington never said the Battle of Waterloo was FRI won on the playing fields of Eton but it could be argued FRI that the might of the British Empire was moulded on the FRI pitches of Rugby School. FRI As CLARE BALDING continues to chart the way the British have FRI shaped sport and sport has shaped Britain, she visits Rugby FRI to discover how the visionary headmaster, Thomas Arnold, FRI ensured games lay at the heart of school life, producing men FRI ready to rule. As the school archivist, Rusty MacLean, FRI explains to her, on leaving, these pupils took the games FRI they'd developed at Rugby to all parts of the globe, giving FRI birth to numerous national sporting clubs in Africa and FRI India, as well as developing new games like Aussie Rules and FRI American football. FRI Readers, Brian Bowles, Stuart McLoughlin and Jack Firth FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI Recording the programme at Rugby School FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01bb9d8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b01bbd8l (Listen) FRI The Pearl FRI FRI Dramatisation of John Steinbeck's novella by Donna FRI Franceschild. FRI FRI A captivating and atmospheric parable set in a small Mexican FRI fishing village about the greatest pearl ever found and the FRI tragic impact its discovery has on one young family. FRI FRI Narrator ... Gary Lewis FRI Kino ... Kyle McPhail FRI Juana ... Hannah Donaldson FRI Juan Tomás ... Robin Laing FRI Apolonia ... Claire Knight FRI Doctor ... Simon Tait FRI Coyotito ... Daniel Smith FRI FRI Other parts were played by Simon Donaldson and Nick FRI Underwood FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01c2bqj (Listen) FRI Regent's Park, London FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a programme from the Royal College of FRI Physicians beside Regent's Park. Chris Beardshaw, Bob FRI Flowerdew and Christine Walkden form the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Human Cradle b01bbd8q (Listen) FRI Saba FRI FRI In Sulaiman Addonia's new short story 'Saba', a former FRI cinema employee decides to create a 'cinema' of his own FRI inside a refugee camp. Read by Abuka Osman. FRI FRI The first of three contemporary stories from the Horn of FRI Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. FRI FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01bbd8s (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01bbd8v (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01bbd8x (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01b8tjz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01bbd8z (Listen) FRI Series 76, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01bbd91 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01bbd93 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, including a report on work of the 81 year FRI old pioneering Syrian poet Adonis. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bbb68 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01bbd95 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Upton Hall School, Wirral, Merseyside, FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01bbd97 (Listen) FRI The historian Lisa Jardine with her topical reflections. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Sport and the British: Omnibus b01bmq7k (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI The Omnibus edition of this first weeks, Sport and the FRI British with Clare Balding exploring how Britain made sport FRI and sport made Britain. FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01b8tk1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01bbd99 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bbd9c (Listen) FRI Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: the morning after the night before. An FRI alcohol-fuelled night out with one of Oskar's friends FRI results in more mayhem in the now less than pristine flat... FRI FRI Reader: Bertie Carvel FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01b9kdd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bbd9f (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
27 January, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 28/01/2012 - 03/02/2012
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