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SAT SATURDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b039d95k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b039j4z3 (Listen) SAT When Britain Burned the White House, Episode 5 SAT SAT Nearly 200 years ago, Britain attacked the heartland of the SAT United States. The President and his wife had just enough SAT time to pack their belongings and flee the White House SAT before the British army entered and set fire to the SAT building. From here, the British army turned its sights to SAT Baltimore. SAT SAT Peter Snow tells the story of this extraordinary SAT confrontation between Britain and the United States, the SAT outcome of which inspired America's national anthem. Using SAT eyewitness accounts, Peter describes the colourful SAT personalities on both sides of this astonishing battle - SAT from Britain's fiery Admiral Cockburn, to the cautious but SAT widely popular army commander Robert Ross and the SAT beleaguered President James Madison whose nation was SAT besieged by a greater military force. SAT SAT In the final episode, the British attack on Baltimore has SAT failed and they retreat to their ships. To celebrate SAT victory, a young American poet Francis Scott Key writes a SAT poem - The Star Spangled Banner. SAT SAT Read by Jamie Parker SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039d95m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039d95p (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039d95r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b039d95t (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039dbs0 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The SAT Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's SAT Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b039dbs2 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b039d95w (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b039d95y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b039d4bq (Listen) SAT Laurie Lee Land SAT SAT Helen Mark explores the newly safeguarded 'Laurie Lee Wood' SAT and meets the people who inhabit the 21st Century 'Cider SAT with Rosie' Landscape. Earlier this year Gloucestershire SAT Wildlife Trust had an unprecedented response to its appeal SAT to save a plot of ancient woodland. It had once belonged to SAT Slad Valley's beloved son, Laurie Lee. Having become too SAT much for the author and playwright's remaining family to SAT maintain, the trust launched an appeal to take it over. In SAT this week's Open Country Helen Mark meets the people who SAT saved this land and the community that still find SAT inspiration in this valley today including Julie and Simon SAT Cooper at 'The Cider Farm' where they now handcraft frames SAT for old master paintings, artist Amanda Lawrence who draws SAT inspiration from the natural landscape and captures her work SAT in glass and writer Adam Horovitz who is capturing his own SAT 'Cider with Rosie' experience on paper. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b039lmjk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b039d960 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b039lmjm (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b039lmjp (Listen) SAT Philip Pullman SAT SAT Richard Coles and Anita Anand are joined by author, Philip SAT Pullman SAT SAT Producer: Dilly Barlow. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b039lmjr (Listen) SAT Series 6, Who Killed the Bears? SAT SAT Steve Punt investigates the killing of two performing bears SAT by a mob in the Forest of Dean in 1889, following unfounded SAT rumours that the animals had killed a child. SAT SAT For years, the people of Ruardean took the blame for the SAT brutal slaying of the bears but always protested their SAT innocence. Punt examines the evidence, asking if those SAT convicted were victims of a miscarriage of justice. SAT SAT Punt explores the documents, questions the locals and calls SAT in the experts - aiming to establish the truth once and for SAT all. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b039lmjt (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT as MPs return to Westminster after the summer recess. SAT At the top of the agenda, the Syria crisis and the fallout SAT from the Government's historic defeat in the vote over SAT whether Britain should prepare to go to war. The Tory SAT backbencher Douglas Carswell and ex Labour MP turned SAT diarist, Chris Mullin, discuss whether the landscape of our SAT parliamentary democracy has changed. SAT As the Universal Credit scheme gets a mauling from the SAT spending watchdog, we examine whether Whitehall was to blame SAT and discuss the future of civil service reform with the SAT former senior official, Sir Richard Mottram. SAT The Labour backbencher, Katy Clark, and Roger Seifert, an SAT expert on industrial relations, discuss Labour's relations SAT with trades unions. SAT And as tensions mount between the Prime Minister and his SAT Leader of the Opposition in the wake of the Syria vote, we SAT explore the history of that important, but often highly SAT fractious relationship. SAT SAT Editor: Leala Padmanabhan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b039lmjw (Listen) SAT Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the SAT US, Australia, South Africa and Italy. SAT Lyse Doucet hears how Syria's mosaic of cultures is being SAT shattered; Humphrey Hawksley visits the big brains of SAT America's Ivy League who have been thinking about how to put SAT a country back together again; James Fletcher listens to the SAT roar of Harley Davidsons and rides the Australian economic SAT engine; Mark Lowen discovers the anti-apartheid pedigree of SAT his grandfather; while Tom Carver is in Italy, celebrating SAT his father's escape from a POW camp in 1943 and the brave SAT family who helped him. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b039lmjy (Listen) SAT NHS fine U-turn, TSB rebirth, off-plan perils and pitfalls, SAT premium rate call crackdown SAT SAT A pensioner who was fined for having two free eye tests in SAT less than two years will have his money refunded after the SAT Health Ombudsman accused his former PCT, now part of NHS SAT England, of maladministration. Others fined for the same SAT thing could now get their money back. Benefit expert Will SAT Hadwen gives his assessment. SAT SAT Monday September 9th sees the rebirth of TSB - the High SAT Street bank taken over by Lloyds in 1995. On that day nearly SAT five million customers of Lloyds will become TSB customers SAT as their local branch is rebranded following a European SAT competition ruling which forced Lloyds to give up 631 SAT branches. This week Lloyds boss Antonio Horta-Osorio SAT promised a 'seamless transition'. But not all his customers SAT have found it so. SAT SAT Would you buy a flat that had not been built yet by looking SAT at the plan? So-called off-plan purchases are growing as SAT competition for property hots up, fuelled by Help to Buy and SAT cheaper mortgages. But is it sensible to buy a flat you have SAT never seen? And how do you know the right price to pay? We SAT speak to Vanessa Ambler, Director of New Home Advisor and SAT Richard Donnell from Hometrack. SAT SAT New rules begin on Wednesday for websites that charge SAT customers premium rates of £1.53 a minute or more to call SAT government or company helplines they could call free. But SAT will they work? The regulator tells us why he's getting SAT touch. SAT SAT 12:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b039dbkd (Listen) SAT How Should We Educate Our Children? SAT SAT Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big SAT contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. SAT SAT Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick SAT Doody are joined this week by teacher, author and columnist SAT Tom Bennett and Professor of Education Gordon Stobart. SAT SAT Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SAT things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then SAT will people laugh at the truth. This deconstructed "quiz" SAT has only one question each week, because that question is so SAT big, there's no time for anything else: expect a mix of SAT stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and SAT incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who SAT really know what they're talking about. SAT SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT SAT Panelists: Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick Doody, Tom SAT Bennett and Gordon Stobart. SAT SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b039d962 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b039d964 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b039dbkl (Listen) SAT Alan Duncan, David Blunkett, Elfyn Llwyd, Revel Guest SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Colwyn Bay, North Wales with former Home Secretary SAT David Blunkett MP, International Development Minister Alan SAT Duncan MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP who leads Plaid Cymru at SAT Westminster and Revel Guest who's Chair of the Hay Festival. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b039lmk0 (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b039lmk2 (Listen) SAT For Services Rendered SAT SAT Somerset Maugham's classic play, with Sian Thomas and David SAT Calder. SAT SAT Written in 1932 For Services Rendered is Somerset Maugham's SAT incisive state-of-the-nation play - written fifteen years on SAT from the end of WW1. SAT SAT Set in late summer 1932 in Kent, the Ardsley family seem to SAT be managing their lives very well but in reality each of SAT them is fighting for survival. The Ardsley children are SAT facing unpromising futures: Ethel is married to a former SAT officer who is not quite the man she hoped he'd be; Eva is SAT unmarried and approaching 40, martyring herself to the cause SAT of their brother Sydney; Sydney has been blinded in the war; SAT and Lois, at 27, is single and without a hope of marrying in SAT the English backwater the family live in. SAT SAT The family must go through a seismic shift in order to SAT survive. The younger generation can no longer live their SAT lives in the blueprint of the older generation, they must SAT find a new way of living. England is changing, falling SAT apart, and must begin again. SAT SAT The first performance was on 1 November 1932 in the West End SAT (with Ralph Richardson playing Leonard Ardsley). The SAT anti-war message was not popular with audiences, and the SAT play only ran for 78 performances. SAT SAT The play is particularly extraordinary viewed in retrospect SAT as the lessons of WW1 are written so clearly across the SAT lives of the characters who, less than a decade later, would SAT find themselves at war again. SAT SAT For Services Rendered was written by Somerset Maugham. It is SAT adapted and directed for radio by Lu Kemp. SAT SAT Credits SAT Leonard Ardsley: David Calder SAT Charlotte Ardsley: Sian Thomas SAT Sydney Ardsley: Tom Espiner SAT Eva Ardsley: Cath Whitefield SAT Lois Ardsley: Louise Brealey SAT Ethel Bartlett: Mariah Gale SAT Howard Bartlett: Michael Shaeffer SAT Collie Stratton: Justin Salinger SAT Wilfred Cedar: Ron Cook SAT Gwen Cedar: Hettie Baynes Russell SAT Dr Charles Prentice: John Rowe SAT Gertrude: Philippa Stanton SAT Writer: W Somerset Maugham SAT Adaptor: Lu Kemp SAT Director: Lu Kemp SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b039lmk4 (Listen) SAT Jamie Oliver; Martha Lane Fox; Joyce DiDonato SAT SAT Jamie Oliver cooks the perfect Singapore Noodles and talks SAT about cooking on a budget. Can parents help children improve SAT their reading or should it be left to the teachers? Plus can SAT reading a novel really help to make you feel better? A look SAT at the new research that shows that women who give up taking SAT the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen are dying needlessly. Many SAT give up because of the side effects which include hot SAT flushes, sweating, tiredness and weight gain - what's been SAT done to help them? Food writer Anya von Bremzen talks about SAT her memoirs which look at the history of twentieth century SAT Russia and the food that typified Soviet society. Digital SAT champion, Woman's Hour powerlister and the youngest female SAT member of the House of Lords, Martha Lane Fox on the SAT importance of being connected. And Mezzo-soprano Joyce SAT DiDonato looks ahead to her performance at the Last Night of SAT the Proms. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Produced by Rebecca Myatt. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b039lmk6 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b039dbs2 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b039d966 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b039d968 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039d96b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b039lmk8 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Thomas Dolby, Peter Snow, Jeremy Hardy, SAT Carole Radziwill, Emma Freud, The Be Good Tanyas, The SAT Ramona Flowers SAT SAT Clive's in the Oval Office with broadcaster and author Peter SAT Snow, whose new book 'When Britain Burned the White House' SAT tells of when Britain attacked the heartland of the United SAT States, defeating them in battle. Peter explains the SAT consequences on both sides, resulting in the decision by the SAT U.S and Britain never to fight each other again. SAT SAT Clive has a Lunch Date with author and Real Housewife Of New SAT York City Carole Radziwill, whose new book 'The Widow's SAT Guide To Sex and Dating' is the story of Claire, a young SAT widow who's asked to finish writing her husband's biography SAT of a heartthrob movie star. Claire's surprised when he SAT doesn't live up to his reputation. But having found her SAT first Mr Right, does she deserve a second? SAT SAT Emma Freud's Blinded With Science by musician and producer SAT Thomas Dolby, who's made an impressionistic documentary SAT about a mysterious island lighthouse near the East Anglian SAT coat. With global warming and beach erosion threatening its SAT very foundations, it will soon be a pile of rubble left to SAT fall into the North Sea. SAT SAT 'Thomas Dolby's The Invisible Lighthouse Tour' is a SAT transmedia performance, with a soundtrack from various SAT stages of his career. Let's hope he's not feeling too SAT Hyperactive! SAT Newsquiz's Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation...or at least SAT to Clive, about his new comedy tour, which addresses death, SAT CBeebies, Michael Gove, hip hop, gender, class, ego, Blue SAT Peter, Leni Riefenstahl, misogyny, the American Civil War, SAT capitalism and Lassie! It kicks off at Newbury's Corn SAT Exchange on 13th September. SAT SAT With music from Canadian female folk trio The Be Good SAT Tanyas, who perform 'September Field'. SAT With more music from Bristol-based electro Indie outfit The SAT Ramona Flowers, who perform 'Brighter' from their SAT 'Dismantle' EP SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b039lmkb (Listen) SAT Angela Merkel SAT SAT Chris Bowlby profiles German Chancellor Angela Merkel - SAT always underestimated, physicist and ruthless politician, SAT the woman at the centre of the eurozone crisis. What has SAT shaped a figure who grew up under East German communism, SAT came to dominate united German politics and proclaims her SAT love of football and opera? And as her friendship with David SAT Cameron deepens, might she be key to Britain's EU future? SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b039lmkd (Listen) SAT The Great Beauty and Peaky Blinders SAT SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01p9f64 (Listen) SAT Frost on Nixon SAT SAT Watching Richard Nixon's first inauguration ceremony in SAT January 1969, and hearing the prayer of the Reverend Billy SAT Graham who stood by him at that ceremony, it seemed that SAT here was an honest man of integrity. Yet much detail has SAT emerged since that time demonstrating that the 37th SAT President of the United States was less than upstanding in SAT his dealings with his Democrat opponents and the American SAT people. SAT SAT But who was Nixon the man? What was he really like? Do all SAT those allegations and solid facts alluding to his dirty SAT tricks - the wire-tapping, the break-ins, the pay-offs, the SAT "Commie" slurs, the Machiavellian manoeuvrings - add up to a SAT thoroughly dishonest and dislikeable man? SAT SAT Many of the Nixon insiders, some of whom were jailed and SAT several of whom were sacked by their boss after the SAT Watergate scandal, were not critical of Nixon - and others, SAT such as Bob Haldeman, while not admitting to a love of SAT Nixon, still claimed to respect him after the event. SAT SAT Many observers and colleagues