Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 04 JANUARY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03mjcgm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03mj8ls (Listen) SAT Man Belong Mrs Queen, Episode 5 SAT SAT As a bookish child with a posh accent, growing up on SAT Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the SAT much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had SAT a poster of him on his bedroom wall. SAT SAT Years later, as an anthropology student , Baylis learned of SAT the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of SAT Tanna. Why was it there? Nobody had a convincing answer. SAT Nobody even seemed to want to find one. SAT SAT His curiosity fatally piqued, he travelled over 10,000 miles SAT to find a society both remote and slap-bang in the SAT shipping-lanes of history. It's a place where US airmen, SAT Lithuanian libertarians, and Graeco-Danish Princes have had SAT as much impact as the missionaries and the slave-traders. On SAT the rumbling slopes of this remarkable volcanic island, SAT banjaxed by frequent doses of the local narcotic, suffering SAT from a relentless diet of yams and regularly accused of SAT being a divine emissary of the Duke, Baylis attempted to get SAT to the bottom of this bizarre cult. In doing so he draws SAT some ironic lessons about our own island 'myths' and comes SAT to respect the pragmatic realpolitik of his South Seas SAT hosts. SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Author: Matthew Baylis SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03mjcgp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03mjcgr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03mjcgt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03mjcgw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03mjcrs (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the SAT Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03mjcrv (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03mjcgy (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03mjch2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03mj1y4 (Listen) SAT The Legacy of Flodden Field SAT SAT The Battle of Flodden was a turning point in the history of SAT the UK, setting the stage for the subsequent Union of the SAT Crowns between Scotland and England in 1603. SAT SAT The border village of Branxton lays claim to having the SAT "smallest visitor centre in the world". Housed in a SAT converted telephone box, this unique project - dedicated to SAT the Battle of Flodden - is the brain child of Clive SAT Hallam-Baker a battle expert who lives just opposite. SAT Flodden was the largest battle fought between England and SAT Scotland. However today, Clive reflects on the joy of being SAT a 'borderer' - living happily across the land of two SAT countries. SAT SAT Lord Joicey owns much of the land that bore witness to the SAT Battle of Flodden. His estate is located in England but in SAT working the land itself he shares the same issues as his SAT neighbour just a mile away in Scotland. He values his cross SAT border friendships and discusses the geographical quirks of SAT this border that lead to his wife coming 'up' from Scotland SAT to marry him in England. SAT SAT Archaeologist Chris Burgess has been working with groups SAT from both sides of the borders to understand more fully the SAT landscape where the Battle of Flodden took place. Volunteers SAT have come to commemorate their past and to enjoy each SAT other's company in the present. SAT SAT Just a few miles from the battle ground is the border SAT village of Crookham. Here, the United Reformed Church has SAT created a peace garden and centre for reconciliation. SAT Designed by Dougie James, Rev Dave Herbert and Rev Mary SAT Taylor explain how this is a truly cross-borders initiative SAT which they hope will provide a quiet and peaceful place for SAT people to relax, reflect and perhaps find closure. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03nrhy8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith takes a look at the challenges and SAT opportunities for British farmers in 2014. From advances in SAT technology, to shorter supply chains, improvement in SAT efficiency and growing the dairy industry as well as taking SAT advantage of export markets and helping smaller farmers SAT innovate. SAT SAT Charlotte is joined by an expert panel: SAT SAT Christine Tacon is a chartered engineer who ran the SAT cooperative farming group's business for over a decade. She SAT was recently as appointed the first Groceries Code SAT Adjudicator, ensuring a fair relationship between our SAT largest supermarket retailers and their direct suppliers. SAT SAT Mike Gooding is the manager director of FAI farms- a network SAT of commercial and research farms, both in the UK and as far SAT afield as China and Brazil. Mike has been heavily involved SAT in the meat industry and overseeing the latest R&D projects SAT in agriculture SAT SAT Professor David Leaver is the president of the Royal SAT Association of Dairy farmers and has spent over 20 years SAT researching the dairy industry and working in education, SAT holding roles including the principal and chief Executive of SAT the Royal Agricultural University as well as holding a SAT number of other university posts. SAT SAT And the agricultural journalist and Farmers Weekly chief SAT reporter Johnann Tasker, who has been writing about farming SAT and agriculture for over fifteen years. SAT SAT Produced by Jules Benham and presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03mjch4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03nrlyb (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03nrlyd (Listen) SAT Founder of the Rosenblatt Opera Recitals, Ian Rosenblatt, SAT and the Inheritance Tracks of Jennifer Saunders SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with lawyer and founder of the SAT Rosenblatt Opera Recitals Ian Rosenblatt, the Inheritance SAT Tracks of comedian Jennifer Saunders, the story of Roger SAT Mason who along with a friend and fellow veterinary surgeon, SAT took much needed animals to the Falkland Islands after the SAT 1982 War in an old converted fishing boat, the delights of SAT Riga in Latvia with travel writer Adrian Mourby, one of SAT Britain's leading forensic scientists, Mike Silverman, SAT talking about a life in forensics, poems from Kate Fox and SAT JP Devlin meets a Second World War meteorologist. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Ian Rosenblatt SAT Interviewed Guest: Jennifer Saunders SAT Interviewed Guest: Adrian Mourby SAT Interviewed Guest: Mike Silverman SAT Performer: Kate Fox SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Producer: Chris Wilson SAT SAT 10:30 Piano Pilgrimage b03nrlyg (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum explores the piano's place in SAT modern life. With recent stories about the decline of the SAT piano, Jamie delves behind the myths to find out about the SAT history of the instrument he is most passionate about and SAT looks at how the piano industry is still thriving in the UK. SAT SAT In the first episode, Jamie begins by focusing on the piano SAT itself and traces the story of an old abandoned piano that SAT he rescued from a street corner. His journey leads him to SAT the London Borough of Camden where piano historian Dr. SAT Alastair Laurence takes him on a tour around the area that, SAT only a century ago, was the world centre of the piano making SAT industry. SAT SAT After exploring some of the remaining piano retailers in the SAT neighbourhood and playing London's most out of tune piano, SAT Jamie travels to the Yorkshire Dales to visit one of the few SAT places left in the country where pianos are still being made SAT from scratch. SAT SAT At Newark College, Jamie talks to the course leader and SAT students at the last piano tuning course in the country and SAT learns some surprising facts about the physics of piano SAT tuning. SAT SAT Finally, Jamie visits the Brontë's old family home to play SAT on the sisters' own piano that has been carefully restored. SAT SAT Produced by Andrea Rangecroft. SAT A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b03nrlyj (Listen) SAT Hands SAT SAT Some say that the hand is where the mind meets the world. So SAT what happens if you lose a hand? What are the options for a SAT replacement? Are we focusing too much on the hands' ability SAT to grip and hold and overlooking their sensitivity to heat SAT and cold, to smooth or rough surfaces? And the power of the SAT human hand to create music out of chaos: how does a SAT conductor communicate with an orchestra, to get its SAT individual members to play as one and translate his vision SAT into a compelling performance? SAT Bridget Kendall's guests are: prof. Simon Kay, a surgeon SAT based in Leeds, who performed the first hand transplant in SAT the UK; New Zealander Lynette Jones, Senior Research SAT Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who SAT studies tactile sensations; and Sakari Oramo, a Finnish SAT musician who recently became the Chief Conductor of the BBC SAT Symphony Orchestra. Duration: 44 minutes SAT First broadcast:Saturday 28 December 2013 SAT [Photo/illustration by Shan Pillay] SAT SAT Simon Kay SAT SAT Simon Kay is a consultant plastic surgeon and Professor of SAT Hand Surgery at the University of Leeds. Simon established SAT a children's hand SAT surgery service that is now one of the largest such clinics SAT in the UK and has SAT pioneered and demonstrated convincingly the value of SAT microsurgery in SAT reconstruction of congenital defects of children's hands. SAT In December 2012, he carried out the first SAT ever hand transplant in the UK. His current research SAT includes a joint SAT collaboration on nerve repair with Umeä University in SAT Sweden where he is an SAT honorary visiting Professor in Plastic and Hand Surgery at SAT the Faculty of SAT Medicine. SAT SAT Lynnette Jones SAT SAT Lynnette Jones’s research group at MIT focuses on a number SAT of areas related to human haptic perception and motor SAT performance. Much of this SAT work is conducted in the context of the design of haptic SAT interfaces that human SAT operators use to interact with computer-generated virtual SAT environments or to SAT control robotic devices, and she is recognized as a leading SAT scientist in this SAT area. Dr. Jones has published over 80 refereed scientific SAT publications. She has SAT also co-authored the acclaimed book Human Hand Function SAT that provides a SAT detailed analysis of the sensory and motor function of the SAT hand. SAT SAT Sakari Oramo SAT SAT Sakari Oramo is Chief Conductor of the Royal Stockholm SAT Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the BBC SAT Symphony Orchestra. He is SAT also Principal Conductor of the West Coast Kokkola Opera SAT and, starting in 2013, SAT the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. An SAT accomplished violinist, Oramo was originally concertmaster SAT of the Finnish Radio SAT Symphony Orchestra and was appointed its Associate SAT Principal Conductor after SAT stepping in to conduct the orchestra at very short notice SAT in 1993. Since SAT beginning his post with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic SAT Orchestra in 2008, SAT Oramo has led the orchestra to many highlights including an SAT immense festival in SAT Stockholm featuring ten Mahler symphonies on ten SAT consecutive days. He has also been a regular guest at the SAT helm SAT of Staatskapelle Dresden and the Berliner Philharmoniker, SAT New York SAT Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw and San Francisco SAT Symphony orchestras. [Photo credit: BBC/Heikki Tuuli and SAT Octavialo] SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03nrlyl (Listen) SAT Somalis on Ice SAT SAT Foreign correspondents: James Copnall meets the men now SAT controlling the opposing forces in the battle for South SAT Sudan; Nick Meo hears the concerns surrounding the huge SAT project designed to cover over the radiation threat from the SAT old Chernobyl plant in Ukraine; Humphrey Hawksley examines SAT the working conditions of the brick makers helping to SAT construct India's economic miracle; Matthew Teller relives a SAT historic flight along the River Nile -- it may have taken SAT three months to complete, but those responsible were hailed SAT as heroes and Mary Harper meets the skaters from Somalia SAT taking to the ice and hoping to make their mark at an SAT international tournament in Siberia. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03nrlyn (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b03mjcbp (Listen) SAT Series 9, Kevin Bridges talks to Frankie Boyle SAT SAT Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show SAT where last week's interviewee becomes this week's SAT interviewer. SAT SAT The chain continues this week with razor sharp Scottish SAT comedian Kevin Bridges talking to his comedy mentor, the SAT lovely Frankie Boyle. SAT SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03mjch6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03mjch8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b03mjcbw (Listen) SAT 2014 SAT SAT Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by four of the BBC's top SAT foreign and economic correspondents who give their SAT predictions about what is likely to shape our world in 2014. SAT James Robbins draws on more than ten years experience as the SAT BBC's diplomatic correspondent, while North America Editor SAT Mark Mardell provides his view from Washington. Chief SAT International Correspondent Lyse Doucet takes a short break SAT from reporting across the world while Chief Business SAT correspondent Linda Yueh gives her view of the global SAT economic outlook. Where is our attention most likely to be SAT focused? And what will be the consequences for the United SAT Kingdom and the rest of the world? SAT Produced by Mark Savage. SAT SAT 14:00 Saturday Drama b03nrlyq (Listen) SAT Secrets of the Small Hours SAT SAT A new drama by Nick Dear. SAT SAT A married couple confront each other for the first time, a SAT year after the husband attempted to have his wife murdered. SAT SAT Justin, has taken out a contract to have his estranged wife, SAT Melissa, murdered. Unfortunately, he manages to hire an SAT undercover detective as his hit-man. Melissa escapes SAT unharmed, but the case never comes to trial, as the SAT policeman is implicated in a corruption enquiry. SAT SAT A year later, Melissa appears at Justin's door. She wants - SAT for important personal reasons - to forgive him. But first SAT he has to admit his murderous intentions towards her, which SAT he has denied all along. They face off, in the wake of all SAT that has gone before. SAT SAT Paul McGann is Justin and Anastasia Hille plays Melissa. SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Justin Loftus: Paul McGann SAT Melissa Loftus: Anastasia Hille SAT Nadzi Khan: Amara Karan SAT Glen Loftus: Joseph Drake SAT Writer: Nick Dear SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 15:30 About the Boys b03mfvlc (Listen) SAT From a solo boy chorister singing "Once in Royal David's SAT City" at King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve to Aled SAT Jones hitting the Top 10 with "Walking in the Air", the SAT voice of the boy treble has long held a fascination for SAT composers and audiences. But why? Is it because of its SAT impermanence or what it implies about our notions of SAT boyhood? Or is it just the sheer soaring quality? SAT SAT Christopher Gabbitas knows about being a treble because, as SAT a child, he was a chorister at Rochester Cathedral. He's now SAT a baritone with the world famous a cappella group "The SAT King's Singers", but he remembers his treble days and the SAT repertoire he sang, with great affection. In this programme SAT he asks what it is about the singing voice of a boy which SAT can inspire a range of reactions. And he finds out how SAT different composers through the centuries have used- and SAT continue to gain inspiration from - the treble voice. SAT SAT Among the people he talks to are his King's Singer SAT colleague, Paul Phoenix, who became famous in the 1970s as SAT the treble soloist for the theme music to the BBC's drama SAT series "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". SAT SAT Christopher also meets academic Martin Ashley to hear how SAT the sound of boys' voices has changed over the decades. SAT SAT And he eavesdrops on a singing lesson to hear what makes a SAT successful treble sound. SAT SAT We also hear about the way in which composers in opera have SAT used boy's voices from Handel to Britten and into the SAT present day. SAT SAT And there's an interview with the film composer Elliot SAT Goldenthal who's used treble voices in his scores for "Alien SAT 3" and "Interview with the Vampire". SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03nrm20 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented By Jane SAT Garvey SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Malala Yousafzai SAT SAT In her campaign for girls’ education, Malala Yousafzai has SAT become a global symbol of peaceful protest, and was the SAT youngest nominee for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Last SAT year she survived being shot in the head by the Taliban in SAT her home country, Pakistan. She was flown to hospital in SAT Birmingham for successful treatment. But she is also a SAT teenager, a 16 year old girl who likes music and is teased SAT by her brothers. Malala joined Jane to talk about the girl SAT behind the headlines. SAT SAT Feminism in 2013 SAT SAT From the campaign to get Jane Austen on our bank notes to SAT getting girls off Page 3, feminism has taken centre stage in SAT 2013. So what issues unite and divide feminists? What SAT challenges does the movement face? And what are the hopes SAT for the year ahead? Laura Bates is the founder of the SAT Everyday Sexism Project SAT Caroline Criado-Perez ran the successful campaign to SAT Keep Women on Banknotes SAT and Reni Eddo-Lodge is a writer and prominent voice in the SAT discussions calling for a wider representation in feminism. SAT SAT Hester SAT SAT This week’s fifteen minute drama on Radio 4 is SAT Hester SAT based on the novel by Mrs Oliphant. Margaret Oliphant, SAT better known as Mrs Oliphant, published nearly one hundred SAT novels and her portrayals of provincial life have been SAT compared to George Eliot and Anthony Trollope. But over the SAT years Mrs Oliphant has been neglected. This new SAT dramatisation by writers Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster SAT brings to life the remarkable women portrayed in her novel SAT Hester, first published in 1883. Jenni talked to the two SAT dramatists about Mrs Oliphant’s life and works and the SAT process of distilling a 200,000 word novel into a 12,000 SAT word play. SAT SAT Kate Tempest SAT SAT Kate Tempest is an English poet and spoken word artist who SAT started out when she was 16 years old. She has written SAT poetry for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Barnardo's and the SAT BBC. Working with Amnesty International, Kate created a SAT schools pack helping secondary school children write their SAT own protest songs, and was invited to write and perform a SAT new poem for Aung San Suu Kyi when she received the SAT Ambassador of Conscience award in Dublin. In 2013 she won SAT the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients. In the SAT spirit of today’s teenage themed programme, we broadcast her SAT poem ‘The Teens’ Speech’ originally created for Barnardo’s SAT in 2009. SAT SAT SAT Kate being interviewed by Jenni Murray in August 2013 SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Life After Separation or Divorce Phone-in SAT SAT On Thursday Jenni Murray presented a phone-in discussing how SAT to be happy after divorce or separation. Listeners shared SAT their experiences of successful and painful separation, SAT whether on good terms with a former-partner or not. January SAT is a month which sees more couples decide to break up than SAT any other - how can you minimise the hurt and damage to SAT children and other family members, and negotiate shared SAT friendship groups and social life? SAT SAT SAT Support tools for parents from OnePlusOne SAT SAT SAT The Seperated Families initiative SAT SAT SAT Advice from Relate SAT SAT SAT The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships SAT SAT SAT National Family Mediation SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Archive: Elizabeth Jane Howard SAT SAT As a tribute to Elizabeth Jane Howard, who died on Thursday, SAT we hear a 2008 Woman’s Hour archive interview with the SAT acclaimed author. In 1950, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys SAT Prize for her first novel, the Beautiful Visit. Her most SAT celebrated work, the Cazz-a-let Chronicles were adapted for SAT television. Her thirteenth novel, Love All, has just been SAT published – her first novel for nine years. SAT SAT Chloe Howl SAT Chloe Howl SAT is an 18-year old pop star who sings about the stuff SAT teenagers REALLY do. She describes her music as pop – but SAT more “steak and kidney,” than bubble-gum. Chloe is on the SAT long-list for the BBC Sound Of 2014. So is she the next big SAT thing? She joined Jenni to perform and tell us about her new SAT single. SAT SAT Chlöe Howl's new single SAT Paper Heart SAT is on Columbia Records. