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SAT SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01qknp5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01qkpg0 (Listen) SAT Mad Girl's Love Song, Episode 5 SAT SAT On 25 February 1956, 23 year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a SAT party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter was SAT recorded by Plath in her journal and has fed into the SAT mythology of the Plath-Hughes relationship, which has SAT arguably cast a long shadow over Plath's life and work. SAT SAT In this new biography of Plath's early life, which considers SAT the years before the meeting with Hughes, Andrew Wilson SAT explores the childhood and young womanhood of one of the SAT twentieth century's most influential and best-loved SAT poets.Plath's early years were complex, creative and SAT high-achieving. Her father had died when she was only eight, SAT she had watched her mother struggle to put her children SAT through college, had dated a large number of men, had been SAT unofficially engaged, had tried to commit suicide and had SAT written over 200 poems. SAT SAT Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who SAT have never spoken openly about Plath before, and using SAT previously unavailable archives and papers, this new book SAT traces the early literary and emotional development of the SAT author of 'The Bell Jar' (this week's Radio 4 Book at SAT Bedtime).In today's episode, Plath wins a Fulbright and SAT starts at Cambridge. SAT SAT Read by Hayley Atwell SAT Sylvia Plath is read by Sasha Pick, Eddie Cohen by Ben SAT Crowe, Richard Sassoon by Will Howard and Aurelia Plath by SAT Hannah Wood SAT Abridged by Miranda Davies SAT Produced by Emma Harding. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qknp9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qknpc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qknpf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01qknph (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qkqx2 (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd SAT Johnston McKay. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01qknqg (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the programme that starts with its SAT listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01qknpk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01qknpm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01qkmpb (Listen) SAT Series 23, Walking for Spiritual Renewal SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking for self improvement in this series SAT of Ramblings and today she hopes to find a new inner calm SAT with the help of Dr Kate Kirkwood. Kate attempts to lead SAT Clare on a path of spiritual renewal by teaching her to walk SAT silently. Silence is not a state that comes naturally to SAT Clare but as she and Kate walk where the mood takes them, in SAT the Herefordshire countryside just outside Hay on Wye, they SAT discover why walking can be one of the bet forms of stress SAT relief. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01qkwft (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01qknpp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01qkwfy (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and SAT James Naughtie. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01qkwg2 (Listen) SAT Billy Bragg, John McCarthy at the Arirang Games, Debbie SAT Wiseman plays snooker, Dawn O'Porter's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles with musician Billy Bragg who SAT also plays live; Bernadette Russell who did a good deed SAT every day for a year and photographer Giles Duley who lost SAT three limbs on assignment in Afghanistan. John McCarthy SAT looks in on the Arirang Games in North Korea, composer SAT Debbie Wiseman plays snooker with JP Devlin; a listener SAT tells us about her discovery of Chicken Spectacles and SAT writer and broadcaster Dawn O'Porter shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones. SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b01qkwg6 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Amadeus SAT SAT In the third episode of "And The Academy Award Goes To." SAT Paul Gambaccini talks to the team behind the rich, musical SAT extravaganza "Amadeus" - which you may remember for its SAT brilliant interpretation of the life and genius of Wolfgang SAT Amadeus Mozart, or for the shrill giggle of Tom Hulce and SAT the cleavage of his wife. SAT Director Milos Forman, who had left Czechoslovakia as a SAT political refugee, chose Prague as the best 'double' for SAT Vienna - only to find himself followed by spies for his SAT former homeland as a suspected anti-communist. SAT Forman recalls how he first met Sir Peter Shaffer backstage SAT at the National Theatre in London where, Sir Peter confirms, SAT Forman promised there and then, to make a film out of SAT Shaffer's masterpiece of the stage. SAT Simon Callow who played Mozart in the original London stage SAT production was the only actor to appear in the Hollywood SAT version - but probably enjoyed himself more because of it. SAT Gambaccini also talks to Sir Neville Mariner, choreographer SAT Twyla Tharp, producer Ken Tuohy and the actor Elizabeth SAT Berridge, who was told she'd got the part as Mozart's wife SAT as she most resembled an 'landlady's daughter'. SAT Cold War mystery and the greatest composer on earth - how SAT they brought to screen a musical and cinematic masterpiece. SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01qkwg8 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01qkwgf (Listen) SAT Wild Horse Chase SAT SAT Reporters' despatches from far and wide: a vegetarian of 37 SAT years' standing, Nick Thorpe, is despatched to ask questions SAT about horse meat and to investigate a slaughter house in SAT Romania; can Japan spend its way out of recession and into SAT prosperity? Economists are thrilled at the idea. But Rupert SAT Wingfield Hayes in Tokyo has his doubts. What's the US SAT military doing in a remote corner of the Philippines? Kate SAT McGeown's gone to find out. Will Ross is in northern Nigeria SAT wondering why so few of those detained, and suspected of SAT militant attacks, are appearing in front of the courts. And SAT Tim Butcher in New York meets up with an old friend with SAT whom he once went to war. SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01qkwgh (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01qkqr9 (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical SAT stand-up and sketches. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01qknpr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01qknpt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01qkqtt (Listen) SAT Margaret Hodge, John Hayes, Nick Harvey, Ruth Davis SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Langford Budville in Somerset. Guests include Chair of SAT the Public Accounts Select Committee Margaret Hodge MP, SAT former Defence Minister Sir Nick Harvey MP, Environment SAT Minister John Hayes MP. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01qkwgm (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01qkwgr (Listen) SAT The Wind in the Willows SAT SAT by Kenneth Grahame SAT SAT Adapted for actors and orchestra by Neil Brand SAT SAT On the 90th anniversary of the first Radio Drama broadcast SAT on the BBC, a new version of the Classic tale of Rat, Mole, SAT Badger and Toad combining the talents of the BBC Symphony SAT Orchestra and a special cast. Recorded before an audience in SAT the legendary Maida Vale Studios. SAT SAT Director:David Hunter SAT SAT Music: The BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Steven Bryant, SAT Conductor Timothy Brock, Producer Ann McKay. SAT Singers: Genevieve Hamilton, Amanda Morrison, Julia SAT Batchelor-Wlash, Jonathan English, Daniel Auchincloss and SAT William Gaunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Toad: Stephen Mangan SAT Mole: Claire Skinner SAT Badger: Philip Jackson SAT Rat: Carl Prekopp SAT Otter: Patrick Brennan SAT Bargee: Liza Sadovy SAT Judge: Paul Stonehouse SAT Girl: Stephanie Racine SAT Director: David Hunter SAT Producer: Ann McKay SAT Writer: Neil Brand SAT SAT 15:45 A Scribbled Aside b01qtfrl (Listen) SAT Ian Sansom can chart his life through his notebooks - he's SAT been writing in them for 20 years. SAT SAT He used to keep his notebooks in the freezer in case the SAT house burnt down - until the notebooks in the freezer got SAT damp. The current run of notebooks is stacked against the SAT walls in his office and once a year he goes through them, SAT harvesting for ideas and misplaced telephone numbers. SAT SAT The notebook is - or has traditionally been - the crucible SAT of creativity, a 'commonplace book', the first resort, and SAT the last word in portable technology. They're where writers SAT and artists begin. SAT SAT In this short, carefully scribbled history, Ian looks at his SAT own and other people's and asks whether their time is now SAT coming to an end. SAT SAT With the advent of phones, iPads and laptops, is this the SAT end of the notebook as we know it? And how will it change SAT the creative process? SAT SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01qkwgw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT We hear from the women behind the Power List, and talk to SAT the second most powerful woman in Britain, Home Secretary SAT Theresa May, and to power-lister Heather Rabbatts, first SAT female director of the Football Association. Judges SAT Alexandra Shulman, Oona King, Dawn O'Porter and media SAT net-worker Julia Hobsbawm discuss what the list tells us. SAT Getting women back to work in science, technology, SAT engineering and maths jobs (STEM). The false accusations SAT that led to one father's loss of contact with his daughter. SAT Young women whose lives inspired The Glasgow Girls' musical. SAT Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rebecca Myatt. SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01qkwh0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news presented by Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01qkmwl (Listen) SAT Alternative Finance SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion and spin to present a SAT clearer view of the business world through discussion with SAT people running leading and emerging companies. This week, SAT Evan meets three pioneers of alternative finance and asks - SAT can they beat the banks at their own game? Giles Andrews is SAT CEO of Zopa, the peer to peer lending website; Anil Stocker SAT is co-founder of Market Invoice , an online finance provider SAT that allows companies to turn invoices into working capital; SAT and Michael Joseph is director of mobile money at Vodafone SAT and former CEO of the Kenyan mobile phone provider SAT Safaricom, where he launched the revolutionary mobile money SAT transfer service, M-Pesa. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qknpw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01qknq0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qknq2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01qkwh4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Ginger Baker, Sinead O'Connor, Oliver James, SAT Jamie Kilstein, Danny Wallace, Villagers SAT SAT Nothing Compares to Irish singer songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, SAT who shot to international fame in 1990 with Prince's smash SAT hit 'Nothing Compares 2 U'. Sinéad talks to Clive about her SAT career, which has occasionally encountered controversy as a SAT result of her strong views on religion, feminism, child SAT abuse and war. Sinéad performs 'Back Where You Belong' from SAT her album 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)'. SAT SAT Clive doesn't miss a beat with legendary 'Cream' and 'Blind SAT Faith' drummer and hippy hellraiser Ginger Baker. A new film SAT by Jay Bulger documents Ginger's life, from being influenced SAT by London's jazz scene to the height of his drug-addled rock SAT band fame. Ginger smashes his drums like he smashes through SAT life, even smashing the filmmaker's nose on the last day of SAT filming! 'Beware Of Mr Baker' is released in UK cinemas on SAT Friday 17th May. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi has Veg Talk with New York comedian Jamie SAT Kilstein. Known for his intelligent, no-holds-barred take on SAT religion, politics, corporate greed and veganism, Jamie's SAT consistently been compared by critics, comedians and SAT audiences to fearless comic icons Bill Hicks and George SAT Carlin. He's on tour throughout February and is performing SAT at London's Soho Theatre until Saturday 23rd. SAT SAT Clive's on the couch with psychologist, author and SAT broadcaster Oliver James, whose new book 'Office Politics: SAT How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty SAT Tricks' examines the modern working world, where SAT game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. SAT Oliver examines the not-so-nice practices which propel SAT people to the top, revealing the murky side to office life. SAT SAT Plus more music from Irish indie folk band Villagers, who SAT perform 'Nothing Arrived' from their album 'Awayland'. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01qkwh8 (Listen) SAT Tom Ford SAT SAT Designer Tom Ford has become a brand in his own right. SAT Running his own label, producing and directing the film 'A SAT Single Man' and dressing the stars are just some of his SAT successes. SAT SAT Now as he prepares his first full scale catwalk show for SAT London Fashion Week, he's credited with attracting record SAT interest and unprecedented numbers of US buyers to the SAT event. SAT SAT In the 1990s he turned around the fortunes of Gucci, the SAT luxury fashion house and revolutionised the luxury brand SAT market. Despite controversial advertising campaigns his SAT unique designs attracted celebrity clients and financial SAT success. SAT SAT With his collections under his own label now eagerly SAT anticipated, James Silver looks for the secret of his SAT success. SAT SAT Producer: Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01qkwhb (Listen) SAT A Life of Galileo at Stratford; Maggie O'Farrell's latest SAT novel SAT SAT A Life of Galileo is Mark Ravenhill's adaptation for the RSC SAT of Brecht's play which has just opened at the Swan at SAT Stratford, directed by Roxana Silbert. The news of the SAT Pope's resignation has given the play an extraordinary SAT timeliness. SAT SAT Maggie O'Farrell won the Costa Novel Award for The Hand that SAT First Held Mine. Her latest novel, Instructions for a SAT Heatwave, is set in the intense temperatures of summer 1976. SAT The Riordan family, of Irish origin, find themselves torn SAT apart when their father Robert goes out one day to buy a SAT paper and doesn't come back. SAT SAT The Bride and the Bachelors is the title of an exhibition at SAT the Barbican which combines visual arts, live and recorded SAT performance. It's an exploration of the interaction between SAT Marcel Duchamp and some of those he influenced in America: SAT John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper SAT Johns. SAT SAT V, Tony Harrison's powerful and expletive-heavy poem SAT published in 1985, was inspired by the graffiti he SAT discovered on his parents' gravestones in Beeston, Leeds. It SAT is about to be read by the author on Radio 4. When it was SAT televised on Channel 4 it triggered an early day motion in SAT the House of Commons. What will the reaction be nearly 30 SAT years on? SAT SAT And Keanu Reeves takes on the role of interviewer in a new SAT documentary about the future of film as it moves from SAT celluloid to digital: Side by Side. Will celluloid survive? SAT And what are the possibilities opened up by the move to SAT digital? SAT SAT Presenter Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Kit Davis, Kevin SAT Jackson and Bidisha to review. Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, SAT Rauschenberg and Johns continues at the Barbican in London SAT until 9th June 2013 SAT SAT A Life of Galileo continues at the RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon SAT until the 30th of March 2013 SAT SAT Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell is published SAT by Tinder Press. SAT SAT Side by Side is in cinemas in key cities, certificate 15 SAT SAT Restless is on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 18th  February at 11pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01qkwhd (Listen) SAT Embracing Idleness SAT SAT The writer, Oliver Burkeman, wanders through the archives, SAT thinking about the pros and cons of idleness. SAT In these goal obsessed, triple-dip recession conscious days, SAT the merest hint of idleness can send politicians and SAT headline writers into a state of near apoplexy. SAT Front-benchers from all political parties seem to be SAT tripping over themselves in a bid to establish the supremacy SAT of their moral devotion to the 'hard working families' and SAT upstanding citizens of 'alarm clock Britain'. SAT Oliver Burkeman steps back from the fray to unravel the SAT complications of idleness and even discover some of its SAT merits. As a non-idler who confesses to that feeling of SAT smugness at having achieved tasks before breakfast time, SAT Oliver nonetheless questions whether our target driven SAT culture can ever bring any sense of contentment or SAT happiness. The crux of the conflict seems to be that SAT although idleness may be the dream, we spend most of our SAT lives actively rejecting it. SAT And so we admire, despise and envy the idler, all at once. SAT Oliver consults a diverse range of characters from the SAT archive to untangle some of the complications. These include SAT Bagpuss, Rab C Nesbitt, Tony Hancock, Waynetta Slob and SAT Ronald Reagan, who all help Oliver examine idleness and its SAT relation to childhood, creativity, boredom, social class and SAT subversion. SAT There are also wonderful insights from 'real people'. SAT There's the testimony of a schoolboy from 1960s Birmingham, SAT dreaming of the island life. Unbothered by the noise of SAT everyday life (including The Queen chasing him for rates) he SAT is able to compose opera by seeking inspiration from nature. SAT A gloriously grand Colonel's wife flagrantly tells of her SAT life of luxury, being fed and watered by her husband with SAT bath time Brandy and Ginger Ales, iced coffees, only SAT occasionally talking to the children through the intercom if SAT she is particularly bored. Then there's the fisherman who SAT believes that idleness and death go hand in hand and that SAT the introduction of the Welfare State could only turn him SAT into a sluggard. And there's the moving testimony of a SAT former miner, who began work in the pits during his school SAT holidays in 1925, and then paradoxically found the greatest SAT moments of happiness and freedom during the months of SAT idleness brought about by the General Strike. SAT Oliver also meets with the founder of The Idler magazine, SAT Tom Hodgkinson, for a whistle stop history of idleness and SAT the philosophical debate, to discover how the work ethic SAT became so inculcated. Tom argues that at least part of the SAT reason for this is because, by their very nature, pro-idlers SAT are bound to be less zealous in spreading the idleness word. SAT There's also an appealing aside, when Oliver observes that SAT in the right person, idleness and that special insouciance SAT that can go with it, is simply 'cool'. SAT With fantastic music, enquiry, and laughter, join Oliver SAT Burkeman, Embracing Idleness. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT 21:00 The Real George Orwell b01qhd0y (Listen) SAT Nineteen Eighty-Four, Episode 1 SAT SAT Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. SAT SAT Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and SAT separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat SAT in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. SAT Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police SAT uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he SAT discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, SAT and awakens to new possibilities. SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT Credits SAT Winston Smith: Christopher Eccleston SAT Julia: Pippa Nixon SAT O'Brien: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Parsons: Kim Wall SAT Syme: Sam Alexander SAT Prostitute: Susie Riddell SAT Actor: Christine Absalom SAT Actor: Don Gilet SAT Actor: Joe Sims SAT Actor: Joshua Swinney SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Writer: Jonathan Holloway SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01qknq4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 In Search of the Real Pope Benedict b01r2p23 (Listen) SAT Edward Stourton reassesses Pope Benedict's life and looks SAT for clues as to what has really driven him during his long SAT career. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01qhqp2 (Listen) SAT (12/17) SAT What particular time of day is celebrated in the type of SAT poem or song known as an 'aubade'? And which British city SAT was twinned with the German city of Dresden in 1959? SAT SAT Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the SAT twelfth and last of the heats in this sixtieth series of SAT radio's most venerable quiz. The competitors are bidding for SAT the last of the automatic places in the semi-finals which SAT begin next week. In this episode they hail from Sheffield, SAT Anglesey, Devon and Glasgow. SAT SAT They face Russell's questions on everything from music and SAT literature to science, sport, history, mythology, etymology, SAT popular culture and current affairs. SAT SAT There's also a chance for a listener to win a prize by SAT outwitting the assembled brains with questions of his or her SAT own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT PHIL BECKETT, a former hospital worker, now retired, from SAT Sheffield; SAT SAT JOHN HARRIS, a supermarket assistant from Amlwch on SAT Anglesey; SAT SAT GINA JOLLIFFE, a retired teacher from Brixham in Devon; SAT SAT PETER RUSSELL, a retired local government officer from SAT Glasgow. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01qhd12 (Listen) SAT Poetry marking the winter of 1963, the long season of snow SAT and cold during which the poet Sylvia Plath died. Listeners' SAT requests for her work include Morning Song, Balloons and SAT Wuthering Heights. The readers are Fenella Woolgar and Paul SAT Mundell, with readings of their own work by poets Paul SAT Farley, Eavan Boland, Jacob Polley and MR Peacocke. SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01qktql (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Dalmatian Trilogy b01946ws (Listen) SUN Dalmatian Muse SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 3): Dalmatian Muse by James Hopkin SUN Danko lives in a secluded bay on the island. There is a SUN strip of coast-line which he claims represents the whole of SUN life: the island's illegal dumping site; then, further SUN along, an eco-village of simple living and great food and SUN wine; and finally, on the sea itself, the rusting guns of SUN the old military occupation. At night he takes Polyanna out SUN on his boat in search of phosphorescence. SUN SUN James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, SUN including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast SUN of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories SUN explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as SUN providing a colourful journey for the senses. SUN SUN Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English and SUN Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA on SUN modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for his SUN PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story SUN competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. SUN His novel Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and SUN critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major SUN new writer. He published a small collection of stories in SUN 2008, along with the paperback of Winter Under Water. SUN James Hopkin's A Georgian Trilogy, also produced by Sweet SUN Talk, was broadcast in 2010. SUN SUN Reader: Raquel Cassidy SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qktqn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qktqq (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qktqs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01qktqv (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01qkx9r (Listen) SUN The bells of St Margaret's Church, Dunham Massey, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01qkwh8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01qktqx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01qkx9t (Listen) SUN Sisters and Brothers SUN SUN In Sisters and Brothers Irma Kurtz reflects on sibling SUN relationships. She considers competition for parental SUN approval, the uniting of siblings against oppression and the SUN empathy that can exist between brothers and sisters. SUN SUN From the time they are born, our brothers and sisters may be SUN our collaborators, our role models and our cautionary tales. SUN Whether they are protectors or tormentors, objects of pride SUN or sources of envy, siblings are with us for life. SUN SUN In the programme, we hear readings by Seamus Heaney, Jane SUN Austen and Laurie Lee. The music is by Herbert Howells, the SUN composer Engelbert Humperdink, Carly Simon and George SUN Gershwin. The readers are Liza Sadovy, Col Farrell and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01qkx9w (Listen) SUN Birds of the Taiga SUN SUN In January Sweden can be a cold and inhospitable place. SUN Despite winter temperatures dropping to minus 15 southern SUN Sweden is alive with birdlife which, like in Britain, heads SUN south from the high arctic to the relatively warmer climate SUN of Scandinavia. For this week's Living World, Chris Sperring SUN travels to the Vastmanlan area of Sweden where the huge SUN taiga forests begin, forests that stretch east all the way SUN to Alaska. Travelling 40 km north of the town Vasteras he SUN meets up with Torbjorn Hegedus a local ornithologist and Tom SUN Arnbom from WWF Sweden to head out for the day and see what SUN birds they come across in this snowy wooded landscape. SUN SUN In the taiga birch woodland pygmy owl is a common species SUN which Torbjorn attempts to lure down with a series of calls. SUN This calling brings down crested tit, coal tit and a whole SUN host of species, feeding in the woods. Penetrating deeper SUN into the woods rewards the trio with a sighting of a hawk SUN owl, a true specialist of the high arctic, but if that SUN wasn't enough excitement for a day, pine grosbeaks come and SUN mob the hawk owl. A wonderful example of the varied birdlife SUN that can be seen in that area of Sweden which is at the same SUN latitude as Shetland. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01qktqz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01qktr1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01qkx9y (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01qkxb0 (Listen) SUN St Mungo's SUN SUN Lorna Smith, who has experienced homelessness, presents the SUN Radio 4 Appeal for St. Mungo's. SUN Reg Charity:1149085 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN St. Mungo's. SUN SUN St Mungo’s opens doors for homeless people.  The SUN charity provides a place to live for 1,700 people - but SUN shelter is just the first step.  St Mungo's offers vital SUN support for mental and physical health issues; lots of SUN opportunities for education and training as well as finding SUN employment; and importantly helps people to move into SUN independent accommodation. SUN SUN The charity’s Rebuilding Shattered Lives appeal focuses SUN specifically on homeless and vulnerable women. About a SUN quarter of St Mungo’s residents are women and it has SUN identified significant issues for them, where they need help SUN to recover from homelessness. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01qktr3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01qktr5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01qkxb2 (Listen) SUN This Is Our Story: Rescued Through Water SUN SUN 'This is our story' - Rescued through Water: first in a SUN series for Lent linking stories of faith from the the bible SUN with life today. Live from the ecumenical chaplaincy of SUN Liverpool Hope University. Leader: Rev Dr Peter McGrail; SUN Preacher: The Revd Dr Nicholas Sagovsky; The University SUN Chamber Choir is directed by Philip Duffy. Download Lent SUN resources by today's preacher from Churches Together in SUN Britain and Ireland by logging on to SUN bbc.co.uk/sundayworship; Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01qkqtw (Listen) SUN In Praise of Birmingham SUN SUN David Cannadine defends his home city of Birmingham against SUN a slur in "Pride and Prejudice" as, "not a place to promise SUN much", by celebrating its heritage and its current cultural SUN renaissance. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01qkxb4 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01qkxb6 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01qkxb8 (Listen) SUN Jonathan Agnew SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cricket commentator SUN Jonathan Agnew. SUN SUN Known simply as "Aggers" to the army of fans devoted to Test SUN Match Special, his charm, knowledge and ready wit have SUN gained him a place in the heart of anyone who loves the SUN game. SUN SUN His own infatuation began as a young boy at boarding school SUN and along with his talent and determination it took him all SUN the way to the top of the sport. He played for SUN Leicestershire and England. His transition from the crease SUN to the commentary box was cemented by one of the most SUN memorable moments in broadcasting history - the notorious SUN "legover" comment that prompted the legendary Brian Johnston SUN to dissolve into helpless, prolonged giggles live on air. SUN SUN He says "The great thing about our job is that you have no SUN pre-conceived idea about what is going to happen - you have SUN no script - the cricket is the script". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01qhqgh (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons returns with the popular panel game. The SUN comedian Jason Manford joins regulars Paul Merton, Graham SUN Norton, Sue Perkins as they attempt to speak on a subject SUN without Repetition, hesitation or deviation. Subjects SUN include 'Funny Valentine', 'Karaoke' and 'Getting Your Five SUN a Day'. SUN Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01qkxbb (Listen) SUN Garlic, the wonder bulb SUN SUN It's an ingredient that is key to many cuisines of the SUN world, and has a prominent role in folklore and traditional SUN medical systems- although some people avoid it because of SUN the passions that it is said to arouse. Sheila Dillon SUN explores a bulb which provokes strong feelings - both SUN culinary and otherwise - and is now to be found in most of SUN our kitchens: garlic. SUN The United Kingdom is importing five times the amount of SUN garlic than twenty-five years ago. Some British growers are SUN smelling an opportunity for home-grown bulbs, but how much SUN have we stopped to think about the way we use this enigmatic SUN 'allium'? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01qktr7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01qkxbd (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Lyrical Journey b01qkxbn (Listen) SUN Series 2, Patience of Angels SUN SUN Patience of Angels SUN SUN Twenty years ago, on a busy road in an otherwise leafy SUN district of Cambridge, songwriter Boo Hewerdine was looking SUN out of his top floor flat and saw a woman on a bus travel by SUN - and from these rather inauspicious beginnings the song SUN Patience of Angels took shape. It later became a hit in 1994 SUN for singer Eddi Reader who'd had previous chart success with SUN the group Fairground Attraction. SUN SUN In this episode of Lyrical Journey, Jonathan Maitland visits SUN Cambridge to meet Boo and Eddi and, as they prepare for a SUN charity concert, a stone's throw from Boo's old flat, they SUN discuss the origin of the song and what it means to each of SUN them. SUN SUN As Maitland explores places in Cambridge which influenced SUN the song, he also examines the University town's association SUN with Angels. SUN SUN The line from 'Patience of Angels': 'there's a door in a SUN wall in a house in a street' could easily have fallen out of SUN the pages of a CS Lewis story; and Lewis expert Dr Michael SUN Ward explains to Maitland the author's fascination with SUN angels inherent in his work. SUN SUN The journey concludes in the apt surroundings of St Luke's SUN Church in Cambridge, where a packed crowd watch Eddi and Boo SUN perform a unique version of the song especially recorded for SUN the programme. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qkpmy (Listen) SUN Brighton SUN SUN This week Eric Robson and the GQT team visit the Seedy SUN Sunday community seed-swap event in Brighton. SUN SUN As well as sharing seeds with the locals, Bob Flowerdew, SUN Bunny Guinness and Christine Walkden are on the panel taking SUN the audience's questions. SUN SUN To find out more information about the Seedy Sunday event, SUN visit: http://www.seedysunday.org/ SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01qldlt (Listen) SUN The Fall of Singapore SUN SUN In February 1942 when Singapore fell to Japanese forces, SUN tens of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers became prisoners SUN of war. They were sent to work in prison camps across South SUN East Asia. Maurice Naylor was put to work building a railway SUN bridge over a river in Thailand - the River Kwai. After SUN World War Two ended, he typed up his memories of internment. SUN SUN 15:00 The Real George Orwell b01qldly (Listen) SUN Nineteen Eighty-Four, Episode 2 SUN SUN Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway SUN SUN Winston Smith has found love and comfort with Julia, and now SUN they are determined to join the Brotherhood, a secret, SUN counter-revolutionary organisation pledged to destroy The SUN Party. But for The Party's enemies, deep in the Ministry of SUN Love, there is the threat of Room 101. SUN SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN Credits SUN Winston Smith: Christopher Eccleston SUN Julia: Pippa Nixon SUN O'Brien: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Parsons: Kim Wall SUN Charrington: Robert Blythe SUN Actor: Christine Absalom SUN Actor: Sam Alexander SUN Actor: Don Gilet SUN Actor: Susie Riddell SUN Actor: Joe Sims SUN Actor: Joshua Swinney SUN Director: Jeremy Mortimer SUN Writer: Jonathan Holloway SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01qldm0 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to stand up comedian, tv presenter SUN and novelist David Baddiel and writer and broadaster Naomi SUN Alderman about what defines a Jewish novel, as Jewish Book SUN week begins in London next week. From the pre-eminence of SUN great American icons like Philip Roth and Saul Bellow - to SUN the revered Europeans Kafka, Joseph Roth and Bruno Schulz - SUN and now an emerging generation of British Jewish writers - SUN what if anything do books by Jewish writers have in common? SUN Does the fusion of their Jewish cultural roots with those of SUN their adoptive countries create a particular literary form SUN and what impact does a writer's Jewish identity have on the SUN way such books are received? David Baddiel's last book The SUN Death of Eli Gold appropriately starts at the death bed of a SUN Philip Roth like figure - and Naomi Alderman's debut noel SUN Disobedience rocked the orthodox Jewish community in North SUN London where she was brought up, whilst her latest novel The SUN Liars Gospel tells an alternative history of Jesus. SUN SUN Jim Crace talks about his new novel Harvest, which will also SUN be his last as he has announced he is retiring as a SUN novelist. The writer of award winning novels such as SUN Continent, Booker shortlisted Quarantine, The Gift of Stones SUN and most recently All That Follows, Harvest is set in an SUN isolated rural community during an unspecified time which SUN feels like the middle ages but could equally be post SUN apocalytic. Despite its historical setting it resonates SUN strongly with contemporary concerns, exploring as it does SUN the impact of rapid social change on the village in which it SUN is set, in particular the stress it places on relationships SUN with outsiders. SUN SUN And Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri explains why, after setting SUN three novels in his native Calcutta, he has turned to SUN non-fiction in his new account of the city. Until 1911 SUN Calcutta was the capital of India and a centre for arts and SUN culture, but is now most associated in the public mind with SUN Mother Theresa - and as a city where children return to take SUN care of ageing parents as Chaudhuri himself has done. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01qldm2 (Listen) SUN Liz Lochhead was appointed as Makar in January 2011, taking SUN on this role of Scotland's national poet. We find out what SUN it means for this established and highly respected poet and SUN playwright. SUN SUN We join Liz Lochhead on her tour of duty as she attends the SUN Robert Burns Museum in Ayrshire with Carol Ann Duffy, visits SUN schools across Scotland and speaks out at the Poetry Library SUN in Edinburgh. SUN SUN This is a personal observation on her life and work in SUN Scotland, and Liz takes us to visit her favourite corner of SUN the country on the wild and unspoilt west coast near Skye. SUN She reflects on the importance of the job for her, which she SUN accepted as she says, "in grateful recognition of the truth SUN that poetry - the reading of it, the writing of it, the SUN saying it out loud, the learning of it off by heart - all of SUN this matters deeply to ordinary Scottish people everywhere." SUN SUN With readings of Liz Lochhead's poems and contributions from SUN leading writers and critics across Scotland and beyond. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01qjb1p (Listen) SUN The Bill for Brussels SUN SUN 21 years after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, Britain SUN is trying to cut the cost of the European Union. SUN SUN As the institution comes of age, Gerry Northam asks whether SUN the EU's spending on itself has become excessive and - if so SUN - whether member states do anything about it. SUN SUN In Brussels, hundreds of millions of pounds have been found SUN for projects described by Eurosceptics as SUN "self-aggrandisement". An art deco showpiece is being SUN transformed into a new headquarters for the European Council SUN at a cost of around 300 million Euros (£250m). A further 55 SUN million Euros (£46m) is going to create a House of European SUN History - a museum celebrating European integration. A new SUN 20 million Euros (£17m) visitors' centre at the European SUN Parliament, called the Parlamentarium, has been dismissed as SUN a multimedia tribute to itself. SUN SUN Meanwhile alarm has been raised that money the United SUN Kingdom designates as aid for developing countries is being SUN diverted by Europe to encourage Turkey, Serbia and others to SUN join the Union. MPs claim this money directly disadvantages SUN Britain. SUN SUN Critics say Europe's expansion comes with an unnecessarily SUN large price tag. Are they right? SUN SUN Reporter: Gerry Northam SUN Producer: Chris Doidge. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01qkwh8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qktr9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01qktrc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qktrf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01qldm4 (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea's Pick of the Week includes programmes marking SUN significant anniversaries. On the 20th anniversary of the SUN death of James Bulger, his father Ralph talks powerfully of SUN the impact on him and his family. A British Prisoner of War SUN who witnessed, first hand, the fire bombing of Dresden SUN describes graphically the horrors he saw. And there's a SUN fictional account of the real life story of a teenage boy SUN murdered by racist thugs in Mississippi. To lighten the SUN mood, the comedienne Susan Calman reflects on the music she SUN simply cannot have at her wedding. And on the week when we SUN celebrated the patron saint of love, we have some suitably SUN romantic poetry. SUN SUN Ernie Rea's choices: SUN SUN Susan Calman is Convicted - Radio 4 SUN Tell Me the Truth About Love - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week - Mad Girl's Love Song - Radio 4 SUN The People's Songs - Radio 2 SUN Afternoon Drama - Dusty Won't Play - Radio 4 SUN I Refuse - My Son, Emmett - Radio 4 SUN Woman's Hour Drama - The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles - Radio 4 SUN Remembering James Bulger - Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin - Radio 3 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Islam Without God - Radio 4 SUN From Our Own Correspondent - Radio 4 SUN Sleepless Night - Radio 4 SUN Blind Date with Runyon - Radio 4 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 b01qldm6 (Listen) SUN There's heartbreak for Lynda, and Matt tries to be patient. SUN SUN 19:15 Tim FitzHigham - The Gambler b01qldm8 (Listen) SUN Award winning comedian-author-adventurer, Tim FitzHigham and SUN his nemesis Alex Horne recreate a bizarre bet which was SUN originally wagered by the 4th Duke of Queensbury in 1753. SUN SUN The bet: that Tim can pass a missive over a distance of SUN fifty miles in one hour, using only the means that would SUN have been available to a gentleman in 1753. SUN SUN Written by Tim FitzHigham and Jon Hunter, with additional SUN material from Paul Byrne. SUN SUN Produced by Colin Anderson. SUN SUN 19:45 Scottish Shorts b01qldmb (Listen) SUN Series 11, Sobek Refutes the Plover Theory SUN SUN By R.A. Martens. SUN SUN A surreal and funny short story about Oliver Al Sobek, whose SUN exceptional requirements in the field of dentistry - he has SUN the vast jaws of a crocodile - make visits to the dentist SUN hard to come by. His new dentist harbours romantic dreams of SUN tending his incisors with the gentle ministrations of a SUN Plover. SUN SUN R A Martens moved to Scotland from Cumbria for a couple of SUN years twenty years ago, and has never left. Five years ago, SUN she finally worked out that if she wanted to be a writer, SUN she had better start writing. She has received a new writers SUN award from the Scottish Book Trust, and her short stories SUN have been published in anthologies and literary magazines SUN including 'Gutter' and 'New Writing Scotland'. She is SUN currently working on her first collection of short stories, SUN 'Magnificent Miss M and the Copenhagen Interpretation of SUN Insanity', and has just begun writing her first novel, 'The SUN Strong and Practiced Arms of Mr Friendly'. SUN SUN Reader: Sandy Grierson SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01qkqr7 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Read Roger Bolton's blog SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01qkqr5 (Listen) SUN A table tennis champion, a zoo vet, a make-up artist, a SUN radio presenter and a trombonist SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on the table tennis champion Zhouang SUN Zedong - who played a key role in the ping pong diplomacy SUN between China and the USA. SUN SUN Also the zoo vet David Taylor who treated killer whales, SUN elephants and other wild animals and inspired the TV series SUN One By One. SUN SUN The make up artist Stuart Freeborn who brought us the apes SUN at the start of 2001 A Space Odyssey and modelled Yoda's SUN face in Star Wars on his own. SUN SUN Patricia Hughes - the radio presenter with a warm voice and SUN perfect diction who became associated with Radio 3. SUN SUN And Paul Tanner - trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra SUN - who played the electro theremin on the Beach Boys' Good SUN Vibrations. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01qkwgh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01qkxb0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01qhqpj (Listen) SUN Creative Destruction SUN SUN In the last few weeks a number of high street names have SUN closed for good. In Analysis Phil Tinline asks whether, amid SUN the gloom, there is a reason to celebrate. SUN The economist Joseph Schumpeter first coined the phrase SUN "creative destruction" in the 1940s. Innovation he believed SUN causes the death of established businesses and leads to new SUN opportunities. SUN So, are company failures necessary for future growth? Or is SUN "creative destruction" a comforting delusion, not a saving SUN grace? SUN Producer : Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01qldmd (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 b01qldmg (Listen) SUN Patrick O'Flynn of The Express analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01qkmpd (Listen) SUN The latest news from the world of film. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01qkx9t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01qktsc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01qjc37 (Listen) MON Stan Cohen (1942 - 2013) MON MON Stan Cohen - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme MON which pays tribute to the work and legacy of one of the most MON significant sociologists of our times. Eminent social MON scientists, Stuart Hall, Conor Gearty and Howard Becker, MON highlight his unique personality and contribution. And in MON the studio, three younger academics, Dr Claire Moon, Senior MON Lecturer in the Sociology of Human Rights, Dr Karen Lumsden, MON Lecturer in Sociology and David Scott, Senior Lecturer in MON Criminology and Criminal Justice, discuss Stan Cohen's MON ongoing influence . MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01qkx9r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qktsf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qktsh (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qktsk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01qktsm (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qlhhz (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd MON Johnston McKay. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01qlhj1 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01qktsr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01qlhj3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie MON and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01qlhj5 (Listen) MON Persecution: James Lasdun and Mary Beard MON MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to the poet and novelist James Lasdun MON about his experience of being cyber-stalked and the MON terrifying opportunities new technology offers. Mary Beard MON looks back to classical times to see how far the MON relationship between persecutor and persecuted have changed. MON Galileo was locked up for his ideas, and Roxanna Silbert MON directs Brecht's play, of a world on the cusp of change. And MON John Gray looks at the nature of existence and our place in MON the animal kingdom. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 The Real George Orwell b01qlhj7 (Listen) MON Essays and Journalism, A Hanging MON MON Although most famous for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen MON Eighty Four, George Orwell was also a prolific essayist and MON journalist. MON MON A selection of Orwell's non-fiction writing begins with the MON powerful essay, A Hanging, Orwell's account of an execution MON that he attended while serving in the Indian Imperial Police MON in Burma during the 1920's: 'It is curious, but til that MON moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a MON healthy, conscious man.' MON MON Reader ..... Clive Merrison MON Producer ..... David Jackson Young. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qw8dq (Listen) MON Anita Anand presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01qlhjc (Listen) MON Marking Time, Episode 1 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels MON MON Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow. MON MON As the Cazalet family gather for their annual summer holiday MON the onset of war is about to change everything. MON MON In the hot summer of 1938, Home Place in the beautiful MON Sussex countryside is frantically being opened up and MON prepared for another Cazalet family holiday, as siblings MON Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel - and their respective MON families - are reunited. Rupert is trying not to think about MON whether he married the beautiful but rather petulant Zoe too MON soon after his first wife's death; Hugh and his wife Sybil MON each try to put the other first, not necessarily to their MON mutual advantage; Edward is mulling on how he might be able MON to get away from his wife, Villy, to spend time with his MON mistress and Rachel is trying to find a private place to MON read her letter in secret. But the wider world is about to MON intrude on their lives forever and each is increasingly to MON wonder what their future may hold - for themselves and their MON children. MON MON 'The Light Years' is the first of four compelling Cazalet MON novels by Elizabeth Jane Howard, which together give a vivid MON insight into the lives, hopes and loves of three MON generations. MON MON As Elizabeth Jane Howard approaches her 90th Birthday, Radio MON 4 is dramatising all four novels in 45 episodes, to be MON broadcast between New Year's Eve and July 2013. MON MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Clary: Georgia Groome MON Rupert: Raymond Coulthard MON Zoe: Zoe Tapper MON Polly: Flora Spencer-Longhurst MON Louise: Alix Wilton Regan MON Hugh: Dominic Mafham MON Christopher: Will Howard MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Lin Coghlan MON MON 11:00 The Botanical Vicar b01qlhjf (Listen) MON The Reverend Charles Edward Shaw was known by many monikers MON - The Laughing Vicar, The Weed King of the North or, more MON popularly, Vicar Shaw. MON MON Whatever the name given, Reverend Shaw was loved by both MON parishioners and naturalists alike for his unusual botanical MON rambles and fun loving manner. Every week, friends would MON climb in his latest jalopy and head off to explore a piece MON of waste land - that's if they hadn't been kept awake by his MON home-made speaking clock which boomed hourly from the church MON tower. MON MON Vicar Shaw was renowned for finding exotic and unusual MON plants at rubbish tips, factory dumps, sewage treatment MON sites and other unlikely places. Some of these finds might MON be plant life unfamiliar to the local area; others botanical MON foreign invaders, mysteriously appearing from the Middle MON East, the Americas, or Eurasia. MON MON In a celebration of his life, work and passions, Lancashire MON born poet Lemn Sissay returns to the North West and joins MON the priest's former protégé, radio and television gardener MON Roy Lancaster. Together they visit sites where Roy and the MON Vicar would scour for exotic plants, catching up with mutual MON friends along the way, and sharing memories of Roy's friend MON and mentor. They take in an unlikely set of locations: the MON ultra modern Reebok Stadium, home to Bolton Wanderers MON Football Club; a former sulphuric acid works at Nob End near MON Bolton; Gallery Oldham, where collections and items relating MON to Vicar Shaw are still held; and Waterhead in Oldham, the MON last parish and final resting place of Vicar Shaw where his MON self-designed memorial window can still be enjoyed. MON MON Producer: Russell Crewe MON A Like It Is production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qlhjh (Listen) MON Series 2, The Literary Festival MON MON Damien and Anthony arrive at a literary festival to promote MON Damien's book about the culinary habits of the Great Poets. MON Despite the charming hotel and the peaceful surroundings, MON the cookery writer can barely disguise his chagrin at his MON talk being in a tent smaller to other writers he considers MON lesser than him. MON MON But he soon has the opportunity to get the audience he feels MON he deserves when a fellow author is knocked unconscious and MON Damien is asked to fill in. But can he rise to the occasion? MON MON Starring: MON Miles Jupp as Damien Trench MON Justin Edwards as Anthony MacIlveny MON With MON Ben Crowe as Gary McDade/Sound Man MON Toby Longworth as Bill Trumpetz MON Sarah Thom as The Lady MON and MON Lesley Vickerage as Marion Duffett MON MON Written by Miles Jupp MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01qlhjk (Listen) MON Smartphone apps that drain your battery; how to cut your MON care bill MON MON The smartphone apps that suck power from your battery. MON A new deadline is looming to claim back the costs of MON continuing care for yourself or a relative. MON And open chiller cabinets in shops mean wasted energy, MON bigger bills and colder customers - so why do supermarkets MON use them? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01qktst (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01qlhjm (Listen) MON National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Head to Head b01lswck (Listen) MON Series 4, The Decline of Britain MON MON Edward Stourton revisits broadcast debates from the archives MON - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind them, and MON echoes of the arguments today. MON MON When Correlli Barnett, the military historian, came to BBC MON studios in 1974 to record this debate, Britain was in dire MON straits. Like many at the time, he wondered why, just a MON century before, Britain had been the world's most powerful MON nation in terms of both military and economic strength. For MON the most part, Barnett blamed the ruling elites for MON Britain's demise - for creating a political culture that was MON overly liberal and lacking technological know-how. Had a MON romantic idealism set in and industrial development been MON neglected? And where did the roots of the problem reside - MON in our education system or the empire? MON MON His adversary was historian and journalist Paul Johnson, who MON agreed that Britain was sick but offered a different MON diagnosis. Was the collapsing empire a symptom of Britain's MON decline or was it the cause? Having won two world wars, was MON Britain's military might real or merely a delusion of MON grandeur? And what was wrong with our leaders and their MON schooling? MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate is Will Hutton, who has MON worked in journalism as an editor, a broadcaster and a MON commentator. He is author of "The State We're In" and MON currently the Principal of Hertford College at Oxford MON University. Joining him is David Edgerton, who is Hans MON Rausing Professor at the Centre for the History of Science, MON Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London. He is MON also author of "Britain's War Machine". MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01qldm6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 The Real George Orwell b01qlhjp (Listen) MON Biographical Dramas, Jura MON MON By Jonathan Holloway MON The last of four plays featuring episodes in the life of MON Eric Blair. In 1947, the year after Eileen's death, Eric MON leaves London and moves to Jura, with his sister Avril, and MON his three year old son. He is suffering from tuberculosis MON but is determined to try and make a go of living off the MON land. But most of all he is determined to finish Nineteen MON Eighty-Four, his final book. MON MON Of course there is no real George Orwell - it was the pen MON name of Eric Blair - but he was a writer and political MON commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his MON early death in 1950, he has been at one and the same time MON the darling of some on both the left and the right of MON British politics - whilst being reviled by others. For all MON the beautiful simplicity of his writing and storytelling MON Orwell/Blair is a complex mass of confusions - an MON anti-establishment, pro-English, ex-Etonian ex-policeman and MON socialist, who was ardently anti-authoritarian. He was as MON anti-fascist as he was anti-communist, a former Spanish MON Civil War soldier who was anti-war but pro the Second World MON War, and so on and so on. MON MON Through dramatisations of the key books, through four newly MON commissioned plays that explore the disjuncture between the MON man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell, MON and through factual programming and readings, Radio 4 will MON take you on a journey from Burma via Catalonia, Wigan, Jura, MON Manor Farm along the road that led to Nineteen Eighty-Four, MON one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. MON MON Credits MON Eric Blair: Joseph Millson MON Avril Blair: Liza Sadovy MON David Holbrook: Adam Nagaitis MON Sonia Orwell: Stephanie Racine MON Ricky Blair: James Foster MON Henry: Will Howard MON Lucy: Alexandra Guelff MON Jane: Lizzy Watts MON Director: Jeremy Mortimer MON Writer: Jonathan Holloway MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01qlhjr (Listen) MON (13/17) MON MON Russell Davies asks the questions, in the first of this MON year's semi-finals of the evergreen general knowledge quiz. MON Today's competitors have all come successfully through the MON heats, and are vying for a place in the grand Final and the MON chance to take the title of 'Brain of Britain 2013'. MON MON In addition to the twelve outright heat winners, the four MON top-scoring runners-up across the series also have another MON chance to try for a place in the Final. MON MON The questions get tougher as the contest proceeds: so they MON will need all the knowledge they can muster, as Russell's MON questions cover every imaginable field from history and MON mythology through to sport and popular culture. MON MON There will also be the chance for a listener to win a prize MON by defeating the combined brainpower of the contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01qkxbb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Who Was Rosalind? b01qlhjt (Listen) MON In As You Like It, Shakespeare created one of his greatest MON and most complicated female roles. At a time when women were MON not allowed to act on stage, the role would have been taken MON by a young boy. But who? Actor, Critic and academic Susan MON Hitch tries to find out MON MON In doing so she looks at how Shakespeare wrote for his MON actors, the educational culture of Elizabethan England, and MON the brilliance of the makeup artists of Shakespeare's MON company. She talks to academic experts, to actor Adrian MON Lester who has played Rosalind, and to contemporary MON schoolboys and teachers about boys playing girls, and MON discovers how radically our ideas of intimacy and desire MON have changed in the last 400 years and how strong the power MON of theatre still is today. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01qlhjw (Listen) MON Rastafari MON MON To most people the word Rastafarian conjures up images of MON dreadlocks, the smoking of ganja, and Bob Marley. But MON Rastafari, as it's more correctly known, is a movement with MON a complex belief system. It has its origins in Jamaican MON society in the early 20th century, when black people rose up MON in protest at oppressive systems imposed by white rulers. MON But is it just a passing phenomenon? Has it continuing MON relevance in a fairer, more open society? How does it need MON to evolve? MON Joining Ernie to discuss Rastafari are Tony Tafari, who is a MON member of the Rastafari Council of Britain; Dr Ellis MON Cashmore, Professor of Culture, Media and Sport at MON Staffordshire University; and Marzia Coltri, visiting MON Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. MON MON 17:00 PM b01qw8v9 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qktsw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01qlmlb (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 2 MON MON Popular comedy panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. MON Regulars Paul Merton and Gyles Brandreth are joined by the MON comedian Alun Cochrane and the actor Stephen Mangan. MON Subjects include the literary 'Treasure Island' and the MON colloquial 'My Mate Dan'. MON Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01qlhk0 (Listen) MON Alice is on a covert operation, and Susan is bursting with MON pride. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01qlhpb (Listen) MON Mark Lawson reports on a major exhibition of work by the MON pioneering pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who found MON inspiration in comic strips and advertisements. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01qlhjc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Drowning City b01qlmld (Listen) MON In October last year, Hurricane Sandy ripped into New York, MON taking lives, sparking a huge fire, flooding subways and MON tunnel connections and leaving thousands without power for MON days. MON MON Isabel Hilton reports on the aftermath of the hurricane in MON New York. As sea levels are predicted to keep rising, she MON looks at what New York and other threatened coastal cities MON might do to prepare for future storms. MON MON Hurricane Sandy was a wake up call to New York and to many MON other coastal cities that have to face the reality of rising MON sea levels and increased chances of hurricanes and storm MON surges. Much of lower Manhattan was up to ten feet MON underwater and the storm sent a 14-foot surge into New MON York's harbour that continued for miles up the Hudson River. MON MON As the city continues to mop up, Isabel looks at the ways in MON which it might prepare for future storms and flooding, from MON building great walls and sea defences to sealing the subways MON and tunnels. MON MON She also considers the lessons that New York has to offer MON other threatened coastal cities - along the Eastern Seaboard MON of America and right around the world. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01qlmlg (Listen) MON Making the Best of a Bad Job MON MON David Goodhart considers whether the declining status of MON basic jobs can be halted and even reversed. MON MON Successive governments have prioritised widening access to MON higher education to try to drive social mobility, without MON giving much thought to the impact this has on the MON expectations of young people who, for whatever reason, are MON not going to take that path. MON MON But even in a knowledge-based economy, the most basic jobs MON survive. Offices still need to be cleaned, supermarket MON shelves stacked, and care home residents looked after. MON MON The best employers know how to design these jobs to make MON them more satisfying. Are politicians finally waking up to MON the problem? MON MON Contributors in order of appearance: MON MON Caroline Lloyd, professor and industrial relations MON specialist at the University of Cardiff MON Donna Braithwaite, supermarket worker MON Bill Mumford, chief executive of care charity MacIntyre MON Geoff Dench, sociologist and founder of the charity Men for MON Tomorrow. MON Sir Peter Lampl, founder of the Sutton Trust MON Andrew Oswald, professor of economics at the University of MON Warwick MON Josie Zerafa, cashier at Iceland supermarket MON Tracey Vella, cashier at Iceland supermarket MON Sandra McNamara, store manager at Iceland supermarket MON MON Producer: Ruth Alexander. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01qkmpg (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper looks at the coronavirus that has been MON transmitted from one individual to another in the UK. MON Professor Maria Zambon, an expert virologist at the Health MON Protection Agency, and Ian Jones, Professor of Virology at MON Reading University, discuss these latest infections, what is MON being done to find out more and why coronaviruses are being MON so closely studied. Will science be able to trace the MON sources of horsemeat that have illegally entered the MON European food chain? Chris Smart from Leatherhead Food MON Research explains more about DNA identification of MON potentially contaminated meat. Another use for DNA could be MON as a data storage device. Dr. Nick Goldman from the European MON Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge tells Quentin Cooper MON how. And Davide Dominoni from the Max Planck Institute for MON Ornithology has found that city dwelling blackbirds are MON ready to reproduce earlier than their rural counterparts - MON and it appears to be because of increased light exposure. MON MON The new coronavirus; can it be transmitted between humans? MON The corona virus has infected another individual in the UK. MON Professor Maria Zambon, an expert virologist at the Health MON Protection Agency, and Ian Jones, Professor of Virology at MON Reading University, discuss these latest infections, what is MON being done to find out more and why coronaviruses are being MON so closely studied. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01qlhj5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01qktsy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01qlmll (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qlmls (Listen) MON The Bell Jar, Episode 6 MON MON Sylvia Plath's haunting and only novel is fifty years old MON and is broadcast for the first time in celebration of the MON anniversary. The novel tells the story of Esther Greenwood, MON a talented girl with a prestigious internship on a magazine MON in New York in 1953. With dreams of becoming a writer and an MON impressive track record of scholarships and prizes, Esther MON seems to have it all - and knows she should be 'having the MON time of her life'. But between the cocktail parties and the MON piles of manuscripts, unsatisfactory men and the choices MON ahead, she finds herself spiralling into confusion and MON depression. As she retreats from the world in despair, she MON will attempt suicide and find herself in the world of the MON asylum before finding a way through. MON MON The Bell Jar is both darkly funny and acutely observed, MON capturing in vivid and witty prose the society Plath MON inhabited in the 1950s. A modern classic, The Bell Jar is a MON powerful portrait of a clever young woman with great MON ambitions confounded by the hurdles the world puts in her MON way and increasingly at a loss. MON Today: In a dark episode, Doctor Gordon tries a shocking MON treatment and Esther tries to take matters into her own MON hands. MON Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Boston. She studied at MON Smith College and Cambridge where she met and married Ted MON Hughes. In 1960 she published The Colossus, a collection of MON poems. The Bell Jar was published in 1963, under a pseudonym MON and is Plath's only novel. Her Collected Poems were MON published in 1981 and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. MON Plath died in 1963. MON The reader is Lydia Wilson. Lydia studied at Cambridge and MON RADA, her credits include Blasted, The Heretic, Black Mirror MON and Any Human Heart. She played Bea in Where'd You Go, MON Bernadette on Radio 4 in 2012. MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 v. by Tony Harrison b017ldlh (Listen) MON As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture, Tony Harrison, now MON aged 75, has recorded a new reading of his controversial MON poem v. - broadcast in this programme alongside a discussion MON around the poem's significance. This is the first broadcast MON of v. on British radio. MON MON At the poet's request, the poem is broadcast in its MON entirety, and as a pure, single-voice recording. It was MON recorded in his hometown of Leeds. MON MON Harrison wrote the poem in 1985, after being angered by MON graffiti sprayed on his parent's grave by football fans. MON MON The writer Blake Morrison introduces us to v. and talks to MON others who were caught up in the storm of controversy around MON it. Melvyn Bragg, Simon Armitage and Julie Bindell, as well MON as Gerald Howarth MP, consider its impact. MON MON A filmed version of the poem, directed by Richard Eyre, MON caused controversy two years later when it was announced MON that it was to be broadcast on Channel 4. The poem, which MON includes repeated strong language was denounced by tabloid MON newspapers as a "torrent of filth". A group of Conservative MON MPs signed an early day motion to have the programme pulled MON from the schedules. At that time, Gerald Howarth said that MON Harrison was "Probably another bolshie poet wishing to MON impose his frustrations on the rest of us". Harrison MON retorted that Howarth was "Probably another idiot MP wishing MON to impose his intellectual limitations on the rest of us". MON MON Others defended the poet's right to use such language to MON draw attention to the wanton desecration of his family's MON grave. It was also seen against the backdrop of the Miners' MON strike and racial intolerance in British cities. Today, MON Beeston, the poem's setting, is renowned as the home of MON Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the 7/7 bombers. MON MON Contains frequent, very strong language. MON MON Poetry Production: Graham Frost MON Feature Production: Lucy Dichmont MON Producer: David Prest MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01qkttv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 The Real George Orwell b01qlhj7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qkttx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qkttz (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qktv1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01qktv3 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qm3yk (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd TUE Johnston McKay. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01qm3ym (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01qm3yp (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01qm3yr (Listen) TUE Alan Watson TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Alan Watson from the TUE University of Leeds who has spent 40 years trying to unravel TUE a mystery at the frontier of physics. Where do cosmic rays, TUE subatomic particles with the highest known energies in the TUE entire Universe, come from? And which violent astronomical TUE events are producing these hugely energetic jets of TUE particles that travel for light years to reach us? As many TUE as a million of them pass through us every night as we TUE sleep, the equivalent of having 2 chest x rays every year. TUE His quest to find the origins of cosmic rays has taken him TUE from the North York Moors to the South Pole and the pampas TUE grasslands of Argentina where he has been instrumental in TUE creating the largest ever Cosmic ray detector, covering an TUE area bigger than Luxembourg. TUE TUE 09:30 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b01k9q6z (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In the first in the series, Roger Law travels to China to TUE find out what has brought about museum fever. With new TUE museums opening every month, he wants to know what the TUE Chinese are displaying and why. He begins in Shanghai with a TUE visit to an opera museum, a rather unusual shoe museum in a TUE private house, and a security museum where all the guns of TUE the city's gangsters are on display. It's certainly a whole TUE new world of curiosities. TUE TUE 09:45 The Real George Orwell b01qm3yt (Listen) TUE Essays and Journalism, Confessions of a Book Reviewer TUE TUE A selection of familiar and unfamiliar non-fiction pieces by TUE the author of Animal Farm. Confessions of a Book Reviewer TUE attempts to tell the terrible truth about writing reviews TUE for a living while one of Orwell's As I Please columns TUE tackles the oddities of the English language. TUE TUE Read by Clive Merrison TUE Producer ..... David Jackson Young. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qm3yw (Listen) TUE Samira Ahmed aims to get to the bottom of why women in their TUE 50s earn less than their younger counterparts. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01qm3yy (Listen) TUE Marking Time, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE With the outbreak of war, all the old certainties seem to be TUE disappearing; Diana finds her position as Edward's mistress TUE leaves her feeling particularly threatened. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 11:00 The Listeners b01qm4p7 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Listening is about more than hearing as we discover from TUE people who listen for a living, and are trained to interpret TUE the sounds they hear. In the first of two programmes, Julie TUE Ryan a volunteer with the International Rescue Corps, an TUE organisation which specialises in urban search and rescue, TUE explains how listening devices are used to help detect TUE earthquake victims trapped under rubble "It is possibly the TUE most amazing experience." she says, as she describes the TUE process of listening for, and then locating and rescuing TUE victims buried under rubble. Julie describes a process in of TUE training in which the rescuers learn how to listen for TUE something "not normal". Similarly cardiac surgeon Jonathan TUE Pitts Crick listens for the abnormal when he uses a TUE stethoscope to listen to the sounds of human heart. It's the TUE abnormal sounds that can indicate there is something wrong. TUE Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson uses a microphone as TUE his listening device to eavesdrop on the natural world. As TUE he explains, by placing microphones and running long cables TUE back to a hide or recording site, he is able to listen into TUE another world, capturing behaviour and detail which we never TUE normally hear. Such recordings help further our TUE understanding of animal behaviour. "Sound is the most TUE important communication channel underwater" says Acoustic TUE Biologist Katy Payne who began her career studying the TUE evolving songs of Humpback whales, and discovering when and TUE why the songs change. Listening can give us fascinating TUE insights into lives beyond our own. As Katy says, at the end TUE of the series "I suppose for me listening is the most TUE important thing I can do .. I just wish we were as good TUE listeners as elephants are". TUE Presenter: Patrick Aryee, Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01qm2fw (Listen) TUE Series 15, She Moved through the Fair TUE TUE The Irish traditional song She Moved Through The Fair is TUE well loved and well recorded by many. To some it is a ghost TUE story that tells of unfulfilled longings and of hopes and TUE aspirations cut short. Sinead O' Connor and others talk TUE about the haunting beauty of this ancient song and of why TUE its imagery is carved into their souls. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01qm4p9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01qktv5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01qm4pc (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Head to Head b01m0kj4 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Women's Lib TUE TUE Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from TUE the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind TUE them and echoes of the arguments today. TUE TUE When the two women in this week's programme met for this TUE head to head in 1974, the Women's Liberation Movement was TUE reaching its heights. They both wanted sexual equality, but TUE they had very different ideas about the means to achieve it. TUE TUE Sally Oppenheim thought reforming the law could solve the TUE woman question. As a Conservative MP, she was working on TUE further anti-discrimination legislation to add to the Equal TUE Pay Act that had already been passed by that stage. TUE TUE But for radical feminist and psychoanalyst Juliet Mitchell, TUE gradual reform was not the way forward. She believed the TUE status of women could not be elevated by laws alone because TUE the roots of inequality lay deep, both in the fabric of TUE society and the minds of women. Social structures would need TUE to be torn down, starting with the role of women as wives TUE and mothers. TUE TUE Oppenheim was sceptical of these "second wave" feminists and TUE their extreme position: how dare they prescribe such a TUE widespread drastic change to the nature of womanhood. TUE TUE On to today and, with a new brand of Tory feminism and TUE indeed radicalism, on what lines is the equality debate TUE fought now? How has the argument moved on? TUE TUE In the studio dissecting the debate are Lynne Segal, TUE Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, TUE University of London, and Julie Bindel, who is an activist TUE and journalist. TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01qlhk0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01693h1 (Listen) TUE On It TUE TUE A young man joins Tony's boxing ring in an attempt to escape TUE the circle of addiction he has come to inhabit. TUE TUE Tony Pitts is an exciting and accomplished northern TUE Writer-Performer, now turning his hand to BBC Radio 4's TUE Afternoon Play. Tony is also a boxing coach. He conquered TUE some of his own demons through boxing - and has helped TUE others to do so too. This is a story of one of his students, TUE Liam Jones. TUE TUE Heroin addiction. It's not news. This all-too-familiar story TUE is difficult but not shocking. And that's the shame. TUE On It, is a play written full of gut-wrenching love, TUE determination and the hope that one day there may be a full TUE stop, instead of another comma in the story of every family TUE with this fight on its hands. TUE TUE The writer, cast and crew would like to extend their thanks, TUE sympathy and love to the Jones family. TUE TUE Written and Directed by Tony Pitts TUE TUE Produced by Sally Harrison TUE A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Tony Pitts TUE Liam: Adam Gillen TUE Michelle: Maxine Peake TUE Belinda: Hannah Kew TUE David: Dominic Brunt TUE Kay: Joanne Mitchell TUE Nana: Gwyneth Powell TUE Josephine: Isabelle Sykes TUE Director: Tony Pitts TUE Producer: Sally Harrison TUE Writer: Tony Pitts TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01qm4pf (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by leading historians TUE and writers to discuss issues from our past that have been TUE raised by new research carried out by listeners, heritage TUE organisations and the academic community. TUE TUE Among the highlights in this series, Tom and his TUE co-presenter Helen Castor, will be asking whether the TUE Renaissance began on the 26th April 1336, probably about tea TUE time ... and possibly over a game of cards, investigating TUE how a London conference set up to limit naval fire power in TUE 1930 had the opposite affect, and finding out why you can't, TUE necessarily, see the wood through the trees in a Royal TUE Forest. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01qm4ph (Listen) TUE Dash for Ash TUE TUE By 2020 the UK must significantly reduce its landfill habit. TUE A recent government report warned that we would run out of TUE landfill space by 2018 and a European Directive means we TUE must reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill from 48% to TUE 35% or face big fines. Next year landfill tax will hit £80 TUE per tonne. Unsurprisingly there has been a huge rise in TUE planning applications for incinerators. 91 are proposed to TUE add to the 30 currently in operation. Waste is big business. TUE Tom Heap visits existing sites where our rubbish is TUE currently being shipped abroad to create energy and heat in TUE Europe and asks whether it is time we followed suit. TUE New technologies such as gasification are currently being TUE developed which will provide even more heat and power from TUE our residual waste and they promise to be far cleaner than TUE the mass burn incinerators on the continent, yet opposition TUE remains strong. 'Costing the Earth' hears from local TUE residents who fear the health implications if dioxins formed TUE in the high temperatures are released. Environmental TUE campaigners argue that even if the health risks can be TUE addressed this solution only creates more carbon dioxide TUE emissions when what we really need is more recycling and TUE less initial waste. In his film 'Trashed' actor Jeremy Irons TUE looks at how our waste affects our health and that of the TUE planet. Tom follows him as he asks if it's time for a TUE national strategy on what goes into our bins and where our TUE rubbish ends up. TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01qm2fy (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01qm4pk (Listen) TUE Francis Spufford and Sarah Moss TUE TUE Harriet's guests this week are Sarah Moss and Francis TUE Spufford. Sarah suggests The Grasmere Journals by Dorothy TUE Wordsworth and Francis picks Mistress Masham's Repose by T. TUE H. White. Harriet has been reading Human Voices by Penelope TUE Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01qm4pm (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qktv7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Elvenquest b01qm4pp (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Magnificent Five TUE TUE Whilst waiting for news on the whereabouts of the Sword of TUE Asnagar, the Questers stop a pub brawl and in doing so TUE attract the attention of some villagers from the small TUE village of Mexigaroth who are being terrorised by an evil TUE bandit, who goes by the name of "El Maldado". TUE TUE Never ones to stand by when a wrong can be righted, the TUE Questers promise to help the villagers defeat El Maldado and TUE his hordes. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Lord Darkness has to make a presentation for an TUE assembly of the Dark Lords. Pretty routine stuff, surely...? TUE TUE Starring: TUE Darren Boyd as Vidar TUE Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech TUE Dave Lamb as Amis TUE Stephen Mangan as Sam TUE Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness TUE Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea TUE and TUE Chris Pavlo as Hilario TUE TUE Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01qm4pr (Listen) TUE Jennifer urges caution. Meanwhile Tom has a radical thought. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01qm4qj (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01qm3yy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01qm4pt (Listen) TUE Britain's Plutonium Mountain TUE TUE The Government is currently deciding what to do with the TUE UK's civilian plutonium stockpile - the largest in the TUE world. Some are concerned that it could become the target of TUE terrorists intent on making a dirty bomb. TUE TUE The stockpile has come from nuclear waste that was TUE reprocessed to extract plutonium which was to have been used TUE to power a new generation of fast breeder reactors. But that TUE project failed to be finished and now just over 100 tonnes TUE of it is being stored at Sellafield in Cumbria. The TUE stockpile grew even more when the UK received imports from TUE Japan and Germany which it had hoped to convert into fuel - TUE again this project has failed to deliver. TUE TUE The Government is considering a number of options. TUE TUE Convert the plutonium into mixed oxide (Mox) fuel and then TUE burn the fuel in conventional, nuclear reactors. This would TUE involve the construction of a second Mox fuel plant at TUE Sellafield despite the fact the first plant failed to TUE produce any significant amount of Mox and was closed in TUE 2011. TUE TUE Burn the plutonium in a new breed of Prism fast reactors. TUE But critics say the technology is not proven and therefore TUE risky. TUE TUE Treat it as a deadly waste product and bury the plutonium TUE currently stored at Sellafield deep underground for TUE thousands of years. Again critics say burying waste is risky TUE and even then the plutonium would have to be treated before TUE it could go into the facility. Supporters of plutonium as TUE fuel still claim that would be throwing away a potentially TUE valuable asset. On top of that we are not likely to have a TUE repository for decades and very few local authorities have TUE volunteered to consider having it in their back yard. TUE TUE Rob Broomby investigates the difficult questions facing the TUE Government whose decision will potentially bring in a bill TUE for the taxpayer of billions of pounds. TUE And how much of gamble will it be choosing what to do with TUE this most deadly of substances? TUE TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01qm4pw (Listen) TUE BBC iPlayer, the free service that lets you catch up with TV TUE programmes, has been criticised by an In Touch listener who TUE says he's waiting too long for audio description services. TUE Liam O'Carroll claims he has to wait up to a week for the TUE service to be available on some programmes; on others, TUE there's no audio description at all, he says, meaning he's TUE missing out on his favourite series. We'll ask the BBC TUE iPlayer team what its commitment is, and get an insight into TUE how audio described programmes make it onto the iPlayer. TUE TUE How safe is it to cross the road if you're visually TUE impaired? Road regulations like 'safe to cross', which state TUE that the green man should be on for a minimum of just four TUE seconds, have led to concerns that local councils are TUE putting traffic flow before the safety of pedestrians. We'll TUE hear an example from Leek, where one guide dog user says new TUE traffic layouts are impeding his journey into town. And TUE we'll find out what devices and measures councils are TUE putting in place to ensure that the visually impaired can be TUE confident when they use the roads. TUE TUE In the next in our series on extreme sports, reporter Tony TUE Sheerman goes speed-boating on the Thames. He meets TUE entrepreneur Paul Nichol whose business arranges leisure TUE activities for visually impaired and disabled people. Paul, TUE who is himself blind, talks to Tony about why and how he TUE started his events business, the challenges he faced and why TUE he thinks he's cornered a gap in the market. TUE TUE The presenter is Peter White. The producer is Katy TUE Takatsuki. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01qm4py (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01qm3yr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01qktv9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01qm4q0 (Listen) TUE Round-up of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qm4q2 (Listen) TUE The Bell Jar, Episode 7 TUE TUE Today: A new hospital and a new doctor - finally Esther TUE finds someone who understands and offers hope. TUE The reader is Lydia Wilson. TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qm4q4 (Listen) TUE Death Penalty TUE TUE In a brand new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores TUE issues on which she has strong opinions. This week, she TUE examines the issues surrounding the Death Penalty from the TUE perspective gained whilst working on Death Row. TUE Susan was always stoically against capital punishment - TUE because that was the expected position for a liberal student TUE to take - and thought that she knew all about it. But it's TUE very easy being so liberal when you're sitting in a country TUE that doesn't have the death penalty. Then, as a law student, TUE she travelled to North Carolina and worked on Death Row for TUE a time. What she experienced whilst there persuaded her TUE absolutely that she thought Capital Punishment was utterly TUE wrong. TUE This is a story about the transition from casually adopting TUE received opinion to developing your own belief system. TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE 23:30 Sketchorama b01k2h1q (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Award-winning character comedian and doyen of sketch comedy TUE Humphrey Ker presents the pick of the best live sketch TUE groups currently performing on the UK comedy circuit in this TUE brand new showcase - with character, improv, broken and TUE musical sketch comedy. TUE TUE Humphrey Ker is himself an established sketch performer, TUE writer, actor and comedian who won the Fosters Edinburgh TUE Comedy Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh festival in TUE 2011. For five years he was part of the much-loved sketch TUE trio The Penny Dreadfuls, with whom he wrote and performed TUE in a string of Edinburgh festival smashes, two series on TUE BBC7 and two plays for Radio 4. TUE TUE The sketch groups featured in episode one of Sketchorama TUE are: TUE TUE Delete the Banjax: Writer/performers Caroline May-Jones, TUE Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Samuel Champion. They've TUE enjoyed three critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe TUE Festivals, picking up a ThreeWeeks Editors Award at Ed TUE Fringe 2010 and, with their charmingly chaotic performance TUE style, have become one of the most talked about comedy acts TUE on the circuit. TUE TUE Lady Garden: The all-female group are Beattie Edmondson, TUE Rose Johnson, Eleanor Thom and Camille Ucan. Since their TUE Edinburgh debut in 2008, their fast-paced shows filled with TUE fantastic character creations have received widespread TUE praise from audiences and critics alike. TUE TUE Idiots of Ants: Andrew Spiers, Elliott Tiney, Benjamin TUE Wilson and James Wrighton. Since forming in 2007, they have TUE gone on to sell-out four Edinburgh festivals and a run in TUE London's prestigious West End. They have attracted a TUE staggeringly large internet following, with their 'Facebook TUE in real life' and 'Wii Breakfast' sketches achieving TUE multi-million hits. TUE TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01qktw4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 The Real George Orwell b01qm3yt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qktw6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qktw8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qktwb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01qktwd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qm5hg (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd WED Johnston McKay. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01qm5hj (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01qm5hl (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys WED and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought WED for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01qm6kp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 The Real George Orwell b01qm6kr (Listen) WED Essays and Journalism, My Country Right or Left WED WED A selection of familiar and unfamiliar non-fiction pieces by WED the author of Animal Farm. In My Country Left or Right WED Orwell attempts to reconcile his strong patriotic feelings WED with his left wing views. WED WED Read by Clive Merrison WED Producer ..... David Jackson Young. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qm79g (Listen) WED Helena Rubinstein rose from humble beginnings to become the WED first self-made female millionaire Aasmah Mir talks to the WED author of a book about the woman who's said to have invented WED beauty and famously once said 'There are no ugly women, only WED lazy ones'. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01qm79j (Listen) WED Marking Time, Episode 3 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Louise is delighted to meet the sophisticated Stella Rose WED and can't wait for their trip to the theatre. Until she sees WED her father there, with someone she doesn't know. WED WED Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01qm79l (Listen) WED Series 12, Zoo for Sale WED WED In a rain sodden valley, close to the fresh winds of the WED Irish Sea, a leopard marches back and forth through the mud. WED Close by, capuchin monkeys chuckle as they cling to the WED bars, and in the warmth of a dark glass tank, a 14 foot WED python is being moved for feeding. WED WED These are unwanted animals - some born in captivity, some WED abandoned and some just too big for their owners to keep. WED They've all found a home with Jean and Alan Mumbury, at The WED Animalarium, a small private zoo close to the fishing WED village of Borth, west Wales. WED WED When Jean and Alan bought the property, they were given the WED keys by the previous owner, who left without a backward WED glance - throwing them into the world of zoo keeping without WED training or experience. 12 years later, full of enthusiasm WED for the place they have created and made their own, they are WED putting the zoo up for sale. WED WED It will be a hard move to make. Jean has a close WED relationship with many of the creatures - such as the lynx WED she calls 'Baby', and who will sit on her shoulder and purr WED as she strokes him fondly. WED WED Jean and Alan have also fostered 42 children over the past WED 25 years. WED WED Producer: Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 11:30 Murder Is Easy b01qm7p4 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED by Agatha Christie WED Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson WED WED 1. Ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam doesn't believe little old WED Miss Pinkerton when she tells him that she's off to Scotland WED Yard to report a serial killer on the loose in her quiet WED English village. But he's soon forced to reconsider. WED WED Luke ..... Patrick Baladi WED Bridget ..... Lydia Leonard WED Lord Whitfield ..... Michael Cochrane WED Miss Waynflete ..... Marcia Warren WED Miss Pinkerton ..... Marlene Sidaway WED Billy Bones/Rivers ..... Patrick Brennan WED Reverend Wake ..... Thomas Wheatley WED Rose ..... Lizzy Watts WED Abbott ..... Paul Stonehouse WED Ellsworthy ..... Ben Crowe WED Dr Thomas ..... Will Howard WED Major Horton ..... Robert Blythe WED WED Technical presentation was by Anne Bunting and Robin Warren WED WED Directed by Mary Peate WED WED Murder is Easy is another of Joy Wilkinson's fresh new WED dramatisations of Agatha Christie novels for Radio Four. WED Previously she has adapted Crooked House, Endless Night, WED Towards Zero, And Then There Were None and Sparkling WED Cyanide. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01qm7p6 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01qktwg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01qm7p8 (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Head to Head b01m5dw4 (Listen) WED Series 4, Morality and Freedom WED WED Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from WED the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind WED them and echoes of the arguments today. WED WED Perhaps better known as a novelist, Iris Murdoch was also a WED recognised philosopher. By 1972 when she encountered fellow WED Oxford thinker David Pears for the film Logic Lane, she had WED already written 14 novels and made valuable contributions to WED moral philosophy. The dominant school up until that time had WED used a logic of language to help distinguish right from WED wrong, almost turning morality into a science. However, a WED new wave of European thought was bringing the debate away WED from prescribing meta-ideas and back down to individual WED choice. WED WED At the heart of the debate was the issue of freedom of WED action. Could humans actually control their behaviour or WED were we pre-programmed to act in particular ways in certain WED situations? In this debate, Pears brings up the age-old WED debate of determinism versus free will - but further to that WED was a belief that, through self-knowledge, we could reclaim WED some control over our actions and therefore act in morally WED good ways. WED WED So to what extent should we know ourselves in order to WED become better people - in a deep Freudian sense or simply by WED noticing our thoughts and reactions? By considering the WED practical concerns of everyday people and life, and what WED constitutes a good life, can this knowledge inform a new WED moral philosophy? Murdoch's ideas are as relevant today as WED ever. WED WED In the studio dissecting the debate are Galen Strawson, WED Professor of Philosophy at Reading University, and Justin WED Broackes, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brown WED University in the United States. WED WED Producer: Dom Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01qm4pr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b013r2h6 (Listen) WED Do You Like Banana, Comrades? WED WED by Csaba Szekely WED It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a WED high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your WED mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill WED you. WED WED This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain WED during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young WED Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlisted for WED the BBC World Service/British Council's International WED Playwriting Competition. WED WED Director: Marion Nancarrow WED WED The play has just won the prestigious Richard Imison Award WED for best original script by a writer new to radio in 2012. WED The judges said of it: 'Do You Like Banana, Comrade? is a WED deft, witty, and often very moving picture of life under a WED totalitarian regime. Right from the start we fell in love WED with the charming, wide-eyed and irrepressible narrator. WED Growing up in Ceausescu's Romania, Robert only gradually WED realises the power his father wields as one of the WED dictator's henchmen. The adroit use of irony allows us to WED see through his naive logic and imaginative explanations, WED and through the chinks comes a real and growing sense of WED horror.... Székely packs a whole world and its politics into WED his play, whilst retaining a lightness of touch. Do You Like WED Banana, Comrade? is Csaba Székely's first ever play, written WED in his second language: a formidable achievement.' WED WED Csaba Székely was born in Targu Mures, Romania. He's a WED writer, editor and assistant lecturer at his hometown's WED University of Arts. He writes mostly in his native Hungarian WED language, and his works frequently deal with social issues, WED such as unemployment, nationalism, alcoholism and WED corruption. His first play (Do You Like Banana, Comrades?) WED has won the regional prize for Europe in the BBC's WED International Radio Playwriting Competition in 2009. Since WED then, his dramas and their staged performances have received WED numerous awards both in Romania and Hungary. His play WED Mineflowers WED has been voted Best Drama of the Year by the Hungarian WED Theatre Critics' Association. WED WED Credits WED Robert: Freddy White WED Tibor: Michael Begley WED Silvia: Jane Whittenshaw WED Laura: Julia Tarnoky WED Repairman: Brian Bowles WED Dani: Daniel Rabin WED Titi: Luke Newberry WED Director: Marion Nancarrow WED Writer: Csaba Szekely WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01qm7pb (Listen) WED Paying for long-term care WED WED Do you have a question about arranging or funding long term WED care? What are the options and who qualifies for financial WED help? Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3pm on Wednesday or WED email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED If you, a relative or friend can no longer manage alone, how WED do find out if you or they are entitled to assistance, WED whether that is with daily activities, medical needs or WED adapting the home to make life easier? WED WED What will a care assessment involve and can you challenge a WED decision if you believe it is wrong? WED WED Moving into a residential home can be daunting, how do you WED choose and what will it cost? WED WED Who will pay for a care plan once it has been agreed, the WED Local Authority, the NHS or you? WED WED Can you claim benefits to help with the cost and what are WED the pros and cons of the financial products on offer? WED WED And there's a deadline looming if you wrongly paid for care WED between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012. If the NHS should WED have paid the bill you can recover the costs if you act WED quickly. WED WED To find out more call 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday, phone WED lines are open between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard geographic WED charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter Paul Lewis will put your questions to the experts: WED WED Pat Lacroix and Garry MacDonald, Advisers, Independent Age WED WED Lisa Morgan, Partner, Hugh James solicitors. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01qm4py (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01qm7pd (Listen) WED Weapon dogs - Laurie Taylor discusses the phenomenon of WED weapon dogs with Simon Harding, the author of 'Unleashed..' WED Also, the growth of 'Ned' pride in Scotland. 'Ned', or non WED educated delinquent, is the Scottish equivalent of the WED English term 'Chav'. It refers stereotypically to uneducated WED and anti social youth. But the sociologist, Robert Young, WED finds that some young Scots, including middle class WED teenagers, are proudly adopting the 'Ned' label as a mark of WED sub cultural rebellion. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01qm7pg (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01qm7pj (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qktwl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dilemma b01qmb08 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the WED moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of WED finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on WED their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was WED asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi WED Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that WED once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if WED he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, WED Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) WED WED As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also WED features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience WED Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience WED may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates WED a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the WED others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, WED where each panellist is given an indefensible action that WED they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own WED Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, WED each one following on from the last as they burrow their way WED deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of WED grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers WED binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a WED swan?". WED WED This week's show sees comedian Paul Sinha struggling with WED his sporting loyalties; poet Lemn Sissay experiencing WED Something New; actor and comic Margaret Cabourn-Smith facing WED up to some poor parenting; and Graeme Garden contemplating WED life without one of his favourite Aunties. WED WED The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle WED Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. WED WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01qmb0b (Listen) WED Pat's holiday mood comes to an abrupt end. Meanwhile Darrell WED is touting for work. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01qmb0d (Listen) WED Mark Lawson reports on the opening night of a major new WED staging of the musical A Chorus Line, the tale of dancers WED desperate to be cast in a show. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01qm79j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01qmb0g (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Giles WED Fraser and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01qm2jg (Listen) WED Baroness Helena Kennedy WED WED Leading human rights lawyer, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, WED opens a new series of Lent Talks, where six well known WED figures from public life, the arts, human rights and WED religion, reflect on how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry WED and Passion continues to interact with contemporary society WED and culture. WED The 2013 Lent Talks consider the theme of "abandonment". In WED the Lenten story, Jesus is the supreme example of this - he WED died an outcast, abandoned and rejected by his people, his WED disciples and (apparently) his Father - God. But how does WED that theme tie in with today's complex world? There are many WED ways one can feel abandoned - by family, by society, by WED war/conflict, but one can also feel abandoned through the WED loss of something, perhaps power, job or identity. WED Speakers in this year's talks include the author Alexander WED McCall Smith, who explores the sense of being abandoned by WED society as you grow older; Loretta Minghella, Director of WED Christian Aid, who considers the abandonment of self and the WED need to face who we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim WED Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who has just WED returned from Afghanistan and who explores the total WED abandonment experienced by both sides as a result of war; WED Ben Cohen, journalist and broadcaster, who reflects on his WED own personal story of religious rejection through being gay, WED and Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's Piccadilly, who WED explores the relationship between abandonment and betrayal. WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, greed, forgiveness WED and love. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01qm4ph (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01qm6kp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01qktwn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01qmb0j (Listen) WED Ritula Shah presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qmb0l (Listen) WED The Bell Jar, Episode 8 WED WED Today: With Doctor Nolan's help, Esther can finally fly WED free. WED WED The reader is Lydia Wilson. WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b014qnds (Listen) WED Series 2, Home Making WED WED A second series of this popular and critically acclaimed WED series from Andrew Lawrence in which each episode addresses WED how we try to fit in and find our place in society. This WED week: Home making - exploring the perils and frustrations of WED decorating and furnishing our homes and then inviting people WED round. WED WED 23:15 Jigsaw b01qmbk2 (Listen) WED Mousetrap WED WED Stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat WED Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a WED rapid-fire and surreal sketch show. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 23:30 Sketchorama b01kbg7m (Listen) WED Episode 2 of 4 WED WED The sketch groups featured in episode two of Sketchorama WED are: WED WED The Noise Next Door: Tom Houghton, Charlie Granville, Matt WED Grant, Tom Livingstone and Sam Pacelli have been performing WED their own distinctive brand of off-the-cuff comedy for over WED six years. They have an uncanny knack of transforming WED audience suggestions into fantastically funny scenes and WED songs in the blink of an eye, with a perfect blend of WED ludicrous characters, witty one-liners and epic stories. WED WED The Boom Jennies: A trio featuring Lizzie Bates, Anna WED Emerson and Catriona Knox who produce fun, fast-paced, WED inventive sketch comedy mixed up with some top-notch tunes. WED WED Jigsaw: Dan Antopolski (Triple Perrier Award Nominee, BBC WED New Comedy Award Winner and Dave's Funniest Joke of the WED Fringe Award Winner 2009), Tom Craine (BBC National Student WED Award Winner 2006) and Nat Luurtsema (Chortle Best Newcomer WED Nominee 2008) have joined forces to create a hydra-headed WED sketch monster. They enjoyed a self-titled Fringe debut in WED 2011 featuring well honed, fast paced material. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01qktxk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 The Real George Orwell b01qm6kr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qktxm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qktxp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qktxr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01qktxt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qmbs5 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd THU Johnston McKay. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01qmbs7 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. Produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 06:00 Today b01qmbs9 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys THU and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought THU for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01qmbsc (Listen) THU Decline and Fall THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic THU novel Decline and Fall. Published when Waugh was 25, the THU book was immediately celebrated for its vicious satire and THU biting humour. Set in a boys' prep school, it satirises THU British society in the 1920s and also reflects the author's THU hostility to modernity, a preoccupation which remained with THU him for the rest of his life. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 The Real George Orwell b01qmbsf (Listen) THU Essays and Journalism, Pleasure Spots THU THU A selection of Orwell's non-fiction. Today, the author's THU thoughts on the post-war prospects for the English tourist THU trade, taken from a 1944 edition of Orwell's regular Tribune THU column, "As I Please". Before that, an essay written in 1946 THU from the same publication : Pleasure Spots, which takes as THU its subject the precursors of today's theme parks - horribly THU artificial places from which the natural world has been THU excluded. THU THU Read by Clive Merrison THU Producer ..... David Jackson Young. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qmxf7 (Listen) THU Mia Wasikowska talks to Aasmah Mir about her role as India THU in the new film Stoker. A psychological thriller it tells THU the story of how after the death of her father she becomes THU increasingly infatuated with an Uncle she never knew THU existed. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01qmxf9 (Listen) THU Marking Time, Episode 4 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU THU Clary begins to write about things she notices people don't THU talk about - including sex and going to the lavatory - to THU take her mind off Rupert's imminent departure, little THU knowing that a new arrival at Home Place is to help things THU enormously. THU THU Produced and directed by Sally Avens & Marion Nancarrow THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01qmxfc (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Marseille 2013 b01qmxff (Listen) THU Philip Sweeney on music, crime and culture in Marseille, THU 2013 European City of Culture. THU THU In the year that Marseille and the surrounding region of THU Provence are enjoying European City of Culture status, THU Philip Sweeney explores what this means for a city more THU often in the news for its crime than its culture. THU THU Marseille's spectacular cast of corrupt politicians, THU smugglers, bank robbers, slot machine overlords and THU underworld godfathers earned the city the title THU 'Chicago-sur-Rhone' in the 1930's heyday of organised crime. THU The city's reputation continues, and recent violence in the THU housing projects, combined with corruption cases involving THU police and politicians, have done nothing to dispel the THU perception of a city mired in crime and corruption. And yet THU many of the attributes that have for decades contributed to THU Marseille's status as capital of France's Cote de Crime - THU its great port, its patchwork of nationalities, its rich THU musical mix - are the very elements that have contributed to THU the emergence of its distinctive cultural identity. Philip THU Sweeney meets musicians, writers and journalists at work in THU the city today to explore its ambivalent reputation. THU THU Producer: Sara Davies. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01qmxfh (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01qktxw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01qmxfk (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Head to Head b01mbztp (Listen) THU Series 4, Pornography and censorship THU THU Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from THU the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind THU them and echoes of the arguments today. THU THU When these two men encountered each other on the BBC THU programme Late-Night Line-up in 1972, the Longford report on THU pornography had recently been published. Malcolm Muggeridge THU had sat on the committee and took a conservative stance, THU served by his Christian beliefs, that pornography was THU corrupting and something had to be done about the laws THU around publishing it. THU THU Bernard Levin was as well-known as Muggeridge as a THU television personality and member of the cultural and THU political commentariat. Levin, though, was a libertarian and THU vehemently against what he saw as potential censorship of THU literature that he thought did not harm people and society THU as much as the Longford report suggested. THU THU Was there a limit to the freedoms that the permissive THU society of the late-60s and early-70s demanded? Or is THU censorship a sacred cow? On to today and in the view of THU relatively recent developments in publishing, such as on the THU internet, how have the arguments around access to THU pornography changed? THU THU In the studio dissecting the debate is Bel Mooney, THU broadcaster and journalist; and Christopher Booker, THU journalist and first editor of Private Eye. THU THU Producer: Dom Byrne THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01qmb0b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qmxfm (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 4, Mullerby Fair THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU Episode 1: Mullerby Fair THU THU The first story in a new series featuring the immortal THU William Palmer. In an attempt to settle an age old dispute, THU Pilgrim must confront the ruthless Mr Speed, but he has a THU secret weapon. THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby THU THU A fourth series of four thrillingly dark adventures. THU Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of the THU Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human world THU and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to preserve THU the uneasy balance between the two. In this series, armed THU with the Abaeron, a book of incredibly powerful magic that THU protects its owner above all else, he can finally challenge THU Mr Speed who has stolen generations of brides from one THU family, separate devoted parents from their very strange new THU changeling baby, put a giant to sleep, and locate Merlin, THU the figure most feared in all the Faerie world. Hard tasks THU at the best of times, but Pilgrim must also contend with the THU relentless malice of the sorceress Mrs Pleasance and the THU devious cunning of the King of the Greyfolk himself. THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Richie: Joe Dempsie THU Maxine: Rachel Davies THU Mr Speed: Kim Wall THU Carter: Paul Copley THU Laura: Leah Brotherhead THU Cassie: Sarah Thom THU Girl: Agnes Bateman THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01qmxfp (Listen) THU Series 23, Walking with friends THU THU Clare Balding explores the beautiful Longdendale Trail in THU Derbyshire, joining long -term friends, Tracey Standring and THU Christine Valentine. They explain the vital role walking has THU played in their lives, cementing their friendship and THU keeping them sane and healthy. They've been walking together THU for over a year now and they explore new places each week. THU Neither are keen or particularly competent map readers and THU Clare tries to convert them with her own expertise, although THU with a gale blowing along the valley, it's not all that THU easy. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01qkxb0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01qldm0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01qmxfr (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01qmxft (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01qmxfw (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qktxy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qmxfy (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU THU Comedian Stephen K Amos is joined by Paul Sinha, Andre THU Vincent and John Hegley to compile an Idiot's Guide to THU Health and Medicine. Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01qmxg0 (Listen) THU Paul makes an exciting announcement and Jazzer spots an THU opportunity. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01qmxg2 (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01qmxf9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01qm2fy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01qmxg6 (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 The Listeners b01qm4p7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01qmbsc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01qkty0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01qmxgl (Listen) THU David Eades presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qns5y (Listen) THU An Artistic Streak THU THU Written exclusively for Book at Bedtime by bestselling THU author, Deborah Moggach, a story about affairs of the heart THU in which overheard conversations reveal a surprise THU connection between two strangers. THU THU Read by Robert Pugh and Alex Tregear THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qnrn0 (Listen) THU The Ballad of Big Rich THU THU Brand new character comedy from 2011 Edinburgh Award winner, THU Adam Riches. With fast-paced, offbeat sketches, songs (there THU are no songs) and a generous dollop of audience interaction. THU Also starring Cariad Lloyd and Jim Johnson. THU THU This week, Adam Riches takes the listener back to the Wild THU West to tell the story of Big Rich, a sass-talkin', THU gun-totin' cowboy who just so happened to have sat on the THU front row. THU THU Written by Adam Riches THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. THU THU 23:30 Sketchorama b01kjt9h (Listen) THU Episode 3 of 4 THU THU The sketch groups featured in episode three of Sketchorama THU are: THU THU The Three Englishmen: Ben Cottam, Nick Hall, Jack Hartnell THU and Tom Hensby are a sketch comedy group based in London. THU They formed in early 2009 and have performed a sell-out THU monthly residency at the Canal Cafe Theatre in Little THU Venice, and enjoyed a critically acclaimed Fringe debut in THU 2011. 'One of the UK's best emerging sketch shows' The THU Scotsman. THU THU Max and Ivan: Critically acclaimed double act Max Olesker THU and Ivan Gonzalez. Not only did they enjoy 5 star reviews THU for their 2011 Holmes & Watson Fringe show, they also THU scooped the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize for THU their one-off Fringe show The Wrestling, a stand up and THU wrestler mash-up extravaganza! THU THU Frisky and Mannish: Mash-parodic sketch cabaret THU vaudevillians Matthew Floyd Jones and Laura Corcoran. They THU brought their Pop Centre Plus show filled with pop-centric THU comedy brilliance to the 400 seater Fringe venue the THU Udderbelly and officially sold it out. THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01qktyv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 The Real George Orwell b01qmbsf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qktyx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qktyz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qktz1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01qktz3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qnt5k (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd FRI Johnston McKay. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01qnt5m (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01qnt5p (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys FRI and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for FRI the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01qkxb8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 The Real George Orwell b01qnt5r (Listen) FRI Essays and Journalism, As I Please FRI FRI In this final selection of pieces, Orwell explores FRI gullibility in modern society, ridicules the absurdities of FRI the New Year's Honours List, and recalls a minor incident FRI from his youth which helped to form his socialist outlook. FRI FRI Read by Clive Merrison FRI Producer ..... David Jackson Young. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qnv2c (Listen) FRI Sharon Shannon FRI FRI World renowned Irish folk musician and accordion player FRI Sharon Shannon. Presenter: Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01qnv2f (Listen) FRI Marking Time, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI FRI Louise is home from drama school and insufferable, Polly is FRI struggling with her parents being at loggerheads and Clary FRI is about to receive the phone call she never wanted to hear. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 The Crying Game b01qnv2h (Listen) FRI Geoff Watts investigates why we cry and the peculiar purpose FRI of tears. Although many animal species cry vocally, the FRI production of tears in response to emotion, both happy or FRI sad, is a trait unique to humans. So why do we cry, and what FRI could the evolutionary advantage be to producing tears in FRI response to joy or despair? The science on this topic has FRI been surprisingly sparse until very recently, but now new FRI research seems to be shedding some light on some common FRI preconceptions about the effect and consequences of our FRI tears. Does having a good cry make you feel better, for FRI example, or do women really cry more than men? Researchers FRI in Israel have even discovered that our tears may contain FRI hidden messages triggering surprising responses in those who FRI come into contact with them. Geoff Watts gets the tissues FRI ready as he investigates everything you ever wanted to know FRI about weeping. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b01qnv2k (Listen) FRI Series 4, Money FRI FRI A return of Nigel William's hit comedy about an odd-couple FRI of silver surfers. Starring Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le FRI Prevost. Sam has won the lottery after all. Will their lives FRI change? A visit from the Lottery Man (Tim McInnerny) may FRI provide some answers... FRI FRI Nigel Williams' cult retirement comedy series is back, again FRI starring Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le Prevost. The two FRI still share the somewhat dilapidated suburban semi. But FRI might that all change? FRI FRI At the end of the last series Sam's lottery ticket blew away FRI just as he checked the final winning number. FRI FRI Now we learn that Sam has indeed won the jackpot. But he's FRI in a quandary. He hates talk of money, especially if it's FRI not hard-earned. Peter, on the contrary, longs to luxuriate FRI in new found wealth. But Sam isn't telling him how much he FRI has won. Why not? FRI FRI The two friends spend the rest of the series discovering the FRI perils of being rich. FRI FRI Guest stars include Tim McInnerny, Pip Torrens, Dermot FRI Crowley, Kate Fahy and Steffand Rhodri. FRI FRI This year saw highlights in our regular Jonathan Pryce and FRI Nicholas le Prevost 's acting careers. Jonathan's King Lear FRI at the Almeida garnered much praise. As did Nicholas' comedy FRI role in 'People' at the National. FRI FRI Director: Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01qnrzt (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01qktz5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01qnv2m (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Head to Head b01mhwss (Listen) FRI Series 4, Scientific Progress FRI FRI Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from FRI the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind FRI them and echoes of the arguments today. FRI FRI By 1971, Austrian Sir Karl Popper was already established as FRI perhaps the greatest philosopher of science when he appeared FRI on Dutch television. He sat opposite Nobel-winning FRI neuroscientist Sir John Eccles to discuss the scientific FRI method and its flaws. How did we know if a fact or theory FRI was unquestionably true or not? FRI FRI As a young man, the discoveries of Albert Einstein, which FRI dislodged many of the basic "truths" of physics according to FRI Newtonian laws, had impressed on him the fallibility of FRI scientific experiments. The scientific community, he FRI asserted, needed to look at problems from a very different FRI perspective - using his theory of falsifiability. Eccles FRI had, in fact, used this way of thinking to disprove his own FRI theories. FRI FRI So how can we differentiate between pseudo-science and real FRI science? What is the role of science and scientists in the FRI progress of mankind? And on to today - do these arguments FRI still hold sway? FRI FRI In the studio dissecting the debate is Colin Blakemore, FRI Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford; and FRI Anthony O'Hear, Professor of Philosophy at the University of FRI Buckingham. FRI FRI Producer: Dom Byrne FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01qmxg0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qnv2p (Listen) FRI The Spare Room FRI FRI Michael lives in Stephanie's spare room. FRI Michael knows everything about Stephanie. FRI He knows how many pairs of shoes she has. And how often she FRI has sex. FRI But Stephanie doesn't know anything about Michael. FRI She doesn't know that he's an asylum seeker from Eritrea. FRI She doesn't know that Michael has recently had his last FRI asylum claim refused, been evicted from his flat and lives FRI on handout's from the local church. FRI And she definitely doesn't know that Michael lives in her FRI spare room. FRI FRI Until today. FRI FRI Today Stephanie and Michael will meet for the first time. FRI FRI The Spare Room is a 'Rapid Response' play (commissioned FRI close to transmission) inspired by the Scottish Refugee FRI Council's recent report (October 2012) stating that one in FRI four asylum seekers in Britain will face destitution. FRI FRI Stephanie Candida Benson FRI Michael Babou Ceesay FRI Police Hannah Wood and Michael Shelford FRI FRI Written by Oliver Emanuel FRI Directed by Lu Kemp FRI Executive Producer Toby Swift FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qnv2r (Listen) FRI Milton Keynes FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs Radio 4's horticultural panel programme FRI with gardeners in Milton Keynes. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny FRI Guinness and Pippa Greenwood are on hand to answer the FRI audience's queries. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 I Refuse b01qnv2t (Listen) FRI Hamid in the Playhouse FRI FRI New short story by the award-winning author Helen Dunmore. A FRI woman in her sixties faces a terrible dilemma when she FRI discovers a student from the neighbouring block of flats FRI hiding in her grandson's playhouse: Hamid is wanted for FRI questioning by the anti-terrorist squad. FRI FRI This is the second in a series of three short stories FRI commissioned to mark the centenary of the birth of the FRI American Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks, who famously FRI refused to move seats on an Alabama bus to accommodate white FRI passengers. The stories illustrate moments of resistance and FRI are inspired by acts of determination and non-cooperation, FRI committed by ordinary people (real or imagined) fighting FRI against prevailing attitudes and political authority. FRI FRI Read by Joanna Tope. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01qnv9x (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01qnv9z (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 b01qnvb1 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qktz7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01qnvb3 (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01qnvb5 (Listen) FRI Alistair gives Lynda food for thought, and Darrell is FRI dismayed to meet an old acquaintance. FRI FRI Writer ..... Adrian Flynn FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Des Chapman ..... Ben Crowe FRI Lawrence Ostell ..... Simon Lee Phillips. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01qnvb7 (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with actor James FRI McAvoy as he takes to the stage to play Macbeth. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01qnv2f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01qnvb9 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Guildhall in Gloucester. Guests include Baroness FRI Jan Royall Shadow Leader of the House of Lords, Michael FRI Fabricant MP Vice Chair of the Conservative Party, writer FRI Jeanette Winterson and Dragon and businesswoman Deborah FRI Meaden. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01qm2k4 (Listen) FRI Lisa Jardine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00lxsqw (Listen) FRI The Song Thief FRI FRI Romantic drama by Michael Chaplin. A young composer arrives FRI in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have FRI written a hauntingly beautiful love song. He embarks on a FRI cold-hearted campaign to make the old man's daughter fall in FRI love with him. FRI FRI Concertina/Fiddle ...... Sheena Masson FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Abel Humble: Ron Cook FRI Stephen Haggard: Nicholas Boulton FRI Dodd Armstrong: Christopher Connel FRI Mary Humble: Colleen Prendergast FRI Willie Sparke: Donald McBride FRI Isabella Sparke: Joyce Gibbs FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI Writer: Michael Chaplin FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01qktz9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01qnvbc (Listen) FRI David Eades presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qnvdv (Listen) FRI Adam Thorpe's story appears in a new anthology Beacons, FRI which reflects on a whole host of ecological concerns. At FRI the old house, Gus is confronted by a white suited stanger, FRI intent on bringing up the past - Gus's past, that is.. FRI Reader Oliver Ford Davies FRI Abridged and produced by Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01qm4pk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Sketchorama b01ks53l (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI The sketch groups featured in episode four of Sketchorama FRI are: FRI FRI How Do I Get Up There? Scotland's fastest rising sketch FRI group heralding a new era for Scottish comedy. In 2010, the FRI boys made the final of the "Take The Mic" competition at the FRI Edinburgh Festival, and in 2011 enjoyed their Fringe debut FRI show. They also progressed to the finals of the prestigious FRI New Act of The Year competition at the Barbican in London. FRI FRI The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek. Since making their FRI debut in 2009, this group featuring Graeme Rooney, Paul FRI Charlton and Kevin O'Loughlin have established themselves as FRI Fringe favourites and sold 10,000 tickets for their 2011 FRI show. FRI FRI Pappy's. A multi award winning sketch team consisting of FRI comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. FRI Established in 2004, Pappy's are firm favourites on the UK FRI live comedy circuit with their hyper-energetic, gag filled FRI monster of a stage presence. FRI FRI Producer: Gus Beattie FRI A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
15 February, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 16/02/2013 - 22/02/2013
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