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SAT SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01pw6fm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01pz3nr (Listen) SAT The Real Jane Austen, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Paula Byrne. SAT Reader Emma Fielding SAT SAT To mark this month's bicentenary of the first publication of SAT Pride and Prejudice, this new biography examines the forces SAT that shaped the interior life of Jane Austen. The woman who SAT emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, SAT and altogether more modern than the conventional picture of SAT 'dear Aunt Jane' would allow. SAT SAT Today, a pair of topaz crosses - given as a gift to Jane and SAT her sister Cassandra from their sailor brother Charles - SAT find their way into her fiction, and the only known picture SAT of Jane, a watercolour painted by her beloved sister, SAT reveals the enduring intimacy of their relationship. SAT SAT Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. SAT Produced by Allegra McIlroy. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pw6fp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pw6ft (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pw6fw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01pw6fy (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pw6hm (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01pw6hp (Listen) SAT "You saw my Little Nellie on the big screen." Tales of SAT inventor and James Bond stunt flyer Ken Wallis. Also, a SAT listener near retirement shares her plan to fight pension SAT reforms. Radio 4 legend Charlotte Green reads her final SAT 'Your News' bulletin of listener news. SAT With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01pw6g0 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01pw6g2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01pw395 (Listen) SAT Marshes of Norfolk SAT SAT Cley Marshes was purchased in 1926 making it the first SAT Wildlife Trust reserve in the country. It's a fascinating SAT place with inspiring international connections including a SAT special link with the Middle East. SAT In December and January overwintering birds fill the air and SAT the reed beds of Cley but it's not just our winged friends SAT that migrate here. A group of artists drawn from Germany, SAT the US and all around the UK settled in Cley 30 years ago. SAT Inspired by the light and the landscapes the collective SAT known as 'Made in Cley' are regularly drawn to the marshes SAT to create their art, but Cley's power to inspire doesn't SAT stop there. SAT In an act of global solidarity, Nature Iraq made a donation SAT to Norfolk Wildlife Trust to support their work on England's SAT North Norfolk coast. As renowned birder Richard Porter SAT explains, they did this as a gesture of thanks for the help SAT they have received from colleagues in the UK. The links with SAT the Middle East are also close to the heart of Richard SAT Aspinall as his brother, Simon Aspinall was a leading SAT authority on the region's birds. Despite travelling the SAT world, Cley is the place that Simon made home. Simon was SAT diagnosed with motor neurone disease which left him unable SAT to move without significant help, but this did not stop both SAT Simon and Richard visiting the marshes right up until the SAT end of Simon's life. SAT The personal connections to Cley run as deep as the SAT international ones. For three generations Bernard Bishop and SAT his family have cared for the marshes. Bernard's great SAT grandfather was the first warden, followed by his father and SAT then Bernard himself. Between them they've seen visitors SAT grow from the occasional walking party of 10 a day to over SAT 100,000 a year all flocking to see the outstanding bird life SAT that call Cley home. SAT SAT Producer: Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01pz4t6 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith goes to the LAMMA 2013 show to see the high SAT tech machinery which is radically changing farming. SAT Innovations in agricultural engineering are revolutionising SAT the way that food is grown in this country. SAT The Institution of Agricultural Engineers is concerned that SAT there is a lack of talented engineers working in the SAT industry. Students from Harper Adams University College tell SAT Anna why they want to study the subject. SAT Charlotte goes inside one of the new 'Top Gear' breed of SAT tractors and talks to farmers about whether their investment SAT will pay off. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma SAT Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01pw6g4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01pz4t8 (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 b01pz4tb (Listen) SAT Cartoonist Martin Rowson and the Inheritance Tracks of Radio SAT 4's Charlotte Green SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams talk to cartoonist Martin SAT Rowson, hear from Jess Eaton, an artist who reconstructs SAT road kill as fashion items, speak to Stephen Hook, the SAT Sussex dairy farmer who's the star of a film at the Sundance SAT Festival in Utah, listen to the wonderful warbling of a SAT whistling busker on the London Underground, enjoy the SAT Inheritance Tracks of Radio 4's Charlotte Green who is SAT leaving the BBC after a distinguished career, revel in the SAT quiet spaces of London with John McCarthy and sail into the SAT sunset with Commodore Mark Wiggins as he describes his 200 SAT year old sextant SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Reimagining the City b01pz4tg (Listen) SAT Istanbul SAT SAT In her twenties, the writer Elif Shafak moved to Istanbul. SAT "The city called me," she says. She moved there, knowing SAT no-one, hoping to become a full time writer. She found her SAT subject matter. SAT SAT "In Istanbul, you understand, perhaps not intellectually but SAT intuitively, that East and West are ultimately imaginary SAT ideas, ones that can be de-imagined and re-imagined." SAT SAT Elif offers us her vision of Istanbul; a city that's never SAT quiet, always moving and wrestling with itself. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01pz4tj (Listen) SAT Andrew Pierce of The Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at SAT Wetminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01pz4tl (Listen) SAT New Friends, New Enemies SAT SAT Correspondents around the world telling their stories: SAT Lyse Doucet has been meeting some of the thousands of people SAT who've been forced to flee their homes in Syria because of SAT the continuing bloodshed there. SAT Mark Doyle in Bamako on how the fighting in Mali has seen a SAT new alliance being forged between the French and the SAT Nigerian military. SAT The Hungarian economy may be tottering - but Petroc Trelawny SAT has been finding out it's boom time in the flea markets and SAT second-hand shops of Budapest. SAT Why are the French drinking so much less wine than they used SAT to? John Laurenson has been to a country bistro in search of SAT answers. SAT And as the fighting continues in Mali, Nick Thorpe remembers SAT a visit there and a drive across the Sahara Desert in more SAT peaceable times - thirty two years ago. SAT Producer: Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01pz4tq (Listen) SAT Claiming back for unused gift vouchers; Would you punch your SAT PIN into a salesman's smartphone? SAT SAT HMV went into administration this week, leaving those with SAT gift cards unable to spend them. We look at how you may be SAT able to claim back money if you purchased them with a debit SAT or credit card. We will hear from listeners who have tried SAT this process- with mixed results. Plus advice from Martin SAT Lewis. SAT The government has revealed its plans for a new flat rate SAT pension. We will be putting questions from listeners to Tom SAT McPhail, Head of Pensions at Hargreaves Lansdown, to explain SAT what the changes could mean for them. SAT The FTSE 100 index of shares has reached its highest point SAT since May 2008 - before the financial crisis hit - rising SAT above 6,100. Indeed last year, the index rose about 6%. But SAT actually, if you'd had an index tracker fund you'd have seen SAT returns even better than that - 8,9,10 even 11%. Money Box SAT explains why with the help of David Kuo of Motley Fool. SAT Would you punch your PIN into a salesman's smartphone? New SAT apps have been developed that allow small peripatetic SAT traders like plumbers and window cleaners to take credit SAT card payments on their phones. But are they secure? SAT We speak to the app providers iZettle and Intuit Gopayment. SAT Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01pw5sq (Listen) SAT Series 79, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Miles Jupp, Francis SAT Wheen and Sue Perkins. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01pw6g6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01pw6g8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01pw5vm (Listen) SAT The Park Community School, Barnstaple, Devon SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Barnstaple in Devon with Minister of Government Policy SAT Oliver Letwin, Ben Bradshaw MP, UKIP party chairman Steve SAT Crowther, and Bronwen Maddox, editor of Prospect magazine. SAT Producer: Miles Warde. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01pz4ts (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01pz4tx (Listen) SAT Headlong SAT SAT Toby Jones, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny and Denise Gough in SAT Robin Brooks' adaptation of Michael Frayn's novel. SAT SAT Martin is asked to value some paintings and, though he's no SAT expert, he is immediately sure one of them is a priceless SAT missing masterpiece. SAT SAT With over-reaching ambition, he sets about acquiring it SAT without telling the owner what he thinks he has found and SAT rapidly gets in so deep that he puts everything at risk - SAT even his marriage, even the painting itself. SAT SAT Directed by Clive Brill SAT Produced by Ann Scott SAT A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Toby Jones SAT Actor: Gina McKee SAT Actor: Tim McInnerny SAT Actor: Denise Gough SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Writer: Robin Brooks SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01q6hm5 (Listen) SAT Helen Hunt; singles; Rae Earl SAT SAT Helen Hunt on her new film The Sessions in which she plays a SAT sex surrogate. Woman's Hour singles week: the cost of being SAT single, sex, single by circumstance or choice, and being SAT patronised by couples. SAT The author of My Mad Fat Diary, Rae Earl, on growing up in a SAT Lincolnshire market town wrestling with lust, weight issues, SAT and her mother. SAT The President of the Law Society, Lucy Scott Moncreiff on SAT helping improve the prospects of women in business. SAT Political Journalist, Margaret Heckle, on her biography of SAT the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. And Brooke Kroeger and SAT Matthew Goodman tell us about Nellie Bly - one of the most SAT famous women in America at the start of the 20th century she SAT went around the world in 72 days. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01pz4v1 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01pw6hp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01pw6gb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01pw6gd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pw6gg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01pz4v3 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Rufus SAT Sewell, Alex Polizzi, Michael Mosley, Emma Freud, Lois and SAT the Love SAT SAT Clive reminisces with L.A-based actor Rufus Sewell, who's SAT treading the boards alongside Kristen Scott Thomas, playing SAT Deeley in Harold Pinter's 'Old Times'. Locked away in a SAT secluded farmhouse, Kate, Deeley and Anna reminisce about SAT their early days together in London but, with conflicting SAT memories and underlying sexual tensions, the past suddenly SAT feels vividly present. 'Old Times' is at Harold Pinter SAT Theatre, London until Saturday 6th April. SAT Clive checks in with hotelier and businesswoman Alex SAT Polizzi, who's back with a second fix of her BBC Two series, SAT bringing battling businesses back to life. From a hair and SAT beauty salon in Essex to a 100 year old fabric shop in SAT London's East End, Alex uses her unique expertise to help a SAT wide range of family run businesses. 'Alex Polizzi's: The SAT Fixer' returns to our screens in February. SAT Gadget girl Emma Freud talks to the very inventive SAT journalist, physician and broadcaster Michael Mosley, whose SAT new BBC Two series reveals the fascinating chain of events SAT behind inventions that make everyday life possible. From SAT early telephony to the birth of television, Michael explores SAT how British inventive genius transformed our world. 'The SAT Genius of Invention' is on Thursday 24th January at 21.00. SAT Clive's saddled up for a rodeo with country music royalty; SAT multi-Grammy-award winners Emmylou Harris and Rodney SAT Crowell. As old friends and former collaborators in SAT Emmylou's Hot Band, they talk about their chart-topping SAT careers and reuniting to duet on their new album 'Old Yellow SAT Moon'. They perform 'Dreaming My Dreams'. Yee-ha!! SAT And more music from raucous rockers Lois & The Love who play SAT 'Dark Serenade' from their forthcoming album. SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01pz4v6 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 6 SAT SAT Playwright Louise Ironside creates an imaginative response SAT to a story from this week's news as the award-winning series SAT continues. SAT In a week when trust is under scrutiny - from Lance SAT Armstrong baring his soul to Oprah, our relationship with SAT Europe, and working out which weather forecast to believe, - SAT a self-employed psychic needs to finish her tax return SAT before the deadline. SAT To complement Radio 4's News and Current Affairs output, our SAT weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story SAT from the week's news. The form and content is entirely led SAT by the news topic. SAT From Fact to Fiction presents writers with the creative SAT opportunity to work in a bold and instinctive way as they SAT respond to events in the news, beginning on a Monday when an SAT idea is selected through to Friday when the programme is SAT recorded and edited. SAT Snow and Mirrors SAT by Louise Ironside SAT Cast: SAT Angela.........................................Claire Knight SAT David.........................................Jimmy Chisolm SAT Producer/Director....................David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01pz4v9 (Listen) SAT Django Unchained and new play No Quarter SAT SAT Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-nominated, SAT Spaghetti Western-inspired take on slavery and the SAT antebellum Southern states starring Jamie Foxx and Samuel L SAT Jackson, has aroused praise and controversy in almost equal SAT measure. SAT No Quarter is the latest work by the young playwright Polly SAT Stenham, known for her acute dissections of family life. SAT This one examines the differing senses of responsibility SAT within one family and stars Tom Sturridge and Maureen SAT Beattie. SAT Murder in the Library is an engaging, small-scale exhibition SAT on the detective novel at the British Library and features SAT jigsaws, whodunnit kits with human hair and cigarette ends, SAT and an original Sherlock Holmes manuscript. SAT The Starboard Sea is first-time novelist Amber Dermont's SAT take on the campus novel and nautical literature, with SAT frequent nods to Herman Melville. Set in the late 80s, its SAT narrator, Jason Prosper, is a keen sailor who's been scarred SAT by the death of a friend. SAT And Louie arrives on these shores... Mexican American SAT comedian Louis CK's Emmy-awarded comedy will be shown on SAT Fox. He's won praise from Ricky Gervais and is famous for SAT trying to keep ticket prices down to his stand-up gigs. Will SAT his humour work for a UK audience? SAT The novelist Kamila Shamsie, music journalist Paul Morley SAT and literary critic Peter Kemp join Tom Sutcliffe. Producer: SAT Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01pz4vf (Listen) SAT Rugby's Greatest Try SAT SAT Gareth Edwards's try in January 1973 was the greatest ever SAT scored. Cerys Matthews uses archive interviews and SAT contemporary reports to tell the remarkable story of the try SAT itself, and what it still tells us about the spirit and SAT heart of Wales. Often referred to as simply 'that try', the SAT world