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SAT SATURDAY 05 JANUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01phf10 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01pk8fn (Listen) SAT Wild, Episode 5 SAT SAT Cheryl Strayed's redemptive account of hiking 1100 miles SAT alone through America's rugged western landscape. At SAT twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything SAT after her mother died, and her marriage crumbled. With no SAT previous experience of backpacking, she made the impulsive SAT decision to rebuild her life by setting out on an incredible SAT journey along America's Pacific Crest Trail. Today, Cheryl SAT anticipates the journey's end. SAT SAT Read by Kelly Burke SAT Abridged by Miranda Davies SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01phf12 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01phf14 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01phf16 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01phf18 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01phn5t (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His SAT Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox SAT Church in the United Kingdom. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01phn5w (Listen) SAT The programme about the winner of the iPM New Year's Honours SAT visits the youth centre he runs on a deprived south London SAT estate to help teenagers who have grown up in a culture of SAT violence. Eddie Mair interviews winner Stu Thomson to find SAT out how and why he tries to help these young people. Your SAT News is read by Torin Douglas MBE. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01phf1b (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01phf1d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01phkts (Listen) SAT Hastings: The Shingle Fleet SAT SAT Helen Mark visits the ancient town of Hastings to meet the SAT people involved in the fishing community there. The fishing SAT fleet is made up of small wooden boats which are all under SAT ten metres long. This is important as, unusually, they are SAT launched each day from the beach. This involves pushing them SAT down the shingle bank, by tractor nowadays but traditionally SAT by hand, and winching them back up again out of the sea when SAT they return. Helen meets Paul Joy, a fisherman, who can date SAT his family back as far as the 1000s, all launching their SAT boats from the beach in Hastings as he does today. This is SAT true of lots of the fishing families working there. But even SAT with such a long and thriving history behind them the SAT Hastings fishing industry is now in trouble. Their crews are SAT in their seventies and there's no sign of new blood, and SAT their wages are falling. Before 2006, under ten metre boats SAT weren't subject to any EU fishing quotas as they were deemed SAT exempt, but new legislation brought in six years ago changed SAT all this. Since then the number of cod they're allowed to SAT catch has dramatically reduced, and the fishermen are SAT struggling. SAT SAT Producer: Beatrice Fenton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01pndyr (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith reports from the final day of the Oxford SAT Farming Conference. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01phf1g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01pndyt (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and James SAT Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the SAT Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01pnfj9 (Listen) SAT Businesswoman and former lawyer Margaret Mountford and the SAT Inheritance Tracks of Madness frontman Suggs SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams with businesswoman and SAT lawyer Margaret Mountford, plus an actress who lost lots of SAT weight and then found her work had dried up, the Inheritance SAT Tracks of Madness front man Suggs, a look behind the scenes SAT at 'The Famous' a menswear shop in Cheltenham that's closing SAT its doors after 126 years, a builder whose family company is SAT still around after 422 years, the evocative sound of an SAT Italian coffee machine, Benedict Allen talking to his cousin SAT Charles about their mutual lives in travel and a man who SAT knows a great deal about paper. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Reimagining the City b01pnfjc (Listen) SAT New Orleans SAT SAT When the writer Nik Cohn was 10 years old, while on holiday SAT in London, he visited a bookshop and found a copy of Alan SAT Lomax's book on Jelly Roll Morton, the famous New Orleans SAT musician. It had photographs of Jelly Roll's hometown - "the SAT city of dreams" as it seemed to Nik. He fell for Jelly Roll SAT Morton's vision of the city "hook line and sinker". SAT SAT Sitting in the rain in a school room back home in Northern SAT Ireland, New Orleans became a place of magical SAT possibilities. It would be another decade before he finally SAT got to visit it, but it has become a place he returns to and SAT re-discovers constantly. SAT SAT "Re-Imagining the City" is a series of four programmes in SAT which we're offered a different vision of a city which can SAT feel familiar. In this first programme, Nik takes us to the SAT city he's had a love affair with all his life. "Music is SAT just here" he says, "it's all around the city". Nik muses on SAT what makes New Orleans so different, so special. The beauty, SAT the music and the food are all part of it, but living under SAT sea level also has an impact on anyone who spends proper SAT time in the city. It's still his city of dreams. SAT SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01pnfjf (Listen) SAT Disgust SAT SAT There's quite a lot of agreement between people on just what SAT is disgusting and it usually involves some pretty basic body SAT fluids. In this week's episode of the ideas discussion SAT programme, Bridget Kendall rolls up her sleeves and delves a SAT little deeper into this fundamental human emotion, one which SAT stems from a basic instinct to keep ourselves alive. SAT We hear from surgeon Iain Hutchison how disgust is a SAT subjective response, from sensory scientist John Prescott SAT how even rats dislike bitter food, and from psychologist SAT David Pizarro how our level of squeamishness can even reveal SAT our politics. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01pnfjh (Listen) SAT The secrets of eternal youth SAT SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01pnfjm (Listen) SAT More than a third of families affected by the child benefit SAT cuts which come in on Monday 7 January have not been SAT contacted about the changes. More than 300,000 have not SAT received a letter, as the government said they would. Some SAT people are confused about what to do. Other people may not SAT know that they're affected. Paul Lewis interviews the SAT Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke. SAT SAT When you take out travel insurance, you would hope that if SAT you had to make a claim for a lost item of low value it SAT would be straightforward. But some insurers are asking for a SAT whole range of financial information from claimants in the SAT hope of sharing the cost of your claim with other insurance SAT companies with which you hold policies. But is this fair, SAT and could this mean your premiums could then rise across all SAT the insurance policies you have? Paul Lewis puts these SAT questions to Malcolm Tarling from the Association of British SAT Insurers. SAT SAT Cashback websites like Quidco and Topcashback are increasing SAT in popularity. Instead of going directly to a shop, you can SAT access a retailer's online store through a link from a SAT cashback website. You still receive your item directly from SAT the retailer, but you also get some money from the cashback SAT website. It sounds too good to be true, but Money Box hears SAT from listeners who have embraced the trend and made hundreds SAT of pounds - just from shopping. Is it really as simple as it SAT sounds, and what are the drawbacks? Sarah Pennells from SAT savvywoman.co.uk explains. SAT SAT As we were hearing on the Money Box Live phone-in this week, SAT buying things online or over the phone can be a risky SAT business. What if you don't like what you've bought when it SAT arrives? Or if you buy, say, an insurance policy and then SAT change your mind? Luckily distance-selling regulations offer SAT protection to consumers - they provide a seven-day cooling SAT off period meaning that you can return goods or cancel SAT services within that time. But there are exceptions to the SAT rule, as Money Box hears one listener found to her cost. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01phn12 (Listen) SAT Series 79, Episode 3 SAT SAT The News Quiz (Sandi Toksvig & Jeremy Hardy) take on The Now SAT Show (Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis) in the ultimate topical SAT smackdown. Hosted by Rory Bremner. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01phf1j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01phf1l (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:15 Archive on 4 b00ym8bb (Listen) SAT Freeman's World SAT SAT "Tighter, tighter!". This, the television producer Hugh SAT Burnett tells Sue MacGregor, was a typical instruction to SAT cameramen on the BBC series Face to Face which ran from 1959 SAT to 1962. SAT SAT Face to Face was Burnett's idea and it was simple. Each SAT week, a public figure would join the presenter John Freeman SAT for a half hour interview. SAT SAT Fifty years on the programmes still shine, remarkable for SAT their relentless camera close-ups and Freeman's forensic SAT questioning, bringing celebrities to television screens as SAT never before. SAT SAT In Freeman's World, Sue MacGregor and Hugh Burnett look back SAT on the series, beginning with its interrogation of Tony SAT Hancock - "There's something troubling you about the world SAT and I should like to know what it is". Critics rounded on SAT Freeman for the tough line he took. In fact, the two men SAT became firm friends. SAT SAT Perhaps the most enduring Face to Face image is Gilbert SAT Harding in distress as he's asked about seeing someone die SAT (Freeman didn't know Harding's mother had just passed away). SAT But Harding didn't cry, reveals Hugh Burnett. He was SAT sweating under the lights. Moreover, Burnett says, he knew SAT he was in for "a public beating." SAT SAT Face to Face made John Freeman a celebrity, to his distaste. SAT But his face was almost never seen, only the back of his SAT head. And interviewing was just part of a life in which he SAT has been soldier, MP, magazine editor, TV executive and SAT high-ranking diplomat. SAT SAT Freeman's World also features Bertrand Russell, Carl Jung, SAT Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Stirling Moss. And then there's SAT Evelyn Waugh, aloof and ill at ease in the studio. Asked by SAT John Freeman why he's agreed to appear on Face to Face, SAT Waugh replies "Poverty. We've both been hired to talk in SAT this deliriously happy way." SAT SAT Producer: Chris Ledgard. SAT SAT 14:00 Ampers-Fan b01gvlfr (Listen) SAT The dark horse of the keyboard, the ampersand exists to join SAT things together, yet remains set apart. Whilst everyone can SAT read and understand the ampersand, or the & symbol, how many SAT of us know where it came from? SAT SAT Alistair Sooke traces the history of the funny little SAT character that has quietly given joy to so many, from a SAT bored medieval scribe right the way through to a modern day SAT digital font designer. Delighting type designers throughout SAT the centuries as a chance within a font to create a small SAT piece of art, it is a joyful moment in a functional SAT resource. Speaking to Ampersfans Alastair enters into a SAT world of letterpress, punchcutting and typography and SAT discovers how the ampersand can be found at every step of SAT the way, bringing a joyful flick of a tail to the dullest SAT document. SAT SAT If you thought the ampersand was a bright young thing in the SAT world of type, you couldn't be more wrong; first credited to SAT Marcus Tiro around 63 BC, combing the letters e and t from SAT the Latin word "et". Fighting off competition from his SAT nemesis, the "Tironian Mark", Alastair then tracks the SAT ampersand to 16th Century Paris where it was modelled in the SAT hands of type designer to the King, Claude Garamond, then SAT back across the sea to William Calson's now famous SAT interpretation, designed with a joyful array of flourishes SAT and swirls. Alastair will discover how the ampersand became SAT a calling card for many typographers, showcasing some of SAT their best and most creative work. SAT SAT A simple twist of the pen, the ampersand has managed to SAT captivate its audience since print began, in Ampersfan SAT Alistair tries to pin down this slippery character down once SAT and for all. SAT SAT Producer: : Jo Meek & Gillian Donovan SAT A Sparklab Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01pnfjp (Listen) SAT White Snow SAT SAT Faced with an upstart stepdaughter and lied to by her King SAT about the real object of his affection, his unnaturally SAT perfect daughter, the Queen is forced into decisive and SAT deadly action. In this re-imagining of the Grimm brother's SAT fairy-tale, we find ourselves at one with a fun loving and SAT light hearted Queen, who having been wooed by an emotionally SAT arrested king, soon finds that her main rival is his SAT somewhat spooky and unhealthily translucent daughter, Snow SAT White. It isn't clear what hold this eerily passive child SAT has over the King but the implication is that the trauma of SAT being cuckolded by his first wife, has been transformed into SAT the myth of a flawless child - a child who keenly aware of SAT her power over him, determines that nothing, especially not SAT a mere stepmother is going to come between them. By any SAT reasonable assessment of the situation, Snow White has to SAT die...but will she? SAT SAT Dramatised by Frances Byrnes SAT Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Livia: Lizzy McInnerny SAT Mirror: David Horovitch SAT King: Richard Dormer SAT Snow: Lizzy Watts SAT Rumour: Julia Dearden SAT Maid: Barri Adair SAT Hunt: Chris McHallem SAT Dwarf 1: Patrick Fitzsymons SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT Writer: Frances Byrnes SAT SAT 15:30 Jazz Is Dead b01phg6m (Listen) SAT Jazz was once revolutionary, but is now arguably part of the SAT heritage industry. Paul Morley meets performers, critics and SAT passionate punters to test the contention that jazz is dead SAT - a victim of its own history. Featuring Geoff Dyer, Paul SAT Gilroy, Seb Rochford, Gary Crosby, Laura Jurd, Nick Smart SAT and Chris Hodgkins. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01pnfsw (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 b01pnfsy (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01phn5w (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01phf1n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01phf1q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01phf1s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01pnft0 (Listen) SAT Angus Deayton, Frances Barber, John Lanchester, Roses Gabor SAT and Submotion Orchestra SAT SAT Clive's got News For You from actor and broadcaster Angus SAT Deayton, whose early work parodied local radio in the series SAT Radio Active. In 1990 he put One Foot In The Grave and was SAT later nicknamed "TV's Mr Sex" for his suave presenting SAT manner. Angus returns as Alan in series two of 'Pramface' SAT which sees the Derbyshire household reeling from their new SAT arrival. SAT SAT Clive meets journalist and novelist John Lanchester. John SAT has described his new book 'Capital' as a "big, fat, London SAT novel." Set against the backdrop of the financial crash, SAT it's the story of the residents of Pepys Road. The SAT neighbours all receive an anonymous postcard with the SAT message 'We Want What You Have'. Who's behind it and what do SAT they want? As the mystery deepens, the world around Pepys SAT Road is turned upside down and its residents lives change SAT beyond recognition. SAT SAT Clive also chats to actor Frances Barber who is about to SAT star alongside Kevin Bishop in a darkly comic film, 'May I SAT Kill U?'