point to Nixon's awkwardness SAT and aloofness, citing that he came across in this way SAT because he was a diffident man who was not a natural SAT politician. His speeches were often mawkishly sentimental SAT and manipulative, simplistic in their appeal to an American SAT down-home conservatism and a hatred of Communism. Yet he won SAT two elections - the second a landslide despite the parlous SAT state of a country being riven in two because of the Vietnam SAT war. SAT SAT In this programme, the man who got close to Nixon when in SAT 1977 he taped nearly 29 hours of interviews with Nixon, Sir SAT David Frost, searches through the BBC archives and the White SAT House tapes to try to discover just what kind of man Richard SAT Nixon was. SAT SAT Producer: Neil Rosser SAT A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 British New Wave b039bg5f (Listen) SAT Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Part 1 SAT SAT Robert Rigby's dramatisation of Alan Sillitoe's seething SAT novel set in 1958 Nottingham - part of Radio 4's celebration SAT of British New Wave film and cinema. SAT SAT 'Angry young man' Arthur Seaton rages against the boredom of SAT his factory machinist job and home life with 'dead from the SAT neck up' parents. SAT SAT Determined to avoid a similar slide into domestic drudgery, SAT Arthur is a risk-taking womaniser, enduring each tedious SAT week in the knowledge that the weekend's thrills are to SAT come. But Arthur takes a risk too far, inflicting SAT life-shattering consequences on those around him. SAT SAT Sound Design: David Chilton SAT Spot Effects: Alison McKenzie SAT Production Manager: Sarah Tombling SAT Director: Carl Prekopp SAT SAT Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Arthur Seaton: Joe Dempsie SAT Aunt Ada: Shirley Anne Field SAT Brenda: Natalie Grady SAT Winnie: Sarah Smart SAT Harold Seaton: Philip Fox SAT Vera Seaton: Julia Hills SAT Fred Seaton: Ashley Cook SAT Barman: Ashley Cook SAT Margaret Seaton: Victoria Brazier SAT Soldier: Victoria Brazier SAT Mrs Bull: Rachel Atkins SAT Robboe: Stephen Critchlow SAT Loudmouth: Stephen Critchlow SAT Jack: Graeme Hawley SAT Policeman: Graeme Hawley SAT Em’ler: Lorna Jones SAT Undertaker Man: Sean Baker SAT Bus Conductor: Paul Stonehouse SAT Billy: Felix Lailey SAT Director: Carl Prekopp SAT Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Adaptor: Robert Rigby SAT Author: Alan Sillitoe SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b039d96d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b039d14s (Listen) SAT Best of Four Thought, Against the Grain SAT SAT David Baddiel presents the best of the series which combines SAT new ideas and personal stories. In this fourth and last SAT edition we hear from speakers who have gone against the SAT grain. SAT SAT Naomi Shragai is a Jewish woman who was expected to find a SAT nice Jewish man to marry, but she then found herself on a SAT very different path. Musa Okwonga tried to give up social SAT media - at least for a while. And James Friel celebrates SAT being single. SAT SAT Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b039c5dh (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT A host of interesting celebrities will be joining Nigel as SAT he quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and SAT asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they SAT have personally collected on a variety of subjects, SAT including quotes they wish they'd said and the family SAT sayings that they grew up with. SAT SAT This week Nigel is joined by Actress and Singer - Janie Dee, SAT former editor of Private Eye and current editor of The Oldie SAT - Richard Ingrams, science writer and broadcaster Vivienne SAT Parry and comedian and writer Robin Ince. SAT SAT Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Carl Cooper. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b039bg5k (Listen) SAT Seamus Heaney SAT SAT A special programme to mark the death and celebrate the life SAT and work of Seamus Heaney. Heaney's poems have been SAT regularly requested by the Poetry Please audience down the SAT years so Roger McGough goes digging in the archive to SAT present a selection of Heaney's poems read by the poet SAT himself. SAT SAT Producer: Tim Dee SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b039lnzx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Opening Lines b012qtb9 (Listen) SUN Series 13, Writing in Chalk SUN SUN A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging SUN short story writers their radio debut. SUN SUN A young girl, struggling with her reading and writing in SUN school, looks to her mother for support in this touching SUN story by Helen Barton SUN SUN Read by Claire Skinner SUN Produced by Robert Howells SUN SUN In 2009, Helen won the Orange Harper's Bazaar short story SUN award and has written a novel and several short stories, as SUN well as a series of literary quiz books. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039lnzz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039lp01 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039lp03 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b039lp05 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b039p0tv (Listen) SUN The bells of St Margaret's Church, Dunham Massey, SUN Altrincham. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b039lmkb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b039lp07 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b039p0tx (Listen) SUN Faith in Numbers SUN SUN When John McCarthy was held hostage in the Lebanon he found SUN an entirely unexpected source of sanity - numbers. SUN SUN Five years and four months, 1 943 days - numbers always SUN defined his time in captivity. They also enabled John to SUN create his own safe world and maintain stability. In this SUN deeply personal edition of Something Understood, John SUN recalls his own surprising faith in numbers and finds others SUN for whom numbers both comfort and inspire. SUN SUN He discusses his experience with Frank Close, Professor of SUN Physics at Oxford University. What is it like turning to SUN numbers to explain the mysteries of our universe? Scientists SUN often work intensely for years towards new discoveries, and SUN breakthroughs are rare. Frank describes what that process is SUN like - revealing what keeps him going if the breakthrough SUN doesn't come. SUN SUN Are numbers our method of explaining everything, or is there SUN always some mystery beyond? Fellow physicist and practicing SUN Hindu, Jay Lakhani, offers us his own unique, scientific and SUN spiritual perspective. Numbers are deeply rooted in the SUN Hindu faith and have been since its inception. We discover SUN the resonance of the number zero, rooted in the Nasadiya SUN Sukta, The Hymn of Creation - describing our journey from SUN nothingness to something, from zero to one and then beyond. SUN SUN Finally, what about when faith in numbers and faith in God SUN truly coincide? We hear from a 30 year old American SUN Christian who used to be part of the Holy Rollers, a SUN card-counting Christian Blackjack team who used mathematics SUN to beat the casinos. Their success relied completely on SUN trust, within their own community and in the numbers SUN themselves. SUN SUN Presenter: John McCarthy SUN Producer: Rose de Larrabeiti SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b039p0tz (Listen) SUN Tessa Dunlop travels back to her native North Perthshire and SUN meets Calum McDiarmid, who makes the most of the cool SUN climate and late summer to grow bush fruit. Mains of Murthly SUN farm near Aberfeldy is one of the last places in Britain to SUN wake from winter, meaning Calum's plants benefit from a SUN long, deep dormancy. By the time harvest arrives, his fruit SUN bushes are well-rested and laden with gooseberries, SUN redcurrants and blueberries. SUN SUN Tessa helps out with the gooseberry pick and gets to SUN practice her Romanian with the fruit pickers who spend their SUN summer earning money in the fields. After weighing in a few SUN trays of fruit, Tessa and Calum head out on to the hill to SUN round up his flock of sheep - the traditionally Scottish SUN side of his business. SUN SUN While sorting fat lambs for market, Calum shares his passion SUN for farming in the Perthshire Highlands, and explains why SUN livestock and fruit go hand in hand. SUN SUN Presented by Tessa Dunlop and produced by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b039lp09 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b039lp0c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b039p0v1 (Listen) SUN The Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nicholls talks to SUN William Crawley about Syria and the need for a peaceful SUN resolution. SUN Church of England priests seek to exorcise London Arms Trade SUN Fair - Rev Keith Hebden explains why. Karim Hendili of SUN UNESCO talks about the action they take to limit the SUN looting, trafficking and destruction of ancient religious SUN and cultural sites in Syria and other war zones such as Mali SUN and Iraq. SUN It is widely understood that the number of second wives in SUN Britain's Muslim community is on the rise. Khola Hassan from SUN the Islamic Sharia Council and Tahmina Saleem from Inspire SUN discuss the issue. SUN Matt wells reports from the USA on the reaction from faith SUN groups to military action. SUN Parochial church councils are being urged to find out SUN whether their neighbours are personally liable for church SUN repairs under an ancient law. Bob Walker reports on this SUN contentious issue. SUN Will the Church of Wales vote in favour of women bishops? SUN Archbishop Barry Morgan talks to William ahead of the vote. SUN SUN Producers: Carmel Lonergan , Annabel Deas SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b039p0v3 (Listen) SUN Kidscape SUN SUN Anthony Horowitz presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Kidscape. SUN Reg Charity:326864 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Kidscape. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Kidscape SUN SUN Bullying is something which every child experiences, either SUN as a victim, a bully or a bystander. The damage it can do to SUN young lives is immense, and in some cases too much to bear. SUN For nearly 30 years Kidscape has been working to educate, SUN support and train young people, their families and SUN professionals in how to spot the signs of bullying and how SUN to help those who are suffering. Our work extends across the SUN UK and beyond, teaching practical skills and helping SUN children and families to regain their confidence and SUN self-esteem. SUN Your support will help us provide more free ZAP sessions for SUN severely bullied children. 85% of children who attend a ZAP SUN session are not bullied again, and learn lifelong skills to SUN help them flourish. We will also be able to give support and SUN training to more parents and schools to help them identify SUN bullying and have confidence in knowing how to respond. SUN SUN Peer Education Training SUN We train schools in peer mentoring techniques to enable them SUN to deal proactively with friendship issues and bullying SUN prevention SUN SUN ZAP SUN ZAP teaches a toolbox of practical, assertive strategies to SUN bullied children to help them rebuild their confidence and SUN self-esteem SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b039lp0f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b039lp0h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b039p0v5 (Listen) SUN Live from Brunswick Methodist Church in the heart of the SUN city of Newcastle upon Tyne. This historic church in north SUN east England , with a fine tradition of music and preaching, SUN has been a focal point for Methodist worship and social SUN outreach throughout its life, and today continues to be a SUN lively, active church serving the city centre. Theme: 'The SUN God who Shapes and Transforms'. With the Rev Eden Fletcher SUN and Deacon Liesl Warren. Organist: David Scott. Director of SUN Music: Ernest Young. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b039dbkn (Listen) SUN Real Change SUN SUN Fear of change can lead us astray. It can keep us from SUN mercy. It can be used by authorities as an excuse for SUN sticking with the status quo. It's a barrier to happiness. SUN AL Kennedy doesn't like change. But she thinks perhaps she SUN should change her mind. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: AL Kennedy SUN Producer: Richard Knight SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qhyz (Listen) SUN Robin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Brett Westwood presents the robin. The autumn song of the SUN Robin is the soundtrack to shortening days, gathering mists SUN and ripening fruit. Robins sing in spring but their autumn SUN song is different. It may sound melancholy to us but for the SUN Robin it has clear purpose - to defend the winter SUN territories that male and female robins establish separately SUN after they've moulted. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b039p0v7 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b039p0v9 (Listen) SUN Ray starts as he means to go on, and Kirsty tells it like it SUN is. SUN SUN Credits SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Steff: Hannah Redfern SUN Writer: Carolyn Jones SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b039p0vc (Listen) SUN Jersey Occupation SUN SUN On the 1st July 1940, Jersey was occupied by German forces. SUN Some called it "the Model Occupation" - a taster of what SUN might actually happen across the country if Hitler was SUN successful in his plans to invade Britain. SUN SUN Churchill's government had decided the Channel islands of SUN Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, were of no strategic SUN importance and would be very difficult to defend and so, SUN just a couple of weeks before, all troops had been withdrawn SUN from the islands. The islanders were instructed to surrender SUN to the German army. Hitler's forces were in occupation from SUN July 1940 until the war ended in May 1945. SUN SUN These were hard years for both the occupiers and the SUN occupied. Food was scarce and, although acts of resistance SUN were limited, the justice was harsh when it was meted out. SUN Those who lived on the island were faced with a complex SUN crisis of conscience - how should they live with the enemy? SUN SUN In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites a SUN group of Jersey people who endured that difficult time, SUN finding out how they look back on it seventy years on: Bob SUN Le Sueur, a young insurance clerk at the time, who helped SUN Russian prisoners hide from their German Captors; Leo SUN Harris, a teenager at the beginning of the war, who carried SUN out acts of 'boys own' resistance; Michael Ginns, who found SUN himself in an internment camp in Bavaria; Hazel Lakeman, who SUN was also taken off the island and interned in terrible SUN conditions; and John Floyd, one of the few Jersey residents SUN who actually managed to escape from the island. SUN SUN Producer: Kevin Dawson SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b039c5dr (Listen) SUN Series 67, Episode 4 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. How hard can SUN it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition SUN or deviation? SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b039p0vf (Listen) SUN The Future of Street Food SUN SUN Can street food change the world? Richard Johnson looks at SUN ideas being tried around the world, from food carts setting SUN up in "food deserts" to night time food markets being set up SUN to transform city life. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b039lp0k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b039p32v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Politics of Pandas b019h2b8 (Listen) SUN As the world watches the pandas in Edinburgh zoo Philip Dodd SUN investigates how a lazy, bamboo munching bear with a marked SUN reluctance to procreate became the political gift par SUN excellence. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b039dbk2 (Listen) SUN Postbag edition at Sparsholt College SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a postbag edition from the GQT potting SUN shed at Sparsholt College with Chris Beardshaw, Anne SUN Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and Rosie Yeomans answering SUN listeners' questions sent in by post, email and Twitter. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b039p32z (Listen) SUN The Chile Coup SUN SUN In September 1973 General Pinochet launched a military coup SUN against the socialist government of Salvador Allende in SUN Chile. The playwright Ariel Dorfman was a young assistant to SUN President Allende. Hear his story of regret and exile. SUN SUN 15:00 British New Wave b039p331 (Listen) SUN Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Part 2 SUN SUN Robert Rigby's dramatisation of Alan Sillitoe's seething SUN novel set in 1958 Nottingham - part of Radio 4's celebration SUN of British New Wave film and cinema. SUN SUN In this second and final episode, 'angry young man' Arthur SUN Seaton continues to rage against the boredom of his work and SUN home life, but some of his past soon catches up with him and SUN he has to face the consequences. The appearance of a new SUN woman in his life also presents further challenges. SUN SUN Sound Design: David Chilton SUN Spot Effects: Alison McKenzie SUN Production Manager: Sarah Tombling SUN Director: Carl Prekopp SUN SUN Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Arthur Seaton: Joe Dempsie SUN Brenda: Natalie Grady SUN Winnie: Sarah Smart SUN Doreen Greatton: Sian Hill SUN Mrs Greatton: Jilly Bond SUN Mrs Bull: Rachel Atkins SUN Mr Bull: Sean Baker SUN Harold Seaton: Philip Fox SUN Vera Seaton: Julia Hills SUN Fred Seaton: Ashley Cook SUN Margaret Seaton: Victoria Brazier SUN Jack: Graeme Hawley SUN Man on Ghost Train: Graeme Hawley SUN Robboe: Stephen Critchlow SUN Chip Man: Stephen Critchlow SUN Bill's Mate: Stephen Critchlow SUN Bert: Will Howard SUN Chocolate Seller: Shirley Anne Field SUN Director: Carl Prekopp SUN Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Adaptor: Robert Rigby SUN Author: Alan Sillitoe SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b039rqq3 (Listen) SUN Jhumpa Lahiri, mountain literature and revamping the SUN classics pulp fiction style SUN SUN Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer prize winning novelist on her latest SUN book The Lowland, mountaineering literature and revamping SUN the classics pulp fiction style. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b039p335 (Listen) SUN Story Poems 1 SUN SUN Roger McGough introduces some story poems including work by SUN Roy Fisher, Emily Dickinson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. SUN Readers: John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton Lesser and Kenneth SUN Cranham. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Michael Ignatieff and the Red Cross Crisis b039ctgt (Listen) SUN The International Committee of the Red Cross turns 150 this SUN year. Few humanitarian organisations have such long SUN experience of working in war zones, but is their role still SUN relevant? SUN Today, war is taking on new dimensions; conflict is emerging SUN in new quarters; and technology is transforming the nature SUN of the battlefield. Can the ICRC keep up with the SUN extraordinary speed of change? Can it continue to be of help SUN to victims? And can it hope to persuade combatants to obey SUN the traditional laws of war? SUN SUN Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff has kept a watching SUN brief on the work of the ICRC since 1997 when he visited its SUN delegation in Afghanistan. Now he returns, this time to the SUN headquarters in Geneva, to explore the challenges the SUN organisation faces. SUN SUN We hear reports from Medellin in Colombia where the ICRC has SUN started working with victims of narco-violence; we hear the SUN latest from Syria where the ICRC is attempting to support SUN the Arab Red Crescent under desperate conditions; and we SUN find out how the ICRC has negotiated with America over its SUN proven abuses of international humanitarian law during the SUN course of the War on Terror. How can the ICRC preserve SUN confidentiality without becoming complicit in such abuses? SUN We ask whether the principles of neutrality and impartiality SUN come at too great a cost. SUN SUN The question of technology is a looming problem for the SUN International Committee Red Cross. Michael asks how the SUN organisation can continue to promote the laws of war when SUN drones are dissolving battle lines and cyber threats make SUN the Internet a site of conflict. SUN SUN 'Michael Ignatieff and the Red Cross Crisis' poses tough SUN questions about the future of humanitarian work and the SUN future face of war. SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sutton SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b039lmkb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b039lp0m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b039lp0p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039lp0r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b039p337 (Listen) SUN Sarfraz Mansoor makes his selection of the best of the SUN previous seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b039p339 (Listen) SUN Lynda tries her best, and Helen has to be patient. SUN SUN 19:15 Paul Sinha's Citizenship Test b0386j1j (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Paul Sinha is proudly British. He also loves a quiz. So you SUN would have thought that the UK Citizenship Test, which SUN newcomers to this country must pass to become citizens, SUN would have been right up his street. But the questions in SUN the 2012 and 2013 Home Office guides seem either bizarrely SUN easy - "Where is Welsh most widely spoken?" - or SUN infuriatingly vague - "What happened in the First World SUN War?". SUN SUN So Paul has created his own test, to better reflect the SUN things that aspiring migrants should understand before they SUN can call themselves British. In this second episode he deals SUN with the health of the nation - our diet, our drinking SUN habits and our athletic prowess. And he tests the studio SUN audience on their knowledge, with those that answer SUN incorrectly being deported. SUN SUN The series intertwines the sort of comedy Paul has become SUN known for on The Now Show, The News Quiz, and Fighting Talk, SUN as well as his own Radio 4 shows The Sinha Test and The SUN Sinha Games, and the command of facts and figures he SUN demonstrates on the ITV quiz show The Chase, with a dash of SUN the patriotism that has seen him banned from the bar at the SUN United Nations. SUN SUN Written and performed by Paul Sinha. SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Tales from the East b039p33c (Listen) SUN Moon and Henry SUN SUN Poppy Miller reads Sarah Bower's story set on the windswept SUN coast of Norfolk - after the tourists have gone. This is the SUN second in a series of stories taking their inspiration from SUN the coast of East Anglia. SUN SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Read by: Poppy Miller SUN Written by: Sarah Bower, a novelist and short story writer, SUN whose first novel, 'The Needle in the Blood', was Susan SUN Hill's Book of the Year 2007. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b039dbk8 (Listen) SUN The Death Toll in Syria SUN SUN As global leaders remain divided on whether to carry out a SUN military strike against Syria in response to the apparent SUN use of chemical weapons against its people, Tim Harford SUN looks at the different claims made about how many people SUN have been killed. The United States, the UK and France are SUN sharing intelligence, but all quote different estimates of SUN how many people they think died in the attack by Syrian SUN President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Tim speaks to Kelly SUN Greenhill, a professor of political science at Tufts SUN University in the US, and co-author of Sex, Drugs and Body SUN Counts about why the numbers vary so widely. And he speaks SUN to Megan Price from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group who SUN has been trying to keep a tally of the deaths in Syria since SUN the conflict began. SUN SUN The cost of care has forced a million families to sell their SUN homes in the past five years, according to the Daily SUN Telegraph. It's quoting research commissioned by NFU Mutual SUN and carried out by ICM. But Tim Harford spots some tell-tale SUN signs that the survey respondents may not all have been SUN telling the truth. SUN What can statistics tell us about the safety of Super Puma SUN helicopters, used by the offshore oil and gas industry? Tim SUN Harford looks at the numbers, following a fatal accident off SUN Shetland in August - the fifth incident involving Super SUN Pumas in the North Sea since 2009. SUN SUN Apparently, it's a fact that if there's one thing that's SUN worse for you than drinking, scoffing bacon sandwiches and SUN smoking 80 unfiltered cigarettes a day, it's being SUN left-handed. Left-handers die on average several years SUN earlier than right-handers. Or do they? Tim gets to the SUN bottom of a sinister statistic with Professor Chris McManus, SUN author of Right Hand, Left Hand. SUN SUN More than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic SUN websites at the Houses of Parliament in the past year, SUN official records suggest. But with 15 attempts made in one SUN month and almost 115,000 in another, the figures themselves SUN raised an eyebrow at More or Less HQ - they just don't make SUN sense. Tim speaks to Fergus Reid from Parliament's ICT team. SUN SUN And finally, was Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart right to SUN calculate that Britons have spent 76 centuries hanging on SUN the phone to get through to government departments in just SUN one year? She checks her sums. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b039dbk6 (Listen) SUN Two broadcasters, a folk singer and a science journalist SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Two much-loved broadcasters. SUN SUN We review the influential career of Sir David Frost with two SUN fomer Directors general of the BBC: Lord Birt and Greg Dyke. SUN SUN And Pete Murray recalls his friendly on air rivalry with the SUN TV and radio presenter David Jacobs. SUN SUN We also remember the folk singer from Newcastle Lou Killen, SUN who had a sex change operation late in life and became SUN Louisa Jo Killen SUN SUN And the journalist David Dickson who set up a website to SUN bring scientific knowledge to the developing world. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b039lmjy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b039p0v3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b039d4cy (Listen) SUN Civilian Drones SUN SUN For decades, unpersoned planes have been used by the SUN military in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan to watch SUN the ground and deliver weapons controlled by remote pilots SUN thousands of kilometres away. But now companies and experts SUN are putting their minds to turning military drones into SUN civilian vehicles that can do things cheaper and better than SUN piloted planes. Peter Day investigates unmanned aerial SUN vehicles and how they are already being used by farmers and SUN the police. Also, could a drone be delivering your pizza in SUN the not too distant future? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b039p33f (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 b039p33h (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b039d4c3 (Listen) SUN About Time: Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy; Great Beauty: SUN Paolo Sorrentino; Neil Brand; Toronto Film Festival SUN SUN Richard Curtis, the writer-director of Love Actually, is SUN back with About Time, a time travel rom-com about life, love SUN and avoiding regrets. Francine Stock talks to Richard, along SUN with Bill Nighy who plays a time-travelling father passing SUN on his gift to his son. SUN SUN As the autumn film festival season gets underway, Cameron SUN Bailey, artistic director of the Toronto International Film SUN Festival, brings us the highlights among the world premieres SUN and gives his tips for the awards season. SUN SUN Director Paolo Sorrentino discusses the dangers of beauty SUN and distraction, themes of his new film The Great Beauty, SUN which portrays Rome through the eyes of an ageing writer, SUN mourning his youth. SUN SUN And composer Neil Brand gives us a preview of his new BBC SUN Four series, Sound of Cinema, which explores film scores and SUN found music as used in films by the great directors, from SUN Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. SUN SUN Producer: Fiona Couper SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b039p0tx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b039lp1r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b039cy07 (Listen) MON Erving Goffman MON MON Erving Goffman - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme MON on the work and influence of this groundbreaking Canadian MON sociologist. He's joined by Professor Gregory Smith, Dr MON Rachel Hurdley and Dr Susie Scott. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b039p0tv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039lp1t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039lp1w (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039lp1y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b039lp20 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039x1wj (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The MON Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's MON Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b039p84m (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Toby Field. MON MON 05:56 Weather b039lp22 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qjrh (Listen) MON Meadow Pipit MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the Meadow Pipit. The thin but MON penetrating calls of the meadow pipit can be heard on a MON remote mountainside or high above the city streets on an MON autumn day. Meadow pipits are often the main hosts for the MON parasitic Cuckoos and many a pipit pair ends up stuffing MON insects into a much larger cuckoo chick. MON MON 06:00 Today b039p84p (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b039pdsr (Listen) MON Series 6, Words without End MON MON Have you been 'trolled' on the Internet lately? Or perhaps MON 'bangalored' at work? Just a couple of the hundreds of new MON words absorbed by the English language every year. Like the MON ever expanding universe, our lexicon is getting bigger and MON bigger - truly words without end. MON MON Since the publication of the Oxford English Dictionary in MON 1928, its number of words has more than doubled. It's MON doubtful there will be another printed edition. Online since MON the year 2000, it receives two million page views a month. MON Stephen Fry, a self-confessed dictionary addict, looks at MON how dictionaries have changed since Dr Johnson's day. MON MON Stephen's guest is Michael Rundell, Editor in Chief of MON Macmillan Dictionaries - not an example of the 'cardiganed MON old duffer' lexicographer of yore but one who has the latest MON computer software at his fingertips. Card indexes have given MON way to corpora of billions of words, assessing the latest MON and most accurate word usage, and 'crowdsourcing' has MON democratised the compilation of twenty-first century MON dictionaries. MON MON Stephen and Michael discuss the sources from which new words MON spring, including social media and global English. Actress MON and writer Nina Wadia provides a sketch using examples of MON today's Indian English, which in the future might join MON bungalow and pyjamas, their nineteenth century compatriots, MON in the O.E.D. Averil Coxhead from New Zealand contributes MON her research - how many words do we know and, perhaps more MON importantly, how many can we use? And for fellow Radio 4 MON wordaholics, Stephen offers a special vocabulary test MON MON Producer: Merilyn Harris MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Wow! How Did They Do That? b039pdst (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON MON Roger Law goes in search of the entrepreneurs who are behind MON some of the Britain's best designs and inventions. MON MON Ross Lovegrove has earned the nickname 'Captain Organic' MON through his extraordinary designs based on organic shapes MON and forms. Roger Law visits his studio and finds him MON inspired by anything from an elephant skull to a honeycomb. MON As he explains, Lovegrove draws on the experiences of MON mankind over the ages. "Ten thousand years ago most of our MON ancestors lived in caves. They made things from organic MON material and I don't think we've moved far from that." From MON this starting point Lovegrove has developed the most MON extraordinarily beautiful objects which can be used in MON everyday life. MON MON Hussein Chalayan has created his innovative work in the MON world of fashion. Roger Law talks to him about how he sees MON his role. "I am a designer," he says, "but I happen to have MON a narrative approach". Chalayan has become famous for his MON bold and daring productions, and he explains his thinking MON behind the events which showcase his work. Roger gets to MON discuss dresses that can reconfigure whilst being worn, MON including one which can disappear completely. "Startling MON stuff," concludes Roger, "especially if you happen to be MON wearing it at the time.". MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b039pdsw (Listen) MON Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible MON Industry, Episode 1 MON MON Journalist Rose George sails from Felixstowe to Singapore on MON board the container ship Maersk Kendal to shine a light on MON the unexamined global shipping industry. MON Abridged by Laurence Wareing. MON Reader: Susie Riddell MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b039pdsy (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON The campaign to get more French women in the Pantheon MON MON Campaigners in France are calling for more women to be MON represented in the Pantheon. It is the final resting place MON for France’s most celebrated citizens such as Voltaire, MON Rousseau and Zola but the only woman to be included for her MON achievements is Marie Curie. Burial in the Pantheon is only MON allowed by a parliamentary act for "National Heroes" and the MON campaign group MON Osez le Feminisme MON (Dare to be a Feminist) has taken to social media to lobby MON French President Francois Hollande to redress the balance. MON With Dr Hanna Diamond, Reader in French History at the MON University of Bath and campaigner from Osez le Feminisme MON Anne-cécile Mailfert. MON MON Parent Bloggers:The Early Years MON MON According to a recent survey by Brit Mums, Britain’s biggest MON collective of parent bloggers, a record number of people in MON the UK are blogging about their children. 