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SAT SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01ngp1n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01njy7v (Listen) SAT Into the Abyss, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Barbara Barnes. SAT SAT The astonishing true life adventure story of a plane crash SAT in the wilds of northern Canada and the four men who SAT survived to tell the tale. SAT SAT On a wintry October night in 1984, nine passengers boarded a SAT Piper Navajo commuter plane bound for remote communities in SAT the far north of Canada. Only four people - strangers from SAT wildly different backgrounds - survived the night that SAT followed: the pilot, a prominent politician, an accused SAT criminal and the rookie policeman escorting him. SAT SAT The title is taken from the American mythologist Joseph SAT Campbell who explored mankind's quest for meaning and SAT adventure: 'It is by going down into the abyss that we SAT recover the treasures of life'. SAT SAT The author, Carol Shaben, is the daughter of Larry Shaben a SAT politician in the Alberta Legislature who survived the SAT crash. Using extensive interviews with all the remaining SAT survivors and their families, as well as investigation SAT reports and court records, she reconstructs the events SAT leading up to the fatal crash and unravels the enduring SAT impact it had on the four survivors and the bonds they SAT formed that night on the mountain. SAT SAT Episode Five: SAT Erik becomes a campaigner for aviation safety and warns of SAT the dangers of pilot fatigue. He takes to the air once SAT again. Larry organises a reunion. SAT SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ngp1q (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ngp1s (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ngp1v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01ngp1x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ngrzl (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Neil SAT Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ngrzn (Listen) SAT "We drove Dracula country in a Communist car." A listener's SAT Cold War trip behind the Iron Curtain in a Wartburg. iPM SAT reunites Annette Thomas with the East German motor, as Eddie SAT Mair, Jennifer Tracey and Harriet Cass cram inside to drive SAT down memory lane. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01ngp1z (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01ngp21 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01ngnwb (Listen) SAT Series 22, Steve Backshall SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with naturalist, author & TV presenter, SAT Steve Backshall. Together they stroll along his favourite SAT stretch of the Thames from Bourne End to Boulter's Lock in SAT Buckinghamshire. SAT SAT Steve is best known for presenting CBBC's 'Deadly 60', and SAT has recently started writing children's fiction - his first SAT book is 'Tiger Wars', about a group of renegade children who SAT become involved with tiger poaching in India. SAT SAT He spends a lot of time filming abroad so Clare was lucky to SAT catch up with him on his home patch. As they wander along SAT the Thames, Steve explains that his love of the outdoors SAT began when - as a child - his parents sent him and his SAT sister out to play and told them not to come back until it SAT was dark. This kind of 'feral' (as he put it) freedom SAT developed in him an enduring passion for the natural world. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01nk141 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01ngp23 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01nk143 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan SAT Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01nk145 (Listen) SAT Phil Redmond, Kate Fox, Archie Andrews and Hazel O'Connor's SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams meet TV screenwriter and SAT producer Phil Redmond, hear the story of Addisu Demissie and SAT Junaid Jemal Sendi, two professional Ethiopian dancers and SAT choreographers who used a dance project to move from the SAT harsh streets of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to SAT London's West End, share the sound sculpture of listener SAT Lynn Tolmon who rejoices in the evocative squeak of a SAT Victorian gate latch in Anfield, talk to Sean Enright who SAT was held hostage at gunpoint in a London street, thrill to SAT the recollections of the current owner of ventriloquist SAT dummy Archie Andrews, listen to poetry from Newcastle with SAT poet Kate Fox and revel in Hazel O Connor's Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Big B at 70 b01nk147 (Listen) SAT Amitabh Bachchan is the biggest star in Bollywood and a SAT cinematic colossus in Indian cinema for 40 years. This year SAT he turns 70, and Sarfraz Manzoor looks back over his career. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01nk149 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Steve Richards. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01nk14c (Listen) SAT Inside Brazil's Valley of the Dawn Cult SAT SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01nk14f (Listen) SAT One man's victory against nuisance cold callers. We hear SAT from a Money Box listener who told a PPI claims company that SAT if they didn't stop calling him, he'd invoice them for his SAT time. When the company called him again two days later, he SAT sent them an invoice for £195. When that got no response he SAT filled a case against the company at the small claims court. SAT A couple of months of wrangling later, they paid up. Find SAT out how he did it - and whether you could try the same SAT tactics to get salespeople to stop calling you. We talk to SAT the the Telephone Preference Service and the Information SAT Commissioners Office. SAT SAT Your love life and the taxman. Millions of parents will be SAT getting a letter in the next few weeks from HM Revenue and SAT Customs telling them how their child benefit could be cut. SAT From January, households where at least one person earns SAT more than £50,000 will have child benefit effectively SAT reduced or stopped. And accountants are warning that if SAT you're the new partner of a divorced parent, the changes SAT could affect your salary. Money Box examines the details and SAT hears warnings about the confusion the child benefit changes SAT will bring for over a million families who will be forced to SAT fill in self-assessment tax return forms. SAT SAT Emerging markets: Some advisers will tell you that ever SAT since the global financial crisis hit four years ago, in the SAT Western world, the best returns have been in the emerging SAT markets - countries which are less developed. But many will SAT also say that you have to have a big appetite for risk if SAT you're going to put your money there. The potential for SAT profits and growth may be real, but so is the risk that a SAT market might bomb and you lose your money. So, commonly, SAT investors will only put a small fraction of their money in SAT such regions . But that's lazy thinking, according to Jerome SAT Booth, who's head of research at Ashmore Investment SAT Management. He's got a whopping 95% of his personal wealth SAT in emerging markets, and tells us why he thinks that's the SAT wisest thing to do. Will you end up agreeing with Jerome, or SAT heeding the words of Louise Oliver from Taylor Oliver SAT Chartered Financial Planners, who advises caution? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01ngrx4 (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig.Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Roisin SAT Conaty and Kevin Day. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01ngp25 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01ngp27 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ngrxb (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion and debate SAT programme from Blackheath Halls in South London. Guests SAT include the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, David SAT Elstein from Open Democracy, Dr Katherine Rake from the SAT Family and Parenting Institute and Economic Secretary Sajid SAT Javid Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01nk14h (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxnw (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Series, Roseanna SAT SAT Roseanna is the first in the Martin Beck series, written SAT over ten years from 1965 - 1975 by the husband and wife SAT writing team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Featuring the SAT intriguing, dogged, intuitive complex figure of Detective SAT Inspector Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National SAT Police Homicide Department in Stockholm, the books set a SAT gold standard for all subsequent Scandinavian crime fiction, SAT and for much of the best crime fiction in Britain and SAT America written since the 1960s. The books have been admired SAT and imitated by crime writers and readers ever since their SAT publication; now Radio 4 offers audiences the opportunity to SAT discover just why the books have been so acclaimed by those SAT in the know. SAT SAT The use of crime and police procedure to hold up a mirror to SAT society and its most dysfunctional elements is commonplace SAT now, but that's because Martin Beck paved the way for SAT subsequent generations of European crime writers whose SAT fallible heroes - Kurt Wallander, John Rebus etc. - make the SAT best fist they can of their own lives whilst trying to SAT tackle the violence around them. SAT SAT The books were written deliberately to give an SAT unsentimental, realistic portrait of Sweden in the SAT mid-sixties: not the liberal place it was thought to be, but SAT a society suffering from a stifling bureaucracy and a SAT creeping rottenness behind the surface sheen. Confronting SAT the dark side of this society are stubborn, logical, SAT anti-social Detective Inspector Martin Beck, his closest SAT friend Detective Inspector Lennart Kollberg - overweight, SAT hedonistic, opinionated; Detective Inspector Frederick SAT Melander, with a memory like a card-index file and a noxious SAT pipe clamped in his jaws, and their colleagues in the murder SAT squad. SAT SAT In Roseanna, they are faced with the body of an unknown girl SAT found in a canal dredger. The long investigation ends with a SAT risky and frightening sting. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth SAT Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Sara Davies. SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Ahlberg: Jonathan Tafler SAT Kafka: Garrick Hagan SAT Bengtsson: John Mackay SAT Inga Beck: Lucy Black SAT Sonja Hansson: Susie Riddell SAT Police Doctor: Patrick Brennan SAT Mulvaney: Harry Livingstone SAT Miss Peterson: Amaka Okafor SAT Siv Lindberg: Amaka Okafor SAT Colonel: Robert Blythe SAT Miss Gota: Jenny Harrold SAT Doctor: Christine Absalom SAT Director: Sara Davies SAT Writer: Jennifer Howarth SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT SAT 15:45 Key Matters b01hl41k (Listen) SAT Series 3, B Minor SAT SAT In "Key Matters" Ivan Hewett explores the way in which SAT different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics SAT of their own. In this first programme, Ivan is joined by SAT choral conductor, Simon Halsey, to explore the serious and SAT somewhat austere key of B minor. This key seemed to acquire SAT its flavour from Bach's use of it in his famous B Minor Mass SAT and this tradition continued through Liszt's Piano Sonata in SAT B minor and the final heartbreaking movement of SAT Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony. SAT SAT Producer: Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01nk14m (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01nk14p (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Patrick SAT O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01ngnwq (Listen) SAT The World of Sport SAT SAT Evan Davis meets three of the sport sector's top business SAT brains and gets them to share their stories of reinvention SAT and the secrets of their industry. Evans hears from the SAT darts, snooker and boxing promoter, Barry Hearn, who is also SAT chairman of Leyton Orient and creator of the televised SAT fishing contest, Fishomania. Former Formula 1 boss Max SAT Mosley gives the inside story on how his sport became a hit SAT in the Far East. And former managing director of IMG India SAT explains how the Indian Premier League turned cricket into a SAT showbiz sporting sensation. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ngp29 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01ngp2c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ngp2f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01nk14r (Listen) SAT Charles Dance, Mark Thomas, Helen Czerski, Suzi Quatro, SAT Arthur Smith, The Unthanks and Gregory Alan Isakov SAT SAT Clive conspires with Jewel In The Crown Charles Dance about SAT his career playing bureaucrats and villains in blockbusters SAT like 'Alien 3' and 'The Golden Child'. His new Channel 4 SAT thriller 'Secret State' was inspired by Chris Mullen's novel SAT 'A Very British Coup' and is a classic story of one man SAT against the system which begins on Wednesday 7th November at SAT 22.00. SAT SAT And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Clive sets sail with SAT oceanographer Helen Czerksi, who puts her courage to the SAT test in the most extreme environments. She's one of the team SAT of scientists and adventurers on expedition to the Arctic to SAT explore the creation, life and death of icebergs. 