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SAT SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04gv9tp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04hc1r3 (Listen) SAT Please, Mr Postman, Episode 5 SAT SAT In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert SAT in Hyde Park, future Cabinet Minister Alan Johnson and his SAT young family left West London to start a new life. The SAT Britwell Estate in Slough, notorious among the locals, came SAT as a blessed relief after the tensions of London's troubled SAT Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with SAT open arms. SAT SAT Alan Johnson had become a postman the previous year and, in SAT order to support his growing family, took on every bit of SAT overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days SAT a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations SAT - the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer's SAT wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious SAT lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her SAT window as the postman passed by. SAT SAT Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in SAT the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party SAT Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather SAT than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer and SAT bingo. But as Alan Johnson's life appears to be settling SAT down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to SAT take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by SAT tragedy. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT By 1982 Alan Johnson's union career is going from strength SAT to strength with a position on the Executive beckoning. Work SAT keeps him away from home and the Thatcher government at its SAT height ensures life is tough for the union. But the biggest SAT storm clouds transpire to be personal rather than political. SAT SAT Read by Alan Johnson SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Alan Johnson SAT Producer: David Roper SAT Author: Alan Johnson SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04gv9tr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04gv9tw (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04gv9ty (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04gv9v0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04gyrwr (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Rabbi Jonathan SAT Wittenberg. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04gyrxn (Listen) SAT 'Those are dreams they had, I didn't agree with them, but SAT it's not a bad thing to dream.' - iPM speaks to a listener SAT and his colleague about the Scottish referendum. Presented SAT by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04gv9v2 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04gv9v4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b04gwlf8 (Listen) SAT Series 28, The Dales Way SAT SAT Clare Balding embarks on her first leg of The Dales Way, in SAT the company of Sarah Howcroft. Sarah, an enthusiastic walker SAT and climber for many years, along with her husband founded SAT one of the foremost outdoor clothing companies. The Dales SAT Way is an 82 mile route, starting at Ilkey in Yorkshire. SAT Sarah and Clare walk along the River Wharfe to Bolton Abbey. SAT SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Eileen Peck SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04hm5t4 (Listen) SAT HRH The Princess Royal at Gatcombe Horse Trials SAT SAT Gatcombe Horse Trials is now in its 19th year, hosted by HRH SAT The Princess Royal on her farm in Gloucestershire and SAT organised by her friend and riding companion Pattie Biden. SAT The Princess, an accomplished event rider herself and former SAT European champion, introduces Charlotte Smith (a complete SAT newcomer) to the world of dressage, showjumping and cross SAT country. SAT The Princess also discusses the challenges of balancing a SAT major equine event with the needs of a working farm. More SAT than 800 competitors arrive over the three days, and that's SAT an awful lot of hooves pounding Gatcombe's valuable pasture SAT - not to mention the horse boxes. Charlotte asks farm SAT manager Matthew Aspinall how he, and the sheep, cope with SAT the equestrian activities. SAT And we look back at a week of reports looking at the SAT challenges facing the equine world, with the Princess SAT sharing her views on fly-grazing and selling unwanted or SAT abandoned horses into the meat trade. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04gv9v6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04hm8jq (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04hm8js (Listen) SAT Abergavenny Food Festival SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein and a live audience at the 2014 SAT Abergavenny Food Festival, with doyenne of the wine world SAT Jancis Robinson, Jay Rayner from Radio 4's Kitchen Cabinet, SAT tree hunter Rob McBride and beekeeper Scott Davies who gave SAT world leaders a taste of honey at the recent NATO summit in SAT Newport. The Today programme's John Humphrys tucks into some SAT Welsh treats with JP Devlin, BBC Introducing star Kizzy SAT Crawford performs and musician and broadcaster Cerys SAT Matthews shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Jancis Robinson and Hugh Johnson write 'The World Atlas of SAT Wine'. The seventh edition is available now. SAT SAT Tree hunter Rob McBride is hosting a talk & walk at Modbury SAT in Devon as part of the HERCULES Cultural Landscape Project SAT at 2pm on September 20th. SAT SAT Kizzy Crawford's new single 'Golden Brown' is out now. SAT SAT Cerys Matthews broadcasts on BBC Radio 6 Music on Sundays SAT from 10am to 1pm. She inherits Snooks Eaglin's 'I'm a SAT Country Boy' and passes on Hozier's 'Take Me To Church'. SAT SAT Beekeeper Scott Davies runs Hilltop Honey in Newton in SAT Powys. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Jancis Robinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Jay Rayner SAT Interviewed Guest: Rob McBride SAT Interviewed Guest: Scott Davies SAT Interviewed Guest: John Humphrys SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Cerys Matthews SAT Singer: Kizzy Crawford SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04hm8jv (Listen) SAT Series 8, Abergavenny SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the panel team up with Saturday Live for a SAT special programme from the Abergavenny Food Festival. SAT SAT Answering questions from a local audience are food historian SAT Annie Gray, Catalan inspired Scottish cook Rachel McCormack, SAT Masterchef winner Tim Anderson, and DIY food expert Tim SAT Hayward. SAT SAT In this week's episode we discuss monastic culinary SAT traditions and food in the church with the Reverend Richard SAT Coles; we find out the difference between 'brewing' and SAT 'making' alcoholic beverages; and the panel sample a SAT mouthwatering British charcuterie recipe. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04j5cn7 (Listen) SAT Bubbles SAT SAT Fragile gas filled spheres, sparkling champagne globules SAT that fill your nose with fizz, pipe dreams that pop when the SAT illusion grows too big: Bridget Kendall explores the SAT mysterious world of bubbles with physicist Helen Czerski, SAT biomedical engineer Constantin Coussios and artist Bradley SAT Hart who makes giant paintings using bubble wrap. SAT SAT Photo credit: Associated Press SAT Do not touch the art! (artwork ©Bradley Hart SAT www.bradleyhart.ca) SAT How tiny ocean bubbles make a big difference to our weather SAT and climate SAT SAT Helen Czerski SAT SAT Helen Czerski is a physicist and oceanographer at University SAT College London. She explains why ocean bubbles are essential SAT for the planet’s wellbeing and describes the enormous SAT variety of bubble sizes and properties found in our seas. SAT SAT Constantin Coussios SAT SAT Constantin Coussios is Professor of Biomedical Engineering SAT at Oxford University. He puts SAT micro-bubbles inside the human body, tracking the tiny nano SAT sized spheres as SAT they make their way through the blood SAT stream. He wants to control the bubbles so they release the SAT cancer drugs SAT encased in them at exactly the right place and right time. SAT SAT Bradley Hart SAT SAT Visual artist Bradley Hart exploits the curious properties SAT of bubbles which make them such powerful metaphors for our SAT digital, pixelated, SAT disjointed times. He injects paint into bubble wrap, to SAT create large-scale SAT works of art. SAT You can see some of Bradley's bubble wrap art work in the SAT gallery on the right. SAT Photo c/o Bradley Hart SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04hm8xk (Listen) SAT Why the Kissing's Had to Stop SAT SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04gv9v8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04hm99n (Listen) SAT Pension grab from people made bankrupt SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT Pension grab from people made bankrupt SAT SAT Money Box has been told that as the law stands the freedom SAT to take our pensions out from age 55 will be extended to SAT trustees in bankruptcy who will be able to snaffle the lot SAT to pay our creditors should we become insolvent after the SAT age of 52. It will be subject to a few conditions such as SAT making sure we can provide for our family. But whereas the SAT present rules only put a quarter of the fund at risk, from SAT April it could all be. And the Treasury says it will not SAT change the law. Two experts debate the issue. SAT SAT Scotland decided SAT SAT In the end the Scottish people voted against independence in SAT the referendum. But even this No vote will now lead to more SAT power for the Scottish parliament, not least in taxation. SAT New powers could extend that to corporation tax, inheritance SAT tax or even VAT. Money Box looks at the likely tax changes SAT for the people of Scotland. SAT SAT Code of Practice not perfect SAT SAT Money Box reported in May on a new Code of Practice which SAT was supposed to help people who have made an online payment SAT and the money ends up in someone else's account because they SAT entered they wrong number. But as one listener found to his SAT heavy cost, it does not stop those occasions from happening. SAT Why didn't the bank's software trap his too long account SAT number? SAT SAT Instant penalty accounts SAT SAT Four out of ten 'instant access' savings accounts come with SAT rules or restrictions that mean it is hard to open them or SAT expensive to take money out of them. Instead of being simple SAT the banks seem determined to make them complex. That is the SAT conclusion of a report by consumer group Which? in an SAT investigation into 285 accounts. Money Box examines the SAT detail. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04gyqtn (Listen) SAT Series 44, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests Elis SAT James for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch SAT Benn and Laura Shavin. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Andy SAT Woolton, Nadia Kamil and Liam Beirne. Produced by Alexandra SAT Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Panellist: Elis James SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Laura Shavin SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04gv9vb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04gv9vf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04gypw3 (Listen) SAT Sir Tom Devine, Ken Clarke, Charles Clarke, Fiona Hyslop SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh with the historian SAT Professor Sir Tom Devine, former Labour Home secretary SAT Charles Clarke who is now Visting Professor of Politics at SAT the University of East Anglia and the former Conservative SAT Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04hmchv (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxxd (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, The Fire Engine That Disappeared SAT SAT The Fire Engine That Disappeared SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT Translated by Joan Tate SAT Dramatised by Katie Hims SAT SAT The apartment of a suspect being staked out by Gunvald SAT Larsson explodes, killing three people. Arson and murder SAT isn't at first suspected - much to Larsson's fury - but when SAT it becomes clear that the fire was started on purpose, the SAT case hinges on the needle-in-a-haystack chance of finding a SAT man who fits an impossibly vague description who was SAT somewhere in the area around the time of the fire. SAT SAT Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Larsson: Ralph Ineson SAT Ronn: Russell Boulter SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Nadja: Christine Absalom SAT Mansson: Stuart McQuarrie SAT Zachrisson: Joe Sims SAT Stromgren: Harry Livingstone SAT Hammar: Patrick Brennan SAT Hjelm: Robert Blythe SAT Skacke: Sam Alexander SAT Mrs Borg: Susie Riddell SAT Ingrid Beck: Lauren Crace SAT Doris Martensen: Keely Beresford SAT Mats: Greta Dudgeon SAT Narrator 1: Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator 2: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Author: Maj Sjowall SAT Author: Per Wahloo SAT Adaptor: Katie Hims SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 15:30 The Lost Women of British Jazz b04grm6j (Listen) SAT Janine H. Jones uncovers the secret history of women's jazz SAT and the tragic story of how a burgeoning musical equality SAT was deliberately snuffed out. SAT SAT Ivy Benson, Gracie Cole and Kathy Stobart became household SAT names in jazz and dancehall, only after battling throughout SAT the 1940s and 50s to gain recognition and respect in a SAT male-dominated industry; a struggle that was repeated by SAT other women over many decades. SAT SAT This programme transports us back to post-WWI Britain, where SAT women were experiencing their first taste of emancipation. SAT The UK was becoming a hotbed of music. Bars, clubs and SAT bottle parties hosted bands every night and ladies were SAT jazzing right alongside the men. In their own words, lady SAT musicians of the Jazz Age tell their stories. Rare archive SAT recordings fill in the skipped beats of their history and SAT Janine reveals how first their careers, and their rightful SAT place in history, was quashed. SAT SAT Researcher Jen Wilson, historian Val Wilmer and drummer SAT Sheelagh Pearson break new ground in this under-researched SAT area and expose the hidden truth about the role of the SAT pioneering women in early jazz. SAT SAT Producers: Hannah Loy and Janine H. Jones. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04hmchx (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Chrissie Hynde, Kate Hudson, SAT Networking SAT SAT Chrissie Hynde: 35 years since forming The Pretenders, she SAT tells us about her first solo album - and what she thinks of SAT singers who flaunt their bodies to promote their work. SAT Madeleine Holt tells us why she hopes her organisation Meet SAT the Parents will stop decades old rumours scuppering school SAT choices. SAT SAT Kate Hudson on how her new film, Wish I Was Here, made her SAT re-examine her own family relationships. Janet Fyle, midwife SAT and advisor to the Royal College of Midwives and Professor SAT Marian Knight from Oxford University on how maternity care SAT can be improved to stop disadvantaged women missing out on SAT the best care. SAT SAT As the film, The Riot Club, hits the cinemas - how much do SAT old boys and, more rarely, old girl networks help their SAT members get on? Julia Hobsbawm from Editorial Intelligence SAT and is visiting professor in networking in two business SAT schools and Tanya Gold from The Times discuss. Chief SAT Superintendent Mike Gallagher of the Metropolitan Police and SAT Steph Morgan who has now retired from her position as SAT Leicester's Assistant Chief Constable discuss the SAT difficulties of being open about sexuality in the police SAT force. SAT SAT And a "climate of coercion" in some young heterosexual SAT relationships...are some young women being forced into SAT sexual acts they don't want to do? And is that partly SAT because there are still some things we can't talk about? SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Produced by Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Chrissie Hynde SAT Interviewed Guest: Madeleine Holt SAT Interviewed Guest: Jan Atkinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Julia Hobsbawm SAT Interviewed Guest: Tanya Gold SAT Interviewed Guest: Janet Fyle SAT Interviewed Guest: Marian Knight SAT Interviewed Guest: Mike Gallagher SAT Interviewed Guest: Steph Morgan SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Hudson SAT Interviewed Guest: Justin Hancock SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04hmchz (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04gyrxn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04gv9vh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04gv9vk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04gv9vm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04hmd4b (Listen) SAT Charles Spencer, Olivia Williams, Dave Gorman, Nikki Bedi, SAT Robert Glenister, Jah Wobble SAT SAT Clive gets hacked off with actor Robert Glenister who is SAT appearing as foul-mouthed newspaper editor Wilson Tickell in SAT 'Great Britain', Richard Bean's satire about the press, SAT police and political establishment, now transferring to the SAT West End. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi bravely wades into the media onslaught with SAT comedian and writer Dave Gorman to talk about his latest SAT book 'Too Much Information'. SAT SAT Journalist, author and gin-lover Olivia Williams sits down SAT for a tipple with Clive. Her debut book 'Gin Glorious Gin' SAT is a social history of London seen from the bottom of a gin SAT glass. It charts how 'mother's ruin' became the spirit of SAT the capital city. SAT SAT Clive talks to historian and best-selling author Charles SAT Spencer. His new book 'Killers of the King: The Men Who SAT Dared to Execute Charles I' is a bloody tale of royal SAT revenge. SAT SAT Jah Wobble's acclaimed group Invaders of the Heart have SAT reformed for the first time in 20 years. They perform SAT 'Visions of You' and 'Liquidator' ahead of a one off concert SAT at Under the Bridge, London on 10th October 2014. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Charles Spencer, Olivia Williams, Dave SAT Gorman, Nikki Bedi, Robert Glenister, Jah Wobble (2) SAT SAT Robert Glenister SAT ‘Great Britain’ is at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket until SAT Saturday 10th January 2015. SAT SAT Olivia Williams SAT ‘Gin Glorious Gin’ is published by Headline and available SAT now. SAT SAT Dave Gorman SAT ‘Too Much Information’ is published by Ebury Press and SAT available now. SAT SAT Charles Spencer SAT ‘Killers of the King’ is published by Bloomsbury and SAT available now. SAT SAT Jah Wobble SAT Jah Wobble performs with his Invaders of the Heart band for SAT the first time in 20 years at Under The Bridge, Chelsea on SAT Friday 10th October. SAT ‘Odds & Sods & Epilogues’ is published by Hertz Records and SAT available now. SAT ‘Rising Above Bedlam’ is available now on Oval Records. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04hmdks (Listen) SAT Shane Smith SAT SAT How did Shane Smith - a hard-partying, tattooed former SAT Ottawa punk rocker - turn a community magazine into an SAT international multi-media empire? SAT SAT Mark Coles looks at the life of one of the founders of Vice, SAT a man whose motto is: "We like our stories to punch you in SAT the face." SAT SAT His company is the fast-growing enfant terrible of digital SAT media. Renowned for its often controversial reports aimed at SAT a young audience disillusioned with mainstream media, it SAT seems that no subject is taboo. SAT SAT Scoops include an interview with a former Liberian warlord SAT and cannibal, as well as a trip to North Korea with former SAT basketball player Dennis Rodman to meet Kim Jong-un. SAT SAT Among Vice's often controversial documentaries from war SAT zones was this summer's eye-opening report from inside the SAT Islamic State. SAT SAT Vice may have been accused of 'daredevil' journalism but SAT that hasn't stopped the likes of Rupert Murdoch heralding SAT Vice a "global success" and buying a 5% stake in the SAT company. Could Vice become the next CNN, as Shane Smith SAT hopes? SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04hmdkv (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests Rosie Boycott, Simon Jenkins and SAT Maria Delgado discuss the cultural highlights of the week, SAT including The Riot Club based on Laura Wade's controversial SAT stage play Posh and which fictionalised the riotous SAT behaviour of Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, which David SAT Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson have all been SAT members of. SAT Enda Walsh's new play Ballyturk at the National Theatre has SAT been compared to Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot and SAT stars Cillan Murphy, Mikel Murfi and Stephen Rea. SAT Mr Mac and Me is the 8th novel from Esther Freud, a blend of SAT fact and fiction it recounts the time spent by the architect SAT Charles Rennie Mackintosh in a small fishing village in SAT Suffolk through the eyes of a 12 year old boy. SAT Constable, the Making of a Master, is a new exhibition at SAT London's V&A, which presents his work for the first time SAT alongside the Old Masters whose work he copied so SAT fastidiously, and also features the two version of his most SAT famous painting, The Haywain, side by side. SAT And The Driver, a new three part series on BBC One, starring SAT David Morrissey and written by Danny Brocklehurst is the SAT story of an ordinary man who - because of family mystery, SAT frustration with his job and his life - makes a terrible SAT decision. SAT SAT The Riot Club SAT SAT The Riot Club, certificate 15, is on nationwide release now. SAT SAT Ballyturk SAT Ballyturk SAT by Enda Walsh continues at the National Theatre in London SAT until 11th October. SAT SAT Mr Mac and Me SAT SAT Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud is published by Bloomsbury, SAT and you can hear her talking about the novel on SAT Open Book SAT here on Radio Four. SAT SAT Constable: The Making of a Master SAT Constable: The Making of a Master SAT continues at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London until SAT 15th of January. SAT SAT The Driver SAT SAT The first episode of The Driver begins Tuesday 23rd SAT September on BBC1 at 9.00. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Rosie Boycott SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Jenkins SAT Interviewed Guest: Maria Delgado SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04hmfpd (Listen) SAT Four Women Poets Today SAT SAT Twenty one years ago, four relatively unknown poets spoke SAT with Peggy Reynolds for BBC Radio 4 about the impact of SAT gender and nationality on their poetry and on their sense of SAT themselves as poets. SAT SAT Today, Carol Ann Duffy is the first-ever Poet Laureate, SAT Gillian Clarke is the National Poet of Wales, Liz Lochhead SAT is the Makar or National Poet of Scotland, and Eavan Boland SAT is a highly distinguished scholar-poet who divides her year SAT between Stanford and Dublin. SAT SAT In the light of these developments - not to mention the SAT constitutional changes and wild economic fluctuations of the SAT last 21 years - Peggy Reynolds speaks with each of them SAT again, asking them to reflect on their creative and SAT professional journeys and on the state of women's poetry - SAT and poetry in general - today. SAT SAT Finally, she asks them to cast forward and predict what they SAT might say if there were a similar programme in 21 years SAT time. Their replies surprise her. SAT SAT Producer Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT 21:00 The Barchester Chronicles b04gnm5q (Listen) SAT Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage, A Gift of Fire SAT SAT by Anthony Trollope, dramatised for radio by Nick Warburton SAT SAT After a lot of proposals made and turned down in Barchester, SAT Miss Dunstable decides to hold a party. Lord Lufton - turned SAT down by Lucy - finally comes back from his fishing trip, SAT unaware that Lucy is now nursing the Vicar's wife in SAT typhus-ridden Hogglestock..... SAT SAT Music composed by David Robin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SAT Gallant SAT SAT Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT And we return to Anthony Trollope's Barchester in "The Small SAT House at Allington", will be broadcast in December. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SAT Mark Robarts: Pip Carter SAT Fanny Robarts: Charity Wakefield SAT Lucy Robarts: Sarah Ovens SAT Lady Lufton: Kate Buffery SAT Lord Lufton: Joe Coen SAT Mr Sowerby: Nicholas Farrell SAT Miss Dunstable: Hattie Morahan SAT Mr Crawley: Adam Kotz SAT Mary: Pippa Bennett-Warner SAT Susan Grantly: Charlotte Emmerson SAT Griselda: Sarah Sweeney SAT Mrs Smith: Elaine Claxton SAT Gossip: Elaine Claxton SAT Duke: David Cann SAT Drinker: David Cann SAT Bailiff: David Cann SAT Drinker: Clive Hayward SAT Gossip: Clive Hayward SAT Servant: Clive Hayward SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Author: Anthony Trollope SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04gv9vp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Future Proofing b04gw7xr (Listen) SAT The Immortality of the Crab SAT SAT To be human is to seek immortality, whether by freeing the SAT soul or freezing your brain. It's the root of religion, the SAT inspiration of philosophy and the driving force behind SAT music, art and literature. SAT SAT At the beginning of the 21st Century, immortality is a SAT serious business. We've always wanted to live just a little SAT longer, and through exercise, diet and medicine we're SAT getting surprisingly good at it. Life expectancy is rising SAT and rising - children born today in the West have a life SAT expectancy of 100. And this has changed our future in ways SAT we're yet to really understand. SAT SAT Tom Shakespeare goes in search of that future - and in SAT search of what we can do now to negotiate with that future. SAT We'll need new foods, like insects. We'll need to rethink SAT relationships, and family dynamics. Will we be more SAT reckless, feeling that life just goes on and on? And will we SAT grow old disgracefully, rather than seeing the maturity that SAT used to come with years? The statistics don't tell the whole SAT story of what our future will be. SAT SAT But perhaps we need to think again, and work a little harder SAT on our changing relationship with death rather than SAT celebrating the length of life? SAT SAT And then there are the layered meanings in a phrase of SAT Spanish... just what is "the immortality of the crab"? SAT SAT Featuring writer Bryan Appleyard, bio-chemist Guy Brown, SAT philosopher Stephen Cave, priest and journalist Giles SAT Fraser, painter Osi Rhys Osmond, designer Susana Soares, SAT gerontologist Anthea Tinker CBE. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from The Immortality of the Crab (4) SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b04gr8jn (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT its 50th series. SAT SAT In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by SAT writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy SAT types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, SAT Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... SAT have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. SAT SAT Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the SAT origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the SAT famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. SAT SAT Episode 6 SAT Actress, writer and comedienne Maureen Lipman SAT Presenter and newsreader Penny Smith SAT Journalist, political commentator and president of YouGov SAT Peter Kellner SAT Comedian, writer and actor Sanjeev Kohli SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Reader ... Charlotte Green SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Maureen Lipman SAT Panellist: Penny Smith SAT Panellist: Peter Kellner SAT Panellist: Sanjeev Kohli SAT Reader: Charlotte Green SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b04gnzrt (Listen) SAT Poets Laureate SAT SAT Roger McGough with a selection of works by Poets Laureate SAT past and present including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Betjeman, SAT Ted Hughes and Carol Ann Duffy. There's also a Cecil Day SAT Lewis poem read by his son Daniel Day-Lewis, recorded as SAT part of the exhibition 'Poetry for the Palace: Poets SAT Laureate from Dryden to Duffy' at The Queen's Gallery, SAT Palace of Holyroodhouse. Readers Anton Lesser and Alice SAT Arnold. SAT SAT This week's poems SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT The Reverie of Poor Susan SAT SAT by William Wordsworth SAT SAT From Common Ground; an Anthology SAT SAT Published by Carcanet Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Happy the Man- part of John Dryden’s translation of Horace’s SAT Odes. 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Day Lewis - The Complete Poems SAT SAT Published by Sinclair-Stevenson SAT SAT SAT SAT Dilton Marsh Halt SAT SAT by John Betjeman SAT SAT From John Betjeman – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT SAT SAT Horses SAT SAT by Ted Hughes SAT SAT From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994 SAT SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Spring Wedding SAT SAT by Andrew Motion SAT SAT Taken from The Telegraph website SAT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487433/Spring-Weddin SAT .html SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT English Elms SAT SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT Taken from BBC Newsnight website SAT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8922106.stm SAT SAT SAT SAT Charge of the Light Brigade SAT SAT by Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Selected Poems of Tennyson SAT SAT Published by Macmillan SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Daniel Day-Lewis SAT Reader: Anton Lesser SAT Reader: Alice Arnold SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04hmftj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Time Being b01shsv8 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Marathon SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. SUN Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience SUN and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since SUN gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, SUN such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and SUN Joe Dunthorne. SUN SUN Marathon by Claire Powell SUN SUN An extra-marital affair - long-nourished by alcohol - starts SUN going badly wrong when the man starts to get fit: training SUN for a half-marathon with his son. SUN SUN Claire Powell was born and brought up in south-east London. SUN She graduated from UEA's Creative Writing (Prose) MA in SUN 2012, where she received the year's highest mark for a SUN dissertation, and was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial SUN Bursary and Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant. She has SUN just signed up for her first half-marathon. SUN SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Lorraine Pilkington SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Claire Powell SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hmftl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hmftn (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmftq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04hmfts (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04hmh0j (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Burford, SUN Oxfordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04hmdks (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04hmftv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04hmhtg (Listen) SUN The Machines and Us SUN SUN Mark Tully considers our growing dependence upon technology SUN and the practical implications of the human relationship SUN with machines. SUN SUN In conversation with AI expert Professor Noel Sharkey, who SUN is Chairman of the International Committee for Robot Arms SUN Control, he investigates both historical and contemporary SUN dependencies on technology and the pleasures and perils of SUN technological progress. SUN SUN In a programme which takes us from the Industrial Revolution SUN to a duet for piano and iPad, there are readings from Aldous SUN Huxley, Bertrand Russell and Patricia Hubbell - and music SUN from Conrad Tao, Arthur Honneger and Jim Noir. SUN SUN The readers are Emily Raymond, Francis Cadder and Jasper SUN Britton. SUN SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04hmhtl (Listen) SUN English Wine; Chapel Down Vineyard SUN SUN Charlotte Smith visits Chapel Down winery in Kent to see the SUN first grapes of harvest being gathered in their vineyard SUN with head viticulturist Richard Lewis. He explains why the SUN garden of England is now producing award winning wine. Josh SUN Donaghay-Spire is the chief winemaker, he explains the SUN relationship between conditions in the field and how it SUN translates to the final bottle. Chief Executive Frazer Lewis SUN reflects on how the English wine industry has been massively SUN transformed over the past decade and looks forward to vast SUN expansion in the future. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SUN Produced in Bristol by Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04hmftx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04hmftz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04hmj80 (Listen) SUN Referendum, Hajj fraud, Vatican v Anglican cricket match SUN SUN After Scotland voted 'no' in this week's independence SUN referendum we discuss the role of the Churches in healing SUN tensions within the country. SUN SUN Does the release of a new video by Islamic State addressed SUN directly to the Western public indicate a change in tactics SUN by the militants? We get the view of a leading British Imam. SUN SUN Bob Walker assesses the controversial legacy of Cardinal SUN Sean Brady, who last week announced his resignation as the SUN leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland. William Crawley SUN speaks to his successor, Archbishop Eamon Martin about how SUN he wants to take the Church forward. SUN SUN The pilgrimage to Mecca to celebrate Hajj is big business SUN for tour operators but each year unscrupulous agents rip off SUN scores of British Muslims by selling them scam packages. We SUN discuss the difficulties in tackling the fraud and what SUN pilgrims can do to ensure they have a successful trip. SUN SUN Ahead of this week's UN Climate Summit in New York, a group SUN of scientists is calling on religious leaders to help save SUN the planet. We ask why science is turning to religion. SUN SUN We take a glimpse at one of the world's earliest surviving SUN Christian charms, dating back to the end of the 6th Century, SUN which sheds new light on early Christian practices. SUN SUN Plus, find out what happened when the Vatican's first-ever SUN cricket team took on a Church of England XI in a one-off SUN match near Canterbury Cathedral. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN Peter Everett SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Archbishop Eamon Martin SUN Archbishop Leo Cushley SUN Rev Dr Iain Whyte SUN Sir Partha Dasgupta SUN Dr Roberta Mazza SUN Sayed Razawi SUN Rashiid Mugradia. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04hmj82 (Listen) SUN Amref Health Africa SUN SUN Jenny Agutter presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Amref Health SUN Africa, who train 250,000 health workers including midwives SUN in 35 countries in Africa every year, improving health and SUN building livelihoods. SUN Registered Charity No 261488 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' Amref Health Africa'. SUN SUN Amref Health Africa SUN SUN Amref Health Africa is Africa’s health charity, training SUN African health SUN workers and bringing good quality healthcare closer to SUN those who need it most. SUN SUN They started life in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East SUN Africa, to SUN provide the most remote communities with healthcare. Their SUN training reaches SUN across 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Last year they SUN helped 13 million SUN people and trained 258,000 people on health and SUN health-related issues. They SUN focus on women and children. By focusing on their health, SUN they improve the SUN health of the whole community. SUN SUN Their head office is in Nairobi, and 90% of their staff are SUN Africans SUN working in Africa. At their small fundraising office in SUN London, they are proud SUN that last year 88% of their total expenditure went directly SUN to projects in SUN Africa. SUN “Amref has been saving lives for decades, and should give us SUN all hope SUN that even the most complex health challenges can be SUN overcome.” SUN Bill Gates SUN SUN Ayen, mother from Malakal, South Sudan SUN “I had to leave my home while the baby was coming out. I was SUN so scared. SUN When we arrived at the hospital, they gave me more fluids SUN and they even SUN gave me blood. I was taken to theatre for an operation to SUN deliver my baby. SUN I was afraid that I was going to die, or that my baby would SUN die, but we SUN are both safe and well. Not all the women are as fortunate SUN as I was. Many lose SUN their babies because they cannot get help in time.” SUN SUN Catherine Benneth SUN SUN Catherine Benneth is training to be a midwife in Maridi, SUN South Sudan. In SUN this area of the country, Amref Health Africa is the only SUN organisation training SUN midwives. SUN “When you see a mother who wanted to bring life in the SUN world, just SUN passed away like that, it is so painful. In our community SUN it’s worse because SUN you find many [pregnant] women who just stay in their SUN homes. Most of them fear SUN to go to hospital because it is very far and there is no SUN transport for them.” SUN SUN Mary Leonard Raphael, midwife, Tanzania SUN SUN Amref Health Africa began using computer-based training to SUN upgrade SUN nurses from enrolled status in Kenya in 2005. We are now SUN extending this to SUN midwives in Tanzania; Mary is one of 89 students learning SUN in this way. SUN “I feel more empowered and confident now. I can diagnose SUN diseases and SUN even offer advice to the doctors. In case of an emergency, SUN I’m able to make SUN life saving decisions. I’ve also started conducting health SUN talks with the SUN patients, which I did not do before.” SUN SUN Photo Credit: Steve Murigi SUN SUN Esther Madudu, midwife, Tiriri Health Centre, north eastern SUN Uganda SUN SUN Between them, Esther and her colleagues at her health centre SUN deliver 45 SUN to 50 babies every month SUN “My health centre is deep in the rural area. It is not SUN fenced, there is SUN no mains power and the solar panels do not work. This makes SUN our work very SUN difficult, particularly in the maternity ward. Sometimes SUN the mothers come with SUN candles, but it is not easy to do a delivery by SUN candle-light. Even though I SUN work in very difficult circumstances, I know I do an SUN important job. “ SUN SUN Photo Credit: Diane McCarthy SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04hmfv1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04hmfv3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04hml3g (Listen) SUN The Cost of Discipleship SUN SUN Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and leader of the SUN Confessing Church that took a stand against Hitler in 1930s SUN Germany. At three moments in his life he could have evaded SUN danger and supported the anti-Nazi movement from afar. But SUN on each occasion his faith led him to identify with those SUN facing the terrifying cost of their commitment to the SUN struggle. SUN SUN Preacher: The Revd Dr Sam Wells SUN Led by: The Revd Katherine Hedderly SUN Director of Music: Andrew Earis SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04gyrk5 (Listen) SUN Red Dress Sense SUN SUN This season's fashion for red prompts Lisa Jardine to SUN reflect on the past power of the colour. SUN SUN "In Tudor England successive monarchs tried to define social SUN status by dress. A strict code governed the wearing of SUN 'costly apparel', and red was one of the colours most SUN rigidly controlled." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lisa Jardine SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04dw7qv (Listen) SUN Black Stork SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the globally widespread but SUN secretive black stork. High up in a forest canopy, the black SUN stork is a large but fairly secretive and mostly silent SUN bird. They are also strong migrants capable of sustained SUN flight, flying up to 7,000 kilometres or more, often over SUN open seas. Black storks are summer visitors to eastern SUN Europe and breed from Germany across Russia to Japan. A SUN small population is resident in Spain, but most birds SUN migrate south in winter to Africa, India or China. Unlike SUN their relative the more flamboyant and colonial nesting SUN white stork, black storks are a solitary nester. It is at SUN this time of the year adults can produce a few grunts or SUN bill clapping sounds during courtship, the young however are SUN far more vocal at the nest. SUN SUN Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Wild Wonders of Europe / SUN Damschen / naturepl.com SUN SUN NPL Ref SUN 01281153 SUN © Wild Wonders of Europe / Damschen / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04hml3p (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04hml3w (Listen) SUN Tony has got plans for Johnny, and Hayley speaks her mind. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Johnny Richards: Tom Gibbons SUN Sharon Richards: Celia Nelson SUN Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04hml41 (Listen) SUN Steve McQueen SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist and director Steve SUN McQueen. SUN SUN These days his talents are well recognized - his art has won SUN The Turner Prize and his most recent movie, "12 Years A SUN Slave" scooped an Academy Award, a Bafta and a Golden Globe. SUN He wasn't always as lauded: at school in West London he was SUN "shoved to one side" in the belief that the best he could SUN hope for was to earn a living as a manual labourer. Instead SUN he portrays the extremes of what human beings put themselves SUN and others through. Expression is where his heart lies - he SUN describes it as "dancing with ghosts". SUN SUN Along with reaching the top of two professions he has also SUN managed to please the diverging demands of his parents - his SUN father wanted him to get a trade, his mother urged him to do SUN what he wanted. SUN SUN He says, "I want to make films that are essential. We're all SUN going to die and we haven't got a lot of time on this SUN planet. Life goes very quickly, so we might as well make SUN films people will go to see because they need it or want SUN it." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Steve McQueen SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04hmfv5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b04grchn (Listen) SUN Series 70, Episode 6 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for a minute without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation? Jonathan Ross, Liza SUN Tarbuck, Alun Cochrane and Paul Merton find out. Nicholas SUN Parsons keeps the score in his legendary style. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Jonathan Ross SUN Panellist: Liza Tarbuck SUN Panellist: Alun Cochrane SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04hmnnf (Listen) SUN Food Is MAD SUN SUN From a lesson in "guerrilla gardening" by LA's Ron Finley to SUN Mastering the Art of Soviet cooking with food writer Anya SUN Von Bremzen, Dan Saladino reports from an annual food SUN symposium held in Copenhagen, called MAD (the word for food SUN in Danish). SUN SUN Now in its fourth year, the event was founded by the SUN celebrated chef of the restaurant Noma, Rene Redzepe. In his SUN own words, it's curated by a group of "chefs, waiters, a SUN former banker and an anthropologist". SUN SUN To some it's a festival of ideas, to others it's like SUN listening to a "food mix tape", over two days an audience of SUN 600 chefs, writers and food obsessives hear a series of SUN presentations about cooking, restaurants, food history and SUN activism. SUN SUN Dan Saladino takes the Food Programme inside the circus tent SUN where the symposium is hear a selection of the diverse SUN stories being told. There's Ron Finley, a gardener from Los SUN Angeles who was prosecuted for growing food in a patch of SUN land in front of his him. He took on the authorities and SUN changed the law. His story has inspired people all over the SUN world. SUN SUN It's an often eccentric mix of stories, and so as well as SUN guerrilla gardening there's a guide to making tapioca in the SUN Amazonian rainforest through to a first hand account of SUN cooking in the USSR. Some stories will surprise, others will SUN inform, but they all inspire. SUN SUN Music in this is edition is provided by Efterklang and Tatu SUN Ronkko. They're not only one of the most respected bands in SUN Denmark, they've also composed music for a restaurant in SUN collaboration with chefs. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Ron Finley SUN Interviewed Guest: Anya von Bremzen SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04hmfv7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04hmnnh (Listen) SUN National and international news with Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 Marginalia b046j96g (Listen) SUN When someone takes a pen or pencil and adds a comment, an SUN underlining or a question mark to the pages a book - is it SUN cause for celebration or condemnation? And if the person SUN with pencil in hand happens to be famous, should that colour SUN our view? These are the questions Simon Armitage - himself a SUN lapsed margin scribbler - wrestles with as he sets off to SUN tell the story of marginalia. He begins with his own books, SUN tracing his past through the comments he made as a much SUN younger man first embarking on the world of poetry. He sees SUN examples from some who've become regarded as masters of the SUN art, such as William Blake and Samuel Coleridge, and hears SUN how an Elizabethan torturer and a 20th century dictator had SUN a great fondness for marginalia in common. He also heads to SUN an antiquarian book fair, where he stumbles across an early SUN volume of Dylan Thomas poetry, containing the poet's own SUN drunken scrawl which has put the volume's price up to a SUN handsome £8,000. Chiefly though this is a personal SUN meditation for Armitage, bringing him into contact with a SUN younger version of himself and reminding him of the profound SUN power of physical books and the markings placed in them SUN across decades and sometimes centuries. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04gyqnp (Listen) SUN Harrogate SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Harrogate. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. Why are my Sweet Pea plants bushy with few flowers? SUN SUN A. You should grow them from seed rather than buying the SUN plants. Make sure to water them a lot and that they are in SUN good soil and getting enough sun. If you do buy plants, SUN ensure you separate them when you plant them out. Pick the SUN flowers to stop the plants going to seed. SUN SUN Q. How can we get rid of chafer grubs to stop the birds SUN ripping up the lawn to find them? SUN SUN A. You could try covering the lawn with a tarpaulin over SUN night and taking it off in the morning. This brings up the SUN grubs and then birds can eat the exposed ones rather than SUN digging up the lawn. Keep the lawn short. Or, put a positive SUN spin on the experience and think of the birds as scarifying SUN your lawn. SUN SUN Q. How can I make sure my Orchids flower again? SUN SUN A. Make sure they are in a position where they have enough SUN light but not too much harsh light. Make sure to water them SUN a little bit every four or five days and give them a little SUN bit of weak feed. SUN SUN Q. If the panel wanted to encourage pollinating insects into SUN their gardens, would they plant a border of wild flowers, or SUN nectar-rich perennials? SUN SUN A. Both. A mixture is best. Also remember that bees need a SUN very shallow water source from which to drink. Plant things SUN like Helxine (Mind Your Own Business) that will collect SUN water that bees can drink. SUN SUN Q. What should I do about the area in my garden made up of SUN stones, pottery shards and some soil? Annuals do okay but SUN most perennials don't. SUN SUN A. You could import lots of green waste but there are SUN hundreds of herbaceous perennials, such as geraniums, that SUN will love that stony free-draining soil. You could also try SUN growing Verbascum, Knautia Macedonica, Artemisia schmidtiana SUN 'Nana' or Arborescens, Thymes, Alliums, Scholtzias and SUN Penniseum Hameln. SUN SUN Q. My Dahlias have been fantastic! Should I leave them in SUN the ground or lift and store them? SUN SUN A. Lift them and store them in a cardboard box in a SUN frost-free location like a greenhouse. SUN SUN Q. I'd like some suggestions for autumn replacements for my SUN summer bedding plants in containers on the patio. SUN SUN A. Winter-flowering Pansies, Bellus, small Euonymys, SUN Ophiopogon, Arum italicum, Ivy, clipped Box, bulbs, Chervil, SUN Parsely, Watercress and Mint, small Phormium and Cornus. SUN Change the top half of the compost. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04hmnnk (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about living with SUN blindness, with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and with Parkinson's, SUN from Glasgow, London and Maryport, in the Omnibus edition of SUN the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Saturday Drama b01p9f5p (Listen) SUN Pinocchio SUN SUN Carlo Collodi's classic tale of a wooden puppet who wants to SUN be a boy dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. SUN SUN When Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life, SUN Geppetto names him Pinocchio and imagines a bright future SUN together. Pinocchio must understand what it is to be a boy SUN and the first step is school. But danger and folly lurk SUN around every corner and it is hard for Pinocchio to find the SUN right path. The world is full of temptation, contradiction SUN and fear. Will Pinocchio find his way to becoming a real SUN boy? SUN SUN Original Music by Olly Fox SUN Sound Design by Steve Brooke SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN "I wondered if he was ever a puppet at all..?" SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Carlo Collodi SUN SUN A brief biography of SUN Carlo Collodi SUN author of "The Adventures of Pinocchio". The book, his most SUN famous work, was written between 1881 and 1883 and SUN originally serialized in an Italian children's newspaper. SUN SUN Pinocchio illustrations SUN A collection of illustrations used in publications of SUN "The Adventures of Pinocchio" SUN by Italian illustrator Roberto Innocenti and others. SUN SUN LISTEN TO PINOCCHIO IN A LIVE SURROUND SOUND STREAM SUN SUN To listen to Pinocchio as a surround sound stream during the SUN broadcast at 3pm on Sunday, you need a computer with a SUN multi-channel sound card and a surround sound system, or a SUN computer connected to a surround sound system using HDMI. SUN You also need a good internet connection and either Internet SUN Explorer 11 or the Chrome web browser on your computer. SUN SUN SUN SUN Listen to the live surround sound here: SUN http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.html SUN SUN SUN SUN For FAQs and to test your system click here: SUN http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/radio4/faq.html SUN SUN SUN SUN This is an experiment using the latest web standards “HTML5” SUN and it is the first time this technology has been used to SUN stream a programme in surround sound on Radio 4. SUN SUN SUN SUN "It’s not easy to get this working at present, but I believe SUN it will offer an easy route to a mass audience when the SUN browsers in TVs support the audio capabilities of HTML5, SUN which I hope is just a matter of time. When that happens, SUN anyone with a home cinema will be able to click on a link in SUN the browser on their TV and hear audio in surround sound SUN through their home cinema system." SUN Rupert Brun, Head of Technology, BBC Radio SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Pinocchio: Ellis Hollins SUN Geppetto: Steve Evets SUN Fox: Lee Ingleby SUN Coachman: Lee Ingleby SUN Cricket: Lee Ingleby SUN Cat: William Ash SUN Hawker: William Ash SUN Giangio: William Ash SUN Blue Fairy: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Candlewick: Tom Rolinson SUN Harlequin: Tom Rolinson SUN Puppeteer: Jonathan Keeble SUN Policeman: Jonathan Keeble SUN Auctioneer: Jonathan Keeble SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN Writer: Linda Marshall Griffiths SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04hmnnm (Listen) SUN Esther Freud on Mr Mac and Me SUN SUN Novelist Esther Freud talks about her latest, Mr Mac and Me, SUN inspired by the time architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh SUN spent in Suffolk. Howard Jacobson talks about the book that SUN he would never lend, not least because he can't find it at SUN the moment and the changing face of book launches: how the SUN crowded market has inspired publicists to think of new ways SUN to draw attention to new books. SUN Esther Freud talks to Bookclub SUN Howard Jacobson picks his neglected classics SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud SUN Chapter 1: Mr Mac and Me SUN by Esther Freud SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN SUN The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt Publisher: Simon & SUN Schuster UK SUN SUN In Love with Death by Satish Modi Publisher: Birlinn Ltd SUN SUN The Dying Light, the final book in the Skulduggery Pleasant SUN series by Derek Landy Publisher: HarperCollings Children's SUN Books SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Esther Freud SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b04hmnnp (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a mixed bag of listeners poetry SUN requests, from Emily Bronte to Philip Larkin. Topics covered SUN include religion, a trip to the seaside and a really SUN embarrassing dinner party. Women poets writing in the 19th SUN and 20th centuries are highlighted, with work by Christina SUN Rossetti, Mary Webb, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Emily SUN Dickinson. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Flint SUN SUN by Christina Rossetti SUN SUN From The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Is it Done? SUN SUN by Ella Wheeler Wilcox SUN SUN From Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. SUN SUN Published by WP Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell, Edinburgh SUN SUN SUN SUN To the Sea SUN SUN by Philip Larkin SUN SUN Taken from Philip Larkin – Collected Poems. SUN SUN Published by The Marvell Press & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN All things Pass by Lao Tzu, translated by Timothy Leary. SUN SUN Taken from Poems and Readings for Funerals. SUN SUN Published by Penguin. SUN SUN SUN SUN The Brook SUN SUN by Edward Thomas SUN SUN From Edward Thomas – The Annotated Collected Poems. SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Green Rain SUN SUN by Mary Webb SUN SUN From A Book of Nature Poems. SUN SUN Published by Viking Press SUN SUN SUN SUN In Praise of Cities SUN SUN by Thom Gunn SUN SUN From Thom Gunn – Collected Poems. SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Remembrance SUN SUN by Emily Bronte SUN SUN From Selected Bronte Poems SUN SUN Published by Basil Blackwell Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN The Winter Palace SUN SUN by Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems. SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Kingdom of God SUN SUN by Francis Thompson SUN SUN From The Poems of Francis Thompson. SUN SUN Published by Hollis and Carter Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN He Fumbles at Your Soul SUN SUN by Emily Dickinson SUN SUN From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. SUN SUN Published by Faber. SUN SUN SUN SUN Drawing Water SUN SUN by Ann Atkinson SUN SUN Taken from her website, SUN http://annatkinson.wordpress.com/poems/ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Poppies SUN SUN by Ida Affleck Graves SUN SUN From A Kind Husband by Ida Affleck Graves. SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Ginger SUN SUN by Zena Edwards. SUN SUN Taken from 57 Productions website. SUN http://www.57productions.com/ipoems_items.php?search=Zena%20 SUN dwards SUN SUN SUN SUN The Sorry Hostess SUN SUN by Edgar A Gest SUN SUN Taken from Just Folks by Edgar A Guest. SUN SUN Published by The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago 1917 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b04grs67 (Listen) SUN Abused but Not Heard SUN SUN Knowl View special school for boys has become infamous as SUN the haunt of Cyril Smith. Prosecutors now say 'Mr Rochdale' SUN should have been charged with abuse of boys while he was SUN alive. But he was not the only one. In the first of a new SUN series, former pupils in the 1970s, 80s and 90s tell File on SUN 4 how a web of abusers, including local paedophiles and SUN other pupils preyed on boys as young as eight while people SUN supposed to protect them looked the other way. Previous SUN police investigations came to nothing. A new probe is SUN underway, focusing on who could be guilty of a criminal SUN cover up. But what became of the innocent? Jane Deith hears SUN from some of those who experienced life in Knowl View. SUN Telling their stories for the first time, they describe SUN childhoods twisted by sexual abuse. Now questions are being SUN asked about whether the failure to end the abuse at Knowl SUN View led to a culture in which the subsequent grooming of SUN young girls in Rochdale was allowed to happen. Alan Collins, SUN a specialist child abuse lawyer representing some of the men SUN who're suing Rochdale Council over abuse at Know View, SUN believes things would have been different had Cyril Smith SUN been prosecuted and convicted: "That would have sent a clear SUN message through Rochdale and much further afield that there SUN was clearly a problem and that problem would not have been SUN so easy to brush away. I think that had a very long tail and SUN that that tail continued right up until recent times." SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04hmdks (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04hmfvc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04hmfvf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmfvh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04hmrv7 (Listen) SUN Now perhaps you should make sure you're sitting down before SUN I tell you this; you might find it shocking, but in this SUN week's Pick of the Week Caz Graham will be hearing why SUN times-tables and spelling tests might have had their day. SUN There's a lesson in traditional Mongolian wrestling, a SUN history of the Soviet Union through the medium of food, SUN Sandi Toksvig as a lovesick water boatman, and Quentin Letts SUN gets covered in blood. Oh OK, it's only fake blood, but it SUN looks real! SUN That's Pick of the Week with Caz Graham at 6.15 this Sunday SUN evening. SUN SUN Gossip from the Garden Pond (Radio 4, 14th September) SUN SUN Journey of a Lifetime - Wrestling With the Future (Radio 4, SUN 15th September) SUN SUN Today (Radio 4, All-Week) SUN SUN The Educators (Radio 4, 17 September) SUN SUN Yesterday's Papers - The End of the Music Press (Radio 4, SUN 15th September) SUN SUN Making a Scene with Lauren Laverne (6Music, 21 September) SUN SUN The Man Who Turned Into a Sofa (Radio 4, 17th September) SUN SUN Witness - Lord of the Flies (World Service, 16 September) SUN SUN Heaven and Earth - Le Ly Hayslip (Radio 4, 18th September) SUN SUN What's the Point of British Board of Film Classification? SUN (Radio 4, 16th September) SUN Lewis Macleod is Not Himself (Radio 4, 16th September) SUN SUN Shared Planet - Ground Nesting Birds (Radio 4, 16th SUN September) SUN SUN Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (Radio 4, 17th September) SUN SUN The Food Programme (Radio 4, 21st September). SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Caz Graham SUN SUN Caz Graham has been a regular across the BBC since the SUN mid-1990s, lending her voice to the likes of Woman's Hour, SUN Farming Today, Open Country, and You & Yours. SUN SUN Based in the Lake Districts, Caz can often be heard SUN reporting on a wide and varied selection of stories across SUN the north of the UK and Scotland with special interest in SUN rural affairs and regeneration, food, farming, and SUN landscapes and the people in them. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04hmrv9 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gossip from the Garden Pond b04hmrvc (Listen) SUN The Garden Spider and Great Pond Snail SUN SUN The Garden Spider played by Amanda Root and the Great Pond SUN Snail played by James Fleet, reveal the truth about life in SUN a garden pond, in the last of three very funny tales, SUN written and introduced by Lynne Truss, with sound recordings SUN by Chris Watson and Tom Lawrence. SUN SUN Hidden amongst the tall vegetation beside the pond the SUN Garden Spider muses on her life. She suffers from SUN arachnophobia. She note only dislikes, but fears the sight SUN of herself; so much so that she only emerges under the cover SUN of darkness to spin her web. She is not alone if finding her SUN appearance quite hideous, she recalls a wasp who even as she SUN wrapped him silk shuddered at the sight of her, rather than SUN save his own life! Her musings are interrupted when she SUN discovers another spider in her web; a visitor to the SUN neighbourhood, a male, who instead of being frightened by SUN her appearance finds her most attractive. Is her luck about SUN to change? SUN SUN The Great Pond Snail glides over the vegetation on his trail SUN of slime, cleaning up as he goes. He's appalled when he sees SUN evidence that another pond sail has not done the same. Great SUN Pond Snails are excellent recyclers, even cleaning up their SUN own waste matter. Our Snail takes great pleasure in this SUN fact "But I'm not saying this makes us some sort of paragon. SUN Just different". There's no getting away from it, he is SUN self-righteous and judgmental but under the guise of SUN political correctness. His only pleasure comes from slime. SUN "My girlfriend used to say that my slime ropes were my best SUN feature" he boasts. And on this subject, he has little time SUN for the human race "All this modern talk of energy SUN efficiency ... and you can't even be bothered to learn how SUN to make slime". And don't get him started on sex and gender SUN roles! SUN SUN Producer Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lynne Truss SUN Garden Spider: Amanda Root SUN Great Pond Snail: James Fleet SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt SUN Writer: Lynne Truss SUN SUN 19:45 Jessie Kesson Short Stories b04hmrvf (Listen) SUN Until Such Times SUN SUN The final story in our series of readings from the work of SUN the acclaimed Scottish author Jessie Kesson. Best known for SUN her novels "Another Time, Another Place" and "The White Bird SUN Passes", Jessie Kesson's writing was often inspired by SUN events from her own life and by the landscape of North East SUN Scotland. SUN SUN Tonight's story is a beautiful evocation of a child's SUN struggle to make sense of the adult world around her. Her SUN unmarried mother, whom she calls "Aunt" Ailsa, is unable to SUN provide a home for her and she has been sent to the SUN countryside to live with her grandparents. There is one SUN instance of strong language. SUN SUN Jessie Kesson (1916 - 1994) was a prolific writer of novels, SUN poems, stories, newspaper features and radio plays. She came SUN through a hard start in life (born in the Inverness SUN workhouse, raised in an Elgin slum, removed from her SUN neglectful but much-loved mother to an orphanage in SUN Aberdeenshire) with a passionate determination to be a SUN writer. She combined a successful writing career with a SUN variety of jobs, from cleaner to artist's model, and was a SUN social worker for nearly twenty years, settling finally in SUN London with her husband. SUN SUN Reader ..... Helen Mackay SUN Abridger ..... Kirsteen Cameron SUN Producer ..... Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Helen Mackay SUN Abridger: Kirsteen Cameron SUN Author: Jessie Kesson SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04gyqtg (Listen) SUN Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match SUN SUN The chance of a successful kidney match between two SUN unrelated people has increased significantly in the past ten SUN years - why? Tim Harford speaks to Professor Anthony SUN Warrens, president of the British Transplantation Society. SUN SUN Donations to the Manchester Dogs' Home have exceeded £1m in SUN the wake of a fire, which killed more than 50 dogs. The SUN large sum raised caused Today presenter Justin Webb to SUN comment that it often seems easier to raise money for SUN animals than humans who are in need. Is it true that we give SUN more generously to animals? Ben Carter reports. SUN SUN Friday, September 19 is Huntrodds' Day - a chance to SUN celebrate coincidence and the extraordinary tale of Mr and SUN Mrs Huntrodds. As Michael Blastland explains, they shared SUN their birthday and day of death. SUN SUN An edition of BBC Four's Wonder of Animals states that there SUN are 14,000 ants to every person on earth, and that were we SUN to weigh all of these ants they would weigh the same as all SUN the people. Can this be true? Tim Harford and Hannah Moore SUN investigate with the help of Francis Ratnieks, professor of SUN apiculture at the University of Sussex. SUN SUN A complaint has been held up against a BBC programme for SUN calling Eritrea 'tiny'. Can any country rightly be described SUN this way? SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04gyqtd (Listen) SUN James Nesbitt MBE, Andrew McLaglen, Emilio Botin, Simin SUN Behbahani, Sir Philip Dowson SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Superintendent James Nesbitt who was in charge of the murder SUN squad in Belfast at the height of the troubles. He had to SUN tackle sectarian violence from gangs like the notorious SUN Shankhill butchers. SUN SUN The film director Andrew McLaglen, best known for Westerns SUN like Shendoah and war films like the Wild Geese. SUN SUN Emilio Botin who built the Spanish bank Santander into a SUN global financial institution. SUN SUN The Iranian poet Simin Behbahani who spoke out for women's SUN rights and campaigned for democracy. SUN SUN And Sir Philip Dowson, one of Britain's most important post SUN war architects, known for his work on St John's College SUN Oxford and the Snape Maltings concert hall. SUN SUN James Nesbitt MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Terry Spence, Chairman of the Police SUN Federation for Northern Ireland, and to journalist Martin SUN Dillon, who has written several books on The Troubles. SUN SUN Born 29 September 1934; died 25 August 2014 aged 79. SUN SUN Andrew McLaglen SUN SUN Last Word spoke to the cultural commentator, Sir Christopher SUN Frayling. SUN SUN Born 28 July 1920; died 30 August 2014 aged 94. SUN SUN Emilio Botin (pictured) SUN SUN Mathew spoke to Robert Tornabell, Emeritus Professor of SUN International Banking and Finance in Barcelona and to the SUN BBC’s Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed. SUN SUN Born 1 October 1934 ; died 10 September 2014 aged 79. SUN SUN Simin Behbahani SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Fatemah Shams, poet and expert on Persian SUN literature. SUN SUN Born 20 June 1927; died 19 August 2014 aged 87. SUN SUN Sir Philip Dowson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Sir Jack Zunz, former chairman of Ove Arup SUN & Partners SUN who worked with Sir Philip and also to his former colleague SUN Professor Richard Frewer and to architectural historian Ken SUN Powell. SUN SUN Born 16 August 1924; died 22 August 2014 aged 90. SUN SUN George Hamilton IV SUN SUN Born 19 July 1937; died 17 September 2014 aged 77. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Terry Spence SUN Interviewed Guest: Martin Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher Frayling SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Tornabell SUN Interviewed Guest: Kamal Ahmed SUN Interviewed Guest: Fatemeh Shams SUN Interviewed Guest: Jack Zunz SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Frewer SUN Interviewed Guest: Ken Powell SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04hm99n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04hmj82 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04gwm26 (Listen) SUN Myanmar Awakening SUN SUN Peter Day travels to Myanmar, formally known as Burma, to SUN find out how the country is trying to emerge from its SUN undeveloped past into the modern interconnected world. After SUN the lifting of sanctions a few years ago, foreign businesses SUN flocked to take a look at one of the least developed markets SUN in the world. But is the country really open for business? SUN With poor infrastructure, political uncertainty and SUN out-dated laws, can Myanmar make the leap into the 21st SUN century? SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Moe Kyaw SUN SUN Managing Director, Myanmar Marketing Research and SUN Development SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Horvath SUN SUN General Manager, Jotun Myanmar (services) Co Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Chloe Williamson SUN SUN Director, Aquila Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dan Davies SUN SUN Associate Director, Colliers International SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Khin Maung Win SUN SUN Chairman, MSP Tractors Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Ross Cormack SUN SUN Chief Executive, Ooredoo Myanmar SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Myat Hnin Phyu SUN SUN Senior Manager, Women Myanmar, Ooredoo SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Thurane Aung (Christopher) SUN SUN Dagon International SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Ye Htut SUN SUN Myanmar information minister SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04hmstt (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04hmstw (Listen) SUN Anne McElvoy of The Economist analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04gwlll (Listen) SUN Nick Cave; Jonathan Coe; The Riot Club SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Nick Cave discusses a documentary about his life and work SUN called 20,000 Days On Earth, which mixes fact with fiction, SUN as film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard placed the SUN singer in a series of staged encounters and let the cameras SUN roll. Cave explains why he wasn't entirely happy with some SUN of the things they asked him to do. SUN SUN Novelist Jonathan Coe discusses the Claudette Colbert comedy SUN Midnight, written by one of his film heroes, Billy Wilder SUN SUN The Riot Club director Lone Scherfig reveals what she thinks SUN of the British class system as depicted in her adaptation of SUN Laura Wade's play Posh, which displays the drunken antics of SUN a secret society at Oxford University, not unlike The SUN Bullingdon Club which boasted David Cameron as one of its SUN members. SUN SUN Presenter.... Francine Stock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick Cave SUN Interviewed Guest: Iain Forsyth SUN Interviewed Guest: Jane Pollard SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Coe SUN Interviewed Guest: Lone Scherfig SUN Producer: Philip Sellars SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04hmhtg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04hmfwj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Educators b04gvm7n (Listen) MON Sugata Mitra MON MON Professor Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology MON at Newcastle University, imagines a future where children MON teach themselves. Famous for his Hole-in-the-Wall MON experiment, he believes when young people are given the MON right tools and encouragement, their innate sense of wonder MON can allow them to learn almost anything from one another. He MON believes the days of traditional schooling where teachers MON stand at the front, and facts are taught and recalled, are MON numbered. MON MON Professor Mitra's dreams are not going unheard either. Last MON year his TED wish to build a "School in the Cloud" won him MON the first $1m TED Prize. Since then, he and his team have MON gone on to open five learning in the cloud labs in schools MON in India and in the North East of England. MON MON In this programme, Sarah Montague finds out how Professor MON Mitra's Hole-in-the-Wall experiment, whereby computers MON connected to the internet were placed in the walls of Indian MON slums, has evolved into a concept called a Self-Organised MON Learning Environment (SOLE). She hears how groups of MON children with minimal supervision can teach themselves, and MON how a team of retired teachers, or Grannies, use webcams to MON provide support and encouragement during the SOLE session. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04hmh0j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hmfwl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hmfwn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmfwq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04hmfws (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04htckf (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Rabbi Jonathan MON Wittenberg. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04htckh (Listen) MON Scottish referendum MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04hmfwv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dyh49 (Listen) MON Sociable Weaver MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough presents the sociable weaver of the MON Kalahari Desert in Namibia. Travel through the dry margins MON of the Kalahari Desert and the telegraph poles stretching MON across the treeless plain could be wearing giant haystacks. MON These colossal communal homes are actually a home to the MON sociable weaver. These sparrow relatives build the largest MON nesting structure of any bird in the world. A hundred pairs MON may breed in a nest weighing nearly one tonne, built on MON isolated trees or any suitable man made structure such as MON pylons. Developed over generations these colonial nests MON provide a cooling structure during the searing heat of day MON and a warm refuge for night time roosts in this inhospitable MON landscape. Other animals find a use for these structures, MON from nesting vultures using it as a safe platform, to MON snakes; who if they enter the nest, can have free rein to MON this weaver larder. MON MON Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Torsten Brehm / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01054541 MON © Torsten Brehm / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04htckk (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04htdl2 (Listen) MON Hilary Mantel MON MON Hilary Mantel takes a break from her award-winning series of MON novels charting the rise and fall of the Tudor fixer, Thomas MON Cromwell, to discuss her new collection of short stories. MON She talks to Tom Sutcliffe about why her latest work eschews MON the historical to focus on contemporary Britain. The MON Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor tells the MON story of Germany from its Roman past to the present day MON through objects that symbolise the dynamic changes in its MON culture and identity. 'English Magic' is the focus of the MON artist Jeremy Deller's touring exhibition which melds myth, MON folklore and politics to explore British society. And the MON Jamaican poet Kei Miller pits the scientific cartographer MON against the spiritual map builder to explore our MON understanding of place and territory. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Hilary Mantel MON Interviewed Guest: Neil MacGregor MON Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Deller MON Interviewed Guest: Kei Miller MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04htdl4 (Listen) MON Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Broadway MON Success and Childhood MON MON The new biography of America's great playwright by the MON acclaimed theatre critic, John Lahr. In today's episode, MON echoes of Tennessee Williams's troubled childhood find their MON way into his first Broadway success, The Glass Menagerie. MON MON John Lahr's new and evocative biography of one of America's MON greatest playwrights vividly illustrates how Tennessee MON Williams drew on his personal experiences to create some of MON the most memorable characters of the American stage and MON screen such as Blanche, Stanley, Big Daddy, Brick, Amanda MON and Laura. Drawing on Tennessee Williams's poems, journals MON and private correspondence with friends and colleagues, Lahr MON creates a compelling portrait of William's turbulent MON personal life and his extraordinarily successful career. MON MON John Lahr was the Senior Drama Critic at the New Yorker for MON twenty years. His other books include, Prick Up Your Ears: MON The Biography of Joe Orton. MON MON Read by Damian Lewis with Trevor White as the voice of MON Tennessee Williams and with Elaine Claxton, Bettrys Jones MON and Ian Conningham. MON MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Damian Lewis MON Reader: Trevor White MON Reader: Elaine Claxton MON Reader: Bettrys Jones MON Reader: Ian Conningham MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Author: John Lahr MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04htrnq (Listen) MON Francesca Martinez, Labour's women MON MON Women at the Labour Party conference. Disability campaigner, MON Francesca Martinez. University lad culture. How to write MON popular women's fiction. MON MON Labour Party Conference MON MON The number of people who belong to a political party is at MON an historic low. Less than one per cent of the UK electorate MON belong to one of the three main parties. And crucially, it MON is thought that twice as many men as women belong to MON political parties. Over the next three weeks we’ll be MON hearing from some of the women who are active members of a MON political party about why they do it and what difference MON they feel it makes. Jane talks to some of the women at this MON year’s Labour Party conference in Manchester to find out MON what they are doing and what motivates them to do it. MON MON Francesca Martinez MON MON Francesca Martinez says she’s never met a normal person and MON wonders if anyone else has. The stand-up, actress and MON disability rights campaigner has just published her first MON book, What The **** Is Normal?!, described as a call to arms MON against society’s unrealistic and damaging expectations. MON Jane talks to Francesca about growing up with cerebral MON palsy, her crusade against normality, and being named as one MON of the Woman’s Hour Power List 2014 Game Changers. MON MON Ebola MON MON As the three day nationwide curfew to help curb the spread MON of the ebola virus comes to an end in Sierra Leone, we hear MON the latest from our reporter, Umaru Fofana, in the capital MON Freetown. What impact has the national shutdown had and how MON are families coping? MON MON Popular Women’s Fiction MON MON Jane Green and Sophie Kinsella are both hugely successful MON writers of popular women’s fiction. Sophie has eleven number MON one bestselling novels to her name, including the Shopaholic MON series, the first of which is now the hit Hollywood movie, MON Confessions of a Shopaholic. And now she has a new book out MON this month, Shopaholic To The Stars. Jane Green’s number one MON books include Tempting Fate and The Accidental Husband, all MON her recent books have shot to the top of the New York Times MON bestseller list, and her new book is called Saving Grace. So MON how have these two writers achieved such success? Did they MON set out to write in a particular genre? How disciplined are MON they? How much do they draw upon their own lives? And what MON are their tips for aspiring writers? MON MON Lad Culture On University Campuses MON MON ‘Lad culture’ on UK university campuses is rife, according MON to new research carried out by the National Union of MON Students. So, at the time of year when freshers’ week takes MON place – earlier this month in Scotland, and next week in MON England and Wales – NUS President Toni Pearce joins Jane to MON discuss the extent of the problem and how the NUS hope to MON combat it. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Francesca Martinez MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04htrnt (Listen) MON Lunch, Humiliation MON MON by Marcy Kahan MON MON Bill and Bella meet every month for lunch and swap news. MON It's March 2014 and whilst Bella has been walking across the MON Sahara Bill has been busy humiliating himself. MON MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON Writer Marcy Kahan and Stephen Mangan on working together. MON What is Vietnamese pho? MON MON Credits MON Bill: Stephen Mangan MON Bella: Claire Skinner MON Director: Sally Avens MON Writer: Marcy Kahan MON MON 11:00 Same-Sex Parents b04htrnw (Listen) MON In Britain, since the civil partnership and gay marriage MON laws have changed, more same sex couples are choosing to MON have children. Mary Smeeth, herself a mother of 2 boys MON brought up in a same sex relationship, talks to a number of MON couples to find out the challenges of conceiving and raising MON these children. MON MON No child born to a same sex couple is an accident. Because MON of the challenges of conception, each of these children is MON carefully thought through and wanted. Mary Smeeth discovers MON the different ways same sex couples are choosing to MON conceive, from donor sperm to adoption to co-parenting with MON a friend. She finds that the day to day challenges are MON fairly similar to any parent's. She also asks how society MON views the children of same sex couples. As the number of MON children born into these families is rising, so too is MON acceptance and a sensitivity around the children - at MON Father's Day for instance. MON MON We talk to Professor Susan Golombok, Director for Family MON Research at Cambridge University who has been studying the MON children of same sex couples since the 1970s. We also meet MON Natalie Gamble, who has built her legal practice around MON advising families with same sex couples. MON MON We visit an 'Out With The Family' event where same sex MON parents and their children can meet each other. We speak to MON actors Sophie Ward and Charlie Condou who are both parents MON in same sex relationships and we meet Cory and Ben who have MON just adopted a 5 year old and live in a small rural MON community. MON MON Produced by Laura Parfitt MON A White Pebble production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 The Pale Horse b04htrny (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON dramatised by Joy Wilkinson MON MON Mark Easterbrook has teamed up with Ginger in order to MON discover who is at the bottom of the spate of recent MON mysterious deaths. And they think they've found the perfect MON plan. Part Three. MON MON Directed by Mary Peate. MON MON Credits MON Mark Easterbrook: Jason Hughes MON Ginger: Georgia Groome MON Thyrza: Eleanor Bron MON Inspector Lejeune: Michael Bertenshaw MON Hermia: Phoebe Pryce MON Osborne: Ron Cook MON Venables: Nicholas Jones MON Mrs Davis: Jane Slavin MON Gorman: Clive Hayward MON Rhoda: Elaine Claxton MON Mrs Tuckerton: Jane Slavin MON Bradley: Stephen Hogan MON Director: Mary Peate MON Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson MON Author: Agatha Christie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04hmfwx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04htrp1 (Listen) MON 22 September 1914 - Adam Wilson MON MON After weeks of surveillance, Adam and Jessie confront the MON mysterious man at the German consulate. MON MON Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Adam: Leo Montague MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson MON Boot: Paul Rider MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Writer: Katie Hims MON Writer: Sean Moffatt MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON Producer: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04htrp4 (Listen) MON Flood Insurance; White Collar Boxing; In-Flight Movies MON MON A plan called Flood Re is designed to cap the premiums of MON people who live in areas prone to flooding. But until it MON comes into effect there are no rules limiting how much MON insurers can charge. We'll speak to a woman whose found her MON premiums soaring ahead of the new deal. MON And the Chancellor surprised the world of finance when he MON announced that the over 55s will soon be able to access the MON entirety of their pension funds. There were worries they'd MON be buying Lamborghinis - but the real concern is fraudsters MON using their confusion over the change to leave them MON penniless. And do you ever wonder how a store can sell a MON kitchen at 80% off? The answer is Yo Yo Pricing - Samantha MON Fenwick has been finding out why one big name says it's MON ready to change its ways. MON And Bob Walker reports on the rise of White Collar Boxing. MON Also, the iPhones which are refurbished and given out by MON insurance companies - only to be utterly disowned by Apple. MON Speaking of which, why our love of gadgets could be spelling MON the end of the in-flight movie. MON MON White Collar Boxing MON MON Kevin Saunders; a criminal barrister who takes part in MON white collar boxing MON MON 12:57 Weather b04hmfwz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04htrp6 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Last Day b04htrp9 (Listen) MON Retirement MON MON We follow Madeleine Broughton, a school administrator, on MON her last day before she retires. Madeleine has worked at the MON school for twenty years and in this moving programme we see MON what an important role she has played during that time. We MON hear her receiving gifts and tributes from headmasters, MON children and parents, learn about her reasons for retiring MON and why she vows she will never return to the school. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04hmrv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04hv9xy (Listen) MON Ghosts of Heathrow MON MON Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport with 190,000 visitors MON each day. It is also the setting of a conspicuously large MON number of ghost stories. On Runway 1 there have been MON recurring sightings of a wandering man wearing a pin-striped MON suit and bowler hat, dating back to the 1948 DCS Dakota MON plane crash, Heathrow's first major air incident. MON MON Based on original research interviews, Ghosts of Heathrow MON draws on this and other pieces of local folklore to create a MON psychic adventure set in and around the airport. MON MON Martin is a senior marketing consultant based in San Diego MON attending a conference in Heathrow. The night before his MON presentation he receives an unwelcome visitor in his hotel MON room. Forced out into the wilds of Hounslow Heath he finds MON himself chasing down some ghosts of his own. MON MON Writer Sebastian Baczkiewicz is the creator of the returning MON Radio 4 series Pilgrim, and one of the UK's leading radio MON dramatists. MON MON Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Produced / directed by Joby Waldman MON Sound design by Eloise Whitmore MON MON A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Martin: Paul McGann MON Rebecca: Susannah Harker MON 16-String Jack: Joe Armstrong MON Mr Monday: Dudley Sutton MON Geoffrey Springley: Kevin Harvey MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore MON Director: Joby Waldman MON Producer: Joby Waldman MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04hv9y0 (Listen) MON Series 28, Episode 1 MON MON (1/13) MON The wide-ranging music quiz is back, with Russell Davies, MON one of Britain's most knowledgeable music broadcasters, MON taking the questionmaster's chair for the 2014 series. MON Another 27 music lovers from around the UK embark on the MON annual knockout competition to be named Radio 4's musical MON mastermind. MON MON They'll have to answer questions on the broadest possible MON range of music, from the core classical repertoire through MON to stage musicals, jazz, film music, classic and current MON rock and pop. There'll be the usual generous helping of MON musical extracts, both familiar and surprising, for them to MON identify. They'll also have to choose a musical subject on MON which to answer specialist questions, from a diverse list of MON choices of which they've had no warning whatsoever. MON MON The first set of competitors this week come from London, MON Guildford and Edinburgh. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b04hv9y2 (Listen) MON BBC National Short Story Award 2014, Bad Dreams MON MON Carey Mulligan reads Tessa Hadley's shortlisted story, the MON first in contention for this prestigious award. A child's MON dramatic reaction to a dream exposes unspoken tensions in MON the family home. MON MON Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. MON MON Now in its ninth year, the BBC National Short Story Award MON continues to be one of the most prestigious and established MON awards for a single short story. The 2014 short list crowns MON a year which has seen short story writers scoop many of the MON major literary awards including the Nobel Prize for MON Literature and the Man Booker International Prize. MON MON The shortlist for this year's BBC National Short Story Award MON in partnership with Booktrust comprises five beguiling and MON compelling stories from a mix of terrifically acclaimed MON writers in the genre and exciting up-and-coming writers, all MON vying for the top award of £15,000. Pivoting on MON transformative moments in people's lives, the stories are MON intimate explorations and reflections of coming of age, the MON attritions of time, love and betrayal. They take listeners MON across the globe from Wales and Kenya to London and New MON York. MON MON The readers of this year's shortlist include Carey Mulligan MON and Rebecca Hall. Listeners can enjoy each story at 3.30pm MON from Monday 22nd September, following an interview with the MON author on the previous evening's Front Row (beginning on MON Friday 19th September). The shortlist will be announced on MON Front Row on Wednesday 17th September, and the winner and MON the runner-up will be announced in a special edition of the MON programme live from the BBC's Radio Theatre on Tuesday 30th MON September. MON MON The stories will be available as a free download following MON broadcast, and in an anthology published by Comma Press. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Carey Mulligan MON Writer: Tessa Hadley MON Abridger: Gemma Jenkins MON Producer: Gemma Jenkins MON MON 16:00 In Search of the Ideal Music Venue b04hv9y4 (Listen) MON Trevor Cox Professor of Acoustics from Salford University MON goes in search of the best venues for different types of MON music. Trevor is fascinated by the effect that the acoustics MON have on the enjoyment of different types of live music. He MON visits various music venues and tries out their acoustics by MON playing his saxophone. He talks to musicians, sound MON engineers and experts in acoustics about the venues and the MON effect that their design has on the audience's enjoyment of MON music. He asks whether the size and shape of venues has had MON an effect on the way music is composed. And he travels to MON Finland to meet Professor Tappio Lokki who can replicate the MON sound of famous concert halls in his laboratory. MON MON With contributions from acousticians Adrian James, Rob MON Harris and Niels Adelman-Larsen, sound engineer Derrick MON Ziebe, and musicians Jessica Cottis and Trish Clowes. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04hvrqv (Listen) MON Religion and PR MON MON Should religions have a public relations strategy? Every MON organisation needs good communicators and religious bodies MON are no exception. They were once very good at it. Messages MON that had their origins in fairly obscure corners of the MON globe changed the lives of hundreds of millions. So what has MON gone wrong? Nowadays events can quickly unfold into PR MON disasters for religions. Is religion just another brand that MON needs to be sold and packaged? To what extent can MON organisations who prioritise truth afford to engage in spin? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss religion and PR are the Rev. MON George Pitcher, former Religious Editor at the Daily MON Telegraph and Public Affairs Secretary to Rowan Williams MON when he was Archbishop of Canterbury; Dr Yasmin Ibrahim, MON Reader in International Business and Communications at Queen MON Mary University; and Jack Valero, former Press Officer for MON Opus Dei and one of the founding fathers of Catholic Voices MON set up to provide a positive Catholic response to issues in MON the public arena. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b04hvrqx (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmfx1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04hvrqz (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 7 MON MON Nicholas Parsons challenges Tony Hawks, Kerry Godliman, MON Stephen Mangan and Gyles Brandreth to talk for 60 seconds MON without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Kerry Godliman MON Panellist: Stephen Mangan MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04hvrr1 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04hvrr3 (Listen) MON Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, MON literature, film, media and music. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04htrnt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Philosopher's Arms b04hvrr5 (Listen) MON Series 4, Induction MON MON Pints and Philosophical Problems with Matthew Sweet. This MON week, the problem of induction: are we justified in MON predicting the future on the basis of what's happened in the MON past? How do we know that the sun will rise tomorrow? In the MON snug with Matthew is philosopher Helen Beebee, discussing a MON conundrum which faces all of us in our daily life - and MON which raises profound questions about the nature of science. MON Producer: Luke Mulhall. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04gwdgx (Listen) MON Ivory Coast's School for Husbands MON MON In one remote district in Ivory Coast, men are going back to MON school. Their studies are part of a UN-backed project dubbed MON 'the school for husbands' and designed to save the lives of MON women and children. MON The idea is to teach decision makers - the men - about the MON importance of family planning, check-ups, and pre-natal care MON for their wives. The aim is to help women and also improve MON general welfare in farming villages where food is scarce and MON incomes are dependent on the weather and good fortune. MON Lucy Ash hears stories from the schools for husbands and MON finds out why Ivory Coast's health system is struggling to MON recover from the post-election crisis three years ago, even MON as the country's economy roars ahead. MON MON Producer: Mike Wendling. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04grm6g (Listen) MON Ground-Nesting Birds MON MON Ground nesting birds such as terns are particularly MON vulnerable to being disturbed. People are increasingly MON accessing the countryside for all sorts of recreation from MON walking and mountain biking to bird watching and MON photography. Is disturbance really a problem for wildlife? MON And how can we limit the effect while still encouraging fun MON and healthy ways to spend our time. MON Tweet of the Day MON MON Dr Julie Heath MON MON Julie Heath is an Associate Professor and Director of MON Graduate Studies in the Department of Biological Sciences at MON Boise State University. MON MON MON MON Dr Heath received her Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology and MON Conservation from the University of Florida, a Master’s MON degree in Raptor Biology from Boise State University, and a MON bachelor’s degree in Zoology from the University of MON California at Davis. MON MON MON MON Her research spans a broad interdisciplinary framework in MON life sciences with a focus on avian behavior, stress MON physiology, ecology, and conservation. Over the past 10 MON years, Dr Heath and her students have studied the effects of MON habitat and human activities on bird distribution, behavior, MON and reproductive success. Specifically, they have worked on MON the issue of human disturbance in a variety of settings from MON beach goers and plovers on the coast to recreationists and MON eagles in the mountains of Idaho. MON MON Dr Rob Lambert MON Dr Rob Lambert is a multi-disciplinary academic at the MON University of Nottingham, working in environmental history MON and tourism & the environment. He holds a MA (Hons) in MON Modern History and a PhD in Environmental History from the MON University of St. Andrews in Scotland. MON Lambert is also Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the MON University of Western Australia where he delivered the MON prestigious Alexander Lecture in 2006, taking as his theme MON ‘Contested Nature in the modern British countryside’. MON He has worked with the BBC Natural History Unit and MON independent production companies on a number of major TV and MON radio wildlife documentaries. These include MON Birds Britannia MON ; MON Making Scotland's Landscape MON ; MON When Britain Went Wild MON ; MON Springwatch Extra MON and many more. MON On three occasions Lambert has voyaged south to the ice on MON expedition ships to serve as an MON IAATO MON International ‘Observer’ of sustainable tourism in MON Antarctica, and was part of the expedition staff on MON round-Britain cruises in 2009, 2012 and 2014 with Silversea, MON Noble Caledonia and GA Expeditions. He is a past President MON of the MON European Society for Environmental History MON and has co-edited the international academic journal MON Environment and History MON since 2000. MON Rob is a very keen British and global birder and MON cetacean-watcher, with around 30 years of field experience, MON and is passionate about showing people wildlife. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04htdl2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04hmfx3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04hvrr7 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04hvrr9 (Listen) MON The Bone Clocks, Episode 1 MON MON By David Mitchell. This ambitious, much-anticipated new MON novel from the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself MON in. MON MON The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling MON revealing one woman's life through those who encounter her. MON The journey has a global and historical sweep, it takes us MON from 1980s Kent via 19th Century Australia to a near future MON New York with a playfully genre-bending subplot. MON MON Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five MON actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as MON Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke MON Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good MON looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed MON Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, MON struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and MON the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is MON Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a MON novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow MON is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who MON meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. MON MON Today we encounter fifteen year old Holly Sykes for the MON first time. Read by Hannah Arterton. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hannah Arterton MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Author: David Mitchell MON MON 23:00 The Human Zoo b048l0rz (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON MON Our minds control our bodies, of course. If we're thirsty MON then we reach out to pick up a hot cup of tea or ice cold MON water. But what we think after we've picked up that drink MON can be influenced by what we're holding. MON MON Experiments have shown that, under the right circumstances, MON we have nice warm thoughts about people when holding a hot MON drink, or chilly ones when grasping an icy one. You can hear MON this all the time in the language we use, we wind ourselves MON up or calm ourselves down. Politicians are on the left or MON the right, they're going forward or stepping back from the MON brink. MON MON Psychologists call this embodiment, the idea that our MON thoughts are inseparable from our bodily circumstances. So, MON grab a nice hot cup of tea and come listen. MON MON Presented by Michael Blastland MON MON Producer: Toby Murcott MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Journeys Down My Street b01rqndq (Listen) MON The Polish Community in Bradford MON MON Amidst all the coverage of contemporary migration to MON Britain, it is easy to forget the older generations of MON immigrants from across the world who have settled here and MON made Britain their home. MON MON Journeys Down my Street is a new series in which Mike MON Berlin, an urban historian from Birkbeck College, University MON of London, visits individual streets at the heart of such MON communities, to hear the stories of earlier immigrants - MON their arrival, their early lives and their observations on MON Britain today. MON MON 1.A Little bit of Poland in Bradford MON MON The story of the Polish political refugees who settled in MON Britain in the late 1940s has been largely forgotten. MON MON It involves invasion by both Germany and Russia and MON deportation to Siberia, followed by a brave share of the MON armed combat of World War Two. In spite of this, Stalin's MON influence after the war meant they had no home to return to MON and were excluded from the victory parades. MON MON They tell Mike Berlin about the lives they made in Bradford, MON the community they built around Edmund Street, and their MON thoughts on a younger generation of economic immigrants, who MON have the one thing they craved - the choice to return home, MON if they wished, to Poland. MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04hmfy6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04htdl4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hmfyb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hmfyd (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmfyg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04hmfyj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04hvx9s (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Rabbi Jonathan TUE Wittenberg. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04hvx9v (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dwdm3 (Listen) TUE Vogelkop Bowerbird TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the Vogelkop bowerbird of TUE west New Guinea. The forest floor resembles a market stall TUE with neat piles of brightly-coloured fruits and leaves TUE placed carefully on a mossy lawn in front of a cave of TUE thatched twigs. This is the work of the Vogelkop bowerbird. TUE Native to New Guinea and Australia, this drab olive brown TUE male, uses aesthetic tastes to bring vibrancy of colour into TUE his life: and to woo his mate. His brightly coloured TUE exhibits are graded for size and colour and any withered or TUE faded items are quickly replaced. Satisfied with his work, TUE he whistles, and growls to entice her to a private view. TUE After mating the female departs to rear her single chick TUE unaided, while the male returns to the task of tending his TUE creation. TUE TUE Vogelkop Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Barrie Britton / naturepl.com TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01323009 TUE © Barrie Britton / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04hvx9x (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b04hvx9z (Listen) TUE Brian Cox TUE TUE Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University describes how TUE he gave up appearing on Top of the Pops to study quarks, TUE quasars and quantum mechanics. TUE TUE Although he describes himself as a simple-minded Northern TUE bloke, he has acquired an almost God-like status on our TV TUE screens; while the 'Cox effect' is thought to explain the TUE significant boost to university admissions to read physics. TUE He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about learning to be famous, his TUE passion for physics and how he sometimes has difficulty TUE crossing the road. TUE TUE In 2005 Brian was awarded a Royal Society Research TUE Fellowship for his work on high energy particle collisions TUE at CERN and elsewhere - an enviable academic achievement. In TUE 2009, he was voted one of the sexiest men alive by People TUE magazine. He has invented a new kind of celebrity - a TUE scientist who's regularly snapped by the paparazzi. TUE TUE Brian wants everyone to be as excited as he is about the TUE laws that govern our universe: the beautiful, TUE counter-intuitive and often weird world of quantum mechanics TUE that explains what happens inside the nucleus of every atom, TUE right down at the level of those exotically named elementary TUE particles - quarks, neutrinos, gluons, muons. TUE TUE Challenged by Jim to explain the rules of quantum mechanics TUE in just a minute, Brian succeeds; while conceding that the TUE idea that everything is inherently probabilistic, is TUE challenging. Even Einstein found it difficult. Schrodinger's TUE cat, or Brian Cox, for that matter, are simultaneously both TUE dead and alive. That's a fact. What this is all means is TUE another question. "Am I just an algorithm?" Brian asks. TUE "Probably", says Jim. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE The Infinite Monkey Cage TUE Desert Island Discs: Brian Cox TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b04hvxb1 (Listen) TUE Some of the UK's most respected broadcasters conduct TUE 15-minute interviews with the people whose personal stories TUE interest them the most.Producer: Isobel Eaton. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04hvxb3 (Listen) TUE Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Awakenings TUE TUE The new biography of America's great playwright by the TUE acclaimed theatre critic, John Lahr. In today's episode, TUE Tennessee Williams embarks on a new play, A Streetcar Named TUE Desire, and Marlon Brando attends an unconventional audition TUE for the part of Stanley. TUE TUE Read by Damian Lewis with Trevor White as the voice of TUE Tennessee Williams and with Elaine Claxton, Bettrys Jones TUE and Ian Conningham. TUE TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Damian Lewis TUE Reader: Trevor White TUE Reader: Elaine Claxton TUE Reader: Bettrys Jones TUE Reader: Ian Conningham TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Author: John Lahr TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04hvxb5 (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 b04hvxb7 (Listen) TUE Lunch, The Wonderful Guy TUE TUE by Marcy Kahan TUE TUE Bill and Bella meet up once a month and swap news. TUE Bella has a new man but he happens to be half her age. TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bill: Stephen Mangan TUE Bella: Claire Skinner TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Writer: Marcy Kahan TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04hvxb9 (Listen) TUE Are We Getting Used to Less Wildlife? TUE TUE The diversity and abundance of wildlife is declining across TUE the world. As people grow older they notice the changes but TUE for each new generation the baseline is reset. Is each TUE generation is getting used to living with less and less TUE wildlife? With so many other distractions do young people TUE today notice the wildlife around them? Monty Don explores TUE whether shifting baselines are a problem for conservation or TUE simply inevitable in a system already subject to natural TUE fluctuations. TUE TUE Professor Kevin Gaston TUE Kevin Gaston is the inaugural Director of the TUE Environment and Sustainability Institute TUE (ESI) and Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at the TUE University of Exeter. TUE The ESI conducts cutting-edge research into solutions to TUE problems of environmental change, thereby enhancing people’s TUE lives through improving their relationships with the TUE environment. It has staff drawn from a variety of TUE backgrounds - including mathematicians, engineers and TUE environmental, political and social scientists - reflecting TUE the need for an interdisciplinary approach to such TUE solutions. TUE An ecologist with diverse interests, a major strand of TUE Gaston’s research is concerned with the health and TUE well-being benefits that people gain from natural TUE environments. This program of work includes determining the TUE breadth and form of these benefits, the components of nature TUE that provide them, the dynamics of this provision, and how TUE the provision can most effectively be improved. TUE Twitter: @KevinJGaston TUE TUE Professor Aubrey Manning, OBE TUE Professor Aubrey Manning is recognised as one of the TUE country’s leading authorities on animal behaviour. TUE He rose from Assistant Lecturer at the University of TUE Edinburgh to become a Professor of Natural History at the TUE university in 1971, a position he retained until retirement TUE in 1997. TUE Manning's storytelling skills have led to him presenting TUE television programmes such as BBC2’s Earth Story and Talking TUE Landscapes and he has worked on a range of radio output TUE including recent Radio 4 programme The Sounds of Life, in TUE which he explores natural sounds ranging from the seabed to TUE the jungle. TUE He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, holds TUE honorary degrees from Toulouse, the Open University and TUE St.Andrews, and was awarded an OBE in 1998. He has been TUE Chairman of the TUE Scottish Wildlife Trust TUE and a TUE Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland TUE and TUE Project Wallacea TUE TUE 11:30 Goldie the Alchemist b045z8wn (Listen) TUE Musician and artist Goldie passionately describes his TUE challenging story, from the roots of a broken home to his TUE commercial success and subsequent struggle to come to terms TUE with personal issues and a painful past. TUE TUE Featuring contributions from Pete Tong, DJ Fabio, Marc Mac, TUE Nihal Arthanayake and Dr Anamik Saha, the programme explores TUE the real character behind Goldie, who produced Timeless, one TUE of the most iconic British albums of the nineties. TUE TUE Produced by Paul Thomas TUE TUE A Three Street Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE The New Elizabethans: Goldie TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04hmfyl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04hvxbc (Listen) TUE 23 September 1914 - Ottoline Lambert TUE TUE In Folkestone, the search for a comfortable home for two TUE Belgian refugees continues... TUE TUE Written by: Katie Hims TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ottoline: Ruth Lass TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Harry: Sean Murray TUE Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson TUE Customer: Ashley Kumar TUE Hilda: Bella Hamblin TUE Adam: Leo Montague TUE Ernie: Sean Connolly TUE Henri: Stephane Cornicard TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE Producer: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04hvxbf (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04hmfyn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04hvxbh (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Last Day b04hvxbk (Listen) TUE Shutting Down TUE TUE Trampolining is the most important thing in Ollie Monroe's TUE life. He was a national competitor, is now a coach, and has TUE invested an incredible amount of time, money and energy into TUE building up a successful trampoline club. Now, through no TUE fault of his own, the club is due to shut. We join him for TUE his emotional last day. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04hvrr1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b042l782 (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Underground Man, pt 1 TUE TUE 1 / 2. Glasgow's disused underground tunnels are the hunting TUE ground for an injured ex-soldier who threatens to kill three TUE men he holds responsible for cheating him out of an TUE inheritance. When one of the men under threat goes missing, TUE Glasgow psychic, Thomas Soutar, helps police in their search TUE - but Thomas and his girlfriend, Kat, soon find there's TUE danger much closer to home. By Alastair Jessiman. The TUE concluding episode is tomorrow. TUE TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Brodie: Simon Donaldson TUE George: Finlay Welsh TUE DI Crawford: Stevie Hannan TUE Paul: Finlay McLean TUE Anderson: John Shedden TUE Mrs Anderson: Ann Scott-Jones TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04hm8jv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b04hvxbm (Listen) TUE BBC National Short Story Award 2014, The American Lover TUE TUE Rebecca Hall reads one of the five contenders for this major TUE award for the short story. TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE Now in its ninth year, the BBC National Short Story Award TUE continues to be one of the most prestigious and established TUE awards for a single short story. The 2014 short list crowns TUE a year which has seen short story writers scoop many of the TUE major literary awards including the Nobel Prize for TUE Literature and the Man Booker International Prize. TUE TUE The shortlist for this year's BBC National Short Story Award TUE in partnership with Booktrust comprises five beguiling and TUE compelling stories from a mix of terrifically acclaimed TUE writers in the genre and exciting up-and-coming writers, all TUE vying for the top award of £15,000. Pivoting on TUE transformative moments in people's lives, the stories are TUE intimate explorations and reflections of coming of age, the TUE attritions of time, love and betrayal. They take listeners TUE across the globe from Wales and Kenya to London and New TUE York. TUE TUE The readers of this year's shortlist include Carey Mulligan TUE and Rebecca Hall. Listeners can enjoy each story at 3.30pm TUE from Monday 22nd September, following an interview with the TUE author on the previous evening's Front Row (beginning on TUE Friday 19th September). The shortlist will be announced on TUE Front Row on Wednesday 17th September, and the winner and TUE the runner-up will be announced in a special edition of the TUE programme live from the BBC's Radio Theatre on Tuesday 30th TUE September. TUE TUE The stories will be available as a free download following TUE broadcast, and in an anthology published by Comma Press. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Rebecca Hall TUE Writer: Rose Tremain TUE Abridger: Julian Wilkinson TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 16:00 Out of the Ordinary b01rg1gh (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE TUE Jolyon Jenkins reports on the world of electronic voice TUE phenomena (EVP) - the community of people who believe that TUE the dead can speak to us through radio transmissions and TUE white noise. The technique was introduced to the English TUE speaking world by a mysterious Latvian, Dr Konstantin TUE Raudive, who travelled to Britain in 1969 with recordings of TUE Hitler, Churchill and Stalin speaking from beyond the grave. TUE The method is now a mainstay of paranormal investigators. TUE Jolyon unearths tapes from 40 years ago made at a key séance TUE held by Dr Raudive in Gerrards Cross. Raudive eventually TUE came to believe that a budgerigar called Putzi was passing TUE on messages from a dead 14 year old girl. Jolyon speaks to TUE EVP current practitioners, and to a man who believes that TUE his recordings of animal noises also contain messages. TUE TUE The claims are improbable, but they tell us interesting TUE things about human perception: about our ability to TUE construct meaning from meaningless sound, and about how our TUE brains naturally fill in the gaps where information is TUE incomplete. Optical illusions are well known, but we are TUE equally prone to being fooled by audio illusions. Sound TUE artist Joe Banks suggests that, while EVP researchers may be TUE carrying out parapsychology experiments, they are TUE unwittingly doing conventional psychology experiments. TUE TUE How Jolyon Jenkins might look with hair TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04hvy0l (Listen) TUE Series 34, Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette TUE TUE Matthew Parris hears from Labour peer Lord Adonis why Joseph TUE Bazalgette, the Victorian engineer, has his nomination as a TUE Great Life. TUE Bazalgette, the grandson of a French immigrant who made a TUE fortune lending money to the Hanoverian royal family, is one TUE of the most important of the great Victorian engineers. He TUE not only built a sewage system for London which wiped out TUE cholera in the city, he also built the famous Embankments, TUE laid out several of the main thoroughfares and built or TUE improved many of the city's landmark bridges. Yet he is far TUE less well-known than his flamboyant contemporary Brunel and TUE less celebrated than the creators of the railways. With the TUE help of Joseph Bazalgette's great-great-grandson Sir Peter TUE Bazalgette, the man responsible for Ready Steady Cook and TUE Big Brother and now Chairman of the Arts Council, Matthew TUE pieces together the story of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, "The TUE Sewer King." TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Andrew Adonis TUE Interviewed Guest: Peter Bazalgette TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04hvy0n (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmfyz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself b04hvy0q (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE A brand new impression and sketch show that looks behind the TUE scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis TUE Macleod (Newsjack, Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace, Dead TUE Ringers) with Kate O'Sullivan, Duncan Wisbey and Julian TUE Dutton. TUE TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ensemble: Lewis Mcleod TUE Ensemble: Kate O'Sullivan TUE Ensemble: Duncan Wisbey TUE Ensemble: Julian Dutton TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04hvy0s (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04hvy1g (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04hvxb7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b04hvynp (Listen) TUE Rigged Markets? TUE TUE Is a new scandal about to engulf the UK's banking industry? TUE Was LIBOR just the tip of the iceberg? TUE Regulators around the world are looking at the way important TUE financial benchmarks have been calculated. These are used to TUE set the value of pension funds, investments and TUE international contracts worth billions of pounds. Financial TUE regulators in the UK, across Europe and in the US are TUE investigating whether the benchmarks have been rigged to TUE increase bank profits - and to short change their customers. TUE Banks are already receiving big fines over the LIBOR TUE interest rate scandal but the focus is now shifting to the TUE way prices in the foreign exchange, gold and interest rate TUE swap markets have been set. Reporter Lesley Curwen assesses TUE the evidence that banks have got together to manipulate the TUE markets and asks what it means for the reputation of London TUE as a global financial sector and public confidence in TUE banking. TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04hvynr (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04hvynt (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b04hvx9z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04hmfz1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04hvynw (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04hvyny (Listen) TUE The Bone Clocks, Episode 2 TUE TUE By David Mitchell. Teenage Holly experiences a life-altering TUE event. Read by Hannah Arterton. TUE TUE This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author TUE of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks TUE is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's TUE life through those who encounter her. The journey has a TUE global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via TUE 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a TUE playfully genre-bending subplot. TUE TUE Our Book at Bedtime is read by a stellar cast of five actors TUE over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as Holly TUE Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway TUE is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good looking, and TUE extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed Brubeck, a foreign TUE correspondent in the current decade, struggling to overcome TUE the gaps between his life at home and the loss he TUE experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is Crispin TUE Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a novelist TUE now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow is Dr TUE Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who meets TUE Holly Sykes in a near-future America. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hannah Arterton TUE Producer: Allegra McIlroy TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Author: David Mitchell TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b04hvyp0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, You May Know Me as Dudley TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient returns with another TUE series of his own sketch show. Sketches, characters, sound TUE effects, bit of music, some messin' about, you know... TUE TUE In this episode, we get to shape some hedges, eat some TUE cheese, annoy an alligator and play an exciting round of Ten TUE Man's Nancy. TUE TUE Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually TUE every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not TUE content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve TUE Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, TUE Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally TUE decided to put together another run of his own comedy series TUE for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now... TUE TUE Appearing across the series are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan TUE Partridge, Scott and Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), TUE Paul Putner (Little Britain), Justin Edwards (The TUE Consultants), David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls) and Catherine TUE Shepherd (Cardinal Burns, Harry and Paul). TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon, with additional material by Jason TUE Hazeley and Joel Morris (A Touch Of Cloth, That Mitchell and TUE Webb Sound) TUE TUE Original music by Martin Bird TUE Produced and Directed by David Tyler TUE TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Kevin Eldon TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE Writer: Kevin Eldon TUE Writer: Jason Hazeley TUE Writer: Joel Morris TUE TUE 23:30 Journeys Down My Street b01rvnws (Listen) TUE Home Away From Home - The Somalis of Bute Street, Cardiff TUE TUE Amidst all the coverage of contemporary migration to TUE Britain, it is easy to forget the older generations of TUE immigrants from across the world who have settled here and TUE made Britain their TUE home. TUE TUE Journeys Down my Street is a new series in which Mike TUE Berlin, an urban historian from Birkbeck College, University TUE of London, visits individual streets at the heart of such TUE communities, to hear the stories of earlier immigrants - TUE their arrival, their early lives and their observations on TUE Britain today. TUE TUE 2. Home Away From Home, The Somalis of Bute Street, Cardiff TUE TUE At the end of the 19th century many working on the steam TUE ships of the British Empire was an attractive career choice TUE for seamen from Somaliland. Many came to Cardiff, found work TUE in the docks heaving the coal that powered those ships, and TUE the first settled in Butetown in 1890. TUE TUE A vibrant community grew, centred on the docks and the TUE mosque. But the last coal was shipped out in the 1960s, TUE Cardiff docks are not what they were and Butetown has been TUE redeveloped - and work is scarce. TUE TUE The older generation of Somalis has, in recent years, been TUE joined by new immigrants, refugees from their war-torn TUE homeland. Their experiences and expectations are very TUE different, as 'De Gabay' recently made clear. This was a TUE day-long production with National Theatre Wales, in which TUE young poets from the Somali community performed all around TUE Butetown. TUE TUE Mike Berlin meets Somalis whose families have lived in TUE Butetown for a century, and more recent arrivals tell their TUE stories, too. TUE TUE Producer: Julian May. TUE A Weekend in Butetown TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04hmfzz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04hvxb3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hmg01 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hmg03 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmg05 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04hmg07 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04hymd6 (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Rabbi Jonathan WED Wittenberg. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04hymd8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dwdb1 (Listen) WED Eurasian Scops Owl WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the Eurasian scops owl found WED in Mediterranean regions. In summer a mournful monosyllabic WED call interrupts the heady scented air of a Greek olive grove WED at dusk. A male scops owl is proclaiming his territory with WED a repeated call lasting over 20 minutes. Hearing these tiny WED owls, no bigger than a starling is one thing, seeing one WED roosting in an old tree is quite a challenge. They feed WED mainly on moths and beetles which they hunt for in open WED country with scattered trees. By autumn these largely WED nocturnal birds are heading south to sub-Saharan Africa, WED until the following spring when once again the olive groves WED resound to their plaintive song. WED WED Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Bengt Lundberg / naturepl.com WED WED NPL Ref WED 01057063 WED © Bengt Lundberg / naturepl.com WED WED WED WED The Eurasian scops owl is also known as 'common scops owl'. WED WED 06:00 Today b04hymdb (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b04hyrpq (Listen) WED Paul Merton, Alison Balsom WED WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED Interviewed Guest: Clive Rowe WED Interviewed Guest: Jo Brand WED Interviewed Guest: Henry Winkler WED Interviewed Guest: Richard Mawbey WED Producer: Paula McGinley WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04hyrps (Listen) WED Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Moon of WED Pause WED WED The new biography of America's great playwright by the WED acclaimed theatre critic, John Lahr. In today's episode, WED Tennessee Williams sails to Europe where he makes new WED friends. Back home a chance encounter promises love and WED inspiration for a new play, The Rose Tattoo. WED WED Read by Damian Lewis with Trevor White as the voice of WED Tennessee Williams and with Elaine Claxton, Bettrys Jones WED and Ian Conningham. WED WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Damian Lewis WED Reader: Trevor White WED Reader: Elaine Claxton WED Reader: Bettrys Jones WED Reader: Ian Conningham WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Author: John Lahr WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04hyrpv (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b04hyrpx (Listen) WED Lunch, The Spotlight WED WED by Marcy Kahan WED WED Bill is in a state he has been invited on Newsnight to WED debate the economy. WED Bella decides to give him a mock interview. WED WED Director ..... Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Bill: Stephen Mangan WED Bella: Claire Skinner WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Marcy Kahan WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04hyrpz (Listen) WED Ken and Neville - Food and Friendship WED WED Fi Glover introduces friends who first met nearly 50 years WED ago and later both opened restaurants in the same town, one WED successfully, the other eventually closing, proving once WED again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b04hyrq1 (Listen) WED Series 5, Identity WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers. WED WED Today, people tell stories about grappling with issues of WED identity. A disabled woman from the Ukraine talks about WED ethnic tensions as crisis grips the country, keeping an WED audio diary of her reflections as the situation develops. WED WED Alan also hears from a young woman in Moscow who discusses WED the difficulties of being gay and mixed race in Russia. WED WED Meanwhile, a young Bolton man whose family originate from WED Pakistan recounts his horror after being shot at during his WED last visit there, reflecting on how it has informed his WED views on nationality. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b04hyrq3 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Radio 4's word-obsessed comedy panel game - with stars from WED across the world of wordplay coming together to score points WED off each other, under the well-read eye of chairman Gyles WED Brandreth. WED WED Former linguistics student Josh Widdicombe tells us about WED his favourite West Country words, lexicographer Susie Dent WED predicts some of the new words that might enter the WED dictionary this year and astronomy enthusiast Helen Keen WED reveals her favourite words from the language of outer WED space. WED WED The letter of the week is 'L'. Josh has to guess what the WED World War 2 slang term 'latrinogram' meant; Natalie Haynes WED explains the American expression 'log-rolling'; Susie Dent WED gets full marks for explaining where the phrase 'limbo WED dancing' comes from and in a Germanic twist Helen Keen is WED asked under what circumstances you would act like a 'liver WED sausage'. WED WED The panellists are asked to invent new words or phrases. WED Their new offerings include 'Antandecophobia'; WED 'smellationship'; the 'Josh number' and 'agony hooves'. WED WED In a round about derogatory terms for different occupations WED Natalie has to guess what a 'nutbuster' is; Susie a WED 'needle-dodger'; Helen a 'knob thatcher' and Josh a WED 'honey-dipper'. WED WED They then coin their own terms of abuse including bikopaths, WED fobslotch, nerds of prey and chattypedia. WED WED Finally the panellists are asked what four Victorian slang WED terms meant: widdling, muffin-worry, lully-prigger and WED hock-dockies. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Gyles Brandreth WED Panellist: Josh Widdicombe WED Panellist: Susie Dent WED Panellist: Helen Keen WED Panellist: Natalie Haynes WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04hmg09 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04hyrq5 (Listen) WED 24 September 1914 - Sylvia Graham WED WED In the Graham household, there's a speech to prepare... WED WED Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffat WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Sylvia: Deborah Findlay WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Marie: Ruth Lass WED Pierre: Stephane Cornicard WED Writer: Katie Hims WED Writer: Sean Moffatt WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED Producer: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04hysdb (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04hmg0c (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04hysdd (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Last Day b04hysdg (Listen) WED The Final Whistle WED WED Very few sportsmen and women get to choose when they retire, WED as often it is forced through injury, loss of form or the WED capriciousness of the sports market. Even for those are able WED to pick their time find professional sport leaves a large WED hole in their lives. Former rugby union players Will James WED and Damian Hopley share their stories of the way they left, WED or were forced to leave the sport they loved and how they WED filled the void the sport left. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04hvy0s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01fhyrt (Listen) WED White Noise WED WED By Matthew Broughton. WED WED A dark hymn to Dagenham in East London. Freddy wants to be WED an artist. Danny wants to clean up the streets. And Kath WED just wants the pictures to come back to her TV. As the WED Olympics loom large, something world-changing is about to WED happen to one family. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED WED Dagenham resident, Matthew Broughton, paints a bleak, yet WED ultimately life affirming, picture of a community dealing WED with seismic economic shocks, as the attention of the world WED focuses on them. A contemporary parable from a fast changing WED world. WED WED Credits WED Freddie: Theo Barklem-Biggs WED Danny: Ricci Harnett WED Kath: Louise Jameson WED Astrid: Ayesha Antoine WED Johnny: Matthew Gravelle WED Director: James Robinson WED Producer: James Robinson WED Writer: Matthew Broughton WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04hytg2 (Listen) WED Student Money WED WED Paying for University? For help with fees, loans and WED finance, call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday WED or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Ready with some financial first aid for freshers will be: WED WED Katy Barge, Student Loans Company. WED Miriam Craven, Student Awards Agency For Scotland. WED David Malcolm, National Union of Students. WED WED Have you sorted out your tuition fees, maintenance loans and WED grants? WED If you're struggling to cover costs are you entitled to WED bursaries or extra financial support? WED What interest rate will be applied to your loan and how do WED the repayments work? WED Or perhaps you're one of the record number of mature WED students who have accepted places this year. WED WED Whether you're thinking about higher education or packing WED your bags for freshers' week our team will be here to answer WED your student money questions. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED WED 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b04hytg4 (Listen) WED BBC National Short Story Award 2014, The Taxidermist's WED Daughter WED WED Francesca Rhydderch's shortlisted story for this prestigious WED award is set in the aftermath of WW1. On the cusp of WED womanhood, Daisy's life is altered with the arrival of a WED stranger who compels her to confront new feelings. Carys WED Eleri reads. WED WED Abridged by Miranda Davies. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Carys Eleri WED Writer: Francesca Rhyddrerch WED Abridger: Miranda Davies WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04gw6rh (Listen) WED Jo Boaler WED WED Is our attitude towards maths killing the subject for WED children? Professor Jo Boaler believes a widespread belief WED in the existence of a 'maths brain' is ruining pupils' WED chances of success in the subject. WED WED She tells Sarah Montague that anybody can be good with WED numbers, but unlike other subjects, we teach the idea that WED some people are simply good or bad at mathematics. WED WED Having researched the way maths is taught in schools in the WED UK and in the US, Stanford University professor Jo Boaler WED says pupils are too often made to think that maths is a long WED list of rules and procedures to be learned off by heart. WED WED In the programme Sarah Montague discovers why real WED mathematics is about uncertainty; the study of patterns and WED creative problem solving. She hears about some of the WED controversial new methods designed to teach flexibility with WED numbers, which have some parents confounded by the homework WED their children are being set. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04hyy19 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04hyy1c (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news, with Eddie Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmg0f (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04hyy1f (Listen) WED Series 10, How to Define Oneself in Terms of Regional, WED Cultural and Geopolitical Identity Without Tears WED WED Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves. WED WED In this post-referendum world, Jeremy Hardy dispassionately WED examines the questions of nationality, identity and accents. WED The noo. WED WED Helping him get to grips with the new world will be stand-up WED comedian Susan Murray and, broadly speaking, Scotsman Moray WED Hunter (Absolutely). WED WED Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of WED debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank WED exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, WED erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series WED of his show, famous for lines like, "Islam is no weirder WED than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the jokes WED taken out." WED WED Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they WED first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show WED was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on WED a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since WED the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment WED department was besieged, questions were asked in the House WED and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible WED for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with WED Paul Lewis. WED WED Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony WED Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for WED Chemistry. He is a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz WED and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He can't sing. WED WED Written by Jeremy Hardy WED WED Produced by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Jeremy Hardy WED Performer: Jeremy Hardy WED Performer: Susan Murray WED Performer: Moray Hunter WED Producer: David Tyler WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04hyy1h (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04hyy1k (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04hyrpx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Future Proofing b04hyy1p (Listen) WED The Singularity WED WED Rohan Silva and Timandra Harkness discover how close we are WED to The Singularity - the day when machines match human WED intelligence. And they find out why it's so vital to WED understand the implications of such a momentous future event WED right now. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04hyyr0 (Listen) WED Series 4, A World for Children WED WED Daniel Hahn argues that as a society we would benefit from WED having more children's books translated into English. WED WED A translator himself, and having recently completed work on WED a major book about children's literature, Daniel is WED concerned that few books are being translated today to sit WED alongside Tintin, the Swiss Family Robinson and the Moomins. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04hyz3g (Listen) WED Power to the People WED WED There's no doubt that 'People Power' can transform a WED community, when keen volunteers come together to WED collectively improve their lot. WED WED But what happens when People Power can be measured in watts WED and volts? WED WED Communities up and down the country are taking the power WED back - literally - from the Big 6, and starting a variety of WED schemes to generate their own energy. They're reducing their WED bills, strengthening community spirit - and helping the UK WED towards its renewable energy targets at the same time. And WED in January of this year, the government got fully on board WED with the movement too, publishing the first ever UK WED Community Energy Strategy. WED WED But just how easy is it to do? Can philanthropic locals WED really compete with the might of the UK Energy industry? And WED how does the money stack up? Tom Heap investigates. WED WED Produced in Bristol by Emily Knight. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04hyrpq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04hmg0k (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04hyzf0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04hz0wf (Listen) WED The Bone Clocks, Episode 3 WED WED By David Mitchell. University student Hugo has a strange WED encounter in Cambridge. Read by Luke Treadaway. WED WED This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author WED of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks WED is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's WED life through those who encounter her. The journey has a WED global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via WED 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a WED playfully genre-bending subplot. WED WED Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five WED actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as WED Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke WED Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good WED looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed WED Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, WED struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and WED the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is WED Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a WED novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow WED is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who WED meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Luke Treadaway WED Producer: Allegra McIlroy WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Author: David Mitchell WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01fcvy0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED A famous ex-pupil of Nigel's pitches up at the Arts Centre WED to make a 'where-it-all-began-for-me' documentary, and is WED keen to interview Nigel. WED WED Whilst Nigel's preparations for the reunion are hampered by WED the usual array of frustrating pupils, Belinda attempts to WED use this tenuous connection to a celebrity to generate some WED much needed revenue for the Arts Centre. WED WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Betty: Isobel Webb WED Greg: Jim North WED Damien: Dave Lamb WED Elsa: Jess Robinson WED Director: Nick Walker WED Writer: Richie Webb WED Producer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01k2b1b (Listen) WED Series 3, School Sports Day WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000 WED year-old Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his small WED finger to destroy a town, yet insufficient clout to get a WED speed bump installed outside his cave by the local council. WED Even for such a skilful sorcerer, modern life is rubbish! WED WED In this episode, Mordrin (David Kay) is persuaded by his WED neighbour Tracey (Rosemary Hollands) to take part in her WED School Sports Day. Mordrin is struggling with his fitness WED and any attempts to simply 'magic' himself fit may result in WED an unwanted call up to the Wizard Olympics which contains WED events such as the Dragon Hurdles, a Magroth Marathon and, WED worst of all, a Troll chasing Decathlon. WED WED Written by David Kay & Gavin Smith. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Geoff: Gordon Kennedy WED Heather: Hannah Donaldson WED Jill: Katrina Bryan WED Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson WED Tracey: Rosemary Hollands WED Writer: David Kay WED Writer: Gavin Smith WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED WED 23:30 Journeys Down My Street b01s09k1 (Listen) WED Ode to Finchleystrasse WED WED Amidst all the coverage of contemporary migration to WED Britain, it is easy to forget the older generations of WED immigrants, from across the world, who have settled here and WED made Britain their home. WED WED Journeys Down my Street is a new series in which Mike WED Berlin, an urban historian from Birkbeck College, University WED of London, visits individual streets at the heart of such WED communities, to hear the stories of earlier immigrants - WED their arrival, their early lives and their observations on WED Britain today. WED WED 3.Ode to Finchleystrasse WED WED After the Nazi annexation of Austria, 75 years ago in March WED 1938, Vienna's large Jewish community fled - some to Glasgow WED and Manchester but the vast majority to the area of WED North-West London close to Swiss Cottage. WED WED The area became so full of German-speaking refugees that WED anecdotes tell of war-time bus conductors calling out WED "Finchleystrasse - Passports Please!" as the bus drew up at WED the top of the Finchley Road. WED WED The shops and cafes are no longer there, but a vibrant group WED of elderly refugees share their memories of Finchleystrasse WED with historian Mike Berlin and reflect on their conflicting WED desires to recreate the best of Vienna whilst assimilating WED into British society. WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04hmg1y (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04hyrps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hmg20 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hmg22 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmg24 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04hmg26 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04hz496 (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Rabbi Jonathan THU Wittenberg. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04hz498 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dyh64 (Listen) THU Laughing Gull THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents the laughing gull off the THU Florida coast. In summer, the hearty peal of laughter is one THU of the characteristic sounds people hear along the North THU American east coast where laughing gulls come to breed. THU America's version of the British black-headed gull they are THU easy to recognise as they patrol the seashore in search for THU food. Like many gulls they eat what they can find and will THU scavenge at rubbish dumps, and will even feast on the eggs THU of horseshoe crabs which spawn in Deleware Bay each spring. THU Some become swept up in autumnal hurricanes and having THU crossed the Atlantic, occasionally turn up on a European's THU bird-watching list. THU THU Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Tom Vezo / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01047526 THU © Tom Vezo / naturepl.com THU THU 06:00 Today b04hz49c (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b04hz49f (Listen) THU e THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, also THU known as e. First discovered in the seventeenth century by THU the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli when he was studying THU compound interest, e is now recognised as one of the most THU important and interesting numbers in mathematics. Roughly THU equal to 2.718, e is useful in studying many everyday THU situations, from personal savings to epidemics. It also THU features in Euler's Identity, sometimes described as the THU most beautiful equation ever written. With Colva THU Roney-Dougal, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University THU of St Andrews; June Barrow-Green, Senior Lecturer in the THU History of Maths at the Open University; and Vicky Neale, THU Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute at the THU University of Oxford. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Colva Roney-Dougal THU Interviewed Guest: June Barrow-Green THU Interviewed Guest: Vicky Neale THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04hz49h (Listen) THU Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Testing THU Times THU THU The new biography of America's great playwright by the THU acclaimed theatre critic, John Lahr. In today's episode, THU testing times lie ahead as Cat on Hot Tin Roof takes shape. THU THU Read by Damian Lewis with Trevor White as the voice of THU Tennessee Williams and with Elaine Claxton, Bettrys Jones THU and Ian Conningham. THU THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Damian Lewis THU Reader: Trevor White THU Reader: Elaine Claxton THU Reader: Bettrys Jones THU Reader: Ian Conningham THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Author: John Lahr THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04hz49k (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04hz49m (Listen) THU Lunch, Other People THU THU by Marcy Kahan THU THU Whilst Bella contemplates potential motherhood Bill is THU having parental problems of his own. THU THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU THU Credits THU Bill: Stephen Mangan THU Bella: Claire Skinner THU Director: Sally Avens THU Writer: Marcy Kahan THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b04hz49p (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Bombay Jazz b0415hbd (Listen) THU Sarfraz Manzoor explores a fascinating period of music THU history in India when American violinist Leon Abbey brought THU his jazz band to Bombay in the 1930's, leaving behind an THU incredible legacy. THU THU The early years of jazz calls to mind places such as New THU Orleans, Chicago and Paris. What is often overlooked is that THU the Indian city of Bombay, now Mumbai, had its very own THU thriving jazz scene in the 1930's that lasted three decades. THU THU Manzoor charts this extraordinary story of jazz in India THU when some of the world's most accomplished musicians THU including Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong THU brought their talents to the East and mixed with performers THU such as Chic Chocolate, Micky Correa, Teddy Weatherford and THU Frank Fernand -all regarded in India today as jazz legends. THU This cultural exchange produced music that wove threads into THU Bombay's story. These threads would later become THU inextricably a part of the city's own definitive creation: THU Bollywood, and its music in particular. THU THU Discovering India's jazz heritage and the areas the music THU has been preserved Manzoor travels to Mumbai to visit Naresh THU Fernandes author of the critically acclaimed book The Taj THU Mahal Foxtrot. He meets with musicians and singers along THU with the widow of Micky Correa and the daughters of Chic THU Chocolate and explores the development of jazz with THU saxophonist Braz Gonsalves, the first man to play Be-Bop in THU India. THU THU Examining the music and legacy of the Indian Jazz legends he THU searches for their impact today and his journey ends in Goa, THU now regarded as the new 'Jazz Capitol of India' by music THU promoter Colin D'Cruz . THU THU Producer: Stephen Garner. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04hmg28 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04hz49r (Listen) THU 25 September 1914 - Dorothea Winwood THU THU Well-known suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst arrives in THU Folkestone to address a meeting, and there's unrest at the THU vicarage. THU THU Cast THU Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley THU Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf THU Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie THU Marieke ..... Olivia Ross THU Mrs Pankhurst ..... Harriet Walter THU Chair ..... Sean Murray THU Sylvia ..... Deborah Findlay THU Hilary ..... Craige Els THU THU Writers: Katie Hims & Sean Moffat THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw THU Hilary: Craige Els THU Sylvia: Deborah Findlay THU Freddie: Freddie Fox THU Dieter: Joe Sims THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Katie Hims THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04hz52y (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04hmg2b (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04hz530 (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:45 Last Day b04hz532 (Listen) THU Redundancy THU THU For some people redundancy is a complete surprise, for THU others it is a long-anticipated blow to the stomach. THU Whichever way it happens, people react in different ways. We THU hear from two people who were made redundant in contrasting THU fashions. We learn how their different experiences affected THU them, both while it was happening and for some years THU afterwards. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04hyy1h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b018b6yl (Listen) THU Down and Out in Auchangaish THU THU By BAFTA-winning writer, Donna Franceschild. THU THU Cal's about to turn eighteen and he's sleeping rough. Ziggy THU keeps setting fire to his hotel. And Gino, the local chip THU shop owner, wants to help everyone. Everyone except his THU wife, that is. THU THU A gentle comedy about the love that fire-fighting brings to THU a remote Highland village. THU THU Cast: THU THU Gino ..... Liam Brennan THU Anna ..... Wendy Seager THU Cal ..... Kyle McPhail THU Ziggy ..... David Ireland THU Natia ..... Lesley Hart THU Peter ..... Simon Tait THU Donnie ..... Robin Laing THU THU Director: Kirsty Williams. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b04hz629 (Listen) THU Series 28, The Dales Way, pt 2 THU THU Clare Balding embarks on the second leg of her journey along THU The Dales Way, one of England's most loved long distance THU walking paths. This week she walks from Cavendish Pavilion THU to Burnsall Bridge in the company of Phil Richards, Access THU Ranger for the Yorkshire Dales National Park and THU photographer and blogger, Charles Hawes. THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Phil Richards THU Interviewed Guest: Charles Hawes THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04hmj82 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b04hz62c (Listen) THU BBC National Short Story Award 2014, Kilifi Creek THU THU In Lionel Shriver's shortlisted story a naïve, freeloading, THU young woman makes her first trip abroad and finds herself in THU peril. Nancy Crane reads the next contender for this THU prestigious award for a single short story. THU THU Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Nancy Crane THU Writer: Lionel Shriver THU Abridger: Elizabeth Allard THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04hz62f (Listen) THU Julianne Moore discusses her recent collaboration with THU director David Cronenberg, Maps To The Stars. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Julianne Moore THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04hz62h (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04hz62k (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmg2d (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b04hz62m (Listen) THU Series 3, About Paranoia THU THU EPISODE TWO: ABOUT PARANOIA THU THU In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan THU Caton illustrates how watching too much TV can make you THU paranoid and that can have serious repercussions for your THU family. THU THU Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing is a series about young, THU up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the THU first in his family to graduate from University, opted not THU to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand THU at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's THU horror and disgust. They desperately want him to get a THU 'proper job.' THU THU Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and THU rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving THU family as he tries to prove himself. THU THU The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with THU scenes from his family life. THU THU Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of THU the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she THU just wants the best for her son. However, she'd also love to THU brag and show her son off to her friends, but with Nathan THU only telling jokes for a living that's kind of hard to do. THU THU Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was THU looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of THU them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan THU has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is clumsy and THU hard-headed and leaves running the house to his wife (she THU wouldn't allow it to be any other way). THU THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down THU architecture for comedy. She can't believe she left the THU paradise in the West Indies and came to the freezing United THU Kingdom for a better life so that years later her grandson THU could 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use THU foul language and filthy material... it's not the good THU Christian way! THU THU So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan THU do? Will he persevere and follow his dreams? Or will he give THU in to his family's interference? Or will he finally leave THU home?! THU THU Credits THU Nathan: Nathan Caton THU Mum: Adjoa Andoh THU Dad: Curtis Walker THU Grandma: Mona Hammond THU Tyree: Alhaji Fofano THU Reverend Williams: Rudolph Walker THU Mercedes: Chizzy Akudolu THU Optician: Damian Lynch THU Writer: Nathan Caton THU Writer: James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04hz62p (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04hz62r (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe THU Interviewed Guest: Bernard Sumner THU Producer: Olivia Skinner THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04hz49m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04hz62t (Listen) THU The city of Stirling is situated in the heart of Scotland THU and has been described as the brooch the clasps together the THU Highlands and the Lowlands. It lies in Scotland's central THU belt, seen by many as the region that could decide the THU outcome of the referendum on independence. Sharmini THU Selvarajah spends the final days of the campaign in the city THU following local people as they make up their minds which way THU to cast their ballots. How did Stirling, in the centre of a THU country split down the middle on its future, decide whether THU to remain part of the UK or whether to leave the union? THU THU 20:30 In Business b04hz62w (Listen) THU Myanmar - Learning to Do Business THU THU Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, used to be one of the THU wealthiest countries of south-east Asia. Then came decades THU of military rule. While other Asian countries furiously THU modernised, Myanmar stagnated. In the past few years, the THU country has begun to open up and many international THU sanctions have been lifted. THU THU But what's it like for home grown businesses and new THU entrepreneurs? Peter Day talks to those who are setting up THU businesses despite a number of challenges, such as a lack of THU funding and poor infrastructure. In the capital, Yangon, he THU meets people who went abroad for education and have now THU returned to seek business opportunities at home. And he THU visits rural Myanmar and sees how micro-financing is working THU in the countryside. THU THU Producer: Charlotte MacDonald. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04hz62h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04hz49f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04hmg2g (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04hz7s2 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04hz7s4 (Listen) THU The Bone Clocks, Episode 4 THU THU By David Mitchell. A not so chance encounter between Holly THU Sykes and Posh boy Hugo. Read by Luke Treadaway. THU THU This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author THU of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks THU is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's THU life through those who encounter her. The journey has a THU global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via THU 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a THU playfully genre-bending subplot. THU THU Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five THU actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as THU Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke THU Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good THU looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed THU Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, THU struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and THU the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is THU Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a THU novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow THU is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who THU meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Luke Treadaway THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Author: David Mitchell THU THU 23:00 Ayres on the Air b01mxpyr (Listen) THU Series 4, Summer THU THU Popular poet Pam Ayres is joined in her poetry and sketch THU show by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as they look THU at the season of Summer. THU THU This week she looks subjects such as keeping cool, finding THU the perfect swimsuit, summer weddings and eating al fresco. THU THU Her poems this week include: No Alarm on the Flight Deck, THU That Perfect Swimsuit, The Seagull and The Swifts Are Back. THU THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU THU 23:30 Blofeld and Baxter: Memories of Test Match Special THU b047wfmf (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Two broadcasting legends, Henry Blofeld and Peter Baxter, THU join forces to recount hilarious tales from across the THU world, gained during 40 years in the Test Match Special THU commentary box and beyond. THU THU Produced by Jon Harvey THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Henry Blofeld THU Presenter: Peter Baxter THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04hmg3j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04hz49h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04hz80f (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04hz898 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04hmg3l (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04hmg3q (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04hz80z (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Rabbi Jonathan FRI Wittenberg. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04hz89b (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dyh88 (Listen) FRI Emperor Penguin FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents the emperor penguin from the FRI Antarctic Peninsula. With temperatures down to minus 50oC, FRI midwinter blizzards scouring one of the most inhospitable FRI places on the planet, this is not an obvious location for FRI raising young. Yet at the heart of this landscape, the FRI world's largest penguin, the emperor, stands guard over FRI their young. Tightly-packed colonies of hundreds or FRI sometimes thousands of birds huddle together, to conserve FRI heat. The male broods the single egg on his feet, protected FRI under folds of bare abdominal skin. Females travel up to FRI 100km from the colony in search of food, using a technique FRI called tobogganing which is far more efficient than walking FRI on their short legs. Harsh though the landscape is in FRI midwinter, all this activity is co-ordinated to allow the FRI young to fledge into the relatively warmth of an Antarctic FRI summer. FRI FRI Clip FRI empty FRI FRI Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Sue Flood / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01276694 FRI © Sue Flood / naturepl.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04hyvtf (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04hml41 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04hyvth (Listen) FRI Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Crisis FRI Point FRI FRI The new biography of America's great playwright by the FRI acclaimed theatre critic, John Lahr. In today's episode, FRI drink and pills lead Tennessee Williams to crisis point. His FRI troubled relationship with Frank Merlo is reflected in a new FRI play, Sweet Bird of Youth. FRI FRI Read by Damian Lewis with Trevor White as the voice of FRI Tennessee Williams and with Elaine Claxton, Bettrys Jones FRI and Ian Conningham. FRI FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Damian Lewis FRI Reader: Trevor White FRI Reader: Elaine Claxton FRI Reader: Bettrys Jones FRI Reader: Ian Conningham FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Author: John Lahr FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04hyvtk (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 b04hyvtm (Listen) FRI Lunch, The Whole Enchilada FRI FRI by Marcy Kahan FRI FRI Bella has made some life changing decisions but Bill has an FRI announcement of his own. FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bill: Stephen Mangan FRI Bella: Claire Skinner FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Writer: Marcy Kahan FRI FRI 11:00 How to Teach Maths b03szv89 (Listen) FRI Alex Bellos takes you on a mathematical learning journey FRI from the first stages of number recognition through to an FRI understanding of how children solve sums and calculate FRI answers. On the way he will look at the neuroscience of FRI maths and how our mathematical brain develops. He FRI investigates the scientific evidence behind teaching maths FRI and he'll compare how modern methods of teaching children FRI differ from those taught to their parents, helping kids FRI today go beyond basic numeracy to develop a passion for FRI numbers. FRI FRI The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. FRI FRI 11:30 My First Planet b04d12x5 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Adjective from Space! FRI FRI It's election time on the colony - Richard goes for the FRI youth vote while Brian's campaign is based on feeding FRI everyone some nauseating protein. And just who is the FRI mysterious Security Officer hidden on the colony? FRI FRI The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and FRI Vicki Pepperdine ("Getting On") set on a shiny new planet. FRI FRI Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep FRI cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some FRI supplementary information. FRI FRI Personnel: FRI Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on FRI the voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is FRI now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, FRI and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly FRI meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian FRI (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd really rather everyone was walking FRI round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. FRI She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive FRI and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, FRI the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and FRI Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to FRI get on the trip. FRI FRI Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and FRI also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an FRI "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer FRI the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it FRI destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and FRI infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) FRI FRI Cast: FRI Brian.................... Nicholas Lyndhurst FRI Lillian................... Vicki Pepperdine FRI Mason................. Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Archer.................. Phil Whelans FRI Carol................... Letty Butler FRI Richard................ John Dorney FRI FRI And special guests: FRI Jackie........................ Bekka Bowling FRI The Security Man...... Tom Meeten FRI FRI Written by Phil Whelans FRI Produced and Directed by David Tyler. FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04hmg3v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04hyvtp (Listen) FRI 26 September 1914 - Victor Lumley and Kitty Wilson FRI FRI After much negotiation, an amicable alliance is finally FRI reached on the Leas in Folkestone... FRI FRI Cast FRI Victor ..... Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims and Sean Moffat FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Freddie: Freddie Fox FRI Dieter: Joe Sims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04hyvtr (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04hmg3x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04hyw68 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Last Day b04hyw6b (Listen) FRI Advice FRI FRI How should you approach your last day of work? Should it be FRI a time of celebration or remorse? Should you go out in a FRI blaze of glory or with as little ceremony as possible? Life FRI coach Carol Ann Rice and ACAS spokesman Stewart Gee give FRI their advice on the best way to go and we hear the story of FRI Mary Manion whose day did not go as she expected at all. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04hz62p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04hywtb (Listen) FRI Julie FRI FRI By Rob Gittins FRI FRI Based on the true story of Operation Julie - the biggest FRI drug bust in British history. FRI FRI In the 1970s a large proportion of the world's LSD supply FRI was coming from the wilds of West Wales. Based on true FRI events, this is the story of how one idealistic chemist - FRI Richard Kemp - sought to change the world. And how one FRI determined detective - Dick Lee - set out to stop him. FRI FRI In 1977 the Operation Julie police team retrieved 18 million FRI microdots of LSD from one small cottage in Tregaron, West FRI Wales. The street value of the haul was over £65 million. FRI But this was no ordinary drugs ring. It grew out of the FRI exploits of a handful of idealistic hippies, motivated by a FRI genuine desire to open people's minds. FRI FRI Directed by James Robinson FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Richard Kemp: Alex Waldmann FRI Dick Lee: Simon Armstrong FRI Christine Bott: Sara Lloyd-Gregory FRI David Solomon: Alun Raglan FRI Fitz: Stuart McLoughlin FRI Hawkins: Michael Bertenshaw FRI DC Hart: Eiry Thomas FRI Director: James Robinson FRI Writer: Rob Gittins FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04hywtd (Listen) FRI Winchester FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Winchester. On this week's panel are Chris Beardshaw, Anne FRI Swithinbank, Christine Walkden and Matthew Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI Assistant producer: Darby Dorras. FRI FRI 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b04hywtg (Listen) FRI BBC National Short Story Award 2014, Episode 5 FRI FRI Nancy Crane reads the next contender for this prestigious FRI award for a single short story. FRI Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Now in its ninth year, the BBC National Short Story Award FRI continues to be one of the most prestigious and established FRI awards for a single short story. The 2014 short list crowns FRI a year which has seen short story writers scoop many of the FRI major literary awards including the Nobel Prize for FRI Literature and the Man Booker International Prize. FRI FRI The shortlist for this year's BBC National Short Story Award FRI in partnership with Booktrust comprises five beguiling and FRI compelling stories from a mix of terrifically acclaimed FRI writers in the genre and exciting up-and-coming writers, all FRI vying for the top award of £15,000. Pivoting on FRI transformative moments in people's lives, the stories are FRI intimate explorations and reflections of coming of age, the FRI attritions of time, love and betrayal. They take listeners FRI across the globe from Wales and Kenya to London and New FRI York. FRI FRI The readers of this year's shortlist include Carey Mulligan FRI and Rebecca Hall. Listeners can enjoy each story at 3.30pm FRI from Monday 22nd September, following an interview with the FRI author on the previous evening's Front Row (beginning on FRI Friday 19th September). The shortlist will be announced on FRI Front Row on Wednesday 17th September, and the winner and FRI the runner-up will be announced in a special edition of the FRI programme live from the BBC's Radio Theatre on Tuesday 30th FRI September. FRI The stories will be available as a free download following FRI broadcast, and in an anthology published by Comma Press. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nancy Crane FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04hywtj (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04hywws (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04hywwv (Listen) FRI Leah and Esther - Being Jewish FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a student and her aunt, who both FRI realize that surviving the Holocaust affected their FRI grandmother/mother and that they've had to come to terms FRI with the legacy. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04hywwx (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04hmg43 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b04hyx8q (Listen) FRI Series 44, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Sara FRI Pascoe for a comic romp through the week's news. With Pippa FRI Evans, Grace Petrie and Jon Holmes. FRI FRI Written by the cast, with additional material from Sarah FRI Morgan, Nadia Kamil and Liam Beirne. Produced by Alexandra FRI Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Sara Pascoe FRI Panellist: Pippa Evans FRI Panellist: Grace Petrie FRI Actor: Jon Holmes FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04hyxj0 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Caroline Harrington FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Tony Archer ..... David Troughton FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Johnny Richards ..... Tom Gibbons FRI PC Harrison Burns ..... James Cartwright FRI Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde FRI Carol Treggoran ..... Eleanor Bron FRI Charlie Thomas ..... Felix Scott. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04hyxj2 (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Lang FRI Producer: Jerome Weatherald FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04hyvtm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04hyxj4 (Listen) FRI Paul Nuttall MEP, Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, William Hague MP, FRI Yvette Cooper MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Hill House School in Doncaster with UKIP Deputy Leader FRI Paul Nuttall MEP, Leader of the House of Commons William FRI Hague MP, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP and Sir FRI Malcolm Bruce MP the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04hyxmj (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04hyxml (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 22-26 September 1914 FRI FRI Well-known suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst visits Folkestone FRI and on the Leas, an amicable alliance is reached. FRI FRI Cast FRI Isabel ..... Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Ernie ..... Sean Connolly FRI Henri ..... Stephane Cornicard FRI Hilary ..... Craige Els FRI Sylvia ..... Deborah Findlay FRI Hilda ..... Bella Hamblin FRI Jessie ..... Lucy Hutchinson FRI Customer ..... Ashley Kumar FRI Ottoline ..... Ruth Lass FRI Victor ..... Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Adam ..... Leo Montague FRI Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie FRI Harry ..... Sean Murray FRI Albert ..... Harry Myers FRI Boot ..... Paul Rider FRI Marieke ..... Olivia Ross FRI Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Mrs Pankhurst ..... Harriet Walter FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims and Sean Moffat FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04hmg47 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04hyxxv (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04hyxxx (Listen) FRI The Bone Clocks, Episode 5 FRI FRI By David Mitchell. Part five. The path not taken. Hugo's FRI heart warms to Holly Sykes. Read by Luke Treadaway. FRI FRI This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from the author FRI of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself in. The Bone Clocks FRI is an intricate feat of storytelling revealing one woman's FRI life through those who encounter her. The journey has a FRI global and historical sweep, it takes us from 1980s Kent via FRI 19th Century Australia to a near future New York with a FRI playfully genre-bending subplot. FRI FRI Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar cast of five FRI actors over three weeks. We open with Hannah Arterton as FRI Holly Sykes, 15 years old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke FRI Treadaway is Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good FRI looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe Armstrong is Ed FRI Brubeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, FRI struggling to overcome the gaps between his life at home and FRI the loss he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is FRI Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British letters, a FRI novelist now past his best-selling peak. And Laurel Lefkow FRI is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist from the seventh century who FRI meets Holly Sykes in a near-future America. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hannah Arterton FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Author: David Mitchell FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04hvy0l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Blofeld and Baxter: Memories of Test Match Special FRI b048jcgd (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Two broadcasting legends, Henry Blofeld and Peter Baxter, FRI join forces to recount hilarious tales from across the FRI world, gained during 40 years in the Test Match Special FRI commentary box and beyond. FRI FRI Producer: Jon Harvey FRI A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Henry Blofeld FRI Presenter: Peter Baxter FRI Producer: Jon Harvey FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04hyxyk (Listen) FRI John and Laura - A Working Relationship FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between colleagues who FRI went for the same job but didn't both get it. Twelve years FRI on, they reflect upon power in the workplace, proving once FRI again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
19 September, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 20/09/2014 - 26/09/2014
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