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SAT SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03dvh4c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03dvn0t (Listen) SAT Bonkers: My Life in Laughs, Episode 5 SAT SAT In Bonkers: A Life in Laughs award winning comedian, SAT Jennifer Saunders, recollects a life filled with laughter SAT and the occasional bit of heartache, but very little misery. SAT Today, a final tour with Dawn and some unexpected news. SAT SAT Jennifer Saunders has been making us laugh for three decades SAT and is best known for the long running sketch show French SAT and Saunders which she co-wrote and starred in with her SAT comedy partner, Dawn French. Later she created the worldwide SAT hit series Absolutely Fabulous in which she also played SAT champagne swilling, Edina Monsoon. She has won three BAFTAs SAT (including the Bafta Fellowship), an International Emmy, a SAT British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or, two Writers' Guild Awards SAT and a People's Choice Award. SAT SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03dvh4f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03dvh4h (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03dvh4k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03dvh4m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03dvyq9 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard SAT Hill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03dvyqc (Listen) SAT A 15-year-old girl tells iPM - 'I saw a beheading video on SAT Facebook, why is this allowed?' SAT And her father who also saw the video says he 'can't forget SAT it'. Your News is presented by Barry Norman. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03dvh4p (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03dvh4r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b03dvbz6 (Listen) SAT Series 25, John McCarthy walks with volunteer rangers on the SAT South Downs SAT SAT John McCarthy is this week's guest presenter, while Clare is SAT away. SAT SAT The theme of this series of Ramblings is listeners' walks SAT .Today's guests are volunteer rangers on the South Downs SAT Way, Anni Townend and Ian Lock. Anni wrote to the programme SAT to suggest we walk with her on a six mile stretch of the Way SAT from Housedean Farm to Southease. This is her 'patch', which SAT - as a ranger - she walks every month carrying out SAT conservation work including scrub clearance and hedge SAT laying, as well as improving public access and surveying SAT wildlife and plantlife. SAT SAT OS Explorer 122 South Downs Way, Steyning to Newhaven SAT 1:25,000 SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03f86kj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03dvh4t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03f86kl (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03f86kn (Listen) SAT Terry Deary, Khaled Hosseini and Mr Mitchell SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with Horrible Histories author SAT Terry Deary whose new adult history book is about the Roman SAT Empire and whose play, Barmy Britain Part Two!, is on at the SAT Garrick Theatre in London. SAT SAT They also talk to Jonny Mitchell, Head Teacher at the SAT Thornhill Academy in Dewsbury and the subject of Channel 4's SAT series 'Educating Yorkshire', Henry and Ingrid Wuga, SAT Kindertransport refugees in 1939 who met and married in SAT Glasgow and still live there together aged 89 and Barnaby SAT Rogerson who runs Eland Publishing which specialises in SAT keeping classic travel books in print. They hear from local SAT people in Sunderland as part of a JP Devlin crowdscape, find SAT out about ten-year old Fynnjan who has aspergers, and his SAT Mum, who are trying to get the song and music he's written SAT to Christmas No1 in the charts and also raise money for SAT charity and awareness of autism and aspergers, and listen to SAT writer Khaled Hosseini's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Don't Log Off b03f86kq (Listen) SAT Series 4, Found in Translation SAT SAT Alan Dein hears the story of Bryan from the US and Anna from SAT Russia who met online - using Google Translate. SAT SAT Bryan doesn't speak Russian and Anna doesn't speak English - SAT they conduct their communication entirely via the online SAT translation tool. SAT SAT Alan has been following the story for Don't Log Off for over SAT a year, speaking to Bryan on Skype on numerous occasions. SAT Since they first spoke, Anna decided to move to the US with SAT her two children. She sells her house in Russia and takes SAT just three suitcases to set up home with Bryan. The couple's SAT understanding of each other's languages remains minimal. SAT SAT She arrived in the US in July this year - and the couple had SAT 90 days to get married or Anna would have to leave the SAT country. The wedding date is set for 21st September - but SAT then, suddenly, it's called off... because Anna has SAT concerns. SAT SAT Alan decides to travel to Boise, Idaho to see how things SAT work out... SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03f86ks (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster SAT SAT A week in which the coalition has come under strain over SAT free schools and green energy: passionate debate over the SAT immigration bill and the female MPs dubbed "autocuties" SAT unfair typecasting? SAT SAT Guests include former MPs Gyles Brandreth and Clare Short. SAT MPs Julian Huppert Dan Byles Neil Carmichael David Ward SAT Fiona McTaggart and Andrew Selous. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03f86kx (Listen) SAT The Ruin of Rome SAT SAT The financial crash has devastated the historic centre of SAT Rome - Joanna Robertson talks of a favourite city now SAT drained of community life; the perils of newsgathering in SAT Sri Lanka: Fergal Keane meets journalists there determined SAT to carry on reporting despite the risk of intimidation, SAT assault and even murder. Jon Donnison's in the Blue SAT Mountains of New South Wales where the wildfires are still SAT raging and there's a heated debate about how much climate SAT change is to blame; Steve Evans, on the row surrounding the SAT bugging of Chancellor Merkel's 'phone, wonders what SAT information the Americans have gleaned. And a travelling SAT correspondent may carry a lap-top, a digital recorder, a SAT camera but a two-month-old baby? Madeleine Morris has the SAT story of what happened when a toddler came too. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03f86kz (Listen) SAT Fuel Poverty; Green questions over Co-Op; Switching SAT nightmares SAT SAT Six million UK households are in fuel poverty spending more SAT than 10% of their income on home energy bills. Half of them SAT are over pension age, a third have a disability, a fifth SAT have a child under 5. Those figures from the Annual Report SAT of the Government's Fuel Poverty Advisory Group in 2011/12. SAT Now they will be even worse. Thirteen years ago Parliament SAT passed a law to end fuel poverty by 2016. Every year since SAT 2003 it has grown. Many of them will have felt fear over the SAT last two weeks as one supplier after another announced SAT increases which will add £2 a week to their bills. What can SAT they do? SAT SAT Telecoms regulator Ofcom has given customers on fixed term SAT contracts some small new rights when their provider puts up SAT prices mid-contract. The EU test has always been that if the SAT price rise meant you suffered "material detriment" you could SAT leave the contract without penalty. Otherwise you were stuck SAT with paying the full monthly fee to the end of the contract SAT which could cost hundreds of pounds. Now Ofcom says it will SAT interpret any rise in the monthly fee during the contract as SAT material detriment. So customers can leave without penalty. SAT SAT The news that Co-operative Bank is going to be owned by two SAT hedge funds has made many customers ask us what are their SAT ethical alternatives to the Co-op? Are any banks - was even SAT the Co-op itself - truly ethical? SAT SAT The first four weeks of the new swifter switching process SAT for moving your bank account saw a modest rise in the SAT numbers walking with their mouse to another bank. But how SAT well is the new system working? One key promise is that the SAT whole process will take nine days (the banks say seven but SAT fail to count weekends). But many listeners are complaining SAT it is taking a lot longer. One woman was told by Santander SAT the process would be complete in 7986 years. The man in SAT charge answers questions. SAT Renting and letting SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b03dvx6q (Listen) SAT Series 41, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw present a comedic look at the SAT week's news, providing a topical mix of stand-up, sketches SAT and songs that tell you everything you need to know. With SAT Jon Holmes, Sara Pascoe, Joe Stilgoe and Laura Shavin. SAT SAT Produced by Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03dvh4w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03dvh4y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03dvxyv (Listen) SAT Charles Clarke, Bob Crow, Matt Hancock, Diane James SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Thetford Common Sense Club in Norfolk with former Home SAT Secretary Charles Clarke, leader of the RMT Bob Crow, Diane SAT James who's an MEP candidate for UKIP and Bis Minister Matt SAT Hancock. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03f86l1 (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? Presented by Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03f86l3 (Listen) SAT Topaz SAT SAT In Lucy Gannon's comic drama, Brian Cox stars as the SAT unfortunate 19th century poet, William Topaz McGonagall. SAT SAT In the face of widespread ridicule at his lack of talent, SAT MacGonagall dreams of rescuing his reputation by seeking SAT royal patronage. He decides to walk from Dundee to Balmoral SAT to see Queen Victoria, accompanied by his long-suffering SAT son, Billy. A desperate desire for fame and celebrity has SAT almost destroyed McGonagall's life - but if he can meet her SAT Majesty his fortunes would be transformed. SAT SAT Other parts are played by the cast. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT William McGonagall: Brian Cox SAT Queen Victoria: Niamh Cusack SAT Billy: Sandy Grierson SAT Jean: Maureen Beattie SAT Gatekeeper: Stuart McQuarrie SAT Shepherd: Andrew Neil SAT Ellen: Colette O'Neil SAT Circus Master: Sean Murray SAT Dougie: Ali Craig SAT Queen's Maid: Amaka Okafor SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Writer: Lucy Gannon SAT SAT 15:30 Madam Mao's Golden Oldies b01ks530 (Listen) SAT As a child, comedian Anna Chen was often taken by her SAT Communist parents to the Chinese Legation in London to watch SAT the latest propaganda films of the Cultural Revolution. SAT SAT These had intriguing titles such as Taking Tiger Mountain by SAT Strategy and The White Haired Girl and were invariably SAT melodramatic stories of heroic peasants overthrowing SAT despotic landlords or other enemies of the Revolution. SAT SAT During the years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) when SAT all other theatrical and musical performances were SAT prohibited or tightly controlled, these eight Model Operas SAT became the principal entertainment available to the entire SAT population of China. Novelist Anchee Min describes how they SAT became the soundtrack to her childhood in Shanghai: 'They SAT were on the radio, the only movies in the theatre, on the SAT street megaphone. For ten years I listened to the operas SAT when I ate, walked and slept. I sang the operas wherever I SAT went.' SAT SAT The Model Operas were created by Jiang Ching, wife of SAT Chairman Mao. Her mission was to destroy all traditional art SAT forms that served the bourgeois elite. Instead she wanted SAT art that reflected the lives of the masses and which would SAT rekindle their fervour for the class struggle. But she was a SAT huge fan of Western classical music and Hollywood films and SAT ensured these were harnessed to make her Model Operas more SAT powerful and memorable. SAT SAT When the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, Madam Mao was SAT put in prison, and the Model Operas were banned. But they SAT are now undergoing an unexpected revival. The songs are SAT often sung in karaoke bars and on television. They are SAT staged throughout China and abroad. No longer propaganda, SAT they seem to have become just good nostalgic entertainment. SAT SAT Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SAT A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03f86l5 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03f86l7 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03dvgh3 (Listen) SAT Who's the Boss? SAT SAT What is the role of a business leader? To tell staff what to SAT do or allow them to decide for themselves? One theory about SAT management is that it should turn itself upside-down and SAT permit those closest to the customer to dictate all sorts of SAT business decisions including pricing, marketing and how to SAT deal with complaints. Discussing these issues with Evan SAT Davis are: SAT SAT John Timpson, Chairman Timpson Group SAT Nikki King, CEO Isuzu Truck UK SAT Sir Gerry Robinson, Chairman Moto Hospitality SAT SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03dvh50 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03dvh52 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03dvh54 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03f86l9 (Listen) SAT Howard Blake, David Greig, Speech Debelle, Daniel Rachel, SAT Miranda Sawyer, Billy Bragg, The Leisure Society SAT SAT Clive's Walking in the Air with composer Howard Blake, whose SAT career has spanned over 50 years and produced more than 650 SAT works. He is increasingly recognised for his classical works SAT including concertos, oratorios, ballets, operas and many SAT instrumental pieces. Howard talks to Clive about a special SAT celebration of his 75th birthday. SAT SAT Clive talks to celebrated playwright and theatre director SAT David Greig, whose new play explores the impact of a SAT horrific politically motivated crime on a small community SAT and delves into the nature of forgiveness, reconciliation SAT and understanding. 'The Events' is at London's Young Vic SAT Theatre until 2nd November and then touring until 30th SAT November. SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer lays down some lyrics with author Daniel SAT Rachel, who was born the summer before The Beatles split up, SAT wrote his first song at the age of 16 and went on to release SAT two albums. His debut book 'Isles of Noises' focuses on some SAT of the UK's finest musicians, who reveal the secrets behind SAT their art in a rare collection of conversations about fifty SAT years of classic British songwriting. SAT SAT Clive has Speech Therapy with Mercury Prize-winning rapper SAT and social commentator Speech Debelle, whose music has SAT themes of strength and vulnerability. So, she's the perfect SAT curator of an exhibition of art work made by prisoners, SAT secure patients and immigration detainees from across the SAT country. 'The Strength & Vulnerability Bunker 'is at Royal SAT Festival Hall, London until Sunday 1st December. SAT SAT With music from folk-pop sextet The Leisure Society, who SAT perform 'Fight For Everyone' from their album 'Alone Aboard SAT The Ark'. SAT SAT And from folk-punk-lefty Billy Bragg, who performs 'Handyman SAT Blues' from his album 'Tooth and Nail'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03f86lc (Listen) SAT Andrew Mitchell SAT SAT Last year, long-standing Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell was SAT forced to resign his new job as Chief Whip after being SAT accused of calling police officers guarding the Downing SAT Street gates "plebs." The so-called 'Plebgate' saga has hit SAT the headlines once again this week after a committee of MPs SAT summoned three senior police officers to explain their SAT inquiry into the incident. While last year Andrew Mitchell SAT was the focus of controversy, the Rugby and SAT Cambridge-educated disciplinarian is now eliciting sympathy SAT in many quarters. Becky Milligan looks at the life of a man SAT caught in the eye of a political storm. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03f86lf (Listen) SAT Morrissey; The Selfish Giant; From Here to Eternity SAT SAT A new film, The Selfish Giant, loosely based on an original SAT Oscar Wilde fairy story, brings the story up to date and SAT follows the lives of a couple of teenage boys who bunk off SAT school to go trading scrap metal. It's director Clio SAT Barnard's second film set in the northeast of England; what SAT sort of performances has she got from the 2 main leads who SAT have never acted before? SAT SAT From Here to Eternity, a new musical based as much on the SAT 1951 novel by James Jones as it is on the 1953 film (which SAT starred Burt Lancaster canoodling in the Hawaiian sands with SAT Deborah Kerr), opens in London. It's the story of G Company SAT of the US Army, based in Waikiki just before the bombing of SAT Pearl Harbor in 1941. With an original score, singing SAT prostitutes and GIs, and lyrics by Tim Rice, is it set to SAT run and run? SAT SAT Autobiography by Morrissey is exactly what it says; the SAT self-penned life story of the singer best known for his work SAT as leader of Manchester band The Smiths. It deals with his SAT childhood growing up in a poor area of Manchester in the 60s SAT and 70s and settles scores with people he holds responsible SAT for making his life a misery at various stages. Does it make SAT for a great read? SAT SAT Masterpieces of Chinese Paintings 700-1900. This exhibition SAT at the V+A in London charts the evolving styles and subjects SAT of painting over 12 centuries, from early religious figure SAT paintings on silk, through landscape painting to the SAT introduction of Western influences. SAT SAT In The Escape Artist David Tennant plays a highflying SAT barrister who finds himself on the other side of the fence SAT after defending a murder suspect in the new BBC legal SAT thriller, written by the creator of Spooks. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Michael Arditti, Giles Fraser and SAT Gillian Slovo SAT SAT Producer: Oliver Jones. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03f86lh (Listen) SAT Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds: Myth or Legend? SAT SAT This week marks the 75th anniversary of the most infamous SAT hoax in the history of radio - Orson Welles' production of H SAT G Wells' The War Of The Worlds. SAT SAT The drama, disguised as a dance music programme punctuated SAT by a series of fake news broadcasts telling of a Martian SAT invasion, played out at a time when the USA was in the grip SAT of pre-WW2 invasion anxiety, fearing that Nazi Germany would SAT make an attack on mainland America. Public reaction was SAT seemingly extreme with widespread panic and isolated groups SAT of people fleeing their homes. SAT SAT The police raided the Mercury Theatre Company offices after SAT the broadcast and seized copies of the script. The scandal SAT ensured that Welles became a household name and led to his SAT famous Hollywood career. Adolf Hitler cited the crisis as SAT evidence of 'the decadence and corrupt condition of SAT democracy'. SAT SAT The event was reported all over the world and has become SAT part of broadcasting legend. But just how real was the SAT panic? Some now believe that the newspapers of the time, SAT fearing the growing power of radio, exaggerated events in SAT order to discredit the new medium. SAT SAT Nevertheless, when the War Of The Worlds dramatisation was SAT repeated in Ecuador in 1949 it lead to a dramatic and tragic SAT series of events when the radio station was burned to the SAT ground. SAT SAT This programme also reveals how Welles and his collaborators SAT may have been influenced by a lost 1926 BBC programme called SAT Broadcasting From The Barricades, in which Ronald Knox SAT caused a similar stir with a programme of music from the SAT Savoy, interrupted by reports of revolution in the streets SAT and the hotel being flattened by mortars. SAT SAT Presented by Christopher Frayling SAT Producer: Nick Freand Jones SAT A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Orson Welles - War of the Worlds SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03f86lk (Listen) SAT Sword of Honour, Officers and Gentlemen SAT SAT by Evelyn Waugh SAT dramatised by Jeremy Front. SAT SAT Guy's unit have been posted to Egypt where they are SAT surrounded more by rumour than action. But the chaos of war SAT is approaching. SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Tim McInnerny SAT Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready SAT Major Hound: John Dougall SAT Tommy: Nicholas Boulton SAT Ludovic: Carl Prekopp SAT Virginia: Lydia Leonard SAT Trimmer: Lee Ingleby SAT General Whale: Sean Murray SAT Kilbannock: Oliver Chris SAT Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame SAT Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Sgt Hughes: Arthur Hughes SAT Sgt Smiley: Ben Crowe SAT Ivor: Sam Pamphilon SAT Priest: John Norton SAT Greek Woman: Carys Eleri SAT Soldier: Joel MacCormack SAT Soldier: David Seddon SAT Director: Sally Avens SAT Adaptor: Jeremy Front SAT Author: Evelyn Waugh SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03dvh56 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b03dsk4d (Listen) SAT Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013, Beating the SAT Bounds SAT SAT The award-winning artist Grayson Perry asks whether it is SAT really true that anything can be art. We live in an age when SAT many contemporary artists follow the example of Marcel SAT Duchamp, who famously declared that a urinal was a work of SAT art. It sometimes seems that anything qualifies, from a pile SAT of sweets on a gallery floor to an Oscar-winning actress SAT asleep in a box. How does the ordinary art lover decide? SAT In a lecture delivered amidst the Victorian splendour of St. SAT George's Hall in Liverpool, Perry analyses with SAT characteristic wit the common tests - from commercial worth SAT to public popularity to aesthetic value. He admits the SAT inadequacies of such yardsticks, especially when applied to SAT much conceptual and performance art. And he concludes that SAT in his opinion, the quality most valued in the art world is SAT seriousness. SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b03dfl02 (Listen) SAT (6/12) SAT The panellists from Wales and Northern Ireland join Tom SAT Sutcliffe for the latest cryptic contest in the 2013 season SAT of the quiz. They need to draw on all their powers of recall SAT and obscure knowledge in tackling Tom's questions, such as: SAT SAT 'Why would Umberto Eco be interested in a Polish-born SAT revolutionary, a time-travelling Tyler, Mrs Gorbachev and SAT Laurie's Miss Burdock?' SAT SAT Writer Roisin McAuley and historian Brian Feeney play for SAT Northern Ireland, while the Welsh team consists of defending SAT Round Britain Quiz champions Myfanwy Alexander and David SAT Edwards. SAT SAT As always, Tom will be picking the best of the questions SAT submitted to the programme by listeners in recent months, to SAT put to the teams. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b03df77d (Listen) SAT From the Birmingham Literature Festival SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests from SAT an audience at the Birmingham Literature Festival. the SAT selection is drawn from the top ten most requested poems in SAT the history of the show and includes Adelstrop by Edward SAT Thomas, How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and SAT Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith. The audience also SAT tell Roger about what the requested poems mean to them. SAT SAT Producer: Tim Dee SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03f4wr9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b013wnbt (Listen) SUN The Pat Hobby Stories, Teamed with Genius SUN SUN Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. SUN SUN Studio head Jack Berners calls hack writer Pat Hobby into SUN his office. Surprisingly he has a writing job for him. Pat SUN seems ready for it. Berners teams him with British writer, SUN Rene Wilcox. It's ballet picture. As Pat leaves the office SUN Berners calls him back and puts some dollars in his hand. SUN 'Get a new hat,' he says, 'You used to be quite a boy around SUN the secretaries in the old days. Don't give up at SUN forty-nine!' But over in the Writers' Building Pat discovers SUN that Wilcox has never written for the cinema before, and SUN doesn't want to collaborate. Can Hobby survive? Will he have SUN to do some proper writing at last? SUN SUN Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03f4wrc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03f4wrh (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03f4wrk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03f4wrm (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03f879t (Listen) SUN The bells of Church of Holy Cross in Woodchurch, Wirral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03f86lc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03f4wrr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03f879w (Listen) SUN Gold SUN SUN Starting from her own conviction that nothing but gold would SUN do for the necklace she bought herself to mark the birth of SUN her son, the writer Lucy Mangan weaves a meditation on the SUN value and the meanings that we invest in this precious SUN element. SUN SUN She draws on the poetry of Ted Hughes and Thomas Hood, SUN writings by Hesiod and a 'gold rush' prospector, Sheldon SUN Shufelt, and music by Richard Wagner and Stevie Wonder. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b03f879y (Listen) SUN Segestria Florentina SUN SUN In the first Living World of the autumn run, Chris Sperring SUN travels to Exeter to find a species hidden within the walls SUN of Exeter's magnificent Cathedral. First found at the SUN Cathedral as far back as 1890, the large tube-web spider or SUN Segestria florentina, is the largest European spider from SUN the Segestriidae family and one of the largest spiders found SUN in the UK. Believed to be native to the Mediterranean SUN region, the species was introduced on ships and first SUN recorded in the UK in the mid-19th Century. SUN SUN Chris Sperring and Peter Smithers, Professor at the School SUN of Biological Sciences at Plymouth University, go on a quest SUN (with a surprising array of props) to find the species SUN concealed amongst the Cathedral's gothic architecture. SUN SUN Members of the Segestriidae family have six eyes rather than SUN eight and their front six legs point forward in contrast to SUN many arachnids which have only the front four legs pointing SUN forward. They spin tubular webs in cracks of walls and hunt SUN using a series of trip wires which when triggered causes the SUN spider to spring out of the hole using its back two legs and SUN bite their prey with their large green jaws. SUN SUN Presented by Chris Sperring SUN Produced by Jim Farthing. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03f4wrt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03f4wrw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03f87b0 (Listen) SUN Archbishop of Westminster; Holy Relic; Death Cafe SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03f87b2 (Listen) SUN Sense International SUN SUN Simon Russell Beale presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Sense International. SUN Reg Charity:289868 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Sense International. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Sense International SUN SUN Sense International is a global charity supporting deafblind SUN children and adults in developing countries. We operate in SUN India, Bangladesh, SUN Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Romania & Peru. SUN SUN Donations to this Radio 4 Appeal will enable us to break SUN down isolation, offer choices, and enrich the lives of many SUN children who would otherwise lead short, lonely lives. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03f4wry (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03f4ws0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03f87b4 (Listen) SUN From the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast. SUN SUN The Rev Dr Heather Morris, President of the Methodist Church SUN in Ireland, explores the importance for Christians of taking SUN risks. SUN SUN Led by the Rev John Alderdice SUN With the Chapel Choir, directed by Ruth McCartney SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03dvxyy (Listen) SUN Reflections on IVF SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the sensitive questions surrounding SUN IVF as she comes to the end of her term as Chair of the SUN Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. "I would have SUN loved to have been able to have spoken more often and more SUN publicly, with more words of caution for those preparing to SUN undertake IVF, or postponing their family because IVF seems SUN a reliable option should natural conception fail." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03bksqt (Listen) SUN Crested Tit SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Crested SUN Tit. Although crested tits are quite common in Continental SUN Europe, they are confined in the UK to the central Highlands SUN of Scotland. They're the only small British bird with a SUN crest so identification shouldn't be a problem and their SUN black eye-stripe contrasts well with their grey and white SUN face. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03f87b6 (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 b03f87b8 (Listen) SUN Tom becomes suspicious. Meanwhile Ed and Mike wait for an SUN update. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden 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 Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Anthea Jennings: Joanna Brookes SUN Maurice Horton: Philip Fox SUN Karen Smalling: Deborah McAndrew SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03f87bb (Listen) SUN Professor Tanya Byron SUN SUN Professor Tanya Byron, clinical psychologist and TV SUN presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island SUN Discs. SUN SUN Tanya has spent the last twenty years in clinical practice, SUN helping children, young people and families deal with some SUN of the most difficult parts of life - depression, anxiety, SUN aggression, self harming and drug addiction. SUN SUN She came to public prominence through her television work, SUN books and advice columns and it would seem that she had the SUN perfect background to cope with life in the spotlight - her SUN father was a successful tv and theatre director and her SUN mother worked variously as a nursing sister and a model. SUN SUN A highly dramatic family tragedy ignited her interest in SUN what spurs people to behave the way that they do. SUN SUN She says of her work "I do have a particular desire to SUN enable young people, on the cusp of what could be the most SUN extraordinary life, to live ... and live well." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b03dfl0b (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 4 SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Humphrey Ker welcome the art historian and former SUN director of the Greenwich Observatory Dr Kristin Lippincott; SUN comedian, chat show host and blogger Richard Herring and SUN animal locomotion expert Dr Christofer Clemente. Topics for SUN illumination include Time, inspiration, writer's block, SUN sticky ants' feet, Russia's Greatest Love Machine lizards SUN doing wheelies and the most controversial moustache in SUN history. SUN SUN The show was researched by James Harkin, Molly Oldfield and SUN Stevyn Colgan of QI. SUN SUN The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03f87bd (Listen) SUN Restaurant Reviews SUN SUN Restaurant reviews - who can we trust? Sheila Dillon SUN investigates online review sites, newspaper reviews and SUN guidelines to try and discover the impartiality of different SUN criticism. She is aided by reviewer and editor Joe Warwick SUN and previous restaurant inspector Peter Chapman. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03f4ws2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03f87bg (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 Women at War b03c3dx1 (Listen) SUN Emma Barnett visits the Canadian army to find out what life SUN is like for women serving on the military front line, and SUN she explores whether the British Army might change its rules SUN to let women serve in these positions. SUN SUN In early 2013, the United States Secretary of Defense SUN announced that US armed forces would soon open positions in SUN ground close combat units - those designed to close with and SUN engage the enemy - to women. SUN SUN In Canada those posts have been open for nearly 20 years. In SUN this programme Emma visits Brenda Hawke, a soldier who has SUN served 16 years in the infantry, and Ashley Colette, an SUN officer who received one of Canada's highest awards for her SUN leadership of a combat unit in Afghanistan, to find out the SUN reality of combat for women. And she speaks to Colonel SUN Jennie Carignan, one of the Canadian Army's most senior SUN women, about the challenges the organisation faced in SUN integrating women. SUN SUN The British armed forces last reviewed their exclusion of SUN women from these roles in 2010, and are not due to SUN reconsider until 2017-18. But the American decision leaves SUN the UK isolated amongst close allies, and Emma speaks to the SUN Chief of Defence Personnel at the Ministry of Defence, SUN Lieutenant General Andrew Gregory, to ask whether the UK may SUN now bring forward that review. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03dvx6b (Listen) SUN Leicester University and Botanic Gardens SUN SUN Host Eric Robson and the panel are at Leicester University SUN and Botanic Gardens. Answering questions from a local SUN gardening audience are Matt Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Anne SUN Swithinbank.We find out about something nasty that could be SUN lurking in our potting compost and Chris Beardshaw explores SUN London's longest herbaceous border SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03f87ym (Listen) SUN Fi Glover meets a 90 year old and her eldest daughter to SUN discover why they recorded their conversation about SUN children, marriage, holidays and death, and what it meant to SUN them, in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03f87yp (Listen) SUN Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender SUN SUN by Evelyn Waugh SUN Dramatised by Jeremy Front SUN Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: Guy is beginning SUN to lose his idealism about the War. SUN SUN Directed by Sally Avens SUN SUN Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his SUN literary career. Originally published as three volumes: SUN Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional SUN Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and SUN published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the SUN form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are SUN dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. SUN This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the SUN comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty SUN and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be SUN counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most SUN enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his SUN own experiences during WWII. Sword of Honour effortlessly SUN treads the line between the personal and the political - it SUN is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied SUN war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from SUN isolation to self fulfilment. His adventures are peopled by SUN colourful characters: the eccentric, Apthorpe, one-eyed, SUN Ritchie-Hook, promiscuous, Virginia Troy. At the centre of SUN the novel is Guy for whom we never lose our sympathy as he SUN emerges from his adventures bowed but not broken. From Dakar SUN to Egypt, the Isle of Mugg to the evacuation of Crete, SUN tragedy is leavened by Waugh's acerbic and farcical comedy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator: Tim McInnerny SUN Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready SUN Virginia: Lydia Leonard SUN Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws SUN Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris SUN Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame SUN Mr Crouchback: Sean Murray SUN Ludovic: Carl Prekopp SUN Loot: David Seddon SUN Tommy: Nicholas Boulton SUN Julia Stitch: Christine Kavanagh SUN Everard Spruce: Harry Jardine SUN Major Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Oates: Arthur Hughes SUN Sapper: John Norton SUN Sister: Carolyn Pickles SUN Secretary: Carys Eleri SUN Director: Sally Avens SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN Author: Evelyn Waugh SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03f87yr (Listen) SUN Justin Cartwright on his novel Lion Heart; Joe Sacco on his SUN graphic novel of The Great War SUN SUN We go on a quest with Justin Cartwright with his latest book SUN Lion Heart, to discover the secret left behind by one of the SUN most famous of English Kings - Richard the Lion Heart. SUN Justin explains why he decided to follow Richard into battle SUN during the Third Crusade and how he gave this ancient tale a SUN modern twist by creating a contemporary protagonist, also SUN called Richard, who while in Jerusalem in search of the SUN documents pertaining to the True Cross being fought for by SUN his namesake, is drawn into a darker world. SUN SUN The cartoonist Joe Sacco brings political awareness to the SUN art of illustration. His book Palestine, which depicted SUN everyday life inside the Territory, won the American Book SUN Award in 1996, while Safe Area Gorazde is an account of his SUN visit to Bosnia during the Civil War there. Joe has now SUN turned his attention to the First World War. With no words SUN and a book of pictures that pulls out to 24 feet long, this SUN latest book, The Great War, focuses on one day of the SUN conflict - the first of July 1916 - the opening day of The SUN Somme, when almost sixty thousand British soldiers were SUN killed or wounded. SUN SUN Sales of graphic novels and comics have increased in the UK SUN by over a thousand per cent in the past 10 years and it's SUN also no longer the preserve of Spiderman et al ker-powing SUN their nemeses into cowering submission; today's graphic SUN novels can be a serious business, featuring topics from SUN reportage and anorexia to politics and crime fiction. To SUN explore the rise of the graphic novel Mariella is joined by SUN Katie Green, who has just published the autobiographical SUN Lighter than My Shadow about her battle with anorexia, the SUN award winning novelist Denise Mina who has also written the SUN comic series Hellblazer and has recently been adapting The SUN Girl with the Dragon Tattoo into graphic novel form and Paul SUN Gravett, the Editor of 1001 Comics you must read before you SUN die and author of Comics Art. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress b03f87yt (Listen) SUN In the year that the Lindisfarne Gospel returned to the SUN North-East, twelve poets and a digital sound artist discuss SUN their contemporary responses to the island's priceless book. SUN SUN After four centuries, the Lindisfarne Gospel-book returned, SUN this summer, to the region in which it was made - not as far SUN as the island itself but to Palace Green Library in Durham. SUN SUN The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts commissioned SUN twelve poets to respond to the book and to the almost-island SUN on which it was created. SUN SUN Beaty Rubens followed the poets' progress - sharing crab SUN sandwiches and beer on a coach-trip to the island back in SUN the spring and hearing about their progress over the summer SUN and early autumn as they each wrote and recorded their SUN poems. Finally, she heard from the digital artist who SUN created two installations where the poems could be enjoyed SUN by the public. SUN SUN This is the story of their Poetry in Progress. SUN SUN Producer: Beaty Rubens. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03dslf1 (Listen) SUN What Price Social Housing? SUN SUN Ministers have set a target of 170,000 new affordable homes SUN in the next two years. But the Housing Associations which SUN must take a major part in delivering them are under SUN increasing financial strain. SUN With their incomes squeezed by benefit reform and grant SUN cuts, many are taking a more commercial approach. But SUN there's concern some are taking too many financial risks. SUN And MPs have voiced fears that the regulator charged with SUN monitoring the associations' viability is not up to the job. SUN Fran Abrams investigates. SUN SUN Reporter: Fran Abrams SUN Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03f86lc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03f4ws4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03f4ws6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03f4ws8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03f87yw (Listen) SUN The most valuable book in football history, the worst poet SUN in the English language and the Blues greats making their UK SUN debut in a disused railway station all form part of the rich SUN tapestry that is this week's Pick of the Week. There are SUN some fascinating insights into past, and more recent, SUN economic policies and their impacts, into the typical day in SUN the life of a female farmer in Uganda, and into the role of SUN women in the world's most successful gang of diamond SUN thieves. So join Liz Barclay for Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Programmes chosen this week: SUN SUN The Weekend Documentary - The Pink Panthers - World Service SUN Silk - Wednesday- Radio 4 SUN Start the Week - Radio 4 SUN Today - Monday - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: Autumn 1973- Ep 5 Friday - Radio 3 SUN David Bowie's Pin Ups Radio Show - Radio 6 Music SUN Before They Were Famous - Wednesday - Radio 4 SUN Saturday Drama - Topaz - Radio 4 SUN A Good Read - Tuesday- Radio 4 SUN The Father of English Football - Radio 4 SUN Women Farmers: A day in the life of Polly Apio - World SUN Service SUN Who Sold the Soul - Empire State of Mind - Radio 4 SUN Didn't it Rain: When the Blues came to Britain - Radio 2 SUN The World Tonight - Thursday - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03f87yy (Listen) SUN Nic makes a breakthrough, and Jim broaches a delicate SUN subject. SUN Writing The Archers: a special collaboration with BBC SUN Writersroom SUN SUN 19:15 My Teenage Diary b01ks9zd (Listen) SUN Series 4, Toby Young SUN SUN My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities SUN ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their SUN intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for SUN the very first time. SUN SUN IN this fourth programme in the series, comedian Rufus Hound SUN is joined by writer Toby Young who revisits his teenage SUN years, when he had a lot of fun playing knock down ginger, SUN shooting pea shooters, and skateboarding - but let his SUN academic work suffer. SUN SUN He reflects on his mis-spent youth and talks about how it SUN has changed his perceptions of young offenders today. SUN SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Stories from the South Downs b03f8832 (Listen) SUN The Coffin Gate SUN SUN A series of readings from new writers to radio evoking the SUN South Downs. Recorded in front of an audience at the Church SUN of St Pancras, Kingston (near Lewes) - a little village SUN nestled at the bottom of the Downs. SUN SUN Episode 3: The Coffin Gate by Ruth Figgest SUN Louise is ten years older than her husband Leon and one day, SUN while walking across the Downs with their young family, they SUN discover that perhaps they are not the happy family they SUN thought they may have been. Leon's controlling ways and SUN attitudes, suggesting a spoilt mummy's boy, are enough to SUN bring things to a head and give Louise the strength to SUN realise her emotions have been buried in the coffin that is SUN her marriage. SUN SUN Read by Sian Thomas SUN SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03dvx6j (Listen) SUN In this week's Feedback, Roger Bolton speaks to the BBC's SUN Director of Editorial Policy and Standards, David Jordan, SUN about 'due impartiality' in climate change coverage. SUN SUN And writer Morwenna Banks explains why she chose radio to SUN tell a powerful story of friendship in the face of breast SUN cancer. Her Radio 4 Saturday Drama Goodbye starred acting SUN heavyweights Olivia Colman and Natascha McElhone as Lizzie SUN and Jen, two friends struggling to say goodbye after SUN Lizzie's terminal diagnosis. It left many Feedback listeners SUN astounded by its realistic and emotional portrayal of the SUN situation. SUN SUN We revisit our listener panel of four mothers in Cambridge SUN to find out how they got along when they tried to find and SUN use CBeebies Radio. A recent BBC Trust survey found that not SUN one parent they spoke to knew how to access the CBeebies SUN radio service - did the Feedback mothers fare any better? SUN And Roger speaks to the Controller of CBeebies, Kay Benbow, SUN to find out what they are doing to publicise CBeebies Radio. SUN SUN And from Raa Raa the Lion to Reith - we hear from some SUN Feedback listeners' views on Grayson Perry's Reith Lectures. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03dvx6g (Listen) SUN A sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, Yugoslavia's First Lady, a SUN comedian Felix Dexter and a leading academic SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro - best known for his large and SUN colourful abstract works placed directly on the ground. SUN SUN Also Jovanka Broz - the second world war partisan fighter SUN who married the Yugoslavian dictator Marshall Tito - but was SUN reduced to poverty after his death. SUN SUN Felix Dexter - the black comedian who made his name on the SUN TV show The Real McCoy - and often satirised racial SUN stereotyopes. SUN SUN And Professor Olive Stevenson - the leading social work SUN academic who devoted herself to improving the safety of SUN vulnerable chidren and adults. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03f86kz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03f87b2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03dfpjt (Listen) SUN Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction? SUN SUN Quantitative Easing was the drug prescribed by economists to SUN keep Western economies functioning in a moment of crisis. SUN Sunday Telegraph economic commentator Liam Halligan argues SUN that the policy of money creation has now become a dangerous SUN addiction. SUN SUN Interviewees include: SUN SUN Dr Adam Posen, President of the Petersen Institute for SUN International Economics in Washington DC SUN Stephen King, Chief Economist of HSBC SUN Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars SUN Professor Richard Werner, Chair in International Banking at SUN Southampton University SUN Dan Conaghan, author of The Bank: Inside the Bank of England SUN Dr Philippa Malmgren, former financial markets advisor to SUN the US President SUN SUN Producer: Phil Kemp. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03f885g (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 b03f885j (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03dvbzw (Listen) SUN Ken Loach; Halloween re-release; Persistence of Vision SUN SUN As British director Clio Barnard enjoys warm reviews of her SUN film The Selfish Giant, about two young boys who collect SUN scrap metal, she describes casting her two lead teenage SUN performances. And Francine Stock talks to Ken Loach, an SUN acknowledged influence on Barnard, about how to get the best SUN performances from young people. SUN SUN Composer Neil Brand is back at the piano, exploring the SUN world of vampires from Nosferatu to Dracula and Buffy and SUN explains why he thinks the blood sucker is actually just SUN looking for love. SUN Scott Jordan Harris discusses why he thinks Halloween SUN directed by John Carpenter is well worth a second look as SUN it's released on Blu Ray 35 years on. SUN SUN And documentary maker Kevin Schreck describes his new film SUN Persistence of Vision about the best animation film never SUN made - the 30 year odyssey by pioneering artist Richard SUN Williams. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03f879w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03f4wt8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03dv383 (Listen) MON Muslim Fundamentalism; Customer Abuse to Service Workers MON MON Muslims against Muslim Fundamentalism - Laurie Taylor talks MON to Karima Bennoune, US Professor of Law and author of a MON groundbreaking book which addresses resistance to religious MON extremism in Muslim majority contexts. Over a 3 year period, MON she interviewed nearly 300 people from almost 30 countries, MON from Afghanistan to Mali, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Niger and MON Russia.They include teachers, journalists, doctors, MON musicians, street vendors and women's rights activists - MON some of whom have risked death. Her subjects range from the MON secular to the devout, yet all share a desire to challenge MON religion inspired violence and oppression. She's joined by MON Professor Stephen Vertigans, a sociologist who has studied MON Islamic movements globally. Also, Marek Korczynski discusses MON his research into the abuse of service workers by customers. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03f879t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03f4wtb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03f4wtd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03f4wtg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03f4wtj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03fvdxq (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard MON Hill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03f8grd (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Sarah MON Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03f4wtl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt5h (Listen) MON Shore Lark MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Shore MON Lark. Shore Larks are also known as horned larks because in MON the breeding season the male birds sprout a pair of black MON crown feathers which look like satanic horns, but at any MON time of year the adult larks are striking birds. They are MON slightly smaller than a skylark but with a yellow face, a MON black moustache and a black band on the chest. MON MON 06:00 Today b03f8grg (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03f8grj (Listen) MON The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation MON MON Start the Week is at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival in MON Gateshead. Anne McElvoy talks to the historian Catherine MON Merridale about the Kremlin - a Russian fortress which has MON retained its original medieval function to intimidate and MON control, and which holds a special place in the imagination. MON Few buildings in England inspire such fear, but Simon MON Thurley explores how the country's architecture has MON influenced the world. The Newcastle-born writer Michael MON Chaplin looks to the history of the River Tyne to understand MON the changing fortunes of the city and its population; and MON the Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri attempts to save the MON remnants of Calcutta's colonial past under its ever-changing MON skyline. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03f8grl (Listen) MON An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Episode 1 MON MON Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an MON astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During MON this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss MON army knife, been confronted by a live snake while piloting a MON plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the MON exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube MON sensation with his performance of David Bowie's Space Oddity MON in space. MON MON The secret to Chris Hadfield's success, and survival, is an MON unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for MON the worst - and enjoy every moment of it. MON MON Episode 1 MON At the age of 9, Canadian Chris Hadfield watched Neil MON Armstrong set foot on the moon and decided that he wanted to MON be an astronaut. MON MON Reader: Garrick Hagon MON MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03f8grn (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03f8grq (Listen) MON Petite Mort, Episode 1 MON MON Honor Blackman, Shelley Conn, Mariah Gale and Samantha Spiro MON star in Beatrice Hitchman's thrilling debut, adapted by MON Miranda Davies. A 1914 silent film called Petite Mort holds MON the key to an infamous murder trial. MON MON 1967, Paris. A young journalist, Juliette Blanc (Shelley MON Conn) investigates the mystery of a missing section of film MON from a recently rediscovered silent film print from 1914 - MON Petite Mort. She is contacted by an elderly woman, Adele MON Roux (Honor Blackman), the star of that infamous film, who MON seems keen to tell her story. MON MON 1913, Paris. The young Adele Roux (Mariah Gale) arrives at MON the gates of the Pathe film studios, determined to fulfil MON her ambition to become a screen actress, like her heroine MON 'Terpsichore' - the beautiful actress, Luce Durand (Samantha MON Spiro). But her path to fame is not straightforward. MON MON Produced and directed by Emma Harding. MON MON Credits MON Madame Adele Roux: Honor Blackman MON Juliette Blanc: Shelley Conn MON Adele Roux: Mariah Gale MON Andre Durand: Marcus D'Amico MON Luce Durand ("Terpsichore"): Samantha Spiro MON Camille Roux: Georgie Fuller MON Pere Simon: David Seddon MON Peyssac: David Seddon MON Mathilde: Maria Teresa Creasey MON Aurelie: Maria Teresa Creasey MON Feuillade: John Norton MON Paul LeClerc: John Norton MON Lazard: John Norton MON Elodie Kernuac: Priyanga Burford MON Inspector Japy: Michael Bertenshaw MON Harbleu: Michael Bertenshaw MON Rinaldi: Michael Bertenshaw MON Dr Langlois: Sean Murray MON Judge: Sean Murray MON Director: Emma Harding MON Producer: Emma Harding MON Adaptor: Miranda Davies MON Author: Beatrice Hitchman MON MON 11:00 Grey Shorts and Sandals b03f8l49 (Listen) MON Close friends Martin Jarvis and Christopher Matthew venture MON back to their schooldays and set forth on a journey of MON discovery and re-discovery. Together they return - both MON geographically and through their memories and anecdotes - to MON the crowded cul-de-sac in south London where Martin Jarvis MON grew up, and to sleepy Merle Common in Surrey where a young MON Christopher Matthew would have been seen roaming the MON countryside. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 11:30 Dilemma b017vkrp (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 4 MON MON Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical MON wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" MON answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. MON MON This edition features comedians Susan Calman, Greg Proops MON and Simon Evans, and the author and former lead singer of MON the band Sleeper, Louise Wener. This week the guests have MON been asked to bring along dilemmas from their own lives, MON including Louise being offered a record deal if she sacked MON half the band, and Greg making a choice between paying his MON rent or eating. They are also asked what they would do if MON reporting a crime would get them into trouble, and whether MON cheating on your partner is ever acceptable. MON MON The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and writer MON Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03f8nf5 (Listen) MON Online wine sales MON MON Are auto-renewal insurance premiums a bad deal? The former MON Energy Secretary Chris Huhne tells Winifred why the Green MON Deal isn't dead and gives his opinion on the big six energy MON companies. We look at why the online wine industry is MON growing and find out how to get the best deals. Plus, we MON crunch the numbers of digital radio listening and ask when a MON switchover might happen. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03f4wtn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03f8nf7 (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 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers b03ffptg (Listen) MON The Female Pioneers MON MON Jane Garvey investigates the stories behind five landmark MON moments in the history of the female voice on radio and MON television. How far have women really come since the early MON days of the wireless? To what extent are female voices now MON accepted as carrying the same level of authority and MON expertise as their male counterparts? MON MON In the first programme, we're back to 1929 and the BBC's MON launch of 'The Week in Parliament', which went on to become MON 'The Week in Westminster'. This groundbreaking programme was MON not only presented by the first woman elected to the House MON of Commons, Lady Nancy Astor, and aimed at newly MON enfranchised women, but also produced by women. We hear MON extracts from an early edition of the programme, dug out of MON the BBC archive, and Jane talks to BBC historian Professor MON Jean Seaton and broadcast historian Professor Suzanne Franks MON about the issues female broadcasters faced in the early days MON of radio. We also hear from 96 year old writer Diana Athill MON with her memories of working at the BBC during the Second MON World War. MON MON Other programmes in the series include: Voice of Authority, MON which marks the appointment of the first female newsreader MON in 1955; Upping The Tempo, in which Jane meets Annie MON Nightingale, the first female DJ on Radio 1 and respected as MON an expert voice in music journalism; Prime Time Woman, which MON notes the role played by Esther Rantzen as a campaigning and MON consumer journalist on TV; and A Level Playing Field, with MON Jacqui Oatley discussing her debut as the first female MON footballer commentator on 'Match of the Day'. MON Producer: Jane Reck MON An Alfi Media Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03f87yy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b03f92q3 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON MON A new long-running drama series from G F Newman based on the MON characters from the multi-award winning writer's MON best-selling crime novel. Spanning six decades, it plots the MON course of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in MON crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very MON heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship MON of shared values. MON MON Joey Oldman is a Russian Jew, who arrived in Britain before MON the war with only two words of English and married Cathy MON Braden. They had a son, Brian, and a daughter, Rose. Cathy's MON widowed mother, Gracie, takes up with a famous and glamorous MON gangster, Billy Hill, while her brother Jack wants to become MON World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Both the army and MON the Kray twins interfere with this ambition. Jack is left MON feeling bitter and angry and plunges headlong into crime, MON running protection rackets and claiming a piece of other MON criminals' sometimes infamous pies. His actions become ever MON more savage and bizarre and harder to reconcile. MON MON Haunted by the murder of his grandfather which he witnessed MON when he was six, Brian Oldman holds a terrible secret that MON he must keep for fear of his life as he falls deeper under MON his mother's spell. But there is a more disturbing secret he MON has yet to discover - one that will threaten his very MON existence. All the while he becomes a willing participant in MON the criminal underworld in the 1950s, where gangs such as MON the Krays and the Richardson are emerging to challenge the MON old guard in savage battles for territory. MON MON With Ross Kemp as Narrator. MON MON Written by G F Newman MON Produced and directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Joey Oldman: Toby Jones MON Cath Oldman: Denise Gough MON Brian Oldman: Rory McMenamin MON Ruth Sutton: Kellie Shirley MON Jack Braden: Tom Weston-Jones MON DI Drury: Tom Weston-Jones MON Rikki the Malt: Matthew Marsh MON Win Booker: Lotte Rice MON Sammy Cohen: Jonathan Tafler MON Spotty: Jonathan Tafler MON Ronnie Kray: Lewis Mcleod MON Basil Jones: Lewis Mcleod MON John Bindon: Charlie Davies MON Dealer: Oliver Mawdsley MON Narrator: Ross Kemp MON Director: Clive Brill MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Writer: GF Newman MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b03f92q5 (Listen) MON (7/12) MON Round Britain Quiz this week enters the second half of the MON current season, with teams defeated in their early contests MON now having a chance to get their own back in 'revenge MON fixtures'. The Scotland team of Michael Alexander and Alan MON Taylor set out to turn the tables on the Midlands team of MON Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock, who beat them in the MON opening match of the series. MON MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the questionmaster's chair, and, as MON always, the scores will depend on how much help he has to MON give the teams in unravelling the quiz's notoriously MON convoluted questions. MON MON There'll be several fiendish question suggestions from Round MON Britain Quiz listeners, and Tom will also be revealing the MON solution to the question he left unanswered at the end of MON last week's edition. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03f87bd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Prisoner Soul b01rtzdx (Listen) MON In the 1960s and early 1970s, a number of U.S. prisons MON allowed inmates to form bands and produce commercially MON available LPs. Today, many of those records are collectors' MON items. MON MON Gary Younge tracks down some of the men who were in these MON groups, finding out how the music shaped their lives and MON hearing from those who supported this progressive initiative MON in the face of the old punitive regime. MON MON Gary travels to Huntsville, Texas, where a bespoke studio MON was built within the prison. Visiting the maximum security MON Wynne Unit, Gary is joined by the scheme's former music MON director, Harley Rex. This is the first time Harley has MON returned to the unit in over thirty years and he details the MON scale and impact of the project. Outside the prison's high MON walls, Gary and Harley meet ex-inmate John Indo who explains MON how the music affected the 17 years he served inside. MON MON Over on the East Coast, in New Jersey's Rahway prison, MON Reginald Haynes was another inmate with a similar MON initiative. Reginald was spotted at a convict talent show by MON established music producer George Kerr and a group now known MON as The Legendary Escorts was formed. Reginald tells the MON extraordinary story of how the group's first album was MON produced, and of the changes the scheme would bring to his MON later life on the outside. MON MON Back in Texas Gary meets the local people who live near the MON prison and finds out what impact commercially releasing the MON music had on people's perceptions of the prisoners. He'll MON hear how inmates performed locally, including at the always MON popular prison rodeo. MON MON Produced by Vivienne Perry MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b03f92q7 (Listen) MON Series 4, Value MON MON When almost anything we want is available to buy at the MON click of mouse and so much content is available for free, is MON the digital changing how we value things? MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores our sense of worth in this new world MON where the only thing that's scarce is scarcity itself. Do we MON connect with our possessions differently and in the end what MON is it that makes something valuable to us. MON MON Contributors MON MON Nicholas Lovell author of The Curve, Professor Chris Speed MON from Edinburgh University, Auctioneer and Valuer Anita MON Manning, Composer and Roboticist Sarah Angliss MON MON Producer Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b03f92q9 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03f4wtq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b03f92qc (Listen) MON Series 6, Llewellyn, Rocos, Warwick MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Humphrey Ker welcome the author, presenter and actor MON Robert Llewellyn; comedian, socialite and tequilera Cleo MON Rocos and the partly-robotic professor of cybernetics at the MON University of Reading, Professor Kevin Warwick. This week, MON the Museum's Steering Committee discusses the joys of mobile MON chat shows; the demise of the internal combustion engine; MON the advantages of higher quality alcohol; the possibility MON that intelligent machines will make slaves of us all; and MON the late, lamented trees of our youth. MON MON The show was researched by James Harkin, Molly Oldfield and MON Stevyn Colgan of QI. MON MON The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03f97nv (Listen) MON Darrell is caught red-handed, and Alistair's patience wears MON thin. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03f97nx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Sandra MON Bullock, who plays a medical engineer lost in space in the MON film Gravity. MON MON Producer Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03f8grq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invention of Italy b03f97nz (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Misha Glenny concludes the Invention of Italy in the Alps MON and Trieste, ambitious targets of Italian warmongers in the MON First World War. MON MON "You need to think of the fighting taking place in Flanders MON applied in the rocky limestone of the Alps .... the Italians MON at the bottom, the Austrians at the top." Mark Thompson, The MON White War MON MON In 1915 Italy entered the Great War on the side of France, MON Britain and Russia. The aim ? To gain new territory up north MON to the watershed of the Alps; and also east over the MON Adriatic into parts of what later became Yugoslavia. The MON price of these ambitions - nearly three quarters of a MON million Italians dead in the snow and rock. They died MON upholding the nationalist belief this new Italian nation - MON barely fifty years old - needed to spill blood to prove MON itself, to demonstrate they were not just waiters and ice MON cream salesmen. MON MON Chief among the characters who dragged Italy into war was a MON poet, Gabrielle d'Annunzio, bald as a coot and a great MON seducer of Italian women, and Italian minds. In the third MON and final Invention of Italy, Misha Glenny travels along the MON frontline, from Trieste via alpine trenches to Lake Garda, MON where d'Annunzio's Vittoriale degli Italiani attempted to MON create an Italian fighting tradition by dragging a MON battleship up the hill and setting it among ornamental MON gardens. MON MON With expert contributions from Joze Serbec of the Kobarid MON museum in Slovenia; Lucy Hughes-Hallet, author of The Pike, MON the autobiography of d'Annunzio shortlisted for the Samuel MON Johnson Prize; plus Simon Winder, David Gilmour, David MON Laven, and Mark Thompson, author The White War: Life and MON Death on the Italian Front. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03f97p1 (Listen) MON Syria: Inside the Opposition MON MON Syria's opposition movements comprise a diverse range of MON political and armed groups. But how do they differ in terms MON of their ideology, their modus operandi and in their vision MON for a post-conflict Syria? MON MON Edward Stourton investigates the numerous alternatives to MON President Assad and assesses which groups are gaining or MON losing influence on the ground after more than two years of MON bloody fighting. MON MON The programme will hear from those in charge of the National MON Coalition - the Istanbul based group officially recognised MON by the UK government but dismissed by some as "the MON opposition of the hotels". MON MON Ahead of the United Nations Geneva II negotiations, expected MON in late November, Edward Stourton will examine why, in a MON country with an overwhelming Sunni Muslim majority, a leader MON from the small Alawi minority community has managed to hang MON on to power. MON MON Contributions from: MON Monzer Akbik, Chief of Staff to the President of the MON National Coalition; MON Walid Saffour, former Muslim Brotherhood activist and MON Coalition Representative to the UK; MON Sheikh Mohammed Yaqoubi, Syrian Sunni scholar; MON Raphael Lefevre, author of Ashes of Hama: The Muslim MON Brotherhood in Syria; MON Aron Lund, Middle East analyst; MON Faisal Irshaid, BBC Monitoring. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03dsk4n (Listen) MON Fragility and Niche MON MON Some wildlife is fragile and will die out if it loses MON particular conditions. Some butterflies need a particular MON rare plant, or some birds certain trees for example. This MON week's field report comes from the heart of England where MON the needs of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly are revealed, MON our most endangered butterfly. In an increasingly crowded MON world is it possible to preserve fragile wildlife with so MON much demand on space. Monty Don explores whether it is MON possible for fragile wildlife to thrive in a world where the MON use of land changes from one generation to another, often MON linked to demand from an increasing global population. MON MON Producer Andrew Dawes. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03f8grj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03f4wts (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03f97p3 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03f97p5 (Listen) MON The Goldfinch, Revolver, Roadside or Roof MON MON Donna Tartt shot to fame with her iconic first novel, The MON Secret History, an instant bestseller. This was followed by MON The Little Friend in 2002. Eleven years later, her eagerly MON awaited, much anticipated third novel, The Goldfinch, comes MON to Book at Bedtime, coinciding with world wide publication. MON MON At the heart of the novel lies a masterwork by the Dutch MON painter Carel Fabritius, a picture of a small chained bird, MON The Goldfinch. This tiny painting becomes the only certainty MON for thirteen year old Theo Decker when his secure world with MON his devoted mother is shattered and life becomes fallible MON and frightening. From the chaos of existence with his MON foolish, reckless father, and a passionate friendship with MON the crazy, warm-hearted, wild Boris, to the drawing rooms of MON the Upper East Side and a dusty downtown antique shop, Theo MON is left to find his own way through his teenage years and MON into adulthood. The painting is his talisman, his MON touchstone, until it draws him into a murky criminal MON underworld of drugs, art theft and fatal dealings. MON MON Tartt follows Theo through grief, teenage delinquency, MON passionate friendship and obsessive love, in a story of MON enthralling suspense, peopled with unforgettable characters. MON As the drama reaches its gripping conclusion, Theo may or MON may not find out how to survive. MON MON In today's episode: 'Revolver, roadside or roof'. Boris MON offers a timely warning as life with Theo's father becomes MON increasingly strained and a stranger arrives in Las Vegas MON looking for him. MON MON Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a MON graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the MON novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The MON Goldfinch. MON The reader is Jamie Parker. MON The abridger is Sally Marmion. MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 The Curse of the Confederacy of Dunces b01r55wx (Listen) MON A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the great comic novels of MON the 20th century; unfortunately its author did not live to MON see his work acclaimed. Frustrated by the publishing world's MON rebuffs, John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 MON unpublished, impoverished and unhinged. Twelve years later MON it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.The book, beloved by MON the people of New Orleans, whose people and their mores MON Toole depicted with forensic accuracy, has since become the MON book Hollywood has tried most to film and so far failed. The MON deaths of four leading actors, the murder one financier and MON even Hurricane Katrina have all intervened to prevent the MON cameras rolling.With yet another Hollywood 'A- lister' MON signed up to play the book's monstrous slob of an anti-hero, MON Ignatius J Reilly, Matthew Wells tells the story of the MON incredible life of a work that has been surrounded by so MON much tragedy, tribulation and ultimately acclaim. He MON examines the appeal of a masterpiece that's up to its 30th MON edition and can be read in 22 languages from Croatian to MON Catalan. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03f97p7 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03f4wvp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03f8grl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03f4wvr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03f4wvt (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03f4wvw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03f4wvy (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03fvdy7 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard TUE Hill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03f9bg3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Jules Benham. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt7v (Listen) TUE Firecrest TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the TUE Firecrest. Firecrests are very small birds, a mere nine TUE centimetres long and are often confused with their much TUE commoner cousins, goldcrests. Both have the brilliant orange TUE or yellow crown feathers, but the firecrest embellishes TUE these with black eyestripes, dazzling white eyebrows and TUE golden patches on the sides of its neck ... a jewel of a TUE bird. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03f9bg5 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b03f9bg7 (Listen) TUE Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013, Nice Rebellion, TUE Welcome In! TUE TUE In the third of four lectures, recorded in front of an TUE audience at The Guildhall in Londonderry, the artist Grayson TUE Perry asks if revolution is a defining idea in art, or has TUE it met its end? TUE TUE Perry says the world of art seems to be strongly associated TUE with novelty. He argues that the mainstream media seems TUE particularly drawn to the idea of their being an TUE avant-garde: work is always described as being "cutting TUE edge," artists are "radical," shows are "mould-breaking," TUE ideas are "ground-breaking," "game-changing" or TUE "revolutionary," We are forever being told that a new TUE paradigm is being set. Perry says we have reached the final TUE state of art. Not an end game, as there will always be great TUE new art, but that art has lost one of its central tenets: TUE its ability to shock. We have seen it all before. TUE TUE Grayson Perry was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003 and is TUE the first contemporary artist to deliver the Reith Lectures. TUE He is best known for his ceramic works, print making, TUE drawing, sculpture and tapestries as well as being a TUE flamboyant cross-dresser. TUE TUE The Reith Lectures are presented and chaired by Sue Lawley TUE and produced by Jim Frank. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03ffkxl (Listen) TUE An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE What does it feel like to go to space for the first time? TUE Chris Hadfield recalls his first flight in 1995. TUE TUE Reader: Garrick Hagon TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03f9bg9 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03f9bgc (Listen) TUE Petite Mort, Episode 2 TUE TUE Produced and directed by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03f9bgf (Listen) TUE Restriction and Choice TUE TUE In Australia some housing estates put restrictions on what TUE people can do to protect koalas. They can't own dogs or cats TUE for example and the Koala's needs are paramount. But how TUE many people are prepared to give up lifestyle choices so TUE that wildlife can thrive? Or are the needs and rights of TUE people greater than those of species under threat? Monty Don TUE explores whether people are prepared to forgo personal TUE choice for wildlife in a world where human population is TUE increasingly putting pressure on many species. TUE TUE Producer Andrew Dawes. TUE TUE 11:30 Jamaica: The Harder They Come b03f9cvg (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In Part 1 of this two-part series, writer Chris Salewicz TUE explores the cult film The Harder They Come and considers TUE its legacy. He meets the film's stars and those who have TUE been touched by this classic of modern cinema and its TUE soundtrack. TUE TUE Released in British cinemas in 1973, The Harder They Come is TUE the rite of passage story of Ivan, a young singer trying to TUE break into the music industry. Portrayed by the ever-smiling TUE Jimmy Cliff, the film contains great music and unforgettable TUE scenes of sun-bleached Jamaica. Yet there is a dark heart to TUE the film. Despite his considerable vocal talents, Ivan goes TUE astray and becomes tragically entwined in the criminal TUE underworld. TUE TUE For British cinema-goers it was their first insight into TUE Kingston's seductive ghetto life, with a far-reaching TUE influence on fashion and music. Before Bob Marley, it was TUE The Harder They Come which launched reggae culture onto the TUE world stage. TUE TUE Contributors include Jimmy Cliff, discussing real-life TUE gunman, Ryegin, who terrorised Kingston in 1948 and became TUE the inspiration for the lead role. Chappy St Juste, TUE cameraman on the film recalls shooting some memorable TUE scenes, and Sally Henzell, widow of director Perry Henzell, TUE talks about the film's premiere at Kingston's Carib cinema TUE where 40,000 people tried to get in to the 1500 seater TUE auditorium. Carl Bradshaw, who plays Jose, gives us a tour TUE of the film's locations and author Matthew Parker TUE contextualises Jamaica's history as a violent slave outpost TUE "bathed in blood". TUE TUE Producer: Simon Poole TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03f9cvj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03f4ww0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03f9cvl (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 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers b03ffp9q (Listen) TUE The Voice of Authority TUE TUE Jane Garvey investigates the stories behind five landmark TUE moments in the history of the female voice on radio and TUE television. How far have women really come since the early TUE days of the wireless? To what extent are female voices now TUE accepted as carrying the same level of authority and TUE expertise as their male counterparts? TUE TUE In this second programme, Jane Garvey reflects on a TUE forgotten piece of broadcasting history. In 1955 Barbara TUE Mandell became the first woman to read the news on TV. TUE TUE It was 20 years before Angela Rippon. So, why did it take so TUE long for another woman to assert a voice of authority in the TUE news arena? Jane Garvey talks to Angela Rippon about the TUE reaction she received at the time and whether the position TUE of women in broadcasting has changed over the years. Jean TUE Seaton and Suzanne Franks place the development of female TUE broadcasting in a historical and social context and we hear TUE the voice of Barbara Mandell herself. TUE TUE Other programmes in the series include: Upping The Tempo, in TUE which Jane meets Annie Nightingale, the first female DJ on TUE Radio 1 and respected as an expert voice in music TUE journalism; Prime Time Woman, which notes the role played by TUE Esther Rantzen as a campaigning and consumer journalist on TUE TV; and A Level Playing Field, with Jacqui Oatley discussing TUE her debut as the first female footballer commentator on TUE 'Match of the Day'. TUE TUE Producer: Jane Reck TUE An Alfi Media Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03f97nv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b03f9dbp (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE TUE A new long-running drama series from G F Newman based on the TUE characters from the multi-award winning writer's TUE best-selling crime novel. Spanning six decades, it plots the TUE course of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in TUE crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very TUE heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship TUE of shared values. TUE TUE Joey Oldman is a Russian Jew, who arrived in Britain before TUE the war with only two words of English and married Cathy TUE Braden. They had a son, Brian, and a daughter, Rose. Cathy's TUE widowed mother, Gracie, takes up with a famous and glamorous TUE gangster, Billy Hill, while her brother Jack wants to become TUE World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Both the army and TUE the Kray twins interfere with this ambition. Jack is left TUE feeling bitter and angry and plunges headlong into crime, TUE running protection rackets and claiming a piece of other TUE criminals' sometimes infamous pies. His actions become ever TUE more savage and bizarre and harder to reconcile. TUE TUE Haunted by the murder of his grandfather which he witnessed TUE when he was six, Brian Oldman holds a terrible secret that TUE he must keep for fear of his life as he falls deeper under TUE his mother's spell. But there is a more disturbing secret he TUE has yet to discover - one that will threaten his very TUE existence. All the while he becomes a willing participant in TUE the criminal underworld in the 1950s, where gangs such as TUE the Krays and the Richardson are emerging to challenge the TUE old guard in savage battles for territory. TUE TUE With Ross Kemp as Narrator. TUE TUE Written by G F Newman TUE Produced and directed by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Joey Oldman: Toby Jones TUE Cath Oldman: Denise Gough TUE Brian Oldman: Rory McMenamin TUE Jack Braden: Tom Weston-Jones TUE Billy Hill: Robert Glenister TUE Arnold Goodman: Edward Max TUE Eddie Richardson: Charlie Davies TUE Sammy Cohen: Jonathan Tafler TUE Spotty: Jonathan Tafler TUE Ronnie Kray: Lewis Mcleod TUE Harold Wilson: Lewis Mcleod TUE Tom Driberg: Nigel Cooke TUE Policeman: Theo Fraser Steele TUE Martha Baines: Kellie Shirley TUE Narrator: Ross Kemp TUE Director: Clive Brill TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Writer: GF Newman TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b03f9dbr (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Fear TUE TUE Josie Long gets scared as she presents a sequence of TUE frightening mini documentaries. TUE TUE From the sound of fear to the feel of terror, we hear the TUE story of a sleepwalking menace stalking through an American TUE summer camp late at night and tales of how the young David TUE O'Doherty was terrorised by his older brother. TUE TUE Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE Dead Man's Hand TUE Feat. David O'Doherty TUE Prod. Sophie Black TUE TUE Welcome to the Inn TUE Feat. Wolfgang Georgsdorf TUE Prod. Phil Smith TUE TUE The Casserole TUE Prod. Sarah Cuddon TUE TUE Die TUE From the podcast Random Tape TUE Prod. David Weinberg TUE TUE Wilder TUE Feat. Dave Benson TUE Prod. Sophie Black. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b03fb8nk (Listen) TUE Hot in the City TUE TUE Heatwaves and rising temperatures are killing thousands of TUE people each year and that's expected to increase TUE dramatically in the future. Tom Heap asks if our cities are TUE becoming uninhabitable and goes in search of the innovative TUE design changes we migh have to incorporate into our homes, TUE offices and cities to survive. TUE TUE The'urban heat island effect' has shown how temperatures can TUE reach their highest in cities compared to the surrounding TUE countryside. Rising Summer temperatures for prolonged TUE periods, coupled with the intensity of thousands of people TUE living, working and travelling in a confined area while TUE blasting air conditioning to keep cool can mean the heat is TUE held in our cities fails to ease overnight. This can lead to TUE more than just getting hot under the collar - increased TUE pollution, poor health and even death. TUE TUE Tom Heap sweats it out in New York and London to find out TUE how we'll have to change to cope. Streets and building TUE design can help to keep things cool so should we demolish TUE Paris and start again? Building materials are being created TUE to absorb and hold water and reflect the sun's rays but is TUE that enough? Will concrete be done away with altogether? TUE Trees and rivers could become the city's superheroes so TUE should we be demolishing roads to prioritise them? TUE TUE Tom also heads to Milan to see a radical new housing design TUE where trees and plants don't simply decorate but help form a TUE 'vertical forest' to cool and shield the residents from TUE scorching heat and pollution. Will this urban jungle become TUE the forerunner of things to come? TUE TUE Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b03fb8nm (Listen) TUE Too Many Law Students, Not Enough Jobs? TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg investigates claims that too many students TUE are training to be lawyers in a time when jobs in the legal TUE profession are scarce. TUE TUE Share your experiences by emailing the programme: TUE lawinaction@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Charlotte Pritchard TUE Series Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith TUE Editor: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03fb8np (Listen) TUE Eve Pollard and Julie Bindel TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert talks to guests about their favourite TUE books. Eve Pollard chooses Canada by Richard Ford and Julie TUE Bindel picks Chinua Achebe's classic African novel Things TUE Fall Apart. Harriett's choice is the hilarious Me Talk TUE Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03fb8nr (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03f4ww2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Your Round b01946wq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Another panel of comedians endeavour to beat each other at TUE their own games, watched over by Angus Deayton. TUE TUE The rounds this episode include: TUE TUE Will Self's "What's In My Hand?"...further explanation TUE unnecessary. TUE TUE Glyes Brandreth's "It's My Party", in which panellists must TUE all pitch their own, new political party. TUE TUE Sara Pascoe's "Tax Loss Entertainment", in which panellists TUE must improvise the worst play in history. TUE TUE Arthur Smith's "How Much Would It Cost For You To?", a TUE refinement of a game he's played before in which panellists TUE must guess the money they'd require in order to complete TUE various unpleasant tasks. TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03fb8nt (Listen) TUE There are visitors at The Bull. Meanwhile Jolene voices her TUE doubts. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03fb8nw (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film Short Term TUE 12, a drama set in a foster home for teenagers. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03f9bgc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03fb8ny (Listen) TUE Deadly Drugs TUE TUE What's behind the recent death of a clubgoer in Manchester TUE who's believed to have taken a bad dose of the drug ecstasy? TUE He's one of 12 in the area in the last year who've died TUE after using illegal stimulants with toxic new additives, TUE prompting the Government's Chief Medical Officer to issue a TUE formal alert. Police are concerned organised crime is hiring TUE backstreet chemists to cook up their own toxic amphetamines. TUE Allan Urry investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Carl Johnston. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03fb8p0 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03fb91z (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Human Zoo b036v89w (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE "Trust me, I tell the truth and I'll prove it to you". It's TUE a simple idea that is the driving force behind the move for TUE public bodies and private business to be open and TUE transparent about their dealings. TUE TUE The argument goes that, by showing their workings, they can TUE engender trust. However, psychology suggests it might not be TUE that straightforward. An obvious response to publication of TUE the data on surgeon's success rates has been headlines TUE labelling some as "the worst in the UK". TUE TUE So how can we engender trust, both on a personal and public TUE level. Should we demand that our partners tell us every TUE lecherous thought that goes through their heads? Do we TUE really want to know that the surgeon about to apply their TUE blade to our skin has a lower than average success rate? The TUE answer, like so many about complex human beings, is not TUE simple. Openness and trust are not always linked in the way TUE we might assume. The Human Zoo shows us why. TUE TUE The Human Zoo, where we see public decisions viewed through TUE private thoughts, is presented by Michael Blastland, with TUE the trusted guidance of Nick Chater, Professor of TUE Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03f4ww4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03fb921 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03fb923 (Listen) TUE The Goldfinch, I Won't Forget You TUE TUE In today's episode: 'I won't forget you.' With his father TUE dead, Theo knows he must leave Las Vegas, and Boris, and TUE find his way to New York and the girl with the golden-brown TUE eyes. TUE TUE The reader is Jamie Parker. TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion. TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Small Scenes b03fb925 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE TUE Symphonious sketch series with Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, TUE Sara Pascoe and Henry Paker. This week, we listen in as a TUE pair of long-lost brothers meet for the first time. TUE Elsewhere, a moth runs amok on a submarine and we also meet TUE the world's most literal voiceover artist. TUE TUE Small Scenes is written by the cast and Benjamin Partridge, TUE with additional material from Jon Lynes and Dan O'Donohue. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Daniel Rigby TUE Performer: Mike Wozniak TUE Performer: Sara Pascoe TUE Performer: Henry Paker TUE Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer TUE Writer: Daniel Rigby TUE Writer: Mike Wozniak TUE Writer: Sara Pascoe TUE Writer: Henry Paker TUE Writer: Benjamin Partridge TUE Writer: Chris Allen TUE Writer: Marc Jones TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03fb927 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03f4wx1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03ffkxl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03f4wx3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03f4wx5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03f4wx7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03f4wx9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03fvdyw (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard WED Hill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03fb9k2 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt9y (Listen) WED Bobolink WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the WED Bobolink. You might never have heard of a Bobolink - but WED these birds do occur very rarely in the UK although their WED true home is in the grasslands of Canada and the northern WED states of the USA. They look like large finches but belong WED to the family of New World blackbirds. Because the breeding WED males have black and white plumage they are sometimes called WED 'skunk blackbirds'. WED WED The sound archive recording of the bobolink featured in this WED programme was sourced from The Macaulay Library at the WED Cornell Lab of Ornithology. WED WED 06:00 Today b03fb9k4 (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03fb9k6 (Listen) WED Rita Moreno WED WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03ffkf6 (Listen) WED An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Episode 3 WED WED Preparation and 'sweating the small stuff' are crucial to WED staying alive. Astronauts are taught to constantly ask, WED 'what is the next thing that is going to kill me ?' WED WED Reader: Garrick Hagon WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03fbb2s (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03fbb2v (Listen) WED Petite Mort, Episode 3 WED WED Produced and directed by Emma Harding. WED WED 11:00 Silk b03fbb2x (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED From its home in China, silk's commercial spread constituted WED the first global industry, offering high profits to those WED braving the dangerous journey along the Silk Road and WED beyond. The secrets behind its production were closely WED guarded, and China managed to maintain its hold onto these WED secrets for a thousand years - but thank to a large helping WED of smuggling and industrial espionage, other countries WED including France, Italy and the UK became major players in WED the industry. WED In part two of 'Silk', Steph McGovern discovers that this WED most sought after material has also driven technological WED change, from the prototype computer programme offered by the WED Jacquard loom in the nineteenth century, to the development WED today of artificial body parts. She discovers too how silk's WED fortunes have been inextricably linked with political WED upheaval - championed by American revolutionaries, damned by WED French revolutionaries, and providing the setting for the WED birth of the Anarchist movement. WED WED 11:30 Hard to Tell b016817k (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny WED Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). who WED conjures up characters depicting every relationship from WED father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the WED feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked WED to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to WED long term partners and their dearly departed. WED WED In episode 3, if your son is visiting with his new WED girlfriend, how far apart should their beds be placed? Can WED she be trusted with a remote control? And is it OK to WED indulge your fondness for Helen Mirren? WED WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Ashley: Alex MacQueen WED Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine WED Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie WED Hermione: Sarah Solemani WED Tom: Jonny Sweet WED Maeve: Katy Wix WED Writer: Jonny Sweet WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03fdc9q (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03f4wxc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03fdc9s (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 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers b03f8nf9 (Listen) WED Upping the Tempo WED WED Jane Garvey investigates the stories behind five landmark WED moments in the history of the female voice on radio and WED television. How far have women really come since the early WED days of the wireless? To what extent are female voices now WED accepted as carrying the same level of authority and WED expertise as their male counterparts? WED WED In the third programme, it's 1970 and Annie Nightingale WED becomes the first female DJ on Radio 1 and then one of the WED presenters of The Old Grey Whistle Test. The longest serving WED DJ on Radio 1, Annie's has been a stellar career, but what WED is her legacy? Jane Garvey explores whether Annie's success WED has made it easier for women to be recognised as a voice of WED expertise in music broadcasting. WED WED We hear from Annie herself, former Radio 1 Controller Johnny WED Beerling and historian Professor Jean Seaton. WED WED Other programmes still to come in the series include: Prime WED Time Woman, which notes the role played by Esther Rantzen as WED a campaigning and consumer journalist on TV; and A Level WED Playing Field, with Jacqui Oatley discussing her debut as WED the first female footballer commentator on 'Match of the WED Day'. WED WED Producer: Jane Reck WED An Alfi Media Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03fb8nt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b03fdcv5 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED WED A new long-running drama series from G F Newman based on the WED characters from the multi-award winning writer's WED best-selling crime novel. Spanning six decades, it plots the WED course of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in WED crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very WED heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship WED of shared values. WED WED Joey Oldman is a Russian Jew, who arrived in Britain before WED the war with only two words of English and married Cathy WED Braden. They had a son, Brian, and a daughter, Rose. Cathy's WED widowed mother, Gracie, takes up with a famous and glamorous WED gangster, Billy Hill, while her brother Jack wants to become WED World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Both the army and WED the Kray twins interfere with this ambition. Jack is left WED feeling bitter and angry and plunges headlong into crime, WED running protection rackets and claiming a piece of other WED criminals' sometimes infamous pies. His actions become ever WED more savage and bizarre and harder to reconcile. WED WED Haunted by the murder of his grandfather which he witnessed WED when he was six, Brian Oldman holds a terrible secret that WED he must keep for fear of his life as he falls deeper under WED his mother's spell. But there is a more disturbing secret he WED has yet to discover - one that will threaten his very WED existence. All the while he becomes a willing participant in WED the criminal underworld in the 1950s, where gangs such as WED the Krays and the Richardson are emerging to challenge the WED old guard in savage battles for territory. WED WED With Ross Kemp as Narrator. WED WED Written by G F Newman WED Produced and directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Joey Oldman: Toby Jones WED Cath Oldman: Denise Gough WED Brian Oldman: Rory McMenamin WED Jack Braden: Tom Weston-Jones WED Billy Hill: Robert Glenister WED DI Drury: Matthew Marsh WED Charlie Richardson: Oliver Mawdsley WED Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde WED Ronnie Kray: Lewis Mcleod WED Alfie: Lewis Mcleod WED Violet Kray: Ruth Gemmell WED Sergeant Watling: Nigel Cooke WED DS Fenwick: Theo Fraser Steele WED Narrator: Ross Kemp WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: GF Newman WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03fddxf (Listen) WED Renting and Letting WED WED Need help with renting or letting? Whether you're hoping to WED rent a property which you can happily call home or you want WED to be a successful landlord, you can ask the Money Box Live WED property experts for guidance. Call 03700 100 444 between WED 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED A new 'Tenant Charter' has just been launched by the WED Department for Communities and Local Government to give WED tenants a better deal, drive out rogue landlords and force WED letting and property management agents to join a compulsory WED redress scheme. WED WED If you want to find out about your obligations as a landlord WED or a tenant, we'll have a team of experts ready with free WED advice. WED WED How do you negotiate a fair rent or rent increase? WED WED What rights are given by a tenancy agreement and how do you WED end one? WED WED Where should deposits be secured? WED WED If you use a letting agent will there be a fee? Does the WED agent or the landlord take responsibility for the deposit WED and repairs? WED WED Perhaps you're thinking about letting a property and are WED concerned about the legal requirements? WED WED Joining presenter Ruth Alexander to answer your questions WED will be: WED WED Sian Evans, Chair, Law Society Housing Law Committee and WED Head of Property Litigation at Weightmans. WED WED Marveen Smith, Partner of Solicitors Pain Smith. WED WED Carolyn Uphill, Chairman, National Landlords Association. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03fb91z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03fddxh (Listen) WED Poverty in Britain; Sex Workers and International Migration WED WED 'Low pay, no pay' Britain. Laurie Taylor talks to the WED sociologist, Tracy Shildrick, about her prize winning study WED of individuals and families who are living in or near WED poverty. The research was conducted in Teesside, North East WED England, and focuses on the men and women who've fallen out WED of old working class communities and must now cope with WED drastically reduced opportunities for standard employment. WED Also, the US sociologist, Kimberley Kay Hoang, discusses her WED study into Vietnamese sex workers who've become American WED wives who, contrary to their hopeful expectations, end up as WED primary breadwinners in their new country. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03fddxk (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 b03fdf0m (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03f4wxf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03fdh2c (Listen) WED Time to Celebrate WED WED EPISODE 1: TIME TO CELEBRATE WED When Tom phones home we find out why he hates celebrations, WED why his mum can't stop organising them and why his father WED needs an electric whisk. WED WED Classic Wrigglesworth rants combined with a fascinating and WED hilarious glimpse into his family background and the WED influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and WED hang-ups. WED WED Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from WED Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the WED conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call WED to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate WED various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his WED family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off WED about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday WED annoyances. WED WED During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from WED 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from WED our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in WED a 30 minute phone call. WED WED 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of WED Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a WED bit of totally legal phone hacking. WED WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Miles Jupp WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED Credits WED Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Granny: Judy Parfitt WED Dad: Paul Copley WED Mum: Kate Anthony WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03fdjsk (Listen) WED Ed expresses his feelings, and Darrell tries to make amends. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03fdjsm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03fbb2v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03fdjsp (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Giles Fraser and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03fdjsr (Listen) WED Series 4, Learning from our teenage selves WED WED Molly Naylor has spent years thinking how much she could WED teach her teenage self. But in this talk, Molly turns her WED thinking on its head. What if her teenage self has something WED to teach her? WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03fb8nk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03fb9k6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03f4wxh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03fdjst (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03fdjsw (Listen) WED The Goldfinch, Museum Masterworks Recovered in the Bronx WED WED In today's episode: 'Museum masterworks recovered in the WED Bronx'. With the discovery of other art lost in the museum WED bombing, Theo's anxiety about 'his' painting grows and he WED needs a plan. WED WED The reader is Jamie Parker. WED The abridger is Sally Marmion. WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Before They Were Famous b03fdjsy (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Even the most successful of writers have, at some point, had WED to take day jobs to pay the bills. WED Ian Leslie presents the second series of this Radio 4 spoof WED documentary, which sheds light on the often surprising jobs WED done by the world's best known writers in the days before WED they were able to make a living from their art. WED WED In a project of literary archaeology, Leslie unearths WED archive examples of early work by great writers, including WED Fortune Cookie messages written by Germaine Greer, a WED political manifesto by the young JK Rowling, and a car WED manual written by Dan Brown. In newspaper articles, WED advertising copy, and company correspondence, we get a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best-loved literary voices. WED WED We may know them today for their novels, plays or poems but, WED once upon a time, they were just people with a dream - and a WED rent bill looming at the end of the month. WED WED Producers: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Mrs Purslow: Abigail Burdess WED DH Lawrence: Mark Evans WED Irvine Welsh: Simon Kane WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Mrs Frobisher: Katy Wix WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:15 Irish Micks and Legends b01nl8gr (Listen) WED The Salmon of Knowledge WED WED Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are the WED very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's WED freshest story-tellers to the British nation very seriously WED indeed but they haven't had the time to do much research, WED learn their lines or work out who is doing which parts. WED WED The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a WED concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors WED and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. WED WED With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices WED Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern WED re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. WED WED Today it's the Salmon of Knowledge. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03fdjx1 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on PMQs and the rest of the day's events WED at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03f4wyd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03ffkf6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03f4wyg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03f4wyj (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03f4wyl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03f4wyn (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03fvf05 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard THU Hill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03ffkf8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Jules Benham. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bktkx (Listen) THU Mourning Dove THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the THU Mourning Dove. On a November evening at the end of the last THU Millennium, Maire MacPhail looked through the window of her THU home on the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides to THU see an odd pigeon sitting on the garden fence. It looked THU tired, as well it might have done, for it turned out to be THU only the second mourning dove to occur naturally in the THU British Isles. THU THU The sound archive recording of the mourning dove featured in THU this programme was sourced from : THU Andrew Spencer, XC109033. Accessible at THU www.xeno-canto.org/109033. THU THU 06:00 Today b03ffkfb (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03ffkfd (Listen) THU The Berlin Conference THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference. THU In 1884 the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, brought THU together many of Europe's leading statesmen to discuss trade THU and colonial activities in Africa. The conference is THU commonly seen as one of the most significant events of the THU so-called Scramble for Africa; in the following decades, THU European nations laid claim to most of the continent. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03ffkfg (Listen) THU An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Episode 4 THU THU Chris Hadfield spent five months on the International Space THU Station and, in between the scientific experiments and the THU daily routines of living, he spent as much time as he could THU looking out of the window. THU THU Read by Garrick Hagon THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03ffkfj (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03ffkfl (Listen) THU Petite Mort, Episode 4 THU THU Produced and directed by Emma Harding. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03ffkfn (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 I Found a Tenor: Richard Tauber Revived b03ffkfq (Listen) THU As he prepares to perform operetta for the first time, THU comedian and entertainer Bernie Clifton explores the impact THU of Austrian Tenor Richard Tauber, the man who inspired him THU to return to the stage as a singer. THU THU Bernie Clifton began his career singing with a dance band THU before cutting his teeth as a comedian on the northern club THU circuit. Famous for riding an ostrich and other outrageous THU props, Clifton became a regular face on television in the THU 70's and 80's, appearing on The Lulu Show, The Good Old Days THU and presenting Crackerjack. THU THU A few years ago Clifton toyed with the idea of returning to THU the stage as a serious singer and, although his roots lay in THU Dance Band music, it was rediscovering the voice of Richard THU Tauber that inspired a new passion in him to perform THU operetta. THU THU Tauber, acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th THU century was a favourite in the Clifton family home and the THU young Bernie was regularly exposed to his music. As the THU decades passed by, Tauber's songs including the classics 'My THU Heart and I' and 'You Are My Heart's Desire' were almost THU forgotten until Clifton purchased an album of recordings. THU One atmospheric night he relived them and they revived some THU wonderful memories and motivated a new career ambition. THU THU In this programme we join Clifton preparing for a special THU evening of Viennese music where he'll perform songs before THU an audience in the Tauber style with The National Concert THU Orchestra. THU THU He trains his voice at the Royal Northern College of Music THU under the tutorship of the celebrated tenor David Maxwell THU Anderson, visits Tauber landmarks in London and meets Tauber THU enthusiast Bernard Keeffe, the Chairman of the THU Anglo-Austrian Music Society. THU THU Throughout, Clifton reflects on his own career and explores THU the more interesting aspects of the life of the Austrian THU singer. Much-admired Lancashire tenor Jon Christos is also THU on hand with music recordings to illustrate the uniqueness THU of the Tauber voice and his effect on 21st Century THU performers. THU THU As the journey concludes we discover if Bernie Clifton has THU got what it takes to perform without laughter as he takes to THU the stage as a serious singer of operetta. THU THU Produced by Stephen Garner. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03ffkfs (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03f4wyq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03ffkfv (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 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers b03ffkfx (Listen) THU Primetime Women THU THU Jane Garvey investigates the stories behind five landmark THU moments in the history of the female voice on radio and THU television. How far have women really come since the early THU days of the wireless? To what extent are female voices now THU accepted as carrying the same level of authority and THU expertise as their male counterparts? THU THU In the fourth programme, Prime Time Woman, Jane Garvey looks THU at the pioneering role played by Esther Rantzen and the THU campaigning programme 'That's Life' in the 1970s and 80s. THU She paved the way for a new style of campaigning journalism, THU bringing a female voice of authority to our living rooms. THU THU We also hear from John Birt, who made the inspired choice of THU Cilla Black as presenter of 'Blind Date', and broadcast THU historians Jean Seaton and Suzanne Franks. THU THU Producer: Jane Reck THU An Alfi Media Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03fdjsk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b03ffkfz (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU THU A new long-running drama series from G F Newman based on the THU characters from the multi-award winning writer's THU best-selling crime novel. Spanning six decades, it plots the THU course of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in THU crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very THU heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship THU of shared values. THU THU Joey Oldman is a Russian Jew, who arrived in Britain before THU the war with only two words of English and married Cathy THU Braden. They had a son, Brian, and a daughter, Rose. Cathy's THU widowed mother, Gracie, takes up with a famous and glamorous THU gangster, Billy Hill, while her brother Jack wants to become THU World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Both the army and THU the Kray twins interfere with this ambition. Jack is left THU feeling bitter and angry and plunges headlong into crime, THU running protection rackets and claiming a piece of other THU criminals' sometimes infamous pies. His actions become ever THU more savage and bizarre and harder to reconcile. THU THU Haunted by the murder of his grandfather which he witnessed THU when he was six, Brian Oldman holds a terrible secret that THU he must keep for fear of his life as he falls deeper under THU his mother's spell. But there is a more disturbing secret he THU has yet to discover - one that will threaten his very THU existence. All the while he becomes a willing participant in THU the criminal underworld in the 1950s, where gangs such as THU the Krays and the Richardson are emerging to challenge the THU old guard in savage battles for territory. THU THU With Ross Kemp as Narrator. THU THU Written by G F Newman THU Produced and directed by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Joey Oldman: Toby Jones THU Cath Oldman: Denise Gough THU Brian Oldman: Rory McMenamin THU Jack Braden: Tom Weston-Jones THU John Bloom: Theo Fraser Steele THU Bank Manager: Matthew Townshend THU DI Bulmer: Matthew Townshend THU Arnold Goodman: Edward Max THU DI Drury: Matthew Marsh THU Sammy Cohen: Jonathan Tafler THU Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde THU Sergeant Watling: Nigel Cooke THU Tony Wednesday: Petrice Joseph THU Student: Kellie Shirley THU Narrator: Ross Kemp THU Director: Clive Brill THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Writer: GF Newman THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03ffkg1 (Listen) THU Restoring Mountsorrel's Long Forgotten Railway THU THU Helen Mark rides a mile and quarter of old railway line that THU the local people of Mountsorrel in Leicestershire have been THU restoring over the past six years. It was Steve Cramp who THU was out walking one weekend that first noticed the over THU grown and disused railway- he then had a crazy idea to THU restore the track to it's former glory. Built in 1860 it was THU used to carry granite and stones from the quarry.Helen THU spends a day on the railway track and discovers how the THU project has benefited some volunteers coping with illness THU and bereavement and even meets a volunteer who comes from THU Paris to help carry out work on the track. THU THU Producer : Perminder Khatkar . THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03f87b2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03f87yr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03ffkg3 (Listen) THU Philomena; Cutie and the Boxer; Joe Eszterhas THU THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03ffkg5 (Listen) THU Dr Lucie Green 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 b03ffkg7 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03f4wys (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b01ptzm9 (Listen) THU Series 8, Fifty Shades of Ray THU THU Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all THU the right jargon but never a practical solution. THU THU A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering THU in other people's lives on both a professional and personal THU basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and THU heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of THU discomfort to her. THU THU Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control THU both her professional and private life THU THU In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out THU there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. THU THU In Episode Three 'Fifty Shades of Ray'; the team's anxiety THU over possible redundancies is overshadowed when they hear THU some shattering news concerning Ray. THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Producer Katie Tyrrell. THU THU Credits THU Clare: Sally Phillips THU Brian: Alex Lowe THU Megan: Nina Conti THU Ray: Richard Lumsden THU Helen: Liza Tarbuck THU Simon: Andrew Wincott THU Libby: Sarah Kendall THU Peter: Patrick Brennan THU Fireman: Patrick Brennan THU Major: Robert Blythe THU Writer: Harry Venning THU Writer: David Ramsden THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03ffkg9 (Listen) THU Kirsty suggests a big change. Meanwhile Rob is sympathetic. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03ffkgc (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03ffkfl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b03fb8nm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03ffkgf (Listen) THU Deals THU THU When the world economy is booming, many corporate bosses THU love nothing more than buying each other's companies. THU Takeovers, mergers and acquisitions soar. But evidence tends THU to suggest that many of the arrangements are a waste of THU time, so why are deals so seductive? On the Bottom Line, THU Evan Davis and guests discuss why deals go right and what THU happens when they go wrong. THU Guests: THU Sir George Buckley - former CEO, 3M and currently Chairman THU Designate of the engineering group Smiths THU Sir Michael Rake - Chairman of BT Group and Deputy Chairman THU of Barclays THU Juergen Maier - MD of Siemens UK and Ireland THU Producer: Smita Patel. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03ffkg5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03ffkfd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03f4wyv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03ffkgh (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03ffkgk (Listen) THU The Goldfinch, I Know About the Museum THU THU In today's episode: 'I know about the Museum'. Theo's THU fraudulent dealings lead him into a murkier art world - and THU his long-held secret looks suddenly vulnerable to exposure. THU THU The reader is Jamie Parker. THU The abridger is Sally Marmion. THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Seekers b03ffkgm (Listen) THU The Baby THU THU EPISODE 5: THE BABY THU THU Someone's left a baby under Terry's seat. When the owner THU doesn't come back, Stuart, Joe and Terry have to look after THU it. They argue about if they were in Three Men and a Baby, THU which character they'd be. Obviously, all three of them want THU to be Tom Selleck. THU THU Stuart has a brainwave and uses the baby to show Nicola how THU mature and grown up he is, and in a moment of inspiration he THU claims it's his adopted child. This moment of inspiration THU turns out to be a moment of stupidity when Stuart is THU challenged by the incensed mother who returns to find her THU baby in a papoose strapped to Stuart. She blames the father. THU Who is the father? THU THU Credits THU Stuart: Matthew Horne THU Joe: Daniel Mays THU Terry: Tony Way THU Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi THU Ribena: Hannah Wood THU Mr Brooks: Alex Lowe THU Tom Boddle: Alex Lowe THU Mrs Kangalee: Bharti Patel THU Gary Probert: Steve Oram THU Policewoman: Philippa Stanton THU Policeman: Michael Bertenshaw THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU Writer: Steven Burge THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03ffkgp (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03ffr9s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03ffkfg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03ffr9v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03ffr9x (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03ffr9z (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03ffrb1 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03fvf27 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard FRI Hill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03ffsk5 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Anna Jones. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwsb7 (Listen) FRI Jackdaw 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 Martin Hughes-Games presents the jackdaw. Jackdaws are FRI scavengers with a reputation for stealing shiny or FRI glittering objects. Martin Hughes-Games tells the story of a FRI tame jackdaw he had as a child, which became a very FRI colourful member of the family, with her very own store of FRI costume jewellery to play with. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03ffsk7 (Listen) FRI News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday FRI in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03f87bb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03ffsk9 (Listen) FRI An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Episode 5 FRI FRI Chris Hadfield comes back to earth with a bump, and FRI discovers that he has become a YouTube and internet FRI sensation. FRI FRI Read by Garrick Hagon FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03fftll (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03ffskc (Listen) FRI Petite Mort, Episode 5 FRI FRI Produced and directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 11:00 Overwhelming China b03ffskf (Listen) FRI Philip Dodd explores China's continued haunting of British FRI intellectual and cultural life. FRI FRI He traces current anxieties about global economic takeover FRI back through the political sinophobia of the Cold War period FRI to earlier, pulp fantasies of Yellow Peril, Limehouse FRI Chinatown and the 'discovery' of the enemy within. FRI FRI The British media report daily on China's economic clout, FRI its ability to buy up land and businesses here (from yacht FRI makers to the Lloyds Building), its willingness to mount FRI cyber attacks on our commercial enterprises, and the rise of FRI viruses such as bird flu coming from China. If Britain feels FRI besieged by China, perhaps this should come as no surprise. FRI What is more surprising is that the current panic attack FRI about China is just the latest episode of a century long FRI concern. FRI FRI This programme looks back at earlier moments when Britain's FRI sinophobia was rampant. In the '50s and 60s, there were FRI worries about China's political clout from the Korean War to FRI the insurgent counter culture of the 60s that some believed FRI was Maoist influenced. This was the time when Sean Connery's FRI James Bond was facing the 'Chinese' Dr No, dressed up in Mao FRI gear. The programme also goes back further, to the turn of FRI the 20th century, when the Yellow Peril was at its height, FRI with the fear that the 'yellow race' would overwhelm us FRI physically by sheer numbers - the time of Fu Manchu. FRI FRI In 1904, the arch anti-imperialist JA Hobson wrote that he FRI feared China would economically undercut prices and FRI undermine our living standards. If China is haunting our FRI dreams now, it has been so for a very long time. FRI FRI Producer: Simon Hollis FRI A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b03ffskh (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI FRI Lucy is driving rational science-loving Tom crazy with her FRI passion for astrology. She tries to convince him by swishing FRI her magnificent Leo hair at him. FRI FRI With her brother mercilessly mocking her gullibility, Lucy FRI decides to read Tom's book, Exploring the Night Sky. When FRI she discovers that starlight comes from extinct stars she FRI has an existential crisis made worse by a recent visit to a FRI ghoulish exhibition about grave robbers and dissectionists. FRI Now she knows the awful truth - the sky is haunted and FRI worse, she herself is actually mortal. FRI FRI It's very hard being fifteen and finite. FRI FRI Tom's head is also full of the Burke and Hare-type crimes he FRI learned about at the exhibition. And, when he overhears a FRI late night conversation between his dad Joe and his old FRI school friend, he begins to harbour terrifying suspicions. FRI The old friend, Leon, is a vet and Joe makes a meagre living FRI working for YourPetsPaintedintheAfterlife.com. Tom is FRI convinced that his Dad's old school friend is putting down FRI healthy animals so that Joe can profit from doing their FRI afterlife portraits. Sweeney Dad the Demon Painter! FRI FRI When Lucy finds out that Tom's rationality and science FRI swottery has led him to insane conclusions, she exacts her FRI own sweet revenge. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Joe................................Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi........................Sarah Alexander FRI Tom............................Finlay Christie FRI Lucy...........................Phoebe Abbott FRI Leon................................Dave Lamb FRI FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03fgrcc (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03fgrcf (Listen) FRI Amelia and Martin - Birthday Wishes FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who FRI celebrate their 40th birthdays this year, and also their FRI survival, together, in the face of two chronic and FRI debilitating illnesses - MS and Whipple's Disease, proving FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03ffrb3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03fgrch (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 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers b03ffskk (Listen) FRI A Level Playing Field FRI FRI Jane Garvey investigates the stories behind five landmark FRI moments in the history of the female voice on radio and FRI television. FRI FRI Jacqui Oatley was the first woman to commentate on a FRI football match on 'Match of the Day' in 2007, but became a FRI focus of media and social networking attention in the FRI process. How easy is it for women with expert knowledge FRI about a subject to get their voices heard on radio and TV FRI and how close are they to achieving a level playing field? FRI And what is currently happening to improve the gender FRI balance of expert voices? FRI FRI In this final programme in the series, Jane Garvey talks to FRI Jacqui Oatley, TV historian Bettany Hughes and award-winning FRI journalist Lis Howell. FRI FRI Producer: Jane Reck FRI An Alfi Media Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03ffkg9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 GF Newman's The Corrupted b03fftgj (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI FRI A new long-running drama series from G F Newman based on the FRI characters from the multi-award winning writer's FRI best-selling crime novel. Spanning six decades, it plots the FRI course of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in FRI crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very FRI heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship FRI of shared values. FRI FRI Joey Oldman is a Russian Jew, who arrived in Britain before FRI the war with only two words of English and married Cathy FRI Braden. They had a son, Brian, and a daughter, Rose. Cathy's FRI widowed mother, Gracie, takes up with a famous and glamorous FRI gangster, Billy Hill, while her brother Jack wants to become FRI World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Both the army and FRI the Kray twins interfere with this ambition. Jack is left FRI feeling bitter and angry and plunges headlong into crime, FRI running protection rackets and claiming a piece of other FRI criminals' sometimes infamous pies. His actions become ever FRI more savage and bizarre and harder to reconcile. FRI FRI Haunted by the murder of his grandfather which he witnessed FRI when he was six, Brian Oldman holds a terrible secret that FRI he must keep for fear of his life as he falls deeper under FRI his mother's spell. But there is a more disturbing secret he FRI has yet to discover - one that will threaten his very FRI existence. All the while he becomes a willing participant in FRI the criminal underworld in the 1950s, where gangs such as FRI the Krays and the Richardson are emerging to challenge the FRI old guard in savage battles for territory. FRI FRI With Ross Kemp as Narrator. FRI FRI Written by G F Newman FRI FRI Produced and directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Joey Oldman: Toby Jones FRI Cath Oldman: Denise Gough FRI Brian Oldman: Joe Armstrong FRI Jack Braden: Tom Weston-Jones FRI Bobby Brown: Charlie Davies FRI Bank Manager: Matthew Townshend FRI DI Drury: Matthew Marsh FRI Cpt Tyrwhitt: Jonathan Tafler FRI Leah Cohen: Jasmine Hyde FRI Tom Driberg: Nigel Cooke FRI DI Fenwick: Theo Fraser Steele FRI Paul Raymond: Theo Fraser Steele FRI Judge Stevenson: David Shaw Parker FRI Pongo: Chinna Wodu FRI Narrator: Ross Kemp FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Writer: GF Newman FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03fftgl (Listen) FRI Tilsworth FRI FRI Chaired by Eric Robson, the GQT team is in Tilsworth, FRI Bedfordshire. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Pippa FRI Greenwood answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Edinburgh Haunts b03fftgq (Listen) FRI The Misadventures of Magnus Lovatt FRI FRI By Susie Maguire. FRI FRI Continuing our series of newly commissioned ghost stories FRI set in Edinburgh, Susie Maguire's tale draws on the city's FRI theatrical history. FRI FRI An actor at the Edinburgh Festival performs a one man show FRI of a Robert Louis Stevenson story - but the words begin to FRI echo back to him in a deeply unsettling way. FRI FRI Read by Steven McNicoll FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03fgrck (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03fgrcm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03g0936 (Listen) FRI David and Al - Man's Best Friend FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about guide dogs in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. Gypsy is David's first dog; as he faces her FRI retirement, Al, who has had four, reassures him that each FRI one is special. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03flbx2 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03ffrb5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b03fftgs (Listen) FRI Series 41, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw present a comedic look at the FRI week's news, providing a topical mix of stand-up, sketches FRI and songs that tell you everything you need to know. With FRI Jon Holmes, John Finnemore, Mitch Benn and Pippa Evans. FRI FRI Produced by Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03fftgv (Listen) FRI There's a new Mrs Archer in Ambridge, and Mel comes to the FRI rescue. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mel Harrison: Abigail McKern FRI Meriel Archer: Grace Quigley FRI Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney FRI Writer: Nawal Gadalla FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03g0938 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Timothy Prosser. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03ffskc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03g093c (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St Peter's College, Oxford with the Shadow Leader of FRI the House of Commons Angela Eagle MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03fftgx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01d76j7 (Listen) FRI Rio Story FRI FRI Written by Chris Thorpe. FRI FRI Corrupt ex-cop Marcelo (Charles Paraventi) keeps pregnant FRI teenager Liza (Julia Bernat) in his apartment. Rafael FRI (Matheus Oliveira) an idealistic street-kid wants to rescue FRI her and take her far away. FRI FRI Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas, this FRI ambitious ensemble drama by Chris Thorpe is part love-story FRI and part thriller revolving around a single day in the lives FRI of a couple of thieves, a crooked policeman, a charity FRI worker, a priest, a blind revolutionary and a pregnant FRI teenager. FRI FRI Recorded in Brazil, it was made with the help of the Nós do FRI Morro theatre in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. FRI FRI Casting: Ana Dias Carter and Estela Albani FRI Production coordinator: Jazmin Castillo FRI Sound design: Steve Bond FRI Producer in Brazil: Jan Roldanus FRI FRI Producer/Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Luis: Julio Adriao FRI Sidney: Danilo Moraes FRI Fabricio: Andre Cursino FRI Pastor John: Tatsu Carvalho FRI Marcelo: Charles Paraventi FRI Luciano: Renan Monteiro FRI Angela: Olivia Emes FRI Rafael: Matheus Oliveira FRI Liza: Julia Bernat FRI Felipe: Fernando Arze FRI Actor: Tecca Ferreira FRI Writer: Chris Thorpe FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Producer: John Dryden FRI Producer: Jan Roldanus FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03ffrb7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03g093h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03fftgz (Listen) FRI The Goldfinch, Friend of My Youth FRI FRI In today's episode: 'Friend of my youth' Boris's unexpected FRI reappearance prompts first joy then anger as he reveals a FRI terrible truth that will shake Theo's world. FRI FRI The reader is Jamie Parker. FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion. FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03fb8np (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03ffth1 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03ffth3 (Listen) FRI Derek and Hugh - Lessons on the Farm FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a farm worker FRI and his boss about a relationship that goes back more than FRI half a century, from which many lessons have been learned, FRI especially by the boss, proving once again that it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
25 October, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 26/10/2013 - 01/11/2013
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