acknowledges it to be the greatest ever, and it's the SAT standard against which every other great try is compared. SAT SAT New Zealand had just completed an unbeaten tour of the home SAT nations, and their final challenge was against an SAT invitational Barbarians side at Cardiff. The game was SAT brought alive within 2 minutes as Gareth Edwards SAT dramatically dived in the corner to complete an electrifying SAT move of counter-attacking rugby. It sent the crowd into SAT rugby heaven, and never fails to delight even now. SAT SAT But this try symbolised much more than the sport itself, for SAT it was also a poetic expression of the Welsh identity. In a SAT game of brute force, here was a glimpse of grace and beauty SAT - something that was entirely in keeping with the lyricism SAT that could be found at the heart of industrial Wales. In SAT this programme, singer Cerys Matthews will reveal why this SAT try is so celebrated to this day in Wales and will unearth SAT the untold story behind it. SAT SAT With its origins in industrial south Wales, rugby was SAT adopted in the 19th century as an integral part of the Welsh SAT working-class culture, with workers from heavy industries SAT well suited to the tougher aspects of the game. But Welsh SAT rugby also prided itself on a certain 'Welsh way' of playing SAT with an emphasis on attractive, innovative and free-flowing SAT rugby. This poeticism on the field of play reflected a wider SAT tradition within these communities of expressing oneself SAT through poetry, song and literature. SAT SAT But to truly appreciate the importance of this try, we need SAT to understand the role played by coach Carwyn James. A SAT miner's son from socialist west Wales, Carwyn was a SAT sensitive, politically active and cultured man, a SAT revolutionary rugby coach, a lecturer and later a SAT broadcaster. He had a passion for drama, literature and SAT poetry and was even fluent in Russian. He drew extensively SAT on this hinterland as a way better to understand a game SAT which, in Wales, has its roots firmly established in its SAT culture and tradition. He was, however, an outspoken SAT outsider who never coached the national side. SAT SAT The All Blacks had lost their first ever test series against SAT the British & Irish Lions in 1971, and were unexpectedly SAT defeated by Llanelli in '72 - both teams coached by Carwyn SAT James. Twelve Lions were playing for the Barbarians in SAT Cardiff in '73 and Carwyn, the unofficial coach, managed to SAT evoke the spirit of '71. The try was classic Carwyn James SAT and archetypal of the 'Welsh way' - counter attacking and SAT full of expression, and stirred them on to an historic win. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01pt998 (Listen) SAT An Angel at My Table, Episode 1 SAT SAT Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public SAT author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, SAT one book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even SAT at the height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which SAT had the effect of making the media and her readership even SAT more intrusively interested. SAT SAT Frame's story is extraordinary. As her biographer Michael SAT King said, "her family was an anvil on which disasters SAT fell". But it was the issue of Frame's mental health which SAT generated the most conjecture. To set the record straight SAT about the circumstances of her committal to mental hospitals SAT and being diagnosed with schizophrenia, in the early 80's SAT Janet Frame wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled SAT 'To The Island (1982), An Angel At My Table and The Envoy SAT From Mirror City (both 1984). SAT SAT It was after the publication of "An Angel At My Table", at a SAT time when several of her books had gone out of print, that SAT Frame's literary status was cemented. When later the books SAT were made into an award winning film by Jane Campion, her SAT writing was introduced to an international audience. SAT SAT This two-part radio adaptation is by Anita Sullivan. SAT SAT With students from Houghton Valley School and Wellington SAT High School, New Zealand SAT Adapted for radio by - Anita Sullivan SAT Music: Simon Russell SAT Sound Design: David Thomas SAT Production Assistants: Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton SAT Associate Producer: Andrew Foster (New Zealand) SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Janet as narrator: Lorraine Ashbourne SAT Young Janet: Bella Goode SAT Janet as a teenager: Anna Skellen SAT Mother: Barbara Ewing SAT Father: Denis Lill SAT Miss Botting: Federay Holmes SAT John Forrest: Mike Sengelow SAT High School Girl: Brianna Cox SAT High School Girl: Georgia Rippon SAT Student: Tara Goulding-Weston-Webb SAT Student: Geraldine Wilkins SAT Myrtle: Isabel Stewart SAT Poppy: Leila Barber SAT Young Isabel: Molly Doyle SAT Older Isabel: Celeste Wong SAT Young Bruddie: Peter McKenzie SAT Older Bruddie: William Alexander SAT Director: Karen Rose SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Writer: Anita Sullivan SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01pw6gj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01ptztm (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 Britain's civil SAT service should be reformed. Instead of relying on a SAT permanent, politically neutral civil service, should the UK SAT be like some other countries and allow elected politicians SAT to appoint more of those who run their departments, bringing SAT in their own expert advisers and political soul mates? SAT Is the Whitehall machine more like the old British Leyland SAT than Rolls Royce - stuck in the past, resistant to change SAT and poor at delivery? David Cameron has criticised those he SAT called "mad bureaucrats" who were the "the enemies of SAT enterprise", and Tony Blair complained of the scars on his SAT back after trying to reform the public sector. Or are the SAT politicians simply blaming those who can't answer back? SAT Joining Nick Robinson for this edition are - Lord Falconer, SAT former Lord Chancellor and Minister for Constitutional SAT Affairs; Lord Reid, the former Home Secretary, who also ran SAT the Defence and Health Departments and the Northern Ireland SAT and Scottish Offices; Lord O'Donnell, the former Cabinet SAT Secretary; Nick Herbert MP. a former minister at the Home SAT Office and Ministry of Justice; and Sue Cameron, Whitehall SAT watcher and columnist for 'The Daily Telegraph'. SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01ptgbx (Listen) SAT (8/17) SAT What term is used in astronomy for the observable SAT lengthening of the wavelength of light from an object, as a SAT result of that object moving away from the observer? And SAT which Dutch sprinter, a star of the 1948 London Olympics, SAT was nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife'? SAT SAT This week's competitors face these and many other SAT wide-ranging questions from chairman Russell Davies, in the SAT eighth heat in this year's series of radio's longest-running SAT general knowledge contest. The programme comes from Media SAT City in Salford, with contestants from Teesside, Leeds, SAT North Lincolnshire and Bolton. SAT SAT As always, it will be the one who can get the most general SAT knowledge questions correct who'll win through to the SAT semi-finals which begin next month. A listener also stands SAT to win a book token prize if the questions they have devised SAT can stump the combined brainpower of the contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT CLIVE DUNNING, a college lecturer from Stockton on Tees; SAT AMANDA LINDSAY, a GP from Leeds; SAT GARETH PARKIN, a builder's merchant from Crowle in North SAT Lincolnshire; SAT ROD RIESCO, a translator from Bolton. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01pt99d (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents requests for poems on subjects as SAT varied as the sounds of flowing water, Tarzan as an old man, SAT galloping cats and peaceful Sunday mornings. The readers are SAT Patrick Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun Raglan. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01pz1wf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Deep Country b01b8xcb (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Neil Ansell is in search of solitude. He takes up home in a SUN dilapidated cottage in a very remote part of the Welsh SUN countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water. SUN He has only wildlife around him for company as he makes the SUN cottage habitable. Read by Matthew Gravelle. SUN SUN Abridged by Willa King SUN Directed by Emma Bodger SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pz1wh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pz1wk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pz1wm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01pz1wp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01pz58l (Listen) SUN The bells of St Wilfred's Roman Catholic Church in York. SUN SUN 05:45 Pop-Up Economics b01pw1np (Listen) SUN Hotpants v the knockout mouse SUN SUN A brand new Radio 4 series in which Tim Harford tells an SUN audience short stories about fascinating people and ideas in SUN economics. SUN SUN The presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less" weaves together SUN economic ideas with remarkable personal histories in some SUN unusual locations. SUN SUN In a shop window on London's Regent Street Tim turns his SUN attention to heated pants - oh yes! - and the business of SUN innovation. We hear the moving story of Mario Capecchi, SUN whose struggle to get funding for his experiments tells us SUN much about where new ideas come from - and how to foster SUN them. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01pz1wr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01pz58n (Listen) SUN Anthem SUN SUN To a soundtrack of patriotism, Mark Tully ponders the SUN function and future of National Anthems. SUN SUN He wonders why so many of them sound so similar, and why SUN countries often rely on militaristic bombasts, or hymn-like SUN dirges, rather than drawing from the variety of their own SUN indigenous musical traditions. He discovers the oldest - and SUN the newest - anthem, stumbles across the allegedly SUN disreputable origins of the Star Spangled Banner, and SUN uncovers some rather famous foreign fans of the British SUN National Anthem. SUN SUN But is it time for less jingoism in the music which nations SUN play in celebration of themselves. In the 21st century, do SUN we need anthems which inspire us to be patriotic citizens of SUN the world, rather than stressing our identity as members of SUN different nations? SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01pz58q (Listen) SUN There has been a long tradition of monks farming monastery SUN land, but this this self sufficient tradition is dwindling. SUN On your Farm goes to Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire to SUN find out how its Benedictine order is adapting to farming in SUN the 21st century.Caz Graham crunches around a snowy orchard SUN to find out how the Abbey is expanding its cider business SUN and learns how their woodland is being used for sustainable SUN fuel.Presenter Caz Graham. Producer Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01pz1wt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01pz1ww (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01pz58s (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01pz58v (Listen) SUN ChildHope SUN SUN Juliet Stevenson presents the Radio 4 Appeal for ChildHope SUN Reg Charity:328434 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ChildHope. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01pz1wy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01pz1x0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01pz58x (Listen) SUN Learning to Dream Again: President Obama's second inaugural SUN address will come in troubled times. But so did Abraham SUN Lincoln's second inaugural. This service, live from St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields, explores the connections between SUN Lincoln's 1865 speech, delivered during the civil war, and SUN the situation facing the world today. It includes lively SUN American music and an anthem specially written for this SUN service. Address: The Revd Prof Mark McIntosh, Van Mildert SUN Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and SUN Religion at Durham University, who previously served as a SUN chaplain to the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, SUN and as canon theologian to the 25th Presiding Bishop and SUN Primate. Leader: The Revd Dr Samuel Wells (Vicar). Director SUN of Music, Andrew Earis. Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01pw5vp (Listen) SUN Urban Designs SUN SUN Will Self laments what he sees as an absence of rational SUN urban planning in our big cities and a fashion for dramatic SUN skyscrapers driven by short term commercial values. "It SUN occurred to me that the contemporary metropolitan skyline is SUN really only a fireworks display of decades-long duration: a SUN burst of aerial illumination intended to provoke awe, but SUN doomed eventually to subside into darkness." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01pz58z (Listen) SUN The Sunday morning magazine programme with Britain's best SUN newspaper review. Presented by Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01pz591 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Anita ..... Bharti Patel. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01pz593 (Listen) SUN Beryl Vertue SUN SUN TV producer Beryl Vertue is Kirsty Young's castaway on SUN Desert Island Discs. SUN In the famously fickle world of telly where last year's hero SUN is this year's zero she has stood the test of time. Indeed SUN in TV circles the noun "vertuosity" is defined as "the SUN ability to make enormously successful sitcoms for British SUN television and then sell the formats to the American SUN market". SUN The cast list of her working life is a who's who of quality SUN broadcasting and includes Jack Lemmon, Galton & Simpson, SUN Frankie Howerd, Jack Nicholson and most recently Benedict SUN Cumberbatch. SUN She started out typing Goon Show scripts in the mid 50s, SUN accidentally became an agent, and as a producer she has SUN risen to the very top of her industry, with hits including SUN the rock musical Tommy, the sit-com Men Behaving Badly and SUN the drama series Sherlock. SUN She says "it's terribly important not to know too many SUN rules. If you know rules and obstacles you spend a lot of SUN time dealing with them. If you don't know there's a rule you SUN just do it." SUN Producer: Alison Hughes. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01ptgg2 (Listen) SUN Series 10, Episode 3 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 Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn, Holly Walsh and John Finnemore SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Wasps, Computers, Oscar SUN Wilde and Boris Johnson. 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 b01pz595 (Listen) SUN Horsemeat and the Irish burger scandal SUN SUN Ireland's horsemeat burger scandal makes the guarantees on SUN traceability and product standards by some supermarkets look SUN unreliable. The discovery may also be a wakeup call for the SUN Food Standards Agency. SUN In a special edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon SUN talks to former regulators and experts on food processing to SUN find out how it could have happened. SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01pz1x2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01pz597 (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 Quarter Life Crisis b01pz599 (Listen) SUN Columnist and author, Katharine Whitehorn, became famous for SUN her no-nonsense guidance in the modern world. At 84, she's SUN now agony aunt to the over 60s, but in this programme, she SUN tackles the troubles of some of today's twenty-somethings SUN who say they are facing tough life choices. They may even be SUN suffering from what some people call a quarter life crisis. SUN SUN We've read the headlines. Those who are in their SUN mid-twenties today are the generation who grew up under the SUN Labour government's target to get 50% of school leavers into SUN higher education. The words "education, education, SUN education" rang throughout the land. If they did get in to SUN university, they left at a time when graduate unemployment SUN reached a 17 year high. So has this generation of young SUN people - those who were promised that education would give SUN them a career and success - been let down? Are they SUN struggling more than other generations that went before SUN them? And what is this quarter life crisis that Katherine SUN has heard about? To find out, she enlists the help of Dr SUN Oliver Robinson whose research has highlighted the tough SUN times many people in their twenties face. And she hears the SUN stories of Bernice, 24, Holly, 23, and Darren, 24, who come SUN from different backgrounds but who have one thing in common SUN - they all went on to higher education after leaving school SUN but did not get the life or career they were led to expect. SUN SUN Producer: Polly Weston. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01pw5sd (Listen) SUN Surrey SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is in the chair for this edition of Gardeners' SUN Question Time, recorded in Surrey. On the panel this week, SUN tackling horticultural questions from the audience, are SUN Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew. SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01pz59f (Listen) SUN The Biafran War SUN SUN The Biafran war ended in January 1970. It had lasted for SUN almost 3 years and split Nigeria. The word Biafra had become SUN synonymous with famine and suffering. Ben Okafor was 12 SUN years old when the fighting started. He fled his hometown SUN with his family, worked in a refugee camp and even SUN volunteered as a child soldier. Hear his memories of the SUN failed bid for Biafran independence. SUN Photo: Ben Okafor - credit Harald Haugan. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01q76l0 (Listen) SUN An Angel at My Table, Episode 2 SUN SUN The autobiography of Janet Frame, dramatised for radio by SUN Anita Sullivan. SUN Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public writer. SUN The author of 12 novels, four story collections, one book of SUN poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the SUN height of her success Frame shunned publicity - which had SUN the effect of making the media and her readership even more SUN intrusively interested. It was the issue of her mental SUN health which generated the most conjecture. SUN In her twenties she spent four and a half years in mental SUN hospitals and was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her SUN writing saved her; the success of her first collection of SUN short stories (The Lagoon and Other Stories) convincing SUN doctors that she did not need a planned lobotomy. SUN To "set the record straight" about the circumstances of her SUN committal to mental hospitals, in the early 80's Janet Frame SUN wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled 'To The SUN Is-land (1982) An Angel At My Table and The Envoy From SUN Mirror City (both 1984). It was after the publication of "An SUN Angel At My Table", at a time when several of her books had SUN gone out of print, that Frame's literary status was SUN cemented. SUN An Angel At My Table Episode 2 of 2 SUN In episode two, after a failed suicide attempt, Janet agrees SUN to a short period in hospital to recuperate. But the arrival SUN of her mother to take her home triggers a reaction in Janet SUN that will have calamitous repercussions for years to come. SUN SUN All other roles were played by members of the cast. SUN With thanks to Houghton Valley School and Wellington High SUN School, New Zealand. SUN Adapted for radio by Anita Sullivan SUN Music - Simon Russell SUN Sound design - David Thomas SUN Productions assistants -Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton SUN Associate producer - Andrew Foster (New Zealand) SUN Producer/Director - Karen Rose SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Janet Frame, the narrator: Lorraine Ashbourne SUN Janet Frame 22-38: Anna Skellen SUN Mother: Barbara Ewing SUN Father: Denis Lill SUN Miss Botting: Federay Holmes SUN June: Celeste Wong SUN John Forrest: Mike Sengelow SUN Patrick Riley: Ruairi Conaghan SUN Edwin: Richard Laing SUN Doctor Cawley: Richard Laing SUN El Vici: Daniel Philpott SUN Femin: Daniel Philpott SUN Catalina: Celia Meiras SUN Bruddie: William Alexander SUN Doctor Cump: William Alexander SUN Director: Karen Rose SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01pz59k (Listen) SUN Chinese literature - viewing this emerging superpower SUN through its novels SUN SUN In October the Nobel prize for Literature was awarded to Mo SUN Yan, the pen name of the Chinese novelist Guan Moye. Mo Yan SUN translates as 'Don't speak' , a warning given to him by his SUN parents during the Cultural Revolution. His latest novel SUN translated into English, Pow!, is set in Slaughterhouse SUN village and tells the story of a rural community obsessed SUN with meat and the deadly extent they will go to in order to SUN maximise a profit in animal flesh. Mo Yan's translator SUN Howard Goldblatt and novelist and film maker Xiaolu Guo SUN discuss the nature of Chinese literature and how much Mo Yan SUN and his fellow contemporary Chinese novelists can teach us SUN about life inside this emerging world force.In the imaginary SUN town of Heathwick a series of bombs are about to explode SUN killing, maiming and destroying lives among the residents. SUN However it's not the aftermath of these cataclysmic events SUN that Eleanor Updale, the acclaimed author of the Montmorency SUN books for children explores, but the sixty seconds leading SUN up to them. In her latest novel, The Last Minute, each SUN chapter charts the passage of a mere second as we journey SUN toward disaster with her doomed cast. As readers we're aware SUN that a tragedy is going to strike, but not to whom or indeed SUN the cause of the explosion to come.Literary critic Suzi Feay SUN delves into the world of the debut novel and examines the SUN latest Waterstones' 11 list of new fiction writers, how well SUN their past predictions have done and why she feels now is a SUN good time to be a debut novelist.Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01pz59m (Listen) SUN Barbara Flynn reads a lightly abridged version of the SUN macabre classic by John Keats: 'Isabella, or - the Pot of SUN Basil'. Presented by Roger McGough. SUN SUN Written in 1818, 'Isabella; or the Pot of Basil' is a SUN hauntingly beautiful tale of devotion to a lost love. Fair SUN Isabella falls for a servant, Lorenzo, much to the annoyance SUN of her brothers. They had hoped to marry her off to some SUN Florentine nobleman. So they contrive to murder poor SUN Lorenzo. However, the brothers underestimate the power of SUN the couple's love to endure. Through death, apparitions, SUN exhumations and theft, Isabella's love persists - albeit SUN with a little help from an aged dame and some unconventional SUN gardening techniques. Basil may never taste quite the same SUN again! SUN SUN With its origins in 14th century stories written by SUN Boccaccio, Keats's re-telling inspired the Pre-Raphaelite SUN artists Holman Hunt and Millais to paint two very different SUN visions of Isabella. SUN SUN A chilling tale - perfect for a winter's night - beautifully SUN read by Barbara Flynn. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01pty4h (Listen) SUN Illicit Arms Trade SUN SUN The recent conviction of an arms broker from Yorkshire has SUN raised serious concerns about the murky world of the SUN international weapons trade. Gary Hyde was sentenced to SUN seven years imprisonment for one of the largest illegal arms SUN deals ever uncovered: 80,000 guns and 32 million rounds of SUN ammunition shipped from China to Nigeria - enough to equip a SUN small army. But no-one knows where they ended up. Britain SUN has strict regulations governing the sale and export of SUN firearms, so how did he manage it? Where have the guns gone? SUN SUN File on 4 investigates the British arms dealers brokering SUN weapons for some of the world's most dangerous regimes. Some SUN have done work for the Ministry of Defence. One was even a SUN firearms advisor to the Home Office. Allan Urry asks what SUN this means for the UK's licensing and arms export regimes, SUN claimed to be among the best in the world. SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01pz4v6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01pz1x4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01pz1x6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pz1x8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01pz5j8 (Listen) SUN Big themes on Pick of the Week - enduring friendship, SUN rivalry, feuds, jealousy. and tunnels. And fitting somewhere SUN in-between there's Benjamin Zephaniah's view of Winnie The SUN Pooh and how a bottle of pungent mustard sauce made the SUN journey all the way from Calcutta in India to a remote SUN Hampshire rectory - and in the 18th century to boot! SUN Join Simon Parkes for myriad treats in this week's Pick of SUN the Week. SUN Programmes chosen this week: SUN Between the Ears - Space Hams - Radio 3 SUN Sunday Feature -Edouard Manet - The Direct Gaze - Radio 3 SUN Witness - Chaim Soutine - World Service (Tues 15 January) SUN Suzi Quatro's Detroit Profiles - Radio 2 SUN Composer of the Week - John Williams - Radio 3 SUN I've Never Seen Star Wars - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama - Art & Gadg - Radio 4 SUN Drama on 3 - Copenhagen - Radio 3 SUN The Life Scientific - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - Five Portraits of Science episode 3 - Isaac SUN Newton - Radio 3 SUN Afternoon Drama - Stone - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week - The Real Jane Austen - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - second of two tributes to Ravi Shankar - SUN Radio 3 SUN Produced by Cecile Wright 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 b01pz5jb (Listen) SUN Lilian is in trouble, and Tom is overloaded. SUN SUN 19:15 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b01pz5jd (Listen) SUN Series 5, The Hat SUN SUN By Colin MacDonald. SUN SUN Sheriff Finlay travels from Scotland to York for the funeral SUN and cremation of his older brother William, with whom he SUN didn't get on. When he gets there he is greeted with barely SUN disguised hostility by William's widow. SUN SUN She tells him arrangements for the funeral are all made: it SUN is going to be a Humanist service and the family heirloom SUN fireman's hat, which was worn with pride by the brothers' SUN grandfather, is in the coffin and is going to be incinerated SUN along with William. SUN SUN Alistair decides to get the hat before the coffin makes its SUN final journey into the flames. This will take him into SUN dangerous territory, breaking into a funeral parlour at SUN night and braving the criminal underworld to retrieve SUN Grandad's hat and make a final peace with his brother. SUN SUN Coronation Street veteran Thelma Barlow stars as his SUN sister-in-law Louise and Stanley Baxter is Sheriff Alistair SUN Finlay in this black comedy with a warm heart about death, SUN brotherly love and saying goodbye. SUN SUN Sheriff Alistair Finlay.................Stanley Baxter SUN Louise ....................................Thelma Barlow SUN Joe/Darren ..............................David Holt SUN SUN Directed by Marilyn Imrie SUN A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Annika Stranded b01pz5jg (Listen) SUN A Body of Water SUN SUN Annika Strandhed is a leading light in the murder squad of SUN the Oslo police. Her neuroses - and she has a few - are SUN mostly hidden by a boisterous manner and a love of motor SUN boats. And she thinks she's funny - although her colleagues SUN aren't so sure. SUN SUN Commissioned specially for Radio 4, these three stories by SUN Nick Walker introduce us to a new Scandinavian detective: SUN not as astute as Sarah Lund or Saga Norén perhaps, but SUN probably better company. SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 3): A Body Of Water SUN A sound is a body of water narrow enough for a man to swim SUN across. But on the island of Oscarsborg, Annika finds the SUN body of a man who clearly didn't make it. SUN SUN Nick Walker is part of the Coventry-based mixed media SUN experimentalists Talking Birds whose work has been presented SUN extensively in the UK as well as in Sweden, Ireland, and the SUN USA. He has worked with some of the country's leading new SUN work theatre companies both in the UK and abroad, including SUN Stan's Cafe, Insomniac, and Theatre Instituut Nederlands. SUN SUN He is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels SUN 'Blackbox' and 'Helloland'. His plays and short stories are SUN often featured on BBC Radio 4 including: Arnold In A Purple SUN Haze (2009), the First King of Mars stories (2007 - 2010), SUN the Afternoon Play Life Coach (2010), and the stories Dig SUN Yourself (2011) and The Indivisible (2012) - all of them SUN Sweet Talk productions. SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN Sound Design: Jon Calver SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Annika Stranded is a Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01pw5sl (Listen) SUN The BBC is a commercial free zone so why do so many guests SUN on BBC radio shows always seem to be plugging something? One SUN Feedback listener tackles the BBC's Director of Editorial SUN Policy and Standards, David Jordan, on the issue. SUN And are there enough female voices on the radio? Many of you SUN don't think so. Earlier this week Radio 4 controller Gwyneth SUN Williams acknowledged criticism that certain programmes were SUN skewed overwhelmingly towards men. You highlight some of the SUN worst offenders. SUN Also, how should BBC Radio deal with discussion of suicide? SUN We hear your feedback on Will Self's controversial A Point SUN of View, "Terminal Thoughts", and discuss it with the editor SUN of the programme. SUN And Roger travels to the BBC Belfast newsroom as trouble SUN returns to the streets. SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producer: Karen Pirie and Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01pw5sj (Listen) SUN A broadcaster, Montreux Jazz Festival founder, medical SUN missionary, Nobel-winning economist and SUN nun-turned-sex-columnist SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN The TV journalist Robert Kee who presented Panorama and This SUN Week and was one of the Famous Five who launched TV AM. Anna SUN Ford and Sir Jeremy Isaacs pay tribute. SUN Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who SUN was immortalised as "Funky Claude" in the Deep Purple song SUN "Smoke on The Water". The band's lead singer Ian Gillan will SUN explain why. SUN George Patterson, the missionary who fell in love with Tibet SUN and reported on the Chinese invasion of the country. SUN Professor James Buchanan, the economist who won the Nobel SUN prize for his work on the public choice theory which SUN suggests that politicians are motivated by self interest SUN rather than the public good. SUN And Midge Turk Richardson the former nun who became editor SUN of Seventeen Magazine - and wrote its sex advice column. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01pz4tq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01pz58v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01pw3ll (Listen) SUN Gas Leak SUN SUN Russia's giant energy company Gazprom has the biggest SUN reserves of natural gas in the world, and much of the SUN country's new-found prosperity has depended on its exports SUN to Europe. But now global gas prices are tumbling as new SUN supplies come on stream, and the EU has launched a top level SUN investigation of the company's grip on European energy. SUN Peter Day examines Gazprom's future in an uncertain world. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01pz5jj (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 b01pz5jl (Listen) SUN Leading journalists analyse how the newspapers are covering SUN the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01pw397 (Listen) SUN Quentin Tarantino on Django Unchained; Kathryn Bigelow on SUN Zero Dark Thirty SUN SUN The director Quentin Tarantino talks to Francine Stock about SUN his controversial new film Django Unchained. It tells the SUN story of a freed slave who attempts to rescue his wife from SUN a plantation, told in the style of a Western. The film has SUN received five Oscar nominations including best original SUN screenplay and best film. And there's controversy too SUN surrounding the latest work of the director Kathryn Bigelow. SUN She discusses her new film Zero Dark Thirty which claims to SUN be based on first hand accounts of the search for and SUN killing of Osama Bin Laden. Also on the programme, the actor SUN John Hawkes describes how he prepared for his role in The SUN Sessions in which he plays a man suffering from polio who SUN wishes to lose his virginity. The film is inspired by the SUN real life story of Mark O'Brien. There's news too of the SUN movie breaking records in China. Lost in Thailand has now SUN become the highest grossing Chinese film in history. We find SUN out why with critic Arthur Jones in Shanghai.Producer: SUN Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01pz58n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 JANUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01pz1y8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01ptzt7 (Listen) MON Birth of Neo-Liberalism; Music, Race and Difference MON MON Neo liberalism - its genesis and development. Laurie Taylor MON talks to Daniel Stedman Jones, the author of a new book MON which traces the origins of neo liberal economics. Also, the MON enduring and complex relationship between race and music. MON Laurie meets Jo Haynes, the author of a new study which MON considers the significance of race to the understanding of MON music genres and preferences. What does the 'love of MON difference' via music contribute to contemporary MON perspectives on racism? The research draws on interviews MON with people from the British world music scene. They're MON joined by Professor Paul Gilroy. MON MON Producer Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01pz58l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pz1yd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pz1yg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pz1yj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01pz1yl (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01q9dbg (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01pz9xg (Listen) MON The fight for farmland - Charlotte Smith hears how high MON demand is pushing up prices. Alex Lawson from Savills Farm MON Estates explains who is buying the land. MON An increasing number of goats are being farmed in the UK for MON meat as well as dairy. Charlotte hears from Christine Ball MON who exports British goats across the globe so that they can MON be used for breeding. MON And a new report from the European Food Safety Authority MON identifies risks to bees posed by some insecticides. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01pz1yn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01pz9xl (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01pz9xn (Listen) MON History of Music - John Adams and Howard Goodall MON MON On Start the Week, Tom Sutcliffe talks to Howard Goodall MON about 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to MON modern-day pop, to chart a history of innovation and MON entertainment. The composer John Adams contrasts European MON and American traditions as he conducts two concerts at the MON LSO. The award-winning writer Stephen Poliakoff brings the MON true story of a black British jazz band in the 1930s to the MON small screen. And Barb Jungr's cd of cover versions harks MON back to a tradition of musical re-interpretation. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01q0l88 (Listen) MON The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of MON War, Episode 1 MON MON Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of MON this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose MON words triggered riots. Once d'Annunzio's fame as a great MON wordsmith was established he used it unashamedly to sell his MON work, seduce women and promote his extreme political views. MON MON In 1915, d'Annunzio's incendiary oratory helped drive Italy MON to war. In 1919 he led a troop of mutineers into the MON Croatian port of Fiume and established a delinquent MON city-state. Futurists, anarchists, communists and MON proto-fascists descended, as did literati and MON thrill-seekers, to experience d'Annunzio's utopian MON experiment. MON MON One man's attempt to build a utopia becomes a story about MON the birth of fascism. MON MON Abridged by Penny Leicester MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pz9xt (Listen) MON Aimee Mann; women at Davos; heavy periods. MON MON Grammy award-winning singer songwriter Aimee Mann on her MON weakness for charmers, Chinese entrepreneur Ping Fu on her MON journey from factory floor to head of her own US company, MON Diana Henry's tips for making gravlax, what will Davos do MON for women, and how a new study could change NICE guidelines MON on treatment for heavy periods. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Heavy periods, or menorrhagia affects many women aged 25– 50 MON years and accounts for twenty per cent of gynaecological MON referrals in the UK. Now a new study, by the Universities of MON Birmingham and Nottingham, have found that a MON hormone-releasing intrauterine device – the Mirena coil is a MON better treatment for heavy periods than conventional MON medication. Professor Janesh Gupta explains how his study MON will change NICE guidelines enabling more women to benefit MON from this treatment. MON MON When the heads of state and global business leaders gather MON in Davos for the World Economic Forum this week, what MON proportion of them will be women? What is the WEF hoping to MON achieve ? Is it any more than a talking shop? We discuss MON this with Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and MON the current Administrator of the United Nations Development MON Programme and Jane Martinson, Women’s Editor at the MON Guardian. MON MON Food writer Diana Henry’s recipe for Gravlax in her book MON ‘Salt Sugar Smoke’ has an Irish twist, with the addition of MON whisky and brown sugar along with the traditional dill. Jane MON visited Diana at her home to watch her demonstrate it in her MON kitchen. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dhhpn (Listen) MON Craven: Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's Police Drama 'Craven', MON starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven returns to Radio 4. MON MON As impending cuts threaten the staff of the Greater MON Manchester Police Murder Investigation Team, a case MON involving dangerous dogs and legal drugs piques DCI Craven's MON interest. MON MON Her boss, DCI Price (James Quinn) warns Craven to MON concentrate on the bigger stories that might just save the MON staff, but Craven has other plans and dog loving Terry Bird, MON (David Crellin) puts old grievances aside to take on the MON case. MON MON Craven is determined to prove that the dog bite murder of a MON homeless man, is part of a new wave of organised crime and MON the 'legal' drugs on sale at the Pet Shop is somehow linked. MON Her Boss DI Price has other plans and with DS Watende MON Robinson afraid of dogs, bending the rules won't be easy. MON MON Producer: Justine Potter MON A Red production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 For All Mankind b01pcqkk (Listen) MON What did the Apollo Moon missions ever do for us? To mark MON the fortieth anniversary of the last man on the Moon, MON science writer Chris Riley examines the difference this MON brief human adventure has made to all our lives. MON MON In December 1972, astronaut Gene Cernan left the last MON footprint on the Moon. In that brief era of lunar MON exploration, only twelve men had walked on the Moon's MON surface but, forty years on, the legacy of those missions is MON still having an impact. MON MON Chris Riley talks to astronauts, philosophers and MON entrepreneurs about the enduring impact of Apollo. By MON pushing technology to its limits, the missions showed us MON what we could achieve as a species. In the longer term, they MON accelerated the development of modern electronics, inspired MON the environmental movement and even helped thaw Cold War MON relations. MON MON Tens of thousands of schoolchildren became scientists and MON engineers as a result of Apollo. The missions to the Moon MON made the Earth a very different place. MON MON Producer: Richard Hollingham. MON A Boffin Media production for Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01pz9xz (Listen) MON Series 2, The Review MON MON Cookery writer Damien Trench once again opens his life up to MON the public as we follow him through another few days in his MON life. MON MON It's a new year and Damien and Anthony are undergoing fresh MON works on their house. They are "going upstairs" (having a MON loft conversion) and so Mr Mullaney, their builder, is once MON again installed to look after the project. MON MON Meanwhile, Anthony and Damien discuss what to do with their MON spare room, and Ian Frobisher, Damien's agent, convinces him MON to do a restaurant review, as a favour to Pink Floyd. MON MON Cast: MON Damien Trench - Damien Trench MON Anthony MacIlveny - Justin Edwards MON Damien's mother - Selina Cadell MON Mr Mullaney - Brendan Dempsey MON Ian Frobisher/Damien's father - Philip Fox MON Helen - Georgina Rich MON Waitress - Sarah Thom MON MON Producer: MON Sam Michell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01pz9y1 (Listen) MON How much to raise a child? Could capping social care fees MON force some people pay more? MON MON It's estimated that it costs £116,000 to raise a child to MON the age of eleven. One mother thinks she can slash that MON figure to almost nothing by cutting out special food, new MON clothes, new toys and even trips to the hairdresser for her MON son. Is she right? Is it realistic? MON The warning that even if the government caps the cost of MON social care, most people will still have to sell their homes MON to fund their old age and those who go private may end up MON paying more, not less. MON And John Waite is searching for the smoking room in the MON basement. Hang on - I thought he was trying to quit. Find MON out how he's getting on with trying to kick the habit. MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01pz1yq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01pz9y3 (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 The Alien Balladeer b01pz9y5 (Listen) MON The Ballad of the Naked Rambler MON MON The Alien Balladeer meets the Naked Rambler. Murray Lachlan MON Young writes and performs a song about Stephen Gough as he MON walks from Perth Prison wearing nothing but his boots MON MON Murray accompanies Steve along the streets of the city and MON into the countryside of Perthshire as he is unexpectedly MON allowed to go on his naked way by Tayside Police. To the MON jeers and heckles of building site workers , the toots of MON passing cars, and the averted gazes of fellow pedestrians, MON Steve reveals more than expected. Often he would have been MON rearrested and returned to his cell within seconds but now, MON with the sun on his skin and the wind in his...well MON everywhere, he takes a rare chance to explain his MON motivation. But all is not harmony, as we hear from those MON who are disgusted and alarmed by the thought of Stephen MON Gough at large. MON MON It's a story that Murray weaves into a ballad for our age as MON Steve Gough treads the border country between societal norms MON and the law. Should a person be imprisoned for being naked MON in a public place? Is any harm being done? And how should we MON deal with those who refuse to live within our normal MON boundaries? MON MON In this series, Murray Lachlan Young is the Alien Balladeer. MON With his outsider's eye, he goes prospecting for insight and MON truth from the worlds of the people he meets, bringing MON humour and dignity in a song to his subjects - and an MON occasional sharp dig in the ribs. In this programme and in MON the other four ballads in the series (A Soldier's Tale, The MON Glastonbury Tatter, The God Shaped Hole and The Pole MON Dancer's Lament), myths are exploded and new ones arrive to MON take their place. MON MON Producer: Adam Fowler MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01pz5jb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pzqnf (Listen) MON Wolf MON MON By Alan Harris MON MON Frankie wants to be a journalist and he's prepared to do MON whatever it takes to find a story. But when he starts to get MON inventive with the truth, he embarks on a dangerous journey MON into Cardiff's criminal underworld. MON MON A dark comedy about the importance of telling the truth. MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Frankie Thomas: Craig Roberts MON Mark Ball: Alun Raglan MON Sam Norton: Eiry Thomas MON Gangster 1: Robert Blythe MON Gangster 2: Gareth Pierce MON Director: James Robinson MON Writer: Alan Harris MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01pzqnh (Listen) MON (9/17) MON Can you name the city, a World Heritage Site since 1985, MON that was the ancient capital of the Nabataeans? And who was MON the author of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'? MON These are just two of the questions faced by the competitors MON in this week's ninth heat of Brain of Britain 2013, with MON Russell Davies in the chair. This week they hail from MON Dorset, Berkshire and Hertfordshire. MON As always, a listener also stands to win a prize, if he or MON she can 'beat the brains' with questions of their own. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01pz595 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01pzqnk (Listen) MON Mel Giedroyc at the Cheltenham Literature Festival MON MON Mel Giedroyc, presenter of The Great British Bake Off and R4 MON Extra's The 4 O'Clock Show, introduces her favourite pieces MON of writing to the audience at The Cheltenham Literature MON Festival. From things that make her laugh - like Ronnie MON Barker's wordplay and choice extracts from Jackie magazine, MON to those with a special meaning for her, such as a poem MON about a mouth-watering Lithuanian stew... MON MON Readers Dave Mounfield and Susie Donkin MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON Mel Giedroyc on Radio 4 Extra MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01pzqnm (Listen) MON Development of Mecca MON MON It may surprise you to know that the world's tallest hotel MON is in Makkah. The Clock Tower which is part of the same MON complex is the world's largest clock tower. None of this MON would be all that important were it not for the fact that MON these building are metres away from the Grand Mosque which, MON for Muslims, is the world's holiest place. In order to MON create the space for this expansion, large residential MON districts have been demolished and the residents evicted; MON many examples of traditional urban architecture have been MON destroyed. What is behind this programme? Is it cultural MON vandalism? Or rampant capitalism? Or does it reflect a MON legitimate theological concern on the part of the Saudi MON authorities to prevent idolatry? Joining Ernie Rea to MON discuss the potential destruction of some of Islam's Holy MON Sites are Yaqub Zaki, Visiting Professor at the Aga Khan MON Foundation at Harvard University; Mona Siddiqui, Professor MON of Islamic and Religious Studies at the University of MON Glasgow; and Irfan Al Alawi, Executive Director of the MON Islamic Heritage Research Foundation. MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b01pzqnp (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pz1ys (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01pzqnr (Listen) MON Series 10, Episode 4 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 Tony Hawks, Ed Byrne, Lucy Porter and Charlie Higson are the MON panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as Gambling, Turtles, Teeth and Lemons. 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 b01pzqnt (Listen) MON Vicky is overcome with emotion. Meanwhile Helen is doing MON good business. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01pzqnw (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn MON Bigelow's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01g5yxz (Listen) MON Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 1 MON MON Katie is facing her release from prison after spending most MON of her life behind bars. Terry, a new warden at the prison, MON has been assigned to help her readjust to daily life on the MON outside. After a rocky start the two develop an unlikely MON friendship and, helped by her love of designing and making MON clothes for the inmates, Katie's confidence grows. Could MON these designs be her way out of the prison system, or her MON downfall? MON MON KATIE.....Rachel Austin MON TERRY.....Graeme Hawley MON NINA.....Sarah Parks MON GERDA.....Szilvi Naray-Davey MON CLARA.....Ruth Alexander Rubin MON GOVERNOR HENRIETTA/OFFICER BRENDA.....Brigit Forsyth MON GRANT/OFFICER LUKE.....Perry Fitzpatrick MON MON Produced by Susan Roberts. MON MON 20:00 The Most Troubled Families in Britain b01pw6qd (Listen) MON Louise Casey was brought in following the summer riots to MON oversee David Cameron's pledge to turn around the lives of MON the 120,000 most disadvantaged families in Britain. The high MON profile and expensive programme would, he said, clear away MON "red tape and bureaucratic wrangling" to put "rocket MON boosters" under existing interventions. These families cost MON many millions of pounds in social services and the criminal MON justice system, but will the government investment really MON pay off? MON MON The new unit oversees issues raised by the riots, including MON problem families, school truancy, antisocial behaviour and MON gangs. The programme reflects on it's first year as Louise MON Casey and her team travel the country - initially MON identifying parameters for judging who should come under the MON scheme, which has a budget of £448 million, or £4,000 a MON family, And then as they work out what kind of professional MON help is most effective. Radio 4 follows families like MON Laura's: when her Dad lost his job as a financial adviser MON her Mum started drinking heavily and the family fell apart. MON Laura got pregnant at 14, left school, moved in with a MON boyfriend who abused her and spent her days smoking MON cannabis. When her daughter was at primary school she was in MON trouble for anti-social behaviour on the estate and social MON services got involved when a known drug dealer moved into MON the family home. Unpicking this story and rebuilding the MON lives of those at the centre of it is key to the work going MON on here. MON MON We accompany Louise Casey as she issues guidelines MON identifying families where children truant from school, MON create problems for neighbours and drift into crime. We MON assess the expectations of all those involved, from police MON commanders through to the families and workers on the MON ground. The project relies on a new approach where a single MON person works with parent and child to re-educate them into MON society's norms - initial follow-up claims a 58 percent MON reduction in anti-social behaviour with family intervention. MON Winifred Robinson looks at what happens and what lasting MON impact there might be in what is possibly one of the most MON difficult tasks undertaken in post war Britain. MON MON Troubled families are increasingly in the news - from the MON summer riots, where young offenders were found to have long MON criminal riots, to the parents in Derbyshire charged with MON wiping out six of their children in a deliberate house fire: MON even today a two year old boy has been killed in an MON explosion allegedly deliberately staged by his own father. MON Families already forming part of Louis Casey's work include MON a father of ten who gave up his job when his first child was MON born, hasn't worked since and has recently placed three of MON his children aged between 11 and 7 up for adoption at the MON same time he's fighting social services to regain custody of MON a four year old taken from the couple at birth. There's also MON a teenage mother whose child was born with a bowel defect - MON her response: to put him up for adoption and get pregnant MON again whilst still in hospital. MON Producer: Sue Mitchell. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01pzqx9 (Listen) MON Just Deserts MON MON In the battle over rewards at work, workers grew accustomed MON to winning a healthy share of the spoils during the 1960s MON and 1970s - and to being accorded high status. Since the MON 1980s, however, the power of executives has grown and is now MON reflected in their own much higher financial rewards and MON enhanced esteem. What explains this shift in power - and MON will it last? MON MON Michael Blastland asks why workers have appeared to be so MON weak as bosses have redressed the balance of power at work MON so strikingly in their own favour. Laws curbing trade union MON power, for example, so often cited as the explanation can, MON though, only be part of the reason. Investors - both owners MON and shareholders - have also lost out financially in MON relative terms as executives have grown wealthier and MON stronger. MON MON So what explains the power of the executive class? Are there MON other trends at work which help explain the relative MON position of executives and workers? And if both workers and MON investors want to increase their share of the rewards how MON might they go about it? MON MON Michael Blastland asks how likely investors and workers are MON to succeed in any fight to restore their influence when they MON face such a formidable and entrenched group of executives. MON He speaks to representatives of all three groups and also MON considers what business history and the experience of other MON economies teach us about the likely outcome of the struggle. MON MON Producer Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01pw399 (Listen) MON Why is the smog in Beijing and northern China so bad at the MON moment and how does it compare to the UK? Dr Gary Fuller, MON Senior Lecturer in Air Quality Measurement at King's College MON London and Peter Brimblecombe, Professor of atmospheric MON chemistry at the University of East Anglia discuss the MON current situation. Are the alternatives to researching on MON animals currently realistic? A new post is being created at MON Queen Mary, University of London to try and find other MON options to animal testing. Dr. Alpesh Patel, from the Dr. MON Hadwen Trust and Professor Dominic Wells from the Royal MON Veterinary College are in the studio. Also how scientists MON have managed to study exploding stars much more closely. Dr MON Alison Laird, joins Quentin Cooper from the University of MON York's Department of Physics. MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01pz9xn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01pz1yv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01pzqxc (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pzqxf (Listen) MON The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Creme de la Creme MON MON The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's best known MON and best loved novel - the justly enduring story of an MON Edinburgh school teacher who eschews the normal curriculum MON in favour of lessons on the Italian Renaissance painters, on MON Mussolini and with stories of her own love life. As she MON seeks to mould her 'set' of girls 'of an impressionable MON age', into the 'crème de la crème', and as her love life MON becomes complicated by affections for, and from, the art and MON the singing masters, she identifies two girls, one of MON 'instinct' and one of 'insight', in whom her ambitions will MON chiefly lie. But despite her own unassailable convictions, MON life does not always work out as planned and amongst her own MON set there will be those who begin to question her authority MON and her purpose. MON MON A writer with a keen eye, a biting wit and a pithy sense of MON the comic, Muriel Spark created in Jean Brodie a character MON who remains as vivid and recognisable as she was in 1963, MON the year the book was published. Charismatic, unfettered by MON school boundaries, literal or metaphorical, she is the MON teacher who steps beyond the bounds of prescriptive MON education to the true sense of the word - opening the eyes MON of her girls to a wider world. Spark also captures the city MON of Edinburgh, a character in itself, and of a time - those MON years in the thirties when, denied conventional marriage, MON war-bereaved women sought other paths to fulfilment. MON MON Sparkling, funny, fresh and tragic, The Prime of Miss Jean MON Brodie fully deserves its place in the canon of twentieth MON century literature. Today: there's a plot afoot - again - to MON unseat Miss Brodie. MON MON The reader is Gerda Stevenson, an actor, writer and MON director, winner of the Vanbrugh Award at RADA, whose many MON stage appearances include Lady Macbeth and Desdemona. Her MON radio adaptions include another Scottish classic, Sunset MON Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and her radio plays include The MON Apple Tree. MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01pty43 (Listen) MON Autism and Learning Difficulties MON MON Michael Rosen meets parents, researchers and carers to MON explore the ways we communicate with people with autism or MON profound learning disabilities. Phoebe Caldwell talks about MON the principles of "intensive interaction", and why listening MON and non verbal communication are central to her work. MON Researchers at the Norah Fry Research Centre in Bristol MON explain why changing the way we communicate with people with MON disabilities can challenge preconceptions, and make MON relationships more open, friendly and equal. And Ruth MON Hendery, the head teacher at St Crispin's special school in MON Edinburgh, explains how communication works in her school, MON and why it's so important to get it right. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pzqxh (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 JANUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01pz1zr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01q0l88 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pz1zt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pz1zw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pz1zy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01pz200 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01q9dc3 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01pzqzw (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01pzqzy (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01pzr00 (Listen) TUE Annette Karmiloff-Smith TUE TUE Annette Karmiloff-Smith, from the Birkbeck Centre for Brain TUE & Cognitive Development in London talks to Jim Al-Khalili TUE about her Life Scientific. Starting out as a simultaneous TUE interpreter for the United Nations she soon decided that not TUE being allowed to express any thoughts of her own wasn't for TUE her. After a chance encounter with Jean Piaget, one of the TUE most renowned psychologists of all time, she decided to TUE pursue psychology and over forty years later she is a world TUE expert in brain development and how babies and children TUE learn. Her research has been cited not just by fellow TUE psychologists, but by philosophers, linguists, TUE educationalists, geneticists and neuroscientists. Her TUE controversial response to guidance issued by the American TUE Academy of Paediatrics, that parents should discourage TV TUE viewing in children under 2, is that if the subject matter TUE is chosen well, and is scientifically based, a TV screen can TUE be better for a baby than a book. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01pzs6k (Listen) TUE Martin Wainwright talks to Malcolm Bowden TUE TUE Martin Wainwright concludes his series of interviews, with TUE those who persist and persevere with their views no matter TUE what, by talking to creationist, Malcolm Bowden. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01q0l9r (Listen) TUE The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of TUE War, Episode 2 TUE TUE Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of TUE this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose TUE words triggered riots. TUE TUE It's 1915 and d'Annunzio risks death when he takes to the TUE air on a daring propaganda mission. TUE TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pzs6m (Listen) TUE Steve Biddulph, Diane Abbott TUE TUE Steve Biddulph discusses bringing up girls with Jane Garvey TUE and Diane Abbott joins the conversation to highlight the TUE problem of slut shaming. And what's your favourite comfort TUE food ? TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq3t8 (Listen) TUE Craven: Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's returning Police Drama TUE 'Craven' starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven continues on TUE Radio 4. TUE TUE Impending cuts continue to threaten the staff of the Greater TUE Manchester Police Murder Investigation Team, and a case TUE involving dangerous dogs and legal drugs causes friction as TUE Sue Craven believes it is the key to a much bigger crime Her TUE boss, DCI Price (James Quinn) warns Craven to concentrate on TUE the bigger stories that might just save the staff, but TUE Craven has other plans and dog loving Terry Bird, (David TUE Crellin) puts old grievances aside to take on the case. TUE TUE Craven is determined to prove that the dog bite murder of a TUE homeless man, is part of a new wave of organised crime and TUE the 'legal' drugs on sale at the Pet Shop is somehow linked. TUE Her Boss DI Price has other plans. TUE DS Watende Robinson refuses to admit to the rest of the team TUE that he is afraid of dogs and is distracted at work by the TUE impending birth of his first baby. But DS Terry Bird has him TUE sussed. TUE TUE Producer: Justine Potter TUE A Red production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01pzs6r (Listen) TUE Series 3, Bonobos TUE TUE Bonobos are a species of chimpanzee and are found in the TUE forest of the Congo Basin of the Democratic Republic of TUE Congo. The area is also home to forest elephants and an TUE increase in poaching of elephants for ivory by hunters from TUE outside the local area might be exacerbating an increase in TUE hunting of the bonobos for the bushmeat trade. While local TUE villagers historically have hunted and eaten many animals TUE found living in the forests, their impact on the bonobos is TUE not significant but with the bonobo meat being sold at TUE markets well beyond the forest it is being seen as a "luxury TUE consumption" item and fetches high prices which in turn will TUE lead to increased hunting. Saving Species has spent time TUE amongst the bonobos, the villagers and the biologists to TUE find out what can be done to try and protect them from the TUE increasing threats. TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 For One Night Only b01n5z2x (Listen) TUE Series 7, Clapton Unplugged TUE TUE Paul Gambaccini is back with the award-winning series to TUE re-visit two occasions on which a classic live album was TUE recorded. He hears from those who were there, on-stage, TUE backstage and in the audience, to re-create the event for TUE all of us who, each time we play the album, think: 'If only TUE I could have been there'. TUE TUE In the series opener, Paul looks back at the 1992 recording TUE of 'Eric Clapton Unplugged', in the company of Eric Clapton TUE himself and others who were there. TUE TUE On 16 January 1992, in front of a small audience at Bray TUE Studios near Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eric Clapton and a small TUE group of musicians made history. For the first time in a TUE public performance, the legendary guitarist 'unplugged' his TUE amp and picked up an acoustic guitar to record a selection TUE of old blues favourites and brand new material, including TUE the poignantly personal 'Tears in Heaven', about the tragic TUE los of his son, Conor, the previous year. And then there was TUE the radically surprising take on the classic 'Layla'. TUE TUE Paul Gambaccini hears the story of the making of this TUE classic album, which went on to sell over 20 million copies TUE worldwide and won 6 Grammies, from Eric Clapton himself. He TUE also hears the memories of members of the band: Andy TUE Fairweather Low, Steve Ferrone, Chuck Leavell and Nathan TUE East; Alex Coletti, who produced the show for MTV; sound TUE recordist Buford Jones, and members of the audience. TUE TUE Additional material from Paul Gambaccini's extensive TUE interview with Eric Clapton will be streamed online. TUE TUE Also in this series of For One Night Only: Pete Seeger and TUE others on The Weavers At Carnegie Hall (1955) TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01pzs6t (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01pz202 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01pzs6w (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 The Alien Balladeer b01q41hw (Listen) TUE The God Shaped Hole TUE TUE Murray Lachlan Young writes and performs a ballad about the TUE popularity of earth-based religions and the search for TUE meaning in our materialist world - with the help of a witch, TUE a vicar and a couple of West Country 'Obby 'Osses. TUE TUE To collect material for his song, the Alien Balladeer sets TUE off to Cornwall to discover the attraction of paganism. TUE TUE The origin of the Padstow 'Obby 'Oss celebration