'Operation SAT Iceberg' is on BBC Two Tuesday 30th October and Thursday 1st SAT November at 21.00. SAT SAT Arthur Smith's flying low with original 'rock chick' Suzi SAT Quatro who shot to fame in the seventies with hits like SAT 'Devil Gate Drive' and played bass in American sitcom 'Happy SAT Days'. Her new show is a personal reflection on her life in SAT show business: 'Suzi Quatro...Unzipped' is Live At The SAT Hippodrome, London from Monday 29th October until Saturday SAT 3rd November. SAT SAT Clive enjoys some Comic opera with influential activist and SAT comedian Mark Thomas. He's on a UK tour with 'Bravo Figaro' SAT the true tale of his father - a builder with a passion for SAT opera, his degenerative disease and Mark's attempt to put an SAT opera on in a bungalow in Bournemouth. SAT SAT The Unthanks open the musical floodgates to perform 'Great SAT Northern River' from their album 'Diversions Vol. 3: Songs SAT from the Shipyards'. SAT SAT And there's a torrent of instrumental talent from Gregory SAT Alan Isakov, who performs 'Master & A Hound' from his album SAT 'This Empty Northern Hemisphere.' SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01nk14t (Listen) SAT Alexei Navalny SAT SAT Lucy Ash profiles Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei SAT Navalny, who this week topped a ballot to elect leaders of SAT the opposition to President Putin. SAT Producer Arlene Gregorius. SAT Putin, the Patriarch and Pussy Riot SAT Pete Cashmore SAT Guido Fawkes SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01nk14w (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Skyfall is on general release, certificate 12A. SAT SAT 55 Days continues at the Tricycle Theatre, London, until SAT 24th November 2012. SAT SAT Two Pints by Roddy Doyle is published by Jonathan Cape. SAT SAT Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings is The Hepworth, SAT Wakefield until the 3rd February January 2013. SAT SAT Secret State begins on Channel 4 on 8th November at 10pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01nk1d0 (Listen) SAT Time Travel: The Politics of Time SAT SAT As we prepare to put the clocks back tonight, Sean Street SAT travels back in time through archive recordings to explore SAT the ways in which we have tried to control time itself - SAT from its standardisation in the 19th century, brought about SAT by the railways, to modern day political decisions about SAT time-zones and when Summer Time should start and end. SAT SAT Most of us remember we get an extra hour in bed tonight - SAT but when we get up for work on Monday morning will it be SAT lighter or darker? Why do we bother to change the clocks? SAT Should we change our time-zone and join Central European SAT Time and consign GMT to the past? And what exactly is time? SAT Can it be controlled or does it control us as it marches on SAT relentlessly making us older day by day? All these ideas SAT have been debated throughout the years, but are we any SAT nearer being able to define or explain what time is? SAT SAT With help from curators at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, SAT Sean Street's journey into past recordings takes him SAT backwards and forward across the many time-zones of Russia, SAT into China's single time-zone, to Venezuela's deliberately SAT political adoption of a half-hour time-zone and to Samoa, SAT who recently travelled forward in time by losing a whole SAT day. SAT SAT However, if you want to experience Time Travel yourself, SAT listen to the repeat of this programme tonight on BBC Radio SAT 4 Extra which starts and ends at 1am in the hour the clocks SAT go back! SAT SAT Producer: Andy Cartwright SAT A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01ng1v2 (Listen) SAT The Gothic Imagination, Dracula: Part 2 SAT SAT 2/2 Bram Stoker's disturbing vampire tale of horror, in a SAT new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Lucy Westenra is dead, SAT but Professor Van Helsing is determined to find out the true SAT cause of her death, track it down, fight it and defeat it SAT forever. SAT SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SAT More Gothic Imagination on Radio 4 SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Bram Stoker SAT Count Dracula: Nicky Henson SAT Dr Seward: Charles Edwards SAT Renfield: Don Gilet SAT Jonathan Harker: Michael Shelford SAT Mina Harker: Ellie Kendrick SAT Lucy Westenra: Scarlett Brookes SAT Dr Van Helsing: John Dougall SAT Arthur: Joe Sims SAT Maid: Christine Absalom SAT Policeman: Robert Blythe SAT Simmons: Patrick Brennan SAT Vampiress: Sarah Thom SAT Vampiress: Ellie Crook SAT Vampiress: Stephanie Racine SAT Child: Harper Bone SAT Singer: Adriana Festeu SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01ngp2h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01ngmjp (Listen) SAT Moral Authority of Institutions SAT SAT Bloody Sunday, Leveson, Hillsborough, Chilcott, Mid SAT Staffordshire NHS, Savile - just some of the more notable SAT examples of public inquiries of the last few years and SAT hardly a week goes by without a call for another hearing SAT into some perceived scandal or injustice. MPs, police, SAT journalists, NHS carers, local government, the church - it SAT seems there's hardly any major institution left in this SAT country that hasn't been undermined by scandal and in the SAT name of 'transparency' many institutions seem willing, even SAT eager, to expose their inner workings and problems. At the SAT heart of these cases there are of course victims who need SAT answers and redress and we're told that by exposing these SAT institutions or organisations to transparent public scrutiny SAT "lessons will be learnt". Institutions are an essential SAT component of civil society; a focus for shared values and SAT solidarity; can we expect our institutions to function SAT properly in an atmosphere of constant critical scrutiny? Has SAT this ever growing clamour for inquiries, often fuelled by SAT freedom of information requests, just undermined their moral SAT integrity? In our pursuit of transparency have we sacrificed SAT the moral authority of some of the very organisations that SAT are vital to the moral wellbeing of our society? In an age SAT dominated by new social networks, is this process an SAT essential part of re-defining social solidarity or is the SAT passion for openness actually generating a kind of corrosive SAT suspicion that destroys trust not just in institutions but SAT in our day-to-day lives? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, SAT Matthew Taylor and Giles Fraser. SAT SAT Witnesses: Nicholas Rengger - Professor of Political Theory SAT & International Relations, University of St Andrews, Phillip SAT Blond - Respublica, Dr Karl Mackie - Chief Executive, Centre SAT for Effective Dispute Resolution and Oliver Kamm - Leader SAT Writer and columnist for The Times. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01ng404 (Listen) SAT (8/12) SAT Why might you find Julia Roberts and King Lear's daughters SAT on a pedestrian crossing in Louisiana? SAT SAT This is just the first of the mind-bending puzzles the teams SAT in today's contest have to tackle. Alan Taylor and Michael SAT Alexander of Scotland take on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney SAT of Northern Ireland, in a return fixture following Northern SAT Ireland's victory a few weeks ago. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, to award points and to give SAT the teams the gentlest of verbal nudges when they seem to be SAT struggling. As usual the programme features two questions SAT devised by Round Britain Quiz listeners. The programme was SAT recorded in County Antrim: but does this give the Northern SAT Ireland team any home advantage? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Learning to Love Dafydd b01ng26d (Listen) SAT Gwyneth Lewis, the first Welsh Poet Laureate whose giant SAT words light up the front of the Wales Millennium Centre, has SAT never been able to come to terms with the great Welsh SAT language poet Dafydd ap Gwilym. SAT SAT He's the Welsh equivalent of Chaucer or Shakespeare and has SAT been hugely influential on contemporary Welsh poetry, from SAT Dylan Thomas to the bardic competitions on Radio Cymru. But SAT Gwyneth's teenage self found him sexist and laddish and a SAT representative of a tradition she rebelled against. SAT SAT As a Welsh language poet Gwyneth feels she can't avoid SAT Dafydd any longer and needs to face him head on. She visits SAT the ruined abbey at Strata Florida in West Wales where he SAT worked and was buried, meets songwriter and former lead SAT singer of Catatonia Cerys Matthews and Welsh poet and SAT language activist Menna Elfyn, and goes in search of him in SAT the poetry competitions at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. SAT Actor Steffan Rhodri brings Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetry to SAT life. SAT SAT Gwyneth tries to come to terms with her heritage and learn SAT to love Dafydd - and see if she can write a poem directly to SAT him. SAT SAT Producer: Allegra McIlroy. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01njzbf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Casual Cruelty b01nk240 (Listen) SUN The Lottery SUN SUN Stacy Keach reads Shirley Jackson's celebrated story, The SUN Lottery, first published in the New Yorker in 1948. The SUN inhabitants of a small farming community in Vermont gather SUN each year for what we begin to realise is a SUN frightening local lottery. SUN SUN American author Shirley Jackson's work has been described as SUN the 'literature of psychological suspense'. Writing from the SUN 1940s into the 1960s, her style of 'creeping unease' was SUN hugely popular, initially with readers of magazines such as SUN Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Harper's, The New Republic, SUN The New Yorker, and Woman's Home Companion. SUN SUN After Jackson's early death in 1965, at the age of 48, her SUN story collections began a marked revival of interest in her SUN work. In recent years she has received increasing attention SUN from literary critics and a new generation of readers. Her SUN deceptively simple, apparently realistic style, often SUN cloaking chilling or darkly hidden agendas, has influenced SUN writers like Neil Gaiman, Stephen King and Nigel Kneale SUN among others. SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01njzbh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01njzbk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01njzbm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01njzbp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01nk242 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01nk14t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01njzbr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01nk244 (Listen) SUN The Book of Misers SUN SUN Starting with Al-Jahiz's 9th century "Book of Misers", Mark SUN Tully looks at one of our old vices and asks whether it can SUN ever bring positive results. SUN SUN Scrooge, Silas Marner, Ebenezer Balfour, dozens of proudly SUN mean skinflints in Al-Jahiz's great satire, the archetype of SUN the miser is familiar to all cultures and is as old as money SUN itself. Mark Tully asks how we should view it - is it funny, SUN sinful, harmless or a kind of madness - and can it, SUN surprisingly, have benefits? SUN SUN With readings from Moliere and William Cowper and music SUN ranging from The Beatles to Gounod and Vaughan Williams to SUN Zain Bhika, Mark examines all that is stingy and mean. The SUN readers are Emily Raymond and Toby Jones. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01nk246 (Listen) SUN Farmer of the Year finalist: Tom Rawson SUN SUN Adam Henson is in Yorkshire for this week's On Your Farm to SUN visit the third finalist vying to become the BBC Farmer of SUN the Year. Tom Rawson is a dairy farmer with a new model of SUN farming. As well as acting as a consultant who turns SUN struggling farms around, Tom is also involved in managing SUN four farms across the UK. What's different is that Tom hires SUN cows from investors and then the investors get a return from SUN the milk sold. Adam and fellow judge, Christine Tacon, have SUN spent the last three weeks visiting all three finalists and SUN the winner will be announced at the BBC Food and Farming SUN Awards on the 28th of November in Birmingham. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01njzbt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01njzbw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01nk248 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b01nk24b (Listen) SUN Tibet Relief Fund SUN SUN Tsering Passang presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Tibet Relief SUN Fund SUN Reg Charity:1061834 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Tibet Relief Fund. SUN SUN Tibet Relief Fund was founded in 1959, within months of the SUN Dalai Lama arriving in India following his escape from SUN Tibet. Thousands of Tibetans followed him, crossing the SUN Himalayas on foot to begin a life in exile as refugees. SUN Today, the need is a great as ever; many Tibetans still SUN choose to risk their lives to escape China’s rule; inside SUN Tibet rural communities and nomads live in grinding poverty SUN with little or no healthcare or access to education SUN SUN Tibet Relief Fund works with Tibetans in India, Nepal and SUN inside Tibet funding programmes to provide healthcare and SUN education. We also promote self-sufficiency and SUN sustainability amongst Tibetan communities, through SUN innovative youth employment and community-building SUN initiatives. In addition we run a sponsorship programme for SUN nearly 1,000 children and the elderly. SUN SUN Tsering co-ordinates Tibet Relief Fund’s sponsorship SUN programme that supports Tibetan refugee children through SUN school, older students at university or on vocational SUN training courses, living costs for exiled Tibetan monks and SUN nuns and provides for elderly Tibetans who have no other SUN means of support. SUN SUN Education is enormously important for Tibetans living in SUN exile; it provides the tools for building sustainable SUN futures. Through sponsorship Tibetan children, like these SUN attending Namgyal Middle School in Kathmandu, can be assured SUN a good education and nurturing environment SUN SUN Jampaling Old People’s Home near Pokhara in western Nepal. SUN Many elderly Tibetans have no family in exile or means of SUN support. Most refugee settlements have an old people’s homes SUN where elders can feel secure and have company, but they need SUN support to cover their food, heating and healthcare. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01njzby (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01njzc0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01nk24d (Listen) SUN Live from Eccleston Methodist Church. The Revd Stephen SUN Poxon, Chair of Lancashire Methodist District has walked to SUN every Methodist community he serves, praying in and for each SUN of the churches and schools. How can Christian prayer SUN transform community so Christians reflect and meet the SUN changing needs of the 21st Century? Leader: The Revd Janet SUN Pybon. Director of Music: Sue Guenault. With Eleanor Hey SUN (French Horn). Producer: Claire Campbell Smith. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ngrxd (Listen) SUN Who are the Chinese? 3/4 SUN SUN Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to SUN understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries SUN of contemporary China, its history, development and its SUN possible future. In a new series of talks he sets out the SUN building blocks for making sense of China today. SUN SUN In this third talk, he explores the nature of race in China. SUN Over 90 per cent of the Chinese population regard themselves SUN as belonging to the same race, the Han. This is a stark SUN contrast to the multi-racial composition of the world's SUN other populous states. Chinese ethnic identity stems from a SUN process of integration and of cultural identity. What SUN defines the Chinese above all is a sense of cultural SUN achievement. Martin Jacques argues that the Han identity has SUN provided the glue which has held China together and has SUN given the Chinese people an admirable confidence. But this SUN strong sense of pride in who they are can also have a SUN downside: a tendency to look down on others. SUN SUN Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the SUN World'. SUN SUN Producer: Nina Robinson. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01nk24g (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 b01nk24j (Listen) SUN Writer.....Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Director....Rosemary Watts SUN Editor.....Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Tom Archer..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley..... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN William Grundy..