50% of so-called MON ‘mumbloggers’ have children aged 2 or under and about 5% of MON parenting blogs are now written by dads. Tim Atkinson, a MON stay-at-home Dad who writes the award-winning blog MON ‘Bringing Up Charlie’ MON and Alice Harold, whose blog MON ‘More Than Toast: surviving single motherhood without MON becoming an alcoholic’ MON join Jane Garvey to discuss why they blog, whether they MON earn any money from it and how they cope with the MON competitive world of parent blogging. MON MON Britain's Youngest Barrister MON MON 18 year old Gabrielle Turnquest is the youngest person to be MON called to the bar in 600 years. The average age is MON 27. Though she is Britain’s youngest barrister she was born MON in the US, where she started her first degree at the age of MON 14. Graduating two years later on the day she also graduated MON from high school, she decided to study law in the UK. Jane MON speaks to Gabrielle and her mother, Patrice, a lawyer from MON the Bahamas. MON MON Eleanor Catton MON MON Eleanor Catton’s new novel, The Luminaries, has been long MON listed for the Man Booker Prize. Set in 1860s during one MON of the New Zealand gold rushes in the hastily thrown up town MON of Hokitika, it tells a huge and complex story that opens MON with twelve local men meeting in secret to discuss a series MON of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has MON tried to end her life and an enormous sum of money has been MON discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Eleanor MON Catton’s first novel, The Rehearsal, about a sex scandal at MON a New Zealand high school, won a significant number of MON nominations and prizes. In this, her second novel, she has MON shifted gear entirely to produce a doorstopper of a novel MON that reads like a Victorian sensation novel, transplanted to MON New Zealand. She joins Jane in the studio. MON MON The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton is published by Granta. MON MON 10:45 Undercover Mumbai b039pdt0 (Listen) MON Gutter Baby MON MON Police detective serial set and recorded on location in MON Mumbai. MON MON When a baby is rescued from a gutter, it falls on the only MON female police officer on hand, Alia Khan, to look after it. MON Stuck with a new partner and a boss who is determined to put MON her in her place, Alia has to fight to be noticed. MON MON Continuing throughout this week and culminating in an MON hour-long Saturday drama, this fast-paced, six-part police MON thriller follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the MON Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts MON to solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past MON and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and MON chauvinistic police force. MON MON Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia MON Sound Design: Steve Bond MON Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. MON Script Editor: Mike Walker MON Assistant Producer: Toral Shah MON MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Music: Sacha Putnam. MON Writer: Ayeesha Menon MON Director: John Dryden MON MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b039pdt2 (Listen) MON Series 14, St James' Gardens MON MON In the shadow of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral sits St MON James' Gardens, an oasis of green space in the heart of the MON busy city. MON MON The Gardens have been several things over the centuries. It MON was first a quarry from which the docks and much of the city MON of Liverpool was built. Once all the rock that could be MON removed had been excavated, a large hole was left and so in MON 1829 it was consecrated as a cemetery for the city. MON MON Young and old, rich and poor, the city's dead ended up here. MON Between 1829 and 1936, nearly 58,000 bodies were buried in MON the cemetery. But by 1936 the cemetery was considered full MON and it became a garden. Over time the garden fell into a MON state of disrepair and became derelict: a haven for the MON homeless, drug dealers, prostitutes, drinkers and addicts. MON It was a no-go zone for most people of the city. MON MON But ten years ago a plucky bunch of locals decided to take MON matters into their own hands. Robin Riley, a local sculptor, MON organised a group of friends and neighbours and over time MON cleaned the park up, restoring it to the beautiful setting MON that it is today. MON MON Now it's a place people go to find peace and tranquillity, MON away from the hustle and bustle of the city. MON MON Alan Dein visits St James' and meets Robin and the team that MON have reshaped the space, plus the band of dedicated MON dog-walkers who meet daily in the park. Among the walkers MON Alan meets Tommy, Frank and Aaron, a trio who met at the MON park and have since forged friendships. MON MON Aaron shares his experiences of living near and using the MON park and tells Alan how visiting St James' has been MON therapeutic, not just for him in helping him in the tough MON times he's been through, but also for his mother who is MON suffering from leukaemia. MON MON Alan also meets harmonica-playing Kevin: the last of the MON park's rough sleepers, Kevin inhabits one of the garden's MON abandoned catacombs. MON MON Presenter: Alan Dein MON Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 11:30 Reception b039pdt4 (Listen) MON Men in Love MON MON A sitcom by Paul Bassett Davies about two men sitting behind MON a desk, starring Adrian Scarborough, Morwenna Banks and Amit MON Shah. MON MON Danny discovers that Brian is infatuated with a girl in the MON office supplies shop across the street, but he's too shy to MON make contact with her. Danny, who considers himself to be MON very much a ladies' man, begins to give Brian tips. But when MON fearsome supervisor Clarissa finds out about the romance, MON she tells Danny to sabotage it or she'll sink his cherished MON ambition to get a job upstairs in the agency. She wants MON Brian for herself, even though he's terrified of her. MON MON How can Danny save his dream of a career without betraying MON his friend? MON MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio. MON MON Credits MON Brian: Adrian Scarborough MON Danny: Amit Shah MON Clarissa: Morwenna Banks MON Producer: Anna Madley MON Writer: Paul Bassett Davies MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b039pdt6 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b039lp24 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b039pdt8 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039pdtb (Listen) MON Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have MON spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, MON from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. MON MON Episode 6: At the dawn of the twentieth century, far more MON men now had the vote than in a few decades earlier. And now, MON in the Edwardian era, politics was becoming a more MON aggressive, antagonistic business. MON MON In 1901, the radical politician David Lloyd George opposed MON the Boer War. But when he tried to say so in Birmingham, he MON only narrowly escaped a huge mob, which attacked the Town MON Hall to stop him speaking. MON MON Conservative politicians were worried about keeping mass MON support. But in working-class support for the War, the MON Empire and the Union, they detected a popular form of MON conservatism to which they thought they could appeal. MON MON So Anne goes to Tyneside to rediscover the 'conserving MON crowds' of the years before the First World War: mass MON working-class conservative protests against Home Rule for MON Ireland. MON MON She hears about one such march - a torchlit procession of MON 15000 Tyneside workers, who gathered to demonstrate their MON support for the Scottish politician Andrew Bonar Law and his MON hardline opposition to Home Rule. MON MON This was just one expression of the way that a stern MON Protestant conservatism had a powerful appeal among the MON workers of cities like Newcastle, Liverpool and Glasgow. MON MON And Anne finds out how, while all this was going on, female MON conservatives were fighting back against the 'Votes for MON Women' movement with their Anti-Suffrage League. MON MON With: Professor Krista Cowman, Dr Dan Jackson, Professor Jon MON Lawrence, Professor Martin Pugh MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b039p339 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00zdl22 (Listen) MON Small Acts of Kindness MON MON In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable MON entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his MON life. BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston's MON semi-autobiographical play catches up with Charlie as his MON mentor's death shifts everything once more. MON MON Directed by Toby Swift MON MON BAFTA-winning screenwriter Trevor Preston's second play for MON radio tells the story of Charlie who suddenly re-discovers MON the passion and energy of his youth. In his late sixties and MON with his writing career all but dried up, Charlie starts to MON paint again. Invigorated, he spends his free time supporting MON his contemporaries who have found themselves alienated and MON impoverished by modern life. Soon it is not just his desire MON to paint that is revived. MON MON A story close to Trevor's heart, 'Small Acts of Kindness' MON follows his radio debut, 'Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the MON Blood' which starred Rory Kinnear and was shortlisted for MON the Richard Imison Award for 'Best First Radio Play' and for MON a Mental Health in the Media Award. MON MON Credits MON Charlie: Stephen Greif MON Alice: Ann Beach MON Beth: Susan Penhaligon MON Annie: Joanna Monro MON Kass: Sean Baker MON Charlie at 16: Gethin Anthony MON Eliza: Sally Orrock MON Miss Monnier: Christine Kavanagh MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Trevor Preston MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b039pdtd (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON As ever, a host of interesting celebrities will be joining MON Nigel as he quizzes them on the sources of a range of MON quotations and asks them for the amusing sayings or MON citations that they have personally collected on a variety MON of subjects. We discover who the most quotable people they MON have ever met are and we're treated to their favourite four MON line humorous poems. MON MON This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, MON News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood MON and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b039p0vf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Mortal Work of Art b039pdtg (Listen) MON As tattoos become ever more visible on the bodies of the MON British public, Mary Anne Hobbs explores the meeting point MON between the world of fine art and the world of tattoos. She MON talks to Spider Webb, the tattoo artist credited with MON creating the first conceptual art tattoo and the artist MON Sandra Ann Vita Minchin who is in the process of getting a MON 17th century Dutch masterpiece tattooed on her back. She MON visits art historian Dr Matt Lodder who is writing what will MON be the first art history text on tattooing. She meets Alex MON Binnie, proprietor of Into You Tattoo - one of the first MON tattoo parlours in the UK to openly fuse fine art and MON tattooing. MON MON The writer Shelley Jackson caught public attention worldwide MON when she launched her Skin project in 2003. Skin was to be a MON short story which would exist as over two thousand words MON individually tattooed on volunteers. These participants MON would become the words in Shelley's story. As the project MON celebrates its 10th anniversary, Mary Anne talks to Shelley MON about the inspiration behind Skin and she meets one of MON Shelley's words - the novelist and short story connoisseur MON Nicholas Royle. MON MON Mary Anne discusses how fine art is influencing and being MON influenced by tattooing with Sion Smith, editor of Skin MON Deep, the UK's best-selling Tattoo Magazine and Trent MON Aitken-Smith editor of Tattoo Master. She talks to one of MON the new generation of tattoo artists, Amanda Wachob, who MON sees skin as the ultimate canvas. MON MON A Mortal Work of Art explores a practice often portrayed as MON a marginal pursuit, but that is most definitely mainstream MON today, and asks why the art establishment has taken such a MON long time to embrace it. MON MON Producer: Ekene Akalawu MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b039pdtj (Listen) MON Near-Death Experiences MON MON Beyond Belief debates the place of religion and faith in MON today's complex world. Ernie Rea is joined by a panel to MON discuss how religious beliefs and traditions affect our MON values and perspectives. MON Near-Death Experiences often seem to include bright lights, MON the presence of benevolent spirits and a sense of peace - in MON other words a very positive experience. However, more MON unusually, there are others whose experience is very MON different, some cite overwhelming fear and visions of being MON chased by demons. Do these have a rational scientific MON explanation or are they indications of a life beyond this MON one? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the nature of Near-Death MON Experiences are Dr Penny Sartori of the University of MON Swansea, whose book 'The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences' MON is due to be published in 2014; the Very Reverend Professor MON Gordon McPhate, the Dean of Chester Cathedral who is also a MON trained Pathologist and a member of the Royal College of MON Physicians and Chris French, Professor of Psychology at MON Goldsmiths College, the University of London. MON MON Producer: Liz Leonard. MON MON 17:00 PM b039pdtl (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039lp26 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b039pdtn (Listen) MON Series 67, Episode 5 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition & deviation? Gyles Brandreth, Patrick MON Kielty, Alun Cochrane and Tony Hawks find out! MON MON 19:00 The Archers b039pf5c (Listen) MON Matt's in for a surprise, and Lewis keeps David up to date. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b039pf5f (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of Rush, a film about MON the Formula One rivalry between drivers Niki Lauda and James MON Hunt, directed by Ron Howard, with a script by Peter Morgan. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Undercover Mumbai b039pdt0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 What Syria Means for Britain b03bgy8g (Listen) MON John Kampfner examines the potential consequences of MON Britain's decision not to intervene in Syria. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b039d4bb (Listen) MON Venezuela - Out of Stock MON MON Despite its massive natural oil wealth, Venezuela is a MON country sliding into recession, and has one of the highest MON inflation rates in the world. With prices of some products MON rising as much as 50% or more annually, the crisis presents MON a simple human predicament - how to lay your hands on the MON ever-dwindling supply of price-capped essentials that MON government shops pledge to provide. The trouble is that many MON of these basic goods like milk and toilet rolls, are MON disappearing from the supermarkets within a few minutes of MON getting there. MON Ed Butler explores how gossip and the black market have MON become a part of the answer for many ordinary citizens. He MON follows one consumer's quest for goods across the capital, MON and examines the rumours of smuggling and massive MON corruption, especially in the west near the border with MON Colombia. MON And he hears how the Socialist legacy of the former MON President Hugo Chavez still casts a big shadow over the MON nation. Businesspeople complain that his policies have made MON it almost impossible to produce anything profitably, and MON have left a legacy of massive red tape. The housing sector MON has been hit particularly hard with years of MON under-investment. Ed meets one retired couple unable to MON reclaim a rented apartment in their own property, who now MON are forced to live in their own garage. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b039cbsx (Listen) MON Agricultural Crops and Wildlife MON MON Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at MON the crunch point between human population and the natural MON world. In this week's programme we have a field report from MON England with Simon Potts, Professor of Biodiversity and MON Ecosystem Services at Reading University. Simon Potts's MON research looks specifically at how effective bees and other MON pollinators are and their abundance in agricultural MON landscapes - a crucial link in food security. Monty Don MON explores some of the issues with Vandana Shiva in Delhi, a MON board member of the International Forum on Globalisation and MON an author of over 20 books about biodiversity, food and MON economies. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b039pdsr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b039lp28 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b039pfst (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039pfsw (Listen) MON Expo 58, Episode 1 MON MON London 1958: Unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is MON plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information MON and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task - to keep MON an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the MON heart of the British presence at Expo 58, the biggest MON World's Fair of the century and the first to be held since MON the Second World War. MON MON As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has MON escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen MON headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is MON equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which MON stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, MON the lovely Flemish hostess who meets him off his plane. MON MON But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price. MON The Cold War is at its height, the mischievous Belgians have MON placed the American and Soviet pavilions right next to each MON other - and why is he being followed everywhere by two MON mysterious emissaries of the British Secret Service? MON MON Expo 58 may represent a glittering future, both for Europe MON and for Thomas himself, but he will soon be forced to decide MON where his public and private loyalties really lie. MON MON Written by Jonathan Coe MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Read by Tim McInnerny MON Produced by Joanna Green MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b039ctgf (Listen) MON The Rise of the Political Soundbite MON MON Chris Ledgard and guests discuss the art and efficacy of the MON political soundbite. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b039pfsy (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b039lp37 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b039pdsw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039lp39 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039lp3c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039lp3f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b039lp3h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039x2bg (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The TUE Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's TUE Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b039px7l (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk0c (Listen) TUE Green Sandpiper TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Brett Westwood presents the Green Sandpiper; a bird with a TUE wonderful yodelling call and the heart-stopping suddenness TUE with which it leaps up from its feeding place and dashes TUE off. The birds that visit the UK are often from Scandinavia, TUE where they nest high up in a fir-tree. When the chicks hatch TUE they tumble unharmed from the nest and are escorted to safe TUE feeding places by their parents. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b039px7n (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b039px7q (Listen) TUE Mike Benton TUE TUE Life on earth has gone through a series of mass extinctions. TUE Mike Benton talks about his fascination with ancient life on TUE the planet and his work on the Bristol Dinosaur Project. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b039px7s (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn speaks to Stephanie Slater TUE TUE As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories TUE everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is TUE live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened TUE next. TUE TUE For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out TUE what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the TUE media spotlight and have had to live with intense, TUE unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media TUE caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with TUE their lives? TUE TUE In this first interview, she speaks to Stephanie Slater, who TUE survived a violent kidnapping in 1992. Michael Sams, later TUE also convicted of murdering Julie Dart, held Stephanie for TUE eight days. Following her release, she and her family were TUE besieged by the media who camped in the field opposite her TUE parents' house for 18 months. In this interview Carolyn TUE finds out what impact the experience and subsequent media TUE attention had on Stephanie as she attempted to come to terms TUE with her ordeal, and rebuild her life. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b039px7v (Listen) TUE Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible TUE Industry, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sailing from Felixstowe to Singapore on board the Kendal, TUE journalist Rose George discovers how the invention of TUE containers revolutionised transport, fuelled globalisation TUE and effectively shrank our world. TUE Read by Susie Riddell. TUE Abridger: Laurence Wareing TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b039px7x (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rn3w (Listen) TUE What's Cooking? TUE TUE The search for a missing husband leads Police Inspector Alia TUE Khan to the door of the Tandoori restaurant where he was TUE last seen. TUE TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Music: Sacha Putnam. TUE Writer: Ayeesha Menon TUE Director: John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b039q24c (Listen) TUE Rat Eradication - Is It Worth It? TUE TUE Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at TUE the crunch point between Human population and the natural TUE world. In this week's programme we have a field report from TUE South Georgia where Tony Martin, Professor in Zoology at TUE Dundee University and working with the South Georgia TUE Heritage Trust, has embarked on a programme to remove 100% TUE of rats on South Georgia. Human activity over the decades TUE and centuries have inadvertently introduced Brown Rats to TUE islands and mainlands and the rats have driven local TUE extinctions of birds and caused havoc on many seabird TUE populations, eating the chicks in the nest. Is the wildlife TUE benefit worth the effort it takes to return such areas to a TUE situation before Brown Rats were introduced? TUE TUE 11:30 The Secret History of Bossa Nova b039q24f (Listen) TUE Singer Monica Vasconcelos tells the musical and political TUE story of bossa nova, the first modern music of Brazil. TUE TUE Forget its low key supper club reputation, bossa nova was TUE tied to political revolution and driven by a sharp and very TUE modern aesthetic. It was born in Rio in the late 1950s as a TUE new music to mark the dawn of a new Brazil - an urban, TUE modernising society leaving behind its colonial past, open TUE to the future and looking out at the world. TUE TUE Fusing gorgeous melodies with an harmonic language inspired TUE by the French impressionist composers (bossa writers like TUE Antonio Carlos Jobim and Marcus Valle studied Debussy and TUE Ravel closely) and a cosmopolitan sensibility, bossa nova TUE became the music of choice for a smart young, urban TUE Brazilian middle class who were flooding into the cities as TUE the Brazilian economy boomed. TUE TUE The bossa sound went national then international. By the mid TUE 1960s it became hugely influential in America and around the TUE world. But just as bossa hit big globally and The Girl from TUE Ipanema reached the top of the American charts, the scene TUE was shaken to its core at home with the deposal of the left TUE wing civilian government and the arrival of a military TUE regime, backed by the United States. At first censorship was TUE light but by 1968 the junta had drifted into open repression TUE and many musicians were arrested or exiled. Bossa nova - its TUE serenity and preoccupation with sun, the sea and love - TUE suddenly seemed out of touch with these darker times. TUE TUE Presenter Monica Vasconcelos is a bossa singer herself and TUE travels to Rio to meet musicians that were part of the TUE original bossa scene - Joyce and Marcus Valle, Eumir TUE Deodato, music writer Ruy Castro. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b039q24h (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b039lp3n (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b039q24k (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039q24m (Listen) TUE Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have TUE spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, TUE from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. TUE TUE Episode 7: Anne traces how, after 1918, mass democracy and TUE the spectre of red revolution split conservatism. TUE TUE The moderates embraced the new situation. They countered the TUE rising socialist movement by drawing on conservative values TUE of family and property-ownership, aiming to appeal not least TUE to the millions of new women voters. TUE TUE A young Tory MP, Noel Skelton, invented the idea of the TUE 'property-owning democracy' to encapsulate this new, TUE inclusive, gentle approach. TUE TUE In 1926, when the much-dreaded General Strike finally came, TUE but ended peacefully, this seemed to bear out the moderates' TUE ideas. TUE TUE But there were those for whom all this was appalling. TUE Militant conservatives disapproved of mass democracy, along TUE with big business and much else in modern Britain. TUE TUE And as mass unemployment and agricultural crisis spread in TUE the 1930s, they banged the drum for a return to traditional TUE social hierarchies, headed by a powerful King. TUE TUE When a full-blown confrontation between politicians and TUE monarchy threatened to break out in 1936, all this came to a TUE head. TUE TUE With: Professor Simon Ball, Professor Krista Cowman, TUE Professor Jon Lawrence, Professor Martin Pugh TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b039pf5c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039q24p (Listen) TUE Carnival TUE TUE By Rachel De-lahay. TUE TUE In his neighbourhood, with his boys, Michael is a king. He's TUE hosting the MC competition at the annual summer carnival. TUE It's the highlight of the social calendar. Everyone will be TUE there to see it; including those Michael would rather TUE distance himself from. Secrets, lies and torn loyalties are TUE exposed in this gritty urban drama exploring prejudice and TUE peer pressure in young black communities. TUE TUE Directed by Helen Perry TUE TUE Rachel De-lahay is an exciting new writer who won the 2010 TUE Alfred Fagon Award and the 2012 Writers Guild Award for her TUE Royal Court debut play, 'The Westbridge'. She has been named TUE one of Screen International's 2013 UK Stars of Tomorrow. TUE Rachel is currently under commission with The National TUE Theatre Studio, Film Four, and Birmingham Rep and is part of TUE the BBC Writersroom 10. Her second Royal Court play 'Routes' TUE is on in September 2013. 'Carnival' is her first radio TUE drama. TUE TUE Credits TUE Michael: Anthony Welsh TUE Ezekiel: Damson Idris TUE D-Man: Daniel Kaluuya TUE Stacey: Letitia Wright TUE Marcia: Clare Perkins TUE Director: Helen Perry TUE Writer: Rachel De-lahay TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b039q24r (Listen) TUE Helen Castor is joined by leading historians to discuss the TUE latest historic research and showcase listener's passions TUE that, together, are helping to deliver new insight into our TUE past. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b039q24t (Listen) TUE Waste Watchers TUE TUE In 2011 a major report involving 400 experts from 35 TUE countries issued stark warnings about the future food TUE supply. The Foresight report stressed in order to feed a TUE growing world population there was an urgent need to produce TUE more food sustainable but also to deal with waste. It TUE claimed globally 30% of food is never eaten. So did anyone TUE listen? TUE TUE The amount of food waste has often been raised but Kat Arney TUE goes in search of the game changers , to find out who's TUE making effective changes to stop good food being binned TUE while people are still hungry. She explores the widening TUE gleaning movement - volunteers primed to hoover up the crops TUE left in the farmer's field - to those changing the food TUE production chain. TUE TUE She hears how recent weather events, the economy and food TUE scandals have forced changes in supply and use of food. So TUE will that change stick for good? TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Kat Arney TUE Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Document b039q24w (Listen) TUE Mike Thomson examines controversies surrounding the TUE disclosure of the Hanslope files, British government papers TUE detailing brutality against Kenyans during the Mau Mau TUE crisis of the 1950s. TUE TUE The Hanslope papers had been airlifted back to the UK as TUE Kenyan Independence approached - but were never incorporated TUE into the National Archives. TUE TUE Mike Thomson looks at the story behind the disclosure of TUE documents and examines the implications for the keeping of TUE public records in the UK. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b039q24y (Listen) TUE Series 31, Peter Bowles on George Devine TUE TUE Matthew Parris is joined by actor Peter Bowles who nominates TUE George Devine, groundbreaking artistic director of the Royal TUE Court Theatre. Devine battled against repressive censorship, TUE enhanced the careers of actors like Lawrence Olivier and TUE Peggy Ashcroft, and by discovering writers like John Osborne TUE and other Angry Young Men changed British theatre forever. TUE Helping guide us through the landscape of Devine's life is TUE Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre TUE Studies at the University of Leeds. TUE TUE Produced in Bristol by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b039q250 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039lp3r (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b039q252 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, TUE regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things TUE like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit TUE sketch show. TUE TUE The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by TUE The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny TUE sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The TUE second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and TUE Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. TUE TUE This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches TUE about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how TUE goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate TUE instead on the the big, serious issues. TUE TUE This second episode of the series addresses making new TUE friends; the problem with polymath bestselling authors; and TUE a brief history of choice. And the show as a whole is... TUE slightly off. TUE TUE Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. TUE TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b039q254 (Listen) TUE Alan is concerned, and Neil's a good friend. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b039q256 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including news of the shortlist for the TUE Man Booker Prize for fiction, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rn3w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 China and America: Harmony and Hostility b039q258 (Listen) TUE This summer President Obama hosted the new Chinese Premier, TUE Xi Jinping at an informal summit in Palm Springs. It was a TUE clear sign of the importance placed on the relationship TUE between the world's two greatest powers. Both leaders TUE stressed the need for their countries to cooperate - on a TUE whole range of issues. And yet both sides are also competing TUE against each other, economically, politically and, TUE increasingly, in the military sphere. TUE TUE The US's "pivot to Asia," in which it is re-focusing (or TUE "re-balancing, as Washington puts it) its military power TUE towards the Pacific, has caused concern in China. Similarly, TUE increased Chinese military spending and a more aggressive TUE approach in various territorial and maritime disputes with TUE its neighbours has worried Washington. There are other TUE disagreements between the two major powers too - over TUE economic policy, for example, or cyber spying. On North TUE Korea, though, which has long been one of the most critical TUE flashpoints in the world, both Beijing and Washington now TUE seem to be largely in agreement. TUE So is the relationship between the world's two most powerful TUE countries going to be one of competition or cooperation? TUE TUE Mark Mardell, the BBC's North America Editor, travels to TUE China and to the border with North Korea to see how the TUE intertwining relationship between the American eagle and the TUE Chinese dragon is likely to develop. How it does will define TUE the world we and our children live in. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b039q25b (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Seven Ages of Science b039q25d (Listen) TUE Age of War TUE TUE Lisa Jardine explores how military demands mobilised science TUE not in World War II, but in World War I. TUE TUE The idea that Britain's scientific expertise and effort was TUE mobilised from scratch on the eve of World War II is a myth. TUE Long before 1939, Britain was ready to wage, and win, a TUE scientific war. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b039px7q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b039lp3t (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b039q25g (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039rnyy (Listen) TUE Expo 58, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Jonathan Coe TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Read by Tim McInnerny TUE Produced by Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed b039q25j (Listen) TUE Series 2, Forgery TUE TUE Forgery: DS Nick Mohammed finds himself immersed in the art TUE world, when a forgery ring is discovered. Colin and Anna. TUE Written and performed by Nick Mohammed, with Anna Crilly, TUE Colin Hoult, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Will Andrews. Script TUE Editor: Johnny Sweet. Producer: Victoria Lloyd. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Nick Mohammed TUE Actor: Anna Crilly TUE Actor: Colin Hoult TUE Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith TUE Actor: Will Andrews TUE Producer: Victoria Lloyd TUE Writer: Nick Mohammed TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b039q25l (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b039lp4n (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b039px7v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039lp4q (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039lp4s (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039lp4v (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b039lp4x (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039x2c7 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The WED Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's WED Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b039q5dj (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Anna Varle. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk0y (Listen) WED Wood Sandpiper WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Brett Westwood presents the Wood Sandpiper. Wood Sandpipers WED are elegant waders and just a handful of pairs breed in the WED UK, in wooded marshes and remote bogs of Northern Scotland. WED There's a chance to see them when they break their migration WED journey south at inland pools and marshes here. Listen out WED for their cheerful call that has been described as sounding WED like an old penny-whistle. WED WED 06:00 Today b039q5dl (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b039q5dn (Listen) WED Ray Mears WED WED Libby Purves meets woodsman and survival expert Ray Mears. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b039q5dq (Listen) WED Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible WED Industry, Episode 3 WED WED The freighter Kendal sails into dangerous waters as WED journalist Rose George comes face to face with the scourge WED of modern shipping - piracy. WED Read by Susie Riddell. WED Abridger: Laurence Wareing WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b039q5ds (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rmyj (Listen) WED Body of Christ WED WED The body of a young girl is washed up on a beach. A tattoo WED on her ankle leads police inspector Alia Khan on the trail WED of a child prostitution ring. WED WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Music: Sacha Putnam. WED Writer: Ayeesha Menon WED Director: John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Our Libraries: The Next Chapter b039q5dv (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED As public libraries shut down or cut their opening hours, WED Michael Rosen continues a two part investigation into the WED library story from the ancient world to the modern and WED beyond. WED WED In the second episode, Michael visits the biggest public WED lending library in Britain, the brand new Library of WED Birmingham. In this cultural centre for the 21st century, WED the emphasis is as much on access to information technology WED and cultural events as on the old-fashioned book. What will WED it do for the city, and how might the new super library WED affect smaller community libraries in the area? WED WED Matthew Nicholls from Reading University takes us on a tour WED of the libraries of imperial Rome, with their papyrus WED scrolls and busts of great men. And from Bexar County, WED Texas, we hear how any busts of great men will be virtual WED busts, pictures on the screens of visitors to what has been WED hailed as America's first "bookless library." Is this the WED future? WED WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b039q5dx (Listen) WED Presenting Mr Gregory WED WED The tenth and final part of a new production of a vintage WED serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, WED Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, WED and A Case for Paul Temple. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory WED Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the WED mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. WED WED Episode 10: Presenting Mr Gregory WED WED Paul sends out invitations to a very special party at the WED Madrid club. WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most WED successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his WED day. WED WED Credits WED Paul Temple: Crawford Logan WED Steve: Gerda Stevenson WED Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas WED Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood WED Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser WED Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie WED Edward Day: Nick Underwood WED Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson WED Charlie: Greg Powrie WED Producer: Patrick Rayner WED Writer: Francis Durbridge WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b039q5dz (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b039lp4z (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b039q5f1 (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039q5f3 (Listen) WED Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have WED spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, WED from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. WED WED Episode 8: Anne explores how conservatives of left and right WED responded to the advent of the welfare state and the WED 'affluent society' after the Second World War. As old WED patterns of paternalism and hierarchy began to broke down, WED conservatism had to reinvent itself once again. WED WED With: Dominic Sandbrook, Professor Simon Ball, Professor Jon WED Lawrence, Dr Eliza Filby WED WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b039q254 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00zlfhh (Listen) WED Don't Buy a Winter Coat WED WED When Megan first tells Anton that she's afraid something's WED wrong, he brushes her fears away. Later, when they're WED sitting in the waiting room at the Oncology Department, he WED still refuses to believe that Megan is ill. Even when the WED diagnosis of cervical cancer is given, he struggles to WED accept it. He hopes against hope for a miracle. But in this WED story there is no miracle, and Meic Povey's play traces the WED journey of a man faced with losing the woman he loves. It's WED a searingly honest account, based on his own experience, of WED facing up to the reality of a partner's terminal illness. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll WED WED Further Information WED WED Macmillan Cancer Support provides quality assured, WED up-to-date cancer information, written by specialists for WED patients, relatives and carers. They also offer advice on WED how to deal with the practical and emotional effects that a WED cancer diagnosis may have. If you have any questions about WED cancer, need support or just want someone to talk to, ask WED Macmillan on 0808 808 0000 or log onto www.macmillan.org.uk WED WED Cancer Research UK carries out research to improve WED understanding of the disease and find out how to prevent, WED diagnose and treat different kinds of cancer. It also runs a WED patient information website, www.CancerHelpUK.org.uk which WED provides easy to understand information to the public. WED Anyone affected or concerned about cancer can also call WED their team of specialist nurses on 0808 800 4040, Monday to WED Friday between 9am and 5pm, or log onto the main website at WED www.cancerresearchuk.org WED WED Marie Curie Nurses provide free care to terminally ill WED patients in their own homes. The charity's nine hospices WED also provide expert care and a better quality of life, for WED patients with cancer and other illnesses. To get help from WED the Marie Curie Nursing Service speak to your GP, district WED nurse or discharge nurse. For more information on the Marie WED Curie Nursing Service visit www.mariecurie.org.uk WED WED Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well-being of WED bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to WED understand their grief and cope with their loss. They can be WED contacted on 0844 477 9400 Mon to Fri 9:30 - 5pm, or in WED Northern Ireland, call 02890 792 419, or log onto WED www.cruse.org.uk. WED WED Credits WED Megan: Eiry Thomas WED Anton: Steffan Rhodri WED Director: Kate McAll WED Writer: Meic Povey WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b039q5f5 (Listen) WED Part-Time Working WED WED Got a question about working part time? To ask about WED employment rights, paying tax or claiming benefits while WED holding down a part time job call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Whether you're a student, a parent or an older employee WED wanting to combine claiming a pension with part time work, WED you may have questions about contracts, pay or holidays. WED WED Are you able to request fewer or more hours at work? WED WED What happens if you want to become self-employed? WED WED How can you be sure you're paying the right amount of tax WED and national insurance? WED WED Can you claim benefits while working part-time? WED WED Whatever your question our team will be waiting to help. WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC WED Will Hadwen, Benefits Adviser, Working Families WED Jane Moore, Technical Manager, Institute of Chartered WED Accountants in England and Wales WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED email moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Seven Ages of Science b039q25d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b039q5f7 (Listen) WED Bohemian Soho WED WED Bohemian Soho - Laurie Taylor talks to the writer, Sophie WED Parkin, about her book on the Colony Room Club, a private WED members bar whose doors opened in 1948 and shut in 2008. The WED only criterion for membership was that you weren't dull. For WED 60 years it played host to an assortment of offbeat and WED colourful characters from the fashionable to the criminal: WED the artist, Francis Bacon, rubbed shoulders with the WED gangster Kray twins. Eccentrics and misfits congregated and WED drank in a smoky, shabby room with sticky carpets. But what WED place does the Colony Room have within a wider history of WED Bohemian life? Professor of Cultural Studies, Elizabeth WED Wilson, joins the discussion. WED WED Also, Melissa Tyler discusses her study of sales workers in WED Soho sex shops. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b039q5f9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b039q5fc (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039lp51 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b039q5ff (Listen) WED Series 5, Rachel Johnson WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries. WED WED In this programme, comedian Rufus Hound is joined by WED journalist Rachel Johnson. Rachel's diaries focus on her gap WED year in Israel, when she worked on a kibbutz with her WED brother and was wined and dined by an Israeli shepherd. WED WED They also include her trip to the Andes with a boyfriend who WED suffered from vertigo. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b039q5fh (Listen) WED Lilian's got a story to tell, and Rob's out to impress. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b039q5fk (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the WED Barclaycard Mercury Prize for album of the year, announced WED today. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rmyj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b039q5fm (Listen) WED Cross-Examination in the Dock WED WED Clive Anderson asks judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers WED if new rules dictating the way lawyers cross-examine WED defendants, victims and other witness in court could WED compromise the right to a full and rigorous defence, leading WED to injustices. WED WED Justice Minister Damian Green has called for a review of WED cross examination techniques against a background of growing WED concern about aggressive cross-examination of vulnerable WED witnesses. The review follows a recent child prostitution WED case in which one victim was cross-examined for 12 days by WED seven defence barristers. WED WED But while most people in the legal world agree that young WED and vulnerable witnesses need protection, there are concerns WED that restricting lawyers' ability to rigorously test WED evidence could severely compromise the fundamental right to WED a fair trial. Some lawyers are worried that forensic rigour WED is being lost from court room cross-examination. WED WED Barristers are currently being trained to work within new WED rules governing cross-examination which prevent them using WED complicated vocabulary and tricks of advocacy to bamboozle WED the immature or unconfident. Prosecutors and police chiefs WED have also published new guidelines on how to prepare cases WED involving child sexual abuse - focusing on the credibility WED of the allegations, not on the victim's strength or WED weaknesses as a witness. WED WED How are these new rules and proposed changes playing out in WED the courtroom? Is justice being compromised? Is the WED Government over-reacting to events such as the suicide of WED Frances Andrade who killed herself just days after she gave WED evidence against choirmaster Michael Brewer and his wife WED Kay? And how exactly is it determined who is "vulnerable" in WED the first place? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b039q5fp (Listen) WED Series 4, Emily Bell WED WED We might think the web is something different, another world WED somewhere out there - or indeed in our devices - but as WED Emily Bell argues, the web is actually mapped onto our WED physical world: the real and the virtual are the same thing. WED WED Emily spent almost twenty years working at the Observer and WED then the Guardian, setting up Media Guardian website in WED 2000. Three years ago she and her family moved to New York WED and Emily became the Director of the Tow Centre for Digital WED Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. WED WED Living her life over two continents has caused her to WED consider the affect of cyberspace on actual space. Are we, WED as so many promised in the 90s, witnessing the death of WED distance? WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. WED WED Recorded during the Edinburgh festival, speakers explain WED their thinking on the trends and ideas in culture and WED society in front of a live audience. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b039q24t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b039q5dn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b039lp53 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b039q5fr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039rnzm (Listen) WED Expo 58, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Jonathan Coe WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Read by Tim McInnerny WED Produced by Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b039q5ft (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Belinda's decision to allow the Arts Centre to be a wedding WED venue means Nigel is charged with providing the music. But WED his efforts to soundtrack the happiest day of Ebony's life WED are somewhat hampered by a tone deaf bridesmaid, a pupil WED with a phobia of sharps and flats and the need to have his WED piano re-tuned every five minutes. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Keith: Dave Lamb WED Chris: Jim North WED Yvonne: Jess Robinson WED Ebony: Doreene Blackstock WED Ivor: Adrian Decosta WED Amber: Isobel Webb WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 It Is Rocket Science b00zf34s (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED WED Helen Keen presents her off-beat but true account of the WED history of space flight, aided by Peter Serafinowicz and WED Susy Kane. This week how Wernher Von Braun went from SS WED officer to American space supremo to Disney children's WED presenter; America's home-grown rocket genius Jack Parsons WED and his unhealthy interest in Satanism; and the surprising WED story of Fix the French Space Cat. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards WED WED It Is Rocket Science is performed by Helen Keen and stars WED Peter Serafinowicz as the Voice of Space, with all other WED parts played by Susy Kane. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Helen Keen WED Actor: Peter Serafinowicz WED Actor: Susy Kane WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED Writer: Helen Keen WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b039q5h5 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on PMQs and the rest of the day's events WED at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b039lp5y (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b039q5dq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039lp60 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039lp62 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039lp64 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b039lp66 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039x2f3 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The THU Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's THU Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b039q5nb (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Sarah THU Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk3x (Listen) THU Mistle Thrush THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Brett Westwood presents the Mistle Thrush. Loud rattling THU calls, like someone scraping a comb across wood, tell you THU that Mistle Thrushes are about. From midsummer to early THU autumn, bands of Mistle Thrushes roam the countryside, where THU they feed on open pastures, among stubble or on moorland. THU These birds are very fond of the white sticky berries of THU mistletoe and spread the seeds into cracks of tree bark when THU they wipe their bills or defecate. THU THU 06:00 Today b039q5nd (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Whistleblowers: Saints or Stirrers? b039rqpd (Listen) THU Who was the first whistleblower? Was it Daniel Ellsberg, THU who, in 1971, leaked the" Pentagon Papers" revealing the THU truth about US involvement in Vietnam? Or Mark Felt, the THU "Deep Throat" at the FBI whose secret information helped to THU bring down a US President? In fact, it was a man called THU Laocoon, who, three thousand years ago, tried to tip off the THU authorities in ancient Troy that the Greeks and their "gift THU horse" was a trick. He was later murdered for his pains. But THU then, as John Waite reports, when it comes to speaking out, THU one man's whistleblower can be another man's traitor, as the THU current examples of Edward Snowden and Bradley Channing seem THU to demonstrate. So why do people blow the whistle on THU governments, institutions and fellow workers? And are they THU always acting from high moral principle, or do some seek THU celebrity, or simply enjoy "stirring"? John's been THU investigating the ethical dilemmas in speaking out, and THU meeting those who've done so. To ask them why they felt THU compelled to break ranks with their colleagues, and what THU happened to them as a result. THU THU High profile whistleblowers are in the news constantly these THU days and as a special commission investigates their plight. THU Amongst those giving evidence is Eileen Chubb, who believes THU that more needs to be done to protect whistleblowers. She THU was working as a care assistant and grew increasingly THU concerned about neglect at the 65 bedroom home. Eventually THU she told her manager that residents were left in their own THU urine, physically attacked and robbed by staff. When nothing THU appeared to change she, along with six other colleagues, THU went to the registration and inspection unit. At that point THU they believe their jobs became untenable and they eventually THU resigned, taking their cases to an industrial tribunal. THU Eileen does not consider herself heroic: 'I was doing what I THU thought was right. At the time I didn't even know what a THU whistleblower was. I got pushed over a line when I saw the THU shouting and the pushing. We told management and social THU services and no one made it stop," she says, adding that she THU felt she had a duty to act. THU THU But there's concern that the actions of whistleblowers like THU Edward Snowden could actually put lives at risk. Mr Snowden THU was a technical contractor for the US National Security THU Agency (NSA), who also once worked for the CIA. In June he THU leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers THU documents and details relating to NSA programmes that gather THU data on telephone calls and emails. He fled his home in THU Hawaii, where he worked at a small NSA installation, to Hong THU Kong, and subsequently to Russia. He faces espionage charges THU in the US and polls there show Americans more or less evenly THU split over whether he did right or wrong. On Capitol Hill THU the former intelligence contractor has been labelled a THU coward and traitor - a view challenged by those like film THU director Oliver Stone, who call him as a hero because: ' he THU did this not for profit, not to give, exchange, give secrets THU away that could hurt our country supposedly. He is doing it THU out of conscience." For his part Edward Snowden disputes THU both points of view: "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an THU American," THU THU Producer: Susan Mitchell. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b039rqpg (Listen) THU Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible THU Industry, Episode 4 THU THU En route to Singapore on board the Kendal, Rose George THU learns that freight shipping affects the delicate balance of THU the marine environment in unexpected ways. THU Read by Susie Riddell. THU Abridger: Laurence Wareing THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b039rqpj (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rqpl (Listen) THU Mad Women THU THU Police Inspector Alia Khan investigates a psychiatric THU hospital where women are admitted but never seem to come THU out. THU THU Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia THU Sound Design: Steve Bond THU Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. THU Script Editor: Mike Walker THU Assistant Producer: Toral Shah THU Producer: Nadir Khan THU Music: Sacha Putnam. THU Writer: Ayeesha Menon THU Director: John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b039rqpn (Listen) THU China's Leftover Men THU THU According to recent study by the Chinese Academy of Social THU Sciences, 24 million Chinese men will be unable to find THU wives by 2020 because of the country's gender imbalance. THU Before the mass migration from the villages to the cities, THU young men could rely on their parents to find them a wife. THU Now many of those single women live in the cities, working THU in factories. They only see their parents during the spring THU festival so the chances of finding a wife are limited. It's THU a particular challenge for men with low income, who don't THU own their own apartment or who don't have a good job. In THU some parts of rural China there are several communities with THU so many single men they've been labelled 'bachelor villages' THU The trend has led to a growth in internet dating while at THU the high end, rich men join 'single entrepreneur' clubs that THU run competitions to find them that someone special. THU Lucy Ash reports from China on the ways in which both THU parents and the single men are attempting to make the THU perfect catch. THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 11:30 The Show to End All Wars b039rqpq (Listen) THU Simon Russell Beale takes a 50th anniversary look at Oh! THU What a Lovely War, the iconic production from Joan THU Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, asking whether it tells us THU more about the 1960s than about 1914. THU THU Opening on 19th March 1963, almost fifty years after the THU outbreak of the First World War, that war to end all wars, THU it fuelled an early-1960s anti-war sentiment at a time of THU heightened cold war tension. THU THU An instant hit with audiences, it was not well received by THU critics - the Guardian noting it was as unfair as any THU powerful cartoon. THU THU The show could be said to be the offspring of two parents. THU The young Conservative politician Alan Clark had just THU written a book called The Donkeys, popularising the thesis THU that the ordinary troops, the lions of the First World War, THU had been let down by the incompetence of their generals, the THU donkeys. Clark claimed he had been plagiarised by THU Littlewood. The other parent was radio producer Charles THU Chilton, responsible for a 1961 BBC drama/documentary called THU The Long Long Trail which recounted a similar tale but used THU popular songs of the period. This programme has an exclusive THU interview with Charles Chilton, who died last year at the THU age of 96 and whose own father was killed at Arras. Chilton THU tells how he was hired and then fired by Littlewood. THU THU We get an illuminating insider's view of how Joan Littlewood THU worked from Murray Melvin, an actor in the original THU production and now archivist of the Theatre Royal, Stratford THU East which is planning a revival of the show. Historians THU Derek Paget and Dan Todman consider whether it can have the THU same impact for today's audiences. THU THU Producer: Merilyn Harris THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b039rqps (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b039lp68 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b039rqpv (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039rqpx (Listen) THU Anne McElvoy explores how the 'permissive society' provoked THU a new populist conservatism. THU THU In the 1960s and 1970s, a series of apparently different THU issues emerged, from Mary Whitehouse's opposition to 'dirty' THU television, launched in Birmingham, through objections to THU immigration, education reform and changes in the Church of THU England, to anxiety about rising inflation. THU THU Anne traces how these coalesced into a conservative moral THU critique of modern society as shaped by a 'liberal elite'. THU This was not a conservatism that defended Britain's rulers - THU it was one that attacked them. THU THU With: Dominic Sandbrook, Professor Jon Lawrence, Dr Eliza THU Filby THU THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b039q5fh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039rqpz (Listen) THU Brief Lives, Episode 1 THU THU Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly THU THU A new 6 part series for Frank Twist and his team of THU Manchester paralegal advisors. A local councillor is caught THU selling drugs. Open and shut case? It would seem so on the THU surface. And a new rep is brought on board. A streetwise kid THU called Ronnie. THU THU Director/Producer Gary Brown. THU THU Credits THU Frank: David Schofield THU Sarah: Caroline Burns Cooke THU Paul: Lucas Smith THU Ronnie: Rachel Austin THU Pritchard: Renny Krupinski THU Mark: Hugh Simon THU Duggan: Neil Bell THU Director: Gary Brown THU Producer: Gary Brown THU Writer: Tom Fry THU Writer: Sharon Kelly THU THU 15:00 Open Country b039rqq1 (Listen) THU Celebrating the Plum THU THU Once strewn with apple, pear and plum orchards the Vale of THU Evesham has been famous for its fruit since the middle ages. THU Helen Mark visits the Vale to see the work being done to THU continue the area's heritage of fruit production. THU THU In Pershore she spends the day at the annual plum festival, THU a celebration of the close association the town has had with THU the fruit for hundreds of years. Here, she meets comedian THU and conservationist, Alistair McGowan, and hears about his THU memories of growing up in the area and lifelong fondness for THU plums. THU THU After the boom years of fruit production in the Vale at the THU end of the nineteenth century, the 1950s saw a decline in THU the industry and, since then, almost 80% of the orchards THU have closed in the area. Helen meets Edward Crowther, whose THU family has run fruit businesses near Evesham for many THU generations, and hears about the changes in the Vale during THU the last century. She joins John Porter at Hipton Hill THU orchard and learns about the work his conservation group is THU doing to arrest the decline in the number of traditional THU orchards in the area and restore them to their former glory. THU THU Produced by Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b039p0v3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b039rqq3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b039rqq5 (Listen) THU Rush with Ron Howard and Peter Morgan; Philip Davis on THU Borrowed Time; Toronto Film Festival world premieres THU THU Francine Stock talks to director Ron Howard and writer Peter THU Morgan about Rush, the story of Formula One rivals Niki THU Lauda and James Hunt. Plus actor Phil Davis on Borrowed THU Time, an impressive micro budget film. And the latest from THU the Toronto International Film Festival. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b039rqq7 (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b039rqq9 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039lp6b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01n1qxy (Listen) THU Series 5, General Whitesnake Demeanour THU THU More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, THU courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. THU THU The arrival of new priest Father Neil Green (Andrew O'Neill) THU receives mixed views from the Lenzidens, with his prog THU rock-esque approach to Christianity. His flowing cape, THU Stetson and general Whitesnake demeanour catches the THU attention of The Bishop (Michael Redmond) and he sets out to THU see how the locals are taking to him. THU THU The staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' are on a tireless quest THU to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with THU Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju THU has lovingly built the business up over the course of 30 THU years, and is ably assisted by his sidekick Dave. But then THU there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok - both surly and not THU particularly keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, THU but natural successors to the business so Ramesh is keen to THU pass them all his worldly wisdom whether they like it or THU not. THU THU Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli. THU THU Ramesh:....................... Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave:......................... Donald Mcleary THU Sanjay:....................... Omar Raza THU Alok:......................... Susheel Kumar THU Father Neil Green:............ Andrew O'Neill THU The Bishop:................... Michael Redmond THU Alan:......................... Tom Urie THU Phil:......................... Stewart Cairns THU Keith Futures:................ Gavin Mitchell THU THU Produced by Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b039rqqc (Listen) THU Martyn lays down the law, and Tony loses his temper. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b039rqqf (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rqpl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b039rqqh (Listen) THU Sleepless in the City THU THU The death of banking intern Moritz Erhardt this summer has THU led to soul searching in The City. Although the exact cause THU of his death has not yet been confirmed, reports that he THU worked three all-nighters in a row has shed light on a THU fiercely competitive world of 120-hour weeks that leads many THU to illness, addiction and depression. THU THU What led the young would-be banker, and others like him, to THU work such long hours? Phil Kemp speaks to current and former THU bankers about the face-time culture that forces them to stay THU at their desk regardless of their workload and the tactics THU they use to help stay awake, including the use of illegal THU prescription drugs. THU THU Doctors describe the toll that pushing the body to these THU limits eventually takes, and interns tell Phil about the big THU decision they will have to make between huge pay-packets and THU a life outside of the Square Mile. THU THU Producer: Lucy Proctor. THU THU 20:30 In Business b039rqqk (Listen) THU The Internet of Things THU THU Six billion people worldwide already have mobile phones. Now THU the experts are talking about the coming Internet of Things: THU 50 billion interconnected objects, from cows to coffee THU machines. Peter Day asks what it means and how it may THU happen. THU THU Producer: Laura Gray. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b039rqq7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Whistleblowers: Saints or Stirrers? b039rqpd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b039lp6d (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b039rqqm (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039rqqp (Listen) THU Expo 58, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Jonathan Coe THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Read by Tim McInnerny THU Produced by Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b036vtc2 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his much THU anticipated debut comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Enter the THU Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of THU sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister THU Ringmaster. THU THU Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: THU Thwor - the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len THU Parker - Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers THU enthusiast; Anna Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten THU silver screen hits such as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish THU Delight' and 'A Bowl For My Bottom'; and many more. THU THU Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his THU highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's THU Too Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his THU many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also THU appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series THU including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' THU Digi-Radio'. THU THU 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully THU staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out THU 'Comic gold' - Metro THU 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b039rqv2 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b039lp77 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b039rqpg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039lp79 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039lp7c (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039lp7f (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b039lp7h (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039x2g9 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The FRI Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's FRI Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b039rwc3 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Anna Jones. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk4j (Listen) FRI Great Spotted Woodpecker FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Brett Westwood presents the Great Spotted woodpecker. In FRI spring Great Spotted Woodpeckers drum loudly with their FRI bills against tree bark to advertise their territories. FRI Unlike many of our woodland birds, which are declining, FRI Great Spotted Woodpeckers have increased rapidly over the FRI last few decades - up to 250% since the 1970's. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b039rwc5 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b039p0vc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b039rwc7 (Listen) FRI Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible FRI Industry, Episode 5 FRI FRI As Kendal approaches her destination of Singapore, Rose FRI George learns of a daring rescue in the ship's history and FRI is inspired to shine a light on the welfare of the workers FRI behind the shipping industry. FRI Read by Susie Riddell. FRI Abridger: Laurence Wareing FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b039rwc9 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rwcc (Listen) FRI Five-Star Death FRI FRI A dead glamour model in a five-star hotel leads Police FRI inspector Alia Khan on the trail of Bollywood's leading FRI heart-throb. FRI FRI Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia FRI Sound Design: Steve Bond FRI Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. FRI Script Editor: Mike Walker FRI Assistant Producer: Toral Shah FRI Producer: Nadir Khan FRI Music: Sacha Putnam. FRI Writer: Ayeesha Menon FRI Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b039rwcf (Listen) FRI 2013: Will Millard, Mum Says 'You're a Long Time Dead' FRI FRI Will Millard is the winner of this year's BBC/Royal FRI Geographical Society award for a dream journey project. FRI Will's goal is to descend the Mano and Moro Rivers, which FRI divide Sierra Leone and Liberia, with only a tiny inflatable FRI packraft in which to do it. With the Sierra Leone portion of FRI the forest already part of the Gola Rainforest National FRI Park, the river boundary will, it's hoped, shortly become FRI the heart of the Trans-Boundary Peace Park, straddling both FRI countries. Local villagers, however, are divided about the FRI merits of this significant conservation project. FRI FRI Having survived the near termination of his project by local FRI bureaucracy, Will treks through the rainforest on foot to FRI the river's edge, inflates 'Shostakovich' (thus is his raft FRI called) and sets out downriver. Meeting his faithful guide FRI Sakpa once more he hears from the local chief how his FRI villagers would prefer good medical help and a half-decent FRI road as much as a ecologically-sound conservation project FRI like the Peace Park. FRI FRI More pressing problems for Will are the sequences of FRI boulder-strewn rapids that dot the river, a torrential FRI rainstorm that threatens his camp and blistered hands from FRI the African sun that make paddling the raft hard-going. He's FRI been warned too about a massive set of falls... But he finds FRI the only way to negotiate it is by paddling right across the FRI face of them - as he strikes out across the white water, he FRI remembers his mother's old saying: "you're a long time FRI dead".... FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 11:30 Start/Stop b039rwch (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI by Jack Docherty FRI FRI A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the FRI sunset. And sinking. This week the promise of a Weekend Away FRI tests everyone's patience. FRI FRI Producer ..... Steven Canny FRI FRI Barney: Jack Docherty FRI Cathy: Kerry Godliman FRI Fiona: Fiona Allen FRI David: Charlie Higson FRI Evan: John Thomson FRI Alice: Katherine Parkinson FRI Producer: Steven Canny FRI Writer: Jack Docherty FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b039rwck (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b039lp7k (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b039rwcm (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039rwcp (Listen) FRI Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have FRI spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, FRI from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. FRI FRI Episode 10: In this final episode, Anne visits the chapel in FRI Grantham where Mrs Thatcher's father preached, to explore FRI how his story encapsulates how conservatism has changed FRI across the last two centuries. FRI FRI In the pew where his daughter Margaret sat listening to his FRI sermons, Anne hears how Alderman Roberts, a Wesleyan FRI Methodist, was a Victorian liberal who came, in the FRI twentieth century, to see himself as a conservative. FRI FRI She explores how his story captures something of the FRI changing role of religion and class in conservatism, and the FRI ways that, over the last century, conservatism has absorbed FRI key elements of Victorian liberalism. FRI FRI And how, in the process, it has transformed itself from an FRI ideology that was focused on the land, paternalist FRI benevolence, traditional social hierarchies and the Church FRI of England, into something rather different. FRI FRI With: Dr Eliza Filby, Dominic Sandbrook, Professor Jon FRI Lawrence FRI FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b039rqqc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039rwcr (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 2 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Lizi Patch. FRI FRI Frank is called in to represent Jon, who is accused of FRI historic sexual abuse. This has ramifications as Jon is a FRI teacher and his wife has just had a baby. Meanwhile Sarah FRI goes on a first date with a younger man. But Frank doesn't FRI know. FRI FRI Series Created by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Caroline Burns Cooke FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Paul: Lucas Smith FRI Archer: Sue Kelly FRI Jon: Henry Devas FRI Ruth: Julia Haworth FRI Ian: Tachia Newall FRI PC Clarke: Hamilton Berstock FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Lizi Patch FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b039rwct (Listen) FRI Summer Garden Party 2013, Ness Botanic Gardens FRI FRI Eric Robson is joined by Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson, FRI Pippa Greenwood and Toby Buckland to answer questions at the FRI gardening event of the year, the GQT Summer Garden Party FRI 2013 at Ness Botanic Gardens. FRI FRI BBC Beechgrove Garden's Carole Baxter is also on hand to FRI give us an insight into some of the other events at this FRI year's garden party. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Jogging with Mozart b039rwcw (Listen) FRI The poet Paul Henry's comic tale 'Jogging with Mozart' is FRI read by Mark Meadows. Matlock is a forty-three old musician FRI whose girlfriend Karen has chucked him out, making him FRI homeless. A friend takes pity and smuggles him into the FRI empty flat of his dead Aunty at the 'Lavender Fountain FRI Sheltered Housing Scheme for the Elderly'. He's not supposed FRI to be there, so he tries to keep a low profile, avoiding the FRI all-seeing eye of the warden, Eunice. As he tries to piece FRI his life back together, he seeks comfort in jogging and FRI rediscovers his passion for the piano, but fate deals him FRI another cruel blow. FRI Producer: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b039rwcy (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b039rwd0 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b039rwd2 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039lp7m (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b039rymr (Listen) FRI Who Runs Britain? FRI FRI Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big FRI contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. FRI Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick FRI Doody are joined this week by the chief political FRI commentator for The Telegraph Peter Oborne and columnist for FRI The Guardian, Deborah Orr. FRI FRI Together, they ask "Who runs Britain?" FRI FRI Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of FRI things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then FRI will people laugh at the truth. This deconstructed "quiz" FRI has only one question each week, because that question is so FRI big there's no time for anything else. Expect a mix of FRI stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and FRI incisive interviews, with a diverse range of characters who FRI really know what they're talking about. FRI FRI Producers: Simon Jacobs and Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b039rwd4 (Listen) FRI Ruth's not willing to compromise, and Oliver's making the FRI most of it. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Lewis Carmichael: Robert Lister FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b039rwd6 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Hannah Kent, FRI whose debut novel is based on a real murder case in Iceland FRI in 1829, in which a woman is condemned to death. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 Undercover Mumbai b039rwcc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b039rwd8 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Southend in Essex with John Redwood MP Unite General FRI Secretary, Len McCluskey, Care Minister Norman Lamb MP, and FRI Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Maria Eagle MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b039rwdb (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039rwdd (Listen) FRI British Conservatism: The Grand Tour - Omnibus, Week 2 FRI Omnibus FRI FRI Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have FRI spurred British conservatism to reinvent itself. FRI FRI In this omnibus edition of the final five episodes, Anne FRI traces the story of British conservatism from a riot in FRI Birmingham in 1901 to the rise of Mrs Thatcher. FRI FRI She traces the impact of Irish Home Rule, mass democracy, FRI the spectre of socialist revolution, the welfare state and FRI finally the permissive society. FRI FRI She visits the old Swan Hunter shipyard in Tyneside and the FRI chapel where the young Mrs Thatcher sat listening to her FRI father preach his sermons. FRI FRI And in the process she traces how conservatism has FRI transformed itself from an ideology that was focused on the FRI land, paternalist benevolence, traditional social FRI hierarchies and the Church of England, into something rather FRI different. FRI FRI With: Professor Jon Lawrence, Dr Dan Jackson, Professor FRI Krista Cowman, Professor Martin Pugh, Professor Simon Ball, FRI Dr Eliza Filby, Dominic Sandbrook FRI FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b039lp7p (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b039rwdg (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039rwdj (Listen) FRI Expo 58, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Jonathan Coe FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Read by Tim McInnerny FRI Produced by Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b039q24y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b039rwdl (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster, as MPs head off for FRI the party conference season. FRI
06 September, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 07/09/2013 - 13/09/2013
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