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03nrm22 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03mjcrv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03mjchg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03mjchj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03mjchl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03nrmdp (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson with his pick of the Loose Ends year 2013 SAT SAT Clive Anderson picks some highlights from the best chat, SAT music and comedy on Loose Ends in 2013. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03nrmdr (Listen) SAT Janet Yellen SAT SAT Janet Yellen is President Obama's choice to replace Ben SAT Bernanke as Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve SAT when his term ends later this month, making her the most SAT powerful central banker in the world and, arguably, the most SAT powerful woman in the world. But who is she? Mary Ann SAT Sieghart finds out - discovering, among other things, how SAT Janet Yellen reacted when an earthquake shook her office. SAT SAT Producer: David Edmonds. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03nrmdt (Listen) SAT Redford in All Is Lost, How to Be a Heroine and TV drama SAT 7.39 SAT SAT Robert Redford has given the perfomance of a lifetime SAT according to many critics in his most recent film "All Is SAT Lost". It's literally a one-man film set entirely at sea SAT with about a page's-worth of dialogue over 100 minutes. Will SAT our panel marvel at this bravura performance by the 77 year SAT old Sundance Kid? SAT How To be A Heroine (or what I've learned from reading too SAT much) is a book looking at strong female characters in SAT novels and how they've changed over the years and how SAT readers' relationships with them have also developed as they SAT themselves grow up. SAT Lost Boy is a new play exploring what happened to the SAT children in the Peter Pan story. Set on the eve of the First SAT World War, we re-meet J M Barrie's characters now they've SAT grown up and are preparing to face the world on the edge of SAT horror. SAT 7.39 is a new BBC TV drama based around a flirtatious SAT relationship between 2 commuters on an early morning train. SAT The cast includes Sheridan Smith, Olivia Colman, David SAT Morrissey and Sean Maguire - it seems like a simple premise, SAT but can the drudgery of commuting become dynamic drama? SAT And we visit The Wallace Collection in London to look at SAT their permanent collection which is uniquely permanent in SAT that a condition of the bequest that founded it states that SAT no item can never be loaned out. SAT SAT Producer: Oliver Jones. SAT SAT All is Lost SAT All is Lost SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 12A. SAT SAT SAT How To be A Heroine SAT How To be A Heroine SAT (or what I've learned from reading too SAT much) by Samantha Ellis is available now in hardback and SAT ebook published by Chatto SAT & Windus. SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 7.39 SAT 7.39 SAT begins on SAT Monday 6th January at 9pm on BBC One. SAT SAT SAT Lost Boy SAT Lost Boy SAT will be at the Finborough Theatre in London until SAT 11th January and then at the Charing Cross Theatre in SAT London from 13th SAT January to 15th February 2014. SAT SAT The Wallace Collection SAT The Wallace Collection SAT in London, is open daily from 10am - 5pm and is free SAT admission. SAT SAT SAT The Panel’s Picks from the Wallace Collection SAT SAT Emma’s chosen item - SAT The SAT Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard SAT SAT Jamila’s chosen item - SAT The Lady with a Fan by Diego Velázquez SAT SAT Kit’s SAT chosen item - SAT Parade shield SAT SAT SAT Tom’s SAT chosen item – SAT Visored Helmet – (sallet for the Bundrennen) SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03nrn9m (Listen) SAT The Long, Long Trail SAT SAT Roy Hudd explores Charles Chilton's forgotten 1961 radio SAT masterpiece which inspired the musical Oh What a Lovely War. SAT SAT Broadcast on the BBC Home Service, The Long, Long Trail told SAT the story of the First World War in a unique way - through SAT the songs sung by soldiers. It was the result of Charles SAT Chilton's personal quest to learn about his father who was SAT killed at Arras in March 1918, aged 19, and whom he had SAT never met. SAT SAT In 1962, Chilton, already a renowned pioneering BBC radio SAT producer, adapted the programme with director Joan SAT Littlewood and the cast of Theatre Workshop into the SAT landmark stage musical Oh What a Lovely War. SAT SAT But then the programme disappeared and was never broadcast SAT again. However, shortly before he died in January 2013, SAT Chilton gave a copy to the British Library, so we can now SAT rediscover The Long, Long Trail. SAT SAT For this programme, Roy Hudd, a close friend and SAT collaborator of 'Charlie', is joined by satirist Ian Hislop, SAT radio historian and Chair of the UK Radio Archives Advisory SAT Committee Professor Hugh Chignell, archivist Helen O'Neill SAT at the London Library, singer Pat Whitmore, Charles's widow SAT Penny Chilton, and their children Mary and David Chilton. SAT Together, they tell the story behind Charles Chilton's SAT remarkable musical documentary, reveal why it was SAT revolutionary and reflect on its significance today. SAT SAT Producer: Amber Barnfather SAT Sound design: David Chilton SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT The Charles Chilton Collection SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03mcl9b (Listen) SAT The Old Man and the Sea SAT SAT The Old Man And The Sea SAT by Ernest Hemingway SAT dramatised by Simon Armitage SAT This Pulitzer prize winning novel is Hemingway's SAT masterpiece; set in Cuba on the Gulf Stream, this is the SAT thrilling and tantalising story of an epic battle between an SAT old, experienced fisherman and a large marlin. Santiago, has SAT gone 84 days without catching a fish, and is considered SAT unlucky; his only friend is young Manolin, the boy whom he's SAT taught how to fish. When on the 85th day, Santiago sets sail SAT again, his luck seems to change when he catches the biggest SAT fish of his life. But the biggest battle of his life is SAT about to commence. SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris SAT SAT Further Information SAT SAT Cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to Hemingway's SAT Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel is a seemingly simple SAT tale, full of emotion and drama. SAT SAT It's the story of the struggle of life - a meditation on SAT life and death, and old age. It's about the challenge of SAT survival and the pitting of one man's ageing body and ageing SAT mind against nature. It's about an ancient culture about to SAT come to an end, and a practice as old as time itself. It's a SAT final act, and the boy is there to remind us that life moves SAT on, and a new generation steps forward. SAT SAT The dramatist is SIMON ARMITAGE CBE, poet, playwright and SAT novelist. SAT SAT Credits SAT Santiago: David Schofield SAT Manolin (narrator): Joseph Balderrama SAT Young Manolin: Damson Idris SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Adaptor: Simon Armitage SAT Author: Ernest Hemingway SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03mjchn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Immigration: Good for Whom? b03nbsgd (Listen) SAT Experts debate the issue of immigration with residents of SAT Birmingham. Ritula Shah is in the chair. SAT SAT As levels of immigration have risen to historically high SAT levels so too has public concern about the issue: a series SAT of opinion polls indicate that UK voters rank its importance SAT as second only to the economy. SAT SAT In the past year, two leading liberal thinkers have SAT published controversial books warning against the dangers of SAT excessive levels of immigration. SAT SAT Prof Paul Collier, a development economist from Oxford SAT University, and David Goodhart, director of the think tank SAT Demos, both argue that if mass immigration is not properly SAT controlled it has the potential to undermine trust and a SAT sense of mutual obligation. SAT SAT In front of an audience hosted by Birmingham City SAT University, the two men debate their ideas with Nazek SAT Ramadan of Migrant Voice and Susie Symes, Chair of the SAT Museum of Immigration and Diversity. SAT SAT The event was recorded as part of Birmingham City SAT University's City Talks series on Tuesday 17th December SAT 2013. SAT SAT Presenter: Ritula Shah SAT Producers: Hannah Barnes and Jane Beresford SAT Researcher: Nayha Kalia. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03mfn0f (Listen) SAT (4/17) SAT How is the colour silver referred to in heraldry? And which SAT cult movie was based on a 1951 story called The Sentinel? SAT SAT The competitors in the fourth heat of Brain of Britain won't SAT stand a chance of making it through to the semi-finals of SAT the tournament unless they can answer these and many other SAT questions put to them by Russell Davies. The programme this SAT week comes from Media City in Salford, and the competitors SAT are all from Scotland and the north of England. One of them SAT may be going all the way to lifting the trophy as the 61st SAT Brain of Britain champion at the end of the series. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT GARY GRANT, a GP from Bolton; SAT SAT AL McCLIMENS, a health and social care researcher from SAT Sheffield; SAT SAT IAN MATHESON, an education advisor, now retired, from Troon SAT in Ayrshire; SAT SAT DAVE TAYLOR, a transport manager, now retired, from SAT Sunderland. SAT SAT 23:30 Ko Un: The People's Poet of Korea b03mcl9g (Listen) SAT In South Korea, former Zen monk Ko Un is revered as a SAT pro-democracy activist and the people's poet. To mark his SAT 80th birthday, Mike Greenwood explores his prolific output, SAT in particular his epic masterwork, Ten Thousand Lives SAT (Maninbo), in which he puts into poems the faces and lives SAT of all the people he has known or known of. Conceived when SAT he was imprisoned in the 1980s for rebelling against the SAT military dictatorships then controlling South Korea, Maninbo SAT has been published in 30 volumes in Korean. Now, for the SAT first time, the first 10 volumes have been translated into SAT English. SAT SAT We use readings from this treasure box of poems to provide a SAT unique window on to modern Korea, with contributions from SAT Andrew Motion and Ko Un himself, three-times Nobel Prize for SAT Literature runner up. "Poetry" he says, "is the music of SAT history." SAT SAT Ko Un has given us special access to his home near Seoul SAT where, in a series of intimate interviews, he shares his SAT story. SAT SAT Born into a peasant family in 1933, Ko Un began writing SAT poems from an early age. Traumatised by the horrors of the SAT Korean war, he became a monk. After leaving the Buddhist SAT community in 1962, another lost decade of despair followed, SAT including problems with alcohol and multiple suicide SAT attempts. After a profound political awakening in 1972, he SAT joined in vigorous opposition to the military regime and in SAT the struggle for human rights. He was detained, tortured, SAT and imprisoned repeatedly and for long periods. Finally set SAT free in 1980, Ko Un married, moved to the countryside, SAT fathered a daughter, and entered a period of stability and SAT happiness, though it would be more than a decade before he SAT was granted a passport. SAT SAT Producer: Eve Streeter SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 JANUARY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03npq54 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 O Henry Stories b018gzmd (Listen) SUN Mammon and the Archer SUN SUN Mammon and the Archer by O.Henry. SUN A young man is encouraged to pursue the love of his life by SUN his father. But is it cupid or cold hard cash that decides SUN his fate? SUN SUN A Christmas classic by a cherished American writer, to warm SUN the soul and intrigue the listener with satisfyingly SUN unexpected plot twists. SUN SUN Reader...John Guerrasio SUN Abridger...Annie Caulfield SUN Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: O Henry SUN Abridger: Annie Caulfield SUN Reader: John Guerrasio SUN Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03npq56 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03npq58 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03npq5b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03npq5d (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03nrnqp (Listen) SUN St Mary's Church, Grafton Regis SUN SUN The bells of St.Mary's Church, Grafton Regis in SUN Northamptonshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03nrmdr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03npq5g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03nrnqr (Listen) SUN In the Interest of Boredom SUN SUN The Desert Fathers complained of the 'noonday demon' that SUN tempted them away from God. Pliny wrote of people ending SUN their lives because of taedium. But it was Charles Dickens SUN who gave it the name we use today: boredom. He called it the SUN 'chronic malady' of modern life. SUN SUN John McCarthy explores this most frustrating of moods, that SUN strips the world of meaning and forces us to face ourselves. SUN With readings from David Foster Wallace, Fernando Pessoa and SUN Evagrius Ponticus, and music by Alain Chamfort, Shostakovich SUN and Erik Satie. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03nrnvy (Listen) SUN The Politician and the Pigs SUN SUN The Minister for Farming, Food, and Marine Environment SUN George Eustice returns to his agricultural roots in West SUN Cornwall. Before entering politics he worked on the family SUN farm, growing strawberries. The enterprise, Trevaskis Farm, SUN has now been taken on by his brother Giles. He's transformed SUN the business into a multi-million pound enterprise which SUN includes a farm shop and restaurant. Giles also has a SUN passion for the rarest native British pig breed, the Lop. SUN The Eustice brothers talk pigs, politics, and what it's like SUN to have a farming minister in a farming family. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03npq5j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03npq5l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03nrnw0 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03nrnw2 (Listen) SUN Prisoners' Advice Service SUN SUN Lady Edwina Grosvenor presents the Radio 4 Appeal for the SUN Prisoners' Advice Service. SUN Reg Charity:1054495 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The Prisoners Advice Service'. SUN SUN The Prisoners’ Advice Service (PAS) SUN The SUN Prisoners’ Advice Service SUN (PAS) has for twenty years provided free, expert legal SUN advice SUN and representation for adult prisoners in England and SUN Wales. SUN It is defined by SUN the idea that everyone deserves to have their basic human SUN rights upheld, and SUN the access to justice to be able to defend these rights if SUN they are being threatened. SUN Advice and advocacy from legal professionals is offered to SUN any prisoner on any SUN legal matter for the cost of a local phone call, regardless SUN of their individual SUN resources or situation. SUN SUN Reconnecting with families SUN PAS helps prisoners to connect with their families. SUN We have provided legal advice and assistance to prisoners SUN that have enabled them to: SUN SUN Preparing for rehabilitation SUN PAS believes that successful rehabilitation upon release is SUN more likely for prisoners whose rights are upheld, and who SUN therefore see the law as a fair system rather than one that SUN is solely punitive. SUN PAS assists prisoners to understand the prison rules, which SUN are seldom communicated with any clarity. SUN PAS also helps prisoners to access the tools of SUN rehabilitation, such as education and appropriate services SUN on release. SUN SUN Helping vulnerable people SUN PAS helps a huge number of vulnerable prisoners. SUN For example, many prisoners suffer from physical SUN disabilities, and require legal help to secure reasonable SUN adjustments to their living conditions in prison, or the SUN appropriate services upon their release. SUN Over 70% of prisoners suffer from two or more mental SUN disorders, and require access to the correct care. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03npq5n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03npq5q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03nrnw4 (Listen) SUN Canon Stephen Shipley presents a special feature reflecting SUN on the 90th anniversary of the first church service to be SUN broadcast by the BBC which took place at St Martin in the SUN Fields on January 6th 1924. The programme features archive SUN from that first church service broadcast in 1924 by the then SUN vicar of St Martin's, the Revd Dick Sheppard and an extract SUN from the very first religious talk on the BBC in 1922 by the SUN Revd John Mayo. Canon Stephen is joined by former SUN broadcaster and Organiser of Religious Programmes at the BBC SUN World Service, Pauline Webb, who talks about the SUN contribution BBC Religious Programmes has had on ecumenism, SUN and broadcaster Canon Angela Tilby explores the nature of SUN broadcast worship. SUN Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03mjcby (Listen) SUN The Perils of Belief SUN SUN John Gray reflects on the damage that can be caused by SUN evangelical belief in a religion or in a political idea. SUN "Whether they are religious or political, evangelists seem SUN to me a blight on civilisation. For them as for those they SUN persecute or bully, belief is an obstacle to a fulfilling SUN life." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03k72zr (Listen) SUN Starling 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 David Attenborough presents the starling. Throughout autumn SUN parties of starlings have been crossing the North Sea to SUN join our resident birds and as winter's grip tightens they SUN create one of Nature's best spectacles. These huge SUN gatherings, sometimes a million or more strong, are called SUN murmurations and they offer the birds safety in numbers. SUN SUN Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03nrpbz (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03nrpc1 (Listen) SUN There's a midnight surprise in Ambridge. Meanwhile Peggy SUN receives a troubling phone call. SUN Jack Woolley 1919 - 2014 SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03nrpc3 (Listen) SUN Ray Mears SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is woodsman Ray Mears. SUN SUN A traveller to the world's remotest corners and a renowned SUN expert in bushcraft, wild cooking and survival techniques, SUN he's one of very few castaways who would genuinely relish SUN the challenges of a desert island. SUN SUN Those of us not possessed of his spirit and skill can live SUN vicariously through his exploits on TV and through his SUN survival handbooks. Enlightening and entertaining the SUN sofa-bound masses is only one strand on his hand whittled SUN bow: he's also trained elite troops for The British Army and SUN in 2010 he was called on by police to help them track the SUN fugitive killer, Raoul Moat. SUN SUN It was survival skills of a different type he needed when he SUN lost his first wife Rachel to cancer: he met his second wife SUN Ruth at a book signing and they share not just a love of SUN each other, but also of the great outdoors. SUN SUN He says of the wild: "I can see nature; I feel it SUN intuitively and I can understand what can't be written." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Ray Mears SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b03mfp0r (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn, Bridget Christie and Ed Byrne SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as poison, etiquette, jelly SUN and David Mitchell. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Arthur Smith SUN Panellist: Henning Wehn SUN Panellist: Bridget Christie SUN Panellist: Ed Byrne SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03nrpsb (Listen) SUN The best of British food and farming.... the search begins SUN SUN Sheila Dillon, chef Richard Corrigan and food writer and SUN broadcaster Valentine Warner help launch the 2014 BBC Food & SUN Farming Awards. SUN SUN From the UK's Best Food market to the Best Drinks Producer, SUN The Food Programme explains how to get involved and nominate SUN your very own food hero. Sheila will be catching up with the SUN previous year's winners to find out what happened next, and SUN she'll also be explaining why 2014 is a particularly SUN important year for us all to share our food stories and SUN experiences with the judges. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Presenter: Richard Corrigan SUN Presenter: Valentine Warner SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03npq5s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03nrpsd (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 b03kpkyq (Listen) SUN Series 2, Foundlings SUN SUN In the first programme of this four part series Hardeep SUN Singh Kohli meets Iain Hogg and Alison Lofthouse. 