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01nk24l (Listen) SUN Hilary Devey SUN SUN Hilary Devey, businesswoman and TV star is interviewed by SUN Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN The very incarnation of entrepreneurial spirit, Hilary Devey SUN built a haulage network business from scratch, which now SUN employs nearly eight thousand people and has an annual SUN turnover of £100 million. She has a successful media career SUN and is one of the current incumbents of the TV programme SUN Dragons Den. SUN SUN The real drama in her life has happened off screen. The SUN skeleton in her parents' closet reappeared in her own life. SUN She's been married and divorced three times, her only child SUN has battled drug addiction and a severe stroke nearly killed SUN her in 2009. SUN SUN Despite this, she remains ambitious and energetic in the SUN business world and says that there's no such thing as a SUN glass ceiling. SUN SUN Producer: Alison Hughes. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01ng413 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Roberts, Cottrell Boyce, Nyman SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor SUN of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John SUN Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, SUN Blackadder and QI fame). This week he is joined by the SUN comedian Humphrey Ker in the role of Temporary Curator. SUN SUN Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of SUN entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one SUN item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place SUN in the museum. Ever since someone gave the Museum the Big SUN Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now SUN there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope. SUN SUN This week, John and Jimmy have invited along screenwriter SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce, actor/writer/magician Andy Nyman and SUN anatomist Dr Alice Roberts. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01nk24n (Listen) SUN Football and Food SUN SUN John Inverdale looks at innovations in the food offerings at SUN football grounds that aim to give fans and players alike a SUN better eating experience than the traditional burger and SUN pie. He visits League Champions Manchester City who are SUN leading the way in the food revolution. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01njzc2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01nk274 (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 The Invention of Spain b01nk276 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Catalonia, Castille, Galicia and the Basques ... it's been SUN said that many of Spain's problems come from the pretence SUN that she is one country. In The Invention of Spain Misha SUN Glenny explores whether this is true. Three documentaries, SUN from 1492 to 1898, from Columbus to El Desastre, tell the SUN story of the rise and fall of an empire. But they also SUN reveal the fractured state of a nation, both in history and SUN now. SUN SUN "I can't imagine Spain ever cohering - if it did it wouldn't SUN be Spain." Felipe Fernandez Armesto. SUN SUN The first programme begins in the annus mirabilis of 1492, SUN when the last Moors in Granada surrendered, Columbus SUN discovered the New World, and an edict was published SUN expelling the Jews. This year is frequently cited as the SUN birth of modern Spain, but behind the national mythology SUN another story lurks. "The birth of this embryonic Spain is SUN rooted in the idea of exclusion," says one contributor, "and SUN that is a very nasty thing to have in your history." SUN SUN Misha Glenny is a former BBC correspondent and winner of a SUN Sony gold. Producer Miles Warde has previously collaborated SUN with Misha Glenny on The Invention of Germany, Garibaldi's SUN Grand Scheme and The Alps. Contributors include Sir John SUN Elliott, Inigo Gurruchaga of El Correo newspaper, Mia SUN Rodriguez Salgado and Madrid MP Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ngrwr (Listen) SUN Stamford SUN SUN The GQT team visit Stamford in Lincolnshire, with Eric SUN Robson in the chair and Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and SUN Bob Flowerdew taking questions from the local gardening SUN audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01nkt22 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents a Sunday Edition dedicated to men's SUN conversations. Regrets about words of thanks unspoken, guilt SUN about religion denied, hope for the future - and the joy of SUN playing at cowboys - it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01nkt24 (Listen) SUN The Gothic Imagination, Frankenstein: Part 1 SUN SUN A new production of Mary Shelley's heart-breaking modern SUN myth of obsession, pride and the need for love. SUN While sailing through the Arctic wastes, Captain Walton SUN picks up an unexpected passenger. Close to death the man SUN begins to tell Walton his strange and terrible story. 1 of 2 SUN SUN Dramatised by Lucy Catherine. SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Frankenstein: Jamie Parker SUN The Monster: Shaun Dooley SUN Elizabeth: Susie Riddell SUN Walton: Alun Raglan SUN Father: Robert Blythe SUN Clerval: Sam Alexander SUN Mother: Christine Absalom SUN Waldman: Patrick Brennan SUN Justine: Emma Hook SUN Sailor: Joe Sims SUN Lieutenant: Don Gilet SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Writer: Lucy Catherine SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01nkt26 (Listen) SUN Dawn French on her novel Oh Dear Silvia SUN SUN Dawn French talks about her latest novel Oh Dear Silvia, the SUN ambitious story of a comatose women whose family and friends SUN gather around her bedside to impart their feelings toward SUN her and how much the writing of it was informed by the SUN illness and subsequent death of her Mother. SUN SUN What would Britain be like if Germany had won the Second SUN World War? A what if question that CJ Sansom, famous for his SUN sixteenth century Shardlake series, has turned his attention SUN to with Dominion, his thriller set in a 1952 Britain which SUN had surrendered to Germany in the aftermath of Dunkirk SUN twelve years earlier. SUN Along with Owen Sheers, whose first novel Resistance was set SUN in the Welsh borders after Invasion in 1944, they discuss SUN why this era so appeals to the writer's imagination SUN SUN Ian Sansom discusses Paper: An Elegy, his book exploring our SUN relationship with this material and the importance it's had SUN on the development of our modern history SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Return to Oasis b01nkt28 (Listen) SUN Benghazi, Tobruk, Tripoli - they are all places with SUN resonance for a disappearing generation of British soldiers SUN who fought in the western desert in the Second World War. SUN This programme revisits a remarkable anthology of poems that SUN grew out of the experiences of those that took part. SUN SUN The Oasis anthology was edited by a group of soldier-poets SUN in Cairo in 1943. Unlike their forbears, the poets of the SUN First World War, none was above the rank of corporal. And SUN the poems they gathered together represent the missing SUN voices of war - the men and women from all branches of the SUN services of the citizen army that fought its way from the SUN Nile delta to Tunis. SUN SUN The poetry evokes the boredom and the terrifying activity of SUN war, the minutiae of daily life, the alien but beautiful SUN environment of the desert, reflections on lost comrades and SUN dead enemies, the purpose and the pointlessness of war. SUN SUN The original print run of 5,000 copies quickly sold out. The SUN war ended and people returned to their lives. Then in the SUN late 1970s the surviving original editors came together SUN again. They launched an appeal via the press for further SUN unpublished poems. Manuscripts came in by the thousand. They SUN were edited and combined with the original anthology in SUN Return to Oasis, perhaps the most complete poetic account of SUN the collective war experience. SUN SUN Mike Greenwood returns to the western desert as veterans SUN gather in El Alamein to mark the 70th anniversary of the SUN campaign. He talks to military historian Julian Thompson and SUN veterans to evoke a world at war in the western desert, SUN discusses the Oasis anthology with poet Owen Sheers and SUN professor of literature Antony Rowland - and we hear the SUN poems in readings and archive. SUN SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01ng83c (Listen) SUN Public, Private and Profitable SUN SUN The midnight collapse of the Government's plans for the West SUN Coast main railway line once again raises questions about SUN the outsourcing of public services to private providers. SUN Public bodies of all kinds now face massive budget cuts and SUN are under pressure to deliver savings. As a result, across SUN the country, public services of all kinds are now up for SUN tender in the hope they can be delivered more cheaply by the SUN private sector. SUN With relatively straightforward things such as refuse SUN collection, there's general agreement that experience to SUN date shows outsourcing can work, and can save the taxpayer SUN money. SUN But with complex services in education, health or transport, SUN the picture is far less clear. SUN Michael Robinson investigates the outsourcing of these SUN complex public services and uncovers another, as yet SUN unreported, example of huge profits being earned by major SUN private companies at taxpayers' expense. SUN Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01nk14t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01njzc4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01njzc6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01njzc8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01nkt3c (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon presents her choice of the best BBC radio SUN this week- SUN Some alternative ways of playing the piano - please have SUN your ping pong balls and some forks ready. We look at the SUN world weary Swedish detective who paved the way for today's SUN Scandi crime heroes. How The Police's best album turned out SUN to be their last. Why MPs are debating what to do with a SUN lost and found King and how remembering The Song of Hiawatha SUN at the Royal Albert Hall eighty years ago can still bring a SUN tear to the eye. SUN SUN In Tune The Piano A-Z : Radio 3 SUN The Gothic Imagination - Frankenstein - Radio 4 SUN Foreign Bodies - Radio 4 SUN Swansong - Radio 4 SUN Victoria Derbyshire - Radio 5Live SUN The Invention of Spain - Radio 4 SUN The Real Rachman - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama - What Love Sounds LIke - Radio 4 SUN Into The Abyss - Radio 4 SUN Sumptuous Was The Feast - Radio 3 SUN SUN Produced by Helen Lee SUN email us at: potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01nkt3f (Listen) SUN The pressure mounts for Emma and Ed. Meanwhile Matt makes a SUN sharp exit. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01nkt53 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Easy Tiger, Possession SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist with more of his SUN wit and charm in a series of audience readings. This week SUN the perils of learning a foreign language by audio tape in SUN "Easy Tiger" and crossing the line in property desire in SUN "Possession". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Dear Life b01nkt55 (Listen) SUN Gravel SUN SUN A new collection of short stories by one of the world's most SUN acclaimed short story writers, Alice Munro, is always a SUN cause for celebration. Winner of the Man Booker SUN International Prize, the Lannon Prize, the Giller Prize and SUN many other awards, Alice Munro is widely regarded as a SUN doyenne of the short story form, a writer whose acuity and SUN compassion shines through all her work. Her latest SUN collection, Dear Life, is published in November and five of SUN the stories from Dear Life can be heard on Radio 4 on Sunday SUN evenings during October and November. SUN SUN Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic SUN surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, SUN captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that SUN lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated SUN emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page SUN is turned. SUN SUN Today in Gravel, a woman remembers a life-changing winter SUN when she was very young and tries to assuage her sense of SUN complicity. SUN SUN The reader is Laurel Lefkow SUN The abridger is Sally Marmion SUN The producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01ngrwy (Listen) SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Are radio programmes about prisoners too sympathetic? In SUN this week's Feedback, Roger meets two programme makers to SUN discuss your questions on the rights and wrongs of radio SUN about prisons. SUN SUN Rex Bloomstein is the presenter and co-producer of Radio 4's SUN Dying Inside, which looked at the experiences of the growing SUN number of older prisoners, over 40% of whom are men SUN convicted of sexual offences. Rosie Dawson produced The SUN Bishop and the Prisoner following the Rt Rev James Jones, SUN the Church of England's Bishop for Prisons, as he talked to SUN prisoners, politicians and pundits about the prison system. SUN SUN One listener has tried six times to get a ticket to watch SUN the recording of Just a Minute - and still had no luck. SUN Another was turned away from a recording of the Today SUN programme even though she had a ticket. She compares the BBC SUN to a low-cost airline. We put your concerns about radio SUN recordings to Francesca Rivas, Studio Audience Manager. SUN SUN As the allegations surrounding Jimmy Savile continue to make SUN the news, we hear your reactions to the way the BBC is SUN covering the story. SUN SUN Plus the art of reading aloud. After many listeners were SUN underwhelmed by the acclaimed actress Anna Maxwell Martin's SUN rendition of a recent Book of the Week, we ask what makes a SUN good reader? SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01ngrww (Listen) SUN George McGovern, Fiorenzo Magni, Paul Kurtz, Mike Morris, SUN Roy Bates SUN SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Senator George McGovern, who lost to Richard Nixon in the SUN 1972 Presidential election, is remembered by Gary Hart and SUN Henry Kissinger. SUN SUN Italian cycling champion - and three times winner of the SUN Giro d'Italia race - Fiorenzo Magni. SUN SUN Paul Kurtz, founder of the 'skeptic' and humanist movements. SUN SUN TVAM presenter Mike Morris is remembered by her fellow SUN presenter Anne Diamond. SUN SUN And Major Roy Bates, the self-styled prince of a disused sea SUN fort which he dubbed the free state of Sealand. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01nk14f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01nk24b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01ng4h5 (Listen) SUN The School of Hard Facts SUN SUN E.D. Hirsch is a little-known American professor whose SUN radical ideas about what should be taught in schools are set SUN to have a profound effect on English schools. A favoured SUN intellectual of the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, SUN Hirsch advocates a curriculum strongly grounded in facts and SUN knowledge. He also believes that there are certain specific SUN ideas, works of literature and scientific concepts which SUN everyone should know so that they can be active participants SUN in society. SUN SUN Presenter Fran Abrams interviews Hirsch about his ideas. She SUN considers their likely impact on English schools and speaks SUN to the former English schools minister, Nick Gibb MP, who SUN championed Hirsch's ideas when he was in government. He SUN explains the reasons for bringing Hirsch's ideas across the SUN Atlantic and how they could counteract what he describes as SUN a prevailing left-wing ideology among teachers. SUN SUN Fran also visits London's Pimlico Academy which is SUN pioneering a "Hirsch-style" curriculum in its new primary SUN school. She talks to the young women leading this SUN experiment: Anneliese Briggs and Daisy Christodoulou. SUN SUN Daisy was once dubbed "Britain's brightest student" after SUN captaining the successful Warwick University team on SUN "University Challenge". She discusses why she finds Hirsch's SUN ideas so compelling. She also explains why, in her view, he SUN stands in a proud left-wing tradition that champions SUN knowledge as power, a view that contrasts with Nick Gibb's SUN more right-of-centre take on Hirsch's ideas. SUN SUN Fran also talks to Professor Sir Michael Barber, chief SUN education adviser to Pearson and former policy SUN implementation director to Tony Blair in Downing Street, and SUN to a former leading member of the Government's expert panel SUN on the curriculum, Professor Andrew Pollard. SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01nkt5y (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 b01nkt60 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01ngnwd (Listen) SUN Daniel Craig on being James Bond, working with Sam Mendez SUN and Her Majesty the Queen. SUN SUN Actor Martin Compston discusses his new film Sister, set in SUN the seedy underbelly of the Swiss ski slopes. SUN SUN Is Stanley's Kubrick's film The Shining just a horror film? SUN Or is it about the Holocaust, the moon landing, or the SUN massacre of Native American's - a new documentary, Room 237, SUN claims it's about all three - and more. We hear from its SUN director, Rodney Ascher. Plus Sir Christopher Frayling and SUN critic Adam Smith discuss the pros and cons of film theory. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01nk244 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 OCTOBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01njzd6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01ngmcq (Listen) MON Trouble at work, travellers vs tourists MON MON Trouble at work: Laurie Taylor considers the findings of the MON largest UK study on ill treatment in the workplace ever MON undertaken. He's joined by the researchers, Ralph Fevre and MON Amanda Robinson, who claim that organisations which are well MON versed in modern management practices may create a culture MON in which bullying, harassment and stress thrive. Also, MON travellers versus tourists - Lara Week's research questions MON whether or not those seeking 'authentic culture' provide MON more to foreign countries than those who stick to the MON 'tourist trail' MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01nk242 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01njzd8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01njzdb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01njzdd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01njzdg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nkwx5 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Neil MON Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01nkwx7 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Polly Procter. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01njzdj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01nqvj9 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01nkwxc (Listen) MON Torture, terrorism and secrets MON MON On Start the Week the journalist Ian Cobain reveals how MON torture has been systematically used by the British from MON WWII to the War on Terror, via Kenya and Northern Ireland. MON David Anderson QC reviews the risks posed by terrorism in MON the UK. Extraordinary rendition and the language of MON concealment form the heart of Clare Bayley's new play, and MON there are more secrets uncovered by the criminal MON barrister-turned-crime writer, MR Hall. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01nkwxf (Listen) MON Tombstone, Episode 1 MON MON "I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my father MON who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who MON also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death MON and perhaps for myself for writing this book." MON MON Yang Jishen's book is banned in China. It is a passionate MON and angry account of one of the 20th century's most shocking MON man-made disasters. Based on an array of new sources and MON personal testimonies and written by someone who was a MON Communist Party insider with remarkable access to official MON archives, Tombstone is as significant and powerful a work as MON Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. MON MON Read by David Yip. MON Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nkwxh (Listen) MON The global picture for women on boards; Sophie Wright cooks MON on a shoestring; are foster children being denied normal MON family life? MON Presented by Aasmah Mir MON Produced by Kirsty Starkey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nkwxk (Listen) MON Une Vie, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. MON Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat MON - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love MON and romance. MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Jeanne: Aimee-Ffion Edwards MON Baron: Robert Blythe MON Baroness: Christine Absalom MON Rosalie: Lizzy Watts MON Abbé Picot: Patrick Brennan MON Julien: Adam Nagaitis MON Count: Ben Crowe MON Countess: Stephanie Racine MON Widow Dentu: Eleanor Crook MON Abbé Tolbiac: Joe Sims MON Paul: Joshua Silver MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer: Guy de Maupassant MON MON 11:00 Land of the Rising Sums b01nkxkv (Listen) MON Alex Bellos visits Japan, on a quest to discover why Asian MON cultures seem so much better at maths and numbers than many MON western countries. He looks at the cultural difference in MON the Japanese approach to numbers and asks whether there is MON something fundamental in Japanese culture that keeps them at MON the upper end of international numeracy league tables. Alex MON explores the language used to describe numbers themselves, MON the songs taught in schools to teach children their times MON tables, and the passion the Japanese still show for the MON ancient but foolproof abacus, even in the computer age. He MON visits the national abacus competition in Kyoto to see the MON incredible mathematical feats achieved by children as young MON as 5 and discovers why abacus users actually use a different MON part of the brain to most people doing mathematical MON problems, and whether this could be the key to their MON superior number skills. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 11:30 Ayres on the Air b01n20gw (Listen) MON Series 4, Autumn MON MON Popular poet Pam Ayres presents her poetry and sketch show. MON She is joined by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as MON they look this week at Autumn. MON MON She looks at subjects such as what to donate to the harvest MON festival, interesting things to put on a bonfire, checking MON out retirement homes in the Autumn of one's life and the MON choosing a suitable evening class for you husband. MON MON Her poems this week include: I Didn't Want to Go to School MON Mum and The Harvest Hymn. MON MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01nkxkx (Listen) MON Local food, health and safety changes, rail franchising MON MON How important is the Tablet and television in changing the MON future of retail MON MON Will the proposed changes to health and safety law make it MON harder for employees to take their employer to court? MON MON It's week 3 of our special You and Yours series on Rail MON Franchising when we'll be looking at the infrastructure that MON surrounds the trains - track improvements, station MON facilities and upgrades, and new ticketing systems MON MON The elderly victims of mail order scams who continue to MON spend their life savings on goods they don't really want or MON need because they've been told they only need to follow the MON rules to get their fortune MON MON And why we're enjoying locally sourced food when we eat out MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01njzdl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01nkxkz (Listen) MON National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01nkxl1 (Listen) MON Foreign Bodies, Commander Dalgliesh and Chief Inspector MON Wexford MON MON PD James' Adam Dalgliesh and Ruth Rendell's Reginald Wexford MON first appeared in novels written in 1962 and 1964. MON MON Mark Lawson continues his series about the way crime fiction MON has depicted modern European history by looking at the MON shifts in UK society they have encountered from rural racism MON and road rage to fears about changes in the Church of MON England and the rise of an environmental movement. MON MON You can hear an extended interview with PD James on the MON Front Row Crime Writers' Archive. MON MON Producer: Robyn Read. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01nkt3f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nlbfp (Listen) MON Gwynfor v Margaret MON MON By Rob Gittins. MON MON The true story of Gwynfor Evans's dramatic political battle MON with Margaret Thatcher. MON MON It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative party have MON swept to power with a landslide victory. The new Home MON Secretary, William Whitelaw, announces the Government's MON intention to abandon a manifesto commitment to a Welsh MON language TV channel. In response, Gwynfor Evans the MON legendary Welsh nationalist and former leader of Plaid MON Cymru, announces that if Thatcher refuses to keep her MON promise, he will embark on a hunger strike and, if MON necessary, starve himself to death. MON MON A dramatic countdown begins - a political duel between the MON first female British Prime Minister, eager to stamp her mark MON on history, and Britain's first Welsh nationalist MP, now in MON his twilight years and universally regarded as one of the MON gentlest men in politics. MON MON The battle would ignite fierce unrest across Wales and its MON dramatic result would help define Thatcher's premiership. MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Gwynfor Evans: Robert Blythe MON William Whitelaw: Malcolm Tierney MON Rhiannon Evans: Sharon Morgan MON Dafydd Ellis Thomas: Steffan Rhodri MON Cledwyn Hughes: Richard Elfyn MON Narrator: Eiry Thomas MON Director: James Robinson MON Writer: Rob Gittins MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nl66z (Listen) MON (9/12) MON In Spain, why would Mr Kipling have preferred not only a MON sponge cake to a woman, but also a crown and a bull? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe puts this and other mind-bending questions to MON the regulars from Wales and the Midlands, in the latest heat MON of the cryptic quiz. David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander MON play for Wales, while the defending champions from the MON Midlands are Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock. There's a MON lot at stake, as whichever team wins today's contest may MON stand a strong chance of taking the Round Britain Quiz title MON for 2012. MON MON Tom will also have the answer to the question he left MON unanswered at the end of last week's edition - and will be MON setting a new teaser for this week. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01nk24n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 In Seven Days: Inside a Historic Campaign b01nlf05 (Listen) MON Artist Nicola Green had the unique opportunity to travel MON across America with Barack Obama and his team between August MON 2008 and January 2009. Given unprecedented access to the MON campaign trail, she followed Senator Obama from nomination MON through to his election as President. The series of MON portraits she made of this historic campaign are captured in MON seven silkscreen images which hang in Washington's Library MON of Congress. MON MON "In Seven Days - Inside an Historic Campaign" is a montage MON programme telling the story of that campaign as seen through MON Nicola's eyes. She describes how it all began and how she MON left her husband - MP David Lammy - and her two small MON children behind, to make seven trips from the UK to America, MON joining Obama and his team on the campaign trail. MON MON Nicola talks about the hundreds of drawings she made, MON photographs she took and interviews she conducted, to tell MON the story of the events that unfolded and how she captured MON them in the seven silk-screen prints. MON MON Alongside Nicola we hear a from others involved in the 2008 MON campaign, historians from the Library of Congress in MON Washington and the Walker Gallery in Liverpool where Nicolas MON work will be exhibited in 2013, and other political artists MON who talk about the challenges of distilling thousands of MON pictures into one iconic image. MON MON We also hear how this deeply personal journey unfolded and MON became not just a story of political and historical change, MON but also a story about the past, the future and what Obama MON symbolized for the American people and the world. MON MON Producer: Jane Ellison MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01nl671 (Listen) MON Series 2, Tales MON MON Aleks Krotoski looks at whether how we tell stories has MON changed with the digital world. And it looks like it has MON much more to do with our distant past that we might think. MON MON She begins by looking at the online phenomena of the Slender MON Man a supernatural figure that's been appearing in pictures, MON blogs and YouTube movies since 2009 and is described as the MON first great myth of the web. MON MON Aleks speaks to AS Byatt to understand what story is for MON before examining how modern online storytelling bears a MON striking resemblance to oral traditions of mediaeval times. MON To see this in action she explores the growth of the Slender MON Man myth and how its community based evolution mimics how MON legends grew in the past. MON MON But for many of these stories they still don't make the most MON of what the digital world has to offer storytellers. For MON this Aleks turns to Alison Norrington one of the world's MON leading proponents of transmedia stories. MON MON 17:00 PM b01nl673 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01njzdn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b01nl675 (Listen) MON Series 5, Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman MON MON The Museum of Curiosity is hosted by the Professor of MON Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John MON Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, MON Blackadder and QI fame) and the comedian Jimmy Carr. MON MON This week, John and Jimmy have invited along comedian Sean MON Hughes, physicist Dr Helen Czerski and cuneiform expert Dr MON Irving Finkel. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01nl677 (Listen) MON Josh shows his enterprising streak, and Alistair makes a MON costly visit. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01nl679 (Listen) MON Mark Lawson interviews the American writer Tom Wolfe, as he MON publishes a new novel, Back to Blood, which is set amidst MON the wealth, sex and crime of contemporary Miami. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nkwxk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01nl67c (Listen) MON The British Gunner and the Irish Civil War MON MON Mike Thomson returns with Radio 4's investigative history MON series. MON MON Dublin 1922. Irish rebel leader Michael Collins has signed a MON new Treaty with Britain. The new Irish Free State is taking MON shape. MON MON But even as Collins was establishing the Free State, a MON rebellion from within Irish Republican ranks broke out MON against the new state and the Treaty with Britain. The MON anti-Treaty forces seized the 'Four Courts' legal complex in MON central Dublin. MON MON Meanwhile, in London, the former Chief of the Imperial MON General Staff, Sir Henry Wilson, was assassinated by MON Republicans outside his Chelsea home. MON MON The British Government urged Michael Collins their recent MON foe - and now fellow national leader - to act. MON MON Mike visits Dublin to examine what a soldier's forgotten MON memoir reveals about Britain's true role at the start of the MON Irish Civil War. MON MON Producer: Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01nl67f (Listen) MON Labour, the Left and Europe MON MON The crisis in the eurozone means that fundamental changes to MON the European Union are on the agenda. Conservative MON politicians have called for a re-appraisal of the UK's MON relationship with a more integrated and potentially less MON democratic EU. Yet Labour's leadership is curiously quiet on MON the topic. MON MON Edward Stourton talks to leading figures in Labour's policy MON debate and finds out what rethinking is going on behind the MON scenes. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01ngnwg (Listen) MON Seven members of a panel convened by Italy's Civil MON Protection Department in the days prior to the L'Aquila MON earthquake of 2009 have this week been sentenced to six MON years each in prison. The trial has been watched eagerly MON around the world by seismologists and earthquake specialists MON around the world. MON MON The men - fours scientists, two engineers and a government MON official - were found guilty of manslaughter for downplaying MON the risks of a big earthquake happening, after months of MON weaker tremors. But did the scientists get too close to a MON political role in those confused days? Will the verdict MON deter other scientists from offering their advice in future? MON MON Prof Tom Jordan, who chaired an International Committee MON formed at the request of the Italian government to look into MON risk communication gives his thoughts on the verdict, and Dr MON Roger Mussen and Prof Robert Holdsworth give a UK view on MON the consequences for science. MON MON Dr Jacob Dahl is trying to decrypt one of the oldest known MON written languages, proto-Elamite. He's putting hi-tech MON images of over 1000 clay tablets online, and hopes that with MON international cooperation he'll have cracked the code in the MON next two years. MON MON And Dr Leonel Dupuy describes his breakthrough in the MON development of a see-through soil which will revolutionise MON crop studies, enabling extraordinarily highly detailed MON images of root systems in vivo. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01nkwxc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01njzdq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01nl67h (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nl67k (Listen) MON The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 1 MON MON The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Read by Lesley Manville MON MON There is something special about the ancient cathedral in MON Chartres with its mismatched spires, astonishing MON stained-glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something MON special too about Agnès Morel, the mysterious woman who is MON to be found cleaning it each morning. MON MON No one quite knows where she came from - not the diffident MON Abbé Paul who discovered her sleeping in the north porch one MON morning twenty years ago; nor lonely Professor Jones whose MON chaotic existence she helps to organise; nor Philippe Nevers MON whose neurotic sister and newborn child she cares for; nor MON even the irreverent young restorer, Alain Fleury, who works MON alongside her each day and whose attention she catches with MON her tawny eyes, colourful clothes and elusive manner. And MON yet everyone she encounters would surely agree that she has MON touched their lives in subtly transformative ways, even MON though they couldn't quite say how. MON MON But with a chance meeting in the cathedral one day, the MON spectre of Agnès' past returns, provoking malicious MON speculation from the prejudiced Madame Beck and her gossipy MON companion Madame Picot. As the rumours grow more ugly, Agnès MON is forced to confront her history, and the mystery of her MON origins finally unfolds. MON MON The Cleaner of Chartres is a compelling story of darkness MON and light, of traumatic loss and second chances. Told with a MON sparkling wit and beguiling charm, but infused throughout MON with deeper truths, it speaks of the power of love and mercy MON to transform the tragedies of the past. MON MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz USA b01nl67m (Listen) MON The News Quiz gets a US makeover with an all-American panel. MON MON With the US election in balance this year, turmoil in the MON Middle East, financial insecurity all around - not to MON mention Pippa Middleton threatening to move to New York - a MON team of US comedians dissect the headlines as the News Quiz MON format crosses the Atlantic. MON MON The host is Andy Borowitz - New York Times columnist, brain MON behind the Borowitz Report and Time magazine's top Twitterer MON (and the creator of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air!). The panel MON include legendary political humorist PJ O'Rourke, and top US MON stand ups Eugene Mirman and Tig Notaro. MON MON Producer: Sam Bryant. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nl67p (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01njzfm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01nkwxf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01njzfp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01njzfr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01njzft (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01njzfw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns15q (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Neil TUE Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01nl68l (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sarah Swadling and produced by Rich Ward. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01nl6h4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b01nl6h6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Welfare TUE TUE The eminent American political philosopher Michael Sandel is TUE Radio 4's "Public Philosopher." Now, as America prepares for TUE its Presidential elections, he is going on the road in TUE America with a unique mission to challenge ordinary voters TUE and lay bare the deeper moral questions bound up in the TUE noisy Romney and Obama campaigns. TUE TUE In this week's programme, Professor Sandel is at Harvard, TUE his home university in the intellectual heartland of New TUE England. Much of the debate between Mitt Romney and Barack TUE Obama has been about welfare policy, social security and TUE healthcare. Underlying this, Professor Sandel believes, is a TUE moral and philosophical disagreement about the nature of the TUE American dream itself. TUE TUE Earlier this year, Obama was attacked for his remarks about TUE the role of government. "Somebody helped to create this TUE unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you TUE to thrive," the President said. "If you've got a business, TUE you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." TUE Republicans saw this as an attack on business and accused TUE Obama of stifling the idea of individual success at the core TUE of the American dream. The right's policies are more TUE focussed on individual choice -- lowering taxes and TUE opposing, for example, the type of universal health care TUE policy which Obama has enacted. TUE TUE Against this backdrop, our public audience will be asked: TUE "Who Built It? Is the American vision of individual TUE responsibility for one's own success a myth?" Michael Sandel TUE weaves through these issues with the help of philosophers TUE past and present. TUE TUE Producer: Mukul Devichand. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01nnf6t (Listen) TUE Tombstone, Episode 2 TUE TUE When Yang Jishen's father died of starvation he thought it TUE was just a personal tragedy but then he discovered his TUE experience had been repeated in families throughout China. TUE His research reveals what he calls "a tragedy unprecedented TUE in world history, when tens of millions of people starved to TUE death during a period of normal climate patterns and with no TUE wars or epidemics." TUE TUE Read by David Yip TUE Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nl6h8 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nl6hb (Listen) TUE Une Vie, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. TUE Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat TUE - has married a smallminded local landowner, and begins to TUE adapt to the disappointments of life. TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01nl6hd (Listen) TUE Series 3, Citizen Science / Giant Harvestman TUE TUE From the days of Aristotle, amateur observers have tried to TUE piece together the workings of the natural world. Britain TUE has an extraordinary tradition of amateur collectors or TUE self-funded natural history scientists, such as Charles TUE Darwin. There is little doubt that Britain does possess the TUE most extensive network of amateur wildlife observers TUE anywhere in the World, and that our wildlife is known better TUE and in greater detail than anywhere else. TUE TUE We tend to forget just how many people in Britain are TUE seriously interested in the natural world, but looking at a TUE membership of over 1 million people, the Royal Society for TUE the Protection of Birds has more members than all three main TUE political parties in Britain combined. TUE TUE To discover more for this Saving Species, Brett Westwood TUE takes part in the tenth anniversary of Communicate in TUE Bristol, a bringing together of amateurs and professionals, TUE who this year look at whether communication between TUE interested sectors can overcome the gap between awareness TUE and action with their conference theme: Breaking Boundaries: TUE The Next Ten Years for People and Nature. TUE TUE Recently the term Citizen Science has evolved, to describe TUE amateurs working with professionals at public events such as TUE Bioblitz events which were first held in 1996 in Washington TUE DC. These involve an intense period of biological surveying TUE within a defined area and so Brett Westwood travels to TUE Oxford to attend the World's first Urban Bioblitz and find TUE out for himself what over 1000 coordinated events in one TUE weekend hope to achieve. TUE TUE But can the amateur really add to the science? Many TUE scientific communities, such as an academic study by Jeremy TUE Thomas (Professor of Ecology at Oxford) and colleagues TUE acknowledged that without the input from these amateur TUE wildlife watchers much of today's understanding of the TUE natural world would be impossible. Brett Westwood discusses TUE this with Dr Helen Roy who has recently been asked to review TUE the benefit of amateur observations for the scientific TUE community. TUE TUE 11:30 Swansong b01nl6hg (Listen) TUE The Holy Bible, by Manic Street Preachers TUE TUE Stuart Maconie presents the story of The Holy Bible - the TUE last album to feature full contributions from Richey James TUE Edwards. Richey is credited with design and guitar for the TUE album. In reality he gave no musical contribution to the TUE record yet wrote 75% of the lyrics and fashioned the TUE record's core subject material - namely a thesis on TUE prostitution, capital punishment, American globalization and TUE the Holocaust. TUE TUE The album 'The Holy Bible' was released on 30 August 1994. TUE Richey disappeared from the Embassy Hotel, Bayswater, TUE London, at approximately 7am on 1 February 1995 and was TUE never seen again. He was officially pronounced 'presumed TUE dead' on 23 November 2008. TUE TUE Swansong features new contributions from Manic Street TUE Preachers - James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire, plus TUE Manic's biographer Simon Price, and Keith Cameron - TUE contributing Editor of Mojo magazine. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01nl6hj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01njzfy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01nl6hl (Listen) TUE National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz73 (Listen) TUE Foreign Bodies, Inspector Rogas TUE TUE Leonard Sciascia used crime stories to highlight Mafia TUE crimes. The Sicilian was the author of novels including The TUE Day of the Owl, A Simple Story and Equal Danger - which TUE features Inspector Rogas. Paul Bailey, Gianrico Carofiglio, TUE Andrea Camilleri and Petra Reski discuss with Mark Lawson TUE the influence of Leonardo Sciascia and the continuing TUE prescence of the Mafia in Italian life. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01nl677 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nl6hn (Listen) TUE Notes to Future Self TUE TUE When thirteen year old 'Philosophy Rainbow'- better known as TUE Sophie - is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she, her TUE mother Judy, and her sister Calliope, return to live with TUE their grandmother Daphne in Birmingham. TUE TUE Reunited for the first time in years, the three generations TUE of women must try to prepare themselves for the inevitable TUE loss of Sophie from their lives, while Sophie herself must TUE come to terms with her own mortality. TUE TUE As Sophie counts down the last weeks days, and minutes, of TUE her life, tensions simmer and emotions bubble to the TUE surface. At times Sophie hates her family; they have their TUE futures, the rest of their lives to look forward to. But TUE Sophie has her Future Self. Someday, she believes she'll TUE come back as someone else. Then she'll have a different TUE future. The future denied her now. And she leaves her Future TUE Self some notes, some advice to remember, because after all, TUE all stories about death are really stories about how to TUE live. TUE TUE Adapted for radio by Lucy Caldwell from her stage play, TUE Notes to Future Self is a brave and poignant story of a TUE young girl facing death before she even really knows what TUE life means. TUE TUE Producer/Director....Heather Larmour TUE TUE Credits TUE Sophie: Imogen Doel TUE Calliope: Jayne Wisener TUE Judy: Amanda Ryan TUE Daphne: Jane Lowe TUE Director: Heather Larmour TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE Writer: Lucy Caldwell TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01nl6hq (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01nl6hs (Listen) TUE Billy Bragg (the A-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson launches a new series in which he talks to TUE leading performers and songwriters about the album that made TUE them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience TUE at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. TUE TUE Programme 1, A-side. 