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SAT SATURDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03ggl6q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03bx81y (Listen) SAT Olivier, Episode 5 SAT SAT As the National Theatre celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, SAT a new biography based on previously unseen letters and SAT diaries tells the story of Laurence Olivier as he developed SAT his craft, focusing on his career path from early school SAT days through rep theatre to Hollywood, before returning to SAT triumph in his greatest role ever, as the first director of SAT the National Theatre. SAT SAT Olivier goes to the Royal Court to star in 'The Entertainer' SAT which, in turn, sets him on a path to the last two great SAT loves of his life - Joan Plowright and the National Theatre. SAT SAT Reader: Toby Jones SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03ggl6s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03ggl6v (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03ggl6x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03ggl6z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03ggrsv (Listen) SAT Presented by the Chaplain to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards SAT in Kabul, Padre David Anderson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03ggrsx (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03ggl71 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03ggl73 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03ggfw8 (Listen) SAT Geocaching in Salcey Forest SAT SAT The sport of geocaching has become increasingly popular. The SAT modern twist on a treasure hunt involves using GPS to solve SAT clues and follow trails to find caches and the rise of the SAT smartphone has seen its popularity soar. SAT SAT Helen Mark joins hundreds of geocachers in the Salcey Forest SAT in Northamptonshire where people have travelled from across SAT the world to be at the 'mega-event'. The ancient hunting SAT forest was used by Henry VIII but also once saw elephants SAT roam the land. Will the clues help her find out more about SAT its history? SAT SAT Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03gthgc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith travels into the heart of the Peak District SAT to meet a young farming couple, Kirsty and Paul Storer, on SAT the day they receive the keys to their new home. Hayes Farm SAT is a 42-acre small holding complete with a beautiful stone SAT farmhouse and outbuildings. It may look pretty as a picture SAT but Charlotte also discusses the drawbacks and difficulties SAT of farming land you don't own. SAT Paul and Kirsty are well up for the challenge though - SAT something which has impressed their landlord, the Peak SAT District National Park Authority. Estates manager Chris SAT Manby joins the team on the farm and shares his thoughts on SAT the benefits of tenant farming and why he chose Paul and SAT Kirsty - who were up against tough competition - to take SAT over Hayes Farm. Charlotte watches as landlord and tenant SAT sign the contract and shake hands on a seven-year tenancy. SAT And we look back over a week of special reports, including SAT the NFU's National Tenant Farmers Conference in Harrogate. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03ggl75 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03gthgf (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 b03gtk03 (Listen) SAT Baroness Greenfield, Gary Barlow SAT SAT Richard Coles and Anita Anand with neuroscientist Baroness SAT Susan Greenfield talking about her life and work, Julie SAT Bailey who campaigned for reform after her Mother died at SAT Stafford Hospital and who has been hounded from her Stafford SAT home and business, 'Lorna' who lives in Belfast, was in care SAT from around 14 years of age and now volunteers with a SAT Children in Need project that helps others in care, and SAT Diccon Bewes who has followed in the diary footsteps of Miss SAT Jemima Morrell from Selby in Yorkshire, who took an 1863 SAT tour of Switzerland organised by Thomas Cook. JP Devlin SAT visits the village of Herbrandston in Wales which is a SAT doubly 'Thankful Village'- all the village soldiers returned SAT from both World Wars. Back in the studio, Medwyn Parry talks SAT about his motorbike ride to 51 Thankful Villages in the UK- SAT and tells of two new ones discovered recently. And Gary SAT Barlow shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Don't Log Off b03gtk05 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Egypt - Silence and Waiting SAT SAT Via Facebook and Skype Alan Dein connects to the lives of SAT strangers across the globe to hear their stories. The SAT tumultuous events of the Arab spring have reached an SAT uncertain conclusion in Egypt. Now, with Friday night curfew SAT drawing close, Alan hears a diversity of experience. From SAT Shady who has found a new life in the revolutionary protests SAT of January 25th 2011, a sleeper awoken from his days as a SAT football fanatic, waiting for the next seismic event to Rasa SAT who defies the curfew to maintain her sanity. Elsewhere in SAT Alexandria a newly qualified doctor, Doaa, reflects on the SAT passing of her father and her new responsibilities. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Burman. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03gtk07 (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT This week the programme examines how Ed Milliband's ideas on SAT the cost of living crisis are resonating with voters, SAT getting the public involved in law making, the hazards faced SAT by MPs who do not toe the party line, and spending SAT taxpayers' money wisely - plus the power of political SAT cartoons. SAT With MPs Jesse Norman, Diane Abbott, Peter Lilley, and SAT Richard Bacon, Andrew Hawkins of polling agency ComRes, SAT Richard Heaton, Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office SAT and First Parliamentary Counsel, former senior Whitehall SAT mandarin Sir Richard Mottram, and Dr Tim Benson on the power SAT of political cartoons. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03gtk09 (Listen) SAT Fraying at the Edges SAT SAT Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished SAT business in the Middle East finally being attended to after SAT one hundred years. Historical and continuing allegations of SAT rape and torture in Sri Lanka are investigated by Frances SAT Harrison. For India, its mission to Mars is an opportunity SAT to come out top of a new Asian space race. Justin Rowlatt SAT examines the question: couldn't the cash instead have been SAT used to lift many Indians out of poverty? Kieran Cooke SAT boards a train in the west of Ireland to see if passengers SAT feel optimistic now their prime minister has decreed the SAT country is well on the way to seeing off an economic crisis. SAT And David Mazower on stories of remembrance and loss which SAT emerge in the wake of that extraordinary discovery of a huge SAT cache of looted artwork in Germany. SAT SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03gtk0c (Listen) SAT Copy-cat websites; Future of the Co-op; Dormant bank SAT accounts SAT SAT Time to renew that passport. Put passport in this search SAT engine. Click, click, search. Ah, three top of the list. SAT Click. Mmmm. One says 'Official'. Click. And there's a SAT crown. That must be right. Click. And it only charges £45. I SAT thought passports were dearer than that. Where's my credit SAT card. Done. Oh. But now I have to pay £72.50 for the SAT passport itself! Should've gone to GOV.UK! We investigate SAT what's being done to crack down on copy cat websites which SAT pose as government agencies talking to the Consumer SAT Minister, Jo Swinson and the Advertising Standards Agency. SAT SAT Co-operative Bank is asking 13,000 retail bondholders to SAT save it. A deal announced this week has to be approved by a SAT supermajority of them - two thirds must take part in the SAT process and of those three quarters must vote yes. They will SAT get a lot more than the original deal promised - but they SAT will still see the annual return from their perpetual bonds SAT end in ten or twelve years. We speak to Euan Sutherland, the SAT CEO of Co-operative Group and Mark Taber, Chairman of the SAT Bondholders Committee. SAT SAT The Big Sleep - zzzzzz. Zzzzzzzz. Zzzzz. That's your money, SAT that is. I know it's only been in the account a year but SAT it's fallen asleep already. Dormant, as we say. And you SAT remember it was instant access? Because you wanted to be SAT sure you could get it out quickly for Life's Little SAT Emergencies? Well now it could take you up to 12 weeks - and SAT in some cases much longer - to get it back. And I would say SAT sorry. Except it's the rules. We talk to Mike Dailly from SAT the FCA's Consumer Panel about concerns that banks are SAT acting too quickly. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03ggrqx (Listen) SAT Series 82, Episode 1 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with panellists including Katy Brand, Miles Jupp SAT and Bob Mills, with regular guest, Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Michell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03ggl77 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03ggl79 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03ggrr3 (Listen) SAT Johann Lamont, Nicola Sturgeon, Ruth Davidson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Glasgow with Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, SAT Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland Johann Lamont and SAT Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03gtk0f (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00hh28z (Listen) SAT Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint SAT SAT Written and directed by Patrick Barlow. Comic interpretation SAT of the story of Joan of Arc performed by comic troupe the SAT National Theatre of Brent. SAT SAT Crowd and courtiers played by Beth Nestor, Carrie Quinlan, SAT Humphrey Ker, David Reed & Thom Tuck. SAT SAT Credits SAT Joan of Arc: Dawn French SAT St Catherine: Anne Reid SAT St Margaret: Maggie Steed SAT Madame Dupont: Maggie Steed SAT Bertram: Nell Barlow SAT The Storyteller: Nell Barlow SAT Monsieur Dupont: John Ramm SAT Duke de la Rennes: John Ramm SAT Monsieur D'Arc: Kevin Eldon SAT Bishop de la Tremouille: Kevin Eldon SAT Madame D'Arc: Cheryl Campbell SAT Queen Ysabella: Cheryl Campbell SAT Alphonse Dupont: Marc Wootton SAT Pastor: Patrick Barlow SAT Jean de Metz: Andrew Dunn SAT Dauphin of France: Samuel Barnett SAT Jean du Cauchon, Chief Inquisitor: Jim Broadbent SAT Writer: Patrick Barlow SAT Director: Patrick Barlow SAT SAT 15:30 Jamaica: The Harder They Come b03g9rh2 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT In Part 2 of this two-art series, writer Chris Salewicz SAT revisits Jamaica 40 years since the premiere of the cult SAT film The Harder They Come and talks to the musicians who SAT were directly inspired into a life of crime by the film. SAT SAT He'll be asking why so many Jamaican musicians have SAT associations with criminality, how Kingston's gun culture SAT began and when politicians carved up downtown Kingston. SAT Former Met Police officer Mark Shields and community worker SAT Pastor Bobby Wilmott of Trenchtown talk about the reality of SAT everyday life there. SAT SAT Back in Britain, Chris examines the legacy of Jamaica's SAT music and culture on today's youth in the form of reggae's SAT cultural descendant, Bass Culture, which to many eyes SAT glorifies the 'Badman' archetype portrayed in The Harder SAT They Come. Grime MC Flowdan, reggae singer Tappa Zukie, SAT Jimmy Cliff, and black music historian Mykaell Riley all SAT contribute. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Poole SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03gtk0h (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Laura Jurd: Dido Harding; Raven SAT Kaliana SAT SAT Laura Jurd with a trumpet improv ahead of the EFG London SAT Jazz Festival. Equalities Minister Maria Miller and Nicola SAT Smith from the TUC discuss equal pay. Dido Harding, CEO of SAT TalkTalk, on her career and her position on the WH Power SAT List. SAT SAT We discuss some myths surrounding adoption with Roger, SAT Pamela and Alice Noon from charity and adoption agency, SAT Coram. SAT SAT Raven Kaliana, whose parents forced her to work in the SAT pornographic film industry as a child, speaks about her SAT experience and her work with puppets that she hopes will SAT help others speak out. SAT SAT The Howard League for Penal Reform publishes a new report SAT looking at the impact of campaigners Pauline Campbell and SAT Violet Van der Elst. We discuss flirting in Shakespeare with SAT actress Samantha Spiro and Professor of English at Queen SAT Mary, University of London, Peggy Reynolds. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Produced by Louise Corley. SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03gtk0k (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03gghkl (Listen) SAT Planning for the Future SAT SAT Infrastructure projects can take decades to complete and are SAT meant to last for generations. Planning for new rail SAT networks, roads, bridges, airports - in the UK and overseas SAT - all require assumptions and predictions about the future. SAT What shape will the country's economy be in? Will the SAT population grow or shrink? How might travel patterns change? SAT And will the political regimes support the project over the SAT years? SAT SAT Evan Davis and guests discuss the problems and pitfalls of SAT planning for the long view. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Alison Munro, CEO HS2 SAT Tushar Prabhu, co-owner, Pell Frischmann SAT Richard Deakin, CEO NATS SAT SAT Producer: Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03ggl7c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03ggl7f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03ggl7h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03gtk0m (Listen) SAT Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Richard E Grant, SAT Tamara Rojo, Flavia Coelho, Unknown Mortal Orchestra SAT SAT Clive's Wired For Sound with the UK's all-time greatest SAT hit-maker Sir Cliff Richard, who unbelievably is about to SAT release his 100th album. 'The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll SAT Songbook' is Cliff's tribute to the rock 'n' roll greats who SAT inspired him, such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Buddy SAT Holly. He treats us to his debut 1958 hit 'Move It'. SAT SAT Clive revisits Uncle Monty's country cottage with actor and SAT director Richard E Grant. Withnail and Clive learn How To SAT Get Ahead in Advertising and discuss Richard's new film 'Dom SAT Hemingway', playing safecracker Dom's sidekick Dickie. Dom SAT (Jude Law) is back after twelve years in prison, and it's SAT time to collect what he's owed. 'Dom Hemingway' is in SAT cinemas on Friday 15th November. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi brings intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes in SAT from the cold to talk about his life, dedicated to SAT researching and exploring some of the most brutally freezing SAT and hostile places on earth. His new book 'Cold' documents SAT his many adventures, exposed to perilous temperatures, SAT leading to frostbite and loss of fingers. Sir Ranulph SAT deservedly holds the title of 'the world's greatest SAT adventurer'. SAT SAT Clive's final nutcracker of a guest is English National SAT Ballet's Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, who's been SAT repeatedly recognised for her artistic excellence. Tamara is SAT currently leading a production of 'Le Corsaire'; a SAT swashbuckling drama of captive maidens, rich sultans, kidnap SAT and rescue, culminating in a breath-taking shipwreck. 'Le SAT Corsaire' at Bristol's Hippodrome from 26th November to 30th SAT November. SAT SAT With music from Rio-born, Paris-based Flavia Coelho, who SAT performs 'Sunshine' from her album 'Bossa Muffin'. And from SAT Unknown Mortal Orchestra perform 'Swim & Sleep Like A SAT Shark' from their 'Blue Record EP'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03gtk0p (Listen) SAT Alison Saunders SAT SAT She's been described as the UK's most experienced criminal SAT prosecutor, responsible for bringing some of the most SAT infamous criminals to justice. But she also has a passion SAT for cooking and entertaining. Becky Milligan profiles Alison SAT Saunders, who this week became the new Director of Public SAT Prosecutions. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03gtk0r (Listen) SAT Gravity; Stanley Spencer exhibition; new play Nut; and new SAT book Rustication SAT SAT Life in space is impossible, Gravity is a film about SAT surviving out there. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play SAT astronauts working on a space shuttle when their lives are SAT threatened by space shrapnel - a disintegrating satellite SAT sends million of pieces of potentially murderous debris SAT hurtling at them. Directed by Mexcian director Alfonso SAT Cuaron, it cost $100m to make and has taken more than $400m SAT at the box office already, but will our reviewers be SAT impressed by the scale of its reach and its success? SAT SAT Rustication is the first novel in 14 years from the SAT highly-acclaimed writer Charles Palliser. It's a mystery SAT story set in 1864 in a rural village where someone is SAT sending anonymous threatening letters and immolating SAT livestock. The protagonist is a 17 year old opium addict who SAT has tricky relationships with just about everybody, SAT including his own family, but how much can we trust his SAT version of events SAT SAT Young black British playwright debbie tucker green's latest SAT work - nut - looks at mental health issues. Opening with two SAT friends planning their own funeral orations and wondering SAT which of them will die first and how, it's full of honest SAT language, frank portrayals of long-established relationships SAT and sadness. Does the joyful use of langauage make for a SAT joyful play? SAT SAT Between 1927 and 1932, Stanley Spencer was commissioned to SAT paint a series of canvases showing his experience of the SAT first world war to be displayed in a specially constructed SAT chapel in Berkshire. Because of reconstruction work being SAT undertaken on the chapel's fabric, 16 of the paintings are SAT on display outside their original setting (for only the SAT second time in nearly 80 years). Can the non-consecrated SAT context of Somerset House in London do them justice? SAT SAT Yonderland is the new comedy TV series from the team behind SAT Horrible Histories. Humans and puppets work together to SAT create a fairytale fantasy set in a magical kingdom far far SAT away. With puppets created by Henson alumni, it certainly SAT has a fine pedigree, but will it live happily ever after? SAT SAT Producer: Oliver Jones. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01mn4v4 (Listen) SAT Presenting the Past - How the Media Changes History SAT SAT Change has swept through the way history is presented to the SAT public. Programmes, films and books dealing with the past SAT used to emphasise authority and accuracy as their great SAT strengths. While those elements are still valued, argues SAT historian and broadcaster Juliet Gardiner, the over-riding SAT aim now has become to present an authentic view of the past. SAT But how is that achieved? And what happens when the desire SAT for authenticity conflicts with the facts? SAT SAT Drawing on her role as an historical adviser on television SAT programmes, feature films and to writers of historical SAT fiction over the years, Juliet Gardiner shows how directors, SAT writers and producers achieve authenticity in their work and SAT how this affects the history we see, read and hear. She also SAT lifts the veil on behind-the-scenes tensions and SAT disagreements over how far the facts should be bent to SAT achieve the precious authentic "feel". SAT SAT Taking her examples from documentaries, recent movies, SAT dramas and books as well as children's programmes, Juliet SAT Gardiner presents a lively and revealing personal essay on SAT how the ways of presenting history have evolved - and how SAT they have in turn shaped the way we, the public, see and SAT think about the past. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03g8gv7 (Listen) SAT Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender SAT SAT by Evelyn Waugh SAT Dramatised by Jeremy Front SAT Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: SAT Guy's military career is revived when he is SAT selected for a mission to Italy. He travels to SAT London to await orders. SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of WW2 novels mark a high point in SAT his literary career. Originally published as three volumes: SAT Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional SAT Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and SAT published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the SAT form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are SAT dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. SAT SAT This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the SAT comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty SAT and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be SAT counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most SAT enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his SAT own experiences during WW2. Sword of Honour effortlessly SAT treads the line between the personal and the political - it SAT is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied SAT war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from SAT isolation to self fulfilment. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Tim McInnerny SAT Guy: Paul Ready SAT Virginia: Lydia Leonard SAT Peregrine: John Rowe SAT Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris SAT Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame SAT Ludovic: Carl Prekopp SAT Fremantle: John Norton SAT Frank De Souza: Joel MacCormack SAT Instructor: Sean Murray SAT Youth: Harry Jardine SAT C.O.: Arthur Hughes SAT Orderly: David Seddon SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT Adaptor: Jeremy Front SAT Author: Evelyn Waugh SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03ggl7k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b03g9mn1 (Listen) SAT Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013, I Found Myself SAT in the Art World SAT SAT In the last of his four Reith Lectures, recorded in front of SAT an audience at Central St Martins School of Art in London, SAT the artist Grayson Perry discusses his life in the art SAT world; the journey from the unconscious child playing with SAT paint, to the award-winning successful artist of today. He SAT talks about being an outsider and how he struggles with SAT keeping his integrity as an artist. Perry looks back and SAT asks why men and women throughout history, despite all the SAT various privations they suffered, have always made art. And SAT he discusses the central purpose of creating art - to heal SAT psychic wounds and to make meaning. SAT SAT Perry was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003 and is well known SAT for his ceramic works, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and SAT tapestry. He is also known as one of Britain's most famous SAT cross-dressers as alter ego Claire. SAT SAT The Reith Lectures are presented by Sue Lawley and produced SAT by Jim Frank. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b03g937w (Listen) SAT (8/12) SAT 'How might a legendary fire-fighter, an Islamic festival and SAT a case of the winter blues engender articles in Der SAT Spiegel?' SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe welcomes the teams from the North of England SAT and Wales to the latest bout of cerebral sparring - with the SAT North hoping to turn the tables on the Welsh who defeated SAT them the last time they met. SAT SAT Diana Collecott and Jim Coulson represent the North of SAT England. Opposite them are David Edwards and Myfanwy SAT Alexander for Wales. How many points they score on the SAT programme's notoriously impenetrable questions depends on SAT how many clues Tom has to give them to help them arrive at SAT the answers. SAT SAT As always, there are several fiendish suggestions from Round SAT Britain Quiz listeners hoping their question ideas might SAT outwit the panel. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b03g8gvd (Listen) SAT Series 2, Ancient Poem Kidnap SAT SAT Paul Farley returns with a new series showcasing the best of SAT the latest poetry. Lavinia Greenlaw and Simon Armitage have SAT been kidnapping three ancient poems and making them new, dub SAT genius King Tubby has been remixing Dylan Thomas and Kaiti SAT Soultana has taken Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to heart. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03gqbv8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b011vdv3 (Listen) SUN The Boundless Garden, Black Scarf Rock SUN SUN Mark Williams reads from an anthology of 19th century Greek SUN short stories. Yannios, an old fisherman, saves a boy from SUN drowning in the shadow of the mysterious Black Scarf Rock. SUN SUN Alexandros Papadiamandis (1851 - 1911) was born on the SUN western Aegean island of Skiathos, where many of his short SUN stories are set. He has been compared to Dostoyevsky and SUN Hardy and, shares with them similar qualities in the great SUN European tradition of story-telling. His reflections on, and SUN observations of, Greek life - particularly on his native SUN Skiathos - define the Greek experience at the turn of the SUN last century in a way unattained by any of his (now SUN forgotten) contemporaries. SUN SUN In these stories he explores the souls of ordinary men and SUN women as they succumb to, or struggle against, the power of SUN evil, and try to deal with life's ambiguities. Aware of the SUN way in which the past breathes life into the present, SUN Papadiamandis also delves into Greek mythology, as it SUN survived through people's belief in supernatural wonders on SUN both land and sea. SUN SUN Mark Williams is well known as one of the stars of BBC TV's SUN The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role of Ron SUN Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. SUN SUN Translated by Liadain Sherrard SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03gqbvb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03gqbvd (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03gqbvg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03gqbvj (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03gtnnd (Listen) SUN The bells of Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03gtk0p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03gqbvl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03gtnng (Listen) SUN Artificial Soul SUN SUN As robots become more human-like, John McCarthy asks whether SUN there is any aspect of humanity that could never be SUN programmed into a machine. SUN SUN Experts from the informatics department of King's College, SUN London, reflect on the possibility of developing artificial SUN emotions, morality and creativity. Will there come a time SUN when it will be impossible to tell a machine from its maker? SUN SUN The programme includes extracts from the first work of SUN fiction about robots, by the Czech playwright Karel Capek, SUN as well as more recent imaginings by Isaac Asimov. SUN SUN William James, Andrew Marvell and Richard Dawkins muse on SUN the nature of self, soul and culture. SUN SUN We hear computer-generated music, as well as compositions by SUN Stockhausen, Wasifuddin Dagar and Regina Spektor. SUN SUN Readers: Michael Colgan and Sarah Lawrie. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Fidgen. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b03gtnnj (Listen) SUN Fairy Rings SUN SUN Both mysterious and fascinating fairy rings are steeped in SUN mythology and. In this episode of the Living World Chris SUN Sperring accompanies fungi expert Lynne Boddy from Cardiff SUN University to the National Botanical Garden of Wales to bust SUN the myths and explore the little known subterranean world of SUN fairy rings. Each ring is formed of a single individual SUN fungus and are at their most obvious when their mushrooms SUN appear above ground on pasture and in woodland. SUN Chris discovers that while the short-lived fruiting bodies, SUN which often appear in the autumn, may be the most noticeable SUN indicator of the presence of fairy rings the real action is SUN taking place all year round below ground. A network of SUN fungal tubes called mycelia make up the bulk of each SUN individual fungi. This network spreads out underground SUN decomposing, parasitizing, or forming mutualistic SUN relationships with trees and grasses depending on the SUN species of fungi. And when two fairy rings meet a battle SUN ensues that often results in mutual annihilation. In SUN learning about fairy rings Chris also finds out just what an SUN important role fungi play in the world's ecosystems. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03gqbvn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03gqbvq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03gtnnl (Listen) SUN Bishop of Portsmouth, Congo, Remembrance SUN SUN The Bishop of Portsmouth speaks to William Crawley about the SUN end of shipbuilding in his city. SUN SUN Trevor Barnes meets key members of the Somali Community in SUN London to discover why young Somali's are at risk of SUN involvement with Al-Shabaab SUN SUN Angela Robson visits Zoraostrianism exhibition, The SUN everlasting flame. SUN SUN We mark Remembrance Sunday with two men associated with SUN Biggin Hill and it's role during the 2nd World War - RAF SUN Veteran, Flight Lt Rodney Scrase DFC (Distinguished Flying SUN Cross) and Rev Chris Baker. SUN SUN Decades of war among ethnic groups and rebel forces in SUN eastern Congo have killed millions and displaced an SUN estimated 1.7 million Congolese, according to the U.N. SUN refugee agency with rape used by armed groups to intimidate SUN and demoralize communities. Kati Whitaker has just returned SUN from DRC and presents the first of two special reports. SUN SUN Is there anything that can be done to protect the religious SUN and historical sites in the middle of a civil war? William SUN Crawley has been talking to Karin Hendili from UNESCOs World SUN Heritage Cities programme. SUN SUN Producers: Carmel Lonergan SUN Rosie Dawson SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03gtnnn (Listen) SUN Mines Advisory Group (MAG) SUN SUN Giles Duley, photographer and amputee, presents the Radio 4 SUN Appeal on behalf of the charity Mines Advisory Group (MAG). SUN Reg Charity:1083008 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN MAG. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN MAG (Mines Advisory Group) SUN SUN Nobel Peace Prize winning UK charity MAG (Mines Advisory SUN Group) believes that everyone has the right to live in SUN safety and without fear. SUN SUN Working in 15 countries around the world, our teams expertly SUN clear abandoned landmines and other explosive weapons. SUN Landmines, grenades, missiles and cluster bombs do not SUN discriminate between soldiers and civilians, between adults SUN and children. Everyone is at risk. MAG works directly with SUN war-torn communities, removing landmines and other deadly SUN weapons from land, saving lives and enabling safe access to SUN water, food, school and routes to market. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03gqbvs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03gqbvv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03gtnnq (Listen) SUN Questioning Silence SUN SUN Questioning Silence - Canon Margaret Guite and the Revd Dr SUN Malcolm Guite explore the space that silence brings us at SUN Remembrance-tide. With the choir of Girton College Chapel, SUN Cambridge directed by Nicholas Mulroy. Producer: Stephen SUN Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03ggrr5 (Listen) SUN Kennedy 50 Years On SUN SUN Will Self reflects on America's view of the assassination of SUN JF Kennedy, fifty years on. After years of talk of SUN conspiracy, cover-up and doctored film footage, he SUN concludes, "It isn't so much that the Kennedy assassination SUN has transitioned smoothly into a commonsensical past; it's SUN rather that it was the first instance of a peculiarly modern SUN variant of the historic event: its media simulation". SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwsxw (Listen) SUN Curlew SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Martin Hughes-Games presents the story of the curlew. The UK SUN is a vital wintering ground for flocks of curlews. Some SUN birds fly in from as far away as Belgium and Russia, probing SUN our coastal mudflats and thrilling us with their mournful SUN cries. SUN SUN 09:00 News and Papers b03gtqbc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 09:15 The Archers Omnibus b03gtqbf (Listen) SUN Caroline receives an important letter, and Lynda mulls SUN things over. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond 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 Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Meriel Archer: Grace Quigley SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 10:30 Ceremony of Remembrance from the Cenotaph b03gtqbh (Listen) SUN Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London's Whitehall for SUN the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifice SUN made by so many in the two world wars and in other more SUN recent conflicts. SUN SUN The traditional music of remembrance is played by the massed SUN bands. After the Last Post and Two Minutes Silence, Her SUN Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath on behalf of nation SUN and commonwealth, before The Bishop of London leads a short SUN Service of Remembrance. During the March Past, both veterans SUN and those involved in present conflicts throughout the world SUN share their thoughts. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 11:45 Some Corner of a Foreign Field b03gtqbk (Listen) SUN A global network of cemeteries and memorials now marks every SUN Commonwealth military casualty of the two World Wars - a SUN commitment that was born amid the mud and slaughter of the SUN Western Front. SUN SUN The man responsible for this was Fabian Ware and, in this SUN programme, Mark Whitaker tells his extraordinary story. SUN SUN Ware arrived in France for the Red Cross and was shocked to SUN find the graves of fallen soldiers going unrecorded. So his SUN unit started registering all they could find and, over the SUN next two years, sent 12,000 photographs to bereaved SUN relatives. SUN SUN As the War dragged on, Ware lobbied for an official SUN organisation to carry on the work, with equality of SUN treatment in death regardless of rank, race or creed. The SUN Imperial War Graves Commission was born on 21 May 1917, with SUN three of the finest architects of the day - Sir Edwin SUN Lutyens, Sir Herbert Baker and Sir Reginald Blomfield - SUN engaged to design the cemeteries and memorials for every SUN known casualty. SUN SUN But there were fierce arguments over two key principles - SUN non-repatriation of bodies and rejection of private SUN memorials, so that officers and men would lie side-by-side, SUN as they had served. This argument culminated, in 1920, with SUN one of the great Parliamentary debates, partly dramatised in SUN this programme. Winston Churchill, as chairman of the SUN Commission, made a majestic closing speech saying future SUN generations would gaze in wonder upon their work, and the SUN opponents were defeated. SUN SUN Whitaker visits the Commission's headstone production SUN centre, historic cemeteries in France, Belgium and the UK, SUN and sees how horticulture remains at the heart of its work SUN in creating the look of 'an English cottage garden' in no SUN less than 153 countries around the World. SUN SUN Producer: Mike Hally SUN A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b03g9b1f (Listen) SUN Series 6, Frost, Sinha, Aderin-Pocock SUN SUN John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker welcome comedian Paul Sinha, SUN space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and the broadcaster SUN Sir David Frost into the Museum of Curiosity. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03gtqbm (Listen) SUN The Sugarman of Brazil SUN SUN Leontino Balbo - The Sugarman of Brazil. The incredible SUN story of one maverick farmer who is trying to change the way SUN we produce our food. SUN SUN David Baker brings us a story from Sao Paulo about a man who SUN is managing to produce sugar whilst also helping wildlife. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03gqbvx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03gtr3z (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 Reflections b036w394 (Listen) SUN Jack Straw SUN SUN In this series, Peter Hennessy, the leading historian of SUN modern Britain, asks senior politicians to reflect on their SUN life and times. In each week's conversation, he invites his SUN guest to explore what influenced their thinking and SUN motivated them to enter politics, their experience of events SUN and impressions of people they knew, and their regrets and SUN satisfactions. SUN Peter's guest in this week's programme is Jack Straw MP, who SUN was first elected to the House of Commons in 1979 and sat in SUN the Labour Government between 1997 and 2010. He served as SUN Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House in SUN Tony Blair's Cabinet, and as Justice Secretary and Lord SUN Chancellor in Gordon Brown's Cabinet. In his role as Foreign SUN Secretary, Straw's support for British involvement in the SUN Iraq War was crucial in Tony Blair's final decision to SUN commit British forces to the invasion. SUN Peter's guest next week is Lord Tebbit (Norman Tebbit), the SUN former Conservative Cabinet Minister. SUN Presenter, Peter Hennessy. Producer, Rob Shepherd. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03ggrqj (Listen) SUN Correspondence at Sparsholt SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts from the GQT potting shed at Sparsholt SUN College as Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and SUN Rosie Yeomans tackle listeners' questions sent in by post, SUN email and via Twitter. SUN SUN Also in this episode, Pippa Greenwood provides top tips on SUN how to get the best crops from your tomato plants next year SUN and Matt Biggs visits Leicester University to hear about the SUN latest research into the spread of Japanese Knotweed. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03gtsbv (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between four couples SUN about pregnancy, weight loss and marathons, being an army SUN wife, and how two different worlds can collide within a SUN marriage, proving once again that it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03gtvty (Listen) SUN Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender SUN SUN by Evelyn Waugh SUN Dramatised by Jeremy Front SUN Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: SUN After injuring his knee during a parachute jump, Guy SUN believes his wartime experience is at an end, but then he SUN receives orders to fly to Italy on a secret mission. SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of 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 they to be read. They are SUN dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. SUN SUN This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the SUN comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy SUN Crouchback. Witty and tragic, engaging and insightful, this SUN work must be counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as SUN Waugh's most enduring novel. 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. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator: Tim McInnerny SUN Guy: Paul Ready SUN Virginia: Lydia Leonard SUN Peregrine: John Rowe SUN Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris SUN Ritchie-Hook: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Frank De Souza: Joel MacCormack SUN Angela: Priyanga Burford SUN Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws SUN Eloise: Carolyn Pickles SUN Bakic: Chris Pavlo SUN Madame Kanyi: Mia Soteriou SUN Loot: David Seddon SUN Major Cattermole: Arthur Hughes SUN Squadron Leader: John Norton SUN Dawkins: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Commandant: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Elderberry: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Priest: Sean Murray SUN Gilpin: Sean Murray SUN Orderly: Harry Jardine SUN Director: Tracey Neale SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN Author: Evelyn Waugh SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03gtvv0 (Listen) SUN Margaret Drabble on her novel The Pure Gold Baby, and SUN Sebastian Faulks and Helen Dunmore on WWI novels SUN SUN Margaret Drabble talks about her latest novel The Pure Gold SUN Baby, which spans the decades since the swinging 60's with SUN the tale of Jess and her daughter Anna, the eponymous child SUN of the title, around whose special needs Margaret traces SUN changing attitudes to caring and community. She explains why SUN she wrote the story from the perspective of a narrator, the SUN appeal of nostalgia and the trials of writing in later life. SUN SUN The First World War has continued to influence novelists SUN from both sides of the conflict, from Henri Barbusse's Le SUN Feu published at the height of the carnage in 1916 and the SUN hugely influential All Quiet on the Western Front by the SUN German writer Erich Maria Remark, to the long list of SUN contemporary writers including Pat Barker, Sebastian Barry SUN and Michael Morpurgo. SUN To mark Armistice Day and the eve of The First World War, SUN Sebastian Faulks, author of the acclaimed Birdsong, and SUN Helen Dunmore, whose novels The Lie and Zennor in Darkness SUN explore The Great War from both the home and front line SUN perspectives, discuss novelists' response to this "war to SUN end all wars." SUN SUN From expressions of love, celebratory comments or messages SUN of hope and comfort, many of us have written inscriptions in SUN the books we have given as presents to friends and loved SUN ones. Over the years these once treasured possessions can SUN find their way to charity shops and second hand bookshops. SUN This is where they get another lease of life, in the hands SUN of people like the journalist and writer Wayne Gooderham. SUN Wayne is a habitual buyer of second hand books and his SUN fascination with the inscriptions he's found has led him to SUN compile a collection of some of the most heart warming and SUN intriguing. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b03gtvv2 (Listen) SUN Series 2, City Streets and Seashores SUN SUN Paul Farley meets Roy Fisher and Michael Longley: two of the SUN greatest older poets at work in English today. City streets SUN and the seashore sing loud in their poems. Roy Fisher's long SUN sequence City about Birmingham is the best poetic account of SUN modern urban life. Michael Longley has been writing lyric SUN poems about a short stretch of the coastline of County Mayo SUN for decades. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03gbxn8 (Listen) SUN Up to the Job? SUN SUN The Work Programme is the Government's flagship scheme SUN designed to help the long term unemployed off benefits and SUN into lasting jobs. But how well is it working - both for SUN those at whom it is aimed and for the private companies who SUN are paid to deliver it? SUN Official figures paint a patchy picture and some companies SUN have already been sanctioned for not meeting targets. Their SUN record has been particularly poor for claimants whose SUN illness or disability makes it hard to find a job. SUN Despite this, the Chancellor recently announced an addition SUN to the scheme - called Help to Work - which places new SUN demands on those the Work Programme has failed to move into SUN employment. SUN But, with the economy still struggling in many areas, is it SUN asking too much? Gerry Northam investigates. SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03gtk0p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03gqbvz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03gqbw1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03gqbw3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03gtvv4 (Listen) SUN Antonia Quirke chooses the best of the previous seven days SUN of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03gtvv6 (Listen) SUN Shula tries to face the facts, and Peggy has a thoughtful SUN moment. SUN SUN 19:15 My Teenage Diary b01l7wtr (Listen) SUN Series 4, Julia Donaldson SUN SUN Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by SUN opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them SUN out in public for the very first time. SUN SUN This week, comedian Rufus Hound is joined by the author of SUN The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson. Donaldson's diaries are a SUN vivid account of her obsession with Mick Jagger and the SUN lengths she went to in order to meet the elusive Rolling SUN Stone. SUN SUN SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 A Flash of Fireflies b03gtxv7 (Listen) SUN City Lovers SUN SUN To mark Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer's 90th birthday, the SUN second of three daring tales set in apartheid South Africa. SUN SUN In this story of forbidden love, first published in 1975, a SUN visiting geologist falls foul of the country's Immorality SUN Act. SUN SUN Read by Alice Krige SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03ggrqq (Listen) SUN The last of the Reith Lectures was delivered earlier this SUN week. Grayson Perry's series of four lectures on the world SUN of contemporary art has had, in the words of their SUN Commissioning Editor, 'by far the most response ever for a SUN series of Reith Lectures'. Feedback has received many SUN letters of congratulations for Grayson Perry but some SUN listeners question whether the programmes have been in SUN keeping with the Reith Lectures' reputation for showcasing SUN the thoughts of 'significant international thinkers'. We ask SUN Mohit Bakaya, the Commissioning Editor for the Reith SUN Lectures, why he chose Mr Perry and whether anyone can now SUN follow him? SUN SUN Last week we spoke to Radio 4's Drama Commissioner, Jeremy SUN Howe, about why the network decided to air G.F. Newman's The SUN Corrupted over ten consecutive editions of the Afternoon SUN Drama, especially given its violent and sexual content. This SUN week, many of you wrote to heap praise on the series and the SUN experimental scheduling. But some listeners were deeply SUN disappointed that the first five of the episodes disappeared SUN from BBC iPlayer before the series ended. SUN SUN Too late for fans of The Corrupted, but changes to BBC SUN iPlayer are afoot which will mean that many programmes SUN remain available for thirty days. We speak to the Controller SUN of Multi-Platforms for BBC Radio Mark Friend to find out SUN more. SUN SUN And it's one of the most coveted slots on Radio 4, so how do SUN authors and publishers get picked for Book of The Week? SUN Roger Bolton speaks to the Commissioning Editor for the SUN series, Jane Ellison. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03ggrqn (Listen) SUN A BBC political editor, a naturalist, a landscape architect, SUN a Sultan and a union leader SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on the BBC Political Editor John Cole who SUN covered the turbulent politics of the 1980s - and was SUN satirised by Spitting Image. SUN SUN Also Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson - once called the SUN "Titan of the Sahara" - he was a leading expert on the SUN wildlife of the world's deserts. SUN SUN Georgina Livingston, the landscape architect who designed a SUN competition-winning scheme for Stonehenge SUN SUN Roy Grantham, the moderate trade union leader who struggled SUN to resolve the bitter 1970s dispute at the Grunwick photo SUN processing plant SUN SUN And the Sultan of Sulu - who late in life launched an SUN abortive bid to annexe part of North Borneo. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03gtk0c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03gtnnn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03g9fql (Listen) SUN Importing the Metropolitan Revolution SUN SUN In America, there is talk of a "metropolitan revolution" as SUN big cities reinvent themselves. Matthew Taylor asks if SUN Britain too can transform its economy by setting city halls SUN free. SUN SUN In America, there's a growing realisation that the old SUN economic model, based on every city aiming for "a Starbucks, SUN stadia and stealing business," has failed to revive urban SUN economies. But now cities such as Denver, Colorado -- once SUN famous for the oil money that inspired the soap opera SUN Dynasty -- have turned a corner. This "Metropolitan SUN Revolution" was led by local mayors who ripped up the old SUN administrative boundaries and did creative things to SUN diversify the economy and create jobs, such as building a SUN vast new airports and offering incentives to hi-tech SUN start-ups. SUN SUN For this week's edition of Analysis, Matthew Taylor, chief SUN executive of the RSA and a former insider in Downing Street SUN under Tony Blair, sets out to see if these new ideas could SUN hold answers for Britain's long term economic future. Cities SUN are where the modern global economy happens, but ever since SUN the decline of heavy industry, Britain's northern cities SUN have performed below the national average. Now, key national SUN and local figures, from Lord Michael Heseltine to Bristol's SUN new Mayor George Ferguson, famous for his red trousers, are SUN pinning their hopes for an economic revival on giving SUN greater economic powers to city halls. SUN Speaking to a wide range of voices from both sides of the SUN Atlantic, and combining wit with insights from urban SUN geography, history and economics, Matthew asks: could SUN Britain's great cities be the key to us all turning the SUN economic corner? SUN SUN Producer: Mukul Devichand. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03gty5k (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 b03gty5p (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03ggfwn (Listen) SUN George A Romero; Scottish sci-fi; James Toback; Ealing SUN rarities SUN SUN Forty five years after the release of genre-defining Night SUN of the Living Dead, Francine Stock talks to the director SUN George A Romero about inventing the undead zombie and where SUN he might unearth horror in contemporary society. Plus why he SUN doesn't rate Stanley Kubrick as a horror director. SUN SUN As Gravity is released on the big screen, with an even SUN bigger budget, we look at the trend for Scottish sci fi in SUN short films with young directors Jamie Stone and Mark SUN Buchanan. They discuss the magic of space and how to do it SUN on a shoe string. SUN SUN The writer and director James Toback, known for Fingers and SUN Bugsy among others, takes his camera on the trail for the SUN big bucks. With actor and friend Alec Baldwin in tow, they SUN mingle at the Cannes Film Festival, lobbying for the cash to SUN make their proposed film Last Tango in Tikrit. Follow their SUN efforts, often hilarious, in the resulting documentary SUN Seduced and Abandoned. James Toback explains just how SUN flexible you have to be before the financiers show you the SUN money... SUN SUN And Ealing studio gems, and not the well-known comedies.. SUN Melanie Williams, from the University of East Anglia, on the SUN overlooked films from the famous studios including Young SUN Man's Fancy and The Feminine Touch. They're now available on SUN DVD as part of the Ealing Studios Rarities series. SUN SUN Producer: Fiona Couper SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03gtnng (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03gqbx3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03gg7n1 (Listen) MON Richard Hoggart; The Anti-Social Family MON MON Richard Hoggart: Laurie Taylor talks to Professor of MON Cultural Studies, Fred Inglis, about his biography of this MON leading cultural commentator and academic. Hoggart's 1957 MON book 'The Uses of Literacy' documented the lives and MON hardships of the life of the poor in pre-World War Britain MON as well as providing an account of the transition from MON working class to 'mass' culture in the post War period. MON Inglis considers some of Hoggart's key ideas including his MON emphasis on working class community and family life as a MON source of support and sanctuary. Also, the sociology of the MON family, then and now. Hoggart's views about the family form MON part of an ongoing sociological debate to which the late MON Mary McIntosh made a major contribution. Professor of MON Sociology, Carol Smart, pays tribute to her classic 1982 MON book 'The Anti Social Family' which offered a socialist and MON feminist critique of the traditional nuclear family, arguing MON that it was as often a site of inequality and conflict as of MON refuge, particularly for women. Deborah Chambers, Professor MON of Media and Cultural Studies, joins the debate. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03gtnnd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03gqbx5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03gqbx7 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03gqbx9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03gqbxc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j98vt (Listen) MON Presented by the Chaplain to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards MON in Kabul, Padre David Anderson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03gv7xh (Listen) MON Schools in rural areas face very different issues to their MON counterparts in urban areas. In this programme, Farming MON Today embarks on a week of reports looking at the problems, MON the advantages, and the likely future for schools in rural MON areas. MON MON For demographic reasons, many rural schools are small. MON Charlotte Smith hears about the approach taken to keeping MON small schools open in Scotland, where a MON government-commissioned report proposes that an independent MON body, rather than the local council, should make the final MON decision on any school closure, and that any school MON surviving a closure threat should be safe from similar MON threats for five years. MON MON Meanwhile in England, North Yorkshire has more small primary MON schools than anywhere else in the country. BBC Radio York MON reporter Sarah Urwin finds out how schools there are sharing MON staff and resources in order to survive. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03gqbxf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwxfp (Listen) MON Siskin MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Martin Hughes-Games presents the Siskin. Siskins are MON visiting our gardens as never before. These birds now breed MON across the UK and cash in on our love of bird-feeding. They MON are now regular visitors to seed dispensers of all kinds. MON MON 06:00 Today b03gv7xk (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03gv7xm (Listen) MON Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert MON MON Andrew Marr returns to Start the Week for a special MON programme on the early 17th century poet George Herbert. His MON English poetry was never published in his lifetime, but he MON hoped it would act as consolation 'of any dejected poor MON soul', and his latest biographer John Drury argues that with MON its focus on love over theology, his poetry still speaks to MON and for modern readers. The composer Sir John Tavener and MON the writer Jeanette Winterson discuss prayer in a secular MON age, and the power of music and words to soothe the soul. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03gv9qx (Listen) MON The Letters of John F Kennedy, Episode 1 MON MON Letters to and from President Kennedy are published in book MON form and edited by Martin W Sandler to mark fifty years MON since the assassination of 1963. And a selection, abridged MON in five episodes by Penny Leicester, reveal the drama and MON tensions to do with American foreign policy. Other letters MON reveal Kennedy's wit and warmth when contacting friends and MON members of the public. MON MON 1. During WW2 young Kennedy was in touch with his brother MON Joe and the lovely but frowned upon 'Binga'.. MON MON Readers Colin Stinton, Richard Laing, Trevor White and Kelly MON Burke MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03gvctr (Listen) MON Power Lister Professor Dame Carol Black on her route from MON history graduate to becoming one of the country's leading MON doctors. The message behind this week's drama inspired by MON real life stories of child exploitation and grooming. Two MON experts from organisations supported by Children in Need MON discuss identifying those at risk. It's Monday and if you MON don't feel your best, that's no surprise according to one MON American study. In theory that makes it a good day for MON advertisers to bombard you with products to give you a lift. MON To what extent do they gauge our moods and do they get it MON right? Ex-nanny Nina Stibbe on her role in the domestic MON set-up of an unusual literary family. MON Presenter: Jane Garvey. MON Producer: Ruth Watts. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03gvctt (Listen) MON Children in Need: Holding On to You, Episode 1 MON MON D.L.Weller's powerful drama about child sexual exploitation MON and grooming. MON MON Fourteen year old Holly can't believe her luck when she is MON asked out by twenty year old Jay; so why is her best friend MON Leah not happy for her and why can't her parents just leave MON her alone? MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari MON MON Credits MON Holly: Dolly-Rose Campbell MON Leah: Aimee Kelly MON Jo: Christine Bottomley MON Chris: Graeme Hawley MON Jay: Henry Devas MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON Writer: DL Weller MON Producer: Nadia Molinari MON MON 11:00 Armistice Day Silence b03gvd80 (Listen) MON The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. MON MON 11:04 Fan Power b03gvd82 (Listen) MON Can fan power change the world? MON MON "If Harry Potter was in our world, wouldn't he do more than MON celebrate the fact he is Harry Potter? Wouldn't he fight for MON justice in our world the way he did in his?" Andrew Slack, MON founder of the "Harry Potter Alliance" believes that the MON millions of Potter fans worldwide can be mobilised for MON change in the real world. He's been successful: the Alliance MON has sent five cargo planes to Haiti, built libraries across MON the world, funded the protection of civilians in Darfur and MON Burma, and lobbied to get gay marriage legalised in American MON states. MON MON For many teenagers, the question "What would Harry do?" is a MON more compelling motivation for action than any political MON ideology. And there are enough Harry Potter fans to bring MON about change in the real world. MON MON Thanks to social media, many celebrities have an intimate MON and intense two-way relationship with their fans. In one MON case, Lady Gaga tweeted her fans to lobby their senators on MON gay rights, two fans videoed themselves phoning their MON senator; the video went viral; Lady Gaga made her own video; MON and other fans started doing the same. No longer are the MON fans just consumers of the star's product - they can be MON collaborative and creative. MON MON It's particularly true in the case of the new generation of MON online celebrities, some of whom have millions of MON subscribers who feel an intense connection with the star. MON Two video bloggers, the brothers Hank and John Green, have a MON huge following among teenagers for their quirky YouTube MON videos. The brothers have mobilised the fans to lend $5 MON million to entrepreneurs in the developing world, but beyond MON this, their liberal political and social philosophy has the MON potential to be far more influential than conventional MON politicians. Compared to going on demonstrations, handing MON out leaflets, or other traditional forms of activism, it may MON not look like much but, as Hank Green says, "if you can MON change a generation's minds about something, that's how MON culture changes". MON MON Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03gvqlz (Listen) MON Series 9, The Personal Statement MON MON He's back. Despite many thwarted attempts at literary MON success and a lifetime of scrimping and scraping to keep MON mind, soul and cat together, the curmudgeon's curmudgeon can MON never be kept down for long and returns to Radio 4 for a new MON series. MON MON Ed Reardon once more finds himself grabbing at whatever MON scraps his agent, Ping, throws his way, with his only source MON of regular income coming from teaching the increasingly MON savvy and adventurous pensioners their module in short story MON writing. Jaz Milvane continues to be his nemesis, somehow MON making money out of mad schemes whilst Ed makes nothing and MON his love life remains, like his payment of utility bills, MON erratic to say the least. MON MON As we renew our acquaintance with Ed we find him grovelling MON to his former girlfriend Fiona, claiming to be a 'changed MON man'. But as she quite rightly points out, he's still MON wearing the same socks and sandals. As Ed tries to get back MON into her good books, he finds himself retiring from the MON writing trade and applying for real jobs. So it is, he MON writes a personal statement and attends his first interview MON for a salaried position since, well, ever........ MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON Credits MON Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas MON Fiona: Jenny Agutter MON Olive: Stephanie Cole MON Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson MON Pearl: Alison Steadman MON Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Interviewer: Melanie Hudson MON Waitress: Nicola Sanderson MON Writer: Christopher Douglas MON Writer: Andrew Nickolds MON Producer: Dawn Ellis MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03gvqm1 (Listen) MON CPP mis-selling and how to haggle on the high street. MON MON Card Protection Plan, or CPP, admitted mis-selling policies MON to seven million people between 2005 and 2011 that MON duplicated the basic protection that comes with a bank MON account. Now the company is sending out letters and MON automatically renewing its cover. We get to bottom why MON customers of BrandAlley aren't receiving the goods they MON bought online. We'll get tips on how to haggle in huge high MON street chains and how the humble lightbulb could MON revolutionise data speeds. 'Li-Fi's creator, Professor MON Harald Hass, explains how the system works. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03gqbxh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03gvqm3 (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 London v Paris b03gvqm5 (Listen) MON Capitals of Power MON MON This is the gripping story of a battle of two cities, London MON and Paris, and a battle of two competing cultures. MON Historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs are a husband and wife MON team and they can shed a particular light on the story - MON Robert is English and Isabelle is French. Having written on MON the 'love-hate' relationship between the two countries, they MON are ready to focus on the two great capitals at the heart of MON it all. How much was competition, and how much cultural MON exchange? MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03gtvv6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00w7cwy (Listen) MON No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, An Exceptionally Wicked Lady MON MON Written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith MON MON The first of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's MON enormously successful and popular series set in Botswana. MON MON Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi face an old adversary while a MON letter from America sets the agency a seemingly impossible MON task. MON MON Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Mma Ramotswe: Janice Acquah MON Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall MON Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe MON Oliver Maxwell: Sam Dale MON Mr Gaefale: Jude Akuwudike MON Mr Kereleng: Maynard Eziashi MON Violet Sephotho: Anna Bengo MON Aunt: Noma Dumezweni MON Mma Potokwani: Adjoa Andoh MON Reverend: Babou Ceesay MON Joe Bosilong: Nyasha Hatendi MON Writer: Alexander McCall Smith MON Director: Gaynor MacFarlane MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b03gvqm7 (Listen) MON (9/12) MON Why would Sportin' Life, Rumpole and Columbo make a flush MON with the King of Diamonds and the Jacks of Hearts and MON Spades? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe has the answer to this and plenty more of MON Round Britain Quiz's trademark cryptic questions, in the MON latest heat which pits the South of England against Northern MON Ireland. Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins are hoping to get MON their own back on Roisin McAuley and Brian Feeney who beat MON them in their previous clash, earlier in the series. MON MON As usual, the programme includes several questions provided MON by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and Tom will also be MON revealing the answer to the question he left unanswered at MON the end of last week's edition. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03gtqbm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Poem for Matisse b03gvslg (Listen) MON Irma Kurtz looks at painter Matisse's complex relationship MON with poetry and words through his illustrations of various MON French poets. MON MON Matisse often used other media for inspiration and he had a MON particularly close relationship with poetry - reciting it MON every morning before painting and thinking of it as a kind MON of oxygen, "just as when you leap out of bed you fill your MON lungs with fresh air". MON MON Matisse didn't separate the act of painting with the act of MON producing a book and, throughout his career, he produced MON illustrations or etchings for many beautiful limited edition MON poetry books, such as 'Poesies' by Stephane Mallerme and MON Charles D'Orleans 'Poemes' and 'Florilége des Amours de MON Ronsard' - 16th century love poems which inspired Matisse's MON famous line drawings of women's faces. MON MON By talking to his great grand daughter, Sophie Matisse (also MON a painter), biographer Hilary Spurling, poet and artist MON Pascale Petit and various Matisse experts, Irma looks at the MON relationship between poetry and Matisse, with location MON recording at his home in Nice. MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b03gvslj (Listen) MON Series 4, Adaptation MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores how technology can give someone back MON a life that had seemed gone forever. MON MON From a 93 year old painter whose failing eyesight has left MON him no option than to turn to technology, to an agoraphobic MON blogger who shares her thoughts on fashion online; MON technology can be the only means some people can express the MON things that are most important to them. Aleks Krotoski MON explores the stories of individuals who've become reliant on MON technology to keep living the lives they love. She also MON discovers if this can be a trap for some robbing them of the MON will to tackle their problems head on. MON MON Contributors: Hal Lasko (the pixel painter), Ryan Lasko, Ron MON Lasko, Sera McDaid, Dr Jennifer Wild, Dr Skip Rizzo MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b03gvsll (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03gqbxk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03gvsln (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 1 MON MON The 60th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote MON to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based MON entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run MON at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, where MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by John Finnemore, with Jack Dee as MON the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will MON know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and MON Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03gvslq (Listen) MON Kirsty faces a dilemma. Meanwhile Darrell struggles to MON understand. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03gvsls (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the pianist MON Lang Lang, as he releases a new disc of music by Prokofiev MON and Bartok, with conductor Sir Simon Rattle. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03gvctt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Steve Richards Stands Up for Politics b03bpxxx (Listen) MON Steve Richards is a leading columnist about politics for the MON national press. But he has also been developing a new career MON in stand-up comedy, putting on a one-man show which explores MON some of the manoeuvring and absurdities of politics without MON being cynical or distrustful about the motives of MON politicians. MON MON He says he's trying to do what he calls "pro-politics MON comedy". This is his audio diary of how it went. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03gvslv (Listen) MON France: Sinking Slowly? MON MON The French are far more attached to the idea of a MON centralised, big state than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts. MON The philosophy behind it, Colbertism, holds that the economy MON of France should serve the state and that the state should MON direct the economy. MON MON But as France's big state looks less affordable, some French MON intellectuals are arguing that it is time that French MON identity became less tied to the dirigiste idea. Former BBC MON Paris Correspondent Emma Jane Kirby travels to France to MON meet those questioning their country's traditional MON resistance to economic reform. MON MON Producer: Fiona Leach. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03g9rgz (Listen) MON Human Rubbish and Wildlife MON MON More and more rubbish is put in landfill every year. Can MON rubbish tips and industrial sites be modified to help MON wildlife thrive in an increasingly crowded and consumerist MON world? The UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of MON rubbish annually, including 15 million tonnes of food. Much MON of this ends up in landfill; how can these sites be used to MON help wildlife? This week's field report comes from Essex, MON from a reclaimed landfill site which is now a wildlife MON haven. But is this a one-off or can it be replicated around MON the world? Monty Don explores the world of waste and MON wildlife in a world where human population is growing and MON consumerism increasing. MON MON Producer Andrew Dawes. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03gv7xm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03gqbxm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03gvslx (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03h2nmx (Listen) MON The Lowland, Episode 1 MON MON Indira Varma reads Jhumpa Lahiri's Man Booker-listed new MON novel, The Lowland, spanning India and America, and MON exploring the price of idealism and the enduring power of MON love. MON MON It is the 1960s, and violent revolution has come to India MON and America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, born in MON Calcutta just fifteen months apart, have been inseparable MON since birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - MON charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the MON Communist movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for MON what he believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, doesn't MON share his brother's political passion, and leaves home to MON pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet corner of MON America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his MON brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he MON returns to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a MON shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind. MON MON Jhumpa Lahiri shot to fame with her Pulitzer-winning story MON collection, Interpreter of Maladies, followed by novel The MON Namesake and another collection, Unaccustomed Earth. The MON Lowland is her latest work, and has been short-listed for MON the Man Booker Prize. MON MON Today: Subhash and his brother Udayan are inseparable. But MON revolution is in the air, and Udayan's growing political MON commitments and Subhash's own ambitions are about to drive MON them apart. MON MON Reader: Indira Varma is an acclaimed stage, film and MON television actor. Her recent TV credits include: Rome, MON Luther and What Remains. MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b03gvsxn (Listen) MON Series 3, Robbie Williams (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson returns with a new series of Mastertapes, in MON which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about MON the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front MON of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially MON quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, MON in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both MON editions feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 1, A-side. "Life Thru A Lens" with Robbie Williams MON MON Today, Robbie Williams is the UK's best-selling solo artist MON of all time. But when he released his debut solo album, MON "Life Thru A Lens", after leaving the all-conquering MON boyband, Take That, it was initially met with negative MON reviews and was slow to take off. However, with songs like MON Ego A Go Go, Lazy Days, Let Me Entertain You and, of course, MON Angels, the album not only went on to spend more than 4 MON years in the charts and become the 58th best-selling album MON of all time, it also laid down the solid foundations for all MON that was to follow: nine further solo albums, seven number MON one singles and more BRIT awards than any other artist. MON MON Here Robbie Williams talks candidly with John Wilson about MON the album that started it all and they are joined in the MON studio by the album's co-writer and producer, Guy Chambers MON as well as guitarist Gary Nuttall and a string quartet. MON MON The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard tomorrow at MON 3.30pm. MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the MON Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded MON and other musical goodies accessed. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03gvsxq (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03gqbyg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03gv9qx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03gqbyj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03gqbyl (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03gqbyn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03gqbyq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j98wc (Listen) TUE Presented by the Chaplain to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards TUE in Kabul, Padre David Anderson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03h2nqt (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 b03dwy14 (Listen) TUE Black-Headed Gull TUE TUE Martin Hughes-Games presents the Black-Headed Gull. TUE Black-Headed Gulls are our commonest small gull and TUE throughout the year you can identify them by their rather TUE delicate flight action, red legs and the white flash on the TUE front edge of their wings. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03h2nqw (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Brave New World b03h2rdj (Listen) TUE On the day the world gasped in shock at the shooting of John TUE F Kennedy, two of the 20th century's greatest literary minds TUE passed away almost unnoticed. Christian apologist C S Lewis TUE and intellectual and philosopher Aldous Huxley died on the TUE same day, 50 years ago. TUE TUE In an audio portrait, using archive and contemporary TUE accounts, biographers Alister McGrath and Nicholas Murray TUE explore the events that shaped Lewis and Huxley's lives. TUE Taking some of the authors' seminal works - such as Lewis's TUE 'Chronicles of Narnia' and Huxley's 'Brave New World', - TUE they explore some of the ideas and visions of the future TUE that made Lewis and Huxley such influential and prophetic TUE figures of the 20th century. TUE TUE The programme is set against the backdrop of some of the key TUE events in 20th century history that shaped and influenced TUE literary and political thinking - the First and Second World TUE Wars, the rise of fascism and modern consumer culture. TUE TUE The programme features historic audio from the BBC's TUE archives and the voices of C S Lewis and Aldous Huxley. TUE TUE Contributors include: TUE Alister McGrath - biographer, C S Lewis TUE Nicholas Murray - biographer, Aldous Huxley TUE Dr Lucy Noakes - social historian TUE Producer- Mark O'Brien. TUE TUE 09:30 15 by 15 b037smxs (Listen) TUE Series 2, Box TUE TUE Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an TUE exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has TUE different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along TUE the way. TUE TUE Today's word is 'box' and Hardeep joins boxing coach Naomi TUE Gibson in the ring. Naomi runs a boxing school for aspiring TUE women boxers and, for Hardeep, there is no hiding place. TUE TUE The word 'box' comes from Greek and Latin roots, and Russell TUE Coates is an expert on topiary, running a nursery TUE specialising in different shapes made from the slow-growing TUE box wood tree. TUE TUE Susie Dent is on hand to explain phrases like 'box and cox', TUE and Hardeep ends his journey at one of the many gigantic TUE storage facilities, where Sonia Pirie tells him that a TUE considerable part of her job is acting as a therapist for TUE people whose relationship breakdowns mean they need to put TUE their stuff somewhere fast. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03h2rdl (Listen) TUE The Letters of John F Kennedy, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2. At the time of his inauguration Kennedy was lauded by a TUE famous poet. Afterwards he wrote about the threat of TUE communism and America's youth abroad. He also wished TUE somebody a very happy birthday.. TUE TUE Readers Colin Stinton, Richard Laing, Peter Marinker, Trevor TUE White and Stephen Greif. TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03h2rdn (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03h30g6 (Listen) TUE Children in Need: Holding On to You, Episode 2 TUE TUE D.L.Weller's powerful drama about child sexual exploitation TUE and grooming. TUE TUE Police are called to the family home when fourteen year old TUE Holly goes missing for the night. As Holly's desperate TUE parents try to track her down, Holly finds herself in TUE danger. TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03h30g8 (Listen) TUE Sequoia - Nowhere to Go TUE TUE Climate change is causing some National parks in America to TUE re-think their boundaries. As the earth warms many species TUE try to move to cooler climates but national parks are rooted TUE in one place. The Sequoia National Park in California runs TUE mainly east-west but now plans are being formed to shift it TUE to run north-south, allowing species that need cooler TUE temperatures to thrive. But in an increasingly crowded TUE world, and with climate change continuing to change the TUE earth, can we protect our treasured areas? Monty Don TUE explores how climate change, national parks, wildlife and TUE people are sharing the earth. TUE TUE 11:30 Tim Key's Easy USSR b03h30gb (Listen) TUE "I remember exactly where I was when I was first exposed to TUE Vyacheslav Mescherin's tunes. I was at a dinner party and TUE the host handed me the sleeve with a glint in her eye. She TUE thought I might quite like it. The insinuation was that none TUE of the other guests would. She was right." TUE TUE Nine years ago, comedian and poet Tim Key was given a copy TUE of a CD entitled Easy USSR Vol. 2. One car journey to Devon TUE and four consecutive listens later, and he was hooked. The TUE strange yet catchy sounds of Vyacheslav Mescherin's Ensemble TUE of Electronic Musical Instruments have underscored his life TUE and his work ever since. On stage and on the radio, TUE Mescherin's music lies beneath him like a crashmat. TUE TUE With very little information available about Mescherin, Tim TUE sets out to find out more about the man. TUE His search takes him from one of the world's leading TUE Theremin players to a Soviet Cosmonaut. Tim discovers that, TUE far from the obscure rarity it is today, in the 1960s and TUE beyond Mescherin's music was a quirky soundtrack to life in TUE the Soviet Union - on radio, TV and even in factories. The TUE futuristic sounds of the electronic instruments he pioneered TUE provided the perfect accompaniment to the space race era. TUE Nearly twenty years after his death, many Russians can hum TUE Mescherin's tunes, yet few know his name. TUE TUE But what of the rumours that Mescherin's sounds were blasted TUE into space? And will Tim be able to find more of the music TUE he craves? TUE TUE Producer: Peggy Sutton TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03h347z (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03gqbys (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03h3481 (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 London v Paris b03h3483 (Listen) TUE Capitals of Pleasure TUE TUE This is the gripping story of a battle of two cities, London TUE and Paris, and a battle of two competing cultures. TUE Historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs are a husband and wife TUE team and they can shed a particular light on the story - TUE Robert is English and Isabelle is French. Having written on TUE the 'love-hate' relationship between the two countries, they TUE are ready to focus on the two great capitals at the heart of TUE it all. How much was competition, and how much cultural TUE exchange? TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03gvslq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00w7f87 (Listen) TUE No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Canoeing for Ladies TUE TUE written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith TUE TUE The second of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall TUE Smith's enormously successful and popular series set in TUE Botswana. TUE TUE Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have to face the dangers of TUE crocodiles, hippos and a tiny canoe as their case takes them TUE to the Okovango Delta to trace a safari guide. There is also TUE the problem of Phuti's aunt to solve, as well as the TUE necessity of confronting their old adversary, Violet TUE Sepotho. TUE TUE Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mma Ramotswe: Janice Acquah TUE Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall TUE Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe TUE Hansi: Maynard Eziashi TUE Boatman: Nyasha Hatendi TUE Mighty: Obi Abili TUE Tebogo: Chuk Iwuji TUE Moripe: Jude Akuwudike TUE Phuti: Jude Akuwudike TUE Violet Sephotho: Anna Bengo TUE Aunt: Noma Dumezweni TUE Mma Potokwani: Adjoa Andoh TUE Director: Gaynor MacFarlane TUE Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith TUE Author: Alexander McCall Smith TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03h35jq (Listen) TUE Series 5, Oxford TUE TUE Jay Rayner chairs this week's episode of Radio 4's culinary TUE panel programme from Oxford. TUE TUE The team takes questions from a local audience on all TUE aspects of cooking and eating. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b03h35tp (Listen) TUE Series 3, Robbie Williams (the B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks TUE to leading performers and songwriters about the album that TUE made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each TUE edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing TUE the artist about the album in question, and then, in the TUE B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions TUE feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 1, the B-side. Having discussed the making of TUE "Life Thru A Lens", the album he released after leaving TUE boy-band Take That (in the A-side of the programme, TUE broadcast on Monday 11th November and available online), TUE Robbie Williams candidly responds to questions from the TUE audience and performs live versions of some to the tracks TUE from that debut solo album, as well as his new release, TUE "Swings Both Ways" TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Spin the Globe b03h36ll (Listen) TUE 1605 TUE TUE Michael Scott launches his new series which takes familiar TUE historical dates and finds out what was happening away from TUE the geographical centre that makes them so familiar to us. TUE It's an attempt to see the globe as an historic whole and so TUE break out of the modular way in which historic dates are TUE traditionally drummed into children. At the same time he TUE connects previously diverse events in cultural, political TUE and economic history all over the globe. TUE TUE In programme one, with the ashes of Bonfire Night scarcely TUE cold, he looks at 1605. The gunpowder plot and its impact on TUE the status of Catholics within Britain is kept alive to this TUE day, but it was also in that year that the world's first TUE Newspaper was published, in Strasbourg. TUE TUE Headline news might well have been that Tsar Boris Godunov TUE died, the catalyst for events known to this day in Russia as TUE 'The Time of Troubles'. Godunov is more familiar now as the TUE subject of Mussorgsky's 19th century Opera but Professors TUE Robert Frost and Krzysztof Lazarski outline the background TUE and importance of Godunov's reign in the story and TUE development of Eastern Europe. TUE Meanwhile in Persia Shah Abbas I was presiding over a period TUE of supreme regional stability and self-confidence, crowned TUE by the defeat of Turkey in battle. TUE TUE Spin the Globe to the West and we find reports of the TUE capture of an American Indian who was later to be a vital TUE figure in the protection of the Pilgrim Fathers during their TUE first winter in the New World. But as Michael finds out the TUE story of Squanto is shrouded in historical half-truth. TUE However, the impact of the Gunpowder plot did have a direct TUE baring on the development of British Colonies in America. TUE TUE And this was also the year that Don Quixote was first TUE published. TUE TUE It's a programme full of surprises, connections and a sense TUE that events across the world move at different rates and TUE through different phases only occasionally brushing against TUE each other. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03h3fwy (Listen) TUE Kate Silverton and Johnnie Walker TUE TUE R2 presenter Johnnie Walker and BBC newsreader Kate TUE Silverton talk about their favourite books with Harriett TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE Johnnie discusses Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance TUE by Robert M. Pirsig, which has been a big influence on his TUE own life. TUE TUE Kate chooses the biography of her heroine. It's Daughter of TUE the Desert - the Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell by TUE Georgina Howell. TUE TUE And Excellent Women by Barbara Pym is the recommendation of TUE presenter Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03h3fx0 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03gqbyv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Your Round b019rgtc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE TUE Angus Deayton hosts the show which is totally different TUE every time, as it's the panellists themselves that devise TUE the format. Each of the contestants has brought their own TUE round for the other panellists to play. But will they be TUE beaten at their own games? TUE TUE The rounds featured this episode are: TUE TUE Lucy Porter's "Who's the Daddy?" in which the other three, TUE childless, male panellists must complete the quote from a TUE 70's parenting bible. TUE TUE Tom Wrigglesworth's "Dodo's Den" in which each contestant TUE must pitch their idea for a new invention that they think TUE will make them their millions. Examples include the "Herring TUE Aid" and the intriguingly titled "Bam". TUE TUE Robert Popper's brilliant parlour game, "ORAG" aka "The TUE Opposite Rhyming Animal Game", which is pretty much, er, TUE self-explanatory... TUE TUE And Lloyd Langford devises a quiz based on Welsh talisman TUE and eccentric, Dr William Price, in his round "The Price Is TUE Right". TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03h3fx2 (Listen) TUE David is making plans, and Josh tries to pick a winner. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03h3fx4 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Timothy Prosser. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03h30g6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03h3fx6 (Listen) TUE A Healthy Market? TUE TUE The biggest ever slice of the NHS is up for grabs in TUE Cambridgeshire. Ten bidders, including NHS hospital trusts TUE and private companies Serco, Virgin Care and Circle, are TUE competing for a five year contract to run older peoples' TUE services. It will be worth a minimum of £700,000. The TUE successful bidder will provide everything from dentistry, to TUE emergency hospital treatment and end of life care. The TUE stakes are high. But how much will patients be told about TUE how the bid was won? With commissioners advertising dozens TUE of other big money tenders, File on 4 looks at the secrecy TUE surrounding NHS contracts when they're awarded and when TUE they're challenged. Does commercial confidentiality make TUE public accountability impossible? And how far does the TUE competitive market improve healthcare for patients? TUE TUE Reporter Jane Deith TUE Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03h3fx8 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b03h3fxb (Listen) TUE The first ever edition of All in the Mind was broadcast in TUE October 1988. For its 25th anniversary, Claudia Hammond and TUE guests look back at archive editions of the programme to TUE explore how attitudes to mental health have changed over the TUE last 25 years. Have campaigns to raise awareness of mental TUE health been successful and how far is there still to go? How TUE much does public figures talking about their own experience TUE of mental illness help change attitudes? TUE TUE 21:30 The Brave New World b03h2rdj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03gqbyx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03h3fxd (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03h3fxg (Listen) TUE The Lowland, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: as Subhash tries to make a new life in India, a TUE letter from his rebellious brother still has the power to TUE shock. TUE TUE Reader: Indira Varma TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Small Scenes b03h3fxj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 4 TUE TUE Last in this current series of comedy sketches starring TUE Daniel Rigby, Sara Pascoe, Mike Wozniak and Henry Paker. TUE This week, we meet the funniest (and unhappiest) man in the TUE world and also listen in on a couple of lorry drivers as TUE they discuss hopes, dreams and life on the road. TUE TUE Written by the cast and Benjamin Partridge with additional TUE material from Madeleine Brettingham. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03h3fxl (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as MPs and peers begin TUE a half term break. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03gqbzt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03h2rdl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03gqbzw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03gqbzy (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03gqc00 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03gqc02 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j98xj (Listen) WED Presented by the Chaplain to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards WED in Kabul, Padre David Anderson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03h3l0h (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Jules Benham. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwy1y (Listen) WED Golden Plover WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Martin Hughes-Games presents the Golden Plover. If, among a WED flock of lapwings circling over a ploughed field, you see WED smaller birds with wings like knife-blades and bell-like WED calls ... these are golden plovers. WED WED 06:00 Today b03h3l0k (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03h3l0m (Listen) WED Dille Keane WED WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03h3l0p (Listen) WED The Letters of John F Kennedy, Episode 3 WED WED 3. In the early 60's Kennedy is starkly reminded of events WED in Vietnam. He also jokes with a friend about the worth of WED his signature - and how to make more out of it! WED WED Readers Colin Stinton, Richard Laing, Trevor White and WED Stephen Greif. WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03h3l0r (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03h3l0t (Listen) WED Children in Need: Holding On to You, Episode 3 WED WED D.L.Weller's powerful drama about child sexual exploitation WED and grooming. WED WED Jo is desperately worried about her fourteen year old WED daughter Holly who she feels she is losing to something she WED does not understand and cannot control. To Holly it seems WED the only person she can turn to is her boyfriend Jay. As WED Jay's hold on Holly gets stronger will anyone be able to WED help her? WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari WED WED 11:00 Bright, Black and Looking for Work b03h3ybc (Listen) WED In 2006, Radio 4 followed a group of boys on a radical WED educational scheme designed to revolutionise the prospects WED of young black men. The scheme, called Generating Genius, WED was designed to help young black males avoid gang culture, WED drugs and low expectations, and overcome a lack of role WED models. WED WED Generating Genius was the brainchild of academic Tony WED Sewell: "My philosophy is brighter, younger, longer. This WED means targeting the top pupils rather than those who are WED struggling, catching them before the age when achievement WED often falls off, and sticking with them." WED WED But did it work? WED WED Dotun Adebayo revisits some of the boys, reflecting on their WED stories and what they tell us about the education and WED employment of young black men. Back in 2006, Marcus Nelson, WED Simeon Balson Jones, Jamal Miller and Ashleigh Kelly were WED all selected to be part of the scheme and Dotun allows them WED to listen to their younger selves, asking them to consider WED the paths they have taken over the last seven years. WED WED Jamal, applying for a career in banking, doesn't think WED racial prejudice will cause him problems, as long as he WED markets himself correctly. Ashleigh criticizes the school WED system, recalling clever classmates who fell by the wayside. WED Simeon questions why Generating Genius now takes girls, WED although their results have never been as low as boys. And WED Marcus tells Dotun how important it is to do outreach work WED to convince "people like me" that the university could be WED for them. WED WED Tony Sewell's views have also changed: "I used to think WED there was a real problem about teachers not understanding WED black males. But culture is crucial - and the key issue now WED is about class and social mobility." WED WED Producer: Kate Taylor WED A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Hard to Tell b03h3ybf (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Second series of the relationship comedy written by Jonny WED Sweet. WED WED It tells its central love story through the couple's WED individual conversations with their family and friends. In WED the process, we are introduced to all manner of WED relationships from a father and his cherished tour van to WED two women rivalling for the position of Best Friend, from a WED brother and sister comparing notes on Brazilians to a vicar WED and his new parish, and from a lodger's historic fling with WED a local waitress to a mum's lack of control over her desire WED to monitor her son's life. WED WED Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, WED contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to WED restaurants, funerals, French dressers and monkey puzzle WED trees. WED WED Jonny Sweet is also the writer of Radio 4's Party and WED co-writer/co-star of Chickens on Sky 1. WED WED Episode 1: WED Tom and Ellen organize a night out so that their parents can WED meet. Ellen's Dad's lodger invites herself along, while WED Tom's Mum and Dad decide to open up about an aspect of Tom's WED lifestyle that's been troubling them. WED WED Producer: Lucy Armintage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gillian: Julia Davis WED Paul: Simon Greenall WED Ashley: Alex MacQueen WED Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie WED Hermione: Sarah Solemani WED Tom: Jonny Sweet WED Daisy: Sophie Thompson WED Maeve: Katy Wix WED Writer: Jonny Sweet WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03h3ybh (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03gqc04 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03h3ybk (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 London v Paris b03h3ybm (Listen) WED Capitals of Sport WED WED This is the gripping story of a battle of two cities, London WED and Paris, and a battle of two competing cultures. WED Historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs are a husband and wife WED team and they can shed a particular light on the story - WED Robert is English and Isabelle is French. Having written on WED the 'love-hate' relationship between the two countries, they WED are ready to focus on the two great capitals at the heart of WED it all. How much was competition, and how much cultural WED exchange? WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03h3fx2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03h3ybp (Listen) WED The Icelandic Journals WED WED At the height of his fame, William Morris left his wife WED Janey and mentor Rossetti to their affair and headed for WED Iceland, as ever in pursuit of an answer to the question: WED how to live? While travelling this starkly dramatic WED landscape, he kept a journal for his confidante Georgie, the WED wife of his friend Edward Burne-Jones. The journals are WED Morris at his best: visually attentive, relishing wonders WED and noting every good dinner as well as every shift of light WED and mood. He also writes about what he doesn't know he's WED feeling: what it means to go away and come back, to be apart WED and alone. Setting the journals in this context, Lavinia WED Greenlaw has drawn on the letters and journals of Morris's WED circle to reimagine the events of that summer. WED WED The music is Debussy's String Quartet in G Minor performed WED by the Alban Berg Quartet. WED Production Coordinator: Eleri McAuliffe WED Sound: Nigel Lewis WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, written and directed by WED Lavinia Greenlaw and produced by Kate McAll. WED WED Credits WED William Morris: Joseph Millson WED Georgiana Burne-Jones: Lyndsey Marshal WED Erik Magnusson: Harry August WED Janey Morris: Janine Cooper-Marshall WED Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Dominic Geraghty WED Parson: Dominic Geraghty WED Guard: Dominic Geraghty WED Edward Burne-Jones: Matthew Gravelle WED Writer: Lavinia Greenlaw WED Director: Lavinia Greenlaw WED Producer: Kate McAll WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03h3ybr (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 & Head WED of Property Litigation at Weightmans. WED WED Dominic Preston, Housing and Social Welfare Team, Doughty WED Street Chambers. WED WED Carolyn Uphill, Chairman, National Landlords Association. WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b03h3fxb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03h428y (Listen) WED Neoliberal Economics WED WED The truimph of Neoliberal economics in the post Recession WED world. Laurie Taylor talks to US Professor of Economics, WED Philip Mirowski, about his analysis of why neoliberalism WED survived, and even prospered, in the aftermath of the WED financial meltdown of 2008. Although it was widely asserted WED that the economic convictions behind the disaster would be WED consigned to history, Mirowski says that the opposite is the WED case. He claims that once neoliberalism became a Theory of WED Everything, providing a revolutionary account of self, WED knowledge, markets, and government, it was impossible to WED falsify by data from the 'real' economy. Neoliberalism, he WED suggests, wasn't dislodged by the recession because we have WED internalised its messages. Have we all, in a sense, become WED neoliberals, inhabiting "entrepreneurial" selves which WED compel us to position ourselves in the market and rebrand WED ourselves daily? Also, why do work almost as hard as we did WED 40 years ago, despite being on average twice as rich? Robert WED Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, suggests WED an escape from the work and consumption treadmill. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03h4290 (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 b03h4292 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03gqc06 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03h4294 (Listen) WED Horsing Around WED WED Tom is annoyed that his parents don't trust him - even with WED his own car. He is determined to prove them wrong and what WED better way - than taking care of his sister Amy when she WED comes to London? But first he has to persuade mum and dad to WED trust him. WED WED Tom persuades his parents that he can be trusted to look WED after his sister Amy when she comes to London. 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 A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, WED his family background and the influences that have shaped WED his temperament,opinions and hang-ups. 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 Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom WED Judy Parfitt ... Granny WED Paul Copley ... Dad WED Kate Anthony ... Mum WED Amy Wrigglesworth ... Amy WED WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Miles Jupp WED WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03h4296 (Listen) WED Lynda refuses to be deterred. Meanwhile Peggy celebrates her WED birthday. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03h4298 (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with designer Paul WED Smith, on the eve of a major exhibition of his work and WED influences at the Design Museum, London. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03h3l0t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03h429b (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew WED Taylor, Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03h429d (Listen) WED Series 4, Putting Profit in Its Place WED WED Jane Burston argues that by placing too much emphasis on WED profit, companies behave in an unethical way, and it is time WED for social purpose to take centre stage. WED WED Jane describes what she sees as a systematic problem in big WED companies and argues that only by viewing profit as a means WED to an end, rather than an end in itself, can we create an WED ethical business sector. And she believes that shareholders WED will embrace her plan, even if it means business leaders WED taking on the mantle of moral leaders and sometimes WED compromising profit for social good. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b03h429g (Listen) WED Gut Microbiota WED WED What is it about the microbes in our guts that can have such WED an impact on our lives? WED WED The human gut has around 100 trillion bacterial cells from WED up to 1,000 different species. Every person's microbiota WED (the body's bacterial make-up) is different as a result of WED the effects of diet and lifestyle, and the childhood source WED of bacteria. WED WED Scientists are learning more and more about the importance WED of these bacteria, as well as the viruses, fungi and other WED microbes that live in our gastrointestinal tracts. Without WED them, our digestion, immune system and overall health would WED be compromised. WED WED Adam Hart talks to researchers who are discovering how WED important a balanced and robust gut microflora is for our WED health. And he asks how this can be maintained and what WED happens when things go wrong. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03h3l0m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03gqc08 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03h429j (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03h429l (Listen) WED The Lowland, Episode 3 WED WED Today: As Subhash finally starts to make a life in America, WED tragic news arrives from Calcutta... WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 Before They Were Famous b03h429n (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Even the most successful of writers have, at some point, had WED to take day jobs to pay the bills. WED 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 Government Official: David Armand WED Edgar Allan Poe: John Finnemore WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED The Broker: Katy Wix WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Barbara Cartland: Fenella Woolgar WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:15 Irish Micks and Legends b01ntgxf (Listen) WED Deirdre of Sorrows 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 Deirdre of Sorrows. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:30 Who Sold the Soul? b03c3cmy (Listen) WED Rhythm & Business WED WED Jazz, Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Funk and WED Hip-Hop; there's no question African American musical WED creativity has fuelled the modern music industry. But faced WED with racism and cultural theft for decades, African-American WED musicians, DJs, businessmen and women have struggled to have WED any real control or ownership in the business. Even though WED millionaire music moguls like P Diddy and 50 Cent today give WED the impression blacks have real industry power, aren't they WED just a few very visible exceptions? Exceptions whose WED companies are actually distributed by white-owned WED conglomerates? In this three part series financial educator, WED broadcaster and music obsessive Alvin Hall examines the WED political economy of African American music, from jazz to WED Jay Z. WED Our series begins with Alvin travelling back to the turn of WED the 20th century. Just 50 years after the American Civil WED War, the emerging jazz and blues music was gaining WED popularity but blacks were still very much second class WED citizens. America was segregated, Jim Crow laws were in full WED effect and lynching was prevalent. The nascent recording WED industry was simply a reflection of America at that time. WED Alvin examines the early history of blacks in the recording WED industry in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll. WED From the first black-owned record label to white record WED companies re-recording black music it seems that blacks WED created new music while whites exploited it. But was there WED more than racism at work? Did middle class blacks ignore the WED music of working-class blacks, allowing whites to take WED control? WED THU THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03gqc13 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03h3l0p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03gqc15 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03gqc17 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03gqc19 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03gqc1c (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j98yf (Listen) THU Presented by the Chaplain to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards THU in Kabul, Padre David Anderson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03h6px1 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwyv9 (Listen) THU Common Crane THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Martin Hughes-Games presents the Common Crane. Common Cranes THU were extinct in the UK in the 17th century. Now, they are THU being re-introduced to the Somerset Levels and Moors. The THU aim is to release a hundred birds into the wild over five THU years and establish a strong population. THU THU 06:00 Today b03h6px3 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03h6px5 (Listen) THU The Tempest THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's play The THU Tempest. Written in around 1610, it is thought to be one of THU the playwright's final works and contains some of the most THU poetic and memorable passages in all his output. Its themes THU include the supernatural and the theatre itself - and some THU modern critics have seen it as an early meditation on the THU ethics of colonialism. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03h6px7 (Listen) THU The Letters of John F Kennedy, Episode 4 THU THU 4. During the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the leaders of America THU and the Soviet Union agreed to communicate with letters that THU were 'personal and private'. Refreshingly, their respective THU tones were different to official missives. Kennedy also THU received thanks from Elizabeth II. THU THU Readers Colin Stinton, Richard Laing, Stephen Greif and THU Kelly Burke THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03h6px9 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03h6pxc (Listen) THU Children in Need: Holding On to You, Episode 4 THU THU D.L.Weller's powerful drama about child sexual exploitation THU and grooming. THU THU As the pressure on Holly escalates she tries to stand up to THU Jay but when Jay won't take no for an answer will Holly seek THU help? THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03h6pxf (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Creative Forces b03h6r5j (Listen) THU Comedian Dawn French is the daughter of an RAF technician. THU Actress Juliet Stevenson's father was a British Army THU Officer. In conversation with Fiona Lindsay (herself a Navy THU child), they explore how their highly nomadic childhoods may THU have shaped their adult careers. THU THU Between them, they went to 28 junior schools in Germany, THU Malta, Australia, Cyprus, Italy, North Africa and all over THU the UK. They found themselves constantly adjusting to THU different climates, geology, cultures and people. They also THU regularly had to make new friends and adopt new life styles. THU Each developed strategies for dealing with the constant THU change. THU THU Juliet sees parallels between the lives of an actor and army THU child. Both enter a community, make close relationships very THU quickly, and then move on. Her own separation from her THU mother, on being sent to boarding school, caused her great THU distress. It's an experience she says gave her a wellspring THU of emotional memory from which to draw when performing roles THU such as in the play Duet For One. THU THU Dawn wonders whether her enforced childhood gregariousness THU helps her face new audiences. After a sleepless night, she THU would arrive at a new school and put on a display of THU 'personality fireworks' in order to win acceptance. She THU became the joker of the pack, perhaps laying the foundation THU for her starring roles in The Vicar of Dibley and French and THU Saunders. Indeed, when she first met Jennifer Saunders she THU reckons they got on so well because Jennifer too was a THU Forces child. THU THU Producer: Chris Eldon Lee THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03h6r5l (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03gqc1f (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03h6r5n (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 London v Paris b03h6r5q (Listen) THU Capitals of Art THU THU This is the gripping story of a battle of two cities, London THU and Paris, and a battle of two competing cultures. THU Historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs are a husband and wife THU team and they can shed a particular light on the story - THU Robert is English and Isabelle is French. Having written on THU the 'love-hate' relationship between the two countries, they THU are ready to focus on the two great capitals at the heart of THU it all. How much was competition, and how much cultural THU exchange? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03h4296 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03h6yrv (Listen) THU Sorry, Boys, You Failed The Audition by Ray Connolly THU THU In the summer of 1962 the Beatles auditioned for producer THU George Martin at Parlophone Records. Having been rejected by THU every other record company, it was their last chance to get THU a recording contract. As the world soon found out, they THU passed the audition. THU But what if they'd been turned down? Seen through the eyes THU of Freda, their teenage Liverpool fan club secretary, this THU is an affectionate comedy drama about what might have THU happened to the Beatles if George Martin had said, 'No'. THU THU Producer/Director Gary Brown THU THU Ray Connolly is a celebrated journalist and author. He is THU perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for the films THU 'That'll Be the Day' and the sequel 'Stardust' for which he THU won a Writers Guild of Great Britain best screenplay award, THU and for his many interviews with the Beatles. He was due to THU interview John Lennon on the day the ex-Beatle was murdered, THU an event he wrote about in the BBC radio play THU 'Unimaginable'. In addition to the biography John Lennon THU 1940-1980, he wrote the introduction to The Beatles Complete THU songbook. THU THU Credits THU Freda: Sara Bahadori THU John: Andrew Knott THU Paul: Stephen Fletcher THU George: Luke Broughton THU Ringo: Daniel Crossley THU Epstein: Jonathan Keeble THU George Martin: Jonathan Keeble THU Stepmother: Ruth Alexander-Rubin THU Mrs Harrison: Ruth Alexander-Rubin THU Cynthia: Hope Brownhill THU Writer: Ray Connolly THU Director: Gary Brown THU Producer: Gary Brown THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03h6yrx (Listen) THU Moseley Bog THU THU Felicity Evans visits the land that inspired Tolkien's THU Middle Earth and discovers how this Birmingham Bog also kick THU started the Urban Wildlife Movement. THU THU From the ages of four to eight , J.R.R. Tolkien, author of THU 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', lived with his THU mother and brother opposite Sarehole Mill on the Wake Green THU Road in Birmingham, a short walk from what is now Moseley THU Bog and 'Joy's Wood', a local nature reserve. As a boy, it THU is into this unexpected patch of woodland that Tolkien would THU disappear - both literally and in his imagination. Years THU later he would cite this period of his life as the THU inspiration for the landscapes and characterless of his now THU legendary books. A century on, urban development of the ever THU increasing Birmingham City has stopped short of this special THU site. This rural idyll, just three miles from Birmingham's THU city centre was preserved by local mum, Joy Fifer who THU launched a local campaign in the 80's which went on to start THU a national urban wildlife movement. It is now cared for by THU enthusiastic volunteers and enjoyed by the local school THU children who still disappear into this land and their THU imaginations - much as Tolkien did so many years before THU them. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03gtnnn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03gtvv0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03h6yrz (Listen) THU Jude Law on Dom Hemingway; Lee Daniels on The Butler THU THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03h71bp (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b03h71br (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03gqc1h (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b01q8qpv (Listen) THU Series 8, The Scapegoat 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 After an unprofessional mishap at the Sparrowhawk Family THU Centre one of the Social Workers needs to fall on their THU sword. 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 Nali: Nina Conti THU Ray: Richard Lumsden THU Helen: Liza Tarbuck THU Simon: Andrew Wincott THU Libby: Sarah Kendall THU Man: Robert Blythe THU Mr Needham: Patrick Brennan THU Trudi: Sarah Thom THU Writer: Harry Venning THU Writer: David Ramsden THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03h71bt (Listen) THU There's a welcome arrival at The Stables, and Lynda thinks THU she knows best. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03h71bw (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the American THU writer Donna Tartt, as she publishes her THU third novel The Goldfinch, her first new book in over a THU decade. THU THU Producer Timothy Prosser. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03h6pxc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03h71by (Listen) THU Birmingham Children's Services THU THU Last month, a serious case review into the death of two year THU old Keanu Williams concluded that there were a number of THU significant opportunities to save him from being beaten to THU death by his mother. It's the latest in a series of horrific THU child deaths that have shocked Birmingham and exposed THU shortcomings which have led to the city's children's THU services department repeatedly failing inspections and the THU city being branded a 'national disgrace' by the head of the THU watchdog, Ofsted. Simon Cox investigates what is wrong with THU social services at Britain's largest local authority and THU asks whether its reputation is justified. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03h71c0 (Listen) THU Shipping THU THU It's the lifeblood of the world's economy, moving most of THU our imports and exports and around the globe. But shipping THU is changing: vessels and ports are getting bigger and THU competition for trade is coming from the Far East. THU THU Evan Davis and guests from the world of shipping discuss how THU ports are run and how the shipping business manages the risk THU of accidents and piracy. THU THU Guests: THU THU James Cooper - CEO of Associated British Ports. , a private THU company which owns and runs 21 ports in the UK. THU Kenneth MacLeod - Chairman of Stena Line UK and President of THU the UK Chamber of Shipping. THU Rupert Atkin - CEO of Talbot Underwriting and Chairman of THU the Lloyd's Market Association. THU THU Producer - Smita Patel. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03h71bp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03h6px5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03gqc1k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03h71c2 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03h71c4 (Listen) THU The Lowland, Episode 4 THU THU Today: As Subhash learns of his brother's death, he becomes THU further troubled by the life now open to his widow, Gauri. THU Jhumpa Lahiri shot to fame with her Pulitzer-winning story THU collection, Interpreter of Maladies, followed by novel The THU Namesake and another collection, Unaccustomed Earth. The THU Lowland is her latest work, and has been short-listed for THU the Man Booker Prize. THU THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies b007jtr3 (Listen) THU The Food Industry THU THU Andrew Maxwell is one of the UK's most informed and fearless THU stand ups. In this series of one-off stand up shows, he uses THU his trademark intelligence and political incisiveness to dig THU behind the clichés and assumptions about four possible THU threats to British society: food, the internet, drugs and THU Nationalism. THU THU This series will showcase a comedian at the top of his THU abilities tackling difficult and important 'slow news' THU topics with a depth and perceptiveness that remains outside THU the remit of mainstream 'topical' comedy. THU THU In this first episode, Andrew looks at the food industry. THU From horseburgers right up to snail ice-cream, it seems like THU there's something wrong with every rung of the food ladder. THU But given that food is essential to survival, shouldn't we THU be clearer about what it is we want from the industry that THU provides it? THU THU Always adept at making shrewd, balanced and very funny THU political observations, Maxwell was one of the first comics THU at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival to react to the riots in THU England and the Arab Spring and evolve his act accordingly THU to rave reviews and a nomination. He performed his 2012 THU Edinburgh show That's the Spirit at the Assembly Rooms THU George Square to sell out audiences and followed this with a THU run at London's Soho Theatre. He also performed at the THU Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival last year including THU a performance at the televised American Dream Gala and at THU the Udderbelly Festival. THU THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 23:30 Who Sold the Soul? b03cmt4w (Listen) THU Soul Power THU THU Jazz, Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Funk and THU Hip-Hop; there's no question African American musical THU creativity has fuelled the modern music industry. But faced THU with racism and cultural theft for decades, African-American THU musicians, DJs, businessmen and women have struggled to have THU any real control or ownership in the business. In this three THU part series financial educator, broadcaster and music THU obsessive Alvin Hall examines the political economy of THU African American music, from jazz to Jay Z. THU In this second episode, Alvin looks at the 1960s and 70s. THU Soul music wasn't just the soundtrack and fashion to a THU turbulent and eventful period in the civil rights movement. THU It defined a specific period of social development for black THU people. Motown became the sound of young America with the THU first, commercially successful black-owned record label. THU James Brown preached his black capitalist message through THU his self-titled Soul Power. And CBS Records commissioned the THU Harvard Business School to investigate the profitability of THU black music. A report that would change industry thinking THU forever. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03gqc2d (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03h6px7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03gqc2g (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03gqc2j (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03gqc2l (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03gqc2n (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j9908 (Listen) FRI Presented by the Chaplain to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards FRI in Kabul, Padre David Anderson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03h7grb (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 b03dwz7f (Listen) FRI Linnet 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 Linnet. Linnets gather in FRI large flocks to feed on weed-seeds and the seeds of oilseed FRI rape and flax left behind after harvesting. You can often FRI identify the flocks from a distance as the birds circle over FRI a field, by their tight formation and bouncing motion. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03h7grd (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03h7grg (Listen) FRI Alfred Brendel FRI FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the classical pianist, Alfred FRI Brendel. FRI FRI A performer of world renown, his career spans seven decades, FRI and he is particularly famous for his interpretations of FRI Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. An Austrian who's FRI lived in the UK for many years, he was born in 1931 in what FRI is now the Czech Republic. Although not from a musical FRI family, he began playing the piano aged six and gave his FRI first recital aged 17. Largely self-taught, in addition to FRI his live performances, he's enjoyed a long and successful FRI recording career. Revered for his intellect and individual FRI and original take on the world, he is also a published poet FRI and essayist. FRI FRI He says, "I regard pessimism as a sign of intelligence. FRI Optimism is a very welcome and life-enhancing feature, a FRI gift, but not necessarily a realistic outlook. I am a FRI pessimist who enjoys being pleasantly surprised." FRI FRI Producer: Cathy Drysdale. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03h7grj (Listen) FRI The Letters of John F Kennedy, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5. Kennedy receives a vivid communique from his advisor JK FRI Galbraith about the practicalities of shelter during nuclear FRI attack. Later he writes to the British Prime Minister Harold FRI Macmillan - words of social nicety and trepidation about the FRI Russians. FRI FRI Readers Colin Stinton, Richard Laing, Peter Marinker and FRI Trevor White FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03h7grl (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03h7grn (Listen) FRI Children in Need: Holding On to You, Episode 5 FRI FRI D.L.Weller's powerful drama about child sexual exploitation FRI and grooming. FRI FRI As Holly is helped to come to terms with the truth, she FRI faces a difficult decision about Jay. FRI FRI 11:00 In Britten's Footsteps b03h7grq (Listen) FRI To mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, wildlife FRI sound recordist Chris Watson follows in the footsteps of the FRI composer, presenting a soundscape based on the daily walks FRI which Britten took around Aldeburgh to reflect on his FRI morning's work. Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft in FRI November 1913 and grew up on the coast of Suffolk. From his FRI earliest years, the rhythm of the tides and the calls of FRI redshank, curlew, and dunlin were the wild music which FRI inspired much of his work. Suffolk was the place where he FRI felt rooted and a sense of belonging and lived most of his FRI life. Each day, after a morning spent composing, he would FRI walk from his home, the Red House, either across the golf FRI course, or through the woods, alongside the reed beds, or FRI across the marshes reflecting on his morning's work FRI accompanied and no doubt inspired by the atmosphere and FRI sounds of the landscape around him; from the sigh of the FRI reeds and the rhythm of the waves on the shingle beach to FRI the haunting cries of curlew across the marshes or the FRI exquisite songs of Nightingales in the woods. FRI FRI Over the course of a year wildlife sound recordist Chris FRI Watson retraced these walks, recording the seasonal sounds FRI of the landscapes for a live performance commissioned by FRI Aldeburgh Music. Using these and additional recordings, FRI together with interviews with Rita Thompson, Britten's nurse FRI companion, friend and writer Ronald Blythe, composer and FRI biographer David Matthews and Director of Aldeburgh Music FRI Jonathan Reekie, this immersive sound walk follows in the FRI footsteps of the composer as Chris Watson discovers for FRI himself the 'sense of place' which Britten felt so strongly FRI here and which inspired so much of his music. FRI FRI Presenter and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b03h7grs (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Joe has had to cancel a holiday with his girlfriend and it's FRI Mimi's fault. So Mimi gets no back up when she wants to get FRI the dog fixed and stop Lucy wearing latex. FRI FRI Their friend Bobby (Stephen Critchlow) is fed up listening FRI to them squabble because he has a real problem - his son FRI Stevie is stonewalling him. Bobby even offers to help out so FRI Joe can go to Barcelona to be with Tuberose - but Joe is FRI enjoying the moral high ground and loves seeing Mimi up to FRI her neck in his brownie points. FRI FRI Mimi broke her arm when she went to check out Tuberose at FRI Latex Couture of Holloway and now she can't can't type, FRI floss or fasten her bra. When she complains of the pain, FRI Lucy thinks it must be to do with the weight of her low FRI hanging bosom. She is trying to soft soap her mum so she is FRI allowed to wear the latex dress for the school Springtime FRI Fashionista contest. FRI FRI Science-loving Tom hates superstition but he is so undone by FRI Poppy's coldness that he decides to start saying Good FRI Morning Mr Magpie and he even steals Lucy's lucky mascot. FRI And it turns out that Mr Hanky, the South Park Christmas FRI Poo, saves the day. The anguish of the Millers has been FRI healed by a cloth turd. FRI FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Joe: Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi: Sarah Alexander FRI Tom: Finlay Christie FRI Lucy: Phoebe Abbott FRI Bobby: Stephen Critchlow FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03h7grv (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03h7grx (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03gqc2q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03h7grz (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 London v Paris b03h7gs1 (Listen) FRI Capitals of Fashion FRI FRI This is the gripping story of a battle of two cities, London FRI and Paris, and a battle of two competing cultures. FRI Historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs are a husband and wife FRI team and they can shed a particular light on the story - FRI Robert is English and Isabelle is French. Having written on FRI the 'love-hate' relationship between the two countries, they FRI are ready to focus on the two great capitals at the heart of FRI it all. How much was competition, and how much cultural FRI exchange? FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03h71bt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010fd88 (Listen) FRI Mary Toft's Rabbit Tale FRI FRI Written by Colin Bytheway. FRI FRI In 1726, 26 year old mother-of-three Mary Toft gave birth to FRI a rabbit. And then another. And then another. All were FRI stillborn, some were just rabbit body parts, but all were FRI the fruit of her loins. FRI FRI Local surgeon John Howard confirmed the phenomenon, FRI delivering several rabbits himself. He wrote of his findings FRI to the Secretary of George I. The King, intrigued, sent his FRI personal anatomist Nathaniel St Andre to investigate - and FRI he soon concluded that Toft was telling the truth and was FRI preternaturally giving birth to rabbits. FRI FRI Mary quickly became a national sensation and was brought to FRI London to be studied at length. But, inevitably, Mary broke FRI and she confessed. The whole thing was a hoax. FRI FRI Mary was imprisoned. She, the medical profession, and even FRI the country, were publicly ridiculed. Mary herself was FRI immortalised in a sketch by Hogarth. After five months of FRI incarceration, she was released, returning to Godalming, her FRI children, her husband and her old life. She later claimed FRI she made up the rabbit tale "to get so good a living that I FRI should never want as long as I lived." FRI FRI Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mary: Anna Madeley FRI Joshua: Will Young FRI John Howard: Rupert Graves FRI St Andre: Nickolas Grace FRI Sir Richard: Patrick Ryecart FRI George I: Ian Masters FRI Writer: Colin Bytheway FRI Director: Celia de Wolff FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03h7gs3 (Listen) FRI Rochdale Pioneers Museum FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team visit the birthplace of the modern FRI co-operative movement at the Rochdale Pioneers Museum. FRI Taking the questions are panellists Christine Walkden, Bob FRI Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Where Were You When Kennedy Was Shot? b03h7gs5 (Listen) FRI The Long Laneway FRI FRI The 22nd November 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of one FRI of the most significant and shocking events in 20th century FRI history, the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Most FRI people know exactly where they were and what they were doing FRI when the news hit. Inspired by this concept, three major FRI writers give their own spin on that day through fictional FRI stories of ordinary people as their lives are caught in that FRI precise moment, perhaps even undergoing monumental changes FRI in their own lives? FRI FRI For most, TV and radio broke the news of JFK's assassination FRI across the world, but for an Irish farmer it came from FRI closer to home. FRI FRI The Long Laneway by Colum McCann read by Des McAleer. FRI Produced in Belfast by Morag Keating. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03h7gs7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03h7gs9 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03h7gsc (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03h7gsf (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03gqc2s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03h7gsh (Listen) FRI Series 82, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with panellists Susan Calman, Andrew Maxwell and FRI Hugo Rifkind joining regular guest Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03h7gsk (Listen) FRI Jill makes her feelings known, and Helen needs a shoulder to FRI cry on. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Alistair Lloyd: Richard Lumsden FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden-Lloyd: Will Howard FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI William Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Writer: Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03h7gsm (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Adam Price, FRI creator of Borgen, the acclaimed Danish TV political drama, FRI as it returns to our screens for a third series. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03h7grn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03h7gsp (Listen) FRI Margaret Hodge, David Starkey, Dame Helen Ghosh FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Chartwell in Kent - the family home of Sir Winston FRI Churchill with Chair of the Public Accounts Committee FRI Margaret Hodge MP, TV historian David Starkey and Dame Helen FRI Ghosh who's head of the National Trust. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03h7gsr (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01qspvq (Listen) FRI Well, He Would, Wouldn't He? FRI FRI By Charlotte Williams. In 1963, at the tender age of 18, FRI Mandy Rice-Davies found herself at the centre of one of the FRI most sensational scandals of the 20th century. She was a FRI witness in the trial of Stephen Ward who was charged with FRI living off the earnings of prostitutes. At the age of 16 FRI Mandy had run away to London and become a dancer at Murray's FRI Club in the West End, where she'd met Christine Keeler and FRI society osteopath, Stephen. Soon she was mixing with FRI London's elite and living as Peter Rachman's mistress. But FRI when there was a shooting incident at Stephen's flat, and FRI news broke of Christine's secret affair with Government FRI Minister John Profumo, events began to spiral out of FRI control. Fifty years later, Mandy looks back at those events FRI and the impact they've had on her life. FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mandy (younger): Aimee-Ffion Edwards FRI Christine Keeler: Lyndsey Marshal FRI 'Pops' Murray: Stephen Marzella FRI Stephen Ward: Ewan Bailey FRI Peter Rachman: Ewan Bailey FRI Lord Astor: Adrian Schiller FRI Eugene Ivanov: Alex Dower FRI Johnny Edgecombe: Anthony Courier FRI Writer: Charlotte Williams FRI Director: Kate McAll FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03gqc2v (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03h7gst (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03h7gsw (Listen) FRI The Lowland, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: Subhash hopes that the arrival of Gauri's baby will FRI bring them together. But might his mother's prediction come FRI true? FRI FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03h3fwy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Who Sold the Soul? b03dsk4q (Listen) FRI Empire State of Mind FRI FRI Jazz, Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Funk and FRI Hip-Hop; there's no question African American musical FRI creativity has fuelled the modern music industry. But faced FRI with racism and cultural theft for decades, African-American FRI musicians, DJs, businessmen and women have struggled to have FRI any real control or ownership in the business. In this three FRI part series financial educator, broadcaster and music FRI obsessive Alvin Hall examines the political economy of FRI African American music, from jazz to Jay Z. FRI FRI In this final part, Alvin looks at the 1980s and beyond. FRI Beginning with the black pop of Michael Jackson, Prince and FRI Whitney Houston the series concludes with the rise of FRI hip-hop, today American's most dominant form of popular FRI music. Many people suggest that rap's rise to the top FRI demonstrates African Americans now exert real power in the FRI music industry. But is that really the case? FRI Contributors include writer Kevin Powell, Jay Z's former FRI business partner Damon Dash and rapper and activist KRS-One. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03h7gsy (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
09 November, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 09/11/2013 - 15/11/2013
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