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SAT SATURDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04mb14l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6t31 (Listen) SAT At the Buchenwald Gate SAT SAT Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and SAT largest concentration camps. SAT SAT Producer Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04mb14n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04mb14q (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04mb14s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04mb14v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04mhdbp (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie SAT Griffiths. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04mb14x (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04mb14z (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04mb151 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04mgxtj (Listen) SAT Elmley Nature Reserve SAT SAT As Open Country returns for a new series, Helen Mark SAT ventures to The Isle of Sheppey where she becomes immersed SAT both in the marsh swathed landscape of Elmley Nature Reserve SAT and the infectious enthusiasm of the SAT man who oversaw its creation. SAT Elmley is the only National Nature Reserve in the UK to be SAT managed by a farming family and this unique status is down SAT to the forward thinking of farmer Philip Merricks. Bumping SAT along the ridge of the reserve's sea wall in his trusty 4x4, SAT Philip introduces Helen to this historic Kent landscape, SAT accompanied by the flight of lapwing and wigeon. SAT It's an area that is believed to have inspired Charles SAT Dickens in the writing of 'Great Expectations' but as Helen SAT discovers, it has also inspired an even bigger story of SAT ground breaking conservation. SAT During the 1980's, farmers were paid compensation for SAT turning land over to wildlife but Philip felt that this was SAT unproductive for both farmers and wildlife and so wrote - SAT what he calls - a fairly strong letter to the House of SAT Commons Select Committee that had been tasked with finding a SAT solution to what was becoming a rural battle ground. SAT Remarkably, Philip's letter found its way into Parliament SAT and his ideas were held up as a potential way forward. SAT Thirty years on Philip's enthusiasm and dedication to this SAT one of a kind nature reserve is as strong as it ever and now SAT - with the support and care of long standing farm manger SAT Steve Gorden - Philip's daughter Georgina and son-in-law SAT Gareth are moving forward with sharing this special place SAT with visitors and encouraging that passion for farming and SAT conservation that Philip began decades ago. SAT Produced by Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT Farm manager Steve Gordon's art work SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04mb153 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Hill and Produced by Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04mb155 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04n20tr (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04n20tt (Listen) SAT Shappi Khorsandi SAT SAT The comedian Shappi Khorsandi joins Aasmah Mir and Richard SAT Coles to talk new shows, shyness and single motherhood. SAT SAT Emmanuel Jal shares his story and some of his music. At just SAT six years old he was recruited to SAT fight in Sudan's civil war and lost more than five years to SAT the conflict. Now the self-described 'peace soldier' says SAT his only weapon is music. SAT Lutz Pfannenstiel is the only person to have played SAT professional football on six continents. The goalkeeper SAT tells us about his time at 25 different clubs in 13 SAT countries, and how he once found a penguin in his gloves. SAT We have the 'Inheritance Tracks' of Dermot O'Leary who , SAT eventually, picks Nat King Cole's 'Nature Boy' and Bruce SAT Springsteen's 'Thunder Road'. SAT And the director of research for the TV programme QI, John SAT Mitchinson, reveals how they decide what's interesting and SAT what's not. SAT Plus we find out who really hangs out at the East London SAT skatepark officially recognised this week as a site of SAT national cultural significance. SAT Producer Joe Kent SAT Editor Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Shappi Khorsandi SAT Interviewed Guest: Emmanuel Jal SAT Interviewed Guest: Lutz Pfannenstiel SAT Interviewed Guest: Dermot O'Leary SAT Interviewed Guest: John Mitchinson SAT Producer: Joe Kent SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Frequency of Laughter: A History of Radio Comedy SAT b04n20tw (Listen) SAT 1975-1980 SAT SAT The Frequency of Laughter is a six-part history of radio SAT comedy, covering 1975-2005, presented by journalist and SAT radio fan Grace Dent. In each episode she brings together SAT two figures who were making significant SAT radio comedy at the same time, and asks them about their SAT experiences. This is a conversational history that focuses SAT on the people who were there and the atmosphere within the SAT BBC and the wider comedy world that allowed them to make SAT great radio - or not. SAT This first edition features Graeme Garden and John Lloyd SAT looking at radio comedy in the late 1970s. Graeme by this SAT stage was an established figure, with his breakthrough show SAT I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again morphing into I'm Sorry I SAT Haven't A Clue, in addition to his work presenting Week SAT Ending and as a panellist on shows such as A Rhyme In Time. SAT John however had only joined the BBC Radio Comedy department SAT in 1973, but he managed to make over 500 shows, co-creating SAT The News Quiz, The Burkiss Way and Quote Unquote as he did SAT so, before leaving for television. Grace asks them about the SAT atmosphere within the Radio Comedy department and within the SAT BBC, and how ideas actually go on air; they share their SAT memories of former Heads of Light Entertainment Radio (as it SAT was then called) Con Mahoney and David Hatch; and they talk SAT about the lack of women in comedy at that time. SAT The Frequency of Laughter is presented by Grace Dent, a SAT journalist for The Independent, and is a BBC Radio Comedy SAT production. SAT Presenter ... Grace Dent SAT Guest ... Graeme Garden SAT Guest ... John Lloyd SAT Interviewee ... Simon Brett SAT Interviewee ... Yvonne Littlewood SAT Producers ... Ed Morrish & Alexandra Smith. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04mb157 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04mb159 (Listen) SAT Spectres of old Naples SAT SAT Reporters. Today: Alan Johnson on the richness of the past SAT lying in the bones of the buildings in the historic heart of SAT old Naples; Hugh Sykes in a minibus taxi in Tunis after an SAT election which proved a victory SAT for the secularists; Shaimaa Khalil in Lahore visits a SAT palace of beauty which has been forced to face up to some SAT ugly attitudes; Jon Donnison in Sydney talks to Muslims SAT about the wave of Islamophobic attacks in cities across SAT Australia; James Coomarasamy meets an unconventional mayor SAT in Kentucky as the USA gears up for the mid-term elections. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04mb15c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04mb15f (Listen) SAT Payday loan broker surprise fees complaints SAT SAT NatWest bank says it's receiving hundreds of complaints SAT every day from people who have been surprised to find loans SAT brokers have taken money out of their bank accounts. The SAT money is being taken by payday loan SAT middlemen, although customers are often unaware they have SAT authorised a payment and, in some cases fees, are being SAT taken out by numerous companies. Money Box investigates. SAT A Money Box listener complains that the balance on her Post SAT Office giftcard, valid until 2017, has reduced to zero after SAT monthly inactivity fees were deducted. How has this SAT happened? SAT Following the announcement that Lloyds Bank is going to SAT close 200 branches, what might the future of high street SAT banking look like? And what lessons can we learn from SAT abroad? Hannah Moore reports. SAT Four months ago, Money Box featured the story of a listener SAT who discovered a large cheque he'd posted to his bank had SAT never arrived. The cheque had been stolen and credited to an SAT account at a different bank altogether in his name. The SAT bank, Barclays, froze the account but wouldn't return the SAT thousands of pounds which had been withdrawn by the SAT fraudster. This week Money Box reports that the Financial SAT Ombudsman has ordered Barclays to pay back the money. So, SAT how had the fraudster managed to open an account in the SAT listener's name and are Barclays' security procedures robust SAT enough? SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04mhd5q (Listen) SAT Series 85, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with Samira Ahmed, Susan Calman and Phill Jupitus, SAT and regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Phill Jupitus SAT Producer: Sam Michell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04mb15h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04mb15k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04mhd5v (Listen) SAT Ratna Lachman, David Blunkett MP, Allison Pearson, Nadhim SAT Zahawi MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Al Mahdi Mosque in Bradford with Ratna Lachman the SAT Diretor of the civil liberties pressure group "Just West SAT Yorkshire£, the former Home SAT Secretary David Blunkett MP, Daily Telegraph columnist SAT Allison Pearson and Conservative backbench MP Nadhim Zahawi. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04mb15m (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04n20ty (Listen) SAT Lanark SAT SAT Dramatisation of Alasdair Gray's cult classic by Robin SAT Brooks with Alasdair Gray. SAT SAT First published in 1981, Lanark changed the face of Scottish SAT literature for a generation and propelled the visual artist SAT Alasdair SAT Gray into the literary limelight. SAT It's a modern masterpiece that spans three worlds in four SAT books, and tells the connected stories of Duncan Thaw - a SAT student at Glasgow's Art School in the 1950s - and Lanark - SAT a man who wakes to find himself in an unspecified period in SAT the strange yet familiar place, Unthank. SAT Unthank is a city with no sun and no sense of time. It's an SAT endless present, but there are ways to escape - people SAT disappear mysteriously, others succumb to the strange SAT diseases this peculiar form of hell generates. Lanark's SAT escape will take him into another circle of hell where he'll SAT hear the story of a life that was once his and where the SAT life he now lives will change forever. SAT Starring Sandy Grierson, Melody Grove and Siobhan Redmond, SAT with a guest appearance by Alasdair Gray. SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lanark: Sandy Grierson SAT Duncan: Sandy Grierson SAT Rima: Melody Grove SAT The Oracle: Siobhan Redmond SAT Gloopy: James Anthony Pearson SAT Ritchie Smollett: James Anthony Pearson SAT Sludden: Robert Jack SAT Kenneth: Robert Jack SAT Gay: Claire Knight SAT Peggy: Claire Knight SAT Ozenfant: Finlay Welsh SAT Father: Finlay Welsh SAT Young Duncan: Sean Graham SAT MacKenzie: Angela Darcy SAT Midwife: Angela Darcy SAT Arthur: Liam Brennan SAT Young Sandy: Leo Graham SAT Nastler: Alasdair Gray SAT Writer: Alasdair Gray SAT Adaptor: Robin Brooks SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04n20v0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Lena Dunham SAT SAT Lena Dunham writes, directs and stars in critically SAT acclaimed series Girls, which follows a group of SAT 20-something friends through the often less-than-glamorous SAT landscape of hipster New York. Dealing with tough subjects SAT like unemployment, abortion and substance abuse, last year SAT the comedy won a Golden Globe for Lena, and she secured a SAT multi-million dollar deal for her memoirs, Not That Kind of SAT Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”. The SAT book is full of frank and sometimes painful descriptions of SAT her childhood, teens and 20s, and 28-year-old Lena joins SAT Jenni to discuss her extraordinary life. SAT SAT The Dummy Debate SAT SAT Felicity Green, Fleet Street Legend SAT SAT Institutional abuse SAT SAT In the next part of our series on historic sexual abuse and SAT assault, we look into abuse that has taken place in SAT children’s homes and other public institutions. Jenni hears SAT from Marni Mulholland who, in her memoir Raw, describes the SAT abuse she suffered as a 14 year-old in a residential care SAT home. Jenni also speaks to the Chief Executive of the Who SAT Cares? Trust, Natasha Finlayson, and to Simon Hattenstone, a SAT Guardian journalist who has taken part in investigations SAT into institutional abuse. SAT Historic Sexual Abuse and Assault Support SAT SAT Changing Your Appearance SAT SAT Women and Power Dressing SAT Women Fashion Power SAT " opens in London, we take a look at how we use clothes - SAT what messages of status, confidence and control do we send SAT out by what we choose to wear? Jenni is joined by the SAT exhibition's co-curator Donna Loveday, Susie Lau of blog SAT Stylebubble and Lena Dunham. SAT SAT Rae Morris SAT Rae Morris SAT is one of the most in-demand new singer-songwriters in the SAT UK. The 22 year old from Blackpool was the headliner at BBC SAT Introducing Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival in August, SAT where she also appeared in 2011 at the early stages of her SAT career. Her lustrous and emotive tones have received SAT critical acclaim and she’s been compared to acts such as Cat SAT Power and Feist. Rae joins Jane Garvey to talk about her SAT musical inspirations and to perform her new single Closer. SAT SAT The single Closer is out now and Rae's debut album will be SAT out in January. She is performing in Cardiff on 30 October. SAT BBC Introducing Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04mb15p (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b04mh3r3 (Listen) SAT Wearable Technology SAT SAT From smartglasses to smartwatches, tech companies like SAT Apple, Google and Samsung are investing big money in SAT technology that you can wear. They're designed to keep us SAT eternally connected, fully fit and super SAT smart. But will they go mainstream or are they still the SAT preserve of the gadget geeks? Evan Davis and guests discuss SAT how fitness bands that measure how far you walk and how SAT deeply you sleep could transform our healthcare. And hear SAT about the intelligent fabric that's set to revolutionise the SAT way US and British soldiers are kitted out. SAT Guests: SAT Andy Griffiths, President, Samsung UK and Ireland SAT Asha Peta Thompson, Co-founder, Intelligent Textiles SAT Joss Langford, Technical Director, Activinsights SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04mb15r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04mb15t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04mb15w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04n20v2 (Listen) SAT Hayley Mills, Micky Flanagan, John Dagleish, Dickie Beau, SAT Tuneyards, John Shuttleworth SAT SAT Comedian Micky Flanagan talks about his new 4 part Sky 1 HD SAT documentary series 'Micky Flanagan's Detour De France'. SAT Clive meets British screen legend Hayley Mills, who stars in SAT 'Madge', the first of 5 SAT stand-alone films in BBC 1's 'Moving On' series. Clive's SAT co-host Danny Wallace talks to performance artist Dickie SAT Beau about his award winning directorial debut, 'Camera SAT Lucida' at the Barbican; and actor John Dagleish ('Lark Rise SAT to Candleford', 'Beaver Falls') stars as Ray Davies in the SAT hit musical 'Sunny Afternoon' which depicts the rise to SAT stardom of The Kinks. With music from tUnE-yArDs and John SAT Shuttleworth SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT John Dagleish SAT The cast soundtrack is available now on BMG Chrysalis SAT Records. SAT SAT Micky Flanagan SAT SAT Dickie Beau SAT SAT Hayley Mills SAT SAT Tuneyards SAT SAT John Shuttleworth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04mb15y (Listen) SAT Christopher Nolan SAT SAT An insight into the character of an influential person SAT making the news headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04mb160 (Listen) SAT Nightcrawler, Tis Pity She's a Whore, Richard Ford, Science SAT Museum, Passing Bells SAT SAT Nightcrawler is a movie about the ambulance-chasing camera SAT crews who film at the site of traffic accidents, shootings SAT etc and sell the footage to TV stations for their news SAT bulletins. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, SAT we see him begin his nightcrawling career, but will it make SAT a good man turn bad? SAT 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is being staged at London's Globe SAT Theatre. Written in the early 1600s by John Ford, the plot SAT includes incest which made it extremely controversial at the SAT time. And it was so controversial in fact that it wasn't SAT revived in London until 1923. How will 21st century London SAT audiences respond? SAT Richard Ford's new book Let Me Be Frank With You is a SAT collection of short stories all featuring the same main SAT character: Frank Bascombe who has appeared in Ford's SAT previous work. He's getting older and returns in all his SAT imperfect glory, dealing with the mess of life. SAT The Queen recently opened the latest gallery at London's SAT Science Museum. It's called The Information Age and it's the SAT first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of SAT information and communication technologies. How have they SAT managed to bring Transatlantic cable-laying to life? SAT BBC1's latest World War 1 drama, Passing Bells follows the SAT lives of two young recruits, one English, one German as they SAT take part in and are affected by the conflict. SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Linda Grant, Emma Woolf and David SAT Benedict. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT 'Tis Pity She's A Whore SAT 'Tis Pity She's A Whore SAT is at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe in SAT London until 7 December 2014. Main Image: Fiona Button as SAT Annabella and Max Bennett as Giovanni. Photo: Simon Kane SAT SAT Nightcrawler SAT SAT The Passing Bells SAT SAT A five part drama, SAT The Passing Bells SAT begins on Monday 3 November, 7pm on BBC One. SAT SAT Let Me Be Frank With You SAT SAT The Information Age SAT Information Age SAT is at the Science Museum in London. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Linda Grant SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Woolf SAT Interviewed Guest: David Benedict SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04n20v4 (Listen) SAT Tears of a Clown SAT SAT Robin Ince looks at the enduring cliche of the Sad Clown. SAT What is the relationship between stand-up comedy and mental SAT health? SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b04mh75j (Listen) SAT The Searchers, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Alan Le May SAT Dramatised for radio by Adrian Bean SAT SAT Episode one of a new adaptation of the classic western SAT novel, upon which the famous film was based. SAT SAT Texas, 1848. When Comanches attack the Edwards family's SAT settlement on the Texas plains, they kidnap two girls - SAT seventeen year-old Lucy and ten year-old Debbie. So Amos SAT Edwards sets out on the dangerous mission to recover his two SAT nieces, with the help of his nephew Mart and a rag-tag bunch SAT of searchers. Their epic mission will last six years. The SAT concluding episode is at the same time next week. SAT Alan Le May's 1954 novel is a timeless work of western SAT fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American SAT frontier. It explores the fear and the hatred that SAT underpinned the lives of both the white settlers and the SAT Native Americans. And what emerges is a violent account of a SAT creeping genocide, as one culture inevitably triumphs over SAT the other. SAT John Ford's 1956 film, based on the novel, starred John SAT Wayne as Ethan Edwards (called Amos in the book and radio SAT adaptation). Ford's film was named the Greatest Western SAT Movie of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008. SAT Radio 4 investigates the story behind the novel with 'In SAT Search of the Real Searchers' at 1.30pm on Sunday 26th SAT October. And for more western drama, a new adaptation of SAT Glendon Swarthout's 'The Shootist' is broadcast Saturday SAT 25th October at 2.30pm. SAT Directed by James Robinson SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mart Pauley: Simon Lee Phillips SAT Amos Edwards: William Hope SAT Laurie Mathison: Kezrena James SAT Aaron Mathison: Kerry Shale SAT Captain Clinton: Kerry Shale SAT Mrs Mathison: Marilyn Le Conte SAT Brad Mathison: Ronan Summers SAT Charlie McCorry: PJ Brennan SAT Mose Harper: John Cording SAT Lije Powers: Alun Raglan SAT Adaptor: Adrian Bean SAT Author: Alan Le May SAT Director: James Robinson SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04mb162 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b04md589 (Listen) SAT Teaching Moral Values SAT SAT Teaching your children a set of moral values to live their SAT lives by is arguably one of the most important aspects of SAT being a parent - and for some, one of the most neglected. In SAT Japan that job could soon be SAT handed to teachers and become part of the school curriculum. SAT The Central Council for Education is making preparations to SAT introduce moral education as an official school subject, on SAT a par with traditional subjects like Japanese, mathematics SAT and science. In a report the council says that since moral SAT education plays an important role not only in helping SAT children realise a better life for themselves but also in SAT ensuring sustainable development of the Japanese state and SAT society, so it should to taught more formally and the SAT subject codified. The prospect of the state defining a set SAT of approved values to be taught raises some obvious SAT questions, but is it very far away from what we already SAT accept? School websites often talk of their "moral ethos". SAT The much quoted aphorism "give me the child until he is SAT seven and I'll give you the man" is attributed to the SAT Jesuits and why are church schools so popular if it's not SAT for their faith based ethos? Moral philosophy is an SAT enormously diverse subject, but why not use it to give SAT children a broad set of tools and questions to ask, to help SAT them make sense of a complex and contradictory world? If we SAT try and make classrooms morally neutral zones are we just SAT encouraging moral relativism? Our society is becoming SAT increasingly secular and finding it hard to define a set of SAT common values. As another disputed epigram puts it "When men SAT stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing. They SAT believe in anything." Could moral education fill the moral SAT vacuum? Moral Maze - Presented by Michael Buerk SAT Panellists: Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Claire Fox and SAT Giles Fraser SAT Witnesses: Adrian Bishop, Dr. Sandra Cooke, Professor Jesse SAT Prinz and Dr. Ralph Levinson SAT Produced by Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b04mbw5v (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 6 SAT SAT (6/13) SAT Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat in the 2014 season of SAT the most wide-ranging music quiz anywhere on radio, this SAT week from the BBC's Maida Vale studios in London. SAT Competitors from Twickenham, the SAT Vale of Glamorgan and Brighton answer questions on SAT everything from orchestral music and opera to film and stage SAT musicals, folk and jazz, classic rock and sixty years of the SAT pop charts. SAT As always, as well as demonstrating their musical general SAT knowledge, they'll be asked to pick a specialist musical SAT topic, from a list of which they've had no prior warning and SAT no chance to prepare. SAT The winner will take another of the places in the series SAT semi-finals towards the end of the year. