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SAT SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03h6z3w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03h7grj (Listen) SAT The Letters of John F Kennedy, Episode 5 SAT SAT Letters to and from President Kennedy are published in book SAT form and edited by Martin W Sandler to mark fifty years SAT since the assassination of 1963. And a selection, abridged SAT in five episodes by Penny Leicester, reveal the drama and SAT tensions to do with American foreign policy. Other letters SAT reveal Kennedy's wit and warmth when contacting friends and SAT family: SAT SAT 5. Kennedy receives a vivid communique from his advisor JK SAT Galbraith about the practicalities of shelter during nuclear SAT attack. Later he writes to the British Prime Minister Harold SAT Macmillan - words of social nicety and trepidation about the SAT Russians. SAT SAT Readers Colin Stinton, Richard Laing, Peter Marinker and SAT Trevor White SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03h6z40 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03h6z42 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03h6z44 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03h6z46 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03h7gww (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances SAT Finn. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03h7gwy (Listen) SAT "I'm here to rescue this family" - an iPM listener attempts SAT to save his alcoholic wife but finds that as she gets sober, SAT his life unravels. Your News is read by Jenni Murray. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03h6z48 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03h6z4b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03h6yrx (Listen) SAT Moseley Bog SAT SAT Felicity Evans visits the land that inspired Tolkien's SAT Middle Earth and discovers how this Birmingham Bog also kick SAT started the Urban Wildlife Movement. SAT SAT From the ages of four to eight , J.R.R. Tolkien, author of SAT 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', lived with his SAT mother and brother opposite Sarehole Mill on the Wake Green SAT Road in Birmingham, a short walk from what is now Moseley SAT Bog and 'Joy's Wood', a local nature reserve. As a boy, it SAT is into this unexpected patch of woodland that Tolkien would SAT disappear - both literally and in his imagination. Years SAT later he would cite this period of his life as the SAT inspiration for the landscapes and characterless of his now SAT legendary books. A century on, urban development of the ever SAT increasing Birmingham City has stopped short of this special SAT site. This rural idyll, just three miles from Birmingham's SAT city centre was preserved by local mum, Joy Fifer who SAT launched a local campaign in the 80's which went on to start SAT a national urban wildlife movement. It is now cared for by SAT enthusiastic volunteers and enjoyed by the local school SAT children who still disappear into this land and their SAT imaginations - much as Tolkien did so many years before SAT them. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03hmf7k (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03h6z4d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03hmh3f (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03hmh3h (Listen) SAT Owen Sheers, Molly Crabapple, Rose and Douglas Hadfield, Mat SAT Horne SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with poet Owen Sheers, SAT Guantanamo artist Molly Crabapple, South Seas travellers SAT Rosemary and Douglas Hadfield, 17 year old Lauren who found SAT herself without a home, Elisa Berry who found herself SAT looking after JFK's nieces on the day he was assassinated, SAT and actor Mat Horne's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My SAT Albatross b038xrjh (Listen) SAT Music writer Pete Paphides runs through the 5 stages of SAT grief following a huge hit record with stories from some of SAT those who know including Mike Batt, Ralph McTell, Colin SAT Vearncombe, Ivan Doroschuk and Sandie Shaw. SAT SAT Many artists are best known for doing something - be it a SAT hit, or an album or for having an intense, sustained period SAT of success that is hard to maintain in the long-run. In the SAT case of Ralph McTell it's the song 'Streets of London', for SAT Ivan Doroschuk from Men Without Hats it's 'The Safety SAT Dance', for Mike Batt, a prolific songwriter and producer, SAT his Womble years are often remembered first, Sandie Shaw has SAT never been able to forget 'Puppet on a String' and Colin SAT Vearncombe's band Black's albatross track was Wonderful SAT Life. SAT SAT The five stages a musician goes through of dealing with SAT their albatross are uncannily similar to the five stages of SAT grief that follow bereavement or news of a terminal illness. SAT These were identified by psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross SAT in her 1969 book On Death & Dying (they also form the SAT narrative arc of Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day). SAT They include denial, bargaining, anger, depression and SAT finally acceptance. SAT SAT How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love My Albatross SAT walks through these five stages, with lots of testimony from SAT people who have been through all the different points in the SAT curve of self-realisation - punctuated, of course, with lots SAT of clips of all their great songs. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b03hx23j (Listen) SAT The Forum in Beijing: Digital China SAT SAT Bridget Kendall chairs a wide-ranging discussion in Beijing SAT about the internet in China: with nearly 600 million Chinese SAT now online, how is the spread of social media changing the SAT nature of their society? How much is free expression really SAT curtailed by the Great Firewall of China and the recent SAT legislation aimed at curbing the spread of 'rumours' on the SAT net? And is the ability to share the minutiae of their lives SAT online making the young in China politically apathetic? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03hmh3m (Listen) SAT The Noise of the Typhoon SAT SAT The noise and devastation of Hurricane Haiyan: Andrew SAT Harding on the first town in the Philippines to feel the SAT force of the storm; Charles Haviland on how the furore SAT surrounding the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in SAT Sri Lanka has pushed the Tamil north of the country into the SAT news spotlight; Nicholas Wade travels to Jerusalem to hear SAT people's views about the latest attempts to reach a Middle SAT East peace settlement; Moldova and other former Soviet SAT satellites are due to sign a trade deal with the EU and SAT Tessa Dunlop's been finding out that not everyone there SAT feels it's a good idea to turn their backs on Russia and SAT Will Ross has been taking time off from the hard news of SAT Nigeria to take a look at its thriving arts scene -- and a SAT novel use for the xylophone! SAT SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03hmh3p (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03h7gsh (Listen) SAT Series 82, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with panellists Susan Calman, Andrew Maxwell and SAT Hugo Rifkind joining regular guest Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Michell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03h6z4g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03h6z4j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03h7gsp (Listen) SAT Margaret Hodge MP, David Starkey, Dame Helen Ghosh, Jeremy SAT Hunt MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Chartwell in Kent with the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt SAT MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge SAT MP, TV historian David Starkey and Dame Helen Ghosh Director SAT General of the National Trust. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03hmh3r (Listen) SAT With Anita Anand. A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have SAT their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03hmh3t (Listen) SAT Air-Force One SAT SAT Martin Jarvis directs a stellar American cast, headed by SAT Stacy Keach, Glenne Headly, Susan Sullivan, Steven Weber - SAT and introduced by Josh Stamberg - in Christopher Lee's SAT extraordinary new play. SAT SAT Fifty years ago, on November 22nd, 1963, President John F SAT Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper while riding in an SAT open-topped limousine in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. SAT SAT What happened immediately after the assassination? SAT SAT Theories explored in Lee's riveting drama are based on SAT Federal, classified and academic research, diaries and SAT recollections, and statements by Mrs Kennedy - a mix of SAT substantiated and contested documentation. He focuses, SAT first, on the hospital mortuary, and then aboard Air Force SAT One where former Vice President Lyndon B Johnson insists SAT that Judge Sarah Hughes conducts the 'swearing-in' before SAT take-off. Also present in the overcrowded aircraft is SAT Kennedy's widow, Jackie, in a state of shock, still covered SAT in blood. The play becomes a tense thriller as surprising SAT events occur on board. SAT SAT Other parts: Tracy Pattin, Darren Richardson SAT Sound design: Wesley Dewberry, Mark Holden SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT SAT A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Josh Stamberg SAT Lyndon B Johnson: Stacy Keach SAT Jackie Kennedy: Glenne Headly SAT Lady Bird Johnson: Susan Sullivan SAT Rufus Oldman: Steven Weber SAT Art Thorn: Nicholas Hormann SAT Roy Kellerman: JD Cullum SAT Marie Fehmer: Janine Barris SAT Rose Kennedy: Jennifer Bassey SAT Rankin: Gordon Clapp SAT Doctor Rose: Gordon Clapp SAT Judge Hughes: Anna Mathias SAT White House radio: Matthew Wolf SAT Jack Valenti: Matthew Wolf SAT AF1 operator: Andre Sogliuzzo SAT Dean Rusk: Andre Sogliuzzo SAT 86972: John Sloan SAT Actor: Tracy Pattin SAT Writer: Christopher Lee SAT Actor: Darren Richardson SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT SAT 15:30 Tim Key's Easy USSR b03h30gb (Listen) SAT "I remember exactly where I was when I was first exposed to SAT Vyacheslav Mescherin's tunes. I was at a dinner party and SAT the host handed me the sleeve with a glint in her eye. She SAT thought I might quite like it. The insinuation was that none SAT of the other guests would. She was right." SAT SAT Nine years ago, comedian and poet Tim Key was given a copy SAT of a CD entitled Easy USSR Vol. 2. One car journey to Devon SAT and four consecutive listens later, and he was hooked. The SAT strange yet catchy sounds of Vyacheslav Mescherin's Ensemble SAT of Electronic Musical Instruments have underscored his life SAT and his work ever since. On stage and on the radio, SAT Mescherin's music lies beneath him like a crashmat. SAT SAT With very little information available about Mescherin, Tim SAT sets out to find out more about the man. SAT His search takes him from one of the world's leading SAT Theremin players to a Soviet Cosmonaut. Tim discovers that, SAT far from the obscure rarity it is today, in the 1960s and SAT beyond Mescherin's music was a quirky soundtrack to life in SAT the Soviet Union - on radio, TV and even in factories. The SAT futuristic sounds of the electronic instruments he pioneered SAT provided the perfect accompaniment to the space race era. SAT Nearly twenty years after his death, many Russians can hum SAT Mescherin's tunes, yet few know his name. SAT SAT But what of the rumours that Mescherin's sounds were blasted SAT into space? And will Tim be able to find more of the music SAT he craves? SAT SAT Producer: Peggy Sutton SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03hmh3w (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour; Oprah Winfrey; Lilly Allen video SAT SAT Oprah Winfrey discusses her latest role, as Gloria Gaines, SAT in The Butler; her memories of the civil rights movement in SAT America; and explain what drives her ambition. Why Monday's SAT are a good day for advertisers to bombard you with products. SAT Is the video for Lily Allen's first single in four years SAT feminist, or further reinforcement of misogynistic attitudes SAT throughout the music industry, as well as reinforcing SAT stereotypes of race and class. Saturday night primetime TV - SAT Strictly Come Dancing - and a gay man is cheerily lusting SAT after another man. In metrosexual camptastic Britain it's SAT really nothing out of the ordinary. But just imagine, that SAT the judge with a twinkle in their eye was an openly gay SAT woman, expressing her admiration for a female dancer. Plus SAT Biddy Baxter, legendary Editor of Blue Peter on her SAT pioneering career. Ann Cairns of Mastercard on being part of SAT the WH Power List. And singer songwriter Nadine Shah talks SAT about her debut album and performs live in the Woman's Hour SAT Studio. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03hmh3y (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03h71c0 (Listen) SAT Shipping SAT SAT It's the lifeblood of the world's economy, moving most of SAT our imports and exports and around the globe. But shipping SAT is changing: vessels and ports are getting bigger and SAT competition for trade is coming from the Far East. SAT SAT Evan Davis and guests from the world of shipping discuss how SAT ports are run and how the shipping business manages the risk SAT of accidents and piracy. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT James Cooper - CEO of Associated British Ports. , a private SAT company which owns and runs 21 ports in the UK. SAT Kenneth MacLeod - Chairman of Stena Line UK and President of SAT the UK Chamber of Shipping. SAT Rupert Atkin - CEO of Talbot Underwriting and Chairman of SAT the Lloyd's Market Association. SAT SAT Producer - Smita Patel. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03h6z4l (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03h6z4n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03h6z4q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03hmh40 (Listen) SAT Robert Vaughn, Anne Reid, Russell Kane, Zawe Ashton, the SAT Pedrito Martinez Group, Lizzo SAT SAT Clive's on a mission with The Man from U.N.C.L.E, actor SAT Robert Vaughn, whose career has spanned over fifty years, SAT with such film credits as 'Bullitt'. Robert's currently SAT treading the boards as Juror #9 in 'Twelve Angry Men'. SAT Twelve jurors have murder on their minds and a life in their SAT hands as they decide the fate of a young delinquent. 