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SAT SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03kv8f4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03nxy5r (Listen) SAT Long Walk to Freedom, Episode 5 SAT SAT Published in 1995, Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela's SAT own story of his journey from his birth in 1918 in a tiny SAT village in the Transkei, and an idyllic childhood, through SAT his life as a young lawyer in the bustling city of SAT Johannesburg under apartheid, increasing politicisation by SAT his experiences in the city, membership of the African SAT National Congress, arrest and 27 years' imprisonment, to SAT release and eventual election as President in South Africa's SAT first national, non-racial, one-person-one-vote election. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT After 20 years' imprisonment on Robben Island, the political SAT situation is changing and Mr Mandela is moved suddenly to a SAT prison on the mainland. SAT SAT This extraordinary story is read by the South African actor SAT John Kani who first came to prominence in Europe in the SAT plays 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead' for which he won a Tony in New SAT York, and The Island which he co-wrote. He received an SAT Olivier award for 'My Children My Africa.' SAT SAT The music at the beginning of the programme is the South SAT African National Anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika. SAT SAT Abridged by Michelene Wandor SAT Produced by Chris Wallis SAT A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kv8f6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kv8f8 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kv8fb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03kv8fd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03kvdbv (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father SAT Eugene O'Neill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03kvdbx (Listen) SAT "Not everyone with my illness is a murderer" - iPM discusses SAT paranoid schizophrenia with one listener who has the SAT illness. And we hear from a man in the Kiev about watching SAT the protests and deciding whether to join them. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03kv8fg (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03kv8fj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03kv26z (Listen) SAT Shropshire Union Canal SAT SAT Felicity Evans travels along the backwaters of the SAT Shropshire Union Canal meeting people who've adopted a new SAT area as their own. SAT SAT Starting out near Beeston she joins Wirral Autistic Society SAT who have adopted a 2 mile stretch of the canal, which SAT they've used regularly, to maintain its upkeep. She sets to SAT work and finds out how it's changed how they feel about the SAT area. SAT SAT Along the way she helps monitor the hedgerows which were SAT introduced when the canals were created to stop stock SAT entering the waterways. Now many sections are in poor SAT condition but they need to be improved to help a rare moth SAT which has adopted it as its own. SAT SAT Travelling on to Ellesmere Port and the National Waterways SAT Museum finds out who still use the canals and how a new SAT generation are learning the traditional skills to rebuild SAT and restore heritage boats. SAT SAT Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03lkmn2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Earlier this week MEPs voted through reforms to the Common SAT Fisheries Policy. They cover discards, trawling, greater SAT regionalisation and help for fishing communities. The aim is SAT to make fishing more sustainable. Farming Today asks what SAT the ban on discards will mean for both fishermen and SAT conservationists. SAT SAT The UK fishing fleet has declined dramatically over the last SAT seventy years. In the 1930s Britain's fishing industry SAT employed nearly 50,000 people. By last year, that number had SAT dropped to 12,500. Charlotte Smith talks to the Cornish Fish SAT Producers Organisation, and to the Marine Conservation SAT Society, to ask what the future looks like both for the SAT industry and for the fish stocks of the future. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03kv8fl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03lkmn4 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03lkmn6 (Listen) SAT Doreen Lawrence SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with author, journalist and SAT educational advisor Dreda Say Mitchell. They are also joined SAT by listeners Sarah and Mark Horsburgh on their experience of SAT offering respite foster care. We travel to Nottingham with SAT John McCarthy on the trail of Alan Sillitoe, meet a mother SAT and son who tell of a chance encounter with Nelson Mandela SAT and Doreen Lawrence's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer Alex Lewis. SAT SAT 10:30 The Playlist Series b03lkmpm (Listen) SAT John Clare's Playlist SAT SAT The ploughboy-poet John Clare recorded an entire musical SAT culture - the songs and tunes he heard around him in the SAT early 19th century countryside. SAT SAT Everybody sang all the time - the milkmaids, the SAT agricultural labourers, men in the pub at night - and John SAT Clare wrote down and collected their songs. Some were SAT sentimental, some bawdy, some nonsensical. His collection, SAT written out on tiny scraps of paper, has become our only SAT record of a rich musical culture which has now disappeared SAT as noisy machinery and the rise of music halls put paid to SAT that singing. SAT SAT The songs Clare knew were also the key to his phenomenal SAT success: they were how he managed to transform himself SAT from a ploughboy to a poet. Ballad-writing was his SAT apprenticeship. SAT SAT Clare's status has risen recently, so that he is now SAT regarded by many as England's finest nature poet. But his SAT songs are still almost unknown. SAT SAT In this programme, musician David Owen Norris unearths SAT Clare's music from the Northamptonshire Archives and sets it SAT for singers Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie to perform. SAT He then plays it on location in Clare's cottage in the SAT village of Helpstun to three Clare experts - poet Paul SAT Farley who has edited an edition of Clare, scholar Sara SAT Lodge and folksong expert Derek Scott. We hear a haunting SAT song of abandonment which Clare's mother taught him, a SAT smutty song The Cuckoo's Nest ("give me a girl with a SAT wriggle and a twist"), a song of Clare's which became a hit SAT on the West End stage, and a haunting song which Clare wrote SAT at the end of his life in the Northamptonshire Asylum. SAT SAT David Owen Norris is a pianist and composer and Professor of SAT Music at Southampton University. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke. SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03lkmpp (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of The Spectator investigates the impact of SAT Nelson Mandela on British politics. Aspiring politicians SAT give their view of MPs' pay. Why do some government IT SAT projects get out of hand? And the inside story of SAT parliamentary heckling. SAT SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03lkmpr (Listen) SAT Turmoil in Thailand SAT SAT Correspondents with stories from around the world: in this SAT edition, Jonathan Head on how an argument over democracy SAT lies at the heart of the current political turmoil in SAT Thailand; Lucy Williamson's in the Chinese city closest to SAT North Korea where a brutal leadership purge was underway; SAT Katy Watson meets a man in the United States who a thousand SAT women a year turn to for help after having breast cancer SAT surgery; James Harkin on the Syrian air force officer who's SAT been imprisoned on three separate occasions and Joanna SAT Robertson in Paris explodes the myth that French women don't SAT get fat and hears the claim that in French society, a fat SAT female is a failure. From Our Own Correspondent is produced SAT by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03lkmpt (Listen) SAT Pension industry accused; Steve Webb MP; Auction safety SAT SAT Every year 400,000 newly retired people buy an annuity - a SAT pension for life. But there was coruscating criticism this SAT week of the way annuities are sold. 'Excessive' profits, SAT 'hidden' commission, 'weak' regulation - just three of the SAT phrases used by the Financial Services Consumer Panel which SAT advises the Financial Conduct Authority. After years of SAT reviews and endless guidance why is the annuities market SAT still broken? And are pensioners really being burgled? SAT SAT Everyone who has already reached state pension age by 5 SAT April 2016 will be able to buy extra pension from October SAT 2015. Details of the scheme were published yesterday but SAT failed to answer the key question - how much will it cost? SAT The maximum boost is expected to be £25 a week. And we know SAT the deal will be cost neutral. So even an extra £1 a week SAT index-linked for life is likely to cost at least many SAT hundreds of pounds to buy. The Pensions Minister explains SAT why he's doing it and why he isn't revealing the price. SAT SAT Lloyds Bank was fined a record £28 million this week for SAT paying staff huge bonuses to sell insurance and investments SAT to customers with little regard for their suitability. It SAT earned £212 million in commission from the potentially SAT unsuitable sales of more than a million products to nearly SAT 700,000 customers. But the bank expects to pay compensation SAT to less than 12,000 of them. It will choose who gets it. And SAT its customer complaint lines are still high-cost 0845 SAT numbers. SAT SAT A well-known auctioneer refused to give a refund when a SAT smoky quartz Faberge seal which it sold for £2600 turned out SAT to be a fake. After Money Box intervened the auctioneer did SAT pay up - nine months after the sale. But what are your SAT rights when you buy at auction and the item is not as it was SAT described? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03kvd55 (Listen) SAT Series 82, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With guests Samira Ahmed, Hugo Rifkind and Rufus SAT Hound joining regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Michell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03kv8fn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03kv8fq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03kvd59 (Listen) SAT Sajid Javid MP, Chuka Umunna MP, Shami Chakrabarti, Amjad SAT Bashir SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Farnley Academy in Leeds with the Director of SAT Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, Financial Secretary to the SAT Treasury Sajid Javid MP, Shadow Business Secretary Chuka SAT Umunna MP, and UKIP's spokesman on Small Business Amjad SAT Bashir. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03lkmpw (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03lkmpy (Listen) SAT Winter Exercise SAT SAT 1981. The Cold War is hotting up. War between the Soviet and SAT Western blocs seems a real possibility. And so, for two SAT weeks in March, a group of top civil servants meets daily as SAT part of Wintex-Cimex, a biennial exercise to test the UK SAT Government's readiness for each stage of a descent into SAT nuclear conflict. David Aaronovitch presents this SAT documentary drama closely based on the recently released SAT Cabinet Office file partially dramatised here by playwright SAT Philip Palmer. SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT Produced by Phil Tinline SAT SAT 1981 was a particularly tense point in the Cold War. SAT Wintex-Cimex would reveal just how prepared, or otherwise, SAT Britain was, not only for the terrifying complexities of a SAT nuclear stand-off, but for coping with internal unrest, food SAT shortages, attacks by enemy special forces at large in the SAT country - even the possibility of a chemical attack. The SAT full detail of this uniquely disturbing scenario - the SAT assumptions and decisions made - was only released in 2012. SAT David Aaronovitch is joined by Professor Beatrice Heuser of SAT the University of Reading, Dr Kristan Stoddart of SAT Aberystwyth University and Professor Richard Vinen from SAT King's College, London to discuss the implications of what SAT the dramatised extracts from the exercise created from the SAT Cabinet Minutes reveal. SAT SAT Narrator: Carolyn Pickles SAT Prime Minister: Tim Woodward SAT Foreign Secretary: Thomas Wheatley SAT Home Secretary: Simon Treves SAT Defence Secretary: Steve Toussaint SAT Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee: John Norton SAT Scottish Secretary: Sean Murray SAT Chief of Defence Staff: David Seddon SAT Writer: Philip Palmer SAT Director: Toby Swift SAT Producer: Phil Tinline SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b03kqf04 (Listen) SAT Series 17, Can't Take My Eyes Off You SAT SAT Few songs can claim to be - quite literally - as far SAT reaching as the 1967 classic 'Can't Take My Eyes off You'. SAT In this edition of Radio 4's 'Soul Music', we hear from SAT former astronaut Christopher Ferguson who heard this song as SAT an early morning wake-up call aboard the space shuttle SAT Endeavour. And from mum of two Michelle Noakes who sang this SAT classic piece to the baby she was told she may never be able SAT to carry. We also hear from the honeymoon couple whose SAT marriage proposal began with a hundred strong 'flash mob' SAT performance of this track and from Frankie Valli himself, SAT who reflects on one of the most moving performances he ever SAT gave when he sang 'Can't Take My Eyes off You' to a crowd of SAT recently returned Vietnam Veterans. DJ Mark Radcliff recalls SAT the many artists since Valli that have covered this song SAT (not least his mum as she sang along to the Andy Williams SAT version) and composer Bob Gaudio tells us how this now SAT universally famous piece of music began life in a room over SAT looking Central Park with a melody originally penned for a SAT children's nursery rhyme. SAT SAT Producer: Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03lkmq0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Birgitte Hjort Sorensen; Lady Justice SAT Hallett; Scrunchies SAT SAT Birgitte Hjort Sorensen on Danish TV drama Borgen and SAT playing Virgilia in Coriolanus. Michelle Young tells Jane SAT about her 'fight for equality' in one of the UK's most SAT colourful divorce cases. Child care around the world - we SAT hear very different experiences in Fiji and China. And, love SAT it or loathe it, the scrunchie is back. We talk about the SAT best way to wear a scrunchie and if it's really fashionable SAT to tie your hair back like its 1985 with Amber Jane Butchart SAT and Leillah Sekalala. Singer Susan Boyle has revealed she SAT has Aspergers, a form of Autism. Why is the condition so SAT hard to diagnose in women and what is the impact of finding SAT out later in life? Sarah Hewitt and Dr Judith Gould, from SAT the National Autistic Society Lorna Wing Centre for Autism SAT discuss. And the politics of a family Christmas, with Ulrika SAT Johnson. SAT SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Katie Langton SAT Output Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03lkn5b (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03kvdbx (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03kv8ft (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03kv8fw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kv8fy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03lkn5d (Listen) SAT Terry Jones, Shlomo, Una Stubbs, Fabien Riggall, Emma Freud, SAT the Wave Pictures, Sumie SAT SAT Nikki has just one more wafer-thin mint with Monty Python's SAT Terry Jones. National Theatre Wales is adapting Terry's SAT children's stories for the stage. Once upon a time in a SAT kingdom far, far away lived a princess, four crazy knights, SAT an angry fairy, a dragon (of sorts) and a very Silly King! SAT 'Silly Kings' is at Cardiff Castle from 19th December until SAT 4th January. SAT SAT Nikki's got beatboxer and Mouthtronica Shlomo on a loop and SAT talks to him about creating a magical seascape of sounds SAT using human voices for a production of 'The Little Mermaid'. SAT A tale of adventure, courage and the pursuit of true love, SAT diving into a world where sea-folk dwell amongst iridescent SAT corals, and swaying seaweed. 