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SAT SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03hwyhc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03j5czk (Listen) SAT The Screwtape Letters, Episode 5 SAT SAT This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of C.S. Lewis's SAT death, and a memorial stone to the author is due to be SAT unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. SAT SAT Book of the Week marks the occasion with a reading of his SAT famous letters from a senior to a junior devil. SAT SAT In the final episode, Screwtape begins to lose faith in his SAT protégé's progress: "Do you not realise that the patient's SAT death, at this moment, is precisely what we want to avoid SAT ... he will almost certainly be lost to us if he is killed SAT tonight". SAT SAT Read by Simon Russell Beale SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. SAT SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hwyhf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hwyhh (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hwyhk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03hwyhm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03hxm7y (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Steve Williams. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03hxm80 (Listen) SAT 'I gave my son half my liver' - a listener tells iPM how she SAT saved her five year-old son by donating her liver when his SAT own 'suddenly gave up after five hard years of struggling'. SAT Your News is read by BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03hwyhp (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03hwyht (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03hwn0t (Listen) SAT The Birds of Lindisfarne SAT SAT The Holy Island of Lindisfarne is probably best known for SAT its medieval religious heritage and in the summer months SAT pilgrims from all walks of life flock to the island and SAT swell its community of 160 to over 650,000. But in the SAT winter it's the birds that flock here, taking refuge on this SAT holy land during their winter migration. Helen Mark arrives SAT on Holy Island just as the birds do and learns about their SAT unique relationship with this island. SAT SAT Bird Historian, Ian Kerr has been visiting the island for SAT more than 30 years and knows of 318 species that have been SAT recorded. He also knows the long and complex relationship SAT the birds have with this landscape and the generations of SAT islanders. Legend has it that St Cuthbert laid down rules SAT for the protection of nesting Eiders, making him Britain's SAT first conservationists - whilst in later centuries, SAT islanders recruited Goldcrests to clear their cottages of SAT spiders and flies. SAT SAT Laura Scott is a ranger at the Lindisfarne National Nature SAT Reserve which annually welcomes over half the world's SAT population of pale bellied Brent Geese. They are attracted SAT to the mudflats and the special grasses that grow there. SAT Whilst the birds come for the special habitats that the SAT island provides, they bring with them many gifts. For Rev SAT David Peel, a United Reformed Church Minister and long-time SAT birder, they are a reflection of God's beauty and design, SAT offering moments of transcendence. For award winning SAT Northumberland based writer Ann Cleeves, author of ITV's SAT Drama Series 'Vera' and BBC's 'Shetland' series, the birds SAT are an integral part of building a landscape and creating an SAT atmosphere and Holy Island - a place that she first visited SAT with her retired RSPB warden and keen birder husband Tim - SAT is full of this rich bird life and atmosphere. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03j621b (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 Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03hwyhw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03j621d (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03j63jb (Listen) SAT Camila Batmanghelidjh, Joan Collins, Luke Wright, Charlie SAT Higson, John McCarthy SAT SAT Richard Coles and Anita Anand with Kids Company Founder SAT Camila Batmanghelidjh, The Inheritance Tracks of Charlie SAT Higson, JP Devlin waxing lyrical with actress Joan Collins, SAT the willowy sound of a cricket bat being fashioned, Ben SAT Markus who was given, maybe, 12 months to live in January SAT 2012 on finding love and the strength to KBO ( keep battling SAT on ), topical poetry from Luke Wright and John McCarthy is SAT joined by London writer Travis Elborough on a trail through SAT the capital to see the sites of sights you can't see any SAT more. They don't see the Euston Arch, old London Bridge, SAT Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens or Battersea Park Funfair. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Football's Loyal Fans b03j63jd (Listen) SAT The comedian Ian Stone asks what makes a football fan travel SAT the length and breadth of the country on a wet and windy SAT winter's evening to watch their team play and possibly lose. SAT SAT It's bad enough when you know you'll witness some decent SAT football but when the quality of the game is even in SAT question, why do hordes of fanatics follow their club over SAT great distances for what can only end in disappointment and SAT a long journey home. Add to the equation the prospect of a SAT motorway services meal or a shocking burger at the ground SAT and you have a recipe for misery. SAT SAT Stand-up comedian and lifelong Arsenal fan Ian Stone joins a SAT coach load of Wolverhampton Wanderers fans as they travel on SAT one of their longest away-match journeys: to Carlisle SAT United. En route he meets fans from Brighton, former players SAT and academics as they try and uncover what's at the heart of SAT football's loyal fans. SAT SAT Presenter: Ian Stone SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03j63jg (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT The scandal surrounding the Co-op bank has raised questions SAT about the banking industry's ability to get its house in SAT order. Andrew Tyrie, chair of the cross party Banking SAT Commission and the Treasury Select Committee is sure it will SAT be happen, but Geoffrey Robinson a former Labour Treasury SAT Minister regrets the issue becoming politicised. SAT SAT 50 years ago this week John F Kennedy was assassinated. and SAT the fascination with American politics remains. Lord Wood an SAT adviser to Ed Miliband and Lord Finklestein a Conservative SAT peer, on what can be learnt from the American way of SAT politics. SAT SAT Plus the fairest way to tax people and a particularly rowdy SAT session of Prime Ministers Questions. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03j63jj (Listen) SAT Heroes of Baghdad SAT SAT Reporters' despatches: already this year more than seven SAT thousand people have been killed in the upsurge of violence SAT in Iraq. Andrew Hosken explores a country full of widows, SAT orphans and frightened people mourning the loss of loved SAT ones. In America, two significant anniversaries - Allan SAT Little has been to the locations involved, Gettysburg and SAT Dallas, and uncovers surprising revelations about the state SAT of the USA today. The president of Bulgaria's talking of SAT 'emergency' as demonstrations against the government show no SAT sign of letting up - Emma Jane Kirby has been talking to the SAT protestors in the capital, Sofia. Peter Day visits a Chinese SAT village where they haven't yet turned their backs on the SAT 'Great Helmsman' Mao tse Tung. And as the big Thanksgiving SAT Day American football matches approach, Mike Wendling SAT reflects on a sport facing difficult questions about the SAT safety of its players. SAT SAT The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03j63jl (Listen) SAT Car hire complaints; Roaming charges; Teenage bankers SAT SAT Where's my deposit? The car hire customers who feel let down SAT by the authorities who are meant to protect them. What can SAT you do when a car hire firm keeps your deposit? SAT SAT Why using a smart phone on a ferry between Northern Ireland SAT and Scotland could land you with a bill for international SAT roaming charges. We speak to a mobile roaming expert about SAT how you can challenge these mystery bills. SAT SAT The insurance industry gets access to DVLA records to check SAT that customers applying for motor insurance have not lied SAT about motoring offences. What exactly will be disclosed and SAT what impact will this have on our premiums? SAT SAT And Europe's first online banking service run by teenagers SAT for teenagers opens at a school in South London. Ben Carter SAT meets the student bankers and customers. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03hxkkh (Listen) SAT Series 82, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with panellists Rebecca Front and Phill Jupitus. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Michell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03hwyhy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03hwyj0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03hxlgb (Listen) SAT Sarah Wollaston MP, Chris Bryant MP, Steve Webb MP, George SAT Monbiot SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Godolphin School Salisbury, Wiltshire, with the SAT environmentalist George Monbiot, Conservative backbencher SAT Sarah Wollaston MP, Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform Chris SAT Bryant MP and Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03j63jn (Listen) SAT Any Questions panel: SAT Minister of State for Pensions, Steve Webb; SAT Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform, Chris Bryant; SAT MP for Totnes, Sarah Wollaston; SAT and Environmental Campaigner, George Monbiot. SAT SAT Have your say on any of the subjects discussed on Any SAT Answers just after the news at 2pm on Saturday. SAT SAT Our phone number is 03700 100 444 from 1230. Or e-mail SAT anyanswers@bbc.co.uk, tweet using the hashtag BBCAQ, text SAT 84844. SAT SAT The presenter is Julian Worricker. The producer is Alex SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03j63jq (Listen) SAT Solomon and Marion SAT SAT Marion lives alone in her silent and isolated rural home in SAT South Africa. She knows she is being watched so Solomon's SAT arrival isn't a surprise but the reason for his visit is SAT unclear. They form an unlikely friendship which bridges the SAT generational and racial gaps between them but when the truth SAT finally emerges it threatens to engulf them both. Written by SAT Lara Foot, the play is followed by a short talk by Janet SAT Suzman. SAT SAT Composer Brydon Bolton SAT Sound Nigel Lewis SAT Director Alison Hindell SAT SAT SOLOMON AND MARION was written and originally directed by SAT Lara Foot for the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town in SAT 2011. It was restaged at the Assembly Hall as part of this SAT year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play was, in part, SAT inspired by the senseless murder of actor Brett Goldin in SAT Cape Town in 2006. At the time, Brett was rehearsing the SAT Baxter Theatre Centre production of Hamlet, directed by SAT Janet Suzman, and the title role of Marion in this play was SAT written for Janet. Janet's most recent credit for Radio 4 SAT was in Life and Fate. SAT SAT Credits SAT Marion: Janet Suzman SAT Solomon: Khayalethu Anthony SAT Witness: Lara Foot SAT Director: Alison Hindell SAT SAT 15:45 Witness b03jv4x1 (Listen) SAT Death in the Boxing Ring SAT SAT In November 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain SAT damage after a world title fight against the American Ray SAT Mancini. Kim fell into a coma after being repeatedly knocked SAT down in the 14th round. His death led to a series of reforms SAT in boxing. Ray Mancini shares his memories of the fight and SAT its aftermath. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03j64xv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: David Cameron; Women Bishops SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03j64xx (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03hwrxt (Listen) SAT Design SAT SAT Decorating your home is big business - in the UK and around SAT the world. In China and India the home decor market is SAT evolving fast - but will the result be a global homogenous SAT style? Who sets the trends? And what do you do if your SAT products lose their fashionable edge? Evan Davis and guests SAT discuss the volatile world of design. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Kelly Hoppen, founder Kelly Hoppen Interiors SAT Andrew Graham, CEO Graham and Brown SAT Lois Jacobs, Global CEO Fitch SAT SAT Producer: Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03hwyj2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03hwyj4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hwyj6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03j64xz (Listen) SAT Michael Grade, Bill Bailey, Colman Domingo, Josie Long, SAT Nikki Bedi, Local Natives, Chloe Charles SAT SAT Clive tunes in to TV exec Michael Grade, who's been hooked SAT on musicals since he saw 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a boy in SAT the 50s. One question has always fascinated him: does the SAT musical create the star or is it the star who makes the SAT musical? Michael interviews stars and directors both sides SAT of the Atlantic. 'Michael Grade On Musicals' is on Wednesday SAT 11th December at 21.00 on BBC Four. SAT SAT Clive gets adventurous with Josie Long, who's made two SAT comedy films with director Doug King. In 'Let's Go SAT Swimming', Josie leaves London life for a better one in SAT Glasgow. But sitting in cafes and going to gigs alone isn't SAT as fulfilling as she'd hoped. And in 'Romance and Adventure' SAT best friends Darren and Josie wonder why their friends are SAT becoming old and boring. But how much can you rely on SAT friends who don't want to grow up? 'Doug & Josie: The Let's SAT Go Adventure Tour' is at selected cinemas until 2nd SAT December. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi talks to actor Colman Domingo, who's starring in SAT 'The Scottsboro Boys'. It's 1931 and nine black teenagers SAT board a train in Scottsboro, Alabama, in search of a new SAT life. By the end of the journey, their lives - and those of SAT every American would be changed forever. 'The Scottsboro SAT Boys' is at London's Young Vic until Saturday 21st December. SAT SAT Clive's does Das Hokey Kokey with comedian, musician and SAT Part Troll Bill Bailey, whose world doubts have grown into SAT qualms. In his new show, Bill channels his feelings of SAT unease through religious dubstep, folk bouzouki, horntallica SAT and a dub version of Downton Abbey. 