40 years SUN ago in the Scottish seaport of Grangemouth two babies were SUN found cold, alone and abandoned just 18 months apart. For 35 SUN years those two people thought they were the only one to be SUN found in this way until they made an astonishing discovery. SUN As Hardeep cooks Sunday lunch for Iain and Alley he hears SUN about the events that finally brought them together and why SUN uncovering the identity of the woman who abandoned them SUN remains an issue. SUN SUN Producer: Catherine Earlam. SUN SUN Hardeep’s Special Stovies SUN SUN Hardeep’s Special Stovies - very Scottish, a dish of SUN childhood, comfort food, and would be made from bits of food SUN found around the kitchen. SUN Half a dozen potatoes SUN A couple of red onions SUN 750ml chicken or lamb stock SUN A bunch of spring onions SUN 500g lamb shoulder or leg, cut into chunks SUN A pint of full fat milk SUN 250ml single cream SUN A bunch of flat leaf parsley SUN Sea salt and fresh black pepper. SUN SUN Cranachan SUN SUN Cranachan – again, very Scottish and again would SUN traditionally have been made with ingredients one would find SUN around the kitchen before having to go out and find the SUN raspberries. SUN SUN Fine oatmeal SUN Demerara sugar SUN 750ml whipping cream or double cream SUN A nip of Whisky SUN Some runny honey SUN A small bag of pistachios SUN SUN Raspberries SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03mjcbc (Listen) SUN Shropshire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs presents the horticultural panel show from SUN Shropshire. Answering questions from the local audience are SUN Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN Chris explores the pioneering history of the Shropshire SUN Horticultural Society and the early days of the longest SUN running flower show. Anne Swithinbank visits The Quarry in SUN Shrewsbury to share her passion for one of the stars of the SUN winter garden. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q. Does the panel have any suggestions for a temporary SUN screen to hide an unsightly area of my garden? It needs to SUN be 4-5ft(1.5m) high by August next year. SUN SUN A. Michaelmas Daisies would provide a good cover. Give them SUN a chop in May so that they become bushy rather than too SUN tall. Try the small perennial Rudbeckias, the upright grass SUN Calamagrostis, or even Popping Corn with its vibrant red SUN cobs. Policeman's Helmet or Impatiens Glandulifera will grow SUN anywhere and hide any undesirable elements of the garden! SUN SUN Q. Could the panel tell me what would happen if I pollarded SUN a Silver Birch to about 8ft (2.4m)? SUN SUN A. Pollarding would ruin the appearance of such a tree. The SUN best way to reduce the size of a Birch tree is to coppice SUN it. Coppicing is rejuvenating from ground level whereas SUN pollarding is cutting the head off. SUN As this is a single stem specimen and the bark is fully SUN developed, coppicing may not be effective and it may remain SUN as a stump. Wait until spring and cut into the bark with a SUN pruning saw, penetrating only a few millimeters. Imagine it SUN as a clock face, cutting from the twelve point around to SUN two. This generates dormant buds from below the cut and SUN throws up a new shoot. The following year do it on the SUN opposite side a little further up, forming a second shoot. SUN Let these shoots mature to about a thumb-size in thickness SUN and then cut off the tree head. Go into a 5-8 to eight year SUN rotation, taking out any old wood. SUN SUN Q. What would the panel suggest using to underplant a SUN traditional laid hedge? SUN SUN A. If it is a naturalistic setting, you can't beat Sweet SUN Cicely. It is a Cow Parsley-like plant with a ferny leaf and SUN white flowers. Mix in early flowering specimens such as SUN Trachystemon Orientalis. It is a member of the Borage family SUN with blue flowers and broad, bristly foliage. Also try SUN adding Lamiums, such as the Florentinum with its yellow SUN flowers. SUN SUN Q. What could I plant into a south-facing window box for a SUN splash of colour this spring? Incidentally, I usually forget SUN to water anything I plant! SUN SUN A. The best survivors are Pinks. You could add Rosemary and SUN Sage in-between. Try adding structure with some small SUN Euonymus such as the Emerald 'n' Gold or Emerald Gaiety. Add SUN spring flowering plants and bulbs that can be taken out and SUN added to the garden. SUN SUN Q. How can I control the rampaging Nasturtium that is taking SUN over my allotment? SUN SUN A. You can eat all parts of the annual form of Nasturtium. SUN It will prolifically produce seeds in hot, impoverished SUN soil. It is best to dig it in a good 30cm (11inches), SUN burying the seeds too deep to allow them back through. When SUN you see the seeds germinating, pluck them out and eat them SUN in a salad. SUN SUN Q. Does the panel have any suggestions for low growing SUN planting to stabilize a steep, 8ft high riverbank? It is SUN prone to flooding but is well drained the rest of the time. SUN SUN A. Iris Pseudacorus or Yellow Flag is robust and could be SUN planted in clumps during spring. Once it has developed you SUN could add some smaller boggy plants. You might need to SUN introduce some mechanical stability, such as gabions, to SUN support the bank and allow you to place plants behind the SUN barrier. Another structural solution is to take staffs of SUN alder and willow. Trim out sections of the fresh wood and SUN knock them into the ground. Place these at regular intervals SUN with the willow weaved in between. You will end up with SUN living verticals, connected by a basket-like structure where SUN sediment collects. The plants will root into the ground and SUN can be pruned over winter. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03p7sjv (Listen) SUN The Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr SUN SUN In December 1963 the 19-year-old son of Frank Sinatra - SUN Frank Jr - was kidnapped for a ransom. He was released SUN unharmed after two days. Barry Keenan, the man behind the SUN crime, speaks to Mike Lanchin and describes the events of SUN his doomed 'get rich quick' plot. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03nrqfr (Listen) SUN The World According to Garp, Episode 1 SUN SUN John Irving's audacious, darkly comic and heartbreaking SUN story about the life and times of T.S. Garp dramatised by SUN Linda Marshall Griffiths. SUN SUN New England 1942. Garp is born to nurse Jenny Fields, who SUN raises him alone. As Garp becomes a young man he falls in SUN love with wrestling or more specifically, the wrestling SUN coach's daughter Helen. Helen will only marry a writer and SUN so begins Garp's journey into becoming a novelist. SUN Unfortunately for him, his mother Jenny is writing something SUN of her own. SUN SUN This compassionate coming-of-age story became a worldwide SUN best seller and put Irving on the map as a leading novelist. SUN This is the first episode of a three part dramatisation of a SUN novel that is both acclaimed for its originality, and SUN controversial for its dark representation of gender politics SUN and sexual violence. Published in 1978 it went on to win the SUN US National Book Award and was made into a film in 1982. SUN SUN Dramatist Linda Marshall Griffiths adapted Irving's A Prayer SUN for Owen Meany for Radio 4 in 2009. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN Miranda Richardson and Lee Ingleby SUN Miranda Richardson (Jenny) and Lee Ingleby (Garp) during a SUN break in recording The World According to Garp. SUN SUN Linda Marshall Griffiths SUN SUN John Irving's award-winning novel dramatised for Radio 4 by SUN Linda Marshall Griffiths. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jenny: Miranda Richardson SUN Garp: Lee Ingleby SUN Fat Stew: William Hope SUN Ernie: William Hope SUN Cushie: Lydia Wilson SUN Roxy: Lydia Wilson SUN Midge: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Charlotte: Charlotte Emmerson SUN Little Garp: Adam Thomas Wright SUN Helen: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Pooh: Amanda Hale SUN Pock: Amanda Hale SUN Nurse: Carys Eleri SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths SUN Writer: John Irving SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b03nrrbm (Listen) SUN Donna Tartt - The Secret History SUN SUN With James Naughtie. SUN SUN Donna Tartt discusses her cult debut novel The Secret SUN History, first published in 1992. SUN SUN "I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any SUN number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the SUN only story I will ever be able to tell." SUN SUN In a rare visit to the UK, Donna Tartt discusses The Secret SUN History, which she has described as a 'why dunnit'. It's a SUN murder mystery about a group of classic students at a SUN privileged New England college; but from page one she SUN discloses that the friends have murdered one of their SUN number, Bunny. A literary thriller with allusions to SUN Euripides and Dostoevsky, The Secret History was an SUN overnight sensation and has gripped readers for decades. SUN SUN As always in Bookclub, a group of invited readers join in SUN the discussion too. SUN SUN February's Bookclub choice : The Kite Runner by Khaled SUN Hosseini. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Provincial Pleasures b03nrrbp (Listen) SUN Born in January 1914, Norman Nicholson lived all bar two of SUN his 73 years in the same small industrial town - most of SUN them in the same house. SUN SUN Millom (Cumbrian dialect for "At the mills") is not the Lake SUN District of Hawkshead or Windermere. It's a place where SUN industry failed and unemployment was disproportionately SUN high. Yet it was here, in isolation from the literary world, SUN that Norman Nicholson became a world-class poet. He wrote SUN about quarrying and iron works, slag banks and granite. He SUN was one of the first to argue that industrial heritage SUN should be valued on a par with our cultural heritage. SUN SUN Championed in his early life by TS Elliot, Ted Hughes and SUN Seamus Heaney, Nicholson chose to focus his energies on a SUN non-literary audience, spending his evenings lecturing at SUN the Workers Educational Association. During the 1970s, his SUN poem Windscale about a nuclear accident became an SUN environmentalists anthem. SUN SUN Eric Robson visits Millom, the town Norman Nicholson SUN dedicated his life to. What do the locals think of the poet SUN who did more than anyone else to reflect the soul of this SUN Cumbrian village? When poets are often restless people, what SUN motivated Nicholson to live his entire life in an apparently SUN depressed provincial town? SUN SUN Contributors include Melvyn Bragg (chairman of the Norman SUN Nicholson Society), poet Paul Kingsnorth, academic David SUN Cooper and author Kathleen Jones. SUN SUN Producer: Joby Waldman SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Only Way Is Up b03mfxyh (Listen) SUN Simon Cox charts the sometimes the painful challenges of SUN recovery through the struggles of three organisations; a SUN school, a company and a football team, as they fight back SUN and try to haul themselves away from the bottom. What's it SUN like working on a day-to-day basis at the bottom of the SUN league amid increasing pressure to improve performance? How SUN do they do it? The programme highlights the fight and SUN attempts to overcome difficult circumstances and paints a SUN vivid picture those who work in these organisations. SUN SUN It hears from staff, pupils and Governors at Llanwern High SUN School, until recently, branded as the worst performing SUN school in Wales. What effect do bad results have on the SUN morale of pupils, parents and staff? It charts the struggle SUN of those who are putting everything into keeping an old SUN family department store afloat. Will a major shop re-fit and SUN Christmas sales save Wildings? Or is it past it's sell by SUN date? And the programme follows the ups and downs of Newport SUN County as it begins life back in the professional football SUN league after 25 years. SUN SUN Producer: Jim Frank. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03nrmdr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03npq5v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03npq5x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03npq5z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03nrrpb (Listen) SUN Honestly, what do you pick from this week's radio after all SUN the gluttony - gastronomic and aural - of the last SUN fortnight? For a start, there's an ode to what might SUN possibly be next year's best-selling Christmas present - a SUN mini-3-D printer; there are dark linguistic tales and SUN misunderstandings taking place at an American airport SUN news-stand. And a blast of fresh air to rejuvenate the skin SUN and clear the head in the form of a very beautiful poetic SUN trek through the Cairngorms. SUN SUN Simon Parkes' Pick of the Week SUN SUN Today - 30 December 2013 - Alan Bennett reads the Shipping SUN Forecast - Radio 4 SUN Today - 2 January 2014 - Rowan Williams - Radio 4 SUN PM - 30 December 2013 - Dr David Nott interview - Radio 4 SUN Gypsy Pride and Prejudice - Radio 4 SUN Russell Davies With... Petula Clark - Radio 2 SUN Meet David Sedaris - Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature - Anything but Banal - the Fascination of the SUN Villain- Radio 3 SUN Friday Firsts - Finding Your Voice - Radio 4 SUN About the Boys - Radio 4 SUN Piano Pilgrimage - Radio 4 SUN Click - 3d printing - World Service SUN Assignment - World Service SUN Tweet of the Day - Ravens - 2 January 2014 - Radio 4 SUN The Living Mountain - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03nrrxy (Listen) SUN Susan has the New Year blues, and Jennifer lends a hand. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b03npb2y (Listen) SUN Series 4, The Sea Section; Dog Days SUN SUN One of the world's best storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week, dealing with family tragedy in "The Sea Section" SUN and some comic verse about our canine friends in "Dog Days". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: David Sedaris SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN Writer: David Sedaris SUN SUN 19:45 Modern Welsh Voices b03nrry0 (Listen) SUN Our Sickness SUN SUN Our Sickness by Joe Dunthorne SUN SUN When a young woman wakes to find her eyes won't open, she SUN and her boyfriend embark on a quest to find a cure. The SUN fourth of five original stories by writers from Wales. SUN SUN Read by Ceri Murphy SUN SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ceri Murphy SUN Director: James Robinson SUN Writer: Joe Dunthorne SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b03mjcbk (Listen) SUN The Power of Pension Fees SUN SUN When the government announced that fees charged by pension SUN providers could be capped, SUN many listeners were sceptical that the benefits could be as SUN great as was being claimed. Money Box presenter Paul Lewis SUN explains why the numbers do add up. And Tim Harford SUN interviews Dr Matt Levy of UCL about the power of compound SUN charges, and why people often find it so hard a mathematical SUN concept to understand. SUN SUN Are Christians "by far the most persecuted religious body on SUN the planet"? It's claimed that an average of 100,000 have SUN died as martyrs every year for the past decade. The SUN Vatican's called it a credible number. But is it? Ruth SUN Alexander and Tim Harford fact-check the widely-quoted SUN statistic. SUN SUN Plus, the logic of imperial measures, as explored by Number SUN Hub presenter Matt Parker; and is Britain's railway really SUN Europe's 'most improved'? SUN SUN Also, six cyclists were killed in just two weeks in London SUN at the end of 2013. Does this statistic show dangers have SUN increased for cyclists? Tim interviews Jody Aberdein, who SUN has crunched the numbers for Significance Magazine (You can SUN find the article Jody co-wrote with Professor David SUN Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University here: SUN http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013. SUN 0715.x/pdf). SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN Have London's roads become more dangerous for cyclists? SUN Imperial versus metric SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03mjcbh (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Jane Howard, John Fortune, Vera Houghton, Sir SUN Christopher Curwen and Harold Camping SUN SUN Julian Worricker on SUN SUN The award-winning novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Hilary SUN Mantel reflects on the writer who she says helped us to do SUN the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts. SUN SUN Also the comedian and satirist John Fortune who found fame SUN through his TV collaborations with John Bird and Rory SUN Bremner. SUN SUN Vera Houghton, a pioneer in the fields of abortion law SUN reform and free birth control. SUN SUN Sir Christopher Curwen, who was head of the Secret SUN Intelligence Service, MI6, when Oleg Gordievsky - Britain's SUN star source inside the KGB - was successfully exfiltrated SUN from Moscow. SUN SUN And the American radio evangelist, Harold Camping, who was SUN the first major end-of-the-world forecaster of the internet SUN age. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN Elizabeth Jane Howard SUN SUN Julan spoke to broadcaster Jim Naughtie and writer Hilary SUN Mantel SUN SUN Born 26 March 1923; died 2 January 2014, aged 90 SUN SUN John Fortune SUN SUN Julian spoke to his friend Rory Bremner SUN SUN Born 30 June 1939; died 31 December 2013, aged 74 SUN SUN SUN SUN Vera Houghton SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Lord Steel and Julian spoke to friend and SUN fellow activist Dianne Munday SUN SUN Born 18 October 1914; died 30 November 2013, aged 99 SUN SUN Sir Christopher Curwen SUN SUN Julian spoke to Oleg Gordievsky, former KGB double-agent and SUN Nigel West, military historian and author SUN SUN Born 9 April 1929; died 18 December 2013, aged 84 SUN SUN Harold Camping SUN SUN Column from author Ted Harrison SUN SUN Born 19 July 1921; died 15 December 2013, aged 92 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Julian Worricker SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03nrlyn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03nrnw2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03mj272 (Listen) SUN The Music Industry SUN SUN It has been long established that the music industry has SUN changed irrevocably over the past decade, with the internet SUN disrupting the status quo as it has many other sectors. But SUN the story has moved on from an industry dying from dwindling SUN record sales. SUN SUN The traditional way of releasing your record has changed SUN thanks to new publishing companies, companies that gather SUN music statistics and the streaming services such as Spotify SUN and Deezer. Now these companies are disrupting the industry SUN once again. Peter Day speaks with the key businesses SUN involved such as Spotify and Musicmetric and the SUN traditional, established players such as Sony Music. SUN SUN Yet streaming services have also caused controversy because SUN their payments to musicians are seemingly minuscule. SUN Radiohead's lead singer Thom Yorke has battled against SUN Spotify, calling it the 'last fart of a dying corpse' ; how SUN can musicians make money now? Peter hears from a band just SUN starting out, Yossarian, to Moby who has sold millions of SUN records and singer songwriter Billy Bragg. We compare how SUN much musicians receive from different sources of revenue. SUN SUN But others see the streaming services as saviours and the SUN future of the music industry. Is the problem of small SUN returns from songs streamed actually a clash between a new SUN way of listening to music and the traditional way the SUN industry has been run? Sony Music explain how they are SUN writing their record deals with musicians and that they are SUN thinking about changing this for the new digital age. SUN SUN Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Jeremy Silver SUN SUN author of ‘Digital Medieval: the last twenty years of the SUN music industry, and the next twenty’ and Chairman of SUN Musicmetric SUN SUN SUN SUN Moby SUN SUN musician SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Billy Bragg SUN SUN singer/songwriter SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Ash Spencer SUN SUN singer from Yossarian SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Fred Bolsa SUN SUN Director of Innovation and Strategy at Sony Music in London SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mark Williamson SUN SUN Director of Artist Services at Spotify SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Touve SUN SUN Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, USA SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 UK Confidential b03mj8lz (Listen) SUN 1984 SUN SUN Martha Kearney uncovers the secrets within the Government SUN files of 1984. SUN SUN Margaret Thatcher's government faced some formidable SUN adversaries. The long-anticipated battle with the National SUN Union of Mineworkers and its leader, Arthur Scargill, SUN finally erupted, dominating the political scene well into SUN 1985. The charismatic Ken Livingstone, leader of the Greater SUN London Council, was winning the costly PR war against SUN abolition of the GLC. And terror hit home with the shooting SUN of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy SUN and the IRA bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in SUN Brighton. SUN SUN On the world stage, the Cold War reached a crucial turning SUN point. The cost of the nuclear arms race was rocketing and SUN the world needed a new approach to East-West relations. SUN Rising star of the Soviet Politburo, Mikhail Gorbachev, was SUN invited to Britain and spent five hours at Chequers in a now SUN famous meeting with the Prime Minister. SUN SUN As the official Cabinet papers of 1984 are opened to the SUN public for the first time, Martha Kearney discovers how SUN these events were viewed in Government. With access to the SUN Prime Minister's personal correspondence, minutes of top SUN secret meetings and telephone calls, and confidential policy SUN advice, Martha can now offer fresh insights into history. SUN SUN Former Ministers and other key insiders from the time join SUN Martha in the studio to help her interpret the papers and SUN give their own impressions of the revelations within them. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03nrsnh (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03mj1y6 (Listen) SUN Idris Elba on Mandela; Films for 2014; Newcastle Film Club SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Idris Elba about playing Mandela in SUN a new film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom directed by Justin SUN Chadwick. Elba has recently appeared in Thor:The Dark World, SUN Pacific Rim and BBC TV detective series Luther. SUN Analyst Charles Gant and independent cinema owner Kevin SUN Markwick look back at the box office highs and lows of 2013 SUN before turning their attention to the most anticipated films SUN of 2014 and the awards season. SUN Daniel Bruhl tells all about his big filmic break. SUN And the award-winning film club in Newcastle, County Down in SUN Northern Ireland. SUN Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom SUN SUN Newcastle Community Cinema SUN Newcastle Community Cinema, County Down Official Website SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Idris Elba SUN Interviewed Guest: Charles Gant SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Markwick SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Bruhl SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03nrnqr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 JANUARY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03npq78 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03mg95w (Listen) MON Love MON MON A Thinking Allowed special on 'love'. What are the origins MON of our notions of high romantic love? Was the post war MON period a 'golden age' for lifelong love? Has marriage for MON love now failed? Laurie Taylor hopes to finds some answers MON with the help of the social historian, Claire Langhamer, the MON philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, and the sociologist, Professor MON Mary Evans. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03nrnqp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03npq7b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03npq7d (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03npq7g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03npq7j (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03pn73t (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the MON Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03nsrhr (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03npq7l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztnb (Listen) MON Crossbill 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 story of the Crossbill. MON Crossbills are large finches that specialise in eating MON conifer seeds. To break into the pine or larch cones, MON they've evolved powerful bills with crossed tips which help MON the birds prise off the woody scales of each cone. MON Crossbills breed very early in the year and incubating birds MON sometimes have snow on their backs. MON MON Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) MON Webpage image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03nsrht (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03nsrhw (Listen) MON Mexico - Brave New World MON MON Mexico's hope of becoming the workshop of North America was MON shattered by China's domination of cheap exports, but MON recently, the Mexican dream is in sight again. As Beijing MON opts for "quality not quantity" of growth, companies are MON returning, drawn by competitive labour and proximity to the MON US market. In the first part of a landmark series, the MON economist Jim O'Neill travels across Mexico to investigate. MON He discovers that its ambitions now go far beyond cheap MON manufacturing. But can Mexico's youthful, reforming MON government overcome the challenges of widespread poverty, MON crime and a huge number of people living outside the formal MON economy? MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03nsrhy (Listen) MON The Telling Room, Episode 1 MON MON "Captures the true essence of happiness" Ferran Adria (Chef, MON El Bulli) MON MON In the picturesque Spanish village of Guzmán, villagers have MON gathered for centuries in 'the telling room' to share their MON stories. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael MON Paterniti listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras spun an MON odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient MON family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - MON one bite could conjure long-lost memories. But then, MON Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. MON MON Paterniti was hooked. Relocating his young family to Guzmán, MON he was soon sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery - MON a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and MON theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village MON began to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti found MON himself implicated in the very story he was writing. MON MON Michael Paterniti is a journalist and has been nominated MON eight times for the National Magazine Award. One of his MON stories was chosen for True Stories: A Century of Literary MON Non-fiction, joining four other writers as the best examples MON of literary journalism from the last hundred years. He is MON also the author of the New York Times bestselling book MON Driving Mr Albert. He lives in Portland, Oregon. MON MON Reader: Will Adamsdale MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Will Adamsdale MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Author: Michael Paterniti MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03nsrj0 (Listen) MON Judith Tebbutt, Digital Spare Rib, Taekwando MON MON In September 2011, JudithTebbutt was snatched by Somali MON pirates while on holiday at a beach resort in Kenya. Her MON husband David was murdered during the abduction, but she was MON taken to Somalia where she was held hostage for six months. MON Jane Garvey talks to her about how inner resilience and MON family love helped her survive, and about the challenge of MON trying to build a new life back home. MON MON Taekwando, the fast and furious martial art in which MON competitors use kicks to make contact with their opponent's MON head and body is enjoying something of a surge in popularity MON with women and girls - possibly due to the success of Jade MON Jones, who won gold at the London Olympics. Jade chats about MON the sport and winning Gold in London and we visit a club in MON Liverpool talking to some young taekwondo enthusiasts . MON MON The iconic feminist magazine Spare Rib is being digitised to MON make all of its issues available online. The magazine was MON first published in 1972 and ran until 1993, establishing a MON reputation as the leading publication for feminist thought, MON debate and comment. Now the British Museum is on a quest to MON track down all the magazine's old contributors so their work MON can be made available online, but how relevant is it to MON today's society? MON MON Plus the new set of emerging economies grabbing attention - MON the MINT economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and MON Turkey. All week we'll be looking at the status of women and MON girls in each of the countries starting today with Mexico. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Producer Kirsty Starkey MON Edition Editor Beverley Purcell. MON MON Judith Tebbutt MON MON In September 2011, Judith Tebbutt was snatched by Somali MON pirates from a beach resort in Kenya where she was MON holidaying with her husband, and taken to Somalia where she MON was held hostage in harsh and humiliating conditions. She MON believed her husband David had been injured in the attack, MON but that he would quickly find her and pay her ransom. Only MON after weeks in a cramped, dirty room did she receive a phone MON call from her son Ollie, telling her that David had been MON killed. After six months of incarceration, deprivation and MON near starvation, Jude was returned to her family. She shares MON her story of remarkable courage and strength, and tells us MON how she is trying to rebuild her life back home. MON MON MON MON Judith Tebbutt MON A Long Walk Home MON published by Faber and Faber, was out in paperback last MON week. MON MON Taekwando with Jade Jones MON MON Taekwando is a fast and furious martial art in which MON competitors use kicks to make contact with their opponent’s MON head and body. It's enjoying something of a surge in MON popularity with women and girls – possibly due to the MON success of Jade Jones, who won gold at the London Olympics. MON Louise Adamson talked to Jade about the sport and winning MON the gold medal and visited a training session in Liverpool MON where she met some young taekwondo enthusiasts inspired by MON Jade’s success. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Digital Spare Rib MON MON The iconic feminist magazine Spare Rib is being digitised to MON make all of its issues available online. The magazine was MON first published in 1972 and ran until 1993, establishing a MON reputation as the leading publication for feminist thought, MON debate and comment. Now the MON British Museum is on a quest to track down MON all the magazine’s old contributors MON so their work can be made available online, but how relevant MON is it to today’s society? Jane speaks to Sue O’Sullivan, who MON used to work on the magazine, and Dr Polly Russell, who is MON in charge of the project at the British Museum. MON MON Women in the MINT Economies: Mexico MON MON As part of a week of programming on Radio 4 and the World MON Service, looking at the emerging MINT economies of Mexico, MON Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey, Woman’s Hour is examining MON the situation now for women and gender equality in these MON countries. What is the economic reality, the challenges, and MON the future prospects for women in each of the MINT MON economies? What is the reality of women’s lives, their MON status and rights, their economic and political MON participation? MON MON MON MON Today we’re looking at Mexico: 20 years after North American MON Free Trade Agreement, we hear about the challenges faced by MON women in the ‘maquiladora’ factories along the US border, MON about juggling low paid work, extra jobs and childcare, the MON culture of machismo and sexual inequality, improved MON education and the growing middle class, and about attempts MON to get more women into positions of political influence and MON to close the gender gap. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Sue O'Sullivan MON Interviewed Guest: Dr Polly Russell MON Interviewed Guest: Judith Tebbutt MON Interviewed Guest: Melissa Bosque MON Interviewed Guest: Hepzibah Munoz-Martinez MON Interviewed Guest: Erika Guevara Rosas MON Producer: Kirsty Starkey MON Editor: Beverley Purcell MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03nsrj2 (Listen) MON Carmen, Episode 1 MON MON Carmen by Dan Allum MON MON Producer/Director Charlotte Riches MON MON Episode One MON Carmen is imprisoned by Officer Don Jose after fighting in a MON bar, but is determined not to stay incarcerated for long. MON MON Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen is best known for the Bizet MON opera it later inspired. Dan Allum takes the original story MON as his inspiration for this exciting and powerful new MON interpretation starring Candis Nergaard as Carmen. With MON original music and songs in Romany and English by Dan Allum. MON Musical arrangement by James Fortune. MON MON Credits MON Carmen: Candis Nergaard MON Don Jose: William Ash MON Garcia: Neil Bell MON Miriah: Harriet Chandler Judd MON Lucas: Declan Wilson MON Roderigo: Stephen Hoyle MON Officer: Roger Morlidge MON Captain: Roger Morlidge MON Director: Charlotte Riches MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON Adaptor: Dan Allum MON Author: Prosper Merimee MON MON 11:00 Hack My Hearing b03nt1st (Listen) MON Aged 32, science writer Frank Swain is losing his hearing. MON MON Audiologists are concerned there may be a rising tide of MON 'hidden hearing loss' among young people. As electronic MON prices have fallen, sound systems have become cheaper and MON more powerful. MON MON At the same time, live music events and personal music MON players are more popular than ever, resulting in an increase MON in noise-related hearing damage. MON MON In this programme, Frank asks what the future holds for MON people like him, part of a tech-savvy generation who want to MON hack their hearing aids to tune in to invisible data in the MON world around them. MON MON Could these designers and hackers create the next MON supersense? MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin MON MON Credits: MON MON Sound files of tinnitus kindly provided by Action on Hearing MON Loss. Free Helpline: 0808 808 0123 MON MON Sonified data produced by Semiconductor, with audio courtesy MON of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by MON the Canadian Space Agency. Special thanks to Andy Kale. MON MON Colour music created by cyborg artist Neil Harbisson. MON MON 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b03nt1sw (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 3 MON MON by Katherine Jakeways MON MON Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the MON residents of a small market town in Northamptonshire. This MON week, visitors are expected in Wadenbrook, and a revelation MON is long overdue. MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex MON girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and MON Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at MON these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a MON label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. MON Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor MON south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the MON three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously. Now MON Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an identity. MON And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. MON And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. MON MON Joined by nearly all of the incredible cast which graced MON Series One and Two - including Sheila Hancock as the MON Narrator, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu, Geoffrey Palmer MON and Kevin Eldon - and with the exciting addition of Tim Key MON and Nathaniel Parker - North by Northamptonshire hopes (and MON promises) to once again delight audience and critics. MON 'The laughs are cruel, but the monsters of suburbia are MON curiously sympathetic, and the characters so well drawn and MON well played that this could run and run.' Time Out. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Sheila Hancock MON Rod: Tim Key MON Frank: Rufus Wright MON Mary: Penelope Wilton MON Jonathan: Kevin Eldon MON Esther: Katherine Jakeways MON Keith: John Biggins MON Norman: Geoffrey Palmer MON Orson: Nathaniel Parker MON Jan: Felicity Montagu MON Producer: Steven Canny MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03nt1sy (Listen) MON People experience long delays when applying for Blue Badges MON MON We hear about the Danish power station run on straw...and MON why if you are a blue badge holder for disabled parking you MON may expect long delays if you want to renew your badge. MON MON And we go into a consumer time tunnel, and hear from someone MON who's been collecting our throwaway labels and packaging for MON the last fifty years. It'll take you back. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03npq7n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03npq7q (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03nt1t0 (Listen) MON Orientation MON MON On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will MON decide in a referendum whether they want their nation MON henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or MON remain within the union that has bound Britain together MON since the Act of Union of 1707. MON MON In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of MON History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces MON that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and MON loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally MON powerful movements that from time to time across the MON centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. MON MON In the first of fifteen programmes, Colley offers us - MON literally - an overview, as she begins her journey with the MON story of the 18th century Scottish writer and MON controversialist James Tytler, the first person to look down MON from a hot air balloon on what Shakespeare had earlier MON called 'this scepter'd isle'. MON MON In these refreshingly original talks, Linda Colley sets out MON to counter a number of well-established conventional views MON of Britain's history and offer a personal take on the united MON - and divided - history of our nation: "Although Britain is MON sometimes viewed as an old and stable country, these in fact MON are very selective visions. Historically speaking, Great MON Britain - and still more the United Kingdom - are in some MON respects recent and synthetic constructs that have often MON been contested and in flux in the past, just as they MON continue to be contested and in flux now...." MON MON Producer: Simon Elmes. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03nrrxy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0387tmr (Listen) MON Joan and the Baron MON MON Bordeaux, late 1970's: a Frenchman in his seventies; an MON Englishwoman in her sixties. MON MON He is a poet, a translator of Elizabethan verse, a racing MON driver, yachtsman, wine maker, theatre and film producer MON and, at one time, the most notorious womaniser in Paris. He MON is also a Rothschild. MON She is from Stockwell in London, born to an unmarried mother MON who disapproved of books and reading. But after a convent MON school education as a scholarship girl and another MON scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she became MON one of the most influential directors of the twentieth MON century, creating the Theatre Workshop in Stratford East and MON earning the sobriquet 'the Mother of Modern Theatre'. She is MON Joan Littlewood. MON MON Following the recent deaths of their respective partners, MON Baron Philippe seems to be moving on with his life while MON Joan declares she has no wish to. She shut-down emotionally MON at the point of her beloved Gerry Raffles' death and has no MON desire to return to her famous theatre in Stratford East or MON ever to direct again. The Baron extends an invitation to his MON Mouton estate. MON MON Joan and the Baron explores the growth of friendship between MON this unlikely pair, after a chance meeting in Vienne. MON MON Written by Mark Burgess MON MON Director: David Blount MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Joan Littlewood: Eleanor Bron MON Baron Philippe de Rothschild: Michael Jayston MON Marcel: Andrew Branch MON Shelagh: Rachel Atkins MON Marie: Rachel Atkins MON RADA Principal: Jonathan Tafler MON Harry: Jonathan Tafler MON Director: David Blount MON Writer: Mark Burgess MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03nt5gs (Listen) MON (5/17) MON Which philosopher's best known work is the 'Critique of Pure MON Reason'? Russell Davies has the question, and will be hoping MON one of this week's contestants has the answer, as they start MON their bid for the title Brain of Britain 2014. MON MON This week's contenders are from London, Berkshire and MON Cornwall. The winner will take a place in the series MON semi-finals, and move a step closer to the 61st Brain of MON Britain title which will be awarded in the spring. The MON questions cover the widest possible range of general MON knowledge, from history, science, mythology and the Classics MON to film, music and popular culture. MON MON As always there'll be a chance for a listener to win a prize MON with questions designed to outwit the contestants, in 'Beat MON the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03nrpsb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Staging a Revenge: The New Jacobean Theatre b03nt5qf (Listen) MON Shakespearian drama is strongly associated with The Globe - MON all the more so since Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction was MON completed on London's Southbank 16 years ago. But the MON outdoor "Wooden O" was only part of the story. MON MON The ambition of Shakespeare's company was also for an indoor MON theatre to alternate with the open spaces - a theatre that MON was intimate, candlelit, more sophisticated and attractive MON to a high-paying audience. MON MON Now such a theatre has been built next door to The Globe, MON completing Sam Wanamaker's original vision for a pair of MON theatres - one for summer and one for winter. MON MON The opening production is The Duchess of Malfi. John MON Webster's classic play was originally performed on the stage MON of the Blackfriars (the first professional indoor theatre in MON London.) How did the intimate, candlelit space contribute to MON the dark intensity of Webster's revenge tragedy? MON MON Isabel Sutton finds out, with the help of Dominic Dromgoole, MON Farah Karim-Cooper, Jonathan Bate, Tiffany Stern, Peter MON McCullough and Eve Best. MON MON Producer: Susan Marling MON MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Slow Coach b038c0dt (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Liz Barclay follows three busy people as they continue an MON experiment to slow down their lives. Their 'slow coach' is MON Carl Honoré, spokesperson for a growing 'Slow Movement'. He MON argues that the 'virus of hurry' has infected every corner MON of our lives. 