is TUE uncertain, but it has all the raucous bawdiness of a TUE pre-Christian fertility festival, so Murray is surprised as TUE he witnesses one of the 'Osses welcomed into a church where TUE it dances down the isle, surrounded by Christian imagery. TUE This remarkable example of tolerance and community dispels TUE Murray's preconception that he will find tension between the TUE Church and older forms of worship, but raises the question TUE in his mind: just what are we all searching for? TUE TUE Producer: Adam Fowler TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01pzqnt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pzs6y (Listen) TUE Chapel of Skins TUE TUE Recorded high up in the Shropshire hills of the Welsh TUE Marches, and inspired by a living landscape and its history, TUE the Chapel of Skins is a fictional story about a ghostly TUE meeting of ways, written and narrated by Paul Evans with TUE wildlife sound recordings by Chris Watson. TUE TUE High in the hills of the Welsh Marches, a remote crossroads TUE is marked by a telephone kiosk and an old stone chapel. It TUE is a mysterious and beautiful place, steeped in history TUE because of the ancient tracks which cross here like the TUE centre of a compass. TUE TUE North, south, east, west: each direction is a 'way' ; a path TUE or opening affording passage from one place to another. TUE Along each way of travel comes a way of being; a voice TUE telling a story. Each story is set in a different time but TUE arrives in the same place. These voices have very different TUE histories but are drawn by necessity to the mystical yet TUE sinister Chapel of Skins which reflects the beauty and TUE harshness of Nature at this crossroads. TUE TUE The drama becomes intense as each character must tell their TUE stories to the listener before the chapel bell tolls TUE midnight on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the TUE twelfth year. Only at that moment will the chapel door open TUE in a bizarre midnight ritual and the lost souls find TUE sanctuary. So, the Chapel is a way too, a gateway affording TUE passage from one place to another. If they fail to tell TUE their stories, the fate of these restless figures, these TUE voices in the landscape, is to wander the hills for another TUE hundred years. TUE TUE Wildlife sound recordist: Chris Watson TUE Directed and Produced by Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Credits TUE Phone Box: Paul Evans TUE Trebrodier: Liza Sadovy TUE Anchor: Ben Crowe TUE Quabbs: Alex Tregear TUE Director: Sarah Blunt TUE Producer: Sarah Blunt TUE Writer: Paul Evans TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01pzs70 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor 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 Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Lives in a Landscape b01hxmw1 (Listen) TUE Series 10, Steel Spring TUE TUE Steel Spring. In 1990 Alan Dein travelled the length and TUE breadth of Britain to document lives in steel- already an TUE industry in decline. His then employer British Steel is, TUE itself, now history. Decline, closure and layoffs have been TUE the depressingly familiar litany of modern British industry. TUE When they mothballed the blast furnace at Redcar, on the TUE iron coast of Teesside, in 2010 it felt like just another TUE death. "Like killing a creature" one worker says but this TUE Easter Redcar witnessed a remarkable and fiery resurrection. TUE A billion and a half dollars from Thailand brought back TUE steel making and now the new blast furnace belches smoke and TUE fire as the grey waves crash against the sands of Redcar. TUE Alan Dein returns to a landscape he hasn't visited for a TUE quarter of a century to journey from the iron shore where TUE dark grey waves complement the coils of pale smoke beyond TUE before trailing the black path to the steelworks and its TUE fiery heart, the blast furnace. Dein picks his way through TUE the vast metal realm of 'Queen Bess' vomiting sparks, smoke TUE and flame to hear from new and old lives in steel, from TUE those who forever left behind a world of generational toil TUE and from those reborn in the shadow of the fire. TUE TUE Producer Mark Burman. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01pzs72 (Listen) TUE Writer Michael Rosen charts the rise and rise of the TUE audiobook. From its beginnings as a way for blind war TUE veterans to enjoy literature, to the blockbusters and TUE autobiographies of today, Michael discovers that the TUE audiobook has a curious history. Subject to suspicion and TUE occasional derision, the audiobook was long the poor TUE relation of "proper" reading and has only recently received TUE more serious scholarly attention. Michael visits the sound TUE studios to hear audiobooks in production, and talks to TUE writers, sound engineers, directors and actors about the art TUE of the successful audiobook. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01pzs74 (Listen) TUE Series 29, Nancy Mitford TUE TUE Grace Dent loves Nancy Mitford for her wit, and for the way TUE in which she showed women that it was possible to live your TUE life. Grace Dent is a TV critic, newspaper columnist, TUE author, and broadcaster - and a feared presence on Twitter. TUE Nancy Mitford's greatest success came with the novels The TUE Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949). TUE Matthew Parris asks what it is about Nancy that so inspires TUE Grace, with the aid of biographer Lisa Hilton. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01pzs76 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pz204 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01q7bq4 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Les Dennis TUE TUE Les Dennis tries his first ever taste of cheese, reads The TUE Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, hears his first ever TUE Rolling Stones Album and watches the hit comedy The TUE Inbetweeners. He gives his verdict to Marcus Brigstocke. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01pzs78 (Listen) TUE Emma helps out, and Matt has a proposition. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01pzs7b (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who discusses the paintings of Edouard TUE Manet, in the light of a major new exhibition at the Royal TUE Academy, London. TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd0k8 (Listen) TUE Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 2 TUE TUE Francesca Joseph's contemporary drama set in a women's TUE prison. Katie is facing her release from prison after TUE spending most of her life behind bars. Will she be able to TUE cope with life on the outside? TUE TUE Katie starts work on the Burnsides order, whilst Terry TUE starts her rehabilitation. TUE TUE Produced by Susan Roberts. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01pzs7d (Listen) TUE The government and senior medical figures want consultants TUE to be more hands on in hospitals at weekends and at night. TUE It follows evidence patients are less likely to receive TUE prompt treatment and more likely to die if they are admitted TUE to hospital on a Saturday or Sunday. A recent survey of TUE hospital chief executives showed they had significant doubts TUE their hospitals were as safe at weekends as during the week. TUE TUE Jane Deith examines cases which raise concerns about out of TUE hours care in hospitals. Is there enough senior medical TUE support for junior doctors and how effective is the on-call TUE system where consultants are available to give advice over TUE the phone from home? TUE TUE While departments such as accident and emergency, intensive TUE care and obstetrics, already have consultants working in TUE hospitals during the weekend, some medical colleges believe TUE the time has come for 24 hour, seven days a week consultant TUE cover on the wards. Jane visits hospitals trying to achieve TUE this and hears the challenges they face. TUE TUE The programme also investigates what this increased TUE consultant presence might cost the NHS and whether there TUE will be enough senior doctors available to make it happen. TUE The College of Emergency Medicine, for example, says TUE accident and emergency departments are facing a recruitment TUE crisis and it does not expect to see the required number of TUE consultants until 2030. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01pzs7g (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01pzs7j (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 b01pzr00 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01pz206 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01pzs7l (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pzs7n (Listen) TUE The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Episode 2 TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00ss2q8 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 6 TUE TUE Victoria Coren presents the programme which loves to commit TUE heresy. TUE TUE Arguing against the received wisdom that it's okay to TUE download a bit of film and music without paying, guests TUE Clive Anderson, Rufus Hound and Fern Britton find themselves TUE slightly out-manoeuvred by a member of the audience. In TUE response to the accusation, by barrister Clive Anderson, TUE that downloading of music is effectively theft, he replies TUE "but when I take it, it's still there". TUE TUE Fern Britton, married to television chef Phil Vickery, has TUE no problem arguing against the proposition that there are TUE too many celebrity chefs, and all three guests find reasons TUE to believe that model Jordan's marriage to cage fighter Alex TUE Reid will last longer than three rounds. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pzs7q (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01pz214 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01q0l9r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pz216 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pz218 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pz21b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01pz21d (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01q9dck (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01pztj9 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01pztjc (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 b01pztjf (Listen) WED Series 2, Transition to Adulthood 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 ask how the transition WED to adulthood has changed since the Baby Boomers were young. WED WED The first programme in this series showed how hard it can be WED for young people to get a foot on the job ladder. But what WED effect is this having on the rest of their lives? Can they WED get the house, the independence and the family of their own, WED and feel like true adults? In this second programme, Fi WED Glover takes to the road to find out. WED WED Employment is, for many, the first step. Nickael is a newly WED qualified teacher. With a salary and career prospects, she WED should be set up for life. But she's still living at home WED with her mum. Even with a stable income, the weight of WED university debts and the high cost of living means staying WED at home is her only option. WED WED Baby boomer Tony is experiencing the same problem with his WED nineteen year old son, Darren. Darren can't afford to move WED out, so Tony's dream of retiring to Turkey is currently on WED hold. He thinks Darren and his younger brother need to work WED hard and save hard, but accepts that things aren't as easy WED as when he left school. Like Tony, David and Sandra grew up WED when people "knew where they were going" and are relieved WED not to be making the same, less certain, journey today. WED WED Ffion, on the other hand, is embracing uncertainty at WED twenty-two. Last year she started work at a local school, WED but gave it up to pursue her dream of living abroad as a WED holiday rep in Kefalonia. While she'd like more security, WED she's enjoying making her own way in life, on a path that WED feels a bit different from everyone else. WED WED Hayley is another one of our younger generation who's WED decided to go a different way, having two children before WED her twenty first birthday. She's faced a lot of prejudice WED about being a young, single mum but feels society should be WED more accepting of people who have their family first. Sixty WED six year old Cathy wishes she'd had the same freedom when WED she became pregnant. She was forced to marry and leave the WED job she loved. Hayley, however, is nearing the end of her WED Open University degree and thinking about a career. WED WED So although reaching adulthood today can be a drawn-out WED process, new social freedoms are giving young people WED opportunities the baby boomers could only dream of. WED Meanwhile, the 1946 generation are having to reassess their WED own lives to cope with these turbulent and changing times. WED WED Producer: Anna Lacey. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01pz9xq (Listen) WED The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of WED War, Episode 3 WED WED Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of WED this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose WED words triggered riots. WED WED Peace for d'Annunzio spells disaster and in 1919 he looks to WED further his military ambitions. WED WED Abridged by Penny Leicester WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01pztjh (Listen) WED Barbara Hannigan; what do parents want from donors? WED WED Jenni Murray meets soprano Barbara Hannigan and Tina Renton, WED who was abused, studied law, prosecuted her abuser and has WED now written a book You Can't Hide. We report on a conference WED about the features parents look for in a donor and meet the WED women behind the cameras on the BBC natural history series WED Africa. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq3xp (Listen) WED Craven: Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's returning Police Drama WED 'Craven' starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven continues on WED Radio 4. WED WED Impending cuts continue to threaten the staff of the Greater WED Manchester Police Murder Investigation Team, and a case WED involving dangerous dogs and legal drugs causes friction as WED Sue Craven believes it is the key to a much bigger crime Her WED boss, DCI Price (James Quinn) warns Craven to concentrate on WED the bigger stories that might just save the staff, but WED Craven has other plans and dog loving Terry Bird, (David WED Crellin) puts old grievances aside to take on the case. WED WED Producer: Justine Potter WED A Red production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01pztrl (Listen) WED Series 17, Episode 1 WED WED In 1982, agriculture minister Peter Walker launched WED Lymeswold cheese - the first new British cheese for 200 WED years, and, for a while, the must-have dairy product for WED gourmets. Partly intended to deal with milk over-production, WED it was also meant to show the French we could beat them at WED their own game. WED WED The public went mad for Lymeswold but, within 10 years, WED sales had dwindled, and the makers, Dairy Crest, pulled the WED plug. It had been a case of wild over-optimism: flushed with WED the original success, Dairy Crest had expanded production WED far beyond what the market could take, and moved from a WED craft-based process to a mass-produced machine-made product. WED It became a byword for inauthentic marketing hype, and a WED butt of Private Eye jokes. WED WED Jolyon Jenkins speaks to dairy veterans about what went WED wrong, and finds a small cheesemaker in the Highlands who is WED making Lymeswold still. WED WED Producer/presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b01pztrn (Listen) WED Series 8, Nanny State WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Brian and Clare are struggling with childcare for their son WED Thomas when Clare bumps into their beloved Nanny, Nali - who WED they sacked. WED WED Episode 4 - Nanny State WED WED Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS WED Brian: ALEX LOWE WED Nali: NINA CONTI WED Stan: RICHARD LUMSDEN WED Mrs Pope: SARAH THOM WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01pztrq (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01pz21g (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01pzts7 (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The Alien Balladeer b01q41jd (Listen) WED The Glastonbury Tatter WED WED Over the last forty years, music festivals have become a WED huge part of UK popular culture. But what happens when the WED crowds depart? WED WED Murray Lachlan Young visits the site of the Glastonbury WED Festival to write a ballad about the armies of WED litter-pickers who, every year, turn a wasteland of WED Glasto-detritus back into a rural idyll within days of the WED final encore. WED WED But for some, this is far more than a clean-up, it's a way WED of life. The Alien Balladeer puts the litter-pickers WED centre-stage as they wander the scenes of other people's WED revelry, creating their own story from what is left behind. WED What's really going down in today's disposable world? And WED just what is a Tatter? WED WED Producer: Adam Fowler WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01pzs78 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pzv2j (Listen) WED Every Duchess in England WED WED by Alan Pollock. WED WED It is 1931 and Britain is straining under an ongoing WED financial crisis, austerity measures and a Coalition WED government. Frustrated by the failure of the political class WED to take on the might of the banks, maverick Labour MP Oswald WED Mosley attempts to take things into his own hands by forming WED a New Party. But with the financial crisis deepening, WED co-founder and fellow Birmingham MP, John Strachey, quickly WED comes to question the motives of his larger-than-life WED friend. WED WED Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED Credits WED Oswald Mosley: Tobias Menzies WED John Strachey: Harry Lloyd WED Ted 'Kid' Lewis: Jonathan Tafler WED Maitland: Sam Dale WED Evans: Sam Dale WED Watkins: Patrick Brennan WED Howard: Will Howard WED Director: Gaynor MacFarlane WED Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane WED Writer: Alan Pollock WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01pzv2l (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 wait for a better offer? 