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SAT SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b039rwls (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b039rwc7 (Listen) SAT Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible SAT Industry, Episode 5 SAT SAT As Kendal approaches her destination of Singapore, Rose SAT George learns of a daring rescue in the ship's history and SAT is inspired to shine a light on the welfare of the workers SAT behind the shipping industry. SAT Read by Susie Riddell. SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Susie Riddell SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Author: Rose George SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039rwlv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039rwlx (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039rwlz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b039rwm1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039rwrj (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Dr Janet Wootton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b039rwrl (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b039rwm5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b039rwm7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b039rqq1 (Listen) SAT Celebrating the Plum SAT SAT Once strewn with apple, pear and plum orchards the Vale of SAT Evesham has been famous for its fruit since the middle ages. SAT Helen Mark visits the Vale to see the work being done to SAT continue the area's heritage of fruit production. SAT SAT In Pershore she spends the day at the annual plum festival, SAT a celebration of the close association the town has had with SAT the fruit for hundreds of years. Here, she meets comedian SAT and conservationist, Alistair McGowan, and hears about his SAT memories of growing up in the area and lifelong fondness for SAT plums. SAT SAT After the boom years of fruit production in the Vale at the SAT end of the nineteenth century, the 1950s saw a decline in SAT the industry and, since then, almost 80% of the orchards SAT have closed in the area. Helen meets Edward Crowther, whose SAT family has run fruit businesses near Evesham for many SAT generations, and hears about the changes in the Vale during SAT the last century. She joins John Porter at Hipton Hill SAT orchard and learns about the work his conservation group is SAT doing to arrest the decline in the number of traditional SAT orchards in the area and restore them to their former glory. SAT SAT Produced by Beatrice Fenton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b039ykxh (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 Sarah SAT Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b039rwm9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b039ykxk (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 b039ykxm (Listen) SAT Bettany Hughes; former SAS soldier Chris Ryan SAT SAT Richard Coles and Anita Anand are joined by historian and SAT broadcaster, Bettany Hughes who talks about her love of SAT history, cricket and Istanbul, Dr Robert Poole who explains SAT what happened on September 14th 1752 when Britain changed SAT from a Julian calendar to a Gregorian calendar and Jess SAT Herman who tells us about her work with Nicaraguan street SAT children. They also hear a 'Sound Sculpture' of a Spitfire's SAT Merlin engine described by Britain's only female Spitfire SAT pilot Carolyn Grace, explore Andrew Johnston's attic in 'The SAT Thing About Me' where he discovers pictorial maps by his SAT Uncle MacDonald 'Max' Gill, listen to the 'Inheritance SAT Tracks' of former SAS soldier Chris Ryan and travel to SAT Durham with John McCarthy to see the Lindisfarne Gospels in SAT a major exhibition at Durham University's Palace Green SAT Library. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Celluloid Beatles b039yp0f (Listen) SAT The Beatles transformed the way we hear music. But their SAT five films - most notably 'A Hard Days Night' and 'Help!' - SAT also changed the way youth culture was portrayed in the SAT movies. Miranda Sawyer explores The Beatles' foray into SAT film, it's wider cultural impact and the financial rewards SAT for the British film industry of the time. SAT SAT Throughout the 1960s, film was central to The Beatles' SAT career and, although their time together was short lived, no SAT fewer than five of their record releases were in support of SAT films - A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, SAT Yellow Submarine and Let It Be. SAT SAT Beatles' authority Mark Lewisohn and film lecturer Steve SAT Glyn help put the group's movies into context. SAT SAT We also hear from directors Dick Lester (A Hard Days Night SAT and Help!) and Michael Lindsey Hogg (Let It Be) who had the SAT pleasure or challenge of directing the Fab Four. Poet Roger SAT McGough talks about his role as script editor for the SAT cartoon animation Yellow Submarine, and editor Roy Benson SAT explains the preparation of Magical Mystery Tour for TV SAT broadcast on Boxing Day in1967. SAT SAT Producer: John Sugar SAT A John Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b039yp0h (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster before MPs head off to far flung cities for the SAT party conferences. SAT SAT With Ed Miliband's leadership under the spotlight, two SAT former political advisers discuss whether it's possible for SAT a leader in the doldrums to turn things around. SAT SAT What are the prospects for the Liberal Democrats as they SAT gather for their conference in Glasgow? The party's leading SAT rebel, Andrew George, and Nick Clegg's parliamentary aide, SAT Duncan Hames, assess the future. SAT SAT This week came better growth figures - in line with the SAT predictions of some economists, but suggesting others are SAT wrong. Ruth Lea and Paul Johnson consider the art of SAT economic forecasting. SAT SAT And the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and Louise Ellman SAT discuss whether committee chairs are becoming more powerful SAT than cabinet ministers. SAT SAT The Editor is Mandy Baker. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b039yp0k (Listen) SAT Italy's Hard-Up Casanovas SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the SAT world. Following the death sentences handed down to four men SAT in India for the rape and killing of a young woman, Rupa Jha SAT reflects on her own personal experience of some disturbing SAT events from her childhood. Linda Pressly is with the gold SAT miners of Kalimantan in Indonesia and sees the high price SAT they have to pay from mercury poisoning as they try to earn SAT a living. Mary Harper is in Somaliland, where books have a SAT more powerful draw than guns. Lindsay Johns reflects on the SAT culture of the Caribbean island of Martinique and what it SAT means to be French by accident. And Emma Jane Kirby is with SAT the former Casanovas of Italy who are still hoping for a SAT return to better days. SAT Producer: John Murphy. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b039yp0m (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, with SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b039rymr (Listen) SAT Who Runs Britain? SAT SAT Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big SAT contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. SAT Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick SAT Doody are joined this week by the chief political SAT commentator for The Telegraph Peter Oborne and columnist for SAT The Guardian, Deborah Orr. SAT SAT Together, they ask "Who runs Britain?" 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 Producers: Simon Jacobs and Frank Stirling SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT Panellist: Andy Zaltzman SAT Panellist: Kate O'Sullivan SAT Panellist: Nick Doody SAT Panellist: Peter Oborne SAT Panellist: Deborah Orr SAT Producer: Simon Jacobs SAT Producer: Frank Stirling SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b039rwmc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b039rwmf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b039rwd8 (Listen) SAT Norman Lamb, John Redwood, Billy Hayes, Maria Eagle SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Southend in Essex with Care Minister Norman Lamb MP, SAT John Redwood MP, Shadow Transport Secretary Maria Eagle MP SAT and Billy Hayes the General Secretary of the Communication SAT Workers Union. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b039yp0p (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Undercover Mumbai b039yp0r (Listen) SAT One Last Sacrifice SAT SAT As India's general elections draw near, and the world's SAT largest democracy decides its future, A murder and a SAT political scandal leads Police Inspector Alia Khan to SAT unravelling the truth about her policeman father's death. A SAT climactic hour-long final episode of the police detective SAT serial set in Mumbai. SAT SAT Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this six-part police SAT detective serial, is stripped across the entire week SAT culminating in an hour-long Saturday drama. Alia Khan, a SAT young woman officer in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai SAT Police Force, attempts to solve a series of crimes as she SAT tries to make sense of her troubled past and cope with being SAT a woman in a male dominated and chauvinistic police force. SAT Written by Ayeesha Menon and directed by John Dryden. SAT SAT PRODUCTION SAT Sound Recordist - Hitesh Chaurasia SAT Sound Design - Steve Bond SAT Editing Assistants - Andrew Lewis & Aditya Khanna. SAT Script Editor - Mike Walker SAT Assistant Producer - Toral Shah SAT Producer - Nadir Khan SAT Music - Sacha Putnam SAT Writer - Ayeesha Menon SAT SAT Director - John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT www.goldhawk.eu. SAT SAT Credits SAT Alia: Prerna Chawla SAT Nakul: Anand Tiwari SAT Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur SAT Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal SAT Popo: Rohit Malkani SAT Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala SAT Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff SAT Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani SAT Actor: Karan Pandit SAT Actor: Faezeh Jalali SAT Actor: Anahita Oberoi SAT Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi SAT Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir SAT Actor: Kenny Desai SAT Actor: Nadir Khan SAT Actor: Vivek Madan SAT Actor: Ayeesha Menon SAT Actor: Ankur Vikal SAT Director: John Dryden SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Writer: Ayeesha Menon SAT SAT 15:30 The Secret History of Bossa Nova b039q24f (Listen) SAT Singer Monica Vasconcelos tells the musical and political SAT story of bossa nova, the first modern music of Brazil. SAT SAT Forget its low key supper club reputation, bossa nova was SAT tied to political revolution and driven by a sharp and very SAT modern aesthetic. It was born in Rio in the late 1950s as a SAT new music to mark the dawn of a new Brazil - an urban, SAT modernising society leaving behind its colonial past, open SAT to the future and looking out at the world. SAT SAT Fusing gorgeous melodies with an harmonic language inspired SAT by the French impressionist composers (bossa writers like SAT Antonio Carlos Jobim and Marcus Valle studied Debussy and SAT Ravel closely) and a cosmopolitan sensibility, bossa nova SAT became the music of choice for a smart young, urban SAT Brazilian middle class who were flooding into the cities as SAT the Brazilian economy boomed. SAT SAT The bossa sound went national then international. By the mid SAT 1960s it became hugely influential in America and around the SAT world. But just as bossa hit big globally and The Girl from SAT Ipanema reached the top of the American charts, the scene SAT was shaken to its core at home with the deposal of the left SAT wing civilian government and the arrival of a military SAT regime, backed by the United States. At first censorship was SAT light but by 1968 the junta had drifted into open repression SAT and many musicians were arrested or exiled. Bossa nova - its SAT serenity and preoccupation with sun, the sea and love - SAT suddenly seemed out of touch with these darker times. SAT SAT Presenter Monica Vasconcelos is a bossa singer herself and SAT travels to Rio to meet musicians that were part of the SAT original bossa scene - Joyce and Marcus Valle, Eumir SAT Deodato, music writer Ruy Castro. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b039yr38 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Katie Melua; Alison Goldfrapp; Louise SAT Brealey SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor : Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b039yr3d (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b039rwrl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b039rwmh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b039rwmk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039rwmm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b039ysbt (Listen) SAT Michael Dobbs, Mark Thomas, Pauline McLynn, Stuart Skelton, SAT Nikki Bedi, Hatcham Social, Zemmy Momoh SAT SAT Clive's on The Edge of Madness with author Michael Dobbs, SAT who, following a career in politics and advertising has had SAT huge success with novels such as political thriller 'House SAT of Cards'. Michael's new thriller 'A Ghost at the Door' from SAT his Harry Jones series finds Harry almost destitute, with SAT little left apart from his love for the headstrong Jemma. SAT But he must now risk losing her and even his own life to SAT uncover the truth about his dead father. SAT SAT Go on, go on, go on! Clive talks to actress Pauline McLynn SAT about swapping Father Ted for a Father Figure in a new SAT star-studded BBC One sitcom. Well known for playing SAT hyperactive parish housekeeper Mrs Doyle in 'Father Ted', SAT Pauline's now starring as housework enthusiast Mary in SAT 'Father Figure', which follows the everyday chaos of the SAT Whyte family. It's on 18th September at 22.35. SAT SAT Loose Ends prima donna Nikki Bedi talks to acclaimed SAT heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who launches his 2013-14 season SAT with a return to the English National Opera as Florestan in SAT a new production of Fidelio and a revival of the acclaimed SAT 2009 production of Peter Grimes. 'Fidelio' is at the London SAT Coliseum from 25th September to 6th October. SAT SAT Comedian Mark Thomas has poked his nose into enough things SAT to cause a politician to resign, arms deals to collapse and SAT force the odd multinational to clean up its act. He talks to SAT Clive about committing 100 Acts of Minor Dissent for his new SAT show; a hilarious, subversive catalogue of those acts from SAT the smallest to the grandest confrontations. SAT SAT With music from Hatcham Social, who perform 'Lion With A SAT Laser Gun' from their album 'Cutting Up The Present Leaks SAT Out The Future'. SAT SAT And from singer songwriter Zemmy Momoh performs 'Brittle SAT Pieces' from her 'Winter' EP. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b039ysbw (Listen) SAT Sergei Lavrov SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b039ysby (Listen) SAT Rush; Science Britannica SAT SAT Fasten your seatbelts as the Formula 1 rivalry of the SAT Seventies between James Hunt (Daniel Bruhl) and Niki Lauda SAT (Chris Hemsworth) comes to the big screen. Ron Howard SAT directs Peter Morgan's screenplay in Rush. SAT SAT There's a double bill of science as Richard Dawkins' memoir SAT An Appetite for Wonder details his early life in Africa and SAT at Oxford, until the publication of The Selfish Gene; and SAT Professor Brian Cox looks at the history and future of SAT British science in the BBC2 series Science Britannica. SAT SAT Tacita Dean's latest exhibition at the Frith Street Gallery SAT in London includes her new film JG, inspired by a long-term SAT correspondence Dean held with the writer J G Ballard. They SAT had a mutual fascination with the earthwork created by SAT American sculptor Robert Smithson known as the Spiral Jetty. SAT It also includes her re-working of original postcards of SAT pre-war Kassel, c/o Jolyon. SAT SAT And Farragut North opens at the Southwark Playhouse in SAT London, starring Max Irons and Rachel Tucker. Will the tale SAT of American politics that was transformed into the George SAT Clooney film The Ides of March work for a British audience? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Helen Lewis, Sir Christopher SAT Frayling and James Runcie. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b039lmkg (Listen) SAT Stephen Evans, the BBC's Berlin correspondent, tells the SAT story of Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's report recorded aboard a SAT Lancaster Bomber during a raid on Berlin. SAT SAT In 1943 the RAF contacted the BBC with a dramatic offer: SAT they were willing to send a two-man radio crew on a bombing SAT raid over Berlin. The BBC chose Wynford Vaughan-Thomas for SAT the mission. He accepted, knowing he might never return. SAT SAT So on the night of 3rd September 1943, Vaughan-Thomas SAT recorded for the BBC live from a Lancaster Bomber during a SAT bombing raid over Berlin. SAT SAT Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's experiences as a wartime reporter SAT were remarkable; he was at Belsen and at the Normandy SAT landings, reporting as it happened. The recording over SAT Berlin shows his remarkable courage, literally under fire, SAT and his description of the bombing and the views from the SAT plane are rich indeed. SAT SAT Vaughan-Thomas went on to become one of post-war Britain's SAT most prominent media-intellectuals, a regular commentator SAT and journalist, but those hours aboard the plane clearly SAT remained a defining time in his life. Forty years later, SAT interviewed by Parkinson, he called it "the most terrifying SAT eight hours of my life. Berlin burning was like watching SAT somebody throwing jewellery on black velvet - winking SAT rubies, sparkling diamonds all coming up at you." SAT SAT Stephen Evans puts Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's recordings in SAT context. He looks at the experience on the ground in Berlin SAT that night, reflects on the place of the broadcast in SAT journalistic history, and dips into a lifetime of SAT reflections from Vaughan-Thomas on a night which changed his SAT life for ever. SAT SAT Featuring Karin Finell, Max Hastings, Roger Moorhouse, SAT Harold Panton, Jean Seaton, Dietmar Seuss and David SAT Vaughan-Thomas. SAT SAT Producer: Martin Williams. SAT SAT 21:00 British New Wave b039p331 (Listen) SAT Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Part 2 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 In this second and final episode, 'angry young man' Arthur SAT Seaton continues to rage against the boredom of his work and SAT home life, but some of his past soon catches up with him and SAT he has to face the consequences. The appearance of a new SAT woman in his life also presents further challenges. 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 Brenda: Natalie Grady SAT Winnie: Sarah Smart SAT Doreen Greatton: Sian Hill SAT Mrs Greatton: Jilly Bond SAT Mrs Bull: Rachel Atkins SAT Mr Bull: Sean Baker SAT Harold Seaton: Philip Fox SAT Vera Seaton: Julia Hills SAT Fred Seaton: Ashley Cook SAT Margaret Seaton: Victoria Brazier SAT Jack: Graeme Hawley SAT Man on Ghost Train: Graeme Hawley SAT Robboe: Stephen Critchlow SAT Chip Man: Stephen Critchlow SAT Bill's Mate: Stephen Critchlow SAT Bert: Will Howard SAT Chocolate Seller: Shirley Anne Field SAT Director: Carl Prekopp SAT Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Adaptor: Robert Rigby SAT Author: Alan Sillitoe SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b039rwmp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b039q5fm (Listen) SAT Cross-Examination in the Dock SAT SAT In the first of a news series, Clive Anderson asks if overly SAT aggressive cross-examination of witnesses in court turns SAT trial by jury into trial by ordeal. SAT SAT Senior circuit court judge Sally Cahill and barristers SAT experienced in prosecuting and defending, discuss whether SAT new rules dictating the way lawyers cross-examine SAT defendants, victims and other witness in court could SAT compromise the right to a full and rigorous defence and lead SAT to injustices. SAT SAT In a recent high profile child prostitution trial, one young SAT girl was cross-examined for 12 days by seven different SAT defence barristers and the parents of the murdered SAT schoolgirl Milly Dowler were said to be mentally scarred by SAT the trauma of the cross examination they had to go through SAT in the trial of their daughter's killer. SAT SAT Barrister Hugh Davies stresses the need for more protection SAT for vulnerable witnesses while fellow advocate John Cooper SAT strongly defends the right of a defence lawyer to vigorously SAT cross-examine witnesses and challenge their evidence. SAT SAT Barristers are currently being trained to work within new SAT rules governing cross-examination which prevent them using SAT complicated vocabulary and tricks of advocacy to bamboozle SAT the immature or unconfident. Prosecutors and police chiefs SAT have also published new guidelines on how to prepare cases SAT involving child sexual abuse - focusing on the credibility SAT of the allegations, not on the victim's strength or SAT weaknesses as a witness. SAT SAT How are these new rules and proposed changes playing out in SAT the courtroom? Is justice being compromised/ And how exactly SAT is it determined who is "vulnerable" in the first place? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b039pdtd (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT As ever, a host of interesting celebrities will be joining SAT Nigel as he quizzes them on the sources of a range of SAT quotations and asks them for the amusing sayings or SAT citations that they have personally collected on a variety SAT of subjects. We discover who the most quotable people they SAT have ever met are and we're treated to their favourite four SAT line humorous poems. SAT SAT This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, SAT News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood SAT and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. SAT SAT Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Carl Cooper. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b039p335 (Listen) SAT Story Poems 1 SAT SAT Roger McGough introduces some story poems including work by SAT Roy Fisher, Emily Dickinson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. SAT Readers: John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton Lesser and Kenneth SAT Cranham. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b039xmfj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Opening Lines b012r6vb (Listen) SUN Series 13, Ladies of the Soil SUN SUN A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging SUN short story writers their radio debut. SUN SUN A meditative tale by Gill Blow about unspoken tensions SUN between a husband and wife as they look to an uncertain SUN future. SUN SUN Read by Philip Jackson SUN Produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN A graduate of the Sheffield Hallam creative writing course, SUN Gill's one-act play was performed as part of the New Writers SUN Drama Festival in Lincoln last year and her story, Pol SUN Creek, was recently published in The New Writer Magazine. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039xmfq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039xmfx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039xmg1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b039xmg3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b039yz4d (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of Benedict and Mary, Buckland SUN Brewer, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b039ysbw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b039xmg5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b039yz4g (Listen) SUN Seeking Eurydice SUN SUN Orpheus' descent to the underworld to bring Eurydice back to SUN life is a powerful myth, and one that has a special hold SUN over artists and anyone who is grieving. But how can someone SUN who believes in the finality of death reconcile this SUN conviction with an Orphic reluctance to let go? After losing SUN a friend, Jo Fidgen goes in search of an afterlife that an SUN atheist can believe in. SUN SUN With readings from Czeslaw Milosz, Rainer Maria Rilke and SUN Ali Smith; and music by David Lang, Karl Jenkins and SUN Beethoven. The programme also includes an interview with a SUN Sami reindeer herder about the tradition of bringing the SUN dead to life in song. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b039yz4j (Listen) SUN For Welsh livestock farmer Ifor Humphreys, there is no such SUN thing as a typical day. Alongside managing his cattle and SUN flock of 350 sheep, he arranges 'eco-friendly' funerals on SUN his farm. Since 2003, more than 170 people have chosen the SUN agricultural setting of Green Lane Natural Burial Site as SUN their final resting place, in one of Ifor's hay and wild SUN flower meadows. SUN SUN In the last twenty years, the number of approved natural SUN burial sites has gone from none to nearly 300, with SUN landowners, farmers and charities running more than half of SUN them. SUN SUN In this edition of On Your Farm, Sybil Ruscoe visits a SUN family farm in the heart of rural Wales which has SUN diversified its business to offer a 'green' alternative to SUN the traditional funeral. SUN SUN Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Angela Frain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b039xmg7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b039xmg9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b039yz4l (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b039yz4n (Listen) SUN ACE Africa SUN SUN Dame Judi Dench presents the Radio 4 Appeal for ACE Africa. SUN Reg Charity:1111283 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ACE Africa. SUN SUN ACE Africa SUN SUN Ace Africa enable children and their communities to lead SUN healthier, happier and self-sufficient lives through SUN improved food and economic security, health, well-being and SUN rights awareness. Ace Africa’s Community Development SUN Programmes focus on Child Development, Health & Well-Being, SUN Agriculture and Nutrition and Economic Empowerment. SUN Central to Ace Africa’s Programmes are Ace Child to Child SUN Clubs which helps children learn what to do in order to SUN improve the health, well-being and development of SUN themselves, their families and their communities. As active SUN decision makers, children become influential agents for SUN change in making health choices in school and in the SUN community. Since its inception in 2005, the Ace CtC Clubs SUN programme has expanded to include specific HIV related SUN education in life skills, protection, counselling, peer SUN education, leadership skills and agriculture and nutrition. SUN Children learn through debates, plays, writing, art, games SUN and song in health, literacy, animal husbandry and SUN psychosocial wellbeing. In each Ace CtC Club children SUN establish kitchen gardens through the provision of seeds, SUN drip irrigation and other tools to provide education for the SUN children, food for schools and the community as well as SUN income generation. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b039xmgc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b039xmgk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b039yz4q (Listen) SUN Living Stones SUN SUN from Leominster Priory celebrating heritage and culture at SUN the Festival of Churches. This weekend at least 270 churches SUN across Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire are SUN opening their doors to visitors, revealing their curious SUN histories and staging events from exhibitions of wedding SUN dresses to the history of Hereford cattle. The Bishop of SUN Dudley, the Rt Revd David Walker reflects on how church SUN buildings tell stories from the past to inspire people SUN today. SUN Leader: the Rector, the Rev'd Mike Kneen. He is joined by SUN the priory congregation, members of Leominster Priory Choir SUN and the Leominster Choral Society. SUN Director of Music: James Atherton SUN Organist: Simon Bell SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b039rwdb (Listen) SUN Great Pretenders SUN SUN AL Kennedy reflects on the stuggle to establish truth in SUN what she regards as an age of lies. Lies, she says, are SUN proliferating on TV, in politics, in business and throughout SUN public and private life. Extracting truths in moral and SUN effective ways, she argues, is an ever greater challenge. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qjrh (Listen) SUN Meadow Pipit 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 Meadow Pipit. The thin but SUN penetrating calls of the meadow pipit can be heard on a SUN remote mountainside or high above the city streets on an SUN autumn day. Meadow pipits are often the main hosts for the SUN parasitic Cuckoos and many a pipit pair ends up stuffing SUN insects into a much larger cuckoo chick. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b039yz4s (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 b039yz4v (Listen) SUN Alan is concerned, and Tony loses his temper. SUN Hedli Niklaus on playing Kathy, bullying and what the SUN listeners say SUN SUN Credits SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Lewis Carmichael: Robert Lister SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b039yz4x (Listen) SUN Spare Rib SUN SUN By the early 1970s, the idealism of the 60s was fading for SUN many of the women involved in the counter-culture. They were SUN left with a increasing realisation that, while the men might SUN be building a new age, they would still be expected to make SUN the tea and do the housework. SUN SUN Although the Women's Liberation Movement was growing, a SUN woman still needed her husband or father's permission to get SUN a mortgage, women were barred from visiting Wimpy bars after SUN midnight (on the assumption they must be prostitutes)and at SUN the BBC female employees were strongly discouraged from SUN wearing trousers. SUN SUN Into this world burst Spare Rib, a women's magazine with a SUN difference. As well as talking about fashion and food, it SUN was packed with articles on women's rights, domestic SUN violence, working conditions, sexuality... and a column SUN called Spare Parts told readers how to put up their own SUN shelves and mend their own shoes. An early reader offer was SUN a purple dishcloth emblazoned with the words: "First you SUN sink into his arms, then your arms end up in his sink". SUN Unlike the mainstream magazines of the day, it discussed SUN life, not "lifestyle". SUN SUN In this edition of the Reunion, Sue MacGregor brings SUN together five of the women who created Spare Rib. Among them SUN are editors Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott, Angela Phillips SUN who took the photographs, including the first carefully SUN constructed cover shot, and Anna Raeburn who wrote the SUN advice column. The ground-breaking magazine they produced SUN was to outlast most other titles of the so-called SUN underground alternative press, and change the lives of those SUN who read and wrote for it. SUN SUN Produced By Kate Taylor SUN Series Producer David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b039pdtn (Listen) SUN Series 67, Episode 5 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition & deviation? Gyles Brandreth, Patrick SUN Kielty, Alun Cochrane and Tony Hawks find out! SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b039yz4z (Listen) SUN Booze-free Bars SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli finds out what more of us are drinking SUN when we go alcohol free. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b039xmh3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b039yz51 (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 Surgical Cuts b039yz53 (Listen) SUN Narayana Hrudayalaya is a world-class private hospital in SUN Bangalore that has been revolutionising the delivery of SUN affordable heart surgery over the past 10 years. Its SUN visionary founder, NHS trained cardiac surgeon Dr Devi SUN Prasad Shetty, has pioneered a new model of mass healthcare SUN which is now being replicated across India and attracting SUN global attention. SUN SUN Mukti Jain Campion visits the hospital and examines the SUN cost-cutting innovations at the heart of its success. SUN SUN Could the Narayana model offer any lessons for other SUN countries which are trying to balance increasing demand for SUN good quality healthcare within tight economic constraints? SUN SUN Producer Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b039rwct (Listen) SUN Summer Garden Party 2013, Ness Botanic Gardens SUN SUN Eric Robson is joined by Matt Biggs, Matthew Wilson, Pippa SUN Greenwood and Toby Buckland to answer questions at the SUN gardening event of the year, the GQT Summer Garden Party SUN 2013 at Ness Botanic Gardens. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b039z4f0 (Listen) SUN US Airman Shot Down by Syrian Forces SUN SUN In 1983, a US airman was captured while attacking Syrian SUN positions in Lebanon. Lt Robert Goodman was taken to SUN Damascus and held for a month. He was only released after SUN Reverend Jesse Jackson went to Syria to plead his case with SUN President Hafez al-Assad. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b039z4f2 (Listen) SUN Three Men in a Boat, Episode 1 SUN SUN The Now Show's Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt with Julian SUN Rhind-Tutt from Green Wing star in a sparkling new SUN dramatisation of Jerome K Jerome's comic classic. SUN SUN In Edwardian London, three carefree young men and their dog, SUN Montmorency, plan a rowing holiday down the Thames to SUN Oxford. But nothing goes smoothly. SUN SUN Episode 1: SUN Even their packing proves a trial for the trouble-prone J, SUN Harris and George. On the eve of the trip they manage to SUN oversleep, they struggle to find the right train from SUN Waterloo to Kingston and get hopelessly lost in the maze at SUN Hampton Court. They navigate their first lock successfully SUN and end up at yet another hostelry 'for just one drink', but SUN the evening ends on a dangerous note - Harris decides he SUN will sing a comic song. Oh dear. SUN SUN Three Men In A Boat has never been out of print since its SUN first publication in 1889. In stark contrast to the SUN adventure writers of the time - Kipling, Haggard and SUN Stevenson - Jerome K Jerome gave us a story about three SUN ordinary fellows having a jolly time down the river. SUN SUN Pub singers............. from Rose Bruford College SUN Music....................... provided by Gary Yershon, with SUN Eddie Hession on accordion SUN SUN Dramatised by Chris Harrald SUN Original and adapted music by Gary Yershon SUN SUN Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SUN SUN Producer: Melanie Harris SUN Executive Producer: Polly Thomas SUN SUN A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN J: Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN George: Steve Punt SUN Harris: Hugh Dennis SUN Mrs P: Katherine Jakeways SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b039zdv5 (Listen) SUN Jo Nesbo on his new Harry Hole thriller Police SUN SUN Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo only started writing in SUN his late 30s, following successful careers as a footballer, SUN rock star and then stockbroker, but since his publishing SUN debut in 1997, his books have sold upwards of 14 million SUN copies. SUN SUN Entering Nesboland is not for the fainthearted: the body SUN count rises almost as fast as the author's sales figures and SUN murders are more gruesome, original and downright terrifying SUN than most of us can imagine in even our worst nightmares. SUN With the publication in English of his latest Harry Hole SUN thriller, Police, Jo Nesbo explains his relationship with SUN his ruggedly handsome, cynical, alcoholic detective, how his SUN plotlines still scare him and why Ibsen has become a source SUN of inspiration. SUN SUN From Captain Kidd to Captain Hook, Blackbeard to Long John SUN Silver, Mariella explores the piratical high seas and SUN treasure troves of literature with Neil Rennie and Professor SUN Claire Jowitt, to discover how the literary imagination has SUN influenced our perception of pirates rather more than the SUN history of real life brigands themselves. SUN SUN And in the next in Open Book's series, The Book I'd Never SUN Lend, author and clinical psychologist Frank Tallis tells us SUN about his most treasured of tomes - a book of four SUN psychoanalytic case studies by Sigmund Freud, originally SUN owned by Freud himself. SUN SUN Producer Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b039zdv7 (Listen) SUN Story Poems 2 SUN SUN Roger McGough introduces some story poems including work by SUN Wilfred Owen, Stevie Smith and Rudyard Kipling. Readers: SUN John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton lesser and Kenneth Cranham. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 China and America: Harmony and Hostility b039q258 (Listen) SUN This summer President Obama hosted the new Chinese Premier, SUN Xi Jinping at an informal summit in Palm Springs. It was a SUN clear sign of the importance placed on the relationship SUN between the world's two greatest powers. Both leaders SUN stressed the need for their countries to cooperate - on a SUN whole range of issues. And yet both sides are also competing SUN against each other, economically, politically and, SUN increasingly, in the military sphere. SUN SUN The US's "pivot to Asia," in which it is re-focusing (or SUN "re-balancing, as Washington puts it) its military power SUN towards the Pacific, has caused concern in China. Similarly, SUN increased Chinese military spending and a more aggressive SUN approach in various territorial and maritime disputes with SUN its neighbours has worried Washington. There are other SUN disagreements between the two major powers too - over SUN economic policy, for example, or cyber spying. On North SUN Korea, though, which has long been one of the most critical SUN flashpoints in the world, both Beijing and Washington now SUN seem to be largely in agreement. SUN So is the relationship between the world's two most powerful SUN countries going to be one of competition or cooperation? SUN SUN Mark Mardell, the BBC's North America Editor, travels to SUN China and to the border with North Korea to see how the SUN intertwining relationship between the American eagle and the SUN Chinese dragon is likely to develop. How it does will define SUN the world we and our children live in. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b039ysbw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b039xmhh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b039xmhk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039xmhm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b039zdv9 (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce chooses the best of the previous seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b039zdvc (Listen) SUN Ruth's in for a shock, and Helen gets more than she SUN bargained for. SUN SUN 19:15 Paul Sinha's Citizenship Test b038n3dh (Listen) SUN Episode 3 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 third episode he looks SUN at British culture - newspapers, TV, art and film. He tests SUN the studio audience on their knowledge, with those that SUN answer incorrectly being deported; he also offers up ten SUN pounds of his own money to anyone in the audience who can SUN correctly identify an artist that the Home Office think all SUN new immigrants should be aware of. 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 b039zdvf (Listen) SUN The Mustard Car SUN SUN Blake Morrison's short story set in a close-knit Suffolk SUN village, in which tensions between locals and outsiders are SUN mounting. SUN SUN This is the last in a series of stories taking their SUN inspiration from the coast of East Anglia. SUN SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN SUN Writer: Blake Morrison is a British poet and author of both SUN fiction and non-fiction, including 'And When Did You Last SUN See Your Father?' which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for SUN Autobiography, and made into a film starring Jim Broadbent SUN and Juliet Stevenson. He has also written a study of the SUN James Bulger murder, 'As If'. Since 2003, Morrison has been SUN Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, SUN University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of SUN Literature. He is based partly in London and Suffolk. SUN SUN Reader: Poppy Miller. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b039rwd0 (Listen) SUN How long can you wait to have a baby? SUN SUN How long can you wait until you try to have a baby? SUN Psychologist Jean Twenge argues that women in their late SUN thirties shouldn't be as anxious about their prospects as is SUN commonly assumed. She's been amazed to discover that key SUN fertility statistics come from studies based on people who SUN lived several hundred years ago - before electricity was SUN even invented. Tim Harford and Hannah Barnes find fertility SUN experts agree that the modern woman's prospects are better SUN than is often thought. SUN SUN The economy's turning a corner, the Chancellor George SUN Osborne says. Is that the case? Tim Harford takes a closer SUN look at the numbers. SUN SUN Almost a quarter of men in some Asian countries admit rape, SUN it's been reported. The headlines have been sparked by a UN SUN report, which looks at violence against women in parts of SUN Asia. Are the numbers of rapists really this high? Tim SUN Harford and Ruth Alexander look into the detail of the SUN study. SUN SUN Russia is rumoured to have dismissed Britain as a 'small SUN island' who no one listens to. But, Tim Harford discovers, SUN we're actually rather large, as islands go. SUN SUN "Africa has a drinking problem". So says Time Magazine. More SUN or Less discovers a more mixed picture. As fact-checking SUN website Africa Check has noted, a closer look at the figures SUN shows wide variations between countries and that a large SUN proportion of African people are teetotal. However, Tim SUN Harford finds that the figures also suggest that those who SUN do drink are drinking a lot. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b039rwcy (Listen) SUN An inventor, an autogyro pilot, a photographer, a science SUN fiction writer and a circus performer SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN Ray Dolby SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Richard Millard, former MD at Audio SUN International Studios and to Ian Christie, Professor of Film SUN and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London. SUN  SUN Born 18 January 1933; died 12 September 2013 aged 80. SUN SUN Wing Commander Kenneth Wallis (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his daughter Vicky Wallis and to his friend SUN James Thadden. SUN SUN Born 26 April 1916; died 1 September 2013 aged 97. SUN SUN Lewis Morley SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend, the curator at the National SUN Portrait Gallery Terrence Pepper. SUN SUN Born 16 June 1925; died 3 September 2013 aged 88. SUN SUN Frederik Pohl SUN SUN Born 26 November 1919; died 2 September 2013 aged 93. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to novelist Brian Aldiss and the author and SUN critic John Clute. SUN SUN Lydia Gridneff SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her son SUN Evgeny Gridneff. SUN Born 27th April 1917; died 15th August 2013 aged 96. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Philip Sellars SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b039yp0m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b039yz4n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b039rqqk (Listen) SUN The Internet of Things SUN SUN Six billion people worldwide already have mobile phones. Now SUN the experts are talking about the coming Internet of Things: SUN 50 billion interconnected objects, from cows to coffee SUN machines. Peter Day asks what it means and how it may SUN happen. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Gray. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b039zdvh (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 b039zdvk (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b039rqq5 (Listen) SUN Rush; Borrowed Time; Toronto Film Festival SUN SUN Francine Stock explores the hits and misses from this year's SUN Toronto International Film Festival with Tim Robey of the SUN Daily Telegraph and Claire Binns, director of Programming SUN and Acquisitions at the Picturehouse Group. They discuss SUN their tips for the critical hits in the months ahead SUN including 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County and Under SUN The Skin. SUN SUN Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard and writer Peter Morgan are SUN back together, this time for Rush, the story of Formula One SUN rivals Niki Lauda and James Hunt. They explain why they were SUN so intrigued by the men's relationship. Rush is a British SUN independent film and its producer Andrew Eaton looks at how SUN the world of film funding is changing. SUN SUN Plus actor Phil Davis on Borrowed Time, a micro budget film SUN about a pensioner's friendship with a teenage burglar. He SUN describes how working with Mike Leigh on films such as Vera SUN Drake has proved so inspirational for his technique. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Ron Howard SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Morgan SUN Interviewed Guest: Phil Davis SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b039yz4g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b039xmjk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b039q5f7 (Listen) MON Bohemian Soho MON MON Bohemian Soho - Laurie Taylor talks to the writer, Sophie MON Parkin, about her book on the Colony Room Club, a private MON members bar whose doors opened in 1948 and shut in 2008. The MON only criterion for membership was that you weren't dull. For MON 60 years it played host to an assortment of offbeat and MON colourful characters from the fashionable to the criminal: MON the artist, Francis Bacon, rubbed shoulders with the MON gangster Kray twins. Eccentrics and misfits congregated and MON drank in a smoky, shabby room with sticky carpets. But what MON place does the Colony Room have within a wider history of MON Bohemian life? Professor of Cultural Studies, Elizabeth MON Wilson, joins the discussion. MON MON Also, Melissa Tyler discusses her study of sales workers in MON Soho sex shops. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b039yz4d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039xmjp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039xmjr (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039xmjt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b039xmjw (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03b9dwt (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Dr Janet Wootton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b039zg27 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b039xmjy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk6p (Listen) MON Great Shearwater 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 Great Shearwater; a wanderer of MON the open ocean. They breed on remote islands in the South MON Atlantic and then disperse widely and many follow fish and MON squid shoals northwards, appearing around UK coasts in late MON summer and early autumn. The south-west of Britain and MON Ireland is the best area to look for them. MON MON 06:00 Today b039zg29 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b039zg2c (Listen) MON Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future MON MON As Start the Week returns to Radio 4, Tom Sutcliffe talks to MON Margaret Atwood about her vision of the future. In the last MON of a trilogy of dystopian novels, Atwood charts the fortunes MON of a group of survivors after a man-made plague has MON devastated the world. There's more man-made corruption and MON savagery in Vicky Featherstone's first production as the new MON Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre: The Ritual MON Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas is a dark morality tale. But MON the philosopher A C Grayling goes back to the Greeks to MON explore the best of humanity - friendship. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b039zg2f (Listen) MON The Inheritor's Powder - A Cautionary Tale of Poison, MON Betrayal and Greed, Episode 1 MON MON On the morning of Saturday 2nd of November 1833, the Bodle MON household sat down to their morning breakfast, sharing a pot MON of coffee. That evening, the local surgeon John Butler MON received an urgent summons - the family and their servants MON had all collapsed with a serious illness. Three days later, MON after lingering in agony, the wealthy grandfather George MON Bodle died in his bed at his farmhouse in Plumstead. The MON Bodles had been the victims of a terrible poisoning. MON MON In the nineteenth century, criminal poisoning with arsenic MON was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few MON questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to MON kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular name - MON The Inheritor's Powder. MON MON The surgeon John Butler had set about collecting the MON evidence that he hoped would bring the culprit to justice MON but, in the 1830s, forensic science was still in its MON infancy. Even diagnosing arsenic poisoning was a MON hit-and-miss affair. MON MON So when a chemist named James Marsh was called as an expert MON witness in the case of the murder at Plumstead, he decided MON that he had to create a reliable test for arsenic poisoning, MON or the murders would continue and killers would be left to MON walk free. In so doing though he was to cause as many MON problems as he solved. Were innocent men and women now going MON to the gallows? MON MON Sandra Hempel, author of The Inheritor's Powder, is a MON medical journalist who has written for a wide variety of MON both popular newspapers and magazines and specialist MON publications, from the Mail on Sunday and The Times to MON Nursing Times and BMA News. MON MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Director: David Blount MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b039zg2h (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b039zg2k (Listen) MON Life in the Freezer, For When I Am Gone MON MON by Al Smith MON MON The family that eats together, stays together or so believed MON June Cartwright, which is why she leaves behind a freezer MON full of food to guide her family through their grief MON following her death. MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON At 66 June Cartwright finally lost her battle with Ovarian MON Cancer. She didn't fear death but what would happen to her MON family after she'd gone, for she knew she was the emotional MON glue that kept them together. For June, food was everything. MON A family that eats together, stays together. MON June may have left behind her a husband and two children. MON What they will soon discover is that she also left behind MON fifty frozen meals, perfectly cooked to their tastes which MON serve to guide them through their grief, together. This MON series charts five meals, spread across six months during MON which the Cartwright family pull themselves apart, back MON together, and figure out how to move on after their mothers MON death. MON MON Al Smith won the 2012 Wellcome Screenwriting Prize with his MON feature film HALF LIFE; he is currently writing the MON screenplay. Recently he script edited the BBC Natural MON History series AFRICA and wrote the narrative for the 90' MON single feature. He was the winner of the 2006 Pearson MON Playwriting Award and the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for MON a second time, with RADIO. In 2007 Al did the BBC Writers MON Academy and in 2008/9 wrote for HOLBY and EASTENDERS as well MON as theatre piece THE BIRD which received four star notices MON at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Al co-created,exec-produced MON and wrote interactive teen-soap THE CUT for BBC Switch which MON ran to 3 series. MON MON Credits MON Leonard: David Warner MON Ros: Sian Clifford MON Neil: Jonathan Bailey MON Albert: David Seddon MON Sophie: Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Marnie: Joanna Brookes MON Undertaker: Sean Murray MON Director: Sally Avens MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Writer: Al Smith MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b039zg2m (Listen) MON Series 14, Freeminers in the Forest of Dean MON MON Alan Dein meets the "free miners" of the Forest of Dean, MON still digging coal in their seventies. They're a dying MON breed, but one woman's attempt to join the club has stirred MON up strong feelings. MON MON Once a major industry, coal mining in this corner of MON Gloucestershire is down to a handful of diehard MON individualists, who relish the freedom that comes from MON owning your own coal mine in the woods, and being answerable MON to no one. MON MON "Free miners" have ancient birthrights that date back to MON Edward II - rights that have persisted through coal MON nationalisation, privatisation, and closure of almost the MON entire coal mining industry. MON MON One man, Robin Morgan, is still digging coal at the age of MON 78. Robin tried to turn one of his mines into a tourist MON attraction, but got few visitors, lost a lot of money, and MON has now returned to doing what he loves best: hewing coal MON from narrow seams in much the same way as his ancestors did. MON MON But tradition says that only men can be free miners. When MON Elaine Morman tried to become one, the miners still active MON were almost unanimously opposed. Mining is no job for a MON woman, they say, and in any case, Elaine is not a true MON miner, since she works in caves that are a tourist MON attraction, where she does not dig coal, but scrapes small MON quantities of ochre for artists' pigments from the walls. MON Thanks to equality legislation, Elaine has succeeded in MON having her name entered on the free miners' roll, but is MON shunned by the male free miners. MON MON So on the one hand, we have Robin, with his failed tourist MON mine and his deep attachment to tradition. On the other MON Elaine, with her successful tourist caves, and her MON determination to apply 21st century values to ancient MON customs. Who is the true free miner? MON MON Producer/Presenter: Joylon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 Reception b039zg2p (Listen) MON Breaking the Rules MON MON Reception is a sitcom about two men sitting behind a desk, MON starring Adrian Scarborough, Morwenna Banks and Amit Shah. MON Written by Paul Basset Davies. MON MON Brian is very impressed by the expertise of the technician MON who comes to repair the agency's electronic entry system. MON Danny thinks he's a pillock. But when Clarissa arrives to MON inform them of a theft from the building, and the technician MON starts to chat her up, Brian changes his tune. He becomes MON convinced that the visitor is involved in the theft, and MON persuades Danny to help in an elaborate sting operation that MON will show Clarissa how wrong she is to trust the man. MON MON Will Brian win back Clarissa's affections? And if he does, MON what on earth will he do with them? MON MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. 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 b039zg2r (Listen) MON Red Tractor label MON MON The Red Tractor label is put on meat to tell us it's MON British, but we've tested some and results show that's MON unlikely. So can we really trust it? You & Yours also takes MON a look at shared-ownership schemes and asks if it's now the MON only way that a family on an average income can afford their MON own home. And we talk about posh paint given names like MON "Elephant's Breath". MON MON 12:57 Weather b039xmk0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b039zg2t (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b03b0kfh (Listen) MON Idea MON MON The Ideas That Make Us is a new Radio 4 series which reveals MON the history of the most influential ideas in the story of MON civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. MON MON In each edition of this archaeology of philosophy, the MON historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes starts with the MON moment each idea occurred to the ancient Greeks, and travels MON forwards and backwards in time to find out how it has both MON changed history and developed through the ages. In this, the MON first of five programmes, Bettany investigates the idea of MON 'idea' with neuroscientist Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, MON classicist Professor Paul Cartledge, historian Dr. Stephen MON Pigney and specialist in intellectual property law, MON Professor Tanya Aplin. MON MON Other programmes this week explore Fame, Love, Agony and MON Justice. In the second five programmes, to be broadcast in MON January, Bettany considers Soul, Humour, Trust, Peace and MON Liberty. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b039zdvc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03b0q9m (Listen) MON Drone Pilots MON MON By Robert Myers. Two night shift operators fly a drone from MON a trailer in the American desert. He's a much-decorated MON fighter pilot from rural Georgia, who has come out of MON retirement to make ends meet. She is a superstar gamer from MON New Jersey, who's just been recruited to the job of sensor. MON MON They are working for a private corporation in New Mexico but MON are supervised by an imposing female Captain at a military MON base in Virginia, who gives them orders to stake out a MON family in South Waziristan. MON MON As they circle their target, the sixty plus pilot and the MON twenty year old female sensor argue about music, fighting MON and flying. MON MON Sound Design ..... Scott Lehrer MON MON Producer/Director: Judith Kampfner MON A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON Credits MON Major McCraken: David Rasche MON Airman Andras: Sarah Elmaleh MON Captain Holmes: Nora Cole MON Sergeant Najjar: Amir Darvish MON Radio Announcer: Sydney Beveridge MON Ahmad: Rahimullah Mashriqi MON Lohani: Mohammadulluh Mashriqi MON Villager: Naheed Bahram MON Director: Judith Kampfner MON Producer: Judith Kampfner MON Writer: Robert Myers MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b03b0q9p (Listen) MON (1/12) MON MON 'In what way could a major Scottish river, a senior MON barrister, an area of well-trimmed grass, and Birkin's MON lover, be of material interest to a Nottingham smith?' MON MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the first contest in the MON 2013 season of the much-loved cryptic quiz between UK MON regions. The first match pits The Midlands against Scotland, MON attempting to answer the programme's trademark questions MON which require lateral thinking across a wide field of MON knowledge, from literature, history, music and the natural MON world to current affairs and popular culture. MON MON The series includes more selections than ever from MON listeners' own question ideas, which can be submitted by MON e-mail or via the programme's webpages. MON MON Wales have dominated the contest in recent years, so the MON other teams will be going all-out to loosen the Welsh grip MON on the Round Britain Quiz title. The champion team will be MON the one that wins the greatest number of matches across the MON series. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b039yz4z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Uncanny b01k2bvn (Listen) MON It's that sense of unease or disquiet at the heart of ghost MON fiction and horror writing, the stuff of bad dreams when the MON familiar is suddenly strange, a feeling of a place being MON unsettlingly out of place. The uncanny is everywhere. MON MON So why is it that the familiar, or that which is closest to MON home, can be so much more frightening to us than the truly MON exotic or unknown? Freud's extraordinary essay The Uncanny, MON from 1919, is like nothing else he wrote. It's a translation MON of the German 'un-heimlich' meaning 'not homely' or 'a MON feeling of not being at home'. But the term itself is MON strange. In German its meaning can shift so MON 'uncanny/un-heimlich' can be read, eerily, as 'homely but MON not at home' - a disquieting ambiguity. MON MON Freud tries to unravel that sense of the 'uncanny' that he MON sees everywhere in popular art and culture: in the fiction MON of Poe and E.T.A. Hoffman, in life-like puppets and MON mannequins which for a second we think are real, in MON doppelgangers and doubles, in the strange feeling of getting MON lost in a familiar place. MON MON He was arguably onto something. The uncanny really is MON discernible everywhere in fiction, film and art - from Mary MON Shelly to Asimov, from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the MON Chapman Brothers. This atmospheric MON programme explores the power of the Uncanny in our culture - MON in all its strange, unsettling manifestations. MON MON Presented by Hugh Haughton. Contributors include author A.S. MON Byatt, artists the Chapman Brothers, writer and actor Mark MON Gatiss and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. MON MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03b0q9r (Listen) MON At times in history religion can appear to be a destructive MON force. Today the current conflict in the middle-east is MON increasingly defined along sectarian lines. From Iraq where MON a thousand people were killed in sectarian violence in July, MON the highest monthly death toll for five years according the MON UN; to Pakistan, where the minority Shia community has MON experienced repeated attacks by hard-line Sunni militant MON groups; to Syria where the ruling Alawite sect, an offshoot MON of Shia Islam, is embroiled in an increasing bloody civil MON war with the largely Sunni rebel forces. MON MON A fault line has emerged throughout the middle-east dividing MON the region along Sunni and Shia lines. Where did this MON division within Islam occur and is it really the cause of MON these conflicts or merely being exploited for political MON gain? MON MON Ernie Rae is joined by Murtaza Hussain, a Sunni Muslim, MON writer and journalist specialising in foreign policy and the MON Middle East. Dr Ali Al-Hilli is an Iraqi activist, lecturer MON and a Shia Muslim and Dr Carool Kersten, Senior Lecturer in MON the Study of Islam and the Muslim World, King's College MON London. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b03b0q9t (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039xmk2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b03b0q9w (Listen) MON Series 67, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons invites Paul Merton, Stephen Mangan, Pam MON Ayres and Gyles Brandreth to talk for 60 seconds without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON Producer Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03b0q9y (Listen) MON Shula's determined, and Kirsty's having fun. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03b0qb0 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Derek MON Jacobi, as he publishes his autobiography. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b039zg2k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Costing the NHS b03b0qb2 (Listen) MON This summer NHS England called for a public debate to find MON ways of renewing and revitalising the NHS. One of the widely MON reported claims in its report "The NHS belongs to the MON people: a call to action" was that continuing with the MON current model of care in England could lead to a funding gap MON of around £30bn by 2020/21. MON MON In this special programme, Julian Worricker looks at the MON growing demands on the health service in the UK, the MON willingness of the public to fund a service that meets those MON demands and the scope for savings without compromising care. MON Can the UK afford a health service that follows the NHS core MON principles: one that meets the needs of everyone, is free at MON the point of delivery and is based on clinical need, not MON ability to pay? MON MON Joining Julian are: MON MON Prof John Appleby, chief economist, the Kings Fund, MON Christina McAnea, UNISON head of health, MON Don Redding, policy director, National Voices, MON Dr Mark Porter, chair of the BMA ruling council, MON Stephen Dorrell MP, chair, Health Select Committee, MON Tony Whitfield, director of finance, Salford Royal NHS MON Foundation and president of HFMA, MON Sandie Keene, president, Association of Directors of Adult MON Social Services, MON Andrew Dillon, chief executive, NICE, MON Karen Taylor, research director, Deloitte UK Centre for MON Health Solutions, MON Dr Clare Gerada, chair, RCGP, MON Anita Charlesworth, chief economist, Nuffield Trust, MON Chris Hopson, chief executive, Foundation Trust Network, MON Christoph Lees, obstetrician, founder of Doctors Policy MON Research Group, MON Andrew Haldenby, director, Reform and MON Sir David Nicholson, chief executive, NHS England. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON Editor: Andy Smith. MON MON 21:58 Weather b039xmk4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03b0sl5 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03b0sl7 (Listen) MON Expo 58, Episode 6 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 Reader: Tim McInnerny MON Producer: Joanna Green MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Author: Jonathan Coe MON MON 23:00 Fry's English Delight b03b0sl9 (Listen) MON Series 6, WTF MON MON In a special late night Fry's English Delight, Stephen Fry MON and guests ponder the history, culture and legality of "The MON F word". With the help of language expert Professor Geoffrey MON Hughes we trace it back to the thirteenth century, when it MON was fairly harmless, and chart its progress to the present MON day. What makes the history of the word interesting if not MON difficult is that there was always a taboo about writing it MON down. Many explanations about the provenance of the word, MON like Fornicate Under Command of the King, are entertainingly MON off-target. MON MON Denis Norden, present when it was first used on live MON television in 1965, remembers an even more shocking example MON from his teenage years in the 1930's; Graham Linehan, MON co-creator of Father Ted tells a story about the Irish word MON "feck", which he says is less offensive than it sounds. MON Meanwhile Kathy Burke reflects on how the English F word is MON used and misused today. MON MON Stephen's guests discuss the word in its sexual context and MON whether less "aggressive" forms are preferable. They also MON talk about its changing level of taboo. Geoffrey Robertson MON adds a legal perspective, reflecting on the word's MON prominence in the Lady Chatterley Trial and its current MON legal status And lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower guides us MON through his own lexicon, The F Word, commenting on the MON versatility of the word and the diversity of uses to which MON it has been put. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 You Must Take the A Train b01k2f7s (Listen) MON New Yorker columnist and author Adam Gopnik confesses to 'a MON perverse love' of his city's subway system. In particular, MON he likes the two hour run of the A train from the tip of MON Manhattan to the Atlantic Ocean in the outer borough of MON Queens. MON MON Along the way he encounters vendors, preachers, rappers, MON beggars and the homeless passengers who live in the subway MON cars and in the tunnels. MON MON As a jazz lover, he celebrates Duke Ellington and Billy MON Strayhorn's song as an anthem of black migration. which MON imitates the sound of the train and insists: MON "You must take the A train MON To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem." MON MON In 1932 punters queued to take the first A train ride as it MON went express along the west side of the city. It opened up MON suburbs, with a fast commute for workers in the Garment MON District, Times Square and in the offices and restaurants of MON Midtown. It also linked the dynamic established community of MON Harlem with the newer black neighbourhoods in Brooklyn. MON MON Gopnik admits to enjoying the graffiti that spread across MON the subway cars in the seventies and eighties but MON acknowledges that this was a sign of how New York had lost MON control. Since most New Yorkers don't own a car and the MON subway is the artery of a city, that dysfunctional slide was MON disastrous. MON MON It's only in the last fifteen years that the system has MON become safe and comparatively pleasant again. For a reporter MON like Gopnik, it's a perfect way to indulge in people MON watching and the best subway line to get a real sense of the MON city. However, depending on your mood, it can either be MON enervating or profoundly depressing, because it still MON reveals the seedy, aggressive, desperate and heartbreaking MON side of New York. MON MON Producer: Judith Kampfner MON A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b039xmkz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b039zg2f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039xml1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039xml3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039xml5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b039xml7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03b0wmb (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Dr Janet Wootton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03b0wmd (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk6z (Listen) TUE Hobby 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 Hobby. Sickle winged, TUE red-trousered and black-moustached, the hobby is a TUE strikingly beautiful falcon. Hobbies arrive in the UK in TUE late April or May from their wintering grounds in Africa. TUE They are now flourishing in the UK where there are now TUE around 2000 pairs, breeding mainly on farmland and heaths in TUE England and Wales. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03b0wmg (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b03b0wmj (Listen) TUE Ian Stewart TUE TUE Ian Stewart, Professor of Maths at Warwick University, has TUE had a dual career as a research mathematician and as a TUE populariser. He wrote his first book for a general audience TUE - on chaos theory - over thirty years. He's also the author TUE of short stories and novels of science fiction, and of the TUE Science of Discworld series. TUE TUE Ian Stewart talks to Jim al-Khalili about his life, TUE including his research into applying mathematics to problems TUE of biology and how he communicates the ideas of number and TUE maths to the general public. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03b0wml (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn speaks to Gillian Duffy 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, her second interview, Carolyn hears from the woman TUE who hit the headlines during the general election campaign TUE of 2010 when Gordon Brown infamously called her a "bigoted TUE woman". That remark, and the subsequent apology from the TUE then Prime Minister, made Gillian Duffy a household name. TUE Three years on, Carolyn Quinn talks to Gillian Duffy to find TUE out how she dealt with persistent doorstepping newshounds, TUE how she regards the experience now and whether her TUE relationship with the Labour party survived the experience. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03b965w (Listen) TUE The Inheritor's Powder - A Cautionary Tale of Poison, TUE Betrayal and Greed, Episode 2 TUE TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Director: David Blount TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03b0wmn (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03b0wmq (Listen) TUE Life in the Freezer, Venison Stew TUE TUE by Al Smith TUE TUE Leonard's birthday brings his children back home for a TUE family meal, but he is finding it hard to cope on his own. TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03b0wms (Listen) TUE Wildlife Aliens and Diseases TUE TUE Does the increase in human population mean more diseases for TUE domestic and wild animals and plants? As trade between TUE different countries and continents increases we move more TUE animals and plants around the world. With them go diseases TUE that can be devastating for local wildlife. Ash die-back and TUE the Varroa mite on bees are two recent examples that are TUE causing real concern. Monty Don explores how our need for TUE worldwide trade is carrying pests and diseases to places TUE where there is no resistance. TUE TUE The Varroa mite is an Asian species that has lived on the TUE Asian variety of honey bee (Apis cerana) without causing too TUE much damage to a colony. Where it has evolved it breeds only TUE on male bees and, as they are not as numerous as females in TUE a colony, it has little effect on the hive. Man moved TUE colonies of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) to Asia, TUE and at some point in the last century the mite 'jumped TUE species' onto the European honey bee. In European hives the TUE mites can breed in the cells of worker bees. This alters the TUE population dynamics of the mites and they multiply out of TUE control so that - without human intervention - the colony TUE will die. Varroa has now spread across the globe, reaching TUE the UK in 1992. There are now very few wild colonies of TUE honey bees left in the UK - they have been largely wiped out TUE by the introduced Varroa mite and the viruses it transmits. TUE TUE What can be done? Do we have a plan to stop this happening TUE again and can we forsee what the next crisis will be? TUE TUE 11:30 Nightingales of India b0210pl8 (Listen) TUE Presented by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, this is the remarkable TUE story of two iconic sisters revered by Bollywood fans the TUE world over. Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle are two of the TUE finest and most prolific female vocalists in the business. TUE They are playback singers extraordinaire - providing the TUE singing voices of generations of film actresses. TUE TUE The story of the sisters from a humble background parallels TUE the story of Bollywood and of India itself. TUE Known as the 'nightingales of India', they have forged TUE careers spanning more than six decades. One or the other of TUE them is rarely out of the record books as the most recorded TUE artist in the world. TUE TUE The sisters were born into a theatrical family. Lata, the TUE older of the two, who is interviewed in the programme was TUE left, at the age of thirteen, to support the whole family. TUE After much hardship she got her big break and, just as the TUE Hindi film industry was taking off at the end of the TUE thirties, a star was born. Now in her 80s, despite her fame TUE and fortune, she leads a quiet, simple life and remains TUE unmarried. Her younger sister Asha, now in her eighties too, TUE was far from shy and retiring. Teenage elopement, affairs TUE and divorce make her the dangerous half of the duo. She too TUE made it to the top. TUE TUE Everyone who is anyone in Bollywood has worked with or is TUE familiar with the sisters' work. And the programme includes TUE a rare interview with Lata Mangeshkar herself. TUE TUE Please note: at one point, the presenter refers to Lata and TUE Asha's audience as being in "south east asia". This should TUE be an audience in "south asia". TUE TUE Producer: Mohini Patel. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03b0wmv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Costing the NHS TUE TUE What should the NHS look like in the future? TUE TUE NHS England says that if the current model of care continues TUE in England there could be a funding gap of around £30bn TUE between now and 2021. They are calling for a public debate TUE to find ways of renewing and revitalising the NHS. But, can TUE the UK still afford a health service that's free at the TUE point of use? TUE TUE We want your views: what do you want from a national health TUE service in the future . . . TUE TUE Would you be prepared to pay for some of the things the NHS TUE currently provides for free? TUE Are there services which you think the NHS should stop TUE providing altogether? TUE Or should we just accept that we will have to pay more for a TUE national health service, which is free at the point of use, TUE in the future? TUE TUE In 'Costing the NHS' Julian hears from those who run the NHS TUE and the bodies which represent doctors, nurses and social TUE services. On Call You and Yours Julian wants your views. Are TUE you a doctor, a nurse, or someone who uses the NHS TUE regularly? TUE TUE Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk, tweet #youandyours text 84844 TUE or call 03700 100 444. TUE TUE Presenter: Julian Worricker TUE Producer: Joe Kent. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b039xml9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03b0wmx (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b03b0wmz (Listen) TUE Fame TUE TUE The Ideas That Make Us is a new Radio 4 series which reveals TUE the history of the most influential ideas in the story of TUE civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. TUE TUE In each edition of this archaeology of philosophy, the TUE historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes starts with the TUE moment each idea occurred to the ancient Greeks, and travels TUE forwards and backwards in time to find out how it has both TUE changed history and developed through the ages. In this, the TUE second of five programmes, Bettany investigates the idea of TUE fame with philosopher Angie Hobbs, British Museum curator Dr TUE Irving Finkel, historian Stella Tillyard and YouTuber TUE Benjamin Cook. TUE TUE Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03b0q9y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03b0wn1 (Listen) TUE The Magnificent Andrea TUE TUE Andrea has quietly passed away. But there's going to be hell TUE to pay at her funeral. Nigel Planer writes and also co-stars TUE with Roger Allam in this comedy-drama about the personality TUE clash between two former lovers of an inspirational woman TUE both utterly worshipped. TUE TUE The Magnificent Andrea is the first original radio play by TUE Nigel Planer, famous for appearances in drama and comedy on TUE television and the West End. He has created two wonderful TUE characters, both in love with the same woman - Andrea, who TUE has just - tragically - died. Her former husband, boozy TUE columnist Barry is at the tail end of a career marked by low TUE achievement in pugnacious, snide journalism. Nigel was TUE Andrea's recent partner until her sudden death: an TUE alternative but ultra-orthodox, politically-correct TUE naturopath. TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE Credits TUE Barry: Roger Allam TUE Nigel: Nigel Planer TUE Tania: Sally Orrock TUE Receptionist: Sally Orrock TUE Taxi Driver: Brian Bowles TUE Preacher: Jane Whittenshaw TUE George: Sam Dale TUE Sarah: Joanna Monro TUE Waitress: Joanna Monro TUE Ambulance Driver: Stuart McLoughlin TUE Writer: Nigel Planer TUE Director: Peter Kavanagh TUE Producer: Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b03b0wy1 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined by leading historians to discuss the TUE latest historic research and showcase listeners' passions TUE that are helping to deliver new insight into our 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 b03b0ydt (Listen) TUE Sharks Attacked TUE TUE Ever since the film 'Jaws' hit the big screen, sharks have TUE been portrayed as aggressive, indiscriminate killers. But in TUE reality there are only a handful of deaths as a result of TUE shark attacks each year, whilst around 70 million sharks are TUE killed by humans, pushing many species to the brink of TUE extinction. TUE TUE There are over 30 species of shark living in UK waters, but TUE many are under threat. TUE TUE From the small, lesser known 'smooth-hounds' that are a TUE couple of feet long, up to the larger species (blues and TUE basking sharks are both regular visitors to our shores), TUE they all face the pressure of being caught as by-catch. A TUE legal loophole also means many sharks are at risk from TUE having their fins sliced off to feed the demand for the TUE delicacy 'shark fin soup'. They are also in demand for use TUE in Chinese medicines. TUE TUE So what can be done to ensure these enigmatic sea creatures TUE can be protected, and should they be? TUE TUE Presenter: Miranda Krestovnikoff TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Document b03b0ydw (Listen) TUE Mike Thomson explores the implications of a secret CIA TUE report made in the 1960s that suggested British and American TUE diplomatic cables and reports were being decrypted by the TUE Japanese with the help of an American Cryptologist. TUE He tells the story of the colourful founder of American TUE Cryptology, Herbert O Yardley. Yardley's publication of a TUE book explaining his cryptographic success, particularly TUE against the Japanese was a cause celebre in 1931. However, TUE new documents coming to light suggest that Yardleys work for TUE the Japanese continued long after, and that he may have been TUE involved in deciphering British and American diplomatic TUE messages giving the Japanese a clear understanding of the TUE lack of preparedness for the attacks on Pearl Harbour and TUE Singapore. TUE TUE Producer - Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03b0ydy (Listen) TUE Series 31, Konnie Huq on Ada Lovelace TUE TUE From Banking, to air traffic control systems and to TUE controlling the United States defence department there's a TUE computer language called 'Ada' - it's named after Ada TUE Lovelace - a 19th century mathematician and daughter of Lord TUE Byron. Ada Lovelace is this week's Great Life. She's been TUE called many things - but perhaps most poetically by Charles TUE Babbage whom she worked with on a steam-driven calculating TUE machine called the Difference Engine an 'enchantress of TUE numbers', as her similarly mathematical mother had been TUE called by Lord Byron a "princess of parallelograms". Augusta TUE 'Ada' Byron was born in 1815 but her parents marriage was TUE short and unhappy; they separated when Ada was one month old TUE and she never saw her father , he died when was eight years TUE old. Her mother, Annabella concerned Ada might inherit TUE Byron's "poetic tendencies" had her schooled her in maths TUE and science to try to combat any madness inherited from her TUE father. She's championed by TV presenter and writer -Konnie TUE Huq, most well known for presenting the BBC's children's TUE programme - 'Blue Peter' and together with expert- Suw TUE Charman- Anderson, a Social technologist, they lift the lid TUE on the life of this mathematician, now regarded as the first TUE computer programmer with presenter Matthew Parris. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03b0yf0 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039xmlc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03b0yf2 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 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 third episode of the series features a song about an TUE unheralded inventor; a touching reunion; and a normal man. TUE TUE Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. TUE Original music is by Susannah Pearse. TUE TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03b0yf4 (Listen) TUE Brian's not easily fooled, and Matt paints a rosy picture. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03b0yf6 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a report on a major exhibition TUE of Australian art from the past 200 years, on show at the TUE Royal Academy, London. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03b0wmq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03b0yf8 (Listen) TUE What Price Cheap Clothes? TUE TUE Current affairs documentary series. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03b0yqd (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Seven Ages of Science b03b0yqg (Listen) TUE Age of Now TUE TUE Lisa Jardine explores what's driving science in the 21st TUE century: curiosity, politics, profit or PR? TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b03b0wmj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b039xmlf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03b0yyy (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03b0yz0 (Listen) TUE Expo 58, Episode 7 TUE TUE Reader: Tim McInnerny TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Author: Jonathan Coe TUE TUE 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed b03b0yz2 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Fugitive TUE TUE Fugitive: DS Nick Mohammed is on the trail of a fugitive, TUE assisted by longsuffering constables Colin and Anna. Written TUE and performed by Nick Mohammed, with Anna Crilly, Colin TUE Hoult, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Will Andrews. Script TUE Editor: Johnny Sweet. Producer: Victoria Lloyd. TUE TUE 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b037hmy3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Free Riders TUE TUE Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each TUE week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a knotty conundrum TUE with an audience and a panel of experts. Free will, TUE exploitation, sex, sexism, blame and shame are just some of TUE the topics to be mulled over in this series of The TUE Philosopher's Arms. TUE TUE Producer: Estelle Doyle. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b039xmmq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03b965w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039xmms (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039xmmv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039xmmx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b039xmmz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03b29zf (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Dr Janet Wootton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03b29zh (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk7c (Listen) WED Turnstone 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 turnstone. A turnstone is a WED stout little wading bird which you'll often see probing WED under seaweed on rocky shores or flipping pebbles over with WED the stout bills...hence their name....Turnstone. In summer WED they are intricately patterned and strikingly coloured like WED a tortoiseshell cat but at other times of year they look WED brownish and can be hard to see against the seaweed covered WED rocks among which they love to feed. WED WED 06:00 Today b03b29zk (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03b29zp (Listen) WED Ava Astaire WED WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and Fred WED Astaire's daughter, Ava. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03b96l4 (Listen) WED The Inheritor's Powder - A Cautionary Tale of Poison, WED Betrayal and Greed, Episode 3 WED WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Director: David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03b2bk9 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03b2bkf (Listen) WED Life in the Freezer, Christmas Dinner WED WED by Al Smith WED WED For the Cartwright family the strain of the loss of their WED mother begins to show across the Christmas dinner table as WED they eat the meal she has left prepared for them. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED 11:00 NHS: Changing Culture b03b2g28 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED NHS culture has been condemned as "broken" and as WED "insidiously negative". Business journalist, Lesley Curwen, WED asks what NHS managers were doing when appalling patient WED care was happening on their watch. WED WED In the first of two programmes, she tracks the initial WED introduction of managers into the NHS and explores the WED responsibility that NHS leaders now shoulder for creating WED both good and bad cultures. WED WED Robert Francis QC spells out why he believes the primary WED cause of the scandal at Mid Staffordshire was management WED failure, and the clean-up executives, sent in to run the WED scandal hit Trust, describe the culture of denial that WED dominated when they arrived. WED WED As the NHS adapts to the radical reforms of 2013 in the WED midst of unprecedented financial challenges, Lesley visits WED both struggling and thriving hospital Trusts to discover how WED their leaders and managers are trying to create positive and WED open cultures, where staff are supported to provide the very WED highest standard of care to patients. WED WED Producer: Fiona Hill. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b03b2g2b (Listen) WED Series 2, The Problem of the Superfluous Finger WED WED By Jaques Futurelle. WED WED Dramatised By Chris Harrald. WED WED Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock WED Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a WED chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He WED begins with his collaboration with "The Thinking Machine" WED Professor SFX Van Dusen, trying to solve a strange case WED involving self-mutilation. WED WED Producer: Liz Webb. WED WED Credits WED Lestrade: Tim Pigott-Smith WED Van Dusen: Paul Rhys WED Mrs Morey: Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Dr Prescott: Sean Murray WED Miss Marsh: Philippa Stanton WED Hoskins: Ben Crowe WED Producer: Liz Webb WED Adaptor: Chris Harrald WED Author: Jaques Futurelle WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03b2g2d (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b039xmn1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03b2g2g (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b03b2g2j (Listen) WED Love WED WED The Ideas That Make Us is a new Radio 4 series which reveals WED the history of the most influential ideas in the story of WED civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. WED WED In each edition of this archaeology of philosophy, the WED historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes starts with the WED moment each idea occurred to the ancient Greeks, and travels WED forwards and backwards in time to find out how it has both WED changed history and developed through the ages. In this, the WED third of five programmes, Bettany explores the idea of love WED with philosopher Angie Hobbs, historians Professor Kate WED Cooper and William Dalrymple, and neuroscientist Faraneh WED Vargha-Khadem. WED WED Producer: Dixi Stewart. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03b0yf4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03b2w1w (Listen) WED The Exuberant WED WED By Jeff Young WED WED Jack 'Space' Hopper is an Exuberant - meaning he hunts for WED meteorites. So if your house has been hit by a rock from WED outer space, he'll turn up on your doorstep with money in WED his pocket, a magnet on a stick and a mad desire to touch WED your fridge. WED WED Jack's on the hunt for a space rock that's come down WED somewhere slightly to the east of Aberystwyth. His arch WED nemesis, and object of unrequited desire, is the WED flame-haired, musk-scented Aurora. But who will find the WED rock first? WED WED A comedy about the mad desire to catch a falling star. WED Written by radio, TV and theatre writer Jeff Young and WED starring Adeel Akhtar (Utopia, Four Lions), Victoria Elliott WED (Hebburn), Eiry Thomas (Stella) and Ifan Huw Dafydd (Gavin WED and Stacey). WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Jack: Adeel Akhtar WED Aurora: Victoria Elliott WED Carmel: Eiry Thomas WED Pump Attendant: Ifan Huw Dafydd WED Shop Assistant: Lee Mengo WED Director: James Robinson WED Writer: Jeff Young WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03b2j73 (Listen) WED Legal Aid WED WED Need advice about accessing Civil Legal Aid? Paul Lewis and WED guests take your calls on Wednesday's Money Live. Call 03700 WED 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED If you need legal advice, representation or help at court WED but can't afford the costs who can you turn to? WED WED Perhaps you have a family or domestic problem or you're WED involved with a dispute about welfare benefits, housing, WED debt, discrimination, education or another issue? WED WED While the Legal Aid system has been radically reformed this WED year you may still be entitled to help, depending on the WED case and on your income or savings. WED WED If you want to find out more, presenter Paul Lewis and WED guests will be waiting to answer your question on WED Wednesday's Money Box Live. Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Graham Harding, Law Society of Scotland's Civil Legal Aid WED Committee WED WED Richard Miller, Head of Legal Aid, The Law Society WED WED Pamela Fitzpatrick, Harrow Law Centre WED WED Steve Kirwan, Solicitor and Collaborative Family Lawyer, WED Nowell Meller Solicitors WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Seven Ages of Science b03b0yqg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03b2j75 (Listen) WED Holiday hedonism in Ibiza; White working class voters WED WED Holiday hedonism - Laurie Taylor talks to the criminologist, WED Daniel Briggs, about his study into young British tourists' WED risk taking behaviour in Ibiza. From drug taking to WED prostitution, violence and injury. What leads these WED holidaymakers to engage in deviant, even dangerous behaviour WED when abroad? WED Also, Nathan Manning discusses his research into the meaning WED and causes of white, working class political disaffection. WED He interviewed low wage workers in Yorkshire and the WED NorthWest, areas where support for the far right British WED National Party and low voter turnout indicate alienation WED from mainstream politics. He's joined by Professor of WED Politics, Michael Kenny. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03b2j77 (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 b03b2j79 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039xmn3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b03b2j7f (Listen) WED Series 5, Janet Ellis 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 actress WED and presenter Janet Ellis, whose teenage diaries show that WED her love of arts and crafts started long before she got the WED job on Blue Peter. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03b2j7h (Listen) WED Tony has second thoughts, and Lynda breaks the bad news. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03b2j7k (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who talks to David Walliams and Sheridan WED Smith, currently starring in a new production of WED Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03b2bkf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b03b2md6 (Listen) WED Whistleblowers WED WED Clive Anderson's guests call for new laws both to encourage WED employees to report criminal behaviour and malpractice in WED their organisations and to protect them if they blow the WED whistle. WED WED The programme brings together leading lawyers to discuss the WED developing law relating to whistle-blowing and to consider WED concerns that the law does not adequately protect employees WED from unfair dismissal, bullying or blacklisting. WED WED In the wake of the Libor scandal and disturbing revelations WED about NHS care, does the law offer sufficient safeguards to WED employees who report a criminal offence, miscarriage of WED justice, danger to someone's health and safety or damage to WED the environment? WED WED Cathy James, chief executive of the whistle-blower charity, WED Public Concern at Work, reveals that three out of four WED people interviewed say nothing ever happens when they WED complain about bad practices within the workplace. The WED programme hears that, despite legislation designed to WED prevent victimisation of whistle-blowers, most people are WED still scared to raise their head above the parapet. WED WED Robert Francis QC, who chaired the public inquiry into the WED Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust, calls for new laws to make WED victimisation by colleagues a criminal offence and for WED attempts to obstruct whistle-blowing to be made illegal WED also. WED WED But barrister Caspar Glyn QC is concerned that, all too WED often, disgruntled, under-achieving employees use WED whistle-blowing legislation as a sword - threatening to WED report workplace malpractice unless they receive enhanced WED severance payments. He says employers need protection as WED well as employees. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03b2md8 (Listen) WED Series 4, Danny Dorling WED WED The United Nations recently predicted that the world's WED population will grow to nine billion by 2050 and ten billion WED by the end of the century. WED WED Whilst news of population growth is often greeted with panic WED and dismay Danny Doring, a human geographer at the Oxford WED University Centre for the Environment, argues that, in fact, WED there's nothing to fear in the future, because the WED population bomb has already diffused. 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 Producer: Caitlin Smith. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03b0ydt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03b29zp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b039xmn5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03b2mdb (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03b2mdd (Listen) WED Expo 58, Episode 8 WED WED Reader: Tim McInnerny WED Producer: Joanna Green WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Author: Jonathan Coe WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b03b2mdg (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Belinda offers Nigel's services as a songwriter to the local WED football team to celebrate their possible cup run. Nigel, WED however, is slightly more concerned with a money-spinning WED sideline selling cheap and nasty music satchels whilst WED coping with his usual array of challenging pupils. 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 Rob: Dave Lamb WED Kev: Jim North WED Steve: Jim North WED Bradley: Adrian Decosta WED Alvin: Joseph Webb WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 It Is Rocket Science b00zm0mp (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED WED Helen Keen presents her off-beat, comic but factually WED correct history of space travel, starring Peter Serafinowicz WED as The Voice of Space with other parts played by Susy Kane. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards WED WED This week, we take a look at the breathtaking drama of the WED space race and its evil twin the Cold War; the brilliant but WED secret life and tragically banal death of the Soviet Union's WED best rocket science; and his the surprising tale of the last WED man on the moon (so far) and the songs he sang. WED WED The series stars stars Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and WED Susy Kane. WED WED 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b037tnxh (Listen) WED Series 3, Exploitation WED WED Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each WED week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a knotty conundrum WED with an audience and a panel of experts. Free will, sex, WED sexism, blame and shame are just some of the topics to be WED mulled over in this series of The Philosopher's Arms. WED WED What is 'exploitation' - with philosopher Alex Voorhoeve. WED WED Producer: David Edmonds. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b039xmp4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03b96l4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039xmp6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039xmp8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039xmpb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b039xmpd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03b2ndx (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Dr Janet Wootton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03b2ndz (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk8r (Listen) THU Thrush Nightingale 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 thrush nightingale. Even though THU there's no sign of the whistling crescendos that are a THU hallmark of its close relative, the Nightingale, the song of THU the thrush nightingale is an accomplished performance. They THU are summer visitors to Europe and prefer dense damp thickets THU from which they often sing. THU THU 06:00 Today b03b2nf1 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03b2v6m (Listen) THU Pascal THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests begin a new series of the THU programme with a discussion of the French polymath Blaise THU Pascal. Born in 1623, Pascal was a brilliant mathematician THU and scientist, inventing one of the first mechanical THU calculators and making important discoveries about fluids THU and vacuums while still a young man. In his thirties he THU experienced a religious conversion, after which he devoted THU most of his attention to philosophy and theology. Although THU he died in his late thirties, Pascal left a formidable THU legacy as a scientist and pioneer of probability theory, and THU as one of seventeenth century Europe's greatest writers. THU With David Wootton, Michela Massimi and Michael Moriarty. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03b977g (Listen) THU The Inheritor's Powder - A Cautionary Tale of Poison, THU Betrayal and Greed, Episode 4 THU THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Director: David Blount THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03b2v6p (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03b2v6r (Listen) THU Life in the Freezer, Lamb and Apricots THU THU by Al Smith THU THU When Neil breaks up with his girlfriend he needs his mother THU but now he has only his father to turn to and Leonard isn't THU sure he's up to the task. THU THU Director ...... Sally Avens THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03b2v6t (Listen) THU Indonesia's Mercury Menace THU THU Up to 20% of the world's gold is produced by informal THU mining, with millions of people in the developing world THU relying on it for a living. The quickest and easiest way for THU them to extract gold is by mixing finely ground rock with THU mercury, a highly toxic metal, and burning it off. Linda THU Pressly visits Indonesia, and finds gold workers and THU communities who are already showing signs of mercury THU poisoning. There are paddy fields with the highest THU concentration of mercury ever tested in rice. And she THU discovers that this small-scale industry is causing THU devastating environmental damage to once pristine THU rainforest. THU Producer: Emil Petrie. THU THU 11:30 Sound Painting b01r0f4n (Listen) THU An artist's studio is a unique setting, littered with the THU debris of creative endeavour - photos, drawings and images THU all offering inspiration. THU THU However many artists also draw on audio stimulus from the THU music of their hi-fis and ipods. In this revealing THU programme, Tim Marlow meets some of the UK's leading artists THU to explore the sounds and music they use and how it THU influences the creative process. THU THU Artist-in-residence at the National, Michael Landy, is happy THU to listen to the sounds of the gallery as he works, THU expressing an interest in the PA announcements and the THU gentle hum of Sir Peter Blake's fridge, left by the artist THU after his spell working at the National studio. THU THU The use of music was something that used to move one of THU Britain's leading sculptors, Sir Anthony Caro. He talks THU about his past use of the classics to enhance the mood of THU his studio. But these days, as he nears his 90th birthday, THU he prefers silence as "Beethoven is just too distracting". THU THU Rachel Whiteread also enjoys music when she is drawing but THU explains how everyday sounds affect her work and THU demonstrates some of the noises that punctuate her day. THU THU The programme culminates with Tracey Emin at her Bethnal THU Green studio revealing the sounds and music that influence THU her work. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03b2v6w (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b039xmpk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03b2v6y (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b03b2v70 (Listen) THU Agony THU THU The Ideas That Make Us is a new Radio 4 series which reveals THU the history of the most influential ideas in the story of THU civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. THU THU In each edition of this archaeology of philosophy, the THU historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes starts with the THU moment each idea occurred to the ancient Greeks, and travels THU forwards and backwards in time to find out how it has both THU changed history and developed through the ages. In this, the THU fourth of five programmes, Bettany explores the idea of THU agony with cricket columnist Gideon Haigh, classicist THU Professor Paul Cartledge, philosopher Martin Warner and THU best-selling novelist Kate Mosse. THU THU Producer: Dixi Stewart. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03b2j7h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03b2v72 (Listen) THU Brief Lives, Episode 3 THU THU Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly THU THU Ronnie discovers her long lost younger sister set up in a THU quayside apartment in the posh end of Salford. How can she THU afford to live there? And Frank finds out about Sarah's new THU beau, and he ain't pleased. THU THU Director/Producer Gary Brown. THU THU Credits THU Frank: David Schofield THU Sarah: Caroline Burns Cooke THU Ronnie: Rachel Austin THU Paul: Lucas Smith THU Cyndi: Nisa Cole THU Graham: Ian Mercer THU Maggie: Lisa Moore THU Director: Gary Brown THU Producer: Gary Brown THU Writer: Tom Fry THU Writer: Sharon Kelly THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b03b2v74 (Listen) THU Series 25, The Tuesday Walkers of North Devon THU THU Clare Balding walks in Somerset as the guest of The Tuesday THU Walkers of North Devon. Meeting at the village of Exford on THU Exmoor, they set out on a six mile circular route, which, THU like all of the group's walks, begins and ends at a pub. All THU the members are retired and take their Tuesday hike as an THU important weekly date in their diaries. While enjoying the THU scenery, the company and the exercise all have good advice THU to offer Clare, on how to ensure a fit, healthy, active and THU happy retirement. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b039yz4n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b039zdv5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03b2v77 (Listen) THU Diana; Hossein Amini; Metro Manila THU THU Francine Stock talks to Downfall director Oliver THU Birschbiegel about his controversial new film Diana, which THU dramatises Princess Diana's relationship with a heart THU surgeon. Naomi Watts takes the title role. THU THU Hossein Amini, whose credits include The Wings of the Dove THU and Jude, discusses the art of screenwriting and THU adaptations, as BAFTA and the BFI open their Screenwriters THU lecture series. THU THU The director Sean Ellis discusses his new thriller Metro THU Manila, set in the Philippines, which follows a rural family THU on their increasingly fraught journey to survive in the THU city. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Oliver Hirschbiegel THU Interviewed Guest: Hossein Amini THU Interviewed Guest: Sean Ellis THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03b2v7c (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 b03b2v7h (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039xmpm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01n6rrz (Listen) THU Series 5, Effervescent Members THU THU More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, THU courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. THU THU In this episode, the new sweetie craze of "Fizzy Limbs" has THU Fags, Mags and Bags rocking every lunchtime with rampaging THU kids. Local headmistress Mrs Temple (Julie T Wallace) THU confronts Ramesh about stocking them as she feels it's THU affecting the children's behaviour. But are such matter THU Ramesh's concern? THU THU Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless THU quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke THU with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh THU Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a THU firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves THU the art of the "shop". THU THU Produced by Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave: Donald McLeary THU Sanjay: Omar Raza THU Alok: Susheel Kumar THU Mrs Temple: Julie T Wallace THU Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo THU Mrs Begg: Marj Hogarth THU Hilly: Kate Brailsford THU Bras Jeff: Steven McNicoll THU Writer: Sanjeev Kohli THU Writer: Donald McLeary THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03b2vyj (Listen) THU David's celebrating his birthday, and Eddie and Joe are THU enthusiastic participants. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03b2vyl (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who interviews writer and director Woody THU Allen, whose new film Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett, THU Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. THU THU Producer Timothy Prosser. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03b2v6r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03b2vyn (Listen) THU Police Tasers THU THU What are the risks of being tasered and how safe are the THU alternative methods of police use of force? THU THU 20:30 In Business b03b2vyq (Listen) THU Survivors' Stories THU THU In Peter Day's 25 years of presenting this programme, he has THU seen a succession of booms and busts, and heard from people THU who seem to know how to survive in business. He's been back THU to revisit a few of them, to find out what lessons they have THU learnt. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03b2v7c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03b2v6m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b039xmpq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03b2vys (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03b2vyv (Listen) THU Expo 58, Episode 9 THU THU Reader: Tim McInnerny THU Producer: Joanna Green THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Author: Jonathan Coe THU THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b0375b3z (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 The Philosopher's Arms b0383x96 (Listen) THU Series 3, Free Will THU THU Matthew Sweet is in the pub, discussing a knotty conundrum THU with an invited audience and a panel of experts. Today it's THU whether or not we have free will, with philosopher Wayne THU Martin of the University of Essex and neuroscientist Gemma THU Calvert, Managing Director of Neurosense. Also featuring THU Peter Mabbutt and Jo Russell. THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b039xmqt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03b977g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b039xmqw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b039xmqy (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b039xmr0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b039xmr2 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03b2z9q (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Dr Janet Wootton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03b2z9s (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk90 (Listen) FRI Jay 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 jay. This bird is a colourful FRI member of the crow family. In September and October you'll FRI often see jays flying around woodland with their bills and FRI throats crammed with acorns. Many of these they bury as FRI winter stores but not all are retrieved by Jays and many FRI germinate and grow into young oaks, making the jay a FRI tree-planter on a national scale. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03b2z9v (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b039yz4x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03b97bc (Listen) FRI The Inheritor's Powder - A Cautionary Tale of Poison, FRI Betrayal and Greed, Episode 5 FRI FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Director: David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03b2z9x (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03b2z9z (Listen) FRI Life in the Freezer, Tarragon Chicken with Lime FRI FRI by Al Smith FRI FRI The family gather to scatter their mother's ashes and find FRI themselves throwing a party. FRI FRI Producer: Sally Avens FRI FRI 11:00 Journey of a Lifetime b03b2zb1 (Listen) FRI 2013: Will Millard, The River Wild 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 raft in which to do it. With the Sierra Leone portion of the FRI forest already part of the Gola Rainforest National Park, FRI the river boundary will, it's hoped, shortly become the FRI heart of the Trans-Boundary Peace Park, straddling both FRI countries. Local Liberian villagers, however, are divided FRI about the merits of this significant conservation project. FRI FRI Meanwhile, in the heart of the rainforest, having survived FRI the death-defying waterfall where we left him last week, FRI Will finds time to observe at close quarters a troupe of FRI Diana monkeys and catch his first fish of the journey. But FRI perils are literally round the next bend in the river, as he FRI encounters an encampment of illegal diamond hunters and hits FRI another disastrous sequence of rapids in which his life is FRI again in danger... He's also not feeling good: a badly FRI infected hand is making paddling the packraft difficult and, FRI weak with exhaustion, Will suspects he may have contracted FRI malaria... But medical help is at least two days' trek away. FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 11:30 Start/Stop b03b2zb3 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI by Jack Docherty FRI FRI A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the FRI sunset. And sinking. This week a school fundraiser proves FRI unusually challenging. FRI FRI Producer ..... Steven Canny FRI FRI Jack Docherty FRI Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. FRI He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe FRI with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to FRI write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, FRI Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, FRI The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News FRI Huddlines and a ton of other things. FRI FRI He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows FRI including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks FRI Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and FRI Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies FRI Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has FRI appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got FRI News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented FRI his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on FRI Channel 5. FRI FRI Credits 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 b03b2zb5 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b039xmr6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03b2zb7 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The Ideas That Make Us b03b2zb9 (Listen) FRI Justice FRI FRI The Ideas That Make Us is a new Radio 4 series which reveals FRI the history of the most influential ideas in the story of FRI civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. FRI FRI In each edition of this archaeology of philosophy, the FRI historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes starts with the FRI moment each idea occurred to the ancient Greeks, and travels FRI forwards and backwards in time to find out how it has both FRI changed history and developed through the ages. In this, the FRI last of five programmes, Bettany explores the idea of FRI justice with philosopher Angie Hobbs, British Museum curator FRI Dr Irving Finkel, historian Dr Peter Frankopan and out-going FRI Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge. FRI FRI Producer: Dixi Stewart. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03b2vyj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03b2zbc (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 4 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Nuala O'Sullivan FRI FRI A woman is brought in for drink driving. She is the wife of FRI an old school friend of Frank's. She also has a black eye FRI coming up. How did she get that? FRI FRI Series created by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly FRI FRI Producer/Director Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Caroline Burns Cooke FRI Doctor: Tom Fry FRI Janice: Susan Twist FRI Tommy: James Quinn FRI Ellis: Lisa Allen FRI Miller: Leah Hackett FRI Chemist: Lloyd Peters FRI Gallagher: Hamilton Berstock FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Nuala O'Sullivan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03b2zbf (Listen) FRI Ness Botanic Gardens, Wirral FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is joined by Matt Biggs, Bob Flowerdew, Anne FRI Swithinbank and James Wong to answer questions from a local FRI audience at Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Deeds Not Words b03b6s40 (Listen) FRI Tessa Hadley's short story 'Deeds Not Words' tells how two FRI teachers at the same girls' school follow very different FRI paths during the troubled years of the early 20th century. FRI The reader is Harriet Walter FRI The girls at St Clement's School had been swept along by FRI crazes before. Like the time when automatic writing from the FRI subconscious was the fashion, or that phase when everyone FRI devoured the novels of Marie Correlli. But this time, it's FRI the radicalism of the Suffragette movement that has FRI everybody talking, and girls are pinning pictures of the FRI Pankhursts inside their desk lids, and distributing angry FRI pamphlets. Whilst the smouldering English teacher Laura FRI Mullhouse acts as a beacon for their fervour, the Latin FRI Mistress Edith Carew has baser needs. But both of their FRI paths lead them in unexpected directions. FRI Producer: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03b2zbh (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 b03b2zbk (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03b2zbm (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b039xmr8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b03b2zbp (Listen) FRI What Does the Future Hold? FRI FRI Rory Bremner's satirical comedy takes one big contemporary FRI question each week and attempts to answer it. Regular FRI panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick Doody are FRI joined this week by the environmental journalist George FRI Monbiot and author of 'An Optimist's Tour of the Future', FRI Mark Stevenson. FRI FRI Together, they ask "What does the future hold?" FRI FRI This deconstructed "quiz" has only one question each week, FRI because that question is so big, there's no time for FRI anything else. Expect a mix of stand-up and sketch combined FRI with investigative satire and incisive interviews, with a FRI diverse range of characters who really know what they're FRI talking about. Rory's mantra is that it's as important to FRI make sense out of things as it is to make fun of them - only FRI then will people laugh at the truth. FRI FRI Producers: Simon Jacobs and Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03b2zbr (Listen) FRI Ian is the voice of reason, and Caroline doesn't feel FRI relaxed for long. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden 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 Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman FRI Harriet Franklin: Liza Sadovy FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Suzy Shen: Daphne Cheung FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Sue Wilson FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03b2zbt (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including the announcement of the FRI shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013. The FRI five stories are broadcast next week on Radio 4. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03b2z9z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03b2zbw (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Ascot in Berkshire with Attorney General Dominic Green FRI MP, Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry MP, the founder FRI of moneysavingexpert.com Martin Lewis and Sir Menzies FRI Campbell former leader of the Liberal Democrats. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03b2zby (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Knight FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b03b2zc0 (Listen) FRI The Broken Word FRI FRI Adam Fould adapts his own poem about a white family caught FRI up in the Mau Mau time in 1950s Kenya. Tom comes home for FRI his last holiday before university and is recruited by the FRI English colonial vigilantes and finds himself acquiring an FRI unexpected taste for blood. Narrated by Anton Lesser with FRI Gunnar Cauthery, Hattie Morahan, Gemma Lawrence, Pippa FRI Haywood, Kenneth Cranham, David Collins, John Mackay, David FRI Birrell, Mark Meadows, Ivanno Jeremiah and Fiston Barek. FRI Music and Sound Design by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Anton Lesser FRI Actor: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Actor: Hattie Morahan FRI Actor: Gemma Lawrence FRI Actor: Pippa Haywood FRI Actor: Kenneth Cranham FRI Actor: David Collins FRI Actor: John Mackay FRI Actor: David Birrell FRI Actor: Mark Meadows FRI Actor: Ivanno Jeremiah FRI Actor: Fiston Barek FRI Producer: Tim Dee FRI Writer: Adam Fould FRI FRI 21:45 The Listening Project b01p6rz3 (Listen) FRI Lyn and Mary - Where Do We Go Now? FRI FRI Fi Glover dedicates this edition of The Listening Project to FRI a single extraordinary conversation: civil partners Lyn and FRI Mary re-consider their relationship after Lyn served six FRI weeks in Styal prison for drink-driving. Mary, a retired FRI civil servant and Lyn, a trained counsellor, have been FRI together nine years, but Lyn's time in prison has had a huge FRI impact on their relationship and they are now uncertain of FRI their future. With astonishing honesty they lay bare their FRI feelings and reveal problems with which many will identify. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI This programme was originally broadcast as a Sunday Edition FRI on 9 Dec 2012 FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b039xmrb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03b2zc2 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03b2zc4 (Listen) FRI Expo 58, Episode 10 FRI FRI Reader: Tim McInnerny FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Author: Jonathan Coe FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03b0ydy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b038c7bq (Listen) FRI Series 3, Moral Blame FRI FRI Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each FRI week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a knotty conundrum FRI with an audience and a panel of experts. Free will, FRI exploitation, sex, sexism, blame and shame are just some of FRI the topics to be mulled over in this series of The FRI Philosopher's Arms. FRI Tonight we look at historic wrongs. Can we blame people in FRI the past who held views that we now regard as abhorrent, but FRI which were then widely accepted? The programme features FRI philosopher Miranda Fricker. FRI FRI Producer: David Edmonds. FRI
13 September, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 14/09/2013 - 20/09/2013
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