'The Little Mermaid' is at SAT Bristol Old Vic until 18th January. SAT SAT Emma Freud Aint Afraid of No Ghost! She talks to Fabien SAT Riggall; founder of Future Cinema, an immersive experience, SAT allowing its audience to integrate themselves into the SAT narrative. His latest venture offers 'Ghostbusters' fans the SAT chance to inhabit the world of three eccentrics who start a SAT ghost catching business. Who ya gonna call? 'Future Cinema' SAT is at London's Troxy on 22nd and 23rd December. SAT SAT Nikki talks to 'Sherlock' actress Una Stubbs about playing SAT Miss Chambers in new drama 'The Tractate Middoth'. In a SAT quiet academic library, John Eldred seeks out the help of SAT young Mr Garrett in his search for an obscure Hebrew text. SAT But there is something unusual about this book and something SAT not entirely scholarly about Eldred's intentions. It's on SAT BBC Two on 25th December at 21.30. SAT SAT With music from The Wave Pictures, who perform 'Red Cloud SAT Road (Part 2)' from their album 'City Forgiveness'. And from SAT Sumie, who performs 'Show Talked Windows' from her SAT self-titled debut album. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03lkn5g (Listen) SAT Michelle Bachelet SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles the Michelle Bachelet, the SAT favourite in this weekend's presidential election in Chile. SAT If Bachelet wins as expected, then it will be her second SAT term as president of a country which elected her to office SAT in 2006. Bachelet took 47 per cent of the vote, almost twice SAT as much as her rival, in the first round but it was not SAT enough to secure an outright victory. SAT SAT Bachelet's family were victims of the coup in Chile under SAT General Pinochet in 1973. Her father, an Air Force general SAT who refused to go along with the actions of his brother SAT officers, died after being tortured. The regime also SAT tortured Bachelet herself - and her mother - before allowing SAT them to go into exile, first to Australia and then to East SAT Germany, where they joined many of their compatriots. SAT SAT Profile talks to a fellow Chilean exile who knew Bachelet SAT when she was a student in the GDR, the speechwriter who SAT helped her to victory seven years ago and a British diplomat SAT who helped to sell Chile some second hand frigates and was SAT impressed by Bachelet's plain-dealing. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Savage. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03lkn5j (Listen) SAT American Psycho as theatre; Everything You Always Wanted to SAT Know...; Mind Maps at the Science Museum SAT SAT Matt Smith (the almost-former Dr Who) takes his first SAT post-timelord steps in a stage musical based on American SAT Psycho, the quintessential yuppie novel. How will they deal SAT with the rat? SAT SAT The Mind Maps exhibition at the Science Museum in London SAT explores how mental health problems and other psychological SAT disorders have been treated over the past 250 years. It SAT includes objects from the museum's medical collection, SAT archive images and art works, but how hard is it to show how SAT the mind (rather than the brain) works? SAT SAT A two-part BBC TV drama tells the story of the The Great SAT Train Robbery of 1963. Starring Jim Broadbent as the SAT policeman who made it his mission to track them down; part SAT one tells the story of the robber's planning and execution SAT of the job, and part two follows the police investigation. SAT Is it possible to dramatise a crime without glamorising the SAT criminals? SAT SAT In the film The Innocents a young governess believes her two SAT wards have become possessed by evil spirits. When it was SAT released in 1961 it was rated certificate X and failed at SAT the box office. In the intervening half century it has been SAT hailed as a horror classic and is now being re-released as a SAT certificate 12. Will a 50 year old black and white horror SAT film appeal to a modern audience? SAT SAT 'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Acting But Were SAT Afraid To Ask, Dear' is a barbed guide to theatre written by SAT an anonymous theatre reviewer known simply as West End SAT Producer. Chapters include The Correct Way To Bow At The SAT Curtain Call and Getting Into Drama School (learning how to SAT sit in a circle). SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are Abigail Morris, James SAT Runcie and Cahal Dallat. SAT SAT Producer: Oliver Jones. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03kp9bs (Listen) SAT Prisoners of Conscience Revisited SAT SAT Twenty five years ago, the film-maker Rex Bloomstein began SAT producing human rights appeals for BBC television. SAT 'Prisoners of Conscience' ran for five years and Bloomstein SAT asked many high profile figures, including James Callaghan, SAT Judi Dench and Tom Stoppard, to tell the stories of SAT prisoners of conscience from all over the world. SAT SAT More than sixty cases were featured - journalists, SAT politicians, academics, writers, clerics as well as ordinary SAT people - all imprisoned unjustly or for their beliefs. SAT SAT Now Bloomstein revisits some of those stories and discovers SAT what has happened since. When were the prisoners released? SAT How did they recover? And what have they done since? SAT SAT Malawian poet Jack Mapanje recalls being arrested by police SAT officers who admitted even they didn't know why he was being SAT detained. Mapanje spent three years in prison for a crime SAT that has never been revealed to him. SAT SAT Bloomstein also hears from South Korean academic Professor SAT Suh Sung who was arrested for being a North Korean spy. The SAT torture to confess endured by Sung, drove him to attempt SAT suicide by setting himself on fire. There's also the SAT Palestinian scientist Dr. Jad Ishaq whose life was changed SAT forever after being held in an Israeli detention centre; and SAT Maryam al-Khawaja, niece of the Bahraini pro-democracy SAT activist Salah al-Khawaja, who is in prison again in Bahrain SAT after the Arab Spring. Other interviewees include the SAT Vietnamese democracy campaigner Dr Nguyen Dan Que, the Cuban SAT poet Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez and human rights lawyer Philippe SAT Sands. SAT SAT Rex Bloomstein also investigates the current landscape for SAT prisoners of conscience in a post 9/11, war-on-terror world SAT and asks what has really changed. SAT SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs and Rex Bloomstein SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The James M Cain Series b03kpkyv (Listen) SAT The Butterfly SAT SAT When Jess Tyler's two-timing wife left him he stayed on at SAT the farm alone, growing corn and going to Church. Nearly SAT twenty years later, a young woman turns up with a suitcase, SAT and there's an immediate attraction between them. The SAT problem is that the young woman is Jess's daughter, Kady. Or SAT is she? Only the butterfly birthmark can settle the question SAT for good. A tale of revenge, murder and forbidden love, SAT adapted by Adrian Bean. SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jess Tyler: John Chancer SAT Kady: Ashleigh Haddad SAT Wash: Solomon Mousley SAT Moke Blue: Jess Mash SAT Deputy: Martin T Sherman SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Adaptor: Adrian Bean SAT Author: James M Cain SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03kv8g0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03ktz12 (Listen) SAT Forgiveness SAT SAT "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to SAT my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and SAT hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." If ever there was SAT man who demonstrated the power of forgiveness it was Nelson SAT Mandela. His personal example showed how forgiveness is the SAT most powerful catalyst in the resolution of conflict. South SAT Africa still has its problems but how much worse would they SAT have been if Mandela had called for retribution for all the SAT victims of apartheid, instead of leading the country in a SAT process of truth and reconciliation, where crimes committed SAT under the regime would be forgiven if people confessed their SAT guilt and told the truth about their actions. Mandela was SAT certainly a moral exemplar that we would all do well to try SAT and emulate. Closer to home many people in Northern Ireland SAT are still struggling to find personal peace despite the SAT political settlement of the Good Friday Agreement. A few SAT weeks ago, when Northern Ireland's attorney general John SAT Larkin proposed ending Troubles-related prosecutions his SAT idea was metaphorically drowned out by those demanding SAT justice for the dead. Would the reaction be different if SAT he'd made his proposal now, with Nelson Mandela's example SAT fresh in our mind? In the interest of peace, do we all have SAT a duty to forgive? Or are we expecting too much from SAT victims, so that we can have the comfort of forgetting their SAT pain and loss? Eric Lomax was a prisoner of the Japanese on SAT the infamous Burma-Siam railway. He was mercilessly beaten SAT in captivity. A film of his life "The Railway Man" tells the SAT remarkable story of how Mr Lomax forgave the man who SAT tortured him. As he said "sometimes the hating has to stop." SAT But are their some things we should never forgive? What are SAT the moral limits of forgiveness? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03kpnk7 (Listen) SAT (1/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes the first four contestants in the SAT quest for the 2014 Brain of Britain. SAT SAT Forty-eight competitors from all over Britain take part this SAT winter, with the eventual winner being named the sixty-first SAT Brain of Britain champion in the spring of 2014. The SAT longest-running general knowledge quiz on British radio is SAT still the title every serious quiz contestant wants to win. SAT SAT Whether it's science, history, music, mythology, popular SAT culture, literature or sport, there's no telling what the SAT next question will be about, and no clever strategies to SAT resort to if you don't know the answer. There's a point for SAT every correct answer and a bonus point for getting five SAT right in a row. There are no other rules! SAT SAT The programme also offers the chance for a listener to 'Beat SAT the Brains' by suggesting questions which might be more than SAT a match for the combined knowledge of the contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT CONTESTANTS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT PETER ALMOND, a solicitor from Bristol; SAT SAT AZEEZ FESHITAN, self-employed, from Willseden in London; SAT SAT RICHARD GODFREY, a local government officer, now SAT retired, from Forest Hill; SAT SAT ANGELA HIRST, a dispensing optician, now retired, from SAT Oxford. SAT SAT 23:30 A Notebook on Aime Cesaire b03kpkyz (Listen) SAT When poet and politician Aimé Césaire died at the age of 94 SAT in 2008, it robbed the Caribbean island of Martinique of its SAT most articulate and powerful voice. He was a prolific writer SAT - of poetry, plays and essays - and served as Mayor of SAT Martinique's capital Fort-de-France for over 50 years, as SAT well as representing Martinique in the French National SAT Assembly for 45 years. Aimé Césaire dedicated his life, in SAT print and in public, to his people and his island. SAT SAT Aimé Césaire would have been 100 this year, and to walk SAT around Fort-de-France is to be confronted with his image on SAT almost every street, as Martinique honours his centenary and SAT comes to terms with his loss and his legacy. SAT SAT Although a potent critic of colonialism, Césaire was central SAT in advocating for Martinique to become a département of SAT France in 1946 - not a dominion or an independent nation, SAT but an equal part of the French Republic. Thus, in part, was SAT created the Martinique of today, a Gallic outpost in the SAT Caribbean, fully part of the European Union, and where the SAT currency is the Euro. But while the official language may be SAT French, the lingua franca is Creole. SAT SAT Perhaps Césaire's most celebrated work is the long poem SAT Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (Cahiers d'un retour SAT au pays natal), a fragmentary, excoriating meditation on the SAT predicament of colonial Martinique. Begun in 1936, after SAT Césaire had spent several years in France, it is in Notebook SAT of a Return to My Native Land that he first employed the SAT term that would become inseparable from his name: Négritude. SAT Developed with fellow Francophone intellectuals in Paris in SAT the 1930s, Négritude was an influential literary and SAT ideological movement marked by a rejection of colonialism in SAT favour of a common black identity, rooted in Africa and as SAT such possessed of a shared historical context. SAT SAT Using extracts from Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, SAT this programme sketches a fragmentary portrait of Aimé SAT Césaire in his centenary year, and also of Martinique SAT itself, since to talk about one is necessarily to talk about SAT the other. SAT SAT Featuring Christian Lapousiniere, director of the Césaire SAT Study and Research Centre, filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, SAT anthropologists Richard and Sally Price, and Dominique SAT Taffin, director of the Martinique National Archive. SAT SAT Includes readings by John Norton. SAT SAT Producer: Martin Williams. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03lkm8h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b01292vc (Listen) SUN Three for My Baby, Harold Lloyd Is Not the Man of My Dreams SUN SUN These stories take their cue from the Johnny Mercer classic SUN 'One For My Baby' - made famous by Fred Astaire, Ella SUN Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and especially Frank Sinatra. SUN Each of these specially-commissioned pieces tell of a 'brief SUN episode' of the kind the song alludes to but doesn't SUN describe. In other words, these are stories about doomed SUN love: affairs that turned sour, were thwarted by SUN circumstance or were never, ever, going to work. SUN SUN Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of My Dreams by Morven Crumlish SUN SUN She met Walter on the day she was supposed to fall in love. SUN But Walter had no inkling of the conflicting emotions that SUN could be aroused by silent comedians ... SUN SUN Morven Crumlish's stories have been published and broadcast SUN widely, and she also contributes to the Guardian. Her work SUN has featured in three previous Sweet Talk productions for SUN BBC Radio 4. 