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SAT SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01mhp1g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01mltk6 (Listen) SAT Bring Me Sunshine - A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, SAT Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather, Fog SAT SAT by Charlie Connelly SAT Read by Stephen Mangan SAT SAT The final stops on Charlie Connelly's meteorological journey SAT include a young man's obsession with photographing SAT snowflakes and a musical ode to the sea - the foghorn SAT symphony. SAT SAT We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds SAT and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is SAT dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know SAT about it? In Bring Me Sunshine, Charlie Connelly sets off on SAT the trail of our island obsession. SAT SAT He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics, SAT geniuses, rainmakers and cloud-busters and brings vividly to SAT life great weather events from history. SAT He sheds light on Britain's weirdest wind, the first weather SAT forecast and why people once thought firing cannons at SAT clouds was a great idea. SAT SAT Having adventured round the shipping forecast areas for his SAT bestselling Attention All Shipping, Connelly is the perfect SAT guide through a mélange of gales, blizzards, mists, SAT heatwaves and the occasional shower of fish. Bring Me SAT Sunshine answers all your weather questions as well as SAT helping you to distinguish your graupel from your petrichor. SAT SAT Produced by Joanna Green SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mhp1j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mhp1l (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mhp1n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01mhp1q (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ml0xy (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop SAT Joe Aldred. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ml0y0 (Listen) SAT "She's 52 and not being anti-social, she has Alzheimer's." SAT Listeners share their experiences of early-onset dementia, SAT including a man who had to leave the army because of the SAT disease, and the wife of a top surgeon who watched his SAT decline. With Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01mhp1v (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01mhp1x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01mk92s (Listen) SAT Open Country visits Scotland's Moray Firth, testing the SAT health of its marine mammal population SAT The beaching of twenty six pilot whales in Scotland's Firth SAT of Forth made headlines, and highlighted the importance SAT attached by many of us to the creatures which live, largely SAT unobserved, in our seas. In Open Country this week, Richard SAT Uridge travels further north, to the Moray Firth, to test SAT the health of its mammal populations, and to try to fathom SAT what it is about these creatures which strikes such a chord SAT in humans. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01mn2t6 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The SAT presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Ruth SAT Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01mhp21 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01mn2vg (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie SAT and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday in Parliament, SAT Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01mn2vj (Listen) SAT Charlie Higson, Michael Ashcroft's medals, John McCarthy in SAT Kent, Tony Benn's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with studio guest Charlie SAT Higson and the extraordinary transgender love story of SAT Victoria and Emma Cantons. Conservative Michael Ashcroft SAT shows off his medal collection, we debate rites of passage SAT for one mum and her son, the inheritance tracks of former SAT politician Tony Benn and John McCarthy visits Kent! SAT Producer Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b01mn32c (Listen) SAT Series 5, The Woman in Black SAT SAT Steve Punt turns private investigator, investigating bizarre SAT rumours surrounding the 1928 Charfield rail crash. SAT SAT 2. The Woman in Black. For 25 years following the 1928 SAT Charfield rail crash in Gloucestershire, a woman in black SAT laid flowers at the memorial to the accident. Arriving in a SAT chauffeur driven car, she never revealed her identity but SAT locals have assumed she was in some way related to two young SAT unknown victims of the accident. SAT SAT The means of this rich woman's arrival has led to feverish SAT speculation - most notably that the was a member of royalty SAT and the children were illegitimate offspring. Add to that SAT questions over the cause of the crash and you have a field SAT day for conspiracy theorists. SAT SAT Punt sets to work sorting fact from fiction, calling in the SAT experts and cross-examining locals. He gets to grips to with SAT the cause of the crash and gets tantalisingly close to the SAT the possible identity of the woman in black and the two SAT unknown victims. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01mn32f (Listen) SAT As the Prime Minister experiences some mid-term wobbles, SAT Steve Richards of The Independent asks who is the real David SAT Cameron with two of his supporters, the journalist, Ian SAT Birrell and Tory MP, George Eustice. SAT SAT Also, could a future Lib-Lab deal work? What are the lessons SAT from the Lib-Con coalition? We discuss with the Lib Dem MP, SAT Nick Harvey, sacked from government in the reshuffle and the SAT Labour backbencher, Dr Tristram Hunt. SAT SAT We debate the role and relevance of trades unions, with SAT former Labour general secretary Peter Watt and MP Katy SAT Clark. SAT SAT And another casualty of the reshuffle, the former Welsh SAT Secretary, Cheryl Gillan talks about the liberation of SAT finally being able to speak her mind about a constituency SAT conflict. SAT SAT The Editor is Leala Padmanabhan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01mn32h (Listen) SAT Kevin Connolly suggests that two deaths in the Middle East, SAT eight hundred years and eight hundred miles apart, offer SAT lessons on the wisdom of foreign intervention in Syria. SAT SAT Alan Johnston's been to a building in Rome they call the SAT Palace of Shame where hundreds of migrants live with time on SAT their hands to consider the difficulties of finding a dream SAT life in Europe. SAT SAT Some of the millions who left Zimbabwe as the country fell SAT into violence and poverty have started to make their way SAT back. But Jenny Cuffe's been discovering that not all are SAT being welcomed home with open arms. SAT SAT Nick Thorpe -- knocked off his bike in Budapest -- has had SAT an unexpected opportunity to take a close look at the SAT Hungarian health service. SAT SAT And the economic crisis may have hit Ireland hard. But SAT Kieran Cooke, in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, has been SAT learning that people are still determined to have some fun. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01mn32t (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01ml0nk (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Susan SAT Calman and Cal Wilson. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01mhp27 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01mhp29 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ml0nr (Listen) SAT Walsall, West Midlands SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. On the SAT panel: Shadow Europe Minister, Emma Reynolds; Political SAT Commentator, Iain Dale; Broadcaster and Former Conservative SAT Cabinet Minister, David Mellor and Guardian Journalist, Luke SAT Harding. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Eaton. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01mn3kz (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00xnynw (Listen) SAT Payback SAT SAT 6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of SAT Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian troops are SAT massing on Israel's borders, but despite eleven warnings of SAT impending war in the past month, the Israeli cabinet have SAT not called up the reserve. In Florida, Richard Nixon awaits SAT the final verdict of the Washington Appeal court on his SAT objections to surrendering the Watergate Tapes. In New York, SAT Henry Kissinger is about to be woken at his room in the SAT Waldorf Astoria, with news of a new Middle East War. SAT Jonathan Myerson's drama investigates how domestic and SAT international politics were about to combine, to change the SAT Middle East forever. SAT SAT Producer/Director Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT Credits SAT Henry Kissinger SAT Henry Goodman SAT Richard Nixon SAT Peter Marinker SAT Golda Meir SAT Sara Kestelman SAT Simcha Dinitz SAT Kerry Shale SAT Al Haig SAT Kerry Shale SAT Anatoly Dobrynin SAT Ewan Bailey SAT James Schelsinger SAT Sam Dale SAT Jacob Javits SAT Sean Baker SAT Actor SAT Christine Kavanagh SAT Director SAT Jonquil Panting SAT Producer SAT Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01mk23j (Listen) SAT Series 14, The Skye Boat Song SAT SAT For many hearing The Skye Boat Song brings back a wealth of SAT childhood memories, as the words "Speed Bonnie Boat Like a SAT Bird on the Wing" tell the story of the escape of Bonnie SAT Prince Charlie, dressed as a maid to the Isle of Skye, after SAT this defeat at the battle of Culloden. SAT SAT Originally written by Sir Harold Boulton and Anne MacLeod SAT back in the 1870's, we explore the beauty of this song and SAT how it continues to touch people's lives across the world in SAT very different ways. SAT SAT Producer - Rachel Matthews. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01mn4fj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01mn4h0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Patrick SAT O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01ml0y0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mhp2c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01mhp2f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mhp2h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01mn4ty (Listen) SAT Sebastian Faulks, Clare Balding, Paula Wilcox, Ava Vidal, SAT Robin Ince, Lucy Rose, Nona Hendryx SAT SAT Sprinting in from the Olympic Park, Clive's first guest is SAT our newest national treasure, broadcaster, writer and SAT inventor of the 'Mobot' Clare Balding. Clare's new book 'My SAT Animals and Other Family' is the hilarious and tear-jerking SAT story of her unusual upbringing. From the protective Candy SAT to the pot-bellied Valkyrie and the frisky Hattie, each SAT horse and dog had a special part to play in Clare's life in SAT the Hampshire Downs. SAT SAT Clive hears Birdsong with novelist and journalist Sebastian SAT Faulks and talks to him about his literary career, writing SAT bestsellers such as 'Charlotte Gray' and about how he was SAT shaken, not stirred whilst writing the James Bond novel SAT 'Devil May Care'. Sebastian's new book ' A Possible Life' SAT journeys across continents and time, exploring the chaos SAT created by love, grief and divided loyalties. SAT SAT Robin Ince Mocks The Week and splits the bill with political SAT comedian Ava Vidal. Her new show 'Ava Vidal Goes Dutch' SAT raises questions of community and responsibility. With SAT anecdotal tales about sharing, Ava asks if the world would SAT be a better place if we were all self-sufficient and just SAT took care of ourselves. SAT SAT Man About The House Clive talks to actress Paula Wilcox who SAT plays the role of wealthy spinster Miss Havisham in a new SAT stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's coming of age novel SAT 'Great Expectations'. 'Great Expectations' is at New SAT Victoria Theatre, Woking until Saturday 22nd September and SAT touring the UK until Saturday 10th November. SAT SAT With slick music from Nona Hendryx, who performs 'Oil On The SAT Water' from her album 'Mutatis Mutandis'. SAT SAT And the blooming lovely Lucy Rose is cycling in to perform SAT 'Bikes' from her debut album 'Like I Used To'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01mn4v0 (Listen) SAT Andy Murray SAT SAT It is Andy Murray's year: he missed out in the men's singles SAT at Wimbledon but made up for it by winning an Olympic Gold SAT by defeating Roger Federer in straight sets in the men's SAT singles. Now the Scotsman has won his first grand slam in SAT the US Open against Novak Djokovic. SAT SAT It has taken Murray grit and determination to get where he SAT is. He has struggled with a fiery temper and his own demons SAT as well as a problem with his knee which forced him to stop SAT playing tennis for at least six months. SAT SAT He has also faced difficulties in his personal life. When he SAT was eight, he attended Dunblane Primary School where lone SAT gunman Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and their teacher. SAT His parents separated when he was around ten and his promise SAT as a young tennis player took him to a tennis academy in SAT Spain far away from home. SAT SAT Producers: Mark Savage and Arlene Gregorius. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01mn4v2 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Alex Preston and SAT writers Miranda Sawyer and Kevin Jackson review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Jonathan Pryce as King Lear. SAT SAT THEATRE King Lear - Almeida Theatre - dir. Michael SAT Attenborough SAT SAT FILM Keyhole - dir. Guy Maddin SAT SAT BOOK John Saturnall's Feast - Lawrence Norfolk SAT SAT EXHIBITION Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde - Tate SAT Britain SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01msm9f (Listen) SAT The House of Assad SAT SAT Bashar al-Assad took over as President of Syria after his SAT father, known to Syrians as the immortal one, died of a SAT heart attack in 2000. The Assads have been in control of SAT Syria for the last 42 years, since Bashar's father Hafez SAT took over in a coup, which he referred to as a "Corrective SAT Movement." SAT So how has this family survived in power so long? And why SAT has Bashar al-Assad been so determined to hold onto power SAT while other states have seen their leaders swept away by the SAT Arab Spring? SAT Using archive and new interviews, Owen Bennett Jones SAT examines the nature of the House of Assad and its grip over SAT Syria. Now the regime faces its stiffest test yet. SAT Bashar al-Assad had maintained that he had no interest in SAT politics but he became heir-apparent when his elder brother SAT died in a car crash in 1994. That cut short Bashar's SAT ophthalmology training in London and he returned to SAT Damascus. He married his British-born Syrian wife, Asma, SAT shortly after taking over as President. SAT Initially Bashar al-Assad signalled that his would be a more SAT liberal regime than his father's, in a period known as the SAT Damascus Spring. Those promises, however, were soon snuffed SAT out. Now many regard his hardline stance against SAT demonstrators, which has led to the violence now embroiling SAT the country, is simply business as usual for the Assads. SAT They point to the brutal put down of opposition in the town SAT of Hama, in 1982, when Hafez al-Assad ruthlessly stamped out SAT an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, at a cost of anything SAT between ten to forty thousand lives. SAT Owen Bennett Jones speaks to those who have known father and SAT son and asks what is it about the Assads that has made them SAT so durable? SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01mhtd2 (Listen) SAT The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 2 SAT SAT By John Steinbeck SAT Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SAT SAT A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SAT the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop SAT of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. SAT SAT The Joads have travelled from Oklahoma to California in SAT search of work, only to discover thousands like them have SAT also been on the move. Following a violent altercation with SAT some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of SAT a promised land temporarily in tatters. SAT SAT Director: Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Tom SAT Robert Sheehan SAT Ma SAT Michelle Fairley SAT Preacher Casy SAT Zubin Varla SAT Timothy SAT Gavin Mitchell SAT Pa SAT Steven McNicoll SAT Al SAT Finn den Hertog SAT Rosasharn SAT Melody Grove SAT Ruthie SAT Nicola Jo Cully SAT Watchman SAT Jimmy Chisholm SAT Mr Thomas SAT Jimmy Chisholm SAT Jeff SAT Laurie Brown SAT Store Clerk SAT Laurie Brown SAT Willie SAT Nick Underwood SAT Director SAT Kirsty Williams SAT Producer SAT Kirsty Williams SAT Writer SAT Donna Franceschild SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01mhp2k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01mrhyg (Listen) SAT The Best of Four Thought SAT SAT The best of Four Thought - personal storytelling combined SAT with thought provoking ideas, introduced by David Baddiel. SAT SAT Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SAT provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SAT of an audience at the Royal Society of Arts in London, SAT speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on SAT the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SAT culture and society. SAT SAT The four talks in this programme are from: SAT Joe Dunthorne on what we could all learn about living SAT together from the mosh pit at a rock gig, SAT David Bainbridge on the myth of middle age, SAT Anthony McGowan on being the villain of our own story, and SAT Christina Patterson on care and nursing. SAT SAT (The repeat programme on 15/09/12 is shorter than the SAT programme at 20h00 on 12/09/12 and will not contain the talk SAT from David Bainbridge). SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mhxmj (Listen) SAT (2/12) SAT Tom Sutcliffe puts more cryptic brain-teasers to the regular SAT panellists in the second contest of the 2012 series, this SAT week featuring the teams from Northern Ireland and Scotland. SAT The Northern Ireland team consists of the writer Polly SAT Devlin and the historian Brian Feeney, while the journalist SAT Alan Taylor and the writer and critic Michael Alexander SAT compete for Scotland. SAT SAT Among the puzzles they'll have to unravel this week is: Why SAT might the following be said to be on the increase in America SAT - an abattoir, a logical paradox, an auction item and a SAT point of combustion? SAT SAT Tom will also be providing the answer to the question left SAT unanswered at the end of last week's programme, and, as SAT always, there's a chance for you to suggest your own SAT question ideas with which to baffle the panel. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01mhtf7 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents Welsh poets Gillian Clarke, Menna SAT Elfyn and Paul Henry reading their poems that have been SAT requested by listeners, as well as brand new pieces. SAT Recorded in Cardiff. SAT SAT Producer Beth O'Dea. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT Polar SAT By Gillian Clarke SAT From her forthcoming collection Ice, to be published by SAT Carcanet in October SAT SAT Daylight Robbery SAT By Paul Henry SAT From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT Cusan Hances /Handkerchief Kiss SAT By Menna Elfyn SAT English translation by Gillian Clarke SAT From bilingual edition Perffaith Nam / Perfect Blemish: New SAT & Selected Poems 1995-2007 SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT In the Taj SAT By Gillian Clarke SAT From A Recipe for Water SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT The Breath of Sleeping Boys SAT By Paul Henry SAT From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT Heb / Without SAT By Menna Elfyn SAT English translation by Damian Walford Davies SAT From Murmur SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT October SAT By Gillian Clarke SAT From Collected Poems SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT The Visitors SAT By Paul Henry SAT From The Milk Thief SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT Cyplau / Couplings SAT By Menna Elfyn SAT English translation by Joseph Clancy SAT From bilingual edition Perffaith Nam / Perfect Blemish: New SAT & Selected Poems 1995-2007 SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT Coming Home SAT By Gillian Clarke SAT From The King of Britain’s Daughter SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT Sold SAT By Paul Henry SAT From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT Studio Flat SAT By Paul Henry SAT Unpublished SAT (planned to be the title-poem of Paul Henry's next SAT collection) SAT SAT My Box SAT By Gillian Clarke SAT From Collected Poems SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01mnp7q (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lost in the Lanes b01msd4j (Listen) SUN Absent without Eve SUN SUN A third series of short stories written by writers new to SUN radio. SUN SUN Each year we set them within the environs of Brighton - Pier SUN Shorts, Pavilion Pieces and this year the infamous Lanes of SUN Brighton. More often than not the various journeys lead them SUN beyond the winding Lanes of centuries past and into the SUN Lanes of today, where the antique shops stand beside the SUN more modern examples of what they would once have been, from SUN treasures to cupcakes, and on, across roads, into the place SUN of markets stalls and cafes, buskers and the vibrant life SUN that is the North Laines. SUN SUN Our first story, Absent Without Eve, is written by Lizzie SUN Enfield. Read by Jan Ravens. SUN SUN When their children left home, Eve imagined she and her SUN husband David would be free to spend Saturday mornings SUN wandering the North Laines together, sipping leisurely SUN cappuccinos and browsing second hand bookshops. But David SUN has other plans for himself and his recently acquired SUN motorbike - plans that don't seem to include Eve. SUN SUN Producer: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnp7s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnp7v (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnp7x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01mnp7z (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01mnpnx (Listen) SUN The bells of York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01mn4v0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01mnp81 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01mnpwf (Listen) SUN The Better Part of Valour SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the premise that discretion is the SUN better part of valour. A phrase coined by Shakespeare and SUN given voice by Falstaff in less than creditable SUN circumstances, it is usually associated with timidity and SUN cowardice. Yet sometimes the bold approach, the quick answer SUN or the exhortation to seize the day can have disastrous SUN results. Does caution offer an alternative answer? SUN SUN Mark Tully discusses the pros and cons of discretion as an SUN approach to problem solving with The Archbishop of SUN Canterbury as he prepares for retirement, with reference to SUN some of the controversies he has had to negotiate throughout SUN his time in office. The programme includes readings from SUN Bunyan and Shakespeare and music that ranges from Bartok to SUN Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The poet Lemn Sissay reads from his SUN own work and the other readers are Helen Ryan and Kenneth SUN Cranham. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01mnpwh (Listen) SUN Moira Hickey visits the Clandeboye Estate in County Down to SUN meet the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava and her herd of SUN prize Friesian and Jersey cattle.They make a perfect subject SUN for Lady Dufferin's oil paintings but they also provide the SUN milk for Northern Ireland's only home produced yoghurt.She SUN hears how these 'privileged' cattle hold the key to making SUN the 2000 acre landed estate, with its woodland and golf SUN course, sustainable. SUN This programme is presented and produced by Moira Hickey. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01mnp83 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01mnp85 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01mnpwk (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01mnpwm (Listen) SUN Hospice Care Kenya SUN SUN Mike Wooldridge presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Hospice Care SUN Kenya. SUN Reg Charity:1141469 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Hospice Care Kenya. SUN SUN Hospice Care Kenya SUN Hospice Care Kenya was founded in 1990, to support the work SUN of the first hospice in Kenya. There are now over 30 SUN palliative care centres and hospices in Kenya. SUN HCK raises funds in the UK to support the development of SUN palliative care. Education is key and the charity regularly SUN contributes to training courses for community workers and SUN volunteers. Drugs - particularly morphine, and medical SUN supplies and 4WD vehicles to enable home visits to patients SUN too ill to reach a hospice, are also financed by HCK. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01mnp87 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01mnp89 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01mnpwp (Listen) SUN A Service of the Word from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin SUN Led by Very Rev Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church SUN SUN Preacher: Canon John Bartlett SUN Director of Music: Ian Keatley SUN Organist: David Bremner. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ml0nt (Listen) SUN In Search of Prizes SUN SUN As the Man Booker shortlist is published, Sarah Dunant SUN explores how new writers and readers find each other. SUN SUN "While an unhappy 19th century Russian marriage which leads SUN to a fatal adulterous affair may be irresistible to one SUN reader" she writes, "a man who wakes up as a beetle may be SUN what presses the button of another. That is both the wonder SUN and nightmare of selling novels". SUN SUN Sarah explores how - in the "brutal climate" facing the SUN publishing industry (with the onslaught of supermarket and SUN internet price wars) - literary prizes provide a much needed SUN boost for authors. SUN SUN But these prizes, she warns, are a kind of lottery. SUN SUN Producer Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01mnpzn (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01mnpzq (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild SUN Editor ..... John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski SUN Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves SUN Joyce Walters ..... Ann Beach. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01mnpzs (Listen) SUN Big Brother SUN SUN In this week's Reunion, Sue MacGregor and guests revisit the SUN show that transformed British television for either good or SUN bad, depending on your point of view, when it first hit our SUN screens in July of 2000. SUN SUN Big Brother placed participants under 24-hr camera and SUN microphone scrutiny in a "house" where they competed to SUN avoid nomination by housemates, then eviction by public SUN vote. Such was the media interest in this first series, the SUN news that Nasty Nick Bateman had been thrown out featured on SUN the front page of almost every national newspaper in the UK. SUN By the time Series 5 arrived, the then Chancellor Gordon SUN Brown found himself answering questions about racism in an SUN episode of Big Brother, during a visit to India. SUN SUN Throughout the eight weeks spent inside the house, SUN contestants were not permitted to make any contact with the SUN outside world. There were few home comforts, limitations on SUN food, and weekly tasks and competitions. In the Diary Room, SUN housemates were expected to privately convey their true SUN thoughts and feelings before revealing their nominees for SUN eviction. SUN SUN The show generated a torrent of media analysis and opinion SUN on both the psychological effects on contestants and what SUN society now considered "entertainment". SUN SUN Joining Sue MacGregor to recall the first series of Big SUN Brother are: SUN Sir Peter Bazalgette who developed and produced the UK SUN format of Big Brother and was described by critic Victor SUN Lewis Smith as having "done more to debase television over SUN the past decade than anyone else"; SUN Tim Gardam, then Channel Four's Director of Programmes who SUN commissioned Big Brother; SUN and some of those whose lives were changed after taking part SUN in the first series in 2000. SUN SUN Producer: Peter Curran SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01mhxnf (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 6 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the grandaddy of all SUN panel games. SUN SUN This week panellists include Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks, Alun SUN Cochrane and Kevin Eldon. Chairman Nicholas Parsons asks the SUN team to talk for 60 seconds without hesitaion, repetition or SUN deviation - a task much more difficult than it sounds. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01mnpzv (Listen) SUN Sourdough SUN SUN Sheila Dillon finds out why sourdough bread is undergoing a SUN major revival. It is the world's oldest leaven bread dating SUN back to Ancient Egypt and it is now experiencing a SUN renaissance. SUN SUN Baker Dan de Gustibus explains how the bread is made from a SUN sourdough starter, a mixture of flour and water which is SUN left to ferment until wild yeasts and bacteria start SUN breeding. But there are many myths around this sourdough SUN starter - bakers compete over who can trace back the oldest SUN lineage. Yeast technologist Dr Bill Simpson debunks these SUN myths to explain the truth behind how sourdough works. SUN SUN And food historian Erica Peters explains why she thinks the SUN famous San Francisco sourdough isn't linked to the SUN Californian Gold Rush, despite its claims. SUN SUN Presenter by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01mnp8c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01mnqml (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01mnqmn (Listen) SUN Chen Guangcheng SUN SUN Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng blazed across the global SUN news headlines earlier this year when he escaped from SUN custody in China and sought refuge in the American Embassy - SUN but Peter White has known Chen for about ten years and SUN interviewed him several times. In this special edition of SUN the programme, Peter draws on those recordings - and records SUN a new interview - with Guangcheng to explore his childhood, SUN his lack of formal education and his attitude to disability. SUN SUN Chen talks about his interest in law and his growing SUN political awareness, which resulted in him taking on cases SUN for blind and disabled people who were being forced to pay SUN taxes, despite laws exempting them. These actions brought SUN him to the attention of the Chinese authorities and he soon SUN became a thorn in their side. He was imprisoned for over SUN four years and then placed under house arrest, during which SUN time he and his wife were beaten by local officials. SUN SUN Chen eventually escaped and was finally allowed to fly to SUN America to study law in New York, which is where Peter went SUN to talk to him for this programme. SUN SUN Prod: Cheryl Gabriel. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ml0j5 (Listen) SUN Summer Garden Party SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team tackle questions from the audience SUN at this year's GQT Summer Party, held at Ness Botanic SUN Gardens, South Wirral. SUN SUN In addition there's highlights from the all-day gardening SUN event with appearances from Bob Flowerdew, Christine SUN Walkden, Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Pippa SUN Greenwood. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon and Robert Abel SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01mnqmq (Listen) SUN A Polish Odyssey SUN SUN When Danuta Maczka was 12 years old, she and hundreds of SUN thousands of other Poles were sent to Siberia by invading SUN Soviet troops. SUN SUN But when the Nazis turned against the Soviet Union, the SUN Polish exiles were set free and made their way to the Middle SUN East to form an army under General Wladyslaw Anders. SUN SUN By the end of World War Two Danuta was driving a three-ton SUN truck at the Battle of Monte Cassino. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01mnqms (Listen) SUN The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 3 SUN SUN By John Steinbeck SUN Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SUN SUN A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SUN the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop SUN of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. SUN SUN Just as the Joads money and food run out, they find work on SUN a peach farm. But Tom discovers they're breaking a strike SUN led by their old friend Casy the Preacher. Tom and Casy are SUN ambushed by a Deputy Sheriff and a mob of vigilantes and SUN Casy is killed. In his fury, Tom hits back before running SUN for his life. SUN SUN The Joad family's dream of a promised land is about to end. SUN SUN Director: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Tom SUN Robert Sheehan SUN Ma SUN Michelle Fairley SUN Rosasharn SUN Melody Grove SUN Pa SUN Steven McNicoll SUN Al SUN Finn den Hertog SUN Ruthie SUN Nicola Jo Cully SUN Mrs Wainright SUN Irene MacDougall SUN Mr Wainright SUN Jimmy Chisholm SUN Guard SUN Nick Underwood SUN Cotton Boss SUN Nick Underwood SUN Store Clerk SUN Laurie Brown SUN Boy SUN Laurie Brown SUN Director SUN Kirsty Williams SUN Producer SUN Kirsty Williams SUN Writer SUN Donna Franceschild SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01mnqmv (Listen) SUN Will Self on his Booker-shortlisted novel Umbrella SUN SUN Will Self discusses his Booker shortlisted novel Umbrella. SUN It's a stream of consciousness that pays homage to SUN modernism, and little heed to the conventions of the SUN mainstream novel. Roving through the last century in the SUN company of a collective of characters including Audrey SUN D'eath, a victim of the Twenties epidemic Encephalitis SUN Lethargica, her brothers Albert and Stanley along with SUN Self's recurring fictional shrink Dr Zack Busner the novel's SUN themes include madness and the indignity of aging, woven SUN into a visceral, exhausting but surprisingly engrossing SUN assault of pure prose. SUN SUN Anthony Burgess was one of the most productive writers of SUN the 20th century, penning not only over thirty novels, two SUN autobiographies, books for children, biographies, SUN non-fiction and short stories, but also composing SUN symphonies, concertos and quartets. Although he said "I wish SUN people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, SUN instead of a novelist who writes music on the side", it's SUN for his 1962 dystopian ultra-violent novel A Clockwork SUN Orange that's he's best remembered. To mark its 50th SUN anniversary the book is being reissued having been compiled SUN and edited by Burgess's biographer Andrew Biswell. SUN SUN Lawrence Norfolk explains why he has set his latest novel SUN John Saturnall's Feast around the turbulent period of the SUN English Civil War and discusses the joys of writing about SUN the sensual pleasures and power of food. His book follows SUN the fortunes of a cook, who can literally re-create the SUN magic of the past in his war torn kitchen. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Umbrella - Will Self SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc SUN SUN John Saturnall's Feast - Lawrence Norfolk SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc SUN SUN A Clockwork Orange (50th Anniversary Edition) – Anthony SUN Burgess (edited with an Introduction and Notes by Andrew SUN Biswell) SUN Publisher: William Heinemann SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01mnqmx (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with a selection of poetry requests about SUN secrets, art, nostalgia and libraries. The readers are Pippa SUN Haywood, Patrick Romer and Harry Livingstone. SUN SUN Serendipity guides Roger from poems about babies, Dutch SUN masterpieces and the wonders of libraries. There's a poem by SUN the playwright Bernard Kops about the charms of Whitechapel SUN Library, Aldgate East, which closed a few years ago. There's SUN also a poem by one of the less well celebrated poets of The SUN Dymock group, as Wilfred Gibson recalls a summer evening in SUN the company of those friends. Keats urges us to let our SUN fancy roam, and there's a man who earns his keep by 'hunting SUN for haddocks' eyes/Among the heather bright' and working SUN them 'into waistcoat-buttons/In the silent night' in a SUN parody by Lewis Carroll. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Latinos USA b01mk5br (Listen) SUN Trillions in debt. A battered economy. A polarized and SUN embittered political climate. America needs to re-invent SUN itself. Is the answer already within its borders? Claire SUN Bolderson taps into the under exploited potential of SUN America's fastest growing minority and asks if Latinos hold SUN the key to a reborn USA. SUN SUN America is a country built on immigrants' dreams of a better SUN life. Equally, the country has used successive waves of SUN immigration to build an economic powerhouse. Critics say SUN that powerhouse is now in decline. But there is a source of SUN immigration that could re-energize America - if America lets SUN it. SUN SUN Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic population in the SUN country. One in four children and teenagers are Hispanic and SUN in many states the Latino population has doubled in the last SUN decade. SUN SUN This documentary examines Latino power and how it could be SUN harnessed to meet the challenges America faces in the 21st SUN century. SUN SUN Claire Bolderson analyses the biggest change in the makeup SUN of the US population for a century, exploring the cultural, SUN social, political and economic challenges and the potential SUN of a community that has long been marginalised. SUN SUN Dealing with some of the biggest Latino issues of the past SUN decades, Bolderson charts how immigration attitudes, SUN historical injustice and political impasse show signs of SUN transformation in an America needing to rediscover itself. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01mn4v0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mnp8f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01mnp8h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnp8k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01mnqqs (Listen) SUN This week Sheila McClennon hears about experiments with dry SUN ice, photographing ice crystals and the woman JB Priestly SUN described as "ice without and fire within". There's also SUN discovering the truth after 23 years as families are given SUN access to files the police tried to destroy in 1989. Sound SUN familiar? These are people in the former East Germany and SUN the archivists piecing together painful revelations. But of SUN course there's also Wednesday's extraordinary events which SUN kept me glued to my radio all day as the extent of the SUN Hillsborough cover up was established beyond doubt. SUN SUN On this week's Pick of the Week: SUN SUN Five Live - US Open Final 2012 - 10/11 September 2012 SUN Radio 2 - Brian Johnson's Rockers and Rollers SUN Radio 4 - The Life Scientific - Andrea Sella SUN Radio 4 - Book of the Week - Bring Me Sunshine SUN Radio 3 - Sunday Feature - Jacquetta Hawkes and the Personal SUN Past SUN Radio 4 - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme SUN Radio 4 - Soul Music - The Skye Boat Song SUN Five Live - Stephen Nolan 7/8 Sept 2012 SUN Radio 4 - Walter Kershaw: The UK's First Street Artist? SUN Radio 4 - The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle SUN Five Live - Drive - 10 September 2012 SUN SUN Produced by Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01mnqqv (Listen) SUN Jazzer is confident of success while Roy feels apprehensive. SUN SUN 19:15 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dslfs (Listen) SUN Series 1, Eve Pollard SUN SUN Marcus Brigstocke invites Eve Pollard to try new SUN experiences. SUN SUN 19:45 Where Were You... b01mnqqx (Listen) SUN Chernobyl SUN SUN Read by David Carlyle. SUN SUN Where were you when Kennedy was shot? That was the starting SUN point for this series in which five writers are asked to SUN build a story around a significant historical event and SUN explore it in fiction. As well as the assassination of JFK, SUN the writers explore the meltdown of Chernobyl, the Tottenham SUN riots, Columbine and the splitting of the lithium atom. SUN SUN People often ask the "Kennedy Question" to highlight the SUN magnitude of the event itself. And occasionally we find SUN ourselves in the thick of the moment. But just as SUN interesting are the polarities, disjunctions and weird SUN connections between the moment that shakes the world and the SUN life of the everyday. SUN SUN Episode Two: Chernobyl by Simon Stephenson. SUN SUN Fort William is a long way from the Ukraine. But for a long SUN time now a thirteen-year-old boy and his sister have been SUN obsessed with the Cold War - both to escape from, and also SUN to understand, the escalating cold war between their SUN parents. SUN SUN Simon Stephenson is a writer and doctor who lives in London. SUN Previous writing honours include being a runner-up in the SUN Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition judged SUN by John Burnside and selection for BBC Scotland's Tartan SUN Shorts scheme. For several years he earned his living as a SUN television screenwriter and received numerous commissions SUN from all the major broadcasters. Let Not The Waves Of The SUN Sea, a memoir about his journey following the loss of his SUN brother Dominic in the Indian Ocean tsunami, was Book of the SUN Week on Radio 4 in July 2011. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01ml0jf (Listen) SUN Were the Olympic and Paralympic Games just a crazy summer SUN fling? Or will the enthusiasm of the audience have a lasting SUN impact on the way BBC 5Live covers sport, particularly SUN minority sport? Roger Bolton puts your questions to 5Live SUN controller Adrian Van Klaveren. Roger also meets Breakfast SUN presenter Rachel Burden, editor Scott Solder and 5Live's SUN Head of News Steve Mawhinney to discuss what difference the SUN move to Salford has made to the sound of the programme. SUN SUN As Chris Moyles leaves the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, listeners SUN want to know how different mornings will be with new SUN presenter Nick Grimshaw at the mic. BBC Radio 1's Director SUN of Programmes, Rhys Hughes, reveals all. And he addresses SUN the pressing question of outrageous bias when it comes to SUN selecting Breakfast presenters: why are so many from the SUN North? SUN SUN And as this week sees the announcement that BBC Radio 4's SUN Thought for the Day will not be opened up to non-religious SUN speakers, Roger puts listener comments to Aaqil Ahmed, the SUN BBC's Head of Religion and Ethics. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Produced by Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01ml0jc (Listen) SUN Derek Jameson, Griselda Blanco, Allan Horsfall, Terry SUN Nutkins and Joe South SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew SUN Bannister. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01mn32t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01mnpwm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01mk9ns (Listen) SUN Iceland - In from the Cold SUN SUN In 2008 Iceland's three main banks went bust plunging it SUN into financial disaster. In Business reported on the crash SUN in early 2009. Three years later Peter Day returns to SUN Iceland to look at, what many see as its remarkable SUN recovery. New banks have risen out of the ashes of the old, SUN tourism and fishing are booming and the economy is growing SUN again. Peter Day finds out if this small island nation has SUN lessons for other countries caught up in the great Euro SUN crisis. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01mnqqz (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 b01mnqr1 (Listen) SUN Episode 121 SUN SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01mk92x (Listen) SUN In a programme specially recorded at Toronto International SUN Film Festival, Francine Stock reports back on the best, the SUN most expensive, the most moving and the maddest of the SUN nearly 300 films on show. SUN SUN She speaks to Roger Michell about his latest film, Hyde Park SUN on Hudson, set in 1939 as the first British monarch to visit SUN the US (Sam West as King George VI) arrives at the SUN president's upstate New York country house (Bill Murray as SUN FDR). SUN SUN Jack Kerouac's iconic novel On The Road finally makes it to SUN the screen, and director Walter Salles explains how he set SUN about filming it. SUN SUN Artistic director Cameron Bailey outlines the scale and SUN scope of the Toronto festival, and the highlights are SUN discussed and debated by Clare Binns and Tim Robey. SUN SUN And Francine catches up with Terence Stamp, soon to be seen SUN in a new film alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Song for Marion. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01mnpwf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01mnp9h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01mk71q (Listen) MON Odd couples, student drinking MON MON 'Odd Couples' - friendships which cross the boundaries of MON gender and sexuality. A new book challenges the widespread MON assumption that men and women are fundamentally different MON and can only forge significant bonds within romantic MON relationships. It charts the deep friendships between gay MON men and straight women, and also between lesbians and MON straight men. Laurie Taylor talks to the sociologist, Anna MON Muraco, who claims that such 'intersectional' friendships MON serve as as a barometer for shifting social and sexual MON norms. The UK sociologist, Brian Heaphy joins the MON discussion. Also, an in depth study of the centrality of MON drinking to student identity. Its author, Maria Piacentini, MON discusses the ways in which young people neutralise feelings MON of guilt and stigma regarding their alcohol consumption. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01mnpnx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnp9k (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnp9m (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnp9p (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01mnp9r (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mnr38 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop MON Joe Aldred. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01mnr3b (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The MON presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Sarah MON Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01mnp9t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01mnr3d (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01mnr5k (Listen) MON Salman Rushdie MON MON In a special edition of Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to MON Salman Rushdie. For a decade the writer was forced to live MON under police protection after being 'sentenced to death' by MON the Ayatollah Khomeini following the publication of his MON novel, The Satanic Verses. He talks about living in hiding, MON under an alias, Joseph Anton, and how he gradually secured MON his freedom. Rushdie argues that we are 'story-telling MON animals', but more than twenty years since his controversial MON book was banned around the world, Andrew Marr asks what MON impact this has had on the stories we tell. MON MON Salman Rushdie MON Joseph Anton - A Memoir is published by Jonathan Cape. MON MON Imagine...The Fatwa - Salman's Story is on BBC One on MON Wednesday 19 September at 10.45pm. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01mqlwl (Listen) MON Joseph Anton, Episode 1 MON MON Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie, MON abridged by Katrin Williams. MON MON One day an edict comes from the Ayatollah and all daily MON routine is turned upside down for the author, his wife MON and son, and even his friends... MON MON Reader Zubin Varla MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mqm9d (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Hillsborough Mothers MON On April 15, 1989, 96 people lost their lives at the FA Cup MON semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. For 23 MON years the families of those who died have fought for the MON truth of what happened that day to be acknowledged and made MON public. After 3 years and 450,000 official documents, the MON Hillsborough Independent Panel have now exposed what MON newspapers are calling ‘the biggest cover-up in history’ in MON the UK. Jane is joined by Margaret Aspinall and Jenni Hicks, MON who both lost their children at that football match, and MON who, as Chair and Deputy Chair of the Hillsborough Family MON Support Group, have campaigned all these years to ensure MON justice is done. We ask them whether their work is now MON finished and if the revelations bring some kind of closure MON for them. MON MON Freedom Fighters MON It’s more than 50 years since new rules came into force in MON the United States, banning segregation on interstate buses. MON It marked a decisive victory for a courageous group of MON people known as the Freedom Riders. In May 1961, the MON Congress of Racial Equality sponsored 13 volunteers to ride MON the length of the country, deliberately flouting the custom MON of separating blacks and whites on buses, in restaurants, MON and in washrooms. But when they reached Ku Klux Klan MON territory in Alabama, one bus carrying Freedom Riders was MON firebombed, and several activists were badly beaten. MON Outraged, hundreds of students across the country picked up MON the gauntlet and rode buses and trains into Mississippi, MON where all of them were jailed. Jo Fidgen spoke to two women MON about why they got involved, at a reunion of Freedom Riders MON in Mississippi. MON MON Hysteria MON The role of the electronic massage vibrator as a device to MON treat Victorian women for hysteria is the subject of a new MON Rom Com. The film ‘Hysteria’ is set in nineteenth century MON London.. and based on the invention of Mortimer Granville. MON But how common was intimate massage by doctors at the time? MON Jane talks to historian of sexuality and Wellcome Archivist MON Lesley Hall, and also Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad Bad MON and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 MON to the Present, to find out how hysteria has been diagnosed MON and treated, through the ages. MON 'Hysteria’ – out from September 21, MON starring Maggie Gyllenhaal MON MON Universal Credit MON A new system of welfare payment will launch in October next MON year. Called ‘Universal Credit’, its aim is to simplify the MON benefits system and encourage people into work. However, MON some groups are worried that the way those eligible are MON going to be paid could remove financial independence from MON women, and make family budgeting hard. MON MON Kimbra MON Kimbra’s voice may be more familiar than you realise - she MON provided the female vocal on the haunting and chilly MON “Someone That I Used to Know” by Gotye, which was number one MON in the UK for four weeks in March. Aged just 22, Kimbra is MON striking out on her own with her new album “Vows” and joins MON Jane to perform her new single “Two Way Street.” MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqm9g (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6, Episode 1 MON MON Sam's diary reaches 1665. At the start of the year, a great MON frost brings London transport, horses in other words, to a MON standstill and the streets are given over to football. Sam MON tries, and fails, to help a young girl who has chosen an MON unsuitable lover, while his own collection of unsuitable MON lovers increases, despite the oath he has taken to stop MON chasing women. His wife, Elizabeth, goes to the hot-house MON for a wash, and resolves to go there once a week but Sam MON doesn't think it will last. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON Credits MON Samuel Pepys MON Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys MON Katherine Jakeways MON Jane Welsh MON Bethan Walker MON Mrs Lane MON Eiry Thomas MON Will MON John Biddle MON Mr Jervas MON Matthew Gravelle MON Director MON Kate McAll MON Producer MON Kate McAll MON MON 11:00 I'm a Lumberjack b01mqmgj (Listen) MON When the English poet and writer James Lasdun moved to MON wooded New York State his wife gave him a chainsaw. He had MON to either learn to chop down trees or risk his home and MON garden being taken over by the resurgent forests of the MON eastern states of the USA. But how should a clumsy townee, MON good with his words but not with his hands, take to the MON woods? With help from some of the champion axemen of the MON Lumberjack World Championships at Hayward, Wisconsin, he MON learns the underhand chop, the standing block chop, the hot MON saw, and much of the wisdom and lore of the world of tall MON trees and tough men. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01mqmgl (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser MON MON Justin's still living with his father-in-law, still working MON with his ex-wife and still calling on his Gran for her words MON of wisdom. This week he also has to cope with a visit from MON his dad. MON MON Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse MON Gran ..... Anne Reid MON Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley MON Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford MON Ray ..... Paul Copley MON Miles ..... Rob Rouse MON Dad ..... John Henshaw MON Tanya ..... Victoria Elliott MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01mqmgn (Listen) MON What supermarkets are doing to keep British fruit and veg on MON the shelves. MON MON We'll be finding out why what your wear on your wrist could MON be a fantastic financial investment. MON MON And pest control companies are getting more calls than ever MON before about bedbugs, we find out why they're on the rise. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01mnp9w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01mqmgq (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 The History of the Future b01mqmkt (Listen) MON Malthus MON MON Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a MON look at the predictions of the clergyman and economist, MON Thomas Robert Malthus. MON MON This late-18th century vision of the future came from an MON urgent problem Malthus identified, which threatened the MON future of the masses. The problem, as he saw it, was that MON population growth would outstrip man's ability to feed MON himself. Unless population was controlled by man, famine and MON disaster would inevitably result. MON MON Malthus developed this theory in 1798 in his essay The MON Principle of Population. He was a man of God - the curate in MON a parish in rural Surrey from where he was well-placed to MON notice that he was christening more babies than he was MON burying, and became alarmed about levels of rural poverty on MON his doorstep. To modern ears his predictions seem MON startlingly prescient as we struggle with population MON explosion in many parts of the world, and fret about our MON ability to feed ourselves with finite resources, debating MON the merits of GM crops. MON MON Juliet Gardiner digs down into the predictions to discover MON how the future looked from where Malthus stood. Where did MON his dark vision about future population come from in a MON society which had not yet conducted a census? Juliet speaks MON to Donald Winch and Niall O'Flaherty and visits the Surrey MON parish where Malthus preached, christened and buried the MON dead. MON MON Produced by Victoria Shepherd MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01mnqqv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mqmkw (Listen) MON Be Mine MON MON by Jackie Malton. Leaving prison for the first time in 26 MON years, and trying to stay sober, a charismatic ex-con moves MON in on the family of his AA buddy, and nearly blows it apart. MON A tender study of addiction, in all its forms. MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON This is Jackie Malton's first play. She is best known as the MON inspiration for DCI Jane Tennison, Helen Mirren's iconic MON character in Prime Suspect. Her police career, initially in MON the Leicestershire and then the Metropolitan Police Forces, MON was notable for her rise within the ranks of a very male, MON heterosexual establishment while being a woman detective who MON was openly gay. Malton worked in a number of areas, MON including The Flying Squad, Murder Squad and Fraud Squad. MON She also acted as a whistle-blower against police corruption MON in the 1980s. Since then she has worked as a consultant on MON TV crime dramas, as an addiction counsellor, and works in MON partnership with Graham Godden the ex-'M25 Bandit' on the MON 'Youth Empowerment Crime Diversion Scheme'. MON MON Credits MON Kenny MON Jason Watkins MON Tina MON Joann Condon MON Boyd MON Paul Hilton MON Elsa MON Jane Whittenshaw MON Director MON Jessica Dromgoole MON Producer MON Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer MON Jackie Malton MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mqmm1 (Listen) MON (3/12) MON Wales take on the Midlands in the latest contest of the 2012 MON series, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair. Rosalind Miles and MON Stephen Maddock of the Midlands are defending their MON champions' title. The Welsh team of Myfanwy Alexander and MON David Edwards will be hoping to wrest back the trophy this MON year. MON MON They face the trademark cryptic and complex questions of MON Round Britain Quiz, which could require knowledge of MON everything from classical mythology to cinema, and from MON zoology to pop music. MON MON Tom will also be providing the answer to the question left MON dangling at the end of the previous programme, which was: 'A MON castaway composer, a Tom Stoppard play and a football MON manager with a strong connection to Watford - in which order MON might you put them on?' MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mqms2 (Listen) MON BBC International Short Story Award 2012, Episode 1 MON MON The first of the ten shortlisted short stories in contention MON for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012. The BBC MON Short Story Award is well established as one of the most MON prestigious for a single short story. The Award is MON celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one MON year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the MON short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather MON than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be MON announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The MON story will be available as a free download following MON broadcast. For more information go to: MON -www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/international-short-story-awa MON d/ MON MON Read by Laura Pyper MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 16:00 Messy, Isn't It? - The Life and Works of Richard MON Brautigan b01mqms4 (Listen) MON When Jarvis Cocker selected 'Sombrero Fallout' as his Desert MON Island novel, it's no surprise many people were left MON scratching their head, as the novel's author Richard MON Brautigan had fallen so dramatically out of public and MON critical favour in the years since his huge success and MON eventual suicide. Brautigan was a child of the Depression MON who grew up in such dire poverty he ended up throwing a rock MON through the window of a police station in order to be MON arrested so he could eat. The judge however sent him to an MON asylum where he underwent electro-shock therapy before MON getting out and heading straight to San Francisco, just as MON the counter-culture was making its home there. Eventually MON his sometimes whimsical, often beautiful and always uniquely MON singular style saw him build up a massive following, with MON sell-out concerts packed with acolytes who saw him not so MON much as a poet but as a literary guru. Brautigan himself MON always considered himself a writer not a hippy, and so the MON decline in interest that the end of flower power brought MON with it hurt deeply. Alcoholism and depression led to gory MON suicide - he deliberately set it up so that people wouldn't MON discover his body for days and possibly weeks after he shot MON himself in the head with a 44 magnum. Jarvis Cocker sets out MON to show that the irony of this most grisly end is that it MON came via the same hand that had penned some of the gentlest MON and most sublime lines in post war literature. Cocker meets MON fellow enthusiasts and musicians 'The Lovely Eggs', as well MON as speaking with Brautigan's own daughter Ianthe. The MON programme is also furnished with some of the recordings that MON Richard Brautigan himself made for his album 'Here Are The MON Sounds of My Life in San Francisco'. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01mqms6 (Listen) MON Treatment of civilians in armed conflict MON MON In a special edition of Beyond Belief Ernie Rea discusses MON the morality of the battlefield and the treatment of MON civilians in armed conflict. Increasingly news reports MON detail the casualties of civilians caught up in fighting in MON many countries around the world. Are we witnessing something MON new as civilians are targeted or used as shields by rebel MON forces and opposing armies or has this always happened? Will MON the use of unmanned drones make life safer or worse for MON civilians? Is it time to rethink the Just War Theory in the MON light of modern warfare? These are some of the moral and MON ethical issues Ernie Rea will be debating with Lord Dannatt, MON former Commander in Chief of the General Staff of the MON British Army, Canon Dr Alan Billings, former Director of the MON Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University, Imam MON Ajmal Masroor and Dr George Wilkes, Director of the Religion MON and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace Project at MON Edinburgh University. The programme was recorded in front of MON an audience at the Imperial War Museum North for the BBC's MON RE:Think Festival in Salford. MON MON 17:00 PM b01mqms8 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnp9y (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01mqmsb (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 7 MON MON Join Nicholas Parsons and friends in Evesham, Worcestershire MON for Just A Minute. MON MON Panellists Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Charles Collingwood & MON Miles Jupp join Nicholas this week at The Regal Cinema in MON Evesham. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01mqmsv (Listen) MON Darrell brings bad news. Meanwhile Christine finds a knight MON in shining armour. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01mqmsx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of Love and MON Information, a new play by Caryl Churchill, featuring a cast MON of 16 actors playing over 100 characters. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqm9g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 To Russia with Jung b01mts9g (Listen) MON Psychoanalysis went underground in communist Russia - books MON were hidden, sessions held in secret. In St Petersburg, MON Chris Ledgard meets Catherine Crowther and Jan Wiener, two MON British therapists who are helping to re-introduce Jungian MON analysis to Russian society. Their new Russian colleagues MON discuss inter-generational clashes, conflicting ideas about MON the individual in society, and how the modern Russian mind MON deals with the shadows of the past. MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01mqmyw (Listen) MON Political Prejudice MON MON If you think that you are rational and unprejudiced, Michael MON Blastland hopes you will be open minded enough to listen to MON the evidence which suggests that you are probably not. MON MON We might think our views about global warming, MON nanotechnology or the value of IQ tests are based on MON scientific evidence. But the beliefs we hold about these MON issues often says more about our ability to screen out the MON evidence we dislike that it does about the scientific facts. MON MON Michael Blastland investigates the causes of our cognitive MON biases and our remarkable ability to not let the facts get MON in the way of deeply held belief. MON MON Contributors include: MON MON Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Psychology at the University of MON Virginia MON Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at MON Yale Law School MON Roger Scruton, philosopher. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01mk93p (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. Material World this week is full of MON record breakers: an experiment involving 61 million people, MON an update on what is happening with the furthest-flung MON man-made object from Earth; the Voyager space craft, the MON largest botanical project ever completed - the Flora of MON Tropical East Africa and the biggest award for engineering - MON The Queen Elizabeth Prize. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01mnr5k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01mnpb0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01mqnfm (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mqnfp (Listen) MON Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 1 MON MON Rose Tremain returns triumphantly to one of her best loved MON characters, in the long awaited sequel to her Booker MON short-listed best-selling novel, Restoration, published in MON 1989. MON Seventeen years after the events related in Restoration, MON Merivel, a man of wit, wisdom and not a little passion, is MON facing a crisis. Life on his Norfolk estate and as a MON physician, a father and sometimes a fool to his adored King MON Charles 11, is no longer enough. Not only are he, and his MON loyal servant Will, ageing, but his beloved daughter MON Margaret is seventeen and will soon fly the nest. Even the MON King is failing. How can he reinvigorate his life? MON MON As Merivel sets out in search of Wonders, he finds adventure MON and surprise. In a dazzling journey by way of the glittering MON court at Versailles, the purchase of a bear and a love MON affair in Switzerland, and with encounters with old lovers MON and new, Rose Tremain captures a man who knows himself and MON his follies and foibles only too well. MON A delight equally to those who remember the young Merivel MON and to new listeners, Rose Tremain's novel promises to be a MON memorable three week Book at Bedtime. MON MON The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson, MON currently starring in Chariots of Fire at the Gielgud MON Theatre and seen recently in Borgen. MON The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di MON Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Don't Log Off b01jrj81 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Alan Dein sets out on a series of nocturnal excursions via MON Facebook and Skype, discovering the real life dramas behind MON the online profiles, talking to people in every corner of MON the globe. MON MON Holed up in the studio late into the night, Alan makes MON conversation with people all over the world, talking to them MON about their stories and whatever else is on their mind. He MON never knows what he'll be hearing next. MON MON Among those he connects with this time are a 66 year old MON widow in rural Texas and an 18 year old with Aspergers who MON makes a living playing online poker all night. He also MON catches up with Jennifer in Nova Scotia who featured in the MON last series - whose ex-husband is just about to come out of MON jail and marry her best friend. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mqngw (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01mnpbx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01mqlwl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnpbz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnpc1 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnpc3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01mnpc5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mqp15 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop TUE Joe Aldred. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01mqp17 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01mqp19 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01mqp1c (Listen) TUE David Nutt TUE TUE Professor David Nutt was sacked in 2009 as the government's TUE chief drugs adviser after criticising its decision to TUE reclassify cannabis. He is a psychiatrist and one of the TUE country's leading experts on the effects of drugs on the TUE brain. His latest research is investigating how psilocybin, TUE the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, could be used to TUE treat depression. He talks to Jim about his passion for TUE science and his disputes with government over drug policy. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01mqp1f (Listen) TUE Journalist and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor explores the TUE risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it TUE public. This is something he's done in his book ' Greetings TUE from Bury Park' and within his journalism where he's written TUE - amongst other topics - about his mixed-marriage and the TUE experience of being a new father. He's intrigued by both the TUE process and the ramifications of revealing private thoughts TUE and experiences: How do people react to you? Do they see it TUE as a betrayal? Do you risk hurting friends and family? Is it TUE worth the risk if you achieve something that truly resonates TUE with your audience? TUE TUE As he prepares to adapt his memoir into a screenplay Sarfraz TUE Manzoor speaks to others who have mined their own lives for TUE creative purposes..This week he is in conversation with TUE children's author, Judith Kerr, whose famous children's book TUE 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' was based on her own TUE experience of escaping the Nazis in the 1930s. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01mqp1h (Listen) TUE Joseph Anton, Episode 2 TUE TUE Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie. TUE TUE Both the author's parents were habitual storytellers. Then TUE he left home to attend Rugby school, which was hard for him. TUE But there were moments of inspiration along the way! TUE TUE Read by Zubin Varla TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mqp1k (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqp1m (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6, Episode 2 TUE TUE A freezing winter gives way to a spring heatwave, and the TUE dreaded bubonic plague claims its first victims. Sam sees TUE three houses in the city barricaded shut, with their TUE infected occupants inside, and a red cross painted on the TUE door. Yet in many ways normal life continues. Sam advises TUE Lady Sandwich about the marriage of her daughter, Jemima, TUE and Elizabeth is pleased with her new purchase of paradise TUE fish in a glass bowl. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. TUE TUE Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by TUE Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany TUE Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David TUE Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by TUE Alice Baxter. Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE Sound by Nigel Lewis TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01mqp1p (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE Saving Species presented by Brett Westwood this week poses TUE the question; with increasing pressures to develop our land TUE for housing, transport and industry, is their still room for TUE Britain's wildlife to flourish? TUE TUE Recently the Government set out proposals to extend TUE development rights into the Green Belt as an aid to economic TUE growth. While some sectors of the economy welcome this move, TUE others such as conservation groups predict a backlash of TUE public opinion similar to that of the recent Government TUE plans to sell off public woodland. Could other sites such as TUE brown-field, be developed in preference? TUE TUE To investigate this Brett Westwood discovers the importance TUE of brown-field sites on a visit to Canvey Wick in the Thames TUE Estuary accompanied by Sarah Henshall, Brownfield Manager TUE from the charity, Buglife. Here in the 40 years since the TUE industry moved out, the biodiversity contained within this TUE SSSI is staggering, including iconic species like the shrill TUE carder bee. But can lessons learned here be used in TUE brown-field sites across the United Kingdom? And is the TUE negative connotations of the word brown-field even one of TUE the problems in degrading these areas as wildlife hot-spots, TUE in preference for development. TUE TUE And we hear from Dr Chris Baines who discusses whether the TUE plans to build a London to Birmingham high speed rail link TUE could actually benefit wildlife in the longer term. TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE Producer : Mary Colwell TUE Presenter : Brett Westwood TUE Editor : Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01mqp1r (Listen) TUE Series 14, Brothers in Arms TUE TUE An exploration into the enduring appeal of the Dire Straits TUE Class, Brothers in Arms. TUE Although thought to have been written by Mark Knoffler in TUE response to the Falklands war in the mid 80's, it's a piece TUE that people now associate with many other conflicts ; TUE military, personal and social. TUE Dire Straits bass player, John Illsley explains why it TUE remains such a special piece for the band, while Marines TUE chaplain, Nigel Beardsley, recalls the important part it's TUE played in the lives of so many soldiers in Iran and TUE Afghanistan and why it's now often heard at military TUE funerals. TUE The Irish playwright, Sam Millar describes why he based a TUE very personal play around the song and Snuffy Walden, music TUE director of the hit American TV show, The West Wing, talks TUE about how the series writer, Aaron Sorkin insisted on it TUE being used in its entirety during a crucial episode. TUE Prof Alan Moore of Surrey University explains how it's TUE Knopfler's brilliant use of harmony that gives the song the TUE sense of yearning that has made it into one of the most TUE enduring pop songs of the last century. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01mqp1t (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Nick Ravenscroft. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01mnpc7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01mqp1w (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The History of the Future b01mqp1y (Listen) TUE Marx TUE TUE Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a TUE look at the ideas of Karl Marx. TUE TUE We have reached the middle of the 19th century and a very TUE different vision of the future from those we have TUE encountered along the way from Ancient Greece. This is a TUE future that is predetermined - but not by God. For Karl TUE Marx, predicting the future was informed by what he saw as TUE the inexorable workings of economic forces in society. TUE TUE Marx held that all societies progress through the dialectic TUE of class struggle - a struggle between those who own the TUE means of production and the workers who provide the labour TUE to make goods. Marx predicted that Capitalism would TUE inevitably produce internal contradictions and tensions that TUE would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by the TUE new system of Socialism, in which society would be governed TUE by the working class. TUE TUE Marx was born into a middle class family of Jewish origin in TUE Trier in the Prussian Rhineland in 1818. In 1843, he arrived TUE in Paris, a ferment of revolutionary ideas, and it was in TUE the French capital that Marx met his collaborator Freidrich TUE Engels. After attending the Communist League in December TUE 1847, Marx and Engels produced The Communist Manifesto which TUE fed into the demands for social and political change which TUE culminated in the revolutions that swept Europe in 1848. TUE Following the failure of these revolutions, the Marx family TUE fled to London. TUE TUE Juliet Gardiner visits the Red Lion pub in Soho where Marx TUE used to hold political meetings and speaks to his biographer TUE Gareth Steadman Jones, getting a sense of the revolutionary TUE fervour that was in the air at the time Marx was in London, TUE and how the future looked from there. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01mqmsv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mqp20 (Listen) TUE Brief Lives, Episode 6 TUE TUE Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. TUE The final episode of the current series about Manchester's TUE finest paralegal team. Frank thinks he's going to have a TUE quiet day, but then a childhood pal turns up and he is TUE forced to revisit the past. TUE TUE Director/Producer Gary Brown TUE Original music by Carl Harms. TUE TUE Credits TUE Frank TUE David Schofield TUE Dave TUE Ian Mercer TUE Louise TUE Kerry Peers TUE Director TUE Gary Brown TUE Producer TUE Gary Brown TUE Writer TUE Tom Fry TUE Writer TUE Sharon Kelly TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01mqpgf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Faking It TUE TUE Nina Garthwaite presents a showcase for delightful and TUE adventurous short documentaries. A selection of brief TUE encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. TUE TUE In 'Faking It', she blurs the line between fact and fiction TUE with tales of love, lying and a loose grip on reality. TUE TUE The indie pop duo Summer Camp construct a 'documentary song' TUE which delves into the falsity of flirting and those moments TUE when we realise we've really fallen in love and the actor TUE Jonathan Keeble reveals his real - or is it his false - TUE identity ... TUE TUE Nina also learns how you successfully conceal your true self TUE in the workplace, why you shouldn't trust your new TUE boyfriend's grandmother and the dangers of picking a fight TUE with a Ouija board. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mqp22 (Listen) TUE BBC International Short Story Award 2012, Episode 2 TUE TUE The second of the ten stories on the shortlist for the BBC TUE International Short Story Award 2012. The BBC Short Story TUE Award is well established as one of the most prestigious for TUE a single short story. The Award is celebrating the Olympic TUE year by going global, and for one year only it reflects the TUE richness and versatility of the short story internationally, TUE with a shortlist of ten rather than the usual five. The TUE winner and the runner-up will be announced live on Front Row TUE on Tuesday, 2nd October. The story will be available as a TUE free download following broadcast. For more information go TUE to: TUE -www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/international-short-story-awa TUE d/ TUE TUE Read by David K. S. Tse TUE Abridged by Miranda Davies TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00g2zrt (Listen) TUE Series 4, Alfred the Great TUE TUE Michael Portillo presents an edition of The Things We Forgot TUE to Remember which looks at the reputation of King Alfred the TUE Great: bold English hero or Anglo Saxon spin-doctor? TUE TUE Alfred the Great sits at the root of English history. The TUE man who burnt the cakes, the man who held the line against TUE the marauding Vikings and the man who, more than almost any TUE other monarch in our history, defined the national identity. TUE He was a bulldog before the bulldog had been bred. But TUE Michael Portillo explores the reality of Alfred's reign in TUE Wessex. To what extent was he a great saviour? Have we TUE forgotten to remember that the most important thing about TUE his reign was that he sponsored the reporting of it in the TUE form of the Anglo Saxon Chronicles? Michael travels to TUE Winchester to get try and disentangle the Anglo-Saxon spin. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban TUE TUE (repeat). TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01mqpgh (Listen) TUE Series 28, George Orwell TUE TUE Whilst at school, a young Alan Johnson was given some money TUE by a teacher and told to go and buy four copies of any book TUE for the school library. He headed down the Kings Road in TUE Chelsea, stopping only for a sly cigarette along the way. TUE Having already read 'Animal Farm', he picked 'Keep the TUE Aspidistra Flying' and yearned for the life of lead TUE character Gordon Comstock. TUE TUE In conversation with Matthew Parris, former Home Secretary TUE Alan Johnson explains why Orwell was crucial to his TUE education and political development. He's surprised to learn TUE that Orwell is not on the National Curriculum, and insists TUE that Orwell would have hated I.D. cards. They're joined by TUE Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History at the University of TUE Westminster and Chair of the Orwell Prize. TUE TUE Orwell was in the news recently when the outgoing TUE Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, turned down a TUE proposal to erect a statue of George Orwell outside BBC TUE Broadcasting House, reportedly telling Joan Bakewell that it TUE was 'far too Left-wing an idea.' TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01mqpgk (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Includes Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnpc9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Secret World b01mqpgm (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Comedy offering an insight into the private lives of the TUE famous. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01mqpgp (Listen) TUE Pawel needs to talk and Joe makes the most of his big day. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01mqpgr (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqp1m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 China's New Iron Rice Bowl b01mqpgt (Listen) TUE Rana Mitter travels to Beijing to find out how China's TUE Government is aiming to improve welfare for its 1.3 billion TUE citizens - with a surprising purpose. TUE TUE Over the last few decades, as market reform has driven TUE China's dizzying economic rise, it has primarily been known TUE as a nation of producers. Meanwhile, in the early years of TUE the reform era, the Maoist 'iron rice bowl' - the TUE cradle-to-grave welfare state, was allowed to rust and fall TUE away. But now the Chinese Government is aiming to improve TUE healthcare and housing, education and pensions, with the aim TUE of fostering a nation of consumers. This, they argue, will TUE help build a stable economy that buys its own goods, rather TUE than relying on selling them to a recession-bound West. But TUE that will only happen, the Government reasons, if people TUE feel secure enough to spend rather than save. TUE TUE So Rana goes to visit a young Chinese PR executive and keen TUE online shopper in her smart central Beijing flat - and TUE discovers that she has only clambered onto the housing TUE ladder with the aid of years of parental saving. He meets TUE other young professionals who can't get onto the ladder as TUE house prices have risen so high, but who nonetheless expect TUE little support from the state. Will the huge affordable TUE housing programme change how much they feel able to spend? TUE TUE And if hundreds of millions of Chinese are now members of a TUE new middle class, however pressured, hundreds of millions TUE more are urban migrants. Migrants' rights to welfare are TUE restricted by the 'hukou' system of residency registration. TUE This means that, having left the countryside to help build TUE the new China, they are no longer entitled to full welfare TUE provision. Rana talks to one such migrant in her family's TUE tiny room to find out what this means for her son's TUE education and her own healthcare. Will the hukou system be TUE relaxed, as the Government has hinted? If not, her son will TUE not be allowed to stay on into high school. And he visits TUE another man who was driven to extreme measures to ensure his TUE hukou-less wife's medical treatment. But in a community TUE centre for old people in the heart of the capital, he meets TUE grateful pensioners who have been helped through tough times TUE by the newly-revitalised system for caring for the retired. TUE TUE So - if young people's elderly relatives are looked after, TUE if urban migrants are integrated into the welfare system, if TUE healthcare and housing provision improve, perhaps such TUE reforms will help grow the new nation of consumers the TUE Government want to see. Or perhaps, as some of those Rana TUE meets contend, it would it be better simply to raise TUE ordinary people's wages. As China's political system gears TUE up for change at the top, this question will be the most TUE crucial one to affect China's social and economic model in TUE the decade to come. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01mqpgw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01mqpgy (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01mqp1c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01mnpcc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01mqph0 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mqph2 (Listen) TUE Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode Merivel sets out in search of Wonders and TUE finds adventure and surprise. He sets out on a dazzling TUE journey to the glittering court at Versailles by way of the TUE court of Charles II. TUE TUE 23:00 Jack's Return Home b01mqph4 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE By Ted Lewis. TUE Dramatised for radio by Nick Perry. TUE TUE It's 1970 and Jack Carter, a gangland enforcer, has returned TUE to his hometown of Scunthorpe to investigate the suspicious TUE death of his brother Frank. His discovery that Doreen, TUE Frank's 15-year-old daughter, had appeared in a pornographic TUE film produced by local gangster Cyril Kinnear drives him to TUE seek out the film's co-star, Thorpey. TUE TUE Jack Carter . . . . . Hugo Speer TUE Eric . . . . . Ben Crowe TUE Margaret . . . . . Katherine Dow Blyton TUE Thorpey . . . . . John Biggins TUE Kinnear . . . . . Robert Blythe TUE Glenda . . . . . Charlotte Riley TUE Brumby . . . . . James Weaver TUE Gerald . . . . . Patrick Brennan TUE Con . . . . . Joe Sims TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE Studio Managers: Anne Bunting, Mike Etherden, Alison Craig. TUE Editor: Anne Bunting. TUE Production Co-ordinator: Helen Perry. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01mqph6 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01mnpd6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01mqp1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnpd8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnpdb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnpdd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01mnpdg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mqq5z (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop WED Joe Aldred. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01mqq61 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01mqq63 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and WED James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in WED Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01mqq65 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01mqq67 (Listen) WED Joseph Anton, Episode 3 WED WED Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie. WED WED At Cambridge his eyes are opened. There are interesting WED people all around him. Then he decamps to London to embrace WED all that is cool and groovy in the 60's, and after that, WED the life of the ad-man calls. But only briefly.. WED WED Reader Zubin Varla WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mqq69 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqq6c (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6, Episode 3 WED WED More Londoners are infected with plague. In an effort to WED contain it, they are shut up in their houses, with planks WED nailed across the doors so they can't get out. Sam's mother WED wants him and Elizabeth to come and stay in the country away WED from the danger. But Sam plans to send his wife to Woolwich, WED out of harm's way. He himself is too busy with Navy work to WED leave, especially now that the country is at war with the WED Dutch. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. WED WED Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by WED Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany WED Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David WED Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by WED Alice Baxter. Historical consultant: Liza Picard WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Every Day in Every Way b01mqq6f (Listen) WED Positive thinking gurus and hypnotherapists aren't the only WED ones familiar with the phrase 'Every day, in every way, I'm WED getting better and better.' It's reputation today is that of WED a trite, rather ineffective 'feel good' relic of yesteryear WED but the phrase, and the man who conjured it up have a WED fascinating history. WED Writer Gillian Darley explores the work of the Frenchman WED Emile Coué who, though a mere pharmacist in his native WED France, came to be one of the best known figures of the post WED First World War world. His visits to England and America WED were proceeded by record sales of his books which encouraged WED advocates in the ways of auto-suggestion. WED The scientific community are dismissive of his place in the WED development of psychiatric thinking and development and WED Gillian reveals reports of one event in which he caused WED chaos amongst a group of shell-shocked soldiers during a WED 1922 visit to England. But there are others who say that the WED 'Every day, in every way' phrase, borrowed to comic effect WED by Frank Spenser amongst others, hides a genuine pioneer in WED cognitive therapy. WED Using contemporary eye-witness reports and newspaper WED coverage of his travels, Gillian reveals a character who WED might well merit a more measured response from those writing WED the popular, as well as the academic, history of 20th WED century medicine. WED Meanwhile in France a recent conference in his old base in WED Nancy is part of a new interest in the Coué method, ensuring WED that 'Every Day, in Every way' he's reputation is, at the WED very least, changing. WED WED 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mqq6h (Listen) WED Series 2, Kognitia WED WED by Bill Dare WED WED Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel WED documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit WED after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre WED adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in WED Kognitia where selective memory is taken to a new extreme. WED WED Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson WED Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale WED Kalmena ..... Debra Stephenson WED Lamet ..... Duncan Wisbey WED Door ..... Harry Livingstone WED PA ..... Amaka Okafor WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01mqq6k (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01mnpdj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01mqq6m (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The History of the Future b01mqq6p (Listen) WED HG Wells WED WED Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a WED look at the figure who, for many of us, defines our modern WED vision of the future, H.G.Wells. WED WED Often called the 'father of science fiction' , Wells' most WED popular novels - The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds WED - gave a terrifyingly dark image of the future. An image of WED an army of belligerent Martians, of machines invading WED suburban England, of conflict in outer space, and of the WED mutation of species. Wells' future world is one where WED science has taken a wrong turn, where innovation is not used WED for the good of humanity but it's destruction. It is not a WED vision of progress but a pessimistic prediction of decline WED and despair. Many of the imaginative scenarios he envisaged WED proved eerily prescient and some still haunt us today. WED WED Juliet Gardiner tries to discover why there was so much WED interest in the future at the fin de siècle. What current WED concerns was Wells reflecting in his prophecies about this WED future? Wells was a biologist by training. He had studied WED under T.H.Huxley , the man described as 'Darwin's bulldog', WED and it was Darwin's theories that had thrown not only WED religious belief but also the whole notion of time into a WED ferment - providing a whole new model of change, progress WED and evolution. If, according to the theory of natural WED selection, a species could change and adapt over millions of WED years and then die out, then the whole concept of the future WED of humankind was challenged. WED WED Juliet continues to make the case that a History of the WED Future is a history of anxiety, speaking to Frank James and WED Roger Luckhust. WED WED Produced by Victoria Shepherd WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01mqpgp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011jvyz (Listen) WED SBLT (Single but Living Together) WED WED by Ewa Banaszkiewicz WED WED What happens if you separate but circumstances force you to WED continue to live together? WED Alex thinks she can make it work with a list of rules but WED then emotions begin to get in the way. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Alex WED Natasha Little WED Josh WED David Seddon WED Liz WED Sarah Smart WED Duncan WED Will Tudor WED Rilla WED Jane Whittenshaw WED Nicky WED Alex Tregear WED Zoe WED Martha Avens WED Director WED Sally Avens WED Writer WED Ewa Banaszkiewicz WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01mqq6r (Listen) WED Student finance WED WED Vincent Duggleby and guests take your calls on student WED finance. WED WED If you are starting a university course in England over the WED next few weeks you face tuition fees of a maximum of £9,000 WED a year as a result of a big shake up in the way your course WED is funded. WED But you don't need to pay the money upfront and there is WED financial help available in the form of student loans. WED Graduates will only start to repay the money once they're WED earning more than £21,000 a year. WED The financial situation is different for students across the WED UK. While Welsh students and Northern Irish students who WED study at home will pay tuition fees of £3,465, Scottish WED students studying in Scotland are not charged those fees at WED all. However, if you decide to study outside your home WED country but within the UK you will pay bigger tuition fees WED of up to £9,000 a year. WED Much will depend on the choice of course, place of study and WED individual financial circumstances as to your entitlement to WED a maintenance loan or a grant. WED If you've got a question about how to pay for your WED university education, you can ask our panel of experts. WED How much will it cost to be a student? WED How do I pay the tuition fees? WED Who is entitled to a maintenance loan or grant? WED What rate of interest is charged on student loans? WED Where can you find information about bursaries and WED scholarships? WED I am considering studying abroad, what costs do I face? WED WED Joining Vincent Duggleby will be: WED Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, Independent Taskforce on WED Student Finance Information WED Sharon Sweeney, student funding officer, Dundee University WED and Phil Davis, National Association of Student Money WED Advisers. WED WED Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring Ring 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm. Or e mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mqq6t (Listen) WED BBC International Short Story Award 2012, Episode 3 WED WED The next title up for this major short story award. The BBC WED Short Story Award is well established as one of the most WED prestigious for a single short story. The Award is WED celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one WED year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the WED short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather WED than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be WED announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The WED story will be available as a free download following WED broadcast. For more information go to: WED -www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/international-short-story-awa WED d/ WED WED Read by Claire Gordon-Webster. WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01mqq6w (Listen) WED Segregation: a Global History of Divided Cities' Laurie WED talks to Carl Nightingale, the author of a groundbreaking WED new book about the ideology and practice of racial WED segregation in the city. Traversing continents and WED millennia, he analyses the urban divide from its imperial WED origins to postwar suburbanisation; from the racially split WED city of Calcutta to the American South in the age of Jim WED Crow. Finally, he considers the extent to which separation WED by race continues to deform the contemporary city. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01mqq6y (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01mqq70 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnpdl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b01mqq72 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Curry WED WED Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young WED idealists trying to make waves with their new political WED party. This week the group reconvene after their Summer WED break and the ambition steps up a gear. Written by Tom WED Basden. WED WED Simon .... Tom Basden WED Duncan .... Tim Key WED Jared .... Jonny Sweet WED Mel .... Anna Crilly WED Phoebe .... Katy Wix WED WED Producer .... Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01mqq74 (Listen) WED Jennifer is shocked. Meanwhile Brenda reviews the situation. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01mqq76 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who talks to director Oliver Stone about WED his new film Savages, a crime thriller about a battle WED between rival drug dealers. WED WED Producer Erin Riley. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqq6c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b01mqq78 (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 1 WED WED Mariella Frostrup returns with a new series of the programme WED that explores the complex realities of parenting in today's WED Britain. WED WED In the first programme of the new series, she is joined by a WED panel of experts and commentators to discuss raising WED 'digital kids'. Can tablet games really help nurture or WED educate the under-fives? Should older primary school-age WED children engage with age-appropriate social networking sites WED as a form of 'training' - or should they be protected from WED the online world, however safely controlled, until much WED later? WED WED And Mariella and her guests will explore how parents can WED help equip teenage children to negotiate the wilds of the WED internet, from cyberbullying to 'sexting'. WED WED So, Mariella asks, to what extent has the digital world WED simply sharpened problems that have always faced parents - WED and how far has it wrought a radical change in the nature of WED teenage life, and what parents need to know and do to help WED their children through it? WED WED With Professor Tanya Byron, Professor Lydia Plowman, Julie WED Johnson, Helen King (Child Exploitation and Online WED Protection Centre) and Professor Sonia Livingstone. WED WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01mk74r (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 23 WED WED Where is the next growth economy? Ruchir Sharma spends his WED time looking for economic growth in unlikely places. Here he WED describes his search. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01mqqfv (Listen) WED Cruel Harvest WED WED The disastrous global harvest of 2012 has slashed food WED supplies from the parched Mid-West of the USA to the dusty WED plains of Ukraine. In this time of crisis many farmers are WED asking if they should continue to grow crops to be turned WED into fuel for cars and power stations when they could be WED feeding more people. WED WED Costing the Earth visits the American corn-belt of Missouri WED and the rape fields of Bedfordshire to investigate the WED international impact of the tightening food supplies and ask WED if we need to get used to more extreme weather patterns over WED the coming decades. Can scientists help farmers grow crops WED that are more resistant to drought and flood or should we WED accept that all of our fertile land should be turned over to WED food production? WED WED Producer: Steve Peacock. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01mqq65 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01mnpdq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01mqqfx (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mqqfz (Listen) WED Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, Merivel arrives at the most glittering WED court in Europe - Versailles - but gaining an audience with WED Louis- or even finding a bed - proves more difficult than WED anticipated! WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b01mqqg1 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Toenail WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? The sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. WED WED The stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But WED these are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other WED with increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary WED references (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs WED Rochester, to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their WED beloved's weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, WED there is an unmistakable tenderness. WED WED Frank says: WED "Having established in the first series that Neil and Kim WED are a childless academic couple who during their numerous WED arguments luxuriate in their own and each other's learning WED and wit, I've tried in the second series to dig a little WED deeper into their relationship. Love and affection WED occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big WED tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a WED relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, WED rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much WED offal imagery?" WED WED Episode 2: The Toenail WED Frank's attempts at recycling strike Kim as an unhealthy WED obsession with death. WED WED Neil ..... Frank Skinner WED Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Produced and directed by Polly Thomas WED Executive Producer: Jon Thoday WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b016ldtq (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED This is the world's first epistolary equine love story, WED comprising the recently discovered passionate love letters WED between Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse (played WED by Daniel Rigby), and his hero Marengo (Stephen Fry). It is WED the story of two horses united by an uncommon passion, WED cruelly divided by a brutal conflict. WED WED Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the WED seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of WED Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as WED Copenhagen, the frisky young former racehorse ridden by the WED Duke of Wellington. This collection of their moving letters WED to each other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. WED WED Episode 2 sees Copenhagen becoming a warhorse, and Marengo WED setting out into the vast Russian Steppe as he carries WED Napoleon at the head of his vast army towards Moscow. As WED uncertainty and conflict beset our heroes it puts strains on WED their new relationship, especially when Copenhagen begins to WED explore his physical side with really quite a lot of other WED horses, and things begin to go less well for the French army WED and its horses as winter sets in. WED WED Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) WED and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly - soon to be a WED feature film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone), WED directed by Steven Canny and produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:30 Sex and the Single Girl b018flpg (Listen) WED Helen Gurley Brown's 'Sex and the Single Girl' was first WED published in 1962. 50 years on Karen Krizanovich, once named WED the 'Sharon Stone of agony aunts', delves into the story WED behind the writing of the book and charts the enormous WED impact it has had and continues to have today. WED WED After its publication in 1962 it sold 2 million copies in 3 WED weeks. 'Sex and the Single Girl' was of and ahead of its WED time and went on to influence some of the greatest success WED stories of recent decades: Bridget Jones's Diary, Sex and WED the City and Mad Men among them. The popularity of the book WED landed Helen Gurley Brown the role of Editor-in-Chief of WED Cosmopolitan in the mid-sixties. She went on to create the WED 'Cosmo girl' and defined the magazine's now instantly WED recognizable style of lipsticks and sex tips. WED WED Presenter and single girl about town Karen will take on some WED of the advice from Helen Gurley Brown's study on 'how to WED stay single in superlative style' and will meet the writers, WED journalists, film and TV personalities it has inspired along WED the way. This will be a fun, cheeky and sexy look at the WED changing status of the single woman through the five decades WED from its first publication, as expressed through the books, WED TV and films 'Sex and the Single Girl' has inspired and WED continues to inspire today. WED WED Producer: Rose de Larrabeiti WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01mnpfk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01mqq67 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnpfm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnpfp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnpfr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01mnpft (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mqq8y (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop THU Joe Aldred. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01mqq90 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Sarah THU Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b01mqq92 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01mqq94 (Listen) THU The Druids THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Druids, the priests THU of ancient Europe. Although ancient authors including Julius THU Caesar and Pliny wrote about them, virtually nothing is THU known about the activities and rites of the ancient Druids. THU Banned by the Romans, they were effectively eradicated by THU the rise of Christianity. In the early modern era, however, THU interest in the Druids revived, and later writers reinvented THU and romanticised their activities. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01mqq96 (Listen) THU Joseph Anton, Episode 4 THU THU Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie THU THU Working in ad-land had its moments, but the writer's life THU obviously called, and stellar success would come his way THU with Midnight's Children. After that, the storytelling THU instinct would take him down a more perilous route.. THU THU Reader Zubin Varla THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mqq98 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqq9b (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6, Episode 4 THU THU The plague tightens its grip on London and as four thousand THU deaths are reported in one week, burial places become THU scarce. Yet, in the midst of all this there is still hope. THU Sam is asked to advise a nervous young bridegroom about the THU 'facts of life'. There's good news about the war with the THU Dutch - Lord Sandwich has taken several of their ships. Sam THU is so overjoyed that he joins some friends for a THU celebration. In spite of all the misery and fear around THU them, they sit up late, drinking and singing, and Sam THU confides to his diary that he's had one of the happiest THU nights of his life. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. THU THU Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by THU Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany THU Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David THU Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by THU Alice Baxter. Historical consultant: Liza Picard THU Sound by Nigel Lewis THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01mqq9d (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 True Tales from the Crypt b01mqq9g (Listen) THU Roger Luckhurst goes in search of the original Curse of the THU Mummy's Tomb, and finds out that it may be more Western THU invention than Egyptian reality... THU THU Since its earliest days Hollywood has been obsessed with the THU idea of the curse of the pharaohs, the mummy that reawakens THU to wreak vengeance on the world. Yet Egyptologists deny such THU curses exist in Egyptian tombs. The popular legend of the THU curse is thought to date from the excavation of the tomb of THU Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and his backer Lord Caernarvon THU in 1922, and Caernarvon's subsequent death from an infected THU mosquito bite. Newspapers were quick to alight on the idea THU of a curse, and equally quick to blame the curse for any THU subsequent death even tenuously connected with the THU excavation. THU THU But Roger Luckhurst believes that the origin of the mummy THU curse story goes back far earlier than Caernarvon, back into THU the nineteenth century, when Britain's empire was at its THU zenith and two curse stories, centring on two swashbuckling THU sons of empire, Walter Ingram, and Thomas Douglas Murray, THU set Victorian society alight. What can these earlier tales THU tell us about the idea of the Mummy curse? THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01mqq9j (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01mnpfw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01mqq9l (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The History of the Future b01mqq9n (Listen) THU George Orwell THU THU Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a THU look at the visions of George Orwell, and his haunting THU fictions imagining a dark near-future under a Totalitarian THU regime. THU THU Orwell's most famous and most chilling exercise in fictional THU futurology is his novel 1984, which portrays a society at THU perpetual war, living at all times under the secret THU surveillance of the sinister all seeing, all powerful forces THU of The Party. This creates an almost hallucinatory vision of THU a paranoid, upside down future of mind control in which THU reality is denied. 1984's vision of Big Brother surveilling THU the population, penetrating its innermost sanctums, is THU evoked whenever 24 hour CCTV surveillance and other Civil THU Liberty issues are discussed. Orwell epitomises the modern THU view of the future which is an ambivalent one - suspicious THU even while optimistic about the march of progress. THU THU George Orwell was seriously ill with tuberculosis on the THU remote Scottish island of Jura when he wrote 1984 in 1948, THU and he died just two years later aged 46. His book was part THU of a trend of dystopian literature in the 20th century. THU THU His particular vision seems prescient and ahead of its time. THU There was a strong surge of optimism after the Second World THU War in Britain, a commitment to world government to ensure THU peace, and there was still lingering admiration of the THU Soviet Union and the part it had played in winning the war THU for the Allies, its darker side as yet largely unknown - or THU ignored. Juliet speaks to Orwell's biographer D.J. Taylore THU to discover how he seemed to foresee the horrors of later in THU the century and the Cold War. THU THU Produced by Victoria Shepherd THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01mqq74 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00t7h90 (Listen) THU The Barber and the Ark THU THU by Marcia Layne THU THU Issachar has been given an ultimatum by Yvonne, either the THU dreadlocks go or she does. But the veteran barber he visits THU has other ideas. Over a bottle of his 'special ingredient THU roots tonic' the barber shares his dream of discovering the THU Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. A dream that will change THU Isaachar's life. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Issachar THU Everal A Walsh THU Errol THU Ram John Holder THU Yvonne THU Kay Purcell THU Malachi THU Tachia Newall THU Abdullah THU Faz Singhateh THU Director THU Nadia Molinari THU Writer THU Marcia Layne THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01mqq9q (Listen) THU Series 22, Richmond Park, London, with Artist Nicola Hicks THU THU In this series of Ramblings Clare Balding is going on THU wildlife walks around the UK. THU THU Today she is in Richmond Park in London with internationally THU renowned sculptor and artist Nicola Hicks M.B.E. Nicola's THU work focuses on animals sculpted in straw and clay and drawn THU on huge sheets of paper. Dynamic and distinctive, it has THU gained wide critical and public acclaim. Her statues of a THU dog in Battersea Park and a giant beetle in Bristol have THU become local landmarks. THU THU Twenty years ago, Hicks grew tired of the pressures of the THU London art scene and decided to make her artistic love of THU wildlife a reality. She decided to move her growing family THU to Cumbria and become a sheep farmer. It was steep learning THU curve with many joys and setbacks. As Clare and Nicola THU explore the surprisingly rich wildlife habitats of Richmond THU Park, she discusses her acclaimed artwork, her deep love of THU British countryside and wildlife and the highs and lows of THU adapting to rural living. THU THU Having just taken the decision to sell the farm and the THU rolling hills to return to London for good, Nicola shares THU with Clare her excitement and sadness at the transition. Can THU you really find walking and wildlife satisfaction in London? THU Nicola shows Clare how, she passionately believes, you can THU find natural beauty, insects and animals as rich and diverse THU as that in the countryside. THU THU Producer: Lucy Dichmont. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01mnpwm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mqq9s (Listen) THU BBC International Short Story Award 2012, Episode 4 THU THU The next shortlisted title in contention for this major THU short story award. THU THU The BBC Short Story Award is well established as one of the THU most prestigious for a single short story. The Award is THU celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one THU year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the THU short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather THU than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be THU announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The THU story will be available as a free download following THU broadcast. For more information go to: THU -www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/international-short-story-awa THU d/ THU THU Read by Mike Sengelow THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01mqq9v (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01mqq9x (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01mqq9z (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnpfy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mqqb1 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his THU hit sketch show. THU THU The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by THU The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny THU sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It THU featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive THU relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people THU who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr THU Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. THU THU Of those things, this episode includes another sketch about THU how the Archers sounds to people who don't listen to the THU Archers, as well a song about a dog and a sketch about a THU mathematician's agent. THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, THU Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. Original music THU is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01mqqb3 (Listen) THU Fallon has last-minute jitters. Will the comedy night go to THU plan? THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01mqqb5 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor Rupert THU Everett, as he publishes Vanished Years, a new memoir. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqq9b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01mqqb7 (Listen) THU The UK Border Agency recently revoked London Metropolitan THU University's licence to sponsor overseas students, meaning THU that it can no longer recruit or continue to teach current THU students. THU THU According to the Government, the UKBA found systemic THU failings in the way the university managed its records. It THU found that many students did not have permission to study in THU the UK, did not have the correct English language or THU academic qualifications, while in other cases there was not THU enough evidence students were attending their courses. THU THU London Met on the other hand does not recognise these THU problems, and is taking legal against the UKBA's decision. THU THU Wesley Stephenson asks why the licence was revoked. Has THU London Met been lax in its recruitment and monitoring of THU students, or has it fallen victim of a complicated visa THU system? Why did the UKBA act now? Was there overwhelming THU evidence of systemic failings, or was there political THU pressure to take tough action? university- one. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01mqqb9 (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a discussion with board level executives THU from leading businesses. Guests this week include Rachel THU Lomax, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and a THU non-exec director of HSBC. THU THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01mqp1p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01mqq94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01mnpg0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01mqqhp (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mqqhr (Listen) THU Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode: Merivel accepts a lift in Louise de THU Flamanville's coach but finds more in Paris than he THU bargained for. THU THU The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson, THU currently starring in Chariots of Fire at the Gielgud THU Theatre and seen recently in Borgen. THU The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di THU Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mqqht (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU In Episode 3: Diane, Joe and David break loose from BBC THU Security and go on the run around Radio 4. We hear them THU crash into the radio station's usual programming before THU making their getaway with Aled Jones. THU THU An animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke can been THU seen on the Radio 4 website. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Paul THU Harry Allen, Bobbie Pryor & Gary Newman. THU THU Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 Art Disrupted: Damien Hirst and Co b01f5hp3 (Listen) THU This programme explores the various forces at work that THU would ultimately lead to the storm of Damien Hirst and co. THU We'll hear from Jon Thompson and Michael Craig Martin, who THU taught many of the artists at Goldsmiths, Hirst himself on THU his own beginnings as an artist, his recognition that THU London's art world would have to change to accommodate him THU and his friends, his views on his work and his idea of the THU role of the artist today. THU THU We hear from Nick Serota on the role of Tate, Louisa Buck on THU the inevitable break from Cork street and the constraints of THU the old, fusty, pin striped suit wearing art world. We hear THU from fellow artists about the wow factor of the Saatchi THU gallery, their instinctive entrepreneurship, the bond they THU shared and their stop at nothing attitude, the shift to THU artists coming from the working class and.. on a more THU discordant note, the invasive role of mass media and its THU destruction of the avant garde. THU THU Producer: Kate Bland THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01mnpgz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01mqq96 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnph1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnph3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnph5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01mnph7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mqr4f (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop FRI Joe Aldred. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01mqr4h (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Ruth FRI Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01mqr4k (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01mnpzs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01mqr4m (Listen) FRI Joseph Anton, Episode 5 FRI FRI Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie. FRI FRI The author travels to India and absorbs the storytelling FRI culture completely. Then he tends to an ailing father. FRI Then he delivers the manuscript that will shape the rest FRI of his life.. FRI FRI Reader Zubin Varla FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mqr4p (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqr4r (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6, Episode 5 FRI FRI As the deaths from plague begin to go down at last, London FRI starts to recover - though there are few boats on the river. FRI Following the English victory over the Dutch, Sam is in the FRI running for some of the prize goods taken from the East FRI India Ships - but bad feeling over the division of the FRI spoils results in Lord Sandwich being sent away to Spain. FRI The year ends with Sam and Elizabeth at a wedding and FRI looking forward to returning to their home in Seething Lane FRI when the plague is finally over. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. FRI FRI Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by FRI Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David FRI Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by FRI Alice Baxter. Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 HV Morton: Travelling into the Light b01mqr4t (Listen) FRI As John McCarthy retraces one of the journeys of H V Morton FRI he presents a revealing portrait of this influential travel FRI writer. FRI FRI Witty, erudite and engaging, H V Morton was Britain's first FRI truly popular travel writer. FRI FRI His success was assured when he covered the opening of FRI Tutankhamun's tomb in 1923. His book In Search of England, FRI published four years later, launched a bestselling series FRI and set a benchmark for all travel writers. FRI FRI Using In Search of England as a reference, McCarthy FRI recreates Morton's journey around Devon and explores the FRI changes to the landscape over the past eighty years. FRI FRI On his travels he uncovers two Mortons. The book's narrator FRI is a welcoming, cheerful man who rolls along the roads of FRI England in a two-seater car to compose his skilfully-crafted FRI considerations; and then there's the writer Harry Morton, a FRI more complex individual whose literary achievements mask a FRI complicated private life. FRI FRI McCarthy's journey, echoing the pages of chapter six of In FRI Search of England, takes him around Dartmoor, Widecombe and FRI finally Clovelly. As he absorbs the areas he visited himself FRI as a child he reflects on the influence of Morton and brings FRI into the light the darker corners of the life of this FRI pioneering travel writer. FRI FRI 11:30 Beauty of Britain b01mqr4w (Listen) FRI Series 3, Ma Lockney's Pies FRI FRI EPISODE SIX: MA LOCKNEY'S PIES FRI FRI Beauty develops a romance with the son of a client, Ma FRI lockney, a local business hero. Stephen is a charming, FRI English gentleman like the ones she has seen in the Hugh FRI Grant films. But real life isn't always like the movies. FRI Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson starring FRI Jocelyn Jee Esien, Maureen Lipman and Robert Bathurst. FRI FRI Jocelyn Jee Esien ..... Beauty FRI Maureen Lipman ..... Ma Lockney FRI Robert Bathurst ..... Stephen FRI Nicola Sanderson ..... Karen, Kirsty FRI Felicity Montagu ..... Sally FRI Indira Joshi ..... Mrs. Gupte FRI Phaldut Sharma ...... Anil FRI Margaret Cabourn-Smith ..... Jodie, Waitress FRI Chris Douglas ...... News Announcer FRI FRI Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson FRI Produced by Tilusha Ghjlani. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01mqr4y (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01mnph9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01mqr50 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The History of the Future b01mqr52 (Listen) FRI The Future from Here FRI FRI Juliet Gardiner concludes her History of the Future with a FRI view of the future from where we stand in 2012. Are we more FRI or less anxious about what's to come than we ever were? FRI FRI Juliet speaks to James Martin and Ian Goldin of the Oxford FRI Martin School, a research community of over 300 scholars FRI working to address the most pressing global challenges and FRI opportunities of the 21st century. From the governance of FRI geo-engineering and the possibilities of quantum physics, to FRI the future of food and the implications of our ageing FRI population. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01mqqb3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mqr54 (Listen) FRI Falling FRI FRI By Bethan Roberts FRI FRI Starring Sinead Keenan and Sarah Smart. Dawn is proud to be FRI her clinic's number one fertility nurse. But despite her FRI expertise in impregnating women, she always maintains a FRI professional distance from her patients; she never gets too FRI close. In fact Dawn never gets too close to anybody. But FRI when she struggles to help new patient Tasha conceive, Dawn FRI starts to break her own rules. And as her personal and FRI professional boundaries begin to fall away, she's faced with FRI an impossible choice. FRI FRI Set in the world of fertility treatment, Falling is a very FRI modern story about love, sex and desperation. It's a world FRI in which it's often hard to separate the biological from the FRI emotional, while what's at stake is life itself. FRI FRI Directed by James Robinson FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dawn FRI Sinead Keenan FRI Tasha FRI Sarah Smart FRI Matt FRI Alun Raglan FRI Simon FRI Matthew Gravelle FRI Director FRI James Robinson FRI Writer FRI Bethan Roberts FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01mqr56 (Listen) FRI Ness Botanic Gardens FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a horticultural debate with Anne FRI Swithinbank, Matthew Wilson and Bunny Guinness at Ness FRI Botanic Gardens, South Wirral. In addition, Toby Buckland FRI explores the plant-hunting history of Ness Botanic Gardens. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:35 BBC National Short Story Award b01mqr58 (Listen) FRI BBC International Short Story Award 2012, Episode 5 FRI FRI The fifth title on the shortlist for this major short story FRI award is read by Rory Kinnear. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01mqr5b (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 b01mqr5d (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01mqr5g (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnphc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01mqr5j (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Rebecca FRI Front and Kevin Day. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01mqr5l (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Mary Cutler FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves FRI Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01mqr5n (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who discusses the life and work of the FRI acclaimed eyewitness reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski, in the FRI light of a new biography. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mqr4r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01mqr5q (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. FRI FRI Producer: Isobel Eaton. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01mqr5s (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 The History of the Future b01mqr7k (Listen) FRI Omnibus: Part 2 - Malthus FRI FRI Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a FRI look at the predictions of the clergyman and economist, FRI Thomas Robert Malthus. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01mnphf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01mqr7m (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mqr7p (Listen) FRI Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode: Merivel rescues a bear and returns to FRI Bidnold. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01mqpgh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Black Is a Country b0196tcy (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two part series FRI exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by FRI the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early FRI Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare. FRI FRI Black Power - with its symbol of a fist clenched in anger FRI and defiance - politicised African American music in ways FRI the Civil Rights movement had not. The desire for FRI integration gave way to a new, fighting impulse of cultural FRI separatism and self-determination. Politics and music became FRI explosively attuned. From 1968 The Black Arts Movement - FRI 'the cultural and spiritual sister of the Black Power FRI concept' - flourished, dedicated to the foundation of an FRI authentic Black aesthetic in literature, poetry and music. FRI 'The Black Power and Black Arts concept both relate to the FRI Afro-American's desire for self-determination and FRI nationhood' wrote the African American philosopher Larry FRI Neale in 1968,'...a main tenet of Black Power is the FRI necessity for Black people to define the world in their own FRI terms. The Black artist will make the same point in the FRI context of aesthetics.' FRI FRI The quest for freedom had both a musical and political FRI resonance. Musicians opened up new and unexplored worlds of FRI musical possibility. Players like Ornette Coleman and Archie FRI Shepp pioneered the 'New Thing' - an avant-garde in jazz, FRI pushing the limits of harmony and rhythm. Music was FRI explicitly pressed into political service: The Black Panther FRI Party even produced its own album of underground anthems FRI 'Seize the Time' and Black music as a whole became far more FRI vocal in its opposition to white mainstream society. FRI Poet-musicians like Gill Scott Heron and the Last Poets FRI delivered stinging attacks on the political failure of Civil FRI Rights and the reality of the black experience in cities FRI across America. Meanwhile Africa became as a powerful symbol FRI for a younger generation of black American artists, a source FRI of political identification, spiritual sustenance and often FRI exotic, musical inspiration. FRI FRI Black Power transformed the way musicians negotiated control FRI and ownership of their own music. The club and bar circuit FRI gave way to performances in galleries, lofts, community FRI halls and public spaces. The Association for the Advancement FRI of Creative Musicians was inaugurated in Chicago (and still FRI thrives today) and other collectives followed. Radical FRI independent labels flourished with very limited vinyl FRI release. Many of these records, infused with the Black Power FRI ethos, are extremely rare, and are featured throughout the FRI series. FRI FRI Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder FRI of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet FRI Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole FRI of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian FRI Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther FRI leader and songwriter Elaine Brown. FRI FRI Presenter: Erykah Badu FRI FRI Producer: Simon Hollis FRI A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
14 September, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 15/09/2012 - 21/09/2012
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