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SAT SATURDAY 12 JANUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01pp62f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01px4q3 (Listen) SAT The Examined Life, Episode 5 SAT SAT The world bedevils us. To make sense of it, we tell SAT ourselves stories. In a series of short, vivid, dramatic SAT tales, using psychoanalytic insight without psychoanalytic SAT jargon, The Examined Life tracks the collaborative journey SAT of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings SAT behind apparently ordinary behaviour patterns. SAT SAT Written with precision and insight, these case studies are SAT all based on actual people. While factually true, they SAT demonstrate a novelist's sense of an ending and empathetic SAT understanding of the subterfuges of the human mind. SAT SAT In his work as a practising psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has SAT spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden SAT feelings behind our most baffling behaviour. The Examined SAT Life distils over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure SAT psychological insight, without the jargon. SAT SAT This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: SAT talking, listening and understanding. Its aphoristic and SAT elegant stories teach us a new kind of attentiveness. They SAT also unveil a delicate self-portrait of the analyst at work, SAT and show how lessons learned in the consulting room can SAT reveal as much to him as to the patient. SAT SAT Episode 5 of 5: SAT Analysts don't always have all the answers, sometimes they SAT have questions and sometimes they have dreams. Stephen Grosz SAT examines his own night time anxieties. SAT SAT Read by Peter Marinker SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Waters SAT A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pp62h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pp62k (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pp62m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01pp62p (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pt7q4 (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with SAT the Reverend Professor Maurice Scanlon. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ppq3k (Listen) SAT Challenges to women in the workplace: as the president of SAT the Law Society warns firms may be losing talented women and SAT promoting mediocre men - a listener recalls her experience SAT from the 1960s. Your News is read by Kirsty Wark from BBC SAT 2's Newsnight. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01pp62r (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01pp62t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01ppmrn (Listen) SAT Heritage at Risk - West Midlands SAT SAT Thousands of historic buildings and monuments are at risk of SAT being lost through damage or neglect. Jules Hudson tours SAT sites in the West Midlands to assess the level of damage, to SAT ask what's key to helping preserve or restore them and ask SAT if some merit the cost and effort involved. SAT Many walking through Bubbenhall village in Warwickshire may SAT not know about the scheduled ancient monument under the SAT earth because even signs of it are only visible for two SAT weeks in the year but experts say it's key to understanding SAT our ancestors. SAT He travels to Fazeley near Tamworth which has clusters of SAT Grade 2 listed buildings but some have been destroyed by SAT fire and others virtually abandoned by owners who can't SAT afford the development work. He helps assess one of the SAT buildings with experts from English Heritage who want to SAT produce a database on the state of Grade 2 listed buildings. SAT Jules also explores nearby Middleton Hall which was so SAT neglected it was used as a motorbike track. Volunteers set SAT up a trust and have spent 35 years bringing it back into SAT use. However, they say their work is still not done. SAT SAT Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01pt5y4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Weekend edition of the rural magazine. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01pp62w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01pt6ct (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01pt6cw (Listen) SAT Baroness Scotland, John McCarthy in Stratford-upon-Avon, SAT Arlene Phillips in Manchester, Trevor Nunn's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams with former Attorney General SAT Baroness Scotland, art detective Christopher Marinello who SAT has recently recovered a Matisse that has been missing for SAT 25 years, and Giselle Eagle and Richard Brown who are about SAT to be castaway on a remote island. JP Devlin takes a Daytrip SAT with Arlene Phillips CBE, and Patricia Purvis tells the SAT story of a locket lost and found. John McCarthy goes in SAT search of the bits of Stratford-upon-Avon that aren't SAT dominated by Shakespeare and director Trevor Nunn shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Reimagining the City b01pt6cy (Listen) SAT Dublin SAT SAT When the writer Joseph O'Connor was a child, his mother SAT would take him for walks around their Dublin neighbourhood, SAT and point out where James Joyce and John Synge had lived and SAT worked. SAT SAT "I grew up in Dun Laoghaire, a coastal town 8 miles south of SAT Dublin city where there was a pier and a waterfront, and the SAT nightly entertainment in the summer when you were a teenager SAT was to walk down the pier and look at the boats and the SAT ferries leaving for London and wonder to yourself would you SAT go to Manchester or Coventry. There was no notion that you'd SAT stay in Dublin.. SAT SAT But my parents would say to us you know, this little rainy SAT sad place on the western outshores of Europe where we don't SAT do many things brilliantly, this is the country of Yeats, SAT and Patrick Kavanagh and Oscar Wilde and George Bernard SAT Shaw. SAT SAT The ghosts of these great writers are part of the fabric of SAT the city." SAT SAT In Re-Imagining the City: Dublin, Joseph O'Connor offers us SAT a new story of Dublin. He grew up knowing that this city was SAT the setting for so many literary masterpieces - it was like SAT living on a film set. But gradually the suburbs of Dublin SAT became a place of change, where new voices were heard, new SAT sounds and ideas of Dublin created an alternative view of SAT the city. SAT SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01pt6d0 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. Presented by Steve SAT Richards. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01pt6d2 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01pt6d4 (Listen) SAT On the trail of a missing insurance policy SAT SAT A listener has contacted Money Box for help in finding his SAT elderly father's lost insurance policy. Taken out in 1945, SAT and with collections done door-to-door, no records were kept SAT at the house. How do you trace missing policies? And can SAT Money Box uncover the money? (clue: yes, we can!) SAT There will be no change to the way the retail prices index SAT is calculated, the Office for National Statistics announced SAT this week. Instead, a new additional index of inflation - SAT RPIJ - will be created. But the ONS has said the RPI does SAT not meet international standards. So, what's wrong with it, SAT will the new measure be an improvement, and could these SAT announcements affect wage negotiations in the future? SAT Paul Lewis discusses the issues with the Royal Statistical SAT Society's Jill Leyland and the Financial Times' economics SAT editor, Chris Giles. SAT This week the FTSE 100 index of shares reached its highest SAT point since May 2008 - before the financial crisis hit - SAT rising above 6,100. Indeed last year, the index rose about SAT 6%. But actually, if you'd had an index tracker fund you'd SAT have seen returns even better than that. Money Box explains SAT why. And David Kuo from the Motley Fool investment website SAT gives his tips for income investing. SAT Plus, Paul Lewis interviews the chief executive of the SAT Financial Services Compensation Scheme, David Neale, about SAT why so few people realise what protection is available for SAT their savings and investments. SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01ppq05 (Listen) SAT Series 79, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francesca Martinez, SAT Fred Macaulay and Susan Calman. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01pp62y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01pp630 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ppq09 (Listen) SAT St Catherine's Church, New Cross, London SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from St SAT Catherine's Church, New Cross, London, with Deputy Leader of SAT the Labour Party Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the SAT Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes MP, commentator Douglas SAT Murray and Sir Malcolm Rifkind. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01pt6d6 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01pt72f (Listen) SAT Skios SAT SAT On the Greek island of Skios, guests of a celebrated SAT foundation prepare for the yearly lecture, given by SAT scientific guru Dr Norman Wilfred. He turns out to be SAT surprisingly charismatic. In fact he's not Dr Wilfred but a SAT handsome chancer called Oliver Fox who has allowed himself SAT to be mis-identified. SAT SAT Meanwhile sexy Georgie, awaiting Oliver, is trapped in a SAT remote villa with the real Dr Wilfred; he has lost his SAT luggage and himself. SAT SAT In 'Skios', skilfully dramatised by Archie Scottney, an SAT international cast delivers us to the outer limits of SAT hilarity. Martin Jarvis says: 'A joy to direct. Much SAT laughter in studio and on location as we recorded Michael SAT Frayn's philosophic farce of pretension, delusion and SAT mislaid identity.' SAT SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney SAT Sound design: Mark Holden and Wes Dewberry SAT Producer Rosalind Ayres SAT Director Martin Jarvis SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dr Wilfred: Hugh Bonneville SAT Oliver Fox: Tom Hollander SAT Nikki Hook: Lisa Dillon SAT Georgie: Janie Dee SAT Mr Friendly: Stacy Keach SAT Mrs Toppler: Susan Sullivan SAT Mr Chailey: Ian Ogilvy SAT Mrs Chailey: Joanne Whalley SAT Annuka Vos: Amita Dhiri SAT Elli: Agni Scott SAT Spiros: Jon Glover SAT Stavros: Jon Glover SAT Patrick: Matthew Wolf SAT Eric: Matthew Wolf SAT Official: Nigel Anthony SAT Ditmuss: Kerry Shale SAT Mrs Friendly: Jennifer Bassey SAT Suki Brox: Cindy Katz SAT Papadopoulou: Andre Sogliuzzo SAT Reg Bolt: Darren Richardson SAT Mrs Skorbatova: Janine Barris SAT Harold: Alan Shearman SAT Bishop: Alan Shearman SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT Writer: Archie Scottney SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01pt72h (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Bill Granger, Bernadine Bishop, SAT maternal incest SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01pt72k (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01ppq3k (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01pp632 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01pp634 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pp636 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01pt72m (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Timothy Spall, Mark Williams, Virginia SAT Ironside, Pippa Evans, Serafina Steer, Old Tire Swingers SAT SAT What ho! That charming chappie Clive Anderson has a simply SAT spiffing line-up this week! He'll be parlaying with that SAT wonderful plebeian actor Tim Spall who's playing Bertie SAT Wooster in a new BBC One adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's SAT Blandings on Sunday 13 January at 6:30pm. Bally good stuff, SAT eh? SAT Segueing seamlessly we move from English gentleman to SAT English Clergyman. Hearing Clive's confession this week is SAT Mark Williams - former denizen of the parishes of the Fast SAT Show and Harry Potter. Mark stars as Father Brown starting SAT on BBC One Monday 14 January at 2.10pm. SAT Agony aunt Virginia Ironside will be in full effect too. In SAT between sorting out Clive's "difficulties", Virginia will SAT spill the beans on her latest comic novel which deals with SAT the vagaries of getting on a bit. It's called, "No! I Don't SAT Need Reading Glasses!" AND she's got a forthcoming 'granny SAT stand-up tour'. Get her. SAT Pippa Evans will be exhausted, poor love. She's coming SAT straight from a 50 hour non-stop improvised comedy soap SAT opera. She's hot-footing it to Loose Ends central to make it SAT up as she goes along with Jon Holmes. There's no helping SAT some people. The Sixth Annual London Improvathon is at SAT Hoxton Hall until Sunday 13 January at 9pm. SAT Top notch tunes this week come all the way from sunny SAT California with a whiff of the Appalachian mountains. The SAT Old Tire Swingers peddle their own brand of hard-driving SAT old-time string band with a song called 'Big Eyed Rabbit' SAT from their self-titled album. SAT And Jarvis Cocker's fave Serafina Steer is a harp playing SAT multi-instrumentalist who will be taking us on an 'Island SAT Odyssey' - the the current single from her new album 'The SAT Moths Are Real'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01pt72p (Listen) SAT Series 13, The Day the Music Died SAT SAT Peter Jukes's fast-turnaround fictional drama is sparked by SAT the publication of 'Giving Victims a Voice', the report into SAT allegations of sexual abuse made against Jimmy Savile. A SAT mother and daughter find their relationship tested by a SAT long-buried incident from the past. SAT Sarah ..... Samantha Bond SAT Molly ..... Lizzy Watts SAT Gran ..... Christine Lohr SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01pt72r (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT We went off to see what kind of experience they will get, as SAT the "The View" SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01pt74f (Listen) SAT Rural Rides SAT SAT Mark Steel's review of reporters' journeys round Britain, SAT starting with William Cobbett, the great English journalist SAT and radical campaigner who was born 250 years ago. Mark SAT talks to veteran horseman Dylan Winter and analyses a SAT classic radio and TV genre that owes more than it realises SAT to Cobbett - the tradition of going out and taking a look at SAT Britain. SAT SAT The formula is a simple one: a hired hack goes on a SAT whistle-stop tour of a part of the country that's unfamiliar SAT to him (it's usually a him) and then publishes his SAT ill-informed impressions together with any wild SAT generalisations he cares to base upon them. SAT SAT In print, it starts with Cobbett's 'Rural Rides' and ends SAT with the likes of Bill Bryson, Beryl Bainbridge and of SAT course Mark Steel, taking in along the way such scribblers SAT as James Boswell, J.B.Priestley and George Orwell. In radio SAT it's Tom Vernon ('Fat Man on a Bicycle'), Ray Gosling, the SAT many incarnations of 'Down Your Way'... and Mark Steel SAT (again). In TV it runs from Alan Whicker to Clare Balding SAT and Griff Rhys Jones. SAT SAT When it's done well, Cobbettry can celebrate the differences SAT between us. It can give us an insight into people and places SAT we might be interested to know more about; it can illuminate SAT the human condition by shining a light on particular SAT examples. SAT SAT When it's done badly - as it often is - Cobbettry can be SAT feeble, patronising and full of cliches. In his own SAT prejudiced and over-simplified whistle-stop tour, Mark Steel SAT demonstrates that Cobbett's legacy has been a mixed SAT blessing. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Everett SAT A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01pnltg (Listen) SAT The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 3 SAT SAT Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's The SAT Eustace Diamonds stars Pippa Nixon as the beautiful Lizzie SAT Eustace, fighting to retain possession of her magnificent SAT diamond necklace, which she claims was left to her as a gift SAT by her late husband Florian. SAT SAT Her immediate relatives, spurred on by the intransigent SAT family lawyer, Camperdown, argue that the diamonds are an SAT heirloom and on no account can be retained by her. The SAT dispute colours all Lizzie's subsequent relationships - with SAT her cousin Frank, her new lover Lord Fawn, and her admirer SAT Lord George. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie is SAT driven to increasingly desperate behaviour in an attempt to SAT retain her jewels. SAT SAT Harpist: Cecilia De Maria SAT Cellist: Alison Baldwin SAT SAT Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Produced and Directed by Gordon House SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lizzie: Pippa Nixon SAT Crabstick: Alison Pettitt SAT Frank: Joseph Kloska SAT Lord George: Adrian Scarborough SAT Mrs Carbuncle: Lorelei King SAT Lady Linethgow: Richenda Carey SAT Lucinda: Lydia Leonard SAT Lady Fawn: Stella Gonet SAT Lucy: Amy Morgan SAT Lord Fawn: Jamie Glover SAT Florian: Nicholas Boulton SAT Sir Gryffen: Nicholas Boulton SAT Harter: Sam Kelly SAT Benjamin: Stephen Critchlow SAT Major Mackintosh: Stephen Critchlow SAT Camperdown: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Augusta: Laura Hanna SAT Lydia: Ellie Butters SAT Nina: Ella Dale SAT Director: Gordon House SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT Writer: Rose Tremain SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01pp638 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01pp89p (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson shines a light on the process by which SAT controversial decisions are reached behind closed doors in SAT Westminster and Whitehall. SAT This week, he and his guests discuss whether the benefits SAT for pensioners that top up the basic state pension should be SAT paid to all pensioners, including the very well-off. Should SAT the winter fuel allowance, free bus pass, prescriptions and SAT eye tests, and free TV licences for the over 75s be SAT scrapped, means-tested, or protected at all costs? SAT Decision Time examines how a decision that could face a SAT government of any political complexion at the present time SAT might be taken or blocked in Westminster and Whitehall with SAT those who know the business of government and politics are SAT done. SAT Joining Nick Robinson for this edition are Lord Turnbull, SAT the former Cabinet Secretary; Peter Hain MP, former SAT Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Ros Altmann, SAT Director-General of Saga; Chris Skidmore, Conservative MP, SAT who has written about the 21st century welfare state; and SAT Sean Worth, a former Number 10 adviser in the Coalition SAT Government and now at the Policy Exchange think tank. SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01pnmxd (Listen) SAT (7/17) SAT What did the 'P.G.' stand for in the name of the writer P.G. SAT Wodehouse? And what's a Wheatstone Bridge used for in an SAT electrical circuit? SAT SAT Brain of Britain returns to Media City in Salford for SAT another heat featuring competitors from the North of SAT England. This week's four contestants come from Westhoughton SAT in Lancashire, Nuneaton, Derby and Haydon Bridge in West SAT Yorkshire. They compete for a place in the semi-finals of SAT this 60th season of the time-honoured general knowledge SAT quiz. SAT SAT Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair, and he'll SAT also be selecting a pair of questions mailed to Brain of SAT Britain by a listener, hoping to confound the combined SAT brainpower of the contestants in order to win a prize. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT JULIAN ALDRIDGE, an exploration geologist from Westhoughton SAT in Lancashire; SAT SAT DAVID BUCKLE, a college Vice-Principal from Nuneaton; SAT SAT GORDON TAYLOR, a property developer from Alvaston in SAT Derbyshire; SAT SAT DAVE TILLEY, a former business manager, now retired, from SAT Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01pnltl (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents requests for a range of playful poems SAT that have a musical and satirical theme by WH Auden, Wallace SAT Stevens, Anne Sexton and others. The readers are Patrick SAT Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun Raglan. SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 JANUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01pt7rt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b011jvz1 (Listen) SUN Winter in the Air and Other Stories, Idenborough SUN SUN Idenborough is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's SUN collection, Winter in the Air. In this story, Amabel is SUN taken on a trip through the English countryside. An SUN overnight stay in a picturesque village calls to mind a SUN memory from twenty years before. SUN SUN The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 SUN and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, SUN and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. SUN Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her SUN time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and SUN poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These SUN stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and SUN vivid storyteller. SUN SUN The reader is Susannah Harker SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pt7rw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pt7ry (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pt7s0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01pt7s2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01pt87n (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Marsworth, Buckinghamshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01pp89r (Listen) SUN Series 3, Anwar Akhtar: The Meaning of Pakistan SUN SUN Anwar Akhtar, Director of The Samosa, argues that Pakistan SUN should think of itself as an Asian nation, not as an Arab SUN one. And after years of working between Britain and SUN Pakistan, he says British Pakistanis are uniquely placed to SUN help Pakistan embrace its multicultural history - and to SUN create a prosperous and peaceful future with India. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on SUN the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SUN culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01pt7s4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01pt87q (Listen) SUN A Joy Forever SUN SUN Rev Elizabeth Adekunle, chaplain of St. John's College, SUN Cambridge, explores the idea of lasting beauty. A brief SUN experience with modelling left her more aware of the SUN limitations of physical beauty and surface glamour. Her work SUN as a chaplain brings her into contact with some students who SUN are troubled by body image. SUN SUN She begins by looking at the commercial notion of beauty and SUN refers back to Shakespeare in Sonnet 68 voicing his SUN disapproval of beauty accessories such as wigs: "the golden SUN tresses of the dead" and then laments the deception of what SUN he calls "false art". SUN SUN She asks what happens when physical beauty fades, and how SUN it's possible to age gracefully. And she explores the idea SUN of a beauty which comes not from a perfect body but from SUN looking out of the window and inhaling the beauty in our SUN surroundings - as expressed in Fleur Adcock's poem SUN 'Weathering'. SUN SUN Referring to St. Peter's words of wisdom "Let your adornment SUN be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and SUN quiet sprit, which is very precious in God's sight" (1 Peter SUN 3:3-4), Elizabeth Adekunle then goes on to look at a more SUN satisfying sense of beauty. It is the natural world which SUN inspired the French composer Debussy "to feel the supreme SUN and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites SUN her ephemeral guests this is what I call prayer". SUN SUN And finally she refers to an excerpt from Keats poem SUN 'Endymion' in which he observes, "in spite of all, some SUN shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits." SUN And so Rev Elizabeth Adekunle concludes that true beauty - SUN music, nature and art - can help us out of the shallow bleak SUN world of consumer fashion and glamour and offer us a way to SUN draw closer to the Divine. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01pt87s (Listen) SUN Caz Graham visits Gressingham Foods - the largest producer SUN of ducks to retailers in the UK. Gressingham farms 8 million SUN ducks a year and the birds are bred, hatched and reared from SUN farms in the neighbouring counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. SUN Caz explores the entire process from farm to plate and SUN investigates why groups like the RSPCA are examining duck SUN welfare standards. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01pt7s8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01pt7sb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01pt87v (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01pt87x (Listen) SUN National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux SUN SUN Volunteer Sue Baker presents the Radio 4 Appeal for National SUN Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux SUN Reg Charity:279057 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01pt7sd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01pt7sg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01pt87z (Listen) SUN Mass for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord from St SUN Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Burntwood celebrated by Fr SUN Patrick Mileham with music from Mike Stanley and Jo Boyce SUN and musicians from CJM Music. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ppq0c (Listen) SUN Terminal Thoughts SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue with Will Self. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01pt8dd (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01pt8dg (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Rob Titchener - Timothy Watson. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01pt8dj (Listen) SUN Martin Carthy SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Martin Carthy. SUN A highly influential figure in the world of traditional SUN music, about fifty years ago he was at the forefront of the SUN English folk revival - inspiring not just his fellow SUN countrymen, but Bob Dylan and Paul Simon too. SUN Now he's part of a folk dynasty. His wife is the celebrated SUN singer Norma Waterson and their daughter Eliza is as SUN renowned for her fiddle playing, as she is her voice. SUN Martin, on the other hand, was brought up in an atmosphere SUN that encouraged him to rise above his station - there was SUN music in his Anglo-Irish background, but it wasn't SUN encouraged and rarely if ever talked about. SUN He says, "In my opinion there is no such thing as bad music. SUN There may be bad players or bad singers but I don't like the SUN idea of inferior music". SUN The producer was Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01pnn1d (Listen) SUN Series 10, Episode 2 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Celia Pacquola and Rhod SUN Gilbert are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Wine, The Queen, Baths SUN and Wind. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01pt8dl (Listen) SUN Traffic light labels SUN SUN Traffic light labelling - whether red lights will stop us SUN eating bad foods. Sheila Dillon investigates whether this SUN year's change in food labelling will encourage us to improve SUN our diet.Sue Davies from Which? explains the change to food SUN labelling. This year a consistent system will be adopted SUN across supermarkets. The labels will show a combination of SUN guideline daily amounts, colour coding and "high, medium or SUN low" wording will be used to show how much fat, salt and SUN sugar and how many calories are in each product.Dr Mike SUN Rayner has worked on a system like this since the 1980s. He SUN celebrates this as a landmark year in public health, but SUN thinks that the traffic light system still is not SUN perfect.And New York Times columnist Mark Bittman describes SUN his dream food label, which would also include details about SUN animal welfare and how processed the food was.Presented by SUN Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01pt7sj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01pt8dn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Inside the Aid Industry b01pt8dq (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN The Kibera slum is five minutes from the centre of Nairobi SUN in Kenya, one of the wealthiest cities in Africa and also SUN the hub for humanitarian aid in the region. Over the years, SUN hundreds of aid agencies have poured energy and resources SUN into Kibera, yet there is still no running water or power, SUN families live in one-room huts and children play near open SUN sewers. Why does it seem that aid makes so little difference SUN in a place like this? SUN SUN In this programme Edward Stourton investigates the 'Kibera SUN conundrum' as the effectiveness of international aid comes SUN under increasing scrutiny. SUN SUN Over the last 60 years, aid has saved lives in the poorest SUN countries in the world. More children are going to school, SUN fewer are dying from preventable diseases thanks to SUN vaccination programmes funded by foreign aid. But could aid SUN delivered by charities, the government and multilateral SUN organisations such as the UN do more? SUN SUN In Kibera, Edward Stourton talks to local people about the SUN impact aid is having in the slum. He hears how many of the SUN estimated 800 aid organisations claiming to work there - in SUN an area covering two square miles - are 'briefcase NGOs', SUN set up to access funding but which exist in name only. Other SUN agencies such as Medecins Sans Frontiers provide vital SUN healthcare for the community. SUN SUN How far is aid tackling the causes and not just the symptoms SUN of poverty? And are aid agencies sufficiently honest about SUN the limits to what they can achieve? SUN SUN Oxfam, Save the Children and Medecins Sans Frontiers talk SUN candidly about how far aid is the solution to eradicating SUN poverty. SUN SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01pppzv (Listen) SUN Essex SUN SUN Recorded in Essex, the chair for this week's episode of SUN Gardeners' Question Time is Eric Robson. Answering the SUN audience's questions are panel members Matt Biggs, Christine SUN Walkden and Bunny Guinness. SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01pt8md (Listen) SUN Baby Fae and the Baboon's Heart SUN SUN In 1984 doctors in California tried to save a baby girl's SUN life by giving her a heart transplant. Unable to find an SUN infant human donor, they used the heart of a baboon. Dr SUN Leonard Bailey, who led the transplant team, and nurse Marie SUN Hodgkins, talk about their attempts to save Baby Fae. SUN SUN Photo: Baby Fae in the isolation unit listening to her SUN mother's voice a few days after her operation. Courtesy of SUN Loma Linda University Medical Center. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01pt998 (Listen) SUN An Angel at My Table, Episode 1 SUN SUN Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public SUN author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, SUN one book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even SUN at the height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which SUN had the effect of making the media and her readership even SUN more intrusively interested. SUN SUN Frame's story is extraordinary. As her biographer Michael SUN King said, "her family was an anvil on which disasters SUN fell". But it was the issue of Frame's mental health which SUN generated the most conjecture. To set the record straight SUN about the circumstances of her committal to mental hospitals SUN and being diagnosed with schizophrenia, in the early 80's SUN Janet Frame wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled SUN 'To The Island (1982), An Angel At My Table and The Envoy SUN From Mirror City (both 1984). SUN SUN It was after the publication of "An Angel At My Table", at a SUN time when several of her books had gone out of print, that SUN Frame's literary status was cemented. When later the books SUN were made into an award winning film by Jane Campion, her SUN writing was introduced to an international audience. SUN SUN This two-part radio adaptation is by Anita Sullivan. SUN SUN With students from Houghton Valley School and Wellington SUN High School, New Zealand SUN Adapted for radio by - Anita Sullivan SUN Music: Simon Russell SUN Sound Design: David Thomas SUN Production Assistants: Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton SUN Associate Producer: Andrew Foster (New Zealand) SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Janet as narrator: Lorraine Ashbourne SUN Young Janet: Bella Goode SUN Janet as a teenager: Anna Skellen SUN Mother: Barbara Ewing SUN Father: Denis Lill SUN Miss Botting: Federay Holmes SUN John Forrest: Mike Sengelow SUN High School Girl: Brianna Cox SUN High School Girl: Georgia Rippon SUN Student: Tara Goulding-Weston-Webb SUN Student: Geraldine Wilkins SUN Myrtle: Isabel Stewart SUN Poppy: Leila Barber SUN Young Isabel: Molly Doyle SUN Older Isabel: Celeste Wong SUN Young Bruddie: Peter McKenzie SUN Older Bruddie: William Alexander SUN Director: Karen Rose SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01pt99b (Listen) SUN Pride and Prejudice - 200th Anniversary Special SUN SUN To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane SUN Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mariella Frostrup travels to SUN Austen's home in Chawton to discover why this novel has SUN remained so universally popular, the story around its SUN publication and what it has to say to modern readers. SUN She is joined by Austen scholars Prof John Mullan, Bharat SUN Tandon and Paula Byrne SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Classics SUN What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved SUN – John Mullan SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing SUN The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things – Paula Byrne SUN Publisher: HarperPress SUN Jane Austen and the Theatre – Paula Byrne SUN Publisher: Hambledon Continuum SUN Emma: An Annotated Edition – Jane Austen, Bharat Tandon SUN Publisher: Harvard University Press SUN Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation – Bharat Tandon SUN Publisher: Anthem Press SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01pt99d (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents requests for poems on subjects as SUN varied as the sounds of flowing water, Tarzan as an old man, SUN galloping cats and peaceful Sunday mornings. The readers are SUN Patrick Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun Raglan. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 A Tale of Two Villages b01pq9lc (Listen) SUN 20 years after its pit shut, the iconic Yorkshire village of SUN Grimethorpe is thriving. So what's behind its successful SUN regeneration and why have other villages fared less well? SUN When Michael Heseltine announced that Grimethorpe was SUN closing villagers feared for their future. Crime levels shot SUN up to unprecedented levels and property prices plummeted. SUN Drugs were blighting lives and making people feel unsafe in SUN their streets. But a group of villagers decided to try and SUN stop the rot. They formed a successful Neighbourhood Watch SUN project and began driving the dealers out. SUN Alongside their efforts, Barnsley Council spearheaded a SUN multi million pound regeneration initiative to decontaminate SUN the former pit site, build new road links, attract SUN businesses and create a housing market. Among the employers SUN to come to the area is the international online fashion SUN retailer ASOS which is now the area's biggest private sector SUN employer. SUN A palpable sense of hope now fills the village and people SUN feel their future is once again secure. SUN But five miles east in the pit village of Thurnscoe SUN residents are still waiting for regeneration to make a SUN difference to their daily lives. Many people there feel that SUN the village is dying on its feet and that the money spent SUN hasn't delivered jobs or hope. SUN So why the difference? How did they take the grim out of SUN Grimethorpe? SUN Producer Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01pt72p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01pt7sl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01pt7sn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pt7sq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01pt9n7 (Listen) SUN In Ian McMillan's Pick of the Week he'll be cycling with SUN Edward Elgar around the Worcestershire Lanes, walking the SUN streets of Grimethorpe as that village continues to recover SUN from the closure of its pit, and meeting the citizens of SUN Shedtown in their wooden homes by the sea. In a week of SUN great contrasts, he'll share a drama that shows us what SUN happens when a man shrinks to the size of a mobile phone and SUN a documentary about the creation of music for a TV series. SUN Former lovers meet their younger selves and people talk SUN about their struggles to learn English when it's not their SUN first language. Plus, he'll hear what happens when The SUN Swingle Singers attempt a bit of Beyonce. SUN Programmes featured on Pick of the Week this week: SUN Tom Thumb Redux - Radio 4 SUN A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds - Radio 4 SUN Scoring Father Brown - Radio 4 SUN The Path to English - Radio 4 SUN A Tale of Two Villages - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 (Tuesday) SUN January - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes - Pump and Circumstance - Radio 3 SUN Johnny Cash and the Forgotten Prison Blues - Radio 4 SUN Shedtown - Radio 4 SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01pt9n9 (Listen) SUN Lilian is uncomfortable and Jazzer is fed up. SUN SUN 19:15 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b01pt9nc (Listen) SUN Series 5, Hector's House of Windsor SUN SUN Hector's House of Windsor SUN By Colin Hough SUN SUN A warm hearted comedic tribute to the Queen's jubilee year. SUN SUN The Queen's Scots gillie aids her in a cunning plan to put SUN her unruly prime minister and deputy firmly in their place SUN when they visit her at Windsor and she invites them to join SUN her on a canter round the park. SUN SUN Her own superior wisdom, cunning and diplomatic skills are SUN revealed while Her Majesty's wise and wily old Scots gillie SUN looks on and enters into the fun. SUN SUN Stanley Baxter plays the gillie and Phyllida Law takes the SUN imperial role in this affectionate fictional account of what SUN just might have happened when the prime minister of the day SUN and his deputy pay Her Majesty a visit. SUN SUN Hector Wilkie .........................Stanley Baxter SUN The Queen .............................Phyllida Law SUN The Prime Minister .................Pip Torrens SUN The Deputy Prime Minister ......David Holt SUN SUN Written by Colin Hough SUN Directed by Marilyn Imrie SUN A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Fairy Tales Retold by Sara Maitland b01pt9nf (Listen) SUN Mother Love SUN SUN Mother Love, a dark and powerful fairy tale of maternal SUN jealousy retold by Sara Maitland. It's read by Lia Williams. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01ppq01 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Feedback on the Radio 4 Blog SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01pppzz (Listen) SUN A Nobel-winning scientist, a French mountaineer, a SUN sociologist, a former BBC DG and the voice of Listen With SUN Mother SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN The former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne. A talented SUN programme maker, he was involved in a series of rows with SUN the Thatcher government and forced to resign by the Board of SUN Governors. SUN The Italian neuro embryologist Rita Levi-Montalcini. She won SUN the Nobel Prize for her work on cell growth. SUN The French mountaineer Maurice Herzog who was the first man SUN to climb Annapurna, losing all his fingers and toes in the SUN process. SUN The sociologist Stanley Cohen, who coined the term "moral SUN panic" and devoted his life to human rights. His SUN collaborator Professor Laurie Taylor pays tribute. SUN And the actress Daphne Oxenford, loved by a generation of SUN children for reading stories on Listen with Mother. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01pt6d4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01pt87x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01ppn8x (Listen) SUN Starting Young SUN SUN Starting Young SUN Leave college, start a business. That is the idea behind a SUN high-powered new project called Entrepreneur First, taking SUN 30 new graduates through the hazardous first stages of SUN launching their own companies. Peter Day charts the progress SUN of some of them..from initial idea to plausible proposition, SUN and beyond. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01ptb67 (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b01ptb69 (Listen) SUN John Kampfner of The Independent analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01ppn8j (Listen) SUN Les Miserables; Oscars; Underground SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, SUN who broke with tradition by recording his actors singing SUN live on set. Hooper began his career on Eastenders and went SUN on to win an Oscar for The Kings Speech, but this is his SUN first musical. SUN SUN Tim Robey reports on the Oscar nominations. SUN SUN Producer Alison Owen and screenwriter Stephen Fingleton SUN discuss the new Hollywood Blacklist, a list of the hottest SUN unproduced film scripts. SUN SUN And composer Neil Brand talks about his new score for SUN Anthony Asquith's 1928 silent film classic, Underground, SUN which is re-released this week. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01pt87q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 JANUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01pt7ts (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01pp89c (Listen) MON Contagion; changing masculinity in retail MON MON Contagion - how commerce spreads disease. Laurie Taylor MON talks to Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of MON Medicine, about the close intertwining between trade and MON germs from the 14th century to today. His new book explores MON the development of public health in the Western world as MON well as the global misuse of quarantines for political ends. MON Also, young men working in retail. The sociologist, Steven MON Roberts' research finds evidence for a new and softer kind MON of masculinity. He's joined by Professor Valerie Walkerdine, MON who's documented the changing relationship between men and MON work in a post industrial economy. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01pt87n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pt7tv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pt7tx (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pt7tz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01pt7v1 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pz453 (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with MON the Reverend Professor Maurice Scanlon. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01ptbbf (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01pt7v3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01ptbbh (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01ptbwt (Listen) MON Natural Capital: Tony Juniper MON MON On Start the Week Anne McElvoy talks to the environmental MON campaigner Tony Juniper about putting a price on nature, and MON reframing the importance of the natural world in terms of MON finance. But the writer William Fiennes believes it's the MON imagination and not discussion of dividends and capital that MON will inspire the next generation, and Ngaire Woods argues MON that governments and business should be run by goals and MON values, and not the balance sheet. The Tory MP, John MON Penrose, looks at whether we should be doing more to protect MON city skylines and townscapes. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01ptbww (Listen) MON The Real Jane Austen, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Paula Byrne. MON MON Reader - Emma Fielding MON MON In this new biography, best-selling author Paula Byrne MON explores the forces that shaped the interior life of Jane MON Austen, Britain's most beloved novelist: her father's MON religious faith, her other brothers' naval and military MON experiences, her relatives in the East and West Indies, her MON cousin who lived through the trauma of the French MON Revolution, her residence in Bath, her love of the seaside, MON her travels around England and her long struggle to become a MON published author. MON MON The woman who emerges in this biography is far tougher, more MON socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern MON than the conventional picture of 'dear Aunt Jane' would MON allow. MON MON Today a wooden writing box given to Jane as a gift from her MON father on her nineteenth birthday reveals that even as a MON teenager Jane Austen took her writing seriously. She wrote MON short stories full of outlandish jokes and lampoons of the MON popular fiction of the time to entertain her family. MON MON 28th January is the bicentenary of the first publication of MON Pride and Prejudice. MON MON Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. MON Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ptbwy (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ptbx0 (Listen) MON How to Write a Novel in a Week, Episode 1 MON MON By Tony Grounds MON MON Jim sees himself as an ideas man - always has been and MON always will be. But even though his entrepreneurial MON endeavours have so far only met with knock backs, Jim MON refuses to be cowed. And now, with the most important week MON of his life ahead of him, the bolt of inspiration is about MON to strike. MON MON Jim . . . . . Paul Ritter MON Kath . . . . . Sophie Thompson MON Ray . . . . . Ben Crowe MON Susie . . . . . Lizzie Watts MON Barman . . . . . Robert Blythe MON Shop Assistant . . . . . Will Howard MON MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON MON 11:00 Where Did All the Comrades Go? b01ptbx2 (Listen) MON The British Communist Party was pronounced dead in 1991 as MON the Soviet Union was collapsing. This is the story of its MON afterlife and how the Communist Party's money, its people, MON its ideas continued to play a critical and sometimes MON surprising role in British politics. MON MON Twenty years ago, Britain's answer to Bolshevism, the MON Communist Party of Great Britain, gave up the ghost and MON disbanded itself at a special conference in Bloomsbury. MON MON But arguably that was the very moment when the real MON influence of Britain's official communists began to be felt MON in a new and unexpected way. MON MON Freed from carrying the burdensome hammer and sickle and its MON compromising associations with Stalin's terror and the MON economic failure of the Soviet system, these ex-communists MON went out into the rest of the political world and began to MON exert real, if subtle, influence. MON MON Max Cotton traces the influence of the 'modernising' MON euro-communists, through the financial legacy of millions of MON pounds of 'Moscow Gold' and through the organisations they MON have founded and run, and looks for traces of their Marxist MON roots. MON MON Producer: Adam Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Turf Wars b00zf33t (Listen) MON An Incident at the Border MON MON Nigel Planer stars as a border-guard in Kieran Lynn's comedy MON about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. MON MON Arthur and Olivia take the sun in their local park on a MON beautiful summer's day. Olivia is reading a newspaper MON article on their country's new-found independence. It seems MON that no-one knows quite what the terms are for the MON secession. Arthur couldn't care less. He's apolitical and MON just enjoying watching the ducks. MON MON Suddenly a soldier arrives, dragging a tape across the MON ground, marking out the new border. He barges between the MON two young lovers. Now one is on one side of the new border, MON and one on the other! MON MON Arthur's attempt to cross is met with a stun-gun jolt from MON the guard, who has as little understanding of the new rules MON as the couple. He just knows he has been trained to be MON suspicious of everyone who isn't from 'this country' which MON now includes Arthur! MON MON How can our lovers be reunited? MON MON Reiver ..... Nigel Planer MON Olivia ..... Leah Brotherhead MON Arthur ..... Joseph Kloska MON MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON Producer: Peter Kavanagh MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01ptbx4 (Listen) MON Food critics versus flag rioters in Belfast, and who wears a MON watch anymore? MON MON Is it romantic to pay for help to propose marriage? We hear MON from the proposal planners who offer to inject some MON imagination into how you pop the question. MON Fewer watches are sold in Britain as we rely on our mobiles MON phones to keep us on time. Has the wristwatch finally gone MON out of fashion? MON And as riots over the flying of the Union Flag hit the MON economy of Belfast, there's a fight back from an unexpected MON quarter. Local food critics launch a campaign in support of MON local businesses. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01pt7v5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01ptbx6 (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 Just So Science b01ptbx8 (Listen) MON 1. How the Whale Got His Throat MON MON Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard MON Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things MON really came to be. MON MON In Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, we're told how the MON leopard got his spots, the camel his hump, the whale his MON throat and so forth. But what does science make of these MON lyrical tales? For the most part, just-so stories are to be MON dismissed as the antithesis of scientific reasoning. They're MON ad hoc fallacies, designed to explain-away a biological or MON behavioural trait, more akin to folklore than the laws of MON science. But on closer inspection, might Kipling's fantasies MON contain a grain of truth? And might the "truth" as science MON understands it, be even more fantastic than fiction? MON MON In Just So Science, Vivienne Parry meets researchers whose MON work on some of Kipling's 'best beloved' creatures is MON helping us to answer a rather inconvenient question: how do MON traits evolve? Why are some animals the way they are? MON Excerpts from five of the Just So Stories are read by Samuel MON West MON 1. How the Whale Got His Throat. How does the largest MON creature that has ever lived feed itself? Howard Roe and MON Nick Pyenson, discuss the wonders of "lunge feeding", said MON to be the largest biomechanical event on Earth. MON Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01pt9n9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00wlglj (Listen) MON Chequebook and Pen MON MON Written by Andrew Lynch and Johnny Vegas. MON MON Johnny Vegas pays tribute to the legendary Les Dawson in a MON comic flight of fancy. Les has a way with words but is MON northern, rather crumpled, a little shambolic and an unknown MON quantity, and delightfully unpredictable when he is faced MON with representing a national institution. MON MON Nicholas Parsons is Farson, a resplendent foil for Dawson. MON Farson embraces and embodies the hammiest forces of the MON 'traditional BBC'. MON MON A nemesis to Les and all he stands for and aims to subvert. MON MON This homage is a pure joyous farce, taking full artistic MON license in imagining how the BBC might have engaged the MON iconic Les to become a game show great in its eighties MON flagship, Blankety Blank. MON MON Les ..... Johnny Vegas MON Farson ..... Nicholas Parsons MON Helen ..... Shobna Gulati MON Dave Parkins ..... Mick Miller MON BBC Executive ..... Mark Chatterton MON Number Two ...... Paul Foot MON Doris (Barmaid) ..... Catherine Kinsella MON Other parts ..... Peter Slater (and cast). MON MON Directed by Jim Poyser MON Producer: Sally Harrison MON A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01ptgbx (Listen) MON (8/17) MON What term is used in astronomy for the observable MON lengthening of the wavelength of light from an object, as a MON result of that object moving away from the observer? And MON which Dutch sprinter, a star of the 1948 London Olympics, MON was nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife'? MON MON This week's competitors face these and many other MON wide-ranging questions from chairman Russell Davies, in the MON eighth heat in this year's series of radio's longest-running MON general knowledge contest. The programme comes from Media MON City in Salford, with contestants from Teesside, Leeds, MON North Lincolnshire and Bolton. MON MON As always, it will be the one who can get the most general MON knowledge questions correct who'll win through to the MON semi-finals which begin next month. A listener also stands MON to win a book token prize if the questions they have devised MON can stump the combined brainpower of the contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01pt8dl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Menace to Society b01ptgfw (Listen) MON Author and broadcaster Danny Wallace is a lifelong Beano MON fan. He grew up in Dundee, the home of the Beano and the MON Dandy. In this programme Danny looks at the history of the MON comic, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2013. He MON travels to Beano HQ and meets up with the artists, MON storyliners and editors, and submits his own Dennis the MON Menace story idea. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Foster. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01ptgfy (Listen) MON Women in Sikhism MON MON The fundamental message of Sikhism appears to be simple; God MON is one and all people are equal. But are some more equal MON than others? If the Sikh scriptures are consistent with a MON feminist agenda, why do some Sikh women feel that they are MON second class citizens? MON Joining Ernie to discuss the position of women within the MON Sikh tradition are Navtej Purewal, Lecturer in the School of MON Social Sciences at Manchester University; Eleanor Nesbitt, MON Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Education in the MON University of Warwick; and Nicky Guninder Kaur Singh, MON Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Colby MON College Waterville Maine in the USA. MON MON 17:00 PM b01ptgg0 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pt7v7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01ptgg2 (Listen) MON Series 10, Episode 3 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, Holly Walsh and John Finnemore MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Wasps, Computers, Oscar MON Wilde and Boris Johnson. 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 b01ptghx (Listen) MON Pat makes her feelings known, and there's a stroke of luck MON for Lilian. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01ptghz (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ptbx0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Outsourced b01pzqpv (Listen) MON Chris Mullin looks at the impact of outsourcing on the MON workforce. MON MON For many years government and local authorities have been MON putting services out to tender, and now, with the drive to MON cut costs in the public sector, Britain is said to be in the MON biggest wave of outsourcing since the 1980s. MON MON The outsourced sector is estimated to employ around one MON tenth of the workforce. Some outsourced jobs are in MON relatively low wage, low skilled areas. Critics say it leads MON to a two-tier workforce and a race to the bottom, with MON damaging effects on pay and conditions. Those putting MON services out to tender and the outsourcing companies cite MON greater efficiencies and substantial savings for the MON taxpayer. Whatever the wider pros and cons, many workers now MON find themselves in outsourced companies. MON MON In this programme Chris Mullin talks to cleaners, care MON workers, parking wardens, refuse workers about working in MON the outsourced sector and finds out what outsourcing has MON meant for them. He also speaks to outsourcing companies, MON unions and politicians. MON MON Producer: Jane Ashley. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01ppmrb (Listen) MON People trafficking in India MON MON In a major investigation, Natalia Antelava reports on the MON abduction of tens of thousands of young girls in India for MON forced marriages. Thousands more are sold as prostitutes and MON domestic servants. She follows the route of the traffickers, MON who take girls from destitute households in places like West MON Bengal to wealthier areas in Northern states, where a MON shortage of women is blamed by many on sex-selective MON abortions. It's a problem the United Nations describes as of MON 'genocidal proportions'. Natalia joins campaigners and MON police fighting the trade and hears the stories of the MON trafficked girls and from a trafficker himself. MON Producer: Natalie Morton. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01ppn8l (Listen) MON Will the Nasa Kepler mission become one of the Space MON Agency's most famous and significant achievements? Quentin MON Cooper speaks to William Borucki, Principal Scientist on MON Kepler, who believes it will be. Also Dr. Stephen Lowry from MON the University of Kent describes how data collected from the MON fly by of the asteroid Apophis will help scientists track MON its course - and determine if it will hit the Earth. Dr. MON David McInroy from the British Geological survey talks about MON the difficulties of Arctic drilling and Dr. Tim Behrens from MON University College London explains why some areas of the MON brain are proving very popular with neuroscientists. MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01ptbwt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01pt7v9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01ptgqj (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pz2d2 (Listen) MON The Knot, Episode 6 MON MON Dominic Kitchen is a wedding photographer who is used to MON seeing people tie the knot, an expression that also MON represents a sensation that he feels in the pit of his MON stomach. A sensation that emerges when he is in the presence MON of a certain person who could change his ordinary life MON forever. They have a secret that only they can ever know as MON it is something that society, even today, would struggle MON with. This is a tale of agonising loss and forbidden love. MON MON Episode 6 MON As Dominic becomes a father himself, his concern for his own MON father grows ever stronger. Meanwhile his sister Victoria's MON support for him is in danger of going too far. MON MON Written by Mark Watson MON Abridged by John Peacock MON Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Director: Celia de Wolff MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01pp5v8 (Listen) MON The language of bereavement and grief are explored by writer MON Michael Rosen, as he talks to psychologists, teachers, MON hospice workers, childrens charities, and visits a Death MON Cafe. MON Winstons Wish is a charity for children who have lost a MON parent, brother or sister. Michael sits in on a training MON session for teachers and carers in Cheltenham, and discovers MON how the language we use can either confuse or comfort young MON children. He talks to psychologist Colin Murray Parkes about MON the stages of grieving and the psychological complexity of MON dealing with loss. And he visits a Death Cafe, where MON like-minded people come together to discuss anything and MON everything about death and dying, whilst enjoying tea and MON cake. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ptgql (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 JANUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01pt7w8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01ptbww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pt7wb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pt7wd (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pt7wg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01pt7wj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pzb81 (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with TUE the Reverend Professor Maurice Scanlon. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01ptgtp (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01ptgtr (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01pth0t (Listen) TUE Prof Robert Mair TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to Robert Mair, professor of Civil TUE engineering at Cambridge University about his life as an TUE engineer in academia and industry and his expertise on TUE finding innovative solutions to the problems of building TUE tunnels under already congested cities. TUE TUE He talks about his innovative technique of 'compensation TUE grouting' which prevented Big Ben from tilting and even TUE cracking and coming away from the Houses of Parliament TUE during Jubilee line extension. TUE Crossrail is one of the biggest engineering projects in TUE Europe and involves constructing 26 miles of new tunnels TUE underneath London's busy streets and under the existing tube TUE network. Robert talks the latest tunnelling technology being TUE used and the huge drilling machines with names like 'Ada' TUE and Phyliss' which use high pressure to minimise ground TUE movements as they drill and even have a kitchen and bathroom TUE facilities on board. TUE He also talks about his latest work on how smart sensors TUE which can harvest their own energy. And when built into TUE buildings, roads, tunnels they could make sure the TUE engineering projects of the future will be able to TUE continuously monitor and report on their own safety. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01pth0w (Listen) TUE Martin Wainwright talks to Paul Lambert TUE TUE Martin Wainwright continues his exploration into what makes TUE people become persistent campaigners. Last week he talked to TUE peace activist, Lindis Percy, who consciously chose her TUE cause but in this weeks programme he talks to Paul Lambert, TUE who took up the fight for safety on bulk carriers when his TUE youngest brother was lost at sea when MV Derbyshire sank off TUE Japan in 1980. Not a man used to writing letters or locking TUE horns with MPs or shipping magnates, Paul campaigned TUE tirelessly at great cost to his own health and happiness, to TUE discover the truth about the Derbyshire. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01pz3m1 (Listen) TUE The Real Jane Austen, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Paula Byrne. TUE Reader Emma Fielding TUE TUE Today, an Indian shawl reveals the influence of Jane's TUE family connections to the the East Indies Company and the TUE wider world - taking us to the East Indies, revolutionary TUE Paris and even riots on the streets of London. TUE TUE Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. TUE Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pth0y (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwvc0 (Listen) TUE How to Write a Novel in a Week, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Tony Grounds TUE TUE Ideas man Jim has been struck by lightning. Quite TUE literarily, or so he thinks. Realising that everyone has a TUE novel locked inside of them, he has miraculously discovered TUE the key. TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01pthk3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Marine Conservation Zones TUE TUE Are we doing enough to protect the wildlife in our coastal TUE waters? The government is in the process of deciding which TUE areas around England and Wales to protect as conservation TUE areas, but wildlife organisations are concerned. Only 31 out TUE of the 127 recommended areas are being considered for TUE protection, and some important wildlife areas are left off TUE the list. Our seas are used by very many people, for TUE leisure, fishing, wind farms, oil and gas; so how does TUE wildlife fair with so many pressures on our seas? Marine TUE Conservation Zones are under the spotlight. TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Baaba Maal and the Senegalese Kingdom of Music TUE b01q6xtb (Listen) TUE Each year the Senegalese king of music, Baaba Maal, invites TUE musicians across the region to play at the Blues du Fleuve TUE festival, Festival of the River, which takes place somewhere TUE along the Senegal River on the northern edge of the country. TUE TUE The river is the key - it runs from Guinea through Mali, TUE Mauritania and Senegal - the countries that were once TUE unified in the kingdom of Mali, the most musical region in TUE Africa and Baaba has invited musicians from all these TUE countries to perform at the festival. TUE TUE This year the English cellist Adrian Brendel travels with TUE his instrument to the most remote festival location ever, to TUE immerse himself in the music. He makes his way to the desert TUE town of Demet on the Senegal side of the river and to Bogue TUE on the Mauritanian side, to hear traditional singing of the TUE griots, spine tingling laments from Mauritania's Veyrouz, TUE love songs from Guinea's Binta Laly Sow next to the finest TUE hip hop artists including Duggy Tee. TUE TUE Baaba's own band Daande Lenol draws thousands - young and TUE old. The band's name means the "Voice of the People" and TUE they follow him in droves. TUE TUE Baaba is increasingly deemed a guide for these people - TUE collectively the Fulani - and he represents peace and wisdom TUE in a culturally threatened region. TUE TUE He and Adrian share a passion for music and discuss TUE differences in their approach. Baaba describes his alarm at TUE the upheaval in Mali along with sadness that music has been TUE banned as part of the repressive regime. Adrian plays with TUE different musicians, ultimately going on stage with Daande TUE Lenol. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01pthk5 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01pt7wl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01pthk7 (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 Just So Science b01pthk9 (Listen) TUE 2. How the Leopard Got His Spots TUE TUE Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard TUE Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things TUE really came to be. TUE TUE 2. How the Leopard Got His Spots. Chemist Andrea Sella and TUE biologist Buzz Baum explain why a leopard could change its TUE spots, thanks to mathematician Alan Turing. TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01ptghx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pthkc (Listen) TUE Art & Gadg TUE TUE by Gregory Evans. TUE TUE After ten years of estrangement, Arthur Miller and Elia TUE Kazan, two giants of American theatre, are forced to TUE confront their intense, almost brotherly friendship - and TUE how that friendship was destroyed by the great moral and TUE political dilemma of the time. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby TUE TUE Credits TUE Arthur Miller: Nathan Osgood TUE Elia Kazan: Karl Johnson TUE Barbara Loden: Fenella Woolgar TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Writer: Gregory Evans TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01pty41 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by leading historians TUE and writers to discuss issues from our past that have been TUE raised by new research carried out by listeners, heritage TUE organisations and the academic community. TUE TUE Among the highlights in the next six weeks of this new TUE series, Tom and his co-presenter Helen Castor will be asking TUE whether the Renaissance began on the 26th April 1336, TUE probably about tea time ... and possibly over a game of TUE cards, investigating how a London conference set up to limit TUE naval fire power in 1930 had the opposite effect, and TUE finding out why you can't necessarily see the wood through TUE the trees in a Royal Forest. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Lives in a Landscape b01h73pd (Listen) TUE Series 10, Episode 2 TUE TUE Alan Dein delves into the deaths of two Labradors, Moz and TUE Chloe and three Jack Russell Terriers, Monty, Poppy and TUE Murphy, living in different families on the same street. TUE Following the latest death, pork steak laced with pesticide TUE was found in a garden and a local vet is in little doubt TUE that this was a deliberate. TUE TUE For Georgina and her husband Darren the attacks have TUE unleashed mistrust and fear in their once close knit TUE community. Their home on the sprawling council estate now TUE hosts a shrine around the fireplace and the cremated remains TUE of their loved pets are buried in the garden. Just weeks TUE later Monty's mother, Poppy, was out in the garden when Emma TUE spotted her eating something: "I rushed out and couldn't TUE believe my eyes when I saw her with more meat. It was too TUE late to stop her and she died later that afternoon." TUE TUE For PC Charlie Banks, from the Pontefract and Knottingley TUE neighbourhood policing team, the case is proving difficult TUE to solve. There is no history of dispute between neighbours TUE and he has found no evidence to suggest what might lie TUE behind the attacks. Alan Dein meets those with theories of TUE their own and looks at what these five dogs meant to their TUE owners and who might have wanted them dead. TUE TUE And just days into the recording the poisoner strikes again TUE - with Alan Dein following the latest attack and also the TUE reaction to it: Georgina and her husband, for instance, have TUE decided to pack their bags and leave. But their son, Zac, TUE has grown up on the estate and is reluctant to leave. TUE TUE Meanwhile other neighbours speculate about what might be TUE behind the latest attacks - could this be a personal TUE vendetta....? TUE TUE Producer: Sue Mitchell. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01pty43 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen meets parents, researchers and carers to TUE explore the ways we communicate with people with autism or TUE profound learning disabilities. Phoebe Caldwell talks about TUE the principles of "intensive interaction", and why listening TUE and non verbal communication are central to her work. TUE Researchers at the Norah Fry Research Centre in Bristol TUE explain why changing the way we communicate with people with TUE disabilities can challenge preconceptions, and make TUE relationships more open, friendly and equal. And Ruth TUE Hendery, the head teacher at St Crispin's special school in TUE Edinburgh, explains how communication works in her school, TUE and why it's so important to get it right. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01pty45 (Listen) TUE Series 29, Aubrey Beardsley TUE TUE Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on the Victorian artist Aubrey TUE Beardsley, whose shocking originality he compares to that of TUE Alexander McQueen. Laurence's first foray into art was TUE copying Beardsley drawings to sell at his school - with the TUE more erotic ones fetching a premium price... Biographer TUE Matthew Sturgis fills in the detail of Beardsley's short but TUE extraordinary life, and Matthew Parris presents. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01pty47 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pt7wn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01pty49 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 3 TUE TUE Guests have some new experiences and give their verdicts to TUE Marcus Brigstocke. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01pty4c (Listen) TUE Rob receives the third degree, and there's an exciting TUE development at Willow Cottage. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01pty4f (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwvc0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01pty4h (Listen) TUE Illicit Arms Trade TUE TUE The recent conviction of an arms broker from Yorkshire has TUE raised serious concerns about the murky world of the TUE international weapons trade. Gary Hyde was sentenced to TUE seven years imprisonment for one of the largest illegal arms TUE deals ever uncovered: 80,000 guns and 32 million rounds of TUE ammunition shipped from China to Nigeria - enough to equip a TUE small army. But no-one knows where they ended up. Britain TUE has strict regulations governing the sale and export of TUE firearms, so how did he manage it? Where have the guns gone? TUE TUE File on 4 investigates the British arms dealers brokering TUE weapons for some of the world's most dangerous regimes. Some TUE have done work for the Ministry of Defence. One was even a TUE firearms advisor to the Home Office. Allan Urry asks what TUE this means for the UK's licensing and arms export regimes, TUE claimed to be among the best in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01pty4k (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01pty4m (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01pth0t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01pt7ws (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01pty4p (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pz2f7 (Listen) TUE The Knot, Episode 7 TUE TUE Dominic and Victoria grow ever closer after the death of TUE their father. TUE TUE Written by Mark Watson TUE Abridged by John Peacock TUE Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b0184s33 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 3 TUE TUE Victoria Coren presents another edition of the show which TUE dares to commit heresy. TUE TUE Her guests this week are comedian David Mitchell, the Rev TUE Richard Coles and Diane Abbott MP. Together they have fun TUE exposing the wrong-headedness of received wisdom and TUE challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. TUE TUE Diane Abbott is happy to argue against the received wisdom TUE that "the Labour Party chose the wrong Miliband" though she TUE can't help observing that the party really should have TUE chosen her, the Rev Richard Coles is happy to speak in TUE defence of parents who go to church just to get their kids TUE into the local faith schools, and David Mitchell is TUE incredulous that anyone would believe that "if a friend is TUE doing something for charity you should sponsor them. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pty4r (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01pt7xm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01pz3m1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pt7xp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pt7xr (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pt7xt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01pt7xw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pzb8h (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with WED the Reverend Professor Maurice Scanlon. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01ptzlz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01ptzm1 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Generations Apart b01ptzm3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Finding Work WED WED Generations Apart tracks two groups of people born at the WED forefront of their generations - the baby boomers born in WED 1946 and the children of the nineties, born into the era of WED the world wide web. WED WED Last year we met the generations for the first time, but WED this year Fi Glover is joined by Professor Rachel Thomson, a WED sociologist at Sussex University, to explore how sixty years WED of social change have affected the two generations' ability WED to secure work, and ask what impact this has on the WED transition to adulthood. WED WED In this programme, Fi explores how job opportunities open to WED the younger generation have diminished since the 1960s, when WED the baby boomers entered work. WED WED Adam is twenty two and has been out of work since leaving WED school at sixteen. With no qualifications and constant WED disappointment at the job centre, he's struggling to stay WED positive. Leaving school without qualifications in the WED 1960s, as Derek did, wasn't such a recipe for disaster. He WED walked into factory work and was on a management training WED scheme by the time he reached Adam's age. WED WED The contrast in the job opportunities between the WED generations is equally stark for those seeking skilled work. WED As a baby boomer, there were plenty of opportunities on WED offer for David when he was young. He remembers how passing WED the 11+ opened the doors to a good education and a secure WED career. As an undergraduate, Abi doesn't feel so positive. WED She'd like to be a journalist, but she's aware that a degree WED is no longer enough. Today it's all about getting unpaid WED work experience, something that many young people can't WED afford to do. WED WED It's not just the younger generation who are competing for WED the paucity of jobs. People are now working longer, many WED beyond retirement age. Baby boomer Carol was shocked at how WED difficult it was to find work after leaving her long term WED job at the Heathrow airport last year. WED WED The struggle for financial independence is something that WED many women from Carol's generation are familiar with. Even WED though there were plenty of jobs when they were young, WED pregnancy often brought an end to a career. Back in the WED 1960's, Cathy vividly remembers how she had to put children WED ahead of any career aspirations she had when she became WED pregnant. It's not an unfamiliar story in the modern working WED world, but it's less common. WED WED Nickael is pleased that she has the social freedom to fit WED any children she may one day have around her job. She's WED chosen teaching, one of the few options left that offer a WED secure career path. WED WED But what impact is the scarcity of jobs among the younger WED generation having on the rest of their lives? And how is it WED affecting the older generation? In the next programme, Fi WED Glover goes on the road to find out. WED WED Producer: Beth Eastwood. WED Generations Apart blog WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01pz3ml (Listen) WED The Real Jane Austen, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Paula Byrne. WED Reader Emma Fielding WED WED Today, her brother Henry Austen's regimental cocked hat WED leads us into popular unrest and food riots, and the WED influence of her brother's military career on her writing. WED WED Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. WED Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ptzm5 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwwjb (Listen) WED How to Write a Novel in a Week, Episode 3 WED WED By Tony Grounds WED WED Jim has shunned work and a holiday in Crete to devote the WED week to creating his very own Ulysses. Driven to despair, WED his wife Kath has shown him the door. But unbeknown to her, WED the challenge of winning her back is just the sort of quest WED his novel was lacking. WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 11:00 Premiership Science b01ptzm7 (Listen) WED Like football, science is an international endeavour WED complete with its own stars and prima donnas. Alok Jha asks WED if the UK is doing enough to make sure we have a dream team. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b01ptzm9 (Listen) WED Series 8, Fifty Shades of Ray WED WED In Episode Three 'Fifty Shades of Ray'; the team's anxiety WED over possible redundancies is overshadowed when they hear WED some shattering news concerning Ray. WED WED Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS WED Brian: ALEX LOWE WED Megan: NINA CONTI WED Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN WED Helen: LIZA TARBUCK WED Simon: ANDREW WINCOTT WED Libby: SARAH KENDALL WED Peter/Fireman: PATRICK BRENNAN WED Major: ROBERT BLYTHE WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01ptzmc (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01ptzmf (Listen) WED Campylobacter WED WED It's the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK, said WED to be responsible for more than 500,000 cases a year and the WED highest proportion of hospitalisations. And cases of WED Campylobacter are on the increase. Experts say the cost and WED burden of the disease is unacceptably high. And with the WED most recent surveys suggesting that 65 per cent of chickens WED at retail sale in the UK are now contaminated with the WED bacteria, what part can the poultry industry play in helping WED to lower levels? John Waite investigates why Campylobacter WED has proved such a difficult organism to understand and WED control. Why have efforts by the Food Standards Agency and WED others not achieved a sustained reduction in incidents, and WED what is now being done to reduce this growing risk to public WED health? WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01pt7xy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01ptzmk (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 Just So Science b01ptzmp (Listen) WED 3. The Beginning of the Armadillos WED WED Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard WED Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things WED really came to be. WED WED 3. The Beginning of the Armadillos. Part mammal, part WED reptile, part just plain weird. Why the story of the WED Armadillo is stranger than fiction, according to Richard WED Dawkins and Mariella Superina. WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01pty4c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00wwbzj (Listen) WED The Darkness of Wallis Simpson WED WED A play imagining the last days of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of WED Windsor, the woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the WED throne of England in 1936. Wallis is now 79 years old. WED Edward has been dead for fourteen years. WED WED The play pivots upon a single dramatic conceit: that Wallis, WED now entering the darkness of approaching death, has WED forgotten every single thing about Edward. Her entire part WED in what an American journalist once called "the greatest WED story since the Resurrection" has completely gone from her WED mind. Other moments in her life she can vividly recall, but WED the world-shaking events at the heart of it are lost to her WED - apparently forever. WED WED She lies bedridden in her house in Paris. A lawyer friend, WED Maitre Suzanne Blum has taken charge of her care. But, WED believing that Wallis has deliberately chosen to forget her WED "role in history", Blum is determined to force her to WED remember this vital bit of the past, before she dies. WED WED Original Music by David Chilton WED WED Producer: Gordon House WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Wallis Simpson: Elizabeth McGovern WED Maitre Blum: Miriam Margolyes WED Grandmother: Miriam Margolyes WED Ernest Simpson: Joseph Kloska WED Wallis' Mother: Barbara Barnes WED Cecil Beaton: Nigel Anthony WED Win Spencer: John Chancer WED Producer: Gordon House WED Writer: Rose Tremain WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01ptzt5 (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Are you looking for a better savings rate or thinking about WED investing? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm or email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Vincent Duggleby and guests take your WED calls. WED WED With the interest rate paid on many savings accounts WED falling, it could be time for you to find a better deal. WED WED Whether you're considering a high street, internet or postal WED account, ask our experts for the latest rates. WED WED Maybe your fixed term account is about to mature, should you WED take out another or waith until rates rise? WED WED What are the rules about ISAS and where will you get the WED best return? WED WED Perhaps you want to take some risk and ask about investing WED in gilts, bonds or equities? What are the options, cost and WED risks? WED WED What's the outlook for stock market performance in 2013? WED WED If you need financial advice, our experts can explain the WED new rules which began this month. What types of advice are WED available? Which qualifications should an adviser have and WED what do they have to tell you about service and fees? WED WED Whether you want to ask about advice, savings rates or WED investment options, call Vincent Duggleby and guests on WED Wednesday. WED WED Waiting to take your call will be: WED WED Peter Day, Partner, Killik & Co. WED Louise Oliver, Certified Financial Planner, Taylor Oliver. WED Sylvia Waycott, Senior Finance Expert, Moneyfacts. WED WED You can email your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or the WED number to call is 03 700 100 444 - lines are open between WED 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01pty4m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01ptzt7 (Listen) WED Neo liberalism - its genesis and development. Laurie Taylor WED talks to Daniel Stedman Jones, the author of a new book WED which traces the origins of neo liberal economics. Also, the WED enduring and complex relationship between race and music. WED Laurie meets Jo Haynes, the author of a new study which WED considers the significance of race to the understanding of WED music genres and preferences. What does the 'love of WED difference' via music contribute to contemporary WED perspectives on racism? The research draws on interviews WED with people from the British world music scene. They're WED joined by Professor Paul Gilroy. WED WED Producer Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01ptzt9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01ptztc (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pt7y0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01ptztf (Listen) WED Series 4, Uskerty WED WED Sitcom about the ups and down of a charter airline. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01ptzth (Listen) WED Brenda is on tenterhooks. Meanwhile Tony gets down to WED business. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01ptztk (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwwjb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01ptztm (Listen) WED Nick Robinson shines a light on the process by which WED controversial decisions are reached behind closed doors in WED Whitehall. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Economics b01pw1np (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED A brand new Radio 4 series in which Tim Harford tells a WED pop-up audience short stories about fascinating people and WED ideas in economics. WED WED The Financial Times' "Undercover Economist" and presenter of WED Radio 4's "More or Less" weaves together economic ideas with WED remarkable personal histories in some unusual locations. WED WED At a pop-up shop on Regent Street in London Tim turns his WED attention to heated hot pants - oh yes! - and the business WED of innovation. We hear the moving story of Mario Capecchi WED whose struggle to get funding for his experiments tell us WED much about where new ideas come from, and how to foster WED them. WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Sexual Nature: A Brief Natural History of Sex WED b01pw1nr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Sex is one of Nature's great mysteries. It is dangerous, WED complicated and extremely inefficient compared to the way WED microbes reproduce. Microscopic bugs just split in two and WED even some female lizards have decided that sex with males is WED not worth the bother. These abstemious lizards just clone WED themselves. WED WED But so many organisms - from humans to seaweeds - do WED reproduce sexually. There must be excellent reasons why some WED mystery bug on Earth two billion years ago invented sex and WED why millions of kinds of animals, plants and fungi persist WED with it, and with great success. WED WED Adam Rutherford's quest for answers takes him from the banks WED of London's River Lea in search of alien asexual water WED snails to a private room at the Brussels Natural History WED Museum to view a couple of extinct turtles who were killed WED in the act and fossilised in a dying embrace. WED WED Along with probing theories about the purpose of sex, Adam WED charts the milestones in the evolutionary history of sexual WED reproduction. Philip Larkin was wrong when he said sexual WED intercourse was invented in 1963. Primitive armoured fish WED were doing at least 380 million years ago. This is the age WED of the earliest known fossil male appendages, unearthed at a WED remote spot called Go Go in Australia. WED WED Sex goes back along way and in many respects it is WED perplexing. But if sex hadn't evolved, life on Earth would WED have turned out extremely dull. The planet would be WED populated by nothing more microscopic microbes and covered WED in bacterial slime - not the magnificent riot of weird and WED wonderful biological diversity we see and are members of. WED WED 21:30 Generations Apart b01ptzm3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01pt7y2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01pw1nt (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pz2g8 (Listen) WED The Knot, Episode 8 WED WED Dominic struggles to come to terms with the consequences of WED his actions and hears some shocking news which almost tips WED him over the edge. WED WED Written by Mark Watson WED Abridged by John Peacock WED Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Director: Celia de Wolff WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b0113086 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second WED series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real WED advice for real people. WED WED Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she WED wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of WED ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of WED the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self WED qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's WED problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which WED normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). WED WED This week the team tackle two problems - "I'm a cherry WED childless and proud of it" and "I'd like to be romantic but WED I have a voice that makes children cry" WED WED Sarah Millican Sarah WED Ruth Bratt Marion WED Simon Day Terry WED Bridget Christie Jenny WED Joe Wilkinson Keith. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pw1nw (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 JANUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01pt7yx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01pz3ml (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pt7yz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pt7z1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pt7z3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01pt7z5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pzb8p (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with THU the Reverend Professor Maurice Scanlon. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01pw38j (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01pw38l (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01pw38n (Listen) THU Comets THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 'Comets', the 'dirty THU snowballs' of the solar system which orbit the sun. THU Comprising materials from the time when the solar system was THU formed comets are like 'frozen time capsules' revealing THU important information about the early history of our planet THU and others. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01pz3n7 (Listen) THU The Real Jane Austen, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Paula Byrne. THU Reader - Emma Fielding THU THU Today, 'The Marriage Banns' uncover Jane's youthful THU flirtations and dalliances and a hastily retracted marriage THU acceptance. THU THU Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. THU Produced by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pw38q (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwwy7 (Listen) THU How to Write a Novel in a Week, Episode 4 THU THU By Tony Grounds THU THU Jim's master plan of inspiring the nation to write their own THU novels has had unexpected consequences. His mother, for one, THU has responded by revealing a long-kept secret and now she's THU gone missing. THU THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01pw38s (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Cornershop b01pw38v (Listen) THU In the early 1990's the Anglo-Indian band, Cornershop, had THU had a couple of decent singles, but as a group they were THU rather ramshackle. Then in 1997, with the release of their THU album, When I was Born for the Seventh Time, they re-emerged THU with a different and refreshing sound. Their British Asian THU fusion was raucously experimental; their attitude was spiky, THU smart and often hilarious. They'd created a masterpiece of THU cross cultural music which gave them a worldwide hit, THU Brimful of Asha. The release prompted an excited music press THU to hail the album as a breakthrough in the integration of THU white and Asian music, and to predict an explosion in THU multi-cultural rock. Musician, Talvin Singh; and Rolling THU Stone music critic, David Fricke, join band members Ben THU Ayres, and Tjinder Singh, to explore how the album was made, THU the impact it had at the time, and whether its promise of THU musical integration has endured. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01pw38x (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01pt7z7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01pw38z (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 Just So Science b01pw391 (Listen) THU 4. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin THU THU Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard THU Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things THU really came to be. THU THU 4. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. Rhinos and horses have THU much in common. John Hutchinson studies both, but just don't THU ask to look inside his freezer. THU Producer: Rami Tzabar. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01ptzth (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pw393 (Listen) THU Outside In THU THU By Rhiannon Tise THU Nicola is bubbly and attractive on the outside but behind THU the door to her flat lies a secret. Inside is full of boxes THU and THU boxes of shopping, packed with clothes she has never worn. THU She is running out of room but she just can't stop and her THU money is running out. THU THU Music by Marc Johnson THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU Credits THU Nicola: Rosie Cavaliero THU Robin: Stephen Critchlow THU Oona: Lizzy Watts THU Mike: Ben Crowe THU Janine: Stephanie Racine THU TV Presenter: Will Howard THU Producer: Tracey Neale THU Writer: Rhiannon Tise THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01pw395 (Listen) THU Marshes of Norfolk THU THU Cley Marshes was purchased in 1926 making it the first THU Wildlife Trust reserve in the country. It's a fascinating THU place with inspiring international connections including a THU special link with the Middle East. THU In December and January overwintering birds fill the air and THU the reed beds of Cley but it's not just our winged friends THU that migrate here. A group of artists drawn from Germany, THU the US and all around the UK settled in Cley 30 years ago. THU Inspired by the light and the landscapes the collective THU known as 'Made in Cley' are regularly drawn to the marshes THU to create their art, but Cley's power to inspire doesn't THU stop there. THU In an act of global solidarity, Nature Iraq made a donation THU to Norfolk Wildlife Trust to support their work on England's THU North Norfolk coast. As renowned birder Richard Porter THU explains, they did this as a gesture of thanks for the help THU they have received from colleagues in the UK. The links with THU the Middle East are also close to the heart of Richard THU Aspinall as his brother, Simon Aspinall was a leading THU authority on the region's birds. Despite travelling the THU world, Cley is the place that Simon made home. Simon was THU diagnosed with motor neurone disease which left him unable THU to move without significant help, but this did not stop both THU Simon and Richard visiting the marshes right up until the THU end of Simon's life. THU The personal connections to Cley run as deep as the THU international ones. For three generations Bernard Bishop and THU his family have cared for the marshes. Bernard's great THU grandfather was the first warden, followed by his father and THU then Bernard himself. Between them they've seen visitors THU grow from the occasional walking party of 10 a day to over THU 100,000 a year all flocking to see the outstanding bird life THU that call Cley home. THU THU Producer: Nicola Humphries. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01pt87x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01pt99b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01pw397 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01pw399 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making the headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b01pw39c (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pt7z9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01pw39f (Listen) THU Series 2, Role Models THU THU Series two of Life: An Idiot's guide again sees Stephen K THU Amos investigate a series of themes using guest stand-ups THU and the hilarious audience interaction that he's become THU famous for. THU THU In episode 1, Stephen tackles "Role Models": Who are our THU role models? What does it mean to be a role model? And why THU did Stephen's parents used to make him impersonate Trevor THU MacDonald around the house? THU THU Guests Sarah Kendall, Gráinne Maguire and James Acaster all THU offer their own perspectives. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01pw39h (Listen) THU Lynda is agog with the news. Meanwhile Pip is causing THU concern. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01pw3lg (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwwy7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01pw3lj (Listen) THU Libor THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01pw3ll (Listen) THU Gas Leak THU THU Russia's giant energy company Gazprom has the biggest THU reserves of natural gas in the world, and much of the THU country's new-found prosperity has depended on its exports THU to Europe. But now global gas prices are tumbling as new THU supplies come on stream, and the EU has launched a top level THU investigation of the company's grip on European energy. THU Peter Day examines Gazprom's future in an uncertain world. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01pthk3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01pw38n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01pt7zc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01pw3ln (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pz2h5 (Listen) THU The Knot, Episode 9 THU THU Dominic has been given a second chance and he is determined THU to take it. Meanwhile Victoria has one last secret she has THU to share. THU THU Written by Mark Watson THU Abridged by John Peacock THU Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Shedtown b01pw3lq (Listen) THU Series 2, 'Til Press Do Us Part THU THU Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some THU time or other? THU THU Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching oneself out of a THU long established orbit to head for the deep space of the THU unknown? THU THU In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of THU escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol THU of possibility and change. THU THU Episode 2: THU As William weds his blushing, boiler-suited, berk of a THU bride, old Johnny Edwards takes a turn for the worse. THU THU Barry............................Tony Pitts THU Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan THU Eleanor.........................Ronni Ancona THU Johnny..........................Alan Leith THU Colin.............................Johnny Vegas THU Deborah........................Emma Fryer THU William.........................Adrian Manfredi THU Diane...........................Rosina Carbone THU Dave............................Shaun Dooley THU Father Michael.............James Quinn THU Wes............................Warren Brown THU Nell.............................Eleanor Samson THU THU Narrator.......................Maxine Peake THU Music..........................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus THU THU Written and Directed by Tony Pitts THU Produced by Sally Harrison THU A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pw3ls (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 JANUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01pt808 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01pz3n7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pt80b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pt80d (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pt80j (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01pt80l (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pzb92 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01pw5rt (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01pw5rw (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01pt8dj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01pz3nr (Listen) FRI The Real Jane Austen, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Paula Byrne. FRI Reader Emma Fielding FRI FRI Today, a pair of topaz crosses - given as a gift to Jane and FRI her sister Cassandra from their sailor brother Charles - FRI find their way into her fiction, and the only known picture FRI of Jane, a watercolour painted by her beloved sister, FRI reveals the enduring intimacy of their relationship. FRI FRI Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pw5ry (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwxt9 (Listen) FRI How to Write a Novel in a Week, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Tony Grounds FRI FRI Jim has had an eventful week: his mother Iris revealed that FRI the love of her life was not in fact his father but Angelo, FRI an Italian prisoner of war with whom she had an affair as a FRI teenager. Meanwhile, Jim's despairing wife Kath has FRI threatened separation following his crusade to turn his life FRI into a novel. With nothing to lose, Jim has staged an FRI audacious reunion. FRI FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI 11:00 Random Edition b01pw5s0 (Listen) FRI The Glorious Revolution FRI FRI The 1688 Glorious Revolution was one of the key events in FRI creating the Britain of today. FRI FRI So much directly or indirectly stemmed from William of FRI Orange's successful invasion and the resultant expulsion of FRI James II - regular parliaments with control over spending, a FRI constitutional (and avowedly Church of England) monarchy, FRI Britain as a great international power with a worldwide FRI empire, the Bank of England and the concept of our National FRI Debt, the rise of Britain as a manufacturing powerhouse, and FRI much more. All because James II dared to try and turn FRI Britain back into a Catholic nation with absolute rule, on FRI the model of Louis XIV of France. FRI FRI The famous, yet still not widely appreciated story of the FRI Glorious Revolution, is the subject of this Random Edition. FRI Peter Snow uses the jumble of short stories which tumble out FRI of the Universal Intelligence newspaper for December 11th FRI 1688 to describe how the Dutch Prince William of Orange FRI landed a multinational army at Torbay to counter James's FRI Catholic ambitions and promote parliament's cause - but also FRI to ensure that this country was on the 'right' side in the FRI war against Louis XIV, who had ambitions to control vast FRI swathes of Europe. FRI FRI The programme visits Torbay to describe the arrival of the FRI vast invasion fleet and various points on William's route FRI into London. Why did James run away from fighting a 'Battle FRI of Salisbury Plain', leaving the paltry 'Battle of Reading' FRI as a substitute? FRI FRI Peter Snow also visits several key London sites, from the FRI spot which saw James take to the Thames and flee into exile FRI in France, to the Guildhall where moves were made to create FRI a new understanding between parliament and the crown. FRI FRI Produced by Andrew Green FRI An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01pw5s2 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Auntie's Ashes FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett returns for a third series of his popular FRI sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. FRI FRI Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along FRI with his dog Henry. His grown up children - both married to FRI people Sandy doesn't approve of at all - would like him to FRI move out of the family home so they can get their hands on FRI the money earlier. But Sandy's not having it. He's not FRI moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how can he FRI move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that FRI his too attractive lodger Dolores is also after Sandy and FRI his money. FRI FRI Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and, sometimes, a FRI friendly word or a kindly hand on the shoulder can really FRI help a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog FRI together face a complicated world. And there's every chance FRI they'll make it more so. FRI FRI Episode Two - Auntie's Ashes FRI Sandy has a solemn duty to perform, but the spot which FRI Auntie chose for her last resting place is not what is was. FRI Neither, for that matter, is her widowed husband Uncle FRI Arthur! FRI FRI Sandy...........................Ronnie Corbett FRI Dolores..........................Liza Tarbuck FRI Blake.............................Jonathan Aris FRI Mrs Pompom................. Sally Grace FRI Ellie...............................Tilly Vosburgh FRI Arthur.............................Paul Chapman FRI Tyson............................Daniel Bridle FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01pw5s4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01pt80r (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01pw5s6 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Just So Science b01pw5s8 (Listen) FRI 5. The Cat That Walked By Himself FRI FRI Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard FRI Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things FRI really came to be. FRI FRI 5. The Cat That Walked by Himself. Do we keep cats, or do FRI they keep us? The myths and the mysteries of felis catus FRI explored by Patrick Bateson and John Bradshaw. FRI Producer: Rami Tzabar. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01pw39h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pw5sb (Listen) FRI Stone, Something to Do FRI FRI Something to Do by Martin Jameson FRI FRI When a young boy is discovered badly injured and left for FRI dead, DCI Stone is shocked and disturbed by what the FRI investigation uncovers. The truth proves elusive and Stone FRI must delve deep into the motives behind this brutal crime FRI and face some uncomfortable questions about the nature of FRI criminal responsibility. FRI FRI Directed By Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI DCI Stone: Hugo Speer FRI DI MIke Tanner: Craig Cheetham FRI DS Sue Kelly: Deborah McAndrew FRI Courtney: Dolly-Rose Campbell FRI Daisy: Shannon Flynn FRI Karen: Kate Coogan FRI Gloria: Kate Coogan FRI Pete: Graeme Hawley FRI Andy: Tony Hirst FRI Hendry: Tony Hirst FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Writer: Martin Jameson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01pw5sd (Listen) FRI Surrey FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is in the chair for this edition of Gardeners' FRI Question Time, recorded in Surrey. On the panel this week, FRI tackling horticultural questions from the audience, are FRI Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Student Stories b01pw5sg (Listen) FRI Dear Alison FRI FRI Three stories about contemporary student life written by FRI students. What is modern student life really like? Parties FRI and love and lectures? Debts and daytime telly? Self-doubt FRI and self-discovery? These stories, offering a snapshot of FRI student life, illustrate it is all this and more. FRI FRI Caoimhe Lavelle is an undergraduate studying English FRI Literature in Trinity College Dublin with a particular FRI interest in short fiction, illustration, film and radio. Her FRI written work has been published by a number of independent FRI publications including Mama Grande Press and Totally Dublin, FRI and she has also illustrated the cover of Trinity College's FRI publication 'The Looking Glass' FRI FRI Dear Alison by Caoimhe Lavelle. FRI Read by Ruth Negga. FRI Produced in Belfast by Michael Shannon. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01pw5sj (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01pw5sl (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01pw5sn (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pt80v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01pw5sq (Listen) FRI Series 79, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Miles Jupp, Francis FRI Wheen and Sue Perkins. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01pw5vh (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Mary Cutler FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy ..... Roger May FRI Anita ..... Bharti Patel. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01pw5vk (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pwxt9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01pw5vm (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Barnstaple in Devon with Oliver Letwin MP, and Ben FRI Bradshaw MP. FRI Producer: Miles Ward. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01pw5vp (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00clrw8 (Listen) FRI The Test FRI FRI by Peter Whalley FRI FRI A taut, psychological thriller: John Newland's life is FRI turned upside down when an old murder case from 20 years ago FRI is being re-investigated. The past collides with the present FRI when John is again a suspect but this time he has to take a FRI DNA test, and is terrified that his wife will at last FRI discover the truth. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01pt80x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01pw5wz (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pz2j6 (Listen) FRI The Knot, Episode 10 FRI FRI Victoria's death gives Dominic the strength to save his FRI daughter from making the biggest mistake of her life. FRI FRI Written by Mark Watson FRI Abridged by John Peacock FRI Reader Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Director Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01pty45 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pw5x1 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
11 January, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 12/01/2013 - 18/01/2013
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