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SAT SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01nq3vz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01ns1k9 (Listen) SAT On Wheels, Episode 5 SAT SAT Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this SAT charming memoir. Weaving together personal stories and SAT historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars SAT through a lifetime of biography. SAT SAT Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael. The SAT lessons required military precision when practising how to SAT get in and out of his car correctly. His biographical SAT subjects also had their difficulties: Bernard Shaw drove SAT with reckless gusto when overtaking his eightieth year; Vita SAT Sackville-West's car became a chamber for sudden romantic SAT assignations and getaways; Augustus John and his family SAT careered through vulnerable villages as the poor vehicle, SAT piled high with bohemian friends, stuttered and jerked along SAT in first gear. SAT SAT Wry, thoughtful and very funny, On Wheels is an elegy to the SAT glamour of the car. Subtle and perceptive, Michael Holroyd SAT finds surprising ways to understand the past and challenge SAT our view of the future. SAT SAT Episode 5 of 5 SAT In the final episode, Michael Holroyd describes playwright SAT Bernard Shaw's enthusiastic, if cavalier, approach to SAT driving - only thwarted by the outbreak of world war. For SAT Michael Holroyd, however, it was the satnav that did for SAT him. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nq3w1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nq3w3 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nq3w5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01nq3w7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nq522 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Chris Bennett of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01nq524 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01nq3w9 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01nq3wc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01nq7d8 (Listen) SAT Lakeland Adventures SAT SAT Over 80 years after the publication of 'Swallows and SAT Amazons', Helen Mark visits the Lake District to find out SAT why the lakes and landscapes that inspired some of Arthur SAT Ransome's most famous stories are now the setting for a SAT variety of different and often more daring adventures. From SAT trails to triathlons, ghyll scrambling to zorbing and aqua SAT rolling, there is now something for everyone to be found on SAT the Lakeland fells. SAT SAT On the lower slopes of Helvellyn, around 1200 people prepare SAT to take part in a trail run designed to test and exhilarate SAT them as they make their way through some of the most SAT dramatic views that Lakeland has to offer. Helen meets the SAT organiser, Graham Patten, to find out more about the people SAT who travel miles to take part and also why the National Park SAT is so keen to promote the area as the UK's Adventure SAT Capital. It's a far cry from the more genteel adventures of SAT sailing, camping and fishing experienced by the Walker SAT children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger, who Arthur Ransome SAT wrote about. SAT SAT Out on Coniston water Arthur's cousin, Richard Ransome, SAT tells Helen how his own childhood, growing up in the area, SAT was very like something from his cousin's books and how he SAT feels that the magic element of imagination seems to be SAT missing from the adventures of today. Helen is given a SAT demonstration of ghyl scrambling by a group of adventurers SAT who describe the thrill this gives them. And finally, Helen SAT meets John Nettleton and Jenny Massie, whose own adventures SAT climbing and running on the screes and fells of this SAT landscape began at a time when they almost had their own bit SAT of Lakeland to themselves. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01nsygj (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 Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01nq3wh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01nsygl (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and SAT James Naughtie. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01nsygn (Listen) SAT Alfie Boe and Andrew Motion's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles talk to tenor Alfie Boe, SAT find out about a World War Two Lancaster Bomber airman's SAT letter from his daughter which was lost in France during the SAT War then found again, hear from the British Legion's SAT youngest member, talk to a man who has recorded everyday day SAT of his son's 21 years with a camera, shudder to the sound of SAT a TVR sports car exhaust, thrill to the commanding presence SAT of a circus ringmaster, enjoy Andrew Motion's Inheritance SAT Tracks and travel with John McCarthy to Utrecht. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 GI Britain b01nsygq (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Based on new interviews with surviving GI's and their SAT brides, and more than 150 archive interviews from both the SAT Imperial War Museum and the National Library of Congress, SAT Martha Kearney presents the second of two programmes SAT exploring the wartime GI years and their social and cultural SAT impact. SAT SAT Marking the 70th anniversary, Martha tells the story of how SAT the number of American servicemen based in the UK grew to SAT more than 1.5 million from the start of 1942 through to SAT 1944. The programme evaluates the military importance of the SAT GI's, the integration of British and American troops and the SAT sometimes difficult relationship between their commanders. SAT SAT The arrival of large numbers of ebullient young men from an SAT alien culture inevitably made a huge impression on British SAT society. For many Britons the GI's were 'over sexed, over SAT paid and over here' and misunderstandings on both sides SAT frequently led to tension and hostility. SAT SAT Racial tensions sometimes spilled over into violence, SAT notably at the so-called Battle of Bamber Bridge in 1943 SAT when Black and White GI's fought in the streets of the SAT village near Preston. SAT SAT The programme evokes Rainbow Corner, the American Red Cross SAT Club near London's Piccadilly Circus where servicemen went SAT for food, entertainment or even just a hot shower. Luxuries SAT were available there of which most Britons could only dream. SAT SAT In the aftermath of VE day, it is believed that around SAT 70,000 British girls married American GI's with many girls SAT emigrating immediately. Unofficial estimates also suggest SAT that around 9,000 illegitimate children were born after the SAT war as a result of relationships with serving GI's. SAT SAT Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01nsygs (Listen) SAT Iain Martin of The Daily Telegraph follows events in SAT Westminster this week. SAT All eyes were on the US presidential election as Barack SAT Obama was returned for a second term. Are there lessons to SAT be learnt for all parties from his re-election? Labour SAT Siobhain McDonagh who campaigned for Obama, and Brooks SAT Newmark who knows Mitt Romney, talk about their experience SAT of US politics: and shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas SAT Alexander evaluates the result. SAT This week marked the midpoint of the coalition government SAT .Conservative MPs Mark Field and Margot James consider its SAT durability. SAT And as the enduring interest in the English Civil war is SAT made evident in a sell-out play 55 Days at the Hampstead SAT Theatre in London. MPs Tristram Hunt (Labour) and Douglas SAT Carswell (Conservative) explain why we are still interested SAT in roundheads and cavaliers. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01nsygv (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01nsygx (Listen) SAT Free broadband deal ends early: Orange is writing to SAT customers who signed up for its free broadband offer to tell SAT them that the deal is ending unless they pay for an Orange SAT landline. Money Box asks when a company is within its rights SAT to change the terms of a contract part way through a deal. SAT Many customers insist they were promised free broadband for SAT life by Orange shop assistants - what can they do? Paul SAT Lewis speaks to Guy Anker from moneysavingexpert.com and SAT compliance expert Adam Samuel. SAT SAT Buyer beware: When Money Box listener Julia wanted a new TV, SAT the best deal was on a website. The firm wouldn't take SAT plastic so she transferred the money direct from her Lloyds SAT account to the firm's account at the same bank. After making SAT the payment she got suspicious, and it turned out, the firm SAT had disappeared. But Lloyds would not refund her money. Paul SAT Lewis hears how paying by bank transfer is the least secure SAT way to shop online. Sarah Pennells of savvywoman.co.uk SAT outlines the best ways to pay for goods online; and Mike SAT Andrews from the new Trading Standards national e-crime hub SAT advises on how to avoid some of the most common examples of SAT online shopping fraud. SAT SAT Insurance auto-renewal: Last week's item on insurance SAT policies which roll over from year-to-year has caused a big SAT response from listeners. One firm now admits that you cannot SAT opt out of auto-renewal at the start of the contract. SAT Instead you have to wait until a few weeks before the cover SAT ends and then opt out. We find out how best to overcome the SAT insurers' desire to hang on to you. SAT SAT Investing for income: The FTSE 100 index is stuck in the SAT doldrums but there are many shares that produce a good SAT income. If you have money to invest is it worth going for SAT dividends? Paul Lewis debates the topic live with Jane SAT Sydenham of Rathbones and Justin Hollands of Bestinvest. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01nq4pp (Listen) SAT Series 38, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in stand-up and SAT sketches with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and SAT special guests Andi Osho, and Tina C. Produced by Victoria SAT Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01nq3wk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01nq3wm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01nq50d (Listen) SAT The National Railway Museum, Shildon, County Durham SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion and SAT debate programme from the National Railway Museum at Shildon SAT in Co Durham. Guests include John Redwood MP, Lord Steel the SAT former leader of the Liberal Party, Commentator Charlie Wolf SAT and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves MP. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01nsygz (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxvj (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Series, The Man on the Balcony SAT SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT translated by Alan Blair SAT Dramatised by Katie Hims SAT SAT Someone is assaulting and killing young girls in the parks SAT of Stockholm. With only a brutal mugger and a three year-old SAT boy for witnesses, the investigation is stalling. It's only SAT a tiny detail surfacing in Beck's mind that puts the murder SAT squad on the trail of the killer, but will they get him SAT before he strikes again? SAT The Martin Beck Series, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. 3/10. SAT The Man on the Balcony: Someone is assaulting and killing SAT young girls in the parks of Stockholm. Beck investigates SAT SAT Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Gunvald Larsson: Ralph Ineson SAT Frederik Melander: Adrian Scarborough SAT Karin Carlsson: Beth Goddard SAT Lena Oskarsson: Katie Angelou SAT Ingrid Oskarsson: Susie Riddell SAT Bo Oskarsson: Greta Dudgeon SAT Mrs Andersson: Christine Absalom SAT Wilheim Engstrom: Patrick Brennan SAT Officer Kvant: Sam Alexander SAT Doctor: Sam Alexander SAT Officer Kristiansson: Don Gilet SAT Ingemund Fransson: Robert Blythe SAT Lundgren: Joe Sims SAT Kvist: Harry Livingstone SAT Lisbeth: Amaka Okafor SAT Girl: Kellie Shirley SAT Narrator 1: Lesley Sharpe SAT Narrator 2: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Writer: Katie Hims SAT SAT 15:30 Swansong b01npjxh (Listen) SAT Big Country's Driving to Damascus SAT SAT Stuart Maconie presents Swansong Ep 3 this week looking at SAT Big Country's 1999 album Driving To Damascus. SAT SAT Big Country were one of the most successful acts of the SAT 1980's - with a dual guitar sound that's been likened to SAT Thin Lizzy in Kilts- their epic Celtic anthems ontracks like SAT 'Fields of Fire' and 'In A Big Country' sold millions both SAT in the UK and the States. Singer and guitarist Stuart SAT Adamson had previously tasted the limelight with his SAT post-punk outfit The Skids - but it was the mainstream SAT success of Big Country with their uniquely Scottish sound SAT and lyrics emphasizing the plight of the working man that SAT heralded their worldwide fame and to Adamson brought its SAT associated troubles. SAT SAT In summer 1999 the band entered Rockfield Studios in SAT Monmouth to record Driving To Damascus - it would be their SAT last full album with Adamson. Swansong Ep 3 features honest SAT and revealing interviews with guitarist, Bruce Watson, SAT drummer Mark Brzezicki, album's producer Rafe Mckenna, Eddi SAT Reader and Stuart's daughter Kirsten Adamson who then aged SAT 14 sang backing vocals on the album. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01nsyxd (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 b01nsyxg (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01nq7dq (Listen) SAT Financial Services SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan and his guests discuss financial services. They have SAT the power to enrich an economy - or to ruin it completely. SAT But what kind of makeover do they need to get them fit for SAT the 21st century? Should the industry be more innovative and SAT clever - or just a bit more old-fashioned and simple? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are former fund manager David SAT Pitt-Watson; Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen SAT Asset Management; Richard Ward, chief executive of insurance SAT market Lloyd's of London. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Carter SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nq3wr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01nq3wt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nq3ww (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01nsyxj (Listen) SAT Sir Michael Parkinson, Brian Sewell, Mitch Albom, Susan SAT Calman, Resonators and Punch Brothers SAT SAT Clive chats to broadcaster, journalist and doyen of British SAT talkshow hosts, Sir Michael Parkinson, who returns to our TV SAT screens doing what he does best. He's grilled everyone; from SAT Fred Astaire to Madonna and in 'Parkinson: Masterclass', Sir SAT Michael conducts interviews with an array of superstar SAT guests from the artistic spectrum. The series begins on SAT Tuesday 13th November at 21.00 on Sky Arts. SAT SAT Clive gets some perspective with art critic Brian Sewell, SAT who talks about the second instalment of his scandalous and SAT haunting memoir 'Outsider II - Always Almost: Never Quite'. SAT The final chapter charts his path to becoming, as The SAT Spectator noted, 'Surely the funniest art critic of our SAT time'. SAT SAT Jo Bunting gets the giggles with former lawyer and now SAT award-winning comedian Susan Calman. She now shoots from the SAT hip in her personal and political show 'This Lady's Not for SAT Turning Either' which chronicles how she met and wed the SAT love of her life in a civil ceremony. Susan's at London's SAT Soho Theatre from Tuesday 13th to Saturday 24th November. SAT SAT Clive's just in time to talk to international bestselling SAT author, journalist and broadcaster Mitch Albom. His book SAT 'Tuesday's with Morrie' recounts the life-changing time he SAT spent with his 78-year-old sociology professor, Morrie SAT Schwartz and is one of the top selling memoirs of all time. SAT Mitch's new novel 'The Time Keeper' sees the inventor of the SAT world's first clock punished for trying to measure time. SAT SAT We're skanking with nine-piece dub reggae band Resonators SAT who play 'Try Again' from their new album 'The Constant' . SAT SAT And some Musical Youth from progressive bluegrass band Punch SAT Brothers, who perform 'Movement and Location' from their SAT acclaimed album 'Who's Feeling Young Now?' SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01nsyxl (Listen) SAT Mark Coles profiles the controversial Conservative MP Nadine SAT Dorries, who has been suspended from her party for taking SAT part in the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of SAT Here". SAT SAT Dorries - a self-proclaimed council estate Scouser not SAT afraid of speaking her mind - left school with few SAT qualifications but went on to become a hospital nurse before SAT setting up a successful company providing childcare services SAT to working parents. Then she astonished her mother by SAT entering politics. SAT SAT In the House of Commons Dorries has clashed with the SAT Opposition and many within her own party over the issues of SAT abortion and sex education. She has sparred with David SAT Cameron, who she regards as a "posh boy", and been SAT criticised - even by those who like her - of being too SAT outspoken. SAT SAT According to Ian Birrell, a former Cameron speechwriter, the SAT celebrity jungle will make or break Dorries. SAT SAT "She'll either do very very well at getting across the fact SAT she is unusual for a politician," he says, "or she will rub SAT everyone up the wrong way and be ejected within about 20 SAT seconds. She will be a great success or a great failure - SAT which I think is possibly the story of Nadine.". SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01nsyxn (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests - the novelist Tracy Chevalier, SAT critic Sarfraz Manzoor and director of the Serpentine SAT Gallery Julia Peton Jones - discuss the cultural highlights SAT of the week, including Alan Bennett's new play "People" SAT starring Frances de la Tour and Linda Bassett which opens at SAT the National Theatre this week. The play explores the theme SAT of heritage Britain and the price we put on privacy - SAT through the prism of analysing available options for elderly SAT sisters occupying a grand stately home in an advanced state SAT of decay. SAT SAT Ben Affleck directs and stars in Argo, a feature film which SAT manages to be both political thriller and hilarious satire SAT on the movie business itself. It's based on a real story in SAT which the CIA funds a fake science fiction movie in order to SAT rescue six fugitive Americans holed up in the Canadian SAT Ambassador's house as the Iranian revolution reaches boiling SAT point in November 1979. Can a fake bad film make a real good SAT one? SAT SAT The Taj Mahal is one of the Wonders of the World - but how SAT much do we know about the culture that created it? Mughal SAT India, Art Culture and Empire at the British Library is the SAT first exhibition to document the entire historical period of SAT the Mughals - one of the greatest dynasties of world history SAT - from the 16th to the 19th century, through more than 200 SAT exquisite manuscripts and the finest paintings drawn almost SAT exclusively from the British Library's extensive heritage SAT collection. At its peak the empire encompassed India, SAT Parkistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. SAT SAT Michael Winterbottom has made 17 films in 15 years - his SAT latest, Everyday, was made for Channel 4 and shot over a SAT period of five years. Starring Shirley Henderson and John SAT Simm, with four children from the same North Norfolk family SAT - it's shot in their home and at their school - the film SAT explores the effect a long term prison sentence has on the SAT wife and children of the offender. SAT SAT The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez won SAT Spain's top literary prize 2011 - the Alfaguara is also one SAT of the richest prizes in the world, with prize money at over SAT £100,000. The author was born in 1973 and says that the SAT relationship his country has with the drug trade has shaped SAT his life. The book is set in the 1990s when the war between SAT drug baron Pablo Escobar and the government who were trying SAT to stop his illegal activities was at its height. SAT SAT Producer: Hilary Dunn. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01nsyxq (Listen) SAT Who's Reithian Now? SAT SAT As the BBC approaches its 90th birthday, arch scrutiniser SAT and listeners' champion Roger Bolton examines the genesis of SAT Reithian values and finds out how well Lord Reith - the SAT first Director General of the BBC - lived up to his own SAT exacting standards. SAT SAT Memos and diary entries reveal Reith's spotless fingerprint SAT on daily transmissions. "Hot jazz" was a "filthy product of SAT modernity" and announcers should be "indirect and SAT impersonal". SAT SAT In conversation with Malcolm Muggeridge, Reith recalls how SAT he stopped the BBC being taken over by the Government during SAT the General Strike - a stand-off which caused a life-long SAT rift with Churchill. SAT SAT Former BBC Director General Greg Dyke says Reith set a SAT precedent in establishing the Corporation's relationship SAT with the Government and he talks about his own political SAT conflicts. Ex-BBC radio controller and Reith biographer Ian SAT McIntyre points out how Reith's public distain for divorce SAT and immorality contrasted with his own confused lovelife. SAT Reith's daughter Marista Leishman - who wrote a frank SAT biography of him - tells Bolton that her father's affairs SAT were just his way of making himself the centre of attention. SAT SAT Former Daily Telegraph editor Max Hastings says the role of SAT the director general has strayed too far from its editorial SAT origins. And BBC historian Jean Seaton assesses the impact SAT and relevance of Reithian values in the 21st century. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Pirie SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 'What I was capable of compared with what I've achieved is SAT pitiable' SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01npb18 (Listen) SAT The Gothic Imagination, Frankenstein: Part 2 SAT SAT The second part of a new production of Mary Shelley's SAT heart-breaking modern myth of obsession, pride and the need SAT for love. In attempting to find some peace from his SAT troubles, Frankenstein has gone walking in the mountains, SAT where he is about to come face to face with what he most SAT hates and fears. SAT SAT Dramatised by Lucy Catherine. SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Frankenstein: Jamie Parker SAT The Monster: Shaun Dooley SAT Elizabeth: Susie Riddell SAT Walton: Alun Raglan SAT Father: Robert Blythe SAT Clerval: Sam Alexander SAT Old Man: Bruce Alexander SAT Agatha: Emma Hook SAT Felix: Joe Sims SAT Lieutenant: Don Gilet SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Writer: Lucy Catherine SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01nq3wy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01nq3tf (Listen) SAT The USA has once again emerged from its presidential SAT electoral bout of soul searching. Candidates for the White SAT House don't just have to have a plan for jobs and the SAT economy, they have to have an inspiring vision and purpose SAT for the nation. The grandiloquent rhetoric that candidates SAT employ when they're setting out this message my sound SAT strange on this side of the Atlantic, but it's no accident SAT that presidents as poles apart as John F Kennedy and Ronald SAT Reagan describe their country as a "shining city upon a SAT hill". It's taken from Matthew's Gospel and Jesus' Sermon on SAT the Mount where He tells His listeners that they are "the SAT light to the world." From the founding Pilgrim Fathers to SAT presidents today there's always been a strong sense in SAT American politics that it is different from other countries; SAT that its founding Enlightenment principles of liberty, SAT equality and individual freedom not only make America SAT exceptional, but also embody the nation with a duty of moral SAT leadership to the rest of the world. The USA is still the SAT richest and most powerful country in the world, but what SAT about its moral capital? There are those who'd argue that SAT America, especially in its foreign policy, has forfeited any SAT claims to moral superiority. Or is this an example of a SAT strong streak of anti-Americanism in the West that's driven SAT by jealousy, prejudice and moral relativism? Many countries SAT around the world and throughout history, including Great SAT Britain, have seen themselves as exceptional with a unique SAT gift to give to the world. Are nations that believe they are SAT "chosen" and their unique status is the moral justification SAT of their actions always going to be a threat to others? Is SAT America guilty of religious nationalism, or do we need the SAT most powerful country in the world to stand up for Western SAT values? Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired SAT by Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Kenan Malik, Matthew SAT Taylor and Claire Fox. Witnesses: Mehdi Hasan - political SAT director Huffington Post and writer for New Statesman, SAT Francis Beckett - Writer and historian, Charlie Wolf - SAT Broadcaster, former Communications Director of Republicans SAT Abroad UK, Daniel Hannon - Author "Anglosphere" and MEP for SAT South East England. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nphnx (Listen) SAT (10/12) SAT Why could you be forgiven for thinking a Labour Prime SAT Minister, a Daphne du Maurier novel and a Fred Astaire film SAT had caused a surprising amount of fuss? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe puts this and many other cryptic teasers to SAT the regular panellists from the South of England and the SAT North of England, in the latest contest of the mind-bending SAT quiz. As always, he'll be available to provide just the SAT right amount of help when the teams seem to be struggling - SAT but the more help he has to give them, the fewer points SAT they'll win. SAT SAT Marcus Berkmann and Marcel Berlins play for the South of SAT England, and Jim Coulson and Adele Geras for the North. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b01npb1d (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT SAT Ruth Padel and the The Dove Cottage Poets in Grasmere work SAT on some poems in progress. Tough love for poems. SAT SAT Poetry Workshops are gathering all over the country. In the SAT back rooms of pubs, in libraries and in front rooms, poets SAT meet to hone their craft and sharpen their verse. Ruth Padel SAT begins a new series of programmes by working with The Dove SAT Cottage Poets in Grasmere. SAT Going behind the scenes of the poems, the group are ruthless SAT yet supportive as they chuck out words and redraft; SAT listening, pruning and testing their work as they go. The SAT theme for this week's poems is fathers, apt of course for SAT the home-place of Wordsworth, the father of English SAT romanticism. SAT The group discuss the techniques, inspiration, wordplay and SAT imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and rewarding. As SAT well as working on their own poems, the group bravely try SAT out a writing exercise to warm up their poetry muscles, SAT focussing on line endings by experimenting with a very SAT famous poem by William Carlos Williams. They also consider a SAT poem by a much loved poet associated with the area; Norman SAT Nicholson. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01nsy21 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Casual Cruelty b01nsz74 (Listen) SUN The Villager SUN SUN Series of short stories by the American author Shirley SUN Jackson, who wrote in a style of 'creeping unease' from the SUN 1940s until her death in 1965. SUN SUN Miss Clarence's visit to an apartment in Greenwich Village, SUN New York, gives her an unexpected insight into other SUN people's lives as well as her own. SUN SUN Read by Glenne Headly. SUN SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nsy23 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nsy25 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nsy27 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01nsy29 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01nsz76 (Listen) SUN The bells of Westminster Abbey. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01nsyxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01nsy2c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01nsz78 (Listen) SUN Remembering the Wounded SUN SUN In a special edition for Remembrance Sunday, Mark Tully SUN remembers those wounded in action or taken ill while in the SUN Services. SUN SUN We rightly commemorate those who have died defending our SUN country, but is there a danger that we sometimes forget SUN those who are seriously injured in the armed services and SUN those who devote their lives to caring from them? SUN SUN Mark Tully talks to staff and patients at Headley Court SUN Defence Medical Rehabilitation Unit in Surrey and draws on SUN readings from 20th and 21st century wars in a programme SUN honouring the wounded. He plays music by John Adams, Slim SUN Gaillard and the band of the Royal Army Medical Corps and SUN introduces readings of Wilfred Owen and A.E. Housman. The SUN readers are Toby Jones and Francis Cadder. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01nsz7b (Listen) SUN The Harvestman's Garden SUN SUN In the autumn harvestmen, with their exceptionally long thin SUN legs and small central body, are some of the most visible SUN and numerous invertebrates to be found in our gardens and SUN countryside. For most observers harvestmen are just long SUN legged spiders; however this is not the case. Autumn is the SUN best time of the year to look for harvestmen and so for this SUN Living World Trai Anfield travels to Sheffield where with SUN entomologist Paul Richards she goes on a harvestman safari SUN unravelling the many differences between harvestmen and SUN spiders. SUN SUN One of the joys of studying harvestmen is that most of the SUN 27 species can be seen in and around people gardens and to SUN illustrate this Paul leads the way into his suburban garden SUN to explore. As they rummage amongst his garden borders Paul SUN explains that harvestmen are more closely related to SUN scorpions than to spiders and that their scientific name SUN Opiliones is Latin for "shepherd" referring to the ancient SUN use of stilts by shepherds to watch over their flocks. SUN Harvestmen do not spin webs, and although they do feed on SUN other invertebrates, unlike spiders they will eat berries SUN and fruits. SUN SUN After a thorough search of his garden, Paul reveals that SUN although there are 27 recognised British species of SUN harvestman, earlier that week he found what is believed to SUN be a newly discovered harvestman in Britain; so newly SUN discovered that this species 28 doesn't even have a name SUN yet. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01nsy2f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01nsy2h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01nszcb (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01nszcd (Listen) SUN Bowel Cancer UK SUN SUN Charlene White presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Bowel Cancer SUN UK SUN Reg Charity:1071038 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Bowel Cancer UK. SUN SUN The place where you can find out more about the charities SUN you support and ask them how they are spending your SUN donations. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01nsy2k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01nsy2m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01nszcg (Listen) SUN A service for Remembrance Sunday live from Brecon Cathedral SUN in Powys, Mid Wales, led by the Dean, the Very Reverend SUN Geoffrey Osborne Marshall. The Cathedral Choir is directed SUN by Mark Duthie and the organist is Paul Hayward. Producer: SUN Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01nq50g (Listen) SUN Rich man, poor man SUN SUN Mary Beard on the long history of the rich looking down SUN their noses - sometimes with a hearty Roman snort - at the SUN poor. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 News and Papers b01nszsr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 09:15 The Archers Omnibus b01nszst (Listen) SUN Writer.....Tim Stimpson SUN Director....Kim Greengrass SUN Editor.....Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer..... Patricia Greene 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 Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN William Grundy..