'Talking With The Taxman About Poetry' TUE - Billy Bragg reveals how the self-proclaimed 'difficult' TUE third album was written and created with a guitar he bought TUE when he was out shopping for swimming trunks (he claims he TUE still swims naked as a result)... he explains how a film TUE about the James Brothers helped him write "There's Power In TUE A Union'... and describes how Andy Kershaw's inability to TUE shut up led him to writing 'Levi Stubbs' Tears'. And he TUE plays excerpts from the album live in front of the audience. TUE TUE In the B-side of the programme, it's the turn of the TUE audience to ask the questions and Billy considers the state TUE of protest songs today, reveals what music he is writing at TUE the moment and explains what poetry he would discuss with TUE today's taxman. That programme can be heard next Monday at TUE 11.00pm. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01nl6hv (Listen) TUE DIY Law TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg looks at DIY law - what it is like to TUE represent yourself as a litigant in person and whether the TUE CPS should be allowed to shut down private prosecutions. TUE Producer Wesley Stephenson. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01nl6hx (Listen) TUE John Finnemore and Peter Hitchens TUE TUE Cabin Pressure star and writer John Finnemore, and Peter TUE Hitchens, columnist and author, talk about the books they TUE love to presenter Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Who did murder the Princes in the Tower? For Peter Hitchens TUE Josephine Tey still has the answer, in The Daughter of Time. TUE TUE John Finnemore loves A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn, TUE which provokes argument as to whether it is a happy book or TUE a terribly sad one. TUE TUE And Harriett Gilbert chooses something that makes her laugh: TUE What's My Motivation? by Michael Simkins, his TUE self-deprecating memoir of the life of an actor who's never TUE made it to the big time. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01nl77b (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 b01njzg0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01nl77d (Listen) TUE Series 4, It's Grim up North TUE TUE Adam attends a business conference to network and is TUE determined to leave his Dad behind. TUE TUE Adam attends a business conference to network and is TUE determined to leave his Dad behind. He fails. Not only does TUE Rudy attend but he knows the guest speaker. TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker TUE and some terrific tunes. TUE TUE Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record TUE shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real TUE soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if TUE we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the TUE charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), TUE reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son TUE Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly TUE girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently TUE married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) TUE who is enjoying the challenge of getting the Sharpe men in TUE shape. TUE TUE Adam.......Lenny Henry TUE Rudy.....Larrington Walker TUE Tasha......Natasha Godfrey TUE Doreen......Claire Benedict TUE Bernard Sheedy...Justin Moorhouse TUE Brinsley Forde.....Brinsley Forde TUE Katerina.......... Liza Sadovy TUE Attila/Receptionist ......... Adam Nagaitis TUE TUE Written by Danny Robins TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01nl77j (Listen) TUE Alarm bells are ringing for Brenda. Meanwhile Lilian seeks TUE peace and quiet. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01nl77l (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a report on Seduced By Art, the TUE National Gallery's first major exhibition of photography, TUE which places photographs alongside Old Master paintings. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nl6hb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01nl77n (Listen) TUE Too Many Chiefs? TUE TUE In April next year, the SNP government in Scotland will TUE merge 8 existing constabularies to create a single national TUE police force. This is intended to bring efficiency savings TUE by cutting out duplication of functions and gaining the TUE economies of scale. But the move is proving controversial TUE amid fears that it will damage local accountability and lead TUE to worsening services in some areas. TUE Next month in England and Wales elections will be held for TUE 41 Police and Crime Commissioners to oversee a continuing TUE patchwork of local forces. The Westminster government sees TUE the Commissioners as signs of its commitment to 'localism'. TUE But seven years ago, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of police TUE said the fragmented network of local forces was 'not fit for TUE purpose'. So, given the cuts the police are facing, is it TUE time for a radical re-organisation south of the border? TUE Gerry Northam investigates. TUE Producer: Nicola Dowling. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01nl77q (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01nl77s (Listen) TUE In the first of a new series, presenter Claudia Hammond TUE reports on the latest developments in neuroscience, mental TUE health and psychology. TUE TUE Anna Freud was the daughter of Sigmund Freud who pioneered TUE child psychotherapy. She set up the Hampstead War nurseries TUE during the Second World War, which became the Anna Freud TUE Centre after her death in 1982. The Centre is now TUE celebrating its 60th anniversary and Claudia investigates TUE how it has changed and asks what the eponymous founder would TUE think of its many new projects, including neuroscience and TUE teenage brains. TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b01nl6h6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01njzg2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01nl7j9 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nnf6w (Listen) TUE The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 2 TUE TUE The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Read by Lesley Manville TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Dr Deman discovers a baby adopted by a local celebrity bears TUE a striking resemblance to the one taken away from Agnès when TUE she was just 15. He writes the address in Agnès' file. TUE TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lk09w (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music and TUE comedy. TUE TUE Benjamin Zephaniah, Stephen K Amos and Matt Holness join TUE regular contributor Pippa Evans, as singer-songwriter TUE Loretta Maine. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nl7jc (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01njzh3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01nnf6t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01njzh5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01njzh7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01njzh9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01njzhc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns166 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Neil WED Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01nl7w8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sarah Swadling and produced by Polly Procter. WED WED 06:00 Today b01nl7wb (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Evan WED Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01nl7wd (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01nnf8t (Listen) WED Tombstone, Episode 3 WED WED Henan is a rural province north of Shanghai. Xinyang WED prefecture was the region's main producer of grain and yet WED the Chinese famine hit hardest in that lush region and one WED out of every eight residents starved to death. Yang Jishen WED has spoken to some of the survivors. WED WED Read by David Yip WED Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nl7wg (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nl7wj (Listen) WED Une Vie, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. WED Jeanne de Lamare - a naive country aristocrat married to a WED selfish man, begins to discover how rotten and treacherous WED adult life is all around her. WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 A Scottish Hotel in the Holy Land b01nl7wl (Listen) WED In the Israeli town of Tiberias, situated opposite the Golan WED Heights and within range of Hezbollah's rockets in Lebanon, WED you will find The Scots Hotel, owned and run by that well WED known chain of hoteliers, the Church of Scotland. WED Unlikely as it seems, one of the biggest properties owned by WED the Church of Scotland isn't a grand old kirk dating back to WED the Reformation or a manse in a well-to-do Scottish WED postcode, it's Israel's Boutique Hotel of the Year 2008. WED Ten short years ago it all seemed so rosy; a plan to build a WED hotel on the site of a 19th century hospital established by WED Scots surgeon and medical missionary, David Watt Torrance. WED Then things took a turn for the worst. The Second Intifada WED caused widespread disruption across the region and the WED Israeli government stepped in to halt renovations after an WED ancient Jewish graveyard was found on the grounds. It opened WED in May 2004, behind schedule and over budget. WED Back home, the Kirk held its nerve despite having to cut WED back on other international work such as HIV projects in WED Africa.The General Assembly in 2010 was presented with a WED stark picture of its finances; churches would have to close, WED services for the vulnerable would be slashed and vacancies WED for ministers would go unfilled. WED What explains the Church's loyalty to this unlikely project? WED Angus Roxburgh travels to the Holy Land to explore the WED complex relationship between the Kirk, Israel and a local WED Palestinian Christian population in decline. WED Producer: Caitlin Smith. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01nl7wn (Listen) WED Series 5, Meter Reading Chic WED WED The hit Radio 4 series Fags, Mags and Bags returns for a WED fifth series, with more shop-based shenanigans and over the WED counter philosophy courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty WED sidekick Dave. WED WED Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli, WED the previous series picked up a Writers Guild nomination for WED best comedy and this new run sees a return of all the shop WED regular characters as well as some guest appearances along WED the way from the likes of Julie T Wallace, Barry Howard and WED Sean Biggestaff. WED WED The staff of Fags, Mags and Bags continue their tireless WED quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke WED with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh WED Mahju has built the business up over 30 years and loves the WED art of the shop. However, he does apply the "low return" WED rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. Then WED there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not WED keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but Ramesh WED is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them whether WED they like it or not! WED WED In this final episode of the series, Ramesh decides it's WED time to ponder retirement from the corner shop game, but has WED to decide who will carry on his shop legacy and take over WED the Fags, Mags and Bags empire. WED WED Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli WED Dave ..... Donald Mcleary WED Sanjay ..... Omar Raza WED Alok ..... Susheel Kumar WED Mr Hepworth ..... Tom Urie WED Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford WED Bras Jeff ..... Steven McNicol WED Mutton Jeff ..... Sean Scanlan WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01nl7wq (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01njzhf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01nl7ws (Listen) WED National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz7f (Listen) WED Foreign Bodies, PI Pepe Carvalho WED WED In his Pepe Carvalho novels, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán WED created a Barcelona based Private Eye with a gastronomic WED passion, whose investigations are set against political WED developments in post Franco Spanish society. WED WED Mark Lawson continues his series looking at European history WED through crime fiction - discussing the books of Montalbán WED with Antonio Hill and Jason Webster - whose own crime novels WED depict contemporary Spain. WED WED Producer: Robyn Read. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01nl77j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nl7wx (Listen) WED The Trenches Trip WED WED In Jonathan Smith's play, unexpected conflicts emerge within WED a group of teachers and sixth-formers as they walk through WED the WWI trenches, tunnels and cemeteries of Flanders, trying WED to step into the boots of those who died there. WED WED Producer/director: Bruce Young. WED WED Credits WED Martin: Christian Rodska WED Nick: Max Dowler WED Laura: Tamzin Merchant WED Rachel: Leah Brotherhead WED Connor: Pip Carter WED Ollie: Sam Swann WED Terry: Tony Bell WED Director: Bruce Young WED Producer: Bruce Young WED Writer: Jonathan Smith WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01nl8g3 (Listen) WED Energy bills WED WED Earlier this month the Prime Minister surprised the energy WED industry when he said during Prime Minister's Questions that WED the government would introduce laws to make suppliers give WED customers the cheapest tariffs. The energy industry WED regulator Ofgem waded into the debate with proposals to WED force suppliers to tell customers about the cheapest gas and WED electricity tariffs they have on offer and to make bills WED clearer and simpler. So what affect will these changes have WED on our bills at a time when three of the biggest energy WED companies have announced price increases? WED WED Do you understand how your gas and electricity bills are WED charged at the moment? What experience have you had of WED switching suppliers? Do you feel you are paying too much WED fixed monthly payments and are struggling to get them WED reduced? Are you looking for a better deal? WED WED Whatever your question you can ask Paul Lewis and a panel of WED guests including Ann Robinson, energy expert at uSwitch and WED Christine McGourty, Director of Communications at UK Energy WED for their advice. Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call 03 700 WED 100 444 between 1 and 3pm on Wednesday 31st October. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01nl77s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01nl8g5 (Listen) WED Growth of the Strip Clubs WED WED Growth of the strip clubs - Why has erotic dance and WED stripping become a staple of the night time economy in the WED UK? Kate Hardy tells Laurie Taylor that her research shows WED that the proliferation of these clubs has little to do with WED the demands of the customers. Instead, it's a by-product of WED the economics of an industry which maintains its profits, WED even during a recession, by passing the financial risks on WED to its workers. Other item TBC WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01nl8g7 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01nl8g9 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01njzhh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00wv6cd (Listen) WED Series 6, Tour Guide WED WED After meeting a Tour Operator in the street whilst doing his WED daily chores, Arthur joins a Tour Bus giving guided journeys WED around the city - and is, as only Arthur can be, hugely WED disappointed with his experience. WED WED Misunderstandings and misinformation abound, and after a WED stop to buy some pies from the market Arthur heads to the WED Shoulder of Mutton to talk through his annoyance at the WED day-so-far with Jack. WED WED He comes up with a plan to develop his very own and much WED improved tours of the city and, not having a bus at his WED disposal, decides to conduct walking tours. WED WED Whilst starting this new venture in earnest, Arthur's WED best-laid plans, as usual, don't quite go as he'd hoped... WED WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Woman/Market Trader/ WED Shop Assistant/Old Woman ..... Melanie Giedroyc WED Tour Operator/Official/ WED Jack/Old Man ..... Dave Mounfield WED Announcer/Tour Guide/ WED Man/Aussie ...... Alastair Kerr WED WED Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01nl8gc (Listen) WED Emma and George get a Halloween fright, while Eddie saves WED the day. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01nl8gf (Listen) WED With Kirsty Lang, including a report on the Oscar-winning WED French actress Marion Cotillard in the film Rust and Bone. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nl7wj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01nl8gh (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01nl8gk (Listen) WED Series 3, Anna Minton WED WED Anna Minton, author of "Ground Control", argues that the WED increasingly high security surrounding public and private WED buildings creates a sense of fear rather than safety. WED Four Thought is a series of talks offering a personal WED viewpoint recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in WED London. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Climategate Revisited b01nl8gm (Listen) WED Climategate was the term quickly applied in 2009 to the WED mysterious appearance on the internet of large numbers of WED emails and documents belonging to some of the world's WED leading climate scientists. WED WED This happened just a month before the Copenhagen climate WED change conference, which failed to meet the expectations of WED many for agreement on international action. The timing may WED not be coincidental. WED WED For some climate change sceptics, the emails were a WED disturbing revelation of the real thoughts and manoeuvrings WED of scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic WED Research Centre and their international colleagues. The WED scientists argue that while some of the phrasing may have WED been unfortunate, there is nothing in the documents to WED undermine the validity of mainstream climate science. WED WED Climategate certainly inflamed the debate over climate WED change, in the UK, the US and elsewhere. WED WED In 2012 the Norfolk Police announced they were abandoning WED their investigation into who hacked into the university's WED computer and then distributed what they found. WED WED But what have been the longer-term consequences of this WED incident, for public opinion, media reporting and WED international policy-making on climate change? Chris WED Vallance investigates, asking if this was it a political WED crime, and, if so, how effective has it been? WED WED Producers: Martin Rosenbaum & Catherine Donegan. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01nl7wd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01njzhk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01nl8gp (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nnf8w (Listen) WED The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 3 WED WED The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Read by Lesley Manville WED WED Episode 3: WED Dr Deman reads of a vicious attack on a nanny with a young WED baby. He suspects Agnès. In the present, a china doll goes WED missing from Madame Beck's and Agnès is her chief suspect. WED WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b01nl8gr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are the WED very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's WED freshest story-tellers to the British nation very seriously WED indeed but they haven't had the time to do much research, WED learn their lines or work out who is doing which parts. WED WED The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a WED concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors WED and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. WED WED With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices WED Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern WED re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. WED WED Today it's the Salmon of Knowledge. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:15 Living with Mother b01nl8gw (Listen) WED Series 2, Star Turn WED WED Living with Mother returns for a second series with further WED tales about sons who have never flown the nest. WED WED Marlon is going to enter Britain's Got Talent, but his WED amateur Bontempist mother Helen is against it for good WED reason. WED WED Marlon simply can't sing, but his dogged determination means WED he cannot back down and he convinces his mother to accompany WED him on the Bontempi. Poor Helen is in a quandary and feels WED she should tell her son that he can't sing but, true to WED form, he ignores any advice given. WED WED Will Helen have the courage to put a stop to her son being WED humiliated or will she get a taste for fame herself? WED WED Writing about the first series of Living with Mother, Radio WED Times described it as "Alexander Kirk's astutely-observed WED comedy series...underpinning each of these tales is a WED bittersweet poignancy, a moment when the easy laughs are WED replaced with a lip-trembling insight into the WED vulnerability, lack of self-confidence and interdependency". WED WED Marlon ..... Mark Gatiss WED Helen ..... Susan Jameson WED WED Written by Alexander Kirk WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nl8h0 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on Prime Minister's Questions and the WED day's events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01njzjd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01nnf8t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01njzjg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01njzjj (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01njzjl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01njzjn (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns16l (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Neil THU Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01nl95z (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. THU THU 06:00 Today b01nl961 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah THU Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01nl963 (Listen) THU The Anarchy THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the bloody THU civil war which took place in mid-twelfth century England. THU The war began as a succession dispute between Henry I and THU his nephew Stephen. It grew into a major conflict involving THU Henry's daughter, the Empress Matilda, who briefly became THU the first woman to rule England - although she was driven THU out of London before she could be crowned Queen. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01nnfbp (Listen) THU Tombstone, Episode 4 THU THU While the Chinese peasants starved the county cadres focused THU on meeting grain procurement quotas and blamed any THU shortfalls on 'right deviationist thinking'. THU THU The punishment was to undergo self-criticism sessions and THU many suffered severe and often fatal beatings. Meanwhile THU there was a wholesale cover-up of the true size of the THU disaster. THU THU Read by David Yip. THU Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nl965 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nl967 (Listen) THU Une Vie, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. THU Jeanne believes that conceiving a second child will heal the THU ache in her heart caused by a loveless marriage in a rotten THU world. THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01nl969 (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 What's So Great About ...? b00ccndx (Listen) THU Series 1, Method Acting THU THU In the second of three programmes in which Lenny Henry THU challenges the iconic status of things we often take as THU read, Lenny Henry goes to New York to question the mystique THU that surrounds the 'Method' school of acting. THU THU In New York, on still only part-gentrified West 44th Street, THU stands an old converted redbrick chapel. Just a small plaque THU indicates that this is the inner sanctum, the private home THU of The Method. It's the legendary Actors' Studio, the space THU created in 1947 by Lee Strasberg and others to provide a THU safe place for some of the world's greatest actors - often THU the biggest Hollywood stars of their generation - to come THU and practise their art. Here came Marlon Brando, James Dean, THU Dustin Hoffman, Lee J Cobb, Jane Fonda, Steve McQueen, Paul THU Newman, Rod Steiger, Cissy Spacek, Robert de Niro, Shelley THU Winters and dozens of others and here they listened and THU rehearsed and criticised and supported their fellow actors THU and directors. They were all devotees of The Method, a THU training discipline evolved by Strasberg from the teachings THU of the great Russian actor and teacher Stanislavski. For THU many, though, The Method has come to signify 'mumbling and THU scratching', a sort of slightly inarticulate style of THU performance that in seeking to be internalised and 'real' THU ends up just being dull. British actors reputedly despised THU it and Laurence Olivier is famously said to have told Dustin THU Hoffman to stop trying to find an interior motivation in his THU character 'and just ACT, dear boy!' THU THU Seeking enlightenment from stars like Ellen Burstyn and THU experts and aficionados, Lenny tests his reservations about THU The Method and finds that when he actually has a go it's not THU quite so unconvincing as he at first thought... THU THU PRODUCER: SIMON ELMES THU (repeat). THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01nl96c (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01njzjq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01nl96f (Listen) THU National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz7r (Listen) THU Foreign Bodies, DCI Jane Tennison THU THU Helen Mirren's portrayal of DCI Jane Tennison created a new THU image of women police officers in Britain. Lynda La Plante THU describes the creation of her character and what serving THU officers taught her about the macho culture of British THU policing before the millennium. THU THU The Granada TV series which first aired in 1991 was sold THU around the world. Dutch best seller Saskia Noort and THU Scottish authors Ian Rankin and Val McDermid discuss its THU impact with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer: Robyn Read. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01nl8gc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nl96h (Listen) THU The Other Simenon, Teddy Bear THU THU When he wasn't writing Maigret, Georges Simenon produced a THU huge body of novels and short stories, often tough, gripping THU and psychologically-penetrating dissections of lives THU confounded by fate. In The Other Simenon we explore more of THU his dark tales of human misfortune! THU In The Neighbours, Emile Jovis, the director of a Paris THU travel agency, finds that moving home doesn't always make THU for a better life. Acting from the best possible motives he THU decides to uproot his family from their dilapidated flat in THU the Marais district of Paris to a new development outside THU the city. All too soon, however, he becomes aware that his THU wife and son do not share his enthusiasm. And his peace of THU mind is shattered when he overhears a series of blunt and THU brusque conversations coming from his neighbours' flat. His THU irritation on hearing their voices leads to an obsessive THU interest in their world. THU Dramtised by Ronald Frame and starring Jamie Glover and THU Robin Weaver. THU THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. THU THU Credits THU Emile: Jamie Glover THU Blanche: Robin Weaver THU Alain: Sam Alexander THU Irene: Alison Pettit THU Leon: Ben Crowe THU Neighbour: Joe Sims THU Neighbour: Alex Rivers THU Director: David Neville THU Producer: David Neville THU Writer: Georges Simenon THU Writer: Ronald Frame THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01nl9p9 (Listen) THU Hicks Lodge/National Forest THU THU Helen Mark visits Hicks Lodge, a restored open cast mine in THU Leicestershire, now a haven for wildlife, walkers and THU cyclists and other more unusual visitors. Over 100 different THU bird species have been recorded at Hicks Lodge, which is run THU by the Forestry Commission and is situated in young THU woodlands at the heart of the National Forest. THU THU Helen meets Area Forester, Alan Dowell, to find out more THU about Hicks Lodge and the various walking routes and cycle THU trails that are available and joins local cyclist, Marc THU Stapleford for a bike ride through the site of what is now THU the National Forest Cycle Centre. Helen also hears from THU Chief Executive of the National Forest, Sophie Churchill, THU about the background to the Forest itself which covers 200 THU square miles of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and THU Staffordshire. They are joined by retired Geography teacher, THU Dot Morson, and one of her former pupils, Mark Knight. Both THU are local residents who have seen the landscape around them THU transformed over the years. And THU Stuart Malcolmson and Racheal Bailey of the National Forest THU Mushing Team give Helen a lesson in dog sledding - one of THU the more unusual pastimes to be found on the site of a THU former open cast mine! THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01nk24b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01nkt26 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01nl9pc (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01nl9pf (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 b01nl9ph (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01njzjs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This? THU b01nl9pk (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Comic explanation of human development via stand-up, song THU and sketch. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01nl9pm (Listen) THU Will discovers the truth, and Emma makes a big decision. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01nl9pp (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the actor John THU Goodman, who stars in Argo, Ben Affleck's film about a THU cinematic solution to the Iranian hostage crisis. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nl967 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01nl6hv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01nl9pr (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01nl6hd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01nl963 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01njzjv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01nl9pt (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Ritula THU Shah. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nnfgr (Listen) THU The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 4 THU THU The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Read by Lesley Manville THU THU Episode 4: THU Madame Beck accuses her cleaner Agnès of stealing a china THU doll from her apartment and seems intent on blackening her THU name in Chartres. THU THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01nl9pw (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU WELCOME TO SMILE5! THU THU Smile5 is a mail order catalogue company selling everything THU from Rolex watches to lawnmowers, from financial products to THU phone and broadband, from holidays to health insurance. And THU somewhere in a brown-field wasteland miles from the nearest THU town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in THU the UK. This is the world of The Headset Set. THU THU Each episode features a host of sketches set eavesdropping THU on both sides of the bizarre, horrific and ludicrous THU business-customer relationship. The remaining sketches are THU set in the Smile5's offices. We meet four of the call THU centre's employees: THU THU Sailesh - Officially the team leader, Sailesh has recently THU moved from Bangalore seemingly bringing a wealth of THU call-centre experience and an admirable work ethic lacking THU in his fellow Headsetters, which the others resent him for. THU THU Bernie - As she's been here longer than anyone, she refuses THU to recognise Sailesh's authority. She also refuses to learn THU how to use anything more technologically advanced than a THU 1980s trim phone. THU THU Aleesha - A self-loathing street-wise cynic who resents THU having to work at Smile 5. Or in fact, having to work at THU all. THU THU Big Tony - Tony spends most of his time on the phone, but THU not necessarily on Smile 5 business. He's always running THU some sort of dodgy scam, like a minicab office from his THU desk. THU THU Other sketches feature Smile5's unsympathetic counsellor and THU the head of training Ralph, who trains the most inept of the THU call centre staff, such as the child-like Bradley. THU THU WRITERS THU THU This is a team written sketch show originated by Stephen THU Carlin and James Kettle. Established sketch writers such as THU Stephen Carlin, James Kettle, Jon Hunter and Colin Hoult are THU joined by the best comedy writers to have emerged from THU recent 'open door' radio shows. These recent Radio 4 and 4 THU extra shows, Recorded for Training Purposes and Newsjack, THU gave new comedy writers an opportunity to hone their skills. THU THU EPISODE 1 THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma THU THU Writers ..... Various THU Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell/James Kettle. THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nl9py (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01njzkp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01nnfbp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01njzkr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01njzkt (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01njzkw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01njzky (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ns190 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Revd Neil FRI Gardner, Minister of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01nl9wj (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Polly Procter. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01nl9wl (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01nk24l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01nnfgk (Listen) FRI Tombstone, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mao's support of the system of communal kitchens exacerbates FRI China's famine disaster. As the peasants give up their FRI allotments and their livestock, they have no means of saving FRI themselves when the kitchens run out of food and close down. FRI FRI Read by David Yip. FRI Produced and abridged by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nl9wn (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nlbf9 (Listen) FRI Une Vie, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. FRI In this final episode, we see the coda to the detailed story FRI so far of Jeanne de Lamare, in which we see a whole life pan FRI out. FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 Fathers' Daughters b01nlbfc (Listen) FRI Nihal Arthanayake is the father of two small children - the FRI second is a girl. Through his work on his Asian Network FRI phone-in programme, Nihal began to discover that being the FRI father of a girl in the Asian community was not always FRI straightforward. This programme is his quest to find out FRI about that relationship in Britain's South Asian communities FRI and to investigate the issues that arise from cultural FRI expectations. FRI FRI The programme speaks to a number of Asian women from FRI different religious and cultural backgrounds about their FRI experiences with their fathers. Some of them have disturbing FRI stories - women who have suffered from violent and abusive FRI fathers, women who were forced into disastrous marriages, FRI women who were cut out of their father's will and not FRI treated equally to sons, women who attempted suicide. Some FRI have cut all ties with their fathers and, as a consequence, FRI the rest of their families. We hear from a girl whose father FRI was liberal until the surrounding community convinced him to FRI change his behaviour towards his daughter - but also talk to FRI a father and his daughter who show the other side of the FRI story with a loving, close and mutually respectful FRI relationship. FRI FRI The programme is backed up by opinion and statistics from FRI experts in the field. Interviews include Dr Aisha Gill, FRI Reader in Criminology with particular expertise in health FRI and criminal justice responses to violence against ethnic FRI minority women in the UK; Aina Khan, Senior Solicity in FRI Family Law; and Polly Harrar of The Sharan Project. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b01nlbff (Listen) FRI He's Got to Be Stopped FRI FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest is bracing herself for the departure of FRI her adored husband Henry on a Foreign Office posting to FRI Romania. FRI FRI Her friends Ginny and Lionel Fox have come down to FRI Sizzlinghurst to support her, along with her slightly FRI demented devotee Venus Traduces. Whilst maintaining a veneer FRI of cheerful serenity, Vera is inwardly desperate and hatches FRI several intricate plots to detain him: an ominous dream, a FRI succession of spurious telegrams, an extensive repertoire of FRI ailments. She even attempts, disastrously, to persuade the FRI cook to stage a staff crisis. FRI FRI Meanwhile, down in the gazebo at midnight, Venus encourages FRI Henry to resist all Vera's attempts to detain him as she FRI will surely give in at the last moment and go with him to FRI Romania. FRI FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes FRI Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy FRI Mrs Gosling ..... Alison Steadman FRI Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks FRI Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer FRI Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman FRI Mr Gosling ..... Nigel Planer FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01nlbfh (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01nlbfk (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01njzl0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01nlbfm (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Foreign Bodies b01mnz8f (Listen) FRI Foreign Bodies, Inspector Montalbano FRI FRI Andrea Camilleri discusses the influence of both the Spanish FRI writer Montalbán and Belgian author Georges Simenon on the FRI creation of his Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano. In FRI a conversation recorded at his home in Rome with Mark FRI Lawson, he describes the way he uses his crime stories to FRI comment upon the effects of both the Mafia and Berlusconi's FRI leadership on Italian society today. FRI FRI Producer: Robyn Read. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01nl9pm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vkyz7 (Listen) FRI Gracey and Me FRI FRI By Gillian Plowman FRI FRI Kate (Harriet Walter) returns to South Africa to meet Gracey FRI (Jenny Jules), the woman she betrayed twenty-five years ago FRI when she was a ten-year-old staying with her godparents in a FRI luxury suburb of Johannesburg during the height of FRI apartheid. The repercussions of that betrayal have FRI profoundly affected both women, psychologically and FRI physically. FRI FRI The play takes Kate on a journey into her past. Beauty was FRI the daughter of the housemaid, Gracey, who has illegally FRI secreted her into the hut in the garden where she lives. The FRI two children are swimming together when Kate tells Beauty FRI she has made the water dirty because she is black. The FRI altercation between the two children escalates and the FRI horrific scene becomes a metaphor for the apartheid era as FRI Kate plays out what she has observed of the treatment of FRI black people by white people, making her drink the dog's FRI water from a bowl on the floor. Gracey discovers them and FRI unleashes the untold anger of her life upon Kate. Kate FRI retaliates by revealing the secret of Beauty's presence in FRI the hut to her Godparents, resulting in Gracey and her FRI daughter being banished. FRI FRI This haunts Kate as an adult but when she finally confronts FRI her past, events unfold which threaten her life, as the play FRI reveals the brutality of the legacy left by apartheid. FRI FRI Directed by Annie Castledine FRI FRI Produced by Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kate: Harriet Walter FRI Gracey: Jenny Jules FRI Peter van Tonder: Henry Goodman FRI Katie: Lauren Mote FRI Beauty: Jeanne Lakechia FRI Godmother: Hannah Boyde FRI Stanley: Denton Chikura FRI Director: Annie Castledine FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI Writer: Gillian Plowman FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nlbl2 (Listen) FRI Humshaugh FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the third episode of Gardener's Question FRI Time's North of England tour to mark the programme's 65th FRI anniversary, this week recorded in Humshaugh in FRI Northumberland. FRI FRI With Anne Swithinbank, Matt Biggs, and Bob Flowerdew on the FRI panel, the team take questions from a gardening audience in FRI the same town that the programme visited back in 1947. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b01nlbl4 (Listen) FRI Steak FRI FRI Four acclaimed novelists write their first stories for FRI radio. Steak by Evie Wyld, describes how a group FRI of male barflies in small town Australia are unsettled by FRI the appearance of Mariella.. FRI FRI Reader Mike Sengelow FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01nlbl6 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by John Wilson. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01nlbl8 (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 16:55 The Listening Project b01nlblb (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01nlbld (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01njzl2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01nlblg (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 9 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Jo Brand and Lloyd FRI Langford. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01nlblj (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper 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 William Grundy..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy FRI Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01nlbxx (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nlbf9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01nlbxz (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the political discussion and debate FRI programme from the Cardiff School of Music at Cardiff FRI University with Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP, his FRI shadow, the labour MP Christ Bryant, Iron Maiden singer FRI Bruce Dickinson who also runs Cardiff Aviation in the city FRI and Leanne Woods the Leader of Plaid Cymru. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01nlby1 (Listen) FRI Understanding Contemporary China 4/4 FRI FRI Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to FRI understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries FRI of contemporary China, its development and its possible FRI future. In a new series of talks he sets out the building FRI blocks for making sense of China today. FRI FRI In his final talk, he asks how the undemocratic Chinese FRI state can enjoy legitimacy and authority in the eyes of its FRI population. He argues that the Chinese state is held in such FRI high esteem because it is seen as the embodiment, protector FRI and guardian of Chinese civilization. The state is seen as FRI an intimate, a member of the family indeed - in fact, the FRI head of the family. It is a remarkable institution which FRI will come to exercise interest and fascination outside FRI China. FRI FRI Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the FRI World'. FRI FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Foreign Bodies b01nlby3 (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Wexford, Dalgliesh, Montalbano, Carvalho, Rogas and FRI DCI Jane Tennison FRI FRI PD James' Adam Dalgliesh and Ruth Rendell's Reginald Wexford FRI first appeared in novels written in 1962 and 1964. FRI FRI Mark Lawson continues his series about the way crime fiction FRI has depicted modern European history by looking at the FRI shifts in UK society they have encountered from rural racism FRI and road rage to fears about changes in the Church of FRI England and the rise of an environmental movement. FRI FRI You can hear an extended interview with PD James on the FRI Front Row Crime Writers' Archive. FRI FRI Producer: Robyn Read. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01njzl4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01nlby5 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nnfbr (Listen) FRI The Cleaner of Chartres, Episode 5 FRI FRI The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Read by Lesley Manville FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Dr Deman takes Agnès to see Jean Dupère and Professor Jones FRI begins teaching her to read. In the past, Maddy, a nurse at FRI the clinic, convinces Agnès to say that the baby isn't hers. FRI FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01nl6hx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nlby7 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01nlby9 (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
26 October, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 27/10/2012 - 02/11/2012
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