'Twelve SAT Angry Men' is at London's Garrick Theatre until 2nd March SAT 2014. SAT SAT Clive's unzipped with larger than life comedian Russell SAT Kane, whose new big-small show tackles the issue of SAT smallness. We Brits love it - being tiny but fierce, close SAT but distant. Russell addresses the issue of keeping things SAT small when life gets big. He's touring 'Smallness' until May SAT 2014. SAT SAT Robin Ince dreams of a life with actress, poet and writer SAT Zawe Ashton, whose character 'Vod' is now in her second year SAT of uni in the third series of Channel 4 sitcom 'Fresh Meat'. SAT Vod's back from her travels with more than everyone SAT bargained for - in the shape of her new Mexican lover. So, SAT stock-pile the Jäger and bring on the bants! 'Fresh Meat' is SAT on 18th November at 22.00. SAT SAT Clive cuts a rug with actress Anne Reid, who's back on our SAT screens playing retired widow Celia opposite Derek Jacobi's SAT Alan in 'Last Tango in Halifax'; the story of two SAT septuagenarian sweethearts. When Celia's partner Alan SAT suffers a heart attack, the couples' nuptials hanging in the SAT balance. Will she once again lose the love of her life? SAT 'Last Tango In Halifax' is on 19th November at 21.00 on BBC SAT One. SAT SAT With music from The Pedrito Martinez Group, who perform SAT 'Drume Negrita'. And from U.S rapper Lizzo, who performs SAT 'Batches and Cookies' from her album 'Lizzobangers.' SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03hmh42 (Listen) SAT Sachin Tendulkar SAT SAT India means Sachin and Sachin means India. So how did a shy SAT 16-year-old cricketer come to embody a nation and its hopes SAT and dreams? Sachin Tendulkar's career spanned a period of SAT remarkable change in what is now one of the world's biggest SAT developing economies. As he plays his 200th and final test SAT match, Tim Franks looks at how Sachin's progress mirrored SAT and even inspired India's over a quarter of a century. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03hmh44 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Mojo SAT Jez Butterworth's Mojo was originally staged at The Royal SAT Court in London 18 years ago. His stratospheric success with SAT Jerusalem and a cast that includes Ben Wishaw and Rupert SAT "Ron Weasley" Grint (making his West End stage debut) has SAT been revived at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. SAT SAT Hello, My Name is Paul Smith SAT The designer Paul Smith's career began 43 years ago in a SAT tiny windowless shop in Nottingham and now his empire SAT extends to 37 countries around the globe. The Design Museum SAT in London has an exhibition looking at his career and SAT achievements. SAT SAT The Counselor SAT The Counselor is a film with an impeccable pedigree - SAT starring Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Penelope SAT Cruz, directed by Ridley 'Bladerunner' Scott, script by SAT Cormac 'No Country for Old Men' McCarthy. SAT SAT The Shadow of the Crescent Moon SAT Fatima Bhutto is a young writer who comes from the famous SAT Pakistani dynasty, and her first novel The Shadow Of The SAT Crescent Moon follows poetry, journalism and non fiction - SAT telling the story of her father's murder. SAT SAT Strange Days: Cold War Britain SAT A new series on BBC2 looks at Britain during the Cold War. SAT Historian Dominic Sandbrook considers how the UK dealt with SAT the possible threat of nuclear armageddon and a world where SAT nobody was above suspicion. How did the government respond SAT and how did it affect the British people? SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03hmh46 (Listen) SAT The Kennedy Book Depository SAT SAT To mark the 50th anniversary President Kennedy's death, Mark SAT Lawson looks at how his death has been reflected in novels, SAT film and television. SAT SAT We'll probably never know with absolute certainty exactly SAT what happened on November 22nd 1963 in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, SAT but that very imprecision allows creative artists full rein SAT to exercise their narrative muscles. Oliver Stone's film SAT 'JFK' suggested that the death was a complex conspiracy; SAT Charles McCarry's 'The Tears of Autumn' put it down to SAT revenge for the death of a Vietnamese General; and Don SAT Delillo's 'Libra' conjures the backstory of the supposed SAT assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. With archive recordings of Don SAT Delillo and Oliver Stone and newly recorded contributions SAT from veteran thriller writer and ex-CIA agent Charles SAT McCarry and Richard North Patterson. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03gtvty (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 After injuring his knee during a parachute jump, Guy SAT believes his wartime experience is at an end, but then he SAT receives orders to fly to Italy on a secret mission. SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of novels mark a high point in his SAT 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 they 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 SAT Crouchback. Witty and tragic, engaging and insightful, this SAT work must be counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as SAT Waugh's most enduring novel. 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 Ritchie-Hook: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Frank De Souza: Joel MacCormack SAT Angela: Priyanga Burford SAT Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws SAT Eloise: Carolyn Pickles SAT Bakic: Chris Pavlo SAT Madame Kanyi: Mia Soteriou SAT Loot: David Seddon SAT Major Cattermole: Arthur Hughes SAT Squadron Leader: John Norton SAT Dawkins: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Commandant: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Elderberry: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Priest: Sean Murray SAT Gilpin: Sean Murray SAT Orderly: Harry Jardine SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT Adaptor: Jeremy Front SAT Author: Evelyn Waugh SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03h6z4s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03h429b (Listen) SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew SAT Taylor, Giles Fraser. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b03gvqm7 (Listen) SAT (9/12) SAT Why would Sportin' Life, Rumpole and Columbo make a flush SAT with the King of Diamonds and the Jacks of Hearts and SAT Spades? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe has the answer to this and plenty more of SAT Round Britain Quiz's trademark cryptic questions, in the SAT latest heat which pits the South of England against Northern SAT Ireland. Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins are hoping to get SAT their own back on Roisin McAuley and Brian Feeney who beat SAT them in their previous clash, earlier in the series. SAT SAT As usual, the programme includes several questions provided SAT by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and Tom will also be SAT revealing the answer to the question he left unanswered at SAT the end of last week's edition. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b03gtvv2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, City Streets and Seashores SAT SAT Paul Farley meets Roy Fisher and Michael Longley: two of the SAT greatest older poets at work in English today. City streets SAT and the seashore sing loud in their poems. Roy Fisher's long SAT sequence City about Birmingham is the best poetic account of SAT modern urban life. Michael Longley has been writing lyric SAT poems about a short stretch of the coastline of County Mayo SAT for decades. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03hczkw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b011vg9f (Listen) SUN The Boundless Garden, The Gleaner SUN SUN Mark Williams reads from an anthology of 19th century Greek SUN short stories. It's Christmas and Achtitsa has neither food SUN nor money. Then she hears from her long lost son in SUN America... 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. 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 the BBC SUN TV's The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role SUN of Ron Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. SUN SUN Translated by Elizabeth Key Fowden SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hczky (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hczl0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hczl2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03hczl4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03hmngl (Listen) SUN Those were the bells of St. Thomas the Martyr, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03hmh42 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03hczl6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03hmngn (Listen) SUN Harmony SUN SUN Mark Tully pulls up a piano stool and tries to understand SUN the concept of harmony in the company of pianist and SUN composer David Owen Norris, who suggests that it has more to SUN do with mathematics than melody. SUN SUN We might think that it is obvious what is harmonious and SUN what is not, but our sense of musical harmony has developed SUN over time - as David Owen Norris illustrates at the keyboard SUN with the help of excerpts from Claude Debussy and Barbara SUN Streisand. SUN SUN But are we born with a sense of harmony? Do other cultures SUN have a different appreciation of harmony? And just how did SUN Beethoven manage to turn the chord of C Major into SUN dissonance? SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b03hmngq (Listen) SUN Winged Buffet SUN SUN Every autumn Spurn Point National Nature Reserve is SUN inundated with small migrating birds from continental SUN Europe. Exhausted from their journey across the North Sea SUN blackbirds, redwings, stonechats and other small birds make SUN easy picking for one of the UK's most charismatic birds of SUN prey. Also the smallest falcon in the UK, merlin are dynamic SUN and quick - blink and you'll miss them as they dash past on SUN the hunt. SUN Chris Sperring meets Peter Wright, former head ranger of the SUN Yorkshire Dales National Park and an expert in merlin having SUN studied them in their upland breeding habitat for many SUN years. Chris and Peter join Andy Gibson, the Outer Humber SUN officer for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust who shows them what SUN attracts merlin - and other birds of prey to Spurn Point SUN National Nature Reserve. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03hczl8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03hczlb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03hmngs (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03hmngv (Listen) SUN Children in Need SUN SUN Sir Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. SUN Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, London SUN W12 7WJ, or you can give online at bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call SUN 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03 numbers are charged at no more SUN than UK geographic rates (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will SUN be included as part of any inclusive minutes. This applies SUN to calls from any network including mobiles. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03hczld (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03hczlg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03hmngx (Listen) SUN A Vision of Heaven SUN SUN 'A Vision of Heaven.' CS Lewis' biographer Professor Alister SUN McGrath preaches live from Lewis' Parish Church of Holy SUN Trinity Headington Quarry on the outskirts of Oxford in this SUN service marking the fiftieth anniversary of the author's SUN death. With Canon Angela Tilby and the Vicar of Holy Trinity SUN The Revd Tim Stead. Director of Music: Sarah Lister. SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03h7gsr (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwxfp (Listen) SUN Siskin 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 Siskin. Siskins are SUN visiting our gardens as never before. These birds now breed SUN across the UK and cash in on our love of bird-feeding. They SUN are now regular visitors to seed dispensers of all kinds. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03hmnnd (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03hmnng (Listen) SUN Kirsty faces a dilemma. Meanwhile Lynda refuses to be SUN deterred. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden-Lloyd: Will Howard SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Josh Arche: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Writer: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03hmntl (Listen) SUN Malorie Blackman SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Malorie SUN Blackman. SUN SUN A prolific and multi-award winning author she has powered SUN her way to success not just through talent but determination SUN and perseverance. From the careers mistress who told her, SUN "black people don't become teachers," to the 82 rejection SUN letters she received before she was published, significant SUN parts of her life seem to have been spent proving people SUN wrong. A technology wiz, her first career was in computing. SUN As a writer her books have tackled challenging themes: SUN bullying, teenage pregnancy, racism and terrorism. SUN SUN Currently Children's Laureate, her own formative years were SUN spent in South London where as a little girl she went from SUN thinking everyone was her friend to feeling, as a teenager, SUN that the world was her enemy. SUN SUN She says, "Good stories made me reassess the world and SUN people as I thought I knew them. Great stories made me SUN reassess myself." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03gvsln (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 60th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, where SUN regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by John Finnemore, with Jack Dee as SUN the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will SUN know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and SUN Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03hmpwl (Listen) SUN Why is Grimsby's smoked fish special? SUN SUN Fenland celery has recently joined a select list of only SUN fifty-five British foods to achieve the same EU protection SUN as champagne, stilton and Melton Mowbray pork pies. SUN SUN But what difference will this status realistically make to SUN the people who grow it? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the longer term impact of PGI SUN status on another iconic English product, Grimsby SUN Traditional Smoked Fish. SUN SUN She visits Grimsby fish market to meet the owner of the only SUN remaining Grimsby-based fishing fleet, Andrew Allard, the SUN chief executive of Grimsby Fish Merchants Association Steve SUN Norton, and Richard Enderby, whose family have been smoking SUN fish for generations. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03hczlj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03hmpwn (Listen) SUN We hear the latest from the Philippines as aid efforts SUN continue plus we ask if reconstruction or relocation is the SUN better solution for areas destroyed by the typhoon. SUN SUN We're in Iraq to look at the security situation in the SUN country more than four years after UK combat operations SUN ended. SUN SUN 13:30 Reflections b0376x76 (Listen) SUN Lord Tebbit 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 concerns for SUN the future. SUN Peter's guest in this week's programme is Lord Tebbit SUN (Norman Tebbit), the former Conservative Cabinet Minister SUN and loyal ally of Margaret Thatcher. He served as Employment SUN Secretary in the early 1980s and then became Conservative SUN Party Chairman. SUN After serving in the RAF and working as an airline pilot, SUN Norman Tebbit first entered Parliament in 1970 at the age of SUN thirty-nine. His trenchant style of politics provoked SUN Michael Foot to describe him as a "semi-house-trained SUN polecat". Norman Tebbit was also nicknamed "the Chingford SUN skinhead" (he was MP for Chingford) and was caricatured as a SUN leather-clad "bovverboy" puppet in TV's 'Spitting Image'. SUN In October 1984, Norman Tebbit and his wife were seriously SUN injured in the IRA's bomb attack on the Grand Hotel, SUN Brighton. After the 1987 election, he left the Cabinet in SUN order to ensure that his disabled wife received proper care. SUN Norman Tebbit continues to voice his forthright views, SUN notably on Britain's relationship with Europe, in the House SUN of Lords. SUN Presenter, Peter Hennessy. Producer, Rob Shepherd. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03h7gs3 (Listen) SUN Rochdale Pioneers Museum SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team visit the birthplace of the modern SUN co-operative movement at the Rochdale Pioneers Museum. SUN Taking questions are panellists Christine Walkden, Bob SUN Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03hmpwq (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces four conversations between men, ranging SUN from managing a NHS Trust to being a football hooligan, via SUN fishing in the Irish Sea and enjoying pickled eggs in a pub, SUN in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03hn1m3 (Listen) SUN The Russian Gambler, Episode 1 SUN SUN A brilliant, penniless, pianist gets a job as tutor to the SUN daughter of a wealthy Russian oligarch living in London and SUN is sucked into a world of obsession and chance. SUN SUN A modern-day take on Dostoevsky's The Gambler, by SUN writer/actor Dolya Gavanski, with Ed Stoppard, Matthew Marsh SUN and Graham Seed. SUN SUN The Russian Gambler is Dolya Gavanski's first drama for SUN Radio 4. As an actor she worked with Steve Coogan and SUN Michael Winterbottom on The Trip and with Angelina Jolie in SUN the Bosnian film In the Land of Milk and Honey. Her radio SUN work includes The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, The Bid and UTZ for SUN Radio 4 and Massistonia on Radio 3. SUN SUN Casting: Toby Whale, SUN Script Editor: Mike Walker, SUN Sound Design: Steve Bond. SUN SUN Original music composed by Sacha Puttnam. SUN SUN All music performed by Sacha Puttnam. SUN SUN Directed and Produced by John Dryden SUN A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Alexei: Ed Stoppard SUN Mikhail: Matthew Marsh SUN Polina: Dolya Gavanski SUN Vika: Isabella Blake Thomas SUN Astley: Graham Seed SUN Francois: Orlando Seale SUN Katie: Lucy May Barker SUN Inokenti: George Lasha SUN Masha: Irena Karacheva SUN Mullighan: Jay Taylor SUN Office Worker: Alana Ramsey SUN Blake: Timothy Walker SUN Director: John Dryden SUN Producer: John Dryden SUN Writer: Dolya Gavanski SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03hn1m5 (Listen) SUN Scott Turow; Paul Bailey and Manda Scot on gay literature; SUN Charlie Hill SUN SUN Scott Turow talks about his latest novel Identical, a dark SUN thriller set amongst America's warring political families, SUN which he's based around the Greek myth of the twins Castor SUN and Pollox. Turow's identical twin boys are Paul and Cass SUN Gianis - one of whom pleaded guilty to murder and served 25 SUN years in prison, but were they both implicit? SUN SUN November sees the re-issue of The Charioteers by Mary SUN Renault, marking the 60th anniversary of the first SUN publication of the book. It has been described by many as a SUN landmark work in gay literature, coming out when it did in SUN 1953 at a time when male homosexuality was still banned in SUN the UK. To discuss this ground-breaking novel and others SUN which highlighted the lives and issues surrounding same sex SUN relationships, Mariella is joined by Manda Scott, Chair of SUN the Historical Writers' Association and the author of the SUN Boudicca and Rome series and the writer Paul Bailey, who as SUN a young man was part of that underground world that Mary SUN Renault was addressing. SUN SUN Charlie Hill discusses mediocre literature and a book so SUN badly written that reading it could damage your health. It's SUN the plot of his new novel, aptly called 'Books' which charts SUN the war waged by Richard , a booze soaked, dog eared Brummie SUN bookshop owner, against Gary, the bestselling author of SUN 'male-confessional-lad-lit', whose book is so mediocre that SUN it proves fatal to its readership. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b03hn1m7 (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Waste Remains SUN SUN Paul Farley introduces new poems on the old theme of SUN autumnal rot and mulch. New poems from Alice Oswald, Steve SUN Ely, Maurice Riordan, Frances Leviston and a first British SUN listening in on the American poet Robert Wrigley: a master SUN observer of roadkill. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03h3fx6 (Listen) SUN A Healthy Market? SUN SUN The biggest ever slice of the NHS is up for grabs in SUN Cambridgeshire. Ten bidders, including NHS hospital trusts SUN and private companies Serco, Virgin Care and Circle, are SUN competing for a five year contract to run older peoples' SUN services. It will be worth a minimum of £700,000. The SUN successful bidder will provide everything from podiatry and SUN occupational therapy to dementia treatment and end of life SUN care. The stakes are high. But how much will patients be SUN told about how the bid was won? With commissioners SUN advertising dozens of other big money tenders, File on 4 SUN looks at the secrecy surrounding NHS contracts when they're SUN awarded and when they're challenged. Does commercial SUN confidentiality make public accountability impossible? And SUN how far does the competitive market improve healthcare for SUN patients? SUN SUN Reporter Jane Deith SUN Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03hmh42 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03hczll (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03hczln (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hczlq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03hn2rp (Listen) SUN John Waite chooses the best of the previous seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03hn2rr (Listen) SUN Lilian tries her best, and Ruth can't believe her luck. SUN SUN 19:15 I'm Dave Podmore, Get Me Out There b03hn2rt (Listen) SUN After his over-exuberant victory celebrations at the Oval, SUN Dave Podmore finds himself in the celebrity doghouse. SUN SUN A brush with death at his local reservoir then annoys Pod SUN even more, if only for thwarting his plan to get on series 2 SUN of "Splash!" with Tom Daley. It's a good job Radio One SUN County's Andy Hamer is on hand to take his speeding points, SUN as not even Pod would do that to his wife. (She's already SUN banned after she covered for him last time). SUN SUN With Ashes fever upon us again, Pod knows that Down Under is SUN the place to be, but the big question is will he get SUN picked... for a juicy jungle payday on "I'm a Celebrity"? SUN SUN Producer: Jon Harvey SUN A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 A Flash of Fireflies b03hn2rw (Listen) SUN A Chip of Glass Ruby SUN SUN To mark Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer's 90th birthday, the SUN last in this series of daring tales set in apartheid South SUN Africa. SUN SUN In this story of personal bravery, first published in 1965, SUN a bewildered husband struggles to cope with his wife's SUN political activism. SUN SUN Read by Raad Rawi SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03h7gs9 (Listen) SUN Was last week's edition of Radio 4's Profile programme SUN sexist? Some Feedback listeners have accused the programme SUN of just that after a profile of the new Director of Public SUN Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, featured numerous references SUN to her cooking and baking abilities. In this week's SUN Feedback, the Editor of Profile, Richard Knight, defends the SUN programme. SUN SUN Roger Bolton also speaks to Ric Bailey, the BBC's Chief SUN Political Advisor, about the challenges facing the SUN Corporation in the lead up to the Scottish Referendum. How SUN can it ensure impartiality in its coverage? The BBC Trust SUN has launched a 12 week consultation seeking views on the BBC SUN Executive's proposed additional guidelines for reporting on SUN the referendum. Visit the BBC Trust website to find out how SUN you can have your say. SUN SUN Also this week, meet the new generation of Just A Minute SUN panellists who are giving Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, and SUN Graham Norton a run for their money on Radio 4 Extra's SUN Junior Just a Minute. SUN SUN And a radio fan digs out a rare edition of Feedback from SUN almost exactly thirty years ago and finds an unexpectedly SUN topical item about Radio 4 continuity announcer Susan Rae. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03h7gs7 (Listen) SUN A British composer, a Northern Irish MP, a Romanian SUN architect, a German mayor and a British supercentenarian SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on the prolific composer Sir John Tavener, SUN who wrote a seven hour epic called The Veil and music SUN performed at Princess Diana's funeral. SUN SUN Eddie McGrady - the respected SDLP MP for South Down in SUN Northern Ireland who worked tirelessly for peace and helped SUN to negotiate the Good Friday agreement. SUN SUN Anca Petrescu - the architect who built an enormous palace SUN for the Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceaucescu - it's the SUN world's second largest building. SUN SUN And Manfred Rommel, son of the German General Erwin Rommel SUN and Mayor of Stuttgart for many years. We have a tribute SUN from Viscount Montgomery who became his friend. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03hmh3p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03hmngv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03gvslv (Listen) SUN France: Sinking Slowly? SUN SUN The French are far more attached to the idea of a SUN centralised, big state than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts. SUN The philosophy behind it, Colbertism, holds that the economy SUN of France should serve the state and that the state should SUN direct the economy. SUN SUN But as France's big state looks less affordable, some French SUN intellectuals are arguing that it is time that French SUN identity became less tied to the dirigiste idea. Former BBC SUN Paris Correspondent Emma Jane Kirby travels to France to SUN meet those questioning their country's traditional SUN resistance to economic reform. SUN SUN Producer: Fiona Leach. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03hn2ry (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 b03hn2s0 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03h6yrz (Listen) SUN Jude Law on Dom Hemingway; Lee Daniels on The Butler; Vivien SUN Leigh's centenary SUN SUN The latest news from the world of film. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03hmngn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03hczmq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03h428y (Listen) MON Work and Consumption; Neo-liberal Economics MON MON The truimph of Neoliberal economics in the post Recession MON world. Laurie Taylor talks to US Professor of Economics, MON Philip Mirowski, about his analysis of why neoliberalism MON survived, and even prospered, in the aftermath of the MON financial meltdown of 2008. Although it was widely asserted MON that the economic convictions behind the disaster would be MON consigned to history, Mirowski says that the opposite is the MON case. He claims that once neoliberalism became a Theory of MON Everything, providing a revolutionary account of self, MON knowledge, markets, and government, it was impossible to MON falsify by data from the 'real' economy. Neoliberalism, he MON suggests, wasn't dislodged by the recession because we have MON internalised its messages. Have we all, in a sense, become MON neoliberals, inhabiting "entrepreneurial" selves which MON compel us to position ourselves in the market and rebrand MON ourselves daily? Also, why do work almost as hard as we did MON 40 years ago, despite being on average twice as rich? Robert MON Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, suggests MON an escape from the work and consumption treadmill. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03hmngl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hczms (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hczmv (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hczmx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03hczmz (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j9m24 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances MON Finn. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03hng12 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03hczn1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2qh (Listen) MON Pied Wagtail 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 Pied Wagtail. In winter, MON pied wagtails can often be seen roosting in towns and cities MON in large flocks. By day, pied wagtails are often obvious in MON fields feeding on insects but they're equally at home on our MON streets gleaning prey from pavements and road surfaces. MON MON 06:00 Today b03hng14 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03hng16 (Listen) MON Gandhi's Early Years MON MON Bridget Kendall looks back at the formative years of Gandhi MON with the historian Ramachandra Guha and opera director MON Phelim McDermott. At the turn of the twentieth century MON Gandhi spent more than twenty years in South Africa and MON England: Guha argues that these early experiences shaped his MON future ideas, while McDermott stages Gandhi's spiritual MON progress towards nonviolent protest in his production of the MON opera Satyagraha. Gandhi returned to India just after the MON outbreak of the First World War and the international MON historian David Reynolds looks at the legacy of the Great MON War, and its impact on the decision-makers of the future. MON The Editor of Prospect Magazine, Bronwen Maddox, explores MON its legacy. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03hng18 (Listen) MON The Screwtape Letters, Episode 1 MON MON This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of C.S. Lewis's MON death, and a memorial stone to the author is due to be MON unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. MON MON Book of the Week marks the occasion with a reading of his MON famous letters from a senior to a junior devil. MON MON Read by Simon Russell Beale MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. MON MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03hng1b (Listen) MON Rebranding feminism; WH power-lister Pinky Lilani MON MON Does feminism need a rebrand? Thousands of girls and women MON have been left "painfully vulnerable" in the typhoon-struck MON Philippines, according to the International Development MON Secretary Justine Greening - we hear the latest from the MON region. Why the Royal College of Obstetricians and MON Gynaecologists is proposing restrictions on labiaplasty in MON both NHS and private clinics following a rise in the number MON of women seeking the procedure. Plus Powerlister Pinky MON Lilani on the importance of networking in helping you MON achieve success and a hundred plays that showcase women's MON talents MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Ruth Watts. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03hng1d (Listen) MON Love and Mettle, Episode 1 MON MON by Andrea Earl MON MON The true and extraordinary story of the writer's own MON experience of building a house. Mrs T's husband is on the MON verge of retiring from his job as a Consultant Psychiatrist MON and life is running out. It's now or never. Have they got MON the bottle to gamble his entire lump sum on a building MON project? Has she got the courage to preside over a gang of MON builders? Can she get it done on time and on budget? Will MON their marriage survive with their dream intact? MON MON Producer/Director - Pauline Harris. MON MON Credits MON Mrs T: Victoria Elliot MON Dr T: Robert Pugh MON Richard: Richard Thomas MON Alfie: Alfie Thomas MON Jack: Stephen Fletcher MON Natasha: Fiona Clarke MON Sylvia: Val McLane MON Frank: Seamus O'Neill MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Writer: Andrea Earl MON MON 11:00 A Very Powerful Politician? (The First Year of the MON Bristol Mayor) b03hnhjt (Listen) MON A key plank of David Cameron's localism agenda was the MON opportunity for England's 10 largest cities to introduce MON elected mayors following the success of the London mayor. MON Only Bristol voted for one. MON MON One year on from the election, Giles Dilnot finds out how MON new mayor George Ferguson is faring. What do Bristolians MON make of him with his trademark red trousers? We'll hear MON George Ferguson's assessment of his first year in office, MON speak to his supporters and opponents, and ask what MON difference, if any, has he made to the city's fortunes. And MON Giles meets Greg Clark, Minister of State for Cities, to MON find out if the fortunes of the city mayor could be revived MON around the country. MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03hnhjw (Listen) MON Series 9, The Intern MON MON Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, MON complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and the MON curmudgeonly attitude to life that he's mastered over years MON of failure. MON MON This week, the council is taking a holistic approach to MON cost-cutting and decides that Ed's writing class needs to MON get paid for some of their work. When it transpires that the MON class feels that they are wasting their time and thinking of MON joining the 'Bonkers About Baking' class Ed decides to set MON them the task of writing 'Hedgerow Jottings' and 'Tales from MON the Towpath' in an attempt to earn money and become real MON writers. Meanwhile, when the new intern at the agency turns MON out to be more than he seems, Ed finds himself maintaining MON his non-tax paying status by becoming the oldest intern in MON town and sharing an office with Ping. MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON Credits MON Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas MON Alex: Jonathan Bailey MON Olive: Stephanie Cole MON Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Keely: Nicola Sanderson MON Pearl: Alison Steadman MON Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Writer: Andrew Nickolds MON Writer: Christopher Douglas MON Producer: Dawn Ellis MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03hnhjy (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03hczn3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03hnhk0 (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 A History of Britain in Numbers b03hvn59 (Listen) MON Population MON MON Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells MON the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, MON through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale. MON MON He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in MON history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape MON of the population - the balance between adults and children, MON for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our MON lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks MON answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us MON now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox MON of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many MON people own one. And he tells these stories not just with MON data, but through people and the real experiences that bring MON the numbers to life. MON MON In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the MON programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, MON what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the MON centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? MON What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or MON education? What was the status and experience of women? And MON how has it all changed? MON MON This is all presented with innovative radio techniques to MON capture data in sound - for example, new ways of creating MON graphs for the senses so that we can not just know, but MON feel, the changes. MON MON Each of these ten programmes takes one theme, to explore how MON far we have made progress, and why it might continue, or MON falter. MON MON Producer: Michael Blastland MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03hn2rr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03j5j4c (Listen) MON Two Pipe Problems, I Get By with a Little Help from My MON Friends MON MON By Michael Chaplin. MON MON Following the sad death of Richard Briers earlier this year, MON in the first of these two final episodes of Two Pipe MON Problems, Stanley Baxter as Sandy is joined by Geoffrey MON Palmer as his friend and fellow sleuth William Parnes. MON MON A new chef is in the kitchen at The Old Beeches and he's MON cooking up a storm and delighting the residents, with Sandy MON as his willing and enthusiastic sous-chef. But things begin MON to go badly wrong after a visiting concert party sing a MON Beatles song which triggers unhappy memories for Albie the MON Chef (played by the late Felix Dexter). MON MON William and Sandy go in search of Albie and his son, and a MON successful father and son reunion is celebrated in song. MON MON Young Terrell Forde, who recently starred in Matilda in the MON West End, joins the company to play and sing the role of MON Albie's son, accompanied by David Shaw-Parker as his step MON dad, David Holt as memory man Billy, and Tracey Wiles as the MON warm hearted Old Beeches care assistant Karen. MON MON Cast: MON Sandy Boyle .......................Stanley Baxter MON William Parnes ...................Geoffrey Palmer MON Albie ...................................Felix Dexter MON Karen/ Sadie ......................Tracy Wiles MON Billy ....................................David Holt MON Edgar/ Lewis ......................David Shaw-Parker MON Jonathan ............................Terrell Forde MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b03hvn5j (Listen) MON (10/12) MON MON Making their final appearance in the 2013 season of Round MON Britain Quiz are the teams from the Midlands and the North MON of England. Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles take on Jim MON Coulson and Diana Collecott, with chairman Tom Sutcliffe on MON hand to steer them through the fiendish questions if they MON need help. MON MON The questions are available to read on the Round Britain MON Quiz pages of the Radio 4 website. As always there are MON several listeners' ideas among them. Tom will also be MON revealing the solution to the question he left unanswered at MON the end of last week's quiz. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03hmpwl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Scallop b03hvn5q (Listen) MON Maggi Hambling's controversial sculpture Scallop was MON unveiled on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk ten years ago. It was MON the artist's gift to the town and intended to commemorate MON Benjamin Britten - the composer inspired by this stretch of MON the East Anglian coast and who created a music festival that MON brought the town international recognition. MON MON Maggi explains the origins and development of the piece and MON why Scallop is, in her view, 'the most beautiful thing' MON she's made and the work by which she would like to be MON remembered. We tell the story of that making with the Peggs, MON the local metal fabricators, and of the extreme difficulty MON she had securing permission to site the sculpture on the MON beach. MON MON We also consider the strong opposition it stirred in MON Aldeburgh. Why was the piece daubed with graffiti 13 times MON in the years after its unveiling? The row raises questions MON about public consultation, about whether the planning system MON is the appropriate way to make decisions about public art, MON and about public attitudes to Britten himself. MON MON In Britten's centenary year, Scallop has become a focal MON point of many people's visit to Aldeburgh, but it still MON raises hackles. MON MON With contributions from Mel Gooding, Simon Loftus, Jonathan MON Reekie, Dennis Pegg, Ray Herring and Humphrey Burton. MON MON Producer: Susan Marling MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03hvn5x (Listen) MON Series 9, Risk MON MON The Infinite Monkey Cage returns in the first of a new MON series and turns its gaze on the science of risk. MON MON Professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince bring their MON witty and irreverent take on the world to a programme all MON about the science of risk. Together with Guests David MON Spiegelhalter, Sue Ion and former Goodie, Graeme Garden, the MON team explores such questions as: why is seven the safest age MON to be? Should badgers wear bicycle helmets? How safe is MON nuclear power and how worried should we be by the threat of MON asteroid impact? MON MON 17:00 PM b03hvn62 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hczn5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03hvn68 (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 2 MON MON The 60th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare. MON Regulars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are once again joined on the panel by John Finnemore with MON Jack Dee in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03hvn6g (Listen) MON Kirsty faces an ordeal, and Shula has a lot on her plate. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03hvn6j (Listen) MON Mark Lawson talks to author and former Liberal Party of MON Canada leader Michael Ignatieff about his new book MON reflecting on contemporary politics. MON MON Producer: Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03hng1d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Machiavelli: Devil or Democrat? b03hvn6l (Listen) MON Five hundred years ago, Niccolo Machiavelli, a former senior MON official in renaissance Florence, who had been sacked when MON the Medici returned to power, was drafting a study on the MON realities of politics. When his ground-breaking work was MON later published after his death, it was given the title, MON 'The Prince'. The book's frank account of princely power MON soon made its author's name synonymous with cunning and MON evil: Shakespeare's "murderous Machiavel" is the best known MON of many pejorative literary references. MON But in this programme Jonathan Freedland re-assesses MON Machiavelli and finds that his malign reputation has MON overshadowed his much greater achievement as a champion of MON republican government. When Machiavelli commented in 'The MON Prince' that he would 'leave out all discussion of MON republics, inasmuch as in another place I have written of MON them at length', he was referring to 'The Discourses', his MON major study of ancient Rome. In 'The Discourses', written MON between 1513 and 1519, Machiavelli re-asserts the republican MON ideals of ancient Rome and transmits them to the modern MON world. MON Machiavelli's impact has been felt far beyond renaissance MON Florence. After the execution of the English king, Charles MON I, in 1649, radical thinkers such as James Harrington and MON Algernon Sidney adapted Machiavelli's republicanism. In the MON 1720s, 'Cato's Letters' reflected Machiavelli's republican MON thinking in their attacks on corruption and patronage, and MON made an impact in Britain's American colonies. Later, MON Machiavelli's revival of republicanism influenced Americans MON in their fight for independence and inspired the 'founding MON fathers' when they framed the United States constitution. MON Producer, Rob Shepherd. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03hvn6n (Listen) MON Roberto Unger MON MON Renowned social theorist Roberto Unger believes that MON left-of-centre progressives - his own political side - lack MON the imagination required to tackle the fundamental problems MON of society. In the run-up to the US presidential elections MON of 2012, he declared that Barack Obama "must be defeated". MON Professor Unger argued that President Obama had failed in MON his first presidential term to advance the progressive MON cause. There was, he maintained, effectively no difference MON between the Democrat and Republican political programmes. MON MON In front of an audience at the London School of Economics MON and Political Science, Roberto Unger discusses with MON presenter Jo Fidgen the reasons for his critical appraisal MON of the progressive left in the United States and Europe. And MON he sets out what he believes its alternative agenda should MON be. MON MON Roberto Mangabeira Unger is the Roscoe Pound professor at MON Harvard Law School. He served as a minister in the Brazilian MON government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from MON 2007-2009. His books include: "The Left Alternative"; MON "Democracy Realised"; and "The Self Awakened". His new book, MON published next year, will address a new theme: "The Religion MON of the Future". MON MON Producer Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03h30g8 (Listen) MON Sequoia - Nowhere to Go MON MON Climate change is causing some National parks in America to MON re-think their boundaries. As the earth warms many species MON try to move to cooler climates but national parks are rooted MON in one place. The Sequoia National Park in California runs MON mainly east-west but now plans are being formed to shift it MON to run north-south, allowing species that need cooler MON temperatures to thrive. But in an increasingly crowded MON world, and with climate change continuing to change the MON earth, can we protect our treasured areas? Monty Don MON explores how climate change, national parks, wildlife and MON people are sharing the earth. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03hng16 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03hczn7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03hvn6q (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03hvn6t (Listen) MON The Lowland, Episode 6 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 It is the 1960s, and revolution has come to India and MON America. Two brothers, Subhash and Udayan, born in Calcutta MON just fifteen months apart, have been inseparable since MON birth, but their paths are diverging. Udayan - charismatic MON and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Communist MON movement sweeping Bengal. He will risk all for what he MON believes. But Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his MON brother's political passion, and leaves home to pursue a MON life of scientific research in a quiet corner of America. MON But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the MON lowland outside their family's home, he returns to India, MON hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to MON heal the wounds Udayan left behind. MON Today: a trip back to Calcutta threatens to unearth deeply MON buried family secrets. MON MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b03hvn6z (Listen) MON Series 3, David Crosby (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 2, A-side. "If I Could Only Remeber My Name" with MON David Crosby MON MON Double inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, David MON Crosby talkes John Wilson back to the making of his debut MON solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name. MON MON Released in 1971, it was one of four high-profile solo MON albums released more or less simultaneously by each member MON of the legendary super-group, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. MON David's If I Could Only Remember My Name boasted a stellar MON line-up that not only included Neil Young and Graham Nash, MON but also featured Joni Mitchell and the leading members of MON both Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Initially met MON with mixed reviews, the album has never been out of print MON and features some of his most impressive vocal and MON songwriting work - including the haunting Laughing, the MON mantra-like Music Is Love and the extended, impressionistic MON Cowboy Movie. 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 b03hvn75 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03hczp2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03hng18 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hczp4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hczp6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hczp8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03hczpb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j9mh3 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances TUE Finn. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03hvql1 (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 b03dx2w1 (Listen) TUE Dunlin TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Martin Hughes-Games presents the Dunlin. Dunlins are a TUE stirring sight, en masse, as their flocks twist and turn TUE over the winter shoreline. When the tide turns they take to TUE the air in a breath-taking aerobatic display. Around 350,000 TUE Dunlin winter here, travelling from Scandinavia and Russia. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03hvql3 (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Politics of Architecture b03hvql5 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Jonathan Glancey investigates the forces that shape the TUE design of our everyday buildings, and how this could be TUE improved. TUE TUE In this first episode, Jonathan visits an example of what he TUE calls 'anywhere architecture' - a decade-old housing estate TUE outside Ely. TUE TUE He talks to a resident and a local planner about why the TUE development was designed as it was and its strengths and TUE weaknesses. TUE TUE And he talks to the Chief Executive of Barratt Homes, Mark TUE Clare, about Barratt's approach at the time, and how he has TUE been improving their approach to architecture and place TUE design over the last few years. TUE TUE He hears from the Architecture Minister Ed Vaizey and the TUE Shadow Planning Minister Roberta Blackman-Woods about why TUE they think design needs to be improved. TUE TUE And he finds out how architects lost influence over the TUE building process to project managers and contractors. Design TUE may have suffered - but cost control is now much better. TUE TUE Jonathan visits a retail park outside King's Lynn in Norfolk TUE to see how, amid many examples of the 'shed' approach to TUE retail building design, one supermarket chain has taken a TUE new approach - paying attention to the outside of the TUE building as well as the inside. TUE TUE And he explains why he thinks the type of brick used in our TUE housing and supermarket design can make a huge difference to TUE the appearance of these buildings - and demonstrates the TUE difference between hand-made and industrial bricks with the TUE help of a hammer. TUE TUE PRODUCER: PHIL TINLINE. TUE TUE 09:30 15 by 15 b037t1rr (Listen) TUE Series 2, Check 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 'check' and Susie Dent is on hand to explain TUE that all the meanings that 'check' has developed come from TUE the game of chess. TUE TUE Hardeep's other encounters include 9 year old Samuel, a TUE pupil at one of the many schools that takes part in the TUE Chess in Schools initiative, founded by Malcolm Pein. TUE TUE Hardeep stands in the middle of Carnaby Street with fashion TUE lecturer Amber Butchart on the look-out for checks as they TUE pass by, and he encounters the check list with one of the TUE many people who need a 'to do list' to help them organise TUE their lives and check off what they have to do that day. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03j4xdr (Listen) TUE The Screwtape Letters, Episode 2 TUE TUE In episode two, the senior devil advises Wormwood not to TUE rely too heavily on the war in his temptation of his TUE 'patient'. "There is no good at all in inflaming his hatred TUE of Germans if, at the same time, a pernicious habit of TUE charity is growing up between him and his mother." TUE TUE Read by Simon Russell Beale TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. TUE TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03hvql7 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03hvql9 (Listen) TUE Love and Mettle, Episode 2 TUE TUE Love and Mettle episode 2/5 TUE by Andrea Earl TUE TUE Comic and touching true story of the writer's own experience TUE as a mother and wife, risking her husband's entire pension TUE on building a house. The build begins and catastrophe TUE strikes when the council inform Mrs T she has not protected TUE the ancient trees in the garden properly and the build is TUE ordered to cease immediately. They are threatened with 250K TUE in fines. The couple face financial ruin. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03hvqlc (Listen) TUE Traditional Societies TUE TUE Traditional societies and the wildlife that depends on them TUE are disappearing. Can we preserve these fragile species? Or TUE is the pressure to develop too great in our world? This TUE week's field report comes from Ethiopia where one of the TUE most endangered birds in the world, the Ethiopian Bush Crow, TUE teeters on the verge of extinction as the traditional TUE societies they rely upon disappear. This beautiful bird TUE needs a particular regime of grazing and scrub to survive, TUE but the societies that provide the right habitat are fast TUE disappearing as development and modernisation takes over. TUE Can we, should we, pour resources into protecting the crow TUE when there is so much demand for money and space? Monty Don TUE explores, with renowned writer Jared Diamond, the value of TUE traditional societies and what we lose when they finally TUE vanish. TUE TUE 11:30 Curlew River b03hvqlf (Listen) TUE In celebration of his centenary year, the works of Benjamin TUE Britten have been performed all over the world, from TUE Aldeburgh (where so many of them were written) to Kuala TUE Lumpur. TUE TUE In this programme, the tenor Ian Bostridge introduces us to TUE Curlew River, one of Britten's strangest and most remarkable TUE musical works. The chamber opera was first performed in TUE Orford Church, but was born out of Britten's tour of the Far TUE East in 1956. It's set in East Anglia, on the banks of the TUE imaginary River Curlew, but is inspired by Japanese Noh TUE theatre. TUE TUE Ian Bostridge is playing the role of a mother who has lost TUE her child in a production at St Giles, Cripplegate, in TUE London. We follow him through the rehearsal process, hear TUE what it's like to perform the part, and learn how Britten TUE incorporated Eastern music and drama into a Christian TUE parable set in the fenlands of medieval England. TUE TUE Producer: Isabel Sutton TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03hvqlh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03hczpd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03hvr31 (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 A History of Britain in Numbers b03j50qn (Listen) TUE Prosperity TUE TUE 2. Prosperity TUE Andrew Dilnot continues the story of Britain in numbers by TUE looking at the history of how well off we have been over the TUE years. He reveals the rich man's income from only a few TUE generations ago that would be worth less than today's TUE minimum wage, and uses striking audio techniques to capture TUE the changes in our prosperity. TUE TUE Producer: Michael Blastland TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03hvn6g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03j5775 (Listen) TUE Two Pipe Problems, The House on the Marsh TUE TUE In this final Two Pipe Problem, William and Sandy travel to TUE a windswept wintry Suffolk in search of William's TUE inheritance, where they are haunted by ghosts from the past TUE and threats from the present, and William makes a life TUE changing decision about his future. TUE TUE This week marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin TUE Britten, and his opera Peter Grimes is woven into this final TUE episode of Two Pipe Problems. The opera is set in Aldeburgh, TUE on the Suffolk coast from which Britten drew so much TUE inspiration. Writer Michael Chaplin was inspired to create a TUE story that drew on that landscape and the creation of Peter TUE Grimes, but also paid homage to the genius of MR James' TUE ghost story, Oh Whistle And I'll Come You, My Lad. TUE TUE Stanley Baxter is once again joined by Geoffrey Palmer TUE playing William, and Stephen Critchlow and Linda Broughton TUE playing a mother and son who bear a grudge, in this haunting TUE story - an entertaining and touching farewell to the series. TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE Producer: Catherine Bailey TUE TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter TUE William Parnes: Geoffrey Palmer TUE Ellen: Linda Broughton TUE Jeremy (Policeman): Stephen Critchlow TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE Producer: Catherine Bailey TUE Writer: Michael Chaplin TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03hvr33 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Manchester TUE TUE Jay Rayner chairs this edition of Radio 4's culinary panel TUE programme from Manchester. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b03hvr35 (Listen) TUE Series 3, David Crosby (the B-side) TUE TUE Programme 2, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "If TUE I Could Only Remember My Name", his 1971 album (in the TUE A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 18th November TUE and available online), David Crosby responds to questions TUE from the audience and performs live versions of some the TUE tracks from that debut solo album and from his as yet TUE unreleased solo album, "Croz" TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Spin the Globe b03hvx6p (Listen) TUE 1066 TUE TUE Michael Scott continues his new series which takes famous TUE dates in British History and finds out what was happening at TUE the same time in other corners of the world. It's an attempt TUE to break out of the modular way in which historic dates are TUE traditionally drummed into children as well as connecting TUE previously diverse events in cultural, political and TUE economic history all over the globe. TUE In programme two, we look at 1066. Complicated family TUE succession politics result in the eventual battle of TUE Hastings - the death of Harold in October and William's TUE coronation in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. TUE Meanwhile, five days later in Spain, a brutual massacre TUE takes place with a clash of Muslim and Jewish politics. TUE TUE Headline news in China is scholar, Sima Guang's eight volume TUE Tongzhi a groundbreaking history of China. Spin the Globe TUE again and we visit the Seljuk empire which is in its TUE ascendancy. 