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SAT SATURDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01bb9mr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01bbb64 (Listen) SAT The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, Episode 5 SAT SAT The story of Nick Coleman's struggle to overcome losing SAT music, and adjust to a new way of perceiving the world. SAT Today, his hearing loss is diagnosed. SAT SAT Nick Coleman grew up in the Fens. He has written about music SAT throughout his career as a journalist for titles including SAT NME, Time Out, the Independent and Independent on Sunday, SAT The Times and The Wire. SAT SAT Reader: Sean Foley, actor and comedian, is currently SAT directing the West End production of The Ladykillers. SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bb9mt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bb9mw (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bb9my (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01bb9n0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bbdcm (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie SAT Griffiths, Methodist Minister. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01bbdcp (Listen) SAT Dear John.. Listeners sympathise with and give advice to a SAT man struggling with self-employment. His testimony on last SAT week's programme led many listeners to get in touch with SAT their advice and asked questions about what benefits self SAT employed people could claim. We attempt to answer this and SAT we also hear from a listener who radically retrained to find SAT work late in life. Your News is read this week by Samira SAT Ahmed. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01bb9n2 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01bb9n4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01bb9cy (Listen) SAT Jules Hudson discovers an ancient landscape buried deep SAT beneath the East Anglian fens which gives, possibly, the SAT best idea yet of what life was like here thousands of years SAT ago. Several wooden boats, spears, swords and other items SAT have been found on the site of a brick quarry, preserved in SAT silt and peat, and researchers say that this is one of the SAT most important Bronze Age sites ever to be found in Britain SAT Jules hears from David Gibson and Mark Knight of Cambridge SAT University's Archaeological Unit about the history of the SAT Fenland environment and what the discovery of the six boats SAT tells them about the utilisation of the landscape's river SAT system. Amongst the objects that have been found are ancient SAT eel traps, used by some of the first fishermen, and Jules SAT meets Peter Carter who is possibly Fenland's last eel SAT fisherman. Peter takes Jules out on the fens to explain how SAT the the eel traps that have been unearthed at the dig site SAT were made and used and how little this ancient technology SAT has changed over the years. And Maisie Taylor, an expert in SAT prehistoric wood, explains the technology of the boats that SAT have been found and her excitement at the fact that six have SAT been discovered so close to each other. Could there be SAT more?! SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01bh030 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01bb9n6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01bh75y (Listen) SAT Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01bh760 (Listen) SAT Leicester with Alastair Campbell, Mitch Benn, Tony Wadsworth SAT and Showaddywaddy, Ugandan Asian exile, Christchurch SAT fireman SAT SAT Richard Coles in Leicester with journalist, broadcaster and SAT political aide Alastair Campbell, songwriter and comedian SAT Mitch Benn, 1970's popsters Showaddywaddy, Ugandan Asian SAT exile Nisha Popat who came to Leicester in 1972, SAT International Rescue fireman Ian Holden who helped out after SAT the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand a year ago & SAT fitness guru and Dancing on Ice star Rosemary Conley's SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart & Justin Bones. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01bh762 (Listen) SAT Antarctica SAT SAT John McCarthy visits the the Polar Photography exhibition at SAT the The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and introduces a SAT discussion of Antarctica with the explorer David SAT Hempleman-Adams and his daughter Amelia who has just SAT returned from there. Joining them are the author Meredith SAT Hooper and Frozen Planet cameraman Doug Allan. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Smiley's People b01bh91h (Listen) SAT After almost 50 years, the origins of the 'Smiley' are SAT contested but the iconic yellow design emerged and became SAT popular in 1963 as a moral booster for the employees of an SAT insurance company in Massachusetts after a company merger. SAT The man behind this visual reminder to put on a 'happy face' SAT was Harvey Ball, who designed the image for a $45 fee. SAT SAT Alastair travels to Worcester, just outside of Boston, to SAT meet Harvey's son Charlie and hear the story of his father's SAT famous design. Are Worcester's residents proud of its role SAT in the 'smiley' story? SAT SAT Murray Spain, with brother and business partner Bernie, SAT decided the image was a perfect balm for a traumatised SAT American public in the wake of the Vietnam War. In SAT Philadelphia they put the image on cards, badges and gift SAT items and by 1971 had sold 50 million badges. Just why does SAT he think the smiley face caught the public's imagination? SAT SAT Frenchman Franklin Loufrani used the image to indicate good SAT news in the paper 'France Soir' and made swift moves to SAT trademark the image. His company now turns over $100 million SAT a year and embroiled in a copyright dispute with Walmart SAT over the image in the 1990s. His son Nicholas, CEO of 'The SAT Smiley Company', tells a tale of copyright squabbles, big SAT business and why the logo has such longevity. SAT SAT An image of childlike innocence and happiness was ripe for SAT subversion and Alastair examines how the smiley has been SAT used in popular culture for satirical purposes, from Acid SAT House and rave culture to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's SAT revered graphic novel 'The Watchmen' and Banksy's graffiti. SAT SAT In Smiley's People, Alastair meets the people behind that SAT simple image of a shiny yellow face, two bright black eyes SAT and a 'Mr Happy' mouth and asks what, during a new period of SAT austerity, the smiley means to us. SAT SAT Producer: Rebecca Maxted SAT A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01bh91k (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01bh91m (Listen) SAT After a journey from the calm of a hotel lobby to a city SAT centre ladies' outfitters and on to the drum-beating heart SAT of Syrian protest, Tim Whewell confronts the question: how SAT much longer will the regime of Bashar al-Assad survive? Alan SAT Johnston tells us Italy's young are worried about the SAT economy and the future -- and many are deciding to emigrate. SAT As protestors in Russia prepare again to take to the streets SAT in anti-Putin demonstrations, James Coomarasamy's testing SAT the public mood outside the capital. Will Ross is in Addis SAT Ababa where the latest Chinese contribution to Ethiopian SAT life is dominating the landscape. And how do you deal with SAT evil spirits, ghosts and fallen angels? Kate McGeown is in a SAT consulting room behind a karaoke bar in the Philippines SAT finding out! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01bh91p (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01bbd8z (Listen) SAT Series 76, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01bb9n8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01bb9nb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01bbd95 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Upton Hall School, Wirral, Merseyside, with SAT Work and Pensions Minister, Maria Miller; Liberal Democrat SAT President, Tim Farron; Shadow Secretary of State, Andy SAT Burnham; and geneticist, Professor Steve Jones. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01bh91r (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b01bh91t (Listen) SAT Private Peaceful SAT SAT Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo dramatised by Simon SAT Reade with music by Coope Boyes and Simpson. SAT SAT In WW1 over 300 British soldiers were executed by firing SAT squad, some for desertion and cowardice. Many were SAT traumatised by shell-shock. Some 90 years later they SAT received posthumous pardons from the British Government, SAT after a campaign helped by Michael Morpurgo's novel Private SAT Peaceful . SAT Recorded on location in Iddesleigh - the Devon village where SAT the book is set with Michael Morpurgo playing the Vicar and SAT Nicholas Lyndhurst Seargent Hanley SAT SAT YOUNG TOMMO Ted Allpress SAT YOUNG CHARLIE Harvey Allpress SAT YOUNG MOLLY Amy Reade SAT YOUNG JIMMY Daniel Houghton SAT TOMMO Paul Chequer SAT CHARLIE Mark Quartley SAT MOLLY Annette Chown SAT JIMMY Ben Allen SAT HAZEL/ANNA Alison Reid SAT MR MUNNINGS/FARMER COX Nick Brimble SAT JAMES/MOLLY'S FATHER/PATRON Christopher Bianchi SAT COLONAL/OLD MAN Peter Ellis SAT VICAR Michael Morpurgo SAT TOMMO Paul Chequer SAT CHARLIE Mark Quartley SAT SERGEANT HANLEY Nicholas Lyndhurst SAT JIMMY Ben Allen SAT CAPTAIN WILKES/BRIGADIER Jonathan Keeble SAT BUCKLAND/ /DOCTOR Terence Mann SAT SAT The Organist was Marjorie Cleverdon SAT Music - Coope Boyes and Simpson. SAT SAT Directed on location by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01bkgf6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01bkgf8 (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah offers a fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01bb9dg (Listen) SAT Automotive 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 talk cars. What road is the automotive SAT industry on? Just where is it headed? They also consider SAT whether it's best to be a wage slave, with a regular salary, SAT or to take a share of the profits of a business. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Ken Keir, Vice President of SAT Honda Motors Europe; Nikki King, Managing Director of Isuzu SAT Truck UK; Wol Kolade, Managing Partner of venture capital SAT firm Isis Equity Partners. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01bb9nd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01bb9ng (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bb9nj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01bkgfb (Listen) SAT Clive will be In The Thick Of It with Academy and BAFTA SAT Award-winning actor Peter Capaldi, who will be keeping us In SAT The Loop about writing, directing and starring in his new SAT mockumentary 'Cricklewood Greats' on BBC Four, Sunday 5th SAT February at 21.00. Peter is also starring in 'The SAT Ladykillers' at The Geilgud Theatre, London until 14th SAT April. SAT SAT BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz will be illuminating the long SAT history of the monarchy in a new eight part series for BBC SAT Radio 4. Travelling from Balmoral Castle in Scotland to the SAT Royal Library at Windsor, 'The Art of Monarchy' explores the SAT monarchs who have ruled these islands through the works of SAT art they have acquired. The series begins 11th February at SAT 10.30. SAT SAT Emma Freud talks to the legendary Queen of Ska, Pauline SAT Black, lead singer of platinum-selling 2-Tone band 'The SAT Selecter'. They toured with The Specials and Madness during SAT the 80's spreading a conscious multicultural music message SAT worldwide. They're off on the road again for their 'Made In SAT Britain' tour which begins in March. SAT SAT From talking about Kevin, to talking about libraries, SAT novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Clive about her SAT award-winning book 'We Need To Talk About Kevin', now a SAT BAFTA nominated film starring Tilda Swinton. Lionel is one SAT of the outstanding writers contributing to 'The Library SAT Book', describing libraries real or imagined, why they SAT matter and to whom. The book is published for National SAT Libraries Day on 4th February. SAT SAT With music from the unique voice of rising star Maverick SAT Sabre, who plays 'I Need' from his debut album 'Lonely Are SAT The Brave'. SAT SAT And after a European tour with Tori Amos, singer songwriter SAT Mark Hole performs his new single 'Torture Garden'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01bkgfd (Listen) SAT Series 11, The Public Purse SAT SAT The Public Purse by Toby Hadoke SAT SAT In a week which has seen a critical focus laid on banker's SAT bonuses, comedian and writer Toby Hadoke imagines a SAT television talk show where bankers are placed in the hot SAT seat and forced to convince the public whether or not they SAT deserve their huge bonuses. SAT SAT Performed by: ... Greg Wood, Toby Hadoke, James Quinn and SAT Katherine Mount SAT SAT Directed by ... Charlotte Riches. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01bkgfg (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Natalie Haynes and SAT Terence Blacker and anthropologist Kit Davis review the SAT week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE She Stoops to Conquer - dir. Jamie Lloyd - National SAT Theatre SAT FILM Martha Marcy May Marlene - dir. Sean Durkin SAT TV Luck - dir. Michael Mann, stars Dustin Hoffman - Sky SAT Atlantic SAT BOOK The Revelations by Alex Preston SAT EXHIBITION David Shrigley: Brain Activity - Hayward Gallery SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00s7vs4 (Listen) SAT Roger Law, co-creator of Spitting Image, looks at what the SAT archives can teach us about the evolution of British satire. SAT Do we really have more of a taste for it than other nations, SAT and where did it all start? SAT SAT We'll look at the way in which British satire developed on SAT television with great examples from the BBC archives. Roger SAT revisits his early days at the Establishment Club set up by SAT Peter Cook, and talks to Gerald Scarfe and others who helped SAT form the satirical approach of the 1960s. SAT SAT Roger reveals some of the juicy details behind Spitting SAT Image and its satirical forays. Roger describes one occasion SAT when they depicted the Duke of York, then a bachelor about SAT town, as a nude pin-up with 2lbs of glistening Cumberland SAT sausages between his legs, The Queen consulted the Director SAT of Prosecutions believing that they had simply gone too far. SAT He replied, 'Ma'am if we prosecute;they will appear in court SAT with the puppet ...and the sausages.' It was the end of the SAT issue. SAT SAT So just what is satirically possible today? Law will SAT interview a wide variety of the awkward squad such as Steve SAT Bell of the Guardian to see how far is too far. Where do SAT they draw the line? From editors of newspapers to SAT cartoonists and stand-up comedians, we'll find out how today SAT compares with the inglorious past. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01b8yyb (Listen) SAT The Spy, Episode 2 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, has been captured by American forces while wearing SAT a disguise in no-man's land. He must stand trial as a spy, SAT and if found guilty, he will hang. Can General Washington be SAT found in time to issue a pardon? 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 Skinner . . . . . Adam Billington SAT Isabella Singleton . . . . . Victoria Inez Hardy SAT Colonel Martin . . . . . Paul Moriarty SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01bb9nl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01bb7k4 (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 b01b9h7f (Listen) SAT (12/17) SAT The 2012 general knowledge contest reaches its twelfth and SAT final heat, with one automatic place remaining in the SAT semi-finals which begin next week. Which of today's four SAT competitors will win through? SAT SAT Russell Davies is in the chair, at the BBC's Maida Vale SAT studios. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01b8zvx (Listen) SAT Music and Lyrics SAT SAT Roger McGough presents poetry requests based on the themes SAT of music and lyrics, featuring work by Yeats, Maya Angelou, SAT Joanna Newsom, Louis MacNeice, and Patti Smith. SAT SAT There are musical interpretations by the likes of The SAT Waterboys, The Wraiths, Cantamus Girls' Choir, and Natalie SAT Merchant. SAT SAT There's also a chance to hear Scroobius Pip read his SAT inventive Mr Otis Regrets, a response to Miss Otis Regrets, SAT and Kenneth Patchen delivering Lonesome Boy Blues against a SAT gritty jazz soundtrack. SAT SAT The readers are Peter Marinker, Pippa Haywood, Mark Meadows SAT and Nadia Williams. SAT SAT Producer: Toby Field. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01bgzss (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Deep Country b01bkhjl (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Neil Ansell is living in a very remote part of the Welsh SUN countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water, SUN and only the wildlife around him for company. The winters SUN are particularly hard, but he revels in the isolation and SUN tranquillity. 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 b01bgzsv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bgzsx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bgzsz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01bgzt1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01bkhjn (Listen) SUN The bells from St Martin's in Desford, Leicestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01bb7k6 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Bali Rai SUN SUN Author Bali Rai argues that stopping talking about race is SUN the best way to stop racism. Four Thought is a series of SUN talks which combine thought provoking ideas and engaging SUN storytelling. Recorded live in front of an audience at the SUN RSA (the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, SUN Manufactures and Commerce) in London, speakers air their SUN latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions SUN that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01bgzt3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01bkhjq (Listen) SUN Mementos SUN SUN Mark Tully ponders the significance of mementos, not just of SUN the past, but the future too. From military trophies to SUN reminders of our own mortality, he examines the objects we SUN imbue with personal meaning. SUN SUN Mark observes in the programme that mementos keep the past SUN alive in the present and are preserved for the future - so SUN they are important links through time. SUN SUN Featuring literature from Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats and John SUN Donne; and music by Nat King Cole, Arvo Part and the Band of SUN the Blues and Royals, among others, the programme celebrates SUN the comfort we can gain from inanimate artefacts, and the SUN capability they possess to 'speak' across generations. SUN SUN But Mark also observes that Mementos can be a trap, too, SUN encouraging us to live too much in the past - to indulge our SUN previous sorrows and losses. SUN SUN Perhaps no institutions preserve their mementos more SUN lovingly than the military, and the programme features an SUN interview with military historian, Squadron Leader Rana SUN Chhina who shows Mark his family mementos of campaigns in SUN India and Pakistan - mementos which mean so much to him, his SUN family and his comrades. SUN SUN And Mark, himself, shares with us a memento which means much SUN to him and which epitomises the power of mementos to bind us SUN to each other and to the past, present and future. SUN SUN Readers: Jonjo O'Neill and Adjoa Andoh SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01bkhjs (Listen) SUN Dippers SUN SUN For Living World this week Miranda Krestovnikoff visits the SUN fast-flowing streams of the Brecon Beacons National park in SUN South Wales to catch sight of dippers. Dippers are SUN extraordinary birds, shaped by the rivers in which they feed SUN . As her companion, Steve Ormerod, dipper specialist and SUN freshwater ecologist from the University of Cardiff points SUN out, they are beautifully adapted to the life aquatic . SUN Their plumage is dense and water repellent allowing them to SUN dive and pick prey from the stream-bed and their blood can SUN carry more oxygen than that of other birds their size.Even SUN their call is pitched to be heard above the white noise of SUN the rushing torrents. SUN Steve shows Miranda dippers feeding at the edge of streams SUN where they catch small bottom-feeding fish such as bullheads SUN and insects like caddis-fly and mayfly larvae. Steve Ormerod SUN demonstrates the richness of the mountain stream by SUN kick-sampling " for insects, disturbing stones from the SUN stream-bed and catching the potential dipper prey in a net SUN held just downstream. SUN Not all streams are suitable for dippers, some because they SUN don't have the combination of features that dippers need, SUN but also because pollution has reduced their prey. After SUN exploring the oxygen-rich , upland streams , Steve takes SUN Miranda to Aberfan, downstream in the heart of the once SUN active Welsh coalfields. Here, as a result of improving SUN water quality , dippers are returning to rivers that they SUN deserted many decades before. As indicators of environmental SUN quality, dippers are the "canaries in the coal mine" which SUN tells us that in some areas at least, pollution is on the SUN wane. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01bgzt5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01bgzt9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01bkhjv (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 b01bkhjx (Listen) SUN Brittle Bone Society SUN SUN Samantha Renke is a member of the Brittle Bone Society. She SUN presents a very personal Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 272100 SUN SUN To Give: SUN SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Brittle Bone Society. SUN SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN The Brittle Bone Society SUN SUN The Brittle Bone Society provides support to people affected SUN by Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a rare condition that affects SUN people from birth. The charity works to give people SUN improved mobility and independence. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01bgztc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01bgztf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01bkhjz (Listen) SUN The Queen's Story, Our Story SUN SUN A service from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, marking the SUN 60th anniversary of the Accession of Her Majesty the Queen SUN to the throne. It was in the early morning of 6 February SUN 1952, while staying in a Kenyan game reserve, that the young SUN Princess Elizabeth became Queen when she heard the news of SUN her father's death three thousand miles away in Norfolk. The SUN theme of the service is the kingdom that grows among us - SUN like a tree which grows from a humble mustard seed, the SUN smallest of seeds, into a tree in whose branches many find SUN shelter. SUN SUN Led by the Revd Richard Carter with Dr Richard Chartres, SUN Bishop of London, and the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields SUN directed by Andrew Earis. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01bbd97 (Listen) SUN Email Etiquette SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the perils of sending over-hasty SUN emails compared with the time allowed for reflection by old SUN fashioned letter writing. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b01bgzth (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01bkylh (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01bkylk (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN 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 Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Bert Horrobin ..... Martyn Read SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01bkylm (Listen) SUN Denise Lewis SUN SUN Denise Lewis, Olympic gold medallist, is Kirsty Young's SUN castaway. SUN SUN Her discipline was the heptathlon and it was at the 2000 SUN Sydney Olympics that she leapt, threw, sprinted and hurdled SUN her way on to the winner's podium. An only child of a single SUN mother, she says her mum had always had ambition for her - SUN and was there to witness her success. She said: "Her face SUN said it all, there were tears in her eyes and for me it felt SUN like, yes mum, we've done it together". SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01b9hjj (Listen) SUN Series 8, Episode 6 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. Tony Hawks, Alan Davies, Tom Wrigglesworth SUN and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Wool, SUN Flowers, The Radio and Pasta. 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 b01bkylp (Listen) SUN Adventures in Vegetarian Cuisine SUN SUN Meat-free cooking is in the spotlight. High-profile food SUN writers are devoting books to delicious meatless food, and SUN there are established restaurants, street-food vendors and SUN new eateries offering vegetarian and vegan fare to diners of SUN all stripes. Is it time for all restaurants and cafes to SUN offer fantastic vegetarian food that doesn't feel like an SUN 'add-on' to the menu? SUN SUN In this edition of the Food Programme, Sheila Dillon asks if SUN the British public are increasingly opening their minds to SUN the possibilities of a complete plate of food with no meat? SUN SUN The Food Programme's Carnivore-in-Chief Tim Hayward embarks SUN on a mission to experience what vegetable, pulse and grain SUN can offer. SUN SUN Along the way meet Yotam Ottolenghi, Denis Cotter and SUN encounter a flower-strewn van, some perplexed football fans SUN and 'pasta' made from radishes. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01bgztk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01bkylr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Europe's Choice b01bkylt (Listen) SUN Breaking the Pact SUN SUN Allan Little looks at the key moments and issues which SUN brought the EU to the current crisis. In this episode he SUN focuses on the first years of the last decade. SUN SUN "The Stability and Growth Pact": the mechanism with the most SUN boring name and yet the most crucial of purposes - to keep SUN the Euro in check. Its low inflation, low debt criteria had SUN been arrived upon as a means to trying to ensure a SUN German-style fiscal probity amongst the 12 countries that SUN had joined the Euro by 2001 - many more than many privately SUN thought suitable for entry. SUN SUN But there was no external enforcement mechanism for the SUN rules - the Commission could recommend action but couldn't SUN compel it. In effect, when countries contravened, it was up SUN to ministers of member states to police the pact. When SUN Germany - one of the European superpowers - broke the rules SUN in 2003 under the strains of paying for re-unification, it SUN was not penalised. Why? Did this send a fatal message to SUN countries like Greece and Italy that they too could bend the SUN rules without consequence? SUN SUN Producer: Jane Beresford. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01c2bqj (Listen) SUN Regent's Park, London SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a programme from the Royal College of SUN Physicians beside Regent's Park. Chris Beardshaw, Bob SUN Flowerdew and Christine Walkden form the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Welsh's Scottish Journey b01bkylw (Listen) SUN Orkney 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 reach SUN the end of Muir's journey in Orkney heading with teacher and SUN author Simon Hall to the tiny island of Wyre where the poet SUN was brought up. Muir thought Orkney was the best of all SUN possible worlds with its mix of farming, technology and SUN timelessness. Archaeologist Ingrid Mainland shows that such SUN prosperity has a long history even back to neolithic times SUN in the findings of the Ness of Brodgar dig. But are we SUN getting any closer to homing in on that elusive Scottish SUN identity? Even Muir in the end couldn't answer that SUN question... SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01bkyly (Listen) SUN Gulliver's Travels, Episode 1 SUN SUN Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new SUN dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who.] SUN SUN Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the SUN natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With SUN his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a SUN world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war SUN between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat SUN boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and SUN battered by enemies - escape is his only option if he wants SUN to survive! SUN SUN Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput are hilarious, disturbing SUN and profound. This is a story of dishonest politicians, SUN mindless ceremony and wars based on unconvincing arguments. SUN A satire as potent now as it ever was! SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels quickly became a classic. The book has SUN become not only the defining work of its author but also of SUN its genre - a landmark in English Literature to which all SUN satirists today can trace a heritage. SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew SUN Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by SUN Sam Hoyle. SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other SUN members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, SUN Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nichols, Chris SUN Pavlo, Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01bkym0 (Listen) SUN Art Spiegelman - Maus SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to the American writer and SUN artist Art Spiegelman about his graphic novel Maus. SUN SUN First published in short frames in his experimental comic SUN RAW in the 1970s, Maus the book has become a publishing SUN phenomenon, selling over two million copies world wide. SUN SUN It tells the story of his parents, Vladek and Anja SUN Spiegelman, from their first meeting in pre-war Poland to SUN their survival of the death camps at Auschwitz and Dachau SUN and their move to New York after the war. SUN SUN Part of the success of the book is Art's portrayal of the SUN characters as animals. The Jews are mice, the Germans cats, SUN the Poles pigs and the Americans dogs. The mouse metaphor, SUN he says, came naturally to him as a comic book writer. He SUN wanted to keep the scale of the book small, and with Maus, SUN all he wanted to do was tell a story, he never wanted to SUN change the world, he's too pessimistic for that. SUN SUN The story follows the birth of his elder brother Richieu, SUN who was poisoned by an aunt rather than face capture; how SUN his parents were hidden by generous Poles, and then betrayed SUN to the SS as they paid to be smuggled over the border to SUN safer Hungary. SUN SUN As well as the force of this story, Art Spiegelman talks SUN about the powerful subplot which shows the difficult SUN relationship between father and son, and what it could be SUN like for the child of Holocaust survivors. In Maus, Art SUN refuses to sentimentalise or sanctify his father the SUN survivor; and in the same way his self-portrait is SUN unflinching in its honesty. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN March's Bookclub choice : The Line of Beauty by Alan SUN Hollinghurst. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01bkym2 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with a rich mixture of poetry requests read by SUN John Sessions and Lisa Kerr. SUN SUN Poems of temptation, and of lost loves and places, featuring SUN a couple of snakes, a rusty fridge and a talking bull SUN walrus. With W.S. Graham's lovely poem of longing for a SUN favourite place from childhood, Loch Thom, and Kathryn SUN Simmonds reads her own poems, including a love poem about a SUN couple united by their dislike of the film The Fifth SUN Element. There's a dash of acidity from Philip Larkin and a SUN healthy dose of danger in a couple of snake poems by Denise SUN Levertov and D.H. Lawrence. There's also a deceptive SUN villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop and an unlikely conversation SUN in a poem by the late Canadian poet Alden Nowlen. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01bb703 (Listen) SUN Police Restraint SUN SUN Inquests in England are increasingly hearing a new term to SUN explain deaths in police custody: Excited Delirium. It's a SUN diagnosis with origins in the United States, where it has SUN been associated with consumption of massive doses of SUN cocaine. People with ED are said to possess super-human SUN strength and to be largely impervious to pain. They behave SUN bizarrely, sometimes destructively.They often seem paranoid SUN and frequently resist arrest. As police struggle to restrain SUN them they overheat and die. SUN SUN But critics -- including some British Pathologists -- point SUN out that Excited Delirium is not recognised by the World SUN Health Organisation and that there is a lack of valid SUN research. Civil liberties organisations fear that the SUN diagnosis might be employed to excuse improper use of SUN restraint techniques by police. SUN SUN For 'File on 4' Angus Stickler has travelled to the cocaine SUN capital of the United States, Miami, where police and SUN scientists are attempting to define and deal with the SUN controversial condition. SUN SUN And in England he speaks to families whose loved ones have SUN died after being restrained by the police. Is Excited SUN Delirium well-enough understood to be used by courts? And SUN just how many people are dying while being restrained -- SUN either in custody or while being arrested? Are the official SUN figures reliable? SUN Producer: Andy Denwood. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01bkgfd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01bgztm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01bgztp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bgztr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01bkym8 (Listen) SUN Michael Rosen makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01c6lfv (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b011tzmn (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Incomplete Quad and The Squirrel & The SUN Chipmunk SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience SUN readings. This week a memoir of one nefarious summer while SUN studying at college: "The Incomplete Quad" and a modern take SUN on the anthropomorphic fable in: "The Squirrel & The SUN Chipmunk". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01bpjj5 (Listen) SUN Backwards and Forwards SUN SUN Written by Cathy Feeny. SUN SUN Today's story - Backwards And Forwards by Cathy Feeny - is SUN the last in a series of specially commissioned stories which SUN take boats and boating as their theme. SUN SUN When Danny - an American academic working in London - takes SUN his family on holiday to the banks of a Scottish loch, SUN there's an uninhabited island to visit across the water. But SUN Danny's the only one who can row. And the boat can only SUN carry one other person at a time. As he rows backwards and SUN forwards, Danny has a unique opportunity to discover a SUN little more about each of his family in turn. 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 b01bbd8v (Listen) SUN A clearer focus on news and more coverage of minority SUN sports. That's the order from the BBC Trust, which has just SUN completed its review of 5Live. Do you agree? The recent SUN audience research RAJAR report shows a drop in the station's SUN listening figures. So we find out if listeners think the SUN Trust has got the answer. SUN SUN Are you experiencing a sense of deja entendu? When it comes SUN to radio dramas, many listeners feel the rate of repeats has SUN increased. Roger asks Jeremy Howe, commissioning editor of SUN Radio 4 drama, if we really have heard it all before. SUN SUN And while From Our Own Correspondent almost always gets it SUN right, should the correspondent have been reporting on a SUN wedding so soon after an attempted coup? Roger talks to SUN editor Tony Grant about finding the stories behind the SUN headlines. SUN SUN And a listener wants to apply for the job of Director SUN General of the BBC. She says she'd spend the salary on SUN programmes. What would you do? 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 b01bbd8s (Listen) SUN Angelo Dundee, Isi Metzstein, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Theo SUN Angelopoulos SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Angelo Dundee, the boxing trainer behind Muhammed Ali and SUN fourteen other world champions. SUN SUN Isi Metzstein, the Glasgow based architect who designed some SUN of Britain's most striking churches. SUN SUN Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, the Italian president who had a twenty SUN year political battle with Silvio Berlusconi SUN SUN And Theo Angelopoulos the influential Greek director whose SUN films reflected the modern history of his country. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01bh91p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01bkhjx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01b9hjs (Listen) SUN Do schools make a difference? SUN SUN The government's brought in new style league tables to help SUN parents choose schools. But do we really know what makes a SUN good school? And how far can schools really transform lives? SUN Researchers have long believed in a so-called 'school SUN effect' that counters, at least in part, factors such as SUN social and family background. But how easy is it to measure SUN this kind of effect, and can parents really be given a clear SUN guide as to which school is best for their child? Or has too SUN much emphasis on factors such as social background made SUN schools complacent about what they can achieve? SUN Fran Abrams talks to head teachers, educational experts, the SUN schools minister and the new head of Ofsted as she SUN investigates what difference schools can really make. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01bkywd (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 b01bkywg (Listen) SUN Episode 89 SUN SUN Mehdi Hasan of The New Statesman analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01bb9d0 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock and Alexander Payne discuss his SUN Oscar-nominated film The Descendants, starring George SUN Clooney as a Hawaiian land owner with family troubles. SUN SUN Journalist Jane Graham reports from Glasgow, the UK city SUN proving to be a hit with Hollywood filmmakers. SUN SUN Director Sean Durkin on his debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, SUN a cult film in more ways than one. SUN SUN And as BAFTA honour John Hurt, the actor reflects on over 50 SUN years in cinema. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01bkhjq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01bgzvd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01bb7jt (Listen) MON 'Sprezzatura' is an Italian word describing a nonchalant MON effortless style which conceals the skill and artistry MON involved in doing something. It is a quality which the MON sociologist Richard Sennett claims embodies the gentlemanly MON characteristics of cooperation and modesty which came to the MON fore in Europe during the Renaissance. However, sprezzatura MON is under siege from the aggressive and competitive MON tendencies of finance capitalism, and we are losing the art MON of working together. That is one contention from his new MON study of cooperation, and what we can do to operate in MON closer harmony. He joins Laurie and the philosopher John MON Gray to discuss the meaning of cooperation. MON Also on the programme, James Nicholls discusses what it is MON about the British and booze. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01bkhjn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bgzvg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bgzvj (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bgzvl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01bgzvn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bldpd (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie MON Griffiths, Methodist Minister. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01bldpg (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01bgzvq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01bldpj (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01bldpl (Listen) MON Conservatism: Peter Hitchens, Margot James, Douglas Murray MON and Thomas Frank MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the state of MON conservatism and the future of the Tory party. Peter MON Hitchens argues for a return to traditional values and a MON political philosophy that stresses a sense of place and MON history, and that limits state interference and welfare MON support. He decries the present government's shift to the MON 'centre ground'. The neoconservative Douglas Murray goes MON further in asserting that military might is vital to defend MON freedom and justice, and that moral relativism has become a MON dangerous political stance. But the new MP Margot James MON follows her party's model of caring capitalism, and its move MON away from its reputation as the unelectable "Nasty Party". MON And Thomas Frank, explores the rise of the Tea Party in the MON US and its influence on conservative America. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01bldpn (Listen) MON A Card from Angela Carter, Episode 1 MON MON "These cards make a paper-trail, a zig-zag path through the MON eighties, when I knew Angela. They are casually dispatched - MON some messages are barley more than a signature - but often MON the more pungent for that. They catch Angela on the wing, MON shooting off her mouth." MON MON Angela Carter was the author of such tour de force novels as MON 'Wise Children' and 'Nights at The Circus'. Since her death MON twenty years ago, nothing that amounts to a biography has MON been written about her. Susannah Clapp, her great friend and MON literary executor, has not written a biography but has MON brought these postcards to life - Living Doll, Flickerings, MON Twin Peaks, Chilli - to paint a vivid picture of the MON novelist at work and at home in London, and also on her MON earlier travels in America and Japan. MON MON Susannah Clapp reads from her account of Angela Carter, MON the dazzling novelist who died twenty years ago. MON Carter's postcard entries are read by Claire Skinner and MON the series abridger is Katrin Williams. MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bldpq (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bldps (Listen) MON Dickens in London, A Not-Overly-Particularly-Taken-Care-of MON Boy MON MON by Michael Eaton. Five short plays broadcast to mark the MON bi-centenary of Charles Dickens's birth. MON The theme of these plays is the Dickens's changing MON relationship with the city that fired his imagination. Each MON of the plays tells a unified, 'stand-alone' story, but it MON also contributes to an over-arching narrative - organised MON around the sounds of the city and the life story of the man MON whose footsteps pounded those streets. MON MON A-Not-Particularly-Taken-Care-of Boy tells how the young MON Charles visited London as an eight-year old boy, in the care MON of his uncle. They become separated by the crowds, but with MON the help of a young gentleman, the terrors of the unknown MON city become part of a new world of stories. Based on 'Gone MON Astray' - written in 1853 about events c.1820; 'The MON Pantomime of Life' - written in 1837 and 'Meditations In MON Monmouth Street' - Sketches by Boz. MON MON Boy ..... Hugo Docking MON Young Gentleman ..... Samuel Barnett MON Street Arab ..... Ryan Watson MON Uncle ..... Sam Dale MON Gog ..... Jude Akuwudike MON Lad ..... Henry Devas MON Judge / Magog ..... Sean Baker MON Mother / Clothes Shop Woman ..... Joanna Monro MON Wife ..... Deeivya Meir MON Pal ..... Iain Batchelor MON Music by Neil Brand MON Directed by Jeremy Mortimer MON MON Writer Michael Eaton has based each play on Dickens's own MON letters and journalism: Sketches By Boz and the articles MON from the journals Household Words and All The Year Round. MON But these short dramas are never afraid to play fast and MON loose with autobiographical details - as Dickens himself was MON wont to do. MON MON Each play takes as its title one of Dickens's own MON appellations. MON MON 11:00 Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed b01b1hzw (Listen) MON As we reach the end of the Domesday Reloaded project, Prof MON Danny Dorling compares the 2011 and 1986 views of the UK to MON give a unique insight into how the country has changed in MON the last 25 years. MON MON Since March 27th 2011, the public have been updating a MON repository of 24,000 photographs, taken for the BBC's MON Domesday project in 1986. Danny picks four areas in which to MON explore the transformations of the UK. He visits these MON places and talks to the individuals who have updated the MON squares about their lives and experience of the way that MON their locality has changed. MON MON One theme Danny explores is the disappearance of an MON industrial landscape since the 1980s. He looks at Sheffield, MON where he is Professor of Human Geography, to explore how MON this once steel town has benefitted from the expansion of MON higher education to become a centre of student life. MON MON He also looks at aspects of life that haven't changed in a MON quarter of a century, such as the pantomime in the Scottish MON village of Buchlyvie. The residents were keen contributors MON to the 1986 Domesday project and they have updated their MON square in 2011. MON MON Producer: Alex Mansfield. MON MON 11:30 Sparkling Cyanide b01bldpv (Listen) MON All Souls' Day MON MON by Agatha Christie MON adapted by Joy Wilkinson. MON Part 2: All Souls' Day MON MON It's a year since Rosemary died horribly at her 21st MON birthday party after drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced MON champagne. Convinced that the coroner's verdict of suicide MON is wrong, her widower George is hatching a plan to discover MON the truth... MON MON IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick MON GEORGE ..... Peter Wight MON LUCILLA ..... Adjoa Andoh MON ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney MON RUTH ..... Amanda Drew MON COLONEL RACE ..... Sean Baker MON STEPHEN ..... James Lailey MON SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles MON GIUSEPPE ..... Gerard McDermott MON MON directed by Mary Peate. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01blfjt (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01bgzvs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01blfjw (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 b01blfjy (Listen) MON Playing Like Ladies MON MON CLARE BALDING discovers that the freedoms Victorian public MON school girls found on the sports field were a precursor to MON the political and social freedoms that would change British MON society forever. MON She visits Cheltenham Ladies College, founded in 1854. MON Headmistress, Dorothea Beale's vision for her girls was MON nothing short of a quiet revolution. Pupils began to do MON gymnastics, swimming and later, hockey and netball allowing MON them a physical freedom that previous generations had never MON known. MON Readers, Sean Baker, Jo Munro and Jane Lawrence MON Producer: Sara Conkey. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01c6lfv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b01blgnw (Listen) MON Blue Flu by Peter Bleksley MON MON Blue Flu is a contemporary drama set in the near future. It MON explores the 'what if' scenario of a 'police strike' and the MON fall out of the strike across one day. We will follow three MON characters across the day of strike action: Mick Harley a MON dedicated frontline police officer; Jackie Raymond a senior MON member of the police federation who represent officers and MON Tom Dunkley, the junior minister who has inherited the MON responsibility of implementing cuts to a disaffected police MON service. MON Mick Harley loves his job and is proud of his work as a MON 'response officer' but he resents the way cuts have put MON officers at risk. A colleague of his is injured on duty, for MON the police this is the true cost and consequence of MON government cuts. Mick decides to take a militant stand, by MON triggering 'blue flu' a coordinated action of officers MON calling in sick. MON MON Mick Harley - Shaun Dooley MON Jackie Raymond - Roberta Taylor MON DAC Chad Parker - Ron Cook MON Tom Dunkley - Don Gilet MON Lisa Harley - Nina Sosnaya MON Ian Marsh - Harry Livingstone MON PC Darren Woolcraft - Philip Correia MON Jack Benjamin - Peter Hamilton Dyer MON Nurse Sharon - Tracy Wiles MON DI Richard Jarrett - Peter Bleksley MON MON Produced by Stephen Wright. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01blgny (Listen) MON (13/17) MON Can you remember who was awarded the BBC Sports Personality MON of the Year trophy for 2011, just a few weeks ago? Russell MON Davies puts the contestants on the spot in Brain of Britain, MON and you can hear how they get on in this week's programme. MON MON The time-honoured general knowledge quiz reaches the MON semi-final stage this week, with four competitors who have MON come unscathed through the heats continuing their progress MON towards the title Brain of Britain 2012. MON MON The first batch of semi-finalists are from County Fermanagh, MON Merseyside, London and Sussex. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01bkylp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01blgp0 (Listen) MON Julia Donaldson MON MON The children's author Julia Donaldson, best known for her MON creation The Gruffalo and her appointment as Children's MON Laureate. She chooses some of the texts and poems which have MON been most influential on her work as a writer for children MON and brings some of that work to life in song, including her MON famous "A Squash and A Squeeze." She is accompanied by her MON partner Malcolm and by Samuel West, who reads some of her MON choices. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01blgp2 (Listen) MON Discussion programme in which guests from different faith MON and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's MON world. MON MON 17:00 PM b01blgp4 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bgzvv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01blgp6 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 1 MON MON Nicholas Parsons presents the first of the series which MON marks the 45th birthday of Just a Minute. MON MON In this show panellists Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Jenny MON Eclair and Gyles Brandreth are all asked to talk on subjects MON given out in the first series in 1967. MON MON Paul Merton is asked to describe what he does When I Wear a MON Top Hat, Ross Noble explores the topic of The English Nanny, MON Gyles Brandreth explains How to Perform a Cornish Floral MON Dance and Jenny Eclair reveals all she knows about Knitting MON a Cablestitch Jumper. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01blgp8 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01blgpb (Listen) MON Mark Lawson meets husband and wife theatre producers Howard MON Panter and Rosemary Squire, recently named the most MON influential people in British theatre by The Stage MON newspaper. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bldps (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 What Are the Police For? b01blgpd (Listen) MON Episode 2 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 second programme, he explores the relationship MON between the public and the police. How far do the police MON respond to public concerns? What is the role of the public MON in policing? How far have we come from Sir Robert Peel's MON principle that "the police are the public and the public are MON the police"? MON MON Mark also considers how attitudes to the police are affected MON by media coverage and police drama, and asks what impact MON that has on how we think about crime, and about the police. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01bljwp (Listen) MON Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi MON MON Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi is one of the world's leading MON Islamist ideologues and has done much to convert the Muslim MON Brotherhood to the idea of democracy and acceptance of equal MON political rights for non-Muslims. He is leader of Tunisia's MON largest political party but his influence extends far beyond MON North Africa. And until the Arab Spring he lived in Hemel MON Hempstead. MON MON Owen Bennett-Jones examines his ideas and influence. MON MON Producer: Mukul Devichand. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01bb9d4 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper discusses a survey of ethical attitudes to MON sharing genome information; why having many friends calls MON for a bigger brain; how the last of our So You Want to Be a MON Scientist finalists plans to study emotional responses to MON art; and how volcanic eruptions triggered a little ice age. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON More Friends, Bigger Brains MON MON A new study seems to show that the larger your network of MON friends the larger your prefrontal cortex in the brain. MON MON The study’s leader is Robin Dunbar, Professor of MON Evolutionary Anthropology and Director of the Institute of MON Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford. He tells MON Quentin how the complex brainpower required to maintain a MON large network of friends may have influenced human MON evolution. MON MON Genome Ethics MON MON It used to take years to identify the genes responsible for MON individual inherited diseases. Now, a genetic basis has been MON identified for hundreds of conditions and the entire genome MON of an individual can be sequenced in an afternoon. MON MON Members of the public and specific patient groups frequently MON give scientists access to their genetic material for MON research purposes and the results are kept anonymous. But MON would the volunteer participants like to know about their MON own genes; indeed, do they have a right to know? MON MON A major new survey has been launched this week by the MON Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to test public opinion. Do MON people want to be told not only about specific inherited MON diseases but about slight genetic predisposition is to MON conditions in later life, perhaps conditions for which there MON is no treatment? And who is to tell them about the perhaps MON hundreds of incidental genetic features uncovered in the MON research. MON MON Quentin discusses the issues with Dr Anna Middleton, an MON ethics researcher involved in setting up the survey at the MON Sanger Institute, and with Alistair Kent, Director of MON Genetic Alliance UK which represents over 150 patient MON organisations. MON MON Does our emotional response to art correlate to its price? MON MON Mature student Dara Djavan Khoshdel will be putting this MON question to the test as one of our finalist on So You Want MON to Be a Scientist? MON MON Together with art historian Professor Martin Kemp and MON neuroscientist Andrew Parker, Dara visits the Graham MON Sutherland exhibition ‘An Unfinished World’ at Modern Art MON Oxford to discuss the types of artworks that should be MON included in this study and why. MON MON What Triggered the Little Ice Age? MON MON Gifford Miller collecting plant samples from the edge of the MON ice on Baffin Island. MON MON There are many accounts of extremely severe winters across MON Northern Europe a few hundred years ago. Frost fairs were MON held on the frozen River Thames and the period is sometimes MON called the little ice age. But exactly when it began and MON what triggered it has been a mystery. Some have suggested a MON drop in the suns output associated with a lull in the MON sunspot cycle that began in the 17th century. MON MON But now, Prof Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado MON at Boulder has dated the start of the cold period to a brief MON spell at the end of the 13th century. He did this by dating MON plant remains killed by advancing ice on Baffin Island in MON the Canadian Arctic and he believes the events were MON triggered by explosive volcanic eruptions. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01bldpl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01bgzvx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01bljwr (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bljwt (Listen) MON Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 6 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 perfect minimalist apartment for his MON friend, Oskar, he looks forward to a chance to write, relax MON and recuperate. But all too soon, and all too inevitably, MON things begin to go wrong. The flat is owned by his old MON university friend, Oskar, an avant-garde composer, best MON known for his piece, 'Variations on Tram Timetables' , who MON turns out to be quite the perfectionist... MON MON Today: as the aftermath of the drink-fuelled night out MON becomes all too apparent, further horrors reveal MON themselves... MON MON Reader: Bertie Carvel MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Miracles R Us b00scx37 (Listen) MON Flux MON MON Caroline (Deborah Findlay) is running Household Solutions on MON her own from the student rooms she is renting - just MON leaflets through doors, offering a family back-up service. MON After a chance meeting with Sylvia (Anna Massey), Sylvia is MON sure she could be helpful to the business. Caroline is sure MON she couldn't. MON MON Sylvia persists and, against her better judgement, Caroline MON gets drawn in. And gradually, gradually, throughout the MON series, a mutual respect is formed and a strong business, MON MiraclesRus, is built up. MON MON Sylvia ..... Anna Massey MON Caroline ..... Deborah Findlay MON Tanya ..... Alison Pettitt MON MON Written by Lesley Bruce. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bljww (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01bgzwh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01bldpn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bgzwk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bgzwm (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bgzwp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01bgzwr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bsdh1 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie TUE Griffiths, Methodist Minister. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01bm0r1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01bllwx (Listen) TUE Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01bwmvt (Listen) TUE Robin Murray TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to psychiatrist, Robin Murray about his TUE life's work trying to understand why some people have TUE schizophrenia and others don't. As a young man, Murray lived TUE in an Asylum in Glasgow for two years, mainly because it TUE offered free accommodation to medical students. Struck by TUE how people's minds could play tricks on them and the lack of TUE proper research into the condition, he resolved to put the TUE study of schizophrenia on a more scientific footing. Fifteen TUE years ago he believed schizophrenia was a brain disease. TUE Now, he's not so sure. Despite decades of research, the TUE biological basis of this often distressing condition remains TUE elusive. Just living in a city significantly increases your TUE risk (the bigger the city the greater the risk); and, as TUE Murray discovered, migrants are six times more likely to TUE develop the condition than long term residents. He's also TUE outspoken about the mental health risks of smoking cannabis, TUE based both on his scientific research and direct experience TUE working at the Maudsley Hospital in South London. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01bllx1 (Listen) TUE Bridget Kendall with Alexander McCall Smith TUE TUE Bridget Kendall talks to those who are well known in one TUE field but are experts in another. She talks to the prolific TUE author Alexander McCall Smith, best known for The No 1 TUE Ladies Detective Agency who's also an Emeritus Professor of TUE Medical Law . They discuss how his academic interest in the TUE legal and philosophical aspects of responsibility feed into TUE his work as a novelist. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01bllx3 (Listen) TUE A Card from Angela Carter, Episode 2 TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bllx5 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bllx7 (Listen) TUE Dickens in London, Boz TUE TUE by Michael Eaton TUE The strange Young Gentleman is now working for The Morning TUE Chronicle, and has established himself as the swiftest and TUE best-dressed Parliamentary Reporter, earning a decent salary TUE of five guineas a week, taking down shorthand reports of TUE debates in the House. But he has ambitions to write his own TUE stories. Based on 'Thoughts About People' (1835), 'A Dinner TUE at Poplar Walk' from The Monthly Magazine (1833), 'Sketches TUE By Boz' in general and 'A Parliamentary Sketch' (1836). TUE TUE Young Gentleman / Boz ..... Samuel Barnett TUE Manager / Conductor ..... Brian Bowles TUE Augustus Minns ..... Nyasha Hatendi TUE Alexander ..... Bertie Gilbert TUE Cousin ..... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Clerk ..... Iain Batchelor TUE Husband... Stuart Mcloughlin TUE Landlady .... Sally Orrock TUE Member / Waiter ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Confectioner ..... Sean Baker TUE Passenger ..... Alex Tregear TUE Apprentices... Adeel Akhtar, Henry Devas TUE Drunken Woman ..... Claire Harry TUE Music by Neil Brand TUE Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01bllx9 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Painting in Sound TUE TUE Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson spends much of his TUE time listening and recording the sounds of the natural TUE world. When the National Gallery invited him to create a TUE sound piece inspired by a painting of his choice, he chose TUE Constable's 'The Hay Meadow'. This was the start of a TUE creative and exciting project, which also involved students TUE from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design and other TUE professional musicians and sounds artists. The project began TUE with audio guides for paintings selected by the artists, and TUE then later developed into an evening event involving a live TUE sound mix in the gallery to accompany a tour of the TUE paintings with an art historian. NATURE uses these events to TUE explore how painters use a range of techniques to excite the TUE viewers senses; not only the visual sense, but the senses of TUE smell, touch and perhaps most poignantly, hearing. The TUE programme also explores how sound installations and sound TUE guides may help some viewers, especially people who might TUE feel intimidated by paintings, to engage with these works of TUE art. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01blj2b (Listen) TUE Series 13, Gresford, the Miners' Hymn TUE TUE The haunting melancholy of Gresford, the Miners' Hymn, is TUE the music explored in this week's programme. TUE TUE Written by a former miner, Robert Saint, to commemorate the TUE Gresford pit disaster in 1934 it has been played at mining TUE events ever since; most notably at the famous Durham Miners' TUE Gala. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01bllxf (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01bgzwt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01bllxh (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 b01bllxk (Listen) TUE The Corinthian Ideal TUE TUE Clare Balding examines the era when footballers were TUE expected to be gentlemen,both on and off the pitch.The TUE Football Association founded in 1863 was set up to ensure TUE the boys that had attended the public schools of England TUE could continue to play the game in adulthood by an agreed TUE set of rules.They embodied the Corinthian spirit, the TUE amateur ideal, one must not be seen to take sport too TUE seriously, or to try too hard, superiority must be gained TUE with apparent effortlessness. Clare looks at the life of TUE C.B. Fry, the ultimate Corinthian - a polymath who could TUE turn his hand to writing, politics, academia, cricket and TUE football. In 1902 he was playing football for Corinthians TUE and cricket for Surrey. TUE Reader, Brian Bowles TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01blgp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b010xzs7 (Listen) TUE Referee TUE TUE By Nick Perry. TUE TUE Geoff is football referee at the top of his profession. But TUE after a controversial game, he's heavily criticised and TUE dropped from the upcoming Cup Final. Geoff's frustration TUE builds and his scruples are soon tested. TUE TUE Geoff . . . . . Mark Addy TUE Don . . . . . Ralph Ineson TUE Koch . . . . . Andrew Scott TUE Pritchard . . . . . Sean Baker TUE Lisa . . . . . Denise Gough TUE Karen . . . . . Sally Orrock TUE Jamie . . . . . Rielly Newbold TUE Manager . . . . . Brian Bowles TUE Players . . . . . Stuart McLoughlin & Daniel Rabin. TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Studio Managers: Colin Guthrie and Mike Etherden TUE Editors: Caleb Knightley and Peter Ringrose TUE Production Co-ordinator: Selina Ream. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01blzkl (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents the first programme of a new BBC Radio 4 TUE series: a food panel show, recorded in front of a live TUE audience, aimed at anyone who cooks at home, not just the TUE experts. TUE TUE Each week the programme travels round the country to visit TUE interesting food locations, and meet local food-loving TUE people. TUE TUE This week The Kitchen Cabinet is in Sibton, near Saxmundham TUE in Suffolk, and the panel features: Angela Malik, the TUE Scottish-Indian chef, whose passion for demystifying food TUE has led to her setting up her own cookery school, deli and TUE street-market stalls; Rachel McCormack, a Glaswegian who TUE spent her formative years in Spain, and who is now TUE successfully spreading the word on all things Spanish, not TUE least by teaching authentic Catalan cookery; Stefan Gates, TUE food adventurer and self-styled 'gastronaut'; and the food TUE historian, Dr Annie Gray. TUE Suffolk is known for its game, smoke houses and condiments, TUE all of which are very seasonal topics for this time of year, TUE and the panel will be answering questions about horseradish, TUE jugged hare, and the fashion for home smoking. But they will TUE also be finding out whether flatulence caused many TUE vegetables, popular in Victorian times, to fall out of TUE favour, and revealing Queen Victoria's favoured remedy for TUE indigestion. TUE TUE The show is witty, fast-moving, and irreverent, but packed TUE full of information that may well change the way you think TUE about cooking. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Lucy Armitage TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01blj2d (Listen) TUE Adapting Insects TUE TUE In the battle to protect crops and eradicate disease, TUE scientists are turning to ever more ingenious ways to defeat TUE the old enemy - insects. Instead of just going for the kill, TUE they're finding ways of changing behaviour, of recruiting TUE the predator's enemies as our friends. They're using genetic TUE modification and other breeding techniques to ensure that TUE insects breed, but the young don't survive long enough to do TUE any damage. So can we make insects do our bidding and create TUE a world without pesticides? Professor Alice Roberts TUE investigates for 'Costing the Earth'. TUE TUE Producer: Steve Peacock. TUE TUE 16:00 Europe's Choice b01bkylt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01blgsp (Listen) TUE Bonnie Greer, Simon Brett TUE TUE Presenter Harriett Gilbert and her guests discuss three TUE favourite books, in the first of a new series of A Good TUE Read. The writer Bonnie Greer brings along Blind Sunflowers TUE by Alberto Méndez, a first novel about the Spanish Civil TUE War; Simon Brett, scriptwriter of many Radio 4 comedies, TUE chooses The Art of Coarse Acting by Michael Green subtitled TUE "how to wreck an amateur dramatic society." Harriett herself TUE chooses a much-loved and - it turns out - slightly TUE mis-remembered novel which created a big stir when it was TUE first published in 1993 - The Shipping News by E. Annie TUE Proulx. TUE TUE Produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01blzkn (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bgzww (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01blzkq (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Music Festival TUE TUE A year into married life and already things are a little TUE creaky. So, following Will's unimaginative anniversary TUE present (a draining rack), Annabelle has signed them up for TUE a course of marriage counselling. TUE TUE Each week, counsellor Guy mediates a recent dispute between TUE Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to the events that TUE spawned the argument, and by the end, the couple find TUE marital equilibrium once more. Sort of. TUE TUE Guy arbitrates, usually leaning towards Annabelle's more TUE sensible point of view. In contrast to Will's uptightness, TUE Guy is laconic and urbane and clearly irritates Will. TUE TUE The writer and comedian Will Smith leads the starry cast of TUE Mr and Mrs.Smith. TUE TUE Episode 3 - The Music Festival TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling, TUE written by Will Smith. Will reluctantly accompanies wife TUE Annabelle to a music festival. She brings her annoying TUE friend Heather along. TUE TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy ..... Paterson Joseph TUE Heather ..... Morwenna Banks TUE Various ..... Simon Bubb TUE TUE Written by ..... Will Smith TUE Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01blzks (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01blzkv (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the longlist for the Art TUE Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, announced this evening TUE by the chair of the judges Lord Smith of Finsbury. TUE TUE Producer Timothy Prosser. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bllx7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01blzkx (Listen) TUE BioSecurity TUE TUE Dutch and American scientists have succeeded in mutating a TUE deadly bird-flu virus to make it easily transmissible to TUE humans. If it got out, it could start a fatal epidemic. They TUE keep it securely locked away in their laboratories, but want TUE to publish the biological recipe for making it. In an TUE unprecedented move, the U.S. government is pressing them to TUE keep the details of their experiments secret for fear that TUE bio-terrorists could use the organism to kill hundreds of TUE millions of people. TUE At the same time, a rapidly developing branch of science TUE known as 'synthetic biology' offers dramatic possibilities TUE for developing new vaccines and targeting many lethal TUE diseases. But does it also increase the risk that TUE newly-created organisms could be used for harmful purposes TUE as the necessary research techniques spread out from TUE authorised laboratories to a network of DIY enthusiasts? TUE Could genetic mutation of pathogens become as commonplace as TUE home-brewing? And how well protected is the UK against TUE biological threats? TUE Reporter : Gerry Northam TUE Producer : Nicola Dowling TUE Editor : David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01blzkz (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01blzl1 (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 Life Scientific b01bwmvt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01bgzwy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01blzl3 (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01blzl5 (Listen) TUE Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 7 TUE TUE A starkly minimalist flat drives a writer to the edge in TUE Will Wiles' darkly comic tale. TUE TUE Today: a desperate attempt to dispose of a body, and an even TUE more desperate attempt to fix the wooden floors. Is it time TUE to come clean to Oskar? TUE TUE Reader: Bertie Carvel TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 I, Regress b01blj2g (Listen) TUE Episode 6 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 6: Dr Berry treats some intimidating east-ender twins TUE with unexpected past lives. Can he pull off the double? 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 b00tt684 (Listen) TUE Episode 6 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 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 b01blzl7 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01bgzxj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01bllx3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bgzxl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bgzxn (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bgzxq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01bgzxs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bsdl8 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie WED Griffiths, Methodist Minister. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01bm0r7 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01bm0nv (Listen) WED Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports WED Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01bm0nx (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01bm0nz (Listen) WED A Card from Angela Carter, Episode 3 WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bm0p1 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bm0p3 (Listen) WED Dickens in London, The Sparkler of Albion WED WED by Michael Eaton WED WED Has there ever been a more successful writer? Has there ever WED been a more well-beloved writer? Dickens can go anywhere and WED do anything. And this evening he is going out for a jaunt WED with the detective police. Inspector Field who is now the WED Chief of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard, greets WED 'The Sparkler of Albion' like an old friend. They have some WED ground to cover, is he up for it? Of course he is. Largely a WED dramatisation of 'On Duty With Inspector Field' - written in WED June 1851 - with some material from 'A December Vision' - WED written in 1850 and 'Bleak House' - begun in 1852. WED WED The Sparkler of Albion .... Alex Jennings WED Inspector Field ..... Elliot Levey WED Jo ..... Ryan Watson WED Sgt. Williams ..... Stuart McLoughlin WED Bark ..... Sam Dale WED Constable ..... Nyasha Hatendi WED Rogers ..... Brian Bowles WED Earl of Warwick ..... Sean Baker WED Drunken Woman ..... Claire Harry WED With Adeel Akhtar, Iain Batchelor, Henry Devas WED Music by Neil Brand WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01bm0p5 (Listen) WED Series 15, Ramstein WED WED Chris Ledgard tells the story of the air show disaster at WED Ramstein, Germany in 1988. Three Italian aircraft collided, WED one crashing into the crowd, killing sixty-seven spectators. WED WED In this edition of In Living Memory, Chris Ledgard visits WED Ramstein USAF base to meet survivors of the accident, WED explore what went wrong, and examine the safety legacy of WED Ramstein. WED WED 11:30 HR b01bm0p7 (Listen) WED Series 3, Disabled WED WED In the return of Nigel Williams' much-praised comedy series WED the two 60-something chums have just lost their pensions. WED Sam (Nicholas le Prevost) balks at Peter's (Jonathan Pryce) WED outrageous survival measures. But will he become embroiled? WED WED Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce WED Sam ..... Nicholas le Prevost WED Doctor ..... Paul Moriarty WED WED Director...Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01bm0p9 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01bgzxv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01bm0pc (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 b01bm0pf (Listen) WED The Formal Empire WED WED In the nineteenth century a quarter of the world's habitable WED countries were part of the British Empire and if trade was WED the driving force behind it's expansion, sport was the glue WED that helped keep it together. CLARE BALDING explains how WED sport became a way of transmitting British values around the WED globe; it was a connection to the mother country and a means WED of educating the Empire's native subjects. Professor Richard WED Holt of The International Centre for Sports History and WED Culture at De Montfort University reveals the role rugby and WED cricket played in making Britain great. WED Readers, Brian Bowles, Nyasha Hatendi and Sean Baker WED Producer: Garth Brameld. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01blzks (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sxkv4 (Listen) WED Gerontius WED WED Destined to be the first English saint for centuries, the WED great theologian, poet and Catholic convert Cardinal John WED Henry Newman (1801-90) insisted in his will that he was to WED be buried in the same grave as fellow convert Fr Ambrose St WED John whom he had known for over thirty years. WED WED Written by award-winning playwright Stephen Wyatt and WED starring Derek Jacobi as Newman, this highly-imaginative WED play explores the relationship between Newman and Ambrose, WED the concerns aroused at the time and the controversy WED surrounding the decision to exhume their bodies. The play WED also draws on some of the themes in Dream of Gerontius WED (music by Edward Elgar). Others in the cast are Nicholas WED Boulton, Michael Jayston, Geoffrey Whitehead, Karl Davies, WED Ben Warwick and Jane Whittenshaw. WED WED Cardinal Newman ...... Derek Jacobi WED Fr Ambrose St John ...... Nicholas Boulton WED Fr Faber ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Angel ..... Karl Davies WED Demon ....... Michael Jayston WED Reporter ...... Ben Warwick WED Lecturer ...... Jane Whittenshaw WED WED Directed by Martin Jenkins WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01bm0ph (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests take your calls on energy and WED energy saving. WED WED If you want advice on switching your supplier to cut your WED bills, why not contact the show. The six major suppliers WED have cut their energy tariffs to some customers. But with so WED many different options, how can one make an informed choice? WED WED For those considering installing solar panels, people have WED until March 3rd this year to get them in place and WED registered to benefit from a generous feed-in-tariff. The WED Government plans to reduce this tariff and is awaiting the WED result of possible further court proceedings. WED WED With the cold snap forecast to continue, you may want to WED know if you are eligible to claim any grants or benefits. WED WED Appearing on the programme: WED WED Joe Malinowski, TheEnergyShop.com WED Christine McGourty, director of Energy UK WED Harry Mayers, Energy Saving Trust WED WED Phone lines open at 1pm. The number to call: - 03 700 100 WED 444. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01blzl1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01bm0pk (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01bm0pm (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 b01bm0pp (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bgzxx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01bm0pr (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience WED consider policy proposals for a People's Manifesto. WED This week's agenda: WED WED 1) Excluding Non-Doms from free access to the NHS WED 2) Every citizen to be given £10,000 in quantitative easing WED vouchers, to be spent in the next 6 months WED And WED 3) Proportional voting rights for MPs based on the size of WED their majorities WED WED "Any Other Business" policies are also taken from the studio WED audience throughout the show. WED WED Written and presented by Mark Thomas WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01bm0pt (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01bm0pw (Listen) WED Mark Lawson reports on a major exhibition of more than 100 WED portraits by the painter Lucian Freud, who died last year. WED WED Producer Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bm0p3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01bmrkt (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Kenan Malik WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01bm0py (Listen) WED Gordon Bridger WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01blj2d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01bm0nx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01bgzxz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01bm0q0 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bm0q2 (Listen) WED Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 8 WED WED Today: a wine-fuelled restoration project ends in further WED chaos, and then the angry cleaner returns, armed with her WED mop... WED WED Reader: Bertie Carvel WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Global Depression Tour b01bm0q4 (Listen) WED China 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's in China. WED WED Tina C...Christopher Green WED With Will Hutton, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey. 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 b014gcmy (Listen) WED Series 2, Leisure Pursuits WED WED Exploring the strange things we do for fun. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bm0qg (Listen) WED The day's top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01bgzyk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01bm0nz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bgzym (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bgzyp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bgzyr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01bgzyt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bsf47 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie THU Griffiths, Methodist Minister. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01bmlst (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b01bmlsw (Listen) THU Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports THU Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01bmlsy (Listen) THU Erasmus THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the THU Dutch humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus. One of the most THU significant theologians of the Renaissance, Erasmus THU published important editions of the Bible, and was involved THU in many of the debates surrounding the reformation of the THU Church. But his writings were not limited to ecclesiastical THU matters, and today he is recognised as one of the THU intellectual titans of his age. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01bmlt0 (Listen) THU A Card from Angela Carter, Episode 4 THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bmlt2 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bmlt4 (Listen) THU Dickens in London, The Uncommercial Traveller THU THU by Michael Eaton THU THU Almost a decade on and Dickens is still night walking. But THU now it is because he can no longer sleep. His attitude THU towards the city has transformed: 'London is a vile place, I THU sincerely believe I see that great heavy canopy lowering THU over the housetops... the meanness of Regent Street...the THU abortive ugliness of Trafalgar Square...London is shabby by THU daylight, shabbier by gaslight.' Based upon his statement: THU 'Personal'- written in June 1858 - and The Uncommercial THU Traveller essays: His General Line Of Business; City of THU London Churches; The City of the Absent; Shy Neighbourhoods; THU Night Walks and Two views of a Cheap Theatre - written in THU 1860. THU THU The Uncommercial Traveller ..... Alex Jennings THU Catherine Dickens..... Jane Whittenshaw THU Boy ..... Hugo Docking THU Steerforth ..... Stuart McLoughlin THU Policeman..... Brian Bowles THU Waitress ..... Alex Tregear THU Confectioner ..... Sean Baker THU Music by Neil Brand THU Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01bmlt6 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Famed for Its Knitting b01bmlt8 (Listen) THU The life and changing times of Woman's Weekly - "the THU number-one-selling brand within the mature woman's weekly THU magazine sector" - as it celebrates its centenary in a THU period of unprecedented economic turmoil in the publishing THU industry.In a previous journalistic life, Clare Jenkins was THU for a while "The Man Who Sees" on Woman's Weekly.The THU magazine was an anachronism 25 years ago - very old school, THU very pink, catchlined "Famed for its Knitting" . THU "The Man Who Sees" was the resident 'male voice' philosopher THU .For six months, Clare stood in for the woman (sic) who THU usually wrote it. At another point, she was the astrologer THU (when the resident astrologer had a heart attack). For the THU rest of the time, she was a sub-editor and celebrity THU interviewer, the celebs being people like Hollywood film THU stars Joan Fontaine and Gloria Graham, Jenny Agutter and THU Nicholas Parsons. There was a knitting department, where THU they made balaclavas and sleeveless jumpers for models like THU Roger Moore and Sandra Howard . THU It was decidedly mono-cultural, too - an edict from on high THU forbade the use of non-white faces. That same edict forbade THU any mention of sex in its pages, so the fictional heroines - THU created by old-style romantic novelists like Netta Muskett THU and Mary Burchell (a wartime heroine herself, helping Jews THU to escape from the Nazis) - were virginal and letters THU mentioning sexual difficulties had to be rewritten before THU appearing on the problem page. THU It still sells 330,000 a week and has achieved a different THU kind of status after being immortalised in a Victoria Wood THU song ..."beat me on the bottom with the Woman's Weekly". As THU it celebrates its centenary ,Clare takes an affectionate but THU sharp-edged look at everybody's granny's favourite THU cup-of-tea read. How has it managed to survive? THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01bmltb (Listen) THU Consumer news with Julian Worricker. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01bgzyw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01bmltd (Listen) THU Edward Stourton 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 b01bmltg (Listen) THU Dawn of Professional Football THU THU CLARE BALDING tells the story of how football went from an THU amateur pastime to big business and it all started in the THU Lancashire mill town of Preston. In the season of 1888-89 THU The Invincibles, as the Preston team were known, were THU unbeaten in the League and the FA cup, becoming football's THU first double winners. As Professor Matthew Taylor of De THU Montfort University explains, their success was down to the THU vision of one man, their manager, William Suddell, a local THU mill manager. Clare visits Deepdale, Preston's ground to THU find out how Suddell became the 'father' of professional THU football. THU Readers, James Lailey and Sean Baker THU Producer: Sara Conkey. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01bm0pt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01bmlvs (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 3, Aisley Bridge THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. THU THU 3 of 4: Following the mysterious absence of a local girl, THU Pilgrim is drawn into the strange world of the lanes, and THU the immortal children who live there. THU THU William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton THU Lily ..... Victoria Inez-Hardy THU Mr Hendrickson ..... James Lailey THU George ..... Kasper Hilton-Hille THU Effie ..... Nishi Malde THU Cecilia ..... Faye Castelow THU Audrey ..... Lizzy Watts THU Everett ..... Simon Bubb THU Conor ..... Adam Billington THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01bmmzy (Listen) THU Series 20, Episode 1 THU THU Clare Balding returns with a new series of Ramblings in THU which she joins people who have either been inspired, or THU have inspired others, to walk in the British countryside. THU In the first of the series Clare joins keen walker and THU Director General of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds, THU to walk a section of the new Octavia Hill Centenary Trail in THU Kent. Co-founder of the National Trust, Octavia Hill THU passionately believed that green space was essential for a THU healthy lifestyle and spent her life campaigning to save THU these disappearing open spaces from development. THU Beginning at Toys Hill in Kent, one of the places that THU Octavia managed to save, Clare and Fiona set off to walk THU part of the Trail which has been created to mark the THU centenary of Octavia's death. A keen walker herself, Fiona THU tells Clare why she finds Octavia Hill's legacy so THU inspirational and why walking and the British landscape is THU so important to her. THU THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01bkhjx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01bkym0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01bmn00 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01bmn02 (Listen) THU Over the next two weeks Radio 4 will be broadcasting plays THU about Freud's famous cases. Deborah Levy has dramatised the THU stories of Dora and Little Hans. THU THU In Material World Quentin Cooper will be exploring Freud's THU approach to understanding his patients and asking how THU scientific it was. And he will be looking at Freud's legacy THU in the 21st century. THU THU Quentin will also be presenting his weekly digest of science THU in and behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who THU are publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and THU he discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by THU the 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 b01bmn04 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bgzyy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b015zswt (Listen) THU Series 7, Heroes THU THU In Episode Five - 'Heroes'; Clare encounters Bradley Bigg - THU Pop's tub-thumping troubadour and Blue Collar balladeer THU whose music influenced and shaped her as a teenager. THU Meanwhile, Brian has to break some bad news to Nali and THU Helen takes on the role of Health and Safety Officer with THU uncharacteristic vigour. THU THU Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS THU Brian: ALEX LOWE THU Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI THU Ray/Mr Trueman: RICHARD LUMSDEN THU Helen: LIZA TARBUCK THU Simon/Bradley: ANDREW WINCOTT THU Libby: SARAH KENDALL THU Chelsy: VICTORIA INEZ HARDY THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Producer Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01bmn06 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01bmn08 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bmlt4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01bmn0b (Listen) THU Battling Boardroom Pay THU THU The boss of RBS, Stephen Hester eventually succumbed to THU political pressure to waive his million pound bonus at the THU taxpayer backed bank, and former boss Fred Goodwin is now THU plain Mister after being stripped of his knighthood. But THU will the proposals from Business Secretary Vince Cable to THU curb excessive pay packets in Britain's boardrooms work? THU THU Max Flint examines the workings of the remuneration THU committees which have awarded generous increases even when THU company performance has been poor. The Report reveals how THU the system of voting and rewards means pay is continually THU ratcheted up by a network of well paid retired executives. THU THU Shareholders are being promised more power, but it's not THU always in the interests of asset managers to vote against THU increases in the pay packages of their counterparts. Will THU the 'independent' committee members the Government is THU suggesting really be outside the 'club'? THU THU Max Flint asks whether the Prime Minister can deliver on his THU promise to get tough on boardroom pay. THU THU Producer: Rob Cave. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01bmn0d (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 THU 21:00 Nature b01bllx9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01bmlsy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01bgzz0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01bmn0j (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bmn0l (Listen) THU Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 9 THU THU Today: another dead body to dispose of, this time not of the THU animal variety. But then an attempt to rescue the floors THU yields a disconcerting discovery... THU THU Reader: Bertie Carvel THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00ss4tc (Listen) THU Presenting Ed Bellamy THU THU A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple THU and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns THU refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate THU the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind THU in post-war London. THU THU Paul finds himself at cocktail party for two with the THU attractive and strangely watchful widow Mrs Forester, while THU Steve goes out on an eventful shopping expedition. But THU husband and wife are back together arm in arm later for an THU evening of intrigue and excitement at one of London's most THU fashionable night spots, the Machicha Club in Berkeley THU Square. THU THU Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan THU Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson THU Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas THU Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood THU Worth ..... Greg Powrie THU Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm THU Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie THU Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood THU Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson THU Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing THU THU Produced by Patrick Rayner. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bmn0q (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01bgzzl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01bmlt0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bgzzn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bgzzq (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bgzzs (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01bgzzv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bsf56 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie FRI Griffiths, Methodist Minister. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01bmq26 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01bmq28 (Listen) FRI Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01bkylm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01bmq2b (Listen) FRI A Card from Angela Carter, Episode 5 FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bmq2d (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bmq2g (Listen) FRI Dickens in London, The Inimitable FRI FRI by Michael Eaton FRI FRI Dickens is an old man now, though he's not even sixty. His FRI aching feet draw him irresistibly towards London's East End. FRI All around he sees the same want and ignorance he wrote FRI about all those years ago. FRI Why is he doing all these public readings? He can fool FRI himself that it's because he wants the contact with his FRI readers - no writer before him has ever had such an adoring FRI Public - but is there another reason ? FRI FRI Based on A Small Star in the East and On An Amateur Beat - FRI written in 1869; and the reading of Sikes and Nancy - first FRI given on his reading tour in 1868 and performed finally in FRI 1870, three months before his death. FRI FRI Inimitable ..... Antony Sher FRI Young Gentleman / Younger Self ..... Samuel Barnett FRI Mamie / Nurse ..... Sally Orrock FRI Creature ..... Ryan Watson FRI Dolby / Cabbie ..... Brian Bowles FRI Little Girl / Child ..... Deeivya Meir FRI FRI Music by Neil Brand. FRI FRI 11:00 The Nile b01bmq2j (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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 b01bmq2l (Listen) FRI The teams examine the life and work of "Author of the Week", FRI playwright and creator of "Flare Path", Sir Terence FRI Rattigan. FRI FRI Regular captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined FRI by Sir Andrew Motion and children's author, Sue Limb as they FRI answer questions based around Rattigan's life and work, as FRI well as more general literary brainteasers, set by host FRI James Walton. FRI FRI For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine FRI Rattigan discarding his stiff-upper-lip-style and writing a FRI gritty, kitchen sink-style drama. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01bmq2n (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01bgzzx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01bmq2q (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 b01bmq2s (Listen) FRI Exporting Football FRI FRI CLARE BALDING charts how Britain spread the passion for FRI football around the world. She particularly looks at South FRI America where the game is central to their way of life. The FRI FIFA World Cup has been staged 19 times and on 9 of those FRI occasions, it has been won by either Brazil, Argentina or FRI Uruguay. FRI Professor Tony Mason from De Montfort University explains FRI that unlike cricket and rugby which was spread by soldiers, FRI civil servants and settlers in British colonies, football FRI took a different route. It was taken around the world by FRI those who had made Britain the greatest trading nation in FRI the world, by mangers, engineers and teachers. FRI Readers, Nyasha Hatendi, Sean Baker and Jane Lawrence FRI Producer: Garth Brameld. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01bmn06 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00p8c1c (Listen) FRI HighLites FRI FRI by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding FRI FRI A small-town farce set in and around mean-minded Bev's FRI hairdressing salon, High-Lites, where a little lie spreads FRI through the village like wildfire. FRI FRI Beverley ..... Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Shirley ..... Rosie Cavaliero FRI Matthew ..... Rhys Jennings FRI Alice ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Enid ..... Kate Layden FRI Nigel ..... John Biggins FRI Lois ..... Joannah Tincey FRI Butt ..... Ewan Hooper FRI Paramedic ..... Joseph Cohen-Cole FRI FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI This afternoon play is the pilot for the comedy series that FRI kicks off in the Woman's Hour next week. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01bmq2v (Listen) FRI Denbigh, North Wales FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A with the North Wales FRI branch of the Cottage Garden Society. In addition, a report FRI from a Welsh nursery with a long history of tropical FRI plant-hunting. FRI FRI Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Biggs are on the FRI panel. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Human Cradle b01bmq2x (Listen) FRI The Invisible Map FRI FRI In Maaza Mengiste's new short story, 'The Invisible Map', a FRI young Ethiopian woman, hoping for a better life in Europe, FRI finds herself trapped in a Libyan prison. Read by Adjoa FRI Andoh. FRI FRI The second in our series of contemporary stories from the FRI Horn of Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. FRI FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01bmq2z (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 b01bmq31 (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 b01bmq33 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bgzzz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01bmq35 (Listen) FRI Series 76, Episode 8 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01bmq37 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01bmq39 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bmq2g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01bmq3c (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Wadham School, Crewkerne, Somerset, with Ann FRI Widdecombe. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01bmq3f (Listen) FRI Historian David Cannadine with his topical reflections. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Sport and the British: Omnibus b01bmq8d (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI The second week of Sport and the British with Clare Balding. FRI This week she looked at the Victorian gentlemen wrote the FRI rules, drew the lines, set up the leagues. They took FRI cricket, rugby union and football around the Empire, using FRI it to bond and to control the nations they were conquering FRI and we discover how women were finally allowed to discard FRI their corsets for sport, as long as they played like ladies FRI and how the Corinthian ideal was born. FRI Producer: Sara Conkey. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01bh001 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01bmq3h (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bmq3k (Listen) FRI Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 10 FRI FRI Today: with Oskar's flat in chaos, the floor ruined, one cat FRI and one cleaner now deceased, it appears all is lost. But FRI events take an unexpected turn.... FRI FRI Reader: Bertie Carvel FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01blgsp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bmq3m (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
03 February, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 04/02/2012 - 10/02/2012
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