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SAT SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01ntlqm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01nx80p (Listen) SAT Former People, Episode 5 SAT SAT From the last days of the monarchy to the Red Terror of the SAT Bolshevik Revolution and then Stalin's 'Operation Former SAT People' the hundreds of thousands of families who formed the SAT Russian nobility were subjected to a series of bloodthirsty SAT purges. SAT SAT This disparate group of people ranged from the entrenched SAT monarchists of the old Tsarist regime to the impoverished SAT rural nobility who struggled to make a living out of their SAT lands. SAT SAT Some of these nobles were in favour of change and supported SAT the revolution but very few families escaped without at SAT least one member experiencing imprisonment, exile, forced SAT labour or execution. Palaces were looted and estates burned SAT as the enemies of the new soviet state were made to pay over SAT and over for their centuries of glittering privilege. SAT SAT Drawing on meticulous research including letters and diaries SAT from the period Douglas Smith brings to life the tiny human SAT details of this extraordinary and tumultuous time. SAT SAT Episode 5 of 5 SAT With the death of Lenin and Stalin's assumption of power, a SAT new kind of paranoia fuelled the savage quest for 'class SAT enemies'. Reprisals against counter-revolutionaries led to SAT the brutality of 'Operation Former People'. SAT SAT Read by Robert Powell SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ntlqp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ntlqr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ntlqt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01ntlqw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ntmtp (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist SAT Church. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ntmtr (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01ntlqy (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01ntlr0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01ntjpv (Listen) SAT Beasts of Brighton SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Brighton to find surprising wildlife in SAT the city. She finds an urban flock of sheep grazing on SAT ancient chalk downland areas in the city. Their gentle SAT nibbling is kinder to wildlife than mowing and ensures that SAT green spaces stay clear for wildlife and people. Helen meets SAT a volunteer shepherd in charge of watching the sheep through SAT the winter months. SAT SAT Nearby, Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project works SAT with excluded school pupils growing vegetables and gardening SAT for wildlife. Helen is shown the project's tree house, SAT outdoor clay oven, turf sofa, and traditional bee hive. Now SAT a thriving garden run by an army of volunteers the original SAT piece of land, hidden away behind Moulsecoomb railway SAT station, had been left overgrown and derelict for nearly SAT twenty years. SAT Down on Brighton's beach Helen joins Huw Morgan from Sussex SAT Wildlife Trust as he splashes around in rock pools with SAT children from a local school. Their city centre school lacks SAT green space for them to explore so the beach is the perfect SAT place for them to run free and learn about marine wildlife SAT and sustainable fishing. SAT SAT Producer Beatrice Fenton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01nwp2b (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01ntlr2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01nwp2d (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah SAT Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the SAT Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01nwp2g (Listen) SAT Val McDermid; Ulrika Jonsson's Secret Life; John McCarthy in SAT Utrecht; Glenn Tilbrook's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with crime writer Val SAT McDermid and ex-offender Junior Smart who is helping SAT gangsters escape a life of crime, broadcaster Jeremy Vine SAT talks about his early career on Drainpipe Radio, TV SAT presenter Ulrika Jonsson reveals her Secret Life, John SAT McCarthy continues his exploration of Utrecht and Squeeze's SAT Glenn Tilbrook shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Alice's Restaurant b01nwp2j (Listen) SAT Ian McMillan goes in search of the people and places SAT described in Arlo Guthrie's 1960's ballad, Alice's SAT Restaurant and discovers how this eighteen minute song SAT inspired a generation and still plays a unique part in SAT American life today. SAT It's a piece that's had a profound effect on Ian ever since SAT he first heard it as a twelve year old in Barnsley; his SAT first introduction to small town America and the anti-war SAT movement.On Thursday it'll be played on radio stations SAT across the States, as America celebrates Thanksgiving. This SAT song, that starts with a visit to the town dump and ends SAT lampooning the Vietnam draft, was based on a true SAT Thanksgiving day incident in Guthrie's life. SAT In the late 60's and 70's no student, either side of the SAT Atlantic, would be thought to have a respectable record SAT collection without the inclusion of the bright yellow LP SAT with a photograph of the bare-chested, bowler-hatted, SAT cutlery-brandishing singer, on the front. SAT Ian visits Stockbridge,the setting for the song and is taken SAT to the scene of the crime, by the town's current police SAT chief, Rick Wilcox and he goes to Great Barrington to visit SAT the church where it all began. SAT He meets others for whom the song has been hugely important, SAT including teacher, George Dunn who remembers being at the SAT Rockport Folk Festival in 1968 when Arlo first performed the SAT song for a live audience. SAT And in Maine Ian sings along with generations of children SAT who've attended The Children's Garden Pre-school, for whom SAT Alice's Restaurant has always been a key part of their SAT curriculum. SAT Finally Ian's forty year old dream comes true when he meets SAT Alice, now an artist with a gallery in Provincetown on Cape SAT Cod, they talk about what the song has meant to her over the SAT years. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01nwp2l (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Steve Richards. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01nwp2n (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 b01nwp2q (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01ntlvy (Listen) SAT Series 38, Episode 2 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 guest. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01ntlr4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01ntlr6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ntm2z (Listen) SAT All Saints Church, Dulverton, Somerset SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion and SAT debate programme from All Saint's Church in Dulverton SAT Somerset. Guests include Baroness Shirley Williams, David SAT Willetts MP the Minister for Universities and Science, SAT Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local SAT Government Hilary Benn MP and Alex Deane who's Head of SAT Public Affairs for Public Relations company Weber Shandwick. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01nwp2s (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxw7 (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Series, The Laughing Policeman SAT SAT In the fourth of the Martin Beck Killings, Beck is now a SAT Detective Superintendant. But his promotion hasn't made him SAT any more cheerful; if anything, it's only confirmed his SAT gloomy belief that the best way to solve crimes is by hard SAT slog, dogged persistence, a grimly realistic view of human SAT nature - and the occasional flash of sheer intuition. His SAT team of colleagues, headed by Lennart Kollberg and Frederick SAT Melander, are used to his stubborn ways and his frequent SAT colds. His wife Inga isn't as tolerant. SAT SAT The Laughing Policeman begins on the evening of a big SAT demonstration in Stockholm against the Vietnam war; as the SAT police are dealing with protesters outside the American SAT embassy, a mass shooting on a bus in a suburb ends with nine SAT dead, including one of Martin Beck's team. The trail to find SAT the murderer leads Beck back to an unsolved case from the SAT past that had puzzled the Swedish police for years. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth SAT Original Music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Sara Davies. SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Frederick Melander: Adrian Scarborough SAT Inga Beck: Lucy Black SAT Ingrid Beck: Lauren Crace SAT Einar Ronn: Russell Boulter SAT Asa Torell: Clare Corbett SAT Schwerin: Robert Blythe SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Mechanic: Sam Alexander SAT Blonde Malin: Christine Absalom SAT Workman: Harry Livingstone SAT Birgersson: Jonathan Tafler SAT Car Showroom Manager: Robert Blythe SAT Forsberg: Patrick Brennan SAT Director: Sara Davies SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Writer: Jennifer Howarth SAT SAT 15:30 Swansong b01ntfvn (Listen) SAT The Smiths' Strangeways, Here We Come SAT SAT In the summer of 1987 Britain's best loved indie band SAT abruptly came to end when guitarist Johnny Marr SAT sensationally quit. The Morrissey/Marr partnership that had SAT produced such a wealth of finely crafted pop tunes was over, SAT just weeks after the group finished recording their fourth SAT album, "Strangeways, Here We Come." Since then, all four SAT band members have separately pronounced the LP as their best SAT work. Bass player Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce also SAT claim that, at the time, they were blissfully unaware of any SAT conflict. So what happened? SAT In this final part of the Swansong series, Stuart Maconie SAT examines the circumstances surrounding the final recording SAT by The Smiths, revealing the reasons behind one of the most SAT famous breakups in British pop history. With new interviews SAT from Mike Joyce, Andy Rourke and producer Stephen Street and SAT contributions from music journalist Sian Pattenden and SAT Morrissey biographer Simon Goddard. SAT Mastertapes SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01nwp2v (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 b01nwp2x (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01ntjqc (Listen) SAT Planet New 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 There are many arguments about how to solve the world's SAT economic problems, to increase employment and achieve SAT economic growth. But if there's one solution that most will SAT agree on it's that we need more new products or services, SAT which drive capitalism and make us richer. Evan's guests SAT this week discuss the importance of innovation for the SAT global economy and the impediments to this kind of SAT creativity. They also swap thoughts on the 'pivot' - when to SAT change your mind in business. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Suranga Chandratillake, SAT founder of video and audio search engine Blinkx; Simon SAT Woodroffe, founder of YO! Company; Olaf Swantee, chief SAT executive of mobile phone operator EE. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ntlr8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01ntlrb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ntlrd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01nwp2z (Listen) SAT Katherine Jenkins, Al Murray, Dallas Campbell, Mark Forsyth, SAT Cerys Matthews, The Staves SAT SAT Clive Anderson with an eclectic mix of conversation, music SAT and comedy. With guests Katherine Jenkins, Al Murray, Dallas SAT Campbell, Mark Forsyth, Cerys Matthews and The Staves. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01nwp31 (Listen) SAT Abu Qatada SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic cleric SAT described by the Home Secretary as 'dangerous man, a SAT suspected terrorist, who is accused of serious crimes in SAT Jordan'. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01nwp33 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01nwp35 (Listen) SAT Regulating the Press SAT SAT As the British press braces itself for the Leveson Report, SAT Steve Hewlett explores past attempts to regulate it - or SAT encourage it to regulate itself. SAT SAT Steve begins by discovering how offending publishers were SAT treated in the seventeenth century, when if you were flogged SAT down Fleet St to the pillory you were getting off relatively SAT lightly. SAT SAT With the help of original documents from the period, he SAT traces how, once licensing was lifted in 1695, the ideal of SAT the free British press was born, only for real journalists SAT and publishers to find themselves encumbered by taxes, libel SAT laws and political influence. SAT SAT In the 1920s, the rising divorce rate gave journalists ample SAT opportunity to report the salacious sexual details revealed SAT in the consequent flurry of court cases. SAT SAT After a long period when governments had largely given up SAT trying to regulate the press, the hardline Home Secretary, SAT Sir William Joynson-Hicks moved a law to ban such SAT unpleasantness. SAT SAT However, it was only after the Second World War that there SAT was a new series of attempts not to regulate the press by SAT law, but to find a way to avoid that - by fostering SAT self-regulation. SAT SAT Steve finds out why the post-war period saw no less than SAT three Royal Commissions on the Press - only for these to be SAT followed by widespread objections in the 1980s that the SAT press was out of control. SAT SAT Instances like the publication of a rape victim's photograph SAT and some of the reporting of the Hillsborough disaster, SAT along with political objections to the invasion of privacy, SAT were followed by yet another Inquiry, led by Sir David SAT Calcutt. SAT SAT And so, in 1990, the Government announced that the press was SAT being given one final chance to make self-regulation work - SAT or legal controls would follow. SAT SAT But that never happened. The Calcutt Report led to the SAT setting up of the Press Complaints Commission, but was then SAT shelved - a fact that has not gone unnoticed by Lord Justice SAT Leveson. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01nt015 (Listen) SAT Rebus: The Black Book, Episode 1 SAT SAT 1/2. Ian Rankin's maverick detective, Inspector John Rebus, SAT investigates an unsolved murder with the help of a notebook SAT full of coded clues. SAT SAT Dramatised in two parts by Chris Dolan. SAT SAT When DS Brian Holmes is left in a coma after being severely SAT beaten, Rebus discovers his colleague's black notebook SAT contains coded clues on a case involving arson and murder. SAT Five years before, a mysterious fire burned down Edinburgh's SAT seedy Central Hotel. All the staff and customers were SAT accounted for but an unidentified body was found in the SAT rubble. The post mortem revealed the victim had died from a SAT bullet through the heart before the fire broke out. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT DI John Rebus: Ron Donachie SAT DC Siobhan Clarke: Gayanne Potter SAT Mickey Rebus: Steven McNicoll SAT DS Brian Holmes: Sean Biggerstaff SAT CS Watson: Douglas Russell SAT Ringan: Douglas Russell SAT Torrance: Paul Young SAT Vanderhyde: Paul Young SAT Kintoul: Simon Donaldson SAT Calder: Simon Donaldson SAT Angus Gibson: Richard Conlon SAT Nell: Shauna MacDonald SAT Marie: Shauna MacDonald SAT Auntie Ena: Anne Downie SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Writer: Chris Dolan SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01ntlrg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01ntgw5 (Listen) SAT The Moral Code of Social Media SAT SAT If Lord McAlpine decides he's going to sue those who wrongly SAT accused him of being a paedophile any lawyers he consults SAT could be extremely busy in the coming weeks. Not only would SAT they have Newsnight and the BBC in their sights, but also SAT those who named the peer on Twitter and other social SAT networking sites. Newsnight and the Bureau of Investigative SAT Journalism that combined forces to produce the initial SAT report may be clinging on to the fig leaf that they didn't SAT name Lord McAlpine, but they published all the clues like a SAT scattered mosaic and it didn't take very long for those on SAT social networks to put them all together, wrongly as it SAT happens and in some cases perhaps maliciously. The internet SAT feeding frenzy over who could be the top-Tory paedophile SAT grew to such a fever pitch that Phillip Schofield, presenter SAT of ITV1's This Morning, on a live programme and without any SAT evidence to back it up, gave a list of names he'd printed SAT off the internet to the Prime Minister and invited him to SAT investigate them. The situation at the BBC is serious, but SAT those involved will be identified and some could lose their SAT jobs and careers as a result. But how should we deal with SAT the almost countless thousands of people who used the SAT internet to destroy the character of an innocent man they SAT didn't know and who seemed, from many of their tweets at SAT least, to take great pleasure in doing so? Twitter and other SAT social media were supposed to be the tools to bring freedom SAT of thought and expression to the internet; the ultimate SAT democratiser giving anyone a voice to broadcast their SAT thoughts to the world. Is freedom of speech on the net so SAT important that we have to accept that the occasional SAT witch-hunt and trashed reputation is the price some people SAT have to pay for the rest of our rights and entertainment? SAT Does the speed, anonymity and mimetic quality of social SAT media make them uniquely malicious? Or are we in danger of SAT blaming the medium, rather than the message - all Twitter SAT has done is lay bare our baser instincts; our love of gossip SAT and the mob mentality that feeds on the weak and vulnerable? SAT And as we and traditional media increasingly tap in to this SAT digital fog of instant comment, rumour and innuendo are we SAT in danger of losing sight of a fundamental value - truth?. SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Mailk, Giles SAT Fraser and Claire Fox. Witnesses: Jamie Bartlett - SAT Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and SAT Head of the Violence & Extremism Programme, Demos, David SAT Allen Green - head of media at Preiskel & Co and legal SAT correspondent of the New Statesman, Vicky Beeching - SAT Visiting Research Fellow in Internet Ethics, University of SAT Durham; theologian and social media consultant, John Rentoul SAT - Chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday, SAT visiting fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nt3xy (Listen) SAT (11/12) SAT What tasteful connection might there be between Carmen SAT Miranda above the neck, Josephine Baker around the waist, SAT and Lady Gaga from head to toe? SAT SAT Northern Ireland take on the Welsh in the penultimate clash SAT of the current series, and this is just one of the puzzles SAT they'll be asked to unravel this week. Tom Sutcliffe asks SAT the questions and provides the teams with the hints they may SAT need to nudge them towards the solutions - but the more SAT clues they need, the smaller their scores will be. SAT SAT Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney play for Northern Ireland, and SAT David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander for Wales. Both will be SAT hoping to add to their tally of victories across the series, SAT to propel them as far as possible up the final table. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b01nt07k (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT SAT Ruth Padel meets poets from East Suffolk to work on some SAT poems in progress. Testing and revising as they go, in a SAT spirit of supportive criticism. Tough love for poems. 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. SAT Ruth and the group work on three very different poems on the SAT theme of 'darkness' - poems that evoke mystery, longing and SAT sadness. In the process they consider the pros and cons of SAT abstractions and the effective use of titles in a poem. The SAT group are ruthless yet supportive as they chuck out words SAT and redraft; listening, pruning and testing their work as SAT they go. 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 consider a SAT poem by Lavinia Greenlaw called 'Night Photograph.' SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01nwh5m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Vasily Grossman from the Frontline b0144ybv (Listen) SUN Through Chekhov's Eyes SUN SUN Elliot Levey reads Vasily Grossman's front line despatches SUN from the battle of Stalingrad 1:Through Chekhov's Eyes. In SUN the war of the rats snipers like Anatoly Chekhov reigned. SUN Translated by Jim Riordan. SUN SUN Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by SUN his experiences as a front line war correspondent. Following SUN the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, SUN Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for SUN active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a SUN special correspondent. His editor David Ortenberg noted that SUN Grossman, despite no combat experience, knew about 'people's SUN souls' . SUN SUN 1: Through Chekhov's Eyes. Red Star 20th November 1942. SUN 'I wanted to become the sort of man who destroys the enemy SUN with his own hands'. The cult of the sniper emerged SUN spontaneously during the Stalingrad conflict. The SUN 'Stalingrad Academy of street fighting' became a new kind of SUN war where every floor, every building, every block became SUN its own front line. Here a sniper could extract a terrible SUN and personal vengeance upon the German invaders who had SUN forced the Soviets to the very banks of the river Volga. SUN Encouraged by their commanders, lionized by journalists like SUN Grossman, the sniper became a heroic symbol of steely SUN determination. Here Grossman delivers a portrait both SUN intimate and heroic of a young man transformed by war amidst SUN the ruined city. SUN SUN Chekhov, along with Vasili Zaitsev, was already a star with SUN 35 kills in the heaviest fighting of October. According to SUN Grossman's editor, General Ortenberg, the writer spent many SUN hours with Chekov in his firing post by a wrecked wall. SUN Chekhov would later be credited with 256 'sticks' or enemy SUN soldiers. SUN SUN Reader Elliot Levey SUN Translator Jim Riordan SUN Producer Mark Burman. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nwh5p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nwh5r (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nwh5t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01nwh5w (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01nx324 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01nwp31 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01nwh5y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01nx326 (Listen) SUN In the Fullness of Time and At the End of the Day SUN SUN Irma Kurtz considers the origins and uses of clichés. SUN SUN She finds that, although many of our most often used clichés SUN originated with Shakespeare, newly minted clichés appear SUN every day. She reflects that clichés can be convenient SUN truisms that keep us linked to our heritage and community - SUN but also potentially dangerous generalisations. SUN SUN To help explain her thesis we hear readings from the works SUN of Shakespeare, Bernard Levin and Daisy Ashford, and music SUN from Ravel, Cole Porter and Frank Loesser. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy and Col Farrell. SUN The producer is Ronni Davis. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01nx328 (Listen) SUN Centipedes and Millipedes SUN SUN We are all familiar with these long cylindrical animals SUN running across the soil in our gardens when we disturb a pot SUN or some vegetation; their many segmented legs carrying them SUN swiftly to safety. But how many of us really know what a SUN centipede or a millipede actually is? Superficially they may SUN look like the same species, but there are many differences. SUN For this Living World, Chris Sperring heads off into the SUN Oxfordshire countryside with Myriapod specialist Steve SUN Gregory on a personal quest to find out more. SUN SUN On suitably damp and overcast autumnal day Chris discovers SUN there are remarkable differences in the ecology of the SUN predatory centipede and the unrelated dead wood specialist SUN the millipede. It turns out that centipedes and millipedes SUN are as distantly related from its other as they are from SUN spiders or flies. Learning that the easiest way to tell them SUN apart is that centipedes are fast moving and have one pair SUN of legs per body segment, Steve then reveals that Millipedes SUN have two pair of legs on each body segment and are much SUN slower when disturbed, often rolling up into coil or ball. SUN SUN Distantly related land dwellers of lobsters and crayfish SUN centipedes and millipedes have evolved to a life on the SUN land, one of the oldest terrestrial fossil is a millipede, SUN but they are more at home in moist leaf litter or behind SUN rotting bark where they can hide away from predators during SUN the day, coming out at night to feed. Autumn is a perfect SUN time to look for these cylindrical species so beginning in a SUN beech woodland the programme moves to an ancient wood near SUN the banks of the River Thames where Steve reveals how well SUN adapted these two species are to this moist habitat and how SUN important they are in the life cycle and health of our SUN woodland and garden ecology. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01nwh60 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01nwh62 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01nx32b (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01nx32d (Listen) SUN Children in Need SUN SUN Sir Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. SUN Donations: Please call 0345 7 33 22 33 (Calls to 03 numbers SUN are charged at standard geographic rates). You can give SUN online at bbc.co.uk/Pudsey or send cheques to BBC Children SUN in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, London W12 7WJ. SUN SUN The Rickshaw Challenge is a gruelling 411 mile journey and SUN the young people will take it in turns to pedal the rickshaw SUN as it makes it way from Llandudno in North Wales to London SUN across demanding terrain in potentially harsh weather SUN conditions. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01nwh64 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01nwh66 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01nx32g (Listen) SUN I am not the same. Prisons Sunday is marked with a service SUN from the church of St Peter de Merton and St Cuthbert in SUN Bedford. The church stands in the shadow of Bedford Prison SUN and the congregation is building links with the prison SUN chaplaincy there. The RSCM Millennium Youth Choir leads the SUN music and the service is led by the Co-ordinating Chaplain SUN of Bedford Prison, the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. SUN Director of Music: David Ogden SUN Organist: Daniel Moult SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ntm31 (Listen) SUN Mary Beard reflects on a topical issue. SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01nx32j (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01nx32l (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Tim Stimpson SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd..... Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd..... Louis Hamblett SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer..... Cian Cheesbrough 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 Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin SUN Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Lewis Carmichael..... Robert Lister SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Volunteer..... Janice McKenzie. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01nx32n (Listen) SUN John Lloyd SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the director, producer SUN and writer, John Lloyd. SUN SUN His work has been making us laugh for over thirty years: SUN Spitting Image, Not The Nine o'Clock News, Blackadder and QI SUN are just a handful of the programmes he's helped to create. SUN If the comedy work ever dries up he could open a shop SUN selling second hand Baftas - he's won a stack of them and a SUN Grammy and an Emmy. SUN SUN Which isn't to say it's been an easy ride - fall outs, SUN multiple sackings and missed opportunities have peppered his SUN stellar career in comedy. He says, SUN SUN "I like starting things ... there are starters and finishers SUN in life, that's the great divide ... I like the fight and SUN the passion and the difficulty - well I don't like it, but SUN it's what I do". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01nt3y6 (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 58th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable, where regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee as the programme's SUN reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect SUN inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the SUN piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01nx3pc (Listen) SUN Rethinking the hot dog SUN SUN Originally the street food of immigrants to the United SUN States, the burger and the hot dog were the original artisan SUN meat products in the late nineteenth century before going SUN 'downscale' and becoming the food of the masses there and in SUN the UK. Now they are going 'upscale' again both here and in SUN the USA. Tom Parker Bowles reports. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01nwh6b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01nx3pf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 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 contributrions 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 Misha Glenny is a Sony award winning broadcaster. His SUN previous collaborations with producer Miles Warde include SUN The Invention of Germany,. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ntlsf (Listen) SUN Bishop's Castle, Shropshire SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs Gardeners' Question Time in Bishops SUN Castle, Shropshire. Taking questions from a local gardening SUN audience this week are Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and SUN Matthew Wilson. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01nx3pk (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears about lives that have been improved by SUN Children in Need grants to charities ranging from theatre SUN groups to those offering support for victims of domestic SUN violence. SUN SUN In Scotland nine year old Matthew attends the theatre-based SUN project Arts in Merkinch, while Stephanie has been helped to SUN come to terms with her mother's death her counsellor at the SUN Bridges Project in East Lothian. And from Stoke on Trent SUN comes a conversation between Sarah and her 11-year-old SUN daughter Maria (not their real names), who fled an abusive SUN home five years ago and have been helped by Voices of SUN Experience to create some of the happy memories that are the SUN right of any child. 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 b01nx3pm (Listen) SUN Rebus: The Black Book, Episode 2 SUN SUN 2/2. As Rebus investigates an unsolved murder someone SUN kidnaps and suspends his brother over the Forth Bridge. Ian SUN Rankin's novel is dramatised 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 The attack on his brother can only mean that Rebus is close SUN to deciphering the secrets of the black book - but can he SUN track down those responsible for the Central Hotel murder SUN before they decide that it will take more than a warning to SUN stop his investigation? SUN SUN Other parts played by the cast. SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young. SUN SUN DI John Rebus: Ron Donachie SUN Cafferty: Gary Lewis 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 Eck Robertson: Tony Cownie SUN Angus Gibson: Richard Conlon SUN Heather: Wendy Seager SUN Kintoul: Simon Donaldson SUN Calder: Simon Donaldson SUN Torrance: Paul Young SUN Marie: Shauna MacDonald SUN Director: Bruce Young SUN Producer: Bruce Young SUN Writer: Chris Dolan SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01nx3rm (Listen) SUN Rachel Johnson on her latest book Winter Games SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Rachel Johnson about Winter SUN Games, her book set in Bavaria across two time zones - 1936 SUN and 2006, in which a granddaughter seeks to understand her SUN grandmother's exploits in Nazi Germany. SUN SUN Ronald Frame discusses why he was drawn to write about Mrs SUN Havisham, Dickens' famous jilted bride in Great SUN Expectations, and Michael Carlson gives us Reader's Guide to SUN the life and works of Dashiell Hammett. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b01nx3rp (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN Ruth Padel works with a group of poets who meet at SUN Stalybridge Station buffet bar in Manchester. Testing their SUN poems as they go, in a spirit of supportive criticism; tough SUN love for poems. SUN Poetry Workshops are gathering all over the country. In the SUN back rooms of pubs like this one, and in libraries and in SUN front rooms, poets meet to sharpen their verse. SUN Ruth and the group work on three very different poems on the SUN theme of 'journeys' - both symbolic and actual. One poem SUN takes us to Zante via Watford Gap, one considers perspective SUN and scale from on high, whilst another has a much darker SUN tone. The group will pay particular attention this week to SUN metaphor. SUN The group consider the use of metaphor in their poems that SUN are touching, funny and perceptive. Ruthless support is SUN applied as they chuck out each other's words and test and SUN prune as they go. SUN They discuss the techniques, inspiration, wordplay and SUN imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and rewarding. As SUN well as working on their own poems, they also consider a SUN poem by Carol Ann Duffy called Close. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01ntfwh (Listen) SUN The Zombie Effect SUN SUN It's estimated there are up to 150,000 so called zombie SUN companies in the UK. They are often defined as businesses SUN which are only able to pay off the interest on their debts SUN and have little prospect of growing without restructuring or SUN an injection of cash. SUN SUN The BBC's Chief Economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, examines SUN businesses caught in this situation and looks at what effect SUN they are having on the UK economy. He hears from business SUN experts who say these companies are partly responsible for SUN the poor levels of growth. They say banks have huge amounts SUN of capital tied up in businesses which are currently going SUN nowhere and that means they have less money available to SUN invest in more dynamic operations which have the ability to SUN grow and create jobs. They say the banks are also unwilling SUN to lend because they need to build up reserves to absorb SUN losses if these businesses eventually fail. SUN SUN Private equity investors such as Jon Moulton say in some SUN cases the companies should be allowed to fail in order to SUN let new businesses come through. But Hugh speaks to the head SUN of a major bank's restructuring unit which is responsible SUN for managing companies in distress who argues these SUN companies can be nursed back to health and it is better to SUN keep them alive and save jobs. SUN SUN This decision often involves what is known as forbearance by SUN the banks - where they ease or modify the terms of the loan SUN to give a company breathing space. This is happening not SUN only in business, but in the mortgage market too where SUN billions of pounds of loans have been converted from SUN repayment to interest only. SUN SUN Some economists warn many of these debts will never be SUN repaid and this means the banks aren't admitting to the true SUN level of losses they are facing. Even the governor of the SUN Bank of England is now warning of the dangers of forbearance SUN and says banks should ensure they have enough funds to be SUN able to draw a line under their losses. SUN Presenter: Hugh Pym SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01nwp31 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01nwh6d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01nwh6g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nwh6j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01nx4hz (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01nx4j1 (Listen) SUN Things take an unexpected turn at Jaxx. Meanwhile Hayley is SUN feeling anxious. SUN SUN 19:15 The Golden Age b01nx4j3 (Listen) 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 second episode, Tharb and Lord Reith have to help SUN the King overcome a bizarre speech impediment, with the SUN dubious aid of tempestuous children's presenter, Lancelot SUN Wyndham. Meanwhile, Mabel tries to revamp the BBC's flagship SUN sports show, "Saturday Sports Parade". SUN SUN Robert Bathurst.....John Tharb SUN Vicky McClure.....Mabel Hopcraft SUN Ford Kiernan.....Lord Reith SUN Peter Egan.....Lancelot Wyndham SUN Pippa Evans.....The Queen Consort SUN Kevin Bishop.....The King / Edward Fellowes SUN Ewan Bailey.....Gerald Merry SUN SUN Written by Arthur Mathews. Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SUN SUN 19:45 Astray b01nx4y3 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Four short stories from Emma Donoghue's new collection SUN Astray. These fact-inspired fictions, about travels to, in SUN and from North America, focus on emigrants, runaways or SUN drifters all gone astray for love or money, under duress or SUN incognito. Emma's compassionate imagination crosses borders SUN of race, law, sex, and sanity bringing the reader through a SUN scattered scrap-book of history. SUN SUN Man and Boy, read by Richard Lumsden, is a love story SUN between two lifelong companions facing involuntary SUN emigration in 1882 London. Two mutually devoted mammals who SUN find their only lasting sense of home in each other. SUN SUN Dublin born Emma Donoghue is an emigrant twice over; she SUN spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PHD before moving to SUN southwest Ontario where she now lives. Emma is probably best SUN known for her international bestseller Room, winner of the SUN Roger's Writers' Trust Fiction prize and the Hughes & Hughes SUN Irish novel of the year and a finalist for the Man Booker. SUN Emma has also written The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask SUN alongside many short story collections, most recently Three SUN and a Half Deaths. Emma has also written drama for radio, SUN theatre and screen. SUN SUN Man and Boy was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by SUN Laura Conway. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01ntlsp (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01ntlsm (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01nwp2q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01nx32d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01nt3yg (Listen) SUN Green Shoots from the Arab Spring SUN SUN With the downfall of the former Egyptian president, Hosni SUN Mubarak, political change has already happened in Egypt. But SUN how has such a revolution affected the mindset of ordinary SUN people in the region? SUN SUN In this edition of Analysis, the writer, Christopher de SUN Bellaigue, considers the consequences for Arab society of a SUN new culture in which ordinary people openly question those SUN in authority - not just in the political sphere but within SUN the family and religious realm too. SUN SUN The programme explores a number of examples: From an SUN apparent new determination to resist paying bribes to public SUN officials, through a greater desire to see active debate SUN rather than passive obedience in the classroom, to the SUN growth of salafists - conservative Muslims who advocate a SUN return to the core texts of Islam and a less deferential SUN attitude towards the traditional scholars. SUN SUN Though not all these phenomena were unknown before the Arab SUN Spring, the political revolution does seem to have fuelled SUN their growth: Key to many appears to be the disappearance of SUN personal fear - one unmistakable consequence of the demise SUN of the Mubarak regime. Today, despite often remaining wary SUN of the future, Egyptians are, it seems, fearlessly asserting SUN their own views as never before, without seeking external SUN validation. SUN SUN Questions, however, remain: If a new, more assertive SUN mentality is indeed emerging, who shares it - and crucially, SUN who does not? Would such an increased personal conviction SUN necessarily result in more pluralism, as is sometimes SUN assumed in the west, or give greater voice to Egypt's innate SUN social and religious conservatism? And what are the chances SUN that it could survive the country's overwhelming economic SUN and political problems? SUN SUN Producer: Michael Gallagher. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01nx4y5 (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 b01nx4y7 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01ntjpx (Listen) SUN Francine Stock and guests look at Michael Haneke's latest, SUN Amour, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva SUN who face the end together in their Paris apartment. Is SUN Haneke the greatest living European filmmaker? Dr Catherine SUN Wheatley and critic Jonathan Romney consider. SUN SUN Bradley Cooper discusses his dance around disruptive SUN personality disorders in the romcom Silver Linings Playbook. SUN SUN Fashion journalist Chris Laverty pulls apart Ben Affleck's SUN garb in Argo. SUN SUN And from 1970, there's romance - with more than a dash of SUN satirical comedy - across the racial divide in a New York SUN suburb on the verge of gentrification in Hal Ashby's The SUN Landlord. We talk to its star, Beau Bridges. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01nx326 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01nwh7g (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01ntg5h (Listen) MON Decline of the weekend; British riots of 2011 MON MON What was behind the British riots? From Blackberry and MON gossip to hard facts and first hand accounts. Laurie Taylor MON talks to Daniel Briggs about his research into last year's MON summer of discontent and damage. A definitive account of the MON nature and causes of the riots of 2011. Also, is it all over MON for the weekend? The sociologists, Jill Ebrey and Guy MON Standing, ask whether or not the weekend as a time for rest, MON family life and pleasure, is threatened with extinction by MON contemporary patterns of work. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01nx324 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nwh7j (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nwh7l (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nwh7n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01nwh7q (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nx57x (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist MON Church. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01nx57z (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 b01nwh7s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01nx581 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan MON Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01nx5jv (Listen) MON On Start the Week, Andrew Marr explores how Britain trains MON the artists and designers of the future. Christopher MON Frayling and Sarah Teasley celebrate the 175th anniversary MON of the Royal College of Art, the world's oldest art and MON design school. But one of its former teachers, the MON industrial designer Ron Arad argues for a broader arts MON education which doesn't split sculpture from painting, MON architecture from design. And the artist Antony Gormley MON redefines the limits of sculpture and building. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01nx5yh (Listen) MON Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Episode 1 MON MON Artemis Cooper's biography charts for the first time the MON extraordinary life story of the celebrated travel writer and MON war hero who was as renowned for his feats of derring-do as MON for his sumptuous prose. MON MON Not long expelled, wearying of London and the bright lights, MON with dreams of becoming a writer, the 18 year old Patrick MON Leigh Fermor embarked in 1933 on his epic walk across Europe MON which was to form the basis for his award-winning and MON best-loved books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and MON the Water. MON MON Read by Samuel West MON Abridged by Miranda Davies MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nx5yk (Listen) MON Maria Miller MP; Anne McElvoy; Natalie Duncan MON MON Women's Minister and Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP. MON Natalie Duncan performs her song Grace. Woman's Hour Power MON List: Anne McElvoy on the women shaping public policy. And MON some women mark their last ever period. MON Presenter Jane Garvey MON Producer Kirsty Starkey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nx5ym (Listen) MON Derailed, Episode 1 MON MON By Steve Chambers. MON MON Marie discovers that being married to a professional MON musician is not all plain sailing. George is romantic and MON great fun but how much does Marie really know about her new MON partner? MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON After a whirlwind romance and Mediterranean marriage to MON chirpy cockney George Marie's plans for a cosy Christmas a MON deux are derailed when he says the band's schedule has MON changed. But at least it will allow her to visit her MON recently bereaved dad. MON MON Credits MON Marie: Sara Poyzer MON George: Tom Watt MON Syd: Paul Stonehouse MON Policeman: Adam Nagaitis MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Steve Chambers MON MON 11:00 Revolutionary Radio b01nxh1f (Listen) MON A revolutionary General in Nicaragua asks what is more MON dangerous in the hands of the public - guns or microphones? MON MON Over the past 90 years, radio has proved a powerful MON political force, not just for reporting on changes of MON government but also for sending out a call to arms during MON some of the biggest revolutionary uprisings of the 20th MON century. These events track radio's evolution, from its rise MON as an exciting new technology used by the Bolsheviks to MON demonstrate their modernity to its reported demise amid the MON social media buzz of the Arab Spring. MON MON Fi Glover speaks to those who participated in these events, MON as well as ordinary listeners who stood by their radios MON during extraordinary times. MON MON In Prague, May 1945, William Greig calls for American MON assistance amid Nazi machine gun fire. In Greece, Antonia MON Moropoulou recalls Junta Military Police playing her student MON radio broadcasts during her incarceration in 1976. And in MON Serbia, Dusan Masic describes reading the news to the masses MON protesting below from the window of B92 radio during a MON government shutdown. Together they will tell the story of MON how radio became such a revolutionary medium. MON MON Producer: Kate Lamble MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 55 and Over b01nxh1h (Listen) MON Episode 2 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. MON This week Ray and Jane are both starting over with new MON paramours half their age. Despite the age gap it seems older MON does not always mean wiser. Apparently it's not only MON teenagers that act like love-struck, tongue-tied fools. 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 Honey's Dad ..... Robert Blythe MON Portia ..... Sarah Thom MON MON Producer/Director ..... Helen Perry. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01nxh1k (Listen) MON The Consumer Minister Jo Swinson takes your questions MON MON Got a gripe? The Consumer Minister Jo Swinson responds to MON your questions. MON MON Some bank customers are so proud of the pictures on their MON new personalised credit cards that they can't wait to share MON them on Facebook. Bad idea. Find out why you should stop MON doing it immediately. MON MON And just imagine the scenario... It's a rainy night. You're MON driving. You get a puncture. But when you pull over and MON delve inside the boot, there's no spare tyre! Guess what? MON More and more car companies are selling vehicles without MON spare tyres. We find out why and if there's anything you can MON do about it. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01nwh7v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01nxh1m (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 On the French Fringe b01nxh1p (Listen) MON That Film Festival Fixation MON MON Kirsty Lang and Lucy Ash take a series of snapshots off the MON beaten track in France, looking at the state of the nation MON through the prism of arts and culture. Along the way they MON meet an eclectic mix of artists, writers and performers. MON MON France boasts 168 annual film festivals, possibly more than MON all the other countries in the European Union put together. MON Some are famous, like Cannes. Some are obscure, like one on MON the Ile de Groix off the coast of Brittany exclusively MON devoted to films about islands. Or the celebration of MON detective films in the little town of Beaune, more famous MON for Burgundy reds than blood-soaked thrillers. MON MON Lucy and Kirsty visit Aneres, a remote village in the MON Pyrenees, (population 150) which hosts a silent film MON festival. The slogan is "Silent Cinema - Talking Piano" and MON they discover that the annual get-together, which began with MON the revival of the village cafe, now attracts top-class MON musicians from across France, many of whom compose original MON scores for films made before their grandparents were born. MON There is no entry fee - the audience is encouraged to 'feed MON the pig' - a huge piggy bank for donations outside the main MON screen in the village hall. But as the organiser Sylvain MON Airault admits, he relies on generous state subsidies which MON are under threat in this climate of austerity. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01nx4j1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nxh1r (Listen) MON Sunk MON MON Best known as an actor, Nicholas Gleaves' debut radio play MON Sunk stars the legendary snooker player John Virgo as MON himself. MON MON Sunk is the story of young man, Willets, who has struggled MON to find the right path in life. MON MON Haunted by his past and having spent his life feeling MON invisible and inconsequential, Willets is determined to make MON a change by pursuing his dream of becoming a champion MON snooker player. Can John Virgo help him realise his dream. MON MON Directed by Celia de Wolff MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Willets: Gerard Kearns MON Himself: John Virgo MON Audrey: Lesley Sharp MON Splints: Jordan Murphy MON The Captain: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Otty: Nicholas Gleaves MON Barry: Nicholas Boulton MON Mumbling Alan: Nicholas Boulton MON Security Guard: Tom Bevan MON Burley Nigel: Tom Bevan MON Worried Mum's Kid: Luca Dixon MON Willets (aged 8): Luca Dixon MON Worried Mum: Rachel Gleaves MON Hen: Rachel Gleaves MON Little Girl: Isobel Thomas MON Director: Celia de Wolff MON Writer: Nicholas Gleaves MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01nxh1t (Listen) MON (12/12) MON MON What's the aesthetic connection between Sewell's horse, MON Perrault's princess, the object of Spacey's affection, and a MON South London insect? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe invites the regular teams from Scotland and MON the North of England to tackle this and other cryptic MON puzzles, in the last clash of the current series. By MON tradition, the questions in this final programme have all MON been suggested by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and the MON teams will need to be on their mettle to deal with the MON listeners' ingenuity. MON MON Michael Alexander and Alan Taylor play for Scotland, and MON Adele Geras and Jim Coulson represent the North of England. MON Both teams will be making a last-ditch effort to increase MON their standing in the RBQ league table for 2012. The MON questions, as always, are available to read on the Round MON Britain Quiz pages of the BBC Radio 4 website. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01nx3pc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Expressing Pain b01nxh2l (Listen) MON Physical pain often refuses to be contained or accurately MON expressed through language. We struggle to use our MON day-to-day vocabulary to communicate acute hurt or MON discomfort; our words feel inadequate and our pain can be as MON difficult to articulate as a similarly acute feeling - love. MON MON Dr Stuart Flanagan often feels frustrated at the MON difficulties in understanding his patients' private pain. MON While he tries to manage their pain, there is a gap between MON the experience of the patient and his understanding of their MON personal, lived-in anguish. Here he explores what art can MON teach him about physical pain. MON MON Since antiquity, artists, musicians and poets have depicted MON physical agony in their work. With the help of art critic MON Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Dr Flanagan discovers the MON sculpture Laocoon and His Sons, dating back to the 2nd MON century BC, and examines images of the crucifixion and MON paintings from artists as diverse as Caravaggio, Goya, Munch MON and the Chapman Brothers, exploring how they express pain. MON In communicating pain through art does it become, MON paradoxically, something healing and of great beauty? MON MON Poet Pascale Petit, author of What the Water Gave Me: Poems MON after Frida Kahlo, explains how she thinks "art works on the MON pain spectrum" and chronic pain sufferer and artist Deborah MON Padfield tells Stuart about her inter-disciplinary work with MON chronic pain patients to create visual representations of MON their pain. MON MON Together they meet James, a 26-year old father from Cardiff, MON who suffers with severe chronic pain and struggles to MON articulate his agony to his family and physicians. Can MON patient and Doctor try to bridge this communication gap MON through art? MON MON Produced by Rebecca Maxted MON A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01nxh2n (Listen) MON Series 7, Space: The Final Frontier MON MON The Infinite Monkeys are back and in the first of the new MON series Brian Cox and Robin Ince boldly go where no science MON programme has been before, as they discuss space exploration MON with Captain Jean Luc Picard himself, actor Sir Patrick MON Stewart; former quantum physicist Ben Miller; and Professor MON of Planetary Sciences, Monica Grady. They'll be discussing MON whether space really is the final frontier and whether, with MON the development of ever more sophisticated robotic space MON missions, do humans need to go to space at all? Are MON un-manned missions more cost effective and ultimately more MON efficient in terms of the scientific knowledge they MON generate, or is the need to explore unknown worlds, on this MON planet, or any other, the key to driving the progress of MON science? MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox. MON MON 17:00 PM b01nxh2q (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nwh7x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01nxh2s (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 2 MON MON The 58th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Grove Theatre in Dunstable. Regulars MON Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once MON again joined on the panel by Tony Hawks with Jack Dee in the MON chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01nxh2v (Listen) MON Vicky makes her presence felt, and Lilian drops in MON unannounced. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01nxh2x (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the MON choreographer Matthew Bourne, in the light of his new MON production of Sleeping Beauty. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nx5ym (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 What Does Ed Miliband Really Think? b01nxh2z (Listen) MON Steve Richards, political columnist on The Independent, MON presents the inside story of Ed Miliband's journey of ideas MON since he became the Labour leader two years ago. MON MON The programme includes in-depth conversations with Ed MON Miliband himself, and his chief adviser and long-standing MON friend, Lord Wood, as well as other friends and critics. We MON trace the ideas the Labour leader has embraced, from MON predatory capitalism, to "predistribution" and "One Nation MON Labour". MON MON The Ed Miliband camp points to parallels with Margaret MON Thatcher's time as Leader of the Opposition. Like her, say MON his supporters, he is setting out a radical vision of a MON different economy during a time of financial crisis with an MON unstable government. MON MON Ed Miliband tells Steve Richards: "She was a conviction MON politician and conviction really matters. In the 1970s, it MON was a similar moment, in the sense that an old order was MON crumbling and it wasn't 100 per cent clear what was going to MON replace it. The challenge of the future is who can rise to MON the scale of challenge that the country faces and who can MON create a project for how this country's going to be run that MON is genuinely going to make our economy work, not just for a MON few people but much more widely." MON MON Critics tell us Miliband's ideas are too abstract, or too MON limited. They argue he's big on vision but seriously lacking MON in policy beef. And they question whether, as Prime MON Minister, Ed Miliband would be ready or able to bring about MON the radical changes he's proposed. MON MON Producer: Leala Padmanabhan. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01nthz9 (Listen) MON The Mayor of Mogadishu MON MON Andrew Harding meets the Mayor with the job of running MON Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Can the man nicknamed "Tarzan" MON tackle mass corruption and the physical and psychological MON impact of years of brutal warfare? MON MON Andrew joins Mohamed Ahmed Noor who, by request of the MON president, has returned with his wife and family from a life MON in London to try and clean up Mogadishu. MON MON The mayor discusses his ambitious vision for a city, much of MON which currently lies in ruins. He proudly shows off the new MON Mogadishu Mall and talks about the constant risk of attack MON by the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab - and narrowly MON escapes death by a car bomb along the way. MON MON Producers: Kate Forbes and Daniel Tetlow. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01ntjpz (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. MON MON A report this week issued by Greenpeace, Friends of the MON Earth and the RSPB suggests that crucial mistakes in our MON carbon accounting procedures make burning biomass in the MON form of wood appear a better idea than it really is. In MON fact, they go so far as to suggest we'd be better off MON sticking with coal. Yet recently some of the UK's biggest MON coal-fired plants have announced big increases in their MON biomass mix. From Princeton University in the US, Tim MON Searchinger - upon whose work much of the report is based - MON outlines the thinking. Gaynor Hartnell, CEO of the MON industry's Renewable Energy Association disputes the report. MON MON Also this week, many results form the different LHC MON experiments at CERN are being presented at a meeting in MON Kyoto. Many scientists' hopes over the years have been that MON the LHC will find unexpected results and discoveries that MON will herald the "New Physics" - the theories that will take MON us beyond the standard model. A favourite has been MON supersymmetry. This week, a new type of decay (a Bs meson MON decaying into a muon and an anti muon) has been observed at MON a rate that almost exactly supports the standard model, MON rather than anything more exotic. And as we go to air, even MON the recently discovered Higgs boson seems to be nothing more MON exciting than a bog-Standard Model Higgs. But are reports of MON supersymmetry's demise highly exaggerated? MON MON In the Netherlands, researchers have been working out MON whether emotions may be transmitted between humans via MON "Chemosignals" in people's sweat. You don't smell them, they MON are neither pleasant nor unpleasant, but left on a sweaty MON rag and wafted under female's noses they elicited a MON fear-like (and a disgust-like) response. MON MON And finally Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal of consortium ASTRAEA MON talks to Quentin about imminent testing of civilian MON applications for Unmanned Aircraft, AKA drones... MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01nx5jv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01nwh7z (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01nxh33 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis presented by MON Carolyn Quinn. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nzcb7 (Listen) MON The Liars' Gospel, Episode 6 MON MON In her new novel, award-winning author Naomi Alderman MON imagines the world of Roman-occupied Judea and the fate of a MON charismatic Jewish preacher named Yehoshuah. MON MON A year after Yehoshuah's death, four people tell their MON stories - his mother, Miryam; his former friend and follower MON Iehuda of Qeriot; the High Priest at the great Temple in MON Jerusalem, Caiaphas and the rebel, Bar-Avo. MON MON In today's episode, the High Priest Caiaphas is put under MON pressure by the Roman Prefect Pilate. MON MON Read by David Horovitch MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Produced by Emma Harding. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01nxh35 (Listen) MON Paul Weller (the B-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks MON to leading performers and songwriters about the album that MON made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live MON audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each MON edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing MON the artist about the album in question in the A-side, and MON then the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature MON exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 3, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "The MON Gift", the final album from the Jam (in the A-side of the MON programme, broadcast on Tuesday 13th November and available MON online), Paul Weller responds to questions from the audience MON and performs acoustic live versions of some to the tracks MON from the album which was released 30 years ago. MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the MON Radio 4 website, where all the programmes of the series can MON also be downloaded and other musical goodies accessed. MON MON Producers: Paul Kobrak & India Rakusen. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nxh37 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01nwh8w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01nx5yh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nwh8y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nwh90 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nwh92 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01nwh94 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nxh46 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist TUE Church. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01nxh48 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01nxh4b (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in TUE Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b01nxh4d (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the TUE past behind the present. TUE TUE 09:30 In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps b01nxh4g (Listen) TUE New Orleans TUE TUE Alvin Hall continues across the USA revisiting Alistair TUE Cooke's Letter from America. This week he pursues Alistair's TUE passion for jazz in New Orleans, the city where it all TUE began. 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 TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01nxh4j (Listen) TUE Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Episode 2 TUE TUE The aspiring writer, on his epic quest across Europe, enters TUE the Ottoman East. TUE TUE Read by Samuel West TUE Abridged by Miranda Davies TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nxh4l (Listen) TUE Justine Roberts; Movember woman; apprentices TUE TUE Woman's Hour Power List: Justine Roberts tells us about the TUE women shaping family lives. Young women being taken on as TUE apprentices. And, Movember...we're joined by a woman not TUE shaving or bleaching her top lip to raise money for prostate TUE and testicular cancer charities. TUE Presenter Jane Garvey TUE Producer Laura Northedge. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxh4n (Listen) TUE Derailed, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Steve Chambers TUE TUE Marie's new husband George has been hurt in the Taunton rail TUE crash. Marie thought he was playing Christmas gigs with his TUE band in Scotland. She drives South to discover a whole lot TUE more about the past of the man she married after a whirlwind TUE romance. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01nxh4q (Listen) TUE Series 3, Ash Dieback/Managing woodlands TUE TUE Brett Westwood examines the world of nature and the TUE challenges of wildlife conservation. TUE TUE 11:30 Blues Run the Game b01nxh4s (Listen) TUE Laura Barton reveals a lost gem of British folk music and TUE tells the poignant story of its creator, Jackson C Frank. TUE TUE With insurance money from a childhood accident Jackson C TUE Frank migrated from New York to London in the mid-'60s, TUE where his first album was produced by another ascendant TUE young songwriter called Paul Simon. It was warmly received TUE and Frank is spoken of as an influence on a generation of TUE British folk performers. TUE TUE And then, it seems, he disappeared from view. Little was TUE heard from Jackson C Frank for decades. TUE TUE Laura Barton speaks to some of those who knew him to find TUE out about the lost years and the tragedy of the life of TUE Jackson C Frank. TUE TUE Featuring Jackson C Frank's friends Al Stewart, John TUE Renbourn, Jim Abbott and John Kay. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Williams. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01nxh4v (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01nwh96 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01nxh4x (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 On the French Fringe b01nzq4h (Listen) TUE Cartoon Crazy TUE TUE Comics or Bandes Dessines are seen as "the ninth art" in TUE France. Graphic novels are not just entertainment - they TUE deal with serious topics from biography and philosophy to TUE chronicling events like the Iranian Revolution and the TUE Rwandan genocide. So why were the French the first to TUE elevate comics to an art form rather than a geeky pastime? TUE TUE Kirsty and Lucy talk to Jose Luis Bocquet about his vivid TUE chronicle of the rollercoaster life of Kiki de Montparnasse TUE -the famous beauty, artists' model and painter in her own TUE right. In Paris, magazine editor Patrick de St Exupery TUE explains why he commissions cartoonists to bring current TUE affairs stories to a new audience. He says that the cartoons TUE in XXI, which he set up as a French equivalent to the New TUE Yorker, help to sell this glossy and expensive monthly TUE magazine at a time when his competitors are closing down. TUE And Lucy and Kirsty discover that Paris has several TUE bookshops entirely devoted to selling graphic novels and TUE cartoon books. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01nxh2v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00w7856 (Listen) TUE Blue Eyed Boy TUE TUE A powerful and moving documentary-drama by Helen Cross, TUE which tells the true story of her father, Lawrence, the TUE evacuee who never went home. Told through improvised TUE interviews and re-created actuality, the play is constructed TUE as a documentary, as if it were happening now. TUE TUE In 1944, when he was five years old, Lawrence Duncomb (Albie TUE D'Urso) was evacuated from Blitz-torn London to Willerby, a TUE village on the outskirts of Hull, and taken in by a TUE childless couple. Lawrence had never eaten at a table TUE before, never said prayers, never slept alone in a bed or TUE had to mind his manners. Lilian (Jane Godber) is determined TUE to raise him as a well-mannered Christian. She wants this TUE substitute-child to accept and be grateful for all that TUE she's offering. Her husband (John Godber) also knows she's TUE desperate at the thought of the boy leaving her after the TUE war. Soon Lilian starts to dream of ways of keeping him, TUE even against his will. TUE TUE Finely judged and authentic performances from a quality cast TUE bring a poignant realism to this true story. The play TUE concludes with an interview with the real Lawrence. He says TUE he never stopped missing his mother and when he finally TUE tracked her down as an adult, her first words were: 'I've TUE been waiting for you to call.' TUE TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Violet: Lindsey Coulson TUE Lilian: Jane Godber TUE Dick: John Godber TUE Ronnie: Rasmus Hardiker TUE Lawrence: Albie D'Urso TUE Headteacher: Sean Baker TUE Director: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01nxh4z (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01nxh51 (Listen) TUE Brinsley Forde (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 4, A-side. "New Chapter" - More than 30 years TUE since its release, Brinsley Ford talks about Aswad's third TUE studio album. Formed in Ladbroke Grove in West London, Aswad TUE are the band that put UK Reggae on the map. They were TUE renowned for their fusion of styles including dancehall, TUE funk, hip-hop and dub and for bringing strong R&B influences TUE to the Reggae scene. New Chapter, their first album for CBS, TUE was both a watershed for the group and a benchmark for TUE British reggae and it features tracks like 'Natural TUE Progression', 'Ina Your Rights', 'Candles' and 'African TUE Children'. Released in 1981, it went on to influence the TUE likes of Maxi Priest, Soul II Soul and Massive Attack. 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 Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 16:00 Poor Reporting b01nxzgk (Listen) TUE Nick Fraser asks what it takes to get people in the rich TUE world engaged in the issue of global poverty, ahead of the TUE major TV project 'Why Poverty', screening on the BBC in TUE November. Nothing could be more important for the Western TUE media yet, somehow, it never seems to get it right. TUE TUE Fraser, editor of the BBC's Storyville, is in a unique TUE position to examine the dilemmas. He has been working on the TUE worldwide television project, reaching up to 500 million TUE viewers, for the last three years. He reflects on the TUE difficulties of selling a series on poverty and garners the TUE opinions of others who have attempted to raise awareness TUE around the globe. How can you avoid cliché, sentimentality TUE and callousness? And what stops people turning off? TUE TUE Fraser heads off to New York to meet an extreme example of TUE his audience, earwigging among some of the wealthiest people TUE on the planet, as they meet to discuss the war on want and TUE attempt to address the world's ills. TUE TUE Is poverty something the global rich care about or will TUE watching a tear-jerking documentary simply salve their TUE conscience as they plan their next holiday? And what part TUE should the media play: reporting on things as they are or TUE campaigning for how they should be? TUE TUE Producer: Mark Savage. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01nxh57 (Listen) TUE Ben Goldacre and Michelle Paver TUE TUE Strongly divergent opinions are aired on this week's edition TUE of A Good Read as acclaimed children's author Michelle Paver TUE brings Tove Jansson's 'Summer Book' to the table, a moving TUE account of the relationship between an old woman and her TUE granddaughter. We hear how she struggles with the choice of TUE medical journalist Ben Goldacre, who discusses 'Testing TUE Treatments', an account of how drug trials are conducted. TUE Presenter Harriett Gilbert likes both, but proposes an TUE autobiographical novel, 'Jigsaw' by Sybille Bedford, which TUE for Goldacre misses the mark by a million miles. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE The Summer Book by Tove Jansson TUE TUE Testing Treatments by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton and Iain TUE Chalmers TUE TUE Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01nxh59 (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 b01nwh98 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Bleak Expectations b01nxt2d (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled TUE TUE By Mark Evans TUE Volume 5, Chapter 1: Episode One: 'A Pleasant Yet Dull Life TUE Re-Evilled' TUE TUE The Dickensian comedy adventure returns. Pip Bin is TUE beginning to miss the conflict with his absent evil nemesis TUE Mr Gently Benevolent when he receives an intriguing TUE invitation to a house party with Britain's poshest man, the TUE Baron-Viscount-Marqu-earl-et the Lord-Dukey Clampvulture of TUE Too-Many Titles. But one of the other guests may not be all TUE he seems.... TUE Richard Johnson.............................Sir Philip TUE Tom Allen...............................Young Pip Bin TUE Anthony Head...................Gently Benevolent TUE James Bachman......................Harry Biscuit TUE Geoffrey Whitehead...................Clampvulture TUE Sarah Hadland...................................Ripely TUE Susy Kane..........................................Pippa TUE Mark Evans...................General Kartoffel-Kopf TUE TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01nxt2h (Listen) TUE Lilian resumes the helm, and Kenton is put in an TUE uncomfortable position. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01nxt2k (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including news of the shortlists for the TUE Costa Book Awards and an interview with singer and TUE songwriter Neil Diamond. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxh4n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01nxt2p (Listen) TUE Highways Agency TUE TUE Fed up with road works? Stuck in a queue of traffic? The TUE Government is promising big improvements for drivers who use TUE motorways and major roads. It's looking for ways to increase TUE private sector involvement and to boost investment. So what TUE future for the body that currently manages the network in TUE England? With the CBI calling for it to be scrapped, and TUE with criticism from local authorities and motoring TUE organisations, Allan Urry road asks whether it's the end of TUE the road for the Highways Agency? TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01nxt2r (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01nxt2z (Listen) TUE Author Sarah Wise talks to Claudia Hammond about the wealth TUE of evidence she has uncovered about the rise, in 19th TUE Century Britain, of the "mad doctor". TUE TUE This new generation of medical men were powerful and TUE corruptible, and there are many stories of difficult family TUE members being locked up in lunatic asylums - or "living TUE tombs" as they were called - in return for bribes. TUE TUE And it seems that far from the classic view of women being TUE the main victim of such skulduggery, moneyed men were more TUE likely targets as relatives and business partners sought to TUE get hold of their cash and property. TUE TUE Suspicion and anger towards the asylum committal procedure TUE crossed classes, and there were protests in the streets TUE against "lunacy inquisitions". TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b01nxh4d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01nwh9b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01nxt31 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis presented by TUE Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nzch5 (Listen) TUE The Liars' Gospel, Episode 7 TUE TUE When a troublesome young preacher, Jehoshuah, causes chaos TUE in the temple, Caiaphas is forced to hand him over to the TUE Roman prefect, Pilate. TUE TUE Read by David Horovitch TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01nxh2n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nxt34 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01nwhb5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01nxh4j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nwhb7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nwhb9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nwhbc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01nwhbf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nxvhk (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist WED Church. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01nxvhm (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b01nxvhp (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and WED Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in WED Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01nxvhr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01nxvht (Listen) WED Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Episode 3 WED WED As a young solider in Crete, he devises the audacious plan WED which was to turn him into a war hero. WED WED Read by Samuel West WED Abridged by Miranda Davies WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nxvhw (Listen) WED Susan Boyle; Jude Kelly; Lone Frank WED WED Susan Boyle on the changes to her life with fame and WED success. Woman's Hour Power List: Jude Kelly from the WED Southbank Centre discusses powerful women in the Arts. Lone WED Frank talks about her book My Beautiful Genome, shortlisted WED for the Royal Society Winton Prize for science books. WED Presenter Jenni Murray WED Producer Karen Dalziel. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxvhy (Listen) WED Derailed, Episode 3 WED WED By Steve Chambers. WED WED Is Marie's new husband George a bigamist? The woman at his WED hospital bedside says she is married to him too. Who is WED Marie to believe? He is now conscious and wants to talk to WED her. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 From Worcester with Love b01nxvq8 (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 b01blzkq (Listen) WED Series 1, The Music Festival WED WED Episode 3 - The Music Festival WED WED An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling, WED written by Will Smith. Will reluctantly accompanies wife WED Annabelle to a music festival. She brings her annoying WED friend Heather along. WED WED Will Smith ..... Will Smith WED Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland WED Guy ..... Paterson Joseph WED Heather ..... Morwenna Banks WED Various ..... Simon Bubb WED WED Written by ..... Will Smith WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01nxvqb (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01nwhbh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01nxvqd (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 On the French Fringe b01nzq7v (Listen) WED Street Theatre and a Giant Elephant WED WED When the Sultan's Elephant made its way through central WED London in 2006, almost 1 million people turned out to see WED it, making it the most successful piece of street theatre WED ever performed in the UK. The giant French puppets have more WED recently appeared in Liverpool to mark the centenary of the WED Titanic's launch and sinking. But where did these towering WED animatronic creatures come from and who were the people WED pulling the strings? WED WED Lucy and Kirsty go to Nantes, to find out how the street WED theatre company Royal de Luxe helped to transform this WED depressed former industrial city into a beacon of WED contemporary French culture. while retaining some of the WED traditional skills formerly used in shipbuilding. They meet WED its eccentric founder, Jean Luc Courtault, and see his WED latest show. They discover why the city's former mayor, Jean WED Marc Ayrault, now the Prime Minister, believes that WED investing in culture is key to promoting economic growth. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01nxt2h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00wdhq1 (Listen) WED Selfless WED WED Drew is brought into A&E by a car-driver who saw him come WED off his motorbike. He is concussed and has broken his ankle. WED But that's not all. Drew can't remember who he is or where WED he lives. He isn't carrying a phone and all he has in his WED wallet is a bank-card and a video-shop membership. The WED hospital will only discharge Andrew if he is watched for the WED next 24 hours. Owen, the driver, offers to put him up for WED the night. Owen is the perfect host and the flat is WED beautiful but it is on the third floor and the injured WED Andrew starts to feel trapped. The only thing he can WED remember is a phone number and a name - Elspeth. WED WED Anita Sullivan's play is a psychological thriller locked in WED a claustrophobic space. WED WED Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. WED WED Credits WED Drew: Adrian Bower WED Owen: Mark Meadows WED Elspeth: Nisha Nayar WED Nurse: Rebecca Harries WED Director: Kate McAll WED Producer: Kate McAll WED Writer: Anita Sullivan WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01nxw21 (Listen) WED Divorce WED WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer your calls on WED the financial ins and outs of ending a relationship. WED WED If you are divorcing, dissolving a civil partnership or WED splitting up after cohabitation, you'll be thinking about WED how to divide your assets, and any debts. WED WED Selling a home, splitting a pension fund or arranging WED maintenance payments may all be on the agenda. WED WED If you have a specific question, or don't even know really WED where to start, a panel of experts will be on hand to help. WED WED You can email your questions in advance to WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or the number to call is 03 700 100 444 WED - lines open at 1pm on Wednesday. WED WED Presenter Vincent Duggleby will be joined by Rachael Kelsey, WED partner at Edinburgh-based family law specialists Sheehan WED Kelsey Oswald; David Allison, partner at Family Law in WED Partnership; and Julie Mitchell from the advice team at WED Gingerbread, a charity for single parents. WED WED Producer: Bob Howard. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01nxt2z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01nxw23 (Listen) WED Residential care revisited - Laurie Taylor considers Peter WED Townsend's landmark research, 'The Last Refuge', fifty years WED after its publication. Retracing Townsend's footsteps, a WED hundred, older volunteer researchers sought to find out what WED had happened to the 173 care homes in his classic study. WED Julia Johnson, one of the authors of the new study, charts WED the changes and continuities in care for older people in WED England and Wales. Also, the archaeologist Rachel Kiddy, WED examines artefacts from two homelessness sites in Bristol WED and York. What can these items, as well as oral histories WED collected from the homeless, tell us about what it means to WED have no shelter in the 21st century? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01nxw26 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01nxw28 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nwhbk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00xhhvm (Listen) WED Series 6, Ship on a Bottle WED WED After problems assembling his model three masted schooner, WED Arthur goes in search of a free gift. After taking a WED well-earned break at Gerry's Cafe he sees an advert in the WED local paper which gives him an idea... WED WED All he has to do is express an interest in a 'no obligation' WED timeshare apartment in the Canary Isles, and the free gift WED is his! What could possibly go wrong? WED 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 b01nxw2b (Listen) WED Things reach crisis point for Ed, and Fallon has an WED interesting night off. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01nxw2d (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxvhy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01nxw2g (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Matthew WED Taylor and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01nxw2j (Listen) WED Series 3, Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge WED WED Maria Popova, Editor of Brainpickings, discusses how, with WED the world's knowledge more readily available to us than ever WED before, the fragmentation of our interests is driving us to WED seek out more and more of what we're already interested in. WED How, she asks, can we master the architecture of human WED knowledge in a way that takes advantage of the "Information WED Age", yet broadens rather than contracts our intellectual WED and creative horizons, both as individual consumers and as WED publishers of information? WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01nxw2l (Listen) WED Anthropocene WED WED Humanity's impact on the Earth is so profound that we're WED creating a new geological time period. Geologists have named WED the age we're making the Anthropocene. The changes we're WED making to the atmosphere, oceans, landscape and living WED things will leap out of the rocks forming today to Earth WED scientists of the far future, as clearly as the giant WED meteorite that ended the Age of the Dinosaurs does to WED today's researchers. WED WED Science writer Gaia Vince looks at the impact of these WED planetary transformations from the perspective of geological WED time. When was the last time comparable events happened in WED Earth history, and are what are the key marks we're making WED on the planet that define the Anthropocene? WED WED Gaia explores the distinctive fossil record we will leave WED behind on the planet. Leading biologists and WED palaeontologists say this that will mark out the WED Anthropocene as a distinctive chapter in Earth history - on WED a par with the evidence of the mass extinction which took WED out the dinosaurs and launched a geological era 65 million WED years ago. "This time, we are the asteroid," says Berkeley's WED Antony Barnosky. Extinction rates around the world are WED approaching those estimated for times in the deep past when WED most species became extinct. WED WED Far future fossil hunters may also discover a weirdly large WED number of large-sized fossil mammal species bones in the WED rocks of our times. Even more unnaturally, they come from WED just a tiny handful of species and they will be in the WED strata across every continent- a geological representation WED of billions of domestic livestock and the billions of people WED they fed. WED WED Some of our cities may also be preserved as 'artificial' WED layers of rock in the geological record. They will be like WED no other strata before in the history of the Earth. But what WED would a fossilised metropolis - with its concrete and glass WED buildings and underground train tunnels and sewers - look WED like in ten million years? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01nxvhr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01nwhbm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01nxw2n (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis presented by WED Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nzct7 (Listen) WED The Liars' Gospel, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode, Bar-Avo journeys around Judea, gathering WED followers for his rebel army. WED WED Read by Hugo Speer WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Produced by Emma Harding. WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b01nxw2q (Listen) WED Children of Lir 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 Children of Lir. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:15 Living with Mother b01nxw2s (Listen) WED Series 2, Four Little Words WED WED Owen is a TV addict and overweight. Since he's reached the WED age of forty, Allison thinks it's about time he did WED something about it. WED WED Drawing on her days as a fitness fanatic, Allison draws up a WED fitness regime and puts a reluctant Owen through his paces. WED Frustrated at his bone-idleness, she hatches a plan. But a WED greedy man is a cunning man, and it's not long until Owen WED devises a plan of his own - with a little help from his WED friend. 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 Allison ..... Brigit Forsyth WED Owen ..... Greg Hemphill WED WED Written by Alexander Kirk WED Produced by Anna Madley WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nxw2v (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01nwhcj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01nxvht (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nwhcl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nwhcn (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nwhcq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01nwhcs (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nxwmc (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist THU Church. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01nxwmf (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 b01nxwmh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and THU James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01nzgjz (Listen) THU The Borgias THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Borgias, the most THU notorious family in Renaissance Italy, famed for their THU treachery and corruption as much as their patronage of the THU arts. During their pre-eminence in the late 15th century the THU Borgias produced two popes. Rodrigo Borgia became Pope THU Alexander VI, now remembered as one of the most ambitious, THU corrupt and wicked pontiffs in the history of the papacy. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01nxwmm (Listen) THU Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Episode 4 THU THU Love flourishes in Cairo and in 1948 Paddy retreats to a THU monastery to write his first book. THU THU Read by Samuel West THU Abridged by Miranda Davies THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nxwmp (Listen) THU Grace Coddington; Antonio Carluccio THU THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxwmr (Listen) THU Derailed, Episode 4 THU THU By Steve Chambers. THU THU It's Christmas Day, Marie is unexpectedly pregnant, Laura THU still insists that she is married to her husband George, and THU now there's another woman sitting at his bedside. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01nxwmt (Listen) THU El Salvador's Gang Truce THU THU In one of the most violent countries on earth, peace has THU broken out. In March, a truce was brokered between El THU Salvador's two most violent street gangs; they agreed to THU stop killing each other. THU THU The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are criminal outfits that THU trace their origins to Los Angeles. In the 1990s, older THU members were deported from the US and forged local THU 'branches' on the streets of El Salvador. Since the truce - THU brokered in prisons with the gangs' leaders - the murder THU rate of this small Central American nation (with the highest THU homicide rate in the world after Honduras) has been cut by THU more than half. THU THU In Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly visits the imprisoned THU leaders of both gangs to find out how the deal was done. And THU she finds many Salvadorans are relieved. Now they can go out THU at night, and their children can play again on the streets. THU But the truce has not been without its critics. Should the THU state sponsor a non-aggression treaty between criminal THU organisations? And is there more to the agreement than THU Salvadorans are being told? THU THU Many are asking if this is a sustainable peace. Some THU question whether the murder rate is really falling, alleging THU that actually the gangs are continuing to kill and hiding THU the corpses. Claudia thinks this is what happened to her son THU - a teenager associated with the Barrio 18 who disappeared THU last month after a local shooting. She says she knows he's THU dead. All she wants is the return of his body. THU THU But for all the uncertainty, the gains are dramatic. Not THU only has the murder rate plummeted, but the number of public THU hospital emergency admissions in San Salvador for people THU injured by guns or knives has fallen by nearly two-thirds. THU Can the truce last? El Salvador is holding its breath. THU THU 11:30 Mockery with Monocles: The Western Brothers Revealed THU b01nxwmw (Listen) THU Geoffrey Palmer celebrates the songs of Kenneth and George THU Western and reveals their place in British comedy. THU THU The Western Brothers became famous from the late 1920's THU onwards for their variety act satirising the establishment THU of the times. They perfected the aloof exaggerations of two THU derisive upper-crust society members and became an instant THU success in the entertainment world. THU THU They toured the variety circuit through the 1930s and 40s THU with their own aeroplane and always stayed in the very best THU hotels. THU What made their witty songs at the piano so distinct from THU the rest was their topicality. Many of them were list songs, THU in which the verses could be altered to fit the stories and THU personalities of the day. Fellow performers, politicians and THU especially the stuffiness of the BBC were their targets - THU then, after war broke out, they laid into the enemy with THU rather more finesse than most. THU THU They became as famous for their appearance with monocles and THU old school ties as for their voices. Their photos frequently THU appeared in newspaper advertisements endorsing a variety of THU products. Their 'targets' mostly took the gentle barbs in THU good grace, but there were several occasions when their THU jokes attracted complaint. These included upsetting the THU Greek embassy, and suggesting nepotism at the heart of THU government, which necessitated an immediate written apology. THU THU Contributors include Barry Humphries, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, THU Mitch Benn, Stan Stennett and the daughters of Kenneth and THU George Western. THU THU Producer: Stephen Garner. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01nxwmy (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01nwhcv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01nxwn0 (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 On the French Fringe b01nzqg9 (Listen) THU False Beards and Feminists THU THU In the wake of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal which THU rocked France, Lucy Ash and Kirsty Lang find out how THU feminism in France is still very much a fringe affair. They THU meet some female French authors to discuss how language THU influences the way men and women relate to each other. Why THU did France's obsession with the perfect female form drive THU one writer to turn her heroine into a pig? And at some THU personal risk, they take part in an intervention staged by THU women wearing false beards. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01nxw2b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nxwn2 (Listen) THU The Mysterious Case of Maria THU THU by Florence Vincent, Emer Kenny, Corey Montague-Sholay, THU Wemmy Ogunyankin and Sandra Townsend. THU THU A romantic comedy noir by a team of five young writers. THU THU Ellie's dropped out of law college without telling her THU parents. She's found refuge in a down-at-heel bar where she THU devours thrillers featuring kick-ass detective Bianca Kane. THU When charismatic bartender Maria goes missing, Ellie starts THU her own eccentric investigation. THU THU Directed by Abigail le Fleming THU Studio production by Graham Harper and Robin Warren THU THU ABOUT THE WRITERS THU THU The writers met while working on the online BBC drama E20, a THU spin-off from BBC One's EastEnders. THU THU Emer Kenny was selected as the youngest ever writer for the THU BBC Writers Academy in 2012. Her first EastEnders episode THU was aired in 2012. Acting credits include EastEnders and THU Pramface. THU THU Corey Montague-Sholay is an actor and writer studying Arts THU Management at the BRIT School and developing plays for THU theatre. His play Aisle 26/Painrelief was performed at the THU Warehouse Theatre. THU THU Wemmy Ogunyankin is at college and was the youngest writer THU on E20. THU THU Sandra Townsend is working on a series of online science THU documentaries and has completed the Royal Court's Young THU Writers Programme. THU THU Florence Vincent also worked as a story writer for THU EastEnders on BBC One. She completed a Creative Writing THU Masters at Edinburgh where she co-wrote Remember This for THU Bedlam Theatre. THU THU Credits THU Ellie: Alex Tregear THU Maria: Stephanie Racine THU Ben: Adam Nagaitis THU Michael: Alex Lanipekun THU Esteban: Ben Crowe THU Jake: Ben Crowe THU Director: Abigail le Fleming THU Writer: Florence Vincent THU Writer: Emer Kenny THU Writer: Corey Montague-Sholay THU Writer: Wemmy Ogunyankin THU Writer: Sandra Townsend THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01nxwn4 (Listen) THU Snowdonia THU THU Helen Mark discovers the myths and legends of the landscape THU of Snowdonia. A recent million pound appeal by the National THU Trust successfully enabled the Trust to buy one of Wales' THU most iconic farms, Llyndy Isaf, and the land around it on THU the shores of Llyn Dinas. As well as being important THU environmentally, legend states that the area is the setting THU for the mythical battle between the red and white dragon, THU the red dragon being the victor and claiming the honour of THU becoming the country's national symbol. THU Helen also visits Ty Hyll, the Ugly House, a cottage saved THU from dereliction in the 1980s by the Snowdonia Society. The THU true origins of the house remain shrouded in mystery, THU although legend tells of it being built by two outlaw THU brothers as a 'Ty Un Nos', a house built overnight between THU sunset and sunrise with walls, roof and a smoking chimney. THU Under ancient law anyone succeeding in doing this could THU claim the freehold. THU What other mysteries surround this stunning landscape? THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01nx32d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01nx3rm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01nxwn6 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01nxwn8 (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 b01nxwnb (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nwhcx (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 b01nxwnd (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU Comic explanation of human development via stand-up, song THU and sketch. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01nxwng (Listen) THU Oliver gets some practice, and Ed receives some bad news. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01nxx0z (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on a new National Theatre THU staging of Pinero's The Magistrate, starring American actor THU John Lithgow. THU THU Producer Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxwmr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01nxx11 (Listen) THU The Report is a current affairs series combining original THU insights into major news stories with topical THU investigations. THU Today Melanie Abbott asks what happens when victims of THU burglary come face to face with an intruder in their home THU and fight back. How does the legal process work? Are they THU treated as sympathetically as Justice Secretary, Christopher THU Grayling, thinks they should be? And what might result if THU the current law is strengthened? THU THU 20:30 In Business b01nxxzl (Listen) THU On Their Metal THU THU Peter Day travels to the Midlands to find out how THU beleaguered manufacturers are coping with the most difficult THU economy in decades. The region used to be the metal bashing THU heartland of the country but now manufacturers, service THU providers and entrepreneurs starting their own companies are THU all struggling to find a way to keep profitable in an era of THU low growth. What lessons have been learned over the past THU five years and how can the past help plan the way forward THU for the future? THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01nxh4q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01nzgjz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01nwhcz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01nxx15 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nzdkh (Listen) THU The Liars' Gospel, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode, Bar-Avo finds himself sharing a cell THU with the Jewish preacher Jehoshuah. Both will face the THU vagaries of Roman justice. THU THU Read by Hugo Speer THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Produced by Emma Harding. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01nxx17 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU EPISODE 4 THU THU Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre THU called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. THU The Headsetters have been asked to remove the massive hole THU in the middle of their office. It's health and safety gone THU mad. THU 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 Today in Parliament b01nxx19 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01nwhdw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01nxwmm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01nwhdy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01nwhf0 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01nwhf2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01nwhf4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nxzc4 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist FRI Church. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01nxzc6 (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 b01nxzc8 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and James FRI Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01nx32n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01nxzcb (Listen) FRI Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Episode 5 FRI FRI The construction of Paddy's "power-house for prose" in FRI Greece and a fascinating insight into the remarkable FRI creative journey which culminated in the award-wining, A FRI Time of Gifts. FRI FRI Read by Samuel West FRI Abridged by Miranda Davies FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nxzcd (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxzcg (Listen) FRI Derailed, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Steve Chambers FRI FRI Marie has discovered that George has a family in London. How FRI can she believe his explanations about Laura? How can she FRI believe in a man who has so many secrets? FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 The Curse of Pendle b01nxzcj (Listen) FRI Novelist Jeanette Winterson is fascinated by the Pendle FRI witch trials of 1612. 400 years on, in this programme FRI recorded in and around the area, she contemplates their FRI history - a tale of ambition, warring families and the FRI superstitions of James I. FRI FRI The Pendle witch trials of 1612 involved 12 accused, who FRI were charged with the murder of ten people by witchcraft. FRI They are the best documented of all the witchcraft trials in FRI English history. This is a fascinating story which moves FRI beyond the localised accusation and hysteria of the FRI well-worn Salem trials in the US and draws in the FRI superstitions of James I, the desires of titled families to FRI attract his good favour, and the local disputes and battles FRI of two 'common' families. FRI FRI Using the publication of the proceedings by the clerk of the FRI court, Thomas Potts 'The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in FRI the Countie of Lancaster', Jeanette Winterson weaves her own FRI telling of the trial through the programme, while unearthing FRI the back story and historic context. FRI FRI Jeanette explores the local area, visiting key locations as FRI she contemplates the countie of the time. Even today this FRI area of Lancashire has an above average proportion of FRI Catholic families and, during the reigns of Elizabeth I and FRI James I, Catholic priests were regularly holding secret mass FRI in the remote area of Pendle Hill. At the same time, James I FRI was obsessed with witchcraft - he even wrote a book about FRI it, Daemonologie. FRI FRI Finally, Jeanette's reflects personally on the trials and FRI what they have meant to the development of the area. FRI FRI Produced by Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b01nxzcl (Listen) FRI Series 2, Desperately Seeking Susans FRI FRI In the NHS satire by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer, a FRI general practice somewhere in Bristol is faced with FRI challenges and opportunities in equal measure as they adjust FRI to another 'biggest shake-up of the NHS in a lifetime'. FRI FRI This week, Polyoaks faces rocketing drugs bills as they try FRI to implement 20% cuts. The Practice Manager, Betty, demands FRI an audit in the pharmacy. Unfortunately, it appears drugs FRI are going missing and it looks like an inside job. Brothers FRI Hugh and Roy and celebrity TV doctor Jeremy are all prime FRI suspects and Betty and practice nurse Vera turn detectives. FRI FRI Dr. Roy Thornton.......Nigel Planer FRI Dr. Hugh Thornton........Simon Greenall FRI TV's Dr. Jeremy........David Westhead FRI Betty Crossfield.........Jane Whittenshaw FRI Nurse Vera Duplessis.......Polly Frame FRI Mr. Devlin...........Phil Cornwell FRI Mrs. Strickland........Claire Vousden FRI Malcolm...........David Holt FRI FRI Written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI Directed by Frank Stirling FRI Producer: David Spicer. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01nxzcn (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01nxzcq (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 b01nwhf6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01nxzcs (Listen) FRI National and international news presented by Shaun Ley. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 On the French Fringe b01nzqhb (Listen) FRI Underground Art - Literally FRI FRI Kirsty Lang and Lucy Ash investigate an underground arts FRI collective which operates in the vast network of tunnels FRI which lie beneath Paris.The obsessively secretive members of FRI the Paris Urban eXperiment, known internally as "The UX", FRI have spent the last 30 years surreptitiously staging arts FRI events and restoring and preserving parts of their heritage FRI which they feel the French establishment has neglected. A FRI few years ago these underground hackers and artists became FRI infamous when one morning the clock at the Panthéon, that FRI had not worked in years, began chiming thanks to their FRI efforts. Kirsty and Lucy clamber down a series of rickety FRI mental ladders and damp tunnels to find out why some people FRI prefer the Paris far below street level. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01nxwng (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nxzcv (Listen) FRI On Mardle Fen, Series 5, According to Ditcher FRI FRI By Nick Warburton. It's a full moon and no-one is sleeping FRI On Mardle Fen. Samuel is reminded of an ancient fenland FRI story and Marcia has something on her mind. FRI FRI Director Tracey Neale FRI Producer Claire Grove FRI FRI Nick Warburton won the Peter Tinniswood Award for the Best FRI New Play on Radio. His series The Peoples Passion went out FRI to great acclaim last Easter on R4. His afternoon play, FRI Friday When It Rains (TX October), was Radio Times Choice. FRI Nick dramatised Father and Son and The Snow Goose for R4's FRI Classic Serial. His original radio plays include Our Late FRI Supper with Marcia Warren. Other work includes 6 episodes of FRI Thrush Green and Moonfleet for Radio 4. Plays for stage and FRI radio include Conversation from the Engine Room, which won FRI the 1985 BBC/Radio Times Award, The Messenger for Radio 3, FRI an adaptation of Tolstoy's Resurrection, A Grove of Straight FRI Trees (short-listed for the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award), FRI and A Soldiers' Debt (entered for the Prix Italia). FRI FRI Credits FRI Marcia Hedges: Kate Buffery FRI Zofia: Helen Longworth FRI Samuel: John Rowe FRI Driver: Ben Crowe FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Producer: Claire Grove FRI Writer: Nick Warburton FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nxzcx (Listen) FRI Balsall, West Midlands FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is in the chair as Gardeners' Question Time FRI heads to Balsall, West Midlands - with horticultural experts FRI Christine Walkden, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew FRI fielding queries from the local gardening audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The BBC and All That b01nxzcz (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Roger Eckersley was persuaded in 1923 to give up his FRI loss-making chicken farm and join the newly formed BBC. He FRI stayed there for the rest of his career, holding many FRI positions including Director of Entertainment. FRI FRI This year, 2012, is not just the 90th anniversary of the FRI BBC, but also the 80th of its move from Savoy Hill to the FRI now iconic Broadcasting House. FRI FRI Eckersley's memoirs, The BBC and All That, published in the FRI 1940s, include beautifully drawn descriptions of that first FRI month in Broadcasting House. He often smuggled in small FRI groups of friends for unofficial tours of the hidden areas FRI of the BBC, including drama studios, sound effects stores FRI and the boiler room in the basement - his favourite. FRI FRI He had a wonderfully unstuffy and rebellious nature - FRI surprisingly appropriate for a BBC that was regarded by the FRI Establishment of the time as an unruly upstart. He relished FRI tales of being banned from broadcasting live football FRI commentaries, so paying a string of eye-witnesses to leave FRI the ground at regular intervals and give descriptions of the FRI action they had just seen. He was part of the Pronunciation FRI Committee when George Bernard Shaw and poet laureate Robert FRI Bridges almost came to blows over the how to say "acoustic", FRI and found himself in a discussion about jazz with Queen Mary FRI during which, he learned from an appalled friend afterwards, FRI he had persisted in calling her "My Dear". FRI FRI The BBC and All That brings to life once more the feelings FRI of awe and excitement experienced by the radio pioneers who FRI worked within the walls of the brand new Broadcasting House. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01nxzd1 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01ny0fc (Listen) FRI Tim Harford returns with a new series looking at the numbers FRI in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01nxzcq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 12:52 today] FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01ny0ff (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01nwhf8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01ny0fh (Listen) FRI Series 38, Episode 3 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 b01ny0fk (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker..... Amy Shindler FRI Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling..... Sara Coward 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 Darrell Makepeace..... Dan Hagley FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur FRI Corey..... Adam Nagaitis. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ny0fm (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nxzcg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ny0fp (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Samuel Ward Academy in Haverhill, Suffolk. Guests FRI include the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate FRI Change Caroline Flint MP and the Speaker's Chaplain the FRI Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ny0fr (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b016vxyz (Listen) FRI The Weirdstone of Brisingamen FRI FRI Say 'Alderley Edge' to a lot of people and they'll think of FRI footballers with their wives, living in grand mansions. But FRI for a great many the words will conjure up wizards and a FRI hundred knights sleeping in a cave for thousands of years. FRI Alan Garner used a local legend as the starting point to his FRI book "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and the story is firmly FRI set in the part of Cheshire that he knows so well. The book FRI has been cherished by readers of all ages for fifty years FRI and it's timely that Radio 4 is broadcasting a new FRI dramatisation as Garner's novel about the adult life of the FRI young hero of Brisingamen is due out next year. FRI FRI Robert Powell who plays the narrator, has known Alan Garner FRI since he was a schoolboy in Manchester and Struan Rodger who FRI plays the dwarf, Durathror, was in a radio production of FRI another Garner story, "Elidor", when he was only thirteen FRI years old. Philip Voss plays Cadellin the wizard and Monica FRI Dolan, who recently made such an impression as Rosemary West FRI in TV's "Appropriate Adult", plays a witch. Hugo Docking and FRI Fern Deacon, who play the two children caught up in a FRI fearsome adventure, both come from the Sylvia Young School FRI and Hugo commuted daily from Cirencester. FRI FRI Dramatised by Peter Thomson. FRI FRI Music by Mia Soteriou FRI Special Effects: Wilfredo Acosta FRI FRI Director: Jane Morgan FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Colin: Robert Powell FRI Young Colin: Hugo Docking FRI Susan: Fern Deacon FRI Gowther: Trevor Cooper FRI Bess: Rachel Atkins FRI Selina Place: Monica Dolan FRI Cadellin: Philip Voss FRI Fenodyree: Steve Hodson FRI Durathror: Struan Rodger FRI Director: Jane Morgan FRI Writer: Alan Garner FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01nwhfb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ny0ft (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nzdyj (Listen) FRI The Liars' Gospel, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's episode, the elderly rebel Bar-Avo encounters a FRI follower of Jehoshuah, who believes that the preacher died FRI and rose again. FRI FRI Read by Hugo Speer and Stephanie Racine FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Produced by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01nxh57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ny0fw (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01ny0fy (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
16 November, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 17/11/2012 - 23/11/2012
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