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler SUN Robert Snell..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur. SUN SUN 10:30 Ceremony of Remembrance from the Cenotaph b01nszsw (Listen) SUN Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London's Whitehall for SUN the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifice SUN made by so many in the two World Wars and in other more SUN recent conflicts. The traditional music of remembrance is SUN played by the massed bands and, after the Last Post and Two SUN Minutes Silence, Her Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath SUN on behalf of nation and commonwealth. The Bishop of London SUN leads a short Service of Remembrance; then, during the March SUN Past, both veterans and those involved in present conflicts SUN throughout the world share their thoughts. SUN SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 11:45 The Art of Remembrance b01nszsy (Listen) SUN The work of war poets such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred SUN Owen is well known, as is music such as Vaughan Williams' SUN Pastoral Symphony, but artists responded in many more ways SUN to the fallen of the Great War. Mark Whitaker looks at some SUN particularly striking and lesser known examples of these SUN responses, assisted throughout by the leading expert on SUN Remembrance, Professor Jay Winter. Recorded largely on SUN location in the UK, France, Belgium and Germany, Whitaker SUN records his impressions of works by a painter, an architect, SUN a film-maker, a sculptor and a poet. SUN SUN In France he sees the extraordinary Thiepval Memorial on the SUN Somme, created by Edwin Lutyens to commemorate the 70,000 SUN British and Empire soldiers who died in the area and have no SUN known grave. In Belgium he visits the sculpture Grieving SUN Parents by Käthe Kollwitz, depicting her and her husband SUN kneeling despairingly in front of their son Peter's grave, SUN symbolising the loss felt by a generation of German parents. SUN In Germany, he discovers the paintings of Otto Dix, in SUN particular The Match Seller showing the fate of a severely SUN disabled veteran scraping a living on the street, ignored by SUN the affluent passers-by. SUN SUN The film J'Accuse shows a great film-maker's response in the SUN extraordinary scene where the war dead rise from their SUN graves and march on a nearby town to confront the villagers SUN whose behaviour is unworthy of their sacrifice. SUN SUN Finally Whitaker looks at the controversial French SUN non-combatant Maurice Barres who wrote romantically of dead SUN soldiers rising up in the trenches to help their besieged SUN comrades, bringing a stinging rebuke from combat veteran and SUN poet Marc de Larreguy de Civrieux for this rosy view of SUN trench warfare. SUN SUN Producer: Mike Hally SUN A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01npjp9 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Pascoe, Abrahams, Aldrin SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity is hosted by the Professor of SUN 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) and the comedian Jimmy Carr. 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 comedian Sara SUN Pascoe, Ig Nobels founder Marc Abrahams and Astronaut Dr SUN Buzz Aldrin. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01nszt0 (Listen) SUN Street food heroes SUN SUN From Moroccan food to traditional British puddings. SUN Valentine Warner and Charles Campion taste their way through SUN the BBC Food & Farming Awards "Best Takeaway" food category. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01nsy2p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01nszt2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news presented by SUN James Robbins, including an in-depth look at events around SUN the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invention of Spain b01ns477 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN On February 15 1898, an American warship blew up suddenly SUN and sank. The USS Maine had been moored in Havana harbour, SUN sent by President McKinley from Key West to protect American SUN interests in Cuba. It's still unclear if Spanish colonial SUN forces were in anyway responsible for the sinking of the USS SUN Maine. What we know for certain is that the brief, bloody SUN war that followed completely changed the world. SUN SUN In the third and final programme of The Invention of Spain, SUN Misha Glenny charts imperial decline, from the early SUN independence of Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, up to the SUN 1898 war that saw Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines all SUN break free. With contributions from Cayetana Alvarez de SUN Toledo, Sir John Elliott, and Samuel Moncada, historian and SUN Venezuelan ambassador to London. "The point is why do they SUN (the colonies) follow Spain so long ? That is the miracle, SUN not independence." SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nq3h7 (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN This week the team is in the GQT potting shed in Sparsholt SUN to tackle listeners' questions as Eric Robson hosts a SUN postbag edition of Gardeners' Question Time, with Matthew SUN Wilson, Christine Walkden and Anne Swithinbank on the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Robert Abel SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01nt013 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents a Sunday Edition dedicated to Listener SUN Uploads, with conversations between family members about SUN love, marriage, death, travelling to Nepal and eating SUN spaghetti bolognese for breakfast in an Oxford coffee shop. SUN The Radio 4 series proves once more that it's surprising SUN what you hear when you listen SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01nt015 (Listen) SUN Rebus: The Black Book, Episode 1 SUN SUN 1/2. Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector John Rebus, SUN investigates an unsolved murder with the help of a notebook SUN full of coded clues. SUN SUN Dramatised in two parts by Chris Dolan. SUN SUN When DS Brian Holmes is left in a coma after being severely SUN beaten, Rebus discovers his colleague's black notebook SUN contains coded clues on a case involving arson and murder. SUN Five years before, a mysterious fire burned down Edinburgh's SUN seedy Central Hotel. All the staff and customers were SUN accounted for but an unidentified body was found in the SUN rubble. The post mortem revealed the victim had died from a SUN bullet through the heart before the fire broke out. SUN SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young. SUN SUN Credits SUN DI John Rebus: Ron Donachie SUN DC Siobhan Clarke: Gayanne Potter SUN Mickey Rebus: Steven McNicoll SUN DS Brian Holmes: Sean Biggerstaff SUN CS Watson: Douglas Russell SUN Ringan: Douglas Russell SUN Torrance: Paul Young SUN Vanderhyde: Paul Young SUN Kintoul: Simon Donaldson SUN Calder: Simon Donaldson SUN Angus Gibson: Richard Conlon SUN Nell: Shauna MacDonald SUN Marie: Shauna MacDonald SUN Auntie Ena: Anne Downie SUN Director: Bruce Young SUN Producer: Bruce Young SUN Writer: Ian Rankin SUN Writer: Chris Dolan SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01nt07h (Listen) SUN Jeremy Bowen discusses the Arab Spring SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Jeremy Bowen about his book on SUN the Arab Spring, we discuss how writers have responded to SUN the uprisings in the Middle East, and the travel writer SUN Michael Jacobs describes his journey down the Magdalena SUN River in Columbia and his meeting with Gabriel Garcia SUN Marquez. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime – SUN Jeremy Bowen SUN Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd SUN SUN The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia – SUN Michael Jacobs SUN Publisher: Granta Books SUN SUN One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN Arabic writing SUN SUN Secrets and Lies – Ghalia Kabbani SUN Publisher: published in Arabic in Beirut SUN SUN In the Country of Men – Hisham Matar SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN The Yacoubian Building & Chicago – Alaa Al Aswany SUN Publisher: Harper Perennial SUN SUN Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy 1 (The Cairo Trilogy) – Naguib SUN Mahfouz SUN Publisher: Black Swan SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b01nt07k (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN SUN Ruth Padel meets poets from East Suffolk to work on some SUN poems in progress. Testing and revising as they go, in a SUN spirit of supportive criticism. Tough love for poems. SUN Poetry Workshops are gathering all over the country. In the SUN back rooms of pubs, in libraries and in front rooms, poets SUN meet to hone their craft and sharpen their verse. SUN Ruth and the group work on three very different poems on the SUN theme of 'darkness' - poems that evoke mystery, longing and SUN sadness. In the process they consider the pros and cons of SUN abstractions and the effective use of titles in a poem. The SUN group are ruthless yet supportive as they chuck out words SUN and redraft; listening, pruning and testing their work as SUN they go. SUN The group discuss the techniques, inspiration, wordplay and SUN imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and rewarding. As SUN well as working on their own poems, the group consider a SUN poem by Lavinia Greenlaw called 'Night Photograph.' SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01nq1cg (Listen) SUN Second-Class Patients? SUN SUN Britain has 1.5 million people with learning difficulties, SUN and the number is growing. Campaigners say the health SUN service is struggling to cope: the number of specialist SUN nurses is falling, and though extra support is supposed to SUN be available for this vulnerable group, hospitals and other SUN health facilities often struggle even to identify them. SUN SUN Families say their relatives have been left to die in pain - SUN and in some cases people who were not dying have had 'do not SUN resuscitate' orders placed on their notes without being SUN told. The learning disabled are more likely to be ill, more SUN likely to be obese or underweight and more likely to die SUN prematurely. And with health service cuts starting to bite, SUN are things set to get worse? Fran Abrams reports. SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01nsyxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nsy2r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01nsy2t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nsy2w (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01nt07m (Listen) SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01nt07p (Listen) SUN Romance is in the air. Meanwhile Lilian is making excuses. SUN SUN 19:15 The Golden Age b01nt07r (Listen) SUN Interesting Talks SUN SUN The Golden Age is the first radio sitcom from Father Ted SUN writer, Arthur Mathews. Set in the BBC's Broadcasting House SUN during the 1930s, the series follows head of programmes, SUN John Tharb (Robert Bathurst) and his assistant, Mabel SUN Hopcraft (Vicky McClure) as they struggle to deal with the SUN foibles and fragile egos of radio's biggest stars, including SUN the perpetually drunk band-leader, Ronaldo and the most SUN boring man in radio, Mallard Tofts. Tharb's task is not made SUN any easier by having to constantly defer to the whims and SUN wishes of his irascible boss, Lord Reith (Ford Kiernan). SUN SUN In this opening episode, a series of mysterious deaths SUN brings the police to the BBC....what could be causing people SUN to die in front of their wireless sets? Meanwhile, Mabel SUN tries to introduce some modern entertainment to the BBC from SUN "up north". SUN SUN Robert Bathurst.....John Tharb SUN Vicky McClure.....Mabel Hopcraft SUN Ford Kiernan.....Lord Reith SUN Peter Egan.....Inspector Cawls SUN Malcolm Tierney.....Captain Mallard Tofts SUN Kevin Bishop.....Chip Gibney SUN Ewan Bailey.....Ronaldo / Dickie Squires SUN SUN Written by Arthur Mathews. Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SUN SUN 19:45 Dear Life b01nt07t (Listen) SUN To Reach Japan 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 shine 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 everyday lives resonate long after the final SUN page is turned. SUN SUN Today in To Reach Japan, a young poet sets out across a SUN continent and finds more than she imagined. SUN SUN The reader is Laurel Lefkow SUN The abridger is Sally Marmion SUN The producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01nq3lx (Listen) SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN Can the future of radio really be digital when only 5% of SUN the UK's 34 million vehicles have digital car radios? SUN Earlier this week the Drive 2 Digital conference aimed to SUN spread D-Love about digital on the move, but Feedback SUN listeners still have questions. Roger invites one listener SUN to join Tim Davie, the BBC's Director of Audio and Music, SUN and Ford of Britain's Steve Humbles to find out more about SUN DAB coverage at home and on the move. SUN SUN And Feedback's postbag has been brimming over with messages SUN of alarm after BBC East announced it would be axing its SUN popular The Naked Scientists programme from January. "Vital SUN for public understanding of science", "making listeners more SUN science literate", were just some of the things said about SUN the programme. But does it fulfil the BBC's remit for local SUN radio? Mick Rawsthorne, Head of Local and Regional SUN Programming for BBC East, doesn't think so. SUN SUN Finally, where would the BBC be without its listeners? Well SUN it would certainly have some bigger gaps in its archive. No SUN 'Music While You Work' or John Peel's early 'Top Gear' Radio SUN 1 shows. That is, at least, until the Listeners' Archive was SUN launched to mark the Corporation's 90th birthday. Since SUN then, home-grown recordings have been sent into the BBC to SUN help plug the gaps. We meet the team sifting through the SUN gems. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN "They broadcast the pips at slightly different times" SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01nq3lv (Listen) SUN Clive Dunn, Elliott Carter, Lord Lofthouse, Han Suyin, Brian SUN Cobby SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The actor Clive Dunn - best known as Corporal Jones in Dad's SUN Army. We have tributes from fellow cast member and the show SUN writer Jimmy Perry. SUN SUN Also the American composer Elliott Carter - Sir John SUN Taverner tells us he was one of the greats of the twentieth SUN century. SUN SUN Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract - the former miner who became a SUN Labour MP and then deputy speaker of the House of Commons. SUN SUN Han Suyin, the Chinese-born author best known for her SUN romantic novel "A Many Splendoured Thing" SUN SUN And the voice of the speaking clock, Brian Cobby. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01nsygx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01nszcd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01npjpk (Listen) SUN Left Turn to Catholic Social Teaching? SUN SUN Catholic Social Teaching embodies a tradition of thought SUN which goes back to Aristotle; yet its proponents say that it SUN offers the sharpest critique of rampant capitalism in our SUN present time. Charting a course through the dichotomies of SUN capital versus labour, the free market versus welfare state, SUN public versus private, its aim is to redraw the social and SUN political landscape and put human dignity and virtue back at SUN the centre. Matthew Taylor, former policy advisor to New SUN Labour, ponders the tradition and asks what it might offer SUN to post credit crunch polities which are looking for ways to SUN regenerate. SUN SUN There is no doubt that it has captured the policy zeitgeist. SUN A whole programme of public lectures, seminars and events SUN is rolling out to feed the demand for more information. SUN Business people, academics and players from both Left and SUN Right are attending, looking for an ethical alternative for SUN our time. SUN SUN So exactly what do its core principles, which include ideas SUN like 'solidarity', 'subsidiarity', and the 'common good', SUN offer practising Labour party politicians which they cannot SUN find elsewhere? Jon Cruddas, currently responsible for the SUN Labour Party's policy review, and Labour Peer Maurice SUN Glasman, say they find Catholic Social Teaching SUN 'inspirational'. On the Right, free marketers like SUN Professor Philip Booth of the IEA, also point to its SUN prescience. Is this more than a political fad? And will SUN political enthusiasts for Catholic Social Teaching SUN inevitably be forced to engage with issues such as abortion SUN and euthanasia? SUN SUN Presenter: Matthew Taylor SUN Producer: Sue Davies SUN Editor: Nicola Meyrick. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01nt07w (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 b01nt07y (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01nq7db (Listen) SUN Ben Affleck on directing and starring in his Iranian hostage SUN thriller, Argo. SUN SUN Director Sally El Hossaini on her award-winning debut, My SUN Brother The Devil, set in the crime-ridden estates of SUN Hackney. SUN SUN And director Paul Thomas Anderson talks about The Master, SUN his enigmatic film that's generating so much debate. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01nsz78 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01nsy3t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01nq3t3 (Listen) MON Couchsurfing - Trauma Advocacy MON MON Ever in need of a new way to travel? 'Couchsurfing', in the MON form of online social networking, allows users to travel MON with and stay at the homes of fellow users. It's just one MON example of how the internet aids face to face intimacy - MON sometimes amongst strangers. Paula Bialski talks to Laurie MON Taylor about her book 'Becoming Intimately Mobile' . Based MON on five years of ethnographic research amongst coach surfers MON and online hitchhiking website users, it documents new forms MON of human hospitality and connection. Also, trauma advocates MON in Croatia. Vanessa Pupavac and Ben Shephard reflect on the MON growth of compensation schemes for victims of civil war. MON MON Producer:Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01nsz76 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nsy3w (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nsy3y (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nsy40 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01nsy42 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nt1qr (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Chris Bennett of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01nt1qt (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 b01nsy44 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01nt1qw (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01nt1qy (Listen) MON Award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the award-winning MON director Kevin Macdonald whose films often focus on real MON events or people, from Touching the Void, to Marley. The MON filmmaker Roger Graef discusses the ethical issues in MON documenting real life. And the Indian writer Aman Sethi MON explores the margins of society with his study of the world MON of itinerant labourers in a Delhi market. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01nt1z0 (Listen) MON Former People, Episode 1 MON MON From the last days of the monarchy to the Red Terror of the MON Bolshevik Revolution and then Stalin's 'Operation Former MON People', the hundreds of thousands of families who formed MON the Russian nobility were subjected to a series of MON bloodthirsty purges. MON MON This disparate group of people ranged from the entrenched MON monarchists of the old tsarist regime to the impoverished MON rural nobility who struggled to make a living out of their MON lands. MON MON Some of these nobles were in favour of change and supported MON the revolution but very few families escaped without at MON least one member experiencing imprisonment, exile, forced MON labour or execution. Palaces were looted and estates burned MON as the enemies of the new Soviet state were made to pay over MON and over for their centuries of glittering privilege. MON MON Drawing on meticulous research including letters and diaries MON from the period Douglas Smith brings to life the tiny human MON details of this extraordinary and tumultuous time. MON MON Episode 1 of 5: MON In the late 19th century, Russia was still very much a MON peasant and a feudal society ruled over by the decrees of MON one man. But this was a country racing towards MON industrialisation and the people's clamour for change could MON not be ignored. MON MON Read by Robert Powell MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nt1z2 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nt1z4 (Listen) MON Children in Need: Jess's Story, Episode 1 MON MON Nell Leyshon created her drama Jess' Story for Children in MON Need with young people facing mental health challenges who MON attend a School which has special facilities and staff . MON MON Part One Jess lives by the sea with her mother , but when MON her dedication to getting good exam results tips over into MON an overwhelming obsession, Juliet decides her daughter needs MON more help than she can provide. MON MON Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. MON MON Credits MON Jess: Shannon Tarbet MON Juliet: Ruth Alexander Rubin MON Janine: Becky Hindley MON David: David Seddon MON Sofia: Olwen May MON Maddie: Holly Jay Bowes MON Director: Susan Roberts MON Writer: Nell Leyshon MON MON 11:00 The Naughty Pictures Committees b01nt3xk (Listen) MON It's 100 years since the British Board of Film Censors was MON set up, yet few people know that it has always been local MON authorities that had - and still have - the final say over MON what films are shown in their areas. And from the late MON Forties through to the Seventies, many councils such as MON Manchester and London used these powers to push back the MON boundaries of what was considered acceptable to public MON 'taste and decency'. They passed many films the BBFC had MON banned, causing the Board to slowly relax its views on MON nudity and sex in particular. Other councils, like Sale in MON Cheshire, tried desperately to hold back the tide of X-rated MON films, insisting they could not be shown in their town MON without the express permission of the council - which was MON often denied. MON MON Laurie Taylor explores this peculiarly British system of MON film censorship, where the local councils have the power - MON "people power" some say - while the national Board has most MON of the expertise but no legal powers and its certificates MON are only guidance. MON MON He starts his journey in the "birthplace of British Cinema", MON the Regent Street cinema in London, now being refurbished, MON and along the way he looks at such classics as The Birth of MON A Baby, the naturist Garden of Eden, the gory Joker Is Wild, MON the notorious Ulysses, and more. MON MON Finally Laurie looks at how the BBFC has, over recent MON decades, got much more involved with audiences and so almost MON eliminated the conflict with local councils that at one time MON threatened its very existence. MON MON Producer: Mike Hally MON A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 55 and Over b01nt3xm (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's MON romantic comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes MON made by the modern 50pluser. This week Ray and Jane's MON marriage is rocked by some very bad singing and late-life MON crisis's take hold. MON MON Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson MON Ray ..... Philip Jackson MON Tony ..... Patrick Brennan MON Heather ..... Liza Sadovy MON Honey ..... Stephanie Racine MON Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis MON MON Producer/Director ..... Helen Perry MON MON Peter Souter is multi-award winning writer. His Radio 4 MON Afternoon Play, Goldfish girl, received both a Sony and a MON Tinniswood award for Best Drama. He also wrote THAT'S Mine, MON This is Yours (picked as Play of the Week podcast), Puddle, MON and Stream River Sea. His ITV comedy series Married, Single, MON Other was internationally broadcast and received much media MON praise. He also wrote Deep & Crisp & Even a short film for MON Sky One starring Timothy Spall and Natascha McElhone. Peter MON has a number of other film and TV projects in development. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01nt3xp (Listen) MON Getting more people on trains, and how to calculate a living MON wage MON MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01nsy46 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01nt3xr (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 In Pursuit of the Ridiculous b01nt3xt (Listen) MON Water Beetle MON MON All naturalists have personal obsessions with particular MON species or activities which may, to non-naturalists, seem MON ridiculous . In this five-part series Matthew Oates, MON naturalist and ecologist with the National Trust, meets the MON people for whom nothing in the natural world is out of MON bounds. His colleague Andy Foster, known in entomological MON circles as "Foz " has spent thirty years in search of a rare MON water-beetle called Agabus brunneus. It lives in MON fast-flowing gravelly streams in just a handful of places in MON Southern England and Foz has only found it twice in three MON decades. MON MON Will it appear on their joint trip to the New Forest and is MON it all worth it anyway? MON MON Presenter: Matthew Oates MON Producer: Brett Westwood MON Editor: Julian Hector. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01nt07p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vy37d (Listen) MON All the Blood in My Veins MON MON A special Radio 4 Afternoon Drama, commissioned with BBC MON Children in Need. Award-winning playwright Katie Hims worked MON with Carers Lewisham, a 'Children in Need'-supported MON project, to create the story of Viola, a fourteen year old MON girl, with responsibilities far beyond her age. The play was MON then recorded with a mix of professional cast and the carers MON themselves. MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Mum: Elaine Lordan MON Viola: Shannon Tarbet MON Paolo: Tyger Drew-Honey MON Elly: Katie Angelou MON Jack: Alfie Browne-Sykes MON Teacher: Jude Akuwudike MON Phil: Lloyd Thomas MON Lauren: Deeivya Meir MON Kelly: Shirena Watt MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer: Katie Hims MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nt3xy (Listen) MON (11/12) MON What tasteful connection might there be between Carmen MON Miranda above the neck, Josephine Baker around the waist, MON and Lady Gaga from head to toe? MON MON Northern Ireland take on the Welsh in the penultimate clash MON of the current series, and this is just one of the puzzles MON they'll be asked to unravel this week. Tom Sutcliffe asks MON the questions and provides the teams with the hints they may MON need to nudge them towards the solutions - but the more MON clues they need, the smaller their scores will be. MON MON Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney play for Northern Ireland, and MON David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander for Wales. Both will be MON hoping to add to their tally of victories across the series, MON to propel them as far as possible up the final table. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01nszt0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat b01nt3y0 (Listen) MON Tim Key spins his own surreal tale of one of Russian MON fiction's greatest short stories, whilst contending with his MON own filthy disgrace of a jacket. With contributions from MON Alexei Sayle and John Motson. MON MON Tim Key - poet, comedian, and crumpled polymath - is MON obsessed with Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat". MON Written in 1842, it's a fable of a simple clerk, Akaky MON Akakievich, whose desire for a new coat to keep the St MON Petersburg winter at bay forever changes his life...and MON ultimately destroys him. MON MON Its author - the enigmatic Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai MON Gogol - is one of Tim's idols. In this deceptively simple MON yet utterly surreal tale, Gogol spins webs around the MON reader, foxing them with an unreliable narrator, blending MON stark realism with the eye-poppingly fantastical, and MON constantly deconstructing and undercutting the story of poor MON Akaky Akakievich with his own running commentary. MON MON More than 150 years on, no-one, it seems, quite knows what MON The Overcoat is really about. Is it a dark satire on the MON powerlessness of the individual and the tyranny of MON totalitarian governments? A fantastical, proto-Dadaist fable MON of devils, toenails and ghostly goings-on? Or a deeply MON realist moral message to be kind to the poorest in our MON society? MON MON Tim's off to find out what - if anything - Gogol's MON mysterious story can tell us...and why The Overcoat feels MON even more relevant in the 21st century. Is this fable the MON seed of alternative comedy? Should more of us pay heed to MON this bizarre morality tale? And above all, isn't it about MON time Tim replaced his own filthy disgrace of a coat? MON MON Fact blends with surreal fantasy, as Tim gets sidetracked, MON Gogol-style, into his own private coat Hades... MON MON Featuring contributions from Russian experts Donald MON Rayfield, Maria Rubins and Konstantin von Eggert - plus East MON End tailor and Master Cutter Clive Phythian, 'father of MON alternative comedy' Alexei Sayle, and football commentator MON and sheepskin coat-wearing icon John Motson. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01nt3y2 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 7 MON MON At the Digital Death Day Aleks meets with Vered Shavit from MON Israel who having dealt with her late brother's digital MON legacy set up a website called Digital Dust to help others MON going through the same experience. MON MON Hearing Vered's story Alek's asks how are we using the web MON to adapt the rituals that we have used for centuries to help MON us transition between the living and the dead? MON MON Aleks discovers that since Vered's brother's death people MON continue to communicate with him through his Facebook MON profile. Dr Elaine Kasket a Counselling Psychologist who MON practices psychotherapy with the bereaved likens Facebook to MON a modern day medium. She also explains how Facebook is MON enabling people to continue bonds with the deceased. MON MON The distinction between our physical selves and mental MON states is a philosophical construction, but it signifies a MON line in the sand between those who believe our bodies make MON us human and those who define humanity by our thoughts and MON social lives. But without a body do we through our presence MON on the web continue to be human? MON MON 17:00 PM b01nt3y4 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nsy48 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01nt3y6 (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 1 MON MON The 58th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote MON to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based MON entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run MON at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable, where regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee as the programme's MON reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect MON inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the MON piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01nt3y8 (Listen) MON Rhys feels surplus to requirements, and Joe shows off his MON new purchase. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01nt3yb (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nt1z4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01nt3yd (Listen) MON The BBC and the Hungarian Holocaust MON MON Mike Thomson investigates the role of the BBC Hungarian MON Service in World War II. MON MON In March 1944 German troops occupied Hungary. In doing so MON they brought the Final Solution to the largest remaining MON Jewish population in Europe. Within months over 400,000 MON people were deported and killed by a now almost perfect mass MON killing machine. MON MON Mike Thomson investigates documents which suggest that the MON BBC was directed not to broadcast crucial information and MON examines claims that it could have saved thousands of lives. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01nt3yg (Listen) MON Green Shoots from the Arab Spring MON MON With the downfall of the former Egyptian president, Hosni MON Mubarak, political change has already happened in Egypt. But MON how has such a revolution affected the mindset of ordinary MON people in the region? MON MON In this edition of Analysis, the writer, Christopher de MON Bellaigue, considers the consequences for Arab society of a MON new culture in which ordinary people openly question those MON in authority - not just in the political sphere but within MON the family and religious realm too. MON MON The programme explores a number of examples: From an MON apparent new determination to resist paying bribes to public MON officials, through a greater desire to see active debate MON rather than passive obedience in the classroom, to the MON growth of salafists - conservative Muslims who advocate a MON return to the core texts of Islam and a less deferential MON attitude towards the traditional scholars. MON MON Though not all these phenomena were unknown before the Arab MON Spring, the political revolution does seem to have fuelled MON their growth: Key to many appears to be the disappearance of MON personal fear - one unmistakable consequence of the demise MON of the Mubarak regime. Today, despite often remaining wary MON of the future, Egyptians are, it seems, fearlessly asserting MON their own views as never before, without seeking external MON validation. MON MON Questions, however, remain: If a new, more assertive MON mentality is indeed emerging, who shares it - and crucially, MON who does not? Would such an increased personal conviction MON necessarily result in more pluralism, as is sometimes MON assumed in the west, or give greater voice to Egypt's innate MON social and religious conservatism? And what are the chances MON that it could survive the country's overwhelming economic MON and political problems? MON MON Producer: Michael Gallagher. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01nq7dd (Listen) MON Climate change alone could wipe out wild Arabica coffee by MON the end of this century, according to new research published MON in the journal PLOS One. Commercially grown Arabica coffee MON is from limited genetic stock and the loss of the wild crop MON could have significant implications for the sustainability MON of high quality coffee. Dr. Aaron Davis, Head of Coffee MON Research at Kew Gardens, who led the study, discusses the MON findings with global crop wild relative expert Dr. Nigel MON Maxted from the University of Birmingham. MON MON A haul of stone blades from a cave in South Africa suggests MON that early humans were already masters of complex technology MON more than 70,000 years ago. The journal Nature reports on MON the new find which suggests that early humans passed on this MON knowledge down the generations. Dr. Curtis Marean, an MON archaeologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, who led MON the team that found the bladelets and Dr. Matthew Pope from MON the University College London argue that this could be the MON earliest evidence of truly modern human behaviour. MON MON Finally why are birds migrating to the UK literally falling MON out of the sky and dying - Graham Madge from the RSPB MON explains more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01nt1qy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01nsy4d (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01nt3yj (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis presented by MON Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nt3yl (Listen) MON The Liars' Gospel, Episode 1 MON MON In her new novel, the award-winning writer Naomi Alderman MON provides a compelling and challenging fictional account of MON life in Roman-occupied Judea. Her novel begins in 63 BC with MON Pompey's Roman army assailing the fortifications of MON Jerusalem, and ends with the bloodshed of the Jewish-Roman MON war in the first century CE. MON MON Within this context of Roman brutality and Jewish MON insurrection, Alderman presents the life and death of a MON charismatic Jewish preacher, Yehoshuah. A year after his MON death, four people tell their stories - his mother, Miryam; MON his former friend and follower Iehuda of Qeriot; the High MON Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem, Caiaphas and the MON rebel, Bar-Avo. MON MON In today's episode, Pompey's army storms the walls of MON Jerusalem. Some seventy years later, a woman from Natzaret MON mourns the death of her charismatic preacher son. MON MON Read by Stephanie Racine and Tracy-Ann Oberman MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Produced by Emma Harding MON MON Author Note: Naomi Alderman grew up in the Orthodox Jewish MON community in north-west London. Her first novel, MON 'Disobedience', was published in ten languages and won the MON Orange Award for New Writers; like her second novel, 'The MON Lessons', it was read on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. In MON 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, MON and one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. In 2009 MON she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01nt3yn (Listen) MON Suzanne Vega (the B-Side) MON MON John Wilson talks to Suzanne Vega about her career defining MON album "Solitude Standing". MON Programme 2 (B-side).Now it's the turn of the audience to MON ask Suzanne the questions. MON MON We hear how the sound of Solitude Standing changed toughened MON from her previous album, as Suzanne decided to bring out the MON drums and give the sound an edge. MON MON Suzanne describes writing the song "Gypsy" for a boy she met MON at summer camp and how the two of them got back in touch MON when he realised the song was about him. MON MON And we hear how Suzanne has written a follow-up song to the MON album's hit song "Luka". MON MON Producer: Emma Kingsley. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nt3yq (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01nsy57 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01nt1z0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nsy59 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nsy5c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nsy5f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01nsy5h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nz9kq (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Chris Bennett of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01nt4br (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01nt4bt (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in TUE Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b01nt4n9 (Listen) TUE Airport Expansion and 19th Century Ports TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland compares the controversy over airport TUE expansion now with the 19th century battle of the sea ports, TUE examining how we should determine where Britain's gateway to TUE the world should be. TUE TUE Bristol had been a major port since the Middle Ages but, TUE with the advent of travel by steam ship, Liverpool steals a TUE march on its West Country competitor. Though engineered in TUE Bristol, Brunel's ground-breaking SS Great Britain steam TUE ship made its maiden voyage from Liverpool. But in the long TUE term, it's Southampton that eventually reigns supreme. TUE TUE As debates continue to rage over a third runway at Heathrow, TUE the proposed 'Boris Island' airport and other options, TUE Jonathan asks what we can learn from the Victorian approach. TUE TUE Jonathan and guests visit the SS Great Britain - then travel TUE on to the Cunard Building in Liverpool - to debate the TUE issues. He's joined by Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval TUE History at King's College, Dr Lucy Budd, Lecturer in TUE Transport Studies at Loughborough University, Paul Leblond, TUE a former director of BAA and John Twigg, Planning Director TUE of Manchester Airports Group. Readings are provided by TUE Bristol Old Vic regular Christian Rodska and Liverpool based TUE actor Neil Caple. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 09:30 In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps b01nt4nc (Listen) TUE From Pittsburgh to Chicago TUE TUE Alvin Hall continues across the USA revisiting Alistair TUE Cooke's Letter from America. This week finds him in TUE Pittsburgh and at a baseball game at Chicago's historic TUE Wrigley Field. TUE TUE Letter from America was Alistair Cooke's weekly radio TUE broadcast that ran continuously for 58 years on the BBC, TUE from 1946 to 2004. The BBC will be making available the TUE entire archive - over 900 programmes - on the Radio 4 TUE website, from November 1st. Cooke had set himself a TUE challenge that seemed deceptively simple: to explain the TUE United States to Britain and the world. His Letters achieved TUE that and more. He was an acute observer, a marvellous story TUE teller, a man who loved America but saw it in intensely TUE clear terms - a country that was both great and sometimes TUE terribly flawed in its greatness. TUE TUE All the major issues, all the significant stories were grist TUE for his writer's mill. The Korean War and the Cold War, TUE desegregation, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin TUE Luther King, the fall of Nixon, the rise of Reaganomics, TUE immigration, September 11 and the George W Bush presidency. TUE TUE But eight years after his death are the Letters still TUE relevant? For Alvin Hall, the answer is emphatically yes. TUE Crisscrossing America he tests the insights and observations TUE of Cooke on subjects as diverse as desegregation and jazz, TUE the American Dream and immigration. And Hall discovers that TUE Alistair Cooke remains as fresh and insightful as he ever TUE was when he wrote and spoke over all those years about an TUE America he loved and understood so well. Alvin Hall is an TUE internationally renowned financial educator, television and TUE radio broadcaster, bestselling author, and regular TUE contributor to magazines, newspapers, and websites. He is an TUE unabashed admirer of Alistair Cooke and Letter from America. TUE Letter from America by theme: the big subjects TUE Significant moments in US history TUE US presidential elections TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01nx7vq (Listen) TUE Former People, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2 of 5 TUE The dying days of the Tsarist Empire were both glittering TUE and desperate as the aristocracy partied their way into TUE history, the workers demanded a fair wage and violence TUE erupted both at home and abroad. TUE TUE Read by Robert Powell TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nt4nf (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nt4nh (Listen) TUE Children in Need: Jess's Story, Episode 2 TUE TUE Part Two. Jess settles into her new routine of clinic and TUE lessons in her new school and begins to explore why her TUE dedication to getting good exam results tipped over into an TUE overwhelming obsession. And she finds a new friend.. TUE TUE Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01ntfvl (Listen) TUE Series 3, Goliath Grouper, Asiatic Lion, Turkmenistan TUE TUE This week on Saving Species we look at some of the TUE international stories which have caught our attention, from TUE Asia to the Caribbean. TUE TUE Reporter Mark Brazil travels the Sasan Gir sanctuary in TUE India to report of the plight of the last lions in Asia. TUE With an increasing human population in India requiring more TUE and more land for agriculture, the Asiatic lion was brought TUE to near extinction. In 1972 a sanctuary was set up and from TUE a few lions the sanctuary holds about 30 individuals. TUE TUE In the Caribbean, goliath groupers are huge, majestic fish TUE from the Caribbean sea. At up to 2.5m they are outsized only TUE by the few remaining sharks and they are critically TUE endangered across their range due to historical overfishing. TUE Goliaths are now strictly protected in Florida. Helen Scales TUE meets her first wild goliaths in the company of Dr Sarah TUE Frias-Torres from ORCA (Ocean Research and Conservation TUE Association) who is studying many aspects of these huge fish TUE including a survey of scuba divers that she hopes will show TUE that a goliath is worth more alive than dead. TUE TUE And from Asia, In May, Mark Day of the RSPB joined TUE scientists from twenty countries at a five day scientific TUE conference and expedition to Turkmenistan to explore the TUE wildlife and nature reserves of the Koytendag area. The area TUE is famous for its dinosaur footprints and the valleys, TUE canyons, mountains and caves are home to some unique species TUE as Mark discovers TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 Swansong b01ntfvn (Listen) TUE The Smiths' Strangeways, Here We Come TUE TUE In the summer of 1987 Britain's best loved indie band TUE abruptly came to end when guitarist Johnny Marr TUE sensationally quit. The Morrissey/Marr partnership that had TUE produced such a wealth of finely crafted pop tunes was over, TUE just weeks after the group finished recording their fourth TUE album, "Strangeways, Here We Come." Since then, all four TUE band members have separately pronounced the LP as their best TUE work. Bass player Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce also TUE claim that, at the time, they were blissfully unaware of any TUE conflict. So what happened? TUE In this final part of the Swansong series, Stuart Maconie TUE examines the circumstances surrounding the final recording TUE by The Smiths, revealing the reasons behind one of the most TUE famous breakups in British pop history. With new interviews TUE from Mike Joyce, Andy Rourke and producer Stephen Street and TUE contributions from music journalist Sian Pattenden and TUE Morrissey biographer Simon Goddard. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01ntfvq (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01nsy5k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01ntfvs (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 In Pursuit of the Ridiculous b01ntfvv (Listen) TUE Twitching TUE TUE All naturalists have personal obsessions with particular TUE species or activities which may, to non-naturalists, seem TUE ridiculous . In this five-part series Matthew Oates, TUE naturalist and ecologist with the National Trust, meets the TUE people for whom nothing in the natural world is out of TUE bounds. Today he explores the world of twitching rare birds TUE with Rob Lambert, from the University of Nottingham. Rob has TUE travelled around the UK amassing a huge list of over 450 TUE species of birds and he's keen to show Matthew a rare TUE long-billed dowitcher at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. But TUE Matthew wants to know if this is just trainspotting or are TUE there other benefits to be gained from twitching. According TUE to Rob Lambert, it's all about tribes, memories and TUE experience. and birds too. TUE TUE Presenter: Matthew Oates TUE Producer: Brett Westwood TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01nt3y8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ntfvx (Listen) TUE Mad Girl TUE TUE By Phil Gladwin TUE TUE Fifteen year old Rose hears voices. Mostly she gets along TUE with them ok, but when her real Dad turns up out of the blue TUE to take her away for the weekend, things get completely out TUE of control. TUE TUE Directed by Mary Peate TUE TUE This drama has sprung out of a project that listened to TUE people with mental health issues, and in this case people TUE who hear voices. The project was run by Company Paradiso, a TUE charity that enables groups of people who encounter some TUE form of disadvantage to tell their stories. If you would TUE like more information about hearing voices, there is support TUE information and peer groups in many areas, organised through TUE the Hearing Voices Network. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rose: Shannon Flynn TUE Denny: Emma Noakes TUE Tracy: Shannon Tarbet TUE Mash: Will Howard TUE Dad: Robert Blythe TUE Mum: Sarah Thom TUE Rob: Ben Crowe TUE John: Patrick Brennan TUE Ollie: Ryan Watson TUE Customer: Liza Sadovy TUE Director: Mary Peate TUE Writer: Phil Gladwin TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01ntfvz (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01ntfw1 (Listen) TUE Paul Weller (the A-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks TUE to leading performers and songwriters about the album that TUE made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each TUE edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing TUE the artist about the album in question, and then, in the TUE B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions TUE feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 3, A-side. "The Gift" - 30 years after the band's TUE split, Paul Weller talks about 'The Gift' - the last album TUE for The Jam. The band's only No 1 album, it marked a musical TUE departure from the classic Jam sound to a more TUE soul-influenced style, and it ushered in Weller's ideas for TUE the Style Council. It was an album that didn't just focus on TUE the state of society, it also had a lot to say about where TUE music was going in the 1980s - and it included the classic TUE No 1 'Town Called Malice' as well as 'Running On The Spot' TUE and 'Carnation'. Paul also plays exclusive live versions of TUE some of the tracks on the album. TUE TUE In the B-side of the programme, it's the turn of the TUE audience to ask the questions and that programme can be TUE heard next Monday at 11.00pm. TUE TUE Producers: Paul Kobrak & India Rakusen. TUE TUE 16:00 Dads Who Do b01ntfw3 (Listen) TUE Among African Caribbean children, 65% are looked after by a TUE lone parent and 90% of these are mothers. The Tottenham MP TUE David Lammy meets young fathers who are trying to buck the TUE trend by playing a more active role in raising their TUE children and asks why they think so many of their peers are TUE walking away. The result is a moving and insightful TUE exploration of the challenges facing young African Caribbean TUE fathers. TUE TUE Lammy's own father left when he was 12. "I struggled with TUE anger and self-doubt. It meant leaning heavily on other TUE figures in the community to fill the great father-shaped TUE hole in my life." He asks young dads how having an absent TUE father affected them. "I broke into a school and took some TUE stuff,"says Cameron. "I had to get into trouble before I TUE realised I don't want this. If my dad had been around I TUE honestly believe I wouldn't have got into trouble and I TUE would have done good in school." TUE TUE Warren, 26, feels women are partly to blame: "Girls are TUE trapping guys to have babies, knowing the father won't play TUE a major role. I got a text - I'm pregnant. I got a text nine TUE months later - Your baby's born. I was having a lot of sex. TUE I didn't pay no attention." TUE TUE Lammy visits a parenting course for young fathers at St. TUE Michael's Fellowship in South London. Shawn, a father of TUE five who had his first son at 15, runs some of the courses TUE "I think dads feel pushed to the corner so they stay in the TUE corner. Lots of people have a good heart, they just need TUE guidance." TUE TUE Produced by Kim Normanton. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01ntfw5 (Listen) TUE Peter White and Heydon Prowse TUE TUE Being blind hasn't ever stopped the broadcaster Peter White TUE from loving football, and that's reflected in his own choice TUE of a good read when he argues in favour of Brian Clough - as TUE captured by Duncan Hamilton who covered Notts Forest during TUE their glory years for the local paper. TUE TUE By contrast the satirist and prankster Heydon Prowse, fresh TUE from his BBC3 series, 'The Revolution will be Televised', TUE brings a description of tax havens and how they work to the TUE table, in 'Treasure Islands' by Nicholas Shaxson. TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert meanwhile proposes 'Faro's Daughter', a TUE romantic Regency thriller by Georgette Heyer. We'll see what TUE Peter and Heydon make of that. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01ntfw7 (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 b01nsy5m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01ntfw9 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Sound of da Police TUE TUE When Doreen is mugged Adam and Rudy react very differently. TUE Adam intends to become a role model for the community and TUE Rudy intends to whack the mugger with a cricket bat. 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 - until she is shaken by a mugging. TUE TUE Adam............Lenny Henry TUE Rudy.......... Larrington Walker TUE Tasha...........Natasha Godfrey TUE Doreen..........Claire Benedict TUE SGT Popper........ Andrew Brooke TUE Hoodie.........Adam Nagaitis TUE Hoodie 2.......Joe Sims TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01ntfwc (Listen) TUE It's Peggy's birthday and there's an uninvited guest. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01ntfwf (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on A Bigger Splash, a Tate TUE Modern exhibition which contrasts works by David Hockney and TUE Jackson Pollock to examine different approaches to painting. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nt4nh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01ntfwh (Listen) TUE The Zombie Effect TUE TUE It's estimated there are up to 150,000 so called zombie TUE companies in the UK. They are often defined as businesses TUE which are only able to pay off the interest on their debts TUE and have little prospect of growing without restructuring or TUE an injection of cash. TUE TUE The BBC's Chief Economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, examines TUE businesses caught in this situation and looks at what effect TUE they are having on the UK economy. He hears from business TUE experts who say these companies are partly responsible for TUE the poor levels of growth. They say banks have huge amounts TUE of capital tied up in businesses which are currently going TUE nowhere and that means they have less money available to TUE invest in more dynamic operations which have the ability to TUE grow and create jobs. They say the banks are also unwilling TUE to lend because they need to build up reserves to absorb TUE losses if these businesses eventually fail. TUE TUE Private equity investors such as Jon Moulton say in some TUE cases the companies should be allowed to fail in order to TUE let new businesses come through. But Hugh speaks to the head TUE of a major bank's restructuring unit which is responsible TUE for managing companies in distress who argues these TUE companies can be nursed back to health and it is better to TUE keep them alive and save jobs. TUE TUE This decision often involves what is known as forbearance by TUE the banks - where they ease or modify the terms of the loan TUE to give a company breathing space. This is happening not TUE only in business, but in the mortgage market too where TUE billions of pounds of loans have been converted from TUE repayment to interest only. TUE TUE Some economists warn many of these debts will never be TUE repaid and this means the banks aren't admitting to the true TUE level of losses they are facing. Even the governor of the TUE Bank of England is now warning of the dangers of forbearance TUE and says banks should ensure they have enough funds to be TUE able to draw a line under their losses. TUE Presenter: Hugh Pym TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01ntfwy (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01ntfx0 (Listen) TUE Most of us think we're pretty good at guessing when TUE somebody's gay or straight, but what signals are we using to TUE make our decision, and how often are we right ? TUE Psychologists at Queen Mary University of London are, for TUE the first time, trying to isolate the individual signals and TUE patterns in somebody's face, in order to work out exactly TUE what motivates us to make a snap decision about sexuality. TUE Using cutting edge computer imagery, researchers have found TUE a way of transferring male facial expressions onto female TUE faces and vice versa, which means they can work out exactly TUE how our "gaydar" works. TUE Hopes are that the work will help to challenge stereotypes TUE and prejudice by increasing awareness of how quickly, and TUE often inaccurately, people classify each other. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b01nt4n9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01nsy5p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01ntfx2 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis presented by TUE Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nyj8q (Listen) TUE The Liars' Gospel, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode, Miryam, puts her village of Nazaret in TUE danger by continuing to shelter the young man, Gidon, a TUE follower of her dead preacher son. His presence in her house TUE awakens memories of her son, Yehoshuah, but he also gives TUE her some shocking news. TUE TUE Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00ls6bt (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 4 TUE TUE Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home for music and TUE comedy. With Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter and Sophie TUE Ellis-Bextor. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ntfx4 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01ntfxl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01nx7vq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ntfxv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ntfyc (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ntfyp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01ntg4q (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nz9kb (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Chris Bennett of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01ntg4s (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Polly Procter. WED WED 06:00 Today b01ntg4v (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan WED Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01ntg4x (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01nx7xv (Listen) WED Former People, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3 of 5 WED The Bolshevik coup created whole new categories of person - WED all those who has previously been members of the rich WED classes, owned land or held positions of authority in the WED imperial regime became 'former people' and were thus WED designated as enemies. WED WED Read by Robert Powell WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ntg4z (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ntg51 (Listen) WED Children in Need: Jess's Story, Episode 3 WED WED Part Three . Jess' recovery is progressing well until her WED close friendship with new friend Maddie takes her in an WED unexpected direction WED WED Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. WED WED 11:00 From Worcester with Love b01ntg53 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Fifty years ago Peter White, at the age of eleven, left home WED for Worcester College. Then it was a residential school for WED blind and partially sighted boys. He had a love-hate WED relationship with it, but freely admits now that it changed WED his life and gave him the tools to compete in a tough world. WED Throughout the last academic year, Peter has returned to WED Worcester, to follow his twenty-first century successors: WED seven eleven- and twelve-year-olds, who have come to the WED school from a variety of backgrounds. WED WED Much has changed. In the 1960's it was almost universally WED assumed that blind children would be educated together; now WED its far more common for them to attend mainstream schools. WED Worcester, now known as New College, is still residential; WED but pupils live in small houses, not in the institution WED itself, where they learn to cook, care for their clothes, WED and generally look after themselves. Its co-educational, and WED children go home far more often. Throughout the year, WED through a mixture of exchanged letters, and frequent visits, WED Peter and the current year seven pupils have been getting to WED know each other and comparing their experiences of school. WED WED Nothing's been off-limits: the pupils have discussed WED homesickness, getting lost, bullying, a case of racism; and WED how the experience of living at New College is changing WED them. We've not only heard from the pupils; but staff, WED house-parents, and the children's families. They have proved WED to be a very varied, and engaging group of youngsters, who WED have talked very honestly about their experiences: Rufus: WED self-contained, fascinated by technology and delighted with WED Peter's tales of bad behaviour back in the sixties; Grace; WED clever, full of common-sense, but suffering badly from WED missing home and family. And then there's Zoey, the form WED all-rounder; bookworm, athlete, and learning to play the WED organ: Ali, obsessed with rap and the London street life he WED has left: but not quite as tough as he would like to make WED out; William, who is struggling to make friends and settle WED in and Jess, who describes daily dramas as she gets lost, WED battles with bees and plans mammoth sleep-overs at her WED London home. WED WED From Worcester with Love follows the group through the year, WED as work gets harder, and the novelty wears off. Listeners WED will be able to track the engaging ins and outs as Will and WED Ali attempt to settle their differences and to find out how WED Angel, who revealed at the beginning of her year that she'd WED never had real friends before, copes with living away from WED home. Meanwhile Jess is considering whether to swap the WED hothouse atmosphere of a residential special school for the WED familiarities of home and the more Laissez-faire attitude of WED her local comprehensive. Peter follows what happens and is WED given pause for thought by an old school friend who actually WED works at the school today. How have things changed and what WED might life be like for those starting their secondary WED education at the blind school which played such an important WED role in shaping Peter's life. WED WED 11:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01b9kdj (Listen) WED Episode 2 - Sally's Birthday WED WED An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. WED Will and Annabelle attend her mum's 60th Birthday Party. WED Will makes an effort to get on with his straight talking WED father-in-law John. WED WED Will Smith ..... Will Smith WED Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland WED Guy ..... Paterson Joseph WED John ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Sally ..... Susie Blake WED Shop Assistant ..... Tracy Wiles WED WED Written by ..... Will Smith WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01ntg55 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01nsy61 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01ntg57 (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 In Pursuit of the Ridiculous b01ntg59 (Listen) WED Rare Orchids WED WED All naturalists have personal obsessions with particular WED species or activities which may, to non-naturalists, seem WED ridiculous. In this five-part series Matthew Oates, WED naturalist and ecologist with the National Trust, meets the WED people for whom nothing in the natural world is out of WED bounds. Nowadays conservationists tend to conserve species WED and many ignore or dismiss hybrids between species. But at WED Hartslock near Goring , Matthew meets Chris Raper from the WED Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust WED and Andy Byfield from the wild flower conservation charity WED Plantlife, to view a "hybrid swarm" of extremely rare WED orchids. WED WED The reserve is one of only two sites in the UK for the WED Monkey Orchid and management is carefully tailored to WED nurturing this beautiful flower. Recently another rare WED orchid, the Lady Orchid has arrived , and the two plants WED have cross-bred to produce many hybrids. These have the WED potential to breed with either of the pure species, so WED creating a dilemma: are they to be treasured as unique WED entities, or discouraged as they may undo decades of WED conservation work? Matthew and his guests discuss the WED importance of recognising hybrids and of giving plants and WED other animals room to hybridise naturally, and they conclude WED by offering a vision of a wider conservation landscape in WED which this hybridisation can take place. WED WED Presenter: Matthew Oates. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01ntfwc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ntg5c (Listen) WED Two Pipe Problems, I Love a Lassie WED WED Sandy decides to travel to Greenock on Clydeside to collect WED his Freedom of the City award. As he has no living relatives WED or close friends, he invites William to accompany him on WED condition he behaves himself. Once again WED Stanley Baxter and Richard Briers play the two elderly WED detectives who solve mysteries by stealth and intuition. WED WED When Sandy and William arrive in the old shipbuilding town, WED they meet the Provost's secretary Moira. It becomes clear WED that his hosts really know virtually nothing about Sandy - WED in fact Moira asks to interview him so she can write up the WED Provost's speech for the ceremony. WED WED The following day, Sandy shows William around his WED birthplace. They visit the tenement where he was born and WED meet a man he was at school with. He isn't wholly friendly WED and, when they return to the hotel, there is a message: "Do WED you know how much pain you left behind. Why?". Sandy is WED anxious, especially when another message appears on the WED morning of the ceremony: "Why, oh why? Now it's your turn to WED feel the pain. You will suffer as others have suffered". WED WED So the race is on to uncover who exactly is out to get Sandy WED and why. The solution to the riddle is finally revealed at WED the Freedom of Greenock ceremony, when the roots of WED everyone's resentment are uncovered. WED WED Director : Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter WED William Parnes: Richard Briers WED Provost: John Sessions WED Station Assistant: John Sessions WED Moira: Gabriel Quigley WED Janice: Maureen Beattie WED Macca: Gordon Kennedy WED Train Guard: Gordon Kennedy WED Director: Marylin Imrie WED Writer: Michael Chaplin WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01ntg5f (Listen) WED Banks and Banking WED WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED questions and problems you have had in dealing with your WED bank. Vincent is joined by Guy Anker, News Editor for WED Moneysavingexpert, Mark Mullen, Chief Executive Officer at WED the bank First Direct and Michelle Slade, Media Relations WED Manager from Nationwide Building Society. WED WED Are you getting a good enough interest rate on your savings? WED If not, could you do better? How much are you being charged WED for your overdraft or loan? Could you pay less elsewhere? WED WED Is your bank treating you well as a customer? Does it WED communicate with you clearly? If you have a complaint, is it WED dealt with quickly and fairly? WED WED Banking practices are changing all the time but are they WED always changing for the better? One bank is planning to no WED longer send monthly paper statements. Many are using WED automated calls to warn customers they are going overdrawn WED or an unexpected transaction has appeared on their account. WED Another bank now allows you to access emergency cash without WED your bank card using a code. Is this making banking easier WED or may these changes create new problems? WED WED In tough economic times, how are the banks treating WED customers who fall into debt? If you want to borrow but do WED not have a full credit history, is your bank willing to WED accommodate you? WED WED Are the banks doing enough to help customers who can only WED have, or need a basic bank account? WED WED Is it easy enough to switch banks? WED WED Producer Bob Howard. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01ntfx0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01ntg5h (Listen) WED Riots in the UK, Death of the Weekend WED WED What was behind the British riots? From Blackberry and WED gossip to hard facts and first hand accounts. Laurie Taylor WED talks to Daniel Briggs about his research into last year's WED summer of discontent and damage. A definitive account of the WED nature and causes of the riots of 2011. Also, is it all over WED for the weekend? The sociologists, Jill Ebrey and Guy WED Standing, ask whether or not the weekend as a time for rest, WED family life and pleasure, is threatened with extinction by WED contemporary patterns of work. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01ntgsw (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01ntgsy (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nsy63 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x97hy (Listen) WED Series 6, Gone Fishing WED WED On a fishing trip to Spiggy Lakes with long suffering WED friends, Sally, Geoffrey and Wilf, things start to go awry WED for Arthur after he 'finds' a rowing boat. WED WED He thinks may give him the edge in their £5.10 per head WED sweepstake based on who will catch the most fish, and sets WED out into the lake unaccompanied. WED WED Cast: WED Steve Delaney WED Alastair Kerr WED Dave Mounfield WED Mel Giedroyc 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 b01ntgt0 (Listen) WED Emma hits rock bottom. Meanwhile Iftikar is full of WED surprises. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01ntgw3 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a review of The Effect, a new WED play by Lucy Prebble, her first major new work since her WED success with ENRON, her play about the American financial WED scandal. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ntg51 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01ntgw5 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Mailk, Giles WED Fraser and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01ntgw7 (Listen) WED Series 3, Ismail Einashe WED WED Ismail Einashe, who came to Britain as a child refugee from WED Somalia, reflects on the link between childhood war trauma WED suffered by young Somali men and the way some are drawn to WED violent gang culture. 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 Stop Talking About Race WED A Creative Life in Iran WED The Importance of Talent Over Effort WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01ntgx9 (Listen) WED Why do women live longer than men? WED WED In the UK today, male life expectancy is 78 years old, WED whereas women will on average live four years longer. WED WED Evolutionary biologist Dr Yan Wong looks at the latest WED evidence suggesting that where ageing is concerned, men seem WED to be at a genetic disadvantage. From research on ancient WED Korean eunuchs to laboratory fruit flies, new studies seek WED the answer to why males across the animal kingdom live WED faster and die younger. WED WED So, is the gender gap here to stay? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01ntg4x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01nsy65 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01ntgxc (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis presented by WED Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nyjkz (Listen) WED The Liars' Gospel, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, Miryam remembers a bloody Jewish WED rebellion at the festival of Shavuot, to which the Romans WED responded with savage brutality. And Iehuda of Qeriot, now WED living a new life as a Roman citizen in Caesarea, remembers WED his devotion to his beloved friend, Yehoshuah. WED WED Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman and Tobias Menzies WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Produced by Emma Harding. WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b01ntgxf (Listen) WED Deirdre of Sorrows 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 Deirdre of Sorrows. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:15 Living with Mother b01nthhy (Listen) WED Series 2, Sandy Belle WED WED Apparently you're only allowed to live in your beach chalet WED for the summer months, but Pip and Tilly are broke and WED decide to stay in their chalet, Sandy Belle, over winter to WED save money on renting in town. WED WED It's all Tilly's idea. Pip is beside himself with worry. WED Terrified the police will catch them, he's forced to hide WED old Pru - his beloved car - in the sand dunes. He's so WED miserable - hiding away as if they're criminals. However he WED soon discovers that all is not lost when he receives WED something unexpected in the post... 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 Cast: WED Tilly ..... Alison Steadman WED Pip ..... Tom Goodman-Hill 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 b01nthj0 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on the day's sitting of the House of WED Lords. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01nsy70 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01nx7xv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nsy72 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nsy74 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nsy76 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01nsy78 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nz9kd (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Chris Bennett of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01nthyz (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01nthz1 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01nthz3 (Listen) THU Simone Weil THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and THU social activist Simone Weil. Born in Paris in 1909 into a THU wealthy, agnostic Jewish family, Weil rejected her THU comfortable background and chose to work in fields and THU factories to experience the life of the working classes THU first hand. She was acutely sensitive to human suffering and THU devoted her life to helping those less fortunate than THU herself, even volunteering during the Spanish Civil War on THU the Republican side and forming part of the French THU Resistance. Weil's admirers include Albert Camus, T.S Eliot THU and Iris Murdoch. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01nx7zn (Listen) THU Former People, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4 of 5 THU Jewels were hidden and fur coats sold as the nobility THU learned that nothing could ever be taken for granted again. THU Hundreds of thousands of former people were imprisoned and THU executed, many others fled the homeland. THU THU Read by Robert Powell THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nthz5 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Aasmah Mir. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nthz7 (Listen) THU Children in Need: Jess's Story, Episode 4 THU THU Part Four . Jess' recovery is progressing again after her THU trip to the sea with Maddie. In the clinic sessions with THU David she begins to understand why her obsession with THU studying developed . THU THU Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01nthz9 (Listen) THU The Mayor of Mogadishu THU THU Andrew Harding meets the Mayor with the job of running THU Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Can the man nicknamed "Tarzan" THU tackle mass corruption and the physical and psychological THU impact of years of brutal warfare? THU THU Andrew joins Mohamed Ahmed Noor who, by request of the THU president, has returned with his wife and family from a life THU in London to try and clean up Mogadishu. THU THU The mayor discusses his ambitious vision for a city, much of THU which currently lies in ruins. He proudly shows off the new THU Mogadishu Mall and talks about the constant risk of attack THU by the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab - and narrowly THU escapes death by a car bomb along the way. THU THU Producers: Kate Forbes and Daniel Tetlow. THU THU 11:30 Words on Water b01nthzc (Listen) THU Mike Greenwood explores modern writing that uses the THU contemplative pursuit of fishing to explore our relationship THU with nature and our place in the world, with readings and THU location recordings from the river bank. THU THU Samuel Johnson once dismissed angling as an activity "with a THU worm at one end and a fool at the other". Nevertheless THU there's a growing body of writers who take the contemplative THU pursuit of fishing as a starting point to explore our THU relationships with people, Nature and our place in the THU world. These are not manuals on catching fish, but often THU poignant, intense meditations, a means of connecting with THU the wild, or a quest for arcadia. THU THU Mike Greenwood talks to a number of writers about their THU literary fascination with fish, including: THU THU Luke Jennings who discusses his book Bloodknots - a THU meditation on fishing, but also a personal memoir about THU place, the past and personal loss; Chris Yates who casts a THU keen eye on the minutiae of the waterside; Andrew Greig who THU revisits a remote Highland loch as an act of tribute to his THU late friend, the poet Norman Maccaig; Charles THU Rangeley-Wilson who travels from the wildernesses of Alaska THU to a concrete culvert through a High Wycombe shopping THU precinct; and Dexter Petley, the writer of dark novels, THU observing the uneasy edges of society from the side of a THU carp lake in France. THU THU Presented and produced by Mike Greenwood THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01ntj9v (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01nsy7b (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01ntj9x (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 In Pursuit of the Ridiculous b01ntj9z (Listen) THU Slugs and Snails THU THU For most people, naturalists or not, some creatures are THU definitely minority interests. In a UK summer noted for its THU wet weather, slugs and snails have been very obvious in our THU gardens and, coupled with reports in the media about THU "Spanish killer slugs", maybe their time has come. Matthew THU Oates of the National Trust meets Mary Seddon, a THU malacologist(studier of slugs and snails) of international THU renown to hear about her fascination for the creatures and THU to find out why our slug fauna is increasing . He learns the THU truth about the boom in numbers this summer and about the THU discovery in Wales of the ghost slug new not just to the UK THU but to science. THU THU Presenter: Matthew Oates THU Producer: Brett Westwood THU Editor: Julian Hector. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01ntgt0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ntjb1 (Listen) THU The Other Simenon, The Venice Train 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 The Venice Train is a classic Simenon study of anxiety. THU Justin Calmar returns early from holiday. On board the THU express train to Paris he is asked by a stranger to deliver THU a briefcase to an address in Lausanne. He subsequently makes THU two discoveries: the first, that there is a dead body in the THU apartment, the second that the suitcase contains a fortune THU in paper currency. He flees, on the next rapide to Paris THU condemning himself to an existence of lies and fear, with THU seemingly no way out. THU THU Dramatised by Ronald Frame and starring Paul Bown and Clare THU Corbett. THU THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. THU THU Credits THU Justine Calmar: Paul Bown THU Dominique: Clare Corbett THU Stranger: Crawford Logan THU Jouve: Carl Prekopp THU Secretary: Susie Riddell THU Director: David Neville THU Producer: David Neville THU Writer: Georges Simenon THU Writer: Ronald Frame THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01ntjpv (Listen) THU Beasts of Brighton THU THU Helen Mark visits Brighton to find surprising wildlife in THU the city. She finds an urban flock of sheep grazing on THU ancient chalk downland areas in the city. Their gentle THU nibbling is kinder to wildlife than mowing and ensures that THU green spaces stay clear for wildlife and people. Helen meets THU a volunteer shepherd in charge of watching the sheep through THU the winter months. THU THU Nearby, Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project works THU with excluded school pupils growing vegetables and gardening THU for wildlife. Helen is shown the project's tree house, THU outdoor clay oven, turf sofa, and traditional bee hive. Now THU a thriving garden run by an army of volunteers the original THU piece of land, hidden away behind Moulsecoomb railway THU station, had been left overgrown and derelict for nearly THU twenty years. THU Down on Brighton's beach Helen joins Huw Morgan from Sussex THU Wildlife Trust as he splashes around in rock pools with THU children from a local school. Their city centre school lacks THU green space for them to explore so the beach is the perfect THU place for them to run free and learn about marine wildlife THU and sustainable fishing. THU THU Producer Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01nszcd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01nt07h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01ntjpx (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01ntjpz (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 b01ntjq1 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nsy7j (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 b01ntjq3 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Comic explanation of human development via stand-up, song THU and sketch. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01ntjq5 (Listen) THU Lynda holds a tense rehearsal, and Neil and Susan ponder THU their finances. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01ntjq7 (Listen) THU With John Wilson, who talks to Ben Elton about his new novel THU Two Brothers, which is inspired by the experiences of his THU own family in Germany under the Nazis. THU THU Producer Penny Murphy. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nthz7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01ntjq9 (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01ntjqc (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 b01ntfvl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01nthz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01nsy7l (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01ntjqf (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis presented by THU Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nyjmp (Listen) THU The Liars' Gospel, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode, Iehuda of Qeriot remembers his first THU encounter with Yehoshuah and the heady and complex THU friendship that followed. THU THU Read by Tobias Menzies THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Produced by Emma Harding. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01ntjqh (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU EPISODE 3 THU THU Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre THU called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. 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 Various ..... Lucy Montgomery THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma THU THU Writers ..... Various THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 23:30 Malala's Diary b01nw6wp (Listen) THU The Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, was shot in the THU head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education. THU Her protests began with the publication in 2009, on the THU BBC's Urdu website, of a blog describing her everyday life THU and efforts to continue with her education. She only THU actually recorded one short extract of this in English, but THU as she recovers in a Birmingham hospital, local British THU schoolgirls read aloud from the entire blog as a gesture of THU solidarity. THU THU Meanwhile, Aasmah Mir reports on Malala's progress and THU explores the impact of this event on the lives of girls and THU women in Pakistan. THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01nsy8h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01nx7zn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nsy8k (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nsy8m (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nsy8p (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01nsy8r (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nz9kg (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Chris Bennett of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01ntlrn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01ntlrq (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01ntlrs (Listen) FRI Blanche Marvin FRI FRI Kirsty Young talks to theatre critic Blanche Marvin. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01nx80p (Listen) FRI Former People, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5 of 5 FRI With the death of Lenin and Stalin's assumption of power, a FRI new kind of paranoia fuelled the savage quest for 'class FRI enemies'. Reprisals against counter-revolutionaries led to FRI the brutality of 'Operation Former People'. FRI FRI Read by Robert Powell FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ntlrv (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ntlrx (Listen) FRI Children in Need: Jess's Story, Episode 5 FRI FRI Part Five . Jess' recovery is progressing so well that FRI there's talk of her going home. But this brings its own FRI anxieties as she thinks about what her friends might think FRI when she returns to her own school. FRI FRI Jess's recovery is progressing so well that there is talk of FRI her going home. But this brings its own anxieties as she FRI thinks about what her old school friends might think FRI Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 11:00 A Place for Us b01ntlrz (Listen) FRI Last year in Britain there were 1277 applications from FRI unaccompanied children seeking refugee status. We follow FRI three young people as they adapt to life without their FRI families. FRI FRI Fleeing war and persecution, teenagers arrive on their own FRI shocked and bewildered: "I was 17 when I left my country. I FRI remember that. It was very sad when I came. They put me in a FRI house in Barking. For the first three weeks, it was a very FRI difficult time for me because I was there by myself. I was FRI very scared." FRI FRI The young people in this programme have found their way to FRI DOST, the Centre for Young Refugees and Migrants in east FRI London. It gives them support, practical advice and the FRI opportunity to socialize with others in the same situation. FRI FRI Dembo from Guinea, West Africa, Hassan from Iraq, and Faryad FRI from Afghanistan offer us a picture of life in Britain: FRI "When I came I couldn't speak English, I didn't have a FRI friend, didn't know where to go, I had no future, but now, I FRI feel this is like my place and this is my life now. I feel FRI like this is my country. One day I'd love to bring my Mum to FRI the UK and show her where I live, how I spend my life here, FRI show her my best places I've been, and the places I love in FRI London. I will take her to the river and sit with her." FRI FRI A moving exploration of community and diversity in FRI multicultural Britain. FRI FRI Music by Mansour Izadpanah. FRI Produced by Emma-Louise Williams and Kim Normanton. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b01ntls1 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Distance Healing FRI FRI Polyoaks is just an ordinary Health Clinic somewhere in FRI Bristol, but it lives in extraordinary times. General FRI Practice is facing a revolution in health care, "the biggest FRI shake-up to the NHS in a lifetime" - the third of those in FRI the last five years or so. Doctors are being asked to manage FRI their own budgets, cut costs and regularly prove their own FRI competence. This tends to present opportunities and crises FRI in equal measure. FRI FRI In this episode, Distance Healing, Hugh is pioneering a new FRI online diagnosis system that will save time, money and any FRI necessity to meet patients face to face. This promises to be FRI a money spinner too, if he can persuade other West Country FRI Clinical Commissioning Groups to buy it. The two flies in FRI the ointment are Mrs. Lewis, their most persistent FRI hypochondriac who will insist on arriving at the surgery FRI unannounced, and of course Roy, who has his own ideas about FRI contact healing. FRI FRI Dr. Roy Thornton..............................Nigel Planer FRI Dr. Hugh Thornton............................Simon Greenall FRI TV's "Dr. Jeremy".............................David Westhead FRI Betty Crossfield................................Jane FRI Whittenshaw FRI Nurse Vera Duplessis........................Polly Frame FRI Mr. Devlin.........................................Phil FRI Cornwell FRI Mrs. Lewis........................................Mel Hudson FRI Mr. Wring..........................................Duncan FRI Wisbey FRI FRI Written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI FRI Directed by Frank Stirling FRI Producer by David Spicer FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01ntls3 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01ntls5 (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 b01nsy8t (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01ntls7 (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 In Pursuit of the Ridiculous b01ntls9 (Listen) FRI The Purple Emperor FRI FRI Matthew Oates has long been obsessed with the elusive and FRI beautiful purple emperor, a butterfly of the high tops which FRI is aggressive to other butterflies and yet often lands on FRI people. But in this programme he's out-obsessed by Neil FRI Hume, a self-confessed addict of the emperor .Together they FRI watch the butterflies chasing off rivals high in the FRI tree-tops and discuss its anti-social feeding habits which FRI include sipping human sweat and animal dung - this is a FRI butterfly which avoids flowers. As they enthuse over FRI emperors, Neil explains what the experience of seeing this FRI butterfly means and how it takes him to special places at FRI the height of summer. FRI FRI Presenter: Matthew Oates FRI Producer: Brett Westwood FRI Editor: Julian Hector. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01ntjq5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ntlsc (Listen) FRI On Mardle Fen, Series 5, Talk to the Bones FRI FRI By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock is back as inspirational FRI chef Warwick Hedges who runs an idiosyncratic restaurant in FRI the Cambridgeshire Fens with his permanently anxious son FRI Jack. In the first of a new series of this comedy drama, FRI Warwick dreams of expansion. He gets it into his head that FRI they should have a covered area built on the side of the FRI restaurant with romantic views over the river. FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI FRI Credits FRI Warwick Hedges: Trevor Peacock FRI Jack Hedges: Sam Dale FRI Marcia Hedges: Kate Buffery FRI Zofia: Helen Longworth FRI Samuel: John Rowe FRI Bernard: Ben Crowe FRI Director: Claire Grove FRI Writer: Nick Warburton FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ntlsf (Listen) FRI Bishop's Castle, Shropshire FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs Gardeners' Question Time in Bishops FRI Castle, Shropshire. Taking questions from a local gardening FRI audience this week are Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and FRI Matthew Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b01ntlsh (Listen) FRI Hanging On FRI FRI Four acclaimed novelists write their first stories for FRI radio. FRI In Holding On by Ross Raisin, a woman stands at the end of a FRI cliff, which is at the end of her garden - which means what, FRI exactly? FRI FRI Reader Deborah Findlay FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01ntlsm (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01ntlsp (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 b01ntlsr (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 b01ntlst (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nsy8w (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01ntlvy (Listen) FRI Series 38, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in stand-up and FRI sketches with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and FRI special guest. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01ntlw0 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Tim Stimpson FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd..... Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd..... Louis Hamblett FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling 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 Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin FRI Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Lewis Carmichael..... Robert Lister FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Leonie Snell..... Jasmine Hyde FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur FRI Volunteer..... Janice McKenzie. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ntm2x (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the musician FRI and producer Brian Eno, as he releases Lux, a new album FRI featuring a 75 minute-long work. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ntlrx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ntm2z (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion and FRI debate programme from All Saint's Church in Dulverton FRI Somerset. Guests include Baroness Shirley Williams and FRI Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local FRI Government Hilary Benn MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ntm31 (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01ntm33 (Listen) FRI Enquirer FRI FRI A radio adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre of FRI Scotland and London Review of Books production. FRI FRI An investigation into the current crisis in newspaper FRI journalism in the UK, based on interviews with leading FRI figures from the industry by Paul Flynn, Deborah Orr and FRI Ruth Wishart. FRI FRI Music by Davey Anderson. FRI Co-edited by Andrew O'Hagan. FRI Edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany. FRI Producers: Clara Glynn and Carolynne Sinclair Kidd. FRI FRI A Hopscotch Films production for BBC Radio 4 in association FRI with the London Review of Books and the National Theatre of FRI Scotland. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Maureen Beattie FRI Actor: John Bett FRI Actor: James Anthony Pearson FRI Actor: Gabriel Quigley FRI Actor: Billy Riddoch FRI Actor: Hywel Simons FRI Director: Vicky Featherstone FRI Director: John Tiffany FRI Producer: Clara Glynn FRI Producer: Carolynne Kidd FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01nsy8y (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ntmcg (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis presented by FRI Ritula Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nyjq0 (Listen) FRI The Liars' Gospel, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, Iehuda of Qeriot remembers the events FRI that lead to his loss of faith in Yehoshuah and his eventual FRI betrayal of the man who had been his dearest friend. FRI FRI Read by Tobias Menzies FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Produced by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01ntfw5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Swimming with Piranhas b01l5kl5 (Listen) FRI Mike Greenwood journeys into one of the world's final FRI frontiers, the relentlessly hot Chaco in Paraguay, to FRI uncover how environmental groups, ranchers and missionaries FRI are battling for the soul of one of the last wildernesses. FRI FRI In the hostile environment of the north Chaco in Paraguay, FRI indigenous peoples, cattle ranchers, illegal loggers, FRI eco-warriors, zealous missionaries - not forgetting piranhas FRI - combine to create the febrile atmosphere of a new FRI frontier. FRI FRI This is a meeting point for several major habitats. It is FRI also one of the last places on earth where un-contacted FRI peoples live. Some scientists believe these lesser-known FRI habitats are more threatened than rainforest regions such as FRI the Amazon. Paraguay's Chaco grasslands are particularly at FRI risk because they easily convert to cattle pasture. Cattle FRI ranching is profitable but, as well as destroying the local FRI ecology, it has also pushed out indigenous people. FRI FRI Mike experiences, close-up, this anthropological and FRI environmental melee and meets its remarkable, and sometimes FRI unexpected characters - from German-speaking Mennonites FRI thriving in the Chaco to Moonies who have bought up an FRI entire town in the Chaco; and from environmental campaigners FRI to indigenous people displaced from their ancestral land. We FRI will also hear from pro-development governors and ranchers FRI who argue conservation is a luxury Paraguay can not afford - FRI development brings in money that promises to lift the FRI country's many poor out of poverty. FRI FRI This is the closest most of us will get to the 'wild west'. FRI A 21st-century frontier country in which a battle is being FRI fought for the socio-economic and spiritual soul of a FRI hitherto little explored region. FRI FRI Presenter: Mike Greenwood FRI Producer: Eve Streeter FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01ntmcj (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
09 November, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 10/11/2012 - 16/11/2012
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