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JOHN DURBIN, a humanist celebrant from Llantwit Major in the SAT Vale of Glamorgan; SAT SAT EDWARD KERSHAW, a market researcher from Twickenham; SAT SAT BRUCE LINDFIELD, a sales information analyst from Brighton. SAT SAT 23:30 Cold War Poet b04mh75l (Listen) SAT Within a year of his death, Dylan Thomas exploded into SAT occupied West Germany with his popular radio play Under Milk SAT Wood. By the end of the 80s, his poetry had firmly SAT established his reputation on the other SAT side of the Berlin Wall, in Communist East Germany. In this SAT programme marking the Welsh poet's centenary, former Berlin SAT correspondent Stephen Evans explores how Dylan Thomas became SAT a cultural export for the British during the Cold War, and SAT how his work helped sustain a generation of East Germans SAT struggling with a totalitarian state trying to control what SAT they read, wrote and thought. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04n23b4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe b01m6crl (Listen) SUN How to See Europe by the Skin of your Teeth SUN SUN Read by Mark Little. SUN SUN The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe was the book most often SUN stolen from British libraries in the 1970s. Mark Little SUN reads from the young travellers' bible that nestled in every SUN student SUN rucksack forty years ago as they set off to explore Europe SUN on £10 a week. Australian Ken Welsh was the hitcher who SUN inspired thousands to follow "the infinite miles of tarmac SUN and pot-holes which criss-cross the world, the magic ribbon SUN which can lead to a thousand other worlds." SUN With a great deal of humour, some common sense and a spirit SUN of recklessness lost to today's youngsters, Welsh's book SUN covered everything from How To Hitch ("Providing a driver SUN isn't obviously bombed out of his mind, my rule is to take SUN any car that stops which has its bonnet pointed even vaguely SUN in the direction I want to go...") to tips on How To Survive SUN ("If you make the mistake of getting in with a fast driver SUN who won't stop, make sounds which suggest you're about to SUN throw up all over his upholstery...") SUN Re-reading it forty years on it's surprising what a SUN different world it was then for the young traveller. There SUN seemed to be more trust around (hitch-hikers are a rarity SUN nowadays), and no real worries about roughing it far from SUN home without the comfort of a mobile phone and by relying on SUN the black markets, pawn shops or even blood banks when cash SUN machines were simply not an option. SUN Produced by Neil Cargill SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04n23b6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04n23b8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04n23bb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04n23bd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04n2fmc (Listen) SUN The bells of St Leonard's, Streatham. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04mb15y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04n23bj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04n2fmh (Listen) SUN Embracing the Classical SUN SUN Luciano Pavarotti said it was "so important at a young age SUN to be invited to embrace classical music and opera." Mark SUN Tully and composer James MacMillan discuss the SUN cross-cultural benefits of sharing classical SUN traditions with new audiences and the power of music to SUN unite. SUN The two first met during the BBC Scottish Symphony SUN Orchestra's tour of India earlier this year. Most of the SUN music in this programme is taken from those concerts, as SUN well as from the family concerts which accompanied them, SUN where young audiences got their first introduction to SUN Western classical traditions. SUN Mark and James compare the classical traditions of East and SUN West and consider the exciting opportunities for music in a SUN new global culture. SUN With music by Bizet, Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky and readings SUN from Coleridge, Joyce Grenfell and Alice Herz-Sommer. SUN The readers are Jane Whittenshaw, David Westhead and Francis SUN Cadder. SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Nursery School SUN Author: Joyce Grenfell SUN Published in ‘George, Don't Do That’ by Hodder & Stoughton SUN SUN Title: A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice SUN Herz-Sommer SUN Author: Melissa Muller, Reinhard Piechocki SUN Published by Pan SUN SUN Title: Lines Composed in a Concert-Room SUN Author: S.T. Coleridge SUN Published in The Music Lover's Literary Companion by JR SUN Books Ltd SUN SUN Title: Merchant of Venice SUN Author: William Shakespeare SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b04n2fmm (Listen) SUN Calling Eastern Wolves SUN SUN Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario is home to the Eastern SUN Wolf and a magnet for visitors to this wilderness national SUN park. Canadian reporter Sian Griffiths meets David LeGros in SUN the park and is taken on a SUN wolf howl expedition to look for this shy and retreating SUN animal. The park organises public wolf-howls to bring SUN members of the public closer to and give richer encounters SUN with this wonderful creature. The Living World has special SUN access to the park and the rangers for this exclusive nature SUN walk with a difference. SUN SUN Picture of eastern wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) SUN SUN David LeGros SUN SUN David has always been passionate about nature and sharing SUN its wonder with other people, which is great because he is a SUN park naturalist! As a researcher and naturalist in SUN Algonquin, he has had a privileged look at the wildlife and SUN the park’s interior. SUN SUN While interested in all aspects of nature, he is especially SUN interested in the distribution and ecology of reptiles and SUN amphibians in Ontario. David coordinates the educational SUN programs for Algonquin Park and lives in Huntsville. SUN SUN Sonje Bols SUN SUN Sonje’s Algonquin Park career began in 2009 but her avid SUN interest in the natural world has always been with her. She SUN first heard the awe-inspiring howl of the Wolf as a child SUN while on a canoe trip in the vast Park interior: that SUN experience has stayed with her ever since. SUN SUN When not howling for Wolves, Sonje leads a variety of SUN educational programs on the Park’s natural and cultural SUN history while getting the opportunity to explore all the SUN rich and fascinating habitats Algonquin has to offer. SUN SUN Her latest adventure is a Master of Environmental Science SUN degree at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario. She SUN lives on beautiful Lake Nosbonsing, just outside the city. SUN SUN Chris Boettger SUN SUN Chris Boettger has been exploring Algonquin Park for over 40 SUN years. An avid canoe tripper; he has explored much of the SUN Park’s backcountry for over 30 years. Chris has spent 19 SUN years working in Algonquin Park. Holding degrees in History SUN and Education, Chris left the employ of the Park for a few SUN years to pursue a teaching degree. The allure of Algonquin SUN brought him back to Algonquin where he has worked as a Park SUN Naturalist for the Past twelve years. SUN SUN Chris specializes in programs on the Park’s cultural and SUN human history, canoe tripping and everyone’s favorite Park SUN animal, spiders. Being a Park Naturalist allows Chris to SUN share the beauty and wonder of Algonquin with the many Park SUN visitors who partake in the many interpretive programs the SUN Park has to offer. SUN SUN When not delivering programs to the public Chris can be SUN found out exploring the Park’s wildlife and scenery through SUN canoeing, camping, photography, birding and chasing SUN butterflies either on his own or with his family. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04n23bm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04n23bq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04n2fmq (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04n2fmv (Listen) SUN Brainwave SUN SUN Katy Ashworth presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Brainwave, a SUN charity that helps children with disabilities and additional SUN needs to achieve greater independence, through a range of SUN educational and physical SUN therapies. SUN Registered Charity No 1073238 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' Brainwave Centre' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'The Brainwave Centre SUN Ltd' SUN SUN Brainwave SUN SUN For over 30 years, Brainwave has been helping children with SUN a wide range of physical and neurological conditions, SUN including cerebral palsy, SUN Down’s syndrome and autism; aiming to improve their SUN mobility, communication SUN skills and learning potential. At Brainwave, a child’s SUN needs are assessed at SUN one of its three UK therapy centres or through its outreach SUN work, and a SUN programme of physical and educational exercises is created SUN and taught to the family SUN to carry out at home. The programme is then monitored by SUN its qualified staff SUN and adjusted over time as necessary. Currently Brainwave SUN helps more than 600 SUN children reach milestones which were never considered SUN achievable. SUN SUN Aidan SUN SUN One of 600 children who come to Brainwave, Aidan is working SUN hard on his numeracy skills with one of our cognitive SUN therapy team. SUN SUN Phoebe SUN SUN In one of our therapy rooms, Phoebe is guided by a SUN physiotherapist using a ‘peanut’ ball used to help build SUN her core strength and SUN balance, helping her to achieve more independence. SUN SUN Liam SUN SUN Achieving goals is always rewarded with a certificate and SUN here, Liam is delighted at being able to stand up with the SUN help of one of our SUN physiotherapy team. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04n23bt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04n23bx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04n2fmz (Listen) SUN All Saints and Everyday Christians SUN SUN The Rev. Cathy Gale leads a service live from Llanyrafon SUN Methodist Church, Cwmbran, South Wales in which the Rev. Dr. SUN Stephen Wigley reflects on the call of the Gospel to live SUN lives of social holiness. Music by SUN the Welsh Camerata, conducted by Andrew Wilson-Dickson. SUN Organist: Thomas Breeze. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04mhd5x (Listen) SUN Cures for Anxiety SUN SUN Adam Gopnik identifies four different types of anxiety that SUN afflict modern people and suggests ways to cure them. "The SUN job of modern humanists is to do consciously what Conan SUN Doyle did instinctively: to make SUN the thrill of the ameliorative, the joy of small reliefs, of SUN the case solved and mystery dissipated and the worry ended, SUN for now - to make those things as sufficient to live by as SUN they are good to experience." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04hkxpc (Listen) SUN Resplendent Quetzal SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the resplendent quetzal of SUN Guatemala. The image of resplendent quetzals are everywhere SUN in Guatemala, but the source of their national emblem is now SUN confined to the cloud forests of Central America. Its beauty SUN has long entranced people, the male quetzal a shimmering SUN emerald-green above and scarlet below. His outstanding SUN features are the upper tail feathers which, longer than his SUN entire body, extend into a train almost a metre in length, SUN twisting like metallic ribbons as he flies through the tree SUN canopy. Historically resplendent quetzals were considered SUN sacred to the Mayans and Aztecs for their brilliant plumage, SUN with the lavish crown of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma the SUN Second, containing hundreds of individual quetzal tail - SUN plumes. SUN SUN Resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Konrad Wothe / naturepl.com. SUN N SUN PL Ref 01390393 SUN © Konrad Wothe / naturepl.com. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04n23c1 (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 b04n2fn2 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye 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 Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Justin Elliot: Simon Williams SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04n2fn5 (Listen) SUN Wendy Dagworthy SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the fashion designer, SUN Professor Wendy Dagworthy. SUN SUN During her time as Head of Fashion at both Central St SUN Martins and The Royal College of Art she has taught students SUN who've SUN gone on to great success - Stella McCartney, Erdem and SUN Antonio Berardi among them. Her skill lies partly in SUN understanding the significance of a well cut pattern or a SUN nicely turned seam, but also the warp and weft of a SUN notoriously fickle industry. SUN At just 23, she was the toast of the catwalks with her own SUN label selling round the world and worn by the likes of Bryan SUN Ferry, Boy George and Mick Jagger. Dubbed 'the high SUN priestess of fashion', her creative talent, however, wasn't SUN recession-proof and her business went under in the late SUN 80's. Given that reinvention is the lifeblood of fashion it SUN seems she was tailor made for a new direction; collecting SUN her O.B.E. in 2011 for services to the fashion industry, she SUN wore a Perspex hat designed by a former pupil. SUN She says, "we want students to take risks - like we did when SUN we were younger. There were no set rules, there was no one SUN to follow - you just did it yourself." SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Wendy Dagworthy SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04n23c4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b04mc1hk (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 4 SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Phill Jupitus welcome Rich Hall, the Emmy SUN award-winning American comedy writer, stand-up, playwright, SUN musician, author and documentary maker who SUN has worked on such iconic American programs as the Late Show SUN with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live.Dr Anna Keay, SUN who is a historian, author and television presenter. Over SUN the course of her career, she has overseen hundreds of the SUN most significant edifices in Britain, including Kensington SUN Palace, the Tower of London and Stonehenge. She is now the SUN Director of the Landmark Trust. SUN Henry Marsh CBE, a leading neurosurgeon who works at St SUN George's hospital in London. He's been the subject of two SUN award-winning documentaries, and his remarkable memoir Do No SUN Harm not only looks into the intricacies of brain operations SUN but gives us a searingly honest and poignant insight into SUN the brains behind the operations. SUN This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses how the SUN Wild West wasn't at all like what we think it was; how brain SUN surgery isn't exactly rocket science; how tourists were SUN encouraged to chip off their own souvenirs from Stonehenge; SUN why the key to understanding the difference between the SUN Americans and British is on the front porch; how British SUN monarchs used to borrow their crown jewels and how our SUN brains disappear when they're not needed. SUN The show was researched by James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of SUN QI. SUN The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Phill Jupitus SUN Interviewed Guest: Rich Hall SUN Interviewed Guest: Anna Keay SUN Interviewed Guest: Henry Marsh SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04nqv6k (Listen) SUN Tom Jaine SUN SUN Sheila Dillon talks to the publisher, writer and SUN restaurateur Tom Jaine about his life. From his early days SUN at 'The Hole in the Wall' in Bath to custody of his beloved SUN 'Prospect Books' ("every book a brick in SUN the wall of knowledge") and beyond. With contributions from SUN Rick Stein, Joyce Molyneux and Tim Hayward. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN Photograph by Toby Coulson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Jaine SUN Interviewed Guest: Rick Stein SUN Interviewed Guest: Joyce Molyneux SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Hayward SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04n23c7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04n2hv4 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 America's Ballot Battles b04mc1hs (Listen) SUN Rajini Vaidyanathan travels to North Carolina to investigate SUN whether current bitter disputes over voting rights mean that SUN the United States is involved in a crisis of democracy. SUN SUN Over the last two decades the SUN controversy over voting rights has become increasingly SUN bitter and polarised along party lines. This process has SUN intensified since 2013 when the US Supreme Court overturned SUN important parts of the Voting Rights Act. North Carolina is SUN one key location for these crucially important arguments. It SUN has seen one of the furthest-reaching packages of voting SUN reform of any state and is now in the midst of one of the SUN closest election campaigns this year. SUN Rajini travels across the state and hears from those who SUN argue that a concerted campaign is under way to deprive SUN liberal-leaning groups of access to the electoral process. SUN And she speaks to those responsible for the legislation who SUN insist that they are trying to stop voter fraud and ensure SUN the sanctity of the ballot. SUN Rajini looks at a number of states where political control SUN has alternated over the last 20 years, and voting law with SUN it, as Democrats pass laws which make it easier to vote - SUN typically benefiting groups which vote for them - and SUN Republicans often do the opposite. She asks what this is SUN doing to American democracy. SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04mhd5j (Listen) SUN Cambridge SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Cambridge. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Christine SUN Walkden take questions from the audience. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: SUN Hannah Newton SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. My Marjorie's Seedling Plum is normally prolific. This SUN year, there was lots of fruit but it was tasteless. There SUN was a large wound on the trunk, could this have anything to SUN do with it? SUN A. The problem with a heavy crop is that the volume of fruit SUN dilutes the sweetness. The tree may have contracted a SUN bacterial disease through the wound - perhaps silver leaf is SUN already affecting it. Next year, give it a big dose of SUN manure and spray it with seaweed solution. Thinning may SUN help. If it doesn't do any better, plant a 'Coe's Golden SUN Drop' plum tree instead, it's even better! SUN Q. I have two Wisterias grown in the same place. One has SUN thrived and one has not. What is going on? The Wisteria that SUN is not doing well is a clear butter yellow, while the other SUN looks healthy and is just beginning to get a bit of autumn SUN colour. SUN A. This looks like a cultivation problem rather than a stock SUN issue. This could mean the root is being compromised in some SUN way; perhaps it has hit the foundations of the house? Minor SUN changes in which the soil has been treated can affect the SUN health of the plant. It's worth lifting the weak plant out SUN and having a look at the soil profile and checking if there SUN is any concrete or pipes down there (be careful not to SUN rupture a gas or sewage pipe!) because this may be the SUN source of the problem. SUN Q. How could I improve my Sweet Potato yield? SUN A. Don't grow them in the ground. Grow them in tubs or SUN containers. Tie up the foliage into the sun; don't let it SUN touch the ground. SUN Q. I planted crocuses under my apple tree beneath the turf. SUN The crocuses grew up through the long grass. When I trimmed SUN the grass with shears, there were bald patches. What should SUN I have done differently? SUN A. Grass will get bald patches when it grows long, and SUN Crocuses like free-draining conditions and lots of sunshine SUN and so they will struggle in their current location. You SUN could try growing Fritillaria Meleagris ('Snake's Head SUN Fritillary') in the long grass instead. Try Camassias or SUN just another variety of Crocus that thrives in damper, SUN darker conditions like Colchicums ('Naked Ladies'). Mow the SUN grass in the spring and summer and then let the grass grow SUN for Autumn when the Colchicums will come through. SUN Q. The shoots and suckers of a Lilac grown in a hedge are SUN taking over! What can I do? SUN A. This sounds like the Vulgaris species, it is very SUN invasive and it will compromise other plants - so not a good SUN choice for a hedge! Chris suggests letting one or two of the SUN suckers to grow up to form a clear stem or multi stem plant SUN that forms a canopy above the hedge rather than trying to SUN incorporate it into the hedge. Bob disagrees, and thinks SUN that Lilac can make a lovely hedge, just keep it under SUN control with regular trimming. SUN Q. The plants in our small pond are getting overgrown, when SUN is the best time to thin them out without disturbing the SUN wildlife? SUN A. Bob says that there is no good time because the wildlife SUN will be disturbed either way, but thinning in late November SUN would minimise the disturbance. Take out as much water as SUN possible before you thin and then pop it back in when you've SUN finished because you don't want to put tap water in there. SUN Chris says that if you want to maximise the wildlife SUN remaining in the pond after thinning, assemble a washing SUN line above the pond and hang the removed plants on it so SUN that any creepy-crawlies simply drip back into the pond. SUN Leave the clearing to mid summer when the water is warmer SUN and the larvae have moved on. You can clear the pond one SUN section at a time. SUN Christine suggests you tell your neighbours what you're SUN planning, because this can be dangerous. Eric suggests using SUN a plastic hairbrush for removing the weeds. SUN Q. Could the panel suggest suitable rootstocks for apple SUN trees that will be planted in less than ideal conditions? SUN A. Get a survey done of the site and then pay a visit to a SUN rootstock expert like East Malling. Be warned that you won't SUN be able to grow every apple variety well because some SUN varieties need a very wet climate. Ensure that each plant SUN has a custodian - someone to keep an eye on it and tend to SUN its specific needs. SUN Q. What can I plant now that will look amazing within the SUN next few weeks to wow a guest? I don't mind throwing money SUN at it! SUN A. Autumn bulbs are the way to go. You can plant them in big SUN swathes for a spectacular display. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04n2hv6 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between women from SUN Belfast, Cardiff and Leeds, all revealing friendships, SUN forged through travel or work, or living through the death SUN of a 6 year old, in the Omnibus edition of SUN the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN you listen. 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 learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b04n2k2f (Listen) SUN The Searchers, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Alan Le May SUN Dramatised for radio by Adrian Bean SUN SUN A new adaptation of the classic western novel, upon which SUN the famous film was based. Episode two. SUN SUN Texas, 1851. It's been three years since the Comanches SUN attacked SUN the Edwards family's settlement on the Texas plains, and SUN kidnapped ten year-old Debbie. Now only Amos Edwards and his SUN nephew Mart remain on the epic search. But Mart is concerned SUN about what Amos might do if he finds Debbie. SUN Alan Le May's 1954 novel is a timeless work of western SUN fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American SUN frontier. It explores the fear and the hatred that SUN underpinned the lives of both the white settlers and the SUN Native Americans. And what emerges is a violent account of a SUN creeping genocide, as one culture inevitably triumphs over SUN the other. SUN John Ford's 1956 film, based on the novel, starred John SUN Wayne as Ethan Edwards (called Amos in the book and radio SUN adaptation). Ford's version of The Searchers was named the SUN Greatest Western Movie of all time by the American Film SUN Institute in 2008. SUN Radio 4 investigates the story behind the novel with 'In SUN Search of the Real Searchers' at 1.30pm on Sunday 26th SUN October. And for more western drama, a new adaptation of SUN Glendon Swarthout's 'The Shootist' is broadcast Saturday SUN 25th October at 2.30pm. SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mart Pauley: Simon Lee Phillips SUN Amos Edwards: William Hope SUN Aaron Mathison: Kerry Shale SUN Captain Clinton: Kerry Shale SUN Scar: Kerry Shale SUN Look: Fiona Marr SUN Debbie Edwards: Fiona Marr SUN Jeremiah Futterman: Alun Raglan SUN Lije Powers: Alun Raglan SUN Laurie Mathison: Kezrena James SUN Charlie McCorry: PJ Brennan SUN Colonel Hannon: John Cording SUN Mrs Mathison: Marilyn Le Conte SUN Adaptor: Adrian Bean SUN Author: Alan Le May SUN Director: James Robinson SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b04n2k2h (Listen) SUN Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your Father? SUN SUN With James Naughtie. Poet Blake Morrison talks about his SUN memoir of growing up in Yorkshire in the fifties and SUN sixties, the son of two local GPs. It's an honest account of SUN family life, father-son relationships SUN and bereavement. SUN The book also movingly chronicles his father's death in SUN 1991, and attempted to resolve some of the secrets in his SUN father's life. SUN First published in 1993, And When Did You Last See Your SUN Father? became a bestseller, was adapted into a film SUN starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent, and inspired a whole SUN genre of literary confessional memoirs. Recorded at the SUN Ilkley Literature Festival, Yorkshire. SUN December's Bookclub choice : Master and Commander by Patrick SUN O'Brian (1969) SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Blake Morrison SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 Night Fishing b04n2k2k (Listen) SUN Cumbrian poet Tom Rawling fished for sea trout at night. His SUN poems about fishing were admired by Seamus Heaney and Ted SUN Hughes - but now, Tom is almost totally forgotten. Night SUN fishing is a heightened experience SUN captured in sound and with poems read by Tom, found on a SUN cassette. SUN Tom Rawling was a driven man and his poems have a peculiar SUN intensity, a strange slightly frightening quality that's SUN vivid and almost obsessive. No one else has conveyed so SUN piercingly the drama, the intensity and the sheer SUN strangeness of fishing - above all, of night fishing for sea SUN trout. This programme, with Grevel Lindop and Finlay Wilson, SUN helps us to experience some of that. SUN Rawling was born in Ennerdale in the Lake District in 1916. SUN His family had been farming on the shores of Ennerdale Water SUN for at least three hundred years. He was the son of the SUN village schoolmaster, attended his father's school, and was SUN caned by him every day. Rawling eventually became a teacher SUN himself - of children with special needs. He preferred that SUN because it didn't tie him down to a syllabus. SUN He didn't begin writing poetry until he was sixty years old. SUN Retired, the poems poured out of him. They were about SUN Cumbria - about his family, his childhood memories of SUN Ennerdale, and the hard labour entailed in making a living SUN from the land. Also, they were about fishing. Above all, to SUN fish for sea trout. SUN Produced by Matt Thompson SUN A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b04mctw3 (Listen) SUN The Last Taboo? SUN SUN As inquiries into child abuse in Rotherham continue, File on SUN 4 investigates claims of a hidden problem of sexual abuse SUN within Britain's Asian communities. SUN SUN While the victims of recent grooming scandals have SUN mostly been white girls, campaigners say Asian boys and SUN girls have also been subjected to abuse over many years. SUN Male and female survivors tell Manveen Rana there's a SUN powerful culture of denial stopping many speaking out and SUN getting justice. They say communities too often close ranks SUN and ostracise or threaten those who complain, while leaving SUN perpetrators to carry on. SUN Reporter: Manveen Rana SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth SUN Assistant Producer: Yasminara Khan. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04mb15y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04n23cc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04n23ch (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04n23ck (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04n2ks8 (Listen) SUN Sometimes the week just picks itself. The last seven days SUN have gifted listeners a veritable smorgasbord of aural SUN delights. From a German translation of Dylan Thomas' Under SUN Milk Wood, the jazz language of Harlem SUN between the wars to the most beautiful, most poignant and SUN most human audio diary from a doctor dealing with Ebola. SUN There's also Jarvis Cocker being spooky in Iceland, SUN brilliant reminiscences about Joan Littlewood and a great SUN story about a bear. Yes. A bear. Hardeep loves a bear.... SUN So, join Hardeep Singh Kohli for his Pick of the Week at SUN 6.15 p.m. this Sunday evening. SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN As well as broadcasting, Hardeep is comfortable both in the SUN kitchen – having reached the final of Celebrity MasterChef – SUN and on stage, as an award-winning stand-up comedian. His SUN programme Meet the Magoons was nominated for the Golden Rose SUN at the Montreux Comedy Festival, and he is a regular SUN contributor to The One Show, This Week with Andrew Neil and SUN Question Time. SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli with Rival Beard Chris SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04n2ksb (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b04n2ksk (Listen) SUN Henry Fielding SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN Jane Thynne and John O'Farrell. The author of the week - SUN Henry Fielding. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 Under My Bed b04n2ksm (Listen) SUN Walk On By SUN SUN Three writers fictionally explore the memories and stories SUN of what characters might have stashed away in the dark, SUN under their beds with some shocking revelations. SUN SUN Many children believe there is a monster or SUN something strange and dark and menacing lurking under their SUN bed, just waiting to leap out when the lights are off and SUN everyone is asleep. As we grow up it's a place for hiding SUN things, for playing or exploring. Later still it's where we SUN stash the overspill of student or adult lives, where we keep SUN boxes of photos or the detritus of life that holds memories SUN we can't bring ourselves to throw away. It's where we hide SUN the Christmas presents, stash diaries, love letters and SUN wedding albums. As we get older still perhaps it's the place SUN where slippers, half read books or life savings nestle. And SUN it's a place which evolves and changes with us throughout SUN life. SUN Reader ..... Jason Watkins SUN Writer ..... David Park SUN Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Jason Watkins SUN Author: David Park SUN Producer: Gemma McMullan SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04mpr5y (Listen) SUN Russell Brand was invited onto Radio 4's Start the Week to SUN join a discussion on Revolution. But was he out of place on SUN the panel of experts? Some listeners saw it as little more SUN than blatant promotion of his SUN latest book. The programme's editor, Rebecca Stratford, SUN explains the thinking behind her decision. SUN Surround sound has long been enhancing mainstream cinema, SUN and it's now made an appearance in BBC radio drama. And you SUN don't need a 5.1 surround sound speaker set to hear it. So SUN how does it work? All is revealed in a behind the scenes SUN laboratory at BBC Research and Development, where the SUN authentic sounds of World War 1 are brought to life. SUN John Humphrys recently declared on Feedback that UKIP is SUN Britain's fourth political party - leading listeners to SUN wonder if the Green Party ranked anywhere in his poll. With SUN the 2015 General Election around the corner, how does the SUN BBC determine which parties appear in its political debates? SUN Breaking down the stats and figures behind the selection SUN process is the BBC's Chief Political Advisor, Ric Bailey. SUN And how did two Radio 4 programmes get repeated minutes SUN after their original broadcast? SUN Produced by Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04mpr5w (Listen) SUN Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo, James Dunlop SUN SUN Obituary series with Matthew Bannister, analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. SUN SUN Jack (John Symon Asher) Bruce SUN SUN Singer, songwriter and bass guitarist. Outstanding figure SUN in British cultural life, best known for his bass playing in SUN the sixties rock group Cream. SUN Born 14 May 1943 - died 25 October 2014 - aged 71 SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to Phil Manzanera, Lead guitarist SUN with Roxy Music and record producer, Bob Harris, broadcaster SUN and his biographer Harry Shapiro. SUN SUN Gough Whitlam SUN SUN 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975 SUN Born 11July 1916 - died 21 October 2014 – aged 98 SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to Phil Mercer, BBC reporter in SUN Sydney. SUN SUN Efua Dorkenoo SUN SUN Campaigner against female genital mutilation SUN Born 6 September 1949 - died 18 October 2014 – aged 65 SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to Jacqui Hunt – Head of the London SUN branch of Equality Now, an NGO campaigning for the SUN protection of the human rights of women and girls around the SUN world and Nimco Ali, FGM survivor and campaigner. SUN SUN James Dunlop SUN SUN Fireman who survived the worst fire in Scottish history and SUN was awarded the George medal. SUN Born: 24 January 1929 - died: 28 September 2014 - aged 85 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04mb15f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04n2fmv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b04mc1hv (Listen) SUN Inside Welfare Reform SUN SUN Economist Jonathan Portes assesses how well the government SUN has implemented its controversial welfare reforms. The SUN government describes the programme as "the most ambitious, SUN fundamental and radical changes to SUN the welfare system since it began". SUN When the Coalition came to power in 2010, welfare - not SUN including pensions - was costing the country nearly £100 SUN billion a year. Iain Duncan Smith, the secretary of state SUN for work and pensions, was given the task of making work pay SUN and - in so doing - taking millions of people off benefit SUN and saving the country billions. SUN Influential figures from parliament, the civil service and SUN one of Iain Duncan Smith's closest advisers offer revealing SUN accounts of what's been happening during those past 4 years. SUN Economist Jonathan Portes asks whether these changes are a SUN vital strategy to stem a welfare system spiralling out of SUN control or - as some argue - nothing short of a fiasco, SUN which has caused genuine hardship? SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04n23cp (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04n2l8b (Listen) SUN Nosheen Iqbal of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04mgxtq (Listen) SUN Mike Leigh, Korean classic cinema, Jurassic Park sound SUN effects SUN SUN British director Mike Leigh discusses his latest film Mr SUN Turner. With a career spanning over 40 years, he tells The SUN Film Programme why he has wanted to make a film about the SUN artist for over 20 years, and why SUN actor Timothy Spall was the only man for the job. In the run SUN up to the London Korean Film Festival, Film critic Anton SUN Bitel discusses Korean 1960 classic 'The Housemaid'. Seen as SUN utterly shocking by cinema goers at the time, it has been SUN rediscovered and its restoration has attracted a new SUN audience. Francine Stock presents a new series running SUN throughout The Film Programme for the next two months- The SUN Story Of The Sound Effect. To mark the BFI's season Days Of SUN Fear And Wonder, the programme will hear from the people who SUN created some of the most famous sound effects in the history SUN of science fiction cinema. This week, Gary Rydstrom on SUN Jurassic Park. Continuing The Cinema Memory series, Girlhood SUN director Celine Sciamma recalls the first film to make her SUN cry - E.T. SUN SUN Film meets Art - Mike Leigh SUN Mike Leigh SUN on the life and work of J.M.W Turner from the Tate's SUN archive. SUN SUN 2001: A Space Odyssey SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Gary Rydstrom SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04n2fmh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04n23f1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04md56c (Listen) MON Post-Dictatorship Art in Argentina; Young Jazz Musicians in MON London MON MON Post dictatorship art in Argentina and beyond. Laurie Taylor MON talks to Vikki Bell, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths MON College, about the role of the arts in a society's journey MON to democracy. Whilst scholars of MON transitional justice tend to focus on the courts and the MON streets; this study asks how culture enables a country MON marked by state oppression to both mark, as well as MON transcend, its past. They're joined by Sanja Bahun, Lecturer MON in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies MON at the University of Essex. Also, Charles Umney, Senior MON Lecturer in Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour at MON the University Of Greenwich, talks about the 'creative MON labour' of jazz musicians in London. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Vikki Bell MON MON Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London MON MON Find out more about MON Vikki Bell MON The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in MON Transitional Argentina MON Publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 0415717337 MON ISBN-13: 978-0415717335 MON MON Sanja Bahun MON MON Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre MON Studies at the University of Essex MON MON Find out more about MON Sanja Bahun MON MON Essay: MON Broken Music, Broken History: Sound and Silence in Virginia MON Woolf's Between the Acts MON By Sanja Bahun MON Published in MON Virginia Woolf and Music MON by Adriana L. Varga MON Publisher: Indiana University Press MON ISBN-10: 0253012554 MON ISBN-13: 978-0253012555 MON MON Charles Umney MON MON Senior Lecturer in Human Resources and Organisational MON Behaviour, University of Greenwich MON MON Find out more about MON Dr Charles Umney MON MON Abstract: MON Creative labour and collective interaction: the working MON lives of young jazz musicians in London MON Charles Umney and Lefteris Kretsos MON Work Employment & Society August 2014 vol. 28 no. 4 571-588 MON doi: 10.1177/0950017013491452 MON MON Ethnography Award MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is MON open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or MON researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution MON of higher education. MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. 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MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04ng5qy (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie MON Griffiths. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04n304f (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and Produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04n23fc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mj32d (Listen) MON Toco Toucan MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Chris Packham presents the South American toco tucan. Few of MON us are lucky enough to have seen or heard a Toco Toucan MON at home in its South American strongholds but its image will MON be familiar to drinkers of a certain age. Its pied plumage MON and sky-blue eye-rings are striking enough but it is the MON toco toucan's huge black-tipped orange bill that makes the MON bird instantly recognisable. Despite appearances this MON cumbersome-looking banana-shaped bill is really quite light. MON Under the colourful plates which cover the bill a matrix of MON horny fibres and air-pockets combines strength with MON lightness a formula which has caught the attention of light MON aircraft manufacturers . The bird's massive bills were MON prominent in advertisements for a well-known brand of Irish MON stout beer in the 1930s and 40s. In various poses, often MON with a pint pot perched precariously on its bill, toucan's, MON extolled the virtues of beer-drinking. MON MON Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Angelo Gandolfi / naturepl.com. MON MON NPL Ref MON 01458606 MON © Angelo Gandolfi / naturepl.com. MON MON Recording of toco toucan by Peter A Hosner / Ref: ML132572 MON MON This programme contains a wildtrack MON recording of the toco toucan MON kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab MON of Ornithology; recorded by Peter A Hosner on 22 Oct 2006, MON in Caleligua National Parl, Jujuy, Argentina. MON MON 06:00 Today b04n304h (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04n304k (Listen) MON The Language of Money MON MON 'Money talks' in a special edition of Start the Week MON recorded in front of an audience at Radio 3's Free Thinking MON Festival at Sage Gateshead. Anne McElvoy explores the MON language and morality of money, from the MON super-rich to zombie debt, with the writers John Lanchester MON and Naomi Alderman, plus the journalists Martin Wolf and MON John Kampfner. MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: John Lanchester MON Interviewed Guest: Naomi Alderman MON Interviewed Guest: Martin Wolf MON Interviewed Guest: John Kampfner MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON MON 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6ttw (Listen) MON The Germans Expelled MON MON Neil MacGregor focuses on a small hand-cart to tell the MON story of the forced movement of more than 12 million MON Germans, who fled or were forced out of Central and Eastern MON Europe after 1945. MON MON For many, the only way MON of transporting their possessions was a hand-cart, as they MON walked to parts of Germany they had never seen before. MON And Neil also reflects on the 1949 Berlin staging of MON Brecht's play Mother Courage, examining a model of the MON production's set. Fiona Shaw, who has played the title role, MON discusses how the image of Mother Courage pulling her cart, MON amidst the devastation of war, became one of the most MON memorable stage pictures of the 20th century. MON Producer Paul Kobrak. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04n304m (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04n304p (Listen) MON Writing the Century: Passages from Empire, Episode 1 MON MON The latest in the Writing the Century series, based on real MON life letters and diaries of extraordinary ordinary people. MON MON For 70 years The Colonial Nursing Association sent hundreds MON of hard working, adventurous MON nurses to work all over the then British colonies. Writer MON Vanessa Rosenthal discovered some of their striking MON correspondence housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MON during her time as writer in residence at Kings College, MON London. By the 1920s these intrepid women, nearly all of MON them with lives marked by loss after the First World War and MON the need to provide for themselves, were marching across the MON globe. MON Ina Crafer, in her early 40's, struggled to make ends meet MON in Africa; Gwladys Hughes, in her late 30's, loved the MON challenges and hardship that nursing in an extreme Northern MON climate offered. Through their own words, we discover the MON daily minutiae, trials, tribulations and great rewards of MON nursing life abroad for this generation of women who were MON ahead of their time. MON The radio plays are based on research funded by the Wellcome MON Trust at the Centre for the Humanities and Health in MON collaboration with Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, Drs Jessica MON Howell, Rosemary Wall and Anna Snaith, King's College, MON London. MON Episode 1 MON Ina has to come to terms with being posted in Mauritius, MON while Gwladys relishes the snowy challenges of her MON Newfoundland posting. MON Director.....Polly Thomas MON Sound designer.....Nigel Lewis MON PC.....Willa King MON Executive Producer.....Alison Hindell MON Writer.....Vanessa Rosenthal MON A BBC Cymru/Wales production or BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Ina Crafer: Fenella Woolgar MON Gwladys Hughes: Sara McGaughey MON Beryl Miller: Rina Mahoney MON Bina: Nadim Sawalha MON Miss Adams: Claire Cage MON Chairwoman: Sharon Morgan MON Writer: Vanessa Rosenthal MON Director: Polly Thomas MON MON 11:00 The Grace of Jeff Buckley b048hxpk (Listen) MON Since his desperately early death in May 1997, there's been MON an inevitable mythologizing about the life and music of Jeff MON Buckley. Perhaps it's not surprising that in the posthumous MON rush to acknowledge his MON genius, memories have been clouded or, retrospectively, MON given a silver lining. MON The quiet, uncertain foundations of his reputation were laid MON on a solo tour of Europe three years earlier, in March 1994 MON - and, in particular, during one day. On the 18th March, MON Buckley was scheduled for a photo shoot (with Kevin MON Westenberg), an appearance on BBC GLR and his first proper MON London concert, at a folk club called Bunjies. MON In 'The Grace of Jeff Buckley', those who were there speak MON for the first time about the man and his music: Buckley's MON American manager Dave Lory, record company owner Steve MON Abbott, booking agent Emma Banks and photographer Kevin MON Westenberg share intimate memories that have so far not MON featured in the Buckley biography. MON And the programme also includes rare archive: the GLR radio MON session that has not been heard since that live broadcast in MON 1994 - including an astonishing version of 'Grace' - and, MON exclusively, a private interview that Buckley recorded on MON the eve of this tour but decided not to release. MON Together, these glimpses offer a portrait of a young man MON whose voice and musicianship, as well as his irresistible MON charisma and the trauma of his early death, touched MON millions. MON Produced by Alan Hall. MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b04n307k (Listen) MON Series 2, Holiday MON MON The Godlimans are off on holiday, and Kerry is stressed. In MON the last episode of the series, Kerry's list is dominated by MON all things vacation-orientated - including flatten stomach, MON deep vein thrombosis, learn MON Greek, shave legs and understand quantum physics. MON Kerry also has to cope with another stultifying call with MON her morose father Martin who doesn't exactly celebrate the MON idea of her family going on holiday! Kerry prepares for her MON break by having a pedicure and manicure, but her nail MON technician definitely needs to get out more! MON Pandemonium ensues as Kerry and husband Ben realise they MON have mislaid their passports and Kerry struggles trying to MON find the right suncream. She has another stress-filled call MON with best friend Hazel (Bridget Christie) and also shows off MON her packing skills. MON We all know that going on holiday is stressful, but Kerry MON shows that, with her all important list, the experience is MON much more organised and calm - ish! MON Produced by Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: Ben Abell MON Actor: Melissa Bury MON Actor: David Pusey MON Actor: Bridget Christie MON Actor: Lucy Briers MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Actor: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Pusey MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04n23ff (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Witness b04nhmf6 (Listen) MON Leipzig - Before the Wall Came Down MON MON Massive demonstrations in the East German city of Leipzig in MON October 1989 triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall. Martin MON Jankowski was one of the young opposition protestors on the MON streets. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04n307p (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04n23fh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04n307r (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Voices of the First World War b04n307t (Listen) MON Morale MON MON There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still MON possible to go back to the First World War through the MON memories of those who actually took part. In a unique MON partnership between the Imperial War Museums MON and the BBC, two sound archive collections featuring MON survivors of the war are brought together for the first MON time. The Imperial War Museums' holdings include a major MON oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the MON 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the MON conflict. The interviews were done not for immediate use or MON broadcast, but because it was felt that this diminishing MON resource that could never be replenished, would be of unique MON value in the future. Speakers recall in great detail as MON though it were yesterday the conditions of the trenches, the MON brutality of the battlefield, the experience of seeing their MON first casualty and hearing their first shell, their daily MON and nightly routines as soldiers, pilots or navy members of MON all ranks, and their psychological state in the face of so MON much trauma. This series will broadcast many of these MON recordings for the first time. Among the BBC's extensive MON collection of archive featuring first hand recollections of MON the conflict a century ago, are the interviews recorded for MON the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', which vividly bring to MON life the human experience of those fighting and living MON through the war. MON Dan Snow narrates this new oral history, which will be MON broadcast in short seasons throughout the commemorative MON period. MON Programme 6 - Morale MON Dan Snow looks at the morale of men serving in the First MON World War in 1914, from the relationship between officers MON and their troops, to their activities during rest periods, MON and steeling themselves for combat. MON MON Credits MON George Ashurst MON Philip Neame MON Marmaduke Walkinton MON Ivor Watkins MON William Finch MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04n2ksb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gvlfm (Listen) MON Through the Wire MON MON Helen Macdonald's drama documentary tells the story of the MON British POWs who survived incarceration in German camps in MON World War Two by studying the birds that flew freely all MON around them. While some of their MON fellow prisoners plotted escape and dug tunnels, men like MON John Buxton, Peter Conder and George Waterston looked hard MON at the birds that flew overhead on migration and also at MON those that chose to fly through the camp wire, like MON redstarts and goldfinches, and breed amongst the prisoners MON and their guards. With days, even years, to spare but MON without any binoculars or other equipment, the birdmen MON turned watching into their way of getting through the war. MON They enlisted the help of other prisoners and even some of MON their guards (bird study was a major field in Germany) and MON they recorded their observations using scraps of old MON cigarette packets to write on. After the war their studies MON were often published and became, and in cases remain, key MON texts for the bird species they were writing about. Several MON of the birdmen went on also to become major figures in MON ornithology and bird conservation. Using scientific papers, MON monographs, letters and diary entries Helen Macdonald, poet, MON falconer and scholar of wartime ornithology, has created a MON drama about men sitting still and straining their eyes MON looking at the sky. The music is by Olivier Messiaen, the MON French composer and bird lover, who was also incarcerated in MON another nearby prison camp by the Germans, where he listened MON to the birds he heard and inspired by them and the MON accidental collection of instruments and players there were MON in his camp, wrote his modernist masterpiece, The Quartet MON for the End of Time. MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON Credits MON Arthur: David Bamber MON John Buxton: Lorcan Cranitch MON Peter Conder: Jay Villiers MON Writer: Helen MacDonald MON Producer: Tim Dee MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b04n31cm (Listen) MON Series 28, Episode 7 MON MON (7/13) MON The seventh heat in the 2014 series is chaired by Russell MON Davies, with three contestants from the North of England MON facing questions on music of all varieties. This week's MON contenders come from MON Alfreton, Preston and Wigan. MON As always, they'll have to demonstrate the breadth of their MON musical knowledge, and choose a musical special subject on MON which to answer individual questions - from a list of which MON they've had no prior warning. There are plenty of musical MON extracts and clues to identify, including both familiar MON pieces and new surprises. MON The winner will take another of the places in the series MON semi-finals in a few weeks' time. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04nqv6k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Battle for the Art of Detroit b04n31cp (Listen) MON Detroit, once a symbol of American industrial might, has MON famously filed for bankruptcy, becoming the biggest US city MON to go broke. This was a city that in its heyday, during the MON first half of the 20th century, MON had seen the birth of the American car industry boost its MON fortunes and give it a nickname - Motor City. MON During the second half of the 20th city, it was music, MON specifically Motown, that carried Detroit's name around the MON world. But even as the hits were pouring out of the Motown MON label's headquarters, Detroit was a city in trouble. The car MON industry that had brought it wealth was now contracting and MON thousands of manufacturing jobs were disappearing. MON Despite many years of financial difficulty, which resulted MON in 40% of the city's streetlights not working, tens of MON thousands of abandoned buildings, and a population that MON declined 25 percent in the last decade alone, Detroit still MON had one remaining jewel in its crown - the Detroit Institute MON of Arts. Its collection was world famous - the first Van MON Gogh to be owned by an American arts museum, dazzling MON Matisses, Rembrandts, a distinguished selection of German MON Expressionist paintings, along with African Art, Native MON American Art, and art from Asia and the Islamic world. MON But should a city owing 18 billon dollars, much of it MON attributed to unfunded pension obligations, sell its MON prestigious art collection? This question has been asked MON within and outside the city. And it's a question that MON resonates worldwide as financially strapped arts MON institutions struggle to pay their bills. Presenter Alvin MON Hall visits Detroit to find out if, in the words of a famous MON advert for the D.I.A "You Gotta Have Art", even when you're MON broke. MON Producer: Ekene Akalawu. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Alvin Hall MON Interviewed Guest: Grace Robinson MON Interviewed Guest: Professor Jeffrey Abt MON Interviewed Guest: Mark Stryker MON Interviewed Guest: Moses Baldwin MON Interviewed Guest: Fred White MON Interviewed Guest: Graham Beal MON Interviewed Guest: Ted Adkok MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Worstall MON Interviewed Guest: Georgina Adam MON Interviewed Guest: Tara Forman MON Interviewed Guest: Kaywin Feldman MON Producer: Ekene Akalawu MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b04n31cr (Listen) MON Series 6, Nostalgia MON MON We live in a world where the nostalgia for the past now MON permeates our present. MON MON With online trends like 'Throw Back Thursdays', apps like MON Timehop and platforms which gives you the tools to make your MON digital image MON look like it was taken with an analogue camera, the internet MON has never seemed so backwards-facing. MON In this week's episode of The Digital Human, Aleks Krotoski MON visits imagined worlds and eras long past to explore whether MON the web is a nostalgia machine. MON We speak with Professor of Svetlana Boym to trace the MON origins of the word back to homesick Swiss mercenaries in MON the 17th century, visit a water park in New Jersey which was MON reborn through the collective power of online nostalgia and MON take tea with a vintage enthusiast, who divides his time MON between working as an air host in a high-flying company, MON with living in the 1940s. MON Producer: Caitlin Smith. MON MON 17:00 PM b04n31ct (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04n23fk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b04n31cw (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 5 MON MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Phill Jupitus welcome MON Clive Anderson, a qualified barrister who by his own account MON is not a very good writer, isn't interested in stand-up MON comedy or acting and couldn't give a damn about MON broadcasting, yet has written gags for top comedians, hosted MON a string of hugely successful TV and radio shows like Whose MON Line Is It Anyway? and Loose Ends and is a leading light of MON British Light Entertainment. MON Anne Dudley, an award-winning musician, composer, arranger, MON conductor and producer and a founding member of the MON Grammy-Award-winning, avant-garde, synth-pop "anti-group" MON The Art of Noise; she has collaborated with Elton John, MON Pulp, The Spice Girls, Tom Jones and comedians like Bill MON Bailey, Terry Jones and Stephen Fry. She has produced, MON composed and arranged dozens of TV and movie soundtracks, MON including for Les Misérables and The Full Monty, for which MON she won a Brit Award and an Oscar. MON Richard Williams, a world-famous animator who has won 3 MON Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and over 250 other international awards in MON more than six decades of animating hundreds of adverts and MON dozens of full-length features - and the title sequences of MON major feature films such as The Return of the Pink Panther; MON What's New, Pussycat? and the original Casino Royale. He is MON perhaps best known to the general public as the animation MON director of the smash hit movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In MON the movie industry, he is known as "the animator's MON animator".. MON This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses how the MON Old Bailey isn't very old; how the Wool Sack was found to be MON a sack of horsehair; and how Disney provided the perfect MON workstation for animators. MON The show was researched by James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of MON QI. MON The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Phill Jupitus MON Interviewed Guest: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Anne Dudley MON Interviewed Guest: Richard Williams MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: Dan Schreiber MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04n31cy (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04n31d0 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6ttw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Map That Made Manhattan b04fy2bq (Listen) MON Just over two hundred years since the beginning of its MON construction, this feature explores the New York grid system MON as real and imagined - architectural matrix, psychic space MON and site of continuing MON cultural-political argument. MON The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 divided the island of MON Manhattan into an orthogonal grid of intersecting avenues MON running North-South and cross-streets running East-West, MON from river to river. Attacked for being nothing more than "a MON grid of money making", it was in fact a great democratic MON leveller. And if it fostered what de Tocqueville viewed as MON relentless monotony, its coordinates also enabled drivers MON and pedestrians to figure out where they stood, physically MON and metaphorically. MON The debate continues. Urban critic Tony Hiss ('In Motion: MON The Experience of Travel') has written about the grid's MON primal orderliness: "I still think it distances us from our MON natural surroundings and it has given us a spurious and MON diminished mental geometry". MON Condemned for dehumanizing and mechanising the city's MON inhabitants (Henry James, writing in the grid-free enclave MON of Greenwich Village, called it "a primal topographic MON curse") others saw it as a modern, rational system in step MON with the ethos of a young republic. MON And New Yorkers themselves are of course a great source of MON wit and comment on the grid system. MON Filled with the sounds and atmosphere of New York, and MON hearing entirely from its residents - from city architects MON and historians to taxi drivers and subway engineers - this MON programme considers the geometry of the grid as the MON brilliant intersection of architectural vision with psychic MON and cultural space, and as footprint for the awesome city MON skyline. MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b04n31d2 (Listen) MON Just Culture MON MON Margaret Heffernan explores why big organisations so often MON make big mistakes - and asks if the cure could be the MON aviation industry's model of a "just culture". MON MON In the past ten years, there have been a string of MON organizational failures - from BP to the banks, from the MON Catholic Church to Rotherham. In each instance, hundreds, MON even thousands of people could see what was going on but MON acted as though they were blind. Silence ensured the MON problems continued and allowed them to grow. MON The conditions that create the phenomenon called "wilful MON blindness" are pervasive across institutions, both public MON and private. Wherever there have been cases of MON organisational failure you typically find individuals who MON are over-stretched, distracted and exhausted. They cannot MON see because they cannot think. MON Businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan argues that the MON solution is a "just culture"; which means organizations that MON encourage people to speak up early and often when things go MON adrift, without fear of being silenced. MON Contributors: MON Alexis Jay, author of the report into child sexual MON exploitation in Rotherham MON Ben Alcott, Head of Safety at the Civil Aviation Authority MON Helene Donnelly, Cultural Ambassador, Staffordshire and MON Stoke on Trent NHS Trust MON Bill McAleer, a former safety auditor for General Motors MON Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the famous Stanford MON Prison experiment MON Producer: Gemma Newby. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04mcmnj (Listen) MON Albatross and Fishing MON MON Albatrosses are giant flying seabirds that inhabit the MON southern oceans. Many species have been studied intensively MON over decades on their breeding grounds in the sub-Antarctic MON and the Pacific. Clever studies MON involving satellite tracking and simple observations from MON ships have shown they can disperse and forage across the MON whole of the southern ocean. Monitoring of their populations MON has shown a marked decline in their numbers since the 1980's MON so much so all albatross species are now threatened. A key MON cause of albatross decline was found quickly after the MON decline in populations was noticed; long-line fishing hooks MON baited with squid and floating on the surface after being MON deployed was an easy meal for an ocean scavenger and often MON their last. Shared Planet visits this story many years after MON it broke to report a cautious success on the high level MON conservation measures that were put in place involving MON biologists and the fishing industry. On this trajectory, it MON seems, we might be able to share the ocean with albatrosses MON and catch fish. MON MON Alastair Fothergill MON The Blue Planet MON ’, ' MON Planet Earth MON ' and ' MON Frozen Planet MON ', all narrated by Sir David Attenborough. MON In addition to his work with the BBC Natural History Unit, MON Alastair has co-directed two cinematic movies for Disney as MON part of their Disneynature label. He set up Silverback Films MON in 2012 and is currently making ‘The Hunt’, which looks at MON the relationships between predators and their prey. MON Alastair is fellow of the MON Royal Geographic Society MON who awarded him their gold medal in 2012. He has honorary MON doctorates from the Universities of Durham and Hull. MON MON Dr Richard Phillips MON British Antarctic Survey Core Science Ecosystems programme MON The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has helped carry out MON long-term population studies of albatrosses and petrels at MON Bird Island dating back to the early 1960s for wandering MON albatross, the 1970s for grey-headed and black-browed MON albatrosses and the 1990s for light-mantled sooty MON albatrosses and giant petrels. MON BAS also carries out a variety of dedicated studies, MON integrating conventional observational techniques with the MON latest in tracking and logging technology, and molecular and MON stable isotope analysis. A large component of the current MON research is directed at addressing the declines in albatross MON and petrel populations as a result of incidental mortality MON in longline and trawl fisheries. MON MON Ben Sullivan MON RSPB MON and MON BirdLife International MON 's MON Global Seabird Program MON In 2010 he was awarded a MON Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation MON for his project to reduce seabird “bycatch,” or the catching MON and killing of non-target species, in open-ocean longline MON and trawl fisheries. MON His research analyses devices to scare birds from behind MON longliners and trawlers, and aims to develop and evaluate MON new technology to prevent birds accessing hooks. The project MON also tests innovative line weighting to increase the sink MON rate of longline hooks as they leave the vessel. MON Dr Sullivan received a PhD from the University of MON Queensland. Prior to his current position with the RSPB - MON the UK partner of BirdLife International - he served as MON project manager for the Seabirds at Sea Team of MON Falklands Conservation MON He has been involved in the implementation of the MON Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) International Plan MON of Actions for seabirds MON for many years, and he is also actively involved with the MON work of the MON Agreement for the Conservation of Albatross and Petrels MON (ACAP). MON MON Russell Hall MON MSC MON certification for sustainability. He has been involved with MON the company’s vessels for more than 20 years, but he now MON finds himself devoting an increasing amount of time to MON ensuring his firm is fishing responsibly. MON In the past, he says, his concern was maintaining the hake MON quota but now that’s just one small part of a much bigger MON equation. He argues that businesses have to deal with every MON aspect of sustainability in order to stay in the fishing MON business for the long term. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04n304k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04n23fm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04n31d4 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04n31d6 (Listen) MON The Restoration of Otto Laird, Episode 6 MON MON A story of memory and place, old age and architecture. MON MON "Otto had felt surprisingly nervous on the plane across from MON Geneva; not from any fear of flying, but a fear of what he MON was flying to. [...] Throughout the MON short flight he experienced a strange inner turbulence. He MON had a queasy sensation that he was re-establishing a MON connection with the past; flying backwards into his own MON memories. He would no longer be experiencing them from a MON distance, but in the city where they had once been real." MON Architect Otto Laird has been living a semi-reclusive life MON with his second wife in Switzerland. But he is forced to MON re-engage with the wider world when he learns that his MON landmark building Marlowe House - a 1960s tower block in MON South London - has been marked for demolition. MON Episode Six MON With the cameras rolling, Otto listens as some residents MON talk about their lives in Marlowe House. MON Nigel Packer lives in London. He has been a music reviewer MON for BBC News Online and Ceefax, a reporting officer at the MON International Committee of the Red Cross and a contributor MON to various magazines and newspapers. The Restoration Of Otto MON Laird is his first novel. MON Reader: Allan Corduner MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Alan Corduner MON Author: Nigel Packer MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 23:00 Wireless Nights b04n31d8 (Listen) MON Series 3, Bright Nights MON MON In the second part of his nocturnal Icelandic adventure, MON Jarvis goes on a journey through the long, light summer MON night. He meets Megas, the island's best known poet and rock MON and roll legend, who warns of MON wandering demons as he embarks on an overnight road trip. MON Along the way he stops to hear ghost stories in Reykjavik's MON oldest cemetery, meets an elf seer in a lava field and is MON led to a sacred waterfall, behind which he makes a wish. But MON will he make it back before the hour of the wolf? MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04n31db (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04n23gk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6ttw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04n23gp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04n23gv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04n23h1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04n23h5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04ng5zg (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie TUE Griffiths. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04n31vr (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mj5kt (Listen) TUE New Zealand Bellbird TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the New Zealand bellbird. In 1770, TUE during Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand, an TUE extraordinary dawn chorus caught the attention of his crew TUE "like small bells exquisitely tuned": these were New Zealand TUE bellbirds. New Zealand bellbirds are olive green birds with TUE curved black bills and brush-like tongues which they use to TUE probe flowers for nectar. Like other honeyeaters , they play TUE an important role in pollinating flowers and also eat the TUE fruits which result from those pollinations and so help to TUE spread the seeds. The well camouflaged bellbird is more TUE often heard before it is seen. They sing throughout the day, TUE but at their best at dawn or dusk when pairs duet or several TUE birds chorus together. Their song can vary remarkably, and TUE it is possible hear different 'accents' in different parts TUE of New Zealand, even across relatively short distances. TUE TUE New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01369363 TUE © Brent Stephenson / naturepl.com TUE TUE Recording of New Zealand bellbird by Matthew D Medler / Ref: TUE ML1361111 TUE TUE This programme contains a wildtrack TUE recording of the New Zealand bellbird TUE kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab TUE of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 12 Apr 2004, TUE in Te Urewera National Park, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04n31vt (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b04n31vw (Listen) TUE Dame Sally Davies TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to Professor Dame Sally Davies about TUE being a champion for patients and a champion for women. TUE TUE As Chief Medical Officer, the first woman to fill the post, TUE she guides government decisions on TUE pressing health issues such as antimicrobial resistance, TUE mental health and, most recently, Ebola. TUE Having spent many years working as a haematologist, TUE focussing on sickle cell disease, Dame Sally now works TUE tirelessly to put scientific evidence at the heart of TUE Government decisions that affect out health. And it's this TUE quest for evidence that has inspired much of her career. TUE As Director General for Research and Development at the TUE Department of Health, she saw the opportunity to overhaul TUE health research in the National Health Service, focussing on TUE the needs of patients. It was a hugely controversial idea TUE which others had tried to implement, and failed. But she TUE stuck to her guns and the National Institute for Health TUE Research, which she created, is now the envy of the world. TUE Named one of the most powerful women in the country, Dame TUE Sally also has a powerful voice abroad. Through her work at TUE the World Health Organisation, she's brought the world's TUE attention to global threats like antimicrobial resistance. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b04n31vy (Listen) TUE Nihal Talks Dogs TUE TUE Broadcaster and DJ Nihal owns a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, TUE a breed that is often perceived as a 'dangerous dog', though TUE they are legal. TUE TUE In the first of his two part series for One to One, Nihal TUE meets Jordan who TUE does have two dogs that are banned under the '1991 Dangerous TUE Dogs Act'. TUE Jordan's mixed pit-bull types were taken away from him by TUE the police as they were deemed to be 'dangerous'. He tells TUE Nihal why he fought to keep them and how he now wants to TUE change people's attitude towards all bull breeds. TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Jordan and 'Keelo’ TUE TUE 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tv0 (Listen) TUE Out of the Rubble TUE TUE Neil MacGregor talks to a Trümmerfrau, a woman who cleared TUE rubble from the streets of Berlin in 1945, and focuses on a TUE sculpture by Max Lachnit, a portrait of a Trümmerfrau made TUE from hundreds of pieces of TUE rubble. TUE Neil also examines the role the launch of the Deutsch Mark TUE played in the re-building of Germany. TUE Producer Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04n31w0 (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 b04n31w2 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: Passages from Empire, Episode 2 TUE TUE The latest in the Writing the Century series, based on real TUE life letters and diaries of extraordinary ordinary people. TUE TUE For 70 years The Colonial Nursing Association sent hundreds TUE of hard working, adventurous TUE nurses to work all over the then British colonies. Writer TUE Vanessa Rosenthal discovered some of their correspondence TUE housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, during her time as TUE writer in residence at Kings College, London. By the 1920s TUE these intrepid women, nearly all of whose lives were marked TUE by loss after the First World War and the need to provide TUE for themselves, were marching across the globe. TUE Ina Crafer, in her early 40's, struggled to make ends meet TUE in Africa; Gwladys Hughes, in her late 30's, loved the TUE challenges that nursing in an extreme Northern climate TUE offered. Through their own words, we discover the daily TUE minutiae, trials, tribulations and great rewards of nursing TUE life abroad for this generation of women who were ahead of TUE their time. TUE The radio plays are based on research funded by the Wellcome TUE Trust at the Centre for the Humanities and Health in TUE collaboration with Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, Drs Jessica TUE Howell, Rosemary Wall and Anna Snaith, King's College, TUE London. TUE Episode 2 TUE Ina's friendship with the Mauritian housekeeper helps her to TUE cope with her new posting , while Gwladys is shocked by the TUE hardships her patients in Newfoundland endure. TUE Director ..... Polly Thomas TUE Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis TUE Executive Producer ..... Alison Hindell TUE Writer ..... Vanessa Rosenthal TUE A BBC Cymru/Wales production or BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ina Crafer: Fenella Woolgar TUE Gwladys Hughes: Sara McGaughey TUE Beryl Miller: Rina Mahoney TUE Bina: Nadim Sawalha TUE Warrant Officer Goldfinch: Richard Nichols TUE Writer: Vanessa Rosenthal TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04n31w4 (Listen) TUE Beavers in Business TUE TUE The European beaver was hunted to extinction for its fur, TUE meat and the aromatic secretions from sacs near its anal TUE glands. Now it is coming back throughout Europe , either TUE naturally or by being introduced, as TUE here in the UK. Wherever they settle they transform the TUE landscape by building dams and channels and create a TUE landscape of pools and watercourses that hold back flood TUE water, pollution and silt from entering the main rivers. In TUE these times of severe weather events and flooding beavers TUE are doing for free what landscape engineers would do at TUE great cost. Viewing nature in terms of the services it TUE provides, or evaluating nature in financial terms, is a TUE growing movement in conservation. Nature can be seen on TUE balance sheets and hopefully respected for all that it gives TUE us for free. But there is concern that monetising nature TUE leaves it open to the ruthless world of finance and trading TUE and diverts attention away from the real aims of TUE conservation. Monty Don grabs this thorny issue and chairs a TUE debate between the writer and conservationist Tony Juniper TUE and the economist Clive Spash. There are no easy answers but TUE plenty of food for thought. TUE TUE Peter Burgess TUE Devon Wildlife Trust TUE (DWT). He was involved in one of the earliest landscape TUE scale projects – the Greater Horseshoe Bat Project in 1999 TUE and with the Reconnecting the Culm project for Butterfly TUE Conservation. His first role at DWT was as project manager TUE of Working Wetlands in the first stages of the Trust's TUE landscape scale conservation of Culm grassland. TUE TUE Tony Juniper TUE Juniper presently works as a Special Adviser to the TUE Prince of Wales Charities’ International Sustainability Unit TUE having previously worked (2008-2010) as a Special Advisor TUE with the TUE Prince’s Rainforests Project TUE He is a Senior Associate with the TUE University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability TUE Leadership (CPSL) TUE working as a member of the teaching faculty and contributing TUE to several programmes. He is also a founder of TUE The Robertsbridge Group TUE which provides advice to major companies on how best to meet TUE ambitious sustainability goals. In November 2012 he was TUE named as the first President of the TUE Society for the Environment TUE TUE Clive Spash TUE WU Vienna University of Economics and Business TUE He writes, researches and teaches on public policy with an TUE emphasis on economic and environmental interactions. His TUE main interests are interdisciplinary research on human TUE behaviour, environmental values and the transformation of TUE the world political economy to a more socially and TUE environmentally just system. TUE Over 30 years, Clive has worked on a range of subject areas TUE and topics from the economic impacts and control of acidic TUE deposition through atmospheric and plant science relating to TUE urban pollution impacts on agriculture to the economics and TUE ethics of human induced climate change and the plural values TUE related to biodiversity. TUE This has also involved moving away from mainstream TUE environmental and resource economics, looking at links with TUE natural sciences, understanding applied ethics, exploring TUE models of democracy and public participation in political TUE science, and linking with social psychology to develop TUE models of human behaviour and motivation. Clive has pursued TUE this interdisciplinary work within the context of ecological TUE economics and more recently through the evolving TUE Social Ecological Economics TUE movement. TUE TUE 11:30 The Yes, No, Don't Know Show b04nw3g8 (Listen) TUE The brief was simple enough: five minute 'created by anyone TUE for everyone' around the theme of independence. TUE TUE But then came the logistics. And don't forget the politics. TUE And the fun, nerves and unexpected TUE sadness. TUE In its most ambitious production to date, over twenty four TUE hours, the National Theatre of Scotland staged 'The Great TUE Yes, No, Don't Know Show', a series of 5 minute theatre TUE pieces on the theme of independence. It was watched online TUE by more than 26000 people in thirty countries. TUE The production was curated by two Scottish playwrights from TUE opposite sides of the referendum divide. David Greig who TUE voted for independence in September and David MacLennan who TUE wanted Scotland to stay part of the UK. Sadly he died ten TUE days before the production. TUE Edi followed the making of this epic production, capturing TUE its highs and lows and bitter sweet success. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04n23hh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Witness b04nhmdk (Listen) TUE The Death of Che Guevara TUE TUE In October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary was captured and TUE killed in Bolivia. Felix Rodriguez was a Cuban exile working TUE for the CIA who helped track him down. He interrogated Che TUE just before he was shot. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04n31xh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04n23hk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04n31xk (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Voices of the First World War b04n32t9 (Listen) TUE Ypres TUE TUE There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still TUE possible to go back to the First World War through the TUE memories of those who actually took part. In a unique TUE partnership between the Imperial War Museums TUE and the BBC, two sound archive collections featuring TUE survivors of the war are brought together for the first TUE time. The Imperial War Museums' holdings include a major TUE oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the TUE 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the TUE conflict. The interviews were done not for immediate use or TUE broadcast, but because it was felt that this diminishing TUE resource that could never be replenished, would be of unique TUE value in the future. Speakers recall in great detail as TUE though it were yesterday the conditions of the trenches, the TUE brutality of the battlefield, the experience of seeing their TUE first casualty and hearing their first shell, their daily TUE and nightly routines as soldiers, pilots or navy members of TUE all ranks, and their psychological state in the face of so TUE much trauma. This series will broadcast many of these TUE recordings for the first time. Among the BBC's extensive TUE collection of archive featuring first hand recollections of TUE the conflict a century ago, are the interviews recorded for TUE the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', which vividly bring to TUE life the human experience of those fighting and living TUE through the war. TUE Dan Snow narrates this new oral history, which will be TUE broadcast in short seasons throughout the commemorative TUE period. TUE Programme 7 - Ypres TUE A picture of the intense fighting around the medieval town TUE of Ypres in October and November 1914 built from the TUE recollections of soldiers in archive drawn from the Imperial TUE War Museum and the BBC. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04n31cy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Tommies b03thc5k (Listen) TUE 4 November 1914 TUE TUE by Michael Chaplin. TUE TUE Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. TUE TUE Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness TUE accounts, each episode of Tommies traces one real day at war TUE and behind the battlefront, exactly 100 TUE years ago. TUE And through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss TUE and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the TUE British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense TUE machine, one which connects situations across the whole TUE theatre of the war, over four long years. TUE Indira Varma, Pippa Nixon and Patrick Kennedy star in this TUE story, as Dr Celestine de Tullio returns from France to find TUE that things are amiss with army medicals, while her husband TUE Robert gets embroiled in the realities of financing a war. TUE Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b04n32tc (Listen) TUE Series 6, Nothing TUE TUE Josie Long presents a programme about nothing. TUE TUE A decades long murder mystery about the death of a man who TUE never existed, the story of losing someone you never knew, TUE and a first time treasure hunter finds TUE something against the odds but ends up with nothing. TUE Series producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b04n3380 (Listen) TUE Arctic Future TUE TUE The melting sea ice of the Arctic creates opportunities and TUE threats. Tom Heap meets the leaders of the Arctic nations in TUE Reykjavik as they try to shape a profitable future for the TUE region. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b04n3382 (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b04n3384 (Listen) TUE Eliza Manningham-Buller and Elif Shafak TUE TUE Former M15 head Eliza Manningham-Buller and Turkish author TUE and commentator Elif Shafak discuss favourite books with TUE presenter Harriett Gilbert. Choices of a good read are: TUE Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest, TUE Americanah; Michael Chabon's ripping yarn set a thousand TUE years ago, Gentlemen of the Road; and The War Between the TUE Tates, Alison Lurie's dissection of a marriage breakdown. TUE Memories of university in the sixties and feelings about TUE home are among the topics being discussed. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Eliza Manningham-Buller TUE Interviewed Guest: Elif Shafak TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04n3386 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04n23hm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life b04n3388 (Listen) TUE Longevity TUE TUE A new series from multi-award winning comic Mark Watson TUE where he attempts to answer the big questions and make sense TUE of life, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. TUE TUE Mark and his two henchmen tackle academic TUE and abstract topics. Themes will be examined from every TUE angle, torn apart, laughed at and put back together again in TUE an effort to understand ourselves and the world around us, TUE and make it a slightly better place using stand-up, poetry, TUE songs and dippy interactions. TUE This week Mark looks at "Longevity". It's the big one - dear TUE old Mr Death. Can we beat him? Since time began, his TUE win/lose record has been around 190 billion/1 (that's TUE accepting Jesus rose from the dead, and maybe allowing a few TUE draws for people who've been cryonically frozen, etc). Much TUE of the world seems to be obsessed with the task of trying to TUE defy age' and deny the inevitable - but is there actually a TUE case for not wanting to live too long, because the world TUE starts to become too confusing and your place in it less and TUE less secure? TUE Mark dishes up some examples of ways this is already TUE happening to him. Key and Basden attempt to persuade Mark TUE the true glory of life is in enjoying it, not drawing it out TUE endlessly. Everyone asks the question - who really wants to TUE live forever? TUE Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian - his awards TUE include the inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is TUE assisted by Tim Key, winner of an Edinburgh Comedy Award in TUE 2009, and Tom Basden who won the the If.Comedy Award for TUE Best Newcomer in 2007. TUE Written and performed by Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom TUE Basden. TUE Produced by Lianne Coop TUE An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04n6018 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04n338d (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tv0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b04n338g (Listen) TUE Recent high-profile collapses of high street names such as TUE Comet, Phones4U and other companies have left thousands of TUE people out of work and have cost the taxpayer millions in TUE statutory redundancy payments and TUE unpaid taxes. This week File on 4 goes behind the headlines TUE to examine the role of the companies' private equity TUE backers. Were these failed businesses which were bound to TUE have to close? Or might they have survived for longer under TUE different ownership? Fran Abrams investigates. TUE Producer: Emma Forde. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04n338j (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04n338l (Listen) TUE Claudia explores pioneering new research into TUE radicalisation. She finds out why being depressed and TUE socially isolated makes you more likely to sympathise with TUE terrorist actions. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b04n31vw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04n23hp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04n338n (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04n33tf (Listen) TUE The Restoration of Otto Laird, Episode 7 TUE TUE A story of memory and place, old age and architecture. TUE TUE "Otto had felt surprisingly nervous on the plane across from TUE Geneva; not from any fear of flying, but a fear of what he TUE was flying to. [...] Throughout the TUE short flight he experienced a strange inner turbulence. He TUE had a queasy sensation that he was re-establishing a TUE connection with the past; flying backwards into his own TUE memories. He would no longer be experiencing them from a TUE distance, but in the city where they had once been real." TUE Architect Otto Laird has been living a semi-reclusive life TUE with his second wife in Switzerland. But he is forced to TUE re-engage with the wider world when he learns that his TUE landmark building Marlowe House - a 1960s tower block in TUE South London - has been marked for demolition. TUE Episode Seven TUE Sparked off by a resident of Marlowe House, Otto reassesses TUE his troubled relationship with his son, Daniel. TUE Nigel Packer lives in London. He has been a music reviewer TUE for BBC News Online and Ceefax, a reporting officer at the TUE International Committee of the Red Cross and a contributor TUE to various magazines and newspapers. The Restoration Of Otto TUE Laird is his first novel. TUE Reader: Allan Corduner TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Alan Corduner TUE Author: Nigel Packer TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 23:00 Small Scenes b04n33th (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Episode four of the symphonious sketch show, starring Daniel TUE Rigby, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker, Mike Wozniak and Sara TUE Pascoe. This week, we visit The Golden Woofers, Grimsby's TUE number one dog show and a farmer TUE genetically engineers some living sausages. TUE Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak. TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Daniel Rigby TUE Performer: Sara Pascoe TUE Performer: Mike Wozniak TUE Performer: Cariad Lloyd TUE Performer: Henry Paker TUE Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer TUE Writer: Benjamin Partridge TUE Writer: Henry Paker TUE Writer: Mike Wozniak TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04n33tk (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04n23m2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tv0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04n23m6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04n23md (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04n23mk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04n23mn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04n5y3z (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie WED Griffiths. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04n5y41 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mj64k (Listen) WED Red-Breasted Goose WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Chris Packham presents the red-breasted goose in Siberia. WED Red-breasted geese are colourful birds with art-deco WED markings of brick-red, black and white. Despite their dainty WED and somewhat exotic appearance, these are hardy birds which WED breed in the remotest areas of arctic Siberia. They often WED set up home near the eyries of birds of prey, especially WED peregrine falcons. But there's method in the madness; These WED wildfowl nest on the ground where their eggs and chicks are WED vulnerable to predators such as Arctic foxes. But the ever WED vigilant peregrine falcons detecting a predator, will defend WED their eyries by calling and dive-bombing any intruders, and WED this also doubles as a warning system for the geese. In WED winter red-breasted geese migrate south where most of them WED graze on seeds and grasses at a few traditional sites in WED eastern Europe around the Black Sea. WED WED Red-breasted goose WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Rod Williams / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01412010 WED © Rod Williams / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b04n5y43 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b04n5y45 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tv4 (Listen) WED The New German Jews WED WED After concentration camps like Buchenwald and extermination WED camps like Auschwitz, it seemed that the story of Jews in WED Germany must come to a full stop at the end of the war. Why WED would any Jew in 1945, or in WED 1965 for that matter, see any part of their future in WED Germany? But remarkably Germany today has the WED fastest-growing Jewish population in Western Europe. WED Neil MacGregor visits a synagogue in Offenbach, near WED Frankfurt, which was inaugurated in 1956 and has been WED greatly enlarged in the years since then. WED Producer Paul Kobrak. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04n5y47 (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 b04n5y49 (Listen) WED Writing the Century: Passages from Empire, Episode 3 WED WED The latest in the Writing the Century series, based on real WED life letters and diaries of extraordinary ordinary people. WED WED For 70 years The Colonial Nursing Association sent hundreds WED of hard working, adventurous WED nurses to work all over the then British colonies. Writer WED Vanessa Rosenthal discovered some of their correspondence WED housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, during her time as WED writer in residence at Kings College, London. By the 1920s WED these intrepid women, nearly all of whose lives were marked WED by loss after the First World War and the need to provide WED for themselves, were marching across the globe. WED Ina Crafer, in her early 40's, struggled to make ends meet WED in Africa; Gwladys Hughes, in her late 30's, loved the WED challenges that nursing in an extreme Northern climate WED offered. Through their own words, we discover the daily WED minutiae, trials and great rewards of nursing life abroad WED for this generation of women who were ahead of their time. WED The radio plays are based on research funded by the Wellcome WED Trust at the Centre for the Humanities and Health in WED collaboration with Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, Drs Jessica WED Howell, Rosemary Wall and Anna Snaith, King's College, WED London. WED Episode 3 WED Ina and Beryl fall out badly, until Ina becomes seriously WED ill, and the salutary story of Gwladys Hughes tending to a WED desperately ill woman in labour gives them some perspective. WED Director ..... Polly Thomas WED Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis WED Executive Producer ..... Alison Hindell WED Writer ..... Vanessa Rosenthal WED A BBC Cymru/Wales production or BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Ina Crafer: Fenella Woolgar WED Gwladys Hughes: Sara McGaughey WED Beryl Miller: Rina Mahoney WED Bina: Nadim Sawalha WED Mrs Pickering: Sharon Morgan WED Miss Adams: Claire Cage WED Writer: Vanessa Rosenthal WED Director: Polly Thomas WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04n5y4c (Listen) WED Helen and Maria - A Room of My Own WED WED Fi Glover re-visits the story of their escape from domestic WED abuse told by Maria and her mother two years ago. Now 13, WED Maria talks to her aunt about how she finally feels safe. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 WED initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in WED which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation WED with someone close to them about a subject they've never WED discussed intimately before. The conversations are being WED gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and WED national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every WED conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an WED important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then WED edited to extract the key moment of connection between the WED participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being WED archived by the British Library and used to build up a WED collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK WED in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more WED about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 The Move b04n600y (Listen) WED Frustrations WED WED Each year about three million people across the country pack WED their entire life into a removal truck and move home. And WED for most people it is rarely simple. Even the most WED meticulously planned move can be WED complicated and traumatic, the most optimistic people WED reduced to tears. WED This week Rosie meets Romaine, a dynamic, fast-talking WED businesswoman who loves London, thriving on its energy and WED opportunities. But bringing up young boys and running a WED fashion company from their two bedroom flat is proving WED challenging. Sleeplessness, illness and harassment are WED plaguing the family and for the sake of them all, Romaine WED has to confront moving to a sleepy rural village. WED Pete has long revelled in the unruly and bohemian side of WED Brighton and Hove. Now in his early fifties he is weary of WED jostling with tourists and party-goers and feels like a WED stranger in his own town. Having recently met someone on WED line who lives a mobile home in Aberystwyth, Pete prepares WED to pack up and move three hundred miles to be with them. WED Producer: Sarah Bowen. WED WED 11:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04n6010 (Listen) WED Series 2, CTRL-ALT-DEL WED WED 4/6: CTRL-ALT-DEL. The Computer catches a virus - in fact, WED it's probably the most common virus on Earth. With WED Uljabaan's sole method of control, analysis and WED communication now compromised, the invasion is WED doomed in more ways than one. WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Charles Edwards WED The Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED The Virus: Cerrie Burnell WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04n23n1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Witness b04nhmc0 (Listen) WED Voting Against the War on Terror WED WED After the 9/11 attacks on America, the US Congress voted to WED give the President extra powers to fight the 'War on WED Terror'. Only Congresswoman Barbara Lee voted against the WED decision. Hear her reasoning. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04n6012 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04n23n3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04n6014 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Voices of the First World War b04n6016 (Listen) WED The Trenches 1914 WED WED There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still WED possible to go back to the First World War through the WED memories of those who actually took part. In a unique WED partnership between the Imperial War Museums WED and the BBC, two sound archive collections featuring WED survivors of the war are brought together for the first WED time. The Imperial War Museums' holdings include a major WED oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the WED 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the WED conflict. The interviews were done not for immediate use or WED broadcast, but because it was felt that this diminishing WED resource that could never be replenished, would be of unique WED value in the future. Speakers recall in great detail as WED though it were yesterday the conditions of the trenches, the WED brutality of the battlefield, the experience of seeing their WED first casualty and hearing their first shell, their daily WED and nightly routines as soldiers, pilots or navy members of WED all ranks, and their psychological state in the face of so WED much trauma. This series will broadcast many of these WED recordings for the first time. Among the BBC's extensive WED collection of archive featuring first hand recollections of WED the conflict a century ago, are the interviews recorded for WED the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', which vividly bring to WED life the human experience of those fighting and living WED through the war. WED Dan Snow narrates this new oral history, which will be WED broadcast in short seasons throughout the commemorative WED period. WED Programme 8 - The Trenches 1914 WED Dan examines the experiences of men in the trenches during WED the first few months of the war, when the trenches weren't WED as elaborate as in later years. In archive drawn from the WED oral history collection of the Imperial War Museums and the WED BBC, speakers describe the dangers of looking out over the WED top, the problems of lice, and bring home the reality of WED living in clay below the water table for days at a time. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04n6018 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04n601b (Listen) WED Desecration WED WED Irish government official and secret British agent, Francis WED Byrne, must act fast to encourage resistance and prevent WED Ireland from becoming a launch pad for a Nazi invasion of WED Britain. But at what cost to the WED Irish people, and to his own loved ones? WED Inspired by a recently discovered documents confirming WED Hitler's wartime plans to invade Ireland, and using both WED fictional and real characters, Desecration is a powerful WED counter-factual drama. It imagines how the first few days of WED such an invasion would have unfolded - and shows the stark WED moral dilemmas faced by a nation's leaders when the time WED comes to choose between resistance and collaboration. WED Writer ..... Hugh Costello WED Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED Credits WED Francis Byrne: Patrick Fitzsymons WED Orla Byrne: Dawn Bradfield WED Liam Walsh: Owen Roe WED David Gifford: Nickolas Grace WED Henning Menzel: Faolan Morgan WED Eamon de Valera: Niall Cusack WED Writer: Hugh Costello WED Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04n601d (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on personal WED finance. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b04n338l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04n601g (Listen) WED Fugitives from the Law WED WED Fugitives from the law: Laurie Taylor talks to Alice WED Goffman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University WED of Wisconsin-Madison, about 'On the Run' her study of the WED lives of African American men caught up WED in webs of criminality in Philadelphia. She spent six years WED living in a neighbourhood marked by pervasive policing, WED violence and poverty. She argues that high tech surveillance WED and arrest quotas have done little to reduce crime or WED support young lives in the most disadvantaged parts of the WED US. They're joined by Professor Dick Hobbs, Criminologist at WED the University of Essex. WED WED Alice Goffman WED WED Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of WED Wisconsin-Madison WED WED Find out more about WED Alice Goffman WED On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City WED Publisher: University of Chicago Press WED ISBN-10: 022613671X WED ISBN-13: 978-0226136714 WED WED Dick Hobbs WED WED Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and WED Director of the Essex Centre of Criminology WED WED Find out more about WED Dick Hobbs WED WED Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK WED Publisher: OUP Oxford WED ISBN-10: 0199668280 WED ISBN-13: 978-0199668281 WED WED Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED Thinking Allowed in association with the British WED Sociological Association announces the annual award for a WED study that has made a significant contribution to WED ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a WED culture or sub-culture. WED WED Are you involved in social science research and completing WED or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is WED open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or WED researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution WED of higher education. WED WED An entry should be a WED completed ethnography WED a qualitative research project which provides a detailed WED description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole WED authored book or peer reviewed research article published WED during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. WED WED The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair WED originality WED and WED clarity WED alongside sound methodology. The work should make a WED significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in WED the relevant area of research. WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED The winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference WED in April 2015. WED WED Read on for essential information and details on how to WED enter. WED HOW TO ENTER: WED WED You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. WED WED All entries must include the summary and contact details and WED a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under WED the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED Email a summary of your work to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone WED number. WED Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' WED category of your email. WED If you are submitting a paper WED it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more WED than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation WED your paper is too large and you will need to send it by WED post. WED If you are submitting a book WED (which must be published during this year) it should be WED posted to: WED Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award WED Room 6045 WED Broadcasting House WED London WED W1A 1AA WED Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st WED December 2014 WED TERMS & CONDITIONS: WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and WED Conditions WED WED WED 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following WED criteria: WED WED 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. WED