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 Whatever you want to know, put your questions to Vincent WED Duggleby and guests: WED WED Paul Kavanagh, Partner, Killik & Co WED WED Steve Taylor, Chartered Financial Planner, Taylor Oliver WED 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 b01pzs7j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01pzv2n (Listen) WED Climate Change WED WED Climate change - what lies beneath the widespread denial of WED our ecological crisis? Laurie Taylor talks to Sally WED Weintrobe, the editor of the first book which explores, from WED a multi disciplinary perspective, what the ecological crisis WED actually means to people. In spite of a scientific WED consensus, many continue to resist or ignore the message of WED climate communicators - but why? What are the social and WED emotional explanations for this reaction? Ted Benton, WED Professor of Sociology, joins the discussion. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01pzv2q (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01pzv2s (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pz21j (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01pzv5r (Listen) WED Series 4, Vaduz WED WED Episode 3: WED WED It's a bad time for Carolyn to take a holiday as the crew of WED MJN Air have to face a real live King and a mythical fax WED machine. WED WED Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world WED of a tiny, one plane, charter airline staffed by two pilots: WED one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. WED Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to WED Mozambique or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too WED small but many, many jobs are too difficult. WED WED Carolyn Knapp-Shappey................Stephanie Cole WED 1st Officer Douglas Richardson.......Roger Allam WED Capt. Martin Crieff..................Benedict Cumberbatch WED Arthur Shappey.......................John Finnemore WED Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright...Anthony Head WED Princess Theresa.....................Matilda Ziegler WED Maximilian...........................Kieran Hodgson WED Karl/Otto............................Dan Tetsell WED WED Written by John Finnemore WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01pzv5t (Listen) WED Lynda makes a discovery. Meanwhile Vicky is exhausted. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01pzv5w (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd0ln (Listen) WED Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 3 WED WED Francesca Joseph's contemporary drama set in a women's WED prison. Katie is facing her release from prison after WED spending most of her life behind bars. Will she be able to WED cope with life on the outside? WED WED As Katie is drawn even further into Grant's plan and we WED learn more about her past and the reasons for her WED imprisonment. WED WED Produced by Susan Roberts. WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01pzvc8 (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 b01pzvcb (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Tim Harford tells short stories about fascinating people and WED ideas in economics. WED WED 21:00 Sexual Nature: A Brief Natural History of Sex WED b01pzvs6 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Via gender-bending fish, the shrivelled Y chromosome and WED meeting James Bond's komodo dragons, Adam Rutherford WED explores the multifarious ways Nature uses to make females WED and males. WED WED The biological Ying and Yang of the two sexes is a WED fundamental condition for sexual reproduction, and we have WED to thank sex for the evolution of the extraordinary variety WED of complex life on Earth (see episode 1 of this series). WED Without sex, the Earth would merely be a world of bacteria, WED oozing in microbial slime. WED WED Given that female and male was the essential dichotomy from WED the origins of sex 1.5 billion years ago, you might be WED forgiven for thinking that Nature produces males and females WED in a standardised and uncomplicated way in all creatures . WED WED Far from it - as Adam Rutherford discovers when he enters WED the lair of the komodo dragons at London Zoo. A few years WED ago, the female dragon surprised everyone there with a WED virgin birth of a clutch of sons. She hadn't mated with a WED male and her unfertilised eggs developed into young males by WED a process called parthenogenesis (a kind of cloning). A wild WED female Komodo dragon may have this asexual reproductive WED trick up her sleeves if she colonises a new Pacific island. WED Without sex, she lays some males and can then found a new WED population by having sex with them. This is possible because WED lizards have a quite different set of sex-determining WED chromosomes from humans and (almost) all other mammals. WED Despite their fearsome reputation as the largest and most WED deadly of lizards, Adam gets close to the zoo's male Raja WED and is let into the secrets of normal dragon reproduction. WED Raja incidentally had a cameo role in the last James Bond WED film, 'Skyfall'. WED WED Keeping with the cinematic theme, Adam also investigates WED what makes a boy or a girl in the tropical undersea world of WED 'Nemo'. 'It's NOT like the movie', warns Prof Bob Warner in WED California, who goes on to describe and explain a sexually WED fluid scene of opportunistic gender transformation - Nemo to WED Nema, Wilma to Willy the Wrasse - whenever it will maximise WED their chance of producing offspring. Testes become ovaries WED or vice versa in a few days. WED WED Adam also consults weird sex chromosome supremo Professor WED Jenny Graves in Melbourne, Australia. She's the world expert WED on sex determination in the duck-billed platypus - her WED country's aquatic mammal which lays eggs. Jenny Graves WED explains how its strange sex determination system WED illuminates the origins of our species' own sex WED determination which is controlled by the X and Y WED chromosomes. WED WED Jenny and Adam also discuss the degeneration of the male Y WED chromosome. Many researchers claim it's been shrinking WED during the millions of years of mammal evolution. At some WED point, it will shrivel to nothing. Jenny gives the human Y WED chromosome 5 million years at most - but it could disappear WED much, much sooner. What will this mean for men and the WED continuation of the human species? WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Generations Apart b01pztjf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01pz21q (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01pzvs8 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01pzvsb (Listen) WED The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Episode 3 WED WED 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b011d6rf (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 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 utmost, 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 - "It's me or the WED dog!" and "My phobias are out of control but I'm too scared WED to even admit it" WED WED Sarah Millican Sarah WED Ruth Bratt Marion WED Simon Day Terry WED Margaret Cabourn-Smith Laura WED Harry Peacock Barry WED Tim Key John. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01pzvsd (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01pz22m (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01pz9xq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pz22p (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pz22r (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pz22t (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01pz22w (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01q9dcw (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01q02mk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01q02mm (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 b01q02t7 (Listen) THU Romulus and Remus THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 'Romulus and Remus', the THU foundation myth of Rome. Legend has it that Rome was founded THU by twins, Romulus and Remus, who were abandoned by their THU parents as babies and saved by a she-wolf who found and THU nursed them. Later brought up by shepherds the twins went on THU to found the city of Rome, which is named after Romulus who THU killed his brother after a vicious quarrel. THU THU The myth has been at the core of Roman identity since the THU 1st century AD, although the details vary in different THU versions of the story of which there are over sixty. The THU image of the she-wolf suckling the divinely fathered twins THU remains a potent icon of the city even today. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01q0lbk (Listen) THU The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of THU War, Episode 4 THU THU Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of THU this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose THU words triggered riots. THU THU D'Annunzio transforms the Croatian port of Fiume into a THU delinquent city-state. THU THU Abridged by Penny Leicester THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01q030g (Listen) THU Armistead Maupin THU THU Armistead Maupin talks to Jenni Murray as Radio 4 dramatises THU his Tales of the City and we discuss co-parenting THU legislation. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq51g (Listen) THU Craven: Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's retuning Police Drama 'Craven' THU starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven continues on Radio 4. THU THU As Watende Robinson's wife goes into labour with their first THU baby, a break, takes the team to a farm in Denshaw where THU shocking activities and an abandoned child hint at a much THU bigger crime. THU THU Producer: Justine Potter THU A Red production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01q03kl (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 The Men Who Painted Paradise: The Hudson River School THU b01q03kn (Listen) THU Frederic Church was one of the leading figures in the 19th THU century Hudson River School of painters. Susan Marling THU travelled to the Hudson Valley and to the Catskill THU mountains, upstate New York, where Church and his mentor, THU British born Thomas Cole, lived and worked - and where they THU transformed the nation's ideas about landscape and THU wilderness, and about America itself. THU THU These painters persuaded Americans that their grand, wild THU places - so different from the castle and ruin-strewn THU landscapes of Europe - were sublime, edenic and a cause for THU pride. In doing so, they kick started waves of tourism and, THU it's argued, the national movement to protect places of THU beauty. THU THU Marling visits the houses and studios of these artists - THU including Church's astonishing Persian style manor house THU above the Hudson - and gets to see some of their remarkable THU paintings at the Wadsworth gallery in neighbouring THU Connecticut. THU THU Producer: Susan Marling THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01q03kq (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01pz22y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01q03ks (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 The Alien Balladeer b01q41jv (Listen) THU The Pole Dancer's Lament THU THU Murray Lachlan Young meets a pole-dancer working in a London THU club and visits another who's hung up her thong. He weaves THU their contrasting opinions about the industry into a ballad. THU THU In a programme that could not be broadcast on television THU before the watershed without copious pixilation, the Alien THU Balladeer takes full advantage of the medium of radio to THU provide a vivid picture of the working world of the THU pole-dancer. Murray spends an evening at a club, speaking THU with its manager and chatting to one of the women who works THU there as she dances for him. Murray's partner, the singer THU Bess Cavendish who provides backing vocals on some of the THU Alien Balladeer songs, joins him at the club and offers her THU own perspective on what she sees. In the end, this female THU perspective leads the song-writing process and Bess sings THU the completed ballad, The Pole Dancer's Lament. THU THU Producer: Adam Fowler THU A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01pzv5t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00zsjys (Listen) THU The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope THU THU The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope THU by Mike Harris in collaboration with Dave and Stefan Pope THU The extraordinary true story of the disappearance of an THU English Nurse, in Ecuador, and how her husband and son THU tracked down her abductor. Dave and Stefan Pope spend a year THU in a country fraught with poverty and corruption, where they THU barely speak the language, with next to no money. But with THU heaps of determination and good will from a few key THU characters they eventually reap the rewards of justice. THU THU Further info THU In September 2005 Jenny Pope takes a year off to go back THU packing alone in South America because she believes her THU marriage is over. Dave has been living in the shed prior to THU this for the last 18 months. But they keep in touch by THU e-mail and, gradually, separation brings them back together THU again - their love is reignited. By the time Jennifer THU reaches Ecuador she's brought her flight forward as she's THU missing husband and son. But in January 2006, suddenly her THU e-mails stop and her credit cards are emptied. Dave and THU Jenny's 20 year old son Stefan go to Banyos in Ecuador, to THU find out what happened. They soon realise that the prime THU suspect is the security guard at the last hostel Jenny THU stayed; a man with a violent past who carries a gun and a THU machete in his car, who's bank account deposits match THU exactly those of Jennifers withdrawals. A poignant and life THU affirming story of how a father and son's loss and confusion THU is channelled into energy and determination to find justice THU for their beloved wife and mother. THU THU Credits THU Dave Pope: Reece Dinsdale THU Stefan Pope: Matthew McNulty THU Jennifer Pope: Kate Layden THU Marco Chaves: Oliver Miceli THU Clifford Craig: David Fleeshman THU Hostel Owner: David Fleeshman THU Fiscal of Banos: Javier Marzan THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Mike Harris THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01q03kv (Listen) THU Memories of the Black Isle THU THU Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle to hear how residents THU are collecting memories of the landscape, before they are THU forgotten forever. The Killearnan Memories Group meets to THU share their knowledge of this part of the Eastern Highlands THU in order to preserve it for future generations. Members of THU the group have grown up on the Black Isle and have memories THU and stories about the physical landscape which they are THU using to create a written archive. This movement has been THU inspired by a project run by Cait McCullagh from Archaeology THU for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH), in which Black Isle THU residents gathered together to remember buildings, sites and THU other aspects of their heritage, using old maps and THU photographs as inspiration. THU Produced by Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01pz58v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01pz59k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01q03kx (Listen) THU Steven Spielberg - a special extended interview with THU Francine Stock on his film Lincoln THU THU One of the world's most successful and influential THU directors, Steven Spielberg talks about his latest film, THU Lincoln, which is dominating the Oscar lists with 12 THU nominations. In a special extended interview, he describes THU his long courtship of Daniel Day Lewis to play the leading THU role, the detailed historical research behind the production THU and the reaction of President Obama to the film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01q03kz (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01q03l1 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pz230 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q03l3 (Listen) THU Series 2, Facing Your Fears THU THU Stephen K Amos is joined by stand-ups Michael Redmond, Holly THU Walsh, Boothby Graffoe and a particularly nervous audience THU member to compile and Idiot's Guide to Facing Your Fears. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01q035r (Listen) THU Joe intervenes, and Rob settles into village life. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01q03l5 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a review of Anna Maxwell Martin, THU Gina McKee and Tamzin Outhwaite in the play Di and Viv and THU Rose, by Amelia Bullmore. THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd3fg (Listen) THU Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 4 THU THU Francesca Joseph's contemporary drama set in a women's THU prison. Katie is facing her release from prison after THU spending most of her life behind bars. Will she be able to THU cope with life on the outside? THU THU Terry takes Katie on her first trip to the countryside and THU the pair grow closer, but can he cope with her deceit over THU Grant? THU THU Produced by Susan Roberts. THU THU 20:00 The Report b01q03l7 (Listen) THU The Police Federation THU THU Current affairs series. Phil Kemp examines the Police THU Federation and its role in the resignation of the Chief Whip THU Andrew Mitchell. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01q03l9 (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion and spin to present a THU clearer view of the business world through discussion with THU people running leading and emerging companies. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01pzs6r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01q02t7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01pz232 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01q03s6 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01q03s8 (Listen) THU The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Episode 4 THU THU 23:00 Shedtown b01q03sb (Listen) THU Series 2, End of the Beginning THU THU Sitcom. Two friends find themselves slipping inexorably into THU middle age. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01q03x9 (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 JANUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01pz23z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01q0lbk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pz241 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pz245 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pz247 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01pz249 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01q0308 (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 b01q02sg (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01q02sj (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 b01pz593 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01q0lcc (Listen) FRI The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of FRI War, Episode 5 FRI FRI Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of FRI this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose FRI words triggered riots. FRI FRI Now an enemy of the state, d'Annunzio struggles to keep his FRI utopian experiment in Fiume alive. FRI FRI Abridged by Penny Leicester FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01q0333 (Listen) FRI Female street names; Vicars' daughters FRI FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq55j (Listen) FRI Craven: Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's retuning Police Drama 'Craven' FRI starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven concludes on Radio 4. FRI FRI As Watende Robinson's wife goes into labour with their first FRI baby, a break, takes the team to a farm in Denshaw where FRI shocking activities and an abandoned child hint at a much FRI bigger crime with big fish Tony Lau at its heart. FRI FRI But it is the pack mentality of the women on the drug addled FRI estate that brings the investigation to an end. We finish FRI series two as the axe falls on the job of one member of the FRI team. FRI FRI Producer: Justine Potter FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Random Edition b01q0337 (Listen) FRI All that remains of the famous 1889 Exposition Universelle FRI on the huge Champ de Mars in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. And FRI even that wasn't intended to survive. FRI FRI Peter Snow travels to Paris, clutching a copy of Le Matin FRI for 7th May 1889, to examine the background to this iconic FRI structure's creation. The legendary French newspaper FRI provides vivid detail on the opening ceremony of this FRI massive event and the array of buildings that made up the FRI exhibition: the massive Galerie des Machines, full of FRI new-fangled machinery from around the world; the Palais des FRI Beaux Arts, showcasing painters and sculptors; and all FRI manner of pavilions provided by countries large and small. FRI Easing transport round the huge site, we read, was the FRI Decauville Railway. FRI FRI Dominating everything though, is the Eiffel Tower. And it's FRI the central feature of the firework display which closes the FRI exhibition's opening day. Taking in the view from on high, FRI Peter examines how the tower came to be built, what it FRI symbolises and why it has survived. There are also visits to FRI the Theatre de la Ville, where Massenet's opera Esclarmonde FRI was premiered; to a celebrated hotel which opened on the FRI very day this edition of Le Matin was published; and to the FRI world-famous Carnavalet Museum, where many contemporary FRI artefacts bring the exhibition alive. FRI FRI Peter also examines the political agenda underpinning the FRI creation of the exhibition, timed by the Third Republic to FRI mark the centenary of the French Revolution. Why is Le Matin FRI keen to know Britain's opinion of the event? Peter also FRI brings alive reports in the paper that the exiled Napoleon FRI III's former home in Kent is being sold and that his widow FRI has been spotted in Birmingham en route for Malvern. FRI FRI Producer: Andrew Green FRI An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01q0339 (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Secret of Youth FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett returns to Radio 4 for a third series of his FRI popular 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 their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this. 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 after Sandy and his FRI money. FRI FRI Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a FRI friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder, can really FRI help a Grandad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog FRI together face a complicated world. There's every chance FRI they'll make it more so. FRI FRI Episode Three: The Secret Of Youth FRI Sandy's neighbour Ken, although ancient, is still winning FRI things - hearts, minds and the cup at the Squash Club. In FRI fact, he seems to have discovered the secret of eternal FRI youth. Only a raid on his garden will reveal the truth! FRI FRI Sandy.......................Ronnie Corbett FRI Dolores......................Liza Tarbuck FRI Mrs Pompom..............Sally Grace FRI Lance.........................Philip Bird FRI Calais.........................Amelia Clarkson FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01q034b (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01pz24c (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01q035p (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The Alien Balladeer b01q6kcz (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Murray Lachlan Young writes and performs a ballad about Dave FRI who lives in a tent in the woods and tells tales of war, FRI post-traumatic stress and his long journey to redemption on FRI the back of a horse. FRI FRI A dark, intimate encounter in a rainstorm, under cover of FRI canvas and forest, produces a remarkable account of bravery, FRI despair and the unsupportable weight of expectation when the FRI Alien Balladeer meets a former soldier. After being tempted FRI into the forces by the lure of recruitment posters, Dave FRI recounts his first harrowing introduction to the real FRI business of soldiering and of the time when he had the power FRI in his hands to take a life, but chose instead to save it. FRI He talks also of how life and the company of others became FRI almost unbearable on his departure from the army, and how FRI his equilibrium only returned after a ten-year journey FRI though Britain with his horse Troy. From these quietly FRI spoken, sometimes stuttering tales, Murray creates a ballad FRI about the archetypal Soldier. FRI FRI Producer: Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01q035r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01q04b7 (Listen) FRI Stone, Blood FRI FRI Blood by Vivienne Harvey. The second play of Stone: a FRI detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring FRI Hugo Speer. FRI FRI DCI Stone gets in the ring to investigate the murder of a FRI promising young thai kick boxer. FRI FRI When sixteen year-old Jackson Bennett becomes the fourth FRI teenager murdered on the notorious Bridgeton Estate, DCI FRI Stone vows to bring his devastated family justice. FRI Confronted with a case with no witnesses and a community FRI with an inherent distrust of the police, Stone finds his FRI priorities challenged as he struggles to catch a killer and FRI reclaim the increasingly lawless estate. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI DCI John Stone: Hugo Speer FRI DI Mike Tanner: Craig Cheetham FRI DS Sue Kelly: Deborah McAndrew FRI Kenny McQueen: Gary Lewis FRI Theo: Darious Anderson FRI Wilma: Maxine Burth FRI Fran: Maxine Burth FRI Damien: Luke Broughton FRI Danny: Luke Broughton FRI Liza: Holly Jay Bowes FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01q03g3 (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood, Matt Biggs and Anne Swithinbank are in the FRI Gardeners' Question Time potting shed at Sparsholt, FRI answering the listeners' correspondence for a postbag FRI edition of the show. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Pierrot Hero: The Story of Clifford Essex b01q03g5 (Listen) FRI How It All Began FRI FRI A selection of readings from the personal memoirs of FRI Clifford Essex, which have remained unpublished since they FRI first appeared in magazine format in the 1920s. In this FRI episode, Essex has the idea of forming a pierrot troupe and FRI taking it to Henley Regatta. FRI FRI The seaside pierrot troupe is an uniquely British art form, FRI which began in 1891. That year, a gifted banjo player and FRI producer of entertainments for society events, called FRI Clifford Essex, watched a performance of L'Enfant Prodigue FRI at The Prince of Wales Theatre. It was a largely mimed FRI performance featuring a family of pierrots and it gave Essex FRI the idea of costuming a concert party in white satin, FRI pompoms and ruffles, to perform banjo pieces at The Henley FRI Regatta and, later that year, at Cowes. FRI FRI The project was a resounding success and led to his troupe FRI performing throughout the country for almost three decades. FRI During this time, the idea was copied and developed in such FRI a way that, by the 1920s, there were more than 500 pierrot FRI troupes performing along the coasts of Britain. These FRI troupes were the stand-up comedy club and indie pop charts FRI of their day - it was here that artists honed their craft by FRI learning old routines and developing new ideas. They paved FRI the way for the styles of music and humour that subsequently FRI found a mass audience on radio and television. FRI FRI The reader, Tony Lidington is known by many people as 'Uncle FRI Tacko', leader and founder of The Pierrotters, the FRI last-remaining professional, seaside pierrot troupe in FRI Britain, now in its 27th year of performing. FRI FRI Abridged and read by Tony Lidington FRI Producer: David Blount FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01q03g7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01q03h2 (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 b01q03h4 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pz24f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01q03k1 (Listen) FRI Series 79, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Bob FRI Mills and Jo Brand. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01q03qq (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Carolyn Sally Jones FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01q03qs (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, who reports on the art and life of painter FRI William Scott, whose centenary is celebrated in a new FRI exhibition at Tate St Ives. FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd3fj (Listen) FRI Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 5 FRI FRI Francesca Joseph's contemporary drama set in a women's FRI prison. Katie is facing her release from prison after FRI spending most of her life behind bars. Will she be able to FRI cope with life on the outside? FRI FRI Terry confronts Grant over the Burnsides' order and Katie's FRI release date is looming. FRI FRI Produced by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01q03qv (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the University of Surrey in Guildford. Guests includes FRI the economist Alison Wolf, Secretary of State for FRI Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles MP, Shadow FRI Attorney General Emily Thornberry MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01q03qx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b008fbnl (Listen) FRI Beast at Bay FRI FRI Robin Glendinning's play tells the story of the publication FRI of Boris Pasternak's classic 20th-century novel Dr Zhivago. FRI Censored by the Soviet regime, the book was first published FRI in Italy 50 years ago after the manuscript was smuggled out FRI of the country. The book's appearance caused furore in the FRI Soviet Union and a debacle followed when Pasternak was FRI awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. FRI FRI Directed by Tim Dee. FRI FRI Credits FRI Pasternak: Jay Villiers FRI Polikarpov: Brian Pettifer FRI Surkov: Robert Glenister FRI Bannikov: Jon Cartwright FRI Olga: Mia Soteriou FRI Irina: Sarah Bedi FRI Actor: John Telfer FRI Actor: Jon Glover FRI Actor: David Collins FRI Actor: Paul Nicholson FRI Director: Tim Dee FRI Writer: Robert Glendinning FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01pz24h (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01q03qz (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01q03r1 (Listen) FRI The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Episode 5 FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01pzs74 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01q03r3 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
18 January, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 19/01/2013 - 25/01/2013
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