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SAT SATURDAY 28 DECEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03m83qn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Food for Thought b018gqzk (Listen) SAT Series 2, Andy McNab SAT SAT 'What do you want before the chip shop closes?' was the SAT phrase former Special Forces soldier Andy McNab got used to SAT as a child. In Food For Thought, he describes his transition SAT from a thirty-six-inch-waisted 'fat kid' to fit career SAT soldier, after a spell in juvenile detention. Joining the SAT army meant decent food and regular meal times. You could be SAT up on a charge if you didn't eat breakfast before Queen's SAT Parade. SAT SAT Over spam, pick'n'mix and with condensed milk in his cuppa, SAT Andy talks to Nina Myskow about feeling looked after by the SAT army, the daily rituals of preparing dinner in huge Dixie SAT pots and how he cooked on an army Hexy burner in the kitchen SAT sink when he bought his first house. He was worried about SAT the gas bill. These days, he doesn't cook much but makes SAT 'Desperate Dan' sausage and mash for a family special SAT occasion. And, after a life in the military, the novelty of SAT eating out still hasn't worn off. SAT SAT Andy also details the realities and deprivations of war time SAT capture and there's a frank revelation about the worse thing SAT he's ever eaten. Not for the squeamish. It's all rather SAT different to the boiled eggs and chocolate given to him by SAT the Red Cross on his release, and the expensive kobe beef he SAT has sampled since. SAT SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03m80qr (Listen) SAT Love, Nina: Despatches From Family Life, Dissertations, SAT Romance and Subterfuge SAT SAT Mary Poppins meets Adrian Mole in Nina Stibbe's letters from SAT the heart of 1980s literary London. Dissertation crises, SAT spotting Samuel Beckett and employing subterfuge to save SAT face. SAT SAT Read by Rebekah Staton SAT Abridged by Penny Leicester SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03m83qq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03m83qs (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03m83qv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03m83qx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03m84wt (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie SAT Griffiths. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03m84ww (Listen) SAT 'This was the year that I found out I was a woman' - SAT Charlotte Green reads paragraphs of news sent in by the SAT listeners. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03m83qz (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03m83r1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03m7z9z (Listen) SAT Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire to talk SAT about how the estate's shoot forms part of the landscape SAT management and a desire for locally-sourced produce. It also SAT provides the farm shop and restaurant with festive fare, SAT including pigeon burgers. SAT SAT James Birch is Doddington's owner, (his wife's family have SAT owned the estate continuously for around four hundred SAT years). Shooting has always been part of life here and even SAT now there's a full-time gamekeeper, who doubles as security SAT guard and fly-tipping preventer. SAT SAT The game from the shoot is used in the restaurant and is SAT cooked by Chris Maclure, senior sous-chef, who makes sure SAT nothing goes to waste. Helen talks to university lecturer- SAT turned-florist Rachel Petheram, who loves the challenge of SAT using only locally-grown flowers and herbs in her Christmas SAT displays. SAT SAT Helen also goes beating with Will Birkett, a young SAT gamekeeper preparing for a day's shooting with his gun dogs. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03myh6x (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The cold Spring, the horsemeat scandal and the badger cull. SAT Three of the biggest rural stories of 2013. And today on SAT Farming Today this Week, Charlotte Smith is joined by a SAT panel of experts to discuss and reflect the issues and their SAT impact on UK farming. SAT SAT The discussion panel includes David Heath MP, who was SAT farming minister for much of the year and Emyr Jones, SAT president of the Farmers Union of Wales. They're also joined SAT by Guardian correspondent Felicity Lawrence who closely SAT followed the horsemeat scandal and Dr Gordon McGlone, a SAT national expert on badgers and bovine tuberculosis. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03m83r3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03m860w (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03m860y (Listen) SAT Philosopher Angie Hobbs SAT SAT Anita Anand and JP Devlin with philosopher Angie Hobbs and SAT poet Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT Producer Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 The Playlist Series b03m8610 (Listen) SAT Nell Gwyn's Playlist SAT SAT David Owen Norris recreates the musical world of the first SAT female star of the English stage. SAT SAT Nell Gwyn was a celebrity in the modern sense - and nobody SAT could get enough of her. Just four years after women were SAT first allowed on stage, "pretty witty Nell" was one of the SAT sights of London - the equivalent of a modern stand-up SAT comedian or rapper, improvising lines and comedy. And women SAT on stage could deliver all sorts of subversive messages they SAT were not allowed to express in real life, where they were SAT expected to be chaste and obedient. SAT SAT This programme is recorded on location in the Theatre Royal SAT Drury Lane, Nell's theatre. Musician David Owen Norris SAT discovers and records some of Nell's famous songs in her SAT mocking, sexy and provocative voice. He then plays them to a SAT trio of Nell Gwyn experts - actor and theatre historian Ian SAT Kelly, scholar Judith Hawley, and early music expert Lucie SAT Skeaping. SAT SAT The songs are brought to life by jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert SAT and classical singer Thomas Guthrie. They include a SAT satirical account of being pinned to the ground by a fat SAT greasy lover; a camp dialogue between Nell and her rival for SAT the King's affections, the French Catholic Louise; and a SAT message from Nell's sexy ghost. SAT SAT David Owen Norris is a pianist and composer and Professor of SAT Music at Southampton University. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b03m8612 (Listen) SAT Ice SAT SAT When photographer Camille Seaman stood on the Ross Ice Shelf SAT in Antarctica, she felt dizzy. It was 200 feet down to the SAT sea, and below sea level was another 800 to 1,000 feet of SAT ice. And all this, she thought, was made by one snowflake SAT falling on another, through time. SAT On The Forum, Bridget Kendall finds out more about the ice SAT masses of the polar ice caps. Along with Native American SAT artist Camille Seaman, she is joined by the Danish SAT glaciologist Poul Christoffersen, who's been measuring the SAT effects of a warming ocean on that very ice shelf, and SAT American engineer Mary Albert who drills down into ancient SAT snow cores for crucial climate clues. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03m8614 (Listen) SAT Transglobal Express SAT SAT Over the past year, BBC correspondents have reported on SAT upheaval in Egypt, war in Syria, a government shutdown in SAT America, a new pope and a royal baby. But this special SAT edition of From Our Own Correspondent avoids the major SAT headlines and the big breaking stories in favour of a SAT ground-level view of the last 12 months. So, in this SAT programme: Rajan Datar takes a ride with a polyphonic choir SAT in Georgia and Reggie Nadelson hears the story of Harlem's SAT Apollo Theatre. Nick Thorpe finds strangely tender moments SAT in a Romanian slaughterhouse while Steve Rosenberg plays SAT piano with the man who ended the Cold War. We journey to the SAT deserts of Sahara and South America, take trains in Portugal SAT and Nigeria and hear reporters grapple with strange musical SAT instruments in Vietnam and Switzerland. And there's more in SAT this montage of some of the year's more entertaining SAT dispatches, presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT Producer: Mike Wendling. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03m8616 (Listen) SAT Listeners take on financial firms SAT SAT Paul Lewis celebrates Money Box listeners who've taken on SAT financial firms over the past year about unfair treatment. SAT Some have got money back for themselves and often helped SAT other listeners by their example. SAT SAT Top listener tips include: don't be too loyal to any firm SAT that provides you with a financial product. Listener Alison SAT Gann, who to her cost stayed with the same house insurance SAT provider, shares her thoughts a year on. Her story prompted SAT listeners to save thousands of pounds by shopping around for SAT cheaper insurance quotes. SAT SAT Cold calling and nuisance texts was another bugbear for SAT listeners. Richard Herman has his own website called SAT 'saynotocoldcalls'. He outlines how to record the calls, SAT threaten the UK firms ultimately responsible with court SAT action, and make money in the process by billing offending SAT firms for his time. SAT SAT And the Money Box energy challenge. Do you know your rights SAT about claiming money back from your provider under the SAT Energy Billing code? And that some firms may hold onto your SAT money even when you've swapped to another energy provider? SAT So check out if you are owed any money and report back to SAT Money Box in 2014. SAT SAT Joining Paul Lewis will be Sarah Pennells from SAT savvywoman.co.uk and David Hickson from the Fair Telecoms SAT Campaign. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b03m81pm (Listen) SAT Series 9, Terry Christian talks to Kevin Bridges SAT SAT Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show SAT where last week's interviewee becomes this week's SAT interviewer. SAT SAT In the first in the new series, Manchester's very own Terry SAT Christian talks to Scotland's newest comedy superstar Kevin SAT bridges. SAT SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03m83r5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03m83r7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:15 Pick of the Year b03m7plm (Listen) SAT Pick of the Year 2013 SAT SAT The BBC in London has moved to a brand new building and SAT Sandi Toksvig unpacks the boxes of BBC Radio, choosing her SAT favourite moments from 2013. SAT SAT Her choices include a newsreader's nightmare with a tongue SAT twister of a name containing 36 letters and 19 syllables; an SAT inspirational 16 year old; an unwelcome studio pest; a love SAT story and a tennis player, a man's ear and Morecombe and SAT Wise making beautiful music together. SAT SAT In Britten's Footsteps - Radio 4 SAT The Chris Evans Breakfast Show: Yodelling Woman - Radio 2 SAT News read by Neil Sleat - Radio 4 SAT The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie - Radio 4 SAT Shelagh Fogarty - 5Live SAT Mark Thomas: The Manifesto - Radio 4 SAT The Danny Baker Show - 5Live SAT Today Programme: The Reduced Shakespeare Company - Radio 4 SAT Hello, I'm Half-Caste - Radio 4 Extra SAT Saturday Drama: Air Force One - Radio 4 SAT That Mitchell & Webb Sound - Radio 4 SAT Who is the Doctor? - Radio 2 SAT Afternoon Drama: Love, War and Trains - Radio 4 SAT Return to Japan - Radio 4 SAT PM: Malala Yousafzai - Radio 4 SAT SAT If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SAT programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:00 Saturday Drama b01dtd5q (Listen) SAT Otherwise Engaged SAT SAT This Simon Gray dark comedy was his most successful and - SAT many claim - best-loved play. A London publisher tries to SAT enjoy a Saturday at home listening to Wagner. But will his SAT infuriating friends and relations let him? SAT SAT Credits SAT Simon: James Purefoy SAT Stephen: Alex MacQueen SAT Jeff: Ewan Bailey SAT Davina: Hattie Morahan SAT Wood: Nigel Planer SAT Beth: Tracy Wiles SAT Dave: Rikki Lawton SAT Director: Peter Kavanagh SAT Writer: Simon Gray SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b03m79cq (Listen) SAT Series 17, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas SAT SAT Soul Music tells the story of the song, Have Yourself a SAT Merry Little Christmas, and talks to people for whom it has SAT special meaning. SAT SAT 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas', was first SAT performed by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In SAT St Louis', for the now famous scene in which Garland and her SAT seven year old sister, played by Margaret O'Brien are SAT downcast about the prospect of moving away from their SAT beloved home. SAT Garland asked the composer, Hugh Martin to modify his SAT original lyric, explaining it to be too depressing for her SAT to sing, or the audience to hear. SAT Martin's collaborator and friend, John Fricke, explains the SAT importance this song had for the composer and the joy he SAT experienced in hearing it covered by every major artist SAT since, from Frank Sinatra to Chrissie Hynde, Punk band Fear SAT to Cold Play, Rod Stewart to James Taylor. SAT It's clear that the song's enduring power lies in a SAT beautiful melody with a melancholic feel that sums up our SAT emotional ambivalence to the Christmas season. We hear from SAT those who have a special connection to the song. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03mckks (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Why the Queen topped the Power List; SAT Gail Rebuck; Baroness Hale; Dido Harding SAT SAT Jane Garvey is joined by Eve Pollard, who chaired the judges SAT of the first Power List and by the historian, Kate Williams SAT to talk about the woman who topped the list - Her Majesty SAT The Queen. We also speak to some of the women who featured SAT on the Power List, including the leading publisher, Dame SAT Gail Rebuck; the only woman on the Supreme Court, Baroness SAT Hale; Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies; SAT and the Home Secretary, Theresa May and her Shadow, Yvette SAT Cooper. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Produced and edited by Ruth Watts. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03mckkv (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03m84ww (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03m83r9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03m83rc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03m83rf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03mckkx (Listen) SAT Emma Freud, Arthur Smith, Danny Wallace, Miranda Sawyer, SAT Scottee, Emma Kennedy, Alison Moyet, London Community SAT Gospel Choir SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by regular guest interviewers Emma SAT Freud, Arthur Smith, Danny Wallace, Nikki Bedi, Miranda SAT Sawyer and Scottee for an eclectic, festive mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy at the Loose Ends Christmas SAT party. With Emma Kennedy and music from Alison Moyet and The SAT London Community Gospel Choir. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03mckkz (Listen) SAT Idris Elba SAT SAT After playing Baltimore drug boss Stringer Bell in The Wire, SAT and Detective John Luther on British television, Idris Elba SAT is now appearing in a very different role - Nelson Mandela SAT in Long Walk to Freedom. Chris Bowlby profiles the British SAT actor who some think will one day be the first black James SAT Bond. SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03mckl1 (Listen) SAT Love/Hate in 2013 SAT SAT Love/Hate: what were the works that really divided audiences SAT in 2013? What pushes us to extreme opinions? Comedian and SAT writer David Schneider and the novelists Naomi Alderman and SAT Kamila Shamsie join Tom and an audience for some lively SAT heartfelt debate taking in the year's arts, from Nicolas SAT Winding Refn's Only God Forgives starring Ryan Gosling to SAT Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. SAT SAT Producer Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03mcklz (Listen) SAT The Three Day Week SAT SAT Forty years ago Britain was plunged into darkness as Prime SAT Minister Edward Heath introduced a 3 day working week. SAT Cities fell dark. Factories and schools closed. People, SAT often wrapped in blankets, worked by candle and torchlight. SAT At home, people boiled water to wash and children were sent SAT to school with luminous yellow bands so they could be seen SAT in the gloom. And Britain's three TV channels came to an SAT abrupt end at ten thirty! SAT SAT For decades, British politics was shaped, perhaps defined, SAT by the events of the early 1970s, with the 3 day week as the SAT centrepoint. Now it seems almost unimaginable that this SAT could have happened in one of the world's richest countries SAT so how did it ever get to this point? Could Heath have done SAT anything different? Michael White of The Guardian, then a SAT young reporter, takes us back to those extraordinary days SAT and charts the long-term political significance of the SAT crisis. SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 21:00 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03m3nhw (Listen) SAT Roddy Doyle's The Van SAT SAT The third of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown series of novels, all SAT to be dramatized by BBC Radio 4. SAT Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and at an all-time low. Even SAT Ireland qualifying for the 1990 World Cup has not pulled him SAT out of the doldrums, he needs money and fast. So when his SAT best mate Bimbo buys a dilapidated "chipper" van and offers SAT him the chance of a partnership, this might well be the SAT opportunity Jimmy has been waiting for. SAT SAT What could be better than working with your best mate? SAT SAT Written by Roddy Doyle SAT Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien SAT Producer: Gemma McMullan SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jimmy: David Wilmot SAT Bimbo: Simon Delaney SAT Veronica: Angeline Ball SAT Sharon: Aoife Duffin SAT Maggie: Tina Kellegher SAT Bertie: Mark Doherty SAT Jimmy Jnr: Gavin Drea SAT Darren: Cal Kenealy SAT Des O'Callaghan: Mark Lambert SAT Linda: Aisling Franciosi SAT Tracey: Amy McAllister SAT Writer: Roddy Doyle SAT Adaptor: Eugene O'Brien SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT Producer: Gemma McMullan SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03m83rh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Island at the End of the World b03mtkbm (Listen) SAT It may be the most isolated inhabited place on earth. SAT Palmerston Island in the South Pacific is visited by a few SAT yachts each year and the occasional container ship. SAT Otherwise, the 62 inhabitants are untroubled by the outside SAT world. SAT Thomas Martienssen makes the 8-day yacht journey to meet the SAT native Palmerstonians, who are all descendants of an SAT Englishman, William Marsters, who settled on the island in SAT the 19th century with his three Polynesian "wives". He hears SAT about the strong Christian faith of the islanders, listens SAT to the ballad recounting the story of the community's SAT founder and learns how they regularly salvage the wreckage SAT of boats which have come to grief on the coral reefs. And he SAT hears how fishing, the island's only source of commercial SAT income, may now be threatened by over-exploitation of fish SAT stocks. How long can the Palmerstonians continue to survive SAT on their island at the end of the world? SAT Producer: Julie Ball. SAT SAT 22:30 Stig at Fifty b03m7mdc (Listen) SAT The classic children's book 'Stig of the Dump' has never SAT been out of print since it was first published 50 years ago. SAT At the heart of the story is an unlikely hero, a filthy SAT caveman who communicates only in grunts and lives in an SAT unstable chalk pit beyond the adult world of rules and SAT conventions. He is the perfect friend for bored and restless SAT eight year old Barney, a boy on the margins, nagged by his SAT grandmother, lectured to by his bossy sister and ambushed by SAT a gang of ruffian older boys, the Snargets. SAT SAT The award-winning children's author David Almond, whose own SAT book 'Skellig' also features a grubby and inarticulate SAT other-worldly hero, explores the appeal of Stig half a SAT century after publication. He meets the book's author Clive SAT King, who turns 90 next year, and discovers why readers are SAT still so fascinated by Stig the prehistoric SAT part-man/part-boy. SAT SAT Almond recalls the electrifying effect the book had on his SAT class of Tyneside children when he worked as a teacher and SAT acknowledges the profound influence on his own fiction. He SAT meets children for whom Stig is still a natural hero, and SAT adult devotees like the poet and author of 'Edgelands' Paul SAT Farley, natural history writer Patrick Barkham, and the SAT former chair of the National Trust Dame Fiona Reynolds, who SAT all acknowledge the influence of Stig on their own lives and SAT careers. SAT SAT And in an age where children are rarely allowed to roam SAT free, as Barney once did, he considers what contemporary SAT children have lost fifty years after Stig first emerged from SAT the dump. SAT SAT Producers: Caroline Beck, Andy Cartwright SAT A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03m43fs (Listen) SAT (3/17) SAT Russell Davies is in Salford this week, for the third heat SAT of the contest to find the 61st Brain of Britain champion. SAT The competitors come from Sunderland, County Durham, SAT Cheshire and Greater Manchester. As always, there will also SAT be the chance for a listener to challenge the contestants SAT with questions of his or her own, in the 'Beat the Brains' SAT feature. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME SAT SAT DEREK CLOUGH, a driving instructor from Ushaw Moor in County SAT Durham; SAT SAT DANIEL FULLARD, a tutor from Sunderland; SAT SAT RACHAEL NEIMAN, a graduate student from Manchester; SAT SAT GARETH WILLIAMS, a retired solicitor from Crewe. SAT SAT 23:30 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere b01rbwlv (Listen) SAT The Black Friars SAT SAT Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A SAT subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube SAT stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere. SAT SAT An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his SAT ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of SAT London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, SAT Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the SAT strange world of London Below. SAT SAT So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath SAT the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube SAT cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the SAT inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen SAT through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. SAT Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and SAT Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of SAT the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of SAT London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. SAT SAT Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, SAT the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard SAT embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the SAT clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to SAT discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the SAT while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in SAT London Above. SAT SAT Richard Mayhew: James McAvoy SAT Lady Door: Natalie Dormer SAT Marquis de Carabas: David Harewood SAT Hunter: Sophie Okonedo SAT Croup: Anthony Head SAT Vandemar: David Schofield SAT Old Bailey: Bernard Cribbins SAT The Abbot: George Harris SAT Lamia: Lucy Cohu SAT Jessica: Romola Garai SAT Gary: Paul Chequer SAT Writer: Neil Gaiman SAT Director: Heather Larmour SAT Producer: Heather Larmour SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03m83sx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Mr Capra Goes to Hollywood b01rw2zj (Listen) SUN "The art of [my films] is very, very simple... it's the love SUN of people. Add two simple ideals to this love of people - SUN the freedom of each individual and the equal importance of SUN each individual - and you have the principle on which I've SUN based all my films." Frank Capra, 1982. SUN SUN This programme explores the filmmaker Frank Capra's enduring SUN vision of the American dream. The man behind It's a SUN Wonderful Life, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Mr Deeds Goes SUN to Town and It Happened One Night, he remains one of SUN America's most popular directors - yet his movies can still SUN divide critics. SUN SUN Was he simply a peddler of sentimental 'Capra-corn' or do SUN his films offer a much more complex view of American life? SUN SUN We consider what makes a movie 'Capra-esque' - looking at SUN the balance of humour and heart in his films through to SUN their occasional dark, noir-like edges - as well as SUN unpicking how the 'Capra-esque' has filtered down into the SUN contemporary American political landscape. SUN SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03m83sz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03m83t1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03m83t3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03m83t5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03mckq6 (Listen) SUN York Minster SUN SUN The bells of York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03mckkz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03m83t7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03mckq8 (Listen) SUN Touch SUN SUN Northern Irish arts journalist and broadcaster Marie-Louise SUN Muir draws on her own experiences as a mother to reflect on SUN the significance and value of human touch. SUN SUN With reference to the writings of Bernard MacLaverty, Thom SUN Gunn and Sinead Morrissey and music by William Walton, SUN Alison Krauss and Nina Simone. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03mckqb (Listen) SUN South Dakota SUN SUN Sybil Ruscoe travels to Lone Tree Ranch and meets Larry and SUN Robin Reinhold and their six children Rachel, Molly, Danny, SUN Caleb, Julia and Kiersten. The Reinholds rear cattle and SUN horses on 4,000 acres of prairie in South Dakota and run a SUN summer camp called 'Rainbow Bible Ranch' where children from SUN all over the United States learn how to ride, ranch and SUN pray. SUN When the October blizzard 'Storm Atlas' hit, the family lost SUN 91 horses including some of their best saddle quarter horses SUN - trained especially for young children to ride. SUN Larry and Sybil take in the views from the highest point of SUN the ranch, where golden eagles soar overhead, and find some SUN historic clues to its previous occupants - members of the SUN Lakota Sioux Native American tribe. SUN Back at the homestead, Sybil asks the children what its like SUN to grow up, go to school and work on the family ranch, SUN before heading into the corral to meet some of Lone Tree's SUN incredible survivors - the horses themselves. SUN Produced in South Dakota by Anna Jones and presented by SUN Sybil Ruscoe. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03m83t9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03m83tc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03mckqd (Listen) SUN Historical food, interfaith dining and food wars SUN SUN Rabbi Yehuda Brodie, head of the Manchester Beth Din; Father SUN Ian Delinger, a chaplain at the University of Chester and SUN Zulfi Karim, secretary of the Bradford Council of Mosques, SUN share a meal together in which each has made a course which SUN highlights certain religious significances for their faiths. SUN SUN The BBC's Delhi Correspondent Soutik Biswas talks to William SUN about an ambitious new Food Security Bill which recently SUN became law in India. SUN SUN There's been a well-documented growth in the number of Food SUN Banks across the country in recent years. It's estimated 80 SUN per cent of Anglican parishes are involved in providing free SUN food to people on low incomes. Bob Walker's been visiting SUN food banks in Nottingham to look at the work of the SUN different religions in providing food for those in need. SUN SUN Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations SUN World Food Programme, talks to William about their goals and SUN stumbling blocks for 2014. SUN SUN Ever since the ancient Greeks and Romans, generals and SUN politicians have used their ability to supply or withhold SUN food as a way to control both their friends and their SUN enemies. Those who suffer the most are the weakest, SUN especially children. What can be done to stop food being SUN used as a weapon of war? Tim Lang from City University and SUN Justin Byworth from World Vision discuss. SUN SUN And food historian Ivan Day shares with us some traditional SUN seasonal recipes for food and drink. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN Annabel Deas SUN SUN Series Producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03mckqg (Listen) SUN Street Child Africa SUN SUN Martin Bell presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Street Child SUN Africa. SUN Reg Charity: 1074832 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Street Child Africa'. SUN SUN Street Child Africa SUN Street Child Africa SUN steps in to support children who are facing desperate SUN situations. Most will have had no choice but to escape to SUN the streets for reasons such as extreme poverty, serious SUN illness or death of a parent and family breakdown. SUN SUN We work with local partner organisations in sub-Saharan SUN Africa to support children living and working on the street. SUN These children are denied access to education, excluded SUN from healthcare systems and subjected to multiple forms of SUN violence and abuse. We give them opportunities, SUN encouragement and the hope that life can be different. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03m83tf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03m83th (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03mckqj (Listen) SUN 'An Ikon of Light' SUN SUN A service recorded in Little St Mary's Church, Cambridge SUN with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. SUN SUN "All great art should have a message of hope." This was the SUN belief of composer John Tavener who died in November. His SUN music is renowned for its visionary luminosity, affording SUN listeners a wonderful glimpse of the glory of God through SUN its spacious lines. It has brought comfort to many in times SUN of sorrow - such as at the funeral of Diana, Princess of SUN Wales - and a radiancy in times of celebration. SUN SUN Through his music, this morning's service, at the close of SUN the year, explores aspects of Tavener's deep Christian faith SUN and, whilst accepting what has been, focuses our attention SUN on the future and the hope of what can be. SUN SUN Leader: The Revd Dr Cally Hammond SUN Preacher: Prof Ben Quash SUN Music director: Geoffrey Webber SUN Organist: Liam Crangle SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03mckql (Listen) SUN Two Cheers for Human Rights SUN SUN John Gray gives only two cheers for human rights. We are in SUN danger, he argues, of turning them into a "comforting dogma SUN through which we try to escape the painful dilemmas of war SUN and politics." SUN SUN "Rather than thinking of rights as a militant creed that can SUN deliver the world from its conflicts, we should recognise SUN rights for what they are - useful devices that quite often SUN don't work.". SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5cbg (Listen) SUN Lesser Redpoll SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN David Attenborough presents the lesser redpoll. You can spot SUN Lesser Redpolls hanging like tiny acrobatic parrots among SUN the slender twigs, while a rain of papery seeds falls down SUN around them. They're lively birds which allow you to get SUN fairly close, and then sometimes flocks will explode en SUN masse for no apparent reason and fly around calling. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03mckqn (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03mckqq (Listen) SUN Helen has high hopes, and there is Christmas joy at Ambridge SUN View. SUN David and Ruth - 25 years SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN James Bellamy: Roger May SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN Mark: Andrew Frame SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03mckqs (Listen) SUN Ant and Dec SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaways are the TV presenters Ant & Dec - SUN Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. SUN SUN The kings of Saturday night prime time, their careers and SUN firm friendship spans twenty-odd years beginning as child SUN actors on Byker Grove and currently hosting Britain's Got SUN Talent, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and their SUN eponymously named Saturday Night Take Away. Their specialty SUN is what are known in the business as "shiny floor shows" - SUN programmes that involve big budgets, big audiences and, SUN frequently, big egos. SUN SUN Yet their partnership exists well beyond the four walls of a SUN TV studio. As 13 year olds they bonded over a mutual SUN appreciation of Newcastle United FC and Wham: they pledged SUN themselves to be best buddies forever and now live just a SUN few doors down from each other. When Ant got married Dec was SUN best man. SUN SUN They say, "without doubt, the best thing to come out of the SUN last twenty years, the greatest thing we've ever achieved, SUN our biggest success, has been our friendship. And nothing SUN will ever change that." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b03m43g1 (Listen) SUN Just a Christmas Minute SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons ho-ho-hosts a Christmas edition of the SUN deviously, divine linguistic panel show with Pam Ayres, SUN Stephen Mangan, Gyles Brandreth and Paul Merton being SUN challenged to talk on Christmas themed subjects without SUN hesitation, deviation or repetition for Just A Minute. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03mckr3 (Listen) SUN 100 years of Elizabeth David SUN SUN Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward discuss the legacy of SUN Elizabeth David 100 years after her birth. The iconic food SUN writer is credited for bringing Mediterranean cooking to SUN post-war Britain. SUN SUN Sir Terence Conran speaks about Elizabeth David's influence SUN on kitchen design. Her nephew Johnny Grey discusses the shop SUN Elizabeth David opened in Pimlico. And Elizabeth David's SUN editor, Jill Norman, says that today she would not have been SUN published. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward. Produced in SUN Bristol by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03m83tk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03mcl94 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b03mcl96 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Jackie and Graham SUN SUN As New Year approaches Hardeep Singh Kohli cooks his final SUN lunch of the series for two people whose story is all about SUN new beginnings. Jackie Malton and Graham Godden once hated SUN what the other represented. Jackie was Chief Inspector in SUN the Met's "Flying Squad" investigating armed robberies and SUN became the inspiration for Prime Suspect's lead character SUN DCI Jane Tennison. Graham Godden was the "M25 Bandit", a SUN notorious and prolific armed robber during the 1990s. As SUN Hardeep cooks lunch he hears a remarkable story of SUN transformation and change which has led these two most SUN unlikely of friends to be sitting around the table together. SUN SUN Producer: Catherine Earlam SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03m81b1 (Listen) SUN The Met Office, Exeter SUN SUN Peter Gibbs presents a special edition of GQT from The Met SUN Office in Exeter, with Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and SUN Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN As well as answering questions from local gardeners, the SUN panel poses its own questions to scientists who provide SUN weather data for gardeners across the country. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03mcl98 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces introduces the most requested SUN conversations in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that SUN proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03mcl9b (Listen) SUN The Old Man and the Sea SUN SUN The Old Man And The Sea SUN by Ernest Hemingway SUN dramatised by Simon Armitage SUN This Pulitzer prize winning novel is Hemingway's SUN masterpiece; set in Cuba on the Gulf Stream, this is the SUN thrilling and tantalising story of an epic battle between an SUN old, experienced fisherman and a large marlin. Santiago, has SUN gone 84 days without catching a fish, and is considered SUN unlucky; his only friend is young Manolin, the boy whom he's SUN taught how to fish. When on the 85th day, Santiago sets sail SUN again, his luck seems to change when he catches the biggest SUN fish of his life. But the biggest battle of his life is SUN about to commence. SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris SUN SUN Santiago: David Schofield SUN Manolin (narrator): Joseph Balderrama SUN Young Manolin: Damson Idris SUN Director: Pauline Harris SUN Producer: Pauline Harris SUN Adaptor: Simon Armitage SUN Author: Ernest Hemingway SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03mcl9d (Listen) SUN Children's Laureate Special SUN SUN First created in 1999, the position of Children's Laureate SUN is awarded every two years to an eminent writer or SUN illustrator of children's books and designed to celebrate SUN outstanding achievement in their field while thrusting them SUN into the limelight to champion young reading. SUN SUN The current Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, along with SUN two former Laureates Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Michael SUN Rosen discuss the role, from the joys of inspiring children SUN to read to dealing with politicians. They explain how they SUN put their own stamp on the job and its on-going legacy SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Ko Un: The People's Poet of Korea b03mcl9g (Listen) SUN In South Korea, former Zen monk Ko Un is revered as a SUN pro-democracy activist and the people's poet. To mark his SUN 80th birthday, Mike Greenwood explores his prolific output, SUN in particular his epic masterwork, Ten Thousand Lives SUN (Maninbo), in which he puts into poems the faces and lives SUN of all the people he has known or known of. Conceived when SUN he was imprisoned in the 1980s for rebelling against the SUN military dictatorships then controlling South Korea, Maninbo SUN has been published in 30 volumes in Korean. Now, for the SUN first time, the first 10 volumes have been translated into SUN English. SUN SUN We use readings from this treasure box of poems to provide a SUN unique window on to modern Korea, with contributions from SUN Andrew Motion and Ko Un himself, three-times Nobel Prize for SUN Literature runner up. "Poetry" he says, "is the music of SUN history." SUN SUN Ko Un has given us special access to his home near Seoul SUN where, in a series of intimate interviews, he shares his SUN story. SUN SUN Born into a peasant family in 1933, Ko Un began writing SUN poems from an early age. Traumatised by the horrors of the SUN Korean war, he became a monk. After leaving the Buddhist SUN community in 1962, another lost decade of despair followed, SUN including problems with alcohol and multiple suicide SUN attempts. After a profound political awakening in 1972, he SUN joined in vigorous opposition to the military regime and in SUN the struggle for human rights. He was detained, tortured, SUN and imprisoned repeatedly and for long periods. Finally set SUN free in 1980, Ko Un married, moved to the countryside, SUN fathered a daughter, and entered a period of stability and SUN happiness, though it would be more than a decade before he SUN was granted a passport. SUN SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Man Who Fell to Earth b03mclq9 (Listen) SUN In September last year, a man in his twenties was found dead SUN in Portman Avenue, a suburban street in west London. He had SUN suffered horrendous injuries to his head and face. He had no SUN identity papers on him and no one had reported him missing. SUN SUN Rob Walker follows the Metropolitan police investigation SUN into who he was and how he arrived in Portman Avenue. It is SUN a story that spans two continents and eight countries. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03mckkz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03m83tm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03m83tp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03m83tr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03mclqc (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay chooses the best of the previous seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03mclqf (Listen) SUN Something is bothering Lilian. Meanwhile Lynda is overcome SUN with emotion. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b03mclqh (Listen) SUN Series 4, English Lesson; Understanding Understanding Owls SUN SUN One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC SUN Radio 4 doing what he does best. SUN SUN This week, he considers his native tongue as if it were a SUN foreign language in "English Lesson" and the trouble that SUN taxidermy can bring in "Understanding Understanding Owls". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Modern Welsh Voices b03mclqk (Listen) SUN Snowstorm SUN SUN Snowstorm by Niall Griffiths SUN SUN Perry and his elderly mother are snowed in, isolated in the SUN hills of the Welsh countryside. As the last of the firewood SUN burns, Perry's mother is determined to force her layabout SUN son to go and fetch supplies. SUN SUN The third of five original stories by writers from Wales. SUN SUN Read by Eiry Thomas SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b03m81b7 (Listen) SUN Numbers of the year SUN SUN A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, SUN interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year SUN discussed by More or Less interviewees. SUN SUN Contributors: David Spiegelhalter, Winton professor for the SUN public understanding of risk at Cambridge University; Linda SUN Yueh, BBC chief business correspondent; Simon Singh, author SUN of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets; Dr Pippa SUN Malmgren, president and founder of Principalis Asset SUN Management; Paul Lewis; presenter of BBC Radio 4's Money Box SUN programme; Dr Hannah Fry, Centre of the Advanced Spatial SUN Analysis at University College London; Merryn Somerset-Webb, SUN editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek; Helen Arney, comedian. SUN SUN Producer: Ben Carter. SUN SUN 20:30 The Inheritance Collection 2013 b03nh34g (Listen) SUN The Revd Richard Coles presents a selection of the stories SUN and music featured on Saturday Live's Inheritance Tracks SUN throughout 2013 from Queen of clean Aggie McKenzie, comedian SUN Graham Fellowes aka John Shuttleworth, soul guitarist George SUN Benson, singer Maria Friedman, musician Gary Barlow, SUN Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon, Kite Runner author SUN Khaled Hosseini, composer Django Bates, MOBOs founder Kanya SUN King and baking supremo Mary Berry. SUN SUN Producer: Lizz Pearson. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03m8616 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03mckqg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03m7zmv (Listen) SUN Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution SUN SUN Kenya is the surprising world leader in high-tech mobile SUN money. Almost a third of the country's economy now goes SUN through the mobile phone-based system M-Pesa. Even the SUN company that launched it six years ago, Safaricom, didn't SUN anticipate the gusto with which Kenyans would adopt its SUN virtual currency. SUN In a country with fewer than 10,000 credit cards and where SUN four-fifths of the population does not have a bank account, SUN M-Pesa has emerged as a secure and easy way to pay and SUN transfer money to anyone, anywhere across the country, and SUN even abroad. SUN Now the system has morphed from a method of payment into a SUN platform for all sorts of businesses. In Nairobi there are SUN startups aiming to boost fundraising for funerals and SUN weddings, help landlords collect rent, loan mobile phone SUN credit, and much more, all based on the M-Pesa system. And SUN alongside the flowering of new businesses, the Kenyan SUN government has pinned its hopes on the high-tech sector for SUN the future of the country's economic growth. SUN Peter Day talks to traces the story of how a mobile payment SUN experiment kick-started an emerging tech economy. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Bob Collymore - chief executive, Safaricom SUN David Mark - co-founder, M-Changa SUN Kamau Wanyoike - director, MoVAS SUN Nancy Wang - co-founder, M-Kazi SUN Duncan Muchangi - co-founder, Manyatta Rent SUN Nikolai Barnwell - director, 88mph Nairobi SUN Joe Mucheru - Sub-Saharan ambassador, Google SUN Tony Mwai - general manager, IBM East Africa SUN Sam Gichuru - co-founder and director, Nailab SUN Kate Kiguru - co-founder and chief innovator, Ukall SUN Will Mutua - founder, Afrinnovator. SUN SUN 22:00 News Review of the Year b03mclqm (Listen) SUN 2013 SUN SUN 2013 was not short of drama. The Pope resigned, chemical SUN weapons were used in Syria and a typhoon killed thousands in SUN the Philippines. At home, the economy seemed to turn a SUN corner, a prince was born and 'plebgate' went on and on... SUN It was the year that 'twerking' entered the national SUN vocabulary, we feared poisoning by horse meat and Andy SUN Murray (finally) won Wimbledon (hurray). SUN Paddy O'Connell takes a backward, sideways look at the year SUN that was, and wonders among other things if the huge success SUN of The Great British Bake Off tells us something more SUN profound about the world, and us, in 2013. SUN Producer: Linda Pressly. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03m7zb1 (Listen) SUN Teenagers on Film SUN SUN Francine Stock explores the spirit of the teenager on film SUN through the decades with Kim Newman, Pamela Hutchinson, SUN Hadley Freeman and Charlie Lyne. From Andy Hardy to The SUN Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen, the programme charts the SUN rise of the teenager from pre-war in-betweeners to fully SUN fledged rebels. The director Matt Wolf discusses his SUN documentary Teenage which takes a look at adolescence in the SUN first half of the 20th century. There's debate about the SUN conservatism of teen film guru, the director John Hughes SUN whose work includes The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day SUN Off and Weird Science. And we unpick why 1995 marked the SUN beginning of a ten year boom in teen flicks, from Clueless SUN to Mean Girls. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere b01rcky1 (Listen) SUN Market Afloat SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 DECEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03mclt5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Something Understood b03mckq8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03mckq6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03mclt7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03mclt9 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03mcltc (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03mcltf (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03mzvz6 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie MON Griffiths. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03mcmws (Listen) MON Thatching straw, known as wheat reed, has been losing ground MON to cheaper imported water reed. But, as Sarah Swadling finds MON out, it still has its devotees among thatchers and farmers. MON She meets master thatcher Daniel Bishop who loves the art of MON building a roof with wheat reed. And she sees the summer MON harvest in action, with one of the largest growers of Devon MON wheat reed, John Becklake. He explains why the crop has to MON be harvested using 60 year old machinery. MON MON Produced and presented by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03mcltj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k72zr (Listen) MON Starling MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON David Attenborough presents the starling. Throughout autumn MON parties of starlings have been crossing the North Sea to MON join our resident birds and as winter's grip tightens they MON create one of Nature's best spectacles. These huge MON gatherings, sometimes a million or more strong, are called MON murmurations and they offer the birds safety in numbers. MON MON 06:00 Today b03mcmwv (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON Michael Palin on Saturday Live MON Desert Island Discs, 1979 MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03mcmwx (Listen) MON Michael Gove on teaching history MON MON Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the MON Government's Education Secretary Michael Gove. The new MON history curriculum for schools has been hotly contested and MON the Minister explains his views on whether facts and dates MON trump historical analysis. He's joined by Margaret MacMillan MON who will present a real-time countdown to the outbreak of MON WWI in the coming year, the academic and tv historian Simon MON Schama, and Tom Holland who has recently translated MON Herodotus, considered to be 'the Father of History'. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03mcmwz (Listen) MON Man Belong Mrs Queen, Episode 1 MON MON As a bookish child with a posh accent, growing up on MON Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the MON much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had MON a poster of him on his bedroom wall. MON MON Years later, as an anthropology student , Baylis learned of MON the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of MON Tanna. Why was it there? Nobody had a convincing answer. MON Nobody even seemed to want to find one. MON MON His curiosity fatally piqued, he travelled over 10,000 miles MON to find a society both remote and slap-bang in the MON shipping-lanes of history. It's a place where US airmen, MON Lithuanian libertarians, and Graeco-Danish Princes have had MON as much impact as the missionaries and the slave-traders. On MON the rumbling slopes of this remarkable volcanic island, MON banjaxed by frequent doses of the local narcotic, suffering MON from a relentless diet of yams and regularly accused of MON being a divine emissary of the Duke, Baylis attempted to get MON to the bottom of this bizarre cult. In doing so he draws MON some ironic lessons about our own island 'myths' and comes MON to respect the pragmatic realpolitik of his South Seas MON hosts. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON MON A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03mcmx1 (Listen) MON Being a Teenager MON MON What do teenagers really think about education, voting age MON and role models? We hear a personal insight from schoolgirl MON activist Malala Yousafzai and from teenagers across the UK. MON And as a nation of teens spend even more time online, MON YouTube star Benjamin Cook explains why 'Vloggers' have such MON huge popularity and impact. Jane Garvey presents. MON MON Producer: Kat Wong MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03mcmx3 (Listen) MON Hester, Episode 1 MON MON By Margaret Oliphant MON Dramatised by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster MON MON Penelope Wilton and Lyndsey Marshal star in this high MON Victorian tale of a woman who runs her own bank. MON MON Sometimes called 'the feminist Trollope', Margaret Oliphant MON is an unjustly-neglected British writer of the nineteenth MON century, famed for her perceptive, ironic psychology, and MON her strong female characters. And Hester has a striking MON premise: a young woman in a nineteenth-century Cheshire MON town, having been snubbed and discarded in marriage, does MON something truly radical. When the family bank is in danger MON of a run, she pledges her whole private fortune to save it. MON But instead of merely underwriting it, in return she insists MON on running the bank herself, as a single woman, in defiance MON of all convention. MON MON Using Oliphant's deliciously witty and sardonic narration, MON allied to a radical dramatisation by Kate Clanchy and Zena MON Forster, 'Hester' reveals a flawed and fascinating heroine, MON reborn for radio. MON MON 1/5 MON This is a tale of banks and bankers. A tale of credit and MON discredit. This is a tale of a single woman in MON nineteenth-century Cheshire town, who does something truly MON radical. MON MON Harp played by Ruth Faber MON Producer/Director ..... Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Margaret Oliphant: Penelope Wilton MON William: Adam Nagaitis MON Lady Ellen Vernon: Jasmine Hyde MON Mr Rule: Philip Jackson MON Hester Vernon: Lyndsey Marshal MON Harry Sellon: Ben Crowe MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Adaptor: Kate Clanchy MON Adaptor: Zena Forster MON Author: Margaret Oliphant MON MON 11:00 Bringing up the Grandkids b03mfltf (Listen) MON Aasmah Mir meets the families in which grandparents are in MON sole charge of bringing up their grandchildren, and MON experiencing the highs and lows of parenthood the second MON time around. MON MON For around 100,000 children in the UK today Gran and MON Granddad are Mum and Dad - and sometimes that's even what MON they call them. Grandparents can provide children with love, MON security and a sense of belonging when parents are not able MON to. MON MON There are very different circumstances that lead to children MON living with their grandparents. Sometimes it's because a MON parent has died, but it can also be because of parental drug MON or alcohol abuse. Other common reasons include abuse, MON neglect, parental illness or a very young mother. MON MON According to the Family Rights Group, the benefits outweigh MON the downside, and in many cases being looked after by their MON grandparents can be a happy and secure experience for the MON children involved - their best chance at a successful MON future. Meeting and spending time with some of these MON families, we hear very different stories of family life. MON MON Producer: Beth O'Dea. MON MON 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b03mflth (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON MON by Katherine Jakeways MON MON Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the MON residents of a small market town in Northamptonshire. This MON week, against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her MON ex-husband, and Mary and Jonathan have crossed wires. MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON Narrator: Sheila Hancock MON Rod: Tim Key MON Frank: Rufus Wright MON Mary: Penelope Wilton MON Jonathan: Kevin Eldon MON Esther: Katherine Jakeways MON Keith: John Biggins MON Norman: Geoffrey Palmer MON Orson: Nathaniel Parker MON Jan: Felicity Montagu MON Producer: Steven Canny MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03mfltk (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03mcltp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03mcltr (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Across the Board b03mfn09 (Listen) MON John Healy MON MON Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game MON of chess. In this episode he talks to the writer and former MON homeless alcoholic John Healy. How did chess help Healy give MON up the booze? And why does he believe that the world of MON chess is harsher than life on street. MON Watch replays MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03mclqf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03mfn0c (Listen) MON Listening to the Dead, Enoch's Machine MON MON By Katie Hims. Enoch Cartwright, Victorian gentleman MON scientist, invests everything in the development of a MON machine to record the voice of his dead daughter, Emily, MON unaware that his living daughter Clara talks to her sister MON every night. MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON NOTES MON MON After developing the means to make long distance radio MON transmissions, Marconi devoted much of the rest of his life MON to listening out for the voices of the dead. If radio can MON conjure a voice disembodied in space, he expected, as have MON legions of people since, that radio can capture the voices MON of those disembodied in other dimensions - in time, in MON ethereal planes. As technology becomes more sensitive, more MON diverse, more obscure, there are pioneers always ready to MON harness the new to the service of this age old fascination. MON MON This is the story of five generations of a family whose MON members can and can't hear the dead. It's an enterprise to MON explore the myriad ties, stories and quirks that bind MON families through the generations, across the spectrum of MON meanings of 'listening to the dead'. Between allowing the MON echoes of a beloved's voice to live on, and the notion that MON the dead can engage in communicating new information, are MON vast grey areas of misinformation that beguile the bereaved MON and thrill the imagination. MON MON Katie Hims' previous series with Jessica Dromgoole, Lost MON Property, won Best Audio Drama in the Audio Drama Awards MON 2011, and they are now collaborating on Radio 4's epic MON commission, Home Front. MON MON Credits MON Clara: Eva Sayer MON Enoch: Michael Bertenshaw MON Emily: Georgie Fuller MON Josie: Priyanga Burford MON Mr Wesley Blackburn: Ben Crowe MON Woman: Carolyn Pickles MON Joe: Arthur Hughes MON George: Joel MacCormack MON Narrator: Ami Metcalf MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer: Katie Hims MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03mfn0f (Listen) MON (4/17) MON How is the colour silver referred to in heraldry? And which MON cult movie was based on a 1951 story called The Sentinel? MON MON The competitors in the fourth heat of Brain of Britain won't MON stand a chance of making it through to the semi-finals of MON the tournament unless they can answer these and many other MON questions put to them by Russell Davies. The programme this MON week comes from Media City in Salford, and the competitors MON are all from Scotland and the north of England. One of them MON may be going all the way to lifting the trophy as the 61st MON Brain of Britain champion at the end of the series. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03mckr3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Living Mountain b03mfndd (Listen) MON Robert Macfarlane takes inspiration from writer Nan Shepherd MON on a very special poetic pilgrimage to the Cairngorms. MON MON Nan Shepherd believed that it was 'a grand thing to get MON leave to live.' She did this by spending every minute she MON could in her beloved Cairngorms. In her 88-years, she MON covered thousands of miles on foot and became minutely aware MON of the rhythms of these wild places. MON MON She collected her thoughts in 'The Living Mountain'. It's a MON remarkable love letter to these dramatic landscapes, but MON convinced that readers didn't want an "aimless, sensual MON exploration of the Cairngorms," Nan tucked the manuscript MON away in a drawer and left it there for 30-years. MON MON Four years before she died, her book finally saw the light MON of day. At just 80-pages, it's small in size, but big in MON impact and has been described by The Guardian as "the finest MON book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain". MON MON Robert Macfarlane agrees. He calls 'The Living Mountain' a MON "wry, beautiful hymn to 'living all the way through'". He MON thinks this book is hugely important as more and more of us MON experience less and less contact with the outside world; "We MON are, literally, losing touch." Nan's writing is the MON antithesis of this. She plunges readers right into the MON landscape. MON MON Robert celebrates this intrepid literary spirit by embarking MON on a trip right into the heart of Nan's favourite wild MON places. MON MON 16:30 The Slow Coach b0383k2h (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Liz Barclay follows three busy people on a bold experiment MON to slow down their pace of life. MON MON Their 'slow coach' is Carl Honoré, once a speedy journalist, MON now spokesperson for a global so-called 'Slow Movement'. He MON argues that our increasing obsession with speed means we MON race through life instead of actually living it. We need to MON create moments of slowness and connect with our 'inner MON tortoise'. Carl says that, by finding a better balance MON between fast and slow, we'll increase our wellbeing, MON creativity and productivity. MON MON It's a compelling theory, but does it work? MON MON Three volunteers, have agreed to put Carl's theories to the MON test by following his advice over the course of one month. MON MON Steve runs his own business, and gets to the end of each day MON without a break, reacting to a stream of emails. He hopes MON that slowing down can make him more efficient and give him MON time to reflect on the bigger picture. Lizzie works MON part-time in the health service, and is the mother of three MON young children. She worries that her constant sense of being MON in a rush is rubbing off on her children and would like MON family life to feel less hectic. Scott works as a volunteer MON in his local town of Bury, running every community activity MON from the Carnival to the Lions Club. Unable to say 'no' to MON anyone, he finds himself checking his emails in the cinema MON and forgetting to eat lunch. He'd like to get back some MON sense of control over his life. MON MON The Slow Coach follows the successes and struggles of our MON three volunteers as they attempt to put Carl's suggestions MON into place in their daily lives. MON MON Producer: Tessa Watt MON A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b03mfndg (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03mcltt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 15 Minute Musical b03mfns4 (Listen) MON Series 8, Half a Sixth Form MON MON A series of satirical, barbed, bittersweet fifteen-minute MON comedy musicals. MON MON In true West End style, artistic licence is well and truly MON taken and stretched, as easily identifiable public figures MON are dressed up, gilded, fabricated and placed against a MON random musical backdrop for sugar coated consumption. The MON stories are simple and engaging but with an edge - allowing MON the audience to enjoy all the conventions of a musical (huge MON production numbers, tender ballads and emotional reprises) MON whilst we completely re-interpret events in major MON celebrities' lives. MON MON Beautifully crafted with astronomically high production MON values 15 Minute Musical does for your ears what chocolate MON does for your taste buds. All in fifteen minutes! MON MON Winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain Radio Comedy MON Award this series provides an energy boost and a seasonal MON treat at 1815 over the Christmas week. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Richie Webb MON Actor: Dave Lamb MON Actor: Jess Robinson MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON Writer: Dave Cohen MON Writer: David Quantick MON Writer: Richie Webb MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b03mfp0r (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn, Bridget Christie and Ed Byrne MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as poison, etiquette, jelly MON and David Mitchell. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03mfp0t (Listen) MON Adam has a few misgivings, and Peggy offers some MON well-meaning advice. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03mhvqk (Listen) MON New American Classics MON MON With Mark Lawson. MON MON This year the shelf of great American authors unexpectedly MON lengthened when a novel called Stoner by John Williams, MON forgotten since its first appearance five decades ago, was MON republished to widespread acclaim. At the same time two MON neglected novels by Renata Adler received enthusiastic MON reviews when brought back into print after thirty years and MON two little known writers, 89 year old James Salter and 76 MON year old Edith Pearlman, were hailed as newly discovered MON geniuses. Salter, Pearlman and Adler reflect on literary MON resurrection and Julian Barnes and Ruth Rendell discuss the MON comeback of Stoner. MON MON Producer: Ellie Bury. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03mcmx3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Gypsy Pride and Prejudice b03mfp0y (Listen) MON On New Year's Day restrictions on people coming from Romania MON and Bulgaria to the UK will be lifted to comply with the MON European Union's rules on freedom of movement. Amongst them MON are expected to be members of the large Roma communities in MON those countries. They belong to possibly the most MON marginalised group in Europe - the Gypsies. MON MON The new arrivals are distantly related to English Romani MON Gypsies, but they are divided by 500 years of history. MON English Gypsies have adapted their own culture, never more MON so than in the last thirty years when most have given up the MON nomadic way of life which once defined them. MON MON So will the reuniting of parts of this ancient diaspora MON emphasise a common culture or highlight its divergence? MON Elinor Goodman looks at how the arrival of the Roma is MON challenging the already complex identity of England's MON Gypsies. MON MON Producer: Adam Bowen. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03m7z0g (Listen) MON Brazil: Fighting Slavery MON MON Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Since 1995, MON these committed bands of labour inspectors, accompanied by MON heavily armed police, have rescued 46,000 people deemed to MON be working as slaves. But Brazil's legal definition of MON slavery is contentious. It includes degrading conditions of MON work, which campaigners say amount to coercion. Some MON employers reject that. And now the stakes have been raised MON by proposals to confiscate land from bosses found to be MON flouting the anti-slavery standards. In a journey that takes MON her from cattle country on the edge of the Amazon, to the MON parched, rocky badlands of the north-east, Linda Pressly MON meets the campaigners, employers and politicians on both MON sides of the argument, and hears powerful testimony from the MON workers trapped in the middle. MON MON Producer: Stephen Hounslow. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03m79cn (Listen) MON Are There Too Many People for Wildlife to Thrive? MON MON "Are there too many people on earth for wildlife to thrive?" MON This is the question we will be asking in a special edition MON of Shared Planet recorded with a live audience in the Great MON Hall of the University of Bristol. Together with questions MON asked by Shared Planet listeners and members of the public MON in the Great Hall, Monty hosts guests Fred Pearce, an MON environment writer and author of The Last Generation: How MON nature will take her revenge for climate change and Kierán MON Suckling, Executive Director of the Center for Biological MON Diversity. And of course Shared Planet correspondent Kelvin MON Boot will make an appearance. MON MON Producer Mary Colwell. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03mcmwx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03mcltw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03mfq16 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03mfq18 (Listen) MON The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and MON Disappeared, Episode 6 MON MON police and thieves, and moments in world history. As his MON mother put it, "Things are what they are, and whatever will MON be will be." MON MON At 100 years-old, Allan Karlsson is a reluctant birthday MON boy. In the old people's home they've prepared a party for MON him. The Mayor and the local press will be there. But this MON party never gets started. Still in his bedroom slippers, MON Allan makes his getaway through the window and begins an MON unlikely adventure. MON MON Allan is no stranger to adventure, as the stories of his MON earlier life reveal - a life in which he dined with world MON leaders such as Franco, Truman and Stalin and found himself MON behind the scenes during major events of the twentieth MON century. MON MON Jonas Jonasson was born in 1961 in Vaxjö, Sweden. After MON starting up and then running the successful media company MON OTW for twenty years, he sold the business and moved to MON Switzerland. There he completed The Hundred-year-Old Man Who MON Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared. Jonas lives on MON the island of Gotland in Sweden. MON MON Translated by Rod Bradbury. MON MON Episode 6: MON The police are getting closer to Allan and his friends at MON Lake Farm. And so are the Never Again gang. MON MON Reader: Martin Jarvis MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b03mfqm5 (Listen) MON Kids TV MON MON Michael Rosen looks at the effects that children's MON television has on language development. Michael's own cv in MON the genre includes having directed 'Playschool'. He meets MON the writers of Rastamouse, Michael de Souza and Genevieve MON Webster to talk about the power of rhyme. They also discuss MON the criticism the show attracted over the dialects the MON characters speak in. And Michael talks to Daniel Postgate, MON son of the original narrator Oliver Postgate, as The MON Clangers prepare to make a return to the small screen. It's MON been over forty years since their first appearance and MON Michael is keen to know if those weird and wonderful Clanger MON sounds that were originally created on a swannee whistle MON will be tampered with in the new version. He asks Daniel MON what qualities and influences made his late father such a MON memorable narrator, and we also hear about a prime example MON of BBC censorship. Michael talks to Joe Godwin, the head of MON BBC Children's about the challenges facing children's MON programme makers in a saturated market, and we also hear MON expert testimony from some little people. MON MON Producers: Milly Chowles and Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere b01rcwkv (Listen) MON The Key MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03mfry8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:15 Food for Thought b018grvm (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Settled in a local Italian restaurant that has become a home TUE from home, much-loved children's author and illustrator, TUE Judith Kerr reminisces with Nina Myskow about the food that TUE brings back memories of her peripatetic childhood. TUE TUE Known to generations of children as the author of the Mog TUE picture books and The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Judith was born TUE in Berlin but was forced to flee Hitler's Germany with her TUE parents and brother in 1933. She recalls the cherry soup TUE made by their German housekeeper and explains that the food TUE in Paris, where they were briefly exiled, was a revelation. TUE She loved the garlic, snails and mussels and remembers that TUE she and her brother drank wine, because nobody trusted the TUE drinking water. TUE TUE As a refugee in London, she could barely afford the price of TUE a cup of tea and a bath bun but during the war, she visited TUE Claridges with her employer. She got a little tipsy but felt TUE that she didn't really belong there. It was only after she TUE met her late husband, Tom, whom she recalls with fondness, TUE that she feels she really fitted in. TUE TUE Amongst the warm descriptions of family mealtimes and TUE disastrous dinner parties, Judith also reveals the favourite TUE treat of her cat Katinka. And despite the loss of her TUE husband and, increasingly, her appetite, Nina discovers, TUE Judith continues to work constantly and is appreciative of TUE both the world around her and her wonderfully rich life. TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03mcmwz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03mfryb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03mfryd (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03mfryg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03mfryj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03mzvyr (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie TUE Griffiths. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03mfvkz (Listen) TUE Winter is the busiest time for Wyevale Transplants, which TUE grows millions of native trees and shrubs every year. Sarah TUE Swadling visits as the harvest, grading, and despatch of TUE plants is in full swing. They'll be sent to customers as TUE diverse as farmers restoring hedgerows and developers TUE building roads. Wyevale's director, Steve Ashworth, tells TUE Sarah that the emergence of Ash Dieback has cost the TUE business more than £100,000 in stock which can't be sold. On TUE the upside, though, he says the disease has given customers TUE a new interest in the provenance of British grown plants. TUE TUE Produced and presented by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k7330 (Listen) TUE Tawny Owl (Winter) TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE David Attenborough presents the Tawny Owl. Tawny owls are TUE our most urban owls, often living close to the centre of TUE towns and cities, so long as there are hollow trees or old TUE buildings in which they can nest. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03mfvl1 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Making of the Modern Arab World b03mfvl3 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Egyptian author Tarek Osman uncovers the history of the TUE modern Arab world by tracing some of the great political TUE dreams that have shaped it, from the nineteenth century to TUE the Arab Spring. TUE TUE Throughout the series, he focuses on two countries that are TUE currently high on the news agenda: Egypt and Syria. As Tarek TUE discovers, these are also the states from which many of the TUE crucial characters and ideas in this story emerged. TUE TUE In this final programme, he examines the build up to the TUE Arab Spring as two worlds collide. As the previous TUE experiments with liberalism, nationalism and islamism TUE founder the region's presidential hard men seek to TUE consolidate their power by passing it onto their sons. At TUE the same time, riding the wave of a population explosion TUE which leaves two thirds of the Arab world under 25 years TUE old, a new generation frustrated by the lack of jobs or TUE political freedoms rises up to challenge the old order. TUE TUE Producer: Neil McCarthy, Shoku Amirani. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03mjkw0 (Listen) TUE Man Belong Mrs Queen, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2: On the island of Tanna, Chief Jack makes vague TUE promises but gives little away. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03mfvl5 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03mfvl7 (Listen) TUE Hester, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Margaret Oliphant TUE Dramatised by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster TUE TUE When Hester is offered a merger to cancel all her debts, she TUE finds a neat, but risky, solution. TUE TUE Producer/Director ..... Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03mfvl9 (Listen) TUE Do We Care Too Much About Nature? TUE TUE "Do we care too much about nature?" This is the question we TUE will be asking in a special edition of Shared Planet TUE recorded with a live audience in the Great Hall at the TUE University of Bristol. Together with questions asked by TUE Shared Planet listeners and members of the public in the TUE audience Monty Don hosts two guests John Burton, Chief TUE Executive Officer of The World Land Trust and Hannah TUE Stoddart, Head of the Economic Justice and Policy team at TUE Oxfam GB. And of course Shared Planet correspondent Kelvin TUE Boot will make an appearance. TUE TUE Producer Mary Cowell. TUE TUE 11:30 About the Boys b03mfvlc (Listen) TUE From a solo boy chorister singing "Once in Royal David's TUE City" at King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve to Aled TUE Jones hitting the Top 10 with "Walking in the Air", the TUE voice of the boy treble has long held a fascination for TUE composers and audiences. But why? Is it because of its TUE impermanence or what it implies about our notions of TUE boyhood? Or is it just the sheer soaring quality? TUE TUE Christopher Gabbitas knows about being a treble because, as TUE a child, he was a chorister at Rochester Cathedral. He's now TUE a baritone with the world famous a cappella group "The TUE King's Singers", but he remembers his treble days and the TUE repertoire he sang, with great affection. In this programme TUE he asks what it is about the singing voice of a boy which TUE can inspire a range of reactions. And he finds out how TUE different composers through the centuries have used- and TUE continue to gain inspiration from - the treble voice. TUE TUE Among the people he talks to are his King's Singer TUE colleague, Paul Phoenix, who became famous in the 1970s as TUE the treble soloist for the theme music to the BBC's drama TUE series "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". TUE TUE Christopher also meets academic Martin Ashley to hear how TUE the sound of boys' voices has changed over the decades. TUE TUE And he eavesdrops on a singing lesson to hear what makes a TUE successful treble sound. TUE TUE We also hear about the way in which composers in opera have TUE used boy's voices from Handel to Britten and into the TUE present day. TUE TUE And there's an interview with the film composer Elliot TUE Goldenthal who's used treble voices in his scores for "Alien TUE 3" and "Interview with the Vampire". TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03mfvlf (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03mfryl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03mfryn (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Across the Board b03mjkw2 (Listen) TUE Rachel Reeves TUE TUE Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game TUE of chess. In this episode he interviews shadow cabinet TUE minister and former junior chess champion Rachel Reeves. She TUE has just become a mother. But she explains why she would TUE never allow her daughter to beat her at the game. TUE Watch replays TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03mfp0t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03mfwjs (Listen) TUE Listening to the Dead, Four Sons TUE TUE by Katie Hims. It's 1914, and Clara Tully, a Leeds baker's TUE wife and the proud mother of four beautiful boys, knows the TUE war won't be over by Christmas. And she knows a much darker TUE secret besides. TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Clara: Michelle Terry TUE Finley: Will Featherstone TUE Joe: Will Howard TUE Charlie: Harry Jardine TUE Robin: Joel MacCormack TUE Eloise: Georgie Fuller TUE George: John Norton TUE Lloyd George: Sean Murray TUE Customer: Priyanga Burford TUE Customer: Sabina Arthur TUE Customer: Carolyn Pickles TUE Narrator: Ami Metcalf TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b03mfwjv (Listen) TUE Helen Castor is back with a new series of the programme in TUE which listeners join with some of the world's leading TUE researchers to discuss the latest work that is Making TUE History. TUE TUE Over the next five weeks, historians and archaeologists will TUE be helping us to understand more about the origins of the TUE Welsh language, learn how French royalty escaped TUE revolutionary persecution in Aylesbury, discover why the TUE gloves are off in the nation's archives, and find out how TUE some of our leading early socialists thought that the TUE unemployed could do with a spell in a labour camp. TUE TUE Today it's science versus history. Tom Holland is on the TUE Wirral to hear a debate that's been rekindled by historian TUE Michael Wood - where is Brunaburh, the site of the Great War TUE of 937? Is it Bromborough near Birkenhead as place-name and TUE DNA evidence might suggest - or should we, as Wood argues, TUE trust the historical sources and look across to the Humber TUE and South Yorkshire? TUE TUE Also, maritime historian Sam Willis is in Devon to find out TUE how an eighteenth century inventor from Ipswich turned to TUE gambling to finance one of the world's first submarine TUE journeys - to the bottom of Plymouth Sound. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Shared Experience b03mfn0h (Listen) TUE Pest Controllers TUE TUE More shared experiences discussed in a lively intimate way TUE with host Fi Glover. This week four pest control share their TUE passion for the job controlling bedbugs, rats, maggots and TUE creatures many of us find repellent. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b03mfwjz (Listen) TUE Baby Talk TUE TUE Michael Rosen looks at language and communication. This week TUE we're talking baby talk, or 'Infant Directed Speech'. He TUE asks if the cooing parentese is a natural phenomenon or is TUE it simply a culturally learnt trait. Does it benefit or TUE hinder language development, and do animals use it? Michael TUE also discovers some interesting examples of baby talk in TUE letters that Jonathan Swift wrote to two lady friends. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03mfwk1 (Listen) TUE Series 32, Sir David Chipperfield on Le Corbusier TUE TUE Pioneer of Modern architecture, Le Corbusier, chosen by TUE award winning architect Sir David Chipperfield. TUE TUE Le Corbusier aimed to build a better world through radical TUE buildings and the controversial reshaping of whole cities. TUE Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture at the University of TUE Sheffield, joins Matthew Parris to unpick the life of a man TUE who considered himself a herioc figure, fighting battles to TUE improve the world. TUE TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris. Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03mfwk3 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 17:57 Weather b03mfryq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03mfrys (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:15 15 Minute Musical b03mfxmm (Listen) TUE Series 8, Ra Ra It's Putin TUE TUE A series of satirical, barbed, bittersweet fifteen-minute TUE comedy musicals. TUE TUE 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00wr9vv (Listen) TUE Christmas Special 2010, Ring in the New TUE TUE The sitcom set in hell. Satan runs his infernal world with TUE the assistance of his chief demon, Scumspawn. Amongst those TUE he torments are Edith, a murdered historian, and Thomas, the TUE most repellent human who ever lived. TUE TUE Full of jokes and broad comedy the show is also a TUE philosophical study of the human condition, asking such TUE questions as whether man is inherently good or evil. TUE TUE In this episode Satan decides he needs a holiday. TUE TUE Written by Andy Hamilton TUE TUE Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Satan: Andy Hamilton TUE Edith: Annette Crosbie TUE Scumspawn: Robert Duncan TUE Thomas: Jimmy Mulville TUE Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer TUE Writer: Andy Hamilton TUE Producer: Paul Archer TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03mfxmp (Listen) TUE There's a midnight surprise in Ambridge. Meanwhile, will TUE Eddie's plot prove successful? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03mfxyf (Listen) TUE Adil Ray, Helen Lederer, Jackie Clune and Mark Billingham TUE compete in the Front Row Quiz TUE TUE Mark Lawson turns Quizmaster to test the cultural knowledge TUE of two teams in the Front Row Quiz of the Year. TUE TUE Singer and performer Jackie Clune and playwright Mark TUE Ravenhill are led by writer and Booker judge Natalie Haynes. TUE They are competing against actress and writer Helen Lederer TUE and Citizen Khan creator and star Adil Ray, under the TUE captaincy of crime writer Mark Billingham. TUE TUE Questions cover a wide range of the year's events, including TUE Doctor Who's 50th birthday; best-selling autobiographies, TUE with extracts disguised by actor in residence Ewan Bailey; TUE and a mathematical puzzle based around the compositions of TUE Wagner, Britten and Verdi. TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03mfvl7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Only Way Is Up b03mfxyh (Listen) TUE Simon Cox charts the sometimes the painful challenges of TUE recovery through the struggles of three organisations; a TUE school, a company and a football team, as they fight back TUE and try to haul themselves away from the bottom. What's it TUE like working on a day-to-day basis at the bottom of the TUE league amid increasing pressure to improve performance? How TUE do they do it? The programme highlights the fight and TUE attempts to overcome difficult circumstances and paints a TUE vivid picture those who work in these organisations. TUE TUE It hears from staff, pupils and Governors at Llanwern High TUE School, until recently, branded as the worst performing TUE school in Wales. What effect do bad results have on the TUE morale of pupils, parents and staff? It charts the struggle TUE of those who are putting everything into keeping an old TUE family department store afloat. Will a major shop re-fit and TUE Christmas sales save Wildings? Or is it past it's sell by TUE date? And the programme follows the ups and downs of Newport TUE County as it begins life back in the professional football TUE league after 25 years. TUE TUE Producer: Jim Frank. TUE TUE 20:40 The Listening Project b03nhfcm (Listen) TUE Fi Glover introduces conversations about sex education and TUE death, transgender life, pantomime camels, having an TUE ex-priest and nun as parents, and running away to the TUE circus, proving it's surprising what you hear when you TUE listen. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b03mfxym (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond finds out why your exercise regime could be TUE hindered if you have been taxing your brain too much. She TUE talks to Professor Samuele Marcora from the University of TUE Kent about his research on why the chemical by products of TUE being mentally exhausted can actually make physical exercise TUE much harder. He discusses his new research with the Ministry TUE of Defence where he is finding that soldiers can be trained TUE to resist the overwhelming effects of cognitive fatigue. TUE Also in the programme the moral distress experienced by TUE nurses and more results from the BBC Stress test and what it TUE reveals about mental well-being. TUE TUE 21:30 The Making of the Modern Arab World b03mfvl3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03mfryv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03mfylq (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03mfyls (Listen) TUE The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and TUE Disappeared, Episode 7 TUE TUE Having dealt with another Never Again member, Allan and his TUE friends must flee from Lake Farm. TUE TUE Reader: Martin Jarvis TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Britain Versus the World b03mg0cq (Listen) TUE Comedy programme. TUE TUE 23:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b03mg0cs (Listen) TUE Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section New Year TUE TUE Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his 5 piece band to kick TUE off the New Year's Eve celebrations with comedy, original TUE live music and special guests. TUE TUE Producer: Julia Mckenzie. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 JANUARY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03mg0j0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:15 Food for Thought b018gylx (Listen) WED Series 2, Carlos Acosta WED WED In a rehearsal studio at the Royal Opera House, over an WED impromptu picnic of tostones (fried plantains) and moros y WED cristianos (rice with black beans), dancer Carlos Acosta WED recalls a lifetime of counting the carbs, and his blessings, WED during a successful career in ballet. WED WED From the food ration in his native Cuba, to the abundance of WED sugar on the island that left him with an explicably sweet WED tooth, Carlos tells Nina about stealing mangoes as a boy to WED fund trips to the cinema. He also explains how, arriving in WED Europe as a teenager, he had to adapt his tastes, his WED attitudes and his body. He eats a steak before each WED performance and avoids carbohydrates after six o'clock, WED despite the fact that he dances for over eight hours almost WED every day of the week. WED WED Eating well is crucial to Carlos' livelihood and eating WED badly could end his career but the Royal Ballet's principal WED guest artist still chows down on ice cream, chicken korma WED and gets drunk, occasionally. He also tells Nina where you WED can get the perfect mojito. WED WED Producer: Tamsin Hughes WED A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03mjkw0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03mg0j2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03mg0j5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03mg0j7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03mg0jb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03mzvyt (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie WED Griffiths. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03mg1d9 (Listen) WED Remember the glorious summer of 2013? Leave January behind WED and join Anna Jones for a midsummer hike in the Radnorshire WED hills. She meets landscape historian Stuart Fry who leads WED 'Walking Through History' courses, teaching people how to WED spot layers of tangible history in the mid-Wales WED countryside. Iron Age hill forts, Roman roads and Medieval WED droving enclosures are all plain to see...if you know what WED to look out for. WED WED Anna also hears how history can be a profitable WED diversification for farmers. Margot Porter has opened up Ty WED Gwyn Farm near Llandrindod Wells to history-loving ramblers, WED and throws in a picnic too. WED WED Presented and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mg1dc (Listen) WED Song Thrush (Winter) WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED David Attenborough presents the story of the song thrush and WED reads a passage from Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling WED Thrush. WED WED Written at the end of the 19th century, this poem is about WED the hope that birdsong can bring at the bleakest time of the WED year. This episode examines how often song thrushes sing in WED winter. WED WED 06:00 Today b03mg1dg (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03mg868 (Listen) WED Jo Brand, Henry Winkler, Clive Rowe, Richard Mawbey WED WED Libby Purves goes to the panto in a special programme WED recorded in the BBC Radio Theatre. She is joined by actor WED Clive Rowe; comedian Jo Brand; actor and writer Henry WED Winkler and wig designer Richard Mawbey. WED WED Clive Rowe is an actor who has played the pantomime dame at WED the Hackney Empire on many occasions. In 2010 he appeared as WED Dame Daisy in Jack and the Beanstalk. In 1997 he won an WED Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for WED Guys and Dolls. He is playing King Darius in The Light WED Princess at The National Theatre. WED WED Jo Brand is a BAFTA-winning comedian, actor and writer. She WED is appearing in her first pantomime as the Genie of the Ring WED in Aladdin. A former psychiatric nurse, she made her name as WED a stand-up comic and is a regular panel member on QI and WED occasional presenter of Have I Got News for You. Aladdin is WED at New Wimbledon Theatre. WED WED Henry Winkler OBE is an American actor, director and WED children's author, best known for playing The Fonz in the WED television series Happy Days. He is currently reprising his WED role as Captain Hook in Peter Pan at Richmond Theatre. His WED Hank Zipzer stories focus on a 10-year-old boy with dyslexia WED and are based on his own experiences. Peter Pan is at WED Richmond Theatre. WED WED Richard Mawbey is a wig designer who produces a wide range WED of work for pantomime, theatre, television and film. His WED commissions range from Lily Savage as Widow Twankey to the WED cast of From Here to Eternity. He spent 10 years on the road WED with the legendary Danny La Rue as his hairdresser and wig WED designer. Richard has just produced 35 wigs for a production WED of White Christmas at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03mjkzm (Listen) WED Man Belong Mrs Queen, Episode 3 WED WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03mg86v (Listen) WED Jessie J, Cher, Stevie Nicks WED WED Jenni Murray introduces interviews with some of the best WED Woman's Hour music guests from 2013 - including Cher, Stevie WED Nicks and Jessie J. We hear from Kanya King about running WED the MOBO Awards and there's music from Meklit Hadero and WED violinist Midori. Also playing for us in the studio - one of WED the young artists on the BBC Sound of 2014 longlist - Chloe WED Howl. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03mg871 (Listen) WED Hester, Episode 3 WED WED By Margaret Oliphant WED Dramatised by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster WED WED When Hester takes her wayward cousin Edward back into the WED Vernon family bank, she reckons without the influence of his WED vapid wife Ellen. WED WED Producer/Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b03mg873 (Listen) WED Series 15, Sirens of Yorkshire - Community First Responders WED WED It's Friday night in Hornsea, a small village in East WED Yorkshire; the air is cold and the stars seem to go on WED forever. WED WED Just off the High Street, a small accountancy firm is WED closing up; Andy, a man who loves the challenges of VAT, has WED finished the filing, and is having a cup of tea, chatting on WED the phone to a friend about the plan to save the Floral WED Hall. WED WED Suddenly a siren blasts out. WED WED It's coming from a mobile phone, connected directly to the WED ambulance service. WED WED Andy is not a paramedic, but he is a Community First WED Responder - someone trained in life saving techniques, who WED has volunteered to drop everything to go and be the first on WED the scene in an emergency. WED WED The actions he takes over the next few minutes could mean WED the difference between life and death. Within seconds he's WED donned a high-vis jacket and, weighed down with a rucksack WED of life saving equipment, is running for his car. By the WED time the ambulance services arrives from the nearest WED hospital he may have been at the scene for some time - WED administering life-saving first aid. WED WED First Responders come from every walk of life, and are all WED highly trained volunteers. But it's a huge commitment, and WED responsibility, and over Christmas and New Year, a busy one. WED So what motivates someone to take on such a role? Good WED Samaritans on the surface, but is it the adrenalin rush many WED say they feel that makes them addicted to saving lives? WED WED Julie Gatenby meets the Community First Responders of East WED Yorkshire. WED WED Producer: Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b03mg87c (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a WED second series. WED WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of WED truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, WED most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard WED Wilson. WED WED He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan WED delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his WED fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version WED of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, WED private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester WED United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has WED survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of WED fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, WED charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian WED McKellan (not true). WED WED The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference his famous catchphrase. WED WED Written by Jon Canter WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Richard Wilson WED The Grim Reaper: Michael Eaves WED Rev Grey: Michael Eaves WED Sean Connery: Lewis Macleod WED Gordon Brown: Lewis Macleod WED David Beckham: Lewis Macleod WED Egg Wilson: Lewis Macleod WED Cussin Colin: Forbes Masson WED Herself: Celia Imrie WED Himself: Ian McKellan WED Mother: Arabella Weir WED Young Richard: Michael Higgins WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: Jon Canter WED WED 12:00 News b03myjvd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:10 Afternoon Drama b03mg87l (Listen) WED Hair of the Dog WED WED A witty and poignant ensemble drama following different WED characters in the pub on New Years Day. WED WED Hair of the Dog is recorded 'as live', in a single take, on WED location in a London pub. WED WED The resolutions aren't going so well - but what does the WED year hold for the relationships and the dreams for the WED future? We move through the bar, between characters and WED stories, between an old way of life and a new one. This is WED truly a New Years Day, with all its humour and it's sadness, WED its desire and its frustration - and the anticipation for a WED good year to come. WED WED Sound by Alisdair McGregor WED WED Written by Katie Hims WED Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris WED A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nick: Nicholas Gleaves WED Jo: Madeleine Bowyer WED Clare: Sarah Belcher WED Marine: Sharlit Deyzac WED Kara: Silvana Montoya WED Darren: Rasmus Hardiker WED Benedict: John Benfield WED Director: Boz Temple-Morris WED Producer: Boz Temple-Morris WED Writer: Katie Hims WED WED 13:00 World at One b03mg88q (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Across the Board b03mjl5j (Listen) WED Lennox Lewis WED WED Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game WED of chess. In this episode he plays the greatest ever British WED born boxer and former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. WED Lewis believes that chess and boxing have much in common - WED and that his love of chess has helped him both in and WED outside the ring. WED Watch replays WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03mfxmp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03mg88s (Listen) WED Listening to the Dead, The Great Pretender WED WED by Katie Hims. Ralf Little stars as a small-time 1950s WED psychic, who hungers for fame, despite his inability to read WED the thoughts of anyone, let alone the woman he works with. WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Frank Tully: Ralf Little WED Peggy: Lizzy Watts WED Betty: Joanna Monro WED Joe: Sean Murray WED Eloise: Carolyn Pickles WED Girl: Carys Eleri WED TV Presenter: Arthur Hughes WED Policeman: Harry Jardine WED Narrator: Ami Metcalf WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED Writer: Katie Hims WED WED 15:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b03mg0cs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 15:45 15 by 15 b037v4ft (Listen) WED Series 2, Clog WED WED Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an WED exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has WED different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along WED the way. WED WED Today's word is 'clog', and etymologist Susie Dent is on WED hand to explain the origin of the word as a block of wood, WED which came to mean the footwear as well as the notion of WED clogging or blocking anything from arteries to drains. WED WED Hardeep meets Phil Howard, one of the few remaining WED clog-makers in Great Britain, and hears tales of three WED clog-busters who deal with obstructions of all kinds, in WED drains and down manholes. WED WED He also talks to Kate Tattersall who runs the Camden Clog, a WED group of dancers who trace their dances back to the WED Lancashire cotton mills, where the millworkers tapped their WED clogs in time to the machines - a moment of history restaged WED by Sarah Angliss and Caroline Radcliffe. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03mg95w (Listen) WED Love WED WED A Thinking Allowed special on 'love'. What are the origins WED of our notions of high romantic love? Was the post war WED period a 'golden age' for lifelong love? Has marriage for WED love now failed? Laurie Taylor hopes to finds some answers WED with the help of the social historian, Claire Langhamer, the WED philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, and the sociologist, Professor WED Mary Evans. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03mhvq9 (Listen) WED TV presenter chemistry WED WED It's an all-important catchword in TV circles - "chemistry". WED Get the mix right between presenters, and the audience will WED welcome them in. Get it wrong, and shows can easily flop. WED But how do TV executives decide whether a combination will WED work? Is it pure chance, or are there ways to determine WED whether sparks will fly for the camera? In this special WED programme, Steve Hewlett talks to agent Michael Foster, TV WED executive Lorraine Heggesey, TV critic Kevin O'Sullivan, and WED famous successful duo Richard and Judy about how to create WED that very special something between hosts. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 17:00 PM b03mhvqc (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03mg0jr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:15 15 Minute Musical b01pg54q (Listen) WED Series 7, Brian Elliott WED WED A series of satirical, barbed, bittersweet fifteen-minute WED comedy musicals. WED WED Brian Cox in Brian Elliott about a boy who D-reams of being WED a Scientist. WED WED Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Pippa Evans WED Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick WED Music by: Richie Webb WED Music Production: Matt Katz WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b03mhvqf (Listen) WED Tell Them About the Dream, Martin WED WED Young Stephen looks for a hero that he can tell his class WED about. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Collins: Gemma Whelan WED Jayson: Frankie Wilson WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03mhvqh (Listen) WED Jolene is encouraging, and Helen is in mischievous mood. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03mfp0w (Listen) WED Binge TV Special WED WED With Kirsty Lang. WED As more and more of us are bingeing on box-sets and stream WED programmes via our laptops, Kirsty asks whether we're WED witnessing the death of the cliff-hanger and water-cooler WED TV, as predicted by Kevin Spacey in this year's MacTaggart WED Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. WED Spacey was the star of The House Of Cards, the first series WED made by the subscription service Netflix and the first drama WED ever to be nominated for an Emmy that wasn't show on WED television. This year also saw the end of Breaking Bad, a WED word-of-mouth hit that was only available on-line or as a WED box-set in this country, and further evidence that we may be WED turning away from traditional television and watching WED programmes at our own leisure. WED WED Producer: Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03mg871 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Immigration: Good for Whom? b03nbsgd (Listen) WED Experts debate the issue of immigration with residents of WED Birmingham. Ritula Shah is in the chair. WED WED As levels of immigration have risen to historically high WED levels so too has public concern about the issue: a series WED of opinion polls indicate that UK voters rank its importance WED as second only to the economy. WED WED In the past year, two leading liberal thinkers have WED published controversial books warning against the dangers of WED excessive levels of immigration. WED WED Prof Paul Collier, a development economist from Oxford WED University, and David Goodhart, director of the think tank WED Demos, both argue that if mass immigration is not properly WED controlled it has the potential to undermine trust and a WED sense of mutual obligation. WED WED In front of an audience hosted by Birmingham City WED University, the two men debate their ideas with Nazek WED Ramadan of Migrant Voice and Susie Symes, Chair of the WED Museum of Immigration and Diversity. WED WED The event was recorded as part of Birmingham City WED University's City Talks series on Tuesday 17th December WED 2013. WED WED Presenter: Ritula Shah WED Producers: Hannah Barnes and Jane Beresford WED Researcher: Nayha Kalia. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Ideas b03mhvqm (Listen) WED Series 2, Simon Garfield: Maps and Mistakes WED WED "How boring would the world be," asks Simon Garfield, "if we WED knew precisely where everything was?" WED WED Simon reflects on the many mistakes and deceptions in some WED of our best-loved maps. He begins with the map of the London WED Underground where lines on the map bears little resemblance WED to reality but is "informationally brilliant". WED WED He talks about California, the subject of a "sustained WED cartographic foul-up": for 200 years it appeared on maps as WED an island, and it continued to do so even after navigators WED had tried to sail all the way round it - and failed. WED WED And then there's "one of the great phantoms in the history WED of cartography" - the Mountains of Kong. They were WED apparently a wide central mountain belt that in the WED eighteenth-century appeared to stretch across thousands of WED miles of West Africa. Despite being repeated on map after WED map for almost a century, however, they were a pure figment WED of imagination. WED Simon celebrates these mistakes, describing them as the WED "accidental discovery...of searching souls". WED WED In these days of digital maps, he hopes that we can still WED find "strange and charming and wonderful things - mountains WED that don't exist and islands of the imagination". WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Show Me the Way to Go Home b03mhw27 (Listen) WED Gardening grandmother Ruth Brooks, also known as 'the snail WED lady', was chosen as the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year WED in 2010. WED WED She noticed that despite repeatedly throwing her snails over WED the garden fence, her gastropods would unfailing return home WED to decimate her petunias. From her Radio 4 experiments, WED designed by mentor Dr Dave Hodgson from the University of WED Exeter, they showed that snails do have a homing instinct, WED returning from distances of over 10 m. WED WED In this documentary, Ruth sets out to investigate how WED different animals navigate, from smell maps for cats to WED astronomy for dung beetles. She travels to Portsmouth to WED meet some speedy pigeons and visits an MRI laboratory where WED neuroscientists are hunting for the source of their WED mysterious magnetic sense. WED WED But do we humans have a homing instinct, and can we improve WED our sense of direction? WED WED Producer: Michelle Martin. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03mg868 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03mg0jk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03mhw8f (Listen) WED 2013 was a year when immigration was in the headlines. Here WED in the UK, there is a particular focus on the possibility of WED thousands of EU citizens from Bulgaria and Romania arriving. WED Across the European Union, there's concern not just about WED internal movements, but the large numbers arriving from WED outside --- as poverty and political turmoil in the Middle WED East and Africa drive many migrants to travel here WED illegally, either searching for a better future or desperate WED for asylum. WED WED Many Africans who move to Europe have valuable skills needed WED at home so how can African migration be reduced? WED WED A special edition of the programme presented by Philippa WED Thomas. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03mhw8h (Listen) WED The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and WED Disappeared, Episode 8 WED WED Benny's brother Bosse has given shelter to Allan and WED friends. But in the yellow bus outside, someone is waking WED up. Also, we learn how Allan was recruited by the Soviet WED Union in the 1950s. WED WED Reader: Martin Jarvis WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Political Animals b03mhwd5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Rex and Ron WED WED by Tony Bagley WED WED 4. Rex and Ron WED WED Ronald Reagan's dog, Rex, reveals that he shared his WED master's passion for acting. WED The last in a series of four talks giving an unreliable WED dog's eye view of the trials and tribulations of living in WED the White House. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Rex: Michael Bertenshaw WED West Wing Guy: David Seddon WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: Tony Bagley WED WED 23:15 Bird Island b01kbjdg (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antartica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non audience comedy. WED WED In this final episode Graham gives the shock news that a new WED member of the team is joining them. WED WED Ben: Reece Shearsmith WED Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Jane: Katy Wix WED Writer: Katy Wix WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 23:30 Frost on 4 b03mjlk1 (Listen) WED Over a period of more than forty years, David Frost moved WED from the forefront of the 60s satire boom, to make his mark WED as one of the UK's most prominent journalists, and latterly WED became the politicians' favourite interviewer. WED WED In recent years Frost celebrated his long career on BBC WED Radio 4 in three series where many wise and respected guests WED joined him to reflect on his memorable interviews. WED WED In this special tribute to the veteran broadcaster we WED feature selected highlights from these remarkable programmes WED exploring the symbiotic worlds of comedy, journalism, WED religion and politics with lively discussions and WED fascinating archive. WED WED Frost's career spanned journalism, comedy writing and WED daytime television presenting, including That Was The Week WED That Was, The Frost Report and Frost On Sunday. Since the WED mid-1960s, he has interviewed almost every prominent WED statesman, leader, dictator, entertainer and otherwise WED influential figure. He was perhaps the first interviewer of WED the television age to become as famous as the people he WED interviewed. His series of filmed encounters with former WED President Richard Nixon, over twelve days in 1977, made WED worldwide news; they, and the events leading up to them, WED have recently been the subject of the Hollywood movie WED Frost/Nixon. WED WED As Frost and guests discuss favourite moments from WED television interviews from the past forty years we reveal WED many other moments just as compelling as Nixon in the dozens WED of other interviews in his canon of work. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 JANUARY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03mg0lq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:15 Food for Thought b0368rdg (Listen) THU Series 3, James Cracknell THU THU 4/5 James Cracknell THU THU Rower, adventurer and endurance athlete James Cracknell THU shares his secrets for fuelling a body capable of winning THU two Olympic Gold medals. He describes nutrient-dense carbs THU and how he has had to balance his calorie intake with the THU energy he burns in extreme conditions, from the Sahara to THU the South Pole. THU THU James discusses how his food habits have changed since THU losing his sense of taste and smell following brain damage THU sustained in a serious bike accident. Does a restaurant THU supper still hold any attraction for him or is he focused on THU the nutritional value of food now more than ever? THU THU He describes his increased sensitivity to texture and THU introduces Nina to the hot sauces that he uses to stimulate THU his taste buds. Over carrots in chilli sauce Nina offers THU James some sweet treats, as James describes the impact THU losing his sense of taste has had on his life. THU THU Producer: Rebecca Maxted THU A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03mjkzm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03mg0ls (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03mg0lw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03mg0ly (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03mg0m0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03mzvyw (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie THU Griffiths. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03mhyzc (Listen) THU Every bat used in first class cricket begins its life as a THU willow tree in a wet English field. Cricket Bat Willows are THU planted between December and March, and Sarah Swadling THU visits the largest supplier in the world, JS Wright in THU Essex, which will plant 20,000 new trees this season. THU They're planning to increase plantings to keep up with THU burgeoning demand in India and Pakistan. Sarah finds out how THU the way the willow is grown affects the playing quality of THU the bat, at manufacturers Gunn and Moore in Nottingham. THU THU Produced and presented by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mhyzf (Listen) THU Raven THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU David Attenborough presents the story of the raven. Ravens THU are one of the most widely distributed birds in the world THU and can survive Arctic winters and scorching deserts. In the THU UK, Ravens were once widespread, even in cities but THU persecution drove them back into the wilder parts of our THU islands. Now they're re-colonising the lowlands and are even THU turning up on the outskirts of London where, since Victorian THU times, the only ravens were the ones kept at the Tower. THU THU 06:00 Today b03mhyzh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03mhyzk (Listen) THU Plato's Symposium THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one THU of the Greek philosopher's most celebrated works. Written in THU the 4th century BC, it is a dialogue set at a dinner party THU attended by a number of prominent ancient Athenians, THU including the philosopher Socrates and the playwright THU Aristophanes. Each of the guests speaks of Eros, or erotic THU love. This fictional discussion of the nature of love, how THU and why it arises and what it means to be in love, has had a THU significant influence on later thinkers, and is the origin THU of the modern notion of Platonic love. THU THU With: THU THU Angie Hobbs THU Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the THU University of Sheffield THU THU Richard Hunter THU Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge THU THU Frisbee Sheffield THU Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College, THU University of Cambridge. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03mjlzn (Listen) THU Man Belong Mrs Queen, Episode 4 THU THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03mhz28 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03mj1xt (Listen) THU Hester, Episode 4 THU THU By Margaret Oliphant THU Dramatised by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster THU THU Hester doesn't want to see it. But here it is, swinging THU round slowly. The reverse of the medal - the other side of THU Edward's picture. THU THU Producer/Director ..... Jonquil Panting. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03mj1xw (Listen) THU Greenland: To dig or not to dig? THU THU Could Greenland become the world's next resource hotspot? THU The government there hopes so - they've been travelling the THU world touting the country's vast reserves of oil and gas, THU and huge deposits of iron ore, gold and rare-earth elements. THU As melting icecaps make all these resources more accessible, THU mining promises riches for Greenland and the ultimate prize THU of full independence from Denmark. But there's a catch - THU many of the rare earth minerals are surrounded by uranium, THU pitching Greenland into the world of nuclear politics and THU environmental hazard. Nowhere is this clearer than in the THU small town of Narsaq in the country's south. Two proposed THU rare-earth mines could reverse the town's economic decline, THU but one just miles away will mine uranium too. James THU Fletcher travels to Narsaq to ask whether mining will be a THU blessing or a curse. THU THU 11:30 Beyond Bollywood b03mj1xy (Listen) THU Journalist Sarfraz Manzoor visits India to meet a new THU generation of musicians and singers performing Indie, THU Reggae, Ska and Rap, and examines whether this western THU influenced scene can seriously rival the trademark sounds of THU Bollywood and Bangra. THU THU Although Bollywood music is still the mass market choice on THU Indian stereos the alternative scene continues to grow and THU find its voice. Recently there's been a notable rise in the THU number of rock music festivals, dance nights and music THU events attracting aspiring young Indians. THU THU To discover the impact this alternative music scene is THU having on India, Sarfraz Manzoor journeys to the Hauz Khas THU Village in Delhi, often cited as the catalyst for THU introducing a wave of new bands and fresh musical genres THU into the market. THU THU Hauz Khas is home to the offices of the Indian version of THU The New Musical Express and Manzoor speaks with its Editor THU Sam Lal and learns how the Village and the internet has been THU pivotal in the advancement and popularity of artists such as THU the Ska Vengers and Rapper Prozpekt who produce socially THU relevant music. THU THU Exploring India's first alternative radio station, Radio 79, THU Manzoor meets with Raghav Dang who broadcasts Pressure Drop THU and is a founder member of the band The Reggae Rajas. THU Meeting female artists Talia Bentson and Ritika Singh he THU also discovers why women are very happy to pursue a singing THU career in the East. THU THU As India's alternative music scene continues to develop THU Manzoor will explore the challenges ahead and learn whether THU these new songs provide a greater sense of identity for THU young people. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03mj1y0 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03mg0m4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03mg0m7 (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Across the Board b03mjlzq (Listen) THU Hou Yifan THU THU Dominic Lawson conducts a series of interviews over a game THU of chess. In this episode he interviews the women's world THU champion, Hou Yifan. Still only 19, she's one of only a THU handful of women to have become an elite grandmaster. And THU she comes from a country with no strong link to chess, THU China. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03mhvqh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03mj1y2 (Listen) THU Listening to the Dead, Ruby's Shoes THU THU by Katie Hims, Ruby Tully grows up unaware of her THU clairvoyant heritage, and finds that her gift is a curse in THU an age of experimental psychology THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Ruby 8: Nell Herrin THU Ruby: Ami Metcalf THU Nish 8: Leon Human THU Nish: Hamza Jeetooa THU Peggy: Lisa Stevenson THU Frank: David Seddon THU Doctor: Michael Bertenshaw THU Miss Violet: Carys Eleri THU Tuesday 3: Rosa Yevtushenko THU Ralph: Arthur Hughes THU Emily: Georgie Fuller THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Katie Hims THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03mj1y4 (Listen) THU The Legacy of Flodden Field THU THU The Battle of Flodden was a turning point in the history of THU the UK, setting the stage for the subsequent Union of the THU Crowns between Scotland and England in 1603. THU THU The border village of Branxton lays claim to having the THU "smallest visitor centre in the world". Housed in a THU converted telephone box, this unique project - dedicated to THU the Battle of Flodden - is the brain child of Clive THU Hallam-Baker a battle expert who lives just opposite. THU Flodden was the largest battle fought between England and THU Scotland. However today, Clive reflects on the joy of being THU a 'borderer' - living happily across the land of two THU countries. THU THU Lord Joicey owns much of the land that bore witness to the THU Battle of Flodden. His estate is located in England but in THU working the land itself he shares the same issues as his THU neighbour just a mile away in Scotland. He values his cross THU border friendships and discusses the geographical quirks of THU this border that lead to his wife coming 'up' from Scotland THU to marry him in England. THU THU Archaeologist Chris Burgess has been working with groups THU from both sides of the borders to understand more fully the THU landscape where the Battle of Flodden took place. Volunteers THU have come to commemorate their past and to enjoy each THU other's company in the present. THU THU Just a few miles from the battle ground is the border THU village of Crookham. Here, the United Reformed Church has THU created a peace garden and centre for reconciliation. THU Designed by Dougie James, Rev Dave Herbert and Rev Mary THU Taylor explain how this is a truly cross-borders initiative THU which they hope will provide a quiet and peaceful place for THU people to relax, reflect and perhaps find closure. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03mckqg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03mcl9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03mj1y6 (Listen) THU Idris Elba on Mandela; Films for 2014; Newcastle Film Club THU THU Francine Stock talks to Idris Elba about playing Mandela in THU a new film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom directed by Justin THU Chadwick. Elba has recently appeared in Thor: The Dark THU World, Pacific Rim and BBC TV detective series Luther. THU THU Analyst Charles Gant and independent cinema owner Kevin THU Markwick look back at the box office highs and lows of 2013 THU before turning their attention to the most anticipated films THU of 2014 and the awards season. THU THU And the award-winning film club in Newcastle, County Down in THU Northern Ireland. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Idris Elba THU Interviewed Guest: Frank Cottrell Boyce THU Interviewed Guest: Charles Gant THU Interviewed Guest: Kevin Markwick THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03mj1y8 (Listen) THU Ancient Human Occupation of Britain THU THU The ancient inhabitants of Britain; when did they get here? THU Who were they? And how do we know? Alice Roberts meets some THU of the AHOB team, who have been literally digging for THU answers. THU THU The Natural History Museum's Chris Stringer, is the Director THU of AHOB, the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain, a project THU which, over the past 12 years, has brought together a large THU team of palaeontologists, archaeologists, geologists and THU geographers, to pool their expertise in order to unpick THU British History. THU THU Nick Ashton from the British Museum has been in charge of THU the north Norfolk site of Happisburgh, where the crumbling THU coast line has revealed the oldest examples of human life in THU Britain, 400,000 years earlier than previous findings of THU human habitation, in Boxgrove in Sussex. THU THU The ancient landscape had its share of exotic animals. THU Hippos have been dug up from Trafalgar Square, mammoths have THU been excavated from Fleet Street. Professor Danielle Schreve THU is an expert in ancient mammal fossils, and tells us what THU these bones reveal about the ancient climate. Less glamorous THU than the big fossils, the humble vole is so useful and THU accurate as a dating tool that it has been nicknamed "the THU Vole Clock." THU THU Carbon dating has improved vastly in the past few years. Rob THU Dinnis, from Edinburgh University, explains why the AHOB THU team has been returning to old collections and redating THU them. THU THU 17:00 PM b03mj1yb (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03mg0mc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b03mj1yd (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 6 THU THU Peter Sallis lays down a track for Lady Gaga's new album, THU Chancellor Merkel plays 'snog marry avoid' and Ed Miliband THU learns to boogie. It can only be the strange goings on in THU the show that shines a light on the private lives of public THU people. THU THU With Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Jon Culshaw, Julian Dutton, THU Lewis MacLeod, Jess Robinson, and Duncan Wisbey. Produced by THU Bill Dare. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Performer: Jon Culshaw THU Performer: Julian Dutton THU Performer: Lewis Macleod THU Performer: Jess Robinson THU Performer: Duncan Wisbey THU Producer: Bill Dare THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03mj1yg (Listen) THU Peggy receives a troubling phone call, and Helen has to THU change her plans. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03mj1yj (Listen) THU John Wilson with the daily programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film and music THU THU Producer: Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03mj1xt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03mj1yl (Listen) THU Miners' Strike Miscarriages? THU THU With cabinet papers relating to the 1984 miners' strike due THU to be published tomorrow, Jenny Chryss examines growing THU calls for a public inquiry into allegations of widespread THU falsification of evidence by the police against some of the THU miners who ended up facing charges. THU THU On June 18 1984, scores of pickets and police officers were THU injured during one of the bloodiest events of the year long THU strike. Protesters at Orgreave were trying to stop coke from THU the plant being transported to the British Steel mill at THU Scunthorpe. Ninety three people were arrested that day with THU some charged with riot, which carries a potential life THU sentence. However, nearly four months into the trial of THU fifteen of the accused pickets the case against them THU collapsed. THU THU Thirty years on, it's alleged that some police officers THU manipulated the evidence given in court and colluded over THU their statement writing or were told what to write. But no THU officer has ever been charged. THU THU And allegations about police malpractice spread beyond THU Orgreave. The programme hears from one former miner who says THU he was beaten almost unconscious during a picket at Frickley THU Colliery in West Yorkshire and then charged with a public THU order offence on the basis of falsified evidence. The case THU against him was later dropped. THU THU Campaigners and some MPs are now calling for a public THU inquiry and are drawing parallels between these allegations THU and similar revelations about the manipulation of evidence THU after the Hillsborough football disaster five years later. THU The Hillsborough Independent Panel revealed that more than a THU hundred and sixty South Yorkshire police statements had been THU altered after the disaster in which ninety six Liverpool THU fans died in April 1989. THU THU Producer: Sally Chesworth. THU THU 20:30 In Business b03mj272 (Listen) THU The Music Industry THU THU It has been long established that the music industry has THU changed irrevocably over the past decade, with the internet THU disrupting the status quo as it has many other sectors. But THU the story has moved on from an industry dying from dwindling THU record sales. THU THU The traditional way of releasing your record has changed THU thanks to new publishing companies, companies that gather THU music statistics and the streaming services such as Spotify THU and Deezer. Now these companies are disrupting the industry THU once again. Peter Day speaks with the key businesses THU involved such as Spotify and Musicmetric and the THU traditional, established players such as Sony Music. THU THU Yet streaming services have also caused controversy because THU their payments to musicians are seemingly minuscule. THU Radiohead's lead singer Thom Yorke has battled against THU Spotify, calling it the 'last fart of a dying corpse' ; how THU can musicians make money now? Peter hears from a band just THU starting out, Yossarian, to Moby who has sold millions of THU records and singer songwriter Billy Bragg. We compare how THU much musicians receive from different sources of revenue. THU THU But others see the streaming services as saviours and the THU future of the music industry. Is the problem of small THU returns from songs streamed actually a clash between a new THU way of listening to music and the traditional way the THU industry has been run? Sony Music explain how they are THU writing their record deals with musicians and that they are THU thinking about changing this for the new digital age. THU THU Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03mj1y8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03mhyzk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03mg0mj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03mj29y (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03mj3hm (Listen) THU The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and THU Disappeared, Episode 9 THU THU After painstaking detective work, Chief Inspector Aronsson THU makes his way to Bosse's farm. And we learn how Allan once THU found himself in a room with Kim Il Sung and Mao Tse-Tung. THU THU Reader: Martin Jarvis THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b03mj3hp (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU A trip to Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. In THU this last episode of the series, Wunderland is under threat THU frpm an Unclear War. THU THU Sketch show by Alice Lowe. THU THU Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel THU Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Richard Glover THU Actor: Simon Greenall THU Actor: Rachel Stubbings THU Actor: Clare Thompson THU Actor: Marcia Warren THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU Writer: Alice Lowe THU THU 23:30 Bingo, Barbie and Barthes: 50 Years of Cultural THU Studies b03c2zw4 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Fifty years after Richard Hoggart established Cultural THU Studies with the founding of the Centre for Contemporary THU Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Laurie Taylor takes a THU personal look at what this new discipline has given us -- THU taking cultural studies out of the academy to ask: has it THU really narrowed the separation between high and low culture, THU or just been an excuse for soap fans to write dissertations THU on Coronation Street? THU THU Founded with money donated by Penguin following the Lady THU Chatterley trial, the idea of the CCCS was to move away from THU traditional cultural thinking, which emphasized the THU importance of "high culture," toward a focus on contemporary THU "lived experience" and popular culture. So out went a THU preoccupation with the Great Tradition, and in came a THU theory-infused approach to pop music and soap operas. THU THU Society was changing. There needed to be a response to the THU explosion in leisure and popular culture in the post-war THU period and it took outsiders -- Richard Hoggart, Raymond THU Williams and the slightly younger Stuart Hall -- to identify THU what these new appetites could tell us about changes in the THU wider society. THU THU The aim in refocusing on mass media and popular song was to THU develop a critical language that would spread throughout THU society. It was of absolute importance that people were able THU to arm themselves against peddlers of rubbish. It mattered THU to those founders that people be able to look at a magazine THU or a soap and work out whether it had been produced out of THU sincere enthusiasm or cynicism. THU THU In the intervening years, culture has been radically THU democratised -- via tabloids, TV and the internet -- and THU it's cultural studies that provided the critical tools to THU understand that. But has it really made us any more savvy THU about what's being sold to us, culturally? THU THU Featuring: Christopher Frayling, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, THU Lynsey Hanley, Matthew Hilton, Owen Jones, Caspar Melville, THU Angela McRobbie and Paul Willis. THU THU Producer Martin Williams THU Presenter LAURIE TAYLOR. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 JANUARY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03mg0pb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03mjlzn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03mg0pd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03mg0ph (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03mg0pk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03mg0pn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03mzvyy (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie FRI Griffiths. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03mj8ll (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mj8ln (Listen) FRI Magpie FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI David Attenborough presents the magpie. 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FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b03mjcbf (Listen) FRI Series 2, Finding Your Voice FRI FRI This returning series features three emerging novelists who FRI have been well praised and won prizes but haven't until now FRI written short stories for radio. Ned Beauman (author of FRI Boxer, Beetle and The Teleportation Accident), Jenn Ashworth FRI (Cold Light and The Friday Gospels) and Alis Shaw (The Man FRI Who Rained, The Girl with Glass Feet) make their story FRI debuts for Radio 4. FRI FRI 1. Finding Your Voice FRI In Ned Beauman's tale, an actor with a beautiful voice has FRI to act ruthlessly after a strange trip to Bulgaria.. FRI FRI Reader Nicholas Boulton FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03mjcbh (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b03mjcbk (Listen) FRI The Power of Pension Fees FRI FRI Tim Harford presents the series that investigates the FRI numbers in the news. 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FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03mjcbt (Listen) FRI John Wilson with the daily programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film and music FRI FRI Producer: Tim Prosser. 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FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03mjcc2 (Listen) FRI The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and FRI Disappeared, Episode 10 FRI FRI At Bosse's farm, Allan and his friends are apparently under FRI arrest. And in 1968, Allan becomes a CIA agent in Moscow. FRI FRI Reader: Martin Jarvis FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03mfwk1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Bingo, Barbie and Barthes: 50 Years of Cultural FRI Studies b03cf03d (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI It's fifty years since Richard Hoggart established Cultural FRI Studies with the founding of the Centre for Contemporary FRI Cultural Studies in Birmingham, and in this second programme FRI looking at the discipline, Laurie Taylor looks at the ways FRI in which cultural studies has reached beyond academia and FRI into everyday life. FRI FRI Featuring: Sir Christopher Frayling, Paul Gilroy, Stuart FRI Hall, Lynsey Hanley, Matthew Hilton, Caspar Melville, FRI Suzanne Moore and Joe Moran. FRI FRI Producer: Martin Williams. FRI
27 December, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 28/12/2013 - 03/01/2014
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