The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual WED entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered WED into. WED WED 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken WED and published by the entrant. Please include the name of WED your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The WED summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography WED must consist of a qualitative research project which WED provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday WED life and practice of a group, people or culture and been WED included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in WED 2014. All entries and research must be in English. WED WED 4. The email entry must include the following information WED and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal WED address, institution of higher education, email address and WED contact telephone number. WED WED 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published WED during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A WED 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, WED provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no WED automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you WED will need to send it by post. WED WED 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); WED (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard WED copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. WED WED 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they WED will not be considered. WED WED 9. All entries must be sole authored. WED WED 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select WED six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team WED for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select WED an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on WED the work which displays flair and originality, and which WED makes a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry WED will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research WED project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of WED the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or WED culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. WED It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision WED will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence WED with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding WED entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. WED WED 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring WED of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a WED selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable WED attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right WED to offer the prize to the next best entry. WED WED 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in WED order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be WED compliant with BBC branding policies. WED WED 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the WED purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the WED BBC’s Privacy Policy WED . WED WED 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st December 2014. WED All entries which are received after that will not be WED considered. WED WED 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem WED with the internet or electronic mail system. WED WED 17. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and WED must not infringe the rights of any other party. The BBC WED accepts no liability if entrants ignore these rules and WED entrants agree to fully indemnify the BBC against any claims WED by any third party arising from any breach of these rules. WED WED 18. Entrants retain the copyright in their original ideas WED but on being selected will grant to the BBC a licence to WED broadcast their entry (or parts thereof) across all media, WED as well as use it on any online platforms on standard WED prevailing BBC terms (as agreed with the Writer’s Guild, WED Society of Authors and Personal Managers Association). WED WED 19. By applying for the award, entrants warrant that they WED have legal capacity to enter the scheme and agree to be WED bound by these terms and conditions. WED WED 20. The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant WED whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made WED public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event WED publicity if required. WED WED 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which WED breaches any of these terms and conditions. WED WED 22. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award WED (including amending these terms and conditions) at any WED stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed WED necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside WED its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the WED following website: WED http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed WED WED WED 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of WED England and Wales. WED WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04n601j (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04n601l (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and WED analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04n23nb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qhqg5 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Wedding WED WED Anthony is cock-a-hoop when asked out of the blue to be best WED man at a friend's wedding. Problem is, he hasn't seen this WED friend since they were at school together and Damien isn't WED entirely convinced that Anthony WED has been invited purely because of his "excellent WED presentation skills". WED Written by Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony MacIlveny: Justin Edwards WED Julian, the Groom: Ben Crowe WED Ian Frobisher: Philip Fox WED Fran, the Bride: Sarah Thom WED Lionel: Rupert Vansittart WED The Bride's Mum: Lesley Vickerage WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04n338b (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04n6117 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tv4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04n6119 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04n611c (Listen) WED Series 4, Claire Cunningham WED WED Acclaimed disabled dancer and choreographer, Claire WED Cunningham, offers up a starkly honest and intriguing WED challenge to anyone who's ever just assumed that someone WED with a disability would want to be 'cured' if WED they could be. For Claire being disabled makes her unique WED and gives her a fresh insight into life. In this compelling WED edition of Four Thought she considers why on earth she'd opt WED to be just the same as everyone else when she can be WED different, utterly individual, unlike anyone else. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04n3380 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04n5y45 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04n23nh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04n611f (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04n611h (Listen) WED The Restoration of Otto Laird, Episode 8 WED WED A story of memory and place, old age and architecture. WED WED "Otto had felt surprisingly nervous on the plane across from WED Geneva; not from any fear of flying, but a fear of what he WED was flying to. [...] Throughout the WED short flight he experienced a strange inner turbulence. He WED had a queasy sensation that he was re-establishing a WED connection with the past; flying backwards into his own WED memories. He would no longer be experiencing them from a WED distance, but in the city where they had once been real." WED Architect Otto Laird has been living a semi-reclusive life WED with his second wife in Switzerland. But he is forced to WED re-engage with the wider world when he learns that his WED landmark building Marlowe House - a 1960s tower block in WED South London - has been marked for demolition. WED Episode Eight WED On the last day of filming, Otto remembers the later years WED of his marriage to Cynthia. WED Nigel Packer lives in London. He has been a music reviewer WED for BBC News Online and Ceefax, a reporting officer at the WED International Committee of the Red Cross and a contributor WED to various magazines and newspapers. The Restoration Of Otto WED Laird is his first novel. WED Reader: Allan Corduner WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Alan Corduner WED Author: Nigel Packer WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED 23:00 James Acaster's Findings b04n611k (Listen) WED Series 1, Wood WED WED Triple Foster's nominated comedian James Acaster presents WED the results of his research. This week, he's been WED investigating 'Wood'. With Nathaniel Metcalfe ('Fresh from WED the Fringe') and Bryony Hannah ('Call the Midwife'). WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: James Acaster WED Ensemble: Nathaniel Metcalfe WED Ensemble: Bryony Hannah WED Producer: Lyndsay Fenner WED Writer: James Acaster WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01c7s27 (Listen) WED Series 1, Family WED WED In the first of a new series, Tim Key grapples with the idea WED of 'family' via his narrative poem: The Godfather. Musical WED accompaniment is provided by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04n61br (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04n23pk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tv4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04n23pm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04n23pp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04n23pr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04n23pt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04n62jq (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie THU Griffiths. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04n62js (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04ml9bd (Listen) THU North Island Kokako THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Chris Packham presents the North Island kokako from New THU Zealand. Kokakos are bluish-grey, crow-sized birds with THU black THU masks. Those from the North Island sport bright blue fleshy THU lobes called wattles; one on each side of the bill. And they THU are famous in New Zealand for their beautiful haunting song THU which males and females sing, often in a long duet in the THU early morning.Known by some people as the squirrel of the THU woods because of their large tails and habit of running THU along branches, kakako used to be widespread, today fewer THU than 1000 pairs remain. The kakapos' slow and deliberate, THU almost thoughtful, flute-like song evokes the islands' THU forests and in the film, The Piano, it features as part of THU the chorus of woodland birds in some of the most atmospheric THU scenes. THU THU North Island Kokako (Callaeas cinerea wilsoni) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Tui De Roy / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01454633 THU © Tui De Roy / naturepl.com THU THU Recording of North Island kokako by Matthew D Medler / Ref: THU ML136122 THU THU This programme contains a wildtrack THU recording of the North Island kokako THU kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab THU of Ornithology; recorded by Matthew D Medler on 26 apr 2004, THU in Pongakowa Ecological Reserve, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. THU THU 06:00 Today b04n62jv (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b04n62jx (Listen) THU Hatshepsut THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hatshepsut, whose name means THU 'foremost of noble ladies'. She ruled Egypt from 1479 - 1458 THU BC and some modern scholars argue she was one of the most THU successful Pharaohs. When she THU came to the throne Egypt was still recovering from a series THU of wars known as the Second Intermediate Period, a THU generation earlier. Hatshepsut reasserted Egyptian power by THU building up international trade, and commissioned buildings THU considered masterpieces of Egyptian architecture. But her THU name seems to have been erased from the records by some THU later Pharaohs. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tvb (Listen) THU Barlach's Angel THU THU Neil MacGregor focuses on Ernst Barlach's sculpture Hovering THU Angel, a unique war memorial, commissioned in 1926 to hang THU in the cathedral in Güstrow. THU THU Producer Paul Kobrak. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04n62jz (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 b04n62k1 (Listen) THU Writing the Century: Passages from Empire, Episode 4 THU THU The latest in the Writing the Century series, based on real THU life letters and diaries of extraordinary ordinary people. THU THU For 70 years The Colonial Nursing Association sent hundreds THU of hard working, adventurous THU nurses to work all over the British colonies. Writer Vanessa THU Rosenthal discovered some of their correspondence housed in THU the Bodleian Library, Oxford, during her time as writer in THU residence at Kings College, London. By the 1920s these THU intrepid women, many of whose lives were marked by loss THU after the First World War and the need to provide for THU themselves, were marching across the globe. THU Ina Crafer, in her early 40's, struggled to make ends meet THU in Africa; Gwladys Hughes, in her late 30's, loved the THU challenges that nursing in an extreme Northern climate THU offered. Through their own words, we discover the daily THU minutiae, trials and great rewards of nursing life abroad THU for this generation of women who were ahead of their time. THU The radio plays are based on research funded by the Wellcome THU Trust at the Centre for the Humanities and Health in THU collaboration with Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, Drs Jessica THU Howell, Rosemary Wall and Anna Snaith, King's College, THU London. THU Episode 4 THU Back in her beloved Northern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Ina THU becomes engaged. Gwladys is thrilled to have moved too, to THU Labrador, to support the Inuit community. THU Director ..... Polly Thomas THU Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis THU Executive Producer ..... Alison Hindell THU Writer ..... Vanessa Rosenthal THU A BBC Cymru/Wales production or BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Ina Crafer: Fenella Woolgar THU Gwladys Hughes: Sara McGaughey THU Beryl Miller: Rina Mahoney THU Bina: Nadim Sawalha THU Sam Berrington: Richard Nichols THU Matron Clough: Claire Cage THU Celia Hammond: Claire Cage THU Writer: Vanessa Rosenthal THU Director: Polly Thomas THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b04n23pw (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Spank the Plank b04n62k3 (Listen) THU The low, rootsy twang you can often hear in funk music is THU called slap bass - a tricky, often divisive guitar technique THU involving whacking the bass strings with your thumb. THU Comedian Mitch Benn charts its THU progression from the upright double basses of the 1930s, THU through Elvis Presley to the high energy rock of bands like THU Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Primus. Talking to players like THU Yolanda Charles, Mark King and Guy Pratt, he discovers how THU an instrument which often found its place at the back of the THU stage came out of the shadows into the bright lights of THU disco and '70s funk. THU But Mitch is going to do more than talk about slap bass. THU He's going to learn how to do it. THU The humiliation stakes are high as he takes lessons from THU some of the UK's foremost bassists, ahead of his THU nerve-wracking first performance in front of an audience. THU Along the way Mitch tackles a widely held opinion about the THU technique - that while it's fun for the players, audiences THU who have to listen to it don't enjoy themselves quite so THU much. Mitch puts the hard questions to the players who THU regularly lay down some serious slap. THU Thumb at the ready - Mitch Benn is about to Spank the Plank. THU Produced by Kevin Core. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04n23py (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Witness b04nhmfm (Listen) THU The Soweto Uprising THU THU In 1976 schoolchildren marched through Soweto to protest THU against a decision by the South African government to force THU them to study in Afrikaans. But security forces policing the THU march opened fire and the Soweto Uprising began. Bongi THU Mkhabela was a schoolgirl who helped organise the protest. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04n62k5 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04n23q0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04n62k7 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Voices of the First World War b04n62k9 (Listen) THU Prisoners of War THU THU There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still THU possible to go back to the First World War through the THU memories of those who actually took part. In a unique THU partnership between the Imperial War Museums THU and the BBC, two sound archive collections featuring THU survivors of the war are brought together for the first THU time. The Imperial War Museums' holdings include a major THU oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the THU 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the THU conflict. The interviews were done not for immediate use or THU broadcast, but because it was felt that this diminishing THU resource that could never be replenished, would be of unique THU value in the future. Speakers recall in great detail as THU though it were yesterday the conditions of the trenches, the THU brutality of the battlefield, the experience of seeing their THU first casualty and hearing their first shell, their daily THU and nightly routines as soldiers, pilots or navy members of THU all ranks, and their psychological state in the face of so THU much trauma. This series will broadcast many of these THU recordings for the first time. Among the BBC's extensive THU collection of archive featuring first hand recollections of THU the conflict a century ago, are the interviews recorded for THU the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', which vividly bring to THU life the human experience of those fighting and living THU through the war. THU Dan Snow narrates this new oral history, which will be THU broadcast in short seasons throughout the commemorative THU period. THU Programme 9 - Prisoners of War THU Using the voices of soldiers who were among the first to be THU taken prisoner, Dan Snow explores the conditions they THU endured in German camps during the early stages of the war. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04n338b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04n62n6 (Listen) THU The Man Who Fell to Earth THU THU In the early hours of Sunday 9th September 2013, a young THU black man fell out of the sky and landed, dead, on a THU residential street in Barnes. The man had been a stowaway. THU Through three fictional residents in the THU street where the body landed, Annalisa D'Innella 's first THU radio play mixes fact with fiction to explore the experience THU of being British and middle class. THU It's a play about greed, grief, courage, utopias and magical THU thinking - as well as our universal tendency to focus on THU what we lack instead of what we have. THU Written by Annalisa D'Innella THU Produced and Directed by Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Giles: Tom Hughes THU Rachel: Susan Lynch THU Mel: Robin Weaver THU Keisha: Farzana Dua Elahe THU Jessica: Farzana Dua Elahe THU Neil: Rufus Wright THU Leonard Cohen: Jack Bence THU Alfie: Freddie Park THU Writer: Annalisa D'Innella THU Director: Karen Rose THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04n62n8 (Listen) THU Orchards in Herefordshire THU THU Felicity Evans visits the autumnal orchards of Herefordshire THU and discovers how centuries of cider production have shaped THU this landscape. For at least 350 years there has been cider THU production in this area and THU there are over 800 orchards across the Wye Valley, which THU make a significant contribution to the beautiful THU countryside. THU Norman Stanier's family have lived in this area for THU generations and are deeply rooted ('scuse the pun') in the THU apple industry here. He shares his passion for this THU landscape and explains how centuries ago these local THU enterprises caught the eye of Gladstone's government as they THU sought to do away with the 'Yankee Apples' and how today, THU this area has become 'The Big Apple' of the UK. THU Produced by Nicola Humphries. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04n2fmv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b04n2k2h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04n642w (Listen) THU Francine Stock presents a new series running throughout The THU Film Programme for the next two months- The Story Of The THU Sound Effect. To mark the BFI's season Days Of Fear And THU Wonder, the programme will hear from THU the people who created some of the most famous sound effects THU in the history of science fiction cinema. This week, Randy THU Thom on Harry Potter. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Randy Thom THU Producer: Philip Sellars THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04n642y (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04n6430 (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and THU analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04n23q2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04n6432 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch THU show. THU THU 4/6: In the fourth edition of the THU series, John tries to present a classic sketch, but the THU others aren't going to help him. We also hear a speech from THU someone who followed their dream, and induct a new employee THU at Vicarstown train station, on the Island of Sodor. THU The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was THU described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and THU "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio THU Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was THU nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series THU actually won a Radio Academy award. THU In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like THU the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them THU that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand THU not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to THU completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in THU other words, but about different things and with different THU jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will THU involve talking animals.) THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry THU Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. THU Original music by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally Stares. THU Producer ... Ed Morrish. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04n6434 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04n6436 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tvb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b04n3382 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b04n6438 (Listen) THU Live Long and Prosper THU THU Very few companies survive for centuries. Evan hears from THU those who have. How have they achieved extreme longevity? THU And is their history a burden or a motivator? THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04n642y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b04n62jx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04n23q4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04n643b (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04n643d (Listen) THU The Restoration of Otto Laird, Episode 9 THU THU A story of memory and place, old age and architecture. THU THU "Otto had felt surprisingly nervous on the plane across from THU Geneva; not from any fear of flying, but a fear of what he THU was flying to. [...] Throughout the THU short flight he experienced a strange inner turbulence. He THU had a queasy sensation that he was re-establishing a THU connection with the past; flying backwards into his own THU memories. He would no longer be experiencing them from a THU distance, but in the city where they had once been real." THU Architect Otto Laird has been living a semi-reclusive life THU with his second wife in Switzerland. But he is forced to THU re-engage with the wider world when he learns that his THU landmark building Marlowe House - a 1960s tower block in THU South London - has been marked for demolition. THU Episode Nine THU Sitting on a bench outside the hospital in Queens Square, THU Otto relives the last months of Cynthia's illness. THU Nigel Packer lives in London. He has been a music reviewer THU for BBC News Online and Ceefax, a reporting officer at the THU International Committee of the Red Cross and a contributor THU to various magazines and newspapers. The Restoration Of Otto THU Laird is his first novel. THU Reader: Allan Corduner THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Alan Corduner THU Author: Nigel Packer THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU 23:00 52 First Impressions with David Quantick b04n64bg (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Journalist and comedy writer David Quantick has met and THU interviewed hundreds of people. What were his first THU impressions, how have they changed and does it all matter? THU THU In this final programme of the series, there THU are stories about Grace Jones, N F Simpson and his friends THU Andy and Fiona, among others. THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Quantick THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04n64bj (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04n23r2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tvb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04n23r4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04n23r6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04n23r8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04n23rb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04n67x6 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie FRI Griffiths. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04n67x8 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04mlmf8 (Listen) FRI Blue Jay FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the North American blue jay. The loud FRI warning screams of blue jays are just part of their FRI extensive vocabulary. These birds are intelligent mimics. FRI Blue jays are neat handsome birds; lavender-blue above and FRI greyish below with a perky blue crest, black collar and FRI white face. But the blue jay is not blue, but black. Its FRI feather barbs contain a dark layer of melanin pigment; the FRI blue we see is caused by light scattering through modified FRI cells on the surface of the feather barbs and reflected back FRI as blue. Common over much of eastern and central North FRI America, blue jays will move in loose flocks to take FRI advantage of autumnal tree mast. A single blue jay can FRI collect and bury thousands of beechnuts, hickory nuts and FRI acorns (in a behaviour known as caching) returning later in FRI the year to retrieve these buried nuts. Any they fail to FRI find, assist in the natural regeneration of native FRI woodlands. FRI FRI Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Tom Vezo / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01042323 FRI © Tom Vezo / naturepl.com FRI FRI Recording of blue jay by Wilbur L Hershberger / Ref: FRI ML77279 FRI FRI This programme contains a wildtrack FRI recording of the blue jay FRI kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab FRI of Ornithology; recorded by Wilbur L Hershberger on 31 Mar FRI 1996, in Altona Marsh, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04n67xb (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04n2fn5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tvd (Listen) FRI Reichstag FRI FRI Neil MacGregor began his journey through 600 years of German FRI history at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and ends it at FRI the Reichstag, seat of the German Parliament. These two FRI extraordinary buildings, only a few FRI hundred yards apart, carry in their very stones the FRI political history of the country. FRI Neil talks to architect Norman Foster, who in 1992 won the FRI commission to restore the Reichstag, when Germany's FRI Parliament returned to Berlin in the wake of re-unification. FRI Producer Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04n67xd (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 b04n67xg (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: Passages from Empire, Episode 5 FRI FRI The latest in the Writing the Century series, based on real FRI life letters and diaries of extraordinary ordinary people. FRI FRI For 70 years The Colonial Nursing Association sent hundreds FRI of hard working, adventurous FRI nurses to work all over the then British colonies. Writer FRI Vanessa Rosenthal discovered some of their correspondence FRI housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, during her time as FRI writer in residence at Kings College, London. By the 1920s FRI these intrepid women, many of whose lives were marked by FRI loss after the First World War and the need to provide for FRI themselves, were marching across the globe. FRI Ina Crafer, in her early 40's, struggled to make ends meet FRI in Africa; Gwladys Hughes, in her late 30's, loved the FRI challenges that nursing in an extreme Northern climate FRI offered. Through their own words, we discover the daily FRI minutiae, trials and great rewards of nursing life abroad FRI for this generation of women who were ahead of their time. FRI The radio plays are based on research funded by the Wellcome FRI Trust at the Centre for the Humanities and Health in FRI collaboration with Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, Drs Jessica FRI Howell, Rosemary Wall and Anna Snaith, King's College, FRI London. FRI Episode 5 FRI Happiness comes at last to Ina, on her wedding day, made all FRI the sweeter for a letter from Gwladys Hughes, still nursing FRI on the other side of the world, both pioneers in their own FRI way. FRI Director ..... Polly Thomas FRI Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis FRI PC ..... Willa King FRI Executive Producer ..... Alison Hindell FRI Writer ..... Vanessa Rosenthal FRI A BBC Cymru/Wales production or BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ina Crafer: Fenella Woolgar FRI Gwladys Hughes: Sara McGaughey FRI Beryl Miller: Rina Mahoney FRI Sam Berrington: Richard Nichols FRI Miss Adams: Claire Cage FRI Writer: Vanessa Rosenthal FRI Director: Polly Thomas FRI FRI 11:00 The Louis Zamperini Story b04n67xj (Listen) FRI A documentary exploring the extraordinary life of Louis FRI Zamperini, an archetypal American hero, in war and peace. FRI FRI Louis Zamperini broke an American sporting record when he FRI was 19, qualifying to run the 5,000 FRI metres in the 1936 Berlin Olympics - the youngest athlete to FRI ever represent his country. He didn't win, but still became FRI a household name - a sports hero, who gained notoriety for FRI stealing Hitler's flag from his Berlin HQ as a memento. FRI A few years later, the nation was at war and Zamperini FRI joined the US Air Force, trained as a bombardier and was FRI posted to the Pacific theatre, where he crewed on a B-24 FRI bomber. His plane crashed in April 1942 and he was one of FRI three survivors who spent 47 days drifting on a raft before FRI being captured by the Japanese. He was interned in a FRI prisoner of war camp where he endured 2 and a half years of FRI regular brutal punishment. FRI Once he was released, Louis Zamperini became a born again FRI Christian and devoted his life to redemption - travelling to FRI Japan to track down each guard who abused him and personally FRI forgiving them. FRI For the next 60 years, Zamperini devoted his life to FRI teaching the importance of forgiveness and he became a FRI popular and successful public speaker. FRI Contributors to the programme include the author Laura FRI Hillenbrand who spent years researching Louis Zamperini's FRI diaries and possessions as part of the research for her book FRI about his remarkable life, Louis's son Luke, and historians FRI Professor Williamson Murray and Dr Philip Towle. FRI Produced by Des Shaw FRI A Ten Alps production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Missing Hancocks b04n67xl (Listen) FRI The Newspaper FRI FRI Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of FRI Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy classic Hancock's Half FRI Hour. The first modern sitcom, it made stars of Tony FRI Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth FRI Williams, and launched Galton and Simpson on one of the most FRI successful comedy-writing partnerships in history. But 20 FRI episodes of the show are missing from the BBC archives, and FRI have not been heard since their original transmission nearly FRI sixty years ago. Now, five of those episodes have been FRI lovingly re-recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC FRI Radio Theatre, featuring a stellar cast led by Kevin McNally FRI as The Lad Himself. FRI Tonight's episode: The Newspaper. Tony inherits a newspaper, FRI and sets about changing the world. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and with the classic FRI score newly recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the show FRI stars Kevin McNally, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin FRI Sebastian and Susy Kane. The Newspaper was last broadcast in FRI February 1956. FRI Produced by Ed Morrish and Neil Pearson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hancock: Kevin McNally FRI Actor: Kevin Eldon FRI Actor: Simon Greenall FRI Actor: Robin Sebastian FRI Actor: Susy Kane FRI Writer: Ray Galton FRI Writer: Alan Simpson FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Producer: Neil Pearson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04n23rd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Witness b04ndlkj (Listen) FRI The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya FRI FRI In October 2006 the campaigning Russian human rights FRI journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead outside her FRI Moscow flat. Her son Ilya Politkovsky was the first member FRI of her family at the scene. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04n67xn (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04n23rg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04ndlkl (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Voices of the First World War b04n67xq (Listen) FRI The Christmas Truce FRI FRI There are now no living veterans of WW1, but it is still FRI possible to go back to the First World War through the FRI memories of those who actually took part. In a unique FRI partnership between the Imperial War Museums FRI and the BBC, two sound archive collections featuring FRI survivors of the war are brought together for the first FRI time. The Imperial War Museums' holdings include a major FRI oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the FRI 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the FRI conflict. The interviews were done not for immediate use or FRI broadcast, but because it was felt that this diminishing FRI resource that could never be replenished, would be of unique FRI value in the future. Among the BBC's extensive collection of FRI archive featuring first hand recollections of the conflict a FRI century ago, are the interviews recorded for the 1964 TV FRI series 'The Great War', which vividly bring to life the FRI human experience of those fighting and living through the FRI war. FRI Dan Snow narrates this new oral history, which will be FRI broadcast in short seasons throughout the commemorative FRI period. FRI Programme 10 - The Christmas Truce FRI In the last of the series for 1914, veterans of the First FRI World War recall the few hours of impromptu ceasefire on FRI 25th December 1914, when German and British troops mingled FRI and played football in No Man's Land on the Western Front. FRI Drawing on the recollections of soldiers in the oral history FRI collection of the Imperial War Museum and the BBC archive. FRI Narrated by Dan Snow. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04n6434 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hl29m (Listen) FRI Dream Repair FRI FRI Emma uses a powerful, illegal, and highly addictive device FRI to try to alleviate the pain of her disturbing nightmares. FRI As her dependency spirals out of control she is prepared to FRI betray her loved ones, until FRI finally she's forced to face the real reason behind her FRI addiction. FRI Written by Thomas Legendre FRI A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Emma Bodger. FRI FRI Credits FRI Emma: Georgia Taylor FRI DI Ambrose: David Gyasi FRI Sam: Matthew Gravelle FRI Chet: Carl Prekopp FRI Vicky: Lynne Seymour FRI Writer: Thomas Legendre FRI Director: Emma Bodger FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04n6951 (Listen) FRI Leeds FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Leeds. Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and Matthew Wilson FRI take questions from local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Man about the House b04n6953 (Listen) FRI The Parable of the Green House FRI FRI Three specially commissioned stories that explore men's FRI relationships with their homes: FRI FRI 2. The Parable of the Green House by Jess Walter FRI Dale hangs around his house, thinking bad things are FRI happening in the yard. He becomes obsessed by this.. FRI FRI Reader Trevor White FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Trevor White FRI Writer: Jess Walter FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04nhytv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04nhytx (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04n6955 (Listen) FRI Donna and Zoe - In Their World FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother whose FRI daughter has Aspergers and her friend whose children are FRI both autistic, who recognise their worlds can be exciting FRI places to be. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a FRI Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary FRI Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a FRI conversation with someone close to them about a subject FRI they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations FRI are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from FRI local and national radio stations who facilitate each FRI encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, FRI and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, FRI and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection FRI between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations FRI are being archived by the British Library and used to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn FRI more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04n6957 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04n23rj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04nhytz (Listen) FRI Series 85, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Andrew Maxwell and Andy Hamilton, FRI alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI Producer: Sam Michell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04n6959 (Listen) FRI There is a sign up outside Brookfield, and Charlie has got FRI something to say to Adam. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Justin Elliot: Simon Williams FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04n695f (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 Germany: Memories of a Nation b04k6tvd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04n695h (Listen) FRI Douglas Carswell MP, Dominic Grieve MP, Diane Abbott MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Newton Abbot in Devon with the former Attorney General FRI Dominic Grieve MP, Labour MP Diane Abbott, and the UKIP MP FRI Douglas Carswell. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04n695k (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04n695m (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Episode 5 FRI FRI Professor Kathy Willis, director of science at the Royal FRI Botanic Gardens Kew, with the final episodes of her new FRI history of our changing relationship with plants FRI FRI Kathy Willis examines how the technology that FRI helped map whole genomes in plants and animals was to FRI revolutionise the classification of flowering plants; the FRI evolution of our rainforests as revealed by DNA FRI fingerprinting; plants as essential regulators of our FRI planet's atmospheric carbon and water cycles; how green FRI spaces and ecosystems have a positive effect on our health FRI and well being; the future role of plants as providers of FRI food to feed the planet's growing population. FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04n23rl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04n695p (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04n695r (Listen) FRI The Restoration of Otto Laird, Episode 10 FRI FRI A story of memory and place, old age and architecture. FRI FRI "Otto had felt surprisingly nervous on the plane across from FRI Geneva; not from any fear of flying, but a fear of what he FRI was flying to. [...] Throughout the FRI short flight he experienced a strange inner turbulence. He FRI had a queasy sensation that he was re-establishing a FRI connection with the past; flying backwards into his own FRI memories. He would no longer be experiencing them from a FRI distance, but in the city where they had once been real." FRI Architect Otto Laird has been living a semi-reclusive life FRI with his second wife in Switzerland. But he is forced to FRI re-engage with the wider world when he learns that his FRI landmark building Marlowe House - a 1960s tower block in FRI South London - has been marked for demolition. FRI Episode Ten FRI With Otto unconscious, his wife Annika and his son Daniel FRI meet at his hospital bedside. FRI Nigel Packer lives in London. He has been a music reviewer FRI for BBC News Online and Ceefax, a reporting officer at the FRI International Committee of the Red Cross and a contributor FRI to various magazines and newspapers. The Restoration Of Otto FRI Laird is his first novel. FRI Reader: Allan Corduner FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Alan Corduner FRI Author: Nigel Packer FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b04n3384 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04n695t (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04n695w (Listen) FRI Adam and Jaydon - A Metaphorical Angel FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a 10 year old and his FRI youth worker which ranges from haircuts, through making FRI things and writing poetry, to angels - metaphorical or FRI otherwise. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a FRI Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary FRI Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a FRI conversation with someone close to them about a subject FRI they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations FRI are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from FRI local and national radio stations who facilitate each FRI encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, FRI and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, FRI and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection FRI between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations FRI are being archived by the British Library and used to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn FRI more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
31 October, 2014
Radio 4 listings for 01/11/2014 - 07/11/2014
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