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SAT SATURDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01qfjxh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01qfk3k (Listen) SAT Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, Episode 5 SAT SAT Paul Kildea's major biography of the twentieth-century SAT composer, Benjamin Britten, is published in the year that SAT marks his centenary. This vivid portrait of the composer SAT explores the private and creative life of the man who SAT composed operas that have entered the popular consciousness SAT as well as the musical canon. Today, the final years. SAT SAT Read by Alex Jennings. SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qfjxk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qfjxm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qfjxp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01qfjxr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qfmfr (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Paul Mathole. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01qfmft (Listen) SAT "I read ALL my daughters' texts." A listener with two young SAT daughters thinks it's her duty as a mother to keep tabs on SAT everything they write, read and watch online. A teenage SAT listener who is trusted by her mum to be responsible in the SAT virtual world disagrees. iPM brings the two together. SAT With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01qfjxt (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01qfjxw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01qfj3g (Listen) SAT Series 23, The Walking Book Group SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking for self improvement in this new SAT series of Ramblings; in six weeks time she hopes to be SAT smarter, fitter, calmer and cleverer. In this first SAT programme she joins a walking book group in North London, SAT who find wandering on Hampstead Heath much more conducive to SAT discussing literature than sitting round a coffee table. The SAT walking book group is the brainchild of Emily Rhodes from SAT the local Daunt book shop.Emily explains to Clare how she SAT chooses the books each month and why she thinks the group SAT attracts a growing and enthusiastic following. The book SAT under discussion today is Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at SAT the Claremont. Clare, an English graduate, joins in SAT enthusiastically with her opinions on the novel as well as SAT discussing with fellow group members the issues of aging, SAT loneliness and retirement homes. Archie, her Tibetan Terrier SAT accompanies Clare but is sadly, not improved by the SAT experience. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01qgr3x (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Weekend edition of the rural magazine. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01qfjxy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01qgr3z (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and SAT Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT Friday's live page SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01qgr41 (Listen) SAT Dr Michael Dixon, director of the Natural History Museum and SAT the Inheritance Tracks of singer Katie Melua SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Dr Michael Dixon, the SAT Director of the Natural History Museum, The Inheritance SAT Tracks of singer Katie Melua, the sounds of a 20 ton SAT Wurlitzer organ in a Chorleywood living room, a trip around SAT the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent, a ramble up and across SAT Dunkery Beacon on Exmoor, the story of a woman who was SAT abandoned in Hong Kong as a baby in the 1960's and sent to SAT the UK for adoption, a couple with Albinism discussing their SAT condition and JP Devlin talking to a grateful nation. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT Michael Dixon is director of the Natural History Museum SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b01qgr43 (Listen) SAT Series 4, In the Heat of the Night SAT SAT It makes for uncomfortable viewing. A Southern policeman SAT insolently challenges Sidney Poitier, a detective from 'up SAT North'. SAT "So, boy, what do they call you in Philadelphia?" SAT "They call me Mister Tibbs!" SAT It's one of the great movie lines in history, from Sidney SAT Poitier's favourite of all his films. But was "In The Heat SAT of the Night" a worthy winner of the Best Picture? SAT Up against tough competition, including "The Graduate" and SAT "Bonnie and Clyde", it has been suggested that this might SAT have been an Oscar vote carried on a tidal wave of outrage SAT during the peak years of the Civil Rights movement. SAT In 1967, "In The Heat of the Night" seemed to speak out SAT against an America riven with racial tensions. The Watts SAT Riots had just devastated Los Angeles, close to Hollywood. SAT The film was set in Mississippi, but the crew were forced to SAT choose Illinois in the North as a safer location. The murder SAT of Martin Luther King, and his subsequent funeral, delayed SAT the Oscar ceremony in 1968 by several days - enabling the SAT cast and crew of "In The Heat of the Night" to attend his SAT funeral. SAT All these stories and more are told to Paul Gambaccini, in SAT the second in the Oscar series "And The Academy Award Goes SAT To.", by veteran director - Norman Jewison, and he also SAT hears from his legendary producer - Walter Mirisch - a man SAT who at the age of 91, still makes his way to his film SAT studios in Hollywood, and takes lunch as Spagos. He also SAT hears from one of the world's great cinematographer's SAT Haskell Wexler - who was the first to devise lighting SAT especially for darker skin tones - and sets the scene for SAT Norman Jewison's dramatic reconstruction of a country SAT divided along racial lines that has echoes today. SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01qgr45 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent asks why social reforms SAT like gay marriage generate such heated reactions; how do SAT prime ministers judge the danger from plots against them; SAT and why do some big political figures risk everything for a SAT lie ? SAT SAT He talks to Conservative MPs Mike Freeer and Tim Loughton; SAT to the Tory peer Norman Fowler and Labour's Bernard SAT Donoughue; and to the author, Richard Davenport-Hines. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01qgr47 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01qgr49 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01qfkw5 (Listen) SAT Series 79, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Daniel SAT Finkelstein, Mark Steel and Katy Brand. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01qfjy0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01qfjy2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01qflzy (Listen) SAT David Davis, Norman Baker, Alan Milburn, Julie Bindel SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from St Chad's Church, Gateshead. Guests include the former SAT minister Alan Milburn, Deputy First Minister of the Scottish SAT Parliament Nicola Sturgeon MSP, David Davis MP, and SAT coalition Transport Minister Norman Baker MP. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01qgr4c (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01qgr4f (Listen) SAT The Liberty of Norton Folgate SAT SAT London's rich past as a melting pot of cultures is one of SAT the themes of Madness's 2009 album - The Liberty of Norton SAT Folgate, which has inspired Mark Davies Markham's new play. SAT Gazi and Sitara have been serving full English breakfasts at SAT the Union Café on London's Norton Folgate for thirty years. SAT But now the council have served a demolition order, and it SAT looks as if their son Aki's girlfriend's father, Ralph SAT Burke, is behind the plan to develop the site. No one is SAT going to let the Union go without a fight, and soon Gazi and SAT Sitara find that they have the support of pop royalty in the SAT form of Suggs, Chas Smith and Mike Barson from Madness. SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT Credits SAT Himself: Suggs SAT Himself: Chas Smith SAT Himself: Mike Barson SAT Gazi: Vincent Ebrahim SAT Sitara: Pooja Ghai SAT Aki: Avin Shah SAT Sunshine: Danny Sapani SAT Jess: Stephanie Racine SAT Ralph: Patrick Brennan SAT Hughie: Adam Nagaitis SAT Connor: Paul Stonehouse SAT Iona: Eleanor Crooks SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Writer: Mark Davies Markham SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01qgr4h (Listen) SAT Series 15, Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? SAT SAT Is That All There Is, the Leiber and Stoller song made SAT famous by Peggy Lee, is based upon a short story by Thomas SAT Mann called 'Disillusionment', but those who know and love SAT it feel it's inspirational rather than a cynical, world SAT weary musical take on existentialism and the futility of SAT life. SAT SAT Soul Music finds the compelling individual stories behind SAT our collective love of music. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01qgr4k (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Comic Relief SAT SAT Jane Garvey reports on Comic Relief projects in Ghana. SAT Teenagers talk about the pressures they come under via SAT social media. Being brought up by parents with learning SAT disabilities. SAT The struggle to achieve Zero Tolerance to FGM. Plus hat SAT designer Philip Treacy, Eastenders actress Laila Morse, and SAT music from the Grammy nominated Canadian twins Tegan and SAT Sara SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01qgr4m (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01qfjdq (Listen) SAT Books SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Like the music industry before it, the print book industry SAT has been turned upside down up by the digital revolution. As SAT sales of ebooks continue to grow, bookshop sales are down SAT from a peak in 2007. So what does the future for hold for SAT the bricks and mortar bookstore? Will physical books become SAT a thing of the past? And what role will traditional players SAT like publishers, agents and retailers play in this brave new SAT world? Evan Davis and guests examine what the landscape SAT might look like once the dust settles. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Jonny Geller, literary agent SAT and joint CEO Curtis Brown; Victoria Barnsley, CEO of SAT publisher HarperCollins UK & International; Michael Tamblyn, SAT Chief Content Officer at Toronto-based ebook retailer Kobo. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qfjy4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01qfjy6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qfjy8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01qhb84 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Mariel Hemingway, David Baddiel, Mike SAT McShane, Danny Dyer, Emma Freud, Foals, Lord Huron SAT SAT Clive tames Three Lions with comedian and presenter David SAT Baddiel, who returns to stand-up comedy for the first time SAT in fifteen years. As much a thought-piece as a comedy show, SAT David's trying out material that will become a complete SAT deconstruction of his own fame, and our culture's obsession SAT with celebrities. 'David Baddiel: Work in Progress' is at SAT London's Soho Theatre from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th SAT February. SAT SAT Clive talks to actress Mariel Hemingway, nominated for an SAT Academy Award for her role as Tracy in the Woody Allen film SAT 'Manhattan'. Mariel's attending the World Premiere of the SAT play based on her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway's novel 'The SAT Sun Also Rises' about a man's obsession with bullfighting. SAT 'FIESTA (The Sun Also Rises)' is at London's Trafalgar SAT Studio 2 until Saturday 2nd March. SAT SAT Emma Freud talks trouble and strife with actor, presenter SAT and diamond geezer Danny Dyer, who stars as bigamist John SAT Smith in Ray Clooney's new film 'Run For Your Wife'. When SAT John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go-hero, his bubble is SAT about to burst as he tries to prevent two loving wives SAT coming face to face! It's at UK cinemas from Thursday 14th SAT February. SAT SAT Clive asks 'Who's Line Is It Anyway?' with actor, singer and SAT improvisational comedian Mike McShane, who's looking sharp SAT as Louis B Mayer in new musical 'The Tailor-Made Man'. It SAT tells the tale of William Haines, the openly gay silent film SAT actor who defied studio pressure to marry and put an end to SAT rumours about his love life. It's at The Arts Theatre, SAT London from 14th to 21st February. SAT SAT And a welcome return to Foals, who gallop into the studio to SAT perform 'My Number' from their new album 'Holy Fire'. Music SAT also from American Indie-Folk band Lord Huron, who perform SAT the title track from their debut album 'Lonesome Dreams'. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01qhb86 (Listen) SAT John Brennan SAT SAT John Brennan, President Obama's trusted counter terror SAT advisor has been nominated to head the Central Intelligence SAT Agency amidst a storm of controversy. Despite being a career SAT CIA man for more than 25 years, he's now at the centre of SAT American foreign policy dilemmas, including questions about SAT the use of drones, waterboarding techniques and the future SAT of the world's most powerful intelligence agency. SAT SAT A Catholic basketball player, turned academic and fluent SAT Arabic speaker, Brennan has risen through the CIA ranks and SAT has recently been involved in "virtually all major national SAT security issues" alongside the President. As the Senate asks SAT him to justify some of the agency's most controversial SAT decisions, Jane Deith asks how he will lead the agency as it SAT faces ever new security challenges. SAT SAT Reporter - Jane Deith SAT Producer - Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01qhb88 (Listen) SAT Wreck-It Ralph is the latest Disney offering, arriving in SAT time for children at half-term. Its hero is a wouldbegood SAT bad guy trapped in a destructive role in a video game, SAT voiced by John C Reilly. It's got plenty of retro game SAT nostalgia and jokes that children and adults will enjoy but SAT does it have the longevity of the classic Disney movies? SAT SAT Ice Age Art at the British Museum aims to show that in SAT surviving figurative art from over 20,000 years ago we can SAT see the arrival of the modern mind. Remarkable figures are SAT on show such as the Swimming Reindeer and the Lion Man, SAT alongside the work of artists closer to our own time such as SAT Matisse and Henry Moore. Are we convinced that the artistic SAT endeavour is the same now? SAT SAT In the Beginning was the End is a new show from the SAT site-responsive theatre company dreamthinkspeak. They're SAT back at a site they've visited before, Somerset House in SAT London, and venturing into some disused labs at King's SAT College too, with a production apparently inspired by SAT Leonardo Da Vinci, the Book of Revelation and the world of SAT Mechatronics. SAT SAT Harvest, Jim Crace's new historical novel set in the time of SAT the Enclosures, is an account of seven days that will change SAT a community for ever, narrated by one of the villagers, SAT Walter Thirsk, and it's already won praise. SAT SAT And Mysteries of Lisbon was one of the last projects of the SAT great Chilean director Raul Ruiz who made his home in SAT France. It was released here as a cut-down film but it's SAT about to be shown as he first intended, as a television SAT mini-series. With moments of surreal invention he is a SAT favourite of critics; will a British television audience SAT take to his work? SAT SAT David Schneider, Gillian Slovo and Giles Fraser join SAT presenter Tom Sutcliffe to review. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 The Real George Orwell b01qhb8b (Listen) SAT The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four SAT SAT What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel SAT beloved of the Right? SAT SAT David Aaronovitch traces how a decade of political chaos SAT shaped Orwell's vision of a totalitarian future. SAT SAT He explores how, after the war, the threat of the new atom SAT bomb played a crucial part in the birth of Nineteen SAT Eighty-Four - and how Orwell coined the term 'cold war' in SAT the process. SAT SAT He traces the impact on the novel of the provocative ideas SAT of an American ex-communist, James Burnham, who predicted a SAT world dominated by three tyrannical superstates. SAT SAT He finds out why Orwell saw some form of Western European SAT Union as the best way to prevent Britain being swallowed by SAT Big Brother. SAT SAT And he asks why, if Orwell was an English socialist, the SAT totalitarian party ruling 'Oceania' in Nineteen Eighty-Four SAT is called 'IngSoc' - which is short for 'English SAT Socialists'. SAT SAT With Peter Davison, Frances Stonor Saunders, DJ Taylor, Hugh SAT Wilford SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 21:00 The Real George Orwell b01qdr2w (Listen) SAT Homage to Catalonia, Episode 2 SAT SAT Adapted by Mike Walker. The final episode of Eric Blair's SAT autobiographical account of the Spanish Civil War. The SAT fighting at the front is deadlocked. Freezing temperatures, SAT ancient guns and dud ammunition only add to their woes. SAT Eric's spirits are cheered by a visit from his wife, Eileen, SAT but when they take the train to Barcelona they find the SAT atmosphere changed. Last time there were no class divisions, SAT no masters and servants, only comrades. Now the waiters are SAT calling their customers 'Sir' again. To add to the confusion SAT the different factions of the Left are all fighting each SAT other. Then Georges Kopp is arrested and imprisoned; others SAT are tortured. The Blairs begin to realise they are in SAT terrible danger and must flee for their lives. SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT Eric Blair: Joseph Millson SAT Eileen Blair: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Georges Kopp: Ewan Bailey SAT Spanish volunteer: Javier Marzan SAT Jack: Hywel John SAT Henry Miller: Richard Laing SAT John McNair: John McAndrew SAT Benjamin: Jon Lolis SAT Idris: Ben McGregor SAT Tom Gallagher: Gareth Pierce SAT Fascist militiaman: Asier Newman SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01qfjyb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01qdzcb (Listen) SAT The Moral Virtue of Marriage SAT SAT It doesn't matter which side of the gay marriage debate you SAT are on it seems that both sides agree on one thing - the SAT moral virtue of marriage. The institution of a public SAT declaration of commitment between two individuals is said to SAT be a cornerstone of society promoting stable relationships, SAT commitment and self-sacrifice. The very virtues that SAT traditionalists say make marriage unique are the same ones SAT liberals argue should therefore be made available to all, SAT whatever their sexuality. It's not just an argument here. SAT The French and Americans have also been battling over who SAT should be allowed to marry. But the debate raises some SAT difficult questions. If marriage is such a moral virtue SAT shouldn't the state be actively promoting it? After all, SAT isn't that one of the main purposes of the state - to pursue SAT policies that promote virtue among citizens? So for a start SAT how about tax breaks for those getting married? And if SAT marriage is such a public good, shouldn't all those liberals SAT who want to widen the marriage franchise also be thinking SAT about stigmatising those behaviours and changing those SAT policies that undermine it? Should divorce be made harder? SAT Should lone parents get less financial help from the state? SAT And if marriage is so good, what's the point of civil SAT partnerships? How far should the state encourage marriage? SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, SAT Matthew Taylor and Kenan Malik. Witnesses: Professor Andrew SAT Samuels - Psychoanalyst, Phillip Blond - Director, SAT ResPublica, Dr Sharon James - Coalition for Marriage, Ruth SAT Hunt, Director of Public Affairs, Stonewall. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01qdtpy (Listen) SAT (11/17) SAT Russell Davies asks the questions in the eleventh heat of SAT the 2013 series of the evergreen general knowledge quiz. IN SAT this episode the competitors come from Staffordshire, SAT Gloucestershire, North Yorkshire and Leeds. At stake is a SAT coveted place in the semi-finals which begin after two more SAT heats. SAT SAT The contestants will face Russell's questions on everything SAT from music and literature to science, sport, history, SAT mythology, etymology, popular culture and current affairs. SAT SAT There's also a chance for a listener to win a prize by SAT stumping the assembled brains with questions of his or her SAT own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT DAVID LOVE, a financial planner from Wombourne in SAT Staffordshire; SAT SAT RICHARD MOSS, a cafe worker from Settle in North Yorkshire; SAT SAT BARRY SIMMONS, a former IT manager from Leeds; SAT SAT JOHN SNEDDEN, a teacher from Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01qdr32 (Listen) SAT Poetry requested by listeners, introduced by Roger McGough, SAT including work by Vernon Scannell and Adrian Mitchell - and SAT an unusual conversation between a cockroach and an Egyptian SAT mummy. SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannell SAT From Collected Poems 1950-1993 SAT Published by Robson Books SAT SAT Hide and Seek by Roger McGough SAT From All the Best SAT Published by Puffin SAT SAT Archy Interviews a Pharaoh by Don Marquis SAT From Archy and Mehitabel SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT Beattie is Three by Adrian Mitchell SAT From Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT Disguise by Adrian Mitchell SAT From Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT In the Orchard After Midnight by Brian Patten SAT Unpublished SAT SAT Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white by Alfred, Lord SAT Tennyson SAT (from The Princess) SAT From Alfred Lord Tennyson Selected Poems SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT Patterns by Amy Lowell SAT From Men, Women and Ghosts SAT Published by Tredition SAT SAT Peerless Jim Driscoll by Vernon Scannell SAT From Collected Poems 1950-1993 SAT Published by Robson Books SAT SAT What I Need for the Present by Brian Patten SAT From Collected Love Poems SAT Published by Harper Perennial SAT SAT They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell SAT From Collected Poems 1950-1993 SAT Published by Robson Books SAT SAT Death is Smaller than I Thought by Adrian Mitchell SAT From Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT The music used was a setting of "Now sleeps the crimson SAT petal, now the white" by Paul Mealor, from the CD "A Tender SAT Light" on the Decca label. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01qgmm3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Dalmatian Trilogy b018wb97 (Listen) SUN The Lompic Cape SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 3): The Lompic Cape by James Hopkin SUN An eccentric writer-explorer leads his bemused amanuensis SUN over the island. But on the rocks, in the sea and in the old SUN town, the two men see very different things. SUN SUN James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, SUN including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast SUN of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories SUN explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as SUN providing a colourful journey for the senses. SUN SUN Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English and SUN Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA on SUN modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for his SUN PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story SUN competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. SUN SUN His novel Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and SUN critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major SUN new writer. He published a small collection of stories in SUN 2008, along with the paperback of Winter Under Water. SUN SUN James Hopkin's A Georgian Trilogy, also produced by Sweet SUN Talk, was broadcast in 2010. SUN SUN Reader: Alan Cox SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qgmm5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qgmm7 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qgmm9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01qgmmc (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01qhd05 (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Harpole, Northamptonshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01qhb86 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01qgmmf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01qhd07 (Listen) SUN The Philosophy of the Mind SUN SUN In this special edition of Something Understood, Tibet's SUN exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, considers what we SUN now know about the nature of the mind and how an SUN understanding of the mind is important in everyday life. SUN SUN He quotes from the teachings of Buddha and the work of the SUN 11th century poet Milarepa, as well as the words of a SUN Tibetan Prayer by Nagarjuna. SUN SUN The quest for peace of mind is one of the great challenges SUN of our day. Many of us find it easier to achieve than SUN others, but what do the teachings of those cultures who try SUN to embrace the mind's power have to say about our modern SUN dilemma? SUN SUN John McCarthy applies the Dalai Lama's thoughts to the SUN western experience with additional readings from the SUN American philosopher Daniel Dennett and the work of the SUN ground-breaking neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran. SUN SUN The programme was recorded in the town of Leh in the Ladakh SUN region of India. SUN SUN Produced by Anthony Denselow. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01qhd09 (Listen) SUN Tree Sparrows SUN SUN Tree sparrows were once so common in Britain they were at SUN best ignored, at worst considered a pest by farmers. In SUN China, Chairman Moa, led to believe it was enough of an SUN agricultural pest to justify a purge that in 1958 he SUN included it in ' the great leap forward' by ordering the SUN nation to kill all sparrows . It was a part of the 'Four SUN pests campaign' against the rat, mosquito, fly and tree SUN sparrow. China went on a peoples campaign to stamp out the SUN Sparrow, many were harassed by people banging pots and pans SUN together, the aim being to keep them airborne until they SUN dropped from exhaustion and could be killed, others were SUN shot, trapped and their nests destroyed. SUN SUN In Britain the population of this once abundant bird crashed SUN spectacularly between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, by SUN more than 50% due to changes in agricultural practices, and SUN now in western Britain it is a rare bird indeed. It should SUN be remembered that, for every Tree Sparrow today there were SUN perhaps around 30 in the 1970s, and any recovery therefore SUN has a very long way to go. SUN SUN This programme looks to identify the bird in situ and SUN discuss the history, current population and the future of SUN this most wonderful little bird, which comes in to SUN gregarious winter flocks with other birds at this RSPB SUN reserve. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01qgmmh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01qgmmk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01qhd0c (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01qhd0f (Listen) SUN APT Action on Poverty SUN SUN Margaret Sentamu presents the Radio 4 Appeal for APT Action SUN on Poverty. Reg Charity:290836 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN APT Action on Poverty. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01qgmmm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01qgmmp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01qhd0h (Listen) SUN The Beauty of Holiness SUN SUN Live from the Chapel of Worcester College, Oxford. SUN SUN As the University of Oxford begins a week of events SUN celebrating Christianity through the Arts, The Rev Dr SUN Jonathan Arnold, Chaplain of Worcester College, and SUN Professor Ben Quash of King's College, London reflect on how SUN the Arts are being used now, as much as ever, to explore and SUN define experiences of the Christian faith which can often SUN not be expressed in words. SUN SUN Music director: Edward Turner. Organist: Nicholas Freestone. SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01qfm00 (Listen) SUN Grand Central celebration SUN SUN David Cannadine celebrates the saving of New York's now SUN century old Grand Central Terminal and regrets the SUN destruction of the city's other great beaux-arts station. SUN "Many New Yorkers... had initially opposed, and subsequently SUN regretted, the wanton destruction of Penn station as a SUN deplorable act of civic irresponsibility and cultural SUN philistinism." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01qhd0k (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01qhd0m (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson SUN Matthew Watkins ..... Paul Stonehouse SUN Connie ..... Carolyn Pickles. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01qhd0p (Listen) SUN Julie Burchill SUN SUN Kirsty Young's guest is the writer Julie Burchill. SUN SUN As a columnist and author she is a committed non-conformist SUN - daring the world to take issue with her vociferous life SUN and work and depending on whom you ask is either a 'Marxist SUN critic' or 'a right wing columnist'. SUN SUN As a child she used to hide away when potential playmates SUN came to call, at 17 she was writing for the NME and in the SUN decades since she's plied her trade at The Times, The SUN Guardian and The Daily Mail amongst others. She's also SUN written twenty odd books and her autobiography is entitled SUN "I Knew I Was Right". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01qdtq6 (Listen) SUN Series 10, Episode 6 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 John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Holly Walsh and Arthur Smith SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, Beards, Camels SUN and Simon Cowell. 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 b01qhd0r (Listen) SUN The Horsemeat Scandal: A Food Programme Special SUN SUN Sheila Dillon reports on fresh developments in the horsemeat SUN scandal. As more tests reveal large amounts of horsemeat in SUN beef products, Sheila investigates the supply chain. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01qgmmr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01qhd0t (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Lyrical Journey b01ngn3q (Listen) SUN Series 2, Sunshine on Leith SUN SUN New Series SUN SUN On a hill overlooking the Firth of Forth, The Proclaimers SUN perform their song 'Sunshine on Leith', which has become a SUN source of great pride for this Edinburgh district, even SUN becoming the beloved anthem of Hibernian FC. SUN SUN Leading up to the performance, presenter Jonathan Maitland SUN meets Proclaimers twins Charlie and Craig Reid and discovers SUN the inspiration behind the lyrics and their links to the SUN area. As Maitland reflects on the changes in Leith in the 24 SUN years since the record's release, he also discusses the SUN impact of the song around Edinburgh and beyond. SUN SUN The journey takes Maitland to Leith Docks to meet Scottish SUN and maritime historian Eric Graham and local expert Susan SUN Morrison, who explain how the docks, once the entry point to SUN the wider world, have now become a symbol of redevelopment SUN and social change in the area. SUN SUN Jonathan also hears from Hibs FC fans for which the song SUN holds a special meaning, and witnesses the great emotion the SUN song provokes. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qfkvv (Listen) SUN Kirton-in-Lindsey SUN SUN Join Eric Robson and panellists Anne Swithinbank, Matthew SUN Wilson and Pippa Greenwood as they visit gardeners in SUN Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire. SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01qhd0w (Listen) SUN The plot against Franco SUN SUN In 1964 a young Scot called Stuart Christie joined a plot to SUN assassinate the Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco. SUN He had become friends with Spanish exiles living in London SUN and was keen to help end Franco's rule. But the plot failed SUN and Christie ended up in jail. He has been telling his story SUN to Mike Lanchin. SUN SUN Photo: Stuart Christie, in jail in Spain in 1967. SUN SUN 15:00 The Real George Orwell b01qhd0y (Listen) SUN Nineteen Eighty-Four, Episode 1 SUN SUN Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. SUN SUN Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and SUN separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat SUN in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. SUN Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police SUN uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he SUN discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, SUN and awakens to new possibilities. SUN SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SUN SUN Credits SUN Winston Smith: Christopher Eccleston SUN Julia: Pippa Nixon SUN O'Brien: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Parsons: Kim Wall SUN Syme: Sam Alexander SUN Prostitute: Susie Riddell SUN Actor: Christine Absalom SUN Actor: Don Gilet SUN Actor: Joe Sims SUN Actor: Joshua Swinney SUN Director: Jeremy Mortimer SUN Writer: Jonathan Holloway SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01qhd10 (Listen) SUN Ali Smith on the 50th anniversary of The Bell Jar; Alex SUN Preston on innovation in the novel SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Ali Smith about Sylvia Plath's SUN ground breaking novel, "The Bell Jar" fifty years after it SUN was first published and shortly before the author's own SUN suicide after she separated from the poet Ted Hughes in SUN circumstances which have continued to cause controversy to SUN this day. In this interview Ali Smith, award winning SUN novelist of The Accidental and Hotel World, celebrates the SUN novel for the witty, beautiful crafted and political SUN literary classic it is, exploring issues at the heart of SUN what it means to be a young woman in mid 20th century SUN America in a uniquely original and highly influential SUN way.And with the announcement of yet another literary prize SUN - the Goldsmiths Prize sponsored by Goldsmiths University SUN and the New Statesman is worth £10,000 and will be awarded SUN to writers of boldly, original fiction - writer and SUN broadcaster Alex Preston and author, poet and Professor of SUN Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, Blake Morrison, SUN consider what being experimental and innovative means for SUN 21st century novelists. Is the literary novel keeping pace SUN with the explosion of technology in the first decade of the SUN new millennium, the creative potential of the video game and SUN the success of new genres such as Steampunk and Nordic SUN noir?And what better way to counter the challenge posed to SUN literature by the rise of computer games than to set a novel SUN inside one? In his 17th novel Bedlam Scottish crime writer SUN Christopher Brookmyre turns to science fiction for SUN inspiration. The book's protagonist Ross Baker finds himself SUN trapped inside a first person shooter called Starfire, which SUN he himself played as a teenager whilst escaping from his SUN parents' bitter divorce. How did the author's own gaming SUN inspire the novel and what can exploring different forms of SUN consciousness - digital and organic - tell us about what it SUN means to be human?Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01qhd12 (Listen) SUN Poetry marking the winter of 1963, the long season of snow SUN and cold during which the poet Sylvia Plath died. Listeners' SUN requests for her work include Morning Song, Balloons and SUN Wuthering Heights. The readers are Fenella Woolgar and Paul SUN Mundell, with readings of their own work by poets Paul SUN Farley, Eavan Boland, Jacob Polley and MR Peacocke. SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01qdvtj (Listen) SUN Russian Riches SUN SUN Surrey police are probing the mystery death of a Russian SUN exile who was helping to locate millions of dollars missing SUN from the Russian treasury. City experts claim London is one SUN of the routes for those laundering the proceeds of Russian SUN crime. Britain is also now a destination of choice for many SUN wealthy Russians. But how much do we know about some of SUN those who choose to settle here? Internationally, there's SUN tension between Washington and Moscow over the Magnitsky SUN Act, in which the US introduced new sanctions for Russian SUN officials suspected of corruption, freezing their assets and SUN barring their entry to America. Prominent MPs are arguing SUN for similar measures here. So is Britain too lax in cases SUN where suspicions are raised? SUN Reporter: Julian O'Halloran SUN Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01qhb86 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qgmmt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01qgmmw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qgmmy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01qhd14 (Listen) SUN Liffe, death and the weather - all our favourite talking SUN points this week; Liffe - the stock exchange that SUN transformed city trading 30 years ago, death and those SUN messages from our dearly departed, and proof that the SUN weather makes its own music and that the sun does sometimes SUN shine on Leith. And we couldn't let this week pass without SUN an alternative take on the King in the car park. SUN SUN Liz Barclay chose: SUN SUN Lyrical Journey - Sunshine on Leith - Radio 4 SUN The People's Songs - Radio 2 SUN Woman's Hour Drama - More Tales of the City - Radio 4 SUN The Call - Radio 3 SUN Afternoon Drama - Stone - Radio 4 SUN World Cup for Writers - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4 SUN Ian D Montfort is Unbelievable - Radio 2 SUN Book of the Week - Benjamin Britten - A Life in the 20th SUN Century - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - Air Songs and Moon Bows - Radio 3 SUN It's My Story - My Lover, My Carer - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN Today - Monday 4 Feb - Reduced Shakespeare Company - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01qhd16 (Listen) SUN Clarrie plays peacemaker, and Alice is feeling peeved. SUN SUN 19:15 Valentine's Day b01qhdjz (Listen) SUN Following on from his very successful John Peel's shed, here SUN is another beautiful story of every day life from the very SUN talented John Osbourne. SUN A young man starts turning out his junk and comes across a SUN box of memories he has saved, letters, birthday and SUN Valentine's cards he has received over the years, tickets SUN for gigs he's been to. And through these we come to SUN understand the recent events in his life. SUN Some are from an ex girlfriend. His first love (played by SUN Isy Suttie) - they were together when they were teenagers. SUN Others are from his mum (played by Suki Webster.) She SUN worries about him. She means well and is trying to make him SUN feel better but it makes him feel worse. John will tell this SUN story in front of an audience in the Radio Theatre. SUN There are also postcards from his Gran (Ann Beach) mainly SUN moaning about her various seaside trips. SUN This is recorded in the Radio Theatre in front of an SUN audience. SUN SUN 19:45 Scottish Shorts b01qhdk1 (Listen) SUN Series 11, Light Moves Like Water SUN SUN By Carol Farrelly. SUN SUN A lyrical story about a young woman who makes her annual SUN visit to her therapist and reflects on a summer of love SUN affairs in Venice. SUN SUN Carol Farrelly is from Glasgow and lives and works in SUN Edinburgh. She is currently writing her first novel, This SUN Starling Flock, set in neutral Ireland during the Second SUN World War. The opening to this novel won her the Sceptre SUN Prize. In 2010, the Scottish Book Trust chose her to be one SUN of their New Writers. Her short stories have been published SUN in journals such as Stand, New Writing Scotland and Dream SUN Catcher and have been shortlisted for the Bridport and Asham SUN Prizes. She has a DPhil on the novels of Thomas Hardy and, SUN while an undergraduate, spent one year waking up in SUN beautiful Bologna. One day, she hopes to weave both Italy SUN and Hardy into novels too. SUN SUN Reader: Victoria Liddelle SUN Producer: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01qfkw1 (Listen) SUN Is BBC Radio 4 dancing to the tune of the McCartney family? SUN Many of you wrote to Feedback with complaints after You and SUN Yours welcomed Mary McCartney, daughter of Linda and Sir SUN Paul McCartney, onto the programme to discuss the re-launch SUN of the family's vegetarian food brand - just a few days SUN after Sir Paul joined Sheila Dillon on the Food Programme SUN for an extended interview about his life in food. Was this SUN advertising? Roger speaks to BBC Radio 4's compliance editor SUN Roger Mahony about the rules. SUN SUN What's the difference between curating a music show and SUN being a DJ? Roger Bolton feels the beat as he puts your SUN questions about specialist music programmes to radio legend SUN Whispering Bob Harris and BBC 6 Music producer Paul Sheehan. SUN SUN Also this week - is iPlayer radio out of tune with its SUN users? We put your issues about iPlayer, listening online, SUN podcasts and all things on demand to the man in charge, SUN Daniel Danker. SUN SUN And was the Today programme off the mark when they decided SUN not to broadcast news of a crucial victory by the England SUN Women's cricket team and instead announced that rain had SUN stopped play for the men's team in New Zealand? SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01qfkvz (Listen) SUN A New York mayor, a Navy Seal, an anti-apartheid activist, a SUN toymaker, a rock musician and an English king SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Amina Cachalia who campaigned for women's rights and against SUN apartheid in her native South Africa. SUN SUN Reg Presley, guitarist and singer with the Troggs, who was SUN fascinated by UFOs, alien abductions and crop circles. SUN SUN Chris Kyle - the US military sniper credited with more kills SUN than any other soldier, mostly during the second Iraq war. SUN He was shot dead at a shooting range in Texas. SUN SUN Andre Cassagnes who invented the Etch A Sketch SUN SUN Ed Koch, the abrasive former Mayor of New York, credited SUN with restoring the fortunes of the Big Apple. SUN SUN And - better late than never - Richard III - a tribute in SUN verse from the UA Fanthorpe archive. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01qgr49 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01qhd0f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01qdtql (Listen) SUN The Alawis SUN SUN The government of President Assad of Syria is under threat. SUN So too is the secretive Shia sect known as the Alawis - or SUN Alawites - to which he and many of the governing party and SUN security officials belong. SUN Hostility towards the minority Alawi population is such that SUN one leading commentator predicts they are likely to be the SUN victims of the world's next genocide. SUN Presenter Owen Bennett Jones investigates the Alawis' SUN origins, history and culture and asks how these once SUN marginalised people came to power in a Sunni majority state. SUN He discovers that for many their fortunes changed fifty SUN years ago when the Baath party seized power in a coup SUN d'etat. Alawis were dominant among the army officers who SUN took control. They set about modernising the country and SUN rolling out a secular agenda. SUN Now, as Syria's revolution has morphed into a civil war, SUN many Alawis believe their only choice is to kill or be SUN killed. SUN Are the majority of Alawis right to be convinced that the SUN Assad regime is all that stands between them and a return to SUN second-class status, or worse? If the opposition wins in SUN Syria, are warnings about pogroms against the Alawis SUN alarmist, or inevitable? SUN Presenter: Owen Bennett Jones SUN Producer: Damian Quinn. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01qhdk3 (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 b01qhdk5 (Listen) SUN George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01qzkv7 (Listen) SUN BAFTA results special, with new Fellow Alan Parker SUN SUN Francine Stock is joined by critics Robbie Collin and SUN Catherine Bray to discuss the BAFTA Awards - the winners, SUN shocks, surprises and reaction from the ceremony. Sir Alan SUN Parker, known for films such as Bugsy Malone, Fame and The SUN Commitments looks back at his career as he receives a BAFTA SUN Fellowship. And we go on set with Eve Stewart, production SUN designer of Les Miserables.Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01qhd07 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01qgmp0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01qdzby (Listen) MON Organised Crime in the UK MON MON Organised crime in the UK - how has it changed? Professor MON Dick Hobbs, joins Laurie Taylor, to discuss his work on MON 'Lush Life', a rich, ethnographic study into 'Dogtown', a MON composite of several overlapping neighbourhoods in East MON London. Looking behind the clichéd notions of criminal firms MON and underworlds, he finds that activity which was once the MON preserve of professional criminals has now been normalised. MON He invites us to consider whether or not the very idea of MON organised crime has become outdated in a predatory, post MON industrial world in which many fight, by illegal as well as MON legal means, to survive on the margins. Also, the presence MON and activities of the Mafia in the UK. Dr Felia Allum, a MON Lecturer in Italian History and Politics, discusses how MON Italian organised crime functions outside its territory of MON origin. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01qhd05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qgmp2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qgmp4 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qgmp6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01qgmp8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qhqfn (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Paul Mathole. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01qhqfq (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01qgmpb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01qhqfs (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs presented by Sarah Montague MON and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01qhqfv (Listen) MON Mathematical modelling with Marcus du Sautoy MON MON On Start the Week Lisa Jardine discusses how complex maths MON has broken free of the laboratory and now influences every MON aspect of our lives. James Owen Weatherall applauds the MON take-over of the financial world by physicists, Marcus du MON Sautoy revels in the numbers and Kenneth Cukier explores how MON big data will change everything from disease control to MON bargain buys. But the cultural commentator Tiffany Jenkins MON sounds a note of caution about a world where everything is MON measurable. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01qhqfx (Listen) MON Mad Girl's Love Song, Episode 1 MON MON On 25 February 1956, 23 year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a MON party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter was MON recorded by Plath in her journal and has fed into the MON mythology of the Plath-Hughes relationship, which has MON arguably cast a long shadow over Plath's life and work. MON MON In this new biography of Plath's early life, which considers MON the years before the meeting with Hughes, Andrew Wilson MON explores the childhood and young womanhood of one of the MON twentieth century's most influential and best-loved poets. MON Plath's early years were complex, creative and MON high-achieving. Her father had died when she was only eight, MON she had watched her mother struggle to put her children MON through college, had dated a large number of men, had been MON unofficially engaged, had tried to commit suicide and had MON written over 200 poems. MON MON Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who MON have never spoken openly about Plath before, and using MON previously unavailable archives and papers, this new book MON traces the early literary and emotional development of the MON author of 'The Bell Jar' (this week's Radio 4 Book at MON Bedtime). MON MON Read by Hayley Atwell MON Sylvia Plath is read by Sasha Pick, Eddie Cohen by Ben MON Crowe, Richard Sassoon by Will Howard and Aurelia Plath by MON Hannah Wood MON Abridged by Miranda Davies MON Produced by Emma Harding. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qhqfz (Listen) MON Novelist Ursula Holden MON MON Ursula Holden is now in her 90s. She talks about her Tin MON Toys trilogy to Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01qhqg1 (Listen) MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON by Esther Wilson MON Return of award winning 15' drama series about a young MON married couple with learning disabilities, starring Donna MON Lavin and Edmund Davies, actors with learning disabilities. MON Based on true stories and created in part through MON improvisation, this comic and heartfelt series explores the MON possibility of the couple having a baby. Just about MON everybody is against the idea, including Darleen's partner MON Jamie. MON MON Produced and directed by Pauline Harris MON FURTHER INFO - NB: Using a mixture of fact and fiction, MON Darleen meets Alex Huntesmith during the series who plays MON himself; a 17 year old young man studying for his A Levels MON in Politics, History and Economics, and hoping to go to MON Oxford, and whose parents both have learning disabilities. MON The series also features Alex's real mum, Jill, mother of MON four, and we get an insight into this extraordinary real MON family. MON MON Credits MON Darleen: Donna Lavin MON Jamie: Edmund Davies MON Mohammad: Peter Singh MON Treena: Lorraine Ashbourne MON Woman in Street: Holly Jay Bowes MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Writer: Esther Wilson MON MON 11:00 Sleepless Night b01qhqg3 (Listen) MON What keeps you awake at night? Money worries? Your MON conscience? Traffic? Dogs barking? Or the shrill sound of a MON stressed robin forced to sing at night to find a mate? MON MON This composed feature by Nina Perry explores the problem of MON sleeplessness and the crucial relationship between sound and MON sleep, all set within a soundscape of noises heard during a MON sleepless night interwoven with specially composed music. MON MON Tinnitus sufferer Helen takes us on a journey through a MON sleepless night of thought and sounds of ticking clocks, MON snoring, a restless child, mysterious footsteps and a MON neighbour's late night party. How are these sounds perceived MON in a state of sleeplessness? How do we respond to sound MON emotionally, physiologically and hormonally. Are the sounds MON of the night changing? Are silent nights a thing of the MON past? MON MON Answering these questions and elucidating the relationship MON between sound and sleep are: Professor of Acoustics and MON Dynamics Andy Moorhouse and Senior Lecturer in Acoustics MON Bill Davies, from Salford University; David Baguley, Head of MON Audiology at Cambridge University Hospitals, who discusses MON sound perception, the meaning of sound and the reaction to MON sound as elements within Tinnitus treatment; Dr Ken Hume, a MON sleep researcher specializing in sound and sleep, discussing MON the physiology and psychology of sleep and sound MON disturbance; and Rupert Marshall, Lecturer in Animal MON Behaviour at Aberystwyth University, describing how urban MON wildlife is changing its behaviour to cope with modern life MON (for example, robins nesting in urban areas who struggle to MON be heard during the day are more likely to sing at night MON than their country cousins). MON MON Producer: Nina Perry MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qhqg5 (Listen) MON Series 2, The Wedding MON MON Anthony is cock-a-hoop when asked out of the blue to be best MON man at a friend's wedding. Problem is, he hasn't seen this MON friend since they were at school together and Damien isn't MON entirely convinced that Anthony has been invited purely MON because of his "excellent presentation skills". MON MON Starring: MON Miles Jupp as Damien Trench MON Justin Edwards as Anthony MacIlveny MON Ben Crow as Julian The Groom MON Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher MON Sarah Thom as Fran The Bride MON Ruper Vansittart as Lionel MON and MON Lesley Vickerage as the Bride's Mum MON MON Written by Miles Jupp MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01qhqg7 (Listen) MON Port wars, food imports, probiotics MON MON 95% of what we buy comes through our ports - we look at the MON battle between Britain's biggest container port and the new MON "super port" opening this year. MON We'll also be cracking open some containers to check if MON what's inside is horse meat or really fit for human MON consumption. MON Why sales of probiotics are on a downward spiral. MON And the thrilling climax to John Waite's struggle to give up MON smoking. Did Peter White take him for a curry? Or did lonely MON John go back on the fags? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01qgmpd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01qhqg9 (Listen) MON National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Tell Me the Truth About Love b01qhqgc (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON For Valentine's week, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, MON explores the heady world of love poetry from first flush to MON final parting. She argues that love poems are the poems that MON continue to have the most profound and lasting impact on the MON general reader, and examines enduring images and themes MON across ages and cultures. In conversation with other love MON poets, Carol Ann celebrates the great poems of love and MON explores poets' responses to love's mysteries. Each of the MON five programmes in the series looks at a different stage in MON the development of a relationship. Today's episode focuses MON on the excitement of a first meeting and the headiness of MON early infatuation. Presented by Carol Ann Duffy. Produced by MON Emma Harding. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01qhd16 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 The Real George Orwell b01qhqgf (Listen) MON Biographical Dramas, Loving MON MON By Jonathan Holloway MON The third of four dramas featuring episodes in the life of MON Eric Blair. MON MON Eric Blair's relationship with the opposite sex could be a MON distraught one; over the course of his lifetime, he made MON several awkward marriage proposals to different women. But MON his relationship with Eileen O'Shaugnessy, whom he married MON in 1935, had a huge influence both on his life and his MON writing. This drama explores the nine years of their MON relationship. MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON Joseph Millson on the Real George Orwell MON MON Credits MON Eric Blair: Joseph Millson MON Eileen O'Shaugnessy/Blair: Lyndsey Marshal MON Dorothy: Isabella Marshall MON Lydia Jackson: Vera Filatova MON Inspector Summerfield: Dick Bradnum MON Len: Alun Raglan MON Actor: Lyndsey Marshal MON Director: Kate McAll MON Writer: Jonathan Holloway MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01qhqp2 (Listen) MON (12/17) MON What particular time of day is celebrated in the type of MON poem or song known as an 'aubade'? And which British city MON was twinned with the German city of Dresden in 1959? MON MON Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the MON twelfth and last of the heats in this sixtieth series of MON radio's most venerable quiz. The competitors are bidding for MON the last of the automatic places in the semi-finals which MON begin next week. In this episode they hail from Sheffield, MON Anglesey, Devon and Glasgow. MON MON They face Russell's questions on everything from music and MON literature to science, sport, history, mythology, etymology, MON popular culture and current affairs. MON MON There's also a chance for a listener to win a prize by MON outwitting the assembled brains with questions of his or her MON own devising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01qhd0r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01qhqp4 (Listen) MON Alexandra Shulman MON MON Favourite pieces of writing chosen by the editor of British MON Vogue, Alexandra Shulman. The pieces are read by Stella MON Gonet and Tracy Wiles. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01qhqp6 (Listen) MON "No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" The brilliant MON Monty Python sketch was able to use an historical reference MON because the very mention of the Inquisition conjured up MON images of dark dungeons; cruel monks wielding instruments of MON torture and consigning thousands of alleged heretics to the MON flames. The Inquisition has had a bad press. But in fact MON there were several Inquisitions, some more cruel than MON others. And it is still active. Nowadays it goes under the MON name of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and MON in the 1990s it was run by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. So MON what does it do? How does its present structure relate to MON its medieval origins? Does it deserve its sinister MON reputation? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the Inquisition are Dr Gemma MON Simmons, Lecturer in Pastoral and Social Studies at Heythrop MON College London and a member of the Congregation of Jesus; Dr MON Christopher Black, Honorary Professor of Italian History at MON the School of Humanities, at the University of Glasgow; and MON Cullen Murphy, Editor at Large of Vanity Fair and author of MON God's Jury, The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern MON World. MON MON 17:00 PM b01qhqp8 (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qgmpg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01qhqgh (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 1 MON MON Nicholas Parsons returns with the popular panel game. The MON comedian Jason Manford joins regulars Paul Merton, Graham MON Norton, Sue Perkins as they attempt to speak on a subject MON without Repetition, hesitation or deviation. Subjects MON include 'Funny Valentine', 'Karaoke' and 'Getting Your Five MON a Day'. MON Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01qhqpb (Listen) MON Elizabeth goes on a treasure hunt. Meanwhile Lilian needs to MON be devious. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01qhqpd (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on This Is 40, Judd Apatow's MON film about mid-life crises, and a follow-up to his hit MON Knocked Up. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01qhqg1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 In Search of the British Dream b01qhqpg (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON In Search of the British Dream travels from the cramped MON sitting rooms of poor illegal migrants to the plush London MON homes of the global elite, including a Saudi princess and MON the son of a Russian billionaire. MON MON There are now 7.5 million foreign-born people in the UK. MON Almost three million of them have come in the last 10 years. MON One in eight people England and Wales were born abroad - the MON same ratio as in the land built on immigration, the United MON States. MON MON But can anyone with a dream make it in Britain? MON MON Mukul Devichand asks newcomers, some wealthy and others MON poor, about making money here. MON MON He explores the fear that Britain's welfare state is drawing MON people in, asking difficult questions of those immigrants MON who rely on it. And he asks uncomfortable questions of the MON global wealthy, too, drawn by the tax laws of the UK. MON MON Mukul Devichand was born in a Welsh town as the son of MON Indian migrants and has explored migration issues around the MON world for the BBC. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01qhqpj (Listen) MON Creative Destruction MON MON In the last few weeks a number of high street names have MON closed for good. In Analysis Phil Tinline asks whether, amid MON the gloom, there is a reason to celebrate. MON The economist Joseph Schumpeter first coined the phrase MON "creative destruction" in the 1940s. Innovation he believed MON causes the death of established businesses and leads to new MON opportunities. MON So, are company failures necessary for future growth? Or is MON "creative destruction" a comforting delusion, not a saving MON grace? MON Producer : Rosamund Jones. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01qfj3l (Listen) MON TB vaccine, satellites, Lake Ellsworth, Antarctic station MON MON Failures in science and lessons learnt: Professor Helen MON McShane, the head of the TB Vaccinations Programme at Oxford MON University, explains what can be learnt from the only TB MON vaccine trial in more than 40 years. Professor Martin MON Siegert, Professor of Geosciences at Bristol University and MON Chief Scientist on the Lake Ellsworth Project drilling into MON a pristine lake in Antarctica, explains why the mission had MON to be abandoned. The latest British satellite will be MON controlled by a mobile phone. Dr. Chris Bridges, from the MON Surrey Space Centre and Surrey University, and Stuart MON Martin, CEO of Satellite Applications Catapult, tell Quentin MON Cooper how it will all work. MON MON And Dr Anna Jones, Senior Tropospheric Chemist at the MON British Antarctic Survey, talks about the new moveable MON Halley research base. MON MON Professor Helen McShane, the head of the TB Vaccinations MON Programme at Oxford University, explains what can be learnt MON from the only TB vaccine trial in more than 40 years. MON MON Dr. Chris Bridges, from the Surrey Space Centre and Surrey MON University, and Stuart Martin, CEO of Satellite Applications MON Catapult, explain how the latest British satellite will be MON controlled by a mobile phone. MON MON Professor Martin Siegert, Professor of Geosciences at MON Bristol University and Chief Scientist on the Lake Ellsworth MON Project, explains why the mission had to be abandoned. MON MON What’s claimed to be the world’s first fully re-locatable MON research facility has just officially opened. Quentin MON Coopert interviews Senior Tropospheric Chemist at the MON British Antarctic Survey Dr Anna Jones to find out more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01qhqfv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01qgmpl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01qhqpl (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qhqpn (Listen) MON The Bell Jar, Episode 1 MON MON Sylvia Plath's haunting and only novel is fifty years old MON and is broadcast for the first time in celebration of the MON anniversary. The novel tells the story of Esther Greenwood, MON a talented girl with a prestigious internship on a magazine MON in New York in 1953. With dreams of becoming a writer and an MON impressive track record of scholarships and prizes, Esther MON seems to have it all - and knows she should be 'having the MON time of her life'. But between the cocktail parties and the MON piles of manuscripts, unsatisfactory men and the choices MON ahead, she finds herself spiralling into confusion and MON depression. As she retreats from the world in despair, she MON will attempt suicide and find herself in the world of the MON asylum before finding a way through. MON MON The Bell Jar is both darkly funny and acutely observed, MON capturing in vivid and witty prose the society Plath MON inhabited in the 1950s. A modern classic, The Bell Jar is a MON powerful portrait of a clever young woman with great and MON varied ambitions, confounded by the hurdles the world puts MON in her way, as relevant today as when it was written. MON MON Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Boston. She studied at MON Smith College and Cambridge where she met and married Ted MON Hughes. In 1960 she published The Colossus, a collection of MON poems. The Bell Jar was published in 1963, under a pseudonym MON and is Plath's only novel. Her Collected Poems were MON published in 1981 and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. MON Plath died in 1963. MON MON The reader is Lydia Wilson. Lydia studied at Cambridge and MON RADA, her credits include Blasted, The Heretic, Black Mirror MON and Any Human Heart. She played Bea in Where'd You Go, MON Bernadette on Radio 4 in 2012. MON MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the MON Diplomatic Bag b01n0wc4 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Matthew Parris opens the diplomatic bag to reveal some of MON the funniest, most striking and memorable despatches sent MON home by British diplomats down the ages. MON MON Diplomats toiling in obscure posts know that by employing a MON bit of wit and style their reports can end up being read by MON senior Ministers - even by the Queen. MON MON We hear from the modern-day Ambassador whose despatches made MON Jack Straw cry with laughter when he was Foreign Secretary. MON MON In other despatches British diplomats hunt down the lost MON national anthem of Oman, and go hunting for bison with MON Hermann Goering. MON MON These new programmes follow a previous BBC Radio 4 series MON Parting Shots, which looked at the last despatches MON ambassadors sent before quitting a post. MON MON Producer: Andrew Bryson. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qhqqc (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01qgmqf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01qhqfx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qgmqh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qgmqk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qgmqm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01qgmqp (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qhqrl (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Paul Mathole. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01qhqrn (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01qhqrq (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and TUE Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Remembering James Bulger b01qmrlk (Listen) TUE The Bulger family still lives on a council estate in Kirkby TUE and on the surface of it very little has changed since TUE Winifred last saw them two decades ago when the children who TUE had abducted and killed two year old James were convicted of TUE murder. But in the intervening years she often reflected on TUE the case and wondered about what had happened to the large TUE extended family and its campaign for justice for James. TUE Meeting Ralph and his brother Jimmy again she is struck by TUE how eager they still are to convey their one unwavering TUE conviction: that a privileged elite has ridden roughshod TUE over James's memory and grief to focus solely on what is TUE best for his killers. TUE TUE The family trust Winifred to tell their story because she TUE comes from the same sort of background as them, interviewed TUE them shortly after James's murder and also attended the TUE trial. In his summing up the trial judge said the case had TUE changed everyone who'd come into contact with it. The TUE Bulgers have lost a dearly loved child, their peace of mind, TUE privacy and sense of security. They're angry and disgusted TUE about the way the authorities have treated them but perhaps TUE saddest of all, they can't bury the horror of those TUE memories, or even more poignant, forgive themselves for what TUE they see as their failure to protect James and their defeat TUE in their battles to defend his memory by keeping his killers TUE incarcerated. TUE TUE Ralph describes the waking nightmare he was caught in as the TUE whole country attempted to analyse and probe the case - TUE searching for answers about what made two children act in TUE such a way. Much was made about how the kind of childhood TUE Venables and Thompson had and how this might have been TUE behind the brutal torture of a two year old boy. But as TUE Ralph remarks, he himself grew up in a tough community and TUE knew many children who had awful lives through no fault of TUE their own but who did not go out and murder an innocent TUE child. TUE TUE He admits to the terrible dilemma he found himself in: TUE wanting James's killers dead at the same time as being a TUE father himself and never wanting to harm or be cruel to a TUE child: "I felt terrible that I had these feelings inside me TUE towards two ten-year-old boys, and I found these emotions so TUE hard to deal with. But my responses were primal. Having TUE these thoughts in my head does not mean that I will ever TUE spill over into being a killer myself." TUE TUE Following the arrest of Venables and Thompson Ralph TUE describes using alcohol to blot out the pain - drinking TUE heavily and sinking into a very dark place. At one point the TUE pain got so bad that he locked himself away in his bedroom TUE for two weeks. A glimmer of hope, in the form of Denise's TUE pregnancy, was partly overshadowed by the increasing divide TUE between the couple, who were stunned into silence by the TUE enormity of what had happened. Ralph describes the pain of TUE tearing open the wound every time they looked at each other TUE until, in the end, separating seemed the only way to survive TUE the grief. TUE TUE Winifred explores the family's beliefs that too little is TUE done to include the families of murder victims in the court TUE process and that their suffering bears no influence on the TUE subsequent decisions about release. Their efforts to cope TUE with life were dealt a further blow on June 23rd 2001, when TUE Ralph and Denise were told of the parole board's decision to TUE release Thompson and Venables, who were then both 18. This TUE decision was so difficult to cope with and left a void - all TUE that had been done to seek justice for James appeared to TUE have counted for nothing. TUE TUE Produced by Sue Mitchell. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01qhqrv (Listen) TUE John McCarthy talks to Afghan refugee, Rafi TUE TUE John McCarthy talks to those who by accident or design, feel TUE they live outside mainstream British society. Today he talks TUE to Rafi, who fled to this country from Afghanistan in 2011, TUE after working as an interpreter for the allied occupying TUE forces. Rafi explains how he took on the role in the hope of TUE improving relations in his country but in fact it left him TUE isolated from his home community and the people he worked TUE for. Threats from the Taliban caused him to flee his TUE homeland and to seek asylum here. After eighteen months he TUE has now gained refugee status and can look for work but he TUE explains the sense of isolation he feels living away from TUE his homeland, his friends and family. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01qjk20 (Listen) TUE Mad Girl's Love Song, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Hayley Atwell TUE Sylvia Plath is read by Sasha Pick, Eddie Cohen by Ben TUE Crowe, Richard Sassoon by Will Howard and Aurelia Plath by TUE Hannah Wood TUE Abridged by Miranda Davies TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qj7jd (Listen) TUE Woman's Hour Power List TUE TUE Eve Pollard, chair of the judging panel, reveals the Woman's TUE Hour Power List in a special programme from the BBC Radio TUE Theatre presented by Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey. TUE Producer Ruth Watts. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01qj7jg (Listen) TUE The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 4, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Esther Wilson TUE Award winning Drama Series about a young couple with TUE learning disabilities, starring Donna Lavin and Edmund TUE Davies, actors with learning disabilities. Darleen wants a TUE baby and Jamie is shocked when he thinks she's stolen one. TUE He's not too pleased when he discovers the truth either. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01qj7jj (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 24 TUE TUE Examining the world of nature and the challenges of wildlife TUE conservation. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01qlpcg (Listen) TUE Series 15, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony TUE TUE More than just 'da da da dum': Beethoven's 5th Symphony is TUE this week's Soul Music. TUE TUE It accompanied Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on the regular Bombay TUE to Basra route he sailed during his early days in the TUE Merchant Navy. TUE TUE Archaeologist and crime novelist, Dana Cameron, spent many a TUE long day in a dark, lonely basement analysing artefacts from TUE a merchant's house in Salem, Massachusetts. A CD player was TUE often her only companion and Beethoven's 5th buoyed her TUE through these arduous days working towards her PhD TUE TUE And for conductor, Christopher Gayford, it was the piece TUE which provided a breakthrough in his musical life. Recalling TUE the time he spent rehearsing it with the Sheffield Youth TUE Orchestra - for a tour in East Germany - he describes the TUE build up to one of the most memorable performances of his TUE career. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01qj7jl (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01qgmqr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01qj7jn (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Tell Me the Truth About Love b01qj7jq (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Today's episode looks at poets' different seduction TUE strategies. TUE Presented by Carol Ann Duffy. TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01qhqpb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qj92r (Listen) TUE Dusty Won't Play TUE TUE Charlie Brooks stars as Dusty Springfield in Annie TUE Caulfield's latest play. Dusty Won't Play is a reminder of TUE the tangled paranoia of apartheid and the true story of TUE Dusty Springfield's refusal to play segregated audiences in TUE South Africa. TUE TUE Shot through with the ozone charge of Dusty's music, TUE leavened with her earthy humour and straight talking, this TUE play looks at the harrowing days of her short South African TUE tour. Drawing on eye witness accounts, this drama recreates TUE the 1964 South Africa that Dusty challenged - Nelson Mandela TUE had just been jailed for life, liberals were spied on, TUE detained and destroyed. TUE TUE At the height of her fame, young, stylish Dusty Springfield TUE was popular worldwide, having hit records and presenting the TUE television show Ready Steady Go. Glamorous and outspoken, TUE she took a sharp interest in politics but underestimated the TUE trouble her personal stand in South Africa would cause. She TUE had the support of her band and the promoter Dennis Wainer, TUE but much of the press and some of her own profession were TUE against her. TUE TUE Back in England, Dusty was jeered at for being naïve or TUE publicity seeking, but she was stubbornly determined that TUE Apartheid couldn't be supported. TUE TUE We follow Dusty through long, lonely nights in South Africa TUE and glimpse a little deeper into the world of a secretive, TUE principled woman. TUE TUE With Charlie Brooks as Dusty and starring Jack Klaff, TUE Vincent Ebrahim, Jonny Freeman, Danny Lee Wynter and Rasmus TUE Hardiker. TUE TUE Written by Annie Caulfield TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE Produced by Gordon Kennedy TUE TUE An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Dusty Springfield: Charlie Brooks TUE Actor: Jack Klaff TUE Actor: Vincent Ebrahim TUE Actor: Jonny Freeman TUE Actor: Danny Lee Wynter TUE Actor: Rasmus Hardiker TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Annie Caulfield TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01qj92t (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by leading historians TUE and writers to discuss issues from our past that have been TUE raised by new research carried out by listeners, heritage TUE organisations and the academic community. TUE TUE Among the highlights in this six week series, Tom and his TUE co-presenter Helen Castor will be asking whether the TUE Renaissance began on the 26th April 1336, probably about tea TUE time ... and possibly over a game of cards, investigating TUE how a London conference set up to limit naval fire power in TUE 1930 had the opposite affect, and finding out why you can't TUE necessarily see the wood through the trees in a Royal TUE Forest. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01qj92w (Listen) TUE When Nettles Attack! TUE TUE For years we've been warned that invaders from abroad are TUE threatening the quiet majesty of the British countryside. TUE But the latest evidence suggests that the threat from giant TUE hogweed, Himalayan balsam and their foreign friends has been TUE exaggerated. We should really be worried by some more TUE familiar stalwarts of our downs and pastures.Nettles, TUE brambles and ivy are marching across the unmanaged TUE countryside, choking our most sensitive species, stamping TUE out the variety we value in our landscape.In 'Costing the TUE Earth' Tom Heap investigates the march of these domestic TUE invasive species and asks if we should start the fight back. TUE TUE 16:00 Islam Without God b01qjk2j (Listen) TUE Is it possible to have religion without God? Thirty years TUE ago, Don Cupitt's Sea of Faith set out "Christian TUE non-realism" - ethics without God - angering the Church and TUE intriguing millions. Philosopher Alain de Botton has TUE recently done the same. But is this just a concept for TUE cynical post-Christians, or could it work for Muslims too? TUE TUE Reports from the heartland of the Muslim-majority world TUE suggest the ongoing political upheaval has led to a TUE so-called "generation of atheists" - dissatisfied with TUE political Islam and finding few willing to engage with their TUE ideas of modernity. TUE TUE Abdul-Rehman Malik, a faithful Muslim, isn't convinced: TUE religion for today's Muslim is a complex set of overlapping TUE values wrapped up in belief, culture and politics. |So he TUE goes in search of Muslims at a crossroads of faith. TUE TUE He meets campaigner Humera Khan who, despite her frustration TUE with male-centred interpretations and out-of-touch religious TUE institutions, thinks the best resistance comes from her TUE faith. He also talks to critic Sara Wajid, a lover of TUE Islamic art and literature, on her rejection of grand TUE narratives and how she came to terms with her father's TUE funeral - at a mosque. Malik walks London's East End with TUE Alom Shaha, one of a new generation of ex-Muslims who have TUE no desire to insult faith, but wish to give those who want TUE to leave a way out. And the programme visits Cairo with Moez TUE Masoud, an influential young preacher - comfortable with the TUE Qur'an and Kant - who is unafraid to confront the doubts of TUE his generation. TUE TUE What Malik witnesses is a profound tension between belief TUE and rejection - and the grey areas in between. It is a TUE tension that will shape Islam and its place in the modern TUE world. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Sharman TUE A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01qj9fx (Listen) TUE Meg Rosoff and Sara Pascoe TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by writer Meg Rosoff and comedian TUE Sara Pascoe to talk about the books they love - which in TUE Sara's case is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Meg's choice is TUE Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. And Harriett brings along TUE An Education by Lynn Barber, which was made into an TUE acclaimed film starring Carey Mulligan. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01qj9l5 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qgmqt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Elvenquest b017mwrv (Listen) TUE Series 4, Queen Eleanor TUE TUE The noble Questers set off once again to find the Sword of TUE Asnagar, the only thing that can rid Lower Earth from the TUE tyranny of the evil Lord Darkness. TUE Their search brings them to the kingdom of Premenstrua, TUE where they defeat a band of trolls that have been TUE terrorising the land. As a reward for their heroism, they TUE are offered the Sword of Asnagar by its grateful ruler, TUE Queen Eleanor. But before it's placed in their hands, they TUE must first get her a birthday present... TUE Meanwhile, Kreech tries to convince Lord Darkness that what TUE he needs to help him maintain eternal dominion over Lower TUE Earth is a personal assistant... TUE Cast: TUE Vidar - Darren Boyd TUE Queen Eleanor - Louise Delamere TUE Dean/Kreech - Kevin Eldon TUE Amis - Dave Lamb TUE Sam - Stephen Mangan TUE Lord Darkness - Alistair McGowan TUE Penthiselea - Ingrid Oliver TUE Writers: Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01qjb1k (Listen) TUE Exhaustion sets in for Vicky, and Jazzer receives a TUE knockback. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01qjb1m (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01qj7jg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01qjb1p (Listen) TUE The bill for Brussels TUE TUE 21 years after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, Britain TUE is trying to cut the cost of the European Union. TUE TUE As the institution comes of age, Gerry Northam asks whether TUE the EU's spending on itself has become excessive and - if so TUE - whether member states do anything about it. TUE TUE In Brussels, hundreds of millions of pounds have been found TUE for projects described by Eurosceptics as TUE "self-aggrandisement". An art deco showpiece is being TUE transformed into a new headquarters for the European Council TUE at a cost of around 300 million Euros (£250m). A further 55 TUE million Euros (£46m) is going to create a House of European TUE History - a museum celebrating European integration. A new TUE 20 million Euros (£17m) visitors' centre at the European TUE Parliament, called the Parlamentarium, has been dismissed as TUE a multimedia tribute to itself. TUE TUE Meanwhile alarm has been raised that money the United TUE Kingdom designates as aid for developing countries is being TUE diverted by Europe to encourage Turkey, Serbia and others to TUE join the Union. MPs claim this money directly disadvantages TUE Britain. TUE TUE Critics say Europe's expansion comes with an unnecessarily TUE large price tag. Are they right? TUE TUE Reporter: Gerry Northam TUE Producer: Chris Doidge. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01qjb1r (Listen) TUE In a special "Blindness for Beginners", we'll ask how you TUE can keep your job if you suddenly, or progressively, lose TUE your sight. We'll discuss what conversations you need to be TUE having with your manager, and what adjustments you can TUE expect your employer to make so you can carry on in your TUE role. Legal expert Catherine Casserley from law firm TUE Cloisters will outline your legal rights if you encounter TUE resistance, and Barry Toner from the British Computer TUE Association of the Blind will join us to discuss what TUE technology is available for certain tasks. There will be TUE information on benefits and organisations which can support TUE you, and we'll hear some personal stories of people who lost TUE their sight but continue in their jobs. We're keen to hear TUE your stories too; send us an email via the In Touch website. TUE Presenter: Peter White TUE Producer: Katy Takatsuki. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01qjb1t (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents the series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 Remembering James Bulger b01qmrlk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01qgmqw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01qjb1w (Listen) TUE Round-up of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qklrw (Listen) TUE The Bell Jar, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: Things don't go so well after the Ladies Day Lunch - TUE and Esther remembers the first time Buddy Willard kissed TUE her, at the Yale Junior Prom. TUE TUE The reader is Lydia Wilson. TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qjb1y (Listen) TUE Equal Marriage TUE TUE In a brand new series for Radio 4, News Quiz favourite Susan TUE Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. TUE This week, she examines the current hot political topic of TUE Equal Marriage from a personal perspective. TUE When Susan was younger, she thought marriage was silly. A TUE patriarchal institution which she would never buy into. That TUE was until she grew up, fell in love and wanted more than TUE anything to get married - except she couldn't. TUE Susan relates her own personal experiences on this matter; TUE including the minutiae of the legislation governing her TUE recent civil partnership ceremony, as well as examining the TUE well-trodden arguments against the issue. TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qjb20 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran and the BBC parliamentary team report from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01qgmrq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01qjk20 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qgmrs (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qgmrv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qgmrx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01qgmrz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qjbxm (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Paul Mathole. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01qjbxp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01qjbxr (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01qjc0d (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01qjk1w (Listen) WED Mad Girl's Love Song, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, Plath struggles with the WED sexual hypocrisy of 'fifties America. WED WED Read by Hayley Atwell WED Sylvia Plath is read by Sasha Pick, Eddie Cohen by Ben WED Crowe, Richard Sassoon by Will Howard and Aurelia Plath by WED Hannah Wood WED Abridged by Miranda Davies WED Produced by Emma Harding. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qjc0g (Listen) WED Lucy Boyd WED WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01qjc0j (Listen) WED The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED by Esther Wilson WED Comic and heartfelt series about a young couple with WED learning disabilities. Based on true stories and created in WED part through improvisation. Darleen and Jamie are exploring WED the possibility of having a baby. Darleen is shocked and WED upset after a visit to Social Services and their apparent WED negative reaction to their plight. However, she feels more WED optimistic after meeting Alex Huntesmith. Alex is a 17 year WED old man studying politics and economics for his A Levels, WED who hopes to go to Oxford. He's also the son of parents with WED learning disabilities. Alex plays himself in the drama, and WED his mother Jill features in tomorrow's episode. WED WED Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01qjc0l (Listen) WED Series 17, Episode 4 WED WED Chris Ledgard explores how the Spielberg classic Jaws WED inspired a new generation of marine biologists and WED conservationists, and invented the concept of the summer WED blockbuster. WED WED Author Peter Benchley came to regret demonising the shark, WED and spent much of his life spreading the conservation WED message. But the film also encouraged a respect and WED admiration for the animal, and modern-day conservationists WED explain to Chris what the film means to them. He also talks WED to film critic Andrew Collins about the cinematic legacy of WED the film, and the marketing techniques used to spread the WED fear in the summer of 1975. WED WED Producer John Byrne. WED WED 11:30 The Qatar Philharmonic b01gng58 (Listen) WED The Qatar Philharmonic was established in 2008, the first WED western symphony orchestra in a Gulf state, and just one of WED a number of institutions intended to demonstrate the WED country's cultural ambitions. WED WED Razia Iqbal visits Katar, the official cultural village of WED Doha, and talks to members of the orchestra, many of whom WED have been imported from Europe. And she interviews the WED country's 'culture queen', Sheikha Mayassa Al-Thani, WED daughter of the Emir of Qatar. WED WED Produced by Francesca Panetta and Lucy Greenwell. WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01qjc0n (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01qgms1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01qjc0q (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Tell Me the Truth About Love b01qjc33 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Today's episode explores poems that commemorate the making WED of vows, including the world's oldest love poem. WED Presented by Carol Ann Duffy. WED Produced by Emma Harding. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01qjb1k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jqjlk (Listen) WED Kicking the Air WED WED Facing deportation from the UK, a young Iranian student, WED Reza Mostafai, claims asylum on the grounds that he is gay, WED fearing for his safety if he is returned to his homeland. WED With the help of his barrister Fiona and best friend Lulu, WED Reza must try and find a way to prove his sexuality in time WED to halt his removal. Can they find someone to come forward WED to testify to the truth of Reza's claim? WED WED Christine Murphy's debut radio drama is a powerful and WED shocking story of one man's desperate attempt to prove his WED homosexuality. WED WED Starring Jamie Harding, Sophia Myles, and Vicky McClure who WED won the award for Best Supporting Actress at this year's WED Audio Drama awards for her portrayal of Lulu: "Kicking the WED Air". WED WED Credits WED Reza: Jamie Harding WED Fiona: Sophia Myles WED Lulu: Vicky McClure WED Actor: Ben Caplan WED Actor: Zubin Varla WED Actor: Ian Beattie WED Actor: Maggie Cronin WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01qjc35 (Listen) WED Mortgages WED WED Do you have a question about mortgages? Interest rates are WED at record lows but how do you work out the real cost and WED what is the best mortgage for you? Call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm and 3pm on Wednesday or email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED With some lenders offering rates as low as 1.89% this may WED seem like a good time to find a better deal, but why not WED talk to our experts before you decide which mortgage to buy? WED WED What charges and other fees do you need to add on to? WED WED Should you consider a fix, a tracker or an offset mortgage? WED WED Are there any fee free deals? WED WED Or perhaps you want to ask about guarantor loans or schemes WED which could help you onto the property ladder? WED WED Whether you are remortgaging or looking for your first home, WED presenter Ruth Alexander will put your questions to the WED experts: WED WED Joanne Atkin, Editor, What Mortgage and Mortgage Finance WED Gazette WED WED Ray Boulger, Senior Technical Manager, John Charcol WED WED Simon Tyler, Managing Director, Tyler Mortgage Management WED WED Call 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday, phone lines are open WED between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges apply. WED Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01qjb1t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01qjc37 (Listen) WED Stan Cohen (1942 - 2013) WED WED Stan Cohen - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme WED which pays tribute to the work and legacy of one of the most WED significant sociologists of our times. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01qjc39 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01qjc3c (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qgms3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01qjc6k (Listen) WED Series 4, Yverdon-Les-Bains WED WED Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter WED airline. WED WED Love is in the air as Douglas and Herc fight it out over the WED fruit tray, and hope springs eternal as Martin has the WED interview of his life. 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 Oskar Bider........................... Nicholas Woodeson WED Captain Deroche....................... Kate Duchêne WED WED Written by John Finnemore WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for the BBC. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01qjj48 (Listen) WED David can't believe Pip's latest news. Meanwhile there's a WED disappointment for Elizabeth. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01qjj4b (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01qjc0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01qjj4g (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Giles WED Fraser and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Economics b01qjj4j (Listen) WED When Geeks Took Over Poker WED WED Tim Harford tells the story of a geek called Jesus. WED WED Chris "Jesus" Ferguson applied game theory to poker and won. WED Big time. WED WED He became a star, albeit a geek star "whose idea of a trick WED was to throw a card in a way that sliced through vegetables, WED whose idea of fun was swing dancing and who even in his WED forties as a millionaire lived with his mum and dad". WED WED But, as Ferguson would find out, there's always a bigger WED game. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01qj92w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01qjc0d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01qgms5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01qjj4l (Listen) WED Ritula Shah presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qkm09 (Listen) WED The Bell Jar, Episode 3 WED WED Today: Buddy reveals himself and Esther decides to be WED seduced. WED WED The reader is Lydia Wilson. WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Newsjack Revisited b01qjj4q (Listen) WED Ahead of the eighth series, Radio 4 takes a look back at the WED last run of Newsjack, Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show WED that anyone can write for. It will feature all of the best WED standalong sketches, JackApps (Newsjack's version of a WED rantline) and corrections from series seven. So don't worry WED if you didn't keep up with the news in September and October WED last year, this show will get you 100% up to speed. Sort of. WED WED Newsjack has an open-door policy, which means that anyone WED can write for it. How open is the show's door? In the last WED series, the seventh, the production team read 450 emails a WED week, and broadcast the work of 123 different writers. WED Newsjack may not be the only way to get started as a comedy WED writer, but it is definitely a good way; the show is not WED only trying to deliver a good show each week but also to WED identify new writers in the way that The News Huddlines or WED Week Ending did for previous generations of writers. WED Newsjack writing alumni include James Kettle, now writing on WED a variety of Radio 4 shows including "It's Not What You WED Know" and "Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing"; Eddie Robson, WED whose sitcom "Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade WED Carefully" will go out on Radio 2 in March; and Tom Neenan, WED now one of BBC Radio Comedy's bursary writers. WED WED Presented by Justin Edwards, and featuring Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith, Pippa Evans, Nadia Kamil, Cariad Lloyd and WED Lewis Macleod. WED WED Producers: Carl Cooper & Ed Morrish. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qjj4s (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01qgmt2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01qjk1w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qgmt4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qgmt6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qgmt8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01qgmtb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qjj93 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Paul Mathole. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01qjj95 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01qjj97 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01qjj99 (Listen) THU Ice Ages THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss ice ages, periods when a THU reduction in the surface temperature of the Earth has THU resulted in widespread formation of ice sheets. The most THU recent ice age began around 2.6 million years ago, although THU geological evidence indicates that there have been several THU in the Earth's history. Ice ages have had profound effects THU on the geography and biology of our planet, and are one of THU the major influences on our evolutionary history. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01qjk1y (Listen) THU Mad Girl's Love Song, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode, Plath starts work at Mademoiselle THU magazine in New York. THU THU Read by Hayley Atwell THU THU Sylvia Plath is read by Sasha Pick, Eddie Cohen by Ben THU Crowe, Richard Sassoon by Will Howard and Aurelia Plath by THU Hannah Woods THU THU Abridged by Miranda Davies THU Produced by Emma Harding. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qjjxs (Listen) THU The Fleet Street Fox; conservationist June Haimoff; Glasgow THU Girls musical THU THU Blogger and journalist The Fleet Street Fox reveals her THU identity to Jenni Murray. June Haimoff talks about turtle THU conservation in Turkey. We meet the women whose stories THU about asylum and deportation have been turned into a musical THU called Glasgow Girls. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01qjj4d (Listen) THU The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU by Esther Wilson THU Award winning Drama series about a young couple with THU learning disabilities. Darleen wants a baby but is facing a THU lot of opposition. She has met Alex Huntesmith who plays THU himself in the drama. Alex is hoping to go to Oxford, and THU his parents have learning disabilities. He's brought a dvd THU of his real mum - Jill Huntesmith, who we hear speaking THU about her experience of having four children and who THU inspires Darleen to pursue her dream. But Darleen is THU shattered by the news of her mother's pregnancy. THU THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01qjjxx (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 Blind Date with Runyon b01qkmp0 (Listen) THU Peter White goes State-side to find out about one of his THU favourite all time writers - Damon Runyon - who so THU colourfully captured the lowlife vibes of jazz era New York. THU Runyon's comic villains include the gangsters and molls who THU people The Hot Box night club in 'Guys and Dolls', Frank THU Loesser's classic musical that was inspired by Runyon's THU memorable characters. THU The Big Apple's preeminent storyteller, newspaperman, and THU sportswriter, Damon Runyon, will be brought to life as Peter THU strides down Broadway, celebrating the memorable slang of THU such colourful characters as Harry the Horse, Bookie Bob, THU Little Isadore and Spanish John. THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01qkmp2 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01qgmtd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01qkmp4 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Tell Me the Truth About Love b01qkmp6 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Today's episode focuses on poems that explore the highs and THU lows of a long-term relationship. THU Presented by Carol Ann Duffy. THU Produced by Emma Harding. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01qjj48 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qkmp8 (Listen) THU Every Seventh Wave THU THU A special treat for Valentines Day! David Tennant and Emilia THU Fox come together to recreate their original roles from THU 2012's Love Virtually. THU THU With two million copies sold in Germany to date, and bought THU by thirty-five publishers around the world, Love Virtually THU by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer, is well on the way to THU becoming a global publishing phenomenon. It's a thoroughly THU modern epistolary novel with a difference: its protagonists, THU Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike, communicate exclusively by THU e-mail. THU THU They "meet" when Emmi mistakenly sends an e-mail to Leo's THU inbox. The romance that follows allows them to live out a THU shared secret life far removed from their day-to-day THU existences. But to what extent does it rely on fantasy and THU escapism, and will it survive a real-life meeting? THU THU The problem is - Emmi (a modern Madame Bovary) is THU married.... THU THU Have email, Facebook and texting created a generation of THU isolated young people who prefer to communicate remotely - THU who may be in fact afraid to engage in face to face contact THU to find love? Is it possible to fall in love with someone THU you've never met? Does a virtual affair 'count' as adultery? THU What are the implications of the fact that we can pretend to THU be anyone we want in cyberspace? THU THU Every Seventh Wave sees Leo returning from Boston having THU cut-off all email communication with Emmi. THU THU Emmi's husband had found out about the relationship and this THU revelation caused their relationship to implode. After THU repeated attempts to contact him, Emmi finally receives an THU answer from Leo. THU But it doesn't come with good news. THU THU Can the internet lovers rekindle their romance? Can love THU survive though emails alone? THU THU And will they ever meet? THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Leo Leike: David Tennant THU Emmi Rothner: Emilia Fox THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01qkmpb (Listen) THU Series 23, Walking for Spiritual Renewal THU THU Clare Balding is walking for self improvement in this series THU of Ramblings and today she hopes to find a new inner calm THU with the help of Dr Kate Kirkwood. Kate attempts to lead THU Clare on a path of spiritual renewal by teaching her to walk THU silently. Silence is not a state that comes naturally to THU Clare but as she and Kate walk where the mood takes them, in THU the Herefordshire countryside just outside Haye on Wye, they THU discover why walking can be one of the bet forms of stress THU relief. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01qhd0f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01qhd10 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01qkmpd (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01qkmpg (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 b01qkmpj (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qgmtg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qkmpl (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU Stephen K Amos and comedian guests, Fred MacAulay, Angela THU Barnes and Greg Proops compile an Idiot's Guide to having THU your midlife crisis. Producer: Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01qkmpn (Listen) THU There's a Valentine's Day surprise. Meanwhile Shula hears THU some sad news. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01qkmpq (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01qjj4d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01qkmps (Listen) THU Claims have recently re-emerged that thousands of THU construction workers have been turned down for jobs because THU of a 'blacklist' secretly run by a company called the THU Consulting Association and funded by some of the largest THU construction companies in the country. THU THU In December last year the Consulting Association's Chief THU Officer gave compelling evidence to an on-going THU investigation by the Scottish Affairs Committee. During THU nearly four hours of evidence he revealed how potential THU employees on projects ranging from Millennium Dome to the THU Olympics were checked against the blacklist he held. Shortly THU afterwards he died, raising fears that he has taken secrets THU to the grave. THU THU In this edition of the Report Simon Cox talks to the THU bookkeeper of the Consulting Association in her first ever THU broadcast interview. He examines evidence suggesting that THU union representatives may have "liaised" with contractors to THU blacklist workers from construction jobs. And he THU investigates claims that the Information Commissioner failed THU to collect all the evidence during a raid in 2009. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01qkmwl (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 b01qj7jj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01qjj99 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01qgmtj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01qkmwn (Listen) THU Round-up of the day's news, with Philippa Thomas. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qkmwq (Listen) THU The Bell Jar, Episode 4 THU THU Today: Buddy offers something new and Esther meets a THU woman-hater. THU THU The reader is Lydia Wilson. THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qkmws (Listen) THU Timecop THU THU Brand new character comedy from 2011 Edinburgh Award winner, THU Adam Riches. With fast-paced, offbeat sketches, songs (there THU are no songs) and a generous dollop of audience interaction. THU Also starring Cariad Lloyd and Jim Johnson. THU THU This week, Timecops visit the BBC to try and prevent Adam THU from making an offensive radio programme. THU THU Written by Adam Riches THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qkmwv (Listen) THU Sean Curran and the BBC parliamentary team report from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01qgmvf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01qjk1y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qgmvh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qgmvk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qgmvm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01qgmvp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qkpft (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Paul Mathole. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01qkpfw (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01qkpfy (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01qhd0p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01qkpg0 (Listen) FRI Mad Girl's Love Song, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, Plath wins a Fulbright and FRI starts at Cambridge. FRI FRI Read by Hayley Atwell FRI Sylvia Plath is read by Sasha Pick, Eddie Cohen by Ben FRI Crowe, Richard Sassoon by Will Howard and Aurelia Plath by FRI Hannah Wood FRI Abridged by Miranda Davies FRI Produced by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qkpg2 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01qjjxv (Listen) FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 4, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Esther Wilson FRI Award winning series about a young couple with learning FRI disabilities, starring Donna Lavin and Edmund Davies, actors FRI with learning disabilities. Based on true stories and FRI created in part through improvisation. Darleen wants a baby FRI and her and Jamie are taking her step sister, Stacey, out FRI for the day, practising at being parents. But things don't FRI quite to plan and a near disaster strikes. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 11:00 Grahame Dangerfield: Back to the Serengeti b01qkpg4 (Listen) FRI Out on the Plains FRI FRI Grahame Dangerfield, veteran wildlife rescuer and FRI naturalist, revisits the place he thought was Eden. FRI Programme two of two: Out on the Plains. FRI FRI In the 1960s Grahame Dangerfield was among the first TV FRI naturalists joining people like David Attenborough and FRI Johnny Morris and rescuing all sorts of English wildlife FRI casualties at his zoo in Hertfordshire. He gave up the show FRI biz life to work as a warden in the Serengeti National Park FRI in Tanzania. Seeing the life of the huge herds of the Great FRI Rift valley and the predators that hunted them was, he says, FRI as close to Eden as he thought it was possible to get. He FRI now lives in Kenya and still is called out regularly to FRI rescue sick hoopoes and remove puff adders from his FRI neighbours' gardens. He has never been back to the Serengeti FRI fearing it altered beyond recognition... until now. FRI FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01qkpkm (Listen) FRI Series 3, Mammon and Other Demons 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 help FRI a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together FRI face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make FRI it more so. FRI FRI Episode Six - Mammon And Other Demons FRI A moral tale in which Sandy and his family catch the FRI gambling bug. Meanwhile Pompom is missing. Sandy and his son FRI are about to put his Winter Fuel Allowance on a horse when FRI Pompom's whereabouts are revealed. FRI FRI Sandy...............................Ronnie Corbett FRI Dolores.............................Liza Tarbuck FRI Mrs Pompom..........................Sally Grace FRI Ellie...............................Tilly Vosburgh FRI Lance...............................Philip Bird FRI Smollett............................Matt Addis FRI Tyson...............................Daniel Bridle FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01qkpkp (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01qgmvr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01qkpkr (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Tell Me the Truth About Love b01qkpmw (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Today's episode explores poems of loss and FRI separation. Presented by Carol Ann Duffy. FRI Produced by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01qkmpn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qknmh (Listen) FRI Stone, White Van FRI FRI Stone: detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. FRI White Van by Martin Jameson FRI DCI Stone finds himself in mortal danger when he is FRI confronted by a desperate man responsible for a string of FRI disturbing crimes. As Stone struggles to rescue the FRI situation he learns more about himself than he bargained FRI for. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI DCI John Stone: Hugo Speer FRI Callum Gartside: William Ash FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Writer: Martin Jameson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qkpmy (Listen) FRI Brighton FRI FRI This week Eric Robson and the GQT team visit the Seedy FRI Sunday community seed-swap event in Brighton. FRI FRI As well as sharing seeds with the locals Bob Flowerdew, FRI Bunny Guinness and Christine Walkden are on the panel taking FRI the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 I Refuse b01qkqr3 (Listen) FRI My Son, Emmett Till FRI FRI First in a series of three short stories commissioned to FRI mark the centenary of the birth of the American Civil Rights FRI heroine Rosa Parks, who famously refused to move seats on an FRI Alabama bus to accommodate white passengers. The stories FRI illustrate moments of resistance and are inspired by acts of FRI determination and non-cooperation, committed by ordinary FRI people (real or imagined) fighting against prevailing FRI attitudes and political authority. FRI FRI Today, writer Fred D'Aguiar focuses upon a true story, a FRI moment of resistance which helped to ignite the American FRI Civil Rights Movement. In August 1955, a fourteen year old FRI black man, Emmett Till, who was visiting relatives in FRI Mississippi, was murdered by two white men because he had FRI whistled at a white woman. When his badly beaten body was FRI recovered, his mother refused to allow the coffin lid to be FRI closed: she wanted the world to see what had been done to FRI her son. FRI FRI It was an act that galvanised the emerging civil rights FRI movement. Three months later, in Montgomery Alabama, Rosa FRI Parks refused to relinquish her seat. She is quoted as FRI saying: "I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go FRI back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a FRI stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt FRI violated. I was not going back." FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01qkqr5 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01qkqr7 (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 b01qknmk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qgmvt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01qkqr9 (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01qkqtp (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01qkqtr (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01qjjxv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01qkqtt (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Langford Budville in Somerset. Guests include Chair of FRI the Public Accounts Select Committee Margaret Hodge MP, FRI former Defence Minister Sir Nick Harvey MP, Environment FRI Minister John Hayes MP. FRI Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01qkqtw (Listen) FRI David Cannadine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00k4l2l (Listen) FRI Tough Love FRI FRI By Andrea Gibb FRI FRI At first, parents Laura and Mark don't see the warning FRI signs: the bottles not taken to the bottle bank, the missing FRI bank card, the tumbling grades at school. Then the terrible FRI realisation dawns - their son, Danny, is an addict. He's FRI always been the golden boy - not like his big brother, Paul, FRI who has been a thorn in their side. Paul is moody and FRI uncommunicative. Danny, on the other hand, has always been FRI sunny and easy. And now he's in trouble. FRI FRI This is a mother's story and as Danny spirals into drugs FRI counselling and failed rehab treatment, his mum has to make FRI the hardest decision of her life. FRI FRI Andrea Gibb is the award-winning screenwriter of Dear FRI Frankie and Afterlife and is currently working on a feature FRI film version of Swallows and Amazons for television, an FRI original feature, ATLANTIC BRIDGE, an adaptation of Rose FRI Tremain's MUSIC AND SILENCE for BBC. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01qgmvw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01qkqty (Listen) FRI Round-up of the day's news, with Philippa Thomas. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qkqv0 (Listen) FRI The Bell Jar, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: Home from New York, Esther faces a summer in the FRI suburbs and finds herself slipping into lethargy and at a FRI loss. FRI FRI The reader is Lydia Wilson. FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01qj9fx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qkqv2 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
08 February, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 09/02/2013 - 15/02/2013
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