'Qualmpeddler' is at SAT London's Wembley Arena on 29th November and on DVD now. SAT SAT Music: Canadian Chloe Charles performs 'Business' from her SAT album 'Break The Balance' and Local Natives perform SAT 'Ceilings' from album Hummingbird. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03j64y1 (Listen) SAT Bill de Blasio SAT SAT Bill de Blasio, sometime supporter of the Sandinista SAT revolution in Nicaragua, will soon take over as mayor of New SAT York. He's overcome the suicide of his war veteran father, SAT created the most famous multiracial family in the US and now SAT has to persuade Wall Street to fund his radical plans to SAT overcome inequality in the Big Apple. Ed Miliband is said to SAT be watching carefully. Mark Coles profiles a politician SAT attracting global attention. SAT SAT Producers: Ben Crighton, Chris Bowlby SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03j64y3 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01hw44y (Listen) SAT A History of the Stiff Upper Lip SAT SAT Emotion is no longer private. Whether a marital collapse on SAT reality TV or real-time twitter updates on the progress of SAT an abortion, emotions are hung out there for all to witness. SAT Whatever element of self-restraint may exist in our cultural SAT DNA, it's increasingly under siege. SAT SAT We've come a long way from when the ruling classes saw SAT reticence and fair play as virtues uniquely their own and SAT lamented 'the emotionally-uncontrolled and latently-violent SAT working class'; when English public schools were created SAT specifically to educate boys into showing submission, SAT courtesy and devotion to their superiors; and when there SAT lurked a real fear of the working class 'losing control', SAT rebelling, and giving rise to anarchy. SAT SAT Louisa Foxe goes on a journey through the archives - SAT sometimes horrifying or amusing, always revealing and SAT perceptive - and reveals how and why the British attitudes SAT towards the expression of emotion have changed; how the SAT nation has swung in and out of its penchant for repression SAT over 600 years; and how that first Victorian stiff upper SAT lip, far from being entrenched, was actually the product of SAT post-Romantic pragmatism, anxiety about manliness and SAT colonial necessity. SAT SAT Taking their toll on the stiff upper lip, Louisa argues, SAT have been two world wars, the socialist project, the rise of SAT therapy culture, and the demise of the aristocracy's moral SAT influence. SAT SAT The results? Exclusively positive, some would say. But SAT archive from World War One to Princess Diana, and SAT interviewees including Frank Furedi, Ralph Fiennes, David SAT Starkey, Andrew Motion, Peter Hitchens, and Thomas Dixon SAT suggest that results are mixed at best and that we haven't SAT changed as much as we believe. SAT SAT Producer: David Coomes SAT A CTVC Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03hn1m3 (Listen) SAT The Russian Gambler, Episode 1 SAT SAT A brilliant, penniless, pianist gets a job as tutor to the SAT daughter of a wealthy Russian oligarch living in London and SAT is sucked into a world of obsession and chance. SAT SAT A modern-day take on Dostoevsky's The Gambler, by SAT writer/actor Dolya Gavanski, with Ed Stoppard, Matthew Marsh SAT and Graham Seed. SAT SAT The Russian Gambler is Dolya Gavanski's first drama for SAT Radio 4. As an actor she worked with Steve Coogan and SAT Michael Winterbottom on The Trip and with Angelina Jolie in SAT the Bosnian film In the Land of Milk and Honey. Her radio SAT work includes The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, The Bid and UTZ for SAT Radio 4 and Massistonia on Radio 3. SAT SAT Casting: Toby Whale, SAT Script Editor: Mike Walker, SAT Sound Design: Steve Bond. SAT SAT Original music composed by Sacha Puttnam. SAT All music performed by Sacha Puttnam. SAT SAT Directed and Produced by John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Alexei: Ed Stoppard SAT Mikhail: Matthew Marsh SAT Polina: Dolya Gavanski SAT Vika: Isabella Blake Thomas SAT Astley: Graham Seed SAT Francois: Orlando Seale SAT Katie: Lucy May Barker SAT Inokenti: George Lasha SAT Masha: Irina Karatcheva SAT Mullighan: Jay Taylor SAT Office Worker: Alana Ramsey SAT Blake: Timothy Walker SAT Director: John Dryden SAT Producer: John Dryden SAT Writer: Dolya Gavanski SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03hwyj8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03hwbry (Listen) SAT Public v Private Life SAT SAT Even before his assassination 50 years ago this week, John F SAT Kennedy was an iconic figure for many - his administration a SAT "Camelot" for a shining new age. Public opinion polls show SAT that the American people consistently rate Kennedy as one of SAT the greatest leaders in US history. The reality of the man SAT was much darker. In private, he was a drug-taking SAT philanderer with links to the Mafia. But that's exactly how SAT his personal life remained - private. Loyal staff, collusion SAT of the press and no question of leaking the detailed FBI SAT reports on his indiscretions meant the presidential image SAT remained untouched. The contrast with public life today SAT couldn't be more striking. Now we believe that there should SAT be no separation of the public and the private and we have a SAT right to know even the most intimate details of the private SAT lives of politicians and those in positions of trust so that SAT in the "public interest" we can pass judgment on their SAT character. Others argue, they can and should be separated SAT and that our prurience has damaged civil society. Should we SAT always expect our leaders to moral exemplars and free from SAT stain? Or are we all guilty of mass hypocrisy? Demanding SAT moral standards in our leaders that we'd never apply in our SAT own lives, or the lives of our friends? Should we welcome SAT the shining spotlight of transparency as raising the moral SAT standards in public life, or has it made us a much less SAT forgiving and understanding society? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, SAT Claire Fox and Kenan Malik. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b03hvn5j (Listen) SAT (10/12) SAT SAT Making their final appearance in the 2013 season of Round SAT Britain Quiz are the teams from the Midlands and the North SAT of England. Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles take on Jim SAT Coulson and Diana Collecott, with chairman Tom Sutcliffe on SAT hand to steer them through the fiendish questions if they SAT need help. SAT SAT The questions are available to read on the Round Britain SAT Quiz pages of the Radio 4 website. As always there are SAT several listeners' ideas among them. Tom will also be SAT revealing the solution to the question he left unanswered at SAT the end of last week's quiz. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b03hn1m7 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Waste Remains SAT SAT Paul Farley introduces new poems on the old theme of SAT autumnal rot and mulch. New poems from Alice Oswald, Steve SAT Ely, Maurice Riordan, Frances Leviston and a first British SAT listening in on the American poet Robert Wrigley: a master SAT observer of roadkill. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03hzvf1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b011vhdf (Listen) SUN The Boundless Garden, Shipwrecks' Wreckage SUN SUN Mark Williams reads from an anthology of Greek short SUN stories. Three sailors are shipwrecked and their cargo of SUN cheeses lost. But perhaps the sea can return their goods... 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 BBC TV's SUN The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role of Ron SUN Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. SUN SUN Translated by John Raffan SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hzvf3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hzvf5 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hzvf7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03hzvf9 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03j8ksk (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael's Church in Kingsteignton, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03j64y1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03hzvfc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03j8ksm (Listen) SUN Mapping the Territory SUN SUN A lifelong fascination with maps leads Tom Robinson on an SUN unexpected journey into the space between the map and the SUN territory. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b03j8ksp (Listen) SUN Barnacle Geese of Caerlaverock SUN SUN After a long summer spent raising their young in the Arctic, SUN barnacle geese need a safe place in warmer climes to fatten SUN up before the breeding season begins again. Every winter the SUN whole population of Svalbard barnacle geese make their way SUN to one place in the UK; the Solway Firth on the west coast SUN of Scotland. One of the best places to see them is the SUN Wildfowl and Wetland Trust centre at Caerlaverock. Each day SUN the barnacle geese gorge themselves in the fields around the SUN centre. Just before dusk, quiet falls over the feeding SUN birds, signalling it is time to return en masse to roost in SUN the salt flats out of the way of opportunistic predators. SUN Presenter Trai Anfield joins Brian Morrell to find out how SUN their long journey has affected them and witness this SUN incredible spectacle. SUN SUN Produced by Ellie Sans. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03hzvff (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03hzvfh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03j8ksr (Listen) SUN St Peter's bones; Father Alec Reid; Slavery SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03j8kst (Listen) SUN Arrhythmia Alliance SUN SUN Heather Richards, who lost her husband to sudden cardiac SUN arrest, presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Arrhythmia Alliance. SUN Reg Charity:1107496 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Arrhythmia Alliance. SUN SUN Arrhythmia Alliance is a coalition of patients, SUN charities, professional medical organisations and industry SUN groups that work together to improve the diagnosis, SUN treatment and quality of life for all those SUN affected by heart rhythm disorders. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03hzvfk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03hzvfm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03j8ksw (Listen) SUN A service from the Holy Name in Manchester for the feast of SUN Christ the King. SUN SUN Situated on Oxford Road at the heart of the campus for the SUN University of Manchester, the famous Holy Name Church is now SUN the Church serving the University community in Manchester - SUN one of the largest in Europe. Built and served by members of SUN the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). On the feast of Christ the SUN King, which celebrates the kingship of Christ over all SUN Creation, Fr Tim Byron SJ explores how serving the student SUN community of Manchester enables the church to move from SUN optimism to hope. SUN SUN With the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir directed by David Ogden SUN SUN Leader: Fr William Pearsall SJ SUN Preacher: Fr Tim Byron SJ SUN Organist: Daniel Moult SUN SUN Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03hxlgd (Listen) SUN Rebuilding After 9/11 SUN SUN Will Self reflects from the top of the new One World Trade SUN Center in New York on the challenge of rebuilding after the SUN destruction of 9.11. SUN SUN "The downtown site, mired in ground sacred to mammon, has SUN mixed into it a complex mulch of private rights and public SUN responsibilities: to harmonise these competing interests in SUN the frozen music of architecture has proved a gruelling SUN compositional task.". SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2qh (Listen) SUN Pied Wagtail 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 Pied Wagtail. In winter, SUN pied wagtails can often be seen roosting in towns and cities SUN in large flocks. By day, pied wagtails are often obvious in SUN fields feeding on insects but they're equally at home on our SUN streets gleaning prey from pavements and road surfaces. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03j8ksy (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 b03j8sr8 (Listen) SUN Kirsty faces an ordeal, and Brian is trying to keep a big SUN secret. SUN Charles Collingwood on Brian Aldridge at 70 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 Archer: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Annabelle Shrivener: Julia Hills SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Patrick Hennessy: Oliver Le Sueur SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03j8srb (Listen) SUN Rt Hon Ed Miliband SUN SUN Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, joins SUN Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN He's been in charge of his party for three years and was the SUN youngest leader they'd ever elected. But that fact got SUN somewhat lost in the drama that surrounded his coronation: SUN famously, he stood against his brother, David. To say the SUN younger brother's victory upset the political apple cart SUN would be something of an understatement. SUN SUN Politics is in his pores. His mother was a human rights SUN campaigner, his father a renowned Marxist academic. Both SUN parents came from Jewish families who settled in Britain SUN having only just survived the Nazis. SUN SUN Looking though his CV - clever comprehensive schoolboy, SUN degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, an SUN intern for Tony Benn, Economics lecturer at Harvard, Special SUN Advisor to Gordon Brown - it's clear, for him, there's only SUN ever been one abiding passion. SUN SUN He says, politics "is not something I chose. It's not SUN something I learned from books, even from my Dad's books. It SUN was something I was born into." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03hvn68 (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 60th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare. SUN Regulars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are once again joined on the panel by John Finnemore with SUN Jack Dee in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03j8srd (Listen) SUN Cook Books SUN SUN Cookery Books of 2013. SUN SUN Ahead of the Christmas shopping season Sheila Dillon reviews SUN this year's best cook books. Sheila is joined by comedian SUN Stephen K Amos and food writers Catherine Phipps and Fiona SUN Beckett. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03hzvfs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03j8srg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Lights, Camera, Akshun! b03j8srj (Listen) SUN Who would have thought that the careers of three of the most SUN influential figures of the early Bombay film industry would SUN actually begin on the stages and screens of London's West SUN End theatres and cinemas? SUN SUN But, as Sanjeev Bhaskar reveals, screenwriter Niranjan Pal, SUN producer/actor Himansu Rai and actress Devika Rani all found SUN fame first in Britain and learned much of their craft in the SUN cosmopolitan film industry centred in London between the SUN wars. SUN SUN Drawing on recent research, Sanjeev pieces together a SUN fascinating tale of two talented and determined Indian men SUN and a ravishingly beautiful and intelligent Indian woman who SUN crossed barriers of race, language and geography to create SUN some of the most striking films of the early era and enter SUN the hearts and minds of British audiences. SUN SUN Their films include the pioneering feature-length silent SUN epic The Light of Asia, which received a Royal Command SUN performance at Windsor Castle in 1926, and the early talkie SUN Karma (made in English) which premiered in Marble Arch in SUN 1933, featured Indian cinema's longest kiss, and made an SUN international star of Devika Rani. SUN SUN Producers: Mukti Jain Campion and Suman Bhuchar SUN A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03hxjrp (Listen) SUN Shrewsbury SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is joined by Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and SUN Anne Swithinbank as he chairs this edition of GQT from SUN Shrewsbury. Chris returns to the home of Emma Morris to SUN catch-up on the development of her rural Shropshire garden, SUN and the panelists talk topical tips whilst wandering along SUN the banks of the River Severn. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03j8srl (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between young carers and SUN between a couple dealing with alcoholism and the path to SUN recovery in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that SUN proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03j8srn (Listen) SUN The Russian Gambler, Episode 2 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 Gavansk's first drama for Radio SUN 4. As an actor she worked with Steve Coogan and Michael SUN Winterbottom on The Trip and with Angelina Jolie in the SUN Bosnian film In the Land of Milk and Honey. Her radio work SUN includes The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, The Bid and UTZ for Radio 4 SUN and Massistonia on Radio 3. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Alexei...........Ed Stoppard, SUN Mikhail..........Matthew Marsh, SUN Anastasia.....Eleanor Bron, SUN Polina...........Dolya Gavanski, SUN Vika..............Isabella Blake Thomas, SUN Astley...........Graham Seed, SUN Francois........Orlando Seale, SUN Katie.............Lucy May Barker, SUN Mullighan.......Jay Taylor, SUN Office Worker..Alana Ramsey, SUN Blake.............Timothy Walker SUN SUN Casting: Toby Whale, SUN Script Editor: Mike Walker, SUN Sound Design: Steve Bond. SUN SUN Original music composed by Sacha Puttnam. 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 16:00 Open Book b03j8srq (Listen) SUN Bernard MacLaverty on a literary life SUN SUN Belfast born author Bernard MacLaverty talks about his SUN career spanning 50 years. He has published five collections SUN of short stories and, following on from novels including SUN 'Cal' and 'Grace Notes', is now working on his fifth novel. SUN With his short stories now collected together for the first SUN time, he talks to Mariella Frostrup about the themes, people SUN and places which continue to inspire him and inform his SUN writing. He recalls his friendship with the late Seamus SUN Heaney and reflects on the gap which has been left in the SUN literary world since his death. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b03j8srs (Listen) SUN Series 2, The poet, the poem, and the savannah SUN SUN Paul Farley in discussion with Glyn Maxwell, poet and author SUN of On Poetry. White, Black, Form, Pulse, Chime, Space and SUN Time are Glyn's chapter titles. How and why are poems SUN written? With readings by Glyn of his own work, new and old. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Gettysburg b03hvx70 (Listen) SUN On 19th November 1863, Abraham Lincoln stood in a field in SUN Pennsylvania and delivered a short speech to a crowd that SUN could hardly hear a word that he said. Exactly one hundred SUN and fifty years on, James Naughtie tells the story behind SUN what is now seen as possibly the greatest political speech SUN of them all. SUN SUN The Gettysburg Address is a priceless political jewel. It's SUN probably the most famous single speech of the democratic SUN era, which not only distilled an idea of the United States SUN after a bitter civil war but became a touchstone for SUN generations of Americans wrestling with racial division, SUN until a Civil Rights Act was passed exactly a hundred years SUN after the speech was delivered. SUN SUN Two hundred and seventy-two words that thread their way SUN through a century and a half of American history and are a SUN great story in themselves: Lincoln scribbling in the train SUN from Washington... the speech itself that very few people SUN present could actually hear... the slow transmission of the SUN famous phrases across the country... and the eventual SUN adoption of the speech - still read in full by visitors who SUN visit the Lincoln Memorial - as a kind of national SUN statement. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Kobrak. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03j64y1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03hzvfv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03hzvfx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hzvfz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03j8srv (Listen) SUN The best of BBC Radio this week chosen by Ian McMillan. SUN SUN On this week's Pick of the Week with Ian McMillan we learn SUN how numbers can really remind us how little we actually SUN know, we find out what happened when one of Dr. Who's SUN assistants took her pink dressing gown off, and we are SUN impressed by John F. Kennedy's TV image when contrasted with SUN that of a perspiring Richard Nixon. There's Opera and SUN Sculpture in Suffolk and crossed lines in Sheffield, and in SUN a searing drama a mother finds out the terrible SUN circumstances of her son's murder from someone who heard his SUN last words. There's comedy, drama, housebricks and the sound SUN of brass bands in the drizzle. SUN SUN Programmes chosen this week: SUN SUN Curlew River - Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hvqlf SUN SUN The Politics of Architecture - Radio 4 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03k5fh2 SUN SUN Open Country - Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgft SUN SUN Irish Micks and Legends - Radio 4 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nxw2q SUN SUN Afternoon drama - Lewis and Tolkien - The Lost Road - Radio SUN 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hxjrl SUN SUN The Songs of Molly Drake - Radio 4 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hwn0k SUN SUN Last Word - Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpmv SUN SUN Scallop - Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hvn5q SUN SUN Who is the Doctor? - Radio 2 SUN SUN Saturday Drama - Solomon and Marion - Radio 4 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j63jq SUN SUN JFK - The First Pop President - Radio 2 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sgzrt SUN SUN A History of Britain in Numbers - Radio 4 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j53lh SUN SUN Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups - Radio 4 SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hwbrr SUN SUN Yorkshire Brass - BBC Radio Leeds SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d74g SUN Mastertapes - David Crosby - SUN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01lsgwg. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03j8srx (Listen) SUN Joe is optimistic. Meanwhile will Darrell cope alone? SUN SUN 19:15 My Teenage Diary b01k290n (Listen) SUN Series 4, Robert Webb SUN SUN Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by SUN opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them SUN out in public for the very first time. SUN SUN Rufus Hound is joined by actor Robert Webb whose hilarious SUN and sometimes abrasive teenage diary documents the highs and SUN lows of being seventeen - and the perils of kissing a girl SUN at a party when you don't really fancy her. SUN SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Through the Wardrobe b03j98t9 (Listen) SUN The Belle Dress SUN SUN In tribute to Belfast-born C.S. Lewis who died fifty years SUN ago on 22nd November 1963, three new short stories take us SUN though doors and portals into unexpected worlds and SUN situations. While novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell SUN charts a defining moment in the life of someone struggling SUN with their sense of identity, a woman gets to know her SUN neighbours a little more intimately than she could ever have SUN expected in a story from novelist and screenwriter Glenn SUN Patterson. And finally in a new story from Frank Cottrell SUN Boyce we discover what might happen if C.S. Lewis himself SUN were to discover an opening to another world. What might SUN such a world contain? SUN SUN The Belle Dress by Lucy Caldwell SUN Read by Kerr Logan SUN Produced in Belfast by Heather Larmour SUN SUN A beautiful yellow dress marks the beginning of a powerful SUN journey of self-discovery. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Kerr Logan SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN Writer: Lucy Caldwell SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03hxkk9 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's Mastertapes returned for a third series last week, SUN with John Wilson talking to musicians about a SUN career-defining album in front of a live audience. The SUN series began with Robbie Williams discussing his debut solo SUN album Life Thru a Lens. But would the programme be more at SUN home on a music network like Radio 2 or 6Music, rather than SUN Radio 4? Roger Bolton talks to the series producer Paul SUN Kobrak about the place for a programme like Mastertapes on a SUN speech network. SUN SUN When Any Questions visited the historic Chartwell House for SUN last Friday's broadcast, presenter Jonathan Dimbleby was cut SUN off just as the programme began, only to return seemingly on SUN the telephone. And later in the week, James Naughtie was SUN oblivious that he had dropped off the air for twelve seconds SUN during the Today programme. Is Radio 4 the victim of SUN sabotage or is there a ghost in the machine? SUN SUN There is a takeover happening at the Beeb - some lucky SUN listeners will be invading studios, cropping up as the voice SUN of 'Previously on PM', and even visiting Ambridge (or at SUN least the studio where The Archers is recorded). They're the SUN winners of charity auctions to raise money for Children in SUN Need. But some listeners wonder whether this type of SUN fundraising is unfair to those without large sums of money SUN to spare and ask whether a lottery would be fairer. Roger SUN Bolton speaks to Children in Need's Head of Editorial, SUN Gareth Hydes. SUN SUN And we're looking for your questions for the Controller of SUN BBC Radio 2, Bob Shennan. He'll be joining Roger Bolton next SUN week to hear your comments and answer whatever you'd like to SUN ask him. So please send your thoughts to us using the usual SUN contact methods. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03hxkk7 (Listen) SUN A biochemist, an author, a broadcaster, a whistleblower and SUN a record producer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Frederick Sanger, the only Briton - and one of only four SUN people in the world - to win the Nobel Prize twice. His work SUN underpinned the Human Genome Project. SUN SUN Also another Nobel prize winner - the prolific novelist SUN Doris Lessing. We have tributes from Brian Aldiss and Faye SUN Weldon. SUN SUN The broadcaster and gay rights campaigner Ray Gosling who SUN made quirky and distinctive programmes for BBC Radio. SUN SUN Jock Kane, who blew the whistle on security breaches at SUN GCHQ. SUN SUN And the record producer Austin John Marshall, best known for SUN his work with his wife, the folk singer Shirley Collins. She SUN pays tribute. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03j63jl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03j8kst (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03hvn6n (Listen) SUN Roberto Unger SUN SUN Renowned social theorist Roberto Unger believes that SUN left-of-centre progressives - his own political side - lack SUN the imagination required to tackle the fundamental problems SUN of society. In the run-up to the US presidential elections SUN of 2012, he declared that his former student Barack Obama SUN "must be defeated". Professor Unger argued that President SUN Obama had failed in his first term in office to advance the SUN progressive cause. There was, Unger maintained, effectively SUN no difference between the Democrat and Republican political SUN programmes. SUN SUN In front of an audience at the London School of Economics SUN and Political Science, Roberto Unger discusses with SUN presenter Jo Fidgen the reasons for his critical appraisal SUN of the progressive left in the United States and Europe. He SUN sets out what he believes its alternative agenda should be SUN and gives his verdict on another of his former students: Ed SUN Miliband. SUN SUN Roberto Mangabeira Unger is the Roscoe Pound professor at SUN Harvard Law School. He served as a minister in the Brazilian SUN government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from SUN 2007-2009. His books include: "The Left Alternative"; SUN "Democracy Realised"; and "The Self Awakened". His new book, SUN published next year, will address a new theme: "The Religion SUN of the Future". SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03j98tc (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 b03j98tf (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03hwrxf (Listen) SUN The Family; Blue Is the Warmest Colour; Catching Fire; 47 SUN Ronin SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Stanley Tucci, camp compere of the SUN deadly Hunger Games, on the constant reinvention of the SUN character actor. Based on the young adult novels of Suzanne SUN Collins, part two of the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire, SUN is released this month and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Woody SUN Harrelson. SUN SUN Abdellatif Kechiche, the director of Blue is the Warmest SUN Colour, explains why he wants to break free from the SUN conventions of cinema, whether it's content, form or SUN duration. Winner of this year's Palme D'Or at the Cannes SUN Film Festival, the film is an explicit and affecting tale of SUN two young women and their tempestuous relationship. He also SUN answers complaints that he was an excessively demanding SUN director for both cast and crew. SUN SUN Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer discuss The Family, a SUN story of a mob family in hiding and their increasingly SUN farcical - and murderous - attempts to fit into their new SUN lives incognito. SUN SUN Plus 47 Ronin, the Japanese legend of the masterless SUN samurai, retold in an American produced film with Keanu SUN Reeves released this Christmas. Alexander Jacoby of Oxford SUN Brookes University explores its reincarnations across the SUN generations. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03j8ksm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03hzvgz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03hwbrk (Listen) MON The Poppy; Traveller Children in Schools MON MON The Poppy - a cultural history. Laurie Taylor talks to MON renowned archaeologist and anthropologist, Nicholas MON Saunders, about his account of the origins, history and many MON meanings of the Remembrance Day Poppy. From ancient Egypt to MON Flanders Field to Afghanistan. How did a humble flower of MON the field become a worldwide icon? They're joined by MON Professor of History, Joanna Bourke. Also, Reader in MON Education, Kalwant Bhopal, discusses her research into the MON experience of traveller children in schools. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03j8ksk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hzvh1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hzvh3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hzvh5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03hzvh7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03jtnlq (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Steve Williams. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03j9b3j (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03hzvh9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx8yf (Listen) MON Black-Tailed Godwit 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 Black-Tailed Godwit. A MON black-tailed godwit in its summer finery is a stunningly MON attractive bird, russet brown with a long orange and black MON bill. A few pairs of black-tailed godwits breed in the UK, MON most of them in damp grazing meadows such as the Ouse Washes MON in East Anglia. When breeding is over the male and female MON split up and spend the winter months apart, often in widely MON separated locations. MON MON 06:00 Today b03j9b3l (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03j9b3n (Listen) MON Bianca Jagger on human rights MON MON Tom Sutcliffe looks at the future of human rights with the MON campaigner Bianca Jagger and academic Stephen Hopgood. MON Jagger points to the failure of the global community to MON tackle violence against women and girls, while Hopgood MON sounds the death knell for international Human Rights with MON the rise of religious conservatism and the decline in MON influence of Europe and America. Pakistan's Tribal Area MON close to Afghanistan is the setting for Fatima Bhutto's MON debut novel, and the playwright Howard Brenton examines the MON chaos of the partition of India in his latest production, MON Drawing The Line. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03j9h73 (Listen) MON Mitterrand, Episode 1 MON MON 'Other nations have scandals. The French have affairs.' And MON Francois Mitterrand was no exception. MON MON Former BBC foreign correspondent Philip Short has written a MON compelling biography of the French leader who was famous for MON his ambiguity. MON MON Henry Goodman reads the fascinating story, starting with the MON infamous 'Observatory Affair', which nearly finished MON Mitterrand's political career. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03j9h75 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03j9h77 (Listen) MON Eugene Onegin, Episode 1 MON MON By Alexander Pushkin. MON MON Adapted by Duncan Macmillan. MON MON Drama based on one of Russia's best loved poems, and the MON life of the man who wrote it. As Alexander Pushkin prepares MON to fight a duel, his wife begs him to tell her his most MON famous story, Eugene Onegin. Onegin is the darling of St. MON Petersburg. He is young, handsome and bored. But a trip to MON the countryside is about to change his life forever. MON MON Directed by Abigail le Fleming MON MON Natalya: Zoe Tapper MON Pushkin: Geoffrey Streatfield MON Onegin: David Dawson MON Driver: Sean Murray MON Lensky: Joshua McGuire MON Housekeeper: Carolyn Pickles MON Director: Abigail le Fleming MON Adaptor: Duncan Macmillan MON Author: Alexander Pushkin MON MON 11:00 Living with New Welfare b03j9h79 (Listen) MON Felicity Evans hears the personal stories behind the MON government's Direct Payments trial. MON MON Direct Payments form a central part of the Coalition's MON planned changes to the benefits system. It confers MON responsibility for managing money on the recipients MON themselves. In the case of Housing Benefit for social MON housing tenants, the rent is paid directly into the MON recipient's bank account rather than to their landlord, with MON the task of paying the landlord falling with the individuals MON concerned. The intention is that it will increase their MON sense of responsibility over their own lives and make them MON better able to cope should they move into a job. MON MON It's a controversial change. It gives a taste of the MON financial accountability that most people have to shoulder. MON But for some individuals it means a significant adjustment, MON as they possibly navigate a bank account for the first time, MON or deal with conflicting demands on an already limited pot MON of money - if the rent appears in your bank account, what's MON to stop you spending it on something other than the rent? MON Social landlords are concerned that it will result in MON increased arrears and impact on their revenue streams. MON MON Since June 2012, the Department for Work and Pensions has MON run pilot projects in six areas across the UK in order to MON assess how well tenants would cope with having their housing MON benefit paid in this way. One of these trial areas is MON Torfaen in South Wales, and in this programme, Felicity MON Evans goes behind the headlines to hear about the MON experiences of several participants in Torfaen. How has the MON change impacted their lives? And who really benefits? MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03j9h7c (Listen) MON Series 9, The Berkhamstead Job MON MON Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, MON complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his MON never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever MON scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and MON cat together. MON MON When Ed's flat burns down his old nemesis, Jaz Milvain, MON rides to the rescue. As a "National Treasure" lots of people MON want to work with Jaz (or so he says) and he's got some MON serious investors who want him to make a movie - an MON action-adventure with a quirky sci-fi twist. Ed is not keen MON until Alex offers him a rather nice hotel to work from. So MON it is that Ed starts writing 'Doctor Bond', or is it 'Harry MON Hobbit'..... 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 Call Centre Voice: Carys Eleri MON Ray: Simon Greenall MON Phil: Simon Greenall MON Cliff: Geoff McGivern MON Jaz: Philip Jackson MON Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Pearl: Alison Steadman MON Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Producer: Dawn Ellis MON Writer: Andrew Nickolds MON Writer: Christopher Douglas MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03j9h7f (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03hzvhc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03j9h7h (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 b03j9lv4 (Listen) MON Education 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 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 6. Education. MON Andrew looks into the data concerning education, and finds a MON story of a sudden spread of privilege, largely in the space MON of a century or two - first in school, then in university. MON In other words, it's a story about 'access', the modern MON buzzword for an old problem. MON MON Producer: Michael Blastland MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03j8srx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010mrz5 (Listen) MON Countrysides MON MON Countrysides follows a hunt master (Tim McInernny) and an MON anti hunt protester (Russell Tovey) who find a fragile human MON connection despite their opposing positions. It is a story MON about the relationship between hunter and prey and what MON happens when those behaviours are reversed. MON MON Based on extensive research, Countrysides explores what is MON happening in the countryside in response to the Hunting Act MON and represents the views and feelings of people involved on MON all sides MON MON Says writer Anita Sullivan; MON MON "I started writing this play because I wanted to really MON understand the issues involved. Like many people, I thought MON I knew what happened at a fox hunt and why that can be seen MON as offensive and cruel. But I wanted to go deeper than a MON news bulletin. I wanted to understand why people on both MON sides feel so passionately about the fox hunt that it MON becomes central to their lives: why they're prepared to face MON legal action and direct confrontation with their opponents MON on a weekly basis. Most importantly, I wanted to understand MON how the bill defines the interaction between wildlife, MON hunting, farming and the law... and above all, between MON people." MON MON Countrysides was recorded in London and on location in MON Sussex. The cast also includes; Lucy Speed, Nicholas MON Boulton, Sam Dale and Tom Stanley. MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Tim McInnerny MON Actor: Russell Tovey MON Actor: Lucy Speed MON Actor: Nicholas Boulton MON Actor: Sam Dale MON Actor: Tom Stanley MON Writer: Anita Sullivan MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b03j9lv6 (Listen) MON (11/12) MON Can you re-arrange a tidal wave so it becomes a Richard MON Burton epic, a Dutch migrant, or a handicap in York? MON MON Journalist and author Marcel Berlins and former Mastermind MON Fred Housego take on the literary historian Michael MON Alexander and the journalist Alan Taylor, in this week's MON battle of wits between the South of England and Scotland. MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, asking the questions and MON giving out helpful clues wherever the teams need them. But MON the more helpful hints he has to give, the more points he MON deducts from their scores. MON MON A win for either team could make a big difference to their MON final positions in this year's Round Britain Quiz rankings, MON as the end of the 2013 series approaches. MON MON As usual there are several questions suggested by listeners MON hoping to outwit the panel, and the questions are available MON in full on the programme's webpages so you can play along. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03j8srd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Legacy of Uncle Tom b03j9lv8 (Listen) MON When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, MON it immediately caused a stir and created a groundswell of MON anti-slavery feeling. Legend has it that when Stowe visited MON the White House during the American Civil War, Abraham MON Lincoln greeted her with the words 'So you're the little MON woman who wrote the book that made this great war!'. The MON novelist and critic Erica Wagner examines the lasting legacy MON of this book, from its abolitionist beginnings to the racial MON stereotypes Stowe's characters became. To be called an MON 'Uncle Tom' is one of the harshest racial slurs that can be MON thrown at an African-American person, and yet the idea of MON the submissive race traitor is quite different from Stowe's MON original character. MON MON Erica explores the part that Uncle Tom's Cabin played in the MON politics of race in America, and how the ground that it MON broke, in fact, resulted in its own demise. The programme MON ranges from Stowe's home in Brunswick Maine, where Harriet MON Beecher Stowe harboured a runaway slave, to the American MON Antiquarian Society in Massachusetts and the Harriet Beecher MON Stowe Center in Connecticut, where the wealth of spin-off MON merchandise are explored. Joan Hedrick, who won a Pulitzer MON Prize for her biography Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life sets MON Stowe in historical context and the award-winning MON choreographer Bill T Jones, and the playwright Robert MON Alexander bring the novel's story right up to date. The MON Legacy of Uncle Tom traces the reactions to this work from MON the Abolition Movement, through the Civil Rights Movement to MON the Rodney King beating in 1991 and the murder of Trayvon MON Martin last year. Race and politics remain at the heart of MON this story, as does every person's right to liberty. MON MON Producer: Philippa Geering MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03j9lvb (Listen) MON Series 9, Through the Doors of Perception MON MON This week, Brian Cox and Robin Ince attempt to walk through MON the doors of perception. On the way, they'll encounter the MON nature of consciousness, the secret messages hidden in pop MON songs, the problem of objectivity (it's subjective) and how MON time appears to warp. This week's guests are psychologist MON and presenter of Radio 4's All in the Mind, Claudia Hammond, MON Neuroscientist Beau Lotto and the writer Alan Moore. MON Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON 17:00 PM b03j9lvg (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hzvhf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03j9m1h (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by special guest Victoria Wood, with Jack Dee in the chair. MON Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03j9mwy (Listen) MON Helen feels confused, and Caroline takes a break. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03j9mx0 (Listen) MON Janine Jansen; Saving Mr Banks; Paula Milne MON MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with screenwriter MON Paula Milne, who discusses Legacy, a new thriller for BBC2, MON starring Romola Garai, Charlie Cox and Simon Russell Beale. MON MON Producer: Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03j9h77 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 PISA - Global Education Tables Tested b03j9mx2 (Listen) MON Governments around the world are waiting - some eagerly, but MON most rather anxiously - for the latest results of the PISA MON survey, due on 3rd December. Carried out every three years MON since 2000 by the powerful Organisation for Economic MON Cooperation and Development, it assesses the performance of MON school-children in 70 countries, comprising 90% of the MON global economy. The OECD processes the results to rank MON countries' education systems and the rankings are used to MON justify major changes in the way many of those children are MON taught and tested. MON MON In Britain, and particularly in England, the results are MON given huge publicity, with politicians and commentators from MON across the spectrum falling on them to justify their own MON views of how children should be educated. MON MON But is it appropriate to use the statistics at the heart of MON PISA in this way? Can education systems be compared across MON widely differing cultures to produced meaningful 'league MON tables'? MON MON Cambridge University professor David Spiegelhalter MON investigates, talking to leading academics in the world of MON education including Svend Kreiner in Copenhagen, Harvey MON Goldstein at Bristol and Oxford's Jenny Ozga. He discusses MON the issues with staff at the National Foundation for MON Educational Research who administer the PISA tests in the UK MON and puts the criticisms to the OECD's Andreas Schleicher, MON the man that Education Secretary Michael Gove once called MON 'the most important man in British education' because his MON work on PISA. MON MON Producer: Mike Hally MON A Square Dog Radio production for Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03hwn0h (Listen) MON Moldova - Sour Grapes MON MON Wine making in Moldova is a source of national pride - they MON have been growing vines for centuries. During Soviet times MON the country was encouraged to become one of the USSR's major MON wine suppliers and it has remained so ever since. But MON recently Russia banned the importation of Moldovan wine for MON the second time in a decade. MON MON Tessa Dunlop visits the prestigious Cricova winery - whose MON cellars have 120km of underground roads and holds bottles MON for the likes of Angela Merkel and President Putin - to see MON how the ban is affecting the poorest country in Europe. MON MON Moldova fears that a continuing embargo will devastate its MON fragile economy. The Moldovan president has condemned it as MON an aggressive move by Russia to bully Moldova into MON reconsidering its comittment to forging closer relations MON with the European Union. Many Moldovans believe Russia wants MON to make their country reconsider ratifying an agreement with MON the EU at the end of November. MON MON The result is that growers have vats maturing wine that may MON have no market. Enterprising younger wine producers, many of MON whom bought out former state enterprises, fear their MON investment may have been a mistake. Workers are concerned MON they may lose their jobs with little chance of alternative MON employment in the poorest country in Europe. MON MON For Moldova this is symbolic of a bigger problem - it wants MON to join the EU party and become part of Europe but its MON economy remains heavily dependent on Russia for gas and MON cash. Meanwhile the 14th Russian army is based just miles MON from their capital in the disputed territory of MON Transnistria. MON MON Producer: Jane Beresford. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03hvqlc (Listen) MON Traditional Societies MON MON Traditional societies and the wildlife that depends on them MON are disappearing. Can we preserve these fragile species? Or MON is the pressure to develop too great in our world? This MON week's field report comes from Ethiopia where one of the MON most endangered birds in the world, the Ethiopian Bush Crow, MON teeters on the verge of extinction as the traditional MON societies they rely upon disappear. This beautiful bird MON needs a particular regime of grazing and scrub to survive, MON but the societies that provide the right habitat are fast MON disappearing as development and modernisation takes over. MON Can we, should we, pour resources into protecting the crow MON when there is so much demand for money and space? Monty Don MON explores, with renowned writer Jared Diamond, the value of MON traditional societies and what we lose when they finally MON vanish. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03j9b3n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03hzvhh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03j9np0 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03j9np2 (Listen) MON The Charioteer, Episode 1 MON MON By Mary Renault MON MON After an injury at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell is sent to a MON veterans' hospital to convalesce. There he befriends Andrew, MON a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. But when MON Ralph, a mentor from his school days, reappears in his life, MON Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of MON innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience. MON MON Episode 1: MON Idealistic Laurie Odell is up in arms when his hero, prefect MON Ralph Lanyon, is expelled from their school for immorality - MON and Ralph bequeaths him a life-changing book. MON MON Read by: Anton Lesser MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b03k3hdb (Listen) MON Series 3, Natalie Merchant (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 3, A-side. "Tigerlily" with Natalie Merchant MON MON Completely self-funded (to ensure creative MON control),"Tigerlily" went on the sell over 5 million copies MON and continues to be Natalie Merchant's most successful album MON to date. Its bold and stripped down sound gave more emphasis MON to her powerful and often personal lyrics, including MON "Beloved Wife" (inspired by her grandfather's grief in the MON wake of her grandmother's passing) and "River" (written in MON response to the sudden and untimely death of her friend MON River Phoenix). The album also included the top-40 singles MON "Wonder" and "Jealousy", as well as her first top-ten hit as MON a solo artist, "Carnival". 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 b03j9nzb (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03hzvjb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03j9h73 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hzvjd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hzvjg (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hzvjj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03hzvjl (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03jtnm5 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Steve Williams. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03j9yp8 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx91j (Listen) TUE Tree Sparrow 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 Tree Sparrow. With its TUE russet cap, white cheeks and smarter appearance, the tree TUE sparrow looks like a freshly-scrubbed house sparrow. Unlike TUE house sparrows whose sexes look very different, the male and TUE female tree sparrows are identical. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03j9ypd (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 b03j9ypj (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 episode, he finds out how we lost the art of TUE designing beautiful places - and how it is being TUE rediscovered. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 09:30 15 by 15 b037vb3y (Listen) TUE Series 2, Jam 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 'jam', and etymologist Susie Dent is on hand TUE to explain the origin of the word as an onomatopoeic sound TUE of the jaws 'champing' or chomping away at food. Soon it TUE developed the meaning of being squeezed or trapped, and TUE first appeared in Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. TUE TUE Hardeep encounters Russell Holden who reports on traffic TUE jams across the UK and, on a more tasty track, he samples TUE the preserves of Emmerline Smy, who has been making jams, TUE jellies and chutneys for 20 years. TUE TUE Susie Dent shows how the musical sense of 'jam' came along TUE in the 30's, and Hardeep visits the Blues Jam at The Globe TUE in Hackney and a Maths jam in Holborn. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03js7pk (Listen) TUE Mitterrand, Episode 2 TUE TUE Francois Mitterrand was the son of a station master at TUE Angouleme in Cognac country but by the late 1930's, as a TUE student in Paris, he had discovered a fascination with TUE politics. TUE TUE And with his political ideas still forming in his mind, he TUE was faced with the dilemma of whether to follow the right TUE wing tradition of his conservative, Catholic family or TUE whether to branch out; whether he would support the Vichy TUE government or help to form a Resistance. TUE TUE This new biography of Mitterrand has been written by former TUE BBC Foreign Correspondent Philip Short. TUE TUE Reader: Henry Goodman TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03jb1vv (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03jb1vx (Listen) TUE Eugene Onegin, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Alexander Pushkin TUE TUE Adapted by Duncan Macmillan TUE TUE Drama based on one of Russia's best loved poems, and the TUE life of the man who wrote it. The night before a duel, TUE Alexander Pushkin continues to tell his wife his most famous TUE story: Eugene Onegin. City boy Onegin has inherited his TUE uncle's rural estate. His new friend Lensky persuades him to TUE make a fateful visit to meet his neighbours. TUE TUE Directed by Abigail le Fleming TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03jb1vz (Listen) TUE Wildlife Conflict TUE TUE As human population grows there is increasing conflict TUE between people and nature. Competition for space and TUE resources is intense in many areas and increasingly some TUE species are regarded as pests when they raid crops, damage TUE forestry or compete with us for game. Identified as one of TUE the greatest challenges for conservation in the 21st TUE Century, solutions are actively being sought. Whether it is TUE living with big cats, birds of prey or reptiles, solutions TUE will require conservationists to sit down with those who TUE want to eradicate unwanted wildlife and be willing to accept TUE compromise. Monty Don explores where the hotspots are, what TUE is happening to broker solutions and what the future looks TUE like in an increasingly crowded world. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b03jb1w1 (Listen) TUE Series 17, Strange Fruit TUE TUE "Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves TUE and blood at the root..." Billie Holiday's famous song TUE expresses the horror and anguish of those communities TUE subjected to a campaign of lynching in the American South. TUE Soul Music hears the stories of people whose relatives were TUE lynched by white racists and of the various forms of grief, TUE anger and reconciliation that have followed. These include TUE the cousin of teenager Emmett Till, whose killing in 1955 TUE for whistling at a white woman, added powerful impetus to TUE the civil rights movement. TUE TUE Despite its association with the deep south, the song was TUE actually composed in 1930's New York by a Jewish TUE schoolteacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol adopted the children TUE of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were executed in TUE 1953 as Soviet spies. One of those children, Robert, talks TUE of his adopted father's humanity and his belief that the TUE Rosenberg's were killed in a 'state sanctioned lynching by TUE the American government'. For him, Strange Fruit is a TUE comforting reminder of his adopted father's passionate TUE belief in justice and compassion. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03jb1w3 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03hzvjn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03jb1w5 (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 b03jb1w7 (Listen) TUE Work TUE TUE 7. Work TUE How does our long-working-hours culture, often with low TUE wages and job insecurity, compare with the past? TUE TUE Producer: Michael Blastland TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03j9mwy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03jb1w9 (Listen) TUE Arlo TUE TUE by John Retallack. TUE TUE There's nothing that Arlo would like better than bringing TUE his parents back together again. A love story with songs. TUE TUE Grace ..... Madeleine Worrall TUE Arlo ..... Joel MacCormack TUE Young Arlo ..... Kasper Hilton-Hille TUE Tom ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Philip ..... David Seddon TUE TUE Singer Madeleine Worrall TUE Musician: Neil McArthur TUE TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE This is the story of Grace, a small-time folk singer and Tom TUE a journalist seen through the eyes of their son Arlo who is TUE about to join the Royal Marines. Their passionate youthful TUE affair and marriage at 18 turns sour when Tom feels trapped TUE by his teaching job and side-lined by parenthood. Extended TUE aid trips lead to a career abroad and Grace and Arlo are TUE left behind to fend for themselves in rural Devon. TUE TUE Mother and son form an especially strong bond, even singing TUE together - a bond that is eventually threatened by Grace TUE contemplating a new relationship and Arlo developing the TUE notion that he has driven his parents apart. And then, TUE having come across groups of training Marines on his TUE increasingly extended wanderings on the Moors, Arlo has a TUE plan. TUE TUE Arlo has always felt guilty about breaking up the seemingly TUE perfect marriage and there's nothing he'd like better than TUE bringing his parents back together. TUE TUE Set in the world of small scale folk clubs there will be TUE songs from Grace - (Madeleine Worrall sings with THE GREEN TUE HOUSE BAND) TUE TUE John Retallack teaches at Ruskin College Oxford, was TUE Associate Director at The Bristol Old Vic. He was formerly TUE Director of Company of Angels (2001-2011) producing new, TUE experimental, often international work for young audiences. TUE He has written and directed a number of plays in recent TUE years including Truant (National Theatre of Scotland, 2011), TUE Apples (Northern Stage, 2010), A Bridge to the Stars (2007, TUE National Theatre Connections), RISK (2007), Virgins (2006), TUE Ballroom (2004), Sweetpeter (2004), Club Asylum (2002), The TUE Wild Girl (2002), and Hannah and Hanna (2001). John was TUE formerly Artistic Director of ATC (1978-85), Oldham Coliseum TUE (1985-88) and of Oxford Stage Company (1989 - 1999) where TUE his adaptation of Melvyn Burgess' Junk won the TMA Young TUE People's Award in 1998. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03jb1wc (Listen) TUE Series 5, RAF Lakenheath TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the team are at the RAF base at Lakenheath in TUE Suffolk for this episode of Radio 4's culinary panel TUE programme. TUE TUE A local audience puts the questions on all aspects of TUE cooking and eating. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b03k3hms (Listen) TUE Series 3, Natalie Merchant (the B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks TUE to leading performers and songwriters about the album that TUE made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each TUE edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing TUE the artist about the album in question, and then, in the TUE B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions TUE feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 3 (B-side). Having discussed the making of TUE "Tigerlily", her debut solo album made after leaving 10,000 TUE Maniacs (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday TUE 25th November and available online), Natalie Merchant TUE responds to questions from the audience and performs live TUE versions of some to the tracks from the album. TUE TUE Complete versions of the songs performed in this programme TUE (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the TUE Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded TUE and other musical goodies accessed. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Spin the Globe b03jb1wh (Listen) TUE 1914 TUE TUE Historian Michael Scott continues his series offering a TUE global perspective on familiar historic dates. Today it's TUE 1914 which saw the outbreak of the First World War, making TUE Europe the centre of a world conflict. TUE But European influence had spread all over the globe and, TUE amongst many colonial ventures, Michael learns of the TUE triumphant completion of a railway that linked the East TUE coast of Africa with the shores of Lake Tanganyika. The TUE railway was driven through German East Africa and soon after TUE completion would play an important, if less than familiar, TUE part in the conflict between the great powers. TUE TUE The trains running from Dar Es Salaam to Kigoma were driven TUE by steam, but 1914 saw the discovery and development of a TUE massive new resource of the 20th century's fuel of choice - TUE Oil. That was the year that serious pumping began on TUE Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. It wouldn't be long before the TUE country was one of the biggest Oil producers in the world, TUE although the local population had little to shout about in TUE the early days. TUE And, far away from the bloodbath going on in the trenches of TUE Northern France in 1914, New Yorkers witnessed the birth of TUE a dance craze that's remembered every week in the Autumn TV TUE schedules of today. Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman TUE gives Michael chapter and verse on the 1914 origins of the TUE Foxtrot. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03jb1wk (Listen) TUE Mark Ravenhill and DJ Nihal TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert talks to playwright Mark Ravenhill and DJ TUE Nihal Arthanayake about the books they love. It's a hugely TUE varied selection which inspires strong reactions in all of TUE them and plenty of passionate argument - including American TUE Tabloid by James Ellroy, July's People by Nadine Gordimer TUE and Elective Affinities by JW Goethe. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03jb1wm (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hzvjq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03jb1wp (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 1 TUE TUE Comedy from the lopsided world of David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman and James Bachman. This week's TUE sketches include the future of farming - battery penguins; TUE Thomas Hardy's exciting idea to make his books even sadder; TUE and the very confusing goings on in a cash-register shop. TUE TUE Performer: David Mitchell TUE Performer: Robert Webb TUE Performer: Olivia Colman TUE Performer: James Bachman TUE Writer: David Mitchell TUE Writer: Robert Webb TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03jb36v (Listen) TUE There's a cuckoo in the nest at the Stables. Meanwhile Tom TUE steps into the breach. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03jb36x (Listen) TUE 2013 Costa Book Awards TUE TUE With Mark Lawson, including the live announcement of this TUE year's Costa Book Awards shortlist. TUE TUE Producer: Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03jb1vx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Next Global Killer b03jb36z (Listen) TUE Ten years after the SARS pandemic, science journalist Alok TUE Jha investigates whether we'll ever predict or at least be TUE well prepared for future deadly global epidemics, be they TUE bird flu or bat viruses TUE TUE When it comes, the pandemic will be caused by a virus which TUE originated in an animal and then crossed the species barrier TUE into humans. This is how the so-called Spanish Flu pandemic TUE of 1918 started. That global epidemic killed an estimated 50 TUE million people. The AIDS pandemic of the last 30 years TUE resulted from a virus in forest primates jumping into TUE hunters in Central Africa. Since then a bat virus spread TUE through other animals to humans to cause SARS, infecting TUE thousands and killing hundreds. And since the late 1990s, TUE scientists have been closely watching the deadly avian flu TUE virus H5N1 for indications that it might begin to spread TUE from person to person. TUE TUE Outbreaks of infectious zoonotic diseases have been TUE increasing since the 1950s. Epidemiologists blame a TUE combination of accelerating encroachment into wild habitats, TUE increasing human and farm animal numbers, ever more TUE urbanisation and the modern day ease of travel. Humans and TUE their domestic animals are making increasing contact with TUE wildlife (from which these viruses originate) and forming TUE ever denser and complex transmission routes which increase TUE the chances of an infection taking off. TUE TUE However the fact that more of these 'spill-over' outbreaks TUE are documented is also likely to be down to the fact that TUE the world is looking harder for them. Even greater and more TUE intensive surveillance is one of the keys to pandemic TUE prediction and preparedness. TUE TUE Alok Jha visits a new human-animal virus surveillance TUE project in Vietnam, operated by the University of Oxford, TUE the Wellcome Trust and Vietnamese authorities where they are TUE looking for previously unknown viruses causing illness in TUE the general population, as well as doing long term TUE surveillance on hundreds of farms, animal markets and TUE wildlife sites, both of animals and the people who come into TUE contact with them. Alok visits a live animal market in the TUE Mekong delta where rats are sold and butchered for customers TUE and a small farm where all the animals are being sampled for TUE state of the viral detection. The Oxford-led project hope TUE their project will act as a model for more intensive and TUE sophisticated novel disease surveillance systems in Vietnam TUE and other developing countries. TUE TUE But even with better surveillance and an improved grasp of TUE what viruses are out there, another major obstacle to TUE accurate pandemic prediction is our lack of knowledge of TUE which particular viruses we should be most worried: those TUE which need swift preventative action and those that don't. TUE Which versions of avian influenza H5N1 for example would TUE have the ability to spread from person to person as easily TUE as seasonal flu. There is a controversial line of research TUE which would get us to these answers though. TUE TUE Alok meets the leading and controversial Dutch virologist TUE Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. TUE Prof Fouchier's team has evolved a variant of H5N1 which can TUE spread through the air between mammals in his Level 3 TUE biosecure lab. The technique involved a combination of TUE preliminary genetic engineering with 3 mutations already TUE found out in the real world and then letting the virus TUE evolve by itself. Only a handful of genetic changes are TUE needed to turn H5N1 which reaches a dead end once it gets TUE into mammals to a virulent pathogen which becomes airborne TUE and infectious. TUE TUE Colleagues of Fouchier at the University of Cambridge used TUE his findings to calculate the odds of that transformation in TUE the laboratory happening in the real world. It is a real TUE possibility they say, given the billions of domestic birds TUE and people, and that H5N1 is still out there in many flocks TUE in Asia. TUE TUE The experiments have caused alarm among bioterrorism experts TUE and there has been a moratorium on publishing Fouchier's TUE data. However Fouchier and other virologists argue that the TUE information about which mutations in animal viruses cause TUE them to jump to and then spread easily between humans is TUE essential for global pandemic surveillance if we are going TUE to predict and prevent the next global killer. TUE TUE Alok Jha is one of the science correspondents at 'The TUE Guardian' and a regular reporter on BBC TVs 'Science Club'. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03jb371 (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 b03jb373 (Listen) TUE In this special anniversary programme Claudia Hammond looks TUE at developments in neuroscience and how our understanding of TUE the brain has changed. TUE TUE In 1988 scientists predicted that new techniques of scanning TUE the brain would lead to exciting innovative treatments for TUE diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. TUE Researchers were enthusiastic about the possibilities of TUE seeing what went on in the brain. Many had high hopes that TUE this would help us understand how and why mental health TUE problems develop. But how much progress has been made? TUE TUE Professor Irene Tracey Director of the Oxford Centre for TUE functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and TUE Professor Sophie Scott from the Institute of Cognitive TUE Neuroscience at University College London discuss with TUE Claudia the major advances in this fast growing field but TUE also take a sceptical look and asks whether with highly TUE ambitious big brain studies the science is still promising TUE more than it delivers. TUE TUE 21:30 The Politics of Architecture b03j9ypj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03hzvjs (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03jb375 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03js56x (Listen) TUE The Charioteer, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Mary Renault TUE TUE Laurie is stuck in a rural veteran's hospital, struggling TUE with bad news about his injury. Then he meets a new orderly TUE - a young conscientious objector called Andrew Raynes. TUE TUE Read by: Anton Lesser TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03j9lvb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03jb377 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03hzvkp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03js7pk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hzvkr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hzvkt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hzvkw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03hzvky (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03jtpkv (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Steve Williams. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03jb3mv (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx944 (Listen) WED Twite 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 Twite. Twites are birds of WED heather moorland and crofting land - a Scottish name is WED "Heather lintie", as they nest in the shelter of wiry WED heather clumps and feed on seeds. To see twites, you'll need WED to visit some of our most scenic spots; the Scottish Isles, WED the moorlands of northern England or the western Irish WED coast. WED WED 06:00 Today b03jb3mx (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03jb3mz (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03jrz50 (Listen) WED Mitterrand, Episode 3 WED WED For most of Francois Mitterrand's career, there was a WED gentleman's agreement among the French media that a WED politician's private life should not be splashed across the WED front pages. WED WED And so Mitterrand's private life was kept quiet for most of WED his career - but he had two families and Philip Short, the WED author of this biography, has spoken both to his wife and WED his mistress. WED WED Read by Henry Goodman WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03jb3n1 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03jb3n3 (Listen) WED Eugene Onegin, Episode 3 WED WED By Alexander Pushkin WED WED Adapted by Duncan Macmillan WED WED Drama based on one of Russia's best loved poems, and the WED life of the man who wrote it. Pushkin's wife demands to hear WED more of his most famous story as they hurtle towards the WED duel he's about to fight. Onegin finally responds to WED Tatiana's love letter. WED WED Directed by Abigail le Fleming WED WED 11:00 Leaving the Faith b03jb3n5 (Listen) WED Sarfraz Manzoor talks to people who have decided to leave WED Islam and become ex-Muslims. WED WED In a London pub a group are getting together to plan a stand WED up comedy night. All of them describe themselves as being an WED 'ex-Muslim'. But is there really anything funny about WED leaving the faith? WED WED Sarfraz Manzoor meets the group and hears the stories, which WED on the face of it don't sound like comedy material. Some of WED the members say they have been threatened with violence and WED others have been disowned by their families, losing all WED contact with them. Some haven't actually told their families WED and live a difficult double life, going to the mosque one WED day whilst quietly attending the ex-Muslims club the next. WED WED Just how dangerous is it to say you have left the faith? And WED what drives these young people away from Islam in the first WED place? Sarfraz Manzoor looks at some sensitive issues around WED being a Muslim - or not - in 21st century Britain. WED WED 11:30 Hard to Tell b03jb3n7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 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 3: WED Tom's Mum's cousin has died and she volunteers her son to WED give the eulogy. At the funeral, Ellen suspects an WED infidelity, while Gillian the lodger