'Slow' has become a dirty word - a byword for MON lazy and unproductive. But can we actually be more MON productive, as well as happier and healthier, if we connect MON with our 'inner tortoise'? MON MON Three volunteers put Carl's theories to the test by MON following his advice over the course of a month. MON MON In programme 1, Carl gave them each a bespoke recipe for MON slowing down, with tips to follow each day. Now, in MON programme 2, he asks them to step back from the daily grind MON to reflect on the bigger picture. What are the pressures MON keeping them speedy? Can they slow down in a way that will MON last? MON MON Lizzie works part-time as a health visitor, and has three MON young children. She's found it challenging to put Carl's MON suggestions into practice. She visits a conference on MON families and relationships to ask if it's inevitable that MON life as a working parent is a constant race against the MON clock. MON MON Steve runs a business, and is overwhelmed by his workload. MON He's been following Carl's tips on switching off technology MON and reducing distraction. Now he tries the practice of MON mindfulness to develop his focus and find a sense of calm. MON MON Scott is on jobseeker's allowance but lives a hectic life MON running local activities like a Carnival. He's been learning MON to say 'no', and pace himself instead of panicking. Now he MON wants to find out if slowing down can help him to take MON control of his life and its direction. MON MON Liz follows their successes and struggles, and asks if it's MON really possible to slow down in a fast-forward world. MON MON Producer: Tessa Watt MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b03nt7dl (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03npq7s (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b03nt7cn (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Marcus Brigstocke, Holly Walsh, John Finnemore and Rufus MON Hound are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Eton, babies, Russia and MON hats. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: John Finnemore MON Panellist: Rufus Hound MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03nt7cq (Listen) MON Jim and Joe have a lot to discuss. Meanwhile Robert lays a MON wager. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03nt7cs (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03nsrj2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Riding the Graphene Wave b03kpnjx (Listen) MON Construction work is underway to build a world-class MON laboratory at Manchester University. Costing £61m, the MON National Graphene Institute aims to be the world's leading MON centre of graphene research and commercialisation. MON MON Graphene is super-strong and super-conductive - it's often MON called a 'wonder material' - and it was invented in MON Manchester by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, who won a MON Nobel prize for their work. The city takes great pride in MON the discovery, seeing a direct line of descent from its MON legacy of industrial invention, and has awarded the two MON scientists the freedom of the city in recognition of their MON work. MON MON Gerry Northam finds out how the the UK is competing in the MON global market as Korea, China and the USA pour money into MON the patenting and commercialisation of Manchester's magic MON material. What will it take for graphene to move out of the MON laboratory and into the commercial world? MON MON Investors are running the numbers to work out which MON applications are most ready for go-to-market products, and MON which countries are making fastest progress in finding ways MON to manufacturer graphene. Can graphene give the UK a MON significant new role in the 21st century global economy? MON MON Producer: Philip Reevell MON A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03mj1xw (Listen) MON Greenland: To dig or not to dig? MON MON Could Greenland become the world's next resource hotspot? MON The government there hopes so - they've been travelling the MON world touting the country's vast reserves of oil and gas, MON and huge deposits of iron ore, gold and rare-earth elements. MON As melting icecaps make all these resources more accessible, MON mining promises riches for Greenland and the ultimate prize MON of full independence from Denmark. But there's a catch - MON many of the rare earth minerals are surrounded by uranium, MON pitching Greenland into the world of nuclear politics and MON environmental hazard. Nowhere is this clearer than in the MON small town of Narsaq in the country's south. Two proposed MON rare-earth mines could reverse the town's economic decline, MON but one just miles away will mine uranium too. James MON Fletcher travels to Narsaq to ask whether mining will be a MON blessing or a curse. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03mfvl9 (Listen) MON Do We Care Too Much About Nature? MON MON "Do we care too much about nature?" This is the question we MON will be asking in a special edition of Shared Planet MON recorded with a live audience in the Great Hall at the MON University of Bristol. Together with questions asked by MON Shared Planet listeners and members of the public in the MON audience Monty Don hosts two guests John Burton, Chief MON Executive Officer of The World Land Trust and Hannah MON Stoddart, Head of the Economic Justice and Policy team at MON Oxfam GB. And of course Shared Planet correspondent Kelvin MON Boot will make an appearance. MON MON Producer Mary Cowell. MON MON 21:30 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03nsrhw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03npq7v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03nt7cx (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03phdbr (Listen) MON The Lonely Londoners, Episode 1 MON MON Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic about the MON lives of a group of Caribbean immigrants in London MON MON Sam Selvon's rich and touching 1956 novel about the lives of MON a group of Caribbean immigrants in London opens as Moses MON Aloetta, an old hand who has lived in the city for ten MON years, goes to Waterloo station to meet another boat train MON of hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies. They've come MON to find work and wealth in the capital of the mother MON country, but they meet with a cold welcome and bitter MON weather. Despite this, Moses and his friends of the Windrush MON generation go about making new lives for themselves with MON vigour and panache, navigating the rules and regulations of MON their new home, lending support to each other when needed, MON learning to survive; it's not long before, as Moses puts it, MON 'the boys coming and going, working, eating, sleeping, going MON about the vast metropolis like veteran Londoners.' MON MON The Lonely Londoners will be broadcast the week before Colin MON MacInnes' vibrant novel about London, Absolute Beginners, MON set just a couple of years later as racial tensions rise; MON together the two books offer an unforgettable portrait of a MON city and a society undergoing convulsive change. MON MON Reader: Don Warrington MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON Producer: Sara Davies. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Don Warrington MON Producer: Sara Davies MON Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON Author: Sam Selvon MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b03mfwjz (Listen) MON Baby Talk MON MON Michael Rosen looks at language and communication. This week MON we're talking baby talk, or 'Infant Directed Speech'. He MON asks if the cooing parentese is a natural phenomenon or is MON it simply a culturally learnt trait. Does it benefit or MON hinder language development, and do animals use it? Michael MON also discovers some interesting examples of baby talk in MON letters that Jonathan Swift wrote to two lady friends. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03nt7d1 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 JANUARY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03npq8w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03nsrhy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03npq8z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03npq91 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03npq93 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03npq95 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03pn73b (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the TUE Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03nt8hj (Listen) TUE As the Oxford Farming Conference calls for UK farmers to TUE seek alternatives to the "tried and tested", Farming Today TUE looks at what lessons could be learned from New Zealand - a TUE country with similar climate and similar farming techniques TUE that continues to outstrip the UK in production. TUE TUE We visit two farms praising New Zealand's techniques. Robert TUE Craig runs a dairy farm in Cumbria, and says controlled TUE grazing is boosting his bottom line. While on the Black TUE Mountains in Wales, sheep breeder Penny Chantler says New TUE Zealand Romneys do better than traditional breeds on less. TUE TUE But the sheep and beef industry body, EBLEX, says the UK TUE isn't that far behind, and progressive farmers are already TUE borrowing a lot of ideas from New Zealand. TUE TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Willy Flockton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztp0 (Listen) TUE Mistle Thrush (Song) 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 story of the Mistle Thrush. TUE Mistle thrushes are early singers and you'll often hear one TUE singing from the top of a tall tree in windy winter weather. TUE Because of this habit, an old name for the thrush is 'storm TUE cock'. TUE TUE Mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03nt8hl (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03p81z7 (Listen) TUE Indonesia - Commodity Curse TUE TUE Indonesia has enjoyed a boom created by its exports of raw TUE materials to China, India and other growing economies. But TUE commodity prices are notoriously volatile and the world's TUE fourth largest nation needs to create a more stable economy TUE as it expands even further and urbanises rapidly. TUE International investors are queuing up to exploit this major TUE market, but as Jim O'Neill discovers in the second part of TUE this series on the so-called MINT countries, the Indonesian TUE story is complex: poverty, poor infrastructure and an TUE historical aversion to foreign interference could all TUE threaten the dream of joining the world's economic A list. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03nt8hn (Listen) TUE The Telling Room, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the picturesque Spanish village of Guzmán, villagers have TUE gathered for centuries in 'the telling room' to share their TUE stories. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael TUE Paterniti listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras spun an TUE odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient TUE family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - TUE one bite could conjure long-lost memories. But then, TUE Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. TUE TUE Paterniti was hooked. Relocating his young family to Guzmán, TUE he was soon sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery - TUE a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and TUE theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village TUE began to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti found TUE himself implicated in the very story he was writing. TUE TUE Michael Paterniti is a journalist and has been nominated TUE eight times for the National Magazine Award. One of his TUE stories was chosen for True Stories: A Century of Literary TUE Non-fiction, joining four other writers as the best examples TUE of literary journalism from the last hundred years. He is TUE also the author of the New York Times bestselling book TUE Driving Mr Albert. He lives in Portland, Oregon. TUE TUE Reader: Will Adamsdale TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Will Adamsdale TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Author: Michael Paterniti TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03nt8hq (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03nt8hs (Listen) TUE Carmen, Episode 2 TUE TUE Carmen by Dan Allum TUE TUE Episode Two TUE Carmen meets Don Jose again at a party. He is unable to TUE resist her charms, despite the trouble she brings with her. TUE TUE Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen is best known for the Bizet TUE opera it later inspired. Dan Allum takes the original story TUE as his inspiration for this exciting and powerful new TUE interpretation starring Candis Nergaard as Carmen. With TUE original music and songs in Romany and English by Dan Allum. TUE Musical arrangement by James Fortune. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carmen: Candis Nergaard TUE Don Jose: William Ash TUE Garcia: Neil Bell TUE Miriah: Harriet Chandler Judd TUE Lucas: Declan Wilson TUE Roderigo: Stephen Hoyle TUE Officer: Roger Morlidge TUE Captain: Roger Morlidge TUE Director: Charlotte Riches TUE Producer: Charlotte Riches TUE Adaptor: Dan Allum TUE Author: Prosper Merimee TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03nt8hv (Listen) TUE Deer Management TUE TUE It is estimated that in the United Kingdom, that the number TUE of certain deer species in our countryside has almost TUE tripled in the last 20 years. Deer are possibly the most TUE likely mammal we are ever likely to see in the wider TUE countryside. However in many areas deer are blamed for TUE destroying crops and woodland, and the booming populations TUE will fuel concerns they are having a harmful impact on other TUE wildlife. Add to this an increasing human population pushing TUE ever deeper into deer habitat, are we at a point whereby the TUE management of deer in Western Europe has become a critical TUE issue? Monty Don explores this question a field report TUE looking at the damage deer can do in our increasingly TUE urbanised landscape. TUE TUE Producer Andrew Dawes. TUE TUE 11:30 Piano Movements b03nt8hx (Listen) TUE Nick Baker experiences some moving stories involving pianos, TUE their owners, and the people who move them around. There's TUE nothing more likely to crystallise feelings towards a piano TUE than having to move it - up or downstairs - from one place TUE to another. TUE TUE Siobhan is faced with shifting an old family upright into a TUE new first floor flat. Alison is overseeing the removal of a TUE Steinway B from the home of her late employer, a famous TUE orchestral conductor. Nick Baker follows their progress as TUE pianos are lugged sweatily up stairs or craned out of TUE windows, suspended temporarily 30ft above the street. Indeed TUE Nick himself has had a difficult experience moving a piano. TUE He still feels responsible for Lesley losing more than her TUE dignity in an ill-fated piano moving exercise. She lost part TUE of a finger as well. TUE TUE Nick witnesses the back-breaking exploits of Marek, Bartek TUE and Jacek as they negotiate a cramped Victorian conversion TUE with a family upright in Catford, London. And there's Penny, TUE organiser of the Two Moors classical music festival, who TUE watched as a 9 foot Bösendorfer grand - twenty six grand, to TUE be precise - fell off the back of a lorry and 13 feet into a TUE Devon ditch. TUE TUE So, forget Laurel and Hardy, chimps and Bernard Cribbins. TUE Piano movement is a serious business. It can also be TUE seriously expensive. TUE TUE High end piano removals expert Julian Rout is on a mission TUE to turn piano logistics into an art form. He's intent on TUE harnessing the complementary strengths of humans and TUE technology. Less muscle, more machines. But he's battling TUE against the man and van trade. TUE TUE It turns out, the piano movements that tug most at the TUE heartstrings are not those of Beethoven or Bartok - but TUE piano movements like these. TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03nt8hz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03npq97 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03npq99 (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03nt8j1 (Listen) TUE Islands TUE TUE On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will TUE decide in a referendum whether they want their nation TUE henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or TUE remain within the union that has bound Britain together TUE since the Act of Union of 1707. TUE TUE In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of TUE History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces TUE that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and TUE loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally TUE powerful movements that from time to time across the TUE centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. TUE TUE In her second talk, Professor Colley examines the island TUE nature of the United Kingdom, and the way the geography, TUE history and political rhetoric of Britain have often been at TUE odds: "There are in fact over 6000 islands set around the TUE island of Great Britain. One of these - Ireland - is large, TUE almost 33,000 square miles. But many of these offshore TUE islands are tiny, like most of the 500 islands of the TUE Hebrides; and some are quasi-autonomous. The Isle of Man TUE only came under the full sovereignty of the British monarch TUE in the 1760s and retains its own parliament; while Orkney TUE and the Shetlands were once linked to Scandinavia. It has TUE never simply been a case, then, of what Winston Churchill TUE styled "our long island history". There are multiple islands TUE involved in the British past, with multiple and sometimes TUE diverging histories." TUE TUE Producer: Simon Elmes. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03nt7cq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011vg99 (Listen) TUE A Scattering TUE TUE "It is a devastating piece of work and all of us on the jury TUE felt it was a book we would wish everybody to read." TUE TUE This is how the chair of the Costa Prize jury described TUE Christopher Reid's slim book of poems when they announced TUE him as winner, in what was a very competitive field, of the TUE overall award in 2009. TUE TUE At the age of sixty, Christopher Reid lost his wife, the TUE actress Lucinda Gane, to cancer. In this radio adaptation, TUE Robert Bathurst reads this Costa prize winning collection of TUE poems written in response to her death. TUE TUE The poems describe the inevitable arc, from the first TUE diagnosis of illness to a provisional (it never could be TUE final) acceptance of the poet's enforced membership of "the TUE club of the left-over living". Along the way he paints a TUE panorama of grief and loss. TUE TUE Christopher Reid has taken an intensely personal tragedy and TUE made the emotion of it universal. The result is TUE life-enhancing because ultimately it's all about the triumph TUE of love after death. TUE TUE Producer: Kate McAll TUE BBC/Cymru Wales. TUE TUE Credits TUE Author: Christopher Reid TUE Reader: Robert Bathurst TUE Producer: Kate McAll TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b03nt8j3 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland and a cast of leading historians, together with TUE listeners, discuss the latest historical research from TUE across the UK including, this week, the religion of the TUE Picts. TUE TUE Tom is joined by Professor Martin Carver from the University TUE of York and Dr Gareth Williams from the British Museum in a TUE programme that shines a light on the people of the Dark Ages TUE and also tackles an increasingly thorny issue about how to TUE handle rare artefacts and documents. TUE TUE Dr Fiona Watson is joined by Dr Alex Woolf from the TUE University of St Andrews on a journey to a Pictish monastery TUE in the remote coastal village of Portmahomack, north of TUE Inverness. It's a site which, thanks largely to the work on TUE Martin Carver, tells us a lot about the reach of TUE Christianity and how the east coast of Britain lost its TUE economic and political advantage after the fall of Rome. TUE Oddly, it was Portmahomack's links to the west through the TUE Great Glen which helped its monastery become established TUE during this period. TUE TUE And at the British Library, the gloves are off as Helen TUE Castor responds to listener's concerns about the way in TUE which she handled rare documents in her recent TV series for TUE BBC 4. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Shared Experience b03mfwjx (Listen) TUE Mothers Who Left Their Kids TUE TUE Fi Glover talks to four women who have made the painful TUE choice to leave their children, how they have dealt with TUE separation, and if they can ever rebuild their relationship TUE with them. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b03nt8j7 (Listen) TUE Chimps and Language TUE TUE What distinguishes humans from our closest relatives, the TUE chimps? It long used to be thought that we were set apart as TUE 'Man the Tool-Maker', but 50 years ago the primatologist TUE Jane Goodall demonstrated that chimps make them too. This TUE left mankind distinguished from animals by the way in which TUE we inhabit the realm of language, our use and understanding TUE of grammar representing a key attribute of being human. But TUE this, too, is having to be reassessed, not least because of TUE the accomplished way in which, for example, the famous TUE bonobo chimp Kanzi communicates with his human keepers. TUE TUE Michael Rosen speaks to Dr Catherine Crockford of the Max TUE Planck Institute in Leipzig - who studies chimp TUE communication in Uganda's forests - and psycholinguist TUE Martin Edwardes to assess whether the utterances of chimps TUE constitute words, and whether their combination of them TUE represents syntax and grammar. Michael also meets the actor TUE Peter Elliott, whose career has been spent playing the parts TUE of chimps in films. He even appears in Kanzi's favourite TUE film, 'Greystoke', about the childhood of Tarzan. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03nt8bw (Listen) TUE Series 32, David Baddiel on John Updike TUE TUE His novels perfectly captured the shifting moral codes of TUE middle America in the 1970s and 80s but do John Updike's TUE novels still have something important to tell us today? The TUE writer and comedian David Baddiel makes the case for Updike TUE in conversation with Matthew Parris and the novelist and TUE Updike expert, Justin Cartwright. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: David Baddiel TUE Interviewed Guest: Justin Cartwright TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03nt8j9 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 17:57 Weather b03npq9c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03npq9f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Chain Reaction b03nt8bk (Listen) TUE Series 9, Episode 3 TUE TUE Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show TUE where last week's interviewee becomes this week's TUE interviewer. TUE TUE The chain continues this week with comedian Frankie Boyle TUE talking to comic book legend Grant Morrison. TUE TUE They talk Batman, where ideas come from and the future of TUE humanity. TUE TUE Producer ... Carl Cooper. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03nt8jc (Listen) TUE Pat can't believe her ears. Meanwhile Kirsty is getting TUE excited. TUE David Troughton is the new Tony Archer TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03nt8jf (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03nt8hs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b03nt8jh (Listen) TUE As a complex operation continues to destroy the remainder of TUE Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, how much will we ever TUE know about the supply routes through which the Assad regime TUE acquired the basic ingredients for its arsenal? Vast TUE quantities of chemicals are traded around the world every TUE day, so what chance do we have of controlling their use by TUE rogue states and terrorists? In the first of a new series, TUE Allan Urry reports from the headquarters of the OPCW - the TUE organisation set up to stop the spread of chemical warfare TUE and which is overseeing the removal and destruction of the TUE Syrian weapons. He also investigates the efforts of TUE terrorist groups including Al Qaeda and al Shabab to develop TUE nerve agents of their own; and examines the global attempts TUE to limit the availability of "dual use" chemicals which are TUE essential in the manufacture of every day products from TUE fertilisers to toothpaste but which can also be turned into TUE powerful explosives for use in IEDs and other bombs. TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03nt8jk (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b03nt8jm (Listen) TUE Starting a new business when you have got a serious mental TUE health problem. TUE TUE 21:30 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03p81z7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03npq9h (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03nt8jp (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03phxkx (Listen) TUE The Lonely Londoners, Episode 2 TUE TUE Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic about the TUE lives of a group of Caribbean immigrants in London. TUE TUE Episode 2: Moses has met Sir Galahad off the boat train at TUE Waterloo and sets about introducing him to his new home. TUE Galahad is keen to show he's not overawed by London, but a TUE trip to the employment exchange leaves him in need of Moses' TUE help. TUE TUE Sam Selvon's rich and touching 1956 novel describes how TUE Moses and his friends of the Windrush generation go about TUE making new lives for themselves with vigour and panache, TUE navigating the rules and regulations of their new home, TUE lending support to each other when needed, learning to TUE survive; it's not long before, as Moses puts it, 'the boys TUE coming and going, working, eating, sleeping, going about the TUE vast metropolis like veteran Londoners.' TUE TUE The Lonely Londoners will be broadcast the week before Colin TUE MacInnes' vibrant novel about London, Absolute Beginners, TUE set just a couple of years later as racial tensions rise; TUE together the two books offer an unforgettable portrait of a TUE city and a society undergoing convulsive change. TUE TUE Reader: Don Warrington TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Producer: Sara Davies. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Don Warrington TUE Producer: Sara Davies TUE Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Author: Sam Selvon TUE TUE 23:00 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies b03gg7rd (Listen) TUE Nationalism TUE TUE Andrew Maxwell is one of the UK's most informed and fearless TUE stand ups. In this series of one-off stand up shows, he uses TUE his trademark intelligence and political incisiveness to dig TUE behind the clichés and assumptions about four possible TUE threats to British society: food, the internet, drugs and TUE Nationalism. TUE TUE This series will showcase a comedian at the top of his TUE abilities tackling difficult and important 'slow news' TUE topics with a depth and perceptiveness that remains outside TUE the remit of mainstream 'topical' comedy. TUE TUE In this last edition, Andrew looks at Nationalists, from a TUE variety of movements, who are easy to demonise. So very, TUE very easy. But rather than do that - and it really is very TUE easy - Andrew will explore the reasons for joining such TUE organisations and the logical outcomes of their policies. TUE TUE Always adept at making shrewd, balanced and very funny TUE political observations, Maxwell was one of the first comics TUE at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival to react to the riots in TUE England and the Arab Spring and evolve his act accordingly TUE to rave reviews and a nomination. He performed his 2012 TUE Edinburgh show That's the Spirit at the Assembly Rooms TUE George Square to sell out audiences and followed this with a TUE run at London's Soho Theatre. He also performed at the TUE Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival last year including TUE a performance at the televised American Dream Gala and at TUE the Udderbelly Festival. TUE TUE "One of the most significant comedians working in the TUE country today" THE INDEPENDENT TUE TUE "Fiercely funny and utterly invigorating" THE TIMES TUE TUE "Stand up. is rarely this politically well-informed or TUE thought-provoking" THE SCOTSMAN TUE TUE Written and performed by ..... Andrew Maxwell TUE Script edited by ..... Paul Byrne TUE Produced by ..... Ed Morrish. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Andrew Maxwell TUE Performer: Andrew Maxwell TUE Producer: Ed Morrish TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03nt8jr (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 JANUARY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03npqbt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03nt8hn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03npqbw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03npqby (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03npqc0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03npqc2 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03pn72t (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the WED Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03nt9vc (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztpd (Listen) WED Great Tit WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED David Attenborough presents the story of the Great Tit. That WED metallic 'tea-cher, tea-cher' song of the great tit is WED instantly recognisable and you can hear it on mild days from WED mid-December onwards. It's the origin of the old country WED name, 'Saw-Sharpener'. WED WED Great Tit (Parus major) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03nv0gn (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03p824m (Listen) WED Nigeria - Africa's Hope WED WED Economist Jim O'Neill was the first to spot the huge WED potential of the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and WED China, and predict how the world would change. In this WED landmark series, Jim travels to four countries which could WED one day stand alongside them and join the world's economic WED elite. Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey - MINT - could WED become the new name on people's lips, and further overturn WED the old world order. Today Jim investigates Nigeria; can a WED big nation of young, vibrant, natural entrepreneurs overcome WED the country's terrible legacy - decades of corruption, WED crime, and mismanagement? WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03nt87n (Listen) WED The Telling Room, Episode 3 WED WED In the picturesque Spanish village of Guzmán, villagers have WED gathered for centuries in 'the telling room' to share their WED stories. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael WED Paterniti listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras spun an WED odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient WED family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - WED one bite could conjure long-lost memories. But then, WED Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. WED WED Paterniti was hooked. Relocating his young family to Guzmán, WED he was soon sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery - WED a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and WED theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village WED began to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti found WED himself implicated in the very story he was writing. WED WED Michael Paterniti is a journalist and has been nominated WED eight times for the National Magazine Award. One of his WED stories was chosen for True Stories: A Century of Literary WED Non-fiction, joining four other writers as the best examples WED of literary journalism from the last hundred years. He is WED also the author of the New York Times bestselling book WED Driving Mr Albert. He lives in Portland, Oregon. WED WED Reader: Will Adamsdale WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Will Adamsdale WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Author: Michael Paterniti WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03nt9vf (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03nt9vh (Listen) WED Carmen, Episode 3 WED WED Carmen by Dan Allum WED WED Producer/Director Charlotte Riches WED WED Episode Three WED Carmen introduces Don Jose to her camp and a life of robbery WED and violence. WED WED Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen is best known for the Bizet WED opera it later inspired. Dan Allum takes the original story WED as his inspiration for this exciting and powerful new WED interpretation starring Candis Nergaard as Carmen. With WED original music and songs in Romany and English by Dan Allum. WED Musical arrangement by James Fortune. WED WED Credits WED Carmen: Candis Nergaard WED Don Jose: William Ash WED Garcia: Neil Bell WED Miriah: Harriet Chandler Judd WED Lucas: Declan Wilson WED Roderigo: Stephen Hoyle WED Officer: Roger Morlidge WED Captain: Roger Morlidge WED Director: Charlotte Riches WED Producer: Charlotte Riches WED Adaptor: Dan Allum WED Author: Prosper Merimee WED WED 11:00 Natalie Haynes's Brave New Algo-World b03nt9vk (Listen) WED Comic and critic Natalie Haynes attempts to find the WED algorithm to determine the perfect joke. WED WED Data structures exercise a tight grip on financial trading, WED but algorithms are now breaking out into virtually all WED spheres of human activity - from politics to household WED cleaning. Both university students and schoolchildren are WED being encouraged to learn computer programming to stand a WED chance in the brave new algo-world. WED WED Natalie traces the Western World's increasing reliance on WED big data and ponders how its analysis could transform WED comedy, including a University of Edinburgh research project WED on unsupervised computer joke generation. WED WED Along her mathematical journey, Natalie charts some of the WED chaotic muddles that algorithms have led us into, from WED security scares to retail problems, such as the offensive WED computer generated T-Shirts available recently on Amazon. WED WED Natalie explores how these complex computer programmes are WED being used to determine not just stock prices but espionage WED tactics, film scripts, architecture and online dating. She WED glimpses the future of algorithms and the effect they may WED have on the things we buy, the partners we choose and the WED politicians we elect. WED WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b03nt9vm (Listen) WED Series 9, Stand By Your Man WED WED Episode One - Stand By Your Man WED WED Clare has mysteriously abandoned her honeymoon and come back WED to work at Sparrowhawk Family Centre. The rest of the social WED workers have an unfortunate experience on a community WED project, and Brian struggles to enjoy a holiday on his own. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Jill: Nina Conti WED Petra: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Queenie: Hannah Gordon WED Hazel: Hannah Gordon WED Ben: John Norton WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03nt9vp (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b03nt9vr (Listen) WED Original investigations into social injustice, public WED policy, inefficiency and fraud. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03npqc6 (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03nt9vt (Listen) WED Sea WED WED On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will WED decide in a referendum whether they want their nation WED henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or WED remain within the union that has bound Britain together WED since the Act of Union of 1707. WED WED In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of WED History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces WED that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and WED loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally WED powerful movements that from time to time across the WED centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. WED WED In her third programme, Professor Colley wades into the WED choppy waters of Britain's relationship with the sea that WED surrounds us: WED WED 'Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves, WED Britons never, never, never will be slaves' WED WED "'Rule Britannia' was first performed in 1740, but the ideas WED behind it were older. From the late 16th century, a WED succession of politicians and propagandists had drawn on WED maritime references in order to manufacture claims about WED Britain's special destiny. The encircling seas, it was WED argued, demonstrated that God and nature had designed WED Britain as a single polity, and had also provided for it a WED distinctive mission and medium. 'We seem...to have been WED formed by Providence', remarked one writer, 'for ploughing WED the sea'...." WED WED Producer: Simon Elmes. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03nt8jc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03nt9vw (Listen) WED On Cigarette Papers WED WED When her mother died, poet Pam Zinnemann-Hope found a cache WED of letters and notes in the attic and an envelope marked WED 'Don't throw away'. Inside were fragile cigarette papers and WED pencilled on them, in poor Russian, recipes. Intrigued, Pam WED started researching her parents' love story that started in WED 1930's Germany. WED WED It's a poignant story of families nearly wrecked by WED betrayal, imprisonment, escape and dislocation and drawn WED from the tips of the icebergs that the letters and recipes WED hint at. WED WED The poems in 'On Cigarette Papers' are taken from the book WED of the same name. Pam is a prizewinning poet and performer WED and has had work published in various journals. This is her WED first radio drama. WED WED Written by Pam Zinnemann-Hope WED Producer: Janet Whitaker WED WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Pam: Pam Zinnemann-Hope WED Lottie: Emma Fielding WED Kurt: Greg Wise WED Oma Leah: Eleanor Bron WED Grossma Hertha: Susan Engel WED Grossvater Erich: Timothy Morand WED Officer: Sean Baker WED Russian Translator: Dolya Gavanski WED Little Pam: Eliza Rayner WED Writer: Pam Zinnemann-Hope WED Producer: Janet Whitaker WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03nt9vy (Listen) WED Consumer Rights, Returns and Refunds WED WED Was your Christmas shopping a success, or are you WED disappointed by faulty goods, presents that didn't arrive, WED poor service or unwanted gifts? Call 03700 100 444 between WED 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED now. WED WED Joining presenter Paul Lewis to explain your consumer rights WED and talk you through, returns, refunds and resolving WED disputes will be: WED WED Alonso Ercilla, Fair Trading Lead Officer, Trading Standards WED Institute. WED Jane Negus, Executive, European Consumer Centre Services. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b03nt8jm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03nt9w0 (Listen) WED Cultural Passions WED WED Cultural passions - From a love of Proust to an enthusiasm WED for tennis and tarot readings; a diverse range of aesthetic WED pleasures excite human beings. Laurie Taylor talks to the WED cultural theorist and writer, Elizabeth Wilson, about the WED emotional commitment people bring to their enjoyment of both WED 'high' and 'low' culture. Professor Wilson analyses why such WED pleasures are sometimes seen as suspect; invoking, by turns, WED a fear of elitism as well a dislike of mass culture. Also, WED the sociologist, Alex Rhys-Taylor, charts a sensory journey WED into the heart of an East End Market. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Elizabeth Wilson WED WED Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies, London College of WED Fashion WED WED WED WED WED WED Find out more about WED Elizabeth Wilson WED WED WED WED WED Cultural Passions: Fans, Aesthetes and Tarot Readers WED Publisher: I.B.Tauris WED ISBN-10: 1780762860 WED ISBN-13: 978-1780762869 WED WED Alex Rhys-Taylor WED WED Lecturer and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Urban and WED Community Research in the Department of Sociology, WED Goldsmiths, University of London WED WED WED WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Alex Rhys-Taylor WED WED WED WED WED WED Abstract: WED The essences of multiculture: A sensory exploration of an WED inner-city street market WED Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power WED Volume 20, Issue 4, August 2013, pages 393-406 WED DOI:10.1080/1070289X.2013.822380 WED WED Ethnography Award WED WED Thank you for all your entries. WED WED WED WED These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, WED Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise WED Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor WED Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, WED originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The WED work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of WED 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03nt9w2 (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 b03nt9w4 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03npqc8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03nt9w6 (Listen) WED Series 5, Glastonbury WED WED Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the WED award winning show that travels around the country, WED researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns WED that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and does a WED bespoke evening of comedy in each one. WED WED As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the WED next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the WED local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering WED to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in WED the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from WED Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay. WED WED This first edition of the series comes from Glastonbury, WED Somerset, which lives up to every expectation of being the WED most new-agey, hippyish town Mark has ever visited. He talks WED about the Tor and King Arthur, visits the two chain shops on WED the High Street, is given an unusual reason for not being WED able to get into his dressing room, and makes a crucial WED mistake when it comes to cider. WED WED Written and performed by ... Mark Steel WED Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair WED Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens WED Producer ... Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Mark Steel WED Writer: Mark Steel WED Writer: Pete Sinclair WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03nt9w8 (Listen) WED George knows who to blame, and Pat needs some answers. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03nt9wb (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03nt9vh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 The State of... The 'Never Had It' Generation WED b03nt9wd (Listen) WED Most of today's young adults, under 25, entered the job WED market since the recession started in 2008. They've not had WED free university education, there's intense competition for WED jobs and if they have a chance to buy a first home, it's WED likely they'll be doing that much later than their parents. WED WED Julian Worricker brings together 4 people aged 25 and under WED to discuss whether they really are the "Never Had It" WED generation and, if they've not had what their parents had, WED how much is that really holding them back? These are WED playwright Rachel Hirons, entrepreneur Jermaine Hagan, the WED Investors Chronicle's Katie Morley and Gus Baker of Intern WED Aware. They will question Paul Johnson of the Institute for WED Fiscal Studies, pension expert Ros Altmann, Ashley Seager WED from the Intergenerational Foundation and David Willetts MP, WED author of "The Pinch" and Universities Minister, on what WED help is needed, if any - and who could pay for that help. WED WED #neverhadit WED WED Presenter: Julian Worricker WED Producer: Simon Tillotson. WED WED Katie Morley WED Personal finance writer, WED Investors Chronicle WED @money_morley WED on Twitter WED WED Rachel Hirons WED Playwright and screenwriter. WED @msrachelhirons WED on Twitter. WED WED Jermaine Hagan WED Entrepreneur and developer of WED Revision App WED @revisionapp WED on Twitter. WED WED Gus Baker WED Co-director of WED Intern Aware WED a campaign for fair, paid internships. Trade union rep. WED @gusbbaker WED on Twitter. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b03nt9wg (Listen) WED Series 4, Refugee Stories WED WED Agnes Woolley examines what is missing from the stories told WED by, and about, refugees. She laments what she calls the WED 'hard authenticity of testimony' - the way in which refugees WED to the UK are forced to tell their own stories, and never to WED change them, despite any number of changes in perspective. WED And she asks why the stories told about those seeking refuge WED - by politicians and newspapers - are equally unchanging. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Fructose: The Bittersweet Sugar b03nt9wj (Listen) WED If you believe the headlines fructose is "addictive as WED cocaine" , a "toxic additive" or a "metabolic danger". So WED how has a simple sugar in fruit got such a bad name and is WED there any evidence behind the accusations that it has caused WED the obesity epidemic? Meanwhile, a new health claim approved WED by the European Union promoting the benefits of fructose WED containing foods or drinks, comes into force in the New WED Year. So where does the truth lie? Dr Mark Porter talks to WED leading world experts to sift through the evidence. WED WED 21:30 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03p824m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03npqcb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03nv2mr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03phxyk (Listen) WED The Lonely Londoners, Episode 3 WED WED Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic about the WED lives of a group of Caribbean immigrants in London WED WED Episode 3: Moses's friend Tolroy was horrified when his WED entire family turned up at Waterloo, wanting to enjoy his WED new prosperity in London. He has eventually got them settled WED off the Harrow Road, and Aunt Tanty is rapidly becoming a WED well-known character in the area. But she still hasn't WED ventured into the centre if the city by tube or bus, WED something that she decides to remedy. WED WED Sam Selvon's rich and touching 1956 novel describes how WED Moses and his friends of the Windrush generation go about WED making new lives for themselves with vigour and panache, WED navigating the rules and regulations of their new home, WED lending support to each other when needed, learning to WED survive; it's not long before, as Moses puts it, 'the boys WED coming and going, working, eating, sleeping, going about the WED vast metropolis like veteran Londoners.' WED WED The Lonely Londoners will be broadcast the week before Colin WED MacInnes' vibrant novel about London, Absolute Beginners, WED set just a couple of years later as racial tensions rise; WED together the two books offer an unforgettable portrait of a WED city and a society undergoing convulsive change. WED WED Reader: Don Warrington WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Producer: Sara Davies. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Don Warrington WED Producer: Sara Davies WED Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Author: Sam Selvon WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03nt9wl (Listen) WED Series 2, Science WED WED In the first of a new series, Tim Key grapples with the WED concept of science by telling the story of Keith Lewis's WED Monster. He also has plans for a very special scientific WED experiment. Musical accompaniment is provided by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tim Key WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:15 iGod b00wr7v2 (Listen) WED Food WED WED iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy WED series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and WED David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the WED head writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It, WED Sean Gray and produced by Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week WED / News At Bedtime). WED WED We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and WED environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD WED says that trying to predict the end of the world is as WED pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow. WED WED In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul WED - Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be WED worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining WED apocalypses on parallel Earths. Each week our case study is WED a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to WED accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel WED world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a WED lie, being lazy, cooking some lambshanks). A succession of WED comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel WED world. WED WED With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and WED surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED Written by WED SEAN GRAY WED WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: David Soul WED Ian: Simon Day WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Alex MacQueen WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Writer: Sean Gray WED Producer: Simon Nicholls WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03nt9wn (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 JANUARY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03npqdh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03nt87n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03npqdk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03npqdm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03npqdp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03npqdr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03nt7v7 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the THU Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03nt7v9 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztpj (Listen) THU Ring-Necked Parakeet 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 story of the ring-necked THU Parakeet. These long-tailed emerald-green parakeets from THU Africa and Asia first appeared in the wild in the UK in THU 1969. Forty years on ring-necked parakeets are here to stay THU and their progress is being carefully monitored. THU THU Ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri) THU Webpage image courtesy of David Kjaer (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03nv0m9 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03p8311 (Listen) THU Turkey - Beyond the Silk Road THU THU For centuries, Turkish traders have exploited their location THU on the historic Silk Road between east and west, selling to THU merchants travelling in both directions. And, as Jim O'Neill THU reports Turkey's geography remains important to this day as THU the country becomes an aviation hub, a conduit for gas and THU oil, and a unique visitor destination. Yet Turkish plans go THU much further too. So can this ambitious country combine its THU deep-rooted trading skills with ultra modern technology to THU develop world-beating manufacturers? Or will its much lauded THU potential remain just that? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03nt88s (Listen) THU The Telling Room, Episode 4 THU THU In the picturesque Spanish village of Guzmán, villagers have THU gathered for centuries in 'the telling room' to share their THU stories. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael THU Paterniti listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras spun an THU odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient THU family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - THU one bite could conjure long-lost memories. But then, THU Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. THU THU Paterniti was hooked. Relocating his young family to Guzmán, THU he was soon sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery - THU a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and THU theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village THU began to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti found THU himself implicated in the very story he was writing. THU THU Michael Paterniti is a journalist and has been nominated THU eight times for the National Magazine Award. One of his THU stories was chosen for True Stories: A Century of Literary THU Non-fiction, joining four other writers as the best examples THU of literary journalism from the last hundred years. He is THU also the author of the New York Times bestselling book THU Driving Mr Albert. He lives in Portland, Oregon. THU THU Reader: Will Adamsdale THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Will Adamsdale THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Author: Michael Paterniti THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03nt862 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03nt8bc (Listen) THU Carmen, Episode 4 THU THU Carmen by Dan Allum THU THU Producer/Director Charlotte Riches THU THU Episode Four THU Carmen stirs up the rivalry between Don Jose and Garcia with THU deadly consequences. THU THU Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen is best known for the Bizet THU opera it later inspired. Dan Allum takes the original story THU as his inspiration for this exciting and powerful new THU interpretation starring Candis Nergaard as Carmen. With THU original music and songs in Romany and English by Dan Allum. THU Musical arrangement by James Fortune. THU THU Credits THU Carmen: Candis Nergaard THU Don Jose: William Ash THU Garcia: Neil Bell THU Miriah: Harriet Chandler Judd THU Lucas: Declan Wilson THU Roderigo: Stephen Hoyle THU Officer: Roger Morlidge THU Captain: Roger Morlidge THU Director: Charlotte Riches THU Producer: Charlotte Riches THU Adaptor: Dan Allum THU Author: Prosper Merimee THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03nt864 (Listen) THU Russia: Digging up the Dead THU THU Of the estimated 70 million deaths attributed to World War THU two, 30 million died on the Russian front. Of those, as many THU as 4 million Soviet soldiers are still ?missing in action?. THU These men - more than the entire population of Ireland or THU New Zealand - are still unaccounted for. THU THU They were the fallen, left behind. Despite all the official THU rhetoric on Victory Day, many in power today would rather THU not contemplate the fate of these men. They lie forgotten THU and unrecognised by Russia's top brass and the state. THU THU But a growing number of volunteers, armed with spades and THU metal detectors, are now searching for the soldiers. Seventy THU years after World War 2, they feel compelled to look for THU their remains. THU THU Olga Ivishina, a twenty something Russian journalist from THU the city of Kazan, belongs to this Diggers Movement. While THU many other young Russians professionals spend their holidays THU on beaches in Thailand or in Alpine resorts, Olga gives up THU her free time to camp in the forest. Many days she has to THU wade waist-deep through mud, sometimes in pouring rain, to THU find the bodies of these fallen soldiers. THU THU Ilya Prokofiev, from the "Exploration" digging team, is THU scathing about what he calls the cult of the Unknown THU Soldier. "We go and pay tribute at the eternal flame THU monument every 9th May', and I tell the officials 'You're THU the ones who made this soldier nameless, what are you proud THU of? Have you no conscience? This soldier had a family, he THU had children, he had a surname, a name and patronymic, he THU had a life, he had a love of his own. What are you proud THU of?' There's nothing to be proud of. We're the ones who made THU them unknown." THU THU In the woods and swamps south of St Petersburg where the Red THU Army once struggled desperately to break the Nazi blockade THU of Leningrad, scarcely a day goes by without a new THU discovery. Diggers sometimes find as many as 5 or 6 bodies THU per square meter. Then they exhume and try to identify the THU remains track down any surviving family and arrange a proper THU burial. Relatives who have given up all hope of finding out THU what happened to their father or grandfather often weep with THU relief and gratitude. THU THU Alexander Konoplov, a former businessman, who now works full THU time for the Kazan branch of the Diggers Movement says for THU many Russians, the war will never be over until the last THU soldier is found and buried. Olga, who grew up in the chaos THU of the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, says THU the movement provides a moral compass. "I think it helped me THU to understand what is right and what is wrong - and THU sometimes you need to know that you are doing something THU important and worthwhile.". THU THU 11:30 Motown: Speaking in the Streets b03nt8wt (Listen) THU In 1970, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, set up a Motown THU spoken word label. It was called Black Forum and recorded THU poetry, civil rights speeches, African-American soldiers in THU Vietnam and more. The label closed in 1973 after eight THU releases. In recent years those releases have started to THU attract interest and some of them have been reissued. What THU has been revealed is a powerful testament to the THU African-American experience at a turbulent time in American THU society. The financial educator and spoken word record THU collector Alvin Hall listens to the recordings and talks to THU those who were involved in their making. THU THU Black Forum releases: THU Dr Martin Luther King Jr. - Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam; THU Stokely Carmichael - Free Huey; Langston Hughes and Margaret THU Danner - Writers Of The Revolution; Guess Who's Coming Home THU - Black Fighting Men Recorded Live In Vietnam; Ossie Davis THU and Bill Cosby - Address The Congressional Black Caucus; THU Black Spirits - Festival of New Black Poets in America; THU Inamu Amiri Baraka - It's Nation Time; THU Elaine Brown - Elaine Brown. THU THU Programme Cast List THU THU Presenter: Alvin Hall THU THU Contributors: THU Theatre Director and Producer Woodie King Jr., Producer of THU "Black Spirits: Festival of New Poets in America", and "It's THU Nation Time: African Visionary Music"; Professor Suzanne E THU Smith, author of "Dancing in the Street: Motown and the THU Cultural Politics of Detroit"; Pat Thomas, author of "Listen THU Whitey: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965 - 1975"; THU Elaine Brown, singer songwriter of the album "Elaine Brown" THU and former leader of the Black Panthers; Suzanne de Passe, THU former Creative Director and President of Motown; Amiri THU Baraka, star of "Black Spirits: Festival of New Poets in THU America", "It's Nation Time: African Visionary Music" and THU civil rights activist, poet, and writer. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03nt8ww (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03npqdt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03npqdw (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03nt8wy (Listen) THU Liberty THU THU On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will THU decide in a referendum whether they want their nation THU henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or THU remain within the union that has bound Britain together THU since the Act of Union of 1707. THU THU In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of THU History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces THU that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and THU loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally THU powerful movements that from time to time across the THU centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. THU THU Programme 4: Liberty THU THU Today, Professor Colley challenges the notion of 'liberty' THU in Britain, from the historic words of Magna Carta onwards: THU THU "While liberty has provided a broadly accessible master THU narrative whereby varieties of Britons over the centuries THU have been able to tell and organize stories about themselves THU and their state, the political repercussions of this have THU been decidedly mixed. At one level, radicals and reformers THU in these islands have often invoked ancient liberties, real THU and imagined, in order to campaign for new freedoms in fact. THU At another level, references to the country's proud heritage THU of freedom have frequently worked to legitimize British THU interventions overseas, peaceful and violent..." THU THU Producer: Simon Elmes. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03nt9w8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0124nqv (Listen) THU A Bobby's Job THU THU A Bobby's Job. THU THU A young detective gets pulled in to investigate some THU thieving at a local firm. But every step he takes, tugs him THU slowly into places he shouldn't be. A radio noir by Don THU Webb. THU THU Directed by Gary Brown THU THU Life looks good for Mark and Helen Bellis. He's a young THU detective constable, just passed the sergeant's exam. That THU opens the door to a higher bracket, maybe a thirty thousand THU a year job. With Helen's job at the bank, they can trade up THU to a bigger house and start a family. Then the police job THU cuts loom and suddenly the way forward doesn't look quite as THU clear. Helen's dad, Richard, thinks his daughter married THU beneath her. He's an old school businessman, Mason and Golf THU Club captain. Very conscious of his standing in the THU community. Local company director. He introduces Mark to his THU security manager, Joby Dale. He's an ex Met Commander with a THU tricky little problem. Someone in the company is thieving. THU But he doesn't know how high up the thief is. So, he THU reckons, with a little help on the side from Mark, he can THU find out who it is, stop him and, at the same time, move THU himself up the power structure. Without finding himself in THU the firing line. Or being blamed for the breach. Mark is THU intrigued. And he can do with a few quid on the side. What THU can be the harm? THU THU Written by TV veteran Don Webb (Juliet Bravo, Z cars) and THU starring Mark Jordon (lead in TV's Heartbeat). THU THU Credits THU Mark: Mark Jordon THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03nt8x0 (Listen) THU Strangford Lough THU THU Helen Mark goes to Strangford Lough, one of the richest THU marine environments within the United Kingdom, to meet the THU people who love its isolation and beauty. She talks to THU Michael Faulkner who moved to Islandmore on the Lough after THU his business collapsed. For him and his wife, living alone THU on the island was a time to reflect. This was also the place THU Michael's father escaped to for family holidays. He was THU Brian Faulkner, the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland THU from 1971-72, who presided over some of Ulster's most THU tumultuous times. To find out about the wildlife of the THU lough, Helen meets Andrew Upton, manager with the National THU Trust and a keen bird watcher. Helen finishes her day THU listening to flute player Ben Healey who is keen to keep the THU heritage of Irish music alive. These are some of the people THU who work, play and rest on Strangford Lough. THU Produced in Bristol by Perminder Khatkar. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03nrnw2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b03nrrbm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03nt8x6 (Listen) THU Chiwetel Ejiofor on 12 Years A Slave; Frank Cottrel Boyce on THU The Railway Man THU THU Francine Stock talks to British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor about THU his latest role as a kidnapped free man who ends up working THU on a plantation in 12 Years a Slave. Directed by Steve THU McQueen, whose previous work includes Hunger and Shame, the THU film has received seven Golden Globe nominations, the most THU of any film this year. THU Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce discusses his latest work THU The Railway Man, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. THU Based on the memoir of Eric Lomx, it tells the tale of a man THU who survived building the railway in Burma as a prisoner of THU war during the Second World War and years later, sets out to THU find his torturer. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03nt8x8 (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 b03nt934 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03npqdy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b0156jzr (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU THU John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular THU guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda THU and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of THU his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang THU on, that system means starting the whole series with the THU least funny sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a THU new show filled with sketches written and performed by John THU Finnemore, but now no longer arranged in strict order of THU funniness. Also, he's cut the sketch that would have gone THU first. THU THU This week's show sees a big job, a small job, the career THU path of the average TV executive, and a tiger with a gun. THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News THU Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of THU Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six THU Impossible Things). THU THU Producer: Ed Morrish. THU THU Credits THU Performer: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03nt84f (Listen) THU Peggy tries to be positive. Meanwhile Lynda is outraged. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03nt938 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03nt8bc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03nt93b (Listen) THU The UK's supreme court is due to rule on the 'right to die' THU early in 2014. What can we learn from Belgium's experience THU of legalised euthanasia? THU Terminal Sedation: Backdoor Euthanasia? THU Assisted Suicide in Switzerland THU THU 20:30 In Business b03nt93d (Listen) THU Stitch in Time THU THU As fashion retailers demand an ever faster response to THU consumer desires and costs rise abroad, there are signs of a THU fledgling revival in British textile manufacturing. Peter THU Day finds out how real it is, and whether it can last. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03nt8x8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 MINT: The Next Economic Giants b03p8311 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03npqf0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03nt93g (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03phyb4 (Listen) THU The Lonely Londoners, Episode 4 THU THU Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic about the THU lives of a group of Caribbean immigrants in London THU THU Episode 4: Galahad is getting on well in London, in fact he THU sometimes feels like a king as he strolls through the park, THU three or four pounds in his pocket, sharp clothes on, off to THU meet a new girl under the clock in Piccadilly tube station. THU But there's a darker side to the city, and a hungrier one, THU that prompts Galahad into a high-risk exploit. THU THU Sam Selvon's rich and touching 1956 novel describes how THU Moses and his friends of the Windrush generation go about THU making new lives for themselves with vigour and panache, THU navigating the rules and regulations of their new home, THU lending support to each other when needed, learning to THU survive; it's not long before, as Moses puts it, 'the boys THU coming and going, working, eating, sleeping, going about the THU vast metropolis like veteran Londoners.' THU THU The Lonely Londoners will be broadcast the week before Colin THU MacInnes' vibrant novel about London, Absolute Beginners, THU set just a couple of years later as racial tensions rise; THU together the two books offer an unforgettable portrait of a THU city and a society undergoing convulsive change. THU THU Reader: Don Warrington THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Producer: Sara Davies. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Don Warrington THU Producer: Sara Davies THU Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Author: Sam Selvon THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00yqhrk (Listen) THU Series 1, Gelbetia THU THU by Bill Dare THU THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. THU THU This week we hear about his travels in Gelbetia, a country THU run by doctors. THU THU Produced by Steven Canny THU THU Brian Gulliver's Travels is a new satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and award winning star of the RSC's THU current season, Mariah Gale. Cast includes fantastic actors THU Tamsin Greig, John Standing, Paul Bhattacharjee, Christopher THU Douglas, Catherine Shepherd, Vicky Pepperdine, Phil THU Cornwell, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Jo Bobin and Katherine THU Jakeways. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Satirical targets over the series: the medical profession THU and its need to pathologize everything; the effect of THU marriage on children; spirituality and pseudo-science; THU compensation culture; sexism; the affect of our obsession THU with fame. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU Credits THU Brian: Neil Pearson THU Rachel: Mariah Gale THU Brendal: Katherine Jakeways THU Dr Malik: Paul Bhattercharjee THU Nurse Hill: Sean Baker THU Judge: Sam Dale THU Juror: Nyasha Hatendi THU Cliptin: Jane Whittenshaw THU Nurse Suzy: Sally Orrock THU Producer: Steven Canny THU Writer: Bill Dare THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03nt8yj (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 JANUARY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03npqfy (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03nt88s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03npqg0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03npqg2 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03npqg4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03npqg6 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03nt7wq (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the FRI Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03nt7ws (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztqr (Listen) FRI Collared Dove 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 story of the Collared Dove. FRI Although these attractive sandy doves grace our bird-tables FRI or greet us at dawn almost wherever we live in the UK, their FRI story is one of the most extraordinary of any British bird. FRI FRI Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03nv0qv (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 b03nrpc3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03ntb28 (Listen) FRI The Telling Room, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the picturesque Spanish village of Guzmán, villagers have FRI gathered for centuries in 'the telling room' to share their FRI stories. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael FRI Paterniti listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras spun an FRI odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient FRI family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - FRI one bite could conjure long-lost memories. But then, FRI Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. FRI FRI Paterniti was hooked. Relocating his young family to Guzmán, FRI he was soon sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery - FRI a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and FRI theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village FRI began to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti found FRI himself implicated in the very story he was writing. FRI FRI Michael Paterniti is a journalist and has been nominated FRI eight times for the National Magazine Award. One of his FRI stories was chosen for True Stories: A Century of Literary FRI Non-fiction, joining four other writers as the best examples FRI of literary journalism from the last hundred years. He is FRI also the author of the New York Times bestselling book FRI Driving Mr Albert. He lives in Portland, Oregon. FRI FRI Read by: Will Adamsdale FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Will Adamsdale FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Author: Michael Paterniti FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03nt7yv (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03ntb2b (Listen) FRI Carmen, Episode 5 FRI FRI Carmen by Dan Allum FRI FRI Producer/Director Charlotte Riches FRI FRI Episode Five FRI Carmen realises that her fate is catching up with her and FRI decides to face her destiny head on. FRI FRI Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen is best known for the Bizet FRI opera it later inspired. Dan Allum takes the original story FRI as his inspiration for this exciting and powerful new FRI interpretation starring Candis Nergaard as Carmen. With FRI original music and songs in Romany and English by Dan Allum. FRI Musical arrangement by James Fortune. FRI FRI Credits FRI Carmen: Candis Nergaard FRI Don Jose: William Ash FRI Garcia: Neil Bell FRI Miriah: Harriet Chandler Judd FRI Lucas: Declan Wilson FRI Roderigo: Stephen Hoyle FRI Officer: Roger Morlidge FRI Captain: Roger Morlidge FRI Director: Charlotte Riches FRI Producer: Charlotte Riches FRI Adaptor: Dan Allum FRI Author: Prosper Merimee FRI FRI 11:00 The Welsh M1 b03nt8g7 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI The A470 runs nearly two hundred miles through the heart of FRI Wales from Llandudno to Cardiff Bay. It was created to FRI connect north and south of the country yet it takes four FRI hours - sometimes more - to make the journey. It's certainly FRI not the fastest road in the UK but to drive the A470 is to FRI truly understand the landscape, history, culture and FRI language of Wales. FRI FRI In the first of two programmes, Cerys Matthews sets out on a FRI road trip down the A470 in search of a nation's identity and FRI the essence of Welshness. She travels through the FRI Welsh-speaking heartland of the north-west, meeting writers, FRI musicians and historians. She falls into conversation on the FRI streets of Llanrwst, encounters poetry in the paving stones FRI of Blaenau Ffestiniog and discovers the roots of one of her FRI favourite folk songs on the high passes of the A470 beyond FRI Dolgellau. FRI FRI The A470's route is ancient, its northern sections following FRI the old Roman road, Sarn Helen. Yet it's also modern: the FRI politics of Wales are complicated by the challenge of FRI bringing together a whole nation both geographically and FRI symbolically. The A470 was created in 1979 by re-designating FRI older roads. And that's why this tarmac tribute to FRI nationhood winds back and forth across the Welsh landscape, FRI apparently reluctant to reach its final destination. FRI FRI As she travels south Cerys hears many different definitions FRI and descriptions of the A470: a road to nowhere; the road FRI Wales deserves; a highway of loss; the Welsh M1. FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Grange. FRI FRI 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b01q7gz5 (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Spider FRI FRI By Rona Munro. FRI FRI At last, the true story can be told of Robert the Bruce and FRI his encounter with that spider on the eve of battle with the FRI English. FRI FRI Veteran comedian Stanley Baxter plays the role of Scotland's FRI greatest monarch - portrayed in this sharply observed comedy FRI by award winning writer Rona Munro as self-obsessed, FRI selfish, demanding, rather spoilt, and with a pretty bad FRI case of arachnaphobia. Hugh Ross plays the hermit who sorts FRI the wayward monarch out and saves the day. FRI FRI Press reviews for past series: FRI 'Brilliant.. with the veteran Baxter still hitting all the FRI notes faultlessly. Perfect listening." - Radio Times FRI FRI "Writer Rona Munro turns tragedy inside out to brilliant FRI comic effect." - Daily Telegraph FRI FRI "The seemingly indestructible Glasgow funny man triumphs FRI again." - The Times FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Robert the Bruce: Stanley Baxter FRI John the Hermit: Hugh Ross FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI Writer: Rona Munro FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03nt84c (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03npqg8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03npqgb (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 Acts of Union and Disunion b03p7sgd (Listen) FRI On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will FRI decide in a referendum whether they want their nation FRI henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or FRI remain within the union that has bound Britain together FRI since the Act of Union of 1707. FRI FRI In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of FRI History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces FRI that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and FRI loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally FRI powerful movements that from time to time across the FRI centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. FRI FRI Programme 5: Monarchy: FRI FRI "To understand how and why monarchy has mattered here, we FRI need to look not just at tradition and custom, but also at FRI disjunctions and at change over time. A patchwork of FRI different kingdoms existed throughout these islands from the FRI early middle ages. England finally became a single kingdom FRI in the 10th century; while a single king controlled most of FRI Scotland by the 12th century. Early medieval Wales and FRI Ireland, however, experienced multiple and competing FRI rulers..." FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03nt84f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03nt8n9 (Listen) FRI Dead in the Water FRI FRI In a bustling fairground best friends Holly and Nicole are FRI recording sounds for a school science project. Amongst the FRI melee of people, rides and music Holly overhears snippets of FRI a conversation between two men, the words FRI "poison...shooting...dead in the water". Could she have just FRI stumbled on a murder plot? With Nicole's help Holly sets out FRI to investigate and when the girls identify the voices on the FRI recording, they have their first clue. But can they stop the FRI murder in time? As Holly and Nicole try and discover the FRI intended victim before time runs out they begin to realise FRI they might just have stumbled on something even more FRI sinister than they could ever have imagined. FRI FRI A new thriller from Tony McHale starring Yasmin Paige FRI (Submarine, Pramface) as Holly and Lily Loveless (The Fades, FRI Skins) as Nicole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tony McHale FRI Holly: Yasmin Paige FRI Nicole: Lily Loveless FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03nt85t (Listen) FRI Wiltshire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts GQT from Wiltshire with Matt Biggs, FRI Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden taking the local FRI audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b03ntb7d (Listen) FRI Series 2, Five Thousand Lads a Year FRI FRI This returning series features three emerging novelists who FRI have been well praised and won prizes but haven't until now FRI written short stories for radio. Ned Beauman (author of FRI Boxer, Beetle and The Teleportation Accident), Jenn Ashworth FRI (Cold Light and The Friday Gospels) and Ali Shaw (The Man FRI Who Rained, The Girl with Glass Feet) make their story FRI debuts for Radio 4. FRI FRI 2. Five Thousand Lads A Year FRI In Jenn Ashworth's tale, the confident writer always FRI succeeds with his workshops, but one new client has a FRI chilling effect on him.. FRI FRI Reader Paul Hilton FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Jenn Ashworth FRI Reader: Paul Hilton FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03nt85w (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b03nt8bf (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the series that investigates the FRI numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03nt8bh (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03npqgd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b03pctrw (Listen) FRI Series 42, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Elis FRI James for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch FRI Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Andy FRI Wolton, Jane Lamacraft and Paul Davighi. Produced by Colin FRI Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Panellist: Jon Holmes FRI Panellist: Laura Shavin FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI Writer: Andy Wolton FRI Writer: Jane Lamacraft FRI Writer: Paul Davighi FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03nt8bm (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Joanna Toye FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey 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 Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03nt8bp (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Mark Lawson FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03ntb2b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03nt8rl (Listen) FRI George Galloway MP, Sadiq Khan MP, Sarah Teather MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Heythrop College in London with Respect MP George FRI Galloway, Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan MP and former FRI coalition minister Sarah Teather MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03nt8br (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Acts of Union and Disunion b03nt8vf (Listen) FRI Acts of Union and Disunion: Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI On September 18th this year, the voters of Scotland will FRI decide in a referendum whether they want their nation FRI henceforth to be independent of the United Kingdom, or FRI remain within the union that has bound Britain together FRI since the Act of Union of 1707. FRI FRI In "Acts of Union and Disunion", Linda Colley, Professor of FRI History at the University of Princeton, examines the forces FRI that bind together the diverse peoples, customs and FRI loyalties of the United Kingdom. And the often equally FRI powerful movements that from time to time across the FRI centuries threaten to pull Britain apart. FRI FRI In tonight's Omnibus Edition, Professor Colley explores FRI Britain not as a small group but as a collection of FRI thousands of islands; surrounded by seas that offer a FRI defence - and a point of access... She looks at the British FRI notion of liberty, as championed from Magna Carta onwards, FRI and at the place of monarchy within the history of these FRI islands: FRI FRI "One of the ways in which political peoples have often FRI managed to cohere - at least for a time - is through FRI evolving and believing stories about themselves. So what FRI have been the stories of identity, union, and belonging that FRI varieties of Britons have selected to tell about FRI themselves?" FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03npqgg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03nt8bt (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03phydw (Listen) FRI The Lonely Londoners, Episode 5 FRI FRI Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic about the FRI lives of a group of Caribbean immigrants in London FRI FRI Episode 5: As summer comes to the city, Moses's friend FRI Harris organises a dance, and Moses contemplates his life FRI after ten years in London. FRI FRI Sam Selvon's rich and touching 1956 novel describes how FRI Moses and his friends of the Windrush generation go about FRI making new lives for themselves with vigour and panache, FRI navigating the rules and regulations of their new home, FRI lending support to each other when needed, learning to FRI survive; it's not long before, as Moses puts it, 'the boys FRI coming and going, working, eating, sleeping, going about the FRI vast metropolis like veteran Londoners.' FRI FRI The Lonely Londoners will be broadcast the week before Colin FRI MacInnes' vibrant novel about London, Absolute Beginners, FRI set just a couple of years later as racial tensions rise; FRI together the two books offer an unforgettable portrait of a FRI city and a society undergoing convulsive change. FRI FRI Reader: Don Warrington FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Don Warrington FRI Producer: Sara Davies FRI Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Writer: Sam Selvon FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03nt8bw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03nt8vh (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
03 January, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 04/01/2014 - 10/01/2014
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment