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SAT SATURDAY 08 DECEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01p2sy2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01p58n6 (Listen) SAT The Horologicon, Episode 5 SAT SAT As the ploughman drops into the western bay, we offer you SAT bene darkmans dear listener. Mark Forsyth is feeling SAT finifugal as his Horologicon reaches the end of the day. SAT SAT Written by Mark Forsyth SAT Read by Hugh Dennis SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2sy4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2sy6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2sy8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01p2syb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p458t (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with SAT Canon Jenny Wigley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01p458w (Listen) SAT 'I gave Spandau's Tony Hadley his voice.' Listener and SAT ghostwriter Maria Malone explains how to bring the life SAT stories of pop legends to the page. She's worked with the SAT likes of Cheryl Cole, Mica Paris and Tony Hadley. Military SAT artist David Rowlands and D-Day veteran Ken Parker talk SAT about how they've collaborated on turning Ken's memories SAT into an oil painting. Royal Correspondent Peter Hunt reads SAT listeners' sentences in Your News. With Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01p2syd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01p2syg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01p42w4 (Listen) SAT Mendips Canal SAT SAT A spectacular aqueduct hangs in limbo above the village of SAT Coleford whilst deep green ridges carve their way through SAT forest and fields. Tucked away at the eastern end of the SAT Mendips in Somerset, Jules Hudson discovers the secrets of SAT 'The Canal that Never Was'. SAT SAT Started in the late 1700s, the Nettlebridge branch of what SAT would have been the Dorset and Somerset Canal, stretches SAT eight miles though a quiet valley between Edford and Frome. SAT The canal itself was planned in order to link the Bristol SAT and English Channels and to connect the counties of Dorset SAT and Somerset into the canal network. The Nettlebridge branch SAT was planned to have boat lifts instead of locks and in a SAT feat of extraordinary engineering one balance lock was built SAT by James Fussell as a trial. The site of Fussell's Trial SAT Balance Lock was located and excavated by The Dorset and SAT Somerset Canal Society who revealed an almost completely SAT conserved masonry chamber. SAT SAT The route was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1796 but SAT unplanned factors including underestimated costs and SAT inflation due to the Napoleonic Wars meant that the canal SAT was abandoned. Today ghostly structures still rise and fall SAT through the landscape weaving their trail of what might have SAT been. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01p6n7q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The new National Centre for the Uplands says a shortage of SAT skilled young hill farmers must be averted, as landowners SAT like the National Trust predict a large proportion of its SAT tenants will retire in the next 10-15 years. Charlotte Smith SAT visits Exmoor to discuss where that next generation of SAT farmers will come from, with the National Farmers' Union SAT Uplands Chair Robin Milton. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01p2syj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01p6n7s (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys. SAT Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01p6n7v (Listen) SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams with Pam Ayres and the SAT Inheritance Tracks of Neil Sedaka SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles meet Pam Ayres, talk to SAT artist Annie Morgan who can't stop painting, etching and SAT sculpting- a compulsion that began after she tried to take SAT her own life by jumping under a train, hear from former Flt SAT Lt Alan Pollock who remembers his time in the RAF- he SAT abruptly left in 1968 having decided to fly his Hunter SAT fighter bomber under Tower Bridge on the river Thames, SAT follow up on last week's discussion about squatting with SAT former squatter Rosie Ellis, find out why on earth J.P. SAT Devlin went to Hackney with Les McKeown of The Bay City SAT Rollers, swoon to Neil Sedaka's Inheritance Tracks and SAT thrill to Benedict Allen musing on the pleasures of SAT 'dangerous' travel. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Secret Power of Trees b01p7fgv (Listen) SAT Britain's woodlands were planted for timber or hunting but SAT nowadays you're as likely to find ex-prisoners or mentally SAT ill elderly folk in the woods. With the rise of "social SAT forestry", woodlands have come to be seen as therapeutic and SAT healing, and not just by new age eco types. In Japan, SAT doctors take seriously the practice of "forest air bathing", SAT and claim all kinds of health benefits from simply being in SAT the woods. Ian Marchant explores whether trees really do SAT have miraculous powers and asks what happened to the idea of SAT forests as scary places, full of evil spirits and outlaws. SAT SAT Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01p6n7x (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT The Chancellor's autumn statement gave a gloomy economic SAT outlook for the next few years. But who does the public hold SAT responsible for this state of affairs? Pollster Peter SAT Kellner of You Gov, and former Conservative Cabinet minister SAT Peter Lilley who has experienced two recessions in the past, SAT discuss the politics of austerity. SAT SAT Recently the government has had some success in keeping SAT announcements secret as was the case with the appointment of SAT the new governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney. On the SAT other hand Whitehall leaks occur with some regularity and SAT even sometimes with approval. Is there a new impetus to SAT preserve secrecy and if so how necessary is it in an open SAT accountable society? Peter Riddell director of the Institute SAT for Government and George Jones of the Leveson inquiry SAT recount their involvement with secrecy. SAT SAT With the success of parliament's select committees in SAT banging multi- national companies and bankers to rights, is SAT there a quiet revolution taking place in the halls of SAT Westminster? Margaret Hodge MP Chair of the Public Accounts SAT Select Committee, Andrew Tyrie chair of the Treasury Select SAT Committee and the Joint parliamentary Banking Commission, SAT plus former MP Tony Wright on the these new developments. SAT SAT And the royal succession, is it as simple as the Prime SAT Minister claims, to ensure a first born girl can be monarch? SAT Dr Bob Morris former civil servant and now of The SAT Constitution Unit at UCL considers the move. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01p6n7z (Listen) SAT The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen examines claims SAT that a conclusion to the long conflict in Syria is within SAT sight. SAT SAT After a year of protests against President Putin, Steve SAT Rosenberg finds support for him is still strong -- SAT particularly in cities away from the capital, Moscow. SAT SAT Bethany Bell's in South Tyrol where some are angry that the SAT Italian authorities, in the midst of financial crisis, want SAT this wealthy Alpine province to contribute more to the SAT national exchequer. SAT SAT The Turks know that the television soap opera's an effective SAT means of extending influence throughout the Middle East. And SAT the BBC man Rajan Datar gets offered a screen part! SAT SAT And they've been harvesting the olives in the hills of SAT Tuscany. Dany Mitzman's been lending a hand and observing SAT that the harvest methods have changed little since ancient SAT times. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01p6n81 (Listen) SAT Autumn statement; landmark shake-up for investors; plastic SAT rights and wrongs SAT SAT Paul Lewis and guests discuss the implications of the autumn SAT statement. Benefits expert Lee Healey from Income Max and SAT pensions guru Tom McPhail will answer your questions. SAT SAT Financial advice has never been free but it has not always SAT been clear how advisers are paid. That situation will change SAT from the start of 2013 when the long awaited retail SAT distribution review changes are implemented. But how will SAT the changes affect investors and financial advisors. SAT SAT Paying by credit card often attracts a surcharge but SAT consumers are left safe in the knowledge that if things go SAT wrong any goods or services costing more than £100 are SAT covered by Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act. But banks SAT now operate a service called Chargeback if you pay for the SAT same items by debit card. So what is Chargeback? Is it as SAT comprehensive as Section 75? And if it is, why pay a SAT surcharge when paying by credit card? James Daley from Which SAT will reveal all. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Carter SAT Editor: Richard Vadon. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01p457k (Listen) SAT Series 38, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the week that George Osborne announced the Autumn SAT Statement, and the Windsors made a statement about a royal SAT arrival, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in SAT topical stand-up and sketches. With Jon Holmes, Laura SAT Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guest Holly Walsh. Produced SAT by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01p2syl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01p2syn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01p457r (Listen) SAT Queen Elizabeth High School, Gainsborough SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Queen Elizabeth's High School in Gainsborough, SAT Lincolnshire. Guests include the Shadow Business Secretary SAT Chuka Umunna, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, Dr Samantha SAT Callan from the Centre for Social Justice and the Leader of SAT the House of Commons Andrew Lansley MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01p6p7d (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00pdkqx (Listen) SAT Educating Rita SAT SAT By Willy Russell. A comic, sparky and touching portrayal of SAT the relationship between a working-class Open University SAT student and her middle-aged, alcohol-fuelled tutor. SAT SAT Rita ...... Laura Dos Santos SAT Frank ...... Bill Nighy SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01p6p7g (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 b01p6p7j (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01p458w (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p2syq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01p2sys (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2syv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01p6p7l (Listen) SAT Harry Hill, Boris Johnson, David Suchet, Rebecca Front, SAT Alice Russell and Kathleen Edwards SAT SAT Mayor of London Boris Johnson takes a break from running the SAT Capital to talk to Clive about 'The Spirit of London'. First SAT published as 'Johnson's Life of London', it's released with SAT new material following 2012's Jubilee and Olympics and is SAT told through a relay-race of great Londoners illustrating SAT that the ingenuity, diversity and enterprise of the city are SAT second to none. SAT SAT Clive solves a mystery with actor David Suchet, who's played SAT the lead role in 'Agatha Christie's Poirot' since the SAT detective series launched. David's about to investigate the SAT life of St Paul, exploring the latest archaeological and SAT historical research associated with the story of this SAT charismatic man and his mission. 'David Suchet: In The SAT Footsteps Of St Paul' is on BBC One on Sunday 23rd and SAT Monday 24th December at 09.00. SAT SAT Clive's aboard the Big Train with actress Rebecca Front, who SAT plays hapless MP Nicola Murray and is frequently 'Tuckered' SAT by co-star Peter Capaldi in 'The Thick of It'. Rebecca's now SAT co-writing and starring in one of Sky 1's 'Little Crackers;' SAT a series of shorts which recreates Christmas stories from SAT childhood. 'Little Crackers' is on Tuesday 11th December at SAT 21.00. SAT SAT Comedian Harry Hill rides in on his tiny horse to talk to SAT Clive about belching his way through 'TV Burp' for the last SAT eleven years. His DVD 'Harry Hill's Cream of TV Burp' SAT features classic clips, skits, an alcoholic dog and an SAT aggressive tortoise! And if you want to know about Harry's SAT book 'A Complete History of Tim (the Tiny Horse)' - there's SAT only one way to find out.. SAT SAT With music from blue-eyed soul singer Alice Russell, who SAT performs 'Heartbreaker' from her album 'To Dust'. SAT SAT And classy Americana from Canadian chanteuse Kathleen SAT Edwards, who performs 'Football In The Grass.' SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01p6p7n (Listen) SAT Sir Philip Green SAT SAT Lesley Curwen profiles British businessman Sir Philip Green. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01p6p7q (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT “one day gender-blind casting is going to be as much of a SAT non-issue as colour-blind casting is now” SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01p6p7s (Listen) SAT Lawrence of Arabia: The Man and the Myth SAT SAT David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia was premiered in SAT London fifty years ago. It perpetuated but also critiqued SAT the myth of TE Lawrence, the Imperial desert adventurer, and SAT proved a turning point in the representation of the Empire SAT on screen. SAT SAT Allan Little examines the film and Lawrence's own account of SAT his desert campaign on which it was based, Seven Pillars of SAT Wisdom. He considers how they may be read in the light of SAT the modern Middle East. SAT SAT With archive of those who knew and served with Lawrence, SAT recollections of his brother and his biographer, SAT contributions from Arab scholars and Lawrence's own words, SAT Allan Little makes a case for Lawrence as a man of great SAT foresight - both as the 'father of guerrilla warfare' and as SAT a strategist who championed the Arab cause. SAT SAT The programme includes recordings from Jordan, where a team SAT of archaeologists from Bristol University is currently SAT excavating the remains of The Great Arab Revolt and SAT Lawrence's part in it. SAT SAT Producer: Susan Marling SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01p3151 (Listen) SAT The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 2 SAT SAT By Alexandre Dumas, adapted for radio by Sebastian SAT Baczkiewicz. SAT It is 1838, and the Count has arrived in Paris. His enemies, SAT Baron Danglars, Gerard de Villefort and Fernand de Morcerf SAT have no idea that Edmond Dantes, who they betrayed in SAT Marseilles a quarter of a century earlier, is plotting to SAT destroy them. SAT SAT Music by David Tobin and Jeff Meegan SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Count/Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SAT Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SAT Younger Haydee: Amber Rose Revah SAT Baron Danglars: Toby Jones SAT Gerard de Villefort: Paul Rhys SAT Fernand, Count de Morcerf: Zubin Varla SAT Mercedes de Morcerf: Josette Simon SAT Heloise de Villefort: Kate Fleetwood SAT Abbe Faria: Richard Johnson SAT General Noirtier: Karl Johnson SAT Hermine Danglars: Stephanie Racine SAT Albert de Morcerf: Will Howard SAT Jacopo: Joe Sims SAT Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SAT Valentine de Villefort: Lizzy Watts SAT Coachman: Paul Stonehouse SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01p2syx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01p424r (Listen) SAT Ethical consumerism SAT SAT Christmas is fast approaching and as usual, the competition SAT for where we should spend our money is hotting up. This SAT season we've been joined by a new phenomenon - where not to SAT spend it. Campaigners are appealing to consumers to boycott SAT companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Google that have been SAT accused of immorally avoiding paying their fair share of SAT tax, even though what these companies are doing is perfectly SAT legal. Is it our duty as consumers to not only spend our SAT money wisely, but to also think about the moral consequences SAT of where we spend our money? Is the pound in our pocket a SAT tool to express our moral and political outrage, or are SAT these boycotts just empty gestures and like those ethical SAT Christmas presents, is it more about assuaging our own guilt SAT about all that conspicuous consumption? It might be easy to SAT make a joke of all those goats being bought for Christmas SAT for African villagers, but, at this time of year especially, SAT shouldn't we think of others as well as ourselves? At times SAT it might feel like the competition from charities for our SAT money is as fierce as on the high street and the endless SAT Christmas appeals with their increasingly emotional tones SAT may overwhelm and irritate in equal measure, but don't we SAT have a moral obligation to contribute to charity? If the SAT latest figures are anything to go by, more of us are putting SAT our own needs before those of others. Charitable donations SAT have fallen by 20% in real terms in the past year - that's SAT the equivalent of £1.7bn less being given to good causes. We SAT live in one of the richest countries in the world. If we SAT wouldn't think of passing a drowning child in a pond without SAT trying to save them, why don't more of us donate more to SAT charities that undoubtedly save lives? And do charities SAT really care if we're giving out of a sense of guilt, rather SAT than a sense of genuine empathy and pity? Morality and money SAT on the Moral Maze - the gift that keeps giving. Combative, SAT provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk SAT with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Matthew Taylor and SAT Claire Fox. Witnesses: Andy Redfern - Director, Ethical SAT Superstore, Toby Ord - James Martin Research Fellow, SAT Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford, George SAT Monbiot - Journalist & environmental campaigner, Jack Lundie SAT - Director of Brand & Communications, Save The Children UK. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01p40h3 (Listen) SAT (2/17) SAT What does the musical instruction 'da capo' mean? And which SAT national newspaper features the motto 'Without fear and SAT without favour' on its front page? SAT SAT Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the SAT second heat in the current series of the evergreen general SAT knowledge quiz. This week he's welcoming competitors from SAT London, Hampshire and Kent to the BBC Radio Theatre. SAT SAT As always they'll need the widest possible knowledge of SAT science, history, the arts, current affairs, music and SAT popular culture, to stand a chance of making it through to SAT the series semi-finals in the new year, and possibly being SAT named the 60th Brain of Britain champion. SAT SAT There will be a chance for listeners to try to outwit the SAT contestants by suggesting their own intriguingly tricky SAT questions, in the 'Beat the Brains' feature. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT JENNY DUNN, a civil servant from Portsmouth; SAT SAT DAVID HANKIN, a school bursar from Beckenham in Kent; SAT SAT DHRUV SHARMA, an economist from London; SAT SAT RUFUS STILGOE, a full-time husband and father from London. SAT SAT 23:30 Brubeck at 90 b00w7cmk (Listen) SAT 'Take 5' by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is possibly one of the SAT best known jazz pieces of all time. For many it reflects the SAT hip West coast sound of fifties America and its success SAT propelled Brubeck on to the international stage. In light of SAT the sad passing of this jazz great, Radio 4 gives you SAT another chance to hear a remarkable programme. In Autumn SAT 2010 Paul Gambaccini traveled to the Connecticut home of the SAT jazz legend to explore his music and career reflecting his SAT war years, world famous Quartet, best known tunes and SAT family. In the programme we hear about the Dave Brubeck SAT Quartet classic line up featuring - drummer Joe Morello, SAT bassist Eugene Wright and saxophonist Paul Desmond. The huge SAT success of Paul Desmond's composition 'Take Five' was SAT followed by many tunes played in Brubeck's unusual time SAT signature best know of which - is 'Blue Rondo A La Turk'. SAT What distinguishes Brubecks experiments in time is his SAT innate sense of song and commitment to musical populism. As SAT we hear, in 'Brubeck at 90' we discover Dave as still SAT harvesting the highest awards his nation and his profession SAT can offer, including the BBC Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award SAT and most recently the Kennedy Center Honour in America SAT alongside Bruce Springsteen, Robert Di Niro and Mel Brooks. SAT A remarkable night as Brubeck rubbed shoulders with SAT President Obama and got the surprise of his life as we hear SAT in this revealing programme in the month of his sad passing SAT one day shy of his 92nd birthday. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 DECEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01p6mlt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b012036k (Listen) SUN New Welsh Writing from Ty Newydd, Translation SUN SUN Ty Newydd, near Snowdonia, is the National Writing Centre SUN for Wales as well as being the former home of Lloyd George. SUN These three stories were created there on a Writing for SUN Radio course, and showcase both new and established Welsh SUN writers. SUN SUN Translation is Julie Ma's story about a young Chinese girl SUN having to translate sensitive information for her mother. SUN It's read by Liz Sutherland. SUN SUN Director Kate McAll SUN BBC Cymru Wales. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p6mly (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p6mm0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p6mm2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01p6mm4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01p6ryd (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Nicholas' Church, Durweston, Dorset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01p6p7n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01p6mm6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01p6ryg (Listen) SUN The Gloaming SUN SUN The writer and broadcaster Sarah Cuddon considers the SUN inspirational and meditational qualities of the 'in-between SUN moments' of twilight at the start and end of each day. SUN SUN Sacred aspects of this time are explored alongside the work SUN of artists and photographers who refer to it as the 'blue SUN hour' and writers who have attempted to capture 'the SUN gloaming'. With music inspired by twilight from, among SUN others, Radiohead and Richard Strauss. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01p6ryj (Listen) SUN Would you give your neighbours a say in how to run your SUN business? Caz Graham meets farmers who are doing just that, SUN in an attempt to improve their farming and boost profits. SUN SUN The 'Monitor Farm' project started as a concept in New SUN Zealand, and they have now been running for nine years in SUN Scotland. At a new Monitor Farm in Peeblesshire Caz finds SUN out what farmers Kate and Ed Rowell hope the local farming SUN community will bring to their business. SUN SUN Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01p6mm8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01p6mmb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01p6ryl (Listen) SUN On the Sunday programme this week with Edward Stourton SUN SUN As plans to build a mega mosque in east London are turned SUN down, Trevor Barnes has a report examining who is behind the SUN project and why there were objections. SUN SUN The new vicar of St Martin in the Field, the Revd Canon Dr SUN Samuel Wells, has been sleeping out with London's homeless SUN this week. He has recorded his thoughts on his experiences SUN for us. SUN SUN Nurses are being asked to be more compassionate...so can we SUN be taught to be more compassionate? And how much does SUN religious faith play a part in making us so? We discuss with SUN Karen Armstrong and sociologist Ian Wilkinson. SUN SUN A monk at Assisi's Portioncule monastery is riding high in SUN the pre-Christmas charts. We have a report from John SUN Laurenson on how the Franciscan friar has become the new SUN Italian tenor superstar. SUN SUN Census figures on religious adherence are published next SUN week and its thought they'll show a huge drop in the number SUN of people calling themselves Christian. How useful are SUN census figures on showing what people actually believe...and SUN where might the figures leave the church? Professor Linda SUN Woodhead and Bishop Alan Wilson discuss. SUN SUN Should Pagans and Druids be taken more seriously as a SUN religion in this country? Emma Restall-Orr talks about their SUN beliefs and image. SUN SUN And as the Prime Minister backs plans to allow churches to SUN conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies, we hear from both SUN those in favour and opposed to the idea. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01p6ryn (Listen) SUN Build Africa SUN SUN Beatrice Achieng presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Build SUN Africa SUN Reg Charity:298316 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Build Africa. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01p6mmd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01p6mmg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01p6ryq (Listen) SUN Advent Expectations - Expect the Unexpected. Live from The SUN Salvation Army's Regent Hall, London; Preacher: Commissioner SUN William Cochrane; Leader: Major Richard Gaudion; The Regent SUN Hall Band and Songster Brigade are directed by Steve SUN Hanover; Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN Advent is a time of expectation. The Biblical texts are SUN filled with anticipation of the coming Messiah, promises of SUN hope for the future, and expectations of the Second Coming SUN of Christ. It's a time that we're called on to question SUN what's expected of us and reflect upon what we can expect SUN from God. As we prepare for Christmas our hearts are filled SUN with expectations, which may or may not be fulfilled. And we SUN are also reminded that God does not show His love for us in SUN the way we expect; rather than making a great and triumphant SUN entry into the world, he comes to us as a tiny, vulnerable SUN child. SUN SUN Christians believe that the coming of Christ turns to the SUN world on its head. The focus is not on the great and the SUN powerful but rather, at this time, we turn our thoughts to SUN the small and the weak. Jesus was not born in the manner SUN befitting of a great leader, a Messiah, but he came into the SUN world homeless, without even a bed to sleep in. And the most SUN unexpected thing is that this tiny child would be the one to SUN bring about a new world order in which unexpected things SUN happen; where the lion and the lamb lie down together, where SUN the poor are brought good news and prisoners set free. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01p457t (Listen) SUN Trustworthiness Before Trust SUN SUN Onora O'Neill reflects afresh on questions of trust, a SUN decade after her Reith lectures on the subject. She argues SUN that rather than asking, "how can we restore trust" in SUN general, following recent scandals and failures, we should SUN ask specific, practical questions about how better to SUN measure trustworthiness. "Placing and refusing trust SUN intelligently is not a matter of finding guarantees or SUN proofs; we often have to assess complex and incomplete SUN evidence, which the masters of spin and PR may be massaging SUN to make things look better than they are." Systems of SUN accountability or transparency can be ineffective or even SUN counter-productive whereas easily assessable communication SUN is "important and often indispensable." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN Onora O'Neill: A Question of Trust: 2002 SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01p6rys (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01p6ryv (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Tom Archer..... Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Robert Snell..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd 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 Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron SUN Joyce Walters..... Ann Beach SUN Matthew Watkins..... Paul Stonehouse. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01p6ryx (Listen) SUN Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP SUN SUN Kirsty Young interviews the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01p40hc (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the SUN Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by SUN Jeremy Hardy with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts SUN piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01p6ryz (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the role food plays in different SUN faiths and how increasingly churches, temples and mosques SUN are being tasked with feeding people who have fallen victim SUN to recession. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01p6mmj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01p6rz1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, presented by SUN Shaun Ley. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b01p314w (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN This week's Sunday lunch takes Hardeep Singh Kohli to London SUN where he meets Peter Woolf and Will Riley. Over lunch they SUN tell Hardeep about their unusual friendship which developed SUN after Peter broke into Will's house. Sitting in the house SUN where the burglary took place, Peter describes his life of SUN crime which began as a small child, whilst Will talks of his SUN affluent upbringing and his hardworking life as a business SUN man. But as Hardeep hears, their lives were changed for ever SUN when Will disturbed Peter burglarising his house and was SUN injured during an ensuing fight. After a restorative justice SUN meeting in Prison both men eventually formed a friendship SUN which enabled Peter to go straight. SUN SUN Producer: Dawn Bryan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01p4510 (Listen) SUN Rayleigh, Essex SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs BBC Radio 4's horticultural panel SUN programme from Rayleigh in Essex, where he is joined by Matt SUN Biggs, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness, to field SUN questions from gardening enthusiasts. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01p6rz3 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover dedicates this Sunday Edition to an extraordinary SUN conversation: civil partners Lyn and Mary re-consider their SUN relationship after Lyn served six weeks in Styal prison for SUN drink-driving. Mary, a retired civil servant and Lyn, a SUN trained counsellor, have been together nine years, but Lyn's SUN time in prison has had a huge impact on their relationship SUN and they are now uncertain of their future. With astonishing SUN honesty they lay bare their feelings and reveal problems SUN with which many will identify. 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 b01p6rz5 (Listen) SUN The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 3 SUN SUN By Alexandre Dumas, adapted for radio by Sebastian SUN Baczkiewicz. SUN With Fernand de Morcerf dead, the Count begins to tighten SUN the net around Baron Danglars and Gerard de Villefort, and SUN their unsuspecting wives. SUN SUN Music by David Tobin and Jeff Meegan SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Credits SUN The Count/Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SUN Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SUN Mercedes de Morcerf: Josette Simon SUN Gerard de Villefort: Paul Rhys SUN Heloise de Villefort: Kate Fleetwood SUN General Noirtier: Karl Johnson SUN Baron Danglars: Toby Jones SUN Hermine Danglars: Stephanie Racine SUN Fernand de Morcerf: Zubin Varla SUN Caderousse: Ben Crowe SUN Andrea Cavalcanti: Will Howard SUN Madame Lascelles: Sarah Thom SUN Coachman: Paul Stonehouse SUN Bertuccio: Paul Stonehouse SUN Valentine de Villefort: Lizzy Watts SUN Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SUN Eugenie Danglars: Eleanor Crooks SUN Jacopo: Joe Sims SUN Operator: Robert Blythe SUN Banker: Paul Stonehouse SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01p6szd (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to India Knight about her hilarious SUN new novel "Mutton" featuring 46 year old heroine Clara Hutt SUN and her encounters with the opposite sex. Clara Hutt has SUN appeared in two previous novels by India Knight, "My Life On SUN A Plate" and "Comfort and Joy." In this novel Clara is SUN struggling with her appearance after meeting a long lost SUN school friend who looks like a radiant 34 year old. She SUN considers the botox route too, but comments that a SUN consultation with Doctor Halliday, is like "horse SUN inspections when people force their mouths open to pronounce SUN on the quality of their teeth, and pick their hooves up to SUN examine their feet." A book which explores the cattle market SUN world of cosmetic surgery. SUN SUN M C Beaton proves that age is no bar to high achievement for SUN women: now aged 76 this year sees the publication of the SUN 23rd novel in the Agatha Raisin Murder Mystery series - SUN "Hiss and Hers"- and she has become the second most borrowed SUN adult crime author from libraries nationwide. She discusses SUN the secret of her success and why she keeps on writing. SUN SUN James Patterson beat M C Beaton for the top spot as the most SUN borrowed author from public libraries, but what else are SUN library users reading and how does it vary across the SUN country? Dorcas Taylor, Director of Workquake, from East SUN Riding Library Service and Annie Bell, Readership SUN Development Officer, from Edinburgh Library Service reveal SUN what their readers are enjoying locally with some surprising SUN run-away successes. What are the rest of us missing out on? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01p6szg (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents some tree poems, old and new, as the SUN country contemplates losing its ashes. Part of a short SUN season of tree programmes on BBC Radio 4. Poets Simon SUN Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Alice Oswald and Robin Robertson SUN read some of their own poems, including new work, and some SUN much loved and requested favourite tree poems including work SUN by DH Lawrence, Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, WB Yeats and SUN Gerard Manley Hopkins. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Inside the Academy School Revolution b01p41hl (Listen) SUN Zoe Williams steps inside Education Secretary Michael Gove's SUN academy revolution to find out if removing schools from SUN local authority control is really a magic formula for SUN success. SUN SUN More than half of England's secondary schools have already SUN converted or are in the process of converting to academy SUN status, gaining greater control over curriculum, length of SUN school day and how they spend their money. Many are adopting SUN innovative teaching techniques from abroad. SUN SUN But teachers unions and other critics warn that academies SUN are democratically unaccountable and that this SUN 'privatisation' of the education system will lower teaching SUN standards and divide communities. SUN SUN Zoe Williams spends time inside two flagship academies SUN sponsored by the charity ARK. Does their 'depth before SUN breadth' policy of focusing on core curriculum subjects SUN provide a rounded education? She finds out how pupils and SUN teachers respond to a longer school day and challenging SUN targets. And she talks to ARK's co-founder, hedge fund SUN manager Paul Marshall, about his reasons for getting SUN involved in sponsoring schools, and his concerns that SUN academies may need closer supervision. SUN SUN Zoe also visits academies where staff and sponsors have SUN struggled. St Aldhelm's in Dorset achieved the worst exam SUN results in England in its first year as an academy and Sir SUN Robert Woodard in West Sussex was placed in "special SUN measures" after an Ofsted inspection found teaching SUN standards to be inadequate. SUN SUN And can success be bought by academies with wealthy SUN sponsors? The head of a US-based sponsor of an academy about SUN to begin operating in the Midlands says his organisation SUN will do whatever it takes to ensure the school, and others SUN they plan to sponsor, are successful. SUN SUN Producer: Brian King SUN An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01p6p7n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p6mml (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01p6mmn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p6mmq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01p6szj (Listen) SUN Napoleon wasn't short and he wasn't permanently cross - we SUN set the record straight about The Not so Petit Corporal. The SUN gutsy singing that was an escape for cotton pickers in the SUN Deep South how Sacred Harp Singing is enjoying new found SUN popularity. Andre Previn on how he survived Morcambe and SUN Wise and saved the London Symphony Orchestra. And enriching SUN your vocab - how about gongoozle, guttles and Gundyguts for SUN starters, although you might need a nooning scalp first. SUN SUN All will make sense in Pick Of The Week, presented by Sheila SUN McClennon. SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01p6szl (Listen) SUN Neil's worries increase, and Matt is out to impress. SUN SUN 19:15 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tmt9h (Listen) SUN Lila SUN SUN It's the start of term time, and second year student Lila is SUN going to teach the Freshers everything she knows. Featuring SUN Nick Mohammed as Lila with Colin Hoult as the reporter and SUN Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) as Lila's best friend. SUN SUN Bits is a series of character pieces showcasing the best of SUN Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a series of one SUN off comic plays. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN 19:45 Astray b01p6szn (Listen) SUN What Remains 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 What Remains, read by Liza Ross, imagines the old age of a SUN sculptor couple, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Straying SUN across the line between clarity and confusion this story SUN explores the most painful space that can occur between SUN people. 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 What Remains was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by SUN Laura Conway. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01p4514 (Listen) SUN In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe SUN morning sickness tells us about the chances of having twins. SUN Yan Wong helps him look at the figures. SUN SUN We disentangle the Chancellor's Autumn Statement and ask: SUN where is the economy really at? SUN SUN As Nigeria prepares to revise its GDP statistics with an SUN expected jump of 40-60%, we ask how reliable are African GDP SUN statistics? SUN SUN Another Daily Telegraph headline comes under scrutiny. SUN SUN And we return to our Lego tower and look at how Lego can be SUN used to teach maths with Eugenia Cheng of Sheffield SUN University. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01p4512 (Listen) SUN Brazil's most famous architect, an eminent jazz musician, an SUN outrageous boxer and a radical Indian politician SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The lover of curves SUN designed most of the important buildings in his country's SUN capital city. Lord Foster pays tribute. SUN SUN Also: Dave Brubeck - the jazz composer and pianist, known SUN for writing in unusual time signatures. Julian Joseph pays SUN tribute at the piano. SUN SUN The Indian politician Bal Thackeray, a former cartoonist who SUN cited Walt Disney and Adolf Hitler as his key influences and SUN led the extremist Hindu party which dominated Mumbai. SUN SUN And the flamboyant Puerto Rican boxer Hector Camacho. SUN Notorious for his party lifestyle, he died in a drive-by SUN shooting. SUN SUN Last Word spoke to fellow architects Sir Norman Foster and SUN Thomas Deckker and to Head of Awards at RIBA, Tony Chapman. SUN Born 15 December 1907; died 5 December 2012 aged 104. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01p6n81 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01p6ryn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01p4349 (Listen) SUN Strong Medicine SUN SUN Big problems loom over the pharmaceutical industry which SUN influences so many people's lives. Giant corporations are SUN beset by scandal and their pipelines of new treatments are SUN running dry. Peter Day looks at the future of the industry SUN through the eyes of two Swiss pharma companies, one very big SUN and one of them tiny. Both are linked by their quest for a SUN treatment for Alzheimers. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01p6wdn (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 b01p6wdq (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01p42w6 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with director Martin McDonagh and actor SUN Sam Rockwell to discuss their new film, Seven Psychopaths. SUN SUN Neil Brand deconstructs the distinctive score for Akira SUN Kurosawa's 1961 samurai Western - Yojimbo. SUN SUN We sample a fine Bordeaux, the French film Tu Sera Mon Fils SUN (You Will be My Son), a dynastic drama set in a vineyard, SUN starring Niels Arestrup. SUN SUN As Britain's largest independent cinema chain, Picturehouse, SUN joins forces with Cineworld, what does this mean for SUN cinemagoers? Clare Binns, director of programming at SUN Picturehouse, explains all. SUN SUN Mother and son team, Charlotte Rampling and Barnaby SUN Southcombe, discuss their London neo-noir film, I, Anna. SUN SUN Producer Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01p6ryg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 DECEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01p6mnq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01p424c (Listen) MON Work identity on the railway; how to be gay MON MON How to be Gay - Laurie Taylor talks to David Halperin, the MON US Professor of History and Theory of Sexuality, whose MON controversial new book explores the way in which a gay male MON sensibility subverts mainstream culture, from Grand Opera to MON Broadway Musicals. Whilst some gay men repudiate what they MON perceive as a narrow and stereotypical version of their MON sexual identity; Halperin argues that a love of kitsch, camp MON and melodrama is, in fact, linked to a uniquely gay culture: MON Furthermore, its genius lies in some of its most despised MON features, namely its snobbery, caricatures of women and MON adoration of glamour. They're joined by the writer and MON cultural critic, Owen Jones. Also, Tim Strangleman discusses MON his study into work identity and 'loss': how older railway MON workers have reacted to change in their industry. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01p6ryd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p6mns (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p6mnv (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p6mnx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01p6mnz (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p6wvd (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with MON Canon Jenny Wigley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01p6wvg (Listen) MON Britain's waterways are the worst in Europe. A new European MON water blueprint says more money should be diverted into MON helping farmers improve water quality. MON MON The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group re-launches after MON going into administration over a year ago. MON MON And Farming Today hears warnings that more food processors MON will go to the wall unless they quickly adapt their MON businesses. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01p6mp1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01p6wvj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01p6wvl (Listen) MON Scotland - Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores what it means to be MON Scottish. The streets and history of Edinburgh come alive in MON Ian Rankin's crime novels, while the Glaswegian writer and MON artist Alasdair Gray marries elements of realism, fantasy MON and science fiction in his work. With a long history of MON Scottish emigration, T M Devine looks at the impact on the MON nation left behind. And the theatre critic of The Scotsman, MON Joyce McMillan, believes that despite the coming Referendum MON on Independence, it's the arts and not politics that define MON Scottish-ness. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01p6wvn (Listen) MON Looking for Mrs Livingstone, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Julie Davidson. MON Abridged by Laurence Wareing. MON Read by Tamara Kennedy. MON MON Scottish journalist and writer Julie Davidson journeys MON through contemporary Southern Africa in search of the traces MON that remain of Mary Livingstone: the courageous and stoical MON wife of renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. MON MON In the history books, Mary is hidden by her husband's shadow MON yet she played an important role in Livingstone's success MON and her own feats as an early traveller in uncharted Africa MON are unique. She was the first white woman to cross the MON Kalahari, which she did twice - pregnant - giving birth in MON the bush on the second journey. She was much more rooted in MON southern Africa than her husband: he has a tomb in MON Westminster Abbey, London; she has an obscure and crumbling MON grave on the banks of the Zambezi in a destitute region of MON Mozambique. MON MON In the thrall of Africa, the author has travelled MON extensively over several years in the footsteps of Mary MON Livingstone, from her birthplace in a remote district of MON South Africa to her grave on the Zambezi. She explores the MON places the Livingstones knew as a couple and, above all, MON explores the detail of the life and family of this MON little-known figure in British - but not African - history. MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p6wvq (Listen) MON Allison Pearson and Deborah Ross on Xmas adverts, Ruchira MON Gupta MON MON Where do you get your relationship advice from - an agony MON aunt such as Anna Raeburn or online websites? Allison MON Pearson and Deborah Ross debate this year's Christmas MON adverts - sexist or a recognition of the work done by mum? MON Trafficking campaigner Ruchira Gupta on changing laws and MON attitudes in India. Novelist Frances Fyfield. Diana Henry MON shows Jane Garvey how to make Poire William. MON Producer Kirsty Starkey. MON MON Jane spent the morning in food writer Diana Henry’s kitchen, MON watching her demonstrate recipes from her latest book about MON preserving food, 'Salt, Sugar, Smoke'. MON MON The Asda Christmas adverts have caused much debate on social MON media sites and in the newspapers. Some think they’re sexist MON and reinforcing gender stereotypes, others think they merely MON reflect the reality that it is women who do the hard work in MON the build up to Christmas. The journalist and broadcaster MON Deborah Orr and the Daily Telegraph columnist Allison MON Pearson join Jane to discuss. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p6wvs (Listen) MON Little Grudges, Episode 1 MON MON Prunella Scales and Hannah Gordon star in this sparkling MON comedy by Hattie Naylor, inspired by the experiences of MON listeners to Radio Four. MON MON Everyone loves Bonnie's cafe for the chintz, the coffee and MON her comforting presence; her uncanny knack of knowing what's MON wrong. But every single one of them has a secret grudge MON against someone. Even Bonnie. MON MON Credits MON Bonnie: Prunella Scales MON Ellie: Hannah Gordon MON Tom: Tom Glenister MON Fiona: Katherine Rogers MON Sissy: Eleanor Crooks MON Stacey: Sarah Thom MON Jim: Robert Blythe MON Director: Mary Ward-Lowery MON Writer: Hattie Naylor MON MON 11:00 Our Language in Your Hands b01p6zt6 (Listen) MON South Africa MON MON Anthropologist and linguist Dr Mark Turin travels to South MON Africa to get to grips with the country's complex language MON politics and policies. Until the mid 1990s, there were just MON two official languages, English and Afrikaans, while other MON indigenous African languages were sidelined. Today the MON situation is different, with eleven official languages MON recognized by the Constitution of South Africa as having MON equal value and importance. MON MON But what does that mean in reality? How can so many MON languages operate alongside each other in Parliament? And MON can they all have equal weight? Mark Turin visits a Soweto MON school to find out which languages children learn and what MON they speak in the playground, and talks to multilingual MON journalists and writers about the importance of their mother MON tongues. MON MON He meets Afrikaans speakers to learn whether their language MON can shake off its associations with the racist apartheid MON regime, and visits Cape Town to see the South African MON Parliament in action and meet the interpreters that make it MON work. MON MON Mark Turin is used to heated discussions when it comes to MON politics and language, and in South Africa he finds his MON greatest challenge. MON MON 11:30 Jeeves in Manhattan b00wr6qm (Listen) MON The Artistic Career of Corky MON MON Martin Jarvis performs 'The Artistic Career of Corky', the MON first of two of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated 'New York' MON stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet MON Jeeves. MON MON Recorded in front of a live audience - a packed house at the MON Everyman Theatre - it was a highlight of this year's MON Cheltenham Festival of Literature. In this one-man tour de MON force, as well as the characters of Jeeves and Wooster, MON Jarvis also portrays spineless American artist Corky, MON choleric Manhattan millionaire Alexander Worple and winsome MON chorus girl Muriel Singer. The laughs abound! MON MON Wodehouse wrote these sparkling stories in 1925 during the MON period when he was enjoying success in Manhattan as a lyric MON writer for American musicals. The tales provide a MON brilliantly humorous perspective for Jeeves and Bertie MON Wooster on how to deal with eccentric Americans, plus how to MON cope with the Brits abroad. MON MON In 2007, Jarvis's previous one-man Wodehouse at the Festival MON received outstanding reviews. The Times wrote: "Outshining MON all was Martin Jarvis in the funniest performance of the MON year... an astonishing one-man tour-de-force... Jarvis MON switched unerringly from one character to the next, but it MON was more than that. He caught the essence of Wodehouse's MON writing in a way I thought only possible through reading." MON Martin Jarvis received a Theatre World Award for his MON performance as Jeeves in 'By Jeeves' on Broadway. MON MON Producer/Director: Pete Atkin MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01p6zt8 (Listen) MON Puppy farming, helping the hoarders and twitter v instagram MON MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01p6mp3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01p6ztb (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The Global Gap b01p6ztd (Listen) MON Series 2: Turkey, Religious Leaders MON MON Global Gap is a series of five programmes where two people MON who do the same job, one from the UK and one from another MON country (for this week, Turkey), have a thought provoking MON conversation, to compare and contrast their working lives MON and the issues that arise in their jobs. MON MON A predominately Muslim country, Turkey nevertheless MON straddles Western and Eastern culture - and the series this MON week focuses on the religious versus the secular, capturing MON the differences in attitudes and society between Turkey and MON UK through conversation and recordings in workplaces. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): The Religious Leader MON Rev Canon Rosie Harper, vicar of a small church in Great MON Missenden and Chaplain to the Bishop of Buckingham, speaks MON to Ishak Kizilaslan, Imam at the Sultanahmet Mosque in MON Istanbul. Her father was a non-conformist minister. She MON wanted to be a vicar from early childhood and was one of the MON first to be ordained after women were accepted into the MON Church of England in 1994. She compares her experience and MON responsibilities as a religious leader to those of Imam MON Kizilaslan, who was appointed Imam by the Turkish Government MON because of his understanding of Islam, including having MON learnt the Qur'an by heart as a 10-year old boy. MON MON Reporter: Sara Parker MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON Executive Producer: Samir Shah MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01p6szl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p704f (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 9, A Pearl in the Oyster MON MON Victorian detective drama series, starring Brian Cox and MON Siobhan Redmond. MON MON Written by David Ashton. MON MON Episode three: A Pearl In The Oyster. MON MON A young prostitute falls in love and decides to leave Jean's MON employment - but she later returns to die on the doorstep of MON the Just Land. MON MON Other parts are played by the cast. MON Producer/Director: Bruce Young. MON MON Credits MON McLevy: Brian Cox MON Jean: Siobhan Redmond MON Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach: David Ashton MON Joseph Keir: Alexander Morton MON Arthur Keir: Owen Whitelaw MON Lily: Nicola Jo Cully MON Ogilvie: Douglas Russell MON Peggy: Ashley Smith MON Director: Bruce Young MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: David Ashton MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01p704h (Listen) MON (3/17) MON Which film actor was known as 'The Great Stone Face'? And MON which Welsh rugby coach is credited with first using the MON phrase 'get your retaliation in first'? MON MON The competitors in Brain of Britain will have to come up MON with the answers, and many others, as they face Russell MON Davies' questioning in the third heat of the current series. MON The programme comes from Salford and the contestants this MON week hail from Liverpool, Norwich, Leeds and Lincoln. If MON their general knowledge carries them through to the next MON stage in the new year, they'll stand a real chance of MON becoming the sixtieth holder of the prestigious quiz title, MON 'Brain of Britain'. MON MON As always, a Brain of Britain listener stands to win a MON prize, as the competitors try to answer a pair of fiendish MON questions he or she has devised. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01p6ryz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Blackout Ballet b01p704k (Listen) MON Ismene Brown uncovers the untold story of the International MON Ballet Company, founded by the young British ballerina Mona MON Inglesby. It was a hugely successful British ballet company MON that toured Britain throughout the war and for 12 years MON afterwards, performing lavish, full-scale ballets and MON playing in cinemas where theatres weren't available, taking MON ballet to the people at a price they could afford. MON MON They rivalled Ninette de Valois' Sadler's Wells company (now MON the Royal Ballet) and Alicia Markova's Festival Ballet (now MON the English National Ballet) and played an essential role in MON the creation of a British ballet tradition and also in the MON salvation of the Russian ballet classics, yet now they are MON forgotten. MON MON Surviving dancers now in their 70s and 80s, ask why Mona MON Inglesby never received the acknowledgement she deserved. MON MON Producer: Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01p704m (Listen) MON Series 7, Brain Science MON MON Will science ever understand the human mind? MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian and MON former psychiatric nurse, Jo Brand, and neuroscientists MON Sophie Scott and Brian Butterworth. With ever more sensitive MON brain scanning techniques and advances in brain science, how MON close are we to understanding the inner workings of the MON human mind - or is this a quest that still remains in the MON hands of the philosophers? MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox. MON MON 17:00 PM b01p704p (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p6mp5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01p704r (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 5 MON MON The 58th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote MON to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based MON entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run MON at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable, where regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee as the programme's MON reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect MON inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the MON piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01p704t (Listen) MON Matt has cause for celebration. Meanwhile Kenton is in MON hiding. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01p704w (Listen) MON Danny Boyle switches on the Front Row neon artwork MON MON Mark Lawson reports as director Danny Boyle switches on the MON Front Row Christmas neon artwork, which he has designed MON himself, at the BBC building in Salford. MON MON Producer Ekene Akalawu. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p6wvs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Positively Flawed? Affirmative Action and the Future MON of America b01p704y (Listen) MON When Abigail Fisher lost out on a place at university, she MON believed she had been judged on the basis of her skin MON colour. She applied to the University of Texas at Austin MON which, like many universities across the United States, MON takes race into account as part of its admissions policy. MON Soon the Supreme Court of the United States will decide MON whether UT Austin discriminated against her because she's MON white. Their decision is likely to have major repercussions MON - not just for university admissions policies, but for the MON future of race relations in America. MON MON At the UT Austin campus, Gary Younge meets staff and MON students and asks what the future holds for affirmative MON action. President Lyndon Johnson kick-started the policy MON almost half a century ago to address the legacy of slavery MON and segregation. Has it worked and is it still relevant MON today? MON MON It's a debate that goes to the heart of the American dream: MON the idea that, no matter who you are or what you look like, MON if you work hard you can achieve anything. Is affirmative MON action a sign of a country determined to make that dream MON real, or is it doing the opposite? MON MON Producer: Peggy Sutton MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01p3n7l (Listen) MON Sexual Abuse in US Prisons MON MON Linda Pressly investigates why rape and sexual abuse is so MON common in America's huge prison system - and asks if new MON measures to fight it will succeed. MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01p42w8 (Listen) MON With the on-going climate talks in Doha not hitting the MON headlines Quentin Cooper asks whether such large scale and MON largely incomprehensible meetings are effective at MON delivering anything worthwhile on climate change. Can MON science take the initiative from the policymakers and MON present the subject in a way which interests and inspires MON the public? MON MON We also interview James Watson the co-discoverer of the MON structure of DNA on the reissue of his classic work on the MON subject 'The Double Helix'. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01p6wvl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01p6mp7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01p706f (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p70cs (Listen) MON Of Love and Hunger, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical MON novel about the low life, as lived by a struggling salesman MON in a seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard MON Fanshawe is eking out an existence in a boarding house. He's MON trying in a half-hearted way to sell vacuum cleaners MON door-to-door... First published in 1947. MON MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON Reader: Carl Prekopp MON Producer: Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01p70cv (Listen) MON Corinne Bailey Rae (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, and then, in the MON B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions MON feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 6, the B-side. Having discussed the making of her MON second album, "The Sea" (in the A-side of the programme, MON broadcast on Tuesday 4th December and available online), MON Corinne Bailey Rae responds to questions from the audience MON and, together with pianist Steve Brown, performs acoustic MON live versions of some of the songs discussed. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p70cx (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01p6mq4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01p6wvn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p6mq6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p6mq8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p6mqb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01p6mqd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p70gd (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with TUE Canon Jenny Wigley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01p70gg (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 b01p70gj (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan TUE Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Analysing the Child Sex Offender b01pc2p5 (Listen) TUE Psychoanalyst and author Susie Orbach reviews the latest TUE research with experts in the field, to establish how far we TUE understand the psychology of the child sex offender. TUE TUE Research shows that 10% of children (7% of boys, 16% of TUE girls) have been sexually abused. While high profile cases TUE hit the press at intervals - Savile and Rochdale recently, TUE Cleveland and Orkney in the past - the abuse is going on TUE consistently. The evidence shows that most sexual abuse is TUE not committed by high profile offenders, but by family TUE members or acquaintances within the home. TUE TUE Susie Orbach discusses the issue with Anthony Beech, TUE Professor in Criminological Psychology at Birmingham TUE University, consultant clinical psychologist Jackie TUE Craissati, Head of Psychology for Forensic Services with TUE Oxleas NHS Trust, Julia Davidson, Professor in Criminology & TUE Sociology at Kingston University, and James Cantor, TUE Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the TUE University of Toronto. Together they look at who offends and TUE why, whether treatment works, and why society finds the TUE issue so difficult to confront and deal with consistently. TUE TUE Producers: Marya Burgess and Sarah Bowen. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01p70gn (Listen) TUE Olivia O'Leary with John Banville TUE TUE For 'One to One' Olivia O'Leary is interviewing three people TUE at the peak of their profession about growing older. This TUE week she meets the Booker Prize winning author, John TUE Banville, who also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym TUE Benjamin Black. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01p70ny (Listen) TUE Looking for Mrs Livingstone, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Julie Davidson. TUE TUE Read by Tamara Kennedy. TUE TUE In today's episode, the author travels through the Kalahari TUE Desert to reach the mission station at Kuruman ("the oasis TUE of the Kalahari") where Mary and David Livingstone were TUE married in 1845. The mission station was established in the TUE 1820s by Mary's parents, the Moffats, and is famous for its TUE church which still stands there today. TUE TUE Abridged by Laurence Wareing. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p70p0 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p70p2 (Listen) TUE Little Grudges, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sissy has met her lover's wife, Fiona has a shock for TUE Shirley and Bonnie is bothered by pixies. Comedy by Hattie TUE Naylor. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01p70p4 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Re-Wildling / Devonshire Beavers TUE TUE Many conservationists say that the British countryside is TUE too crowded and managed to be of real benefit to our native TUE wildlife. For Saving Species this week Brett Westwood takes TUE a close look at this premise and asks the question, can some TUE areas of our managed landscape be returned to their former TUE glory and therefore become hotspots to support our native TUE wildlife? TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 An Alternative Christmas b01p70p6 (Listen) TUE In An Alternative Christmas, Rev. Richard Coles uncovers a TUE treasure trove of dark, surreal, and subversive Christmas TUE tracks that were recorded but remained un-played and TUE forgotten, until now. TUE TUE Starting with a pair of uplifting Christmas sermons that TUE were originally advertised in the December 17th, 1927 TUE edition of the Chicago Defender: Rev. J.M. Gates' "Will The TUE Coffin Be Your Santa Claus?" and "Did you spend Christmas TUE Day in jail?". There were plenty of Christmas sermons in the TUE 1920's and 1930's when recorded sermons, many which were TUE sung and performed with a blues guitar, rivalled blues in TUE popularity among black audiences. TUE TUE We'll hear other songs and the stories behind them, such as TUE Santa's Rap Party, a favourite hidden Christmas treasure of TUE Radio 1 DJ, Huw Stephens. TUE TUE Rev Coles finds someone on a similar mission to him. Andy TUE Cirzan is the longtime vice president of concerts at Jam TUE Productions in Chicago. He's searched high and low to add to TUE his own collection of wildly obscure Christmas recordings TUE for his own playlist for more than a quarter of a century. TUE TUE He plays Richard some of his treasured recordings from the TUE 50's and 60's, including the cold war era's "Santa Miss TUE Those Missiles" and the dark Christmas track, "There is No TUE Sanity Claus II", with its references to guns, missiles and TUE napalm. TUE TUE Coles meets Nicholas Parsons, who explains the magic TUE ingredient to The Goons recording, "I'm Walking Backwards TUE for Christmas". For him the best Christmas songs need plenty TUE of fantasy. TUE TUE Music critic and recent Christmas album curator, Pete TUE Paphides also shares his well stocked alternative Christmas TUE record box. TUE TUE As he uncovers the recordings, Rev Richard Coles asks why TUE the major record labels wouldn't touch them and mainstream TUE radio wouldn't play them. TUE TUE Producer: Jo Meek TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01p70p8 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01p6mqg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01p70pb (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The Global Gap b01p7ff1 (Listen) TUE Series 2: Turkey, Business Women TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): Women in Business TUE Leading Turkish businesswoman Nur Ger talks to CEO Anne TUE Walker MBE. Both have built up their companies over the past TUE 30 years and now export all over the world. Both campaign TUE for women to get a better deal and equality in business, TUE although in Turkey the battle for recognition and acceptance TUE is harder for business graduate Nur who would have found it TUE difficult to take the lead on the family business and turn TUE it into a multi-million Euro fashion export company if it TUE hadn't been for the early death of her father. For dance TUE teacher Anne, being brought up solely by her teacher mother TUE fuelled her ambition. And her mum's £50 loan to buy her TUE first sewing machine was the beginning of International TUE Dance Supplies (IDS). TUE TUE Reporter: Sara Parker TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE Executive Producer: Samir Shah TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01p704t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p70pd (Listen) TUE A Bottle on the Shore TUE TUE By John Taylor. Based on the book by Karen Liebreich. TUE TUE A heart-stopping message found in a bottle on a Sheppey TUE beach persuades Dr Liebreich to turn detective. TUE TUE A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Karen: Stella Gonet TUE Jeremy: Anton Lesser TUE The Mother: Caroline Loncq TUE Sioux: Lucy Briers TUE Alison: Jane Whittenshaw TUE Marguerite: Rachel Atkins TUE Eliot: Stephen Critchlow TUE Director: John Taylor TUE Writer: John Taylor TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01p70pg (Listen) TUE Series 3, Neath TUE TUE Jay Rayner chairs the culinary panel show, this week TUE recorded in Neath, Wales. Jay and the panel field questions TUE from the local audience on all aspects of cooking, eating, TUE and drinking. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01p71gb (Listen) TUE The Zombies (the A-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson concludes his series in which he talks to TUE leading performers and songwriters about the album that made TUE them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience TUE at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition TUE includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the TUE artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, TUE the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature TUE exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 7. Forty five years after it was recorded, Rod TUE Argent and Colin Blunstone recall the making of the Zombies TUE album 'Odessey And Oracle'. When it was released in 1968, TUE after the band had split up, it was indifferently received. TUE But since it has been described as: "one of the great TUE undiscovered works of the psychedelic era" - Pitchfork; "an TUE album that should grace any record collection... essential" TUE - BBC; and "combining the adventure of Sgt. Pepper with the TUE concision of British Invasion Pop" - Rolling Stone. TUE Those who have cited the Zombies as influences include TUE everyone from Courtney Love to the Magic Numbers and from TUE the Arctic Monkeys to Paul Weller. 'Odessey And Oracle' (the TUE title was mis-spelt by the designer of the cover) contained TUE only one stereotypically summer-of-love hit ('Time Of The TUE Season') - the darker tones and dramatic third-person feel TUE of much of the album (including the likes of 'Care of Cell TUE 44', 'The Butcher's Tale' and 'A Rose For Emily') makes it TUE sound ahead of its time. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Pound Shops R Us b01p71gd (Listen) TUE BBC Business Correspondent Jonty Bloom embarks on a behind TUE the scenes exploration of a retail explosion that is bucking TUE all trends. As British high streets wither in the drought of TUE recession, forcing hundreds of shops to close, one retail TUE phenomenon is bursting with health and vitality - the pound TUE shop. And, with the discount sector in the UK now worth £7 TUE billion and predicted to rise to £11.2 billion by 2016, TUE pound shops are breeding like rabbits and big brands want a TUE slice of the pie. TUE TUE Are pound shops the saviours of the British high street or TUE the death knell of quality? Where does all that eclectic TUE stuff come from? And how come it still only costs a pound? TUE Psychologists, academics, punters and pound shop operators TUE help discover the origins of the pound shop and examine what TUE their meteoric rise has to say about all of us. TUE TUE We follow the trail of the weird stuff they stock on their TUE shelves, from China to the UK and back again, in a pound TUE shop equivalent of the old silk route. A potent mix of TUE bargains, surprises, convenience and easy maths. TUE TUE Produced by Jim Carey. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01p71gg (Listen) TUE Series 29, Jean Cocteau TUE TUE Francesca Simon is a writer, journalist and - most famously TUE - the creator of the "Horrid Henry" series of children's TUE books. She describes herself as "a giddy fan" of the artist, TUE film-maker and poet Jean Cocteau and celebrates his life and TUE work with the help of Dr Andy Martin of Cambridge TUE university. Matthew Parris can't wait to find out more. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01p71gj (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 b01p6mql (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Bleak Expectations b01p71gl (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Writerly Life Made Dreadfully Different TUE TUE by Mark Evans TUE TUE Episode Four: 'A Writerly Life Made Dreadfully Different' TUE TUE The Victorian comedy adventure sees a novel writing showdown TUE between Pip and Charles Dickens to find out who is the TUE greatest writer in Britain. TUE TUE Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman TUE Geoffrey Whitehead Clampvulture TUE Sarah HadlandRipely/Lily TUE Susy KanePippa TUE Mark Evans The Real Charles Dickens. TUE TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01p71gn (Listen) TUE Fallon and Kirsty are scoring points. Meanwhile Elizabeth TUE asks for help. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01p71gq (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on a new production of TUE Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols, starring Simon Russell TUE Beale. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p70p2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Pension Off the Old Lady! b01p71gs (Listen) TUE The role of Governor of the Bank of England is one of the TUE most important in the financial world. Mark Carney, whose TUE appointment was announced in November by the Chancellor of TUE the Exchequer, George Osborne, will have vast oversight of TUE everything from the level of mortgage finance to the way the TUE British financial system functions. The role is unique in TUE its power, scope and influence. TUE TUE So what should the new Governor's plan for Britain's TUE economic future be? In this programme, Kamal Ahmed considers TUE the prospects for jobs, growth and economic well-being under TUE the new Governor. And he examines what will be the likely TUE impact on the value of everyone's debts, borrowings and TUE savings. TUE TUE For some observers, the Bank of England failed to see the TUE approach of the financial crisis and, when it did arrive, TUE did not act decisively to mitigate its effects. Responsible TUE for targeting inflation at 2%, managing monetary policy and TUE smoothing the economic cycle, the Old Lady of Threadneedle TUE Street - as the Bank is known in the City of London - has, TUE they claim, consistently disappointed. And we have all paid TUE the price. TUE TUE Yet others argue that it has done no worse than other major TUE central banks. Ministers seem to agree: the government is TUE making the Bank responsible for more of the UK's financial TUE system. TUE TUE Talking to former Bank insiders, prominent politicians, TUE business leaders, economists and bankers, Kamal Ahmed asks TUE what lessons the Bank needs to draw from its role in the TUE crisis. Given its new responsibilities, what and how does it TUE need to change about how it is currently run and managed? TUE Can it be made more effective - while also being properly TUE accountable for its actions? And should it emulate how other TUE central banks do their job or do its own thing? TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01p71gv (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01p71gx (Listen) TUE Preventing PTSD TUE TUE Rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD in the TUE emergency services are much higher than the general TUE population, but new research at Kings College, London, and TUE Oxford University suggests that it's possible to protect TUE staff of the 999 Services by teaching them how to think TUE differently. TUE TUE Dr Jennifer Wild and her doctoral student, Rachel White, TUE have discovered that by training people to concentrate on TUE HOW the event is unfolding rather than WHY, significantly TUE fewer PTSD-type symptoms are reported. TUE TUE Researchers exposed volunteers to traumatic films with TUE visuals of accidents and deaths, but whereas those in the TUE WHY group were encouraged to focus on the abstract, on why TUE such terrible things happen and what it would mean for the TUE people involved and their families, the HOW group was TUE prompted to focus on the specific and objective details of TUE the event without straying into its greater meaning. TUE TUE The results showed that the WHY group suffered from more TUE intrusive memories, flashbacks and hyper-arousal than the TUE HOW group, suggesting that if emergency workers could be TUE trained to change their thinking, then psychological trauma TUE could be reduced. TUE TUE Claudia Hammond discusses the implications of these findings TUE with Dr Jennifer Wild and talks to "Bob", who suffered TUE severe PTSD for years after traumatic events in the armed TUE forces and later the police went untreated. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 Analysing the Child Sex Offender b01pc2p5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01p6mqn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01p71gz (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p71h1 (Listen) TUE Of Love and Hunger, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical TUE novel about the low life of a struggling salesman in a TUE seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard TUE Fanshawe is eking out an existence in a boarding house. He's TUE trying in a half-hearted way to sell vacuum cleaners TUE door-to-door. His colleague, Derek Roper, introduces TUE Fanshawe to his wife, Sukie, and the three of them begin to TUE go about together. First published in 1947. TUE TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Reader: Carl Prekopp TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01p704m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p71h3 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 DECEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01p6mrh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01p70ny (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p6mrk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p6mrm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p6mrp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01p6mrr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p71w4 (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with WED Canon Jenny Wigley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01p71w6 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01p71w8 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan WED Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01p71wb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01p71wd (Listen) WED Looking for Mrs Livingstone, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Julie Davidson. WED Read by Tamara Kennedy. WED WED In today's episode, the dangers and hardships of being a WED Victorian missionary wife are revealed in an account of a WED journey through the Kalahari Desert made by Mary Livingstone WED (heavily pregnant and with two young children in tow) in the WED wake of her explorer husband. David. WED WED Abridged by Laurence Wareing. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p71wg (Listen) WED Nigella Lawson; Tanya Byron WED WED Nigella Lawson joins Jenni to Cook the Perfect...Italian WED Christmas Pudding Cake. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p71wj (Listen) WED Little Grudges, Episode 3 WED WED Ellie learns the extraordinary truth about an old flame. WED Comedy by Hattie Naylor. WED WED Prunella Scales and Hannah Gordon star in this sparkling WED comedy which has been inspired by the experiences of WED listeners to Radio Four on the subject of grudges. WED WED Writer...Hattie Naylor WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:00 The Tree Scientists b01p7g10 (Listen) WED With 80 million Ash trees in the country under threat, can WED anything be done to save them from the devastating effects WED of Ash dieback? Dr. Adam Hart looks at what scientists know WED about the fungus that causes Ash dieback, he travels to WED Poland - where the fungus was first isolated and identified WED and speaks to leading scientists not only there but in the WED UK and Denmark to determine if Ash trees will suffer the WED same fate as they have across the continent. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris b01p71wn (Listen) WED An Amateur Corpse, Episode 2 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED Based on the novel by Simon Brett. WED What starts as a simple voiceover job soon leads Charles to WED the discovery of a dead body. WED WED Charles ..... Bill Nighy WED Frances ..... Suzanne Burden WED Joan ..... Geraldine McEwan WED Maurice ..... Jon Glover WED Hugo ..... Paul Ritter WED Ellie ...... Amaka Okafor WED Saskia ..... Christine Absalom WED Geoff ...... Patrick Brennan WED Clive ...... Sam Alexander WED WED Director ...... Sally Avens WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01p71wq (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01p6mrt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01p71ws (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The Global Gap b01p7fx5 (Listen) WED Series 2: Turkey, Sports Teachers WED WED Sports teachers Kerry Barber in UK and Sinem Varder in WED Turkey share their experiences. Birmingham's Golden Hillock WED School has a large number of Muslim pupils, many of whom WED wear the hijab, and sports lessons with girls and boys WED segregated - while Sinem's Turkish school has mixed classes WED and forbids girls to cover their head. Sinem sees this as WED liberating for women and is concerned that a proposal by the WED current Turkish Government to re-introduce the wearing of WED the hijab in schools is a backward step. WED WED Kerry and Sinem discuss these perhaps unexpected contrasts WED in their schools, as well as their own international success WED in male dominated sports - rugby for Kerry and basketball WED for Sinem. WED WED Reporter: Sara Parker WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED Executive Producer: Samir Shah WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01p71gn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p71wv (Listen) WED Bearing Witness WED WED By Philip Palmer WED WED Set in the Dutch city of The Hague in 2000, Philip Palmer's WED legal drama takes us inside the International Criminal WED Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as a defence WED lawyer is challenged by the moral and legal complexities of WED defending a man accused of war crimes. WED WED Credits WED Anthony Macdonald: Mark Bonnar WED Demir Candarli: Daniel Rabin WED Zukic: Serge Soric WED Hamid: Mario Macan WED Melanie Lefevre: Stephanie Racine WED Judge Crowley: Liza Sadovy WED Judge Krause: Robert Blythe WED Judge Hancock: Paul Stonehouse WED Madame Registrar: Sarah Thom WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: Philip Palmer WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01p720f (Listen) WED Child Benefit WED WED Paul Lewis takes your calls on child benefits. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01p71gx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01p720h (Listen) WED British politics, heritage and history. Laurie Taylor WED explores the divergent stories political parties construct WED about our history and their own historical roles. From WED disputes over the National Curriculum for History to the WED assertion of a lost 'social democratic' tradition by New WED Labour. Research Fellow, Emily Robinson, argues that WED politicians' manipulation of the past leaves them unable to WED speak of different futures. Also, Allison James talks about WED her research on the experience of sick children in hospital. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01p720k (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01p720m (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p6mrw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01p720p (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED This week, Mark takes a trip to Handsworth in Birmingham to WED explore reggae and riots, white supremacist gardening, and WED how takeaway food affects the time space continuum. WED WED Additional material by Pete Sinclair. WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01p7bxm (Listen) WED Iftikar feels out of place, and George has a lot of WED questions. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01p7bxp (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. WED WED Producer Penny Murphy. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p71wj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01p7bxr (Listen) WED Who's to Blame? WED WED In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and top legal WED experts discuss the extent to which groups and individuals WED have a duty of care to protect the safety and well-being of WED others. WED WED Revelations about Jimmy Savile and other abuse cases have WED raised questions about the responsibility of institutions WED when wrongdoing occurs on their premises or to people in WED their care. The programme asks if victims have sufficient WED recourse in law to take legal action against those who have WED behaved negligently or have failed to protect them from WED negligence. How exactly does a court decide who has a duty WED of care and establish whether or not enough effort was made WED to exercise it? WED WED Guests discuss calls for the Football Association to be held WED legally responsible for the Hillsborough deaths, the WED Government's responsibility for the safety of soldiers in WED Afghanistan and the Catholic Church's responsibility for WED sexual abuse by priests. WED WED And what is our individual duty of care for the safety of WED our own family, our neighbours or for anyone in our WED community? Should we introduce the equivalent of the French WED 'Good Samaritan' law which makes it illegal not to help at WED the scene of an accident? WED WED Other subjects to be discussed in the series are concerns WED that our employment laws are nudging towards a US 'fire at WED will'culture, the way the law restricts the use of hateful WED or insulting language and how moves to speed up our legal WED system may be resulting in injustices. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01p7bxt (Listen) WED Series 3, Nancy Lublin: 21st-Century Social Activism WED WED Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething.Org, discusses how the next WED generation are doing social activism. She describes the WED impact of the web on social activism, making it faster, WED cheaper and easier to do than ever before, and argues that WED this has big implications for societies around the world. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01p7bxw (Listen) WED Forensic Phonetics WED WED Many crimes are planned, executed and sometimes gloated over WED using mobile phones. And the move to digital means that WED recordings are cheap and easy to make for the criminals WED themselves, as well as for their victims and witnesses. WED WED Ranging from death threats left on voicemails and hoax 999 WED calls to fraudulent calls to banks and conversations between WED terrorists, phoneticians analyse the minute acoustic WED components of the human voice to determine not only what was WED said but, but to create a profile of the culprit or work out WED if a suspect's voice matches the voice in the criminal WED recording. WED WED In the UK alone, forensic speech scientists are called upon WED by police forces to analyse recordings in over five hundred WED criminal cases each year. WED WED While it's not possible to identify a unique 'voiceprint', WED as it is with fingerprints and DNA, speech scientists are WED developing new ways of teasing out the distinctive WED characteristics in human speech to improve their abilities WED to make a particular speaker stand out from the crowd. WED WED And using a recent ingenious discovery by a Romanian WED Scientist, the Police and phoneticians can now decipher WED whether a digital recording has been tampered with and WED pinpoint, to the exact second, when it was recorded. WED WED Rebecca Morelle looks at some of the new research in this WED growing area of forensics, including the impact of WED balaclavas on the credibility of ear witness accounts and WED whether it's possible to distinguish hoax distress 999 calls WED from genuine ones. WED WED It's a field that's been pivotal in high profile cases, WED including the conviction of John Humble as the hoax caller WED claiming to be The Yorkshire Ripper, and identifying the WED mystery cougher who tried to defraud the gameshow 'Who Wants WED to Be a Millionaire'. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01p71wb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01p6mry (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01p7bxy (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p7by0 (Listen) WED Of Love and Hunger, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical WED novel about the low life of a struggling salesman in a WED seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard WED Fanshawe is eking out an existence in a boarding house. He's WED trying in a half-hearted way to sell vacuum cleaners WED door-to-door. He's been asked by his friend, Roper, to look WED after his wife, Sukie, while he's away at sea. Then Fanshawe WED is sacked from his job, and joins up with rival firm WED "Sucko". First published in 1947. WED WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Reader: Carl Prekopp WED Producer: Beth O'Dea. WED WED 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b01p7by2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED By Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson WED WED The romantic correspondence between two of history's most WED important horses: Napoleon's mount Marengo and the Duke of WED Wellington's own Copenhagen. The opposing armies are on the WED march through Belgium, but our lovers face a more immediate WED challenge to their relationship as Marengo's stablemate WED Marcy turns out to be a stalking horse. WED WED Marengo ..... Stephen Fry WED Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby WED Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Mission Improbable b01p7by4 (Listen) WED Egypt! WED WED The international adventures of journalist Jane, manhunter WED Lucy and zookeeper Amelia continue - this time in the WED Egyptian desert. WED WED When Jane's mum reveals that a member of her travel party, WED the gorgeous Dr Ralph, recently disappeared while they were WED on a guided tour of King Mufitez's tomb just outside Cairo, WED Jane reckons she's onto a sure-fire front-pager. WED WED Chronically single Lucy is more than happy to drop WED everything in pursuit of the good doctor and Amelia is WED enticed along by the promise of a camel ride. However their WED sandy quest turns out to be far from straightforward. Our WED heroes are forced to endure extremes of temperature, fierce WED desert winds and a ten thousand year-old cobra - with only WED their foul smelling, asthmatic and worryingly cheap camel to WED help them. WED WED Will they make it to King Mufitez's tomb? Will they find Dr WED Ralph? And will they ever get all that sand out of their WED pants? WED WED Jane...................Catriona Knox WED Lucy...................Lizzie Bates WED Amelia................Anna Emerson WED Angela................Felicity Montagu WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox. WED Audio production by Matt Katz. WED Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb. WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p7by6 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01p6mt1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01p71wd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p6mt3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p6mt5 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p6mt7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01p6mt9 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p7dcn (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with THU Canon Jenny Wigley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01p7dcq (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. THU THU 06:00 Today b01p7dcs (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and THU John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01p7dcv (Listen) THU Shahnameh of Ferdowsi THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem the THU Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, the 'Book of Kings', which has been THU at the heart of Persian culture for the past thousand years. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01p7dcx (Listen) THU Looking for Mrs Livingstone, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Tamara Kennedy. THU THU Mary Livingstone and her young family are sent to stay with THU relatives in Scotland, to allow her intrepid husband to THU travel unencumbered for four years, plotting a route from THU the Cape through to the Indian Ocean. It was a dark and THU lonely time for Mary, who was born and brought up in Africa, THU and who dearly missed her home and the support of her THU husband. THU THU Abridged by Laurence Wareing. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p7dcz (Listen) THU Nadja Swarovski THU THU Nadja Swarovski on her role in the family business and the THU appeal of the famous crystals. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p7dd1 (Listen) THU Little Grudges, Episode 4 THU THU Bonnie shouts at everyone after throwing Miss Lonely Heart THU out of her cafe. Tom finds out what's got under her skin. THU THU Prunella Scales and Hannah Gordon star in this sparkling THU comedy which has been inspired by the experiences of THU listeners to Radio Four on the subject of grudges. THU THU Writer...Hattie Naylor THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01p7dd3 (Listen) THU Libya THU THU The city of Misrata arguably suffered the most during the THU Libyan conflict as missiles rained on it for months on end. THU By the end of the revolution though, fighters from Misrata THU had exacted their revenge on neighbouring towns and had been THU responsible for the capture of Colonel Gaddafi, as well as THU Gaddafi strongholds. More recently Misratan fighters have THU been in action against the city of Bani Walid. Many THU residents of Bani Walid, accused of being Gaddafi THU supporters, have been expelled from their homes. Misrata THU has, effectively, set itself up as a city state, outside the THU control of Libya's new government. THU Writer and journalist Justin Marozzi, who has been visiting THU Libya over the last twenty years, including during the THU revolution, returns to examine if this fragmented country THU can rebuild itself and come together. Is reconciliation THU possible while different armed groups continue to fight each THU other? THU Producer: John Murphy. THU THU 11:30 Mr X: Julian Maclaren-Ross b01p7dd5 (Listen) THU Julian Maclaren Ross, was an eccentric dissolute dandy - one THU of those writers who, really did live his life out of THU suitcase, and whose later career was a spiral of precarious THU commissions and unpaid debts. Maclaren Ross was portrayed as THU the saturnine 'X. Trapnel' in Anthony Powell's 'A Dance to THU the Music of Time'. THU THU He was taken up by the distinguished critic Cyril Connolly, THU who printed his stories in the celebrated wartime magazine THU Horizon. His great days were the period 1940 to '45 when he THU spent 12 hour days in the Soho pubs, before returning home THU to his squalid bed sits for night long amphetamine fuelled THU writing sessions. He got called up into the army - see the THU short story collection The Stuff to Give the Troops - and THU was eventually court-martialled. THU THU He was a novelist (Of Love and Hunger, 1947), short story THU writer, journalist and autobiographer (Memoirs of the THU Forties, published posthumously 1965). His path lay down, THU and ever down, through poorly-paid hack-work to a series of THU romantic obsessions that included the stalking of Orwell's THU widow Sonia, and a premature death, from heart-failure, in THU 1964. It is a dense, extraordinary story, with overtones THU both exotic (South of France journeyings) and mundane THU (door-to-door vacuum cleaner selling in Bognor Regis). In THU this programme, the writer and critic, David Taylor argues THU that this rackety Bohemian is ripe to be compared with both THU Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, both of whom greatly THU admired him. THU THU David speaks to Powell's son Tristram, who filmed Maclaren THU Ross for a BBC documentary. We hear from his son, Alex and THU from his biographer Paul Willetts. Anthony Thwaite remembers THU working with Maclaren Ross in the 50s, and the writer and THU agony aunt Virginia Ironside, explains how she raised money THU to put a head stone on Maclaren Ross's unmarked grave. The THU programme is presented by David Taylor. The producer is THU Nicola Swords. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01p7dd7 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01p6mtc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01p7dd9 (Listen) THU Edward Stourton presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The Global Gap b01p7ddc (Listen) THU Series 2: Turkey, Tour Guides THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): Tour Guides THU Chris Allen is a tour guide at St Paul's Cathedral, and THU Saliha Kismet is a tour guide in Istanbul taking tourists THU round the Sultanahmet (Blue Mosque). Chris is retired from THU ICT and now volunteers as a guide, while 36 year-old Salida, THU a geology graduate, had to work hard to pass the Government THU exams to become a professional tour guide. THU THU In conversation, they compare their jobs. They also compare THU the atmosphere and meaning of two of the world's most iconic THU religious buildings. The Blue Mosque is in daily use - THU tourists are ushered out during prayers, which take place THU five times daily, and they must take off their shoes to THU enter and women must cover their heads. St Paul's, however, THU is much more than a place of prayer - visitors are often THU more interested in the architecture and history than the THU religious nature of the building. It is also a place where THU people gather at times of crisis or disaster, such as THU following the 7/7 London bombings (the day Chris went for THU his interview) and it was a symbol of survival during the THU Blitz. THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU Reporter: Sara Parker THU Executive Producer: Samir Shah THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01p7bxm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p7ddf (Listen) THU The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman THU THU The writer Joseph Wilde and musician by Tim van Eyken's play THU is a modern love story based on a very old folk song in THU which a noble lord goes abroad, lands in prison and falls THU for the goaler's daughter. In the play, Captain Bateman is THU badly wounded in Afhganistan. Sofia and her father give him THU shelter and succour in accordance with pashtunwali, the code THU of honour and hospitality. But when Bateman inconveniently THU refuses to die they face grave danger from the Taliban for THU harbouring him and from the British army for keeping him THU prisoner. THU THU Credits THU Captain Bateman: Nicholas Murchie THU Sofia: Zarghuna Kargar THU Sofia's Father: Haroon Yousofi THU Sgt Gilbert: Ben Crowe THU Pte Richards: Pieter Lawman THU Pte Scott: Tim van Eyken THU Pte Jones: Will Howard THU Joanne: Eleanor Crooks THU Derek: Adam Nagaitis THU Coach Driver: Adam Nagaitis THU Director: Julian May THU Writer: Joseph Wilde THU THU 15:00 Costing the Earth b01p9dcp (Listen) THU Future Forests THU THU The crisis in Britain's ash forests came as a shock to THU public and politicians. But is it a vision of the future for THU our woodlands? Stressed by climate change and vulnerable to THU pests and diseases crossing the English Channel the THU prospects seem grim. THU THU In a special edition of Costing the Earth Tom Heap asks what THU our forests will look like in the future. Is there anything THU we can do to stem the flow of disease, can our native trees THU be made more resilient or should we consider planting a THU wider range of trees? Tom visits Lithuania where ash dieback THU disease first came to attention in Europe to find out how THU they've come to terms with new threats to their forests and THU meets the experts and enthusiasts with a fresh approach to THU protecting our forests. THU THU Producer: Alasdair Cross. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01p6ryn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01p6szd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01p7ddk (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01p7ddm (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 b01p7ddp (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p6mtf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01j6wgv (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU In this episode, the team are horrified that the media have THU been invited to one of Malcolm's citizenship ceremonies, THU Anita's got problems with childcare and Luke's having a THU 'quarter life' crisis. THU THU Births, Deaths and Marriages is a brand new sitcom set in a THU Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with THU the three greatest events in anybody's life. THU THU Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan THU Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a THU stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any THU wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health THU and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? THU He's married thousands of women. THU THU Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been THU parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and THU Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just THU about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit THU in our new age of austerity. THU THU There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried THU he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may THU get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the THU only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. THU THU Malcolm ...... David Schneider THU Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland THU Anita ........ Sandy McDade THU Luke ....... Russell Tovey THU Mary ....... Sally Bretton THU Mr. Arnold/Peter Stephenson ...... Andrew Brooke THU Bereaved woman/New Citizen/Mum ...... Jane Whittenshaw THU THU Producer: Simon Jacobs THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01p7ddr (Listen) THU Lynda is fuming, and Lilian has a plan. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01p7ddt (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including musical recommendations for THU listeners in search of seasonal gifts. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p7dd1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01p7ddw (Listen) THU Women Bishops THU THU Since the House of Laity in the General Synod voted not to THU push ahead with the ordination of women bishops there have THU been calls for reform. Many believe that the House of Laity THU does not represent the views of the majority of churchgoers THU and overly represents the evangelical conservative and THU anglo-catholic perspective. Is that the case or are these THU calls for reform indicative of a bad case of sour grapes? THU Linda Pressly investigates what it would take to create THU common ground between traditionalists and liberals within THU the Church and, if that is not possible, what the future THU might hold. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01p7ddy (Listen) THU Strike Up the Broadband THU THU The government's aim is clear: by 2015, it wants Britain to THU have the best superfast broadband network in Europe. The THU internet is so essential to businesses, the argument goes, THU that the network over which internet traffic travels is THU becoming a vital part of the UK's infrastructure - as THU important as energy and roads. THU Right now, though, the country is a long way off from the THU target. Nowhere is this more apparent than in rural and THU remote areas of the country. In Norfolk, some small THU businesses are struggling just to get connected, much less THU plug into the high-speed network the government has pledged THU to help expand. THU A decade ago, internet access was a luxury for many small THU firms, but today it's essential. Orders are placed and THU received online, a website is a key marketing tool for all THU sorts of companies, and businesses must now file VAT returns THU via a website. THU This week on In Business, Peter Day evaluates the THU government's plans for broadband and finds out how close the THU UK is coming to a high-speed future online. THU THU Producer: Mike Wendling. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01p70p4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01p7dcv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01p6mth (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01p7df2 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p7df4 (Listen) THU Of Love and Hunger, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical THU love story about the low life of a struggling salesman in a THU seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard THU Fanshawe is eking out an existence selling Sucko vacuum THU cleaners. He's working for the dubious "Smiler" Barnes. He's THU looking after his friend Roper's wife Sukie, while Roper is THU away - and he has fallen in love with her. First published THU in 1947. THU THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Reader: Carl Prekopp THU Producer: Beth O'Dea. THU THU 23:00 The Simon Day Show b010dw09 (Listen) THU Series 1, Geoffrey Allerton THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The THU Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show THU along with the backstage and front-of-house goings on at the THU theatre itself. THU THU In show one the theatre is visited by acclaimed Yorkshire THU poet, Geoffrey Allerton (Simon Day). Geoffrey reads poems THU and excerpts from his recent memoir "Marking Time" and THU struggles to get a hot meal from sound and lighting THU technician, Goose (Felix Dexter). Meanwhile in the bar two THU local mums are getting to know each other over several THU bottles of wine. THU THU Geoffrey Allerton ..... Simon Day THU Anna / Claire ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Sarah ..... Arabella Weir THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p7df6 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01p6mvd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01p7dcx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p6mvg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p6mvj (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p6mvl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01p6mvn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p7hck (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with FRI Canon Jenny Wigley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01p7hcm (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 b01p7hcp (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in FRI Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01p6ryx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01p7hcr (Listen) FRI Looking for Mrs Livingstone, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Tamara Kennedy. FRI FRI Writer Julie Davidson searches for traces of Mary FRI Livingstone, the courageous and stoical wife of renowned FRI explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. FRI FRI The author's travels through Southern Africa come to an end, FRI when she reaches Mary Livingstone's final resting place: a FRI crumbling grave on the banks of the Zambezi River, in a FRI remote part of Mozambique. FRI FRI Abridged by Laurence Wareing. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p7hcw (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p7hcy (Listen) FRI Little Grudges, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tom finally plucks up the courage to invite his Dad's FRI girlfriend to lunch. FRI FRI Prunella Scales and Hannah Gordon star in this sparkling FRI comedy by Hattie Naylor, inspired by the experiences of FRI listeners. FRI FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b01p7hd0 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI FRI Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew venture out to FRI different sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and FRI trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their FRI lives. Today, they're at the Queen's Club in south-west FRI London for the qualifying rounds for this year's Real Tennis FRI British Open. They're there to try and make sense of both FRI the sport and the rules and also to consider other sporting FRI endeavours they can cover in future series... including one FRI involving headless goats. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has, as FRI ever, a fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal. But FRI Christopher gamely tries to match him stride by stride with FRI his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest). FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b01p7hd2 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Age Old Problem 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 None of us are getting any younger. And none of us getting FRI any younger for longer and longer. Polyoaks' eldest patient FRI is a sprightly 102. Something must be done to reduce the FRI cost of caring for the elderly, while emphasising NHS FRI clinics like Polyoaks have best practice in mind. FRI FRI Will a training day sponsored by Burgerland help the staff FRI come up with an innovative approach to looking after the FRI crumblies - sorry, older service users? Guest-starring FRI Phyllida Law. FRI FRI Dr Roy Thornton..............Nigel Planer FRI Dr Hugh Thornton.............Simon Greenall FRI TV's Dr Jeremy...............David Westhead FRI Nurse Vera Duplessis.........Polly Frame FRI Betty Crossfield.............Jane Whittenshaw FRI Mr Devlin....................Phil Cornwell FRI Mary MacLean.................Phyllida Law FRI Barry from Burgerland........Lewis McLeod FRI FRI Written by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI Directed by Frank Stirling FRI FRI Producer: David Spicer FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01p7hd4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01p7hd6 (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 b01p6mvq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01p7hd8 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The Global Gap b01p7hdb (Listen) FRI Series 2: Turkey, Club Owners FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): Nightclub Owners FRI Blackpool nightclub owner Basil Newby shares his experiences FRI with Suleyman Demir, millionaire owner of the famous FRI Halikarnas nightclub in Turkey's fashionable Bodrum resort. FRI Suleyman has good connections in Turkey, attracting stars on FRI their mega yachts to the large open air Halikarnas, recently FRI refurbished with white marble and palm trees. FRI FRI Basil is equally famous in Blackpool with his drag queen FRI show Funny Girls, who performed before the Queen at the FRI Royal Variety Performance, and as the owner other big clubs FRI in Blackpool. Basil often has celebrities from Coronation FRI Street and Strictly Come Dancing, and Joan Collins opened FRI Funny Girls to a huge crowd. FRI FRI Both have had to resolve issues around bureaucracy and FRI licensing, but in Turkey there is nothing like going to the FRI top man. Suleyman sought permission from the former FRI President before he used one of the largest laser beams in FRI the world, reaching to the Greek Islands, and he was allowed FRI to continue running the Halikarnas at night in 1984 even FRI though there was a curfew following Turkish/Kurdish unrest. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI Reporter: Sara Parker FRI Executive Producer: Samir Shah FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01p7ddr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mw2ds (Listen) FRI The Beat Goes On FRI FRI Inspired by the election of Police and Crime Commissioners FRI in England and Wales. The drama explores the tensions that FRI are sparked when politics and policing are mixed. FRI Peter Livermore is a newly elected Police and Crime FRI Commissioner who passionately believes he can be a force for FRI good and make a difference to how his community is policed. FRI He learns hard lessons about the realities of contemporary FRI policing, and political compromise when he clashes with a FRI Chief Constable with an iron will and no interest in having FRI her position undermined. FRI FRI Credits FRI Peter: Patrick Baladi FRI Vishy: Zubin Varla FRI Jane Capstick: Frances Tomelty FRI DCS Dave Tullett: Rob Dixon FRI Emma: Eleanor Crooks FRI Charlie: Giacomo Mancini FRI Returning officer: Ben Crowe FRI Resident: Lizzy Watts FRI Producer: Stephen Wright FRI Writer: Peter Bleksley FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01p7hdg (Listen) FRI Cranleigh, Surrey FRI FRI Peter Gibbs and the team are in Cranleigh in Surrey for this FRI week's GQT. On the panel taking questions are gardening FRI experts Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Murals b01p7hdj (Listen) FRI Pomegranate FRI FRI These three stories by Morven Crumlish, commissioned FRI specially for Radio 4, are inspired by the work of the FRI artist Phoebe Anna Traquair and in particular by her FRI vibrantly-coloured murals in what was formerly the Catholic FRI Apostolic Church in Broughton Street, Edinburgh. FRI FRI Traquair (1852-1936) was born in County Dublin and, in the FRI 1870s, moved to Edinburgh where she would later become a FRI prominent figure in the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement. FRI The murals in the Apostolic Church took eight years to FRI complete (1893-1901). The stories track the history of the FRI church from the time the murals were painted, through a FRI period of neglect as a brickyard, to its restored FRI present-day use as a centre for events. FRI FRI 1/3. Pomegranate FRI FRI "With such an enormous task sometimes artistry had to be FRI abandoned in favour of completion." At the top of her FRI ladder, painting her mural, an artist is adding detail to FRI the robes of a priest: "a pomegranate and a bell ...". FRI FRI Morven Crumlish's stories have been broadcast widely and she FRI also contributes to the Guardian. Her work has featured in FRI four previous Sweet Talk productions for BBC Radio 4, FRI including Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs in 2008 and most FRI recently Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of My Dreams (Three For FRI My Baby, 2011). FRI FRI Written by Morven Crumlish FRI Reader: Gillian Kearney FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01p7hdl (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01p7hdn (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01p7hdq (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01p7hds (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p6mvs (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01p7hdv (Listen) FRI Series 38, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in topical FRI stand-up and sketches with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch FRI Benn and special guest Roisin Conaty. Produced by Victoria FRI Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01p7hdx (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Matt Crawford... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Will Grundy..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin FRI Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins FRI Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling..... Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur FRI Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 The Listening Project b01p7hdz (Listen) FRI The Listening Project Symphony FRI FRI BBC Radio 4's Listening Project captures intimate, heartfelt FRI encounters between friends and loved ones - the nation in FRI conversation. FRI FRI In this unique celebration, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra FRI presents a new work by composer Gary Carpenter accompanied FRI by highlights from the series compiled by producer Cathy FRI FitzGerald. Fi Glover hosts the event live from MediaCityUK FRI in Salford, where the BBC Philharmonic will perform in front FRI of a specially invited audience of Listening Project FRI participants. FRI FRI Presenter: Fi Glover FRI Gary Carpenter FRI Terry Davies FRI FRI Producer: Ekene Akalawu/Cathy Fitzgerald FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p7hcy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01p7hf1 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Balshaw's Church of England High School in Leyland FRI Lancashire. Guests include the journalist Alastair Campbell, FRI Camila Batmanghelidjh from Kids Co, Tim Montgomerie from FRI Conservative Home and the blogger Mohammed Ansar. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01p7hf3 (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00x88bs (Listen) FRI To Catch a Thief FRI FRI David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining FRI page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable FRI film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace FRI Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation brings it to FRI radio. American John Robie is living quietly in the South of FRI France, trying to put his career as a notorious jewel thief FRI behind him. However, when a series of huge jewel thefts FRI begins on the Riviera, targetting rich Americans, the police FRI immediately suspect he's returned to his old ways. To prove FRI his innocence, and trap the real thief, Robie must resort to FRI subterfuge. But his plans go awry when the daughter of one FRI of the rich American tourists takes rather too close an FRI interest in him - and his past. FRI FRI Credits FRI John Robie: Jeff Harding FRI Francie Stevens: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse FRI Mrs Stevens: Laura Brook FRI Paul: Alun Raglan FRI Bellini: Simon Armstrong FRI Danielle: Aurelie Amblard FRI French Extras: Martin Sorrell FRI Director: Sarah Davies FRI Writer: Jean Buchanan FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01p6mvx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01p7hf5 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p7hf7 (Listen) FRI Of Love and Hunger, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical FRI love story about the low life of a struggling salesman in a FRI seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard FRI Fanshawe is eking out an existence selling Sucko vacuum FRI cleaners. He's working for the dubious "Smiler" Barnes. He's FRI looking after his friend Roper's wife Sukie, while Roper is FRI away. They have fallen in love and started a passionate FRI affair. First published in 1947. FRI FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Reader: Carl Prekopp FRI Producer: Beth O'Dea. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01p71gg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p7hgz (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01p7hh1 (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
07 December, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 08/12/2012 - 14/12/2012
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