suspects a mental WED disorder. WED WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gillian: Julia Davis WED Paul: Simon Greenall WED Ashley: Alex MacQueen WED Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine WED Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie WED Hermione: Sarah Solemani WED Tom: Jonny Sweet WED Maeve: Katy Wix WED The Vicar: Matthew Baynton WED Lucy: Kate Jevons WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED Writer: Jonny Sweet WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03jb3n9 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03hzvl0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03jdw69 (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 b03jdw6c (Listen) WED Old Age WED WED 8. Old Age WED Andrew reveals the changing shape of our lives by WED compressing a whole life into 20 seconds and comparing it WED over the centuries. Did we once grow old in the comfort of WED family life? How old was old? WED WED Producer: Michael Blastland WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03jb36v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03jdw6f (Listen) WED Amah in the Bathtub WED WED It's 1967 and the women who are members of a British WED swimming club in colonial Singapore take their social events WED seriously - but not all of them know what's going on at WED home. WED WED A young mother, Connie Conport, is particularly clueless WED about problems developing between her two young boys and WED their nanny. She has hired an amah, a servant from China, WED who is a member of a group dedicated to domestic service. WED WED Ah Chat belongs to a sisterhood of 'black and whites'. They WED wear a traditional uniform and swear an oath to remain WED celibate. On their rare days off, they meet up at their WED headquarters, the kongsi house. It's a refuge and a support WED group. These women are her only family in Singapore. WED WED Elderly Ah Chat has good references - seventeen British WED families have employed her previously - but this position WED seems to have serious problems. WED WED Sound Design: Jon Nicholls WED Written, directed and produced by Judith Kampfner WED WED A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED Credits WED Flora Hampton: Alexandra Williamson WED Donna Simon: Amy Warren WED Connie Conport: Ruth Moore WED Rupert Conport: Tom Phelps WED Brian Conport: Bryn Spender WED Priscilla Hampton: Suzanne Bertish WED Sun Yun Wing: Hansel Tan WED Sylvia Lim: Margaret Leng Tan WED Ah Sui: Jane Wu WED Pianist: Hannah Nicholls WED Writer: Judith Kampfner WED Director: Judith Kampfner WED Producer: Judith Kampfner WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03jdw6h (Listen) WED Carers' Rights and Financial Support WED WED If you're a carer, are you receiving the financial and WED personal support you are entitled to? What about employment WED rights if you juggle work and care? For help and advice call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED Over 6 million people in the UK look after an ill, frail or WED disabled family member or friend. Carers UK say this unpaid WED support is worth around £119bn per year but often results in WED lower incomes and increased expenditure for carers. WED WED If you want to find out about the financial benefits, grants WED or assistance which are available why not ask our welfare WED benefits advisors for advice. WED WED Maybe you are trying to continue working while providing WED care? What are your employment rights and how can you WED enforce them? WED WED Or perhaps you're an employer who would like to help valued WED staff with a caring responsibility? WED WED To answer your questions, presenter Paul Lewis will be WED joined by: WED WED Jean French, Head of Advice and Information, Carers UK. WED Marian Gell, Welfare Benefits Advisor, Contact a Family. WED Lucy McLynn, Employment Partner, Bates Wells and WED Braithwaite. WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b03jb373 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03jdw6k (Listen) WED Sport and Capitalism; Boxing in Gleason's Gym WED WED Sport and capitalism: Laurie Taylor talks to Professor of WED History, Tony Collins, about his new book which argues that WED modern sport is as much a product of our economic system as WED the factory, the stock exchange and the unemployment line. WED Also, The US sociologist, Lucia Trimbur, invites us into the WED everyday world of Gleason's gym, the last remaining WED institution of New York's golden age of boxing. Once the WED domain of white and black working class men, it's now shared WED with women as well as the wealthy. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03jdw6m (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 b03jdw6p (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hzvl2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b03jdw6r (Listen) WED Who Am I? WED WED Young Stephen wrestles with his identity and gets some WED career advice from his useless but enthusiastic teacher. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Collins: Gemma Whelan WED Jayson: Frankie Wilson WED PE Teacher: Harry Jardine WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03jdw6t (Listen) WED Oliver offers an olive branch, and Jill is dismayed. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03jdw6w (Listen) WED Mark Lawson presents a mix of arts interviews, news and WED reviews. Producer: Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03jb3n3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03jdw6y (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Giles Fraser WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03jdw70 (Listen) WED Series 4, Chemophobia WED WED Mark Lorch asks why we are all so afraid of chemicals. WED WED Biology has plants, animals and David Attenborough. Physics WED has lasers, stars and Brian Cox. Meanwhile chemistry, by WED reputation, has chemical weapons, pollution and Walter White WED from Breaking Bad. WED WED Mark, himself a chemistry lecturer at Hull University, WED explores why we have the wrong end of the stick, and what WED can be done about it. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b03jdw72 (Listen) WED Self-Healing Materials WED WED Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can WED mend themselves. Researchers are currently developing WED bacteria in concrete which, once awakened, excrete lime to WED fill any cracks. In South America you can choose a car paint WED that heals its own scratches. And there are even gold atoms WED which can migrate to mend tiny breaks in jet turbine blades. WED WED Engineers normally design things so the likelihood of WED breaking is minimised. But by embracing the inevitability of WED breakage, a new class of materials which can mend cracks and WED fissures before you can see them may extend the lives of our WED cars, engines, buildings and aeroplanes far beyond current WED capability. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03jb3mz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03hzvl4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03jdw74 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03jrz52 (Listen) WED The Charioteer, Episode 3 WED WED By Mary Renault WED WED Episode 3: WED Laurie learns his mother is remarrying, whilst his WED friendship with Andrew deepens. But a trip to the hospital WED in town will soon throw a spanner in the works. WED WED Read by: Anton Lesser WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 News Quiz USA b03jdw76 (Listen) WED American version of Radio 4's topical panel quiz. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03jdw78 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03hzvlz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03jrz50 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hzvm1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hzvm3 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hzvm5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03hzvm7 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03jtq5v (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Steve Williams. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03jdy3k (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 b03dx96d (Listen) THU Goshawk 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 Goshawk. A favourite bird THU of Martin Hughes-Games, who is presenting November's 'Tweet THU of the Day', the goshawk is a powerful deep-chested relative THU of the sparrowhawk: its name derives from "goose-hawk", THU though in practice goshawks rarely catch geese - they prefer THU woodpigeons, rabbits and squirrels. A female goshawk is a THU hefty bird, as big as a buzzard and much bulkier than her THU smaller mate. THU THU 06:00 Today b03jdy3m (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03jdy3p (Listen) THU The Microscope THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the THU microscope. From the seventeenth century onwards, the THU microscope revolutionised our knowledge of the world and the THU organisms that inhabit it. In the 1930s a German physicist, THU Ernst Ruska, discovered that by using a beam of electrons he THU could view structures much tinier than was possible using THU visible light. Today light and electron microscopy are among THU the most powerful tools at the disposal of modern science, THU but other new imaging techniques are also being developed. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03js0dp (Listen) THU Mitterrand, Episode 4 THU THU In 1984, when he was president of the EEC, and despite their THU political differences, Mitterrand went out of his way to THU cultivate 'Dear Mrs Thatcher'. He said of her accent, 'If THU you close your eyes, you could think she's Jane Birkin.' THU THU This biography of the French President was written by Philip THU Short, and is read by Henry Goodman. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03jdy3r (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03jdy3t (Listen) THU Eugene Onegin, Episode 4 THU THU By Alexander Pushkin THU THU Adapted by Duncan Macmillan THU THU Drama based on one of Russia's best loved poems, and the THU life of the man who wrote it. Pushkin's wife tries THU desperately to stop her husband fighting his duel, while THU Tatiana races to stop Onegin and Lensky fighting theirs. THU THU Directed by Abigail le Fleming THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03jdy3w (Listen) THU Mexico: Exorcising Evil THU THU Vladimir Hernandez follows the Mexican priests who believe THU they can fight the evil of drug trafficking through the THU ancient Catholic practice of exorcism. THU It is estimated that 60,000 people have died in Mexico in THU the "drug wars" linked to the narco-traffickers, who are THU among the most vicious criminals in the world. To some THU Catholic priests and believers, this is clear evidence that THU the Devil has taken hold among much of the population. They THU also point to the popularity of cults like that of "Santa THU Muerte", the saint of death, who is a figure of popular THU veneration among some of the narco-gangs. The priests are THU responding by practicing exorcisms, both in private and THU public, as they seek to expunge this evil. Vladimir watches THU dramatic individual and mass exorcisms, hears from those who THU have been through the rite and talks to critics and THU supporters of the practice. THU Producers: Keith Morris and Mark Savage. THU THU 11:30 Caledonia: A Love Song to a Nation b03jfc3v (Listen) THU In 1979 as he sat suffering from homesickness on a Brittany THU beach, Dougie Mclean wrote a song which would become an THU unofficial anthem of Scotland, and Scottish pride. THU THU Listen to the lyrics of Caledonia and it is a love song, THU that could have been written for a person, but its a lament THU for a country, and in the 34 years since he wrote it, the THU song has been adopted as a proud symbol of national THU identity, belted out in pubs, on football terraces and used THU to sell lager on TV. THU THU As Scotland prepares to vote on whether its stays in the THU United Kingdom, Hardeep Singh Kohli explores the song which THU he says is part of the DNA of his country, and asks whether THU symbols of national pride like Caledonia have been hi-jacked THU by those campaigning to vote yes in next years referendum. THU He also investigates the word Caledonia and how it has THU become such a potent symbol for Scots. THU THU He meets Dougie Mclean who wrote the song to hear about its THU origins, and how although he still sings it as tours the THU world, he has given the song over to the people of Scotland THU to use, and interpret as they see fit. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03jfc3x (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03hzvm9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03jfc3z (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 b03jfc41 (Listen) THU Women THU THU 9. Women THU The changes in women's lives have been vast, and many of THU them have come in a blink at the end of recorded history. THU But the patterns of change in the data can be found repeated THU as long ago as the Black Death. What were they, and how do THU they help explain the way women's lives changed? THU THU Producer: Michael Blastland THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03jdw6t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03jfc43 (Listen) THU Pilgrim, Gallowstone Hill THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU Episode 2: Gallowstone Hill THU THU In search of the Radiant Boy, Pilgrim comes to a village THU cursed with a dangerous collective madness THU THU Sound ..... Colin Guthrie THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Cloudesly: Lee Ross THU Bovey: Arthur Hughes THU Nadia: Carys Eleri THU Hart: Priyanga Burford THU Mick: David Seddon THU Jim: John Norton THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03jfc45 (Listen) THU Lighthouses of Northern Ireland THU THU We explore our infatuation with lighthouses as the Irish THU coastline spends two million pounds on renovating five of THU them across the region -two in County Donegal and three in THU Northern Ireland. Helen Mark visits two of them for Open THU Country. In the pretty town of Whithead sits Blackhead THU Lighthouse build in 1902 it proudly sits on the cliff top. THU St John's Point in County Down is a striking yellow and THU black building and was threatened with closure as it now THU sits empty and vacant with no purpose like so many along the THU the coastline. But Helen discovers a much deeper story -for THU most there is a need to preserve these iconic buildings as THU what they symbolise today is just as important. THU THU Producer : Perminder Khatkar. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03j8kst (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03j8srq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03jfc47 (Listen) THU Emma Thompson; Leviathan; Carrie THU THU Francine Stock talks to Emma Thompson about Saving Mr Banks, THU in which she plays the author PL Travers in this story of THU how Disney won the rights to make the film Mary Poppins. THU THU And a look at Stephen King horror tale and iconic film THU Carrie, originally directed by Brian de Palma in 1976 and THU now re-made by Kimberly Peirce and starring Chloe Grace THU Moretz. THU THU Plus documentary makers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena THU Paravel on Leviathan an unconventional portrait of deep sea THU fishing in the North Atlantic. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Emma Thompson THU Interviewed Guest: Lucien Castaing-Taylor THU Interviewed Guest: Verena Paravel THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03jfg39 (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 b03jfc4c (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hzvmc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b03jfc4f (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU This quirky series ignores received opinion about public THU figures, and instead invents an alternative world in which THU Ray Winstone is obsessed with Mary Bell, Jon Craven is in a THU bare knuckle fight club, Roger McGough is a therapist Leo THU Sayer is a gardener, James Naughtie is portrayed a man who THU can't stop paraphrasing what everyone says, and William THU Hague is a man with so little to do he takes up cleaning his THU colleague's office. THU THU With plenty of digs at the BBC, this is an off-beat show THU with surreal touches and the occasional bite of satire. THU THU With Jon Culshaw, Julian Dutton, Lewis MacLeod, Jess THU Robinson, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. THU THU Producer: Bill Dare THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03jfc4h (Listen) THU Ed makes a terrible mistake, and Josh is keen to win. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03jfc4k (Listen) THU John Wilson presents a mix of arts interviews, news and THU reviews. THU THU Producer: Tim Prosser. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03jdy3t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03jfc4m (Listen) THU Inside the Vatican THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU Pope Francis THU Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church THU THU 20:30 In Business b03jfg37 (Listen) THU Two Chinas THU THU It's 6.15am and over loudspeakers across quiet streets of THU Nanjiecun blares out a song more familiar during the days of THU Chairman Mao, "The East is Red". As the sun rises, a huge THU white statue of Chairman Mao, surrounded by four equally THU huge portraits of Lenin, Marx, Stalin and Engels become THU visible in the town's main square. This the last Maoist THU collective in China, a little enclave of the past in the THU socialist market economy that China has now developed. How THU does their economy work and what is it like to live there? THU Meanwhile, at 3W Coffee in Beijing's 'Silicon Valley' THU district entrepreneurs are queuing up for their early THU morning burst of caffeine. This is Beijing's first tech THU business incubator where you're catapulted to the China of THU the twenty first century, with young people pushing the THU boundaries of the internet to create a very different China THU to that of Mao sixty years ago. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03jfg39 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03jdy3p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03hzvmf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03jfg3c (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03js0dr (Listen) THU The Charioteer, Episode 4 THU THU By Mary Renault THU THU Episode 4: THU Laurie goes to a party at a stranger's flat, where he THU re-encounters his school mentor Ralph Lanyon - and discovers THU that he played a vital part in his recent life as well. THU THU Read by: Anton Lesser THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies b03f8g6l (Listen) THU Drugs Trade 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 The drugs trade is one of our few booming industries. In THU this third episode, Andrew looks at the facts behind both THU the illegal and legal drugs. What are the risks? What are THU the problems? And what can we do about either? 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 b03jfg3f (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03hzvn8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03js0dp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03hzvnb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03hzvnd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03hzvng (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03hzvnj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03jtwm6 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Steve Williams. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03jfk1s (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx98q (Listen) FRI Little Auk 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 Little Auk. Little auks are FRI black and white relatives of the puffin but only about half FRI the size. They're one of the most numerous seabirds in the FRI world, with around twelve million pairs of birds. In autumn FRI and early winter we see them in the UK as they head south FRI into the North Sea. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03jfzdf (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 b03j8srb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03js28v (Listen) FRI Mitterrand, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mitterrand left the Elysee Palace for the last time in 1995, FRI after 14 years in power. In the words of his rival Jacque FRI Chirac, he bequeathed to France 'a modern, calm democracy'. FRI FRI He spent his last days not at the house he had shared with FRI his wife, but in a state apartment where both of his FRI families could spend time with him. FRI FRI This biography of the French President was written by Philip FRI Short, and is read by Henry Goodman. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03jfk1v (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03jfk1x (Listen) FRI Eugene Onegin, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Alexander Pushkin FRI FRI Adapted by Duncan Macmillan FRI FRI Drama based on one of Russia's best loved poems, and the FRI life of the man who wrote it. Pushkin and Onegin have both FRI fought their duels and everyone must now struggle with the FRI consequences. FRI FRI Directed by Abigail le Fleming FRI FRI 11:00 Forever Young b03jfk1z (Listen) FRI House and Home 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 personal, social and FRI financial relations. FRI FRI Fleeing the nest, escaping the day-to-day oversight of FRI parents and living as a self-sufficient being are FRI traditional indicators of maturity. Yet such independence FRI requires an elaborate supporting scaffold - usually FRI requiring employment, financial acumen or reliance on the FRI welfare system. FRI FRI For each episode of Forever Young, we've commissioned a new FRI song on each of the three themes. The House and Home song is FRI written and performed by Kieran Mac Feely, aka Simple Kid. FRI FRI Produced by Alan Hall with Hana Walker-Brown. FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 On the Rocks b03jfk21 (Listen) FRI Spies FRI FRI by Christopher William Hill. It's 1937 on the remote Scilly FRI Island of St. Martin's, where the islanders are resisting FRI the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post FRI office - around which their world revolves. FRI FRI Episode 1: Spies FRI FRI directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Graham Harper FRI Production Co-ordinator, Jessica Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank Gunwallow: Joseph Kloska FRI Mary: Bec Applebee FRI Grace: Christine Absalom FRI Tommy: Stuart Fox FRI Ben: Alex Palmer FRI Len: Ed Gaughan FRI Tregarthan: Peter Marinker FRI Morwenna: Alex Tregear FRI Pender: Christopher William Hill FRI Anthony: David Seddon FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Producer: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Christopher William Hill FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03jfk23 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03jfk25 (Listen) FRI Miguel and John - Smell the Coffee FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends about FRI their journey from disadvantage to success, and whether FRI their achievements were fuelled by luck, hard work or FRI coffee, proving once again that it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03hzvnl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03jfk27 (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 b03jfk29 (Listen) FRI Living FRI FRI 10. Living FRI Is the history of the economic struggle for survival over, FRI as Keynes once said it would be? If so, has it been replaced FRI with what he said would be a much harder problem - not FRI working out how to survive, but working out how to live? FRI Some think we will only do this when we balance our FRI expectations with the sustainability of the planet; others FRI that it has become a moral problem, not an economic one. FRI FRI Producer: Michael Blastland FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03jfc4h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010m9t2 (Listen) FRI The Vertigo Trust FRI FRI By Jon Canter. FRI FRI Ronnie Sax is a sixty something multi-millionaire FRI businessman, abrasive, cocky, three times divorced but on FRI wife number four. He's egotistical and high energy and very FRI much afraid of heights. He lives in a bungalow. His very FRI large office is on the ground floor. Branson keeps inviting FRI him into his balloon but Ronnie always has an excuse. FRI FRI He gives an interview to Deborah - a journalist with some FRI serious copy to fill - and her searching questions turn into FRI a flirtation that Ronnie feels can only be consummated by FRI conquering his phobia. FRI FRI Enter Martin - a 'Vertigo Counsellor' who has read Deborah's FRI article and thinks he can help. Martin's done his research FRI and Ronnie, impressed, quickly hires him as his very own FRI counsellor (as long as no one knows finds out what he's FRI doing in Ronnie's office.) FRI FRI Over a series of sessions, Ronnie gets attached to Martin FRI and quite dependent on him. Martin helps him overcome his FRI deepest fears. FRI FRI But Martin has a secret. A big secret. One that threatens to FRI turn Ronnie's world completely upside down. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ronnie: Gerard Murphy FRI Martin: James Fleet FRI Deborah: Daisy Haggard FRI Uncle Ray: Trevor Martin FRI Tanya: Kellie Shirley FRI Mother: Helen Ryan FRI Writer: Jon Canter FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03jfmq4 (Listen) FRI Bradford-on-Avon FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts GQT from Bradford-on-Avon - with Matt FRI Biggs, Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden taking the local FRI audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Where Were You When Kennedy Was Shot? b03jfmq7 (Listen) FRI The Night My Dad Became English 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 News of JFK's assassination forces Irishman, Eamon Conroy, FRI to question his whole sense of identity. FRI FRI The Night My Dad Became English by Joseph O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI Author: Joseph O'Connor FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03jfmq9 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03jfmqc (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03jfmqf (Listen) FRI Lesley and Kieron - Surfing Through Life FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation where a mother questions FRI her son's priorities since he became a father; should FRI surfing and skateboarding still take centre stage, even if FRI the fact that he's celebrating beating Crohn's disease FRI influences his outlook? FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03jfmqk (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03hzvnn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03jfmqm (Listen) FRI Series 82, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With guest panellists Grace Dent, Fred MacAulay and FRI Justin Edwards, joining regular Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03jfmqp (Listen) FRI Will loses his cool, and Shula feels let down. FRI FRI Credits 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 Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03jfvg1 (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents a mix of arts interviews, news and FRI reviews. FRI FRI Producer: Claire Bartleet FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03jfk1x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03jfvg3 (Listen) FRI Baroness Kramer, Stella Creasy MP Lord Lamont, Sir Jonathon FRI Porritt FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall in Suffolk with FRI environmentalist and writer, Sir Jonathon Porritt, Shadow FRI Minister for Crime Prevention Stella Creasy MP, Transport FRI Minister Baroness Susan Kramer and the Conservative Peer and FRI Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Lamont. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03jfvg5 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Britain in Numbers b03jfvg7 (Listen) FRI A History of Britain in Numbers: Omnibus, Episode 2 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 b03hzvnq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03jfvg9 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03js3r4 (Listen) FRI The Charioteer, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Mary Renault FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Ralph invites Laurie back to town and, despite a growing FRI sense that his fellows in the ward are beginning to guess FRI his true feelings, Laurie cannot stay away from Ralph or FRI Andrew. FRI FRI Read by: Anton Lesser FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03jb1wk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03jfvgc (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03jfvgf (Listen) FRI Lynne and Glennice - No Time to Say Goodbye FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Lynne and her FRI mother about the shock of Lynne's husband's sudden death FRI from pancreatic cancer, just six weeks after being FRI diagnosed. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
22 November, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 23/11/2013 - 29/11/2013
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