'Loulou and Barbie and the Seven Deadly Sins' SUN appeared in Curly Tales 2 (2005); Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs SUN - five of her stories - in 2008; and most recently 'A Good SUN Impression' (Platform 3, 2010). Morven lives in Edinburgh. SUN SUN Reader: Morven Christie SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03lkm8k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03lkm8m (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03lkm8p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03lkm8r (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03lknd8 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Edward's, Stow-on-the-Wold in SUN Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03lkn5g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03lkm8t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03lkndb (Listen) SUN Made by Hand SUN SUN Look at the current interest in baking, growing your own and SUN hand crafts. Increasingly it seems, people are finding that SUN making something for themselves, can be more enriching than SUN just going to the shops. It's in step with our 'make do and SUN mend times', but perhaps it's more profound than that. SUN SUN Samira Ahmed reflects on how the impulse to make things with SUN our hands is human instinct. The act of making demands SUN concentration and can give time to reflect. Creating SUN something handmade can bring deep satisfaction and a sense SUN of achievement. She considers the spiritual value of making SUN by hand in Shaker communities and in monastic life. SUN SUN And she hears stories of people for whom creating with their SUN hands has particular significance, like the British World SUN War II prisoner of war, who stitched subversive messages SUN into his needlework samplers, right under the noses of his SUN captors. Samira also visits the workshop of Eleanor Lakelin, SUN who handcrafts bowls and objects from wood, and asks her SUN about the meditative aspects of creating something by hand. SUN SUN Featuring music by J S Bach, Alison Krauss and Billy Bragg SUN and with the thoughts of writers including Pablo Neruda, SUN Carl Honore and Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Hughes SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03lkndd (Listen) SUN Early Lambing SUN SUN Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...and lambs SUN are being born! Sybil Ruscoe visits Warborough Farm in SUN Oxfordshire, which is one of the earliest intensive sheep SUN farms to start lambing. Through the first two weeks of SUN December, farm manager David Barber and his team of SUN shepherds work day and night to deliver nearly 3,000 lambs SUN into the world. Sybil experiences the highs and lows of SUN early lambing, and finds out what it's like to spend a cold SUN December night in a shed while the rest of the country is SUN carol singing and Christmas shopping. SUN SUN Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03lkm8w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03lkm8y (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03lkndg (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03lkndj (Listen) SUN Macmillan Cancer Support SUN SUN Jo Brand presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Macmillan Cancer SUN Support. SUN Reg Charity: 261017 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Macmillan Cancer Support'. SUN SUN Macmillan Cancer Support SUN SUN There are two million people living SUN with cancer in the UK today. As the population ages and SUN treatments improve, SUN this number will grow significantly. SUN Macmillan Cancer Support SUN aims to improve SUN the lives of everyone affected by cancer, no matter who SUN they are, where they SUN live within the UK or what kind of cancer they have. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03lkm90 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03lkm92 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03lkndl (Listen) SUN The Coming of Christ as Judge SUN SUN A service for the third Sunday of Advent from St Mary's SUN Church, Swansea. SUN SUN Reading: James 5:7-10 SUN SUN Leader: The Rev'd Simon Griffiths SUN Preacher: The Most Rev'd Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of SUN Wales SUN Organist: Peter Heginbotham SUN MD: Dr William Reynolds SUN SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03kvd5c (Listen) SUN Why Dickens Endures SUN SUN John Gray gives his own theory for the cultural longevity of SUN Charles Dickens, celebrating his view of life as a theatre SUN of the absurd. "Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found SUN them: unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5b9c (Listen) SUN Long-Tailed Duck 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 Chris Packham presents the long-tailed duck. The musical SUN call of the long-tailed duck gives it the Scottish name of SUN 'calloo', or 'coal- and-candlelight'. In the UK you're more SUN likely to see them in Scotland and northern England where SUN they seek out shellfish, diving up to 60 metres to retrieve SUN them. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03phvnm (Listen) SUN Presented by John Humphrys, with Allan Little in Qunu. SUN Remembering Mandela SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03lkndq (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Tim Stimpson SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor 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 Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN PeggyWoolley ..... June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Jess Titchener ..... Rina Mahoney SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson SUN Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03lknds (Listen) SUN Gillian Clarke SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Gillian Clarke. SUN SUN Wales's National Poet, she has received the Queen's Gold SUN Medal for her work. She writes about everything from SUN dinosaurs to suicide, but the potency and power of nature is SUN a recurring motif. SUN SUN Although she's recognised for her significant and SUN distinguished contribution to her homeland's literature and SUN culture, her verse has been translated into ten languages SUN and she regularly receives fan mail from South America, SUN Pakistan and most countries in between. SUN SUN Aside from writing, her main project in life is the SUN conservation of her own small patch of West Wales - SUN restoring hedges, conserving bluebells and tending sheep SUN take up her spare time. SUN SUN She says, "A poem is the only work of art you can have for SUN nothing. Read it, memorise it, copy it into your notebook SUN and it's yours." SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03kpy5w (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Milton SUN Keynes Theatre. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and SUN Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the SUN piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03lkndv (Listen) SUN Fish & Chips SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores a renaissance in the great British SUN fish and chip shop, with the help of food blogger Daniel SUN Young. SUN SUN At Upton Chippy near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, not much SUN has changed since the first fry there in 1948. The fish SUN comes fresh from Grimsby market, the potatoes from a local SUN farmer. The batter recipe is the same (and yes, it's a SUN secret) and it's all cooked in beef dripping on a coal-fired SUN range, one of the last in the UK. Not many fish and chip SUN shops have kept the faith like owner Sally Shaw and her SUN loyal customers, one of whom admits that even when he owned SUN his own fish and chip shop, he always had Friday off so he SUN could come here. SUN SUN Sheila visits Rhoti Chai, an Indian street-food restaurant SUN in London, for an Indian-style pop-up fish & chips event SUN organised by food blogger Daniel Young. Amritsari fish and SUN masala fries as well as curried mayo and chai-spiced pickled SUN eggs are on the menu. SUN SUN James Ritchie of Simpsons in Cheltenham explains why there's SUN nowhere to hide with a chip and Mitch Tonks of the SUN multi-award-winning Rockfish Seafood & Chips in Devon SUN explains why you have to know the fish game to become a SUN winner. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Young SUN Interviewed Guest: James Ritchie SUN Interviewed Guest: Mitch Tonks SUN Editor: Clare McGinn SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03lkm94 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03lkndx (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 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b03lkndz (Listen) SUN Series 2, Marina Chapman SUN SUN Marina Chapman is a grandmother from Yorkshire with a truly SUN exceptional story to tell - a "jungle book" style tale of SUN survival in the wild against all odds. Born in 1950's SUN Columbia, Marina's story starts when she was dramatically SUN abducted around the age of five and abandoned deep within a SUN region of dense tropical forest. The story of what happened SUN next is quite literally beyond belief but it's a story that SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli travels to Bradford to hear over a SUN Sunday lunch of Columbian style food and flavours. SUN SUN Producer: Catherine Earlam. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03kvbyc (Listen) SUN The Millennium Seed Bank SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts GQT from The Millennium Seed Bank at SUN Wakehurst Place. On this week's panel are Bunny Guinness, SUN Anne Swithinbank and Christine Walkden. SUN SUN We mark the eightieth birthday of the iconic post-war garden SUN designer, John Brookes, who coined the term 'room outside'. SUN Christine Walkden explores the depths of the underground SUN Millennium Seed Bank and traces the journey of the seed from SUN collection to preservation. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03lknf1 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces four conversations in which choices and SUN memories and dealing with what life throws at you all play a SUN part, whether you're talking about terminal cancer, acne, SUN friendship or dreadlocks. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lknpn (Listen) SUN The Commitments SUN SUN Jimmy Rabbite is on a mission - he wants to spread the SUN gospel of soul to Dublin. Barrytown is about to become SUN Motown as Jimmy decides to put a band together. SUN SUN The first of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown series of novels, all SUN to be dramatized by BBC Radio 4. Roddy Doyle's SUN ground-breaking classic is the story of a working class SUN Dublin band -The Commitments. SUN SUN With Joey the Lips Fagan on trumpet, Billy The Animal Mooney SUN on drums, Derek the Meatman Scully on bass, Dean Good Times SUN Fay on sax, L. Terence Foster on guitar, James the Soul SUN Surgeon Clifford on piano and - not forgetting the singers - SUN Declan Blanketman Cuffe and The Commitmentettes, Sonya, SUN Sofia and Tanya. This Dublin band are ready to bring some SUN serious soul, the working man's rhythm, to Dublin's SUN Northside. SUN SUN Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien. Directed on location in Dublin SUN by one of Ireland's finest filmmakers, Jim Sheridan (In the SUN Name of The Father, In America, My Left Foot, The Field.) SUN SUN The young cast is comprised of a new generation of talented SUN young Irish actors and the music is by the emerging Dublin SUN band, The Riptide Movement. SUN SUN THE BAND SUN Guitar ..... JP Dalton SUN Bass ..... Gerard McGarry SUN Drums ..... Garrett Byrne SUN Sax ..... Ciaran Sutton SUN Trumpet ..... Robert Grant SUN Piano ..... Enda Collins SUN SUN Written by Roddy Doyle SUN Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien SUN Producer: Gemma McMullan SUN Director: Jim Sheridan. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03lknpq (Listen) SUN Jill Paton Walsh on Lord Peter Wimsey SUN SUN Jill Paton Walsh on the enduring appeal of Dorothy L Sayers' SUN character Lord Peter Wimsey SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b03lknps (Listen) SUN Poetry Please Special: Edge SUN SUN 'Edge' is an extraordinary new poem that brings together two SUN major talents in a confluence of science and art. The poem SUN is a journey through space, in words by Katrina Porteous, SUN and music for computer by the pioneering composer Peter SUN Zinovieff. It was recorded, live, in front of an audience in SUN the planetarium at the Centre for Life in Newcastle during SUN this year's British Science Festival. SUN SUN 'Edge' visits four moons, each representing one of the SUN primary elements: Water, Fire, Earth and Air. They are SUN Jupiter's fiery moon Io; two of Saturn's moons, icy SUN Enceladus and methane-rich Titan, which could possibly host SUN primitive life. The fourth is Earth's own Moon, that witness SUN to life on Earth. SUN SUN The poem is performed by Katrina Porteous and the actor SUN David Seddon. It draws on a range of dramatic voices - SUN whispers, chants and incantations. Peter Zinovieff's music SUN incorporates sounds collected from space - from Sputnik, the SUN Apollo and Voyager missions, and the landing of the SUN Cassini-Huygens probe on Titan. SUN SUN 'Edge' follows a tidal structure, visiting and revisiting SUN each 'world', exploring the relation between chaos and SUN cosmos. Along the way, we pick up clues to the possibility SUN of the first stirrings of life, and finally, from Earth's SUN Moon, we catch sight of our own planet, distinguished by the SUN emergence not only of life but of consciousness and SUN imagination. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:00 Inside the Fed b03kqg09 (Listen) SUN The US Federal Reserve - America's central bank - is 100 SUN years old. Simon Jack tells the surprising story of an SUN institution which despite crashes and crises is a SUN cornerstone of the global economy. SUN SUN With rare access to the Federal Reserve itself Simon talks SUN to some of those who have been intimately involved with it SUN over the decades. SUN SUN He discovers some unlikely tales in the Fed's struggle to SUN maintain its independence and he finds out what things were SUN really like there during the worst of the financial crisis SUN in 2008. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03lkn5g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03lkm96 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03lkm98 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03lkm9b (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03lnprc (Listen) SUN The best of BBC Radio this week with Benjamin Zephaniah. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03lnprf (Listen) SUN Leonie is feeling lonely, and Rosa refuses to listen. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b03lnprh (Listen) SUN Series 4, #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad SUN SUN One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC SUN Radio 4 doing what he does best. SUN SUN This week, in "#2 to Go", a trip to China does not work out SUN well for David - especially on the food front. SUN SUN The second story is called "Innocents Abroad" and tackles SUN the tricky tightrope of "going native" when learning a SUN foreign language. SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Modern Welsh Voices b03lntqf (Listen) SUN Brown Jug SUN SUN Brown Jug by Linda Ruhemann. The first of five original SUN stories by writers from Wales. SUN SUN Whilst shopping for souvenirs in a small holiday town a SUN man's past is evoked and it brings a new perspective on the SUN present. SUN SUN Read by Robert Pugh SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03kvd4z (Listen) SUN The news of Nelson Mandela's death reverberated around the SUN world on Thursday evening. But by Friday morning it SUN dominated not only the news but also the normal schedule SUN across BBC Radio 4. Many listeners were frustrated by the SUN coverage which they say was just too much, and at the SUN expense of important national news about the worst storms SUN for a generation and the Autumn Statement. And the coverage SUN continues. We speak to the Head of the BBC Newsroom, Mary SUN Hockaday, and ask whether Nelson Mandela's death really SUN warranted all that airtime. SUN SUN And is Radio 4 becoming a speech and music network? SUN Listeners are divided about whether melody has a place as SUN part of Radio 4's speech output with programmes like SUN Mastertapes, Soul Music and dedicated music documentaries SUN all occupying airtime in recent weeks. We speak to Radio 4's SUN Commissioning Editor for the Arts, Tony Phillips, about SUN whether there are now more music programmes on the network. SUN SUN While popular music may not be every listener's cup of tea, SUN there are certainly plenty of you who enjoy the dulcet tones SUN of bells on Radio 4. Last week Denis Nowlan, Radio 4's SUN Network Manager, asked for listeners' help to reveal when SUN bells were first heard on a Sunday on the network. Since SUN then, we've heard from many of you who remember them from SUN your childhood. SUN SUN We'll also be visiting Ambridge to speak to the woman who SUN presides over sixty years of history - The Archers SUN Archivist, Camilla Fisher. She's joined by long-term script SUN writer Joanna Toye to pull out some hidden gems from the SUN thousands of minute details she holds about characters' SUN lives. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03kvd4x (Listen) SUN Stan Tracey, General Alfonso Armada, Mary Eyre, Bob George, SUN Mary Riggans SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey. His son, Clark, SUN reflects on playing drums with his father for thirty five SUN years. SUN SUN Also the Spanish General Alfonso Armada who was jailed for SUN his part in the abortive coup of 1981. SUN SUN Mary Eyre who played hockey for England - and tennis at SUN Wimbledon. SUN SUN Bob George, the biology teacher who became the UK's leading SUN expert on fleas. SUN SUN And the actress Mary Riggans, best known for her roles in SUN "Take The High Road" and "Balamory". SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03lkmpt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03lkndj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03kv48v (Listen) SUN Workload SUN SUN Once there were quotas for employing disabled people. Now SUN there is equality legislation and protection from SUN discrimination in the workplace. Employers are SUN ultra-sensitive about this but what does it actually mean SUN for people with disabilities and the people they work with? SUN Peter Day finds out. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03lntqh (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 b03lntqk (Listen) SUN Caroline Daniel of the FT looks at how papers covered the SUN week's biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03kv271 (Listen) SUN Harvey Weinstein; Xmas gifts from the film world; Alfonso SUN Cuaron on Gravity SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to legendary film producer and co SUN founder of Miramax films Harvey Weinstein, about his life in SUN films, including his most recent release Mandela. Plus a SUN pick of the best Christmas gifts from the film world with SUN Catherine Bray and Jason Solomons. As we enter the "award SUN season" critic Tim Robey discusses the Golden Globe SUN nominations. And Alfonso Cuaron discusses his 3D wonder SUN Gravity, still pulling them into the box office. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03lkndb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 DECEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03lkmbc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03ktz0p (Listen) MON Pocket Calculator in Papua New Guinea; Chicago MON MON The Great American City - US Professor of Social Sciences, MON Robert J Sampson, discusses his landmark research project MON with Laurie Taylor. Following in the influential tradition MON of the Chicago School of urban studies, but updating it for MON the twenty-first century, he argues that communities do MON still matter because life is decisively shaped by where we MON live. Neighbourhoods influences a wide variety of phenomena MON including teen births, altruism and crime. Not even national MON crisis can destroy the enduring impact of place. MON MON Also, the anthropologist, Anthony Pickles, reveals the MON significance of pockets for controlling money in Highland MON Papua New Guinea. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03lknd8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03lkmbf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03lkmbh (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03lkmbk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03lkmbm (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03lnvwv (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father MON Eugene O'Neill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03lnvwx (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03lkmbp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bwv (Listen) MON Shelduck 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 David Attenborough presents the shelduck. Shelducks are MON birds of open mud and sand which they sift for water snails MON and other tiny creatures. They will breed inland and they MON nest in holes. Disused rabbit burrows are favourite places MON and they'll also settle down in tree cavities, sheds, MON out-buildings and even haystacks. MON MON 06:00 Today b03lnvwz (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03lnvx1 (Listen) MON Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe talks to Josie Rourke about MON her production of Coriolanus, the story of the war hero MON destroyed by his own pride and the forces of realpolitik. MON His battle strategy fails on the streets of Rome as the MON masses get their first taste of democracy. David Runciman MON asks whether democracy breeds complacency rather than wisdom MON or reform, and in his study of Strategy, Lawrence Freedman MON asks why great military strategists often make such poor MON political leaders. Dominic Lawson tries to keep his moves MON hidden, as he enthuses about the world of chess. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03lnx3l (Listen) MON Darling Monster, Episode 1 MON MON This new book contains the letters sent from aristocrat, MON society darling and actress of stage and early screen, Lady MON Diana Cooper, to her only son, John Julius Norwich. MON MON When Lady Diana married rising political star Duff Cooper, MON they became the golden couple who knew everyone who was MON anyone. Her letters serve as a portrait of a time, capturing MON some of history's most dramatic events and most important MON figures with immediacy and intimacy. But they also give us a MON touching portrait of the love between a mother and son, MON separated by war, oceans and the constraints of the time MON they lived in. MON MON Her letters span the years 1939 to 1952, taking in the MON Blitz, Diana's short spell as a farmer in Sussex, a trip to MON the Far East when husband Duff was collecting war MON intelligence, the couple's three years in the Paris embassy, MON as well as a great number of journeys around Europe and MON North Africa. MON MON Read by John Julius Norwich and Patricia Hodge MON MON Producer: David Roper MON Abridger: Barry Johnston MON MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03lnzxc (Listen) MON Penelope Leach; PowerLister Barbara Judge; Self-harm in MON women prisoners MON MON What is the best way to care for pre-school children? On the MON programme last week we looked at a kindergarten boarding MON school in China and community care in Fiji. Psychologist MON Penelope Leach is one of the guests discussing childcare in MON the early years. Powerlister Barbara Judge, described as one MON of the best connected women in Britain, on the importance of MON taking yourself seriously. What figures released on Monday MON reveal about women prisoners who self-harm. James Morton, MON runner-up on The Great British Bake Off 2012, shows Jane how MON to make the perfect festive bread, Stollen. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey. MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON Output editor: Anne Peacock. MON MON 10:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lnzxf (Listen) MON The Snapper, Episode 1 MON MON Barrytown is buzzing with speculation. Sharon Rabbitte is MON pregnant and she's not telling anyone who the father is. But MON with tongues wagging and rumours mounting, just how long MON will it take everyone to work out who in Barrytown is the MON "snapper's" Da? MON MON The second of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown series of novels, all MON to be dramatized by BBC Radio 4. After a drunken encounter MON at the soccer club do, Sharon is pregnant and much to the MON annoyance to her dad, Jimmy, refusing to name the baby's MON father. So when Jimmy gets wind that it might be someone MON close to home all hell breaks loose. MON MON The cast includes David Wilmot as Jimmy Snr (Ripper Street, MON Anna Karenina) and Aoife Duffin as Sharon (Moone Boy.) MON MON Written by Roddy Doyle MON Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien MON Producer: Gemma McMullan MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON Credits MON Jimmy Rabbitte: David Wilmot MON Sharon Rabbitte: Aoife Duffin MON Veronica: Angeline Ball MON Darren: Cal Kenealy MON Jimmy Junior: Gavin Drea MON Jackie: Amy McAllister MON Mary: Aisling Franciosi MON Yvonne: Seainin Brennan MON George Burgess: Gerry O'Brien MON Writer: Roddy Doyle MON Adaptor: Eugene O'Brien MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON Producer: Gemma McMullan MON MON 11:00 David Attenborough: My Life in Sound b03lnzxh (Listen) MON In an exclusive interview for Radio 4 David Attenborough MON talks to Chris Watson about his life in sound. MON MON One of Sir David's first jobs in natural history film making MON was as a wildlife sound recordist. Recorded in Qatar, David MON Attenborough is with wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, MON there to make a film about a group of birds he is passionate MON about, The Bird of Paradise. It is in Qatar where the worlds MON largest captive breeding population is and it is in this MON setting Chris Watson takes Sir David back to the 1950's and MON his early recording escapades, right through to today where MON David Attenborough narrates a series of Tweet of the Day's MON on Radio 4 across the Christmas and New Year period. MON David Attenborough: from the archive MON Tweet of the Day MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03lnzxk (Listen) MON Series 9, The Bride of Auntie 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 Ed discovers that he can put his extensive general knowledge MON to good use when he finally finds his niche and becomes a MON contestant on the Radio 4 seminal quiz 'What Do You Know'. MON Not only is his general knowledge excellent, but he's also MON being paid a fee to the grand sum of £43. Is his luck MON turning at last? MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON Credits MON Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas MON Olive: Stephanie Cole MON Northern Ireland Voice: Simon Greenall MON Jaz: Philip Jackson MON Steve Plant: Dan Mersh MON Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Laura Pope: Vicki Pepperdine MON Neil Hardacre: Duncan Preston MON Pearl: Alison Steadman MON Janet: Nicola Sanderson MON Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Writer: Andrew Nickolds MON Writer: Christopher Douglas MON Producer: Dawn Ellis MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03lnzxm (Listen) MON Digital radio future; Equitable Life compensation MON MON Winifred Robinson looks at the future for digital radio in MON the UK as the Governent prepares to make a key announcement MON at the Go Digital Conference. The MP calling for safe MON standing at Premier League football games. New payments to MON those who lost out when Equitable Life hit trouble and the MON challenges of heating a home when it's listed. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03lkmbr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03lkmbt (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 Cause for Caroling b03lp80w (Listen) MON A Second Golden Age MON MON In the sixth part of his story of the Christmas Carol Jeremy MON Summerly reaches the 19th century and publications of old MON folk carols from what was thought to be a dying tradition. MON However, by mid-century, with the Tracterean movement in the MON Church of England at its height the carol and the singing of MON carols was once again hugely popular. It was the publication MON of a 'Christmas Carols New and Old by Henry Ramsden Bramley MON and John Stainer in 1867, that marked the height of another MON caroling golden age. However, it was now big business and MON there were reputations at stake when folk carol collectors MON saw their work hoovered up by the might of Bramley and MON Stainer.Jeremy also tells the story of the little 16th MON century Finnish manual 'Piae Cantiones' that provided a MON series of memorable re-workings of fifteenth century words MON and melodies, including In Dulce Jubilo and Good King MON Wenceslas. MON MON Producer:Tom Alban. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03lnprf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Borgen: Outside the Castle b03lpbzr (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON DR, the Danish producers of 'Borgen', originally MON commissioned this thriller to run alongside the first series MON of their acclaimed political drama. Hans Gammelgaard, MON Private Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment, is MON seeking approval for the controlled use of genetically MON modified crops by Danish farmers. He expected opposition but MON not from unseen enemies prepared to go to any lengths in MON pursuit of their own agenda. By Tommy Bredsted and Joan Rang MON Christensen, in an English version by Joy Wilkinson. MON MON Original music by Halfdan E. MON Directed by Anders Lundorph MON MON Originally produced in ten parts by DR, Denmark's national MON broadcaster, this radio spin-off of 'Borgen' is set against MON the backdrop of the first series of the television drama MON which followed the unlikely emergence of Birgitte Nyborg as MON the country's new prime minister. Both series have at their MON centre the Danish parliament, nicknamed Borgen - 'the MON castle'. While the TV drama focuses on the politicians, the MON radio drama is set in the world of the civil service. Both MON share the same soundtrack composed by Halfdan E. MON MON Credits MON Hans Gammelgaard: Tim Pigott-Smith MON Nick: Will Howard MON Suzanne: Katherine Dow Blyton MON Jan Gleerup: Tom Goodman-Hill MON Tom Nielson: Danny Sapani MON DP: Tony Gardner MON Edel: Pippa Haywood MON Actor: John Norton MON Actor: Carolyn Pickles MON Actor: Harry Jardine MON Actor: Joel MacCormack MON Actor: Carys Eleri MON Actor: Sean Murray MON Director: Anders Lundorph MON Producer: Anders Lundorph MON Writer: Tommy Bredsted MON Writer: Joan Rang Christensen MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03lpbzt (Listen) MON (2/17) MON Competitors from Oxfordshire, West Sussex, London and Kent MON join Russell Davies for the second heat in the current MON series of the longest-lived general knowledge quiz on MON British radio. MON MON The eventual winner after heats, semi-finals and Final will MON be named the sixty-first Brain of Britain in the spring of MON 2014. MON MON As always, the contestants will also pool their brainpower MON to tackle questions from a listener hoping to win a prize by MON 'Beating the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03lkndv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Derry, Mostar and the Conquest of Happiness b03lpbzw (Listen) MON This autumn, a theatre production created by two companies, MON one based in Northern Ireland and one based in Bosnia, MON co-produced a play called 'The Conquest of Happiness'. MON Marie-Louise Muir, herself a native of Derry-Londonderry MON travelled alongside the cast and crew as the hard-hitting MON anti-war piece debuted in her hometown then shifted to MON Mostar. Can a play provide any kind of hope or balm for the MON people of those cities, which have both experienced much MON trauma after conflict? MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03lpbzy (Listen) MON Series 9, Should We Pander to Pandas? MON MON This week, Brian Cox and Robin Ince wonder if the world MON would be better off without spending an undue amount of time MON and energy trying to get giant pandas to mate and instead MON concentrated on saving species which let's face it, are a MON lot less cute but probably more important for the planet. MON Should we make a distinction between the organisms we want MON to save as opposed to those we need to save? The science and MON politics of biodiversity and conservation, explored and MON explained (sort of) with the help of Sandy Knapp, Simon Watt MON and comedian Sara Pascoe. Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON 17:00 PM b03lpc00 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03lkmbw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03lpc02 (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Milton Keynes Theatre, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in MON the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03lpc04 (Listen) MON Jennifer tries to help. Meanwhile Helen needs cheering up. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03lpc06 (Listen) MON Mark Lawson presents a mix of arts interviews, news and MON reviews. MON MON Producer: Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lnzxf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Whatever Happened to Community? b03lpc08 (Listen) MON Reconstructing Community MON MON Giles Fraser has left a glittering job as Canon Chancellor MON of St Paul's Cathedral and is now working as the priest of a MON run-down parish in Elephant and Castle. This has set him MON thinking about the nature of community, which he MON investigates in this very personal series. MON MON In this final programme he asks what lies at the heart of MON community. Is it possible to intervene to make communities MON stronger? MON MON Giles visits the RSA project in Bristol, Social Mirror. Its MON aim is to combat a growing plague of loneliness, especially MON amongst older people. Gaia Marcus, who runs the project, MON believes that a lack of social connectedness can impact MON heavily on mental health, well-being and life prospects. MON Social Mirror offers 'social prescriptions' to people MON visiting their doctors' surgery - including bingo, walking, MON tai chi, gardening and drama - forging links between MON individuals and building social networks. MON MON Social geographer Jane Wills explains the role of social MON organising in strengthening communities. An idea born in MON America and made famous by Barack Obama, it is gaining MON currency here. MON MON David Goodhart from the think tank Demos and Frank Cottrell MON Boyce, who scripted the opening ceremony of last year's MON Olympic Games, discuss the role of national identity. MON MON And, in an increasingly secular age, Giles asks theologian MON John Milbank and priest and broadcaster Richard Coles MON whether there still a role for the church in building our MON communities. MON MON Producer: Jane Greenwood. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03kv1dx (Listen) MON Indonesia's humungous healthcare plan MON MON On 1 January 2014 Indonesia will launch the largest public MON health insurance scheme in the world. It will unite a MON bewildering array of current schemes to cover the entire MON population, with the poor getting their health care free. MON Former BBC Jakarta Correspondent Claire Bolderson asks MON whether the world's fourth most populous country has the MON resources and organisational skills to make such an MON ambitious scheme work? MON Producer: Mike Gallagher. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03kqf02 (Listen) MON Eco-Tourism MON MON Humans in the form of scientific research or for artistic MON endeavour have for centuries travelled the world in search MON of new landscapes and places. It was not until the arrival MON of cheap air travel in the 1970's that far flung remote MON areas became accessible to anyone. Seeing and engaging with MON a wild landscape or animal has been shown to improve our MON desire to protect nature. But as the sheer numbers of people MON travelling to see wildlife spectacles increases, is it MON possible that the wildlife they have come to see may be MON changing their behaviour in response to this pressure. This MON week's field report comes a whale and dolphin watching trip MON in the Azores where tourist boats head off in search of a MON once in a lifetime wildlife spectacle. MON MON Producer Andrew Dawes. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03lnvx1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03lkmby (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03lpc0b (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03lpc0d (Listen) MON Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, A Typical Man about Town MON MON Blake Ritson reads a classic Jeeves and Wooster story from P MON G Wodehouse, one of the masters of comic fiction. MON MON 'Mr Wooster,' he said, 'you are a typical young man about MON town.' MON 'Oh thanks,' I responded, for it sounded like a compliment, MON and one always likes to say the civil thing. MON MON Bertie Wooster has been overdoing the metropolitan life a MON little, so on doctor's orders, finds himself retiring to the MON quiet hamlet of Maiden Eggesford to 'sleep the sleep of the MON just and lead the quiet Martini-less life'. Only the MON presence of his irrepressible Aunt Dahlia shatters the MON rustic peace as an imbroglio develops - destined to be MON famous down the long years as the 'Maiden Eggesford Horror' MON or 'The Case Of The Cat Which Kept Popping Up When Least MON Expected' â€" which involves a stolen cat, an over-sensitive MON racehorse, and some star-crossed lovers. Wooster's MON quick-thinking butler Jeeves, as always, comes to the MON rescue. MON MON In the first episode: 'A typical man about town' - on MON discovering some alarming spots, Bertie Wooster heads off to MON his quack, but on the way bumps into a former fiancÃ(c)e MON turned firebrand, her jealous paramour, and a very unwelcome MON adversary from the past. MON MON The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of MON Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr MON Mulliner, P G Wodehouse was born in 1881 in Guildford, MON Surrey, in 1881. He was created a Knight of the British MON Empire in 1975 and died on St. Valentine's Day in the same MON year at the age of ninety-three. Jeeves and Wooster were MON perhaps his best-known creations; 'Aunts Aren't Gentlemen' MON was published in 1974, and was the last novel to feature the MON literary duo. MON MON Reader: Blake Ritson is an acclaimed stage an screen actor, MON who first gained recognition for his role in Tom Stoppards MON 'Arcadia', and more recently for his TV roles in 'Emma', MON 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Mansfield Park'. MON MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Curlew River b03hvqlf (Listen) MON In celebration of his centenary year, the works of Benjamin MON Britten have been performed all over the world, from MON Aldeburgh (where so many of them were written) to Kuala MON Lumpur. MON MON In this programme, the tenor Ian Bostridge introduces us to MON Curlew River, one of Britten's strangest and most remarkable MON musical works. The chamber opera was first performed in MON Orford Church, but was born out of Britten's tour of the Far MON East in 1956. It's set in East Anglia, on the banks of the MON imaginary River Curlew, but is inspired by Japanese Noh MON theatre. MON MON Ian Bostridge is playing the role of a mother who has lost MON her child in a production at St Giles, Cripplegate, in MON London. We follow him through the rehearsal process, hear MON what it's like to perform the part, and learn how Britten MON incorporated Eastern music and drama into a Christian MON parable set in the fenlands of medieval England. MON MON Producer: Isabel Sutton MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03lpc0g (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 DECEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03lkmcw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03lnx3l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03lkmcy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03lkmd0 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03lkmd2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03lkmd4 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03lpfwc (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father TUE Eugene O'Neill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03lpfwf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c26 (Listen) TUE Ptarmigan 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 David Attenborough presents the ptarmigan. Few birds are TUE tough enough to brave winter on the highest of Scottish TUE mountains but Ptarmigan are well adapted to extreme TUE conditions. They're the only British bird that turns white TUE in winter and Ptarmigan have feathers that cover their toes, TUE feet and nostrils to minimise heat loss. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03lpfwh (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Making of the Modern Arab World b03lpfwk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Egyptian author Tarek Osman traces the ideas that have TUE shaped the modern Arab world, focussing on Egypt and Syria. TUE Today, he explores the rise and fall of Arab nationalism. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03lpfwm (Listen) TUE Darling Monster, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today, Lady Diana sets up a smallholding in Sussex for the TUE war effort. She will not dig for victory, but will certainly TUE milk a cow in order to produce her own cheese. TUE TUE Read by John Julius Norwich and Patricia Hodge TUE Producer: David Roper TUE Abridger: Barry Johnston TUE TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03lpfwp (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lpfwr (Listen) TUE The Snapper, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Roddy Doyle TUE Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien TUE Producer: Gemma McMullan TUE Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03lpfwt (Listen) TUE Noise in the Environment TUE TUE Before the arrival of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th TUE Century many believe the planet was largely a silent place. TUE However what this overlooks is that the natural world is an TUE incredibly noisy environment as species communicate between TUE each other sometimes over vast distances. What has changed TUE is that from around 1800 one species on the planet is TUE arguably losing its ability to hear the presence of natural TUE sound, and that species is Homo sapiens. Today the amount of TUE anthropogenic noise 7 billion people produce across this TUE planet is for many resulting in a disconnection with our TUE natural neighbours and an inability to experience silence. TUE If we can no longer hear the natural world, are we possibly TUE becoming disconnected from everything around us? Monty Don TUE explores this question through the difficulty of hearing TUE natural sounds in the countryside without the interference TUE of human noise. TUE TUE Producer : Andrew Dawes. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b03lpfww (Listen) TUE Series 17, Brahms' German Requiem TUE TUE How Brahms' German Requiem, written as a tribute to his TUE mother and designed to comfort the grieving, has touched and TUE changed peoples lives. TUE TUE Stuart Perkins describes how the piece arrived at the right TUE time in his life, after the death of his aunt. TUE TUE Axel Körner, Professor of Modern History at University TUE College London, explains the genesis of the work and how the TUE deaths of Brahms' friends and family contributed to the TUE emotional power of the piece. TUE TUE Daniel Malis and Danica Buckley recall how the piece enabled TUE them to cope with the trauma of the Boston marathon TUE bombings. TUE TUE Simon Halsey, Chief Conductor of the Berlin Radio Choir, TUE explores how Brahms' experience as a church musician enabled TUE him to distil hundreds of years of musical history into this TUE dramatic choral work. TUE TUE For Imani Mosley, the piece helped her through a traumatic TUE time in hospital. Rosemary Sales sought solace in the TUE physical power of Brahms' music after the death of her son. TUE And June Noble recounts how the piece helped her find her TUE voice and make her peace with her parents. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03lpfwy (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours - Christmas: Is it all it's cracked up to TUE be? TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Winifred Robinson is all about the TUE reality of Christmas. It's supposed to be a time of joy, but TUE for many it's disappointing and stressful. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03lkmd6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03lkmd8 (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 Cause for Caroling b03lpfx0 (Listen) TUE Folk Carol Survival and Revival TUE TUE In the seventh programme in his series describing the TUE gathering history of the Christmas Carol in Great Britain TUE Jeremy Summerly returns to the Gallery tradition that was TUE squeezed out of 19th century Church worship but steadfastly TUE refused to die. It's now in rude health in several parts of TUE the country but nowhere is it more energetically sustained TUE than in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. With the guidance of TUE Dr Ian Russell who holds folk carol festivals and the TUE enthusiasm of pub carolers who sustain the tradition Jeremy TUE shares a pint and a clutch of fuguing carols which flower TUE happily in the 21st century while having roots in the 18th TUE and 19th. TUE He also finds out about an American offshoot of the gallery TUE style that's been preserved in the icy blasts of TUE Pennsylvannia USA since it was first seeded there in the TUE middle of the 19th century. TUE TUE Producer:Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03lpc04 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Borgen: Outside the Castle b03lpfx2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Grandson Nick forces Hans to pick himself up after being TUE sacked, and they join forces with cynical journalist, Jan TUE Gleerup, to find out who has been pushing commercial TUE interests in the GMO debate in Borgen. And then the TUE threatening phone calls start.... TUE TUE Director ..... Polly Thomas TUE Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis TUE PC ..... Willa King TUE TUE A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03lph1b (Listen) TUE Series 5, Cardiff TUE TUE Jay Rayner hosts the last programme in the current series of TUE Radio 4's culinary panel programme, recorded in Cardiff. TUE TUE The team take questions from a local audience on all aspects TUE of cooking and eating. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Shared Experience b03lph1d (Listen) TUE I Saw a Ghost TUE TUE Shared Experience is a new series. Fi Glover and guests sit TUE round a kitchen table to share strange tales that turn out TUE to be unexpectedly common. In the first programme Fi talks TUE to people who've seen a ghost. Fi's guests have come from TUE different places, with different backgrounds; they live very TUE different lives. But they have one experience they all share TUE - the day they saw a ghost and what happened to them after. TUE In Britain, strange tales are more common than you think. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b03lph1g (Listen) TUE Prime Suspects TUE TUE Michael Rosen has half an hour to crack the case of the TUE police interview. His hard-bitten squad of investigators TUE includes top crime writers Peter James and John Harvey. TUE TUE Until the 1980s the police had no formal training in TUE interviewing techniques. When a suspect entered the TUE interrogation room he could have faced a barrage of foul TUE language, veiled threats and downright lies. There was TUE usually no solicitor present and no recordings of the TUE interview. A successful interrogation was one where the TUE suspect 'coughed', admitting to the crime as quickly as TUE possible. TUE TUE Today things are considerably more restrained. The word TUE 'interrogation' has been banned in England and Wales. Every TUE 'investigative interview' is captured electronically and TUE every policeman gets training in the latest psychological TUE techniques to draw out suspect and witness testimony. The TUE changes might be good for justice but they're a nightmare TUE for novelists and dramatists. TUE TUE Without the threats, the bullying and the violence what's TUE left for the crime writer who enjoys the language of TUE villains and crimefighters under extreme pressure? Michael TUE talks to best-selling writers Peter James and John Harvey TUE about the delicate path they tread between the dull reality TUE of police official language and the tempting darklands of TUE their violent imaginations. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03lph8m (Listen) TUE Series 32, Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg TUE TUE Matthew Parris is joined by Michael Horovitz who nominates TUE fellow poet and founder of the Beat generation Allen TUE Ginsberg as his Great Life. Ginsberg's friend and biographer TUE Barry Miles provides biographical detail of this colourful TUE and controversial writer, who through his battle for free TUE expression inspired American counter culture. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03lph8p (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03lkmdb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03lph8r (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 4 TUE TUE Last in the series of comedy sketches from David Mitchell, TUE Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and James Bachman, including a TUE horror story for slugs; the Escalator brothers inventing the TUE world's first horseless staircase; and the very last TUE programme the BBC ever does... TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03lph8t (Listen) TUE Eddie comes to the rescue, and Jess wants to be friends. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03lph8w (Listen) TUE Producer: Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lpfwr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Lines in the Sand b03lph8y (Listen) TUE Mark Doyle charts the challenge from Islamist militants in TUE Europe's backyard, and asks if a series of separate TUE conflicts are becoming part of a wider front. TUE TUE In January this year armed extremists in Mali took over a TUE large swathe of the country before being beaten back by TUE French forces. The Islamists were killed and dispersed - but TUE they were far from beaten. Across the edge of the Sahara, a TUE large number of other violent, Islamist-related incidents TUE followed or came into focus. One of the men who had led the TUE occupation of northern Mali, Mochtar Bel Mochtar, TUE audaciously attacked a BP oil installation in southern TUE Algeria, across Mali's northern border. Islamists attacked a TUE uranium mine and a military barracks in Mali's neighbour, TUE Niger. Suicide bombers began operating in both countries for TUE the first time. And most significantly, the conflict in TUE Northern Nigeria intensified. The Boko Haram group, which TUE has reported links to the Mali insurgents, occupied TUE significant parts of the most populous country in the TUE region. The lines in the Saharan sand are much broader than TUE we thought - and they are shifting. The wider international TUE community has now followed the French. A United Nations TUE peacekeeping force is on the ground in Mali. European TUE soldiers, including British, are retraining the Malian army. TUE It has been decided that the fight against Saharan threat is TUE worth blood and treasure. TUE TUE BBC International Development Correspondent Mark Doyle is a TUE veteran reporter of the continent. He gives listeners a TUE visual picture of this new battleground, and investigates TUE what the fighting is really about. Through on-the-ground TUE reportage in Libya, Mali, Nigeria and Somalia, and TUE interviews with African and European players, he asks if the TUE tactics the domestic and international forces deploy will TUE work. TUE TUE Producer: Neal Razzell. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03lph90 (Listen) TUE Smartphone apps TUE TUE Smartphone apps expert and In Touch reporter Lee Kumutat and TUE the lutenist Matthew Wadsworth join Peter White to discuss TUE the best and favourite apps for blind and partially-sighted TUE users for both the iPhone and Android phones. TUE TUE Lee tries one of them which takes a picture and then, using TUE speech, describes the image. TUE TUE Matt also plays his lute! TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b03lph92 (Listen) TUE Why rituals like blowing out candles on a birthday cake or TUE carving a turkey at the table before eating can improve the TUE taste of food. Claudia Hammond talks to Michael Norton from TUE Harvard University about his new research which shows the TUE effect can work for chocolate and even carrots. TUE TUE 21:30 The Making of the Modern Arab World b03lpfwk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03lkmdd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03lph94 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03lph96 (Listen) TUE Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, The Quiet, Martini-less Life TUE TUE Blake Ritson reads a classic Jeeves and Wooster story from P TUE G Wodehouse, one of the masters of comic fiction. TUE TUE Today: 'The quiet, Martini-less life' - man-about-town TUE Wooster finds himself, on doctor's orders, sampling the TUE quiet life in the sleepy village of Maiden Eggesford. But TUE then, best laid plans.... TUE TUE Reader: Blake Ritson TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03lpbzy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03lph98 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03lkmfb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03lpfwm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03lkmfd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03lkmfg (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03lkmfj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03lkmfl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03lpjp1 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father WED Eugene O'Neill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03lpjp3 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c3r (Listen) WED Sanderling 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 David Attenborough presents the sanderling. Twinkling along WED the tideline, so fast that their legs are a blur, WED sanderlings are small waders. It's the speed with which they WED dodge incoming waves that catches your attention as they run WED after the retreating waters and frantically probe the sand. WED WED 06:00 Today b03lpjp5 (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03lpjp7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03lpjp9 (Listen) WED Darling Monster, Episode 3 WED WED Today, Lady Diana moves into the French Embassy, along with WED her husband the politician Duff Cooper and his lover Louis WED de Vilmorin. Their parties become legendary. WED WED Read by John Julius Norwich and Patricia Hodge WED Producer: David Roper WED Abridger: Barry Johnston WED WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03lpjpc (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lpjpf (Listen) WED The Snapper, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Roddy Doyle WED Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien WED Producer: Gemma McMullan WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b03lpjph (Listen) WED Series 15, Going, Going, Gone WED WED In the Sheffield auction room they see it all, from miners' WED welfare centres, to country manors and repossessed bowling WED alleys, and whatever state the buildings are in there's WED nearly always some-one willing to bid for them. WED WED The process is largely overseen by Adrian Little, whose own WED father was a livestock auctioneer. His right hand man is WED Mohammed Mahroof, whose father came from Pakistan to work in WED the steel works and had no intention of staying in his WED rented accommodation where he slept twelve to a room. WED WED Over a four week period viewings take place on a welfare WED centre in Grimethorpe, a council library in Sheffield and WED homes in various states of disrepair. One has cracks so WED large that daylight pours through the roof and the walls WED look like they're escaping down the street. It doesn't seem WED to deter. Scores of people come and dream about the type of WED home they can make for themselves in this desirable area of WED the city. Others don't view at all - preferring to turn up WED at the auction room to snap up anything which can provide WED them with a rental income or a conversion possibility. WED WED As Mahroof drives round the city he can't resist reciting WED the value of nearly every building he passes: a habit he WED clearly inherits from his Dad. And for those in Grimethorpe, WED the auction represents the end of the days of community WED provision. Dot watches developers peer and poke their way WED round the galleried rooms: all of them want to bulldoze the WED site and erect flats in place of the meeting spaces she WED remembers from the miner's strike: "it's sad to see these WED buildings lost to us," she says, "but that's the way it is - WED the old times have gone for good." WED WED Producer/reporter: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b03lpjpk (Listen) WED Series 2, Secrets WED WED Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a WED second series. WED WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of WED truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, WED most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard WED Wilson. WED WED He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan WED delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his WED fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version WED of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, WED private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester WED United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has WED survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of WED fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, WED charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian WED McKellan (not true). WED WED The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference his famous catchphrase. WED WED Cast: WED Richard Wilson............................himself WED Doug......................................David Tennant WED Celia Imrie...............................herself WED Suzy Baker................................Samantha Spiro WED Young Richard.............................tba WED Egg Wilson................................Lewis Mcleod WED Teddy.....................................Robert Portal WED Mother....................................Arabella Weir WED Auntie Rita...............................Jane Slavin. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03lpjpm (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03lkmfn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03lkmfq (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 Cause for Caroling b03lpjpp (Listen) WED The Birth of Nine Lessons with Carols WED WED In the eighth programme of his series charting the WED development of the Christmas Carol in Britain Jeremy WED Summerly reaches the critical moment at which the 19th WED century enthusiasm for carols sung in church resulted in a WED vehicle in which they could take a leading role. It was WED developed by Bishop Benson of Truro who, in 1880 found WED himself holding services in a huge wooden shed while a new WED cathedral was being built next door. To celebrate the new WED diocese and capture the enthusiasm he recognise in the WED nonconformist tradition of carol singing in Cornwall, Benson WED developed a narrative service running from Adam's original WED sin to the birth of Christ and the impact of the word made WED flesh. WED Jeremy visits Truro and then follows Benson's service to the WED moment in 1918 when a war-wearied Dean of King's College WED Chapel, Cambridge, Erich Milner-White decided to use the WED service as part of his college's Christmas celebrations. The WED changes he made survive to this day. WED WED Producer:Tom Alban. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03lph8t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Borgen: Outside the Castle b03lpjpr (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Forced into early retirement, former civil servant Hans WED Gammelgaard has formed an unlikely alliance with Nick, his WED environmental activist grandson, and journalist Jan Gleerup. WED They are determined to discover who is pulling the strings WED at the Ministry of the Environment and manipulating WED legislation on genetically modified crops. By Tommy Bredsted WED and Joan Rang Christensen, in an English version by Joy WED Wilkinson. WED WED Music by Halfdan E WED Directed by Anders Lundorph WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03lpjxy (Listen) WED State Pension WED WED Need advice about your state pension? In his Autumn WED Statement, Chancellor George Osborne announced a further WED increase in state pension age and an opportunity for some WED people to boost their additional state pension. To ask about WED the changes or your entitlement call 03700 100 444 from 1pm WED to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED Earlier this year Pensions Minister Steve Webb announced WED plans for a flat-rate pension which will affect people who WED reach state pension age from 6 April 2016. The provisions WED are currently progressing through parliament in the Pensions WED Bill and should receive Royal Assent next year. WED WED If you want to find out about building up, delaying or WED claiming a state pension you can ask our team how it works. WED WED Or perhaps you have a question about pension credit or other WED financial assistance. Age UK say that around £5.5 billion in WED Pension Credit, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit WED remains unclaimed each year. WED WED Whatever your question, presenter Paul Lewis will be waiting WED for your call. Joining Paul will be: WED WED Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive, The Pensions Advisory WED Service. WED WED Malcolm McLean, Pensions Consultant, Barnett Waddingham. WED WED Sally West, Strategy Adviser, Income and Poverty, Age UK. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producers: Diane Richardson and Sally Abrahams. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b03lph92 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03lpjy0 (Listen) WED Fashion and Dress in Later Life; Couples and Chronic Illness WED WED Fashion and dress in later life: Laurie Taylor talks to the WED sociologist, Julia Twigg, about her study into the links WED between clothing and age. Throughout history certain forms WED and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate for people WED as they get older. Older women, in particular, have been WED advised to dress in toned down, covered up styles. Drawing WED on fashion theory and cultural gerontology, Professor Twigg WED interviewed older women, fashion editors, clothing designers WED and retailers. She asks if the emergence of a 'grey market' WED is finally shifting cultural norms and trends. The WED broadcaster, writer and fashion enthusiast, Robert Elms, WED joins the discussion. WED WED Also, Research Student, Eloise Radcliffe, discusses her WED study into how couples cope when one develops a chronic WED illness. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03lpjy2 (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 b03lpjy4 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03lkmfs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b03lpjy6 (Listen) WED The Cat Next Door WED WED An actress moves in next door to the Amos household and WED encourages Young Stephen to overcome his stage fright. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits 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 Fola: Kathryn Drysdale WED PE Teacher: Harry Jardine WED Bo Bells: Rachel Atkins WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03lpjy8 (Listen) WED Lynda receives unexpected news. Meanwhile Ed is in for a WED disappointment. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03lpjyb (Listen) WED Mark Lawson reviews the new production of Coriolanus. Josie WED Rourke directs Shakespeare's tragedy of political WED manipulation and revenge, with Tom Hiddleston making his WED return to the Donmar Warehouse in London in the title role. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Armstrong. WED WED 19:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03lpjpf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Whatever Happened to Community?: The Debate b03lrzjk (Listen) WED Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's WED Cathedral, is now the priest of a run-down parish in WED Elephant and Castle. This has set him thinking about the WED nature of community, which he's been exploring in Radio 4's WED three-part series Whatever Happened to Community? WED WED Now, he now brings together four key players to debate the WED nature of community and what's happening to it in 21st WED century Britain. Baroness Warsi is Minister for Faith and WED Communities and Hilary Benn is Shadow Secretary of State for WED Communities and Local Government. Jane Wills, Professor of WED Human Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and WED writer and philosopher Roger Scruton complete the panel. WED WED In front of an audience of local people at his church in WED South London, Giles asks whether communities are in crisis. WED What should the Government do to strengthen community bongs WED - or must change come from grass roots and local organisers? WED The audience will also put their own questions to the panel. WED WED Polemical, refreshingly candid, and unafraid to ask WED uncomfortable questions, Giles and his guests will get to WED the heart of how we live now. Do we really want to live WED together like this? WED WED Recorded on location at St Mary's Church, Newington, South WED London. WED WED Produced by Jane Greenwood and Jo Coombs WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Ideas b03lrzjm (Listen) WED Series 2, Jerry Brotton: Mapping History WED WED Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen WED Mary, University of London, argues that how we see the world WED depends on where we stand on it. WED WED He takes us back to the Hereford mappamundi - with its WED unicorns, griffins, cannibals and fabled cities - a world WED picture completely consistent, logical, and comprehensible WED to the England of 1300. WED WED Google Hereford today, Professor Brotton says, and you find WED "a very different set of digital preoccupations"; not Babel WED or Jerusalem but how far we are from Hereford's Cider Museum WED or the nearest bike shop. WED WED He concludes that "each period in history gets the map it WED deserves, whatever version of salvation it offers". WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b03lrzjp (Listen) WED Are you a lark or an owl? Are you at your best in the WED morning or the evening? Linda Geddes meets the scientists WED who are discovering the genetic differences between larks WED and owls. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03lpjp7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03lkmfv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03lrzjr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03lrzjt (Listen) WED Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, Has He Brought It Yet? WED WED A classic Jeeves and Wooster story from P G Wodehouse, one WED of the masters of comic fiction. WED WED Today: 'Has he brought it yet?' - the tribulations of the WED star-crossed lovers and a disappearing cat are tempting WED Bertie away from the quiet, Martini-less life. WED WED Reader: Blake Ritson WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 Political Animals b03lrzjw (Listen) WED Series 2, Buddy and Bill WED WED by Tony Bagley WED WED 3. Buddy and Bill WED WED Bill Clinton's dog, Buddy, relives his turbulent tenure in WED the White House, a time made perilous by his arch enemy, WED Socks the Cat. WED WED Buddy ..... Kerry Shale WED Socks ..... Joel Maccormack WED West Wing Guy ..... David Seddon WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 23:15 Bird Island b01k2b18 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antarctica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non-audience comedy. WED WED Ben and Graham encounter a seal cub that's been attacked. He WED takes it home and carefully nurses it back to life and share WED the pup's progress with his mum and Dad. WED WED Ben ..... Reece Shearsmith WED Graham ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Beverley..... Alison Steadman WED Robin..... Gerard Mcdermott WED WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03lrzjy (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03lkmgs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03lpjp9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03lkmgv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03lkmgx (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03lkmgz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03lkmh1 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03ls14y (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father THU Eugene O'Neill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03ls150 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c63 (Listen) THU Snow Bunting 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 David Attenborough presents the snow bunting. The THU ornithologist and author, Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, THU described the snow bunting as 'possibly the most romantic THU and elusive bird in the British Isles'. When you disturb a THU flock of what seem to be brownish birds, they explode into a THU blizzard of white-winged buntings, calling softly as they THU swirl around the winter strandline. THU THU 06:00 Today b03ls152 (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 b03ls154 (Listen) THU Complexity THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emerging discipline THU of complexity theory and how it can help us understand the THU world around us. When living beings come together and act in THU a group, they do so in complicated and unpredictable ways: THU societies often behave very differently from the individuals THU within them. Complexity was a phenomenon little understood a THU generation ago, but research into complex systems now has THU important applications in economics, business, engineering THU and the sciences. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03ls156 (Listen) THU Darling Monster, Episode 4 THU THU In the fourth episode, Duff and Diana Cooper continue their THU travels - taking in Venice, Marrakesh, Tangier, Algiers and THU Seville. At home in 1949, all hopes are pinned on the dawn THU of a new era. THU THU Read by John Julius Norwich and Patricia Hodge THU Producer: David Roper THU Abridger: Barry Johnston THU THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03ls158 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03ls15b (Listen) THU The Snapper, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Roddy Doyle THU Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien THU Producer: Gemma McMullan THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03ls15d (Listen) THU Bangladesh: Trials of Strength THU THU Farhana Haider investigates the prosecution of alleged war THU criminals and asks if the trials are being used to target THU the opposition. THU THU There were numerous reports of atrocities during the brutal THU war of 1971 between Pakistan on one side and the new state THU which was to become Bangladesh, which had support from THU India. The Pakistani Army and Islamic sympathisers in THU Bangladesh were accused of rape and of mass killings which THU some have described as genocide. Four years ago, the THU governing Awami League set up war crimes trials which have THU started to hand down convictions this year, attracting THU strong public support. However, many international observers THU have criticised the conduct of the trials as less than free THU and fair. And supporters of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami THU party have reacted furiously to the conviction of several of THU their leaders, saying the process is politically motivated. THU THU Farhana Haider asks whether the legal process will really THU enable Bangladesh to come to terms with its bloody THU beginnings. THU THU Producer: John Murphy. THU THU 11:30 The Lost Tapes of Orson Welles b03ls15g (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU This two-part programme is a revealing series of informal THU conversations with the man best known as America's great THU cultural provocateur and one of the finest of filmmakers. THU THU Director Orson Welles was asked to write his life story in THU his later years. He declined but was convinced by his friend THU Henry Jaglom to discuss his life over a weekly lunch at THU their favourite Hollywood restaurant, Ma Maison. The THU hundreds of tapes, recorded from 1983 to 1985, reveal THU extraordinary, frank, conversations between Welles and the THU independent director Jaglom. THU THU The tapes gathered dust in a shoebox in the corner of THU Jaglom's production office for over thirty years - until THU now, but this programme provides an opportunity to hear the THU amazing material they contain for the first time. THU THU Welles talks intimately, disclosing personal secrets and THU reflecting on the people of the time. At times the tapes THU display the great film maker as a world champion grudge THU keeper, rather different from the amiable character who THU appeared in interviews when he was alive. As we hear, he THU hated the way Charlton Heston always called Touch of Evil THU (directed by Welles) a 'minor film'. Welles also found the THU work of fellow directors, Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin and THU Alfred Hitchcock, difficult to embrace. But, as we hear, he THU had some unexpected enthusiasms. THU THU Presenter Christopher Frayling reveals the great director THU free to be irreverent and Welles is sometimes cynical and THU romantic, sentimental but never boring, and often wickedly THU entertaining. The programmes also feature the thoughts of THU fellow diner Henry Jaglom, film author Peter Biskind, as THU well as actor and Welles scholar Simon Callow. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03ls15j (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03lkmh3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03lkmh5 (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 Cause for Caroling b03ls15l (Listen) THU Import and Export THU THU The penultimate programme in Jeremy Summerly's series THU tracing the history of the Christmas Carol in Britain. THU Jeremy picks up the story in the first half of the 20th THU century with carols from all over the world becoming more THU popular in this country much to the irritation of Ralph THU Vaughan Williams who continued to champion the folk THU tradition, albeit in a refined choral form. This was a time THU when the grandeur of Victorian caroling gave way to a leaner THU aesthetic with the Oxford Book of Carols being published in THU 1928, the same year in which the BBC broadcast the King's THU College, Cambridge Nine Lessons and Carols for the very THU first time. As it became an established favourite the carols THU used, gathered in many cases over centuries, become known THU both nationally and indeed internationally. THU THU Producer:Tom Alban. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03lpjy8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Borgen: Outside the Castle b03ls15n (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Part 4 THU Jan flies to Nigeria to try to find out who is supplying THU genetically modified seed corn to the famer there, while THU Hans and Nick track down the elusive GMO researcher, Erika THU Blomkvist. THU THU Director ..... Polly Thomas THU Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis THU PC ..... Willa King THU THU A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03ls15q (Listen) THU Royal Haslar Hospital THU THU The Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport was created in the 18th THU century to provide care for the sick and injured from naval THU conflicts. It later treated other military personnel and in THU the last few decades before its closure in 2009 went on to THU treat civilian patients. THU THU The site bursts with centuries of history, having seen THU patients from battles including Trafalgar, the Crimean War, THU both World Wars and many others. The staff treated allied THU troops and prisoners of war. Felicity Evans explores the THU site, hearing from former staff who treated patients at THU different periods and have become fascinated by its history. THU She takes in the range of buildings from the Admiral's THU house, to the medical wards - including G block where those THU with shell shock were treated - staff quarters and the THU memorial gardens and she pays tribute to the thousands THU buried in unmarked graves in the Paddock. THU THU The site is held with high affection locally and Felicity THU also speaks to the developers behind plans to reopen the THU site, building on its heritage of health care. THU THU Presented by Felicity Evans. Produced in Bristol by THU Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03lkndj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03lknpq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03ls15s (Listen) THU The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; All Is Lost; Anchorman 2 THU THU Francine Stock talks to Ben Stiller about The Secret Life of THU Walter Mitty. Plus director JC Chandor on one man sailing THU epic, All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford. And Anchorman is THU back.. post cable TV. THU THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03ls15v (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 b03ls15x (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03lkmh7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b03ls15z (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU This week, the Queen hatches a plot to get Pippa Middleton THU out of the way, Ed Miliband is so keen to pally-up with some THU builders that he ends up helping them do their work, and THU Russell Crowe has a bizarre fixation with sprouts. THU THU With Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Jon Culshaw, Julian Dutton, THU Lewis Macleod, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Performer: Jon Culshaw THU Performer: Julian Dutton THU Performer: Lewis Macleod THU Performer: Debra Stephenson THU Performer: Duncan Wisbey THU Producer: Bill Dare THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03ls161 (Listen) THU Helen feels apprehensive, and Jennifer makes things worse. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03ls163 (Listen) THU Prod: Dymphna Flynn. THU THU 19:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03ls15b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03ls165 (Listen) THU The Brixton Maoists THU THU The Report investigates how three women could disappear into THU a London-based Maoist collective for more than 30 years and THU seemingly lose contact with society. THU THU Reporter: Simon Cox THU Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. THU THU 20:30 In Business b03ls167 (Listen) THU Curtain Up THU THU Pantomime is a very British tradition, still as popular as THU ever with audiences. But it's also an important annual cash THU cow for regional theatres and big production companies. In THU Business goes to Nottingham to follow the progress of the THU city's two rival pantomimes: one made in-house at the THU Nottingham Playhouse, with a much-loved dame on his THU thirtieth (and last) pantomime and the other at the Theatre THU Royal, bought in from a big pantomime making production THU company starring the American Baywatch actor, known as "The THU Hoff". Peter Day finds out what's involved and why THU pantomimes matter so much to regional theatres. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03ls15v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03ls154 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03lkmh9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03ls169 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03ls16c (Listen) THU Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, I Can Explain Everything THU THU Blake Ritson reads a classic Jeeves and Wooster story from P THU G Wodehouse, one of the masters of comic fiction. THU THU Today: 'I can explain everything' - Bertie finds himself THU unexpectedly betrothed, and in receipt of a missing cat. THU THU Reader: Blake Ritson THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b03ls16f (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU A trip to Wunderland (the Poundland of magical realms), THU which this week is awarded prestigious by-the-sea status. THU THU Sketch show by Alice Lowe. THU THU Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel THU Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Alice Lowe THU Performer: Alice Lowe THU Performer: Richard Glover THU Performer: Simon Greenall THU Performer: Rachel Stubbings THU Performer: Clare Thomson THU Performer: Marcia Warren THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03ls175 (Listen) THU Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03lkmj7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03ls156 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03lkmj9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03lkmjc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03lkmjf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03lkmjh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03ls7xp (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father FRI Eugene O'Neill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03ls7xr (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c8y (Listen) FRI Purple Sandpiper 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 David Attenborough presents the purple sandpiper. On winter FRI beaches, where waves break on seaweed-covered rocks, purple FRI sandpipers make their home. 'Purple' refers to the hint of a FRI purple sheen on their back feathers. They are well FRI camouflaged among the seaweed covered rocks and being FRI relatively quiet, compared to many waders, are easy to FRI overlook. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03ls7xt (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 b03lknds (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03ls7xw (Listen) FRI Darling Monster, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode, John Julius Norwich is now a student FRI at Oxford, while his mother Lady Diana Cooper continues to FRI live in France. Her husband Duff is offered a peerage. FRI FRI Read by John Julius Norwich and Patricia Hodge FRI Producer: David Roper FRI Abridger: Barry Johnston FRI FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03ls7xy (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03ls7y0 (Listen) FRI The Snapper, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Roddy Doyle FRI Dramatised by Eugene O'Brien FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 11:00 Maths and Magic b03ls7y2 (Listen) FRI Maths and magic go back a long way - the oldest written card FRI trick was by Luca Pacioli, a friend of Leonardo, and appears FRI in a treatise which also contains the first account of FRI double entry book keeping. Many tricks in the working FRI magician's repertoire rely on maths. FRI FRI But this is surprising. Maths is about logic, magic is about FRI illusion. How can it be possible to fool someone with logic? FRI What does it tell us about the way our minds work? Can FRI things seem magical just because we don't understand them? FRI FRI Amateur magician Jolyon Jenkins investigates the link FRI between these two apparently disparate worlds. He learns of FRI the simple algebra-based trick that repeatedly fooled Albert FRI Einstein. And he sets himself the challenge of learning a FRI maths-based trick that can not only fool working FRI mathematicians, but seems genuinely magical. It culminates FRI in a public performance in front of a group of FRI mathematicians at the MathsJam festival. FRI FRI Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI 11:30 On the Rocks b03ls7y4 (Listen) FRI Barter 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 4: Barter. Morwenna is trying to improve herself and FRI Frank needs a lesson in island economics. FRI FRI Directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Caleb Knightley 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 Director: Mary Peate FRI Producer: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Christopher William Hill FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03ls7y6 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03ls7y8 (Listen) FRI Pat and Tony - Memories and Marriage FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces Pat and Tony, both married to partners FRI with dementia. While they mourn the loss of the person they FRI married, they celebrate the love that endures. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03lkmjk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03lkmjm (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 Cause for Caroling b03lsdg6 (Listen) FRI Ring in the New FRI FRI Jeremy Summerly concludes his history of the carol in FRI Britain pondering the success of new carols over the last FRI century. While King's College, Cambridge organist Stephen FRI Cleobury insures a supply of newly commissioned carols for FRI his massive international audience Jeremy wonders whether FRI the popular songs from Berlin's 'White Christmas' to Slade's FRI 'Merry Christmas' don't help sustain a more genuine caroling FRI tradition. FRI He also recalls his own first experience of carols at FRI Lichfield cathedral where John Rutter's 'Shepherd's Pipe FRI Carol' was an astonishing discovery for the eager young FRI chorister. FRI And Jeremy also ponders the continued appeal of the carol FRI and why, while it's been in decline throughout its history, FRI it continues to thrive. FRI FRI Producer:Tom Alban. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03ls161 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Borgen: Outside the Castle b03lsdg8 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Hans Gammelgaard fears for his family after receiving FRI anonymous death threats. Time is running out as a bill FRI relaxing rules on the use of genetically modified crops is FRI ready to be approved in the E.U. By Tommy Bredsted and Joan FRI Rang Christensen, in an English version by Joy Wilkinson. FRI FRI Original music by Halfdan E. FRI Directed by Anders Lundorph FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03lsdgc (Listen) FRI 1870s Special at Beamish FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a special 1870s themed episode of GQT FRI from Beamish, The Living Museum of the North. Answering the FRI audience's historical gardening questions are Chris FRI Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Saki b03m3rn2 (Listen) FRI The Music on the Hill FRI FRI by Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki. FRI FRI Feisty Edwardian bride Sylvia has triumphed against the odds FRI in her society marriage, but gradually becomes aware of a FRI strange and threatening presence in the woods... FRI FRI Read by Francesca Dymond FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03lsdgg (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b03lsdgj (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the series that investigates the FRI numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03lsdgl (Listen) FRI Shahid and Henna - Building a Future Together FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Muslim newly FRI weds about their love match and subsequent traditional FRI marriage, and the adjustments they are having to contend FRI with, proving once again that it's surprising what you hear FRI when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03lsdgn (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03lkmjp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03lsdgq (Listen) FRI Series 82, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03lsdgs (Listen) FRI Rosa speaks her mind, and Eddie is a good neighbour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper FRI Mark: Andrew Frame FRI Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03lsdgv (Listen) FRI Colin Firth FRI FRI Kirsty Lang talks to actor Colin Firth about his role in the FRI new film "The Railwayman". The film tells how Mr Lomax, a FRI signals officer who was captured at the fall of Singapore in FRI 1942, became one of the thousands of servicemen used as FRI slave labour to build the Thailand-Burma railway and follows FRI his ordeal in a Japanese labour camp. FRI FRI Producer: Ella-Mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b03ls7y0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03lsdgx (Listen) FRI Michael Portillo, Chris Mullin, Nikki King, Mark Damazer FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St Andrew's Church in Middlesex with former FRI Conservative minister Michael Portillo, Former Labour FRI minister now diarist Chris Mullin, business woman Nikki FRI King, and Mark Damazer who's the Master of St Peter's FRI College, Oxford. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03lsdgz (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A Cause for Caroling b03lsdh1 (Listen) FRI A Cause for Caroling: Omnibus, Joy to the World FRI FRI Jeremy Summerly completes his history of the Christmas Carol FRI in Britain covering the 19th century caroling revival and FRI golden age to the invention of the Nine Lessons with Carols FRI service in Truro and its subsequent use at King's College, FRI Cambridge in 1918. Ten years later the BBC decided to FRI broadcast the service and a local caroling tradition very FRI quickly found itself being exported all over the globe. FRI Jeremy also deals with the folk caroling traditions that FRI were excluded by the church of England's belated enthusiasm FRI for caroling but which survive to this day, particularly in FRI the villages and towns of South Yorkshire. FRI FRI Producer:Tom Alban. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03lkmjr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03lsdh3 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03lsdh5 (Listen) FRI Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, Trying to Brazen It Out FRI FRI A classic Jeeves and Wooster story from P G Wodehouse, one FRI of the masters of comic fiction, read by Blake Ritson. FRI FRI Today: 'Trying to brazen it out' - Bertie is still trying to FRI extricate himself from a very unwelcome betrothal, while FRI avoiding the terrifying Pop Cook. Must he rely again on his FRI quick-thinking butler, Jeeves? FRI FRI Reader: Blake Ritson FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03lph8m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03lsdh7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03lsdh9 (Listen) FRI Suzanne and Karen - Let's Talk About Sex FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a happily FRI married - and sexually fulfilled - woman and her friend, a FRI serial mistress, about their plan to abolish bad sex and FRI ensure everyone benefits from good, proving once again that FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
13 December, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 14/12/2013 - 20/12/2013
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