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: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03hvx6r (Listen) TUE Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik TUE TUE Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, and broadcaster TUE Katie Puckrik talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite TUE books. TUE TUE They include the highly-praised A Visit from the Goon Squad TUE by Jennifer Egan, the devastating Watching the Door - TUE Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers and Of Love TUE and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03hvx6t (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hczpg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Your Round b01b8zw3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 TUE TUE Angus Deayton presides over another episode of the show TUE where the format is, there isn't one. Instead, each of the TUE four panellists has brought their own round for the other TUE panellists to play. How will each round play out? And, more TUE importantly, who will be beaten at their own game? TUE TUE The rounds featured this episode are: TUE TUE Alex Horne's "Font, Fighter or Fragrance" in which TUE panellists are given a word and they must guess whether that TUE word refers to a typographical font, the name of a Gladiator TUE from ITV's show "Gladiators" or a "Lynx deodorant" TUE fragrance. TUE TUE Roisin Conaty's "Four Second Pitch" in which panellists have TUE but four seconds to pitch Angus the elements of an idea for TUE a blockbuster film and a new religion. TUE TUE Paul Sinha's "World Record Recall" in which panellists have TUE to fill in the missing details from the description of a TUE real record from the Guinness Book of World Records. TUE TUE And Rufus Hound's "Which Lady Done Say That Thing" in which TUE panellists must guess which audience member said a certain TUE phrase. As the title suggests. TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03hvx6w (Listen) TUE Dan is prepared to talk. Meanwhile Ed is furious. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03hvx6y (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson reviews the controversial Palme D'Or winning TUE film "Blue Is The Warmest Color" TUE TUE Producer: Dymphna Flynn. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03hvql9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Gettysburg b03hvx70 (Listen) TUE On 19th November 1863, Abraham Lincoln stood in a field in TUE Pennsylvania and delivered a short speech to a crowd that TUE could hardly hear a word that he said. Exactly one hundred TUE and fifty years on, James Naughtie tells the story behind TUE what is now seen as possibly the greatest political speech TUE of them all. TUE TUE The Gettysburg Address is a priceless political jewel. It's TUE probably the most famous single speech of the democratic TUE era, which not only distilled an idea of the United States TUE after a bitter civil war but became a touchstone for TUE generations of Americans wrestling with racial division, TUE until a Civil Rights Act was passed exactly a hundred years TUE after the speech was delivered. TUE TUE Two hundred and seventy-two words that thread their way TUE through a century and a half of American history and are a TUE great story in themselves: Lincoln scribbling in the train TUE from Washington... the speech itself that very few people TUE present could actually hear... the slow transmission of the TUE famous phrases across the country... and the eventual TUE adoption of the speech - still read in full by visitors who TUE visit the Lincoln Memorial - as a kind of national TUE statement. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03hvx72 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b03hvx74 (Listen) TUE The first ever edition of All in the Mind was broadcast 25 TUE years ago. In the second of three anniversary programmes TUE Claudia Hammond and guests look back at archive editions of TUE the programme to examine what impact psychology research has TUE had on our lives over the last 25 years. How does TUE evidence-based psychology affect policy decisions? Is TUE psychology just 'proving the obvious' or has it offered TUE insights into ourselves which we could never have guessed? TUE TUE 21:30 The Politics of Architecture b03hvql5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03hczpj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03hvx76 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03hvx78 (Listen) TUE The Lowland, Episode 7 TUE TUE Today: Subhash and Bela return from Calcutta, to shocking TUE news. TUE TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE Reader: Indira Varma TUE Author: Jhumpa Lahiri TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03hvn5x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03hvx95 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03hczqf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03j4xdr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hczqh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hczqk (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hczqm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03hczqp (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j9mhh (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances WED Finn. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03hwbqx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and presented by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2x8 (Listen) WED Marsh Tit 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 Marsh Tit. The marsh tit is WED badly-named. It doesn't live in marshes, and is most at home WED in older broad-leaved woodlands. "Oak tit" might be a better WED name. Unlike some other tit species they don't travel far, WED holding and defending their woodland territories throughout WED the winter. WED WED ProducerBrett Westwood,MRS SARAH PITT,Sarah Blunt. WED WED 06:00 Today b03hwbqz (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03hwbr1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03j4y80 (Listen) WED The Screwtape Letters, Episode 3 WED WED In episode three, Screwtape congratulates the junior devil WED on his progress but warns against trying to tempt his WED patient to commit some spectacular wickedness, advising "the WED safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, WED soft underfoot, without sudden turning, without milestones, WED without signposts." WED WED Read by Simon Russell Beale WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. WED WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03hwbr3 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03hwbr5 (Listen) WED Love and Mettle, Episode 3 WED WED by Andrea Earl WED WED The comic and touching true story of the writer's own WED extraordinary experience as a mother and wife, risking her WED husband's entire pension on building a house. Mrs T realises WED that she and Dr T have gone into this blindly. She keeps her WED worries about money under wraps; but Dr T is suspicious and WED starts to resent having given her the authority to spend his WED money. WED WED Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED 11:00 Batting for the Middle Kingdom b03hwbr7 (Listen) WED In 2012, 24-year old Jiang Shuyao made sporting history when WED he became the first mainland Chinese cricketer to play for WED an English league side. WED WED Jiang's debut season with Cleethorpes Cricket Club drew WED attention to the rising popularity of the quintessentially WED British sport in the People's Republic of China. WED WED The Chinese Cricket Association has set itself the target of WED achieving Test match status and playing against the likes of WED England, Australia and South Africa by 2020. WED WED A grass roots campaign to get the game taught in schools is WED well underway, and in the city of Shenyang in Liaoning WED province in North Eastern China, the country's top side is WED fast becoming a nurturing ground for the star players of the WED future. WED WED If China were to one day become a cricketing nation, the WED International Cricket Council has estimated that global WED revenues for the game could increase by as much as 40 per WED cent. WED WED Fred Dove has been meeting some of China's finest WED cricketers, and talking to those attempting to make the game WED of W.G.Grace and Donald Bradman part of the Chinese way of WED life. WED WED Producer: Jessie Levene WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Hard to Tell b03hwbr9 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 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 2: WED It's Valentine's Day and Tom is determined to protect his WED relationship from the threat of Ellen's ex-boyfriend. He WED organises a surprise trip and borrows his Dad's old tour WED van. WED WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Luke: Tom Basden WED Gillian: Julia Davis WED Paul: Simon Greenall WED Ashley: Alex MacQueen WED Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine WED Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie WED Hermione: Sarah Solemani WED Tom: Jonny Sweet WED Maeve: Katy Wix WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED Writer: Jonny Sweet WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03hwbrc (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03hczqr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03hwbrf (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 A History of Britain in Numbers b03j4y82 (Listen) WED Health WED WED 3. Health WED Andrew Dilnot explores the history of our health numbers, WED turning statistics into sound to reveal the startling WED changes in what we have come to think of as normal, and WED discovering how the numbers translated into lives through WED the centuries. WED WED Producer: Michael Blastland WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03hvx6w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010m2fg (Listen) WED Ten Lessons in Love WED WED An eclectic mix of writers explores one of the most WED important human emotions. Ten short plays; encompassing WED romance, heart break and some adult themes; each one is a WED very different perspective on love. WED WED David uses 'the machine' to revisit his old memories - he WED wants to pinpoint the exact moment he fell in love. But when WED it malfunctions, it catapults us into the stories of a WED variety people, all of whom are attempting to make sense of WED love. WED WED Lesson 1: You never know when you're going to fall in love WED By Nick Warburton WED David ... Sean Baker WED Young David ... Nyasha Hatendi WED Young Eleanor ... Alex Tregear WED WED Lesson 2: More often than not, your dream date will be a WED nightmare WED By Bola Agbaje WED Laide ... Zawe Ashton WED Femi ... Femi Oyeniran WED WED Lesson 3: Beware of skeletons in the closet WED Written and performed by Josie Long WED WED Lesson 4: Remain interested; don't yawn at least WED By Tim Key WED Derek Monet ... Tim Key WED Marie ... Alex Tregear WED Waiter ... Stuart McLoughlin WED WED Lesson 5: When your heart freezes it's time to leave the WED building WED By Rebecca Lenkiewicz WED Jeanie ... Sally Orrock WED Ken ... Daniel Rabin WED WED Lesson 6: Love is fickle WED Written and performed by Josie Long WED WED Lesson 7: Being alone doesn't have to mean being lonely WED By Nick Payne WED Jim ... Stuart McLoughlin WED Sarah ... Alex Tregear WED WED Lesson 8: Love's worth fighting for WED The real-life story of Dane and Lenka WED Produced by Rich Ward WED WED Lesson 9: Love can't be pinned down WED Written and performed by Josie Long WED WED Lesson 10: Ignore all previous lessons WED David ... Sean Baker WED Eleanor ... Jane Whittenshaw WED Young David ... Nyasha Hatendi WED Young Eleanor ... Alex Tregear WED Clive ... Stuart Mcloughlin WED WED Directed by James Robinson. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03hwbrh (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Looking for the top cash savings rate or a better investment WED return? To ask the Money Box investment team for their view, WED call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Have you checked your savings interest rate recently? WED Whether you're looking for an easy access account, a cash WED ISA or you're prepared to lock your money away for a while, WED we'll have the best rates. WED WED Perhaps you want to ask about riskier stock market WED investments? Should you consider a Stocks and Shares ISA? WED WED How do Unit Trusts and Open-Ended Investment Companies WED (OEICs) work and how much will you pay in charges? WED WED What should you consider if you want to be a DIY investor? WED WED Maybe you have a question about investment jargon? WED WED Whatever you need to know, presenter Ruth Alexander will be WED joined by: WED WED Justin Modray, Director, Candid Financial Advice. WED Louise Oliver, Partner, Taylor Oliver Chartered Financial WED Planners. WED Ben Yearsley, Head of Investment Research, Charles Stanley WED Direct. 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 b03hvx74 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03hwbrk (Listen) WED The Poppy; Traveller Children in Schools WED WED The Poppy - a cultural history. Laurie Taylor talks to WED renowned archaeologist and anthropologist, Nicholas WED Saunders, about his account of the origins, history and many WED meanings of the Remembrance Day Poppy. From ancient Egypt to WED Flanders Field to Afghanistan. How did a humble flower of WED the field become a worldwide icon? They're joined by WED Professor of History, Joanna Bourke. Also, Reader in WED Education, Kalwant Bhopal, discusses her research into the WED experience of traveller children in schools. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03hwbrm (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 b03hwbrp (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hczqt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03hwbrr (Listen) WED Out of Our Tree WED WED Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the WED Wrigglesworth Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a WED loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company. 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 David Reed ... Henry 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 b03hwbrt (Listen) WED It's a significant day for Brian, and he is trying to keep a WED big secret. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03hwbrw (Listen) WED As the City of Culture for 2017 is revealed, Mark Lawson WED talks to the successful bid team and the judges. WED WED Producer: Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03hwbr5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03hwbry (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Claire Fox and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03hwbs0 (Listen) WED Series 4, Ambivalence: For and Against WED WED Mark O'Connell argues that in an age of strong opinions, we WED should embrace ambivalence. WED WED As a child, Mark's constitutional ambiguity meant his mother WED considered printing the phrase 'I might and I mightn't' on a WED t-shirt. Today, Mark's job as a writer for Slate magazine is WED to take strong positions. In this fascinating look at the WED role of ambiguity in our society, he attempts to square the WED circle - or should that be circle the square - in his WED determination to have the courage of his own ambivalence. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b03hwbs2 (Listen) WED The Power of the Unconscious WED WED We like to think that we are in control of our lives, of WED what we do, think and feel. But, as Geoff Watts discovers, WED scientists are now revealing that this is just an illusion. WED WED A simple magic trick reveals just how limited our conscious WED awareness of the world is, and how easy it is to fool us. WED WED So if our conscious brain can cope with so little, what is WED responsible for the rest? Science is starting to reveal the WED crucial role of a silent partner inside our heads, that we WED are completely unaware of - our unconscious. WED WED In this programme, Geoff enlists the help of not just brain WED scientists, but a conjuror and a musician to reveal the WED pivotal role the unconscious plays in pretty much everything WED we do, think and feel. This new-found knowledge is enabling WED scientists to harness its powers for both medical and WED military benefit. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03hwbr1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03hczqw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03hwbs4 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03hwbs6 (Listen) WED The Lowland, Episode 8 WED WED Today: Bela returns home with shocking news, and Subhash WED musters the courage to tell her what she deserves to know. WED WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Author: Jhumpa Lahiri WED WED 23:00 Before They Were Famous b03hwd2h (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 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 Presenter: Ian Leslie WED JK Rowling: Abigail Burdess WED Wayne Tibley Bell: Mark Evans WED Dan Brown: Simon Kane WED William Burroughs: Simon Kane WED Sylvia Plath: Katy Wix WED Germaine Greer: Katy Wix WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:15 Irish Micks and Legends b01nxw2q (Listen) WED Children of Lir 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 Children of Lir. WED WED Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram WED Producer: Raymond Lau. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03hwftd (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03hczrq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03j4y80 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hczrs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hczrv (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hczrx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03hczrz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j9mr5 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances THU Finn. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03hwhcz (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 b03dx6nq (Listen) THU Willow Tit 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 Willow Tit. Willow Tits are THU declining rapidly in many areas: they are very similar to THU marsh tits, so alike in fact that no-one realised that they THU existed here until 1897 and their identity as a breeding THU bird in the UK was confirmed three years later. THU THU 06:00 Today b03hwn07 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03hwn09 (Listen) THU Pocahontas THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Pocohontas, THU the Native American woman who to English eyes became a THU symbol of the New World. During the English colonisation of THU Virginia in the first years of the seventeenth century, THU Pocahontas famously saved the life of an English prisoner. THU Later captured by the English, she married a settler and THU travelled to England where she was regarded as a curiosity. THU She died in 1617 at the age of 22 and was buried in THU Gravesend; her story has fascinated generations on both THU sides of the Atlantic. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03j593b (Listen) THU The Screwtape Letters, Episode 4 THU THU Today, the senior devil demands information from his THU protégé: "My dear Wormwood, I haven't yet got a report from THU you on young women in the neighbourhood. I should like it at THU once". His advice is that, if the junior devil can't tempt THU his patient to be unchaste, at least he might tempt him to THU fall in love with a woman with whom he would have an unhappy THU marriage, "if 'falling in love', is the best we can manage". THU THU Read by Simon Russell Beale THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03hwn0c (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03hwn0f (Listen) THU Love and Mettle, Episode 4 THU THU by Andrea Earl THU THU The true story of the writer's own experience of building a THU house. Mrs T has a virtual meltdown when it becomes apparent THU that they have been working off the wrong plans and don't THU have Planning Permission for the house they have already THU built. And secondly because Mrs T, wrongly thinking the THU spending was almost over, learns that there is at least THU another 50k to spend. THU THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03hwn0h (Listen) THU Moldova - Sour Grapes THU THU Wine making in Moldova is a source of national pride - they THU have been growing vines for centuries. During Soviet times THU the country was encouraged to become one of the USSR's major THU wine suppliers and it has remained so ever since. But THU recently Russia banned the importation of Moldovan wine for THU the second time in a decade. THU THU Tessa Dunlop visits the prestigious Cricova winery - whose THU cellars have 120km of underground roads and holds bottles THU for the likes of Angela Merkel and President Putin - to see THU how the ban is affecting the poorest country in Europe. THU THU Moldova fears that a continuing embargo will devastate its THU fragile economy. The Moldovan president has condemned it as THU an aggressive move by Russia to bully Moldova into THU reconsidering its comittment to forging closer relations THU with the European Union. Many Moldovans believe Russia wants THU to make their country reconsider ratifying an agreement with THU the EU at the end of November. THU THU The result is that growers have vats maturing wine that may THU have no market. Enterprising younger wine producers, many of THU whom bought out former state enterprises, fear their THU investment may have been a mistake. Workers are concerned THU they may lose their jobs with little chance of alternative THU employment in the poorest country in Europe. THU THU For Moldova this is symbolic of a bigger problem - it wants THU to join the EU party and become part of Europe but its THU economy remains heavily dependent on Russia for gas and THU cash. Meanwhile the 14th Russian army is based just miles THU from their capital in the disputed territory of THU Transnistria. THU THU Producer: Jane Beresford. THU THU 11:30 The Songs of Molly Drake b03hwn0k (Listen) THU Pete Paphides tells the story behind the privately recorded THU songs of Molly Drake, mother of cult singer Nick Drake, and THU how those songs influenced her famous son who ended his own THU life in 1974 at the age of 30. Nick's sister Gabrielle Drake THU talks extensively about her mother's music and poetry and THU their connection with Nick's life and work. THU THU When Nick Drake's producer and mentor Joe Boyd heard the THU songs, he was moved to declare that, "This is the missing THU link in the Nick Drake story". Tracey Thorn of Everything THU But The Girl is also a fan of the songs of Molly and has THU recorded two covers of the songs specially for this THU programme. THU THU During the course of the interview, Gabrielle revealed that THU Molly Drake wrote several songs about Nick when he was a THU child, including The Bath Song which she quotes in the THU programme. Molly also penned Poor Mum in response to Nick's THU Poor Boy - though it is unlikely that Nick ever heard this THU song. THU THU Molly's is a voice rarely heard - the songs reflect her life THU but also chart the life of a suburban middle class mother THU and a lost era when people 'got on with it'. They are THU hauntingly evocative and Nick's melancholy is also to be THU heard in Molly's songs. THU THU Up until recently, it was not known that Nick's mother also THU wrote songs at the piano. She recorded them for private use THU only and, for many years, Gabrielle looked after the THU material. In 2004 Gabrielle put two of the songs on a THU posthumous Nick Drake rarities album, which got some THU attention from artists like Tracey Thorn, but some of the THU other songs have only recently been released. THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03hwn0m (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03hczs1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03hwn0p (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 A History of Britain in Numbers b03j53lh (Listen) THU Stuff THU THU 4. Stuff THU Andrew Dilnot's history of the big trends in history in THU numbers continues with the story of stuff - the things we THU consume, from light to concrete - packed with revealing THU statistics and stories of the way stuff changed our lives. THU THU Producer: Michael Blastland THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03hwbrt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03hwn0r (Listen) THU Pilgrim, Lyall Park THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. THU THU Episode 1: Lyall Park THU THU The immortal wanderer William Palmer - Pilgrim - comes to THU Lyall Park where he uncovers an astonishing and disturbing THU family secret. THU THU Sound ..... Colin Guthrie THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby THU THU A fifth series of four dark adventures. Pilgrim, cursed with THU immortality by the King of the Greyfolk, is forever forced THU to walk between the human world and the world of Faerie in a THU never-ending quest to preserve the uneasy balance between THU the two. In this series, Pilgrim finds himself in pursuit of THU the mysterious Radiant Boy. On the way he encounters a THU ballroom filled with un-dead dancers, a cursed village, a THU woman in love with a man with a fox's tail and a medium who THU takes him across the line between life and death... THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Kenny: Sean Murray THU Harry: Michael Bertenshaw THU Colville: Annette Badland THU Bryony: Carolyn Pickles THU Lavinia: Priyanga Burford THU Threadgold: James Lailey THU Cashier: Georgie Fuller THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03hwn0t (Listen) THU The Birds of Lindisfarne THU THU The Holy Island of Lindisfarne is probably best known for THU its medieval religious heritage and in the summer months THU pilgrims from all walks of life flock to the island and THU swell its community of 160 to over 650,000. But in the THU winter it's the birds that flock here, taking refuge on this THU holy land during their winter migration. Helen Mark arrives THU on Holy Island just as the birds do and learns about their THU unique relationship with this island. THU THU Bird Historian, Ian Kerr has been visiting the island for THU more than 30 years and knows of 318 species that have been THU recorded. He also knows the long and complex relationship THU the birds have with this landscape and the generations of THU islanders. Legend has it that St Cuthbert laid down rules THU for the protection of nesting Eiders, making him Britain's THU first conservationists - whilst in later centuries, THU islanders recruited Goldcrests to clear their cottages of THU spiders and flies. THU THU Andrew Craggs has been the senior ranger at Lindisfarne THU National Nature Reserve for over 10 years and annually THU welcomes over half the world's population of pale bellied THU Brent Geese. They are attracted to the mudflats and the THU special grasses that grow there. Whilst the birds come for THU the special habitats that the island provides, they bring THU with them many gifts. For Rev David Peel, a Methodist THU minister and long-time birder they are a reflection of God's THU beauty and design, offering moments of transcendence. For THU award winning Northumberland based writer Ann Cleeve , THU author of ITV's Drama Series 'Vera', the birds are an THU integral part of building a landscape and creating an THU atmosphere.Holy Island - a place that she first visited with THU her RSPB employed, bird watching husband before they married THU - is full of this rich bird life and atmosphere. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03hmngv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03hn1m5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03hwrxf (Listen) THU The Family; Blue Is the Warmest Colour; The Hunger Games THU THU The latest news from the world of film. Robert De Niro and THU Michelle Pfeiffer on The Family; Abdellatif Kechiche on Blue THU Is the Warmest Colour; Stanley Tucci on The Hunger Games. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03hwrxh (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 b03hwrxk (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hczs3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b01qdxwn (Listen) THU Series 8, The Parent Trap THU THU Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all THU the right jargon but never a practical solution. THU THU A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering THU in other people's lives on both a professional and personal THU basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and THU heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of THU discomfort to her. THU THU Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control THU both her professional and private life THU THU In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out THU there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. THU THU In 'The Parent Trap' Clare is relishing the role of acting THU Team Leader at the Family Centre but at home she's not THU relishing a visit from Brian's mother. THU THU Episode 6 - The Parent Trap 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 Hazel: Hannah Gordon THU Joan: Sarah Thom THU Laura: Sarah Thom THU Joe: Adam Nagaitis THU Mike: Adam Nagaitis THU Paul: Paul Stonehouse THU Frank: Paul Stonehouse THU Girl: Stephanie Racine THU Writer: Harry Venning THU Writer: David Ramsden THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03hwrxm (Listen) THU Lynda shakes things up, and Eddie wants to celebrate in THU style. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03hwrxp (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang presents the daily magazine programme on the THU worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music THU THU Producer: Ellie Bury. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03hwn0f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03hwrxr (Listen) THU Energy Prices - The Truth THU THU Hannah Barnes asks where the money from your energy bills THU goes. Do the energy companies have anything to hide, and are THU customers are being ripped off? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03hwrxt (Listen) THU Design THU THU Decorating your home is big business - in the UK and around THU the world. In China and India the home decor market is THU evolving fast - but will the result be a global homogenous THU style? Who sets the trends? And what do you do if your THU products lose their fashionable edge? Evan Davis and guests THU discuss the volatile world of design. THU THU Guests: THU Kelly Hoppen, founder Kelly Hoppen Interiors THU Andrew Graham, CEO Graham and Brown THU Lois Jacobs, Global CEO Fitch THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03hwrxh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03hwn09 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03hczs5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03hwydj (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03hwydl (Listen) THU The Lowland, Episode 9 THU THU Today: Gauri is forced to confront her past after an THU unexpected letter from Subhash. THU THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Author: Jhumpa Lahiri THU THU 23:00 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies b03dv5n2 (Listen) THU The Internet 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 second episode, Andrew will tackle the internet. THU Whether it's online pornography twisting our children's THU minds or GCHQ reading our emails, it seems only right to THU have a healthy distrust of the internet. But surely, to THU paraphrase a former Prime Minister, there's no such thing as THU the Internet - there are men, and women, and lolcats. What THU is it about the internet that makes people on it so scary? 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 Written and performed by ..... Andrew Maxwell THU Script edited by ..... Paul Byrne THU Produced by ..... Ed Morrish. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03hwydn (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03hczt2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03j593b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hczt4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hczt6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hczt8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03hcztb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03j9mrc (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Frances FRI Finn. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03hxjqz (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx6vq (Listen) FRI Hawfinch 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 Hawfinch. The Hawfinch is a FRI large thickset finch with a massive bill. It uses this to FRI crack open hawthorn and cherry stones as well as hornbeam FRI seeds to get at the soft kernels inside. In doing so, it FRI exerts a force of around 180 pounds per square inch. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03hxjr1 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03hmntl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03j5czk (Listen) FRI The Screwtape Letters, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode, Screwtape begins to lose faith in his FRI protégé's progress: "Do you not realise that the patient's FRI death, at this moment, is precisely what we want to avoid FRI ... he will almost certainly be lost to us if he is killed FRI tonight". FRI FRI Read by Simon Russell Beale FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. FRI FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03hxjr3 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03hxjr5 (Listen) FRI Love and Mettle, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Andrea Earl FRI FRI The true story of the writer's experience of building a FRI house. A few weeks away from Xmas, and Dr. T. has collapsed FRI and is in hospital. The house is nearly complete but Mrs T. FRI doesn't care - she just wants her husband to be okay. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 11:00 Forever Young b03hxjr7 (Listen) FRI Love and Marriage FRI FRI What does it mean, in 21st Century Britain, to be an adult? FRI In this series of 'documentary pop songs' we examine the FRI shifting borders of adulthood in sexual, social and FRI financial relations. FRI FRI Personal relationships have always been central to the way FRI young people define themselves - as child, girlfriend or FRI boyfriend, fiance, spouse, or parent. But with changing FRI approaches to sex education, a transformation in our FRI understanding of sexuality and shifting attitudes towards FRI the institutions that support personal choices, it's no FRI longer appropriate to assume any inevitability about FRI settling down with a life-partner and starting a family. FRI FRI We hear from teenagers about how their education in sexual FRI and personal relations is drawn from the internet and the FRI playground as much as from the classroom, we gather the FRI experiences of young parents, and we compare the attitudes FRI of twin sisters Nuala and Niamh - one in a relationship', FRI one 'very single', one straight, one gay. FRI FRI For each episode of Forever Young, we've commissioned a new FRI song on each of the three themes. The Love and Marriage song FRI is written and performed by husband and wife pop duo Summer FRI Camp. FRI FRI Produced by Eleanor McDowall with Hana Walker-Brown. FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b03hxjr9 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 6 FRI FRI Tom's girlfriend Poppy has left him for Stevie - once a FRI friendless snotball but now fit and much-fancied - but Tom FRI is channelling Einstein to get his girl back, because Albert FRI proved that linear time is a delusion and that everything FRI that happens is still happening. And if that's true, Tom has FRI no reason to move on. FRI FRI So Tom is keeping early morning vigil outside Poppy's house FRI holding up placards relating to quantum theory. His parents, FRI Mimi and Joe, are worried. Is their son a little genius with FRI a post-Newtonian grasp on the nature of time or a nutjob? FRI FRI On different days, Tom pretends to be different ages to FRI escape the tyranny of time - it's all part of his quantum FRI theory girlfriend retrieval strategy. As Lucy's boyfriend FRI Chris says, Tom is not clever in any way that helps. FRI Meanwhile Chris is causing Lucy problems. He says he FRI empathizes with Tom because he knows the trauma of a broken FRI heart. He tells her he once wrote heartbroken love songs to FRI his ex-girlfriend Erica - the very same Erica that is FRI currently rehearsing Titania to his Bottom. Lucy feels FRI romantically demoted and asks her mother what she should do. FRI Mimi advises doing nothing but Lucy figures Tom did nothing FRI about Poppy's roving eye and now her brother is riding on FRI his mind rocket to quantum town. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Joe...................Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi.................Sarah Alexander FRI Tom..................Finlay Christie FRI Lucy.................Phoebe Abbott FRI Chris and Older Tom........Daniel Boyd FRI FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03hxjrc (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03hxjrf (Listen) FRI Lily and Matilda - Best Friends FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who have FRI had some disagreements through primary school and will soon FRI be starting new schools on opposite sides of town, in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03hcztd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03hxjrh (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 A History of Britain in Numbers b03j5czm (Listen) FRI Homes FRI FRI 5. Homes FRI Andrew Dilnot tackles the history of our homes in numbers, FRI looking for the big trends and statistical details over the FRI centuries that might help explain why housing has become a FRI national obsession. Continues next week. FRI FRI Producer: Michael Blastland FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03hwrxm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03hxjrl (Listen) FRI Lewis and Tolkien: The Lost Road FRI FRI Whether you like or loathe elves and talking lions, J. R. R. FRI Tolkien and C. S. Lewis each created compelling fictional FRI worlds whose influence has become global. FRI FRI 22nd November 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the FRI death of C S Lewis, the academic and broadcaster whose FRI prolific publication of literary criticism, novels, FRI Christian apologia and the Narnia books for children brought FRI him an international reputation in his lifetime. Among many FRI other celebrations on this date, a memorial stone to Lewis FRI will be unveiled in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey. FRI FRI By the time of his death in 1973, J R R Tolkien's 'The Lord FRI of The Rings' and 'The Hobbit', (along with other published FRI stories and poems which drew upon the mythology of Middle FRI Earth), had already made him a cult figure around the world. FRI FRI Haydn Gwynne, Tom Goodman-Hill and Pip Torrens star in Robin FRI Brooks' playful tribute to the long friendship between the FRI two men, and the way it shaped their achievements. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Elf Queen: Haydn Gwynne FRI JRR Tolkien: Tom Goodman-Hill FRI CS Lewis: Pip Torrens FRI Worm: Carolyn Pickles FRI Betjeman: Harry Jardine FRI Informator: John Norton FRI Marcus: Arthur Hughes FRI Tiny Elf Princess: Isabel Brooks FRI Writer: Robin Brooks FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03hxjrp (Listen) FRI Shrewsbury FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is joined by Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and FRI Anne Swithinbank as he chairs this edition of GQT from FRI Shrewsbury. 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? b03hxjrs (Listen) FRI The Levels FRI FRI The 22nd November marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of FRI 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 November 1963, in a cottage hospital a pregnant woman FRI anxiously awaits news on her unborn child and her husband's FRI tardy arrival. FRI FRI "The Levels" by Ashley Pharoah FRI Read by Natascha McElhone and Hugo Speer FRI Produced by Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03hxkk7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03hxkk9 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03hxkkc (Listen) FRI Abbe, Lesley and Mark - Skin Deep FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about cross-cultural FRI adoption as experienced by one family in the 1970s, and the FRI positive impact on their lives that continues today, in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03hxkkf (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hcztg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03hxkkh (Listen) FRI Series 82, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with panellists Rebecca Front and Phill Jupitus. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03hxkkk (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Editor ..... Julie Beckett FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael 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 Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Patrick Hennessy ..... Oliver Le Sueur. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03hxlg8 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang talks to performance poet Kate Tempest. FRI FRI Producer: Jerome Weatherald FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03hxjr5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03hxlgb (Listen) FRI Lord Finkelstein, Steve Webb MP, George Monbiot FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Godolphin School Salisbury, Wiltshire, with the FRI environmentalist George Monbiot, Conservative Peer, Lord FRI Finkelstein, and Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03hxlgd (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Britain in Numbers b03hxlgg (Listen) FRI A History of Britain in Numbers: Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells FRI the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, FRI through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale. FRI FRI He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in FRI history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape FRI of the population - the balance between adults and children, FRI for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our FRI lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks FRI answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us FRI now, such as how badly austerity has bitten or the paradox FRI of why no-one seems able to afford a house but so many FRI people own one. And he tells these stories not just with FRI data, but through people and the real experiences that bring FRI the numbers to life. FRI FRI In the search for data to measure how we've changed, the FRI programme counts rotten teeth and adds up what people ate, FRI what they own and throw away. What did we earn through the FRI centuries, how do we know, and what could we do with it? FRI What was our health like, or our homes, our jobs or FRI education? What was the status and experience of women? And FRI how has it all changed? FRI FRI This is all presented with innovative radio techniques to FRI capture data in sound - for example, new ways of creating FRI graphs for the senses so that we can not just know, but FRI feel, the changes. FRI FRI Producer: Michael Blastland FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03hcztj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03hxlgj (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03hxlgl (Listen) FRI The Lowland, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's final episode: after decades apart, mother and FRI daughter finally meet. FRI FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Author: Jhumpa Lahiri FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03hvx6r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03hxlnk (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03hxlnm (Listen) FRI Jamie and Valerie - First Among Equals FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about vulnerability and FRI honesty between a male midwife and his wife, who is not FRI entirely comfortable with the job her husband does, proving FRI again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
15 November, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 16/11/2013 - 22/11/2013
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