. Frances plays the mother of cycle cop Baz who SAT turns into a psychopath following a freak accident on a SAT cycle path. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi interviews singer Roses Gabor who has toured with SAT Gorillaz and performed in a range of venues from Madison SAT Square Gardens to Glastonbury Festival. She has contributed SAT to some of the biggest underground records of recent years SAT and is now taking centre stage with her debut single 'Stars' SAT which she performs in the studio. SAT SAT More music comes from avant-garde jazz dubstep ensemble SAT Submotion Orchestra who perform 'Thinking' from their album SAT 'Fragments'. SAT SAT Producer: Paula McGinley. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01pnft2 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Zoo Trips SAT SAT Award-winning writer A L Kennedy creates a fictional SAT response to the week's news, in the week in which survivors SAT from the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary return to school. SAT SAT To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, SAT our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major SAT story from the week's news. The form and content are SAT entirely lead by the news topic - so drama can come in many SAT guises, as well as poetry and prose. SAT SAT Writer: A L Kennedy is the acclaimed author of six novels, SAT two books of non-fiction, and five collections of short SAT stories. Her novel, Day, was the Costa Book of the Year, and SAT her lastest novel, The Blue Book, was shortlisted for the SAT Orange Prize. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's SAT Best of Young British Novelists and has won many prizes SAT including the Lannan Literary Award, the Austrian State SAT Prize for European Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award, SAT the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year SAT Award. She is also well known for her stand-up comedy. SAT SAT Produced by Justine Willett SAT Written and read by A L Kennedy. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01pnft4 (Listen) SAT 2012 saw some extraordinary television comedy highs, SAT especially in returning series. Some looked at the state of SAT the nation: The Thick of It, Getting On and Twenty Twelve. SAT Some, like Peep Show and Fresh Meat, simply made people SAT laugh. Saturday Review celebrates the best of the comedy SAT year just gone, highlighting performances by Peter Capaldi, SAT Jessica Hynes and Joanna Scanlan. And what's next for SAT comedy? Is there still room for the family sitcom? New, SAT celebrated comedy from Sky has included Hunderby and Moone SAT Boy - are they leading the way on commissioning? One of the SAT creators and stars of Getting On, Vicki Pepperdine, joins SAT Tom Sutcliffe, along with Peep Show and Fresh Meat co-writer SAT Sam Bain, David Quantick and Natalie Haynes. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01pnft6 (Listen) SAT 40 Years in Europe: How Was It for You? SAT SAT January 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the UK joining SAT the EEC. It was the culmination of a lifetime's ambition for SAT Prime Minister Edward Heath and marked a turning point in SAT the relationship between the British people and our SAT continental neighbours. SAT SAT In this quirky programme, one-time Europe correspondent John SAT Sergeant asks a variety of people to assess how the SAT subsequent four decades has impacted on their lives. SAT Diplomat Sir Michael Jenkins, one of the first senior civil SAT servants to serve in the new EEC, gives his candid take on SAT what it was like to work in a totally different cultural SAT environment in those early months. SAT SAT Claire Mooney and her twin brother Danny from Manchester SAT look back through the archives and reflect on why they voted SAT differently in the 1975 EEC Referendum. Bill Newton-Dunn and SAT Michael Welsh talk about their initial bewilderment at being SAT among the first elected Euro MPs in 1979. There's discussion SAT about how closer European involvement impacted on UK culture SAT - people who upped sticks for a life on the Costa Blanca SAT tell us why and Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs explains SAT how it even inspired him to write a sitcom. SAT SAT Veteran foreign correspondent Ann Leslie reminisces about SAT changes in our food habits and myths around EU regulations SAT while psychologist Ronete Cohen, who now lives and works in SAT England and Holland, reflects on how the Channel Tunnel SAT changed her life. And as the debate over immigration SAT controls continues, Archive on 4 goes to Lincolnshire to SAT hear how the influx of Polish migrants has impacted on the SAT town of Boston. The final verdict on the UK's role in Europe SAT is left to a Greek, Italian, German and Spaniard over a SAT coffee in Bonn. SAT SAT Produced by Ashley Byrne SAT A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01ph7fc (Listen) SAT The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 2 SAT SAT Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's The SAT Eustace Diamonds stars Pippa Nixon as the beautiful Lizzie SAT Eustace, fighting to retain possession of her magnificent SAT diamond necklace, which she claims was left to her as a gift SAT by her late husband Florian. SAT SAT Her immediate relatives, spurred on by the intransigent SAT family lawyer, Camperdown, argue that the diamonds are an SAT heirloom and on no account can be retained by her. The SAT dispute colours all Lizzie's subsequent relationships - with SAT her cousin Frank, her new lover Lord Fawn, and her admirer SAT Lord George. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie is SAT driven to increasingly desperate behaviour in an attempt to SAT retain her jewels. SAT SAT Harpist: Cecilia De Maria SAT Cellist: Alison Baldwin SAT SAT Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Produced and directed by Gordon House SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lizzie: Pippa Nixon SAT Crabstick: Alison Pettitt SAT Essie: Alison Pettitt SAT Frank: Joseph Kloska SAT Lord George: Adrian Scarborough SAT Mrs Carbuncle: Lorelei King SAT Lucinda: Lydia Leonard SAT Andy: Mark Bonnar SAT Lady Fawn: Stella Gonet SAT Lucy: Amy Morgan SAT Lord Fawn: Jamie Glover SAT Florian: Nicholas Boulton SAT Sir Gryffen: Nicholas Boulton SAT Augusta: Laura Hanna SAT Lydia: Ellie Butters SAT Nina: Ella Dale SAT Director: Gordon House SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT Writer: Rose Tremain SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01phf1v (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01phjb6 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and top lawyers and judges reveal why the SAT wheels of our legal system turn so slowly and discuss SAT concerns that Government proposals to speed up proceedings SAT in our criminal courts could lead to injustices. SAT SAT The president of the Law Society, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, SAT strongly opposes plans for weekend courts and to extend SAT court hours, warning that such measures would be expensive SAT and ineffective. SAT SAT Deputy chair of the Magistrates Association, Richard SAT Monkhouse says delays in the criminal courts, which often SAT result in defendants spending months in custody, could be SAT addressed by giving magistrates greater sentencing powers. SAT SAT Retired appeal court judge, Sir Mark Potter, predicts that SAT legal aid cuts will result in major delays in the civil SAT courts. He says a shortage of resources is causing SAT particular problems in the family courts where delays have SAT serious impacts on children's lives. SAT SAT The programme also considers the arguments for reforming the SAT appeal system, following comments from the Lord Chief SAT Justice, Lord Judge, who expressed "fury" over cases such as SAT that of Abu Hamza which take many years to resolve. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01phf7j (Listen) SAT (6/17) SAT Which of Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels is SAT narrated by a female character? And which is the largest SAT lake in Italy? The contestant whose general knowledge is SAT good enough to cope with these questions could be taking SAT another step towards the title of Brain of Britain 2013 - SAT with Russell Davies in the chair. SAT SAT This week's four contenders come from the West Country and SAT the Home Counties. They're bidding for a semi-final place in SAT this, the sixtieth series of the ever-popular general SAT knowledge contest. As usual, the questions cover every SAT imaginable subject, from literature and music to geography, SAT medicine and science. SAT SAT There'll also be the customary chance for a Brain of Britain SAT listener to outwit the contestants with some cunning SAT questions of his or her own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT GEORGE DUDA, a chartered accountant from Outwood in Surrey; SAT SAT CLARE GREEN, a retired trade union administrator from SAT Exeter; SAT SAT OLIVER LEVY, a designer and illlustrator from Hindhead in SAT Surrey; SAT SAT DAVID STAINER, a solicitor from Hertford. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01ph7fh (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a diverse selection of listeners' SAT poetry requests on the theme of time. The readers are Ian SAT McElhinney and John Mackay. SAT SAT Pianos, mountains, train stations and even coffee provide SAT the inspiration for poems on the theme of time. There's a SAT dystopian vision of earth in the future in a poem by SAT Sheenagh Pugh. Thomas Hardy wonders what people may say of SAT him when he's gone in 'Afterwards', whilst Cecil Day Lewis's SAT meditation on New Year's Eve urges us to cherish the 'dying, SAT but never dead' state of now. SAT SAT There's a rarely heard piece of archive of the poet Tony SAT Harrison reading his poem Old Soldiers which was inspired by SAT his childhood memory of a repeating image on a coffee label SAT that seemed to stretch to infinity. Jackie Kay also reads SAT her own work in a moving dialect poem about an old SAT friendship. SAT SAT Other poets reading their own work include two winners of SAT the recent Gardeners' World Magazine's Poetry Competition. SAT SAT There are also a few significant pauses at train stations SAT with poems by John Montague and Tomas Tranströmer. John SAT Dryden's speech 'When I Consider Life' is a glorious rant, SAT and Tennyson roars to the world in this poem 'I Stood on a SAT Tower in the Wet.' SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 JANUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01plf6x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b011jv89 (Listen) SUN Winter in the Air and Other Stories, Shadwell SUN SUN Shadwell is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's SUN collection, Winter in the Air. In this story, the death of SUN Mrs Probus threatens a precarious future for her long time SUN servant, Shadwell. SUN SUN The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 SUN and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, SUN and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. SUN Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her SUN time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and SUN poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These SUN stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and SUN vivid storyteller. SUN SUN The reader is Susannah Harker SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01plf6z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01plf71 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01plf73 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01plf75 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01pngpx (Listen) SUN The bells of St Lawrence's Church in Towcester. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01phjb8 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Sally Kettle: Does hope help? SUN SUN Adventurer Sally Kettle argues that hope is not helpful, and SUN suggests some alternative strategies. SUN SUN Sally has twice rowed the Atlantic Ocean, and worries that SUN hope can lead to a passive state of mind. There is nothing, SUN she believes, like taking concrete steps to make things SUN happen. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on SUN the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SUN culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01plf77 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01pngpz (Listen) SUN Dignity SUN SUN Mark Tully asks why dignity should be so important to us. It SUN is considered a human right, but is it always so noble, or SUN can we use a false sense of dignity to undermine others? SUN SUN Drawing on stories about the British in India during the SUN Raj, being visited while a patient in a hospice, and the SUN enlightenment of the Buddha, the programme searches for what SUN could be called a fundamental dignity. SUN SUN In the end, Mark Tully concludes that if we want to be SUN genuinely respected, we shouldn't demand respect, but if we SUN are dignified we will be respected by those who are SUN themselves dignified. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01pngq1 (Listen) SUN Parmesan cheese, Scottish smoked salmon, stilton, champagne SUN are just a few examples of food and drinks which have been SUN successful in getting their name protected by the EU, and SUN this has given them a brand worldwide. Now there's a SUN Government drive to encourage more producers to apply for SUN the same status to put British food on the map. Here in the SUN UK, there are just 47 registered products, compared to SUN countries like France which have more than 150. So on SUN today's On Your Farm, we are at Conwy Bay in North Wales, to SUN look at just how difficult it is to get this protection and SUN whether it can really transform a business. For hundreds of SUN years in Conwy, fishermen have been using small wooden boats SUN to hand rake wild mussels from the riverbed - a tradition SUN which has continued despite increasing competition from SUN farmed mussels. Conwy mussels applied for a PDO ('Protected SUN Designation of Origin') twelve months ago and they are SUN expecting a decision to be made within the next few months. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01plf79 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01plf7c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01pngq3 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01pngq5 (Listen) SUN St Giles Trust SUN SUN Jenny Agutter presents the Radio 4 Appeal for St Giles Trust SUN Reg Charity:801355 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN St Giles Trust. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01plf7f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01plf7h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01pnjvn (Listen) SUN 'Eye openers on God' - a service for Epiphany live from the SUN University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Preacher: SUN Canon Brian Mountford; Leader: The Revd Rachel Greene; The SUN Choir of the University Church is directed by Dr Gulliver SUN Ralston, with Organist James Brown. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01pnlsy (Listen) SUN American Ambivalence SUN SUN Will Self looks back over 2012 and reflects on the confused SUN relationship between Britain and the US. Love and hate, he SUN argues, are there in equal measure. SUN SUN Taking as his starting point the Tom Stoppard plays his SUN American mother took him to see in the 1970s, he says our SUN relationship with our friends across the pond has changed SUN little in 40 years. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01pnlt0 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01pnlt2 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... 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SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01pnlt4 (Listen) SUN Sir Howard Stringer SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sir Howard Stringer. SUN Now Chairman of the Board and formerly CEO of Sony, he was SUN surely the only Chief Executive who was a decorated Vietnam SUN vet as he knelt before the Queen to be knighted. It gives SUN you something of an idea of the breadth and height of his SUN achievements. SUN SUN Born in Cardiff he went to 11 different schools before his SUN 16th birthday and it clearly gave him restless feet. In the SUN mid-sixties he headed to America where his first job was SUN answering phones for the Ed Sullivan Show. He loved TV and SUN it felt the same about him. He's won a raft of Emmys for his SUN productions and worked with all the big beasts of the SUN broadcasting jungle including Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather SUN and David Letterman. SUN SUN He has spent the last few years commuting between New York, SUN Tokyo, London and Hollywood - the first and so far only SUN westerner to run the Japanese giant Sony. SUN SUN He says - "I think I'm a bit prone to new adventures. The SUN same damned impulse that got me in trouble by sending me to SUN America in the first place compels me to take challenges SUN when offered them." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01phfmx (Listen) SUN Series 10, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Tony Hawks, Ed Byrne, Lucy Porter and SUN Charlie Higson are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Pies, Worms, SUN Dancing and James Bond. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01pnlt6 (Listen) SUN From Our Own Food Correspondent SUN SUN Sheila Dillon presents a special New Year, "From our Own SUN Food Correspondent" with stories from China, France, Italy, SUN Britain and the United States that reflect our changing SUN attitudes towards the food we eat SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01plf7k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01pnlt8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Inside the Aid Industry b01pnltb (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN The Kibera slum is five minutes from the centre of Nairobi SUN in Kenya, one of the wealthiest cities in Africa and also SUN the hub for humanitarian aid in the region. Over the years, SUN hundreds of aid agencies have poured energy and resources SUN into Kibera, yet there is still no running water or power, SUN families live in one-room huts and children play near open SUN sewers. Why does it seem that aid makes so little difference SUN in a place like this? SUN SUN In this programme Edward Stourton investigates the 'Kibera SUN conundrum' as the effectiveness of international aid comes SUN under increasing scrutiny. SUN SUN Over the last 60 years, aid has saved lives in the poorest SUN countries in the world. More children are going to school, SUN fewer are dying from preventable diseases thanks to SUN vaccination programmes funded by foreign aid. But could aid SUN delivered by charities, the government and multilateral SUN organisations such as the UN do more? SUN SUN In Kibera, Edward Stourton talks to local people about the SUN impact aid is having in the slum. He hears how many of the SUN estimated 800 aid organisations claiming to work there - in SUN an area covering two square miles - are 'briefcase NGOs', SUN set up to access funding but which exist in name only. Other SUN agencies such as Medecins Sans Frontiers provide vital SUN healthcare for the community. SUN SUN How far is aid tackling the causes and not just the symptoms SUN of poverty? And are aid agencies sufficiently honest about SUN the limits to what they can achieve? SUN SUN Oxfam, Save the Children and Medecins Sans Frontiers talk SUN candidly about how far aid is the solution to eradicating SUN poverty. SUN SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01phm21 (Listen) SUN Mercia SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is joined by panel members Christine Walkden, SUN Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew to kick off the new SUN gardening year in the first Gardeners' Question Time SUN programme of 2013, recorded in Mercia. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01pnltd (Listen) SUN Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War SUN SUN When Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Iran in 1980, he SUN said his war would be over in days or weeks. But the SUN Iran-Iraq War lasted for almost 8 years and claimed hundreds SUN of thousands of lives. Ahmad al-Mushatat was a young medic SUN who served in front line trenches during the last months of SUN that war. Hear his story. SUN SUN Photo: Ahmad al-Mushatat during the Iran-Iraq war, second SUN from the right. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01pnltg (Listen) SUN The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 3 SUN SUN Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's The SUN Eustace Diamonds stars Pippa Nixon as the beautiful Lizzie SUN Eustace, fighting to retain possession of her magnificent SUN diamond necklace, which she claims was left to her as a gift SUN by her late husband Florian. SUN SUN Her immediate relatives, spurred on by the intransigent SUN family lawyer, Camperdown, argue that the diamonds are an SUN heirloom and on no account can be retained by her. The SUN dispute colours all Lizzie's subsequent relationships - with SUN her cousin Frank, her new lover Lord Fawn, and her admirer SUN Lord George. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie is SUN driven to increasingly desperate behaviour in an attempt to SUN retain her jewels. SUN SUN Harpist: Cecilia De Maria SUN Cellist: Alison Baldwin SUN SUN Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Produced and Directed by Gordon House SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Lizzie: Pippa Nixon SUN Crabstick: Alison Pettitt SUN Frank: Joseph Kloska SUN Lord George: Adrian Scarborough SUN Mrs Carbuncle: Lorelei King SUN Lady Linethgow: Richenda Carey SUN Lucinda: Lydia Leonard SUN Lady Fawn: Stella Gonet SUN Lucy: Amy Morgan SUN Lord Fawn: Jamie Glover SUN Florian: Nicholas Boulton SUN Sir Gryffen: Nicholas Boulton SUN Harter: Sam Kelly SUN Benjamin: Stephen Critchlow SUN Major Mackintosh: Stephen Critchlow SUN Camperdown: Malcolm Sinclair SUN Augusta: Laura Hanna SUN Lydia: Ellie Butters SUN Nina: Ella Dale SUN Director: Gordon House SUN Producer: Gordon House SUN Writer: Rose Tremain SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01pnltj (Listen) SUN Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag SUN SUN Ben Macintyre discusses Agent Zigzag - his bestselling book SUN on the true story of a professional criminal named Eddie SUN Chapman, a successful British double agent who infiltrated SUN the Nazi intelligence services during World War II. SUN SUN A notorious safe-breaker before the war, Chapman duped the SUN Germans so successfully that he was awarded their highest SUN decoration, the Iron Cross. He remains the only British SUN citizen ever to win one. SUN SUN His story is one of chance and charm. Recruited as a spy SUN whilst serving time in a Jersey jail, Chapman persuaded his SUN German spy-masters that he was serving the Third Reich, but SUN when they parachuted him into Norfolk in 1944 he delivered SUN himself immediately to MI5. Because of the advanced and SUN highly secretive code breaking at Bletchley Park, MI5 were SUN expecting this unknown spy, with his German name of Agent SUN Fritz. Reflecting his ambivalent status, his new British SUN handlers called him Agent Zigzag. SUN SUN Ben Macintyre says that Chapman's missions of sabotage and SUN feeding false messages back to Germany were instrumental in SUN saving hundreds of lives, as well as averting the V1 bombers SUN from St Paul's Cathedral. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of Radio 4 listeners ask SUN the questions. SUN SUN February's Bookclub choice : Homage to Catalonia by George SUN Orwell SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN "Little wonder that when Tom Hanks read Agent Zigzag, he SUN wanted to film it.." SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01pnltl (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents requests for a range of playful poems SUN that have a musical and satirical theme by WH Auden, Wallace SUN Stevens, Anne Sexton and others. The readers are Patrick SUN Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun Raglan. SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 Ben Goldacre's Bad Evidence b01phhb9 (Listen) SUN Medic and author Ben Goldacre explores the idea of SUN evidence-based policy and asks if it can ever become a SUN reality in the UK. SUN SUN In medicine, how do we know if a particular treatment works? SUN The simple answer is to subject it to a fair test against SUN other treatments or a placebo. So far the best example of a SUN fair test in medicine is a randomised controlled trial or SUN RCT. SUN SUN Often to referred to as 'the gold standard' when it comes to SUN determining what works, RCTs are now commonplace in SUN business. But what about government? The idea of SUN evidence-based policy is hardly new - it's what social SUN scientists have been banging on about since the 1960s. But SUN in practice, when evidence has been used to determine SUN policy, it's often been anything but 'gold-standard'. SUN SUN In this programme, the medic and author of Bad Science, Ben SUN Goldacre, sets out to explore the potential for putting RCTs SUN at the heart of the policy-making process, arguing that not SUN only can they reveal if our existing policies are effective SUN but RCTs have the potential to transform the way we create SUN and implement social policy across the country, from SUN education to health, from welfare to crime. SUN SUN Of course not everyone agrees that all you need is hard data SUN to make the best policy. Experience, values, ideology - SUN these, say critics should never be abandoned in favour of SUN cold statistics. And whilst the RCT may work well for pills SUN and potions, it's too blunt an instrument to deal with the SUN subtle and complex challenges of assessing how best to SUN punish crime, treat drug users or teach children from SUN impoverished background to read and write. Just look at the SUN recent fiasco over badger-culling. over a ten-year period, SUN randomised experiments and pilot studies have resulted in no SUN clear policy on how to prevent the spread of bovine TB. And SUN then there's the ethical question - how for example could SUN you allow randomisation to determine something as morally SUN (and politically) sensitive as sentencing criminals, let SUN alone teaching kids? SUN SUN What is clear, is that bad policies cost us dear - both SUN socially and economically. The challenges are many but the SUN potential, argues Ben, could be truly transformational, both SUN for society and for government. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01pnft2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01plf7p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01plf7r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01plf7t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01pnltq (Listen) SUN Zombies shuffle onto the World Service, Ghosts haunt Radio SUN 4, a mad monk might just be the man from The Joy of Sex book SUN and if you've got a problem with your saffron crocus who ya SUN gonna call? I humbly suggest Pick of The Week, where we also SUN knit socks from yellow smoke, stand on some steak with a SUN Jelly Roll and place the entire Sioux nation in a field in SUN Knotty Ash. Join me, Jon Holmes for my picks of the week. SUN SUN Great Lives : Rasputin - Radio 4 SUN Ken Dodd : How Tickled I've Been - Radio 2 SUN News Quiz / Now Show - Radio 4 SUN Belle De Jour's History of Anon - Radio 4 SUN World Book Club: Pride and Prejudice - World Book Club SUN Today Programme: Poltergeist - Radio 4 SUN Desert Island Discs : Sir Howard Stringer- Radio 4 SUN Stop Calling Me "Dr Sex" - Radio 4 SUN Gardener's Question Time - Radio 4 SUN The Magic Faraway Tree - Radio 4 SUN Vinyl revival: Tom Jones - Radio 2 SUN Reimagining the City - Radio 4 SUN Jazz is Dead - Radio 4 SUN The Value of Culture - Radio 4 SUN Men's Hour - Radio 5 SUN Roger, The Eagle Has Landed - Radio 4 SUN Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes - Radio Wales 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 b01pnlts (Listen) SUN There's a new arrival at Blossom Hill Cottage. Meanwhile SUN Lilian is worried. SUN SUN 19:15 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tt5pw (Listen) SUN Mr Swallow SUN SUN Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, I'm Sorry I've Got No Head) SUN stars as lifestyle guru Mr Swallow as he presents his memory SUN technique to a live studio audience. SUN SUN Bits showcases the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic SUN characters in a series of one off comic plays. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN 19:45 Fairy Tales Retold by Sara Maitland b01pnlwg (Listen) SUN The Gingerbread Business SUN SUN Acclaimed short story writer Sara Maitland gives a magical SUN spin to the story of Hansel & Gretel, in The Gingerbread SUN Business - a sumptuous tale of confectionery and cunning SUN told by Lia Williams. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01phn0y (Listen) SUN The Parable of the Ox SUN SUN Tim Harford tells us what a 'guess the weight of the ox' SUN competition tells us about a bloated and dysfunctional SUN financial system. It features two noted economics writers: SUN James Surowiecki of the New Yorker and John Kay of the SUN Financial Times and a brand new composition from the New SUN Radiophonic Workshop. SUN Dr James Grime brings a real-live enigma machine into the SUN studio and we ask how you measure which is the greatest SUN racehorse of all time. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01phm25 (Listen) SUN A former Times editor, an American General, a cricket SUN commentator, a British composer, a legendary radio producer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Norman Schwarzkopf, the American General nicknamed "Stormin' SUN Norman" who led the international force which re-took Kuwait SUN from Saddam Hussein's invading Iraqi army. We speak to his SUN British counterpart Sir Peter de la Billiere SUN SUN Charles Chilton, the legendary BBC Radio producer who gave SUN us the serial "Journey Into Space". His friend David Jacobs SUN pays tribute. SUN SUN Lord Rees Mogg the former editor of the Times and newspaper SUN columnist. We hear from his successor Sir Harold Evans and SUN his son Jacob. SUN SUN Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, the composer who wrote film, SUN jazz and classical scores SUN SUN And Christopher Martin Jenkins, much loved cricket SUN commentator and writer who had a difficult relationship with SUN technology. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01pnfjm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01pngq5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01phlgn (Listen) SUN Sounds Familiar SUN SUN After years of promise, voice recognition is at last SUN becoming a significant method of using computers and SUN accessing the Internet. Why now, and what difference does it SUN make? Peter Day talks to the companies at the forefront of SUN developments in the field (including Massachusetts-based SUN Nuance, one of the largest makers of voice recognition SUN technology), and asks whether our relationship with machines SUN will change once we have the ability to talk to them. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01pnmcn (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 b01pnmcq (Listen) SUN David Aaronovitch of The Times analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01phlg8 (Listen) SUN How the Grey Pound Is Influencing the Film World SUN SUN In a special edition of the programme, Francine Stock looks SUN at a growing number of films aimed at an older audience, SUN known within the industry as the 'grey pound'. SUN SUN Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay discuss their retirement SUN home comedy, Quartet, the directorial debut of Dustin SUN Hoffman. SUN SUN Francine visits the set of Roger Michell's latest, Le SUN Weekend, starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a SUN retired couple trying to rekindle the romance of their SUN honeymoon. SUN SUN Analyst Charles Gant reveals the films that made the SUN industry sit up and notice the older cinemagoer, while SUN president of Momentum pictures, Xavier Marchand, discusses SUN his company's future plans for this audience. SUN SUN Plus, Dame Helen Mirren, one of the most bankable British SUN stars of the last 30 years. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01pngpz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 JANUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01plf8w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01phj21 (Listen) MON Consuming Passions MON MON Consumer pleasures - in a New Year special edition, Laurie MON Taylor explores the place of shopping in our lives, as well MON as within sociological thought. He's joined by Professor MON Colin Campbell, Dr Kate Soper and Professor Rachel Bowlby. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01pngpx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01plf8y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01plf90 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01plf92 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01plf94 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01px5wn (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His MON Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox MON Church in the United Kingdom. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01pnmg1 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01plf96 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01pnmg3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01pnmww (Listen) MON Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr begins the new year talking MON about lies and secrets, and the increasing blurring of MON public and private. Deborah Cohen charts family secrets and MON shame from the Victorian times to the present day, while MON Sarah Dunant and TV producer Alex Graham discuss how MON confession became entertainment, and the psychoanalyst MON Stephen Grosz listens to the hidden feelings of his MON patients. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01pnmwy (Listen) MON The Examined Life, Episode 1 MON MON The world bedevils us. To make sense of it, we tell MON ourselves stories. In a series of short, vivid, dramatic MON tales, using psychoanalytic insight without psychoanalytic MON jargon, The Examined Life tracks the collaborative journey MON of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings MON behind apparently ordinary behaviour patterns. MON MON Written with precision and insight, these case studies are MON all based on actual people. While factually true, they MON demonstrate a novelist's sense of an ending and empathetic MON understanding of the subterfuges of the human mind. MON MON In his work as a practising psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has MON spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden MON feelings behind our most baffling behaviour. The Examined MON Life distils over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure MON psychological insight, without the jargon. MON MON This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: MON talking, listening and understanding. Its aphoristic and MON elegant stories teach us a new kind of attentiveness. They MON also unveil a delicate self-portrait of the analyst at work, MON and show how lessons learned in the consulting room can MON reveal as much to him as to the patient. MON MON Episode 1 of 5 MON Stephen Grosz has been studying and working as a MON psychoanalyst in the UK for over twenty-five years. From MON over 50,000 hours of conversation he distils a series of MON true stories about the hidden feelings behind our most MON baffling behaviour. In the first of these he recounts an MON early experience when a patient's actions were unpredictable MON and shocking. MON MON Read by Peter Marinker MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pnmx0 (Listen) MON Lucy Tobin, Katriona Gilmore, child benefit MON MON We discuss changes to who gets child benefit payments. Lucy MON Tobin, personal finance editor of the London Evening MON Standard on Ausperty - living well but spending less. We MON talk to the women at Great Ormond Street Hospital who are MON doing ground-breaking research into treating children with MON side effects associated with bone marrow transplants. MON Katriona Gilmore tells us about the Victorian Army surgeon MON who inspired her song, Dr James. Gilmore and Roberts are MON nominated for the best duo award in the BBC Radio Folk MON Awards 2013. MON Presenter Jane Garvey. MON Producer Sarah Crawley. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01pnmx2 (Listen) MON The Light Years, Episode 6 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels MON MON Villy has to deal with her unexpected pregnancy, whilst Zoe MON attempts to hide her dinner dates with Dr Sherlock from her MON mother. MON MON Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow MON MON As war looms, everything is about to change for 3 MON generations of the Cazalet family. There is just one idyllic MON summer left. MON MON As Elizabeth Jane Howard approaches her 90th Birthday, Radio MON 4 is to broadcast all four of her Cazalet novels: The Light MON Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off. The story of MON the family stretches over ten years. The dramatisations MON begin on New Year's Eve and finish in August 2013. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Villy: Ruth Gemmell MON Diana: Lisa Dillon MON Edward: Pip Torrens MON Zoe: Zoe Tapper MON Dr Sherlock: Ben Crowe MON Mrs Headford: Patience Tomlinson MON Dr Ballater: Pat Brennan MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON MON 11:00 Phelophepa b01pnmx4 (Listen) MON Laverne Antrobus visits rural South Africa to tell the story MON of the extraordinary Phelophepa Health Train. MON MON The Phelophepa (meaning good, clean health) is a mobile MON clinic which weaves its way through rural South Africa MON bringing doctors, nurses and psychologists to a population MON which has approximately one doctor for every five thousand MON people. Owned and operated by South Africa's state freight MON rail company, Transnet, and funded by a variety of MON organisations and companies, the Phelophepa has twenty MON permanent staff who live on the train and up to forty MON medical students who come and go on placements. MON MON Every week the train moves to a different location; as it MON pulls into a station hundreds of people are waiting, MON desperate to be seen. There are simple solutions like MON glasses which cure years of 'blindness', hearing-aids, MON walking-sticks, as well as psychological counselling. Often, MON because the queues are so long and the journey home too MON expensive, patients will sit outside the train all night so MON they are first in the queue the following day. MON MON Several years ago Laverne - who works as a psychologist in MON London - volunteered on the train. She returned in 2012 as MON part of this documentary for Radio 4. MON MON For the programme Laverne caught up with the Phelophepa in MON Alice, a small town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. She MON met doctors, student doctors, and of course the patients; MON many leave having received the treatment they need, however MON the painful truth is that not everyone can be seen. Often MON the train has to pull away for the next town, leaving MON patients (who had travelled miles to be there) behind. MON MON Producer: Karen Gregor. MON MON 11:30 Turf Wars b00z5hr2 (Listen) MON Losing the Plot MON MON In Nick Warburton's delicious comedy, James Fleet plays MON Edward, a bashful man who, passing a local allotment, speaks MON to an attractive female allottee. He decides there and then MON that he must apply for a plot. But doing so involves an MON interview with ferocious site-manager Bernie who runs the MON allotments with military rigour. It's all looking unlikely MON until Edward reveals that his father was a local landscape MON horticulturalist, one Bernie has admired all his life. MON Edward joins the site. And it is only then that he springs a MON surprise on Bernie. One that leads to explosive MON confrontation. Which of them will lose the plot? MON MON Edward ..... James Fleet MON Amanda .... Joanna Monro MON Bernie ..... Jonathan Coy MON MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON Producer: Peter Kavanagh MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01pnmx6 (Listen) MON Compensation for victims of faulty breast implants, and how MON to stop your Christmas tree becoming landfill MON MON Good news at last on compensation for some victims of faulty MON PIP breast implants. MON MON You may be a little sad throwing out your Christmas tree, MON but don't get down in the dumps. If you dispose of it MON correctly, it could be serving as compost in a matter of MON weeks instead of landfill. We visit the tip to find out what MON happens to the rubbish you throw out and how much is reused. MON MON And a Radio 4 presenter comes clean. Find out what they're MON admitting to. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01plf98 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01pnmx8 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds b01pnmxb (Listen) MON Heather Moors MON MON Which bird sounds like a coffee percolator and moves like a MON clockwork mouse? Well, the answer can be found in the first MON of a new series of guides to our commonest upland birds. MON Brett Westwood joins keen bird watcher Stephen Moss on the MON magnificent rolling hills of the Long Mynd in Shropshire MON where the air is filled with the 'go-back-back-back' calls MON of Red Grouse. With the help of recordings by wildlife sound MON recordist Chris Watson, Brett and Stephen offer a practical MON and entertaining guide to the birds which you're most likely MON to see and hear on heather moors in Upland Britain; birds MON like the Red Grouse, Black Grouse, Merlin and Short-eared MON Owl; an owl which you're likely to see hunting in daylight MON and whose eyes "look like fog lamps" exclaims Brett, "they MON glare at you bright, yellow and black!". MON MON This is the first of five programmes to help you identify MON many of the birds seen and heard in Upland Britain; on MON heather moors, upland grasslands, cliffs and crags, bogs and MON mires and the high mountain tops. Not only is there advice MON on how to recognise the birds from their appearance, but MON also how to identify them from their calls and songs. MON MON This series complements five previous series; A Guide to MON Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds, A Guide to Water MON Birds, A Guide to Coastal Birds and A Guide to Farmland MON Birds and is aimed at both the complete novice as well as MON those who are eager to learn more about our upland visitors MON and residents. MON MON PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01pnlts (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00rrljy (Listen) MON The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Marlbourne MON Point Mystery, The Marlbourne Point Mystery MON MON A new two-part Sherlock Holmes adventure, inspired by the MON stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and written by Bert MON Coules. MON MON starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes MON and Andrew Sachs as Dr John Watson MON MON Featuring James Laurenson as Mycroft Holmes MON MON Part 1: a disused lighthouse on a remote stretch of the Kent MON coast is the scene of a bizarre double death. MON MON In his accounts of the career of his friend Sherlock Holmes, MON Dr. Watson often makes passing reference to a mystery which MON his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in MON full. Bert Coules, the chief writer behind BBC Radio 4's MON celebrated dramatisations of the complete Sherlock Holmes MON canon of fifty-six short stories and four novels, once again MON takes up the pen where Sir Arthur left off. MON MON This is what Holmes buffs call a 'canonical pastiche': a new MON story written faithfully in the style of the original. MON MON It brings to seventy-five the number of times Clive Merrison MON has played Sherlock Homes on BBC Radio 4. MON MON Violinists: Leonard Friedman and Ian Humphries MON MON Producer Patrick Rayner. MON MON Credits MON Sherlock Holmes: Clive Merrison MON Dr John Watson: Andrew Sachs MON Mycroft Holmes: James Laurenson MON Constable Powell: Piers Wehner MON Sir Charles Steele: Nigel Hastings MON Mrs Chang: Pik-Sen Lim MON Harold Jefferstone: Joseph Cohen-Cole MON Mr Jefferstone: Bruce Alexander MON Mr Lade: Richard Dillane MON Elizabeth: Tessa Nicholson MON Producer: Patrick Rayner MON Writer: Bert Coules MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01pnmxd (Listen) MON (7/17) MON What did the 'P.G.' stand for in the name of the writer P.G. MON Wodehouse? And what's a Wheatstone Bridge used for in an MON electrical circuit? MON MON Brain of Britain returns to Media City in Salford for MON another heat featuring competitors from the North of MON England. This week's four contestants come from Westhoughton MON in Lancashire, Nuneaton, Derby and Haydon Bridge in West MON Yorkshire. They compete for a place in the semi-finals of MON this 60th season of the time-honoured general knowledge MON quiz. MON MON Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair, and he'll MON also be selecting a pair of questions mailed to Brain of MON Britain by a listener, hoping to confound the combined MON brainpower of the contestants in order to win a prize. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01pnlt6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Johnny Cash and the Forgotten Prison Blues b01pnmxg (Listen) MON Danny Robins explores the little known story of Johnny Cash MON the prison reformer. MON MON Cash's classic albums recorded at Folsom Prison and San MON Quentin are well known but few are aware that these were MON just two of many prison concerts he played over decades. MON Robins discovers how the singer became a passionate prison MON reformer who donated his own money to the cause, took a MON prisoner into his home and met Richard Nixon to force the MON issue. MON MON Away from the spotlight of Folsom and San Quentin, Robins MON uncovers two neglected prison concerts. In Arkansas, he MON discovers a forgotten concert from one of the worst prisons MON in America at the time, Cummins Penitentiary. We go inside MON the prison, a place only few journalists have been allowed, MON and discover footage of Cash performing there. Robins looks MON at instruments of torture and meets one of the few men still MON alive who was at the concert, to discover what daily life MON was like in the prison a federal judge called "a dark and MON evil place". MON MON He also unearths a prison album recorded at a Swedish prison MON in 1972, the only prison concert Cash ever performed outside MON America. Whereas Cummins represented everything Cash wanted MON to change about American prisons, Stockholm's Österåker MON prison represented everything he hoped they might become. MON Life at Österåker in the late 1960s and 70s was as liberal MON as Cummins was harsh, but was the Swedish way any more MON successful when it came to rehabilitating criminals? MON MON Producer: Jo Wheeler MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01pnmxj (Listen) MON The Unification Church MON MON The 1960s and 70s saw a proliferation of New Religious MON Movements in this country. Perhaps the best known is the MON Unification Church founded by the Rev Sun Myung Moon which MON attracted world wide attention because of mass weddings MON where couples who had often never met were paired together. MON The Rev Moon died last September and the movement is MON struggling to come to terms with his departure. So what will MON happen now? How do New Religious Movements survive when MON their founder dies? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the Unification Church are MON Professor Eileen Barker, Director of Inform, an Information MON Network focusing on New Religious Movements, George MON Chryssides, Honorary Research Fellow in Contemporary MON Religion at the University of Birmingham and Jack Corley, MON Director of the UK branch of the Unification Church. MON MON 17:00 PM b01pnmy7 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01plf9b (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01pnn1d (Listen) MON Series 10, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Celia Pacquola and Rhod MON Gilbert are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Wine, The Queen, Baths MON and Wind. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01pnn1g (Listen) MON Jennifer hosts a family gathering. Meanwhile Lilian needs to MON escape. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01pnn1j (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Ryan Gosling and MON Sean Penn in the film Gangster Squad, a tale of the Los MON Angeles police in the late 1940s, battling a mafia boss. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01pnmx2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Do I Have a Right to Be Forgotten? b01pnn4m (Listen) MON When Emma Barnett, a tech-savvy 27 year old typed her name MON into a search engine she found photos from her past she MON would really rather forget. And she is not alone; millions MON of people are sharing photos, tweets and status updates with MON friends every day - later discovering, regretfully, that MON they live online forever. MON MON But with the European Union hoping to enshrine a "right to MON be forgotten" will it become possible to own your online MON life? On this journey Emma discovers what rights she has to MON delete material from the internet and the implications this MON has on how we record events and write history. MON MON Producer: Clare Walker. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01phktd (Listen) MON Forced Confessions in Japan MON MON Mariko Oi investigates forced confessions of suspects in the MON Japanese criminal justice system. She asks if the use of MON prolonged questioning and other dubious tactics by police MON and prosecutors might be one reason for Japan's MON astonishingly high conviction rate. MON Producer: Nina Robinson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01phlgb (Listen) MON Winter vomiting bug is with us once again but what can MON science tell us about this recurrent illness? Quentin Cooper MON talks to experts in Britain and the US who are looking at MON the current outbreaks. MON MON James Kakalios, Professor of Physics at Minnesota MON University, explains how he uses fictional superheroes to MON further his students' understanding of physics. MON MON Following last week's programme about unsung scientific MON heroes, Quentin showcases some of the listeners' MON suggestions. MON MON And he finds out why the British military is employing MON scientists to design underpants for soldiers serving in MON Afghanistan. MON MON Following last week's programme about unsung scientific MON heroes, Quentin showcases some of the listeners' MON suggestions. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01pnmww (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01plf9d (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01pnn4p (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pnn4r (Listen) MON The Knot, Episode 1 MON MON Dominic Kitchen is a wedding photographer who is used to MON seeing people tie the knot, an expression that also MON represents a sensation that he feels in the pit of his MON stomach. A sensation that emerges when he is in the presence MON of a certain person who could change his ordinary life MON forever. They have a secret that only they can ever know as MON it is something that society, even today, would struggle MON with. This is a tale of agonising loss and forbidden love. MON MON Episode One MON Dominic Kitchen is an ordinary young man who lives an MON ordinary life. But for how long will his life remain MON ordinary? MON MON Written by Mark Watson MON Abridged by John Peacock MON Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Director Celia de Wolff MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01phgjq (Listen) MON Stenography MON MON As courts around the world replace human stenographers with MON digital recording systems, Michael Rosen explores the MON ancient art of stenography. Michael looks at the work MON Charles Dickens did in London courts around 1830, and asks MON how his career as a shorthand reporter influenced his work. MON He investigates the mysteries of modern stenograph machines, MON and talks to people who operate them and to a leading MON barrister about the different ways we record words spoken in MON trials and other official proceedings. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pnn4t (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 JANUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01plfbc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01pnmwy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01plfbf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01plfbh (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01plfbk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01plfbm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01py7wd (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His TUE Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox TUE Church in the United Kingdom. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01pp563 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01pp565 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01pp567 (Listen) TUE Amoret Whitaker TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to Amoret Whitaker, an entomologist at TUE the Natural History Museum in London. Her intricate TUE understanding of the life cycles of the flies, beetles and TUE the other insects' which feed on decomposing bodies means TUE she is regularly called by the Police to the scene of a TUE crime or a murder investigation. There she collects and TUE analyses any insect evidence to help them pin point the most TUE likely time of death. In some instances, this can be TUE accurate to within hours. TUE TUE She is just one of only a handful of forensic entomologists TUE working in the UK. She talks to Jim about her life as a TUE research scientist, breeding flies in the far flung towers TUE of the Natural History Museum and her work as a forensic TUE expert with police services across the country. Dropping her TUE work at a moment's notice she can be called any time of day TUE to anywhere in the country to attend a crime scene. She also TUE talks about her regular trips to a research facility at the TUE 'Body Farm' at the University of Tennesee in Knoxville in TUE Ameria to get a better understanding of how real human TUE bodies decompose. TUE TUE Her passion is insects and while our instinctive reaction to TUE flies and maggots may be one of revulsion - when you take TUE time look at them properly, and in detail, she says you can TUE see what truly incredible creatures they are. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01pp569 (Listen) TUE Martin Wainwright talks to Lindis Percy TUE TUE In this series, where journalists follow their personal TUE passions by talking to the people whose stories interest TUE them most, Martin Wainwright interviews persistent TUE campaigners. Having been brought up in a household that was TUE always at action stations as part of his father's long TUE campaign to become a Liberal MP, perseverance has always TUE fascinated Martin. What instils it? What nurtures it? Can it TUE become an obsession at the cost of everything else , TUE including family? TUE In this first programme he talks to Lindis Percy, now TUE approaching seventy, she's been a political campaigner for TUE some forty years, for the last thirty of them on the issue TUE of American airbases in the UK. Lindis has been arrested TUE five hundred times and served fifteen prison terms but she TUE continues to campaign undeterred. Under the banner of the TUE Campaign for the Accountability of American Airbases she TUE still demonstrated every Tuesday outside the base at Menwith TUE Hill in North Yorkshire. TUE Martin joins her there to discover what still inspires her TUE to lobby and litigate when so many of her fellow peace TUE campaigners have fallen by the way side. As a mother of TUE three and a lifelong worker in the National Health Service, TUE how has she managed to juggle her campaigning with family TUE and professional life? TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01px4px (Listen) TUE The Examined Life, Episode 2 TUE TUE Continuing his series of true stories from the analyst's TUE consulting room, Stephen Grosz examines secrets and the ways TUE that people can protect themselves with lies and bluster. TUE TUE Read by Peter Marinker TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pp56c (Listen) TUE Melissa Viney on motherhood; protest or lobbying - what TUE works best? TUE TUE Melissa Viney discusses the early months of motherhood and TUE protest or lobbying - what's the best way for women to TUE engage in the political process ? Jane Garvey presents. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01pp56f (Listen) TUE The Light Years, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels TUE TUE Clary is researching the seven deadly sins and wants to know TUE more about lust, unaware that her stepmother Zoe is TUE indulging in quite a bit of it herself. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01pp56h (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 19 TUE TUE Since opening in 2000 the London Wetland Centre run by the TUE Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust has suffered from invasive TUE species both plants and animals. Because it is a fairly TUE young nature reserve, its life story is quite complete. TUE Before it was turned into a reserve, when it was the old TUE Barn Elms reservoirs, there was Japanese knotweed on site. TUE That has now been eradicated but a whole host of new species TUE have been discovered and dealt with; some eradicated, some TUE controlled. Managing the water and reserve is a huge TUE undertaking and as Saving Species discovers, the latest TUE threat killer shrimp which arrived in the UK from Eastern TUE Europe, and feeds on fish, is currently a big concern. TUE TUE In the 1980's the population of wild salmon in British TUE rivers crashed by an estimated 70%. Initially the blame for TUE this crash was put on the marine environment; was something TUE affecting the adult fish returning to their spawning TUE grounds? More recently attention has moved to freshwater TUE rivers and whether the role the spawning and smolt survival TUE plays a bigger influence. For 40 years the Game and Wildlife TUE Conservation Trust have carried out research on the river TUE Frome in Dorset, which now is beginning to provide data TUE which could one day lead to the creation of a model that TUE could predict good and bad years for returning adult salmon TUE adults. 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 Scoring Father Brown b01pp56k (Listen) TUE Scoring Father Brown is a unique exploration of the world of TUE writing music for film and television. Debbie Wiseman takes TUE us on her own individual journey as a composer, through the TUE processes and stages she took, when scoring music for this TUE television series. Based on the stories by G. K. Chesterton, TUE Father Brown is a charismatic sleuth, concerned with the TUE redemption of the soul. Music is required to underpin these TUE episodes, such as heightening emotions or joining scenes TUE together, but it is essential that from the very outset, for TUE the music to capture the individual world of Father Brown. TUE TUE Music is an integral part of many multimedia projects, from TUE stage, to film. It has the ability to work alongside the TUE visual narrative, enhancing emotions, evoking locations, and TUE can even provide the listener with otherwise unknown TUE information about a character. Debbie Wiseman, in writing TUE music for the Father Brown series, takes us through many TUE stages from going on location and meeting the cast, TUE including Mark Williams who starred as Mr Weasley in the TUE Harry Potter films, to decisions she has to make about where TUE to place music within the series, and why. TUE TUE Throughout the programme, Professor Eric Clarke from the TUE Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford, will be giving TUE us his views on the power of music to enhance a narrative, TUE and its often subconscious impact upon the listener. The TUE Father Brown production team also share their ideas about TUE the series, and their requirements for the music. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01pp56m (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01plfbp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01pp56p (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds b01pp56r (Listen) TUE Cliffs and Crags TUE TUE Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss TUE on the magnificent rolling hills of the Long Mynd in TUE Shropshire. With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris TUE Watson they offer a practical and entertaining guide to the TUE birds which you're most likely to see and hear on the cliffs TUE and crags of upland Britain; birds like the Raven, Peregrine TUE and one of Brett's favourite birds, the Mountain Blackbird TUE or Ring Ouzel; a bird he first saw in April 1971 when it TUE stopped off migration and "I've never missed an Ouzel April TUE since then" he says, returning to the same site every year TUE to see this rather striking-looking bird, with its sooty TUE black feathers and white crescent or bib. TUE TUE PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01pnn1g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00rt94m (Listen) TUE The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Marlbourne TUE Point Mystery, The Marlbourne Point Mystery TUE TUE A new two-part Sherlock Holmes adventure, inspired by the TUE stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and written by Bert TUE Coules. TUE TUE starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes TUE and Andrew Sachs as Dr John Watson TUE TUE Featuring James Laurenson as Mycroft Holmes TUE TUE Part 2: the shocking truth behind the mystery of the TUE politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant is TUE finally revealed. TUE TUE In his accounts of the career of his friend Sherlock Holmes, TUE Dr. Watson often makes passing reference to a mystery which TUE his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in TUE full. Bert Coules, the chief writer behind BBC Radio 4's TUE celebrated dramatisations of the complete Sherlock Holmes TUE canon of fifty-six short stories and four novels, once again TUE takes up the pen where Sir Arthur left off. TUE TUE This is what Holmes buffs call a 'canonical pastiche': a new TUE story written faithfully in the style of the original. TUE TUE It brings to seventy-five the number of times Clive Merrison TUE has played Sherlock Homes on BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Violinists: Leonard Friedman and Ian Humphries TUE TUE Producer Patrick Rayner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sherlock Holmes: Clive Merrison TUE Dr John Watson: Andrew Sachs TUE Mycroft Holmes: James Laurenson TUE Constable Powell: Piers Wehner TUE Sir Charles Steele: Nigel Hastings TUE Mrs Chang: Pik-Sen Lim TUE Harold Jefferstone: Joseph Cohen-Cole TUE Mr Jefferstone: Bruce Alexander TUE Mr Lade: Richard Dillane TUE Elizabeth: Tessa Nicholson TUE Postmaster: Bert Coules TUE Producer: Patrick Rayner TUE Writer: Bert Coules TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01pp5v6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Cambridgeshire TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents the final episode in the current series TUE of The Kitchen Cabinet from Cambridgeshire. 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 Lives in a Landscape b01n6rb6 (Listen) TUE Series 11, The Longest Commute in Britain TUE TUE The Longest Commute in Britain TUE TUE Geoff picks up a copy of "Horse and Hound" for his wife and TUE strides toward Euston Station; Angus heads for the lounge TUE car, where a whisky is ready and waiting; Mary leaves the TUE offices of 'Country Life', and joins the London rush hour TUE crowds wearing sturdy walking boots; meanwhile Ann Marie has TUE taken up her position at the end of the platform 15, to TUE await the longest train in the UK - it will be her job to TUE unlock the doors, and ready the train for departure. TUE TUE This is arguable the longest commute in the UK - the TUE Caledonian Sleeper - which at a quarter of a mile long, is TUE also the longest train. TUE Walkers, climbers, shooting-parties and Americans tourists TUE are regular fare, but week in week out, the same faces TUE return, the band of commuters who live in the Scottish TUE Highlands, but work in London. TUE TUE Would you, given the choice, choose to spent two nights a TUE week on a train? Two nights of camaraderie in the lounge TUE car; two nights of friendly exchanges, unwinding with late TUE night whiskies; but two nights also of jolting rails, beds TUE just a mite too short for the tallest folk, and the TUE notorious uncoupling at Edinburgh. TUE TUE Alan Dein rides the rails with the experts, through the long TUE night of the long distance commuter, to find out where home TUE really lies. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01pp5v8 (Listen) TUE The language of bereavement and grief are explored by writer TUE Michael Rosen, as he talks to psychologists, teachers, TUE hospice workers, childrens charities, and visits a Death TUE Cafe. TUE Winstons Wish is a charity for children who have lost a TUE parent, brother or sister. Michael sits in on a training TUE session for teachers and carers in Cheltenham, and discovers TUE how the language we use can either confuse or comfort young TUE children. He talks to psychologist Colin Murray Parkes about TUE the stages of grieving and the psychological complexity of TUE dealing with loss. And he visits a Death Cafe, where TUE like-minded people come together to discuss anything and TUE everything about death and dying, whilst enjoying tea and TUE cake. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01pp5vb (Listen) TUE Series 29, John Stuart Mill TUE TUE Max Mosely nominates the philosopher and proponent of TUE personal liberty, John Stuart Mill, as his great life. With TUE presenter Matthew Parris and biographer Richard Reeves. TUE TUE Max Mosely trained as a barrister and was an amateur racing TUE driver before becoming involved in the professional sport, TUE latterly as president of the Fédération Internationale de TUE l'Automobile. The youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former TUE leader of the British Union of Fascists, and Diana Mitford, TUE his family name made a career in politics impossible. His TUE choice of Mill as a great life is a result of his recent TUE experiences of suing the News of the World for invasion of TUE privacy, and giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. He says TUE that both sides of the debate used Mill's work on liberty to TUE justify their arguments. TUE TUE Until summer 2012 Richard Reeves was Nick Clegg's Director TUE of Strategy, and before that, head of the think-tank TUE 'Demos'. His biography, 'John Stuart Mill - Victorian TUE Firebrand', depicts Mill as a passionate man of action: a TUE philosopher, radical MP and reformer who profoundly shaped TUE Victorian society and continues to illuminate our own. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01pp5vd (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01plfbt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01pp5vg (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 2 TUE TUE Guests have some new experiences and give their verdicts to TUE Marcus Brigstocke. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01pp56t (Listen) TUE Ed makes a request, and Vicky is indignant. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01pp5zd (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of the new film of the TUE musical Les Miserables, directed by Tom Hooper, with a cast TUE including Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01pp56f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 A Tale of Two Villages b01pq9lc (Listen) TUE Twenty years after its pit shut, the iconic Yorkshire TUE village of Grimethorpe is thriving. What is behind its TUE successful regeneration, and why have other villages fared TUE less well? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01pp5zg (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01pp5zj (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter explores a new scheme to test everyone over TUE 75 who's admitted to hospital for signs of dementia. Will TUE this lead to overdiagnosis or will it get people treated TUE early? TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01pp567 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01plfbw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01pp5zl (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01py4zn (Listen) TUE The Knot, Episode 2 TUE TUE It is the annual Summer holiday in Southwold for Dominic and TUE his family. His elder sister Victoria brings her friend TUE Maudie from University. Dominic is growing up and so are his TUE emotions. TUE TUE Written by Mark Watson TUE Abridged by John Peacock TUE Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Director Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00sg1vh (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 2 TUE TUE Victoria Coren presents another edition of the show which TUE dares to commit heresy . TUE TUE Her guests this week are comedians David Baddiel and Lucy TUE Porter and the co-presenter of daytime quiz show Pointless, TUE Richard Osman. Together they have fun exposing the TUE wrong-headedness of received wisdom and challenging TUE knee-jerk public reaction to events. TUE TUE Arguing against the common belief that "the economy is up TUE the creek without a paddle", David Baddiel says we're TUE actually sailing serenely through the recession. Lucy Porter TUE isn't convinced that "the innocence of children is snatched TUE away too fast these days" and wants to know when her 13 TUE month old daughter will start paying her share of the TUE household bills, and Richard Osman finds reasons not to TUE mourn the passing of the News of the World. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pp5zn (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 JANUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01plfcq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01px4px (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01plfcs (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01plfcv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01plfcx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01plfcz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01py7w6 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His WED Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox WED Church in the United Kingdom. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01pp88l (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01pp88n (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 The Cultural Exchange b01py4fm (Listen) WED As part of Radio 4's focus on creativity and culture in WED 2013, Mark Lawson and guests debate how we can best navigate WED our way through the wide range of cultural experiences now WED on offer, and question why it is still so hard to predict WED what will prove successful. WED WED Word-of-mouth recommendation - always a powerful force - can WED now be shared in a click. WED WED Anyone with a computer can access dozens of reviews of major WED films, books and exhibitions - but does this sea of opinion WED sink the traditional critic, or do we need now more than WED ever a trusted guide? WED WED And why is it still so hard to predict what will capture the WED imagination of readers, listeners and viewers? More WED information than ever is available, yet the works which WED reach out far beyond the anticipated audience are often WED quite unexpected - whether it's the global stage success of WED a children's book enacted with giant puppets (War Horse) or WED Fifty Shades of Grey. WED WED Mark Lawson and guests debate what shapes how we make WED cultural choices in 2013, and looks ahead to a major Radio 4 WED project in which leading creative minds make daily cultural WED recommendations to listeners. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01px4pz (Listen) WED The Examined Life, Episode 3 WED WED We make stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not WED enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. WED Analyst Stephen Grosz recounts a session with a patient who WED revealed his inner life over the phone with a meticulous WED description of his house. WED WED Read by Peter Marinker WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pp88q (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01pp88s (Listen) WED The Light Years, Episode 8 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard Dramatised by Sarah Daniels WED WED Everyone is extremely worried about the war, particularly WED Polly, but Neville can see how gas masks might protect him WED from the unwelcome approaches of relatives wanting to be WED kissed WED WED Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 The Path to English b01pp88v (Listen) WED Bobby Friction talks to adults who are learning English from WED scratch in the UK. Many of them are immigrants or refugees WED from different communities and countries who arrive with WED little English and quickly have to adapt. WED WED How did they feel living in a country where they were unable WED to communicate? How did they deal with everyday situations WED like getting on a bus, shopping, going to a school or WED visiting a doctor? And how did they learn English - both WED formally and informally? We find a network of unofficial WED 'translators' in operation helping people get by. We speak WED to people who have been here for over 40 years as well as WED those who have recently arrived. WED WED What English course provisions are there for people eager to WED enhance their language skills? We discover the challenges in WED funding English courses. And how is the necessity of WED learning English for the citizenship test changing the WED experience of people arriving in this country? WED WED Bobby visits the Sparkhill Adult Education Centre in WED Birmingham and speaks to teachers and pupils learning WED English through ESOL (English for Speakers of Other WED Languages). He also discovers a community on the Soho Road WED in Birmingham which exists perfectly happily, running WED businesses and contributing to society while speaking very WED little English. WED WED We visit the Chinese community of Manchester where the women WED in particular struggle with communication. We also meet a WED group of Eastern European supermarket distribution workers WED in Hertfordshire who are being taught English by their WED employer. WED WED The programme also contains interviews with The Migrants' WED Rights Network and the Refugee Council. WED WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b01pp88x (Listen) WED Series 8, On Expenses WED WED Episode 2 - On Expenses WED WED With society collapsing all around us Social Worker Clare WED Barker is appalled to be stuck indoors bean counting. But as WED Clare discovers anomalies in the Sparrowhawk Family Centre's WED expense claims will friendship and loyalty win over WED professional integrity? WED WED Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS WED Brian: ALEX LOWE WED Megan: NINA CONTI WED Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN WED Helen: LIZA TARBUCK WED Simon: ANDREW WINCOTT WED Libby: SARAH KENDALL WED Paul: BEN CROWE WED Mrs Manjula: BHARTI PATEL WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01pp88z (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01pp891 (Listen) WED Face the Facts Update WED WED In July 2012, as the country prepared for the London WED Olympics, we reported the concern of the tourism industry WED that our visa system was making it too difficult for people WED to visit the UK. Senior figures in the industry said the UK WED was missing out on a huge rise in Chinese tourism because WED our visa application forms were too long and too intrusive. WED Potential visitors had to travel hundreds of miles to visit WED a centre for biometric testing. By comparison the so-called WED Schengen visa allows tourists to visit more than twenty WED European countries is much easier to obtain. As a result WED many Chinese travellers give up on visiting Britain and WED confine their trips to the Schengen countries. And, so say WED tourism leaders, the lost revenue can be counted in billions WED of pounds. However critics say an easier tourist visa system WED can make us more vulnerable to illegal immigration. WED WED In December, the Government announced improvements designed WED to make it easier for visitors from China to come here. We WED ask the UK's primary tourism body - Visit Britain - how WED helpful the reforms will be. WED WED We look forward to an inquest into a tower block fire which WED killed six people and may lead to safety improvements in WED such properties. WED WED And what has become of the man who is accused of ripping off WED dozens of investors who handed over money to buy properties WED in Dubai and yet never set foot in their apartments? The WED liquidators of his company have so far been unable to find WED "Mr Bollywood" or the money. WED WED Presenter: John Waite WED Producer: Nick Jackson and Richard Hooper. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01plfd1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01pp893 (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 A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds b01pp895 (Listen) WED Upland Grasslands WED WED Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss WED on the magnificent rolling hills of the Long Mynd in WED Shropshire as Skylarks rise up out of the heather all around WED them and pour out their liquid song. With the help of WED recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, Brett WED and Stephen offer a practical and entertaining guide to the WED birds which you're most likely to see and hear on Britain's WED upland grasslands; birds like the Skylark (whose call Brett WED describes as sounding like "a sparrow with attitude"!), the WED Meadow Pipit, the Wheatear ("a bit like a light bulb against WED the moor" as it flies away from you), and the Curlew, whose WED bubbling song is so evocative of wild places. WED WED PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01pp56t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pp897 (Listen) WED Second Body WED WED BAFTA-winning writer Trevor Preston draws on his own WED experience as an artist in this dark thriller. Anna is a WED painter driven to capture the haunting images of death that WED fill the twilight world of her dreams. But whose death do WED they foretell? WED WED Directed by Toby Swift WED WED Credits WED Anna: Tara Fitzgerald WED Robert: Raymond Coulthard WED Schuman: Kenneth Collard WED Munch: Ben Crowe WED Jacob: Stephen Greif WED Stella: Liza Sadovy WED Mr Otis: Patrick Brennan WED Zelda: Sarah Thom WED Director: Toby Swift WED Writer: Trevor Preston WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01pp899 (Listen) WED Tax and Self-Assessment WED WED Do you need advice about paying or reclaiming tax? Or WED perhaps you're wrestling with your self-assessment form? For WED the answers to your tax questions call 03700 100 444 from WED 1pm or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED The deadline for completing your online 2011-12 tax return WED and paying the tax you owe is weeks away. A late return will WED cost you £100 as an initial penalty, even if you don't owe WED any tax. You'll need to allow extra time if you haven't WED filed online before, as you must apply for an activation WED code which takes 7 days to arrive. WED WED If you're affected by the changing Child Benefit rules you WED may have to register for self-assessment for the first time WED and send in a tax return for the year 2012-13. October 5 is WED the deadline for registering. WED WED Maybe you're self-employed and need to ask about tax WED deductible expenses and allowances for this or previous WED years? WED WED Perhaps you want to know about your personal allowance, tax WED on savings, shares, pension contributions or buying a home? WED WED Will there be tax to pay if you give away or sell a valuable WED possession? WED WED And what happens if you transfer an asset to a current or WED former spouse or civil partner? WED WED Waiting to share their knowledge will be: WED WED Anita Monteith, Technical Manager, Tax Faculty, Institute of WED Chartered Accountants in England and Wales WED WED Chas Roy-Chowdhury, Head of Taxation, Association of WED Chartered Certified Accountants WED WED Eric Williams, Tax Partner, Grant Thornton WED WED Whatever your tax question, our experts will do their best WED to help. WED WED You can email your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or the WED number to call is 03 700 100 444 - lines are open between WED 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01pp5zj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01pp89c (Listen) WED Contagion WED WED Contagion - how commerce spreads disease. Laurie Taylor WED talks to Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of WED Medicine, about the close intertwining between trade and WED germs from the 14th century to today. His new book explores WED the development of public health in the Western world as WED well as the global misuse of quarantines for political ends. WED Also, young men working in retail. The sociologist, Steven WED Roberts' research finds evidence for a new and softer kind WED of masculinity. He's joined by Professor Valerie Walkerdine, WED whose documented the changing relationship between men and WED work in a post industrial economy. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01pp89f (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01pp89h (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01plfd3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01l02j9 (Listen) WED Series 4, Timbuktu WED WED Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world WED of a tiny, one plane, charter airline; staffed by two WED pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to WED start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, WED metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu WED Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too WED difficult... WED WED Episode 1: WED WED Hooray hooray, it's Birling Day once more, where the crew WED traditionally swap their dignity for cash! But where have WED all the camels gone? And why is Arthur reading a book? WED WED Cast: WED Carolyn Knapp-Shappey...............Stephanie Cole WED 1st Officer Douglas Richardson......Roger Allam WED Capt. Martin Crieff.................Benedict Cumberbatch WED Arthur Shappey......................John Finnemore WED Mr. Birling.........................Geoffry Whitehead WED Giancarlo...........................Steve Brody WED WED Written by John Finnemore WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01pp89k (Listen) WED Kenton is on a mission, and Neil tries to advise. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01pp89m (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01pp88s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01pp89p (Listen) WED Nick Robinson shines a light on the process by which WED controversial decisions are reached behind closed doors in WED Whitehall. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01pp89r (Listen) WED Series 3, Anwar Akhtar: The Meaning of Pakistan WED WED Anwar Akhtar, Director of The Samosa, argues that Pakistan WED should think of itself as an Asian nation, not as an Arab WED one. And after years of working between Britain and WED Pakistan, he says British Pakistanis are uniquely placed to WED help Pakistan embrace its multicultural history - and to WED create a prosperous and peaceful future with India. 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 Care to Be a Nurse? b01p0fps (Listen) WED Christina Patterson explores why nursing sometimes goes WED wrong, and investigates what can be done to put it right. WED WED After she herself experienced nursing at its worst, in 2011 WED Christina spoke out in a Radio 4 Four Thought talk. In this WED programme she follows up, investigating the extent of poor WED nursing, asking why it happens so often, and getting to the WED bottom of what can be done to improve it. WED WED As she speaks to her fellow patients, healthcare experts, WED politicians, and doctors, nurses and managers across the WED NHS, Christina hears about everything from faulty training WED programmes to inadequate regulatory regimes. But could the WED solution be something simpler to describe and much harder to WED deliver? WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:30 The Cultural Exchange b01py4fm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01plfd5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01pp89t (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01py52z (Listen) WED The Knot, Episode 3 WED WED Victoria recognised her younger brother's talent for WED photography and gave him a camera for Christmas. Luckily he WED brings it to her wedding as the official photographer fails WED to step up to the mark. WED WED Written by Mark Watson WED Abridged by John Peacock WED Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Director Celia de Wolff WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b010y7bp (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second WED series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real WED advice for real people. WED WED Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she WED wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of WED ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of WED the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self WED qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's WED problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which WED normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). WED WED This week the team tackle two problems - "I think I'm WED addicted to plastic surgery" and "My retired Dad has more of WED a social life than me - how can I get him to swap stripping WED for slippers?" WED WED Sarah Millican Sarah WED Ruth Bratt Marion WED Simon Day Terry WED Rachel Isy Suttie WED Ian William Andrews WED Jeff Kevin Eldon WED Clive Malcolm Tierney. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pp8ct (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 JANUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01plff2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01px4pz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01plff4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01plff6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01plff8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01plffb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pyx8j (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His THU Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox THU Church in the United Kingdom. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01pp985 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01pp987 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01pp989 (Listen) THU Le Morte Darthur THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Thomas Malory's "Le THU Morte Darthur", the epic tale of King Arthur and his knights THU of the Round Table. Sir Thomas Malory, an errant knight from THU Warwickshire, translated the majority of the stories from THU French while he was in prison and finished them in 1470 THU shortly before he died, although it was not until 1485 that THU the work was first published by William Caxton. The legend THU is one of the most enduring and popular in western THU literature. The characters of Sir Lancelot, Guinevere and THU Merlin are as well-known today as they were then, and the THU book's themes - courtly love, chivalry, heroic quest and THU treachery - remain as compelling. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01px4q1 (Listen) THU The Examined Life, Episode 4 THU THU The collaborative conversations of the psychoanalyst, THU Stephen Grosz, and his patients as they excavate the hidden THU feelings behind the stories we tell about ourselves. THU THU Read by Peter Marinker THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pp98c (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01pp98f (Listen) THU The Light Years, Episode 9 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels THU THU Edward is finding it hard to please both his wife and his THU mistress, whilst Sid is having trouble just seeing Rachel THU THU Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01ppmrb (Listen) THU People trafficking in India THU THU In a major investigation, Natalia Antelava reports on the THU abduction of tens of thousands of young girls in India for THU forced marriages. Thousands more are sold as prostitutes and THU domestic servants. She follows the route of the traffickers, THU who take girls from destitute households in places like West THU Bengal to wealthier areas in Northern states, where a THU shortage of women is blamed by many on sex-selective THU abortions. It's a problem the United Nations describes as of THU 'genocidal proportions'. Natalia joins campaigners and THU police fighting the trade and hears the stories of the THU trafficked girls and from a trafficker himself. THU Producer: Natalie Morton. THU THU 11:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero b00rmrpt (Listen) THU Nitin Sawhney explores the life of the Indian musician Ravi THU Shankar as he approaches his 90th birthday. THU THU Ravi Shankar is one of the greatest musicians the world has THU ever seen. In the West his outstanding career has sometimes THU been overshadowed by his brief association with the Beatles THU but he has been performing and composing at the highest THU level for over 70 years. The man who first brought Indian THU classical music to an international audience was once THU compared to Mozart by the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin. THU But it wasn't an easy journey to success - it took an THU arduous process of study and practice. Fellow musician and THU fan Nitin Sawhney meets his hero to discuss how he did it. THU THU With contributions from Ravi Shankar's daughter Anoushka, THU one of India's biggest music stars Zakir Hussain, George THU Harrison's wife Olivia, The Who's Pete Townshend and music THU historian Ken Hunt. THU THU Credits THU Producer: James Hale THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01ppmrd (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01plffd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01ppmrg (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds b01ppmrj (Listen) THU Bogs and Mires THU THU Two birds with green legs, one with wing mirrors and a THU Common Gull that's not common at all (!) are discussed when THU Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss THU in rather wild and windy weather on the rolling hills of the THU Long Mynd in Shropshire. With the help of recordings by THU wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, they offer a THU practical and entertaining guide to the birds which you're THU most likely to see and hear on Britain's bogs and mires; THU birds like the Golden Plover with its hauntingly beautiful THU song, the Dunlin, Greenshank and Common Gull. THU THU PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. THU THU The series was recorded on THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01pp89k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ppmrl (Listen) THU January THU THU By Elizabeth Lewis. THU THU Daphne and Ben met as teenagers; theirs was a love story of THU passion and poetry. Now, more than 20 years later, they meet THU again and return to the coastal cottage where they first THU found love. But when they arrive at Dragon's Back Bay, they THU are haunted by the ghosts of a past that it's impossible to THU recapture. THU THU A strange and haunting hymn to lost love and the THU inevitability of passing time. THU THU Directed by James Robinson THU A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU Daphne: Claire Rushbrook THU Benjamin: Alun Raglan THU Director: James Robinson THU Writer: Elizabeth Lewis THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01ppmrn (Listen) THU Heritage at Risk - West Midlands THU THU Thousands of historic buildings and monuments are at risk of THU being lost through damage or neglect. Jules Hudson tours THU sites in the West Midlands to assess the level of damage, to THU ask what's key to helping preserve or restore them and ask THU if some merit the cost and effort involved. THU Many walking through Bubbenhall village in Warwickshire may THU not know about the scheduled ancient monument under the THU earth because even signs of it are only visible for two THU weeks in the year but experts say it's key to understanding THU our ancestors. THU He travels to Fazeley near Tamworth which has clusters of THU Grade 2 listed buildings but some have been destroyed by THU fire and others virtually abandoned by owners who can't THU afford the development work. He helps assess one of the THU buildings with experts from English Heritage who want to THU produce a database on the state of Grade 2 listed buildings. THU Jules also explores nearby Middleton Hall which was so THU neglected it was used as a motorbike track. Volunteers set THU up a trust and have spent 35 years bringing it back into THU use. However, they say their work is still not done. THU THU Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01pngq5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01pnltj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01ppn8j (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01ppn8l (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making the headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b01ppn8n (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01plffg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01k2f7v (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU In this episode, the team is thrown into panic as Lorna THU announces there may be job cuts while Malcolm joins a dating THU website, fearing that unmarried registrars may be made THU redundant. THU THU Malcolm ...... David Schneider THU Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland THU Anita ...... Sandy McDade THU Luke ...... Russell Tovey THU Mary ....... Sally Bretton THU Larry, Mr Charalambous ...... Mike Fenton Stevens THU Malcolm's mum, Client registering birth ....... Mel Hudson THU Julie, Jessica ...... Gina Peach THU James ...... Arran Glass THU THU Producer: Simon Jacobs THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01ppn8q (Listen) THU Paul suggests an unexpected solution, and Mike makes a THU confession. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01ppn8s (Listen) THU Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01pp98f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01ppn8v (Listen) THU Railways THU THU Rail passengers are again facing inflation-busting fare THU rises on what is often described as has one of the most THU expensive rail systems in Europe. But despite the level of THU investment that's taking place in Britain's rail network, THU punctuality targets on the long-distance routes are being THU missed. In the West Midlands, trains haven't been turning up THU because of hundreds of cancellations in recent months. THU Reporter Jenny Chryss investigates whether rail passengers THU are getting value for money. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01ppn8x (Listen) THU Starting Young THU THU Starting Young THU Leave college, start a business. That is the idea behind a THU high-powered new project called Entrepreneur First, taking THU 30 new graduates through the hazardous first stages of THU launching their own companies. Peter Day charts the progress THU of some of them..from initial idea to plausible proposition, THU and beyond. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01pp56h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01pp989 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01plffj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01ppn8z (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01py572 (Listen) THU The Knot, Episode 4 THU THU With a career as a wedding photographer, Dominic has THU witnessed the tying of many knots, but he is unused to the THU sensation of the knot that he is beginning to feel in the THU pit of his stomach when in the presence of a certain person THU who will potentially change the course of his life forever. THU THU Written by Mark Watson THU Abridged by John Peacock THU Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Director Celia de Wolff THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Shedtown b01ppn91 (Listen) THU Series 2, Shed Report THU THU Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some THU time or other? Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching THU oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep THU space of the unknown? THU THU In series two of Shedtown, our wooden icon of escape and THU isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol of THU possibility and change. Our Sheddists arrived and survived - THU and, now waking from a beach-baked slumber, the familiar THU residents find faces old and new on the sand. THU THU Episode 1: THU Deborah Dearden arrives back at the beach. Not such a THU stranger - yet stranger still. THU THU Barry............................Tony Pitts THU Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan THU Eleanor..................Ronni Ancona THU Colin........................Johnny Vegas THU Deborah.....................Emma Fryer THU William..................Adrian Manfredi THU Diane....................Rosina Carbone THU Dave......................Shaun Dooley THU Father Michael........James Quinn THU Wes......................Warren Brown THU Nell...........................Eleanor Samson THU THU Narrator.................Maxine Peake THU Music....................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus THU THU Written and Directed by Tony Pitts THU Produced by Sally Harrison THU THU A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ppn93 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 JANUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01plfgc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01px4q1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01plfgf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01plfgh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01plfgk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01plfgm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pyx9m (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His FRI Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox FRI Church in the United Kingdom. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01ppp2j (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01ppp2l (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01pnlt4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01px4q3 (Listen) FRI The Examined Life, Episode 5 FRI FRI Analysts don't always have all the answers, sometimes they FRI have questions and sometimes they have dreams. Stephen Grosz FRI examines his own night time anxieties. FRI FRI Read by Peter Marinker FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Waters FRI A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ppp2q (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01ppp2s (Listen) FRI The Light Years, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels FRI FRI As Zoe worries that she may be pregnant the rest of the FRI family wait anxiously for news of the outcome of FRI Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 A Different Kind of Justice b01ppp2v (Listen) FRI Facilitator Karl James tells the inside story of a FRI Restorative Justice meeting between a burglar and his FRI victim, tracing the profound effects on all involved. FRI FRI Meetings between victims and the perpetrators of a crime are FRI undergoing a huge expansion in the UK. New government FRI legislation is being introduced to establish the practice, FRI known as Restorative Justice, within the criminal justice FRI system. Studies suggest the activity can reduce reoffending FRI rates and help the victim come to terms with the crime. FRI FRI In this programme, dialogue expert Karl James explores one FRI of these encounters and talks to both the victim and the FRI offender, getting both sides' perspective on what happened FRI and the long-term consequences of their meeting. FRI FRI In November 2008, Margaret interrupted a burglary in her own FRI home. As she came through the backdoor, the burglar left FRI through the front. He had taken a laptop full of photos FRI commemorating her daughter Jessica's 18th birthday. Eight FRI months later her daughter was killed in a tragic car FRI accident. The theft of the laptop meant her parents were FRI deprived of any recent family photos of their daughter. For FRI Margaret, the burglary and her daughter's death became FRI entwined, increasing her sense of anger and impotence. But, FRI inspired by the memory of her daughter, Margaret agreed to FRI meet the offender in a restorative justice conference in FRI Preston Prison. FRI FRI Ian was that burglar. In November 2008, he was a petty FRI criminal, breaking into houses to fund his drug habit. Like FRI Margaret, he had also lost a child - his 14-year-old son - FRI and his life had gone off the rails. FRI FRI Their meeting had a deep effect on both parties. FRI FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01m5nlx (Listen) FRI Series 3, Where There's a Will FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett returns for a third series of his popular FRI sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. FRI FRI Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along FRI with his dog Henry. His grown up children - both married to FRI people Sandy doesn't approve of at all - would like him to FRI move out of the family home so they can get their hands on FRI the money earlier. But Sandy's not having it. He's not FRI moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how can he FRI move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that FRI his too attractive lodger Dolores is also after Sandy and FRI his money. FRI FRI Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and, sometimes, a FRI friendly word or a kindly hand on the shoulder can really FRI help a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog FRI together face a complicated world. And there's every chance FRI they'll make it more so. FRI FRI Episode One - Where there's A Will FRI Sandy has made a new will and son-in-law Blake can't wait to FRI see what it says. Dolores suggests a phoney will to give FRI Blake the shock of his life. When the penny drops, Blake FRI exacts his revenge. FRI FRI Sandy................Ronnie Corbett FRI Dolores..............Liza Tarbuck FRI Blake................Jonathan Aris FRI Mrs Pompom.....Sally Grace FRI Ellie..................Tilly Vosburgh FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01ppp2x (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01plfgp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01pppzq (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 A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds b01pppzs (Listen) FRI High Mountain Tops FRI FRI Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss FRI in rather wild and windy weather on the rolling hills of the FRI Long Mynd in Shropshire and with the help of recordings by FRI wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, they offer a FRI practical and entertaining guide to the birds which you're FRI most likely to see and hear on Britain's high mountain tops; FRI birds like Dotterel (which by an amazing bit of luck Brett FRI and Stephen see on the Long Mynd as it stops off on FRI migration), the colour changing Ptarmigan (known FRI colloquially in America as the Snow Chicken because of its FRI white colouring in winter) and a songbird, the Snow Bunting. FRI FRI PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01ppn8q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01phg8f (Listen) FRI Tom Thumb Redux FRI FRI by Melissa Murray. FRI FRI Research biologist Tom Latimer is losing his funding, his FRI waistline and his young second wife Val. But his problems FRI are about to get smaller - an awful lot smaller. FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI Credits FRI Tom: Ron Cook FRI Val: Helen Longworth FRI Peter: Jonathan Forbes FRI Macready: Patrick Brennan FRI Lab Assistant: Sarah Thom FRI Director: Marc Beeby FRI Producer: Marc Beeby FRI Writer: Melissa Murray FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01pppzv (Listen) FRI Essex FRI FRI Recorded in Essex, the chair for this week's episode is Eric FRI Robson. Answering the audience's questions are panel members FRI Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Student Stories b01pppzx (Listen) FRI American Refugee FRI FRI Three stories about contemporary student life written by FRI students. What is modern student life really like? Parties FRI and Love and Lectures? Debts and daytime telly? Self-doubt FRI and self-discovery? These stories, offering a snapshot of FRI student life illustrate it is all this and more. FRI FRI American Refugee, read by Charlene McKenna, follows a less FRI than typical American post-graduate studying in Belfast. FRI Kolbe Morrisey likes it on 'the Island' however one wonders FRI how long will it be before his spiritual connection to his FRI ancestors runs thin and he runs away? FRI FRI American Refugee by Tyece Hocking FRI Read by Charlene McKenna FRI Produced in Belfast by Laura Conway. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01pppzz (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01ppq01 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01ppq03 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01plfgr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01ppq05 (Listen) FRI Series 79, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francesca Martinez, FRI Fred Macaulay and Susan Calman. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01pw3fm (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Caroline Harrington FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Rob Titchener - Timothy Watson. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ppq07 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang meets the cellist Matthew Barley, as he begins a FRI year-long UK tour, celebrating the centenary of the birth of FRI composer Benjamin Britten. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01ppp2s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ppq09 (Listen) FRI St Catherine's Church, New Cross, London FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from St FRI Catherine's Church, Newcross, London, with Deputy Leader of FRI the Labour Party Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the FRI Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes MP, John Cooper QC and Sir FRI Malcolm Rifkind. FRI Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ppq0c (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00syrn5 (Listen) FRI Going to Ground FRI FRI by Simon Passmore FRI FRI 1940, Kent. England is on full alert in anticipation of a FRI German invasion. As church bells sound the alarm, a secret FRI resistance unit springs into action. Whatever happens, none FRI of them expects to see their families again. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI This wartime drama features the exploits of an English FRI guerrilla unit trained to make things as difficult as FRI possible for the German invasion force. FRI FRI The existence of the covert Auxiliary Units during World War FRI II only became widely known in the 1990s. They were patrols FRI of 4 to 8 men with orders to disappear as soon as the bells FRI sounded. Southern England was dotted with dozens of secret FRI underground bunkers which served as their bases. Trained and FRI equipped with the best guerrilla weapons available, their FRI orders were to sabotage and snipe at the invading army; to FRI gather information on troop movements. Completely cut off by FRI design, they operated in total secrecy and isolation. Their FRI life expectancy was calculated officially at 14 days. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shrubb: Ivan Kaye FRI Turle: Anthony Flanagan FRI Pye: Rupert Evans FRI Jarvis: Guy Henry FRI Ann: Alison Pettitt FRI Lucy Pye: Christine Kavanagh FRI Station Master: Sam Dale FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Simon Passmore FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01plfgt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ppq0f (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01py5d8 (Listen) FRI The Knot, Episode 5 FRI FRI Dominic and his family are getting increasingly concerned FRI about the health of their father. Meanwhile Dominic ties his FRI own knot with Lauren, despite feeling somehow that FRI somethings not quite right. FRI FRI Written by Mark Watson FRI Abridged by John Peacock FRI Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Director Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01pp5vb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ppq37 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
04 January, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 05/01/2013 - 11/01/2013
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